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Seinfelds Newman returns
to TV in Israeli Ikea commercial
l A beloved Seinfeld

over for the baker, gushes Knight.

That is the day the
yearly Ikea catalogue
arrives. As a group of
excited Israelis gather
around him, Knight,
who speaks in English
throughout the commercial, says a sentence that
contains a single word in
Hebrew: My life is tutim
(strawberries). To Knights dismay,
one of people gathered around him
offers him grapes, not strawberries.
The line may be referring to Israeli
artist Hanan Ben Aris hit song, Our
Lives Are Strawberries, in which
the singer complains about the difficulties of living in the Jewish state,
while also acknowledging the positives.
Josefin Dolsten/JTA Wire Service

Photo by Guy Yehiely

character made an
unlikely reprise: in an Israeli commercial for the
furniture giant Ikea.
In a short video for
Ikeas 2017 catalogue,
Wayne Knight stars
once again as Newman,
Jerry Seinfelds grumpy
mailman neighbor and
sometimes nemesis.
The video, shot in Israel, features
Knight lamenting the lack of respect
for postal workers in modern society,
as he deals with challenges on his
delivery route, coming up with increasingly weird tricks just to deliver
a letter and still not succeeding.
But there is one day that makes
me feel special, like Valentines Day
for the florist, like the day after Pass-

Giant video games

take over Tel Avivs city hall
l Talk about a large screen experi-

ence.
Every Thursday after dark, Tel
Avivs city hall is transformed into a
giant computer screen. Tetris, Pong,
and Snake are available for free play
by the public.
The buildings faade recently was
outfitted with 480 giant LED lights,
comprising a 32,000-square-foot
screen.
Playing games seems like a great
way to utilize it for the enjoyment of
the residents and visitors, a municipality spokesman said.
Players control the game with two

giant joysticks in Rabin Square. The

nighttime public gaming fun was
launched on August 30 with a Tetris
tournament to mark the upcoming
DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival.
This is the first time a building in
Israel has been converted for a gaming event, but its been done before
elsewhere. In 2012, hackers turned
the 21-story Green Building at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology into a giant Tetris screen. In March
of this year, students at Germanys
Christian Albrechts University turned
the 14-floor main building into a big
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of the courtyards of King Herods Second Temple more than 2,000 years ago.
Six hundred floor tile fragments have
been recovered from rubble that the
Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, which manages the Muslim buildings at the site,
removed from the area around the
Temple Mount. The news came this
week, in an announcement from the
archaeologists working with the Temple
Mount Sifting Project.
The archeologists added that because of their distinctive style, more
than 100 definitively dated to the

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Herodian Second Temple period.

The tiles were opulent, said Frankie
Snyder, a member of the archaeology
project. This type of flooring, called
opus sectile, Latin for cut work, is very
expensive and was considered to be
far more prestigious than mosaic tiled
floors. The tile segments were perfectly
inlaid, such that one could not even insert a sharp blade between them.
The archaeologists reconstructed
what they believe the original tiles may
have looked like, based on the shapes
of the recovered fragments and the
floors of other buildings Herod built.
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It was surreal. I was being served lox

and bagels on a Sunday morning in my
pajamas by Jerry Lewis.
Writer/director Daniel Noah on working with the long-retired comic actor, once
he convinced him to star in his new movie, Max Rose, according to the Forward.

Maxim Chmerkovskiy

Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Sasha Farber

Max Adler

DANCING WITH THE STARS

Familiar faces are ready to step out again

The new season of Dancing
with the Stars begins on
Monday, September 12, on
ABC at 8 p.m. So far as I know,
the 12 celebrity contestants this
season do not include any tribe
members. However, probably the
biggest celeb of the 12, former
Texas Governor Rick Perry,
already is a minor YouTube
dancing sensation. Back in 2010,
following a Texas State House
Chanukah candle lighting ceremony, he danced the hora with a
group of Orthodox rabbis.
(Google Rick Perry and hora and
youll find the clip.)
Pro dancers MAXIM and VALENTIN CHMERKOVSKIY, who are
brothers, are returning this season. Maxim, 36, who was born in
Odessa, is the son of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. He
identifies as Jewish. Hes danced
in most of the seasons (two per
year) since the show began in
2005. In 2014, he finished first
for the first time, dancing with
Olympic silver medal-winning
ice dancer Meryl Davis. He then

took off for two full years. Hell be

dancing with model Amber Rose.
Meanwhile, Valentin, 30, who also
finished first once, is teamed with
Olympic gold-winning gymnast
Lauren Hernandez. Also look for
pro SASHA FARBER, 33, who is
teamed with actress Terra Jole.
Farber was promoted from the
shows dance troupe to main cast
pro in 2013. In 2010, he toured
with Maxim in a dance-oriented
stage show that played Arizona
and he then told the Arizona Jewish Post: We left [Belarus, for
Australia, in 1991 when I was 7]
because of the Chernobyl nuclear
disaster and also because we had
to keep it quiet that we were Jewish. Farber added that around
the time, when he was studying
for his bar mitzvah, he went to a
wedding, saw a great dancer, and
decided thats what he wanted to
do. Plus, he said, Its a good way
to meet girls.
In 2009, 60 Minutes was
there when Sully Sullenberger and his wife, Lorrie,
met with some of the passen-

gers about a month after the

miracle on the Hudson. With a
tear in her eye, Lorrie read her
favorite letter from a member of
the public, and Sully said it was
his favorite too. It reads: Big
Apple hero. Yesterday I received
a voicemail from my 84-year-old
father who lives on the 30th
floor of a building with river
views here in Manhattan. Had
you not been so skilled, my
father or others like him in their
sky-high buildings could have
perished along with your
passengers had not you landed
in the river as you had. As a
Holocaust survivor my father
taught me that to save a life is to
save a world as you never know
what the person youve saved
nor his or her prodigy will go on
to contribute to the peace and
healing of the world. Bless you
dear Captain Sullenberger.
(MAX ADLER, 30, who played
the closeted gay football player,
Dave Karofsky, on Glee, has a
supporting part as a passenger).

Joe Jacobi and Chloe Smith

Two more mensches

You only have to google the name JOE JACOBI to find
many stories, last week, about how he visited an Atlanta
school to publicly thank a 7-year-old African American girl,
Chloe Smith, who found Jacobis Olympic gold medal in a
park rubbish bin while walking with her father. It was stolen
from Jacobis car last June, and he thought hed never see
it again. Jacobi, now 46, won the gold in 1992 in the twoman canoe/slalom event. Smiths father, a sports collector,
tracked Jacobi down. At Chloes school, Jacobi said: Its the
idea of choosing to do the right thing, and so Chloe, I thank
you for good character and doing the right thing. And to her
N.B.
parents and her family, I thank you guys.

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The Wandering Israeli performers Eran Edri (percussion),
Sagi Eiland (guitar/vocals) and actor-writer Elad Shippony.
DANIT SIGLER

Wandering Israeli to stop in Tenafly

Elad Shippony dramatizes his stories of life in Jordan, Africa, and beyond
by two musicians, he tells (and sings) his
story, acting the parts of the different
characters.
Next week, he will bring the show
to the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly, where he will present two versions: the original Hebrew-language version and an English-language edition that
premiered this year.
It wasnt a straight translation, he
said. He took out a section about traveling in Louisiana, and he added sections
about life on kibbutz and in Tel Aviv.
He has performed the Hebrew version
600 times throughout Israel. For the
English version, he set up in a theater

LARRY YUDELSON

lad Shippony became a wandering Israeli in 1973, when he

was 3 years old.
Thats when his parents
moved from Beersheva to Los Angeles
where young Elad never quite felt at
home. He didnt see himself as an American immigrant. Once he was old enough,
every summer he was sent to spend a
month or two with his grandparents in
Israel.
I really felt something special during those months, Mr. Shippony said. I
felt I belonged to Israel more than to the
States.
After graduating high school in Los
Angeles in 1987, he passed on the scholarship to Columbia University and returned
home to Israel, where he served in the
army, got married, had three daughters,
and used his fluent English as a technical
writer.
Throughout this time, though, he never
became a completely settled Israeli. He
lived for three months in Jordan, traveled
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What: the wandering israeli

Who: elad shippony and two musicians
Where: the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, tenafly

Elad Shippony

in Africa and South America and to Antarctica, even spent a month couch-surfing in Russia.
His life as an Israeli, both at home and

abroad, is the subject of The Wandering Israeli, the one-man play he began
performing 10 years ago, when he grew
tired of technical writing. Accompanied

When: thursday, september 15

7 p.m. english performance
9 p.m. hebrew performance

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When everybody
around me was
sending in
their college
applications,
I was busy
planning my
return to Israel.
in Jaffas Old City. The English show
doesnt come out and say you have to
move to Israel, he said. The point is
you should be doing what you want to
do, being in a place where you feel you
belong to and can make a difference.
The shows theme song is The Place
I Want to Return To, and that describes
Mr. Shipponys relationship to Israel.
Israel is the place I always wanted to
return to, he said. When everybody
around me was sending in their college
applications, I was busy planning my
return to Israel.

When he first moved to Israel, he lived

in Tel Aviv. When he joined the army, he
was adopted as a lone soldier by Mishmar
Hasharon. That was the kibbutz where
Ehud Barak, then commander-in-chief of
the Israeli army, had grown up.
Only in Israel would it be conceivable
that youre a private in the army walking
down a path and you suddenly see the
commander in chief, Mr. Shippony said.
And you have your next door neighbor
be his mother who does your laundry.
Like many young Israelis, after his
army service Mr. Shippony traveled
around the world. He spent a year in
Africa; his adventures on the Congo
River include being captured by Zairean
soldiers. (If you want to know what happened next, youll have to go to his show,
he said.) He spent time in South America
which ended up opening a new window on the North American world where
he had grown up.
In African you can get around with
your English, he said. In South America
you couldnt. I had to learn Spanish.
When I came back to Los Angeles, I was
speaking Spanish. I discovered a whole
new city. I was never aware of how many
Spanish speakers there were. It opened up

And then, very

slowly, I kind of
let my defenses
down and I
was an Israeli
everywhere I
went. People
were amazing.
the whole city. Suddenly I could communicate with all these people.
Which led him to wonder: What
would happen if I learned Arabic?
It was 1994, he said. The peace
treaty was signed between Jordan and
Israel. Peace was in the air. People were
talking about a whole new Middle East. I
decided to learn Arabic.
So he went to Jordan. I lived there for
three months in a backpackers hostel,
he said. I learned Arabic off the street. It
was an amazing experience.
Mr. Shippony holds both American

and Israeli citizenship. In Jordan, at first

I was an American, he said.
And then, very slowly, I kind of let my
defenses down and I was an Israeli everywhere I went. People were amazing.
His time in Jordan is a central piece of
his performance, and it became the basis
of a half-hour video documentary, which
follows him as he returns to Jordan after
12 years, where he is warmly embraced
by the hostel owner.
His three months in Jordan accomplished his goal: He returned to Israel
speaking fluent Arabic. And indeed, the
whole country I lived in was a different
place.
His active IDF service, which was spent
in a commando unit, came before his stay
in Jordan. Back then, we had very limited communication with the local community in the Palestinian territories, he
said. Just the basic things.
Suddenly, being able to speak Arabic
people open up to you. You can make
people feel you respect them by speaking
their language.
Being able to speak Arabic to Arabs,
Hebrew to Israelis, Spanish to Spanish
speakers, is a way to get them to open up
and speak to you. Its the first step.

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Teaching, learning in Poland

Local high school graduates work with Jews yearning to know more
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

here are at 180 Polish Jews

yearning to learn more about
their heritage; they range from
6-year-olds to a 94-year-old, and
include Holocaust survivors.
This summer, they took lessons in
Hebrew language and liturgy from four
new graduates of Yeshiva Universitys High
School for Boys (also known as MTA). Two
of the boys are from Teaneck, one is from
Rockland County, and one is from Highland
Park; the program was a highlight of this
summers Lauder Foundation Educational
Retreat/Camp, which met at a hotel two
hours from Krakow.
The four young men volunteered to take
part in the August 17-28 retreat as the result
of their nine-day trip to Poland last March.
Along with 17 other students in their elective class, Names, Not Numbers, they
focused on documenting the oral history of
survivors.
This year was the first time we were able
to arrange a Poland trip for the class, said
Tova Rosenberg, who created Names, Not
Numbers 13 years ago and has been a staff
member at YUs separate high schools for
girls and boys for the past 11 years.
Planned as a leadership training and
chesed (good deeds) mission affording
opportunities to meet with Jewish community leaders and Holocaust educators
many of whom are not Jewish the trip
offered activities designed to enhance the
experience of the course.
In Warsaw, the students met with YUordained Rabbi Mati Pawlak and his wife,
Hadassah, who run the Lauder Foundation School and an online Jewish education
program for children elsewhere in Poland.
It so happened that the weekend the visitors were in Krakow was to be the online
programs Shabbaton, and the boys were
invited to join in.
They not only attended but took the initiative to lead services, deliver Torah talks,
and head up lively rounds of singing and
dancing. The Pawlaks asked the young men
to return for an after-Shabbat party for participants and their parents that night.

Shimmy Mandelbaum, CJ Glicksman, Eli Kahn, and Jason Blatt taught Hebrew and learned about Jewish identity in Poland.

TOVA ROSENBERG

They taught them Hebrew songs and

were just so amazing that the head of the
program asked them to come back and be
part of the Lauder educational camp at
the end of August, Ms. Rosenberg related.
One success led to another.
The four who accepted the invitation
were Shimmy Mandelbaum of Rockland
County, CJ Glicksman and Eli Kahn of
Teaneck, and Jason Blatt of Highland Park.
After returning from Poland, they would
have only a few days at home before taking
off for their gap year in Israel.
It is unbelievable that four young men
agreed to take out of their precious time
before going to study for a year in Israel, to
go to an unknown place, Ms. Pawlak said.

We had met them at our Shabbaton but

didnt really know each other. I asked them
to come back and I was really surprised
when they said yes.
CJ, 18, said he was eager to learn more
about the Jewish community in Poland
and to help strengthen its members Jewish identity.
I found that a lot of them are not affiliated with anything Jewish, but were very
committed and involved in the camp program, CJ said. They were taking 10 days
from their regular schedule and brought
their kids and grandkids.
The 28-year-old camp program chose
lashon hakodesh the Hebrew language
as its theme this year.

They wanted our boys to teach four

levels of Hebrew to each age group, and
they did this formally and informally,
using games and songs, and bringing all
the spirit they had brought to the Shabbaton in March, Ms. Rosenberg said. They
also taught an introduction to the prayer
book to adults.
CJ recalled that he taught one woman
in her mid-30s to read Hebrew. We
started with the aleph bet and she went
back to her room and practiced each
night, he said. By the end, I was teaching her some grammar and conversation.
She was very interested and committed
to learning it, which was very cool.
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over for one of the weekends, and spoke to an audience of
50 about the Names, Not Numbers curriculum.
The course, she explained, explores the history of the
Holocaust through student-produced video testimonials. Students conduct the interviews, film, and edit their
one-on-one encounters with Holocaust survivors. The
clips become part of a larger film that includes the firsthand survivor accounts as well as interviews with concentration camp liberators and others. The composite
film is included in the collections of the National Library
of Israel and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, as well as Yeshiva
Universitys Gottesman Library in Manhattan.
At the end of my presentation, my translator said to
me, Did you notice people walked out of the session
with tears in their eyes? she reported.

Seeing Jewish people

is not something
they get to do often
in Poland, and when
they do, they feel
a connection of
brotherhood that we
take for granted.
Ms. Rosenberg observed her former students
in action at the camp and said she was filled with
nachas pride.
They were coming out of a bubble where there
are shuls and kosher restaurants all over the place,
and here they saw that one has to work hard to have
a Jewish life, she said.
CJ concurred. Seeing Jewish people is not something they get to do often in Poland, and when they
do, they feel a connection of brotherhood that we
take for granted. In America or Israel, you dont have
to go out of your way to be Jewish, but when youre
a Jew in Poland you have to go out of your way if you
want to maintain your identity.
I found that very inspiring.
Ms. Pawlak noted that many Jewish student groups
representing different organizations come to Poland
for educational programs, but these students were
the first Ive seen who wanted to come back and help
recreate the life that was destroyed here.
Their energy and their personal engagement
were amazing. And they were welcomed so warmly.
An outsider looking in would think they had been
there for years. They integrated so well.
She said that the MTA graduates impact went
beyond imparting skills.
They were role models for our kids, a way for
them to see they could build a Jewish life and continue to grow in their Judaism and also be a successful person and have fun, she said.
The four young men hope to stay in touch with
their campers. Eli even is setting up a daily Talmud
learning session with one of the girls from the camp.
Youre always proud of your alumni but these students are not out of MTA more than two months and
look what theyve accomplished! Ms. Rosenberg
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from the classroom taking their Jewish education
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Welcoming new clergy

Lois GoLdrich
ANd JoANNE PALMEr
Almost every year, new rabbis come to our
area. Around this time, just before the High
Holy Days usher in a new year, we profile
them. This year, we introduce you to four
rabbis new to Bergen County, and one in
Hudson County.

Congregational rabbis
Bergen County

Rabbi Barry Diamond

Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah,
Reform

Talk about commuting.

Barry Diamond, the interim rabbi at
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom in Mahwah,
lives in Texas.
My wife is still in Texas, said Rabbi
Diamond, who has been with the congregation since July. I go back and forth. So
far it works for us. Our children are grown
and out of the house. Usually, interim rabbis stay for one year, possibly two. So far in
his career, Rabbi Diamond has done both.
Rabbi Diamond has been well prepared
for his temporary position. Besides being
ordained by the Reform movement, he
trained as a consultant for nonprofit
boards of directors and then received
advanced training in the interim rabbinate.
For a number of years, I had my own
consultancy with nonprofit boards of
directors, training them in governance
and how boards should work, he said.
But given his interest in Jewish education,
his psychology training, which focused on
how individuals grow and develop, and
his rabbinic ordination, the interim rabbinate seemed tailor-made for his particular skills.
Rabbi Diamond is a firm believer in
the value of his work. Indeed, he said,
the CCAR the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, the rabbinic arm of the
Reform movement learned the importance of this position from some Christian ministers who created an interim
ministry network.
It has happened in past that when
congregations have a longtime rabbi
leave, or else their rabbi leaves under
a cloud or some kind of difficulty, they
may hire another rabbi and then fire that
rabbi within two or three years, he said.

Bringing in a trained interim clergyperson,

who is not in the middle of all the dynamics, to deal with the anxiety or emotional
frustration or even looking at the issues
that might be within the congregation
itself can be very helpful. Were finding
that strong congregations are doing this
and coming out even stronger.
Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, the synagogues
previous rabbi, whose work in Mahwah
has been seen widely as successful, is now
at Temple Shaaray Tefila, on Manhattans
Upper East Side.
Rabbi Diamond has been warmly
received in Mahwah, he said, describing the area as enthralling, among the
most beautiful Ive lived in and this
from a native of Southern California. He
describes the 425-family congregation as
especially warm and welcoming. They
have lots of young families and a good size
religious school, he noted, describing the
atmosphere as vibrant.
Rabbi Diamond is expected to do all
of the normal rabbinic duties teaching
adults and children, working with bar
and bat mitzvah students, leading services, pastoral counseling but also to
come in with a consultants eyes, looking
to understand how and why the congregation runs as it does, and looking to find
ways to prepare the congregation for the
next rabbi. That includes exploring how
the board runs and the ways we can
build on the many strengths of the board
and staff.
Like most rabbis, Rabbi Diamond wants
to provide a meaningful, beautiful, congenial prayer experience, where congregants learn, pray, and explore their
own spirituality. In addition, he said, as
a congregation, we should be spending
time thinking about the impact we want to
have on the lives of both members and the
larger community. It helps us to focus on
the real value we bring.
He sees his job as organic, not to
come in and dictate but to focus on the
strengths the congregation has and
the interest leaders have to grow and
develop. Healthy congregations always
want to learn and become better at what
they do. This is a very healthy congregation. Theyre asking, What can we learn?
What can we do now?
Now in his fourth interim pulpit his
most recent one was in Iowa City Rabbi
Diamond said that the challenges and
dynamics are different in each synagogue.
But each one comes with a tentativeness
not knowing who their next rabbi is going
to be. So far, in all the congregations, my
being there has given them time to do
reflection and go through the rigorous process. In each of these cases, he said, they
are happy with the rabbi they chose.
Meanwhile, Rabbi Diamond is overwhelmed by the wealth of opportunities

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offered by northern New Jersey. There

are so many wonderful things here, he
said, noting his interest in a djembe group.
(A djembe is a type of African drum.)
Theres something about banging a
drum that touches deeply in the soul
being in rhythm with other people, creating complex rhythms that are surprising
and interesting, he said. Moving in sync
is an exciting thing. Its consistent with my
job, to understand how a congregation
moves, and think with them.
For more information, go to www.bethhaverim.org.
Lois GoLdrich

Rabbi Daniel Fridman

Jewish Center of Teaneck, Orthodox

When he was about to graduate from

Columbia College, Daniel Fridman, the
new rabbi of the Jewish Center of Teaneck,
had a stark choice in front of him.
He could go to medical school, and he
would go on to specialize in oncology. Or
he could go to rabbinical school, and eventually teach Torah and lead a community.
Hed already been accepted to both
medical and rabbinical schools.
Of course, its clear that he went to rabbinical school the title rabbi is a bit of a
giveaway, and I havent looked back since,
he said but what is less clear and deeply
touching is how much those two seemingly
disparate choices have in common.
Both demand a complicated, highly
educated mixture of intellectual rigor and
deep compassion and a desire to work
with and help heal other people. And
because both of Rabbi Fridmans parents
are doctors and the entire family is firmly
knit into the texture of Orthodox life, both
choices spring from one of his animating principles, the mandate to honor his
mother and his father.
Rabbi Fridman was born in the Bronx;
his parents, Drs. Esther and Morton Fridman, both psychiatrists, were residents
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
there. In 1988, his parents moved their
young family Daniel was 3, and his older
brother, Ari, was 4 to Teaneck. They
wanted a quiet life for their kids, Rabbi
Fridman said.
He remembers some impressions from
the move. I investigated the house when
we first got there, and I came back to my
parents and said, Did you know theres a

park behind the house? I didnt have the

concept of a backyard.
And I remember asking them, in all sincerity, if the people we bought the house
from would still be living there when we
moved in. I didnt know anybody who
lived in a private home.
You could argue that the mere fact that
I asked those questions was precisely the
reason why my parents wanted to live in
Teaneck, he added.
Daniel followed his brother Ari now a
lawyer, and then as always his role model
to Yavneh for elementary school, and then
to Frisch for high school. Their younger
brother, Michael, is 7 years younger, and
their sister, Elisheva, is four years younger
still. The family belongs to Keter Torah.
There was no jumping around among
shuls, Rabbi Fridman said. Roemer, as
it used to be called, was a very solid connection for it. That was it. That was our
shul life. I am very close to Rabbi Baum
thats Shalom Baum, the synagogues
leader, who also is president of the Rabbinical Council of America.
Rabbi Fridmans wife, Dr. Chaya Gopin,
also comes from Teaneck, where her parents, Sharon and Judah, still live. She
grew up on the other side of town, he
said, and she went to Moriah, and then
to Maayanot, so they didnt know each
other until later. She was the valedictorian in both of those schools, he said. I
married up. She went on to Stern College;
shes now a clinical neuropsychologist at
Cornell Weill Medical Center.
Rabbi Fridman was ordained at RIETS,
Yeshiva Universitys rabbinical seminary.
It was the perfect place for him, he said.
His worldview is based on the teachings
of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and Rabbi
Soloveitchiks son-in-law and intellectual
heir, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein. First,
when you study Talmud, or any Jewish
text, you must go beneath the surface,
to try to understand the conceptual core
that animates it, he said. It is rigorous
and demanding, and allows you to see
the big picture. Next, there is the need
to combine the immanent and the transcendent. Paraphrasing Maimonides,
the two cardinal mitzvot, of both love
and fear of God, can be achieved not
only through the love of Torah but also
through the love of science, Rabbi Fridman said. You can see Gods creative
genius and majesty in all disciplines,
not only in Jewish text and the unfolding of Jewish life but also through
quantum mechanics and Beethovens
symphonies.
Most importantly, because the first two
can sound dry and intellectual, remember
that the Torah says it is a mitzvah to cleave
to God but if God is fire, how can you
do that?
Reb Chaim of Brisk, a Soloveitchik,

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Rabbi Josephs grandfather, was the
progenitor of this approach to learning.
A great intellectual, he also said that the
essential function of a rabbi is to do
chesed acts of loving kindness.
After ordination, Rabbi Fridman
worked at the Jewish Center in Manhattan, and they lived on the Upper West
Side. We could have been very happily to have stayed in the city, but both
Chaya and I are unusually close to our
parents, and thats another defining part
of our worldview, he said. Kibud av
vem honoring our parents. We wanted
our children so far thats the couples
18-month-old daughter, Eliana to have
that sense of limitless gratitude to our
parents. The only thing we could possibly give them that would at all repay them
for everything they have done for us is the
opportunity to see their grandchildren on
a very constant basis.
Thats why the family moved back to
Teaneck last year; Dr. Gopin commutes to
the city, and Rabbi Fridman became a fulltime teacher at the Torah Academy of Bergen County, a job he still holds and loves.
Rabbi Adler thats Yosef Adler, the rosh
yeshiva, who also heads Congregation Rinat
Yisrael in Teaneck, is my role model and

my polestar, Rabbi Fridman said.

Earlier this summer, Rabbi Fridman
heard that the Jewish Center was looking for a rabbi. His house was a sevenminute walk from the shul, and I had
always wanted to be involved in a communal position, to have the forum for
chesed, he said. And they were looking
to become part of the mainstream Orthodox community in Teaneck. Everything
came together.
The synagogue now is home to a school,
Heichal HaTorah. Its a partnership, and
the schools dean, Rabbi Aryeh Stechler,
and I have a close relationship, Rabbi
Fridman said. Its two independent institutions working in partnership.
Hes excited about the Teaneck Jewish Centers future, but hes careful to
emphasize that its growth will not come
at the expense of any other institution. I
am very sensitive to the question of what
is the overall benefit to the community in
having another shul, he said. Its a fair
question, and the answer is that it is only
good for the community if we can grow the
community.
The denominator the number of
Orthodox shuls in southern Teaneck is
constant, Rabbi Fridman said. But the

numerator the number of people who

are involved is not.
It is my goal to grow the numerator,
and to contribute to the overall growth of
the community.
For more information, go to jcot.org.
JoANNE PALMEr

Rabbi loren Monosov

Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley,
Woodcliff Lake, Conservative

Rabbi Loren Monosov of Woodcliff Lake,

Temple Emanuels religious leader since
mid-July, clearly is adept at juggling the
various parts of her life. She and her husband, Jeremy, have two little girls, Hannah, who is 4, and Yael, who is 15 months.
Rabbi Monosov also has a full rabbinic
schedule.

Rabbi Monosov, whose last position was

as assistant rabbi of the Westchester Jewish Center in Mamaroneck, N.Y., said that
her new congregation, like her last, is a
thriving egalitarian Conservative synagogue with an early childhood center
we wrote about the shuls new parenting center in last weeks paper a religious school, and a community looking to
engage. Cantor Alan Sokolov, the shuls
new cantor, is not a stranger to her the
two worked together in Westchester for
many years. At the Westchester Jewish
Center, she created the multi-generational
Purim-palooza and Chanukah celebration,
which, she said, regularly filled the building. Now, she is one of a handful of women
who lead congregations with more than
500 families.
Rabbi Monosov said that for her, the rabbinate is a calling. I dont just punch in
and punch out. This is my life, how I live
my life. Some people go to the office and
go home and thats it. But for her, being
a rabbi melds together with her other
activities, flowing in and out.
In high school, my parents were not
observant Jews, she said. I didnt love
Hebrew school and wanted to stop with
my bat mitzvah. My parents said no, so

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we agreed on USY, the Conservative
movements United Synagogue Youth
program. It was her participation in USY
that caused her to fall in love with Judaism. Now she wants to pay it forward,
creating a synagogue that offers people a
similar opportunity.
I want our members to learn, grow,
and fall in love with Judaism, just as she
did, and to make their relationship with
the synagogue as meaningful and holy as
it can be. She noted that the philosophy
concerning what synagogues should do
has changed over the years.
Conservative writer and educator Rabbi
Ron Wolfson was paramount in changing
the idea of what a successful synagogue
is, she said. Its not the numbers, but
whether people were moved and had an
experience that was meaningful. Does
her new congregation share this vision? I
believe so, she said. Why? Because they
hired me.
Rabbi Monosov said she brings to the
table not only a passion for Judaism but
also a love of engaging with people, from
infants to centenarians . Shes equally
comfortable being with kids on the floor
in the early childhood program, teaching
adult education programs, and everything in between.
She also is serious about her responsibility to offer pastoral care in lifes toughest
moments, to walk with them through their
journey. I love the challenge of being with
a variety of people and meshing well with
different age cohorts. At 35, I look young
and act young, she said, noting that this
is sometimes challenging for older people
who have children and grandchildren of a
similar age.
Rabbi Monosov said that she will not
change any programs this year. Its a
year of learning how we can enhance
them, she said. Her goal is to bring in
more learning, to engage the teens in a
thoughtful way, and to work on seniors
programs. The YJCC closed a year ago,
she said. Were learning how to operate
in a new situation.
Rabbi Monosov said that the special
thing about this congregation is that it is
a warm, friendly, and haimish community
that has embraced me and my family. It
really has welcomed us. Members, she
said, include nice healthy seniors, emptynesters, families with kids in school, and
a growing cohort of students in the early
childhood education program. Its a
healthy mix of ages.
What mark would she like to leave on the
congregation? People look back on Rabbi
Ungar with awe, she said. (Rabbi Andre
Ungar, the shuls longtime rabbi, was a
nationally known figure, widely respected
as a scholar and pastor.) He made a mark
on their lives and their souls, she said. I
want to make a difference, so that people
will know, in good times and bad, that I
was there to hold their hand.
A graduate of the George Washington
University, with a B.A. in Judaic studies and
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psychology, Rabbi Monosov was ordained

at the Jewish Theological Seminary in
2010. JTS also awarded her with the Albert
Pappenheim prize in professional skills.
According to a statement from the synagogue, Rabbi Monosov is respected as a
dynamic leader and as a teacher who is
accessible, yet inspiring; religious school
students love working with her on their
divrei Torah, congregants young and
less young love learning with her. More
seasoned and learned congregants are
equally motivated.
For more information, go to tepv.org.
Lois Goldrich

Rabbi/Cantor Meeka Simerly

Temple Beth Tikvah, Wayne, Reform

Rabbi/Cantor Meeka Simerly comes to

Waynes Temple Beth Tikvah from Temple
Emanu-El in San Jose; she was that shuls
cantor and assistant rabbi.
I learned a lot about clergy life during those 10 years, she said. Now she lives
in Wayne with her husband, Dave, and
describes herself as a singing rabbi.
Her goals, she said, are many, both
within and outside the synagogue, which
she joined in mid-August. I hope to be
present and involved in a lot of community-wide events, she added, noting that
she looks forward to working on the towns
interfaith council and participating in other
community activities. Shortly after arriving, she took part in a fundraising walk to
benefit a local child battling cancer.
My goal is to really bring the beauty
and wealth of Judaism to as many people
as possible, Rabbi Simerly said. Basically,
to cross through barriers of dogmas and
the way it used to be, just as I am doing
in being the first female rabbi in Wayne
and of this congregation. She wants to get
people excited, so they will feel invited to
join us for worship, and study. They have a
wonderful opportunity to have a very rich,
deep, and fulfilling Jewish spiritual life.
The rabbinate, she said, is about outreach
to people, to bridge differences and enjoy
commonality in our community.
An Israeli, Rabbi Simerly speaks Hebrew
fluently. In her new position, she will
be teaching both children and adults,
although she jokingly describes the
entire congregation as my children of all
ages. She paid tribute to longtime cantor
Charles Romalis, who recently celebrated
his 50th anniversary at the congregation.
He offered to mentor me and be here for
as long as I need him, she said, calling the
offer beautiful and wonderful.

Rabbi Simerly, who was born in Haifa,

came to the United States about 21 years
ago. I come from an ultra secular Zionist environment, she said. Pioneers.
She entered Reform Judaism through
the back door. During her undergraduate
studies at San Jose State University, one
teacher told me about a nearby temple
looking for a choir director. I said no. I
dont know anything about temple life.
Still, she made connections with the rabbi,
despite her fear that she wouldnt be able
to do the job.
But once she took it on, I started to
work with kids, learn contemporary Jewish music, and bring in traditional chasidic
music from Israel. I was asked to lead services and to teach at the school. She also
attended a Jewish summer camp, Camp
Tawonga, to learn more. Slowly but
surely it became a passion, and I became
incredibly involved with the kids, taking them to sing at retirement homes and
other places, she said. I wanted to take
the synagogue out into the community,
she added and she still does.
Rabbi Simerly earned her B.A. in music
education in 2004 and her cantorial ordination and masters degree in Jewish
sacred music from the Academy for Jewish
Religion in California, in 2009. Later, she
received rabbinic ordination from the same
institution. A member of the American
Conference of Cantors, the Reform movements cantorial association, my next goal
is to be a member of the CCAR, she said.
Rabbi Simerly is the co-editor of Voices in
the Wilderness: Emerging Roles of Israeli
Clergywomen, co-edited with cantor and
music scholar Jonathan L. Friedmann.
Rabbi Simerly describes her new congregation as eager and willing and excited
about rejuvenation. The synagogue still
includes among its members the chalutzim the pioneers who established the
facility and have remained members. In
addition, she said, we have a new wave
of young families. Theres a variety of ages.
Anyone who comes will feel very much at
home because of this variety.
Asked to describe her own strengths,
I love being with people, Rabbi Simerly
said. I am all about caring and loving
interactions. Also, I feel Judaism in my
kishkes, she added. I love to spread
the incredible beauty of our tradition, to
bring in people to join me in celebrating
our beautifully ancient tradition. She
wants, she said, to be seen as someone
who helped Jews of all ages be reawakened
and connected with the spiritual aspects of
Judaism within themselves.
An avid animal lover, Rabbi Simerly has
three schnauzers of different sizes giant,
standard, and miniature. Im an advocate for animal rights and the humane
treatment of animals, she said. My main
hobby is to be out in nature as much as I
possibly can.
For more information, go to www.templebethtikvahnj.org.
Lois Goldrich

Congregational rabbi
Hudson County

Rabbi Aaron Katz

Bnai Jacob, Jersey City,
liberal/unaffiliated

Rabbi Aaron Katzs path has taken him across

four continents, through many languages,
around obstacles posed by labels that he has
refused and boxes that hes burst through.
Its now landed him in Jersey City, a city
where a once-flourishing Jewish community
petered out to remnants but never vanished
fully, and now very possibly might revive
itself. As of July 1, Rabbi Katz is leading Bnai
Jacob, an unaffiliated egalitarian synagogue
on West Side Avenue, a 60-year-old shul
that might take the lead in the communitys rebirth.
The building is old, long and narrow in the
urban style, with dated fixtures, unglamorous
cinderblock walls, and original (and marvelous) Art Deco signs marking its bathrooms.
(The shul departs from the urban model,
though, in that it has a parking lot, which is
likely to help it grow.) Perhaps symbolically,
it has old-style charm but not many modern
conveniences it was not until last week that
it had Wi-Fi. But, Rabbi Katz said, as soon as
he figured out that the reason he was galloping through his cellphone data plan was that
there was no internet coverage in the building, the young new board fixed the problem.
Aaron Katz was born in Argentina in 1955,
into a family that was active in the thriving
Orthodox community. He went through
school and university in Argentina and
taught for a short time; in 1974 he moved
to Israel to study. I wanted to learn the
essence, the real Judaism, he said. I felt that
sometimes in the diaspora, people just do
things because their parents did them, and
because their grandparents did. I couldnt
do things just because I was expected to do
them, not even when I was a child. So I went
to Israel to study the real thing.
That was not his first trip to Israel. When
he was still in high school, Rabbi Katz won
the Chidon HaTanach the Bible contest for
diaspora students and represented Argentina in the international finals. It was there
that he met the woman whom he married
when they both were 21 she was in Israel
because she had won the contest for her
country, Sweden.
Rabbi Katz does not do things by half.
He studied at the Mercaz HaRav Kook and
in 1979 he was ordained by the chief rabbis of Israel, the Ashkenazi Shlomo Goren
and the Sephardi Ovadia Yosef. He also was
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High Holy Day inspirational program

Mikvah will open in Englewood

Congregation Keter Torah and the Orthodox Union present Pre-Yamim Noraim
Inspiration on Sunday, September 18,
following the 8 a.m. Shacharit service at
Keter Torah.
The event begins with an introduction by the shuls rabbi, Shalom Baum.
There will be a special tribute to the late

The community is welcome to attend

a grand opening celebration for Englewoods new mikvah, the Rebbetzin
Peggy Gopin Weiss Mikvah, on Sunday,
September 11. Doors open at 9:30 a.m.,
the program is set for 9:45, and the

Elie Wiesel. Cantor Joseph Malovany of

the Fifth Avenue Synagogue will speak
and offer musical selections of congregational melodies.
The shul is at 600 Roemer Ave., in
Teaneck. For information, call (201) 9070180 or go to www.ketertorah.org.

ribbon will be cut at 10:15. Tours of the

mikvah and refreshments will follow.
The program will be held at Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewoods Katz
Auxiliary Minyan room.
For information, call (201) 568-1315.

Rabbi Yisrael
Rothwachs with
parent volunteer
Malkie Schick.

Teanecks Rabbi Rothwachs

appointed RIETS director
Rabbi Larry Rothwachs of
personal development training for rabbinical students.
Teaneck has been named the
R a b b i Ro t hwa c h s w i l l
director of professional rabbinics at Yeshiva Universitys
share his years of experience
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theologin shuls and schools as he
ical Seminary. In that post, he
teaches a course for new students called Contemporary
will oversee an extensive professional rabbinics curriculum
Issues in the Jewish Community. He also will co-teach the
at RIETS, including three professional tracks and more than
schools Advanced Pastoral
Rabbi Larry
20 courses per semester.
Counseling course, which
Rothwachs
The professional curricufocuses on pastoral skills
lum at RIETS has undergone
and crisis intervention, with
many changes in the last decade to ensure
Dr. David Pelcocitz, the Gwendolyn and
that future rabbinic leaders will have the
Joseph Straus Professor of Jewish Education at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewskills they need to succeed and inspire
ish Education and Administration.
their congregants. New initiatives this year
offer developments in mental health and

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Staples hosts Sinai school shop

About 200 people did their back-to-school shopping without having to wait on long
lines on Sunday, August 28, from 8 to 10 a.m. at Staples in Hackensack. Many were
there to support Sinai Schools. The special event, open to the community, was
prompted by a donation by Tzvi and Erica Solomon and matched by Tzvis parents,
Yitzie and Yosepha Solomon. Recognizing that Sinai families often face additional
financial hurdles in providing for a child or many children with special needs, the
Solomons donated gift cards for school supplies to all Sinai students. Sinai provided
coffee and donuts for shoppers.

Wyckoff shul will rededicate

its Holocaust survivor Torah

Adam Lang

Senator Ron Johnson, left, with Dr.

Arthur Kook.
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Norpac meeting
to hear senator
from Wisconsin
Dr. Arthur and Linda Kook of Englewood will welcome a Wisconsin
Republican, Senator Ron Johnson, at
a Norpac meeting on Sunday, September 25, at 7 p.m. Dr. Ben Chouake and
Leon Kozak join them as event chairs.
For information, email Avi@NORPAC.
net or call (201) 788-5133.

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Wayne blood drive

Late last month, Temple Beth Tikvah of
Waynes social action committee held a
Red Cross Blood drive chaired by Adam
and Ken Lang. More than 30 congregants and area residents, including David
Simerly, the husband of the shuls new
rabbi, donated blood.
To speak to the new rabbi, Meeka
Simerly, or for information on the shul,
call (973) 595-6565.

Temple Beth Rishon of

Wyckoff will rededicate
its Holocaust memorial scroll and unveil its
new preservation cabinet during services on
Friday, September 16,
at 7:30 p.m.
The Torah scroll,
created in the late 19th
century, comes from
Ivancice in South Moravia, Czechoslovakia.
It is thought that the
town hosted a synagogue as early as 956.
Through the years the
community flourished;
at one point it supported a yeshiva that
produced many noted scholars.
During World War II a large refugee
camp was opened in Ivancice, and in
1942 the towns entire Jewish population
was deported to death camps. Early in
the war, the Nazis established a museum
in the Prague ghetto where they planned
to display the culture and artifacts of the
murdered European Jews.

Prisoners were
assigned the task of cataloguing the collection and
tattooing the hundreds
of Torah scrolls. A wired
swastika tag was attached
to a wooden roller on
each scroll, with the
name of the town from
which it came. Temple
Beth Rishons Holocaust
Torah is inscribed with
number 431.
The cache was discovered after the war, and
the Czech government
established a museum in
COURTESY TBR
memory of the destroyed
Jewish communities of Europe.
In 1963, the Westminister Synagogue
in London became trustee of the Torahs
of Prague. Since then, synagogues from
around the world have the opportunity
to acquire the Torahs on permanent
loan. Beth Rishon is dedicating a newly
designed cabinet that will continue to
preserve the survivor Torah.

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Federation offers EZ Key tickets
for free High Holy Days seats
This year, 40 synagogues have joined the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys Synagogue Leadership Initiatives
EZ Key free ticket program. Hundreds
of people will receive tickets for Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur services at
local shuls.
Since 2011, the federation has connected more than 1,000 people including more than 875 newcomers with
more than 40 northern New Jersey synagogues. Some EZ Key visitors return to

their host synagogue for other programs,

some become members of a synagogue
family, and others simply enjoy being
connected with the Jewish community
for the High Holy Days.
The federations EZ Key program
serves the community by creating and
building connections between individual
Jews and the wider Jewish community.
For information, go to www.jfnnj.org/
holidaytickets, email NancyP@jfnnj.org,
or call (201) 820-3904.
From left, Cedar Wang, Holy Name Medical Centers director of simulation
education; Sinai Schools managing director, Sam Fishman; Deborah Ross, Holy
Names nursing informatics specialist, and Sinais dean, Rabbi Yisrael Rothwachs.
COURTESY SINAI

Holy Name is Sinai benefactor

To begin the school year, Teanecks Holy
Name Medical Center presented Sinai
Schools with a check for $100,000. The
money will be used to assist the increasing number of children with special needs
or complex learning issues whom Sinai
serves. In response to demand, the school
has doubled its enrollment over the last

seven years.
Holy Name Medical Center was awarded
Sinai Schools Community Partnership
award at Sinais 2014 benefit dinner. The
hospital continues to work with Sinai
on several initiatives and programs to
improve the lives of people with special
needs.

Sol Moglen, founder and chair of the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance, center,
with John Feal of the Fealgood Foundation (this years Heroes Night honoree), and FDNY chaplain Rabbi Joseph Potasnik.
PHOTO PROVIDED

Wayne JWV commander organizes

a 9/11 memorial on Coney Island
The Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance,
which honors first responders who
died on September 11, 2001, is in MCU
Park (formerly KeySpan Park) in Coney
Island. It is the work of Jewish war veteran Sol Moglen, who was born in Brooklyn and now lives in Wayne. Mr. Moglen
conceived the idea for the memorial,
and worked with a team of volunteers
to make it happen. New York Citys
fire department named him an honorary deputy fire chief in recognition of
his work.
Mr. Moglen also is the new commander
of Jewish War Veterans Kaufman-HarrisCone Wayne Post 695.
Each year the Wall of Remembrance
Foundation hosts a Heroes Night at
the stadium in partnership with the

Brooklyn Cyclones, the New York Mets

minor league team that plays there. For
the last two years, Wayne Post 695 was
a co-sponsor. This years event, held last
month, brought 100 wounded warriors
and military personnel from Fort Hamilton, Walter Reed, and Bethesda Naval
hospitals to the stadium for a baseball
game. Several were honored in a pregame ceremony.
The Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance
was the first 9/11 memorial in New York
City. It includes 417 laser-engraved granite portraits of first responders who died
that day 46 firefighters, 37 Port Authority officers, 23 NYC police officers, three
New York State officers, one fire patrol
member, first responders, and a K-9 rescue dog named Sirius.

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Editorial
Remembering
September 11

ould it really have been 15 years?

It seems like it just happened and it seems like a
lifetime ago, when terrorists hijacked airplanes and
flew them out of a flawlessly sapphire-blue sky into
the World Trade Center and aimed them at the Pentagon, when
almost 3,000 people died that day because a small group of otherwise stone-age monsters had enough technical know-how and
lacked enough basic humanity to do what they did.
It has been 15 years this Sunday since the news broke, starting
fairly slowly in the morning with reports of a plane flying into
the building, alarming enough but surely, obviously, unquestionably an accident, and then ratcheted up and up and up inexorably to the Twin Towers falling, but not before people jumped
out of their windows and sank, seemingly slowly and with an
odd ungainly grace at the very end, to their terrible deaths.
It has been 15 years since the smell of burning death lingered
in the air for weeks, making its way uptown every evening,
when the wind changed and blew north.
Our world has changed since then.
Now we know that the unthinkable is possible, that monsters
live in this world, that the seemingly eternally solid can be taken
down, given enough malice and ruthlessness.
We also know that human beings are capable of great, selfless good. The first responders who rushed to the inferno, the
police officers and firefighters and just plain citizens who went
upstairs, carried people downstairs, came the next day and the
days after that to dig in the still-on-fire rubble, the rescuers who
later sickened and died because theyd breathed so much toxic
air, with particles of chemicals and plastics and organic matter
that no one should breathe.
We now live in a very different world. Although one immediate response to September 11 was that comedy and irony were
dead, of course those things were resuscitated quickly. But to
a large extent our innocence died. Why we should have been
innocent at all in a post-Holocaust world is a real question, of
course, but now, we, this generation, the generation that saw
the smoke against the perfect cloudless blue, have no excuse.
We also have no excuse not to be kind to each other. Those of
us who are not monsters most of us overwhelmingly most
of us must learn from the waking nightmare of September 11,
2001, exactly 15 years ago, that decency, selflessness, tolerance,
and goodness matter.
We also dont have any excuse not to pay attention to whats
going on around us. Theres a thin line between suspecting
strangers simply because they are unfamiliar and therefore
threatening and ignoring clear danger signs. We must continue
to be tolerant and accepting thats what makes us Americans
and thats what makes America the worlds polestar but we
also have to learn to walk that line.
If we dont learn from history, we will repeat it. Lets try to
JP
learn from it instead.

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KEEPING THE FAITH

Prayer out of place and out of time

very now and then, and perhaps more

Chodesh, we utter this prayer:
often than I care to admit, I am conMay He who redeemed our ancestors [in Egypt]
fronted by a question I have difficulty
and took them from slavery to freedom, redeem us
answering.
soon and gather our dispersed from the four corThis is especially true when it comes to the sub- ners of the Earth.
ject of prayer. These questions usually come to me
The problem, of course, is not with the intent
from people who are members of the two tradi- of these prayers, but with their wording, which is
tional movements, meaning Orthodox and Conser- locked into the reality of the past.
vative. Their issue is not why we pray,
The intent of these prayers should
but why we recite certain prayers that
be clear. At least ever since the State
seem anachronistic, and why the statof Israel came into being, we are in the
utory prayers seem filled with endless
period known as the Atchalta Dgeula,
repetitive phrases and themes.
the Beginning of Redemption. It is the
A couple of examples will suffice. In
beginning only. As comfortable as most
the weekday Amidah, we call upon
of us are with our lives lives free from
God to [b]ehold our affliction and
the oppressive laws of the past, which
deliver us. Redeem us soon because
were meant to keep us in the mud
of Your mercy.
we are not yet living the lives of a kingShammai
dom of priests and holy nation we are
Further on, we implore God to [s]
Engelmayer
intended to be. That will only be posound the great shofar to herald our
sible with a full redemption, however
freedom, raise high the banner to
that will come about.
gather all exiles. Gather the dispersed
God restored our ability to return to the Land;
from the ends of the earth.
As for Jerusalem, we urge Him to [b]uild it now, we do not pray for that. We pray for our redemption to be complete.
in our days and for all time.
The intent of these prayers is wholly valid, but the
All three blessings focus on the same theme to
words we use no longer are.
end our suffering in exile and return us to the Land
Regarding the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the words
of Israel. Thus, they do not seem to match the reality of 21st century Jewish life.
of the prayer itself are somewhat deceptive. The
Anyone who has been to Jerusalem in the last
prayer has nothing to do with actual rebuilding of
few years marvels at the incredible city that has
the city, but only of the Temple. It also is a prayer
been built up. If anything, God (through His agents, for Jerusalems status to be built up into the central
meaning us) has fulfilled the request to rebuild
address for all those who seek to follow the moral
Jerusalem, so why do we keep imploring Him to
and ethical path God set for us.
do so?
Other prayers recited in the most traditional circles (again, covering two streams, not just one) are
We ask God to [b]ehold our affliction and
even more problematic. These prayers seem clear
deliver us, but most of us would be hard-pressed
to everyone who recites them, but I would hazard a
to describe this affliction, much less want to be
guess that most people who do recite them at least
delivered from our current circumstances.
subconsciously hope they will never be fulfilled.
As for asking God to [g]ather the dispersed from
These prayers call for a full restoration of the sacthe ends of the earth, He already did His part;
rificial cult, not just a rebuilding of the Temple in
certainly since May 15, 1948, we have been free to
return to the Land of Israel, regardless of whether Jerusalem. Seriously, how many of us who recite
we believe in the halachic legitimacy of a pre-mes- these prayers want that to happen?
sianic age State of Israel.
Is the cult even supposed to return?
There is an even more pointed prayer we recite
Most of us who recite these prayers probably
near the end of each month, except Elul (because
agree with Rabbi Pinchas, speaking in the name
we do not bless the new month of Tishrei, for rea- of Rabbi Levi, who argues that the sacrificial cult
sons irrelevant here). In the Blessing of the New
was a stopgap measure made necessary by the fact
Month, recited on the Shabbatot before Rosh
that the Israelites were passionate followers after
idolatry in Egypt and used to bring their sacrifices
Shammai Engelmayer is the rabbi of Congregation Beth
to the goat-demons.... The sacrificial cult was created to wean Israel away from pagan practices.
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Labor Day a Jewish American holiday

(See Leviticus Rabbah 22.7-8.)
Maimonides (the Rambam) certainly
agreed. In Guide to the Perplexed 3:32,
he argued that He did not want to confuse peoples minds by banning a
familiar mode of worship, although He
could do without them.
Then there are the chapters from the
Psalms and other parts of the Tanach
that make some people queasy. In Ashkenazic circles, for example, we have
begun to recite Psalm 27 in the lead-up
to the High Holy Days. One verse in particular stands out: Though my father
and my mother abandon me, the Lord
will take me in. Do we seriously believe
that our parents ever would abandon us,

Prayer is
meaningful. Too
often, the words
we recite detract
from that
meaningfulness,
to the detriment
of prayer and
to our own
detriment as well.
or that we would abandon our children?
There is nothing about Shabbat in
Psalm 92, the Shabbat psalm, but it does
declare that though the wicked sprout
like grass, though evildoers blossom, it
is only that they may be destroyed forever. Your enemies, O Lord, surely
your enemies perish; all evildoers are
scattered. I shall see the downfall of
my watchful foes, hear of the downfall
of the wicked who beset me.
How does this psalm reflect the peaceful and restful nature of Shabbat?
Prayer is meaningful. Too often, the
words we recite detract from that meaningfulness, to the detriment of prayer
and to our own detriment as well.

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ast weekend, we enjoyed the Labor Day holiday. There

How is it that a cigar
were speeches, barbecues, and an extra day of shopping.
roller and a young immigrant seamstress were so
The celebration continues with the New York City
pivotal in the early labor
Labor Day parade this Saturday. This poorly attended
movement? Its because
parade, like the holiday itself, reflects the weak state of labor in the
they, along with countless
United States today. The truth is that working people have not had
other Jewish workers, conmuch to cheer about for a long time. Wages have stagnated, particularly for those trapped in lower income jobs. And while better paid
sidered better working conditions as part of their DNA.
workers have seen some improvements recently, the income gap in
T h e To r a h r e q u i r e s
the United States remains among the largest in the world. As a country, we cannot agree on a minimum wage let alone a living one.
prompt payment of wages
In 2014, the latest year for which such information is available,
and fair treatment for workClara Lemlich
ers: You shall not oppress a
the top 20 percent of income earners in the United States earned
hired servant that is poor
more money than the remaining 80 percent combined, while the
In the same day you shall give him his hire (Deuteronomy 24,
top 5 percent of Americans earned more than 20 percent of all the
14-15). The Torah instructed that workers were to be permitted
income in the United States. Households in the lowest 10 percent
to eat of the fields in which they labored, and that the gleanings
earned no more than $12,276 a year. The top 5 percent earned more
and corners of the fields were to be left for the needy. Repeatedly,
than $206,568.
the Torah reminds us to recall that we once were slaves in Egypt;
In 2006, the median household income in the United States was
that from that foundational national experience should emerge a
$57,357. In 2014, it had fallen to $53,657.
consciousness combining empathy for those facing hardship with
As Americans, we look at the situation and see how this disparity strangles the growth of our society, the shrinking
the social responsibility of the community to protect
of the middle class, and the tarnishing of the Ameriand provide for the vulnerable within it.
can dream of success. For some to have more, others
Servitude was a norm in the time the Torah was
must have less. For some to have much more, many
written, but the Torah required that such servitude
must have much much less.
be limited. Indentured servants served a specific,
As Jews, we look at these statistics and see a rustcontracted time, and the authority of the master was
ing of the goldeneh medinah the golden land.
limited as well. When the period of servitude was
Three generations ago, the immigrant Jewish gencompleted, not only was the master obligated to free
eration fought to eliminate sweatshops and protect
the bondsman, the bondsman was obligated to leave.
workers from the greed of bosses. It was the time of
Moreover, the master was required to give his former
Dr. Mark
Samuel Gompers, a Jewish immigrant and a cigar
bondsmen the resources to renew life as an economiGold
cally independent person. The ideal was to have neimaker who moved from rolling tobacco leaves to
ther an impoverished mass nor a wealthy few.
organizing workers, developing the concept of collective bargaining, and becoming president of the
To put it in todays terms, the ideal social condition is to have a strong and independent working
American Federation of Labor.
middle class.
It was the time of Clara Lemlich, a young Jewish
Technical change and globalization today present
seamstress who worked in a sweatshop. Lemlich
new challenges to workers in a new kind of workplace.
came to the attention of the outside world at the mass
There still are factories and shops, but increasingly,
meeting held at Cooper Union on November 22,
employment is concentrated in service work. The new
1909, to rally support for the striking shirtwaist workers. After the leading figures of the American labor
conditions make it ever more important that educational opportunities be broad, general, and affordmovement spoke in general terms about the need for
able, that working people are protected by a living
solidarity and preparedness, Lemlich demanded the
Hiam Simon
minimum wage, and that workers abroad have simiopportunity to speak. Lifted onto the platform, she
lar protections, lest their oppression be imported with
addressed the workers in Yiddish, saying that there
the products of their labor.
had been enough talk and calling for an immediate
It is vitally important that workers retain their hard fought rights
walkout in support of those already on strike.
to organize and bargain collectively.
I have listened to all the speakers, and I have no further patience
Our history and tradition should enhance our consciousness that
for talk, she said. I am a working girl, one of those striking against
all working people are entitled to be treated with a fundamental digintolerable conditions. We are here to decide whether or not to
nity, whether they are on the shop floor, in the warehouse, in front
strike. I make a motion that we go out.
of a computer, or in front of a classroom. Our history and tradition
The crowd responded enthusiastically, and joined her in an oath
help us understand that social fairness is not only a kindness but a
that echoes an ancient Jewish call. If I turn traitor to the cause I now
measure of social health.
pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise. Approximately 20,000 out of the 32,000 workers in the shirtwaist trade
Clara Lemlich called upon Jewish workers to move from fine oratory to action. As we move on from Labor Day 2016, let us consider
walked out in the next two days; this would become known as the
what that means for each of us today.
Uprising of the 20,000 that led to the creation of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union. The strike lasted until February 10,
Dr. Mark Gold of Teaneck holds a Ph.D. in economics from NYU. He
1910, producing union contracts at almost every shop, but not at
is on the executive board of Partners for Progressive Israel, a member
Triangle Shirtwaist.
organization of the American Zionist Movement and an affiliate of the
Triangle Shirtwaist became a synonym for sweatshop during the
World Union of Meretz.
following year. On March 25, 1911, nearly 150 garment workers died
as a result of a fire that consumed the factory. Fire exits had been
Hiam Simon of Englewood is the chief operating officer of Ameinu, the
either locked or blocked. Workers were either burned to death or
leading progressive Zionist membership organization in the United
died jumping to escape the flames.
States. He lived in Israel for many years, where he was the dean of
Clara Lemlich survived, though her cousin died in the flames.
students for what is now the Alexander Muss High School, and he was
When she was 95 years old, Clara organized the janitorial staff in
an artillery sergeant in the IDF.
her retirement home to demand a better contract.
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Opinion

Theyre back!

fter seven weeks of peace and

his counselors were for him.
quiet at home, my wife and I
This program also created a strong,
welcomed our teenagers back
transformative bond to the land, state, and
from their summer adventures.
people of Israel for the campers. A full summer teen trip allows for immersion into
We have been regaled with their energetic
the Israel experience at a time when these
stories and delighted by their growing perspectives. We see proof in our own home of
teens truly are forming their own identities and viewpoints. By hikthe power and vitality of the
ing the land, camping out in
Jewish summer experience.
the Negev, hearing dynamic
We could not be more
speakers from a broad range
pleased!
of perspectives, and experiOur 17-year-old returned
encing the vibrancy of modfrom his camps trip to Israel
ern Israeli life, our sons indewith friends hes made over
pendent outlook appears to
his last seven summers. For
be evolving and maturing. He
Camp Yavneh as it is for
has asked probing questions
many other camps this
Jeremy J.
and he has expressed pertrip is the culmination of the
Fingerman
sonal connections. After his
camper experience. The program is designed as a leaderupcoming senior year in high
ship development journey,
school, he wants to spend a
which in part solidifies connections to the
gap year in Israel.
camp back in New Hampshire, where the
Our 15-year-old thrived as she acquired
group returned to camp upon its arrival
new skills in her own leadership trajectory. We have been impressed by her
back from Israel. Next summer, my son
growth and development, taking responaspires to be a camp counselor he hopes
sibilities more seriously and aspiring to be
to become the role model for campers that

Campers seal their friendship after a summer of fun and camaraderie.

a counselor-in-training next summer. The
intentionality of the camper program is
working; her determination and perseverance are clearly evident since her return.
We sometimes dont fully appreciate
the multiple benefits a camp experience

provides. Being away for the summer allows

kids the opportunity to develop skills critical for future success without the hovering of helicopter parents. These 21st-century skills have been quantified by studies
of Fortune 500 companies as necessary if

Nastiness and nuance Part II

often read the eponymous Seforim

give an opinion, and ended with a Hebrew
blog All about Seforim New and
aphorism that essentially told him to
Old which often has high level
know his place and stay there. A later
academic articles by well-known
comment, building on the latter one, told
scholars such as Marc Shapiro, Aryeh
Israeli idiots to stay in Israel and quit
Frimer, Gil Perl, and Jordan Penkower,
bothering us.
to mention just a few. Recently, Rabbi Dr.
Unfortunately, this mean-spiritedness
Daniel Sperber, one of the worlds leading
manner of argumentation is not unusual.
experts in minhagei Yisrael ( Jewish reliBut why now? One reason, I think, is that
gious customs), wrote an article suggestthe world is moving so quickly that theres
ing the reinstitution of daily
little time to think. In the
birchat cohanim (the priestly
1970s, I could read an article in the New York Times,
blessing) in the diaspora, as is
think about it, handwrite
done in many places in Israel.
a letter to the editor, think
As is often the case with
about it some more, have
Seforim posts, there were
it typed by the steno pool
numerous comments. The
(Google it, kids), and (snail)
first two caught my eye. Both
mail it. If it was accepted,
made the point that Rabbi
it would appear two weeks
Sperbers sources supporting his proposed change
Joseph C.
after the original article. The
Kaplan
were well known by previous
last letter I had published in
generations of halachic decithe Times was written and
sors, and since those decisors
emailed within 20 minutes
made no change in the custom, none was
of my having read the article I was commenting on, and it appeared the next day.
needed or appropriate now.
With such time pressure, words soon
The way the comments were phrased,
regretted too often are not self-edited out.
however, couldnt have been more different. The first showed Rabbi Sperber due
A second cause is what I believe is one of
respect, called his article comprehenthe major blunders of the internet culture
sive, said his arguments were cogent
anonymity. I always sign my real name
and virtuous, yet concluded that they
to comments and posts, and therefore I try
were nonetheless insufficient to overcome
to be careful to write only what I would be
precedent. The second called his analysis
comfortable saying face to face. But when
irrelevant, said he was not qualified to
a commenter is anonymous, its all too
18 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

I always sign my
real name to
comments and
posts, and
therefore I try to
be careful to write
only what I would
be comfortable
saying face
to face.
easy to say things that would never be said
if others knew who was saying it. And so
Mr. Anonymous says them.
Third, some of our leaders have drastically changed their tone, and like lemmings, many others have followed suit.
Why should I be surprised about nasty
comments on Facebook and blogs when
we have a presidential race that is, in the
words of the New York Times, sprayed
with an open fire hose of schoolyard
insults and locker-room vulgarities?
Someone who wishes to be the leader of
the free world has as a constant refrain
the complaint that his opponents are stupid, sleazy, and liars. These are all words

that my mother would have sent me to my

room for using about another person.
Or, even closer to home, we have a governor who is not shy about calling people with whom he disagrees stupid or
idiot. And, since one bad deed begets
another, those called names repay the
favor in kind, ending up with a newspaper, whose reporter was insulted, calling
the governor fatso in a front-page headline. Is this what our government and journalism have come to? Idiot, sleaze, stupid,
fatso, liar?
I have a simple rule that might help ease
this problem if others also followed it. I call
it the children solution that is, dont
do what you teach your children not to do
or would be embarrassed by if your children did. If you dont teach your children
to treat people like jerks even if they act
like jerks, then be careful how you treat
people. If you teach your children not to
call those with whom they disagree stupid or idiots, then drop those words from
your vocabulary. If you would be embarrassed hearing your children use derogatory and demeaning language about others, then dont embarrass them by using
similar language. In other words, be your
own parent.
I try to follow my own advice. A while
ago, I saw an ad from a Jewish organization about a program it was sponsoring. I
was unhappy with the program and have
a good friend who plays a significant role

Opinion
people are to contribute and compete effectively. Those companies hire and promote
employees who can exhibit these skills
effectively. I can only imagine that valuing
and rewarding these 21C skills will make
school environments healthier, safer, and
more fruitful as well.
Living in a bunk with 16 teenagers is
bound to help someone develop effective
problem-solving skills and demonstrate collaborative spirit. Competing in events such
as Maccabiah (color war) and Zimriyah
(song festival) enables a camper to improve
both leadership and team-building skills.
Many camp electives and activities throughout each session provide the chance to demonstrate grit and resilience, which seem to
be ever more necessary in this day and age.
We also know that kids in immersive experiences during the summer become confident
in their own independence and the ability
to make and live with independent
decisions.
Although computer skills certainly will
be necessary and required for today and
tomorrow, spending summers away from
screens of all types helps to refine basic
communication skills that will prove indispensable, particularly for this generation.
Learning to express themselves face-to-face,

looking others in the eyes, giving a smile or

a proper handshake, provides a foundation
for genuine relationships and effective interactions. (Alas, the no-screen policy only
seems to work during the summer and on
Shabbat!)
The summer camp environment provides an incubator of sorts, where teenagers can cultivate their 21C skills. Even better,
the Jewish camp environment allows those
skills to be refined and experienced in a joyful Jewish context.
We already see in both of our teens what
I know to be true about time spent away
from home in immersive Jewish summer
experiences. We observe them forming and
expressing their own positive connections
to Judaism and Israel, which we are confident will remain with them throughout
their lives.
While we did enjoy the peace and quiet of
a kid-free summer, we are gratified to have
our campers back.

in the sponsoring organization. So I wrote

him a short two-sentence email that began
with a rhetorical question wouldnt it have
been better had the program provided thus
and so rather than what it did provide?

(figuratively) and changed the first sentences rhetorical question, which presupposed only one correct answer (i.e., my
approach rather than the organizations)
to a strong suggestion. The second sentence rightfully fell victim to the delete
button. It was only then that I hit send.
While Im fairly certain that my friend was
not particularly pleased to receive even
the edited email, Im comfortable that
I made my point respectfully. (Unfortunately, of course, my temper sometimes
gets the better of me and I didnt, and
dont, always follow my fathers advice.
But as I get older, I try harder.)
My kids think Im old fashioned in certain ways. (I still use capital letters and
periods in emails, I spell out you and
are, and sign off to them L,D), and
perhaps this dislike of nastiness is one of
them (a dislike, to clarify, shared by my
kids). So, even as someone who always
has been quite opinionated and loves a
spirited, even boisterous, argument or disagreement, when I see the depths to which
both everyday and political discourse has
sunk, the Downton Abbey in me comes to
the fore, and I long for a more civilized era.

While Im fairly
certain that my
friend was not
particularly
pleased to
receive even
the edited email,
Im comfortable
that I made
my point
respectfully.
and ended with a clever, snarky jab. That
told him! Note, however, I said I wrote him
an email; I didnt say I sent it. And, indeed,
following wise advice I received from my
father many years ago enjoy the catharsis
but let it sit for a while I went to bed without hitting the send button.
When I came back to my computer the
next day, I took out my editors pencil

Jeremy J. Fingerman is the CEO of the

Foundation for Jewish Camp. He lives
in Englewood with his family; he is vice
president of Congregation Ahavath
Torah there. Write to him at Jeremy@
jewishcamp.org

Joseph C. Kaplan, who has lived in

Teaneck for more than 31 years, frequently
contributes essays to Jewish publications
when he is not practicing law in
Manhattan. Nastiness and nuance Part
I ran in the Jewish Standard on July 1.

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died serving in the 1982 Lebanon
war did not somehow die in the
sanctification of Hashems name is
as obscene as it is idiotic (Putting
God Second, September 2). The
author asserted that since the war
was poorly conceived this individuals death was somehow less of a service to Hashem and the Jewish people. Anyone who dons the uniform
of the first standing Jewish army
in over two thousand years to protect the Jewish people in the Land
promised to our people serves a religious duty. Their death is not diminished whether they die by accident,
action, or war.
The authors further contention
to remove religion from politics
is similarly ignorant. There is no
separation of religion and politics in Judaism. Public service is
infused with a holy purpose. If only
our politicians today would have

the same awe and respect for their

responsibilities, we would not read
of pay-to-play or trading political
favors for donations to a politicians
charitable foundation. In Judaism, the weights and measures of a
shop owner are mandated by Torah
law to be honest. There is no line
between secular and holy in terms
of personal behavior. There is no
way to keep morality as mandated
by the Torah at arms-length.
To separate politics from Judaism
is a foreign concept to our people.
Foreign concepts modifying Judaism
usually fall by the wayside. Whether
a soldier or elected official, adherence to the set of rules established
for us thousands of years ago will
only be a positive. Straying from
these concepts, as we often do, can
lead to disaster. One only has to look
at Jewish history.
Scott David Lippe, M.D.
Fair Lawn

Considering rabbinic leadership

Two articles in the August 8 issue point
to the need to reconsider the merit of
our rabbinic leadership.
One is by Rabbi Tzvee Zahavy
responding to a readers complaint
about mixed messages of guidance
from rabbis on presidential preferences (Dear Rabbi Zahavy, September 2). The rabbi provided a critical
review of historical rabbinic leadership and strategic thinking dating
back to the destruction of the Second Temple. The second article was
an interpretation of Rabbi Donniel
Hartmans views in his new book,
Putting God Second, expressed by
a reviewer (Putting God Second,
September 2). The reviewer indicated that the author has a criticism
of interpreted religious doctrine that
should be of concern to the modern
Israelis. Both rabbis have alluded
to the need for a more progressive
approach to search for religious ways
to compromise longstanding classical religious interpretations to solve
modern complex issues in a more
compassionate, feeling way.
It is well known that there are
multiple approaches in the spiritual
teachings that often fall in the liberal
conservative ways of resolving behavior for complex issues. There is often
no way to reconcile one procedure
for the higher good over another.
The liberal policies are based on a
plan that no one need suffer and
emphasizes the importance of government to guarantee to resolve
problems compassionately. The conservative policies involve personal
responsibility and individual liberty, where government should with

classical restricted authority provide people the freedom necessary

to pursue their own goals. Both are
laudable goals of conduct and certainly not sinful. It is up to each of us
as we were provided free will to
respectfully consider each way.
Both Rabbi Hartman and Rabbi
Zahavy of course wish to be heard,
but they fail to respectfully provide
the reasoning of the competing ways
to resolve issues. Rabbis are human
and it is difficult to promote another
view if it is not personally owned. It
is also difficult to not only consider
the repercussions of actions in the
current environment but also in the
immediate and generational future
as well as the impact on the treasured opinions of the past and what
has nurtured our common beliefs of
our bonding as a local and expansive community.
If as the mythical rabbis have been
known to say that on the one hand
there is this and on the other there is
that then the confused disciples wish
there were only one-handed rabbis.
Through the ages, our rabbis have
been known to go beyond their special focus of just Talmudic teaching.
Perhaps both rabbis are trying to tell
us that their way may be what they
believe and there may not be the
definitive clear written religious words
to guide us. Among the world events
it may seem scary to put the big picture in perspective and make a choice.
I suppose that is what is meant by the
gift of being a human with free will can
also be a burden.
Sidney Kaplan
Fort Lee

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The betrayal of Syrias Kurds

rom Moscow to
deal, and all the financial benWashington, we
efits that went with it, while the
are told that the
peoples of Syria and the entire
principle enemy in
region were forced to realize
the Middle East is the terrorist
that under Obama, the much
organization called the Islamic
vaunted American empire is
State. At the same time, the
actually what Chairman Mao
outside powers that have interonce called a paper tiger.
vened in Syrias horrendous
Just as the war against
Ben Cohen
conflict are waging a phantom
Islamic State has, for Russia
war against IS as a cover for
and Iran, been a war to keep
separate military campaigns
Assad in power and extend
that end up empowering these very same
the territory under his control, so it is with
barbarians.
Turkey, which last week sent its troops over
Weve known that the Russians and the
the border into Syria. The Turks say that they
Iranians have been following this strategy
are targeting IS, but in the same way that the
for at least three years. Both Russian dictaRussians and Iranians have turned their firetor Vladimir Putin and the Islamist mullahs
power on civilian targets and non-Islamist
in Tehran have backed the regime of Presirebels alike strengthening IS by default
dent Bashar al Assad to the hilt, with the tacit
Turkeys real agenda in Syria is to crush the
approval of the United States. As the Wall
burgeoning Kurdish national movement in
Street Journal reported recently, the Obama
the north and east of that country.
administrations determination to secure last
The visceral hostility of Turkish Prime Minyears flimsy nuclear agreement with the
ister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Kurdish aspiraIranians meant that the so-called red lines
tions has been well documented. In the wake
the president declared in Syria over Assads
of Julys failed military coup, Erdogan has
use of chemical weapons turned out to be
banked the messages of support from foreign
a more anemic color. The Iranians got their
leaders, particularly in the United States, to

Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters assemble in formation.

launch a crackdown on the universities and

the press, and to continue the demonization
of Turkeys own Kurdish minority as a fifth
column threatening the countrys integrity.
Erdogan set the tone for his latest campaign against the Kurds at a rally in Istanbul
a few days after the coup attempt, when he
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Rudaw, the coup was carried out by the same
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Cover Story

Left, the English words of Shir HaMaalot, just before Birkhat Hamazon, are
topped by a tractor and bordered by pomegranates. Right, Dror Yikrah, a
call to freedom, is a classic Friday night song.

Welcoming the

Shabbat queen
Debra Bands
book combines
illumination,
beauty, art,
and science

JOANNE PALMER

abbalah Shabbat is a celebration of beauty.

Its many other things as
well, of course. Its the introductory service that ushers in Shabbat and
so it marks the beginning of that paradoxical day that exists outside of time, even as
its passage is marked by the appearance
of stars, and the suns passage across the
sky, and lengthening shadows, and then
more stars.
Its a mystical welcome of the Sabbath
bride, of the feminine in God; its ecstatic
music, psalm after psalm about Gods

22 Jewish standard sePteMBer 9, 2016

glory, until, at its climax, we stand to usher

the bride into our presence, into her union
with God and with us. Its a signal that
Shabbat dinner, with its vast expanses of
food and wine and dessert, wait for us.
Debra Bands new book, Kabbalat
Shabbat: The Grand Unification, illuminates and explicates and glories in Kabbalat Shabbat. Shes an illustrator and a
writer; her lushly art-filled book, with its
intricate designs, deeply symbolic but
also surface-level lovely, go through the
entire Friday night experience, both at
shul and at home. She knows and writes
about midrash and kabbalah. And because
her late husband, David Band, was an

astrophysicist, and because she discovered, to her great surprise, that all those
disciplines come together in some ways,
all have made their way into her book. It
is, in fact, a grand unification.
Her book, like Ms. Band herself, has
connections to many parts of the Jewish
world. Dr. Raymond P. Scheindlin, a professor of medieval Jewish literature and
modern poetry, among other things, at
the Jewish Theological Seminary, wrote
the translations and literary commentary.
(He is also a beautiful poet, and he channels the medieval Sephardic poets, Ms.
Band said.) His background is particularly
appropriate because the zmirot the

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songs traditionally sung around the Shabbat table are medieval, and the whole
tradition of Kabbalat Shabbat was invented
in Lurias circle in the 16th century, Ms.
Band said. (Isaac Luria was the mystic and
poet who headed the circle of kabbalists
in Sfat, and was largely responsible for the
movements revival and influence.)
Other than the psalms and kaddish, virtually all of it the Friday night liturgy
and customs is all late medieval and
early Renaissance, Ms. Band said. Nowadays we sing a lot of other songs beside
the traditional zemirot, but the canon is
largely 16th century.
The former chief rabbi of the United
Kingdom, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks,
wrote the books foreword, and Rabbi

Other than the

psalms and
kaddish, virtually
all of it the
Friday night
liturgy and
customs is all
late medieval
and early
Renaissance.
Arthur Green, rector of Hebrew College in
Boston, wrote the preface.
Ms. Band comes to this project naturally; shes related to much of the Jewish
world, and her history illuminates much
of modern Western Jewish life. She was
born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, grew up
in Atlanta, Georgia, and lives in Potomac,
Maryland, but shes from a British rabbinic family.
The Swift family was British, and well
known. Ms. Bands grandfather, the oldest
of three brothers, Harris Swift, was a rabbi
in London for a very long time; the middle brother, Maurice (also called Moshe),
was an eminent rabbi, and definitely on
the right. My grandfather and I are on
the left; for many years Harris and Moishe
had huge doctrinal arguments in the pages
of the Jewish Chronicle, she said.
Her grandfathers youngest brother,
Rabbi Isaac Swift, was the founder and longtime senior rabbi at Congregation Ahavath
Torah in Englewood, one of the areas most
prominent modern Orthodox institutions.
Rabbi Harris Swift was very frum,
extremely observant, despite his political
views, Ms. Band said. His story seems horrifying to modern ears, although it worked
out well. He was born in Liverpool in
1904, immediately after his parents immigrated from the Ukraine.
When he was 4 years old, he was sent

Debra Band at home. The carved

wooden figure above her is from Tibet.

Jewish Standard SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 23

Cover Story
back to Russia to learn. Jews College in
London was not frum enough for him. He
spent the years between 4 and 17 traveling among different yeshivot, and I dont
know if he saw his parents at all during
that time. He came back at 17 with a stack
of smichot ordination documents
and he had an illustrious career.
Harris Swift was the oldest son and second child in a family of seven children, all
very close, all very frum. The oldest child,
Rivka, moved to Israel and was the matriarch of the Fish clan, well-known scholars
now represented by Menachem Fish, a
philosopher at the Hartman Institute.
When Harris Swift returned to England,
he married a first cousin, Bessie Passman.
They were intensely close, Ms. Band
said. They had a marriage that I have
used as a model all my life. The family
moved around Britain at the start of Rabbi
Swifts career but soon landed at St. Johns
Wood Synagogue, a prominent shul in a
fashionable London neighborhood, and
stayed there for years. Ms. Bands mother,
Josephine, was born in London.
Eventually, Harris and Bessie Swift
moved to Durban, South Africa, to take on
the challenge of working in a big, wealthy
shul in a challenging which is to say
actively immoral political system, but
he was on the verge of being tossed out
of the country because he had been doing
too much work with the Zulus. In 1956 he
put out word that he would be considering
offers, and the first thing that slid under
the door was from a tiny place hed never
heard of called Chattanooga.
Later, amazing offers from fancy shuls
all over came pouring in, but he looked at
my grandmother and said, Bess, Ive done
the big shuls. Its the little places that need
me. He was an extraordinary scholar, but
at his heart he was a community builder.
So she swallowed hard, and left this glamorous life in South Africa, and they moved
to Chattanooga.
In the end, it didnt work. The Swifts
werent happy in the American south.
They moved back to London, where Rabbi
Swift took on another big shul. When he
was 67, he retired, and they moved to

California, where one of their sons lived.

He died six months later, Ms. Band said.
It was a terrible blow to the entire family.
He was utterly adored.
Ms. Bands father, Daniel Levy, who died
13 years ago, comes from a Polish rabbinic
family, although Ms. Band knows less
about it. I do know that between my two

Since I began to
work on books,
my mission has
been to develop
a Jewish
iconographic
vocabulary.
grandfathers, they had pulpits in every
country the Union Jack ever flew in except
Hong Kong and India. (Her fathers family
spent time in Vancouver, so thats where
Canada comes in.)
Ms. Band and her brother went to an
Orthodox day school in Atlanta; her parents divorced when she was 17, in 1974,
and she and her mother moved to Los
Angeles. Ms. Band started college at UCLA,
but two years later her mother remarried
and moved to Montreal. (The literary
scholar Dr. David Roskies of the Jewish
Theological seminary and Dr. Ruth Wisse,
who specializes in Yiddish at Harvard, are
her stepfather Arthur Roskies first cousins.) Ms. Band moved with her mother,
and transferred to Concordia, which had
the best studio art program in the country. She thought she wanted to major in
art, but soon learned that I hated it. I realized that I wanted a formal education, so I
dropped studio art and majored in medieval and Renaissance history.
In other words, the disciplines that eventually went into Kabbalat Shabbat art
and medieval and Renaissance history
had been part of Ms. Bands life for decades.
In 1979, Debra Levy married David

Band, who came from a very scholarly Jewish family, she said. His father,
Arnold Band, is the eminence grise in
modern Hebrew literary studies. David
was an astrophysicist, and he was phenomenally learned. The Bands and their
two sons moved around, following his
rocket-like academic career. It was not
auspicious then to think of a two-career
academic family, Ms. Band said, so she
dropped any academic aspirations. But
she needed the intellectual rigor of a job,
so she found work in HMO management
and health policy research. It was the
early years, and it was good and exciting
work, she said. I got out of it when it
became only for profit.
When David Band was at Berkeley,
Debra started studying Hebrew calligraphy
and soon discovered paper cutting. Next,
she realized that she was very good at it.
In the late 1980s, she started taking commissions for paper cuts and hand-lettered
and illuminated ketubot. At some point, I
started doing an illuminated book of Shir
haShirim the Song of Songs. It was
entirely for my own indulgence. I didnt
format it properly for easy display or printing. But when I finished it, several people
said, Wait a minute, you have to publish
this. So, on a lark, I sent a proposal to the
Jewish Publication Society, and its editorin-chief, Ellen Frankel, wrote me back a
letter saying yes.
Each of my books Kabbalat Shabbat is her third, following one on psalms
and another on Deborah, Ruth, and Hannah has a particular challenge. The Shir
haShirim books challenge was to fuse a
straight literal erotic reading of the poetry
with a midrashic reading of the allegory.
Figuring that out and figuring out the
challenges of her later work took a few
years of research, she said. Her husband,
David, did the translation; working with
him was a joy.
Seven years ago, Dr. David Band died,
killed by a rare spinal cancer. The Bands
moved to Maryland in 2001, six weeks
before September 11, for his dream job at
Goddard thats Goddard Space Flight
Center in Goddard, Maryland and he

From left, scholar

and Swift relative
Rabbi Shlomo
Fisch, scholar
Rabbi Yechezkel
Abramsky, and
three Swifts, Harris,
Bessie, and Isaac.

The Swift brothers

from left, rabbis
Isaac, later of
Englewood; the
authors grandfather,
Harris, and Maurice.

24 Jewish Standard SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

was diagnosed a few months later, Ms.

Band said. He left a wonderful legacy
behind him.
More recently, Ms. Band who now
is married to Michael Diamond, is a new
first-time grandmother, and is happy once
again began work on Kabbalat Shabbat. Since I began to work on books,
my mission has been to develop a Jewish iconographic vocabulary, she said.
I have studied Christian art. There is a
very complex, layered Christian vocabulary. You look at a painting and you know
exactly what you are seeing. The Jewish
world never developed that; its not that
we dont have wonderful art, but it tends
to be narrative or decorative rather than
having a lot of abstract symbolism built
into it. Yes, there are some exceptions, but
usually those are political rather than religious messages.
I have been working on building an
iconographic vocabulary, based largely on
midrash. Its fun. I do a great deal of learning. You pick up bits of visual symbols and
put them together to see if they make legitimate sense to our own eyes.
Her illustration of Shalom Aleichem, the
song that begins Shabbat dinner (and is
featured on our cover), is on the surface
a rather sugary image of a young family
walking into a dining room, she said. But
look again. You see images of angels right
away, but there is a lot more going on.
Look into the room. You see two pillars. Theyre modeled on the pillars of
the beit hamikdash the First Temple in
Jerusalem in Melachim Alef I Kings.
With pomegranates. Thats because on
Shabbat, the home is transformed into the
familys beit hamikdash. Theres a starry
sky above them, and an olive tree. Thats
because, in Psalm 128, the shoots of an
olive tree are compared to children gathered around the family dining table. And
olive oil is used to anoint kings.
The starry sky is one of the things
that caught my attention very soon after I
started studying kabbalah, Ms. Band said.
Despite coming from a family that had
started out chasidic, I wanted to stay as
far away from kaballah as I could, because

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I didnt want to do it at all unless I could
do it seriously. Still, given the work she
wanted to do, it made sense to approach
it. One of the things that I found as soon
as I started studying it was that the central questions in kaballah are the same
questions, in different language, that form
the core questions at the heart of modern
cosmology. Because of Dr. Bands work,
I have lived with those questions for my
entire adult life.
I was sure that I was having delusions,
and that David was rolling with laughter in
his grave. He was a total Litvak. You idiot,
he would have said! But I started reading
it, and it does make sense.
There is a well known astrophysicist at
Harvard, Howard Smith, who has written a
book about it. (The book is Let There Be
Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah:
A New Conversation Between Science and
Religion. Dr. Smith is both a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and an observant Jew.)
Smith takes the ideas even further
than I am comfortable taking them, Ms.
Band continued.
This became a major focus of the book,
which answered another problem of
mine. Ive always had a lot of trouble with
the idea of checking your rational, scientific mind at the door when you enter the
world of religion. I want to make things
make sense in both worlds. I dont like
dividing up the brain. I found that I can
fuse imagery relating to cosmology and
other sciences with religious imagery. You
cant do that with words, but you can do it
with pictures. I can make these texts speak
to the whole mind. Thats been really powerful for me.
There is a great deal of star imagery in
Ms. Bands art for her book, including in
the Shalom Aleichem piece. Its based
on the famous Hubble image, she said.
Its meaningful because every bit of matter has been processed and reprocessed
through the stars. David used to say that
we are all stardust. Thats a way of referring to the unity of all the world as coming
from the big bang, which could be likened
to the shevirat hakeilim the kabbalistic
notion of the shattering of the vessels that
led to the world as we know it, with all its
diversity, all its evil, all its hope. Its a way
of referring to the unity of all matter.
The palmette border around the pattern is taken from a very small ivory furniture plaque thats in the Israel Museum. It
was found in Shomron, very close to Jerusalem, and its exactly contemporaneous
with the building of Solomons Temple.
In Melachim Alef, there is mention of the
palm patterns, and this is from very close
by at the same time. We know from art historical studies that originality in the decorative arts was not valued, and there were
pattern books that traveled around large
areas, so it is not unreasonable to suspect
that this pattern on this little piece was the
same pattern used in the Temple.
I have been using it in my work for

many years to allude to the significance of

the Temple.
The family in the picture is in modern
clothing because I want to focus on real
life, Ms. Band said. This applies in our
day. And I wanted the family to be young.
The tablecloth has an arabesque pattern that I use on every page in the book,
here in pale blue and white but usually in
blue and gold. I use it to refer to the Shechinah coming down from heaven, and the
divine energy that infuses the universe.
Each flower has a meaning in the
midrash, so each flower that Ms. Band
draws carries that meaning as well. The
burning bush was a rosebush; a fragrant
lily in a ruined building is compared to
Torah in a corrupt world. You see how I
can bring in a whole host of associations,
Ms. Band said. And if the viewer doesnt
get them, well, the art still is gorgeous.
One of the things that the project did
for me was that I was never especially
keen on the idea of the Shabbat queen,
she added. It felt puerile to me. Now, seeing where it came from, it has great depth.
Its a way of symbolizing bringing wisdom
into the world on Shabbat.
I find the Kabbalat Shabbats use of the
feminine in the liturgy to be rather reassuring. It is putting the feminine to the
fore in an unusual way, and it is good to
see the figure of the woman at full center,
in full dignity.
Almost every piece of art she has drawn
includes a honeybee hidden somewhere,
not unlike Al Hirschfelds Ninas. Nina was
Mr. Hirschfelds daughter; the name Debra
Devora means honeybee.
There is some modern imagery in the
book. The words of Shir HaMaalot, the
song of ascent that begins the after-meal
blessing, the benching, are written, as is
most of the book, in Hebrew on the right
and English on the left. The Hebrew side
is illuminated with the mourning woman
in the book of Jeremiah (above right), who
walks away from her destroyed home. She
is sowing seeds behind her. Things are
beginning to germinate behind her, but
she cant see them, Ms. Band said. She is
walking away from it all. The English side
(its on page 22 here) is topped with a tractor. The lyrics are so poignant, she said.
Its about anticipating rebirth from the
perspective of already having enjoyed it,
looking back at what you were expecting.
So the second image is modern Israel, the
same land. I took the landscape from the
photo of a kibbutz. Its a bright day, with
real-life modern-day Israeli agriculture
going on. Its no longer destroyed.
Each one of Ms. Bands many pieces of art
can be explained in this way; the explanation deepens the viewers understanding.
Ms. Bands work is not denominational
in any way. Im am de facto modern
Orthodox, but Im not made about labels,
she said. I would like us all to be one
community, and to talk together. Im not
the equivalent of a company man. Where
ideas are relevant, I want to share them.

The Hebrew text of Shir HaMaalot shows a woman going into exile
but dropping seeds that flourish unseen behind her.

The words to Shalom Aleichem are decorated with the gold and blue
arabesque pattern that Ms. Band uses to represent the Shechinah.
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a dayan a judge specializing in divorce

and conversion.
After his marriage, Rabbi Katz went to
Sweden during the summers to make money.
He worked in a factory, owned by Jews, that
made electronics. He told no one that he had
been ordained his goal had been to study
and to learn, not to use his title to impress
anyone, he said, and anyway he had to be
able to support himself. I dont care about
labels or titles, he said. Who cares?
But he was asked to be a witness at a wedding in Israel, and the new husband and
wife, who were Swedes, brought home their
marriage contract, which Rabbi Katz had
signed. Community members read the signature. So the next summer, when I came
back to the factory to work, the owner said,
Aaron, I want you to come to work late on
Mondays and Thursdays the weekdays
when the Torah is read. I want you to go to
shul, he said. You are a rabbi.
I said, But I need the money, but he
said that hed pay me the same amount,
Rabbi Katz reported. So I went, and then
they asked me to be their rabbi. At first I said
no, but I went on Chanukah, and then I went
on Pesach, and then they offered me a contract, and I accepted. The first contract was
for three years; he ended up staying there for
14 years. Four of his five children were born
in Sweden.
Rabbi Katz was the chief Orthodox rabbi
of Sweden, but the Jewish community was
mainly liberal, he said, and liberal and
Orthodox Jews kept each other at a distance. During my time there, the Orthodox
became part of the larger Jewish community, he said. I made this happen.
I do not believe in boxes, in Orthodox,
Conservative, Reform. People do more or
less, but I do not judge, he added.
When he left Sweden, the family moved to
Panama, where Rabbi Katz headed another
shul and his youngest child was born. Next,
they moved to Israel, and Rabbi Katz flew
between there and Berlin, where he taught
comparative religion and Jewish law in a secular university.
It was during that time that Rabbi Katz
changed the course of his life.
He had always known that he was gay, but
he came out then.
You dont wake up one day and say, I am
gay, he said. Of course it is something you
always know, but in the 70s it was not something that you talked about. You try to stuff
it down, to pretend its not there, but there
comes a time in your life when you have
to take responsibility for who you are and
what you want. There is a time when you
have to be true to yourself, and to everyone
around you.
Because he was the Orthodox rabbi and
dayan in Denmark, Rabbi Katz said, he had
to make sure that he tied up every detail that
might affect anyone else before he came
out. As strong as his responsibility to himself was, his responsibility to others was

even stronger. I had to be sure that nothing would be done retroactively, he said. A
lot of it was a process. When everything was
done, I came out.
His children supported him strongly from
the beginning, he said; when he told them
that he had something to tell them, they told
him that they knew. When I thanked them,
they said, Are you crazy? Youre our father!
And we love you, and you are the same person who taught us our values.
Four of his children live in Israel now,
as do five of his grandchildren; one of his
daughters and his two other grandchildren
live in Philadelphia.
In 2000, Rabbi Katz moved to Los Angeles,
where he became close to Maggie Anton, who
wrote Rashis Daughters; the two studied
together, and he helped research her book.
He also was a full-time scholar-in-residence at
Beit Chayim Chadashim, and then the rabbi of
a Beverly Hills community called Shofar.
He also met his partner, Kevin Gleason,
a television producer. Mr. Gleason was not
born Jewish but was drawn to Judaism;
he converted without telling Rabbi Katz
because the conversion was not to please
his boyfriend but soul-deep, the result of
much searching.
The two men are now married. First, they
became domestic partners when nothing
else was available to them. And then they
got married in New York on July 3 last year,
the week after the Supreme Court legalized
same-gender marriage across the country.
It was very important to me to do it on the
weekend of the Fourth of July. It was the
same year that I decided to become an American. I am an American now. I believe in this
countrys values.
Rabbi Katz and Mr. Gleason moved next to
Warsaw, where the rabbi founded a liberal
community, and then on to Miami, where
he created another liberal community, Chavurat BeYachad. After that, I came to Jersey City, he said. I liked Miami, but I was
missing Jewish culture. Also, my daughter is
in Philadelphia, Kevins brother is in Closter
and he has two nieces here, and its much
closer to Israel, where my other children are.
And also I like to create things.
He thinks that Bnai Jacob has a real future;
hes talking to the children of its founding
members and to their children, and to the
young Jews moving into Jersey City. He wants
the synagogue to be inclusive, and to offer
as many ways into Jewish life as possible.
I want to have services every week, and a
minyan every morning so theres a place for
everyone to say kaddish, he said. I want
classes, and lunch and learn, and a place
to learn Judaism 101. I want cooking classes
and movie nights and a Hebrew school on
Shabbat mornings and Shabbat dinners. He
wants Bnai Jacobs doors to be open to anyone who wants to come in.
Bnai Jacob means the sons of Jacob; Jacob
had 12 sons, each different from the other,
each the progenitor of a tribe of Israel. Its a
good model for the shul he wants to build,
Rabbi Katz said.
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September 10, and the first Shabbat dinner

will be on September 23.
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Chaplain

Rabbi Rafael Goldstein

Chaplain, Neshama: Association of
Jewish Chaplains, Paramus

The executive director of NAJC, Neshama:

Association of Jewish Chaplains, Rabbi Rafael
Goldstein, is eager for people to understand
how important chaplains are.
They comfort people of all backgrounds
and faiths by helping them use their spiritual and emotional wisdom to find meaning, courage, and hope, he said, explaining that chaplains function in a variety of
different organizations, from hospitals
to corporations.
Chaplains help people find meaning in
their life experience, Rabbi Goldstein said.
They specialize in listening to people who
need affirmation that someone is hearing
them and will follow up with questions, helping them figure out their own responses to
their own questions.
His group, headquartered in Paramus, has
some 625 members. About 30 or so are in
New Jersey. We started in New Jersey with
a couple of chaplains who got to Atlantic
City 28 years ago, he said. At the time, rabbis were functioning as chaplains, but with
no special education to prepare them for
the job. Now theyre board certified, having
undergone what Rabbi Goldstein calls rigorous training.
It includes four units in clinical/pastoral
education, each with 400 hours of clinical
and classroom time, he said. Thats 1,600
hours. Then they work 2,000 hours in a clinical setting. Then they apply for board certification. Rabbi Goldstein was ordained by
the Academy of Jewish Religion in 1994. He
received a doctorate in ministry (counseling)
from Hebrew Union College in 2014.
Chaplaincy training is mostly spiritual
training, Rabbi Goldstein said, enabling
people to find their theological core and
use skills and experience and knowledge
about how the world functions and how
they find their spiritual being. His group,
functions under Jewish auspices. There are
parallel organizations for other faith groups
including the National Association of Catholic Chaplains and the Association of Professional Chaplains.
The latter started as a Protestant group,
he said. It became the organization that
seems to be uniting all of us in common

cause. Its huge. It has a better ability to

lobby for issues such as licensing, so work
can be reimbursed by the government, like
other professional groups. Despite that
groups name, though, he said, all three are
equally professional.
Most of NAJCs members work in hospitals, many in long-term care. The group also
includes chaplains in hospice and palliative
care, as well as military chaplains. The president of his group now is a retired navy chaplain, and the certification chair is on active
duty in the army. Members, including both
men and women, come from all over the
world the United States, Canada, Israel,
Aruba, Mexico, South America, Surinau, and
the UK.
Before he took up this position, Rabbi
Goldstein was the director of clinical services
for the Center for Spirituality and Health at
Mount Sinai Health System in New York. The
center aims to develop clinical, educational,
and research activities to enhance the understanding of the role spirituality plays in the
prevention of, and recovery from, illness. I
dealt with staff as well as patients, he said.
Our job was to create a world-class department of spiritual care, he added, pointing
out that spiritual needs do not necessarily
include religious needs.
He has been with NAJC since May. The
biggest challenge of the organization is figuring out ways of meeting the needs of our
members and providing support for members
in the various settings in which they work,
whether hospitals, hospices, long-term care
facilities, prisons, corporations, or the military, he said. The biggest challenge for the
chaplains themselves is in getting people to
understand that everyone has spiritual needs,
whether religiously affiliated or not.
The best part of his job, said Rabbi Goldstein who grew up in Livingston, is learning to ride a bike, and lives with his husband,
Gabriel Reccio, and their dog in Englewood
is to be a chaplain to the chaplains, to
advise and provide some of the wisdom
gained through life experience.
People think I sound supportive, easy
to talk to, he said. I want to be able to
handle some of the business aspects of the
association while at the same time providing good personal care and spiritual care for
our members.
His goal is to increase both NAJC membership and the number and kinds of services
it provides. Were hoping to turn our website into a resource center for anyone interested in Jewish spiritual material on health
and recovery, he said. Hes also hoping that
a greater number of members will become
board-certified.
One of his ideas, he added, is to change
the organizations name to something without chaplain. Unfortunately, it draws its origins from Christian roots, and that doesnt
help. A new name, he said, would stress the
concept of spiritual health professionals, a
term he feels would be more appealing to the
Jewish community.
For more information, go to najc.org.
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What does being Jewish mean today?
What is my role in the community?
How can I help Israel?
If these questions or others like them
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Our inviting atmosphere inspires
everyone from children to seniors to
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Our social action calendar is filled
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Daily services at Temple Emanu-El
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Emerson
Congregation Bnai Israel
Congregation Bnai Israel is an innovative, Conservative egalitarian
synagogue at 53 Palisade Ave. Its
members hail from throughout the
Pascack Valley area and neighboring
towns in Bergen County.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein is a seventhgeneration rabbi who embodies a combination of intellect, warmth, spirituality, and charm. Cantor Lenny Mandel
is a rabbi and cantor whose passion
for music brings additional beauty and
creativity to our services. Together,
they are changing the synagogue experience and creating a new approach
to Jewish life and community.
In addition to traditional services,
the synagogue offers monthly Shab-

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Its popular Casual Shabbat services
have had themes such as Beatles
Shabbat (prayers sung to Beatles
tunes) and Fiddler on the Roof Shabbat that uplift, inspire, and entertain
congregants of all ages.
A pre-Hebrew School program is
conducted on Sunday mornings for
children who are in kindergarten
through second grade in public school.
The regular Hebrew School program
is for children in third through seventh
grades. Adult education course topics
have included: Insights into the Torah,
Approaches to Self-Care, and Jewish
Life in the Twenty-first Century. The
synagogue has many committees and
clubs including Sisterhood, Mens Club,
Significant Seniors, and Social-Action.
The new member promotion offers
half-off first-year dues. The synagogues Genesis Membership rates
for qualifying young couples ($360)
and singles ($180) will even generate
a dues credit when transitioning to
traditional member status. High Holy
Days tickets are included with all levels
of membership. Nonmembers who
buy High Holy Days tickets may apply
the cost to their first year dues if they
decide to join after the holidays.
Call (201) 265-2272, e-mail office@
bisrael.com or visit www.bisrael.com.

Englewood
Center for Jewish Identity
Explanatory Service
presented by Congregation
Ahavath Torah
The Center for Jewish Identity strives
to present a relevant, modern, and
practical approach to traditional Torah Judaism. Our Short and Sweet
High Holy Days services are an
abridged service/discussion featuring
several selected prayers. We discuss,
read, and sing meaningful selections
in our one-and-a-half hour service.
Kids and adults participate side by
side in the service, which is followed
by a sumptuous Kiddush.
The services are held in conjunction
with Congregation Ahavath Torah in
Englewood, the largest Orthodox synagogue in New Jersey which has been
featuring such user-friendly, explanatory services for the High Holy Days
for almost two decades.
The services will be led by Rabbi
Yitzchok Weinberger, a dynamic
and engaging educator who fosters
a warm and welcoming synagogue
atmosphere. Year round, CJIDs Torah
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ties for every Jew to expand their understanding
of and involvement in Jewish tradition.
the high holy days services will be held on
both days of rosh hashanah and on Yom Kippur
from 10-11:30 a.m. and Kol nidrei night at 6:30
p.m. in Congregation ahavath torah, 240 Broad
ave. in englewood. there is no charge for attending. Please register at cjid.org or at http://bit.ly/
ahavathtorahlinks.

Congregation Kol HaNeshamah

Congregation Kol haneshamah (Voice of the
soul) is the only Conservative synagogue serving the englewood/tenafly community. we are
a havurah-style egalitarian shul under the leadership of rabbi Fred elias. shabbat and holiday
services are highly participatory and musical,
as lay leaders along with the rabbi lead prayers,
leyn (chant from the torah), and offer divrai
torah (teachings). discussion during services is
encouraged. Kol haneshamah is deeply committed to tikkun olam (healing the world). Members and their children participate in a number
of community projects such as staffing a homeless shelter, leading holiday services for hospital
patients, and visiting nursing homes.
hebrew school for grades K-seventh is available through our affiliate community school.
adult talmud and synagogue skills classes are
led by our rabbi, our members, and guest speakers. Community events and celebrations such as
Chanukah and Purim parties, shabbat luncheons,
Friday night dinners, book club, and theater trips
provide opportunities to share the joy of Jewish
living in an atmosphere that is warm and respectful of the diversity of observance.
high holy days tickets are free, but reservations
are required. Call (201) 816-1611 or e-mail info@
KhnJ.org. shabbat morning and holiday services
are held weekly on the premises of st Pauls episcopal Church, 113 engle st., englewood. services
begin at 9:45 a.m. Childrens services at 10:30
a.m. Visit our website at: www.KhnJ.org.

Fair Lawn
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai
israel invites you to join our welcoming, egalitarian,
Conservative congregation for the high holy days
and year-round. spiritually uplifting and socially dynamic, the FLJC creates community and connection
with a wide range of prayer, educational, and social
offerings for all ages.
all are welcome at our shabbat and daily services
as well as our holiday celebrations. egalitarian and
traditional services are held every shabbat morning.

experience junior congregation, a nationally recognized morning minyan for teens, tot shabbat, and family services.
Our religious school, the howard and Joshua herman
educational Center, meets two days a week. teachers
utilize current technology to engage and educate our
students. For registration information, call principal
Judy Gutin at (201) 796-7884 or email her at principal@fljc.com.
For more information, call our executive director
Claudia Judelman at (201) 796-5040, email info@fljc.
com, or claudia@fljc.com, or go to www.fljc.com. Join
us to worship and grow together.

Temple Emanuel of North Jersey

What Will You Do Better This Year?
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(201) 560-0200
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Our synagogue is located at 558 High Mountain Road

in Franklin Lakes, overlooking the beautiful Franklin Lakes
Nature Preserve.Our community is boundless!

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High Holidays begin Oct. 3rd

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Free Rosh Hashanah service for families with
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Babysitting and programs for children & teens

Religious School - 2 Days a Week

Free 1 month trial for new students
Children K-2 may attend religious school
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Temple Beth Sholom
Celebrating its 60th anniversary year,
Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn
invites the community to feel the
energy, enthusiasm and inspiration
of its warm and friendly congregation. The synagogue offers a variety
of adult education programs, family
programming, and activities sponsored by our Sisterhood, Mens Club,
60+ social club (Chaverim), social
action committee, and youth groups
(USY, Kadima). Also offered are daily
morning and evening minyans, junior
congregation, and a Shabbat Torah
study group.
Led by Rabbi Alberto (Baruch)
Zeilicovich and Cantor Ted Prosnitz,
Temple Beth Sholom is a traditional
Conservative congregation affiliated
with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. It serves the religious,
educational, cultural, and social needs
of more than 200 households in the
Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, Paramus and
Ridgewood areas.
Temple Beth Sholom is a founding
member of the Northern New Jersey

Jewish Academy, a consortium school

with programs from pre-K to seventh
grade. For information about the religious school, contact the religious
school director, Rabbi Estelle Mills at
emills@synagogue.org or contact Rabbi
Zeilicovich through the temple office.
The state-licensed Helen Troum
Nursery School and Kindergarten
provides a developmentally appropriate program for children ages 2 to 5,
after-school enrichment, early care, a
Mommy and Me program, and a summer camp. The school welcomes families with children from other congregations and unaffiliated families from
Fair Lawn and surrounding communities. For information about the nursery
school and kindergarten, call Debora
Lesnoy at (201) 797-2865 or email dlesnoytbs@yahoo.com.
Temple Beth Sholom is offering a
one-time-only introductory rate for
new members of $436. Call the office for details at (201) 797-9321. The
synagogue is located at 40-25 Fair
Lawn Ave. in Fair Lawn at the corner of
Saddle River Road.

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Fort Lee
The New Synagogue
of Fort Lee
Congregation Kehilat Baruch
The story of the New Synagogue of
Fort Lee and Kehilat Baruch is intertwined with the story of its rabbi,
spiritual leader, and cantor, Meir M.
Berger. Inspired by his great-grandfathers shul in Mea Shearim, the New
Synagogue of Fort Lee is the brainchild of a tenacious rabbi and a committed congregation.
From the small space at the Senior
Citizens Center of Fort Lee to a tent
on Palisade Avenue, on to a modest
house on Center Avenue and finally,
as the congregation grew in strength
and numbers, to a brand new, lovely
sanctuary at the corner of Center Avenue and Whitman Street in Fort Lee.
Our beit tefillah is grounded in traditional Conservative values, celebrating Shabbat, holidays, and Jewish life
cycle events. Kehilat Baruch aims to
fulfill the educational, cultural, social,
and charitable needs of the Jewish
community of Fort Lee and its environs. Our Hebrew school aims to instill

Jewish literacy through Torah, Hebrew,

lifecycle highlights (Shabbat, bat/bar
mitzvah), Jewish values, and history,
and to develop a spirit of Yiddishkeit.
A vibrant sisterhood offers a yearly
program of cultural and social activities to benefit the growing diversity of
its membership.
1585 Center Ave. (201) 947-1555.

The Sephardic Congregation

of Fort Lee
Your Sephardic home
Come and join us for the only Sephardic Selihot service in Fort Lee,
get familiar with the High Holy Days
tunes, sing in unison, and connect to
your rich Sephardic past.
Weekday Selihot Monday to Friday 6
a.m.; Sunday 7 a.m.
Join us also for an uplifting experience of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Services as well as the rest of the
year with our new rabbi, Ilan Acoca.
We are a warm Sephardic Congregation where everyone feels at home.
Come experience the feeling with us!
For more information, please call
us at (201) 543-9459 or email us at
betyosef18@gmail.com
313 Tom Hunter Ave., Fort Lee

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Franklin Lakes
Barnert Temple
What do you seek?
Do you try to live with the value that you are
part of something larger than yourself? Do you
strive for ethical and spiritual growth?
At Barnert, we try to grow as a sacred community. Were committed to offering Jewish
experiences that are relevant, accessible, and
meaningful. We welcome, appreciate, and value
people of all ages and backgrounds.
These are our core values; perhaps they match
yours:
Mutual respect for one another, derech eretz
Questioning and seeking insight, rodef chochmah
A partnership of members, leaders, professionals, and clergy, brit shleimut
Love of the Jewish people and the State of
Israel, klal Yisrael
Repair of our world, tikun olam
Wed love to meet you.
Please join us on Shabbat and/or the High
Holy Days.
Explore our spectacular preschool and innovative religious school. Call Vicky Farhi at (201)
848-1800. Discover more at www.barnerttemple.org.
747 Route 208 South, Franklin Lakes

Glen Rock
Glen Rock Jewish Center
The Glen Rock Jewish Center is a welcoming, vibrant, egalitarian congregation with
a strong commitment to purposeful Jewish
living. We also know how to have fun. Our
social hall comes alive with weekly events
and activities that are sure to appeal. There
is always something happening at GRJC. Our
synagogue deftly blends and balances the rich
teachings of our Jewish heritage with the very
best lessons of modern culture. We are proud
of our participatory services, our commitment
to social action, and our dedication to Jewish education for people of all ages. Our adult
education, nursery school, and Hebrew school
offer something for everyone. GRJC is proud
to offer Hebrew School classes for children
ages 7-13 with special needs.
The great Rabbi Hillel taught: Become a part
of your community (Pirke Avot 2:5). It is our
hope that you will become part of our community, and that we may all grow together. Make
your family part of our family!
We would be happy to answer any questions
you have about our programs and services.
Come meet our rabbi, Jennifer Schlosberg. Our
synagogue is at 682 Harristown Road in Glen
Rock. For information email office@grjc.org or
call (201) 652-6624.

Learning Center Director Grace Gurman-Chan, help

our children to embark on the adventure of Jewish
life and experiential Jewish learning. Our partnerships
with organizations like Moishe House Hoboken and
Jewish Young Adults of Hoboken help Jewish young
adults in our area to forge connections with the Jewish community. For over a decade we have hosted the
Introduction to Judaism program of the Rabbinical
Assembly of New Jersey, drawing adults from around
the state to explore Judaism in a comfortable and validating atmosphere. Services on weekdays, Shabbat,
and holidays are musical, participatory, and thoughtprovoking. Concerts, films, guest speakers, and vol-

JOIN US FOR THE HIGH HOLIDAYS & MORE!

Pre-registered, non-members are invited to join us, at

no charge, for the High Holiday services listed below.
Pre-register by calling 201-265-2272 by Sep. 27.
Sun. Oct. 2 7:30PM Erev Rosh Hashanah
Tue. Oct. 4 9:00AM Rosh Hashanah Day 2
10:00AM Jr. Cong. (Ages 6-11)
Wed. Oct. 12 12:15PM Yom Kippur -Yizkor
3:45PM Family Service All ages
5:00PM Mincha, Neila
Tickets For All Services Available For Purchase
(Purchase price may be applied to new membership.)

CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL

An Innovative Conservative Synagogue
53 Palisade Avenue, Emerson, NJ

www.bisrael.com
Phone: 201-265-2272 E-mail: office@bisrael.com

Inquire about our Hebrew School.

Rabbi Debra Orenstein Cantor Lenny Mandel

A Sweet & Healthy

New Year
From Our House of Friends
To Yours

L Shanah Tovah

A Welcoming Reform Congregation

280 Ramapo Valley Rd.
Mahwah, NJ 201- 512-1983

Family service at 2:30 p.m.

and Yizkor at 5:30 p.m.
OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY
For both holidays
Spiritual Worship Experience
Exceptional Religious School
Innovative Family School Programming
Please inquire about our Temple Membership
and Introductory Young Family Membership

Rabbi Joel Mosbacher

Cantor David Perper
www.bethhaverimshirshalom.org

Hoboken
The United Synagogue of Hoboken
The United Synagogue of Hoboken is Hobokens vibrant, inclusive, and participatory Jewish community, serving Hudson County. We
have revived a historic synagogue building
and century-old Jewish community, and we
strive to nurture and renew the spark of Judaism in each individual.
Rabbi Robert Scheinberg has led the community with sensitivity and wisdom since 1997
(see http://rabbischeinberg.blogspot.com).
Educational programs for all ages, led by Early
Childhood Director Rachelle Grossman and
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unteer projects help us to engage
with Judaism through our minds, our
hearts, and our hands. Find out more
about our congregation, and about
Jewish life in Hoboken, at www.hobokensynagogue.org or www.facebook.
com/HobokenSynagogue.

education, and meaningful social action programs. Learn more about us

at www.adasemuno.org. Or leave a
message at the temple office (201)
592-1712.

Leonia

Beth Haverim Shir Shalom

Congregation Adas Emuno

A place to experience your Jewish
identity
We are an inclusive Reform synagogue that has served the northern
Hudson and Bergen County area since
our founding in 1871. Rabbi Barry
Schwartz welcomes all to Shabbat
evening services and morning Torah
study, bringing a wealth of knowledge
and insight that deepens our understanding of Judaism and our appreciation of Jewish writings and history.
Cantor Sandy Horowitz brings us
music and prayer that uplifts and enlivens our services. She also serves as
director of our religious school, a place
of joyful learning that encompasses
Jewish culture, prayer and Hebrew.
Our congregants find ample opportunities to join together and participate
in Shabbat and holiday services, adult

Mahwah
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, at 280
Ramapo Valley Road, is a warm and
welcoming Reform congregation
serving Rockland and Bergen counties. Its more than 435 families are led
by enthusiastic lay leaders in cooperation with Rabbi Joel Mosbacher and
Cantor David Perper. In addition to
inviting and spiritual services, it offers
an outstanding one-day-a-week religious school, including a unique family school, junior-senior youth groups,
vibrant lifelong learning, junior and
adult choirs, and brotherhood, sisterhood, and social action groups.
Friday evening Shabbat services are
held at 6 p.m. on the first Friday of
the month and 7:30 p.m the remaining Fridays. We offer a family service
on the first Friday of each month. For
more information please call (201)
512-1983 or go to www.bethhaverimshirshalom.org

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Old Tappan
Chabad of Old Tappan
The Chabad of Old Tappan family
welcomes you for the High Holy Days.
To join Chabad of Old Tappan is to
enjoy an inspiring synthesis of delights
for body and soul. Beyond an emphasis on prayers and rituals, Chabad
OT provides a familial atmosphere
where you will feel an intuitive sense
of community altruism, at once joyfully celebrating one anothers simchas
and providing heartfelt support during
times of adversity.
Chabad OT is spearheaded by Rabbi
Mendy and Devora Lewis, a warm,
caring and energetic couple who are
loved and admired by all who meet
them. With a welcoming spirit and
judgment-free approach, we allow for
Jewish traditions and the teachings of
Torah to be experienced in a modern
and relevant context, an experience
harmoniously shared by Jews of any
and all background.
Chabad OT serves as the nerve center for spiritual, educational, and social
development, offering a wide range of
programming tailored to differing age
groups. Our current programs include
courses from the Rohr Jewish Learning
Institute, a flourishing Sunday Hebrew

school, teen educational and humanitarian programs, Shabbat and holiday

services, dinners and luncheons, a
family fun day, a community menorah
lighting and festival, and many services and programs for seniors.
We welcome you to join our family,
to spend a Shabbat with us and to enhance our community by adding your
own unique imprint. To learn more
about Chabad OT call (201) 767-4008
or visit us on the web at www.chabadOT.org.

Orangeburg, N.Y.
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 awardwinning 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 spec-

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trum 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 grownups), singing on the bimah 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 Holy Days 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.

Rachelle Grossman, Director

201-653-8666
ushpreschool@gmail.com

See hobokensynagogue.org for our activities,

classes and services for adults and children of all ages
115 Park Ave., Hoboken, NJ 201-659-4000
Rabbi Robert Scheinberg office@hobokensynagogue.org

Grace Gurman-Chan, Director

201-659-4000
lc@hobokensynagogue.org

Paramus
Jewish Community Center of
Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah
304 E. Midland Ave.
Paramus, NJ 07652
(201) 262-7691
www.jccparamus.org
Rabbi Arthur Weiner
Cantor Samuel Weiss
Executive Director Norman Levin
office@jccparamus.org
The Jewish Community Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth Tikvah is a spirited and engaging Conservative congregation located in
the center of Bergen County. JCCP/CBT offers
daily minyanim and both traditional and egalitarian Shabbat and holiday services.
Our progressive Hebrew School provides a
dynamic Jewish education from ages 4 through
bar/bat mitzvah. The synagogue offers a unique
family bar/bat mitzvah program that helps prepare not only the child but also parents to participate in their childs simcha.
Our vibrant and multi-talented rabbi and cantor
help encourage reverence for Torah, the observance of mitzvot, and Jewish tradition. Shabbat services regularly begin at 8:30 p.m. Friday
evenings and 9 a.m. Shabbat mornings. Our active committees include Sisterhood, Mens Club,
Young Jewish Families, Community Affairs, and
Israel Affairs. Come by and meet Rabbi Arthur
Weiner who would welcome the opportunity to
talk with you. We encourage the participation of
our members who call the JCCP/CBT their second home and we invite you to make it your second home as well. See why Community is our
middle name. We look forward to welcoming you!
Visit our synagogue Facebook page at http://
tinyurl.com/FacebookJCCPCBT

Attention synagogue leaders:

The Jewish Standard invited all
local synagogues to advertise
in this section. It will run again
next week, and we welcome your
synagogues inclusion.
Call (201) 837-8818.
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Park Ridge

Ridgewood

Temple Beth Sholom

of Pascack Valley

Temple Israel and Jewish

Community Center:
two congregations, one
community

Temple Beth Sholom is an egalitarian and traditional Conservative

synagogue. We are a small shul with
our wonderful Cantor Joel Leibowitz and incredible social events.
Our holiday calendar is typically
full. Thursday night football with the
Mens Club is fun and a great gathering. There are always other exciting
events too.
Musical Friday night Shabbat services continue to be engaging. High
Holy Days services are thought provoking with the right mix of spirituality and reflection.
TBS has been serving the Pascack Valley for 80 years. Join with
us when you want to experience a
warm, caring, and Jewish family.
Call Cathy in our office for High
Holy Days information, membership, and programming calendar or
to receive our monthly Kol Sholom
newsletter. (201) 391-4620.
Temple Beth Sholom is located at 32
Park Ave. in Park Ridge. Our web site
is at www.temple-beth-sholom.org.

Pearl River, N.Y.

Beth Am Temple
Beth Am Temple is a Reform congregation which embraces Jewish
tradition and creativity. We strive
to be responsive to the needs of all
of our 200 member families, one
third of whom come from Bergen
County, while avoiding actions
which sometimes turn people off to
temples.
We are proud of our wonderful
Religious School and the way each
one of our students leads the entire
service on their bar/bat mitzvah day.
People who visit Beth Am regularly
tell us what a wonderfully unique
congregation we are.
Rabbi Daniel Pernick and Cantor
Marcy Kadin are well known throughout our region for providing inspiring and caring leadership. Rachel
Markowitz, a renown and beloved
teacher for decades, is now leading
our Religious School.
Beth Am is made up of singles,
couples, and families, of all variations, from both Bergen and Rockland counties.
Though we are located at the end
of a dead-end street in a residential
area, people tell us that were worth
the extra effort. Once you find us,
we hope that you, too, will think that
youve found your second home.
Please check out our website at
www.bethamtemple.org for more
information or come on by.

Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center (TI-JCC) offers two worship alternatives: egalitarian Conservative at Temple Israel (TI) and
Reconstructionist at Reconstructionist Congregation Beth Israel
(RCBI). The congregations formed a
strategic partnership in 2015, sharing space at TI-JCC and participating in programs and synagogue life.
Under the leadership of Rabbis David Fine of TI and Jacob Lieberman
of RCBI, each congregation holds
its own religious services, open to
all, and join together for various services and observances throughout
the year.
We are an inclusive community
that welcomes interfaith and multiracial families, LGBTQ members,
Jews by choice, and those considering conversion. Our members
span the generations, from young
families to empty nesters to active
seniors, who all share the vision of
an engaged, diverse and supportive
Jewish community.
TI-JCC truly offers something for
everyone, from musical Shabbat services, cabaret shows, author events,
and thought-provoking lectures, to
social justice engagement and social
events that draw us together to celebrate holidays and each other. Our
students attend NNJJA, a religious
school consortium held at TI-JCC;
full-time Jewish preschool is available at the Academies at Gerrard
Berman Day School in Oakland.
Were at 475 Grove St., Ridgewood,
N.J. 07450; for more information visit
www.synagogue.org.

River Edge
Temple Avodat Shalom
Temple Avodat Shalom is a vibrant
Reform Jewish congregation located in River Edge. The synagogue
maintains genuine, warm, and
friendly connections with its membership more than 1,000 individuals of different ages and backgrounds. Temple Avodat Shalom
offers programs for young families,
seniors, adult couples, brotherhood,
sisterhood, youth group, and community service opportunities for all
ages. We help our members, including more than 150 students who are
registered for our religious school in
grades pre-K through 12, to cultivate an appreciation of our timeless
Jewish heritage and celebrate the
joys of Jewish life.
Come join our temple family for
the holidays. Our dynamic rabbi,
Paul Jacobson, in conjunction with
our dedicated leadership, delight
in welcoming you to our congregation. Services on second day Rosh
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Yom Kippur afternoon (Wednesday, October 12,
including Yizkor) are free and open to the public.
For school registration information, call Rabbi
Paula Feldstein, education director, at (201) 4892463, ext. 204. For more information, please call
Stella Teger, our executive director at (201) 4892463 ext. 203 or email director@avodatshalom.
net. Visit us on our website: http://www.avodatshalom.net

Teaneck
Jewish Center of Teaneck
The Jewish High Holy Days period is a time of
new beginnings for both individuals and groups.
The Jewish Center of Teaneck, 70 Sterling Place,
also will have a new beginning this Rosh Hashanah as it greets its new rabbi, Daniel Fridman.
Rabbi Fridman was raised in Teaneck and educated in the Frisch School, Yeshivat Har Etzion,
and Columbia University. He was ordained by the
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) of Yeshiva University. He currently teaches
at the Torah Academy of Bergen County and
serves on the faculty of Lamdeinu, a local Jewish
program for adult learners.
Rabbi Fridman will conduct services with the
assistance of Reb Yitz Cohen, the centers ritual
director, and Joshua Levine, the centers Torah
reader, both of whom led High Holy Days services
so ably last year.
Prices for the holiday tickets are as follows:
for members, two free tickets per family with
additional tickets costing $150 each; for associate members, $150 per ticket; for non-members,
$250 per ticket, but if they join as full members
this amount counts toward annual dues.
The center will offer free child care for those
who register.
For further information please call the office at
(201) 833-0515.

Temple Emeth
Temple Emeth is a congregation where the
values and practices of Reform Judaism are
embraced every day. We at Temple Emeth take
pride in our programming both spiritual and
secular and, most importantly, our wonderful
people traditional and nontraditional families
and individuals at all stages of life.
Rabbi Steven Sirbu writes, I believe each one
of us is on a Jewish journey, which involves wrestling with our tradition and shaping a relationship
with God. Temple Emeth offers the resources and
the support to help every journeyer find what he
or she seeks. Along the way we have a lot of fun,
with lively and stimulating classes, services that
engage and inspire, and social events where we
are reminded how many wonderful people have
chosen to affiliate here.
Cantor Ellen Tilem is involved in every facet of
temple life. With her beautiful voice, she brings us
new melodies while also celebrating our Jewish
musical heritage. She also works with our three
incredible choirs (junior, teen, and adult) and our
amazing Temple Emeth Band.
We invite you to visit us online atwww.emeth.
org, or at www.facebook.com/templeemeth orwww.facebook.com/emethreligiousschool. Or,
call us at (201) 833-1322 to find out more. We are
located at 1666 Windsor Road.

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Tenafly
Temple Sinai
of Bergen County
Temple Sinai of Bergen County
strives to be the center of a vibrant,
caring community. Our members
celebrate Jewish living through
their religious, educational, and
social experiences. We nurture a
warm and stimulating environment
in which each member engages in
a meaningful Jewish life. Blending
traditional and progressive aspects
of Judaism, our clergy, staff, and
leaders collaborate to foster inspiring worship, festive holiday celebrations, lifelong learning, and a commitment to community outreach.
With varied backgrounds, we
come together to discover our
connection to prayer, spiritual renewal, and the establishment of a
progressive Jewish community in
eastern Bergen County. Join with
us to deepen each journey and our
shared experience. We affirm the
central tenets of Judaism God,
Torah, and Israel and, consistent
with the principles of Reform Judaism, we accept diversity within our
beliefs and prayers.
Feel our moving worship. Discover
our weekly Torah study. Listen to
a guest speaker. Work with us to
help repair our communities. Come
discover meaningful Jewish experiences in a place where people
join together to celebrate and find
strength. We are an inclusive and
dynamic temple family engaged in

strengthening a Jewish legacy for

todays generation and those of the
future; come visit us!
Temple Sinai is located at 1 Engle St.
Call (201) 568-3035 or visit
www.templesinaibc.org.

Wayne
Temple Beth Tikvah
Temple Beth Tikvah (House of
Hope) is a Reform Jewish congregation, which has conducted its
worship, study, and celebrations
since its founding in 1956 in a religiously traditional way. The temple
is thrilled to welcome Rabbi/Cantor
Meeka Simerly as its new spiritual
leader and to start the next chapter
in Temple Beth Tikvahs 60-year story. Rabbi Simerly, who was recently
ordained as a rabbi after 10 years
as a cantor in California, brings not
only a genuine warm personality
and fantastic musical talent, but
also a wealth of knowledge and a
deep love for Judaism, the Jewish
people, and Israel, her country of
birth. Cantor Romalis, who has been
the cantor of Temple Beth Tikvah
for more than 50 years, is now cantor emeritus and will be staying on
during this transitional year. The services, jointly led by Rabbi Simerly
and Cantor Romalis, will certainly
be conducted in perfect harmony,
and this years High Holy Days services are sure to be very special.
Our Religious School offers a oneday-a-week program for grades
one to nine, a monthly confirmation
and post-confirmation academy for

Warm wishes
for a New year
filled with Health,
Happiness and
Special Blessings

LShana Tova from

The Sephardic Congregation of Fort Lee

313 Tom Hunter Road in Fort Lee, NJ

We take great pride in our High Holidays,

as well as our year-round services and functions.
Come and join us for the only Sephardic Selihot in Fort Lee
and for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services
led by our new Rabbi, Ilan Acoca.
We welcome people from diverse communities and
follow all the Sephardic Customs and Traditions.
For more information, please call us at 201 543 9459
or email betyosef18@gmail.com

grades 10 through 12, a weekly Jewish

Story Hour for 18 months to 3-yearolds, and a Pre-K/K Family Workshop
Series, all in-house. Family education
on Sundays is also a central part of our
curriculum.
Temple Beth Tikvah is a warm and welcoming community and offers various
membership packages, customized for
everyone young families, singles, religious school families, seniors, snowbirds,
and more. For information about joining
the temple or on how to obtain tickets
for our High Holy Days services, call our
membership chair at (973) 694-1616 or
email tbtmembers@aol.com.

Woodcliff Lake
Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
Come meet our new rabbi.
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley
is constantly evolving and moving forward. We have something for everyone!
We are a Conservative egalitarian congregation. We believe in respecting the
wisdom of our sages and the Torah, and
teaching it diligently to our children by
living it daily.
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Jewish World

Trump, Clinton talk tough on Iran

following controversial report
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON The Trump and
Clinton campaigns issued toughon-Iran statements in the wake of
a report alleging that negotiators
allowed Iran secret loopholes in
the nuclear agreement.
The Institute for Science and
International Affairs, a think
tank founded by a former United
Nations nuclear weapons inspector, David Albright, said in a report
released this week that Iran complied with most of the sanctions
relief for the nuclear rollback
deal when it was implemented
in January.
H o w e v e r, c i t i n g a n o n y mous sources, the report also
said that there were a number
of exemptions.
The Obama administration
strongly denied the thrust of the
report, saying that the deal was

being implemented according to

the letter of the agreement. Iran,
the United States, Germany, France,
Britain, China, and Russia all were
parties to the deal.
The campaign of Donald Trump,
the Republican nominee, pounced
last Thursday, taking a shot at his
Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton,
who as secretary of state in President Barack Obamas first term
helped set the stage for the deal.
The deeply flawed nuclear deal
Hillary Clinton secretly spearheaded with Iran looks worse and
worse by the day, said a statement by the campaign attributed
to Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a former
director of the Defense Intelligence
Agency who now is advising Trump.
Its now clear President Obama
gave away the store to secure a
weak agreement that is full of loopholes, never ultimately blocks Iran
SEE IRAN PAGE 43

Hundreds of demonstrators in Los Angeles protest the Iran nuclear deal last summer. 

PETER DUKE

And hes a man!

Charedim look to Trump as a pro-Israel, traditionalist tough guy
BEN SALES

merican Jews are likely to vote

for Hillary Clinton in November, but American Jewrys
fastest-growing community is
likely to go the other way.
A solid majority of charedi Orthodox
Jews will vote for Donald Trump, say
experts and Republican operatives in the
charedi enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn. While poll data isnt available on the
fervently Orthodox vote, observers say the
charedim are attracted by Trumps hawkish foreign policy, pugnacious personality,
and image as a successful businessman.
It doesnt hurt that hes a man.
When youre fighting a war, you want
someone whos tough, whos going to be
on your side, said Heshy Friedman, a
business consultant in Borough Park who
founded the group Jewish Democrats for
Trump. I dont think he means things literally. You need somebody who borderlines on going crazy.
The charedi community in New York
City and in New York state has supported
Democrats in the past. Both Mayor Bill
de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have
courted the charedi vote by ensuring social
services for the poor and promising not

to intrude in communal affairs. Borough

Parks state assemblyman, Dov Hikind, is
a conservative Democrat.
But unlike American Jews in general,
who overwhelmingly have voted for Democrats in national elections for a century,
the charedi community has shifted Republican in the past couple of decades as its
numbers have grown, according to Samuel
Heilman, who has studied the community
for decades as a sociologist at Queens College of the City University of New York.
The charedi move rightward parallels a
similar move among all American Orthodox Jews, who include the less insular
modern Orthodox community.
A recent poll of Florida Jews found that
Orthodox voters there back Trump by a
3-to-1 margin.
The charedi community clearly leans
toward the Republican Party, said Hikind,
who is undecided in the presidential election. Mostly its been Republican because
of the sense that Republicans are much
closer to Israel, much friendlier to Israel.
Charedim vote Republican, Heilman
said, both to distinguish themselves from
less observant Jews and because they identify with the partys social conservatism.
He said this election could push charedim to Trump in especially large numbers

Heshy Friedman, founder of a group

called Jewish Democrats for Trump,
believes that the vast majority of charedi Orthodox Jews will vote for the
Republican candidate. 
BEN SALES

because Clinton is a woman. Voting a

woman into the most powerful position in
the world, Heilman said, would be hard for
a community whose gender roles are so
clearly defined that its newspapers dont
even print photographs of women, including public figures like Clinton.
They dont want to be like the rest of
the Jews, Heilman said. The idea that
a woman can have the ultimate position
doesnt sit right with them. When the
president of the United States makes news,
they cant put a picture of her in Yated
Neeman, a leading charedi paper.
Yated Neemans editor, Pinchos Lipschutz, has written several columns

praising Trump for being authentic while

bashing Clintons perceived dishonesty. In
a February column, he wrote that the voters are supporting Trump almost like the
Children of Israel supported Moses.
He gives voice to the attitude that
empowers the people, Lipschutz wrote in
that column. He talks about the real fear
in American homes, the desire to triumph,
the hope of being winners again. He continues to fill large arenas, peddling that
message, and by doing so, he makes the
professional politicians look silly.
Friedman, who also campaigned for
Republican presidents Ronald Reagan
and George W. Bush, has been making the
policy case for Trump in Borough Park. A
flier he posted in synagogues around the
neighborhood lists four reasons to support Trump: opposition to Iran obtaining
a nuclear bomb, support for Israeli West
Bank settlement, his pledge to nominate
a conservative Supreme Court justice, and
his opposition to Syrian refugees entering
the country.
Friedman changed his license plate to
TRUMP 17 in honor of the candidates
would-be inauguration year, and believes
there is a silent majority of charedi Jews
who are too bashful to voice their support
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Iran
FROM PAGE 41

from nuclear weapons, emboldens our

enemies, and funds terrorism, he said.
Republicans have strongly opposed the
deal. During the GOP presidential primaries, a number of candidates pledged to
trash it, but Trump, while decrying it as a
giveaway, has said that he first would consult with his national security advisers,
should he be elected president.
In subtle ways, Clinton has sought to differentiate herself from the deals outcome,
praising the agreement while suggesting
that she would be more vigilant in keeping
Iran on track.
In a statement sent to JTA, the Clinton
campaign did not address the report cowritten by Albright directly, but called for
reauthorization of sanctions and sounded
a tough note about how she would oversee
its implementation.
Hillary Clinton supports a clean reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act and
believes Congress should get this done in
short order when they return from recess,
said her spokesman, Jesse Lehrich. And as
president, she will also continue to enforce,
and strengthen as necessary, sanctions on
Irans support for terrorism, human rights
abuses, and ballistic missile activity.

The Obama administration says it does

not need a reauthorization of the sanctions
first passed in the 1990s and enhanced
over the years to force compliance, but
would not oppose a reauthorization. Many
but not all of the sanctions have been
waived as part of the deal.
Democrats in Congress favor a clean
reauthorization, which they say would
allow any future president to snap back
sanctions quickly, while Republicans want
to add new provisions to address Iranian misbehavior that the deal does not
address, including backing for terrorism
and activities in other countries.
Democrats and Clinton oppose the
Republican proposals, saying they are
stealth maneuvers to undercut the deal.
She has always made clear that while
the historic deal passed last year represents
a crucial step forward toward preventing
Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, we
must proceed with a distrust and verify
approach, Lehrich said of Clinton.
Maintaining the infrastructure to
immediately snap back sanctions if Iran
violates the terms of the deal is essential.
Congress should put partisanship aside
and send the president a clean ISA reauthorization bill for his signature.
Citing a single anonymous senior

knowledgeable official, the report first

covered in the general media by Reuters
said that the joint commission administering the deal allowed Iran to keep
more than the prescribed amount of low
enriched uranium. The joint commission
comprises representatives of Iran, the six
major powers, and the European Union.
Under the deal, Iran is allowed to keep
up to 300 kilograms of low enriched uranium, an amount too small to be turned
into material sufficient to make a bomb.
The report did not say how much uranium above the maximum Iran allegedly
was allowed to keep.
The report also said the joint commission allowed Iran to continue to operate 19
hot cells, protected enrichment devices,
that were larger than the 6 cubic meters
prescribed by the deal, which permits Iran
to keep the smaller hot cells to continue
plutonium enrichment for medical purposes. The larger hot cells can be misused for secret, mostly small-scale plutonium separation, according to the report,
which also noted that Iran was permitted
to maintain the larger hot cells with the
approval of the joint commission.
According to the report, the joint commission also allowed Iran to export a larger
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Albrights report.
If the report is accurate, this unwarranted leniency sets a dangerous precedent concerning adherence to the agreement, the pro-Israel lobby said in a
statement. No further concessions should
be granted to Iran, and complete transparency related to the deals implementation
must be provided.
In its responses, the Obama administration said that there were no shortcuts.
The major powers didnt allow Iran
any shortcuts implementing @TheIranDeal, and Irans commitments have
not changed, Ben Rhodes, the deputy
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John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, speaking to reporters last Thursday,
said that the parameters of the deal had
not changed, but that the joint commission
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of the organization Hineni, died on
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An announcement published in
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indicated that Jungreis was in serious
condition and fighting an infection,
but did not specify her ailment.
Jungreis was born in Szeged, Hungary, in 1936, where her father was
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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp,
she and her family resettled in 1947
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World. She and her husband, who
died in 1996, founded the North
Woodmere Jewish Center/Congregation Ohr Torah on Long Island in 1964.
Jungreis, known universally by the
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Shabbat and holiday services. She
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Garden in 1973.
She was known for her work in outreach to young Jews, as well as for selfhelp books about a variety of topics,
including marriage and relationship
advice, as well as how to deal with
challenges in life.
Jungreis drew inspiration from her
experience as a Holocaust survivor to
fight for Jewish continuity and against

Esther Jungreis
intermarriage. But her statements
comparing assimilation to the Holocaust sometimes sparked controversy.
To be a Jew is the greatest privilege, she implored at a speech in
Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1999.
To be unaware of it is the greatest
catastrophe spiritual genocide.
Jungreis was part of a delegation of
American Jewish leaders who accompanied President George W. Bush on
a trip to Israel in 2008 in honor of the
Jewish states 60th birthday. Other
members included Elie Wiesel, Ronald
Lauder, Henry Kissinger and Sheldon
Adelson.
She is survived by four children
Yisroel and Osher, both rabbis;
Chaya Sora Gertzulin and Slovi Wolff
as well as many grandchildren and
great-grandchildren, according to the
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Poll ranks Hebrew University No. 1 in Israel

and 148th in the world for another year
Hebrew Universit y in Jerusalem
placed once again as first in Israel
and 148th in the world in this years
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academic teaching prowess.
Quacquarelli Symonds, which creates an annual table listing the worlds
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its ranking methodology: academic
reputation, employer reputation,
faculty-student ratio, citations per

faculty, international faculty, and

international students.
Hebrew University president Menahem Ben-Sasson said of the honor:
I am delighted by the international
recognition the university continues
to receive as a leading academic institution. This is a result of our investment in recent years in bringing the
best researchers and giving them the
tools they need. Our academic reputation is the outcome of the faculty and
students hard work and commitment
to excellence.
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You have a whole new generation
of yeshiva kids who are right wing, he
said. [Democrats] are trying to destroy
the religious community. These people
have an agenda, and when they start the
fight, theres always a reaction.
Trumps controversial statements and
brusque demeanor have left some Borough Park Jews ambivalent. Like Orthodox Jews in Florida, several said that
they were dissatisfied with both candidates and still are weighing their options.
Hikind, a Democrat who has supported Republicans in the past, made a
video two weeks ago coming out against
Clinton because of her support for the
agreement last year curbing Irans
nuclear program, an agreement that critics deem weak. He stressed that he cannot yet endorse Trump because of the
candidates divisive statements, though
Hikind expected most of his charedi constituents to back the developer and TV
reality star.
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regard to Trump because of so many

things hes said, so many things hes
done, Hikind said. Donald Trump is
the kind of guy, I dont know what hes
going to say tomorrow, I dont know
what hes going to say next week, I dont
know what hes going to say two weeks
from now that may disqualify him.
The largest charedi communities in
the United States are in New York and
New Jersey, traditionally Democratic
states that almost certainly will go to
Clinton even if the charedim turn out
massively for Trump. But Friedman says
highlighting the charedi vote is important both because more liberal Jews
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birth rate means that it is the future of
the Jewish community.
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said. The secular Jewish people, theres
many who look up to the Orthodox
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The Jewish Community commends New Jersey's legislative body

and Governor Chris Christie for signing into law the Anti-BDS bill #
S1923, prohibiting state investment in businesses engaged in the
boycott of Israel and Israeli companies.

New Jersey now joins ten other states in opposing BDS: Alabama,
Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
New York, and South Carolina.
We acknowledge and thank Governor Chris Christie and the
leadership on this bill in the NJ State legislature: Assemblywomen
Valerie Huttle and Nancy Pinkin, prime Assembly sponsors along
with Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt; Senator Jim Beach,
prime Senate sponsor; Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick
and Assemblyman Anthony Bucco, Jr., Assembly co-sponsors.
Paid for by Esther & Ben Chouake

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Jewish World

Bernie Sanders new movement endorses

candidates with a range of Israel views
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON A Florida state senator caught up in a boycott-Israel controversy. A Wisconsin state representative who
combated anti-Israel bias on his campus.
The diversity of Israel-related outlooks among the 63 candidates endorsed by Our Revolution underscores the eclecticism of the left-leaning movement Bernie Sanders launched
last week.
The endorsed candidates represent an opening salvo by
Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont, to build on
the progressive following he earned in his unsuccessful bid for
the Democratic presidential nomination.
Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win major nominating
contests, has said that he wants to transform the party from
the bottom up. Just 13 of the endorsed candidates are running
for Congress. Most are running for state legislatures, and some
are running for local office.
That, coupled with Sanders longtime focus on economic
reform, means that the groups organic emphasis is on domestic issues.
Still, Our Revolutions issues pages list foreign policy postures close to those Sanders touted during the campaign,
including a call on Israel to end both settlement activity and its blockade of the Gaza Strip, and on the Palestinians to unequivocally recognize Israels right to exist. The

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to the threat Iran poses to Israel, and it backs a twostate solution.
When it comes to Israel issues, Our Revolutions
endorsees run the gamut.
In a fundraising appeal last Wednesday, the group
counted Dwight Bullards victory the day before in the
Democratic primary for a Miami-Dade area state senate
seat as one of its successes.
Bullard was the target of a pro-Israel protest over
the weekend because of his participation in a tour of
the West Bank earlier this year that was sponsored by
a group that backs the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel. Bullard has said he
is agnostic about BDS, but one of his opponents,
Andrew Korge, said the trip was disturbing.
By contrast, Jonathan Brostoff, a Wisconsin state representative running for re-election, has been to Israel on
the Birthright-Taglit program and led a pro-Israel group
at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
I was exposed to knee-jerk leftist anti-Israel stuff,
Brostoff told the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle in 2008,
describing how the trip converted him to pro-Israel
activism. I had a narrow range of false information
regarding Israel before I went. Jewish officials in Milwaukee said Brostoff remains strongly pro-Israel.
Another Our Revolution endorsee, Ilhan Omar, is a
onetime refugee from Somalia running for Minnesota
state representative. She reportedly told the Twin Cities Daily Planet earlier this year that she favored divesting the University of Minnesota of its Israel bonds. (The
newspaper did not quote her directly, and JTA has asked
Omars campaign to clarify her stance.) In the August 9
primary, Omar defeated Phyllis Kahn, who is Jewish and
has held the Minneapolis-area seat for 44 years. Omar,
running unopposed, will become the first Somali-born
representative in the legislature.
In its appeal to donors, Our Revolution said that Bullards victory in Florida alleviated the disappointment
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speaking of Sanders and the campaign in harsh terms.

In response, she quit the party chairmanship.
Another one of Our Revolutions losses on Tuesday
was Aaron Baumann, the scion of a Jewish Arizona family, the Capins, with roots in the Tucson and Nogales
area that date back more than a century.
Baumann failed to oust the incumbent state representative, Rosanna Gabaldon. (Daniel Hernandez, the
congressional intern whose quick first aid helped save
the life of Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.),
the Jewish congresswoman who was shot in a 2011 spree
that left six people dead, also lost to Gabaldon.)
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in the 2010 Tea Party sweep of Congress; David Zuckerman, a Vermont state senator and farmer who belongs
to the states Progressive Party and who is running for
lieutenant governor; and Jamie Raskin, a state lawmaker running for Congress in Marylands Washington
suburbs. Altogether, at least five of the 63 endorsees
are Jewish.
Larry Cohen, until recently the president of the Communications Workers of America, and Huck Gutman, a
University of Vermont literature professor who is one of
Sanders oldest friends, are chairing Our Revolutions
11-member board.
James Zogby, the president of the Arab American
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platform-drafting committee, also is on the board. Zogby
led an unsuccessful effort to include language critical of
Israels occupation of the West Bank in the platform.


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Shoftim: The kings portion

he verses in our
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institution of monarchy
altogether is an ideal or
a concession. The verses
about the appointment of
the king, known as paraRivka Kahan
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and you say, I will place upon me a king like all of the
nations around me. You shall surely place upon yourself
a king that the Lord your God chooses
The request for monarchy is issued by the people,
and for the dubious reason of wanting to emulate the
surrounding nations and yet, the Torah goes on to
describe the king as selected by God, and to use language that is often associated with divine commandment. There is a classical disagreement as to whether
there is a mitzvah to appoint a king (Tosefta Sanhedrin 3c), and although most Jewish legal authorities
ultimately rule that there is such a commandment, the
language of the Torah reminds us nonetheless of the
moral complexity and ambiguity of human authority.
The subsequent verses continue the see-saw effect:
they recognize the grandeur of kingship while simultaneously seeking to curb it. The king is prohibited
from having an excessive number of wives (defined
by Talmud Sanhedrin 21a as more than 18), and from
accumulating excessive wealth and horses so that he
not return the people to Egypt in order to acquire
horses. Ramban points out that the Torahs prohibition against returning to Egypt is stated only in the
context of returning in order to set up residence; it is
permitted to go to Egypt to conduct commerce. Nonetheless, the Torah is concerned about a kings potential desire to return to Egypt to buy horses because
horses and Egypt represent, in the Torah, overconfidence in ones own strength and underemphasis on
faith and introspection.
The parashat hamelekh requires that the king write
a sefer Torah to accompany him and to serve as his
moral compass, and culminates with an explicit statement of the purpose of all of the rules that have been
stated: so that his heart not become haughty over
his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment right or left . . .
It is striking that the Torah contains no description
of ideal forms of leadership or governance, or of any of
the national roles or responsibilities incumbent upon
the king. The parashat hamelekh is an example of a
section of the Torah that makes a surprising, radical
statement that, because of our familiarity with it, may
pass unnoticed. Its thesis is that there are any number of forms of government that may be effective or
appropriate in various circumstances, and that a vast
range of personalities has the potential for excellent
leadership. The only quality that is the sine qua non of
legitimate leadership is humility that is coupled with a
commitment to moral behavior.
Parashat Shoftim thus reflects an idealistic vision

of a national leader who is also a person of spiritual depth

and moral rectitude, and at the same time is explicit that
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the danger of charisma and ego. As we seek to navigate our

way through this very challenging period in our nations life,
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Briefs

Crossword
FIRST OF THEIR KIND BY YONI GLATT

Swedens charm offensive falls short

Swedens Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, known for harshly criticizing
Israel, opposes the Boycott, Divestment
and Sanctions movement, Swedish
opposition leader Anna Kinberg Batra
told the Israeli Knesset on September 5.
Wallstrom asked Kinberg Batra to
pass on the message before she left for
Israel to meet with the Israel-Sweden
Parliamentary Friendship Group. Kinberg Batra was on a diplomatic visit to
neutralize Swedens negative posture
toward Israel.
Israeli officials did not believe she
was successful in her mission because
she did not make any pro-Israel statements during her visit, the Times of
Israel reported.

KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MANAGEABLE

We are disappointed with the visit of

Swedish opposition leader [Anna] Kinberg Batra in Israel, a senior official
in Jerusalem told the Times of Israel.
Before the visit, she presented herself
as a close friend and gave us to understand that she would use her visit as a
platform for positive statements about
Israel. She did not deliver the goods.
Swedi sh-Israeli tie s have been
strained since Sweden recognized the
Palestinian state in 2014 and Wallstrom
called for a query into whether Israel
is guilty of extrajudicial killings of Palestinians, saying the number of deaths
during the recent terror wave are disproportionate on the Palestinian side
JNS.ORG
compared to Israels.

Egypt officially welcomes new Israeli ambassador

The new Israeli ambassador to Egypt,
David Govrin, presented his credentials
to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah ElSisi, who welcomed him as the military
band played the Israeli national anthem
on August 31.
In a brief conversation I had with him
in Arabic, he asked about my personal
background and I told him, among other
things, about my early acquaintance with

Egypt as a diplomat in Cairo as well as my

academic education in Middle Eastern
studies, Govrin told Israel Hayom.
The Egyptian president apparently also
conveyed to Govrin his desire to revive
relations with Israel.
Israels embassy in Cairo reopened
one year ago after being shut down when
Egyptian protesters raided the compound
JNS.ORG
during the Arab Spring in 2011.

Sept 20 7PM

Oct 1 1PM

Across
1. Document of conditions or an Israeli
rap group
6. Enchanted girl in a Gail Carson
Levine novel
10. The female lead in Curtizs
Casablanca, with 16-Across
14. Notable port city
15. He played Oskar who made a notable 7-Down
16. See 10-Across
17. First Israeli in the NBA
19. Yank who might have learned kabbalah with Madonna
20. ___ bnei Haman
21. David Guetta hit sung by Sia
23. Makes like Eve in Eden
25. Make like Richard Dreyfuss in Stand
By Me
26. HS tests that might shorten ones
time at YU
29. The fourth man
31. Call ___ night (end the Seder)
32. Olmert told a few
34. Chimney schmutz
36. Campaign that spreads a lot of
lashon hara
40. Baruch follower
41. First Israeli actor to win a Golden
Globe
43. Notable Accords site
44. Where remaining Jews in Yemen can
be found
46. Moore in Rob Reiners A Few Good
Men
47. Shabbat rests
48. One of Spielbergs Gremlins
50. Heaven ___
52. Initials before Kirks Enterprise
53. Wrecks, like Arafat at peace talks
57. Mispronounced Young Frankenstein
role
59. Make aliyah, e.g.
61. Well known Hannah Szenes song
65. One who regularly prays at the
Helsinki Synagogue
66. First Israeli to win Olympic gold
68. Gam
69. Major (and minor) creation of the
Almighty
70. (Raismans big) accomplishments
71. USY audience
72. G who raps with Shlock Rock
73. ___ chayil

The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 59.
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Down
1. The Holocaust (var.)
2. Christmas buys not fit for a Chanukah
meal
3. What Caleb didnt do, even in his old
age
4. Like the ner tamid
5. Jerusalem marathon participants
6. Middle of Hallel?
7. Schindlers ___
8. Rabbi Daniel who heads the American
Alliance of Jews and Christians
9. Scholar and author Etzioni
10. First Israeli in space
11. Rav Isaac known as The Ari
12. Pigs schnozz
13. Request from a new encounter (like
on Zuckerbergs Facebook)
18. One observing Shabbat
22. Garfunkel and Carney
24. Honored the elderly
26. ___ who shall live when G-d doeth
this! (Num. 23:24)
27. Falafel bread
28. Astin of Rudy and Lord of the
Rings
30. Aspirations (that might be prayed
for)
33. First Israeli winner of the Noble Prize
for Literature
35. Actress Marisa who starred in Sidney
Lumets last film
37. Biblical twin who married Judith
38. High points in Rodgers &
Hammersteins The Sound of
Music?
39. A Friend who celebrated Chanukah
42. Hit by The Cranberries used in
Sandlers Click
45. Mideast ruler
49. Aaron brought forth the first one in
Egypt
51. Lchaim!
53. Make the cholent lean
54. Actor Hirsch of Into the Wild
55. Prepare to have bread
56. Genesis
58. Attractions at Superland
60. She was voiced by Idina
62. Israeli mom (var.)
63. How some Jewish holidays might fall
out, on the Gregorian calendar
64. Meet Me ___ Louis (1944 Arthur
Freed produced hit)
67. One cheering on Israel in Rio

Arts & Culture

The dybbuk makes its presence felt

during the wedding reception in Demon.

Demon

some Jewish ancestry, I asked. What drew them to tackle

a story about the Jewish past? Much to my surprise, Szymanska made no reference to the Shoah, but instead
pointed to the Polish governments anti-Semitic campaign of March 1968, when Jews who had chosen to live in
Poland after the war were systematically fired from their
jobs and made to feel that they had no place in the country. More than 20,000 Jews left Poland then, going mainly
to Israel and Scandinavia.
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
It was this Jewish void that left an impression on these filmmakers. What we literally
have never been a big fan of horror
uncover in Demon is a lingering dybbuk, a
movies, but I learned very quickly
sort of Jewish spirit, that makes its appearance
that the Polish-Israeli co-producduring the wedding festivities, as if to remind
tion Demon is not your ordinary
all the celebrants that Jews once lived there.
horror film.
The dybbuk in Jewish lore classically takes
Thats because the horrors that undercontrol of the body of a jilted lover. The first
lie this film are the atrocities suffered by
artistic reference to it was The Dybbuk, conceived by ethnographer/writer S. Ansky, and
the Jewish people, largely on Polish soil.
originally performed on the Warsaw Yiddish
The plot is a simple one. Peter (Itay Tiran)
stage in 1920. It has remained one of the great
arrives from England for his wedding to
Itay Tiran and Agnieszka Zulewska star as the newlywed couple in Demon.
Polish theater classics and it was made into a
Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska), set to take
Yiddish film in 1937. Szymanska points to the
place at her family farm in present-day
of World War II. The absence of Jews certainly is felt across
influence of that film in Demons development. Just
rural Poland. The estate has been left to deteriorate over
Poland, particularly in the larger cities, and it is hardly surwhat does that dybbuk represent? Is the Jew the jilted
the years, but the young Polish couple has been given the
prising that this new generation of Polish filmmakers has
lover of the Polish people?
deed to it as a wedding present from Zanetas family. They
been undertaking film projects about Jews.
Producer Szymanska and director Wrona worked
plan to turn the rotting property into the home of their
What is interesting is that while the Holocaust and other
with Israeli producers on this film, the first Polish-Israeli
dreams. All the necessary heavy equipment is in place for
Jewish subjects have been very much a part of Polish cinco-production to be filmed in Poland. Israeli actor Itay
the renovation and then a bulldozer uncovers human
ema during these last 70 years, recent films focus on the
Tiran, who first drew our attention in Shmuel Maozs
remains, and Peter stumbles on the pit where they lie. Just
Jew who is not present.
2009 Lebanon, performs in a language that he does not
whose bones had he found? What was their history? A bit
I had an opportunity to interview Demon producer
speak and gives the performance of a lifetime. Agnieszka
disconcerted by his find, Peter seeks answers while the
Olga Szymanska this week, and I asked her about this new
Zulewska is just as wonderful as the bride left at the altar.
wedding ceremony and celebrations move forward.
way of dealing with Jews and the Holocaust in Polish cinWrona, who died at 42 shortly before the film premiered
Then bizarre things begin to happen.
ema. After all, four years ago Wladyslaw Pasikowski made
in Poland, gives us a masterpiece. This is a film with
The real story Polish filmmaker Marcin Wrona and his
Aftermath, a film about two Polish brothers who erect
many levels to unravel, and what on its face might be
co-screenwriter Pawel Maslona are telling is the one most
a memorial to Jews on their farm and incur the wrath
seen as a horror film is a multifaceted portrayal of the
Jews feel when they visit Poland. Certainly I felt it. What
of their community when they begin investigating what
mystic Jewish spirit that may not be visible but very much
lies under the ground on which I am walking? Is it the
happened to those Jews during the war. Then there was
remains in Poland today.
bones and ashes of my people?
The film is in Polish, English and Yiddish. See it! It opens
Pawel Pawilikowskis Oscar-winning Ida, which studied
Demons writers and their generation of young Poles,
in New York today.
the hidden and unknown Jew in the person of a young nun
who have little to no contact with Jews, are still very much
about to take her vows. In Demon, we discover that the
aware of the Jewish communitys millennium-long exisEric Goldman teaches and lectures about Jewish cinema
tence in Poland, and of its decimation. They visit the conbones Peter finds are Jewish remains and we learn exactly
centration camps and learn about the suffering of Jews
and is writing a book on Israeli society seen through the lens
why they are found on the property.
along with the suffering of their people amid the barbarity
of cinema.
Had Szymanska or director Marcin Wrona discovered

A Polish horror movie where are the Jews?

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Calendar
dessert reception and
informal discussion
follow. Sponsored by
Hillel International.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanuel.com.

Sunday
SEPTEMBER 11
Hebrew high school
open house in
Englewood: The
Bergen County High
School of Jewish
Studies, which meets
at the Moriah School,
holds an orientation for
new and prospective
students, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
53 South Woodland St.
(201) 488-0834 or www.
bchsjs.org.

Open house breakfast/

9-11 commemoration:

Englewood pianist Carolyn Enger performs

a concert, Remembering 9/11, at the
Englewood Public Library on Sunday,
September 11, at 7 p.m. Pieces include
Sean Hickeys The Birds of Barclay Street, composed
in response to 9/11; Aaron Coplands Our Town; a
patriotic tribute in honor of Englewood, and works
by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Zemlinsky, Arvo Prt, and
Beethoven. Ms. Engers latest work, The Mischlinge
Expose, pays tribute to her father, Horst Enger, who
survived forced labor and the Holocaust as a mischling
(a term used for half-Jews and converts) in Germany.
www.mischlingexpose.com. 31 Engle St. (201) 568-2215.

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Friday
SEPTEMBER 9
Shabbat in Montebello:
The Montebello Jewish
Center hosts a barbecue
and Shabbat Alive
services, beginning at
5:30 p.m. 34 Montebello
Road. (845) 357-2430 or
office@montebellojc.org.

Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El in Closter
invites the community
to its Back to Shul
family service, 6:45 p.m.
All are welcome. 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. 201-768-5112.

Shabbat in Hoboken:
The United Synagogue of
Hoboken hosts Shabbat
in the Park for children
and adults of all ages,

6 p.m. Bring a kosher or

vegetarian picnic dinner;
challah and grape juice
provided. Rain will cancel
event. Church Square
Park, 5th and Willow/
Park. (201) 653-8666 or
ushpreschool@gmail.
com.

Saturday
SEPTEMBER 10

Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
hosts its casual Jersey
Boys Shabbat service,
with traditional prayers
set to the music of the
Four Seasons and the
Broadway hit, 7:30 p.m.
Oneg follows. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.

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Eric Fingerhut
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El
welcomes scholar-inresidence Eric Fingerhut,
president and CEO
of Hillel International.
During Shabbat morning
services at 9 a.m., he will
discuss Being Jewish
and Proud on Campus;

Jewish Material Claims

Against Germany, Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey, and private
donations. 10-10 Norma
Ave. Transportation
available. (973) 595-0111
or www.jfsnorthjersey.
org.

Monday
SEPTEMBER 12
Talk about American
humorists in Tenafly:
Dumont historian Dick
Burnon talks about
The Wit and Wisdom
of American Humorists:
Mark Twain, Will Rogers,
Gilda Radner, and Lily
Tomlin at a meeting
of the Senior Activity
Center at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
11:15 a.m. 411 East Clinton
Ave. (201) 569-7900, ext.
235 or www.jccotp.org.

Book club in Paramus:

The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah offers a discussion
on Elie Wiesels
Night, 6:45 p.m.
Dairy refreshments.
East 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691 or
jccparamus.org.

Celebrating
grandparents in
Rockleigh: The Jewish
Home at Rockleigh
holds its fifth annual
Grandparents Day
Celebration, A Morning
at the Farm, 10 a.m.noon. Opportunity
for young children
to participate with
residents. Activities
include entertainment by
Carlos Fire, a petting zoo
from Green Meadows
Farm, line dancing,
pony rides, arts and
crafts, beekeeping and
honey, refreshments,
and surprises. Rain or
shine. 10 Link Drive.
(201) 518-1171.

Harvest celebration/
park clean up: Temple

Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
family services, 7:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
Emeth.org.

The JCC of Paramus/

Congregation Beth
Tikvah Mens Club hosts a
Welcome Breakfast for
Hebrew school parents,
members, and potential
members, 9.45 a.m. The
15th anniversary of 9/11
will be commemorated.
304 East Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691 or
jccparamus.org.

pools, and the water

park; sample classes, and
use the adult and youth
fitness centers. There
also will be activities
for children, including
a moon bounce, face
painting, glitter tattoos,
Thurnauer Music school
open house, petting zoo,
and 9/11 commemoration
with a community
mitzvah project.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1448, join@
jccotp.org, or www.
jccotp.org.

Emeth in Teaneck
holds its annual harvest
celebration with a park
cleanup and short
commemoration of the
15th anniversary of 9/11,
10 a.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.Emeth.org.

JCC open house in

Tenafly: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
holds a community
open house, 1-4 p.m.
JCC staff will provide
guided facility tours;
members and guests
can enjoy JCC gyms,
chair massages, outside

Elections and Judaism:

Rabbi Dov Lipman

Learning about the
Knesset: Rabbi Dov
Lipman, elected to the
19th Knesset in 2013 and
the first American-born
MK in 30 years, discusses
Behind the Scenes in
the Knesset: My Life in
Israel at Congregation
Beth Aaron in Teaneck,
8:15 p.m. Co-sponsored
by Nefesh bNefesh.
950 Queen Anne Road.
www.bethaaron.org or
(201) 836-6210.

Tuesday
SEPTEMBER 13
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Jewish Family Service
of North Jerseys Cafe
Europa, a monthly social
and support program
for Holocaust survivors,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
CBI, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. The
Syncopated Seniors
will perform and lunch
will be served. Made
possible through grants
from the Conference on

Lubavitch on the
Palisades in Tenafly
offers Elections 2016:
What Does Judaism
Say? a two-session JLI
CLE-accredited course
led by Rabbi Mordechai
Shain, 8 p.m. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152, ext. 512,
or chabadlubavitch.org/
adulteducation.

Wednesday
SEPTEMBER 14
War veterans meet in
Paterson: Jewish War
Veterans Post 651 of Fair
Lawn meets for brunch
at the Brownstone,
11 a.m. Wives and
guests welcome.
Edward Rosenblatt,
(201) 797-3190.

Help for preventing

falls in Teaneck: Joyce
Bendavid continues a
Feldenkrais Awareness
Movement class, Falling
Up, for improving
balance and avoiding
falls, at Congregation
Rinat Yisrael,
11 a.m. Donation to Nerot
womens organization.
Bring a mat. Many other
sessions follow. 389 West
Englewood Ave. Joyce,
(201) 759-4222.

Calendar
Open house in
Ridgewood: Two
congregations under
one roof, Temple Israel
and Reconstructionist
Congregation Beth Israel,
host an open house for
prospective members,
5:30-7 p.m. Meet the
clergy, tour the building.
Students in third grade
to seventh grade can
attend a religious school
session, which runs from
4-6 p.m. Refreshments.
Also Sunday, 11 a.m.; with
an open-school session,
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 475
Grove St. (201) 444-9320
or www.synagogue.org.

Friday
SEPTEMBER 16
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
a guest artist Shabbat
service, featuring
trumpeter James Ross,
7:30 p.m. He joined the
New York Philharmonic
in 2006, following
his tenure with the
Metropolitan Opera,
where he also performed
with the Met Chamber
Ensemble. A preShabbat Oneg with wine
at cheese at 6:45. 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.

Saturday
SEPTEMBER 17
Shabbat in Closter:

Concert in Rockleigh:
The Leonora Messer
Summer Concert Series
concludes on the patio,
weather permitting, at
the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 6:30 p.m., with
a performance by Ed
Goldberg & the Odessa
Klezmer Band. 10 Link
Drive. (201) 784-1414.

Thursday
SEPTEMBER 15
Wine tasting in Closter:
The Mens Club at Temple
Emanu-El of Closter
offers a wine tasting
with selections from two
Israeli wineries, Recanati
and Tishbi, and a speaker,
7:30 p.m. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997.

American television
journalist/political
analyst David Gregory,
former Meet the Press
moderator, is scholarin-residence at Temple
Emanu-El during services
that begin at 9 a.m. He
will discuss his book
Hows Your Faith?
An Unlikely Spiritual
Journey. Dessert
reception and seminar
sponsored by Susan
and Brad Singer follows.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997.

Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
offers services for all
ages with a High Holy
Day theme, 10:30 a.m.
Family Shabbat for
children younger than
7; 8-11 Club service;
learning service for
children 12 and older
beginning at 10. Lunch
with pizza, salad, ice
cream. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.

Sunday
SEPTEMBER 18
Novelist in Teaneck:
Sgt. James Babcock
COURTESY HADASSAH

Hadassah meets in Park

Ridge: The Pascack
Valley/Northern Valley
Chapter of Hadassah
meets at Temple Beth
Sholom for refreshments,
7:30 p.m.; Sgt. James
Babcock of the Park
Ridge Police talks about
How to Protect Yourself
Against Identity Theft
and Scams at 8. 32 Park
Ave. (201) 573-9797.

Sigal Samuel offers a

discussion of her first
book, The Mystics
of Mile End, with
Dr. Tamara Freeman
at Temple Emeth in
Teanecks Byachad
breakfast, 10:30 a.m.
Ms. Samuel is an awardwinning fiction writer,
journalist, essayist, and
playwright and has
appeared on NPR, BBC,
and Huffington Post
Live. 1666 Windsor Road.
Breakfast reservations,
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.

Interactive family
drumming: The JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah offers Drum
Tales, an interactive

musical event where

children express
themselves through
drums. 4-to 7-yearolds come at 9:45 a.m.;
8-to 13-year-olds at
10:45. 304 East Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7733 or
edudirector@jccparamus.
org.

Open house in
Ridgewood: Two
congregations under
one roof, Temple Israel
and Reconstructionist
Congregation Beth Israel,
host an open house for
prospective members,
11 a.m. Meet the clergy,
tour the building.
Students in third to
seventh grade can
attend a religious school
session, which runs from
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Refreshments. 475 Grove
St. (201) 444-9320 or
www.synagogue.org.

Back-to-school sale:
Temple Emeth offers
a sale of housewares,
toys, books, and movies
at bargain prices,
11 a.m.-3 p.m. Early birds
enter at 10:30 with a $5
donation. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.emeth.org.

is under OU kosher
supervision and with the
stores mashgiach. 224
Route 4 East and Forest
Avenue. (201) 638-8514.

Film in Franklin Lakes:

Temple Emanuel of
North Jersey continues
the monthly program
Sundays With Sokol
by showing the Yiddish
musical film The
Singing Blacksmith
starring Moishe Oysher,
2 p.m. English subtitles.
Popcorn and ice cream.
558 High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.

Monday
SEPTEMBER 19
Political program in Fair
Lawn: Josh Gottheimer,
Democratic candidate
for New Jerseys
5th Congressional
District, is at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel,
8:30 p.m. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040.

In New York Singles

Thursday

Sunday

SEPTEMBER 15

SEPTEMBER 11
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+

Understanding faith:
Sam Lebens leads
Everyone Believes:
Rosh Hashanah and the
Renewal of Faith at the
Drisha Institute, 7:30 p.m.
Part of the Stanley
Rudoff Memorial High
Holy Day Lecture Series.
37 West 65th St., Fifth
Floor. (212) 595-0307 or
drisha.org.

meets for a social bagels

and lox brunch at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All
are welcome, particularly
if you are from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.

Thursday
SEPTEMBER 15
Widows and widowers
meet in Glen Rock:
Movin On, a monthly
luncheon group for
widows and widowers,
meets at the Glen Rock
Jewish Center, 12:30 p.m.
682 Harristown Road.
$5 for lunch. Upcoming
dates, November
17, December 15.
(201) 652-6624 or email
Binny, arbgr@aol.com.

Charity walk in
Teaneck: The Friendship
Circle holds its annual
Friendship Walk at
Votee Park. Registration
and pre-walk activities,
10 a.m.; walk at 11, endof-walk celebration,
11:30. Games, rides,
face painting, foam
machine, and kosher
ice cream truck. All preregistrants receive a NJ
Friendship Walk T-shirt.
Event supports families
with special needs
children. Queen Anne
Road and Court Street.
(201) 262-7172 or www.
NJFriendshipWalk.com.

Dedication/open
house in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob holds a dedication
ceremony for the late
Ruth and Morris Janoff,
CBJ founders, 11 a.m.
Collation follows. From
noon-2 p.m., there will be
an open house to learn
more about upcoming
programs and services.
176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725 or www.
bnaijacobjc.com.

Family mitzvah day:

Join Temple Emanu-El
Closter as volunteers
help clean up the Closter
Nature Center, 11 a.m.
(201) 750-9997.

Rosh Hashanah recipes

at ShopRite: Christina
Kamilaris, the registered
dietitian at ShopRite of
Paramus, features Rosh
Hashanah desserts in
the kosher department.
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1776 rings out
for auditions

PHOTOS COURTESY JCCOTP

Open house this Sunday at Kaplen JCC

In celebration of the start of a new membership season, the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly will hold a community open house
on Sunday, September 11, from 1-4 p.m. JCC
staff will provide guided facility tours, and
members and guests can enjoy JCC gyms,
sample chair massages, try the outdoor
pools and water park, visit classes, and use
the adult and youth fitness centers. There
also will be special activities for children,
including a moon bounce, a petting zoo, a
bounce house, face painting, glitter tattoos, a

balloonologist, access to the nursery schools

playgrounds and tumble room, and an open
house at the Thurnauer School of Music. In
memory of the victims and first responders
who lost their lives on 9/11, the JCC also will
offer Kids for Kindness, a community mitzvah project. Children will be able to create
banners showing hope, gratitude, and togetherness. The banners will be displayed in the
JCCs youth wing to spread patriotic awareness and optimism.
In addition to sample classes and

demonstrations for children and adults, there

will be music, giveaways, and more. JCC representatives will be on hand to talk about programs and membership and help register for
classes. The JCC also is offering a special promotion in connection with the open house;
if you join by October 31 you will get $150 off
membership. If you join at the open house,
you will receive an extra $50 in JCC cash.
For information, call the membership
office at (201) 408-1448 or email join@
jccotp.org.

Palisades Players, the resident theater

company at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, holds auditions for
1776 on Monday, September 12, and
Tuesday, September 13, from 7 to 9
p.m.; callbacks will be on Sunday, September 18. Limited special appearance
contracts and stipends are available.
The production, with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by
Peter Stone, will be directed by Nancy
Ringham Smith, whose many Broadway performance credits include The
Threepenny Opera, My Fair Lady,
and The Will Roger Follies.
Come prepared to sing an uptempo
and a ballad in the style of the show.
Selections from 1776 are acceptable,
but not preferred. Please bring sheet
music in the correct key; an accompanist will be provided. The auditions
also may include readings from the
script. To schedule an audition, email
palisadesplayers@jccotp.org.

Tuneful services in Ridgewood

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Amichai Margolis
is featured at a musical Kabbalat Shabbat service at Temple Israel and JCC of Ridgewood
on Friday, September 9. The service begins at
6 p.m.; Shabbat dinner will follow.
Mr. Margolis, a music teacher at the lower
school at the Solomon Schechter School of
Westchester, founded and directed the Jewish a cappella group Kol Byachad at Brown
University, and arranged music and sang
with Columbia Universitys Pizmon, and with
the Jewish Theological Seminary.
The shul offers two worship alternatives
within one community: egalitarian Conservative and Reconstructionist. For information,
call (201) 444-9320, email office@synagogue.
org, or go to www.synagogue.org.

Johnny Lampert

Evening of comedy in Pearl River

Amichai Margolis COURTESY TEMPLE ISRAEL

Sharsheret healthy living webinar

Sharsheret offers a webinar, Healthy Living for Cancer Survivors, on Monday,
September 26, at 8 p.m. The webinar
will highlight the importance of nutrition
and exercise and will also focus on bone
strength and lymphedema. A Sharsheret
peer supporter will share her personal
story and a live question-and-answer

session will follow. The webinar is made

possible with support from Amgen and
the Cooperative Agreement DP14-1408
from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. For information, email Shira
Kravitz at skravitz@sharsheret.org. A transcript and audio recording of the webinar
will be available at www.sharsheret.org.

Current events the focus in Paramus

The JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth
Tikvah together with Brightview Paramus, hosts Rhoda Plotkin for a discussion
on Current Issues in Todays News. The

Thursday, September 15, talk is at 11 a.m.

at the synagogue, East 304 Midland Ave.
Lunch will be provided by Brightview.
For lunch reservations call (201) 262-7691.

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Enjoy an evening of laughs at a comedy

night at Beth Am Temple in Pearl River
on Saturday, September 10. The performances begin at 8 p.m., with standup comics Johnny Lampert, the Stone
Brothers, and Ben Pernick.
Lampert is a regular at New York
and Los Angeles comedy clubs and has
made many television appearances on
Comedy Central and MTV. The Stone
Brothers, brothers Adam and Todd, also
known as Stone and Stone, have been

semi-finalists on Last Comic Standing,

and have entertained at the N.Y. Friars
Club at roasts for Dennis Rodman and
George Takei. Comedy singer/songwriter Pernick performs musical comedy and has appeared at the Broadway
Comedy Club.
Admission is $25 and includes a choice
of one beverage wine, beer, soda, or
coffee and a dessert. For information,
call (845) 735-5858, email office@bethamtemple.org, or www.bethamtemple.org .

Ballyhoo will be staged in Nutley

The Nutley Little Theatre presents
The Last Night of Ballyhoo, a comedy-drama about a German-Jewish
family set in pre-World War II Atlanta.
Directed by Bill Kaufman of Paterson,
the cast includies Debbie Buchsbaum

of River Vale, Michael Baran of Clifton,

and Ross Pohling of Westwood. The
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Jewish World

From matzah balls to footballs:

2 Jewish brothers tackle the NFL
VICTOR WISHNA
KANSAS CITY, MO. At 6-foot-6 and 340
pounds, veteran NFL offensive lineman
Geoff Schwartz isnt just a force of nature,
but a product of good ol Jewish nurture.
My size comes from a childhood that
included an excess of matzah ball soup,
latkes, and tons of white rice, the 30-yearold jokes. But of course my brothers similar physique suggests that genetics had
plenty to do with it.
That would be his (only relatively) little
brother, Mitch, 27, the Kansas City Chiefs
newest starting right tackle, who stands
6-foot-5 and weighs in at 320 pounds.
As it happens, Geoff and Mitch Schwartz
arent the first pair of Jewish brothers to
play in the National Football League
theyre just the first to do so since 1923.
Once we heard the stat, we realized
just how rare this really is, said Mitch,
standing at the edge of the Chiefs
indoor practice field after morning drills. So we both thought it
was important to share our story
for Jewish kids, and in general,
about how we both wound up
where we are.
Indeed, the story of how two
nice Jewish boys grew up to be a
couple of hogs (an endearing if
decidedly non-kosher nickname for
offensive linemen) could fill a book.
Now it does.
Eat My Schwartz: Our Story of
NFL Football, Food, Family, and
Faith landed in stores and online
September 6. Co-written by the
brothers, along with novelist and
humorist Seth Kaufman, its a lighthearted memoir about all the topics
in the subtitle and how often they
intersect. Sports fans will find plenty
of insider info on the NFL and majorcollege football (Geoff and Mitch played
for Pac-12 contenders Oregon and Cal,
respectively). But from the opening pages
a scene of the brothers frying up latkes
on the first night of Chanukah, following
their bubbes recipe their Jewishness is
front and center.
The people who know us know thats a
big part of our identity, but I think it was
important to share as much as possible
in the book, Geoff Schwartz said from
Detroit, where he spent the preseason
as a member of the Lions. I mean, my
whole family were proud to be Jewish
and to be raised in the tradition and going
to temple.
Growing up in West Los Angeles, members of Adat Shalom, a Conservative
congregation, the brothers always were
involved in sports. But neither started
playing football until high school, in part

Geoff, left, and Mitch Schwartz are the first

pair of Jewish brothers to play in the NFL
since 1923.
OLIVIA GOODKIN AND LEE SCHWARTZ

because their parents didnt want practices and games to interfere with Hebrew
school too much.
In the book, the brothers quote their
mother, attorney Olivia Goodkin, on her
eventual acceptance of her sons football
fate, given that each stood well over six
feet tall at his bar mitzvah. I started out
worrying that they were going to get hurt
but then I realized it was the other players I should be worrying about, she said.
They were like trucks hitting small cars.
And I started to kind of feel like maybe this
was their destiny.
As for their father, Lee Schwartz, a business consultant: I just kvell, he told Los
Angeless Jewish Journal in 2012, on the
eve of that years NFL draft, in which Mitch
would join his brother in the league when
the Cleveland Browns took him early in the
second round. Its a surreal experience to

56 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

see my kids on the field, on TV.

Mitch credits his (slightly) bigger brother
for paving his way on the field, in the
kitchen and in life. Geoff was a seventhround pick in 2008, and hes a study of
resilience: Hes endured multiple injuries
and various ups and downs, from getting
relegated to a practice squad, to getting
cut, to getting signed to a big contract, to
getting released again just before this season starts. He recently spent two injuryplagued seasons playing in the Meadowland for the Giants before being released.
Meanwhile, after the Browns selected
him with the 37th overall pick, Mitch
started every game over four seasons in
Cleveland. This spring, free agency landed
him a five-year, $33-million deal with the
Chiefs, making him one of the highest-paid
right tackles in the league.
Whether tackling football, their faith, or
food, the Schwartzes write with the interested but uninitiated in mind. Readers will
learn the finer points of proper blocking
in one chapter and find a primer on the
lunar Hebrew calendar in the next. And if
youre hungry, just refer to the appendix
of family recipes for step-by-step instructions on applying the perfect schmear.

Geoff, left, and Mitch Schwartz at

synagogue, years ago.
JOHN SOLANO

(Dont overdo it; too much cream cheese

will melt and run on a just-toasted bagel.)
The conversational memoir flows from
one milestone to the next personal, professional, or often both. Theres October
27, 2013: The Schwartz Bowl, the brothers first and so far only on-field meeting
when Geoff, then with the Chiefs, faced
Mitch and the Browns in Kansas City. Then
there is the weekend in 2014 when two
SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 59

Obituaries
Zita Foster

Zita Foster, ne Rubin, 85, of Fort Lee died September 5.

Born in Brooklyn, she was a legal secretary for the toy
industry in New York City and was a member of National
Council of Jewish Women.
Predeceased by her husband, Jack, in 2010, she is
survived by children, Mitchell of Danbury, Conn., and Nancy
Morin of Fort Lee, and grandchildren, Deanna and Zachary.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.

Ernest Haas

Ernest L. Haas, 91, died August 23.

Born in Neumarkt/Opf, Germany, he was the only
Jewish resident of Neumarkt to survive the Nazi ghettos
and concentration camps. He came to America in 1946
and served in the National Guard. He began his career
as a stock clerk and in his 40s started his own successful
commercial real estate company. He donated many
treasured items to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
in Washington.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Myrna, ne
Chatowitz, sons, Jonathan, Michael (Gail), and Andrew;
grandchildren, Seth, Margot, and Edelawit, and nephews,
nieces, and cousins.
Arrangements were by Gutterman & Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.

Robert Rubin

Robert D. Rubin, 91, of Rockville, Md., formerly of

New City, died August 31.

Before retiring in 1983, he owned three retail beverage stores in Rockland County.
Predeceased by his wife, Celia, in 2009, and fraternal
twin brother, Martin, in 2010, he is survived by his sons,
Gary (Karen Sharf ) and Jeffrey (Michele Bloch), and
grandchildren, Ruth Bloch-Rubin, Adam Rubin, Ted
Bloch-Rubin, and Zachary Rubin.
Donations can be made to Suburban Hospital in
Bethesda, Md., Charles E. Smith Life Communities, or
the American Cancer Society. Arrangements were by
Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

Dr. Seymour e. Strum

Dr. Seymour E. Strum of Fort Lee, formerly
of Teaneck, died Aug. 20. He was a neurologist in Teaneck for 40 years.He was loved and
respected by his patients and colleagues.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, daughters, Roni Strum and Susan Cohen (Barry);
a sister Janice Fuld (Harry); and three granddaughters.
Contributions can be sent to senior programs
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, Tenafly,
NJ or the Jewish Home at Rockleigh rabbis
discretionary fund.
Arrangements were by Gutterman &
Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
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life-changing moments coincided: Geoffs wedding a

traditional Jewish affair on the beach at Santa Monica
happened at the height of NFL free agency frenzy.
Only hours after signing his ketubah, Geoff would sign
the largest contract of his career.
The brothers also grapple with some of the compromises theyve had to make in pursuit of their careers.
Im very clear that when I have to, I choose football
over the [high] holidays, Geoff said. Some people have
a hard time with that concept. I dont.
But he does fast on Yom Kippur whenever possible,
an act of atonement to which he devotes several paragraphs in the book. Toward the end of a fast I usually
feel great, like Ive achieved something, he writes. I
feel lighter, not physically, but mentally. Ive endured,
and I feel energized and clear.
In the book, Mitch recalls a visit he made to the Pro
Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, in the first weeks
of his rookie year. He encountered a group of Orthodox
teens who peppered him with questions and begged for
autographs as soon as they learned that he was a Jewish
football player. I think it takes experiences like that to
make you realize just how much bigger it is than you
think it is, he said of being one of a handful of Jewish
players in the NFL.
Of course, the brothers understand the special appeal
they have to Jewish fans after all, theyre Jewish fans
themselves. The book traces their own familys fascination with Jews in sports, from Hank Greenberg and
Sandy Koufax to Mark Spitz and Dolph Schayes.
Mitch delves into the lesser-known history of brothers
Ralph and Arnold Horween, the Harvard All-Americans
and stars of the Chicago Cardinals backfield, in whose
NFL footsteps the Schwartzes eventually followed. He
learned that the Horweens actually played under an
assumed name McMahon which raises questions as
to whether they were guarding against anti-Semitism in
football, or perhaps feared disapproval from other Jews
for playing football.
Though Geoff recounts a few blatantly anti-Semitic

comments, many players they meet simply dont understand, or misunderstand, what it means to be Jewish, he
said. People think its more complicated than it really
is, Geoff explained. So we let them know how not-complicated it is.
When trying to explain their traditions to teammates
who might have never been around a Jew before, they
find that food like latkes and matzah balls can be a
good access point, especially for linemen, Mitch said.
Part of the motivation for the writing the book, according to Geoff, is for the brothers to, well, start writing their
own next chapters. You dont know how long youre
going to play certainly not forever, he said, shortly
before the latest cut. And theres a lot we want to do
after football.
For Geoff, that could be a career in media or writing
this book is only his latest foray in communications.
He co-hosts his own podcast, Block Em Up, and this
summer guest-wrote the popular Monday Morning
Quarterback column on SI.com thats usually written
by National Sportswriter of the Year Peter King.
Yet the ultimate ambition is for the Schwartz brothers to finally team up as co-hosts of their own cooking show.
Cooking has become a creative outlet for both of us,
something we enjoy exploring and experimenting with,
Geoff writes. We love the improvisational element of
cooking, and the social element, too. Food, which is so
important to us as athletes it fuels our work provides the forum for us to create meals that look good
and taste fantastic.
The brothers already prepped a sizzle reel of them
interviewing a Beverly Hills chef and then whipping
up some saffron seafood risotto at home. The book
details early talks with TV execs its unclear whether
the Food Network or the NFL Network were more
interested but were definitely still working on it,
Geoff confirmed.
Two Jewish brothers in the NFL makes for a great
story. But two Jewish brothers in the NFL with their own
cooking show? Thats never happened before.
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During their week-long stay in Israel,
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Jerusalem for a special 9/11 tribute to
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dignitaries and the American ambassador to Israel. They will also participate
in a police unity bike trip that travels
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and religious sites, and meet with Israels

police commissioner.
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active and retired law enforcement
officials from seven states, including
New Jersey.
The organization was launched in
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enforcement officers. Over the years,
they have grown from 18 local members
to 1,900 nationwide and continue to
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Today, more than half the fish consumed around the world is grown in
fish farms. Most farms overcrowd the
fish, feed them massive amounts of antibiotics, and treat them with hormones
and pesticides.
Yet despite concerns for human health
and the environment, the aquaculture
industry is growing an average of 6 percent annually to accommodate ever-rising demand.
To help assure higher quality production, the Europe Commissions Horizon
2020 program and its Executive Agency
for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
are investing millions of euros in a revolutionary open-sea aquaculture technology from Israels Gili Ocean Technology.
Gili Oceans Subflex (a contraction of
submerged flexible) system, originally
developed in cooperation with professors
at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, features flexible cages that can be
submerged underwater when there are
strong currents and waves at sea.
Growing fish in the open water
greatly reduces the ecological impact,
CEO Yossi Melchner says. The water
quality is superb and you dont need to
add any external resources or energy
because it is the ultimate habitat. But we
need to deal with storms. This is why we
started developing the Subflex technology in 2003.
The Subflex system, which will
include high-tech components such as

sensors and image processors to boost

efficiency, ease of use and cost-effectiveness, aims to make offshore aquaculture
a long-term sustainable solution.
The market for this solution is vast
and growing because of the decrease in
the quantity of fish worldwide and the
sharp rise in consumption, together with
increased awareness of the need to prevent environmental pollution in gulfs,
Melchner says.
A few other companies make stationery open-ocean cages that can be used
only one at a time, he adds. If you want
to raise 1,000 tons of fish, you need several cages and you need to enter them
in stages and shift them for feeding, harvesting and other tasks in the growth
period. Our combination of submersible
and flexible cages makes that possible.
Single-point mooring allows the cages
to rotate 360 degrees with the flow of
the ocean, and an open-valve mechanism allows for submersion when necessary while protecting the structure and
the fish.

Pilot project blooms

off the Ashdod coast
A small-scale pilot project was installed
in Israel in 2004 as a proof of concept. In
2006, Gili Ocean launched its first commercial system 12 kilometers offshore
of Ashdod, producing 400 tons of fish
per year.
Over the next three years, three additional systems were set up near Ashdod
to raise sea bream and, soon, European

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Ford buys Rehovot-based company
to meet pledge of driverless cars by 2021
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Automobile manufacturing giant Ford has announced
its buyout of Israeli computer vision and machine
learning company, SAIPS. The acquisition comes in
the wake of the car-makers pledge to develop driverless cars by 2021.
In a press statement, Ford said it is investing in or
collaborating with four startups to enhance its autonomous vehicle development, doubling its Silicon Valley
team and more than doubling its Palo Alto campus.
The acquisition of the Rehovot-based SAIPS is
reportedly in the tens of millions of dollars though no
financial details of the buyout were disclosed.
The next decade will be defined by automation of
the automobile, and we see autonomous vehicles as
having as significant an impact on society as Fords
moving assembly line did 100 years ago, said Mark
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implementation of algorithmic engines that are based on
Deep Neural Networks (Deep Learning). SAIPS portfolio
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of the art solutions for the hottest computer vision challenges in the areas of detection, tracking, image enhancement, registration, segmentation, pattern recognition,
positioning, 3D, prediction, video intelligence, and more,
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In other words, SAIPSs capabilities can help with onboard analysis of data captured by sensors on Fords selfdriving cars.
SAIPS was founded in 2013. The startup will continue
operating as an independent entity under the Ford
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Fish are raised in flexible cages in the sea using

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sea bass. The cages can be custom-sized for any species of fish, and several types can be raised at once in
separate arrays.
Right now there is ongoing development of fastgrowing fish such as Bluefin tuna and they need
superb water quality and huge cages, and we have
them both, Melchner says. We have collaborations
with several world institutes developing the protocol
for our system.
The one-stop operation reduces the work and manpower involved in maintenance. Crews tend the cages
from one vessel, which also saves fuel, says Melchner.
Gili Ocean recently won an Israeli government tender to launch what Melchner says will be the largest
open-sea fishing system in the world, with a capacity
of close to 2,000 tons of fish.
We are ordering all the components and starting
to establish the system in the next few months. Were
building a tailor-made ship for this project. Our goal is
to revolutionize the Israeli market by supplying highquality fish at low prices with no antibiotics.
Gili Ocean founded a daughter company, Beresheet
Aquaculture, to manage the project with funding from
a private foreign investor. Melchner explains that
although the Israeli government is interested in lowering the price of fish for consumers, it is not providing
any financial backing for the project.
We want to see how we can benefit the most from
our platform, he says. We will try to do some tourist programs on weekends to promote awareness, and
also will work with seaweed farmers because raising a
byproduct would make the farms more efficient.
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Small Israeli institutions get help birthing big ideas

Kit for safe breast-milk transfer in the NICU and a 3D-printed speaker enclosure
for better stereo sound are among inventions ready to launch via SN
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Scores of successful inventions are shepherded from the classroom to the marketplace by Israels renowned system of university technology-transfer companies (TTCs).
Just a few of the companies established via
TTCs are Mobileye (Yissum, Hebrew University), Mazor Robotics (T3, Technion), Phinergy (BIRAD, Bar-Ilan), and BrainStorm Cell
Therapeutics (Ramot, Tel Aviv University).
But what about all the ideas percolating at
Israels smaller colleges and research institutes that cant afford a proper TTC?
Many of those technologies and designs
withered on the vine until the 2013 establishment of SN, Israels first national TTC.
As a private company, we are not driven
by the interests of the researchers or the universities. Our only interest is the business
potential of the idea, SN chief executive
officer Avi Ben-Zichri said.
With $6.8 million from the Council of
Higher Education and a fresh infusion of
$2.5 million from Arieli Capital, SN now
plans to expand its services to 45 institutions and is readying a handful of startups
for launch:
A kit to help neonatal intensive care unit
nurses transfer breast milk from mothers to newborns with significantly less
staff involvement, milk loss, mix-ups and

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exposure to contamination.
A portable electro-optic testing device and
image-processing solution to help textile
and clothing manufacturers detect the risk
of pilling, a common defect in low-quality
fabrics that currently is assessed manually.
A 3D-printed speaker enclosure geometrically designed to eliminate back-wave distortion to ensure better audio fidelity for home
stereo and home theater systems.
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An automated process to permeate
thermoplastic packaging materials with
essential oils that are then infused into
the package in a controlled manner to
extend the shelf life of food, fragrances
and pesticides.
A software-based analysis tool that
automates protein annotation for industries that need to duplicate the functionality of existing proteins for biopharmaceuticals, food substitutes, flavor and
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We are very proactive from step one.

We approach the researchers to find
ideas and prepare a business plan, and
identify and approach target customers,
says Ben-Zichri, a former executive at
Siemens Data Communications, Oplus,
NeuStar and Intel.
Among SNs clients are the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design; Shenkar College of Engineering, Design
and Art; Hadassah Academic College;
Jerusalem College of Technology; ORT
Braude College of Engineering; Medical
Center of the Galilee; and Ruppin Academic Center.
Some of these institutions have no
TTC while others have shoestring TTCs
needing a stronger partner.
Dr. Moshe Shavit, head of the

entrepreneurship center at ORT Braude

in Karmiel, took over management of
the colleges Ofek tech-transfer company
two years ago. As the sole, part-time
staffer his chances of success were limited, so he turned to SN for assistance
in early 2015.
ORT Braudes commercialization
activities now are done in a much more
professional and organized way, from
invention disclosure to analysis to identifying the proof of concept and potential
partners and investors, Shavit said.
Before, we didnt have a patent committee and now we have an advisory
board to help us make decisions. SN
funded five patents and handled the
patenting process, which saved us a
lot. They also help us decide whether
to drop a patent that is taking too many
resources without delivering results. This
also saves us a huge amount of money.
Working with SN encourages the colleges researchers, Shavit says. In the
past, they didnt notice any benefits.
Now they see a light at the end of the tunnel so theyre more motivated.
The protein annotation automation
software mentioned above was invented
by an ORT Braude computer science
professor. SN arranged to bring in (and
subsidize) a graduate computer-science
student this fall to help build a proof of
concept to present to investors.

A creature with two heads

Each partner institution is assigned a
SN professional to judge the maturity
and potential of ideas. The best candidates get passed on to an account manager, who meets with the researcher
to formulate a business plan. At that
point, an expert in the specific field is
brought in.
This expert is like a creature with two
heads someone who has a very good
academic background and real business
experience, says Ben-Zichri.
I need these two heads to be able
to understand the research end and to
understand the business potential.
These experts often suggest different
or additional applications that the inventor may not have considered. I call this
IP enrichment, says Ben-Zichri.
Founded by Dr. Shai Yarkoni, Omri
Raisman, Gerardo Nahum and Amos
Konforti, SN is based in Raanana and
has 10 employees. The company won
an eight-year government tender in
2013, with an option to extend for four
more years.
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