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Worlds largest Chabad House
will open on Rutgers campus
The Chabad House Jewish Student Center at Rutgers
University, along with its 10 affiliate Chabad houses that
service central and southern New Jersey, will hold its
National Founders Dinner at the Grand Ballroom of the
Chabad House in New Brunswick on Thursday, Dec. 13,
at 6 p.m. More than 500 community leaders and support-
ers are expected to pay tribute to the honorees, Rutgers
University president Dr. Robert L. Barchi and Ronald C.
Rak, president and CEO of St. Peters Healthcare Systems.
The Chanukah gala celebrates the grand opening of
the 55,000 square foot addition, which will feature ad-
ditional rooms for housing, a Sephardic synagogue, and
a kosher dining hall for 750. This, combined with the ex-
isting facility, creates a 90,000 square foot Jewish center,
the worlds largest such space for students on any public
university campus.
Call (732) 296-1800 or email dinner@chabadnj.org.
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JCCP celebrating 60 years
The Jewish Community Center of Paramus hosts a 60th
anniversary Shabbat service and luncheon on Dec. 8.
After services two are offered, egalitarian and tradi-
tional there will be a luncheon underwritten by the
synagogues Golden Oldies group.
JCCP charter members Irene Reiss, Lotte and Fred
Buff, and Lola and Henry Weber will talk about the syna-
gogues founding.
Call (201) 262-7691 or www.jccparamus.org.
Shul hosting hurricane concert
The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation. Bnai Israel
plans a Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert on Sunday, Dec.
16, at the synagogue, 10-10 Norma Ave.
At 2 p.m., there will be a bake sale, nail design station,
and activities for children. The concert at 3 will feature
students from the Believe in Music Studio.
There is a $10 per person suggested donation; all pro-
ceeds will benefit hurricane victims. Call Marina Belkin
at (201) 773-8389.
Decorated vet is GBDS guest
Just back from a nine-month deployment to western
Afghanistan, Capt. Ethan Mordecai Orwin discussed
his experiences with students at the Gerrard Berman
Day School, Solomon Schechter of North Jersey in
Oakland. His mother-in-law, Barbara Katz, is a teacher
at the school and the visit rounded out the Veterans Day
curriculum.
Orwin, a native of Toronto, Canada, graduated from
West Point in 2007. He received a Marshall scholarship,
earned two masters degrees, and was awarded a Bronze
Star for his U.S. Army service.
Capt. Ethan
Mordecai
Orwin with
GBDS fourth-
graders Jessica
Tiersky, Kayla
Blecherman,
David Gray-
Schoenblum,
and Elijah
Greenberg.
Courtesy GBDs
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The importance
of desire
Why Jewish lust
trumps Christian love
Shmuley Boteach
W
hatever happened to love? It
does not seem to work that well
these days.
People fall in love and expect to be happy,
but find themselves a little while later not as
excited and not as engaged. We all aspire to
fall in love and stay in love. Yet we struggle to
find examples of people who have actually
found the happiness they we seek.
Sure, many married couples seem stable
and comfortable. But they are not necessarily
that excited.
Why? Because love never was meant to
serve as the glue that keeps couples together
romantically. Love is not strong enough to
do that. Essentially, we were lied to about
relationships. Every time we saw a couple in
a movie fall in love, marry, and live happily
ever after, we were misled not because
that couple could not live happily ever after,
which they could, but because we were not
shown them gradually losing the passionate
adhesive that kept them longing for each
other.
Interestingly, whereas Christianity
believes that marriages should be based on
love and friendship, Judaism believes they
should be based on lust and desire. Seriously.
That is why the Ten Commandments say
we should not covet our neighbors wife.
By direct implication, that means each of
us men sure as heck ought to be coveting
our own wife. Covetousness in marriage
is a divine commandment. Likewise, Shir
Hashirim, the Song of Songs, which the
Talmud says is the holiest book of the Bible,
the Tanach, on the surface at least is about
the erotic desire of a man for a woman,
something that is celebrated in Judaism.
So how did we get it so wrong? How did
love come to trump lust? Why have we, for
centuries, based marriages on the weaker
link of love instead of the nuclear bond of
erotic desire?
To many, this would seem a crazy
question. Love is everything, right? Even God
is love?
Really? Who said these things? Why do we
just take them for granted as truths?
Christianity is the source for God being
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the author of (among
others) Kosher Sex, is currently writing a new
book on relationships entitled Kosher Lust. His lat-
est book, The Fed-Up Man of Faith: Challenging
God in the Face of Tragedy and Suffering, will be
published in the next few weeks.
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n an editorial last week, we made a case for end-of-year
donations going specifically to Jewish Family Service of
Bergen and North Hudson and Jewish Family Service of
North Jersey.
We have other end-of-year giving suggestions as well.
Why are we making any suggestions at all?
The answer, of course, is that there are just 24 days left to
make the kinds of donations that will lower our income tax bills
for the year.
That is why there are so many pulls on our discretionary
pursestrings these days. We all are being inundated with scores
of causes, many quite worthy, looking for a share of our tax-
saving largesse.
Yet how do we decide to whom to give? Do we send
money to a hospital, or an educational institution, or a public
broadcasting entity, or an animal welfare society? Should we
send small checks to all, or one or two large checks to the most
worthy? Which is the most worthy?
The answer, this year perhaps more than most years, is to
follow the dictates of Jewish law. To quote from the Book of
Deuteronomy, open your hand to the poor and needy kinsman
in your land. The operative phrase here is in your land. We
give to our own before we give to others; we give to the near
before we give to the far away; we give to the need that is most
urgent, rather than the most attractive or politically correct.
In addition to the two JFS agencies, then, let us prioritize our
giving so that our local synagogue, the rabbis discretionary fund,
the local volunteer emergency responders organization, and our
favorite area day school or special needs program all benefit.
Above all, there is the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey. Like the two JFS agencies, it was out there doing what was
needed to be done to help us get through the crisis of Hurricane
Sandy, and it did so while also dealing with its everyday slate of
good works.
By all means, send money to worthy causes in Israel and
elsewhere, but remember that we first must take care of our own
close to home, and only then begin to move out to help meet the
needs of others. Remember, too, that part of a donation to JFNNJ
will probably wind up going to many of the very places overseas
that we would have chosen on our own.
Last year at this time, there were many people in our area
who would have laughed at the notion that they would need to
turn to the community for assistance. Many wrote their checks
accordingly. Now we all know better. We all know that we can
never know when we will be the ones who need the help.
As Maimonides put it, A relative in need takes precedence
to all others, a member in need of ones household takes
precedence over those in need in ones city, the needy of ones
city take precedence over those in need in another city
What a pity it would be if, when the next disaster strikes, the
help we need was not available because we again chose the far
away over the near and dear.
Bad moves all around
T
he United Nations General Assembly once again demon-
strated a lack of common sense in the pursuit of Middle
East peace.
On the 65th anniversary of Resolution 181, which partitioned
Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, it handed the
Palestinian Authority a worthless victory. Comments made by
the representatives of various member states made it clear that
the date was significant because the Jewish state stifled the birth
of the Arab state, and now matters were being set right.
That is a lie. The members of the General Assembly know
it is a lie. They know that Israel accepted Resolution 181 and
that the Arab states did not. They know that Egypt, Jordan, and
Syria invaded the proposed Jewish state and lost, then chose to
occupy portions of the territory meant for the Palestinian Arabs.
It was they who shut down the hopes of the Palestinians.
What was, of course, is irrelevant to what is. There is a
Palestinian state in formation and it exists beside Israel. Israels
continuing administration of that territory is not in its own best
interest. A two-state solution is the only truly viable solution.
That solution, however, cannot come by lying about the past.
It also cannot be brought about by United Nations fiat. Only
through negotiations can it be achieved and can peace be given
a chance.
As we said last week, even nominally granting statehood
status to the PA is to set back the peace process, perhaps by
years.
Israels response, however, is no more helpful. What benefit is
there to threatening to build more settlements on the west bank?
Will that end the killing? Will that obliterate the hate? Will that
help build the kind of confidence necessary to achieve concord?
In a statement earlier this week, the White House said, We
urge the parties to cease unilateral actions and take concrete
steps to return to direct negotiations, so all the issues can be
discussed and the goal of two states living side by side in peace
and security can be realized.
We second that. We second this statement by a former
president of the United States, as well. Civility, John F. Kennedy
said in his inaugural address, is not a sign of weakness; sincerity
is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But
let us never fear to negotiate.
It is time to put sincerity of both sides to the test. It is time to
negotiate.
love and for marriages being based on love rather than
lust. Its source is not the Tanach, but Christian sacred
literature: The one who does not love does not know
God, for God is love (1 John 4:8). This sentiment is
repeated again a few verses later: And we have come
to know and have believed the love which God has for
us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in
God, and God abides in him (1 John 4:16).
In Judaism, God is not so monolithic as to be
described as love. In a world of Nazis and al Qaida
terrorists and ethnic cleansing and the like, do we really
want a God who is all love? Or do we want a God who is
part justice?
God is not love. God is utterly beyond emotion; God
defies description. At times, God is loving and at times
God is jealous or punitive. God needs a rainbow in the
heavens to keep His anger from getting out of control.
It was Paul of Tarsus who famously said in the
Christian text 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, Love is patient, love
is kind. Love never fails.
What an excellent description of the virtue of
love and its limitations! If anyone wants to have a
romantic relationship based on these warm and cuddly
attributes, that is fine. But while love is warm, lust is
passionate. While love seeks to share, lust seeks to
acquire. While love can be satiated, lust never can be.
The average wife today feels loved, but what she
really wants is to feel desired, which explains why
women are reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their
millions.
While Christianity posits love as the foundation of a
relationship, Judaism always emphasized desire.
Marriages and relationships in modern times are
built on love, not lust, and I believe this is the principal
reason for their breakdown.
Several times a week, I counsel couples in crisis. They
come with the usual panoply of issues that surround
broken marriages absence of communication, lack
of intimacy, fighting below the belt, financial pressures,
child-rearing responsibilities that have overtaken their
lives.
Underlying all these problems, however, is the
elephant in the room: loss of desire. They love each
other, but they no longer long for each other. Their
marriages are now built on the softer, more comfortable
emotion of love, rather than the passionate, more
explosive nuclear bond of lust.
Why is lust disappearing? There are many reasons.
First, we are such a physical and material generation
that we do not understand lust. So we denigrate it
as something sleazy. Lust, we think, is something
pornographic. Lust is what a man feels for a colleague at
work while love is what he feels for his wife. Lust is what
a wife experiences for a stranger with whom she flirts
while love is what she feels when she has dinner with
her husband at a restaurant.
Lust has been lost from our lives because we think
it as something of the body, not of the soul; something
generated by hormones, not spiritual energy. Lust, we
erroneously believe, is a visceral animal emotion rather
than a uniquely human one.
Because we do not understand lust, we have never
focused on understanding its rules and the conditions
through which it is maintained.
Also, we believe love to be eternal, while lust
is so utterly ephemeral. We de-emphasize lust in
relationships because we believe it is bound to
disappoint us, to let us down. We do not believe that lust
can be sustained. Rather, we consider it to be a flimsy
foundation upon which to build a relationship; it should
not take precedence over the solid firmament of love.
Excuse me. Who said that love and lust cannot be
maintained simultaneously? Are we really so monolithic
as to be incapable of sustaining two emotions at once?
Can husbands and wives really not be both lovers (lust)
and best friends (love) at the same time? Is not the
confluence of both what men and women most aspire
to in their relationships?
Op-ed
Back Egypts democratic forces with fervor
Shalom cohen
WASHINGTON The outrage
and political ferment that arose
in Egypt after President Morsis
recent decision to centralize power
in his own hands is, in fact, the true
beginning of the Arab Spring that
erupted in Tunisia and Egypt two
years ago.
A newly empowered Egyptian
people is not just fighting for
freedom; they are using the tools of democracy in an
ideological battle for the future of their nation.
The fundamental change that has taken place in
Egypt since the fall of the Mubarak regime aside
from the assumption of power by political Islam is
the newfound openness and freedom of expression
enjoyed by the people, the communications media, and
the political parties. The transformation is remarkable.
Where there was once a police state in which people
feared government agents who enforced a ban on
all anti-establishment activity especially anti-
government activity today stands an Egypt in which
journalism is more or less free and where criticism and
demonstrations against the government are simply part
of daily life.
The liberal forces who initiated the Egyptian uprising
felt that the Islamists jumped on the bandwagon late
and then stole the revolution. This impression was
reinforced by Morsis first steps as president: disbanding
the army council, unrestricted support for the Islamist-
dominated houses of Parliament and the creation of a
committee to draft a new Islamist-oriented constitution.
These sophisticated political moves hinted at what was
to come. With the added bona fides he garnered for
brokering a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, Morsi
took the opportunity to institute his latest draconian
measures. The Islamists are using todays opportunities
to institute changes that may not be possible tomorrow.
The new round of demonstrations in Tahrir Square
and throughout the country indicates an important
change in Egyptian society. The Arab uprising that began
in 2010 disorganized, lacking leadership, and without
an ideological agenda had one inchoate purpose:
to depose Mubaraks authoritarian regime and create
a democratic nation in which the people themselves
determine their own political future, not those sitting
in the presidential palace. Todays demonstrations
are entirely different. Egyptians of all backgrounds
Islamist men and women, liberals and secularists, young
and old, intellectuals and common folk have taken to
the streets to determine the character of the nation.
Will Egypt continue on the path to democracy or
become an Islamic dictatorship? The outcome will have
important implications for Egypt and the region.
At this tenuous moment, when so much is in
the balance, it would be wise for the United States
and Western nations to devote intensive care, effort
and resources to strengthen the liberal parties and
democratic forces in the Arab world. The time to do
so is now, when the wheels are in motion and the
opportunities exist.
It seems that the Egyptian government that came to
power on the tray of a democratic election now seeks to
shatter the dishes in an attempt to gradually eliminate
the very steps that led to a real democratic country. The
Egyptian people are saying no to this in Tahrir Square
and across the country. Today, more than ever, they
should not undertake this campaign alone.
JTA Wire Service
Shalom Cohen, the Baye diplomat in residence at the Washing-
ton Institute for Near East Policy, served as Israels ambassador
to Egypt from 2005 to 2010.
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Letters
Armchair generals
Having recently returned from a solidar-
ity mission to Israel I must take exception
to Mr. Hess op ed, Rocket science and
disillusion, (Nov. 30). I was privileged to
meet and talk to many brave and coura-
geous soldiers and officers at the Gaza
front, all of whom were anxious to finish
the job they were trained to do without
regard for their own safety and were in
fact frustrated at the announcement of
the cease-fire. Likewise the people living
down south in Sderot and surround-
ing communities were very upset at the
political rather than military resolution.
Amazingly, we were thanked by the peo-
ple we met for coming from the States to
give our support, whereas we kept telling
them that we were there to thank them
for what they were doing. What they dont
need is Americans pontificating in New
Jersey about what Israel should be doing.
We also visited soldiers in the hospital
who were wounded, some seriously and
the decision to send these boys (thats
right, boys) into harms way should not be
taken lightly.
The complexities of Middle Eastern
politics are beyond the scope of this letter.
Suffice it to say that Hamas militarily is
not a problem for the IDF, but an invasion
would have jeopardized the influence
the U.S. has with the only two countries
in the region that Israel has a treaty with,
Egypt and Jordan. The major military
threat facing Israel today is from Iran
and its partner, Hezbollah. In a future
confrontation Israel may need U.S.
backing and so they may have acquiesced
to U.S. pressure but probably for its own
future benefit.
It asks in Ethics of our Fathers, who is
a strong person? One who conquers his
own inclinations. The knee-jerk response
was to go into Gaza and clean it up. But at
what price and how many Israeli soldiers
killed or wounded?
I asked a colonel in the IDF involved
in the last Gaza war what he thought
about the cease-fire, expecting him to
say the invasion should have happened.
His response was that a Jewish leader of
a Jewish state made the decision about a
Jewish army, and right or wrong that was
good enough for him. It should certainly
be good enough for us sitting in New
Jersey. To me it shows Israels strength, not
weakness.
David Wisotsky M.D.
Thanking our military
I received my belated copy of the Jewish
Standard and it reignited some displea-
sures I thought I came to terms with, but
have not. In an editorial citing the bravery
of first responders to Sandys worst, our
best, (Nov. 2) credit is given to police,
firefighters, emergency medical techni-
cians, ambulance drivers, and the like.
Omitted is the recognized respect due our
military. I would argue that our military
deserves being cited as an entity and not
looked for in a diaphanous category, the
like.
I remember when I requested that the
Y I belong to display a yellow ribbon to
honor our troops who serve our nation.
My request was denied with the reason
it would be political to do so. Could it be
that citing our military for its contribution
to meeting Sandys worst is also thought
by some to be political?
In its answer to emergency assistance,
the military sent troops and airplanes
to transport repair vehicles and service
people from various parts of the country.
(Repairmen from California worked at my
house.)
I am grateful for the service of all those
cited for bravery in response to Sandy.
But I remember a refusal to recognize
American service men and women, who
are among our first responders, and I
hope that our citizenry would say thank
you to our military who are always here
for us.
I would be pleased to know there are
others who remember as well.
Irving Seidenberg
Chestnut Ridge, NY
Keeping busy
The recent storm left many of Teaneck
families without power for days and even
weeks. Although much has been written
about how to prepare for and manage
through such a difficult time, the advice
has come largely from officials and adults.
As Girl Scouts, we pledge to be friendly
and helpful, considerate and caring,
and so we want to pass along our kids to
kids advice for what to do the next time
the power goes out. All of these ideas were
kid-tested during Sandy, and we hope
they prove as useful to you as they did to
us.
Keeping busy:
Have a dance-off. If you dont have
batteries to play music, try singing.
Spread a blanket on the floor and make
jewelry with beads.
Read books.
Play shadow puppets with a flashlight.
Volunteer as a mothers helper or to walk
pets for a neighbor.
Play telephone or broken telephone
(people get really silly in the dark).
If you play an instrument, give your
family a concert.
Play Would you rather?
Keep a diary of how everyone manages.
Help your parents clean out the fridge.
Take out all the non-electronic toys from
the toy closet.
Go to a park, mall, or friends house that
has power.
What to eat:
Plan fun menus around a theme one
P-menu was peanuts, potatoes and
peas.
Enjoy ice cream soup.
Make instant oatmeal with raisins,
craisins or other fruit.
Cut up veggies and fruits and dip in non-
spoiling dressings or peanut butter.
Roast hot dogs, marshmallows and
potatoes in the fireplace.
Other advice:
Before a storm, pack a bag of things you
like to do so you can find everything
without lights.
Have a battery-operated radio.
Tape the refrigerator shut so you dont
keep opening it by accident.
Use tea lights in holders that let the light
shine out.
Use battery-powered holiday candle
decorations as nightlights in the
bathroom.
Sleep in the same room as other people
in the family for comfort and warmth.
Fill an insulated bag with ice to keep a
few important things like milk.
If it is cold outside, keep food in a box in
the trunk of your car.
Most important:
Stay safe.
Share whatever you have for example:
generator, heat, gas cooking, hot water.
Thank all the officers, emergency
workers and power crews!
Congregation Beth Aaron Girl
Scout Troop 60061
Susan Fisch, Ellen Krischer, Leaders
Miriam, Yael, Rachel,
Penina, Eliana, Gittel
Chanukah is major
Every year we read that Chanukah is
a minor holiday and should not be
perceived as our counterbalance to
Christmas. I cannot disagree more. For
Jews in America there is no more im-
portant holiday than Chanukah. In fact,
for many Jews its their last connection
to Judaism. Obviously for those in the
know this holiday celebrates Jewish pride,
Jewish dignity, and Jewish respect against
overwhelming odds and encroaching
assimilation from an irresistible culture
alien to our own. Wait! That describes our
situation perfectly today as well. When I
was born there were 6 million Jews in the
United States. Today there are about 5
million. Did a million Jews make aliyah?
Hardly. We are fading away as a com-
munity. Although we may not see it in
such a large Jewish community as Bergen
County, there is a crisis greater than ever
before going on right now. For many, the
only counter to the prevailing culture
in which we live is Chanukah. It is on all
the calendars; there are menorahs at the
shopping malls; and even menorahs at
the town halls of municipalities willing
to admit America is not a homogeneous
society. It may be the last connection
someone has to their Jewish heritage.
Chanukah is the time for Jews to get back
in touch with their identity and for us
to reach out to our brothers and sisters
everywhere. This holiday season should
be the focus of all our communities in a
flurry of outreach activity, regardless of
whatever else someone is celebrating!
Scott David Lippe M.D.
Fair Lawn
Adelson does not
speak for survivors
I have visited Yad Vashem at least twice
and been deeply moved each time. I am a
long-time donor to the American Society
for Yad Vashem to help support that vital
institution. When I opened my invita-
tion to their annual dinner my stomach
turned to see at the top of the list of gen-
eral chairmen of the society the name
Sheldon Adelson. Unlike the other chairs,
he is neither a survivor, child of a survivor,
or a leader in Holocaust causes. How does
he get to join this venerable list? By being
a billionaire.
There is nothing inherently wrong
with being extremely rich. I have never
heard any objections to the generosity
of Baron Rothschild, Baron Moses
Montefiore, Edgar Bronfman, or Ronald
Lauder. But allowing one individual a
great deal of influence is dangerous. Mr.
Adelson is frighteningly different from
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these other philanthropists. A Democrat
most of his life, he suddenly switched to
being a Republican right after becoming
a billionaire. He choose that affiliation
solely to persuade politicians to promote
legislation that would protect his
financial interests. He then proceeded to
promote politicians all over the United
States, including here in Bergen County,
and in Israel who would advance his
views on all manner of other issues. In
the spring he gave Newt Gingrich $10
million to say that Romney was totally
unqualified to be president. After it
was clear that Romney would win the
nomination, Adelson spent $100 million
to back him. Just before becoming
a billionaire, he defrauded his own
children out of shares in his company.
His sons sued him, but he outlasted
them through his vast wealth. He seems
to have no interests but his own and no
conscience. He uses the power of vast
wealth to buy influence. He has bought
a leadership role in the Republican
Jewish Coalition, was instrumental in
having Romney organize a fundraiser in
Israel (a foreign country), has entre to
any Republican official up to president,
and influences the content of what
thousands of young Jews are taught
(or as Natan Sharansky said in Tenafly,
brainwashed) by Birthright.
My parents were Holocaust survivors,
as were two pairs of my uncles and
aunts. My grandparents, two of my
fathers siblings, and almost all of my
parents wider families were murdered
in the Holocaust. My parents lost a
daughter in the Holocaust. For my first
three years I was raised in the Bergen-
Belsen DP camp. I have spent more than
20 years of my life devoted to Holocaust
causes. I continue to establish my bona
fides. I was on an advisory committee
to the U.S. Holocaust Council, I helped
organize second generation events for
the Survivor Gatherings in Israel and
in the States, I helped organize second
generation conferences in New York
and New Jersey, I returned to Bergen-
Belsen to protest Reagans trip to Bitburg,
and I was chairman of the Holocaust
Committee of the Jewish Federation
in Wayne. I am now a member of the
Teaneck Holocaust Commemoration
Committee.
I am revolted by the idea that Mr.
Adelson has bought his way on to being
a chairman of the American Society for
Yad Vashem. My dead family members
would be turning in their graves. He
represents the opposite of all the values
they held dear.
Please write to the society at
500 Fifth Ave., 42nd Floor, New
York, NY 10110-4299 to express your
objections to Mr. Adelson being so
inappropriately honored. I personally
will stop contributing to the society until
they disaffiliate themselves from him.
Steven Tencer
New Milford
I am revolted by the
idea that Mr. Adelson has
bought his way on to being
a chairman of the American
Society for Yad Vashem.
Steven Tencer
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Joanne Palmer
I
t is perhaps verging by now on clich to say that medi-
cine is all about relationships after all, what in this
world is not in the end all about relationships? but
still it is true.
It is about relationships between patients and their
health care providers doctors, yes, and also nurses,
technicians, and everyone else who cares for them. It
is about relationships between patients and their own
bodies, and it is also about the relationships between
the science that fuels new treatment methods but tends
toward depersonalization and the humanism that is at
the heart of medicine.
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a small organization
in Englewood Cliffs founded by Dr. Arnold Gold and Dr.
Sandra Gold 25 years ago, has devoted itself to ensuring
that humanism remains vital as medicine advances, and
it has had outsized successes. Its white coat ceremony, a
ritual that reinforces the awesome (in its original sense),
literally life-and-death responsibilities that medical
students assume as their begin their studies, has been
adopted by just about every medical school in the
country.
Now, the foundation has
welcomed a new president
and CEO, Dr. Richard Levin,
as it begins to navigate
the changing landscape of
American health care.
Levin brings an earned
understanding of the arena
with him. He is a cardiologist,
scientist, and medical school
administrator. He began his
career with post-doctoral
work at Cornell in vascular
biology, and later established
a National Institutes of
Health-funded laboratory for
cardiovascular research at NYU, where he became a full
professor. He moved over to administration in the deans
office there, and then became dean of the medical school
at McGill University in Montreal. Why
did he chose that path? Because I
didnt see administration as the dark
side, but as a means of changing
the social, cultural, and academic
dynamics which were in desperate
need of changing, he said.
Originally a Jersey boy hes from Long Branch
and then a longtime New Yorker, he and his wife grew
homesick. The Gold Foundation felt like home.
He already had an emotional connection to it, along
with the clear ideological one.
His younger daughter, who is now a physician, was
named to the Gold Humanism Honor Society when she
was in medical school at Dartmouth, years before he
began to work at the Gold Foundation. Each inductee is
asked to name one mentor, and she named her father.
The induction ceremony was one of the most sublime
moments Ive ever experienced, Levin said.
I feel joyous to have landed this position, he added.
Passionate
about
compassion
The Gold Foundation brings in new
CEO in its continued quest for humanism in medicine
Sandra and Arnold Gold and Richard and Jane Levin; inset, Arnold and Sandra Gold 25 years
ago, when they created the foundation. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY THE GOLD FOUNDATION
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Above and below, photos from white coat ceremonies, when new medical students put on on their symbolic robes as they assume their very real responsibilities.
This is not a usual foundation. The Golds put it together
through magic.
From the start, the foundations goal was to ensure
that as medical science progressed, it did not replace
the heart, the care, and the love in other words, the
soul that always had characterized the practice of
medicine. The Golds began by focusing on medical
education, so that explicitly, within the curriculum, it
realized the function of humanism in health care, Levin
said. Medical education in general is the old pot, the
simmering stew, where new recipes for managing the
rest of the system are invented on a regular basis.
But resting on laurels rarely works. New challenges
always present themselves.
He sees his task as to preserve this miracle that
Arnold and Sandra created, and that in 25 years really
has changed medical education. Now he wants to
expand the impact to a global one, not only to focus on
physicians but also on the rest of the health care team.
Patients experience health care without necessarily
defining who is delivering it. They just know that theyre
there, and theyre not necessarily happy, so everyone
from the nurse practitioner to the medical technician
to the office staff everyone who comes into contact
with the patient has to be imbued with humanist
principles.
Some history is in order.
A force arose with the advent of the technological
era, which we could peg to somewhere between the
1970s and early 80s, when the CAT scan and MRI were
invented, Levin said. These two machines, and the
advancement of molecular biology, have given us the
first opportunity to understand the fine-grained detail of
many diseases. Its given physicians a new frontier. It was
unbelievably exciting.
Still, he said, the pendulum has swung from
the 2,500-year-old Western tradition, starting with
Hippocrates, based on patient-centered understanding,
to a technology-centered field that began to lack the
characteristics that mark humanism.
Were not Luddites, he continued. We do not
jettison the wonders of the genomic age.
Ironically enough, he said, the increasing scientific
nature of medicine requires even greater intimacy
between the health worker and the patient. Its not as
much about what disease may have befallen the patient
as what genomic characteristics made the patient get
this disease.
It works better if humanism is the constant partner.
Although the Gold Foundation is not an explicitly
Jewish organization, the Golds represent the blossoming
out of Judaism of the ethical tradition of the faith, Levin
said, quoting the Talmud: He who saves one life saves
the entire world.
Sandra Gold, who will remain at the foundation as a
counselor to the president, is enormously excited about
the future.
Were just starting a research institute, and it will
be remarkable, she said. It will have two major thrusts.
First, it will be a clearinghouse, a place providing easy
access to information and data about humanism and
professionalism. We hope that policy makers as well as
professionals and health care workers will use it, she
said; hard data about the effect of humanism on healing
will be useful for public discourse.
Theres more talk about the cost of care than the
quality of care, she said.
The other thrust is to support and encourage the
development of instruments to measure humanism,
she continued. To help researchers understand whats
happening, so they dont constantly have to reinvent the
wheel.
She is thrilled about Richard Levin.
What I was looking for was a person with big ideas
and a fire in the belly. Someone with lots of energy
and passion. I wanted someone passionate about
compassion. I believe we found him.
She is firm that her leaving the presidency is not to
be called stepping down. Instead, the foundation is
transitioning from a founder organization to the next
generation of leadership, she said. The work not only
will continue but be enhanced and expanded with new
eyes, new competencies, and new experiences.
I think that by bringing in Rich we have the assurance
that the work Ive spent 25 years leading will continue,
with even greater energy and innovation and wisdom.
There never will be a time when we can sit back and
relax our guard. The tendency is for people to look at
aspects of care that are very measurable, but the building
of relationships is something that you benefit frtom
enormously. Humanistic patient care and relationship-
centered focus isnt a nice option. Its a requirement.
Im very optimistic that we will are going to be bigger
and better than ever, she said.
Arnold Gold is equally excited about Levin. The Gold
Foundation recognizes that both cutting edge science
and caring relationships are essential for the best health
care outcomes, he said. Along with all of his many
talents, Dr. Richard Levin is devoted to that ideal, and to
patient-centered care.
We have found the perfect leader to pursue our
mission!
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he website of Temple Sinai of Bergen County in
Tenafly was one of the 50 Reform synagogues
invaded by anti-Semitic hackers before Shabbat
on Nov. 23. The hackers posted an hour-long video that
argued that the Holocaust did not occur.
A congregant whose in-laws are Holocaust survivors
said that he saw most of the video when he logged onto his
shuls website to find out what time services would begin.
It was very shocking, disturbing, and offensive. My in-
laws were particularly outraged by it, said the man, who
requested anonymity.
Not only was it someone making an argument that the
Holocaust did not occur the video actually had canned
laughter and this mocking sarcastic tone. I cant express
how insensitive it was.
The hackers appear to be a group calling itself
Moroccan Ghosts, according to Jeffrey Salkin, New Jersey
community director of the Anti-Defamation League.
According to the groups Facebook page, the Moroccan
Ghosts targeted synagogues belonging to the Union for
Reform Judaism because they consider the organization,
said Salkin, quoting the website, one of the most sig-
nificant and very extreme Zionist assemblies that supports
Israel in America.
Its clear from the Facebook posting, Salkin said, that the
group denies the Holocaust, calling it a scam by the Jews
to blackmail the Germans to gain sympathy to take over
Palestinian lands.
Since March, the Moroccan Ghosts has hacked some 82
websites, mostly in the United States, but also in France,
Britain, Vietnam, South Africa, Germany, Spain, and China,
Salkin said. The groups Facebook page includes graphics
reading Free Palestine as well as an Israeli flag ripped in
half and set on fire.
The ADL alerted Facebook to the Holocaust denial post-
ing by the Moroccan Ghosts. Following the hacking, the
URJ pulled down the websites for scanning and clean-up.
Although the URJ site itself was not affected, a few
dozen of the websites we host on behalf of our congrega-
tions were indeed hacked over the weekend, Annette
Powers, URJs public relations and communications man-
ager, emailed. As a defensive measure, we pulled the sites
down.
At Temple Sinai, the congregant brought the violation
to the attention of Rabbi Jordan Millstein as he was about
to begin Shabbat services. I ran into my office to look at
it, Millstein said. I saw about one minute of it. It was one
of the creepiest, most disturbing videos I have ever seen.
It talked about how the Holocaust had never happened,
that it was mathematically impossible for that number of
people to have been killed.
To Millstein, the video was like a hate crime, like some-
body spray-painting swastikas on the walls.
Within an hour, the synagogues computer specialist
had shut the website down.
New Jersey Jewish News
I ran into my office to look at it. I saw
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Rabbi Jordan Millstein
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reactions to the United nations vote are swift but inconclusive
Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON How the United States
treats the Palestinians new status as a
non-member state at the United Nations
depends on how Palestinians plan to use
it as cudgel or outstretched hand.
Beneath the outcries
of disappointment at
the lopsided U.N. vote,
both the United States and Israel showed
signs of acquiescence to its inevitability.
There were the grim warnings of financial
consequence for both the Palestinians and
the United Nations, but there also was a
willingness to take at face value Palestinian
claims that the vote is an avenue to return
to talks something Israel and the United
States have been demanding for two years.
The public statements by U.S. and
Israeli officials, however, focused on the
negative.
It places further obstacles in the path
to peace, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton said at a Foreign Policy Group
address after the vote on Thursday. We
have been clear that only through direct
negotiations between the parties can
the Palestinians and Israelis achieve the
peace that both deserve: two states for two
peoples, with a sovereign, viable, indepen-
dent Palestine living side by side in peace
and security with a Jewish and democratic
Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said in a statement after the
vote that the Palestinian initiative violated
the agreements with Israel and that he
would act accordingly.
That apparently presaged leaks to me-
dia outlets on Friday that he planned to
build 3,000 new homes in the west bank
and eastern Jerusalem, including in the
corridor separating Maaleh Adumim, a
large Jewish settlement in the west bank,
from Jerusalem.
A broad array of Jewish groups con-
demned the vote, which passed by a
margin of 138-9, with 41 abstentions. The
American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
in one of its rare public statements, pre-
dicted blunt and dire consequences for the
Palestinians and the organization repre-
senting them in Washington and New York,
the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Congress has frequently warned the
PLO that there would be consequences
for its relationship with the United States
if the PLO refuses to demonstrate its com-
mitment to peace with Israel, AIPAC said.
Congress has specifically linked contin-
ued aid and the operation of the PLO office
in Washington to the Palestinians not seek-
ing statehood status at the United Nations.
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AIPAC applauds this congressional leader-
ship and urges a full review of Americas
relations with the PLO, including closure of
the PLOs office in Washington.
Yet the sequence of congressional
amendments introduced this week that
would penalize the Palestinians for seeking
statehood seemed, if anything, to retreat
from punitive to wait-and-see.
Earlier this week, a slate of Republican
senators led by Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy.)
introduced amendments to the National
Defense Authorization Act that would
cut assistance to the Palestinians imme-
diately and shut down the PLO office in
Washington. The NDAA does not other-
wise address the Palestinians, but the act is
the most immediate vehicle for passage of
legislation, as both Houses of Congress are
frantically trying to pass major budget bills
to head off the so-called fiscal cliff.
By Thursday morning, however, just
hours before the U.N. vote, Barrasso had
joined a separate Palestinian spending
initiative, and one likelier to pass, spear-
headed by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.),
Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Lindsey
Graham (R-S.C.). That amendment to
the NDAA would cut assistance to the
Palestinians only if they use their new U.N.
status to bring charges against Israel. The
new amendment would shut down the
PLO office in Washington only in the case
that the Palestinians have not entered into
meaningful negotiations with Israel.
A lawmaker on the U.S. House of
Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
said that the House was likely to initi-
ate a similar wait-and-see bill. The law-
maker characterized it as a bid to see if
the Palestinians would make good on
suggestions that they were not in a hurry to
bring charges at the International Criminal
Court, and that a successful show at the
United Nations could create the conditions
necessary to bring the Palestinians back to
talks.
In an interview earlier this month, Maen
Areikat, the PLO envoy to Washington, said
that the U.N. vote would mitigate the fac-
tor that has kept the Palestinians from talks
until now: Israels continued settlement ex-
pansion. The vote, recognizing Palestine
as within the pre-1967 lines, would grant
the Palestinians assurances that lands they
claim have international recognition, even
if Israel continues to build Jewish settle-
ments there.
After we get recognition within 1967
borders, we are willing to engage Israelis,
Areikat said.
Areikat, like other Palestinian officials,
would not count out using such U.N. bod-
ies as the International Criminal Court to
seek redress for what they say are illegal
Israeli actions. But he also noted that even
with the enhanced status of non-member
state, the road to such actions was fraught
with bureaucracy and unlikely to happen
anytime soon.
On Thursday, two influential think-
tankers otherwise known for their hawk-
ish views testified before the House
Foreign Affairs Committee on the state of
Israeli-Palestinian relations in the wake of
Novembers mini-war with Hamas in the
Gaza Strip and Thursdays vote.
The two men Robert Satloff, who
heads the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy, and Elliott Abrams, the dep-
uty national security adviser to President
George W. Bush who is now at the Council
on Foreign Relations answered ques-
tions from lawmakers on whether the U.N.
vote should trigger U.S. penalties on the
Palestinians.
Satloff said that Mahmoud Abbas, the
Palestinian Authority president and PLO
leader, needed to show the Palestinian
people that there was an alternative to
Hamas preferred course: terrorism.
We have to encourage him to choose
the diplomatic path, Satloff said of the
Palestinian leader. It really comes down to
invigorating an alternative.
Another witness, Danielle Pletka, the
vice president of the American Enterprise
Institute, shook her head in disagreement,
saying the Palestinians needed disincen-
tives to prevent uncooperative behavior.
Back in New York, the lopsided vote at
the United Nations, and the presence of
so many American allies in the yes and
abstention columns, suggested a frustra-
tion with the Middle Eastern stalemate and
a hope that the vote could bring about a
breakthrough.
I would like this recognition to be
used in a positive way by the Israelis and
Palestinians to relaunch a sincere peace
process, Laurent Fabius, the French for-
eign minister, said in a statement after his
country voted for the enhanced status for
Palestine.
Everything which might jeopardize
potential progress towards a negotiated
solution must be avoided on both sides,
Fabius said. The obligation is still to re-
sume dialogue and negotiation without
preconditions, with a view to establish-
ing a lasting peace guaranteeing Israels
security and an actual, viable state for the
Palestinians.
JTA Wire Service
I would like this recognition
to be used in a positive
way by the Israelis and
Palestinians to relaunch a
sincere peace process.
Laurent Fabius
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Cnaan Liphshiz
LEIDEN, the Netherlands Among his many talents,
Afshin Ellian has a knack for making people want to kill
him.
Its a trait he demonstrated as a fugitive in his na-
tive Iran after the Islamic revolution; then as a refugee
in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he angered secular
Stalinists; and finally in Holland, where he lives under 24-
hour police protection because of his criticisms of Islam.
Ellian has never been someone to toe the line, how-
ever. As many in Europe were rushing to condemn
Israels operation in Gaza earlier this month, Ellian, prob-
ably the most famous Iranian in the Netherlands, used
his platform at the Dutch magazine Elsevier to blame
Hamas for putting their people in an inhumane position
by needlessly waging war. He has criticized the Western
media for ignoring massacres in Arab countries and fo-
cusing instead on Israel. And he has drawn death threats
from Muslim militants for zingers like this: Radical
Islamists are so determined to prove Islam is the religion
of peace that they are willing to kill for it.
Having found himself in the line of fire so many times,
its unsurprising that the 46-year-old philosopher, poet,
and law professor dismissed suggestions that he might
be deterred by Hamas rockets from carrying through
with his first trip to Israel, a country he first heard of as a
young political activist in Iran.
Israel is what I wished Iran would be after the fall of
the shahs regime, Ellian said in an interview last week
at his office at Leiden University. Its democratic nature
is seen as a weakness by the Islamists in power but is a
powerful model for young Iranians seeking change. Israel
is also a central element a made-up enemy in the
identity of the Iranian Islamic Republic, which oppresses
them and has made me stateless. In short, Israel is rel-
evant to my life.
A refugee from the Iranian revolution, Ellian has a
high profile in the Netherlands. The author of several
books, some of them on radical Islam, he is also a colum-
nist for Elsevier and appears regularly on Dutch televi-
sion as a Middle East commentator. His op-eds also have
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For a small country, the Netherlands has produced
more than its fair share of political provocateurs who
live under constant threat of death for their views. Ayaan
Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born former parliamentarian, lived
under armed guard for years after the murder of film-
maker Theo van Gogh, with whom she collaborated on
a piece critical of Islam, before leaving for the United
States. The anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders also
lives under police protection.
Like Hirsi Ali and Wilders, Ellian came to embrace the
Jewish state, both as the adversary of a shared enemy
and as a model of what a religiously inspired democracy
in the Middle East could look like. He first heard of Israel
as a teenager in Iran, fleeing the Islamists who would
pick out political activists like himself in universities and
on the street. His cousin, also an activist, was executed
and dumped in a mass grave.
I was in a bakery and Ruhollah Khomeini, the revolu-
tions spiritual leader, promised that the war with Iraq will
lead to Jerusalem, he said. The baker and I had no idea
where that was. I figured it had to be a village in Iraq.
In Israel, Ellian delivered a lecture at the University of
Haifa organized in part by Irgoen Olei Holland, an asso-
ciation of Dutch immigrants. The event is held each year
on Nov. 26, the anniversary of a defiant 1940 speech by
Rudolf Cleveringa, a non-Jewish Leiden professor, op-
posing the expulsion of Jews from academic and public
life in Nazi-occupied Holland.
After his flight to Israel was diverted so the KLM crew
could disembark the airline had barred its employees
from the country during last weeks fighting Ellian
wrote that the crew could learn something about cour-
age from Cleveringa.
They also could learn something about courage from
Ellian himself. The son of two left-leaning intellectu-
als, Ellian went into hiding soon after Islamists swept
to power in Iran in 1979. At 17, he already was hiding
with the liberal undergrounds shrinking network of safe
houses.
I shacked up in a Christian cemetery one night, he
recalls. The sexton told me I might as well find a grave.
In 1982, Ellian fled Iran on camelback, traveling
1,100 miles through the mountains to Pakistan. But that
country proved no safer. Local police routinely arrested
Iranians, and Ellian caught malaria and constantly
switched addresses as he planned his next escape.
In Afghanistan, he stayed for three years and began
his studies. But there, too, he ran afoul of ideological
foes: Stalinists who had been in exile since before the fall
of the shah.
We newcomers led a small revolt against the
Stalinists, not realizing we were playing with our lives,
Ellian said. We came close to a kangaroo court or a
lynch mob.
In 1987 he fled again, this time with his wife. They
went to Holland, where he set his mind to his stud-
ies, earning three masters degrees at the University of
Tilburg within six years of his arrival a first in the uni-
versitys history.
I thought I could finally say anything, he says of his
current home. But danger still was lurking.
In 2000, he received the first of what would become
many death threats after he criticized the Prophet
Muhammads orders to kill critical poets in Medina,
among other aspects of Islam. But Ellian would not be
silenced. He accused the Iranian regime of barbarity
and the silent majority of Muslims of complicity in the
acts of violent radicals. The threats continued.
Many in Holland hailed him as a hero for disregard-
ing his own safety in stating his beliefs but not every-
one viewed him as a paragon of courage. The influential
Dutch-born writer Ian Buruma has dismissed Ellian as a
traumatized man who embraced a radical version of
the European Enlightenment. And earlier this month,
the newspaper Volkskrant published an op-ed accusing
Ellian of making generalizations about Muslims.
I have nothing against Islam, Ellian said. But I
should be able to criticize it in the same way that I am
able to criticize Judaism and Christianity.
Ellian was placed under 24-hour police protection
shortly after receiving his first death threats. Four years
later, after the van Gogh murder, security was beefed up
considerably at his Leiden office, where he sits behind
electronically locked doors.
I was shocked, Ellian said. I fled the Middle East,
but the Middle East followed me. I knew that this time I
had nowhere else to flee except maybe the moon.
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Jailed Gross calls for U.S.
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WASHINGTON Jewish-American contractor Alan
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from a military hospital there.
In a meeting with a Cuba specialist from a nonprofit
research center in Washington, Gross asked that the
United States negotiate for his release and a dialogue
with no preconditions be held between the two govern-
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Poland the worst offender
in Holocaust restitution drive
Dinah Spritzer
PRAGUE In 1988, Yehuda Evron received
a memorable letter from Lech Walesa, the
first post-communist president of Poland,
on the eve of the countrys transition to
democracy.
He wrote that within a few months
we would get my wifes property back,
recalled Evron, now 80. His wife was the
only Holocaust survivor from her family,
which had owned a residential building
and factory in Zwienec that had been
confiscated by the Nazis and then seized
by Polands communist government.
Evron, a Romanian emigre and
leader of the New York-based Holocaust
Restitution Committee, which represents
claims of thousands of survivors from
Poland, snorted bitterly last week when
recalling his initial optimism after corre-
sponding with Walesa. Four decades have
passed since then, many more survivors
have died, and Polish leaders repeat-
edly have reneged on promises to enact
a restitution law to compensate for the
billions of dollars in property stolen from
Jews and non-Jews during and after the
Holocaust.
Home to more Jews than any other
country before World War II, Poland
now is the only European country that
endured Nazi occupation and has not en-
acted a law to ensure some kind of private
property compensation or restitution to
Holocaust survivors or their heirs.
Evron talked to JTA at last weeks
Prague meeting on Holocaust restitution,
called the Immovable Property Review
Conference, which was organized as a
follow-up to a 2009 conference in this city
that produced a historic resolution on
Holocaust assets. The resolution, called
the 2009 Terezin Declaration, was signed
by 46 countries that committed to speed-
ing up the restitution of private and com-
munal property to Holocaust survivors
and their heirs.
This years conference and the 2009
parley were organized and supported by
the Czech Foreign Ministry, U.S.-based
Jewish organizations, and the U.S. State
Department, with participation from
countries throughout Europe.
At last weeks gathering, many of the
references to 2009 were in the form of
laments that so little had been accom-
plished in three years.
In sum, restitution of property con-
fiscated during the Holocaust proceeds
exceedingly slowly, if at all, said a report
prepared for the conference by the World
Jewish Restitution Organization, an um-
brella group.
The focus remains on Central and
Eastern Europe, where compensation for
communal and private property seizures
began in the 1990s and in most cases con-
tinues at a glacial pace.
In Croatia, for example, the main
progress since 2009 has been the proposal
of an amendment eliminating a citizen-
ship requirement imposed by Croatias
restitution law but the amendment
has not been submitted to lawmakers for
consideration.
In Romania, all compensation to
private property claimants has been
suspended; critics blame a corrupt and
bankrupt compensation fund.
In Latvia, where 300 Jewish commu-
nal properties were never returned, a bill
offering some compensation has been
stalled for six years.
In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor
Orban has withheld the final two years of
a government compensation program to
aid Hungarian survivors who reside out-
side the country.
Notwithstanding its restitution laws,
Hungary has, in a number of respects,
failed to meet standards advanced in
the guidelines established at the 2009
Prague conference, the WJRO report
said. In Hungary, there are prolonged,
unreasonable delays in adjudicating
property claims and in making the com-
pensation payments once claims are
positively decided, while the guidelines
insist on prompt decisions and payment.
There have been a few bright spots.
In 2011, Lithuania authorized pay-
ment of about $50 million over 10 years
to compensate the Jewish community for
communal property seized by the Nazi
and Soviet occupation regimes. Serbia
passed a restitution bill affecting Jews
and non-Jews that the Jewish community
expects eventually will address Holocaust
claims specifically.
Last month, the Czech Republics low-
er house of parliament approved a plan
to return billions of dollars worth of com-
munal property confiscated from Jews
and Christians by previous communist
governments. If the bill passes, the Czech
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Federation of Jewish Communities is set
to receive $500,000 a year over 30 years.
The worst restitution record, confer-
ence-goers said, belongs to Poland.
In 2010, Terezin Declaration signato-
ries approved a set of nonbinding best
practices, such as suggesting solutions
to the problem of heirless property and
making the claims process more trans-
parent and affordable. After initially
agreeing to the document, Poland made
an abrupt about-face and withdrew its
support. To add salt to an already fester-
ing diplomatic wound, Polish Foreign
Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in 2011 went
on Polish radio to complain of U.S. pres-
sure on restitution issues.
If the United States would have want-
ed to help Polish Jews, a good moment for
that would have been 1943-44, when the
majority of them were still alive, Sikorski
quipped.
At last weeks conference, Poland was
the only signatory to the 2009 Terezin
Declaration that did not send a delegate.
It says a lot that they refuse to even
engage, said Greg Schneider, executive
vice president of the Claims Conference,
which is responsible for Holocaust resti-
tution from Germany and Austria.
Stuart Eizenstat, a former U.S. deputy
treasury secretary who served as special
representative of the U.S. president and
secretary of state for Holocaust issues
during the Clinton administration, said
that he was disappointed in Poland but
insisted the country was not a lost cause.
When I began going hat in hand to
these Eastern European governments in
the 1990s, no one would have ever imag-
ined we could have gotten all the agree-
ments that are in place for the return of
property, Eizenstat said. In Poland, you
have a process for the return of religious
communal property, and thats thanks to
the pressure of conferences like these.
A counselor at the Polish Embassy in
Prague, Isabella Wollejko-Chwastowicz,
said that a compensation law was so
complicated that it was just taking a long
time for the government to review. The
explanation contradicts the most recent
public Polish government position that
Jewish groups simply are demanding too
much.
Baroness Ruth Deech, a property
expert and member of Britains House
of Lords, said Polands position is
infuriating.
Looking at it from the outside, we
read that 60 percent of Poles oppose
private restitution and that the Jewish
community in Poland today is fearful that
pressing for justice will give rise to anti-
Semitism, she told an audience at the
Prague conference.
Polands chief rabbi, New York native
Michael Schudrich, countered that Poles
aversion toward restitution is economic,
not anti-Semitic.
But failing to come to agreement on
a restitution bill could be more costly
for Poland, restitution advocates note.
Jews could press private property claims
in court, and the lack of clarity on land
ownership in Poland hinders economic
development. In Warsaw, for example,
one-third of the citys real estate was in
Jewish hands before World War II, ac-
cording to Eizenstat, who is still involved
in restitution negotiations and works
as a pro bono consultant to the Claims
Conference.
Eizenstat said he hopes economic ar-
guments will convince Polish officials to
move ahead with restitution.
A restitution law would also help
Poland deal with the expensive issue
of unclear land ownership that already
harms its economic interests, he said.
Such appeals to the pocketbook are
significant, since the West can no longer
hold out admission or rejection into the
European Union or NATO as an incen-
tive, said Rabbi Andrew Baker, direc-
tor of international Jewish affairs for
the American Jewish Committee and a
longtime restitution negotiator. Eastern
European countries already have won
admittance to these international bodies.
If you cannot prove economic self
interest, then you need to convince
governments to provide restitution by
continuing to appeal to the leaders moral
conscience, Baker suggested.
For his part, Evron continues to press
his wifes case with Poland. But he doesnt
have high hopes.
He bemoaned Polands tactic of forc-
ing claimants to spend years and thou-
sands of dollars pressing their cases in
Polish courts, where they are frequently
asked to produce evidence destroyed
during World War II. Even when victory is
achieved, like a positive decision recently
granted for his wifes residential build-
ing claim, cases are turned over to the
Finance Ministry for review, Evron said.
I asked my lawyer how long the re-
view would take. He answered, could be a
year, could be forever, Evron said. I have
now spent more money on this case than
the building is worth and my son asks
why bother? My answer: Its the principle
that matters. You take something, you
give it back.
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muster is a meanie face.)
From a developmental perspective, I know this fan-
tasy play is his way of exercising control over a world
he is learning is increasingly out of his control. But I
also see other qualities his desire to be strong, to
stand up for the good guys in short, his desire to be
courageous.
Becoming courageous doesnt happen overnight. It
develops when children have opportunities to stand up
for whats right and to take responsible risks. Through
experiences my husband and I provide, and the stories
we tell them, we can lay some groundwork.
As I think about a central message of the Chanukah
story and the way I want to portray it to my kids, models
of courage abound. From Judah Maccabee to Judith and
Hannah and her seven sons, heroes and heroines fought
for the right to be different, to be Jews who refused to
assimilate into the prevailing Hellenistic culture.
When Antiochus Epiphanes came to power, and
observance of the most basic mitzvot circumcision,
Shabbat celebration, and kashrut were turned into
capital offenses, their acts of courage formed the basis
of a central narrative of the Chanukah story that has
been passed down through the generations.
Consider Judah Macabee, whose army, made up
of a bunch of Jewish soldiers, used guerrilla tactics
CHANUKAH
Writer Dasee Berkowitzs 4-year-old son, Tamir, pre-
paring to battle the bad guys - his way of showing
courage, which we celebrate at Chanukah. Courtesy
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and religious zeal to defeat the stronger Assyrian Greek
army. He forced the Assyrian Greeks to rescind the
policies that forbade Jewish practice, and in 164 BCE
liberated the Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to
become once again a place of Jewish worship.
Consider Judith, who did her part to prevent the siege
of Jerusalem in her hometown of Bethulia by seducing
Holofernes, the Assyrian Greek army general, and then
decapitating him. Her bravery is so highly esteemed by
the rabbis that it is because of her act of courage that
Jewish women are obligated to light Chanukah candles.
And consider Hannah and her seven sons, who re-
fused to bow down to Zeus and Antiochus and eat non-
kosher meat. The Book of Maccabees relates that each
of her sons and then her mother were tortured to death.
These acts of courage seem extreme and even unpal-
atable to our modern ear what woman would sacri-
fice her son, not to mention all seven? And arent we a
peace-loving people who should not extol brute force?
But they also lead us to a deeper questions about the
nature of courage. Are there values and beliefs for which
we are willing to make great sacrifices. If any of these
values or beliefs were to be violated, would we be stirred
to action?
While these figures present us with one narrative of
the Chanukah story of heroism in battle and martyr-
dom the ancient rabbis favored a second narrative.
The story begins with the rededication of the Temple in
Jerusalem and Jews faith that the small cruse of oil that
should have lasted for one day only could last for eight
(in time for others to travel and get more oil.)
The second narrative downplays the military victory
won by human hands and elevates the story to one in
which our faith in God and Gods miracles are kindled.
It reminds us that courage is born when we continue to
have faith and hope even in our darkest time. Having
faith in itself is an important kind of courage.
While the call to be courageous is central to the
Chanukah story, spiritually or physically, it is also
daunting. But the rabbis offered another way for us to
understand how to live a courageous life and be our
own heroes.
Who is a hero? the rabbis ask. One who overcomes
his urges? (Mishna, Pirkei Avot 4:1)
Overcoming our most natural desires and exercising
personal restraint is another kind of heroism. This is a
kind of everyday courage.
When we are present in a difficult conversation with
someone about whom we care about even though our
impulse is to leave, we are heroic. When we resist the
urge to say something that we know will offend another
person, even if we think it is warranted, we are coura-
geous. When we have vowed not to feed a habit that is
destructive to us, and when we are tempted and resist (a
smoke, an extra piece of chocolate cake), we are being
our own heroes.
This Chanukah, celebrate all of the dimensions of
courage by dedicating each night to one of them:
Candle 1 to the classic Chanukah heroes of Judah
Maccabee, Judith and Hannah.
Candle 2 to the courageous acts of our children who
welcome a new kid to the school, speak out against bul-
lying, or have faith that the next day at school might be a
little better than today.
Candle 3 to someone in your community who took
up a cause you believe in and fought for it.
Candle 4 to someone in your family perhaps a
parent or grandparent and a courageous act they
performed during their lives.
Candle 5 to American and Israeli soldiers who are
fighting to protect values and ideals that are sacred to
us.
Candle 6 to the courage that you have exercised by
restraint with a co-worker, spouse, child, friend or
parent.
Candle 7 to a person in your life who exemplifies
courage the most.
Candle 8 to that quality of courage in ourselves that
enables us to bring light into dark places and for the en-
ergy to continue to stoke the embers of our own sense
of courage.
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Edmon J. Rodman
LOS ANGELES We need to celebrate a Lincoln
Chanukah this year.
Its not because of the new Spielberg movie that
gives us something to do on Christmas Day but be-
cause of the 150th anniversary of a little-known event in
American history that threatened to expel a portion of
the Civil War-era Jewish population from their homes on
the Festival of Lights.
On Dec. 17, 1862, during the height of the war, Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant issued General Orders 11 expelling
Jews as a class from a war zone that included areas of
Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. The expulsion was
to begin in 24 hours. It was the first day of Chanukah.
At the time, Chanukah was not the major holiday it is
now. But Grants order, if carried out, meant that entire
families would be uprooted during the holiday and be-
yond, and exiled from their communities.
Today, relaxing in our home with family on Chanukah,
retelling the Maccabee story that takes place in a far-off
time and land, its uncomfortable to imagine a different
story about our freedom, one that hits much closer to
home.
On that day, Grant was attempting to cut off the black
market sale of southern cotton, in which some Jewish
and other traders were engaged.
As researched in the engaging new book When
General Grant Expelled the Jews by the prominent his-
torian Jonathan D. Sarna, we find that Grants order was
enforced in several towns in Union hands, including
Paducah, Ky.; Holly Springs, Miss.; and Trenton, Tenn.,
among others.
Only a few Jews were seriously affected by General
Orders 11, perhaps fewer than 100, according to Sarna,
but news of the order and the resulting outrage was
quickly spread by the Associated Press.
The Bnai Brith sent a petition to Washington call-
ing upon President Lincoln to annul the order. Other
Jewish leaders moved to organize delegations to meet
with Lincoln. A Jewish merchant from Paducah named
Cesar Kaskel traveled to Washington on a mission to
have the order overturned. Upon arrival he was able to
arrange a meeting with the president through an Ohio
congressman.
According to an account of the meeting that Sarna
says is often quoted but most likely embellished, Lincoln,
using biblical imagery, asked Kaskel, And so the children
of Israel were driven from the happy land of Canaan? In
response, Kaskel asks for Father Abrahams protection,
to which Lincoln replies, And this protection they shall
have at once.
The reality seems to have been that when Lincoln
finally heard of Grants order, he ordered the general in
chief of the army to countermand it.
An account by the prominent Cincinnati rabbi Isaac
Mayer Wise, who also had met with the president about
the issue, provides Lincolns rationale: I do not like to
hear a class or nationality condemned on account of a
few sinners.
This Chanukah, then, with Lincoln on our minds,
how should we commemorate Lincolns action to rescind
what Sarna cites as the most sweeping anti-Jewish regu-
lation in all American history?
Should we devise a stovepipe hat menorah? Fry up
four score latkes or change the lyrics of the modern
classic Peter Paul & Mary Chanukah song to Light One
Candle For the Tennessee Children?
Not necessary.
Jews going back to Lincolns presidency have found
ways to connect before. After his assassination, ex-
pressing their sorrow, many rabbis delivered sermons
that were collected in a book by Emanuel Hertz titled
Abraham Lincoln: The Tribute of the Synagogue. The
basis for the Library of Congress Alfred Whital Stern
Collection of Lincolniana was donated by Alfred Stern,
With this Chanukah season calling for a Lincoln con-
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Defiance, then destruction
Chanukah in the warsaw Ghetto
Rafael Medoff
N
ever before in Jewish Warsaw were there
as many Chanukah celebrations as in this
year of the wall.
That entry from the diary of Hebrew educator Chaim
Kaplan in December 1940, shortly after the walls of the
Warsaw Ghetto were built, may surprise those who are
accustomed to thinking of the ghetto only in terms of the
misery of its Jewish residents under the Nazi jackboot.
But in those early months of the ghetto, before the worst
periods of deprivation and persecution overwhelmed the
Jews, their spirit showed on the first Chanukah behind the
walls.
Because of the sword that hovers over our heads the
1940 Chanukah festivities were not held in the streets,
Kaplan wrote. Chanukah parties were held in nearly
every courtyard, even in rooms which face the street; the
blinds were drawn, and that was sufficient. How much
joy, how much of a feeling of national kinship there was
in these Chanukah parties! After sixteen months of Nazi
occupation [since the German invasion of Poland in
September 1939], we came to life again.
Kaplan was particularly pleased that we even deceived
the Judenrat, the Nazi-appointed Jewish leadership. It
tried to ban the holding of Chanukah parties without a
special permit... But this took effect only on paper; the
Judenrat was fooled. Hundreds of celebrations were ar-
ranged and the stupid Judenrat did not get a single penny.
In his diary, Kaplan quoted from a speech by a Zionist
leader at one of the Chanukah events: In all the countries
where they want to bury us alive, we pull the gravedig-
gers in with us. Kaplan could not realize how prophetic
those words would prove less than three years later, when
the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt would take down
many Nazis before losing their own lives.
Kaplan, 40, was the founder and principal of a Hebrew
elementary school in Warsaw. He began keeping a diary,
in Hebrew, in 1933. His entries about life in Jewish Warsaw
following the construction of the ghetto walls offer a
heartbreaking chronicle of disease, starvation, random
atrocities and, ultimately, mass deportations.
With 30 percent of Warsaws population crammed into
an area comprising barely 2 percent of the city, extreme
overcrowding facilitated the rapid spread of disease. At
the same time, Jews were limited to food rations of just
181 calories daily. By the summer of 1941, more than 5,000
Jews were dying monthly from starvation or disease.
Kaplans diary entries throughout 1941 describe side-
walks filled with families bundled up in rags, moaning
with heartrending voices, formerly well to do people
who never had to worry about matters of food crowding
the soup kitchens and waiting their turn for a bowl of
watery soup, and random atrocities such as a Nazi with a
face as red as fire wielding an iron whip, savagely lashing
an elderly Jew for 20 minutes straight.
There were too many horrors for the diarist to keep
up with. My inkwell has grown tired of lamentations,
Kaplan wrote at one point. If I tried to write down every-
thing in order, I couldnt. Nor would I be recording any-
thing new. Robberies, murders, humiliations, deprivations
nothing more.
By the time the reader reaches Kaplans diary entries for
Chanukah in 1941, the contrast with those of the preced-
ing year is evident. The festive and defiant mood of 1940
was just a distant memory. This year very few Chanukah
candles were lit, Kaplan wrote in December 1941. Our
holiday has been turned into a day of mourning. The
courtyard of the prison on Dzielna Street was turned into a
slaughterhouse today.
CHANUKAH
Crowd near the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto. Photo courtesy of the DaviD s. Wyman institute for holocaust stuDies
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Fifteen Jews who were caught outside the city limits
had been lined up and executed.
In the months to follow, the situation grew steadily
worse. Random killings became more frequent and bet-
ter organized. Not a day goes by that the Nazis do not
conduct a slaughter, Kaplan recorded. Homelessness,
disease, and starvation reached epidemic proportions.
In the gutters, amidst the refuse, one can see almost na-
ked and barefoot little children wailing pitifully, Kaplan
wrote. Every morning you will see their little bodies fro-
zen to death in the ghetto streets.
By the early summer of 1942, refugees reaching Warsaw
from elsewhere in Poland provided details of the fate that
awaited each Jewish community targeted by the Nazis.
Jews deported from their towns were taken in tightly
sealed freight cars, Kaplan wrote, until they come to the
place of their execution, where they are killed.
In July 1942, Warsaws turn came. Kaplan described the
first deportations in agonizing detail. Recording the trag-
edy of his people had become his lifes purpose, even as
others doubted: Some of my friends and acquaintances
who know the secret of my diary urge me, in their despair,
to stop writing. Why? For what purpose? Will you live to
see it published? Will these words of yours reach the ears
of future generations?
Somehow, they did.
In early August 1942, realizing the end was near, Kaplan
stuffed his diaries into kerosene cans and entrusted them
to a friend who was able to smuggle them to a Polish ac-
quaintance in a nearby village. Kaplan and his wife would
not live to see another Chanukah. They were deported
from Warsaw and gassed soon afterwards in the Treblinka
death camp.
The Polish villager eventually sold the diaries to New
York University. Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of
Chaim A. Kaplan was first published in English in 1965,
then subsequently in Kaplans beloved Hebrew and four
other languages.
Although Kaplan did not live to see his words in print,
the spirit of defiance he witnessed in the Chanukah cel-
ebrations of 1940 lives on in the diary that has become one
of the most important sources of eyewitness testimony
about the Holocaust.
JNS.org Wire Service
Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman
Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author or editor of 15 books
about Jewish history and the Holocaust.
Children in the Warsaw Ghetto. Photo courtesy of the
DaviD s. Wyman institute for holocaust stuDies.
Part of the wall surrounding the Warsaw Ghetto.
Photo courtesy of the DaviD s. Wyman institute for holocaust
stuDies.
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Spice up Chanukah
with new latke toppings
M
ollie Katzen an
award-winning
illustrator and
designer and a best-selling
cookbook author and pop-
ular public speaker is
back with a new round of
recipes for Chanukah.
With more than 6
million books in print, the
New York Times lists Katzen
as one of the best-selling
cookbook authors of all
time, and Health Magazine has named her as one of The
Five Women Who Changed the Way We Eat.
Here are some of her ideas for how to freshen up your
Chanukah table without intruding on your latke loyalties.
How about switching the toppings? You can always
have the usual applesauce and sour cream on hand, but
consider adding some intrigue and savory twists. Its
also a way to sneak in vegetables, herbs, nuts, and olive
oil. Add some lentil soup and a green salad, and your
Chanukah celebration will be colorful and compelling.
Chimichurri
Chimichurri is the national sauce of Argentina, and it
is also common in Honduras and other Latin American
countries. Its a complex green paste, similar to a pesto,
but containing a greater variety of herbs, and a tart taste
from the presence of vinegar. Chimichurri normally is
served with roasted or grilled meat or fish, but its deli-
cious on cooked potatoes and vegetables, pasta, grains,
and sandwiches. Its also a terrific dab of flavor for
latkeseither directly on top, or as a green dollop on the
sour cream.
It keeps for a week or two if stored in a tightly lidded
container in the refrigerator. Just use as needed, as you
would any condiment.
1 cup (packed) minced cilantro
1/4 cup (packed) minced parsley
1/4 cup minced scallions
1 tablespoon minced fresh oregano (or 1 teaspoon
dried oregano)
1 teaspoon minced or crushed garlic
Big pinch of cayenne
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Place the cilantro, parsley, scallions, and oregano in a
food processor, and mince very finely. add the garlic,
cayenne, vinegar, salt, and process to a paste, with the
food processor running until everything is fully incor-
porated. drizzle in the oil at the very end. transfer to a
tightly lidded container and refrigerate until use.
Yield: about 2/3 cup
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Chipotle Cream
Chipotle chilies are smoked dried jalapenos. They most
commonly come in cans, packed in a vinegar prepara-
tion called adobo sauce. A little bit of canned chipotles-
in-adobo goes a very long way, in terms both of its heat
and its powerful smoky essence. In this sauce, sour
cream and/or yogurt create a soothing, luxurious vehicle
for the chipotle flavor.
Serve this wherever it seems appropriate on any
egg dish, with beans, rice, cornmeal preparations, or
drizzled onto soups or on latkes.
1 cup sour cream or yogurt (or a combination)
1/2 to 1 teaspoon canned chipotle chilies, finely
minced
Place the sour cream and/or yogurt in a small bowl
and whisk until smooth. whisk in 1/2 teaspoon minced
chipotles, and let it sit for about 10 minutes, so the fla-
vor can develop. taste to see if it needs more chipotle
paste, and adjust, as desired. store in a tightly covered
container in the refrigerator. Bring to room tempera-
ture before serving.
Yield: 1 cup
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Red Pepper-Walnut Paste
Based on the Middle Eastern sauce called muhammar,
this delicious paste is simultaneously pungent, slightly
hot and sweet. I make it often and keep it around for
many uses: as a topping for pilafs and other cooked
grains, for spreading on pizza, toast, crackers, and sand-
wiches, and as a dip for cooked or raw vegetables.
I also love it on latkes.
This keeps well for at least a week if stored in an
airtight container in the refrigerator. In fact, the flavors
deepen over time.
For a California twist, you can use almonds in place
of the walnuts.
2 heaping cups lightly
toasted walnuts
2 to 3 medium cloves garlic
One 12-ounce jar roasted
red peppers, drained
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon honey or agave nectar
1 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
Black pepper and cayenne to taste
Place the walnuts and garlic cloves in a food proces-
sor and pulse until they are finely ground, but not yet
a paste. Cut the peppers into chunks, and add them to
the food processor, along with the vinegar, lemon juice,
cumin, and honey. Process to a fairly smooth paste,
then transfer to a bowl, and season with salt, pepper
and cayenne. Cover tightly and store in the refrigerator.
Yield: 3 to 4 cups
Preparation time: 10 minutes (after the peppers are
roasted)
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Pedestrian Plaza on Saturday, December 8th from 1-4pm.
In-Store Drop-off
Bring your donation to any of our participating stores until December 20th.
Over 25 Cedar Lane Merchants will be available to collect for the program.
Many of our merchants throughout the Cedar Lane
Business District are collecting for the U.S. Marines
Toys for Tots Program
A&S Comics
Amazing Savings
American Legion Post 128
Back in Touch Massage Therapy
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Castillo Salon
Coliseum Pizzeria
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H. Schmider Guild Opticians
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Jet Cleaners
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Louies Charcoal Pit
In the Pedestrian Plaza, come to the Annual
Maadan Potato Latke Eating Contest, Sunday, December 16th at 10am
and guess the correct amount of dreidels in the jar for a prize in
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Eight tips for an accessible Chanukah
NEWTON, Mass. Gateways: Access
to Jewish Education, a Boston-based
agency for Jewish special education, is
offering eight suggestions from experts
for a Chanukah celebration that is child
friendly and fully accessible for children
with special learning needs:
1. As Jewish parents and educators,
we place a lot of importance on stu-
dents learning how to say the Chanukah
blessings. However, the act of reciting a
blessing isnt as meaningful if a child is
simply repeating words in Hebrew that
have no meaning to them. Since students
with special needs are often strong visual
learners, adding symbols to the blessings
can help them to learn the meaning of the
Hebrew words and phrases. As an added
bonus, over the past few years many par-
ents of students with special needs have
told me that they had been reciting these
blessings all their lives without under-
standing what the words meant until they
looked at our visual blessings.
Rebecca Redner, teacher, Gateways
2. Did you know that the body learns
10 times faster than the brain and for-
gets 10 times more slowly? Here are some
ways to incorporate movement into your
Chanukah traditions, providing a fantas-
tic opportunity to incorporate practicing
fine and gross motor skills while having
fun: build menorahs out of Legos or Play
Doh; create a 2D menorah out of shaving
cream or finger paint, and cut strips of
paper to make a paper chain menorah (all
help with motor, visual and spatial plan-
ning). Depending on the material used,
they can also serve as a multisensory ex-
perience. And did you know that spinning
the dreidel helps improve finger move-
ment for a childs pencil grip?
Ilene Greenwald, occupational therapist
3. One menorah for each family is good
but one for each person in the family is
even better. When you have multiple chil-
dren and only one menorah, siblings may
feel left out or have a difficult time waiting
for their turn to light the candles. Having
a menorah for each member of the fam-
ily helps the kids feel more engaged and
invested in our traditions. Plus, it is an
opportunity to practice properly setting
up the candles and lighting them. For
very young children, you can buy or cre-
ate a fabric or paper menorah with Velcro
candles and flames.
Sherry Grossman, director, Community Special
Education Services, Gateways
4. Making and eating latkes is an inte-
gral part of Chanukah, and children with
an array of needs can participate in help-
ing to prepare them. The key is breaking
the process into easy, single-action steps
that match your childs abilities and
motor challenges. Do this by creating
step-by-step instructions using simple
language and pictures. Set up stations
one step per station with all the sup-
plies the child will need for that step. This
gives the child independence and a sense
of ownership and makes cooking with
your kids less stressful for you.
Arlene Remz, executive director, Gateways
5. Many children have difficulty with
transitions and waiting. Thats why it is
a good idea to separate gift giving from
lighting the menorah. I find that kids
just want to rush through lighting the
menorah to get to the gifts, making it less
special. Also, giving kids toys at night (es-
pecially on school nights when they wont
have time to play with them) can be chal-
lenging. In our house the gift can come at
any time during the day, depending on its
use: pajamas and books at bedtime; new
shoes or winter coats, scarves, etc., before
school; and toys after school so they have
time to play. When we light the menorah,
we have time to enjoy the process of set-
ting up the menorah, lighting it and play-
ing dreidel.
Nancy Mager, director,
Jewish Education Program, Gateways
6. Games are a great way to develop
social skills and practice taking turns.
Here are some great Chanukah gift ideas
that in addition to social skills also will
help develop executive function and
other critical skills:
Guesstures: One-word charades in
a fun format. Helps kids practice reading
and using body language to convey
messages.
Getta Letter: One-minute rounds
thinking of words in categories. Learning
to categorize is an important skill.
Guess Who? and Hedbanz: Children
guess their opponents person or object
by asking descriptive questions. Helps
kids use descriptive words and deductive
reasoning.
Rush Hour: The object is to move
cars out of the way so one car can exit the
board. This helps with motor and visual
planning.
Sharon Goldstein, director,
Day School Programs, Gateways
7. Before Chanukah, one of my
teachers has a discussion about Jewish
heroes in her class. You can easily do
this at home. The students identify eight
heroes who made an impression on
them; the teacher makes up a packet
with information about each one to
send home. The students then can read
about a different hero with their families
each night while lighting the candles.
The heroes they choose range from the
obvious to the unsung.
Ilene Beckman, director,
Rabbi Albert I. Gordon Religious School,
Temple Emanuel, Newton, Mass.
8. For children who love and learn
best through engaging technology, there
are some great Chanukah apps out there
for iPads and smartphones! My top
five favorites are 123 Color (iPad, free);
iChanukah (iPhone, 99 cents); Light My
Fire (iPad, free); DreidelTap (iPhone,
free); and Chai on Chanukah (iPhone, 99
cents).
Beth Crastnopol, director,
Professional Development Programs, Gateways
(Go to Gateways website, www.jgateways.org,
for Chanukah blessings with visuals, social
stories and more.)
Goldin said he finds the situation
frustrating. Jonah doesnt refuse
outright to remove the letter, he said.
Instead, they dont answer. Were looking
into legal action.
The letter preceded most of us who
are active in the RCA now, he continued.
It came at a time when Jonah was
new. It was being touted as a positive
development.
Members of the RCA no longer are
convinced that the development is
positive, as was made clear by an email
it sent in 2011 and posted on its website,
www.rabbis.org. On the subject of
reparative therapy, it is our view that, as
rabbis, we can neither endorse nor reject
any therapy or method that is intended
to assist those who are struggling with
same-sex attraction, it read, adding that
all therapy must be done by licensed,
trained practitioners, and only for willing
participants.
Any therapy has to have clear
safeguards and be done properly,
Goldin said. It cannot be abusive, or off
the charts in any way. If the therapy is
abusive, then it should be shut down.
We clearly heard reports about Jonah
that concern us, he continued. We are
looking for the truth to come out, and
until it does, we cannot and will not
recommend people to a therapy that is
under question.
That is not any kind of endorsement
of homosexuality, he added. The balance
between human compassion and
halachah Jewish law is a tightrope,
but it is necessary to walk it without
toppling.
We respect all endeavors to learn
what can be done to make people
happier, he said. At the same time, we
hold to our religious posture about what
behaviors are or are not acceptable within
the context of a religious life.
According to Jonahs co-director,
Arthur Goldberg, there is no reason to
take down the RCAs letter. His lawyer told
him that its a historical record, and there
is nothing wrong with keeping a historical
record, Goldberg said. As for the lawsuit,
basically we think its without merit. Its a
politically motivated event.
Well see them in court.
Goldberg, who is not a psychologist or
therapist and does not practice therapy
himself, said, we never use the words
aversion therapy. We use gender-
affirming process.
Its not abusive in any shape, matter,
or form, he continued. Instead, both
the lawsuit and the RCAs request that
its message be removed are motivated
differently. Its a political maneuver.
In fact, he suggested, all the attacks on
Jonah are fueled by political correctness.
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JERUSALEM A building plan for eastern
Jerusalem that stirred a furor when it was
approved during a visit by Vice President
Joe Biden has been resurrected.
On Dec. 17, the Jerusalem District
Planning and Construction Committee
will discuss the plan to build more than
1,600 apartments in the Ramat Shlomo
neighborhood, according to reports. The
Jerusalem municipality had approved
the plan in March 2010 during a visit by
Biden, causing a diplomatic uproar, after
which the project was frozen.
Israels interior minister gave his final
approval to the project in August 2011.
Discussion of the Ramat Shlomo proj-
ect was moved up as a way to punish the
Palestinians for the approval last week by
the United Nations General Assembly of
their enhanced statehood status, Haaretz
reported Monday.
It comes on the heels of the announce-
ment of plans to build 3,000 new hous-
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Jerusalem that has raised the hackles of
the United States, a number of European
countries and the United Nations.
Palestinian man killed by Shin Bet officer
after attacking Israeli soldiers with an ax
JERUSALEM A Palestinian man was
shot dead after crashing his car into an
Israeli army jeep in the west bank and at-
tacking the occupants with an ax.
The attacker reportedly shouted
Allahu Akbar, meaning God is great,
and injured two of the Israeli troops in the
jeep in Mondays attack before being shot
by a Shin Bet security officer who also was
riding in the jeep. The vehicle had over-
turned from the crash, Ynet reported.
The attack, which Israeli police are
considering as terrorist in nature, oc-
curred outside the Shavei Shomron
settlement near the Palestinian city of
Nablus.
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Settlers arrested in Hebron price tag attack
JERUSALEM Three residents of Jewish
west bank settlements were arrested on
suspicion of carrying out a price tag at-
tack near Hebron.
The men were arrested late Sunday
night after a car was set ablaze in the
Palestinian village of Dahariya. The words
price tag were spray-painted on a wall
near the arson attack.
Price tag refers to the strategy that
Jewish extremists have adopted to exact a
price in attacks on Palestinians and Arabs
in retribution for settlement freezes and
demolitions, or for Palestinian attacks on
Jews.
The alleged attackers, arrested near
the village, were caught with equipment
such as gloves, weapons, a flammable
liquid and spray-paint cans, according to
Ynet. The men, from Beit El, Kiryat Arba
and Yakir, have been linked to other price
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approximately 40 minutes. Cool and peel. Place them
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www.TENAFLYKIA.com
Wishes You A Happy Chanukah!
New Earth Landscape, Inc.
Design & Installation of Custom Landscapes
Association of Professional Landscape Designers, Associate Member
John L. Terranova
Landscape Designer
201-944-8895
Fax: 201-750-5058 Email: newearthjt@aol.com
Wishing
Everyone a
Bright, Happy,
and Peaceful
Chanukah
Creative Plantings
Ponds & Waterfalls
Paving Stone/Stone Retaining Walls
Landscape Lighting
Drainage Work/Irrigation Systems
Wishing
You a
Happy
Chanukah!
Anhalt Realty, Englewood
Bergen Veterinary Hospital, Teaneck
Carlyz Craze, Teaneck
Chai Ko Tapas, Teaneck
The Chateau, Rochelle Park
Chopstix, Teaneck
CMG Vending, Union City
Cross River Bank, Teaneck
Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee
Ginger N Cream/Ginger Kids, Westwood
Glenpointe Spa & Fitness, Teaneck
Hans Salon, Leonia
Hummus Elite, Englewood
Marcias Attic for Kids, Englewood
Rudys Restaurant, Hackensack
Schnitzel+, Teaneck
Spring Lake Day Camp, Ringwood
Bram Alster, DMD, PA
FAMILY & COSMETIC DENTISTRY
From our family to your
Wishing you a
Hapy Canukah
20-20 Fair Lawn Ave Fair Lawn 201-797-3044
(next to the Radburn Train Station)
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Teaneck, NJ 07666
201-862-3300
www.care-one.com/teaneck
A GLATT KOSHER
SENIOR RESIDENCE
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544 Teaneck Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
201-862-3300
www.care-one.com/teaneck
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CareOne at Teaneck Wishes the Community
A Wonderful Illuminated Holiday
From the Chilton family
to yours,
Happy Chanukah!
www.chiltonhealth.org
Happy Chanukah
to Our Friends and
Customers
Steve & Family
River Edge Diner
& Restaurant
516 Kinderkamack Rd River Edge, NJ
201-262-4976
Wishing You and
Yours a Happy,
Healthy & Joyous
Chanukah
Best Wishes,
Your Sheriff,
Mike Saudino
and Staff
Paid for by Saudino for Sheriff,
116 randolPh avenue, emerSon, nJ
PRIME STEAKHOUSE
1416 River Road, Edgewater, NJ 201-224-2013
41-11 Route 4 West, Fair Lawn, NJ 201-703-3500
209 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ 201-529-1111
www.riverpalm.com
Wishing you a Happy Chanukah
from all of us
at
Est. 1983
800-522-4100
valleynationalbank.com
2012 Valley National Bank. Member FDIC. Equal Opportunity Lender. VCS-4923
Hapy Chanukah!
from your friends at
Valley National Bank.
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A Senior Care Company
Trust In Our Care
With 30 centers throughout New Jersey, including
convenient Bergen County and Passaic County locations
www.care-one.com
Best Wishes
for a Chanukah
flled with
Joy and Light
132 Veterans Plaza, Dumont, New Jersey 201.384.7767
(Corner of West Madison Ave.) www.njdiningguide.com/ilmulino
Happy Chanukah
Oyster Bar & sea Grill
tel. 201-796-0546
www.OceanOsrestaurant.cOm
2-27 saddle river rOad
Fair lawn
Happy Chanukah
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238 Broadway Elmwood Park, NJ 201- 703- 9200
Happy
Chanukah
1055 Hamburg Turnpike
Wayne, NJ 07470
Barbara Kleiber
Ed Ponzini
Pharmacy 973-696-6667
Surgical 973-696-7337
Fax 973-872-0088
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Happy Chanukah
John Driscoll, Jr.
Bergen County Freeholder
from our family to yours
John, Holly, Sydney, Alec & Joey
Paid for by Friends of John Driscoll, 524 Otto Place, Paramus, NJ 07652
Sending
Warm Wishes
for a
Happy
Hanukkah
Law Offices Of
Jennifer M. MendeLsOhn, LLc
16-00 rt. 208 sO. suite LL-1
fair Lawn, nJ
201-796-7700
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
May You Enjoy
A Very Happy Chanukah
Matthew B. Libien, CFP
No Points
Quick Determinations
, SFR
Marketing Specialist
Zohar.Zamir@sothebysrealty.com
www.ZamirRealtor.com
Cell: 201-780-7884
W
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everyone a
H
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/zamirrealtor
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Game party will launch Teaneckopoly
In time for Chanukah, Teaneckopoly, the
game designed exclusively for Teaneck, is
back with a 10th anniversary edition. The
Monopoly-style game first appeared in
2003, featuring Teaneck businesses rather
than the Atlantic City streets of the original.
Games will available for sale throughout
Teaneck and online.
Among the organizations and busi-
nesses featured in the game are Holy Name
Hospital, Teaneck Chamber of Commerce,
Chopstix, Russo Realty, Carleyz Craze,
Alvins Pharmacy, and Cross River Bank.
The launch celebration will take place
Sunday, Dec. 9, from 3 to 6 p.m. at the
Teaneck General Store, 502 Cedar Lane. Be
the first to play the new game, meet those
who made it possible, and purchase the
game at a discount for you or for those on
your Chanukah list.
Aaron Klein and Bruce Prince pose with the Teaneckopoly game they designed.
Residents at Lester
Senior Housing enjoy
a Thanksgiving Day
feast at the senior
living community in
Whippany.
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NEW MILFORD
1134 KORFITSEN ROAD
Updated 4 BR/2BTH Colonial.
TEANECK
111 GRAYSON PLACE
Updated. Open oor plan.
TEANECK
193 VANDELINDA AVENUE
Exquisite Center Hall Colonial.
ENGLEWOOD $675,000
510 CUMBERLAND STREET
SUNDAY OPEN HOUSE, 12:30 -2:30
ENGLEWOOD
360 AUDUBON ROAD
Large updated Tudor Colonial.
TENAFLY $1,550,000
29 FARVIEW ROAD
Picturesque 0.97 acre.
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Each Miron Properties office is independently owned and operated.
Contact us for your complimentary consultation
We specialize in residential and commercial rentals and sales.
We will be happy to assist you with all your real estate needs.
Jeffrey Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
GREEPOINT
199 HURON ST, #5-A
2 BR Condo. Private roof deck.
TRIBECA $3,985,000
110 DUANE ST, #PH-3S
Posh Penthouse. Prime location.
CHELSEA
456 WEST 19TH ST, #45-C
1 BR/2 BTH Condo. Doorman bldg.
WILLIAMSBURG
34 NORTH 7TH ST, #2-D
Stylish luxury bldg. Heart of Brooklyn.
DUMBO
205 WATER ST, #2-J
Brand new construction. Sauna.
UPPER WEST SIDE
200 WEST 108TH ST, #2-B
Charming Co-op. Pre-war bldg.
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* While supplies last the week of December 9.
Mashgiach Temidi / Open 7:00 am Sunday through Friday Now closing Friday at 2:00 pm
1400 Queen Anne Rd Teaneck, NJ 201-837-8110
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Wesson Canola/
Vegetable Oil
48 oz
$4.29
Shibolim
Whole Grain Rice Chips
3.5 oz
2 for $5
Heckers Flour
Unbleached
5 lb.
$2.99
Fresh & Healthy
Sour Cream
15 oz
2 for $5
Mezonos Maven
Chanukah Cookies
8 oz.
$3.99
Tabatchnick
Chicken/Vegetable/
Beef Broth - 32 oz.
$2.29
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New Products This Week
Manischewitz
Chanukah Cookie
Decorating Kit
Manischewitz
Chanukah House
Decorating Kit
Our communitys
One Stop Super Shop
for all your kosher needs!
Your family at
Glatt Express Supermarket
and Lazy Bean Caf would like
to wish everyone a
Happy Chanukah!