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NOSHES ...................................................4
OPINION ...............................................20
COVER STORY .................................... 24
FLASHBACK 1934 .............................. 38
GALLERY ..............................................40
TORAH COMMENTARY .................... 41
CROSSWORD PUZZLE .................... 42
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CONTENTS
Candlelighting: Friday, May 9, 7:42 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, May 10, 8:47 p.m.
Before I formed you in
the womb, I knew and
approved of you.
JEREMIAH 1:5
Bob Dylan jotted this biblical quotation on the margins of his handwritten
lyrics for his 1962 song A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall. The lyrics will be auctioned
by Sothebys on June 24, and are expected to sell for more than $400,000.
LARRY YUDELSON
F.Y.I.
Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign
ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number
of mandatory sign ups for train rides for Jews in the 40s.
A blog post by Tennessee Republi-
can State Senator Stacey Campfield,
who later clarified that his purpose
was not to offend. It was to warn.
He also told the Associated Press
that I think Jewish people should be
the first to stand up against Obam-
acare. When you have government
deciding who gets health insurance
and who doesnt, what services they
get and what services they have to
provide, theyre really deciding who
lives and who dies.
Mr. Campfield missed a rhetorical
opportunity when he failed to note
that the modern idea of a social
welfare state including social se-
curity and health insurance was
a German invention, first instituted
by German Chancellor Otto von Bis-
marck in 1883.
As for deciding who lives and
who dies, the failure of Mr. Camp-
field and his Republican colleagues
to accept federal money to expand
Medicaid in his state will cost the
lives of between 284 and 759 Ten-
nesseans annually, according to
a study by professors at Harvard
Medical School and City University
of New York published at HealthAf-
fairs.org. LARRY YUDELSON
From out of Toronto goes a Tanakh champ
For the second
year in a row, Yom
Haatzmaut Israels
Independence Day
brought glory to the
diaspora.
Canadian Eitan
Amos won Tuesdays
International Bible
Contest in Jerusa-
lem. Eitan, 18, who
was born in Israel
and lived there until
he was 11, takes the
crown from Yishai
Eisenberg of Passaic,
who shared last years first-place
finish. He is the first Canadian to win
the annual contest.
Yishais 2013 victory ended a
long, withering drought for dias-
pora contestants. The last Ameri-
can win was in 1998, when Jeremy
Wieder now a Talmud professor
at Yeshiva University tied for first
place.
In an interview with Tablet, the
now-rabbi Wieder shrugged off his
victory as a fluke of
an unusually easy
written exam. Al-
most any other year,
theres no chance
Id have been in the
running for the final
question, he said.
Meanwhile, Israeli
journalist Yori Ya-
nover took a dim
view of the whole
performance, which
he ridiculed as the
Alex Trebek ap-
proach to Bible
study. No context, no discussion,
no opinion, no background, no les-
son learned, only knowing who said
what to whom.
Next year he wants to see a
Bible slam, he wrote in an essay
on the Jewish Independent. You
go up, you retell your favorite Bible
story and how it impacted your life
or your thinking or your feeling. You
get ten minutes, starting now!
LARRY YUDELSON
Flashback 1934
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Part of the fun of being a newspaper with 84 years of history are the many bound volumes of back issues that crowd the editors ofice. They record how the Jewish Standard, founded in Jersey City, reported the news of days gone by. The world of 80 years ago was different from today in many ways large and small, as the news items and advertisements reproduced above make clear. With this look back at the Jewish Standard of Friday, May 11, 1934, we begin what will be an ongoing feature of this paper.
Tales of Hoffman and more
Remember Governor Harold Hoff-
man? The South Amboy politician who
was New Jerseys 41st chief execu-
tive, serving from 1935 to 1938? Who
engaged in at least two fistfights with
reporters during his term as governor?
Honestly, neither did we, until we
found an ad for his 1934 primary cam-
paign in an 80-year-old issue of the
Jewish Standard.
Weve reproduced the ad, along with
other interesting tidbits from the May
11 issue of this paper, on page 38, in the
first installment of what will be a regular
feature highlighting our archives. Back
in 1934, the war against Nazis was tak-
ing place on American airwaves and in
state legislatures, and the Jewish Stan-
dard boasted of being the only Jewish
newspaper in Hudson County, it ran six
pages, and its business manager was
Morris Janoff, the father of our current
publisher, Jamie Janoff.
It is said that newspapers are the first
draft of history. They reveal a fascinat-
ing snapshot of long-ago times, but
they dont tell the full story.
Take the sad ending of Harold Hoff-
mans. In 1954, he was the director of
the state Unemployment Compensa-
tion Commission. He was suspended af-
ter being caught embezzling $300,000,
and died of a heart attack three months
later, at 58. LARRY YUDELSON
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When he takes the CEO
post, Fields will be the
first Jew to hold the top
corporate position at one
of the big three Ameri-
can car companies (Ford,
Chrysler, GM).
There is some irony
that Ford Motor is first.
The companys founder,
Henry Ford, was a notori-
ous and vocal anti-Sem-
ite who bankrolled hate-
filled publications. But
his grandson and succes-
sor, Henry Ford II, spent a
lot of his time and money
pursuing sincere efforts
to make amends to the
Jewish community for
his grandfathers sins.
Fields earned the CEO
position via his outstand-
ing performance as head
of, successively, Ford
Argentina, Mazda Motor,
Fords luxury car group,
and its North American
business unit. In 2012 he
was named COO. Fields
was born in Brooklyn and
raised in Paramus. His
family belonged to the
Jewish Community Cen-
ter of Paramus, where he
became bar mitzvah. A
few years back, he told
the Detroit Jewish News
that his familys name
had been Finkelman.
N.B.
Seth Rogen
FRATERNIZING:
Neighbors funny
and real kosher
Halston Sage
Dave Franco Mark Fields
Neighbors comes
to theaters its
opening is set for today,
May 9 with two things
going for it. It has got
great advance reviews
from respected me-
dia outlets. And it is an
incredibly tribe-heavy
Hollywood comedy. The
plot: SETH ROGEN, 32,
and Rose Byrne play
a nice couple with a
young baby who try to
be friendly when a wild
fraternity takes over
the house next door to
theirs. But the couple
quickly loses their pa-
tience with the frats
all-night parties and a
war of sorts ensues. Zac
Efron, who has a Jewish
grandparent, plays the
head of the frat.
During one party
scene, Efron lays a kiss
on a coed played by
HALSTON SAGE, 20
(Efron is now dating
Sage in real life). Mean-
while, DAVE FRANCO,
28, and CHRISTOPHER
MINTZ-PLASSE, 24, play
the other big frat boy
parts. (Both these actors
have Jewish mothers.)
LISA KUDROW, 50, plays
the films one really adult
role a college dean
who tries to tame the
fraternity.
As you might have
guessed, the director,
NICHOLAS STOLLER, 38,
is Jewish, too. Neigh-
bors looks like a hit for
Stoller, who scored as
the director of Forget-
ting Sarah Marshall and
Get Him to the Greek,
but stumbled with the
too-long/too sad come-
dy, A Five Year Engage-
ment.
Franco, 28, as most of
you know, is the young-
er brother of film star
JAMES FRANCO, 36.
Daves career is really
getting hotter, aided by
nice supporting roles in
recent box office hits (21
Jump Street and Now
You See Me). Its always
cool to learn that a hot
actor identifies strong-
ly as Jewish. So I was
pleased to see Daves
response to a nosy re-
porter who asked him,
a couple of weeks ago,
if he was circumcised.
Franco said: Yes. I am
Jewish as I can be. (For
the record, he didnt use
the words I can behe
used a vulgar word that
means the same thing in
this context.)
On May 1, the Ford
Motor Company
confirmed what had
long been expected: that
MARK FIELDS, 53, now
its chief operating of-
ficer, would replace Alan
Mulally, 58, as is CEO.
The transfer of power
is scheduled for July 1.
Baby take a bow
I would call it a bit creepy that NBC has chosen
Mothers Day thats this Sunday, May 11 to begin a
two-part miniseries Rosemarys Baby, the classic hor-
ror tale about a young woman who may be carrying
the devils child or the AntiChrist. (It airs at 9 p.m.) The
miniseries makers say that their version will be truer to
IRA LEVINs 1967 novel than the 1968 ilm version was.
I know that most of you who have seen the 1968 ilm
version, masterfully directed by ROMAN POLANSKI,
now 80, think it is highly unlikely that the TV version will
come close to matching it.
But it is just possible. NBC has done a clever thing,
moving the storys setting from New York City to Paris
and gathering up an international cast of very good
actors. A new setting and fresh faces may bring out
interesting aspects of the story. Also, the director is
AGNIESKA HOLLAND, 66, who, like Polanski, was
born in Poland, and again like Polanski, has made award-
winning dramatic ilms (like Europa, Europa) about
the Holocaust. Both directors have the gift of turning
potentially too-graphic material into comprehensible art.
Zoe Saldana plays Rosemary in the TV version, with
handsome British Jewish actor JASON ISAACS, 50,
playing Roman Castevert, a leader of a Satanic coven. In
the 1968 ilm, Castevert was depicted as elderly and fairly
reserved. The producer of the TV ilm says our ver-
sion of Castevert is much more seductive-and oozing sex
appeal and class. N.B.
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Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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Art history expert to explain the Wandering Jew during shul lecture
JOANNE PALMER
The Wandering Jew is not a very appeal-
ing figure.
Hes disheveled, hes not too clean, his
shoes have holes, and his hair and beard are
foul. He looks like he smells bad.
He is a mythic character, first created by
Christians who said that he was present at
Calvary, where Jesus was crucified, so hes
about 2,000 years old, give or take.
He is thought to have been a shoemaker,
and he is charged with having refused to give
Jesus a place to rest on his way to his death.
Jesus says, Because you have not given me
a moment to rest, you will walk the land for-
ever, Dr. Richard I. Cohen said.
Dr. Cohen, a professor of Jewish history
at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
who is spending this year at the University
of Pennsylvanias Center for Advanced
Jewish Studies, is an expert on the Wan-
dering Jew. He will talk about the mythic
figure at Congregation Beth Sholom in
Teaneck on Tuesday night.
The Wandering Jew seems to have surfaced
first in the 13th century, in Europe, so even
by that count hes at least 700 years old. His
visual representation comes from a Christian
understanding of Jews. He (and this is not sex-
ism, this figure almost always is an old man)
has a long beard, a cane, and a small purse,
usually holding five pennies; he often has a
sack slung over his shoulder, and it is clear,
from the torn shoes, from the tatters, from
the hints of motion, that he has been walking.
His walk will continue forever.
He is, in a sense, a true descendant of Cain,
doomed forever to roam; he never will die
and he never will rest.
But, according to Dr. Cohen, the figure of
the Wandering Jew has changed over time,
as he constantly is reinterpreted by the
world and seen through the worlds ever-
changing filters.
For just one example, one of Sigmund
Freuds teachers, Jean-Martin Charcot, a
famous neurologist whose work was seminal
in his field, collaborated with a colleague,
Henri Miege, who wrote his Ph.D. disserta-
tion on the Wandering Jew; the character
was considered to display a form of hysteria.
Here you can see a very clear way of medi-
cine dealing with it, Dr. Cohen said.
Musicians also have taken on the Wander-
ing Jew; so too has horticulture. Think about
the plant called the Wandering Jew, Dr.
Cohen said. Think of the notion of a plant
that goes off in all different directions.
Because the Wandering Jew has seen the
mystery that is at the heart of Christianity, his
own mystery appeals to the Christian world,
just as his unmistakable otherness repels. The
outside world wants to know what secret he
holds, Dr. Cohen said. And so the Wandering
Jew is used by poets, by artists, by literary
figures to investigate those secrets. There
is a great interest in this figure, someone who
is entering into a new society.
Gustave Dore made many images of the
wanderer some of them anti-Semitic,
Dr. Cohen said and Keats, Shelley, and
other Romantic poets wrote about him.
It keeps coming up in Polish and Russian
literature, as well.
One of the Wandering Jews attributes is
that he can speak all languages. He can
come into Hungary, or Serbia, and speak
the language. That means that he can talk
to the people who live there, tell them
the secrets he has learned, or hold those
Who: Professor Richard I. Cohen of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
What: Will deliver the annual Buchman Lecture on the Visual Arts
When: Tuesday, May 13, at 7:45 p.m.
Where: Congregation Beth Sholom, 354 Maitland Ave., Teaneck
Why: To look at the image of the Wandering Jew, particularly in the modern
period.
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These are three versions of the Wandering Jew; the one at the bottom is by
Gustave Dore.
Dr. Richard I. Cohen
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secrets to himself.
Look at Dores Wandering Jew, he said.
This figure is contrapuntal with Christ
going to Calvary. He emerges through ship-
wreck and storm. Hes a witness of time.
He has seen something that everybody
wants to have seen.
The Wandering Jew seems to appear
most frequently at times of stress. It is
likely that his debut in the Middle Ages
had to do with Europeans fear of a Mon-
gol invasion. He became popular in French
imagery in the 19th century. Almost as
popular as Napoleon, Dr. Cohen said.
Why? It could be associated with internal
developments within French society then,
and with the breakdown of the church.
And Jews have investigated the figure
as well, creating a distinct interaction
between the reality of the Jews and the
mythic notion of Jews as wanderers.
Menashe Ben Israel, a 17th century rabbi
and founder of the first Hebrew-language
printing press, whose own life was, among
many other things, a study in wandering,
used an image of the Wandering Jew on
the covers of his books, as if for branding.
When Dr. Cohen speaks on Tuesday, he
will concentrate on the modern period.
From about the middle of the 19th cen-
tury, Jewish interpreters artists, mainly,
and some literary figures began to think
about the Wandering Jew in their own
context, he said. In Polish Jewish art,
you have very interesting depictions.
At the end of the 19th century, when
Jews are moving out of eastern Europe,
when the issue of wandering became very
important, Polish Jews pick up this figure.
Their underlying concern, he said, was
once they accepted that, yes, they had to
go away, the question was, where do you
wander to?
In one profound case, you can see a
Christ-like figure emerging from a forest.
The interpretation is that the Wandering
Jew has been able to emerge from the his-
torical evolution of the lachrymose history
of the Jews. He is emerging into the sun,
into some kind of revitalization.
Marc Chagall is constantly concerned
with this wandering figure, Dr. Cohen
continued. And R.J. Kitaj, a well-known
American Jewish artist who died in 2007,
has several images of the Wandering Jew
that are just remarkable. Sometimes he
just called him the Rider. Kitaj is making
associations with the history of the Jews.
What is very engaging about this figure
is that it is very constant over time, he
said. Nothing has brought this figure to
rest. Even in modern-day Israel, there are
artists who have picked up the notion of
the Wandering Jew, and they are trying to
understand it in terms of Israel.
Is Israel the end of the wandering?
Dr. Richard I. Cohen
In this painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805-1874), The Destruction of
Jerusalem by Titus, the Wandering Jew, at the bottom left, is running away
from the pursuing demons.
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American democracy at work
Norpac mission brings 1,000 pro-Israel advocates to Washington
JOSH LIPOWSKY
WASHINGTON Torrential rain didnt
stop the hundreds of Norpac members
who trekked to Washington, D.C., last
week to advocate on behalf of a strong
U.S.-Israel relationship.
Roughly 1,000 people on 24 buses
from across the New York metropolitan
area, including Teaneck, Englewood, the
Oranges, Highland Park, Manhattan, and
Long Island, joined Norpacs annual Mis-
sion to Washington on April 30. Armed
with a set of talking points emphasizing
foreign aid to Israel and Iranian sanctions,
members of the Englewood-based pro-
Israel political action committee met with
98 senators and more than 70 percent of
the House to advocate for a strong U.S.-
Israel relationship. (In some cases, where
congressional leaders were in voting ses-
sions, members of their legislative staffs
met with the Norpac groups.)
Each of you is here because you stand
for the critical, unshakeable alliance
between Israel and the United States of
America, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said
at the beginning of Wednesdays plenary
session, where he, Senator Bob Menendez
(D-N.J.), Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) praised Norpacs
members for their participation in the
advocacy process and extolled the U.S.-
Israel relationship.
As an elected official, I know there is no
substitute for hearing from your own con-
stituents face to face on what is important
to them, what is important to our coun-
try, and indeed the world, said state Sen-
ate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg of
Teaneck as she introduced Mr. Menendez.
Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, Mr. Menendez has authored
or co-authored almost every Iran sanc-
tions bill in recent years. Speaking to Nor-
pac, he praised the U.S.-Israel relationship
and called for a continued tough line with
Iran.
An Iran with nuclear weapons capa-
bility is not would be, is an existen-
tial threat to the State of Israel. It is also a
threat to the national security interests of
the United States, he said.
A nuclear capability would embolden
Iran to be even more aggressive in the
region where it already persists in sup-
porting, financing and exporting terror,
he said. A nuclear Iran would unleash an
arms race in the worlds most dangerous
tinderbox.
The senator flatly rejected any move-
ment that calls for boycotts of or divest-
ment from Israel, and called on Palestin-
ian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
to choose between peace with Israel or
peace with Hamas.
President Abbas must choose between
a future that envisions a two-state solution,
recognizing Israel as a Jewish state having
peace and security, and a Palestinian state
with prosperity for the Palestinian people;
or, a marriage with a terrorist organization
that will never achieve that dream.
That marriage, he continued, has con-
sequences under U.S. law, which labels
Hamas a terrorist organization.
Following the plenary, Norpacs advo-
cates split into groups to meet with Con-
gressional members around Capitol Hill.
The high turnout of Norpac members and
substantial discussions in the meetings
Dr. Ben Chouake addresses Norpacs plenary session. JOSH LIPOWSKY
From left, Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg of Teaneck, Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, and Norpac co-chair Dr.
Laurie Baumel of Teaneck at the Norpac plenarys podium in Washington, D.C.
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Dear Friends,
NORPAC wishes to thank its Mission Committee for a successful Mission to Washington.
What we accomplished:
Registered over 1,000 people to join us down in Washington to advocate for a stronger U.S.-Israel relationship
Attended 400 meetings with Members of Congress and their staff
Set a record of 98% of the Senate meeting with our participants
Gained over 50 new co-sponsors for the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act in the House and
received critical interest in the Senate for introducing a partner bill
Renewed Congress's pledge to ensure that an acceptable final agreement is reached with Iran in which its nuclear
weapons production infrastructure is dismantled
Received pledges from Members of the Appropriations and Armed Services Committee to work towards
increasing the aid to Israel Missile Defense to last year's budget or beyond ($300 million more than requested by
the administration)
Led substantial discussions on understanding the Anti-Semitic nature of the BDS movement with Members of
Congress
We are grateful to the Mission Chairs and area leaders for their countless hours of work to make this Mission successful.
We are also grateful to our national leaders for granting us this audience to hear and act on our concerns.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Chouake
Ben Chouake, MD
President NORPAC

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made the trip a very meaningful mis-
sion, said Norpacs president, Dr. Ben
Chouake of Englewood. Typically, about
half of the Congressional members dele-
gate the meetings to legislative aides and
briefly pop in, but Dr. Chouake said the
feedback he has received shows that more
representatives than usual joined the in-
depth conversations.
Norpacs members sought support on
four key points: continued security assis-
tance to Israel in the form of defense aid,
particularly for anti-missile systems such
as the Arrow and Iron Dome; broadening
sanctions against Iran; sanctioning Hezbol-
lah, and speaking out against the Boycott
Divestment and Sanctions movement.
This was Norpacs 20th mission to Wash-
ington. When it began, the trip included
just a handful of people; now Norpac caps
participants at a little more than 1,000. The
groups members throughout the tristate
area hold some 70 fundraisers in each two-
year election cycle, connecting with about
15 percent of Congress, for candidates with
demonstrated pro-Israel records.
Part of the Washington trips goal is to
help Norpac members expand their advo-
cacy motivation and build relationships
with their congressmen, which encour-
ages them to get involved in campaigns
and host fundraisers through Norpac, Dr.
Chouake said. We like to have them feel
like they want a relationship, he said.
What a great country this is that we
can do this, he said. What a great group
of people that takes the time and effort to
take advantage of this opportunity.
Having such a large percentage of Con-
gress take time to meet with hundreds of
pro-Israel activists is an incredible experi-
ence to see American democracy at work,
said Anne Gontownik of Englewood, who
attended the mission with her husband,
Jerry, and her 29-year-old son, Zev.
What Ms. Gontownik finds most power-
ful about the mission, though, is the unity
of participants from different political, reli-
gious, and other backgrounds, she said.
We come together with Norpac, she
said.
Norpac prepared four talking points for
its members to discuss on Capitol Hill:
Continued U.S. aid
This is standard among Israels advocates.
In 2007, the United States signed a 10-year
memorandum with Israel pledging $30
billion in security assistance over 10 years
to assure Israels qualitative military edge.
President Obama requested $3.1 billion for
the 2015 fiscal year budget, and Norpac
directed its members to thank Congress
for its support and ask for maintaining
assistance year to year.
American aid has gone toward funding
Israels missile defense programs, such as
the short-range anti-missile system Iron
Dome and the long-range system Davids
Sling. During Israels November 2012 con-
frontation with Hamas, Iron Dome brought
down 421 rockets fired from Gaza before
they could strike in Israel. Davids Sling is
meant to intercept long-range ballistic mis-
siles, such as those employed by Iran.
Increased pressure on Iran
Iran insists its fledgling nuclear program
is for research and energy purposes only,
while the United States, Israel, and other
allies suspect Irans goal is to develop
nuclear weapons. After Hassan Rouhani
assumed the Iranian presidency in 2013,
he reengaged Iran in negotiations with
the five permanent members of the U.N.
Security Council and Germany the P5+1
on Irans nuclear program. President
Obama says that all options, including
military, remain on the table, but he also
is insistent on carrying out negotiations
through their July deadline.
The administrations decision to pursue
a diplomatic front has complicated Nor-
pacs support for a tougher Iran policy,
said Leon Kozak of Englewood, a member
of the Norpac committee that drafted the
talking points.
Given Irans support of Hezbollah and
other terrorist organizations, and the
fierce anti-Israel and anti-U.S. rhetoric of
President Rouhanis predecessor, Mah-
moud Ahmadinejad, and other Iranian
leaders, U.S. and Israeli leaders have
remained highly skeptical of the latest dip-
lomatic push. The Obama administration
has supported this push, which led to an
interim agreement last year that loosened
some sanctions on Iran during continued
negotiations.
Despite this, Congress introduced new
bills calling for tougher sanctions on Iran
late last year: the Nuclear Iran Prevention
Act in the House and the Nuclear Weapon
Free Iran Act in the Senate.
There seemed to be a very wide con-
sensus that should the president need
more sanctions theyll be there, Dr.
Chouake said. And should he decide he
needs military force, the Congress under-
stands the urgency of the situation and is
likely to give approval.
Hezbollah sanctions
The Hezbollah International Financing
Prevention Act, which seeks to impose
financial sanctions against Hezbollah and
target its international logistics and finan-
cial networks, is now in committee in the
House. The bill also seeks to designate
Hezbollah a narcotics trafficking organiza-
tion and a transnational criminal organiza-
tion because of its drug smuggling activi-
ties in South America.
The United States should take what-
ever steps are appropriate to prevent the
proliferation of terrorist activities by Hez-
bollah, even if there may be adverse conse-
quences in Lebanon, which are extremely
unfortunate, Mr. Kozak said.
Norpac sought support from House
members for the bill and encouraged sen-
ators to support similar legislation. The
legislation will limit Hezbollahs abilities
regionally and globally, according to Dr.
Chouake.
We were the first group to talk about
this legislation, he said. We are con-
fident it will have many more sponsors
Eliot Listman and his daughter, Emma, of Woodmere
meet with Oklahoma Republican Rep. James Lankford.
Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, with
Chana Lieba, Avigayil, and Judith Rosenbluth.
Norpac
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Secretary Kerry and apartheid
The weather didnt create the only
storm over Norpacs Mission to
Washington last week. Just days
before the event, Secretary of State
Kerry set off a firestorm of criticism
when, in an off-the-record comment
caught on video, he warned that
Israel could become an apartheid
state if the peace process doesnt
move forward.
That Israeli leaders, including for-
mer prime ministers Ehud Olmert
and Ehud Barak, have made similar
statements didnt stop the pro-Israel
community from jumping on the
secretarys comments, calling for an
apology, and in some cases for his
resignation. Mr. Kerry retracted the
statement soon after, but with the
comments still fresh in everybodys
minds, many saw the Norpac mission
as an opportunity to voice frustra-
tion.
During his plenary speech to Nor-
pac, Senator Ted Cruz, who earlier
had called on Mr. Kerry to resign,
lashed out at the secretary.
Now Secretary Kerry claims he
misspoke, and Im glad hes attempt-
ed to retract his comments, but un-
fortunately those remarks are part of
a long series of damaging comments
and positions we have seen that
have undermined our relationship
with the nation of Israel, the Texas
Republican said.
Even Democrats sought to dis-
tance themselves from Mr. Kerry.
During his opening remarks at the
plenary, Senator Bob Menendez
rejected calls for boycotts of Israel
and any comment that suggests Is-
rael runs the risk of being named an
apartheid state. They are wrong.
Many members of Congress and
their staff who met with Norpac on
Wednesday said they were deeply
disturbed and bothered by that
terminology, the OUs Rabbi Ste-
ven Weil, said. The problem is the
enemies of Israel will employ that
terminology.
Norpacs leaders also expressed
disappointment with the secretarys
comments, but they pointed to Mr.
Kerrys record and appeared willing
to forgive.
Rabbi Menachem Genack said he
was disappointed by Mr. Kerrys
unfortunate remark, but warned
against reading too much into it.
He has a long history of support
for Israel, Rabbi Genack said. He
cares about Israel. I dont think oth-
erwise. In his position as secretary of
state, it was unfortunate.
Dr. Ben Chouake, Norpacs presi-
dent, called the apartheid remark
unfortunate, but recognized the
secretarys apology.
Nobodys happy with it and I
dont think hes happy with it either,
Dr. Chouake said. He has a lifetime
of support for U.S.-Israel relations. I
think we can give him a pass.
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in the House and members in the Senate who had
never heard of this initiative will give it greater
consideration.
Hezbollah joined Lebanons political arena in 2006.
After a series of violent protests in 2008, Hezbol-
lah received veto power in the government under
the Qatar-negotiated Doha Agreement. Hezbollahs
entrenchment in the government creates a dilemma
for nations that want to recognize Hezbollahs terror-
ism but dont want to further destabilize Lebanon.
The European Union labeled Hezbollahs armed wing
a terrorist organization last year, following a conten-
tious debate out of fear of complicating relations with
Lebanon. Despite the EUs distinction, Hezbollah does
not distinguish between its armed or political wings.
Unfortunately, the nation of Lebanon has been co-
opted largely by a terrorist organization, Mr. Kozak
said. That is a tragedy of the highest order. But on the
other hand, one cannot exempt Hezbollah and Leba-
non from scrutiny just because theres a risk of desta-
bilizing the country.
Exposing the BDS movement
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement has
been gaining steam among Israels detractors, particu-
larly on college campuses. Earlier this year, BDS activ-
ists protested the Super Bowl for accepting a commer-
cial from Israeli company SodaStream, headquartered
in the West Bank. BDS activists often claim Israel is an
apartheid state and seek a one-state solution that effec-
tively would end Israels existence as a Jewish state.
Norpac does not seek to stifle freedom of speech,
Norpac leaders emphasized. The group is not asking
Congress to legislate against BDS activists or any other
speech protected under the First Amendment, Mr.
Kozak said. He pointed to the recent case of Donald
Sterling, the owner of the NBA team the Los Ange-
les Clippers who made racist remarks about African
Americans last month. The NBA has taken steps to
wrest the franchise away from Mr. Sterling.
There are steps that can be taken short of state
action, of criminal action, against individuals who
engage in inappropriate speech and slanderous
speech in an effort to marginalize Jews and the State of
Israel, he said. Were not asking for laws to prevent
that. People have a right to invoke hateful statements,
but they should suffer the consequences. They should
be called out on it, and we encourage the congress-
men to help us do that.
Dr. Chouake pointed to the so-called 3D test, devel-
oped by Natan Sharansky and adopted by the U.S.
State Department, which determines that criticism
of Israel crosses the line from legitimate criticism to
anti-Semitism if it contains deligitimization of Israel
by denying the Jewish people their right to self-deter-
mination; if it includes a double standard by singling
out Israel while ignoring human-rights abuses by other
countries; and if it demonizes Israel by distorting its
faults. Norpac asked congressional leaders for help in
recognizing the illegitimacy of BDS, and in speaking
out against BDS.
The Natan Sharansky three Ds simplifies how to
look at these matters in a way that deepens your under-
standing of them and makes you more aware of what
is legitimate criticism and what is anti-Semitism, Dr.
Chouake said. From the point of view we were able
to define it in an easily recognizable manner, they can
at the very least recognize it better when they see it.
Norpac supports candidates on both sides of the
aisle who demonstrate pro-Israel records. Histori-
cally, support for Israel has been stronger in the U.S.
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Telling Israels story
Video project records the testimony of War of Independence fighters
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
On the eve of Israels 66th Indepen-
dence Day, the Toldot Yisrael Video Proj-
ect announced a new partnership with
the National Library of Israel to archive
and catalogue video testimony of people
involved in the 1948 War of Independence.
(Toldot Yisrael means Chronicles of Israel.)
The partnership will provide online
access to this material.
With the help of supporters including
the Maimonides Fund, headed by Mark
Charendoff of Englewood, Toldot Yisrael
already has recorded the testimonies of
700 veterans and diplomats of that epoch,
amounting to more than 3,000 hours
of archival material. The goal is to finish
1,000 interviews by the end of 2015.
I came to this from my own affinity
for that time period, Aryeh Halivni said.
Mr. Halivni, who was born Eric Weisberg
and made aliyah from Cleveland, is Toldot
Yisraels founder. If I could have lived at
any other time period in history, I would
have chosen the period of the founding of
the state of Israel. I always wonder how I
might have contributed, he said.
When Steven Spielberg started his Sur-
vivors of the Shoah Visual History Foun-
dation in 1994, Mr. Halivni thought there
ought to be a parallel project about the
founding of Israel.
Two major events changed the face
of the Jewish world forever: the Shoah,
which is well documented, and the found-
ing of the state of Israel, Mr. Halivni said.
Though Holocaust survivors often speak
publicly about their experiences, he
added, I never had the opportunity to
hear someones personal story from the
War of Independence, and I wanted to do
that before it was too late.
When Toldot Yisrael was founded in
Jerusalem seven years ago, demographers
estimated that the pool of interview can-
didates numbered 120,000. Today, more
than 70 percent of those people have died.
Statistically, one in seven of the remaining
35,000 interview candidates will not live
through the coming year.
Just like Steven Spielberg had this
notion that there was a ticking clock on
capturing remarkable personal first-
hand experiences of people who suffered
through the Holocaust and people who
resisted, Aryeh had a very realistic and
doable approach to capturing a piece of
history that Jews, Israelis, and the general
public will be fascinated with for years to
come, Mr. Charendoff, who also sits on
Birthright Israels board and is the former
head of the Jewish Funders Network, said.
Therefore, there is some urgency to it.
We believe this is a critical moment, that
shouldnt be missed.
Mr. Halivni said that the Frisch School
of Paramus was the first to begin using the
video footage educationally. The schools
associate principal, Rabbi Eli Ciner,
approached him three or four years ago,
when he heard about the project.
We put together a few moving clips
from interviews about what some Ameri-
cans had done in 1948 and why they had
done it, Mr. Halivni said. These were vol-
unteers about the same age as the Frisch
students who are watching it. This makes
the students think about how they fit into
the story.
Rabbi Ciner said the Toldot Yisrael mate-
rial was critical in conveying the theme
of the Yom Haatzmaut program: recogniz-
ing and appreciating the everyday heroes
of medinat Yisrael the state of Israel.
Our students were inspired by the stories
of those individuals.
The success of this screening spurred
Mr. Halivni to ask the Jim Joseph Founda-
tion to fund a pilot using some of Toldot
Yisraels material to create Eyewitness
1948 television-quality short films
produced with the History Channel and
accompanied by classroom discussion
guides now used in schools around the
United States.
The films include Echoes of a Shofar,
showing six octogenarians returning to the
Western Wall to re-enact their crime of
blowing a shofar in the 1940s, when it was
illegal under British Mandate law; The
Story of a Vote, chronicling the November
29, 1947 United Nations decision to create
the state of Israel; The Volunteers, fea-
turing stories of Jews from abroad who
contributed to the founding of the state,
including Vidal Sassoon; and A Bravery
Fiercer than Death, the tragic account of
the Lamed Hey, a group of 35 young sol-
diers killed in January 1948 attempting to
bring relief to a besieged Gush Etzion.
The Jim Joseph Foundation and others
also funded The Founders: The Story
of the 1948 Generation, a series of two-
minute films also produced with the His-
tory Channel. These videos, in Hebrew
with English subtitles, already have been
viewed online half a million times.
Drs. Elad and Zimra Peled spoke at the
Jerusalem press conference announcing
the partnership with the National Library.
Elad Peled, a retired major general and for-
mer director general of Israels Ministry of
Education, was a squad commander in the
Palmach strike force and the command-
ing officer of the battle of Tzfat (Safed) in
1948. Zimra Peled trained new Palmach
recruits until the outbreak of the War of
Independence, when she was assigned
to accompany convoys trying to reach a
besieged Jerusalem. The couple wed in
1948 during the first ceasefire of the War
of Independence.
For more information, go to www.
toldotyisrael.org.
I never had the
opportunity to
hear someones
personal story
from the War of
Independence,
and I wanted to
do that before it
was too late.
ARYEH HALIVNI
Shmuel Haram talks about his experiences in the War of Independence for the
Toldot Yisrael Video Project.
Aryeh Halivni is in a race against time
to record the testimony of War of
Independence veterans.
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Where no $10,000 investor has gone before
Englewood meeting showcases investment site for high-tech Israeli firms
LARRY YUDELSON
The scene in the Englewood living room
last Thursday night felt like a science-fic-
tion movie.
A computer display was projected on
the wall. Rami Parham stood off to the
side, using his hand to manipulate the dis-
play. He moved windows around on the
wall, tapped on it to start a YouTube video,
and reached out and around in the space
in front of the wall to manipulate a three-
dimensional model of a water mill.
It seemed like the high-tech computer
interface of the PreCrime police depart-
ment in the 2002 movie Minority Report
except with ordinary wall instead of
translucent displays. Mr. Parham, who
controlled the display with a small splint-
like device he wore on his finger, is the
Israeli founder and CEO of Muv Interac-
tive. The three-year-old company hopes
to begin selling the pointer and the Blue-
tooth-linked sensor that connects to a
computer, phone, or tablet this summer.
Plans call for it to cost $350. (Users will
have to provide their own projector; com-
puter, phone, or tablet, and flat surface.)
Mr. Parham came to New Jersey, along
with the leaders of a couple of other
start-up companies, at the behest of Jon
Medved. Mr. Medved is the American-born
Israeli founder of OurCrowd, a 14-month-
old investment company that lets any-
one who is interested invest in start-up
companies.
Venture capital has disrupted every
industry through its early funding of com-
panies such as Google and Amazon, Mr.
Medved said.
The one industry that hasnt been dis-
rupted is venture capital, he said.
OurCrowd aims to do just that, by open-
ing up early-stage companies to invest-
ments of as little as $10,000.
OurCrowds website, ourcrowd.com,
lets accredited investors thats SEC-
speak for someone with assets of more
than one million dollars or annual income
of more than $200,000 browse through
lists of potential investment opportunities.
We go and hunt down great compa-
nies in Israel and now around the world,
Mr. Medved said. We choose two out of
a hundred that we look at. We negotiate
terms, how much a stake in the company
the investment buys.
Then it offers those companies to Our-
Crowds member investors there are now
about 4,000 of them.
Early stage investment is risky; not all
fledgling companies succeed. But the payoff
can be huge for early investors in companies
that go big.
So far, OurCrowd has invested $50 mil-
lion in 37 companies, 31 of them Israeli. The
name reflects its initial Israeli and therefore
Jewish focus it is a nod to the 1967 book
by Stephen Birmingham about New Yorks
wealthy German-Jewish families. As Our-
Crowd has taken off it just raised $25 mil-
lion in investment funding to expand it
has begun funding companies in the United
States and elsewhere.
Muv Interactive isnt the only Our-
Crowd-backed company selling a product
that seems like science fiction. Consumer
Physics, based in Herzliya, was repre-
sented at the Englewood meeting only
by a video demo. It has produced a por-
table material scanner in other words,
Star Treks tricorder, which enabled Mr.
Spock to identify the composition of life
found on alien world. Unlike the tricorder
in the 1966 TV show, the SCiOS device cre-
ated by Consumer Physics is closer in size
to an iPhone than a transistor radio. And
the science is real: It uses infrared spec-
troscopy to detect the chemical makeup
of the products it scans.
The company is selling its first batch of
SCiOS through Kickstarter.com at $299
each. On Kickstarter, the company has
raised more than three-quarters of a mil-
lion dollars, promising its scanners to nearly
4,000 backers. Last month, the company
raised a million dollars in investment capital
through OurCrowd. It was fully funded only
ten minutes into the companys webinar.
In one demonstration video, the SciOS
identifies one pill as aspirin, and another
as Tylenol. In another, it reports the per-
centage of fat in a slice of cheese.
Another company with medical angle is
MedAware. It provides a data analysis to
detect possible prescription errors.
About three years ago I encountered
the case of a nine-year-old boy who went
with his mother to primary-care physician
with asthma, founder Gidi Stein said.
The physician wanted to give a prescrip-
tion for Singulair. Instead of Singulair, he
clicked on Sintrom, the next medicine on
the list. Sintrom is a potent anticoagulant.
Three weeks later, the boy fell off his bicy-
cle and that was that. He died of an inter-
cranial hemorrhage.
Dr. Steins goal is to fix the system.
There are more than four billion pre-
scriptions written annually in the U.S., he
said. Eight million have life-threatening
errors. Seven percent are wrong, but only
two in a thousand can kill you. Its esti-
mated that a hundred thousand people
will be injured and even die because of
prescription errors in the U.S.
The current systems that should pro-
tect patients are not good enough. They
cover drug interactions, allergies, all kind
of manually created rules. But if the physi-
cian got mixed up with drugs, or gave the
wrong drug to a patient, or is unaware of
critical date, no one can warn him or stop
a catastrophe.
Dr. Stein said he tested the system on 44
million prescriptions, and then met with
the physicians where errors were discov-
ered. In most cases, he said, the physi-
cians were unaware of the error, even if
the patient had died.
The system is being installed in Isra-
els largest hospital, and large studies
are beginning in one of Bostons leading
hospitals.
The system sits within a hospitals pri-
vacy firewall, and sends only anonymized
data to MedAware servers to check the wis-
dom of the prescription.
Unlike Muv and Consumer Physics,
MedAware is still recruiting investors.
Rami Parham demonstrates his fingertip technology in Englewood.
OurCrowd founder Jon Medved
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with John A. Jenkins, author of The Partisan;
and Soul Beliefs with Professor and TED
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Support Groups
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WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS:
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This newly formed bereavement group
for those recently widowed provides an
opportunity to share your feelings with
others who understand.
Beginning Mon, May 12, 6:15-7:45 pm
Registration required. For fees and more info,
call Esther at 201.408.1456.
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Join us to dispel myths about what constitutes sound nutrition with our
panel of medical and nutritional experts at our latest health symposium,
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Moderated by Carol Rubin, MS, RDN, our three panelists include:
Elena Ferran, MD, gastroenterologist at NYU Langone Medical Center;
Stephanie Middleberg, MS, RD, CDN, founder of Middleberg Nutrition
in NYC; and Tracy Scheller, MD, OBGYN, private practice in Englewood.
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Concert to raise funds for aphasia center scholarships
Repairing the world is what its all about, says rabbi
LOIS GOLDRICH
O
n June 1, the Adler Aphasia
Center will sponsor a fund-
raising concert in Englewood
to help bring attention to the
high incidence of strokes in the black
community.
A Jewish event?
Technically, no.
Should the Jewish community be
involved? Yes, says Rabbi Neal Borovitz,
chairman of the intergroup relations com-
mittee of the Jewish Community Relations
Council of the Jewish Federation of North-
ern New Jersey and rabbi emeritus of Tem-
ple Avodat Shalom in River Edge.
We are Americans as well as Jews,
human beings as well as Jews, Rabbi Boro-
vitz said, noting that aphasia a language
disorder caused by stroke or other brain
injury increasingly impacts the lives of
all people and affects not just the person
but the family and the entire community.
We need to be concerned with the whole
issue.
Crediting Mike and Elaine Adler for
creating the Maywood aphasia facility
in 2003, Rabbi Borovitz said, We can
be proud that one of our leading philan-
thropic families has taken a lead in estab-
lishing what is probably one of the best
programs of its kind.
The Adler Aphasia Center, a nonprofit
organization, is a post-rehabilitative
therapeutic program that addresses the
long-term needs of people with aphasia
and their families. Some 2 million people
have been diagnosed with aphasia in the
United States. The communication disor-
der affects nearly 40 percent of all stroke
and brain trauma survivors.
Rabbi Borovitz said that the Jewish com-
munity always thinks about how to work
together with people from other ethnic
and religious communities on issues of
common concern.
The Adler Aphasia Center, by putting
this program together, offers a fascinating
opportunity for such multiethnic coopera-
tion, he said.
Repairing this world is what its all about.
The fact that this event will take place at the
end of the counting of the Omer, approach-
ing Shavuot the giving of the Torah is a
wonderful symbol.
If you unravel a Torah scroll, the middle
words, in Leviticus 19:18, are Love your
neighbor as yourself. This represents work-
ing together with our neighbors to show our
love and concern for people stricken with
this condition.
Joy Kurland, the JCRCs director, pointed
out that such cooperation works both ways.
Noting that the commission has a Jewish-
African American coalition, she said that
Anthony Cureton, president of the Bergen
County chapter of the NAACP,
has been particularly respon-
sive to the Jewish community.
A few years ago, when syna-
gogues were being desecrated
and there were anti-Semitic
incidents, he and his leadership
came to the federation the night
we gathered to discuss security
concerns, Ms. Kurland said.
They said, We are here for you.
We want to work together and
stand up against racism.
Efforts now are under way to
talk about going forward with
collaborative efforts, Ms. Kur-
land added. Its very important
that we support each other in
whatever way we can. An event
like this is important. The Jewish
community [should be aware] of
the high incidence of strokes in
the African American commu-
nity and should do whatever we
can to help.
Charles Berkowitz, president
of the Adler centers board of directors and
president and CEO of the Jewish Home Fam-
ily, said that the Adlers started the program
for the right reasons not to gain but to
give. Its a great program that covers the
whole community.
H added that although the center is not
part of the Jewish Home, many people
active in the Jewish facility also support the
efforts of the aphasia center. I got involved
because of my relationship with Elaine, who
is on the board of the Jewish Home, he said.
Mr. Berkowitz said he has been trying to
expand the aphasia centers board to make
it more universal, to represent more groups
within the community. He said that Jews
should get behind this effort because we
see a need in the community and think its
the right thing to do. Its the same reason we
reach out to the developmentally disabled.
Our background teaches us to help others.
Karen Tucker, executive director of the
Adler Center, said the June 1 concert is
intended to reach into the community,
targeting an area with a high concentration
of African Americans. Last year, a fundrais-
ing event with a similar goal was held at the
Adler home, bringing together ministers
from all the churches we could identify. It
was a good event, she said. We shared
information through each of the church
bulletins.
Tucker said that fundraisers are vital to
the Adler Center, which charges members
only one-third of what it costs to provide
them with services. In addition, people who
cannot afford even a minimal fee are given
scholarships.
Twenty percent of our members dont
pay anything, she said.
It is the centers fundraising events that
make this possible.
To spread the word about aphasia more
effectively, there is a need to go more
directly into the community and provide
direct information, Ms. Tucker said. The
upcoming concert, Raising Our Voices for
Aphasia, is part of this effort, showcasing
the Gospel for Teens Choir, created by Vy
Higginsen and Cissy Houston. Lori Stokes,
and anchor for ABC Eyewitness News, will
be mistress of ceremonies.
The Englewood Baptist Church can
seat 800 people; its a beautiful church,
Ms. Tucker said. Although the concert
itself is free, before it begins some donors
will be invited to a reception at the home
of attorney and event committee mem-
ber Beverly Baker.
Deborah Witcher Jackson, president of
the Bergen/Passaic Chapter of the National
Coalition of 100 Black Women, is chairing
the concert. Committee
members include prominent
members of the both the
black and Jewish communi-
ties as well as legislators such
as Valerie Huttle. In addi-
tion, former N.Y. Jet Bruce
Harper who grew up in
Bergen County and has been
a volunteer for the center is
involved in the project.
The Gospel Teens Choir, a
program of the Mama Foun-
dation for the Arts, was cre-
ated to teach teenagers about
the importance of gospel
music as an art form. The
group has performed up and
down the East Coast and in
such local venues as Lincoln
Center and Yankee Stadium
and has been featured on the
television show 60 Minutes.
At the concert, information
about aphasia will be pro-
vided both from the podium
and at information tables.
Its a way to help people until apha-
sia becomes a tip-of-the-tongue word like
autism, Ms. Tucker said. We need to make
sure people know that what theyre experi-
encing is aphasia they may be sitting there
with it. They need to know about resources.
The best way to address any population
is to go into their neighborhood.
Ms. Tucker said that some people with
aphasia dont come into the center because
they dont know what they have. The
nature [of the condition] is isolating. If you
cant read, it becomes even harder to find
resources. Other, related problems include
access to transportation, finances, and
insurance costs.
There may also be some cultural issues
around coming out, she said. If we were
there, they might attend. We have to make
that extra effort.
Ms. Tucker is hopeful that the community
at large will rally for the event.
Take advantage of a free concert, she
said. Its also nice to go out and be among
those of other backgrounds.
For more information, call Elissa Gold-
stein at (201)368-8585 or email her at egold-
stein@adleraphasiacenter.org.
What: Raising Our Voices for
Aphasia, a free gospel concert
sponsored by the Adler Aphasia
Center
Who: Gospel for Teens Choir
When: June 1, 6 p.m.
Where: Community Baptist Church,
224 First St., Englewood
Information: Elissa Goldstein,
(201)368-8585 or egoldstein@
adleraphasiacenter.org.
Former New York Jet Bruce Harper and Elaine Adler stand
together to support people with aphasia.
COURTESY ADLER APHASIA CENTER
The Adler
Aphasia Center,
by putting
this program
together, offers
a fascinating
opportunity for
such multiethnic
cooperation.
RABBI NEAL BOROVITZ
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Insiders look at the IDF
Col. Bentzi Gruber (Res) of the Israel
Defense Forces will discuss Ethics in
the Field: An Inside Look at the IDF for
an adult education program at Teanecks
Congregation Rinat Yisrael on Saturday,
May 10, at 6:30 p.m. Col. Gruber will
focus on the IDFs greatest challenge:
ensuring Israels security while uphold-
ing one of the most rigorous military
code of ethics in the world today. The
synagogue is at 389 West Englewood
Ave. Call (201) 837-2795 for information.
Col Bentzi Gruber will speak at Congregation Rinat Yisrael.
Jewish Historical Society
to honor Dr. Leonard Cole
The Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey will honor Dr.
Leonard Cole for his contributions to the Jewish community on
Tuesday, May 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Bergen County YJCC.
It costs $60 a person. The YJCC is at 605 Pascack Road in
Washington Township. A photo ID is required to attend. For
information, email Anne Friedman Meyers at anne.f.meyers@
gmail.com or Ina Cohen Harris at inahar@optonline.net.
Temple Emeth earns
environmental award
Temple Emeth in Teaneck received
GreenFaiths coveted Water Shield
certificate when it fulfilled the pro-
grams many requirements. For-
mal acceptance was during Kabba-
lat Shabbat services April 25. Paul
Kaufman of Bergenfield, a member
of the shuls social action commit-
tee, spearheaded the synagogue-
wide program, which was sup-
ported by congregational lay and
staff members.
The GreenFaith Water Shield is a
national designation signifying that
a faith-based institution has taken
steps educational, spiritual, and
practical to conserve water, pro-
tect water quality, and mobilize its mem-
bers and community to do the same.
Requirements for Emeths acknowledge-
ment as a leader in the awareness and
practice of water conservation included
an analysis of its water usage, changes in
its policies on purchasing water-using fix-
tures and appliances, and modification of
some its water-using devices.
Educational requirements included
classes and lectures for religious school
students and congregants, advising them
of the role of water in Jewish history and
ritual, and of the threats to todays sup-
ply of clean water from pollution and
climate change.
Congregants were invited to sign the
Household Water Pledge, promising to pay
close attention to their water usage in both
their indoor and outdoor properties.
As an environmental leader, Temple
Emeth will advocate actively before gov-
ernment officials for preservation of local
water quality, and it will continue to edu-
cate both congregants and community
members on water issues of concern.
GreenFaith, headquartered in Highland
Park, is a faith-based interfaith environ-
mental organization that promotes envi-
ronmental stewardship as a religious duty.
Paul Kaufman, left, with shul president Paula
Dillon and Rabbi Steven Sirbu. BARBARA BALKIN
Fagin named to OU high post
Allen I. Fagin, a well-known
attorney and the former
chairman of Proskauer Rose,
LLP, is the new executive
vice president and chief pro-
fessional officer of the Union
of Orthodox Jewish Congre-
gations of America, which
also is known as the Ortho-
dox Union.
Mr. Fagin is a gradu-
ate of Yeshivat Ramaz in
New York City, Columbia
College, Harvard Law School, and the
JFK School of Government at Harvard,
where he received a J.D. and a masters
in public policy. He joined Proskauer
Rose, LLP, a leading international law
firm, in 1976.
Rabbi Steven Weil, who preceded Mr.
Fagin as executive vice president, said,
Allen will take the Orthodox Union to
places that we have never been. Having
had Allen as a mentor and guide in his
role as a lay leader, I believe having him
lead us professionally represents the
greatest of all possibilities
for the OU.
Rabbi Weil, who has trav-
eled across North America
and the world representing
the OU, now will become a
senior managing director,
overseeing institutional
advancement and commu-
nity engagement.
As an OU lay leader, Mr.
Fagin chaired the Ortho-
dox Unions Youth Commis-
sion, which supervises the work of NCSY,
the OUs international youth movement.
Before that he was chairman of the Seif
Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus,
which places an educator couple on 16
campuses across the United States and
Canada to encourage and facilitate the
observance, commitment, and education
of Orthodox students, and to offer Torah
knowledge to the general Jewish student
community.
Mr. Fagin and his wife, Judith, have
two sons and 12 grandchildren.
Allen Fagin
Chabad and AEPi partner at Rutgers
The Jewish fraternity AEPi reinitiated its
chapter at the Rutgers University Chabad
House this semester. Some Rutgers cam-
pus rabbis were initiated as honorary AEPi
brothers, and the first 43 members of the
new chapter of AEPi were inducted.
Until the AEPi chapter finds a new
location on the Rutgers campus, it will
hold meetings inside the Rutgers Chabad
House. The people of AEPi have a close
relationship with Chabad, especially
with Rabbis Baruch Goodman and Shaya
Shagalow, said AEPi secretary Jacob Scott.
Rabbi Goodman, the Chabad Houses
senior rabbi, was an official for AEPi for
the past 15 years, and he now is the frater-
nitys unofficial chapter rabbi.
The new AEPi chapter also works with
Rutgers Hillel and the Rutgers Jewish
Xperience.
AEPi is the only Jewish fraternity to
have chapters in several countries, includ-
ing Israel. Rutgers AEPi chapter is raising
money for the Save a Childs Heart Foun-
dation, an organization that provides heart
surgeries for children around the world,
no matter their age, gender, religion, or
economic status.
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Ohel parenting workshops aim
for stronger and happier families
Ohel continues a free three-part par-
enting series with Effective Conflict
Resolution on May 14 and Instill-
ing Self-Esteem and Confidence on
May 21, both at 7:30 p.m. Programs
will be at Ohels Northern New Jer-
sey Regional Family Center, 696 Pali-
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Praying like a Christian
Let us pray.
That, apparently, is the way many
Protestant prayers begin, including the
prayers that generally open town coun-
cil meetings in Greece, N.Y.
Those prayers would continue with
the minister talking to God, carrying on
an open conversation that often invokes
Jesus, as listeners sit with bowed heads,
in a style that is familiar to Protestants
and therefore, of course, to many
Americans but not so much to Jews.
On Monday, the Supreme Court over-
turned a lower-court ruling that found
such prayers in such settings not consti-
tutional. In fact, a five-justice majority
ruled, now it is entirely acceptable for
government bodies to begin their meet-
ings not only with so-called legislative
prayer, which, according to the deci-
sion, is inclusive and ecumenical and
directed at a generic God, but with
specifically Christian ones. There need
be no attempt to look around for non-
Christian religious leaders. The only
kind of unacceptable prayer would be
one that denigrated another religion or
sought proselytes.
There is no reason why anyone
should feel uncomfortable with sectar-
ian prayer, according to Greeces town
supervisor, Bill Reilich. Its all about
freedom of speech, freedom to pray
to the God that you believe in without
having concerns about censorship,
he told the radio program All Things
Considered.
And if the prayer is not to the God
you believe in or if you believe in no
God at all well, then, according to Mr.
Reilich, anyone who doesnt like it sim-
ply can enjoy a moment of silence.
Anyone who feels even more
uncomfortable would be free to walk
out, and return when the prayer is
over. That, of course, does not take
into consideration how it would feel to
do business with a town council after
walking out on its prayer.
It is striking that all three Jews on
the court voted against the decision.
(They were joined by Sonia Soto-
mayor, who, like all the other justices,
is Catholic.) Of course, they are the
courts liberals, but it seems likely that
this vote also could have come from a
visceral understanding of what it feels
like to be an outsider, excluded from
something the majority thinks of as
universal.
We do not feel comfortable with
the kind of prayer that Greeces town
council offers. First, there is the ques-
tion of keva and kavannah form and
intention. We do not go for public
unstructured rambling out-loud one-
sided conversations with God. It sim-
ply is not our style. It does not make
us comfortable. And needless to say,
we do not address our prayers to a
tripartite God. That is not our theol-
ogy. Such prayer makes us profoundly
uncomfortable.
We deplore this decision. -JP
KEEPING THE FAITH
Of Noah,
tree-hugging,
and Gods word
T
he movie Noah has received a lot of bad
press from the Christian right, which sees it
as some kind of pagan-packed, brilliantly
sinister anti-Christian film, as breitbart.
com put it in the headline of a review by one of its
popular bloggers, John Nolte.
In his review, Nolte especially bemoans atheist
director and co-writer Darren Aronofskys blas-
phemous claim that God is some kind of tree-hugger
who wiped out humanity in the Flood to save the
planet and punish Man for hunting animals. Nolte (a
tree mugger?) calls this a bald-faced lie. He knows
this because saving the spotted owl is nowhere in
what will later be revealed as Gods Law: The Ten
Commandments.
He also makes the claim that God has no problem
with humans killing animals for food, because after
the Flood, God gave Noah, and therefore Man, a Cov-
enant that included the
okey-doke to eat animals.
How in heavens name
di d God s Law ever
become so distorted not
by Noah or Aronofsky,
but by Nolte and his crowd,
whose only knowledge of
that law seems to come
from watching reruns of
Cecil B. DeMille epics.
Sorry, John, but in this
at least Aronofskys Noah
got it right: God is some
kind of tree-hugger who wiped out humanity in the
Flood to save the planet and punish Man for hunting
animals. As far as that okey-doke to eat animals,
read Chapter 1 of Genesis before reading Chapter
9, John, and you will realize that God is making a
huge concession to human bloodlust, albeit with
serious restrictions. There is no okey-doke here.
If more proof is needed, John, check out Leviticus
17:4, which likens killing animals just for the fun of
it to murder.
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in
Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.
JS-20*
The May flowering of our redemption?
What was President George W. Bush
thinking?
In 2006, President Bush declared
May as the first Jewish American Heri-
tage Month.
Congress had unanimously passed a
resolution, introduced by Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Sen.
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), calling for such
a month to be declared by the presi-
dent. The idea originated with the Jew-
ish Museum of Florida in Miami Beach
and the south Florida Jewish commu-
nity, as an outgrowth of the 2004 cele-
bration of 350 years since the first Jews
landed in New Amsterdam.
We like the idea of celebrating, as
President Obama put it in his dec-
laration this year, the tremendous
contributions of American Jews as
scientists and artists, as activists and
entrepreneurs.
But May?
Is there ever a time on the calendar
when we feel less American?
Last week was Yom Hashoah, and
our hearts and thoughts were in
Europes bloody lands.
This week was the one-two punch of
Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut
Israels Memorial Day and Inde-
pendence Day and our hearts and
thoughts have been in Israel.
And all along we count the Omer,
counting the days between Judeas
long-ago grain harvests even as we
transition between the Exodus from
Egypt and the Revelation at Sinai
today, also in Egypt.
But perhaps thats the real message
of Jewish American Heritage Month.
When the first large group of Jews
stepped ashore in New Amsterdam in
September, 1654 23 refugees from the
Catholic Portuguese conquest of Dutch
Brazil they were greeted coldly by
Governor Peter Stuyvesant, who wrote
to his bosses at the Dutch West India
Company about his desire to expel
them, that the deceitful race such
hateful enemies and blasphemers of the
name of Christ be not allowed to fur-
ther infect and trouble this new colony.
Mr. Stuyvesant misjudged the Com-
pany, whose directorate included
influential Jews. It ordered him to per-
mit the Jews to remain, provided the
poor among them shall not become a
burden to the company or to the com-
munity, but be supported by their
own nation. They were not, how-
ever, allowed to form a synagogue or
to practice, in Mr. Stuyvesants words,
the free and public exercise of their
abominable religion.
Three hundred and fifty odd years
later, at a time of year when our hearts
are in the East, America is clamoring
for our attention.
Frankly, thats a very nice feeling.
Happy Jewish American Heritage
Month. - LY
Shammai
Engelmayer
KEEPING THE FAITH
Of Noah,
tree-hugging,
and Gods word
T
he movie Noah has received a lot of bad
press from the Christian right, which sees it
as some kind of pagan-packed, brilliantly
sinister anti-Christian film, as breitbart.
com put it in the headline of a review by one of its
popular bloggers, John Nolte.
In his review, Nolte especially bemoans atheist
director and co-writer Darren Aronofskys blas-
phemous claim that God is some kind of tree-hugger
who wiped out humanity in the Flood to save the
planet and punish Man for hunting animals. Nolte (a
tree mugger?) calls this a bald-faced lie. He knows
this because saving the spotted owl is nowhere in
what will later be revealed as Gods Law: The Ten
Commandments.
He also makes the claim that God has no problem
with humans killing animals for food, because after
the Flood, God gave Noah, and therefore Man, a Cov-
enant that included the
okey-doke to eat animals.
How in heavens name
di d God s Law ever
become so distorted not
by Noah or Aronofsky,
but by Nolte and his crowd,
whose only knowledge of
that law seems to come
from watching reruns of
Cecil B. DeMille epics.
Sorry, John, but in this
at least Aronofskys Noah
got it right: God is some
kind of tree-hugger who wiped out humanity in the
Flood to save the planet and punish Man for hunting
animals. As far as that okey-doke to eat animals,
read Chapter 1 of Genesis before reading Chapter
9, John, and you will realize that God is making a
huge concession to human bloodlust, albeit with
serious restrictions. There is no okey-doke here.
If more proof is needed, John, check out Leviticus
17:4, which likens killing animals just for the fun of
it to murder.
Op-Ed
The fact is, Gods Law the Torah, not the so-
called Ten Commandments (which we actually call
the Ten Declarations, but that is for another col-
umn), and the Judaism that flows from it insist that
we must do whatever we can do to preserve Gods
creation. The earth is not ours, after all, and neither
are is creatures. All belong to God.
Sad to say, that humankind still has an ambiva-
lence toward its relationship to Creation is indica-
tive of the ambivalence it has towards God and His
role as Creator. As much as many people pay lip ser-
vice to that, especially the fundamentalists of every
monotheistic religion, they do not really buy the
package. The texts, however, do not allow for any
ambivalence.
Thus, while it is true that Psalms 115:16 tells us that
The heavens are the heavens of the Lord; but He has
given the earth to the children of men, it does not
mean that the children of men can do with it as
they please. Psalm 24:1 makes that case: The earth
is the Lords and all that fills it; the world and those
who dwell in it.
The earth belongs to God. Our job is to care for the
earth on behalf of its Owner. It is that simple.
Nolte and his fellow tree-muggers, it would seem,
rely on a misreading of Genesis 1:28, which says:
And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and
subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the birds of the air, and over every living
thing that moves upon the earth.
As explained by the 12th century biblical com-
mentator and grammarian Abraham Ibn Ezra, The
ignorant have compared mans rule over the earth
with Gods rule over the heavens. This is not right,
for God rules over everything. The meaning of he
has given the earth to the children of men is that
man is Gods pakeed over the earth and must do
everything according to Gods word [because pak-
eed, meaning steward, is a specific term, referring
to a commission for a specific task. That task is found
in Gen 2:15]: And the Lord God took the man, and
put him into the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and
to keep it.
In fact, the Torah makes clear in several ways that
we humans do not have absolute power over the
environment. Nowhere is this more evident than in
the notion that even the land is entitled to a Shab-
bat of rest (see Leviticus 25:1-19).
Then, of course, there is Deuteronomy 20:19,
which tells us, You shall not destroy the fruit-bear-
ing trees of the enemy, for is the tree of the field a
man, that it should be besieged by you?
This statement led to the halachic principle known
as bal tashchit. The sages of blessed memory cre-
ated a library-full of laws based on it, including one
that forbids burning fossil fuels with abandon (see
the Babylonian Talmud tractate Shabbat 67b).
Later decisors added wings to that library. Mai-
monides, for example, insisted that the Torah
forbids ... uprooting [trees and bushes] without
any purpose, for that is wanton destruction. (See
Responsa No. 54.)
A 14th century rabbi, Aharon Halevy of Barcelona,
in his Sefer Ha-Chinuch, added that not even a grain
of mustard could be destroyed for no good reason.
The message is clear: The earth is the Lords and
all that is in it.
All, John, including the creatures that roam on it,
or fly over it, or thrive beneath it. God truly is some
kind of tree-hugger in every sense of that term.
JS-21*
Who will set the table?
The Conference is the preeminent
forum where diverse segments of the
Jewish community come together
in mutual respect to deliberate vital
national and international issues.
Now thats a mission statement for
an organization Id like to be a part
of. Too bad the Conference of Presi-
dents of Major Jewish Organizations
failed to live up to this statement
which is its own mission statement
with its vote to exclude J Street from
membership.
No, last week the Conference
of Presidents essentially voted to
remove diverse from its mission,
at least when it comes to Israel. And
in doing so, it did nothing but make
itself smaller.
A young man of my acquaintance
used to sit in his high chair and cover
his eyes defiantly when he was mad
at me. I think he thought Id go away,
but he soon learned that I love him
too much, and eventually he realized
that his magical thinking had failed
him. When he took his hands away
from his eyes, I was still at the table.
For all the hullabaloo in the media in the
past several days, thats all the Council of
Presidents did. They put their hands over
their eyes. Thats also what a group of my fel-
low Jews did when they stood outside Jewish
Federation of New York blowing the shofar to
protest the inclusion of New Israel Fund and
BTselem in the upcoming Celebrate Israel
Parade.
This was the week when a select group of
pro-Israel organizations thought they could
make other pro-Israel organizations go away,
just by covering their eyes.
Heres the unvarnished truth: the vast majority of the
American Jews of all ages I encounter at my synagogue,
in NFTY, and at Jewish summer camp are pro-Israel, pro-
peace, anti-settlement, and anti-BDS. They support a diplo-
matic solution to the challenge posed by Iran.
Some of them are long-time supporters of the groups that
voted to put J Street in cherem, asserting that their views
most of which, by the way, are heavily echoed among
many other member organizations in the Conference are
beyond the pale.
On the other hand, in groups like NIF and J Street many
of the Jews I know have found Zionist voices they never
thought theyd have progressive, visionary, growing voices
that asked for nothing more than to sit at the table where
they thought important, expansive, conversations about the
future of the Jewish people were taking place. These Jews,
like me, often have felt that they dont belong in so-called
pro-Israel settings in forums and rallies where the message
is often Israel right or wrong.
The message of these settings has been that if youre ever
critical of Israel, youre a hater or worse.
J Street, NIF, and others have a different message: when
you love someone passionately, you dont always agree with
them; you want them to strive to be the best version of them-
selves, to aspire to their own self-proclaimed values. You can
disagree with someone you love, and still love them.
This message that you can be a passionate lover of Israel
and also work and advocate and give for its betterment is
a message that has brought large numbers of
American Jews closer to Israel. For all the
aspersions cast on J Street and other groups,
thats what they actually are doing. In the
American Jewish community, we must be able
to have a nuanced dialogue about our hopes
and dreams for Israel, or we will lose so many
Jews who are being pounded with the message
that their love of Israel is not welcome.
So when a respected group like the Council
of Presidents excludes up-and-coming orga-
nizations like these, it is doing nothing other
than shrinking its own influence and harming
its own legacy.
Heres the real newsflash: Jews who support a Jewish and
democratic Israel with generosity and passion through orga-
nizations like J Street and the New Israel Fund are not going
to stop supporting Israel because of the Councils exclu-
sionary vote. They are not going to stop advocating for the
vision of an Israel that lives up to its Declaration of Indepen-
dence. And they are not going to stop attracting the support
of a large percentage of the American Jewish community,
because American Jews, by and large, agree with the views
of these groups.
All that can come from a vote like this is that a less-pow-
erful Conference of Presidents will represent a smaller, less
diverse segment of the Jewish people.
To the 22 groups that thought they could solidify their
vision of what it means to be Zionist by covering their eyes,
I say that Jews who love Israel, and who are at the same time
taking an active role in helping to make it ever more a light
to the nations, are not going away.
On the occasion of Israels 66th birthday, we are proud to
affirm that we love Israel too much just to disappear because
we werent invited to this party.
If theres a seat next to you, wed love to sit with you in
mutual respect. If not, the table of Zionism is obviously big-
ger than you think it is. Well bring our own chair.
Joel Mosbacher is rabbi of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom
in Mahwah.
Rabbi Joel
Mosbacher
A sign welcomes attendees at J Streets 2013 national conference
in Washington. JSTREET
Op-Ed
JS-22*
Israel at 66
Pride and prospects
I
srael celebrated the
66th anniversary of its
rebirth this week, and
in so many ways it is
stronger than ever.
We no longer need look to
the Jewish press to discover
Israels achievements: the
pages of the New York Times,
the Wall Street Journal, Forbes,
and every media outlet brim
with reports on Israels start-
ups, technological edge,
research advancements, and
collaborations with Apple, Intel, and War-
ren Buffett, to name a few, as well as the true
miracle of the Tamar and Leviathan natural
gas fields, the development of which will
make Israel a net energy exporter. We should
never fail to appreciate the incredible deter-
mination, ingenuity, and faith that it took to
transform a sliver of arid desert into an inter-
national economic powerhouse.
More miraculous still is that Israel has
maintained its morality in the face of enemies
ever more persistent and pernicious. In Israel
today, a debate rages over a soldier in Hebron
who, alone and surrounded by Palestinian
youth the soldiers own age, who were
taunting and threatening him, cocked his
weapon in an act of self-protection, and was
punished by Tzahal as a result. Tens of thou-
sands of people support the soldier through
social media, and one thing is
clear: No nation but Israel takes
such great pains to protect
enemy civilians, even as it puts
its own soldiers at risk.
The risks taken too often
result in a loss of life. At a Yom
Hazikaron (Memorial Day) cer-
emony I attended this week at
Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva Day
School in Paramus, teachers
just a few years past the army
themselves, and students
whose Israeli peers are but a
few years from serving, spoke movingly about
the sacrifices Israeli soldiers make to defend
their homeland and protect each other. Per-
formances of songs written by fallen teenage
soldiers or their surviving loved ones power-
fully conveyed the unwelcome urgency of
their service to protect civilians still under
constant attack, and the sincere yearning for
a day when such sacrifice no longer will be
needed.
And yet, after 20 years of Oslo, and despite
making repeated offers that included parts
of Jerusalem and nearly all the disputed ter-
ritory, Israel is no closer to achieving peace
than it was on that sunny day on the White
House lawn. Perhaps its time to choose
another path. Almost a third of Israels his-
tory has taken place under the Oslo process.
Approximately half the Palestinian Arab
population has been born since the process
began. Yet with decades of Western support
and tens of billions in financial aid much of
it stolen by their leaders Palestinian Arabs
have failed to adopt any of the hallmarks of
a just society, including freedom of speech,
religion, or assembly; rights for women or
minorities; a functioning legal system; regu-
lar elections. The list goes on.
Secretary of State Kerrys threatening
statements that Israel must act now or lose
its best partner for peace ignore the fun-
damental problem that peace is not made
between individuals but between peoples.
Never mind that the most moderate Pal-
estinian leaders still regard Jews as sub-
human, openly assert that all of Israel is
rightfully theirs, and wow! thanks! only
this month got around to publicly acknowl-
edging the Holocaust as historical fact.
The problem goes much deeper, to the
populace, whom for generations has been
trained to hate, starting in nursery school.
Despite every carrot the United States and
Europe could offer, Palestinian Arabs refuse
to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. They
openly endorse terror and violence. And
they fully expect to expel all Jews from
whatever state they would found, a fact that
seems to escape those who accuse the one
integrated society in the entire Middle East
of apartheid.
Thankfully, American Jews are beginning
to recognize the need to respond forcefully
to Israels detractors. After years of seeming
ambivalence, more and more Jewish organi-
zations now vigorously oppose BDS, the anti-
Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement. The Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations
decisively rejected the bid of J Street an
organization that regularly hosts BDS sup-
porters; receives significant funding from
Arab, Iranian, and anti-Zionist sources, and
openly supports the Fatah-Hamas alliance
to join its ranks. Organizations that support
all Israelis, including those who live in Judea
and Samaria, are growing quickly, as more
and more American Jews recognize that these
communities are ancient, legal, and critical to
Israels security. And locally, more than 1,000
people traveled to Washington last week with
Norpac, to let our leaders know where we
stand. There, condemnation by Republican
Senator Ted Cruz of Kerrys vile apartheid
comment drew a standing ovation. (If you
missed it, or just cant get enough, you can
still lobby with ZOA on May 21. See ZOA.org
for details.)
Israel is amazing and strong, truly a light
unto the nations. But its detractors are
strong as well, and they are willing to use
every method available to undermine Jew-
ish sovereignty in our ancient homeland.
It is our moral obligation to defend Israel
against this onslaught. We must never take
the miracle of the Jewish state for granted.
We must continue to publicly show our sup-
port, lobby our leaders, educate our youth,
and visit the incredible realization of our
2,000-year-dream.
Laura Fein is the executive director of ZOA-NJ,
the Zionist Organization of Americas New
Jersey region. Email her at LFein@zoa.org
to register for the May 21 ZOA DC lobbying
mission or the May 15 training for high school
students to learn how to fight back on campus.
Laura
Fein
Holy, holy, holy
On the canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II
I
n a recent historic
mass at the Vatican,
attended by cardinals,
a thousand bishops,
kings, queens, some 25 heads
of state, and close to a million
spectators, who overflowed
the grounds of St. Peters
Square in Vatican City, pour-
ing into the streets of Rome,
Pope John XXIII and Pope
John Paul II (already widely
referred to as John Paul the
Great) were declared to be saints. All Chris-
tians may direct their prayers to them, and
those faithful may petition them for heav-
enly intercession with God.
The papal mass of canonization not only
was an important day in the life of the
church, it was a fascinating moment in Jew-
ish history as well. There have been some
265 popes, according to the
Catholic churchs reckoning,
starting with Saint Peter. Of
those 265 priests at the pin-
nacle of the church, the three
popes widely recognized to
have had the most positive rela-
tionships, the closest, most lov-
ing and most lovingly recipro-
cated ties to the Jewish people,
were at the heart of this weeks
ceremony. They were Saint
John XXIII and Saint John Paul
the Great and their successor to the throne of
Saint Peter, Pope Francis, who presided over
their elevation to sainthood.
I have long been an admirer of John Paul
II, whose picture hangs in my rabbinic study.
We properly recall his close and abiding
youthful friendships with Jews and his resis-
tance to the Nazi regime during his early days
in Poland. We remember the unprecedented
ties established between the church and the
State of Israel during his reign. We remember
his visit to the Jewish state and to the Kotel,
where he inserted his personal prayers in the
cracks of the Wall sensitively and thought-
fully, in keeping with Jewish tradition.
We also recall that John Paul the Great was
the first pope to visit a synagogue, the Great
Synagogue of Rome, where in April 1986 he
made his famous statement of amity with the
Jewish people:
With Judaism ... we have a relation-
ship which we do not have with any other
religion, he said. You are dearly beloved
brothers, and in a certain way it could be said
that you are our elder brothers.
In a New Years Eve homily the same year,
the pope recalled that historic moment:
There is one ... event that transcends the
limits of the year, since it is measured in cen-
turies and millennia in the history of this city
and of this church. I thank Divine Providence
that I was able to visit our elder brothers in
Rabbi Joseph
H. Prouser
Pope John Paul II puts a note between the stones of the Kotel in Jerusalem;
Pope John XXIII asks for world peace.
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Joseph Prouser is rabbi of Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
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Christie and
medical marijuana
In Shmuley Boteachs May 2 column, Judg-
ing Obama, Christie, and Kerry, he says he
is very grateful that Chris Christie is honor-
ing the dinner as a speaker. The reason we
should shun Chris Christie is not what he
said about the occupied territories. It is
because, before he was elected in 2009, a
medical marijuana bill passed overwhelm-
ingly in the state Senate and was made into
law by Governor Corzine. Since that time,
Chris Christie has worked to undermine the
program, to the point that we have fewer
patients allowed medical marijuana than
any other state.
The price also is double what it should be,
the quality is poor, and there are many big
government hurdles to go through.
This led to the death of a baby girl, Sabina
Johanna, as her parents struggled to go
through these hoops. She died of a seizure,
without being able to try a strain of mari-
juana, called Charlottes Web, which has
kept many children alive and seizure-free.
Another woman, Cheryl Miller, an MS suf-
ferer, died in severe pain. During her final
months she was unable to obtain medical
marijuana because of the governors laws.
Many thousands of hospice patients suffered
for three years, while Christie created delay
after delay. To this day, the list of qualifying
conditions is more harsh than in any other
state, causing people to suffer needlessly.
This governor goes against every part
of the Torah that teaches us how to deal
with people, especially, the sick, the suffer-
ing, the oppressed. And to pour salt on the
wounds, the governor mocks and taunts the
patients when they and their advocates ask
for simple things, like an oversight commit-
tee to address and correct the many wrongs
that are being committed. He tells them that
they just want legalization.
So wanting to suffer less thats not okay?
Healing people is not allowed? Which reli-
gion says this?
To honor such a man is an affront to
everything that Judaism stands for. I urge
those attending to walk out when Christie
starts to speak. I urge Shmuley to discover
this issue if he knew about it, he surely
would not have invited this governor.
If it were his child, chas veshalom, who
was unable to get medicine, he would act
differently.
Paul Fraser
Fair Lawn
JStreet and the Conference
The rejection of JStreets application for
membership in the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations is
odd. Never mind what some may consider
JStreets controversial Mideast positions, or
its separately incorporated political action
committee the rejection speaks worlds
about the Presidents Conference itself.
Curiously, the vote was by secret paper
ballot. But votes at the Presidents Confer-
ence arent the same as when individual citi-
zens vote for school board members. The
concept of one man one vote doesnt apply
here. Rather, the Presidents Conference is
more akin to a parliamentary body. Votes
are cast by representatives of the Presidents
Conferences constituent member organiza-
tions. In this context, the voters are answer-
able to the membership of their own organi-
zations for the votes they cast on their behalf
at the Conference.
Why do so many of these representatives
not want their memberships to know how
they voted in their names?
Commendably, some organizations, such
as Ameinu and the ZOA, were public about
their voting intentions. But why wont all of
the 22 organizations opposing the JStreet
application state their opposition pub-
licly? It is in this context that I appreciate
the Union for Reform Judaisms principled
reconsideration of its Presidents Confer-
ence membership.
JStreets views and outlook may be con-
troversial and distasteful to some. It is
also clear that JStreet represents a large
stratum of American Jewish opinion. The
Pope John Paul II puts a note between the stones of the Kotel in Jerusalem;
Pope John XXIII asks for world peace.
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URJs potential withdrawal from the
Presidents Conference belies the Con-
ferences claim to represent organized
American Jewry.
The Presidents Conference always
was a rickety Rube Goldberg contrap-
tion, co-founded by a most unlikely pair
of statesmen: John Foster Dulles and
Nahum Goldmann. Are its pieces now
falling apart?
Elihu D. Davidson
Morristown
The Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations was
created in the 1950s as a forum in
which diverse American Jewish com-
munal organizations would debate and
dialogue on the issues of communal
concern and then speak as the voice
of the American Jewish community to
both the American president and Con-
gress. Formed in the aftermath of the
Holocaust and the birth of the State of
Israel, for 60 years this umbrella orga-
nization has done a credible job of
reflecting American Jewish consensus
on the issues of the day.
Over this time, while organizations
whose membership decreased were
allowed to retain seats though their
numbers hardly warranted the adjec-
tive major, new groups on both the
religious and political right and left
have been added. Having been privi-
leged to participate in the debates and
discussions when I represented the
Labor Zionist Alliance as its national
executive director in 1982-83, when
there were 37 member organizations,
I can assert personally that while seek-
ing consensus was the goal of the Presi-
dents Conference, respectful debates
on issues including Jewish settlement
on the West Bank were its hallmark.
The April 30 vote to deny JStreet
a seat at the Presidents Conference
table leads me to question whether it
has outlived its relevance. If an orga-
nization with JStreets membership
numbers and public profile is denied
membership, can this conference
continue to claim to be the consensus
voice of the organized American Jewish
community?
I have disagreed with JStreet state-
ments more often than I have agreed
with them. I write this as an American
Jew who believes in the need to balance
pluralism and unity in our community.
I direct this letter to the member orga-
nizations of the Presidents Confer-
ence, asking that a revote be taken on
the Jstreet application immediately. If
the result of that vote is the same, I ask
that the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations
takes a vote to disband and admit that
its mission has failed.
Rabbi Neal Borovitz
Paramus
Orthodox vendors
at Wrigley
Uriel Heilmans May 2 story on the tra-
dition of Orthodox vendors at Wrigley
Field in Chicago brought back very fond
memories for me. I worked there for
several years in the late 1960s and early
1970s.
Mr. Heilman wrote that no one seems
to know quite how it began. Well, I do,
and I can fill you in. The first Orthodox
vendor was Stewart Sheinfeld, a gradu-
ate of the Skokie Yeshiva class of 1967.
Stewie, who unfortunately passed away
earlier this year, was a great guy who
somehow found out about the job and
got it it must have been in 1968. I was
a classmate of Stewies, he later told
me about it, and I then eagerly became
the second Orthodox vendor. We both
were joined subsequently by Larry
Hirsch, and the three of us comprised
the first generation of Orthodox Chi-
cago vendors. Interestingly, we tended
to be among the top earners at the job,
which follows a pattern of Jews excelling
in almost any profession even beer
vending!
Now I live in Teaneck, and so do Stew-
ies sons, Yudy and Yaakov. I can hon-
estly say that vending at Wrigley Field
still rates as the best job I ever had. I have
many great memories of experiences on
that job, beside making a lot of money
(on a good day, we could earn over $100
way back in the early 1970s, after turn-
ing 21 and being able to sell beer). The
Cubs had become a good team in 1969
(remember that awful collapse to the
Mets?), and subsequent years the crowds
were big, the atmosphere was great, and
nothing beat working there.
So when anyone reminisces about the
tradition of Orthodox vending at Wrigley
Field which I hope continues they
should also remember the grandfather
of all this, one Stewart Sheinfeld, who
started it.
May Stewart be fondly remembered
for this, as well as for his many other
accomplishments during his too-short
lifetime!
Michael Karlin
Teaneck
CORRECTIONS
The caption for the photograph illustrat-
ing My fathers shirt was incorrect. It
showed Arno Roland, who was on the
Kindertransport and survived the war in
Holland.
The May 2 review of Ida included inac-
curate information about the number
of Jews in prewar Poland. They were
not 25 percent of Polands population
before World War II. In fact, they were
10 percent of the countrys population,
although they were about 33 percent of
the population of Warsaw.
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JOANNE PALMER
I
ts visceral.
The sky, finally, is blue. The clouds
are puffy and white, and the breeze
skitters them across the sky. There
is that indescribable feeling, that feeling of
the sap inside your own body rising, that
tells you that its spring.
And then there go the flags, up and up
into the blueness, brought to snapping life
by the breeze.
And whose flags? The United States flag
and Israels.
Its Yom Haatzmaut in Jersey City.
Jersey City, the states second larg-
est city Newark, needless to say, is the
biggest is among the countrys most
diverse. According to the 2010 census, 75
languages are spoken in the citys pub-
lic schools. (As a challenge, try simply to
name 75 languages!) Members of many
ethnic groups that do not get along well in
their own countries find themselves close
neighbors here, and they learn first to tol-
erate and then sometimes to appreciate
and even like each other.
Which brings us back to the flag-flying
ceremony on Tuesday.
We pride ourselves on being the golden
door, Mayor Steven Fulop said after the
ceremony. (The phrase, of course, comes
from Emma Lazaruss poem on the base of
the Statue of Liberty. I lift my lamp beside
the golden door, it reads. The statue faces
Manhattan, but it bestrides Jersey City
waters.) We have a huge Indo-American
community, and a Filipino community,
and a Pakistani community, and a Cop-
tic Egyptian community, he continued.
The Muslim community has been very
supportive, and we have a terrific relation-
ship, and we recognize that.
But on this Yom Haatzmaut, the first
since he took office in July, we recognize
the Israeli and Jewish community, he said.
Mr. Fulop was accompanied by Ido Aha-
roni, the Consul General of Israel in New
York, whose coverage area includes New
Jersey. Mr. Fulop had met Mr. Aharoni
through a mutual friend, the Israeli violin-
ist Miri Ben-Ari. The ambassador men-
tioned to me that when Glenn Cunning-
ham was mayor, he took the time to do the
flag raisings, but it fell off since then, Mr.
Fulop said.
Mr. Cunningham, the citys first African-
American mayor, was Mr. Fulops mentor.
He died in 2004, and the custom died with
him.
I said then that I would like to revive
and expand that, Mr. Fulop said. And he
has.
Mr. Fulops father, Arthur, was at the
flag-raising. Arthur Fulop fought in the
Golani Brigade during the Six-Day War,
and had come out of it strongly anti-war;
he was gratified by the chance to talk to
Mr. Aharoni, his son reported.
Beyond the purely personal, it felt
really great to be able to raise the Israeli
flag over City Hall, Mr. Fulop said. Israel
Unity in diversity
Jersey City raises Israels flag on Yom Haatzmaut
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flag raisings, but it fell off since then, Mr.
Fulop said.
Mr. Cunningham, the citys first African-
American mayor, was Mr. Fulops mentor.
He died in 2004, and the custom died with
him.
I said then that I would like to revive
and expand that, Mr. Fulop said. And he
has.
Mr. Fulops father, Arthur, was at the
flag-raising. Arthur Fulop fought in the
Golani Brigade during the Six-Day War,
and had come out of it strongly anti-war;
he was gratified by the chance to talk to
Mr. Aharoni, his son reported.
Beyond the purely personal, it felt
really great to be able to raise the Israeli
flag over City Hall, Mr. Fulop said. Israel
has been such a great friend to this coun-
try. I am the first Jewish elected mayor
here, with terrific relationships to the
Muslim community. It is a great thing to
be able to put the flag up here and next
month well do the same thing with the
flag of Pakistan.
In June, Jersey City will further its rela-
tionship with Israel by hosting a showcase
for new Israeli technology. In a joint proj-
ect from the city and the consulate general
in New York, on Monday, June 23, from 10
a.m. until noon, potential investors and
users will be invited to take a look at some
of the new marvels soon to be available
from eight to 10 innovative new high-tech
ventures.
Mr. Fulop noted that many religious
leaders came to the flag raising. We had
rabbis and imams and priests, he said.
We are very lucky to be so diverse.
Among them was Debra Hachen, the
rabbi of Temple Beth-El in Jersey City.
It was just wonderful, Rabbi Hachen
said. For those of us who are here,
so far away from Israel, life goes on in
an ordinary way all around us on Yom
Haatzmaut.
Part of the flag-raising was devoted to
honoring Israels scientific accomplish-
ments. Ido Aharoni spoke about the tech-
nology and creativity in Israel, she said.
She also spoke at the flag raising. I
talked about the fact that my brother is in
Israel. Hes my family but Israel is our
family, whether we have relatives there or
not. I read the prayer for Israel and our
hope for peace.
It was very meaningful to me, as a Zion-
ist, as someone who is going to Israel for
approximately my 20th trip.
I woke up this morning, on Yom
Haatzmaut, and it felt this was the begin-
ning of my trip. It starts today, with Yom
Haatzmaut.
Rabbi Hachen found herself moved by
Mr. Aharonis talk.
At the beginning, the consul general
talked about the many people who gave
their lives for the establishment of the state
of Israel, she said. Those of us who are
connected to the Jewish calendar under-
stand that Yom Haatzmaut comes right
after Yom Hazikaron in other words,
that Israels Independence Day dawns
when the day that precedes it, the coun-
trys Remembrance Day, fades out.
We only have Yom Haatzmaut because
so many young people died, she contin-
ued. That was one percent of all the peo-
ple who were in Israel in 1948.
When we have our own Independence
Day here, we dont have the same sense
of sacrifice, because Memorial Day isnt
anywhere near. There is something so poi-
gnant in realizing that Israelis cannot imag-
ine Independence Day without pausing to
think of the sacrifices.
It makes it such a bittersweet day. But
today to see that flag flying there it was
such a sweet omen. It was an honor to be
there.
Mayor Steven Fulop, left, with Ambassador Ido Aharoni, Rabbi Debra
Hachen of Temple Beth-El, and Arthur Fulop, the mayors father.
From left, Councilman Michael Yun; Mayor Steven Fulop; Ambassador Ido Aharoni; Roger
Jacobs of United Jewish Federation of MetroWest NJ; Councilwoman Joyce Watterman; Rabbi
Debra Hachen; the Orthodox Unions N.J. regional director, Josh Pruzansky; Councilman
Richard Boggiano, and Freeholder Tracy Zur stand atop a City Hall balcony with the flag.
Mayor Fulop and Ambassador Aharoni hold a
proclamation celebrating Israels 60th Independene
Day as council members Yun, Boggiano, and
Waterman join them.
Josh Pruzansky, Mayor Fulop, Ambassador Aharoni,
Roger Jacobs, and Rabbi Debra Hachen with the flags
of Israel and the United States.
Ambassador Ido Aharoni delivers his
Yom Haatzmaut remarks.
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Misplaced optimism
over Iran
W
hen Hassan Rouhani was elected as
Irans president in June 2013, you could
hear the sighs of relief in Washington,
in Brussels, at U.N. headquarters, and
across key European capitals.
Finally, we were told, the terrorism-supporting, human
rights-abusing, Holocaust-denying Mahmoud Ahmadine-
jad had left the political stage. Finally, a moderate, rational
leader with whom we could conduct business was in power.
Finally, there was a real chance of securing an enduring deal
to thwart Irans dangerous nuclear ambitions.
Almost a year later, were still hearing that refrain,
thanks to the optimism that the new round of talks on
Irans nuclear capabilities, inaugurated by the Joint Plan
of Action agreed by the Tehran regime and world powers
last November, continues to generate. Irans own foreign
minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has spoken warmly of
the unexpectedly fast pace
of progress in the negotiations
so far, even offering the reas-
surance that his government is
keen to avoid the perception
that it is seeking to weaponize
the nuclear program.
From May 5 to 9, talks
resumed in New York on out-
standing issues, to be followed
by a move to Vienna on May 13
to begin the work of drafting
a comprehensive agreement.
The clock is ticking toward July 20 the target date for
that agreement, and the expectation among Irans inter-
locutors is that the deadline will be met successfully. A
senior U.S. oficial told the Wall Street Journal in early
April, Im absolutely convinced that we can meet the
deadline, while the Russian foreign ministry has claimed
that an agreement is within reach before July 20. Among
the indicators contributing to this feel-good atmosphere
is Irans decision to suspend the production of uranium
enriched to 20 percent, as well as its receipt of $4.2 bil-
lion of sanctions relief, which enabled Mr. Rouhani to
assert that his domestic critics objected to the November
interim deal only because they were personally proiting
from sanctions-busting activities.
Yet the distance between where we are now and what
some are billing as this centurys irst major diplomatic
breakthrough, remains substantial and littered with obsta-
cles. To begin with, there is Irans history of duplicity and
concealment, practices that only the most naive would
think have been eliminated. As Olli Heinonen, a former
deputy director-general of the International Atomic Enery
Agency, told me back in January, There is no assurance
that there isnt another enrichment plant under construc-
tion somewhere else. Mr. Heinonen, who spent more than
a decade negotiating with the Iranians, also warned that Mr.
Rouhani is not the inal authority when it comes to Irans
internal divide over the nuclear issue. Given that one of the
tasks negotiators face is persuading the Iranians to reduce
the number of centrifuges from 20,000 to 6,000, there is
good cause for concern that Mr. Rouhani would not be able
to deliver on this demand even if he wanted to.
Then theres Irans ongoing belligerence in the Middle
East the kind of behavior that casts major doubt over the
apparent good intentions of the Tehran regime. Uppermost
in mind here is the Israeli Navys interception, in March,
of a Panamanian-flagged ship carrying a cargo of missiles
and other weapons intended for Palestinian terrorists in
Gaza. In the same vein, its worth paying attention to the
State Departments report on terrorism during 2013, which
says, Iran continued its terrorist-related activity, includ-
ing support for Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza, and for
Hezbollah. It has also increased its presence in Africa and
attempted to smuggle arms to Houthi separatists in Yemen
and Shia oppositionists in Bahrain. Iran used the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGCQF) and its
regional proxy groups to implement foreign policy goals,
provide cover for intelligence operations, and create insta-
bility in the Middle East.
The same report also reveals that Iran allowed Al-Qaeda
facilitators Muhsin al-Fadhli and Adel Radi Saqr al-Wahabi
al-Harbi to operate a core facilitation pipeline through Iran,
enabling AQ to move funds and ighters to South Asia and
also to Syria.
Finally, the regime is undergoing yet another crisis of
legitimacy in the eyes of its own people. Visitors to Tehran
report seeing large numbers of young people with their
heads shaved in a gesture of solidarity with political dissi-
dents incarcerated in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison, many
of whom were viciously beaten by members of the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps at the beginning of April. At the
same time, the economy is suffering: The price of gas has
increased by a colossal 75 percent, while the value of Irans
currency, the rial, has dropped 9 percent against the U.S.
dollar. When you recall that 25 percent of Irans workforce
is unemployed, the prospect of social unrest culminating
in a typically brutal response on the part of the authorities
cannot be discounted.
Critically, we are no closer to answering the questions
that have hovered over the nuclear crisis from the begin-
ning: Can Irans leaders deliver a political solution that sat-
isies all parties? Are they willing to submit to an inspection
regime that will prevent them from weaponizing? On both
counts, the answer remains negative, which is why all the
optimism over Mr. Rouhanis election is better understood
as wishful thinking. JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen, JNS.orgs Shillman analyst, writes on Jewish
affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz,
Jewish Ideas Daily, and many other publications.
Ben Cohen
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif,
shown here, has spoken warmly of the unexpect-
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with the West so far, even offering the reassurance
that his government is keen to avoid the percep-
tion that it is seeking to weaponize the nuclear
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talks are, and what some are billing as this cen-
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school and launched a start-up.
Plenty of Israelis jump from graduate school to the
high-tech sector, but for Mr. Friedman the leap was
longer. A descendant of rabbis, he had studied at lead-
ing charedi Orthodox schools where many of his peers
would spend decades, never intending to work.
Mr. Friedman soon found himself caught between
two worlds. Largely secular venture capitalists were
reluctant to fund his video editing company, he said,
because the cultural gap between the secular world
and the charedim engendered a measure of mistrust.
And he kept the company a secret from his extended
family, fearing they would disapprove.
What I discovered was to be charedi and enter
start-up nation is very hard, Mr. Friedman said.
The start-up world is a very secular world. They
looked at me as a stranger.
The question of how better to integrate a growing
charedi population has dogged Israeli leaders for a
long time. Most charedi men never serve in the mili-
tary, as is mandatory for other Jewish Israelis when
they turn 18, and instead engage in religious study full-
time, living off public subsidies that have grown more
controversial as the charedi population has expanded.
Israels Taub Center for Social Policy Studies
reported that as of 2011, fewer than 50 percent of cha-
redi men worked.
The call by secular politicians for charedi Israelis to
more equitably share the burden became a rallying
cry this year. But a recent law extending the military
draft to charedim was met with strident opposition,
with charedi leaders accusing the government of try-
ing to secularize their community.
Despite the protests, a steady stream of charedi
men has joined Israels workforce. Some view work
as merely a necessity to support their families, while
others see the rising tide of charedi working men as
a quiet force for increased understanding between
them and the rest of the country.
Mr. Friedman is among the latter. Three years after
founding his video company, he co-founded a new
initiative to place more charedi employees at Israeli
technology firms. The program, run by the Israel
office of the telecommunications giant Cisco Systems,
launched last year and already has placed 100 charedi
employees at such companies as Google and Intel.
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have [Jewish] laws and religion, they dont have clear
values, said Zika Abzuk, who heads the Cisco pro-
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know each other as people and all the preconceived
notions drain away.
The Cisco program, called Kama-Tech, is one of
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give them a strong work ethic. And because charedim who
Charedi Orthodox men studying toward professional
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the standard charedi employee is the stability of his sal-
ary. He doesnt go other places. Hes more loyal to his
workplace.
While Ciscos program aims for social cohesion,
Kemach has no agenda beyond guiding charedim to
gainful employment. That is an approach that has
gained the tacit approval of leading charedi rabbis.
Students at Mivchar, an all-charedi college in Bnei
Brak, said that rabbis sanctioned their earning a degree
only after students said they needed one to support
their wives and children.
Elazar Oshri, 28, who was cramming for an entrance
exam to a geoinformatics program last week, was
attempting to gain admission to the college after years of
religious study. Even if he was accepted, Mr. Oshri said,
he hoped to continue to study Torah at night.
His rabbi didnt make my life easy about this, Mr.
Oshri said. But my conditions changed financially. This
is a means, not a goal.
Knesset member Dov Lipman of the centrist Yesh Atid
party said he also wanted to offer charedim an escape
from poverty. A more unified society is a secondary
goal, he said.
Still, charedi leaders have lambasted Mr. Lipman,
who studied in a charedi yeshiva, for betraying the
community. But Mr. Lipman said his work, encouraging
large government-funded companies to hire charedim,
would be hard for any rabbi to criticize.
Its very hard for any rabbi to say, We dont want you
to sustain your family the traditional way everyone in
most Orthodox circles does, Mr. Lipman said.
Some charedim are starting secular studies well
before their bank accounts run dry.
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studying a religious curriculum and the afternoon learn-
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the networks schools.
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geting students who are struggling in the yeshiva system.
There are adolescents who hang around in the street
and dont learn, Mr. Peleg said. Their ability to get into
drugs and bad places is high.
A few charedim studying toward technical degrees
said there was increasing acceptance of working men in
the charedi community. Even with the premium placed
on full-time Torah study, Mr. Friedman said charedim
prioritize their families economic stability over strict
ideology.
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Anonymous interview
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RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Now that Israeli-Palestin-
ian negotiations have screeched to a halt,
U.S. oficials are apportioning blame, and a
big share is going to Israel.
In an interview with Nahum Barnea, a
veteran diplomatic affairs writer for the
Israeli daily Yediot Achronot, anonymous
members of the U.S. negotiating team said
Israels settlement activity was a principal
cause of the breakdown in talks last month.
There are a lot of reasons for the
peace efforts failure, but people in Israel
shouldnt ignore the bitter truth the pri-
mary sabotage came from the settlements,
one of the oficials said. The Palestinians
dont believe that Israel really intends to let
them found a state when, at the same time,
it is building settlements on the territory
meant for that state.
It seemed clear that a U.S. pullback
from the process was in the works now,
said Aaron David Miller, a U.S. Middle East
peace negotiator under Democratic and
Republican presidents, who said he had
read through the Barnea interview four
times over the weekend.
The traction required to sustain this
process, to weather all of the bad behaviors
on each side, isnt there, said Mr. Miller,
who is now a vice president at the Wilson
Center, a Washington think tank.
For the last few weeks, there had seemed
to be internal debate within the Obama
administration over whether to keep try-
ing to get the sides back to the table despite
increasingly acrimonious exchanges
between Israel and the Palestinians, or
whether to take a break.
In an April 25 press conference, Presi-
dent Obama seemed ready to take a break.
There may come a point at which there
just needs to be a pause and both sides
need to look at the alternatives, he said.
Marie Harf, a U.S. State Department
spokeswoman, conirmed to reporters for
the irst time on Monday that the talks were
suspended when she was asked about
the Barnea article. Israel had formally sus-
pended the talks on April 24, but Secre-
tary of State John Kerry had kept his team
in the region, hoping to get the sides back
together.
Martin Indyk, the top U.S. negotiator, has
returned to the United States for consul-
tations with the secretary and the White
House, Ms. Harf said. As we assess the
next steps in the U.S. efforts to achieve
Israeli-Palestinian peace it is premature,
quite frankly, to speculate on what those
steps will be or what will happen.
She denied reports that Mr. Kerry was
disbanding his negotiations team and that
Mr. Indyk was returning to the Saban Cen-
ter for Middle East Policy at the Brookings
Institution, which he led before rejoining
government last year.
Natan Sachs, a fellow at the Saban Cen-
ter, said Mr. Kerry and Mr. Obama had
nowhere to go but to pause.
The perception that Kerry owns it more
than the parties themselves has reached its
limit, he said. Now they have to push it
back to the sides and let them make their
own decisions. I dont think the United
States has fundamentally lost its interest in
inding a solution.
Blaming Israel would be counterproduc-
tive, Mr. Miller said.
The notion that the peace process col-
lapsed because of settlement activity is a
willful distortion of reality, he said. Its
not to say that settlements are not harm-
ful, that building tenders dont exacerbate
tensions but that is not why Kerrys 910
month effort collapsed.
The sides simply were too far apart on
the core issues, including borders, the sta-
tus of Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees and
the recognition of Israel as the nation state
of the Jews, Mr. Miller said.
The maximum that Netanyahu can
offer on all core issues doesnt come close
to the minimum that anyone on the Pales-
tinian side can accept, he said. This max-
imum-minimum problem is in essence the
fundamental cause and has been for years.
We can whine and complain about it, but
you need to acknowledge it.
Einat Wilf, a former Knesset member
who was in the Labor Party and then the
breakaway Independence faction, said the
Americans were recognizing the reality that
they could not force the process.
If the Israelis and Palestinians are not
reaching an agreement, it is not because
they need an enthusiastic mediator, said
Ms. Wilf, who was visiting with Washing-
ton. They are not incapable children. If
they are not making decisions, it is because
they are assessing their alternatives.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu meets with Secretary of
State John Kerry in Jerusalem on
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More than 4,000
anti-Semitic expressions
in Venezuela in 2013
A new study commissioned by Venezuelas Jewish com-
munity umbrella organization revealed that there were
more than 4,000 anti-Semitic expressions in the South
American country in 2013.
The Confederacion de Asociaciones Israelitas de
Venezuelas president, David Bittan, who also is a vice
president of the World Jewish Congress, wrote in the
foreword to the study that last year we witnessed and
recorded 4,033 anti-Semitic expressions through dif-
ferent media, in social networks, with an important
increase in the months of March, April and May, and a
decrease in October, November and December.
The annual CAIV study on anti-Semitism will no lon-
ger be necessary if Venezuelan authorities show the ini-
tiative and the will to exert a policy to eradicate Judeo-
phobia, Bittan said. JNS.ORG
California school district
revising Holocaust-questioning
assignment
The Rialto Uniied School District in southern Califor-
nia said it would alter an assignment that asked eighth-
grade students to write an essay about whether they
believe the Holocaust actually occurred or was merely
a political scheme created to influence public emotion
and gain.
District spokeswoman Syeda Jafri said Monday that
the assignment was an error and will be revised by a
team of teachers, the Associated Press reported.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, in a statement suggested that the
school district visit the centers Museum of Tolerance in
Los Angeles to learn about Anne Frank and the 1.5 mil-
lion other Jewish children who were murdered during
the Nazi Holocaust for the crime of being born Jewish.
JNS.ORG
Anti-Semitic graffiti leads to
arrest of former N.Y. police officer
A former New York City Police Department oficer who
left the force in 2007 was arrested for spray-painting anti-
Semitic grafiti in Boro Park, a largely Orthodox Jewish
neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Michael Setiawan, 36, allegedly had a mental break-
down when he sprayed swastikas and hateful language on
15 cars and the walls of several buildings, including a Jew-
ish school. Security footage from the area shows a man
believed to be Setiawan vandalizing the area with grafiti
on Saturday. He was accused of spraying the words F
you Jew and Jew cheap s.
Hate is not a Brooklyn value, and I repudiate any low-
life individual who would spread their prejudiced invec-
tive, said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the
New York Daily News reported.
Setiawan was charged with 19 counts of criminal mischief
as a hate crime and 19 counts of harassment as a hate crime.
JNS.ORG
Israeli Declaration of
Independence featured in
major American newspapers
To mark Israels 66th birthday, the Israeli Declaration of
Independence was featured as a full-page advertisement
in two of the largest newspapers in the United States, the
New York Times and USA Today.
The ad was a collaboration between the Helmsley Trust,
which has issued more than $110 million to Israeli orga-
nizations since 2009, and the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations, which is hosting
the ad online.
By publishing Israels founding document in two of the
most widely read newspapers across the country, we will
reach many Americans who often dont have the chance
to learn about the deep similarities between our countries
due to media coverage that focuses primarily on conflict,
said Helmsley trustee Sandor Frankel.
JNS.ORG
Odessa Jews plan to
evacuate if violence worsens
Odessa Jewish leaders said Sunday that Jews in the west-
ern Ukrainian city are preparing to evacuate if violence
there worsens.
Recent violent clashes between pro-Russian and nation-
alist forces in Odessa, which is home to about 30,000
Jews, reportedly resulted in more than 40 deaths.
Representatives of the Ukrainian Jewish community
insisted that the violence is not speciically targeting Jews.
But Rabbi Refael Kruskal, who heads the Odessa-based
Jewish philanthropic organization Tikva, said there were
several Jews wounded in the clashes.
If it gets worse, then well take [ Jews] out of the city.
We have plans to take them both out of the city and even
to a different country if necessary, plans which we prefer
not to talk about which we have in place, Kruskal told the
Jerusalem Post.
The local Jewish community and the International
Fellowship of Christians and Jews have fueled 70 buses,
which are prepared for an evacuation if needed, said local
Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Avraham Wolf. JNS.ORG
Martin Indyk may resign as
U.S. special envoy over
peace talks collapse
Martin Indyk, U.S. special envoy to Israel-Palestinian
peace negotiations, may resign over the recent collapse
of the peace talks.
According to Haaretz, Indyk has informed the Brook-
ings Institution where he took a leave of absence as vice
president nine months ago that he will be returning.
Haaretz also reported that Indyk was the anonymous
senior U.S. oficial quoted in a Yedioth Ahronoth report
that largely blamed the collapse of peace talks on Israel.
There are a lot of reasons for the peace efforts failure,
but people in Israel shouldnt ignore the bitter truth the
primary sabotage came from the settlements, the anony-
mous source was quoted as telling Yedioth Ahronoth.
JNS.ORG
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pop. 32.3M
ALGERIA
pop: 37.4M
TUNISIA
pop. 10.7M
LIBYA
pop. 5.6M
EGYPT
pop. 83.7M
ISRAEL
pop. 7.9M
WEST BANK
(Judea & Samaria)
pop. 2.1M
GAZA STRIP
pop. 1.7M
JORDAN
pop. 6.5M
SYRIA
pop. 22.5M
IRAQ
pop. 31.1M
KUWAIT
pop. 2.6M
SAUDI ARABIA
pop. 26.5M
YEMEN
pop. 24.8M
IRAN
pop. 78.9M
OMAN
pop. 3.1M
UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES
pop. 5.3M
QATAR
pop. 1.9M
BAHRAIN
pop. 1.2M
LEBANON
pop. 4.1M
who is David?
who is
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Israels Air Force One
approved by
government
The Israeli government on Sunday
approved a committees recommen-
dation to buy a plane that will serve as
Israels Air Force One, Israel Hayom
reported.
The approval was based on a report
from a committee headed by retired State
Comptroller Justice Eliezer Goldberg. The
report cited two issues in its recommen-
dation to acquire the plane: the need to
maintain constant contact with Israel en
route, which is not always possible on
chartered trans-Atlantic flights, as well as
security, which at times prevents travel to
certain states.
Acquiring and outfitting the new plane
is expected to cost about $70 million.
JNS.ORG
Pakistan reportedly
planned to bomb Israeli
consulate in India
Pakistani intelligence services planned to
carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli
and U.S. consulates in India, the Times of
India reported Sunday. The report, citing
Indian intelligence sources, said Indian
security agencies foiled the plot, and on
April 29 arrested Sri Lankan Sakir Hussain.
Hussain reportedly told interrogators he
had been hired by senior Pakistani officials
in Colombo as part of a plot to bomb the
Israeli consulate in Bangaluru and the U.S.
consulate in Chennai.
Indian intelligence agents said they dis-
covered pictures of the Israeli and U.S. con-
sulates, including gates and roads leading
to the grounds, which had been mailed to
Hussains Pakistani handlers and the Paki-
stani High Commission in Colombo. Hus-
sain told interrogators he had been hired
to facilitate the travel of two men from the
Maldives to Chennai, including arranging
their flights and accommodation.
Pakistan reportedly sought Sri Lankan
accomplices to establish deniability.
JNS.ORG
Former Nazi prosecutor
John Dolibois dies at 95
Former U.S. ambassador John Dolibois,
known for his role in the Nuremburg tri-
als, died on May 2 at 95.
Dolibois, who served in military
intelligence during World War II, was the
last surviving member of the team that
interrogated top-ranking Nazis includ-
ing Herman Goering, Julius Streicher,
and Rudolf Hess during the Nurem-
berg Trials. He later served as vice presi-
dent at Miami University of Ohio and was
appointed U.S. ambassador to Luxem-
bourg by President Ronald Reagan.
JNS.ORG
Hamas sticks to its guns
despite deal with Fatah
Despite the recent Palestinian truce
between Fatah and Hamas, on Satur-
day Hamas said that it will not disarm its
military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam
Brigades. A Hamas official also negated
any possibility that the Qassam Brigades
would merge with the Palestinian Author-
itys security forces, Army Radio reported
Sunday.
Last week, the London-based Arabic-
language newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi
reported that Hamas had been quietly
talking about dissolving the Qassam
Brigades.
But a Hamas official told Al-Monitor,
Dissolving the Qassam Brigades is out of
the question, and those asking for that are
dreaming. The reconciliation will not be
at the expense of the military wings of the
resistance, which represents the national
army of the state of Palestine.
JNS.ORG
Pink Floyds Waters
tells Rolling Stones
not to play Israel
Pink Floyd frontman and anti-Israel activist
Roger Waters, continuing his campaign to
encourage artists to boycott Israel, urged
the Rolling Stones to cancel a planned per-
formance in Tel Aviv this summer.
Waters and Pink Floyd drummer Nick
Mason wrote in a recently published arti-
cle in the online arts and culture magazine
Salon, With the recent news that the Roll-
ing Stones will be playing their first-ever
concert in Israel, and at what is a critical
time in the global struggle for Palestin-
ian freedom and equal rights, we, the two
surviving founders of Pink Floyd, have
united in support of Boycott, Divestment,
and Sanctions (BDS) To the bands that
intend to play Israel in 2014, we urge you
to reconsider.
JNS.ORG
Op-Ed
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the faith of Abraham in their Roman Synagogue! Blessed be
the God of our Fathers! The God of Peace!
Saint John XXIII is remembered primarily as the pon-
tiff who convened and presided over the Second Vati-
can Council, credited with making significant strides
in the modernization of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was elected pope at an advanced age and his was
expected to be a short caretaker reign, with little sub-
stantive activity or change. He defied expectations and
misconceptions of old age to revolutionize the church.
Some say his canonization was a signal from Pope
Francis of his openness to revolutionary measures in
his own religious leadership. (A cherished friend and
Roman Catholic priest demurs: I doubt the timing was
purposeful; perhaps it is just another example of the
Almighty staying anonymous while working behind the
scenes.)
Let us recall, too, some of the many steps Saint John
XXIII took in his relationship with the Jewish people.
On Good Friday 1960, he halted the mass when a tra-
ditional liturgical statement against the perfidious
Jews was included, and he ordered that the prayer be
repeated without the offensive term, ordering further
that the phrase be expunged from the liturgy.
It was under John XXIII that the church officially
rejected the charge of Jewish deicide.
It was Saint John XXIII formerly Angelo Guiseppe
Roncalli who welcomed a Jewish delegation to the
Vatican by reciting the verse from the Torah: I am
Joseph your brother. (Guiseppe is the Italian version
of Joseph.)
While still a papal nuncio a Vatican ambassador
the future saint met with Isaac Ha-Levy Herzog a
future chief rabbi of Israel and subsequently inter-
vened to save Jews during the Holocaust period.
Whether he did so in behalf and at the behest of the
Vatican or despite its policies still is a matter of bit-
ter historic debate. What is well established is that
he did indeed defy Vatican orders by returning Jew-
ish war orphans who had been baptized to the Jewish
community.
As papal nuncio in Greece and Turkey, the future
pope and saint aided the Jewish underground in its
resistance against Nazi Germany. He was nominated to
be recognized as among the Righteous of the Nations
an honor bestowed by Yad Vashem to those who saved
Jews from the Holocaust by the chief rabbi of Buenos
Aires. Perhaps not coincidentally, that is the very city
in which Pope Francis would serve as cardinal before
his election.
In Buenos Aires, Francis had close ties with the Jew-
ish community and co-authored a book with a leading
rabbi, whom I have met briefly. Rabbi Avraham Skorka
visited the Vatican on Sukkot this year, and he had holi-
day meals with the pope and leading cardinals, whom
he led in Birkat ha-Mazon, the Grace after Meals. Surely
that is another historic first.
The idea of saints to whom the faithful may pray is
foreign to Jewish thinking, But the idea that certain
remarkable people attain heroic, all-but-unparalleled
levels of holiness in their lives, and serve as inspirations
and exemplars of devotion to God, motivating us more
faithfully to pursue lives of service to the Almighty?
That is a very Jewish idea. The fact that these two new
saints were priests and popes in the Roman Catholic
church does not preclude sensitive practitioners of
Judaism from learning from their spiritual example.
Let us recall that before endogamy was a Jewish spiri-
tual mandate, the biblical Joseph, who saved the Jew-
ish people from destruction by bringing them to Egypt,
Holy
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married the daughter of an Egyptian priest. Let us recall
that Moses, Gods chosen, intimate prophet, who saved the
Jewish people by leading us out of Egypt and into Gods cov-
enantal service, married the daughter of a Midianite priest,
whose counsel Moses followed that counsel is recorded
in the Torah itself.
Today, we Jews properly thank Divine Providence for two
remarkable priests, these newest of saints. Just as they have
been declared to reflect holiness in extraordinary measure,
so may we have the wisdom to be moved by their examples
to embrace that which is sacred. May we have the strength
more faithfully to enter into Gods service, and may we be
granted the ability to recognize and to emulate the Holy,
even in the most unlikely of place. Man cannot be good,
wrote Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, unless he strives
to be holy.
May the memories of Saint John XXIII and Saint John
Paul the Great be a blessing to all, just as their lives
brought very special blessings to the Jewish people and
the Jewish state.
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n 1 Marta Feldenbaum spoke at Torah
Academy of Bergen Countys Yom
Hashoah commemoration. Ms. Felden-
baum was born in Uzhhorod in the Re-
public of Czechoslovakia. When she was
16, she, her parents, and her sisters were
shipped to Auschwitz. Josef Mengele
sent her and her sisters in one direction
and her mother in the other; she never
saw her mother again. At a candle-
lighting ceremony, six students talked
about how the Shoah had affected
members of their families, and other stu-
dents performed musical selections by
Jacob Rosenberg, a TABC ninth grader.
n 2 Sinai students enjoyed display-
ing their artwork at the second annual
Unique Inspirations Student Art Show
and Auction sponsored by Sinai Schools
and Bear Givers at Midday Gallery in
Englewood last week. The fundraiser
art show is an opportunity for Sinai
students, who have special needs, to
be stars for the night. ABBIE WASSERMAN
n 3 Miriam Gluzman, ne Lachman,
of Antwerp, seated, shared the story
of her familys survival and reunifica-
tion after the war for a Yom Hashoah
program at the Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/Congregation Beth
Tikvah. Ms. Gluzman is the mother of
JCCP/CBT members Esther Marks
and Lili Baumzweig. She is shown
with, from left, Rabbi Arthur Weiner;
Matt Marks and his mother, Esther;
Lili Baumzweig and her daughter, Ra-
chel; Nikki Marks, and Dan Baumzweig
and his father, Gus. SANDY ALPERN
n 4 Holocaust survivor Asia Shindel-
man shared her story of survival with
fourth- through seventh-graders
at the Gerrard Berman Day School
in Oakland. When World War II
started, she was living in a Lithu-
anian ghetto and was sent to Stut-
thof. After the war she was reunited
with her parents. COURTESY GBDS
n 5 Holocaust survivors, their fami-
lies, and community members were
among 2,000 people who commem-
orated Holocaust Remembrance
Day on April 27 at Congregation
Emanu-El in Manhattan. The an-
nual ceremony is organized by the
Museum of Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the Holocaust
with the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance
Organization and the American
Gathering of Jewish Holocaust
Survivors and Their Descendants.
Holocaust survivor Martin Green-
field lights a memorial with his wife,
Arlene, and granddaughters Amy,
Rachel, and Sophia. MELANIE EINZIG
n 6 Holocaust survivors and stu-
dents lit candles to commemorate
Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remem-
brance Day, at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage A Living Me-
morial to the Holocaust in Lower
Manhattan. From left, Kai Shannon,
Aviva Blumberg, Mariah Maldonado,
and Ray Kaner. MELANIE EINZIG
n 7 Students already are celebrat-
ing Yom Haatzmaut at Gan Yaldenu
Tots in Bergenfield. COURTESY GY
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Behar: A structure of opportunity
I
ncome i nequal i t y
has been in the news
a lot over the past
few years, with the
Occupy Movement popu-
larizing the idea that the
wealthiest 1 percent of soci-
ety has left most Americans
even many who are rela-
tively well off far behind.
An increasing amount of
money resides with fewer
and fewer Americans; for
example, the Walton family that owns
Walmart holds as much wealth as the
bottom 40 percent of Americans. As
this gap grows, it is important to rec-
ognize that more is at stake than a van-
ishing dream of prosperity. The real
danger, as the wealth gap is combined
with stagnant wages, is the creation of
a permanent underclass, deeply in debt
to afford the basics of life, who cannot
work their way out of poverty because
that kind of success is so far away.
Thi s week s par sha,
Behar, addresses many of
these structural problems
of entrenched inequality
t hrough i t s di scussi on
of both the shemita (the
seventh year of release)
and the yovel, the year of
jubilee. These two regular
events were an economic
rebal anci ng of Israel i te
society. Property that had
been sold was returned to
its original owners, reflecting Gods true
ownership of the land, with human beings
as transient caretakers (Leviticus 25: 23).
Debts were released and people who had
sold themselves as indentured servants
were released. Through the recovery of
either their land or their personhood, the
poor could not permanently give away
the very foundations of their ability to
support themselves, even if temporary
poverty bound them to another.
Today, t he s hemi t a has real
implications for agriculture in Israel,
but for the rest of the Jewish world, is
entirely a theoretical concept. Jewish
environmentalists have taken up the
mantle of shemita and yovel to discuss the
sacredness of the earth. But the economic
justice message is equally critical. We
cannot allow either our fellow citizens
or the vulnerable strangers who reside
among us to become so permanently
impoverished that they lose their futures.
For they are My servants, whom I freed
from the land of Eypt; they may not give
themselves over into servitude, says God
(25:40). No human being can become
permanently dependant on another
human through economic misfortune.
It is then incumbent upon the society in
which the poor reside to carry out this
sacred mission of justice.
The Torah is realistic that poverty is
a reality of human society; indeed, in
the discussion of the shemita that we
see later in Deuteronomy, we are torn
between the utopian possibility that
there shall be no needy (15:4) and the
truth that there will never cease to be
needy ones in your land (15:11). But
the solution to this is not simply more
tzedakah: While critically important as a
stopgap, charity alone is not enough to
solve permanent indebtedness.
You cannot donate your way to a more
equal society, but you can, as Behar shows,
act proactively about one of the root causes
of inequality in mitigation of debt. Today,
the Jubilee Movement has urged wealthier
nations to cancel the debts of countries
in the Global South, so that they spend
the money on the needs of their citizens.
Here at home, we see, for example, debt
forgiveness programs, relief for under water
mortgages, and regulations that ensure that
legal foreign workers do not arrive deeply in
debt to their employers.
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster is director of
programs for Truah: The Rabbinic Call for
Human Rights. She lives in Teaneck with
her family.
Rabbi Rachel
Kahn-Troster
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Across
1. Prepare at the last minute for Israels
bagrut exam
5. Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
narrator
9. Entrepreneur and House member Polis
(D-Colo.)
14. Steak sauce certified by the Orthodox
Union as kosher
15. ___ Mare (ancestral home of Satmar
Hasidim)
16. Kind of oil used to light the Temples
Menorah
17. Famous Biblical convert
18. With its lone floors where reverent feet
once ___ (line from an Emma Lazarus
poem about The Touro Synagogue)
19. Place name for Jerusalem that can be
an abbreviation for the city
20. City founded in 1950 whose name
means House of the Sun
23. Chanukah only has one, but
Hannukah has two
24. Bar Refaeli, by some mens evaluations
25. First king
27. LAs Skirball Museum is a good place
to see some
30. ___ kanfot (four-cornered garment
to which tzitzit are attached)
32. Composer Shemer and author Wolf
36. Rend ones garment, e.g.
38. Died like Lenny Bruce
40. Old Jewish ___ (kind of role played
by Walter Matthau)
41. Islamic caliphate under which Jews
mostly flourished
44. Oskar Schindler actor in Schindlers
List
45. Comedian Blumenfeld of MTVs
Pranked
46. Id like to order ___ pastrami
sandwich...
47. Memoirist Eve (In the Body of the
World)
49. Ken in shiluach haken (mitzvah of
sending away mother bird)
51. Tel Aviv-Mecca dir.
52. Jai ___ (sport many Florida Jews
enjoy)
54. Curly player of Abe Sapersteins
Harlem Globetrotters
56. Coll. for quarterback Aaron Murray
59. He said Holocaust denial was a major
achievement of his presidency
64. Mubarak predecessor
66. Kind of transportation used by
participants of Burning Bush
Adventures trips in Maine
67. How jelly might come out of a
Chanukah doughnut
68. Egypt status
69. Every, in Yiddish
70. Its used to affix a mezuzah
71. Harold who directed National
Lampoons Vacation
72. Rebecca Rubin, part of the American
Girl collection
73. Part of a dreidel game
Down
1. One of many to be concerned about
for dieters eating challah
2. Shylock, perhaps
3. ___-Defamation League
4. Conductor Zubin
5. A whole megillah
6. Pianist Daniel
7. Scientist Lise Meitner helped discover
how to split one
8. Kind of Modigliani painting
9. He fit the Battle of Jericho
10. ___ recherche du temps perdu
(Proust work)
11. Nudge
12. ___ Haezer (part of the Shulchan
Aruch)
13. Sens. Brian Schatz and Ron Wyden
21. Some parts of the former Soviet Union
22. Koufax who famously wouldnt pitch
game one of the 1965 World Series
26. Part of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union
27. You cant shoot ___ in the tail like a
quail (Annie Get Your Gun lyric)
28. He played Jakob the Liar
29. James Levine might conduct them
31. Part of a recipe in Passover Made
Easy
33. Jewish Enlightenment philosopher
Mendelssohn
34. Bissels
35. Jule of Gypsy
37. Famous Israeli prison site
39. Former Democratic governor of
Pennsylvania
42. Abrahams wife
43. Second word of the Dayenu verse
about the Torah
48. Brings nachas to
50. Jerusalem outreach professional Jeff
53. It might be said on Tisha Bav
55. Helmsley about whom Newsweek
devoted the headline Rhymes with
Rich
56. Birthplace for Mila Kunis
57. Type of fundraiser for a Jewish school
58. An apple was named after him
60. Its used to answer the phone by some
Israelis
61. Rivers of comedy
62. I hope I dont get ___ on my
bar mitzvah...
63. Order from a Jerusalem Post editor
65. Israeli singer Toledano
The solution for last weeks puzzle is on page 49
The officials quoted in Mr. Barneas arti-
cle had high praise for Tzipi Livni, the jus-
tice minister and top negotiator. Ms. Livni
has spoken out loudly about the urgency
of achieving a two-state solution and
sharply criticized her right-wing partners
in Israels governing coalition.
Ms. Wilf said the Barnea interview was
emblematic of a phenomenon whereby
American negotiators internalize the dis-
sent they hear from Israelis.
Citing another example, Mr. Kerrys
recent use of apartheid to describe the
dangers to Israel of not achieving a peace
agreement, Ms. Wilf said, He listens to
what Israelis say about themselves, and
then says it.
Ms. Wilf, who emphasized that she did
not believe Kerry was endangering Israel
intentionally, said that repeating such
words as apartheid in international are-
nas played into the hands of those who
would delegitimize Israel.
Mr. Sachs, who also had read the Bar-
nea interview, said that the U.S. officials
critiques were a boon to Israels enemies.
Those who are prone to blame Israel
for everything will have an easier time
blaming Israel, he said.
Ms. Harf, the State Department spokes-
woman, was careful to blame both sides in
her briefing Monday for reporters, noting
the Palestinians application to join interna-
tional conventions and their unity talks with
Hamas.
On the Palestinian side, the appeal to 15
different treaties while were actively work-
ing to secure a prisoner release, as well as the
announcement of the Fatah/Hamas recon-
ciliation agreement at the moment we were
working for a formula to extend the negotia-
tions, really combined to make it impossible
to extend the negotiations, she said.
On Israels side, she cited the failure by
Netanyahus government to meet a March 29
deadline to release the final 26 of 104 prison-
ers Israel had agreed to let go to resume talks
last July, as well as the announcement of set-
tlement starts in eastern Jerusalem.
On the Israeli side, large-scale settle-
ment announcements, a failure to release
the fourth tranche of prisoners on time, and
then the announcement of 700 settlement
tenders at a very sensitive moment, really
combined to undermine the efforts to extend
the negotiations, she said. So I would very
much take notion with the fact that this was
just one side.
Both sides did things here that were very
unhelpful. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Fault
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hands constantly and avoiding physical touch. Shalhoub
is hilarious as Kaufman, intimidating as Mosss father, and
touchingly effective as the older Moss Hart. Santino Fon-
tana plays the younger Hart with all the energy and drive
that it must have taken for a poor Bronx boy to break into
that magical world.
Moss Hart was an extraordinary success, writing many
hit plays with Kaufman that included Once in a Lifetime,
Merrily We Roll Along (not the later Sondheim musi-
cal, of course, but the 1934 play), You Cant Take it With
You, and The Man Who Came to Dinner. He worked
with Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill,
and Lerner and Loewe. He won many awards, including
Oscars, Pulitzers, and Tonys, and wrote the screenplays
for Gentlemens Agreement and A Star Is Born. Harts
autobiography stayed on the New York Times bestseller
list for more than a year and inspired thousands of theater
lovers to pursue their dreams.
The plays first act focuses on Mosss boyhood, when
he is too theatrical for the Bronx; his struggles with his
father, who insists he go to work in a reeking tannery, and
his first forays into the theater, which include a stint as a
social director at a Catskills hotel. The play switches into
high gear during the second act, when Hart and Kaufman
struggle to get the script for Once in a Lifetime into
production-worthy shape. Throughout this ordeal, Hart
finds encouragement and support from a group of Jew-
ish boys who are his friends, including Dore Schary (Will
Brill), the eventual head of production at MGM studios.
They are there with suggestions, career advice both good
and bad, and a shared love of the glitz and camaraderie of
show business.
Beowulf Boritts huge multilevel rotating set dominates
the Beaumont stage, turning from the Hart tenement
apartment to Kaufmans glamorous home to the dingy
office of the second-tier producer Augustus Pitou, where
Hart gets his first show-business job as an office boy. This
marvel of engineering changes costumes as deftly as the
cast.
It long has been a mystery why Jews have been such
devoted patrons of the Broadway stage. There is little
in Jewish tradition aside from the Purimspiel that
encourages playacting. Still, almost all American Jews of
a certain age who grew up in or near New York City recall
going to the theater from childhood on. It was much more
affordable then, of course, and there was a large selection
of new plays and musicals to see. Perhaps it is the sense
of metamorphosis, the love of and facility with language,
the general class-free-ness of the theater a place where
talent trumps background that drew Jews to it.
Whatever the reason, it drew Moss Hart, and Act One
celebrates the journey.
Arts & Culture
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Act One
MIRIAM RINN
T
he production of Act One now at the Vivian
Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center does not
make much of Moss Harts Jewishness, at least
not overtly.
But the exuberant three-hour dramatic comedy places
Hart in the intensely Jewish milieu of late 1920s Broad-
way, a world crammed with Jewish producers, writers,
agents, and of course adoring theatergoers. It also sets
Harts impoverished, hardscrabble family life in the Bronx
against the exciting and fantastic realm of the theater, a
fairyland where people are witty and charming in a decid-
edly un-Jewish way. The theater makes it possible to be
someone else, says the adolescent Moss Hart at the begin-
ning of the play, and that is just what Hart longs for.
Based on the bestselling 1959 autobiography by the leg-
endary playwright/director and written and masterfully
directed by James Lapine, Act One is an immensely
charming valentine to the theater and the magical trans-
formation found therein. Terrific performances by a tal-
ented cast as multiple characters adds to the fun, as play-
goers try to spot who is playing whom. Andrea Martin is a
particular delight as she cycles from Mosss Aunt Kate, the
woman who first introduced him to the theater, to super-
aggressive agent Frieda Fishbein, to the cosmopolitan Bea-
trice Kaufman, the wife of Harts longtime writing partner,
George S. Kaufman. With a nod to his television character
Monk, Tony Shalhoub plays Kaufman as a quirky and bril-
liant victim of obsessive compulsive disorder, washing his
Andrea Martin as Aunt Kate and Matthew Schechter
as a young Moss Hart.
Amy Warren, Santino Fontana, Bob Stillman, and Will LeBow in a scene from Act One.
Calendar
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Friday
MAY 9
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC Fort Lee
hosts a congregational
dinner, Hebrew school
siddur ceremony, and
Shabbat Together
musical service. Dinner,
6 p.m.; service/ceremony,
7. Oneg follows. 1449
Anderson Ave. (201)
947-1735 or anat@
geshershalom.org.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel holds its monthly
family program with
a virtual trip to Israel
in celebration of Yom
Haatzmaut (Israel
Independence Day)
and Yom Yerushalayim
(Jerusalem Reunification
Day), 7 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
offers Shabbat Tikvah,
a service of inspiration
and renewal, 8 p.m. 87
Overlook Drive. (201)
391-0801 or www.tepv.
org.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishons
adult and teen choirs join
with Cantor Ilan Mamber,
cantorial intern Jenna
Daniels, soloist Jo-Ann
Skiena Garey, pianist Itay
Goren, and percussionist
Jimmy Cohen for its
Celebrate Israel service,
8 p.m. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
Harry Ettlinger
SALLY MONTANA
Shabbat in Jersey
City: Harry Ettlinger, a
Holocaust survivor who
is the last living member
of the Monuments Men,
speaks during services
at Temple Beth-El, 8 p.m.
2419 Kennedy Blvd.
(201) 333-4229 or www.
betheljc.org.
Sunday
MAY 11
Play group in Paramus:
Shalom Baby of Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey offers
parents of newborns
through 3-year-olds a
Mothers Day program
with stories, songs,
games, frame decorating,
and brunch, to connect
with each other and the
Jewish community, at
the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah, 9:30 a.m.
Administered by JFNNJs
Synagogue Leadership
Initiative. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 820-
3917 or www.jfnnj.org/
shalombaby.
Run/walk in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly hosts
its annual Rubin Run, a
family-friendly race. Half
marathon, 7:45 a.m.; 10K,
8:30; 5K, 10. Families
and teams can register
at www.jccotp.org/
rubinrun or email
rubinrun@jccotp.org.
Race day registration
will be available for
early arrivers. Breakfast,
giveaways, free
babysitting, warmups,
and trophies. (201) 408-
1472 or jnadler@jccotp.
org.
Tuesday
MAY 13
Play group in Emerson:
New Jersey offers play
time, music, storytime,
snacks, and crafts for
family members and
other caregivers with
babies and toddlers,
with a springtime
theme, to connect with
each other and the
Jewish community, at
Congregation Bnai Israel,
9:30 a.m. Administered
by JFNNJs Synagogue
Leadership Initiative.
53 Palisade Ave. (201)
265-2272, (201) 820-
3917, or www.jfnnj.org/
shalombaby.
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Caf Europa, a social
program the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey sponsors for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel, 11 a.m. The Caf
Europa Photo Album, a
collection of photos from
past Caf Europa events,
will be shown. Light
lunch. 10-10 Norma Ave.
Transportation available.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org.
Hadassah meets in
River Edge: Stella Teger
talks about Let Us
Not Forget: A Mothers
Letter to a Son, written
by her mother, Irene
Teger, a Holocaust
survivor, at a meeting
of River Dell Hadassah
at Temple Avodat
Shalom, 12:30 p.m.
Dairy refreshments. 385
Howland Ave. (551) 265-
1573.
Book discussion in
Washington Township:
The Bergen County YJCC
offers a discussion of
Jojo Moyes Me Before
You 7:30 p.m. 605
Pascack Road. (201) 666-
6610.
Wandering Jews:
Richard I. Cohen presents
The Wandering Jew:
Visual and Historical
Pathways through
Time and Space at
Congregation Beth
Sholom in Teaneck,
7:45 p.m. Program
supported by the Alfred
and Rose Buchman
Endowment for the
Fine Arts. 354 Maitland
Ave. (201) 833-2620 or
office@cbsteaneck.org.
The rebbes life
teachings: The Rohr
Jewish Learning Institute
presents Paradigm
Shift: Transformational
Life Teachings of the
Lubavitcher Rebbe, a
six-session course led by
Rabbi Mordechai Shain,
at Lubavitch on the
Palisades in Tenafly,
8 p.m. 11 Harold St. (201)
871-1152, rabbiyitzchak@
chabadlubavitch.org, or
www.myjli.com.
Wednesday
MAY 14
Cooking club in Wayne:
The Chabad Center
of Passaic County
celebrates Israels
birthday with a session
of Mini Chefs, a childrens
culinary club for 2- to
7-year-olds, at Chabad,
4:30 p.m. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
www.jewishwayne.com.
Fashion show in Fair
Lawn: Temple Beth
Sholoms sisterhood
hosts a fashion show with
items from Dress Barn
and dinner by Kosher
Nosh, 6:30 p.m. 40-25
Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-
9321.
Thursday
MAY 15
Play group in
New Jersey offers play
time, music, storytime,
snacks, and crafts for
new moms/dads and
caregivers with babies
and toddlers, with a
Lag Bomer theme,
to connect with each
other and the Jewish
community, at Temple
Beth Or, 9:30 a.m.
Administered by JFNNJs
Synagogue Leadership
Initiative. 56 Ridgewood
Road. (201) 664-7422,
(201) 820-3917, or www.
jfnnj.org/shalombaby.
Movie in Closter: Temple
Beth El of Northern
Valley screens The Lady
in Number 6, 10 a.m.
Coffee and dessert. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Prepare for college-
learn to fight back:
A program for high
schoolers in grades
10 through 12 and
their parents, How
to Respond to Anti-
Semitism and Anti-
Zionism on Campus,
is at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/CBI, 7
p.m. Sponsored by the
Bergen County High
School of Jewish Studies,
Northern New Jersey,
StandWithUs, Zionist
Organization of America,
and the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades. 10-10
Norma Ave., Fair Lawn.
Bess Adler, (201) 488-
0834 or badler@bchsjs.
org.
Friday
MAY 16
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth holds a
musical Shabbat service
with Rabbi Steven Sirbu,
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and
the Temple Emeth band,
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.emeth.org.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
celebrates Mothers Day with chocolate.
How Sweet It Is set for Sunday, May
11, at 2:30 p.m. Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz, author of On
the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting
Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to
the Magic of Cacao, will be on hand for the tasting
while offering information about Jews and chocolate.
Guests will be treated to a selection of milk and
dark chocolates with edible accompaniments and a
beautiful view of the harbor. The chocolate will include
cocoa beans from Honduras, Ecuador, Tanzania, and
the Philippines. 36 Battery Place. (646) 437-4202 or
www.mjhnyc.org.
MAY.
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Sunday
MAY 18
Lag Bomer in Paramus:
The Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah concludes a four-
session Taste of Hebrew
School, for pre-K to
first-graders, 10 a.m., with
a Lag Bomer barbecue.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7733 or
edudirector@jccparamus.
org.
Lag Bomer in Tenafly:
Lubavitch on the
Palisades celebrates
with a parade through
Tenafly, barbecue, rides,
entertainment, and
carnival. March begins at
10:30 a.m. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org.
Lag Bomer in
PJ Library and the
Bergen County YJCC
invite families to a
family field day and
barbecue for 2- to
6-year-olds and their
families, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Carnival games, sports,
face painting, and PJ
Library story time.
Partially funded through
a grant from the Jewish
New Jersey. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610 or
pjlibrary@yjcc.org.
Music in Tenafly: In
celebration of Israel,
Cantor Nitza Shamah
leads Our Bible in
Songs, using the songs
of Israeli musician Naomi
Shemer to show how she
connected the ordinary
with the festive, and the
past with the present, at
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County, 11 a.m. 1 Engle St.
(201) 568-3075.
Lag Bomer in
Ridgewood: Temple
Israel in Ridgewood
celebrates in a grand
carnival atmosphere
beginning at 11:30 a.m.,
with activities in the
parking lot for all ages,
including a barbecue and
bounce house. 475 Grove
St. (201) 444-9320 or
office@synagogue.org.
Lag Bomer in Wayne:
The Chabad of Passaic
County holds a family
fun day with inflatables,
jousting, face painting
and a temporary tattoo
artist, a game truck, and
barbecue, 12:45 p.m.
194 Ratzer Road. (973)
694-6274 or Chanig@
optonline.net.
Military bridge in
New City: The West
Clarkstown Jewish
Center offers a military
bridge game, 2 p.m.
Prizes and refreshments.
195 West Clarkstown
Road. (845) 352-0017.
Performer/composer
in Oakland: Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey presents Neil
Bergs Night of Broadway
Stars, an Encore
Performance, at Indian
Hills High School, 7 p.m.
Doors open at 6:15.
Berg and company will
recreate the moments
from the finest shows
featuring Broadway
stars. Dessert reception
follows. 97 Yawpo Ave.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org. Tickets
also available at JFSNJs
Wayne office at 1 Pike
Drive or the Fair Lawn
office at 17-10 River
Road, as well as onsite
performance night. All
proceeds benefit JFSNJ.
Singles
Monday
MAY 12
Support groups in
Tenafly: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
continues two seven-
session groups with
therapist Judy Brauner:
Widows and Widowers:
You Are Not Alone
at 6:15 p.m., and
Uncoupling: Coping
With Divorce and
Separation at 8:15. 411 E.
Clinton Ave. (201) 408-
1456.
Thursday
MAY 15
Widows and widowers
meet in Glen Rock:
Movin On, a luncheon
group for widows and
widowers, meets at
the Glen Rock Jewish
Center, 12:30 p.m. 682
Harristown Road. $5 for
lunch. (201) 652-6624.
YU tennis team makes history
Last week, Yeshiva Universitys mens
tennisteambecamethefirstprogramin
thehistoryofthecollegetoearntheright
torepresenttheschoolinaNationalCol-
legiateAthleticAssociationtournament.
AmongtheteammembersisAviSeid-
manofBergenfield,whograduatedfrom
theFrischSchoolinParamus.
To get to the tournament, the team
beatMountSaintMarysCollege,5-1,in
thechampionshiproundofthe2014Sky-
lineConferencepostseasontournament.
TheyarenowplayingintheNCAADivi-
sionIIIplayoffs.
Local girl stars in Off-Broadway show
Sophie Knapp, 5, daughter of Chavie and
StephenKnappofTeaneck,willperforminA
LittlePrincess,anOff-Broadwayproduction,
fromMay22to25.SheplaystheroleofLittle
Sisterintheshow,whichwillbeperformedat
theHudsonGuildTheaterinManhattan.
Sophie,akindergartnerattheRosenbaum
YeshivaofNorthJerseyinRiverEdge,alsois
agymnastanddancer.Shebegantakingsing-
inglessonswhenshewas4.Sherecentlywas
namedafinalistintheHalLeonardvocalcom-
petition for singers under 13. She also plays
theroleofMollyinAnnieattheHelenHayes
YouthTheaterandperformswiththeBroadway
PrepgroupattheKaplenJCConthePalisades.
Sophieisthefourthoffivechildren;their
agesrangefrom3to10.Theirgrandmother,
LethaLevine,wasapianistandflautistandher
great-grandmother,BeatriceSchwartz,alsoapianistandflautist,studiedatthe
JuilliardSchoolofMusicinManhattan.ToseeaclipofSophiesinging,googleYou-
TubeandSophieKnapp.Thetheaterisat441W.26thSt.Forinformation,goto
ALittlePrincessNYC.com.
Sophie Knapp MATT TWIGGS
Mothers Day run in Tenafly
bolsters variety of JCC programs
TheKaplenJCConthePalisadesRubin
Run,afamily-friendlyrace,issetforthis
Sunday,MothersDay.Choicesforpar-
ticipantsincludeahalf-marathon,10K,
and5Krun/walkcourses.
The annual event draws over 1,100
entrants who commit to running or
walking.Wehopetoseerunnerscross
thefinishlineonSunday,May11experi-
encingagreatsenseofpersonalaccom-
plishment,theJCCsCEO,AviA.Lewin-
son,said.Inadditiontocompletingan
excitingcourse,manywillhaveraised
fundsforvitallife-enhancingprograms.
Wecantthinkofamoresignificantway
tocelebrateMothersDay.
Motherswhorunaregivenaroseas
theycrossthefinishline;freebabysitting
isprovidedduringtherace,andthere
arelotsofactivitiesforkids,includinga
carnivalwherefamiliescandecoratea
take-homeflowerpot.
Proceedsfromtherunhelpfundthe
JCCswiderangeofprogramsforpeople
withphysicalandmentalchallengesand
otherspecialneeds.
Participantscanregisterinpersonat
theJCC,411EastClintonAve.,inTenafly,
onraceday;remembertoarriveearlyto
takeadvantageofpre-racewarmupsand
stretcheswiththeJCCsfitnessstaff.
Sponsorshipsarealsoacceptedonline
through race day and after at www.
jccotp.org/rubinrun.
DAVID SPIEGEL
The Rubin family at last years event.
Obituaries
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Ronald Albert
Ronald H. Albert, 74, of Mahwah,
formerly of Westwood, died on April 29.
Before retiring, he was a music
teacher for Westwood Regional
Schools, and football and track coach
for Westwood High School. He also
directed the Cliffside Park Marching
Band and performed with the
Community Band in Westwood.
He is survived by his wife of nearly
50 years, Karen; children, Michelle
(Scott), and Barry (Annie); sisters,
Susan Johnson (Ed) and Irene, and
four grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the
ALS Association or MAC Angels
Foundation, Larchmont, N.Y.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Jack Alster
Jack Alster, 86, of Fair Lawn died on
May 6.
He served in the U.S. Army for over
40 years as a research chemist.
He is survived by his wife, Anita;
children, Bram, Marc, GG, and Riva,
and grandchildren.
Contributions can be made to
Congregation Shomrei Torah or
Congregation Darchei Noam, both in
Fair Lawn.
Arrangements were by Robert
Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Lauren Cohen
Lauren Beverly Cohen of Paramus,
formerly of Passaic and Clifton, died
on May 3.
A graduate of Rutgers University
and Seton Hall Law School, she was
a lawyer in private practice, formerly
working for Russ Berrie, Ramapo
Bank, and Agfa Gevaert.
Predeceased by her parents, Sharon
and Morris Cohen of Passaic, she
is survived by her husband, Frank
Garcia; children, Renee Dain (Andrew)
of Baltimore, Raquel, 9, and 8-year-
old twins Gisele and Gregory; and a
granddaughter, Hannah.
Arrangements were by Louis
Marilyn Coopersmith
Marilyn Coopersmith of Hackensack,
formerly of New Milford and Teaneck,
died on April 20.
Born in Waterbury, Conn., she
was predeceased by her husband,
Allen, and a sister, Barbara Saxe;
and is survived by daughters, Jill
Bell and Martha Coopersmith-Gray;
a brother, Arnold Miller, and three
grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to the
Cantors Sacred Music Fund, c/o
Congregation Ohr Shalom, Summit.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and
Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Helene Donow
Helene Donow, ne Safer, 95, of Clifton,
formerly of Paterson, died on May 1.
She was a physical education teacher
at Central and Eastside high schools
in Paterson and was instrumental in
starting the womens interscholastic
athletic program at Eastside. She was
a member of Temple Emanuel in
Paterson and the New Jersey Education
Association.
Predeceased by her husband,
Jerome, and a son, Lee, she is survived
by a son, Michael (Amy) of Paterson;
a sister, Iris Schwitzer of Richmond;
two grandchildren; three great-
grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.
Donations can be made to the
Southern Poverty Law Center, Heifer
International, or Planned Parenthood.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Liese Haas
Liese Haas, ne Tannenwald, 83, of Fort
Lee, died on May 2.
Born in Germany, she was a member
of the JCC of Fort Lee/Congregation
Gesher Shalom.
Predeceased by her husband Martin
in 2013, she is survived by a sister and
brother-in-law, Ann and Fred Rosenberg
of Fort Lee, and a niece, Joanne Halperin
(Michael).
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial
Chapels, Fort Lee.
John Heller
John Heller, 91, of Fair Lawn, died on
May 5.
He was a member of the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel,
ORT, and a member and past president
of Magen David Adom. Predeceased by
his wife, Margot, he is survived by a son,
Dr. Mark (Alina) of Port Washington, N.Y.;
a sister, Margarete Goldberger; three
grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Donations can be sent to the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/CBI in Fair Lawn, ORT, or
Magen David Adom. Arrangements were
by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Anne Lander
Anne D. Lander, ne Danziger, 99, of
Rockleigh, died on May 2.
Before retiring, she was a secretary
for Joseph Neufeld Architects in New
York City.
Predeceased by brothers Abraham
and Charles Danziger, she is survived by
a son, Lynn (Ann) of Harrington Park,
and two grandsons.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial
Chapels, Fort Lee.
Nathan Lavenda
Nathan Lavenda, 99, of Teaneck,
formerly of River Edge, died on May 4.
He was an Army Air Force veteran
of World War II, achieving the rank of
lieutenant colonel. Before retiring,
Lauren Cohen dies at 67
Paramus mother of 4 was oldest
American woman to bear twins
JOANNE PALMER
L
auren Cohen of Paramus died
on Saturday, May 3. She was 67
years old.
Until her last decade, her life
had been dificult, and her navigation of
its shoals was exemplary. She grew up in
Passaic; her father struggled with mental
illness, and both her parents died when
she was a teenager. She brought up her
younger brother, who battled his own
demons.
She also put herself through Rutgers
and then through Seton Halls law school;
she became a successful lawyer, working
irst for a big irm and then eventually
opening her own private solo practice.
She married, had one child a daugh-
ter, Renee, whom she loved dearly and
then divorced.
Renee Dain, who lives in Maryland,
now is married to Andrew and has a
young child, with another on the way.
Ms. Cohen enjoyed many activities,
including dancing and at a nightclub,
dancing, she met her second husband,
Frank Garcia, the love of her life. He was
approximately 20 years younger than
she, never married and childless when
they met, but they recognized each other
as soulmates. They married.
Shed always wanted more children, and
Frank really wanted children too, Roberta
Kaplan Rubin of Wayne, her best friend
since both were teenagers, said. She was
past the age when they they were the
doctors who work with infertile women
would let her do it, but Lauren was a very
formidable woman.
Everybody who eulogized her her
daughter Renee, my brother Manny
said the same thing. She never took no
for an answer. She always found a way
to do it.
So when she was 58, Ms. Cohen gave
birth to Raquel. The next year she gave
birth to the twins, Gregory and Giselle.
Raquel is now 9, and the twins are 8. At
the time, she was thought to be the oldest
American woman to give birth to twins.
She did not want Frank not to have
children, because she knew the odds
were that he would outlive her, and I
didnt want him to be alone, she told
People magazine in 2006, the year the
twins were born.
Except for arthritis, Im in excellent
shape, she added.
Her love was her children, Marcia
Kagedan of Teaneck said. Ms. Kagedan
is the principal of the religious school at
the Jewish Community Center of Para-
mus/Congregation Beth Tikvah. The chil-
dren are students at the school, and they
and their mother belonged to the shul.
She strove to give them a stable home
everything she didnt have growing up.
She was a very good mother, Ms. Kage-
dan continued. They were very respect-
ful; they always said please and thank
you. I think thats because they had a
parent of a previous generation, and she
taught them the right way.
She always looked out for them. She
was very proactive. She always insisted
that everything be fair. She noticed
everything.
She had an enery that I could never
keep up with, Ms. Rubin said. And she
never stopped with her children. She
would give them separate activities and
playdates. The twins will celebrate a
birthday in a few weeks; their mother
had planned a separate party for each of
them, as well as a joint party. She did
a lot of things that the average person
would do, Ms. Rubin said.
Although their father is not Jewish, the
children are, and passing on that identity
was very important to Ms. Cohen, both
Ms. Rubin and Ms. Kagedan said. In fact,
just the week before she died she had
been talking to Ms. Rubin about her plans
for regular Shabbat dinners. It was very
much on her mind to give her children a
sense of who they are, Ms. Rubin said.
Her death was caused by catastrophic
cardiac arrest.
Mr. Garcia, who works with comput-
ers, has been devastated by his wifes
death and overwhelmed by the respon-
sibility for three young children that
he now must shoulder on his own, Ms.
Rubin reported.
The community has been helping to take
care of the family, and a fund has been set
up to help. Send donations to the Lauren
Cohen Memorial Fund c/o Roberta Rubin, 3
Longell Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470. For infor-
mation on helping with meals, carpools,
and day-to-day needs, go to www.caring-
bridge.org/visit/laurencohen2.
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will receive a traditional Jewish funeral.
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201-791-0015 800-525-3834
LOUIS SUBURBAN CHAPEL, INC.
Exclusive Jewish Funeral Chapel
Sensitive to Needs of the Jewish Community for Over 50 Years
13-01 Broadway (Route 4 West) Fair Lawn, NJ
Richard Louis - Manager George Louis - Founder
NJ Lic. No. 3088 1924-1996
Serving NJ, NY, FL & Israel
Graveside services at all NJ & NY cemeteries
Prepaid funerals and all medicaid funeral benefts honored
Always within a familys nancial means
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W-150 Route 4 East Paramus, NJ 07652
201.843.9090 1.800.426.5869
Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Inc
Jewish Funeral Directors
FAMILY OWNED & MANAGED
Generations of Lasting Service to the Jewish Community
Serving NJ, NY, FL &
Throughout USA
Prepaid & Preneed Planning
Graveside Services
Gary Schoem Manager - NJ Lic. 3811
he was vice president of John Chatillon & Sons, Inc. in
Kew Gardens, N.Y. He was a founding member and past
president of Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge and
past president of the National Scalemans Association.
He is survived by his wife, Violet; children, Leonard
(Carol), Diane Lavenda (Ken Traum), and Wendy
Lavenda-Carroll ( John), and three grandchildren.
Services were at Temple Avodat Shalom, where
donations can be sent. Arrangements were by Louis
Morris Miller
Morris Miller, 94, of Allendale, formerly of Glen
Rock, died on April 30. Arrangements were by Louis
Pearl Rosenberg
Pearl Rosenberg, 94, of Fair Lawn, died on April 29.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Marjory Sadel
Marjory Sadel, ne Albert, 89, of Cliffside Park,
formerly of Fair Lawn, died May 2.
Born in London, she was a member of Chabad of
Fort Lee and Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn.
Predeceased by her husband, Harry, in 2002, she is
survived by her children, Janet, Josef, and Gail Sadel
Kaplan.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Jeffrey Treby
Jeffrey Dean Treby, 69,of Mahwah, died on May 5.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Susan; sons,
James (Nancy) of Tenafly, and Zachary of Mahwah;
brothers, Stuart ( Judy) of North Potomac, Md., and
Elliott of Royal Palm Beach, Fla.; two grandchildren,
nieces and cousins.
Donations can be sent to WoundedWarriorProject.org.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Paul Trook
Paul M. Trook, 75, of Englewood, died on May 1.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Evelyn Yablon
Evelyn Yablon, ne Frank, 92, of Armonk, N.Y.,
formerly of Jersey City, died on May 4.
Born in the Bronx, she is survived by her children,
Dr. Steven of New City, N.Y., Donald of Philadelphia,
and Ronnie Meyer of Armonk; seven grandchildren,
and eight great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
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provided by funeral homes. Correcting errors is
the responsibility of the funeral home.
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The best kitchens not only look beautiful but
also function beautifully, making it easier for
you to ind the saucepan you need, as well
as its lid. You dont want to heft a big pile
of heavy platters to try to slide out the lasa-
gna pan from the bottom, and you certainly
dont want to waste money when food spoils
in your refrigerator because you couldnt see
what was in that baggie or foil-covered dish
until weeks after it had gone bad.
Solve all of these problems, and oth-
ers, by giving your kitchen an organization
makeover. Here are 10 steps to achieving
an organized, functional kitchen thats also
beautiful:
1) Make it a multi-day project. Tackle one
section of your kitchen at a time (such as
your pantry on one day, your cabinets above
the counter on another day, etc.) rather than
pulling out everything in all of your draw-
ers, cabinets and the refrigerator, thinking
you can get the job done in one shot. Thats
far too overwhelming, and with every sur-
face covered as you try to do it all at once,
your kitchen will be rendered useless for
perhaps several days. Plus, doing one
10 steps to a more organized kitchen
section at a time gives you
that wonderful feeling of
accomplishment when you
get each smaller area com-
pleted, creating momen-
tum and keeping you fresh
and energetic to do the jobs
well.
2) Stock up on terriic
organization products.
Julie Morgenstern, author
of Organizing From the
Inside Out, says to use
space-savers to stretch
storage capacity within
each section. Morgen-
stern suggests utilizing the
following:
Wire shelves that take
advantage of wasted space between
widely spaced shelves, and can also
be door-mounted to hold pantry food
items. Narrow wire shelves can also be
found with magnetic backings to hang
on the sides of your refrigerator to hold
small items.
Hooks mounted under shelves on
which to hang coffee mugs (thus open-
ing up space inside cabinets).
Lazy Susans placed on shelves and
in cabinets to hold spices, canned goods
and cups.
Drawer dividers to keep utensils in
their place.
Clear storage containers with lids
lots of them for storing bulk-buy foods
or leftovers in the refrigerator so that
you can easily see that delicious leftover
brisket and enjoy it the next day, instead
of noticing a smell a week later and hav-
ing to throw out $25 worth of brisket.
A label-maker. A great one allows you
to customize the font style and size, and
labels peel off easily, making your stor-
age containers readily identiiable.
3) Map out your kitchens zones to
help you reposition items for each sec-
tions function. Morgenstern suggests
the following zones: daily dishes, food
preparation, cooking, cleanup and recy-
cling. While working on, say, your pan-
try, you may ind an item for cleanup.
Just move it to that done or undone area
as you go. And a new zone established
for baking allows all of your baking
tasks to be much more streamlined and
enjoyable.
4) Before you begin your irst kitchen
section, set up large, trash bag-lined
bins or sturdy boxes labeled; toss, in
which youll deposit old sauces, spices
and unusable items; donate, in which
youll deposit canned goods, dishes and
other items that can be used or sold at a
mission or shelter; or store, in which
youll deposit items that you use rarely
and are better stored in your basement.
5) Remove everything from the pan-
try or cabinet youre tackling, and irst
give your shelves a good cleaning and
fresh, clean liner paper in a color or pat-
tern you love. Shelf or drawer liners set a
foundation for your kitchens makeover.
6) Change your drawers plan. If you
previously stored all of your utensils in
one drawer, switch to one drawer for
everyday eating utensils and most-often-
used gadgets. Then the next drawer can
hold your larger cooking and baking
utensils.
7) Go vertical. Try stacking your cook-
books flat, instead of standing on end, to
use more vertical space and create a new
and attractive display of those books you
use often. Store books you havent used
in the past three years elsewhere or
donate those that are unwanted.
8) Remove clutter. Morgenstern says,
Deport tchotchkes to create room for
food prep, and banish surface clutter
so your space feels clean and welcom-
ing. If youd love for your collectibles to
remain on display, switch their position
to a narrow wall or magnetic fridge rack,
clearing your counter.
9) Remove as much from your refrig-
erator as possible. That means magnet-
held coupons, relatives kids photos,
outdated schedules and magnets from
restaurants or the gutter cleaners. Its OK
to have a little-item drawer if youd like
to have these items and pens on hand.
But clearing your fridge creates a more
polished look.
10) Set up a tech center, including your
laptop and its stand, so that you can eas-
ily access recipes youve bookmarked or
scanned into your system and your fam-
ilys activities calendar. A built-in desk-
top and chair make this zone comfy and
modernize your kitchens functionality.
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Holy Name Medical Center offers
advanced treatment option
Spinal tumors respond
to targeted-radiofrequency ablation
Holy Name Medical center has
announced that it is among the first
facilities in the nation to offer tar-
geted-radiofrequency ablation (T-RFA)
therapy, an advanced procedure that
provides rapid pain relief from metas-
tasis spinal tumors in a single, mini-
mally invasive treatment.
Dr. Samyadev Datta, Holy Name
Medical Center pain management
specialist, recently performed the
procedure. T-RFA is a tremen-
dous advancement in the palliative
care options we offer our patients,
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apy provides rapid relief from the
debilitating effects of spinal tumors
in the vertebrae without interrupt-
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ment schedule.
Unlike other currently available
treatment options, T-RFA employs
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metastasis vertebral body tumors.
These have historically been dif-
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unique anatomy of the spine.
T-RFA is typically an outpatient
procedure and can be performed
using local anesthesia through a
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ner. The physician can target pre-
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is delivered with the intent to heat
and destroy the metastatic spinal
tumor cells to alleviate pain while
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gle treatment.
Acting, singing, dancing skills honed
at summer performance intensive
An exciting summer musical the-
ater intensive for intermediate-
advanced students is being offered
for ages 9-17 during the first three
weeks of July, from 9:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. The program culminates
in a New York City cabaret theater
performance as well as a perfor-
mance at bergenPAC. Participants
gain professional skill development
in singing, acting, improvisational
comedy and movement, and learn
how to overcome stage fright and
enjoy performing.
The program director, Joe Baker, is a Broad-
way music director/accompanist, who has per-
formed in Wicked, Shrek, The Lion King,
Little Shop of Horrors, and many other
headline shows. Many of his students have
appeared on Broadway, TV, and films, includ-
ing Mary Poppins, Shrek, Kinky Boots,
Lion King, Matilda, Les Miserables, Billy
Eliot, and The Sound of Music live on TV.
Mr. Baker will work one-on-one with stu-
dents as well as in an integrated setting with
his coaches and teachers to help students
discover their abilities and talents. He will be
joined by guest instructors, choreographers,
voice teachers, drama coaches, and improvis-
ers who will offer exciting opportunities for
the cast. Students will be bussed from ber-
genPAC to the JCC each day at 3:20 pm for
a swim.
Interview/audition required. Extended day
optional. Course fee includes two tickets to the
NYC performance. $995 JCC members, $1,195
nonmembers. For further information and to
register, visit the JCC website at www.jccotp.org
or call the JCCs School of Performing Arts, 411
East Clinton Ave. in Tenafly, at (201) 408-1493.
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The Provident Bank and Foundation
supported NJIT Alternative Spring Break
In recognition of the success of its
second annual Alternative Spring
Break volunteer effort, NJIT hosted
an event to thank the events partici-
pants and supporters, including The
Provident Bank, which supplied vol-
unteers for the program, and The
Provident Bank Foundation, which
provided grant funding. New Jersey
Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno
was also on hand to offer gratitude
on behalf of the state.
Its great to see college students
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to spend their time off and that
they chose to give back to the Gar-
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how The Provident Bank and its
charitable foundation are so deeply
involved in and supportive of wor-
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New Jersey residents.
Organized by NJITs Center for
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Break program, which took place
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through a grant from The Provident
Bank Foundation.
Dozens of employees of The Provi-
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in the program as part of the Banks
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Banks 175th Anniversary last month
that encourages employees to sup-
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via volunteer efforts or donations.
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Provident Bank (www.ProvidentNJ.
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network of full-service branches
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clean condenser and evaporator coils and make sure
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Congress than any other government
branch or body, according to Rabbi Men-
achem Genack, kashrut administrator of
the Orthodox Union, religious leader of
Shomrei Emunah in Englewood, and a
founding member of Norpac.
When you speak to these members
of Congress, especially on a bipartisan
level, you see tremendous support,
Rabbi Genack said. Its something
Jewish-Americans should be very grati-
fied by.
Norpac brought a bipartisan group for
meetings with Republicans and Demo-
crats, but the day began with the fiery
and partisan speech by Ted Cruz at
the opening plenary. Mr. Cruz, a Texas
Republican who is strongly backed by
the Tea Party, reaffirmed his support for
Israel and blasted the Obama administra-
tion for repeatedly refused to acknowl-
edge Jerusalem as Israels historic capi-
tal, and a long series of damaging
comments and positions we have seen
that have undermined our relationship
with the nation of Israel.
He pointed to a November 2013 state-
ment by Secretary Kerry calling Israeli
West Bank settlements illegitimate, and
the secretarys February 2014 warning
that the peace processs failure could
result in Israels isolation. He further
likened President Obamas 2011 call for
an Israeli-Palestinian border along the
pre-1967 lines as a U.S. demand that
Israel unilaterally retreat from the West
Bank.
The Palestinians believe the settle-
ments are illegal. The United States has
said they believe the settlements are not
helpful and are illegitimate, Mr. Cruz
said. Why is the United States of Amer-
ica hectoring and attacking Israel? That
does not further the process of peace.
Anyone threatening to boycott Israel
should face direct and immediate con-
sequences from the United States, Mr.
Cruz said.
Just as Mr. Cruz strongly supported
Israel in his speech, he was equally vehe-
ment in his attacks against President
Obama and his administration.
The American secretary of state is
blaming the nation of Israel and not
the terrorists who are murdering Israeli
civilians, he said. And the adminis-
tration has blamed Israel, not the Pal-
estinians who refuse to acknowledge
Israels right to exist a fundamental
predicate to have the beginnings of a
conversation.
Of the four speakers, Mr. Cruz was
the only one who used the platform to
deliver a partisan message. Mr. Menen-
dez made note of this when he took the
podium and quipped, I will not give you
a partisan diatribe nor am I running
for president.
In her introductory remarks for Mr.
Menendez, Ms. Weinberg praised Nor-
pac for its commitment to the demo-
cratic process, Israel, and for getting
Loretta Weinberg on the same stage as
Ted Cruz.
The U.S.-Israel relationship is a bipar-
tisan issue and Norpac is dedicated to
maintaining that stance, according to
Dr. Chouake.
Most people who care about this
issue are very grateful for the bipartisan
nature of it, he said. Most people by
and large recognize thats not what we
are.
During his plenary address, Mr. Engel
said pundits often call Congress dysfunc-
tional, arguing that its members cant
agree on anything.
That may be true on other issues, but
when it comes to Israel everyone comes
together because Israel is our best ally in
the world, he said to loud applause.
The meetings on the Hill were off the
record, but Norpac and Congressional
members spoke positively about them
afterward. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9th Dist.),
whose district includes much of Bergen
County, said he enjoyed meeting with
constituents and had a good conversa-
tion with his group, which included Ms.
Weinberg. In a statement to the Jewish
Standard Mr. Pascrell said he has always
supported U.S. financial and military aid
to Israel, particularly for Iron Dome, and
that he was a proud co-sponsor of the
Nuclear Iran Prevention Act.
I value my close relationship with our
large and diverse Jewish-American com-
munity and welcome having their view-
points inform my work in the House of
Representatives, Mr. Pascrell said in the
statement.
In a similar statement to this paper,
Rep. Scott Garrett (R-5th Dist.), who rep-
resents New Jerseys northernwestern
tip, pledged to continue to stand with
Israel against unfair economic retali-
ations, boycotts and security threats
in the interest of protecting the United
States and our allies around the world.
In January, 134 members of the House
signed a letter condemning the Ameri-
can Studies Associations academic boy-
cott of Israel as blatant disregard for
academic freedom and thinly-veiled
bigotry and bias against the Jewish
State. Mr. Pascrell signed on to the let-
ter but Mr. Garrett did not.
Requests for comment from New Jer-
seys Democratic freshman senator, Cory
Booker, were not answered immediately.
Rabbi Steven Weil, the Orthodox
Unions senior managing director, was
on his fourth Norpac mission. He praised
Congresss ability to overcome partisan-
ship when it comes to Israel.
There is real sincere cooperation on
both sides of the aisle and that is a beau-
tiful thing in a world of debate, fighting
and partisanship, he said. One thing
everyone can agree on is the American-
Israel relationship.
Norpac
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