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celebrates Pesach
● He hails from the darkest Peru. He lives in England. He got his
name from London’s Paddington Station. With his old hat and bat-
tered suitcase, he resembles a Jewish refugee. He loves marmalade.
And now, he’s spreading that marmalade on matzah.
He’s Paddington Bear, featured in beloved children’s books and
films since 1958.
A film about the bear, Paddington 2, came out in the United States
last November, in time for the Christmas holidays. In Israel, however,
his visit to theaters was postponed for the Passover vacation season.
And on promotional posters and newspaper advertisements, at
least, his menu was adjusted to fit the holiday.
For Israeli movie theaters hoping that Paddington 2 packs them in
during Pesach, replacing the bread in the advertising — though not
the film itself — was only the bear minimum. LARRY YUDELSON
Most Israeli seder-goers go the distance
● It’s that familiar moment in every Passover seder: The
last of the dishes has been cleared away, the leftovers are
stored in the refrigerator, the guests are pleasantly drunk,
except for that one cousin who always overdoes it, the
matzah crumbs have been ground irreversibly into the
couch cushions. That’s the point when the participants
look around the table and say to themselves, “Are we re-
ally going to get out the Haggadahs to finish the seder?”
According to the Jewish People Policy Institute, 64 per-
cent of Jewish Israelis say yes and read the entire seder, in-
cluding the part that comes after dinner. This part includes
the traditional Passover songs such as Had Gadya (Just
One Kid) and Echad MiYodea (Who Knows One).
Just 22 percent of Jews who identified as “completely
secular” said they finish the entire Haggadah, while, un-
surprisingly, 99 percent of ultra-Orthodox Jews said they
At this seder, don’t talk about the weather
● Trayon White Sr., the Washington D.C.
councilman who suggested on Facebook
that rich Jews control the weather, will go to
a Passover seder.
White will be a guest at the first-night
seder of Elissa Silverman, another council
member, the Washington Post reported.
He had his choice of seders — he’s gotten
invitations from many Jewish leaders after
he’d talked about the relation between the
Rothschilds and the weather.
White, a Democrat representing the
district’s 8th ward, posted a video early on
March 16 in which he accused “the Roths-
childs” of controlling the climate to make
money — an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory
that has gained traction on the web. He later
removed the video and issued an apology.
The Rothschilds are a well-known Europe-
an Jewish dynasty descended from a Jewish
banker originally from Germany. White did
not specify which of the many Rothschilds he was accusing
of weather control.
Several days later, there was another video featuring
White, although apparently he did not post this one himself.
In this second video, he said that the Rothschilds control the
World Bank and the federal government.
Internet conspiracy theorists claim that the Rockefeller
Foundation’s Resilient Cities initiative, which provides grants
to cities, including Washington, to address environmental
and economic problems, is part of a plot to control and re-
duce the population of North America. And some conspira-
finished the whole megillah — er, Haggadah.
Passover seders are tied with Rosh Hashanah dinners as
one of the most widely celebrated Israeli Jewish traditions;
93 percent of Israeli Jews observe both holidays with a
festive meal, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center
survey.
According to a 2013 Pew study, 70 percent of American
Jews participate in a Passover seder. Sadly, Pew did not
ask how long their seders run.
Why do Israelis make seder night different from all other
nights? According to the JPPI survey of 3,000 Israeli Jews,
just 25 percent participate in the seder because it is a
commandment from the Torah.
The rest celebrate the holiday for historical, cultural, and
family reasons. And for the matzah ball soup.
MELANIE LIDMAN/TIMES OF ISRAEL
cy theorists also think that the Rothschilds, working with the
Rockefellers, have technology that controls the weather.
Silverman, who will host White at the seder, issued a state-
ment describing his Rothschild comments as “hateful and
dangerous.” She told the Washington Post that his ignorance
about Judaism and anti-Semitism is a call for engagement.
“I want to be very clear that anti-Semitism has no place
in civic discussion, but this has shown that there is a lack of
exposure to Judaism and anti-Semitism … there are strains of
this, especially in Trayon’s community,” she said. “The way to
combat intolerance is to engage.” JTA WIRE SERVICE
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On the cover: Mirra Oliker’s collage,
“Passover — Yesterday We Were
Slaves, Today We Are Free People,”
was displayed at the juried exhibition
“Freedom: An Artistic Interpretation,”
at the Belskie Museum in Closter this
month. The show also included work
by the show’s co-curators, Sheryl In-
trator Urman and Fred Spinowitz.
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BRIEFLY LOCAL ..............................................16
ROCKLAND ...................................................... 18
COVER STORY ................................................ 22
JEWISH WORLD ............................................ 36
OPINION ........................................................... 38
PASSOVER GREETINGS ..............................44
D’VAR TORAH ................................................ 56
THE FRAZZLED HOUSEWIFE ................... 57
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ................................ 57
ARTS & CULTURE .......................................... 58
CALENDAR ...................................................... 59
OBITUARIES ....................................................60
CLASSIFIEDS .................................................. 62
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GINSBURG HUMOR:
Seriously… jurist
can’t take a joke
Not a fun
schmoozer
Justice RUTH
BADER GINSBURG
turned 85 on March 15,
and that prompted a
flurry of publicity. Two
items I saw were on the
light side. The Wall Street
Journal (“WSJ”) inter-
viewed her about her
extensive collection of
scrunchies (the cloth or
elastic item used to hold
hair in a pony tail). She
told the Journal that her
collection of scrunchies
is very big and that she
has favorite scrunchie-
shopping cities and will
not hesitate to travel to
get a good one. The best
ones, she said, come
from Zurich, with London
and Rome taking second
and third place.
On March 21, Ste-
phen Colbert went to
Washington to see how
Justice Ginsburg works
out with her personal
trainer. He participated
in the workout and pep-
pered their time to-
gether with mostly silly
shtick. I knew from brief
past attempted comedic
interactions with Justice
Ginsburg that the visit
wouldn’t work that well.
When Colbert attempt-
ed to liven things up by
playing loud disco-ish
music on a boom box,
the justice objected im-
mediately, saying that
maybe she could work
out with opera playing.
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(She and her ideologi-
cal opponent, the late
Justice Antonin Scalia,
bonded over their love
of opera and were great
friends.) When Colbert
asked her a semi-silly le-
gal question she was fine
logically, but not funny.
Frankly, she just isn’t the
type of person who’s
capable of being cutely
funny in response to
Colbert’s stream of cute
remarks. (Video all over
the Net. Google: Colbert,
Ginsburg.)
On the other hand, the
workout video showed,
via her limberness and
responsiveness, that
the justice is in remark-
ably good physical and
mental shape. Today,
we expect celebrities
we admire to be every-
thing. Well, some very
competent famous
people, including Jew-
ish people, just aren’t
funny schmoozers on
talk shows or elsewhere
and they shouldn’t be
put in a position where
they are expected to be.
The justice never was
a schmoozer. A very
reliable source tells me
that when she and her
late husband attended
fun outings sponsored
by the law firm her
husband belonged to,
Justice Ginsburg, then a
law professor, brought
along law review issues
to read. By the way, the
funniness of justices
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“This is very foreign to me. In Ireland, we
would never waste alcohol like this.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Zoe Kravitz
was measured in 2005
via counting how many
times their remarks
elicited laughter at
oral argument. Justice
Scalia was the winner,
with Justice STEPHEN
BREYER, now 79, finish-
ing second.
At the movies
“Gemini” is a rare
indie film, in that it
got such good reviews at
a film festival that it was
picked up for a limited
national release. It’s
unlikely (but possible)
MAN,NY -BENZELBUSCH.
— Irish Vice Cousul John Callaghan, as guests dribbled
plague-reminder wine drops from their fingertips at an
American Jewish Committee diplomatic seder in San
Stephen Breyer Lola Kirke
Ricki Lake Jemima Kirke
that it will open at a starlet Heather Anderson
theater. Look for it at (ZOE KRAVITZ, 29). Jill
that theater near you, or arrives at Heather’s
better yet, make a note house one day to find
to look for it on a her dead from a gunshot
streaming service in the wound. The police
near future. The director/ suspect Jill is the killer
writer is Aaron Katz, a and she must solve her
filmmaker who has made boss’s murder before her
a string of good indies world unravels complete-
on a shoe-string budget. ly. RICKI LAKE, 49, has a
Katz, a Portland, Oregon, biggish supporting role.
native, may well be Kirke is the star of the
Jewish, but bio details Amazon series “Mozart
about him are very scant. in the Jungle,” and the
Basic plot: Jill LeBeau sister of JEMIMA KIRKE,
(LOLA KIRKE, 37) is the 32, a “Girls” co-star. Their
assistant to Hollywood mother comes from a
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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prominent British Jewish
family of Iraqi origin and
both sisters identify as
Jewish. Kravitz’s paternal
grandfather and mater-
nal grandmother were
Jewish and she identifies
as Jewish. She proved
she was more than eye
candy with an excellent
performance in the hit
HBO series “Big Little
Lies.” (Opens March 30.)
Other TV/
streaming news
On March 29, the
A&E cable station
will launch a new original
docuseries, “Marcia Clark
Investigates the First 48.”
The seven-episode series
will explore seven of the
most high-profile cases
of the last 30 years. The
first episode, which aired
on Thursday, March 29 at
8 p.m. (many encore
showings), is about the
Casey Anthony murder
case. The episode airing
on April 5 is about
murder victim
CHANDRA LEVY.
MARCIA CLARK, 64, is
Jewish and was born
Marcia Klerks. She is
famous as the prosecutor
who lost the O.J.
Simpson murder case.
On March 30, Netflix
will premiere “Happy
Anniversary,” an original
romantic comedy/drama
movie. It follows the ups-
and-downs of a couple
(BEN SCHWARTZ, 36,
and Noel Wells) over sev-
eral years. –N.B.
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‘Life in the end is memory’
Remembering the remarkably full life and
many intersecting worlds of Rabbi Ozer Glickman
JOANNE PALMER
T
he mystery about Rabbi Ozer
Glickman of Teaneck, who died
last Monday at 67, was how he
found enough time to do all the
things he did.
The personal characteristics that were on
view when he did all those things — his intel-
lect, quickness, depth of knowledge, empa-
thy, and overwhelming kindness — could be
attributed to nature, nurture, genetics, luck
of the draw, or gift of God, depending on
the onlooker doing the attributing, but the
question of how his days expanded to allow
all of them seems unanswerable.
A decade or so ago, perhaps addressing
the question, Rabbi Glickman made a CD
called “Bain HaZ’manim.”
“Bain HaZ’manim” — literally between
the times — is a term that yeshiva students
use when they’re talking about the times
between holidays and school terms, the
brief but cherished times when they’re
relatively free of the constraining demands
of schedules and able to take advantage of
that liberty.
“Bain HaZ’manim,” considered less liter-
ally, evokes liminality, openness, the time
when constraints fade to allow unlikely
connections to evolve and different worlds
to open up onto each other.
It is perhaps fanciful but possibly appro-
priately fanciful to imagine Rabbi Glickman
as living in such a liminal world, because
he managed to live in so very many worlds
at the same time. It seems almost as if an
hour for us somehow was two hours for
him, that in his 67 years he amassed a cen-
tury of experiences and friendships.
Or imagine, perhaps, a Venn diagram.
Rabbi Glickman is at the center, in a circle
with his family, the center of his life; his
wife, Ilana, their six children, and their
rapidly expanding cluster of daughters-
and sons-in-law and grandchildren.
(To be specific, that’s Tony and Ilana’s
children, Dov, Dalia, Ron, Maya, Avigayil,
and Oren; their daughters-in-law, Shoshana
and Aimee; their sons-in-law, Matthew
Engler and Yonah Heller; and their grand-
children, Idan, Lital, Oriyah, Maor, Saman-
tha, Liam, Zoe, Caleb, and Jamie.)
Around that central circle there would
be other bubbles — the worlds of Yeshiva
University, Wall Street, other financial
institutions, academia, music, poetry,
Jewish texts, English literature, French lit-
erature, technology, data, race relations,
presidential politics, Teaneck, Toronto,
and so much more. Some of the bubbles
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In 2011, Rabbi Glickman and his youngest child, Oren, went to a soccer game.
would intersect, others would not. Some
would be huge, others would not. The
number and range of those bubbles would
astonish.
Who was Ozer Glickman? How did he do
all those things?
Even his names showed how many
worlds Rabbi Glickman inherited and
made for himself.
Anthony Scott Glickman, who was
known as Tony, was born in northeast
Philadelphia in 1950. Although it amused
him to joke that his mother was French, in
fact she was not, but she was fluent in the
language, which she, and then he, loved.
She read him “The Little Prince” in its orig-
inal French, he said, as “Le Petit Prince.”
Although he loved to say that his real first
name was Antoine, it was not. But the love
for literature that he got from his mother
lasted throughout his life.
When he grew up, although he main-
tained his love for English literature — and
his ability to quote poetry from memory, a
skill lost to most of us — Hebrew literature,
from the medieval to S.Y. Agnon to the
contemporary, was his real passion, Dalia
said. “One of the greatest thrills of his life
was getting a private tour of Agnon’s home
and study in Jerusalem this past Novem-
ber,” she said; and he was able to “daven
mincha next to Agnon’s desk.”
Tony’s mother, Susan Kaufmann Glick-
man, was 22 when she married, and her
husband, Bernard Glickman, was 39.
The couple had two children, Connie
and then, two years later, Tony. Susan
was a teacher; they both taught Hebrew
school, and Bernard earned a Ph.D. from
Dropsie, Philadelphia’s college of Jewish
studies. The Glickmans were traditional,
observant Conservative Jews.
Tony was a brilliant student and an
unsettlingly quick study. He graduated
from Central High School, Philadelphia’s
answer to Stuyvesant or Bronx Science,
an entrance-by-examination public school
that gave the students smart and sturdy
enough to get in an education that was
both thorough and prestigious.
He planned to go to Haverford, “and he
was accepted,” his daughter Dalia said, but
then “his father died. It was the watershed
moment of his life.” Bernard Glickman
was 59, and Tony Glickman was 16. “His
mother wanted him to be a rabbi, and he
got a full scholarship to the joint program,”
the academic undergraduate partnership
between the Jewish Theological Seminary
and Columbia University. At shiva for his
father, Tony was persuaded to head off to
New York for college.
“He was very unhappy there his first
year,” his wife, Ilana, said. “He was in a
strange place. His father had just died. He
went home a lot on weekends.” But he sol-
diered on, graduated, and then entered
rabbinical school at JTS.
“It’s a four-year gap in his resume,”
Ilana joked. Half-joked, more accurately;
although he later went on to become a
luminary in the Orthodox world, Rabbi
Glickman’s original ordination was Conser-
vative. It was a different time then; JTS was
full of luminaries, and many of them, rang-
ing from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
to Rabbi Saul Lieberman to Rabbi Moshe
Zucker, taught Tony. And the boundaries
between the Orthodox and Conservative
worlds, while not negligible, still were far
more porous than they are today. Still, “we
always joked about the four-year gap on
his resume,” Ilana said. “If you go to the
wrong school, you can’t redeem yourself.
And the fact is that JTS moved to the left,
and we moved to the right.”
It was during his time at JTS that Tony
Glickman met Ilana Arm, fresh from
Southfield, Michigan, the daughter of a
Conservative rabbi. She was a freshman
at Barnard, just down Broadway from JTS,
and she and her friends took their meals at
JTS because Barnard didn’t have a kosher
kitchen then. “I went there one night to eat
dinner, sitting with friends, and he was sit-
ting with friends and said ‘I have to get that
girl’s phone number.’” He did, he pursued
her by phone and she was wary, but even-
tually he was persistent enough so that she
said yes, they had dinner, and she ended
up having a better time on that first date
than he did. “I was impressed with him,
but he was less so, and he wasn’t going to
ask me out again,” she said.
But she saw him going to the library at
Barnard, “I scooped up my books and sat
a few tables away.” He was courtly, they
dated again, “that date lasted six or maybe
it was eight hours, and I never went out
with anyone else again,” she said.
Her parents, Claire and Rabbi Milton
Arm, concerned that their daughter was
so young to be involved with someone
so intensely, convinced her to spend her
sophomore year in Israel. She dutifully
went; as it turned out, that was the year
that Tony’s rabbinical program took him
to Israel. The next year, 1972, they mar-
ried. She was a junior in college, and he
was a third-year rabbinical student.
Soon, the young couple moved to the
apartments in Teaneck — home to genera-
tions of observant young couples — and
he got a job as education director at the
Teaneck Jewish Center.
It was then, living at the apartments in
Teaneck, that Tony and Ilana Glickman
formed the friendships that were to redirect
their lives. Most of the couples there were
affiliated with YU. “I was very impressed
with them, and my husband was too,” Ilana
said. “Many of these young men had smicha
from YU. They were working in professions
— finance, medicine, law. They went to shul,
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FROM PAGE 6
and they learned on Shabbes afternoon.
And yet on Saturday night they’d play pool,
and they’d play football in Votee Park on
Sunday morning, and they’d get together to
jam on their guitars. It was so very normal.
They learned, and they also were complete
participants in American life.
“And they showed us that smicha could
be — should be — lishmah. For the sake of
learning. This was our first introduction to
that idea.
“We saw the instability in Jewish profes-
sional life, and we didn’t want to struggle
all the time,” Ilana said, and Tony’s rest-
less intelligence wanted new avenues to
explore.
Tony got a full scholarship to NYU’s
business school, and earned an MBA in
the conventional two years — but at night,
while working full time during the day,
and already as the father of two young
children. He worked on a Ph.D. — that one
he didn’t finish — and eventually he also
got Orthodox smicha.
From his first job, as an analyst in a cubi-
cle at Value Line, Tony Glickman went on
to a series of jobs in finance, each more
high-level than the one before. The grow-
ing young family moved to West Orange
— Teaneck was too expensive then, Ilana
said — and “we were there for 13 years. We
made a lot of nice friends.
“And Tony was always into learning.
We had a minyan on the block; he would
give a little shiur, lead mincha or maariv,
and give a d’var Torah. But it was always
a hobby, not a profession. He sometimes
was asked to speak professionally.”
Her husband led a minyan at a nearby
Rabbi Abraham
Joshua Heschel,
right, sits
across from
Tony Glickman
at a class at
the Jewish
Theological
Seminary.
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This picture, taken on Chanukah 2017, is the last to show the entire family.
shul that always drew crowds and often their house, and there weren’t any big
outdrew the main service, Ilana added. enough close by the shul. Painful as the
“I can’t tell you how many people realization was, it was time for them to
walked into shiva from West Orange,” she move. They found a nine-bedroom house
added. “To this day, they say, they remem- in Teaneck — the previous owners had a
ber the songs we sang, the davening, the blended family, so they needed all that
camaraderie. We haven’t ever been able to space — and moved back to the town
recreate that. where they had been so happy. There are
“I was happy to criticize Tony, and I 17 years between the six Glickman kids,
did plenty of that, but what he was good so by the time they moved the oldest had
at he was good at, and he was really good graduated high school and was in Israel,
at that. He davened beautifully. He really their next one already was at Frisch, and
knew the nusach, and he also really under- the next three started at Yavneh. The baby,
stood the words, and you could hear that then a toddler, was in nursery school.
he understood them. He was a big stickler” It was during this time that Rabbi Glick-
for that kind of davening, where emotion man began his involvement with YU. He
and meaning intertwined, she added. drove one of his sons to learn there on
In 1994, the Glickmans had outgrown Sundays, and while he was waiting for
his kid, he would pull out a text and learn
in the beit midrash. Soon he found him-
self helping students, working with them,
talking with them, and then that relation-
ship became formalized. Eventually, he
became a rosh yeshiva at YU’s rabbini-
cal school, RIETS, and he also taught at
YU’s law school, Cardozo, and its business
school, Sy Syms.
Teaching was an addictive pleasure for
Tony Glickman, and according to his stu-
dents he had a gift for it.
In an entirely separate world, “he was
very interested in finance,” his son Dov
said. “He was an innovator in that space.
He liked to say that he was one of the first
people to work with spreadsheets on a
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Wall Street trading desk. Now they are
ubiquitous, but they weren’t then.
“He was an early adaptor of technology
in general, for both personal and business
use. He always could see around the corner,
see what would be big next. He was the first
person we knew to have a fax machine or
a car phone or a cell phone. We had a per-
sonal computer at home probably around
1992. And he was early onto the internet.
“His natural curiosity always pushed
him to new ideas, wherever they
came from — academia or the world of
technology.”
He also had a real gift for music; he was
self-taught, played mainly piano and gui-
tar but could pick up other instruments as
well. “He had perfect pitch and the ability
to play by ear,” Dov continued. “He picked
up a number of instruments — a harmon-
ica, a recorder, whatever.
“He always had a very strong connec-
tion to music; it brought together his reli-
gious and musical interests.”
He also wrote music.
“He composed the music that accom-
panied my mother to the chuppah,” Dalia
said. “My sisters walked down the aisle to
the same scored piece.”
That’s also where the CD, “Bain
HaZ’manim,” came in. He wrote most of
the music on that CD, his son Dov said. He
made it with two friends; although it was
never intended to be a money-making ven-
ture, it was popular in the Jewish world for
years.
Tony’s musical tastes ranged far beyond
the Jewish music that he adored, and that
spoke to his soul. “For friends, and just for
fun, he was into a whole range of things,”
Dov said. “Growing up when he did, he
liked the Beatles, he liked Steely Dan. He
liked soulful music — a lot of Motown,
Mahalia Jackson, spirituals.”
Was there anything that Rabbi Ozer
Glickman couldn’t do? “He had no domes-
tic skills and he had no sense of style,”
Ilana Glickman said. “We had to remind
him to get a haircut. We made an odd-look-
ing couple — but we made it work.”
One of Tony Glickman’s passions was
reaching out to people; he was active on
Facebook, although often trolls would pur-
sue him into closed groups. He developed
many friendships that way; he would write
back to people who wrote to him with
questions or comments that struck him,
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Watch out for space junk
Man from mission control speaks at TABC Book Day
LARRY YUDELSON
T
here are words and ideas you
study in the classroom, but you
think you will never encounter
them again after you graduate.
Words and ideas that you are entirely sure
you never will encounter for the rest of
your life.
Often you’re absolutely right.
Until, one morning, decades after you
first heard terms like “elliptical” and
“hyperbolic” in high school math class,
there stands before you an accomplished
professional, talking about his work, his
career, and the crucial role those math-
ematical geometric concepts and their
attendant equations play. Because he uses
them to calculate the paths of spaceships
headed to and from the planet Mars.
Yes, it’s rocket science.
But as Aaron Brown made clear to the
assembled high school boys of the Torah
Academy of Bergen County last week,
rocket science and the design of manned
missions to Mars is no longer science fic-
tion. It’s real.
And it’s also a career you can pursue
— assuming you’re willing to embark on
a lifetime of actually using geometry and
trigonometry and calculus — while being
an observant Jew.
Mr. Brown came to TABC in Teaneck as
the keynote speaker for the high school’s
annual Book Day, when the usual school
schedule is cast aside for special speakers,
discussions, and activities focusing on one
book that had been assigned reading for
the entire school. A committee of students
works over the summer to pick that com-
ing year’s book. This year’s choice was
“The Martian” by Andy Weir.
It’s the story, in the tradition of Rob-
inson Crusoe, of an astronaut left for
dead on Mars by colleagues who think
him lost; they assume he died in the
sandstorm that aborts their mission. In
Orbital diagram for mission to Mars.
10 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 30, 2018
fact, he is only unconscious. He awakens
to the sound of the oxygen alarm going
off in his space suit, pulls out the piece
of metal that pierced his suit and leg,
and heads back to the now empty base.
Having fixed his spacesuit and saved his
own life, he next discovers that his food
will run out before the next scheduled
mission from earth, and that the radio
antenna used to communicate with earth
was lost in the sand storm.
Determined not to become the first man
to die on Mars, he sets about improvising
what he needs to survive.
“There’s a wide variety of scientifically ori-
ented ideas as well as psychological ideas in
the book,” Dr. Carol Master said. Dr. Master
chairs TABC’s English department and runs
Book Day — which this year featured more
than two dozen different sessions on topics
ranging from physics to Jewish paradigms of
self-reliance, as well as presentations from
the Coast Guard and an Escape Room.
“It’s a full day, one that’s very exciting
for the students,” she said. “We bring in
people who normally would not be here.”
Normally, Mr. Brown is in Houston. He
works at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space
Center, part of the Orion project, which is
building a spacecraft to send humans into
deep space — first around the moon, then
onto the moon, and then, sometime in the
2030s or 2040s, to Mars.
Specifically, he works on Orion’s
onboard navigation system.
“If we don’t know where we are and
what speed we’re traveling, we can’t figure
out how to get where we’re going,” he said.
“Even if I know precisely where the moon
or Mars is, I can’t guide the spacecraft to
get there.”
To figure out where it is, the Orion will
rely on GPS when it’s close to Earth. Fur-
ther out, it tracks its position using celes-
tial navigation — figuring out where it is in
relation to the stars.
So how does a spacecraft plot its course
to Mars?
“There’s a classic problem in orbital
mechanics called an Earth-Mars transfer.
It’s the kind of stuff I studied in college and
grad school,” Mr. Brown, 41, said.
This is when he showed the students
an illustration of the planets, their orbits,
and the path the spaceship would take.
Describing the moment when the space-
ship maneuvers from its orbit around the
sun, which took it from Earth to Mars, to
its new orbit around Mars, he said: “At
this moment you can think of your orbit
as being both a hyperbola and an ellipse.
Hyperbolic in respect to earth, elliptical in
respect to the sun.”
And there you have it. High school math
terms, used in real life.
Speaking to the high school, Mr. Brown
drew a broader lesson from this bit of
orbital mechanics, which is known as
patched conic analysis.
“Holding these two contradictory pic-
tures of the orbit in my mind is exactly
Left, arrow shows Aaron Brown’s
seat in mission control. Above, “The
Martian,” chosen for TABC Book Day.
what’s required to get more to the emes”
— he used the Hebrew word for truth — “of
the fuel that I need to switch orbits. This
is analogous pretty much to any page of
Talmud that you open. There’s a contra-
diction between two verses, or between a
mishna and another text. In the Gemara
we find a contradiction and the Gemara
works its way out of it. Here in patched
conic analysis we work our way through it.
“That skill of holding two contradictory
viewpoints in our mind at the time to get
to the emes is the same in both Gemara
and patched conic analysis. The takeaway
message is to practice this skill anywhere
you find a contradiction in life, whether
in Talmud or science or relationships or
politics. This method of holding these two
contradictory points in our mind is often
the only way to get to the emes.
“NASA is very supportive of religious
practice,” Mr. Brown said. “I never expe-
rienced any anti-Semitism or restriction of
religious practice.
“I often get questions at work from col-
leagues about Judaism. One of my good
friends there, a mentor of mine, is a very
devout Mormon. Not surprisingly, non-
Jews don’t really know a lot of what Juda-
ism is about. I feel we have an obligation to
know what we’re talking about when non-
Jews asks us questions about what Judaism
is or what it believes.”
Mr. Brown, who is from Peoria, Illinois,
and later moved to Buffalo Grove, a sub-
urb of Chicago, did not grow up observant.
That might have made it easier to embark
on his path to rocket science, which began
with attending space camp as a child.
“I started on the path to observance
from the questions I got when I was work-
ing in NASA,” he said. “It’s my non-Jewish
work environment that helped me shape
and enhance my Jewish identity. On a
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Never too old to act
Brightview seniors supported Saturday’s march ‘on canes and walkers’
LOIS GOLDRICH
O
n Saturday, some 30 residents
of the Brightview Senior Resi-
dence in Paramus — many
between the ages of 80 and 90
— showed that advancing years have noth-
ing to do with activism.
Rena Bernstein — who originally was
from Elmwood Park, then Fair Lawn, then
Cape Canaveral, Florida — moved back to
the area about a year ago, and she lives
in Brightview now. “It’s taken me a while
to get settled here again,” Ms. Bernstein,
a former member of the now-defunct
Fair Lawn chapter of American Jewish
Congress, said. But clearly — though her
AJCongress days are far behind her — Ms.
Bernstein, 86, who helped organize a ten-
ants association when she lived in Elm-
wood Park, still is speaking truth to power.
“About a week ago, after the shooting
in Florida, I was aggravated by the lack of
action by Congress regarding gun violence.
It’s disgraceful that they haven’t done any-
thing,” she said, citing Sandy Hook in Con-
necticut as another example of a horrific
Seniors against gun violence
Residents of Jewish Home facilities in Rockleigh, River Vale rally; Schepisi, Gottheimer talk to them
JOANNE PALMER
T
he anti-gun-violence marches
across the country on Saturday
were led by students, triggered
by the horrendous murders of
17 students and teachers at Marjory Stone-
man Douglas High School in Parkland,
Florida, last month.
But the marches drew people of all ages;
there also were marches and rallies on Fri-
day and Sunday, as huge numbers of peo-
ple in various circumstances tried to make
their voices heard.
Just as rallies brought people together in
Englewood, Paramus, and Hackensack —
many of them observant Jews who trekked
there on foot on Shabbat — local nursing
homes and assisted and independent liv-
ing communities also hosted meetings.
Powered by residents who were not
willing to let their voices go unheard,
the Jewish Home in Rockleigh and Jewish
Home Assisted Living in River Vale — both
part of the Jewish Home Family — held
meetings where local politicians joined
in discussion.
“We had a very nice turnout on both
campuses,” the Jewish Home Family’s
president and CEO, Carol Silver Elliott,
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school shooting , and noting that nothing
was done even after kindergarten children
were gunned down.
“A group of us were sitting and talking
at dinner,” Ms. Bernstein said. “It nearly
brought me to tears. Some of the people
said, ‘What can you do?’ Then it hit me.
We can do something.”
What they could do, she said, was march
in front of the Brightview on Saturday —
carrying signs demanding an end to gun
violence — in solidarity with the people
marching that day in Washington, D.C., in
local towns from Englewood to Paramus
and beyond, to Manhattan, to all over the
country, all under the banner “March for
Our Lives.” Ms. Bernstein explained that
given the physical frailty of some Bright-
view residents, who rely on walkers or
canes, they would not be able to join a
regular march. “We’re not as physically
capable as we used to be,” she said. “But
we decided to do something.”
One of her nephews sent Ms. Bernstein
some poster board and other supplies.
“We’ll write things like ‘Stop Gun Violence’
and ‘Stop the Killings in Our Schools,’”
The day after the rally in Rockleigh, Josh Gottheimer (D-Dist 5) talked at a
March for our Lives rally in Hackensack.
said. “Probably 150 people at Rockleigh
and 100 at River Vale.
“We began with a moment of silence, and
then the rabbis on each campus led us in
kaddish. And then on each campus we had
a conversation with a legislator.”
Holly Schepisi of River Vale, the
Seniors rallied outside Brightview Senior Residence in Paramus.
she said. And those who were unable to
join the demonstration or choose not to
still can write letters to their members of
Congress, she added. The activist, who
was a speech therapist in Ridgewood for
19 years, also said “the idea of arming
Republican who represents the 39th district
in New Jersey’s general assembly, spoke at
River Vale, and Josh Gottheimer, the Demo-
crat who represents the state’s fifth district
in Congress, spoke at Rockleigh.
“At Rockleigh, there was a lot of con-
versation about gun control in general,
teachers is ludicrous.”
Ms. Bernstein took her idea for a rally to
Samantha Lawrence, the executive direc-
tor of Brightview Senior Living in Para-
mus, who offered her immediate support
for the senior rally. “Being heard in this
and also questions of whether we are safe
on the campus,” Ms. Elliott said. “On the
other campus they got very quickly into
the question of school safety and arming
teachers. There are a few retired teachers
there, so it was a hot-button issue. They
said that they were in school to be teach-
ers, not patrolmen.
“The discussions went beyond limiting
guns to understanding what leads people
to violence, and about bullying, and where
bullying plays a role in gun violence. We also
talked about how high suicide rates are.
“It was a very powerful discussion on
both campuses,” she said.
Given the laws of physics, and the fact
that both discussions were at the same time,
she could be at only one of them, she said;
she was in River Vale, but got near-constant
texts from Rockleigh.
Residents in both facilities “read the news
and watch the news, probably more than
most people, and they have strong opin-
ions,” she said.
Helene Glantz, who is 88, was born in
Passaic, and moved to River Vale from Mon-
roe Township, thought of the meeting. At
first, she’d hoped for a rally, but “Carol said
it would be difficult,” and she agreed. “We
have people in wheelchairs, and I’m in a
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world has no age limit,” Ms. Lawrence said. “I am so — on the following Rosh Hashanah — placed
proud to be a part of this community where our resi- a greeting ad in the Fair Lawn community
dents live vibrantly, and this activism is a truly beauti- newspaper. The Jewish community recipro-
ful example of their passion for making a difference. cated at Christmas.
Ellie Berg of Fair Lawn, also a longtime member of “What I think is important is the power to
the Fair Lawn AJCongress, said that engaging in pro- protest, and prior to that, to be organized,
tests is nothing new for members of the organization. so that when the need is there, we have the
Off the top of her head, she gave a few examples and ability to act fast,” Ms. Berg said.
recalled a surveillance project, launched together with “Just because of our age, it doesn’t mean
the Fair Lawn police and the now-defunct Fair Lawn not that we’re not interested in the world
Jewish Community Council, to catch those people van- around us and the lives of our children,” Ms.
dalizing local Jewish institutions. (This writer remem- Bernstein added. She is discouraged by the
bers standing in the shadows of Congregation Shomrei current political situation, she noted, but is
Torah at midnight, holding a walkie-talkie and looking heartened by the fact that Republicans who
out for would-be vandals.) have resigned from Congress and won’t run
“In 1968, Fair Lawn AJCongress protested the again finally are speaking out. “I’m hoping
Board of Education’s intention to cancel its contract now that they can convince enough people From left, Rena Bernstein, Rosalie Blumenthal, and Doris Hambro
with the Fair Lawn Committee for Peace in Vietnam, to do something,” she said. organized the rally at Brightview on Saturday.
which had invited the famous pediatrician Dr. Benja-
min Spock to speak at the Thomas Jefferson School,”
Ms. Berg said. “Fair Lawn united its veterans groups
— unfortunately including Jewish War Vets — and
notified the FBI and the John Birch Society to encour-
age the cancellation of the event. While AJCongress
didn’t offer an opinion on the war — although we had
a stand — our purpose was to support Spock’s right
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A different desert, a different slavery
Jewish woman will speak about her escape from Iran
LOIS GOLDRICH
I
n late 1982, a 17-year-old Jewish girl from Iran
fled from her home, crossed the hot and dan-
gerous Kavira Loot desert, spent several months
in Pakistan, and then arrived in Canada, where
she lives today.
If crossing the desert to reach freedom sounds like a
familiar motif at this time of year, Dr. Sima Goel — keenly
aware of the biblical story — feels that she too left behind
a symbol of slavery. In her case, it was the hijab that the
Khomeini government forced her to wear.
The Jewish people should be a light unto the nations,
the prophets tell us. Dr. Goel — who has more reason
than most to embrace the teaching in the Haggadah
that tells us that we should feel as if we personally went
out of Egypt — believes that she too has a mission, “to
tell this story, the story of what it means to be a Jew.”
The author of “Fleeing the Hijab: A Jewish Woman’s
Escape from Iran,” Dr. Goel — who will speak about
her life at a meeting of the Bergen County section of
the National Council of Jewish Women in Teaneck on
April 17 (see box) — experienced her first taste of anti-
Semitism when she was 6. “I was playing in a park with
other girls,” she said. “One mother asked my name and
realized that it was not ethnic Muslim. She grabbed her
daughter and called me names like filthy and impure.”
As Dr. Goel wrote in a 2015 essay that appears on the
AISH.com website, “As a child of Iran in the late 1970s,
I was taught to keep my head down and my mouth
shut. I was free to be Jewish as long as I was discreet
and silent. My father encouraged me to follow these
dictates, which had supported the existence of Iran’s
Jewish community for thousands of years. Every mem-
ber of an Iranian minority knew that the freedom to
live — and even flourish — was predicated on remaining
small and silent.”
That, however, was something she could not do.
As she wrote, “As an Iranian Jew, my desire to be free
impelled me to leave my family and heritage, and
travel a dangerous road to a country where I could
Who: Dr. Sima Goel, author of “Fleeing the Hijab:
A Jewish Woman’s Escape from Iran”
What: Will speak at a general meeting of the Bergen
County section of the National Council of Jewish
Women
When: On April 17 at 12:30 p.m.
Where: At Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Rd., Teaneck
Cost: Free for members, $10 for non-members,
applicable toward new membership if paid that day.
For more information on this meeting, or on
NCJW BCS and its upcoming programs, email
office@ncjwbcs.org, call (201) 385-4847, or go to
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study, speak out, and be a Jew.”
Growing up in Iran, life was
“okay,” she said. “We always had
Shabbat dinner, celebrated the
holidays, and my father went to
synagogue.” Still, she said, “we
knew something was not right,
but we lived with it.”
As it happens, an incident
at her school — and Dr. Goel’s
spontaneous defense of a fel-
low student who was being bul-
lied — set in motion the events
that led to her flight years later.
Relations between the students
at the private school — who rep-
resented many religious — were
amicable until extremists in
Shiraz took it upon themselves
to cause unrest, said Dr. Goel, Dr. Sima Goel
now a practicing chiropractor
in Montreal.
After the extremists burned many homes in the
Baha’i community, one of her classmates taunted a
Baha’i friend during a game of volleyball, “saying it
was a pity that her house had not been burned as well.”
Challenging the bully, Dr. Goel pointed out that “any-
one who truly followed the teachings of the prophet
Mohammed would know that his name means peace
and tolerance.
“This is not really Islam,” she said.
Dr. Goel was suspended from school for three days.
The bully went unpunished. That was not surprising,
she said. “People were scared and wanted to make
sure they didn’t get in trouble.”
After the government changed — when the Shah was
deposed — “we were told to wear the hijab,” Dr. Goel
said. “When they’re in the majority, everybody has to
follow their rules. They think they have the keys to the
kingdom.” And yes, Jewish women were forced to wear
the restrictive garb, just like their Muslim neighbors.
When a close friend of hers was arrested, she told
Dr. Goel’s mother that her daughter was on the black-
list as well. After six months in hiding, she said, her
mother gave her into the care of smugglers, calling her
existence as it was “a living death.” She is still moved
by her mother’s bravery, Dr. Goel said, and feels that
she is what she is today because of it.
Why Canada and not the United States? “At the time, I
didn’t have a passport, and Canada was the only place that
was open,” she said. “Also, it was shortly after the hostage
crisis,” and America did not look kindly on Iranians.
Dr. Goel feels she has to talk about her experience,
especially to young people, so that they will not take for
granted the freedom they enjoy in the United States and
Canada. “Our grandparents, or great-grandparents, paid
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a price for that,” she said. “I had to
risk my life to get where I am. God
never gives us a problem we can-
not solve,” she added. “Sometimes
I wish he didn’t trust us so much.”
Dr. Goel said that when one of
her two sons, who now are 20
and 21, began reading her book,
he accused her of being a “trou-
blemaker.” When she pointed out
to him that he had easy access to
all the things she had to fight for,
he eventually came to under-
stand. “It puts things in perspec-
tive,” she said.
“Gratitude is the way to go,”
she added, noting that this is an
important message for “apathetic
youth, upset because they’re not
getting the latest sunglasses. You
can’t be complacent,” she said.
“If you don’t take action, you will be walked all over.
Nobody should be complacent about freedom.”
Calling Dr. Goel a “master storyteller,” Elizabeth
Halverstam, co-president of NCJW’s Bergen County
section, said the speaker “will take us on a journey that
speaks to the power of resilience and courage…. [shar-
ing] her belief that an authentic life requires freedom
of choice, the most precious commodity of all.”
As an Iranian
Jew, my desire to be
free impelled me to
leave my family
and heritage, and
travel a dangerous
road to a country
where I could study,
speak out, and
be a Jew.
Dr. Goel said she has an active Facebook presence
and writes many articles. “It’s my way of giving back,”
she said. She also travels to speak for schools, organiza-
tions, and conferences. “We have to guard our freedom
and our values,” she said. “If we don’t, we’ll be in trou-
ble. What legacy will we leave for the next generation?”
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Peter Roskam in Teaneck
On March 18, Yael and Rabbi Steven
Weil hosted a Norpac pro-Israel meet-
ing featuring Congressman Peter Ros-
kam (R-IL) at their Teaneck home.
Mr. Roskam is the chair of the Ways
and Means subcommittee on tax policy
and the House Democracy Partnership,
and he also is co-chair of the House
Bayonne shul to honor Marc Mutterperl
On Sunday, April 29, Temple Emanu-El
of Bayonne will honor Marc Mutterperl
at its annual Spring Fling. Mr. Mutterperl
will be recognized for his many years of
generosity and dedication to the Jewish
community. A shul member for many
years, he has served Emanu-El’s mem-
bership in many capacities.
His many talents include his catering
abilities, which stem back to his parents.
For many years, he and his family have
Republican Israel caucus and the
bipartisan task force for combating
anti-Semitism. He is a member of the
bipartisan Israel Allies Caucus and the
Congressional Hellenic Israel Alliance.
He is serving his sixth term in the U.S.
House of Representatives and is running
for re-election this year.
catered many events and festivities in
Bayonne and other towns.
The annual Spring Fling, chaired by
Dr. Joseph Ryan, will be at the syna-
gogue, 735 Kennedy Boulevard in Bay-
onne, at 4:30 p.m. Entertainment
includes a DJ and an opera cabaret by
the Montclair Opera Company. For infor-
mation, call (201) 436-4499 or email tem-
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From left, GRJC’s Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg, Hebrew school princi-
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Mindy Osterman, and office manager Michelle Strassberg.
Glen Rock rabbi celebrates
bat mitvzah anniversary
Earlier this month, the Glen Rock Jewish An evening celebration included a
Center celebrated the 25th anniversary catered dinner, a silent auction, and live
of Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg’s bat mitz- music from the GRJC house band Maca-
vah. At the traditional Shabbat service, roon Five.
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Rockland
Heading home
The tale of Team Israel to open in Rockland on April 3
Elliot Rubin
Going back to Hank Greenberg in the early
part of the 20th century, Jews have, for
one reason or another, been subject to
various forms of discrimination in baseball.
Whether it was the blatant anti-Semitism
Greenberg faced in the 1930s and ‘40s, or
more recently, the stigma that Jews are not
good athletes, it has always been difficult for
Jewish players to fit in.
A new film, “Heading Home: The Tale
of Team Israel,” created by MLB baseball
writer Jonathan Mayo in partnership with
Ironbound Films, may help change some of
five shutout innings, striking out six in a 1-0
victory over Brazil. He threw 83 pitches, two
fewer than the maximum number allowed.
He is one of the players who appears in the
film, which will open at the 15th Annual
International Jewish Film Festival in Rock-
land County on April 3.
“Team Israel and the film show that you
can be a really good baseball player and
you can be proud of being Jewish,” Mr.
Mayo said. Team Israel was ranked 41st in
the world before the WBC began, and it was
filled by players whom one writer described
as “wannabes and has-beens,” yet those
players managed to defeat some of the best Corey Baker signs autographs in New York. Margo Sugarman

these perceptions. teams in the tournament, including South

“Heading Home” tells the story of under-
dog Team Israel’s inspirational journey to
Israel and its run in the 2017 World Baseball
Classic in Seoul, South Korea. One of Team
Israel’s pitchers, Corey Baker, grew up and
attended Hebrew school in New City. In the
qualifying round for the WBC, Baker threw
Korea, the Netherlands, and Cuba.
“Over the years, I’ve interviewed a ton
of Jewish baseball players, and often would
talk to them about embracing being known
as a Jewish baseball player even if they
didn’t really identify beyond that in terms
of their Judaism,” Mr. Mayo said; he’s always
found that approach interesting. He always
has been fascinated with learning which
sports figures are Jewish.
Mr. Mayo created the film with Jeremy
Newberger, Daniel A. Miller, and Seth
Kramer of Ironbound Films. Mr. Miller, Mr.
Newberger, and Mr. Mayo have been friends
since they were at Jewish sleepaway camp
together. Mr. Miller, one of the film’s direc-
tors, views Team Israel as a great metaphor
for Israel, he said; you can’t deny Israel’s
self-determination, and that’s also true
about Team Israel.
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from page 18
Mr. Miller said that most of the team
never had an opportunity to experience
Israel as Mr. Mayo and the directors had.
Suddenly the world was interested in Team
Israel when it qualified and the team found
itself among the top 16 teams, he said. At
that point, the film about Team Israel’s jour-
ney became significant. “Hearing about the
challenges these players encountered as
Who: Directors Seth Kramer, Daniel A.
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What: Will speak at the Hudson Valley
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Team Israel”
When: On Tuesday, April 3, at 7:15 p.m.
Where: At the Regal Cinemas, 5101 Fash-
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Why: As part of the Rockland Jewish Film
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Jews in their careers and then seeing them
connect with their faith and homeland dur-
ing the making of this film was fascinating,”
Mr. Miller said.
“I think that being with Team Israel and
connecting to the people who were follow-
ing along on our journey was really special,”
Mr. Baker said. “This trip really increased
my sense of pride.” Though many players
on the team never had been to Israel, Mr.
Baker had been there. He’d gone on Birth-
right Israel.
“I knew we had a good team talent-wise,
and the trip gave us a little more meaning
about what we were playing for,” Mr. Baker
said. Asked about the future, he added, “I
think there are ways we can get involved
with the Israel Association of Baseball, and
that is something that is important to me
and to several of my teammates.”
Mr. Mayo hopes that Team Israel’s suc-
cess will help grow the sport in Israel and
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A community celebration to
mark Israel’s 70th year as a
nation and homeland of the
Jewish people will be held on
Sunday, April 15, from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m., at the Rockland Jew-
ish Community Campus, in
West Nyack.
The celebratory event Ralph Nurnberger
includes the Israel Journey
interactive educational experience, activ-
ities for kids, a petting zoo, and shop-
ping at an Israeli shuk (marketplace). At
11, Ralph Nurnberger, a political advisor
and professor, will discuss “Israel @70:
What to Worry About, What to Celebrate,”
sponsored by Development Corporation
for Israel/Israel Bonds. At noon, attendees
will enjoy live music from Israband per-
forming high-energy pop hits from Israel.
Israeli dancing is at 1 p.m., led by dance
instructor Karin Sachs. Israeli food is for
sale during the celebration.
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Rabbis, said, “This is an opportunity for
all of us to show our support and celebrate
the miracle of the State of Israel. Rockland’s
congregations are looking forward to cele-
brating with the entire community.”
The Jewish Federation & Foundation of
Rockland also is celebrating Israel’s 70th
anniversary with the Legacy Journey to
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Marking Yom HaShoah Do We Tell These Stories? Connecting the

Rockland County’s community-wide Yom HaShoah commem-
oration is set for Sunday, April 8, at 5 p.m., at the Orangetown
Jewish Center. Jeannie Opdyke Smith is the keynote speaker.
The shul is at 8 Independence Ave. in Orangeburg.
Ms. Smith is the daughter of Irene Gut Opdyke, a Polish
woman who worked as a housekeeper for a high-ranking
German official during the Holocaust and used her position
to rescue Jews. Irene, who died in 2003, received interna-
tional recognition for her bravery. Irene’s life story was told
on Broadway in the nationally acclaimed play “Irena’s Vow,”
starring Tovah Feldshuh.
On Monday, April 9, at 12:30 p.m., Ms. Smith will speak
in the Technology Center, Ellipse, at Rockland Community
College, 145 College Road in Suffern. Her topic will be “How
Holocaust with Humanity.”
Ms. Smith is part of a new generation
of Holocaust speakers who share life sto-
ries from their parents’ first-hand expe-
riences. She is a member and speaker
for the Oregon & Washington Holocaust
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the Anti-Defamation League, the Bearing
Witness program, and the Jewish Federa-
tion of North America.
The Justice Brandeis Law Society
has a Yom HaShoah commemoration
on Wednesday, April 11, at 3 p.m., in
the Rockland County Courthouse, Jury
Room, 2nd Floor, 1 South Main St., in
New City. Alexander Levy is the keynote
speaker. Bring a photo ID. For informa-
tion, call (845) 574-4099, or email awino-
grad@holocauststudies.org.
Events are hosted by the Holocaust
Museum & Center for Tolerance and
Education in Suffern. Call (845) 574-
4099 or go to holocauststudies.org.
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A tour guide uncovers Passover secrets
in the Met Museum’s Egyptian wing
DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN

I
have roamed the Metropolitan
Museum of Art’s Egyptian wing
many times, marveling at sarcoph-
agi, statues of Horus and Ra, and
portraits of young men on ancient panels
who gaze back at visitors, looking shock-
ingly familiar and contemporary.
COVER STORY
As our readers begin their celebrations of Pesach with
seders on Friday and Saturday nights, we offer glimpses
of the holiday locally and from around the Jewish world.

But on a Sunday just before Passover,

I viewed the artifacts as I’d never before
seen them: through the lens of the Exodus
story, which we retell each year through
reading the Haggadah.
Nachliel Selavan, a Jewish educator
and self-taught museum guide whose spe-
cialty is looking at Jewish texts and history

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BENOIST

through ancient artifacts, guided a group
of about 20 of us through the Egypt sec-
tion, pausing at statues, carvings, and the
Book of the Dead scroll. Before we set off
he distributed source sheets with canoni-
cal Jewish texts in Hebrew and English. For
more than two hours, Selavan connected
items and ideas mentioned in the texts
with the artifacts on view.
Selavan had us look at a passage from
Deuteronomy in which Moses details what
will befall the Israelites if they don’t live up
to their end of the covenant with God.
We looked through cases at the Met dis- The Temple of Dendur is one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most well-known artifacts.
playing little replicas of Egyptian life dis-
covered in the tombs of embalmed rulers, in boats to Egypt,” they will be so undesir- exist in a vacuum,” Selavan, using a term Philistines or regular Israelites? What were
intended to accompany the deceased on able they can’t even sell themselves back meaning the Hebrew Bible, said after the they seeing as they traded and mingled
their journeys to the afterlife. In the Bible, into slavery. Selavan pointed inside one of tour. “Understanding the context for the with another culture? When you see mate-
the Israelites are told they will be flattened the ancient dioramas to show what those text is key to our identity. Artifacts help us rial culture like this, it makes it real.”
by insufferable ailments and curses, and boats would have looked like. realize that ‘oh wow, these were real people.’ Selavan brought us to several examples
that when the Lord “will bring you back “The Jewish people and Tanach do not “What was daily life like for regular of reliefs carved with the names of the

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S OVER
DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN
Nachliel Selevan at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Egyptian ruler, or paro/pharaoh, not-
ing how important names were to
them. In Hebrew, he noted, the Book
of Exodus is known as Shemot, or
names, which begins with the names
of the sons of the patriarch Jacob,
who went down to Egypt with their
father and their own families.
“It was very interesting to see
actual artifacts, representations of
words we see in the Torah,” said Lori
Leifer, 37, a Yiddish singer and com-
puter database programmer who
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describes herself as Conservadox.
She heard about the tour through
Chulent, a WhatsApp group for
Jews who have left Orthodox com-
munities. Everyone else on the tour
appeared to be Orthodox, including
several charedim.
The Exodus tour is one of five Jew-
ish tours Selavan offers at the Met
through his company, Torah Interme-
dia. Another focuses on artifacts from
the time of the Maccabee revolt and
is oriented toward Chanukah. More
Passover-themed tours are planned
for the festival’s intermediate days.
“When you’re able to not just learn
a text but see the stuff it’s talking
about, the learning goes to a whole
other level,” Rabbi Ethan Tucker said
in an interview.
Tucker is the president and rosh
yeshiva of Hadar, the egalitarian
Torah learning center based in Man-
hattan. Last year Hadar brought its 45
summer fellows to the Met for a tour
with Selavan. They were studying
Avodah Zara, a Talmud tractate on
idol worship, and they saw examples
of what the Talmud discusses.
“It was great to go around with
someone with knowledge of Jew-
ish sources and material sources on
display at the Met,” Tucker said. “I
found it to be very enriching. One of
the struggles of being in a culture so
focused on text is you can forget texts
are talking about things in the real
world. For institutions centered on
the beit midrash [study hall], to get
out into a museum raises the quality
and intensity of the experience.
Selavan is one of a handful of peo-
ple and companies offering private
Jewish tours at major art museums.
David Thomas, associate coordina-
tor of groups and visitor services at
the Met, said the museum does not
disclose the number of tours led by
outside guides like Selavan.
“I’m not aware of any other tour
guides who offer Jewish-themed
tours, but there may be some,”
Thomas said. “Many synagogues, uni-
versities, and other Jewish organiza-
tions also bring groups.”
Selavan grew up in the Jewish Quar-
ter of Jerusalem’s Old City, the son
of a rabbi who was also a tour guide
and archaeologist. He was educated
at yeshivas; he discusses references
from Mishna comfortably with a Sat-
mar chasid on his tour but dresses
more like a Brooklyn hipster. Asked
how he identifies religiously, Selavan
replied, “I’m on the Orthodox spec-
trum, but not sure where I fit.”
Like the Met’s galleries, Selavan’s
journey took a winding route. After
yeshiva, Selavan, now 34, began
teaching the Brazilian martial art
called capoeira around Israel. At 25
he earned an undergraduate degree
at a Jerusalem teachers’ college and
in 2013 he came to the United States
to teach.
In his second year teaching Bible
at the Netivot Montessori Yeshiva
SEE MET PAGE 28
A plum on the seder plate
RABBI JOSHUA S. FINKELSTEIN
E
ach year in our Passover Hagga-
dah, we read, “In every generation
we are obligated to see ourselves
as people who came out of Egypt.”
This oft-quoted statement can
mean many things, but at its
core it reminds us that each of
us should develop a meaning-
ful personal connection to the
message of Passover. The rituals
of the Passover seder can seem
intimidating, but the intimacy of
a family setting allows us oppor-
tunity to search for and seek
meaning in this celebration of
Rabbi Joshua
liberation and survival.
Finkelstein
Recently, I led a Passover work-
shop at the Montebello Jewish Center, spon-
sored by our sisterhood. At this workshop,
I urged everyone to augment their seders
with new rituals. There are so many new
songs and readings that can be found online
and in books, and many of them can enliven
any seder. In addition, there are a plethora
of activities and strategies people can bring
to their celebrations.
One of the many new rituals that has
become popular in many homes is the pres-
ence of an orange on the seder plate. The
story behind it is that someone once said that
a woman belongs on the bimah as much as
an orange belongs on a seder plate. The story
is apocryphal, but the symbolism is meaning-
ful. An orange on a seder plate is acknowl-
edgement of the alienation many people felt
from our tradition. By putting an orange on
our plates, we are making a symbolic state-
ment that no one who wants to be part of our
people should see themselves as an outsider
in our communities.
In our discussion, I mentioned that there
are many fissures in our world. Some peo-
ple have used the seder plate as a platform
to highlight these fractures, and they use
the holiday of Passover as moti-
vation to help heal our world.
People have used a banana to
highlight the plight of refugees.
Others have used cashews to
remind us of our need to sup-
port our troops, who are con-
tinuing to battle extremism
around the world. I urged every-
one to think of what redemption
meant to them this year, living as
we are in a world of uncertainty,
fear, and political division.
One of the members of the synagogue
made a suggestion. In light of my comment
of political division, she suggested that we
place a plum on the seder plate this year.
In a world where too often people see a red
America and a blue America, a purple plum
should remind us that there is only one
America — purple, of course, is the combina-
tion of red and blue.
This year there will be a purple plum on
my seder plate, somewhere near the shank
bone and the roasted egg.
Whether you chose a plum or an orange
or something else to put on your seder
plate, I encourage everyone this year to
ask what Passover means to you, and take
a few moments to share that at your Pass-
over seder.
Joshua S. Finkelstein is the rabbi of the
Montebello Jewish Center in Suffern.
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Passover

Spanish university’s first seder is organized by American students

MARGARITA GOKUN SILVER
MADRID — Every Passover, Danielle Elliott joins her par-
ents in Chicago.
She helps prepare charoset, delights in her mom’s elab-
orate Passover decorations, and enjoys spending the holi-
day with her family.
But this year Elliott will be recounting the story of the
Jews’ exodus from Egypt several thousand miles away from
home. She’ll be in Spain — and she is organizing the first
Passover seder at the Universidad Camilo José Sela in Vil-
lafranca del Castillo, a town on this capital city’s outskirts.
Elliott is a Fulbright scholar working as an English lan-
guage assistant in the university’s film and criminology
departments. She first thought of organizing a seder for
her students in December, when she realized how little
they knew about a people who had been an integral part
of Spain for so many centuries — that is, until they were
expelled in 1492.
The idea “blew me away,” Elliott said. She pitched it to
administrators and the university embraced it.
After “Danielle explained what a seder is (since none of
us besides Danielle have ever attended a seder and didn’t
know exactly what it entailed), it was approved immedi-
ately and everyone present at the meeting was very inter-
ested in contributing in whatever way they could,” Amy
Baxter Mertzlufft, the academic adviser of the Language
Yael Cobano, left, is the president of the Reform
Community of Madrid. MARGARITA GOKUN SILVER
Lab and the Fulbright program coordinator at the univer-
sity, wrote in an email.
By the time Elliott approached the university, she and
another Fulbright scholar, McCall Wells, had been spear-
heading the Intercultural Club, an initiative they put
together at the school’s request.
“We are trying to establish a more international, inter-
cultural feeling at the university,” Elliott said.
“There are students from all over the world, but there
isn’t much of a community for them,” Wells added.
With the goal of creating closer connections among
different cultures, Elliott and Wells have organized such
activities as Write for Rights, the Amnesty International
letter-writing campaign, and a cookie-decorating fund-
raiser to benefit Black Lives Matter.
The next logical step for the club was an interfaith seder
with a freedom and human rights theme. Elliott and Wells
are calling it “Seder para la Comunidad Global: En la
Búsqueda de la Libertad” (Seder for Global Community:
In Search of Freedom). Elliott modeled the concept on a
similar event at her alma mater, Northwestern University,
in which she participated last year.
“Two of my friends who were involved in Hillel held a
Refugee Freedom seder and invited immigrant and refu-
gee community centers,” Elliott said. Armed with advice
and materials from the organizers of that seder — Elliott
is translating the Haggadah they used into Spanish — and
with the support of the university and the Reform Jewish
Community of Madrid, Danielle and Wells are re-creating
the experience at the Universidad Camilo José Sela.
The Reform Community of Madrid is Elliott’s synagogue
while she is in Spain. “At the beginning of my time here in
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 Passover

In every generation
A Reading for Pesach 5778*
Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
In every generation/We come out of Egypt.
Let freedom ring.
In every generation/We stand up to Pharaoh.
Let freedom ring.
In every generation/We part the waters.
Let freedom ring.
In every generation/We march toward the Promised Land.
Let freedom ring.
In every generation/We teach our children.
Let freedom ring.
In every generation/Our children teach us.
Let freedom ring.
Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
In every generation/We march for our lives.
Let freedom ring.
In this generation/Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech/We march for our lives.
Let freedom ring.
In this generation/Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland
We march for our lives.
Let freedom ring.
In this generation/Two hundred sixty five million guns fill our country
We march for our lives.
Let freedom ring.
In this generation/Ninety seven souls die from gun violence each and every day.
We march for our lives.
Let freedom ring.
In this generation/Young and old, black and white, Jew and gentile…said enough; enough.
This flier is promoting an interfaith seder with a freedom and Let freedom ring.
human rights theme to be held at the Universidad Camilo José *Participants at the seder are invited to echo the repeating lines.
0 Sela, a suburb of Madrid. UNIVERSIDAD CAMILO JOSÉ SELA
Barry L. Schwartz is director of the Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia and the rabbi of
Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia.

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Passover
How matzah became a household
item for non-Jews in the Netherlands
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS — For most matzah baker-
ies, Passover is a lifeline, its only hold on financial viability.
But after the weeklong holiday, during which Jews are
commanded to consume matzah to commemorate their
ancestors’ hurried flight out of Egypt, demand for the
famously tasteless cracker drops sharply.
Except, that is, in the Netherlands.
A centuries-old and proud Jewish community here has
made matzah a household product that is sold in super-
markets and consumed year-round by millions of non-
Jews, who swear by it as their breakfast bread of choice.
That’s one reason why Pieter Heijs, a co-owner of Hol-
landia Matzes in this eastern city, probably is the only mat-
zah maker in the world who braces for losses, not earn-
ings, during Passover.
Almost all the profits of his matzah bakery — the only
one in Holland — comes from sales to non-Jews; his prod-
uct lacks the “kosher for Passover” certification. But for
four weeks before Passover, Hollandia also produces
kosher-for-Passover matzah, which “costs more to make
than what we get for it,” Heijs said.
The factory, which produces about 40 million matzah
crackers annually, also makes small amounts of shmurah
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Still, Heijs remains committed to making matzah that
is kosher for Passover.
“It’s a matter of tradition, and it means a great deal to
me,” said Heijs, who is not Jewish. “Even if it comes at
the expense of our profit margins, we will continue to
produce Passover kosher matzah for as long as we can.”
The losses, however, are dwarfed by the boom in Hol-
landia’s sales during Easter, which often coincides with
Passover. On the Christian holiday, millions of Dutch buy
and eat matzah as part of a nationwide tradition that
testifies to centuries of Jewish influence on the general
population.
CNAAN LIPHSHI
A liberal nation that was home to one of Europe’s most
illustrious Jewish communities before that community’s
near annihilation by the Nazis and their collaborators
during the Holocaust, the Netherlands has other exam-
A shopper browses for matzah at the Amsterdam ples of interfaith borrowings (take the oliebol, a deep-
Noord branch of the Jumbo supermarket chain. fried winter snack in Holland that many trace back to the
Chanukah doughnut called sufganiyah).
matzah, a variant matzah specialty that is even costlier Such carryovers perhaps were possible in the Neth-
because of its stringent adherence to the kosher rules. To erlands partly because many Protestant Christians here
prevent even the hint of leavening, the wheat and flour emphasize the Hebrew Bible over the New Testament.
never come into contact with moisture, from the time the But, as Heijs said, “it’s because Dutch Jews were so inte-
wheat is harvested until the dough is kneaded and the grated into the fabric of society.”
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recent decades as supermarkets replaced factory in Enschede because it had a large

smaller grocery stores, according to Jonah
Freud. In 2012, Freud published a book
about the Dutch Jewish cuisine based
on her research for the Jewish Historical
Museum of Amsterdam. “I think it may be
connected to how matzah is perceived as
healthy,” Freud said.
Heijs concurs.
“Many of our clients want matzah
because it’s such a pure product,” he said.
“No additives, no conservatives, highly
nutritious. What more can you ask of a
health food?”
In an overture to the health-food crowd,
one of the first moves Heijs and his busi-
ness partner, Udo Karsemeijer, who also
is not Jewish, made after they bought Hol-
landia in 2004 was to add an organic mat-
Jewish community, and because thou-
sands of Jews who fled from the Nazis in
nearby Germany made their way to the
eastern Netherlands.
When the Nazis invaded in 1940, the
Woudstras went into hiding, and the Nazis
closed down Hollandia.
Before the invasion, the Netherlands
had several matzah bakeries, according
to the Dutch Bakers’ Museum. Among the
best known and oldest was the De Haan
bakery in the picturesque fishing village
of Marken, north of Amsterdam. It oper-
ated only before Passover, and after the
last matzah was baked each year, De Haan
employees would march through the vil-
lage, dressed in white sheets, as music Pieter Heijs shows one of the products of his Hollandia Matzes factory in
played and they ceremoniously would Enschede, the Netherlands. CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

zah product to the lineup. The bakery’s extinguish the ovens.

products now include matzahs in two
sizes, a whole wheat variety, and one with
spice herbs.
Hollandia now exports products to
Scandinavia, Germany, and even France,
where several matzah bakeries compete
for a market with 500,000 Jews.
Heijs and Karsemeijer bought the Hol-
landia factory from a Jewish family named
Woudstra. The founding family built the
One of the production line machines
inside Hollandia, a state-of-the-art factory
with 18 employees who work year-round
inside a three-story building, dates back to
1924. Inside the room where it now oper-
ates, the local Jewish community briefly
ran a Jewish school for the children who
were expelled from the general education
system under the Nazis.
The Germans killed 75 percent of
the prewar Dutch Jewish population of
100,000 during World War II. The com-
munity never replenished its numbers.
The factory reopened after the war. By
then, matzahs had developed a non-Jewish
following.
The eye-catching and instantly recogniz-
able packaging of Hollandia matzah boxes
— an orange-colored octagonal cardboard
box with a nifty camera-aperture opening
— was a marketing coup cooked up by the
Woudstras, Heijs said.
The matzah became even better known
to the Dutch immediately after the war
because the Hollandia factory received
generous subsidies under the Marshall
Plan for financial aid to rebuild war-torn
Europe, according to Heijs.
He said the funding also was meant as
SEE NETHERLANDS PAGE 28

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turkey, fresh uncured hot dogs, and
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A&H’s kosher for Passover line of
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Here is a simple-to-prepare fun
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A&H kosher for Passover

hot dog matzah dumplings
1 package A&H all beef hot dogs,
cut into 2 inch pieces
1/2 cup oil
1 cup water
2 cups Passover dumpling mix
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
4 eggs
Add water and oil to a pan, and
boil. Once the liquid boils add
the dry ingredients. Mix of-
ten until it gets thicker and pulls pieces, and shape around each
away from the sides. Turn off hot dog piece. Put in oven at 325
heat and mix for 5-6 minutes by degrees on a greased sheet until
hand, away from the heat. Add dumplings look golden brown, for
eggs and mix for about 2 minutes about 12 minutes. Check often to
more. Cut dough into a dozen avoid burning.

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Passover

Met
FROM PAGE 23
in East Brunswick, Selavan took fourth graders to see the
Met’s exhibit “From Assyria to Iberia.” Another visitor,
overhearing him, asked if he read Aramaic and led him to
the Tel Dan stele, a 2,800-year-old inscribed stone on loan
from the Israel Museum. Reading what turned out to be
paleo-Hebrew, Selavan was struck by the power of seeing
the earliest known reference to “Beit David,” the seat of
the Davidic dynasty, which is his hometown.
“Then people started asking me questions,” Selavan said.
At the start of the 2016-17 school year, he started network-
ing with other Orthodox yeshivas to lead tours and quickly
expanded into leading adults. Last summer he took about
20 groups through the Met, he said, and now he leads syna-
gogue and Hillel groups as well. He gave a Jewish tour of
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to members of an Orthodox
synagogue in suburban Newton, and now he plans to do the
same with area day school groups.
Selavan lives in Crown Heights, the Brooklyn head-
quarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, and he
is finishing up a long-distance master’s degree pro-
gram in Jewish education at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem and enrolling in a Jewish history master’s
program at Yeshiva University.
On the Passover tour, as the group approached the
Temple of Dendur, the massive sandstone shrine set
in a grand sunlit interior plaza, Selavan pointed out a
replica crocodile in the surrounding moat. He noted
that the Hebrew term “taneen,” found in Ezekiel
and Exodus, generally is translated as “serpent,” but

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the Nile.
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“But it was also a practical decision: Matzah requires
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million lives in African villages with Israeli Ronnie and Marc Schlussel in very short supply immediately after the war,” he
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that Hollandia was “one of the first bakeries that were
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exactly among Jews, who substitute bread for matzah
for eight days each year,” he said. “But for us, who had
it in addition to everything else, it was a treat that went

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very well with chocolate and butter.”
Karina Ahles-Frijters, who lives in Hilversum, near
CNBC Executive Producer Amsterdam, wrote on her parenting blog Trotsemoed-
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with matzah toppings. (Her eldest prefers whole wheat
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with guest Deena Seelenfreund
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Talpiot Officer 2007-2016 But not everyone is a fan of the matzah.
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two weeks, it makes being Christian look easy.”
Although he is not Jewish, Heijs regards matzah as
much more than a commodity.
“After 14 years of making matzahs, of course I devel-
oped friendships and bonds with many Jewish peo-
ple,” said Heijs, who will attend his first seder dinner
RSVP here www.jfnnj.org/israelspeakers this year; he and his wife will be the guests of a Dutch
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Passover

ShopRite dietician cooks up healthy Passover recipes

Christina Kamilaris, the registered dietician at ShopRite of apple rings, and Medjool dates (it’s a perfect go-to dessert Perfect grain free pancakes
Paramus, added copies of healthy Passover recipes in the — simply slice open, remove pit, and stuff with almonds or
INGREDIENTS:
store’s extensive kosher department. In addition, she shares walnuts). Organic beets also are a great source of folate,
1 egg
these easy tips for eating healthy during the holiday: manganese, potassium, copper, dietary fiber, magnesium, 1 small very well
Remember never to go more than three to four hours phosphorus, vitamin C, iron, and vitamin B6, and they’re mashed banana
without eating, since this can cause you to overeat once great in salads. Optional ingredients:
you start eating. Some healthy go-to snacks from the Set- Here is her recipe for high protein, quick, and easy Pass- 1 teaspoon chia seeds
ton brand include pine nuts (great for salad), Chinese over — or any time — pancakes: 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
extract
1 teaspoon honey

DIRECTIONS:
Whisk egg in bowl. Add in banana and mash very
well. Add in additional ingredients, if desired. Cook
mixture for 5-10 minutes on each side. Garnish
with fresh fruit if desired.

Spain
FROM PAGE 24
Spain I felt very homesick,” she said; that feeling was
particularly strong during Jewish holidays. The Jewish
community that centers around the synagogue “made
me feel very at home and very welcome,” Elliott said.
She wanted to share this feeling with her students.
When McCall accompanied her to the synagogue for
a Shabbat, they talked to Yael Cobano, the congrega-
tion’s president, about their plans for the seder.
“It was a wonderful project, and because I’ve led
many seders and I’ve studied about it, I offered my
help,” Cobano wrote in an email.
The Reform Community has lent Elliott and Wells
their seder plates, and Cobano is helping revise the
Spanish translation of the Haggadah and prepare the
traditional seder dishes.
The two Fulbright scholars will conduct the seder in
Spanish and will include some Hebrew. Elliott will lead
the Jewish portions and Wells the interfaith elements.
“We are adapting the four cups of wine to include
different perspectives,” Elliott said. “One of the cups
will be academic, one religious, one personal, and one
political, and we hope to invite students, professors,
community members and other Fulbrights to speak at
A STROKE STARTS THE CLOCK. each of those cups in order to make it more than just
about sharing a Jewish holiday.”
OUR APP SAVES TIME. For the religious cup, Elliott and Wells are inviting
representatives of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim
communities. For the personal, they are hoping one
Following a stroke, the difference between life, serious impairment and death is measured in of the university students who is a refugee will recount
seconds. At the front line of innovation, Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem is always a personal migration story. For the political cup, a fel-
finding new ways to save lives. low Fulbright will speak about the experience of par-
ticipating in Race Relations, a collective that promotes
Dr. Roni Eichel, director of the Stroke Unit and Neurological ICU at Shaare Zedek’s Helmsley
discussion and expression of race, culture and ethnic-
Neurological Center, conceived of a smartphone application to further speed up treatment. First
ity in Spain.
responders alert the Stroke Unit and transmit crucial patient information from the field via their
“We hope the students and the teachers who par-
phones. When the ambulance arrives at Shaare Zedek, a team is ready to seamlessly continue care.
take in the seder will get out of it that Passover isn’t
Saving lives is our mission. Join us at www.acsz.org/donate, because when it comes to treating just the moment for Jews to reflect on personal free-
strokes at Shaare Zedek, there’s an app for that. doms and the exodus from slavery in Egypt, but really
about the right for migration and the freedom of
movement,” Elliott said.
The university is offering Elliott and Wells plenty of
support by taking care of the logistics, assisting with
invitations, and funding the seder dinner for 70 invi-
tees. Elliott said the menu will be “as kosher as possi-
ble,” meaning they may serve just dairy and fish dishes.
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But the preparation of traditional Passover foods
and the seder plates is up to the two Fulbrights. With
Cobano’s help, Elliott and Wells will make everything
for the seder plates, from the charoset to the bitter
herbs. It won’t be exactly the same as back home, but
Elliott is hoping it’ll be close. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Executive Committee
Shira Feuerstein
President
Debbie Harris
Vice President
Sari Gross
Vice President
Beth Nadel
Vice President
Geoffrey Lewis*
Treasurer
Ron Rosensweig
Secretary at Large Our Children Are In Crisis!
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his appointment started like so many others. The mom had called and reported that her daughter has been
acting differently at home. She’s become quieter, spending more time in her room. She’s not as interested in her
Board of Trustees friends, and her grades are falling.
Barbara Bender
Gale S. Bindelglass The young girl walked into the therapy room. Her clinician asked her about sharing her feelings. The girl said that she writes
Elizabeth Cole her feelings down in her diary every day and pulled the diary out of her backpack. As she shared it with her therapist, it became
Steven L. Davis* evident that this was not a typical appointment. In the diary was a clearly written plan. This girl intended to end her life. She is
Suzette Diamond
11 years old…
Bruce Egert
Barry Feigenbaum
Sue Feldman We’d like to say that this was an isolated incident; that this never happens. Unfortunately, JFCS clinicians referred four
Ilene Gelman* children, 12 and under, to local hospitals for suicidality in a ten day period last fall. Anxiety and depression among
Michael Goldberg children and adolescents is at an all-time high. None of our children are immune to academic pressure, social pressure
Caryn Goodman and the bombardment of media messages targeting them daily.
David Goodman*
Helen Graf
For most of us, the solution is to spend more time speaking with our kids. But for other children, this is not enough. Our
Joan Krieger
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Chuck Lieberman Our offices, open six days a week, can accommodate the most challenging schedules. We accept all insurance, but for
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Rachel Scheff
Diane Seiden
Paula Shaiman* As we prepare for Passover, please consider the parable of the four sons that we read at our Seder. We are taught that
Ilene Wolff in order for each child to escape his personal “Egypt” we must talk to him – work with him – love him in a way that he
understands – that the needs of each child are unique, and that we, as a community, cannot ignore any child in need.
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Passover
Second installment in the
‘Seasoned Moments’ series is available
I s ra e l i - b o r n M i c h a l
Levison has written
her second cookbook,
“Seasoned Moments —
Passover: Festive Reci-
pes for Spring.” Her first
was the popular “Sea-
soned Moments — Rosh
Hashana & Yom Kippur:
Recipes for a Happy New
Year.” Both will give you inspiration for
your holiday tables and for everyday
dinners.
Earlier this month, Ms. Levison
chaired the “Great Family Challah
Bake” sponsored by the Academies at
Gerrard Berman Day School, where she
Schmaltz potatoes
smashed
8 Yukon Gold potatoes
1/3 cup olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon schmaltz
2 sprigs rosemary
1-2 tablespoons fresh parsley for
garnish
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
Add potatoes to a large pot and fill
with water until the potatoes are just
covered. Bring to a boil over medi-
um-high heat, then cook uncovered
for another 15-20 minutes or until
potatoes are fork tender.
Meanwhile, mix the olive oil, garlic,
salt, and schmaltz in a bowl.
Passover chicken schnitzel
SHANNON SARNA
Schnitzel is one of my family’s favorite
dishes throughout the entire year, but we
particularly love it during Passover. With
very small changes (as in, use matzah meal
and almond flour instead of bread crumbs),
this dish is 100 percent Passover-friendly.
And it’s so satisfying as the week of Passover
eating lags on and you crave some serious
eats — not just matzah slathered in whipped
INGREDIENTS
2 pounds chicken cutlets (thinly sliced chicken breasts)
Salt and pepper
2 eggs, beaten
2 teaspoon KP mustard or hot sauce
1 teaspoon water
1 1/2 cups matzah meal
1/2 cup almond meal
2 tablespoons sesame seeds (optional)
2 tablespoons dried parsley
1 1/2 tablespoons smoked paprika
1 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoons black pepper
Vegetable or canola oil for frying
Shannon Sarna is the editor of the Nosher, a food blog that offers a dazzling array of new and classic Jewish recipes and food news, from Europe to Yemen, from challah to shakshuka and
beyond. Check it out at www.TheNosher.com.
34 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 30, 2018
Divine Passover chocolate coconut
cake from Boys Town
sits on the board. With Pesach in the air, origins to 45 countries
Her new book, with Boys Town Jerusalem’s across the globe.
more than 60 easy reci- chef Avi Chamal is mak- Boys Town Jerusa-
pes, aims to help read- ing delicacies for the lem is one of Israel’s
ers to “spruce up their school’s model seder. premier institutions
spring cooking game” This easy-to-prepare for educating the coun-
by adding new ideas for chocolate coconut cake try’s next generation of
Passover with fresh, sea- is the dessert that every- leaders in the fields of
sonal, and simple reci- one is awaiting. technology, commerce,
pes your family will love. The Israeli-born Mr. education, the military,
There are also tips, tricks, and insights Chamal has headed the and public service.
to inspire you to cook. Boys Town Jerusalem Boys Town Jerusalem Since its founding in
The book is available on Amazon. For kitchen for 14 years, pro- chef Avi Chamal with 1948, BTJ has helped
information, go to www.seasonedmo- ducing freshly cooked one of his 950 “adopted” give disadvantaged
ments.com or follow her on instagram and baked fare daily children. Israeli children happy
@seasonedmoments. to the Boys Town Jeru- childhoods and allow
Here’s a simple, fun recipe: salem student body, who trace their them to grow into productive citizens.
Dairy Passover chocolate coconut cake
TORTE: ing to beat until the meringue is
7 egg whites firm. Stir in the coconut by hand.
1 cup sugar Pour mixture into greased 10”
1 cup shredded unsweetened baking pan. Bake for around 30
coconut minutes. Remove from oven and
TOPPING: refrigerate.
8 ounces chocolate Melt chocolate and butter in a mi-
3 tablespoons butter crowave or over a double boiler. Add
7 egg yolks the 7 egg yolks, continually mixing
2 half-pint containers of whipping until a smooth texture is reached.
Drain the potatoes and place cream Combine whipping cream, sugar,
them on a parchment lined cookie 1/4 cup sugar and vanilla pudding and beat.
sheet. Using a cup or jar, smash the 1 teaspoon kosher-for-Passover Remove torte from the refrigera-
potatoes. Drizzle the potatoes with instant vanilla pudding tor, spread chocolate sauce on top,
olive oil mixture and place rose- and return cake to the refrigerator
mary sprigs on top. Roast for 20-25 Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat for around 10 minutes. Remove from
minutes or until golden brown and egg whites till they begin to get fridge, add whipped topping, and
crisp. Garnish with fresh parsley. stiff. Gradually add sugar, continu- refrigerate until ready to serve.
cream cheese for, like, the 20th time.
• Don’t overcrowd the pan or the chicken
Schnitzel tips! will not brown properly. Fry two or three
• When dredging anything (like chicken cutlets at a time, depending on their size
or eggplant), set up a work station before and the size of your pan.
you start cooking. Two (or three, depend-
• After you are done frying, sprinkle with
ing on the recipe) large shallow bowls
an additional pinch of salt while it’s still hot.
or Pyrex dishes are ideal for the egg and
bread crumb steps. Dredge all your pieces, • To reheat, place on a wire rack on top of
place them on a baking sheet lined with a baking sheet in an oven heated to 250
parchment, and then start frying. degrees for 10-15 minutes.
DIRECTIONS 4. Fry chicken cutlets in batches, 2-3 at a time,
1. Combine eggs, mustard or hot sauce, and until golden on each side. Depending on thick-
water in a large bowl. Combine matzah meal, ness of chicken, around 3 minutes each side.
almond meal, sesame seeds (if using), parsley, Take care not to overcrowd the pan or chicken
paprika, salt, and pepper in another large bowl. will not cook properly.
2. Dredge each chicken cutlet into egg mix- 5. Remove from pan and allow to cool on a
ture, then into matzah meal mixture, pressing wire rack.
down to ensure the entire piece is covered. Lay
flat on a plate or baking sheet. 6. While chicken is still hot from pan, sprinkle
each cutlet with additional pinch of salt.
3. Pour oil into large sauté pan to about 1-1 ½ THE NOSHER VIA JTA WIRE SERVICE
inches high over medium-high heat.
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to our Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey community. We did it!
Your hard work filled these pantry shelves.
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Jewish World
Alex Bregman is baseball’s next Jewish star
HILLEL KUTTLER
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Sitting on a couch near
his locker at the Houston Astros’ spring training facility
here in mid-March, Alex Bregman is reflecting about an
encounter his father had at the World Series last fall.
It was in Los Angeles, between innings of the opening
game. Sam Bregman was headed for a Dodger Stadium
concession stand to grab a nosh, wearing his Astros jersey
with the No. 2 and his surname stitched on the back — a
facsimile of his son’s uniform. The young Bregman, a third
baseman, had just slugged a home run off Dodgers ace
Clayton Kershaw.
A fan grabbed Sam Bregman’s arm.
“Are you Alex’s dad?”
“I am,” the elder Bregman replied.
“Is he Jewish?”
“Yeah.”
The man was a Dodger fan, but still he flashed what Sam
Bregman described as “a look of great contentment” at the
ballplayer’s heritage.
“I got such a kick out of it,” Sam Bregman said in a
phone interview near his home in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. “It made me feel so proud.”
Alex Bregman’s take on the encounter: “It’s definitely
cool to have fans around the world give their support.
It keeps you motivated to know that everyone has your
back.”
Bregman can expect to have more fans — Jewish or oth-
erwise — on his bandwagon after his strong 2017 season
and the first World Series title for the Astros — a title to
36 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 30, 2018
which he contributed mightily. He knocked in a run in
each of the first five games, added a second home run,
threw out a runner at home plate to preserve a scoreless
tie in Game 4, and had the run-scoring single that ended
an epic Game 5 in the 10th inning, 13-12.
During the 2017 season, the former No. 2 overall draft
pick out of Louisiana State averaged .284, pounded 39
doubles and 19 home runs, and stole 17 bases.
Two days after the Game 7 road victory, Bregman cel-
ebrated at the championship parade in Houston. Thou-
sands of fans lined streets in a city still recovering from
Hurricane Harvey flooding a couple of months earlier.
“To see their pure joy gave me the chills,” Bregman said.
The experience capped a memorable year for Bregman
that began with his playing for the U.S. team that won the
World Baseball Classic title in March.
Israel’s squad, which finished sixth overall in the WBC,
had sought his services. In retrospect, he said, “I prob-
ably should’ve” played for Israel “because I got just four
at-bats” playing as a backup for the American team.
Regardless of who comes calling in 2021, Bregman said,
he’s unlikely to participate.
His Astros will start defending their championship on
Thursday in Arlington, Texas, against the Rangers. Breg-
man will turn 24 the next day. “There are a lot of things
I want to accomplish in this game. Winning is right there
at the top,” he said. “We have a great team to repeat as
champs.”
Astros manager A.J. Hinch said he expects Bregman to
“build off the momentum he generated in the postseason
and throughout the whole season last year.
Alex Bregman makes a play in Game 7
of the World Series at Dodger Stadium
in Los Angeles on November 1, 2017.
KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY IMAGES
“While he’s established himself as a major league player,
he’s not even close to what he’s going to be,” Hinch said.
He called Bregman “a true baseball rat,” someone who
“loves the game, loves practice, loves being around his
teammates.”
But his mother, Jackie, will tell you that her son is about
more than baseball. His foundation, AB for AUDS, pro-
vides computer tablets to children with autism and Down
syndrome. Brady Columbus, a son of Bregman’s former
hitting coach and Bregman’s godson, is autistic.
Jackie Bregman spoke of her son’s kindness. “Alex is so
patient with people, and I’m really, really proud of him for
that,” she said in a phone interview.
She recalled her son defending elementary school class-
mates who were being bullied. And he was also on the
other end: A boy made fun of Alex’s pending bar mitzvah
as he was leaving school to meet with the cantor, and a
Chinese-American teammate on Alex’s basketball squad
stood up for him.
The experiences, Jackie Bregman said, “taught him
what it was like to be marginalized.”
Years ago, the family attended an appearance by several
players for the minor league Albuquerque Isotopes. One
player was aloof. “Sam and I said to Alex, ‘Don’t ever be
like that,’ “ she recalled.
But Jackie Bregman also knows her son is driven to excel
on the field.
“He would not mince words. ‘I don’t just want to play
baseball; I want to be the best,’” Jackie Bregman remem-
bered her son saying. “He was determined.”
In junior high in Albuquerque, Bregman attended a
 Jewish World

University of New Mexico baseball camp.
The Lobos’ baseball coach, Ray Birming-
ham, preached dedication to greatness.
“Alex took that so literally that he’d hit
in the batting cages until he got calluses,”
recalled Sam Bregman, who had grown
up on the field at Robert F. Kennedy Sta-
dium, where his late father, Stan, worked
as a lawyer for the Washington Senators.
It was Stan, “Grandpa Zayde,” who gave
his grandson a card set of Jewish baseball
American League MVP. “I liked him since
he was at LSU,” where Bregman was a first-
team All American at shortstop. “I saw him
hit a homer, and I fell in love with him
as a player.”
The trio jogged toward
a batting cage, Bregman
stopped to sign autographs
after he finished hitting.
He’ll be signing plenty
more when the Astros

players.
Someone else who saw that commit-
ment was Darvin Ham, who coached
the New Mexico Thunderbirds, an NBA
Development League team the Bregmans
owned. In postgame conversations and at
the Bregman home, Alex Bregman “was
like a sponge” of information about the
makings of athletic achievement, said
Ham, now an assistant coach with the
Atlanta Hawks.
“He was a very good listener. He took
mental notes,” said Ham, who considers
HILLEL KUTTLER
come home next week for
their opener at Minute Maid
Park. His parents will be
there.
Sam Bre gman joked Alex Bregman signs autographs at the Houston As-
about guarding the champion- tros’ spring training complex in West Palm Beach, Fla.
ship ring his son will receive.
“I know that the Jewish commu-
nity around the country is so proud
of him,” Jackie Bregman said. Referring
to the card collection of Jewish players,
she added, “I hope that one day he’s in
that collection.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

Alex Bregman “a little brother.”

Bregman explained his early competi-
tive drive. “Coach Birmingham said you
have to decide,” he
recalled. “I woke
up at 5 a.m. to
go to the cage to
school to the cage:
defense and hit-
ting. I did that every
day for years, beginning
at probably age 12 or 13. I never
went to the school dance.”
On this day, Bregman departed for a
practice field and chatted in Spanish with
fellow infielders Jose Altuve and Carlos
Correa, natives of Venezuela and Puerto
Rico, respectively, at second base during
a running drill. Bregman is fluent in the
language.
Jerick Paquinto, a 19-year-old from
Houston wearing a Bregman jersey, was
among hundreds of fans watching. Alex Bregman’s manager
“I like that he’s not the biggest guy and expects the young slugger
he has a lot of heart,” Paquinto said of the to get even better.
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Editorial
Pesach’s here
I speak for their constituents
t’s finally Pesach.
Ever since Purim, we’ve known it’s getting closer.
That huge full moon, giant and yellow-gold in the
sky, is a signal that the next one will be Pesach, and
that the cleaning and cooking will be over and the story-
telling will begin.
It’s been an insane month and a half. The Parkland shoot-
ings were two weeks before Purim — see how the Jewish and
American calendars come together! — and last Shabbat it cul-
minated in the marches across the United States, saying no
to gun violence, no to fear, no to making schools into armed
redoubts and teachers into police officers.
It made me think of some of the books of my childhood.
I don’t remember if any of the teachers in the remote one-
room Western schoolhouses that I read and reread and read
again were part of the Little House series, or Caddy Wood-
lawn, or by some other writer whose stories and characters
I’d surely remember if ever I were to see them again were
the ones who carried guns, but I’m sure that at least one of
them did. Most of them didn’t though; they just had chalk
and firewood and bread and maybe coffee for lunch.
And if they didn’t have guns, then most certainly teach-
ers today are far less likely to. My sister and my niece are
both New York City outer-borough public high school
librarians. They would just as soon bring a gun to school
as I would ride to my Teaneck office on a horse that I’d
feed sugar cubes to and tie up in the parking lot. (In a
reserved space, of course.)
But this Shabbat was the marches. My shul is close to
Central Park West, so we headed out, behind a banner
from the shul, for the fourth march in the last 14 months.
Unlike the first women’s march, which was oddly festive,
or the science march, which was cold, drizzly, and grim,
or the second women’s march, which was somehow deju
vu, this one was plaintive, disbelieving, but hopeful none-
theless. Something has to change. Children can’t be shot
in schools. We can’t be a society where children are shot
dead in schools. Can they? Can we? Are we?
And now, it’s Pesach.
Maybe, maybe, please, the sun will come out, and the
snow will stop, and the clouds will lift, and we will be able
to bask in family and friends and freedom, and look ahead
to joy and hope. The crocuses already are out, some par-
ticularly foolhardy trees are developing buds, and, at least
according to their songs, at least some of the birds are
ignoring the temperature and going with the light.
Maybe, if we’re lucky, liberation lies ahead. And maybe,
if we’re good, we’ll do all that we can to hasten it.
We offer all of our readers and their families and
friends our best wishes for a zissen Pesach, for joy and
good food and good wine and good dark chocolate and
easily cleanable matzah crumbs and lots of singing at the
end of the seder. —JP
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
When Jewish leaders no longer
A
spate of articles has been published suggest-
ing that American Jews are turning away from
Israel. I do not believe it is true, but the behav- a wealthy philanthropist who does much good work for
ior of some of the community’s leaders is doing
nothing to help and a lot to contribute to this perception.
What is especially galling is that unlike the officials in
Israel whose policies they are attacking, none of the lead- Congress to chastise the Israeli government and propose
ers engaged in public criticism of Israel were democrati- his own ideas for what is best for Israel. The WJC has an
cally elected, and their comments do not appear to reflect
the views of their constituents or to have their approval.
The Jewish community is not monolithic, and there
have always been marginal figures who have found that
the way to get attention is to be the Jew who attacks
Israel, the proverbial man-bites-dog story. In recent
months, however, it is not the extremists
from J Street or the Beinerts who have been
marching out of step with Israel. It is many
establishment figures.
Don’t get me wrong. As Americans, we
all have the right to speak our minds, and
I have not held my tongue on moral issues
where Israel must be better, like recognizing
the Armenian genocide. But when it comes
to directly condemning Israeli policies, the
principal pro-Israel organizations have Rabbi
long held to the convention that the proper Shmuley
means for expressing criticism is privately Boteach
and directly to Israeli officials, and that pub-
lic declarations are usually made only by
those who have no influence and feel the need to draw
attention to themselves and their personal views.
Israeli officials also broke with convention in the
1980s and 1990s when they eschewed the longstanding
tradition of avoiding criticism of the government when
abroad. Initially, it was the Labor Party that was guilty
of this when it lost power, and it was roundly criticized
by the Likud. When Labor returned to power, how- for a decade. Why is Kohr advocating a push for two-states
ever, some Likud officials engaged in similar behavior. at this time when it has so little support in Israel and the
Israeli politics has been more politicized ever since and
frequently embroiled diaspora Jews in the internecine
battles between the parties.
Recently, American Jewish leaders have taken it upon
themselves to adopt policies at odds with the Israeli gov- icy conference. This bipartisan bill, which just was signed
ernment. Again, I have no complaint with them speaking
as individuals, but when they express views under the
imprimatur of organizations they represent, that’s a dif-
ferent story.
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Ron Lauder’s op-ed in the New York Times last week
was one of the worst examples of this behavior. Lauder is
the Jewish people, especially in eastern Europe. I have
personally witnessed his outstanding work. But he has no
business using his title as president of the World Jewish
impressive sounding name. But when Lauder publishes
New York Times op-eds against Israel he is demonstrating
that the organization is little more than Lauder’s personal
fiefdom. So perhaps he does not have to answer to anyone.
The WJC has no members or constituency that the public
is aware of, so perhaps Lauder really speaks only for him-
self. But in that case he should have omitted
his affiliation from his byline.
I was also struck by the comments made
by AIPAC’s longtime executive director
Howard Kohr at the annual policy confer-
ence. There is no more important organiza-
tion that AIPAC when it comes to strength-
ening U.S.-Israel relations, and no one more
skillful and committed to that objective than
Kohr. Howard is a friend for whom I have
endless respect. Few American Jews have
done more good for Israel then Howard has
at the helm of AIPAC.
Nevertheless, I was mystified when he
talked about working toward a two-state
solution and the creation of a Palestinian state “with its
own flag and its own future.” It’s not that this is neces-
sarily an unreasonable position. The point is that it is not
even on the agenda at the moment. As Kohr knows, the
Palestinians have repeatedly rejected this “solution” and
the Palestinian dictator Mahmoud Abbas has refused to
negotiate with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
PA? Is he really speaking for the members of AIPAC or the
broader pro-Israel community?
What made it worse was that AIPAC did not make pas-
sage of the Taylor Force Act one of its priorities at the pol-
into law, represents a much-needed response to Palestin-
ian intransigence and ongoing support for terror.
Howard’s speech about a two-state solution at AIPAC
startled many, as all polls show that Hamas would quickly
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overrun a West Bank state, sandwiching
Israel between two terror entities. So why
should the foremost pro-Israel organization
in America be talking about this while Mah-
moud Abbas insults and demeans Ameri-
ca’s ambassador to the United States, David
Friedman? Last week alone they took the
unbelievable and disgusting step of trying
to have the ambassador labeled a terrorist
k after Mahmoud Abbas himself called the
ambassador a “son of a dog.” Such revolt-
r ing displays of anti-Semitism should be
condemned by every Arab leader, espe-
cially those who enjoy a close relationship
with the United States as major allies. The
abominable attacks against an American
ambassador — and one who enjoys a close
relationship with the president of the United
States — are an attack on America itself. And
it’s the pro-Israel organizations that should
. be at the forefront of holding the Palestin-
ians leadership accountable for incitement
- against Americans.
A third example of American Jewish
leaders out of step with the realities on
the ground, and the government of Israel,
r were the men who accepted junkets to
- Qatar and gave legitimacy to the emir,
- whose PR media enterprise was spying on
- American Jews, and who supports Hamas
terrorists, and who has cozied up to the
genocidal mullahs in Iran.
The only thing these leaders did by going
to Qatar was to confer Jewish legitimacy
on the emir and strengthen his public
relations efforts in the United States just
when he was finally facing immense pres-
sure to stop funding the Muslim brother-
hood and Hamas. They claimed to be act-
- ing in Israel’s interest even though Israel’s
t ambassador to the United States made
clear — repeatedly and publicly — that
Israel’s government disapproved of their
amateur diplomacy. Amazingly, during
the Presidents Conference trip to Israel,
Prime Minister Netanyahu said in front of
Malcolm Hoenlein himself that he opposed
American Jews engaging with Qatar.
Jewish organizations have never been
- democratic. Leaders have little or no
- accountability to the Jewish community or
their own membership. Perhaps, at times,
- that can be construed as a good thing since
leaders should not follow but lead. But the
growing gap between what Jewish leaders
y are doing ostensibly on Israel’s behalf in
direct contradiction to the wishes of their
American Jewish constituents is troubling
and must be addressed.
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When your child speaks
T
he following is a pop quiz on Jewish priorities. Take it
yourself or, better yet (for reasons I will explain below), erment of former slaves, journalism that exposes traffickers.
take it with someone under age 18.
What commandment is emphasized through repeti-
tion more than any other? According to rabbinic count (Baba Metzia
59b), the Torah prohibits oppressing a stranger at least 36 separate
times “because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
Which holiday do more Jews celebrate than any other? It’s not
Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur. Though the High Holidays bring
large crowds to synagogue, Passover is celebrated by greater num-
bers of Jews. More than 90 percent of Jews participate in seders most
years. A recent Pew study found that 70 percent of American Jews
attended a seder in the last year. Among Jews married to another
Jew, the figure was 91 percent, and 42 percent of those who identify
as “Jews of no religion” said they attended a seder the year before.
What is our most influential Jewish story? The stories of
creation (including Shabbat) and of the giving of the Torah at
Mount Sinai are essential narratives, but the master story that
shaped and continues to shape Jewish identity is this one: “We
were slaves in Egypt, and God took us out with a mighty hand
and an outstretched arm.” Morning and eve-
ning, in both weekday and Sabbath prayers, we
describe the terrible tyranny of slavery and reen-
act our relief and salvation at the Red Sea. The
story of the Exodus defines us as a people and
also has inspired liberation movements around
the world over the course of centuries.
The other top contenders mentioned above for
the title of “master Jewish narrative” — creation/Sab-
bath and receiving the Torah — significantly include
the Exodus. At Mount Sinai, the first of God’s ten Rabbi Debra
dibrot (sayings) is: “I am Adonai your God who took Orenstein
you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slaves.” The commandment to observe Shabbat is
connected to our liberation: “The seventh day is a Sabbath unto
Adonai your God. On it you shall not do any work — neither you,
nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your
woman-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your
cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your man-
servant and your woman-servant may rest as you do” (Deut. 5:13).
In the Friday night Kiddush, we name Shabbat both a memorial
—zicaron — to creation and a reminder — zecher — of the Exodus.
This brief quiz proves what is intuitively felt, but not always con- free 18 slaves. She was unimpressed. “Why 18? Why not 100?” I
sciously known, by Jews: that there is an essential, unseverable con-
nection between Jews and freedom. It’s impossible to tell the story
of the Jews without telling of our enslavement, our liberation, and in
response to those experiences, our duty to protect the vulnerable.
By latest count, there are approximately 42 million slaves in the
world. It’s a shocking number, and up significantly since the last
estimates, now that the International Labour Organization and
others are counting forced marriage as a form of slavery. Although
slavery is not legal anywhere, it is practiced everywhere, includ-
ing in the United States and Israel. The Catholic church has made
a commitment to end all forms of slavery by 2030. The United
Nations has taken on the same mission and deadline as one of its
goals for sustainable development.
The Jewish community, whose narratives, laws, and holidays
inspired the Western value of freedom as we know it, has done
less than many of our neighbors. Until now.
The present moment is auspicious. Hundreds of nations and a
church of more than a billion people have set a deadline to end slav-
ery that is just 12 years away. There are many reasons why this auda-
cious goal is in sight: improved technology and communications,
consumer awareness of supply chains, Fair Trade options, activist
To learn what you can do in — 10 hours, in 10 minutes
or even in 10 seconds — to remember and rescue
slaves this Passover, download Passover Prep at www.
FreeTheSlaves.net/Judaism.
investors, community organizing, better laws and policing, empow-
But the main factor is will. Slavery can be eliminated in our life-
time. Whether or not it will be is up to us, based on how we vote
and lobby, what we buy, and which governmental programs and
charities we fund.
A big part of the Passover seder is teaching our children, telling
the story that they may not yet know, or not know as fully as we
do. Yet, the biggest moments of discovery don’t come from adult
answers, but from children’s questions and challenges. (Think of
the Four Sons.) That’s why I began this column by inviting you to
invite a young person into the discussion.
On the seder night, the rabbinic strategy is to spark curiosity,
encourage inquiry, and invite everyone — especially children —
to speak. The last word does not rest with the Haggadah. It lives
around the table, in the mouth of any child or adult who is moved
to interpret, wonder, argue, imagine, or suggest.
With almost 900 protests this past weekend, we saw a stunning
example of what children can add to a conversation. Learning and
growth happen not just when we teach young people, but when
we listen to them and encourage them to take the
lead.
The Torah describes that “in time to come” (Deut.
6:20), parents will need to speak (Hebrew root:
a.m.r.) about the message and history of Passover
to children who are born into freedom. Interest-
ingly, this same Hebrew root is used to introduce
children’s questions about Passover, along with the
root sh.a.l., meaning “ask.” Exodus 12:26 describes
a future time when children will state (a.m.r.) their
questions about Passover. Children are not just
“straight men,” setting us up for our perfect one-
liners. As every parent can tell you, children’s ques-
tions can contain whole worlds — and not just of
inquiry, but of instruction. One way older generations can pass on
a better world is to listen expansively and minutely to the Torah
that the younger generation has to offer.
Some of my greatest teachers on the subject of human traffick-
ing have been children. I was inspired to do my part for today’s
slaves because my daughter, at age 7, challenged a modest goal I
had originally set. As we reviewed our spiritual intentions during
the High Holiday season five years ago, I stated my goal to help
was convicted by her words. Eighteen might seem manageable
for me, but the point is that slavery is chaotic, violent, lawless, and
completely unmanageable for the people who suffer it. Why not
aim for a disruptive and ambitious goal?
We have tolerated slavery until now, but the world is at a tip-
ping point. A united (and uniting) effort by the Jewish community
can free millions of people – and it will require relatively simple
changes and modest contributions. If individual Jews do our part,
it will begin with raising this issue at our seders — and continue
from there. Imagine if, when you opened the door for Elijah, a
family of slaves stood on your doorstep. You would never hand
them back to their captors. You would not be able to look them
in the eyes and then turn your back on them. Slavery persists
because it is hidden from us. Supply chains are deliberately murky.
We indirectly benefit from a crime that we do not endorse. Once
we look the reality of slavery in the face, I believe that each of us
will take action to end it.
A short time after my holiday discussion with my daugh-
ter, I read a story in the Jewish Standard about Jessica Baer,
then 11. She saw a single presentation about modern slavery
at Jewish summer camp and went on to free 30 child slaves in
Ghana before her bat mitzvah. I photocopied the article and
wrote above the headline in sharpie (for myself and others
to see): “This is what a child did. What can you do?” (Since
Lois Goldrich wrote that story in 2013, the Baers have rescued
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Opinion
I’VE BEEN THINKING
God’s finger touched him and he slept
M
y first column in the Jew-
ish Standard was a remem-
brance of Rabbi Dr. Eugene
Borowitz, one of the major
theologians of the Reform movement in
the 20th century, who recently had died.
He was also the founder and editor of
Sh’ma magazine, and I was privileged to
work with him there for several years. I felt
even more privileged that our friendship
continued until his death.
On the morning of March 19, 2018, some
two years plus a bit after this first column
appeared, I paid a shiva call on the family
of Rabbi Ralph Pelcovitz, the rabbi emeri-
tus of the White Shul in Far Rockaway and
one of the leading modern Orthodox con-
gregational rabbis of the 20th century. I
had grown up in his shul in the 1950s and
60s, and continued as an intermittent
attendee after getting married, listening to
his sermons on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kip-
pur, and other holidays and Shabbatot for
more than 30 years when my family visited
my parents. In later years, I would call him
from time to time to wish him a gut yon-
tif or shana tovah, and I always received a
bracha and d’var Torah in response.
And then, shortly after returning home
from this shiva visit, I, along with so many
Finding our own free voices
“They’ll talk to you and talk to you and talk
to you about individual freedom. But they
see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ‘em.”
 —Easy Rider
John Keating (stands on his desk): Why do
I stand up here? Anybody?
Charlie Dalton: To feel taller!
Keating: No! Thank you for playing, Mr.
Dalton. I stand upon my desk to remind
myself that we must constantly look at things
in a different way.” —Dead Poet’s Society
P
assover begins this Friday night,
and soon the familiar smells of
the seders — brisket, turkey,
chicken soup with matzah balls,
and so much more — will fill our senses,
unearthing warm, wonderful memories
begun when we were so small we could
only sit at the table. Never mind the excite-
ment we felt when we finally were old
enough to sing the four questions on cue.
That Passover is the most beloved holi-
day for the Jewish people makes sense as
the reading of the haggadah and the seder
remembering our escape from slavery has
tied us together, generation to generation.
And though this happened thousands
of years ago, we are instructed in Exodus,
40 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 30, 2018
others, was devastated to hear of the unex-
pected death of Rabbi Ozer Anthony Glick-
man, one of today’s preeminent modern
Orthodox leaders and role models, about
whom the Standard’s editor wrote so
movingly last week. Unlike Rabbis Borow-
itz and Pelcovitz, however, whom I knew
for decades and who lived into their 90s,
aging gracefully while continuing to be
inspirational to many until almost the
end, I knew R. Glickman only a few all too
short years when he was suddenly felled
by a heart attack at age 67, still influential,
vigorous, and active.
The deaths of Rabbis Pelcovitz and
Borowitz saddened their families, friends,
and communities, both narrow and wide,
but that’s the way the world is supposed
to work; dor holech v’dor bah, a genera-
tion departs and a new one takes its place.
R. Glickman’s death, however, in addition
to bringing grief to so many, was a trag-
edy; taken at the height of his powers, as
he was continuing to impact increasingly
larger and more disparate parts of the Jew-
ish community. He left us when he had so
much more to give, and there was so much
more we thirsted to receive.
R. Glickman was eclectic in both back-
ground and profession. There was the
“You shall tell your children on that day,
saying, ‘It is because of what Adonai
did for me when I went free out of Mitz-
rayim.’” Though I always understood the
importance of personal identification with
this pivotal moment in Jewish history, it
wasn’t until I began to communicate the
importance of Passover to my own child
that this command’s focus on the individ-
ual, not the Jewish people, registered fully.
The individual. The most powerful
voice, and yet the one that increasingly is
becoming lost in our world, where group
think and conformity seem to own the day.
And beware anyone who dares challenge
the conventional wisdom. Could this be a
reason why we are instructed as individu-
als? Is it a warning about the precarious
state of freedom and the need to fight for
our liberty in every generation? After all,
when Jacob and his sons were invited to
stay in Egypt by Pharaoh, they were not
slaves. But after Joseph died, another pha-
raoh enslaved them.
We are all too familiar with the intimi-
dation, and even physical assault, perpe-
trated by numerous supporters of the Boy-
cott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
on too many campuses across the United
States and Canada. Though still not on a
Rabbi Anthony Glickman
whose first semicha was
from JTS (followed by a
number of Orthodox semi-
chot from RIETS and lead-
ing rabbinic figures). There
was the Rav Ozer Yeshayah
HaCohen Glickman, a rosh
yeshiva in RIETS, teaching
Yoreh Deah, Talmud, and Joseph C.
halacha to undergraduate Kaplan
and semicha students. There
was Professor Anthony
Glickman teaching “Jewish Values in the
Contemporary World,” “Business and
Jewish Law,” and American legal theory
(among other courses) at Isaac Breuer
College, Sy Syms School of Business, and
the Cardozo School of Law, where he was
also the senior resident rabbinic scholar
and an adjunct professor of law at its Cen- both ancient and contemporary. In addi-
ter for the Study of Jewish Law and Con-
temporary Civilization. There was the
Ozer/Anthony Glickman who was a much
sought after speaker on topics ranging
from the stock market to Jewish philoso-
phy to Jewish civil law to medical ethics. racism from our community, a strong pro-
There was the Tony Glickman who
formed deep social and personal rela-
tionships with so many, who continued
majority of campuses, both
pro-Israel and conservative
speakers are increasingly
unwelcome to share their
views; many times faculty
members abet the suppres-
sion, and the administra-
tion betrays its cowardice in
refusing to confront it. Decla-
rations like the University of Martha
Chicago’s statement on prin- Cohen
ciples of free expression are
applauded and appreciated
— but they are rare.
The good news is that there are some
faculty who realize what is at stake and
have decided to fight. Take the case of
NYU’s Professor Michael Rectenwald,
who, according to the Daily Caller, “is
suing NYU and four of his colleagues for
defamation, alleging that he was subjected
to a campaign of ostracism and harass-
ment when he criticized campus political
correctness.” Professor Rectenwald, who
called himself a former communist and ex-
leftist, is known as a free speech advocate
and became alarmed with “indoctrination
in the classroom.”
Or what about a professor of evolu-
tionary biology, Bret Weinstein, who is
to be a larger-than-life figure
in the world of investment
risk management and busi-
ness, and who had pursued
graduate studies in philoso-
phy, religion — and finance.
And, of course, there was
the loving husband, devoted
and adored saba, and the
beloved abba of six wonder-
ful children, one who beauti-
fully described her parents at
the funeral with these words:
“When you need a favor go to Ima, when
you’re in a crisis go to Abba.”
All this made R. Glickman different, per-
haps unique. But what made him special
was his ability to connect with so many
different types of people of all ages and
beliefs on a myriad of important issues,
tion to being a superior talmid chacham
with an incredible breadth of secular
knowledge, he was an unyielding sup-
porter of civil rights, an outspoken cham-
pion of the need to purge all vestiges of
ponent of the need for decency in govern-
ment leadership, and a vocal advocate urg-
ing that honesty, morals, and ethics must
self-described as deeply pro-
gressive? He taught at Ever-
green State College for more
than a decade but was con-
fronted by students when he
objected to having white stu-
dents ordered to be absent
on campus for a day. As
Weinstein said, “One’s right
to speak or to be heard must
never be based on color.”
That didn’t work for these
students. The video of their
confronting Weinstein went viral. A Vice
story featured one student who felt differ-
ently worry about being stigmatized. She
said, “I do not have the ability to speak if
I have disagreements with methods being
used in protests.”
This is a college campus? Weinstein
since has resigned, as part of a financial
settlement with the university, and others
have followed. Bullying is nothing com-
pared to what is going on.
As Bill Maher said when discussing stu-
dents interrupting Charles Murray’s speak-
ing engagement in 2017 at Middlebury Col-
lege (with one female teacher ending up
with a concussion), “Debate him. Opinions
shouldn’t be illegal.”

once again be core values practiced by our
community and that Hoshen Mishpat must
still be relevant to our 21st Century lives
outside the beit medrash.
One other thing that made him, for
a rosh yeshiva, different, unique, and
special was that he was a force on social
media, appearing on Facebook to dis-
cuss all these issues; speaking truth
to power clearly, openly, and without
fear. And of great, perhaps paramount,
importance, is that notwithstanding
his passion for what he believed in,
he always did this with civility to and
respect for all, including, or perhaps
especially, those with whom he dis-
agreed. Always. So in a significant depar-
ture from internet norms, he refused to
allow ad hominem attacks and pejora-
tive personal comments to intrude into
serious discussions of issues, and would
unfriend people who violated that rule.
His gentle, sweet side, however, also
believed in second chances for those
who were introspective and apologetic.
Like others, he was a critic of certain
aspects of open Orthodoxy. Unlike some,
however, his criticisms never had a touch
of condescension, condemnation, or
crude nastiness. Indeed, a leader of Open
Orthodoxy with whom R. Glickman dis-
agreed online recently noted that Reb
Ozer was truly tolerant and open minded,
enjoying people who disagreed with him.
And it happens beyond the campus.
This freedom of expression exclusion hap-
pens within families, in the workplace,
and even for volunteers and staff within
charitable organizations. If you think that
everyone shares one political ideology, life
is more complex. It just means that some-
one (or perhaps more than one) is afraid
of losing your friendship or being ostra-
cized from the group if they shared their
real opinion.
But there are those who are willing to
take the heat. Remember Ron Silver? He
was an accomplished actor who was most
readily known for his performance as Der-
showitz in the film “Reversal of Fortune”
and he won a Tony for his performance in
Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow.” Silver was New
York-born-and-bred and quite liberal. He
was a president of Actors’ Equity and in
1989 he founded the Creative Coalition,
a nonprofit advocacy group made up of
members of the entertainment industry.
That is how I worked with him, producing
a PSA for the ACLU down on Centre Street
before the turn of the century.
Everything was great until 9/11 hap-
pened. While still remaining a liberal on
most causes, Ron, like many others, took a
more realistic — some might say conserva-
tive — view of security and defense of the
United States. Still a Democrat, he spoke
at the 2004 Republican Convention, as did
He reached out to those with different
ideas without rancor or animosity and
with the utmost respect, refusing to let
political considerations get in the way of
his love for people, Torah, and ideas.
His affinity for those he disagreed
with was particularly important to me
because, as he recently wrote, “my
friend Joseph Kaplan and I disagree on
substantive issues in halacha and Ameri-
can politics.” (The “my friend” touched
my heart.) And we did, indeed, disagree
— often. But notably, he ended that com-
ment by observing that “we agree that
Torah is to be cherished, and that those
who are devoted to it can learn from one
another,” but only if civility and respect
are embedded in the disagreement.
In the days following his death, my
Facebook feed was flooded with expres-
sions of grief and shock, and warm mem-
ories by his growing international fol-
lowing. Many posts and comments arose
from an appreciation of his deep and sin-
cere acts of kindness, in word and deed,
and active involvement in combatting
unfairness and injustice to those without
power or prestige. Rabbi Shai Held has
noted that from a religious and human
perspective, kindness is more impor-
tant than anything else. And Reb Ozer/
Tony personified this with warmth, care,
empathy, compassion, and love.
Another online thread was “although
Democratic Senator Zell Miller of Georgia.
Though he did continue to work, he said
that he knew he lost jobs and some friends
due to his support of President Bush on
this issue. I was fortunate enough to meet
him again about a year before he died, and
he was very gracious when I reminded him
that we worked together on that ACLU
project. Sadly, he passed away nine years
ago this month. Interestingly, Senator
Miller just died.
So why is it important to think of these
incidents as we read this commandment
at our seder table? Each person involved
understood that his ability to think and
speak freely was important to fight for,
even at the risk of damaging his livelihood
and reputation. And there are others,
including students, who we know risk a
lot to stand up for what is right — some-
times doing so more effectively behind the
scenes — so that the freedom to think and
debate is not shut down and lost to future
generations. We must join them in calling
out these purveyors of tyranny.
Let’s turn the tables and challenge them
to put their big boy and big girl pants on
and debate ideas, in the open, without
using derogatory language, demonization,
or physical force. If they are intellectually
honest, they will put aside the rhetoric and
realize that the freedom to think freely and
debate all ideas is very powerful and part
I only knew him through Facebook I felt
a strong kinship to him, and now deeply
regret I never met him personally.” Luckily
for me, though I too first encountered him
on Facebook, I later met him in the flesh as
a result of his kind “let’s meet for coffee”
invitation. I jumped at the opportunity and
two delightful hours at Lazy Bean ensued,
with our discovering how much we had in
common (including daughters who were
good friends and later thought it “cute”
that we also became friends), how much
we agreed on, and how much more we dis-
agreed about. And we continued talking,
agreeing, and disagreeing, civilly, respect-
fully, and often with humor, sometimes on
Facebook, sometimes in shul, and some-
times after a shiur of his that I attended,
which enabled me to add teacher-student
to my description of our relationship.
Let me end (though I still have much
more to say) with two stories: one about
humor and the other regret. His humor
was sharp, could be earthy, and therefore
often was meant only for private con-
sumption. But I can share the following
conversation in a family publication. In
the midst of a serious discussion we were
having on Facebook, he suddenly non-
sequitured into “is that a bow tie I see in
your profile picture?” (It’s the same pic-
ture as the one used with this column,
though larger, and if you look carefully
you can see the bow tie tips peeking out.)
The 1969 movie Easy Rider was about individualism (among other,
flashier things).
of a life fulfilled. This is the only road to
help them summon the courage to reject
the prison of conformity, the one that peo-
ple in Russia, China, Venezuela, and too
many countries live and die in every day.
And for those of us who are shy, remem-
ber that this is the only way to assure
future generations the freedom to think
and express themselves and not return
Opinion
When I answered “yup, if you like I’ll be
happy to teach you how to tie them,” he
replied “last time I wore one another
diner asked me for her check.”
And one about bittersweet regret. My
very last words to him were also in the
context of a Facebook discussion where,
as usual, we were disagreeing. It became
too complex for short written back and
forth comments, so I ended the discus-
sion with a simple “we’ll have to talk.”
The bitter part is that I let it slide, not
picking up the phone, finding him after
shul, or this time my inviting him to Lazy
Bean to do just that — talk. The sweet part
is that, unlike those who never had the
opportunity, or missed the opportunity,
to meet him personally, I grabbed that
opportunity (or was it just plain dumb
luck?), thus having the privilege of expe-
riencing what it means to interact face-
to-face with, and be a student/friend of,
a truly great man.
A light has gone out and our world is
darker. We are truly bereft. Yehi zichro
baruch.
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular columnist,
is a long-time resident of Teaneck. His
work also has appeared in various
publications including Sh’ma magazine,
the New York Jewish Week, the Baltimore
Jewish Times, and, as letters to the
editor, the New York Times.
to bondage. As John Keating said to his
students, “You must strive to find your
own voice, because the longer you wait to
begin, the less likely you are going to find
it at all.”
Martha Cohen is an award-winning
producer and creative executive. She lives
in Fort Lee with her husband and son.
JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 30, 2018 41
Opinion
What we teach our children
A
powerful mystery should haunt
us each year at this time of the
year, a mystery that strikes to
the core of the Pesach festival
with its overriding theme of “V’higadeta
l’vincha” — “And you shall teach your child.”
Consider the following two talmudic
assertions:
• Rabbi Akiva declared: “‘Vahavata
l’re’acha komocha” — “Love your neighbor
as yourself. This is the great principle of the
Torah.”
• Rabbi Akiva had 12,000 pairs of stu-
dents. All of them died in one period,
between Pesach and Shavuot –the Omer
period — “because they failed to treat each
other with respect...”
How can it be that one of our greatest
sages apparently failed to impart his core
belief to his students? Had Rabbi Akiva’s stu-
dents perished as a result of any other sin,
the tragedy might have been comprehensi-
ble. But to transgress the very precept that
served as the core of their mentor’s beliefs
and practices? How can it be?
Perhaps the issue is one of chronol-
ogy. We do not know when Rabbi Akiva
determined the centrality of the mitzva of
V’ahavta. Perhaps he reached this realiza-
tion only in retrospect, as a result of the
tragic loss of his students. Perhaps it is pre-
cisely their deaths that led their mentor to
recognize the emptiness of Torah obser-
vance absent a foundation of interpersonal
respect.
I would like to think, however, that our
tradition is referencing an entirely differ-
ent life lesson through this tragedy, a lesson
of overarching significance for us all. The
stark inconsistency between Rabbi Akiva’s
Speaks
FROM PAGE 39
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learn more.)
A 9-year-old named Vivienne Harr saw a
photograph of two child slaves at a quarry,
carrying enormous slabs of rock on their
backs down a steep hill. She noticed that
they wore torn clothes and ill-fitting shoes,
and that they were holding hands. Vivienne
saw their humanity and wanted them to be
able to play. She told her parents, “Compas-
sion without action is not compassion.”
Vivienne decided to run a lemonade stand
to raise money for the cause of child slaves.
The story might have ended there, with a
small donation to a worthy cause, except
that Vivienne ran that lemonade stand every
day, rain or shine, for an entire year. Adults
were inspired. She got press coverage. She
gave a TED talk and attended the Global
Forum. Within months, she raised more than
$100,000. Later, she bottled her Fair Trade
Make-a-Stand Lemon-aid and sold it in stores,
42 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 30, 2018
core belief and the actions of his students
may reflect a universal challenge inherent
in the task of Mesora, intergenerational
transmission.
Perhaps Rabbi Akiva failed to teach his
students the central value of his worldview
precisely because he considered that value
to be self-evident.
We often make the mistake of assuming
that just because something is vital to us
automatically it will be important to our
children. We feel that the ideas and beliefs
lying at the heart of our worldview are so
obvious they need not be openly stated and
taught.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Our children grow up in worlds differ-
ent from our own, and within those worlds
they form their own personal convictions.
The basic foundations that we consider cen-
tral to our lives are not automatically givens
within theirs.
While I now live in Israel, allow me to
cite an example from my many years of
experience as a diaspora Jew, rabbi, and
educator. The deep connection that Jews
of my generation feel towards the State of
Israel will not develop automatically in the
hearts of our progeny, who are more tem-
porally and emotionally removed than we
are from the creation of the State. The sign-
posts of our life journey and the journeys
of our parents — the Holocaust, the birth
of the State of Israel, the War of Indepen-
dence, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur
War, Entebbe, the dramatic aliyot from
Yemen, Ethiopia, Russia, and more — are
not the signposts of theirs. Our children live
in a world where Israel always has existed,
a world in which the Jewish state is viewed
donating all the proceeds. Vivienne’s first
publication is a children’s picture book about
her journey in helping others. The title says
it all: “When Life Gives You Lemons, Change
the World.” This year, I gave that book as an
afikomen prize to the youngest students in
my Hebrew school. I look forward to being
amazed at what they, too, can accomplish.
About a month ago, I served as a scholar-
in-residence at Kehilla Synagogue in North
Carolina and spoke to Hebrew school stu-
dents about “Modern Slavery and Our Jewish
Problem.” I showed a 4-minute film, available
on Youtube, called Building Freedom Brick
By Brick. It features a community of peo-
ple in Kukdaha, India, who were enslaved,
under brutal and violent conditions, to make
bricks. They were terrorized and didn’t see
a way out until field workers from Free The
Slaves found them, advocated for them, and
supported them in breaking free. As their
story unfolds on screen, we see them mak-
ing bricks. It’s hard labor, under a brutally hot
sun. Gradually, we realize that they are mak-
ing those bricks of their own free will. Free
the Slaves helped them buy their own kiln,
through increasingly critical
and jaundiced eyes, a world
in which the historical con-
nection between the Jewish
people and their homeland
comes under daily attack.
In our effort to convey
critical ideas and principles
to future generations, we
can make no assumptions Rabbi
of prior knowledge, feeling, Shmuel
and commitment. We must Goldin
consciously and actively
teach each and every one of
the ideas and principles we feel important
through open discussion and deed.
When it comes to Zionism in the diaspora,
however, we must admit that the problem
runs much deeper. In this arena, even when
we are successful in communicating central
beliefs to our children, our messages often
are inconsistent and contradictory. We pro-
fess a deep connection to the State of Israel,
yet we remain unwilling to carry that con-
nection to its logical conclusions.
We send our children to schools where
they learn that Israel is the true home of the
Jewish nation. We define ourselves as Zion-
ists and bemoan the anti-Israel bias from
countries around the world. We involve
ourselves in continuing political action
on behalf of the Jewish state and express
deep admiration for the soldiers of the IDF,
bravely guarding the borders of our land.
And yet, what is too often our response
when our children decide to practice what
we have preached? How do we react when
a son or daughter expresses a desire to
explore the possibility of living in Israel?
What is our reply when they suggest they
and they now do in freedom, with smiles on
their faces, what they used to do in misery,
under threat of beatings and death. One freed
woman declares: “Having our own brick kiln
makes us happy. And if more freed people
work here, I’ll be even happier.”
After screening the film, I asked the chil-
dren: “What connections do you see between
this film and Passover?” Their replies were
varied: “They were slaves, just like us.” “They
were whipped and they cried.” “We became
free, and so did they.” “They are able to be
happy now that they are free.” One adult, an
elder imparting an important detail of history,
added, “They made bricks as slaves, and we
did, too.” The children gasped in recognition.
Pharaoh forced us to make bricks. It is mind-
boggling that the work our people did as
slaves in the 13th century BCE is still imposed
on human beings in the 21st century CE.
Then a young man named Asa spoke up
and changed my view of a film that I had
watched at least half a dozen times. “Moses
was an outsider,” he said. “We needed some-
one to come from the outside to help us
become free. Now we have to be the Moses
might want to become sol-
diers in the Israeli army? How
do we respond even to much
simpler requests — the desire,
for example, for “shana bet,” a
second year of study, in Israel
after high school?
Don’t get me wrong. As the
parent of five children and
their wonderful spouses (and,
thank God, the grandfather of
many more), I deeply under-
stand the desire to keep our
children close and safe. I also
understand that the decision to make aliyah
and the ability to build a successful life in
Israel involve many factors at any age. But
we need to ask ourselves what messages we
are or are not communicating both in word
and in action. Are we implicitly declaring
that our Zionism stops at the door of real
commitment and self-sacrifice?
As we approach the holiday of Pesach,
with its overarching emphasis upon the
conveying of critical ideas and principles
to future generations, we would do well to
explore the current character of our own
communication to our children. Are we
clearly saying what we want to say, and,
when we say it, are our messages both com-
plete and consistent? By confronting these
questions, on the holiday of questions, we
will come closer to a true confrontation
with the character and strength of our own
beliefs and commitments, as well.
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, rabbi emeritus of
Congregation Ahavat Torah in Englewood,
recently made aliyah and now works with
Nefesh b’Nefesh on Israel education.
for them.”
“When your child asks you in the time
to come, saying: ‘What are all the testimo-
nies and the statutes and the ordinances,
which Adonai our God commanded you?’”
(Deut. 6:20), by all means give the full bibli-
cal answer. Add the wisdom of the Hagga-
dah and all the commentaries you read and
invent. “The more you elaborate on the Pass-
over story, of course this is to be praised.” But
before the kids get too tired, bored, or intimi-
dated, take a breath. Pause. Ask what may be
one of the most important questions that the
elder generation can direct to children: “So,
what do you think?”
In fact, don’t wait to ask. Start now, with
what is at hand. Share this column with a
child or teen and follow where they lead.
Debra Orenstein is rabbi of Congregation B’nai
Israel in Emerson and founder of the Passover
Project, which provides resources to Jews
and Jewish institutions about the mitzvah of
freeing captives and ending slavery. You can
download Passover Project materials for your
Seder at www.FreeTheSlaves.net.
 Opinion

Putin an anti-Semite? It really doesn’t matter

A
mong Sephardic
Jews of my grand-
mother’s genera-
tion, there was a
popular, if unproven, belief
that Gen. Francisco Franco—
the military dictator who ruled
Spain from 1939 until his death
in 1975—was of Jewish parent-
age, and that this explained Ben Cohen
why he granted refuge to sev-
eral thousand Jews who were
fleeing the Nazis.
I’ve heard tales of a similar belief about Russia’s pres-
ent republican tsar, Vladimir Putin, along with a similar
explanation that his largely benevolent attitude toward
the more than 1 million Jews under his rule stems from his
supposedly Jewish ancestry.
In an interview this week with the Jerusalem Post, Rus-
sia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar didn’t go as far as to claim
Putin for the Jewish people, but he did laud him as the
first leader in Russia’s long history “to say that Jews had
the same rights as anyone else.” The rabbi also related
the story of an elderly Jewish woman who told him that
Putin’s attendance at a synagogue dedication left her feel-
ing that she could now hold her head up after a lifetime
of looking down.
Lazar’s comments were situated in a broader defense of
Putin against the charge of anti-Semitism, the product of
a recent NBC interview in which the Russian leader sug-
gested that ethnic minorities with Russian citizenship—he
named “Jews,” “Tatars,” and “Ukrainians” specifically—
were responsible for Moscow’s interference in the 2016
U.S. presidential election. But while Jewish leaders in the
United States and Europe condemned Putin’s apparent
invocation of shadowy Jewish power, Lazar countered that
Putin was implacably opposed to anti-Semitism, having
presided over an unprecedented rebirth of Jewish identity
and community in Russia over the last two decades.
Those who maintain that Lazar speaks the truth and
those who argue that he is compelled to say such things
are, paradoxically, both correct. Perhaps the most impor-
tant task of a Jewish leader in a country like Russia—with
its authoritarian and violently anti-Semitic traditions—is to
ensure that the existence of a secure, vibrant Jewish com-
munity remains an important national interest, as Putin
evidently believes it to be.
Yet Putin’s cultivation of warm relations with Russia’s
Jews, along with his regime’s respectful relations with the
State of Israel, serve as a reminder that the transnational
ties that bind the Jewish people aren’t immune from the
pressures of geopolitics. A century ago, that reality mani-
fested on the battlefield, with more than 500,000 Jewish
soldiers serving in the ranks of rival national armies dur-
ing World War I. These days, the stakes are lower (or we at
least believe they are), but the fact remains that the Vladi-
mir Putin lionized by Rabbi Lazar is the same Vladimir
Putin who is regarded by most Jews outside of Russia as
a transparently nasty threat to the democracies in which
they live as free citizens.
Putin certainly is a historical oddity. He is a ruthless
dictator with philo-Semitic leanings, who nonetheless is
sophisticated enough to grasp the crucial political role
that anti-Semitism has played—and still may play—in Rus-
sia’s national development.
But there is a more immediate, overriding point: for the
time being, none of this history really matters.
The big difference between now and the Cold War
is that Russian Jews no longer are the hostages of their
own national authorities, even if Putin’s regime increas-
ingly recalls the Soviet Union in other ways. Nor is the
struggle against “international Zionism” an obsessive
propaganda theme of Putin’s Russia, as it was under the
Communist Party.
There are few signs that Putin is pursuing policies
abroad that would lead him to turn on the Jews of
Russia, as happened more than once under his Soviet
predecessors.
Yet the welcome absence of anti-Semitism as an
organizing principle of Russia’s present regime does
not mean that the country itself should be regarded as
more trustworthy or reasonable on the international
stage. The incoming U.S. national security advisor, John
Bolton, explained the challenge well in a television
interview discussing Russia’s use of a chemical weapons
agent in the attempted assassination of a former KGB
officer, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, in the
United Kingdom. The violation of British sovereignty for
the purposes of assassination, Bolton said, was part of a
larger pattern of aggression that also included Russia’s
tactical embrace of certain international agreements,
like the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, as a cover for its broader
ambitions. Any arrangement that rested on the faith
that Putin’s regime—or other authoritarian regimes—
would honor their commitments to an agreement was
“doomed to failure,” Bolton argued.
The basic insight that dictators cannot be trusted has
been out of fashion in the White House for more than a
decade. Now that it apparently has returned, it remains
to be seen whether its application in the case of Russia
will become a point tension or harmony in the relation-
ship between Bolton and President Donald Trump.
In the meantime, what is certain is that Russia will
continue its efforts to confound Western public opinion,
including, when it makes sense to do so, accounts of the
rekindling of Jewish life in a country unfairly excori-
ated by the West for its alleged intolerance. Such a story
doubtless would be a magnificent example of how a ker-
nel of truth can be spun into a web of falsehoods—a craft
at which Russians excelled throughout the course of the
Putin regime—but none of us should be fooled. JNS.ORG
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.

Valor in Le Chambon
We were very pleased that in profiling the
young actor Timothée Chalamet in his lead
anecdote in Noshes on March 23, Nate Bloom
devoted some well-deserved attention to the
French Protestant village of Chalamet’s pater-
nal grandparents, Le Chambon in south cen-
tral France. That village shielded and rescued
some more than 5,000 Jewish refugees dur-
ing the German occupation of France during
the Second World War. Not much is known
in this country today about Le Chambon and
its collective courage, which surely deserves
your readers’ attention and gratitude.
Anyone who wants to learn more should
turn to an exemplary book about it by the late
Professor Philip P. Hallie of Wesleyan Univer-
sity, “Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story
of the Village of Le Chambon, and How Good-
ness Happened There,” published by Harper
and Row in 1979 and still in print. (Full dis-
closure: Hallie, the author of several nar-
rative studies of ethics, was a distinguished
colleague of one of the undersigned at Wes-
leyan.) What set the villagers apart was the
cowardice and anti-Semitism of many of their
countrymen and women, typified by the
Vichy collaborationist wartime government.
Florette R. Koffler, Ph.D., Richard Koffler,
Ph.D., Teaneck
Why weren’t you at the march?
On Saturday, March 24, my wife and I partic-
ipated in Englewood’s March For Our Lives,
joining hundreds of communities through-
out the country and even throughout the
world in a broad-spectrum show of support
for students who were affected by the Park-
land murders and in support of gun control.
As a member of the local Orthodox com-
munity, I was pleased to see that the march
had been scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m.,
so that it would not impinge upon my morn-
ing at shul, and was taking place within easy
walking distance.
Although the march was well attended by
all segments of the disparate, wider Engle-
wood community, we could not help but
notice that our own insular Orthodox Jewish
community was grossly underrepresented.
One of the Orthodox shuls, Kesher, did
make a strong showing, but we were sad-
dened to see neither members nor leaders
from the other established Orthodox shuls.
This lack of participation in this particular
event was a mistake because there are many
community-wide events where it is difficult
for us to fully engage with the community
due to our religious codes, whether it be
kashrut, Shabbat, yom tov, etc. I believe that
our low turnout was caused, in large part,
by the failure of the local shuls and religious
leadership to publicize or advocate on behalf
of this event, since a surprisingly low number
of our Orthodox community members knew
that it was taking place.
Responsible and sane gun ownership
ought to be the concern of every commu-
nity. As committed Jews, if we wish to pay
Letters
more than lip service to our mission of “tik-
kun olam,” we should take advantage of
every opportunity to engage with our fel-
low community members in furthering this
worthy cause.
Michael K. Eidman, Englewood
Exodus and comets
Regarding Rabbi Engelmayer’s article titled
“The Exodus: Debunking the debunkers”
(March 23) there’s a book by Immanuel
Velikovsky that attempts to corroborate the
plagues listed in the Torah.
Written in the 1960s, “Worlds in Collision”
tells of other societies that have recorded
events that are comparable to those recorded
in Exodus. He posits that a comet passed near
earth at the time the Jews left Egypt causing
the miraculous events to occur at the most
propitious moments. It was fascinating read-
ing when I came across the book about 50
years ago, and it is worth examining today.
Kenneth Bander, Teaneck

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 Jewish World

French cops: Holocaust survivor targeted for being Jewish

JTA STAFF
Prosecutors investigating the slaying of a
Holocaust survivor in Paris said the two
suspects in custody targeted her because
she was Jewish.
The development in the investigation of
the March 23 slaying of Mirelle Kanol came
with the arrest of two men on Monday, Le
Figaro reported, citing a police source.
“The supposed or actual belonging of
the victim to a religion was a grounds” for
the attack, the source told Le Figaro, in
addition to her being “vulnerable.”
One of the suspects in custody, a 29-year-
old man, was one of Kanol’s neighbors and
knew her well, Le Figaro reported.
In addition, Kanol’s son told the French
news agency AFP that one of the suspects
visited his mother regularly, and she
treated him “like a son.” Kanol’s son said
that the suspect had visited her that day.
The prosecutor’s office reportedly
prevent ative custody. camps, where they were and that we will need to continue fighting
They will face possi- murdered by the Nazis. against anti-Semitism.”
ble charges of “murder French Foreign Minister According to the National Bureau
related to the victim’s reli- Jean-Yves Le Drian, who for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or
gion, real or imagined,” is in Israel on an official BNVCA, the octogenarian’s body was set
as well as aggravated rob- visit, said on Monday after- on fire Friday night. Her charred body
bery and destruction of noon, following a meeting also had at least 11 stab wounds.
property, AFP reported, in Jerusalem with Prime A forensic examination of the apart-
citing judicial sources. Minister Benjamin Netan- ment showed that an arsonist started a
On Sunday, a spokes- yahu, that France needs to fire in at least five distinct areas of that
person for SPCJ, the offi- “continue fighting against space, the report also said.
cial monitor and security Holocaust survivor anti-Semitism. “The barbarity of this murder sends
unit of the French Jew- Mireille Knoll, 85, was “I had a very moving us back to that of Sarah Halimi just one
ish community, told the found murdered in her and difficult moment year ago,” Francis Kalifat, president of
7sur7 news website that a Paris apartment last when I had just concluded the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish com-
preliminary examination Friday. SCREENSHOT my visit to Yad Vashem,” munities, said in a statement Monday.
of the crime “does not Le Drian said. “I heard CRIF is organizing a memorial march in
reveal an anti-Semitic characteristic, but about the outrageous murder of Mirelle Kanol’s memory Tuesday.
this possibility has not been discounted Kanol — a Holocaust survivor — in Paris. Prosecutors say Halimi, a 66-year-old
as police investigate further.” We cannot yet say if the motive for the Jewish teacher and physician, was mur-
Kanol escaped when the French police murder was anti-Semitism but it is rea- dered by her Muslim neighbor in April,
rounded up Jews into the Velodrome sonable to assume, it will not be surpris- at least in part because she was Jewish.
d’Hiver in 1942; from there, an estimated ing and, therefore, this only strengthens  JTA WIRE SERVICE

has asked that the suspects remain in 13,000 Jews were deported to death the fact that this struggle has not ended,

Rockland

Holocaust
commemorations at
Rockland Community
Rockland Community College offers a concert and lec-
ture, “Music of the Holocaust,” with Dr. Tamara Reps
Freeman on Tuesday, April 10. Dr. Freeman, a con-
cert violist and ethnomusicologist, will perform and
discuss Holocaust-era music, playing her 1935 Joseph
Bausch viola that was rescued from the Holocaust.
On Thursday, April 12, Holocaust survivor Bernhard Dr. Tamara Reps Freeman
Storch, 95, will tell his story. During World War II, he
was taken by the Soviet secret police, sent to Siberia,
and worked in a forced labor camp. Afterward, he
found a way to join the Polish Army and helped to lib-
erate four camps, three in Poland and one in Germany.
In 1947, Storch and his wife, Ruth, immigrated to the
U.S. The program is sponsored by Duso Food Distribu-
tors in memory of Schabse Gordon
Both talks are at 12:30 p.m. in the college’s Technol-
ogy Center, Ellipse. For more information, call Rabbi
Dov Oliver, (845) 574-4422 or email doliver@sunyrock-
land.edu.
Bernhard Storch
Nanuet Hebrew Center participates
in local Passover media event
“This is not my grandma’s Kosher for what they see today.
Passover aisle! — a special media event Participants included Rabbi Paul Kur-
— was held at the New City Stop & Shop. land, Rita and John Fogelman, Mindy
Video crews and newspaper report- Sayer, and Bruce Pollack from the
Save the date for May 6 RJFS event ers from Cablevision Channel 12, FIOS Nanuet Hebrew Center; Marty Siegel,
Join Rockland Jewish Family Service on May 6 at 5 p.m. for a lavish cocktail Channel 1, the local Patch news service, vice president of supermarket sales for
hour and dessert tasting honoring Dr. Nancy Goldman, Cantor Barry Kanarek, and Journal News were on hand. Those KAYCO, the nation’s largest kosher food
and Dr. Steve and Judy Levy, at Congregation Shaarey Israel. For information, present were asked to share how lim- distributor, and Laurent Szanto, the
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D’var Torah
The story of the Haggadah

I
love the Passover Haggadah. Each
time I find a new edition, I get giddy
with excitement. I am proud of my
diverse collection of Haggadot (plural
of Haggadah), gathered from different eras
and from different parts of the world. For
example, I have the simple Hebrew Yeynot
Karmel Haggadah, a very thin, unimpres-
sive, wine stained Israeli Haggadah (from
the 1960s), which served my ultra-secular
family in Israel for four decades. I also have
the incredibly beautifully illustrated Hagga-
dah created by the great Polish Jewish artist,
Arthur Szyk, first published in the 1930s and
reissued in 2008.
I have developed a special fondness for
Passover Haggadot because they are an
unending source of educational materi-
als. Each Haggadah reflects the tradition,
struggles, history, and local color of its
audience as well as the emotional tenor of
the Jewish people at that time, wherever
they lived geographically.
Throughout the generations, the Hagga-
dah has given expression to creative Jewish
liturgy and is perhaps the most popular Jew-
ish literary work. Everyone can find their
own stories reflected in the Haggadah. Each
year we are invited to relate to the ancient
story of redemption from exile, from both
our collective and personal stories of lib-
eration. We also have the freedom to add
our stories to a traditional Haggadah or to
develop our own version to express them.
No single Haggadah represents all of
our people, because Jews are scattered
all around the world and called Haggadah for the Lib-
the Haggadah reflects the erated Lamb. It is a vegetar-
environment that we each ian Haggadah that celebrates
live in. Even our children compassion for all creatures.
have their own Haggadot. Published in 1988, in both
Some are accompanied by Hebrew and English, it has no
toys, which stand for the mention of a lamb shank!
ten plagues or the little baby Nanette Stahl from Yale
Moses in the bulrushes. University summarizes the
One of the strangest Hagga- Rabbi/Cantor role of the Haggadah: “The
dot was given to me as a gift. It Meeka Haggadah is a timeless book;
is the Tzahal (IDF) Haggadah, Simerly it has given voice to the hopes
published in the 1970s. It con- Temple Beth and dreams of Jews through-
Tikvah, Wayne,
tains some of the traditional Reform
out the generations. And from
references to the Biblical story medieval times to the pres-
related in the Book of Exodus ent, artists have expressed
of the Israelites’ redemption from slavery these hopes and dreams in the magnificent
to freedom in Egypt. However, the Biblical illuminations they created. Text and image
narrative is combined with photographs of maintain an ongoing dialogue… Many art-
Israeli soldiers in tanks, carrying weapons, ists have specific agendas, be they religious,
expressing the current stories of liberation political, or social. The lack of women in
of our strong and brave Israeli soldiers. the Haggadah, for example, has become an
One of my most precious Haggadot is issue that many current artists address in
called Agada De Pesah, published in 1934 their illustrations.”
in Istanbul, which is old and falling apart. It Neither Miriam, nor her brothers Aha-
belonged to my grandparents, Regina Nassi ron and Moses, are mentioned in the tradi-
and Avraham Chasid Z”L, Sephardic Jews tional Haggadah, but their roles are integral
whose families originated from Spain and to and intertwined in the Passover story.
were exiled to Turkey in the 1400s. When Thus, in recent years, combined within the
my grandparents left Turkey to escape the traditional text, particularly for progres-
Nazis in the early 1940s, they packed two sive Jewish communities, editors have been
Ladino Haggadot, among the few posses- inserting additional stories to represent
sions they carried with them when they fled our Biblical leaders, especially the role of
to Palestine. (Ladino is the Sephardic lan- women in the story. For example, the Story
guage that combines Hebrew and Spanish.) of the Oppression, in the CCAR Revised Edi-
Another unique Haggadah that I have is tion of The New Union Haggadah contains
reference to the three leaders: Moses, Aha-
ron and Miriam: “…And God brought us
forth out of Egypt, with joy and singing, and
guided them in the wilderness, as a Shep-
herd cares for his flock.”
However, given all of these different ver-
sions of the Haggadah, how do we deter-
mine how old it really is as a liturgical guide
at Passover? Various opinions exist, but
the most widely accepted earliest histori-
cal reference comes from the 10th century,
indicating that the Haggadah was part of a
prayer book compiled by Rabbi Sa’adiah
ben Yosef Gaon (c. 892-942 CE). Two early
known Haggadot, as separate units from
the Siddur, were produced in 14th century
Spain: The Illuminated Golden Haggadah,
in the British Library in London; and the
Sarajevo Haggadah, in the National Museum
of Bosnia in Sarajevo.
Another intriguing and well known Hag-
gadah is the Birds’ Head Haggadah, the
oldest surviving Ashkenazi (German, c.
1300) illuminated manuscript, currently
in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Its name
is derived from the birdlike human figures
illustrated in the manuscript’s margins,
exemplifying the Biblical prohibition against
creating graven images.
In summary, no one knows exactly who
wrote the first Haggadah based on the
story in our holy scriptures. The Haggadah
is ageless and timeless; it is an evolving
story that reflects our individual, as well
as collective experiences, as a people and
as God’s holy vessels.

supposed to be. I worked with my Russian counterpart

Space
FROM PAGE 10
practical, day-in day-out level, I bring all my food with me
every day. I go find an unoccupied office and have a siddur
app on my iPhone to daven.
“Thankfully, Shabbos isn’t a problem in the division I’m
working in.”
It did come up in a previous NASA posting: From 2000
to 2006, he was a flight controller in the mission control
center for the International Space Station.
Operating a space station, unlike designing a rocket, is
a 24-7 task.
“It’s very possible that when you’re working in mission
control that you’re scheduled for a Saturday,” he said. “I
had to have someone cover my shift when it happened.”
Mr. Brown was a trajectory operations officer at
mission control. “My job was to monitor the orbit of
the space station and make sure it was where it was
to execute burns to adjust its orbit.
“A trajectory operations officer watches out for orbital
debris, or space junk. If a piece of debris is orbiting and
predicted to collide with the space station, you have to
do a debris avoidance maneuver to get out of the way. It
changes the orbit of the space station so the two pass by
safely and there’s no chance of a collision.”
As for other possible collisions between religious
observance and the workplace, “there is almost always a
way to make things work,” Mr. Brown said. “The key is to
be prepared. I try to anticipate whatever religious needs
I have, where there might be conflict points. I talk with
my rabbi about what I need to do and I work it out with
my boss. It’s always important to be respectful of your
employer.”
Aaron Brown shows depiction of
the International Space Station.

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 The Frazzled Housewife
Tests
I
cannot seem to recall my first test
in school. But I can recall how
much I enjoyed the tuna fish sand-
wich on white bread that they
served in the lunch room — why is that
not surprising? Tests were never my
thing. I vaguely remember doing very
poorly on several Hebrew subject tests
in elementary school. I remember that
I would do well on vocabulary tests and
my friend Michelle, sitting next to me,
would do better on spelling tests. Or it
could have been vice versa. I am not
even sure what day of the week it is.
Sophomore year of high school
was not a stellar one for me in the test
department. Chemistry, French, and
geometry … oh my! I often
see my math teacher from
that year around town and
every time I do, I shudder
with fear. When each of my
boys successfully made it
through tenth grade with-
out the threat of summer
school looming over their
heads (do they still have
summer school?) I thought Banji
I was safe as a parent. Ha Ganchrow
ha, joke is on me…you
are never safe as a parent
because something is always going to
come up. But that is for another time.
In any event, this brings me to the
SATs. I rarely mention first and last
names in my column, but if it wasn’t for
Andrew Treitel (who now lives in Israel
and most likely does not read this or
even knows that I have a column) I never
would have gotten over 200 on the math
portion of the SATs. (And 200 is the
score you would get for correctly writing ribly awry.
your name on the exam.) Poor Andrew. I
honestly felt bad for him, because math
just isn’t my thing. Though he probably
made enough money off of my inability
to do simple multiplication to buy a car. weeks before the test. Bad parents, very
Or a house. Or both. But he achieved the
impossible, and I received a respectable
600 on the math section.
When you have kids, you never
know what they are going to be like.
For example, I always thought I would
have chubby kids. And, miraculously, I
do not. But will they be smart? Will they a test to do so.
inherit my terrible math skills? My ter-
rible study skills? My temper? My sar-
casm? My oversensitivity? You never
know — but as time goes on, it becomes
more apparent who has been blessed
with what. My boys are thin AND they
are not afraid of math. Truly miraculous. really so wrong???
Unfortunately, the sarcasm has trickled
down, but that was inevitable. Their love Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck knows that it
of minyan has nothing to do with me,
but you can’t win them all.
In any event, when sons #1 and #2
began eleventh grade, we knew they
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were going to have to take the SATs. So,
instead of going the really expensive pri-
vate tutor route, we did some research
into Huntington Learning Center. And
we decided that is where we were going
to send our precious angels to begin
their ascent into SAT star-
dom. Who am I kidding,
we are still their parents,
and we would be happy
with anything over 1,000.
Aim high kids. Aim high.
Son #1 and Son #2 each
were given almost a year
to prepare, and both of
them did us proud. They
both got into the college
of their choice — some Across Down
of you might have heard 1. Bank robbery 1. “Lishana ___ B’Yerushalayim”
6. Ivory product 2. The middle of Eilat and Holon?
of it — it is the Harvard of
10. Locales with gyms and Torah classes; 3. Touch device
Washington Heights, better known as Abbr. 4. O.K. Corral event
Yeshiva University. A respectable insti- 14. Not omega 5. Just a bit
tution, where Husband #1 attended, and 15. Guitar plug-ins 6. Judge who anointed Saul
I attended the girls school, better known 16. Vera that soothes 7. Barbra’s “Funny Girl” co-star Sharif
17. Alcoholic drink for the First Plague? 8. Mth. for Seders, often
as Stern College for Women and Others.
19. The Settlers of Catan, e.g. 9. Eager to proceed, slangily
The “others” are yet to be determined. 20. “___ I” (“Ditto”) 10. Black-spotted cat
Anyway, the past summer ends, and son 21. Sharer’s word 11. Chowder no-no, for the kosher keeper
#3 informs us that he wants to take the 22. Challah leftovers? 12. Honey structure
ACTs. Sure! Why not! We will look into 24. “Rent” actor Diggs 13. Has a prophecy
26. Where the Mets once played 18. Stringed toys
it! And that is where this story goes ter-
27. Harry Potter treat for the Second 23. Court official, for short
Plague? 25. Makes like Scarlett Johansson
Poor son #3. We really dropped the 33. Some lake fish 26. “Rugrats” dad and “The Simpsons”
ball with that one. His brothers had 34. It must be chewed for kosher status disco dude
at least six months to study — and we 35. Target of #neveragain 27. Emulate Mel Torme
36. Kimmel and Corden, e.g. 28. ___ Mubarak, president of Egypt
signed up our sweet little baby boy five
37. Ararat and Everest, briefly starting in 1981
38. White shirt woe 29. Daniel Day-Lewis, e.g.
bad parents. But just before you start 40. Many many years 30. Broadcasting live
to feel too badly for our inadequately 41. It’s usually taken before chem. 31. Cracks a smile
prepared genius — the kid does have 42. Paddling 32. Made like a cantor
43. Kid snacks for the Fourth Plague? 33. “Take ___ Train” (jazz classic)
his own car. You just can’t have every-
47. 12 and 13 are important ones for 37. Karaoke gear, for short
thing. Which is a life lesson that applies Jewish youths 38. Japanese rice wine (var.)
beyond having parents who never would 48. CBS lead-in to “Los Angeles” or “New 39. Ignore the “Keep Out” sign
have become parents if they had to take Orleans” 41. Like some Scotch
49. District 42. Happen
52. 2002 NBA Rookie of the Year Gasol 44. “... falls ___ on the plain”
Truth is, when son #3 leaves for his
53. ___over 45. Way back when
year in a bubble, also known as his year 57. Raichel who sings “Mi’Ma’amakim” 46. Darth Vader, once
in Israel, I will have an empty nest. Just 58. Coffee brews for the Ninth Plague? 49. Copies digitally
me and husband #1….perhaps I am 61. Alternative to liquid medicine 50. Cut, for Spielberg
sabotaging his chance of doing well so 62. “The Time Machine” people 51. Hearty party
63. “Have ___” (“Get comfy”) 52. Boat bow
he will never leave the nest. And is that
64. Lisa Loeb’s #1 hit 54. On a boat
65. 1961 novel by Elie Wiesel 55. Daniel Day-Lewis
66. Former Russian rulers 56. Retired fast fliers: Abbr.
59. ___ mode
is wrong. But she does not know what life 60. Granola morsel
The solution to last week’s puzzle is
will be like without a table full of empty on page 63.
water bottles, Jolly Rancher wrappers,
and banana peels…
JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 30, 2018 57
Arts & Culture
‘Angels in America’ is theater heaven
MIRIAM RINN

E
ight hours long, shown in two
parts on different days, the
National Theatre production
of Tony Kushner’s multi-award-
winning play “Angels in America” is one of
the most extraordinary theatrical experi-
ences I’ve ever had.
Brilliantly directed and staged by Mari-
anne Elliott, the play manages to be thrill-
ing and moving, challenging and funny,
surreal and realistic, all at the same time.
First produced in the midst of the AIDS cri-
sis, at a time when many gay people were
hidden deep in the closet, the play feels as
contemporary today as it did in the early
1990s, even though the disease is now man-
aged reliably and gay people find wide- 1204-Beth-Malone-as-Angel-
spread acceptance in culture and society. Alternate-in-AIA-_Perestroi-
Kushner’s amalgam of politics, religion,
ka_Photo-by_BrinkhoffMö-
psychology, sex, and American history still
provokes and reveals and probes issues that genburg.jpg
continue to confound us.
The play also provides great, juicy roles
for actors, and this production boasts a
ton of them. Andrew Garfield as Prior,
Nathan Lane as Roy Cohn, Lee Pace as
Joe, Denise Gough as Harper, James McAr-
dle as Louis — all are marvelous. Nine
actors play many parts; they must be in
great physical shape to get through the
three-hour-plus performances. Beth Malone and Andrew Garfield PHOTOS BY BRINKHOFF/MÖGENBURG

Commissioned by the Eureka Theater

in San Francisco, the play first was per-
formed in 1990 as a workshop in Los Ange-
les at the Mark Taper Forum. The first (and
stronger) part, “Millennium Approaches,”
premiered in San Francisco, then went to
London in 1992. That was before Kush-
ner had completed the second part, “Per-
estroika.” The entire two-part play came
to Broadway in 1993. It won the Tony and
Drama Desk awards for best play in 1993
and 1994 respectively. The revival now at
the Neil Simon Theatre comes from the
West End, with much of the original Brit-
ish and American cast.
“Angels in America” roughly follows the
intersection of two couples from October
1985 through January 1986, with an epi-
logue set in 1990. Uber WASP and former
drag queen Prior Walter and his boyfriend,
the leftist Jew Louis Ironson, are struggling
to deal with Prior’s diagnosis of full-blown
AIDS. Meanwhile, Mormon lawyer Joe Pitt
is having trouble with his neurotic wife,
Harper. She hides in their Brooklyn apart-
ment, popping Valium, while he cozies up
to his mentor Roy Cohn, the notorious anti-
Communist and secret homosexual. Cohn
is the linchpin in these relationships and
inspires some of Kushner’s most outraged,
outrageous, and hilarious dialogue. He is
a volcanic presence on stage, and Nathan
Lane captures that irresistible charisma.
For anyone who saw the HBO miniseries
starring Al Pacino as Cohn, it’s hard to for-
get Pacino’s intense submersion into the
character, but Lane’s powerful stage pres-
ence makes it impossible to look away.
Unable to cope with Prior’s worsening
health, Louis leaves him, and soon initi-
ates a romance with Joe, who is just begin-
ning to acknowledge his homosexuality.
Desperately unhappy, Harper starts to
wander, perhaps metaphorically, to dis-
tant continents and locations, where she
runs into Prior, also wandering far from
his hospital bed. Sick with AIDS, Roy Cohn
hallucinates visits from Ethel Rosenberg,
the woman he prosecuted for espionage
and ultimately had executed. As Prior
experiences surreal visions, he hears an
otherworldly voice telling him that he is a
prophet, and he is warned to expect a visi-
tation. Spiritual beings invade the world.
Widely considered one of the best Denise Gough and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
American plays of the second half of the
twentieth century, “Angels in America” is well as a deep exploration of Jewish Ameri- torment, and both Louis’s socialism and
a great Jewish play as well. It opens with can identity. References to the Torah pep- Cohn’s anti-Communism feel like religions,
an Orthodox rabbi conducting the funeral per the play, with Prior actually wrestling in that they inform their beliefs and guide
of Louis Ironson’s immigrant grandmother an angel and incurring an injury to his leg. their behaviors. The drama of celestial
and includes the recital of the kaddish, the Religion, both Judaism and variants of beings evokes awe, as it does in religious
prayer for the dead, over the body of Roy Christianity, is central to the action, and communities everywhere.
Cohn near the play’s end. In between, we true faith is taken seriously. The religious “Angels in America” is a great play, and
hear all the arguments about socialism beliefs of Joe, Harper, and Joe’s mother, this production at the Neil Simon Theatre
that once convulsed the Jewish world, as Hannah, provide both strength and is an unforgettable theater experience.

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Local
Glickman
FROM PAGE 8
and often he would maintain those relationships. He’d
answer immediately with in-depth, closely reasoned
emails. Sometimes those correspondences would
lead to in-person meetings; at other times a friendship
would develop based only on email. Often, Tony’s cor-
respondents would plan to meet him, assuming that
there would be enough time, sometime in the future,
only to learn that time had run out.
Elanit Z. Rothschild Jakabovics lives in Washington,
D.C., where she is president of Kesher Israel, a promi-
nent Orthodox congregation. “Rabbi Glickman and I
never met in person,” Ms. Jakabovics said. But when
her shul hit the news — its rabbi is now imprisoned for
spying on women in the mikvah — “he sent an email to
Kesher, and it was very heartening. It was very sweet
of him to send it.
“He wrote that someone had sent him the text of
the speech that I gave at the shul and he thought it was
inspirational. So I looked him up — I didn’t know who
he was at the time — and I saw that he had a presence
on Facebook. And I started following him. I quickly
became a fan because of what he wrote and the types
of discussions he had, the way he interacted with
people. And the fact that he was a rosh yeshiva and
still he had an online presence, and he was engaging
with people in very substantive conversations, and he
always tried to find the nuance.
“Everything isn’t all black and white. It’s easy to say
that, but when you are having a conversation that is
getting heated, and people on the right and the left
are screaming at each other, it’s not so easy. But you
couldn’t peg him as left or right.
“You couldn’t paint him in a box. It always seemed
like he was trying to engage, instead of living in an
ivory tower. He wasn’t living in an ivory tower.”
Ms. Jakabovics was struck by Rabbi Glickman’s
openness and kindness, as well as by his intellect and
breadth of knowledge. “There are I would say hun-
dreds of people who have never met him but who
had interacted with him online or by email or over
the phone, and these people are in intense mourning
over the fact that he is gone,” she said.
Malka Zeiger-Simkovich is the chair of Jewish studies
at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Like Ms. Jak-
abovics, she knew Rabbi Glickman only electronically,
but the bond between them was strong. “He took the
initiative to get in touch with me regularly in response
to my articles, and he took a real interest in my work,”
she said. “And I know that I was just one of the schol-
ars he reached out to. I was just one of the many peo-
ple he took the initiative to forge a relationship with.”
Dr. Zeiger-Simkovich is Orthodox, but she works in
a Catholic institution, and “a lot of people won’t bring
me in to speak because I work with Catholics every
day,” she said. “He didn’t care. He lived on the mar-
gins, in an intentional way. He wanted that fluidity,
and I think that people appreciated that fluidity more
than he knew. And that reaching out made him really
one of a kind.”
His relationship with her went beyond the purely
professional. “My mother died very suddenly, and he
wrote an unbelievable passage to me about the memo-
ries he had of his own mother, who also died suddenly.
“He said that his mother used to read Proust to him,
and now he reads Proust to remember his mother.
And he closed by saying, ‘Malka, life in the end is
memory. So just hang on tight.’”
Ari Friedman is a medical student who first encoun-
tered Rabbi Glickman when he was a freshman at YU.
“How I met him says a little about how he was,” Mr.
60 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 30, 2018
Friedman said. “There was a speaker for Shabbes — it
was him — and so after the meal some friends and I went
to hear him. He was honest and interesting and he gave
examples of halacha that he found challenging. He was
very approachable. I spoke to him, and he was super
friendly. And he came back the next year, and we made
sure to stay and hear him. And then we became close.”
Soon, when Mr. Friedman had some issues that he
wanted to discuss, he realized that of all the roshei
yeshiva he knew, Rabbi Glickman was the most
approachable, and the one whose answers were
most likely to provide the kind of support he needed.
“An enormous strength of Rabbi Glickman’s was how
he listened to you, and in terms of his experience,
his exposure to the world, and he talked about his
own struggles.”
The two developed a close relationship; mainly
they’d email, but Mr. Friedman also went to his house.
“I felt very close to him,” he said. “He was so generous.
He gave his time, his attention.” He also was generous
financially, treating students to dinners, always pick-
ing up the check. “He was worldly; he had a mixture
of the knowledge from his Torah background and his
scholarship background.” And because his career was
outside the Jewish world, Rabbi Glickman “knew what
it meant” when there was a Jewish holiday coming,
and no one else understood the complications of that
day in the non-Jewish world. They grew so close that
Rabbi Glickman “gave one of the sheva brachot at my
wedding,” Mr. Friedman said.
Mr. Friedman talked with awe about the amount of
time that Rabbi Glickman gave to tutoring students,
sometimes as part of a program, sometimes outside
formal frameworks. He’d recognize talent and need
and help, he said.
As a way to pass on some of Rabbi Glickman’s wisdom,
Mr. Friedman has put together a 182-page collection of
some of his online posts. It’s called “His Torah U’Madda
Life, In All Its Worth,” and it begins with the blurb that
appeared by his posts. “Very responsive to message,” it
says. (And he was. Breathtakingly responsive.)
Tikvah Wiener of Teaneck, an educator who is
about to open the Ideas School, an Orthodox high
school that will meet at the Kaplen JCC on the Pali-
sades in Tenafly, also knew Rabbi Glickman. “He has
been a mentor, a colleague, a friend, a real rebbe,” she
said. “He got great satisfaction from connecting peo-
ple in a genuine way.”
He was funny, too, she added. “He had a real, genu-
ine curiosity and openness, and he was a real lifelong
learner. He always was learning. He had a childlike
wonder about learning.”
Tony Glickman had deep feelings about politics, and
was about to reenter that fray, his wife and daughter
said. “My parents shared a sense of justice,” Dalia
said. “They always wanted to advocate for the under-
dog.” That could be on a personal level. YU students
reported that if they sat alone at a meal and Tony came
into the dining room, he’d sit with them. “It hurt him
to see a kid sitting alone,” she said.
“You look for meaning in the face of tragedy,” she
continued. “One thing we — the family — always feel
very strongly is that we appreciate how much he
meant to other people, but he always put us first.
There was never a doubt that we were first. We appre-
ciate the things that other people say about him, but
the six of us and our mother — he was our protector.
He was our leader.
“The rest of my life will be colored by the need I felt
in life to make him proud,” Dalia said.
“I feel like I need to keep on doing that. To keep on
making him proud.”
Obituaries
Selma Dubnick
Selma B. Dubnick, 95, of Old Tappan, died March 24. She
earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s at Kean College
of New Jersey (Kean University) where she was director of
graduate studies. She was a co-founder of the Mid-Bergen
Community Mental Health Center in Paramus (CarePlus NJ),
a long-time board member of the CarePlus Foundation, and
an active member of Temple Emanuel in Woodcliff Lake.
Predeceased by her husband, Bernard, in 2002; she is
survived by children, Ruth Levy, Joshua Dubnick, Deborah
Levy, and Jeffrey Dubnick; and grandchildren, Micah,
Gabriel and Luka.
Donations can be sent to the Dubnick annual scholarship
for single mothers with dependent children at the Kean
University Foundation, or the Dubnick scholarship at
the CarePlus Foundation. Arrangements were by Robert
Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Marianne Elling
Marianne “Mimi” Elling, 97, of Pompton Plains, formerly of
Ridgewood, died March 26.
Born in Vienna, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1939.
Predeceased by her husband of 46 years, Alfred, she is
survived by children, Vivian Dorman (Daniel), George
(Ferne), and Diane Winter (Guyler); and grandchildren,
Jessica (Garth), Gabriel ( Jennifer), Michael, Lauren, Rachel
( John), Ashley, Alyssa (Ryan), and Jeremy.
Contributions can be made to the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Arrangements were
by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Sidney Feldman
Sidney Feldman, 97, of New York City, died March 26.
He was a retired writer for the New York Times and a
member of the Workmens Circle Branch in Jersey City.
He is survived by his wife, Frieda, née Klempner; children,
Jonathan of Sweden and Rachel of New York City; siblings,
Matthew of Maryland and Fay Julis of New York; and two
grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapel, Fort Lee.
George Kroll
George L. Kroll, 93, of Wayne, died March 23.
After graduating Passaic High School in 1942, he enlisted
in the U.S. Army. In 1944 he flew 50 combat missions in the
15th Air Force European Theater based in Italy and earned
the Air Medal-Three Oak Leaf Clusters, along with two
distinguished citations for outstanding performance against
the enemy. He attended Rutgers and Fairleigh Dickinson
universities and was the former publisher and editor of the
original Clifton Journal and Dateline Journal. He was also a
sales rep for the Jewish Standard for many years.
He is survived by his wife of more than 50 years, Lorraine;
children, Annlyn of Boca Raton, Fla., David (Robin) of Glen
Rock, and Michael of Coral Springs, Fla.; grandchildren,
Lauren, Amanda, and Taylor Kroll, and David and Paige
Rind; nieces and nephews.
Donations can be sent to the National World War II
Museum, nationalww2museum.org. Arrangements were by
Jewish Memorial Chapel, Clifton.
Ira Samson
Ira S. Samson, 82, of Fair Lawn, died March 27.
He served in the Army Reserves. Before retiring, he was a
printer at the Bergen Record.
Surviving are his wife, Maxine, née Lefkowitz; a son,
Steven; and a sister, Barbara Pollack.
Donations can be made to the Opportunity Center, Fair
Lawn. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
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If these were the only good kosher wines - dayenu!

GABRIEL GELLER

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Royal Wines

assover is now around the cor-

ner! I cannot even count how
many times a day I’m being
asked these questions: Which
wines should I get for Passover? Which
wines are good for the Four Cups? On
Pesach, we rejoice and thank Hashem
for granting us freedom. Freedom from
our long enslavement to Egypt, a foreign,
immoral idols-worshiping nation. From
then on, we have been free to serve God
and follow his Torah and mitzvot. As well, this mitzvah: red or white? Is mevushal As well, while the Torah does not as the Herzog Cabernet Sauvignon
our freedom has enabled us to nowadays OK? I am not a rabbi and therefore I will change, wine does. The selection of Clone 6 from the Chalk Hill appella-
produce and enjoy an ever-growing selec- not pretend to pasken here what is right kosher wine thank God constantly tion in Sonoma, California. It is won-
tion of quality kosher wines. and what is wrong. changes and grows, as do the best derfully rich and layered, with com-
As with every mitzvah in the Torah, the While there are indeed different min- wines evolve, change, and sometimes plex, black fruit and mineral aromas
halachot, the laws of the Passover Seder hagim for which wine to drink at the seder, improve as they age when properly as well as a long and plush finish. You
never change. There are, of course, differ- one thing stays the same for everybody: stored. Every year, new wines and vin- can then move back to your Pinot Noir
ent opinions and interpretations as to the We have to drink 4 cups of wine (or grape tages are released, just on time for the
right shiur, the amount of wine that we juice, if you and your rabbi are OK with big Pesach sale. I recommend the two
should drink for the kosot, the cups, and that). Considering the fairly large amount possible strategies.
how fast we should be drinking it. There that represents, I believe a strategy is The first is the one I personally use
are also several opinions and minhagim, required to avoid getting overwhelmed, for the seders. For the first and the last While there are
customs, as to the right type of wine for intoxicated, or, God forbid, sick. 2 cups, I go with a rosé wine. Accord-
ing to most opinions, rosé is just a indeed different
NVE-3502 Mug Mortgage Rates Rev Ad 5x6.5_NVE-3454 Fall Mortgage Ad 5x6.5 3/9/18 10:15 AM Page 1 shade of red and counts as such as it minhagim for
is made from red wine grape varieties.
The winemaker, using a special method which wine to
(there are a few but the goal is roughly drink at the
Warm up to our sweet mortgage rates. the same), controls how red he or she
wants the wine to look like by limit- seder, one thing
ing the contact between the must, the stays the same
grape juice, and the grape’s skin from
which the color comes. Some of the for everybody:
rosé wines I will use this year include We have to
the delightful Flam Rosé, with its notes
7-YEAR 15-YEAR 25-YEAR of tart strawberries and herbaceous drink 4 cups of
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cups. Good rosés do not come exclu- your rabbi are
3.359 %
APR* 3.684 %
APR* 4.304 %
APR* sively from Israel, and I am also look-
OK with that).
ing forward to drinking Les Lauriers
de Rothschild Rosé which comes from
Bordeaux, in France. For the second or a different lighter wine for the third
cup and the holiday meal, I like to drink cup such as Capçanes La Flor del Flor
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Call today at 201-816-2800, ext. 1233, for the second seder, I am looking for- Cordovero LBV for instance, truly an
or apply online at nvebank.com ward to enjoy a mature bottle of Châ- amazing wine. Port wines are heavy,
teau Fourcas Dupré. The latest release, high in alcohol and therefore not the
the 2015 vintage now on the shelves, first choice for most people. But the
should be a keeper, as well. sweetness and balance allow for an
NMLS #733094 The second strategy is simple. You easy drinking experience which should
start with a light wine. It can also be ensure a deep sleep once the seder is
*APR = Annual Percentage Rate. APR is accurate as of 3/5/18 and may vary based on loan amounts. Loans are for
1 – 4 family New Jersey owner-occupied properties only. Rates and terms are subject to change without notice. a rosé, such as the Tabor Adama Bar- all wrapped up.
The 7-year loan at the stated APR would have 84 monthly payments of $13.33 per thousand borrowed based on bera Rosé, but it can also be a Pinot I hope these guidelines will help you
a 20% down payment or equity for loan amounts up to $500,000. The 15-year loan at the stated APR would have
180 monthly payments of $7.21 per thousand borrowed based on a 20% down payment or equity for loan
Noir, such as the Vitkin Pinot Noir, achieve a great Pesach seder experi-
amounts up to $500,000. The 25-year loan at the stated APR would have 300 monthly payments of $5.42 per or the new Pinot Noir from the top ence. If the aforementioned wines
thousand borrowed based on a 20% down payment or equity for loan amounts up to $500,000. Payments do QPR series Herzog Lineage. It is light were the only great ones we had access
not include amounts for taxes and insurance premiums, if applicable. The actual payment obligation will be
greater. Property insurance is required. Other rates and terms are available. Subject to credit approval. in body and easy to drink yet flavor- to for Passover, dayenu (that would be
ful. Then, you work your way up and enough)! Pesach kasher v’sameyach!
Bergenfield I Closter I Cresskill I Englewood I Hillsdale I Leonia I New Milford I Teaneck I Tenafly
move on to a fuller-bodied wine such Happy Passover! L’chaim!

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