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Noshes
WINGER-ING IT:
Debra excels
in The Lovers
The Lovers stars to see yourself in them.
DEBRA WINGER, 61, Variety also said that
and Tracy Letts as a Jacobs wrote a great
long-married couple who part for Winger and she
are both in the midst of made the most of it:
open, serious affairs and Winger has never toned
are increasingly commit- herself down the way she
ted to their new partners. does here, yet her radi-
But, just as they are on ance shines through; its
the brink of ending their become the expression
marriage, a spark of an ordinary womans
between them unexpect- fuddy-duddy despera-
edly reignites their long tion, and maybe her last
dormant romantic true lunge at life.
coupling. Is this a new Ive rarely been as
start for their marriage or moved as I was
a coda on it? How will watching Facebook CEO
they manage cheating SHERYL SANDBERG, 47,
on their new partners? discuss the death of her
Lovers was written husband, tech entrepre-
and directed by AZA- neur DAVE GOLDBERG,
ZEL JACOBS, 44. Ive on CBS Sunday Morning
long followed his career (aired April 23; available
because I took two col- on CBS News site).
lege courses taught by Goldberg, 48, died of a
his father, acclaimed sudden cardiac arrhyth-
non-narrative filmmaker mia in 2015.
KEN JACOBS, 83. Azazel Sandberg told CBS
has been making feature journalist Nora Dunn:
films since 2003 that Dave was my rock. Dave
havent played in many was my best friend be-
theaters (including the fore we dated and then
critical hit Terri, in got married [2004] and
2011). Very good reviews then had two amazing
for Lovers at the last children. He was the one
Toronto Film Festival, who always told me ev-
however, led a company erything would be okay.
to finance a big national And then it wasnt okay.
opening for this film. Sandberg is famous
Variety says its a for her 2013 advice book
comedy of barbed hu- for women in business,
manity and that Jacobs Lean In: Women, Work,
is a filmmaker with a gift and the Will to Lead.
for showing people at She told Dunn that
their most nakedly des- Daves death sucked
perate and spiritually di- and then related advice
sheveled and getting you her rabbi gave her. The
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Your colleagues in the Jewish media,
they dont want to talk about this.
New York City Council candidate Thomas Lopez-Pierre, reiterating his anti-Semitic
theories about Israeli-funded Jewish landlords in an interview with JTA
officer in Paris on April
20. She said: I was there
just behind the shooting
in a car when everything
stopped and we just
waited. We must not
give in otherwise it is
the terrorists who win.
The terrorists do not
measure our capacity for
resistance.
She also told AFP that
this July shell be film-
Debra Winger Azazel Jacobs Ken Jacobs ing a movie in which she
plays a Syrian Jewish
woman from Brooklyn
whos fighting breast
cancer. Other sources
provide details: the film is
The Girl with Pink Hair,
Margulies character is
Orthodox, and her char-
acter shares her fight
with a teenage friend
who also has breast
cancer. The director is
SUSAN SEIDELMAN, 64
(Desperately Seeking
Sheryl Sandberg Dave Goldberg Julianne Margulies Susan).
Margulies ended her
rabbi said, Lean into the tion B was coined by she would turn to him, AFP interview by ex-
suck. Sandberg then ADAM GRANT, 35, the a friend, for advice. Hes plaining why she de-
told Dunn: It was really co-author of Sandbergs the youngest person clined to be in The Good
good advice, because new book. When Sand- to become a tenured Wife sequel, The Good
he was telling me this berg complained about faculty member at the Fight. She said: I had to
[Daves death and the a father/daughter event Wharton School of Fi- say goodbye to [Good
aftermath] was going to that Dave wasnt alive to nance (where he always Wife lead character]
suck so dont fight it. go to, Grant told her they tops the faculty ratings) Alicia Florrick. Alicia
Sandberg then de- would find an option B and hes written two best doesnt wear her emo-
tailed some coping and work the sh-t out selling books. tions on her sleeves the
strategies she and her of it. Actress JULIANNE way I do. I am an actress
children employed and Grant, who has a MARGULIES, 50, and a Jewish woman ...
how that led to her new doctorate in organiza- talked to the French news very opinionated and
book, Option B: Fac- tional psychology, wrote service AFP on April 21 emotional. (The last line,
ing Adversity, Building articles with Sandberg and revealed that she was the AFP noted, Margulies
Resilience and Finding before her husbands near the site of the said with a laugh in her
Joy. The term op- death, so its natural that terrorist killing of a police voice). N.B.
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Open-ended meditation on history
Artist Shimon Attie to project his work at Beth Sholom in Teaneck
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
O
n several consecutive nights
in 1992, American artist Shi-
mon Attie projected portions
of pre-World War II photo-
graphs of Jewish street life in Berlin onto
the places where they had been taken, 60
years earlier.
His goal was to recreate, however
momentarily, fragments of the citys
long-destroyed Jewish communal life.
Among the projections in The Writ-
ing on the Wall was the 1930 image of a
Hebrew bookstore on the street level of
a residential building in Scheunenvier-
tel, which had been one of Berlins Jew-
ish quarters at the time.
One night that I did this, a person liv-
ing in the building came out in a menac-
ing way and, in German, implied that I
was trying to repossess his house, Mr.
Attie said. He tried to convince me that
his father had bought the building from
a Mr. Jacob in 1938. Here I
am, working as an artist in
the imaginary, and he was
taking it on a literal level.
On another night, an
elderly woman opened her
second-floor window and
shouted No, no, no! in
German at Mr. Attie, who
was standing across the
street with his generator
and slide projector.
The artist at first assumed Shimon Attie
that she was objecting to
what he was doing. But that wasnt it.
She explained that the bookstore was
actually one meter to the right of where
I was projecting the image, he said. I show the faces of rescued Jewish citi-
remember, she told me.
Mr. Attie will show images from the
project and talk about The Writing on
the Wall and some of his other evocative
works at this years annual art lecture at
Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck on
the evening of May 15.
Sites Unseen: Igniting and Challeng-
ing Memory, the 12th annual free pub-
lic lecture supported by the Alfred and
Rose Buchman Endowment for the Fine
Arts, will be Mr. Atties first presentation a moving stage.
in northern New Jersey. Since earning
his master of fine arts degree at San
Francisco State University in 1991, Mr.
Attie, who lives in Manhattan, has done
about 30 major projects in 10 coun-
tries. He has exhibited at New Yorks
Museum of Modern Art and at more
than 40 other museums and galleries
worldwide.
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Jewish history and identity, or the
immigrant and refugee experience, he
said. Those were the two organizing
canvases.
I have done many, many projects,
of which about a third deal with con-
tent that is Jewish in nature, the artist
continued. All of my works, though,
regardless of specifics of identity, deal
with issues related to displacement,
communal loss, and trauma, as well as
the potential for regeneration, at least in
the realm of imagination. And because I
work in the language of an artist, theres
a place for wonderment, beauty, and
aesthetics even if the content is com-
munal displacement.
Ms. Baron said that she and her hus-
band became acquainted with Mr.
Atties work at a show he did at the
Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Con-
necticut, and later saw his work in Boca
Raton and in the Jack Shainman Gallery
in Manhattan.
He brings together past and present
Almstadtstrasse 43 (formerly Grenadierstrasse 7): Slide projection of in an interesting way, enabling people
former Hebrew bookstore, 1930, Berlin, shown in 1992, 33X40 chro- to appreciate the past and evaluate the
mogenic photograph and on-location installation by Shimon Attie present at the same time, and perhaps
 COURTESY OF JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK to change behavior in the present and
create a new future, she said.
He has described his today to present-day refugees, Mr. Attie Mr. Baron said they felt Mr. Atties
approach to works such as explained. body of work is very important
The Writing on the Wall As the shared thread between these because hes made people re-examine
as a kind of peeling back two stories of rescue is water, I there- the notion of memory through a wide
of the wallpaper of today fore created an underwater installation variety of visual techniques. However,
to reveal the histories bur- to embody these issues. The light boxes hes never concerned just with art for
ied underneath. were submerged in Copenhagens Bors- arts sake; there is always some kind of
The other projects hell graven canal for six weeks. greater relevance.
present on screen at Beth Sholom The Amsterdam project, in 1995, was Mr. Attie said he does not have any
include his Portraits of Exile, under- inspired by his discovery of wartime particular takeaway message in mind
water light boxes in Copenhagen that footage secretly shot by people in hid- for his audiences.
ing on Prinsengracht Street, often with Im an artist, not an educator or
zens and modern Bosnian refugees; the aim of documenting the activities of a politician, he said. I am trying to
The Neighbor Next Door, video pro- Dutch collaborators. Mr. Attie installed create and communicate experiences,
jections onto Anne Franks Amsterdam huge film projectors in those hiding which is different from a message. This
street of wartime footage taken by Jews places and projected the furtively taken is an open-ended meditation on his-
in hiding there; Between Dreams and footage on the street below. tory, an opportunity for each viewer to
History, laser projections on tene- He also will talk about Brick by reflect on the different ways in which
ment buildings in Manhattans Lower Brick, a project he did at the Cologne past, present, and future operate within
East Side that illuminate the immigrant Fairgrounds during Art Cologne in 1995. the same moment.
experience; and an art video he made in That fair building, during World War
2016 showing frozen tableaux of Syrian II, was among other things a warehouse What: Sites Unseen: Igniting and
refugees in Europe on the backdrop of where household items confiscated Challenging Memory, a free public art
from Jewish families and other dissi- lecture
The context for the underwater dents were warehoused and auctioned Where: Congregation Beth Sholom,
portraits in Copenhagen was the 50th to the public, he said. For the project, 354 Maitland Ave., Teaneck
anniversary of the end of the Second Mr. Attie displayed household items typ-
When: May 15, 7:30 p.m.
World War in Denmark, and therefore ical of that era outside the building.
Mr. Attie said the decision of which For information: Congregation Beth
the exhibition dealt with human-rights
Sholom at (201) 833-2620 or office@
challenges and stories: the heroic Dan- projects to present in Teaneck resulted
cbsteaneck.org.
ish rescue of their Jewish community from discussions with the annual art lec-
Shimon Atties website: http://shi-
on fishing boats to Sweden in 1943, and tures chairs, Reuben and Joan Baron.
monattie.net
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Weekend warriors
TABC teens win halachic competition with expertise on International Date Line
LARRY YUDELSON

W
hen does Shabbat fall in
the Pacific Ocean?
Take Apia, the capital
of Samoa, for example.
This Friday, sunset will be at 6:10 p.m.
Subtract 18 minutes, and you have Shabbat
beginning at 5:52 p.m. on Friday evening.
Which, because Samoa is 17 hours ahead
of Eastern Daylight Time, already has hap-
pened if youre reading the Jewish Stan-
dard on Friday evening.
But not so fast.
Up until December 2011, Samoa was on
the other side of the International Date
Line. In those days, Samoa was seven
hours behind us. That means that Shab-
bat would be yet to begin when we light
candles here in New Jersey.
To make the shift, Samoa skipped a Fri-
day and jumped straight from Thursday to
Saturday.
Would Shabbat have followed along? Or
would it continue to be seven days after
the previous Shabbat? That would mean
that Shabbat would fall on Sundays in
Samoa, at least until the International Date
Line changed again.
That wasnt a pressing question when
Samoans debated the move: Apias com-
munity of observant Jews is as non-exis-
tent as you might expect. However, the Rabbi Barry Nathan of Touro College, left, Lander College for Men Rosh Hayeshiva Rabbi Yonason Sacks, third from right,
island nation does have real communi- Dean Moshe Sokol, and Rabbi Aaryeh Manheim flank the winning team from Torah Academy of Bergen County. Left to
ties of Seventh Day Adventists, some of right: Ned Krasnopolsky 19, Joseph Solomon 17, Shlomo Korsinsky 17, Eitan Leff 18, Jonathan Yonasan Rutta 20, and
whom (but not all) now observe their Sab- Ephraim Helfgot 20.
bath on Sunday. After all, how can a vote
by the people of Samoa change the day of fell was, it was so far to the east of Jerusa- Orthodox Jews found refuge from the first Israel to try unsuccessfully to reach a
the Lords Sabbath? Yet is the new date of lem (and farther to the east of the medi- World War in Japan. It became a more conclusion.
Samoa any less arbitrary than the Interna- eval rabbis discussing this in Europe) that serious question in 1941, when hundreds Its a very complicated topic, Shlomo
tional Date Line, which first was drawn in it didnt really matter. of yeshiva students from Lithuania made Korsinsky said. There are a lot of different
1884? And yet again, how can you not have As the world was explored and mapped, their way to Japan. opinions.
a line somewhere dividing one day from it became clear that what had been an Should the refugees in Japan observe Shlomo is one of the areas leading
the next? abstract line in the 12th century passed two days of Shabbat just to be safe? Should experts on this abstruse question of Jew-
The notion of a date line in Jewish near Shanghai part of the real world. they fast for two days on Yom Kippur? ish law. A student at the Torah Academy of
law was raised by the 12th century. The That put Japan on the other side. So did So they telegraphed to Jerusalem to get Bergen County, the Englewood 17-year-old
assumption was that the line was far Jewish law consider Japan, which accord- guidance. But not all the telegrams were was co-captain of the schools team, which
enough east of Jerusalem to serve as a ing to the international system of time sent to the same rabbi, and the return debated the topic of the international date
thought experiment, not a real-life chal- zones had the same date as China, as cables contained a plethora of conflict- line in Jewish law at Touro Colleges recent
lenge. At least half of the globe, it then was actually being a day earlier? This became ing answers. In the end, a meeting was fourth annual Model Beis Din competition.
assumed, was ocean, so wherever that line a problem about 100 years ago, as some convened in the chief rabbis house in The team won.

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Stanton Strong
New Bergen County womens group fights for health, reproductive rights
JOANNE PALMER

N
o matter which side of the politi-
cal or cultural or demographic
or socioeconomic or red/blue
side of the divide you fall on,
its hard to deny that this is an oddly divi-
sive time.
But something interesting is going on.
People are finding each other, making alli-
ances, seeing them turn into friendships,
and learning how to take their talents and
passions and grow into advocates for the
cause they believe in the causes that they
feel need particular attention in this fraught
and changing time.
In November, in response to the elec-
tions that have riveted and split the coun-
try, a bunch of us got together, Dana Post
Adler of Tenafly said. We didnt all know
each other, but we were connected through
sports and schools and kids basketball,
among other similar suburban-mom phe-
nomena. There were nine women at first,
mainly from Tenafly and Demarest; they
hadnt necessarily even all voted the same
way we come from all sides of the politi-
cal world, but no matter how we
voted in the presidential elec-
tion, we all were taken aback by
the outcome, she said.
Most but not all of them are
Jewish. Were all mothers and
businesspeople and charitable
and involved in our communi-
ties, but none of us had been
politically active prior to the elec-
tion, Ms. Adler said. (Ms. Adler,
the director of Myron Corp., is
the president of Womens Philan-
thropy for the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey; shes on
the federations board and the
board of JFNA National Womens
Philanthropy as well.)
And so the nine of us got
together, and we looked at each
other, and we said, Okay. Now
that this has happened, what This painting, by Emily Klima, will be auctioned at the
do we do? And so we started Stanton Strong fundraiser on May 10.
talking.
Thats how Stanton Strong was born.
We sat around and talked, and figured
out that the most pressing area for all of us
was womens rights and womens health
care, Ms. Adler said. We really wanted to
do things that unraveled the idea that wom-
ens rights and womens health care was a
partisan issue.
And then we tried to figure out what to
do about it, she continued. The women
some of them artists, some of them market-
ers, all of them well-educated, successful
professionals, all with a number of relevant
skills did research. They met with leaders
from the states Planned Parenthood office,
The founders of Stanton Strong: back row, from left, Marci Ginzburg, Lainie Saban, Jill Besnoy, Galit Oelsner, and Jane Ro-
man; front row, from left, Katie Kahn, Jennifer Yanowitz, Dana Adler, and Noelle Tutunjian
and they really educated us about whats
going on at the state and federal level,
Ms. Adler said. Womens access to health
care is jeopardized. Here we are in a fairly
affluent neighborhood, and we have all the
access we need, but we were shocked by
the fact that over the last seven years, since to forget justice and just look at spending,
he has been governor, Chris Christie has
removed $7.5 million from the state budget
that has been allocated to Title X.
New Jerseys governors have a line item
veto, Ms. Adler said, and the Title X fam-
ily planning program, which President
Richard Nixon signed into law in 1970, pro-
vides grants for family planning and related
health services. It was basically
to give help to poor and under-
served women, and it was one of
the highlights of the Nixon admin-
istration, she added. And it saved and underserved women, but also teenag-
money. Since Title X, the abortion
rate is at a 40-year low, and that
really is because women have had
more access to good health care
and birth control.
When the $7.5 million was cut
from the budget, the matching
funds that would have come from
the federal Title X program van-
ished as well.
Christie vetoed the budget
seven years ago, and he has done
it every year since, Ms. Adler said. created two committees, one focused on
We dont know if there is a corre-
lation, but we do know that there
has been a rise in sexually trans-
mitted diseases, and that syphilis
is on the rise in the state. And by
the way, the survey that shows this
trend was done independently of Planned
Parenthood.
And 97 percent of what Planned Par-
enthood does isnt abortion. Its for other
aspects of womens health care breast
exams and pap smears. All in all, if we were
when you are talking dollars and cents, it
makes no sense, Ms. Adler said.
And in a place like Bergen County we
are in this somewhat privileged place, but
even for us many of us have teenagers,
and many teenagers do not have open dia-
logues with their parents and do not feel
comfortable talking to their pediatricians.
So the issue is that many teenagers seek out
Planned Parenthood, because anyone can
just show up at Planned Parenthood with-
out insurance cards. So it is not just poor
ers who get themselves into trouble.
They hadnt known much of this before,
Ms. Adler said; now that theyve begun to
know something about politics and wom-
ens health, they feel it will be helpful to
teach others what theyve learned, as well
as to raise money to fund womens health
clinics, both locally, through Planned Par-
enthood, and across the country, focusing
on Whole Womans Health in Texas.
They are in the process of getting 501(c)
(3) status for Stanton Strong. Theyve also
action and the other on fundraising. Ms.
Adler is one of the two chairs of the action
committee.
Planned Parenthood trained Ms. Adler
and another of the core members on lobby-
ing. They put together a presentation and
Who: Stanton Strong
What: Holds a fundraiser and auction
for womens health
When: On Wednesday, May 10, from
7:30 to 11 p.m.
Where: At High Exposure, 266 Union
St., Northvale
Why: To raise money for Planned Par-
enthood and Whole Womens Health
For more information: Google Stanton
Strong fundraiser; it will take you to
Eventbrite; for more general informa-
tion about Stanton Strong, go to the
groups Facebook page.

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invited neighbors; over the course of three
meetings, they have talked to more than 80
people. Theyve begun to work with Val-
erie Vaineri Huttle of Englewood, who rep-
resents the 37th District in the New Jersey
State Legislature, and they plan on talking
to other legislators as well.
They are hopeful that change will be
coming soon. It will take only two or three
votes in the state legislature to overturn the
governors veto, Ms. Post said. Hes been her name was pregnant with my brother,
considerably weakened by scandal and
is historically unpopular now. There are
some Assembly people who claim that they
are pro-choice but who havent voted that
way, she said. We believe that the reason
they havent voted that way is because they
havent been asked.
A lot of people dont understand the
power that the state Assembly has. We have
been complacent, but this election has been
a great wake-up call.
There are Jewish values at work here,
she added. We believe in tikkun olam, we
believe in individual human rights, and we
believe that every person should be able to
look after herself, without unjust authorities
being involved.
Women are not stupid. Being a mother
is the biggest decision a woman can make.
Women need to be able to have free medical
conversations with their health care pro-
viders, no matter what their economic
backgrounds. That is a basic right for
women to be able to take care of themselves
unencumbered.
Ms. Adler is not the first woman in her
family to feel strongly about a womans
right to choose.
She grew up in Englewood. When I was
3 years old, and my mom Arleen Post is
drove there in her horse and buggy and
she was interviewed by a local newspaper,
Ms. Adler said.
She was very big and very pregnant,
and she was stopped in the street. This was
1970, right before Roe. v. Wade was passed.
We have pictures of it she had the whole
thing, beehive hairdo, the whole thing
and the reporter said, Big pregnant lady,
what do you think about abortion?
And she said, Everyone has the right to
take care of her own body, and even though
I am the mother of one child already, and
Im having another one, and they are both
very much wanted, every woman has the
right to make up her own mind.
That has had a profound effect on me,
Ms. Post said.
The women named the group after Eliz-
abeth Cady Stanton, the first-wave femi-
nist and suffragist who lived in Tenafly, on
the East Hill, for a short time.
She wrote the Womens Declaration of
Sentiments the document that was pre-
sented at the 1848 womens convention in
Seneca Falls, N.Y. and she also attempted
to vote in Tenafly, another Stanton Strong
founder, Jennifer Schwab Yanowitz of
Tenafly, said. Women did not have the
right to vote then, but she went down to
the restaurant where the men were voting,
easy to ignore this because its not in our
she attempted to vote. They didnt allow it
but the attempt was a really big deal.
The strength of character it took the for-
titude, the belief in a higher truth, when soci-
ety does not have her back its these prin-
ciples that we are honoring with the name.
Ms. Yanowitz is finishing her masters
degree in social work now, but her back-
ground is in marketing, advertising, and
communications. Shes heading the fun-
draising committee and supplying the
groups social media presence.
I feel that right now our government is
making decisions that harm a vulnerable
population, she said. Its a population
that doesnt have the skill set, the money, or
the power, so its disenfranchised. Theyre
the ones who are getting short-changed. So
we are working for the women out there
who need help. And since Christie cut the
budget, STDs [socially transmitted diseases]
in Bergen County have gone up by 48 per-
cent. Its not just poor people in the middle
of the country who are affected. This is hap-
pening right here in our neighborhood.
There are profoundly Jewish values at
play here, she said. Our value system tells
us to stand up for people who need help,
to right wrongs that need to be righted,
when you have the ability to do that. Its
face on a daily basis, but when you pay
attention, you start to see that there is an
elite group in Washington that is making
decisions that are catastrophic for vulner-
able populations.
Abortion still is legal in the United States,
she said, but you cant call yourself a steak-
house if you dont serve steak. As a society,
we are saying that access to abortion is
legal, but we are eliminating every place
that actually can provide them. That means
that abortions arent really legal. Or maybe
theyre only legal for rich white people.
The group is planning a fundraiser for
May 10. (See box for more information. Its
an art auction, Ms. Yanowitz said. Weve
approached artists from across the coun-
try, and they understand the issue and have
very generously donated their work.
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New Jewish political realities
Dr. Ruth Wisse takes an incendiary look at the last 75 years
JOANNE PALMER
So whats with us Jews?
We are unique in world history, for one
thing; there has been no people like us.
For that reason, we have a unique obliga-
tion to understand the world around us,
and to model responses to it.
For another thing, our world has
changed immensely, totally, and shatter-
ingly since the middle of the last century.
Our ability to make sense of that infor-
mation, to assimilate it and to use it, has
lagged thats not surprising, given that
we still have very little distance from it
but still we must adjust our thinking
accordingly.
Thats according to Dr. Ruth Wisse,
the Yiddish scholar and social critic who
recently retired as Martin Peretz Profes-
sor of Yiddish Literature at Harvard, and
will speak at Congregation Rinat Yisrael
in Teaneck on Sunday. (See box for more
information.)
Dr. Wisse, who is an expert on American
Jewish culture as well as the Yiddish cul-
ture both in the hemisphere and in Eastern
Europe, uses all those filters to look at the
world around her, and to explain it to us.
The political situation of the Jews is
very complicated, and it has changed dra-
matically in the last century, she said. The
two events that are indisputably momen-
tous are the destruction of one third of the
Jewish people. We can call it the Holo-
caust in English or the Shoah in Hebrew;
in Yiddish, however, it is the Chorban,
which means destruction. In Yiddish par-
lance and Yiddish was the language of
most Jews in 1938 chorban was the same
word that was used for the destruction of
the First and Second Temples. There is no
new term for it; it was a destruction of the
magnitude of the worst destruction.
The word chorban used to be used
for the First World War, Dr. Wisse contin-
ued. That was considered to be the great
destruction. But then the Second World
War so dwarfed everything that happened
before that it was almost forgotten that the
Who: Dr. Ruth Wisse, distinguished
senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund (along
with many other accomplishments and
honors)
What: Will tackle the question Are
American Jews Their Own Worst En-
emies?
When: On Sunday, May 7, at 8 p.m.
Where: At Congregation Rinat Yisrael,
389 W Englewood Ave., in Teaneck
For whom: The shuls adult education
committee and the Tikvah Fund
For more information: Call the shul at
(201) 837-2795 or go to www.rinat.org
12 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017
Dr. Ruth Wisse will discuss Are American Jews Their Own Worst Enemies?
during a talk at Congregation Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck.
Jewish towns of Eastern Europe were rav-
aged, and thousands of Jews were killed,
because they were caught between the
warring armies.
They werent killed because they were
Jews, but Jews were conscripted in the
armies of whichever country they found
themselves. There is a story that might
have been apocryphal but was widely cir-
culated about a Jew in the Russian army
and another in the German army. One bay-
onetted the other, and heard the other one
say the Shema as he died.
The Jews had no protection, so when,
say, the Cossack armies swept through,
they pillaged, raped, and killed Jews and
Poles and everyone else, and of course
they killed Jews, and of course Jews were
visible as Jews because of the way they
dressed. But it was not a wholesale exter-
mination of all Jews.
But then one third of all Jews were mur-
dered, and a new word was created in 1942
genocide.
The second cataclysmic event
although of course a very different one
was the creation of the state of Israel. The
infrastructure had been in place since the
end of the 19th century, when Jews start-
ing going over, buying land, and draining
swamps, but the state of Israel was for-
mally declared in 1948.
So now, in the middle of the 20th cen-
tury, in the 1940s, you have these two
extraordinary changes, the most profound
changes that have ever happened in the
history of any people, let alone the Jewish
people.
Since that happened, the whole politi-
cal situation of the Jews has been trans-
formed. But we just continue. History
doesnt stop. Now it is 2017, and it is time
for us to take stock, and to see that the
political situation of the Jews, which had
existed for 2,000 or so years in a certain
way, has changed dramatically.
How much have we read about this?
How much is it talked about? What we talk
about is the Holocaust and the rise of the
state of Israel we talk about and think
The political
situation of the
Jews is very
complicated, and
it has changed
dramatically in
the last century.
about and live all these things but Jewish
thought has not caught up yet. This is not
because you dont have some great minds very asymmetrical position, she said.
you have some extremely thoughtful rab-
bis and commentators and academics, and
in Israel you have a military and political
establishment that thinks about them too.
But although these changes have taken
place, you dont have the corresponding
change in political consciousness.
Schoolchildren in Jewish day schools
are not instructed in a different way.
In a sense, there is no collective lan-
guage that takes account of how our politi-
cal status in the world has been completely
altered. It is interesting and compelling
and not just to Jews. If a new word like
genocide is introduced because of some-
thing that happened to the Jews, that
means that the example of the Jews is of
world importance. It is not a parochial
issue. And the responsibility of think-
ing about these things is not just a Jewish
responsibility. But it is a Jewish responsi-
bility that Jews have to themselves and the
rest of the world. They have to get straight
why it happened.
It is hard to get distance from it, and
also it is hard because we are used to
speaking in certain categories. Jews are a
minority and a minority by choice and
remain a minority by choice so you find
yourself always responding, and particu-
larly responding to enemies.
So who is an enemy?
Thats the question, Dr. Wisse said.
You have to know who your enemy is.
She grew up in Montreal, and in the
synagogue where I pray there, it says, over
the ark, Know before Whom you pray. In
the synagogue, that means the Supreme
Judge. But you have to understand this
on another level. When you stand before
God, you bare yourself, and you come to
terms with what youve done wrong.
But the minute you do that in your
head or in your body or in your posture
or in your military or in any other way
in front of the world, in front of people
who wish you ill, in front of your enemies
then you are so stupid that you deserve
to be killed.
Many Jews make that mistake, Dr. Wisse
said, and many others believe that God
will take care of them. But history teaches
us that we must rely on ourselves in the
political arena. Even if you believe in
Gods justice, you have to do your part,
she said.
Jews live in history differently than other
people, she continued. This is our DNA.
This is how we are structured. We are very
self-reliant. Its exceptional. And thats
not better or worse. Its just different. Of
course we think its better, but from a polit-
ical point of view its just different from the
way other people have acted. Because we
are such a small people, it has created a
This may seem obvious, and it may not
be original, but often it is overlooked, Dr.
Wisse said. I see young religious thinkers
who are setting up new seminaries, and
going back and forth talking about theol-
ogy and the theological implications of
the Holocaust. Okay, thats wonderful
Im not criticizing it, even though I am not
given to theological language but if dont
understand the political aspects of the Jew-
ish people, then their theological thinking
is of absolutely no use to me.
If God spoke in modern times, hed say,
You have to do it yourself. And if I have to
do it myself, Im going to think it through
politically.
So this is a national desideratum. Not
only do we have to start thinking about
it, we have to start talking about it. What
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The Haunting Hour
Kaplen JCCs drama school puts on radio play with jingles
Joanne Palmer
S
ometimes theater is intellectually
challenging, getting in under your
defenses and making you consider
big questions, or even reconsider
your established answers to them.
Sometimes theater is emotionally
wrenching, getting in under your defenses
to go straight to your core, making you
weep or shake or just simply yearn.
And sometimes theater is just plain fun,
silly and funny and engrossing. Sometimes
it just makes you happy.
Whenever theater works, its magic.
On Sunday night, the Palisades Play-
ers at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly will be going for just plain fun. The
group will present a recreation of a 1945
radio melodrama, The Haunting Hour,
and will surround it with jingles and songs
that might not be exactly from that period
but will be evocative, silly, and engaging.
(Were talking Snap, Crackle, Pop Rice
Krispies! the Chiquita Banana song, and
The Good Ship Lollipop here.)
The evening, a fundraiser for the Pali-
sades Players, will star one of the most
prominent graduates of the JCC theater
program, Alan Aisenberg, a 24-year-old
actor and producer who is best known
(and in fact is very well known) for his
work on the Netflix hit Orange Is the New
Black.
Mr. Aisenberg grew up in Englewood
Cliffs, where his parents still live.
I started at the JCC when I was 4 or 5,
Mr. Aisenberg said. My parents signed me
up for a Sunday class. Id gone to the JCC
for preschool and summer camp, and then
they saw a flier for the theater class. They
said, Alan, youre a ham, and they signed
me up on a lark.
That did it for him, for life.
His parents have no theatrical back-
ground, he said. Theyre both doctors
from Argentina Alejandra Goodman
and Javier Aisenberg. They were born a
few miles apart, just a few days apart, and
then they met in New York, 20-something
years later. There was always music in our
house my dad playing the Beatles, or my
mom playing A Chorus Line or My Fair
Who: Alan Aisenberg stars in
What: The Haunting Hour, a 1945 radio
play, cushioned by songs and jingles
Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly
When: On Sunday, May 5, at 5:30
What else: Its a fundraiser for the
Palisades Players; theres also a VIP
reception, as well as an online auction.
For more information: Call (201) 408-
1493 or email hharel@jccopt.org.
14 Jewish Standard MAY 5, 2017
Alan Aisenberg
Lady, but they had no other connection to
musical theater.
But they saw the signs in me. I used to
put on shows at home, with my younger
sister, with little toys. Wed make our par-
ents sit for hours at a time, watching us.
Theyd want to get up, but I would say No
no no! Just wait! Just two more acts! And
then my dad went to Staples and bought a
roll of tickets for us to use.
I also wanted to play baseball, and I
played Little League and fall ball.
I applaud my parents for giving me the
chance. It is insane, how wonderfully sup-
portive they have been, even with things
that are entirely outside their domain.
They knew nothing about this world from
a professional standpoint, but they dove
into it for me.
They are the two best people in the
world.
A not insignificant number of actors
have emerged from the JCC acting pro-
gram that gave Mr. Aisenberg his start,
although that is not its main focus. We
had no idea that this program, which was
such a fun thing, was known for churning
out kids who were becoming professional
actors, he said. I didnt know when I was
doing it that there were agents in the audi-
ence. I think that even when I started it,
though, just a few years after it began, that
a couple of kids had been working in the
city on commercials. But the people I grew
up with in this program in Tenafly are con-
tinuing to work.
There must have been something in the
water.
More seriously, he said that the some-
thing that makes the program different is
supplied by its longtime director, Deborah
Roberts. Its such a healthy balance of fun
and discipline, he said. I had the disci-
pline to learn my lines, to do my work; I
was thinking about professionalism at People are waiting on me to do my thing,
the age of 8. It was casual, but because and I like that pressure.
there was such commitment on her part He also is an actor, of course. Orange
because she clearly cared so much you came around almost three years ago, he
just wanted to get to her level. You wanted said. I was supposed to do one episode.
to give as much of yourself as she was giv- Now hes going into the fifth season.
ing of herself. It is a crazy roller coaster, he said.
That professionalism is something that It is the best job in the world, to be on a
I am blown away by even now, 20 years show that is so well-regarded and so well-
later. I think that it changes you, growing
up. Thats why this program is so good at
doing what it does. It teaches acting, yes,
and musical theater, and dance, but more
than that it teaches responsibility. And
I used to put on
thats true whether youre going to be an shows at home,
actor or something else entirely.
Each child is treated as an individual,
with my younger
with his or her own talents, skills, inter- sister, with little
ests, and abilities, he said; and also we
learned to put that individuality together.
toys. Wed make
Together you make ensembles better than our parents sit for
their parts.
Mr. Aisenberg started working profes-
hours at a time,
sionally when he was 8. I was in com- watching us.
mercials at first, and then I slowly started
getting bigger parts, he said. In 2007, he
went to Louisiana to film The Longshots. written. It is a show that is changing the
That was mind-blowing, he said. I was dialogue in society. Its the first thing Ive
there for four months. I didnt work on the ever worked on where I dont even have
movies every day, but I had to go to the to say anything. People just recognize me.
set every day for school, because I was a And its changing the dialogue about
minor, so I would sit there in video village prison reform, about transgender rights,
and watch people work. It was a $60 mil- about womens rights. And I dont have to
lion dollar movie. I could have sat there all explain it to people because they get it.
day watching. Season 3 has a wonderful character arc
Thats when I realized that I love acting, about converting to Judaism, he added.
but this behind-the-scenes thing? I love it See Haunting Hour page 64
just as much. Whether I am behind
the scenes or in front of the camera,
I just want to be in that world.
Back at home, Mr. Aisenberg
went to high school at Bergen Tech,
and then he went to NYUs Tisch
School. In my freshman year I
started a production company, Dev-
erge, and I still have it today, he
said. I started it with a friend, as a
lark. We were making a documen-
tary about a group called Improv
Everywhere, and we showed it at
South By Southwest. Hes main-
tained a close relationship with the
improv company, and Deverge now
has six full-time employees. (Did I
mention that Mr. Aisenberg is 24
years old? I believe I did, but lets
repeat that here. Hes 24)
I like producing because it uses
the same side of the brain as acting,
but in a different way, and it keeps
me active, he said. I like having
someplace to go every morning,
instead of living like a full-time
actor, working out, going to the
gym I like the responsibility. I Alan Aisenberg when he starred in Youre a
learned it when I was 5, from Deb. Good Man, Charlie Brown at the JCC.
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Preserving history, thanking volunteers
Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey to honor Marty Feitlowitz
LOIS GOLDRICH
With nearly 40 years under its belt, the
Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey
founded in Wayne as an oral history
project in 1979, and guided throughout
its growth by a cadre of enthusiastic vol-
unteers still is blessed with people will-
ing to roll up their sleeves to collect and
preserve the historical record of the areas
Jewish communities.
Now housed in Fair Lawn, the society,
which for many years relied upon the
kindness of strangers to shelter its grow-
ing collection, and spent more than a few
years in the cramped quarters of Barnert
Hospitals basement, soon will honor one
of those passionate preservationists, Marty
Feitlowitz of West Orange.
Joy Kurland, now the societys part-time
executive director and its 2016 honoree,
points with pride to previous honorees,
including president emeritus and longtime
JHSNJ powerhouse and spokesman Jerry
Nathans, Moe Liss, and Dr. Leonard Cole.
She notes also that the painstaking work
of creating a collection and now, thanks
to the new facility, an exhibit space owes
much to the support of the Jewish Federa-
tion of Greater Clifton-Passaic.
Mr. Feitlowitz, the groups vice presi-
dent of operations and a former chair of
the Paterson Historic Commission, recalls
that when I first joined the organization,
in the basement of the Barnert Hospital, it
wasnt a place conducive to people visiting
and going through the collection and look-
ing things up.
And there was no place to park.
We needed our own building, and I
thought maybe I could help, he said. I
had a background as an architect and had
seen a lot of buildings. I spent a lot of time
looking at properties but could never seem
to find the right place. But then, nearly
two years later, we finally decided to
Display cases at the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey hold treasured
Judaica from area residents.
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Joy Kurland, executive director of the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey,
confers with architect Marty Feitlowitz, this years society honoree.
focus on Fair Lawn, the center of the Jew-
ish population of the three-county area we
represent. That became the focal point.
When the condo on River Road, just
across from ShopRite, became available,
I volunteered my services doing the
architectural work, interior design, order-
ing furniture, hiring contractors, painters,
etc., Mr. Feitlowitz said. We moved in a
year and a half ago.
He also decided that we needed to
develop a timeline of the areas Jewish his-
tory, and that project now is well off the
ground, with the creation of three large
panels showing the period from 1840 until
1915. He hopes that one day the line will
reach up to 2020. And it may take us that
long, Mr. Feitlowitz joked. The project is
being funded by two grants received from
New Yorks Herbert Goldman Foundation.
Some of the stuff we had, but a lot we
had to find, Mr. Feitlowitz said. There
was a plethora of information on Paterson
and its immediate environs. The group
that started the society was from Paterson,
Passaic, and Wayne. We really had to dig to
find the history of the Bergen County Jew-
ish community.
Mr. Feitlowitz said its been 60 years
since he lived in Paterson, but Ive never
moved that far away.
With help from Ms. Kurland and many
others, including Teaneck community
activist and former mayor Jackie Kates, the
timeline committee found books, con-
tacted Dr. George Kirsch, who grew up in
Hackensack and was a history professor,
and here and there were able to get pieces
to put together, some of it online, Mr. Feit-
lowitz said. At first, there was no informa-
tion on Hudson County, but now at least
we know where the first settlements were
and where and when the first synagogue
was formed, he said. Its enough to get
it started.
Mr. Feitlowitz credits his committee
with the projects success. Everyone had
an assignment, he said. Photo, texts, or
The historic timeline assembled by society volunteers is displayed on the wall at
the groups Fair Lawn headquarters.
knowledge from their own family. It was
a group effort. Hes having a ball, he
added, but its so hard to work in with
real life. I love every minute thats gone
into it, but we have a long way to go.
He feels that in some way he has brought
the societys work into the light, he con-
tinued. He has designed display cases
the committee determines what should
be displayed but said, Were just in the
infant stages. Id like to see this grow into a
coordinated exhibit, with artifacts on dis-
play plus narratives on the wall.
We dont have a lot of information going
back to 1840, he said. Its hard to find pho-
tos. The camera had just been invented.
The historical society selected that starting
year because Temple Bnai Jeshurun, now
Barnert Temple, was founded in 1847, so
there had to be a few Jews there. Barnert
was the very first synagogue incorporated
in the State of New Jersey.
Mr. Feitlowitz said he thinks that
through his architectural work, I have
grown to appreciate things from the past:
civilizations, cultures, old architecture.
When you go to Europe, you dont tour
the great suburbs. All the interest is in the
old cities and the old sections of the old cit-
ies. I began to get hooked on remembering
the past and honoring the past. Theres so
much to learn from the people who came
before us.
He is awed by what the early settlers
had to face, and the courage it must have
taken to leave their home of several cen-
turies, whether or not they did so volun-
tarily. They didnt all arrive here as doc-
tors and lawyers. Someone in our family
had the courage to leave a bad situation
so that their children and grandchildren
would have a better life.
Ms. Kurland, who sat on the societys
board before taking the volunteer position
she holds now, said, One of our proudest
accomplishments is being able to bring our
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We now have two archival rooms, a multitude of
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It is a wonderful feeling to be able to have this
home to show the beauty and depth and range of the
Jewish history of Passaic, Bergen, and Hudson coun-
ties, Ms. Kurland said.
Funding comes from grants, private donations,
membership fees, and fundraisers, such as the annual
dinner honoring Mr. Feitlowitz.
The real miracle of this is that we went from virtu-
ally having no money at all to raising enough to buy
and to renovate a property in just a few months, the
societys president, Richard Polton, said in a statement
that the organization issued last year. The opportu-
nity to buy our own home was met with contributions
This Mothers Day
from dozens and dozens of friends of our organiza-
tion. It was exceedingly gratifying to feel the strength
Plant an Olive Tree
of support from so many people who wanted to see
this happen.
While visitors often come to the society to look at its
to Seed Desert Research
collection, every day we receive phone calls from peo-
ple who want to bring memorabilia and artifacts to us, Honor that special someone by planting an olive tree in Wadi Mashash, the
Ms. Kurland said. We accept if we can. In addition, experimental farm of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Your unique gift
researchers call looking for specific information. Much
of this work is handled by part-time archivist Stepha- will help make Israels Negev desert bloom. It will also support invaluable
nie Diorio. agricultural research.
The historical society has come far. Overseen by
Jerry Nathans since the 1980s, the growing collection
lived for a time not only in the Barnert basement but Planting an olive tree in Israel to commemorate Mothers Day is a great way
in Mr. Nathans garage, the Y in Wayne, and William to celebrate that amazing woman in your life. She will receive a beautiful
Paterson College.
Longtime leader and past honoree Moe Liss said in certificate personalized with your message.
an earlier interview, before the purchase of the Fair
Lawn property, We have a gold mine here, over 175 To make your 100 percent tax-deductible contribution, go to
years of local Jewish history. Its an amazing collection.
Now the entire nation can see it. www.aabgu.org/olivetrees
The collection includes artifacts such as silk mill tools
and Torah covers, banners, trophies, yearbooks, news-
papers, magazines, personal and family papers, and
records of synagogues, service and social organizations,
and businesses. The materials, Mr. Liss said, reflect the
social, cultural, economic, and religious history of Jew-
ish life in Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson counties. He
noted also that the JHSNJs Photo Fridays has been a
major factor not only in advertising and promoting the
historical society but in fundraising as well.

Who: Marty Feitlowitz

What: Will be honored by the Jewish Historical
Society of North Jersey
When: On May 17 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: At Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes.
Cost: Tickets cost $75 per person. Profits benefit
the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey, a 501
(c) 3 organization.
Furthermore: The society opens its doors to
visitors, scholars, researchers and students on
Mondays and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
and on Fridays by appointment. It is at 17-10 River
646-452-3693 I newjersey@aabgu.org I www.aabgu.org
Road, Suite 3A, Fair Lawn. For information, call
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The story behind the video

When moving to Israel means coming home
LOIS GOLDRICH

S
ivan Shachnovitz Felder always
knew she would make aliyah.
I never really thought of myself
as a Zionist, said Ms. Felder, who
is from Fair Lawn. But I always knew I
would live in Israel. This is my home.
That sentiment is given poignant voice in
a poem written by Ms. Felder and narrated
by her sister, Batsheva Shachnovitz, in the
award-winning video Olah Chadasha
(New Immigrant), which recently took
first prize in the Inspired by Israel con-
test hosted by the Israel Video Network.
The video, in which the sisters explore
their reasons for moving to Israel Ms.
Felder and Ms. Shachnovitz, together
with their mother, Sura Shachnovitz
Rosenberg, and two brothers, made ali-
yah five years ago, shortly after their
father, Yossef Shachnovitz, died shows
Ms. Shachnovitz, then a high school
senior, walking through Jerusalem, recit-
ing her older sisters words. She feels
safe in Israel, she says. She feels that she
is home.
The child of an Israeli father and an
American mother whos more Israeli
than some Israelis, Ms. Felder and her
siblings grew up involved in Zionist
organizations. While they had visited
Israel many times before, this time they
intended to stay. I thought, now is the
time, Ms. Felder said, adding that when-
ever she made a choice to do one thing
or another, I asked myself how it would
impact the goal of making aliyah.
The entire family now is in Israel. Ms.
Felders mother has remarried and lives
in Hashmonaim. One brother studies in a
kollel, while the other serves as an army
commander. Ms. Shachnovitz, 18, is finish-
ing high school.
Ms. Felder, who made aliyah when she
was 21, is married to Jake Felder, a fellow
immigrant from Rhode Island. The couple
has two small children, a 3 l/2-year-old boy
and 5-month-old girl. Looking for some-
thing to do while on maternity leave, the
video maker, who works for a production
company, took up her mothers suggestion
that she enter the contest.
Growing up I always had a camcorder,
filming people on the train, making family
videos, she said. It was a hobby. When
I came here I went to social work school
and found out about someone looking
for an assistant editor to help with wed-
ding videos. I applied, and she hired me.
After a while, I bought equipment, taught
myself the editing software, and now I
work full time for a professional produc-
tion company.
While aliyah was always her goal, Ms.
Felder never assumed it would be easy.
Batsheva Shachnovitz, in a still from her sisters video.
Sivan, Jake, and Aryeh Yosef Felder
Still, Its a thousand times harder than I
imagined, she said. I speak Hebrew flu-
ently for an American, but I envisioned a
magical thing, that I would be welcomed
with open arms. Shes sure it would have
been harder still to be here without fam-
ily. Nevertheless, I feel that my life has
more meaning now, that I am where I am
meant to be.
Ms. Felder knew she wanted her sis-
ter to be in the video because you dont
label her right away. She doesnt look reli-
gious or nonreligious she just looks like
a teenage girl. I didnt want political or
religious views. Just her. I told her, You
have to be in it. Suffering at the time
with paralyzed vocal chords, Ms. Felder
also asked her sister to do the narration.
It was pretty quick, she said. We here. I wish to convey that to those who
filmed in two days. I dragged her around.
She was sick with a stomach virus.
Ms. Felder, who watched every one
of the other video entries, said a lot of
people talked about being inspired on a
very large scale kind of a big, faraway
thing. Thats what was different about
ours. Its the personal experience of me
and my sister. People like to feel person-
ally connected.
Does she miss anything from home?
With a little prompting, Ms. Felder
acknowledged that mint chip ice cream
would be nice, but otherwise, she said,
theres not much difference. Still, she
added, her younger sister is growing up
differently here than she would have at
home. Israel is a place where young
adults have so much more indepen-
dence. If she didnt have a car at home,
shed be stuck. Here she can do anything
she wants. Shes growing up differently,
with more freedom and independence.
Ms. Felder remembers that when she
grew up in New Jersey, she and her sib-
lings were not permitted to play in the
front yard. Now my son plays outside
on the front porch and I dont fear for
his safety. Everyone is on my team. The
family lives in Alon Shvut , an Israeli
settlement southwest of Jerusalem, one
kilometer northeast of Kfar Etzion, in the
West Bank.
Its much more painful and more
beautiful here than I had thought, Ms.
Felder said. While I wouldnt want to
be anywhere else, someday I may not be
make aliyah. Its okay to not want to be
here sometimes.
Although she is religiously observant,
I didnt come here to colonize, she said.
I dont try to convince people to come.
Im just where Im supposed to be.
Judges chose the video winners from
the 10 submissions; for ten days, the
public could vote of them as well. It
was voted by the Israel Video Network.
A total of $20,000 in cash prizes was
awarded to the winning videos, spon-
sored by the Adam and Gila Milstein
Family Foundation in partnership with
the 12Tribe Films Foundation.

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last years of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly.
Rubin Run. The 36th annual Rubin Run, which will take place on Sunday,
May 14 Mothers Day is a good example of the JCC in action.
More than 2,000 runners are expected to participate in a half
marathon, a 10k run, or a 5k run/walk. People at all levels of fit-
ness are welcome, and there are trainers available to help the
participants reach their full potential.
The Rubin Run offers more than races. There also are activi-
ties for kids, as well as free babysitting. And since it is Mothers
Day, each mom who crosses the finish line will receive a rose.
Leonard Rubin gave his name, along with his support, to the
community-wide event when it began back in the early 1980s.
The motivation was to have a race for wellness awareness, to
get people involved in a healthy lifestyle, and to make the newly
built JCC a part of it, said Brandi Katz Rubin of Demarest, who
is married to Leonard Rubins eldest grandson, Jed. They asked
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The Rubin Run also is a fundraiser for the JCC.
Rochelle Lazarus, the JCCs public relations direc-
tor, said, In addition to enjoying time as a family
on Mothers Day, the race provides an opportunity
for our entire community to help fulfill a core JCC
mission, which is to provide social services, voca-
tional training, and healthy lifestyle programs for
children, teens, and adults with special needs.
Its very rewarding to see nearly 2,000 people
assemble and support a cause that will help this
special population live more productive, meaning-
ful lives.
The Guttenberg Center for Special Services
needs a 14-passenger van to transport people with
special needs who will directly benefit from pro-
gramming at the JCC. The fundraising goal for the
Run is $125,000, and a portion of the proceeds will
be used to buy this van.
Todd Brody of Englewood has been a runner for
years. He has done the Rubin Run for several of
those years. This year, running has special signifi-
cance because of where the money is going and
how the JCC has helped his family. The impor-
tance of the Rubin Run really hit home this year,
Mr. Brody said. My mother-in-law, who now
lives with us, is only able to take advantage of the
senior programming at the JCC because they pro-
vide transportation. So I am keenly aware of the
importance of having the ability to bring people to
the JCC when they cannot get there on their own.
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With proceeds raised through the Rubin Run, the
JCC will be able to purchase a new passenger van
to help people with special needs get access to
programming.
Catherine Brown of Englewood, an active mem-
ber of the JCC, has participated in the Rubin Run
for the last nine years. I ran in both the 10K and
the 5K events, usually pacing one of my children
for the 5K, and I ran the half marathon during its
inaugural year, she said. This year, like last year,
I plan on running the 10K with my now 11-year-old
son, and both of my daughters will be dancing at
the race festivities with the JCC dance company.
She is has volunteered on many JCC committees
but was especially honored to be asked to join the
Rubin Run committee this year. We love having
such a great community resource so close to our
home, she said.
Individual runners and teams can register
online at jccotp.org/rubinrun. Early-bird registra-
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online until May 10. Thereafter, registration is at
the JCC.
The runs lead sponsors this year include the
Kaplen Foundation, Englewood Hospital and Med-
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and the North Jersey Media Group.
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Joe Hyams, the CEO of HonestReporting,
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The U.S. Supporters of the Lone Soldier
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a reception at RAIN in Teaneck on Sunday,
May 7, at 6:30 p.m. There will be sushi,
appetizers, and wine.
The goal is to raise awareness about the
Lone Soldier Center and to raise funds to
support its mission, which is dedicated to
supporting the young men and women
who serve as lone soldiers in the Israel
Defense Forces.
Attendees will hear from former lone sol-
diers, parents of lone soldiers, and Andi Flug
Wolfer, the organizations U.S. executive
director, about how important the center is Michael Levin
in helping lone soldiers.
The Lone Soldier Center is the only orga- There are approximately 6,500 lone
nization in Israel that is dedicated solely to soldiers from around the world serving
the needs of all lone soldiers on a full-time in the IDF. There have been dozens from
basis. In addition to providing housing, cloth- Bergen County, and there are several in
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l Briefly Local

Montclair State graduate RYNJ picks three to honor at event

student wins a Fulbright The Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jerseys annual This year, RYNJ will honor three educators from
Scholarship Rabbi Shmuel and Barbara Goldstein scholarship
reception will be held on Sunday, May 7, at 7:30
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Holocaust Remembrance

Rabbi John Krug, dean of student

life at the Frisch School, and Arline
Duker of Teaneck recited the names of
Holocaust victims with family members
Congressman Josh Gottheimer, left, with the evenings co-chair, Heidi Rose Reizbaum lit a candle as her living in the community.
Fuchs; child Holocaust survivor/keynote speaker Mark Schonwetter; grandson, David Glick, stood by.
co-chairs Felicia Grossman and Steve Fox; and Teanecks Mayor
Mohammed Hameeduddin.

The Jewish Community Council of Greater Teaneck held its annual Holocaust remembrance at Teaneck High School. This years speaker, Mark Schonwetter, spoke about his life
and the recent dedication of a cemetery in Brzostek, a small village in Poland.

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 Holocaust Remembrance

More than 500 people attended the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jerseys Holocaust commemoration at the JCC Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah on April 23. Narrators told the stories of six survivors as
they each lit a candle. There was a photo exhibit showing each of the
honorees prewar and wartime family photos and another about life in
the Shanghai ghetto. Keynote speaker Dr. Mordecai Paldiel spoke about
Jews rescuing Jews from his new book, Saving Ones Own.

Melitta Lorsch
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the Kaddish
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1. Holocaust survivors and Daughters of Miriam
in Clifton residents Milton Yudkowitz, left,
and David Goldkorn, right, flank Rabbi Moshe
Mirsky, DOMCs director of religious services, at
the annual Daughters of Miriam Centers Yom
Hashoah Remembrance program. The April 24
commemoration honored residents and tenants who
are Holocaust survivors, as well soldiers who fought
against the Nazis and their allies. David Goldkorn,
the featured speaker, and his wife, Marilyn, also a
survivor, have been living at the Center for more
than four years. COURTESY DOMC
2. The kitah zayin/seventh-grade class at
Shomrei Torah in Wayne led a special Mincha
service commemorating Yom Hashoah for the
religious school. COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH
3. On Yom Hashoah, nearly 230 people joined at the
Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton for its community-wide
Yom Hashoah commemoration. Sonia Klein, a survivor
of the Warsaw Ghetto, four concentration camps,
and a death march, was the speaker. She is pictured
showing a young attendee the number tattooed on
her arm. COURTESY YOUNG ISRAEL OF PASSAIC-CLIFTON
4. The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies
held a student-led Yom Hashoah commemoration
ceremony. Students who lost family members during
the Holocaust told the group their family members
names and lit candles in their memory. Students
who had relatives who survived the Holocaust told
their stories as well. Parents and relatives were
invited to the commemoration ceremony. BCHSJS
student Zach Sobelman is pictured telling his
familys story of survival. COURTESY BCHSJS
5. The River Edge Public Library held a Holocaust
remembrance program on April 24, co-sponsored by
River Dell Hadassah, the River Edge Cultural Center,
Friends of the River Edge Library, and Temple Avodat
Shalom. The program featured a screening of Not
the Last Butterfly a 2016 documentary co-produced
by a former Paramus resident, Cheryl Rattner Price.
Next, people painted ceramic butterflies to give
voice, organizers said, to the 1.5 million children who
were murdered in the Holocaust. The newly painted
butterflies now are part of the ButterflyProject,
(thebutterflyprojectnow.org), and will be on display
at the River Edge Library through May and then at
Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge.
COURTESY JENNIFER KELEMEN, RIVER EDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY
6. The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai
Israel held its annual Yom Hashoah commemoration.
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Cover Story
Thinking
about
walls
Hebrew Home at Riverdales show
looks at the views from both sides
S
JOANNE PALMER
omething there is that
doesnt love a wall.
Oh, a reader might sigh.
Such a clich. Trotting out
Robert Frost, the way peo-
Tamar Hirschl, Strife #4, 2015. Acrylic on repurposed vinyl. TAMAR HIRSCHL ple always do then theyre writing about
walls.
But Frost knew something but of
course and of course as he went on to tell
us there is far more to a wall than that.
Something there is that loves a wall,
and something there is that is deeply fas-
cinated by walls, by their inherent duality,
by the way they keep in and keep out, pro-
tect and imprison. By the very many ways
they can be defined.
Reba Wulkan of Englewood has been
fascinated by walls, boundaries, borders,
and the connections that bridge them for
a long time, and now she is the curator of
an exhibition, Across Divides: Borders and
Boundaries in Contemporary Art, at the
Derfner Judaica Museum at the Hebrew
Home at Riverdale in the Bronx.
Boundaries separation of one thing
from another are an essential part of
being human, and of being Jewish, Ms.
Wulkan said; there is an inherent tension
Sara Klar, Je Suis Juive, I Am You (Talmud Dreds and Tefillin Bindings), 2015- in them always.
2017. Acrylic, Talmud pages, tefillin case and straps and mixed media on canvas. In the Bible, God began creation with
 SARA KLAR binary separations of light and darkness,
28 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017
day and night, heavens and earth, water
and dry land. From there, God moved on
to the finer distinctions that separate dif-
ferent living beings from each other.
As we have learned throughout human
history, walls often divide us in ways that
we try to overcome. This exhibition is a
look at walls and boundaries, good and
bad, factual or metaphoric, through the
lenses of contemporary Jewish artists.
The exhibition is part of the massive
Hebrew Home complex, a small set of
rooms that appears much bigger that
appears massive because of the enor-
mous streams of light that come through
its huge windows. The view out of the
those windows is majestic its of the Hud-
son River, the huge ships that ply it, and
New Jersey on its far shore. The view plays
a perfect backdrop to the exhibition, show-
ing the natural border that is the river, the
traffic that goes north and south, using
it not as a border but a connection, and
showing as well the way the two states,
New York and New Jersey, are intimately
connected by commerce, demographics,
and family ties.
Ms. Wulkan, who has lived in Engle-
wood with her husband for about 35 years
shes been a member of Congregation
Ahavath Torah there for all that time, start-
ing before the tenure of the about-to-retire
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, during the time of
K. Flo Razowsky, Jerusalem, 2008. Digital photograph on microfiber.
the formidably well-respected Rabbi Isaac
Swift grew up in Brooklyn, first in Crown
Heights and then in Flatbush. For as long
as she could remember, Ms. Wulkan was
interested in the arts; she has sculpted and
worked in other forms, but now, she said,
her art lies mainly in curating and catalogu-
ing collections.
Ms. Wulkans parents, Miriam and Israel
Wertentheil, were American-born, and her
mother was very interested in culture. She
got her masters at Brooklyn College, Ms.
Wulkan said. She went back to school after
her children were born for that degree; in
fact, she graduated with my sister, Ms.
Wertentheils daughter reported proudly. Ms.
Wulkan also graduated from Brooklyn Col-
lege, with a degree in art history. Later, she
earned a masters, again in art history, from
the State College of New York in Purchase.
Art, as her career has made clear, always
has been an important way for Ms. Wulkan
to understand and engage with the world.
K. FLO RAZOWSKY
After her parents death, she and her fam-
ily commissioned a family chuppah by a
weaver, she said. That weaver, Ina Golub,
was a well-known Jewish artist, a weaver
who eventually moved over to beadwork.
The brightly colored chuppah she created
has a big star at the top for Miriam and Israel
Wertentheil, and a star is added for each
marriage over which it stands unfurled. Its
been used for about a dozen weddings so
far, Ms. Wulkan said.
Ms. Wulkan was the curator of contem-
porary art at Yeshiva Universitys museum
for 16 years; later, she curated a show on the
abstract painter Ruth Abrams.
So she knew many Jewish contemporary
artists and was ready for a dive into the
question of boundaries. Which side are we
on? Which side should we be on? Need we
choose sides? Do we need boundaries? Can
we live with them? Can we live without them?
The Jewish world is filled with such bound-
aries. Some are temporal Shabbat, say, is Laura Murlender, Tracing Path, 2016. Oil on canvas. LAURA MURLENDER
JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017 29
Cover Story

abstract work that seems to be

a gored bull, with red blood
and shredded pages erupt-
ing from it; from closer up, its
clear that the shredded pages
began as talmudic text.
Another artist, Flo Razowsky,
a photographer and activist,
takes pictures of border walls,
Ms. Wulkan said. Shes printed
them on translucent fabric and
hung them; they show, among
other walls, the one that sur-
rounds parts of Israel. Its
called Up Against the Wall,
Ms. Wulkan said. Its for any-
one who looks at it to take it any
way they want to. There is no
opinion stated. Still, to have left
it out would have been untrue
to her theme, she added. Ruth Schreiber, Enter the Eruv, 2011. Tempered glass, Perspex, motion sensors
Laura Murlender, an Argen- and LEDs. RUTH SCHREIBERG

tinean painter, grew up during

the junta, and was disappeared
Reba Wulkan speaks at the exhibitions opening. (as that kind of political terror-
ism was called), but somehow,
walled off by sunsets, marked with candle- after 11 days, she reappeared. In ways that
lighting and havdalah. Others are special. none of us lucky enough never to have Pavel
The Orthodox world features the mechit- experienced such horror can never know, Wolberg,
zah the boundary that divides men and she has been haunted by that trauma. In Tel Aviv,
women at prayer; Ms. Wulkan does not this show, she is represented by an abstract Purim, 2015.
have any work showing them. The obser- work, mainly in blue and white, that like Digital print.
vant world from parts of the Conserva- much of her work, Ms. Wulkan said, is MEISLIN PROJECTS
tive movement through much of the Ortho- about the walls she has had to construct
dox world uses the eruv, the often legally and then surmount. Her work expresses
fictitious wall that separates private from movement and fragmented time within
public domains and so allows objects to the grid format meant to establish bound-
be carried within them on Shabbat and aries and barriers consistent with her per-
holidays. sonal history of repression and resilience,
There are works in the show in River- she wrote on the shows website.
dale that look at the eruv, including one Some of the work in the show repre-
installation, by Ruth Schreiber, thats a sents a look at Jewish identity, which often
lit, cutout map of the London neighbor- requires some element of walling off from
hoods surrounded by the citys first one. outside influences, and some porosity
Another, by an American-born artist, Ken in that wall as well. Siona Benjamin, an
Goldman, is a photo of the artist as he bal- Indian Jew, reflects on her dual identity;
ances three feet above the ground on the Lilith in Pardes explores the theme in
eruv that surrounds his kibbutz in Israel. colorful and fascinating depth.
The photograph with a red rope, blue Some of the works are more or less
sky, and a white-shirted, black-trousered, literal. There is a lovely photograph by
barefoot man with his arms out, soaring Angela Strassheim of a young woman,
and teetering over irrigated fields and the praying, alone in her garden, facing a wall.
Judean hills is striking; what it means is Its twilight, a time when nature crosses
up to the viewer. boundaries; the wall she faces is a literal
I started with the eruv, and then I boundary; the feeling you get from her
expanded to all borders and boundaries, posture is that somehow, to some extent,
Ms. Wulkan said. Its about gray areas too; at least in her own mind, she is crossing
its about psychological, ethical, religious, the boundary between herself and God. It
and halachic boundaries. is a lovely image.
Im from a religious background, but I Another photograph, Andrea Robbins
didnt restrict myself to that. I want to be and Max Bechers Following the Ten
unbiased and open. Commandments: Lyon County Court-
One of the pieces, by Sarah Klar of house, Yerington, NV, shows a stone
Brooklyn, who grew up observant but is engraved with the Ten Commandments.
no longer and had a residue of anger Its about the wall between church and
toward religious life although now shes state, breached right there.
come to terms with it, Ms. Wulkan said Other pieces are not at all literal. Andi
is called Je Suis Juive, I Am You (Tal- LaVine Arnovitz, like so many of these art-
mud Dreds and Tefillin Bindings). Its an ists an American-born Israeli, looks at the Angela Strassheim, Saugy Praying, 2008. Digital print. ANGELA STRASSHEIM

30 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017

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experience of exile with Exile, an instal-

lation of tiny porcelain houses in silky
bags, hanging off a wall. Home is fragile, it
tells us; exile is frequent. But you can bring
some things, small things, with you, in gos-
samer webs of memory and hope.
Ms. Arnovitz has another installation in
the show. Called Garments of Reconcilia-
tion, its a collection of small-child-sized
tallitot kattan, little prayer vests, hung in
the wall on a grid. Made to be worn by lit-
tle Jewish boys, the elaborate and beautiful
embroidery that marks each of them has
been made by Arab women; in that way,
they cross the boundaries between men
and women, adults and children, Arabs
and Jews, as, Ms. Arnovitz hopes, they
point the way to peace.
Another photograph in the exhibi-
tion is even more overtly about crossing
boundaries; its a photograph, taken at
Purim in Tel Aviv, of two men lusciously
cross-dressed in bright red. Both stare at Lea Laukstein, still from Lunar Eclipse, 2015. Digital video. LEA LAUKSTEIN
the camera, one doubtingly, one daringly.
They are crossing boundaries, and if you
dont like it, well, too bad for you.
Walls are very good sometimes, and not
so good at other times. Sometimes they
keep us safe. Sometimes, as Robert Frost
goes on to tell us,

Before I built a wall Id ask to know

S
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesnt love a wall,
That wants it down.

Or, as Woody Guthrie says, in This Land

is Your Land,

As I was walkin I saw a sign there

And that sign said no trespassin
But on the other side .... it didnt say Andi LaVine Arnovitz,
nothin! Exile, 2015. Porcelain, linen
Ken Goldman, Llo Reshut (Without Domain), 2016. Digital print. KEN GOLDMAN
Now that side was made for you and me! cord and silk. ANDI LAVINE ARNOVITZ

Going to the Derfner

There is one other, perhaps ironic,
certainly practical note that must be
made about the exhibition. Its free and
entirely open to the public, but given
the grim realities of life, its not easy to
get to. There is just one entrance to the
massive, beautiful complex that is the
Hebrew Home, on 5901 Palisade Ave. in
Riverdale, and its small and unprepos-
sessing.
You must bring photo identification,
and the identification will be checked.
A drivers license is fine. You might have
to wait on line, but eventually you will
get through, and the wait is worth it.
Its open from Sunday to Thursday,
from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and the
exhibition will close on July 30.
Theres more information at (718) 581-
1786 or www.riverspringhealth.org/ Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Following the Ten Commandments: Siona Benjamin, Finding Home #99: Lilith in
derfner-judaica-museum Lyon County Courthouse, Yerington, NV, 20122014. Mesh print. Pardes, 2008. Gouache on museum board.
ANDREA ROBBINS AND MAX BECHER, SONNABEND GALLERY  ACA GALLERIES, NEW YORK

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Jewish World

U.S. condemns biased UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem

ERIC CORTELLESSA

WASHINGTON The United States

rejects the biased and counterpro-
ductive UNESCO resolution, passed
on Tuesday, that suggested that Israel
has no sovereign claim to Jerusalem, a
spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the
United Nations told the Times of Israel.
Once again, the United States rejects
the adoption of these anti-Israel resolu-
tions at UNESCO, the U.S. official said.
Like other parts of the U.N. system,
UNESCO is too often used as a vehicle
by member states inclined to deride and
delegitimize the State of Israel.
The vote, which coincided with Isra-
els 69th Independence Day, was passed
Tuesday with 22 countries in favor, 23
abstentions, 10 opposed, and the repre-
sentatives of three countries absent.
Titled Occupied Palestine, the reso-
Such motions
targeting Israel
have become
routine at the
U.N.s cultural
body in recent
years.
become routine at the U.N.s cultural
body in recent years.
Although several of these anti-Israel
resolutions are typically adopted bian-
nually at UNESCO, over time they have
become increasingly political in nature, In March, Nikki Haley addressed the United Nations, and defended Israel strongly.
and now attempt to deny the historic  DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES

lution refers to Israel as the occupying
power in Jerusalem language that
indicates it has no legal or historical ties
to any part of the city.
Such motions targeting Israel have
connections of the Jewish people to the
holy sites of Jerusalem, the U.S. official
said.
These biased resolutions are coun-
terproductive to the core work of
UNESCO, discredit the organization, that is meant to be impartial.
and do nothing to advance Israeli-Pales- The text also castigates Israels con-
tinian issues, the official added. There duct, including for various construction
is no place for them in an organization projects in Jerusalems Old City, as well

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as at holy sites in the West Bank city of Hebron. It
also calls for an end to Israels blockade of Gaza and
does not mention frequent rocket attacks emanating
furs OUR
69th
from the Hamas-run coastal enclave. If you challenge us, for only the finest YEAR!
Its wording, however, was less harsh on the topic
than previous UNESCO resolutions. Unlike others, it be prepared for what FUR STORAGE
does affirm the resonance of Jerusalem to the three youre challenging us in our secure, modern
climate and humidity
monotheistic religions.
Also unlike previous resolutions, this one does not for, because we will controlled vaults. Protect
refer to the Temple Mount only as Haram al-Sharif, respond. The days your valuable furs
and shearlings during
or to the Western Wall Plaza only as al-Burak plaza
the respective sites Muslim names. Instead, the sites of Israel bashing warm weather from heat,
are not mentioned at all. are over. humidity, moths and
other crawling insects.
Tuesdays motion received less support than
others critical of Israel, something the U.S. official gave a thunderous speech, in which she vowed to
acknowledged. We are encouraged by the diminish- tackle the Israel bias at the world body. There is a
ing levels of support for these resolutions, and we new sheriff in town, she said. Free Pick Up
are grateful for those member nations who today If you challenge us, be prepared for what youre
voted against the resolution, he said. challenging us for, because we will respond, she & Delivery
The official would not say exactly how the U.S. will exclaimed, adding that she let her colleagues in New
respond. York know the days of Israel bashing are over.
We are disappointed these kind of resolutions Last Friday, all 100 U.S. senators signed a letter to
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He cited a November letter to the
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natory laws that impact the freedom to
marry, family unification, discrimination
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dom of movement, and the right to wor-
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in Israel, where the Orthodox chief rabbinate keeps tight
control of marriage affairs.
I am including this matter in my dissent, not only because
consideration of both letters was rejected by a slim majority
of Commissioners, but because it was clear from the way the
debate took place that there could be no rational discussion
of this issue, Zogby wrote.
Other commissioners reacted with such vehemence
to criticism of Israel, wrote Zogby, that his appeals were
dismissed.
We were, in effect, bullied into silence, he wrote.
In his conference call, Reese suggested that the commis-
sion with five Democrats and four Republicans could only
address issues productively if those issues were not subject to
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around the world and also in the United States, so its not sur-
prising there would be some controversy and disagreements
within our commission on these issues, the chairman said in
reply to a query on the call.
Reese said the letters about Israel were discussed by the
commission and a majority of the commissioners did not vote
to move forward on it, so I think its important to point out
that our report has bipartisan consensus on the countries that
we do cover.
He did not elaborate on why the Israel issue would defy
bipartisan consensus, but Democrats have been more likely Hiddush, who labor to strengthen religious freedom
in recent years to accommodate criticism of Israel in their
forums. Republicans tend to see the country as a bulwark of
Western values.
The commissions bailiwick extends beyond the worst
offenders and includes critiques of parts of the world where
suppression of religious freedom has not reached the CPC
level. A chapter in the most recent report noted restrictions on
halal and kosher slaughter in Western Europe, for example.
In its letter to the commission, Hiddush said that
it was not seeking CPC status for Israel; it only wants
the commission to look into the Israel issue as a
means of spurring the country to make changes.
We fortunately do not deal with issues of arrest,
murder, or deportation in conjunction with the real-
ities of religious freedom and equality, Hiddush
said in its letter. Instead, the group said, it was seek-
ing the commissions help to raise awareness and
strengthen the civil society organizations, such as
on the ground in Israel.
Congress created the Commission on Interna-
tional Religious Freedom in 1998 in part as a means
of keeping the executive branch honest. Should the
State Department seek to downplay a putative allys
religious oppression, it was thought, the commission
was there to keep things real.
Its not the first time, however, that the commis-
sion has been seen as politicized. When Republi-
cans held the majority, the commission was accused
of focusing intently on persecution of Christians
abroad and letting pass reports of Muslim suffering.
Zogby said the failure to hold Israel to standards
applied to other countries where occupiers are seen
as repressing religious freedoms Turkey in Cyprus
or Russia in Crimea undercuts its broader mission.
The charge that USCIRF has a double standard
particularly undermines our ability to effectively
advocate for religious freedom in Arab countries,
he said in his dissent.
Zogby would not name the commissioners with
whom he has clashed. JTA put in a query to a Repub-
lican commissioner, Clifford May, the president of
the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who has
sparred with Zogby in other forums, but has yet to
hear back from him.
A former commissioner, Elliott Abrams, a veteran
of the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations,
whose term overlapped with Zogbys, this week told
Al Monitor, the Middle East news site, that Zogbys
sole mission was to have a go at Israel.
Jim Zogby has had one single goal in all of his crit-
icism of the commission and all his activities when
on the commission, and that is to attack Israel,
Abrams said.
Zogby rolled his eyes at the accusation when it
arose during the news conference. He said Abrams
seemed to forget the many occasions when they
worked together to address religious freedom
restrictions in other countries.
We worked on a number of issues, he said.
Israel and pro-Israel groups regard a few of the
Christian groups that signed the complaint letter as
implacably hostile to Israel. Those groups include
Sabeel, a Palestinian liberation theology group that
sees a single binational state as an ideal and best
goal, but that currently embraces a two-state solu-
tion. A number of other signatories are local Chris-
tian service groups, including clubs and charitable
groups.
Judaisms Reform and Conservative movements
declined to back Zogbys dissent, although they have
been at the forefront of U.S. advocacy for religious
freedoms for the non-Orthodox in Israel.
A Conservative movement official said that the
movement does not seek the intervention of any
foreign government or agency on these issues, as
matters of religious pluralism are internal matters
of the world Jewish community and the Jewish state.
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he labor rights march,
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and embarking from the
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nary in upper Manhattan, featured
signs in Yiddish and Hebrew and
included some of the seminarys
own students.
But the march wasnt celebrat-
ing the long history of Jewish labor
activism. Instead, the crowd was
protesting labor practices at JTS,
Conservative Judaisms flagship aca-
demic institution.
T h e p r o t e s t s t a r ge t i s a
100,000-square-foot construction
project dubbed the 21st Century
Campus, which is replacing the JTS
library with a new library space, a
performing arts center, classrooms,
and a residence hall. JTS is billing the
new space, slated to be finished in 2019,
as a step into the future.
But protesters say the contractor that
is managing the project, Gilbane Building
Company, doesnt treat its workers well
that it hires subcontractors who skimp on
wages and violate safety standards. They
also complain that because Gilbane does
not work exclusively with union subcon-
tractors, the seminary is violating a legal
ruling by the Conservative movement
mandating that Jewish institutions strive
to employ union workers.
Choosing a contractor that would
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seminarys undergraduate program,
who participated in the protest. JTS,
she said, must recognize that the labor
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to consider.
The seminarys executive vice chan-
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Activist Linda Sarsour:

A Palestinian-American
who divides Jews by
courting controversy
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One of the best symbols of the current Jew-
ish political divide is a Muslim woman.
To Jews on the left, Linda Sarsour is a
courageous and effective activist who
builds bridges and breaks stereotypes.
To Jews on the right and some in the
center, shes an Israel-hating apologist for
Islamic extremists.
Both sides point to evidence backing
up their claims: Sarsour supports a boy-
cott of Israel and favors a one-state solu-
tion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
And earlier this year, she raised more
than $100,000 to repair a vandalized Jew-
ish cemetery in Missouri.
As her profile rises in progressive circles,
the tension over her attitude toward Israel
keeps surfacing. Most recently, right-wing
Jewish leaders condemned the choice of
Sarsour to deliver the July commence-
ment speech at City University of New
Yorks Graduate School of Public Health
and Health Policy.
Heres what the controversy is all about.
Sarsour has become a leading advocate
for Muslim and womens issues.
Born in Brooklyn in 1980, Sarsour was
married when she was 17 and had three kids
by the time she was 24, according to a pro-
file on NY1, a local TV channel. She began Linda Sarsour speaks during a Women for Syria gathering at Union Square in
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Shes also a rising star in the protest in 2001, volunteering at the Arab-American
movement against President Donald Association of New York. Four years later, for her community and drawn praise from New York City schools to close on Muslim
Trump, with a record of success in organiz- she was the groups executive director. liberal politicians and activists. She par- holidays and for an independent review of
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This year, Sarsour has seen her profile rise nation-
ally as one of the co-organizers of the Womens March
on Washington, a historically large protest for womens
rights and against Trump. Time magazine included Sar-
sour and three other organizers on its list of 100 most
influential people, and in the accompanying essay, New
York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called the four the suf-
fragists of our time.
Sarsour also was recognized by President Barack
Obama, whose White House named her a champion of
change. The accompanying biography said she shat-
ters stereotypes of Muslim women, which Sarsour has
attributed to her wearing a hijab.
There are plenty of Muslim women who are back-
bones of the community, but they arent usually at the
forefront, she told the New York Times in 2015. There
just arent a lot of me out there women in hijabs, doing
what I do.
She is an outspoken opponent of Israel and Zionism.
Sarsour, who is of Palestinian descent, has also been
a harsh critic of Israel. Soon after the Womens March,
she drew fire from Jewish leaders for telling the Nation
that unabashed supporters of Israel cannot be feminists.
It just doesnt make any sense for someone to say, Is
there room for people who support the state of Israel
and do not criticize it in the movement? There cant
be in feminism, she told the magazine in March. You
either stand up for the rights of all women, including
Palestinians, or none.
Sarsour backs the movement to boycott, divest from,
and sanction Israel, known as BDS. She told NY1 that she
supports a one-state solution that would create a shared
country for Jews and Palestinians a solution that many
Jews consider a formula for the demise of Israel. And in
2012, she tweeted, Nothing is creepier than Zionism.
Jews on the left emphasize her progressive bona fides.
For right-wing Jews, her anti-Zionism is a red line.
These different aspects of Sarsours record have cre-
ated a divide among Jewish leaders. Progressive Jews are
willing to look past her anti-Zionism in light of her work
on behalf of women and minorities, and her fundrais-
ing for the damaged cemetery. But right-wing and some
centrist Jews cant support her activist work in light of
her anti-Zionism.
Criticizing CUNYs decision to host Sarsour, Morton
Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, called her a bigot and divider and an extremist. ing with allies with whom they disagree on one or more
Writing in the New York Post last month, Jerusalem
Post reporter Lahav Harkov said her anti-Zionism made
Sarsour NYCs queen of hate. Harkov noted that last
month Sarsour shared the stage at a conference, hosted
by the far-left Jewish Voice for Peace, with Rasmea Odeh,
a Palestinian woman who was imprisoned in Israel for
her participation in two terror attacks. According to Har-
kov, Sarsour told the audience she was honored and
privileged to be here in this space, and honored to be
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on this stage with Rasmea.
The criticism extends beyond the right. Both the cur-
rent and former national directors of the Anti-Defama-
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tion League, a large mainstream group, have harshly
criticized Sarsours positions on Israel. In a March inter-
view with the St. Louis Jewish Light, the ADLs national
director, Jonathan Greenblatt, called the cemetery fund-
raising great but said Sarsours BDS advocacy encour-
ages and spreads anti-Semitism.
Greenblatts longtime predecessor at the ADL, Abra-
ham Foxman, called Sarsour bigoted.
Shes bigoted because she loves Jews but hates
Zionism, Foxman said. Her progressive activism, he
added, doesnt excuse bigotry. If youre an advocate
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But progressive Jews believe she is a proven advocate
for human rights. Amid the controversy over her views
following the Womens March, Rabbi Sharon Brous of
Ikar in Los Angeles tweeted, Thank you @lsarsour
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very smart, committed and an impressive person. And
she has worked with Jews for Racial and Economic Jus-
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groups recent Seder in the Streets on Passover.
It is hard to think of a more appropriate speaker
than Linda, who has done so much, both locally and
nationally, to bring about a world in which everyone can
thrive, JFREJ said in a statement last week commend-
ing her upcoming CUNY speech. She has stood with us
against anti-Semitism, both in words and actions.
Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman
Institute of North America, cites Sarsour as the test of
the choices we make about our alliances in the pursuit
of our political causes.
Kurtzer suggests that both the right and the left should
drop the litmus tests that prevent them from partner-
key issues, like Israel.
Taking a cue from a quote by David Ben-Gurion,
Kurtzer wrote in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, We
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Why this Filipina is fighting for Israel

Andrew Tobin
JERUSALEM Staff. Sgt. Joana Chris Arpon
isnt Israeli. She isnt even Jewish. Her ser-
vice in the Israel Defense Forces is personal.
Arpon, 20, is the daughter of Filipino
parents who came to Israel to find work.
She said she enlisted as a combat soldier
because an Israeli army team rescued her
grandmother in the aftermath of the 2013
typhoon that devastated the Philippines.
It was amazing to see the soldiers show
up and help people, Arpon said. They
saved my grandmother when her house
was destroyed. I was like, Whoa, thats
what I want to do.
On Tuesday, Israels 69th Independence
Day, Arpon will be one of 120 soldiers rec-
ognized by Israels president for distin-
guished service. Later this year, Arpon and
her mother will be granted Israeli citizen-
ship, thanks partly to her time in the army.
Arpon, who was born in Israel, always
felt like part of the Jewish state. While
many Filipinos live clustered in Israels big
cities, her mother raised her and her older
brother in the small town of Mishmar
Hashiva, in central Israel. They were the
only Filipino students at their high school
in nearby Rishon Lezion.
Arpons mother immigrated to Israel in
1988 to work as a nanny, and stayed to raise
her children even after her husband left.
The vast majority of the some 31,000 Filipi-
nos who live in Israel are female caregivers.
As a rule, Filipinos are allowed to live
in Israel only as temporary workers. But
Arpon and her brother are among the hun-
dreds of Filipino children the government
has granted permanent residency, along
with their immediate family members.
After the children serve in the army, their
families qualify for citizenship.
Arpon long knew she would follow in
the footsteps of her brother, who served
as a paramedic and now is a citizen. But
it was only recently that she decided she
wanted to be a combat soldier. Only about
7 percent of Israeli combat soldiers are
women, though that number is growing
despite opposition from some Orthodox
Jews and others. Staff Sgt. Joana Chris Arpon on Israeli soldiers saving her grandmother in the
In November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan Philippines: I was like, Whoa, thats what I want to do.
See filipina page 42  Courtesy of IDF Spokesperson

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Jewish World
BRIEFS
Filipina 2 years, she has served in bases across the country and
FROM PAGE 40 responded to domestic disasters, including the wildfires that
made landfall in the Philippines with record-breaking force. ravaged Israel in November and the Tel Aviv parking garage Homeland Security sued
At least 6,300 people were killed, and tens of thousands lost that collapsed in September, killing three.
their homes, including Arpons grandmother. Arpon said she did not know why she was being honored
by think tank over funds
A few months later, Arpon and her family flew to the Phil- from among so many people with amazing stories. But that may have gone to
ippines to visit her grandmother in the hospital. Israel had she said that her mother and brother were proud of her, U.S. radical Islam groups
sent soldiers and other emergency responders to help, and and would be on hand for the event. She said, too, that
Arpon learned that its armys Search and Rescue Unit had her grandmother, who died recently, likely would have A Philadelphia-based think tank focusing on Mideast
helped rescue her grandmother from her destroyed home. approved of her plans to become a citizen after she finishes issues has filed a lawsuit against the Department of
People said without the Israeli soldiers, they werent her army service in November. Homeland Security over the Obama-era Countering
sure they would have survived, Arpon said. I realized that After the army, Arpon wants to study architecture, and to Violent Extremism grant program.
I wanted to be part of this unit, and definitely this country. design houses that will stand in any weather. The Middle East Forum said the grant program,
When Arpon returned to Israel, she fought to enlist in Im really glad I chose this type of service, where I was which was designed to assist communities to coun-
the army as a non-citizen and was granted her preferred able to help the country that helped me, Arpon said. I see ter violent extremist recruitment and radicalization,
placement, in the Search and Rescue Unit. Over the past my future in Israel. JTA WIRE SERVICE may have given funds to American Islamist groups
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Jewish World
FIRST PERSON
Im Jewish and I just became a Dutch citizen
Joining the EU at this time feels a little like boarding the Titanic
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
AMSTERDAM Considering Marine Le
Pens historical gains in the French presi-
dential elections and the Dutch far-rights
rise and the assault on ritual slaughter in
Belgium, this spring is shaping up to be
a life-changing time for Europe its reli-
gious minorities in particular.
In other words, its show time for jour-
nalists like me, who specialize in covering
exactly those minorities.
All around me, a continent traumatized
by Islamist terrorism and the waves of
xenophobia it is triggering is holding its
breath to see if France will compound last
years anti-establishment votes in Britain
and the United States by electing a nation-
alist leader who has vowed to dismantle
the European Union.
Normally Id be eager to join the fray,
reporting these events and their implica-
tions for the Jews of Europe. However, Ive
had some life-changing events of my own.
The first: Last week, my wife gave birth to
our second child. And then, an hour later, I
left them in an Amsterdam maternity ward
to attend a naturalization ceremony that
had been scheduled months before.
I took my first-born, an 18-month-old
boy, with me to city hall for the event, in
which I and dozens of other immigrants
swore allegiance to the Dutch kingdom,
becoming full citizens of the Netherlands
as our friends and relatives cheered.
Toasting with my father, who is Dutch,
alongside hundreds of old and new Dutch
citizens from 40 countries, I was celebrat-
ing both my initiation into a country that
always has been a second home to me as
well as my newest contribution to its popu-
lations (negative) growth rate.
And yet, holding a plastic cup of luke-
warm bubbly, I was seized by fear of the
storm clouds gathering on the horizon.
I worried about the future of my young
family, dwindling community, and adop-
tive country.
At the ceremony, a municipal official
urged us to treat each other with respect,
saying mutual respect was the only way to
ensure our ability to continue to build our
city, our country, and the European Union.
This is a place defined by centuries of
tolerance, where you can be who you are,
he said.
But after living here as a permanent
resident for six years and starting a family
here, I have my doubts about that.
Did a majority of Dutch lawmakers show
respect and tolerance for the countrys
religious minorities when they passed a
ban on ritual slaughter in 2011 despite
44 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017
Cnaan Liphshiz, his wife, Iris, and their older son, Ilai, sit in a tulip field near Am-
sterdam in 2016.
passionate pleas by Jews, Muslims, and
many Christians?
The prohibition eventually was over-
turned by the Dutch Senate. But in recent
weeks, two of Belgiums three regions intro-
duced plans to ban the custom, ignoring
the pleas of a Jewish community leader to
not repeat the actions of the Nazis, who
had introduced Belgiums previous ban.
Mutual respect was not what guided
nearly 1.5 million voters in the Dutch elec-
tions in March to support the Party for
Freedom, an anti-Islam far-right move-
ment whose leader was convicted of incit-
ing discrimination when, in a 2014 speech,
he promised voters to ensure Holland has
fewer Moroccans. It was the Party for Free-
doms best result ever, making it the coun-
trys second-largest party for the first time.
The mayor of Rotterdam, a practicing
Muslim who was born in Morocco, did
little to uphold tolerance when he okayed
a Hamas rally in one of the citys main
venues last month and banned a protest
against the event.
And mutual respect was not a hallmark
of Schilderswijk, the neighborhood in the
Hague where I first lived when I moved
from my native Israel in 2011.
A predominantly Muslim quarter, in
2014 it was home to several rallies featur-
ing chants about murdering Jews. Plus,
while we lived there, my Amsterdam-born
wife experienced frequent harassment on
the streets. Thats a problem familiar to
many women in the area who happen to
wear a skirt or just look European.
These realities are hardening the atti-
tudes of the general population, leading
to a rise in far-right populism.
And that, in what is becoming a self-
sustaining cycle, in turn is pushing more
COURTESY OF CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Muslims to extremism: The Dutch March
elections saw a radical Muslim party,
DENK, enter parliament for the first time.
The party is opposed to integration, and
its leader refused to shake Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahus hand
during a recent visit to the Hague. DENK
received 210,000 votes, including half of
the ballots in Schilderswijk.
Conventional wisdom says that education
is the key to breaking the cycle. But a recent
visit to several schools in my new neighbor-
hood didnt provide me much assurance. I
wasnt convinced of the schools ability to
achieve that goal, nor did I sense that they
would provide particularly welcoming envi-
ronments for my children.
One school raised our suspicions when
it invited us to visit when no students were
present. In other schools we visited, the
student bodies were predominantly Mus-
lim. And while my wife and I value diver-
sity, we wondered whether our kids would
be treated respectfully and with tolerance
the next time Israel and Hamas duke it out
in Gaza.
The near-total disappearance of Jewish
pupils from French and Belgian public
schools the result of anti-Semitic harass-
ment suggests otherwise. The alternative
of sending them to a distant Jewish school
that is under the constant protection of an
elite Dutch police unit also brings its own
problems. And after the 2012 murder of
four Jews at a Jewish school in Toulouse,
enrolling children in a Jewish school feels
like turning them into a target.
To me, these realities underline the gap
between the city officials promise of toler-
ance and the worrisome signs that toler-
ance is running out in the very society to
which he welcomed me. The gap made me
feel lied to, which in turn made me angry
and distrustful the two sentiments that
are driving the accelerated polarization of
Western European societies and threaten-
ing the viability of the European Union.
In the United Kingdom, such anger led a
majority to support the countrys exit from
the E.U.
In France, similar anger led to Le Pens
success in the first round of the presi-
dential elections on April 23, in which
she trailed the pro-EU centrist candidate
Emmauel Macron by only 2 points. It was
the best electoral achievement by her
National Front party, which was founded
in the 1970s by her father, the anti-Semitic
Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Even if, as polls project, Macron beats Le
Pen 60 to 40 percent in the final vote on
May 7, she still will have more than doubled
the showing of 18 percent that her father
had in 2002, the first time the National
Front made it to the second round.
In Jewish communities across Western
Europe, the rise of Marine Le Pen who
despite distancing herself from the rheto-
ric of her father has vowed to ban ritual
slaughter as well as the wearing of both
kippot and Muslim garb in public is seen
as an existential threat.
Rabbi Berel Lazar, the Italy-born chief
rabbi of Russia, has called on the Jews of
France to leave if Le Pen is elected. And
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, the director of
the European Jewish Association, said that
voting for Le Pen is tantamount to saying
that Jews are not welcome in France
home to 500,000 Jews, making it Europes
largest Jewish community and the third
largest in the world.
I, too, fear a future where Le Pen is pres-
ident. And I worry that her successes so
far portend a new and sad chapter in the
troubled history of Jewish life in France
and, before long, across the continent.
Indeed, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt,
the Luxembourg-born president of the
Conference of European Rabbis, told me
that he believes that Le Pens popularity
already is emboldening initiatives to ban
ritual slaughter and circumcision in Bel-
gium and beyond.
Meanwhile, at my naturalization cer-
emony, my dad held my older child, who
cheered with a twinkle in his eyes when I
got on the stage and declared allegiance to
his native country.
But on the podium, I found myself
thinking of something Marine Le Pen said
in a recent interview.
The European Union, she said, is shin-
ing with the light of a dead star.
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JTS choose not to organize.

FROM PAGE 37
awards for safety from the industry.
But activists from the NYC Commu-
nity Alliance say Gilbanes record in New
York falls short of its performance nation-
ally. They point to a string of safety cita-
tions at Gilbane job sites in the city this
year, including two fence collapses at the
JTS site.
Robert Schwanemann, a construction
worker who worked on a Gilbane site
over a period of 10 months, said the site
had insufficient harnesses, and some of
his colleagues lacked training. The train-
ing and safety issues would have disap-
peared, he said, had Gilbane stuck with
union subcontractors.
Its about humanity, said Schwane-
mann, who worked on a Gilbane site from
2015 to 2016. Theyve got these guys
theyre hiring with no sort of expertise, and
they havent been through any real appren-
ticeship program in terms of learning how
to do your job with skill, quality and safety.
Gary says Gilbanes open-shop model
wherein it accepts bids from both union
and non-union subcontractors allows
companies to be chosen based on merit.
But protesters say that decision runs
against a 2008 ruling by the Conservative
Marchers protesting labor arrangements at the Jewish Theological
Seminarys construction site in Manhattan say the building contractor
violates workers rights. 
movements Committee on Jewish Law
and Standards, which urges Jewish institu-
tions to fulfill the imperative to treat work-
ers fairly by hiring union labor and paying
a living wage.
Unions appear to be the most effi-
cient means of guaranteeing that work-
ers can live on their salaries, care for their
health, and avoid taking second and third
jobs, says the ruling, written by Rabbi
letter written by alumni of the JTS under-
BEN SALES
Jill Jacobs, who was ordained by JTS and
now heads Truah: The Rabbinic Call for
Human Rights. Jewish employers should
allow workers to unionize, in order to help
all workers in the industry attain higher
wages and benefits.
When that ruling was passed, Gary
wrote a partial dissent, saying that hir-
ing only unions allows Jewish institutions
to discriminate against employees who
If we truly respect workers, we should
respect their choice to join a union or to
refuse to join a union, he wrote. We
should not inhibit a workers job oppor-
tunities because he or she made the
wrong choice.
To ensure that the construction work
will meet acceptable safety standards, JTS
will hire a safety coordinator from the city
government. It will also draw up a safety
plan, which Gary said will be published
in advance of construction work resum-
ing this summer. Gary has also met with
Jacobs to discuss the project, and thus far
she has refrained from commenting on
the issue.
Students have had no such qualms. A
graduate program circulated online, quot-
ing the Bible and admonishing the semi-
nary for failing its own standards.
Several sources in our tradition adjure
us to protect the rights of those who are
most vulnerable to exploitation, and
deter us from benefiting from exploitative
practices, the letter reads. Oppression
can take many forms, including unfair
compensation and unreasonable risk.
Our tradition cautions us against both of
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Keeping Kosher
Shavuot cooking
with Miriam Gitelman
Miriam Gitelman, a professional pastry chef, offers a class,
Shavuot Cooking and Baking, at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades on Wednesday, May 10, at 7 p.m.
A graduate of the International Culinary Center, Ms.
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Editorial
Boundaries
and connections
T W
his weeks cover story is
about borders and barriers
and therefore also about
bridges and connections.
When you think about it, you see
that almost every story is about
borders and barriers and therefore
bridges and connections.
The cover story is about an exhi-
bition in the Hebrew Home at River-
dale in the Bronx, a place where
people who can no longer live on
their own can make new lives. New
friends. New connections. There are
of course many similar wonderful
places in northern New Jersey, and
many of them are run by Jewish
organizations and offer everyone
and particularly Jews places where
they can feel comfortable.
Connections.
The natural world outside our
windows is exploding in beauty
right now. Its that magic time of
year when the trees are all in color
the light green of midspring, not
quite the baby translucent green of
April, certainly not the deeper, har-
dier summertime green, but a sort
of effervescent green, the kind that
makes you happy when you look at
it. (Okay, okay, the kind that makes
me happy when I look at it.) The
trees that arent green are purple or
pink or white, and when the wind
blows the petals scatter like theyre
at a wedding, tossed by a huge invis-
ible 2-year-old flower girl.
The beauty bridges winter and
summer, connects us to nature,
to joy, to the possibility of hope.
Connections.
Theres a story this week about
an artist who projects photographs
of lost places, lost times, to the sites
where they had been taken, in a more
innocent time, in prewar Europe.
Connections. Theres one about
yeshiva students winning a contest
in halachic reasoning. Connections.
One about a group of women who
came together in response to their
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despair over the political climate
after the election, and now are work-
ing together to fund health care for
women. Connections. One about an
academic whose politics are at odds
with the women whose story is on the
page before hers who talks about
the way that Jewish life has been
affected by the last three quarters
of a century of history. Connections.
Theres a story about a successful
young actor who is coming back to the
Kaplen JCC to help with a fundraiser.
Why? Because he got his start at the
JCC, and he feels deeply connected
there. Connections. Another story is
about the Jewish Historical Society of
Northern New Jersey, which works to
uncover the connections between our
past and present. Connections. Next,
the video from new Israelis originally
from Fair Lawn which won an award
in Israel. Connections. And it ends
with the Rubin Run, where the local
Jewish community runs to celebrate
Mothers Day, their physical prowess,
and the JCC whose programs they
support as they run.
In the end, of course, all Jewish life
is about connections. Even when we
are most divided, there is a network
of friendship and family that con-
nects us. We certainly all are walled
off by our own boundaries and we
need those boundaries, both per-
sonal and communal. Otherwise, we
would be unappealing amorphous
blobs. But its also those walls that
sometimes allow us to connect.
I keep thinking about the Hud-
son River, visible in sparkling glory
through the windows of the museum
at the Hebrew Home. It divides New
York from New Jersey. It also con-
nects the two states, east to west; it
also connects upstate New York to
the harbor and then to the ocean. As
it divides, it also connects.
As we all continue to respect our
divisions, let us also connect with
each other, and with the world
around us. JP
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KEEPING THE FAITH
Holiness and the counter clerk
ho and what we are as a people ritual/religiousis irrelevant in the Torahs view.
are encapsulated this week in All of its mitzvot are Gods mitzvot; all must be
a single chapter of the Torah, observed equally. Be as careful [in observing] a
Leviticus 19a chapter often light precept as a heavy one, said Rabbi Judah
referred to in this column because it is, in the Patriarch, because you do not know what
fact, a condensed version of the entire Torah. reward attaches to observing mitzvot. (See
It begins with an exhortation: Pirkei Avot 2:2.)
You shall be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, Put in contemporary terms, parking in a
am holy. crosswalk is as much a violation of halachah as
The exhortation refers back to Exodus 19:6: not putting on tefillin every weekday morning.
You shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and Mistreating counter clerks is just as much a
a holy nation mamlechet kohanim vgoi violation as biting into a pepperoni pizza.
kadosh. Behavior always has been a major concern
Those words were spoken to Israel at of Jewish law, starting with the Torah, and rab-
Mount Sinai as it prepared to receive the binic literature reflects that.
Torah, beginning with Gods According to the Babylonian
pronouncement of the Aseret sage Abaye, for example, before
HaDibrot, the so-called Ten God would love a person, that per-
C ommandments, all 10 of son had to be loved by the people
which are contained in Leviti- he or she met each day.
cus 19, in one way or another. The Talmud then illustrates
(Dibrot means statements or this by offering an insight into the
declarations, not command- character of no less a personage
ments. The Torah has com- than Rabbi Yochanan ben Zak-
mandments mitzvoth that kai, he who snatched Judaism
cover all 10 points.) Shammai from extinction when the Second
In fact, the Midrash suggests Engelmayer Temple was destroyed. According
that Leviticus 19 is what was read to his peers, the Talmud says, no
at the Hakhel (Assembly) cer- one (not even a non-Jew) was ever
emony every seventh year, because, in the able to greet Ben Zakkai on the street before he
words of the sage Rabbi Chiya, most of the greeted them. (See the Babylonian Talmud trac-
Torahs essential components are contained tate Brachot 17a.)
therein. On the other hand, Rabbi Levi said, As for the counter clerk, elsewhere in the
[It is because] the Aseret HaDibrot are incor- Talmud (BT Pesachim 3a), we are taught:
porated within it. (See Leviticus Rabbah 24:5.) Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: At no time
There is so much to learn in this one chapter should a person allow a gross expression to
about the Torah and about our role in the world. leave his mouth....The School of Rabbi Yish-
For example, no hierarchy of law exists here; mael taught: At all times a person should
there is no distinction between our obligations speak in clean language....
to God and our obligations to people, or to our It does not require a great deal of thought to
world. Reverence for parents is followed by realize this applies to how we speak to a counter
Shabbat observance, is followed by a ban on clerk or to anyone else, for that matter.
idol worship, is followed by rules about a sacri- Leviticus 19 has much to say about our deal-
fice, is followed by laws about our obligations to ings with a counter clerk.
the underprivileged, is followed by a rule against Assume he or she gives us too much change.
misusing Gods Name for profit, is followed by a Verse 11 states, You shall not steal; you
prohibition against fraud, and so on. shall not deal deceitfully or falsely with one
At Sinai, we agreed to obey Gods mitzvot, another, and verse 13 tells us, You shall not
period. Whatever classification people eventu- defraud your fellow.
ally gave to each mitzvah moral/ethical/social/ If we keep that money, not only are we
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stealing from the store, we also are stealing from the
clerk, because most stores, at least, make the clerks pay
for whatever should be in the register that is not there;
so we must add verse 13: The wages of a laborer shall
not remain with you until morning.
There are other ways this can be applied. For
example, we receive a letter in the mail and the post-
age stamp is not canceled. Can we use that stamp on
a letter we mail? After all, in this case, no one gets
hurt, not even the clerk.
That question was asked of a contemporary posek
by the name of Rabbi Menashe Klein (the Ungvarer
Rebbe). The stamp, he ruled, represents the price
for the delivery of the letter and the sender received
the value for his stamp. The fact that the stamp was
Because the original
culprit was the
negligent clerk, we
make that clerk
complicit in our crime,
or the clerk abetted
us in the commission
of that crime.
not canceled was due to the negligence of the postal
employee.[We] must tear up the stamp; [we] may
not use it. (See his Mishnah Halachot 6:288.)
Halachically, the law of the land is the law dina
dmachulta dina. According to the law of the land,
there is a fee for mailing a letter, payable by postage
stamp. If the stamp is not canceled, the fee may or
may not have been paid, and the law may or may
not have been broken. It all depends on whether we
use the stamp. If we do, then the fee was not paid.
Because the original culprit was the negligent clerk,
we make that clerk complicit in our crime, or the
clerk abetted us in the commission of that crime.
Either way, halachah is violated, and the fact that
we took advantage of someone elses carelessness
ended up harming that personeven if he or she will
never know itwhich is yet another violation.
This Shabbat, study Leviticus 19 very carefully.
There is so much here we need to learn, understand,
and put into practice if, indeed, we are to be holy, as
our God is holy.
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Opinion
A too old-fashioned wedding
M
y wife and I attended a wonderful modern
Orthodox wedding recently.
The bride exemplified Hillels dictum of kal-
lah naeh vechasudah the bride is lovely and
charming. The groom was resplendent in top hat and tails (for
which I have a soft spot, having been so bedecked at my wed-
ding 47 years ago). The ceremony was meaningful; the food
plentiful and delicious; the hall graceful and exquisite; and the
speeches and toasts (to the Queen, the presidents of Israel and
the United States, and the bride and groom) were thankfully,
and surprisingly, short. It was a joyous time, celebrating the
marriage of the daughter of dear friends who have made ali-
yah, and we appreciated being able to spend time with them,
though too short as always. And home by 9:30; what could
be better?
But there was one small pea under the mattress. As we
entered the elegant ballroom, we saw a mechitzah splitting
the dance floor in half; no, not made of potted plants, but of
dazzling, shimmering, translucent lights. As I expected, the
mechitzah didnt prevent men and women
jointly participating in dancing before the glow-
ing couple to the tune of keytzad merakdim,
nor the family from dancing together in a later
dance set. Yet it stood throughout the meal as a
symbol of . . . well, as a symbol of what exactly?
Of tzniut (modesty)? Of mesorah (tradition)?
Of halacha ( Jewish law)? Perhaps. Or, perhaps,
its message was Thats what everyones doing
these days.
One problem with such mechitzot, and with Joseph C.
separate seating at more yeshivish/chasidic Kaplan
affairs, is that they keep morphing into even
more severe forms of gender separation. And
so, men sitting on one side of a table and women on the other
(which was considered frum seating when I was young)
became separate tables, which became separate tables sepa-
rated by a mechitzah, which became separate entrances and
coat rooms and sometimes even floors. And wedding gender
separation spread beyond seating, resulting in some wedding
processions devoid of any women except for the bride, her
mother, and the grooms mother, and perhaps grandmothers,
and separate male and female wedding albums and videos
and the like.
Leaders of other Jewish groups do not, of course, need
my permission to institute customs that they believe best
serve their communities needs. However, the result
is that this growing extremism moves the fences for all
groups. Thus, modern Orthodox mainstream positions
have become more severe, since the center keeps mov-
ing right. For example, having separate male and female
dancing circles with no social dancing once was modern
Orthodoxys mainstream standard; now, having some
type of mechitzah for dancing is equally prevalent.
But even worse than the encroaching gender separation
in modern Orthodox life is the continuing specter of gender
exclusion. An advertisement I saw for an evening of Torah,
music, and inspiration celebrating Purim highlights this
problem. The top of the ad proclaimed that the NCSY Kollel
invites the entire Teaneck community to the event, which
was being held in one of our local shuls. The bottom of the
ad made clear, however, how the Kollel defined entire (or
perhaps community): for men only.
As is well known, the Orthodox Union of which the
NCSY Kollel is a part recently issued its rabbinical panels
paper on female clergy, together with an accompanying
OU statement. Although I previously criticized the paper
and the statement, I recognize that both contain, to their
credit, significant positive elements in addition to the
parts I criticized. To take just one example, the statement
Women dance with the bride at a wedding in
Jerusalem. YONINAH VIA WIKIPEDIA
professed belief in the need to focus on creating and
institutionalizing roles for women that address the needs
of Orthodox Jews today, by removing barri-
ers that impede women from further con-
tributing to our community. Wonderfully
stated. But why then not remove the bar-
rier of barring women from participating in
holiday Torah and inspirational programs?
Gender exclusion affects our kids too. For
example, one modern Orthodox shul invites
prominent Torah scholars to speak to, serve
as role models for, and inspire younger chil-
dren. Terrific programs, as evidenced by the
videos Ive watched online. Unfortunately,
only half of the shuls children are welcome
at and benefit from them. What message is
imparted to young girls? What does barring them from
interacting with great Torah personalities and leaders tell
them about their ability as adults to fully contribute their
individual talents to the community?
Gender exclusion can arise even in the most surprising
places. Two modern Orthodox shuls, one on the Upper
West Side and one in Florida, recently hosted Sunday pro-
grams for their communities. The Florida program on par-
enting had a plenary in which a seven-person panel was
comprised only of male heads of school. At the other, three
men (and no women) spoke about fertility and egg preserva-
tion. Parenting and egg preservation and neither shul could
find a woman to speak? Either the planners and speakers
werent thinking, or they simply didnt care. Its hard to
decide which is worse. Barriers that impede women from
further contributing to our community, indeed.
In 2016, the RCA promulgated a resolution that, in part,
called upon Jews to embrace its unifying outlook with
passion and pride by recognizing the essential spiritual
equality of every Jewish person before God, and seek-
ing, in that light, to maximize his or her religious expres-
sion, observance and growth in private and public, and
embracing the great human and halachic commonali-
ties between men and women, as well as their respective
unique qualities and experiences, and the halachic dis-
tinctions between them.
Powerful, encouraging, uplifting words.
As always, though, the devil is in the details. So I won-
der what the details actually will teach about gender sepa-
ration and exclusion. I therefore eagerly await the RCAs
and OUs prompt conversion of their positive words into
concrete proposals, and more importantly, action. I hope
I wont be disappointed.
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular contributor, has been living in
Teaneck and practicing law in Manhattan for many years.
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Opinion
Israel and Europeanism
Is globalization still a dream?
E
ach year at around the start of
May, the Jewish people cele-
brate Yom Haatzmaut.
I danced and sang for Israels
69th birthday this past week as I might
have at the wedding of a dear friend. Our
relationship with Israel is personal. We
dance at Israels birthday because we are
grateful for its vitality, which we do not
take for granted. But what are our hopes
for Israel, in a world of increasing polar-
ization? Is Israel our nationalist bastion
against a sea of attackers and haters? Do
we see Israel solely as a fortress, a Masada
or Beitar? Or is Israel still an open port
to the world around it, a new springtime
upon old wintered land? A Tel Aviv?
The Brexit decision in the U.K. and the
rise of populist movements throughout the
European Union and elsewhere raise the
question of the E.U.s ability to continue
My mothers china cabinet
I
n the year of my brothers bar mitz-
vah, I turned 23. After high school,
Id moved to New York to study art.
By day, I was immersed in Illustra-
tion Concepts and Life Drawing. By night,
I made art. I slept behind a staircase in
a basement room in Greenwich Village.
After rent, tuition, and art supplies, my
budget for food and clothing came to $20
a week. And I had never been happier.
My parents reacted with a frenzy of
efforts to set me up with available Jew-
ish bachelors. My mother didnt see my
life the way I did, as a joyous liberation,
a chance to reinvent myself. She wanted
to see me wedded, preferably to a doctor,
preferably living nearby.
I spent most of winter break at home in
my room with the door shut, sulking. My
mother was a mystery to me; she seemed
genuinely happy cooking, cleaning, and
doing laundry, and was perplexed that
I, her flesh-and-blood daughter, did not
share her interests. When I wasnt busy
painting, I had my nose buried in a book.
We had nothing in common.
One night, I heard a knock on my door,
and Mom poked her head in. Do you
have anything to wear to the bar mitz-
vah? she asked.
I hadnt even thought about it, and I told
her so, with a certain proud defiance. She
ignored my provocation. Lets go to Lord
& Taylor, she said.
Staid, traditional Lord & Taylor was the
last place in the universe I wanted to visit,
the antithesis of the groovy new me I was
trying to create. But other than sulking, I
had nothing planned, so off we trudged
52 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017
to foster the ideal of globalization, where
countries put their political and national
aspirations aside in order to build a supra-
national union, based on a shared eco-
nomic, social, and broad cultural program
of bringing peoples together. Globaliza-
tion is an idea that surpasses its founda-
tion in trade and commerce. Globalization
preaches a vision of a new type of commu-
nity of nations.
But what is the vision that Israel pro-
claims? Zionism, the foundational ideol-
ogy of the state, offers a tension of multiple
answers, as is, I suppose, the Jewish way.
On the one hand, Zionism is our national-
ism. As the other nations celebrate their
uniqueness, so do we ours. As the other
nations seek to secure their existence
through defensible borders and domes-
tic prosperity, so do we ours. If Israel is a
fortress, it is because we need a fortress.
into the frigid Chicago air.
Since I had recently learned that art-
ists wore black, the shopping trip was a
bust. I rolled my eyes at the turquoise
suits and sequined dresses she picked
out. Piqued by the way I dismissed her
choices, she snapped that she didnt
know whose daughter I was, because I
surely wasnt hers.
That hurt. Deep down, I longed for my
mothers approval, yearned for her to cele-
brate my new friends, my new apartment,
my new happiness along with me. But I
was a realist, in art and in life. It was never
going to happen. My mother was a Holo-
caust survivor. Shed been hidden with
farmers, in an attic, in a castle, in a root
cellar, in a coffin-sized hole under a cow
pen. Shed been marched into the forest to
be shot, and rescued at the last minute by
the kommandant of her labor camp. After
the war, shed shuttled from one displaced
persons camp to another for the better
part of a decade. Mom had endured too
many terrifying surprises over the course
of her life, and she found comfort in the
conformity and regularity that made me
want to run far, far away.
After Id rejected the last dress, she con-
ceded defeat, her face a mask of irritated
disappointment. Miserably, I followed her
down the escalator, awash in an awful,
incommunicable slush bucket of feelings;
wanting to justify myself, wanting her to
understand, wanting to please her, terri-
bly sorry for hurting her feelings. She was
wearing a plaid jacket with fleecy lapels
that Id insisted on buying when I was 13
because one of the popular girls owned
The continued and growing
hatred and prejudice against
would create an end where
the Jew finally would real-
Israel throughout the world ize acceptance and respect
only serves to support the within Europe. In order to
argument that the only way achieve true integration and
to secure the existence of defeat anti-Semitism, the Jew
the Jewish people is for us to needed the support of a state
take care of ourselves, with- behind his or her identity.
out any dependence on the Only then could the Jew find
outside world. Rabbi Dr. secure footing in Europe.
But on the other hand, the David J. Fine Only then could the Jew be
vision of Zionism was of an accepted as an equal and
open society, not a closed with dignity.
one. While Theodor Herzl envisioned the This represents the tension within
independent Jewish state, his dream was Herzls Zionism the Jew must be a sep-
of a state that was integrated in the orbit arate people in order to be accepted
of European culture and community. He among Europeans.
envisioned a German-speaking country I long have imagined the day, longed
(he imagined neither the extraordinary for the day, when Israel might achieve its
renaissance of the Hebrew language nor destiny by being accepted as a member
the ruptures that were yet to be between state within the European Union. It is not
Judaism and Germandom), a small state enough to hope and pray for peace with
that would be accepted in the cultural and Israels neighbors. Peaceful borders and
economic orbit of the European powers. security from the threat of terrorism are
Ironically, Herzls Zionism argued that not aspirations, they are basic human
it was the means of independence that rights. As with our own loved ones, yes,
one. I knew she didnt like
it, it wasnt her taste, but
of these found their way to
Chicago when my parents
being a survivor had made married. If the sun reached
her thrifty, and though Id just the right height at just
discarded the jacket years the right time of day, it
ago, it was too good to throw beamed through the dining
away. Just looking at her room window, shooting rays
made me feel guilty. of light through Moms collec-
As we stepped off the first tion. A million tiny rainbows
floor escalator, she glanced Helen would dance across the ceil-
at me. Do you have a min- Maryles ing, turning the carpet, the
ute to stop by the china? Shankman shades, and the walls into a
she asked. Her expression kaleidoscope. Occasionally,
suggested that she was sure Mom would remove a wine-
Id say no. glass and flick the rim with her fingernail.
Um...sure, I said. When it rang like a bell, a smile of delight
Now she bustled forward with pur- crossed her face, lighting it up like fire-
pose, leaving me and my leisurely Amer- works. I had long ago reached the conclu-
ican strides far behind. sion that she loved her crystal more than
Studies show that our living room was she loved me.
pretty typical for an immigrant family. We She came to a stop in front of the shelves
had a painting of rabbis arguing at a table. of china. Her expression softened. Pink
Wall-to-wall carpeting. Plastic-covered fur- came into her cheeks.
niture. And an imposing china cabinet. I like this one, she said shyly, point-
Inside this cabinet balanced delicate ing at a creamy white dinner plate. Eng-
porcelain plates featuring vignettes of lish roses rambled around the rim. What
18th-century noblemen romancing 18th- do you think? She seemed to be bracing
century debutantes. A beautiful porcelain herself for me to mock her taste here, too.
lady leaned coyly out the window of a deli- It was pretty. I like it, I said, surpris-
cate porcelain coach pulled by six pranc- ing myself.
ing porcelain horses. An ocean of faceted She looked as astonished as I felt. What
lead crystal lined the shelves, fruit bowls about this one? She pointed to another
and platters and urns and pitchers and plate, with gold flowers imprinted on a
wine glasses and tumblers. translucent robins egg blue.
After World War II, as my grandmother Its beautiful, I said. You should get
waited for the familys immigration appli- it. Something in me stirred. I loved that
cation to be approved, she did a brisk plate. I wanted that plate. I desired that
business in the black market, trading with plate. Why had I never noticed how beau-
Germans who lived near the DP camp in tiful a household object could be? That a
Foehrenwald. Coffee and cigarettes were plate, too, could be considered art?
exchanged for crystal vases, sugar bowls, My mother looked at me as if shed
or the odd piece of Dresden china. Some never seen me before, then smiled. Id

To a certain
extent, Israel
already is a part
of the European
community. The
EU is Israels
number one
trading partner.
of course, we pray for health. But beyond
that, we also envision prosperity. What
might the true success of Israel look like,
beyond mere peace?
Integration into the broader European
community should not be seen as a con-
cession of national identity. The way the
European Union is supposed to work is
that each member state retains its individ-
ual culture and language and traditions,
even as it works within the Union toward
seen pictures of her younger self with
that smile, taken when she was a teen-
ager, wearing flouncy dresses and juggling
a gazillion boyfriends, when she was the
best dancer in the whole DP camp.
We stayed until they threw us out, drift-
ing from plate to plate. We deliberated
the virtues of Noritake, Wedgwood, and
Rosenthal. We leaned close to compare
them, shoulders touching through our
coats. We looked at teacups. We looked at
silver. We went as far as speculating which
pattern I might choose if I were to get mar-
ried. When the loudspeaker announced
that the store was closing, we shuffled
reluctantly to the doors.
Outside, in the parking lot, Mom was
all business again, hustling toward the
car. The fragile magic of our connec-
tion seemed to evaporate into the frigid
January air like a puff of breath. Lagging
behind her, I hunched into my coat and
leaned forward against the wind.
Thats when it struck me how much the
Home and Dining section reminded me of
my mothers china cabinet. Neat and pris-
tine, each plate sparkled in its slot, lined
up on clear shelves that stretched from
the floor to the ceiling. Light bounced off
the gold rims, turned glasses into prisms,
made the silver glitter and gleam.
Moms china cabinet was her refuge,
her impenetrable fortress of light and
harmony. To escape from a strange and
unfriendly world, from the bewilder-
ing demands of her four American chil-
dren, from the clutter and chaos of keep-
ing house, from the loneliness of being a
stranger in a strange land, she lost her-
self in its soaring crystal canyons. Only
there could she hide from the jumble of
misspoken English words, the tide of
economic cooperation and security. To be
accepted within that circle would seem to
me to be exactly what Herzl dreamed of.
To a certain extent, Israel already is a
part of the European community. The EU
is Israels number one trading partner. In
2000, Israel was granted membership in
the U.N.s Western European and Oth-
ers Group, acknowledging both its his-
torical exclusion from the caucus of its
Arab neighbors and also its affinity with
Europe. Israels integration into Europe
is marked not only by participation in
venues such as the Eurovision song con-
test but also by Israel being the only non-
European country to hold membership
in CERN, the European Organization for
Nuclear Research.
But of course there also is the growing
disparity between Israel and the E.U. on
the peace process and relations with the
Palestinians. My prayer is that Israel find
a way to establish a peaceful settlement
so that it can establish more integrated
relations with Europe. That relationship
in turn would guarantee the security that
Sparkling crystal closed the communications gap between a writer and her mother.
misunderstanding and miscommunication
spilling through the cracks of our lives.
We all have our ways of escape, our own
private asylum. Where my mother found
refuge in the intricacies of fine china, I
found it in brushes and paint. Over the
years, I had expended so much energy
drawing hard lines around what was dif-
ferent between us that I had lost any way
to connect.
I like to think that my mother came to
appreciate my new life. On only her second
vision of the future must be about com-
Theodor Herzl
Israel requires to continue to exist in a hos-
tile neighborhood. Indeed, certain Euro-
pean voices from Italy, Spain, and Bulgaria
already have called for Israeli membership
in the E.U. The acceptance of Israel as an
visit to New York, she discovered that she
loved the city. It must have reminded her of
the Polish market town she grew up in, the
streets crowded with people, all in a hurry
to get somewhere. It took a while, but she
learned my new friends names. She taught
my shiksa roommate how to bake challah.
She had a favorite Korean deli. She even let
me drag her to the Met, where she listened
with rapt attention as I yammered on about
composition and brushwork.
On a cold winters night, a door appeared
Opinion
equal among Europeans will mark the frui-
tion of the Zionist dream. Moving beyond
Herzl, Tel Aviv will become a Hebrew-
speaking European metropolis.
The European Union needs to resist the
backward-looking reactionism of Brexit
and other populist movements. Our
ing together, not moving apart. Globaliza-
tion is not a threat to national cultures.
A thriving Israeli economy and identity
would enrich the European community,
just as the Jewish people always have pro-
vided the engine behind European ideas
and progress. An integrated world, or at
least one large segment of it, is a dream
worth preserving. And if we will it, it is
no mere dream.
David J. Fine is the rabbi of Temple
Israel and Jewish Community Center of
Ridgewood, holds a doctorate in modern
European history, and is an adjunct
professor of Jewish law at the Abraham
Geiger and Zacharias Frankel colleges at
the University of Potsdam in Germany.
in the wall that separated us, and I walked
through it, finding common ground where
I thought there was none; common ground
as fragile and delicate as the beauty of a
china plate.
Helen Maryles Shankman of Teaneck is an
artist and writer. Her work appears in many
journals, including The Kenyon Review,
Gargoyle, Jewishfiction.net, and Cream City
Review. Scribner recently published her
second novel, In The Land of Armadillos.
JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017 53
Opinion
Dont believe Believer
A critique of Reza Aslans documentary on the Jewish people and the state of Israel
I
am proud to be a modern Ortho-
dox Jew.
I am proud to be a Jew who
believes that part of our relation-
ship with God entails being fully engaged
with the world. To me, this means being
productive in the world around me. I also
am proud to be a Jew who believes that all
members of the Jewish people are broth-
ers, regardless of their individual level of
religious practice.
I am infinitely troubled by Reza Aslans
CNN documentary Believer, which my
wife and I watched the other night. It is a
work that would lead you to believe that I
simply do not exist.
Mr. Aslan surmises in his concluding
remarks that Israel is in serious trouble.
Having sought out only the extremes of
our people, he tells the world that the Jew-
ish state is headed to a naturally combus-
tible decision point between democratic
atheism and totalitarian theocracy.
Spending roughly a quarter of his
reporting on selling to the world that the
only hope for a middle ground lies in the
hands of the Na Nachs, the Breslover cha-
sidic sect that, as Mr. Aslan details, has
only a rough 1,000 fully dedicated adher-
ents, is sheer lunacy. If he were seeking out
a chasidic sect that has a global imprint,
why not speak to the astronomically larger
and impactful Chabad?
Prior to my privileged work with the
Simon Wiesenthal Center, I spent more
than 15 years working for both the federal
Letters
Cant we agree on anything?
For 37 years we have maintained mem-
bership in our spiritual and social base,
Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, and have
endeavored to ignore, with success, most
of the petty controversies and ignomini-
ous political flare-ups that have arisen
over those years.
But today I came home from Shacharis
(morning prayers) nauseated, and I was
forced to give serious consideration to
terminating our membership. Cant we
Jews agree on anything?
Why on the very date, called Yom Hazi-
karon (Day of Remembrance), on which
the State of Israel officially remembers
the courageous heroes and heroines
who sacrificed their lives defending the
State and the Jewish people, are we one
of the very few shuls singing Hallel ( joy-
ous psalms of praise and thanksgiving
recited on holidays) and celebrating with
a Kiddush (reception) of food and drink?
54 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017
and New York state governments. I obvi-
ously watch television, or I would not have
seen Mr. Aslans work. While certainly my
full-time occupation has not been Torah
learning since my gap year after high
school, I seek to have an appropriate bal-
ance between my responsibilities of sup-
porting a family financially through my
career and serving God in accordance
with halacha. Still, I am a functioning, con-
tributing Orthodox Jew; according to Mr.
Aslan, I simply do not exist.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center created
its Moriah Film division decades ago. The
only film studio of its kind; so far it has
produced 16 full-length films, endeavor-
ing to combat anti-Semitism through edu-
cation on issues such as the Holocaust and
modern Israel. The Simon Wiesenthal Cen-
ter was founded by an Orthodox rabbi and
functions at the direction of two Orthodox
rabbis. According to Mr. Aslan, there is
no connection between Orthodoxy and
modernity, no acceptance of religion
I seek to have an appropriate
balance between my
responsibilities of supporting
a family financially through my
career and serving God in
accordance with halacha.
If the state and the chief rabbinate of
Israel have decided on the correct date
for universally mourning and recogniz-
ing our brave sisters and brothers, chil-
dren and parents, who are we to make
our own isolated determination as to the
more appropriate date?
Yes, I know that certain well recog-
nized, highly respected American rab-
binic scholars have supported this errant
conclusion, and though I am quite dis-
tant from being a halachic scholar, I still
ask: Whatever happened to the prohibi-
tion of lo titgodedu, which proscribes
creating factions among Jews (Parashat
Reeh/Deut 14:1), and which the Rambam
(Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of
Idolatry, 12:14) claimed is to prevent
the religious discord and social dissent
that precipitate disunity and internecine
conflict?
Well, Bnai Yeshuruns relatively isolated
decision to observe Yom Haatzmaut,
and technological trends in
communication platforms
or otherwise. According to
Mr. Aslans own highly criti-
cal words, Israel is in trouble
because the Orthodox want
to contain society within a
set of parameters that were
appropriate only in antiq-
uity. Therefore, I presume Michael
that the Simon Wiesenthal Cohen
Center does not exist either.
According to Mr. Aslan,
there is a growing resentment because the
Orthodox world simply does not send its
children to fight for the defense of Israel,
preferably sending only young secular
Jews into harms way. During my gap year
in Israel, I vividly recall spending many
a Shabbat dinner at the home of Tuvia
and Rina Berman, friends with a multi-
generational relationship with my fam-
ily. I remember the delicious American-
style food that the former Staten Island
Israeli Independence Day, on the day that
the rest of the Jewish world observes Yom
Hazikaron is just that divisive, fractious,
and insensitive. And, for those of you who
consider yourselves sage and are sharp-
ening your pencils in order to refute the
above with a Rashi or whoevers opposing
view, dont bother, because nothing you
can say can possibly negate the visceral
sadness and frustration Bnai Yeshuruns
actions evoke.
Lenny Fuld
Teaneck
The waters fine
The we cited by Steven Rothman lost
the election (We demand that Trump
stop threatening our drinking water,
April 28). Therefore, there is a differ-
ent voice in the country. By citing the
N.Y. Times, the Washington Post, and
the Sierra Club, Mr. Rothman shows his
liberal bias. The only drinking water
residents provided, and I
also remember the times
when their eldest son, Ari,
would come home on army
furlough just before our
meal, with both his rifle and
his tzitzit hanging by his side.
He now is the Israel direc-
tor of the Orthodox Union,
but I guess that according to
Mr. Aslan he simply does not
exist either. Nor does Nachal
Haredi the Israel Defense
Forces ultra-Orthodox units.
To those who understand the beauty
of the diversity within the Jewish people,
both in Israel and in the diaspora, we must
ask if Mr. Aslan had a distinct agenda. Or
did his pre-existing prejudices obstruct
his ability to report responsibly? Which-
ever the case may be, we must suggest that
CNN remove the word documentary
from this piece, as it suggests balance and
objectivity. Instead, it reflects Mr. Aslans
apparently uniformed perspective.
It is Mr. Aslans purportedly concrete
assertions, upon which he builds his
deceiving conclusions, that simply do
not exist.
Michael Cohen of Englewood is the
eastern regional director of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center. He represents his citys
second ward on Englewoods City Council,
and he belongs to Congregation Ahavath
Torah there.
referred to involves coal-mining areas in
the country. The states involved have the
responsibility and the authority to con-
trol clean water in their water sources.
Coal presently is being exported to
China and is to be used in bringing back
steel production to our country. Wind-
mills and solar panels will never have the
capacity to provide adequate electricity
for industry and other human uses. It is
interesting that no one has mentioned
that atomic energy supplied by atomic
fusion could solve our energy problems
without any danger to our health. Power
from three atomic submarines could ful-
fill the energy requirements of a city the
size of Tacoma, Washington! The EPA
exceeded the authority granted by Con-
gress and President Trump corrected this
assumption of power. There will be pure
water, despite Mr. Rothmans pessimism!
Shel Haas
Fort Lee
 Opinion

Whats at stake in the Sebastian Gorka dispute?

F
or much of this year,
a bitter debate has
raged over the char-
acter and opinions
of Sebastian Gorka, who was
appointed as a deputy adviser
to President Donald Trump
shortly after his inauguration
in January.
Reports emerged at the Ben Cohen
end of last week saying that
Gorka would be removed
from his White House post, possibly for
a new role within the administration. As
of Wednesday, those still unconfirmed
rumors continue to swirl.
Until now, I have resisted the tempta-
tion to dip a toe into this dispute. Many
of Gorkas detractors call him an anti-
Semite, citing his documented links
with far-right organizations in his native
Hungary. His defenders have angrily
described the accusation as a smear.
And so, inevitably, a cycle of barbs has
begun, with the usual ad hominems
embedded into political exchanges.
Its undignified, and it reminds me of
similarly frustrating arguments about
whether certain people on the left are
trading in anti-Semitic tropes.
So let me say at the outset: I have never that there was a tremendous surge in his-
met Gorka, I have never spoken with
him, and I cant say Im hugely familiar
defenders have sought to
downplay the uncompro-
mising, violent nature of
Horthys Jew-hatred, on the
grounds that, in essence,
he wasnt as bad as Hitler.
Since only a handful of
dictators Stalin, Mao, Syr-
ias Assad dynasty bear
even a passing resemblance
to Hitler, that strikes me as
a disingenuous defense.
When it comes to anti-Semites, none
have been as foul as Hitler.
The age-old human desire to make
the narrative of the past fit with our cur-
rent imperatives disables, rather than
enables, a calm historical inquiry into
what Horthy actually believed, and what
it is that he did. If your sole purpose is
to prove Horthy wasnt Hitler in order to
defend Gorka, your predispositions are
going to blind you to the importance of
certain facts.
Like it or not, to understand the conflict
around Gorka, you need to understand
Horthy and by extension, you have to
understand nationalism in Hungary.
Sir Isaiah Berlin, that great historian
of ideas, observed in one of his lectures
torical studies during the 19th century, at
the same time that technological innova- Sebastian Gorka GAGE SKIDMORE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

with his work. That said, there is very lit-

tle evidence out there justifying the accu-
sation of anti-Semitism leveled against
him. So far as I can tell, Gorka does not
believe there is a Jewish conspiracy pro-
pelling the world to a global conflict. Nor
does he believe Jews are literally or fig-
uratively bloodsuckers, that Jews are
congenital liars, that Jews are more loyal
to Israel than their own countries, or that
the state of Israel is a colonial interloper
with no right to a sovereign existence.
These are some of the basic elements
of an anti-Semitic worldview. If Gorka
does not buy into any of these, he is not
an anti-Semite.
I find it suspicious that a good number
of those people driving the anti-Semitism
accusations in his direction are, if not
outright supporters of the BDS hate cam-
paign (todays most potent expression of
anti-Semitism), willing to accept its self- of trade buried the values and beliefs of
image as an anti-racist movement cham-
pioning civil rights. But what BDS really
does is reinvent reactionary tropes about
Jews for the social media generation.
But that is not the end of the matter.
One of the more interesting subsidiary
wasnt always the case in Hungary. Dur-
ing the 19th century, when Hungary was
part of the Austrian Habsburg Empire,
Its undignified, Hungarian intellectuals pushed a nation-
and it milarly alism that was comparatively liberal. For
example, Istvan Szechenyi, an aristocrat
frustrating often referred to as the Greatest Hungar-
arguments ian, was a social reformer and entrepre-
neur whose famed Budapest social club
about whether was open to Jews. That was quite some-
certain people thing by the standards of the time. Both
he and Lajos Kossuth, another nationalist
on the left are leader, favored ending legal restrictions
trading in anti- on Jews, even if they couldnt quite bring
themselves to support full emancipation.
Semitic tropes. Yet anti-Semitism remained a force in
Hungary, particularly among the nations
peasants. After World War I, in which
Hungary participated on the losing side,
tion, the growth of cities, and the spread the country lost two-thirds of its territory
and descended into a terrible famine.
traditionally agrarian societies. It was no Out of the chaos came a communist rev-
accident; the study of history gave peo- olution led by Bela Kun, a Jew of Galician
ple a sense of identity, and it fueled their origin whose real name was Berele Kohn.
desire to belong to something bigger and Kun was a brute and a sadist. But his
more inspiring than their immediate sur- Red Terror was replaced by the White
roundings. National pride swept across Terror of Horthy, who overthrew him
Jews were viciously purged from the
media and other professions.
In 1944, Horthy reconsidering his
options as Hitler faced military defeat
was overthrown by hardline Nazi sympa-
thizers. The murder of Hungarys Jews
began in earnest. But does this exoner-
ate him in any way? It doesnt and it
shouldnt.
Nor should it lead us to conclude that
Horthy didnt participate in the Holo-
caust, when clearly he did. As the Jew-
ish historian Howard Sachar wrote, there
was the matter of the 150,000 Transyl-
vanian Jews of Hungary who, as foreign-
ers unlike the Jews of integral Hungary,
were turned over to the Nazis by Admi-
ral Horthys regime and put to death en
masse at Auschwitz in 1944.
Hence my point: The Gorka defense
should not rest on the reputation of this
opportunistic, murderous dictator. Hor-
thy forever will be remembered as an
oppressor of the Jewish people.
Let us never lose sight of this, regardless
of the unsavory antics of Gorkas enemies.
JNS.ORG

arguments during the Gorka affair has
concerned his involvement with Vitezi
Rend, an ultranationalist organization
founded by Miklos Horthy, the Jew-
loathing Hungarian leader who ruled the
country from 1920 to 1944.
No serious historian disputes Hor-
thys anti-Semitism. Yet many of Gorkas
different social classes like no other polit-
ical force liberating for those waving
flags, but all too often harsh toward those
minorities caught on the wrong side of a
national border.
Depending on where you were in
Europe, national pride could be indis-
tinguishable from plain bigotry. But this
in 1920. At least 5,000 Jews were slaugh-
tered in the subsequent pogroms.
There was anti-Semitic legislation,
too. Horthys numerus clausus policy
severely restricted Jewish attendance at
universities. His prime minister, Gyula
von Gombos, enthusiastically pushed
Hungary into the camp of Nazi Germany.
Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.
org and the Tower magazine, writes a
weekly column on Jewish affairs and
Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York
Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street Journal,
and many other publications.

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Dear Rabbi Zahavy
Your Talmudic advice column
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
My shul is like a multiplex theater. On Shab-
bat morning we have multiple minyans that
start at different times in several locations
throughout our building. This accommo-
dates our diverse community of various ages
and praying styles.
Now, after a couple of years, a relatively
new minyan of younger people got approval
to move from its initial social hall location
to one of the main sanctuaries. Ostensibly
this move will be a trade. The minyan that
now occupies the main space, mostly older
people, will be relocated to our less desir-
able location. However, there is ambiguity
in the move. Current occupants may opt to
stay where they are, making this more of a
merger than a trade.
Here is my question. In preparing for the
move, a spokesman at the younger minyan
gave the timetable for the switch a few weeks
before it was to take place. He added that
all seating in the main location will become
open and up for grabs. The older people will
have no claim to a regular spot in the pews,
he said.
Among the uncertainties raised by this
move, I was taken aback particularly by
the insensitivity, perhaps the rudeness, of
this declaration. Should we not absolutely
respect the established seats of others? Am
I right about this? What can I say or do to
smooth all of this over?
Peeved over pews in Teaneck
Dear Peeved,
Wow, these seating and space issues sure
do touch on a nerve. And yes, the younger
spokesman missed picking up on the
potential pitfalls because of the sensitivity
people have about their accustomed seats
in shul. Lets consider why that is the case,
why most people care about this topic,
and why some people just do not get it.
First, lets look at the most obvious
examples of special seating in shuls, syna-
gogues, and temples.
Of course, we know from a popular cul-
tural source the special status that some
seats can have in some shuls. Tevye the
milkman, in the timeless Broadway show
Fiddler on the Roof, proclaims in his
song, If I were a Rich Man: If I were
rich, Id have the time that I lack / To sit in
the synagogue and pray, / And maybe have
a seat by the Eastern wall
We do know that seats are assigned by
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rows and number for the High Holidays in
most synagogues and temples. The assign-
ments can be based on status, wealth,
seniority, or sequence of requests.
During the rest of the year, in the United
States, its not that common for pews to be
reserved officially. But in Israel I have seen
small plaques on seats indicating that they
belong to designated daveners.
And in many cases the rabbi, and per-
haps the president of the synagogue, sits
in a special seat of honor next to the Ark
of the Torah. In these examples, preferred
seating for public prayer can come at a
price, or as a perk of a job.
What about for the rest of us, the hoi
polloi, during the rest of the year? It may
help if we step back and consider the
familiar models of seating that we know
about for other public events like mov-
ies, shows, concerts, operas, night clubs,
sports events, and the like.
In most instances seats are assigned by
row and number, today even in the grand-
stand at a ballgame and even in many local
movie theaters. And the desirable seats
frequently cost more. Should that be the
case now for all the services in our places
of worship?
Wait. You may object to any comparison
of synagogue services to entertainment
events. We say that we attend shul or tem-
ple to participate in sacred prayer, not to
sit back and be entertained in a profane or
secular manner. And that is true, in part.
Our activity in our public services vacil-
lates. When we sing or meditate together,
we are part of the performing chorus. And
when we listen to the chazan chant the
service, we are part of the docile audience
listening to sacred musical. And when we
follow along with the Torah reader, we are
the spectators at a dramatic or informative
chanted peroration or declaration.
So it seems that synagogue is a hybrid
place, where those of us sitting in the pews
are sometimes honored, sometimes par-
ticipant members of the performing cho-
rus, and often mainly attending audience
members.
Professor Samuel Heilman brilliantly
explained some of the details of the dynam-
ics of the sociology of synagogue seating
back in 1976, in a classic book called Syn-
agogue Life: A Study in Symbolic Interac-
tion. He made himself into a newcomer in such social transition to keep it from seem-
his shul, becoming subject and observer,
and used the technique of microanalysis
of face-to-face behavior to study the social
dynamics in his Orthodox synagogue.
He showed, with great skill and nuance,
that people come to the synagogue not
only for prayer and other spiritual pur-
poses but also to establish where and
how they fit into life in their religious
community.
Knowing where you sit and with whom
you share a pew is a key part of that process.
Heilman claimed that he
acted as a native who dis-
covered how to look at once-
taken-for-granted synagogue
life like a stranger. He urged
that the natives can use
their special familiarity and
still be trained to distance
themselves from their own
group, making use of the Rabbi Tzvee
disciplines of sociology and Zahavy
anthropology.
Now dont get me wrong. I am not say-
ing we all need to step into a new skin and
become anthropologists of our shuls. How-
ever, there are times when it is useful to
step back and realize that if you mix things
up in a structured social setting, there are
potential consequences. Big ones.
Do consider that a new person enter-
ing an unfamiliar place of worship looks
around and immediately is struck by the
uncertainty of where to sit and by the anxi-
ety that may arise from that. An old mem-
ber has worked that out long ago. He or
she is a pure established participant and
ceases to be a new insecure observer.
In Synagogue Life, Heilman explained
the synagogue seating choice process as
follows (p. 36), To begin with most peo-
ple sit near friends, thereby exhibiting alli- and service director. Less officially, yes, he
ances. Moreover, those who sit together
share other things besides friendship.
They are often persons with similar occu-
pations, and levels of education, both
secular and Jewish. And, as becomes clear
after a closer observation, seat neighbors
tend, within the limits of modern Ortho-
doxy, to observe and deviate from halachic
doctrines along the same lines.
Heilman continued to point out that
fixed-place seating establishes closed
cliques. Members know precisely where
one section ends and another begins, and
no one ever makes the mistake of sitting in
the wrong place, i.e., invades a section and
clique where he is not accepted.
Accordingly, you are right to consider
rude the blanket statement by a spokes-
man that regular seats need not be
respected after the young people move
their minyan and trade with or invade
the main sanctuary. of social congregating go smoothly, can the
You can see that there are many details
that need to be worked out during any
luck with your upcoming realignments!
ing like an invasion. And there are two dis-
cernable modes in which to do that the
active and the passive.
If the active is the choice, people will
need to talk in some formal or at least
informal ways about how the old tim-
ers who stay will preserve their turf
and cliques, and still accommodate the
newcomers.
If the passive is the resolution mode,
then youll have to have faith that things
will work themselves out without nasty
confrontations.
So I suggest that you take
nothing for granted. There
is always a danger that in
either case disagreements
and misunderstandings
will occur. But good-faith
negotiations can be encour-
aged. With determination,
all parties can keep peace
and harmony and establish
a new micro-social order
that includes a regular seating arrange-
ment that satisfies the expectations of all
the participants, all the observers, all the
cliques and alliances, active or passive,
young or old, wealthy or not.
And one more thought. It would be good
to have a single designated official person
overseeing all of this. And yet, despite hav-
ing crowded and busy cosmopolitan shuls,
our local congregations in New Jersey do
not assign an official called the shammos
to turn to, someone who can work things
like this out. Ive always lamented that the
shammos is not a part of our local syna-
gogue staff.
In the shuls I attended as a child, the
shammos made efforts to serve many pur-
poses. Firstly, he often was a Torah reader
helped people find seats, and in addition,
he kept the social order and shushed peo-
ple, when needed, to keep conversations
to a minimum during the services.
I do not expect a turnabout and a sud-
den embrace of the idea of having a des-
ignated usher or a shammos in our shuls.
I do suggest that for the first few weeks
of the new minyan arrangements, some
folks step up and act informally to help
sort out the seating plans and all other
adjustments. And during the realignment
period, all good citizens ought to make
extra efforts to keep the social harmony of
the synagogue intact.
Lets keep in mind that the word syna-
gogue in Greek, and the term beit knesset
in Hebrew, have no connotations of a place
of spiritual fulfillment. They simply mean
a place of gathering.
And know well that only if the activities
spirituality that we seek, and that we need,
be present and palpable in our midst. Good
Tzvee Zahavy received his Ph.D. from
Brown University and his rabbinic
ordination from Yeshiva University. He is
a prolific author and has published many
books about the synagogue and prayer.
His books about Judaism include The
Polychrome Historical Haggadah, The
Book of Jewish Prayers in English, Gods
Favorite Prayers and Talmudic Advice
which includes his past columns from the
Jewish Standard and other essays.

Kedoshim: Do you consider yourself to be holy?
God said to Moses: speak to the whole of the people of Israel
and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, Adonai, am holy.
Dvar Torah
God is holy, then what is the point of com- have matured and now are able to develop
parison? Whats even more puzzling are a healthy relationship with ourselves. This
the next three of the Ten Commandments eventually opens our hearts to The One.

A
(Leviticus 19:1-2)
s a child, I used to wonder what it means to be
holy. It sounded like such a big, unearthly
word. I imagined that a holy person was a
man adorned in a long white gown with a giant
white kippah covering most of his head. I also imagined he
would always walk around with arms covered with long,
flowing sleeves, his two palms pressed together in the
prayer gesture, while blessing everyone with holy words
of wisdom. I now understand that my childhood image
basically reflected the Pope; an image I saw on our old
black and white TV.
Now, as an adult, that childhood image is no more. I
think I may have a little better understanding of the
Hebrew word kadosh itself, and the message deliv-
ered to each of us in this excerpt from Parshat Kedoshim
(though as often happens, this idea may also change as I
grow older). To me, the word kadosh reflects the essence
of relationships: with ones self and with other humans.
It ultimately leads to a deeper spiritual connection with
The One. Let me explain.
The beginning of Parshat Kedoshim is enigmatic. The
previous chapter ends with the words I am Adonai your
God. Parshat Kedoshim then starts with a new idea, a new
verse that also ends with, I am Adonai your God. With
no further elaboration about what it means to be holy to
God, we are told, God spoke to Moses saying: Speak to
the whole Israelite community and say unto them: You
shall be holy, for I, God your God, am holy.
But what is holy? If God wants us to be holy because
which seemingly appear out of nowhere. It 2. Keep the Sabbath: The moment we give
feels as if they were handpicked and planted ourselves permission to let go of the every-
in the center of this discussion, not even in day meshugas for example, the moment
the order in which the Ten Commandments we acknowledge that enjoying and appre-
were originally given to us! ciating nature brings us closer to ourselves
As the Portuguese scholar Rabbi Don Isaac and nature we can then let go of the mun-
ben Judah Abravanel [1437-1508] asked: Rabbi/Cantor dane, the to-do lists, and let Gods peace
Why did God think it necessary for Moses Meeka Simerly surround us. Our way of keeping Shabbat,
to speak to the whole of the Israelite Com- Temple Beth then, becomes holy, nearer to God.
munity and repeat the Ten Commandments Tikvah, Wayne, 3. Refrain from worshiping idols. No other
Reform
to them? And why are they not given in the human should be worshipped. At the age of
order they were given in Exodus 20? 45, for example, looking at yourself in the
The three commandments are: mirror and comparing yourself to a 15-year-old model
1. Revere your mother and father. could make you do horrific things to your own body,
2. Keep my Sabbath. sometimes even risk losing your life. When we do things
3. Do not worship false gods. like tucking this, injecting that, cutting/inducing/eliminat-
On the surface, this sudden insertion is not connected ing this that or the other, in order to look like her/him, we
to any of the verses that come before or after it. are subjecting ourselves, our bodies Gods magnificent
The more I read and meditated on the verses, it dawned creation to destruction. That is one of many examples of
on me that this is a highly psychological instruction, a syn- idol worship which distances us from our God.
opsis of how to transition from childish behavior and an Feeling holy to God is subjective and relative. One
infantile outlook on life to a mature relationship. Only persons idea of holiness will differ from someone else;
after we achieve these goals can we be free to move up on theres no right here, nor wrong. There are only con-
the ladder of spiritual existence. Bringing the examples sequences to our actions. Feeling holy to God is an indi-
into a present context: vidual experience. The three commandments above are
1. Honor your parents: When we stop blaming our examples, a road map that summarizes one way to reach
parents for all the wrongs that were done to us, the a mature connection with God.
moment we take responsibility for our own actions, as On this Shabbat, we are invited to examine our own
we learn to accept our parents human attributes, to see code of moral behavior. We must ask ourselves: Which of
and love them for who they are thats the moment we the results of our behavior make us feel holy to God?

BRIEFS

Despite UNESCO vote, Netanyahu proclaims Watchdog organization

a growth in worldwide support for Israel
Today there are more countries abstaining or sup-
porting Israel than countries against Israel, Netan-
yahu said at a reception for foreign diplomats mark-
ing Israels Independence Day. That is a change, for
the first time.
On Independence Day, UNESCOs executive com-
mittee approved a resolution calling Israel an occu-
pying power and saying any Israeli efforts to assert
sovereignty over Jerusalem are null and must be
rescinded forthwith. Last October, UNESCO had
passed two resolutions denying Jerusalems Jew-
ish heritage.
The resolution which passed in a 22-10 vote,
with 23 abstentions says that all legislative and
administrative measures and actions taken by
Israel, the occupying Power, which have altered
or purport to alter the character and status of the
Holy City of Jerusalem, and in particular the basic
law on Jerusalem, are null and void and must be
rescinded forthwith.
Nevertheless, Israeli officials reportedly success-
fully lobbied several European countries behind
the scenes, including Italy, to drop support for
the resolution. Israel succeeded in breaking up a
German-brokered agreement between Arab states
and 11 European Union countries, in which the EU
would have promised not to oppose the UNESCO
measure if Arab states softened its language,
Haaretz reported.
Before the vote, Italy announced it would oppose
the resolution, which led other EU countries, with
the exception of Sweden, to either oppose the mea-
sure or abstain from the vote.
The 10 countries voting against the resolution
were the U.S., U.K., Italy, Netherlands, Lithuania,
Greece, Paraguay, Ukraine, Togo and Germany.
Among those voting in favor of the measure were
Brazil, China, Egypt, Iran, Russia, South Africa
and Sweden.
In the past two days I had talks with many of the
leaders of your countries, heads of state, foreign
ministersregarding the absurd vote that is being
held now in the U.N., Netanyahu said.
The number of countries who support this
absurd UNESCO resolution is getting smaller, he
said, noting, A year ago it was 32, six months ago it
dropped to 26 and it now dropped to 22.
 JNS.ORG
calls on Gorka to renounce
Hungarian groups ideology
The head of an international anti-Semitism watchdog organization
is calling on reportedly departing White House adviser Sebastian
Gorka to renounce the ideology behind a controversial Hungarian
group he is associated with, before his planned public appearance
in New York City.
Gorka was invited to speak at the Jerusalem Post newspapers
annual conference on May 7. Reports emerged last week that
Gorka might be removed from his White House post, possibly for
a role within a federal agency.
In January, at President Donald Trumps inauguration, Gorka
wore a medal awarded to his father by the Vitezi Rend, a Hungar-
ian organization associated with extreme nationalism, fascism,
and anti-Semitism, noted Dr. Charles Asher Small, director of the
Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.
While Mr. Gorka denies membership in the Vitezi Rend, ISGAP
calls on him to distance himself clearly from the ideology of the
Vitezi Rend, its extreme nationalist history and its association with
genocidal anti-Semitism that led to the extermination of innocent
Jewish men, women and children, Small said. It is not enough to
simply assert that he was never a member nor pledge allegiance to
this organization.Mr. Gorkas position...is too important for him
to remain ambiguous about this critical personal issue.
 JNS.ORG

JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017 57

The Frazzled Housewife
Am I toast? Part I
BANJI GANCHROW
P
eople might think
that because I often
speak my opinion
that I must be a good
speaker. This is #FALSE. People
think that because I write a col-
umn that I must also be a good
speaker. This is #FALSE. People Banji
think that I think very highly of Ganchrow
myself because I have a col-
umn. This is #FALSE. People
think that I know how to use a hashtag.
This is #FALSE. (Clearly.)
I hate public speaking. This might have
something to do with the fact that I am not
too fond of the public in general, but that
is for another time and another column. I
was given the opportunity to speak over
Passover. This was a great chance for me
to conquer my fear of public speaking. For
those lucky guests of son #2s bar mitzvah,
they got to witness the episode of Big Girl ite part was going to see the Rockefeller
Almost Passes Out, and not because she
had too much to drink. It was frightening.
Frightening for me as the speaker, and
frightening for the front row, who almost
had the large speaker collapse on them.
Not a pretty picture.
But a happy ending because I lost four
pounds in one afternoon.
In any event, a friend of mine on Face-
book (because that is where most of my
friends live) had started posting things
about joining this club, called Toastmas-
ters. She said that she was going to start
having to give speeches for her job, and
this club was going to help her learn to be
a better speaker. I was intrigued. Intrigued
enough to google Toastmasters. Wouldnt
you know it, there was a Toastmasters
club right in Bergenfield? This was too
easy. The kind man on the phone told me
where to go, when to show up, and how
much it would cost if I decided to join. I
was intrigued, but also a little hesitant. It say no, but in any case, I told that story
all seemed too easy. Was I going to be kid-
napped and sold into white slavery? Was I
walking into a cult? Would I soon be chant-
ing mantras like, My husband is the king
and I am his humble servant or I love
cleaning toilets? Who knew what was in
store for me.
But my fear of public speaking over-
shadowed my hesitation to join a cult.
Maybe I would look better with a shaved
head and a tattoo of an eagle. I was speak-
ing in front of people who didnt know
me, and I had to learn how to do it with-
out falling on anyone or sweating to the
point of dehydration. Though still wary of
the whole white slavery scenario, I did ask
a friend of mine if he would join me, but
he declined because of work (and because
he probably didnt want to join a cult) and
since I hate rejection, I didnt ask anyone
else. So this big girl was on her own.
58 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017
I showed up at the first
meeting and was pleas-
antly surprised that I
didnt know one person
there. Not only didnt I
know anyone, I had never
seen anyone in the room
before in my entire life.
Good start. But maybe
bad, because there was
still the possibility of both
cult membership and
white slavery but I sat
down because everyone was looking for
me, and after taking inventory of the other
members, I saw I was the largest one in the
room. Which I guess was a good thing, in
case they did try to kidnap me.
Turns out, it was a surprisingly pleas-
ant experience. I was called up for some-
thing called Table Topics and I was
supposed to discuss my favorite part of
Christmas. I told everyone that my favor-
Center Christmas tree because that is
where husband #1 attempted to ask me
to marry him. I say attempted because
I was called up
for something
called Table
Topics and I
was supposed
to discuss my
favorite part of
Christmas.
he never actually asked, he just kind of
stared at me, possibly hoping that I would
with little to no sarcasm (which was pain-
ful for me, but I need to ease into new
crowds. Dont want to be scaring any-
one right off the bat). Everyone clapped
(they do that for everyone) and then I sat
down. Maybe this is just what I need, pos-
itive affirmationhmmm.
So, did I end up joining a cult? Have I
learned how to speak? What is Toastmas-
ters, really? Tune in next weekwhen the
questions and answers just keep on coming!
Banji Ganchrow likes the name
Toastmaster because it makes her think of
toast, especially cinnamon toast, which is a
no-fail comfort food. In addition, she would
like to give a shout out to son #2 and his
classmates, who walked from Shaalavim
to Jerusalem this week. Its more than 30
miles. She doesnt know why they did this,
but she is happy they all survived.
Crossword
THE CREATOR
BY YONI GLATT, KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MANAGEABLE
Across
1. Where many matzah crumbs land
4. Chuck Schumer, e.g.: Abbr.
7. Like one with good midot
13. ___-friendly (like Israels new tax ini-
tiative)
14. State of one who saw the Red Sea
split
15. Brie of Community and Mad Men
16. Bird accused by Lebanon of being an
Israeli spy (seriously)
18. Daniel Radcliffe played one in several
movies
19. Israels Sharon
20. Nightly (and daily) Jewish prayer
22. Yiddish spouting tennis pro on Red
Oaks
23. Syrian Spadefoot, e.g. (rare amphib-
ian rediscovered in Israel)
24. She played Carla on Cheers
28. Rav who was first editor of the
Babylonian Talmud
29. ___ ledodi, vdodi li
30. Belonging to an Eden resident
31. Shekel letters
33. Do not fear, ___ I am with you
(Gen. 26:24)
35. Reed of rock
36. Social justice fighter for Sephardic
and Mizrahi Jews in Israel
40. Sound from a sacrifice
41. Rehovot to Bet Shemesh dir.
42. Org. that statistically isnt as good as
El Al security
43. Susie Fishbein and Gordon Ramsay,
e.g.
45. Agcy. co-founded by Michael Ovitz
47. Larry Brown won this championship
in 1988 for KS
51. 4
52. American elitist stereotype hardly
found in Israel
53. Mineo and Goodmans Gal
54. Sandlers Spanglish co-star Ta
56. Blabs (some Lashon Hara)
57. Flying item in a Spielberg film
60. Legendary creator of the starred
characters in this puzzle
62. Star in Ivan (Reitmans) Twins
63. Start of Lag BaOmer?
64. Wts. of containers arriving in Haifa
65. Like Israel, compared to Russia
66. She must have had daughters
67. Spy org. that ceased operating
before Mossad was born
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 67.
Down
1. Kiddush ___ (monthly prayer)
2. Cars that appear in several Marvel
films
3. Like many European Jews in the
1930s
4. King before David
5. JFK alternative when flying to
61-Down
6. Schindler portrayer
7. Scraped, as with hoofs
8. New Jews (in Israel)
9. Screenless monitor found around
Beer Sheva, e.g. ?
10. Biblical bk. after Kings II
11. AL home of Kevin Pillar
12. Make Havdalah, e.g.
17. Hummus ingredient
21. Israeli port
23. What mom might assign when get-
ting ready for a Seder
25. Tony who has won Emmys with
Dreyfus for Veep
26. Parsha next to BeHar
27. Sun Devil sch. where Al Michaels was
a sports writer
30. Fine works of Max Weber and Max
Lieberman
32. Summer Shabbat dessert
34. Where Coors or HeBrew might be
found?
36. Physicist Niels
37. Singer Lisa who has released four
childrens albums
38. Nut no-no at many Jewish camps
39. Last name of singer Beck
40. Stage name of Beastie Boy Adam
Yauch
44. Sooty, e.g. (bird of prey found in
the Negev)
46. ___ it (in my opinion)
48. ___ arms (possible declaration from
David against the Philistines)
49. Steve and Woody
50. Give the value of (a German colony
home)
52. Like Aaron Sorkins dialogue
55. Tref Eilat swimmers
56. Talmudic ___ (lore)
57. Mourned, in a Jewish way
58. Woe unto us! For we ___ spoiled
(Jer. 4:!3)
59. Echad, at the Louvre
61. Ben-Gurion letters

Peter Scolari plays Emile Zola in the Brooklyn Academy of Music production.
The Dreyfus Affair still echoes
MIRIAM RINN
T
he notorious case of Alfred
Dreyfus, the Jewish French mili-
tary officer falsely accused of
treason, imprisoned on Devils
Island, and then released, has haunted the
Jewish world as well as France for over a
century. It inspired Theodore Herzl, then a
young journalist covering the trial, to seek
in Zionism a solution to the intractable
hatred of the Jews he saw there. It reinvig-
orated the native anti-Semitism among the
French right-wing, which clearly is flour-
ishing today. It mobilized the forces among
the left and the right across Europe that
would clash violently in the 1930s. The
case came to symbolize the corruption
and injustice of the state or the perfidious
conspiracy of alien powers, depending on
your point of view. It offered something to
outrage everyone.
The Ensemble for the Romantic Century
is presenting a multimedia examination
of The Dreyfus Affair at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music Fisher Space. It is well
worth the trek to downtown Brooklyn for
music lovers as well as anyone else who
is intrigued by novel theatrical projects.
Eve Wolf, the founder and artistic direc-
tor of ERC and a renowned pianist, has
written the script for the theatrical con-
cert, which incorporates dialogue, spoken
letters and diaries, live music, video pro-
jections, opera, and dance. A string quar-
tet onstage is joined by a flutist and a pia-
nist at times, and there are selections on
the organ and harpsichord. Cast members
sing arias from Fromental Halevys opera
La Juive, as well as Maurice Ravels
Kaddish. The classically trained voices
are gorgeous and deeply moving, and the
musicians excellent. The only aspect of
the piece that didnt work for me was the
dancing, which seemed extraneous and
took up too much time in an already long
and demanding performance.
Wolf s script traces the convolutions
of the Dreyfus case through dialogue and
explanatory video notes, while the musi-
cal selections explore the emotional mael-
strom that tore through the country and
the participants. Its an astonishingly com-
plicated story with many people involved
spies and double agents, a corrupt gen-
eral staff, forged documents, mysterious
suicides, and more. The climax of the
Dreyfus affair in many ways came with
Emile Zolas impassioned denunciation,
Jaccuse, published in the French news-
paper LAurore on January 13, 1898. This
open letter to the French president led to
Culture
Zolas trial for libel and his escape to Eng-
land. The phrase jaccuse has become
shorthand for the struggle against gov-
ernment obfuscation and manipulation.
Peter Scolari gives an impassioned perfor-
mance as Zola, a superb balance to Max
von Essens touching and sensitive por-
trayal of the tormented Dreyfus. Other
standouts are Meghan Picerno as Lucie
Dreyfus, the Jewish officers devoted wife,
and Mark Evans as Mathieu Dreyfus, the
brother who never ceased to try to prove
Dreyfuss innocence.
Its astonishing how relevant this one-
hundred-plus-year-matter feels, what
with the conspiracy theories and per-
haps real conspiracies swirling about. It
is a reminder that factionalism what we
now call partisanship can have disas-
trous consequences. BAM Fisher is a 321
Ashland Place in Brooklyn. Information is
at www.bam.org or (718) 636-4100.
Old New Year
The Lost & Found Project is a work in prog-
ress. A resident company of the National
Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Lost & Found
became a core affiliate of FolksbieneRU in
2013, a partnership initiative of the Genesis
Philanthropy Group and Folksbiene. The
group works to engage Russian-speaking
Arts &
SHIRIN TINATI
Jewish communities in New York, focusing
on their immigrant experience. Judging by
Old New Year, their fifth original produc-
tion, they still have a way to go.
In the play, a group of attractive young
actors tries to tell the story of intersecting
characters who are struggling with the
standard problems of young adult life. In
that sense, Old New Year is not much
different from a lot of television dramas
where, after a while, you realize the
characters are connected in somewhat
unexpected ways. The cast seems to be
talented, but its hard to tell because of
the directorial choices. For some reason,
all the characters perform at the same
level of hysteria throughout the show.
Perhaps the warehouse-like theater
space added to the uniformity of sound,
but it seemed everyone was screaming all
the time at the performance I saw. The
interesting set design was a plus, and the
actors worked hard to give their charac-
ters some individuality. Still, the 100-min-
ute play seemed a lot longer. The Jewish
aspects of the play included a sweetly
sung Yiddish lullaby and a discussion of
the value of a bris.
Performances are through May 13 at 345
East 104th Street. For tickets, call (212)
213-2120.
JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017 59
Calendar
Friday
MAY 5
Shabbat in Jersey
City: Bnai Jacob hosts
its monthly Millennial Beth Rishon hosts a
Shabbat for Jewish religious school open
millennials (professionals,
singles, couples, and
friends, 20s-40s), with
a short service followed
by a cocktail party, led
by Rabbi Aaron Katz, 7-9
p.m. 176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725 or www.
bnaijacobjc.com.
Bill Ware
PHOTO BY MEL DIGIACOMO,
COURTESY TBE
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers its
Guest Artist Shabbat Temple Beth Tikvah
service, featuring jazz
vibraphonist Bill Ware
and led by Rabbi
David Widzer, Cantor
Rica Timman, and
musical director James
Rensink. 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.
Saturday
MAY 6
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai two parking lots. 725
Israel offers services
for everyone, marking
Yom Haatzmaut, Family borger@gmail.com
Shabbat for those with
children younger than
7; 8-11 Club service, all
at10:30 a.m.; learning
service for children 12
and older begins at 10.
Pizza, salad, ice cream.
53 Palisade Ave. (201)
265-2272 or www.bisrael.
com.
Film in Jersey City: Bnai Morgan Stanley financial
Jacob screens Florence planner, will discuss
Foster Jenkins with retirement planning and
Meryl Streep, 6:30 p.m.
Popcorn and soda. 176
West Side Ave. (201)
435-5725 or www.
bnaijacobjc.com.
60 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017
Sunday
MAY 7
School open house
in Wyckoff: Temple
house, 9 a.m.-noon, for
kindergarteners through
sixth graders. Breakfast,
presentations, tours, and
staff on hand. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
www.bethrishon.org.
Breakfast for Israel:
Jewish National Fund
hosts its inaugural
Northern New Jersey
Breakfast for Israel at the
Rockleigh. Registration,
9:30 a.m.; program at
10. Joe Hyams, CEO
of Honest Reporting,
discusses Identification
of and Effective
Responses to Media
Bias Relating to Israel.
Jocelyn Inglis, (973)
593-0095, ext. 823, or
JInglis@jnf.org.
Walk in Wayne: Join
congregants for its
monthly, dog-friendly
walk through Laurelwood
Arboretum in Pines
Lake, 9:30 a.m., weather
permitting. Walk on
unpaved, well-maintained
trails with several modest
hills. Children welcome.
Walks will continue the
first Sunday into the
cooler months. Sturdy
shoes and baggies for
dogs required. Meet
at the Sensory Garden
located between the
JCC on the Palisades
Pines Lake Drive West,
Wayne. Email Mitchell.
independence with live
with questions. www.
laurelwoodarboretum.org.
mini-market selling Israeli
Jews in cinema: Jewish
Standard correspondent
Eric Goldman of Ergo
Media discusses The
American Jewish Story
Through Cinema for the Jewish Federation of
Distinguished Speaker
series at Temple Beth
Rishon in Wyckoff, 9:30
a.m. Breakfast buffet. 585
Russell Ave. (201) 891-
4466 or www.bethrishon.
org.
Financial planning in
Paramus: The Mens
Club of the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah hosts a
breakfast, 9:30 a.m.
Eleanor Galt-Lin,
Social Security benefit
maximization. 304 E.
Midland Ave. (201) 262-
7691.
June, Fifty Years Later:
The 1967 War and its
Legacy at Congregation
Beth Sholom in Teaneck,
7 p.m. Kurtzer, a Princeton
University professor, is a
former U.S. ambassador
to Israel and Egypt.
Dessert reception. 354
Maitland Ave. (201) 833-
2620 or cbsteaneck.org.
Film in Tenafly: The
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades screens the
documentary On the
Map, the story of how
one Tel Aviv Maccabi
team no one thought
could win toppled the
four-time defending
MAY The Jewish Federation of Northern New European champions
Jerseys One Book One Community and put Israel firmly on
10 culminating event, based on this years
book selection, Let There Be Water, is at
the map. 8 p.m. 411 E.
Clinton Ave. (201) 408-
1427.
the Frisch School in Paramus, Wednesday, May 10, 7 Discussing American
p.m. The program, co-sponsored by Jewish National Jews: The adult
Fund, features author Seth M. Siegel. Dessert reception education committee
of Congregation Rinat
and book signing follows. 120 Century Road, Paramus. Yisrael in Teaneck
Elisa Hirsch, (201) 820-3918, JFNNJ.org/OBOC, or with the Tikvah Fund
Elisah@jfnnj.org. presents Are American
Jews their Own Worst
Enemies? a lecture
international music, The Haunting Hour,
and conversation with
Yom Haatzmaut in Ruth Wisse, 8 p.m. A
3 p.m., followed by a at the Kaplen JCC on
Tenafly: The Kaplen distinguished senior
reception with the artists. the Palisades, 5:30
fellow at the Tikvah
475 Grove St. (201) p.m.; VIP wine/cheese
hosts a community-wide Fund and author, she has
201-444-9320 or www. reception at 6:30.
celebration of Israels taught at Harvard, McGill,
synagogue.org. Proceeds benefit the
Stanford, New York,
JCCs emerging resident
music, arts and crafts, Hebrew, and Tel Aviv
theater, Palisades
kids activities, and a universities. 389 West
Players. JCCOPT.org/
Englewood Ave. (201)
AlanEisenberg or (201)
and local goods, 3-6 p.m. 569-7900.
837-2795.
Program in collaboration
with local Israeli scouts
and organizations
Vying for Israels soul: Monday
The JCC of Paramus/
including IAC NJ and Congregation Beth MAY 8
Tikvah presents Left
Northern NJ. 411 E. Clinton Ann Arnold vs. Right: The Battle For Living in harmony:
Ave. (201) 408-1427. Israels Soul, featuring Senior Source has
Author in Glen Rock: journalists Jonathan an interfaith panel
Jewish Family & Tobin and J.J. Goldberg, discussing Finding
Childrens Services of 6:15 p.m. East 304 Inner Peace Living
Northern New Jersey Midland Ave. (201) 262- Together in Challenging
and the Glen Rock 7691 or JCCParamus.org. Times, 1:30 p.m., at
Jewish Center join to the Shops at Riverside,
host Ann Arnold as she Suite 310, Second Floor,
discusses her first book, in Hackensack. (201)
Together: A Journey 342-0962 or www.
for Survival, 4 p.m. Its seniorsourcellc.com.
her grandmothers story
about saving her family Learning about
from the Nazis. 682 Shavuot: The JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Harristown Road. (201)
Beth Tefillah offers a
837-9090 or www.jfcsnnj.
three-part class on
org.
Michael Lemma and Shavuot according to
Annette Lieb Live radio production Dan Kurtzer the Sefat Emet Torah
in Tenafly: Orange is commentary, led by
Music in Ridgewood: the New Blacks Alan Marking the 1967 Rabbi Hillel Gold, 7 p.m.
Temple Israel and JCC Aisenberg stars in the Israel war: Dan Kurtzer 304 E. Midland Ave. (201)
presents a concert of live radio production of discusses Six Days in 262-7691.

Tuesday
MAY 9
Talking about spies:
At a meeting of REAP
(Retired Executives and
n Active Professionals)
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
Dick Burnon talks about
Historys Famous Spies, NWBC in Franklin Lakes
10:45 a.m. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 569-7900 or
www.jccotp.org.
Molly Picon
Salute to Molly Picon:
The JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom hosts A Musical
Salute to Molly Picon,
Star of the Yiddish
Theatre, a lecture/
concert by Dr. Diane
Cypkin, a CSI Scholar
Fund program, 1:15 p.m.;
refreshments at 12:30.
1449 Anderson Ave. (201)
947-1735.
Life care planning:
Jewish Association
for Developmental
Disabilities continues
an ID/DD informational
workshop, School to
Adult Transition, with
speaker Nieves Pimienta,
6:30 p.m. Next workshop,
May 23. 190 Moore St.,
Suite 272, Hackensack.
(201) 457-0058, ext. 12,
or events@j-add.org.
Judaism 101 in Spanish:
Rabbi Aaron Katz leads a
Spanish-language class,
Judaism 101, focusing political trends pose to
on history, philosophy,
and Jewish culture, at
Bnai Jacob in Jersey
City, 7 p.m. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
www.bnaijacobjc.com.
Remembering the
Six-Day War: Lubavitch
on the Palisades of
Tenafly marks 50 years
since the Six-Day War
with a new course,
Survival of a Nation:
Exploring Israel Through
the Lens of the Six-Day
War, 8:15 p.m. 11 Harold
St. (201) 871-1152, ext. 501
or www.chabadlubavitch.
org.
Wednesday
MAY 10
Lens on Israel: The
CSI Scholar Fund of
the JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom presents Jewish
Standard correspondent
Eric Goldman of Ergo
Calendar
Media continuing a
series, A Lens on Israel:
Judaism. 950 Queen
Anne Road. (201) 836- NCJW to screen Holocaust film
The Birth, Growth,
and Development of
6210 or www.bethaaron.
org. with follow-up talk by director
a Society Through its The Bergen County section territories. He saved more
Cinema. Refreshments
at 12:30 p.m.; program
Sunday of the National Council of than 1,000 Jews from
at 1. 1449 Anderson Ave., MAY 14 Jewish Women will host a almost certain death in the
Fort Lee. (201) 947 1735. screening of Orchestra of Holocaust.
Tehilim series in
Remembering the Exiles on Monday, May 8, The following Tuesday,
Englewood: Kehilat
Six-Day War: Chabad of Kesher/Community at 2 p.m., at Temple Emeth May 16, the films director,
Synagogue of Tenafly & in Teaneck. The film tells the documentary filmmaker
marks 50 years since Englewood concludes story of Bronislaw Huber- Josh Aronson, will discuss
the Six-Day War, with a three-part lecture
a new course, Survival man, the Polish violinist Orchestra of Exiles at a
on tehilim with Rabbi
of a Nation: Exploring Shai Held, 8:30 p.m. who founded the orches- second NCJW BCS meeting,
Israel Through the Lens Discussion, Al Naharot tra that would become the Josh Aronson this one at 12:30 p.m., also
of the Six-Day War, Bavel Is There a Place Israel Philharmonic. In cre- COURTESY NCJW BCS at Temple Emeth. The syn-
7:30 p.m. 11 Harold St. for Rage in the Religious
(201) 848-0449 or www. ating the orchestra, Huber- agogue is at 1666 Windsor
Life? (Psalm 137). 509
chabadplace.org/jli. Engle St. (201) 227-1117 or man arranged for the best Jewish musi- Road in Teaneck. For more information,
www.keshernj.com. cians to emigrate from Nazi-threatened go to www.ncjwbcs.org.
Friday
MAY 12
Plant sale: The Garden
Club of Englewood holds
its annual plant sale,
rain or shine, in Veterans
Memorial Park at Depot
Square in Englewood,
11 a.m.-6 p.m. Garden
club members will be on
hand to assist customers
with selection and give
advice on planting,
care, and arrangement.
Proceeds will benefit the COURTESY JCCOTP
clubs many community
projects. Benefit run in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on the
Shabbat in Ridgewood: Palisades hosts its USTF-
Temple Israel & JCC hosts authorized annual Rubin
a camp-style Shabbat Run, a family-friendly
for Lag BOmer, with a community race. Half
barbecue, service with marathon, 7:15 a.m.; 10K
guitar accompaniment, at 8:15; 5K at 10. Race
and dessert around the day registration available.
bonfire. 6 p.m. 475 Grove Breakfast, giveaways,
St. (201) 444-9320 or free babysitting, warm-
synagogue.org. ups, and trophies. Lead
sponsors include the
Shabbat in Parsippany: Kaplen Foundation,
Author and journalist Englewood Hospital
Jonathan Alter will & Medical Center, the
look at The Fragility of Rubin family, the Jewish
Democracy, and discuss
the threat that present
Standard, and the North
Jersey Media Group. 411
Local artists display in Closter
E. Clinton Ave. (201) 408- Garden of Prayer, collaborative works by Carolyn Kaldy and Jay Greenspan, are on
world peace and the 1412, mkleiman@jccotp.
future of the Jewish org, or www.jccotp.org/ display at the Art Wall at the Closter Public Library through June 30. The library is at
people, at Temple 280 High St. For information, call (201) 768-4197 or go to closter.bccls.org.
rubinrun.
Beth Am, 7:30 p.m. 879
Beverwyck Road. (973)
887-0046.
Singles
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rabbi Sam Frankel,
middle school rabbi
Friday JHF golf/tennis/card outing May 22
at Yavneh Academy MAY 12
and individual/ The Jewish Home Foundation holds p.m., there will be a tennis round-robin
Shabbaton: Sharon
family therapist, is the its 23rd annual Golf, Tennis, and Card tournament. Cards and other games,
scholar-in-residence Ganz & Friends host a
Outing on Monday, May 22, at the Mon- including mah jongg, and social and
at Congregation Beth Shabbaton for Jewish
Aaron. At 9:15 p.m., he singles, 30s-40s, at tammy Golf Club in Alpine. A.C.B.L.-sanctioned bridge, also will be
will discuss How to Young Israel of Avenue This years event honors Robert available. Cocktails will follow at 5:30,
Activate Your Free Will. J in Brooklyn, through
Peckar for his many years of dedication. the reception at 6:15, and dinner and
On Shabbat morning he Saturday night. Fee
will give a drasha after includes three Shabbat
Howard Chernin and Warren Feldman the auction at 7. The daylong fundraiser
davening in the main meals, Brooklyn tour, and are the outing co-chairs; Howard Blatt will benefit the programs and services
minyan. At 5:40 p.m., he Saturday night party. 1721 and Marc Blatt are the golf co-chairs, the JHF provides to the elderly in the
will consider Enjoying Avenue J. (646) 529- and David Edelberg, Howard Lippman, community.
Every Bite A Mindful 8748 or (718) 575-3962.
Approach to Healthy Susan Penn, and Barry Wien are the ten- Companies can sponsor the event or
Eating Habits and nis co-chairs. send participants. For more informa-
Achieving Your Weight The day will begin with brunch and tion, call Molly Shulman at (201) 784-
Goals, and again at
a program at 9:45 a.m.; golf will begin 1414, ext. 5539, or email her at mshul-
6:40 between Mincha
and Maariv, he will with a shotgun start at 11:45 a.m.; at 1 man@@jewishhomefamily.org.
address Mindfulness and
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bergenPAC to host the sounds of music for JCC Thurnauer School gala benefit
The Kaplen JCC Thurnauer School of Music will celebrate 33 Thurnauer prides itself on providing this best-
years of music on Wednesday, May 10, at 7 p.m., at the Ber- start education and this is what really sets us
gen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, at its 27th annual apart. The music school introduces young chil-
Gift of Music gala benefit. dren to the incredible world of music, excites
The concert features world-renowned Anthony McGill, them about all the possibilities and provides
principal clarinet, New York Philharmonic; Mindy Kaufman, them with an education where they can get it
piccolo and flute, New York Philharmonic; and Michael right from the beginning. Our honorees know
McHale, international piano soloist, plus Thurnauers stu- this firsthand. Between them, they have eight
dent ensembles. children who studied at Thurnauer and credit it
The gala will also honor two local families, Karen and for enriching their lives.
Michael Neus and Heidi Chen Lauring and Brett Lauring, who The annual benefit concert serves as the Mindy Kaufman Anthony McGill Michael McHale
have generously helped make community music possible by schools major fundraising event and pri- CHRISTIAN STEINER COURTESY JCCOTP COURTESY JCCOTP

dedicating their time and efforts to Thurnauer for years.
Most major conservatories dont take young beginner
students, but a child interested in studying music needs to
start somewhere, and with the best possible music educa-
tion, said Thurnauer director Dorothy Kaplan Roffman.
mary source of scholarship assistance for
those who cannot afford the cost of tuition. It was estab-
lished by Drs. Joan and Alan Handler to bring the joys of
music-making to a broad student population in a nurtur-
ing and supportive environment.
For information on the concert and the featured artists,
or for journal and sponsorship opportunities, go to www.
jccotp.org/gom or email Nina Bachrach at nbachrach@
jccotp.org, or call her at (201) 408-1406.

New Shabbat minyan for children Spring boutique in Tenafly

The Jewish Center of Teaneck has a new meets weekly from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. in The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Shabbat youth minyan for third- to fifth- one of the downstairs classrooms and Tenafly offers a boutique with over 50 Proceeds from the event, co-chaired
graders. It is led by Rav Yishai Klein, an features davening, study of the weekly vendors on Sunday, May 7, 10 a.m. to 5 by Candice Flax, Jenna Gutmann, Sha-
Israeli shaliach who teaches Judaic stud- Torah portion, divrei Torah delivered by p.m., and on Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ron Cohen, Jenn Greenberg, Alana
ies at Ben Porat Yosef and at Yeshivat Otn- children, a youth kiddush, and prizes. The show will feature a selection of Hershkin, and Courtney Wasser, will
iel in Israel. For information, call (201) 833-0515 or Mothers Day, Fathers Day, graduation, benefit the JCC Leonard and Syril Rubin
All are welcome at the minyan, which email office@jcot.org. and teacher gifts, along with decorative Nursery School. For information, call
home furnishings, jewelry, womens (201) 408-1412, email mkleiman@
fashion and accessories, childrens cloth- jccotp.org, or go to jccotp.org/spring-
ing, summer camp items, and more. boutique for a list of vendors.
Limited Engagement Ends May 7th

False arrest. Intrigue.

Conspiracy. Undying love. Save the date for author event
Jewish Federation & Founda- author, with over 11 million
tion of Rockland Countys copies of her books in print in
Womens Philanthropy group 36 countries. Books & Greet-
will host Celebrate the Power ings of Northvale will provide
of Women, a spring outreach a book signing/bookstore at
event featuring bestselling the event, where a number of
author Jennifer Weiner at Jennifers titles will be avail-
the Rockleigh Country Club able for sale.
in Rockleigh. The Thursday, Womens Philanthropy
May 18 event begins with will raffle a Louis Vuitton
a VIP reception at 6 p.m., Jennifer Weiner Neverfull bag with match-
which includes a signed copy ing pochette valued at
of one of her books and photos with Ms. $1,180. Call Beth Weiss-Dunn at (845)
Written by Directed by Weiner. The dinner and program are at 7. 362-4200, ext. 121, or email her at
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Stanton Strong
FROM PAGE 11
Art is political, she added. Art is a
commentary and a reflection of our soci-
ety of our time, of our issues.
She sees some good coming from these
turbulent times. Rather than allow this
shift to be divisive, we are trying to flip
it and use it as strength, she said. As a
uniting force. And I think its happening all
over the country.
Jill Besnoy of Demarest, another of the
Realities
FROM PAGE 12
does it mean to teach the Holocaust? It
means nothing. Because we havent really
done it havent analyzed how it worked
politically, why anti-Semitism developed,
why Hitler could go into one country after
another, and no matter how much they
hated Germany, he let them kill the Jews
and it was a great gift to them. And why
were the Jews set up so they had no idea
about what was happening to them?
It is our responsibility to ask the
questions. Why does it happen? What is
Haunting Hour
FROM PAGE 14
It was beautifully done. Black Cindy, played
by Adrianne C. Moore, comes to terms with
religion. First she wants to convert because
she wants the kosher meals, and then she
slowly starts understanding what the religion
is about. By the end, when she converts, she
cries. It is so poignant and beautiful.
BRIEFS
GW students narrowly reject
divestment resolution on Israel
George Washington Universitys student
association narrowly rejected a resolution
calling for the school to divest from com-
panies doing business with Israel.
Opponents of the bill which was
rejected Tuesday in a 15-14 vote, with one
abstention argued the measure over-
simplifies a complex topic and promotes
a one-sided narrative that prevents
dialogue.
Passing one-sided bills that create an
anti-Israeli narrative, without even acknowl-
edging the reason why they engage in such
activities creates bigger divisions within our
communities, said Isaac Fuhrman, the stu-
dent associations director of international
students, the student newspaper, the GW
Hatchet, reported.
64 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 5, 2017
groups founders, also has a background
in marketing and branding, and she has
run her towns school fundraisers for the
last five years. Shes working on Stanton
Strongs fundraiser, which has been put
together very quickly.
I really wanted us to do it sooner rather
than later, to build on the anger that a lot
of women feel, she said.
The problems not nearly as bad in
Bergen County as in other places, she
said. I know that we are in a little bit of
a bubble here. But my brother-in-law and
the political rationale for it?
Dr. Wisse thinks about very broad ques-
tions; when she speaks to congregations,
she says, she has to break off small bits
of her thoughts, because otherwise there
could not possibly be enough time.
A subject that is occupying her a great
deal now is Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambas-
sador to the United Nations, whom she
sees as a great improvement over her pre-
decessor, Samantha Power, and over the
administration Ms. Power represented.
You have to understand why at least one
third of the Democratic party today is anti-
Israel, in a very classic way anti-Jewish,
For him, he added, being Jewish means
being part of a community. He went to public
school in Englewood Cliffs until it ended, in
eighth grade, and there were maybe 30 or
40 kids in my grade, and only two of us were
Jewish. That made me feel part of a commu-
nity; it separated me in a way that I felt proud
of. Maybe 80 percent of the other kids were
Italian, and I was Jewish, and going to the JCC
on Sundays solidified that. It made me proud
According to the pro-Israel education
group StandWithUs, which worked with
student leaders to defeat the measure,
the resolution relied heavily on the 2009
Goldstone Report, which accused Israel of
committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip
during Operation Cast Lead in 2008. The
Goldstone Report was disavowed by its
main author, retired South African judge
Richard Goldstone.
Anti-Israel activists relied on mislead-
ing claims and manipulative rhetoric, hop-
ing that emotional appeals would cloud the
judgment of the [GW] student association,
said Ben Brownstein, Mid-Atlantic campus
director for StandWithUs. Im glad that
enough students saw through the propa-
ganda and took a principled stand. JNS.ORG
sister-in-law live in Alabama, and I have
been there for Shabbat dinner and heard
amazing stories.
Its upsetting, she said. I feel that the of others, Ms. Besnoy said. I feel that in
best way to have an impact is to give
money. It all costs money. Clinics are clos-
ing. Its also important to give both at
home and farther away, she added.
We are focusing on fundraising,
but we also are focusing on educating
women. There are so few women can-
didates we plan on meeting with peo-
ple and talking about how to get women
Dr. Wisse said. And why the Republican
party as it is constituted today is a pro-
Jewish party. This is not a joke. It is your
responsibility to understand it.
I dont care whether you choose to
remain in one party or the other, but you
have to account for it. What does it mean
that you are not willing to explain your
decision? You have to explain why you
think that Democrats act in a certain way
and Republicans act in another way. This
is what Jews are reluctant to do. I under-
stand it the truth can be very difficult.
Dr. Wisse goes back to Yiddish litera-
ture to explain why it is necessary to
to be part of this group of people who had
this connection to each other.
Because of his ties to the JCC, and his
deep affection for Deb Roberts basi-
cally Im doing this radio play because
Deb asked me to, and I will do anything
she asks me to do, he said hell be at the
JCC on Sunday evening.
So will Ms. Roberts, who has been acting
most of her life, but has never acted at the
Hamas unveils new policy calling for
Palestinian state along pre-1967 lines
Hamas, the terror group that rules Gaza,
released a new policy document this week
in a bid to soften its image, while calling
for a Palestinian state in accordance with
the pre-1967 lines.
Hamas rejects any alternative to the full
and complete liberation of Palestine, from
the river to the sea, the document said.
However, without compromising its rejec-
tion of the Zionist entity and without relin-
quishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas con-
siders the establishment of a fully sovereign
and independent Palestinian state, with
Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the
4th of June 1967, with the return of the refu-
gees and the displaced to their homes from
which they were expelled, to be a formula
of national consensus.
candidates to run for office, and about
having our voice heard.
Jewish values are all about taking care
the Jewish religion, women are respected.
Women run the house. I think that I always
have felt very confident as a woman. I
never felt like less than anyone. But now
I dont like this feeling that my country is
making me feel.
That why she, along with the rest of
Stanton Strong, is working to overcome
that feeling.
look at the world as inescapably run by
political forces. I understand from it
why there are some Jews who are tem-
peramentally incapable and so unwill-
ing to recognize a certain kind of reality
that they wouldnt know how to live in
the world if they had to see it that way,
she said. So denial becomes their reli-
gion. And many retreat to the synagogue.
I think that the synagogue is wonderful,
and that the number of people who join
is wonderful but I think that if your
synagogue life is devoted to denying or
escaping from political reality, then this
too has to be acknowledged.
JCC, despite her decades of work there.
I play a bunch of different parts, Ms.
Roberts said. The best friend, a spooky
waiter, a French maitre d which is really
fun! and a stage manager. It is just fun
to do this!
Its terribly exciting, she added. Its
thrilling to be on this stage. Its almost like
an aphrodisiac. Its lovely fun, and Im
enjoying it tremendously.
Before the document was released,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya-
hus office was quick to dismiss any pur-
ported policy changes by the Palestinian
terror group, saying, When Hamas stops
building tunnels and spends its resources
on civilian infrastructure and ceases edu-
cating toward killing Israelis that will be
true change. But that hasnt happened.
The Foundation for Defense of Democ-
racies think tank called Hamass new
policy document a ploy to gain greater
appeal among the international commu-
nity and the Palestinian population.
This is not a sign of moderation so
much as a ploy to end the factions inter-
national isolation, FDD said in a memo.
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Kevin Bauman
Kevin Bauman, 40, of Mah-
wah died April 15.
Born in Queens, he was
predeceased by his mother,
Sandra, ne Baker, and is
survived by his father, David
of Delray Beach, Fla., and a
brother, Jeff of New Jersey.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Herman Friedman
Herman Hy Friedman, 91,
of Florida died April 29.
A U.S. Army World War
II veteran who fought at
Normandy, he received
two Purple Hearts and was
a lifelong member of the
Veterans of Foreign War and
Jewish War Veterans. He
was a St. Johns University
graduate and retired from
working for National Shirt
Shops. He was a founding
member and first president
of the Bethpage Long Island
Jewish Center, president
of Temple Emanuel in
Paterson, and treasurer
of Temple Beth Shalom in
Coconut Creek, Fla.
Predeceased by his
wife of 52 years, Sylvia,
ne Krauss, a son, Martin
(Cook), daughter, Carole,
and brothers Seymour and
Bernard, he is survived by
a sister, Betty Kuznitz, chil-
dren, Barbra Galletti, Eva
Friedman, Rita Kornbluth
Baker, and Joel Kornbluth,
and a grandson, nieces, and
nephews.
Donations can be made
to the Jewish War Veterans.
Arrangements were by
Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Maryam Kletsel
Maryam Kletsel, 90, of
Elmwood Park died April
27. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Dr. Michael Migdal
Dr. Michael Wayne Migdal,
59, of River Vale died April
28 from injuries sustained
from a bicycling accident.
He graduated from Glen
Rock High School, Lafayette
College, and the University
of Pennsylvania School of
Dental Medicine. He was a
partner at Gentle Dentistry
of Haworth with Dr. Andrew
Spector for 27 years.
He is survived by his
wife Robbie, ne Riskin,
daughters Elyse, 16, and
Hailey, 12; his mother
Anita Migdal, and a sister,
Rachelle Migdal.
Donations can be made
to the ASPCA, Global LYME
Alliance, or Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation.
Arrangements were by
Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Beatrice Sabin
Beatrice Bea K. Sabin,
93, of Teaneck, formerly of
Paramus, died April 28.
She graduated New Paltz
College and did graduate
work at Montclair State Uni-
versity and New York Uni-
versity. Before retiring, she
was a guidance counselor
at Emerson High School.
She and her husband were
founding members of the
JCC of Paramus/Congrega-
tion Beth Tikvah and she
was a longtime member
of Bat Sheva chapter of
Hadassah.
Predeceased by her
husband, Morton, she is
survived by children, Gail
Levinson (Robert) of Wood-
cliff Lake, Anne Sabin (Craig
McAvoy) of Langhorne,
Pa., and Evan of Tenafly; a
sister, Lenore Ehrenberg
of Chevy Chase, Md.; two
grandchildren, and one
great-grandchild.
Donations can be sent to
Spectrum for Living, River
Vale, or the JCC of Para-
mus/Congregation Beth
Tikvah, Paramus. Arrange-
ments were by Louis Subur-
ban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Murray Schnaper
Murray L. Schnaper, 80, of
Ithaca, N.Y., formerly of Fair
Lawn, died May 1.
Before retiring, he was
employed as an applications
engineer for the Lightolier
Company and served in the
U.S. Army.
He is survived by his wife
of 54 years, Joan, ne Lon-
don, children, Beth Begany
(Timothy) of Trumanburg,
N.Y., and David (Rachel)
of Livingston, and two
grandchildren.
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Donations can be made
to amsterdog.org. Arrange-
ments were by Louis Subur-
ban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Stanley
Schwarzwald
Stanley Schwarzwald, 90,
of Ridgefield, formerly of
North Bergen, died May 1.
Before retiring, he
owned Max Schwarzwald
and Sons Embroidery in
West New York.
Friends survive him.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Calvin Soled
Calvin Soled, 88, of
Teaneck died April 26.
Born in Jersey City, he
was a teacher at Yeshiva of
Hudson County and a prin-
cipal at Agudath Sholom
of Jersey City. He worked
as a teacher at many reli-
gious schools and helped
prepare more than 1,000
students for bar mitzvah.
Predeceased by his
wife, Tzippy, ne Rapa-
port, and a son, Abraham,
he is survived by daugh-
ters Amy Wasserman
(Elchanon) and Cheryl
Leiser (Yussie); sisters,
Beverly Zelkowitz and
Barbara Weissman, and
grandchildren, Tziporah,
Moshe, Shulamit, and Yair
Wasserman, and Tzipora,
Shayna, Rachel and Tamar Arrangements were by
Leiser. Robert Schoems Menorah
Contributions can be Chapel, Paramus.
sent to Yad Eliezer of
Brooklyn. Arrangements Brian Weiss
were by Gutterman Musi- Brian K. Weiss, 50, of
cant Funeral Directors, Mahwah, formerly of Fair
Hackensack. Lawn, died April 25.
He was a pipefitter with
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and grandsons Jason and Kelly Weiss.
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Actors Home, Englewood, Arrangements were by
or American Friends Louis Suburban Chapel,
of Magen David Adom. Fair Lawn.
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SUSHI SAVINGS
Heres a Sneak Peak to some incredible All Party Platters
deals at Cedar Market this week *** 220%
Buy RollsOff
Get 1***
Visit us online for our Full Circular at TheCedarMarket.com

Tel: 201-855-8500 Fax: 201-801-0225

FREE
BUY 2 ROLLS GET 1

FREE!
OFofEQUAL
equalORorLESSER
lesser value
VALUE

Sale Effective 5/7/17 -5/12/17

MEAT DEPARTMENT
Whole Chicken Chicken Ground Turkey American Black Angus Beef American Black Angus Beef
Cut in 1/4s or 1/8s Fingers Chicken Wings Dinosaur 1st Cut
Two in a Pack
Family Pack Breast Ribs Brisket

$ 19
2
American Black Angus Beef
Lb
$ 99
5
American Black Angus Beef
Lb

American Black Angus Beef

$ 99
4 Lb 99 Lb

READY TO COOK MEATS & POULTRY

$
1299 Lb
$
1049 Lb

Beef Bone-In Shoulder Marinated White Meat Pastrami

Scalopini Beef Flanken London Broil Chicken Breast Chicken Shish Cowboy
withWings Kebab Burgers

$
10 99 Lb
$
12 99
Lb
$ 99
9 Lb
$ 99
READY TO COOK 2 Lb
$ 99
READY TO GRILL 6 Lb 6
$ 49 Lb

GROCERY PROVISIONS
Deal of the Week
Post Fruity Ronzoni Barilla Pereg Natural Earth
or Cocoa Pasta Marinara Bread Crumbs White Meal Mart
Pebbles Elbows, Penne
Sauce Assorted Sliced
Quinoa Pastrami
Rigate,Rotini or
Ziti Only Original Only
15 OZ. 24 OZ. 12 OZ.

5 5
16 OZ. 12 OZ.

2 6 $
FOR
$
FOR
2 4 FOR
$
2 6 $
FOR
$ 99 $499
3 6 OZ.

FISH
Liebers Goodmans Osem Domino Haddar
Cotton Rice With Consomme Granulated Whole Hearts
Candy Vermicelli Sugar of Palm
0.8 OZ. 8 OZ. 14.1 OZ. 4 LB. BAG

3 $5
14 OZ.

2 1 FOR
$ FOR
2 $7 FOR 2 $5 FOR 3 $5 FOR
Sea Farmed
Salmon

15 99
DAIRY FROZEN
Deal of the Week
Tropicana
Deal of the Week
Amnons MealMart $ LB.
Fresh & Healthy Orange Juice Pizza Kids Chicken
Milk Assorted Original Only Pop-Ems
Assorted Check Out Our Line of Cooked Fish
36 OZ 2 LB.

8
89 OZ

5 7
64 OZ

2 5 $ 99 $ 99 $ 99 SUSHI SAVINGS
$ FISH
BUY 2`ROLLS GET 1

FOR FREE
OF EQUAL OR LESSER VALUE

Chobani Millers American Chopsies Taamti

Drinks Cheese Cheese Pretzel Cigars
Assorted White & Colored Vegetarian & Potato
10 OZ 12 OZ 2 PACK 14.4 OZ
Grilled Teriyaki

2 $4 FOR 2 $7 FOR
$
449 $ 99
3
Salmon Roll

6
$ 95ea.
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