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Babylonian tablets deliver
new read on ancient Jewish life
Scientists reveal successful

skull-diggery in the Galilee
Whats round,
55,000 years old,
and may reveal how
prehistoric humans
made their way from
Africa to colonize Europe and Asia?
A homo sapien
skull discovered in a
Galilee cave in 2008
and reported on last
week in the journal
Nature.
In a paper titled
Levantine cranium
The Manot Cave in the Galilee where the
from Manot Cave
55,000-year-old skull was discovered.
(Israel) foreshadows
the first European
populations remained a mystery for
modern humans, an international
a long time. Scientists have recently
team of researchers say that the
determined, from ancient DNA
skulls distinctive bun-shaped
evidence, that homo sapiens from
occipital region at the back
that time interbred with the notresembles modern African and
yet-extinct neanderthals and that
European skulls, but differs from
the interbreeding happened in the
other anatomically modern humans.
Middle East. Until now, however, no
This, say the researchers, suggests
anatomically modern human remains
that the people who lived in that
dating to that time have been
cave may have been closely related
discovered in the Middle East.
to the first modern humans who later
The Manot cave, however, is not
colonized Europe. They date the skull
far from two other sites where
at 55,000 years old, based on the
Neanderthal remains from the same
decay of its radioactive elements.
period have been found.
The skull is the first fossil evidence
The homo sapien skull was
from the critical period when
discovered in 2008 during a
genetic and archaeological models
construction project that damaged
hypothesize that early homo
the caves roof. Rock falls and
sapiens moved from Africa and
stalagmites apparently had blocked
colonized Eurasia around 40,000
the entrance to the cave for at least
to 60,000 years ago. Because
15,000 years. Archaeologists, who are
there are few human fossils from
continuing to excavate the cave, also
this period, these ancestors of all
have discovered ancient stone tools.
present-day non-African modern
LARRY YUDELSON
On the cover: Moses receives the Torah at Sinai in this image from the Altona
Haggada, created by Joseph ben David of Leipnik in 18th century Germany.
By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept

when we remembered
Zion, the psalmist recorded.
What the psalmist
didnt record is that a few
decades later, also by the
rivers of Babylon, Neriayu
Ben Ahikam rented a
house for 10 silver shekels.
A different scribe
however did record that
transaction, engraving the
words in cuneiform script
on clay tablets, specifying
A clay tablet from 572 BCE, the earliest
that Neriayus rent would
known text documenting the Judean exile
be paid half given at the
in Babylonia, now on display at the Bible
beginning of the year and
Lands Museum.
the rest in the middle of
the year.
ARDON BAR-HAMA COURTESY OF THE BIBLE LANDS MUSEUM
That is one of a collection
of 110 clay tablets that went
Cyrus having granted the Judeans
on display Monday at the Bible
permission to return from exile.
Lands Museum in Jerusalem.
Cornell University published a
The trove of tablets has been
volume translating and interpreting
compared to the Dead Sea Scrolls for
the tablets, under the imposing title
its archaeological importance, but
of Documents of Judean Exiles
it is far older. The tablets document
and West Semites in Babylonia
transactions from 572 BCE 14
in the Collection of David Sofer.
years after the first Temples
Because all the tablets are business
destruction to 477 BCE, 60 years
documents beside land rentals,
after some of the exiles returned to
there are records of inheritance and
Jerusalem.
sales of cattle and slaves it may
That the tablets relate to Jews
not make for the most dramatic
can be seen from the use of Hebrew
reading. Not only is there not much
names, the occasional appearance of
plot or characterization, these clay
Hebrew letters, and references to a
receipts have none of the poetry
village named Al-Yahudu.
of the contemporary psalmists and
Among the names found, Haaretz
prophets recorded in the Bible.
reported, include Gedalyahu, Hanan,
But as a record of daily life in the
Dana, Shaltiel, Netanyahu, Yashuv
first Diaspora Jewish community
Zadik, and Yaaliyahu the latter two
some 2,500 years ago, it cant be
LARRY YUDELSON
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NOSHES ...................................................4
OPINION ................................................ 18
COVER STORY .................................... 22
KEEPING KOSHER............................. 32
TORAH COMMENTARY ................... 34
DEAR RABBI ....................................... 35
CROSSWORD PUZZLE .................... 36
ARTS & CULTURE .............................. 37
CALENDAR .......................................... 38
OBITUARIES ......................................... 41
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Noshes
They look like Cheetos but they smell

like peanuts.
A taste-tester describes her first impressions of Bamba snacks in a BuzzFeed
video, Americans Try Israeli Snacks. The video has been watched on YouTube
more than 1.7 million times.
ALLEGIANCE:
Its worth spying

on this new series
The NBC series
Allegiance, which
premiered on February 5
at 10 p.m, is based on an
Israeli series. Its premise
is similar to The Americans, an FX show that
premiered in 2013. The
Americans, which is set
during the Cold War
1980s, is about two KGB
agents who pose as a
married American
couple. They have two
teen children (who dont
know their story).
Allegiance is set in the
present day. Its backstory is that years ago, while
the Cold War was still
hot, the KGB tasks
Russian-born Katya
(Hope Davis) with
recruiting American
businessman Mark
OConnor (SCOTT
COHEN, 53) as a spy.
They fall in love and are
allowed to move to
America, provided they
become a sleeper cell
and obey any future
orders from Moscow.
They have two adult
children their daughter, Natalie (MARGARET
LEVIEVA, 34), knows her
parents are spies. Their
son, Alex, is a newly hired
CIA analyst who doesnt
know the truth about his
parents. (The pilot is
online free on Youtube,
NBC, Yahoo TV, etc.)
The OConnors live a
happy life for decades.
They think that Moscow
has forgotten about
them until they are
presented with a horrible
choice. Their lives and
the lives of their children

are at risk if they do not
help with an impending
Russian-planned terrorist
attack within America
and they are told to turn
their son into a Russian
agent. Meanwhile, the
CIA has assigned Alex to
investigate intelligence
clues about the same
terrorist plot. Advance
reviews are good, despite the similarity to
The Americans.
Most veteran TV
watchers know Cohens
face, if not his name. Hes
been good in everything
hes appeared in (Law
and Order, Gilmore
Girls, Kissing Jessica
Stein)but hes never
had a breakthrough role.
I have been following the
pretty and talented Levieva since she was cast
in a short-lived Fox show,
Vanished, in 2005. Born
in Russia, she and her
mother moved to Brooklyn in 1991. Her bigger
movie roles include Lisa
P in Adventureland
(2009), which co-starred
JESSE EISENBERG, 31.
As with Cohenheres
hoping this series does
big things for her.
Comedian CHELSEA
HANDLER, 39 ,
toured Israel late last
month and met with
SHIMON PERES, 91, the
former president of the
nation. Their discussion
covered a wide range of
topics and was filmed as
part of an upcoming
personal documentary in
which Handler explores
Scott Cohen
Margaret Levieva
DeAndre Yedlin
Steve Birnbaum
her Jewish roots and

examines Israel from
many angles, including
culture and history.
Handler, the daughter of
a Jewish father and a
Mormon mother, was
raised as a Reform Jew
and identifies as Jewish. I
expect this documentary
will appear on Netflix.
Handler plans to do a
different type of talk
show for Netflix, starting
in 2016. Meanwhile, shes
doing occasional
comedy specials and
documentaries for it.
The United States
mens national
soccer team is composed of professional
players who compete for
the World Cup every four
years. During the off
years including this
one the team plays
some friendly matches

with other national
teams. On January 28,
the U.S. lost to Chile, 3-2.
The U.S. starting lineup
included two Jewish
players: DeANDRE
YEDLIN, 21, who plays for
a UK pro team, and
STEVE BIRNBAUM, 24,
who plays for the D.C.
United MLS club. The
Chile game was Birnbaums first match for
the U.S. national team.
He played in the 2011
Maccabi Games in Israel.
Tip: get the soccer
league kids before the
TV on Sunday, February 8, at 10 a.m. ESPN
2 is showing the teams
match against Panama.
Point out the Jewish
guys on the field and
kvell.
N.B.
Jupiter writing team

transforms itself
The sci-fi flick Jupiter Ascending was written and
directed by the Wachowskis, who formerly were known
as the Wachowski brothers and are most famous for their
Matrix films. No, the Wachs are not Jewish. They are
no longer known as brothers because one of the duo,
born Larry, is now a transwoman called Lana. The complex Jupiter plot posits that an alien aristocratic group
has genetically seeded living creatures all over the
universe. Channing Tatum plays an alien warrior who
comes to Earth to protect Jupiter Jones, a housecleaner
who is unaware that she is seeded genetic alien royalty and that she is the royal heir to the Earth. MILA
KUNIS, 31, plays Jupiter and if life imitated her film
role, Kunis would be the most powerful Jewish queen
N.B.
since ESTHER.
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How do you staff a Birthright trip?
Local 10-tour veteran talks about training, tips, and tachlis
JOANNE PALMER
aglit-Birthright Israel, the organization that takes young Jews

on a free 10-day tour of Israel,
has been overwhelmingly
influential, connecting the travelers to
the Jewish state, and to their people, in
ways that they never would have thought
of and possibly never could have afforded
on their own.
Birthright is run by professionals in
fact, it is famously tightly managed but
it offers far too many trips, organized by
far too many separate trip providers, to
be able to use paid staffers on the trips.
Instead, staffers are young people who
know Israel and the organization sponsoring the trip, and who have the leadership abilities that will allow them to do
the job well. In return for their free trip,
Birthright staff have the opportunity to
return to Israel, and to shape the lives of
young people who are seeing it as adults
for the first time.
Now, Birthright Israel is offering its
staff something new the opportunity
to train together, to learn how to do it
from experts. It so far has offered two
sessions of the Taglit Fellows program,
which gathers about 100 prospective
Birthright staff members for four days
of in-person, intensive training as well as
online follow-up.
Benjy Spiro who grew up in Teaneck
from the time he was 11, and graduated
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Frisch School, both in Paramus has
staffed 10 trips for Birthright. (He and
his wife, Leah, who are newlyweds, now
live in Manhattan.) Last week, he left the
snowy, iced-over Northeast for the second Taglit training in the aptly named
Paradise Point in San Diego.
They are very into taking experiences and turning them into educational
moments, Mr. Spiro said. The fellows,
most of whom had far fewer trips, if
any, under their belts, were divided into
smaller groups, and I was able to throw
out ideas and suggestions based on my
experience. The less experienced leaders were able to learn from him, and
together they all could brainstorm various situations and their solutions.
Mr. Spiro, who has been to Israel about
30 times, never went on a Birthright trip
as a participant. Until a few years ago, the
rules demanded that only people who
had never been on a peer trip to Israel
were eligible. He had been on two trips
as a student. (Now peer trips during high
school are not disqualifying, so he could
have done it.) But he was active in Hillel
as an undergraduate at the University of

Maryland, and the director there suggested that he accompany a Hillel Birthright trip as a staffer.
He loved it, and the rest just came naturally. Of his 10 trips, seven have been
with the provider called Israel Experts.
They are really so well run, with an
amazing staff, he said. They are my
friends.
At the Taglit Fellows program, participants talked tachlis, describing real problems and solutions. The logistics are
always going to be hard, no matter what,
Mr. Spiro said. The 10th trip is as hard as
the first in that way. But you can learn a
lot about how to run activities.
For people who didnt go through the
Jewish education system from Day One
you are shaping those people. If you are
doing that, you should be an expert in
shaping their trips.
Participants also shared information
on dealing with the different models of
stereotypical Birthright problem campers; you can always expect at least one
on each trip, Mr. Spiro said. How do you
engage the participant who doesnt want
to be engaged? Who dismisses everything
you say? Who is left wing? Right wing?
Religious? Secular? The person who complains a lot? The person who just wants
to drink? How do you get that person to
stop being so annoying? They detract
from the group. Some people come pushing their own agenda. Birthright doesnt
have an agenda.
There is a lot of Jewish non-classroom
education going on, he said.
Mr. Spiro is a financial consultant, who
has to time his trips around his work
schedule. That differentiates him from
many trip leaders and most of the Taglit
Fellows in his cohort, he said.
Although making his schedule work
can be difficult, he plans to keep staffing
Birthright trips. He loves it, and he loves
knowing that he is changing lives. I have
a really strong understanding of Israel,
he said. It is a really awesome place, a
great place, and I love going there. There
is something very enjoyable about sharing
it with people who havent gone, of being
an advocate for it.
Jews are about .2 percent of the
worlds population; Israel faces challenges all over the world, its in the news
all the time, most of the time for negative
things. You take people who think they
know about Israel, but theyve only seen
the negative things.
There is so much to see that you cant
explain virtually. We are a small country.
We need all the help we can get.
Benjy Spiro is flanked by senior educator Roni Levin and tour educator Itay
Rotem at the Taglit Fellows conference in California last week. COURTESY BENJY SPIRO
Many Birthright travelers have known

few Jews outside their families, Mr. Spiro
said. Numerous participants go to college in the middle of nowhere, where
there are no other Jews on campus, and
there is a little bit of anti-Semitism there
too. It is hard for them to practice their
Judaism. So to go to Israel, to have Shabbat with 40 other people, not to feel like a
minority, not to feel like theyre weird
Thats a powerful experience, he said.
Often they forge deep connections to
Israel and to Jewish life. And each time,
it gets to me.
Mr. Spiro, like other tour leaders, is
able to draw on his own expertise and
connections as he plans the trip he is
given broad guidelines but allowed flexibility within them to adapt to the particular needs of any group of Birthright
travelers. For one thing, he said, tours
for 18-year-olds, the youngest groups, are

very different than the ones for travelers
in their mid- or late 20s. Beyond that, he
knows a great deal about Israeli politics
his sister is an Israeli journalist and
he shares that knowledge with Birthright
travelers. And if they have interests or
hobbies, he can connect them with local
experts.
I have a good network, he said. I
once had a participant ask me about
urban design. I am not an architect I
know what a house and a parking lot are,
but thats it. But I know someone. The
connection was made. On my last trip, I
had a professional farmer from southern
California, he added. We were able to
find him lots of information.
Applic ations for thi s summer s
trip to Israel are now online at www.
birthrightisrael.com.
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Exploring Israels Silicon Wadi

Frisch School STEM students win high-tech tour of Israel
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Silicon Wadi came alive for Frisch
School 10th graders Daniel Koenig of New
City, N.Y., and David Lifschitz of Englewood during the first CIJE-Tech Journey to
the Start-Up Nation.
The two sophomores joined Jewish
high-school students from New York and
California for the January 13-23 trip. The
students interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
won them a close encounter with Israeli
innovation and technology pioneers,
under the auspices of the New York-based
Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education.
Speaking with this reporter by phone
from their bus on the way to the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in
Haifa, David and Daniel shared some
impressions.
David said he had already been aware of
Israels high-tech advances but was struck
by the ease with which teenagers from
America could gain access to industry
leaders in the Jewish state. I find it very

impressive that you can make two phone
calls and meet anyone very important
people in the tech industry, and were just
kids in high school and that we are able
talk to these power giants, he said.
The students worked together in teams
to develop product and technology ideas
and then pitch those ideas for feedback
from entrepreneurs at major startup and
established companies. They also pitched
them to venture-capital executives from
Jerusalem Venture Partners, and they met
with Start-Up Nation author Saul Singer.
Israel is far ahead of much of the world
in leveraging STEM capabilities in new
business startups, explained Judy Lebovits, vice president and director of CIJE,
who accompanied the students. Were
providing unique access and activities that
will significantly enhance our CIJE-Tech
students education.
CIJE-Tech is a discovery-focused interactive curriculum for Jewish high schools,
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Learning to give
Local students donate to the American Friends of Magen David Adom
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
aybe they c ant write

checks, but children can
drop coins in a tzedakah
box.
Theyve been dropping those coins at
a fast clip since the January launch of the
two-month Bergen County Day School
Magen David Adom Fund Drive, held in
conjunction with the annual county fundraising drive begun around Rosh Hashana
through American Friends of Magen David
Adom.
The childrens enthusiasm for filling
up the ambulance-shaped charity boxes
in their classrooms is spreading to their
parents and area businesses, pushing the
needle ever closer to the $100,000 goal
that will add a real ambulance to the fleet
of Israels national emergency medical
response organization.
We spend 15 to 30 minutes in the different schools educating the kids about
Magen David Adom and
the important lifesaving
work they do in Israel,
said Teanecks Deputy
Mayor Elie Y. Katz, who
started the project with
his wife, Esther, to comOne of AFMDAs youngest supporters with an ambulance-shaped tzedakah box.
memorate the 25th yahrzeit of Esthers father,
County dont think of us as being on the
ambulance or being in one! so this camRabbi Joseph Feinstein.
Here i s a unique
front lines in the same way as the IDF is,
paign proved valuable even to our youngest
We play a short video
count ywide project
but we are, all the time. So this is an awarelearners. Finally, we received great feedback
o r, fo r t h e you n ge r
spearheaded by Elie, who
ness campaign as well. And kids are really
from parents, which is wonderful evidence
grades, read a book about
recognizes the extraordinary role MDA plays in
good at raising awareness in their own
that the children went home and told their
ambulances. We leave the
Israeli society, Ms. Leistfamilies.
parents about their experience.
classes with a tzedakah
Eillene Leistner
ner said. He wanted
Ora Kornbluth, director of Yeshivat
Ms. Kornbluth said that her students
box and give out wristbands for the kids, added
to do this in a big way,
Heatid in Bergenfield, says the campaign
pre-kindergartners to third-graders are
Mr. Katz, a life member of the Teaneck Volreaching out to the schools and getting
dovetails with the day schools goal of fosexcited to be engaged actively in helping
unteer Ambulance Corps.
tering a meaningful connection with Israel.
the entire community involved. It truly
the state of Israel by putting their tzedakah
He and Teanecks Eillene Leistner,
When AFMDA came to visit, it brought
encompasses everyone.
coins into the AFMDAs boxes. The children are very eager and excited when they
chief development officer for Ameria piece of Israel to our classrooms and
She noted that Bergen County donors
can Friends of Magen David Adom, has
come in with their money, she said. Yesthrough pictures, a story, the tzedakah inihave contributed ambulances, mobile
tiative, and by wearing the bracelets, our
terday, some of the children in Gan Kofim
been making the rounds of Bergens day
intensive care units, bloodmobiles, medicycles, and paramedic training sessions
students got an instant, tangible conneccame in with their baggies full of tzedakah,
schools to give the presentations to pupils
tion to Israel, she said.
through AFMDA over the years.
and they were constantly asking when cirof all different ages. Incentives such as
cle time would begin, so they could add in
Additionally, nearly every child
However, she adds, We are not reachpizza parties are promised to the classes
ing enough people. A lot of Jews in Bergen
their contributions.
was excited to identify with seeing an
that bring in the largest donations.
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The excitement touches children in older grades
as well. Yosef Morrison, a Moriah School seventhgrader from Bergenfield, assisted Mr. Katz in organizing the presentation at the Englewood school. And
he has taken it upon himself to collect, count, and
report on the daily donations in the charity boxes
he placed in each of 18 sixth- through eighth-grade
classrooms and in the school synagogue.
I felt this was a very important cause, Yosef said.
I went to Israel over winter break for my bar mitzvah, and I saw MDA ambulances everywhere. Its definitely a big help to Israel. Before he left for the trip
in mid-January, the tally from Moriah stood at $175,
with six weeks to go.
Local businesses also have heeded the call. For
example, Shalom Bombay, a kosher Indian restau-
When they read

news about terror
attacks in Israel, many
people dont realize
MDA is the backbone,
responding and
providing blood to
the wounded.
community-wide breakfast at the end of the campaign. But

they intend to stay active in supporting the organization
after theyve reached the $100,000 mark.
We wont just get an ambulance and move on; this will be
our charity of choice for a long time, he says.
For information on how to participate or to donate online,
go to bergendonate.com; mail checks to AFMDA, 172 West
Englewood Ave., Teaneck, NJ 07666. Put BergenDonate.com
in the memo space.
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percent of all Friday sales to the campaign, dubbed
BergenDonate, during the month of January.
As day school pupils have been learning, Magen
David Adom (Red Star of David) was founded in
1930 to work in cooperation with Israeli police, firefighters, and soldiers. Today, more than 125 MDA
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overseas contributors.
Mr. Katz said that after he graduated from the
Torah Academy of Bergen County in 1993, he went
to Israel for a year of study and also volunteered with
MDA. The organization has been close to his heart
ever since.
When they read news about terror attacks in
Israel, many people dont realize MDA is the backbone, responding and providing blood to the
wounded, he said. So were starting the education
process about what MDA does in Israel.
He adds that Akiva Pollack, the first MDA paramedic
on the scene of the November 18 terror attack in a Jerusalem synagogue in which five people were killed and
seven wounded, spoke at the Young Israel of Teaneck
recently. He recounted exactly what happened; how he
was shot at when he arrived, Mr. Katz said.
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for Shabbas?
Dinners nurture connections
among congregation families
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n late October 2014, the Fair Lawn

Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai
Israel began a program that is already
bearing rich fruit.
Modeling their Guess Whos Coming
for Shabbas program on a similar venture
launched in a Pennsylvania synagogue, the
congregation already has connected nearly
two dozen families. And many more are
planning to participate, according to Rabbi
Ronald Roth, religious leader of the Fair
Lawn congregation.
Begun in 2012 by Debbie Albert, a member of Temple Sinai in Dresher, Pa., the goal
of the Shabbat initiative is to bring congregants together, using Friday night dinners
as the initial meeting point. In a 2013 article

written for the Conservative movements
biannual magazine, CJ: Voices of Conservative Judaism, Ms. Alpert called the program a living memorial to her father, Bernie
Alpert, and said it was designed to engage
the unengaged, be interactive, and help
strengthen our congregation.
I read about it and felt that I wanted to do
it here, providing an opportunity for people
to form closer relationships with each other
and celebrate Shabbat together, Rabbi Roth
said. I announced it on the High Holidays
and had one or two classes with potential
hosts.
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the goal of the program is to help our

members get to know each other and to
create meaningful memories. There
is an essential sense of caring and relationships that is part of being a member
of a synagogue. We want to foster those
relationships. They can be formed and
strengthened around the Shabbat table.
He also noted that he wanted members to step out of their comfort zones,
inviting guests whether one or two
families they do not know, or do not
know very well.
Rabbi Roth stressed that the program,
coordinated by congregant Donna Pasternak, is not just for people who are,
or are not, observant. This is about having one Friday night Shabbat dinner. He
said that the synagogue provides materials, in print and online, for people who
are not sure how to host a Shabbat dinner. In addition, he said, I will personally meet with anyone who needs help.
The week of the dinner, hosts are
given a carry bag containing challah, discussion suggestions, games for children,
and brochures containing the Shabbat
Brachot.
All [they] need to do is invite others,
Rabbi Roth said.
Since congregants differ in their
observance of kashrut, Rabbi Roth said
the synagogue would match hosts and
guests according to their levels of observance. And while hosts are free to invite
guests of their own choosing, the synagogue can help match families that are
similar in age or in the number and ages
of their children.
Rabbi Roth said there is no expectation that the invitations will be reciprocal. While he hopes that guests will offer
to serve as hosts in the future, that is not
a condition of participation. Nor should
congregants worry that this is a veiled
attempt to make them more observant.
This is not about changing your life,
Rabbi Roth said. It is about creating
community. It is targeted to all members of the congregation, regardless

of age, marital status, or other similar
considerations.
Diana Finkel of Fair Lawn, who hosted
a Shabbat dinner in October together
with her husband, Steven, said she
invited the family of her daughters soccer coach. Her guests have two children.
She has five ranging in age from 1 1/2 to
17. Because her guests maintain a higher
level of kashrut than does her own family, Ms. Finkel said she discussed the
matter with them in advance.
I asked them, how kosher? she said.
Ultimately, she decided to buy the
meal from a kosher deli. In addition, she
bought paper goods for serving and containers for heating and storing the food.
The guests brought dessert.
Ms. Finkel, who is part of the synagogues membership committee, said
that her family used some of the materials provided in the shuls Shabbat bag,
including the childrens games and questions for discussion.
They were get to know you, break
the ice questions, such as who do you
think was the most important Jewish
person?
She said that she was motivated to
participate in the program because I
think the shul should be about more
than High Holiday services and Hebrew
school. I want to breed closeness in the
community. People always speak to the
same 10 people [at synagogue]. This will
make everyone feel more connected
and thats the key to staying active in the
community. Its to motivate people and
get them more involved.
I think a shul should be your family
and your home, she said. These are
your friends and extended family, but
you dont know who they are until they
come over and you meet them.
She said she and her husband have
continued building the relationship
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begun at the Shabbat dinner they
hosted, and they plan to host more dinners in the future.
Wendy and Michael Grinberg hosted
dinners in October and December and
were guests at a dinner in November.
We planned to host [in November] but
the people couldnt make it, she said, so
the family was rematched and became
guests instead.
We observe Shabbat, but its difficult
to invite guests since we have little kids,
6 and 4, she said. Also, my husband
works in New York City and sometimes
gets home late. The same is true of many
of their friends.
As hosts in the synagogue program,
the Grinbergs invited families their children know one with a connection to
their daughters preschool, and the
other to her sons Sunday school class.
Having guests is a way of making
friends, Ms. Grinberg said. She is a
member of the shuls executive committee and chair of programming for young
families. Her family moved to Fair Lawn
in 2007 and joined the shul right away,

she continued. When we were guests,
we used the question cards that came
in the Shabbat bag the synagogue provided. At her own home, the children
played with square puzzles, which we
used as place cards.
Ms. Grinberg said the two families
got on the same page in terms of level
of kashrut before the dinner. They also
discussed other issues, such as what
candle-lighting time would be acceptable. I enjoy hosting, but I also appreciate being invited as a guest, she said.
Theyre both nice. Its about increasing
social contacts.
Rabbi Roth said, Our hope is to grow
the program exponentially, with invited
guests then serving as hosts in subsequent months, leading to 100 percent
inclusion of our members by the end of
the year. He pointed out that after the
first two Shabbat dinners, more than 85
people had already participated. Future
programs are planned for February 27
and May 1.
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He explained the technoloy to us, and

how he thought of the idea and the engineering behind it, Daniel said. We also
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Daniel, who has been to Israel twice
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included some fun. Today were going
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We also went to the blind museum, an
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They heard about Ethics in the Field
from IDF Col. Benzti Gruber, spent time
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Yachad to present Teaneck workshop on inclusive classrooms
LARRY YUDELSON
ack when Batya Jacob was in

school, either you figured out
how to follow the teacher or
you didnt do well, she said.
Now, thats much less the case. We are
learning that you need to educate the children based on what their needs are and
what their strengths are, she added.
Ms. Jacob is the director of educational
support services for Yachad: The National
Jewish Council for Disabilities. She has
organized a conference for parents and
educators, Toward Successful Inclusive
Classroom Environments, this Sunday
and Monday in Teaneck at Congregation
Keter Torah.
While Yachad is a program of the Orthodox Union, Ms. Jacob said her organization wants the Jewish schooling thats
appropriate for every child, Orthodox or
otherwise.
The conference is in part a professional
service day for the participating teachers. Sunday, though, offers an opportunity for parents and teachers to come
together, because teaching children is
not one-sided. Its a partnership. One of
the ways to establish that partnership is to

start a conversation between them, Ms.
Jacob said. On that day, there will be separate programming tracks for parents and
teachers.
The keynote will discuss creating a positive relationship between parents and
schools. A dinner panel will feature a dialogue between parents and educators.
Workshop sessions include such topics as
Juggling all learners in an inclusive classroom and Promoting social skills with
your children.
Sessions on Monday are focused on educators, but parents are welcome to attend.
Dr. Edward Hallowel, author of Driven to
Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with
Attention Deficit Disorder, will be the
main speaker. He is one of the worlds
leading authorities of ADHD, which is one
of the most common issues our typical
classroom teachers have, Ms. Jacob said.
We are giving our educators, our typical
classroom teachers, the latest methodologies and techniques to reach every child in
the classroom.
If teachers will learn about iPad integration and how to support students with
learning issues techniques they can use
in their daily work why

should parents show up for
those sessions?
P a r e n t s w h o h av e
children with any sort of
challenge are looking for
support, Ms. Jacob said.
Theyre looking to meet
other parents. Theyre
looking to he ar what
the newest theories are.
Batya Jacob
Theyre looking to help
their children.
And the issue of special educational
needs often extends past one child to
affect the entire family. A parent is coming to this conference to learn about how
to best juggle their special child within
the rest of the family unit, she said. Not
just how to juggle educationally, but
socially.
Sometimes when you have a child with
special needs, its hard to juggle everyone
else in the family. How do you blend the
entire family unit together?
Ms. Jacob will present a session on Sunday called Help! Ive Got a Test: Reducing
Anxiety.
In almost every student theres a
tremendous amount of
anxiety before testing,
she said. Were still at
the stage where our kids
believe that if you dont get
an A you wont get into college, that if you dont get
into college you cant get a
job, and if you cant get a
job you cant raise a family.
For kids with special
needs, the anxiety is even
more heightened because
theyre trying to keep up with their classmates, she said.
If the topic sounds guaranteed to grab
students attention though its actually
targeted at parents they might not be
so enamored of Ms. Jacobs suggestion for
how parents can ease test anxiety in their
children.
The best method for reducing it is to
teach them to prepare better, she said.
She will offer advice on how to get your
kids to learn to take notes, to have study
cues, to study with games and mnemonics. When theyre more prepared theyre
going to be more relaxed before the test.
That said, she is also an advocate of the
Advocates of Teaneck Holocaust memorial

launch petition drive in fresh bid
LARRY YUDELSON
hen advocates for a

Holocaust memorial in a
Teaneck township park
return to the city council
later this month, they will bring a list of
local supporters of the plan with them.
The council needs to see theres
strong community support for this, said
Steve Fox, noting that previous discussions have featured a loud vocal minority against the memorial, which would
be funded by private donors.
The petition, at bit.ly/teaneckmemorial, calls for part of Brett Park to be
set aside to memorialize those who
perished in the Holocaust and establish a place for the community to use
for reflection and education about the
tragedy of genocide and the lessons of
tolerance.
As of Tuesday morning, the petition
had more than 150 signatures.
Since their last meeting with city
council last summer, the memorial organizers have paid for a survey that clarified that the area of Brett Park on River
An architects rendering of the proposed Holocaust memorial in Teanecks Brett Park.

Road is under the purview of the township and not the adjacent New Bridge
Landing Park Commission.
Mr. Fox, 61, has lived in Teaneck for 13
years and in neighboring Bergenfield for 14

years before that. He grew up in Brooklyn.
His father had escaped the Warsaw Ghetto
and spent two years as a partisan.
He lost his parents, his sister, her

family, and a number of cousins during
the war, Mr. Fox said.
Mr. Foxs father was active in the
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Maybe mi amar lmi the old-fashioned staple of
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Save the Date

What: Yachad: The National Jewish Council
for Disabilities, presents a conference, Toward
Successful Inclusive Classroom Environments
When: Sunday, February 8, 12-8 p.m.; Monday,
February 9, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Where: Congregation Keter Torah,
600 Roemer Ave., Teaneck
Fee: $120/day for educators; $36 for parents or
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More information: Yachad.org/
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Warsaw Ghetto resistance. That was the group that

organized New Yorks first major Yom Hashoah
commemoration. Growing up, that was part of
our DNA, to go every year to the Holocaust memorial, he said.
For the past five years, Mr. Fox has been a cochair of Teanecks annual Holocaust commemoration. But he doesnt think that the Holocaust should
be remembered just once a year.
Thats why he rejects a proposal made at a council meeting that a Holocaust memorial be placed
at the town green near the Teaneck 9/11 memorial.
If you want something that will have a steady
impact, where people can bring school children to
reflect, to learn, to discuss, the town green is not
accessible, he said. You cant park there.
We see the memorial as educational. Its not just
to commemorate those who perished. Its the place
where we want the conversation to start.
We want people to drive by and say, Whats
that? Oh, a Holocaust memorial? It will begin a discussion of the Holocaust, of racism, of tolerance, of
the importance of not allowing something like this
to happen again.
Were in the largest Jewish community in Bergen
county, Mr. Fox said. This is the place to do it.
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First-class coach
A rabbi to the rabbis leans heavily on his mediation skills
when it comes to encapsulating what makes
leading a congregation a unique professional challenge: There are two things in
life you cannot speak about with any logic
or rationality. One is religion and the other
is emotion.
Were dealing with both when it comes
to a synagogue.
Because of this, events that might be
routine in other careers, such as leaving
one job for another one, lead to painful
and difficult transitions.
Its not just a job, Rabbi Wolfman said.
A good rabbi becomes part of each familys family system. A rabbi may want to
move, and a congregant says, How can
you do that? You buried my mother! That
gets very painful.
Rabbi Wolfman, 54, grew up in Temple
Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly and was
always involved in organized Jewish life,
starting with Sinais NFTY youth group
and the Masada youth group at what then
was the Englewood Jewish Community
Center, now the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. After majoring in religion
Larry Yudelson
ave you ever thought about

a career as a congregational
rabbi?
No, not for your own
career. Have you considered what it must
be like for your rabbi to manage her or
his career? To deal with the sort of concerns you worry about in managing your
own job? How to grow professionally, and
how to get along with the boss which, if
youre a congregant, means you?
Rabbi David Wolfman has thought about
these issues.
Hes a rabbinic coach a certified executive coach with a specialty in helping his
fellow rabbis.
A native of Englewood Cliffs, Rabbi Wolfman plans to return to Bergen County
next month at the behest of the Synagogue Leadership Initiative of the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey, which
is bringing him for the institutes annual
retreat for the areas rabbis.
Rabbi Wolfman has a favorite saying
Rabbi David Wolfman

and sociology at Boston College, he went
to the Reform movements Hebrew Union
College. Ordained in 1987, he spent almost
a decade in two congregations before joining the staff of what was then called the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations as its New England regional director. There, he served on a joint committee
of the union, which represents congregations, and the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, which is responsible
for mediation and arbitration within the
Reform movement in other words, for
resolving battles between rabbis and their
congregations.
Thats when I got fascinated with the
relationship between rabbis and their
congregations, Rabbi Wolfman said. He
found that in general, synagogues do a
great job in matching with an appropriate rabbi who in turn does a great job
in his assigned role. And yet, often honest
and simple things get in the way of harmonious relationships. A lot of turmoil would
happen when there werent proper transitions that followed the placement of a new
rabbi.
The question of why that happened,
and how to prevent it, fascinated him.
He trained to be a licensed mediator. He
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NCSY is the international youth movement of the Orthodox Union. Every
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the Julies
Congregation Shomrei Torah in Wayne
will hold its annual gala on Saturday,
March 7, at the shul. Dr. Ed and Beth
Julie will be honored for their dedicaBeth Julie
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tion and generosity. A journal will be
published in conjunction with the gala.
Festivities begin at 7 p.m., with a cocktail hour and buffet dinner. There will be an
original Purim shpiel written by Beth Julie and performed by congregants, followed
by music, dancing, dessert, and speakers.
For information, call (973) 696-2500 or email office@shomreitorahwcc.org.
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personal Torah growth and the promise of future service to the Jewish people and the Orthodox community. The
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For more information, email Elaine
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Yavneh Academy robotics workshop

The Yavneh Academy in Paramus recently hosted a fullday seminar on robotics for
early learners. The eventwas the brainchild of Chani
Lichtiger, Yavnehs director of educational technoloy. After attending a summer workshop, Integrating
Technoloy Into Jewish Early
Childhood Education, by
Dr. Umaschi Bers, a co-developer of ScratchJr, a programming language for young children, she organized the day at
Yavneh. Participating schools
included the JEC in Elizabeth
and the Manhattan Day School. Dr. Bers
spent time with the teachers to make
sure they understood the curricular benefits and pedagoy involved in teaching
young children about robotics.

At the conference, teachers worked in
pairs to build and program robots to perform tasks related to their curricula.
JFS breakfast pays tribute to 3

In honor of the launch of the Dr. Sandy
Rappaport Trauma Center, Jewish Family
Service and Childrens Center of CliftonPassaic will hold a breakfast on Sunday,
February 15, at 9:30 a.m., at the Venetian
in Garfield. An ad journal will be published
in conjunction with the breakfast.
Rabbi Heshie Hirth is the guest of honor,
Alan Gutmann will receive the Somaich
Achim award, and Dr. Rappaport will be

the JFS Advocacy award recipient. The
honorees have been pillars of support for
Jewish Family Service and the greater Passaic/Clifton community.
For more information, email r.reiken@
jfsclifton.org, call (973) 777-7638, or go
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Temple Emanu-El of Closter will hold its
87th birthday celebration Lights and
Community on March 7. Robin and
Steven Rogers will receive the Founders
award and Robin and Steven Abramow
will be honored with the Hineni award.
The Abramows have been members of
Temple Emanu-El since 1990. Steve was
the first person to daven from the amud in
Temple Emanu-Els new home in Closter,
when he led Birkhot Hashachar and Pseukey DZimrah, and he continued to do this
every week for many years. He also also
filled in for Cantor Singer as baal tefillah.
Additionally, he has served as parnass for
High Holy Day services, and is an active
Shabbat worshipper.
Robin has been instrumental to the temple as a professional designer. Together
with Andrew Pittel and Susan Heidenberg, Robin helped in decorating the
shuls promenade level, religious school,
executive offices, gift shop, and lobby. The
Abramows philanthropic and communal
work extends to other local institutions,
including the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades,
the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, Solomon

Schechter Day School, and the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
The Rogers also are active members of
Temple Emanu-El. Robin has worked on
many committees and events, including
the annual Dinner Gala, Chanukah boutique, and High Holy Days youth programming. In addition, she has co-chaired the
Parkinsons Disease Foundations annual
dinner gala.
Steve was an executive officer of the
synagogue for six years, including serving
as president. He is active in many Jewish
organizations and is on the board of the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, serves on the
New Jersey Cabinet of the Jewish Theological Seminary, is a founding co-chair of
JFNNJs annual Full House poker tournament, lectures on legal issues at the New
York Board of Rabbis, and is a Berrie Fellow. He also plays center for the Pomona
Jewish Center three-peat championship
basketball team.
For information, call (201) 750-9997 or
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Teaneck Shabbat program offers

encouragement for kidney donation
This Shabbat, Renewal, an organization
dedicated to assisting people suffering
from chronic kidney disease, will offer several programs at Teanecks Congregation
Beth Aaron.
During the Friday night Oneg Shabbat at
8 p.m., Rabbi Ephraim Simon, executive
director of Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen
County, will tell his own story of kidney
donation, and other kidney donors will be
there as well to answer questions.
During Shabbat morning services,
Rabbi Laurence Rothwachs of Beth Aaron
will discuss The Anatomy of Kindness.
Between the 4:55 p.m. Mincha service
and the 6:03 Maariv service, Rabbi Josh
Sturm, director of outreach for Renewal,
will examine To Donate or Not to Donate:
From left, Miriam Turk, Nefesh Internationals executive director, with Dr.
Steven Huberman, dean of the Touro Graduate School of Social Work, and
Rabbi Simcha Feuerman, director of operations at Ohel Childrens Home and
Family Services.
Touro fellowship addresses

Orthodox mental health needs
Touro Colleges Graduate School of Social
Work has created a special fellowship for
members of Nefesh, the international network of Orthodox mental health professionals. Dr. Steven Huberman of Teaneck,
the schools founding dean, announced
the fellowship at the organizations 18th
annual international conference, held
recently on Long Island.
The annual Nefesh fellowships, established in memory of Touros founding
president, Dr. Bernard Lander, and his
wife, Sarah, will support those committed to serve people who are most vulnerable and at risk in the Orthodox Jewish
community.
It was Dr. Landers vision to create a
new school of social work that would be
diverse and serve the Orthodox community, especially those most vulnerable,
Dean Steven Huberman said.
Nearly 300 mental health professionals from the Orthodox community
worldwide attended the conference.

Nefesh attracts the largest gathering
of Orthodox mental health professionals in the world, including experts in
the field, who debate and address the
challenges facing the observant Jewish
community.
Dean Huberman also led a three-hour
seminar on Being an Effective Supervisor, Agency Manager, or Executive
for leaders of the social services and
mental health community, including
participants from the Jewish Board of
Family and Childrens Services, Nefesh,
and Ohel Childrens Home and Family
Services.
During dinner, David Mandel, Ohels
CEO and chair of the Touro College Graduate School of Social Works professional
advisory committee, was presented with
the Esther Solomon award by Rabbi
Dovid Cohen, the rabbinic authority for
both Ohel and Nefesh.
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The Halachic Permissibility of Kidney

Donation.
The shul is at 950 Queen Anne Road.
For information on Renewal, go to www.
renewal.org.
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey

needs volunteers for its Kosher Meals on
Wheels delivery and Friendly Visitors
programs for the homebound.
Volunteers are needed to deliver hot
kosher meals one or two days a week in
Fair Lawn, Elmwood Park, and Wayne
to isolated seniors and those with disabilities who are unable to do their own
cooking and shopping.
All meals are picked up at JFSNJs
office at 17-10 River Road in Fair Lawn at
noon, Mondays through Thursdays, and
at 11:30 a.m. on Fridays.
The routes take about one to one and
a half hours from the time the meals are

picked up. Substitute drivers are also
needed.
Friendly Visitors volunteers provide
weekly visits to JFSNJs homebound clients who would benefit from companionship, socialization, and connection
with a caring community member.
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey
is a nonprofit, nonsectarian family service agency assisting members of the
community in coping with lifes challenges. For information, call Melanie
Lester at (973) 595-0111 or email her at
mlester@jfsnorthjersey.org.
Editorial
Count us all in
his is a hard time of year.

On the Jewish calendar, its nothing, just a
stretch of time when
were neither mourning nor rejoicing. Its the dead dusty dry stretch
of summer when we are meant to
weep for the Temples, for the victims of slaughters, for the tragedies of Jewish history, as we slouch
toward Tisha BAv.
Now? Not so much.
But to live in this world, now, is
to muddle our way through long
swathes of icy, slushy, messy, gray
days, days when the occasional
outbreak of thin gold sun and pale
blue sky makes your heart sing
but it has to be a short song. It
doesnt last.
Its a long slog to the baby greens
Truth regardless of consequences
of spring.
Looking through the paper during these weeks, we see a theme
that recurs repeatedly, strongly
enough to be noticeable, and we
wonder if the darkness around us
doesnt actively light it up.
Inclusion.
In one way or another, almost all
of our stories during these last few
weeks have been about inclusion.
Last weeks cover story expressed
it directly and dramatically special needs students at the Sinai
Schools are included in the life of
the schools that house their programs, and everyone benefits.
This week, we write about
Taglit Birthright Israel, young
people wanting to be included in
the communal understanding of
Israel; the American Friends of

Magen David Adom, schoolchildren wanting to be included in
the mitzvah of tzdakah, as well
as their elders wanting the same
thing; Yachad, parents and teachers wanting their special needs
children included in the best possible educational plans and outcomes; Shabbat dinners in Fair
Lawn, with congregants wanting to be included in the warmth
and love around a shared table
on Friday night. Even this weeks
cover story is about the yearning
for inclusion in the archetypical
story of our people.
There is something about the
cold and dark that makes us want
to draw close. It makes us warm,
and together we make light. JP
was 48. Shes 98 now.

As I muse on longevity and
productivity and the prospect of
midlife change, Im listening to
Bob Dylans new album, Shadow
in the Night. Dylan, heralded
fifty-odd years ago as the voice of
his generation, is promoting his
new record through the AARP. Yet
Dylan, never one to gather moss,
has reinvented himself again,
this time as a voice of his parents
generation, producing ten new
recording of songs made famous
in the 1940s by Frank Sinatra. His
aged voice makes songs of lost
love sound extraordinarily poignant; the optimistic romantic
promise of Some Enchanted Evening sounds like the wisdom of a
grandfather.
In one of my last conversations with my grandmother,
then 95, some 20 years ago,
she inadvertently quoted Mr.
Dylans famous line: The times
they are achangin. (With a

southern accent, of course.)
As indeed they were then, and
before, and no doubt ever will
be. On page 14, Rabbi David
Wolfman discusses some of the
challenges our synagogues face
as they work with the younger
generation of Jewish families.
Mr. Dylan and Ms. Spevack
remind us that whatever our
age, we can do more than keep
on keeping on, as a 30-something Mr. Dylan once put it. We,
and our institutions, can continue to adapt, and grow, and
prosper. That, at any rate, is our
hope. For Mr. Dylan, our wish is
more specific: That he continue
another quarter century of creativity until he matches Ms. Spevacks milestone. And for Ms.
Spevack and though it seems
a bit chintzy I wish her until
120. Shes earned her retirement.
LY

Second acts
iolet Spevack, a columnist and writer at the

Cleveland Jewish News,
announced her retirement this week.
I spent part of my childhood
in Cleveland, and remember the
byline; perhaps because she had
her picture above her column,
which focused on local celebrations; perhaps because her first
name was so colorful, and in
our 1970s American schoolyard,
unusual; or perhaps because even
back then I was taking our Jewish
newspapers much too seriously.
Yes, even back then. It turns out
that Ms. Spevack continued writing after I left Cleveland, through
the change of three or four editorial regimes, and but this is not
yet the kicker! until one month
shy of 50 years at the paper.
Half a century.
Heres the kicker: She started
writing for the paper when she
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When Jews are

accused of being Nazis
he announcement last summer that Canadian academic

William Schabas was being appointed head of the new U.N.
Gaza Commission continued a long U.N. tradition of open
bias against Israel.
Schabas was a terrible, deeply prejudiced choice.
When asked who most should be tried at the International Criminal Court for war crimes, Schabas answered brazenly that Benjamin
Netanyahu would be his favorite to indict. Not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, who shot his own citizens in the street in the Green
Revolution of 2009. Not Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who killed more than
100,000 Arabs to date. Not Khaled Mashal of Hamas terrorist infamy.
Schabas also compared Nobel Peace Laureate Shimon Peres, the
former president of Israel, to the president of Sudan who is responsible for the genocide in Darfur.
That a man of such extreme hostility to
the Jewish state should have been considered in the first instance brought further
discredit to the U.N., whose record on
Israel already is appalling.
Schabas pulled no punches on Israel.
He is a steadfast friend of Iran and its
genocidal former president, Ahmadinejad. He sponsored academic conferences
in Tehran with organizations tied to the
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fundamentalist anti-Semitic regime in
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Iran, which demands the annihilation of
Boteach
Israel. He never admitted whether he had
taken money from Iran, but he did admit
to taking money from the PLO. He also
frequently defended Ahmadinejad, calling him nothing more than a
provocative politician and telling the world to stop exaggerating his
statements.
An apologist for radical anti-Semites, Holocaust-deniers, and America-haters, a man who calls for the extermination of the Jewish state,
never should have been trusted to lead an investigation into the war
in Gaza.
Justice finally has been done with his resignation, which, ever the
victim, Schabas attributed to smears from pro-Israel activists.
The truth is that Schabass resignation is a demonstration of the
righteousness and effectiveness of pro-Israel groups, when they work
methodically and determinedly against Israels avowed enemies.
My own organization, This World: The Values Network, took out
full-pages ads against Schabas in the worlds leading publications,
including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, as soon as
his appointment was announced. Schabas responded to our ads with
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the founder of This World:
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an interview in Reuters, where, among other defenses, he
said he liked eating kosher food.
But in truth the Gaza commission is tainted, and betrays
the U.N.s ongoing anti-Israel bias. To date there has been
no U.N. commission investigating the Syrian massacre of
its own citizens, Russias annexation of Crimea, or Hamas
firing of thousands of rockets against Israeli citizens.
Rather, the Jewish state, which defends itself against murderous attack, constantly is investigated by a world that
is still astonished, displeased, and confused when Jews
fight back.
Perhaps the U.N. ought to remember that while a Jewish
life is no more valuable than any other, it also is no less so.
Jews have a right to defend themselves.
When I was in Israel with my family during the recent
Gaza war, I met with a senior IDF commander, who had
been seriously wounded in battle. I asked him how we
could help the IDF. He told me, We dont want to go to
London with our families on vacation and discover that
we face arrest warrants. Its bad enough that we have to
risk our lives constantly in Israels existential fight against
terrorists. Were not asking to be treated as heroes. But
the thought of being treated as criminals, and being subject to prosecution in front of our kids, because we defend
Israel is appalling.
Hes right.
The Palestinians have joined the ICC precisely to bring
false charges against IDF soldiers who defend Israel. Their
purpose is clear: they want to make it impossible for Israel
to deploy its army. They launch murderous attacks against
Jews and then hide behind libelous charges of Israeli genocide and vile comparisons between Israel and Nazis when
Israel moves to protect its citizens.
And dont think its not working. When Dennis Prager
and I debated Israel at the Oxford Union a few weeks ago,
some of the most educated students on the planet got up
at the worlds most famous debating chamber and openly
accused Israel of having become a Nazi regime.
Last September, three days before he went before the
U.N. and accused Israel of genocide against the Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas the moderate spoke at Cooper Unions Great Hall to a crowd composed mostly of
NYU students. Many gave him a standing ovation as he
repeated the blood libel that Israel is a genocidal state.
The charge that Jews are like Nazis risks going mainstream, and not just because of the likes of avowed Israel
haters like Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who scapegoat Israel in
order to conceal their dismantling of Turkish democracy.
Holocaust denial started as an attempt to undermine
the suffering of the Jewish people and delegitimize Israel.
For if the Jews of Europe were not exterminated, what
were they doing, coming from Germany and Poland to
take away Arab land?
There was one problem, however. No matter how much
anti-Semitic historians like David Irving and murderous
tyrants like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran tried to deny
the Holocaust, there were just too many Jews who died.
There was just too much evidence to suppress.
So another idea arose. OK, millions of Jews were killed
by the Nazis. But rather than the Jews becoming more
humane and sensitive as a result, they have internalized
the hatred of their tormentors. They have become Nazis
themselves. They are engaged in the extermination and
genocide of the Palestinian people.
This charge must be countered by every instrument of
organized Jewish life. Our message must be clear: Stop
demonizing the only democracy in the Middle East and
instead shift your focus to where real slaughters are taking
place and to the killers who perpetrate them: ISIS, Syria,
Hamas, and other murderous groups who should be the
real targets of the U.N. if the international body is to retain
a modicum of credibility.
To end terrorism,
start with moral clarity
he most often asked question I hear today is

How do we stop radical Islamic terrorism?
Of course there are no quick, easy solutions
but any attempt must start with an absolute
commitment to speaking and acting with moral clarity.
How can it be that there are leaders today, including
the president of the United States, who simply refuse to
use the words Islamic terrorism or Islamic jihad? I am
not an expert on Islam, and I have no true sense whether
Islam is or is not a religion of peace.
To me that is irrelevant. What is clear is that there are
a large number of followers of Islam who have caused
the greatest desecration of Gods name today, with one
murderous attack after another, in country after country, against our brothers and sisters in Israel and Jews
around the world, against Christians, and mostly against
fellow Muslims, all in the name of a perverted cult that
worships death, violence, domination, subjugation, and
intolerance. Religion is the
exact opposite. It can stand
only for peace, love, tolerance,
respect, kindness and chesed,
especially to the other.
The Torah urges us to show
kindness to the stranger more
frequently than it tells us to
keep Shabbat. Every great
Jewish leader, past and presLee
ent, from Moses to the sages
Lasher
of the Talmud, including Rabbi
Akiva and Rabbi Yochanan ben
Zakai, to the Rambam, to the
chasidic masters, to contemporary holy figures like the
Lubavitcher rebbe and Rav Soleveichik, represented these
ideals of kindness and ethical values, in addition to incredible scholarship.
Moral clarity requires that:
All leaders local, national, and international, including political and religious leaders must speak honestly
about radical Islamic terrorism, call it what it is, and call
out this despicable ideology. No more excuses about how
it is related to Israel and the Israel-Palestinian conflict or
any other excuses.
Political and religious Muslim leaders must speak out
loudly and clearly against any form of extremism and terror. They must tell their followers that the only way they
can honor Islam is by living a life dedicated to life, not
death, by respecting others, including members of other
faiths.
All leaders must stop funding countries and entities
that support terror in any shape or form. This includes
those societies and leaders (especially in the PA) that glorify terrorists and murderers, turning them into heroes,
naming streets and stadiums after them.
All of us must speak out, organize rallies, contact our
political representatives, and demand an end to hatred
and anti-Semitism, whether at the U.N., on college campuses, or in the media
Its really very clear that we cannot stop radical Islamic
terrorism, jihad, ISIS, Hamas, and other murderous
groups or ideologies without finally facing up to it. We
ignore it at our peril; as we have seen, it has only gotten
What is clear is that

there are a large
number of followers
of Islam who have
caused the greatest
desecration of Gods
name today, with one
murderous attack after
another, in country
after country.
worse. Further, while we can do our part, the only sure
way that radical Islamic terrorism can be stopped is from
within the Muslim world. It will take their leaders and
people to recognize that a segment of the Muslim world
is on a path to destroy civilization as we know it, and it
is they who defame Islam far more than any cartoonists
ever could.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said last week
that the fight against terrorism needs a new religious discourse, in addition to security and military measures.
He said, The fight should include a reformed religious discourse from which false ideologies that could
lure some into adopting violence to impose their ideas
have been removed. Its a start but so much more is
needed.
I was in Belgium on business last year. Because of
dietary restrictions I asked a worker in the business lounge
to assist me. He offered to bring some salad and fruit to my
room. When he came, the door happened to be open and
he saw that I was in the middle of Mincha, the afternoon
prayer service. He waited quietly until I was done, and
then he told me that although he was living in Belgium, he
was a Muslim from Egypt. He said that we were brothers,
both sons of Abraham, and he extended blessings to me. I
returned the blessings.
He said that it was only the extremists who make the
problems, and that they kill everyone Muslims, Jews,
and Christians. I countered that unfortunately there are
too many extremists, and we have to speak out against
them. If our leaders dont speak out, how can we? he
said. We are too scared.
Lets issue a resounding call to our leaders, especially in
the Muslim community. Dont be scared. Speak out. Speak
clearly. Death, violence, domination, subjugation, intolerance these things are not Islam. They are not religion but
rather the exact opposite.
Lee Lasher is president of Congregation Ahavath Torah
in Englewood, co-founder of Unite4Unity, an officer
at the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, and
vice president of the Koby Mandell Foundation. He is
a graduate of the third cohort of the Berrie Fellows
leadership program.
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Opinion
Just say no
Irans threat is against all of us, not just Israel
rime Minister Netanyahu was

invited to speak to a joint session of Congress about the
importance of furthering sanctions against Iran.
Accepting the invitation is a colossal mistake. I urge the prime minister to just say No
thank you.
My counsel is not based on the timing of
the upcoming Israeli elections and the visual
affect of the incumbent prime minister standing before Israels most valuable ally and its
elected leadership.
My counsel is not based on the role of
pawn the prime minister might play, used by
Republican Congressional leadership against
a Democratic president.
My counsel is not based on the poor timing of the invitation, which was extended
and accepted just hours after the State of the
Union address, and broke with White House
protocol.
My counsel is based on one simple, critical, and undeniable fact: Iran sanctions are
in the United States best interest. We do not
need a leader of a foreign country to come
to United States to tell Congress the benefits
of enacting these sanctions. While it is true,
these sanctions help the United States and all
of its citizens. De facto, that helps Israel, and
all of Americas allies.
Do we want Angela Merkel standing before
our elected officials explaining how best to
deal with immigration, or Francoise Hollande
describing the best vehicle to stop terror? Our
countries are and should remain staunch
allies. We should learn and grow and even

challenge each other. Still, our legislation
should not appear to be decided upon solely
by our allies interests, not our own benefits.
That is a very dangerous card to play.
Legislation that benefits Americas interests is paramount. Let me be unambiguous. Sanctions on Iran are critical and vital
to Americas interests. Allow me to repeat
that: Sanctions on Iran are critical and vital
to Americas interests.
Irans achieving nuclear capability would
be an irrevocable catastrophe that must be
stopped. A nuclear bomb in Irans hands
would pose imminent threats to every Western value-based country. This includes Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Spain,
Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Brussels, all of which are within arms reach of
Iran, as well as Canada, Mexico, and the
United States.
If Iran were to become a nuclear-capable
country, it would undermine all of the nonproliferation treaties and progress that has
been made through years of hard negotiations. These treaties were brokered to dismantle the threat of annihilation by other
countries. Is that a place toward which we
want to return? Has the frostbite of the Cold
War thawed in our memories?
Inevitably, with growing tensions between
Sunni and Shiite countries, Irans obtaining
a nuclear bomb would stoke an arms race
in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, perhaps even oil-rich Qatar and Kuwait all would
follow suit, with bombs of their own. The
Why Jewish education matters
hile there are many areas

to which a rabbi devotes
his or her time, the essential component of every
rabbinate is teaching.
The very word rabbi is far closer in meaning to teacher than to priest. That the
word for rabbi refers etymologically to teaching indicates the pre-eminent place of learning in Jewish culture. We always have made
education our top priority. Synagogue boards
today that commit to subsidizing the Jewish
education of the communitys children, year
after year, are following a long tradition. The
Shulchan Aruch, the sixteenth-century codification of Jewish law, requires each community to pay the salary of a teacher to educate
its children to read the alef bet.
Education is not exclusively for the young.
Jewish learning is a way of life that persists
through the years. In fact, we are taught
that the Jewish idea of paradise is learning
at the feet of the great rabbis in the heavenly
academy.
One reason why Jews have felt so comfortable in the United States is because of the
parallel cultural value placed on education.
More than any other country, Americans

value education as a way of life. Ours is
one of the only places in the world where
high school graduates are expected to continue in full-time study in the liberal arts,
separate from technical training. The very
idea (needless to say the practical possibility) of a resident college experience is literally foreign to most residents of the planet.
The pursuit of a liberal education is directly
analogous to the Jewish concept of Torah
lishmah, of study for its own sake without practical or pecuniary motive. Jewish
and American cultures share this essential
value of education as a virtue, as a means of
improving our basic humanity, and of making us better Jews or Americans.
In American culture, education was at first
considered critical in order to prepare a populace to assume sovereignty as a democracy.
In Jewish tradition, education is, at its highest form, a means of worship, an opportunity
to engage with and celebrate Torah. Today,
both cultures have been influenced by more
immediate practical concerns. American education is finding itself falling behind in areas
such as science, technology, engineering and
to Hamas and Hezbollah, two

Middle East is a dangerous and
terrorist organizations opervolatile neighborhood. In what
ating in Gaza and Lebanon,
is a very cold winter following an unsettling Arab spring,
respectively. Its fingerprints are
the idea of rogue militia-based
linked to the AMIA bombing in
governments with the ability to
Argentina, where more than 65
put their fingers on the button
people were murdered. Iran
is terrifying to the entire world.
even offers compensation to
Iran is one of 13 countries
surviving families whose chilRabbi
dren murdered Israeli civilians.
that comprise the council of
David-Seth
Should we allow the neighborOPEC the Organization of
Kirshner
hood bully to upgrade its artilPetroleum Exporting Countries. This group of 13, almost
lery? Logic tells me such a bully
all of them Arab countries,
would create exponentially
is responsible for more than 40 percent of
more crime.
the worlds oil. If one of those countries had
The current iteration of the Kirk-Menendez
nuclear capabilities, it could hold the world
bill should be signed by all members of the
hostage on oil prices. Under $2 a gallon is a
U.S. Senate in a demonstration of bipartisan
wonderful reprieve these days. However,
support. The proposed bill is prospective.
imagine $7.50 a gallon just because Iran has
That means it only takes effect if the negotiations with Iran fail. In essence, it holds the
the muscle to enforce price gouging and no
Iranians feet to the fire at the negotiation
one country could stand up to it.
table. Should they stall or walk away, the U.S.
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 it
government need not go through the timewanted to capture more oil fields and simply
consuming exercises of drafting and voting
get richer. America and Israel stopped that
on sanctions, while Iran spins its centrifuges.
from happening: America by sending troops
Sanctions against Iran must happen for all
and letting Saddam Hussein know that the
these reasons and many more. If we make
world would not sit idly by for his audacious
it appear that we are making the sanctions
thievery. Israel is to be applauded for secretly
solely or even primarily for Israels sake it is a
bombing the nuclear reactor at Ossirik, Iraq,
dangerous optical illusion.
10 years earlier. I am not a fortune teller, but
So, Mr. Prime Minister, just say No, thank
I am pretty sure that were Iraq to have had a
you to the gracious invitation. If you are vicnuclear bomb the allied countries response
torious in the coming elections, come back to
in 1990 would have been dramatically more
address Congress and thank its members for
timid. Kuwait might have fallen to Iraq and
our special, unique, and shared value-based
gas prices would have soared while Saddam
relationship.
would have built more palaces. Thankfully,
that was thwarted. Do we want to make the
David-Seth Kirshner is the senior rabbi of
same mistake again?
Temple Emanu-El of Closter and president of
Iran is the largest sponsor of world terror. Iran is a source of funds and weaponry
the New York Board of Rabbis.
majority host culture and the

mathematics the so-called
specific minority culture, are
STEM subjects. Necessary
so interchangeable and comadjustments are being made,
plementary that we are facing
but often at the expense of the
todays challenges. It is because
humanities. Jewish education,
American culture values eduwhich is itself a branch of the
cation that American Jews do
humanities, also is under siege
less Jewish education.
for its effectiveness in ensuring
We are blessed to live in a
Jewish identity and continuity.
Rabbi
society that values the pursuit
The burden on Jewish eduDr. David
cators has increased as parof knowledge, that sees it as a
J. Fine
ents can offer less informal
virtue, something that makes
education about Jewish living
us better and fuller people.
because their own Jewish eduThat was a wisdom that Judacation is limited and their commitments are
ism always understood. We should embrace
varied. But just as we are asking more of Jewour surrounding American culture and
ish teachers, the available time (in both the
appreciate the blessings before us. But at the
broad terms of years and in the numbers of
same time, we need to have a clearer sense of
hours per week) that Jewish educators are
what it is that we expect from the education
given to teach has in fact decreased.
that we invest in for our children as a Jewish
The increased burden on Jewish educacommunity.
tion, coupled with a decreased opportunity
If we know what we want and need from
to succeed, might be interpreted as bad
Jewish education and can give our Jewish education foundations the required
news for the Jews. But the reality is far more
resources, we will be able to benefit from the
complex than that. The reason why we need
legacies of being both Jewish and American.
our teachers to teach more and to help our
We need to support our supplementary
parents while parents bring their children
schools and achieve attainable goals. We
for fewer years and fewer hours is that Judaism has found such a comfortable home in
are limited in what we can teach at a supplementary religious school, but if we can
America. It is because our two cultures, the
Letters
Not being Charlie
Je ne suis pas Charlie (Je suis Charlie?

January 30).
I am not Charlie. Everything I have
read about Charlie Hebdo informs me
that the publication is a vulgar and crude
publication. It clearly does not deserve
to exist. It has crudely insulted Muslims,
Christians, and Jews.
However, I strongly support the right
to publish Charlie Hebdo because I so
strongly disagree with its behavior and
policies. No law should be passed to
prohibit its publication. I would love
for Charlie Hebdo to go out of business
because nobody buys the paper. And
articles, editorials, and letters should be

written condemning the crude cartoons.
In a democracy, that should be the limit
of action against the publication.
There is something else that we should
learn about the murder of the journalists.
Charlie mocked Muslims, Christians, and
Jews. I am sure that all were offended. Only
the radical Muslims felt that the appropriate response was murder. Clearly the good
Muslims of the world must respond to the
radical Muslims and strongly condemn this
vicious atrocity.
Harry Lerman
Paramus
Just a week away

Valentines Day
Bibi, Churchill, and Jabotinsky

It is a shame that too many pundits
and editorial writers do not realize that
there is a factor in Benjamin Netanyahus actions that goes beyond politics
or personality clashes (Netanyahus
planned speech roils pro-Israel community, January 30). They do not seem to
understand that he is utterly convinced
that regardless of his intentions, President Obamas policy is leading Israel and
then the United States and other western
democracies to a catastrophe.
Benjamin Netanyahus late father, Benzion Netanyahu, was a renowned professor of history at Dropsie College, Cornell
University, and the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem. But when he was in his late
twenties he was personal secretary to a
prominent right-wing Zionist leader named
Vladimir Jabotinsky. The media now tends
to forget that during the 1930s Winston
Churchill was being ignored, derided, and
denounced in England and France for his

repeated grim warnings about the objective
of Hitler and the Nazis. During those same
years, Jabotinsky was going through eastern Europe exhorting his Jewish audiences
to get out of Europe because they were
on the verge of a catastrophe. He also was
ignored, derided, and bitterly denounced.
A sidelight: Jabotinsky died of a heart
attack in New York on August 4, 1940.
He was 59. That same day, the famous
Charles A. Lindbergh addressed a mass
outdoor America First Committee rally
in Chicagos Soldier Field. It was broadcast coast to coast on network radio.
Lindberghs perspective was that the
only people who were eager for the
United States to help defeat Nazi Germany were the British and the Jews.
Arthur Rabin
Havertown, Pa.
(Mr. Rabin used to live in River Edge)
instill a sense of joy in Jewish celebration,

an appreciation of Shabbat, and a basic
knowledge of Torah, then we have done
so much. If we can teach our children how
to read the prayer book, so they can grow
up and enter any synagogue in the world
and join in, we have provided a passport
for the soul that will never expire.
Nothing can explain the feeling of
belongingness that you get when you
walk into a synagogue on the other side
of the world and instantly are a part of
that community. You must know what to
do in order for that to happen, though.
That belongingness then will manifest
itself at home as well as when away.
We need to invest in a high school program, like the one at the Bergen County
High School of Jewish Studies, so that Jewish education can grow with the student
beyond the bar/bat mitzvah year, and so
that our investments in primary Jewish
education can grow.
We need to strengthen our Jewish day
schools. Those parents who make the
commitment to give their children a bicultural education will find their children
grow into mature American Jews, people
who will be best prepared to navigate the
hybridized culture in which we all live in
because they will be equally competent

and at home in both cultures.
We need to broadly encourage the Jewish camping experience. The informal and
communal setting of summer camp can
communicate Judaism on the experiential
level in a way that can never be accomplished in the classroom.
We need to send our children to Israel.
Experiencing Israel is experiencing the Jewish people in its fullness. Only then can the
Jew feel fully at home in America, when you
know that your Jewishness is strong and
unthreatened by your also being American.
On Saturday night, we can take advantage of Sweet Tastes of Torah, where local
rabbis share their love for Torah in Fair
Lawn.
Jewish education forms us not only
as Jews but as Americans as well. In this
nation of immigrants, the specific culture
that we bring with us mixes with the majority culture to give us the unique character
that helps us reach an element of virtue.
This is why Jewish education matters.
David J. Fine is the rabbi of Temple
Israel and Jewish Community Center in
Ridgewood.
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Who stood at Sinai?

Conference to look at 25 years of Jewish feminism, examine what might come next
JOANNE PALMER
very Jew who ever was and ever

will be born stood together
at Sinai when the mountain
smoked and trembled and God
revealed the law to them, midrash tells us.
Born Jews stood with those who were
born into other faiths but were created
with a Jewish spark that was liberated
when they left their native people to join
us. Souls encountered each other there,
across millennia and over the boundless expanses of ocean that separate the
continents.
At that one time and place, we were one
people.
But wait a minute.
Exactly who was at Sinai?
According to the text, was everyone
really there?
As Judith Plaskow pointed out in her
groundbreaking work of feminist scholarship, Standing Again at Sinai, in parshat
Yitro in the book of Shemot Exodus, in
English God tells Moshe to gather all the
people, to tell them to stay pure, to wash

their clothes, to wait for three days, and
not to touch the mountain until a rams
horn sounds a loud blast.
Moshe came down from the mountain
where he had listened to God, we are told,
and gave the people Gods instructions.
Be ready for the third day, he said. Do
not go near a woman.
This is one of our most basic, most formative texts.
So wait. What?
Was Moshe speaking to all of Israel, or
just to the men? How could women not go
near themselves? Did women even count
as part of Israel?
Those were the questions that were at
the heart of Dr. Plaskows book. Where do
women fit into Judaism? Is Judaism inherently patriarchal, or could it change? Is
there or is there not hope?
Congregation Bnai Jeshurun, the unaffiliated Conservative synagogue on Manhattans Upper West Side that is New
Yorks second oldest congregation and
which draws many members from eastern
We want to figure out how we can have

an inclusive conversation. We dont
want to duplicate the same exclusion
that we have felt for so long. RABBI FELICIA SOL
Bergen County is celebrating the 25th
anniversary of Dr. Plaskows book with
Meet Me at Sinai, a daylong conference
that will look at the changes wrought during the last quarter century and consider
what might come next.
Dr. Plaskow, who lives in Manhattan and is a member of BJ, will give the
conferences keynote talk.

We will read about the revelation at
Sinai, not at all coincidentally, this Shabbat, in parashat Yitro, she said. How do
we deal with it, with the absence if not
the active negation of women at the most
crucial, formative part of our peoples history? I use that central image in my book
as a metaphor for saying that we really
dont know where the women were, she
said. I think that the chapter of my book
that has been most influential is the one
on Torah. It calls for discovering womens
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We havent
really uprooted
the patriarchal
underpinnings
from the deepest
aspects of our
communal
consciousness.
Feminism has
been one of the
forces to which
we can credit
the revitalization
of Judaism.
DR. JUDITH ROSENBAUM
To me, the
material thats
more difcult
in the Torah is
what I find most
interesting and
challenging.
DR. JUDITH PLASKOW
DR. ELANA SZTOKMAN
Torah. What does it mean to recover and

invent womens Torah?
There have been enormous changes
over the last 25 years, she continued.
New commentaries by women, new
midrash, new history. We certainly have a
lot more womens Torah than we did 25
years ago.
She faces a constant and unabated struggle as she faces the text.
She continues to identify deeply as a
Jewish woman. But at the same time, I
would say I do it with difficulty, because
obviously the Torah is still the same Torah.
Every year we read that passage. The new
womens Torah has not necessarily made
it into the synagogue service, which is how
so many Jews encounter Judaism.
If I had been willing to turn my back
on the tradition, I wouldnt have bothered
writing the book. It came from a stance of
not being willing to walk away. At the same
time, I continue to struggle with it.
There is something enriching in the
struggle itself, she continued. And there
are many things that I love about the tradition. I love Torah. I find it endlessly rich. I
find that many of the horrible things that
it says about women provide occasions for
talking about those things in our culture.
To me, the material thats more difficult in the Torah is what I find most interesting and challenging. What do we do
with that? How do we use it in order to
create change?
For example, take the part where Lot
offers his virgin daughters for the strangers. That disturbing story is rarely discussed in synagogues when it is read.
Thats something that needs to be
noticed, Dr. Plaskow said. It could be an
opportunity to explore violence against
women. There is much that we could do
with the destructive things in the Torah,
if people are interested. If they have the
will.
So what should women do? Form small
groups, Dr. Plaskow said, like the chavurot to which she belonged for many
years. Become acquainted with the new
material, new rituals, commentaries, and

so on that have been created over the last
25 years. Dont have your whole Jewish life
depend on a synagogue. Participate where
smaller groups of people have control.
And agitate for change.
As for her, she will continue struggling
and remaining, not struggling and leaving, Dr. Plaskow said.
Felicia Sol, one of BJs rabbis, organized
the conference. Its meant to honor the
incredible progress that has been made in
the last 25 years, but also to agitate, she
said. What is so compelling to me about
Judiths book is that it raises deeper questions, beyond access to Jewish life, about
what you do about the structures that you
hold so dear, when you arent considered
as a subject in those structures.
The conference accordingly is divided
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into three sections celebration, disruption, and vision
for the future. Each section will begin with a pair of
women offering what the program calls path-breaking
duets; the Forwards editor, Jane Eisner, will moderate.
In a display of the conferences range and reach, the first
section, Celebrations, will feature feminist author and
icon (and BJ member) Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Rabba
Sara Hurwitz of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, who
also is the dean of Yeshivat Maharat, the open Orthodox institution that ordains women as maharats. They
both represent how far we have come, in very different
ways, Rabbi Sol said.
Disruption will open with Jodi Kantor of the New York
Times and writer, blogger, and media personality Rachel
Sklar; both are observers, reporters who can detail Jewish womens lives as they are lived today with accuracy.
Visions for the Future will begin with filmmaker Lacey
Schwartz and Leah Vincent, who writes about her childhood as a Satmar chasid and her integration into the
larger Jewish world. They represent pathways to the
future, a non-normative understanding, and pose the
question of how do we make space for the new voices
of the future, which do not fall into the same categories
that we have used in the past, Rabbi Sol said.
The conference is not only for women, she added; not
only are men welcome, but there will be a session that
is only for them, led by BJs Rabbi Marcelo Bronstein
and Rabbi Daniel Brenner of Moving Traditions. There
are a lot of questions about the meaning of Jewish feminism for men, beside the typical questions about where
are the men, once the women are empowered, Rabbi
Sol said. We are trying to create space for men, in the
hope that we are telling a new story. Feminism is not just
for women. We want to figure out how we can have an
inclusive conversation.
We dont want to duplicate the same exclusion that
we have felt for so long.
All Of the Above: Single, Clergy, Mother, a documentary by Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik, will screen during the
Celebrations section.
Dr. Vinik, who lives in Leonia, said that she first
thought of making All Of the Above when she interviewed Lisa Gelber, a Conservative rabbi, BJ member,
and single mother, for another film, and between takes
she said, Did you ever notice how many attractive Jewish women, educators, rabbis, professionals there are on
the Upper West Side who are single and have children?
I said no, I didnt, and then I thought about it, and I
Rabbi Lisa Gelber and her daughter, in All of the

Above.
DEBRA GOSNSHER VINIK
realized that I could think of five off the top of my head,

so I said yes.
That idea-germ sprouted, so I tried in a very small
way to get funding, but I couldnt, she said; in fact, of
all the films shes made she is now working on the 19th
this one was the hardest to fund. She used her own
money for it, although she did get a very useful $5,000
toward it once it was done. I feel to this day that all my
films are my children, and you can never say which child
you like best, but this is a very special film, she said. It
is much more intimate and much more personal.
The film looks at the lives of three rabbis and one rabbinical student; all are single but three of the four have
had children. The fourth, student and Pharaohs Daughter musician Basya Schechter, considers that option during the movie.
The other three women made their decision and their
lives look easy, Dr. Vinik said. Things have changed so
much. Twenty years ago, it just seemed so impossibly
difficult. Now, it does not, although, of course, as she
pointed out, even lives that look perfect are not. It is just
that sometimes the strain does not show, and at other
times that strain is cushioned by parents, friends, and
the community.
One of the women in the film is Rabbi Sol, who now is
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Michelle Citrin will sing; Basya Schechter of Pharaohs Daughter appears in All of the Above.
MEET ME AT SINAI
Who: More than 30 academics, artists, musicians, and other feminist Jews
What: A day of learning, song, workshops, films, food, and friendship
Why: To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Standing Again at Sinai, and to think about the future
Where: Congregation Bnai Jeshurun, 257 West 88th Street, Manhattan; between Broadway and West End Ave.
When: Sunday, February 8, from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
How: Members, $32; nonmembers, $36, students/young professionals, $18
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women in American feminism, she said. The two often
are studied separately, either womens history or the
Jewish community, but a decade ago, JWA put together
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thousand times, and whenever I watch it Dr. Vinik
said, her voice trailing off. Felicia is very very strong,
and has it all together, and she is talking, and suddenly
she breaks, and the pain and the emotion still is there.
If Basya hadnt agreed to do the film, it would make
everything look wonderful and easy, and its not, Dr.
Vinik said. That would have been fake. I wanted her
to talk about it. It is so raw, and she is in so much pain.
The process of becoming pregnant is not only emotionally risky and physically unreliable, it is also very
expensive and financially draining, Dr. Vinik said. That
toll is visible in Ms. Schechter, who still has not had a
child, and still does not know if she wants to.
The movie was shown on ABC; the network held off
on showing it because they were hoping that after the
conclusion, I would bring up a black frame with white
lettering, saying something like, Three months after
the filming, Ms. Schechter became pregnant, Dr. Vinik
said. They and you, when you watch it so desperately want that frame to come up.
It doesnt, because this is real.
The rabbis who have chosen to become single mothers find that it can bring them closer to their congregants, helping them to serve as role models in this as
in other aspects of life. Rabbi Sol has said that since
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exhibit with fresh voices.
Of course, Dr. Rosenbaum, like Dr.
Plaskow, Rabbi Sol, and Dr. Vinik, speak
mainly to the liberal Jewish world. That
is exactly the part of the Jewish community where questions of gender are least
threatening, and the concept of feminism
is not inherently divisive. But those questions have crossed the boundary between
the Orthodox and liberal worlds. JOFA,
the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
is doing really important work, pushing
the barriers on leadership, on scholarship,
on ritual, Dr. Rosenbaum said. There is
a lot of change happening there, although
there is a lot of pushback as well.
It is where some of the most lively conversations are happening. In liberal communities, there is less left to be said.
Elana Sztokman, an Israel-based writer
and scholar and JOFAs former executive
director, will join Dr. Rosenbaum on the
disruption panel.
It is very clear that Orthodoxy is the last
denomination to come to the table when it
comes to gender, she said. A lot of things
that non-Orthodox or formerly Orthodox
feminists were talking about 25 years ago
are happening now in Orthodoxy for the
first time.
Many of the great Jewish feminists talk
about their Orthodox upbringing, she

added. Why? I think that a lot of feminists are in conversation with Orthodoxy,
she said. We are all struggling against the
patriarchy, which we see so strongly there;
there is so much residue of it throughout
the Jewish community.
Even the nonreligious parts of the community even in the federation system
wherever we find sexism in the Jewish
community, it always feels like it is deeply
rooted in the tradition. Everyone is in conversation with it.
What I find most striking is the extent
to which we havent really uprooted
the patriarchal underpinnings from
the deepest aspects of our communal
consciousness.
Its lack of egalitarianism certainly is not
unique to the Orthodox community, she
added. None of the denominations has
achieved 100 percent equality.
Dr. Sztokman noted Dr. Plaskows desire
not to look closely at absolutely everything. She talks a lot about looking deeper
at history, but in the beginning of her book
she says that she is not going to talk about
Shabbat. She doesnt want to uproot Shabbat, but to accept it as it is.
But I find myself very often wondering
what Shabbat would be like without the
assumption of female servitude.

Everywhere you go, the Shabbat experience revolves around the assumption
that someone is going to be managing the
kitchen, the food, for a gazillion people,
she continued. That is really deep-rooted.
But I keep asking myself what Shabbat
might be like if we stopped assuming that
there is somebody some woman who
is responsible for serving everyone.
Would it have evolved differently?
Maybe there wouldnt always be a trail
from the kitchen to the dining room table.
I am not suggesting that there are not a
lot of polite people, nice guests, who help,
but the idea of the female serving food is
the ideal of Jewish communal identity.
I would like to start doing what Dr.
Plaskow didnt do, because Shabbat is
key. I would like to start asking the question about what Shabbat would be like if it
wasnt about serving good food. I am tired
of that model of Jewish femininity. I am
tired of the questions always in my head
am I serving enough food? Serving good
enough food? Inviting enough guests?
I would like to rethink Shabbat without
female servitude. Would it be about something else? More singing? More people
getting together? Or maybe less people?
Maybe it would be about meditation, or
yoga. Yoga retreats often feel a lot more

like what I want Shabbat to be, instead of
sitting around a table for five hours stuffing my face.
These are intense questions, the result
of intense emotion, often stifled even now,
at a time when it seems from the outside
that nothing need be held back.
The conference will allow some breathing room too. It will open with four davening options, from the straightforward
egalitarian Conservative morning minyan all the way to Rabbi Jill Hammer and
Shoshana Jedwabs Kohenet davening,
a more unusual offering they subtitle a
Hebrew priestess prayer service. (Ms.
Jedwab has lived in Bergenfield for many
years.) It includes approximately 30 panelists and speakers, breakfast and lunch,
an animated film, and another documentary, Little White Lies. Music will come
from Michelle Citrin, now of Brooklyn, the
internet-and-real-life sensation who comes
from Fair Lawn.
The conference organizers are expecting a synagogue full of women and men
who feel that maybe they too stood at
Sinai. The day is an attempt to decode and
then reclaim the feelings of awe they still
feel, when they stand still again and listen
for that still small voice.
Opinion
Getting anti-Semitism wrong at the United Nations
ou have to hand it to
Levy explained that
the United Nations, I
there were three key
guess.
aspects to the current
Its hard to think
upsurge of anti-Semitism:
of another body that would
the demonization of Israel
organize a special meeting on
as an illegitimate state, the
the subject of rising anti-Semdenial of the Holocaust,
itism with anti-Semites not
and what he described as
just in attendance, but making
the modern scourge of
Ben Cohen
speeches as well.
competitive victimhood,
The January 22 meeting on
whereby Jewish efforts to
the subject at the U.N. General
commemorate the HoloAssembly, organized in the run-up to Intercaust are scorned as an attempt to belittle
national Holocaust Remembrance Day,
the sufferings of other nations.
started well enough. The keynote speaker
For good measure, Levy also expertly
was French philosopher and author Berdispensed with some of the myths that
nard-Henri Levy, who used the occasion to
surround the current debate on antimount a forthright denunciation of what he
Semitism, notably the contention that
called the delirium of anti-Zionism. That
Jew-hatred would go away if only the Palhe did so from the same podium where
estinians had a state of their own. Even
the infamous Zionism is racism resoluif the Palestinians had a state, as is their
tion was first moved in 1975 was deliciously
righteven then, alas, this enigmatic and
ironic, though I cant say for sure whether
old hatred would not dissipate one iota,
anyone else in attendance made that conLevy declared, as the assembled delegates
nection, and Levy didnt point it out.
scratched their heads in puzzlement and,
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But did Levys messageessentially,
that anti-Zionism, the denial of the right of
national self-determination to the Jewish
people, is the principal pillar upon which
todays anti-Semitism restsget through?
Sadly, it didnt. After Levy left the
podium, we were treated to a seemingly
endless stream of anodyne statements
from the various delegations, with a couple of noble exceptionsIsraels ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor, who had the
guts to say that anti-Semitism can even
be found in the halls of the U.N., disguised
as humanitarian concern, and the U.S.
ambassador to the U.N., Samantha Power,

who reminded those delegates sitting
in the General Assembly that Holocaust
denial remains a staple of official media
across the Middle East and North Africa.
The lasting impression, however, was
left by Arab and Muslim delegates, most of
whom pushed the insidiousand deeply
stupidmyth that because the Palestinians
are Semites, they cannot be anti-Semitic.
As far as Im aware, no one countered
these remarks by pointing out that first,
there is no such nationality or ethnicity
as a Semite, and second, that the term
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Anti-Semitism
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anti-Semitism was devised by anti-Semites to give their

loathing of the Jews scientific respectability.
It got worse, thoughmuch worse. Imagine a meeting
about segregation in the Deep South, with one speaker paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and another pointing out that these uncivilized descendants of African slaves
bore the lions share of the blame for the racism heaped
upon them, and youll have some idea of what the delegate
from the Organization of Islamic CooperationSaudi Arabias ambassador to the U.N., Abdallah Al-Moualimihad to
say on the topic of anti-Semitism.
Occupation itself is an anti-Semitic act, because it threatens humankind and human rights, he said. The persecution of the Palestinian people and the denial of their human
rightsthis is also an example of anti-Semitism.

In other words, the man from the OIC was saying, why are
we talking about hatred directed towards Jews when the real
issue is the anti-Semitichis word, definitely not mine
treatment of the Palestinians by Israel? In listening to the
denial of the historical nature of anti-Semitism as a form of
prejudice targeting Jews, I and everyone else in that room
witnessed an act of, well, anti-Semitism.
Nobody walked out or protested (although when I muttered my own disgust, a few people turned around and
gave me glaring looks). And this seemed to me to underline
Prosors point not only does anti-Semitism stalk the halls
of the U.N., but we expect nothing else.
Why, then, bother trying to engage the U.N. as a partner
in the fight against anti-Semitism? Why agree to meetings in
which the imperative of protecting Jews is compromised by
the presence of those determined to insult them? Why

put up with obligatory mentions of Islamophobiaa
term that doesnt refer to bigotry against Muslims, but
seeks to silence those who offer theological critiques
of Islam as a faithin order to balance out all these references to anti-Semitism?
Therefore, I want to suggest an alternative tack.
While it would be churlish to demean the efforts of
Jewish advocacy organizations and the Israeli U.N. del-
Our side of
the debate
doesnt have full
control of the
proceedings, and
never will.
egation in helping to pull off the meeting, its important to recognize that our side of the debate doesnt
have full control of the proceedings, and never will. As
long as we fail to control the substance of the debate,
and as long as we are powerless to weed out anti-Semites like the OIC delegate from these deliberations, we
will never properly explain to the world what antiSemitism involves.
Ultimately, its not about trading in discredited stereotypes or being nasty to individual Jews. These are
just expressions of a more complex underlying phenomenon. In the era of the Jewish state, anti-Semitism
has transformed itself into a reactionary movement in
the literal sense of that word. It seeks the restoration of
the status quo that prevailed before the Second World
War, when there was no Jewish state, and when Jews
were by definition a minority at the mercy of others.
That is what we have to oppose. And so, if there is a
future meeting about anti-Semitism at the U.N., or at
a national parliament, or any similar body, lets state
at the beginning that the movement to destroy Israel
which spans Middle Eastern governments, Middle
Eastern terrorist groups, and assorted Western activists brandishing signs in favor of anti-Israel boycottsis
the greatest concern and the greatest threat.
If we cant say any of those things, then its probably
not worth holding the meeting to begin with.

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Eastern politics has been published in Commentary, the
New York Post, Haaretz, Jewish Ideas Daily, and many
other publications.
On January 22, French philosopher and writer

Bernard-Henri Levy addresses the U.N. General
Assembly meeting on anti-Semitism. Levys
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Beyond sanctions and kerfuffles

A look at the Iran deal Netanyahu wants to avoid
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON When Benjamin Netanyahu faces
the Congress next month, two things are unlikely to
come up in his speech: a consideration of diplomatic
protocol and an analysis of the efficacy of sanctions.
Media attention before the speech has focused on
the diplomatic crisis set off by the invitation to the
Israeli prime minister from U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who kept
President Barack Obama in the dark, and the ensuing
political tussle between backers and opponents of new
sanctions on Iran.
But Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to Washington who coordinated the invitation with Boehner,
has made it clear that Netanyahus focus on March 3
will be on the bigger picture: what Netanyahu thinks
will be a bad nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1
nations, the sobriquet for the United States, Russia,
China, France, Germany, and Britain.
The agreement that is being discussed today is not
an agreement that would dismantle Irans nuclear
weapons capability, but rather one that could leave
Iran as a nuclear threshold state, Dermer said in a
January 25 speech in Florida to Israel Bonds. That is
an agreement that could endanger the very existence
of the State of Israel.
Last week, the White House sparred with Congress
over whether new sanctions would scuttle or enhance
talks with Iran, but sanctions are no longer the preeminent concern for Israel. In a January 30 interview
with the Atlantics Jeffrey Goldberg, Dermer said that
Israel now is focused on the endgame.
We are concerned that [a deal] would leave Iran
with an advanced nuclear infrastructure today relying on intelligence and inspectors to prevent Iran from
breaking out or sneaking out to the bomb and in the
foreseeable future enable Iran to have an industrialsized nuclear program, as the timeframe for this agreement runs out and all sanctions are removed, Dermer
told Goldberg in an email.
Based on interviews with experts on Iran, the
nuclear talks, and Israel, as well as congressional
staffers, there appear to be four broad areas of a possible nuclear deal that worry Netanyahu, and that he
is likely to address in his speech.
monitor and verify a deal in which it has no enrichment

capacity, said Orde Kittrie, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank that has
advised congressional skeptics about the Iran talks.
Kittrie, who is also a law professor at the University
of Arizona, said that while his sense is that the Obama
Delivery systems
Iran maintains what the U.S. Institute of Peace, a
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Uranium enrichment
Netanyahu believes that Iran should not enrich its uranium and instead should rely on imported uranium
for any civilian nuclear program it maintains.
The November 2013 Joint Plan of Action agreement
governing the negotiations keeps Iran from enriching
to 20 percent, which nuclear experts say is just a few
steps short of the 90 percent enrichment that weaponizes uranium. Instead, Iran has been allowed to enrich
to 3.5 percent, typical of civilian nuclear programs.
Obama administration officials, including the president himself, have said they would prefer a deal that
leaves Iran without a capacity to enrich uranium, but
it is likely that Iran will retain the 3.5 percent enrichment capacity.
Netanyahu has said that the distinction between
20 percent and 3.5 percent has become redundant
because of technological advances.
Israelis say it is much harder to verify a deal
in which it has some enrichment capacity than to
administration has compromised too much in the talks,

a minimal enrichment capacity is a likely outcome of a deal.
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Wang Yi and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at U.N. headquarters in
Geneva after world powers concluded a nuclear deal with Iran in November
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think tank, has described as the largest
and most diverse ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East, more so than
Israels.
Netanyahu is appalled that talks
reportedly are not addressing delivery
systems, in part because Iran is preparing to test intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, which can reach not just
Israel but also the United States.
Theyre not developing those ICBMs
for us, Netanyahu told CBS in 2013,
when the terms of the Joint Plan of
Action were being negotiated. They
can reach us with what they have. Its
for you.
Heather Hurlburt, the director of the
New Models for Policy Change project
at the New America Foundation, which
backs the talks, said adding delivery systems to the mix would drive away negotiators Russia and China, as well as a
number of countries currently backing
the sanctions regime.
Some members of the P5+1 are not
interested in Iran becoming a regional
player without a missile capacity, noting the deterrent effect that Irans missile
capacity has on Western allies Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia and the NATO alliance. If
what you need is global pressure to get
something done, you have to negotiate
with what the global community can
bear.
Sunset clause
The Jerusalem Post reported in November that Israel had been briefed on the
outlines of an agreement that included a
sunset clause, ending the inspections
regime and the limits on enrichment
after an unspecified number of years.
After this period of time, Iran is basically free to do whatever it wants, an
Israeli official told the newspaper.
Alireza Nader, an Iran analyst at the
Rand Corp., a think tank that advises
the Pentagon, said anxieties surrounding the sunset clause are premature
because its terms have not been specified. How many years are we talking
about in terms of the sunset clause? We

dont know, he said. A lot of assumptions are being made.
Hurlburt said that no country would
agree to be bound by a permanent
inspections regime, and Irans interlocutors at the talks understand that. No one
involved in the negotiations thinks you
can get a deal for perpetuity, she said.
Kittrie said not including delivery systems in the talks allows Iran to accelerate its military development in one
area, even though it may be acceding
to limitations in another, which would
hasten weaponization should the deal
fall through. Iran could lie low and continue advancing those aspects not part
of the deal, perfecting missiles, he said.
Iranian hegemony
Israel fears that a nuclear deal will allow
Iran to focus on its disruptive activities
in the region and draw into its orbit
nations that until now have resisted its
hegemony. Even without a nuclear program, expanding Irans influence poses
significant dangers to Israel, Dermer told
Goldberg.
Irans regime is not only committed to Israels destruction, it is working
towards Israels destruction, he said.
It has used Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic
Jihad, and other proxies to fire thousands of rockets and threaten Israel from
Lebanon, Gaza, the Sinai, and the Golan
Heights.
Nader said that Iranian influence was
a function of the strengthening in recent
years of larger regional powers, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and
the collapse of weaker states, such as
Yemen, Iraq, and Syria. Having the
capability to enrich uranium in itself is
not going to make Iran more powerful,
he said.
Hurlburt said pulling away from talks
would accelerate Irans nuclear track
and its influence. The problem, she said,
is that more pressure on Iran or military
strikes, an option that some believe
Israel is considering, would be counterproductive [making] Iran more
intransigent, more likely to develop a
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Rivlin visits Hebron, cites deep

connection to Jewish people
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited Hebron on Monday,
becoming the first holder of his office to do so in 17 years.
Rivlin attended the inaugural ceremony of a new visitors
center at the Jewish Heritage Museum in Beit Hadassah
and visited Hebrons Tomb of the Patriarchs.
Hebron is home to about 250,000 Palestinians and
700 Jews.
The Jewish Heritage Museum tells a 3,800-year
story, Rivlin said. Even those who have different opinions regarding the presence of the Jewish community in
Hebron cannot deny the deep connection of the Jewish
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people to the city.
on the Temple Mount. At the time, Jordanian Foreign Minister

Nasser Judeh described the Israeli actions as violations that
had gone way beyond limits.
The Temple Mount clashes were part of a broader campaign of Palestinian riots and terrorism during the latter half
of 2014. This included an assassination attempt on Rabbi
Yehuda Glick, an Israeli activist who calls for greater Jewish
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access to the holy site.
Israeli soldiers receive

25-percent pay raise
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers received a long-anticipated raise of 25
percent in their pay slips. Combat soldiers now receive $271 per
month, combat support soldiers receive $199, and Homefront

Command soldiers receive $137.
The decision to raise the soldiers salaries was very expensive, since there is a considerable number of conscript soldiers.
Nevertheless, [Israel Defense Forces] Chief of Staff Lt. Gen.
Benny Gantz decided to invest in the soldiers, said a senior officer in the IDF Personnel Directorate, Israel Hayom reported.
According to an analysis of IDF soldiers credit card usage, the
average soldier spends about $279 per month, and the pay raise
still falls short of that amount.
[The raise is] not the ultimate solution and it will not provide
for soldiers coming from poor families, and there are many of
them, but we have many other tools, such as gift vouchers and
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grants, the IDF officer said.
DePaul University SJP

chapter to hold fundraiser for
Palestinian terrorist
DePaul Universitys Students for Justice in Palestine
chapter is coming under heavy criticism for its decision to hold a fundraiser for convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh.
Formerly a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, Odeh was convicted for a
1969 attack that killed two Hebrew University of Jerusalem
students, Leon Kaner and Edward Jaffe.
Odeh was eventually released from an Israeli jail during a prisoner swap and in 1995 made her way to the U.S.,
where she eventually applied for citizenship. But she was
accused of committing fraud on her naturalization application by answering no when asked if she had ever been
charged, convicted, or imprisoned.
Last November, a federal jury in Detroit found Odeh
guilty of illegally obtaining naturalization. She is facing up to 10 years in prison and the stripping of her U.S.
citizenship.
On DePaul SJPs Eventbrite webpage for the fundraiser,
Odeh is described as a Palestinian community leader in
Chicago who has exemplified resilience and is the victim of a government effort to silence those who advocate
for Palestinian self-determination and human rights.
SJPs campus activities promoting hatred of Israel have
no moral limits, said Amy Stoken, director of the American Jewish Committees Chicago Region.
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Jordan returning ambassador

to Israel as Temple Mount
tension subsides
Jordan confirmed that it will return its ambassador to
Israel after recalling the envoy from the Jewish state
late last year over tension regarding the Temple Mount
holy site.
Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad alMomani said that Israel has taken significant steps to help
reduce tension on the Temple Mount and to ease restrictions on Muslim prayer that had been implemented.
We noticed in the last period a significant improvement in Haram al-Sharif (the Muslim term for Temple
Mount), with numbers of worshippers reaching unprecedented levels, Momani said.
Israel gained eastern Jerusalem and its holy sites from
Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War. But the Temple
Mount is administered by the Islamic Waqf, a Muslim trust
overseen by Jordan that limits non-Muslim visitation and
bans Jewish prayer.
Jordan recalled its ambassador on Nov. 5, 2014, after
Israeli police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians
Keeping Kosher
Challah baking
at Modiani Kitchens
Healthy kosher
cooking isnt an
oxymoron
Remy Geller will lead a challah-baking

workshop on Thursday, February 26,
from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., at Modiani Kitchens in Englewood.
Remy, 22, discovered a love for challah
while participating in the Shabbos Project last year. Her experience encouraged
her to start researching the art of baking
it. She began hosting weekly womens
gatherings to bake together and participate in the mitzvah of challah baking.
Remy continues to research and study
techniques and secrets, hoping to bring
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There is an $18 charge to attend that
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Modiani Kitchens is at 46 South Dean
Beth Warren of Brooklyn, a Yeshiva University graduate, registered dietitian, and certified nutritionist, has written Living a Real
Life With Real Food How to Get Healthy,
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Healthier Mac n Cheese

YIELDS 9 SERVINGS
1 1/2 cups whole wheat elbows
Nonstick cooking spray
1 tbs. whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon coconut oil
1/2 cup skim milk
3/4 cup part-skim mozzarella cheese
3/4 cup part-skim muenster cheese
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons whole wheat panko crumbs
1 12-ounce bag of frozen cauliflower
Steam cauliflower; puree and drain in
cheesecloth or colander. Heat coconut oil
in pot. Stir in flour, continuously, to make a
roux. Add in the milk and allow to thicken
(approximately 4 minutes). Add all spices.
Whisk in the cheese, a little at time, in a figureeight motion. Turn off the heat. Stir in cauliflower puree, add pasta back in, and
whisk in the cheese sauce.
Put noodles in Pyrex, sprinkle with whole wheat panko crumbs and bake at 350
for 15 minutes.
Nutritional facts: Per serving: calories 138; fat 7.1 g; (saturated fat 4.5 g);
cholesterol 22.1 mg; sodium 307.5 mg; carbohydrates 9.9 g; fiber 2.1 g;
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The not-so-simple story of Yitro and the Jews
itro, the titular figure in this

weeks portion, plays a significant supporting role in the story
of Moshes life. More broadly,
midrashic interpretations of his character
shed light on the complexity of understanding an individuals motivations and religious
development over the course of his life.
The Midrash Talpiot suggests that Pharaohs daughter who rescued Moshe and
Tzipporah who married Moshe were twin
sisters, one of whom was adopted by Pharaoh and the other of whom was adopted
by Yitro. The commonality between Pharaohs daughter and Tzipporah is clear: neither is born Jewish, but, despite growing up
in a context of intense Jewish persecution,
both choose to cast their lots wholeheartedly with the Jewish people. I think that the
midrash is also suggesting an additional point
of connection or contrast: Yitro and Pharaoh
are also portrayed by the midrash as foils to
each other, perhaps because they represent
two extremes of animosity and sympathy
in potential relationships between Jews and
non-Jews.
However, upon delving into biblical and
midrashic descriptions of Yitros character,
we find that his relationship with Israel is
ambiguous, evolving throughout the Torah.
The first narrative about Yitro is found in
Shemot 2:15-21. (In fact, it is Reuel who is
described in these verses, but let us assume
the perspective of the Midrash Mehilta 1:1 that
Reuel and Yitro are the same person.) This
passage contains an ambiguous depiction of
Yitros relationship to the Children of Israel
and to Judaism. On the one hand, Yitro is
defined by his decision to offer hospitality to

the traveling stranger, Moshe behavior that
is often portrayed as a hallmark of kindness
and ethics in the Torah. In a similar vein, Shemot Rabbah 1:32 suggests that the inhospitality of the other shepherds to Reuels daughter despite his status as a priest of Midyan
indicates that he had rejected their religion
in his search for God. On the other hand, the
Torahs description of Yitro as priest of Midian seems to cast him as a representative of
idolatry. This may be the basis of less charitable midrashic interpretations of Yitros relationship to Judaism, such as the Mehilta Yitro
1:1, which says that Yitro made Moshe swear
that his first child would be dedicated to idolatry, and Yalkut Shimoni Shemot 247:168,
which tells a story in which Yitro imprisoned
Moshe for ten years.
Turning to the next Torah passage that
mentions Yitro, we find a somewhat less
ambiguous presentation of Yitros relationship to Jews and Judaism. In the beginning of this weeks portion, Shemot 18:1-12,
Yitro joins Israel, declaring Gods greatness
and offering sacrifices. Several midrashic
sources suggest that Yitro was sincerely
moved to convert to Judaism when he heard
about the miraculous acts of divine salvation that the Children of Israel had experienced, starting with the parting of the Red
Sea and culminating in the war with Amalek
(see Zevahim 116a, Shemot Rabbah 27:2). On
the other hand, other midrashim take the
perspective that Yitro originally allied himself with Pharaoh and Amalek, only joining Israels cause in the wake of the Jewish
defeat of Amalek (see Midrash Shmuel Bet
12:2, Shemot Rabbah 27:6).

The last Torah passage in
This perspective is supported
which we encounter Yitro is
by the juxtaposition of the
Bemidbar 10:29-33. In these
war against Amalek in Shemot
verses, Yitro expresses his
17, with Yitros conversion in
desire to return to Midian
the subsequent chapter.
rather than enter the Land
One verse has sparked parof Israel together with the
ticular controversy about
People of Israel. It is interesting that notwithstanding his
Yitros motivations in conRivka Kahan
verting, and about the depth
desire to return to Midian,
Principal,
of his loyalty to the people of
midrashic interpretations of
Maayanot Yeshiva
Israel. Shemot 18:9 contains
these verses take an entirely
High School for
Girls, Teaneck,
the phrase Vayihad Yitro al
positive view of Yitros motiOrthodox
vations. For example, Mehilta
kol hatovah. The meaning of
Yitro 1:2 suggests that Yitro
vayihad is unclear; it is interpreted variously by midrashim
wanted to return to Midian
as meaning that he proclaimed Gods unity
in order to spread Judaism to others, and
(ahdut), that he circumcised himself with
Midrash Hagadol says that he wanted to
a sharp knife (herev hadah), or that he got
return in order to return other peoples
gooseflesh (hidudin hidudin) out of sympaproperty. It seems that at this point in the
thy with the fate of the Egyptians. Of these,
story, Yitro has proven his feeling of solidarity with Judaism, and the midrashim view
the first two interpretations seem to indicate Yitros wholehearted identification
him in a universally charitable light.
with Israel, while the last indicates a more
It is interesting to consider the ways that
jaundiced view of his relationship to Judathe midrash tries to parse out Yitros motivaism. However, it is interesting to note that
tions over the course of his story, exploring
R. Yonatan Eybeschutz interprets the idea
the depth of Yitros idealism versus his potential self-interest, and ultimately landing on the
of Yitros gooseflesh in a way that turns this
side of idealism. His path to Jewish identificanotion on its head; he suggests that Yitro was
tion is, in the eyes of the midrash, complex
unnerved by hearing of the destruction of
and ambiguous rather than linear or clearEgypt because he wanted to feel that his own
cut like Tzipporah or Pharaohs. By analyzdecision to join the Jewish faith was entirely
ing the twists of his story and their midrashic
sincere and he felt queasy at the idea that it
interpretations, we come to appreciate this
might be colored by some feeling of fear or
complicated characters as well as the many
self-interest. (See Rabbi Shalom Carmys fascinating article The House I Lived In: A Taste
ways in which individuals follow their own
of Gooseflesh in Tradition, Summer 2011,
uncharted paths to religious identification
which quotes and develops this idea.)
and growth.
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Auschwitz bookkeeper to face trial

over Holocaust crimes in April
Iran general calls for greater foothold

in West Bank and Gaza
Oskar Groening, a 93-year-old former guard at the Auschwitz death

camp, will go on trial in Germany
in April on at least 300,000 counts
of accessory to murder. More than
425,000 people are estimated to
have been deported to Auschwitz
between May and July 1944, and at
least 300,000 of them were murdered in the camps gas chambers.
Groening is known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz. He counted
the paper money collected from
the luggage of camp prisoners and
then passed the funds on to Nazi SS
A Iranian Revolutionary Guards general has

called for Iran to increase its military power in
the West Bank and Gaza.
We must contain Israel so that it never
dares to speak about a missile attack on Iran;. we
must reinforce our power in the West Bank and
Gaza, said Brig. Gen. Iraj Masjedi, who serves as
the top adviser to the commander of the Revolutionary Guards al-Quds Force, Irans state-run
Press TV reported.
Masjedi added that Palestinians in the West
Bank must end negotiations with Israel and
increase armed resistance against Israel.
The Palestine Liberation Organization must
know that what brings them victory is not
authorities, according to prosecutors. He also removed the luggage

of previously delivered prisoners in
order to hide the true nature of the
camp from new arrivals.
Groening knew that the Jews and
other prisoners were murdered
directly after their arrival in the gas
chambers of Auschwitz, prosecutors said. His trial will take place in
the northern German city of Lueneburg, with Holocaust survivors and
their relatives as plaintiffs in the
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political negotiation but only resistance and

(military) power, and this is what Hezbollah and
Hamas have been doing, he said.
The generals comments come amid reports
that Hamas and Iran have restored relations.
The two sides had a falling out over the Palestinian terror groups criticism of Syrian President Bashar al-Assads conduct in the Syrian
civil war, and Hamas relocated its foreign headquarters from Damascus to Qatar. But Mahmoud
Zahar, a Hamas leader, recently told Hezbollahs
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Your Talmudic advice column
Dear Rabbi,
We erected an eruv around our community to permit people to carry outside of
their houses on Shabbat. Its a wire that
surrounds our area, a hardly visible enclosure. Based on that construction, I do go
outside on Shabbat carrying my keys and
other items. One time on Shabbat I inadvertently carried outside the eruv. Later,
when I realized what I had done, I felt that
there really was no difference at all when I
carried outside of the boundary. I wonder
now how is this eruv practice being meaningful? Please help me sort this out.
Bordered in Bergenfield
Dear Bordered,
It seems from your question that you
observe Shabbat with all of its Orthodox
requirements and restrictions. So you do
know that it is forbidden to do acts classified as work by the rabbis. Carrying from
one domain to another is one of their
main classes of work. The majority of the
categories of Shabbat-work relate to the
sequences of cultural processes that a person would engage in to prepare foods or
to make clothing. We refrain from those
types of actions on the holy day of rest.
Transporting an object from one
domain to another is more of a standalone taboo, not in one of the two clusters
of work actions, preparation of food or
clothing. And now you ask how you can
find some meaning in this taboo. You can
shlep heavy items all around your house
and private yard but you cannot carry a little key outside of your home unless there
is an eruv. Its a good question.
Lets step back for a moment and consider an imperfect analogy: football. We
know that the sport has rules and boundaries. All the play must take place on the
field. If a runner with the ball steps out of
bounds, the play is ruled dead and action
stops.
The field of play for Shabbat is the home.
A participant can carry inside a house and
yard but not transport something across
the out-of-bounds line. A rabbinically
sanctioned eruv cleverly extends a private
yard to the larger encircled community.
some crucial dictates of your

an interview. And even though your past
That makes the boundaries
profession.
wrong act had no impact on your new
for carrying much wider.
We Jews ought to be good
employer, saying to him that you apologize
You are correct in your
at repairing our mistakes. If
for your past error has a powerful impact.
feeling. Carrying outside an
you say the daily prayers you
I realize that saying you are sorry is not
eruv is not a different physical action from carrying
know that we ask God to foreasy. But sociological studies show that
give our sins three times a
inside it. But you also must
people will forgive all kinds of transgressions if theres an apology. Victims of a
day. And every year between
know that if you are going to
crime will forgive a perpetrator who is
Rosh Hashanah and Yom
play the game, you need to
Rabbi Tzvee
sorry. The public will forgive transgresKippur we get to go through
observe the rules. In football
Zahavy
sions of politicians or celebrities, if they
a period of teshuvah, seria receiver who steps out of
ous repentance. We get to
apologize openly and repent.
bounds knows he has crossed
regret our missteps, we get
And third, and most important, you
a boundary and knows what
to resolve not to repeat them, and we beg
need to be convinced yourself, and to be
the rules say about that.
God to have compassion on us and to forconvincing to others, that you have taken
Let me be clear, though. By offering this
give us for our transgressions.
a vow of impeccable professional integrity.
analogy I do not want to imply that Shabbat is a game like football. I offer the comUnfortunately, your future employers
You cannot be too clear about this. You
parison to provide you with a rationale for
may not know if you repented your errant
will be well-served by saying outright that
finding some more familiar meaning in the
ways in prayers or in the synagogue and
in all of the contexts of your employment,
highly abstract Shabbat boundary rule. I
were forgiven by God. Accordingly, in
you have resolved never again to veer from
hope that it helps.
your next interview you will need to give
the center of the path of propriety.
to your potential manager a credible nonYou cant just say the words. You have to
Dear Rabbi,
theological narrative of the actions you
mean them. If you are sincere about these
A number of years ago I made a mistake
took to correct your mistakes.
matters, you will sound sincere to your
at my job. I was accused of being unprofesThere is no magic formula that I can
potential employers. If not, your represensional and I was dismissed by my employer.
tations will sound hollow.
reveal to you to enable you to do this convincingly in a job discussion. Even so, it is
In my line of work, news gets around. So
Authentic teshuvah can be a powerful
fair though to assume that before they hire
when I went on an interview for a job
healing part of your life. So do it, and good
you, most employers will want to know
recently, the first question I was asked was
luck. Although next time you may or may
several key facts about how you view your
how I explain what happened when I got
not get the job, if you narrate the details
own past acts and how you will act in the
fired earlier in my career. Apparently, the
of your positive transformation to your
present and the future.
explanation I offered was not effective. The
potential employer, you will know with
First, they will want to know if now
outcome of that recent encounter was that
confidence that you made a strong effort
you are more aware of the gravity of what
I did not get the new job. I need to know
at projecting to others the growth of character that you have achieved.
you did in the past to provoke your firing.
in such a circumstance in the future, what
If you have done your own serious soulshould I do?
Tzvee Zahavy earned his Ph.D. from Brown
Fired in Fair Lawn
searching in the aftermath of that episode,
University and rabbinic ordination from
you should tell the new potential bosses
Dear Fired,
Yeshiva University. He is the author of
just that. You get it. You were wrong.
Though you dont spell out the details, you
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Second, you will benefit by being
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the Internet, we must assume that all of the
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Greatest Exegete, Gods Favorite Prayers,
Even in antiquity, stories of bad behavunderstand what you did was improper,
and Dear Rabbi which includes his past
ior were told widely. Our Bible and Talmud
and you regret it, are quite powerful procolumns from the Jewish Standard and
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are full of stories of people making misother essays.
takes of sinning or of acting improperly.
Its part of the life of every community,
The Dear Rabbi column offers timely advice based on timeless Talmudic
and yes, of every individual.
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bridge table
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37 How many fled Germany during
the 30s
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Endearment
49 Where photog Jono David is based
51 Many European art treasures, to the
Nazis
54 Berlins Anything You Can Do is one
55 Prefix before fits in a Marilyn
Monroe film title
56 Bernsteins themes (anagram of
Leftist? Moi?)
59 Mossad worker (abbr.)
60 Iconic Tel Aviv spot
61 Workers at Shaare Zedek hosp.
62 Gimme ___! (star of a cheer for the
American Jewish University?)
63 Game to play with the kids while
driving to Boca
Down
1 Like Amons trigger finger in
Schindlers List
2 P in the Septuagint
3 He was a middle-aged man when he
wrote Ol Man River
4 Shuckle while davening
5 Moves like Jerome Robbins dancers
6 Word on a sign near Shaare Zedek
Hospital
7 Where D. Wingers beau was headed
in An Officer and a Gentleman
8 Heaven in the afterlife
9 Harold Abrahams, for one
10 Grain units of Josephs dream
(Genesis 41:5)
11 A Marrano was this kind of Jew
12 Enjoyed a seder
14 Hora, for one
16 Wild nonkosher meat source
19 He won the Nobel Peace Prize three
years before Wiesel
21 Judah ha-Nasi, to the Mishnah
23 Shouting anti-Semitic taunts, e.g.,
with on
27 Did field work like Ruth
28 Atlit Naval Base is on one
30 Like a lot of Borscht Belt jokes
32 Result of hemorrhaging shekels
33 Theater award held by Leelee
Sobieski?
38 Where Omri Katz picks up a kitten?
39 Location of Le Marais steakhouse and
Jerusalem II kosher pizza
40 Sholems ___ River
41 Purim Seudah and others
42 Belted, Biblically
44 To some, it means Fritos are kosher
46 Singer of some of Loewes My Fair
Lady tunes
48 Act like the Talmud to a rabbi
49 Barbras Funny Girl costar
50 He played a Republican presidential
candidate in Sorkins West Wing
52 All, in the beginning
53 Puts on a tallis and such, with up
57 Article in a Kafka novel
58 ___ banana (phrase coined by
Harry Steppe)
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 45.
Arts & Culture

Honoring an escapee
Austria celebrates Nobel laureate Martin Karplus amateur photography
MENACHEM WECKER
WASHINGTON The opening of an exhibit
at the Austrian Embassy in Washington
that held more than 50 photographs taken
by an 84-year-old Jewish Nobel laureate
was something of an amateur hour twice
over.
Both Austrias ambassador and Martin
Karplus, the photographer, referred to the
pictures postcard-style views of Europe
in the 1950s and a more recent series on
China and India as hobby rather than
high art.
Then, at a reception, many of the
approximately 250 guests handed their
phones to strangers to snap pictures with
Karplus amateur shots of themselves
with an amateur photographer.
Im not a photographer, said Karplus,
a Harvard professor emeritus who shared
the 2013 Nobel in chemistry. Im an amateur at this.
Karplus fled his native Vienna with
his family when he was 8 years old. Like
many European Jewish refugees, he didnt
return to Austria for years. Then everything changed.
Once I got the Nobel Prize, Austria
suddenly realized that I was an interesting
person, said Karplus, who will receive an
honorary doctorate from the University of
Vienna in May. The school also will exhibit
his photographs.
The exhibit, which opened January 14
and will run through February 13, comes
to Washington from the Austrian Cultural
Forum in New York. The photos, which
span continents and decades, show people
and landscapes that Karplus encountered
on his world travels.
One photograph from the 1950s shows
Karplus parents in Rockport, Mass.,
standing in front of what appears to be a
well-known fishing shack often referred to
as the most painted structure in the United
States. His father holds his hat in hand
while his mother holds her husbands arm.
The work is a study in verticals a pole
behind the father, the wharf pylons and
distant telephone lines balanced by the
deep blue of the water visible in the bottom right corner.
A photograph of an Indian boy taken in
2009 fills the composition with the barefoot, crouching figure. The photo is overwhelmingly heavy on cool blues and grays,
except for a bright orange bike in the top
right corner. The boys gaze, intense as
he stares at what appears to be rags in his
hands, evokes a secular Madonna cradling
her child.
Many other photos in the exhibit, such
to Germany in examining its past

critically.
For long, the myth of Austria
as the first victim of the Nazis prevailed, he said.
An artist statement on Karpluss
website notes that his parents gave
him a Leica camera after he earned
his doctorate in 1953 and that he
subsequently started photographing his European travels.
Meeting people and being
exposed to their cultures, art,
architecture, and cuisines was an
incredible experience, which has
had a lasting effect on my life,
reads the statement. Karplus only began
exhibiting his work in 2005.
But for all his achievements, Hans Peter
Manz, Austrias ambassador to Washington, declined to claim Karplus as his own.
Remember when the German pope
was elected? Suddenly [the Germans]
were saying, We are pope, which is ridiculous, Manz said. The same thing happens when one of these guys wins a Nobel.
Suddenly you find out, Ah. Hes Austrian.
The guy left when he was 8 years old.
When I introduced him, I didnt mention
it. He did. To claim any piece of his Nobel
as a national success is ridiculous.
Above, A visitor examines

a photo by Nobel laureate Martin Karplus at the
opening of an exhibition
of Karplus photographs
at the Austrian Embassy
in Washington on January
14. At left, Martin Karplus,
left, and Austrias ambassador to the United
States, Hans Peter Manz,
PETER CUTTS/
AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM
as a picture of boats taken in Hong Kong

in the 1960s, offer the sort of pretty colors
and composition that you would expect of
postcards or perhaps an Instagram feed.
But in this case, the shots were taken by a
Nobel Prize winner.
Now that I have a Nobel Prize, somehow my value as a photographer has
increased a little bit, Karplus said.
When you get a Nobel Prize, youre
supposed to know everything.
Karplus initially exhibited his photos at
a two-month show at the Austrian Cultural
Forum in New York last year. Angelika Schweiger, the cultural officer at the forum
and the curator of the embassy exhibit,
heard about Karplus from colleagues in

New York and decided to bring his work
to Washington.
Though he is now celebrated by Austrian
public institutions, Karplus freely acknowledged in an interview how shocked he was
to discover on a trip to Austria a decade
ago how prevalent anti-Semitic sentiment
was in the country.
Unlike Germany, which basically
admitted its guilt, Austria still says to many
people, We were invaded by Hitler, Karplus said.
Hanno Loewy, the director of the Jewish
Museum of Hohenems in Austria, agrees
that the country was late in comparison
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Calendar
(973) 595-0100 or
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waynetheater/howdystranger.
Sunday
FEBRUARY 8
MitzvahmallinFranklin
Lakes: Barnert Temples
Rabbi Menachem
Genack discusses
his book Letters to
President Clinton:
Biblical Lessons on Faith and
Leadership at the Jewish Center
of Teaneck, Sunday, February 8,
after services that begin at 9 a.m.
Rabbi Genack is the leader of
Congregation Shomrei Torah in
Englewood and the CEO of OU
Kosher. 70 Sterling Place. (201)
833-0515, ext. 200.
FEB.
Friday
FEBRUARY 6
ShabbatinFortLee:
JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom offers its Tu
bShvat Shabbatseder,
supper, and Shabbat
Together musical service,
beginning at 6 p.m.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.
ShabbatinTeaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
services for families with
young children, 7:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
ShabbatinWoodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
offers Shabbat Tikvah,
a service of inspiration
and renewal, 8 p.m.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org.
Saturday
FEBRUARY 7
ShabbatinEnglewood:
Congregation Kol
HaNeshamah offers
prayers, songs, stories,
and crafts for 2- to
6-year-olds, led by early
childhood teacher Leona
Kleinstein, 11 a.m., on the
premises of St Pauls, 113
Engle St. Also March 7.
(201) 816-1611 or www.
KHNJ.org.
CommunityTorah
learninginFairLawn:
Sweet Tastes of Torah,
concentrating this year
on Sinai Revisited:
Perspectives from
the Mountaintop, is
a community night of
study, discussion, music,
and fun, presented by
the North Jersey Board
of Rabbis with support
from local synagogues.
At the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel. Musical
Havdalah, 6:50 p.m.
Choice of more than
20 classes. Snow date
February 8. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 652-1687,
sweettastesoftorah@
gmail.com, or
sweettastesoftorah.
weebly.com.
Howdy Stranger
ComedyinWayne:
The improv comedy
group Howdy Stranger
performs at the Rosen
Performing Arts Center
at the Wayne YMCA ,
8 p.m. Proceeds benefit
the Rosen Theater
renovation. The Metro
YMCAs of the Oranges
is a partner of the
YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
annual Mitzvah Mall,

from 8:30 a.m. to noon,
includes a pancake
breakfast, interactive
charity exhibits for
children and adults, adult
education with Rabbi
Elyse Frishman, and a
raffle. 747 Route 208
South. (201) 848-1800 or
www.barnerttemple.org/
MitzvahMall.
Toddlerprogram
inTenafly: As part
of the shuls Holiday
Happenings program,
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County offers music,
stories, crafts, and
snacks, with a Purim
theme, for pre-k students
and their parents,
9:30 a.m. 1 Engle St.
(201) 568-3035.
ConcertinWayne:
The YMCA of Wayne
continues its Backstage
at the Y Series with
the Matt Daniel Band.
Dr. Daniel, a pianist,
will be accompanied
by a drummer; the
pair will perform new
interpretations of wellknown Jewish songs in
Yiddish and Hebrew, as
well as Dr. Daniels own
compositions, which
draw on his Jewish roots.
The concert is set for
Sunday, February 8, at
11:45 a.m. The Metro
YMCAs of the Oranges
is a partner of the YMYWHA of North Jersey.
1 Pike Drive. (973) 5950100, ext. 257.
Blooddrivein
Englewood:
Congregation Ahavath
Torah holds a blood drive
with New Jersey Blood
Services, a division of
New York Blood Center,
9 a.m.-3 p.m. 240 Broad
Ave. (800) 933-2566 or
www.nybloodcenter.org.
SuperSundayinWest
Nyack: The Jewish
Federation of Rockland
County will hold Super
Sunday a day of fun
and fundraising at
the Rockland Jewish
Community Campus,
9 a.m.-3 p.m. 450
West Nyack Road.
(845) 362-4200 or www.
jewishrockland.org.
Bookclub: The JCC of

Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah holds
its monthly book
club; its discussing
Daphne du Mauriers
Rebecca, 10 a.m.
Light refreshments.
304 East Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
FEBRUARY 9
Israeli/Jewishchildren
inAmerica: Moatza
Mekomit New York, an
umbrella organization
for the Israeli community
in the New York metro
area, and Solomon
Schechter School of
Manhattan host a panel
discussion The Next
Generation: Educating
Israeli & Jewish Children
in America, part of
a three-part series.
Panelists include
Shira Meir, director
of the department of
public affairs at the
Consulate General of
Israel in New York; Riki
Stamler-Goldberg,
the early childhood/
lower school principal
at Solomon Schechter
Day School of Bergen
County; Bess Adler,
principal of the Bergen
County High School of
Jewish Studies, and Aya
Schechter, director of
the Israel Connection
Center of the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
at Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC Fort Lee,
7 p.m. 1449 Anderson
Ave. (201) 947-1735 or
info@moatza.org.
Tuesday
FEBRUARY 10
TalkingPeteRosein
Tenafly: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
presents Baseball &
Bagels, a brunch and
discussion with Kostya
Kennedy, author of Pete
Rose An American
Dilemma, 10:30 a.m.
Co-sponsored with the
James H. Grossmann
Memorial Jewish Book
Month. Family discount
available. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1454.
Childrensprogram:
The Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah begins a Sunday
Specials series for 4- to
7-year-olds with Fun
With Fruit, a Tu bShvat
program, 9:30 a.m.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7733 or
edudirector@jccparamus.
org.
Monday
Holocaustprogramin
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
hosts Holocaust Night
for teens, parents,
and friends, with a
discussion by two
Holocaust survivors, a
screening of The Book
Thief, and a dessert
bar, 7 p.m. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Holocaustsurvivor
groupinFairLawn:
Cafe Europa, a social
program the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey sponsors for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel,
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Ronald Roth
of the FLJC/CBT gives
a slide presentation, A
Jewish Heritage Trip
to Prague, Budapest &
Vienna. Light lunch.
10-10 Norma Ave.
Transportation available.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org.
Parentingbookgroup
inWestwood: Rabbi
Debra Orenstein of
Congregation Bnai Israel
in Emerson continues a
five-session JConnect
Parenting Workshop,
with a discussion
of Parenting, as a
Spiritual Journey by
Rabbi Nancy FuchsKreimer. The session is
at the Westwood Public
Library, 7:30 p.m. Series

continues through May.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Saturday
FEBRUARY 14
ShabbatinFairLawn:
Rabbi Stephen Fuchs,
author of Whats in
it For Me? Finding
Ourselves in Biblical
Narratives, is the
scholar-in-residence at
the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel. Fuchs, the
former president of
the World Union for
Progressive Judaism, will
speak during services
that begin at 9:30 a.m.,
and again after Kiddush
lunch. He will also
speak on Sunday at
10 a.m. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Winetasting
inEnglewood:
Congregation Ahavath
Torah hosts its annual
wine tasting, 9 p.m.
Wine Country supplies
the wine; jazz by the
West Hills Project. Learn
about wine and food
pairings, sample from
more than 200 wines,
buy wine at a discount,
cheese and desserts
served. Sponsorships
available. 240 Broad
Ave. (201) 568-1315, atc.
sisterhood@gmail.com,
or www.ahavathtorah.
org.
Singles
Sunday
FEBRUARY 15
Seniorsinglesmeetin
WestNyack: Singles
65+ meets for a social
bagels and lox brunch
at the JCC Rockland,
11 a.m. 450 West Nyack
Road. $8. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.
Brunch/mingle: North
Jersey Jewish Singles 4560s at the Clifton Jewish
Center offers a bagelsand-conversation brunch,
noon. Card games,
schmoozing, discussions.
$15. 18 Delaware St.
Karen, (973) 772-3131 or
join North Jersey Jewish
Singles 45-60s, at www.
meetup.com.
Oil paintings in Tenafly

Transitions, an exhibition of abstract
expressionist oil paintings by Judith Brice,
will be on display during February at the
Waltuch Gallery at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 411 East Clinton Ave., Tenafly.
There will be an opening reception on
Tuesday, February 5, at 6 p.m.
Ms. Brice, who works at her studio in
Haworth, is a member of Studio Montclair
in Montclair and the National Association
of Women in the Arts in New York City.
For information call Jessica Spiegel at
(201) 408-1426 or go to www.jccotp.org.
Sharsherets
Pink Day
An oil by Judith Brice
COURTESY JCCOTP
Travel to Sicily and Calabria in April

Rabbi Adina Lewittes of Shaar Communities will lead an 11-day journey through
ancient and modern-day Sicily. The trip,
April 12 23, includes touring ruins, cooking Sicilian cuisine, walking or hiking
trails, tasting wines and olive oils, and
meeting local artisans and community
leaders. Participants will spend two days
in the mountaintop villages of Calabria,
uncovering centuries of hidden Jewish

presence and meeting locals. Highlights
include a visit to the first synagogue in Calabria to open in 500 years, as well as a visit
to a World War II concentration camp.
For information, go to www.shaarcommunities.org, email rabbi@
shaarcommunities.org, or call (201)
220-6743.
To help raise awareness about breast

cancer and Sharsherets programs,
Pink Day will be marked at schools on
February 11. Sharsheret is a national
not-for-profit organization supporting
young Jewish women and their families facing breast cancer.
Local schools that will participate so
far include the Frisch School, Golda
Och Academy, the Moriah School, Rae
Kushner Yeshiva High School, Ramaz
Upper School, SAR Academy, Torah
Academy of Bergen County, and
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical
School, along with many colleges and
universities.
For information on getting a school
involved, email campus liaison Ellen
Kleinhaus at or go to www.sharsheret.
org/content/sharsheret-pink-day.
Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach
at bergenPAC
Burt Bacharach will perform at bergenPac on Saturday, March 7, at 8 p.m.
Tickets are on sale now. Mr. Bacharach
has won three Academy Awards and
eight Grammys, written more than 48
Top 10 hits, nine number-one songs,
and more than 500 compositions. Go
to www.ticketmaster.com or call the
box office at (201) 227-1030.
Jewish Federation
OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
ARTISTS CONTEST
Jewish
Artists from northern New Jersey and

Nahariya, Israel will partner in a joint
exhibition
Life
Cycles
Prize: Ten selected artworks

will be featured in an Israeli art gallery.
Reception
Sunday, April 26 | 6-8 pm
Belskie Museum of Art and Science

280 High Street, Closter
Work will be exhibited at the Belskie Museum from

April 19 - May 3
Juried Show |
Prospectus: www.jfnnj.org/artcontest
Sheryl Intrator Urman
Curator/Art Exchange Program Chair
Deadline for all submissions: March 23
Melinda B. Maidens, Partnership2Gether Community Task Force Chair

This program is sponsored by Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and the Belskie Museum of Art and Science
Contact: Galeet Lipke |
galeetl@jfnnj.org
201-820-3908
Ethiopian mother and daughter drawing courtesy of Ariana Levin
Jewish World
Frederick Lawrence leaves Brandeis

Lackluster fundraising eyed as likely reason for departure
URIEL HEILMAN
or all the controversies Brandeis

University President Frederick
Lawrence endured over the past
few months, the failures that
ultimately doomed his tenure were more
fundamental, insiders say.
His fundraising just wasnt good enough,
and his administrative track record also
was wanting.
Last Friday, Lawrence announced that
this would be his last semester at the Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university in
Waltham, Mass., outside of Boston.
After careful consideration, and in
close consultation with the Board of Trustees, I have decided to step down as President at the end of this, my fifth academic
year, Lawrence wrote in his announcement. For the time being, I am looking
forward to returning to full-time scholarship and teaching as a senior research
scholar at Yale Law School.
Although Lawrence was popular with
many students and helped stabilize
Brandeis finances in the wake of the 2008
financial crisis, the austerity measures he
imposed even as his own compensation
rose made him unpopular among faculty
members. All the while, his fundraising
failed to measure up to his longtime predecessor, he was seen as having made several
administrative missteps, and he stumbled
through many controversies over the past
year.
Brandeis named Lisa Lynch, a Brandeis
provost and the former dean of the Heller
School for Social Policy and Management,
as interim president. The university has
embarked on a search for its next longterm leader.
A law professor originally from New
Yorks suburban Long Island, Lawrence
left his job as dean at the George Washington University Law School to become
Brandeis eighth president in January 2011.
He arrived at a challenging time for the
small liberal arts university, which was
founded by Jews in 1948 as an alternative
to Ivy League universities that had quotas on Jews. Brandeis was still trying to
recover from the 2008 financial crisis; the
Madoff scheme had hurt some of its large
donors, and the universitys endowment
was still down from its pre-crisis peak of
about $712 million.
Two years earlier, the university had
come under withering criticism for a tentative plan by trustees to sell artworks from
Brandeis Rose Art Museum to finance
the universitys operation. Eventually the
plan was scrapped, and not long afterward
Jehuda Reinharz, who had been president
since 1994, announced that he was leaving.
When Lawrence came in, he started
by limiting faculty raises and enforcing

cutbacks in an effort to put the school on
better financial footing. And he is credited with helping earn Brandeis an A1 rating from Moodys Investors Service in July
2013.
The A1 rating reflects Brandeis stable market position as a liberal arts and
research university, with healthy student
demand and fundraising, large endowment, steady growth of net tuition per
student, and all fixed-rate debt structure,
the Moodys report said.
Credit challenges include
a long history of moderate-sized operating deficits supported by elevated
endowment spending,
thin relative liquidity with
a large portion of net assets
permanently restricted,
and a competitive student
market.
Lawrence generally was
well liked by students,
frequently showing up at student events
and programs. He often would attend
Brandeis large Shabbat dinners, sometimes delivering the dvar Torah, and he
even led Kol Nidre services on Yom Kippur.
An estimated 50 to 60 percent of Brandeis
3,600 undergraduates are Jewish.
There has never been a president of
Brandeis so well liked by the students as
Fred Lawrence, said Jonathan Sarna, a
professor of American Jewish history who
has been at Brandeis for 25 years.
He saw the role of the college president in a more traditional, even old-fashioned way: as a role model for students,
who speaks to them regularly, who comes
to their programs, Sarna said. Its sad
in some ways that the modern university
president is not judged on that standard
but rather on the basis of very different
standards.
That is a university president is judged
on fundraising.
Lawrence brought in an average of
about $37 million in donations annually,
according to audited financial statements
by KPMG. That is significantly less than his
immediate predecessor raised. Reinharz
brought in roughly twice that amount,
according to The Boston Globe.
He tried to be different from Jehuda
Reinharz and not rely in the same way on
Jewish donors, and it has not been successful and it doesnt seem like it has any prospect of being successful, one insider said
on condition of anonymity.
Lawrence appointed a provost, Steven Goldstein, who didnt work out, lasting less than three years. He also hired a
chief operating officer whom some faculty decried as ruthless. And while faculty
Frederick Lawrence, inset left. The Mandel Center for Studies in

Jewish Education at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
members were subject to

caps on salary increases, Lawrences compensation soared from about $589,000 in
2010 to $878,572 in 2013, the last year for
which data is publicly available.
Then there were the controversies several of them over the past year.
Last spring, the university announced
that it would award an honorary degree
to the Somali-born feminist activist Ayaan
Hirsi Ali, but backtracked when critics
noted her loudly anti-Muslim statements.
Some faulted Lawrence twice: first for
offering the honorary degree, then for caving quickly to critics. It was a mistake, at
least one observer noted, that could have
been avoided by spending a few minutes
doing a Google search to better vet Hirsi
Ali.
Last fall, the university came under
investigation for violating a students civil
rights in a sexual assault case.
Then six weeks ago, Brandeis again
made national news when a student at
the school, Daniel Mael, came under fire
for publicizing another students tweets,
which seemed to condone the December
20 shooting deaths of New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu.
i have no sympathy for the nypd officers who were murdered today, Brandeis
junior Khadijah Lynch wrote on Twitter.
In a follow-up message, she wrote: i hate
this racist fucking country.
After Mael wrote about the tweets
on the right-wing website Truth Revolt,
Lynchs supporters at Brandeis called on
Lawrence to punish Mael, saying his publicizing of the tweets made her a target for
white supremacists.
Lawrence responded by saying he condemned any lack of sympathy with the
murdered officers but would defend the

free expression rights of all students. Critics derided the response as too tepid.
Ultimately, insiders say, the controversies fed into what was Lawrences central failure lack of fundraising prowess.
The universitys largely Jewish donor base
was put off by Lawrences incapacity to
respond more forcefully to some of these
controversies and articulate Brandeis values unabashedly.
Staff morale has never been so low during my now 51 years at Brandeis, Brandeis
sociology professor Gordie Fellman said.
Lawrence is a decent guy with a certain
sweetness about him, but he made some
major boo-boos as president, some regarding Israel, others regarding staffing, Fellman said in an email. Fred has also taken
some peculiar stands on civility and free
speech that have bothered many faculty.
He really doesnt understand Brandeis
or liberal arts education, from what I can
tell.
Several members of the board of trustees either declined to comment or did not
return phone calls. Lawrence declined to
be interviewed for this story, and a spokesman for the university did not respond to
several emailed questions by deadline.
I am tremendously proud of the ways
Brandeis has grown and thrived during
my time as president, Lawrence said in
his resignation announcement.
Applications have surged to an alltime high, our endowment has grown to
its highest point ever, and we have made
significant progress in balancing the Universitys budget, he wrote. Every day our
community exemplifies Brandeis legacy
of social justice and repairing the world.

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Obituaries
Ellen Abrams
Ellen Susan Abrams, ne Palant, 68, of Fair Lawn, formerly

of Paramus, died on January 30.
Born in the Bronx, she worked at Midland Elementary
School in Paramus and for Social Services of Ridgewood
and Vicinity.
She is survived by her husband, Harold, a daughter, Amy
(Seth), a brother, Laurence (Mona), and two grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Robert and Audrey Luckow
Foundation, c/o The Valley Hospital. Arrangements were by
Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Esther Berkowitz
Esther Berkowitz, ne Grill, 94, of Brooklyn died on

January 27.
Born in New York City, she was a member of the Kosove
Society of New York.
Predeceased by her husband, Harry in 2003, she is survived by her children, Carol Rothman of New City, N.Y., and
Sheldon of Florida, and four grandchildren. Arrangements
were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Eva Braun
Eva R. Braun, 82, of Passaic died on January 28.

Born in Uruguay, she came to America in 1968, and
along with her son, owned and operated Evas Corner in
Passaic Park.
Predeceased by her husband, Andres, she is survived by
her children, Ruben (Stacey) and Mati Sicherer (Dr. Scott),
both of Fair Lawn, and seven grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to Garden State German Shepherd Rescue. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Ruth Faltitschek
Ruth Faltitschek, ne Amity, 91, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,

formerly of Emerson, died on January 27.
Predeceased by her husband, Eric, she is survived by her
children Judy Reamy and Donna Selby (Philip), and three
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum, Washington, D.C. Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Charlotte Feinstein
Charlotte Feinstein, ne Gutschmidt, 94, of Edgewater died

on January 29.
Born in Weehawken, she was a retired teacher.
Predeceased by her husband, Jack, she is survived by
daughters, Janie Feinstein of New York City and Marjorie
Whittaker of Boston, and a sister, Bernice Burman.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Joan Glotzer
Joan Glotzer, ne Bonime, 83, of New York City died on

January 28.
Born in New York City, she was a member of Temple
Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly and the Park Avenue
Synagogue.
Predeceased by her husband, Dr. Philip, she is survived by
her children, David of South Orange and Dr. Taya of Tenafly,
and four grandchildren.
Roslyn Grier
Roslyn Grier, ne Levine, 95, of Manchester, Conn., formerly

of Englewood, died on January 25.
Born in Brooklyn, she was a Brooklyn College graduate.
She was a longtime member of Congregation Ahavath Torah
in Englewood and Temple Emanu-El in Closter, before moving to Manchester five years ago.
Predeceased by her husband of 70 years, Danny, in 2012,
and a son, Paul, she is survived by a son, Eli of Farmington
Hills, Mich., a daughter, Diane ( Jeff ) of Manchester, 10 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. Arrangements were by
Hebrew Funeral Association of West Hartford, Conn.
Benjamin Kless
Benjamin Kless, 80, of Fort Lee died on January 29.

Born in Sudan, he was a retired mechanical engineer. He
was member of the JCC of Fort Lee/Congregation Gesher
Sholom in Fort Lee and the Jewish Center of Teaneck.
He is survived by his children, Rachel Klein of Dobbs
Ferry, N.Y., Dr. Sarah Siegel of Westport, Conn., and Arron of
New York City, and six grandchildren.
Muriel Knapel
Muriel Knapel, 87, of Fair Lawn, formerly of West New

York, passed away on February 1, 2015.
She was a secretary for over 40 years at the original
Yeshiva of Hudson County and then the Rosenbaum
Yeshiva of North Jersey. She belonged to
Congregation Shaare Tzedek in West New York, and
Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn.
Predeceased by her husband Irving, she was a
devoted mother, grandmother, and great grandmother
to daughters, Chavi Yoel (Itzik) of Kiryat Tivon, Israel,
Debbie Friedman (Barry OBM) of Fair Lawn, and
Lynne Bentolila (Gabi) of Bear Ganim, Israel, and a
son, David (Michele) of Woodcliff Lake; 22
grandchildren, and 21 great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
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Issachar MIron
Issachar Miron, 95, of New York City, died on Jan.

29, 2015.
He was portrayed by Readers Digest as
a top ranking composer, lauded in the
New York Times as a leading Israeli educator
and composer, in Variety as one of the top
composers, by ASCAP. Today as a major force
in todays liturgical music, and the recipient of
still further praise by the Christian Science
Monitor, Issachar Miron, has made a name for
himself throughout the world as a top talent,
composer, poet, writer, creative mind, filmmaker,
and a master photographer, whose kaleidoscopic
lens reveals to plain sight the anthropomorphic
manifestations that often reside unseen in the
natural world.
His works are so widely known and have
permeated so thoroughly into every denomination of Judaism and every corner of the world,
that listeners may be mistakenly prone to
attribute them to those two wellknown genres,
folk and traditional. If thats the case, youll
know better the next time you dance to Tzena
Tzena Tzena Tzena at a simcha, or bring in
Shabat with Mah Yafeh Hayom, an excerpt
from Mirons larger work Shir Shabat. Indeed,
his Tzena Tzena Tzena Tzena is now the
recipient of a Grammy Award, having been
featured, along with a special tribute by Pete
Seeger to Issachar Miron, on Pete Seeger at 89
the 2008 Grammy Award-winner for Best
Traditional Folk Music Album.
Predeceased by his wife,Tzipora, he is survived
by his children, Ruthie Schleider, Shlomit
Sholem, and Miriam Lipton.
Services were on Jan. 30 with arrangements
by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral
Directors, Hackensack.
Gerald Lebnikoff
Gerald Lebnikoff, 79, of Ramsey, died on February 1.

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Korean Conflict and owned JC Plumbing in New York City.
He is survived by his wife, Natalie, ne Seecof, children, Donald (Deborah) of Allendale and Jill Raskin
(Peter) of Summit, and three grandchildren.
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n 1 Students in the religious school at Congregation Shomrei Torah in Wayne participated in Israel
Torah Map and Cake. COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH
n 2 As part of Moriah Reads Day, Moriah School students spent an afternoon learning about immigration law with immigration lawyer Michael Wildes, a
former mayor of Englewood. COURTESY MORIAH
n 3 Academies at GBDS preschoolers Avital Ben-David
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n 4 Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn sponsored
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n 5 Estee Meisels is at the Anshei Lubavitch Day Care
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Coach
FROM PAGE 14
studied organization change and transition.

And he studied to be an executive coach.
Four years ago I decided the work was
so very exciting and so very needed that I
established my own consultancy, he said.
Now I concentrate on managing organizational change for the synagogue and creating
healthy relationships between rabbis and
top lay leaders.
He believes that change and transitions
can be managed properly, with good results
for both the congregations and the rabbis.
At the Synagogue Leadership Initiative, he
will speak about change, as well as two other
issues: Navigating conflict, and finding your
own strength and leadership style.
Additionally, he and a colleague will
preach on the general benefits of coaching for rabbis and then offer free sessions courtesy of the Synagogue Leadership
Initiative.
The practice of rabbinic coaching, Rabbi
Wolfman said, began with rabbis in some
of the largest congregations seeking executive coaching from established executive
coaches.
They were able to help them in many
ways, he said. The coaching side can help
a rabbi create their own goal, their own
professional roles and personal jobs. Coaching can help them find the language to enter
into a true and authentic partnership with
their lay leadership.
Rabbinic coaching is simply executive
coaching and life coaching but the client is
a rabbi, he added. That specialization saves
the time a rabbi might have to spend getting
a standard coach up to speed on the world
of the rabbinate.
So what is coaching?
Rabbi Wolfman starts off by saying what
its not.
Its not therapy. Its not training.
Coaching is the ability to meet a client
where they are, to help them understand
their goals, help them identify what might
be standing in the way of their achieving
their goals, and help them think about what
tools they may have to work through those
obstacles, and finally how to achieve those
goals they set, he said.
A coach can also serve as an accountability partner, which can be important for a
rabbi or other executive who has no direct
supervisor.
Ill tell you about my coach. My coach
will always end a session saying, In two
weeks youll do x, y, and z. Ill email you on
Wednesday to see what youre doing. Do you
want me to? I say, No, I dont want you to,
but please do.

Accountability keeps you on task. A
coach can also be a safe sounding board.
A CEO of a large corporation or a rabbi of
a congregation can come up with a brilliant idea and go with it to the board
and the idea may fall flat on its face. You
can try ideas first on the coach. Its someone in their corner, thats always honest
and always safe, and will always not tell
you what you want to hear, he said.
Of course, whats a crisis moment for
a rabbi will not be the same as for a corporate product manager.
The Reform movement is about to
introduce a new machzor, a High Holiday prayer book, Rabbi Wolfman said.
You dont think theres going to be
some tension in the congregation about
that?
More threateningly, theres the reality of having a fiduciary responsibility
to your congregation, when fewer and
fewer people are joining and connecting
to our synagogues as we Baby Boomers
connected. The coach is that safe person for the rabbi to work through a lot
of these fascinating issues with, he said.
And Rabbi Wolfman is indeed fascinated by the challenges the emerging
millennial generation poses to synagogues and their rabbis.
This is a generation that doesnt join,
but they wholly want to be Jewish, he
said. They are very different than the
Gen Xers who are now in board positions
and are most of our new rabbis. Very
different from the Baby Boomers who
believed in belonging and membership.
And of course different than the Greatest Generation that built the institutions.
We have these four strong, very
different generations. Thats a fascinating challenge to deal with, he said.

He said that the millennials dont
join and not just synagogues. Gym
memberships are plummeting where
personal training relationships are skyrocketing. People dont buy movies, they
rent them. Young people dont buy cars,
they have Uber and Zipcar, he said.
At the same time, Their community
is not based around a building. Where
once long-distance phone conversations were a luxury rationed by the minute, nowadays Rabbi Wolfman can have
video conferencing with his daughter in
Israel for free.
As a model of how millennials act, he
looks toward his daughter, 28 a woman
of more than average Jewish connections. Her father, after all, is a rabbi. Her
fianc is the son of a Conservative Jewish educator. Both teach at a Solomon
Schechter day school.
Both are as Jewish as Jewish can be,
and they will send their kids to a day
school, and in a million years they wont
be joining a synagogue, Rabbi Wolfman said. They will support the Jewish
community, they want Jewish community, but they wont pay $3,000 to join
a synagogue.
Rather than judge them, we have to
find out what makes them tick and meet
them where they are, he said. We are
great at saying, yes, well bar mitzvah
your kids but you have to join first.
Sure, well bury your parents but you
have to join first. It will be a pleasure to
officiate at your wedding but you have
to join first.
Learning how to engage them is the
big transition in our time.
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Apartments of the Jewish Federation
Village Apartments of the Jewish Federation, a senior living community in
South Orange, invites older adults to the
following programs, which are free and
open to the public. The community is
owned and managed by the Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey ( JCHC), which offers
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and services to seniors in Essex and Morris counties. For reservations or information about these programs, call (973)
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of them take. At this two-hour Medication Brown Bag event, a registered
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well as to identify outdated drugs. The
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of any unwanted or expired medications and supplements. Time slots
begin at 11:30 a.m. but availability is
limited and advance reservations are
required.
Wednesday, February 18 Seniors are
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Month. At 12 noon, attendees will enjoy
desserts and beverages (red, of course)
and entertainment by jazz vocalist, Stephen Fuller. At 1 p.m., Claudia Irmiere
from the Heart Center at Saint Barnabas
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can reduce their risk for cardiovascular
disease. Everyone is encouraged to wear
red; prizes will be given away. RSVP by
Fri., Feb. 13 to reserve a seat.
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than hardwood flooring. On
the other hand, when it has
some of the problems you
have described, it can make
the entire house look bad.
If some of the cupping and
buckling is really severe, it
can actually be hazardous
to walk on and can cause
someone to stumble.
Most of your hardwood
flooring should be able
to be saved, but probably
not all of it. Your first step is to try to
determine the cause of the problems.
Hardwood flooring is not difficult to
install, so most likely it was installed
properly and there are some other
reasons for the problems.
The cupping and buckling are usually
related to moisture issues either
too much or too little. The humidity
level in homes can vary significantly
from January to June. Even though the
hardwood seems to be sealed with a
durable urethane coating, moisture will
get into the wood.
As the moisture content of any wood
increases, the wood expands. When
it dries, the wood contracts. This is
the primary cause of cupping. When
the underside of the wood is more
moist than the top surface, the bottom
expands and the top contracts, and the
hardwood cups.
It is important to find the source of
the moisture under the hardwood and
block it as much as possible. Dont just
take a sander to the installed cupped
hardwood and sand it flat. It may look
good for a month or two, but when the
moisture level changes, it may end up
being crowned instead of cupped.
To solve the cupping, you will have to
remove the hardwood. Apply some type
of film or spray-on sealer to block the
moisture source from beneath. Once this
is done, reinstall the hardwood and give
it several months to stabilize. In either
the spring or fall when the humidity

levels are often in the mid-range, sand
the hardwood flooring to make it level.
Buckling of a hardwood floor is also
related to moisture issues. Usually, the
hardwood flooring was installed when
it was too dry and in its contracted size.
When it adjusted to its normal moisture
level, it expanded. As it expands,
the gaps between the pieces shrink
until they are gone. At this point, the
hardwood has no place to go other than
buckling up.
As with cupping, remove the
hardwood and apply a moisture seal
on the subfloor. Allow the hardwood
to acclimate to the normal room
humidity, and then reinstall it. Unless
the tongue-and-groove edges were
damaged when it buckled, the floor
should lay reasonably flat.
Uneven gaps between the pieces of
hardwood mean that some pieces are
expanding or contracting more than
others because of moisture changes.
Areas with wide gaps are often located
over a heating duct, which warms and
dries the hardwood. If you have access to
beneath the floor, lower the heating duct
and put reflective foil insulation over it.
Give it several weeks to stabilize and add
slivers of wood in the extra wide gaps.
James Dulleys weekly column, Heres
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