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Israelis top at turkeys
Seasons gratings
Chanukah falls well after Thanksgiving this year, but that doesnt mean that
this years crop of Chanukah merchandise lacks turkeys.
Manischewitz, a long-time supplier
of Passover staples, has made its
move into marketing the Maccabee
celebration with a Do-It-Yourself
Chanukah House Vanilla Cookie
Decorating Kit.
Someone should tell the fine folks at
Bain Capital who bought Manischwitz
this year that Hanukat Habayit means
the dedication of the Temple, not any
house in general.
And then theres the Menorah Tree,
which debuted last year. According to
the Religious News Service, Michael
Patchen didnt want a Christmas tree in
his Jewish home, but his wife did. Thus:
the Menorah Tree.
The Menorah Tree does have its

defenders, among them Rabbi Brad
Hirschfield of Clal. He says that it
represents a real turning point in a
long line of objects which blend motifs
traditionally associated with either
Chanukah or Christmas.
Typically such Hanukkah-Christmas
blends have been attempts to squeeze
a bit of Jewish into something which is
obviously and primarily Christian. E.g.
the Chanukah Bush. Or the Chanukah
House.
The Menorah Tree is something quite
different. It proudly proclaims itself a
Jewish object onto which a bit of the
dominant cultures decorations may be
added, he wrote.
Maybe. But as traditionalists at heart,
well stick to our Star Wars Lego glowLARRY YUDELSON
stick menorah for now.
Heres one more reason for our diaspora inferiority complex. Despite our
calorie-intensive Thanksgiving celebrations last week, America trails Israel
when it comes to per capita turkey
consumption.
Official statistics proclaim that the
average Israeli eats about 28 pounds
of turkey per year, compared with the
16.7 pounds consumed by the average
American. Turkey represents a quarter
of Israels total meat production, and
the Jewish state is known for inventing
the deli meat called turkey pastrami
and the even less popular turkey-based
faux bacon.
Credit the lack of refrigeration
in Israels early, poorer days. Cows
needed room for grazing; chicken had
to be cooled. Turkey, because it is a

tougher meat than chicken, proved
to be a better choice for pastrami
production, so farms started raising
turkeys, Israeli turkey farmer Yaron
Glover told the Times of Israel.
Israelis got used to turkey, and
manufacturers got used to using it in
food production, so that even today
when most Israelis can afford meat
and chicken and have the refrigerator
and freezer space, turkey is still very
popular, Glover added.
We havent done the research, but
wed like to believe that at least we
have the Israelis beat when it comes to
the consumption of cranberry sauce.
And surely that counts for something.
LARRY YUDELSON
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CONTENTS
NOSHES ...................................................4
OPINION ................................................ 16
COVER STORY ....................................20
GALLERY .............................................. 38
KEEPING KOSHER.............................40
DEAR RABBI ....................................... 42
TORAH COMMENTARY ................... 43
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ....................44
ARTS & CULTURE .............................. 45
CALENDAR ..........................................46
OBITUARIES ........................................49
CLASSIFIEDS ......................................50
REAL ESTATE...................................... 52
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Noshes
Jacob does not care. One sister,

another sister, its all the same to him.
Anne Cohen and Sigal Samuel in the Forward, pre-capping Lifetimes miniseries
based on Anita Diamants The Red Tent.
MURRAY CHRISTMAS :
Stiller fills in
when Santa fails
I usually dont
mention any of
the veritable blizzard of
Christmas specials that
begin around Thanksgiving. But this one is different. How Murray Saved
Christmas is an animated special, with some
musical numbers, that
will be shown on NBC on
Friday, December 5, at 8
p.m. The special is from a
bestselling 2004 book of
the same name by MIKE
REISS, 54, a principal
writer for The Simpsons. Heres the official
plot description: When
Santas knocked out cold
by a Jack-in-the-Boxers
walloping punch, Jewish
deli owner Murray Kleiner (voiced by JERRY
STILLER, 87) reluctantly
agrees to take his place.
The suit doesnt fit, Murray smells a bit like pickles, and theres no way
he can remember the
names of all those reindeer. But with the help of
a pushy elf (Sean Hayes)
and an eager-to-believe
young boy, Murray finds
out that even though
hes not big enough to
fill Santas suit, hes got
more than enough heart
to get the job done.
Murray features JASON
ALEXANDER, 55, as the
voice of Doc Holiday.
This wryly amusing character is a physician who
treats famous holiday
icons, like Santa and the

Groundhog Day groundhog.
The Homesman,
a rare 19th-century western that focuses
on the often-difficult
lives of women living on
the frontier, opens on December 5. Directed and
co-written by Tommy
Lee Jones, the film stars
Hilary Swank as Mary
Cuddy, a former teacher
from New York State
who has done pretty well
financially in Nebraska.
But she is racked by
depression and no man
is interested in her because she is seen as ugly.
Then, three local women
suffer various traumas
that cause them to have
mental breakdowns and
Cuddy volunteers to
take them, by horse and
wagon, to Iowa, where
a local minister and
his wife (John Lithgow
and Meryl Streep) have
agreed to take them in
and help them. (One of
the women is played by
Streeps daughter, Grace
Gummer). During the difficult trip, Cuddy and the
women meet a low-down
drifter, George Biggs
(Jones). No more spoilers, except to mention
that HAILEE STEINFELD,
17 (True Grit), appears
near the end of the film
as a possible love interest for the much older
Mike Reiss
Jerry Stiller
Pauly Shore
Pauly Shore seriously?

Check this documentary
Jason Alexander
Hailee Steinfeld
Briggs.
Last October, Jay
Leno was given
the prestigious
Mark Twain Award for
his comedy career. Most
PBS stations showed the
ceremony last week. No
doubt, it will be repeated
several times in the next
year, and you also can
see it online. ROBERT
KLEIN, 72, worked in
some stand-up shtick as
he praised Leno. This bit
tickled me:
Jay will never retire.
Youll never see him in
Florida with an aluminum thing under his chin.
Anyway, I have a beef
with Florida. I sent two,
vital 65-year-old parents
to South Florida and 30
years later they were
dead! What the hell is

going on down there?
Anyway, I am feeling my
mortality. And I am a few
years older than you, Jay,
about seven or eight.
One thing I am hopeful
about. Jews bury quickly.
We dont fool around.
No wakes or anything
five showings like in
vaudeville. A Jew dies,
Zoom! Into the ground!
What the hell happened
to Irving? He was here
a second ago! I mean
theres no wasted time. A
Jew dies at noon Call
the relatives in Phoenix!
The funeral is at 2.
There could be some
Talmudic philosophic
reason. I dont know.
Maybe its get on with
life. Maybe lets remem-
Ive never been a fan of PAULY SHORE, 46. But the

fact that Showtime picked up a documentary about
him, Pauly Shore Stands Alone, intrigues me. Maybe
the serious side of Shore will be more interesting than
his comedy. The publicity release for the documentary,
which was directed by Shore, says: Tracks [him] as he
embarks on a stand-up tour across the Midwest while
grappling with aging, fading fame and his relationship
with his mother, Comedy Store founder MITZI SHORE,
84, who has Parkinsons. Unlike his 2003 directing debut
Pauly Shore Is Dead, the new documentary peels back
the curtain on the raw, more serious side of Shores life
on the road. (Premieres the evening of December 4.
Many encores)
N.B.
ber you as you were. To

tell you the truth, the
older I get, around my
relatives Im afraid to
take a nap lest I be buried prematurely.
PJB Premature Jewish Burial is a real epi-
demic thing in America.

As a matter of fact, 60
Minutes was going to
do a story on it. But
MIKE WALLACE died
and disappeared quickly.
Couldnt find him.
N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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Eran Riklis: A film odyssey
Top Israeli director to speak in Teaneck
LARRY YUDELSON
f you were to make a film about Eran Rikliss life

well, thats ridiculous. Youre not the filmmaker; he is.
But if you were going to do it anyway, you might
want to plan a shot of his passport. Or film him
passing through customs. Because crossing borders is
a recurring motif in this leading Israeli directors life and
filmography.
In his first big success, the 1991 film Cup Final, the border is with Lebanon. The film tells the story of an Israeli
soldier held captive there, who bonds with his captors over
the world soccer competition.
More recently, in 2004, The Syrian Bride, centers
around a planned wedding in a Druze community in the
Golan Heights that straddles the Israel-Syrian border. The
Human Resources Manager, released in 2010, traces the
story of a foreign worker killed in a Jerusalem terror bombing back to her Eastern European homeland. And his most
recently released film, Dancing Arabs, is a fictionalized
retelling of screenwriter Sayed Kashuas experience as an
Israeli Arab crossing the unwritten border into an Israeli
boarding school.
Mr. Riklis, 60, also left his home culture when he went to
high school. When he was a teen, his father, a scientist, was
stationed with the Israeli embassy in Brazil, and young Eran
attended an American high school there during the height
of the Vietnam war era.
Coming from a small country, post-Six Day War, I was
suddenly exposed to politics and internal turmoil and
everything that surrounded those years, from a very American perspective, for three years, he said. It gave me an
exposure to political and social changes I was not really
aware of before.
In the school itself, there was also an amazing literature
teacher to help launch him on a creative path. Mrs. Walter
taught us, for example, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
Suddenly my mind was almost blown away in this connection between reality and fiction and the way its actually told
in literature. I started feeling that what I wanted to do was
tell stories, he said.
Around the same time, his father gave him his first Super
8mm film camera, and he realized that he loved images and
wanted to tell stories and that he could put it all together
and become a filmmaker. At an early age I knew thats where
I was headed, he said.
Few would disagree that the late 1960s and early 70s was
a glorious time to be sitting in a movie theater. His favorite
film from that time: Five Easy Pieces. With Jack Nicholson giving this very strong performance. I was 16. Part of
being 16 is I felt this strong feeling that this story is my story.
Which you feel when youre very young and you almost
integrate yourself into the screen.
Two other films stand out for him from this period. One
was If, a surrealistic film about a violent revolution in a
British boarding school. The other: 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The imagination of these films really drew me in, he said.
Mr. Riklis returned to Israel with his family and then he
entered the army. The day after he was released from service in 1975, he enrolled in the Tel Aviv Universitys film
department. Then he decided to apply to perhaps the top
film school in the world, Britains National Film and Television School. Surprisingly they accepted me.
Eran Riklis is dedicated to making films of awareness.
He moved to London; nearly four more years being an

Israeli abroad. This period forged my career. I got all the
tools I needed, he said.
He also emerged with a focus. He wanted to make what
he calls films of awareness.
It was the late 1970s and then the early 80s. It was the
beginning of the conservative political era of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and the political backlash was the
stuff of punk rock, comic books, and, not least, film.
Films of awareness are not necessarily political, but
they include politics, Mr. Riklis said. They are films that
do not ignore their surroundings, that are social, political, psychological, philosophical. Films that dont live in
a bubble.
Especially in Israel, where the news is so intense,
theres a tendency for filmmakers to think that we need
to give the audience an escape. I was always against that.
I always try with varying degrees of success to integrate a film that has something to say with respecting the
audience sitting there with popcorn and spending two
enjoyable hours. Enjoying the film and walking out thinking about it thats my aim.
He said he feels a responsibility for telling good stories,
complicated stories, from the Middle East that are not afraid
to tell the truth, that give a wide and broad point of view of
the forces at play, and yet maintain a level of entertainment.
Im looking for material almost everywhere. Theres
always a link to reality. Not that its based on a true story,
but its inspired by true events I witnessed and became
aware of, he said.
Of all his films, only The Human Resources Manager

and Dancing Arabs are based on books. The Human
Resources Manager was adapted from a novel by A. B.
Yehoshua, A Woman in Jerusalem, but I made some
changes, he said.
In the novel, the boss of the eponymous character is a
man. I made it a woman, because of the relationship. It
needed to be a woman. Yehoshua actually loved it, and said
Why didnt I think of that. Fortunately, he loved the film. I
was glad about that.
Half of the film was shot in Romania.
It was interesting, he said.
Was it difficult?
It was and it wasnt. Im always surprised: Film industries around the world, despite cultural differences it
wasnt the most advanced country, you might say the
rules and codes are similar. If you choose the right people
Save the date

Who: Eran Riklis
When: Wednesday December 10, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Congregation Beth Sholom, 354
Maitland Ave., Teaneck
What: A dialogue between Mr. Riklis, who has
been making movies since 1975, and Jewish
Standard film critic Eric Goldman, featuring film
clips and an opportunity to learn more about
Israeli cinema and a changing Israeli society.
Admission: $10 per person
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to work with, which I did, it was enjoyable
and quite easy.
Emotionally it was easy. It was tough
physically. The film itself was not easy: It
was shot in the winter. It was a road movie
across Romania.
Dancing Arabs is based on a novel by
Mr. Kashua, creator of the hit Israeli television show Arab Labor, a comedy about
the difficulties of an Arab trying to assimilate into Jewish Israeli society.
The film and TV show are totally different, Mr. Riklis said. The only thing you
can say that is kind of similar is that it uses
humor as a way to neutralize whatever
resistance an audience might have. Dancing Arabs is much more profound than
Arab Labor. Arab Labor is a wonderful
situation comedy, very observant of an
Arabs situation in Israel. Dancing Arabs
is more a coming-of-age story that deals
with issues. A feature film is like a novel. A
television show is something much lighter,
even if it has serious undertones. That
said, if a certain person is a fan of Arab
Labor, you wont be disappointed.
The Israeli public and the Israeli film
industry has had a kind of love-hate relationship thats been going on for ages, he
said. In the 60s and 70s, Israeli films
drew in huge audiences. The county was
About 12 or 13 years ago, it started

changing, due to two reasons. One, there
was a kind of comeback in going to the cinema. Maybe because multiplexes started
opening across the country, which you
didnt have before. Generally speaking,
the films became better. There are good
examples of very big hits. Also, very big
flops. But I still hear people say, Were not
interested in an Israeli film; its too close to
what we read in the papers.
Outside Israel, Mr. Riklis said, he has
seen a growing interest in Israeli film,
especially in Europe. All my films in the
last 20 years had worldwide release and
did especially well in France and Germany,
but also in the States.
People looking for all these films can

find them. These kinds of films, what we
broadly call art house films, have a way of
reaching a wide audience somehow. Slowly,
but it works eventually.
I met a Pakistani student last week at the
University of Pennsylvania who is over here
from Pakistan, who was sent by her parents and is planning to go back. I said, Im
an Israeli film maker. She said, Did you
make Lemon Tree? Indeed he had made
the film, which won the Asia Pacific Screen
Award for best screenplay.
I took it out from the DVD library in
Lahore in Pakistan, she told him. Even if
it was an illegal DVD, it gave me a real good
feeling, Mr. Riklis said.
How to throw your own Eran Riklis film festival

A scene from from The Syrian Bride.
only four million people; you would have

a million tickets sold. There was a big
decline in the 80s, and then in the 90s
when commercial television started. People had options. Israeli cinema was going
through a crisis. I had an exception. In
1993 I made a film called Zohar that was
a huge success.
Want to explore the films of Eran Riklis? The collections of the Bergen County Cooperative
Library System has many copies of four of his films on DVD: The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree,
The Human Resources Manager, and this years Zaytoun. (The PALSPLUS system, which
serves Wayne and Pompton Lakes, has three of those it lacks The Syrian Bride but it
has a fifth, Cup Final.)
Mr. Riklis wouldnt admit to having a favorite among his films. Theyre all my kids, he said. I
love them in equal amounts. They all tell a good story.
But if youre only going to watch one film, I would possibly say The Syrian Bride. A lot of the
elements I dealt with before and after are sort of integrated in The Syrian Bride in terms of
stories, characters, issue-driven elements, and yet a very human approach. Its a good start. If
you ask for a second one, The Human Resources Manager. The third: Lemon Tree.
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Clergy takes on climate change

Shomrei Breishit calls environment a moral issue
LOIS GOLDRICH
n its founding mission statement a

resounding call to action members
of Shomrei Breishit declare that The
world is on fire and God is calling
upon us to act.
The crisis of climate change is not primarily a crisis of technology, political or economic policy. It is a moral crisis that demands
that we respond, say the signatories, including more than 90 cantors and rabbis.
Rabbi Lawrence Troster of Teaneck is the
groups founder. The moral crisis arises
from inequities between those who have
benefited most from carbon-based energy
and have the most abundant resources to
deal with the consequences versus those
who benefited the least, are least responsible, will suffer the most, and have the most
meager resources to deal with it, Rabbi
Troster said.
Although rabbis and cantors have not
been absent from the environmental
debate, Shomrei Breishit will focus its efforts
specifically on the issue of climate change.
Ive been thinking about it for quite a
while, Rabbi Troster said. Most Jewish
environmental organizations have not been
getting involved in this issue directly. There
is great work being done, but not much
around climate change.
He said that many Jewish groups participated in the Peoples Climate March, which
drew some 400,000 people to Manhattan
in September. Indeed, he said, more than
12,000 people marched under the banner
of a religious group. There was also a contingent of concerned grandparents.
Rabbi Troster, who describes himself as
an eco-theologian, environmental organizer, and activist, has been rabbinic
scholar-in-residence at GreenFaith since
2003. GreenFaith, according to its website,
greenfaith.org, works to inspire, educate,
and mobilize people of diverse religious
backgrounds for environmental leadership. Rabbi Troster helped to create the
organizations fellowship program, which
educates and trains clergy to become environmental leaders.
Rabbi Lawrence Troster
Rabbi Barry Schwartz
Rabbi Neal Borovitz
Rabbi Troster subsequently encouraged

GreenFaith and Aytzim (formerly the Green
Zionist Alliance) to co-sponsor a group
made up specifically of rabbis, cantors, and
seminary students interested in supporting
action on climate change and environmental justice. They did that group is Shomrei
Breishit.
Most of the Jewish environmental groups
are secular, run by laypeople, Rabbi Troster
said, and outreach to rabbis and cantors
really was not consistent. Im trying to create a religious voice, a Jewish religious voice,
on climate change and environmental justice. Its a moral issue.
We can use this group now to go to various interfaith environmental [forums] and
have a religious voice there, he added. We
can say we represent hundreds of rabbis.
Thats never been done before.
GreenFaith is international in scope,
Rabbi Troster said. Clergy who have signed
on with Shomrei Breishit represent four different countries the United States, England, Poland, and Israel as well as various
denominations, from Jewish Renewal to
Orthodox. More than 100 rabbis and cantors have become members, with more
than 90 signing the groups initial statement, in which they pledge to become carbon neutral in their own lives.
I wanted an initial group of about 50
who were interested in the project, he

said. I created a list of rabbis I knew who
were involved with GreenFaith and Aytzim
or with the environment. I sent out an initial proposal and got more than fifty rabbis,
nine of them from New Jersey, several from
the local area. We created a small group to
become the coordinating body, which created the statement.
Once the statement was framed, we put
it out to people who said they were interested. Some didnt sign it. They felt in sync
with it, but were unable to make the requisite commitment. The statement requires
both the individual signers and the organizations with which they are affiliated to
reduce their carbon footprint within the
next two years.
Most, however, did sign it.
Were not looking for perfection, Rabbi
Troster said. Were trying to create a process personally and within the community theyre part of to reach for the goal of
being carbon neutral in practice and in their
investments.
Barry Schwartz, rabbi of Congregation
Adas Emuno in Leonia, signed on to the
statement.
Genesis makes clear that as Gods partners, we are here to help take care of creation, Rabbi Schwartz said in an email.
The environment concerns us as global
citizens, as Americans, and as Jews...were

all in this together.
Pointing out that he was part of the
first Jewish environmental group, Shomrei Adamah, and has been involved in
COEJL (Coalition on the Environment
and Jewish Life), the Central Conference
of American Rabbis Environment Committee, and GreenFaith, Rabbi Schwartz
said Think globally; act locally.
Ive worked with my congregations
to understand the connection of Judaism and ecology, and diet and the environment; to conduct energy audits to
become more energy efficient; and to
conserve and recycle. Ive even tried to
enhance appreciation of the environment by leading nature trips, including
an exciting hiking/scuba diving trip offthe-beaten-track to Israel and Jordan.
Neal Borovitz, rabbi emeritus of Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge, said
that Shomrei Breishit will offer environmental education and training opportunities for Jewish leaders, and will represent a Jewish leadership presence within
larger environmental campaigns.
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The second reason I signed on to this effort is
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Therefore, in addition to the focus on environmental
challenges, I am hopeful that Shomrei Breishit will
offer another opportunity for cooperative work that
in and of itself will help us in our goal of better interfaith understanding.
Shomrei Breishit went public a few weeks ago
through Facebook and Twitter and hopes to get several hundred additional members and statementsigners by the spring.
Rabbi Troster said he has been driven to do this
for almost three decades, since identifying environmental concerns as a moral issue. The most
affected are the least responsible for it and have the
fewest resources to deal with it, he said. It resonates with Jewish ideas about justice.
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think anything would happen in my lifetime, he continued. Now I know that things are happening a lot
quicker and the impact is already being felt.
Rabbi Troster said that despite the inaction of the U.S.
Congress, a lot is going on at the local and state level.
He hopes that President Obamas recent agreement
with China will have a positive affect on negotiations
for a new climate treaty, to be signed in Paris in 2015.
Initial negotiations will take place in Lima, Peru, this
month. His group will partner with other organizations
to express the desire that a significant treaty emerge.
He also hopes that climate change will become a
major issue during the next presidential campaign.
People do care, he said, urging that presidential
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deep concern around the world. His own understanding of the issue was greatly enhanced when he attended
a conference at the U.N. where a former ambassador of
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It will have an impact on us as well, he said. We
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Its happening now and having a big impact.
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Going out of Egypt yes or no?

Scholar to examine the Exodus during study day in River Edge
of the national myth to
justify the break.
o the Exodus.
And that, of course,
Its one of our
means that if there was
founding stories,
a historical exodus and
the crucible in
Im not sure we can say
which the people of Israel
truly that there was the
took form. Right?
story went through many
After Moses and Aaron
generations of storytellers
showed Pharaoh, through
before someone finally
signs and wonders,
wrote it down.
Dr. Mark A. Leuchter
through the plagues, up
So wait. What does
until the devastation of
myth mean in this context? It is an idea that is at the heart of
the deaths of their first-borns, that God
our sense of identity, Dr. Leuchter said.
wanted them out of Egypt, the people
The Exodus is our number-one myth.
left. In one night they celebrated Pesach,
(And if we have any questions about
crossed the Red Sea, and began their
how central the story is, we should note
40-year journey through the wilderness
that director Ridley Scotts huge movie,
toward the land God promised to them.
starring Christian Bale, is set to open on
So is this a true story? What does true
December 12. It seems that the Exodus
mean in this context? And for that matter,
is having its cultural moment right now.)
what does story mean?
Myth does not mean misperception,
Did it really happen?
he continued, although it frequently is
No, it didnt except sort of yes, in a
used in that way. Here, it has to do with
way it did, Dr. Mark A. Leuchter said. Dr.
the way that a culture expresses its most
Leuchter, who will speak at Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge on December
deeply held beliefs; how it tells its stories. A myth need not be literally true
12, is an associate professor in the religion
to hold profound truth, and to tell the
department of Temple University in Philadelphia, who combines anthropology
truth.
and history in his work with texts.
The Exodus story is an example of
Within the Jewish tradition, we have
a cultural memory. How do cultures
two stories of origin, he said. One is
remember broad, sweeping events? Dr.
about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the
Leuchter asked. And how do they sustain them? They enshrine them in ritual,
other is that we all came out of Egypt.
in liturgies, and in history-writing. You
Both are vitally important, but the second one is even more crucial than the
arent necessarily enshrining exactly
first, because it is that second story that
what happened, but you are doing it in a
creates Israel as a nation. Our national
way that keeps it meaningful.
sensibility comes from that story.
Therefore, of course, the story changes
It also has meant different things to difover time.
ferent writers at different times, he conAt every seder, we say that every
tinued. So the canonical version thats
Jew is required to tell the story, saying,
the slightly different retellings in Exodus
When I came out of Egypt, he said.
might have been written considerably
Not they but I. I am 42 years old. My
later than the versions you might find in
mother said I started to talk when I was
various other songs and hymns.
about 1, so for more than 40 years I have
Most scholars think that the earliest
been saying When I came out of Egypt. I
stratum of the Exodus story which is
have never ever been to Egypt but I keep
difficult to identify but most scholars
saying it.
agree on this is an allegory about how
The point is that he is not lying when
the northern tribes broke away from the
he says those words, even if it is not the
Davidic kingdom after Solomon died.
literal truth. The Exodus is mythic.
Jeroboam, the first king of those tribes,
The idea that the Jews were enslaved
seems to have sponsored the rewriting
in Egypt, and that Moses led them out
JOANNE PALMER
Who: Dr. Mark Leuchter

What: Will be scholar in residence for the Lillian Vitello study day; his topic is
How we know the exodus happened, and how we know it didnt.
Where: At Temple Avodat Shalom, 385 Howland Ave., River Edge
When: Dr. Leuchter will speak at 7:30, at an Oneg Shabbat after Kabbalat
Shabbat services on Friday night, and again at 9 at a bagel brunch on
Shabbat morning before 10:30 services
For more information: Call (201) 489-2463, ext. 202.
Scenes from Cecil B. DeMilles 1956 epic, The Ten Commandments. Above,
Charleton Heston, as Moses, confronts Yul Brynners Pharaoh. Below, Moses
and his wife, called Sephora in the film, played by Yvonne DeCarlo, relax as
Mount Sinai smokes behind them.
that is the basis of Jewish national
identity.
The story is so old and so deep that
clearly it resonates with us. But it is not
necessarily history, he said. Our job, as
explorers of history, is to say which parts
might have been historical, and what led
us to develop this particular truth.
My talk is going to be about how there
is no historical evidence for the Exodus,
beyond what we read in the Hebrew
Bible. There is not a shred of evidence
that it happened.
But on the other hand, there has to
have been an exodus of some sort, or we
wouldnt have a tradition no matter
how mythical, no matter how symbolic
unless there was some sort of historical
event behind it. The text, though, does
not give us clear historical insight into
that event.
The argument is that something must
have happened. And yes, he said, the
reason stories take deep root in a cultures soul is because they hold truths.
But if we want to be historical and scientific and realistic, we must realize that
it is well-nigh impossible that Moses led
about 2 million people out of Egypt and

over the Red Sea overnight. That number, 2 million, comes from the 600,000
men between 20 and 60 who were
reported to have left Egypt. They are
likely to have been joined by a roughly
equal number of women and by children
and older men, and by the mixed multitude the text records. Thats not feasible
unless you believe in miracles and do not
live in a rational world, he said.
Biblical texts have layers, like onions,
Dr. Leuchter continued. If you are willing to unpeel them, you can see things in
them. If you look at them as the inerrant
word of God, you cannot do that.
That does not mean that he does not
know that many Jews and many Christians as well believe the Bible to be literally true. That is an approach he respects
without sharing. He thinks it is possible
to talk to members of the other group
despite that wide divide.
If you talk about it in a respectful way, if
you dont say, Youre an idiot if you believe
this, but say instead, This is an important
thing, lets look at it from their perspective, there can be conversation, he said.
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Masa-ing English in Israel

Local grads teach and learn from their enthusiastic students
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
hen Benjamin Winik of

Haworth finished his bachelors degree in political science at McGill University in
Montreal, he considered teaching English in
France for a year. Then he received an email
from Taglit-Birthright Israel hed participated in a free Birthright tour of Israel in 2010
informing him of the possibility of teaching
English in Israel through Masa Israel Teaching Fellows.
I liked how the program in Israel
sounded; they give you a lot more support,
said Mr. Winik, now 24. Moving to a foreign
country is never easy, so you need that support system.
His experience teaching fourth- to sixthgraders in Rishon LeZion in 2012 to 2013
made him so fond of living in Israel that he
opted to study for a masters in political science at Tel Aviv University the following
year. He now lives in Washington, D.C., but
his 22-year-old sister, Molly, has followed in
his footsteps as a teaching fellow in the same
Israeli school where he taught.
Masa Israel Teaching Fellows, a joint initiative of Israels Ministry of Education, Masa
Israel Journey, and the Jewish Agency for
Israel, is a 10-month service-learning fellow-
I think the
children were
excited to
come and learn
English, which is
very important
nowadays.
ship now in its fourth year. Fellows work as
teachers aides in underserved and overcrowded classrooms, aiming to improve
English learning outcomes for Israeli pupils.
Applications for the 2015-2016 school year are
due on December 15. (To apply, go to www.
israelteachingfellows.org.)
Since its inaugural session in 2011-2012, 535
Jewish young adults from the United States,
Canada, England, and Australia have become
Masa Israel Teaching Fellows. The program
serves schools in Ashdod, Beer Sheva,
Netanya, Petach Tikvah, Rishon Lezion,
Rehovot, Ramle, and Lod. Next year, it will
expand to include some Israeli youth villages
for immigrant and at-risk youth.
The benefits of the program go both
ways, Mr. Winik said. I really developed a
strong connection with Israel and Israelis.
Benjamin Winik is flanked by two of

his students.
Molly Winik at the base of Masada.

Thats an ibex behind her. MICHAEL WINIK
Perrin Bernard at the Ramle market.
My family is not that religious, so it was nice

to go to where everyone was Jewish and you
have all the Jewish holidays off. Youre just
surrounded by a Jewish community.
Mr. Winik is not a professional teacher.
He and the other fellows in his cohort went
through an intensive 10 days of training
at Talpiot College of Education in nearby
Holon before starting their assignments,
and met once a month there throughout
the year.
Youre partnered with someone from
your program at each school, so it makes
things a lot easier, he said. You have a host
teacher to help you with questions and lesson planning, and a pedagogic adviser affiliated with Talpiot College.
I think the children were excited to come
and learn English, which is very important
nowadays. English-speakers dont realize
how difficult a language it is to learn.
English-language instruction in Israel
starts in third grade, but its not always
effective. Israeli classrooms can be hectic and crowded, as Mr. Winik put it, and
only about a quarter of English teachers are
native English-speakers.
We would take smaller pullout groups,
anywhere from four to 12 children, and that
made our jobs easier in terms of classroom
management, he said. You just had to
be flexible and adaptable, because things
never really go according to plan and every
day is different. If you dont have these qualities going in, the program is great for helping you develop them.
His sister Molly blogs about her experiences in Rishon LeZion at http://mydiaryabroad.wordpress.com/. In one post, she
shared a photo of a note given to her by a
fifth-grade boy, inscribed mali you butifal Noor and decorated with a bunch
of hearts.
She and her co-teacher recently asked

each of their fifth-graders to create a poster
showing his or her favorite color, book,
food, video game, and so on. I paired up
with two boys in the class to help them with
their posters. Both were fairly weak so the
class consisted of them drawing pictures of
things they liked. TV, iPhone, XBox, and
soccer were most popular. I would then
help them spell the sentences, I like . It
was cool because towards the end of the
period the boys stopped looking at the
board to see how to spell I like and instead
could do it from memory. Even though its a
simple sentence I took it as a victory.
Like her brother, Ms. Winik has decided
to remain in Israel next year to pursue a
masters degree in political science and
political communication from Tel Aviv University, which has an international program
for English-speakers.
I want to stay because I really love the
people and the culture here and obviously the food, she said. Its a hard choice
because I do miss my family and my English
bulldog, Bubba, but Im really happy here
and feel independent for one of the first
times in my life.
Perrin Bernard of Teaneck, 23, was a
Masa Israel teaching fellow during the 20132014 school year, following her graduation from Bates College in Maine. She lived
in Ramle with other fellows and taught in
nearby Lod, the ethnically diverse workingclass city where Ben-Gurion International
Airport is located.
I was an education minor and I thought
maybe Id like teaching, and this would be
a fun way to travel and figure out if this is
what I wanted to continue doing, said Ms.
Bernard, who describes herself as secular to Reform, depending on what country
Im in.
She had thought about applying for Birthright, but when she came across Masa Israel
Teaching Fellows online, she decided that
teaching abroad would provide a better
introduction to Israel. She said that of the
12 fellows in her group, only two had not
been on Birthright.
Ramle was a really cool place to be
because its a peek into all of Israel, she
said. You have Jews and Muslims, Christian
Arabs, Ethiopians, Russians; the whole pot
of people. It exposed me to everything, the
good and the bad, and an array of cultures.
In addition to her public school assignment, she sometimes tutored high school
students and helped run adult English
classes.
The experience broadened my horizons.
I met some of the most wonderful people
and others I would not want to be friends
with, she reported.
Her knowledge of Hebrew was limited
to the alphabet learned long ago in Sunday school, but Masa provides an ulpan
(Hebrew conversation class) to teaching fellows twice a week, and she learned to carry
on basic conversations.
She is left with a fondness toward Israel
but no interest in staying on, as some of her
peers did. Its a wonderful and unique
place in the world. I have a deep respect for
it but a deep confusion at the same time,
she said.
Mr. Winik says hed tell anyone considering the program to go ahead and apply. You
should definitely do it; step outside your comfort zone and get more connected with Israel
and Israelis, he said. Only in your 20s can
you put everything on hold and take advantage of an opportunity like this.
For more information, call Allison Green
at Masa Israel Journey at (212) 339-6976 or
email her at allisong@masaisrael.org.
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Controversial Teaneck rabbi agrees to allow another set of eyes to check his blog posts
JOANNE PALMER
uring the last few weeks, as we

have chronicled in the newspaper, Rabbi Steven Pruzanskys
blog comments first on Rabbi
Barry Freundels mikvah-peeking scandal,
then about the Jewish Week and its possible resemblance to the Nazi propaganda
sheet Der Sturmer, and most recently on
responses to terrorism in the wake of the
Har Nof nightmare have drawn both outrage and approval from readers.
Because they are strongly written and
Rabbi Pruzanskys deeply held opinions are
highly controversial, they evoke strong reactions from a wide range of people.
Last week, the Orthodox Union to which
Rabbi Pruzanskys Teaneck synagogue, Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, belongs put out
a press release headlined Orthodox Union
Rejects Incendiary Rhetoric. It does not
mention Rabbi Pruzansky or anyone else
by name, but after deploring the bloody

Har Nof massacre and supporting forceful
measures in response, it deplores what seem
to be his suggestions.
We cannot countenance a response to
terror that resorts to wholesale demonization, advocates for the collective punishment of Israeli Arabs, or calls for the destruction or dismantling of Muslim holy places,
the statement reads. Such rhetoric is anathema to the Jewish religious tradition and has
no place in civil society. Such rhetoric is
wrong and must be repudiated, whether it is
voiced by lay leaders, community leaders or
rabbis. Such calls to action do not enhance
the security of the State of Israel or enable
Israels security forces to fulfill their difficult
responsibilities.
At the statements end, it adds that
although the OU urges community members
to speak out against terrorism and in support of Israel, it must be done in a responsible fashion.
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In response to his critics, Rabbi Pruzansky has said all along that he had been
misunderstood, and his intent twisted. He
is not advocating collective punishment,
he said; he is in fact advocating nothing
that the liberal attorney Alan Dershowitz
did not suggest years ago.
On Saturday night, he spoke on Zev
Brenners radio program, Talkline.
Asked about the OUs statement, he
said: There is a lot of Kabuki and a lot of
politics going on. I think also there is the
domestic situation that has to be tended
to. Every shul has enhanced security for
several years and that played into their
decision, but it is strange. Both organizations here Rabbi Pruzansky is
referring to the OU and the Rabbinical
Council of America, which represents
Orthodox rabbis have had a lot of situations over the years, with people acting in vile ways that they did not seem fit
to condemn. They have had that issue in
the RCA for years, so it is surprising.
There is tremendous support for
what I wrote when it is properly understood in the RCA.
Still, Rabbi Pruzansky and the board
of his shul have decided that it would be
wise for him to be more aware of possible reactions to his blog posts before
he puts them up.
As many have noticed, I have a penchant for writing, and occasionally writing provocatively, Rabbi Pruzansky
wrote in a statement to his congregants.
I do regret that, in the aftermath of the
horrific massacre in Har Nof, I wrote
in a manner that many deemed harsh,
although that was not my intention.
After acknowledging his awareness that
there is not universal agreement with
his position among members of his shul,
and that his effectiveness in presenting
that position is weakened when he uses
language that many find confrontational rather than illuminating, he told
his readers that he knew that his writing
had suffered over the years because he
had not worked with an editor. All writers need another set of eyes or two in
order to ensure that errors are avoided
and rhetoric that distracts is eschewed,
he wrote.
Therefore, I have agreed (upon recommendation of the shul leadership) to
form a panel of people that I trust will
review my writings not to censor the
ideas, but to make certain, when necessary, that they are conveyed in slightlyless colorful ways.
Then, reverting to a trope that he uses
often, Rabbi Pruzansky wrote, It is clear
that there are members of the media
who do not like me and routinely pick
apart my words and place them in the
worst possible light. Editors will make

that much harder to do.
In its statement, Bnai Yeshuruns
board makes clear that the public writings of Rabbi Pruzansky are his personal
thoughts, views and opinions and not
those of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun,
its Executive Board, Board of Directors
or members.
The Executive Board met with the
Rabbi earlier this week and has been in
communications virtually non-stop since
last week. We fully appreciate the gravity of the situation for our shul and the
extended community, it continued. The
rabbi will work with editors; moreover,
the executive board will review the
results of this new process periodically
to ensure that it is effective.
In an email to the Jewish Standard,
Rabbi Pruzansky elaborated on using
editors. The key point about the editors is they do not constitute a panel, or
a board, and are NOT part of the shul,
I do regret that,
in the aftermath
of the horrific
massacre in Har
Nof, I wrote in
a manner that
many deemed
harsh, although
that was not
my intention.
he wrote. If they were, that would make
the shul responsible for what I wrote or
say outside the framework of the shul,
and that would pose upon me the limitations that come from the shuls tax
exempt status.
That is why it is separate, unofficial,
and, for the most part, my idea.
Both the rabbis and the boards statements touch on security issues. The
boards statement mentions that the
shul is aware of security issues, has discussed them with local and national
experts, and is working with Teanecks
police department, which has enhanced
its patrols to ensure the shuls safety. The
implication is that there is some connection between Rabbi Pruzanskys blog
and the enhanced security measures,
although that connection is not made
explicit. There is no cause for alarm,
the shuls statement asserts.
Local
Members of
the JFSNJ
Honorary
Board were
recognized for
their longtime
commitment.
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PERRY BINDELGLASS
Norman
Blumenthal
Etan Bluman
Lianne and Etiel Forman
TABC announces dinner honorees
JFSNJ marks 70 years

with evening of awards
Torah Academy of Bergen County will

hold its 32nd annual dinner on January 4 at Congregation Keter Torah in
Teaneck. Lianne and Etiel Forman are
guests of honor, Norman Blumenthal
will receive the schools Service award,
and Etan Bluman is the Alumni Service
award-winner.
The Formans have a long history of
service to TABC. Etiel Forman sat on
the board, served as president, and
now is a member of the executive
board. Lianne chaired the annual dinner and has been involved in a variety
of school functions and initiatives.
Mr. Blumenthal joined the staff at
TABC eight years ago as the JV hockey
coach and is the schools baseball coach
as well. He has led the hockey team to
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey, a provider of

mental health services in Bergen and Passaic counties, recently celebrated its 70th anniversary at a
gala at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel.
David Goodman received the Community
Leadership award from JFSNJ past president
Paula Shaiman. Daughters of Miriam/The
Gallen Institute of Clifton was honored with
the Community Partner award.
Joan Silna, Susan

Bromberg, and
Sue Romanoff
prepare dishes
using Susie
Fishbeins
recipes.
Cookbook chef at sisterhood benefit

Famous kosher cookbook chef Susie
Fishbein recently held a kosher cooking
class at a private home for more than 60
members of the sisterhood of Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley.

Ms. Fishbein whipped up an appetizer, side dish, and main course for
Thanksgiving. A book signing followed.
Yavneh teacher selected for fellowship

Shirley Gantz of Yavneh
from experts in education and
Academy has been selected
with peers from around the
from a competitive applicountry. The learning takes
cant pool to participate
place online and at three in-person conferences.
in the Legacy Heritage
Ms. Gantz just participated
Y U Te a c h Fe l l o w s h i p ,
in the YU School Partnerships
Yeshiva Universitys school
Critical Friends Group Conferpartnerships yearlong professional development proShirley Gantz
ence, networking with 160 edugram for passionate, succators and school leaders.
cessful Judaic studies teachers.
The YUTeach Fellowship is funded
This years cohort of 15 teachers will
by the Legacy Heritage Foundation.
spend the year immersed in courses to
Go to www.yuschoolpartnership.org/
sharpen their classroom skills, learning
YU-Teach.
six straight championships. He is also

known in the Teaneck community
through his role in the Teaneck Baseball Organization.
Etan Bluman, TABC class of 2006,
was active at TABC, serving as the first
editor-in-chief of the Israel Report and
as managing editor of Kol Torah. He
also was a senior mentor and co-captain of both the JV and varsity basketball teams. During his years at Yeshiva
University, he was an assistant coach
of the TABC JV basketball team, part
of the Friday morning Kollel Program,
and served on the inaugural board of
the Alumni Association. He also serves
as a gabbai at Shomrei Torah in Fair
Lawn. For information on the dinner,
go to www.tabc.org/dinner.
Yeshivat Noam wins

debate competition
Yeshivat Noam in Paramus hosted a debate against
Kushner Academy, the Yeshiva of Central Queens,
and North Shore Hebrew Academy last month.
The debate topic focused on how the U.S. is confronting ISIS. Yeshivat Noam won several key
awards, including top speaker, Noa Berkowitz, and
top team, Noa Berkowitz and Jacob Lerer. Both are
eighth graders.
The team is coached by Rabbi Jeremy Hellman.
Uri Yifrach, father

of slain Israeli
teen, visits JEC
Uri Yifrach, whose teenage son Eyal
was kidnapped and murdered last summer, along with Gilad Shaer and Naftali
Fraenkel, spoke to students at the Jewish Educational Center in Elizabeths
Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy middle and
high school division.
Mr. Yifrach visited RTMA as part of his
U.S. tour to share his message of faith
and unity among the Jewish people and
to raise funds for an aron kodesh (Torah
ark) to be built in memory of his son.
Editorial
Putting on the flicks
n 1982, Meir Fenigstein, a

drummer for the popular
Israeli rock group Kaveret
who had decamped to Los
Angeles, founded the Israel Film
Festival.
Back then, putting on a film
festival meant actually sending
film canisters around the world.
No surprise, then, that when
Mr. Fenigstein expanded the festival to New York, it became a
go-to event.
More recently, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
has sponsored Israel film festivals, with screenings at area
JCCs and synagogues. No need to
cross the Hudson for your fix of
KEEPING THE FAITH
subtitled Hebrew culture. (You

can mark March 7-22 on your
2015 calendar.)
In 2014, though, cinema no
longer requires more than a
mile of 35 millimeter film to project onto the silver screen. DVDs
and digital streaming dont just
reduce shipping fees for festival organizers; they also mean
that we can watch Israeli film at
home, on our schedule.
Israeli films are as close to us
as our television set, our online
video supplier, and our local
library system, as we note in the
sidebar to our page 6 interview
with Israeli director Eran Riklis.
True, movies are no longer,
strictly speaking, film; our local

movie houses all have gone digital. But movies, whatever the
delivery mechanism, remain in
spirit a ribbon of dreams, to
use Orson Welles phrase. And
most importantly, as Mr. Welles
went on to note, it is a medium
via which messages reach us
from another world that is not
ours, and that brings us to the
heart of a great secret.
In the case of Israeli cinema,
that other world and its great
secret is that of our cousins in
Israel; by taking advantage of the
opportunity to watch their films,
their world can become ours.

LY
The shortest Shabbat of the year
ts almost the shortest day

of the year, and today and
again next Friday will see
the earliest Shabbatot this
season.
These are the days of crisp,
thin, colorless, almost unbearably clear light, with shadows so
sharp that you could cut yourself
on them. These are the midafternoons when the sunset is purest
gold, even coming through your
never-quite-clean-enough windowpanes, setting your walls on
fire. These are the nights when
the stars are so bright and there
seem to be so many of them that
even here, so close to the citys
competing lights, you could cry
from their wild beauty.
These are the days when the
winds toss tree branches and
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that you know will grow longer
so very soon.
This year, Chanukah, which
will start on the evening of
Wednesday, December 16, comes
right after the earliest Shabbat
and just before the winter solstice on December 21. The candles we light dont do much to
fight the darkness, but they are
a precursor to the light that will
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long after sundown that the candles have burned down and erev
Shabbat and Friday seem barely
related to each other. But then
Shabbat ends so early that there
is a whole evening, regained.
And as soon as you get used to
a new rhythm, it switches again.
It is glorious to know that sunlight and warmth are coming
back, but there also is something so comforting in spending
long cold nights cuddling inside
that perversely enough, there is
some regret in giving them up.
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matter what we have, we both
long to keep it and yearn to give
it up?
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Chanukahfor the
right reason
ith sleigh bells ringing from far and near, Chanukah once again is beginning to look a lot
like Christmas and almost no one seems to
think there is anything wrong with that.
Well, there is a lot wrong with that.
Jewish law tops the list. There is a whole class of laws and
regulations usually referred to as chukat hagoyim, or laws
and customs of the nations (meaning every nation but our own).
The Talmud refers to it as darchei
haemori, the way of the Amorites.
(See the Babylonian Talmud tractate Shabbat 67a and b for some
interesting examples.) In brief,
chukat goyim that are idolatrous
in nature, or are based on pagan
superstition rooted in belief, are
Shammai
forbidden.
Engelmayer
Chanukah was always meant as
a home-bound observance; the
only outward sign of its celebration is placing the chanukiah outside the front door or in a
front window.
Chanukah also always was meant as a minor observance.
Christmas, on the other hand, is one of Christianitys two
big holidays, and has profound meaning for Christians.
Judaism has its profound days. Pesach celebrates the birth
of freedom into the world, as well as the miraculous Exodus from Egypt. Shavuot, our birthday as Gods kingdom of
priests, marks the singular moment in human history when
God spoke to an entire people, not just to one lonely person.
Sukkot celebrates both Gods sheltering presence over us,
and the natural world He created. (Seriously, can someone
tell me of a greater miracle than the survival of the Jewish
people against all odds? If that is not Gods sheltering presence, there is no such thing.) Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are semi-solemn days of inner reflection.
There is little about Chanukah, however, that is profound
in any way. Yet more Jews will celebrate it than any other
Jewish observance.
They will do sowe all will do sofor the wrong reasons.
Chanukah, as I have noted in the past, is probably the
most myth-begotten festival of the Jewish year, starting with
the cruse of oil, and ending with the war being an all-out
battle against Hellenism. That it exists at all testifies to the
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minor festivals popularity with the people, rather
than any religious significance.
Chanukah is not mentioned anywhere in the Tanach,
yet both 1 and 2 Maccabees, which deal directly with
the events and personalities of Chanukah, were available for inclusion. The full biblical canon was still being
debated 200 years after the events of Chanukah, but
there is no record of anyone even raising the issue of
whether to include either or both books. On the other
hand, there were debates over the Book of Esther and
the Song of Songs.
The Mishnah the product of the sages of the first
and second centuries C.E. says virtually nothing
about Chanukah. The Babylonian Gmara that follows it
(200 to 600 C.E.) has more to say about Chanukah, but
little of what it says goes beyond establishing its rituals.
Chanukah does not celebrate the miracle of a cruse
of oil that burned for seven days longer than it should
have. If such an extraordinary event happened, it
would have had a prominent place in the contemporary
account of the revolt found in 1 Maccabees. The book
knows nothing of such a miracle. Josephus, in Antiquities 12.7.6-7 316-325, knows it only as the Festival of
Lights, but admits he does not know why it was called
that. Later rabbinic sources, needing to justify the celebration, suggested different versions of a miracle;
the cruse of oil was just the most popular.
Then there were the supposed heroes, the Hasmoneans. They re-established the kingdom and sat on its
throne, but they had no right to either.
One of them, John Hyrcanus, violated a basic principle of Jewish law by forcing an entire population of
Idumeans to convert to Judaism.
His son, the King-Priest Alexander Jannaeus (his
Greek names speaks volumes about how anti-Hellenistic this revolt was not), showed such disdain for the
people that a civil war resulted. During it, he ordered
the crucifixion of 800 of the early class of sages, and
then had their families slaughtered in front of them as
they died slowly on their crosses.
Later, a battle over succession led one Hasmonean
prince to open the gates of Jerusalem secretly to Pompey, putting Judea in Roman hands.
Yet Chanukah today does have a purpose, and even a
need for a public presence.
Chanukah represents the birth of freedom of religion,
the right of people to worship as they choose. That is
something desperately worth celebrating in our world.
Buddhists and Muslims are battling it out in Southern Thailand. Buddhists and Christians are at war in
Uganda. Wahabi and Sufi Muslims are killing each other
in Somalia, while Sunni and Shiite are doing the same
throughout the Middle East. Hindus, Muslims, and
Sikhs break out in their own battles in India. A tense
peace between Christians and Muslims requires peacekeepers to maintain.
Churches, mosques, and synagogues are subjected to
attacks all over the world.
Freedom of religion is under attack in America by the
radical Christian right, who would turn this into a Christian nation in law as well as in fact. In some ways, the
rigidly religious Jewish right in Israel seeks to control
religious life there.
Chanukah does not come close to Pesach, Shavuot,
or Sukkot in meaning or significance, and does not
deserve to be treated as if it does.
Chanukah does deserve to be celebrated, however,
not for what it is not the Festival of Light but for
what it truly is: The Festival of Right.
May the light of the chanukiah spread from our
homes, to our streets, to our nation, to our world.
Now that would be a great miracle indeed.
From Thanksgiving to Chanukah
ith the celebration of Thanksgiving still fresh

encountered, but that ideal has proved to be elusive in practice. Chanukahs rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem and
in our memories, and quite possibly our
independence in ancient Judea was associated with civil war
waistlines, and Chanukah a little more than
among our people, and the theocratic rule of the Hasmonean
a week away, we might recall last years rare,
dynasty.
indeed almost impossible confluence of the two holidays.
What is most important, however, is that both ThanksgivRemember how the event was met with a bit of bemusement, resulting in the neologism Thanksgivukkah, in images
ing and Chanukah are celebrations of survival against overwhelming odds. Both represent a message of hope that is
of turkeys with tails that turned into Chanukah menorahs, and
always welcome.
meals that combined stuffing and cranberry sauce with latkes
Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national
and sufganiyot?
holiday in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War. That same
At first glance, it might be tempting to say that this year
Civil War inspired a 14-year-old Jewish girl to start writing
Chanukah has been restored to its rightful place in the secular calendar, ending as it does on Christmas Eve. But Christpoetry. That was Emma Lazarus, a native New Yorker and a
mas is one of the two most important holidays
true American. Her father was Sephardic, her
on the Christian calendar and, in all honesty,
mother Ashkenazic of German descent, with
our minor holiday does not work all that well
ancestry in New York on both sides of her family, dating back to the American Revolution.
as the Jewish alternative to Christmas. As much
Lazarus grew up to become one of the great
as Chanukah is our Festival of Lights, it pales in
American poets of the 19th century, maintaincomparison with the religious celebration of
ing a literary friendship with Ralph Waldo
the birth of the Christian savior through divine
Emerson. She died in 1887, at age 38.
incarnation. Neither can we offer an equivalent
She composed her best known work, The
to the iconography of Christmas trees, sleighs,
New Colossus, in 1883. It was not until well
stockings, and jolly old Saint Nicholas, better
Dr. Lance
after her death that the poem was engraved in
known as Santa Claus.
Strate
bronze and mounted on the State of Libertys
And can we really take pride in the fact that
pedestal. Most of us are familiar with the final
Chanukah has been incorporated into the secular Holiday Season, which has become an
fives lines of the poem, but the sonnet is worth
enormous celebration of materialism and an orgy of conrepeating in its entirety:
sumption, beginning with Black Friday, now pushed back into
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
Thanksgiving itself, followed by Small Business Saturday and
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Cyber Monday? Or that the one favorable comparison that we
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
can make is that we get seven nights of presents instead of
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
just one?
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Dont get me wrong. I love Chanukah, and I fully recognize
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
and understand the challenges that we face in growing up JewGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
ish and raising our children as Jews in America. I bring up the
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
problematic nature of Chanukahs association with Christmas
Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries she
simply to underline the fact that last year, more than a few
With silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor,
people commented that Chanukah actually fits better with
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
Thanksgiving. After all, Thanksgiving is a harvest holiday and
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Chanukah originated as a delayed celebration of the Jewish
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
harvest festival of Sukkot. Thanksgiving incorporates a modI lift my lamp beside the golden door!
est amount of nonsectarian spirituality and Chanukah is at
Although she was particularly concerned with the treatment of Jewish immigrants flooding in from Russia and eastbest a minor religious holiday; both are occasions for families
ern Europe during the late 19th century, Lazarus was able to
to gather at home, rather than in a house of worship.
universalize that experience to cover the immigration in genThanksgiving is a distinctly American holiday, a ritual of
eral, and to emphasize the establishment of the United States
national unity, albeit muted in contrast to the Fourth of July.
as a refuge for freedom and a nation of immigrants, truly a
Chanukah is a celebration of a successful national revolt
cause for thanksgiving. We might note the subtle incorporaagainst the Seleucid Empire, a small celebration of freedom
tion of Jewish motifs in this poem, notably the reference to
in contrast to the Passover commemoration of the Exodus.
immigrants as exiles, the use of the torch and the lamp, perIndeed, insofar as it began as the celebration of a military victory, Chanukah might well be compared to the Mexican holihaps the similarity between the mighty woman and the bibday Cinco de Mayo. Although many non-Mexicans mistake
lical judge, Deborah, and certainly the comparison with the
Cinco de Mayo for Mexicos Independence Day, which falls on
Greek Colossus of Rhodes, an implied contrast between the
the September 15, the Fifth of May merely commemorates the
Hellenic and the Hebraic (which also is a main source of conflict associated with Chanukah).
Mexican victory over the invading French army of Napoleon
Around the same time that she wrote The New Colossus,
III in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. (By 1864, however, the Mexicans had lost the war, and Emperor Maximilian I was installed
Lazarus also wrote another poem, 1492, that has a similar
as their monarch. He ruled until 1867, when the Mexicans,
but more overtly Jewish theme. 1492 contrasts the tragedy
aided by the United States, ousted the French.)
of the expulsion from Spain with the hope spawned by the
Even more than Cinco de Mayo, Thanksgiving and Chadiscovery of the New World as a home for the exiled:
nukah have been somewhat tainted by subsequent events.
Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate,
Thanksgiving presents us with the ideal of co-existence
Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword,
between the English colonists and the Native Americans they
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That dirty word merger and

building a shared Jewish future
Arguing with the survey
here are certain words that get the blood pressure

worship and social gatherings so that our people will recognize our buildings as places that offer meaning. The message
high at synagogue board meetings.
should not be what distinguishes X Jewish Center from Y JewDues increase is always a dangerous phrase
ish Center, but rather what distinguishes a Jewish center from
to throw around. Nominations can be a charged
other centers of meaning.
term, depending on where that process is leading. The very
3. We need to conceive of merging and shared services as
word process can be a signpost toward tense conversations
a mark of success rather than failure. The usual view on
to come. And then there is always the highly charged phrase
a synagogue board is that that dirty word merger should
rabbis contract.
be kept aside until all else has failed. And
One word that synagogue trustees often keep
because we are good enough leaders to know
at a greater distance than fried pork chops is
that things dont develop passively, we know
the single word merger. Why is this word so
that when all else has failed really means
feared by synagogue leadership?
when we have failed, and that is why we
When faced with declining membership
avoid that realization. But we should think
rolls, declining contributions, increased burdens on the existing resources to provide the
of merging differently. Rather than a dirty
same services as in the past and, at best, a
word, we should see its possibility as a mark
demographic forecast that is unclear, synaof success. In the for-profit world, a potential
gogue leaders tend still to avoid discussion of
merger can exist only when each company
Rabbi Dr.
how we can work together to rebuild a Jewish
has something wonderful to offer. You know
David J. Fine
future in our broader community. The chief
youve made it as a start-up when you get
reason for this reluctance is that no one wants
that call from Big Business! You know you still
to admit that his or her synagogue is the one
have a good share of the market when a sister
with The Problem. Ah yes, other synagogues face many
company wants to discuss consolidation even as you face
challenges, but our synagogue is the best, and if only we could
challenges. You know your investors will be happy when
communicate that to the soon-expected new exiles from the
a merger agreement goes through and your shares go up.
city, we will thrive. That bright future will confirm that our
No company wants to merge with or acquire a loser. I have
leadership was the most prudent, our clergy the most spirialways thought how strange it is that while in the for-profit
tual, our school the most innovative, and our community the
world a merger is seen as a sign of success, in the synagogue
most dynamic and welcoming.
world it is imagined as a failure. Rather than see a merger
I would like to propose here an alternative strategy for
discussion as a last resort when the synagogue is about to
securing our Jewish future, based on the following four points:
close, we should conceive of it as an opportunity to take
1. We need to recognize the current market correction in
what we have built and transform it into something even
the demographics of affiliation. While we may have been overbetter and even stronger.
whelmed with various scientific surveys over the past several
4. We need to look back to the older European corporate
years, two things are clear: Our numbers are not what they
community model and away from the American individualist
used to be, and at the same time we have strong foundations of
congregation. Only in America did Jewish communal institutions develop so that each synagogue was its own individual
good people with solid commitment to a substantive authentic
corporation. In Europe, the model was that the wider Jewish
Jewish community. Like any other market, the demographics
community formed a corporate entity and administered the
of affiliation fluctuate in trends, and just because the trend is
various synagogues, schools, cemeteries, and professionals
lower than we would like does not in any way mean that the
that its members desired. That is still the model in Europe
apocalypse is now. It simply means that we must understand
today. Israel is its own case, but even there we find far more
the trends and make necessary adjustments.
services and resources shared among synagogues than we
The institutions that now serve the Jewish community were
see here in the United State. American Jewry developed the
built for a different demographic than that which now exists.
way it did in parallel with the development of American ProtStrong leadership and clear vision is needed to adjust to our
estantism, where the individualist congregationalist model
new market so we can focus on the teaching of Torah and providing warm and welcoming communities where we can celewas preferred over the more centralized episcopal structure
brate and cry together. That would be a better use of our enerknown from Europe. We in the Jewish community have to
gies than the constant repair of an aged model. (I must add
take a broader look at our institutional history and imagine
here that having just returned from a synagogue trip to Cuba,
other ways, well-tested models that we can adapt to our communities here.
I still see the bizarre sight of all those 1950s American automobiles with the noisy engines on the road. One approach is to
The broader corporate model does not mean that synagogues need to close and that only mega-synagogues, where
continue to tinker with the old cars. Another is to build and
individuality is lost, will survive. Many campuses and many
buy new models.)
services within single campuses can strengthen the variety
2. We need to move beyond intracommunal competition
that already exists. Rather than devalue the individual, the
and work together to offer a compelling belongingness. We
broader communal model allows for a larger pool of people
need to stop putting our own synagogues on a pedestal and
to come together and build a larger community, which can
looking at everyone else as challenged. The challenges that
offer more, so that each person is more able to find the eleexist face us all. Our competition is not each other. Our competition is nonaffiliation, the conception that individual Jews do
ment of Judaism or Yiddishkeit that best appeals to him or her,
not need to belong to or support Jewish institutions. We need
and keeps him or her connected.
to hold firm to the belief that the Jewish community is not
We should not be afraid of dirty words. Instead, lets be
something to which a Jew should opt out of. In former times,
more creative in exchanging ideas so that we can build a
the worst punishment a Jew might face was ostracization from
strong future.
his or own community. Today, more and more Jews do not see
Dr. David J. Fine is rabbi of Temple Israel and Jewish
the need to belong. This is the competition that must be confronted. We need to have compelling communities, learning,
Community Center in Ridgewood.
All the major surveys sponsored by the 19 large city Jewish federations since at least the 1960s have been based on
probability samples. Until now.
I write as a sociologist and long-time student of American Jewry, deeply troubled by the newly released Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey survey, because it was
based on a sample that is not representative of the areas
Jewish population.
All the study findings represent the attitudes, behaviors
and demographics of only the people who completed the
questionnaire. This self-selected sample does not represent
data about the entire Jewish population in North Jersey.
Among the major segments of the community improperly represented are the unaffiliated, young adults, college
students, singles, elderly, poor, intermarried, recent emigrants, cultural Jews and the vulnerable. That is, segments
to which the Jewish community often seeks to service in
outreach programs. The fact that some respondents to the
survey are included in the above-mentioned groups is irrelevant, as they are a biased sample of those groups. The
new study does not provide reliable data to help with planning to meet the needs of any groups.
The federation incorrectly contrasted marketing and
demographic surveys. While the emphasis of studies can
vary, this is a false dichotomy in the case of federation studies. All federation surveys for decades have collected both
marketing and demographic data. The primary difference
between the new survey and all the other major federation-sponsored surveys is methodological. The Northern
New Jersey federation intentionally decided to sponsor a
survey with a self-selected sample, knowing that respondents would not be representative of the areas Jewish population, to save money.
Everyone wants the federation to save money. However, this shortsighted decision is a case of penny wise and
pound cheap. The biased data now available are likely to
be used by some Jewish organizations to make improper
decisions, which will be vastly costlier to those organizations and the wider Jewish community in the long run then
the relatively small amount it would have cost to do the
survey using a reliable sample.
Federation professionals reported at one of the public
presentations that the survey cost the federation $160,000$200,000, while a survey with a representative sample
would have cost about twice that amount. An additional
$200,000 would have been money well spent to enable
communal leaders to make decisions based on accurate
data. The federations mission is to service the Jewish community. In this case it has provided a great disservice, by
allocating an expenditure without thinking through the
implications of underfunded research.
None of the researchers who have directed previously
conducted large Jewish federation major surveys would
have agreed to direct a survey with a self-selected sample.
I hope that Jewish leaders who will consider using the
new survey results to help their planning and decisionmaking will view the new study results most critically, and
reconsider their use of the new data.
Jim Schwartz

THE FEDERATION RESPONDS
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey is sorry
that Mr. Schwartz is so displeased with our market survey
methodology, but were willing to agree to disagree with
Mr. Schwartz on that.
However, we reject his implication that we were not transparent. As the Standard article made clear, we had no intention of conducting a purely demographic study and did not set
out to do so, nor did we ever claim to. We were more interested
in an actionable market survey of those who regard themselves as affiliated with the Jewish community, which would
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significant insights that will be beneficial to the
entire community.
Jason Shames, CEO
Zvi S. Marans, M.D., President
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
Donating a kidney in Israel
How to Save A Life (November 21) caught

my attention; it was about how to save
someones life. I was touched that there
are those who willingly agree to be live kidney donors. That not only saved the lives
of their recipients but also changed the
recipients health and social well being.
I am from the Philippines but I now am
working here in Israel. When I read the
article I considered asking if we can avail
the services of the Renewal Organization
here for kidney transplants? The idea
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dialysis twice or thrice a week. A kidney
transplant would no doubt change their
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organization but I am pleased to know that
they can assist others who are not Jewish.

Eva Quinio, Mikhmoret, Israel
EDITORS NOTE: We have put Ms. Quinio in
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A time
to mourn
Remembering Rabbi David Feldman
JOANNE PALMER
h e re we re a b o u t
1,000 people at Rabbi
D a v i d Fe l d m a n s
funeral.
There are many things to say
about Rabbi Feldman, who died
last Friday at 85, but that statistic is a good place to start.
David Michael Feldman was
a pastoral rabbi, a scholar, a
medical ethicist, a serious and
authentic Jew, a formal and generous and devoted family man,
and the rabbi emeritus of the
Jewish Center of Teaneck.
And he was beloved.
David Feldman was born in
Los Angeles in 1929, the seventh of nine children, the son of
a rabbi. The Great Depression
started the year of his birth,
and the family felt it. He said
that his mother always managed to feed them when they
were hungry, she would put
more water in the soup, Stanley Bramnick, rabbi emeritus of
Congregation Bnai Israel in Fair
Lawn and a longtime friend of
Rabbi Feldmans, said.
After high school, David Feldman headed east; he earned
his undergraduate degree at
Yeshiva University he was
his classs valedictorian and
then was ordained at the Jewish
Theological Seminary. Throughout his career, he refused to be
hobbled by the ever-hardening
boundaries between the Orthodox and Conservative worlds.
When he went to rabbinical

school, in the early 1950s, much
of the JTS faculty was Orthodox;
it was in its approach to text,
not to halachah, that the differences emerged. Mr. Feldman,
as he was then, studied with the
greats of his generation, who
were at JTS. His teacher Saul
Lieberman, who was to Tal-
He would
always give
of himself,
and he
wanted a
congregation
where he
could not
only teach
but try to
influence
people.
mud as Einstein was to physics,
as Rabbi Bramnick put it, had a
formative influence on Rabbi
Feldmans scholarship. Louis
Finkelstein, Louis Ginzberg,
Robert Gordis, Salo Baron all
were great, and all were Rabbi
Feldmans teachers, Rabbi
Bramnick said.
He was always a very serious
student, Rabbi Bramnick said.

He always questioned, and he
always showed the relevance of
the ancient texts, why we have
to look into them introspectively, find meaning in them,
and see how they affect our
lives.
Once he was ordained, Rabbi

Feldman became a U.S. Air
Force chaplain and then moved
to the Bay Ridge Jewish Center
in Brooklyn; he remained there
for 21 years. His next move was
to the Jewish Center, where he
stayed until he retired, 25 years
later. That vast synagogue, the

cornerstone of the local Jewish
community, had grown under
the stewardship of Rabbi Judah
Washer. It was a perfect example of the postwar suburban
synagogue, the shul with the
pool. It was a model that flourished in the second half of the
last century but has withered
since then.
Rabbi Bramnick, who already
was in Fair Lawn, remembered the goals that Rabbi Feldman considered as he decided
whether to move to Teaneck.
He had to make a living, but
money was never a big thing for
him, Rabbi Bramnick said. He
would always give of himself,
and he wanted a congregation
where he could not only teach
but try to influence people. To
teach them to appreciate the
fundamental values of Jewish
life. To bring the values into the
modern day. To try to better
understand the text, and why
we have to preserve it.
He believed that we are a
continuum of the past. As long
as we can add our own link,
then Judaism remains alive and
vibrant. The first generation that
breaks the link starts the downward spiral. Rabbi Feldman
was determined that his generations link, and the links of the
generations descended from
his, would remain strong and
connected.
His love for his family was
overwhelming, Rabbi Bramnick
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August.
said. Aviva his wife and he had a

unique relationship. He adored her. He
was crazy about her. His two sons, who
walked in his path, and Rebecca, his
daughter, who would light up the room
when she walked into it that was the
epicenter of his life.
Aviva and David Feldman met on an
airplane; he had waited to marry until
he found his bashert, the woman meant
for him. He looked long and hard to find
the right one, and I and my siblings are
eternally grateful to El Al for providing
a venue for a Californian living in New
York coming back from Israel to meet
a woman from London, his son, Rabbi
Daniel Feldman, said in his eulogy on
Sunday.
Rabbi Feldman was a very serious and
formal man, Rabbi Bramnick said. He
was never the kind of person who would
sit around and joke. He had a wry sense
of humor, and you couldnt detect it
publicly. He would sit there with a stone
face when you told a joke, and youd say,
David, give me a break. Laugh already!
You would never see him without a
suit and a jacket and a tie. About 35 years
ago, we were at a Rabbinical Assembly
meeting in Dallas, Texas. It was hot,
there was a break in the programming
after lunch, and many of the rabbis put
on their trunks, went to the pool, and
swam. And you picked up your eyes,
and there was David Feldman, in a suit,
jacket, and tie.
He gave of himself, Rabbi Bramnick
Surrounded by family at granddaughter Malkas bat mitzvah in April 2013.
With his daughter, Rebecca, at her

wedding in January 2013.
At his grandson Simchas bar mitzvah in March 2012.
said. And you never heard him say anything negative about anyone. A lot of people hurt him, but you would never hear
him say anything about them. He would
just swallow hard. He was, in the Jewish
sense, a righteous man. A tzaddik.
Rabbi Feldman also was a scholar. My
father loved words and he loved goodness and he loved good words, Daniel Feldman said. His interest in bioethics, which was a new field when he first
engaged with it, compelled him to write
now-classic books including Birth Control in Jewish Law, The Jewish Family
Relationship, Health and Medicine in

the Jewish Tradition, and When Theres
Life, Theres Life.
Dr. Kenneth Prager of Englewood is,
among many others, director of clinical
ethics and chairman of the medical ethics committee at Columbia University
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his warm smile and gentle manner.
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an associate professor of medical ethics at Hadassah

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difficult issues, Jacqueline Kates, a former mayor of
Teaneck and longtime Jewish Center member, said. I
called my mother, my sister, my best friend, and my
rabbi. Rabbi Feldman.
Rabbi Feldman was so formal that he did not seem
as if he would be on that list, she said, but he was so
warm and so kind that he was entirely approachable
nonetheless, she said.
Her father-in-law died just two days before Passover
one year, she recalled, and in the confusion of grief
and shiva and arrangements, I hadnt even thought
about changing my dishes, much less preparing for
a seder, Ms. Kates said. But the Feldmans invited her
family two parents, two children, and her bereaved
mother-in-law effortlessly making room for them,
including them with warmth and tenderness, and I
remember my mother-in-law smiling. I hadnt thought
shed ever smile again.
Ms. Kates remembers the tragedy that gripped
Teaneck and almost tore it apart in 1990, when a
police officer, Gary Spath, shot and killed an African
American teenager, Philip Pannell. Rabbi Feldman was
sympathetic to Mr. Pannells family, and reached out to
them. He also reached out to Gary Spaths family, she
said. It was a terrible time in Teanecks history. Our
community was so very divided. Everyone thought
that either the kid was bad and he had a gun and the
cops are all good, or that this was a kid who was running away and was shot in the back and all cops are
terrible and there is no justice for black people. They
didnt think it was possible that this was a guy who
worked with black youth and had to make a terrible
decision.
That the world isnt black or white.
But Rabbi Feldman knew that, she said, and he
reached out to a family about whom most people
never would have thought, much less cared. To this
day, the Spaths send him a card twice a year, she said.
They will never forget his kindness, when their world
was completely ripped apart.
Rabbi Feldmans younger son, Rabbi Jonathan Feldman, told another story of his fathers kindness at his
funeral. I remember election day in 1980, he said.
Dad had intended to vote for Ronald Reagan. Of course,
busy as he was, he didnt make it to the polls until almost
9. On the way, he heard on the car radio that President
Carter already had conceded. He said, The poor guy

already lost. Let me give him one more vote.
Most people would think that one vote out of hundreds of millions couldnt actually brighten someones
day. But that was dad. He never underestimated the
power of a simple kind gesture.
Rabbi Feldmans survivors include his wife, Aviva;
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and maintained a friendship with David and Aviva Feldman. Often theyd meet for lunch at local restaurants.
Although he was never officially my rabbi, he took on
the role of rabbi, mentor, and friend for me, she said.
She was deeply moved by Rabbi Feldmans funeral.
People sat in their old seats in the sanctuary, she
said. They sat where they sat years ago. They were
comfortable in their old seats. You could look around
the sanctuary and see everyone back.
But that old guard was joined by many others, she
continued. You saw everyone, from all walks of life,
from every denomination, from all over Teaneck, all
coming together, putting aside their differences to
honor him.
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As the sun set last Yom Kippur, Dr. Lawrence David Zigelman stood next to his
ailing 94-year-old father, Rabbi Abraham
Zigelman, and recited every word of the
closing Neilah prayer aloud with him in
the back of the sanctuary at the Young
Israel of Fort Lee.
When the synagogues rabbi, Neil Winkler, asked his best friend why he had
done this, Dr. Zigelman responded, I
dont know how many more Neilahs I
will have with my father, Rabbi Winkler
recalled.
It was, in fact, the final Neilah that
either man would recite.
The Zigelman family is reeling from
the deaths of father and son just 12 days
apart the 66-year-old pediatrician on
November 7 and the retired pulpit rabbi
on November 19. They now lie side by
side in Jerusalems Har Hamenuchot
cemetery.
Though Rabbi Zigelman the spiritual leader of North Bergens Temple
Beth Abraham for 55 years was in
failing health, Dr. Zigelman showed no
signs of illness until he experienced
chest pain on the very night that he and
his wife, Shaindy (Sherry), were to have
dinner with Rabbi Winkler and his wife,
Andrea, before the Winklers move to
Israel on November 18.
David was already writing his fathers
eulogy the night he died. It was on his
desk and they quoted from it at his
fathers funeral, said Rabbi Winkler,
who spoke at Dr. Zigelmans funeral
and Rabbi Zigelmans burial. He had
been close with Dr. Zigelman since high
school. Each was best man at the others
wedding, and it was Dr. Zigelman who
persuaded Rabbi Winkler to apply for
the job of rabbi at the Fort Lee synagogue in 1978.
Shaindy Zigelman spoke with the
Jewish Standard shortly after she, her

mother-in-law, Beatrice, and her sistersin-law, Reena, who lives in Chicago, and
Aviva, who lives on Long Island, completed their second seven-day shiva in
the course of one month. She sat with
them as well-wishers poured in to mourn
the well-loved rabbi, and only afterward
focused on processing the loss of her
husband of 44 years.
This Shabbos I was alone with my kids,
which is what we chose, and it was the
first time we were able to mourn David,
to talk about him and share stories, she
My son lost
his two best
friends his
father and his
grandfather
within 12 days.
SHAINDY ZIGELMAN
said. That was really important.

Ms. Zigelman works part time in the
office of Pedimedica in Closter, where
her husband practiced for 20 years.
Ms. Zigelman said that her children,
Michelle, 38, and Moshe (Marc), 35, were
extraordinarily close with their grandparents both geographically the elder
Zigelmans retired to Fort Lee and emotionally. Shaindy and David Zigelman
used to take their children out of the
Moriah School of Englewood for a few
days every winter so they could vacation
together with Bubby and Zeidy.
My son lost his two best friends
his father and his grandfather within
12 days, she said, her voice breaking. From the day we got married,
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Rabbi Ziegelman was installed at Temple Beth Abraham in 1951; a photograph from that day shows him, wearing a bow tie, shaking the hand of
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, who had ordained him.
we accepted one anothers parents as

another set of parents and we loved
them equally. We were lucky; they were
all nice.
The words warm, charming, and
soothing often are used to describe
Rabbi Zigelmans manner. He had sparkling blue eyes; someone once described
him as the Cary Grant of rabbis.
At Rabbi Ziegelmans funeral at Gutterman & Musicant in Hackensack, Rabbi
Shmuel Goldin of Englewood eulogized him as a devoted pastor and an
extremely accomplished sermonizer.
He went out of his way to speak in a way
that was at once informative but also
down to earth.
Rabbi Zigelman served as a U.S. Army
chaplain and for many years as North
Bergens police and fire chaplain. His
daughter-in-law said that once he was
called in to help save a Russian immigrant couple trapped in a burning building. The couple spoke only Russian and
Yiddish and were terrified of the uniformed personnel trying to rescue them.
My father-in-law explained in Yiddish
that the police here were not like the
police in Russia, and he got them out
before the building collapsed.
Dr. Zigelman apparently inherited his
fathers ability to soothe, and both his
patients and their parents benefited.
His wife related: One mother who
came to pay a shiva call said she always
thought she was a terrible mother, but
David would tell her at every visit that
she was a terrific mom, and she began
feeling more confident and better about
herself. But then I heard him say the
same thing to another mother, she told
us, and a woman sitting across the room
exclaimed, That was me!
He always felt that if he made mothers believe they were good mothers
theyd be good mothers. They never
felt stupid because he always gave them
confidence.
As for his patients, she added, He was
their friend, not only their doctor. There
were kids who would call him if they had
a fight with their parents. Some of his
patients cried when they got too old to
remain in his care, but they came back a

few years later with their own children.
The Winkler and Goldin children were
among Dr. Zigelmans patients.
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Dr. Zigelman wrote The Pocket Pediatrician: An A-Z Guide to Your Childs
Health, published in 1994.
Speaking about Rabbi Zigelman, Rabbi
Winkler also used the term A to Z.
When he became rabbi in North Bergen in 1951, there was no Teaneck, no
kosher restaurants. He went into a local
bakery and convinced the owners to let a
mashgiach [kosher supervisor] come in
to make sure it was kosher. His priority
was to provide for his community, and
he did that from A to Z, like his initials.
Rabbi Zigelman, the last surviving
member of the first ordination class at
the Lower East Side yeshiva of the sage
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, was described
by Rabbi Winkler as never judgmental, always accepting. He tried lovingly to teach people. He made so
many friends, religious and not. He
was a wonderful, professional, polished rabbi. Everything was always
well thought-out and well-presented
because he respected his audience.
The family abided by Rabbi Winklers
advice not to tell Rabbi Zigelman of Dr.
Zigelmans death, fearing that the news
would endanger the rabbis already
fragile health. The father and son were
extraordinarily close, Shaindy Zigelman
said. She asked Rabbi Winkler to speak
as a friend at her husbands funeral
at Gutterman & Musicant, which was
attended by an estimated 1,000 people
and officiated by her sisters husband,
Michael Samter.
Rabbi Goldin said of the two men:
The father and son were like yin and
yang. On some level, you feel as if God
wanted the two of them to have one
another.
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The children of the prophets of the Lord,

Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate.
Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state,
The West refused them, and the East abhorred.
No anchorage the known world could afford,
Close-locked was every port, barred every gate.
Then smiling, thou unveildst, O two-faced year,
A virgin world where doors of sunset part,
Saying, Ho, all who weary, enter here!
There falls each ancient barrier that the art
Of race or creed or rank devised, to rear
Grim bulwarked hatred between heart and heart!
Without a doubt a major American poet, Lazarus dealt with
many overtly Jewish subjects in her work. She translated works
by the early 19th-century German poet Heinrich Heine and the
Hebrew poets of medieval Spain, Moses ben Ezra, Solomon ben
Judah Gabirol, and Judah ben Ha-Levi, into English. Although
she did not live to see the formal birth of the Zionist movement
at the end of the 19th century, her writing expresses the longing for a Jewish homeland associated with Theodor Herzl. As
much as the United States had opened its golden door to the
Jewish people, Lazarus was well aware of the anti-Semitism that
existed in American society, and the plight of the Jewish people
elsewhere throughout the world.
In that context, her poem The Feast of Lights conveys to
us a different, more militant meaning of Chanukah than we are
accustomed to:
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
Ablaze on evenings forehead oer the earth,
And add each night a lustre till afar
An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.
Clash, Israel, the cymbals, touch the lyre,
Blow the brass trumpet and the harsh-tongued horn;
Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire,
The Maccabean spirit leap new-born.
Remember how from wintry dawn till night,
Such songs were sung in Zion, when again
On the high altar flamed the sacred light,
And, purified from every Syrian stain,
The foam-white walls with golden shields were hung,
With crowns and silken spoils, and at the shrine,
Stood, midst their conqueror-tribe, five chieftains sprung
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Simon the fair, the Burst-of Spring, the Gem,
Eleazar, Help of-God; oer all his clan
Judas the Lion-Prince, the Avenging Rod,
Towered in warrior-beauty, uncrowned king,
Armed with the breastplate and the sword of God,
Whose praise is: He received the perishing.
They who had camped within the mountain-pass,
Couched on the rock, and tented neath the sky,
Who saw from Mizpahs heights the tangled grass
Choke the wide Temple-courts, the altar lie
Disfigured and pollutedwho had flung
Their faces on the stones, and mourned aloud
And rent their garments, wailing with one tongue,
Crushed as a wind-swept bed of reeds is bowed,
Even they by one voice fired, one heart of flame,
Though broken reeds, had risen, and were men,
They rushed upon the spoiler and oercame,
Each arm for freedom had the strength of ten.
Now is their mourning into dancing turned,
Their sackcloth doffed for garments of delight,
Week-long the festive torches shall be burned,
Music and revelry wed day with night.
Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm,
The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
Where is our Judas? Where our five-branched palm?
Where are the lion-warriors of the Lord?
Clash, Israel, the cymbals, touch the lyre,
Sound the brass trumpet and the harsh-tongued horn,
Chant hymns of victory till the heart take fire,
The Maccabean spirit leap new-born!
Lazarus issued a similar call for renewal and rebirth
inspired by the Chanukah commemoration in another
poem, The Banner of the Jew.
With the State of Israel now 66 years old, it is easy to forget the longing for a homeland that the Jewish people felt
before Israels Declaration of Independence was adopted
in 1948. Chanukah, then, might be an occasion to consider
what Israels independence means to us, especially in this
troubled moment in our history, and at the same time as
we, as American Jews, give thanks for the safe harbor we
have enjoyed here in the United States.
In doing so, we can recall the meaning of Chanukah as a
Festival of Light, and a celebration of survival and hope.
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o properly under to get the State of Israel

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to properly recognize the
H o l o c au s t h a s
tragedy of their dispossesbeen seared onto
sion. The point wasnt so
Israels collective consciousmuch competition with
ness, you should visit the
the Holocaust, but the
country on the 27th of Nisan,
bald fact that the Holoa date in the Hebrew calencaust was a civilizational
dar that falls in either April
convulsion without peer.
Ben Cohen
or May in the solar one.
And in any case, how
On that day, Yom Hashoah,
many times each year can
the unsuspecting visitor is
a nation pause and weep?
dumbstruck by the sight of
Another factor was
an entire country coming to a halt.
politics. For many decades, Israeli leadAt 10 a.m. on the dot, sirens sound
ers were reluctant to acknowledge that
across the country. Schools, hospitals,
the expulsion of the Jews from Arab
trading floors, garages, newsrooms, tech
countries, after the creation of the Jewstart-ups all these and more freeze
ish state, meant that there was not one
exactly where they are, as Israeli citizens
refugee populations in the Middle East.
observe a minute of silent reflection.
There were at least two. Only in the last
Both the stillness and the weeping siren
few years have prominent Israeli politisuggest that this is not an act of anger
cians emphasized that focusing solely on
against the outside world, but a humthe Arab refugees from British Palestine
bling opportunity for all Jews, regardless
in 1948 is a distortion of both history and
of background or religious observance,
morality.
to pay tribute to the 6 million who died.
Its interesting, perhaps, that the furIts a spectacle that also confirms the
ther we get from those years of Mizrahi
Holocaust as the most destructive epiJewish suffering, the more Israel has
sode in the history of Jewish tragedies.
embraced the memory of what hapOther persecutions are remembered
pened. Maybe weve gotten to a point
respectfully, but its likely that only those
where theres space to remember more
people with a penchant for history will
than one Jewish tragedy, and without
learn about the pogroms in Kishinev or
the raw emotion that inevitably marked
Damascus, or the expulsion from Spain.
commemorations during the latter half
Everyone, on the other hand, knows the
of the 20th century.
scale of the Holocaust.
Whatever the explanation, last SunGiven that truth, it has been difficult
day, November 30, marked the first
for Jews of Mizrahi descent those, like
instance of what will be an annual
my family, who originate from communiremembrance day. Thanks to a bill that
see TRAGEDY page 28
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the Knesset passed in June, Israel commemorated the Jewish refugees from Arab
lands and Iran.
Remembrance ceremonies were held,
special classes were conducted in schools,
and Israeli diplomats raised the issue with
their peers. (In tandem, the Mizrahi Jewish
advocacy organization JIMENA held special events in North America and around
the world.)
Commenting on the Knesset bill after it
was passed, MK Shimon Ohayon noted that
we have finally corrected a historic injustice and placed the issue of Jews who were
expelled or pushed out of the Arab world in
the last century on the national and international agenda.
Elaborating, he added, In Israel, the
history of the Jews who originally came
from the Middle East or North Africa, who
make up around half of the population, was
ignored for too long. This is a vital part of
our fight against those internally and externally who delegitimize our presence here
and claim we are somehow foreign to the
region.
Hes right. The theme of indigeneity
that those deemed to be native to a particular territory have supreme rights over
it has been a core element of the Palestinian and Arab campaign to portray Israel
as a colonial interloper, and an alien presence in a Muslim-Arab region. But Jews
lived in the Islamic world for thousands
of years, just as they did in the land that is
now Israel.
In that sense, there is a political goal
behind the commemoration day, and its
nothing to apologize for. Almost 70 years
after Jews were stripped of their citizenship and property by avowedly anti-Semitic
regimes, their fate remains largely hidden
from the gaze of historians and journalists.
In part, thats because these refugees didnt
stay refugees for very long. The majority
were absorbed in Israel, still others went
to Europe and the Americas, all of them
got on with their lives. But the injustice
remains fundamentally unaddressed.
Theres another reason, though, why
I think the commemoration day is so
important and it relates directly to the
torrid period in which we are living. In
recalling what happened to the Mizrahi
Jews, we are compelled to focus on the
religious and ethnic persecution that continues to disfigure the Middle East today.
Kurds are repressed by Syrians, Iranians
and Turks; Yazidis and Christians are
ethnically cleansed and massacred by
Islamist barbarians in Iraq; Sunni and Shiite terrorists target each others mosques;
Bahais are incarcerated in Iran. Its a
depressing list that could go on and on.
But the point is this. What Israel has
shown for all of the imperfections it
shares with other democracies is that a
multicultural and multifaith society is possible in the Middle East. And that is the message that should ring loud and clear from all
these commemorative events, whether we
are mourning the Holocaust or the expulsion of the Mizrahi Jews.
JNS.org
Ben Cohen, a news analyst for JNS.org,
has had his writing on Jewish affairs
and Middle Eastern politics published
in Commentary, the New York Post,
Haaretz, Jewish Ideas Daily, and many
other publications.
Briefs
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Two Israeli finalists

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Jerusalems Arab
schools learn
ideological geography
Two Israeli startups, Pixoneye and

Pzartech, are two of the six super finalists
in the iiAwards, a world startup competition organized by the Paris Region Lab
and supported by the City of Paris.
Ofri Ben Porat of the computer vision
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its a moment when this region is investing a lot of energy in support of the entrepreneurs and we really appreciate that,
Brabet-Adonajlo and his partner Joachim
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Hagege said.
The Chairman of the Jerusalem Teachers Association has said that the educational message in Arab schools in Jerusalem is that all of Israel is occupied and
must be returned to the Palestinians.
In our schools, we teach what our
religion and conscience dictate: That
Jerusalem is Arab and that Palestine
from north to south, from the [ Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea
is Islamic Palestinian Arab, and will
remain so in spite of the damned occupier, Issa Salman said on Palestinian
Authority television, Palestinian Media
Watch reported.
Public Arab schools in Jerusalem fall
under the authority of the Education
Administration of Jerusalem, which
comes under the Jerusalem Municipality and the Israeli Ministry of Education.
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laws that discriminate and framing their
protests as protecting Jewish interests.
Whats unusual is that the target this
time is the Israeli government and the
proposed law emphasizes Jewish rights.
At issue is Israels nation-state bill.
If the Knesset passes it, the bill would
enshrine Israels status as a Jewish state
into law. Proponents say the bill would
reinforce the Jewish character of Israel,
but opponents charge that it would jeopardize the states democratic character
and undermine Israels Arab minority.
Most major American Jewish groups
weighing in on the debate are against it.
It is troubling that some have sought
to use the political process to promote
an extreme agenda which could be
viewed as an attempt to subsume Israels
democratic character in favor of its Jewish one, the Anti-Defamation League,
the first group to speak out against the
bill, said in a statement on November 24,
a day after the Israeli Cabinet approved a
version of the bill.
American Jewish groups that are
against the measure outline two broad
reasons for their opposition: the fear
that it provides ammunition for antiIsrael and anti-Jewish forces already
feeding off the aftermath of Israels war
with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and recent
tensions in Jerusalem; and the fear that
Israel is drifting from its democratic
character, particularly in laws and practices that target minorities and women.
The proposed Jewish state bill is
ill-conceived and ill-timed, Kenneth
Bandler, the American Jewish Committees spokesman, wrote in an email.
Abraham Foxman, the ADLs national
director, said the bill provides cover for
Israels enemies. Its an unnecessary
debate, it has spillover and provides fodder, he said. What comes out of this?
Nothing.
Other major groups opposing or
expressing reservations about the proposed law include the Reform and Conservative movements, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Jewish
Council for Public Affairs, the umbrella
body for Jewish public policy groups.
The Zionist Organization of America is
among the few U.S. Jewish groups that
have taken a stand in favor of the nationstate bill.
Non-Jewish citizens live and are welcome in Israel, but the Israeli state, its
institutions, laws, flag, and anthem
reflect the history and aspirations of the
people who founded it with their labor,
resources and blood, ZOA President
Morton Klein said in a statement.
The U.S. State Department has said
that it expects final legislation to continue Israels commitment to democratic
principles.
In Israel, the opposition to the bill is
led by President Reuven Rivlin. Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backs
the law although he has yet to settle
on final language and has pledged to
bring it to the Knesset for a vote as early
as next week.
As a basic law, the law would have
constitutional heft. Its backers say giving Israels Jewishness a constitutional
underpinning is increasingly necessary
given attempts to delegitimize the state.
The State of Israel is the national
state of the Jewish people, Netanyahu
said on November 23. It has equal individual rights for every citizen and we
insist on this. But only the Jewish people
have national rights: a flag, anthem, the
right of every Jew to immigrate to the
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Such talk induces uneasiness in American Jews, who

over decades have been invested in an Israel in which
Jewishness and democracy have successfully melded
in equal parts, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the
Union for Reform Judaism, said.
Let us strengthen Israels democratic foundation,
Jacobs said, noting a recent proliferation of attacks
on minorities in Israel as well as statements from
Israeli politicians elevating the Jewish character of the
state over its democratic values. If anything needs
strengthening, thats what needs strengthening, he
said, referring to democratic values.
U.S. Jewish groups generally confine their criticism
of Israels government to issues of status that affect
Israels Jewish citizens, like the treatment of the nonOrthodox religious streams and discrimination against
women. At least in public, they avoid criticizing Israel
in any way that would feed into attempts by Israels
enemies to depict it as racist and exclusionary.
This bill is an exception, according to Rabbi Julie
Schonfeld, the executive vice president of the Conservative movements Rabbinical Assembly. Thats
because it has broader implications than any single bill
involving the Palestinians that might draw controversy.
This law speaks fundamentally to the democratic
nature of Israel, she said.
Schonfeld said Jewish-American sensitivities already
were sharpened because of a series of legislative initiatives in Israel that would limit the rights of the nonOrthodox and practices that discriminate against
women, including segregation on some buses. A law
that criminalizes marriages performed by non-Orthodox rabbis and a ministerial committee decided just
this week to maintain as law is particularly galling,
she said.
These laws that violate religious freedom are building blocks to anti-democratic legislation, Schonfeld
said.
The nation-state law also has drawn criticism from
liberal Jewish groups that in the past have not hesitated to target what they see as discriminatory Israeli
policies. Among those groups are Americans for Peace
Now, the New Israel Fund, and J Street.
Rachel Lerner, a J Street vice president, said that
American Jews have internalized democracy and
equal rights for all as Jewish values in part because of
the protections they have been afforded in the United
States. Weve had equal rights because this country
is so accommodating, so theres a lot of sensitivity
toward that, she said.
Several major groups, including the Orthodox
Union and the Jewish Federations of North America,
have yet to weigh in. A source close to Jewish Federations said the umbrella body wants to see a final draft
of the bill first.
Netanyahu reportedly is seeking ways to include an
emphasis on Israels democratic nature and its commitment to equal rights in the bill.
The JCPA called for postponing Knesset consideration of the bill and urged that the final draft make
clear that Israel remains committed to equal rights.
If theyre going to do this bill, it should be incredibly
clear that there is no intention to diminish the rights
of citizens who are not Jewish, JCPAs president, Rabbi
Steve Gutow, said.
Schonfeld said that the law is the wrong solution to
whatever anxieties are driving its proponents. This is
a time of great anticipatory anxiety among Jews, and it
calls for signal courage and not to give in to fears, she
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Netanyahu fires Lapid and Livni

Israel moves closer to early elections
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV For the second time in about two years, Israel
appears to be headed toward elections.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a news
conference on Tuesday that he will support a bill to dissolve
the Knesset. That would lead to elections next spring.
Before the announcement, Netanyahu fired two key Cabinet ministers, Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni, after they publicly
criticized his performance as prime minister.
In this government, its much harder to do everything for
the security and welfare of Israels citizens, Netanyahu said at
the news conference. This government, from the day it was
born, was adversarial. Thats because my party, the Likud,
didnt get enough votes. So from the first moment, there

was friction.
The collapse heralds an acrimonious end to a coalition of rivals ranging from the nationalist-right to the
center-left. The unlikely coalition agreed early on about
the need to integrate the charedi Orthodox into Israels
economy and society but disagreed on almost everything else, from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to the
relationship between religion and state.
Should Netanyahu win another term, he has indicated
that he will revert to a more stable coalition of right-wing
parties including the charedi Orthodox factions that
partnered with him before 2013 but were left out of the
current fractious coalition.
The previous government, I believe, was one of the
best, most stable governments in the history of Israel, a
true unity government, Netanyahu said. We need to
elect a new government, a stronger government, a more
stable government.
As the coalition spats morphed into a full-blown crisis,
Lapid, the finance minister and head of Yesh Atid, the
largest party in Netanyahus coalition, castigated Netanyahu for playing politics instead of passing sensible legislation, including next years state budget.
These elections are not about a particular issue not
about security and not about society but an election
This government,
from the day it was
born, was adversarial.
Thats because my
party, the Likud, didnt
get enough votes.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
between those who came to work and those who came

to block everything, Lapid said in a speech Tuesday.
We came to work. Thats all we wanted, thats all we
still want.
The Knesset is likely to approve new elections in the
coming days, leading to a national vote in March or
April. Opposition parties already have proposed bills
to dissolve the Knesset. The last national elections were
held in January 2013. Elections now are scheduled for
November 2017.
A poll conducted last week by the Dialog Institute
suggested that early elections would hurt Yesh Atid and
benefit Netanyahus Likud party. Yesh Atid would drop
from 19 Knesset seats to 11, while Likud would rise from
18 to 24, the survey showed.
The nationalist Jewish Home led by Naftali Bennett
would grow from 12 to 16 seats, while two center-left parties Labor and Hatnua would drop, according to the
poll. Labor, guided by Isaac Herzog, would fall from 15
seats to 13, and Hatnua, led by Livni, would slip from six
seats to four.
The survey also suggested general disaffection with
Israels current leader: Only 35 percent of respondents
said Netanyahu is fit to be prime minister.
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FROM PAGE 32
Israeli coalition crises sometimes have been averted at

the last minute. In May 2012, a vote to dissolve the Knesset was rendered irrelevant after Likud joined with the
centrist Kadima party in a short-lived unity government.
Given the divisions in this coalition, however, such a
deal is less likely. Since this government formed, coalition partners have fought over everything from peace
talks to the economy to religious issues. Rifts began to
widen after this summers war in Gaza, with Bennett
blaming Netanyahu for not hitting Hamas harder and
Lapid accusing Netanyahu of bringing relations with the
United States to crisis.
Netanyahu said Tuesday that he wants to avoid a
repeat of such battles and would partner with Jewish
Home and the charedi Orthodox parties, which helped
provide him with a stable government between 2009
and 2012. Such a coalition would oppose making concessions to the Palestinians and likely would seek to roll
back laws passed last year that included charedi men
in Israels mandatory conscription and cut subsidies to
charedi families.
Yesh Atid, which was elected last year to pass those
laws, likely will fade along with the promise it made to
represent the Israeli political center. The history of the
Knesset is littered with consensus-minded centrist parties that rose in one election only to fall in the next.
Some of Yesh Atids losses probably would translate
into gains for a new, economically progressive centrist
party led by former Likud minister Moshe Kahlon. The
as-yet unnamed party, which is predicted to win 13
seats, probably would caucus with the right, further
strengthening Netanyahus right-wing bloc.
Before any national election campaign gets underway,
Netanyahu and Bennett face primary contests in their
own parties.
Bennett must fend off conservative rivals within Jewish Home, a coalition of several religious Zionist factions.
In Likud, which is slated to hold a primary in January,
Netanyahu faces a challenge from Danny Danon, a former deputy defense minister to Netanyahus right who
was fired after he publicly criticized the prime ministers
handling of the Gaza war.
Though the fight in recent weeks between Netanyahu
on one side and Lapid and Livni on the other over a proposed law that would enshrine Israels status as a Jewish
state helped highlight the divisions within the coalition,
the coalition crisis seemed weeks, if not months, in the
making.
The question now is what comes next.
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After midnight, the (Jewish) stars come out

MATT ROBINSON
rom Tevye the dairyman to

Maroon 5s Adam Levine to Let
It Go singer Idina Menzel, Jews
have always been at the forefront of the music scene. Burt Sugarman
and Mark Goodman are no different. As
one of the pre-eminent television and film
producers in history, Sugarmans rolodex
of connections would make any A-lister
blush. Goodman, one of the first on-air
personalities for the MTV network, had his
finger on the pulse of pop music for years.
The two industry icons spoke to JNS.org
about the recent release of a collectors
edition DVD set of Sugarmans pioneering
television program Midnight Special by
StarVista Entertainment/Time Life. From
August 1972 to May 1981, the program
offered a live look at virtually all of the top
performing artists of the day, from Sugarmans beloved country music to comedy.
Among the hundreds of Grammy-winning
and chart-topping guests were Billy Joel,
Barry Manilow, Randy Newman, John
Bowzer Bauman and Sha Na Na, and
the KISS duo of Stanley Eisen and Chaim
Witz (aka Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons). Midnight Special also featured
legendary comic talents as George Burns,
Bill Crystal, Andy Kaufman, Robert Klein,
and Joan Rivers.
Having started out his career in television, Sugarman knew network executives and had opportunities to pitch them
shows. He often had their ears because of
his successful work with programs such
as Celebrity Sweepstakes and The
Newlywed Game. Even so, getting Midnight Special to sell was an uphill battle.
I had trouble getting any of the networks, Sugarman said, noting how his
goal was to land at NBC in the spot after
Johnny Carsons Tonight Show. Johnny
was a next-door neighbor of mine. We
played tennis all the time together. I knew
that that rating, when he went off, would
be terrific to lead in to something.
But the network was not interested
in the audience demographic that it
assumed would go for a late-night music
show. Unwilling to give up, Sugarman
took a risk and offered to finance the first
show himself.
Thats pretty hard [for a network] to
turn down, he said.
The next challenge was finding artists
who were willing to come on the new
show. Some of the mainline artists, Sugarman said, refusing to give names, were
panicked to walk out in front and see a red
light on three or four cameras and start to
sing or talk or something.
Since Midnight Special did not use lip
syncing (unlike other popular shows at the
time), the artists had to be at their best.
They had no second chance to make their
impressions on the eager audience.

All that made it very interesting, Sugarman said. But we got through it and
loved every second of it.
Asked what linked the musically, culturally, and racially diverse talents on Midnight Special, Goodman suggests that the
basic thing that they all have in common is
that they were musical pioneers and they
were artists. They were trying to do things
that were going to make people spark to
music and were current with the times,
and in many cases, even forward-looking.
The MTV network launched in August
1981, just a few months after Midnight
Special went off the air. Goodman says
he doesnt believe MTV could have existed
without Midnight Special as a precursor.
Recalling the experience of watching
Midnight Special, Goodman said, Some
of the performances are so incredible
because theyre live.
Once the show took off, the artists
began to line up to perform. Some came
on repeatedly, taking full advantage of
the publicity offered by this new platform. Sugarman said one performer even
The Bee Gees perform on Midnight

Special in 1973.
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Burt Sugarman
Sugarman said.
Asked what first
sparked his interest in music, Goodman talked about
Chuck Berry performs on Midnight Special in 1973.
growing up in Phil
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adelphia, listening
to his parents jazz
wanted to present me with a gold album
heroes and the soulful sounds of the bands
for being responsible, they said, for selling
in the City of Brotherly Love.
all the records.
As a young teenager, while all my
Despite having a whos who of music
friends were listening to pop music, I was
legends on Midnight Special, Sugarman
listening to Smokey Robinson and The
always regrets the one who got awayElvis
Sound of Philadelphia, he said.
Presley.
But when Goodman heard Eric Claptons early supergroup Cream, everything
I knew [Elvis] quite well and played
changed. Between that and a couple of
football on weekends with him, and spent
other things that were going on with my
a lot of time with him, so that made it
generation at the time, I got into rock and
even harder not to have him on the show,
roll, and the rest, as they say, is rock history, he said.

Though he is no longer at MTV, Goodman continues to be a player in the industry as a host on Sirius XM radio. I like
being in the position that Im in, because
I get to turn people onto [music], he said.
While Midnight Special has not been
in regular broadcast for decades, it continues to gain fans through videos and online
editions year after year. That is why Sugarman decided to put out this new edition,
which comes in a variety of formats that
range from a single-disc best of to an
11-disc collectors edition. While old fans
can reminisce and new fans can see what
they missed, Sugarman continues to toy
with the idea of bringing Midnight Special back to the airwaves.
I am talking to someone now thats
been talking to me for about a year and a
half about it, Sugarman said, declining to
say who. He would be a great host, a wonderful artist, but well have to see if it goes
further. I rather doubt it, but well see.
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A third-year student at Georgetown Universitys law
school is suing Rabbi Barry Freundels Washington
synagogue, the adjacent mikvah, and her own law
school for allowing Freundels alleged misdeeds to go
unchecked.
The unidentified students suit was filed Tuesday in
D.C. Superior Court by attorney Steven Silverman of
Baltimore. The student said that she was lured to the
mikvah by Freundel, who was arrested on October 14.
He was charged with voyeurism for allegedly installing
a secret camera in the ritual bath.
This case involves an unfathomable breach of trust
by a Georgetown professor and religious leader and
defendants utter failure to prevent and/or stop it,
the lawsuit says, according to the Washington Post.
Defendants turned a blind eye to obvious signs of
Freundels increasingly bizarre behavior, ignoring the
bright red flags that Freundel was acting inappropriately with women subjected to his authority.
The student, who is Jewish, said she visited the mikvah twice while researching a paper for a class at the
law school. Freundel taught the class. The woman
believes that the rabbi watched her disrobe at the
mikvah.
The student wrote a paper for the class; she called
it The Mikvah: Expanding the Ritual for Jewish
Women. Freundel gave it an A, the lawsuit says.
The rabbi co-taught a law seminar at Georgetown as
recently as this spring, according to the university. The
lawsuit seeks class-action status and does not identify
the plaintiff by name, according to the Post.
On Sunday, Kesher Israel, the synagogue Freundel
had led, announced that it had fired the rabbi, who
had been on unpaid suspension since his arrest.
The lawsuit charges that Kesher Israel was aware
of the rabbis inappropriate behavior, including his
treatment of women, but did nothing about it other
than convey its concerns to the Rabbinical Council of
America. Similarly, the lawsuit accused Georgetown of
willful blindness because it undertook no investigation into Freundels background prior to hiring him,
according to the report in the Post.
The National Capital Mikvah, where the alleged
peeping took place, also was named in the suit.
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n 1 Coaches Steve Jutkowitz, left, and Yehuda Halpert with

Team Ivory Coast, the Teaneck Junior Soccer League U10
champions. Jaccard Simmons, Justin Meyer, Ethan Badner, Ezra Halpert, Gilad Jutkowitz, Luke Conlon, Yosi Gold,
Avishai Jutkowitz, Reza Rehman, Avery Greenblatt, and
Binyamin Ferber are with them. Many of the team players
are students at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey,
Yeshivat Noam, and Yavneh Academy. PHOTO PROVIDED
n 2 The adult department at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly organized a trip to the National Museum of
American Jewish History in Philadelphia. COURTESY JCCOTP
n 3 Alice Blass, center, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys project coordinator, presents a plaque
acknowledging Holy Name Medical Centers Mitzvah Day
sponsorship to Michael Maron, Holy Names president and
CEO. Jacqueline Kates, Holy Names community relations
coordinator, holds a Mitzvah Day T-shirt. COURTESY HNMC
n 5 Dan Nichols performed in concert last month at

Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge. COURTESY TAS
n 4 Teaneck International Film Festival held a gala

at Temple Emeth on Saturday night and the festival
screened movies there all day Sunday. From left, moderator Eric Goldman, the Jewish Standard film reviewer;
Rachel Fisher, and Rachel Pasternak, directors of the film
Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent; civil rights historian
n 6 Rabbi Benjamin Shull with religious school students

from Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley. Each week,
Rabbi Shull welcomes third-, fourth-, and fifth-graders
from the Temple Emanuel Religious School to join him in
his office for Sicha (conversation) with the Rabbi. Snacks
are served during the get-togethers. COURTESY TEPV
and activist Theodora Lacey, and Rabbi Prinzs daughter, Deborah Prinz. The film was sponsored by the Martin
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Sufganiyot and hummus, perfect together
Now through Chanukah, visit Hummus
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Traditional Indian breads are served hot
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New cookbook hits the market

Last weeks JS Chanukah Gift Guide supplement featured The Modern Kosher
Kitchen by Ronnie Fein. The book
includes more than 125 recipes created for a
new generation of kosher cooks.Readers
soon will find themselves getting inspired
as they flip through the recipes. Entries include information on how to prepare a
family meal, hors doeuvres,
vegetarian entrees, budgetfriendly dishes, and new
takes on holiday favorites.
Below is a new look at latkes,
taken from the book.
Mashed potato,
kale, and feta cheese
pancakes (latkes)
2 cups matzah farfel
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
1 medium onion, chopped
2 cups chopped fresh kale
2 cups mashed potatoes
6 ounces crumbled feta cheese
1 large egg
Salt and freshly ground pepper, to
taste
Vegetable oil, for frying
Place the matzah farfel in a large
bowl, cover with very hot water, and let
soak for a few minutes until soft. Drain
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Your Talmudic Advice Column
Dear Rabbi,
After the recent attack in Jerusalem, where
terrorists killed four men in a synagogue, I
saw posts on my Facebook newsfeed blaming the policies of President Obama for the
terrible incident. That disturbs me because
I dont see how someone can connect him to
violence in another country.
Baffled by the Blamers
Dear Baffled,
Hmm. I stubbed my toe the other night
while I was walking in a dark room and
I exclaimed, Oh Jesus even though Im
a good Jew and Jesus had nothing to do
with my mishap.
Seriously, lets be clear. First of all
Obama is the president of the United
States, not the prime minister of Israel.
His job is to take care of Americans, not
protect Israelis from terrorists. And second, he is in no way responsible for causing attacks anywhere in the world. Those
who heap blame on Obama for the ills of
our globe do that because they dont like
him to begin with. They think they can
besmirch him by arbitrarily piling fault
upon him. It is bad rhetoric and nothing
more.
Benjamin Netanyahu is the prime minister of Israel and is much more the right
person to charge for bad policies that
lead to terrorist attacks in his country.
But in reality, terrorism is not at all a
result of flawed strategies of our leaders
or of our governments. It is evil activity
planned and carried out by those of our
enemies who want to harm us and disrupt our lives. So if you must, blame our
enemies, not our leaders.
But if you insist on blaming our own
leaders, then you might argue that the
ultimate questions about the death of
those four innocent people in synagogue
remains primarily a theological issue that
you ought to direct to the leader of leaders God. For those of us who believe
that God cares about our everyday lives,
it is fair to ask how a just God allows terrorists to kill saintly Jews who devoted
their lives to Torah and, on top of it,
while they were engaged in prayer in the
synagogue.
Hence I agree with you that it makes
no sense for people on Facebook or anywhere else to blame Obama for terrorist
murders in Jerusalem. My advice for you
is as follows. On Facebook, if you dont
want to see nonsensical posts, you can

unfriend the people who send them,
or suppress their posts from your news
feed.
In real life, however, Im sorry to say I
have no bright advice for you. We have
no way to pull down a menu and turn off
or suppress from confronting every day
the age-old baffling questions of theodicy, of why God lets such bad things happen to such good people.
There is a story in the Talmud (Menahot 29b) that depicts Moses asking God
why he allowed the Romans to torture
the great Torah scholar Rabbi Akiva.
In that narrative Moses demanded to
know from God, This is the Torah and
this is its reward!? And in that text
God gave Moses no effective answer or
explanation.
I can advise you not to tolerate those
who blame Obama for terrorist evil. But,
sorry if this disappoints you, I cant offer
in this column any better response than
the Talmud does about the accountability of God.
Dear Rabbi,
I dont understand why my local rabbi has
been saying outrageous public things
preaching and publishing political rants. I
want to know what makes a rabbi do this,
and I need to know what to do about it.
Ranted at in Bergen County
Dear Ranted,
You ask why a person engages in the kind
of public rants that bring humiliation to
himself and his family and his extended
community.
O.K. That person first may be driven by
hereditary factors. He may have a variety
of the thrill-seeker gene that makes him
crave attention and controversy. At the
same time, his innate circuit breaker, the
psychological mechanism or filter that
normally protects a person against putting himself in danger, or engaging in selfdestructive, antisocial behavior, appears
to be defective. Such a person would benefit from therapy to help him understand
his risky drives and deficiencies and to
help him become more vigilant in monitoring his problematic behavior.
The issue of your rabbis contentious
behavior does prompt me to discuss
more general related aspects beyond this
The Dear Rabbi column offers timely advice based on timeless Talmudic
wisdom. It aspires to be equally respectful and meaningful to all varieties
and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first Friday of the
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To be sure, rabbis are not

rabbis problem.
easily adept at being politiWhen any rabbi veers off
cal. Yet in spite of that you
into politics, I think that is a
would think that they ought
bad thing. Hes not doing his
to respect the accepted
job. A rabbi is by definition a
modes of public political
teacher of Torah. Rabbis are
discourse. The rabbinic litnot trained in politics, nor
erature that they know is
are they employed to engage
rigorous in its formulaic
in politics. They become
Rabbi Tzvee
requirements and its rhetorrabbis by passing exams in
Zahavy
ical and logical forms. FreeTorah texts, including the
style ranting is not one of its
oral Torah, the Mishnah,
genres. And going back furMidrash, and Talmud.
ther to the classical biblical prophets, we
Teaching Torah (or any subject) is
find the same. The exhortations of those
a respected profession that someone
Israelite preachers use controlled manenters through preparation, expertise,
ners and speech with sharp and clear
and apprenticeship. Politics is a different
moral and theological messages.
profession, and it is entered by another
The dangers of mixing politics and
route of training and experience.
religion are even more pronounced and
Through the ages, rabbis on many
complex when you consider that many
occasions have ventured into politics as
varieties of religious terrorists incite their
politicians, not as rabbis. A few have succeeded. Some have failed dramatically.
followers to commit atrocities and crimes
One of the greatest Torah scholars of our
against humanity based to a frightening extent on religious grounds and on
history, Rabbi Akiva (whom I referred to
claims of their gods approvals.
above), led his students into a disastrous
A few years ago, at a course on religion
revolt against Rome in the second century CE. He unsuccessfully supported the
and terrorism I taught at NYU, I analyzed
rebellion of Bar Kochba, and as a tragic
many instances of terrorism committed
result he was tortured to death by the
by members of religious communities. I
Romans and thousands of his followers
took cases drawn from Sikh, Buddhist,
were massacred.
Hindu, Aum Shinrikyo (a Japanese cult),
Much more recently in 2012, as you
Christian, Jewish and Islamic traditions.
may recall one of our neighbors in BerThe dangerous recent historical record
gen County, a celebrity rabbi and author,
that I examined in that course of the
ran for Congress. He was trounced in
mix of religion and terror is extensive,
the election. Though he emerged from
impressive, and terrifying.
that experience personally unscathed,
My advice to you as you confront your
the example confirms the pattern. Rabimmediate situation is best expressed in
bis throughout the ages have made poor
one word: beware. A rabbi or any religious leader who goes off like a loose
politicians.
cannon in unpredictable rants advocatI prefer to think that theres nothing
ing racism, violence, or terrorism ought
specific to the teachings of the Torah that
to make you cringe.
make someone a bad politician. But its
Stay far away from him. Nothing that
worth speculating further on this matter.
you can do or say will deter him. He is a
Perhaps the idea that God is behind you
danger to your community, to stable sociand that makes your ideas right and worthy is a weakness, not strength, to those
ety, and to civilization. He does not represent any aspect of what is worthwhile
who enter the arena of public political
in either the clerical professions or in the
discourse and activity. In that venue
political realms. And he does not repreideas rise and fall on their merits and
sent in any way what we good ordinary
their appeal, not on their claims to divine
citizens want in a just and righteous world.
sponsorship.
Also, politics is a set of activities where
Tzvee Zahavy earned his Ph.D. from
success involves a good deal of negotiation and power brokering. Rabbis cling
Brown University and rabbinic ordination
to their notion that the divine rights and
from Yeshiva University. He is the author
imperatives of their principles prevent
of The Book of Jewish Prayers in English,
or at least discourage the idea of negotiaRashi: The Greatest Exegete, Gods
tion. Thinking that my way is the high
Favorite Prayers and Dear Rabbi:
and mighty way, leads a person to act
The Greatest Talmudic Advice which
and to declare the non-negotiable stance
includes his past columns from the Jewish
that my opponents must take my way or
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Dvar Torah
Vayishlach: Short-circuiting the violence
e live in troubling times.

Kids grow up too fast.
Even while they are living
at home, the technology
they wield can act as a michshol, a stumbling block leading to unforeseen and
unforgivable consequences: texting on
Shabbat; identity theft; indiscriminate and
often unsavory selfies that can have a life
of their own on the Internet; even social
media shaming and harassment that has
pushed young teens to suicide.
The technology, however, has only
magnified problems that have always been
with us. In our Torah portion, we read of
a similar incident that tears apart Jacobs
family. (Gen 34:1) Deena, Leahs daughter
(whom she had borne to Jacob) went out to
see the girls of the area. Such an innocent
start to the eventual bloodbath that ensues!
Echoes of the horror can be seen near the
end of the book of Judges (chapter 19), in the
incident of the concubine in Giveah (also,
not coincidentally, involving a descendant
of Levi). The outcome is so horrific that
Tanach decides that the current system
cannot stand, making way for the institution
of monarchic rule, which was neither
simple nor anybodys ideal solution.
Rashi asks the question, as we surely
must, why Deena is called Leahs daughter
here. After she is raped and held captive,
she is referred to as the daughter of
Jacob and the sister of Shimon and Levi.
Various rabbinic explanations shine light
on aspects of this case. She

consequences. Be careful
is called Leahs daughter
what you ask for, because
because what she did reflects
you just might get it! To
poorly on her, unbecoming
sway her husband to
of a daughter of the righteous
love her more, Leah had
Jacob. Blaming the victim
hoped that giving him a
after the fact, of course, does
daughter (the only one out
nothing to solve the problem
of thirteen children) might
of the violence and evil in the
endear her to Jacob over
Rabbi David
world, even if it demonstrates
her cute sister. Years later,
Bockman
the mechanism by which it
however, it seems that for
Congregation
occurred. If you want to be
Deena being female is a
Beth Shalom,
safe, dont engage in unsavory
liability and it affects the
Pompton Lakes,
and risky behavior. But surely,
entire familys fate with
Conservative
even if a girl hangs out with the
disastrous consequence.
wrong people, she does not
In this scenario, what is
deserve to be raped, to be kidnapped, to
meant to happen is a finely calibrated
be the matchstick that sparks a slaughter
web of events, the displacement of which
of thousands of innocents. Even today,
can have reverberating unforeseen
colleges and universities across the board
consequences.
Those consequences last for a very long
are being forced to review their hands-off
time. Look dozens of generations into the
treatment of similar incidents that happen
future and you will notice that the tribes
within their jurisdiction. Blaming the
of Israel no longer correspond directly to
victim might seem an easy way to get us
the sons of Jacob/Israel. You can search in
off the hook, but as Emmanuel Levinas
vain, but you will find only a vestigial tribe
said regarding living in a civilization: few
of Shimon (swallowed up within Judah) and
are guilty, but all are responsible.
no tribal area of Levi. The brothers of Deena
One very strange explanation of Deena
who defended her honor by massacring
being called here the daughter of Leah
ever male inhabitant of the city of Shechem
was offered by Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of
are not only chastised by their father Jacob
Berdichev. She is called the daughter
at the time, but are eventually to suffer the
of Leah because when gestating she was
consequences of their harsh actions, even if
supposed to be male, but Leah prayed
they were justified in doing what they did!
for a daughter and God changed the
The problem is a deep one. How can we
sex of the fetus. The law of unintended
live in a world that is so dangerous? How

can we make peace treaties with people
who do not share our values? Whether the
consequences are terror tunnels, raining
rockets, or machete massacres as at Har
Nof a few weeks ago, are we destined as
descendants of Jacob to a never-ending
struggle with the Esaus and the Shechems
of the world? In what way and I ask this
in all seriousness is this life a blessing
from God?
A solution can be found, however. Its
not all bleak. Rabbeinu Bachya noted how
Shimon and Levi told Chamor, Shechems
father, that in order for his son to keep
their sister, the people of the town must
be circumcised. Rabbein Bachya explained
that while Chamor wanted the two peoples
to become one, the Israelites insisted that
they could only become one by the other
becoming like them. We the Israelites
cant uncircumcise ourselves. The people
of Shechem must come to our level. The
struggle must never force Jews to come
to the immoral level of their enemies.
Even though they may not have realized
the import of their own words, these two
violent brothers show us the way to a better
world. Violent retribution even if justified
will not be the path to a future of blessing.
Only by finding ways to short circuit a cycle
of violence will Jacob truly come into his
blessing, and be deserving of being called
Israel. That is a tough pill to swallow, but we
so dearly need that medicine!
BRIEFS
Report: Hezbollah intends

maritime siege in next war
Israeli-Canadian woman
reported captured by Islamic State is safe
Hezbollah has a stock of advanced seato-sea missiles with which it intends to

impose a maritime siege on Israel if the
two sides enter another war, Lebanese
media outlets reported on Monday.
According to the reports, Hezbollah
apparently has an arsenal of sophisticated Russian-made Yakhont sea-to-sea
missiles, which were recently transferred
from Russia to Syria as part of an arms
deal between the two countries. Moscow has also allegedly transferred more
Gill Rosenberg, the Canadian-born immigrant to Israel who became the first foreign woman to join Kurds battling the
Islamic State group in Syria, was reported
by extremist Islamic websites to have been
captured by Islamic State, but her Kurdish
comrades are denying the reports.
The reports, many of them on Palestinian websites, say that Rosenberg, 31,
was taken prisoner by Islamic State during battles in Kobani, but do not provide
more information. Islamic State has not
advanced S-300 anti-aircraft batteries

to Syria. It is possible that some of these
have been transferred to Hezbollah.
In the case of a war with Israel, the
report said, Hezbollah intends to target
Israeli and foreign vessels inside Israels
territorial waters.
One senior Hezbollah official said, The
organization has modern long-range missiles and advanced weapons systems that
alter strategic balance between Israel and
JNS.ORG
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responded to the reports, and Kurdish officials say they are false.
However, another post on her Facebook page is addressed to people concerned about her. Gill is safe and she
is not active on Facebook [be]cause she
has no Internet access, her friend Oliver
Brimo wrote.
The Foreign Ministry released a statement saying it was following the reports
but had not received any requests for help
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Across
Down
1. West of Hollywood?
4. Desirable etrog
8. The sabbatical year once wiped it out
12. Attitude of many Jews toward
Christian Zionism
13. Ladino love
14. Bekex is the slang Hebrew term for
your cars back one
15. Something to do at a break-the-fast
16. Entebbes was called Thunderbolt
18. Kind of denial
20. Nonna ___ (kosher restaurant in
Rome nothings better)
21. Synonym for the Hebrew-origin word
brouhaha
22. Airport for Senator Brian Schatz
(D-Hawaii)
23. Symptom of tzaraat, the Biblical malady sometimes translated as leprosy
24. Hello, ___ (TV catchphrase)
26. Where to find a mohel
28. Ingredient in bamba
29. Lend ___ to my prayer... (Psalms
17:1)
30. Warner ___ Studio
31. Ari Gold of Entourage and others
(abbr.)
32. She sang O Little Town of
Bethlehem on her 1967 Christmas
album
35. Tikkun Olam is a Jewish one
38. Second person in Israel?
39. Cuts back on restrictions regarding
Jewish immigration to Canada
43. It helps Jewish communities in the
FSU
44. ___ Chatimah Tovah (May you be
sealed in the Book of Life)
45. Four-foot-seven advice-giver of note
46. Theyre found all over the Temple on
Purim
48. Marked shivah
49. ___arim (Womens College in
Jerusalem)
50. Many a JDater, once
51. Guest band?
54. Mike Nichols or Harold Ramis
56. Lamentations?
57. Jews ate Hydrox instead before it
became kosher
58. 2013s Thanksgivukkah was surrounded by it
59. Bane of todays Middle East
60. The Lesser Crested type has been
known to fly over Eilat
61. Observed
62. Place for Daniel
1. Christopher who wrote the 16th-century

play The Jew of Malta
2. Film Ben Affleck should watch again,
given his recent comments
3. The Hebrew one has an aleph on top
4. Wallenberg who disappeared in 1945
5. Some Isaac Bashevis Singer creatures
6. Emma Lazarus or Allen Ginsberg
7. Put your tallis on backwards
8. People in their twenties go to shadchanim to get them
9. What yordim are doing to Israel
10. You shall ___ the memory of Amalek
(Deuteronomy 25:19)
11. Some Jewish farmers in the Byzantine
period
12. Some mezuzahs
15. African country where the House of
Israel of the Sewfi tribe built a synagogue
17. Saperstein and Vigoda
19. Conservative Coulter who said Jews
need to be perfected
23. House actress Edelstein
25. Something for Purim or Halloween
26. Jane Yolens young adult novel ___
Rose
27. Place for a kippah
30. It comes betwen Zeta and Tau on
some campuses
31. On the seventh of this month, Moses
was born and died
33. They were once offered on Yom
Kippur
34. It never goes out
35. You can find them opposite Rashi
36. Place to put your kittel
37. Mearas partner in work and love
40. Root meaning of the verb
Vkiyemanu from the Shehecheyanu
41. Coen and Zohn
42. Feels nachas
44. Eur. country of yekkies
45. Son of Jacob and Bilhah
47. Rossitano worked for her on 30
Rock
48. In Jerusalem, it indicates Shabbat is
coming
51. Former teen idol Ione
52. Skunk voiced by Mel
53. Experience a war like Egypt did in
1967
55. Toronto multi-campus day school
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 51.
Arts & Culture
Zero Motivation
A womans look at women in the Israeli military
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
ets face it! There is a very strong

sense that Israel today is a society that men largely dominate.
We certainly see this in the
majority of Israeli films, and in various
other aspects of Israeli life.
We looked at photographs and films
from earlier times, showing men and
women working side by side in the field or
defending the country together, weapons
in hand. Today, we are treated to stories of
Israeli women pilots and tank commanders. But what percentage of pilots and
commanders are women? Do men and
women soldiers walk side by side through
the streets of Gaza?
And how many Israeli film directors are
women? Are they challenging the system
and asking tough questions? First-time feature film director Talya Lavie has stepped
up and taken on that task in her new film,
Zero Motivation. Her mission seems to
be to tell a different story about women in
the Israel Defense Forces.

Ms. Lavies film focuses on three women
who are jobnikim, pencil-pushers in the
human resources office of an army base in
the south of Israel. Two of these women,
Zohar and Daffi, played by Dana Ivgy and
Nelly Trager, are close friends who fend for
each other, at least as the film opens. The
other key character is their senior officer
Rama, played by Shani Klein, who aspires
to climb the ranks, and who eats her way
to ever expanding obesity. The fun begins
when Zohar and Daffi arrive back at camp
after a weekend leave and we meet the
unit. While the base seems to be buzzing
with productive activity, all the women
seem to be doing is playing video games,
singing pop songs, shredding paper, and
preparing coffee. Is that all that women
in Israels armed forces do? And although
Rama may sit with all the male officers at
a staff briefing, it becomes clear that her
only role there is to make sure that refreshments are brought to the table in a timely
manner. Is this really the way it is?
Zero Motivation is Ms. Lavies attempt

to satirize a womans mandatory military
service in the IDF. Ms. Lavie spent her own
time in the army as a secretary. In a meeting in Soho last week, she spoke about
nearly dying of boredom during that time.
She wanted to provide a more realistic
account of what IDF service is like, mixing
the extraordinary with the mundane, slapstick with heartbreak. To be sure, there are
fun moments, like when the Russian-born
soldier believes she has seen a ghost, or
when Zohar rearranges the office filing system. At the same time, there is the grim,
as when a woman smuggles herself onto
the base to seek out her boyfriend, only
to find him with someone else, or when
once-close friends turn on each other.
Truth or not, Ms. Lavies depiction is tough
and biting.
I cannot say enough about Dana Ivgy
and Shani Kleins acting. Ms. Ivgy excels at
playing a brat. She is at one moment innocent, Daffis best friend, and at another
Daffis greatest foe and evil personified.
She plays her part with incredible skill. Ms.

Klein does remarkable work as the clueless
officer who cannot catch a break. She certainly gets no respect!
Talya Lavie studied filmmaking at the
Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem and
spent the next few years writing television dramas and making short films. She
worked on Zero Motivation while she
was a participant at the Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Lab, and she both
wrote and directed the film. Zero Motivation won the Best Narrative Feature
Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in the
spring.
Zero Motivation is not your average
film. If you are ready to both laugh and cry
and if you can handle the satire, it is a film
worth seeing. Certainly Talya Lavie has a
new and original take on Israeli army life.
The film is playing at Film Forum in Manhattan through December 16.
Eric Goldman teaches film at Yeshiva
University.
Calendar
their young children,
9-10:30 a.m. Music, crafts,
and snack. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
preschool@bethrishon.
org.
Friday
DECEMBER 5
Shabbat in River
Edge: Temple Avodat
Shalom offers camp/
rock Shabbat. Tot
Shabbat at 5:30 p.m.,
camp-style service at
6, dinner, and a song
session. 385 Howland
Ave. Reservations,
(201) 489-2463.
Film in Emerson: As part

of the One Book One
Community project,
sponsored by the JFNNJ,
Congregation Bnai
Israel screens Snow in
August, 1:30 p.m.; next,
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
will lead discussion
on Helene Weckers
The Golem and the
Jinni. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
hosts its casual Billy
Joel Shabbat service,
with traditional prayers
set to the melodies of
Billy Joel songs, as part
of the shuls monthly
special Shabbat services,
7:30 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
Ruach Shabbat services
led by Rabbi David S.
Widzer and Cantor Rica
Timman, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Joshua Nelson, the Prince of Kosher

Gospel, is in concert at the JCC of Fort
Lee/Congregation Gesher Shalom on
Saturday, December 6, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets
are sold at the door. 1449 Anderson Ave. (201) 9471735 or geshershalom.org.
DEC.
Saturday
DECEMBER 6
Prospective members
welcome. Route 4 East.
Past Commander Stan
Hoffman, (201) 836-0814.
in September 2015,
10:15 a.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801,
ext. 12.
Rivka Press Schwartz

Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rivka Press Schwartz,
director of general
studies at the Frisch
School, is scholarin-residence at
Congregation Netivot
Shalom. Tonight at
7:45 p.m., she will discuss
a response to the Rabbi
Freundel mikvah crisis.
On Saturday morning,
her topic is Privilege,
Perspective, and the
Modern Orthodox
Community, and in
the afternoon she will
discuss Choosing to be
Obligated: The Paradox
of Observance in the
Contemporary World.
811 Palisades Ave.
netivotshalomnj.org.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
offers Shabbat Tikvah,
a service of inspiration
and renewal, 8 p.m.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org.
Klezmer in Fair Lawn:

Isle of Klezbos performs
at the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel. Doors open
at 7:30 p.m.; Havdalah
at 7:45, concert at 8.
Sponsorships available.
Hosted by sisterhood.
10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Sunday
DECEMBER 7
Holiday boutique in
Franklin Lakes: The
sisterhood of Barnert
Temple holds a boutique
with more than 40
booths and an onsite
cafe, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Mastercard and Visa
accepted. 747 Route 208
South. (201) 848-1027 or
vfarhi@barnerttemple.
org.
War veterans meet

in Hackensack: The
Teaneck/New Milford
Post #498 Jewish War
Veterans meets for
breakfast at the Coach
House Diner, 9 a.m.
Bazaar in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth holds
its annual bazaar,
with a food court,
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Chanukah in Jersey
City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob continues
its Lox n Learning
series with a Chanukah
party featuring singer/
accordionist Ben Laden.
Games, prizes, latkes,
10 a.m. $5 donation
requested. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds Club Katan
for children who will
begin kindergarten
Players presents Alice

in Wonderland The
Musical for the Kaplen
Professional Childrens
Theater series, 2 p.m.
Group rates; birthday
parties arranged.
411 East Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1493 or www.
jccotp.org.
Eric Goldman
Movie talk in Teaneck:
Eric Goldman, film critic
for the Jewish Standard,
discusses Horror Flicks
and the Supernational
In the Movies Whats
Jewish About That?
for parents and teens.
Hosted by the Bergen
County High School of
Jewish Studies as part
of Jewish Federation
of Northern New
Jerseys One Book, One
Community program, at
Maayanot Yeshiva High
School for Girls, 11:45 a.m.
Co-sponsored by Temple
Beth Or, Temple Israel &
JCC, Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley, the
Glen Rock Jewish Center,
Temple Emeth, JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, and the
JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom. 1650 Palisade
Ave. (201) 488-0834 or
www.bchsjs.org.
Jews of Spain: Rabbi

Ephraim Kanarfogel is
the guest lecturer for a
lunch and learn at Young
Israel of Fort Lee, noon.
Rabbi Kanarfogel, the
E. Billi Ivri Professor of
Jewish History, Literature,
and Law, at Yeshiva
University, discusses The
Aliyah of 300 Rabbis to
Israel in 1210: Motives
and Messages. Light
lunch. 1610 Parker Ave.
(201) 592-1518 or yiftlee.
org.
Film in Glen Rock: The

Glen Rock Jewish Center
Film Series presents
Under the Same Sun
and a discussion with
Isaac Zablocki, director
of the Israel Film Center,
at the shul, 4 p.m.
Light refreshments.
682 Harristown Road.
(201) 652-6624.
Childrens program in
Paramus: The Jewish
Community Center of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah continues
its Sunday Specials
series with a Chanukah
workshop for 4- to
7-year-olds, 9:30 a.m.
Monthly activities include
songs, crafts, bouncy
castle, science, and
cooking. Nut-free snacks.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7733 or
edudirector@jccparamus.
org.
Childrens theater
in Tenafly: Pushcart
Rabbi Ephraim
Kanarfogel
Womens book club

in Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
offers a discussion of
Sarah Smileys book,
Dinner with the
Smileys, at the center,
7 p.m. Refreshments.
194 Ratzer Road. Chani,
(973) 694-6274 or
chanig@jewishwayne.
com.
Monday
DECEMBER 8
Nursery school open
house in Wyckoff: The
Andrew Friedland Early
Childhood Learning
Center at Temple Beth
Rishon holds an open
house for parents and
Film talk in Tenafly:

The Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly
screens Barbara,
7:30 p.m., as part of a
series, Top Films You
May Have Missed (or
want to see again).
Harold Chapler
introduces the film and
leads the discussion
afterward. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493.
Tuesday
DECEMBER 9
Pre-Chanukah
celebration in
Washington Twp:
Pascack Valley/Northern
Valley Hadassah meets
to celebrate Chanukah at
the Bergen County YJCC.
Songs performed by
Cantor Sarah Silverberg
of Temple Beth Or.
Refreshments, 7:30 p.m.;
program at 8. Grab bag
bring a wrapped gift
worth $10; get a gift. 605
Pascack Road. Susan,
(201) 573-8351.
Calendar
Wednesday
In New York Wednesday
DECEMBER 10
Sunday
Latkes and lattes in

Haskell: The Jewish
Womens Circle offers
Latkes and Lattes
at the Chabad Jewish
Center, 7:30 p.m. 1069
Ringwood Ave., Suite 101.
(718) 501-2162 or Esty@
JewishHighlands.org.
Thursday
DECEMBER 11
Challah making
in Montebello: The
sisterhood of the
Montebello Jewish
Center hosts a class to
prepare for Shabbat,
including learning how to
make and braid a challah,
7:30 p.m. 34 Montebello
Road, Montebello, N.Y.
(845) 357-2430.
Observing mitzvot:
The Jewish Learning
Experience continues
a three-part series,
Trying to Find Meaning
in Mitzvah Observance,
led by Rabbi Mark
Staum, at Congregation
Beth Aaron in Teaneck,
8:15 p.m. Also Dec. 18.
950 Queen Anne Road.
(201) 966-4498 or www.
jle.org.
Friday
DECEMBER 12
Mah jongg at museum:

Rabbi Jesse Horn
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rabbi Jesse Horn is the
scholar-in-residence
at Congregation Beth
Aaron. At 7:45 p.m. he
will discuss Noach,
Yonah, Lot, and Avraham:
What It Takes to Start Up
a Nation. At 2:50 p.m. on
Shabbat afternoon he will
speak about Shimshons
Leadership, Individuality,
and Central Role in
Sefer Shoftim. Between
Mincha and Maariv the
topic will be Shevach:
What Are the First Three
Brachot of the Shemona
Esrei All About? 950
Queen Anne Road.
(201) 836-6210.
Shabbat in South
Orange: Author
Dr. Jay Michaelson
discusses Evolving
Dharma: Meditation
and Enlightenment in
the Jewish Context at
Temple Sharey TefiloIsraels end-of-year
Shabbat Scholar and
Supper program, 6 p.m.
432 Scotland Road.
Tracy, (973) 763-4116 or
www.tsti.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers a
special musical service
featuring English
horn player Keisuke
Ikuma of the New York
Philharmonic, 7:30 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.
The Museum of Jewish

Heritage A Living
Memorial to the
Holocaust holds the
fourth annual Mah Jongg
Marathon, noon-5 p.m.
Proceeds will benefit
the museum. 36 Battery
Place. (646) 437-4202 or
www.mjhnyc.org.
Jewish DNA: Genealogy

expert Bennett
Greenspan discusses
DNA of the Jewish
People at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the
Holocaust, 2:30 p.m.
Dr. Greenspan is the
president of Family Tree
DNA. 36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.
mjhnyc.org.
DECEMBER 11
Chanukah in NYC:
DECEMBER 7
Comical tribute to Joan

Rivers: The Museum
of Jewish Heritage A
Holocaust welcomes top
comics Brad Zimmerman,
Cory Kahaney, and Tom
Cotter for a multimedia
tribute, Can We Talk?
Remembering Joan
Rivers, 7 p.m. 36 Battery
Place. (646) 437-4202 or
www.mjhnyc.org.
The Young Friends

of the Museum of
Jewish Heritage A
Holocaust, hosts Light
Up The Night, 8 p.m.
The annual party in
the museums special
events hall, with 500
guests, includes dancing,
premium open bar,
dinner buffet with sushi
and latkes, and a highend raffle. All proceeds
benefit the museum.
36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.
mjhnyc.org.
Shul program will hear

Killing Kasziner director
Dr. Leonard Cole
Shabbat in Glen
Rock: Congregant and
bioterrorism expert Dr.
Leonard Cole discusses
Israel and Mid-East
Events at the Glen Rock
Jewish Center, 8 p.m.
Dessert. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624 or
email office@grjc.org.
Dr. Jay Michaelson
DECEMBER 10
Thursday
Saturday
DECEMBER 13
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel & JCC
participates in Gun
Violence Prevention
Shabbat, during services,
9 a.m. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
Chanukah Family Fun
for 3- to 7-year-olds with
parents/grandparents,
led by Marla Levine
with music by Cantor
Ellen Tilem, 9:30 a.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-8466.
Film in Teaneck:
Temple Emeths adult
education program,
BYachad, and a new
committee, Viewpoints,
host a screening of The
Secrets, 3 p.m., followed
by discussion and
Havdalah. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322.
The adult education committee

of Congregation Rinat Yisrael
in Teaneck will screen Killing
Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt
with Nazis on Saturday, December 6, at 7:30 p.m. Gaylen Ross,
the films producer and director,
will introduce the film and moderate the discussion.
Rezso Kasztner, known as the
Jewish Schindler, negotiated
face-to-face with Adolf Eichmann, rescuing 1,700 Jews on
a train to Switzerland, and saving tens of thousands more. But
Kasztner was condemned as a
traitor in Israel, accused as a collaborator in a trial that divided
the nation.
The shul is at 389 W. Englewood Ave., in Teaneck. For information, call (201) 837-2795.
Teaneck vigil to honor

26 victims of Newtown
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey will hold a vigil to honor the
memory of the 20 children and 6 adults who were murdered two
years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The vigil is set for Sunday, December 14, from 4 to 5 p.m., at Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road in Teaneck. Participants are asked
to bring flashlights. It will be held indoors if the weather makes it
necessary.
Elected officials and community and religious leaders have been
invited.
The vigil is organized by the Bergen County Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence and National Council of Jewish Women Bergen
County Section, who encourage the public to support their efforts
by working with them to bring about legislation designed to end
gun violence.
Singles
Sunday
DECEMBER 7
Square dance: To
celebrate Chanukah,
the North Jersey Jewish
Singles Meetup Group,
45-60+, at the Clifton
Jewish Center hosts
a square dance with
professional caller Dan
Tapper, noon. Brunch
served. $20. 18 Delaware
St. (973) 772-3131 or
www.meetup.com (use
group name).
Sunday
DECEMBER 14
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meets for a social
bagel and lox brunch
at the JCC Rockland,
11 a.m. 450 West Nyack
Road. $8. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.
Shirah to perform
Chanukah concert
The Shirah Community Chorus on the
Palisades, led by founding director and
conductor Matthew Lazar and associate
conductor Marsha Bryan Edelman, will
perform its 21st annual Chanukah concert
on Sunday, December 14, at 1:30 p.m., at
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly.
The program will feature celebratory
songs from the Jewish choral tradition in
Hebrew, English, Yiddish, and Ladino. The
concert is free through the generosity of
the Weinflash family. A dessert reception
will follow. To reserve tickets, call (201)
408-1465.
JFSNJ offers
benefit shopping
opportunity
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey has
teamed up with six local retailers in a fundraising effort, Shop For Good, through
December 11. Stores will donate a portion
of each sale when their customers mention JFSNJ.
Participating stores are Red Velvet Luxe
in Ridgewood, Tapestrie in Englewood
and Summit, the Image Gallery in Wayne,
the Toy Box in Franklin Lakes and Ramsey,
Sal Lauretta for Men in Midland Park, and
Lets Pretend.
For information on JFSNJ, call (973) 5950111 or go to www.jfsnorthjersey.org.
Jewish World
Building bridges
On being black, Jewish, and challenging ideas about the face of federation
REBECCA SPENCE
hen Ilana Kaufman, a program officer at the San

Francisco Jewish Community Federation, arrived
at San Quentin State Prison for a meeting
with the Jewish chaplain at Californias
oldest correctional facility, the chaplain
couldnt seem to find her even though
Kaufman was standing in plain sight.
As Kaufman waited in the receiving
area, a security officer by her side, the
spiritual leader of the prison community
largely composed of men of color turned
her head left and right trying to locate the
federation representative whose name she
knew but whose face she had never seen.
Finally the officer says, Chaplain,
this person standing right next to me,
Kaufman recalled. And the chaplain says,
You know, you are not who I expected.
It wasnt the first time that Kaufman, 42,
had heard such a comment.
In her two years as the federation officer
responsible for regional grant allocations
in Marin and Sonoma counties, Kaufman
had seen her fair share of jaws drop when
she walked into a Jewish communal space.
Kaufman is black the daughter of an
Ashkenazic Jewish mother and an AfricanAmerican father.
There is a deeply established set of
assumptions about who represents federation, said Kaufman, who stands nearly
6 feet tall. So when I walk into a space
where theyve seen my name, which is a
very traditional Jewish name, they cannot
fathom that a person of color is going to
walk in the door.
North Americas central Jewish charities employ many non-Jewish people of
color some at high levels of management, including an Asian-American chief
financial and investment officer at the San
Francisco federation. But Kaufman, having
reached out via email and social media to
colleagues across the federation system,
has yet to identify any other Jews of color
working in forward-facing programming
roles.
The Jewish Federations of North America,
the umbrella group of 153 federated charities, does not track the racial and ethnic
composition of its approximately 2,700
employees. In response to questions about
the role of racial and ethnic diversity at Jewish federations, a JFNA spokesman said,
Jewish federations enjoy a tremendous
commitment to inclusivity and diversity,
one that is highly reflective of the different
kinds of Jews there are in our communities,
vis-a-vis Jews of different ethnic origin, Jews
across the religious spectrum and interfaith
families, among others.
Kaufman was raised in San Franciscos
Western Addition neighborhood by a

hard-working single mother who spoke
to her in Yiddish. Kaufman, who is a lesbian, now lives with her almost 9-yearold-daughter, Noa, in Berkeley, Calif., and
has a long-term partner. While she was
growing up, her struggling family often
benefited from Jewish philanthropy, and
Kaufman attended a Jewish summer camp
on scholarship.
She spent 20 years working in independent school education and administration.
Most recently, Kaufman served as director
of the Windrush School, a private elementary school in the East Bay city of El Cerrito, which was forced to shut down in 2011
as a result of the economic downturn.
After the school closed, Kaufman
embarked on a search to find a job that
would totally rock my world, she said.
Kaufman was steeped in her Jewish identity: Her daughter had attended
Hebrew school since the age of 6, and she
was part of a diverse Bay Area social network that included other Jews of color and
LGBT Jews. But she had never considered
a career in Jewish communal life.
That changed when she visited Afikomen Judaica, a Jewish bookstore and Judaica shop in Berkeley, and encountered the
shops co-owner, Nell Mahgel-Friedman,
an old friend from her Jewish Student
Union days at Humboldt State University.
Mahgel-Friedman said that she remembered Kaufmans passionate commitment
to social justice issues and deep spiritual
connection to Judaism, as well as her role
in bringing Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach to
the Humboldt campus in 1994. She looked
Kaufman squarely in the eyes and said, I
just want you to consider working in the
Jewish community.
The statement resonated so deeply,
Kaufman said, that for the first time she
could envision a career that would bring
her social, spiritual, and professional
lives into tighter alignment. By October
2012, she had begun her work at the San
Francisco federation, known officially
as the Jewish Community Federation of
San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and
Sonoma Counties.
Maybe its not coincidental, Kaufman
said. But I came out of an independent
school world thats equally rarefied. My
purpose in the world has always been to
be a bridge.
In her role at the federation, Kaufman
allocates grants in Marin and Sonoma
counties. Her program officer portfolio
includes the Early Childhood Education
Initiative and the Affordability Initiative,
which provides federation scholarships
for Jewish education from preschool to
day school.
Jim Offel, the San Francisco federations
Ilana Kaufman and her daughter, Noa.
ILANA KAUFMAN
interim CEO, said that Kaufman brings a

really keen intelligence, thoughtfulness,
and high level of commitment to her work.
He also said that if its true that Kaufman
is the systems only program officer of
color its impossible to say with certainty, given the lack of data it wouldnt
be the first first for their federation. In
2010, the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation became the first big-city
federation to hire a female CEO, Jennifer
Gorovitz, who left in March.
Theres a likelihood that the Jewish
community will become more diverse in
a variety of ways, and being inclusive of
the full Jewish community is going to be
important for any communal institution,
whether its our synagogues or JCCs, Offel
said. Diversity as a value is important,
and I would hope that the federation system would reflect that.
According to a 2005 study conducted by
the late Jewish demographer Gary Tobin,
10 percent of Americas approximately
6 million Jews identify as black, Latino,
Asian, or mixed race. A 2011 Jewish Community Study of New York, the American
city with the largest Jewish population,
found that 12 percent of the citys Jewish
population is nonwhite.
These figures reflect wider demographic
changes, according to Diane Tobin, the
CEO of Bechol Lashon, a San Franciscobased nonprofit that promotes racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in Jewish life.
Diane Tobin, the widow of Gary Tobin,
pointed to the 2010 U.S. Census, which
found that among American children, the
multiracial population had increased by
50 percent in 10 years.
Informally, Kaufman works with Bechol
Lashon on capacity building, and it was
the organizations 2013 International
Think Tank that sparked her search for
other Jews of color in the federation system. In mid-November, Kaufman and her
daughter attended the organizations Family Camp weekend retreat in Petaluma,

Calif.
Were gratified that the federation is
making space for leaders like Ilana who
bring a different perspective and experience, Tobin said. Were also delighted
that Ilana is serving as a role model for our
diverse Jewish kids.
Chava Shervington, president of the Jewish Multiracial Network, a volunteer organization that promotes diversity in Jewish
life, said that mainstream Jewish communal organizations are finally starting to get
it to begin to understand. Over the past
decade, she said, an increasing number of
synagogues and Jewish groups from across
the country have gotten in touch with JMN,
seeking counsel on how they can be more
welcoming to Jews of color.
Last summer, a JMN representative
spoke at the UJA-Federation of New Yorks
day of learning dedicated to racial and ethnic diversity.
Jewish organizations, whether they be
large communal organizations like the federations or local community synagogues,
are starting to see the changing face of
Judaism in the American context, Shervington said. I think that people are starting to realize that they have to change their
modus operandi to reflect that.
Theres also the issue of a bottom line.
If the numbers are any indicator of the
federation systems future constituency,
then the North American philanthropic
network has a strong financial incentive
to bring more Jews of color into the fold,
Kaufman said.
There are moral reasons mainstream
Jewish organizations should be more
inclusive, organizational development reasons, she said. And then theres a strong
business rationale for being inclusive of
the broadest range of possible donors.

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Obituaries
Abe Baron
Abe Baron, 89, of Fairfield, Conn., died on Nov.

25.
Born in Warsaw, he
was a Holocaust survivor
who was liberated from
Buchenwald.
He is survived by his
wife of 67 years, Sari-Stern
Baron, children, Barbara
Gildin of Teaneck, and
Joseph of Florida; six
grandchildren, and 12
great-grandchildren.
Contributions can be
made to the Jewish Home
at Rockleigh or Hospice VNA of Englewood.
Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Samuel Bloom
Samuel J. Bloom of Wayne,

formerly of Paramus, died
on November 26.
Before retiring, he was a
CPA in New York and New
Jersey.
Predeceased by a sister,
Lily Hirsh, he is survived
by his wife of 66 years,
Idelle, daughters, Elayne
Marks (Robert) of Woodcliff Lake, and Laura L.
Squillace (Captain Ronald) of Franklin Lakes, and
four grandchildren.
Donations can be sent
to the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home,
Paramus. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Jerome Glanzberg
Jerome A. Glanzberg of
Franklin Lakes, formerly
of Teaneck, died on
November 28.
Born in Brooklyn, he
was a U.S. Army veteran
of the Korean War and an
executive in the trucking
industry.
wife, Evelyn, ne Nelson,
children, Bruce (Robin),
Gary (Sherry), and Nancy
Steinfeld (the late Ned);
a brother, George (Gail),
and seven grandchildren.
sent to the Arbor Day
Foundation. Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant
Hackensack.
Eugene Kneloff
Eugene Kneloff, 80, of

Fort Lee died on November 21.
Born in New York City,
he was an artist and
worked in advertising for
Ames Wire in New York.
wife of 54 years, Joan, ne
Kaufman. Arrangements
were by Eden Memorial
Chapels, Fort Lee.
Corrine Leslie
Corrine Leslie, ne Kagan,

84, of Ridgefield died on
December 1.
Born in Jersey City,
she was a secretary for
Day Leslie Accounting in
Ridgefield before retiring.
Predeceased by her
husband, Joseph, she is
survived by her children,
Glenn and Diane Bizub;
six grandchildren, and
three great-grandchildren.
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Irwin Pachter
Irwin M. Pachter, 83,

of Fort Lee died on
November 25.
Born in New York
City, he was a U.S. Army
veteran of the Korean
War. Before retiring, he
was a pharmacist and
owned Pachter Pharmacy
on Second Avenue in
Manhattan.
wife, Elaine, ne Borden,
daughters, Tamar of San
Francisco and Sharon of
Brooklyn; a sister, Lucille
Gruber of Brooklyn;
two stepchildren,
Nancy Lieberman of
Manhattan and Glenn
Littman of California; two

grandchildren, and four
step-grandchildren.
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Benjamin Sterman
Benjamin Sterman, 88,

of Fair Lawn died on
November 23.
He earned a bachelors
and masters degree in
electrical engineering from
City College of New York.
He was a member of the
Fair Lawn Amateur Radio
Club and PC Users Group
in Paramus.
Predeceased by his wife
of over 60 years, Mildred,
he is survived by his
children, Barbara Helen
Sterman (Michael Reuveni)
of Israel, Martin (Annette
Schwartz-Sterman) of
Massachusetts, and Arlene
of Fair Lawn, and three
grandchildren.
to the American Society
for Protection of Nature
in Israel, Great Neck, N.Y.
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Anne Sugarman
Anne S. Sugarman, ne
Maliney, 75, formerly
of Washington, D.C.,
and Emerson, died on
November 27.
Born in London, she
came to the U.S. in 1960
and was a teacher at the
Berdan Institute in Totowa.
Predeceased by a
brother, Mark, she is
survived by daughters, Lisa
Bernstein (Adam), Dara
Oberer (Ernie), and Laurie
Lupien, and grandchildren,
Ethan, Wyatt, and Emily.

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Alice Trost
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87, of Oradell died on
November 26.
She worked up until
the time of her death as a
bookkeeper for the Jewish
Standard. Before that she
worked for the Factory
Outlet Shopping Guide
for many years. She was a
longtime member of the
Jewish Community Center
of Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah.
Predeceased by her
siblings, Saul Yevelson
and Irene Yevelson of
New York, and cousins,
including Ruth Janoff of
Teaneck, she is survived by
her husband of 55 years,
Milton; her children, Laurence (Kim) of Maryland,
and Mindy Galpern (Marc)
of Pennsylvania; three
grandchildren, Jeremy,
Kyley, and Beth; a sister-inlaw, Lila Yevelson of New
York; many cousins and
their families, including
James Janoff of Teaneck
and Beth Chananie (Robert) of Paramus; nieces and
nephews, including Edy
Silverstein (Steve) of Paramus, and great-nieces and
great-nephews.
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cabinets, nor the built-ins in your living room or den. All
it takes to create the look of newness and perhaps eliminate that outdated light color of your cabinets is staining
those wood structures, drawers and doors.
When you start looking at stain colors, its easy to get
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seem so similar in tone, that you may find yourself
stumped to such a degree that you cant even decide
between light and dark wood stain.
To help you choose a stain color for your cabinetry,
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Test colors against your existing hardwood floor
color. The shade of your cabinet stain shouldnt
match exactly. You need some color contrast to allow
the beautiful finish of your cabinets to stand out. A
coordinating shade is ideal. Its a common error
among home remodelers to forget to place stain color
samples against their existing flooring and even ceiling
colors.
Think about how light, medium, and dark stains
perform with your rooms theme and style. Lighter
stains can, of course, brighten casual spaces and go
well with a country-themed room. Medium stains
such as chestnut suit more traditional decor in your
rooms design, adding richness and warmth while
easily complementing many different types of wood
in your home. And medium stains can extend beyond
wood colors to exotic hues such as pink and green
for a more whimsical or even spa-inspired color
design. Dark stains such as ebony and mahogany
create a rich, stylish look for a room, complementing
modern interiors. Dark stain is a top trend now,
complementing non-wood pieces such as a clawfoot
tub or pedestal sinks whose colors pop alongside
darker custom cabinetry.
Consider your wood species. According to the
experts at The Furniture Guild, the species of wood
you selected for your ... custom cabinetry will greatly
affect your selection of wood stain color. Oak is
considered the easiest wood to stain and gives you
the greatest amount of color options. Cabinetry (and
wood flooring) made of maple, birch and coniferous
wood such as pine or fir are difficult to stain evenly
and look best when left in their natural hues. Its a
factor to consider, since some of these woods come in
a more limited number of shades. Talk to your paint
store expert to get helpful lessons in different woods
grain sizes and pores to understand better what goes
into your staining process and color choice.
Explore classic and exotic wood stains. For
instance, basic wood stain colors may be oak or
pine, and youll also find exotic wood stain colors
such as black forest bamboo, caramel bamboo,
ebony, rosewood, wenge, and a striped effect called
zebrawood, among other shades suitable for different
wood types.
Think about lighting and traffic. Lighter-colored
stains will generally show the woods knots and
whorls, and any dust or pet hairs on your cabinetry
wont be as visible as they would on darker stain. Even
scratches on your cabinets can be less evident. Darker
stains will camouflage woods natural imperfections
or make knots less visible, but scratches, dust and pet
hair will be more visible.
Complement the other wood tones and design
details in your home. If you already have wood
furniture in the room, youll want to select a wood
stain color that complements your existing piece. Keep in

mind that the wood flooring leading from your bedroom or
hallway and leading into your bathroom will play a big role
in helping you select your cabinetry wood stain colors, so
that the shades and tones leading into your bathroom create
a beautiful flow of hues and wood details.
Decide between water-based and oil-based color
stains. The experts at DIY Network say, There are several
advantages to using water-based color stains. For one thing,
they offer a range and intensity of colors that oil-based stains
cant begin to offer. For another, they can be used without
the need for ventilation, since they produce no dangerous
fumes, and cleanup is simple just soap and water.

The DIY Network experts say, Stains add color but dont
protect wood, so some type of sealant must be used. Dont
use polyurethane, though: It always adds a slight yellow tint.
Instead, use a water-based finish, which can be applied with
either a brush or an aerosol spray.
To help you get started considering wood finishes for
your custom bathroom remodel, review the Furniture Guilds
helpful chart: http://thefurnitureguild.com/#finishes. Or visit
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The Gym honored Breast Cancer Awareness Month with fundraising events at its
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