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Beautifying a
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bench
l We saw this on Facebook last

week and just had to marvel.

Yael Ben-Israel snapped this
photo of an embroidery-enhanced street bench on Derech
Beit Lechem in Jerusalem.
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the story behind the stitchery?
At deadline, we have leads
to investigate, but nothing to
report. Stay tuned!
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Can the sabra cactus save the world?

l Someday soon, the world will run on sabra-

based biofuel, if British scientist and eco-entrepreneur Mike Mason has his way.
Biofuels, such as the corn-based ethanol
added to gasoline, have been controversial
not least because the crops raised for fuel
displace food crops.
Thats why we need plants that grow fast
in areas where food crops dont grow, Mr.
Mason told New Scientist magazine. The
solution is a largely overlooked category of
plants that includes cacti such as prickly pear
and other succulents. They grow in semi-arid
places too dry for rain-fed food crops.
Prickly pears, of course, are known in
Hebrew as sabra. Native to Mexico, they were
imported to Israel where they are variously
farmed and spurned as an invasive weed
species.
But for Mr. Mason, they offer the promise
of a better tomorrow.
They produce a lot of biomass for very
little water, he explained.
Worldwide, he said, theres an area the size

If you see
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the central Louisiana community of

Gardner last week, when signs appeared written in a foreign language
that, for all the nearly 2000 members
of Garner knew, might well be Arabic.

Those who called the sheriffs office,

however, were reassured that the signs
actually said Welcome home, Yamit,
were written in Hebrew, and were in no
way affiliated with ISIS. Larry Yudelson

of India worth of semi-arid land suitable for

growing the fruit-bearing cactus. If that was
all farmed with sabras, and the plants were
properly fermented to produce gas, they
could in theory produce as much electricity
as is currently produced globally from
burning natural gas.
He sees his biggest challenge as figuring
out how to speed up fermentation. The
rumens of cows do the same thing up to 30
times as fast. If we could copy that, we could
slash costs, he said.
Meanwhile, the fermentation process
produces water, which can be used to raise
fish.
We ought to be able to produce energy,
protein and water all from the same land, he
said.
My aim is billion-ton emission-reduction
projects, to keep serious amounts of carbon
out of the atmosphere, he said. The
emissions from creating all this energy will
be low. It could have a real effect on curbing
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capable of firing arrows with the

capability of wounding or even killing
a human
According to JTA, thats what Hamas said about a sea mammal it alleged
to be an Israeli-equipped spy-dolphin, caught because of its suspicious
movements.

FRIENDS, REALLY:

Efron gets cozy

with mentors girl
We Are Your
Friends, which
opens on August 29,
stars Zac Efron (whose
paternal grandfather
was Jewish) as a
struggling young DJ in
the electronic dance
music scene who
dreams of becoming a
big-time record producer. Things get complicated when he falls for
Sophie, the girlfriend of
an older DJ who is his
mentor. The film marks
the feature directorial
debut of MAX JOSEPH,
33, who also co-wrote
the film. He and NEV
SCHULMAN, 33, are the
guys behind the Catfish movie and MTV TV
series. (Youve seen
either, you know they
appear on camera, too.)
Joseph told the Vulture website in 2013:
Nev and I both grew up
in New York City, and we
were both upper-middle-class Jewish kids
and weve been both
been in therapy since we
were in middle school.
Sophie is played by
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI,
24, who is trying to build
an acting career after
years of success as a
fashion model, Sports
Illustrated swimsuit
model, and music video
eye candy. A dark-haired
beauty, Emily has been
blessed with a pretty
face and an incredible
natural figure . But looks
only get you so far and

her new film may be a

career crossroads: Can
she act as well as look
good? Her only other
acting role, playing
Ben Afflecks mistress
in Gone Girl, merely
required her to appear in
a brief semi-nude scene
and act okay (which
she did) in a very few
other scenes.
Ratajkowskis mother,
who is Jewish, teaches
at a San Diego Jewish
school and, in one interview, the actress seemed
to say that she identifies
as Jewish. Ratajkowski
is articulate in interviews
and certainly doesnt fit
the fashion-model ditz
stereotype and on
the pure gossip front,
she just told The Today
Show that things are
going great with her
boyfriend of a year (Jeff
Magid, a musician who I
think is Jewish).
Reports say that
singers MADISON
BEER, 16, and JACK
GILINSKY, 18, are a
romantic item. They may
be the youngest Jewish
celeb couple ever. Very
short bios: Beer is a
protg of Justin Bieber.
He saw her sing At
Last on YouTube and
tweeted her performance out to his 25
million Twitter followers.
She now is managed by
SCOOTER BRAUN, 34,
who discovered Bieber
on YouTube. Beer now
has one million twitter

Max Joseph

Jack Gilinsky
followers of her own.
Gilinsky is one half of the
rap/pop duo Jack &
Jack. They are best
known for their 2014
song Wild Life, which
hit #2 on iTunes.
Last year, Mel
Gibson told the
Hollywood Reporter
that his 2006 anti-Semitic tirade, issued when
pulled over for drunk
driving by a Jewish
police officer, should be
behind him. He said: All
the necessary mea
culpas have been made
copious times, so for this

Nev Schulman

Emily Ratajkowski

Scooter Braun

Andrew Garfield

question to keep coming

up ... Im sorry they feel
that way, but Ive done
what I need to do, its an
eight-year-old story. It
keeps coming up like a
rerun, but Ive dealt with
it and Ive dealt with it
responsibly and Ive
worked on myself for
anything I am culpable
for.
Things havent gone
well for Mel. He is only
now directing his first
film since 2006. (It appears that an announced
Gibson film about the
Maccabees, seen as an

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olive branch to Jews,

never will be made.) On
top of this, the films he
acted in flopped and he
got more bad publicity
in 2010 when tapes of
his phone conversations
with his former girlfriend, laced with racist
and misogynist language, were released.
Gibson is now in Australia directing a film
about the true story of
an American conscientious objector who
served as a medic during World War II and was
awarded the Medal of

Madison Beer

Honor. Maybe as a miniolive branch, Mel cast

ANDREW GARFIELD,
32 (Spider-Man) in
the lead role. But Mel
just cant stay out of
trouble. On August 22,
he showed up outside a
theater that was hosting
an Israeli film festival in
Sydney. Reports say that
he probably was in the
area to attend a nonIsraeli film in a neighboring theater but a
throng of Aussie Jews
were there to hear him
be rude to a polite female print reporter and
be obscenely rude to a
woman photographer
from another publication. His 24-year-old
girlfriend apologized to
both of them. Im sorry,
she said. Hes a bit sick
at the moment. (Id like
to say to her, Young
lady, when does that
sick moment ever end?)
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The future of the Jewish people worldwide hangs in the balance.
This is a time of crisis and we need to act together now.

JOIN THE DAY OF JEWISH UNITY

ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
If approved in its present form, the Iran deal would place the Jewish nation in harms
way and pose a grave threat to democracies worldwide. In times of crisis, the Jewish
nation has historically turned to prayer in order to help us persevere and overcome the
odds. Prayer has been the hallmark of our people since time immemorial.

THIS IS A TIME OF CRISIS WE NEED TO ACT TOGETHER NOW.

On Tuesday, September 8, 2015, just days before Congress holds this important vote,
a delegation of rabbis and community leaders will travel to Radin in Belarus in order
to pray at the grave of the Chofetz Chaim, who was the beloved and revered leader of
world Jewry in pre-war Europe. In conjunction with that special event, coordinated by the
Acheinu organization, Jews around the world will be joining together to recite 2 chapters
of Psalms in an attempt to deflect the acute danger that would result from allowing Iran
a path to obtain nuclear warheads.
The days leading up to the High Holidays are an appropriate time for repentance,
reflection and prayer. The days leading up to perhaps the most consequential
Congressional vote in our lifetime is a compulsory time for unity and prayer. Join with a
projected 500,000 Jews around the world in a Day of Unity and Prayer on September 8.

TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS SPECIAL GLOBAL EVENT,

PLEASE RECITE PSALMS, CHAPTERS 20 AND 130 ALONG WITH THE SHORT
ACHEINU PRAYER BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 7am-12pm ON SEPTEMBER 8TH.
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Local
Lone civil servant in Israel
Local student spends gap year not as soldier but teaching aide
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

ike many others in the class of

2014 at Ramaz Upper School in
Manhattan, Michelle Bensadigh
of Englewood Cliffs deferred college to spend the 2014-2015 academic year
her gap year in Israel.
But whereas everyone else chose a
study or travel program, she opted to be
a bat sherut a Sherut Leumi (National
Service) civil servant, an alternative to the
military for Israeli high school graduates.
Living in a modest Jerusalem apartment building with 11 other female Sherut
Leumi volunteers from North America,
France, and England, her job was to assist
the teacher in a classroom of 33 first-graders in a public school in Talpiot, a secular
middle-class Jerudalem neighborhood.
I was the teachers right-hand man,
doing anything from cutting and laminating to sitting one on one with students
going over lessons and homework, she
reported.
Ms. Bensadigh said that she did not
want to live in a structured American
bubble during her gap year. I wanted
to feel like I was immersed in Israel,
speaking the language and being part of
the culture, and having a more flexible
schedule, she said.
The oldest child of immigrants from
Iran, she already felt more familiar with
Israeli culture than did many of her peers.
Her grandmothers and other close relatives live in Israel, and she had visited
many times.
I knew about Sherut Leumi because
my mom lived in Israel for 16 years and
she spoke Hebrew at home a little bit,
she said. And I knew of a Ramaz girl two
years ahead of me who had done Sherut
Leumi, so I got in touch with her and she
had only good things to say about it how
she was really in the culture and felt she
was doing a great thing.
Men also may do Sherut Leumi, but the
vast majority of participants are women.
Looking online, Ms. Bensadigh found
that there are five Sherut Leumi agencies
in Israel. Two of them have English-speaking coordinators on staff to facilitate the
placement of volunteers from overseas
as well as Israeli volunteers who have
completed a year of service in Israel and
want to do a second year in a Jewish community abroad. She emailed one of these
organizations, Bat Ami, and was referred
to Asnat Rotem, its English-speaking coordinator in Jerusalem.
That worked out perfectly since I
wanted to volunteer in Jerusalem, Ms.
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Michelle Bensadigh works with a child in a school in Talpiot.

Michelle Bensadigh, center, is surrounded by other National Service volunteers

from abroad. Her school adviser, Dalia, stands at the left, and Asnat Rotem, a
coordinator for Bat Ami, stands at the right.

Bensadigh says. We had a Skype interview, talking about job possibilities and
where to live.
Her parents, Lili and Parviz, were

encouraging, if somewhat hesitant at first.

My dad was a little nervous because its
scary to send your daughter away for a
year to live independently, but he saw

that I wanted to do this, so in the end my

parents supported me in it.
Ms. Bensadigh got a one-year deferral
from the Macaulay Honors College of the
City University of New York, and took off
for Israel at the end of last summer to
become a bat sherut bodedet lone civil
servant similar to a lone soldier with no
immediate family in Israel.
The commitment is usually one full
year, September 1 to August 31, though
I left at the beginning of June because I
had to come back to take care of some
pre-college requirements, she said. She
will start her freshman year of college in
September.
I had an amazing experience working
at the school, she said. Working with
Israeli faculty and looking at the children
from an Israeli perspective, learning how
they look at things and appreciate things,
taught me so much about the culture. The
kids were lively and bubbly, and I loved
listening to all their little stories. They
were almost taking care of me as much
as I was taking care of them. They were
always concerned about where Id be for
Shabbat.
One cultural difference that struck
her immediately was the informal way
in which Israeli schoolchildren address

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their teachers. In America, you call

teachers Mr. and Mrs. while in Israel
you call them by first name or even by
their nickname. Its so relaxed and chill.
People ask me if its better, and I say its
just different.
Most of her roommates were working
in special education or with the elderly
or the blind. Even though I was in a regular school, it was just amazing for me
because I felt I helped the children with
the fundamentals of their future education. That was very rewarding.
First-graders have not yet started mandatory English classes, so Ms. Bensadigh
was grateful for her solid basic Hebrew.
Being forced to speak with kids who
do not know English really enriched my
vocabulary, she said. They didnt know
how to say much more than good morning in English.
Ms. Rotem of Bat Ami said that after
the difficulty posed by being far from
their families, language is the hardest
challenge for a bat sherut bodedet. Its
also challenging for the institutions they
serve, which can include preschools,

elementary schools, nursing homes, hospitals, special-needs facilities, and offices

that need English-speaking staff.
Sometimes its difficult for the schools
because of the language gap, but at the
end they feel they help these girls get to
know Israel and its culture, Ms. Roten
said. In fact, she added, one of the schools
served by Bat Ami accepts girls only from
abroad. They want them to see the real
face of Israel and help change the public
image of our country.
Living in two adjacent apartments in
the cute little neighborhood of Givat
Mordechai, not far from Talpiot, Ms. Bensadigh and her 11 cohorts were assigned
an English-speaking counselor by Bat Ami
to help them ease into doing their own
grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, and
laundry in Jerusalem.
It was basic apartment living, Ms.
Bensadigh said. It was definitely interesting but we were all going through it
together.
We were our own community. Each
girl had a different job and all of us came
home and talked about our experiences

at the end of the day. That made it easier.

Each bat sherut receives a monthly stipend to cover bus fare, cleaning supplies,
and food. The apartment is provided free
of charge. In addition, they get an ID card
that allows them free or reduced admission to Israeli museums and tourist sites.
There are vacation days and organized
activities, such as lectures and trips,
where everyone in Sherut Leumi gets to
meet one another.
The first-graders need not have worried
about Ms. Bensadighs Shabbat plans. She
often stayed over with one of her grandmothers or her aunt or uncle on her
mothers side. That was a great support
system, and I got to know my cousins better than I did during my summer visits,
she said.
She emphasizes that Sherut Leumi is
not for everyone. No matter what program you do in Israel, you come home
with something special, a personal revelation of some kind. If youre looking
for an atmosphere where youre mostly
learning, seminary or yeshiva is your best
bet. If youre looking for something more

independent and can take care of yourself and handle a job responsibly, and are
interested in serving Israel, youd be an
ideal candidate for Sherut Leumi. Its an
amazing opportunity to see Israel in a different way, especially if you are thinking
about aliyah.
Ms. Rotem says that 19 young women
from abroad will start Bat Amis lone program in September, and an additional 10
women have chosen to live integrated
with Israeli National Service volunteers
under Bat Amis aegis.
Every year its more and more, I
think because people hear about it from
friends, she said. It is a good fit if someone wants to be in Israel but does not
want to pay for an American program and
wants to be independent in a Hebrewspeaking environment.
For information on Sherut Leumi, email
Ms. Rotem at Asnat_r@bat-ami.org.il or
Yocheved Yoskevic at HaAgudah LeHitnadvut, yocheved@sherut-leumi.co.il.
There is more information about Sherut
Leumi on Nefesh BNefeshs website, www.
nbn.org.il/sherut-leumi-national-service.

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David Abraham Grossman, 57

Mourning the mitzvah man of Harvard Legal Aid who fought vigorously for the poor
Larry Yudelson

his is the story of a Jersey boy

who left.
Sure, he loved Bruce Springsteen and modeled what fashion
sense he had after him.
But something about his desire to
change the world, nurtured in Jersey City
and Teaneck, propelled him outward.
To Israel, for a time, and then to Boston,
where as a Harvard Law student he found
a mentor on whom he would model his
career, and where he would make a mark
as an activist who put law and an army
of Harvard law students to work helping the poor defend their rights and their
homes.
Its a story that ended last month, when
David Abraham Grossman died at 57 of
cancer.
Congressman Joseph Kennedy, Robert
Kennedys grandson and a former student of Mr. Grossmans at Harvard, eulogized his beloved teacher on the House
floor. Throughout his career, he showed
how words like justice and fairness were
not just ideas for discussion but principles that had to be fought for, protected
and defended, Mr. Kennedy said. In so
doing, he protected thousands of people
in need and inspired hundreds of young
lawyers.
Mr. Grossmans story began in Jersey
City. He grew up in a close-knit extended
family, which made his parents decision
to leave Jersey City for Teaneck a difficult
one, Davids wife, Stacy, said.
But his parents had become completely and thoroughly disgusted with the
public school system in Jersey City, she
said.
His father, Harold Grossman, was a
physician. His mother, Gloria Feldman
Grossman, was both Jewishly observant
and classically educated. She read her
young son the Iliad and the Odyssey
and taught him the Greek alphabet. He
outpaced his Teaneck middle school and
went to the Horace Mann School in New

David Abraham Grossman practiced

tikun olam through his work for Harvards Legal Service Center.
York. Then on to Harvard for college,
followed by two years at Harvard Divinity School, where he earned a masters
degree in Eastern religions.
Judaism, though, was central to Mr.
Grossmans life. He moved to Israel in
1983, where, among other activities, he
worked for the Association of Civil Rights
in Israel, clerked for two justices on the
Israeli Supreme Court, and played basketball for the Maccabi Ranana team.
Then he came back to America and
earned a law degree at Harvard.
By the time Stacy met David at a Manhattan law firm she was a paralegal, he
was an attorney, both worked on a large
antitrust case he had figure out what he
wanted to do and where he wanted to do
it. And he did not want a lucrative career
as a New York attorney, though that job
would have had the advantage of being
close to his parents. What he wanted was
to return to Boston and use his legal skills
to help the poor.
And in 1992, after spending a few
months in Israel helping the Knesset

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campaigns of Shulamit Aloni and the

Meretz party, they moved to Boston,
where their children, Shayna, now 14, and
Lev, 17, were born.
One of the things that was very important for David was his sense of Jewishness
and yiddishkeit, Stacy said.
That was true. But for David, his wife
said, what was most imperatively important for being Jewish was not his kosher
kitchen, or the family Shabbat observance, or his daily davening all of which
were a daily part of his life but rather
tikun olam, to heal the broken world we
inherited.
In Boston, Mr. Grossman found a place
to fulfill his devotion to tikun olam. He
worked for Harvards Legal Service Center, teaching and training law students
in practical skills and harnessing those
skills to represent the poor.
He was the first person in Harvards
clinical program to get students to not
only work on cases for indigent clients,
but to go and advocate in the streets, to
knock on doors, to canvass neighborhoods, to let them know they were being
foreclosed upon, Stacy said.
Work with legal services also offered
a chance to dress like Mr. Springsteen:
denim pants always, except for three
suits he reserved for the days he went to
court.
In 2006, Elena Kagan, then dean of Harvard Law School, named Mr. Grossman
head of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
In his work for tenants, Mr. Grossman
embodied the values of a Woody Guthrie
song that Mr. Springsteen knew but seldom performed about a Depression-era
bank robber, Pretty Boy Floyd. Some
will rob you with a six-gun, and some with
a fountain pen, And as through your life
you travel, Yes, as through your life you
roam, You wont never see an outlaw,
Drive a family from their home.
In 2007, when the financial crisis led to
waves of foreclosures in poor and working-class neighborhoods, whose residents
had been targeted for predatory loans

during the housing boom, Mr. Grossman led a coalition of Boston groups that
mounted a fierce anti-foreclosure effort.
In the neighborhoods, his students went
door to door to let residents know their
rights and begin to advocate; in the state
house, he pushed for efforts that passed
legislation to prevent evictions.
He never bragged, so I didnt know
how much he did until he died, said his
aunt, Helen Feldman Kaplan of Teaneck.
Up until the end, he would ask more
questions about you than tell you anything about himself.
Ms. Grossman said that at the request
of former students and colleagues, she is
forming a foundation that will provide

In so doing,
he protected
thousands of
people in need
and inspired
hundreds of
young lawyers.
funding for poverty lawyers and social
justice advocates. It will continue to fund
the kind of work David did in his lifetime.
His last trip to Israel was in 2007, a year
before he was diagnosed with cancer.
We hadnt made any plans for a vacation, Ms. Grossman said. On kind of a
whim I said, lets just go. Their children
were 6 and 10 then. Old enough to be
able to take a trip to Israel, something
David always wanted to do as a family
together.
It was one of many great, live-in-themoment decisions we made, that we
learned after he was diagnosed with cancer was the best way to live, she said.
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Torah scrolls dont belong in a closet

Temple Emanuel of Franklin Lakes donates a sefer Torah to the Abayudaya

JOANNE PALMER
ews do not worship things.
God, we are told, is invisible and
unknowable, never incarnate. We
are forbidden to worship idols, and
we are not allowed icons.
Still, there are some material objects
that have an inherent sacredness to us,
because of what they are and what they
represent. Chief among those objects is a
Torah scroll the off-white, slightly irregular parchment with its black careful lines
of straight-and-curving letters, filigreed
at the top, black fire on white fire, rolled
around the wooden rods called the trees
of life, dressed in rich embroidered velvets
and silks, hung with silver bells, crowned
with silver caps.
It is the sefer Torah that contains the
text at the heart of the Jewish tradition,
which says that it was dictated by God on
Mount Sinai.
It is possible to hold religious services
without a sefer Torah, but it is far better
to have one. Sifrei Torah are not easy to

The Abayudaya
in Uganda are
close to my
heart, so I
proposed to my
congregation
that we could
provide them
with a sefer
Torah.

These children are part of the Abayudaya community

Who: The community of Temple

Emanuel of North Jersey and representatives of the Abayudaya of Uganda
What: The shul will present the Abayudaya with a sefer Torah for its synagogue in Nasenyi; the morning will
include a slide show and refreshments.
Where: The social hall at Temple
Emanuel, 558 High Mountain Road,
Franklin Lakes
When: Sunday, August 30, at 10:30
For more information: Call (201) 5600200 or go to www.tenjfl.org.

RABBI JOSEPH PROUSER

get, though; the need for the best possible

materials and the painstaking care that
must go into the writing means that they
are expensive, often out of reach for new
or resource-poor communities.
Sometimes, though, a shul can have
more sifrei Torah than it can use. Thats
the situation facing Rabbi Joseph Prouser
and Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in
Franklin Lakes. Over the years, we have
acquired a number of Torah scrolls, both
from our own history and mergers with
other congregations, Rabbi Prouser said.
We have about 20. Some are in need of
work, some have been refurbished, but
most of them are in good shape.
Because we have more Torah scrolls
than we need for our own purposes, we
thought that we should share them with
10 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 28, 2015

COURTESY KULANU

Rabbi Joseph Prouser reads from a Torah scroll he brought to Nasenyi in 2002.

communities or organizations that need

them. The Abayudaya in Uganda are close
to my heart, so I proposed to my congregation that we could provide them with a
sefer Torah.
The Abayudaya is a tribe of Ugandans
whose leader, Semei Kakungulu, chose
Judaism in about 1920, opting for it over
the Christianity to which he had been converted. A powerful and charismatic chief,
Mr. Kakungulu was able to convince many
of his followers to become Jewish along

with him; their practice was aided by the

teaching of a European-born Jew who
found his way to their settlement around
then.
Now, the Abayudaya live mainly in seven
villages. Aided by a nonprofit organization called Kulanu, which, according to its
website, www.kulanu.org, works around
the world to support isolated and emerging Jewish communities who wish to learn
more about Judaism and (re-)connect with
the wider Jewish community, many of

them were converted to formal Judaism by

a Conservative beit din. The communitys
first rabbi, Gershom Sizomu, was ordained
by the Conservative Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles and since has
returned to Uganda. The community he
leads practices normative Judaism as filtered through an African sensibility.
Although Uganda has been through
some very hard times, at this point, the
Jewish community there is living in peace
and equality in a religiously tolerant atmosphere, Rabbi Prouser said. They serve
openly in the government and in the army
as Jews. They paint their houses with Jewish symbols, so everybody knows theyre
Jewish.
The reason that the Abayudaya are
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particularly dear to Rabbi Prouser is

because he was part of the first Conservative beit din, held in 2002; the threejudge panel was made of two American
rabbis and one from Israel. There were
then about 750 members of the community, he said. The conversions were done
by family group. We were there about 10
days, and met personally with about half
the community, he said. Since then, it
has grown to almost 2,000 people, both
through internal growth and from people
coming in from the outside.
It is such an appealing community that
people have been asking how to join it,
Rabbi Prouser said.
He was so moved by his experiences in
Uganda that the next year, when Kulanu
asked him to return to lead Purim services, not only did he go, but I brought
my whole family with me, he said. We
led Purim services, and read the megillah by lantern-light in Ugandas main
synagogue.
There werent a lot of costumes
they made crowns, and so on but
they put on a lengthy Purimspiel, and
they enacted the story of Esther in a distinctly African production. The king was
dressed like an African tribal king, and
all the members of the royal court were
dressed like an African tribal court. The
dancing all was African.
It was very exciting, and fulfilling, and
in some ways transformative. You see people who have sacrificed so very much for
their Jewish identity, who find that identity
so very precious and inspiring. That really
sets a lofty example to which American
Jews might aspire.
So when Rabbi Prouser heard that Nasenyi, the village in which he spent the most
time, not only needed a sefer Torah but
already had built an ark to house and protect it, he was glad to be able to present the
opportunity to his congregation.
I said that we have so many Torah
scrolls, and Torah scrolls dont belong in
a closet, he said. Torah scrolls are meant
to be read and celebrated, to be kissed and
embraced and danced with.
When he proposed the donation to
the synagogue board, There was not a
dissenting voice, he said. That is very
unusual.
So we are giving them a big, beautiful
and kosher sefer Torah, he said. Its big
and heavy and substantial, and the script
is beautiful.
We hope they will be delighted with it.
On Sunday, at a public celebration, the
Temple Emanuel community will give the
sefer Torah to the Abayudaya community,
which will be represented by some young
Abayudaya who have been in North America working in Jewish summer camps and
now are on their way home. They will
receive the Torah on August 30 and it will
be in its new home by next Shabbat, September 4, ready to be opened and read
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Rabbi Joseph Prouser, his wife,

Dr. Ora Horn Prouser, and their
daughter Shira, above at right, stand
outside the thatched hut that was the
communitys temporary synagogue.

Rabbi Prouser
performs a
wedding during a
trip to Uganda.

The sign below is posted

on the synagogue wall.

for the first time in many years, in place

to be dressed in white and read on Yom
Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, and then to
be paraded and danced with on Simchat
Torah.
There is one element that I always find
to be particularly exciting and significant
about transporting a Torah to Uganda,
Rabbi Prouser said. We experienced this
with the beit din, when we brought a sefer
Torah with us.
Going to the Abayudaya means flying
into Uganda and going through the airport
at Entebbe. In 1976, a breakaway group
from the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, a terrorist organization that
specialized in airplane hijacking, diverted
an airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris.
The plane was forced down in Entebbe,
where it was welcomed by dictator Idi
Amin, a man who would have seemed
grotesquely buffoonish were he also not
murderously evil.
All but three of the planes passengers

famously were rescued by a team of Israeli

commandos, in a raid of jaw-dropping
courage and inventiveness.
So when we carried the story of Esther,

as we did on Purim, or the sefer Torah

itself, through Entebbe airport, we cant
help but be moved by the historical significance, Rabbi Prouser said.

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A view of the parade through the streets of
Moreshet. Below, the sign Moreshet residents
hold reads: Reiss family, welcome home!

Who doesnt
love a parade?
Former Teaneckers
welcome new olim
to their Israeli home
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Youve heard of the Welcome Wagon?
Well, two guys raised in Teaneck took that
idea to new heights when they arranged
a parade and picnic on August 18 to welcome new immigrants to their new hometown Moreshet, a Lower Galilee village
of about 300 families.
Some 70 Moreshet residents turned out

to escort Shari and Phil Reiss and their

children into the town, singing, dancing,
and waving Israeli flags. Local teenagers
unloaded their luggage from the taxi and
brought it into their new home.
I thought it would be nice, since this
was only the second time a family made
aliyah directly to Moreshet, to greet them
as you would a new sefer Torah, Ezra Gilbert explained. I wanted to make it really

From left, Roni Gilbert, Michal Mandelbaum, and Avi Mandelbaum greet the
Reisses at the airport.
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significant for the family and also for the

community, because Israelis always wonder why Western immigrants are coming.
This makes them realize that the way they
welcome olim immigrants can affect
whether those olim are successful or not
and whether more olim will come.
Mr. Gilbert and his wife, Roni, made
aliyah to the central city of Modiin seven
years ago. When they moved to Moreshet
in March 2011, they became involved in
civic affairs and in the close-knit group of

I wanted to
make it really
significant for
the family and
also for the
community,
because Israelis
always wonder
why Western
immigrants
are coming.

English-speaking residents. A few months

later, Mr. Gilberts childhood friend Avi
Mandelbaum moved in across the street
with his wife, Michal, and kids, making history as the first family to come off a Nefesh
BNefesh plane and settle in Moreshet
without any stops in between.
Avi and I were in Cub Scouts together
Pack 223 from Congregation Beth Aaron,
Mr. Gilbert said. My mom was the den
mother, and we met in our basement. Our
parents go to the same shul, Shaare Tefillah, and are longtime friends. Avi and I lost
touch for 20 years and re-met in Highland
Park, disconnected when we made aliyah in 2008, and reconnected when they
made aliyah and coincidentally moved to
Moreshet.
Like good Scouts, Mr. Gilbert and Mr.
Mandelbaum prepared well for the Reiss
familys arrival, delegating the many tasks
involved in the picnic and arranging for
necessities to be in place in the newcomers rented house when they got there.
Michal and I have more beds than
we need, so we brought them over and
assembled them, Mr. Mandelbaum said.
We noticed there was no refrigerator in
the house, so we sent an email to our local
list and someone responded that they had
a full-size fridge we could take. Ezra and I
went to get it one night, and ran into two

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other neighbors who helped us roll the fridge across
the yard and into the house.
Four folding chairs that the Gilberts gave the Mandelbaums when they moved in are now with the
Reisses. Someone brought fruits and vegetables,
someone else brought disposable tableware, and
another neighbor organized meals to be brought over
for two weeks. Michal Mandelbaum sent out a Google
spreadsheet so people could sign up to participate in
the parade and picnic.
It really is a very cohesive community, that has an
unusually high number of people who all they want to
do is help, Mr. Mandelbaum said.
Shari Reiss whose mother, Ellen Chazan, lives in
Teaneck and her husband were bowled over by the
reception they received as Moreshets 19th Englishspeaking family. We are very grateful, Phil Reiss said.
Moreshet is a small, close-knit, very warm religious
community. For children, life revolves around outdoor
play, a major plus for our three energetic young ones.
Mr. Gilbert, who knew the Reisses casually from
Highland Park, bumped into Mr. Reiss in the airport
last January. Mr. Gilbert was going to his sisters wedding in the States, while Mr. Reiss had just arrived in
Israel to seek work in his field, statistics in neuroscience and psychiatric research.
Mr. Reiss said he was going to meet with Professor
Benjamin Reiser of the University of Haifas department of statistics. Dr. Reiser lives in Moreshet. I
said, Youre kidding! I live in Moreshet! Mr. Gilbert
related.
They stayed in touch, and when the Reisses
expressed an interest in housing in Moreshet, Mr. Gilbert scouted out options and sent them pictures of
available rentals via WhatsApp. He signed the contract
for them and fronted the security deposit.
Mr. Gilbert stresses that he sees himself not as a
cheerleader for Moreshet but as a cheerleader for aliyah from the West. I look at Moreshet as a good example of whats possible, he said. When my friends and
family come to visit and see the life weve made here,
they do a double take and say, Hey, I can do this or I
can relate to this, because its similar to an American
suburb, with a nice house and community.
Oddly enough, he and Mr. Mandelbaum were not
the first former Teaneck residents to move in. Attorney Haim Gelfand holds that distinction. His parents
and the Mandelbaums were neighbors in Teaneck in
the 1980s, and Avis mother Naomi succeeded Haims
mother Elyse as the PTA president at the Yeshiva of
North Jersey. Mr. Gelfand even organized a parade for
new olim to Moreshet six years ago, a fact Mr. Gilbert
and Mr. Mandelbaum did not discover until after they
had set their own plans in motion.
The entire Gilbert and Mandelbaum clans each
has four children and is expecting a fifth went to
the airport at 5 in the morning on August 18 to greet
the Reisses. Nefesh BNefesh founder and executive
director Rabbi Yehoshua Fass wrote to Mr. Gilbert
that evening: I couldnt let the day end without again
expressing how moved we all were with the welcome
you showered on the Reiss family. I just watched the
video again with all my kids and shared with them the
ultimate mitzvah of hachnasat orchim, welcoming
guests.
All of the olim who live here were helped in some
fashion by others and have a strong desire to pay it
forward and help others as they were helped and to
inspire the Reisses, once they are settled, to do the
same, Mr. Gilbert said.

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NCJW awards scholarships

High Holy Days in Teaneck

Julia Devine, who will be a freshman at

Albright College, and David Friedman,
who will start college at New York University, both received $500 Miriam and
Mel Holzsager scholarships from the
Jersey Hills Section of National Council

High Holy Day services at the Jewish Center of Teaneck will be led by
Yitzchok Reb Yitz Cohen, the centers Shabbat baal tefillah, and Joshua
Levine, its frequent baal keriyah.
Reb Yitz has led High Holy Day services at CareOne in Teaneck and officiates at Shabbat services at the JCT
weekly. He teaches Torah at the Gottesman RTW Academy in Randolph, and
Yitzchok Reb Yitz Cohen, left, and
lives in in Teaneck with his wife and
Joshua Levine
daughters.
Joshua Levine has been a cantor
classical pianist and a piano teacher. He
in Chabad houses in Westfield, on Long
lives in Teaneck with his wife and chilIsland, and in Beverly Hills, and at CareOne in Teaneck. He works in the retiredren. For information, call (201) 833-0515,
ment and finance industry and is a
ext. 200.

of Jewish Women. Tony Varghese, who

will begin Vassar College received a
$300 award. Kathi Packard and Fred
Holzsager made the presentations in
memory of their parents, Miriam and
Mel Holzsager.

Support group for parents of children

with addiction/psychological disorders
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly is registering for a support group
for parents whose children, from 15 to 25
years old, are struggling with addiction,
psychological disorders, or co-occurring
issues. The group meets year-round in a
completely confidential environment
on the first and third Wednesdays each
month, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Anyone can join the group, which is
facilitated by a psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffrey A.
Berman, at any time, The next meeting
will be on September 2.

Dr. Berman also is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Robert

Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers in New Brunswick and the executive
medical director of the Discovery Institute for Addictive Disorders in Marlboro.
The groups goal is to provide parents
with the strength, support, practical
information, and coping skills they need
to overcome feelings of hopelessness
and helplessness. For information, call
Carol Leslie at (201) 408-1403 or email
her at cleslie@jccotp.org.

Hot kosher meals for seniors

The Jewish Home Family offers free,
hot kosher meals delivered on Sunday,
September 13, to Bergen County seniors
for Rosh Hashanah.
Register yourself or someone you know

who is 65 and older, by September 2, to

take advantage. Call (201) 784-1414, ext.
5532. To volunteer to deliver the meals,
call (201) 750-4237.

Two Wayne shuls sponsor

Interfaith Network collections
Waynes Congregation Shomrei Torah
and Temple Beth Tikvah are sponsoring
a High Holy Day drive to collect non-perishable food and basic necessities. It will
benefit the Wayne Interfaith Network
and other local charities. They will be
joining Conservative and Reform congregations throughout the United States in a
national effort to fight hunger and help
those less fortunate. Donations can be
dropped off at either synagogue during
the weekdays leading up to and between
the High Holy Days.
Donated items should be regular sizes,

not super sizes, and they should not be

in glass containers. Expiration dates
should be checked. Financial donations
are welcome; they should be payable to
the Wayne Interfaith Network.
The social action committee of Temple Beth Tikvah coordinates its drive and
Shomrei Torah works under the auspices
of Operation Isaiah.
For more information, call Shomrei
Torah at (973) 696-2500 or email office@
shomreitorahwcc.org. Call Temple
Beth Tikvah at (973) 595-6565, or email
tbtexec@optonline.net.

Walk with Sharsheret in October

Team Sharsheret is teaming up with the
American Cancer Society on Sunday,
October 18, for the NYC Making Strides
Against Breast Cancer walk. The scenic, family-friendly 5-mile walk begins
at 8 a.m., with participants meeting at
Central Park at the 69th Street and Fifth
Avenue entrance. Registrants can order
a new yellow Team Sharsheret dri-fit
performance T-shirt.

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Sharsheret, Hebrew for chain, is

a national not-for-profit organization
supporting young women and their
families, of all Jewish backgrounds, facing breast cancer. For information, call
(866) 474-2774 or (201) 833-2341, go to
www. sharsheret.org, or email info@
sharsheret.org. To become a corporate
sponsor or to set up a personal fundraising page, talk to Ellen Kleinhaus.

An oil painting by Dr. Ariela Noy.

COURTESY JCCOTP

Art show in Tenafly features oils

Portraits and Stories, an exhibition of oil
paintings by Dr. Ariela Noy, will be on display throughout September at the Waltuch
Gallery of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly. The opening reception is Tuesday, September 1, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Dr. Noy, a lifelong painter, studied at
Princeton University. She has exhibited at

the Belskie Museum in Closter and in Manhattan, where she won several awards in
group shows. Dr. Noy is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, a singer
with the Florilegium Chamber Choir, and
an occasional cantorial soloist.
For information, call Rochelle Lazarus
at (201) 408-1409 or go to www.jccotp.org.

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All eyes on Booker

Calls, emails, and press conference havent yet swayed senator
LARRY YUDELSON

overnor Chris Christie made

a rare appearance in New Jersey on Tuesday, speaking out
against the proposed nuclear
deal with Iran.
He spoke at the Rutgers Chabad, at a press
conference that also featured Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood and Rabbi Shalom Baum, the president of the Orthodox
Rabbinical Council of America and leader of
Teanecks Congregation Keter Torah.
The RCA was one of the first Jewish
groups to come out against the deal, condemning it in a joint statement with the
Orthodox Union a day after the 159-page
agreement was released in June.
While Christie repeated his earlier
attacks on President Barack Obama for
negotiating a poor deal, the specific targets
of Tuesdays event were the members of
New Jerseys congressional delegation who
had not yet come out against it. Foremost
among the group is Senator Cory Booker,

who was urged to follow the lead of the

states senior senator, Robert Menendez,
also a Democrat, and oppose it. In the
House, the undecideds include Bill Pascrell Jr. of the Ninth District and Frank Pallone Jr. of the Sixth District. The Republicans all have come out against the deal.
Norpac, the Englewood-based pro-Israel
political action committee, whose donors
gave Mr. Booker $364,876 in 2014, also was
a sponsor of the press conference. Norpac
was the senators seventh-largest source of
campaign funds. Norpac gave more to Mr.
Booker than to any other congressional
candidate that year.
Rabbi Boteach called on Senator Booker
to hold true to his values.
A senator at the forefront of prison
reform in the United States could not
legitimize a government that locks up
thousands of people just because they are
political opponents of the regime, Rabbi
Boteach said of Mr. Booker.
But as of press time Wednesday, Senator
Booker remained apparently unconvinced

and undecided.
Last Thursday, New Jerseys junior senator, a Democrat, said that he planned to
devote the day to meeting with some
of the brightest minds my staff can pull
together for seven hours of briefings on
the ramifications of approving or disapproving the nuclear deal with Iran.
He added that he planned to cap the day
by praying that the Lord grant me some
of the wisdom of Solomon to make the
right choice.
Mr. Booker spoke last week on a teleconference arranged by the Orthodox Union,
Agudath Israel, AIPAC, and the New Jersey
State Association of Jewish Federations.
I have never had my cell phone and
email account blow up as much as it is
now, he said. Ive gotten calls from leaders of the Jewish community from across
the nation on this issue. People from both
sides of this issue.
The senator said there is no question
that this deal is flawed and presents serious risks and threats.

The question he is looking at, he said, is

what are the alternatives if Congress is to
reject the deal?
Anyone who thinks this is simple
misses the point that rejecting the deal has
consequences as well, he said. I want to
make sure rejecting a deal that has many
bad elements would allow us to achieve
our goals of ending Irans nuclear ambitions and terrorist activities.
Mr. Booker said that if the deal does go
forward as it will unless both the House
and Senate can muster the two-thirds
super majority needed to override President Obamas promised veto of a disapproval resolution America will have to
do more to stop Irans support for terrorism, which he said is a real concern, and
a greater one if sanctions are lifted and
money flows to the Iranian regime.
No matter whether the deal is approved
or rejected, After this consequential vote
in September, you will hear my voice as
one of the loudest voices in the Senate in
the effort to stop that evil, he said.

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We have a great fall lined up for kids of all ages

including classes in art, science, cooking, sports,
dance, drama, music and more. Sign up early to
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Visit jccotp.org for a full list of early childhood,
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The Leonard & Syril

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Learn, laugh, share and grow at the JCC! Early
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Kindergarten. Register today! For more info or
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Current and prospective members,
enjoy our Water Park, Gym, Pools &
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If your child is enrolled in an after school
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This spring, when Apple came out
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Glatt Wok is long gone from Route 59 in
with an update to its siddur 7.1 that
Monsey, but the company it hired for its
included watch features.
first web page is still going strong. Except
Among them was making some of the
it wasnt a company back in 1994, at the
shorter prayers Grace After Meals,
dawn of the Internet age: It was just two
afternoon services available on the
14-year-old twin brothers, Ronnie and
watch face.
Barry Schwartz.
It can be configured to remind you
More than 20 years later, RustyBrick
x minutes before its time to daven mincha, said Barry, referring to the after the name comes from the twins initials is going strong, with more than
noon prayers.
20 employees and clients for websites
Is a watch actually practical for
and mobile apps that include Harvard,
prayers?
Harper Collins, and MTV.
Nope, concedes Mr.
Barry is the firms CEO;
Schwartz. I dont typically daven off it. Its
his brother is the chief
hard to keep scrolling
technology officer. Its
and scrolling. Its good
a good division of labor,
to have just in case.
Barry said with a laugh.
But RustyBrick wasnt
We dont really fight
betting its business on a
much.
killer watch app.
The bothers grew up in
I couldnt pay JewMonsey and both still live
ish day school tuition
in Rockland County.
just on Jewish apps, Mr.
Despite the high profile
Schwartz said.
clients, among the Jewish
Barry Schwartz
The siddur is the best
public RustyBrick might
selling of the companys
be best known for its command of a distinctive, if not particularly
Jewish apps. It also led to a partnership
profitable niche: the Jewish app and softwith the ArtScroll publishing empire:
ware market.
RustyBrick built the app for ArtScrolls
In 2008, when it first became possible
iPad Talmud.
to write apps for an Apple iPhone, RustyTheres not much money to be made
Brick produced its siddur app.
in the Jewish app world, but its enough
Lets build something Jewish-related
of an impact that its worth doing even
that will help observant Jews go ahead
though theres not much monetary purpose, Mr. Schwartz said.
and do their day-to-day observance of
Similar logic led to developing a softJudaism, Barry remembers thinking.
ware package to manage his synagogue.
Given the iPhones capabilities, RustyBricks Smart Siddur could do what
It wasnt much of a stretch, in some
no printer prayer book could: It knew
ways, from RustyBricks work in computerizing medical practices. The result
the time, it knew where it was, and with
was ShulCloud, a web-based synagogue
that information it could calculate how
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much time was left to recite the evening
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and sending out emails and mass mails to their community, Mr. Schwartz said. Were currently signing
up 10 to 15 shuls a month.
It can import and export data from bookkeeping
software like Quickbooks, but Mr. Schwartz said that
synagogues need information about their members
that Quickbooks doesnt ask for.
When youre billing a member, you need to know
more than its the Schwartz family, he said. You need
to know who the members are, what the yahrzeits are,
whether they pay through a company or a foundation.
Theres shul politics Quickbooks doesnt understand.
We looked into building Jewish day school software. Theres a lot of good software out there, and
school budgets are stretched, he said. He said they get
requests to develop school software, but it would be
a huge investment, and hes not convinced it would
pay off.
After 20 years in the web development business, Mr.
Schwartz remains excited by it.
Its always changing, he said of the technology. It
began with old-fashioned gifs. Now were at HTML5
and mobile. Its amazing whats going on.
And beyond the pixels on the screen, working with
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Best Wishes for a Very

Healthy and Happy New Year

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Rockland

Congresswoman
Nita M. Lowey

PJ Librarys
Touch-a-Truck
The PJ Library of the Jewish Federation of
Rockland holds Touch A Truck, where
children can explore a variety of construction trucks, cars, and community
vehicles, at the Rockland Jewish Community Campus. It is set for Sunday, September 20, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and is
held in conjunction with JCC Rocklands
Rock the Block community program.
There will be a concert by Matty Roxx at
1:15.
The campus is at 450 West Nyack Road
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to www.jewishrockland.org.

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JCC Rockland welcomes

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Free High Holy Day tickets

The Jewish Federation of Rocklands Jewish Initiative and the Rockland County
Board of Rabbis are giving away a limited
number of High Holy Day tickets. Qualifying households must not have been
members of a Board of Rabbis synagogue

Programs for ages 3 - Adults of all ages

New classes and programs begin Sept 1, 2015

Additional information at jccrockland.org/children-family

JCC Rockland

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845.362.4400 jccrockland.org

for the past two years or bought High

Holy Day tickets in Rockland County for
the past two years.
The free ticket offer ends September
7. For information call (845) 362-4200,
ext. 170.

A spoonful of honey and more

The Jewish Federation of Rockland
County will host Spoonful of Honey
on September 8 and 10. It will offer free
apples and honey, crafts, and recipes for
the Jewish new year from the federations

Rockland Jewish Initiative. Representatives will be at Stop & Shop in New City
on September 8 and at Fairway in Nanuet
on September 10, between 10 a.m. and 1
p.m., and again from 3 to 7 p.m.

Jewish education courses

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Phone (845) 623-5800 Fax (845) 623-6921
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Breads, Rolls, Bagels, Pastries, Pies, Cakes & More

Quality, our main ingredient, is in everything we bake!

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Registration is open for adult Jewish

education courses at Jewish Federation
of Rockland County. It is an opportunity for you to enrich your mind and
enhance your knowledge of Judaism
through a Midreshet Rockland course
this fall.
Enroll in the Florence Melton School
of Adult Jewish Learning taught by Rabbi
Paula Mack Drill. The course runs from

October through June. Need-based

scholarships are available.
Midreshet Rockland courses and
the Florence Melton curriculum will
inform and inspire adult learners from
all knowledge levels and backgrounds.
For information, call Roberta Seitzman,
director of adult education, at (845) 3624200, ext. 130, or email her at adulteducation@jewishrockland.org.

LDI accepting
applications

Center schedules
rafting, barbecue

The Jewish Federation of Rocklands

Leadership Development Institute
is designed to develop the skills and
commitment of up-and-coming Jewish communal volunteers.
To learn more or to apply, call
Lara Epstein, director of Community
Outreach and Engagement, at (845)
362-4200, ext. 180 or email her at
lepstein@jewishrockland.org.

The Nanuet Hebrew Center holds an

end-of-summer community tot Shabbat,
barbecue, and services under the stars
tonight, Friday, August 28, beginning at
5 p.m.
A white-water rafting trip on the
Lehigh River in Pennsylvania is planned
for Sunday, August 30, leaving at 8
a.m., from the NHC. Reservations are
requested immediately. The synagogue
is at 411 South Little Tor Road, off Exit
10 of the Palisades Interstate Parkway,
in New City. Call (845) 708-9181 or go to
www.nanuethc.org.

Wishing You A
Sweet New Year
LShana Tova Tikatevu 2015-5776

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You are
Cordially Invited...

to find a syagoge to call home.

View the many fiendly and
welcoming congegations in our area.
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and peaceful New Year

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Rosh Hashanah: Sept. 14 at 5 pm
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Rockland
Montebello

New City

Congregation
Shaarey Israel
The Traditional Synagogue
of Rockland County &
Northern New Jersey

Nanuet Hebrew Center

Congregation Shaarey Israel is a spiritually uplifting, pro-Israel, traditional

synagogue, dedicated to enhancing
your Jewish religious experience. CSI is a
warm, welcoming family where lifelong
friendships are made and cherished. CSI
is a place where you will find support and
participation in all your lifecycle events.
Our beautiful building is conveniently
located off Exit 14B on the NYS Thruway
and is adorned with authentic Jerusalem
stone and exquisite art.
At CSI, we love children. Our religious
school, for children 5-13, has a customdesigned curriculum of Torah, Hebrew
language, and Jewish history that connect our children to their heritage. Children also participate in our Friday night
services and are taught Jewish cooking.
Rabbi Reuven Stengel personally trains
every bar/bat mitzvah student. Cantor
Menachem Bazian teaches traditional
melodies and leads the Hebrew School
during special services.
We have daily morning and evening
minyanim. Shabbat and holiday services
begin at 8:45 a.m. and are followed by a
sumptuous kiddush luncheon.
Programming is our middle name. We
offer an active Sisterhood and Mens Club
and a large variety of educational, social,
and innovative programs for all. The shul
participates in AIPAC conventions and
marches in the Celebrate Israel Parade.
Come join us for a Shabbat or any of
our activities. We would love to meet you
and have you experience the difference!
Let us show you how we can enhance
your life in ways you never dreamed of.

Montebello Jewish Center

Nanuet Hebrew Center

A Family Centered, Egalitarian, Conservative Synagogue

We wish you a Happy, Healthy and Sweet New Year

High Holiday Tickets Available. Please call for info.

Innovative Religious School, Award Winning Youth Groups, Adult Ed, and More
Join us for Community Yizkor on Wednesday, September 23rd at 2:30 PM

Synagogue Shopping? Ask about our Voluntary Commitment

(Self-Directed) Pledge Structure with No Building Fund.
Plus, Free K-2 Religious School (for 2015~2016 Year)!

Rabbi

Cantor

Co-Presidents

Educational
Director

Paul Kurland

Barry Kanarek

Bruce Pollack & Adam Sayer

Tamar Luscher

411 South Little Tor Road

New City, NY 10956
www.nanuethc.org

www.facebook.com/nanuethc

(845) 708-9181
E-Mail: office@nanuethc.org

WE ARE CONVENIENT TO ALL POINTS IN ROCKLAND, JUST OFF EXIT 10 OF THE PALISADES PARKWAY
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The Montebello Jewish Centers congregational family prides itself on its

warm community of multi-generational
individuals and families. We strive to create a home for vibrant, participatory, and
musically inspiring prayer, engaging educational classes for all ages and interests,
as well as innovative social programming.
We are committed to cultivating a love
of Judaism for our youngest members,
inspired through our youth groups, nursery, and religious schools as well as our
continuing learners who enjoy a myriad of
programs and classes.
Montebello Jewish Center, an egalitarian synagogue affiliated with the Conservative movement, strives to bring the
beauty and depth of the Jewish tradition
to the residents of western Rockland
and Bergen counties. We are proud to
see ourselves as a congregational family,
invested in living a life of commitment to
our values and aspirations. Our community is a place for people of all backgrounds
and knowledge, who celebrate Judaism
in a warm and energetic environment.
We are a congregation that loves to sing,
laugh, learn, question, and practice our
creativity in the presence of both people
we have known for years and those
whom we have just met.
We look forward to meeting you at our
next event!
34 Montebello Road; Rabbi Adam Baldachin; Cantor (and educational director)
Michelle Rubin; (845) 357-2430;

Nanuet Hebrew Center has replaced our

traditional membership dues with a voluntary (self-directed) pledge structure.
The voluntary pledge has enabled the
congregation to be more welcoming to
all regardless of financial or personal situation.
Nanuet Hebrew Center is a valuable
resource for the entire community. This
includes religious services, along with a
wide range of educational and social programs for all ages.
We are a multi-generational egalitarian
Conservative Jewish synagogue, affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Jewish Federation
of Rockland County. As a part of the Big
Tent Judaism Coalition, we are open to
the unaffiliated, intermarried families, and
the LGBTQ community.
Starting with its free K-2 program
(for 2015-2016), NHC offers classes up
through high school, along with USY and
Kadima Youth Groups, adult education,
weeknight and Sunday morning minyans,
Shabbat and holiday services.
For information on affiliation or any
other questions please call (845) 7089181, email office@nanuethc.org, visit us
at www.nanuethc.org and on Facebook
atwww.facebook.com/nanuethc. Were
located at411 South Little Tor Road, New
City, off Exit 10 of the Palisades Parkway.
If you are not currently affiliated with
a local synagogue, be sure to also ask us
about eligibility for a $500 RJI new member grant.

New City Jewish Center

New City Jewish Center has been at the
heart of Jewish Rockland for more than
50 years. We view community engagement as central to our mission and our
members proudly serve in positions of
leadership and as volunteers in virtually
every major Jewish communal organization in Rockland County. We are a warm
and inviting congregation, a Jewish home
where lifelong friendships are formed.
The NCJC Early Childhood Center
is a fully licensed preschool program,
providing a stimulating environment for
children, rich in Jewish learning. From
Mommy and Me to pre-K, our outstanding
program includes enriching activities for
growing minds, including yoga and movement through sports. Additionally, a full
array of family experiences are offered,
including our monthly M&M Shabbat,
attracting families from across Rockland
County.
NCJC is also proud of our strong Hebrew school program, which provides our
children with a solid foundation of Jewish
knowledge while instilling a love of being
Jewish. Teachers and youth staff convey a deep love of Judaism while giving
students the tools necessary to become
knowledgeable participants in the Jewish
community.
The NCJC Youth Community brings
children and families together for meaningful social, cultural, and religious programming with their peers. Our families
are committed to building an intentional
Jewish community and making a difference in and around Rockland County.
At NCJC, there are a multitude of entrance points available for people of all
ages, including but not limited to daily
morning and evening services, young
family holiday programming, continuing
education opportunities for adults, and

Rockland
social events for seniors.
Rabbi David Berkman, Rabbi
Jeremy Ruberg, and the rest of the
NCJC family would love to get to
know you. Please call the office for
more information at (845) 638-9600,
check us out atwww.newcityjc.org, or
just come by!

Temple Beth Sholom

Temple Beth Sholom is a diverse
and unique Jewish congregation,
affiliated with the Union of Reform
Judaism.
We are the perfect-sized congregation, because we are big enough
to have a vibrant community with
lots to offer, but small enough to
ensure that every member has a
place. We strive to provide a warm,
nurturing, caring place of worship
and culture that we can truly call
our own.
There are many types of worship
services, including Shabbat Rinah, a
Shabbat of Jubilation with a musical celebration; teaching services;
holiday services; scholar-in-residence
services; religious school services;
Sharing Shabbat; and Mini Minyans
for our youngest congregants. We
have many Shabbat dinners and holiday celebrations, which are wonderful opportunities to get involved in
our temple community.
There are many groups for you to
find your social and cultural niche.

Our Young Members Club is for

parents of our school-age children
and Chai Society is for members
over 50. There is a very active Sisterhood and Brotherhood. Our Social
Action Committee members are
involved in many projects and our
Caring Committee reaches out to
members in need. We have a vibrant
religious school and a lively social
action packed youth croup for our
older kids.
228 New Hempstead Rd, New City;
(845) 638-0770; Rabbi Brian Leiken;
Cantor Anna Zhar; ww.tbsrockland.org

Orangeburg
Orangetown Jewish
Center
For more than 50 years, the Orangetown Jewish Center has shared
the warmth and spirit of Conservative Judaism with Jews throughout
Rockland and Bergen counties. We
are a welcoming, inclusive egalitarian
synagogue that offers something for
every interest and need.
Our religious school starts in
kindergarten and continues into
an award-winning youth program,
Naaseh, Hebrew High and USY
wrapped up into one great learning
experience, chosen recently as USYs
International Chapter of the Year.
Sisterhood and mens club provide a

broad and stimulating spectrum of

adult education and social programs.
And our worship services? Well,
they are nothing short of enlightening and soul-stirring.
OJC is always filled with youth
family services, Shabbaba Shabbat
and Early Kabbalat Shabbat (newborns through 5-year-olds and their
grown-ups), singing on the bima
on Shabbat mornings, and attending our family education programs.
During the years that children spend
as a part of our religious school
community, we provide the education and skills they need to live a
Jewish life, as well as the motivation
and commitment to do so. We offer
a wide variety of topics and formats
for ongoing education, so there is
truly something for everyone to begin or continue a lifetime of learning.
There are membership plans to suit
every need and budget, and High
Holiday tickets are included at no
additional charge for members in
good standing.
Whether its religious school,
sisterhood, mens club, or Hazak for
older adults, OJC offers the perfect
climate to build friendships through
meaningful experiences. Join us in
prayer, study, social action and
interaction. We look forward to welcoming you. For more information,
go to www.theojc.org or call (845)
359-5920.

Make Your Own Connection

Theres Something for Everyone at New City Jewish Center

At New City Jewish Center, tradition is vibrant and

ever evolving. It is the joy of participating in our timehonored rituals as well as the satisfaction of creating our
own NCJC community traditions. It connects us to our culture
through festive celebrations, educational experiences, life moments, and social
activities. It is also what connects us to YOU.

We Uplift

Join us and connect with your heritage. Youll make lifelong bonds for the present and future.

Connect. NCJC is a dynamic center where children and families share in the joy of

We Educate

We Enrich

Jewish living and learning. Our community is what makes this synagogue both
spirited and spiritual.

Learn. Participate in lifelong and diverse learning opportunities, an active K-12

youth community, daily minyan, holiday programming, social action, young members
association, adult education and more with innovative programming that reflects the
interests of our members. In our schools, experienced and creative educators, from
preschool through our award-winning Hebrew school and on to high school, bring
the Jewish experience to life incorporating classes with special family programs
enabling children and parents to learn and rejoice together.

Celebrate. Come be inspired at a Shabbat or holiday service. Bring your family to

We Inspire

We Celebrate

In this New Year, let NCJC be your sanctuary your place to worship, learn,
celebrate and connect.

We Connect
47 Old Schoolhouse Road

New City NY 10956

celebrate life events with our congregational family. Our rabbis and cantor will help
you delight in the knowledge of Torah and find your place as an active participant on
the bimah and beyond. We firmly believe that it is through celebration that we
cultivate a love of Jewish traditions, learning and Israel.

(845) 638-9600

www.newcityjc.org

New City Jewish Center ... Make your connection

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Rockland
Sending you warm wishes
for a sweet New Year

Health & Happiness to Your

Family in the New Year, 5776
Rabbi Brian Leiken
Cantor Anna Zhar
and
The Entire TBS Family

Temple
Beth Sholom
A REFORM JEWISH CONGREGATION
EMBRACING SPIRITUALITY,
TRADITION & CULTURE

228 New Hempstead Road, New City, NY 10956

Tel. (845) 638-0770 www.tbsrockland.org
228 New Hempstead Road, New City, NY 10956
Tel. (845) 638-0770 www.tbsrockland.org

Identity. Community.
Knowledge.

Montebello
Jewish Center

An evening with Martin Greenfield

The Chabad of Suffern is excited to host an event with
Holocaust survivor and tailor-to-the-president Martin
Greenfield, who will be interviewed by Geraldo Rivera.
Mr. Greenfield is one of the worlds most respected
and accomplished tailors. Since emigrating from the
former Czechoslovakia to America in 1947, he dressed
the famous of D.C., including Bill Clinton and Barack
Obama, and celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio and Jimmy
Fallon. But his success follows tremendous adversity.
As a teenager, he survived two horrific years in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and lost his
parents and siblings at the hands of the Nazis. In his
memoir Measure of a Man, Greenfield describes how

an encounter with an SS guard at Auschwitz led him to

pick up a needle and thread for the first time, and how
tragedy taught him the power of clothes. Please join us
as we listen to a first-hand account of the life of Martin
Greenfield.
The event will take place at the Lafayette Theater in Suffern on October 18. The meet and greet cocktail hour will
begin at 4 p.m. and the interview will start at 5:30 p.m.
$25 advanced paid reservation. $36 at the door. $15
student rate. $90 Includes VIP ticket to lecture and the
meet and greet.
For tickets visit www.JewishSuffern.com or call
(845)-368-1889.

Chamber schedules
a talk on New York

Holocaust course
begins in November

The Nanuet Chamber of Commerce will kick off next

years programming on September 30 at the Comfort
Inn with a talk by Greg David of Crains New York Business. His discussion will focus on New York: Where we
were, where we are, and how you can take advantage of
where we are headed!
Any business can join the chamber by going to www.
nanuetchamber.com and signing up for membership.
Residents also can join. The Greater Nanuet Chamber of
Commerce hosts a variety of programs throughout the
year for businesses as well as community members.

The Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and

Education offers Holocaust as a Paradigm to Genocide, a three-part class, on November 10, 17, and 24
at 7 p.m. The class, taught by Carol King Berkman,
a Holocaust educator and museum trustee, will outline the historical framework of the Holocaust, analyze genocides that followed, and discuss the worldwide threats today. It is funded in part by a grant
from the Jewish Federation of Rockland County.
Call Andrea Winograd at (845) 574-4099 or email
her at awinograd@holocaustsudies.org.

A Conservative, egalitarian,
family-oriented congregation
led by Rabbi Adam Baldachin,
Cantor Michelle Rubin and
Andrea Caloras, President.

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Wishing You a
Sweet New Year
Montebello Jewish Center

34 Montebello Road, Montebello, NY

www.montebellojc.org 845-357-2430
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(Resident, Lillian Grunfeld with her daughter,

Dir. of Community Relations, Debbie Corwin)

where our residents maintain the level of independence

they desire while receiving the care they need.

We Wish You a Sweet New Year

Family owned community

Spacious, fully furnished apartments
Daily Lifestyle Activities to enrich mind, body & spirit
RN Director of Wellness Program
Respite Program available
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Rosh Hashanah
Family
Service:
Rosh Hashanah
Family Service:
4:15
pm on Sept. 14 Conveniently located on the Rockland/Bergen border
4:15Service:
pm on Sept.
14 on Yom Kippur
Community Yizkor
4:15 pm
Community
Yizkor
Service:
Both services are open to the community
4:15 pm on Yom Kippur
Both services are open to the community

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Editorial
On civility

he arguments for and

against the nuclear deal
with Iran are real on both
sides.
That the deal as proposed is
deeply flawed is undeniable. That
it could have been done better
although certainly not by us!
seems clear as well. That we were
asked not to criticize it until it was
finalized, and then told that it was
too late for any criticism, is a simple fact. That we are stuck with it,
that it must be voted up or down
but cannot be amended, is a noxious fact.
But that people of good will, acting in good faith, who are secure
in their proud identities as Americans and as Jews, deeply engaged
in Israel, and profoundly committed to Israels security as well as to
its continued existence as a Jewish
state, genuinely can disagree on
the deal without being idiots, or
traitors, or hypocrites, is true as
well.
We all are in danger of forgetting
that.
The only way to know with certainty whether the deal as proposed will turn out to be better
rejected than accepted or the
other way around would be to
use a time machine to see how it
all worked out. Otherwise, there
are strong arguments, convincing
arguments even, but there is no
certainty.
We all seem to agree that Irans
leaders are malevolent, thoroughly
foul men whose words we should
believe only when they vow to kill
us all and whose words we absolutely should believe when they
vow to kill us all. Certainly none
of their actions give us any reason
not to believe them on that subject,
although we have every reason to

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disbelieve them on every other

matter.
But the question of which decision will keep the world safer
whether the safeguards that the
deals supporters say would keep
us safe, at least for a decade or so,
possibly could outweigh the dangers posed by Irans leaders funneling newly available funds to
terrorists, thugs, and brutal murderers, as they already have and
they know we will continue to so
is not as clear as advocates on
either side insist. After all, they do
not have that time machine, and
the most adamantine certainties
have a way of dissolving in the acid
wash of history.
Does that mean that we should
not have strong opinions, and not
argue them forcefully? No, it absolutely does not. To cease to argue
would be to cease to breathe. To
accept without questioning would
be to give up.
We at the Standard already have
positioned ourselves against the
deal in this column, and we continue to do so.
But we should save our hatred
for the Iranians who pledge death
to Americans, Israelis, and all Jews.
There is no possible good that
will or possibly could come out
of hurling insults at people with
whom we disagree. No one not
politicians, not civilians, absolutely
no one will be swayed by bullying and name-calling, except possibly in the other direction. We cannot stand united in our reaction to
the deal. Two Jews, 95 opinions,
remember? But we can remember
that we are one people. This deal
will be accepted or rejected. We
will continue to have to live with
each other.


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JP

For the sin

of checking out

he clock is ticking. The

are called tabloid newspapers.
horn is sounding.
They purport to report the news,
The time of soul-searchbut any news they have is buried
ing is fast approaching.
among a sea of sexy photographs
Now is the time for us to resolve
and salacious headlines. A recent
to stop taking our children and
New York Post headline, for example, was a poorly disguised wish
grandchildren into soft-porn
that admitted child sex offender
palaces.
Jared Fogle be gang-raped in
This is not a joke. Before us now
prison. The newspaper often uses
is the arduous process of look- Shammai
Engelmayer
ing deep into our own natures in
clever wording to sell itself.
We may simply turn on the
search of our failures and foibles,
television and watch, say, a Pepsi
and into our hearts in search of
commercial. One, some years back, stands out
ways to correct our found faults.
Sadly, though, we likely will miss some impor- in its suggestiveness. It featured Britney Spears,
tant errors, because we are not even aware
Beyonce, and Pink, dressed in chain-mail miniskirts and halter tops (and very obvious pushthey are errors, much less that they require
up bras), shaking their bodies to abandon to
correction.
the tune of We Will Rock You.
Taking our children and grandchildren into
A current commercial, for the satellite service
soft-porn palaces is one such error. This error
provider Direct TV, features Sports Illustrated
is hard to recognize because it hides behind a
swimsuit models with almost nothing covered,
deceptively inoffensive name, thereby lulling us
standing on a beach in provocative poses, with a
into ignoring the danger within.
white horse nearby. A West Coast fast-food chain
That inoffensive name is supermarket, and
actually depicted a seemingly naked model
specifically the area known as the supermarket
walking through a farmers market, praising an
checkout counter.
That is where you will find copies of such all natural burger.
The situation comedies we allow our children
mainstream publications as Cosmopolitan,
and grandchildren (and ourselves) to watch all
bedecked with scantily and suggestively clad
too often rely on sexual situations to get laughs.
women and such headlines as Hilary Duff is
Even some of the cartoons our children watch
Back and Kicking [expletive deleted], or Sex
resort to this, especially ones involving superSo Hot Youll Need to Crank the A.C., or Sex
heroes. Wilma Flintstone may have worn a miniand Love. Tis the Month for Kinky Qs, Dating
skirt, but you never got to see every detail of her
Secrets, and the Love You Want.
Side by side with these are the not-so-main- body. Todays cartoonists leave nothing to the
stream publications, literally called supermar- imagination.
ket tabloids, with such headlines as Britney
Admittedly, calling supermarkets soft-porn
Aborts Baby, or Jens New Body Revealed, or
palaces is way over the top, but have we, as individuals and as a community, gone to the managAl Gore Sex Attack.
ers of these stores to complain that our children
We also bring soft porn (and some not so soft
should not be subjected to such so-called pointporn) into our homes for both the children and
us to see. We may buy them at a local newsstand, of-purchase displays? Have we, individually
and communally, suggested that these displays
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To infinity and beyond

How far will dealmakers go on Iran?
could be placed in a less noticeable area in the store,
where children will not be subjected to them?
The store expects to make money from placing
such items at checkout counters. That is the whole
point-of-purchase point. Would they be so willing to
keep such material at the counters if it meant losing
business?
Why do we even have subscriptions to publications
that use sleaze as a draw? There is only one reason
a Rupert Murdoch, say, publishes what he does
because people buy what he publishes. The same is
true of the supermarket tabloids, such as the Enquirer
or the Examiner.
The First Amendment is sacrosanct and must
remain so. More to the point, we should not blame
the purveyors of such materials. We need to blame
ourselves for encouraging them by giving them a
market.
We tend to think that Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are all about how we as individuals can reform
ourselves in the coming year. We tend to ignore the
fact that we do not live in a vacuum. There is a broader
world out there, and how we behave all too often is
influenced by that world.
We also tend to forget we have the power of the
purse to change at least some of what we see as wrong
and that we have the obligation to do so.
Reprove your neighbor, but incur no guilt on his
account, the Torah commands in Leviticus 19:17. We
cannot sit back and ignore wrongs or make the excuse
that it is someone elses problem. It is not someone
elses problem; it is our problem.
In the Babylonian Talmud, tractate Shabbat 54b,
we are taught something remarkable. The Torah
(including in this weeks parashah) insists that only
the guilty be punished for their misdeeds. But, says
the Talmud, Whoever can turn aside his household
[from doing wrong] but does not, is seized for [the
crimes of ] his household; [if he can prevent] his fellow citizens [from doing wrong, but does not], he is
seized for [the crimes of ] his fellow citizens; if [he
can prevent] the whole world [from doing wrong,
but does not], he is seized for [the crimes of ] the
whole world.
Put another way, wrongdoing involves the person
who did the wrong and the person who did nothing to
prevent the wrong from being done.
The righteous person gives direction to a neighbor,
the Book of Proverbs teaches (see 12:26).
Supposedly, Edmund Burke put it this way: All that
is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men
do nothing.
This High Holy Days season, we need to resolve to
do something.

ake that all you Iran deal naysayers!

The lack of anytime/anywhere
inspections has been resolved
because Iran will be inspecting

itself.
In a twist Orwell himself could not have
imagined, the Associated Press revealed last
week that Iran will be authorized to conduct
its own inspections of its nuclear weaponization facility at Parchin as per Separate
Laura
Fein
Arrangement II, a side deal between Iran
and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
But its not as if the deals architects
planned it that way. After all, Secretary of State John Kerry
testified before Congress that he knew of a side deal but
never saw it, and chief negotiator Wendy Sherman swore
she saw some papers but couldnt remember exactly
what they said.
Take a moment to breathe that in. While our leaders turn
a blind eye, Iran, the defiant self-defined enemy of America,
the country that evaded Western intelligence and flouted
international law for decades as it created an industrialscale nuclear infrastructure, will be entrusted to provide
its own inspectors at the very military facility the IAEA has
repeatedly sought to inspect. As if that were not ludicrous
enough, the document makes explicit that Iran will provide
photos and locations subject to taking into account military concerns. So if the IAEA wants Iran to self-report on
its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program, it had
better hope Irans military leaders do not object.
Whereas typically a country suspected of developing
nuclear weapons is subject to inspections by IAEA experts,
who take and test swipes of equipment and environmental soil and air samples, Iran will provide the agency with
no more than seven such samples, plus photos and videos
of its choosing, from within the Parchin military complex.
The U.N. agency suspected Iran conducted secret weapons work at Parchin for more than decade, but it has not
succeeded in gaining access to conduct a probe. The new
arrangement apparently will allow the IAEA to close this
embarrassing chapter, check the box that inspections have
been completed, and attest to Irans compliance. This
unprecedented arrangement has quaintly been described
as unique by Ned Price, spokesman for the White House
National Security Council.
As the Wall Street Journal editorial staff put it, Why not
cut out the IAEA middle man and simply let Qasem Soleimani, the head of Irans Quds Force, sign a personal affidavit? Or as our brave New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez put it when he bucked his party and announced his
opposition last week, Hope is part of human nature, but
unfortunately it is not a national security strategy.
There is still hope for those who are serious about
Americas national security, and Israels security as well.
We must insist Congress pass a vote of disapproval this
September that will leave sanctions in place and that it will

work to increase sanctions until, through

crippling economic pressure, Iran agrees to
dismantle its nuclear program.
The deals supporters claim that this is
the best deal possible, that it is fantasy to
expect better. Theyre fantasizing if they
think thats credible. In explaining his
opposition to the deal, Senator Menendez
listed specific changes that could vastly
improve the JCPOA, including closing Fordow (Irans enrichment facility, located
under a mountain), insisting that Iran
reveal the full dimensions of its past program, and agreeing on clear penalties for small and midsize Iranian violations.
Many have wisely added that sanctions relief in particular release of $150 billion in frozen Iranian assets, a
windfall that represents three times the sum total Israel
has received in U.S. aid over the course of its existence
must not take place while Iran continues to fund terror, hold U.S. hostages, and verbally threaten America
and Israel. We must further ensure, as Senator Menendez
advocates, that Congress and the president unequivocally
declare that the U.S. will indeed use all means necessary to prevent Iran from becoming a military power, and
will authorize the means for Israel to address its needs
independently.
Senator Menendezs willingness to oppose the current
deal and suggest concrete improvements stands in stark
contrast to many of his colleagues, too many of whom
express grave reservations in private but do not share his
courage in opposing it publicly. As the world prepares to
pay an outrageous ransom to redeem a temporary delay in
Irans nuclear prospects, U.S. leaders fashion their fear of
party payback into a cloth of cowardice. Too many senators purport to be reviewing and weighing, studying and
vetting, just like the crowds admiring the naked emperors
clothes.
Unfortunately, New Jerseys Senator Cory Booker still
is in this group. While he is full of polite respect for both
sides of the issue, he must be made to understand that
this is not just another vote this is the vote of our generation, one that holds our futures, and his, in the balance.
At stake are our interests in the Middle East, a regional
nuclear arms race, and domestic security from terror
threats.
We must let our politicians know we will hold them
accountable should they make the wrong choice. How far
will our leaders go to support this disastrous deal? It will
depend on how far we will go to let them know that while
we appreciate their words, we will judge them by their
vote.
Laura Fein is the executive director of ZOA-NJ, the Zionist
Organization of Americas New Jersey chapter. Email her at
LFein@zoa.org.

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Opinion

Laws of life
Applying the lessons of mathematics to the High Holy Days

lthough Judaexplaining, there always will

ism is not highly
be another question. Eventually, you will have to say
ascetic, this is a
Trust me a newspaper is a
time of year when
newspaper and it is never not
many Jews deny the self and
a newspaper. A=A.
mortify the flesh.
This principle is foundaStarting at the beginning
tional to all of mathematics.
of the Hebrew month of Elul,
Without the law of identity,
Sephardic Jews rise before
Rabbi Debra
it is impossible to proceed
dawn to recite prayers of
Orenstein
in math, in logic, or even in
repentance. Ashkenazic
conversation.
Jews typically begin penitential Selichot prayers later in
The second law is the law
the month, with a late-night service after a
of non-contradiction: A does not equal
Shabbat preceding Rosh Hashanah. Some
not A. Something cannot be true and
Jews fast during select days in Elul, particuntrue at the same time. There can be
ularly on the morning of Rosh Hashanah
cases where something is true and other
eve.
circumstances where that truth does not
On Yom Kippur, we afflict our souls. In
hold. But in any given situation, if something is true it cannot also be false. This
traditional observance, Jews abstain from
seems obvious, but it is hard to prove.
bodily pleasures, including sex, bathing,
The third law, according to Dr. Thomas,
food, and drink. In this way, we experience for a day what it is to be like angels
is the law of the excluded middle. While
or corpses who have no physical needs.
the first two laws are almost universally
Equally, we behave like monks who wish
accepted, the third is controversial. It
to overcome those needs. I recall that my
says that truth and falsehood are the only
great-grandfather used to remain standing
two options. There is no third possibility,
for all 25 hours of Yom Kippur.
and there is no continuum of very true,
I joked with relatives, who also rememtrue, neutral, false, and very false. The
bered my zeydes spiritual discipline,
middle options are entirely excluded.
that attending family math camp with
Either A or not A but not both A and (not
my son this summer could be considered
A).
Still with me? (I dont have this down as
a form of pre-High Holiday penance. I
well as Dr. Thomas 8-year-old students,
am as great a math-phobe as my son is a
but I think Ive done a passable job at
math-enthusiast.
explaining.)
It turns out that math camp did indeed
Now what does this have to do with
help me prepare for the High Holidays
preparing for the High Holidays?
but not through affliction.
This season is a time of deep spiritual
On the first day of camp, I attended a
work. We seek to forgive, to repent, to
lecture for parents by George Thomas, a
improve. To do so, we must be honest with
mathematician, physicist, and engineer
ourselves. Like a senior mathematician or
a triple threat. The subject was: The
an innocent and sponge-like 8-year-old, we
Three Classical Laws of Thought and
must seek the truth.
Mathematics.
The three laws of logic each have their
Frankly, I was glad and surprised that I
spiritual corollaries.
could keep up with the math until Dr.
The law of identity is very helpful
Thomas let it slip that he had just delivered
for acceptance and forgiveness. Your
the same lecture to a group of 8-year-olds
mother is your mother. This doesnt
during his first session with them.
seem earth-shattering, but its a founI am summarizing these laws here
dational principle that can help you,
both because of their inherent value and
whether you have appreciation for your
because they are so relevant as the High
mom or conflict with her or both.
Holidays approach.
Also, she is never not your mother. She
The first rule is: A=A, the law of identity.
cannot not be herself.
Imagine that a Martian visits earth and
Peace and forgiveness begin with
asks about the item in your hands. If you
acknowledging people and situations for
answer This is a newspaper, he will only
everything they are (this is tough) and for
ask what a newspaper is. As you seek to
everything they arent (this can be even
explain, it will lead to greater understanding, but also to infinitely more questions,
tougher). Accepting reality means letting
such as: What is paper? What is ink? What
go of the possibility that people and things
is news? What is a Standard? Who is a Jew?
will not be themselves.
(Lets not even get started on that one!)
High Holidays are all about growth and
No matter how talented you are at
change. But for growth and change to

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Dr. George Thomas instructs a young student at a family math camp. 

happen, first you have to get to the bedrock of what is. Sometimes, this takes a lot
of bravery: My addiction is my addiction.
My anger is my anger. My dissatisfaction
is my dissatisfaction, and I wont pretend
any longer that its just fine. Once we agree
that A=A, only then can we decide what to
add to A or to subtract from it.
The theologian Carol Ochs described
spirituality as a process of coming into
relationship with reality. Spirituality
affirms the truth of what is, even when the
truth is ugly. You cannot heal what you do
not face. There is no escaping the reality
of what is so in this present moment. In
reviewing the past year and assessing the
state of our souls, we affirm that A=A.
Maimonides, the great 12th-century
rabbi, physician, and philosopher,
expressed the law of non-contradiction
in his Laws of Repentance (Hilchot Teshuvah): One who confesses in words and
has not in his heart resolved to forsake sin
is like one who immerses in a [purifying]
ritual bath and keeps holding a [ritually
impure] reptile. Unless you cast it away,
the immersion is useless.
You cannot be both repentant and unrepentant. You cannot be both pure and
impure. The spiritual law of non-contradiction might be stated this way: When
you bring the internal and external into
alignment, you are operating in integrity.
The law of the excluded middle dictates
that you cannot be operating sort of or
mostly in integrity. You cannot be kind
of sorry. There is no middle ground, no
third option. You either forgive or you
dont. You either repent or you dont.
Netzavim, the Torah portion of the Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah, says: This day

EMMETT

I put before you life and death, blessing

and curse. Therefore, choose life. Many
times we seek a third option. Cant I just
coast? What about subsistence or survival?
Arent there neutral choices? The spiritual
law of the excluded middle says: Every
choice inclines you either toward life and
vitality or toward death and destruction.
Choose wisely, that you and your children may live.
In other words, enter yourself in the
Book of Life. As the Unetaneh Tokef prayer
reminds us, every persons signature is
in Gods Book of Memories.
Its easy to feel religious (or maybe
just smug) when you fast all day and beat
your chest and lie prostrate on the floor
during the Grand Aleynu. As the old joke
goes, look who thinks hes nothing! God
asks in the Haftarah of Yom Kippur morning, Is this the fast I have chosen? (Isaiah
58:5)
Asceticism for its own sake is idol worship. We have to remain sensible to what
our penance is for. We are clearing away
our usual crutches and comforts and habits in order not to be dead while we still
live. We are clarifying our choices: Truth
or falsehood, life or death, strife and contention (Isaiah 58:4) or the recognition
that other human beings are your very
own flesh (Isaiah 58:7).
Its a demanding, stark, and beautiful
time of year.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein, spiritual leader
of Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson,
is partnering with Free the Slaves to free
1,000 people before Rosh Hashanah. Go to
the Freeing Slaves page at RabbiDebra.com
to learn more and contribute.

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Opinion/Letters

Obama administration flunks choice

between fighting and appeasing terrorists

wo very different ways to

respond to terrorism were on
display this week. On a train
headed to Paris, unarmed
American civilians risked their lives to subdue a Muslim terrorist who attempted to
machine-gun train passengers.
In New York City, the Obama administration successfully intervened in court on
behalf of Palestinian terrorists who are trying to avoid paying compensation to their
victims.
The juxtaposition of these two incidents
reminds us of the choice that faces America and the entire civilized world today:
the choice between fighting terrorists and
appeasing them.
I have bitter personal experience with
U.S. government efforts to interfere in
attempts by terror victims to gain restitution. I undertook the first federal lawsuit
against Iran for sponsoring the Palestinian
terrorist attack in 1995 in which my daughter Alisa was murdered. I heard all the
usual sympathetic platitudes from Clinton
administration officials about Alisas death
but that came to a screeching halt once
we won our verdict against Iran.
Even after Iran was found guilty, the
administration refused to hand over any
frozen Iranian assets to meet the courtawarded judgment in the case, and

appeared in court against me

significant sum in the form
and on behalf of Iran as we
of bond. That helps ensure
attempted to seize assets to
that the culprits dont hide
pay our claim. It became very
their assets during the
clear to me that appeasing Iran
lengthy appeal process.
was a higher priority than jusThe victims requested
tice for American victims of
that the PA-PLO be required
Iranian terrorism.
to post $30 million
Several years ago, 10 famimonthly. That was a perlies of Americans murdered
Stephen M.
fectly reasonable request;
Flatow
or maimed by Palestinian terand the PA-PLO obviously
rorists sued the Palestinian
has enough money to do
Authority and its parent body,
it since it spends millions
the Palestine Liberation Organization.
each year in payments to imprisoned terrorists and the families of suicide bombers.
The evidence presented in court included
Not only that, but the Obama adminhandwritten notes from PA chairman Yasir
istration gives the PA $500 million every
Arafat personally approving payments to
year; so payments on the bond could have
the terrorists who carried out the attacks.
been subtracted from that sum.
This February, a federal court found the
But this is the Obama administration
PA-PLO guilty and awarded the families
that has never shown a serious interest in
$655 million.
the more than 100 Americans murdered
Obviously, that money cant undo the
by Palestinian terrorists. It has never
pain that 12-year-old Jamie Sokolow suffered when shrapnel from a Palestinian
indicted even one of the killers. It has
bomb wounded her in the eyes, and it
never asked the PA to hand over any of the
wont bring back Stuart Goldberg, who
murderers, even though they live openly
was murdered in a 2004 Jerusalem bus
in PA territory and some even serve in
bombing. But its a small measure of justice
the PA police force. The administration
to make the killers pay for their crimes.
has not even criticized the PA for naming
The PA-PLO is appealing the verdict. The
soccer teams and public parks in honor of
normal procedure in such a case is for the
killers of Americans.
court to order the guilty party to post a
Thus an American visiting the PA

capital, Ramallah, can attend a soccer

match in which one of the teams is named
after the terrorists who murdered a senior
aide to U.S. Senator Walter Mondale. Or
the visitor can relax in a park named after
the killer of the niece of U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Mondale and Ribicoff happen to be icons of President Obamas own
party. Doesnt their memory mean anything to him?
The Obama administration responded
to the bond request in the Sokolow case
by pleading with the court to drastically
lower the required sum. They claimed
that the PA doesnt have enough money
to pay. U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels announced this week that after giving
serious consideration to the governments request, he is ordering a bond of
just a single $10-million payment, plus $1
million per month. Once again, politics triumphed over justice.
In Paris, American civilians showed us
the courageous way to respond to terrorism. In New York, the Obama administration showed us the opposite.
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The security services in Israel have identified a hard core of a few dozen violent
Jewish extremists who need to be monitored and who should be prosecuted to the
full extent of the law if they commit acts
of violence. Moreover, those politicians,
activists, or rabbis who spout extremist
rhetoric should be ostracized and called
out by the mainstream right wing and
settler leadership. However, to besmirch
the name of an entire group of people
because they espouse a different political
point of view or live over the Green Line is
unacceptable.
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot
Congregation Netivot Shalom
Teaneck

in Jerusalem or elsewhere is racist and

discriminatory.
I invite the readers to examine the website of the organizations these writers represent. Partners for Progressive Israel has
been promoting discriminatory boycotts
against nearly 200 Israeli and Jewishowned businesses and industries, as seen
on its website. PPI also supports cultural
anti-Israel anti-Jewish boycotts, including
against the performing arts center in Ariel,
a university community where more than
25,000 Jews live. PPI also had been working against the anti-boycott bill in the state
of Illinois. Ameinu shares offices with PPI.
Through its The Third Narrative subsidiary, it promotes severe international
sanctions, including travel restrictions
and financial penalties, against Israeli officials [fellow Jews] with whom it disagrees.
The website of PPI prominently supports
the current windfall deal for Iran as well.
These organizations care about rights,
civil and otherwise, for everyone it seems
everyone except Jews.
Scott David Lippe M.D.
Paramus

Stephen M. Flatow of West Orange, an

attorney in Fairfield, is the father of Alisa
Flatow, who was murdered in an Iraniansponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in
1995.

LETTERS

Offended by name-calling

I am not a right-wing ideologue, nor have I

ever been. In fact, during the 1990s I was a
member of Shvil Hazahav, an organization
of modern Orthodox rabbis, led by Rabbi
Shmuel Goldin and encouraged by Rabbi
Yehuda Amital, of blessed memory. This
group supported the efforts of the Rabin
government to forge peace with the Palestinians, against the majority sentiment
in many Orthodox circles. And yet I am
extremely troubled by the sentence in Dr.
Mark Gold and Haim Simons recent piece
on extremist Jewish violence in Israel.
They write: West Bank settlers for whom
intermutual coexistence and democracy
are anathema are aggravating intercommunal tension even further (Proclaiming liberty, August 21).
Tarring hundreds of thousands of
decent, law-abiding, and wonderful citizens of the State of Israel with such a
broad brush is nothing short of calumny.
If one would use such rhetoric in portraying any other segment of a society, e.g the
Arabs, the Left, or in our country the
Mexicans, that person rightly would be
accused of gross generalization if not outright bigotry.
32 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 28, 2015

Its not the Jews fault

Dr. Mark Gold and Hiam Simon wrote

another its the fault of the Jews article
(Proclaiming liberty, August 21). They
make the false equation between the killings in the Arab village of Durma and the
civil rights movement in America in the
1960s. Somehow the Arab-Israeli conflict
is now a civil rights battle, with Arabs as
the oppressed African Americans and the
Israelis as the bad guys. The truth of the

matter is that despite all the slaughter of

Jews throughout the land of Israel, the
silence of the extreme left has been deafening, except to blame Jews for their own
predicament. The solution of the organizations that Dr. Gold and Simon represent
is to forcibly remove the Jewish population over the 67 borders and render these
areas Judenrein. Where are the handwringing concerns for civil rights?
The disastrous expulsion of the Jews
from Gaza rendered nearly 10,000 Jews
homeless. Many are still without permanent residences years later. A terrorist
haven was created, and viable industries
left behind were destroyed by the Arab
residents. Despite this clear lesson, the
extreme left still engages in the fantasy
of expelling all Jews from the territories
territories that include Jerusalem and the
Golan. The mental acrobatics designed to
justify these goals are laughable, considering that the Arabs view all of Israel as a
settlement and all Israelis as settlers. The
wars of 1948 and 1967 and the creation of
the PLO in the early 1960s predated Jewish settlements that started in the 1970s.
The settlements are not the cause of the
conflict. Preventing Jews from living

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Anti-Zionisms mask falls

he first Saturday in September

will see Israels national soccer
team travel to Cardiff, the capital of Wales, for a crucial qualifying game for next years European
Championship in France. As is becoming
the norm when any Israeli athletes travel
abroad, the team also will face protests
off the field, led by activists who believe
that Israel has no right to compete internationally in the first place.
I mention this forthcoming event
because one of the speakers addressing the anti-Israel rally outside the soccer stadium is Jeremy Corbyn, a far-left
member of the U.K. parliament for the
opposition Labour Party and more
importantly, the front-runner in the batAnti-Zionist U.K. politician Jeremy
tle for that partys leadership. If Corbyn
Corbyn is the front-runner for the
ends up winning the contest triggered
leadership of the Labour Party.
by the resignation of former leader Ed
GARRYKNIGHTVIAWIKIMEDIACOMMONS
Miliband, following his poor showing
in the U.K.s general election earlier this
year we will have a vocal supporter
to the government.
of the Boycott, Divestment and SancNow, Corbyn seemingly is going to
tions movement at the helm of one of
lead the charge against the U.K. presEuropes more august left-wing parties.
ence of the Israeli soccer team which,
Corbyn is a patron of the
ironically, only plays in
U.K.s pro-BDS Palestine
European competitions
Solidarity Campaign, which
because the Jewish state
is well known for its antiwas expelled from the
Semitic targeting of Israel
Asian Football Confederathrough its constant comtion in 1974, thanks to the
parisons of the Jewish state
diktat of the Arab League
with Nazi Germany and
boycott of Israel. Since
apartheid-era South Africa.
Corbyn is an enthusiasBut that, arguably, is the
tic supporter of dictators
Ben Cohen
least of it.
like the now-dead Hugo
During the last week, CorChavez in Venezuela and
byn has been confronted in
the still-living Vladimir
the media over his connections to a LonPutin in Russia, it wont bother him that
don-based Holocaust denier and Palthe Arab boycott was pushed by some of
estine solidarity activist named Paul
the worst human rights abusers in hisEisen. In the past, Corbyn has vocally
tory. In fact, he wont be content until
defended Raed Salah, the leader of
Israel is completely isolated, not just in
the Islamic Movement in Israel, despite
the Middle East but in every corner of
Salahs endorsement of the anti-Semitic
the globe.
blood libel and his claim that Jews were
No wonder, then, that a poll from
warned in advance of the September 11,
Londons Jewish Chronicle reveals that
2001 al-Qaeda terrorist atrocities. When
almost 70 percent of British Jews are
Salah got into a legal tussle with the Britconcerned by the prospect of Corbyn
ish authorities during an extended stay
leading the Labour Party, with an overin the U.K., Corbyn urged a parliamenwhelming 83 percent expressing alarm
tary inquiry into the influence of the
at Corbyns infamous description of
pro-Israel lobby on government polHamas and Hezbollah as our friends.
icy. This sinister statement was made
What does this tell us? Most immeafter it emerged that the Community
diately, it tells us that the vast majority
Security Trust, a professional and highly
of British Jews arent buying the nonrespected body that deals with security
sense that anti-Zionism isnt anti-Semfor the U.K.s Jewish community, had
itism, and that BDS carefully separates
provided evidence of Salahs toxic views
between Jews on the one hand and
Israelis on the other. Much of the crowd
Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org
who will cheer Israels soccer stars will
& The Tower Magazine, writes a weekly
be composed of British Jews expressing
column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and
their emotional and cultural affinity with
Middle Eastern politics. His works have
the Jewish state. And because they will
been published in Commentary, the
dare to do that, they will be harassed
New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
by a mob baying slogans about Israels
SEE MASK PAGE 55
Journal, and many other publications.

Letters
Letters
FROM PAGE 32

Dont follow the leader

Regarding Rabbi Shmuley Boteachs column, Cory Booker would never vote for
Iran over Israel (August 21): Its not a matter of voting for Iran over Israel.
Voting for the proposed agreement may
well be a vote for both Iran and Israel. For
Iran it is more likely than no agreement at
all to keep it from a nuclear weapon, while
strengthening Iranians who are striving to
bring their county into the modern democratic world.
For Israel, it promises to protect it from
an Iranian nuclear weapon, while maybe
serving as a starting point for international
creativity leading to a Middle East safer for
Israel and all of its neighbors. (See August
21 letters by Kaplan, Tencer, and me to this
effect.)
Regarding Leaders lead: Why we
should follow Jewish organizations lead
on the Iran deal, (August 21): Daniel
Shlufman argues that we should follow
those who already are leaders, given
their superior knowledge and insights

involvement andaccess to information

maturity [and] understanding.
Before we do so, though, I suggest reading Barbara Tuchmans The March of
Folly. She shows how leaders superior
knowledge, insights, involvement, information, maturity, and understanding
have led to disaster after disaster, from the
Trojan War though Vietnam. And the book
was written in 1984, too early for a chapter
on the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a leadership
folly from which we and the Iraqis continue to suffer.
Arthur J. Lerman
Teaneck

JCCs lose to megadonors

No JCC ever existed without a healthy subvention from its local Jewish federation
(What happened? August 14). JCCs close
when federations tighten the spigot of traditional funding. As major donors became
more Israel-centered and less likely to ever
grace the doorways of a JCC health facility, their interest lagged, and thats the big
shift.

The same people who find it sexier to

ride on tanks, helicopters, ambulances,
and fire trucks and hobnob with Israeli
politicians and defense personnel on
expensive missions increasingly dont
even have the JCCs in their consciousness,
nor the Jews in their community who are
priced out of their lifestyle.
Not only is the closure of JCCs a symptom of the time, but the misrepresentation
of the majority of American Jews positive
view of the Iran nuclear deal by the Jewish
federations and other bodies run by the
megadonors. The lack of support is mutual
and the concept of We Are One has been
cheapened.
Pini Herman
Tel Aviv

Thug in chief

Chris Christie would have been a great

punch line for Johnny Carson and Jay Leno
with their frequent negative comments
and jokes about New Jersey.
Christie is constantly mouthing off about
being a Jersey guy, or indicating that he

is tough because he comes from New Jersey. The picture of the Garden State that
this buffoon presents to the rest of the
country is the antithesis of what we are.
On frequent trips around the country and abroad Ive run into any number
of people who view him and New Jersey
as a state populated by people ready to
punch out anyone who disagrees with
Chris Christie. The picture of violence that
he constantly presents is not at all the New
Jersey that I know.
Hes suggested taking a bat to State
Senator Loretta Weinberg and his personal
attack on Senator Bob Gordon, coupled
with his frequent threat of Im a Jersey
guy, indicating he should not be attacked
or questioned, is a slap in the face to every
New Jerseyan, Democrat or Republican.
Instead of Commander-in-Chief, he has
earned the sobriquet of Thug-in-Chief.
He is not representative of us, and, heaven
forbid he should end up as president, wed
probably be in a war within a month of his
mouth taking office.
Bob Nesoff
New Milford

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We are network weavers

Local Hillels new head, Talia Mizikovsky, talks about college, life
JOANNE PALMER

ts not smart to make assumptions

about Talia Mizikovsky, the new local
Hillel director. (More formally, she is
the director of Jewish student life for
the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey; she is replacing Rabbi Ely Allen, who
made aliyah with this family this summer,
after 14 years as Hillel director.)
Start with something as obvious as her
name. Youd assume shes Ashkenazi,
right? Thats a very Russian name. And in
fact her father, Anatoly Mizikovsky, was
born in Russia. But Mr. Mizikovsky now
36 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 28, 2015

lives in Australia on the sunshine coast;

hes been there a long time, his daughter
said and her mother, Esther Chalom,
was born in Alexandria. (Mr. Mizikovsky
and Ms. Chalom met as students at NYU,
and their children were born in the United
States.)
So Ms. Mizikovsky is half Sephardi.
Ms. Mizikovsky spent part of her childhood in Edgewater and then moved to
Englewood; she went to Moriah and then
to Frisch, so you would assume that shes
Orthodox. Youd be partially right. But
we have a dual background, Orthodox
and Conservative, and she is entirely at

home in both while fully identifying as

neither. Its hard to put me in a box, she
said. Instead, she sees herself as pluralist,
deeply Jewish and open to all expressions
of Judaism.
Perhaps most saliently, Ms. Mizikovsky
is 25 years old and strikingly attractive; to
look at her and perhaps this is unfair is
to miss the steel.
Ms. Mizikovsky is also brave. She stands
up for her beliefs, even when it would be
far easier to sit down and shut up.
All in all, her background all those different elements uniquely qualifies her
for her complicated new role, as Hillel

director for four campuses, working for

the federation under the supervision of
Rabbi Esther Reed, the senior associate
director at Rutgers Hillel.
This is her story.
After she graduated from Frisch, Ms.
Mizikovsky went to Williams College, a
small, highly competitive liberal arts college in Williamstown, Mass. I was interested in experiencing something totally off
the path, she said. Something totally different. And the academics are unmatched.
I visited it, and right away I fell in love with
it. But some things remained the same. I
majored in religion and concentrated in

Cover Story

Esther Chalom holds

her small daughter
Talia Mizikovskys
hand, and Talia holds
on to her younger
sister, Anabelle.

Henriette and Mayer Chalom, Ms.

Mizikovskys grandparents, in Egypt.

Jewish studies, she said.

There were Jews there, but not many
Orthodox Jews, maybe one or two. That
meant that I had to experience Judaism
in a completely, drastically different way.
Keeping kosher at Williams is different
from keeping kosher in Englewood. Different as in much harder.
Hillel there was my community, she
said. It was my home there.
We were too small to have any denominationalism there. We had one Shabbat
service, we were praying in a room with

There have been

a few times in
my life when
I have had to
speak up in the
face of a really
hostile audience.
no mechitzah, and with one kind of prayer
book, with a lot of English in it. Women
count in a minyan there.
Sometimes that meant occupying a
place of discomfort and being okay with it.
We were one community, and so I said Im
here, let me make this experience meaningful for myself.
Ms. Mizikovsky plunged right in. I
served as the director of religion there all
four years, starting as a freshman, she
said. It was a de facto position. I also
co-founded an Israeli advocacy group in
my second year. There were some pretty
extreme anti-Israel activists on campus.
Thats where the courage comes in.

Rabbi Esther Reed

Because Ms. Mizikovsky overlapped with Rabbi Ely Allen, she was able to learn
from him. Here, at left, she stands with Rabbi Allen and his assistant, Andrea Nissel.

There have been a few times in my life

when I have had to speak up in the face of
a really hostile audience, she said.
The first time was when Joseph Massad,
a professor of modern Arab studies at
Columbia and a disciple of Edward Said,
spoke on campus. He was vitriolic in his
detestation of Israel, and he got a standing ovation, Ms. Mizikovsky said. I
remember being the only one willing to
raise my hand and speak up against him.
My voice was almost trembling as I
began a counter argument. His narrative is
very extreme. He said that there is no such
thing as an Israeli. I said what about my
friend, a 10th-generation Israeli, a friend
from school who was shot in the face with
a nail gun when she was 10?
Ms. Mizikovsky spent her junior year in
the U.K., with a semester in Dublin and
another in Edinburgh. Both are wonderful

cities, ancient and beautiful; neither have

many Jews. In Scotland, in I think 2012,
the ambassador to the U.K., Daniel Taub,
spoke at school, she said; she was studying at the University of Edinburgh then.
There were protests outside. The meeting wasnt even held by the Jewish group,
but by a political group on campus.
The protestors came into the room,
and they waited until the talk was just
about to begin, and then they took off their
shirts, and they were wearing Palestinian
shirts underneath. And they were shouting over the speaker, so that he couldnt
speak.
They were shouting him down.
So I kind of stood up and said, Hey,
can you guys just let me speak for a minute? And they did.
So I said This is the nature of the university. Its about listening to different

narratives, and not silencing them. You

dont have to agree with what he is saying.
Just give him a chance to speak, and then
ask him questions.
Silencing a narrative in any context is
wrong.
And then the whole room quieted
down. It broke the atmosphere, it changed
the atmosphere, that feeling of being
totally helpless, that feeling that we had
lost control of the room. And then the
students got up and moved closer to the
ambassador, and he spoke to us, not with
his prepared talk, but about what had just
happened. We ended up sitting at his feet.
Sometimes students are more willing to
respect the views of other students, she
continued.
How did she have the courage to do that,
to face rage alone? I knew I had to say
something, she said. I couldnt just let
it happen. I couldnt. I always have been
compelled to speak up for what I felt was
right, no matter how unpopular it was.
It was frightening. I wont pretend it
wasnt. But hopefully it inspired other
people to speak up the next time.
After she graduated from Williams, Ms.
Mizikovsky got a job as an editorial assistant at a publishing house, and then she
moved into public relations, promoting
cookbooks at Workman Books. I got a lot
of great experience, but deep down I knew
I wanted to be doing something Jewish,
something metaphysically meaningful,
she said. So I quit my job, and the only
job I applied for was this one.
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Rutgers Hillel is building a new center on campus, set to open this spring. Here,
students and a school mascot show its progress.

It was kind of bashert, she said. It was

meant to be. I saw the listing, I knew that
this was for me, that I had to do this and
thank God, here I am.
Ms. Mizikovsky thinks that her youth
is an asset in her new job. The memory
of being in college is pretty fresh in my
mind, she said. I think I understand
what a typical college student experiences
on campus, and I am familiar with some
of the most productive ways to reach them
and connect with them.
She and Rabbi Allen overlapped, which,

We want to
build a culture
of student
leadership, self
motivation, and
ownership.
as her new supervisor, Rabbi Reed,
pointed out, is unusual. Its actually very
beautiful, Rabbi Reed said. Talia was
about to start before Ely Allen left. She was
able to shadow him and learn from him,
and he was able to be a teacher and mentor for her.
That was really nice in terms of continuity. So often a Hillel leader starts in
the fall, and the predecessor will have left
38 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 28, 2015

in the spring. Instead, Ms. Mizikovsky

started her new job in March. Rabbi Allen
left his post in July.
The job that Ms. Mizikovsky took is
a fairly unusual one, at least in this part
of the country. Not only does the Jewish
population on each campus change every
year, bringing with it a slight but perceptible change in culture, but each of the four
campuses Ramapo, William Paterson,
Fairleigh Dickinson, and Bergen Community has its own unique character.
Also, because Ms. Mizikovskys position
is funded by the federation, her services
are aimed not only at college students on
those four campuses, but also at college
students whose families live in the federations catchment area, students who may
live at home while they are at a school
beyond the areas boundaries or who are
home for summer break or shorter midyear vacations. She can cast a wide net.
We have a few major initiatives
planned, she said. Number one is publicity. We will use traditional methods,
and also social media we have new Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for all four
schools. We want to get more and more
people walking through our doors. We
will publicize it in every way we can. (On
Twitter and Instagram shes @HillelNNJ;
Facebook is Hillel of Northern New Jersey.)
Our second initiative is that we are
really investing in our student leaders
through Hillels Engagement Internship
program. Student leaders will receive a
stipend to engage with unaffiliated Jewish

Rutgers Hillel
students stand
together to
celebrate Yom
Haatzmaut.

students on campus, bring them to Hillel

events, and connect with them personally.
We want to build a culture of student
leadership, self motivation, and ownership. We hope that students will take a
greater role in their own Hillel.
At the beginning of the month, Ms.
Mizikovsky and six students from her
Hillel went to St. Louis, Mo., for the Hillel Institute, a four-day conference that
drew about 550 participants, about half
of them students. Although most of the
tracks offered were for professionals, she
joined the students the cost of whose
attendance was paid for by Hillel at the
Engagement Institute track.
The institute introduces a model of
relationship-based community building,
she said. It teaches the students how to
interact on a one-on-one level, forming
relationships with new students, and it
teaches them how to turn these conversations Jewish in order to encourage Jewish

journeys, in no matter what direction.

We do a lot of workshops there, mainly
about listening and empathy, and also
about Jewish values, and how to connect Jewish values to our other ideals and
passions.
Its not about dragging students to Hillel, she continued. Its about having conversations with other Jews who are unaffiliated, and attendance comes naturally
from that. You build relationships and
keep building them. You start building
networks.
We teach them to be network weavers.
Students also were able to weave each
other into those networks. The students got to bond with each other, Ms.
Mizikovsky said. They felt inspired by
being a part of this gigantic organization,
that reaches across the country and around
the world to engage Jewish students.
Hillel used to be more of a programbased model when I was a student, she

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added. In the last few years, they transitioned into

being more relationship-based. There is a really cool
study that shows that even one interaction, one conversation between Jewish students actually affects the
course of that students Jewish trajectory. And obviously, the more conversations, the more that trajectory is affected. It is powerful.
And the student leaders feel really empowered,
knowing that by reaching out, welcoming, and listening, I can affect this other students life.
The model is useful not only for Hillel but for life in
general, she added.
The theme for the whole conference was race,
power, and privilege, Ms. Mizikovsky said. The speakers included Rabbi Saul Berman, who talked about his
experience marching to Selma with Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. when he was a very young man; Rabbi Susan
Talve, who discussed her recent experiences in nearby
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Jew who founded Ayecha, an organization that advocates for Jews of color.
Back to the initiatives the third is to make meaningful experiences, to engage students on issues that
they are passionate about and correlate that to the
Jewish experience; to show the perspective Judaism
can offer, Ms. Mizikovsky said.
There is every kind of Jew in Hillel, she continued. Thats what makes Hillel amazing. It is not about
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what diversity is. We have to sit
there and listen to whatever it is
that other Jews have to say.
Although Ms. Mizikovsky is
taking over Rabbi Allens job,
one aspect of it is new, and that
aspect is unusual. Although she
is part of the staff at the federation, her supervision will come
from Rutgers; she is not part
of its regular staff, but she will
report to Rabbi Reed, who will
be her supervisor and mentor.
She will be able to get experience-based advice from specialists at Rutgers Hillel, particularly
on the Israel advocacy work that
will be another large part of her
mandate, and which is particularly important to her.
The idea is that the federation staff is in the federation
Ms. Mizikovsky and some of the interns at the conference sit together
just before Shabbat.
business, and it is really good at
what it does, Rabbi Reed said.
We at Hillel are in the campus business, and we are
feel like I have a really great network of support and
really good at what we do. Organizationally, this makes
resources around me, she said. And she is entirely
sense for all of us.
onboard with Hillels switch in emphasis from programming to relationships. This new paradigm will provide
Ms. Mizikovsky is excited about the challenge that
greatly expanded pathways to Jewish involvement for
faces her, and she thrives on its complexity. She thinks
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Iran deal will pass (or so says the math)

URIEL HEILMAN
Does the Iran deal have the votes or not?
Though President Barack Obama is vacationing on Marthas Vineyard and Congress is
in recess through Labor Day, theres plenty of
action on the agreement as lawmakers debate
whether to vote with their colleagues, constituents, aides, or consciences or some combination therein.
Because Obama vowed to veto any disapproval of the deal, both houses of Congress
would have to muster veto-proof majorities
290 in the House, 67 in the Senate to kill the
deal. If the Republicans vote as a bloc against
the deal, as seems likely, its opponents would
need 44 Democrats in the House and 13 in the
Senate to reach the two-thirds majority necessary to override the veto.
Thats unlikely to happen in the Senate,
which is why few analysts are even bothering
to count votes in the House. (If the Senate cannot override Obamas veto, it doesnt matter
what happens in the House.)
Only two Senate Democrats have come out
against the deal: Senators Robert Menendez
of New Jersey and Charles Schumer of New
York. Meanwhile, 26 Democrats and the two

independent senators who caucus with the

Democrats have come out for the agreement reached last month between six world
powers and Iran. That leaves only 14 more
Democratic votes up for grabs. Unless 11 of
those senators break with the president to
vote against the deal, the agreement trading
sanctions relief for Iran for restrictions on its
nuclear program will become law. (To put it
another way, the deals supporters need just
four more yes votes in the Senate to uphold
the deal.)
A continuously updated tally by the Washington Post counts four already leaning in
support of the deal and 11 unknown or undecided. Those tilting toward support are Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Thomas
Carper of Delaware, Jeff Merkley of Oregon,
and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
According to the math, the deal looks likely
to be upheld. For the record, fewer than 10
percent of all presidential vetoes throughout history have been overridden by votes in
Congress.
Despite the high likelihood of the deal proceeding or perhaps because of it Jewish
groups have maintained an intense lobbying
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Senator Harry Reid, left, the Senate minority leader, and his likely successor,
Senator Charles Schumer, at a news briefing in Washington, D.C., in February.
Reid is supporting the Iran deal and Schumer said he will vote against it.

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For the record, fewer than

10 percent of all presidential vetoes
throughout history have been
overridden by votes in Congress.
Nuclear Free Iran, which is backed by the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
is spending down a $30 million war chest
to run ads against the agreement. AIPAC
has distributed a script to followers to
provide guidance on what they should say
when they ring their Congress member.
I am calling/writing to urge you to
oppose the flawed Iran deal, which does
not end Irans pathways to a nuclear
weapon, says the script directed at
undecided members of Congress. Please
stand up for the security of the United
States and our allies and demand a better deal.
A rabbinic petition against the deal
garnered more than 900 signatures as
of Tuesday (though its not clear all the
signatories are rabbis), while last week
340 rabbis sent a letter to Congress supporting the deal (prompting the rightwing Zionist Organization of America to
release an analysis of the pro-deal rabbis that found the overwhelming majority supportive of activities that are hostile
towards Israel).
In a column in the Jewish Journal of
Los Angeles titled Imagine the following
headline: 340 plumbers urge Congress
to disapprove Iran nuclear deal, Israeli
analyst Shmuel Rosner wrote: Rabbis
have no advantage over plumbers when
it comes to understanding and assessing
the agreement with Iran.
They have no better professional
qualifications and no more relevant
experience.
While most nonpartisan Jewish groups

that have weighed in are opposing the

deal, there have been a couple of notable
exceptions. Last week, the Reform movement announced that it would not take a
position.
At this time, there is no unity of opinion among the Reform Movement leadership lay and rabbinic alike just as
there is not unity among our membership as to the JCPOA itself, the Union
for Reform Judaism said in an August 19
statement, using the acronym for the Iran
deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action. Thus, there is simply no clarity
that would support taking a position for
or against the JCPOA itself.
Meanwhile, a group made up primarily
of former lay or professional leaders of
Jewish organizations took out a full-page
ad in the New York Times on August 20
in support of the deal. In what is perhaps a sign of the rightward shift of Jewish organizations (or their big donors) in
recent decades, among the pro-deal ads
signatories were three former leaders
of major Jewish groups whose current
leaders oppose the deal: Thomas Dine,
AIPACs executive director from 1980 to
1993; Seymour Reich, chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations from 1989 to
1990; and Robert Rifkind, president of
the American Jewish Committee from
1994 to 1998.
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Freundel scandal recedes

Washington Jewish women reclaim mikvah with mural
appeal the sentence.
Elanit Jakabovics, the presiWASHINGTON When Rabbi
dent of Kesher Israel, endorsed
Barry Freundel, the prominent
the mural project even though
rabbi of Kesher Israel in Washingits not affiliated with her synaton, D.C., was arrested last year
gogue. She noted that Freundels actions had hurt Jews
for secretly videotaping dozens of
across Washington and the
women using the mikvah next to
ripples went ever farther.
his Orthodox synagogue, the sense
I strongly support anything
of sacredness inherent in the ritual
that helps the healing, she
of mikvah immersion was shattered for some Jewish women.
The new mural inside the mikvah affiliated with Ohev
said. You know the pain is
Shalom in Washington, D.C.
Artist Rena Fruchter recently
never going to go away.
spearheaded a community project
The colorful new mural features a Van Gogh-like swirl, women dancto put the pieces back together. A mural
something whole.
ing, moons, water, reeds, and the words
created by female members of Ohev ShoWe have a broken system, she continlom The National Synagogue, another
ued. We dont throw it out. We take the
from Isaiah 12:3, in both English and
Orthodox Washington synagogue, was
pieces. We put them together and make
Hebrew: Joyfully shall you draw water
placed inside the mikvah affiliated with
something beautiful together.
from the fountains of redemption.
Ohev Sholom.
Freundel led Kesher Israel until his
The design is the result of collaboration
After months of work, the mural was
arrest last October. As part of a guilty plea,
between Fruchter and local artist Arturo
dedicated last Sunday.
he admitted to installing video cameras
Ho, with input from women from Ohev
The project gave the women something
in the National Capital Mikvah. He was
Sholom.
they could own, something they could
sentenced in May to more than six years
After collecting glass objects in donation boxes stationed at their synagogue,
feel part of, Fruchter said. It allowed
in prison for 52 counts of misdemeanor
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of women from the shul to break the glass

into pieces and then reassemble it.
The mood at the gatherings was celebratory. Women sipped margaritas and mojitos as they worked, and sometimes mothers brought their daughters to chip in.
Women came and hung out. They got
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About 60 women participated in the
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Ariele Mortkowitz contributed to the
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DJ diplomacy
Nightclubs in Tel Aviv and Berlin celebrate a new harmony
DEBRA KAMIN
TEL AVIV Back in the summer of 1965, the first West
German ambassador to Israel, Dr. Rolf Pauls, an ex-Wehrmacht officer, memorably kissed the hand of then-Foreign Minister Golda Meir.
It was part of the early stages of official diplomatic
relations for Germany and Israel even if it was cold,
informal, and marred by protests.
What a difference a half-century makes.
Today, Israel and Germany have doffed their
starched formality and emerged as true partners.
More than just allies, the two nations today can call
themselves real friends. This year, they are marking
50 years of formal relations with a slew of ceremonies
and official events.
Nowhere is this post-Holocaust evolution more passionate than in the romance between Berlin and Tel
Aviv. The two cities, whose mutual admiration blossomed in tandem with a shared renaissance in the early
2000s, share the same kind of creative energy, rougharound-the-edges urban charm, and hipster-infused
youth culture.
So its fitting that in the midst of the many starchedshirt commemorations marking Israel and Germanys
half-century of relations, Tel Aviv and Berlin are making their own little celebration and doing it entirely
their own way. On August 27, these joint capitals of cool
marked a half century of mutual admiration in a manner
that befits the gritty creativity that has put them both on
the map: a foreign exchange of the cities best-loved DJs
beamed live from a pair of local nightspots and sent via
the airwaves back across the continents.
Israelis feel so at home in Berlin that thousands have
moved there in recent years. Somewhere between
10,000 and 15,000 Israelis have traded Dizengoff Street
for Alexanderplatz, according to the Israeli embassy in
Berlin. The Tel Aviv-to-Berlin exodus received considerable media coverage last year, when an Israeli living in
Germany noted how much lower Berlins cost of living
was than Tel Avivs most notably that pudding was
four to five times cheaper in the German capital, which
led to the viral Milky protest campaign, a reference to
the popular Israeli brand.
Berliners are not packing their bags and relocating
to Tel Aviv at the same speed, but they certainly love
to visit. Germany is the fourth-largest market for tourists to Israel, after the United States, Russia and France,
according to the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. (And among
all tourists, Tel Aviv is the second-most visited place in
the country; only Jerusalem attracts more visitors.)
Today, thousands of young Germans are traveling to
Israel to learn more about the Jewish state and gain a
deeper insight into their own countrys troubled past.
Tel Aviv is almost always where they set up camp.
Music is a language that everyone understands,
and music is above our politics, said Claudia Frenzel
of Wanted! International, the company producing the
event on the German side.
Frenzel, who lives in Berlin, fell in love with the
Israeli music scene during a trip here in 2003, when
she wandered into a record store and was exposed to
the Hebrew hip-hop of Muki and HaDag Nahash. The
sounds were so fresh, and so unlike any Israeli music she
had ever heard before, Frenzel said, that she became

Berlin hip-hop DJs Beathoavenz brought their

skills to Tel Avivs Kuli Alma club.
COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS

determined to expose the two groups to German listeners. This months exchange, which is cheekily being
called Charles Alma the joint surnames of both
nightclubs comes after a number of shared projects
Frenzel spearheaded on the German side.
Its easy to present Israeli artists in front of an Israeli
crowd in Berlin, but that was never our aim, she said of
her work with Wanted! We were always thinking of how
to get this great music to all kinds of people, no matter
where they are from.
The festivities kicked off with Tel Avivs Kuli Alma
nightclub welcoming the German hip-hop DJs The
Beathoavenz. In Berlin, the Prince Charles nightclub in
the hip Kreuzberg district offered its stage to Tel Aviv
spinners Yarin Lidor and Nadav Neeman.
As the musical ambassadors played their sets, Germanys DRadio Wissen and Israels Kol Israel 88FM broadcast them in tandem, creating a foreign exchange of
club-level diplomacy.
On the Israeli side, Kuli Alma, a multifaceted, streetart splashed nightspot on Yehuda HaLevi Street, where
art installations and film screenings are as much a draw
as the pulsing dance floor, managed the production. For
Jonathan Lipitz, one of the clubs seven owners who
had his own personal love affair with Berlin a night of
shared music makes sense. After all, he said, Berlin and
Tel Aviv are, in some ways, cultural conjoined twins.
Both cities had a rebirth about 20 years ago, Lipitz said. When you took down the wall in Berlin, you
unleashed something that wasnt there before. It was
like a trigger that unleashed something, made art more
exaggerated, and club culture, too.
In Tel Aviv, of course, there was no city wall to tear
down, but Lipitz nevertheless said that politics have
shaped the citys creativity.
We dont have a physical wall here, but we cant
travel freely to the countries around us, so in the
same way things build up, they bubble, they feel more
intense, he explained.
The Charles Alma weekend of club-level diplomacy,
Lipitz added, is an ideal answer to those walls, because
it proves that diplomacy can feel as fluid as the beats on
a dance floor.
This is the new world, he said. You dont need a tie
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To quell the storm, festival organizers
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he performed his hit song Jerusalem
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But some who track anti-Semitic sentiments and incidents in Europe see
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Recent examples include Hitler salutes
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singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz signing
a blog post this month in which she questioned the existence of the gas chambers
with the phrase #FreePalestine.
The borderline of what is acceptable behavior toward Jews is shifting in

Europe, and the people moving it are

using Israel as one of their main vehicles, said Manfred Gerstenfeld, an
Israeli scholar whose work has focused
on European anti-Semitism.
Earlier this year Jonathan Sacks, Britains former chief rabbi, said European
Jews are facing a choice: Live in Europe
and criticize Israel or be silent or leave
Europe. He pointed a finger at the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which aims to put political and
economic pressure on Israel.
The BDS movement has been adamant in rejecting accusations that it is
the modern face of anti-Semitism. It
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One of the movements most outspoken advocates, Ali Abuminah, who cofounded the website Electronic Intifada,
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Teaneck, he talked about how his experience affected his views on the possibility of Middle East peace. BARBARA BALKIN
n 3 The summer curriculum of the Early Childhood Program at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake included learning
about animals. A hands-on session with a donkey didnt faze this preschooler. COURTESY TEPV
n 4 More than 300 children attended Camp
Gan Israel of Tenafly, a program of Lubavitch
on the Palisades. The activities included trips,
cooking, dance, art, Dube Zone athletics, swimming, Krav Maga, and water slides. COURTESY LOTP

n 5 Students at Gan Yaldenu recently went on

a trip to World of Wings in Teaneck. Among
the challenges was the chance to meet a
reptile up close. COURTESY GAN YALDENU
n 6 Nearly 200 people attended a barbecue, followed by a Kabbalat Shabbat family
service led by Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg,
at the Glen Rock Jewish Center on August
14. Barbecue cooks, from left, were Bob
Berliner, Marc Rosenwald, Michael Goodman, and Carlos Lopez. COURTESY GRJC
n 7 Barry Wien, co-owner of Eden Memorial
Chapels of Fort Lee and president of Wien &
Son Funeral Directors of Long Island, presented
the Harry & Arthur Wien Memorial Scholarship
at the American Academy McAllister Institute of
Funeral Service graduation. Daniel McNulty of
Valhalla, N.Y., right, was honored for outstanding
integrity and honesty in this years graduating class. Barry Wiens father was Harry Wien,
and his uncle was Arthur Wien. Mr. McNulty
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Arts & Culture

Birobidzhan
Musical drama explores Soviet Jewish paradise
MIRIAM RINN

o you know that Israel isnt the

only Jewish homeland?
Another spot exists that was
established as a Jewish society, where the street signs are in Yiddish
and Jewish tradition is part of the public
school curriculum. Birobidzhan is the
administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, an idea Stalin cooked up as
a home for Soviet Jews in the early 1930s,
before he turned against them. Thousands
of Jews from all over the world once lived
in the town on the Trans-Siberian Railway,
close to northern China. There are now
approximately 4,000 Jews living there, as
well as a Chabad shaliach. A synagogue
opened in 2004 and there are plans for a
Jewish day school.
Giles Howe developed the idea for the
musical drama Soviet Zion after he
returned to England from a Taglit Birthright trip to Israel. I just found it really
fascinating that Birobidzhan still exists
today and no one talks about it, Howe
said in a recent interview with the Jewish
Signs in Cyrillic and Hebrew confront the residents of Soviet Zion, based on the Stalin-created town for Jews of the 1930s.
Standard.
Originally conceived as an
opera, the show mutated into
operatic tradition. The score
a musical when Howe and
of Soviet Zion is challenging to sing, Howe said, as is
his co-creators, Katy Lipson
most of the music he writes,
and Roberto Trippini, realized how difficult it would be
and he has continued to
to include all the necessary
orchestrate since the last
historical information and
performance. He is now
political context in an opera.
arranging for strings and
You cant sing all that, Howe
horns and vibraphone. Its
acknowledged. Adding diagoing to make it feel quite
logue made it possible to flesh
enormous.
out the characters, members
Howe thinks that the theater-going Jewish commuof three families, one from
nity in London is too small
America, who come to live
to support specifically Jewin Birobidzhan. The show
ish plays. Very observant
was performed several times
Jews dont go to the theater,
in England, and the full production is available at astageGiles Howe
he said, and other Jews are
kindly.wix.com/sovietzion.
so removed from their Jewishness that they dont have
London, where he went to
Howe was drawn to create Soviet Zion
Members of the cast raise their voices in the musical drama
any interest. Accordingly,
university for a short time.
to answer his own questions about secuSoviet Zion.
lar Judaism and Zionism. Now in Florida,
he and his partners really
Though he had taken piano
Howe said that he was struck by how comwant to take the show to
lessons when he was a kid,
fortable American Jews are in proclaimNew York. They are now in discussion with
My piano teacher was never able to
great pride in being average, according to
ing their Jewish pride and their support
theaters in Israel and in Russia, as well. He
impart how to read music, he said. That
Howe. Society is very limited by norms
for Israel. British Jews, on the other hand,
also has ambitions to do a sound recordwas something I had to teach myself. He
and values. And there were few theatrical
ing or a film.
try not to be noticed, Howe said. The Britstill cannot sight read.
opportunities.
ish have trouble with Zionism, he added,
Leaving university, Howe moved to
Soviet Zion is a musical drama, in
Soviet Zion has important cultural
because to many it smacks of colonialSweden, perhaps because of his early
the tradition of Phantom of the Opera,
relevance, the young composer believes,
ism, and they are still struggling with their
obsession with the pop band Abba. I
Les Mis, and Miss Saigon. Whereas
because it explores the concept of a Jewish homeland outside of its contempoown colonial history. And, of course, Engreally like Swedish people, Howe said,
the American musical comedy is meant to
land is home to a huge Arab and Muslim
rary parameters. A fan of Middle Eastern
but he found Swedish life quite bleak.
amuse, musical dramas goal is to move the
population.
music and other exotic sounds, Howe has
Unlike in England, where eccentrics are
audience emotionally, Howe explained.
Howe grew up in Hampshire and
a whole world to explore musically.
tolerated, even celebrated, Swedes take
Such shows are closer to the European
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Calendar
Friday

Wednesday

AUGUST 28

SEPTEMBER 2

Shabbat in New City:

Caregiver support in
Rockleigh: A support

The Nanuet Hebrew

Center holds its end-ofsummer Shabbat Under
the Stars. Tot Shabbat
is at 5 p.m.; barbecue
dinner, 5:30, with music
by the Temple Dudes,
and services with live
music, 6:30. 411 South
Little Tor Road, off Exit
10, Palisades Interstate
Parkway. (845) 708-9181
or www.nanuethc.org.

Shabbat in Franklin
Lakes: Barnert Temple
offers Sunset Shabbat,
7 p.m. 747 Route 208
South. (201) 848-1800.

Shabbat in Pompton
Lakes: Congregation
Beth Shalom offers
an interactive
improvisational service as
part of the shuls monthly
Lab Shul series of
experimental davening,
8 p.m. This service hopes
to bring the people
together interactively
not using a siddur, but
improvising with rhythm
and niggunim, in the
style of singer Bobby
McFerrin. 21 Passaic Ave.
Rabbi David Bockman,
Bockmonides@gmail.
com, (973) 835-4845, or
www.bethshalomnj.org.

group for those caring

for the physically frail or
people with Alzheimers
disease meets at the
Gallen Adult Day
Health Care Center at
the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m.
Topics include long-term
care options, financial
planning, legal concerns,
and the personal toll
of caregiving. Shelley
Steiner, (201) 784-1414,
ext. 5340.

Saturday
SEPTEMBER 5
Selichot in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob offers Saturday
Night at the Movies
with The Other Son,
with popcorn and
refreshments, 7 p.m.,
followed by a brief
service at 9. 176 West
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725
or bnaijacobjc.org.

White-water rafting: The

Nanuet Hebrew Center
hosts a community trip
to white-water rafting
on the Lehigh River in
Pennsylvania. You must
be 8 or older. Carpools
leave the NHC at 8 a.m.
411 South Little Tor Road,
off Exit 10, Palisades
Interstate Parkway.
(845) 708-9181 or www.
nanuethc.org.

Tuesday
SEPTEMBER 1
Ice cream for children:
PJ Library in northern
New Jersey continues
a series of events in
partnership with local
synagogues for kids from
6 months to 6 years old.
This time, in partnership
with Emersons
Congregation Bnai Israel,
meet at Dairy Queen,
13 Kinderkamack Road,
Emerson, 3:30-5 p.m.
Crafts and stories and a
discount on ice cream.
(201) 221-5782, www.
pjlibrary.org.

Selichot in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
joins with Temple Beth
Tikvah and Congregation
Shomrei Torah, both
of Wayne, for a joint
Selichot program. Rabbis
Ken Emert, Randall
Mark, Ziona Zelazo,
and Lois Ruderman
lead a discussion, Is
Sin Out of Date?; yoga
by Sharon Javer; and
a meditation by Rabbi
Zelazo, at Temple
Beth Rishon, 8:30 p.m.
Musical interludes with
Cantors Ilan Mamber,
Charles Romalis, Barbra
Lieberstein, and Phyllis
Cole, as well as Stuart
Skolnick, and the
congregations adult
choirs, with pianist Gary
Kirkpatrick, violinist
Sylvia Rubin, guitarists
Cantor Mamber and
Mark Kantrowitz, and
percussionist Jimmy
Cohen. Desserts. Service
at 10. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.

Selichot in New City:

Sunday
AUGUST 30

Wozniak, U.S. Military

Academy Band, soloist/
recording artist; soprano/
soloist Kathleen Horner
Palatucci; and pianist/
organist Ken Corneille.
385 Howland Ave.
(201) 489-2463, ext.
202, or administrator@
avodatshalom.net.

Selichot in Closter:
Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley screens
Big Fish, which
explores High Holy
Day themes, 7 p.m.; a
discussion, services,
and dessert follow. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or tbenv.
org.

Selichot in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
has a family-friendly
Havdalah service,
Selichot service, a short
film and discussion
on forgiveness with
Rabbi Debra Orenstein,
7:30 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.

Selichot in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
a discussion on
the Yizkor prayers,
7:30 p.m., and a service
at 9. Refreshments.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.

Selichot in River Edge:

Temple Avodat Shalom
offers a recital and
refreshments, 8 p.m.,
and service at 9:30.
Performers include
saxophonist Lois Hicks-

The Nanuet Hebrew

Center holds a coffee
house with music by the
Temple Dudes and an
open mic session, 9 p.m.
Services, 10:30. 411 South
Little Tor Road, off Exit
10, Palisades Interstate
Parkway. (845) 708-9181
or www.nanuethc.org.

Selichot in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah honors Tina and
Eli Murad at its annual
Selichot reception
with desserts, 9 p.m.,
followed by services led
by Rabbi Arthur Weiner
and Cantor Sam Weiss.
E. 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.

Selichot in Hoboken:
United Synagogue
of Hoboken holds a
program and service,
starting at 9 p.m. 115 Park
Ave. (201) 659-4000.

Selichot in Montebello:
Congregation Shaarey
Israel screens a film,
followed by a discussion,
10 p.m. Refreshments
and service follow.
18 Montebello Road,
Montebello, N.Y.
(845) 369-0300 or www.
congshaareyisrael.org.

Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades

offers its annual William Golub Selichot
Concert & Dessert Social, featuring
Metropolitan Klezmer, on Saturday,
September 5, at 9:15 p.m. Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer
and Cantor Jerry Blum lead services at 11. 207
Edgewater Road, Cliffside Park. Rabbi Engelmayer,
(201) 945-7310 or Rabbi@ticc.org.

SEPT.

In New York
Wednesday
SEPTEMBER 9
Book launch: Historian
Timothy Snyder of
Yale University offers
a conversation with
Robert B. Silvers, editor
of the New York Review
of Books, about Black
Earth: The Holocaust as
History and Warning,
at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to
the Holocaust, 7 p.m.

Co-presented with
92Y. 36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.
mjhnyc.org.

Thursday

Place. (646) 437-4202 or

www.mjhnyc.org.

Singles

SEPTEMBER 10

Thursday

Film in NYC: Different

SEPTEMBER 10

From the Others is

screened at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the
Holocaust in Manhattan,
7 p.m. Flutist/composer
Yael Acher Modiano
offers live music to
accompany the silent
film. Co-presented with
NewFest. 36 Battery

Senior singles meet

for dinner: Singles 65+,
JCC Rocklands senior
single group, goes
to dinner at Daveys
Irish Pub in Montvale,
6 p.m. Individual checks.
Reservations, Seymour
Chenkin (845 ) 848-2038
or salcssc@optimum.net.

Neil Berg coming to bergenPAC

Tickets are on sale at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in
Englewood for composer/lyricist Neil Bergs 100 Years of
Broadway on Saturday, September 26, at 8 p.m. The show
recreates great moments from the finest shows of the century, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Cats,
Jesus Christ Superstar, and Jekyll & Hyde.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or www.
bergenpac.org or by calling the box office, (201) 227-1030.
The Bergen Performing Arts Center is at 30 North Van Brunt
St., in Englewood.

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Jewish World

Spreading Shabbat joy from Manhattan around the world

LUCY COHEN BLATTER

o Jewish parents of young children on Manhattans Upper East

Side, Karina Zilberman is something of a celebrity.
She is the tall, blonde, guitar-strumming
founder of the 92nd Street Ys Shababa, a
multigenerational musical celebration of
Shabbat whose name is a mash-up of the
modern Hebrew word sababa (meaning
cool or chill) and Shabbat.
While the program incorporates dancing with stuffed Torahs, forming conga
lines, jumping, and playing, Shababa is
equally about slowing down and being
mindful two of the most important elements of Shabbat, according to Zilberman. During quiet songs and prayers like
the Shema, when lights are turned down,
kids and parents are encouraged to be as
silent as possible, to close their eyes and
take it all in.
On any given Friday morning, more
than 100 participants pack the Y for
Shababa; witness the row after row of
Bugaboos and McLarens parked outside
the door. Its grown from about a dozen
parents and kids to some 300 families,
with offerings that now include occasional Saturday mornings in Central Park
and a challah-making activity called Shababa Bakery. The Shababa umbrella has
expanded to include non-kid-centric
events like Shababa Mamas a group of
women who love to sing as well as Shababa Nannies, Shababa Bubbies, and Shababa Abbas.
Zilberman is generous with smiles and
hugs, offering well wishes to both regulars
and newbies, all delivered with a lilting
Argentine accent. Now, however, Zilberman no longer regularly hosts the weekly
Shababa experiences at
the 92Y shes passed
the torch to singer and
actress Rebecca Schoffer
instead dedicating more
of her time to spreading
the Shababa mission to
the rest of the world.
At the beginning of
this year, Zilberman officially launched the Shababa Network, an effort
to guide synagogues, Jewish centers, and
schools around the world in the ways of
Shababa. The network now includes 18
organizations, from Texas to Israel, as
members.
While at first glance it may seem a difficult feat how could a program that
relies so heavily on Zilbermans dynamic
presence be replicated? but part of
Shababas appeal is just how adaptive
and inclusive it is. Zilberman stresses
the importance of each congregation,
community center, or school in the Shababa Network creating its own unique

Karina Zilberman and Coco welcome children and adults to Shababa at the 92 Street Y in New York.

experience.
Its not a franchise, its an approach,
she says. An approach she hopes will
become a movement.
Shababa has caught on with everyone
from day school parents to unaffiliated
Jewish families to non-Jewish caregivers,
many of whom sing along to every word
of the original Shababa songs.
The fact that all are invited and
encouraged to become involved is at
the heart of the experience.
Its beyond interdenominational; its
interfaith, explains Zilberman, who refers

guard was holding a tambourine and joining in.

Dasee Berkowitz brings Shababa
BeZion, a Hebrew version of Shababa, to
Kehilat Zion, a Jerusalem congregation,
with the tagline Come as You Are.
One of the special things about Karina
and the Shababa approach in general is
that she honors every persons gifts
from the children to the parents to the
musicians she works with, and especially
to those of us in the network, Berkowitz says. Through my training with her,
I have never once felt like I needed to
be Karina, but rather I
needed to be myself and
bring my unique gifts and
talents to inspire those
around me.
Congregations and
leaders tailor their songs
to their specific audiences. Most use guitars,
but Congregation Agudas Achim in San Antonio, Texas, for one, has a
piano accompaniment. Original songs like
Bye, Bye Yuckies, about wishing away
sickness, and Hello Everybody, which
welcomes children and adults in many
languages, are sung in Hebrew and Arabic
at Shababa BeZion. In Texas, they include
Spanish and English lyrics.
Network members get a puppet named
Toda (Hebrew for thank you), a sloth
whos said to have been born in the
Chesed Jungle. Hes a cousin of Coco,
Zilbermans puppet sidekick. As a sloth,
Toda and Coco represent the beauty of
taking life and Shabbat slowly.

Zilberman is generous with

smiles and hugs, offering well
wishes to both regulars and
newbies, all delivered with a
lilting Argentine accent.

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to caregivers of all faiths as shlichot mishpacha, representatives of the families.

Many of these caregivers bring Shababa
songs to their churches, she adds.
Shababa began in 2008 with a small
group of parents and young children in
the 92Y lobby.
I worried that the security guards
would get upset by it, says Zilberman, a
former cantorial soloist who is married to
Marcelo Bronstein, a fellow Argentine and
a rabbi at Bnai Jeshurun, a Manhattan
congregation that fuses music and spirituality. After two meetings the security

Puppetry is an important part of

Shababa.
The puppet is a bridge between the
leader and the audience, Zilberman says,
adding that puppets help engage parents
and empower the child within us. Its
not about ventriloquism, though; Shababa puppets communicate by whispering into the leaders ear.
Our ultimate goal is to bring Shababa
in all ways to our community our shul,
our preschool, and even to older kids,
says Rabbi Jeffrey Abraham of Agudas
Achim in San Antonio. He is also one of
the mentors who will teach other community leaders about Shababa this year. Its
about creating an experience, not just a
service.
Abrahams wife, Lauren, who runs Agudas Achims version of Shababa, says for
her its about creating a series of interconnected moments, the way Zilberman
does.
She doesnt just sing the Shema,
Lauren Abraham says. She does it after
theres been a warmup, and the kids have
sung and danced. At that point, theyre
ready to embark on this great Shema
moment.
That approach has really changed the
way we do things. We try to bring prayer
into their hearts through those moments.
Play, wonder and awe become the center of the religious experience at Shababa,
Berkowitz says. It enables us to enter
into the world of children.
The adults get to honor what children
bring to a spiritual life, and we get to see
our own spiritual lives through them.


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Eli Aschner

Eli Aschner, 78, of Wayne,

formerly of Newark and
West Orange, died on
August 19.
An Upsala College
graduate, he served in the
National Guard and was a
member of Congregation
Shomrei Torah in Wayne.
Predeceased by his
wife, Linda, he is survived
by his children, Susan,
David ( Joao DaSilva), and
Linda Bernstein (Michael);
a sister, Rosella Berger,
and three grandchildren.
Donations can be made
to the Gimbel Multiple
Sclerosis Comprehensive
Care Center at Holy Name
Medical Center, Teaneck,
or the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society.
Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.

Henry Bialowas

Henry Bialowas, 98, died

on August 22.
He was born in Poland
and was a Holocaust survivor, Jewish partisan, fashion designer, and longtime
member of Temple Beth
El in Hackensack.
He is survived by his
wife, Fay, ne Gersonowicz, his children, Paul
(Hilary Umans) and
Heidi Wolk (Bob); four
grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren.
Donations can be
made to Temple Beth El.
Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.

Ralph Epstein

Ralph I. Epstein, 85, of

Fort Lee died on August
22.
A Korean War veteran,
he was a social service
administrator in Queens.
He is survived by his
wife, Hyla, ne Abrams, a
daughter, Patricia Goldberg of Wayne, and two
grandchildren.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.

Sarah Garth

Sarah Miriam Garth, ne

Kaufman, of North Branford, Conn., formerly of
Paterson, died on March
3.
She is survived by her
husband, the Honorable
Leonard Garth, a daughter, Tobie Meisel; three
grandchildren, and seven
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were
private.

Florine Peck

Florine Flo Peck, 68, of

Pine Brook, formerly of
Norwalk, Conn., died on
August 19.
A University of Connecticut graduate, she
recently retired after 23
years as the assistant to
the executive director at
the JCC MetroWest in West
Orange. She was a member of the Pine Brook Jewish Center sisterhood and
the National Council of
Jewish Women and was a
life member of Hadassah.
She is survived by her
husband of 45 years,
Tom, her sons, Michael
(Davora), Geoffrey (Amy),
and Jason (Gayle); a sister,
Hedy Nathan, and five
grandchildren.
Donations can be made
to the rabbis discretionary fund at the Pine Brook
Jewish Center. Arrangements were by Jewish
Memorial Chapel, Clifton.

Jules Sack

Jules Sack died on August

18.
He was a lawyer and
was born in the Bronx.
He is survived by his
wife, Norma Finkel, his
stepchildren, Jodi Mead
and Brad Finkel ( Jillian), his children, Nancy
Sack (Don), and Mitchell
Sack (Karen), and four
grandchildren.
Contributions can
be sent to the Juvenile
Diabetes Research Fund.
Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.

Andrew Salnick

Andrew Salnick died on

August 20 in River Vale.
He owned Coast Auto
Parts in Hackensack and
was a member of the Orangetown Jewish Center in
Orangeburg, N.Y.
He is survived by his
wife, Susan, ne Leonard, his children, Jeffrey
and Stacy; siblings Susan
Holden and Mitchell Salnick, and a grandchild.
Contributions can be
made to the rabbis discretionary fund at the Orangetown Jewish Center or
the Cooperstown Hall of
Fame Memorial Fund.
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Gutterman and Musicant
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supposed war crimes and racist roots, led by a man who

aspires to become Britains prime minister.
Corbyn clearly doesnt feel overly perturbed by the
chatter about anti-Semitism that is dogging him; when
the Jewish Chronicle published a series of questions
addressed to him, instead of picking up the phone and
calling them as any politician who cared about the
feelings of the Jewish community would naturally do
he appointed a spokesperson to engage in an email
exchange with the paper. Thus did readers learn that
Jeremy considers that Holocaust denial is vile and
wrong, though at no point did Jeremy condemn by
name any of the Holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists (among them the followers of Lyndon Larouche, an
American far-right leader) with whom he has associated.
Corbyn can take this relaxed attitude because he
knows that his supporters regard accusations of antiSemitism as a political smear with no credibility. This
view is commonplace enough among progressives in
America as well. By contrast, the term anti-Zionism
is one they embrace warmly, regarding it as integral to
their matrix of progressive values and goals, alongside
opposition to austerity policies, environmental activism,
solidarity with progressive regimes in the developing world, implacable hostility to any military actions
undertaken by democratic governments, and so on.
Tellingly, the Jewish Chronicle poll includes a clever
question that Jewish pollsters in America should also
be asking: How do you feel when a politician describes
himself or herself as anti-Zionist? The paper reported,
More than 44 percent say they always think such a
statement really means anti-Jewish, with a further 27

percent saying they often think the claim is anti-Semitic

in its intent.
It continued, In total, almost 90 percent of Jews feel
that anti-Zionist is used as shorthand for anti-Jewish
by politicians.
Slowly, slowly, does the mask fall: anti-Semitism has
twisted itself into anti-Zionism. We saw that graphically
in Spain this week, when a reggae festival disinvited the
American-Jewish singer Matisyahu after he refused to
condemn Israel. Encouragingly, the fact that the festival backed down after a wave of protest, and Matisyahu
performed in front a large, enthusiastic crowd, shows
that there are many non-Jews coming around to a similar view.
We have to send a wake-up call to proudly identifying anti-Zionists like Jeremy Corbyn: Refraining from
attacks on Jews as Jews isnt enough to absolve them of
the charge of anti-Jewish bigotry. Substituting the word
Zionist for Jew, or consorting with active anti-Semites (and then distancing yourself from them only once
these meetings become public knowledge), is a shabby
trick, and we are smarter than that. Crucially, we understand that the immediate target of Western anti-Zionists
isnt Israel, but Jews in their own countries who identify
with Israel.
Before I close, I should answer any reader who is wondering whether Jeremy Corbyn actually could end up as
British prime minister. Given that many pundits are predicting that his own party will split if he wins the leadership, and that Labour has invariably been unelectable
when it leans too far to the left, you would think that the
chances are slim. But even as opposition leader, he will
gain a bully pulpit that he only could have dreamed of
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Actress losing
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Seniors invited to compete in trivia olympics

In what movie did actor Patrick Swayze
utter the line: No one leaves Baby in the
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Lyndon Johnson won a landslide victory over what Arizona senator in the 1964
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the 2015 Senior Trivia Olympics.
The first round in this years competition will be held at Heritage Pointe of
Teaneck, 600 Frank W. Burr Blvd., on September 29.

Actress Daria Kalinina, who was

born in Ukraine and studied at
Rutgers, will lose her waist-length hair
on September 20 in an event to benefit
Do Wonders, a nonprofit charity that
donates wigs to women undergoing
chemotherapy treatment.
Stylist Edward Tricomi will reshape
Ms. Kalininas hair during the
fundraiser at Hostelling International
New York, 881 Amsterdam Ave. at 103rd
Street, from 11a.m. to 2p.m.
There will be giveaways and
entertainment at the brunch event.
Tickets are $100. For more information,
visit www.DoWondersCharity.org.

The independent senior living community held the premier Senior Trivia
Olympics last year (which at that time was
restricted to its residents). The winner was
92-year-old Irwin Geller, a one-time manufacturer and retailer.
Last years event really captured the
interests of our residents, so we decided to
expand it in 2015 by opening the competition up to all people over the age of 75 who
live in the area, said Joel Goldin, Heritage
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like Trivial Pursuit, which is why we anticipate a huge response from the community.

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As Congress prepares to vote on the Iran nuclear deal,
Jews around the world will participate in a Day of Jewish Unity on September 8, during which they will pray
for the safety and well-being of the Jewish nation.
Organizers warn that if the Iran deal is approved in its
present form, it would place the Jewish people in harms
way and pose a grave threat to democracies worldwide.
As a result, Jews across the religious spectrum will take
part in this special global event by reciting Chapters 20
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In conjunction with the Day of Jewish Unity, a
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to Radin in Belarus on September 8 in order to pray at
the grave of the Chofetz Chaim, who was the beloved
and revered leader of world Jewry in pre-war Europe.
At the same time as the delegation will be praying at the
gravesite of this renowned rabbi and respected scholar,
Jews throughout the world men, women and children
of all ages, and of all backgrounds will join together
to recite the two chapters of Psalms in an attempt to

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highlight the acute danger that they fear would result

from allowing Iran a path to obtain nuclear warheads.
In times of crisis, Jews have historically turned to
prayer, which has been the hallmark of our people
for generations, in order to help them persevere
and overcome the odds, said Rabbi Motty Kroizer,
international director of Acheinu, the organization
coordinating this initiative. With the threat of a nucleararmed Iran looming large and the future of the Jewish
nation at stake, there is a universal understanding that
Jews must come together and rely on our faith in an
effort to avert disaster. This is a time of crisis and we
need to act together now.
It is also noteworthy that the Congressional vote
is scheduled to take place in proximity to the High
Holidays, which are an appropriate time for repentance,
reflection and prayer.
To learn more about the Day of Jewish Unity and to
pledge to participate in this special global event, go to
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Real Estate & Business

Sheriffs Office opens enrollment
for citizens police academy class
The Bergen County Sheriff s Office has
opened enrollment for the 17th class of
the Citizens Police Academy, a ten-week
course designed to give residents a working knowledge of law enforcement policies and tactics. Bergen County residents
18 and older are eligible to participate.
One of the most important components
of law enforcement is fostering strong relationships with the community, Sheriff
Michael Saudino said. Our Citizens Police
Academy gives residents firsthand knowledge of the important work police do to
enhance public safety and protect Bergen
County residents.
BCSOs Citizens Police Academy is
designed to educate participants on the
functions of the Sheriffs Office and the role
the agency plays in Bergen County. The
academy is offered in a classroom-style format with demonstrations of equipment and

tactics used by law enforcement.

Participants learn about the tools officers use in a broad range of areas including
motor vehicle stops, medical operations,
disaster preparedness, homicide investigations, K-9 patrol and detection, fire safety
and crime scene analysis. The class will also
receive tours of the Bergen County Jail, and
the Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI).
The next citizens police academy class
is slated to begin on September 17 at 7p.m.
in the Bergen County Jail. Class meets once
a week at various locations around the
county and concludes with a graduation
ceremony on December 1.
The deadline to register is September
9. Please visit www.bcsd.us and click on
Community Outreach > Adult Programs to
register.
For more information, contact the Community Outreach Unit at (201) 336-3540.

Illinois governor signs bill to label milk

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill
requiring that milk not from a cow be
labeled as such.
The bills signing on Aug. 6 followed
a concerted lobbying effort by the
Chicago Rabbinical Council, an Orthodox
rabbinical and kosher certification
organization. A previous law, according
to a CRC press release, had allowed the
sale of milk from any animal, which could
include non-kosher milk from pigs or
camels.
The new law was amended to require

that such milk be labeled accordingly, even

if it only contains trace amounts of milk
not from a cow. State Sen. Ira Silverstein
sponsored the bill, which he crafted along
with Rabbi Yona Reiss, who heads CRCs
rabbinical court.
Rabbi Reiss did an outstanding
job explaining the whole issue to the
committee, Silverstein said, according
to the press release. He rewrote the bill
several times. The CRC is protecting the
Jewish community to make sure milk is
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SOLD!
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Imagine this scenario: Youre at a family
picnic in a park but youve gone to play
soccer a little way off. Thirsty, you ask
one of the others to send you a drink.
And then, a drone with the cold drink
attached arrives in the exact spot youre
standing.
Sound fantastical?
Flytrex an Israeli maker of drone
technology for the consumer market
is making this scenario a reality with its
Flytrex Sky, claimed to be the worlds
first delivery drone that operates over
the cloud.
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Flytrex, says
it wont be long before we start seeing
drinks, sandwiches, car keys, and even
medicine bottles flying short distances
overhead.
Drones are all the rage now among
hobbyists and early tech adopters. Anyone who has gone to Yarkon Park in Tel
Aviv recently can attest to the buzz of
drones flying to and fro, and Flytrex Sky
deliveries could become a regular part of
the park experience.
While Amazon and other big companies continue to experiment with the
possibilities of delivery drones, Bash
says technology-wise, Flytrex can support small deliveries.
Sky, with its 3G connectivity, can carry
up to 1 kilogram, has a range of up to 10
kilometers and can fly nonstop for 32
minutes. The possibilities are nearly
endless.
Bash says that the company is in talks
with African entrepreneurs who would
like to use the personal drones to deliver
medicines from a pharmacy in an urban
center to rural villages. Bash notes that

the continents lack of overhead phone

lines and its excellent cell coverage make
it the right place for this revolutionary
plan to be implemented.
Its still an idea in progress, says
Bash, but the process for it to happen
is under way.
In the meantime, its all about the
fun of flying cola, sandwiches and beer.
Obviously, following a countrys regulations is important when launching a
drone. Bash says that in Israel, drone
operators need to be able to see their
flying contraption at all times.
In early August, Flytrex released its
own Messenger app that lets operators
use their Sky drone to perform shortrange deliveries of small parcels to
friends and family.
Lets say you forgot your keys at
home, you can mark your location on
the map and send your friend a notification, Bash says about another useful
possibility for his drone.
Bash, who is also a co-founder of SpaceIL the nonprofit Israeli space project
hoping to land an unmanned spacecraft
on the moon says the Sky platform has
groundbreaking collaborative piloting
technology that allows both sender
and recipient to control the drone along
a route, ensuring the drone never loses
control. The sender can plot the initial
course and the recipient can direct the
drone to land wherever she is standing.
This technology that ensures the
drone never loses control is crucial.
From experience, I can attest that a
wayward drone (even a small one) hurts
when it gets stuck in your hair.
Knowing that the Flytrex Sky has two
pilots (sender and recipient), I hope my
future strolls through Tel Avivs biggest
park will afford me sights of magical picnics replete with food items flying out of
the picnic basket and going for short joyrides before returning to be eaten. And
not too close an encounter with a can of
soda instead. 
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