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Israeli firefighters protest
flammable new uniforms
l Burning issue? Or just the lat- them, Ankori said. Someone
est flare-up in worker-manage- needs to wake up. Perhaps CONTENTS
ment tensions? Gilad Erdan will get his bear- Noshes4
Its hard for outsiders to see ings. Ankori said. Erdan is Is- briefly local19
whether there is fire behind the raels public security minister, rockland20
smoke, but Israeli firefighters and his office oversees the cover story 22
across the country have publicly police and firefighters. jewish world 26
criticized the Israel Fire and Res- Ankori said the fire com- gallery34
cue Services for buying thou- missioners office already healthy living &
sands of new uniforms made of had wasted millions of shek- adult lifestyles 35
flammable material. A spokes- els on pants that also were oPINION46
man for the authority said the made of flammable fabrics dvar torah 51
THE FRAZZLED HOUSEWIFE 52
new clothes are not meant to be and tried to save face by
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worn while actually fighting fires. saying that the firefighters
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according to Army Radio, which reported that firefighters but spotters and volunteers did. obituaries 56
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signed uniform shirts, which are made mostly of flammable sons and said they could not fight fires and talk to the press real estate60
polyester. at the same time.
According to the radio report, the firefighters were forced The Israel Fire and Rescue Services said in response that
to pay for appropriate clothing out of their own pockets. the protest was part of a power struggle with the workers
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providing them with firetrap uniforms that were inappro-
priate and unsafe.
All the firefighters in the country have taken off these
shirts, put them back in storage, and we will not wear
Dedi Simhi of the Fire and Rescue Services. Everything will
be resolved. It will be taken care of, just not in this way.
I refuse to work like this.
It was not clear whether he was wearing polyester.
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HENRY AND TUPAC:
Two new movies
vary the subjects
The Book of
Henry
centers on
Henry Carpenter, a
precocious 11-year-old
boy who is being raised,
along with his younger
brother, by a single
mother, Susan (Naomi
Watts). Henry has a
crush on the young girl
next door. He discovers
shes being abused by
her stepfather, the police
commissioner. He writes
down a plan to rescue
her. His mother reads
the plan and decides
to act on it. SARAH
SILVERMAN, 46, has a
big supporting part as
Susans friend.
Surprisingly,
All Eyez on
Me, a film
about famous African-
American rapper Tupac
Shakur (1971-1996) has
many Jewish connec-
tions. Shakur was born in
Harlem, but he and his
family moved to Balti-
more in 1986. There, in
high school, he met and
became lifelong great
friends with Jada Pinkett
(later Jada Pinkett Smith,
the wife of Will Smith).
Pinkett, who is a big
character in this film, is
played by KAT GRAHAM,
27. Graham, the daughter
of a Liberian-born black
music executive and an
American Jewish mother,
was raised Jewish and
attended Hebrew school.
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Rabbi Harcsztark wins Covenant award
SAR founder cited for his success as educator and dreamer
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
R
abbi Naphtali (Tully) Harc-
sztark of Teaneck put much
thought into crafting a profile
of the ideal teacher in 2003, as
he prepared to become the founding princi-
pal of the SAR High School, a coeducational
modern Orthodox school in Riverdale, N.Y.
There are a lot of people who go into
education because they love the material
they teach but theyre not necessarily inter-
ested in teaching kids and all that goes on
in kids lives, he said. Others go into edu-
cation because they really enjoy spending
time with kids.
What were looking for are people who
care deeply about the content and also are
interested in getting involved in under-
standing what goes in the lives of kids and
in working together with other teachers.
Modeling that very sort of fusion and
instilling an unusually strong fusion of gen-
eral and Judaic studies in the high school
led Rabbi Harcsztark to receive the Cov-
enant Foundations 2017 award for excel-
lence in Jewish education. (He was one of
three recipients.)
Each of the 2017 Covenant Award
recipients is a dreamer, and each brings
a breath of optimism for the field, Cove-
nants executive director, Harlene Winnick
Appelman, said.
The New York City-based Covenant
Foundation, a program of the Crown Fam-
ily Philanthropies, works to strengthen
educational endeavors that perpetuate
the identity, continuity and heritage of the
Jewish people.
At the awards dinner, set for November 12
in Los Angeles, during the General Assem-
bly of the Jewish Federations of North Amer-
ica, each recipient will receive $36,000,
along with $5,000 for his or her institution.
The other awardees this year are Mere-
dith Englander Polsky of Matan in New York
and Temple Beth Ami Nursery School in
Rockville, Maryland, and Dr. Jane Shapiro,
co-founder of Orot: Center for New Jewish
Learning in Skokie, Illinois.
The foundation cited Rabbi Harcsztark
for having imagined a new model of what
a Modern Orthodox high school could be
one balancing tradition and modernity, and
promoting vigorous dialogue and debate
and made it a reality. Under his excep-
tional and visionary leadership for the past
16 years, SAR High School has become a
national model of Jewish education adapt-
ing to and embracing 21st century realities
and equipping students and teachers in
new, novel, and empowering ways.
Before Rabbi Harcsztark, 52, founded SAR
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Rabbi Tully Harcsztark talks to students at SAR High School. 
High School, he spent nine years as associ-
ate principal of Judaic studies at SAR Acad-
emy elementary school. He also was the
spiritual leader of Congregation Keter Torah
in Teaneck and he taught Judaic studies as a
teacher at the Frisch School in Paramus.
He introduced a concept he calls the
grand conversation into SAR High
Schools mission statement. This con-
versation between Torah and the world,
as he puts it, is rooted in the belief that
integrating secular and sacred scholarship
enriches both.
For example, biology classes learn about
organ donation and genetic engineering
from scientific, ethical, and halachic per-
spectives, while literature classes are taught
to compare the reading strategies and liter-
ary theory of biblical and secular texts.
Judaic and general studies teachers study
together, discuss and debate issues within
modern Orthodox education together, and
attend Shabbaton weekends together.
Our model of collaboration reflects
open thinking to our students, Rabbi
Harcsztark said. It informs the way
that teachers interact with students and
encourages students to develop a voice
of their own, fostering a culture of profes-
sional growth for teachers and an atmo-
sphere of vibrant learning for students.
Most importantly, we, as a school com-
munity, engage the issues of the day femi-
nism, sexual orientation, race in a trans-
parent and forthright manner through
community meetings and class discussion.
Dr. Gail Bendheim, a member of SAR
High Schools board of directors, nominated
Rabbi Harcsztark for the Covenant Award.
Tully has fully internalized a mind-
set centered on the constant dialogue
between the religious and the secular,
COURTESY SAR HIGH SCHOOL
Dr. Bendheim said. He teaches that being
open to new ideas, wherever they ema-
nate from, is central to being someone
who can make the world a better place in
a uniquely Jewish way.
Rabbi Harcsztark readily acknowledges
that this approach is easier to accomplish
on paper than in practice.
It is a very difficult balance to strike, he
said. There has to be a strong commitment
to both sides of it to halacha and learn-
ing Torah, and to an openness to hearing
people in the broader sense. Often people
choose one significantly over the other, so
either it becomes more difficult to take in
the ideas that are out there, or Torah falls
by the wayside. Its a hard thing to pull off.
You always feel like you have mixed results.
His own commitment to both sides of
it stirred some controversy in 2014, when
he ruled that two female first-year students
at SAR could continue wearing tefillin at
morning services, as they had done at their
Solomon Schechter day school. In Orthodox
practice, only males from bar mitzvah age
and up wear tefillin.
Looking back, is he still comfortable with
that decision? Yes, he said. It was not a
decision rooted in feminist principles but
in inclusiveness. There are all kinds of very
committed Jews, and I think its important
for adults in our community to recognize
and embrace that. And to become that kind
of adult, you have to see that as a kid.
This particular school has different
kinds of kids and we should embrace that
as long as we stay in the bounds of what
halacha can support. And I think it does in
this case.
He stresses, however, that I was making
a local decision for my school.
T h e way t h i s r u l i n g h a s b e e n
implemented, the one or two girls each
year who come from schools where they
have been trained from their bat mitzvah
to wear tefillin have been allowed to con-
tinue to do so. Rabbi Harcsztark said he
wouldnt support the idea of a female stu-
dent had who not been trained in this way
to begin wearing tefillin in high school,
and none has asked to do so.
We support women being as involved as
possible in learning and davening, he con-
tinued. From a role-modeling perspective,
we have both men and women teaching
Gemara and Tanach Talmud and Bible
and we have a beit midrash of five male
and five female college graduates who learn
here part of the day with kids in groups.
Raised in Brooklyn, Rabbi Harcsztark
went to Yeshiva Universitys high school
for boys (MTA), received a B.A. from
Yeshiva College, rabbinic ordination at
Yeshiva Universitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary, and an M.A. in Jew-
ish history from its Bernard Revel Gradu-
ate School. He was a fellow at New York
Universitys Tikvah Center of Jewish Law
and Civilization in 2010-11 and was a LEAP
Fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for
Advanced Jewish Studies at the University
of Pennsylvania in 2015-16.
Rabbi Harcsztark, who has lived in
Teaneck for 25 years, co-founded Davar, a
grassroots learning community dedicated to
bringing scholarly voices that dont usually
get a platform in the context of community
shuls into the Teaneck community.
He and his wife, Rebecca, a clinical psy-
chologist, have four children, who are
27, 24, and 17. The two youngest are twin
boys. One of them goes to the Torah Acad-
emy of Bergen County and the other goes
to SAR. The family belongs to Congrega-
tion Rinat Yisrael.
When the Covenant Foundation called
to say I was chosen for the award, they said
they intended to invite not only my wife
and children but also my siblings and my
mother, who live in Israel, he said. I found
that very meaningful.
Ms. Appelman, the foundations execu-
tive director, told him that the Crown fam-
ily is sensitive to the fact that the families
of Jewish communal professionals witness
the daily difficulties involved in this calling
and should also have an opportunity to see
how communal work can lead to success
and approbation.
This is about championing Jewish educa-
tion as a career, and I would like to encour-
age our graduates to go into Jewish educa-
tion, Rabbi Harcsztark said. I feel blessed
to be working in a place where there are tal-
ented modern Orthodox educators.
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Rock steady focus on Parkinsons

takes hold at the Jewish Home
Speaker will discuss importance of movement and awareness
LOIS GOLDRICH which holds that when previously automatic

S
ince last year, the Jewish Home has
paid increasing attention to Parkin-
sons disease, adding a number of
new programs for patients, their
caregivers, and others in the community with
the disease.
That is actually quite a few people, said Carol
Silver Elliott, the Jewish Home Familys presi-
dent and CEO.
Were defining a broad and growing pro-
gram for people with this condition, she said.
And were not just reaching our patient pop-
ulation. Estimating that some 10 percent of
patients have the disease, she noted that the
Jewish Home also serves others in the com-
munity. There are people who come to our
support groups, educational programs, and to Alex Kurten
Rock Steady Boxing, she said, noting that the
boxing group will be added to the program at the Jewish
Homes Assisted Living facility in River Vale this week.
In 2006, a young attorney in Indianapolis who was
diagnosed with Parkinsons and looking for a way to
slow the progress of the disease began Rock Steady
Boxing, Ms. Elliott said. One way to do that, he found,
was to engage in a boxing workout. Now, 11 years later,
there are boxing programs for people with Parkinsons
in many places.
Were the first in Bergen County to use this program,
Ms. Elliott said, but research is showing that people
improve with this. Although the reasons are not clear yet
it could be because of intense, repetitive physical activ-
ity, gains in coordination and confidence, or intellectual
stimulation. It also helps participants work on their voices,
which generally is affected by Parkinsons.
Weve added a number of therapeutic modalities for
people with Parkinsons, Ms. Elliott added, mentioning
Tai Chi, yoga, and dance among the offerings. Its very
exciting. A lot of things are under way here for the care of
people with Parkinsons.
The Jewish Home has trained 300 members of its staff
to know more about the issue. Spurred by a question
from a patients family member Why do you treat my
husband as if he has dementia? We recognized that
we needed to help the staff understand more about Par-
kinsons, Ms. Elliott said. We also learned through con-
versations with the Michael J. Fox Foundation that there
Carol Silver Elliott
are two genetic markers for Parkinsons, and theres a
higher prevalence in Ashkenazic populations.
In December, the Jewish Home sponsored an educa-
tional program on the disease. On June 28, it will offer
a second program. According to Ms. Elliott, physical
therapist and dance instructor Susan Lust a former
student of Alex Kerten, the Israeli author of Goodbye
Parkinsons, Hello Life! put the Home in touch with
her former teacher.
This book focuses on patient-centered care, Ms. Lust
said. I think it presents a new and powerful message to
the health-care industry that patients, working with
experts such as Alex Kerten, can take control of their
health. Ms. Kertens writings on the subject have been
cited by the National Parkinsons Association and the
Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Mr. Kerten who lives in Herzliya, where his Gyro-
Kinetics Center is housed said that his story began when
he was in his early 20s and went to Japan to study martial
arts. (He holds seven black belts.) When he returned to
Israel, he worked with structuring and healing move-
ments, he said. He describes gyro-kinetics as a technique
that uses movement, music, proper breathing techniques,
and exercises to help people with Parkinsons take back
control of their lives.
The body needs rhythm, expression, and movement,
he said in a phone conversation, adding that he has been
very influenced by the martial arts and the art of moving,
actions are no longer reliable, a patient must
learn to move and speak consciously.
I started to investigate the effects of music
on behavior, Mr. Kerten said. I put that into
martial arts at the dojo where he worked.
People came who had problems with expres-
sion, concentration, posture, movement, and
breathing. It worked well with that.
After a while, he realized that many of
the people who came to him were suffer-
ing from Parkinsons disease. So, he said,
30 years ago he began to focus on that con-
dition, leaving behind his other pursuits,
except for martial arts.
To that end, Mr. Kerten approached many
of Israels leading doctors who worked with
neurology and Parkinsons. Because he spe-
cialized in the arts of movement and behav-
ior, many of the doctors were skeptical at
first. But soon his hands-on approach, demonstrated at
an international convention in Rome in 2004, received
high marks.
If it didnt prove itself, I wouldnt have been able to
keep up my work, he said, noting that Parkinsons is not
only biochemical but a chronic behavioral disease.
Much depends on awareness, he said, describing a
Parkinsons instinct that comes into play in breathing
and facial expressions. By breaking down each of these
movements and demonstrating different ways to breathe,
Mr. Kerten said, he has been effective in helping patients
restore their healthy instinct.
The basis of martial arts is breathing, Mr. Kerten added.
Im 72 years old and still on the mat. I breathe my rhythm
or I wouldnt be able to do it. You breathe according to
what you have to do. He said that he has had business-
men clients who come to him to learn to speak rhythmi-
cally and expressively. Everything is movement heart,
breathing, our digestive system. If youre aware of the
rhythm of movement, you can direct it.
At his workshop on June 28 in River Vale, Mr. Kerten
will give Parkinsons patients basic exercises to make
them aware of the acts they perform. His goal, he said, is
to prove to them that they can do it differently.
For more information, get in touch with the Jewish
Home Family at jewishhomefamily.org. Mr. Kertens
book, published by Divine Arts Media in 2015, is avail-
able from Amazon.

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Jews in America
Historian to talk about assimilation, identity, and distinct culture
JOANNE PALMER
H
ow integrated are Jews into
American culture?
That seems like a fairly
easy question. Were pretty
well integrated.
But what effect has that integration
had on the Jews?
And how do those two questions play
off each other?
Dr. Richard Rubin, who retired after
teaching at Swarthmore College for
almost three decades, specializing in
race and ethnicity in general and Jews in
America in particular, will address those
questions at Congregation Beth Sholom
in Teaneck at a Teaneck-Hackensack
Hadassah meeting. (See box for more
details.) His talk will be based on his
recent book, Jewish in America: Living
George Washingtons Promise.
There are two principal themes in
the book, Dr. Rubin said. How inte-
grated are we? Remember that there
was a time, not so long ago, when there
were quotas that kept Jews out of some
colleges. There is an evolving element of
integration in Jewish life.
On the other hand, has integration
brought about a large-scale assimila-
tion? Is there any distinctive Jewish ele-
ment left?
Those two ideas are at the core of
my book, he continued. That core
includes intermarriage, it includes
where and what Jews could do, and
when, and it compares, for example,
what it was like in Europe, when Jews
wanted to integrate but they were
always a people apart.
The period hes discussing starts
around the 18th century, when Jews
started trickling out of the ghettos to
which theyd been confined in Europe.
In America, on the other hand, there
never was a ghetto, unless Jewish people
decided that they wanted to be in one,
he said. That was from the beginning.
The book begins with George Washing-
tons promise, in the letter he wrote
to the Jews of Rhode Island thats
the famous 1790 letter to the Hebrew
Congregation of Newport where he
Who: Dr. Richard Rubin, author of Jewish in America: Living George
Washingtons Promise
What: Will look at history to talk about whether American Jews are losing their
Jewish identity
When: On Monday, June 19, at 1 p.m.
Where: At Congregation Beth Sholom, 354 Maitland Ave. in Teaneck
For whom: Teaneck-Hackensack Hadassah
For more information: On the talk, call Minette Salzman at (201) 837-8157. On
the book, go to jewishinamericabook.com
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Dr. Richard Rubin
said that Jews will be full citizens of
this country. No one had ever said that
before, and it wasnt said until many
years later in France and Germany.
In England, Jews couldnt sit in the
government until the 1850s. In France,
it happened in the first decade of the
You can count
me in as one of
those who is
trying to make
the point that
there is plenty
of Jewish culture
left. The culture
is very strong.
1880s, not because of popular belief
but because of Napoleon, who for some
reason, said that Jews could be citizens.
But it was with a caveat he said that as
Frenchmen they could have everything,
as Jews they could have nothing.
That was diametrically opposed to
what Washington promised the Jewish
people. What he said was that minor-
ity cultures will be protected. Not just
majority cultures thats obvious but
minority cultures.
And it has been that pluralist Ameri-
can way ever since then.
In his book, Dr. Rubin said, he traces
a period of minimal anti-Semitism in
the United States in the beginning, and
then the period of social anti-Semitism,
which was quite severe from the 1890s
to after the Second World War. That was
the period of college quotas, of hotels
you couldnt go to, of all sorts of other
social inhibitions.
And then I cover the Jewish renais-
sance in the United States, the beautiful
time when the whole Jewish world got
turned upside down in America, where
not only did they integrate into the
business world and had all sorts of eco-
nomic opportunities, but it was the end
of quotas in universities and colleges,
the end of the dishonor of not allowing
people into hotels.
This started in the early 1960s, when
the U.S. government, which had passed
no laws about Jews, started to pass laws
that encompassed Jews. One of them
was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which
basically outlawed discrimination in
public places and in public organiza-
tions. Not only did it prevent discrimi-
nation on the basis of race and gender,
it also included religion.
But many Jews, particularly in Ortho-
dox communities, worry that as Jews
have integrated into American society,
the Jewish voice becomes smaller. They
are taken over by common beliefs, so
that the Jewish voice is hardly heard.
Dr. Rubins data for his look at more
recent assimilation comes largely from
the huge Pew Foundation studies on
religion in America, which were so big
that they incorporated a lot of informa-
tion on Jews. It was an absolute gold
mine, he said. Because Jews are only
about 2 percent of the United States
population, random samples have to be
very large before they can reach enough
Jews to see patterns in their answers.
Pews researchers did that. the poster children for this countrys
Jewish people today are the most
politically liberal, the most progressive,
of any social group in the country, Dr.
Rubin said. They are the most tolerant
of other groups. And they are the most
this-worldly people, compared with the
rest of the country; the least likely to
believe in miracles, the most scientifi-
cally oriented.
He offered an example. The Pew
study asked if you think that angels and
demons are active in this world. Sixty to
The Pew study
asked if you
think that angels
and demons are
active in this
world. Sixty to
70 percent of
Christians said
yes. And Jews?
Its somewhere
in the 20s. These
are not small
differences.
70 percent of Christians said yes. And
Jews? Its somewhere in the 20s. These
are not small differences.
In fact, as with angels and devils, the
differences between Jews and other
groups can be stark. In 2008, about
80 percent of Jewish people voted for
Obama, Dr. Rubin said. Among Prot-
estants, 35 percent voted for Obama.
He thinks that it had to do with race.
There have been many indications that
Jewish people are more liberal about
race than other groups, he said.
Jews also tend to be liberal about
abortion, he added. Approximately
90 percent of Jews approved of Roe v.
Wade. In the United States as a whole,
it ranged from 36 percent to 44 percent
approval. There is no majority for it
among any group except for us.
What I found is that Jews are very
distinctive, Dr. Rubin said. There is a
strong Jewish element that has survived
integration on a high level. So there is
integration, but not assimilation.
At the heart of the book is the idea
that American pluralism the plural-
ism the country was founded on is
very deeply accepted by Jews. Jews are
ideals.
Dr. Rubin, who is 88 years old and
has seen a lot, is optimistic. The Jew-
ish people are unique in America, he
said. Jewish people have their own way
of looking at things. I dont know what
that is yet, but someday social scientists
will identify it.
You can count me in as one of those
who is trying to make the point that
there is plenty of Jewish culture left.
The culture is very strong.
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State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg

speaks at Ben Porat Yosef in honor of Jerusalems
reunification.

Jerusalem
reunification
celebrated at
Capitol, Knesset,
and Paramus
LARRY YUDELSON

S
tate Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg
joined House Speaker Paul Ryan and Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in celebrat-
ing the 50th anniversary of the reunification of
Jerusalem last week.
Ms. Weinberg was with Mr. Ryan and Mr. Netanyahu
virtually. She spoke at the Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva Day
School in Paramus. The others were on a simulcast that
featured Israeli and American leaders.
The broadcast last Wednesday was organized
nationally by Israels ambassador to the United
States, Ron Dermer. The speeches were delivered
at the U.S. Capitol and at the Knesset, in Jerusalem,
and those two venues broadcast a live stream of each
others activities.
Ben Porat Yosef was the New Jersey outpost for
the celebration; similar gatherings were held in the
other 49 states.
Speaker Ryan (R-Wis.) reflected on his personal expe-
rience visiting Jerusalems holy sites, and lauded the
bravery of Israeli troops who captured the eastern part
of the city during the Six-Day War in 1967.
After thousands of years in exile, the Jewish people
are finally back home home in their eternal, united
capital of Jerusalem, never to be divided again, he said.
Addressing American supporters of Israel, Mr. Netan-
yahu said: We know that you understand that the
story of Israel, in many ways, the rebirth of Israel and
our return to this land and to this city is a parable
for all humanity. Because if the Jews can overcome the
worst travails in history, that means there is hope for all
humanity.
The U.S ambassador to Israel, David Friedman,
attended the broadcast at the Knesset.
An American military band opened the event at the

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the

global webcast from the Knesset in Jerusalem.

As many Israelis of
my generation I do
have deep ties to that
period. Every Jew in
the world has deep
ties to Jerusalem.
Capitol with the Star-Spangled Banner and closed
with Yerushalayim Shel Zahal Jerusalem of Gold
a song whose final verse was written after the citys
reunification. Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate
who is a major backer of pro-Israel and Republican
party causes, sat with Mr. Ryan and Mr. Dermer at the
Washington event. Ofer Shelah, a Knesset member with
the centrist Yesh Atid party was also at the Capitol, and
he talked about his feelings about the events of 1967.
My son now is a reserves paratrooper, a member of
the same brigade that freed Jerusalem, Mr. Shelah said.
As many Israelis of my generation I do have deep ties
to that period. Every Jew in the world has deep ties to
Jerusalem.
Ben Porat Yosefs eighth graders were at the Paramus
broadcast. Jason Shames, CEO of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey; Galit Peleg of the Israeli consul-
ate in New York; Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi, and
Mark Levenson, chairman of the New Jersey-Israel Com-
mission, all were there as well.

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FIRST PERSON

Not another hill!

I
JAMES L. JANOFF

ts nearly a week after the Jewish

Family and Childrens Services of
Northern New Jerseys Wheels for
Meals Bikeathon and I lived to
tell the story.
I made it comfortably through the first
half unscathed, but toward mile 19 of the
25-mile course, I could hear Roseanne
Roseannadanna saying I FELT LIKE I
WAS GONNA DIE.
Not another hill!
Biking through these Bergen County
elevations with temperatures of 90 plus
degrees is something you might want to
experience one day. Or maybe not.
Its a mental game, where youre telling
yourself there is no room for failure. You
pedal as fast as you can, and its not fast
enough.
At mile 19 I look down and have a con-
versation with my legs. Ever talk to your
legs? How is it possible they can function
under such heat and stress? Yes, the body
is truly a wondrous machine.
I made it up those last hills, but toward
the end lots of people passed me. I won-
dered how they could climb so fast. I
wanted to be them and wondered if that
ever was possible.
Im here today to say I will make that
happen. Jewish Standard riders Beth Chananie,
So, yes, I finished the 25-mile trek and Jamie Janoff, and Jerry Szubin are ready
marvel at the people who took part in the to go; Beths husband, Rob Chananie,
45-mile course. stands behind to cheer them on.
My sister, Beth Chananie, and our pro-
duction manager, Jerry Szubin, repre-
sented Team Jewish Standard. Beth now
has a renewed interest in biking and health
and completed her course. On to bigger I tell them that
and longer treks. One day at a time.
Jerry, on the other hand, is an accom-
its great to feel
plished cyclist. We work together, and he alive, and that
is a regular source of inspiration to me.
When he wraps his head around some-
they should
thing, there is no turning back. make tomorrow
Many of people have asked me about
our undertaking. Most of them want to
the day they feel
know what it was like to leave my comfort inspired to be
zone and push myself to the limit.
I tell them that its great to feel alive, and
different. To try
that they should make tomorrow the day something they
they feel inspired to be different. To try
something they didnt think they could do.
didnt think they
To learn more about who they really are could do.
and how much they really can do.
For now, contribute online to JFCS and look forward to getting their lives in order
make its bikeathon an even greater suc- and experience their dreams. Just go to
cess. In turn, the people they help can www.ridetofighthunger.com.

They made it! Jerry watches as

Jamie rehydrates after the race.

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Breakfast Were thrilled to be partners with Yad

Leah at this breakfast because its impor-
tant to highlight the daily, real-world issues

for Israel Israelis face that you dont usually see in

the headlines whether its a crisis like a
car accident, or daily challenges like find-
ing clothing, Erik Levis, Magen David
Local activists Adoms communications director, said.
raise money for We hope that, with this breakfast and
thanks to Elie Katzs leadership, we can
two diverse charities raise awareness and help improve peo-
ples lives in a country we care so deeply
about.
BANJI GANCHROW Contrary to a lot of assumptions, MDA
does not receive Israeli government fund-
Children learn through example. When ing for its operations, Mr. Levis continued.
their parents volunteer time or money to So support from Americans including
charities, they are acting as role models for critical and consistent support from New
the next generation. When their time or Jersey residents really makes an impact,
money benefit Israel, thats a whole other, Elie and Esther Katz donated this ambulance to Magen David Adom in 2015. Mr. because it allows MDA to function daily as
even higher level. Katz and his sister-in-law, Jessica Katz, will host the first Breakfast for Israel. the world-class lifesaving organization it is
Elie Y. Katz of Teaneck and his sister- today. To that end, most of our supporters
in-law, Jessica Katz of Passaic, will host the first Break- accomplish as volunteers, even when they are young. love the fact that theyre directly helping save someones
fast for Israel. (See the box for more information.) The Magen David Adom is Israels national ambulance, life in Israel or in some cases helping deliver new life, as
breakfast will bring attention to two important organiza- blood services, and disaster-relief organization. Its mis- many babies are delivered on MDA ambulances.
tions Magen David Adom and Yad Leah. In addition, sion is to provide lifesaving services to all Israelis. It also Mr. Katz has been involved with MDA since his gap
the breakfast also will recognize the Frisch School, the is Israels official affiliate of the International Red Cross, year in Israel in 1993, when he began volunteering for
Moriah School, Yeshivat HeAtid, Yeshivat Noam, and which means that it responds to crises all over the world. the organization. But Ms. Katz, his sister-in-law, who is
Yavneh Academy. Volunteering is an integral part of the Yad Leah makes sure that people who cannot afford Yad Leahs director, was an integral part of Yad Leahs
curriculum at those schools. Students learn what they can clothing easily still can dress with modesty and dignity. SEE ISRAEL BREAKFAST PAGE 50

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Letter from Israel

How does our garden grow? Better ask Shmulik!
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

Visitors always compliment us on our gor-

geous garden. As if we had something to
do with its lush beauty. Um, no except
for the money we pay Shmulik every
month for tending his creation.
Honestly, its not our garden. Its
Shmuliks garden, although he objects
when I say that, because as a traditional
Israeli, with a full appreciation for the mir-
acle of the blooming desert, he gives all the
credit to God and that is fine by me.
However you look at it, Steve and I
do not deserve any kudos. We have four
brown thumbs between us. Want proof?
Several people gave us pots of mint as
housewarming gifts when we moved into
our spanking-new duplex-plus-yard in
August 2008. We were warned that mint
quickly can grow out of control. That was
not a problem for us. Each and every mint
plant was dead as a doornail within a week
or two.
Our new houses backyard was 100
square meters of dirt. We had a patio
installed that was large enough for a good-
sized sukkah and for our grand-
children-to-be to ride around on
their little trikes and have a catch.
And then we got stuck .
What next?
We wanted some greenery to
offset the stark brown beauty of
the Judean hills just beyond our Above, the Leichmans tile patio is fringed with bushes, flowers,
back fence. A lawn would take too and shrubs. Inset, a sitting area designed by Shmulik is set off
much water and too much labor. by white pebbles.
We considered, and rejected, arti-
ficial turf, as well as someones leave a corner of his me to announce what day and time hell
suggestion that we tile over the landscaping master- be arriving. Requesting no more than a
entire expanse. Admittedly that piece unplanted. glass of water, he proceeds to dig into the
would have saved us a bundle on From that moment sweaty labor of trimming, weeding, prun-
maintenance, but it wasnt the on, my wise husband ing, and planting.
aesthetic we were seeking. turned over all respon- When hes done, he calls upstairs to my
So when the shmitta (sab- sibility for Shmulik and office Giveret Leichman! so I can come
batical) year ended after Rosh his garden to me. and admire his handiwork. We spend a
Hashanah and we were permitted to start mowing, and toof, a brown groundcover And because I am no match for an artiste few minutes chatting about life and shar-
planting, we asked around and got a rec- of porous volcanic rock fragments. like Shmulik, we soon had trees bearing ing family photos before he hauls his tools
ommendation to call Shmulik. We never It all sounded fabulous, until he told us pears, pomegranates, pecans, peaches, into the house, out our front door, and
saw a need to get a second opinion. how much this would cost. nectarines, and kumquats. The fruit, flow- into the elevator.
That October, he strode into the brown How about we do it in stages? I sug- ers, and shrubs thrive on a steady diet He frequently scolds me about some-
dusty wilderness beyond our patio door, gested, turning slightly green. You could of computer-controlled drip irrigation thing or other: I didnt pick the nectarines
took out a sketchpad, asked a few ques- leave the trees for next year. adjusted seasonally and easy to turn off soon enough, I harvested the grape clus-
tions very few and sketched out Shmulik looked at me wide-eyed, as if on the rare occasion that it rains here in ters too soon, I should have cut some roses
his vision. I had insulted his mother. This is a look I Maaleh Adumim. Due to the variety and to put in a vase before they died on the
There would be all sorts of shrubbery, have come to know well. the climate, something is always blooming, vine. I smile and promise to get it right the
such as sage and aloe, roses and birds of Giveret Leichman Mrs. Leichman and the riotous colors are breathtaking. next time. He holds up his palms toward
paradise, bougainvillea and bushes I am he intoned in a calm but command- I love to sit on the canopied swing on me and says sincerely, No, no! Do what-
ashamed to admit I cant name. There ing voice, this is not possible. And he Shabbat afternoons, neighbors cats snug- ever you want! Youre the boss!
would be decorative pots of flowers to proceeded to explain, in slow and easy gled on either side of me, drinking in the But Im not. And its a darn good thing,
be replenished as needed. There would Hebrew for his clueless client, that the gar- sight of our mini utopia. too.
be a sitting area carpeted with white peb- den design was an organic whole. I grasped Shmulik used to depend on me to
bles for a lawn swing. There would be six his point in a flash: just as Leonardo da phone him for maintenance appoint- Abigail Klein Leichman lived in Teaneck
fruit trees and a grapevine. There would Vinci could not have left a corner of the ments, but I could not be trusted to call until she made aliyah. She occasionally
be a green groundcover that needed no Mona Lisa unfinished, Shmulik could not often enough, so he began WhatsApping reflects on her new life through her Letters

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JHF outing a wet and wild hole-in-one

Not even the rain that fell all day could
keep more than 250 friends and support-
ers away from the Jewish Home Founda-
tions 22nd annual Golf, Tennis, and Card
Outing, held at the Montammy Golf Club
in Alpine on May 22. The day honored
Robert Peckar for his years of leadership
and support.
Howard Chernin and Warren Feldman
were the outing co-chairs; Howard Blatt
and Marc Blatt the golf co-chairs; and
David Edelberg, Howard Lippman, Susan
Penn, and Barry Wien were the tennis
co-chairs.

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Howard Blatt, a board member of the Jewish Home Family; honoree Robert David Konigsberg; Erich Frank; Peter Martin, the president of the Jewish Home
Peckar; and the Jewish Home Familys president and CEO, Carol Silver Elliott Assisted Living, and Karl Kaplan

Myrna Block, a member of the Jewish Home Family board; Gayle Gerstein, president of the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh; Cynthia Low; and Beth Shiffman, a member of the Jewish Home Assisted Living Jeffrey Goldsmith and outing co-chair Warren Feldman
board, with her husband, Howard

Lisa Mactas, Jewish Home at Rockleigh board member; Eli Ungar, Jew- Joanne Hassan Perlman, a
ish Home Family chair; and Marty Zaikov, Jewish Home Foundation board board member of the Jewish
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Norpac invites Senator McCaskill Volunteers honored at Beth Tikvah

as speaker for Teaneck meeting
Temple Beth Tikvah holds its volunteer appreciation Shabbat

COURTESY NORPAC
Rella Feldman and Curtiss Pulitzer will chair a Norpac meeting during services at 7:30 p.m. on Friday night.
featuring Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Thursday, June Volunteers who have given their time and talents this fiscal
22, at 7:30 p.m., in Teaneck. For information, email Avi@NOR- year will be thanked and recognized in a special service. New
PAC.net or call (201) 788-5133. officers will also be installed and a special dessert oneg Shabbat
Senator Claire McCaskill will follow.
Mitchell Herman will receive the Rafes award. He was the shuls
chief negotiator during the last three years, a member of the pres-
idents and security committees, and a choir member.
The shul is at 950 Preakness Ave. For information, call (973) Mitchell Herman
595-6565.

Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn

Rabbi Mordechai Shain cuts the ribbon with, from left, founders
Josh Lapsker, Aron Forem, and Michael Young.
Lubavitch on the Palisades marks
opening of Chabad Academy wing
Lubavitch on the Palisades held its 21st
annual gala dinner on June 6. It cele-
brated a milestone the formal open-
ing of its new school wing, the Tenafly
Chabad Academy (TCA), which includes
a 6,000-square-foot gymnasium, a sci-
ence STEM lab, a media center, and
eight new classrooms. At the dinner,
RAFAEL DAYAN PHOTOGRAPHY
installs a host of officers
Rabbi Alberto Zeilicovich presided on
Shabbat as Temple Beth Sholom of Fair
Lawn installed officers. They include pres-
ident Ira Kastrinsky, executive vice presi-
dent and treasurer Barry Cohen, as well as
officers Gerry Platter, Alan Lewis, Robert
Rubenstein, Arlene Liebman, Marian Man-
ners, and Andrea Milstein. The board also
includes vice presidents Marcia Geller,
Michael Friedman, Jeffrey Dube, Martin Ira Kastrinsky Barry Cohen
Reichardt, Susan Friedman, Liz Schwarz,
Stuart Liebman, Iona Friedman, and Joseph Meer, and trustees.
the schools founders were recognized. Co-president Susan Silver stepped down after a two-year term. Temple Beth Sholom is
They are Amit and Nati Barnoon, Suzette a Conservative synagogue celebrating its 60th anniversary.
and Harold Diamond, Barbara and Aron
Forem, Josh Lapsker, David Mintz, Key-
van and Ann Rabbani, Shevy and Dr.
Josh Rovner, Ellen and Lloyd Sokoloff,
and Gloria and Michael Young.

JTS dinner pays tribute

to Chancellor Arnold Eisen
The Jewish Theological Semi-
nary and members of the Jew-
ish community celebrated
Arnold Eisens first 10 years as
its chancellor last week at the

COURTESY CHABAD
2017 Louis Marshall awards din-
ELLEN DUBIN PHOTOGRAPHY

ner, held at the Intercontinental

Barclay.
Panelists discussed moral
leadership and ethical commit-
ment, and what those concepts
mean in todays political envi- An evening of friendship,
ronment. They offered insights
on going beyond comfort zones From left, Rabbi Jan Uhrbach of JTS, the
appreciation, and awards
and traditional norms, with an panels moderator, joins E.J. Dionne of the On June 5, the Friendship Circle of Pas- include Friends at Home, Sports Series,
emphasis on Jewish leadership Washington Post, Rabbi Sharon Brous, saic County held its 12th annual Evening holiday and swim events, yoga, music, par-
and commitment. founder and senior rabbi of Ikar in Los of Appreciation and Awards. Nearly 100 ent workshops, and camps.
We are betting that JTS will Angeles, JTS Chancellor Arnie Eisen, and teens from Wayne, Clifton, and Passaic The guest speaker was Joseph JB
continue to play a unique role, Daryl Roth, the Tony Award-winning producer, were recognized for their love and dedi- Bensmihen, who has cerebral palsy, was
an essential role, in taking Juda- in a discussion of Moral Leadership. cation to special friends at the Friendship instrumental in changing laws for peo-
ism way downfield, Dr. Eisen Circle of Passaic County. ple with disabilities, graduated from YU,
said, borrowing a football metaphor course be big rather than small, and will The Friendship Circle reaches out and moved to Florida, and was a candidate
from the critic Leon Wieseltier. Youll have a lot to do with meaning, commu- extends friendship to children with spe- for the U.S. House of Representatives
be hearing from me in coming months nity, and leadership, the heart and soul cial needs and their families. Its programs from Florida.
about the plans for my next chapter of JTS, all goals that our new campus will
as chancellor, our plans, which will of help us advance.

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Rockland
Looking back at anger
Upper Nyack writer blends music and labor history in new book
LARRY YUDELSON right after the Civil War until today. The more I looked

D
aniel Wolff of Upper Nyack remembers being an
angry kid growing up in Westchester. His elders
told him he would grow up and out of his rage.
He didnt think so.
It turned out he was right. Despite what my elders told
me when I was 13, my anger hasnt gone away, Mr. Wolff
said this week.
Mr. Wolff has, however, harnessed that anger, and the
result has been productive. This week his latest book,
Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan,
Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913, was
published to wide acclaim.
Mr. Wolff already has written books on topics ranging
from the singer Sam Cooke to the city of Asbury Park; from
New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to the history of Ameri-
can education. In 2013, Rockland County gave him its Liter-
ary Artist award.
Grown-Up Anger begins as the author first hears Bob
Dylans hit Like a Rolling Stone, not all that long after his
bar mitzvah. I thought that was a great song, Mr. Wolff
said. I thought that guy is telling the truth, and he seems
as angry as I am.
Looking back more than 50 years later, where does Mr.
Wolff think his anger came from? I think it has to do with
justice and fairness, he said. Is it the Jewish tradition to be
angry? I ask that as a question.
I had a privileged childhood. Personally I was fine. But it
didnt seem like a fair world in many ways. The basic social
inequity of haves and have-nots bothered me. It was some-
thing people almost appeared not to notice, as if youre not
to supposed to bring it up. It seemed to me very obvious.
But what about Bob Dylans anger? Mr. Wolff traces a
line from Dylan to Dylans early idol and influence, Woody
Guthrie. When Dylan recorded his first album, he sang a
at labor history, the more interesting it became, he
said. It tends not to be talked about a whole lot here.
The labor movement arose when industrialism
was becoming strong and stronger. Big factories were
being built. Workers essentially said, Whats my piece
of this? How did this end up being fair?
An awful lot of these workers were immigrants, he
continued. Jews and gentiles, people who had come
from Europe and had studied the idea of socialism,
the idea of equal distribution of wealth. They came to
this new land that seemed to promise that, and they
discovered it wasnt happening. They fought back.
The book weaves together this history with biogra-
phies of Dylan and Guthrie. Mr. Wolff found the sing-
ers to be good company.
Often when you write a book you become tired
and angry with your subject matter, because it takes
years, he said. I came to appreciate Dylan and Guth-
rie more than when I started. That surprised me. I was
surprised by how sincere Bob Dylan is. He
often gets pictured as a cynic, something of a
recluse. He seems to have been in many ways
a very straightforward guy, a Jewish kid from
Daniel Wolff a small little town in the Midwest who had
enormous dreams mostly inspired by music
was a very patriarchal, con- that he went out to pursue. In some ways I
trolling company. It was a think he did it in the gentlest way possible.
company town. Everyone Dylan and Guthrie have been inspirations
went to the company school, to me on how as a grownup you act on anger.
shopped at the company I thought, let me try to lay this out for people.
store, and got buried in the It might help other people. I didnt know wed
company graveyard. have the division in America we have now, but
They had a strike. The its not surprising.
owners figured that if they When people tell you youll grow out of your
could hold out to winter, anger, it means adjusting to the inequitable status

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composition, Song to Woody, which borrowed the tune the strike would break. quo that people like Dylan and Guthrie encour-

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from Guthries 1941 song, 1913 Massacre. Which raised the The strike appeared to be pretty well over. aged me not to adjust to, Mr. Wolff said.
question: What inspired Guthrie that inspired Dylan that As a final gesture, the striking miners mostly immigrants Does he see Dylanesque anger on todays Ameri-
inspired me? had a Christmas party for their kids. Someone came in can scene?

Tovah!
The short answer is that Guthrie, who was born in 1912, and yelled Fire! in the crowded hall. By the end, 73 people Weve seen manifestations of it in Occupy and

Tovah!
learned about the 1913 Calumet massacre from a book. How 59 of them children had been smothered to death in Black Lives Matter, and in a bunch of efforts for
accurate that book was, and how accurate was Guthries the stairwell. everything from trying to solve the situation in the
rendering of it in a ballad, is one of the mysteries Wolff s Guthries song told the story in 10 stanzas. The final line Middle East to environmental matters. Both Guthrie
book explores. had the mourning strikers pointing an angry finger: See and Dylan came about at a time where a large social
The gist of the story, Mr. Wolff said, is that in 1913, the what your greed for money has done. movement was happening already. We dont have that
workers at the Calumet Copper Company in Michigan were Which is how a book that starts with an angry rock song kind of focused social protest right now, but I think
Wishing you a sweetyou
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Cover Story
I have been blessed
Rabbi Kenneth Emert of Beth Rishon,
about to retire after 22 years, looks back with love
I
JOANNE PALMER
ts the whole insider/outsider
thing.
The question of whether a
person feels that he or she
can fit easily and com-
fortably inside a stereo-
type, or if that set of assumptions
somehow is a tight, even con-
straining fit, can be the question
that undergirds a lifetime of
experiences.
It also combines (bear with
me here, please) with the glass-
half-full/glass-half-empty thing.
If you dont quite fit into any
one box, are you doomed to live
outside it entirely, or can you
make a career out of combin-
ing boxes? Of balancing between
them? In other words, is it a bad
thing that you dont quite fit in, or
can you turn that into a wonderfully
good thing?
Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Emert, who is 65
and about to retire after 22 years at Tem-
ple Beth Rishon at Wyckoff, straddles the
Reform and Conservative worlds. (Ouch!
Sounds painful.) Hes a member of both
the Reform movements Central Council
of American Rabbis and the Conservative
movements Rabbinical Assembly. Beth
Rishon is happily unaffiliated with either
movement, instead bridging the gaps
between them.
So how did that happen? How, in a
world of deep division, does Rabbi Emert
manage his balancing act? Why does he
even want to? Why does it seem to give
him such great joy?
Lets start at the beginning, with a happy
but unconventional family for a rabbi.
Kenneth Emerts parents, Edith and
Fred, had five sons; Kenneth was the
fourth of them. Fred Emert, a New York
City police officer, eventually became a
22 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 16, 2017
detective, and a member of the NYPDs
Shomrim Society, the association of Jewish
city cops. We first lived on the Lower East
Side, Rabbi Emert said. But then the fam-
ily moved up and out to Queens. They set-
tled in Electchester, an apartment devel-
opment (dont call it a project!) in Flushing
built, as its name suggests, for members
of the electricians union and their fami-
lies. My father wasnt an electrician, but
he knew someone, Rabbi Emert said.
We grew up in a very nice three-bedroom
apartment. With one bathroom
Before his father made detective, his
job included guarding important people.
My father guarded Eisenhower, Rabbi
Emert said. (That, of course, was President
Dwight David Eisenhower.) As a result, a
guy showed up at our apartment one
day with a slew of toys. They came
with a truck, and it was a truckload
of toys. All kinds of toys.
Like all police officers, his job
also often put Fred Emert in dan-
ger. He was shot in a hospital
in Queens when I was in grade
school, Rabbi Emert said. He
recovered, but it was a forma-
tive experience for his sons.
The Emerts were active
Jews. My father was the presi-
dent of the Electchester Jewish
Center a Conservative shul
and Rabbi Aaron Pearl was
my rabbi and my mentor grow-
ing up, Rabbi Emert said. (That
relationship, always important
to Rabbi Emert, took on addi-
tional significance when Rabbi
Pearl, who had moved to Wyckoff,
recruited Rabbi Emert as his succes-
sor but thats far in the future at this
point in his story.)
Rabbi Pearl often was a guest on two
late-night radio shows. One was a well-
known, eclectic, eccentric talkfest hosted
by the influential host who called him-
self Long John Nebel. The other was the
equally influential Barry Gray. I would
stay up from midnight to five in the morn-
ing to listen to Rabbi Pearl on Long John,
Rabbi Emert said. And sometimes he
would mention my name.
Kenneth Emert went to Hebrew school
at his shul, and then to a regional Hebrew
high school at the Queensboro Hill Jew-
ish Center. (That shuls rabbi was Albert
Thaler, who for decades, as a summer job,
headed Camp Ramah Nyack, the day camp
that has educated and thrilled thousands
of metropolitan area kids.) He continued
his Jewish education at Prozdor, the Jewish
Theological Seminarys high school after-
school program. He also was very active
in his shuls USY group. During college, he
was a counselor on USY on Wheels, the
trip that toured the United States, haul-
ing high school students around the coun-
try in buses, and he also worked on USY
Encampment, as the end-of-summer USY
leaders get-together was called.
Rabbi Emert went to Queens College
just a short walk away and then spent
a college year at the State University of
New York in Stony Brook. He was fluent
in Spanish, majored in that language,
Except there
was that Jewish
thing. That
nagging pull.
That desire that
never could sate
itself in Spanish.
and decided that he wanted to teach
Romance languages. Everything seemed
straightforward.
Except there was that Jewish thing. That
nagging pull. That desire that never could
sate itself in Spanish.
After his year at Stony Brook, Rabbi
Emert went to Israel to study. He was
there for a year and a half; when he came
home and returned to Queens College, he
switched his major to Hebrew language
and literature. And then I applied to rab-
binical school, he said.
He applied to the Hebrew Union Col-
lege Jewish Institute of Religion in Man-
hattan, was accepted, and eventually was
ordained there.
Why did this active Conservative Jew

decide to be ordained by the Reform
movement? It wasnt that he wasnt com-
fortable in either; its more that he felt at
home in both. A choice was necessary. I
was always on the left wing of the Conser-
vative movement, Rabbi Emert said. It
was pretty much of a toss-up, which move-
ment to choose. And which school HUC
or the Conservative movements Jewish
Theological Seminary.
Part of his choice had to do with music.
When he was a child and a teenager, some
big Conservative shuls used organs at
Shabbat services, but music was far more
important to the Reform movement than
in the Conservative world. Rabbi Emert
came from a musical family One of my
brothers is an oboist in the Brazil Phil-
harmonic, he said and he plays piano,
sings, and loves chazzanut, he said.
Still, HUC was unfamiliar ground for
him, at least at first. I had a liturgical back-
ground, he said. Although it has changed
a great deal since then, when he was a stu-
dent there HUC was classical Reform, with
formal (its critics might say airless) ser-
vices and Protestant-influenced decorum.
At HUC, they did not know the siddur,
Rabbi Emert said. And I kept kosher I
still keep kosher and they were bringing
in treif sandwiches. I had to put a barrier
up when I ate in the cafeteria.
I got a greater appreciation of Jewish
music from HUC. And it also had a better
background in philosophy.
I didnt know if it was the right school
e for me when I went there, he said. And
h then later, I knew it was the right one.
Rabbi Emerts first congregation was a
t small one in Smithtown, way out on Long
. Islands Suffolk County. It was Conserva-
tive, but to the left of the left of the left, he
t said. I had never seen anything like that.
e Next, he went to Rockford, Illinois. It was
called the Rome of the Midwest, he said.
. It had 500 churches in a town of 135,000
people. You are the rabbi not only for the
Jewish community, but for the Christian
community as well.
He loved it.
The synagogue was classical Reform.
They almost didnt hire me because I
kept kosher, he said. But they wanted
me, I think, because they saw an ener-
getic spirit, and I think they were looking
for authenticity.
When I first got there, I said that this is
a synagogue, not a temple thats termi-
nology that often demarcates where in the
Jewish world you stand. The Reform move-
ment has temples, the modern Orthodox
world has congregations, synagogues, and
shuls, and the Conservative movement has
some of all of them. Someone there said
no. This is not a synagogue. It is a temple.
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We had people there who were really glatt
Reform, and to some of them I looked
Orthodox. There were two factions, but I
was able to move them slowly from a con-
gregation that had very little to one that
was more mainstream Reform.
Edith and
When he was in Rockford, Rabbi Emert
New York
earned his doctoral degree at a Christian
City Police
seminary, the University of Dubuque
Detective
Fred Emert.
I was the only
rabbi in my class.
In fact, I was the
only Jew in the
class. And I was
the only rabbi
theyd ever had
in the seminary.
Theological Seminary. I wanted to really
understand Christianity more, he said.
That desire came from a program at an
evangelical church in Rockford. I said
to the pastor, My tradition says that the
righteous of all nations have a share in
the world to come. What does your reli-
gion say?
I knew that there is no salvation out-
side of Christ. The question of how does an
evangelical Christian answer that question
authentically is what spurred me to go to The Emert brothers and their father.
Dubuque. The question is how do we have
a dialogue? What happens when theology
and basic human decency, the instinct to
politeness, clash?
The standard answer is that all of us
can be saved, he said; it glosses over the
fact that you must accept their savior for
that to happen.
At the seminary, I was the only rabbi in
my class. In fact, I was the only Jew in the
class. And I was the only rabbi theyd ever
had in the seminary.
Rabbi Emert looked for textual answers
to those questions. One question was
whether Jewish sources normative Juda-
ism allow for interfaith dialogue. I found
that yes, they do.
His dissertation is called Disquisition:
Model for Jewish-Christian Dialogue. Its a
text-based look at the history of interfaith
relationships, from the talmudic period
until after Vatican II.
Rabbi Emert was in Rockford for four
years. From there, his Midwestern tour
Here and at right, Rabbi Emert, young
continued as he moved to Wichita, Kan-
and younger.
sas, where he led a Reform synagogue
that was more traditional than most. The
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Dr. Alfred Gottschalk ordained Rabbi Emert.
community was ready to do more, he
said. I kept kosher, but I didnt hit them
over the head with kashrut. And I brought
in Saturday morning services, instead
of just Friday nights, and I brought in a
cantor.
There were some people there who
said, You took away my God they
were classical Reform and others who
embraced it.
It was sometime during his Midwestern
sojourn that Rabbi Emert joined the Rab-
binical Assembly. Very few rabbis belong
to both the CCAR and the RA, but his odd
position at the cusp of the two movements
allowed him to do so.
I feel an allegiance to both move-
ments, he said. I am eclectic. My service
in Wichita was more traditional than it is
here in Wyckoff. You cant really label me.
I choose the best, the more spiritual, the
most spiritually elevating parts of both
movements.
When he was in Wichita, Rabbi Emert
was recruited for the opening about to be
created at Beth Rishon through the retire-
ment of his old mentor, Rabbi Pearl. He
wasnt sure if it was the right move he
was for a while pretty sure that it wasnt
but he made it anyway.
It was exactly the right move.
I was 42 then, he said. I looked
around, and saw that this was such a
vibrant place. So many kids in the schools.
And theologically it was just right for me.
I could have gone to New York, been one
of 1,000 rabbis, or stayed in Wichita, and
been a big fish in a small pond. Wyckoff
was perfect; not too big, not too small.
Its also institutionally unaffiliated, which
is perfect for someone who is dually
affiliated.
Its rare to hear a rabbi talk about his
community with as much open-hearted
ardor as Rabbi Emert talks about his.
I was worried about this community
when I first heard about it, he said. I
heard that it was rich, and I thought it
24 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 16, 2017
On Sukkot in Smithtown, Rabbi Emert shook
his lulav.
would be full of spoiled brats. But it has
the nicest kids, with parents who care so
much about education. In the 22 years I
have been here, I have never had any kid
talk back to me. Not once. Not ever.
This is a rabbis dream. These are very
educated, very good, very kind people. I
wouldnt trade them for anything.
Its also been exactly right for him in
terms of observance. This is a unique
congregation, Rabbi Emert said. It is
unaffiliated. It is independent. When they
join, people sometimes ask what it is, and
I say, Nit ahin; nit aher. Not this, and not
that. Its own thing.
The service is traditional, he contin-
ued. It has a traditional tam a tradi-
tional flavor.
I have always stood for a high level
of Yiddishkeit. For not keeping the level
where it is, but for always bringing it up.
For never settling. My job is to bring peo-
ple from wherever they were to another
level. Never to settle for mediocrity.
This is a class act, this synagogue. I
have been blessed.
Hes upheld the standards he cares
about at Beth Rishon.
Here, I dont allow non-Jews to be
called to the Torah, or to light Shabbat can-
dles. They dont stand next to the spouses
at the Torah service, as some liberal con-
gregations will allow. In some ways, I am
more traditional than my colleagues.
He also does not perform interfaith mar-
riages. That is a highly controversial posi-
tion in the Reform world. (Rabbis who
perform interfaith marriages are expelled
from the RA, although the question of how
to deal with the obviously here-to-stay
question of intermarriage is roiling the
Conservative world nonetheless.)
Rabbi Emert believes very strongly that
a rabbi must combine absolute approach-
ability with a sense of separateness. I try
to be real, he said. I try to be authen-
tic. I told the search committee that you
shouldnt hire a rabbi who you dont want
to come to your house for dinner.
I dont put on airs. I wear jeans. But
on the other hand, on the bimah he still
wears a robe.
I am a contradiction in many ways,
Rabbi Emert said. He believes in being
appropriate; informal when that makes
sense, decorous when it is called for. I
am a social worker with a degree from he was partnerless, but about 20 years ago
Yeshiva Universitys Wurzweiler School of
Social Work and a teacher. And I am
also a realist.
I am not Ken. I am Rabbi Emert,
although some people take the liberty of
calling me Rabbi Ken. It is not being pomp-
ous; it is making clear that there is a time
and a place for everything. The formality,
the robe set a tone in the sanctuary.
I think that the democratization of the
synagogue was both a negative and a pos-
itive thing. We are set apart. We are klei
kadosh holy vessels. It is a sacred role,
and it is reinforced by the formality of the
robe in services. Still, in that insistence,
I know I am one of a dying breed, Rabbi
Emert said.
Despite his need for authenticity, Rabbi
Emert felt compelled to keep one secret
Kenneth Emert as a young, earnest
rabbinical student.
Rabbi Emert
with his
partner,
Travis Lash.
for much of his life.
He is gay.
He knew that about himself for a very
long time, so he never took the ultimately
tragic route that many gay men once took,
marrying a woman, thus ruining two lives.
But he did feel compelled to hide that
basic truth about himself. For many years
he met the great love of his life.
Ken Emert and Travis Lash never lived
together Rabbi Emert felt that he could
not make so public a statement but they
were partners for 13 years. Mr. Lash, who
was Jewish, often would come to services
at Beth Rishon, and he was a fixture there
on the holidays. Rabbi Emert did not try
to hide the great affection between the
two men, but he never declared it publicly
either. The people who knew, knew, but
I didnt tell people, he said. He let them
figure it out or not. Its the one thing I
regret. I try to be authentic, and I was not
authentic about this.
Mr. Lash died four years ago, unexpect-
edly, of an aneurism. He was 54 years old.
It was a huge, staggering blow to Rabbi
Emert, who realized that he could not

keep it to himself.
His congregation his community
met his loss with pure love, he said. They
surrounded him with the kind of care that
anyone hit with life-changing grief out of
the absolute blue needs; with the kind of
care hed given the members of his shul.
They said to me one by one, they said
to me you have been there for us for 18
years. Why would you think why do you
think we would not be there for you?
So they were.
He knew that his community was filled
with good people, but he didnt realize
how good they were until then, Rabbi
Emert said. It was a lesson bought at too
high a price, of course, but it was a good
lesson, and a necessary one, and it helped
him stay sane in the midst of his grief.
I think he changed for the better after
Travis died, Alyson Cohn, Beth Risons
president, said. Its not that he wasnt
wonderful from the beginning. He was.
What happened was that some people
knew that he was gay, but he didnt say so.
I think when he became a rabbi he had
no choice. He never could have said any-
thing. In fact, the Reform movement did
not accept openly gay or lesbian rabbini-
cal students until the late 1980s. I give his
rabbinic intern at the time and the cantor
a lot of credit. They told him that you have
to give people the opportunity to help
you through this. They want to help you
through this.
There was a memorial service for Mr.
Lash, and there was standing room only
in the sanctuary, Ms. Cohn said. Our
congregants were really there for him,
and really supportive, and it really did
move him. And it definitely changed him.
It made him more open.
It must be very difficult to be open and
warm and caring which he always was
when you are keeping a big secret about
your life to everyone around you.
He was a wonderful rabbi before that,
and he became an even better rabbi after
it. It was sad it was tragic that thats
what it took, she said.
Rabbi Emerts decision to leave Beth
Rishon, Wyckoff, and the East Coast is not
unconnected to Mr. Lashs death. He wants
to be able to start a new life; 65 is not old,
but the aging process is unpredictable.
He is planning to move to Palm Springs,
California, where he will try to work less
although already he plans on taking on a
weekend-only rabbinic gig. Not to work at
all is not possible, it seems.
So now, the Beth Rishon community is
looking for a new rabbi. There will be a
temporary appointment, and then, after a
year, it will find someone who can make a
longer-term commitment to it. That rabbi
will have a hard job, in that Rabbi Emerts
shoes are big, his shadow is large pick
your clich. He is beloved, and will leave
the next rabbi with a lot to live up to. But
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on the other hand, that rabbi will take
over a congregation that knows a good
rabbi when it sees one, and will work with
that rabbi to chart its own course, always
upward.
Cantor Ilan Mamber had been at Beth
Rishon for eight years, and already had
been through two rabbis, when Rabbi
Emert got there. It took them about a year
to adjust to each other, Cantor Mamber
said but that was 21 years ago.
He was impressed by Rabbi Emerts
musicality, and by his wide knowledge of
Jewish music. He introduced me to choral
forms, and music from the Reform move-
ment, Cantor Mamber said. Before Rabbi
Emerts arrival at Beth Rishon, Cantor
Mamber had introduced a Kedusha that he
brought with him from Connecticut. It is a Rabbi Emert, as
piece of music that he loves, and the con- he moved from
gregation had come to love too. Instead Long Island to
of getting me to change it, Ken learned to the Midwest
sing it, Cantor Mamber said. Once he before coming
became comfortable with it, he let me do to New Jersey.
my thing, which is harmonies, and we do Next stop
it together. California.
Often, Rabbi Emert, who has a good
voice, the cantor said, sings lead, thus
allowing Cantor Mamber to harmonize. He
loves that. We dont have to say anything
to each other, Cantor Mamber said. We
know what to do.
Over the years, the two have come to
know each other well; they often have
to exchange no words, just looks, on the
bimah. And off the bimah, certainly we
yell at each other in the office, but its just
between the two of us, Cantor Mamber
said. And I will miss him.
Ms. Cohn, the shuls president, agrees.
Shes loved having Ken Emert as her
rabbi.
I love that I can talk to him about any-
thing, she said. Literally anything. I love
that my children have had substantial rela-
tionships with him.
Before I became president, I spoke
with presidents of other congregations.
One of the things I heard was to be care-
ful. Sometimes you will want things that
the rabbi wont want, and it will feel like it
is the lay leadership versus the rabbi.
I never had that with him. He actively
listened to what I had to say. It wasnt just
kind of giving me lip service or ear ser-
vice. There were times when we didnt
necessarily agree, but we would talk it out.
And either we would end up with a com-
promise or sometimes, after hearing what
he had to say and understanding where
he was coming from, I would change my
mind. But just as often he would hear what
I had to say and understand where I was
coming from and change his mind. I dont
know how common that is.
I was told by people elsewhere that it
was a true partnership. It really was. Echo-
ing Cantor Mamber, Im going to miss
him, Ms. Cohn said.
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These young Jews are optimistic

about their future in Europe
TOBY AXELROD coaching workshop the conference.
Berlin graduate student Nataliya
BERLIN Its a drizzly Saturday Pushkin, 26, recently became a host
morning in May. Some 160 young for Moishe House Without Walls.
Jews, mostly European and rang- That means shell receive funding to
ing from Orthodox to secular, have create events for her Jewish peers,
come to the Hotel Berlin to talk from tikkun olam to social events,
about everything under the sun. religious learning, and holidays and
Well, almost. festivities, she said.
The upbeat, weekend event did For us to go further as Jewish
not focus on anti-Semitism, the Holo- communities, we need the voices
caust, or Israel, and thus the gath- of younger people, Lela Sadikario,
ering reflected a shifting approach the Milan-based director of Junc-
to Jewish continuity in Europe, 72 tion, said. For the Berlin event, she
years after the end of World War II. added, the organization specifically
Under the theme Our World in reached out to Jews who are unaf-
Transition, participants in Junction filiated but interested in Jewish life
Annual a three-year-old program of and culture.
the American Jewish Joint Distribu- Junction is part of an attempt
tion Committee opened up a Pan- to ensure the future of these Jew-
doras box of challenges that young Alisa Poplavskayas workshop on mindfulness was one of the offerings at the recent Junction ish communities that largely were
Jews in Western countries face: per- conference on transitions, which drew more than 160 young Jewish adults to the event rebuilt by Holocaust survivors.
sonal, professional, and religious. in Berlin. BOKEH GRAPHIK/JDC More than 90 percent of the confer-
Junction an initiative thats ences attendees came from across
aimed at the 25- to 40-year-old set is one of the latest out politically. Europe. All were eligible to apply for micro-grants of up
examples of a trend among Jewish organizations to let young In other words, European Jews who number about 1.4 to 5,000 euros to fund cultural activities, study groups,
adults determine their own agenda. Supporters say this is million are no longer keeping a low profile. And
the best way to keep young Jews connected and involved. they are getting support from the United Kingdom-
Young adults have a tremendous amount to offer, and based Rothschild Foundation and the U.S.-based
its healthy for Judaism and for Jews, and I think many orga- Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Founda-
nizations know that, said Jonathan Schorsch, a professor tion, along with other organizations that want to
of history at the School of Jewish Theology at the University cultivate this spirit.
of Potsdam, who facilitated a discussion at the conference In Berlin, where the recent Junction event took
on what it means to be ourselves in a multicultural world. place, Generation 3.0 includes people like Martin
One thing the weekend conference made clear: Despite Schubert, 38, of Berlin, a grandchild of Holocaust
threats of terrorism and rising anti-Semitism, young Euro- survivors. He and his wife, Alisa Poplavskaya, are
pean Jews arent ruled by fear. Most are not leaving for alumni of the Tevel bTzedek program a Jeru-
Israel, even though by and large they are Zionist. Theyre salem-based nongovernmental organization that
staying right here, where their survivor grandparents set brings Jewish volunteers from around the world
down roots. to rural villages in Nepal and Burundi, where they
This is Generation 3.0, the grandchildren of Holocaust help local people and study Jewish values.
survivors or of those who grew up behind the Iron Cur- It is always better to have an identity where From left, Ani G. from Austria/Bulgaria; Joey L. from the
tain, and now they are finding their voices. They are start- your pride comes from having the power to help United Kingdom; Tea T. from Georgia; and Daniel M. from
ing Jewish projects outside existing communal structures, others than from being the victim, said Schubert, Italy at the recent Junction conference.
rejecting official definitions of who is a Jew, and speaking who, together with Poplavskaya, gave a couples BOKEH GRAPHIK/JDC

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The initiative got off the ground in 2012, after a JDC
survey of Jewish young adults showed volunteerism
and the opportunity to have a direct impact as their
top interest, Eisenman said. Mixers and fundraisers Shimon Alter Eitan B. Gerszberg Yoni E. Lazarus Moshe C. Proctor
and bar nights were the last on the list. Aviel U. Avidan Justin C. Goldman Joshua S. Lieman Jacob G. Rosenfeld
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In many parts of Europe, there are very few outlets Yoni Laub Moshe Posner
for young adults to create cross-denominational events
outside the organized communities, noted Alejandro
Okret, 39, an Entwine alumnus. Okret is the London-
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education Minister Naftali Bennett, the architect of a new policy that could
ban political opinions in israeli classrooms, at a Knesset meeting in Jerusa-
lem on June 12.
Israel considers ban
on political opinions in
college classrooms
and professors are furious
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JerUSaLem Israels minister of edu-
cation says he wants to protect students
from political coercion in the classroom.
But critics of a new code of academic
conduct he is proposing say its a power
play meant to stifle left-wing opinions in
higher education.
The code of ethics for institutes of
higher education, which would bar the
expression of political views in class-
rooms, was drafted at the request of Edu-
cation Minister Naftali Bennett, head of
the pro-settler Jewish Home party. It has
roiled the Israeli academy and spurred a
fierce national debate about the role of
politics in the classroom.
The chiefs of Israels universities have
rejected the code. In a statement, the
Committee of University Heads said it
severely and fundamentally violates the
concept of academic freedom.
A careful study of the code shows that
although it is defined as an ethical code
for appropriate behavior in the areas of
overlap between academic activity and
political activity, many of its articles
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Academics and politicians widely criti-
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part of a wave of undemocratic actions
by the right-wing government. But a
number of right-wing voices on campus
praised it as a solution to the politiciza-
tion of academia, which is widely seen
as left-leaning.
At the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jeru-
salem, Bennett said the code would help
protect students freedom of speech.
Today, we are working to prevent the
silencing of voices in academia, to pre-
vent a situation in which a student can
be hurt because of his political opinions
and a lecturer who gets wages from tax-
payers can put out a call for an academic
boycott, he said.
Asa Kasher, an Israel Prize-winning
philosopher at Tel Aviv University who
wrote the initial version of the Israeli
armys code of ethics, drafted the new
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University of Chicago Columbia University Syracuse University
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topics. But critics have been most troubled by the limitations
it would impose on how lecturers talk about politics on the
job prohibiting opining on political candidates, parties, or
a recognized public dispute, a broad phrase that could be
applied to many issues in Israel.
The code also would prohibit lecturers from calling for
or supporting academic boycotts against Israeli educa-
tional institutions a tactic used by pro-Palestinian activ-
ists around the world. Academic institutions are encouraged
to establish a unit to monitor political activity on campus
and field complaints about lecturers from students. Lec-
turers found to be speaking about politics inappropriately
could be disciplined.
Bennett plans to bring the code for approval to the Coun-
cil for Higher Education, the state body for making higher
education policy that he heads. But Haaretz reported that
30 Jewish Standard JUNE 16, 2017
the necessary majority did not plan to vote in its favor.
As a leading voice of the right, Bennett has been accused
of attempting to strengthen right-wing views in education.
Israels government has sought to reshape various Israeli
institutions in its image, leading some to accuse it of under-
mining democratic values.
At the Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu said he was considering legislation that would limit the
ability of left-wing advocacy groups to appeal to the High
Court of Justice a prominent right-wing bugbear. Ear-
lier this month, Culture Minister Miri Regev threatened to
defund a major arts festival for including nudity, which she
said threatened Israeli values. And since May, Justice Min-
ister Ayelet Shaked has held up the appointment of a new
Supreme Court president in a reported bid for greater influ-
ence over other nominees to the bench.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin may have been referring
to any of these developments in his speech at the Knesset.
The freedom to express a different opinion, different
thought, requires protection, he said. The voices of
the minority are essential to scientific research, to art
and the humanities and social sciences.
In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Yediot
Acharonot, Tel Aviv University President Yossi Klafter,
the chair of the Committee of University Heads, called
the new code of ethics fundamentally wrong and
driven by political interests. Klafter said it would be
used by interest groups to clash with academic fac-
ulty members on a daily basis.
Politicians from the left and center-left sought to
portray the code as part of a larger anti-democratic
trend. In a Facebook post, Zionist Union lawmaker
Erel Margalit said it simply aimed to silence voices
and make lecturers afraid.
No one believes this document is aimed at improv-
ing the academy or benefiting students, he said. This
is a struggle not just for academic freedom but for free-
dom in general.
Zehava Galon, who heads the left-wing Meretz party,
tweeted that it is a Bolshevik code that undermines
education for democracy and pluralism.
Kasher dismissed much of the criticism that his code
is political. He said he was inspired in part by policies
of the Association of American University Professors,
which has maintained for a long time that teachers
are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing
their subject, but they should be careful not to intro-
duce into their teaching controversial matter which
has no relation to their subject.
But AAUP is a professional group, not a state one. In
addition, it supports political activism by faculty out-
side the classroom, and discussion of controversial
material in the classroom, so long as it fosters genu-
ine debate and learning that is germane to the subject
matter of a course.
One university head who was not included in the
statement issued by his eight counterparts is defend-
ing the draft code.
Yigal Cohen Orgad, a former Knesset member from
the right-wing Herut party and the chancellor of Ariel
University in the West Bank, has not been accepted
as a member of the Committee of University Heads.
The committee publicly opposed Ariels successful but
Briefs
Israeli Arab convicted
for joining Islamic State
An Israeli-Arab man was convicted on several charges
related to involvement with Islamic State in Iraq.
The Haifa District Court found Wissam Zabidat, 42,
guilty of membership in a terrorist organization, mem-
bership in an illegal group, illegal military training and
contact with a foreign agent.
Israels security agency, Shin Bet, had said last Octo-
ber that Zabidat traveled to Iraq with his 30-year-old
wife, Sabrin, and their three children. The husband
fought among Islamic States ranks, studied the groups
religious ideology, served as a guard at Islamic State
facilities and participated in raids on Iraqi army posts.
His wife worked in a hospital affiliated with the terror
group. The family stayed in Iraq for more than a year
before returning to Israel.
The husband and wife had separate trials. In March,
Sabrin Zabidat was sentenced to 50 months in prison.
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controversial bid in 2012 to be upgraded from

a college to a university.
By any logical standard, there is a place
for such a guiding code of ethics that guides
proper behavior, he said. You can be in
deep dispute about whether Ariel should exist
or not, if Hebrew University has the right to
exist despite the fact that some of its dormi-
tories are on private [Palestinian] land. But
its not legitimate for an Israeli scholar to go
abroad and preach for people to boycott an
Israeli university.
Elisha Haas, who runs the biophysics pro-
gram at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, from
which Ariel broke off in 2005, questioned
whether many critics had even read the code.
He said the proposed policies were reasonable
steps to ensure that students felt comfortable
and were treated fairly in their classes, espe-
cially given Israels unique circumstances.
Israel is a small system, and small sys-
tems by definition have many more fluctua-
tions and extremes. We need to make sure it
doesnt jump from one extreme to another,
he said. Also, Israel is the only country in the
world that people think should not exist, that
its existence is not justified, and people teach
this concept, which is a problem Israel should
not tolerate.
University students are divided, too.
The National Union of Israeli Students
threatened to organize a strike if the code The Porter School of Environ-
was implemented, and already this week, mental Studies building at Tel
student protests are being held on at least Aviv University
three university campuses. An invitation for  Wikimedia Commons

protest at Hebrew University read, Bennett

is pushing for silencing of lecturers in aca-
demia under the guise of an ethical code.
We say no to silencing, yes to academic free-
dom. We cant allow for a situation in which
a lecturer is unable to express his opinion,
or the university is subjugated to the whims
of politicians.
But the right-wing student group Im
Israeli academia.
The ethical code compiled by
Professor Asa Kasher is a correct
and appropriate step toward the
goal of ending politicization in aca-
demia, Matan Peleg, the head of
the group, said.
 JTA Wire Service

Tirtzu said the code would restore sanity to

Rivlin hosts local Muslim leaders

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Ramadan is the holiest month for Muslims
around the worlda symbol of the same base
values offamily and community, charity and
care for the weak, spiritual reflection and soul-
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A
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West Bank, warning it could lead
to a system of apartheid.
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questions that we need to be aware of and
we need to be willing to answer, said Oded
Revivi, the chief foreign envoy of the pro-
settlements Yesha Council.
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an apartheid state, he told the Times of
Israel on the sidelines of the Haaretz Peace
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the implications. I am not sure that those Advocates of a two-state solution argue of them full Israeli citizenship (which, leaders are pulling us apart and creat-
who are advocating for a one-state solution that Israel cannot be both democratic and opponents argue, would jeopardize Isra- ing more hate instead of bringing more
understand those conditions. Jewish as long as it holds on to the West els Jewish majority). Yet others would people together.
While not endorsing a two-state solution, Bank, where more than two million Pales- grant Palestinians a residency status that Acknowledging that he had no peace
Revivis position is nevertheless at odds with tinians live. Supporters of a one-state solu- is less than citizenship. plan that would answer all outstanding
much of the Israeli pro-settlement right, tion have suggested various models to deal Revivi, who has been mayor of the questions, Revivi said he was focused in
which not only rejects Palestinian statehood with the problem: Some want to promote West Bank town of Efrat for nearly a Efrat on building good relations with his
but supports a partial or total annexation of Palestinian emigration to a third country, decade, appeared to favor maintaining Palestinian neighbors.
the West Bank. while others are willing to grant some or all the political status quo coupled with a Speaking after the panel, Revivi
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n 1 The Sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn held a din-

ner and fashion show featuring clothing from Soft Surroundings in
Paramus Park. Clockwise, from upper left, models Janet Singer, Re-
nee Eliscu, Sue Friedman, and Liz Schwarz, emcee Arlene Liebman,
and model Suzanne Berman. PHOTO COURTESY TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM

n 2 The Valley Chabad Womens Circle gathered to mark the shloshim the
conclusion of the 30-day mourning period for Leslie Rubel-Shinrod, a
Woodcliff Lake mom whose seventh grader attends Valley Chabad Hebrew
School. Seventy-five women came to the shloshim, at a private home in
3 Woodcliff Lake. Guest speaker Shimona Tzukernik discussed Faith Under
Fire How Do We Maintain Faith in the Face of Adversity and Realize
the Power of Our Minds in Shaping Our Lives? COURTESY VALLEY CHABAD

n 3 Students in the Jewish Volunteer Corp at the Bergen County High

School of Jewish Studies participated in the Better Together Writing
Contest; they wrote about their experiences with the elderly. JVC is a
yearlong service-learning class where students volunteer with seniors
at the Daughters of Miriam/The Gallen Institute in Clifton. Front row,
from left, Rebecca Brandon, Melissa Knopf, Abby Stern, and Lilliana Sil-
ver. Ben Fink, Julia Holzsager, Myles Suchoff, William Milun, and Carmel
Ohring, are in the back row, and Eitan Schkolnick is not pictured. Abby
Stern won a gold medal, and everyone else won a silver. COURTESY BCHSJS

n 4 Last week in Jerusalem, United Hatzalah inaugurated a new ambulance.

According to Miriam Ballin, right, director of the organizations psychotrau-
ma and crisis response unit, the new ambulance will serve a dual purpose
providing EMS services free to residents of the Shaarei Chessed and
Rechavia neighborhoods in the city and giving the psychotrauma and crisis
response unit an on-scene command center and clinic during large scale
traumatic incidents. Israelifes CEO, Eli Pollack, is at left, with United Hatza-
lah founder and president Eli Beer, Rabbi Israel Braun of Shaarei Chessed,
and United Hatzalahs CEO, Moshe Teitelbaum. COURTESY UNITED HATZALAH

n 5 Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino, right, has a new office at

Two Bergen County Plaza in Hackensack. At his request, Rabbi Mor-
dechai Kanelsky, center, Bris Avrohoms executive director, attached
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What is mindfulness-based meditation and why should you try it?
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her mind. This can make a significant impact on an individ-
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Medicine.
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experiences. The process of knowing the experience as it
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a large component of the attitudinal foundation of mindful-
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about life. In addition, according to an article in the Har-
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Israeli doctor discovers that anemia presents

a far more serious health risk in men than women
An extensive medical study has found that men suf-
fering from even a mild form of anemia have a higher
risk of dying prematurely than women who suffer
from the same condition. The study was conducted
by leading hematologists at Chaim Sheba Medical
Centers (Tel Hashomer) Internal Medicine Depart-
ment in central Israel.
The discovery of this health anomaly was based
on extensive testing of 16,000 healthy men and
women over a 14-year period, where both stress and
blood tests were administered. The results showed
that women with mild forms of anemia suffered
from a depletion of fitness endurance, as opposed
to women who didnt suffer from anemia at all. The
research did not reveal any long term health issues in
the women with the mild form of anemia.
However, the same tests conducted in men with
mild anemia revealed that while the men did not suf-
fer from fitness endurance issues, they were found to
have twice as many markers for potentially fatal dis-
eases than the women suffering from the same form
of mild anemia.
In women, the reasons for anemia usually
stem from a loss of iron during the menstrual cycle or
a dietary or nutritional dysfunction. Yet among men its
disease or something else. Mild anemia in men
is a medical red light that must be examined in
more aggressive workups by a doctor when discov-
ered during a simple stress or blood test, claimed
research team head Dr. Roni Shouval. Dr. Shouval
was assisted by Dr. Sharon Katz, Dr. Shlomo Segev
and Dr. Elad Maor.
According to the World Health Organization, 25
percent of the global population suffers from some
form of anemia, which makes the discovery at
Chaim Sheba Medical Center a major health issue.
Even mild forms of anemia in women and men can
cause chronic fatigue, heart palpitations, light head-
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According to Dr. Shouval, the good news is
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treated just by taking a specified dose of iron vita-
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fer fitness endurance issues, Dr. Shouval encour-
aged them to continue with exercise regimens to
maintain a healthy body, but reiterated the need
Dr. Roni Shoulval for anemic men to undergo a battery of other tests
to determine if they are suffering from any other
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The Golden Years
RICHARD PORTUGAL
T
he Golden Years as defined
in the dictionary is the time
of life after retirement from
active work, normally after
age 65; the time of life when someone
is old.
Dictionaries are, at times, a bit slow
to recognize the rapid progress of social
change. The concept of retirement
and old certainly need to be re-exam-
ined in terms of todays baby boomer
generational movement, as does the
entire perception of the Golden Years.
Every day in America about 10,000
people turn 65 years old. For most of us,
looking at these years as if they were a
Norman Rockwell painting is simply no
longer applicable. There is no retirement
and 65 is not old!
Life! Sixty five years as the arbitrator of
old always did seem to be quite arbi-
trary. Subsequent to the severity of the
Great Depression and the realities this
country faced after World War II, a safety
net of social programs like Medicare and
Social Security was placed beneath our
population as a net to protect us all in
times of need. The original Social Secu-
rity Act was enacted in 1935 with Medi-
care authorized in 1965 to provide sev-
eral social welfare and social insurance
programs. Sixty five years of age was
the legislative designated number when
these acts would become applicable.
Sixty five years of age became, in the
public consciousness, the threshold for
old and retirement. But, in todays percent of older adults are presently suf-
world, even that legislative age has been
raised to 66 years and beyond.
Interestingly, let us look at some
people who have had the greatest influ-
ence upon our country and the world.
The Founding Fathers comprised elder
statesmen who had the greatest impact
on American history. George Washing-
ton was 65 when he left the presidency
after two terms in office; John Adams
was 66; and Thomas Jefferson was 66.
Washington died two years after he
left office, but both Adams and Jeffer-
son were engaged in social and political
issues until their deaths decades later.
Dwight Eisenhower left office at 70 years
and Ronald Reagan was 78. Ruth Bader
Ginsburg at 84 is one of the premier
Associate Justices on the U.S. Supreme
Court. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford
were both active into their 80s and 90s
respectively. Arnold Palmer was active
and played golf at a high level until his
death at 87 years old. Patti Labelle is 74
and still stuns with her vocals. Sigmund
Freud practiced, taught, and lectured
into his early 80s and Norman Maclean
wrote A River Runs Through It at age
74. Barbara Streisand and Cher, both in
their 70s are still touring. Raquel Welsh
and Tina Turner are 76 and Jane Fonda is
79all of whom are socially and profes-
sionally active.
All of these individuals were once
young and middle aged, as is anyone
who lives into their senior years. But it is
that they remained active and therefore
young throughout the years that Social
Security would define them as old and
retired. Sixty five years old should not
be a legislative label; rather it is a mea-
sured time of reassessment of your phys-
ical and cognitive abilities.
Baby Boomers are experiencing unan-
ticipated social and financial changes.
We are now known euphemistically
as the sandwich generation, having
to care for elderly parents and adult
children. This is a social and financial
change which is both unpredictable
and rapid; it is a change that begs for
government solutions of which there
are none. Government as arbitrator of
social change has been historically unin-
formed, unimaginative, and powerless.
Each individual has to legislate their
own definition of old and retired.
Each individual has to reassess their own
quality of life and reassert their claim to
their physical and cognitive abilities.
You not only want to live, but you want
to be living, to be engaged purposely
and deliberately.
According to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, baby boomers
will live at least another 20 years; 92
fering from one chronic disease and 77
percent suffer from at least two; and the
elderly expend three to five times more
on health related care than the genera-
tion younger than 65.
This generation needs to concentrate
on preventive care and not wait for a
drug or safety net to ensnare them
into inaction. Become active, become
socially engaged, exercise, use your
mind and enhance your cognitive abili-
ties, learn a new language, learn to play
the piano, read, use resistance bands
or lift weights, walk, go to lunch with
friends. Live your life as you are capa-
ble and be not old or retired. Let
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of life, but being active is the definition
of life!
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Inviting friends and family to visit.

If the client lives in a senior building, the caregiver
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Accompanying the client to activities at the local senior
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Escorting the client to religious services or the theater
Escorting the client to lunch with friends
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Editorial
Summertime KEEPING THE FAITH

blues? Jewish law and Washington leaks

I T
t seems like were living through historic times.
This presidency, no matter what you think of
it (and no, were not going to do that again we
all know what each of us thinks of it) is unusual.
Whether or not you think that the norms should be
broken, it is hard to deny that they are falling like ply-
wood dominoes hit by a lead wrecking ball.
So its instructive to think that 50 years ago, all
sorts of other norms were being broken, all at the
same time.
It is an odd but true fact that the Six-Day War and
the reunification of Jerusalem the wild emotions
unleashed by that fact and crystallized by that pic-
ture (everyone knows THAT picture) happened just
a month after the Beatles released Sgt. Peppers
Lonely Hearts Club Band, and another part of the
world changed.
Maybe babies born this very month wont be able
to sing just about all the music from that album cer-
tainly they cant yet, but who knows what will be in
another few years but most of the rest of us can.
It was the Summer of Love; it was the summer of
the riots in Newark that upended that city and sent
the remnants of the Jewish community there fleeing
to the suburbs, where many of them and their chil-
dren live today.
It was, to quote from an entirely different time and
place, the best of times and the worst of times.
We dont know what will happen this summer.
Its already getting hot and humid; the season still is
new its not even summer officially yet, although
Memorial Day has come and gone, so were in that
odd neither-here-nor-there time and there hasnt
been time for the deep lush greens to dry and
brown. There are no splotches on lawns yet. Every-
thing is verdant and lovely.
Politically, thats not so true. Its really hot out
already. Accusations of lying are flying back and forth;
most of us, entrenched in our positions, know who
we trust and who we do not trust.
So heres hoping that this summer, 50 years on
from Sgt. Pepper and the reunification of Jerusalem,
that something good happens. That we can remember
it not for pending disaster but for something better.
Its hard to imagine what that better thing might be,
but theres time yet.
The Who, it turns out (thank you, my good
friend Google) recorded their version of Summer-
time Blues in 1967. Lets hope, in this season of
vibrant green, that there is, somehow, some cure
for those blues. JP
o leak or not to leak. fake revelations about Mrs. Clinton turned off many of
That is the question apparently facing an inor- her would-be voters. However, she did win the popular
dinate number of people in Washington these vote by a hefty margin of 3 million votes. Her loss thus
days. This especially seems to be the case within properly could be attributed to poor campaign strategy,
the various agencies that guard our national security. The which ignored several crucial states she needed to win
leaks, however, also seem to be coming from within the in the Electoral College.
White House and Congress. Anecdotal evidence, at least, Circling around the question of Russian interference is
suggests that the first six months of the Trump presidency the second question, the why of that interference. Was it
has seen more leaks than any previous start-up presidency just another attempt by Russia to destabilize the worlds
in recent memory. greatest democracy at its heart the election process?
So far, only one leaker has been identified and arrested. Or was it an attempt to put into the White House an
It is alleged that a 25-year-old Georgia woman, Reality administration that would put Russian interests ahead
Leigh Winner, leaked a highly classified National Security of American ones?
Agency report that concluded that Russian military intelli- A case in point is NATO. Vladimir Putin has declared
gence hackers did manage to break into some publicly that NATO is an ever-growing
voter records last year. threat to Russias security. The collapse of
Another leaker of sorts, by his own admis- NATO thus is a high Russian priority.
sion, is former FBI Director James Comey Until noon on January 20, standing in
of sorts because Comey caused non-classi- Russias way if it might try to eliminate
fied memos he wrote himself to be leaked to this claimed threat was NATOs number
a news outlet. He wrote them, they were not one supporter, the United States. Now, the
classified, and he no longer was a government United States is seen as a potentially desta-
employee when they were leaked. bilizing influence inside NATO. For his part,
That being said, how would Jewish law view President Trump also has been unwilling to
the leaks and the leakers? Shammai offer any serious criticism of Putin or Rus-
The question is not answered so easily. The Engelmayer sia, although others in his administration
fact of a leak itself is not the determining fac- have done so.
tor. Many other issues are involved. Among Trumps attitude toward Russia and his
them are the circumstances that surrounded or encour- tepid views about Putin appear to be behind the flood of
aged the leaks, whether theft of any kind was involved, leaks from the security agencies, and notably the FBI, the
whether the leaks were meant for personal gain, and CIA, and, most tellingly, the NSA itself. The fear seems to
whether the leaks violate any of the nuanced variables be that Russia has a pipeline into the White House that
attached to the laws of bad speech (lashon hara). there are one or more people there who are in Russias
In almost every instance, the overwhelming majority of pocket and capable of influencing the president of the
leaks since January 20 have centered around the broad United States.
issues of national security and U.S. international interests. There simply is too much smoke for the leakers, none of
Narrowly defined, they involve two questions: whom seem motivated by personal gain, to ignore. (The
The first question is whether Russia in any way inter- media does not pay leakers, and they potentially could
fered with and thereby changed the outcome of the 2016 serve time in federal prison if caught.)
national election. It is almost universally accepted outside That brings us to Jewish law, which almost never is black
the Trump White House that Russia did interfere with the and white.
election, and in a big way. One area of Jewish law is gneivat da-at, the theft of knowl-
Whether that interference brought about a Trump vic- edge. The law is most often applied in financial matters. Mis-
tory would require getting into the head of every person leading advertising or misinformation campaigns (some-
who voted for Donald Trump, or who voted for neither thing of which the Russians are guilty) qualify. However, it
Trump nor Hillary Clinton. That is impossible. A convinc- also applies to stealing intellectual property. The materials
ing circumstantial case can be made that the flood of being leaked are classified reports prepared by individuals
for their employer, the United States Government. It is the
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel Community governments intellectual property.
Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in Cliffside Park and The way to avoid gneivat da-at in intellectual property
Temple Beth El of North Bergen. matters is to properly cite the source of the information

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f being revealed, as long as the information itself is in the
r public domain. In the case of leaks, the source (a govern-
ment report of some kind) is revealed, but the material
, is classified. Even citing the source, therefore, does not
n cleanse the act of gneivat da-at.
On the other hand, there is the overarching ques-
tion of the need to know. Is the material being kept
t secret something the people need to know? It can
be argued, quite convincingly, that the people have
? a need to know anything that could damage their
national security.
Because protection of life overrides nearly all other
commandments, and potential threats to national secu-
rity inevitably lead to protection of life, the need to
g these tapes. As a result, there is obvious com-
f munal concern about potential unintended
It can be argued, quite
r way to escape the tortures of being bullied.
convincingly, that the
- people have a need to
, vention programs, I believe that parents
know anything that
- could damage their
n own children.
national security.
f know would seem to override theft of knowledge.
Take Comeys motive, for example, even though his
leaking probably did not violate any law. He leaked
t his memos to influence the appointment of a special
prosecutor who would be independent of the admin-
istration, and who would be charged with the task of
getting to the whole truth about Russia, its interfer-
f ence in our last election, and its possible ties to Trump
and/or some of his associates. This motive is illustra-
tive of the motives of other leakers, including Reality
Leigh Winner.
k Then there are the bad speech elements. Many of
the leaks involve such people as Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn
- (ret.), President Trumps fired national security adviser,
- and Jared Kushner, Trumps son-in-law and senior
- adviser, among other Trump associates. Lashon hara
t makes no distinction between truth and falsehood. It is
as much lashon hara to tell Reuven a truth about Shi-
mon that Shimon has no need to know, as it is to tell
Reuven a lie about Shimon.
In the end, how Jewish law should judge the leaks and
y the leakers must depend on what we finally learn about
the underlying issues.
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Opinion
Dont be afraid of 13 Reasons Why
E
very so often my wife hears about the latest
hot show trending on Netflix, and somehow
we find the few hours we need on a weekend
to binge-watch over Shabbat leftovers. Our lat-
est Saturday evening interlude, however, took on a more
serious nature. Between the five children whom we are
blessed to raise, and my wifes interactions with children
through her longtime position with the New York City
Department of Education, we heard many parental con-
cerns about a new mini-series, called 13 Reasons Why.
The show demonstrates the devastating impact bully-
ing can have on a child by telling a teenage girls harrow-
ing story of victimization, which led to her tragic suicide.
Along with her surviving peers, viewers listen to the 13
recorded cassette tapes that she left behind, detailing her
version of incidents that crippled her psyche so severely
that they led her to take her own life.
The shows concluding episode contains a copycat
suicide attempt by one of her peers, who has listened to
consequences resulting from sensitive kids
misinterpreting the mini-series real goal,
and possibly seeing suicide as an option, a
However, from my years being a part of
the Simon Wiesenthal Centers bullying pre-
should see the mini-series as a wake-up call.
Its a way to enter into dialogue with their Michael
Cohen
The Simon Wiesenthal Center first opened
our Museum of Tolerance in 1993. In addi-
tion to teaching the lessons of the Shoah, we also deal with
contemporary issues anti-Semitism, hate, terrorism,
and bullying. We built the museum because we know that
tolerance and respect are not automatically embedded
within us, but must be taught and experienced.
Now also would be a good time to recognize and deal
with bullying in our own ranks, albeit perhaps in a differ-
ent form.
I went to a mainstream yeshiva and remember coming
home to my father in what likely was first grade, crying
that my classmates said I wasnt kosher. Why? Because I
was short, I was a shrimp. It might sound ridiculous now stand the role of tolerance in that equation. It matters
it didnt to a six-year-old.
In the past presidential campaign, I listened to middle
school and high school students bullying each other in the
back of our synagogues and around my own Shabbat table
because they were either liberal nuts supporting a crook
or bigots supporting a harasser of women. These argu-
ments and behaviors obviously came from their parents,
who, as is demonstrated in 13 Reasons Why, simply fail
to notice the trickle-down effects of their actions.
Are we in the Jewish world doing enough to teach tol-
erance and understanding to our own children? Are we
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I believe that parents
should see the mini-
series as a wake-up
call. Its a way to enter
into dialogue with
their own children.
talking to them about the beauty of all within our midst,
and the various customs and ways of life within our com-
munity? Or are we poking seemingly innocuous fun at the
differences between Sephardim and Ashkenazim, and still
referring to each other, as we did 25 years ago in Brook-
lyn, where I grew up around SYs and JDUBs? Are we, in
the comfort of our own homes, still referring
to former chasidim as Tuna Bagels and the
Yeshiva world as Oreos? Are we discount-
ing individuals for a minyan because we
dont agree with the kind of yarmulke they
wear (as happened to my own father not too
far from my childhood home)? Are we not
remembering that when the Nazis came to
our familys doors, they didnt care about
anyones level of religious observance, finan-
cial position, or any other attribute that sep-
arates us. They recognized us as one people,
one nation, one unified entity, to be driven
off of the face of the earth.
13 Reasons Why should stand as a reminder of the
complexities that our next generation faces. A gen-
eration ago, the school bell produced a much-needed
reprieve for victims of bullying. In the world of social
media, it simply no longer marks that reprieve. Nights,
weekends it makes no difference. In todays world,
we have to deal with YouTube, Facebook, and so many
other online platforms. At a time when the world is at its
smallest, we must be as aware as possible of it.
When we talk about the need to combat the rising
levels of anti-Semitism and hate, let us all better under-
both in the way we treat the outside world and in the
way we treat each other. Let us not be fearful of the
realities brought to the fore in 13 Reasons Why, but
rather let us face that which needs to be faced and bet-
ter understand that which we will need to perpetually
examine.
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.
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Opinion

Tzimtzum: How we strengthen one another

Y
ears ago, a boss of mine assem-
bled a large group of employees
and challenged us with one sen-
tence made up of 10 two-letter
words: If it is to be, it is up to me.
To be sure, I fully understand and
appreciate the role and responsibility we
have as individual contributors. Each one
of us can make an important contribu-
tion and a meaningful difference indeed.
But I never really have been an individ-
ualist. I much prefer playing on a team.
My example and inspiration for leader-
ship comes directly from our own Jewish
tradition and perhaps is summed up best
in three Hebrew words chazak, chazak,
vnitchazaik
I always have loved the image, which
repeats five times a year in Ashkenazic
synagogues all across the world. As we
conclude the reading of each book of
the Torah, the entire congregation rises
and declares in unison Chazak. Chazak.
Vnitchazaik. Be strong. Be strong. And
we will strengthen one another.
This valuable lesson was reinforced for
me this past week, when I participated
in the Tzimtzum Executive Forum, an
annual convening by the Schusterman
Foundation of the CEOs of some of its
key grantee partners. Each organization
embodies the Schustermans commit-
ment to strengthening the identities and
leadership capacities of young Jews to
ensure a more vibrant, diverse, inclusive,
and dynamic Jewish future. For exam-
ple, in addition to Foundation for Jew-
ish Camp, participants range from Hil-
lel International to Birthright Israel, JDC
Entwine to Repair the World, and BBYO
to Moishe House, among others. We are
all deeply connected to Israel, and we are
all committed to making the world a bet-
ter place.
This Tzimtzum Forum derives its
name from the kabbalistic concept that
God steps back or contracts to create
space for a dynamic partnership and a
thriving relationship with human beings
in the work of creation. Tzimtzum con-
notes the powerful essence of collabora-
tive work in every enterprise, beginning
with the creation of the world and con-
tinuing to this day.
Spending quality time with colleagues,
removed from daily office pressures,
provides space to share and compare,
to consider and contemplate, and to be
inspired and challenged. I highly value
this opportunity each year to learn from
each other and to grow stronger together.
This year, the Schusterman team pro-
vided a stimulating theme for Chang-
ing the Frame based on the challenges
we all are confronting with communicat-
ing in todays rapidly changing media
landsc ape. Thi s theme beyond. Just as we close
served as an important one book and start anew,
reminder of our role as we strive for interconnect-
ambassadors and commu- edness between all of our
nicators. Much has been work. The theme, Chang-
written in the last year ing the Frame, reminds
about the echo chambers in us of our roles and respon-
which we operate. How can sibilities. As individuals
we effectively change this and as leaders, we have
dynamic? As a community, Jeremy J. to be open, welcoming,
how can we encourage seri- Fingerman and inclusive of ideas and
ous and meaningful conver- diverse points of view, affil-
sations, conducted in a civil iations, and backgrounds.
and inclusive way? We engaged in highly None of us will ultimately be success-
interactive workshops to help each other ful by working alone. We must work
consider these topics on an individual, together to strengthen one another.
organizational, and communal level. And so, back to the lesson from many
While each one of us has to be strong, moons ago, I would modify slightly but
our power as a Jewish community comes materially the sentence composed of
when we work together. We need Jewish ten, two-letter words: If it is to be, it is
camps, BBYO, other youth movements, up to we.
and teen experiences all to be strong We are all in this together. How much
if we are to inspire and motivate high more we accomplish when we come
school graduates as they depart for col- together to work collaboratively to
lege campuses. And we need all those achieve our common communal goals.
who work on college campuses to be Chazak.
strong to stimulate and empower those
graduates as they pursue their own post- Jeremy J. Fingerman is the CEO of the
collegiate journeys. Foundation for Jewish Camp. He lives
By bringing us together each year, in Englewood with his family; he is vice
the Schusterman Foundation leads by president of Congregation Ahavath
example, with broad application for Torah there. Contact him at Jeremy@
our entire Jewish community and far jewishcamp.org

Federations new Hudson County model

shows the potential for creative home rule

T
he Jewish Federation of North-
ern New Jersey is working with
the lower Hudson County Jew-
ish community to create a new
commonsense model of Jewish organiza-
tional and communal giving and living.
The federation incorporated lower
Hudson thats Bayonne, Jersey City,
and Hoboken into its area of opera-
tions because it realizes both the amaz-
ing communal growth these communities
are experiencing and that they are set to
continue to grow. More and more Jews
are moving from New York City and the
suburbs into the unique cultural milieu
that these cities offer, and each year more
of them are settling down and raising
families.
Rather than just barging in and annexing
the area, JFNNJ worked with local leaders
in a consultative process that resulted in a
modern approach to facilitate the expan-
sion. It created a devolved and decentral-
ized board that exercises local control over
funding and communal investment. Thats
the Hudson Regional Jewish Council.
From the Hudson Night Out, the kick-off
program of the Hudson Regional Jewish
Council, to the councils regular monthly
meetings, JFNNJ has made clear not only
its commitment to the local Jewish com-
munity but also to experimenting with
new forms and methodologies. The larger
Jewish federation system is under threat
from both a declining organizational
affiliation in the Jewish community and
from the desire of the systems remaining
donors to direct their donations into spe-
cific programs and projects rather than
into more general funds.
JFNNJ has taken the lead in showing that
there is another way. Working with the Hud-
son County Jewish community, it is making
clear that devolving powers and authority
in other words, home rule is the way
to grow the communal infrastructure and
build a bright local Jewish future. Together
with the JFNNJ and in fact as part of it
the regional council model a federations board of gover-
has the potential to show nors and professional leader-
local Jewish communal stake- ship been as foresighted, col-
holders a responsive and local laborative, and creative in its
avenue for fundraising and forward thinking.
building Jewish community By engaging this devo-
that is an integrated function lution of authorit y and
of a Jewish federation. responsibility to the Hudson
The top-down traditional Regional Jewish Council as an
approach of mainstream Joshua independent subsidiary, the
Jewish organizations and Sotomayor- Jewish Federation of North-
charities is, if not dying, Einstein ern New Jersey has shown its
then in intensive care. Stand- commitment to an organic
alone fundraising projects and bright Jewish future that
and programs have been all the rage, and federations across the country will learn
many umbrella organizations, including from and come to adopt.
Jewish federations, have stuck one foot
into this new world by facilitating dedi- Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein is chairman of
cated fundraising to the many amazing the Hudson County Young Republicans, a
community-building and lifesaving proj- member of the Hudson County Regional
ects it supports and engages in. JFNNJs Council of the Jewish Federation of Northern
approach to extending and adapting itself New Jersey, and a former contributor to
to a new area, however, is unique in the SaveJersey.com. Originally from Teaneck, he
Jewish federation world. Nowhere else has has lived in Hoboken for a decade.

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A plea to forgive the spies
The time to press the rest button on the millen-
nia of heaping blame and outrage against the
majority of the spies sent by Moses (on a mission
to scout out the land of Canaan) as described in
the parasha of Shelach (which we read this year
on June 17) is long overdue.
To quickly summarize, Moses sent 12 spies,
at Gods command, to scout out the land of
Canaan before a military incursion. This inci-
dent occurred at a point when Israel was poised
on the doorstep, just across the Jordan River,
and were nearly ready to assume sovereignty of
the Promised Land. As instructed by Moses, the
spies stealthfully crossed over to Canaan.
When the men returned to the camp it was
with a mixed report, acknowledging the lands
beauty and fertility, its ability to produce bounti-
ful fruits and produce, but also adding a disheart-
ening note. They said that the inhabitants were
fierce and the cities were fortified and very
great. They concluded that we are not able to
go up against them, for they are greater than we
are, famously adding that we were like grass-
hoppers in their eyes. (See Numbers 13:28-33.)
Only the encouraging reports of two of the
spies, Joshua and Caleb, stood in stark opposi-
tion to the accounts given by the other 10 mem-
bers of the group.
Yes, the spies majority report was morale-
drained, and it was not what Moses (or God,
for that matter) wanted to hear. As a result of
that report, the people were punished by God.
They had to wait a full 40 years, until a new
generation arose, for Gods blessing to go forth
into the Promised Land. Thats when Gods
promise to deliver the land to the nation of
Israel was fulfilled.
But the question remains was the spies
behavior so treacherous, so vile, that it merited
their near-universal condemnation?
This letter argues that it does not. Further, it is
my view that the prevailing feeling against these
men is not only unwarranted by the facts, but
it is grossly disproportionate to whatever their
offense was.
Firstly, the spies were not treacherous men
seeking purposely to foment rebellion or sabo-
tage Moses leadership. Not by a long shot. In
fact, the men chosen to scout out the land were
described in the Torah as Naasim. They were
princely, one man one prince from each
tribe. (Numbers 13:2.) In fact, all 12 were in char-
acter the proverbial few good men.
The 12 therefore were seasoned and proven
leaders of their people. They were not the type of
men who would be induced to change their spots
abruptly, and to wreak discord or sow seeds of
unrest against Moses or God, for that matter.
Their message was designed, in their eyes, to
protect the Israelites from what they perceived
as a suicidal mission.
Furthermore, the spies were merely doing
their job. They did exactly as Moses asked, to
see the land, bring of its fruit, note whether the
people were strong or weak, few or many (Num-
bers 13:17-20). In other words, the true nature of
the beast both environmental and human
were to be reported on by the spies.
This strategy was deemed by Moses and
rightly so as essential information. As military
intelligence it was a proper strategy, and it is still
Letter
used universally to determine the strengths and
weaknesses of the enemy and retrieve essential
intelligence. It was essential to provide the Israel-
ites with basic intelligence before they marched
westward unknowingly into harms way.
Further, it was God himself who commanded
Moses to send the spies into Canaan. Send thou
men that they may spy out the land of Canaan
(Numbers 13:2).
Perhaps most important of all, the unmitigated
and widespread criticism of the spies ignores the
basic fact that they were right all along. The time
just was not right for an Israelite military incur-
sion, as further borne out by the later events
described below.
Strangely, the clear evidence upholding the
accuracy of the spies report has been all but
ignored and nearly lost in the onslaught of the
conventional and all-too-easy criticism of the
spies evil report (except of course the contrar-
ian reports of both Joshua and Caleb).
For further proof of the merit of the spies dis-
couraging report, especially that it was the wrong
time for any military incursions, we need look
no further than the middle of Shelach, which
describes a renegade band of Israelites who took
it upon themselves to ignore the spies warning
(and even Moses warning) and take part in their
own unblessed military advance into Canaan.
Unfortunately, that ill-time incursion had disas-
trous results for those Israelites involved. They
were vanquished, proving to be no match for
the Canaanite and Amalekite alliance waiting for
them. (See Numbers 14:40-45.)
Further, the merit of sending out spies to
explore the layout of the land before engaging
in what could be a disastrous military incursion
is underscored by the fact that in the haftarah
( Joshua 2:1-24), Joshua, some 39 years later, does
the same thing. He sends out spies (including
himself ) into Canaan before going into the land
seeking military conquest. Unlike earlier, now
the time is right. The people are a generation
away from a slave mentality.
Parashat Shelach does say that the spies
report caused extreme repercussions a huge
panic, murmurings of rebellion, and all kinds
of mischief, all of which once again resulted in
the need for Moses heroic intercession by pray-
ing for the salvation of his people, and once
again successfully stemming divine wrath and
threatened retribution. Nowhere in Shelach is
it written that any of those repercussions were
intended by the 10 spies. They delivered an inde-
pendent report, as requested by Moses, based on
their real perceptions, and arguably to protect
their people from imminent military disaster.
Yes, the 10 men may have been spiritually
flawed people, but they were not detestable or
evil. The level of vitriol hurled against them is
unwarranted and undeserved. It is time it is
past time to forgive the spies.
If Joseph was able to forgive his venge-
ful brothers for their active and intentional
act of wrongdoing against him, which can be
described, with a modern spin, as criminal kid-
napping, assault, and even attempted murder,
then certainly we finally can start embarking on
the road to forgiveness for the largely misun-
derstood spies of Shelach.
Sam Z. Mallin
Teaneck
Opinion
President Donald Trump meets with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh, Tamim bin
Hamad Al Thani, in Saudi Arabia on May 21. SHEALAH CRAIGHEAD/WHITE HOUSE
Our friends in the Gulf
G
amal Abdel Nasser and and Turkey to get to Europe and the
Osama bin Laden must be Atlantic seaboard.
turning in their graves. Lest I sound sympathetic to the
The decision by Saudi Qataris, let me make it clear that Im
Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emir- not. Quite the reverse; on an admit-
ates, and Bahrain to sever links with tedly base level, Im pleased to see
Qatar over its pro-Iranian foreign pol- Qatar is finally getting some comeup-
icy and deep ties to terrorism funding pance, not least because Ive written a
would have been greeted with equal great deal about its shameful policies
outrage by Nasser, the Egyptian dic- and practices in this column and for
tator who personified Arab nation- other outlets.
alism at its height in the 1960s, and Like many other journalists, Ive
bin Laden, the al-Qaeda written about the condi-
leader who viewed tions of slavery endured
the global community by the thousands of
of Islam as an organic migrant workers who
whole locked in conflict labor in 100-degree heat
with the crusader West. on unsanitary, danger-
Indeed, its hard to ous construction sites,
see how the diplomatic all so that the worlds
crisis in the Arab world soccer apparatchiks
could become more can sit in gleaming,
debasing, at least from Ben Cohen artificially cooled stadi-
the distinct vantage ums when Qatar hosts
points of Arab solidarity the 2022 FIFA World
and global Islamism. In a week when Cup. Ive written about how Qatar
the world is marking the 50th anni- has lied about abolishing its kafala
versary of Israels victory during the system, through which these work-
Six-Day War of June 1967 mourned ers are bonded to their employers,
in the Arab world as an unjust exten- when in fact it has made it even eas-
sion of the Zionist occupation ier for employers to confiscate the
started in 1948 the apparent priority passports of these horribly abused
for the leaders of key Arab countries migrants. Ive explained how lying is
is to punish a fellow Arab state. an official currency in Qatar, which
To make matters worse, Presi- finances its Al Jazeera broadcasting
dent Donald Trump joined the cho- network to run a steady diet of fatu-
rus against Qatars financial support ous conspiracy theories, hypocriti-
for terrorism on Twitter only hours cal attacks on neighboring countries
after its four Arab adversaries with that would never be permitted upon
no sentimentality whatsoever shut Qatars own royal family, and whis-
down their air, land, and sea connec- pering campaigns against opponents
tions with the emirate. As a result, like its recent anti-Semitic series on
planes departing from the airport the Zionist lobby dressed up as
in Doha the same airport lauded investigative journalism.
by Trump on the campaign trail as a Qatars support for Hamas, financ-
model for Americas builders to fol- ing of BDS activities and anti-Zionist
low! now have to fly around Iran SEE FRIENDS PAGE 50
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Friends
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propaganda in Europe and the United
States, and funneling of millions of dol-
lars to the barbarians of Islamic State
and jihadi groups in Syria are yet more
reasons to hold back on any tears for its
privileged elite, stuck as they now are in a
gilded cage. More importantly, millions of
people previously dazzled by Qatars rapa-
cious appetite in the worlds property and
financial markets are getting a rare glimpse
of the true nature of its rulers.
The crisis has been long in the making.
Four years ago, the Saudis led a group of
a nuclear deal with Iran would mean
any pressure on Qatar was limited. With
Trump now in the White House, and with
the Saudis jostling with Egyptians for first
place in the burgeoning anti-Islamist/anti-
Iranian alliance with Washington, Qatar
suddenly looks much more vulnerable.
Since Arab royal families tend to prefer
pragmatism over ideology, I wont be sur-
prised if the drama in the Gulf is resolved
through diplomacy though it seems hard
to conceive of that happening without sig-
nificant Qatari concessions on relations
with Iran and with Sunni Islamist organi-
zations. As ever, there is a broader ques-
tion about the state of the Arab world that
all of them dictatorships with appall-
ing human rights records, dismal levels
of public education, and media outlets
whose fabrications would have Trump
tweeting 24/7 if he were an Arab leader.
In the short term, this is the most prudent
path, as it presents a united front toward-
sthe Iranian regime and heralds the possi-
bility of substantive peace between Israel
and the Arab Gulf states.
But if we succeed in neutralizing the Ira-
nian threat, a tall order in and of itself, will
Americas pivotal role in such an alliance
lead to political reforms among the allies
themselves, so that relatively enlightened
Jordan becomes a preferred role model
another major step backward when it
comes to giving Arab states and Arab
leaders some legitimacy in the eyes of
their people. Such legitimacy comes from
instituting democratic accountability, as
well as respect for basic human and labor
rights, and greater tolerance for dissenting
speech, as part of the practice of govern-
ment in the region.
After decades of corrupt and violent
rule, the Arab world still is hostage to the
same fundamental conflicts that nurtured
both Arabism and Islamism. That lasting
reality, far more than Qatars temporary
discomfort, is what defines the region
today and makes it so perilous. JNS.ORG

Arab states in withdrawing their ambassa-
dors from Doha because of Qatars gener-
ous support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
But that initiative didnt lead to a change in
Qatars position, because the ruling family
knew that President Barack Obamas dis-
taste for the Saudis and desire to secure
should trouble anyone especially the
non-Arab peoples of the region, like the
Israelis and the Kurds, along with their
friends in America who has an abiding
strategic interest in this part of the globe.
At present, we are openly aligned with
the Saudi-Egyptian bloc of Arab states
for the Arab peoples instead of brutalizing
Egypt? Given the premium American pres-
idents from FDR to Trump have placed
upon their relationships with Sunni Arab
kings and dictators, we would be unwise
to bet on it.
In the last analysis, this represents
Ben Cohen 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.

At left, Members of Magen David Adom practice lifesaving techniques as part of their duties as Israels national disaster-relief organization. A helicopter and an
ambulance, right, are part of Magen David Adoms emergency response fleet.

Israel breakfast
FROM PAGE 15
creation in 2003. Ms. Katz and her friend Karen Thaler
began Yad Leah by seeing a need and working to alleviate
it in one town in Israel. Now it has spread throughout the
country, serving more than 30 communities.
Ms. Thaler lives in Israel and saw the need for Yad Leah
firsthand. She began collecting clothing for donation.
Ms. Katzs work in the organization, however, began in
her kitchen, when she sorted through clothing that she
received from donations from Americans. When she ran
out of space for those donations in her house, Yad Leah
sought a bigger space. For the last two years, it has been
housed in a 6,000 square foot warehouse in Passaic. We
modeled the Yad Leah program after Pantry Packers in
Israel, Ms. Katz said. It is a 90-minute experience, where
volunteers learn about the organization and how it ben-
efits the community. Then, they are hands-on participants
in sorting through the clothing and packaging it so it can
be sent to Israel and distributed.
Its important, Ms. Katz said, because when someone
is dressed nicely, it gives them confidence, whether it is to
be successful at a job interview, or to help a teenager feel
better about themselves.
Each school being honored has played different parts in
the two organizations. For example, Yeshivat Noam raised
money for an MDA ambulance. Simone Tassler, a Frisch
senior from Paramus, worked in a more hands-on way.
She reached out to Yad Leah because, she said, I had a
ton of free time because I just finished senior year, so my
friends and I wanted to spend our time doing something
productive. Frisch usually sends groups of kids to Yad
Leah on Chesed Day and I had always heard about it, but
had never gone myself, so I was so happy to go.
The breakfast is celebrating the kids success and
encouraging future acts of chesed, Ms. Katz said. We also
hope this event will bring more recognition to the worthy
organizations that need the support of the community.
Who: Elie Y. Katz of Teaneck and his sister-in-law,
Jessica Katz of Passaic
What: Will host the first Breakfast for Israel
When: On Sunday, June 25, at 9:45 a.m.
Where: At the Teaneck Jewish Center, 70 Sterling Place
Why: To raise money for two Israeli organizations,
Magen David Adom and Yad Leah
Who will be there: Zev Brenner will be the master
of ceremonies; guest speakers will be Dani Dayan,
Israels consul general in New York, and New Jersey
Lieutenant Governor (and Republican gubernatorial
candidate) Kim Guadagno. The school awards will
be presented by Assemblyman Gary Schaer and
Teanecks Mayor Mohammed Hameeduddin and
Councilman Mark Schwartz. The business award will
be presented to the IDT Corporation, which will be
represented by Shmuel Jonas.
For reservations: Go to IsraelBreakfast.org;
reservation includes a raffle ticket for a $150 gift card
to Nobu Wine & Grill

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 Dvar Torah
Shelach Lecha: A quest for the qualitative

I
n the wake of the Leadership is not about engaging in a reconnaissance yet know, and how do we create opportunities for us to
2013 Pew Research mission from afar. Leadership requires countless, pains- become acquainted and familiar with them, while we
Center Portrait of taking hours of work on the ground, tremendous effort, work to integrate them further into the fabric of congre-
Jewish Americans, and a combination of thoughtful activities and visioning gational life?
a significant amount of from the sacred partnership of rabbis and lay leaders who Torah doesnt tell us that this task will be easy. In fact, just
conversation in the Jewish are willing to be the eyes and ears of the congregation. the opposite. Moses tells the spies take pains to bring back
community has focused Leadership requires that we ask deeper questions of some fruit of the land, but the Hebrew renders this senti-
on how to strengthen and ourselves and our communities, and that we continu- ment differently, using the word vhitchazaktem meaning,
maintain the vibrancy of ally listen to and respond to the needs of the people we strengthen yourselves. When our synagogues continue to
our synagogues. In Ber- Rabbi Paul represent and are called to serve. We cannot merely ask, engage deeply in the hard work of knowing the well-
gen County, we have seen Jacobson Where does our membership stand? Rather, we should being of all of our constituents, then we will strengthen
a decrease in the number Temple Avodat ask, in line with Sfornos thinking, How many people ourselves, and then, our synagogues will help guide us on
Shalom, River
of synagogues in the past Edge, Reform are on our roster and in our membership that we dont our journey toward the elusive Promised Land.
fifteen years, so the ques-
tion of synagogue survival
in our region is very real indeed.
Parashat Shelach Lecha yields some clever per-
spective on this subject. Moses sends men to perform
reconnaissance on the land of Canaan. Moses sends
twelve men on a mission instructing them to Go up
there into the Negev and on into the hill country, and
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The Frazzled Housewife
The gift that stops giving
A
sking people what they want
for a present is always tricky.
That is why gift registries were
invented. Many, many years
ago, on one pleasant afternoon, a distin-
guished gentleman asked his distinguished
wife what she wanted for her birthday,
and without missing a beat, she distin-
guishably replied, This question again? If
you dont know what I want by now, you
will never know. Bye bye.
The distinguished gentleman was so dis-
traught that he decided to invent the gift
registry department, so that
no man had to go through
what he had gone through.
And now it is so easy!
Armed with our 20 percent
off coupons, we head into
Bed, Bath and Why-Is-There-
An-International-Food-Sec-
tion to buy gifts for engage-
ments and weddings. Gift
cards have become an easy Banji
way to say, Wow, you really Ganchrow
read the Torah well, go treat
yourself to something at
Target! Find even babies have their
own registry because you never know
which teething toy is the absolute right
one. Gone is the fun of re-gifting that
Mikasa vase that you got 30 years ago
that came with the card from the origi-
nal gifter. (True story we got a present
that wished someone else a mazal tov.
Come on people, if you are going to re-
gift, at least take the time to write out a
new card!) My fondest re-gifting memory
is the picture frame that I received in a
Gap box for a graduation present. Gap
does not make picture frames, so being
true to my snarky personality (even all
of those years ago), the thank-you note
read, Thank you so very much for the
incredible Gap picture frame! What can
you do? If the giver of that gift is reading
this, now you know that I knew. You are
totally busted.
Since Fathers Day is approaching, I
decided to ask my father what he wanted
for a gift. Every year, I ask my dad what
he wants for his birthday or Chanukah,
or whatever the celebration is, and his
response usually is I just want shalom
bayit. (Which is code for Please stop ers feel that with all of the online acces-
fighting with your mother.) This always
works well for me because it means that
whatever I get him, whether it be slippers
that look like moose heads, or a book, it
isnt what he really wants, so it is lose-lose ple of how people are being replaced
all around. (Though he never ever makes
me feel like he doesnt absolutely love
whatever it is that I do get him, which is
why he is my favorite parent. Shh, dont
tell my mom.)
Shalom bayit is something you can-
not buy. It is something that you can try
to obtain, but that is for a different col-
umn altogether. In any event, this year
52 Jewish Standard JUNE 16, 2017
I decided, once again, to ask him what
he wanted.
Now, as some of you know, for the past
three years my dad hasnt been his usual
self. But we take it one day at a time, which
is all you can do. And when I asked him
the question about what he wanted, I just
expected the answer that I have been get-
ting for the 40 or so years that I have been
asking the question. But this year, when
I innocently asked, Hey dad, what do
you want for Fathers Day, his reply was,
What I want, you cannot get for me.
What? Had he finally real-
ized that I am never going
to stop fighting with my
mother? (Sorry mom.) Had
he come to the depressing
realization that the doc-
tors just dont know what is
wrong with him? This was
not the answer I wanted,
and my heart sank.
Umm, dad, what do
you mean by that? Very
simple, my sweet father
replied. And he proceeded
to look through a pile of books and mag-
azines next to his beloved green chair
and pull out the familiar red soft-covered
Whos Who in Baseball 2016 edition.
Now, for those of you who have no idea
what this tome is, it is the official lifetime
records of major league players. There
have been 101 editions of this gem pub-
lished since 1912. But this year is the last
year for this baseball/literary master-
piece. They are no longer publishing it.
Gift cards
have become
an easy way
to say, Wow,
you really
read the
Torah well.
My father has 62 issues. I asked him if he
wrote a letter to the editor and he said
that people have tried, but the publish-
sibility to players stats and history, there
is no longer a need for Whos Who in
Baseball. He is very sad, and it made me
sad that he is sad. Another classic exam-
by technology.
I guess this year I really will have to stop
fighting with my mom.
Banji Ganchrow has not given husband #1
good presents in the past, even though she
thought he would like a mezuzah. This year,
she is hoping he will be happy. If not, you
will all hear about it in her next column.
Crossword
Trumpisms By Yoni Glatt
koshercrosswords@gmail.com
Difficulty Level: Medium
Across
1. Place for a priest but not a rabbi
7. Shofar source
10. Voice of Israel author
14. Apprentice of The Donald, in a way
15. Before, to Burns or Lazarus
16. One who comes at the end of a bar
mitzvah, maybe
17. Jezebel, e.g.
19. Salk had at least one good one
20. First name in cosmetics
21. Attempt to win an antique siddur
on Ebay
22. Parsha with a mountain setting
23. Jazzman Getz
24. Sons of Leah
25. Chasidic men arent known to
use them
26. Sadducees, for one
28. Kelloggs mascot who might have
had ancestors in the second plague
29. Williams in Spielbergs Poltergeist
32. ___ Tzuba (amusement park
near Jerusalem)
33. Ian Kinsler hopes to get a lot
of them
36. Kosher palindrome
37. ?????
40. 6 or 60 in Isr. , e.g.
41. The Binding of Isaac, for Abraham
43. Steve Ballmers Clippers, on
the scoreboard
44. Get an Israel Bond, e.g.
46. Daughter or ancestor of David
48. Bent one for Aleinu
49. Emotional one who might lose it
under a Chuppah
51. Kvetch
52. Sad days in Av
56. Reef ring
57. Source of 45-Down
58. Begets
59. Make like Ben Stein in Ferris
Buellers Day Off
60. Haman and Hitler, e.g.
62. Makes havdalah, e.g.
63. YU dorm authority figures: Abbr.
64. Tone of 14-Across
65. ...___they be removed from your
heart. (Ethics of the Fathers)
66. Last word of a hit by Billy Joel or
Bruno Mars
67. Bridget ___ Diary (2001 hit
for Miramax)
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 59.
Down
1. Trees that were part of an Operation
name in the 1982 Lebanon War
2. Hifsik!, to a sailor
3. One that believes Ethiopia is the
Promised Land
4. Like many a Jewish debate
5. Actress Ione
6. Hems partner
7. Alternative Drake song?
8. City directly south of Jerusalem
9. Moses and Aaron, e.g.
10. Son of Moses
11. Torquemada, e.g.
12. No I wont shed ___
13. What Shabbat does Friday afternoon
18. Item written on Peres on September
30, 2016
22. Tefillin or tallit item
24. The Ramban, e.g.
25. Jamming (with Gene Simmons or
C Lanzbom)
27. Yadda, yadda, yadda
28. What some believe Ashers daughter
Serah never did
29. El Al craft
30. Have to pay back a gemach
31. Kafka and Wiesel have used them
(with The)
32. Chain returning to Israel (in kosher
form), familiarly
34. ___ Now or Never (Elvis)
35. Performance from Alex Clare
38. Alt. abbr. used in crosswords
39. Haifa to Safed dir.
42. Goliath, compared to the
other Philistines
45. Kosher meat thats tough to
come by
47. B, C or Brooks
48. Critic/writer Pauline
49. Tower site
50. What to do on Yom Kippur
51. It can distract people praying
53. Sendler who rescued Warsaw chil-
dren
54. Milhouse and Screech, e.g.
55. Starts of Shabbat and
Simchat Torah?
57. ___ Torah (Rabbis sermon)
58. Notable Ford role
60. First Temple ___
61. U.S. pres. during the Six Day War
 Arts & Culture
Pious Irreverence
They dared challenge God
AVRAHAM BRONSTEIN

W
hat might it mean to file a
grievance against God?
For the ancient rabbis
who lived through the
destruction of the Second Temple and the
subsequent persecution at the hands of
foreign oppressors, this question became
the basis of a uniquely Jewish theology of
confronting the Divine over the incom-
prehensible injustices they experienced
in their world.
Professor Dov Weiss Pious Irrever-
ence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Juda-
ism traces this development from its tal-
mudic beginnings into medieval times,
focusing on a particular midrashic col-
lection, Tanhuma-Yelammedu, that until
recently has received little academic
attention.
Weiss demonstrates how these rab-
bis, perhaps aware of how radical their
ideas were, composed midrashic inter-
pretations that placed their arguments
into the mouths of Biblical heroes
instead of just saying them directly.
Audaciously, the rabbis sometimes put
responses into the mouth of God. Some-
times, and even more audaciously, the
rabbis imagine God conceding the argu- Professor Dov Weiss adds new context to the voices of ancient rabbis.
ment by admitting mistakes. In other
words, instead of fleshing out their theol- rock. Many medieval rabbis were stu- sense, and that the idealized being it tells
ogy and theodicy in abstract, philosophi- dents of neoclassical philosophy who us about doesnt resemble the biblical God
cal terms, the rabbis continued the bibli- developed the conception of the perfect, at all.
cal tradition of interacting with God as a immutable, and generally indescribable Weiss, though, does take these bibli-
character in an ever-developing narrative. God with which we are more familiar. cal and rabbinic texts at face value. It
At the same time, though, Weiss tracks That God, by definition, cannot have a turns out, then, that when they used
an opposing tradition that insisted, in cor- change of mind, nor can that God pos- God-language the rabbis really were try-
respondingly ever-harsher tones, that it is sibly make a mistake. ing to describe how the world felt to
heresy to deny that Gods outcomes reflect Those who take this approach gen- them. A narrative God, as opposed to a
infallible supreme justice. The most influ- erally do not take narrative descrip- philosophic God, was their way to create
ential proponent of this position was the tions of God at face value, understanding a framework for living life. In the words
famous Rabbi Akiva, who was executed before Me. Other traditions ascribe par- them instead as metaphors or allegories of Donald Harmarn Akenson as cited by
by the Romans in 135 CE and whose last ticular sins to Rabbi Akiva or his followers, for abstract philosophic concepts. Most of Hazony, the biblical God was, for the Isra-
words were a declaration of faith. The though it is hard to imagine they were, on Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed, for elites, an embodiment of what is, of real-
midrashic and liturgical accounts of his balance, worse than the Hadrianic per- example, is the decoding of scriptural and ity. Weiss tells us that the rabbis took a
martyrdom, including one that remains secutions that prompted the Bar Kokhba rabbinic narratives into the philosophical similar approach. Their God was how they
an emotional highlight of the Yom Kip- revolt in the first place. In either case, God language he was more comfortable with. focused prayers, gave thanks, expressed
pur service, emphasize the obligation to essentially is on the side of the Romans, This approach, essentially an attempt to wonder, articulated hopes and mourned
accept Gods verdicts as just, no matter the and against the Judean rebels. understand God in the context of objec- and voiced grievances.
circumstances. In contrast, a tradition within which the tive reality, is severely limited. As Yoram To many contemporary minds, this may
Weiss does not address the politics of rabbis challenge God also is a tradition Hazony wrote in 2012, Philosophers have be inconceivable because it implies that
these schools directly, but it is worth not- that refuses to accept the status quo. This spent many centuries trying to get Gods an entire school of classical rabbis did not
ing that the more infallible God is, the school of thought does not seek to under- supposed perfections to fit together in a necessarily believe in God in the sense of
more that God tends to uphold the sta- stand why the world is as it is, but spends coherent conception, and then trying to a distinct Being (or non-Being) with defin-
tus quo. For example, one rabbinic tradi- more of its efforts demanding that it be get that to fit with the Bible. By now its able attributes and ascribable actions.
tion describes Moses challenging God for something better. reasonably clear that this cant be done. Instead, it sounds very much like J. R. Tolk-
allowing Rabbi Akivas gruesome death As the rabbinic tradition developed into In fact, part of the reason God-bashers iens insightful description of his fantasies
and, more broadly, the failure of the Bar the Middle Ages, the notion of God mak- like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are as True Myth, explaining that something
Kokhba revolt to which God unsatisfy- ing a mistake would have been just as so influential is their insistence that the could still be true, even if it never actually
ingly responds, So has it been decreed nonsensical as God creating an unliftable doctrine of Gods perfections makes no SEE PIOUS PAGE 59

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Military bridge in
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Sandy Rubenstein, a child
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discuss her father Joseph Center hosts military
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Jewish World Obituaries

Pro-terrorist ad in the Forward Alan Brodsky

Alan R. Brodsky, 73, of Emerson died

raises eyebrows in Jewish media on June 7.

Prior to his retirement, he was a
guidance counselor in the Englewood
Rafael Medoff School System. He was a member
of the Jewish Community Center of
The decision by the Forward, a Jewish weekly newspaper, to pub- Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah.
lish a paid advertisement supporting imprisoned Palestinian terror- He is survived by his wife, Barbara,
ist Marwan Barghouti is being questioned by some editors of other stepson, Randy Nies; sister, Sandra
American Jewish newspapers. Bockian (Fred), and nephews, Neil
The full-page ad appeared in the Forwards June 2 edition. It Bockian and his children, Yaakov and
was sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace, a controversial orga- Chaya, and Jeffrey Bockian (Kari) and
nization that supports the BDS movement and is described by their sons, Jackson and Nicholas.
the Anti-Defamation League as the largest Jewish anti-Zionist Donations can be made to St.
group in the United States. The ad featured a statement by Jude Childrens Research Hospital.
Barghouti calling for more privileges for jailed terrorists, and Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
charging that Israels arrest and prosecution of Palestinian ter- Chapel, Fair Lawn.
rorists is unlawful because it constitutes forcibly transferring
Palestinian civilians into captivity. Harriet Epstein
The ad also included an illustration of Barghouti flashing a V-for- Harriet Epstein, ne Levy, 99, of
victory sign beneath the slogan Palestine Will Be Free. Monroe, N.Y., formerly of Fair Lawn,
In a Note to Our Readers on the Forwards editorial page, Pub- died June 10.
lisher Rachel Fishman Fedderson wrote that when the ad was sub- She was a former member of
mitted, it gave us pause because JVPs text identified Barghouti Congregation Bnai Israel in Fair
only as the leader of a recent 40-day hunger strike by Palestinian Lawn and a longtime volunteer at the
terrorist prisoners, without noting that he was convicted of murder- Daughters of Miriam Center.
ing five Israelis. Predeceased by her husband,
The Forwards official advertising policy states it will not accept Milton, she is survived by children,
an ad if the text is intentionally misleading or contains known false Arlene Washburn (David) and Howard
statements. JVPs media coordinator, Naomi Dann, said that the (Kathleen); grandchildren, Zachary
Forward had no issues with the content of the ad. While JVP was (Christine), Gabrielle, and Matthew,
not asked to change the text, the Forward did require it to include and three great-grandchildren.
a disclaimer that said The views printed here are not intended to Donations can be made to
represent those of the Forward. Daughters of Miriam Center, Clifton.
Fedderson explained in her note to the Forwards readers that Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
despite our reservations, she and her colleagues decided to pub- This is the advertisement the Forward published Chapel, Fair Lawn.
lish the ad because mass media itself is on the firing line, and free- supporting Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti.
dom of expression is under pressure from our own government.  Scanned copy of the Forwards print edition. Julius Goldman
Some other editors disagree with the argument that free speech Julius Goldman, 94, of West Orange,
is the issue. formerly of Charlotte, N.C., and
The Jewish Standard would not print such a story, publisher libelous. David Portnoe, editor of the New Jersey Jewish Com- Boston, died June 12.
James Janoff and editor Joanne Palmer agreed. munity Voice, said that he has rejected ads that target Jews He was a medic in Great Britain
We agree that freedom of speech is vitally important, but we fail for conversion. during World War II and was a sales
to see what freedom of speech has to do with accepting an ad. That Rob Eshman, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Journal executive in the chemical and dye
is far more about commerce than free speech. of Greater Los Angeles, said his newspaper refuses ads from groups industry. In Charlotte, he served on
Like any publication, we welcome most advertisers, but we do that advocate or incite violence, racism [or] conversion out of Juda- the board and as president of the ritual
not and will not run ads that are contrary to our values. Marwan committee in his shul.
Barghouti is a convicted murderer, and thus has forfeited his right He is survived by his wife of 72
to free speech anyway. But we are a private publication, not a gov- years, Mae, children, Shlomo (Chana)
ernmental institution. of New Square, N.Y., Bruce (Hannah)
We value the Forward, and respect its decision, but cannot imag- The Jewish Standard of Denville, and Pamela Silberman
ine making a similar decision. Of course, we were not asked to run (Bruce) of Columbus, Ohio; 17
that ad; given our audience, that is not surprising. would not print such a grandchildren; 82 great-grandchildren,
Freedom of expression is indeed a vital American value, one story, publisher James and three great-great grandchildren.
that this publication cherishes, Sue Fishkoff, editor of J.: The Jew- Donations can be made to the
ish News of Northern California, said. But it has nothing to do Janoff and editor Joanne Mount Freedom Jewish Center,
with whether or not a publication chooses to run a particular ad. Palmer agreed. Randolph. Arrangements were by
While I respect the Forwards decision to accept this ad, we at J. Jewish Memorial Chapel, Clifton.
would not have.
In view of Barghoutis murder convictions, an ad supporting his ism, or ads that are too sexually explicit. While declining to say Peter Hirschel
hunger strike would be antithetical to our mission, Fishkoff said. if he would have accepted the Barghouti ad because the question is Peter Hirschel, 92, of Haworth died
Like The Forward, the Detroit Jewish News believes that freedom hypothetical, Eshman added, I think the Forward is a great Jew- June 8.
of expression is of paramount importance in times like these, Jackie ish newspaper with a long legacy of service to the Jewish community A commercial artist, he was a
Headapohl, that newspapers managing editor, said. But our first and the world. member of Congregation Bnai Israel of
concern is for our readers, who would be greatly offended by this Dovid Efune, editor-in-chief of the Algemeiner, said there is no Emerson, Jewish Family Service Meals
particular ad. If it were submitted to us, wed suggest that Jewish amount of money that could convince us to run an ad like this. on Wheels volunteer, and a member
Voice for Peace place this ad somewhere else. Frankly, its disgraceful. Hiding behind the freedom of expression of Senior Citizens of Haworth and
Several editors said they reject certain types of advertisements. concept, the Forward has engaged in a shocking abdication of moral Haworth Mens Club.
Alan Smason, editor of the online Crescent City Jewish News, judgment. The Constitution doesnt guarantee the right to terrorists He is survived by his wife of more
said that he would not accept an ad supporting a convicted to be provided a platform by leading Jewish newspapers. than 60 years, Ruth, ne Katz,
murderer, or an ad that was lacking in truth or potentially See Ad page 59 daughter, Rene Horowitz (Paul); and

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grandchildren, Andrew, Daniel, Jeffrey, Susanne Deutsch Zwerling

and Laura. Susanne Deutsch Zwerling, ne Klein,
Contributions can be made to the 93, of Bridgewater, formerly of Stratford,
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Conn., and New Milford, died June 5.
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from page 53
happened. The rabbis narrative God was
true because it reflected their reality, bat-
tles and all.
In addition, specifically by being fallible,
a narrative God also was uniquely empow-
ering. By calling God to account, the rab-
bis also were challenging themselves to
develop the sharply honed moral sense
that allowed them to issue those chal-
lenges in the first place. If the rabbis could
tell God that the world contains injustice,
it was because they had developed an
idealistic vision of how the world should
be. Finally, if God is fallible, then the rab-
bis could not count on God to repair the
injustices they noticed; they would have to
build idealistic, values-based communities
to do the work themselves.
Weiss describes the dynamic between
man and the rabbinic narrative God as
analogous to partners in a long-term
relationship, bound together, despite
the occasional missteps and injuries, by
love, accountability, and mutual growth.
Another term for it, one that arises
directly from scripture itself and is used
by contemporaries including Rabbis David
Hartman and Irving Yitz Greenberg, is
covenant.
A well-developed protest theology,
Weiss notes, is unique to the Jewish tradi-
tion. Christianity and Islam, each enjoying
long periods of success and hegemony, did
not really need one. Faith in God worked
well enough for them that there really
was nothing to protest. In contrast, the
overarching Jewish experiences of suf-
fering, persecution, and exile provided
plenty of questions for believers, and
many turned them heavenward.
Finally, Weiss analysis has contem-
porary relevance in the wake of a bitter
American presidential campaign, which
often was cast in explicitly religious terms.
The evangelical community, led by preach-
ers like Franklin Graham and politicians
like Mike Pence, who speak confidently
about what God wants and does not want
for America, voted overwhelmingly for
Donald Trump. In contrast, when Hill-
ary Clinton and Tim Kaine spoke of their
faith, which both did often, it was more in
terms of being called to a life of responsi-
bility, service, and good works. If Graham
and Pence emphasized submission to God
and a restoration of sepia-toned glories,
Clinton and Kaine emphasized covenant
with God and the possibility of forward
progress.
As sociologists and political scientists
debate the rise of a new American Chris-
tian Left that, along with a still-liberal
Jewish community, is trying to find its foot-
ing in a new political reality, Weiss dem-
onstrates how the rabbinic tradition offers
the language not only to make progressive
demands of policymakers, but to make
moral demands of the cosmos as well.
After all, demanding justice from a fallible
God is accepting both the brokenness of
the world and the responsibility to mak-
ing it better. That is a theology of protest
tailor-made for those taking to the streets
in the Trump era.

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supporters of an imprisoned killer who targeted members of
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A landmark groundbreaking for Binyamin Medical Center
Knesset Speaker Yoel (Yuli) Edelstein, Min-
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slated to become the first full-scale multi-fac-
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One Israel Fund and the Binyamin Regional
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Medical Center, which is located south of
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hospital.
The Binyamin Region is the largest
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Of course, urgent care is the driving force
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formerly served as executive director of the
Efrat Medical Center. The closest emer-
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min today is in Jerusalem. It can sometimes
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munities like Eli and Shilo to the capital city
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medical facility. The BMC aims to have
a transformative impact on the Binyamin
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and peace of mind to residents who now
live with the fear and uncertainty of not
knowing whether they will be able to reach
a hospital in the event of an emergency,
said Rabbi Marcus. The center will improve
the regions security and quality of life, pro-
vide many employment opportunities, and
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future he added.
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ect, Executive Vice President of One Israel
Fund, Scott M. Feltman, along with five exec-
utive board members and their families flew
to Israel for this momentous event. Said Mr.
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the event billboards. That is Route 60 and
you can see the bumper-to-bumper traffic
stretching as far as your eyes can see. This
is what families and emergency responders
face each and every day in trying to reach a
hospital. Once this center is built, along with
all of the necessary infrastructure plans for
this entire industrial zone, including the new
central bus station as well as the extension
of the Light Rail, no longer will the families
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It is the nucleus for the establishment
of a full hospital in the future. There
will be a hospital here. I am now pre-
paring master plans for the water sec-
tor for years ahead, which take into
account a million settlers in Judea and
Samaria. We hope that a birthing unit
will be the hospitals busiest depart-
ment in the future.
The 7,000-square meter center will
integrate all regional medical and
emergency resources under one roof,
including public and private HMOs,
Magen David Adom, Hatzalah, the IDF
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security teams. Beyond emergency
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so by designing a sophisticated model,
integrating private and public health
services, the group seized on a plan
that will allow doctors and health care
providers to expand their services to
the region as well as ensuring the fiscal
integrity of the enterprise.
The center is estimated to cost $15
million, the overwhelming majority to
come from philanthropic sources, and
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total cost of the loan $4598.21.The promotion may end at any time. The promotion is for new loans only, and does not apply to refinancing of existing North Jersey
Federal loans. The offer cannot be combined with any other promotions. The promotion is valid until 8/31/17.

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Happy Father's Day

DAD

MEDIUM RARE

MEDIUM

MEDIUM WELL

WELL DONE

Dad, youre the

Rarest of them all
from the family