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Holocaust remembrance
message in space
l American astronaut Andrew Feustel
recorded a video message aboard the
International Space Station commemo-
rating Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Re-
membrance Day.
In the video, the NASA geophysicist,
who is not Jewish, displayed a replica
of a drawing titled “Moon Landscape”
by Petr Ginz, a Czech teen with Jew-
ish roots who was killed at Auschwitz.
Feustel, who received the drawing from
Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, noted that
the Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon had
Birthright founder gives finger
to protesters outside gala dinner
l Michael Steinhardt, the co-
founder and major funder of
Birthright Israel, flashed his
middle finger at protesters
outside a gala dinner in honor
of the 18th anniversary of the
free trip to Israel for young
Jewish men and women.
More than 150 students from
colleges in New York and New
England protested in front of
the Ziegfeld Ballroom in Man-
hattan, where the annual gala
was held on Sunday evening.
The students represented
groups including Jewish Voice
for Peace, Students for Justice
in Palestine, the Palestine Soli-
darity Alliance, and the Demo-
cratic Socialists of America, all
of which support the Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions
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hol consumption, strong family
him on board the Space Shuttle Colum-
and cultural values, and an ex-
bia in 2003.
cellent healthcare system could
Ramon and the rest of the crew were
be the main factors that put Is-
killed when the shuttle exploded during
rael in fifth place worldwide on
re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
the longevity scale, according
“May the memories of Petr Ginz, as-
to National Geographic Travel.
tronaut Ilan Ramon and the six million
This ranking was one of the
victims of the Holocaust always remain
aspects noted as significant by
in our thoughts,” Feustel says in the
the authors of a newly issued
message, before he floated away inside
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the space station.
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Noshes
‘I FEEL PRETTY’:
Schumer plays
a real knockout
“I Feel Pretty,” a
comedy/drama,
marks the directorial
debut of the screenwrit-
ing team of ABBY KOHN
and MARC SILVERSTEIN,
both 46. They also wrote
“Pretty” and their
previous screenwriting
credits include a string of
box office hits, including
“Never Been Kissed”
(1999), “He’s Just Not
That into You” (2009),
“The Vow” (2012), and
“How to be Single”
(2016).
AMY SCHUMER,
36, stars as Renee, a
cosmetics company
employee who struggles
with low self-esteem,
mostly engendered by
her perception of herself
as not pretty. These
feelings hold her back
until she gets knocked
out in an exercise class.
She wakes up believ-
ing she is a supermodel.
Armed now with self-
confidence, she begins
to live her life fearlessly.
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI,
26, plays a regular at Re-
nee’s gym. Renee looks
up to her because she’s
stunningly pretty — but
Emily’s character also
struggles with insecuri-
ties. Throughout most
of the film there is one
looming question: what
will happen to Renee
when the effects of the
fall wear off and she re-
alizes she isn’t a super-
model?
“You Were Never
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Here” may be the sleep-
er hit of the year. It was
screened last year at
the Cannes film festival,
where it received a rap-
turous reception from
the critics and from the
audience. At the film’s
close, the audience
gave it a seven-minute
standing ovation. The
director/writer, Lynne
Ramsey, got the Cannes
best screenplay award
and JOAQUIN PHOE-
NIX, 43, got the Cannes
best actor award.
Phoenix plays Joe, a
combat veteran and for-
mer FBI agent who suf-
fers from post-traumatic
stress disorder. As the film
opens, he is a freelance
gun-for-hire and his spe-
cialty is rescuing young
women who are being
trafficked as prostitutes.
He’s hired by a New York
state senator who has re-
cently learned where his
daughter, a forced prosti-
tute, is being held.
Saying more would
really be a spoiler! But,
be warned, there is a lot
of violence. There also
are a lot of unexpected
plot twists. One footnote:
Alessandro Nivola, 42,
has a small but important
role as the governor of
New York. His paternal
grandmother was Jewish
and I spoke to him back
in 2008 when he starred
as legendary record exec-
utive LEONARD CHESS
in the bio-pic “Who Do
You Love?” He doesn’t
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meltdown and plucky Julie Andrew’s charm — all at the New Haven JCC.
whether Neanderthals
mated with modern hu-
mans (they did) and how
come Europeans and
Native Americans share
so much DNA (they had
a common ancestor;
people in Central Asia).
The list of fields his work
may influence is almost
endless, with history,
archaeology, and medi-
cine leading that list.
Abby Kohn Marc Silverstein Amy Schumer While looking up Dr.
Reich, I came across
some work he did in
Jewish genetics that first
was reported in 2011. This
work was news to me.
Reich says that the Jew-
ish genetic record — in-
cluding all Jewish groups,
Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and
Mizrahi, etc. — shows that
there was an influx of
sub-Saharan genes into
the Jewish population
around 2,000 years ago.
Emily Ratajkowski Joaquin Phoenix David Reich Today, Jews in all these
groups are genetically 3
play a nice guy in “Never addressing Jewish have revolutionized our to 5 percent sub-Saharan.
Here,” but he couldn’t themes. Tova’s brother is knowledge of the various Exactly how this hap-
have been nicer when famous open Orthodox human species (includ- pened is unclear. Reich
I talked to him. A real rabbi AVI WEISS, 73. His ing Neanderthals) and points out that this study
sweetie. (Amazon bought father is WALTER REICH, the movement of various shows that unexpected
this film at Cannes and I 74, an academic who peoples during pre- DNA influxes happen
suspect it will be on Ama- was the first director of historical times. His new in the most insular of
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before year’s end). Museum. How We Got Here,” is me ponder my relation
David Reich, a real being hailed as a read- to African-Americans
The far past Nobel Prize contender, able, almost exciting and to consider the sci-
explained is one of the top two exploration of new tech- entifically plausible pos-
Geneticist DAVID or three geneticists in niques in DNA sequenc- sibility that some famous
REICH, 44, who the world studying an- ing. These techniques, Jews of 2,000 years ago,
studies ancient lineages, cient DNA lineages. He which Dr. Reich and his like RABBI AKIVA and,
has a distinguished and his colleagues at a colleagues pioneered, yes, JESUS, had even
personal lineage. His Harvard lab have made have answered many a higher percentage of
mother, TOVA REICH, 75, astonishing advances in questions thought to African DNA.
is a novelist, mostly the last five years that be unanswerable, like –N.B.
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YU Heroes
University celebrates its students as its Giving Day theme
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

O
n the Washington Heights
campus of Yeshiva University,
much excitement surrounded
Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman’s arrival
from Israel; in June 2017, Rabbi Berman
became the fifth president of the 132-year-
old Jewish institution.
Taking up residence in Teaneck — a
strong community of YU alumni and fac-
ulty — Rabbi Berman already has expanded
enrollment and course offerings across the
11 affiliated undergraduate and graduate
schools on four New York City campuses.
“One of his main charges to the YU com-
munity is to use their talents and heroic
qualities to build the Jewish world,” Alyssa
Herman, YU’s vice president for institu-
tional advancement, said.
Accordingly, “YU Hero” was chosen as
the rallying theme of the Yeshiva Univer-
sity 2018 Giving Day, to be held from noon Rabbi Ari Berman is inaugurated as president of Yeshiva University in June 2017.
April 25 to noon April 26.
The university aims to raise $1.5 mil- support for Rabbi Dr. Berman as he leads
lion from at least 3,000 donors via online Yeshiva University into the next chapter in
crowdfunding. Every contribution made its great history,” Mark Wilf said; a mem-
during the designated time period will ber of YU’s board of trustees, he grew up
be matched by several benefactors for a in Hillside and lives in Livingston.
total of up to $3 million. This amount is in The first chapter of that history began
addition to more than $10 million donors with the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theologi-
already had pledged in honor of Rabbi Ber- cal Seminary; RIETS was founded in 1896
man’s inaugural year. on the Lower East Side as the first yeshiva
“The YU Hero theme will highlight the for advanced Talmudic study in America.
heroic character of Yeshiva University’s stu- In 1928, Yeshiva College was launched, in

COURTESY OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY

dents and how YU helps nurture and culti-
vate those qualities,” Ms. Herman said.
“Our students, faculty, and alumni are
making the world a better place, advanc-
ing Torah study and scientific research,
human rights and social justice, and giving
back to the community out of a desire to
improve the world around them,” she con-
tinued. “This is a value that is built into the
fiber of YU and it is the animating charge
of the president to the students to use their
talents to improve the human condition.”
She noted that YU is “generationally
embedded” in many New Jersey Jewish
communities. The university counts 657
undergraduate students, 399 graduate
students, and 25 rabbinical students from
New Jersey out of an overall population of
more than 6,400 undergraduate and grad-
uate students. Many of the university’s
major benefactors and leaders also make
their homes in New Jersey, just across the
bridge from the main YU campus.
Suzy Schwartz of Teaneck, YU’s assis-
tant vice president of alumni affairs, spear-
headed the Giving Day campaign.
“This fund reflects our commitment and
keeping with the vision of its first presi-
dent, Dr. Bernard Revel, as a liberal arts
college where Jewish students could “har-
moniously combine the best of modern
culture with the learning and the spirit
of Torah.” The parallel Stern College for
Women opened its doors in midtown Man-
hattan in 1954.
In 1916, Dr. Revel founded the Talmudi-
cal Academy high school. It was the first
academic Jewish high school in America,
and the first to offer a dual Judaic stud-
ies and secular studies curriculum. The
school later became the Marsha Stern Tal-
mudical Academy, YU’s high school for
boys on the Washington Heights campus.
In addition to these institutions, and a
separate high school for girls in Queens,
today YU encompasses the Sy Syms School
of Business for undergraduates, and grad-
uate and affiliate schools, including Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of Law, Wurzweiler School
of Social Work, Ferkauf Graduate School
of Psychology, Azrieli Graduate School
of Jewish Education and Administration,
Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish
One of the social media assets created for the Giving Day campaign.
Studies, and the Mordecai D. and Monique
C. Katz School of Graduate and Profes-
sional Studies.
Giving Day will be highlighted by live
events and motivational competitions on
all four YU campuses for students help-
ing in the drive, and an interactive social-
media component promoting alumni and
community engagement using the dedi-
cated hashtag #YUHero. An online tool-
kit of social-media assets is available for
download. It includes Snapchat filters,
Facebook covers, “Twibbons” and share
graphics.
Ms. Herman said that donations will
help fund the university’s undergraduate,
graduate, and high school communities, as
well as scholarships, student life, and vari-
ous other programs. It will be possible to
designate a donation to specific YU-affili-
ated schools. The minimum gift is $5, and
all donations are tax-deductible.
“It is important for YU to have wide
support in helping make the dreams of
the next generation of students possible,”
Ms. Herman said. “Many people have
launched tremendously successful careers
out of YU and this is a moment to celebrate
and build school pride.”
To learn more about YU’s Giving Day or
to make a contribution, go to givingday.
yu.edu or call (212) 960-0898.

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Changing of the guard in Hackensack

Temple Beth El, its congregation dwindling, sells its building to Chabad
LARRY YUDELSON

O
ne of Bergen County’s oldest
synagogues is becoming its
newest Chabad outpost.
Shortly before Passover,
Temple Beth El, founded in 1908 as the
Hackensack Hebrew Institute and down
to barely 45 members, transferred own-
ership of its building to the newly formed
Chabad of Hackensack.
“We’re able to keep it a Jewish institu-
tion in Hackensack,” Pam Hecht, secretary
of Beth El’s board of directors, said. “I’m
very happy to have Chabad come in.”
For at least three years, the congrega-
tion, which is Conservative, will continue
to hold services in the sanctuary, with its
striking stained glass windows. “Our main
concern has been to see to it that there’s a
continued Jewish presence here, as there
has been since at least 1908,” said Rabbi
Dr. Robert Schumeister, who has led the
congregation since 1980.
This summer, Rabbi Mendy Kaminker
will move from Cherry Hill with his wife
and five children to start running Chabad
Rabbi Mendy Kaminker, his wife Shterna, and their family will move from Cherry
Hill to Hackensack to head the newly formed Chabad.
Temple Beth El on Summit Avenue in Hackensack. Chabad has acquired the building from the Conservative congregation.
programming in Hackensack. “Our goal is
that anyone from the Jewish community
in Hackensack in the present or in the
past can look at what Chabad is doing in
the building and be really proud,” Rabbi
Kaminker said.
Carolyn Kristal’s family joined the
congregation in the 1930s. She remem-
bers her father raising money to buy the
present building on Summit Avenue.
“They marched the Torahs from the old
synagogue in downtown Hackensack all
the way up here,” she remembered.
Then, there were 250 member fami-
lies. Now, with the membership so much
smaller, “it is not possible to continue,”
she said.
Ms. Kristal lives in Fort Lee. She had
seen that town’s Conservative congrega-
tion — Gesher Shalom, which once had
700 member families — sell its building to
a Korean church.
“I didn’t want that to happen” to Beth
El, she said. So she called up the head
of the Chabad of Fort Lee, who passed
the conversation to the head of Chabad
Teaneck, Rabbi Ephraim Simon.
Rabbi Simon was interested.
“We thought for a long time that there
could be a Chabad presence in Hacken-
sack,” which is across the Hackensack
River from Teaneck, he said. “There are
thousands of Jews living on Prospect Ave-
nue. There’s always a myriad of Jews in
the hospital at any point in time. Every
Shabbat or yom tov there are Jews walk-
ing from Hackensack Hospital to our
Chabad house because we’re the closest
Orthodox synagogue.”
Rabbi Simon said he gives the leaders of
Beth El “a tremendous amount of credit.
For all intents and purposes, they donated
their building. We paid, but it wasn’t like
a purchase — it was more to cover their
expenses and repairs of the building that
needed to be done.” This includes fixing
roof damage not covered by insurance
under its “acts of God” clause.
“We are very excited about the future
there,” Rabbi Simon said. “We will be
able to reach out to thousands of Jews in
Hackensack. There are elderly Jews who
are there, young professionals who are
there, there are young families who are
there as well. For the most part, it’s not
an affiliated community — but for Chabad
that’s irrelevant. Every Jew is a Jew. That’s
our job: to find every Jew, to reach out to
them and love them and bring them Jew-
ish programming.
“I get calls from Hackensack to put up
mezuzas and kasher homes and the peo-
ple tell me how many more Jews are in
their buildings. From that I get that picture
that there are thousands of Jews there.
“If you put a pin on a map, you couldn’t
have a better a location for a Jewish cen-
ter,” he said. “It’s a block off Prospect, half
a mile from the hospital.”
Ms. Kristal remembers when Temple
Beth El was still called the Hebrew Insti-
tute — it adopted the Beth El name when it
moved to its new building in 1971.
“It was more like an Orthodox syna-
gogue,” she said. “My mother sat on the
back, on the right, with all the women.
My father sat on the front on the left side
with my uncle and all the men. I was 5 and
used to stay with my father.” That was in
the 1940s.
“That was not the case once we moved
up to Summit Avenue,” she continued.
“Then it was Conservative.”
Hackensack is the county seat of Bergen
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around the block as long as I didn’t cross the street. your furniture or starting anew.
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Ms. Hecht is another of the nine remaining syna-
gogue members who trace their family’s member- 973-535-9192
ship in Beth El to its downtown origins. Her grandfa-
ther Philip Gralla, who was born in Poland, owned a
furniture store in Hackensack. The store was “fairly
successful until the Depression, when it went out of
business,” she said.
Her father moved the family back to Hackensack in
the 1950s and she grew up in the congregation. After University:
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moving away, she returned to Hackensack 20 years
ago, settling three blocks away from Beth El.

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“We had a lot of members at that point,” she said.

“For the holidays we would have 400 people. We
would set up extra chairs in the social hall.
“Over the years it ebbed. People moved out of Hack-
ensack. The Jewish people who moved to Hackensack
still maintained their ties to where they moved from
and would return there for the holidays.”
Now, “there are no young families. Our average
age skews to 70.”
Rabbi Schumeister came to Beth El immediately
after being ordained by the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary. Then, it was a full-time pulpit. Now it is part time. Meet Prof. Aren Maeir of the Department of Archaeology
(He is a psychiatrist, and he has a practice.) When the at Bar-Ilan University. Dubbed the “Jewish Indiana Jones,” he has
congregation’s agreement with Chabad expires in directed numerous archaeological excavations across Israel. Since
three years, Rabbi Schumeister will have been at the 1996, he has been leading a 20+ year excavation of the Philistine city
pulpit for more than 40 years.
of Gath - the home of Goliath and the location where a blinded
“When I first came we had a Hebrew school
jointly with the synagogue in Maywood and also the Sampson knocked down the temple pillars.
small Conservative synagogue in Rochelle Park. The
Rochelle Park synagogue closed many years ago. May-
Prof. Maeir and his team have dug up some remarkable findings
wood eventually became a Reconstructionist syna- such as a Philistine Temple and countless ritual items dating back to
gogue. Now they meet in Temple Israel in Ridgewood. the Iron Age. Your generous contribution will enable us to uncover
“Unfortunately, it’s a trend. Truthfully, I think we our roots in the land of Israel and deepen our sense of history.
hung on much longer than most given our numbers,”
he said.
Although it started out Orthodox, “We began to
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Is it Tony or Ozer?
Rinat Yisrael remembers Rabbi Glickman with a series of shiurim about the Rambam
JOANNE PALMER became part of the roster. It wasn’t like

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a one-off, either; he gave multiple six- to
here is something about peo- eight-part shiurim. They were informal
ple who live in more than one conversations, but it wasn’t as if it was
world. What do you call them? just him coming in and speaking off the
The name that works in one top of his head. He worked at them. And
world might not be entirely natural in everyone was welcome.”
the other. Rabbi Glickman was unusual in that
To draw examples from vastly different he was deeply involved in the worlds of
times and places — say 12th century Spain Orthodoxy and business and academia; he
and Egypt — was Moshe ben Maimon Mai- was a musician, an active online presence,
monides? Or was he Rambam? and a mentor to a wide range of younger
He was both. He was all three. scholars and thinkers and students and
Then jump to the 20th and 21st cen- people with compelling stories or pres-
turies, and move a continent and a half ences or talents. He was, among other
over, to the metropolitan New York area. things, a rosh yeshiva in Yeshiva Univer-
Was the man born Anthony Scott Glick- sity’s Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon Theo-
man 67 years ago Rabbi Ozer Glickman? logical Seminary, and he was vice presi-
Was he Tony Glickman? dent of strategic risk management at the
He was both. He was all three. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
The two men — Maimonides, who died He drew on all that as he taught.
in 1204 CE, and Rabbi Glickman, who “He gave talks about business ethics,
died on March 19 — had much in common and about the halacha of being a kohen,”
in their breadth of knowledge and their of the priestly caste, Mr. Hochman said. Rabbi Ozer Glickman’s breadth of knowledge will be recognized with a series
ability to live intensely in both the Jewish “He gave a 10-part series on modern of lectures at Congregation Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck.
and outside worlds. Although of course Orthodox thought, going back to Des-
it is a huge stretch to compare even the cartes and Hume. — that’s the Guide. “Students of Jewish lit-
most brilliant and accomplished of mod- “We have a concept of legal fiction in erature have been puzzling over centuries,
ern Americans with a figure whose repu- halacha. Coming from his unique per- trying to figure out which is the genuine
tation has been burnished both by time spective of scholarship and business Rabbi Glickman Maimonides.”
and even by controversy. background and rabbinic background, he Maimonides also was a physician; he
That’s why Congregation Rinat Yisrael taught about legal fiction — what is legiti- respected the worked not only in his head but also in the
in Teaneck, which had been Rabbi Glick- mate and what is illegitimate, and what integrity of both very real physical world, and did so among
man’s shul, is offering a series of shiurim is pushing the envelope. He would talk non-Jews as well as Jews.
— lectures — in Rabbi Glickman’s memory, about economics in halacha, about how systems, the “In a certain sense, you could ask the
called “Rambam and Moreh Nevuchim: it is treated in the Torah and about the Jewish and the same questions about Rav Glickman. He
Innovation and Controversy.” (“Moreh evolution from an agrarian economy to a was a businessman, and one of the great
Nevumchim” is the title of one of Mai- currency-based on. American. He teachers at YU, and he taught at Cardozo
monides’ three major works; it’s known “And as soon as he’d finish one series, talked a lot Law School, and he trained rabbis. Which
in English as “Guide of the Perplexed.”) he’d say, ‘What can we do for the next one was the real Rabbi Glickman?”
Jeffrey Hochman of Teaneck is a law- one?’” about the need “They both stand for synthesis. We
yer. He is also a longtime Rinat member, Rabbi Glickman and Mr. Hochman for synthesis diminish the importance of Maimonides
a member of its board, and its imme- had come up with an answer to that if we think of him as just one thing or the
diate past president. He is one of the question. The next one was to be about and coherence. other. The same is true of Rabbi Glickman.”
organizers of the shiurim. (See box for Maimonides. “I had just read a book by Dr. Mermelstein met Rabbi Glickman at
schedule details.) Moshe Halberthal on the Rambam and I Rabbi Glickman died that Monday. “And Cardozo; Rabbi Glickman was a scholar
These shiurim grew out of a series that liked it, but I don’t know enough about it my son Ariel said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if in residence at the school’s Center for
Rabbi Glickman had agreed to teach. to read it critically,” Mr. Hochman said. we could do what we would have wanted Jewish Law, and Dr. Mermelstein is its
“Our shul is blessed to have so many “But I thought it would be right up Rabbi to do, and do it in his memory?’ assistant director. (Cardozo is part of
scholars, world-class scholars,” Mr. Hoch- Glickman’s alley, so I suggested it. And on “We can’t reproduce what he had in Yeshiva University.)
man said. Many of them teach there, and the Sunday and Monday before he passed mind, but we have a great lineup of schol- “Rabbi Glickman taught about Jewish
“even before Rabbi Glickman joined, he away we were in email contact about it.” ars and experts and we can replicate at law to non-Jewish students, and to Jewish
least some of it,” Mr. Hochman said. students who had no prior engagement
What: “Rambam and Moreh Nevuchim: Innovation and Controversy” — Ari Mermelstein of Teaneck, an assistant with the Jewish legal tradition. He had
a series of lectures in memory of Rabbi Ozer Glickman professor of Bible at Yeshiva College, also read widely in American legal theory,
When: On Shabbat, April 28, Dr. David Shatz will speak on “Rambam, Maimonides, is a member of Rinat, and he worked with and he offered a entry point into Jewish
or Both?” at 6 p.m.; he’ll speak again, on “What Is Perplexing About the Guide Mr. Hochman in organizing the series. legal tradition.
of the Perplexed?” at 7:20. On Sunday, May 6, Dr. Moshe Sokol will address “I don’t think that we could think of “He wasn’t someone who thought that
“Providence, Evil, and Human Suffering” at 8 p.m.. On Shabbat, May 12, Rabbi another personality from Jewish history only the Jewish legal tradition had some-
Tully Harcsztark will talk about “Politics, Practice, and Pedagogy: Mitzvot in who would be more appropriate to pay thing enriching to offer. He thought that
Maimonidean Thought” at 6:30 p.m. On Shavuot, Monday, May 21, Dr. Daniel
tribute to Rav Glickman,” Dr. Mermelstein the outside world also had something
Rynhold will talk about “Creation, Revelation, and Prophecy” at 6:55 p.m., and on
said. “Maimonides is such a complex fig- of value to contribute, and he brought
Shabbat, June 9, Rabbi Dr. Michael Shmidman will take on “The Messiah, Messianic
Age, and Olam Baha” at 6:50 p.m. ure. He authors one of the most important that with him. His lectures were pep-
works of Jewish legal literature” — that’s pered with references to prominent
Where: At Congregation Rinat Yisrael, 389 West Englewood Ave., Teaneck
his Mishneh Torah — “and maybe the most American jurists, because he wanted to
For information: Call (201) 837-2795 or go to www.rinat.org. influential work of Jewish philosophy” inform his sophisticated students with an

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Where bluegrass
meets klezmer
Andy Statman Trio will perform at JCC Paramus/CBT
LARRY YUDELSON
The world’s foremost bluegrass klezmer musician will be
performing with his trio in Paramus next week.
Admittedly, Andy Statman is one of the few musicians
whose compositions, performance, and collaborations
include both American and Eastern European Jewish folk
music — genres sufficiently distinct that Mr. Statman gen-
erally plays a different instrument (mandolin or clarinet)
depending on the kind of music he is playing.
But Mr. Statman’s technical skills and compositional cre-
ativity put him in the top tier of each genre. He has recorded
with both David Bromberg and Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker.
He was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “best
Andy Statman LARRY EAGLE country instrumental” — for a piece on an album with the
decidedly un-Nashville title of “East Flatbush Blues.” Were
there a category of best performance of a traditional chas-
sidic niggun, he likely would have been nominated for some
of the albums where he collected and interpreted the tradi-
tional melodies of Breslov and Chabad.
“I come from a musical family,” he said. “I heard all sorts
of different types of music my whole life.”
He began playing in 1960, when a folk music revival was in
the air. His older brother was a banjo player in an amateur
jug band and brought folk and bluegrass music home. “I got
more and more into bluegrass,” Mr. Statman said. “It became
the focus of my life.”
That wasn’t a weird choice for a Jewish boy growing up in
Jackson Heights, Queens, he said. “When I grew up, they had
square dancing in the public schools.” (This was in part due to

A war widow remembers

Author of memoir about loss is featured in Teaneck on Shabbat Chayal
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
More than 8,000 women, men, and chil-
dren receive emotional, financial, educa-
tional, and social support from the Israel
Defense Forces Widows and Orphans
Organization. The IDFWO is the only char-
ity the State of Israel recognizes to work
with the bereaved spouses and children of
fallen heroes of the IDF and Israel’s secu-
rity forces.
The IDFWO was founded in 1991. It did
not yet exist when Ziva Bakman-Flamhaft
endured the excruciating experience of
watching her young husband, Yigal Goren,
succumb to burns he suffered in battle in
the Six-Day War in June 1967.
As she describes in her 2017 book, “War
Widow: How The Six Day War Changed
My Life,” she miscarried as a result of that
trauma and so lost the hope of perpetuat-
ing Yigal’s memory through what would
have been his only child.
On April 21, just after Israel’s Memo-
rial Day, Dr. Bakman-Flamhaft will speak
at Teaneck’s Congregation Beth Aaron on
behalf of the IDFWO. (See box.)
Lacking any organizational support,
she tried on her own to fight a govern-
ment decision in 1968 to end survivor
benefits for childless war widows. That,
she learned, was a tactic intended to give
these women a nudge toward finding new
husbands and getting on with their lives.
“I thought it was arbitrary and unjust,”
she said. “To my astonishment and disap-
pointment, though we were 128 childless
war widows and I tried to
recruit them one by one to
fight this decision, nobody
wanted to speak against the
government after the Six-
Day War victory.
“So I ran the campaign
myself — and made a lot of
noise.”
Eventually that law was
changed, but another law,
passed in 1950, cut off war Ziva Bakman-Flamhaft
widows’ benefits once they
remarried. As a result of
advocacy work by IDFWO, that law was
reversed in 2011. Through that effort, Dr.
Bakman-Flamhaft learned about the orga-
nization and joined it as a member, even
though now she lives in the United States
and therefore she cannot benefit directly
from its services in Israel.
She had left Israel in 1969 for what was to young widows who face double stan-
supposed to be a two-year job for the
Israel Defense Ministry, hoping some dis-
tance would help her heal. But she never
moved back.
“I married an American man in 1971,
believing I could schlep him to live in
Israel, but he’s a criminal attorney and
didn’t get farther than opening an aliyah
file at the Jewish Agency,” she said. She
earned a doctorate in political science
from CUNY and she has taught at Queens
College since 1985. Now a mother and
grandmother, she lives in New York City.
In 1995, Dr. Bakman-Flamhaft won
a Fulbright scholarship and went to
Israel to research her 1996 Beth Aaron’s Shabbat Chayal is dedi-
book, “Israel on the Road cated in memory of Ilan Tokayer. Mr.
to Peace: Accepting the Tokayer was a Teaneck native who became
Unacceptable.” a lone soldier in the IDF; later, he went
She dedicated about to the University of California at Davis to
seven years to writing work on a master’s degree, and died there,
her most recent autobio- in March 2011, at 25.
graphical book, which she “Eighty-five percent of the monies raised
self-published. for this year’s Shabbat Chayal Kiddush
“When a friend, to whom will be used to support IDFWO activities,”
I was lamenting about the Michael (Mordechai) Ungar, a member of
difficulties publishing my Beth Aaron’s Shabbat Chayal committee,
book in the traditional said. “The remaining 15 percent will be
route, asked me why is it used in support of the summer youth pro-
so important for me to publish my work, gram of Beit Yatir, our sister city in Israel.”
I answered, ‘Because I have an important Tami Shelach, IDFWO’s chairwoman,
story to tell,’” she said. “That is why I wrote said that the donation will be funneled
my book. Not to be pitied or admired but through the nonprofit organization
to inspire men and women who faced life’s Friends of the IDF and will go toward the
most difficult challenges. To give voice to many programs IDFWO runs year round.
the women who influenced my life … and “We provide a lifelong emotional sup-
port network,” Dr. Shelach said. “For
dards in the societies in which they live.” orphans, we’re with them through every
Dr. Bakman-Flamhaft says she was hon- milestone such as bar/bat mitzvah, start-
ored to be asked to speak on behalf of ing university, and getting married.
IDFWO at Congregation Beth Aaron on “Our work is so important because
Shabbat Chayal (“chayal” is the Hebrew research shows the life-altering effects of
word for “soldier”), which is marked by bereavement on spouses and children if
several area synagogues at this time of immediate intervention and ongoing sup-
year in different ways. port is not available.”
What: Ziva Bakman-Flamhaft, author of “War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed
My Life,” speaking on behalf of the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization
When: Saturday, April 21, 6:20 p.m.
Where: Congregation Beth Aaron, 950 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck
To make a donation: http://www.bethaaron.org/event/chayal18
For more information: www.idfwo.org/eng

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efforts by noted automaker and anti-Semite Henry Ford,
who saw jazz as too black and too Jewish, and wanted to
distract listeners in other, whiter directions.) “You heard
all this old fiddle music. The old cartoons had different
types of American instrumental music.”
Young Andy started out playing the guitar, quickly fol-
lowed his brother’s lead and learned the banjo, and then
switched to the mandolin. “The sound of the mandolin
moved me,” he said. “I was intrigued by the sound and
the style of playing I heard and I wanted to do it. Plus
there were a lot of banjo players and not a lot of mando-
lin players as well.”
Then his musical interest expanded to include jazz
and he learned to play the saxophone.
Jazz was incorporating “all different types of world
music, and rekindled my interest in traditional Jewish
instrumental music,” he said.
In the 1970s, he studied clarinet with Dave Tarras,
who had played in the czar’s army during World War I
before coming to the United States and becoming one of
New York City’s top Jewish music performers. Mr. Stat-
man went on to produce Mr. Tarras’ last album.
Klezmer became one of Mr. Statman’s calling cards,
but it was not his only one. You can see the diversity of
his musical interests in the titles of his earliest albums:
“Jewish Klezmer Music,” “Flatbush Waltz,” and “Mando-
lin Abstractions.”
While some of his recordings collect and interpret
the songs of others, he has and continues to write new
music.
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pens down the road.”
Rabbi Schumeister said his synagogue long had ben-
efited from first-generation Americans who moved to
the high-rise apartment buildings on Prospect Avenue
from Queens and the Bronx and Hudson County. “Many
of them wanted to be able to walk to synagogue, at least
on the high holidays. They were very traditional in their
orientation and needed a synagogue in close proximity.
I think that demographic has changed.
“Today, people whose parents were not born in
Europe are less traditional and more inclined to drive.
Even if they retire to Hackensack, they’re more inclined
to drive back to where they came from on the holidays.
This has been the biggest demographic challenge to us.”
Looking back on his decades in the Hackensack pulpit,
Rabbi Schumeister said the highlight “is the opportunity
to enter people’s lives. To be with them in important
moments, happy occasions and sad occasions, weddings
and funerals,” he said. “You hope you’ve had a positive
influence in helping people through difficult times.”
Rabbi Kaminker grew up in the Israeli town of Afula
and studied in a Chabad yeshiva in Israel before com-
ing to Crown Heights to study and be ordained. His
wife Shterna is from St. Paul, Minnesota — as is Rabbi
Schumeister. In Cherry Hill, his focus has been on pro-
gramming for the Israeli community.
“We are really looking forward to this challenge,” he
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time. We understand what to do. It’s like a three-way
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He stresses that the trio is not a klezmer band. “I’ve
been fortunate to study with a lot of great people and
play a lot of different styles professionally,” he said.
“We’re not so concerned with categories.
“Klezmer is just one of the things we do. Half the
music we play is Jewish, chasidic melodies and klezmer,
mainly on the clarinet. The other half is more jazz, blue-
grass, blues, rock-influenced.
“We usually play what we feel like playing in the
moment. We try to be receptive with what’s happening
in the audience and move along with that. Nothing is
really carved in stone. We might open up with a certain
one or two songs and then take it from there.”
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National Hunger Seder sees dark clouds
Local rabbi co-leads Mazon event at Capitol and emphasizes social justice
LOIS GOLDRICH
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s it has done before Passover
for the last nine years, Mazon:
A Jewish Response to Hunger
hosted its National Hunger
Seder in the U.S. Capitol. The seder, which
drew some 35 attendees, Jews and non-
Jews, was led by Mazon’s president, Abby
J. Leibman, and Joel Pitkowsky, the rabbi
of Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck.
“We provide traditional ritual food —
matzah, charoset, horseradish, and grape
juice,” Rabbi Pitkowsky said. For the past
few years, the seder has taken place at the
United States Capitol Visitors Center and its
staff has catered it. “There are vegetarian
meals for everyone,” Rabbi Pitkowsky said.
Participants were invited to read from
Mazon’s adapted Passover Haggadah; this
year, the seder’s fifth question was about
veterans. “We asked, ‘How can we not take
care of veterans, who put their lives on the
line?’” Rabbi Pitkowsky said. “What kind
of moral statement is that? The key issue is
that as a matter of mathematics, it is abun-
dantly clear that it is impossible for private
anti-hunger organizations to solve this
problem. The only organization that can
deal with this is the federal government.”
The Haggadah provides “an educa-
tional opportunity to bring one of the
most enriching, powerful Jewish rituals of
year into the social justice realm,” Rabbi
Pitkowsky said. “It gives us an opportunity
to speak about Jewish values as we under-
stand them through the lens of the holi-
day, and also to address an issue we are
passionate about.
“The seder itself, the traditional words
of the seder, have a tremendous amount
to teach us about hunger, welcoming the
stranger, and our responsibility for one
another,” he said, adding that in Mazon’s
Haggadah, statements about hunger are
interspersed with the traditional language.
It also includes quotations from people
who are hungry — one in eight Americans,
according to the organization — as well as
from those involved in advocacy.
“We go around the room and ask people
to read,” Rabbi Pitkowsky said, noting that
some visitors are not able to stay for the
whole time, “so when they come in, we
usually ask them to read right away. We
also ask what prompted them to come,
and what the issue means to them.”
One Jewish member of Congress spoke
about her own Jewish values and how they
fuel her views on the issue of hunger.
“The values of the Jewish faith instruct
us to care for our neighbors and feed
the hungry,” said Representative Deb-
bie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Demo-
crat. “Mazon puts these fundamental
values into practice, and their efforts are
more vital than ever, as federal nutrition
14 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 20, 2018
Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky of Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck co-leads the
National Hunger Seder at the Capitol with Abby J. Leibman of Mazon.
programs fail to keep pace with families’
needs, yet face continued funding threats.”
The group also included people who
wanted to take part in the conversation
but did not necessarily agree with Mazon
on the issue of taking responsibility for
those in need. “They don’t believe the gov-
ernment should play a robust role,” Rabbi
Pitkowsky said. In his brief d’var Torah,
he spoke about the impact the story of
the Exodus had on the world. In a sym-
bolically important section, we learn that
neither Pharaoh nor his wise men could
interpret the leader’s dreams, “because
they couldn’t understand how the weak
could overpower the mighty.” The idea
that people who were less well-off also
have a place in the world literally was
beyond their understanding, he said. That
idea — that people in need have a voice —
is important for members of Congress to
remember, he added.
Seder guests included members of Con-
gress and their staffs, as well as represen-
tatives of other advocacy organizations.
Several congressional speakers hammered
home the theme that hunger in America is
a decision.
Representative Jan Schakowsky, Demo-
crat of Illinois, said, “We live in the richest
country in the world at the richest time in
our history. No American should ever have
to go hungry, especially not our nation’s
children, seniors, and veterans.”
“Hunger is a political decision,” declared
Representative Jim McGovern, the Democrat
from Massachusetts who is the ranking mem-
ber of the House Agriculture Committee’s
nutrition subcommittee. “There are a lot of
problems that I don’t know how to solve, but
not hunger — this is a solvable problem.”
Most hunger entitlement programs are
under the Agriculture Committee, Rabbi
Pitkowsky said, adding that Mr. McGovern,
“a wonderful advocate for the anti-hunger
movement,” has told him how “profoundly
moving he finds the ritual every year. As an
Irish Catholic, he finds it one of the most
moving rituals he takes part in. He’s thrilled
to have the opportunity to be with his Jew-
ish friends and with people who share his
feelings about the world and about what
religion and government can do.”
Rabbi Pitkowsky, who was co-leading
the national seder for the second time,
said “the vibes at the seder were very
positive,” and there was a great sense of
camaraderie among those gathered for it.
Still, he said, he detected “a greater sense
of urgency and deep concern about the
fundamental idea that government should
take care of those in need. There’s a great
deal of concern about what the govern-
ment wants to do with the food safety net,
in terms of radically altering it. We’re very
afraid of what may be coming and feel we
need to stand up and fight for those who
cannot fight for themselves.” (He noted
that the seder took place at a critical time,
while negotiations on the 2018 farm bill
were stalled.)
As it happens, those fears proved justi-
fied, said Liza Lieberman, Mazon’s direc-
tor of public policy. Indeed, she said, refer-
ring to the farm bill recently released by
the House committee, “we’re deeply con-
cerned and troubled. It’s not the direction
we want the country to go — at all.”
Ms. Lieberman explained that the farm
bill must be reauthorized every three
years. “It funds the agricultural commu-
nity in a big way and sets nutrition poli-
cies,” she said. “It’s always been biparti-
san. The chair and the ranking member
have always come together and intro-
duced a moderate, bipartisan bill repre-
senting both the needs of agriculture and
the anti-hunger community.”
But that did not happen this year.
“We guessed this was coming,” she said.
“We were seeing signals in this direction.
It’s becoming very partisan. The chair
didn’t share the language of the bill with
minority members, who were becom-
ing very frustrated.” When some of the
language was released to the ranking
member, he was outraged by “crazy cuts
to SNAP. All the Democrats wrote a let-
ter to [ranking member Collin] Peterson
asking him not to negotiate on this. Fast
forward to last Thursday, when the chair-
man released the partisan bill, the House
Republicans’ bill. It’s the first time ever
that it wasn’t a bipartisan bill.”
Among the policies Mazon finds most
concerning is the growing emphasis on
work requirements for people in the
SNAP program (formerly known as the
food stamp program). “It’s a concerning
trend,” Ms. Lieberman said. “Cutting ben-
efits is not a motivator to get people back
to work, nor is it a real solution to helping
them get and maintain meaningful work.
“They’re just losing assistance that lets
them put food on the table.”
One provision of the House commit-
tee bill will require that recipients show
that they are working 20 hours a week.
There always has been such a provision,
targeting people between the ages of 18
and 49. Now, however, the age has been
extended to 59.
While it is troubled by the age require-
ment in general, Mazon is especially con-
cerned by that change, Ms. Lieberman said.
Some people — veterans, residents of rural
areas, or people laid off from their jobs —
“can’t just find a job.” Rather than helping
veterans, or military families who are on
food stamps, despite that ongoing military
service, the new age requirement worsens
an already bad situation. The new bill, with
that proposed changed, is likely to pass the
House, she said. But the Senate is working
on its own bill — which is likely to remain
bipartisan, as it historically had been.
“It might be more moderate,” Ms.
Lieberman said. “And even if the House
bill passes, it probably won’t pass the
Senate.”
Whatever the outcome, hunger seders
will continue. Josh Protas, Mazon’s vice
president of public policy, described this
year’s seder as “respectful and spirited,
with shared expressions about the impor-
tance of taking care of the most vulnerable
and supporting SNAP and other programs
that do this effectively. Based on the House
Republican proposal for the farm bill, there
are clearly different perspectives on how we
fulfill this important responsibility.”
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Local

Learning Torah in Citi Field

Orthodox Union’s huge annual New York gathering
features prominent scholars exploring wide range of topics
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

I
f you’re interested in an Orthodox
perspective on Jewish politics, lib-
erty and justice, addiction, end-of-
life issues, or the #MeToo move-
ment as seen through the prism of Megillat
Esther, you’re in luck.
Prominent scholars — several of them
from northern New Jersey — will explore
these and 20 more topics at the Ortho-
dox Union’s second annual Torah New
York gathering, set for Sunday, April 29,
at Citi Field in Queens. Torah New York,
which is expected to draw more than
2,000 men, women, and teenagers, is
billed as the largest event of its kind in
North America.
The schedule features 25 lectures in
five main categories: Bible, law, “hash-
kafa” (practical philosophy), the 70th
anniversary of the State of Israel, and
the 25th yahrzheit of Rabbi Joseph B.
Soloveitchik, the principal shaper of
modern (or centrist) Orthodox Judaism
in 20th-century America.
“This is not a political event or a fund- Charlie Harary, associate professor of management and entrepreneurship at YU’s Syms School of Business, speaks at last
raiser, just an opportunity to spend a day year’s Torah New York. ORTHODOX UNION

learning Torah with several thousand oth-

ers,” Rabbi Yosef Adler said. Rabbi Adler
has been the spiritual leader of Teaneck´s
Congregation Rinat Yisrael since 1979, and
he also has headed Torah Academy of Ber-
gen County, the high school for boys in
Teaneck, since 1990.
“It’s heartwarming and gratifying to see
so many people willing to take a day to get
together for learning purposes,” he added.
Rabbi Adler’s talk, “The Chosen City:
Jerusalem the Heart of Judaism,” is one
of the concurrent lectures on Israel from
which attendees may choose. “I want to
focus on the centrality of Jerusalem and
demonstrate that certain aspects of the
city, especially in relation to the Sanhedrin
— the high court of justice that sat on the
Temple Mount — play a major role as rep-
resentatives of the entire people,” Rabbi
Adler said.
In another session, former U.S. Senator
Joseph Lieberman will conduct a conver-
sation with Rabbi Menachem Genack of
Englewood about Mr. Lieberman’s new
book, “With Liberty and Justice: The
Fifty-Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai,”
co-authored with Rabbi Ari D. Kahn and
published by the Maggid imprint of Koren
Publishers and the OU Press.
Rabbi Genack is the general editor of the
OU Press, the CEO of the OU Kosher Divi-
sion since 1980, and the spiritual leader of
Englewood’s Congregation Shomrei Emu-
nah since 1985. He and Mr. Lieberman
have studied Torah together by phone
every Friday for about 25 years.
“With Liberty and Justice” presents 50
short essays on the interplay of law and
liberty in Jewish life, drawing on the Bible
and rabbinic literature, U.S. politics and
modern legal theory, Jewish humor and
American folklore. “Our conversation
is entitled ‘The Journey from Freedom
to Matan Torah,’” Rabbi Genack said.
“Matan Torah” is the giving of the Torah
on Mount Sinai, marked by the holiday of
Shavuot 50 days after Passover.
“This is a journey Joe Lieberman him-
self took in his career as a senator and
in his fight for civil rights; he was at the
march where Martin Luther King Jr. gave
his ‘I have a dream’ speech. His whole life
is represented, in a sense, by this book,”
he continued.
Because Shavuot is the most obscure
and least observed and understood of the
three Jewish pilgrimage festivals, Rabbi
Genack added, Mr. Lieberman aims to
have people engage in it by reading these
essays and learning more about the mean-
ing of each of the Ten Commandments,
the foundation in which Jewish and Amer-
ican law are rooted.
Rabbi Dr. Jeremy Wieder of Teaneck,
rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary of Yeshiva Univer-
sity, also will speak at Torah New York.
He will lecture on “Halachic Views of
‘Innocent Until Proven Guilty’ in Cases
of Abuse.”
Rabbi Yaakov Neuburger of Congrega- Some of the other scholars teaching
tion Beth Abraham in Bergenfield will at Torah New York include Rabbi Her-
talk about the danger of discord. Rabbi shel Schachter, Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh
Neuburger heads the Yeshiva Program/ Weinreb, Rabbi Mordechai Willig, Rabbi
Mazer School of Talmudic Studies, an Dr. Abraham Steinberg, Rabbi Elazar
undergraduate school for Talmudic stud- Muskin, Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, Rabbi
ies at Yeshiva University. Eli Mansour, Lori Palatnik, Shira Bosh-
Alongside the main program, a session nack, Michal Horowitz and Dr. Adina
for teenagers sponsored by NCSY, the Shmidman, all from the United States.
OU’s youth movement, will feature dis- Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon, Rabbi Gideon
cussions and a Torah trivia game. Weitzman, Rabbi Judah Mischel, and
Teaneck native Rabbi Noam Friedman Sivan Rahav Meir all will come from
will lead a networking event for college Israel to be at Torah New York.
students sponsored by the OU’s Jewish “Learning Torah has always defined
Learning Initiative on Campus. A dinner and shaped our community, giving mean-
and social event in partnership with YUCo- ing and context to everything from how
nnects for singles is to be highlighted by we pray to how we conduct our business
a talk from Rabbi Steven Weil of Teaneck, affairs, to how we interact with our fam-
the OU’s senior managing director. ily and with society at large,” the Ortho-
According to the OU — the nation’s old- dox Union’s President Moishe Bane said.
est and largest umbrella organization for “What better way to shine a beacon on the
the North American Orthodox Jewish importance of Torah study than by com-
community — the day will include ses- ing together as a community to hear from
sions appropriate for people of all back- some of the world’s leading Jewish teach-
grounds and Jewish literacy levels. ers, all in one place.”
What: Torah New York, sponsored by the Orthodox Union
When: April 29, 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. The day begins with two Daf Yomi (daily Talmud
study) sessions, followed by hour-long concurrent lectures beginning at 10:15 a.m.
Where: Indoors at Citi Field in Queens. Free parking is available.
How much: $50; food is not included but will be available to buy from concessionaires
from 11 a.m. through 5 p.m.
More information and registration: Go to www.ou.org/torahny

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Briefly Local
Digitalizing Torah literature
Lev Israel, chief data officer
for Sefaria, talks about “Old
Wine in New Vessels — Torah,
Sefaria, and New Media,” on
Sunday, April 29, at 8 p.m., at
Congregation Rinat Yisrael in
Teaneck.
Sefaria is a nonprofit orga-
nization creating a massive,
interconnected, living library
of Jewish texts, with interface Lev Israel
and parallel translations, all
free. Mr. Israel will describe the ongoing
project to digitalize Torah literature and
make it available to teachers, students,
and the public. He will also talk about the
Former Congressman Rothman
joins advisory board at Touro
Steven Rothman of Engle-
wood, the Democrat who
represented northern New
Jersey in the House of Rep-
resentatives for eight terms,
has joined the professional
advisory board of Touro
College Graduate School of
Social Work, the school’s
dean, Steven Huberman of
Teaneck, said.
“We are thrilled to have
this remarkable individual,
who has an outstanding
record in leadership and
public service, joining us in
our important work,” Dr. Steven Rothman, left, and Touro dean Dr. Steven
Huberman said. “Our MSW
program offers in-depth
Huberman 
training in clinical social
work, with a strong emphasis on under-
served populations in the New York/New
Jersey area. Congressman Rothman, who
has a lifetime of experience as a lawyer,
mayor, judge, and U.S. Congressman, will
be very helpful to us in affecting change
and improving people’s quality of life.”
Touro College and University System is
a private university with headquarters in
New York City and branches throughout
the United States and other countries.
“Steve Rothman’s experience comes
from serving the highly diverse popula-
tion of New Jersey, in many challenging
but highly successful roles,” Dr. Huber-
man continued. “He is a perfect fit for us Dean Huberman and the Touro Graduate
because Touro students hail from all over
the world and from all walks of life in the “I look forward to working with students
pursuit of a common goal: to get the best
education possible, pursue a rewarding
professional career and to do so in an
environment that respects and supports
18 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 20, 2018
many technological changes
Torah has weathered, begin-
ning with writing the oral
Torah.
Mr. Israel has led Sefaria’s
engineering team and is in
charge of the data pipeline —
getting texts into the system
and making them most use-
ful for students, teachers,
and technologists. A veteran
of Israeli startups, he lives in
New York and studied computer science
and philosophy at Boston University.
The shul is at 389 W. Englewood Ave.
For information, call (201) 837-2795.
COURTESY TOURO
their background and beliefs. We can defi-
nitely use his many decades of knowledge
and experience.”
Mr. Rothman represented New Jer-
sey’s 9th Congressional District from 1997
to 2013. He was a member of the House
Appropriations Committee, which allo-
cates all of the funds in the federal bud-
get. Before that, Mr. Rothman was a Ber-
gen County surrogate court judge and the
mayor of Englewood.
“As someone who spent 25 years as an
elected public official in both local and
national roles and 40 years as an attorney,
I am honored to use my experience to help
School of Social Work,” Mr. Rothman said.
and faculty to identify needs and solutions
and to help them become agents of change
who will address key problems affecting
our community.”
Meet and greet new rabbi in Wyckoff
Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff is host- Those new to the area or interested
ing a meet and greet to welcome its new in joining are welcome. For informa-
rabbi, Beni Wajnberg, and his wife, tion on upcoming meet-and-greet
Rabbi Miriam Wajnberg, after Shabbat dates, go to www.bethrishon.org. or
services on Friday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. call (201) 891-4466
He will give the sermon that night.
Mickey Marcus memorial service
On Sunday, April 29, at 10 a.m., the American Veterans of
Israel Legacy Corporation, in conjunction with the Israeli
consulate in New York, will hold the 52nd annual Mickey Mar-
cus memorial service at the Jewish chapel at the United States
Military Academy at West Point.
The service honors Col. David “Mickey” Marcus (West
Point 1924) who was among the 41 American and Canadian
volunteers who died during Israel’s War of Independence.
There will also be a commemoration to mark Israel’s 70th
anniversary. The day’s speakers include Ambassador Dani
Dayan, Israel’s consul general.
There will be a tribute to Col. Marcus by the U.S. Army’s
Col. David Marcus
John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center on his induction as a Distinguished Member
of the Civil Affairs Regiment. The Jewish Chapel at West Point has been designated as
the place of honor where the plaque and medallion will be displayed.
There will be an exhibition portraying “Aliyah Bet,” the clandestine immigration
that defied British authorities and regulations, and a photo display showing refugees
the British caught and shipped to internment camps on Cyprus.
The day begins at 10 a.m. with coffee in the chapel social hall. From 11 a.m. to 12:15
p.m., chaplains and the choir lead a service in the chapel with Jewish War Veterans-
Rockland/Orange district presenting the colors. Chaplain David Ruderman (USMA)
and guest rabbis will officiate. At 12:45, there will be a wreath-ceremony honoring Col.
Marcus at the West Point military cemetery, including a firing salute, and taps by the
West Point Honor Guard. Security requires a government-issued photo ID.
For information, email donnaparker1@gmail.com or spiegelsi@aol.com, or go to
www.israelvets.com or www.machal.org.il. Veterans of Israel Legacy Corporation
is an organization of the North American volunteers who served in Israel’s War of
Independence.
Date announced for FIDF dinner
The FIDF’s 14th annual New Jersey trib- Glenpointe. It will pay tribute to Israel’s
ute dinner is set for Sunday, October own soldiers and local lone soldiers. For
7, at 5 p.m., at the Marriott Teaneck at information, go to FIDF.org/njgala.
Emerson shul marking 60 years
Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson Hebrew school students, and Israel on
is celebrating its 60th anniversary on its 70th birthday. For more information,
May 18 and 19 by honoring its founding call (201) 265-2272 or go to bisrael.com.
and current families, shul presidents,
NCJW offering $9,500 scholarship
To celebrate its 95th anniversary, the co-curricular experience in public policy
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or Both? The Perennial at Yeshiva University, editor of The Torah u-Madda Park on April 15 for Teaneck Baseball
Controversy About Journal, and editor of the series MeOtzar HoRav
Organization’s season opener. Dignitar-
Interpreting the Man
ies on the field included Congressman
Shabbat, April 28 | post-mincha at 7:20 pm Josh Gottheimer (D-5th Dist.), Teaneck’s
What is Perplexing About the Guide of the Perplexed? mayor, Mohammed Hameeduddin, dep-
given by Dr. David Shatz uty mayors Dr. Henry Pruitt and Elie Y.
Katz, and council members Gervonn
Sunday, May 6 | 8:00 pm Romney Rice, Alan Sohn, and Mark
Providence, Evil and Dr. Moshe Sokol, Dean, Lander College for Men,
Schwartz. They were there to celebrate
Professor of Philosophy and faculty member of the
Human Suffering Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Rabbi of the both opening day and the park’s reno-
Yavneh Minyan of Flatbush
vated Field 3, a project completed late
Shabbat, May 12 | 6:30 pm last season.
Politics, Practice and Rabbi Tully Harcsztark, Principal, Four-time all-star and three-time
Pedagogy: Mitzvot in SAR Academy High School world champion pitcher Dwight Gooden
Maimonidean Thought threw out the ceremonial first pitch to
Mr. Hameeduddin. Longtime TBO board
Shavuot, Monday, May 21 | 6:55 pm
member Jonathan “Chanan” Vogel, who
Creation, Revelation Dr. Daniel Rynhold, Professor of Jewish Philosophy
worked with the town for the funding Dwight Gooden, left, discusses
and Coordinator of the PhD program at the Bernard
and Prophecy Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva Univ. and oversaw the design and construc- the first pitch​with Teaneck Mayor
tion of the field, was the emcee. TBO Mohammed Hameeduddin and TBO
Shabbat, June 9 | 6:50 pm president David S. Greenberg welcomed president David Greenberg.
The Messiah, Messianic Rabbi Dr. Michael Shmidman, Dean and Victor the guests.
J. Selmanowitz Professor of Medieval Jewish History,
Age and Olam Haba Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Touro College In the opening 4th-5th grade division team, 6–1. Although the league doesn not
game, team J&J Pharmacy defeated the schedule games on Saturday, it’s mem-
Halachic Organ Donor Society (HODS) bership is open to all residents.

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 Briefly Local

Marking the Holocaust in the community

Dr. Sylvia Flescher, a long-
time member of Temple
Israel & Jewish Com-
munity Center in Ridge-
wood, told her family’s
story during the 32nd
annual interfaith Holo-

PHOTOS COURTESY TIJCC

caust remembrance cere-
mony at TI-JCC on April 8.
She talked about being
the daughter of a Holo-
caust survivor who had
lost his entire family, and
about the surprising dis-
covery that connected
her to long-lost relatives
in Poland in unexpected
ways. Dr. Flescher took a
trip to Europe, sponsored
by the Holocaust Edu-
The Holocaust commemoration ceremony at Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn. cation Foundation, that
included visits to death
The Jewish Federation of camps and Holocaust Dr. Sylvia
Northern NJ held its Holo- memorials and culmi- Flescher
caust commemoration on nated in the discovery of
April 11 at Temple Beth a wartime diary written by her father’s
Sholom in Fair Lawn. The cousin. The diaries detailed the expe-
stories of local Holocaust riences Jews endured in Stanislavov,
PHOTOS COURTESY JFNNJ
The choir performs during
candlelighting at TI-JCC
services.
clergy from Ridgewood houses
of worship as well as musi-
cal performances — the world
premiere of “Anne Frank Post-
lude” for choir, soprano solo,
and harp by Adam Har-Zvi; the
Heimat String Quartet, which
performed “Fantazie a Fuga,”
composed by Gideon Klein while he
was interned in the Terezin concentra-
tion camp; and the Village School Senior

survivors Inge Roman of Poland, under Nazi rule. Chorus and Interfaith Adult Choir.
Teaneck, Jenny Sommer of The ceremony included readings by
Hackensack, Isaac York of
Fair Lawn, Jerry Reuter of
Cliffside Park, and Arkadiy T h e s i s te rh o o d o f
Fridman of Fair Lawn were Temple Emanuel of
read by Miri Goodman of Inge Roman and her granddaughter, Erica, light a the Pascack Valley and
Paramus, Julia Holzsager of candle during the service as Isaak Mester looks on. Pascack Valley/North-
Fair Lawn, Miles Cutler of ern Valley Hadassah
Fair Lawn, Dennis Vink of Fair Lawn, and that now are housed at Barnert Temple, sponsored a commu-
Robert Trosten of Franklin Lakes. (Miles Fair Lawn Jewish Center/CBI, the Glen nity Holocaust com-
Cutler is Isaac York’s grandson.) Survivor Rock Jewish Center, Shomrei Torah in memoration program
Elizabeth Lorber of Fair Lawn was unable Wayne, and Temple Beth El of Northern on April 11 at Temple
to attend. Another survivor, David Libes- Valley. Children carrying yahrzeit candles Emanuel in Wood-
kind of Fair Lawn, led the Kaddish. Hadas- followed them. Musical accompaniment cliff Lake. Erwin Ganz
sah Lieberman, whose parents were survi- was by Cantor Ilan Mamber and Gale S. talked about being a

PHOTO PROVIDED
vors, was the keynote speaker. Bindelglass. The federation’s president, young boy in Nazi Ger-
The commemoration featured an Stephanie Goldman, addressed the gath- many, before, during,
exhibit by an Israeli Holocaust survivor, ering. Rosalind Melzer and Allyn Michael- and after Kristallnacht.
artist Shmuel Leitner. Several rabbis led a son chair the federation’s Holocaust Com- Students participated
procession carrying rescued Czech Torahs memoration Committee. in a candle-lighting At Temple Emanuel, Erwin Ganz tells of his
ceremony. experiences as a boy in Nazi Germany.

Rabbi Aaron Katz lead a

community Yom HaShoah
service at Congregation Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson
B’nai Jacob in Jersey City commemorated Yom HaShoah with a
with participation of area candlelighting ceremony where con-
shuls including Rabbi Rob- gregants and Hebrew school students
ert Scheinberg and choir participated. Students also presented
from United Synagogue of readings of journals and stories of chil-
Hoboken, and Rabbi Leana dren during the Holocaust.
PHOTO COURTESY B’NAI ISRAEL

Morrit of Temple Beth-

El in Jersey City. Aristo
Strings performed inspira-
tional music and speakers Galit Peleg addresses the Yom HaShoah service at
included Galit Peleg, head Congregation B’nai Jacob in Jersey City. Students at B’nai Israel light
of the Department for Pub- the memorial candles.
lic Diplomacy and Academic Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York, and
Carla Main, whose father wrote the first curriculum for teaching the Holocaust to young
people in high schools in 1973.

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Leora Barkai, second from left, designed the jewelry

shown here; she is surrounded by friends in the art track.

Art as Jewish life

Frisch’s Ahuva Winslow teaches her students
to look around them and inside themselves

T
Joanne Palmer
o a visual artist, the ability
to make art is the combina-
tion of very different skills.
An artist has to be able to
consider the world with
an open mind and heart,
filtered through education and worldview
and talent and knowledge. The artist also
has to have the skills of hand and eye nec-
essary to translate the vision onto a page
or chunk of stone or piece of metal or fab-
ric or digital device.
An art teacher has to be able to teach
both the technical skills and the openness
of vision.
An art teacher at a Jewish day school has
to be able to teach those things, and ide-
ally also to situate them in a Jewish angle
of vision that retains its openness and flex-
ibility while being informed by Jewish val-
ues and guided by Jewish experience and
understanding.
That’s what Ahuva Winslow, who now
is 38, has been doing at the Frisch School
in Paramus for the last 13 years. As she
has clarified her vision for the school’s
art program, it has grown in both scope
and sophistication. Recently, her stu-
dents exhibited their work; this week, she
talked about it.
Ms. Winslow — who was Ahuva Mantell
for much of her tenure at Frisch — grew up
in Englewood, the daughter of artist and
art curator Reba Wulkan and Dr. Akiva
Wulkan, a physician who also is a lay chaz-
zan at the family shul, Congregation Aha-
vath Torah. She went to the Ramaz School
in Manhattan for high school, and then to
Michlalah, a seminary for girls in Israel.
“Thank God, I always identified as an
artist from childhood,” she said. “My par-
ents encouraged it. They never said that
this is not the right path for you.”
In fact, her mother said, it was because
Ahuva had artistic talent and interests that
were clear all her life, her parents chose

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All the students’

work was on display
at Frisch’s recent
arts evening.

to send her to Ramaz, where she would

be encouraged. At the time, there were no
day schools in Bergen County that offered
art programs, but Ramaz, over the bridge
and across the park on Manhattan’s Upper
East Side, did. (Later, Ahuva’s younger sis-
ter, Rachayl, who also loved art, went to
Ramaz, but their younger brother, Ahron,
who did not, went to Kushner.)
Fresh from those Orthodox educational
experiences, which are at her core and
define her, and always knowing that she
wanted to be an artist, Ahuva decided
that instead of a more conventional col-
lege, she’d go to the School of Visual Arts
in Manhattan.
It was a culture shock.
“I had applied to art schools and got-
ten into all of them before seminary,
but I decided that I didn’t want to draw
the human figure,” Ms. Winslow said.
(That was because of the biblical prohi-
bition against drawing human figures,
which has been interpreted in various
ways across the time and space of Jew-
ish history.) “SVA said that it would work
around my religious beliefs.” Now, she
paints people frequently — one of her
ongoing projects is reimagining biblical
women as modern characters, showcas-
ing their inner beings by thrusting them
into the present — “but I don’t do nudes,”
she said. Her work is driven by her reli-
gious beliefs. “I think it is hard to escape

I think it is hard Mika Ben-Arbon’s painting, for the biblical portraits class, is about
the moral evolution of Rahav.
to escape who
you are as a stop seeing the world through the eyes of
an artist, because those are the only eyes
Ms. Winslow was not the
first art teacher at Frisch,
person. The art you’ve got — sometimes you stop produc- but when she got there,

world reflects ing pieces of art, even if you’re still creat-

your identity.
who you are as a person,” she said. “The
art world reflects your identity.”
Ms. Wulkan got married during her
junior year at SVA and had the first of
her three children the year after that; the
family lived in Washington Heights and
then moved to Bergenfield. She taught at
Yeshivat Noam right out of college — it was
brand new then — and then she moved to
Frisch. She’s been there ever since.
It is hard being an artist, a parent of
three young children, and a teacher; while
you never stop being creative — you never
ing them in your head. But then you go
back to it, with your manual skills perhaps
rusty but your vision intact, maybe even
enhanced by experience.
That’s what happened to Ms. Winslow.
She’s now divorced, remarried, and the
mother of a blended family of seven chil-
dren; her two oldest, 17-year-old Judah and
15-year-old Kayla, are at Frisch, and they
both are artists.
And she’s also in charge of an expand-
ing arts program at the school that is giving
students more and more opportunity to
express themselves visually in a way that
is deeply entwined with their core identity
as Torah-observant Jews.
as its only art teacher, she
found that there was no
established program, and
that her predecessor had
not left the kind of docu-
mentation that gave her Ahuva Winslow, right, stands with senior Aviva
any sense of institutional Ramirez, a painter in the school’s arts track.
history.
So she created the program herself, for years, although I change the curricu-
from the beginning. “I created a curricu- lum every year,” Ms. Winslow said. “Every
lum for 11th and 12th grade,” she said. “And year, I teach the elements and principles
I had to get accreditation for the advanced of design. That’s the foundation of every
placement curriculum that I created — and kind of art. It covers any kind of art anyone
I did. The application was accepted.” That could go into. Over the years, the curricu-
is a big deal — a major accomplishment — lum has changed, the kinds of media have
for any teacher or program director. changed, for technology has changed, and
“I have been teaching the same concepts for that matter the kids have changed, but

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Reba Wulkan’s grandson Judah Mantell guides

Jillan Schiff’s triptych shows Rahav’s journey from childhood innocence through darkness to earned redemption. her through the virtual reality project he created.

the foundation for the class has remained.”
When she first got to Frisch, the school
was in its old building. There was not a
dedicated art room, so she had to keep
her materials packed up before class
and whisk them out of sight quickly as it
ended. “When we moved into the new
building, the administration asked me to
design my own art room, and asked me
what I wanted in it.
“That gave me the opportunity to
increase the programming. I took a year
to research what I wanted a four-year cur-
riculum to look like.”
It is now four years since the art pro-
gram took the shape it’s in now; this
year’s seniors are the first to have begun
it in ninth grade. Ms. Winslow now has an
assistant teacher, Mira Levy, “who was my
student, and now she has a degree in fine
arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts
in Rutgers, and we teach together now.” It
is thrillingly gratifying for Ms. Winslow to
be able to say that.
And the school’s principal, Rabbi Eli
Ciner, “used to be a colleague of mine.”
She has found him supportive all along,
“and when he became principal, the seed
that would build the arts program, and
make it unique to the school, was able to
grow,” she said.
Frisch now has an arts track and a music
track (and an engineering track as well);
students apply for acceptance to them.
“In the fine arts track we do everything
— drawing and painting and sculpture
and silk screening and sewing and ceram-
ics and jewelry design,” she said. And
there’s more. “We do 2-D and 3-D art.”
They do installation art and experiential

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Carly Rosenblatt created this piece for the unit on altered books, where
students make flat objects multidimensional.

art and virtual reality art and multisen-
sory art. If it’s art, they do it. “The pro-
gram has really expanded,” Ms. Winslow
understated.
Frisch offers arts electives for stu-
dents who are not in the arts track; often
; the musicians and the visual artists are
talented in both areas. This way, their
choice of one over the other is made
e less stark. Also, “we do have an overlap
- between artists and poets and writers,”
d she said. “We do a lot of interdisciplinary
stuff in Judaic and secular studies. That
is the beauty of working together.”
In the arts electives, “The goal is to do
more fine-art related work one semes-
ter, and more mixed media the second
semester,” she said. That’s for the first
two years. “Then by junior year, they
know what they like and what they don’t
like. If they had never had a chance to
try, they never would have known.”
The fact that Frisch is a Jewish school,
and its students live in a Jewish world,
with Jewish values and references, is an
integral part of the art program.
Ms. Winslow’s newest class — “it is my
baby, and I love it,” she said — draws on

Lavi Friedman’s piece for the biblical portraits class, made of cardboard,
fabric, and yarn, is another look at Rahav’s transition from sinner to savior.
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her own work in biblical portraiture. It
is an artists’ beit midrash, where a close
study of text informs the art. She has had
students study the stories of Jonah; of
Rahav, whose decision to hide the Isra-
elite spies saved their lives — and argu-
ably the nation’s — and who overcame
the perceived sordidness of her life; and
the complicated figure of the prophet
and strongman Samson. Students are
making graphic novels of Samson’s life.
“We are analyzing his character,” Ms.
Winslow said. “He is complex. We have
open discussions, and with Samson I
had so many students questioning why
he was a judge to begin with. What does
it mean?”
One of the ways the students puz-
zle through the characters is through
“sketch noting,” she said; it is a
Ahuva Winslow’s “Creation: Separation,” made in 2017,
is a reflection, based on the opening of Genesis, of “the
borders of identity and the struggles presented to her in
life as an Orthodox Jewish woman artist.”
Sophia Malovany’s
work uses a broken
mirror with flowers to
symbolize Rachav’s
evolution from
prostitute to heroine;
from destruction
back to life.
technique useful for all classes, not only
or even specifically art classes. “I teach
them how to take notes in sketch-noting
format. It’s not words — not only words
— but also images and charting and mak-
ing inferences.
“In text noting, your notebook is not
lined. It is blank. And it doesn’t have to
move from left to right. You can think
and highlight and make correlations
and draw something so you know what it
looks like.” It does not demand only lin-
ear, sequential thinking, but allows mul-
tidirectional connections to be made.
“It means that they already are think-
ing visually,” Ms. Winslow said. “They
are thinking about the analysis in a dif-
ferent way. It means that often they go
back to the text to rethink it, because
now there is a new element involved.”
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The artists’ beit midrash

addresses prayer, putting it
into visual form, closely study-
ing texts and translating it into
images. “We study tefillah once
a week, along with skills,” Ms.
Winslow said. Each grade
takes on a different part of the
prayer service; this year, the
ninth grade looked at birchot
hashachar, the morning bless-
ings, which reacquaint a newly
awakened person with the joys
and blessings and realities of
the world. The tenth grade
interprets pesukei d’zimrah,
the verses of praise and
acknowledgement that follow
the birchot hashachar. During
their junior year, the students
study the Shema and the bless-
ings that surround it, which
are at the heart of any service; Ahuva Winslow’s “Covered: Like a Crack on
seniors take on the Shemoneh the Wall” explores the meaning of modesty
Esrei, the Amidah, the 18 bless- and self-expression.
ings that are the service’s soul.
The students display their work in arts constitute not just a hobby, but, for
Frisch’s annual evening of the arts. “We many students, is a vital medium for the
exhibit everything,” Ms. Winslow said. expression of self and of spirituality. In
“We include 2-D and 3-D works, drawings addition, there is a rich history of art
and paintings, and installation work.” within Judaism, and by combining stan-
The Frisch arts program is an integral dard art classes with courses that focus
part of the school’s mission, providing on narratives and themes in Jewish
multiple avenues for our students to pur- foundational texts, our program allows
sue their passions and develop their tal- our students to be part of this tradition.”
ents in the visual arts,” Rabbi Eli Ciner, Ms. Wulkan loves having a daughter who
the school’s principal, wrote in an email. is an artist. “We have so much in com-
“Under the direction and mentorship mon,” she said. “We enjoy the same
of our outstanding visual arts program things, and we see the world visually in
director, Ahuva Winslow, our students the same way.”
are able to hone their skills in painting, Ms. Winslow’s goal is not to have all
digital media, sculpture and design, and her students see the world in the same
have access to materials and technology way, but it is for all of them to see the
in our fab lab. Moreover, our students world; to look around them, to connect
learn to be critical and sensitive inter- what they see with what they know,
preters of art, enhancing their under- both Jewishly and otherwise, and to use
standing of the world around them. all that knowledge and experience to
“Frisch appreciates that the visual broaden and enlighten their worlds.

Jordanna Rothschild
created this
watercolor and ink
painting inspired by
the story of Jonah.

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Pro-Israel stalwart Ben Cardin aims fire
at Trump and Netanyahu in J Street talk
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin
(D-Md), a pro-Israel stalwart in the
Democratic Party, lashed out at
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu at a J Street conference,
breaking with a party tradition of
avoiding confrontations with Isra-
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In his speech on Monday, Car-
din stood by his bill, which would
criminalize some forms of boy-
cotting Israel. The liberal Jewish
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also extolled the closeness of the
U.S.-Israel relationship.
The most rapturous cheers that
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of Israel or the United States that
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“We speak out!” he said,
in a call and response that
earned applause.
Cardin said he still was open
to modifying his bill targeting the
movement to boycott, divest from,
and sanction Israel, but defended
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In his speech, Sanders harshly Bernie Sanders speaks to the J Street
criticized Israel’s recent actions on meeting.
the Gaza Strip border, where 30
Palestinian protesters were killed and
hundreds were wounded in clashes with
Israeli soldiers.
“Though the overwhelming major-
ity of these protesters were nonviolent,
we know that some of them were not,
and when Israeli soldiers are in danger
we can all agree that they have a right
to defend themselves,” Sanders said. “I
don’t think that any objective person can
disagree that Israel has massively overre-
acted to these demonstrations.”
Sanders and Cardin both are Jewish,
and so is Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii),
who called for more openness among
Democrats to different expressions of
being pro-Israel. He said his views on
Israel, emphasizing a two-state outcome,
should be considered centrist, but “In
Congress I am at the left edge, and that
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Husam Zomlot, the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization envoy to Washington,
received a warm welcome. He noted that
of the three parties to efforts to renew
Israeli-Palestinian talks, only the Pal-
estinian negotiators still were commit-
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Netanyahu governments had retreated
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Addressing that history, Zomlot said
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lived in the city for “millennia.” That
was unusual coming from a Palestinian
official; generally such representatives
refrain from noting Jewish connections
to the city. A Palestinian capital in the
city alongside a Jewish one, Zomlot said,
“will not only recognize the Jewish con-
nection to Jerusalem but will celebrate
the Jewish connection to Jerusalem.”
Zomlot earned loud applause, which
Merav Michaeli, the Zionist Union Knes-
set member who spoke after him and
Schatz, noted. She chided the audience
for being more enthusiastic in cheering
Palestinians than Israelis.
“Frankly it hurt me when I did not
hear you applauding the last speaker,”
she said, referring to Schatz “when he
said he believes in the state of Israel and
its right to exist.”
That earned her a round of applause.
Later she tweeted, “@jstreetdotorg
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take it for granted, it was a pleasure
hearing the wonderful audience in
#JStreet10 applauding Israel and peace
for two states.” JTA Wire Service
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Israeli, Western
women learning
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American Jewish women have idealized Israeli

women as feminist role models since the days of pre-
state Israel, when women were photographed plow-
ing fields alongside men. Post-independence posters
featured images of female soldiers fighting alongside
men. A chain-smoking Golda Meir became Israel’s
prime minister nearly 50 years before a major Ameri-
can political party would even nominate the first
woman for president.
It’s a persistent myth of female empowerment, but
a myth all the same.
“Until recently there was a perception that Israel
had real equality for women,” said Francine Klags-
brun, a New Yorker and author of the recently pub-
lished biography “Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation
of Israel.” “Women were in the army. Only later did we
learn they often had servile positions and in the yishuv
[pre-state Israel] women were laughed at when they
tried to build roads. It was not the equality women
here believed they had.”
Israeli and American Jewish women have learned
much from each other since Israel was born 70 years
ago. There has been an intertwined mutual influence,
say leaders in both countries. American women were

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“Once the feminist movement became
important in America, it very much
influenced Israelis in forming their
own,” Klagsbrun said.
Klagsbrun was one of three women
and 11 men on a Jewish Theological
Seminary commission that led the Con-
servative movement to decide in 1983 to
ordain women as rabbis and cantors.
Yet there was resistance to American
feminism among many Israelis. Writer
and political activist Betty Friedan wrote
in the New York Times in 1984, “On my
first pilgrimage to Israel, in 1974, Golda
Meir had refused even to meet with me.
Hostile Israeli women leaders, like so
many male Jewish leaders in the United
States, considered ‘women’s lib’ a threat
to the Jewish family.”
That resistance continues today, some
say. Elana Sztokman, a writer focused
on gender issues and a rabbinical stu-
dent in Israel’s Reform movement,
was raised in Brooklyn and moved to
Israel in 1993. She lives in Modiin and
is involved with Women Wage Peace,
a grassroots organization that brings
together women from every sector of
Israeli life — religious and secular, con-
servative and progressive, Arab and
Jewish — to press for a settlement to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“In my experience, Israelis aren’t
really interested in influencing Amer-
ica or being influenced by America,”
Sztokman said. “There is a resistance of
native-born Israelis to impact by Ameri-
can-born women.” By way of example,
she noted a distinct lack of interest by
the Hebrew-language media in covering
events spurred by American issues, like
a March for Our Lives in Tel Aviv.
“There’s a common sentiment here
that Americans come here, stay in
expensive hotels,1 and have a lot of
money to spend without really under-
standing the nuances of Israeli life,” she
said. “Israel is also preoccupied with its
own issues,” like terrorism and security.
Nevertheless, “We the feminist move-
ment, the social change movement,
have learned a tremendous amount
from American Jewish activists,” said
Hamutal Gouri, a founding leader of
Women Wage Peace. “Especially when
Israel started building its civil society
and social change movements, so much
was influenced by theories and prac-
tices of Jewish American organizers.”
Women of the Wall, which advocates
for women to pray as they wish at the
Western Wall, embodies the influence
and limits of largely American feminist
ideas in Israel. Americans launched the
group in 1988. They were in Israel for
the First International Feminist Jewish
Conference when Rivka Haut organized
a group of 70 to pray together at the
Kotel. Klagsbrun headed the procession
while carrying a Torah scroll, making
her the first woman in history to bring
one to the Western Wall.
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The prayer group meets at the start of
each month at the Western Wall to pray
and has met fierce resistance from the
Orthodox rabbi who controls the site.
Members have been arrested for trying
to read from a Torah scroll.
But while a 2013 poll found that half of
Israelis supported the aims of Women of
the Wall, and many of its members and
supporters are native Israelis, there has
been no public outcry to hold the gov-
ernment accountable for agreements it
has made with the group and broken.
Women of the Wall continues to be
regarded as an American import.
“The issue of religious courts, of
divorce, of agunot, still thousands of
them here, that’s far more important
than praying at the Kotel,” said Alice
Shalvi, founding chair of the Israel
Women’s Network. “I’m expressing the
feeling of the vast majority of Israeli-
born people.” Agunot are women who
are unable to remarry because their
estranged husbands refuse to grant them
a religious divorce, or get.
There are areas in which Israeli
women are ahead of their U.S. counter-
parts, interviewees said.
Israel has a higher percentage of
women elected to its national legislature,
the Knesset, than do America’s Senate or
House of Representatives, according to
a new report on the state of women’s
issues in Israel. It was commissioned by
Israel’s Dafna Fund and the New York-
based National Council of Jewish Women
and released in late March.
It has been two decades since Israel’s
High Court granted a woman the right
to become a combat pilot. Today more
than 90 percent of the Israeli military’s
positions are open to enlisted women,
including selected combat roles. All
U.S. military combat positions opened
up to women in 2015. A third of Israel’s
military personnel are women, com-
pared with about 14 percent in the U.S.
armed forces.
“Israel’s Declaration of Independence
mentions women, unlike ours,” said
Kaufman, adding that Israelis are more
adept at using the legal system to further
women’s rights. In Israel there is univer-
sal paid maternity leave and women
can also obtain safe, legal abortions,
unlike growing swaths of America. And
Israeli law requires at least one woman
to be on each public company’s board
of directors.
But in other ways, Americans take
a lead. Hoffman said there is a certain
expectation of being treated fairly that
American Jewish women have — and
Israelis do not.
“It was bred out of us as very young
girls,” she said. “I’m so grateful for ecol-
ogy, feminism, itemized bills. Americans
have a sense of fairness from your Con-
stitution or Bill of Rights. They expect
some things that Israelis can’t even
dream of.”
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“There is a lot of cross-fertilization” between the two com-
munities, said Nancy Kaufman, CEO of the National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women. Her organization convened a sympo-
sium in Israel in March that brought together 260 Israeli and
American women. We are constantly engaging with Israelis
when they come to the U.S., and we would love to formalize
an exchange program.”
Shalvi, a longtime Jewish educator, described how she
was influenced by religious feminists in America. On her
first visit to New York, in 1977, she met Judith Hauptman,
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a Talmud scholar and future rabbi, and Arlene Agus, who
revived the ancient custom of celebrating rosh chodesh (the
start of each month) as a women’s holiday. They told her
about Ezrat Nashim, a group advocating for greater ritual
roles for women, Shalvi said. At the time she was princi-
pal of Jerusalem’s Pelech school for Orthodox girls, which
from its founding included Talmud study. Yet she had never
thought of women leading worship.
On her second visit to the U.S., in 1979, Shalvi was first
called to the Torah. And she burst into tears. “I realized it
was the first time I had seen a Torah scroll up close,” she
said. “I was 53 years old and thought if I’d been a boy,
I would have done this 40 years earlier. The unfairness
and injustice of it struck me so.”
Since then there has been enormous growth in the
number of women seriously engaged in Torah scholar-
ship, from the plethora of post-high school seminary
programs for girls in Israel to graduate programs in
Talmud for women in the United States, including at
the Orthodox Yeshiva University, and in Israel at Bar-
Ilan University.
Despite the cross-fertilization of ideas, a mystique
about Israeli women still has a hold on American Jews,
said Galit Peleg, Israel’s consul for public diplomacy
in New York. It has been revived by Wonder Woman
herself. Since portraying the superhero in the 2017 film,
Israeli actress Gal Gadot has since been nearly ubiqui-
tous in American media, charming late night talk show
hosts and audiences alike with her confidence and
warm candor.
“She’s not a Woody Allen,” said Peleg, meaning a
neurotic, weak, diaspora-type Jew. “She’s the Israeli
woman that kicks ass.”
Peleg recently spoke to a group of Americans at a
pre-Passover event and mentioned, in passing, hav-
ing served in Israel’s military. From that moment on,
that’s all the American Jewish women wanted to hear
about, she said.
It seems that the Wonder Woman effect — the image
of Israeli women as strong, confident, funny and warm
— clings to the way American Jewish women think of
their Israeli sisters. Yet there are challenges unique to
Israeli women, experts say. “The state of constant con-
flict and a divisive political landscape is a reality that
especially marginalizes women’s voices,” according
to the NCJW/Dafna Fund report. “Rising nationalism
and religious fundamentalism that is increasingly part
of the political atmosphere is further preventing the
inclusion of women’s voices in public debate.”
There are also ways in which Israeli women are try-
ing to bring their confidence to American Jews.
Take Supersonos. The organization was created in
Israel by advertising executive Hana Rado three years
ago. Its goal is to increase women’s visibility as speak-
ers on panels and at conferences, and on boards of
directors. Supersonos has grown rapidly in Israel and
in newer outposts in Berlin, London, and New York,
said Keren Kay, a co-founder. Three years ago it had
100 women in its network of professionals. Now it has
more than 2,000, said Kay, who lives in New York.
“We’re taking already-empowered women and
putting them at influential junctions — conferences,
media, seminars, board members and manage-
ment,” she said. “The ‘men’s club’ is going out to
drinks after work. We are trying to create the same
network for women.”
But the culture gap has an impact: Supersonos holds
networking events in New York. And though there
have been powerful women working on the same
issues in the American Jewish community for years,
Kay was unaware of them.
“It’s a dialogue,” said Women Wage Peace’s Gouri.
“I wish there was more of a dialogue and that there
was more of an exchange. There is so much for us on
both sides to learn. We need to come together in more
meaningful ways to leverage our collective impact.”
NCJW’s Kaufman said: “We have a lot to learn from
the Israelis and we have a lot to offer them in build-
ing civil society. There’s learning back and forth from
both sides. We’re going to try to build this woman-to-
woman relationship over the next 70 years.”
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Lolita Tomsone, second from left, stands with participants of the Holocaust
commemoration ceremony that she organized at the Freedom Monument on
November 30, 2017.
Latvian woman fights
an annual march
by Nazi SS veterans
Vigil seeks to reclaim historic square
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
RIGA, LATVIA — Each year on March 16,
a macabre event unfolds on the square
around this capital city’s most famous
monument.
Known as the Memorial for Latvian
Legionnaires, it is the world’s only
march by veterans of Nazi Germany’s
elite SS unit.
A handful of them, including nona-
genarians in wheelchairs, lead the
procession through the Old City to the
monument. Some wear the insignia
from their old units — the 15th and 19th
Waffen Grenadier Divisions — as they
receive flowers from young women
flanking the procession.
They lay wreaths for their fallen com-
rades on the monument built in 1935 to
celebrate Latvian independence, and
they sing patriotic songs. Hundreds of
nationalist activists, under heavy police
protection, march or wave Latvian flags
from the sidelines.
Since its beginnings in the 1990s as
a grassroots initiative, the march has
prompted intense media interest abroad.
Outsiders view it as a sign of how nation-
alism and hostility to Russia in countries
that Moscow once ruled are undermin-
ing educational efforts about the Holo-
caust and the fight against fascism and
xenophobia.
The marchers, some of them skin-
heads wearing fascist symbols, also spark
passionate opposition from Latvians who
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she was inspired to organize the vigil
after seeing the mobilization of Ukraini-
ans around the 75th commemorations in
2015 of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine.
“It was moving to see ordinary Ukrai-
nians lighting candles,” she said. “It was
all over the news in Ukraine.”
But in Latvia, commemorations of the
Rumbula massacre held at the woods
where the killings occurred “were a
mostly Jewish affair,” said Tomsone, who
had lived in Israel for 14 years and stud-
ied religion there.
“I wanted to make something that
would reflect how the people who were
murdered were a loss to the whole of Lat-
via,” she said.
Tomsone, 43, insists that she did not set
up the vigil with the intention of reclaim-
ing Freedom Monument from the nation-
alists who have made it infamous. But she
acknowledged that her actions can be
seen as having achieved exactly that.
“It’s kind of this sacred monument and
there’s this notion of what you’re allowed
to do there, so that’s good to break that
stereotype,” she said.
Holocaust historian Efraim Zuroff said
the vigil in Riga is part of a recent devel-
opment in the Baltic states of Lithuania
and Latvia. In Lithuania, he said, “we
are seeing the first signs of acceptance
of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust
as an integral part of Lithuanian society,
and acknowledgement of the highly sig-
nificant role of all strata of Lithuanian
society in Holocaust crimes.”
That’s a new development in a region
where growing nationalist extremism
features the glorification of Nazi war
criminals and downplaying of the Holo-
caust — often with government support
or indifference.
In Lithuania, hundreds of nationalists
march each year with swastikas and ban-
ners carrying portraits of collaborators
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who helped murder Jews. There, Zuroff’s
2016 book about the Holocaust led to
the first debate of its kind about local
complicity in the genocide. Zuroff, the
Eastern Europe director of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, co-authored “Our
People” with the popular author Ruta
Vanagaite.
In recent weeks, though, a Lithuanian
Cabinet minister submitted legislation
that would outlaw the sale of material
that “distorts historical facts” about his
country — an echo of a similar and con-
troversial bill recently passed in Poland.
Vanagaite has left Lithuania amid a smear
campaign against her: After she dared
criticize a Lithuanian nationalist hero,
her publishing house recalled and shred-
ded all of her books.
“In the Baltics, the local population
was heavily complicit in the near anni-
hilation of the Jewish community, so
there’s particularly strong resistance to
facing that reality,” Zuroff said. “But the
actions of ultranationalists are generating
resistance. It’s a pendulum effect and it’s
not clear how it all will turn out, but for
sure there’s resistance and scrutiny that
weren’t there just a few years ago.”
Ilya Lensky, director of the Jews in
Latvia Museum here, said he regarded
the candle-lighting memorial for Holo-
caust victims as “significant.” But he also
said that the march by the SS veterans
was “greatly inflated in Russian media”
and that Jews in Latvia generally do not
encounter discrimination or intimidation
by the Latvian far right.
“Holocaust denial is pretty much non-
existent,” Lensky said. “Latvia has always
had center-right governments, and we
haven’t seen the radicalization that has
occurred in other parts of Europe.”
To some participants in the candle-
lighting vigil, attending also was an act of
protest against the veneration of SS veter-
ans on the site.
“This memorial event near the monu-
ment I think not only counterbalances

the SS march, but helps strengthen human-
ist foundations of society,” Gersons Bre-
slavs, a Latvian Jewish psychologist who
attended last year’s Holocaust vigil, said.
Some in Riga seek more confrontational
manners of expressing their disapproval of
the march.
Joseph Koren, founder of Latvia Without
Fascism, regularly pickets the march, along
with some 20 protesters who demonstrate
even though police won’t give them per-
mission for a counter rally.
“It’s a disgrace for this country, which
is increasingly behaving like a police state,
and it’s a disgrace for the European Union
that it allows a member state to have SS
veterans march through the streets to be
received as heroes,” he said.
Several protesters are arrested each
year, despite the fact that Latvian law
allows individuals to protest anything with-
out a permit as long as they don’t incite to
violence or advertise the demonstration in
the media.
Like Koren, Tomsone says she dislikes
the SS march at Freedom Monument. But
unlike him, she accepts the moral right of
Latvians to commemorate soldiers who
died fighting for Adolf Hitler’s army, she
said. The most appropriate place to do so
is at the Lestene Cemetery, where many
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Legionnaires are buried, rather than at
the Freedom Monument, she stipulated.
Her approach, she said, is informed by
her own family’s story.
Local authorities under German occu-
pation locked up her great-uncle and
grandfather for three days until one of
them, the great-uncle, Eduards Liepa-
jnieks, agreed to “volunteer” — part of
the strategy of coercion that local author-
ities under Nazi occupation in Latvia
used to conscript young men who did not
volunteer to serve in the SS. Eduards was
killed fighting the Russians as a member
of the German army. Tomsone’s grandfa-
ther, Fricis, withstood the pressure and
was released shortly after his brother
acquiesced, she said.
“To this day, my grandfather is angry at
his brother’s weakness,” Tomsone said.
“He talks about it all the time, how his
brother would still be alive if he had more
of a spine.”
The story, she said, shows the nuances
about collaboration in Latvia.
“No, they did not all join under the
threat of execution, as some argue,” she
said. “But they didn’t all join because they
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An employee at the Anne Frank House

in Amsterdam asked to wear a kippah
He waited 6 months for an answer
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
AMSTERDAM — When Barry
Vingerling asked his employers at
the Anne Frank House whether it
was okay for him to start coming
to work wearing a kippah, he did
it mostly as a courtesy.
“I hadn’t expected this to be
an issue,” Vingerling, 25, told
the Dutch-Jewish weekly NIW. “I
work at the house of Anne Frank,
who had to hide because of her
identity. Should I have to hide
mine in that same house?”
His bosses’ answer to this
question appeared to be “yes.”
Suggesting at first that he wear
a hat on top of his kippah, they
dithered for six months on
whether to allow it before Vinger-
ling forced their hand by wearing
it without permission.
In a statement, the Anne Frank
House said it did not have a pol-
icy on the wearing of religious
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symbols by employees and that it
needed a few months to hammer
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last week that they would allow
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employees to wear religious sym-
bols to work.
Vingerling’s predicament may
have had a happy ending. But
the fuss nonetheless illustrates
how Jews in Western Europe
are affected by a debate usually
focused on Muslims, immigration
and religious tolerance.
In the Netherlands, a 2015
law made it illegal to wear face-
covering clothes in schools and
hospitals, government build-
ings and public transportation.
Belgium has an even stricter pol-
icy since 2011, as does France,
aimed at the Muslim niqab, or
face veil.
In 2016, local authorities in
France banned the wearing of a
full-body bathing suit, popularly
known as the “burkini,” favored
by some devout Muslim women.
Those bans divided French soci-
ety — and its Jewish community
— in an acrimonious debate.
Supporters of the ban, includ-
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Editorial
Springing forward
KEEPING THE FAITH

Dealing with our ‘dirty little secret’

Y T
ou would think that movement would be straight-
forward, wouldn’t you?
Forward motion. Onward. Darkness into light.
Winter into spring.
You see where I’m going, right? Because not so much.
This year, nothing has gone straightforwardly. Winter,
spring, winter winter winter spring winter winter, like a
demented game of duck duck goose. Snow in April. Ter-
rifying torrential thunderstorms in ice-cold April. So little
where it should be that even those days that are exactly
right feel unexpected and therefore wrong.
That’s where the back-and-forth of the Jewish calendar
perhaps might be instructive.
We — as in all sentient human beings above the age of,
say, five? Six? Ten, maybe? — deal with time as an odd
combination of straight line and pure circle. The seasons
cycle back round and round. (Yes, I know. Captive on the
carousel of time…) We plunge forward, though; we have
no choice but to go straight ahead. Growing older is not
an optional process.
So last week, the week after Pesach, the Jewish world
marked Yom HaShoah, the day when we remember the
murdered victims of the Holocaust (or to be more accu-
rate, remember the stories of the Holocaust, because we
cannot remember when we never knew, and by now very
few of us knew anyone who was murdered then). This
week, we marked the mournful Yom HaZikaron, for the
dead — most of them young, some of them survivors, all
of them dead too soon and too brutally — whose sacrifices
brought Israel into being and then kept it alive. At mid-
night, the mourning turned into the celebration of Yom
Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s independence day.
There is something both wise and emotionally impos-
sible about these changes. They show the Jewish people
moving inexorably from the devastation of the Shoah
to the real-world joys and terrors and challenges of
the real-life state of Israel. In their insistence that it is
humanly possible to move between sorrow and joy that
quickly, on demand, that part of the Jewish calendar
mirrors the liturgy.
I have never been able to understand how it is pos-
sible for people to move between Hallel, those lovely,
triumphant songs of praise, to Yizkor, with its evocation
of memory and pain. There is never a Yizkor without
a Hallel; there never seems to be a Yizkor that is pain-
free. There is never a Yizkor where there are not at least
muffled sobs.
But somehow time soldiers on, pushes through, keeps
going, and so do all the rest of us. The forsythia are in yel-
low bloom, the flowering trees are starting to show their
pink and white, the daffodils are almost finished, and the
parks are starting to shimmer with pale baby green.
Soon, despite everything, it will be spring. —JP
his Sunday, Project Sarah hosts its 12th his wife, at any time, under any circumstances.
annual breakfast in Bergen County. “Sarah” The law is uncompromising. It is blunt and clear. A man
is the acronym that describes the organi- has no right to abuse his wife, and certainly no right to
zation’s stated mission — to “Stop Abusive beat her. If a man, no matter what is done to him to stop
Relationships At Home.” As well as offering its infor- his abusive behavior, continues to beat his wife, the court
mational programs, the organization also provides a may order that his hand be cut off. That it is how the 13th
vital array of services to Jewish victims of such abuse, century’s Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (the Maharam) ruled:
and to their families, throughout New Jersey. “We have to treat more severely [the man] who beats
Until Project Sarah came along, there were too few his wife than [the man] who beats someone else because
voices within the Jewish community speaking up about he is obligated [by halachah] to respect his wife, but not
what for too long has been our dirty little secret. One of that other person....And he who does [beat his wife] is put
those who did speak up was Rabbi Wallace Greene. About under a ban, and excommunicated, and whipped, and
25 years ago, when I was on the pulpit of a synagogue in punished with all manner of torment; and if he continues
Hopatcong, he conducted a study session for rabbis in the [to beat his wife, it is even permissible] to cut off his hand.”
area, hoping to get us to focus on the problem. Wife-beating even is considered an exception of sorts to
He succeeded to some extent, but too few of us were the rule regarding divorce, which is supposed to be initi-
willing to admit back then that domestic ated only by the husband, according to the
abuse existed in our Jewish world. We are Maharam (basing himself on a 12th-century
more willing to face that hard fact today, ruling by Rabbi Simcha ben Samuel of Spey-
because Project Sarah is casting a bright light ers). “If she wants to leave [the marriage],”
on that dark corner of Jewish life. he ruled, “she is to be let out and given
In this column, leaning in part on Rabbi her due.” The woman may not initiate the
Greene’s lesson of so many years ago, I am divorce even in these circumstances, but the
going to focus on spousal abuse, but make rabbinic court can act for her by compelling
no mistake: Judaism abhors all forms of the husband to give her a get (“as long as
domestic abuse, including child abuse, elder he is warned once or twice,” according to
abuse, and sexual abuse. Shammai Rabbi Moses Isserles in a gloss to Shulchan
Until very recently, the violence to which Engelmayer Aruch 154:3). Some opinions even allow the
wives were subjected by their husbands rabbinic court to do the unthinkable if it is
was not considered inappropriate; in some unable to force the husband to give his wife
places, it still is not. Throughout the millennia, men have a get: It may refer the matter to a secular authority for
beaten “their” women. They saw it as their right. And enforcement.
because they thought — and some still think — that way, it As for what is meant by “given her due,” Maimonides
took until relatively recently for western society even to had this to say: “A husband who harmed his wife must
begin to come to grips with this problem. immediately pay her all the injury, shame, and sorrow.
As the “Me Too” movement and abuse statistics testify Everything belongs to her, and the husband derives no
(a Centers for Disease Control survey found that approxi- benefit....” (See Rambam’s Mishnah Torah, Laws of Injury
mately one in every four women “have experienced and Damage, 4:16.)
severe physical violence by an intimate partner”), we are The halachah is so hard-nosed about this because
far away from resolving the problem. In part, this may be Eve “was the mother of all living,” as Rabbi Eleazar
due to a misguided belief, held by too many people, that explained in the Babylonian Talmud tractate Ketubot
male superiority is mandated by the Bible. They mean the (see page 61a). Because of that, he said, a wife “was
Christian Bible, which contains such statements as this given [to her husband] to live, but not to suffer pain.”
one from 1 Corinthians 11:3, 8-10: “But I want you to know To this, the Talmud added that marriage is supposed
that the head of…woman is man….For man is not from to improve the quality of a woman’s life, not dimin-
woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for ish it in any way. “She goes up with her husband,” it
the woman, but woman for the man.” declared, “but she does not go down.”
The Tanach and the Judaism that grew out of it, on the That is also why Judaism gives wives all the conjugal
other hand, make clear that a man has no right to abuse rights and gives none to the husbands. Sexual abuse goes
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in Cliffside Park and Temple
Beth El of North Bergen.

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hand in hand with all other forms of physical and
mental abuse, so the halachah sought to get at the
broader problem by attacking it at its most basic
level. Men have no power over women, whether
those women are their wives or not.
It is that simple, and our law codes are that blunt.
Spousal abuse, which should not be a problem
in the Jewish community — and should never have
been tolerated by us precisely because our rules
from day one have been so strict — is as serious a
problem with us as it is everywhere else.
The dirty little secret has to stop being a secret.
We need to talk about it. We need to deal with it.
We need to eliminate it.
One way to help do so is to support the work
of Project Sarah through our donations and/or
our volunteerism. Among other steps we can
take are these:
• Ask our synagogue boards or ritual committees
to dedicate one Shabbat annually to this topic.
• Urge our pulpit rabbis to make the issues
involved the theme of a sermon at least twice a year
The The dirty little
secret has to stop
being a secret. We
need to talk about
it. We need to deal
with it. We need
to eliminate it.
(and especially during the High Holy Days, when
the most people will be in shul to hear it).
• Ask our men’s clubs and sisterhoods to sched-
ule a study session with the rabbi in which he or
she will teach what Jewish law has to say about such
abusive behavior, and how to identify abuse. (If a
synagogue has an adult education director, he or
she also should be encouraged to plan an appropri-
ate program, preferably on an annual basis.)
• Also ask the men’s clubs and sisterhoods to
schedule separate open forums for their members
to discuss the issues in a group setting, and invite
Project Sarah to provide someone to facilitate those
discussions.
• Place ads in our synagogue bulletins to alert con-
gregants about the existence of Project Sarah, the
services it offers, and the phone number for victims
to call: (973) 777-7638.
May the day come when we have no need for a
Project Sarah. Until then, Project Sarah needs us. Its
work must be our work.
You can find information about Project Sarah’s
breakfast online at jfsclifton.org/projectsarah/
projectsarahbreakfast
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Opinion
I’VE BEEN THINKING
The only constant in life
L
et me try to keep some of the Pesach spirit alive
by beginning this column with a multiple choice
question: Change is (a) good, (b) bad, (c) scary,
(d) difficult, (e) all of the above, or (f ) all of the surrounded by just the five immediate family members liv-
above plus some more adjectives I want to save for use later
in this column
While there is, of course, no one correct answer to this
question (as was true of the LSAT questions in my day, when
they used to tell us to pick the best one), my answer is, to
no surprise, (f ). And for me, it’s not simply that different
changes have different answers. More interestingly, it’s that
the very same change can have different, and perhaps con-
tradictory, answers.
So, for example, as I sat with my wife and daughter at
this year’s Teaneck Yom HaShoah commemoration (deeply
meaningful and moving, as always, though a bit too long), I
noticed that when the survivors in the audience were asked
to rise, their numbers had diminished dramatically from
previous years. Also, when the six three-generational fami-
lies (survivor, child, and grandchild) slowly
ascended to the stage to light candles in mem-
ory of the six million we lost, there were now
six chairs, so each of the survivors could sit. I
remembered, though, that in past years there
had been no chairs or only one or two were
necessary. We were confronted visually with
the sad change that time often brings.
And yet, I also noticed that some of the
six families are now four-generational, with
great-grandchildren of survivors also partici- Joseph C.
pating — a sign of the ultimate Jewish victory Kaplan
over the Nazis, albeit at far too great a cost.
And so this change also represents survival,
endurance, pride, and hope.
My family also has experienced change in yom tov cel-
ebrations. In the first years of our marriage, we would
spend the yomim tovim at our parents’ homes, always
being careful, of course, to alternate the venue. But as
our family grew and the pull to create our own chag grew
stronger, we began sharing Pesach and Sukkot with my
wife’s sister and family who lived a short and pleasant
(when the wind off the river wasn’t howling) five-block
walk down Riverside Drive. Pesach sedarim and meals
were in Andrea and David’s apartment, with its larger
dining room and kitchen, while Sukkot meals were in
the sukkah in our building courtyard, which was quite
roomy and thus could accommodate our growing fami-
lies more easily. (Note: both families shared the shop-
ping, cooking, and cleaning-up chores, no matter the
holiday or location of meals.)
And when we moved to Teaneck, we kept up this hol-
iday-sharing practice, though it all moved to our house,
where accommodations were easier to find for the visi-
tors and we had our own private sukkah. This wonderful
family tradition thus continued, with the addition of chil-
dren-in-law and grandchildren, for 33 years. At some point
during that time, our parents and some other siblings and
families began joining us.
Starting this Jewish year, however, it became too difficult
for our Manhattan relatives to spend the holidays with us.
We didn’t feel this change too much at Sukkot (other than
my wife taking on all the preparation duties, aided by our
daughters), because our new sukkah, which we bought
about seven years ago, is far more spacious than our dining
room, allowing us to fill it with guests for each meal.
But when we sat down to the first Pesach seder, the
change was palpable. Instead of the two tables we previ-
ously crammed into our dining room to fit in at least 15 and
often many more boisterous relatives (necessitating us to
move our sideboard to our living room for the duration),
our single table (with the sideboard in its usual place) was
ing in the area. (My Toronto daughter, son-in-law, and three
grandchildren didn’t join us until chol hamoed.)
It was a very different seder. We missed the loud sing-
ing, cajoling the youngest child to say the Mah Nishtana
in Hebrew, and having the questions then repeated in
French, Yiddish, Japanese, American Sign Language, and
any other tongue someone knew or just learned. This year
it simply was ASL signed by our daughter, who is a teacher
of the deaf, and Hebrew recited by the youngest child —
our 27-year-old daughter. We also missed hearing the vari-
ous divrei Torah the children had learned in school, and
we missed laughing as our nephew entertained us with his
revised version of a seder story I taught him, a story that
my grandfather told every year when I was a child.
But together with what we lost there was much we
gained. The lovely, sweet, intimate atmo-
sphere allowed all to participate actively and
remain engaged with one another, kept side
discussions to a bare minimum, and elimi-
nated disruptive political arguments. And
we still sang all the traditional songs (“tra-
ditional” includes “frogs here, frogs there”
even without younger children present, and
a Yiddish version of Adir Hu taught to me by
my grandfather) and ate all the traditional
foods (“traditional” includes chicken mar-
bella at dinner after the matzah and marror)
— all with gusto. Magid was faster, we cut out
the dessert course at the first seder (helping
us to hopefully meet our goal of fitting into our wedding
attire at the end of June), my afikoman was still where I
placed it when we reached Nirtza at the second seder, and
no one conked out in the middle, because we finished by
midnight rather than our usual 2 a.m.
We also were honest enough to realize that the aging
process meant that without the help of our wonderful chil-
dren we could not do all the physical labor required to
prepare and turn over the kitchen twice and set up and
break down all the boxes in our garage, where we stack
many of our Pesach pots, pans, and utensils on tables dur-
ing the holiday, retrieving them as we need them, replac-
ing them when we’re finished. (Our kitchen is small!) And
while that’s a difficult fact to confront, it came along with
the realization that our children are perfectly capable of
carrying out the traditions and hard work that go into
making a family yom tov and thankfully have absorbed
the values that make all that work worthwhile
Our seder and Pesach preparations certainly have
changed, but these changes had both sad and heartwarm-
ing elements at the same time.
One adjective I did not use in my question at the top
of this column but will add now is “inevitable,” since as
long as we breathe and think we will continue to experi-
ence change in many forms and be affected by it in dif-
ferent ways; we are never, as the saying goes, able to step
into the same river twice. And that’s one more thing that
makes life and change — and here’s my final adjective —
so very exciting.
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.
JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 20, 2018 39
Opinion
Say yes to the dress … just not yet
I
am inside the world’s most famous
bridal store, navigating a sea of
women. Women everywhere, only
women, of every shape and height
and size and color and ethnic group, rang-
ing in age from perhaps eight to seventy.
My daughter’s friends arrived early, and
they call me over, grinning and waving
their arms. I try to check in with the exqui-
sitely beautiful girl behind the counter —
Kleinfeld will charge you a hundred dollars
if you miss your appointment, and we are
running late — but the beautiful girl hap-
pily informs me that my daughter is the
only one allowed to check in. So I wend my
way through the rising and falling waves of
women to my daughter’s friends, and we
exchange excited greetings.
A bouncy party of ladies at the ban-
quette next to ours is called to meet their
bridal attendant. They are wearing identi-
cal black t-shirts declaring their relation-
ships to the bride in curly red script: “I’m
Her Grandmother!!!” “I’m Her Aunt!!!”
“I’m Her Mom!!!”
Drifting languidly toward the door like
so many gazelles is a herd of lanky, tanned
blondes. They stand out from the crowd in
their coordinating peach summer dresses.
I notice a little girl in a short spaghetti
strap dress. It is 40 degrees outside.
“They must hope they’re going to be
filmed for the show,” says my daughter’s
A single phone call can make a crucial difference
I
n late 2001, America bore witness
to 9/11 and the aftermath of Presi-
dent Bush preparing to intervene
in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was
around that time that the Second Intifada
was at its peak. Yasir Arafat had rejected
the proposed peace deal that President
Clinton tried to broker, and instead
moved toward a violent confrontation.
There was no effective border sepa-
rating the Palestinian Authorities terri-
tories and Israel. The Israeli economy
was affected by both the general 9/11
downturn and uncontrolled terrorism
in the country. Tourism was drastically
down, the streets of Jerusalem largely
vacant, and there even were rumors
that Israel bonds were not secure. The
number of casualties and deaths, while
less than during the Yom Kippur War,
almost were comparable.
The Bush administration was submit-
ting a request to Congress for a supple-
mental appropriations bill in the amount
of about $81 billion dollars for the war
effort. In that appropriations request
40 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 20, 2018
roommate. “Look. They all got their hair
done. And their makeup is perfect.”
I had forgotten about the show that
made the store a household name, “Say
Yes to the Dress.” To me, Kleinfeld is still
a scruffy bridal boutique in Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn, where you can buy a sample
dress for $500 dollars, or a designer gown
for $10,000.
Finally, my daughter strides through the
double doors, her mane of curls stream-
ing behind her. She checks in and we are
assigned an attendant. Brandy is a cheer-
ful girl with bobbed blonde hair, crimson
lipstick, and a club-kid white complexion.
Like all the attendants, she is dressed in
black from head to toe.
We follow Brandy from the packed
reception area into the bridal salon, a
blindingly bright room approximately
the size of an airplane hangar. Massive
chandeliers are suspended from the ceil-
ing twenty feet above our heads. The
rows of track lights make me feel like I’m
in an art gallery, or a theater.
As my eyes adjust, I see a vast, airy space
punctuated by sofas and chairs. The seat-
ing arrangements divide the room into
smaller areas that are both private and
completely visible to everyone else, all at
the same time. Did I mention it was white?
White are the walls, the woodwork, the
columns holding up the ceiling. White is
The educational
process for
members of
Congress about
the dangers of
Iran, militant
Islam, BDS, and
other issues is an
ongoing process.
were funds to help some of our Arab
allies offset some of their costs for sup-
porting the effort to overthrow Saddam
Hussein. Israel had made a request for a
$3 billion grant and $12 billion in Ameri-
can loan guarantees, which were worth
even more than the grant due to saved
interest costs and the ability to borrow.
the awning, the carpet, the
tiny lights in the chande-
liers. White are the mold-
ing and trim, the flowers in
urns and vases, the smiles
of the attendants. White are
the gowns hanging on white
hangers and white racks, and
white is the color of the light
in the cupboards behind the Helen
dresses. White are the brides, Maryles
pivoting on little round plat- Shankman
forms in front of their fami-
lies. I’ve never seen so many
shades of white in one place; creamy
white, pearly white, transparent white,
ivory white, silver white, champagne
white, diamond white, a white with tones
of pink, a white that is nearly gold; white
as the feathers of an angel’s wing.
Brandy deposits us at a couch near the
wall of tiaras, hands us bottles of water
with “Kleinfeld” printed on the labels.
We stand in a circle, my daughter’s col-
lege friends and me, as she leads my lit-
tle girl away to the dressing rooms. “The
next time you see her, she’ll be wearing
a wedding dress,” Brandy promises as
she departs.
I feel a little abandoned. Hey, what
about me? I want to shout at Brandy. I’m
the mommy! Shouldn’t I be back there
too, helping my baby choose her wedding
The Bush administration
decided to leave the Israel
piece out and address it at
a later time, which could
have meant never. The
Jewish advocacy commu-
nity, realizing the situa-
tion was grave, turned to a
great friend — then-Majority
Leader Congressman Tom Dr. Ben
DeLay (R-Texas) — for help. Chouake
The majority leader called
Condoleezza Rice, Bush’s
national security advisor, and advised
her that Congress wanted the funding
for Israel in this adviser supplemental
appropriations bill and that he personally
would do everything he could to include
it. He concluded that it would be better
that the president get credit and input
into the specifics for the supplemental
appropriations for our ally and asked that
the administration include these provi-
sions for Israel in the submitted request.
The administration did make the
requested change, and the bill included
dress? You don’t even know
her! And I fret: Will she
remember to tell the atten-
dant that we have a limited
budget? That her dress needs
sleeves, can’t be backless or
strapless or plunge too low?
In the distance, I see a
vision, a spectacular Bot-
ticelli Venus of a girl with
long tawny hair making her
way across the room. People
at other stations turn their
heads to stare. The vision
comes closer. My daughter approaches
us, in a perfect lace gown that makes
her look like a princess in a fairy tale. My
daughter, the bride.
My heart beats so hard I think it’s going
to jump out of my chest. I’m literally shak-
ing. She steps up on the little round plat- B
form as the attendant poofs out her train. p
She looks at herself in the mirror.
“What do you think, Mom?” she says.
What do I think? A minute ago, it was
me trying on wedding dresses, with my
mother smiling through her tears. A min-
ute ago, it was me and my best friends
clowning around at Kleinfeld, snapping
pictures of the dresses when the attendant
wasn’t looking. A minute ago, I was shop-
ping for her dresses at Baby Gap, and she
thought the clowns rotating slowly around
provisions for a $2 billion
grant and $9 billion in loan
guarantees for Israel, and
Israel was able to complete
the security perimeter and
largely halt the terrorism
and hemorrhage. Many Jew-
ish lives were saved. Israel
moved to a more secure sit-
uation, physically and eco-
nomically. We were able to
solicit this help at a crucial
point in time. One phone
call made the difference, because we had
relationships to make our case for better
American policy.
An important message of Passover
is that we must remember that we are
a vulnerable people. The Jews lived in
Egypt for many years in prosperity and
peace, and in the blink of an eye they
were subscribed into involuntary servi-
tude. So has been our fate as a people
for thousands of years, having to flee
one country after another, until now
that we have our homeland, Israel. Jews

Bottles of privately-labeled water are
part of the Kleinfeld experience.
her mobile were the greatest show on
earth. How did the years pass so quickly?
“You look like a goddess!” I blurt. Her
friends chorus their agreement. She looks
incredible. It’s like the dress was created
just for her.
Today, we do not say yes to the dress.
We came here for the full Kleinfeld
experience. We take frequent breaks to
admire or critique the gowns that girls
have a sanctuary and the pride of a
nation built with the help of God.
As with most of our battles for the sur-
vival of our people and homeland, we are
expected to be active participants, to be
willing to fend for ourselves, and to earn the
help of the Almighty.
The educational process for members of
Congress about the dangers of Iran, militant
Islam, BDS, and other issues is an ongoing
process. The legislators you meet in Wash-
ington on the Norpac mission likely will
learn more from your exchange on these
issues and pending related legislation than
from any other source all year.
While it is fine to say how much you care
about Israel to yourself, your friends, and
your children, you demonstrate your inten-
tions and commitment to our nation’s lead-
ers by showing up. Members of Congress
take note of actual citizen activity. Every
email you send to our representatives is the
equivalent of 10 votes, each phone call is the
same as 100 votes. Showing up in D.C. per-
sonally is the equivalent of 10,000 voters. It
may seem like a lot, and it is.
around us are trying on. We drink the
bottles of Kleinfeld water. She tries on
four more dresses. We take lots of pic-
tures. She looks gorgeous in all of them.
But to me, only the first one matters, the
one that finally made me understand that
my daughter really is getting married.
It’s not about me making choices for her.
She is stepping into her adult life, the one
where I am not in charge.
By the end of our session, she has
decided she likes two of the dresses.
Brandy slips us her card and advises us
that if we want either one, we’d better
order it by Tuesday. We smile and nod.
The wedding is six months away. We have
an appointment at another, more afford-
able store later this week.
We have a group hug with the brides-
maids, and then my daughter and I leave
the store. On the way out, I impulsively
take her hand. For a while, we walk down
Fifth Avenue like that—as if she is still a lit-
tle girl, and I am afraid she will get lost in
the crowd if I let go.
Helen Maryles Shankman of Teaneck is
an artist and writer. Her work appears in
many fine journals, including The Kenyon
Review, Gargoyle, Jewishfiction.net, and
Cream City Review. Scribner recently
published her second novel, “In The Land
of Armadillos.”
The extra effort is highly leveraged,
which is why we put in so much work to
make it possible. Norpac leadership is
arranging meetings with 90 percent of
Congress. We are all busy. But ask your-
self: Is there anything you must do this
April 25th that is more important than the
opportunity to make the case for Israel
personally to the receptive leaders of the
world’s most powerful nation?
There are 52 Wednesdays every year.
How many of them do you remember?
Come on the Norpac mission to Washing-
ton on April 25. If possible, bring a fam-
ily member, a child, or a grandchild who
is 12 or older. It will be a Wednesday that
you and those with you will remember for
a lifetime.
Dr. Ben Chouake, M.D., of Englewood is the
national president of Norpac, the largest
pro-Israel political action committee in the
United States. He runs a medical practice
in Cliffside Park and is a board member of
several Jewish organizations on the local and
national level.
Counting the Omer: Point us
in the right direction
W
e seem to be a generation
obsessed with recording
our life stories.
Everyone is con-
stantly trying to capture the moment in
selfies, on Instagram and Facebook, so
that we can share our personal journeys
with friends and family, near and far. It’s
the age of techno-storytelling.
Yet haven’t Jews always been storytell-
ers? Only the method has changed over
time. We just finished retelling the story of
our ancestors through the Haggadah and
we continue to share our present-day sto-
ries through the medium of technology.
During Passover we recount
where we came from liter-
ally, and counting the Omer
points us in the direction of
where we need to be going
figuratively. With the sed-
ers behind us, we’re now
embarked on a 49-day spiri-
tual journey that takes us
from Egypt to Mount Sinai,
from the hardship of slavery Dr. Tani
to receiving the Torah and Foger
our religious freedom.
It is said that you can’t
know where you are going unless you
know where you have come from. The
importance of telling our story never
has been more crucial than now, on
each Holocaust Memorial Day, as we
recall the darkest period in our recent
history, when our very existence was
almost obliterated. With every passing
Yom HaShoah v’Hagevura it becomes
more and more essential that we tell
and retell the stories of survivors, of
their heroism and their indomitable
spirit. We must remember the lives
they rebuilt when all was taken from
them. We must share their stories so
that the world cannot minimize or
deny them.
It is now our job to carry forth
their mantle so that the world will
always remember.
Pirkei Avot instructs us: Lo hamidrash
ha-ikkar. Elah hama’aseh — “Words are
not the essence. Actions are.” This is
such a powerful lesson to use to remind
ourselves and to model for our children
— that our actions speak to what our val-
ues and our core beliefs are, and that we
are judged by what we do rather than by
what we say. We all know that our chil-
dren learn by watching us and that they
emulate our behavior.
The month of Iyar is filled with mean-
ingful commemorations, created to mark
seminal events in our recent history;
Yom HaShoah, Yom Hazikaron, Yom
Ha’atzmaut. While many events demand
our attention, showing up to attend these
important ceremonies speaks volumes
Opinion
about where our principles and pas-
sions reside.
This month is ripe with opportunities
for us to demonstrate our collective sup-
port for the state of Israel and for keep-
ing the memory of the six million alive
through our actions and not just our
words. By attending these events, our
words and our deeds truly are aligned.
As we count the days of the Omer until
Shavuot, when we accept the Torah,
we make a choice that only free people
can make. The Torah is our blueprint
for a lifetime of freedom, granted to us
after taking our collective and personal
journeys. But we all know
that true freedom doesn’t
happen in an instant.
Rather, attaining freedom
is a long and laborious
process. As the Slonimer
rebbe teaches, while God
brought us physically out
of the land of Egypt, it is
now up to each of us indi-
vidually to embark on our
own personal inner jour-
neys towards freedom,
both spiritual and religious.
This period of the counting of the
Omer is an awesome time of potential for
inner growth. Each day brings us a step
closer in the right direction as we strive
to improve ourselves through introspec-
tion, reflection, and the development of
our best attributes.
The Torah is our
blueprint for a
lifetime of
freedom, granted
to us after taking
our collective
and personal
journeys.
May we all continue to learn how to
make our lives more meaningful by
focusing on our deeds and on being our
best selves. And may we all strive to con-
tinue to model good deeds to our chil-
dren and to each other, so that we can
lead by example, as we continue to share
our stories.
Tani Foger, Ed.D, LPC of Englewood, is a
psychologist and educational consultant.
She is the founder of “Let’s Talk”
Guidance Workshops: Conquering the
Challenges in Our Lives.
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Opinion

The Warsaw Ghetto: The epitome of rightful resistance

I
t’s hard to say for sure
whether the following
fable was really told in
the Warsaw Ghetto, but
it’s grimly funny enough to
warrant repeating.
The story goes that at the
height of World War II, Win-
ston Churchill consulted with
the chasidic rabbi of Gur about Ben Cohen
the best way of bringing down
Nazi Germany. The rabbi told
the British wartime leader that there were two ways he
could think of — one natural, the other supernatural.
“The natural way would be if one million angels with
flaming swords descended on Germany and destroyed
it,” explained the rabbi. “The supernatural way would
be if one million British paratroopers descended on Ger-
many and did the same thing.”
“Supernatural” may be too weak a word to describe
how the very idea of outside military assistance must
have seemed to the approximately 70,000 Jews who
remained in the Warsaw Ghetto on April 19, 1943 — the
first night of Passover — as Nazi troops launched their
final liquidation. But by the time they finished that
operation on May 16 — with the symbolic burning of the
Warsaw Great Synagogue and the deportation of the
surviving inhabitants to death camps — hundreds of the
invaders lay dead or wounded after nearly a month of
savage fighting with the poorly armed, impossibly brave
Jewish fighters in the ghetto.
As the 75th anniversary of the uprising approaches The Mordechai Anielewicz statue at the Yad Mordechai kibbutz in southern Israel. Anielewicz was the
this week, there will be a great deal of solemn commem- young leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from April
oration of its heroes and victims. We think, for good rea- into May of 1943. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

son, of the Warsaw Ghetto ultimately as a tragedy to be

mourned, the culmination of the process of eliminating
the Jewish population of the Polish capital that began in
1939, and one more example of the same brutal fate met
by Jews in other Polish towns and cities — like those in
the Vilna Ghetto who rose in armed revolt against the
Nazis the previous year, in January 1942.
Yet I want to suggest that the passage of time should
encourage us to think a little less mournfully. A story of
great hope revolves around the events of the Warsaw
Ghetto uprising that has to be heard, particularly at a time
when — as a survey carried out by the Jewish Claims Con-
ference revealed this month — the public’s general knowl-
edge of what the Holocaust involved is diminishing.
There is a lot of talk these days, especially on the far
left, about the imperative to “celebrate resistance.” For
many supporters of Israel, phrases like that cause an
instinctive rolling of the eyes. In the last decade or so,
that same concept has been behind the global demon-
strations during the 2006 Lebanon War, in which anti-
Zionist fanatics — a motley crew of well-heeled hipster
leftists and diehard Islamists — proclaimed “We Are All
Hezbollah.” It was behind the riot pro-Palestinian dem-
onstrators started outside a Paris synagogue during the
summer 2014 war in Gaza — with a full congregation
inside. And it is what informs the basic worldview of
those activist groups on American campuses and leftist
parties in Europe that depict Israel as the embodiment
of colonial villainy.
What the Warsaw Ghetto uprising demonstrates is that
this concept doesn’t belong to these groups alone. I am
that doing so would be plain knuckleheaded. Nor am
I saying that we should embrace the impressive num-
ber of Nazi troops killed during the uprising as our sole
symbol of pride; Judaism shies away from glorifying or
sacralizing acts of violence even when they are, as they
were in this case, justified self-defense.
The hope, I think, lies in recognizing that the War-
saw Ghetto uprising is not just a key aspect of the Holo-
caust, but one of the most inspiring stories that history
ever has recorded in the general struggle for liberty.
The American revolutionaries understood that human
beings have an inherent right to resist tyranny regard-
less of who the tyrant is, and that same understanding
was what drove the Jewish fighters.
The hope, I think, lies in
recognizing that the
Warsaw Ghetto
uprising is not just a
key aspect of the
Holocaust, but one
of the most inspiring
stories that history
Moreover, the Jews of Vilna and Warsaw were not
the only communities to fight back against the tyranny
of Nazism. A circular from the surviving Jewish under-
ground fighters in Poland in November 1943 reported
on Jewish armed resistance in the city of Bialystok, and
in the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps, as well as in
smaller towns — Tarnow, Bedzin, Czenstochow, Boris-
law — whose names ring few bells with us almost a cen-
tury later. All of these uprisings broke out in the weeks
and months after news of the resistance in Warsaw had
spread; in the words of the report, they were “a con-
tinuation of the chain of heroic deeds which the Warsaw
Ghetto initiated.”
That same report also proudly observed how Jew-
ish Communists and the socialist, non-Zionist Bund
had “joined hands with all Zionist underground orga-
nizations” in the Warsaw Ghetto. “Our comrades lived
and worked with the others just as members of a close
family,” it said. “A common aim united us. During this
entire period of over half a year, there were no quarrels
or struggles, which are common among adherents of dif-
ferent ideologies.”
There is, in those words, an unmistakable sense of
victory, even as the rest of the report records defeats,
setbacks, and other difficulties. Those fighters knew,
as the end engulfed them, what they had achieved.
Enough time has now passed for us to judge that even
if they did not live, they won. For that, they deserve
our eternal gratitude. JNS.ORG

not saying that we should unthinkingly apply the slogan ever has recorded Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for JNS on Jewish
“Celebrate Resistance” to our commemorations of the
uprising; anyone with any knowledge of the starvation
in the general struggle affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz,
and humiliation visited upon the ghetto will understand for liberty. the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.

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Healthly Living & Adult Lifestyles

Do you eat with color in mind?

JANET BRANCATO
MS, RD, The Valley Hospital

When you look down at your plate at meal times do you

see a variety of colors? If the answer is yes, then you are
probably eating very nutritious food. If not, then you may
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All fruits and vegetables contain healthy fiber and natu-
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Health experts say that people should get a minimum
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Red
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Orange Yellow Green

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The onion family contains allicin, which has anti-
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Is Charlie Brown motivational?

RICHARD PORTUGAL
The universe is so large. Its very vastness both stuns and
excites the imagination. From science fiction writers to
those at NASA who study the stars, its depth and myster-
ies have caused awe and wonder to explode our imagina-
tions. We as a people who inhabit this earth have created
stories about the heavens, have fashioned cave paintings
and gods based on its stars and shooting comets, and
have eventually accepted our small planet’s place within
this vastness.
I remember a Charlie Brown comic strip where he is
looking to the vast sky for answers only to turn and be
punched by Lucy who tells him to wake up and concen-
trate on playing right field. And sure enough, the next hit
ball flies right to Charlie Brown, who misses it anyway.
Charlie Brown then again looks to the sky for answers.
He is the eternal romantic who looks to the stars to make
sense as to why he inevitably misses the fly ball. If
this were a million years ago, he would draw a shoot-
ing star on a cave wall.
It is the Charlie Browns of this world who can
take our daily mishaps, injuries, travails, and trag-
edies and make them bearable; who can inflate
hope; who can engender optimism; and who can
offer peace and acceptance by just peering upward.
Charlie Brown knows navigating this world is diffi-
cult. Missed fly balls, illnesses, societal pressures,
and perceived injustices can make us all feel small
and relegate our planet’s very existence to a mere
speck in the universal cosmos. But Charlie Brown,
no matter the obstacles, is a survivor. He seems so
vulnerable, yet displays such strength, toughness
and determination. He knows life is to be lived, not
surrendered to.
I am fortunate to interact with these Charlie
Browns on a daily basis. They are my clients who
foster optimism, spirit, enthusiasm, and confi-

It is the Charlie
Browns of this
world who can take
our daily mishaps,
injuries, travails, and
tragedies and make
them bearable.
dence. They are the individuals who keep me
motivated with positive life lessons of character,
courage and strength. When they drop a ball hit
directly to them, it is the ball who apologizes. They
live life with a purpose which inspires those around
them. They are determined, resolute, and persis-
tent. Confronted with medical issues they fight to
make their lives more meaningful. These are dis-
eases which can be frightening to behold: multiple
sclerosis, Parkinson’s, strokes, heart attacks. All
can attack balance, equilibrium, strength, and cog-
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If you’re how you’re feeling,” Deyka said. “And I can’t say enough
good things about Dr. Schiavone — in addition to being
Yet, throughout this time, she was grateful. She had a
great prognosis and while she endured chemotherapy
going to get cancer… a great surgeon, she takes the time to reassure you and for several months, she saw people who had been get-
When Deyka Torres was told she had cancer, she make sure you understand everything.” ting treatment for years. This deeply affected her and she
was scared, really scared. Immediately, she had two Still, Deyka had some dark moments. There were decided she wanted to help others.
thoughts, “Am I going to die from this? And if not, times she would get to her car after treatment and just “I’ve been so inspired to talk with my students and
what do I have to do to get better?” break down in tears. She was so tired and slightly nause- teachers about doing a fundraiser to help people under-
Deyka was 37 years old, a mother of three, a wife ated for a good part of the months she had chemother- going cancer treatment,” Deyka said. “I’m back at work,
and teacher. She was in the prime of her life, working apy. She had to tell her children about her illness and my kids are doing well and I feel really good. I just want to
on her master’s degree and preparing for her oldest take time away from her teaching position in a Newark give back for all the care and compassion I received while
son to leave for college. Cervical cancer was not part high school. I was sick.”
of the plan.
“My doctor recom-
mended Dr. Maria Schi-
avone at Holy Name
Medical Center and even
though I live in West
Valley Health System, the healthcare provider you For all your health care needs, Valley provides highly
Orange, I didn’t hesi- know and trust, is proud to announce the expansion personalized, comprehensive care close to home.
tate to make an appoint- of its partnership with the Mount Sinai Health And with Mount Sinai as our partner, we’re bringing
ment,” Deyka said. “And System, the world-renowned New York academic advanced clinical research to cancer care for you
as soon as I met her, she medical center. Our powerful alliance now brings and your loved ones.
made me feel so much cancer care innovation and access to clinical
better.” trials to the communities of northern New Jersey.
Maria Schiavone, MD, Dyka Torres
Now patients can see Mount Sinai specialists for
a gynecologic oncologist
treatment of pancreatic, head and neck, lung and
at the Patricia Lynch Cancer Center at Holy Name,
skin cancers at Valley’s Cancer Center in northern
assured Deyka that “Everything would be okay and
New Jersey. Valley’s cancer specialists all have
I was going to live a long life. She told me no one
academic appointments at the Icahn School of
wants to get cancer but if you do get it, this is the one Medicine at Mount Sinai, fostering close collaboration
to get,” Deyka said. between colleagues from both organizations.
Dr. Schiavone performed a robotic hysterectomy
on Deyka before chemotherapy and radiation treat-
ment. The surgery went well, exactly as planned, as
did her other treatments. ADVANCING CANCER CARE
“I have to say that if you do get cancer, Holy Name
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people at the front desk who always greet you with
a smile to the chemo nurses in the infusion center
TOGETHER
who are attentive to your every need. Dr. Benjamin
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THROUGH RESEARCH
music during my radiation treatment, Dr. Sharyn
Lewin (director of gynecologic oncology) stopped in
to see me after my surgery, the chaplain who sat with
me to talk — I can’t begin to tell you how much they
all made me feel so cared for.
“You expect hospitals to be bustling and noisy and
it is busy at Holy Name, but never too busy that the
staff members don’t call you by your name and ask

To reach a Valley cancer care specialist

today, please call 201-634-5339.

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The Valley Hospital adds Shabbat elevator

The Valley Hospital has added a Shabbat elevator to the
many resources that it provides to Jewish patients and
their families. The elevator is in the Cheel building just
off of the main lobby and will run continuously from sun-
down Friday to sundown Saturday, stopping on every
floor as it ascends. It will also operate in Shabbat mode on
all major Jewish holidays.
“The Valley Hospital is committed to supporting the
unique needs of all Jewish patients and their families, both
physically and spiritually,” said Rev. Mason Jenkins, supervi-
sor, pastoral care, for The Valley Hospital. Jewish volunteers
visit patients each weekday and a rabbi is available upon
request. The hospital provides battery operated Shabbat
candles, builds a sukkah to celebrate Sukkot, and welcomes
the Jewish New Year by blowing a shofar throughout the
hospital on Rosh Hashanah.
In 2016, Valley opened a kosher pantry, which is stocked
with a variety of kosher snacks and beverages, religious lit-
erature, and Jewish books and magazines. Other services
include kosher meals served by Valley Dining that meet the
highest standards of kashrut. These meals are offered at no
cost to one family member for patients in the Mother/Baby
and Pediatric Units; additional meals may be purchased in
any unit by calling 201-447-8094 or asking a Valley Dining
Ambassador. Juice and challah are available upon request
with Friday night dinner, as well as matzah for Passover
and apples and honey for Rosh Hashanah. In addition,
family members in need of lodging during Shabbat can
speak with the Patient and Family Relations Department at
201-447-8015.
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These Israeli scientists are giving
new hope to kids with cancer
LARRY LUXNER
TEL AVIV — For the past four decades,
geneticist Dr. Yossi Shiloh has been
researching the origins of a rare, crippling
childhood disease, ataxia-telangiectasia.
Children with A-T suffer frequent infec-
tions and lung problems, and they are
usually wheelchair-bound by the age of 10
or 12. They’re also 1,000 times more likely
than healthy kids to develop cancer. The
syndrome generally leads to death by the
late 20s or early 30s — either from cancer
or lung disease.
Though only 1 in 40,000 to 100,000
children worldwide are diagnosed with
the disease, the prevalence among Sep-
hardic Jews of Moroccan and Yemenite
origin is astronomically higher: 1 in 100
have a chance at being carriers.
“There have only been a few hundred
families with this disease in the history of
Israel,” said Shiloh, of Tel Aviv University.
“We don’t see too many patients these days
because the families do pre-natal diagnosis,
and parents often prefer to terminate the
pregnancies of affected children.”
In Jerusalem, another Israeli scientist, Dr.
Amir Eden of Hebrew University, studies
the molecular processes underlying pedi-
atric bone cancer and rhabdoid tumors.
Elsewhere at the university, neuroscientist
Dr. Oded Behar specializes in researching
high-grade gliomas — devastating tumors
that attack both adults and children.
The pioneering pediatric cancer research
these three scientists are working on is a
big part of the reason Israel has become a
leader in the global fight against cancer.
Several key cancer breakthroughs in
recent decades had their origins in Israel.
Landmark drugs to treat leukemia and
bone marrow cancer were the result of
groundbreaking work by Israeli scientists.
Researchers in Israel have been at the fore-
front of uncovering the role that genetic
mutations play in breast cancer.
The work these three scientists are
doing now on some of the fundamental
causes driving cancers is giving parents
around the world reasons for hope that
more effective treatments for their chil-
dren may be just around the corner.
Why genetic sequencing
spurred a quantum leap in
cancer research
The watershed moment in modern can-
cer research came in 2003, according to
Eden, when the completion of the Human
Genome Project made it possible to com-
pare differences between the genetic
makeup of cancers and healthy genomes.
That led to a large-scale, international
effort to study the DNA sequence of dif-
ferent tumors.
“For researchers, this was a revolution
because until then, we were kind of in the
dark,” Eden said. “Many new mechanisms
of cancer were discovered simply because
we never knew they get mutated.”
Eden’s research focuses on a mutation
in the SMARCB1 gene, which causes malig-
nant rhabdoid tumor (MRT), an extremely
rare pediatric tumor diagnosed in 20 to 25
U.S. babies a year. MRT generally starts in
the kidneys but can also occur in other
soft tissues or in the brain.
The lab Eden runs at Hebrew Univer-
sity’s Life Science Institute with about half
a dozen research assistants experiments
on mice to understand the molecular
mechanisms behind the development of
the mutations that lead to the tumors. The
hope is that by understanding the under-
lying molecular processes, scientists can
figure out which processes to target so
that treatments can be developed to alter
those mechanisms.
“For example,” Eden said, “our experi-
ments with mice could show that if we
eliminate a specific enzyme, the cancer
doesn’t occur. How to translate that into
a drug that inactivates such an enzyme is
someone else’s job.”
Eden’s work, like that of so many other
cancer researchers in Israel, is supported
by the Israel Cancer Research Fund,
which doles out millions of dollars annu-
ally to Israeli cancer researchers.
Aborting cancerous tumors
Behar specializes in high-grade gliomas.
Adults with these tumors typically develop
them in the brain’s cortex region, which is
responsible for thinking. In kids, the tumors
generally show up in the brain stem, which
controls breathing and alertness.
Lacking effective therapy, these gliomas
can cause death within months.
“The prognosis is terrible,” Behar said.
It’s not clear why children get high-grade
gliomas. It’s not a genetic disease. Neurons
comprise about 30 percent of the brain’s
cells and glia make up the other 70 per-
cent. To examine the cells more closely,
Behar’s team purified glia from the brain
stem and cortex and then tested tumor-
ous cells from post-mortem patients. They
found that tumors originating in the brain
stem proliferate much faster in the pres-
ence of brain stem glial cells than in the
presence of cortex glial cells.
As with Eden’s work, the focus is on
discovering what causes the tumor to
develop so the process can be aborted.
“We’re utilizing these differences
between the glial cells to identify the
distinct factors that promote growth of
the corresponding gliomas,” said Behar,
whose four-person lab at Hebrew Uni-
versity is supported by a two-year
research grant from the Israel Cancer
Research Fund. “Our hope is to catch
those genes that are responsible for the
interaction between tumors and glia. If
we can target the interaction between
the glia and the tumor and basically
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block that interaction, we can develop treatments that
will be less sensitive to the tumor.”
A deadly Sephardic disease
Shiloh, 69, stumbled upon A-T syndrome in 1977, while
a graduate student in search of a doctoral thesis topic.
While visiting a small village in southern Israel, he met a
Moroccan Jewish family with 10 children, four of whom
had the disease.
“I decided on the spot that this would be the subject of
my thesis,” Shiloh recalled.
The A-T mutation causes severe neuro-motor disability
and chronic lung disease. Sufferers also have a predisposi-
tion to leukemia and lymphomas and extreme sensitivity
to radiation.
First described in 1926 by two Czech doctors, A-T is
inherited much the same way as other genetic disorders.
If both parents are carriers of the disease-causing muta-
tion, their children each have a 25 percent risk of devel-
oping the disease. Marriage within the family clan, once
common among Jews in the Middle East and North Africa,
increases the risk tremendously. A-T is not uncommon
among Sephardic Jews and Arabs, but it’s practically non-
existent among Ashkenazim in Israel.
After years of research, Shiloh discovered the protein
allowed, for the first time, reliable prenatal diagnosis of A-T.
That led Shiloh’s lab to carry out a pilot screening program
in two Arab villages in Israel’s Galilee with high A-T rates.
“If you can identify a family at risk before they have
their first affected child, you can help them prevent this
tragedy,” Shiloh said.
Leading a lab in Tel Aviv with 13 employees, Shiloh is
a long-time grantee of the Israel Cancer Research Fund,
currently in year four of a seven-year ICRF professorship
grant. The long-term funding, he said, has allowed him to
focus on his work.
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“The ATM protein turned out to have many func-
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DNA damage caused by ionizing radiation. This protein is
completely missing in A-T patients, and this explains the
extreme radiosensitivity.”
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growers, scientists and breeders. Nearly 70 Israeli companies are actively
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about curing. This is revolutionary in rela- such as agriculture, life-sciences and med-
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such as a novel vapor capture technology
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for the most beneficial medical effects.
Autism, epilepsy,
r fractures, diabetes
n Dr. Adi Aran, director of neuropediatrics at
r Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem
and a consultant to the Health Ministry for
d medical cannabis, explores the effects of
- medical cannabis on epilepsy and autism
k spectrum disorder (ASD).
- “The dramatic clinical effect seen in some
cases has led me to further explore the poten-
t tial benefits, and possible risks, of cannabi-
h noids, particularly in children,” said Aran.
. In 2016, he led the world’s first open-label
e trial studying the effect of cannabidiol (CBD)
e oil on symptoms in 60 subjects aged 5 to 21.
Nearly half the subjects’ parents said
- their children’s core ASD symptoms were
. reduced by the treatment. Almost one-third
- said their previously uncommunicative
d children started speaking or communicat-
e ing nonverbally — including one who said
“I love you” to his mother for the first time.
h Encouraged by those results, Aran led
e a large-scale double-blind controlled trial
2 on the efficacy and safety of cannabis for
. autism, involving 150 severely autistic chil-
s dren and adults aged 5 to 29.
) “The follow-up will continue till Novem-
s ber,” he tells ISRAEL21c, “and then the pub-
, lication process will take several months.”
l Tikun Olam, the first grower and supplier
r of medical cannabis to be licensed by the
Israeli Health Ministry, in 2005, recently
d tested its oral CBD oil drops to lessen symp-
e toms associated with severe ASD.
t In the study at Assaf Harofeh Medical
Center involving 53 children and young
adults aged 4 to 22, the Tikun Olam drops
caused a significant improvement in social
y communication skills and decrease in self-
s injury and rage attacks, hyperactivity, sleep
- disturbances and anxiety. The overall rate
t of improvement in symptoms was 74.5 per-
cent, although in some participants the
s symptoms stayed the same or worsened.
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D’var Torah
Tazria/Metzora: Identity theft, a modern blessing

T
his week I discovered that I
was the victim of identity theft.
Numerous accounts of various
types were opened in my name
and merchandise had been ordered from
online vendors which were then swiped
from my mailbox and doorstep. It became
clear that my most sensitive and personal
information had been compromised and
were floating around somewhere on the
dark web. Someone out there was gallivant-
ing around using my identity as a Purim cos-
tume and representing themselves as me. I
quickly went to work countering the breach
by filing a police report, closing down fake
accounts, proving my identity over and
over again by providing an ocean of arcane
details from my past, and finally working to
freeze and seal my credit.
The experience made me think about
Parshat Metzorah — the second of two
Torah portions we read this Shabbat — in
which we are treated to an elaborate and
detailed analysis of tzara’at, a spiritual
affliction from Biblical times resembling
leprosy. The sages of the Talmud teach
(Sanhedrin 98b) that Moshiach — the Jew-
ish redeemer — is called a metzorah, some-
one who has tzara’at, or, more colloquially
if less medically accurately, a leper. But
why is Moshiach specifically described as
having leprosy and not any other illness?
Rabbi Schneur Zalman — the author of
the Tanya, the seminal work of Chabad
philosophy — illuminates this time consuming and frus- wearer alone. Sadly, in a world chiefly pro-
idea by explaining that the trating. But with this thought pelled by superficial values, representing
nature of leprosy challenges of Rabbi Schneur Zalman in oneself with two faces sounded reasonable
us to reorient our percep- mind, I didn’t quite feel like to him. (I convinced him in the end, but he
tions by contextualizing the my identity had been stolen. asked me not to share the idea since it was
disease in a positive spiritual On the contrary, rather than bad for business!)
light. He proceeds to explain a loss of personhood, I felt Identity theft can also take on a more
that Moshiach personifies the liberated from some aspects subtle yet even more egregious form
powerful Divine revelation of my acquired, superficial where others attempt to modify your own
of the future Messianic era. Rabbi identity brought on by living identity while you are wearing it.
As we stand at the threshold Chanoch in a world filled with false In the recent Mahwah Township eruv bat-
of this great period we are Kaplan representation, virtual ava- tle which fueled a wave of anti-Semitic senti-
challenged to look past the Chabad Jewish tars, fake news, and innu- ment, some Mahwah (and Bergen County)
world’s superficial ugliness Center of NW endo. I had been stripped residents pushed back against the attacks,
Bergen County,
and partake in the global Franklin Lakes, of material appendages recognizing a darker side of the issue that
effort to unveil the Divine Orthodox sapping me with their dead was being masked by seemingly innocuous
energy attempting to break weight, freeing me to take opposition to the eruv boundary.
through its surface, just as closer notice and appreciate I am fortunate to be closely acquainted
one must look past the Moshiach’s skin- what now remained: my soul, my mitz- with a Mahwah resident at the heart of
deep ailment to see the redeemer within. vot, my life’s mission — my real and true the clash who determined not to give
Inasmuch as the surface affliction focuses identity. the haters a victory by allowing them to
us on the issue and motivates us to look This thought reminded me of the time define and control his Jewish identity with
deeper, it may be re-interpreted as a hid- I was conversing with an optician who their vitriol and anti-Semitism. Instead,
den blessing. Similarly, when tzara’at posited that everyone should have mul- he peered deeply into his own soul and
afflicts an individual, they should view it tiple pairs of eyeglasses just as they have embarked on a process of Jewish self-
as a hidden blessing impelling and rallying many sets of clothing to suit their mood, discovery and empowerment. Today, he
the ailing person to see past their super- weather, and setting. After considering his studies Torah, attends Shabbat services,
ficial, bodily façade to reveal and more viewpoint I countered that they are not at and has begun to define his own Jewish
deeply identify with their inner truth, their all comparable since we use our face to identity from within our historic Jewish
holy soul within. manifest our innermost self — our singular, framework.
To be sure, the process of critical self- true identity — to others and this should Sometimes having your identity chal-
analysis and introspection which leads to be done in a consistent, unchanging man- lenged or stolen is, like tzara’at, a gift that
this mindset is not a quick fix — just as the ner, whereas articles of clothing are worn prods us to discover the depth of character
process of cleaning up one’s my credit was on superficial body parts relating to the within.

Briefs

IAC hosts ‘Israel at 70’ 300 Intel drones to light skies

for bipartisan lawmakers
More than 60 Republican and
Democratic lawmakers attended
a lunch on Capitol Hill hosted by
the Israeli-American Council to
mark the 70th anniversary of the
State of Israel.
A m o n g t h o s e l aw m a k e r s
were House Speaker Paul Ryan
(R-Wisc.), Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McCon-
nell (R-Ky.), Sen. Lindsey Graham
(R-S.C.) and Sen. Robert Menen-
dez (D-N.J.).
“Israeli-Americans contribute
so much and serve as a critical link
in our special relationship with
Israel. I am proud to celebrate the
70th anniversary of Israel’s inde-
pendence with my dear friends in
the Israeli-American community,”
Graham said.
The IAC’s leadership, includ-
ing chairman Adam Milstein,
CEO Shoham Nicolet and IAC for
Action chairman Shawn Even-
haim, attended, as did other high-
profile business and community
leaders, including Dr. Miriam and
Sheldon Adelson.
“The U.S.-Israel relationship is
— and must always be — rooted in
bipartisanship. As we see from the
incredible crowd of Democratic
and Republican elected leaders
here this afternoon, America’s alli-
ance with Israel is an issue that
can bring us together across party
lines,” Milstein said.
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at Israel Independence celebration
Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel, planned to be in
Israel for Wednesday night’s 70th anniversary
celebrations, bringing along 300 Intel drones
to help put on a massive light show in the skies
over Jerusalem.
“I am excited to be in Israel on Indepen-
dence Day, in Jerusalem, and to participate in
this exciting event,” Krzanich said in a state-
ment. “This year, in 2018, Intel marks its 50th
anniversary and the State of Israel celebrates
its 70th anniversary. This is a double and mov-
ing birthday.”
Intel’s Shooting Star quadcopters, equipped
with LED bulbs capable of over four bil-
lion color combinations and weighing just 12
ounces a piece, will create images of the Star of
David, the walls of Jerusalem, Theodore Herzl
and more, along with music.
The drones were used at the Opening Games
of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
Intel has been operating in Israel for 44 years
and employs some 11,000 workers. Adding to
its $17 billion dollar investment in the country,
Intel will be putting another $5 billion into a chip
manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat.
An additional 1,000 workers are employed
at Jerusalem’s auto technology firm, Mobileye,
which Intel acquired last year for $15.3 billion.
“Intel connected itself to Israel decades ago,
during which it has operated and invested heav-
ily in Israel,” Mobileye’s CEO, Amnona Shashua,
said in a statement. “Today it is taking another
step in strengthening this connection through a
spectacular show of drones that will showcase
historical Israeli symbols.”
Earlier this month, Intel announced that it
had created the “best processor” for laptops that
Intel “has ever built,” with the new chips being
developed in Haifa.
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54 Jewish Standard APRIL 20, 2018

 The Frazzled Housewife
The never-ending game
O
ne of my recurring themes is $5 cans of soda. And the Maccabeats.
tooting my horn about what
a great mother I am.
I feel this way because
of the baseball road trips, toilet train-
ing members of the opposite sex (only
my own children, of course), living in
a house with all boys, and only seeing
that there are girl-colored Legos for the
first time two weeks ago. Who knew
there was a whole world of pink and
purple Legos? I thought they only built
cars and trains, came in red/green/blue/
black, and to their main purpose was to
teach you not to curse your
head off in front of your chil-
dren when you stepped on
them without shoes. Sorry,
I went off track there for
a bit. (And I only started
cursing in front of my kids
recently. Am I supposed to
admit that? And recently is
a loose term, if I am being
totally honest.) Banji
The baseball road trips Ganchrow
stopped the year of son #3’s
bar mitzvah. We couldn’t
go that summer, and then the follow-
ing summer, husband #1 took the boys
to Texas alone. I guess I am really only a order to be asked to leave the stadium.
good mother. I would be a great mother
if I went with them on that trip. But,
have no fear, when they called me in a
panic because they couldn’t find a place
to pray the evening services, I quickly
went on Facebook and posted, “Hous-
ton, we have a problem,” and I got them
a minyan. That changes my status back
to great. Give me a second while I pat
myself on the back.
Anyway, while we were in Florida
for the Passover holiday, husband #1
informed me that we were going to
“Jew night” at Marlins Park. That is
where the Miami Marlins baseball team
plays. Now, I have been to Marlins Park
on one of our road trips. In fact, I am
sure you all are interested to know that
it was the only game we ever went to
that was rained out. And someone stole
son #2’s fan, and I threatened husband
#1 with divorce. But that was the old
stadium, and they have since built this
new stadium, so sad yada yada, I had to
go with them.
The scene at Jew night is probably
similar to that of when God split the
Red Sea, only with $13 turkey legs and
The scene at Jew night is
probably similar to that of when
God split the Red Sea, only with
$13 turkey legs and $5 cans of
soda. And the Maccabeats.
Though, for all we know, all men
a capella groups could have started back
in biblical times…
The Marlins were playing the Boston
Red Sox, so I knew I was in for a real
treat. (That was to be read with a sarcas-
tic tone.) Play ball.
Son #3 and I went to get food. We
brought back the food. We ate the food.
And the game went on. I wasn’t really
paying attention, but then I realized we
were in the ninth inning (which is the
last inning of the game, for those of you
still paying attention) and
the score was tied. “Hey
guys, “ I said, “Since we
aren’t really fans of either
team, and they have run
out of kosher food, we
aren’t staying for extra
innings, right?” Silly,
silly mom. “Of course we
are staying!”
This is when my
thoughts go dark. I was
eyeing the police officer
who was standing guard
over the stadium of Jews, wondering
what minor crime I could commit in
Or what would happen if I jumped into
the net that protects the fans from foul
balls? Would I bounce like I was on
a trampoline, or would I go crashing
through and injure someone? What
would happen If I went to the lost and
found and told them I lost my goldfish?
Clearly I had too much time on
my hands.
The 10th inning, I did a Facebook
live knowing that I was using up pre-
cious data. The 11th inning, I went from
2000 steps to 8000 steps on my phone’s
activity tracker. 12th inning, where is a
good cocktail when you need one? 13th
inning, that’s it, if it doesn’t end now,
I am just walking home. And then the
sky opened and the Lord answered my
prayers and the game ended and now so
has this column… (The Red Sox won, in
case you were wondering.)
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is still hoping
that this will be the year the Mets win
the pennant. And that she finds Keith
Hernandez’s head from his Starting
Lineup action figure that she bought back
in the ’80s…
“OVERBOARD” BY YONI GLATT
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM
Across
1. Prepare for surgery
6. Flu symptoms
11. “Mean Girls” screenwriter and costar
14. “La Bohème,” e.g.
15. 9-Down, in Hebrew
16. Game whose name is said near it’s
end
17. Status for one splitting time between
Israel and America
19. City close to Ben-Gurion Airport
20. Basic monetary unit of Sweden
21. “La ___ Vita” (1960 film)
23. Fighting back
27. Weekly reading
28. Gives a new lease
29. Lavender bloom
30. Not ___ in the world
31. Like the Zohar, to some
33. Lose weight
36. Part of a breath mint
37. Ben (Cohen) & Jerry (Greenfield),
e.g.
40. “Good Grips” kitchenware brand
41. 6’11” Kanter of the Knicks
43. Have guests for Shabbat
44. Five-pillared faith
46. Spice’s partner
48. Clinton claimed he didn’t do it
49. Israeli novelist of “A Perfect Peace”
51. Bobka and meltaway cake, often
53. Dietetic, on packages
54. Majority of those that observe
44-Across
55. The Dead Sea, compared to every-
where else
56. Words you don’t want to hear from
a captain... or a hint to solving 17
and 37-Across and 11 and 25-Down
62. Brave one, Cockney style
63. Larry whose son Larry is now on the
Cavs
64. Mark papers
65. Biblical father of Abner
66. Kind of management
67. David who created “The Wire”
The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 63.
Crossword
Down
1. Groundskeeper’s supply
2. “Brain” of a computer
3. Portman’s “V for Vendetta” co-star
4. Bookmarked thing
5. Retreat
6. Follow, as a suggestion
7. Sound after “cha”
8. “Prince of Egypt” singer Ofra
9. First palindromic name in the Bible
10. An Israeli might wear one instead of
a loafer
11. Complete ride, to Brandeis
12. Son of Cain
13. “Echad Mi ___”
18. Purple blossom
22. “....___ I like to call it...”
23. Captivate a crowd, perhaps
24. Pie choice
25. Synagogues and temples
26. “___ the ramparts ...”
27. Line or dream
29. Catholic observance
31. ___ Yikra (Shabbat song)
32. “Independence Day” assailants,
briefly
34. Aggrandize
35. Features of some stadiums
38. King before Hezekiah
39. Some salon activities
42. City of the Purim story
45. Word for a female
47. Did really well on a test
48. “That ___ longer an option”
49. Kind of wrench
50. “This Is Us” star
51. Fool
52. He got “Game”?
54. Competed on “The Voice”
57. Bar
58. Lanka land
59. It’s not on a kosher menu
60. Courtroom affirmation
61. Signature piece?
JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 20, 2018 55
Arts & Culture
‘Sons and
Soldiers’
JONATHAN E. LAZARUS
G
rowing up as a Jewish youngster in interwar
Germany could be idyllic — until, suddenly, it
wasn’t.
For thousands of unlucky, un-chosen, and
most decidedly un-Aryan youths, the joys of innocence, of
doting parents, sibling rivalry, and a serene feeling about
their tiny slice of the world, were snatched away and for-
ever upended on January 30, 1933, the day Adolf Hitler
came to power and began dismantling the Weimar Repub-
lic’s fragile democratic underpinnings.
Whether in cosmopolitan Berlin, a remote farming vil-
lage, or an industrial center, these youths paid an incal-
culable price. Classmates turned on them, teachers were
emboldened into shaming hostility, SA troopers attacked
them on the way to yeshiva or sat menacingly in the rear
of the synagogue during services, sports leagues booted
them out, and music lessons or cultural excursions were
canceled by cowering instructors.
Life got very small very quickly.
The parents of these untermenschen paid as steep a
price. Their tastefully furnished apartments (often above
the family’s shop) or expansive homes became refuges
from fear, as Jewish mothers and fathers tried to cope
with the gathering storm and buffer their children from
its fallout. But even these familiar sanctuaries weren’t
immune from the sudden, warrantless raids of brown-
shirts and bullyboys.
The careers of businessmen, merchants, academics,
doctors, and tradesman soon collapsed under the flurry of
Nazi edicts depriving them of citizenship, legal protections,
and property rights. The Jews of Germany, approximately
505,000 out of a population of 67 million, of whom a pro-
portionally high number had served the fatherland during
World War I, were classified by the Reich as a race rather
than a religion, and a wretchedly inferior race at that.
While Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, stands as a
flashpoint for the Nazis’ unremitting attacks on human-
ity and decency, some Jews realized the inevitable in real
time, and fled with families and assets intact. More of them
delayed but still managed to spirit their children out of the
country while remaining behind and suffering the conse-
quences. And still others tarried to the end, immobilized
by fear or refusing to believe what they were witnessing.
Many of these families perished together in the camps.
Six young Jewish men who made it out (most as teens,
one an older survivor of Dachau) form the focus of Bruce
Henderson’s “Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the
Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S.
Army to Fight Hitler.” It is a stark but vivid recounting of
their escapes to the United States; their new lives with rel-
atives scattered mostly in big cities; their return to Europe
as American GIs who witness the liberation of the camps;
and their subsequent, often heartbreaking searches for
family members and survivors.
The six — Victor Brombert, Stephan Lewy, Martin Sellig,
Manny Steinfeld, Guy Stern, and Werner Angress — are
far from household names. But they formed a tiny subset
of the “Greatest Generation,” not by birthright, but rather
by luck, pluck, and chutzpah. Their weapons, when they
56 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 20, 2018
American soldiers dressed as German troops add realism to the training GIs undergo at Fort Ritchie, Maryland,
for their roles as interrogators and interpreters during World War II.
were finally issued rifles and sidearms after gaining citi-
zenship and being declassified as enemy aliens, included
exceptional language skills, a chilling understanding
of the Nazi mind, and a survivalist’s cunning shaped by
flights and resettlement adventures.
Henderson illuminates the highly productive and com-
pelling efforts of this bespoke band of “Ritchie Boys,” so
named for the approximately 2,000 Jewish refugees who
trained at remote Fort Ritchie in mountains of Maryland to
hone their counterintelligence skills. Many volunteered for
Army service just after war erupted and had to fight their
initial battles against the hostility of fellow enlistees and
officers suspicious of their accents, origins, and purpose.
Their graduation gifts came in the form of self-assurance
and sergeant’s stripes. Indeed, the baby-faced, blond-
haired Angress, who years earlier had been chosen to the
howls of his classmates as the perfect Aryan by a so-called
phrenology expert sent by the Reich, performed so well he
was promoted to master sergeant upon graduation, caus-
ing jaw-dropping reactions from grizzled, older veterans.
They did their jobs diligently, creatively, and with per-
sonal restraint, keeping revenge impulses well in check
while confronting German prisoners who ranged from
haughty to helpful. They did, however, exploit duplicity,
misinformation, and good-cop-bad-cop poses to tease
information from their captives, but they viewed physical
violence or torture as unacceptable. And their techniques,
often unorthodox, paid off handsomely in actionable intel-
ligence used by commands across the European theater.
All had been victims of disruption and displacement, but
each evolved as a distinct personality. Of the six, perhaps
Selling maintained the strictest decorum during interroga-
tions, remembering his prewar days in Dachau and how he
wished he had been treated by his captors. Steinfeld, seri-
ous from childhood, acted as a translator for a surrender
agreement between American and German generals after
Hitler’s death. Lewy, sent to an orphanage when a young-
ster and almost killed when Nazis locked him and other
boys in a synagogue and pumped in gas, always pushed
the interrogation envelope, once ordering a German offi-
cer to dig his own grave and lie in it until he talked.
Stern, who moved in with his baker uncle in St. Louis
U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
and scored an interview with novelist Thomas Mann for
his high school paper, brashly put himself forward when
Marlene Dietrich arrived for a USO show and personally
acted as her guide during an inspection of a POW camp.
Brombert, remembering his romantic prewar Paris days,
appropriated a Jeep without permission and raced to the
City of Lights after its liberation, where he discovered that
new delights awaited. But he also found time to partici-
pate in the Normandy, Saint-Lo, and Hurtgen Forest offen-
sives. And Angress, who parachuted into Normandy with
the 82nd Airborne without even a practice jump, was the
only one among the six who was captured. He was liber-
ated after a few weeks and extracted useful information
from the German who had guarded him.
The missions of the Ritchie Boys involved enormous and
disproportionate odds. They would rove as quasi-indepen-
dent entities within larger units, and their capture would
almost certainly mean death. It was common for them to
change the “H” (for Hebrew) on their dog tags to “P” (for
Protestant) for just such contingencies. Another risk factor
came from their own side, when GIs turned trigger-happy
after German soldiers appropriated the clothing and equip-
ment of dead Americans and began impersonating them
during the final, desperate phases of the European conflict.
No matter how idiomatic their English had become, the
Ritchie boys’ voices still bore traces of an accent.
Theirs are narratives of family ties, love of new country
while feeling the tug of the old, Jewish values rather than
religiosity, and, most importantly, the indomitability of
the human spirit. Fittingly, Henderson closes the circle
on their turbulent early chapters by adding postscripts
about their lives in America after the war. All furthered
their educations, with several going on to teach at the
college level; one became a manufacturer; and another
an accountant. And Angress also was the only one of the
six to return to live in Germany post-retirement, so he
could speak to young audiences in their native tongue
and remind them what their parents and grandparents
inflicted, and what difference-makers they could become.
Jonathan E. Lazarus, a former editor of the Star-Ledger, is
a proofreader at the Jewish Standard.
 Calendar Rogin; soloist Jo Ann County High School of
Skiena Garey; Kol Rishon, Jewish Studies, which
the Temple’s adult choir; meets at the Moriah
Zemer Rishon, its teen School in Englewood, has
choir; pianist Itay Goren, orientation for new and
and percussionist Jimmy prospective students,
Cohen, 7:30 p.m. Israeli 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. 53
desserts. 585 Russell South Woodland St.
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or (201) 488-0834 or www.
bethrishon.org. bchsjs.org.

Shabbat in Wayne: School open house

Temple Beth Tikvah in Wyckoff: Temple
welcomes special guest Beth Rishon hosts a
Reverend Dr. Lloyd religious school open
Kenyon, the former house to celebrate
pastor of the Preakness Israel, 9:30 a.m.-
Baptist Church in Wayne, noon, for children in
for the annual Rabbi kindergarten through
Israel S. Dresner Tikkun sixth grade. Breakfast,
Olam lecture, 7:30 p.m. activities including
Dr. Kenyon received decorating T-shirts,
the Temple Beth Tikvah dance, presentations,
Human Rights award and and tours. Staff on
the Jewish Federation of hand. 585 Russell Ave.
North Jersey chose him (201) 891-4466 or www.
to go on a study tour bethrishon.org.
in Israel. 950 Preakness
Ave. Refreshments. School open house in
950 Preakness Ave. Paramus: The JCC of
(973) 595-6565 or www. Paramus/ Congregation
templebethtikvahnj.org. Beth Tikvah’s Hebrew
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades has opened registration for its 22-week School offers an open
house with activities
CSA — a partnership with a local farm that provides members who buy Saturday  centered on celebrating
shares in advance to enjoy locally grown, certified organic produce. The APRIL 21 Israel’s 70th birthday,
season runs from June 12 to November 6. Full shares average eight to 10 9:30-11:30 a.m. 304 East
Midland Ave. Marcia,
vegetable varieties, competitively priced for less than $24 a week. To launch (201) 262-7733 or
the season, Ken Fruehstorfer and Maryellen Driscoll of FreeBird Farm in edudirector@jccparamus.
Palantine Bridge, N.Y., above, will be at the JCC in Tenafly on Sunday, April org.
29, at 1 p.m. Maryellen will lead a veggie stir-fry demo and tasting for adults,
while Ken and his children will hold a planting demo for children. Those who
signs up as a Community Supported Agriculture member on or by April
29, can attend for $5 per adult; otherwise it costs $10 per adult. There is no
charge for children. Registration deadline is May 23. Go to www.jccotp.org Rabbi Joseph B.
or email Marilyn Yeshua at myeshua@jccotp.org. COURTESY JCCOTP Soloveitchik z”l
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Dr. Michael Riff
Perspectives on Jewish Mazer and student
Schacter, University
Friday  Theology.” He is the
president, dean, and
cantor Julie Staple, with
the Unplugged Band,
Professor at Yeshiva
Panel on Shoah émigrés
in Fair Lawn: A panel
APRIL 20 chair of Jewish thought Junior Choir, Rinat Beth
University, discusses
moderated by Dr.
“Commemorating the
at Hadar Institute. El, and religious school Michael Riff will discuss
Shabbat in Fort Lee: 25th Yahrzeit of Rabbi
Services tonight at students, 6:45 p.m. 221 “Coming to America:
The JCC of Fort Lee/ Joseph B. Soloveitchik
6:45 p.m., followed Schraalenburgh Road. Victims of the Shoah
Congregation Gesher z”l — Central Themes
by dinner and lecture; (201) 768-5112 or www. and Émigrés from the
Shalom hosts an Israeli- of the Rav’s Life” at
Shabbat morning at tbenv.org. Former Soviet Union
themed congregational Rinat Yisrael before
9 a.m., lunch and lecture and the Middle East,” at
dinner in honor of Yom Rabbi Shai Held Shabbat in Wyckoff: mincha, 6:05 p.m., for the
following. 354 Maitland Temple Beth Sholom,
Ha’atzmaut, 6 p.m., Temple Beth Rishon shul’s adult education
Ave. Meal reservations, 10 a.m.-noon. The Gross
and musical services Shabbat in Teaneck: celebrates Yom committee. 389 West
(201) 833-2620 or www. Center for Holocaust
at 7. 1449 Anderson Rabbi Shai Held is Ha’atzmaut at Shabbat Englewood Ave.
cbsteaneck.org. and Genocide Studies
Ave. Reservations, the spring scholar- services, with choral and the Jewish Historical
(201) 947-1735 or www.
geshershalom.org.
in-residence at
Congregation Beth
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El
pieces and folk songs,
led by Rabbis Stephen
Sunday  Society of North Jersey
host the discussion,
Sholom; he’ll focus celebrates Israel’s Wylen and Lois APRIL 22 which includes the
on “Cultivating Self- birthday during services Ruderman; featuring stories of émigrés Sally
Worth, Character, led by Rabbis David Cantor Ilan Mamber; Hebrew high school Whitmore, Bella Miller,
and Generosity: New Widzer and Beth Kramer- cantorial intern Naomi open house: The Bergen

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Calendar
Bella Lisny, and Rachel from recipes from by Tuvia Zimber. 304 About the Guide to the
Harari. 40-25 Fair Lawn “Zahav,” JFNNJ’s One E. Midland Ave. Shari Perplexed?” Shiurim
Ave. (201) 300-6590 or Book, One Community Brodsky, (201) 837-9090, continue through June 9.
JHSNNJ@gmail.com. selection. 475 Grove St. ext. 237, or sharib@ 389 W. Englewood Ave.
(201) 444-9320 or www. jfcsnnj.org. (201) 837-2795 or
Blood drive in Fort Lee: synagogue.org. Rinat.org.
Congregation Beth Israel
Friday 

of the Palisades holds Concert in Paterson:
a blood drive with the The Passaic County
American Red Cross, 10 Historical Society
a.m.-3 p.m. 1585 Center welcomes Blue Valley, a
Ave. (201) 945-7310, red Clifton-based acoustic
crossblood.org, or rock band, at Lambert
cbiotp.org. Castle, 5 p.m. 3 Valley
Road. (973) 247-0085 or
Historic Israeli films in lambertcastle.org.
Franklin Lakes: Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey
screens four original
films that follow Israel
from the years leading
to its birth to more
recent times, 2 p.m. Ice
cream and popcorn. 558
High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www. Israeli cuisine in
tenjfl.org. Pompton Lakes:
Congregation Beth
Klezmer in Bergenfield: Shalom’s book club
T-Klez performs a screens “In Search of
klezmer concert at Israeli Cuisine” and
the Bergenfield Public offers Israeli snacks and
Library, 2-3 p.m. The trio desserts prepared by
includes percussionist book club members
David Licht of from recipes of “Zahav,”
Bergenfield, a founding this year’s JFFNJ One
member of the Book, One Community
Klezmatics; accordionist Selection, 7 p.m. 21
Psachya Septimus, who Passaic Ave. www.
has played with Avrohom bethshalomnj.org.
Fried, diaspora Yeshiva
Band, Yehuda Green, and Addressing addiction:
Soulfarm; and clarinetist Amudim, a not-for-
Dena Ressler, who has profit organization that
taught at KlezKamp
and the New England
supports individuals
and families dealing
Conservatory of Music’s with substance abuse
summer Klezmer and addiction, hosts
Institute. 50 West Clinton a program about
Ave. (201) 387-4040 or awareness and education
www.TKlez.com. at Torah Academy of
Bergen County, Teaneck,
8 p.m. Speakers include
Amudim director Rabbi
Zvi Gluck, social worker
Avi Shteingart, Beth
Aaron’s Rabbi Larry
Rothwachs, a local
parent, and a recovering
addict. 1600 Queen Anne
Road. (201) 837-7696, or
TABC.org.
Gilad Paz
Monday  Wednesday  Road. (917) 940-7876.
APRIL 23
COURTESY JCCOTP
Film in Teaneck:
APRIL 27 Temple Emeth’s adult
education group screens
Shabbat in Wyckoff: a movie, 7 p.m., as part
Jane L. Rosen Temple Beth Rishon of its “Movies That
offers the chance to Matter” series. Wendy
Yochai Maital and Mishy meet its new rabbi, Winograd, clinical social
Harman onstage. Beni Wajnberg, after worker and certified
Celebrating Israel in services, where he will psychoanalyst, will
Tenafly: Israel Story give a sermon, 7:30 p.m. analyze the film through
presents “Mixtape: The Anyone interested in a Jewish lens and
Stories Behind Israel’s joining is welcome. from a psychoanalytic
Ultimate Playlist,” a 585 Russell Ave. perspective.
community event to (201) 891-4466 or www. Refreshments. 1666
celebrate Israel’s 70th bethrishon.org. Windsor Road.
birthday, at the Kaplen (201) 833-1322 or
JCC on the Palisades, Shabbat in Closter: www.emeth.org.
7:30 p.m. Live Temple Beth El holds
performance with
storytelling, music,
a service led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
sunday 
student cantor Julie APRIL 29
Author in Paramus: singing, and multimedia
Staple, with organ
Jane Rosen, an from Israel’s popular
accompaniment,
author, screenwriter, podcast/award-winning
7:30 p.m. 221
and Huffington Post radio show, about Israel’s
Schraalenburgh Road.
contributor, discusses 70 years. 411 E. Clinton
(201) 768-5112.
her book “Nine Women, Ave. (201) 408-1456 or
One Dress” for Women’s JCCOTP.org/israel-story.
Philanthropy of Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.
Admission includes book,
kosher wine, cheese, and
dessert. 50 Eisenhower Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Drive. www.jfnnj.org/
Breakfast for Israel:
bookandauthor.
Jewish National Fund
hosts its Breakfast for
Tuesday  Robert Jan Van Pelt Israel at the Rockleigh.
APRIL 24 featuring Rabbi Joseph
Rabbi Mordechai Shain PHOTO PROVIDED
Telushkin, lecturer and
Shabbat in Parsippany: bestselling author of
American Jewish Rethinking our more than 15 books
politicians: Shirley Laiks universe: Lubavitch Award-winning author
and Holocaust scholar on Jewish ethics and
looks at “Prominent on the Palisades in
Robert Jan Van Pelt literacy. 9:30 a.m.,
American Jewish Tenafly offers a six-
gives the annual Joseph (973) 593-0095 or jnf.
Political Figures” for session Rohr Jewish
Gotthelf Holocaust org/breakfastnnj.
Temple Beth Tikvah’s Learning Institute class,
Senior Daytime group, “What Is? Rethinking memorial lecture at
Spring boutique in
1 p.m. 940 Preakness Everything We Know Temple Beth Am,
Tenafly: The Kaplen
Ave. (973)595-6565 or About Our Universe,” 7:30 p.m. He has studied
JCC on the Palisades
templebethtikvahnj.org. led by Rabbi Mordechai Holocaust denial and
offers a boutique with
Shain, 8 p.m. 11 Harold St. testified for the defense
more than 50 vendors,
(201) 871-1152, ext. 501, or in Deborah Lipstadt’s
10 a.m.-5 p.m., and on
chabadlubavitch.org. civil libel suit; that story
Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
is in the 2016 movie
Proceeds benefit the
“Denial.” 879 Beverwyck
JCC Leonard and Syril
Rubin Nursery School.
APRIL 25 411 E. Clinton Ave.
Saturday  (201) 408-1412 or
APRIL 28 mkleiman@jccotp.org.

ICE and immigration:

Joseph Rotenberg Shabbat in Teaneck: Sally Pillay, director
Dr. David Shatz, Yeshiva of First Friends of NJ
Timeless travels in University’s Ronald P. and NY, will discuss

Shy Kedmi
Teaneck: Joseph
Rotenberg, an author,
Stanton professor of
philosophy, ethics, and
immigration, the ICE
detention system, the
E
lawyer, and financial religious thought, is immigration legal system,
Israeli concert in adviser, discusses scholar-in-residence T
and the mission of First
Ridgewood: Temple “Timeless Travels: at Congregation Rinat Friends at Temple Emeth t
Israel & JCC and the A Humorous Look Tuvia Zimber
Dara Horn Yisrael. He will give the at Teaneck’s B’yachad 2
Jewish Federation of at the Mysterious, drasha at the 9 a.m.
Intriguing, Enchanting Café Europa in breakfast, 10:30 a.m. p
Northern New Jersey Author in Fort Lee: Dara minyan. At 6 p.m., as 1666 Windsor Road.
host Israeli vocalist World Around Us” at Paramus: Café Europa, part of the shul’s s
Horn reads from her a social program Breakfast reservations,
Gilad Paz and pianist bestselling new novel, the Teaneck Public “Rambam and Moreh (201) 833-1322 or www. i
Shy Kedmi in concert Library, 7 p.m. He sponsored by Jewish Nevuchim: Innovation
“Eternal Life,” at the Fort Family & Children’s emeth.org. f
at the shul as the Lee Public Library, 7 p.m. will sign copies of his and Controversy,” shiurim
America-Israel Cultural new book, “Timeless Services of Northern NJ in memory of Rabbi Ozer
T
She is a National Jewish Documentary
Foundation honors Book award-winner. 320 Travels,” a collection of for Holocaust survivors, Glickman, he will discuss in Montebello: i
with funding from the
Israel’s 70th anniversary, Main St. (201) 592-3615, short stories based on “Rambam, Maimonides, Congregation Shaarey p
3 p.m. Sponsored by the American Jewish Claims Conference, or Both? The Perennial
or fortleelibrary.org. meets at the JCC of
Israel screens “Hate i
congregant Richard experience. 840 Teaneck Controversy About Spaces,” a documentary
Schnaittacher. Festive Road. (201) 837-4171 or Paramus/Congregation Interpreting the Man.” p
about anti-Semitism
reception with Israeli teaneck.org. Beth Tikvah, After Mincha, his talk is s
and intimidation on
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
appetizers prepared
Kosher lunch and musical
on “What Is Perplexing college campuses, s

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2 p.m. Refreshments.
Sponsored by FOR
Focus on Reality and
Advocates for America’s
Challenges and Jewish
Concerns. 18 Montebello
Road, Montebello, N.Y.
(845) 369-0300 or www.
shaareyisraelrockland.org.
Klezmer in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah welcomes multi-
instrumentalist Andy
Statman and his trio
peforming klezmer
music, 3:30 p.m.. 304
E. Midland Ave. (201)
262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Calendar
female artists, continues
In New York with a performance by
cellist, composer, and
improviser Tomeka Reid
Thursday  and her quartet in the
Scheuer Auditorium at
APRIL 26 the Jewish Museum,
7:30 p.m. 1109 Fifth
Avenue at 92nd Street.
(212) 423-3337 or
TheJewishMuseum.org.
Singles
Wednesday 
APRIL 25
Seniors meet in
Orangeburg: Singles Adults and youths enjoy last year’s Rubin Run. COURTESY JCCOTP
Tomeka Reid
65+ from the JCC
COURTESY JEWISH MUSEUM

Cellist/improviser
Rockland meet for dinner
at Hogan’s Diner in Think Rubin Run for Mother’s Day
concert: Bang on a Can Orangeburg, N.Y., 6 p.m.
and the Jewish Museum’s Individual checks. 17 The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades has group training, one-on-one personal
concert season, which Dutch Hill Road. Gene, opened registration for its 37th annual training, and a 5K training program for
focuses on pioneering (845) 356-5525.
Rubin Run, which will be on Mother’s 6- to 13-year-olds.
Day, Sunday, May 13. This year, the run Adding to the fun, the day will include
— sanctioned by USA Track and Field — outdoor activities for kids, light snacks
Slots for NYC marathon available features a new 8k trail through the Lost
Brook Preserve, which is maintained by
and beverages, free babysitting, pre-
race stretches and warmups, CompuS-
through the Blue Card Team the Tenafly Nature Center, along with a core race-recording, trophies for the
10k run, and 5k run/walk. Last year, the top three male and female winners in
Now that the official race lottery run drew more than 1,500 people. each age category, and a medal for all
for the New York City Marathon The Rubin Run celebrates family and children under 10 who finish the race.
has closed and slots for the run fitness as it raises funds that provide a In honor of Mother’s Day, all participat-
have been assigned, local runners great deal of support for programs that ing moms receive a rose as they cross the
who still want to run in the mara- improve the quality of life for people finish line.
thon on November 4 can join Team with special needs in the community. Participants are encouraged to fund-
Blue Card. That way, they can run “The Rubin Run exemplifies every- raise, either individually or as part of a
the marathon and also raise money thing we stand for at the JCC,” the JCC’s team. Register online at www.jccotp.org/
for Holocaust survivors in need. CEO, Jordan Shenker, said. “It brings our rubinrun. Online registration is until May
The Blue Card, named an offi- community together to share in some- 9; after that, registration is at the JCC.
cial charity partner of the race, is thing meaningful; it celebrates family The run’s lead sponsors include Mag-
the only U.S. organization with the togetherness — and on a very special gie Kaplen and the Kaplen Foundation,
sole mission of providing ongoing day; it acknowledges the importance Englewood Hospital and Medical Center,
direct aid to Holocaust survivors in of fitness and healthy lifestyles; and it the Rubin family, the Rubach family, the
need. It assists many survivors in raises significant funds for one of the Jewish Standard; the North Jersey Media
New Jersey. Of over 100,000 Holo- JCC’s core missions, which is to provide Group, and the Tenafly Nature Center.
caust survivors living in the coun- meaningful programs to people with For sponsorship opportunities and
try, an estimated one-third live at special needs that allow them to flourish more information, call Michal Kleiman
or below the poverty line, and it Josh Lipowsky of Teaneck, a former Jewish to their best potential and become pro- at (201) 408-1412, or email her at mklei-
is hard for them to afford proper Standard associate editor, ran the NYC ductive, healthy, and engaged members man@jccotp.org.
medical care, mental health care, Marathon on the Blue Card Team a few of our community.” The Rubin Run is named for the late
food, and other basic necessities. years ago. PHOTO COURTESY JOSH LIPOWSKY In preparation for the race, partici- Leonard Rubin, a past president and
Members of Team Blue Card pants can train under the skilled guid- founder of the JCC, who established
have raised more than $1,000,000 since 2009 at endurance sporting events in New York, ance of experienced JCC fitness staff. the community-wide athletic event to
Miami, and around the world. For more information, go to www.bluecardfund.org. Options include independent training, encourage and promote healthy living.
running clubs for people interested in

Englewood book sale aids library

The Friends of the Englewood Library holds
this year’s bargain spring book sale on April
20, 21, and 22. One of the largest, most com-
prehensive book sales in northern New Jer-
sey, the Englewood Library book sale also
records, signed books, and collectibles.
Herb Alpert
Funds are used to help provide program- is coming
ming and special enhancements for the
patrons of the Englewood Public Library,
to Englewood
such as passes to N.Y, museums, film series, Legendary jazz musician Herb Alpert
COURTESY BERGENPAC

is known for its well organized shelves,
friendly staff, and more than 50,000 books.
The books are sorted into categories, which
include fiction, Judaica, art, history, biogra-
phy, cookbooks, children’s, African-Amer-
ican studies, foreign language, gardening,
poetry, nature, science, sports, psychology,
self-help, business, and Americana. The
sale also includes CDs and DVDs, classical
concerts, and other programs.
On Friday, all books, adult, young adult,
and children’s books will be $2 each (3 for
$5), and mass-market paperbacks will be
5 for $1. On Bag Day Sunday, you can fill
a grocery bag for $5, but no specials or
DVDs will be included. Call (201) 568- 2215
or email librarybooksale@hotmail.com for
information.
and Lani Hall, the original lead singer
for Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66, will
perform at the Bergen Performing Arts
Center in Englewood on Wednesday,
April 25, at 8 p.m. For tickets, call ber-
genPAC’s box office at (201) 227-1030,
or go to www.bergenpac.org or www. Herb Alpert and Lani Hall
ticketmaster.com.

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Jewish World
7 treasures from a centennial
exhibit on Leonard Bernstein
PENNY SCHWARTZ
F
rom his birthplace near Boston to
New York, Berlin, South Africa,
China, and Israel, Leonard
Bernstein (1918-1990), the larger-
than-life conductor, pianist, composer,
educator and bon vivant, is being celebrated
in a two-year bonanza of concerts, stage
productions and programs marking the
centennial of his birth.
The American-born son of Ukrainian
Jewish immigrants, Bernstein’s influence
spanned the musical world, from classical
music to Broadway.
Thousands of events are featured as a
part of #Bernsteinat100, including “Leon-
ard Bernstein: The Power of Music,”
an exhibit that opened recently at the
National Museum of American Jewish His-
tory in Philadelphia.
Last week, the Library of Congress got
in on the act, making available online
for the first time free access to more
than 3,700 items including letters, pho-
tographs, audio recordings, and other
material from its vast Leonard Bernstein
Collection. The release nearly tripled the library’s digital and look through volumes of scrapbooks in the Library’s
offerings.
Curious fans with time on their hands can cue up “West
Side Story,” “On the Town,” or the “Chichester Psalms,”
60 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 20, 2018
Leonard Bernstein at the opening of “West Side Story” at the National Theater
in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 12, 1957. PHOTOS COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, MUSIC DIVISION
collection that were meticulously compiled by Helen
Coates, his piano teacher who later became his career-
long secretary.
“Bernstein arguably was the most promi-
nent music figure in America in the second
half of the 20th century,” according to Mark
Horowitz, the collection’s curator, who has
been immersed in the details of the mae-
stro’s life for a quarter century. He described
Bernstein as a “polymath, a Renaissance
man who wanted to do it all,” from music to
education to social activism.
Born on Aug. 28, 1918, in Lawrence, Mas-
sachusetts, to Jennie and Samuel Bernstein,
the young musician famously catapulted
onto the world stage in November 1943,
when he filled in on short notice as conduc-
tor for the New York Philharmonic for an
ailing Bruno Walter, in a concert broadcast
on national television.
Five years later, with his 1958 appoint-
ment as music director of the New York
Philharmonic, Bernstein became the first
American-born and educated conductor —
and the first American Jewish conductor —
to lead a major American orchestra.
With an estimated 400,000 items, the
Bernstein Collection is one of the largest
and most varied in the Library’s music divi-
sion, Horowitz said. The archives fill 1,723
boxes that measure 710 linear feet.
Here are seven treasures from the
Library of Congress collection:
A handwritten speech Bernstein wrote
for a concert in Israel in July 1967.
1. Bernstein grew up in
Boston in a deeply religious
family, and was influenced
by the music he heard at
Congregation Mishkan Tefila.
At Congregation Mishkan Tefila, his fam-
ily’s synagogue, the young Bernstein
came under the influence of Solomon
Braslavsky, a Viennese composer who
became the synagogue’s music director
and led its choir. On Oct. 10, 1946, Bern-
stein wrote to Braslavsky, shortly after
Yom Kippur: “I have come to realize what
a debt I really owe to you ... for the marvel-
ous music at Mishkan Tefila services. They
surpass any that I have ever heard.”
Bernstein had a strained relationship
with his father, a successful business
owner, whose life was guided by talmu-
dic learning. Although he described his
father as being authoritarian, he admired
his depth of knowledge of Jewish texts and
thought.
2. Bernstein’s Harvard years
were instrumental in shaping
his music.
A page in a blue book dated Jan. 25, 1937, during Bern-
stein’s sophomore year at Harvard University, displays
“handwriting thoroughly familiar to a Bernstein scholar,”
according to Carol Oja, a professor at Harvard’s music
department. In the exam book, Bernstein described
Baroque-era toccatas, a musical notation for virtuosic
keyboard, as “dramatic, brilliant, ... and very technical,
difficult, effective.” These descriptions “would later char-
acterize his own compositions,” Oja wrote in an email.
3. Bernstein was smitten by Israel and
became a devoted and influential supporter
of the Israel Philharmonic.
In November 1948, during Israel’s War of Independence,
amid fighting between the Israeli and Arab armies, Bern-
stein made his second conducting tour of Israel. He wrote
a nine-page letter to his mother, Jennie, that glows with
colorful, playful illustrations by Yossi Stern, a Hungarian
refugee who became known as the “painter of Jerusalem.”
“You can see his passion for the young state of Israel, its
land, the people and the culture,” according to Ivy Wein-
gram, curator of the exhibit at the NMAJH, where visitors
can see one page of the original letter, on loan from the
Library of Congress.
Over his career, Bernstein conducted the Israel Philhar-
monic in 25 different seasons, in Israel, Europe and the U.S.
4. After the Six-Dar War, Bernstein
performed a concert in Israel.
The July 1967 concert, with violinist Isaac Stern and the
Israel Philharmonic, included Hatikvah, Israel’s national
anthem; Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and the final
movement of Mahler’s Second Symphony, known as the
“Resurrection Symphony.”
In his speech at the performance, handwritten on sta-
tionery from Jerusalem’s Shemesh Oriental Restaurant,
Bernstein recalled his exhilaration conducting the Mahler
symphony 19 years earlier, during Israel’s War of Indepen-
dence. He marveled at the recent unification of Jerusalem,

Marilyn Gersten
Marilyn Gersten, née Borsky, 70, of Cedar Grove and
Boca Raton, Fla., formerly of Jersey City, died April 12.
Born in Jersey City, she was a retired teacher.
She is survived by her husband, Joel, and a daughter,
Bari of Rumson.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapel,
Fort Lee.
Doris Gordon
Doris Gordon, née Rubenstein, 90, of Wayne, formerly
of Elmwood Park, died April 12.
Predeceased by her husband, Fred, she is survived
by children, Lewis (Debbie), and Susan (Michael);
grandchildren, Matthew (Adrienne) and Allison Gordon,
and Joel and Dana Leventhal, and nieces and nephews.
Donations can be made to the John Theurer Cancer
Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, Israel
Guide Dog Center for the Blind, or Hadassah.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
a city he envisioned would inspire peace.
“Is it too much to hope that this growing together
of people in peace may radiate out to this general
region ... and eventually ...the world,” he wrote.
“Why not? This is Jerusalem,” with the name of the
city written in Hebrew.
5. Bernstein was gay. His wife, Felicia,
seemed okay with that.
In 1946, Bernstein married Felicia Cohn Mon-
tealegre, a Chilean actress who performed the
role of narrator in Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3,
the “Kaddish Symphony.” They had three children,
Jamie, Alexander, and Nina.
Bernstein didn’t hide his homosexuality and attrac-
tion to men from his wife. Early in their marriage,
Felicia wrote a stirring and remarkably broad-minded
letter, undated, that revealed the deep love and bond
between the couple.
“You are a homosexual and may never change — you
don’t admit to the possibility of a double life, but if your
peace of mind, your health ... depend on a certain sex-
ual pattern, what can you do?” she wrote. “I am willing
to accept you as you are, without being a martyr. I hap-
pen to love you very much ...”
6. “West Side Story” originally
was about Jews and Catholics.
In the 1950s, Bernstein and choreographer Jerome
Robbins took inspiration from William Shakespeare’s
“Romeo and Juliet,” adapting it to the ethnic and racial
tensions of the 20th century. An annotated copy of
“Romeo and Juliet” in the Library of Congress collec-
tion is on view at the NMAJH exhibit and includes notes
by Bernstein and Robbins. It was originally conceived
as “East Side Story,” about conflicts between Jews and
Catholics. Audition notes for “West Side Story,” which
opened on Broadway in 1957, include Bernstein’s com-
ments about a young Warren Beatty, who sought the
role of Riff (“Good voice, can’t open jaw — charming as
hell — clean cut”).
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of Wyckoff, and Beth Amy Susman of Montvale; a sister,
Sylvia Lubliner of Florida, and grandchildren, Victor
(Renee), Regina and Benjamin Parkinson, and Jordon,
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