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8 .5 8 m i l l i on
Thats the number of citizens Israel
will have on Rosh Hashanah 5777,
according to the annual pre-holiday
data dump from Israels Central Bureau of Statistics.
As those of you who remember last
years number already will have calculated, that reflects a growth of about
2 percent, on track with recent years.
The countrys Jewish population,
which makes up nearly three quarters
of the country at 6.419 million, grew
at a rate of 1.9 percent, while the Arab
population, which makes up just over

Israel heads to Korea

for World Baseball Classic
Its not the World Series. But unlike the annual championship series
Americas baseball leagues offer,
the World Baseball Classic features
teams from beyond North America.
And this week, Israel qualified for
the quadrennial tournament, which
will take place in Seoul, South Korea,
in March.
On Sunday, Israel slammed three
home runs in a 9-1 victory over Great
Britain in the championship game of
the World Baseball Classic qualifier,
earning its first bid to the international tournament.
Israel took a no-hitter into the
eighth inning of Sundays game at
MCU Park on Coney Island, with
starting pitcher Jason Marquis throwing four innings and striking out five
British batter and winning pitcher
Josh Zeid getting through the next
three innings with three strikeouts.
Catcher Ryan Lavarnway had two
hits, including a two-run homer in
the four-run fifth inning, and drove in
three runs.
If the names Jason, Josh, and Ryan
dont sound Israeli well, under
the WBCs heritage rule, Israel can
field players who would qualify
for citizenship under

Israels Law of Return. Like most of

the team, the three are former Major
League Baseball players not now
playing in the major leagues. (Two
are in the minors and the third is a
free agent.)
Pitchers Dean Kremer and Shlomo
Lipetz are the only Israeli citizens on
the squad.
In the March championship, Israel
will face off against Chinese Taipei,
South Korea, and the Netherlands.
Major leaguers will be released
from their spring training commitments to play for their countries
teams, but Israels manager, Jerry
Weinstein, said that he preferred
maintaining the camaraderie of the
Brooklyn roster. Hes not planning on
replacing any of his players with bigger names.
I feel very loyal to the guys I was
with for the last week and a half. I feel
an obligation to them, said Weinstein, 73, a coach in the Colorado
Rockies system. For me as a manager, Im connected to these guys. Id
be very happy to take this team and
go anywhere to play.
In 2012, Israel fell a game short of
qualifying for the tournament.
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a fifth of the country at 1.786 million,

grew at a rate of 2.2 percent.
Other groups, including non-Arab
Christians and those identifying with
other religions, which make up 4.4
percent of the population at 380,000,
grew at a rate of 3.8 percent.
The birth rate surpassed the death
rate, with 189,000 births and 46,000
deaths.
In 5766, 30,000 people moved to
Israel, including 25,000 new immigrants.
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Yankee Stadium kippah-grabbing

incident has Orthodox fan scared
An Orthodox Jewish man said the
New York Yankees have failed to investigate his claim that a fan sitting behind
him snatched the kippah off his head
and taunted him at a recent game.
Ben Lapin, 45, told the New York
Daily News about the Sept. 12 game
against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Lapin, who said an act like this hasnt
happened to me since I was 12 years
old, told the newspaper that he begged
the man to return the religious item, calling the experience humiliating.
He was teasing me, Lapin said, according to the Daily News. The police
were right there. Nobody did anything.
Lapin said he tried to report the incident to several security guards and

other stadium employees but got the

runaround, including claims that the aggressor must have been a Dodgers fan
and that nothing could be done since
he had already left the stadium.
Yankees officials told the Daily News
that they have taken the complaint seriously and are working to find the man.
Lapin was offered free tickets to a
future game.
I didnt take the tickets, Lapin told
the newspaper. This isnt about getting free tickets. Im scared to go to a
Yankee game. I dont want to go back
there. Theres a lot of anti-Semitism. We
dont have to be afraid to wear a yarmulke at Yankee Stadium.
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Noshes

I know Bibi Netanyahu, and I will say that it is

accurate to assert that he is not, generally
speaking, a happy camper.
Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg on Twitter, after Donald
Trump cited the Israeli prime ministers reaction to the Iran deal

DIVORCE, HBO STYLE:

For Parker, its

just playing a role
In my last column, I
didnt note that
SARAH JESSICA
PARKERs new HBO
series, Divorce, starts
on Sunday, October 9.
Last week, Parker, 51, was
profiled by the New York
Times and so I have a
chance, in advance of the
premiere, to relate what
Parker so emphasized in
this profile: that neither
Carrie, who she played
on Sex and the City, or
her new character
represent her real life. As
she put it, its acting.
Parker began as a child
actor and never stopped
working. She was never
the free-spirited girl- or
woman-about-town
depicted in City. She
says: I never lived any
of those [Carrie] experiences in my own life.
And she insists she
isnt like Frances, her
Divorce character.
The Times explains that
Frances is a kind of antiCarrie, someone long
married, living (brace
yourself) in the suburbs, and working as a
corporate recruiter, her
arty dreams subsumed
by financial necessity.
Her husband though
not for much longer is
Robert (Thomas Haden
Church), a real estate
entrepreneur down on
his luck. Frances is far
from a starry-eyed ro-

mantic: She has cheated

on her husband; she
is a narcissistic oversharer, a foul-mouthed
accuser, a weakkneed manipulator.
Of course, both Parker
and her real-life husband,
actor MATTHEW BRODERICK, 54, know that
some fans will project
on to them what the
Divorce characters are
going througheven
though they have been
happily married for 19
years and have three
children. The media interest in their marriage, the
Times writes, mystifies
the couple. Parker says,
I guess its because we
just keep staying married. Broderick then
interjected: Maybe that
annoys them? And
Parker replied that her
husband is still the person I want to experience
things with, I want to do
new things with.
The baseball
playoffs begin on
Tuesday, October 4. Playoff teams include the
Chicago Cubs, the
winner of the National
League Central division.
Respected pundits give
them the best chance of
any team to win it all. The
Cubs have not won a
league championship
since 1945, and they have
not won a World Series
since 1908. The suffering

Matthew Broderick

Theo Epstein

Jermaine Fowler and Judd Hirsch in a scene from

Superior Donuts

Hirsch and Sagal, 2x

Kevin Pillar

Ian Kinsler

of Cubs fans was long

shared by Red Sox fans.
The Sox won the Series
in 1918 and didnt win
again until 2004. You
could say that Sox fans
had it better than the
Cubs fans, because
Boston did win the
American League
championship in 1967
and 1986. On the other
hand, getting so close
and losing (before 2004)
may have inflicted more
agony than Cubs
fans suffered.
If the Cubs do win,
they will have one thing
very much in common
with the 2004 Red Sox.
The same guy built these
teams through deft draft
picks, trades, and choice
of coaches. In 2004, the

general manager and

builder of the Red Sox
team that finally won the
Series was THEO EPSTEIN, now 42. Epsteins
title is different now, with
the Cubs hes president of baseball operations but hes really
doing the same job he
did with the Sox.
Epsteins father is
well-known author
LESLIE EPSTEIN, 78.
His grandfather, PHILIP EPSTEIN, and his
great-uncle, JULIUS
EPSTEIN, were identical
twins and screenwriters. In 1943, they won
the Oscar for their script
for Casablanca. If the
Cubs win, they should
erect identical statues
of Theo Epstein in front

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a Los Angeles Dodgers
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Englewood votes against BDS
Diverse city comes together to battle movement to harm Israel
Joanne Palmer

ast week Englewoods city

council voted to reject the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
movement.
BDS is an ideology that tries to turn
its proponents loathing of Israel into a
potent threat against the state by harming it economically, and through that
economic weapon to delegitimize it,
banning not only Israeli-made goods but
even Israeli academics and scientists. All
are tarred as somehow morally compromised, simply for being connected, even
by birth, with the Jewish state.
New Jersey passed legislation condemning BDS this summer. Englewood
was the first New Jersey municipality to
pass the legislation, and it did so unanimously; New Jersey was the 11th state.
Michael Cohen, the eastern regional
director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,
represents Englewoods second ward on
its five-member city council.
Englewood is a very diverse city, and
the council is diverse, Mr. Cohen said. I
was very impressed by the fact that the
legislation passed unanimously. Thats a
strong statement.
There are a lot of political issues and
problems that face us, but we had the
courage and the wisdom to understand
the difference between those issues and
this, and we were able to come together
and do the right thing.
Englewood was the first city, and the
first one always is the hardest one. Now
that Englewood has done it, we thats
the Wiesenthal Center have started the
conversation with legislators in other
municipalities. Well try to have this
duplicated.
The week before, a similar resolution
in fact, the same resolution, with only the
place name changed passed New York
Citys council. That was a much more
contentious legislative session, with protestors trying to shout over the speakers,
and it passed 40 to 4, with 4 abstentions.
Mr. Cohen testified at that session (and
he wrote about the experience in an
op-ed for this newspapers September 16
issue). As each of us in Jewish communal
leadership sought to testify publicly, we
experienced what Israeli diplomats and
other lovers of Zion have been confronted
with loud screeds seeking to stifle our
voices, he wrote two weeks ago. There
was a great deal of hatred and teeth-baring, high-decibel anger in the room.
It wasnt like that in Englewood. To
begin with, We made sure that the

Cohen has formidable political skills, and

he used them to build consensus.
Michael spoke to the shakers and the
movers in the community, Jews and nonJews, and they in turn spoke to other people, Mr. Skurnick said. He shepherded
it through by calling people, speaking
to people, and showing how important
it is, and how it relates to civil rights.
As a result, it became a total non-issue.
Nobody was going to stand up and say
the usual thing ask why we
were voting on this resolution, what it had to do with
us. Nobody was going to do
that. Nobody did it.
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood
Instead, you had a trementalks as city council members Charles Cobb and Michael Cohen listen.
dous outpouring of people. I
was so impressed by the people who came to speak.
and one at-large memJewish community knew about it, Mr.
ber. Three of those repWhat was really terrific
Cohen said. There was a great effort to
resentatives are Jewish,
was the people who spoke,
get the facts out. Our people came in a
and the other two are
and gave insights into how
respectful manner, making sure that all
African-American. Mr.
the pro-Palestinian antithe leadership both elected officials
Michael Cohen
Cohen is the only one of
Israel position had shifted
and otherwise have a clear understanding that BDS is not a civil rights movethe Jewish city council
into being anti-Semitic.
ment, it is not a human rights movement,
members who is Orthodox.
They taught me a lot. There were
it is simply an anti-Semitic movement.
This city was able to come together
smart people there, and they gave great
One of the things I tried to make sure to
and recognize both the true nature of BDS,
insights on the issue. It was a very good
do, along with many of my neighbors and
and that we can stand together as a diverse
education.
colleagues in Englewood and throughout
community and do something important.
There were a lot of African Americans
the Jewish community, was to make sure
The fact that Englewood was able to
there. The population is focused on discrimination, on Black Lives Matter, on
that we were well organized, and that
stand together on this was remarkable.
police shootings, so it was interesting for
people who truly understood what BDS
Its something to be proud of. Englewood
them to have people who live up on the
really stands for could get to the meeting
really has played a leadership role, and I
East Hill Englewoods first and second
to testify, and allow them to have their
am very happy to be part of it.
wards, which include the citys largest
voices heard.
Gene Skurnick represents Englewoods
houses and wealthiest residents, many
Unlike their counterparts in New York,
third ward. At almost 75, hes a first-generation Bronx-born Jew, a native of the leftof them modern Orthodox Jews talk
BDS opponents in Englewood did not face
wing Yiddishist world, a politically active
about discrimination. What is going on
hostility. As to why that was, I can only
Democrat. Hes served two stints on the
there? They were moved by what they
speculate, Mr. Cohen said. (In fact, he
city council, first from 1978 to 1984, and
heard, particularly about the effect of
did not speculate.)
again starting in 2010.
BDS campaigns on college students.
There were about 50 people at the
Before the question of voting on an
Both New Jersey State Senates majorcouncil meeting, he said; thats somewhere between two and three times the
ity leader, Loretta Weinberg, and the
anti-BDS resolution was brought up, Mr.
normal number of observers.
state Assemblys deputy speaker, GorSkurnick said, he knew very little about
don Johnson, come from Bergen County
Mr. Cohen compared the meeting in
the issue, and he suspects he shared that
Ms. Weinberg from Teaneck, Mr. JohnEnglewood to the one in New York. In
lack of knowledge with many others. In
son from Englewood. Ms. Weinberg is
New York, you had a very well-organized
fact, he said, because his daughter Miriam, now 34, went to college at MacalJewish, and Mr. Johnson is African-Ameroperation, Mr. Cohen said. They tried
ester, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and was
ican. The two put out a joint statement
to make sure that anybody who spoke
exposed to some early BDS action there,
welcoming the councils action, noting
against BDS was drowned out, and that
he had learned a bit about it, and what he
the states position as an anti-BDS stronganti-Semitic rants ruled the day.
hold, and stressing the economic and culknew had disturbed him. In other parts
It was a very eye-opening environment to a lot of the people there.
tural ties that bind Israel and New Jersey,
of the country, there was a lot of what I
There are more than 8 million people in
adding that New Jersey stands against
would call anti-Western, anti-Israel not
New York City. Englewood, on the other
global intolerance and anti-Semitism.
anti-Semitic, but anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, and pro-anyone who is not on top.
hand, is small. Its just under 30,000
The BDS movement is an obstacle to
Still, it had been at the back of his mind.
people, and it has a growing and flourishachieving peace and security in this volaing Jewish community, probably about 20
tile region. The movement serves only to
He thinks that there are two reasons that
percent of the city, maybe slightly more.
inflame tensions that stand in the way of
the resolution passed. The first is that it is
The city council is made up of a repdiplomatic progress and a lasting cessacorrect; BDS is something to be fought. It
resentative from each of its four wards,
tion of hostilities.
is wrong. And the second is that Michael

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Israeli rabbinate disqualifies Orthodox converts

Breaks promise given to Rabbinical Council of America in 2007
Larry Yudelson
It is the season for seeking atonement for broken
promises.
Which turns out to be convenient timing for
Israels chief rabbinate, which stands accused of
breaking a promise to Americas leading body of
Orthodox rabbis as well as violating long-accepted
Jewish law concerning the welcoming of converts.
At issue is the recent decision by the rabbinate,
whose decisions determine whether someone can
marry or be buried in Israel as a Jew, to require further investigation into the conversions of four people
who converted in America under Orthodox auspices.
This despite the fact that these converts had had
Rabbi Seth Farber
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
their conversions investigated and stamped kosher
by two leading American Orthodox rabbis: Rabbi
Gedalia Dov Schwartz of Chicago, who heads the court
Congregation Keter Torah and more to the point, is serving a two-year stint as the Rabbinical Councils president.
of the Rabbinical Council of America, and Rabbi Mordechai Willig, who teaches Talmud at Yeshiva University
Rabbi Baum put his name to a press release that strongly
and is considered another one of the Rabbinical Councils
objected to the chief rabbinates action.
authorities in Jewish law.
We have already begun an investigation into this latest
In Teaneck, the Israeli government rabbinates refusal
disgrace and we demand a thorough report of how this
to trust Americas leading Orthodox rabbinic group
could happen, Rabbi Baum said, in a press release issued
was greeted harshly by Rabbi Shalom Baum, who leads
by the RCA.

The press release continued: This decision by

the Chief Rabbinate is especially egregious because
it challenges the rulings of one of the preeminent
halachic authorities, Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz
and because it disregards the great efforts that
we have made over the years, for the benefit of converts, to work with the Chief Rabbinate.
Central to the Rabbinical Councils agreement
to work with the chief rabbinate was the councils
2007 decision to centralize Orthodox conversion,
instituting practices and standards that passed
muster with the Israeli rabbinate. These standards
were hailed at the time as providing converts with
the assurance that their conversions will not be
needlessly challenged in the future, in the words
of Rabbi Barry Freundel, who led the councils
adoption of the new policies. (Rabbi Freundel now
is serving time in prison for spying on women showering
before immersing in the mikvah as part of the conversion
ritual.)
If the 2007 agreement promised to look forward by
bringing American conversions up to Israeli standards,
it also looked backward, by establishing a mechanism
by which the Rabbinical Council would certify past
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A well-spent labor-filled day

YU senior from Fair Lawn helps clear flood-damaged Louisiana houses
Yoni Mintz

space transforms into a place

when a person adds meaning
to it.
When you want to make a
certain space your own, you work on it
to make it uniquely yours. Such is the
case with your home. Instead of being a
random place, a home contains an abundance of personal items that make its
owner feel at ease.
With these ideas from a recent interdisciplinary college course I took running
through my mind, I looked with dismay
from my car window onto the flood-ravaged streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I
had come there for the Labor Day weekend with 11 Yeshiva University undergraduate students and two staff members. We
were working with Nechama, a Jewish
relief organization, to help flood disaster
victims.
Outside nearly every house we passed,
we saw a huge pile of what suddenly had
become trash. Much of this trash consisted
of items that just a few weeks earlier had
sat serenely in the homes. Places where
kids normally would enjoy their front
lawns, neighbors would wave hello to each
other as they passed, and lives were happily lived, now were strewn with remnants
of what used to be. Fridges, ovens, clothing, dolls, toys, food, computers, and beds
were just a few of the pieces of rubble that
we saw. The things that once made these
houses into homes were now lying in disarray, abandoned by the curb.
We arrived at the first of the houses
where we were to work, not knowing
what to expect. After catching a whiff of
the heavy stench of mold that we soon
would become habituated to, we were
given masks and gloves to wear at all times
inside. Our job in that house entailed
removing all the items and ripping out
the floorboards. Teddy bears, pictures,
canned food, clothing, doors, and cabinets
were brought out of the house, mostly to
the curb. If any items were salvageable, we
put them to the side, in order to give the

The group gathers in Baton Rouge before beginning its clean-up work. Yoni Mintz is the second from the right in the
top row.
courtesy Zev Behar
homeowners back as much as possible.
After sitting in water for several weeks,
many items in the houses became waterlogged and extremely heavy. Removing
dressers and beds, which ordinarily would
have been easy, became a difficult challenge, even for a large group of able-bodied
people. For example, we had to maneuver
heavy beds back and forth, turning them
as needed, while still maintaining a firm
grip on them. With six people hugging
onto each bed with all of their might, the
beds finally made it to the curb. Puddles of
moldy water trailed behind them.
Other houses had further challenges.
For example, we had to take down moldy
drywall, leaving the bare studs. New drywall soon would replace the old. In college,
I had spent two winter breaks working for
Habitat for Humanity, building homes
from scratch for indigents. I reflected on

the contrast in the experiences of those

people helped by Habitat for Humanity
and the people we were helping in Baton
Rouge. While people who got new homes
with Habitat were starting fresh, those
being helped by Nechama would be moving back into houses that once contained
the many items that made it their homes.
Those items were lost forever. Those people also would have to start anew. I considered their task to be the more difficult
one, given all that they had lost and the
void that they had experienced.
On our final day we were challenged by
a house that had not yet received assistance from any flood relief team. Everything had been left in the house; it was as
it had been before the flood. We quickly
learned what that meant. A fridge became
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The opposite of a student

Rabbi Asher Yablock returns to Teaneck to helm TABC
Larry Yudelson

hats it like to see things

from the principals point
of view?
All of us have been
students, even the teachers and principals among us. They are our archetypal
non-parental authority figures, sometimes
friendly, sometimes remote, always the omniscient bogeymen: Dont make me send you
to the principals office, we remember teachers saying.
So what is it like to be a principal? What is it
like to transition to the top of a schools food
chain? (Not quite the top principals must
answer to the boards that select them. But
at least within their building on a day-to-day
basis they are where the buck stops.) What is
it like to become the opposite of a student?
Does becoming principal change your perspective on matters? Do you discover that
everything you thought about education in
kindergarten was wrong?
It turns out that Rabbi Asher Yablock, 37,

the new head of school of

home from shul. I would
the Torah Academy of Bercomplain that a teacher
gen County, is precisely the
was talking for two hours
wrong educator to ask about
straight. He had a lot of the
his new perspective from
teacher-is-always-right perspective when it came to
the other side of the school
supporting his faculty.
administrators desk.
Asher found this perspecThats because he first
tive in large measure conlearned what it was like to
vincing. When I was sitting
sit in the principals chair
at lunch I would have more
in middle school, when his
Rabbi Asher Yablock
of the party line, he said.
family moved to Teaneck
Rabbi Yablock still wants
and his father, Rabbi Benjamin Yablock, became principal of the
to balance the two perspectives, that of the
Manhattan Day School, an Orthodox Jewstudent and that of the adult in the classish school on the Upper West Side, and his
room. Im passionate for the students, he
mother, Aviva, became its early childhood
said. Theyre what were here for. We have
director. (Benjamin retired last year after a
to do our best for them.
quarter century; Aviva still is there.)
Im also very committed to supporting
Studying in his parents school gave Asher
our faculty and the system we run for the
an unusual perspective.
benefit of the students.
It was a little hard for me to have a beef
Rabbi Yablock started at TABC in July. His
with some thing in school when I knew my
position is a new one. He is being mentored
parents were responsible for it, he said. We
by the schools rosh yeshiva, or head, Rabbi
would have lengthy conversation walking
Yosef Adler, who has led TABC since 1990.

Most recently, Rabbi Yablock had been

dean of Judaic studies at the Atlanta Jewish
Academys upper school. The biggest change
in the new job, he said, is the scale, and also
dealing with only one gender. In Atlanta, his
school had 100 boys and girls.
How to take a school that has such a
strong legacy and has room for growth is an
exciting challenge, he said.
Its a transition from the pace Im used
to. We have students leaving their homes to
come here from the 6 oclock hour. I close up
at the 10 oclock hour, he said, when all the
extracurricular activities are done.
While slightly more than half of TABCs
students come from Bergen County, there
are regular buses from Manhattan, Riverdale,
Highland Park, and West Orange.
Rabbi Yablocks road to Teaneck started in
Seattle, Washington, where his father worked
at the Seattle Hebrew Academy before moving to become principal of the Scranton
Hebrew Day School. After graduating YUs
high school, known as MTA, he spent two
years in yeshiva in Israel and then went to

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Rabbi Asher Yablock addresses TABC staff.

Yeshiva University, where he majored in

Judaic studies as an undergraduate, earned a
masters in Jewish education focusing on day
school administration, and was ordained. He
taught in day schools on Long Island and in
Saint Louis before moving to Atlanta.
Its a similar experience to what I had
growing up, he said of his moves before

returning to Teaneck. Im excited to come

back here.
He decided to enter the family business
while in college. He took part in YUs Torah
tours, which take students to different Jewish communities, and felt a lot of satisfaction
and a lot of competence through teaching.
So what are his plans for TABC?

We are looking to continue our legacy of

really being student-centered and looking to
create opportunities for our students, he
said. Im focused on what their needs are
and how they can best be prepared for the
years beyond high school.
He said that one of the schools greatest
strengths is the closeness and warmth students feel in the school. We have a broad
community, he said. There is connection
between the grades. I have students sitting
in shiur Talmud class next to upper
classmen.
Were proud that our faculty and rabbeim rabbis have such a warm relationship with their students. I played ball
with them last Saturday night at our Shabbaton and I was not the exception among the
faculty.
But if warmth is important, so are the
concrete concerns of preparing students for
todays world.
Part of the changes hes bringing involve
cultivating new interests in robotics, engineering, and entrepreneurship, he said. And
part of it is looking to get students engaged
with material in the classroom in a way more
similar to how they engage with problems in
college and the workforce. This style of pedagogy is something were looking to develop.
Were looking at things we need to be up to

date on and pushing forward so students are

well prepared.
Were also looking to cultivate students
relationship to Torah and observant lives
beyond the classroom.
One new policy he instituted: grade deans.
Each grade now has its own dean, responsible for student life, and access point for parents and students. We want to be very aware
of our students needs and our students
challenges.
Rabbi Yablock is married to Shira Zeffren,
a speech therapist. They have six children,
ranging in age from 3 to 12. Does he expect
they will follow in his and their grandparents
professional footsteps?
I think they would all be very capable,
he said. They always talk about TABC and
Daddys students. In Atlanta, we watched
the TABC games, so they felt connected to
that already.
The same way I want my students to see
how you can live a meaningful life as a modern Orthodox adult and be a community
leader and professional, he said. God willing, my own children can see thats an exciting profession. That said, their personalities
are all over the place. Id be flattered too if
some of my students see a role model for an
educators life. TABCs legacy is extremely
strong in that area.

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Adler Center living out

the dreams of its founders
Elaine Adler says Mikes goals are being realized for people with aphasia
Lois Goldrich

hen Elaine and

Myron (Mike)
Adler founded
the Adler Aphasia Center in 2003, they had big
goals and even bigger dreams.
What they did not have was a
blueprint.
Truly, we didnt know how
well we could do, because we
didnt really have a model, Ms.
Adler said.
So what they did, said Karen
Tucker, the centers executive
director, was build on what did
exist. We used three different models the senior center
model of growth and development; the clubhouse model
of Gildas Club, which stresses
socialization and peer support,
and the life participation model,
an evidence-based speech
Participants make a mosaic at the Adler Aphasia Center.
pathology approach asking how
we can help members get back
into living with aphasia, she said.
Center at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, which
Their ultimate goal, Ms. Adler said, was to reach as
she will visit soon when she travels to Israel for her youngest grandchilds bar mitzvah celebration.
many people as possible. So far, they have reached thousands helping members and their families through
Ms. Adlers name is well known in the wider community
direct service, resources, training, and education.
as well. An active supporter of the Bergen Volunteer Medical
Mike Adler died last year at the age of 91 his first yartzInitiative, the Gold Foundation, and the Community Resource
eit was observed on September 15. He was our visionCouncil, she is a board member of the Jewish Home Family.
ary, Ms. Tucker said. His commitment, dedication, and
Together, she and Mike helped create Ramapo Colleges Adler
understanding of others with aphasia was the foundation
Center for Nursing Excellence .
for how we ran the center. Indeed, the centers upcoming
Still, the Maywood center has a special place in her heart.
gala has been titled Strengthening Voices for Aphasia
Im so very proud of our people, she said. In addition to
Remembering Mike Adler and Honoring His Vision.
helping people with aphasia, a speech disorder most commonly caused by a stroke or brain injury, Were very seriFortunately, Elaine Adler is still committed to that
ously taking care of caregivers and families, she said. I
vision, and a great deal has been done since her husbands
know the hell they go through. Mr. Adler had a stroke after
death to help bring it about. Ms. Adler is well known in
bypass surgery in 1993 that left him with aphasia.
both the local and international aphasia community. She
We look at the whole person and how aphasia affects
continues to support the National Aphasia Association;
the whole family, Ms. Adler said. Mikes vision was to have
AphasiaAccess, a national organization focusing on the life
people be comfortable with themselves and their families
participation approach to aphasia; and the Adler Aphasia
and friends because its so frustrating not being able to
speak when you still know everything.
Who: The Adler Aphasia Center will hold its annual
When I first met them, Mike had already had all kinds
gala
of speech therapy, Ms. Tucker said. He finally met a guy
What: Strengthening Voices for Aphasia
who said, Youre fine. Just get on with it. Thats what our
Remembering Mike Adler and Honoring His Vision
folks needed.
When: Oct. 6 at 6 p.m.
When youre relaxed, youre willing to try. Our little lab
Where: 60 West Hunter Ave., Maywood
here has proved to be so helpful because our members go
Honorees: The center will honor Investors Bank, a
back out into the community. It can happen for others as
longtime supporter of the organization, and member
well.
Christine Byrnes and her family, who have helped the
We want to spread the word, Ms. Adler said. Were not
center in various ways for many years. Harry Carson,
a money-making business. Were here to help people. We
a New York Giants Hall of Famer, will speak about
talk to everyone, she added, joking that If youre Jewish
traumatic brain injury. Steve Adubato will be master of
and belong to a synagogue and havent heard about the cenceremonies.
ter, your head has been in the sand. She pointed out that
For more information: email Elissa Goldstein at
Robin Straus, the centers outreach coordinator, has made it
egoldstein@adleraphasiacenter.org
her business to offer presentations wherever she is invited.
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Often, members with aphasia join her.

So many folks have visited
us, Ms. Adler said. Weve
had people from Australia,
and a young woman from
Italy who brought a friend
to interpret. They dont do
enough in Italy and wanted
to bring back some of our
thinking. We also train doctors and nurses, planting
seeds for the future within
the medical community. We
want them to see that people
with aphasia can laugh, have
fun, and are intelligent.
The work of the center
impacts the lives of whole
families, she continued. We
hear story after story. For
example, she said, the young
son of a center member came
to family night and asked a
cogent question about his
mothers condition. Getting
an answer that set his mind
at rest, he was able to sleep through the night for the first time
since his mothers stroke. Some children of members go on to
become speech pathologists themselves, she said.
At its annual gala on October 6, the center will formally
launch its Anniversary Campaign. Ms. Adler has agreed to
match up to $500,000 a year, dollar for dollar, until 2018,
when the center will celebrate its 15th anniversary. We want
to be able to sustain what we have and be able to grow, she
said. To date, the campaign has raised $225,000.
As much as Mike was challenged by technology, he liked
it, Ms. Adler said. He wanted to be cutting edge and do
the latest and the greatest. As a result, the center looks at
technology seriously. For example, since there are not many
aphasia centers, and New Jersey does not have a well-developed system of transportation for the disabled, the Maywood center has created virtual aphasia groups, coordinated by speech pathologist Janice Dittelman. Through this
project, people with aphasia interact through a screen.
It doesnt matter what you talk about as long as youre
communicating, Ms. Adler said. Its not traditional boring
speech therapy. Theyre talking about relevant topics with
people.
Our members have friends all over the world, Ms.
Tucker added; program director Chrysa Golashesky has
Adler members using Skype to talk to people in Australia,
Alaska, and Israel. We wake people up at all hours, she
joked. In two weeks, a virtual group will talk with Sean Maloney, chairman of Intel China. He spoke at our 10th anniversary dinner, Ms. Adler said, adding that members also soon
will talk to Carl McIntyre, who has aphasia and has made a
movie about it.
Ms. Adler said that she and her husband hoped that the center would exist into perpetuity. Aphasia is never going to go
away. If we can keep this going, if people will be kind enough
to help us grow, it will be for their benefit. She pointed out
that 80 percent of the centers budget comes from donations.

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Insurance doesnt recognize us, she said.
While the Maywood facility is the flagship aphasia center, a smaller version of
it has been created in West Orange. Other
groups, offering opportunities for people
with aphasia and their families to come in
every other week, also have been instituted
throughout the state. So far, there are conversation groups in Bridgewater, Hammonton, Maywood, Monroe, Morristown, Scotch
Plains, and Toms River. Three more areas
will be targeted in 2017. The groups are being
run in conjunction with JCCs, universities,
churches, and social service organizations.
One of the years most colorful achievements, Ms. Adler said, has been the building of a donor wall. Its made up of mosaic
flowers crafted by center members under
the guidance of designer Bonnie Cohen,
who spent two days at the center as an artist in residence.
The members took pictures of their
flowers on their phones, Ms. Tucker said.
Their work was then shipped to Cohens
studio, where she added leaves and mosaic
tiles. On completion it was returned to the
Adler center, where it can now be seen in
the entrance lobby. Every member took
pride and was excited, said Tucker. They

could identify the flowers they made. So

far, $225,000 has been raised toward the
wall, although the campaign to sell plaques
will launch officially at the Oct. 6 gala. The
plaques cost a minimum of $2500 and are
available in three sizes.
The centers corporate partner program
also was expanded this year. We are partnering with Deloitte, Becton Dickinson, Eisai,
Novartis, and UPS, Ms. Tucker said. We are
fulfilling their corporate volunteer requirements as they volunteer here while we teach
them about aphasia and how to help advocate for those living with it.
Many large corporations encourage
employees to become part of the community, either giving them time to volunteer or
else making monetary donations, Ms. Adler
explained. In some cases, they invite members of the centers Something Special
program, who set up displays of the jewelry
and other items they make to help subsidize
scholarships. People see how wonderful it
is to work with our members and then they
come here to work with them to make gift
items, she said.
Something Special is branching out into
corporate venues to sell jewelry, Elissa Goldstein, the centers director of development

Mike and Elaine Adler

Karen Tucker

and communications, said. The program

should hit the $300,000 revenue mark in
October since it began in 2009.
Member programs go way beyond jewelrymaking, Ms. Tucker noted. This years technology offerings include fantasy football and
a member-written newspaper. In the West
Orange facility, members are learning how
to tend a garden. Members like new activities, she said. From day one, weve said,
What do you want to do? They have so little

control. It gives them a feeling of empowerment. They take ownership.

I often say I love each and every one of
our members because theyre so brave,
Ms. Adler said. Its not easy when you
cant say what you want to say and do
what you want to do.
I give them so much credit. They just
forge on. Before they developed aphasia,
many of them led very productive lives
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Jacqueline Kates to lead
Teanecks new community initiative
Geriatric Services, Inc.
residents to take advantage of the communihas been funded by the
tys existing resources.
Henry and Marilyn Taub
Areas of focus will
Foundation to move
include affordable housTeanecks Age-Friendly
ing options, transportaCommunity Initiative
tion, health and safety,
from planning to implementation. Jacqueline
and communication.
Geriatric Services,
Kates, a former mayor
Inc., the nonprofit
of Teaneck who more
organization that has
recently was the community relations coordinaJacqueline Kates
provided housing sertor at Holy Name Medical
vices in Teaneck for 26
Center, will begin as the projects coordiyears, is leading the effort in Teaneck
nator on October 1.
but invites organizations, service providers, recreational and cultural proDuring the implementation phase,
grams, civic and faith-based groups
plans will be developed to improve and
that serve the Teaneck community,
enhance township services, safety, and
as well as Teaneck residents, to parcommunication. The goal is to ensure
ticipate. The Henry and Marilyn Taub
that Teanecks older residents can age
Foundation has funded similar initiacomfortably in their homes and neighborhoods. The action plan will address
tives in Englewood, Garfield, Ridgewood, and Westwood.
needs and concerns identified through
For information, call Jacqueline Kates
communitywide surveys, interviews,
at (201) 530-7572.
and focus groups and help Teaneck

Two Wayne congregations

collect goods, funds for the needy
Shomrei Torah and Temple Beth Tikvah
are sponsoring a High Holy Day non-perishable food and basic necessities drive
for the less fortunate.
Donations will benefit the Wayne Interfaith Network and other local charities in
Wayne Township. The shuls will be joining Conservative and Reform congregations throughout the United States in a
national effort to fight hunger and help
those less fortunate. (Shomrei Torah is
Conservative and Beth Tikvah is Reform.)

Donations can be dropped off at either

Wayne synagogue during the weekdays
leading up to and between the holidays.
Shomrei Torah is 30 Hinchman Ave.,
(973) 696-2500, and Temple Beth Tikvah
is at 950 Preakness Ave., (973) 595-6565.
Non-expired, donated items should be
regular size, not super size, and in nonglass containers. Checks payable to the
Wayne Interfaith Network also are welcome. For more information, go to www.
winfoodpantry.org.

Recycle bat mitzvah gowns

Teanecks bat mitzvah gown/dress
gemach (a Jewish free-loan fund) is
accepting dresses that are in style and in
excellent condition for bat mitzvah girls.
Dresses can be dropped off or picked up.

The gemach has teamed up with Project

Ezrah and can give a receipt for your
dress donation. For information, email
Renee at reneeschneier@gmail.com.

Community challah baking in Passaic

Save Wednesday, November 9, for this
years Shabbos Project and WIZONJs
Great Big Challah Bake. Funds raised will
support WIZO New Jerseys Gina Fromer
Battered Womens Shelter in Jerusalem.
Two challot to make, an apron, a mixing
bowl, a challah cover, and a laminated

placemat with challah recipes and

brachot are included with every admission. The bake is at Factory 220, 220 Passaic St. For information, email Wizo@
wizony.com, call (212) 751-6461, or go to
www.wizonj.org.

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Heather Yedwab Berman, left, and Marilyn Burg 

Courtesy Leah Sokoloff

Leah Sokoloff Nursery School

in Fair Lawn welcomes new staff
The Leah Sokoloff Nursery School at
Congregation Shomrei Torah in Fair
Lawn has welcomed its new educational coordinator, Marilyn Burg,
and its Tiny Tot teacher, Heather
Yedwab Berman.
Ms. Burg has more than 20 years
of early childhood experience. An

artist, she is also the art teacher at

the Beit Rabban Day School in Manhattan. Ms. Berman taught at RYNJ
and most recently at the Torah Academy of Boca Raton. For information,
call (201) 791-6744 or email lsnspreschool@gmail.com.

Clergy and professionals gather

for interfaith mental health seminar
More than 100 participants are expected
is the moderator.
at the Interfaith Roundtable on Mental
The program also includes a resource
Health Awareness on Wednesday, Octoroom and proposed program initiatives for
ber 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sponsored
faith communities. A vegetarian lunch is
by Central Unitarian Church in Paramus
provided, and a $15 donation is requested.
and Paramus Stigma Free
Register at eventbrite.com
Zone, the roundtable is
and search on Interfaith
scheduled in conjunction
Roundtable on Mental
with Mental Illness AwareHealth or call Cynthia Chaness Week under the auszen at (201) 767-8122.
pices of the National AlliCentral Unitarian
ance on Mental Illness.
Church in Paramus
Open to clergy, relireceived an ambassador
gious professionals, and
award from the N.J. Governors Council on Mental
lay leaders, the program
Health Stigma in April. The
features a panel including
church was one of 10 indipresentations by Susan
Susan Greenbaum
viduals and faith-based or
Greenbaum, the executive
religious institutions recdirector of the Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson.
ognized for their effective support services or programs that reduce the ways
Other panelists include Jim Bushoven,
in which society stigmatizes people with
pastor of community development at the
mental illness.
Hawthorne Gospel Church; Sheikh Moutaz
Central Unitarian Church members
Charaf, imam of the El-Zahra Islamic Center; Louis Knaub, board president of Christ
voted in June 2015 to become a designated Stigma-Free Zone and to proChurch Community Development Center; and Peg Whelahan, a member of the
mote mental health awareness within
Church of the Presentation. David Horst,
the congregation and the larger Bergen
the minister of Central Unitarian Church,
County community.

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Wishing you a year blessed
with good health, prosperity
& happiness.

Sukkot Celebration
Enjoy a special lobby activity for Sukkot. Come see, feel
and smell the four species, create holiday arts and crafts,
help decorate the JCC Sukkah and view pictures of
Sukkot in Israel.

jojo rubach , President

jordan b. shenker , CEO

An information sheet about the holiday and the four

species blessings will be available to take home.
Activities held in English and Hebrew.

& the Board of Directors,

Trustees & Staff

Thur, Oct 13, 4-5:30 pm

IAC Eitanim:
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Meets 10 Thursdays, Oct 27-Jan 26, 6:30-9:30 pm, $150

Mother, Can You Not? Book Event

Come meet the mother/daughter team that created the
wildly popular Instagram account @CrazyJewishMom.
Kate Siegel and mom Kim Friedman will talk about Kates
new book, Mother, Can You Not? while they entertain us
with their mother/daughter bond that is both wonderful
and embarrassing.
Event sponsors: Kim Harrison and Eileen Pleva.
Co-sponsored with the James H. Grossmann
Memorial Jewish Book Month Endowment Fund.
Visit jccotp.org or call Kathy at 201.408.1454
Sun, Oct 9, 5:30-6:30 pm, $12/$15

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Professors and experts present on a variety of
subjects. October 6th topics are: The Curious Case
of Kiryas Joel; the Battle to Defend the Separation
of Church and State; and Post-Impressionist
Art and the East. October 20th topics are: The
Vietnam War: Seeing Beyond the American
Perspective and David Levines Political Satire.
Visit jccotp.org/JCCU or call Kathy at 201.408.1454
Thursdays: Oct 6, Oct 20, Nov 3, 10:30 am-2 pm, 1
Thursday $34/$42

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Join us for a high-energy, empowering spin-a-thon
and breast cancer information event to raise funds
to support Sharsheret, a non-profit organization
supporting young women and their families facing
breast cancer in our community. Held in partnership
with the Graf Center for Integrative Medicine at
Englewood Hospital.

Free Exercise Classes for Seniors

Regular exercise can boost energy and strength, reduce
symptoms of illness or pain and help you maintain your
independence. Its also good for your mind, mood, and
memory. Free exercise classes for seniors including Qi
Gong, Fit for Life, Easy Exercise, Balance & Agility, and Sit
& Be Fit are offered year-round.
Visit jccotp.org/seniors-special-events or contact
Marlene at 201.569.7900, ext. 439.

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Freedom of and from religion
Author talks about his fight against unconstitutional
Satmar school district
JOaNNe PalMeR

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it took the son of a Jewish
alcoholic from West Virginia to challenge the New
York State government, including his onetime friend Mario Cuomo, on its unconstitutional concessions to the Satmar chasidim in Kiryas Joel.
Louis Grumet, a lawyer who spent his
career in public service, was the plaintiff
in a case that reached the United States
Supreme Court; he won at every level of
the judiciary system. Fueled not at all by
dislike for the plaintiffs who, he said,
had every right to pursue their interests
as far, as long, and as hard as they could
but by a burning, passionate desire that
the Constitutions first amendment be
respected, he has written a book about his
experiences.
The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel: The
Rise of a Village Theocracy and the Battle
to Defend the Separation of Church and
State, details Mr. Grumets story. He will
be talking about it at JCC U at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly on Thursday, October 9, at 10:30 a.m., and again at
the JCC Rockland on Tuesday, November 1,
at 7. (See box for more information about
both talks, and more about the JCC U.)
Mr. Grumet, 72, grew up as one of very
few Jews in Weirton, W. Va.; he was one of

Louis Grumet
Who: Louis Grumet, author of the
Curious Case of Kiryas Joel
What: will talk about his book twice

IN BERGEN COUNTY
Where: at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 411 east Clinton ave., tenafly
When: On thursday, October 6, at
10:30 a.m.
Why : Co-sponsored by the JCC U and
the James h. Grossmann Memorial
Jewish Book Month endowment Fund
For tickets and information: Call Kathy
Graff at (201) 408-1454 or email her at
kgraff@jccotp.org
What Else: Please see other box for
rest of JCC U schedule, including
second talk that session.

IN ROCKLAND COUNTY
Where: at the JCC rockland,
450 west nyack rd., west nyack
When: On tuesday, november 1, at 7p.m.

two Jewish kids in school, and the other

was the rabbis daughter, he said. And
my father was the only Jewish alcoholic in
West Virginia.
It was toughening, he understated.
You learn to put up with people telling you
that youre not like other Jews, and meaning
it as a compliment. And of course most of
them had never met another Jew.
His towns high school was integrated
soon after the Brown vs. Board of Education case found that intentional segregation was unconstitutional. Dunbar High
School integrated surprisingly easily, Mr.
Grumet said, because one of the black students at the black high school was a standout football star that went on to play in the
NFL. But I was a nerd, he said. I didnt
care about football. Instead, he read. The
book and movie that had a great influence
on me was To Kill a Mockingbird.
When he got to George Washington University (with a full-time job to bankroll his
position as a full-time student), Mr. Grumet, energized with his passion for the civil
rights movement and his desire to work for
change through politics, knocked on the
door of the Democratic National Committee, he said. Lyndon Johnson was running
for president then. Mr. Grumet worked for
the party for three years, and then his boss,
who was his mentor, and who was cleareyed about the young mans potential as an
attorney, harassed me into getting a scholarship to law school.
Mr. Grumet went to NYU; he met his wife,
Barbara, at law school, where she was one of
very few women. Next, he went to the University of Pittsburgh for a masters degree in
public administration.
One of the ways that politics works is
through connections, and Mr. Grumet made
them. After graduation he went back to government, first as an assistant research director for a commission studying local government. He met Robert Wagner, the former
New York City mayor and then-current eminence grise. From there, he moved to Albany,
where I became the very young chief of
research for an agency actually named the
Office of Local Government.
One day, Mr. Grumet, who is not only a
lawyer, a bureaucrat, and an advocate but
also a gifted storyteller, got a phone call telling him that Hugh Carey had just won New
York States governorship the day before
that was not news to him and that Careys
team would appreciate it should Mr. Grumet
represent them the next day, at a state budget
hearing. (The call came through Mr. Wagners
influence.) I said, but Im a state employee!
And they said just call in sick.

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Louis Grumet

So I do and I discovered that its a press

conference. Im giving my first press conference, with the New York Times, Newsday, UPI, the AP. So I panic, and run and
call Mayor Wagner, and stammer that the
pppppppppppress is there. And he hangs up
on me.
So I go back Im 28, 29 years old
and I hold a press conference. I was a
stitch. It was like Gold in Joseph Hellers
Good as Gold. I told the truth because I
didnt know any better.
I was asked how well I knew Hugh
Carey, and I said, I never met him. I was
asked, What was your role in the campaign, and I said, I voted.
I was on the front page of every newspaper except the New York Times, and
there I was on the front page of the Metropolitan section.
His public career now launched, Mr. Grumet soon found himself the director of intergovernmental relations (because I had said
somewhat piously that I was an intergovernmental specialist, he reported) working for
a man whom I had never met, who had never
met me.
Mario Cuomo.
After three years as special assistant to
Mr. Cuomo, who was secretary of state,
Mr. Grumet became assistant commissioner of the state education department,
given the task of building a program for
handicapped children. He had no background whatsoever in special education,
Mr. Grumet said, but he did combine an
advocates passion with a bureaucrats
knowledge of the system. From what he
said, his was a controversial tenure, during which he moved children to the least
restrictive environments consonant with
their needs and conditions.
Next, in 1984, Mr. Grumet became
the executive director of the New
York State School Boards, an umbrella

organization representing (surprise!)

the states school boards.
It was during that tenure in 1989 that
the state legislature passed what is called a
vampire bill, one that would never withstand the light of day. The bill called for the
establishment of a school district, and it
defined the district so that it encompassed
only one place Kiryas Joel. Everyone
who lived there every last soul, every living breathing human being was a Satmar
chasid.
This was the first time in American history and so far the last when a municipal
government was established for one and only
one religious group. And on its face, it was
unconstitutional.
But the Satmars in Kiryas Joel voted as a
bloc, and, even more importantly, so did
the Satmars in Brooklyn. So the legislature
passed the law, sure that Governor Cuomo
would veto it. But Cuomo signed it.
The two men argued. He said to me, Loueeg he called me that sometimes Loueeg, these people dont ask for much. They
asked for this. And then, as tempers got
heated, Cuomo said, and anyway, so what.
Who would sue? And I said, I will.
And then I go back to my board, thinking
that I have just threatened, on your behalf, to
sue the governor of New York, and hes a man
who takes no prisoners. So I tell the president
of the board what I did, and that I wont back
down, and she said, You did the right thing.
My organization didnt have standing, but
as an aggrieved taxpayer, I did.
Maybe it would be a good idea to back up
and explain why Mr. Grumet was so upset.
It looks like there was a dissolution between
the separation of church and state, he said.
The First Amendment to the Constitution
is in two parts. The first part is the freedom
to worship in any way you want. The second
part is freedom from the state coercing you
to worship, or leaning toward one religion in
any way.
Its written that way because it was a
compromise between Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison. Madison was about freedom of religion freedom from religion was
Jefferson.
Jefferson felt very strongly about it. Within
living memory in Europe, Protestants and

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Serving the needs of the Jewish community for 35 years

extremely expensive to take a case to the

with respect, dignity and strict adherence to halacha
Supreme Court. Mr. Grumets pro bono
through many funeral homes in the tri-state area.
lawyer was a young Orthodox man from
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years doing nothing but this.
He had been to the Supreme Court once
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The other side was represented by
Nathan Lewin, the famous trial lawyer and
frequent Supreme Court litigator who often
represents the Orthodox Union. We get
to the Supreme Court, and we win, six to
three, Mr. Grumet said.
Its a great American story. The chasidim and the poor Jewish kid from
West Virginia are at a case at the U.S.
Supreme Court.
The story had many twists even after
that; Mr. Grumet will tell them. He feels the
issue deeply. Why? It goes back to lessons
Proudly Serving New Yorks
he learned in childhood, growing up as
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an oddity. If we can spend public dollars
to build a ghetto wall because the people
inside want the ghetto, then we can build
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a ghetto wall because the people outside
want the ghetto.
If anyone knows that, its a Jew.
The bottom line is that I never said the
chasidim did anything wrong, he continWishing you a sweet, healthy
ued. I still am not saying that. I am not
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willing to say that these people are villains. They have the right, under the First
All are welcome to attend our
Amendment, to want all the things they
public family services
wanted. But the state did something wrong
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in saying yes to them.
When he speaks at the Rockland JCC in
Yom Kippur: Oct. 12 at 3:30 pm
November, Mr. Grumet will focus more on
Community Yizkor: Oct. 12 at 3:30 pm
the East Ramapo school district. There, he
said, the situation is very different. No one
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Catholics spent a great deal of time killing

each other, and America was founded by a
whole lot of people who fled from all sides.
And of course everyone hated the Jews.
For 150 years, we had never had a case
about it before the Supreme Court, because
everyone accepted the fact that the separation was crucial. Even when the Mormons
took over Utah, they held up making it a
state for several years, until the Mormons
agreed to the separation.
The situation was complicated. Kiryas
Joel was a village because it is easy to incorporate, and can be done without legislative
action. Thats not true of a school district.
Meanwhile, there were special needs
children in Kiryas Joel who needed an
education that the yeshivot and girls
schools could not give them. Parents sent
their children to public school in the district that surrounds Kiryas Joel, MonroeWoodbury; the children were met with a
serious lack of sensitivity to their needs.
At one point, a Satmar girl was taken to
a McDonalds. They did some really idiotic things, Mr. Grumet said. They also
asked that same girl to play Rudolph the
Red-Nosed Reindeer in a holiday pageant.
They were stupid, and the result was to
further inflame the situation.
Were those actions taken on purpose?
I dont know, Mr. Grumet said. No
one knows.
Another, related problem was that the
school district provided Kiryas Joel with
free transportation. Some of the bus
drivers were women, and Kiryas Joels
leaders objected to women driving their
sons. So now we have a growing anger
on both sides.
There is far more to the story it goes
on to involve New York States next governor, George Pataki, and many levels of trial
and appellate courts. We got the idea that
the only reason that the Supreme Court
took the case was to demolish separation,
he said. It was David and Goliath. It is

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When: On Thursday, October 6, for the second session of the program that will
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Bingo in Pearl River

Chazen jazz concert set for October 22

Beth Am Temple in Pearl River holds bingo games in

the ground-level social hall, which has its own sound
system and cushioned chairs. The building is handicapped-accessible and has a large, well-lit parking lot.
On Sundays, doors open at 5 p.m., and games
begin at 7. Upcoming Sunday dates are October 9
and November 6 and 20. On Tuesdays, doors open at
5:30 and games begin at 7:30. Because of the Jewish
holidays in October, the games will be switched from
Tuesdays to Thursdays, October 6, 13, 20, and 27. FUN
Bingo is on one Thursday each month.
The synagogue provides free coffee and tea; players can bring their own food but no pork products
or shellfish are permitted. On Tuesdays, light meals,
snacks, and beverages are sold.
Beth Am Temple is at 60 East Madison Ave. in Pearl
River. For information, call (845) 517-9549 or go to
www.bethamtemple.org.

The JCC Rockland presents

A Night to Remember with
the dueling pianos of Dick
Hyman and Bill Charlap, in
a once in a lifetime duo
interpretation of Rhapsody
in Blue. The Saturday, Oct.
22, event at the Rockland
Community College Cultural
Arts Center in Suffern, begins
at 8 p.m.
Dick Hyman has recorded,
composed, and performed
ragtime, boogie-woogie,
swing, bebop and all other
jazz styles in upward of 1,000
albums, is a sound track composer for more than a dozen
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Woody Allen films, founded
the Jazz in July concerts at
the 92nd Street Y, and will be a National Endowment for
the Arts Jazz Master Fellow in 2017.
Bill Charlap has performed with many leading artists including Tony Bennett and Wynton Marsalis. He
won a Grammy Award last year for Silver Lining: Songs
of Jerome Kern with Tony Bennett. He has been the
artistic director of 92ndStreet Ys Jazz in July Summer

Honoring unsung heroes

Rockland Jewish Family Service will honor Jamie and
Samantha Schnapper, Steve Schulman, Shelly Silverman, Tzivia Tyler, and Rita Weingold at its Sunday,
December 4, brunch. The event at Rockleigh Country
Club will honor unsung heroes.
For information, call Marissa, (845) 354-2121, ext.
177, or www.rjfs.org.

Bill Charlap

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Paterson University.
The concert is made possible through the generosity
of Simona and Jerome A. Chazen. For information, call
Elena Heydt at (845) 362-4400, ext. 106, email jazz@
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The Adult Education Center at the Jewish Federation & Foundation of Rockland
County offers Midreshet Rockland adult
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Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning led by Rabbi Paula Mack Drill meets
on Thursdays beginning October 20. A
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Dinner in the sukkah

The sisterhood of the Orangetown Jewish Center offers supper in the sukkah and a
program, A Good Uplift, on Wednesday, October 19, at 7 p.m. The synagogue is at
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conversions that met the formalized

standards. (In 2009, this became an
issue when the council refused to certify
a conversion carried out by Rabbi Avi
Weiss of Riverdale.)
Yet as reported in Haaretz and the
New York Jewish Week last week, the
Israeli rabbinate explicitly refused to
accept conversions that Rabbinical
Council leaders had certified as meeting
the new standards.

Our main
interest is in
protecting the
status and
dignity of those
who have
converted.
Rabbi Shalom Baum

Rabbi Mark Dratch, the RCAs executive vice president, was quoted in the
RCA press release as saying We will continue to advocate for and stand behind
our converts, fully supporting the integrity of their status as Jews. We believe
that the obligation of ahavat ha-ger
love and concern for all converts is of
paramount importance and we will continue to work on their behalf.
Rabbi Baum declined to go into much
further detail.
We generally have a strong working
relationship with [the rabbinate] and we
are investigating and addressing what
happened in these particular cases, he
wrote in an email. Our main interest is in
protecting the status and dignity of those
who have converted and I am confident
that this will be positively resolved.
The RCA protest seemed partially successful. Within a few days after the press
release was made public, Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau sent a letter
urging a midlevel bureaucrat in the chief
rabbinate to accept the RCA conversions.
Rabbi Lau asked me to clarify to you
once more that his position is to recognize the certifications given from the
Beth Din of America and signed by Rabbi
Gedalia Dov Schwartz, and they should
be trusted in the matter of confirming
[conversion] certificates received from
the United States, the chief rabbis
assistant, Pinchas Tenenbaum, wrote
to Rabbi Itamar Tubul. Rabbi Tubul,
who singlehandedly decides which Jewish conversions meet the threshold for
Orthodox marriage in Israel, is that midlevel bureaucrat.
In the letter Rabbi Lau sent to Rabbi
Tubul on Monday, he vouched for
Rabbi Schwartz and added that the

rejection of his conversions violates the

2007 agreement.
Rabbi Laus endorsement, however,
will not by itself ensure the conversions
approval. Lau also endorsed a conversion overseen by Haskel Lookstein, a
prominent New York modern Orthodox
rabbi, but in July, Israels Chief Rabbinical Court still rejected it.
The rabbinate is a chaotic place, said
Rabbi Seth Farber, a Yeshiva Universityordained Orthodox rabbi, who heads
Itim, an Israeli organization that has
challenged the chief rabbinate on issues
such as conversion.
According to reports, Sephardic Chief
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef is opposing Rabbi
Laus approach.
This hard line that all conversion
would be reinvestigated by the Israeli
government officials was conveyed
to Rabbi Farber in a letter from Rabbi
Tubul in the end of July. That letter said
explicitly that the rabbinate would not
accept a certification from a rabbi who
did not arrange the conversion or oversee the converts integration into the
Jewish community.
Not long ago, the rabbinate released
a list of Orthodox rabbis whose conversions it would accept, after being
forced to do so by court order litigated
by Rabbi Farbers group. At the time,
however, Rabbi Farber said, the rabbinate insisted that past acceptance of any
rabbis conversions did not guarantee
that it would accept new conversion
done by that rabbi.
Rabbi Farber is in discussions with the
rabbinate, but expects to appear before
the Israeli High Court before too long. He
plans to demand that the chief rabbinate adhere to transparent and binding
policies.
The rabbinate is acting in the name
of Judaism in an anti-halachic way, said
Rabbi Farber, using the Hebrew word for
Jewish religious law. What makes this
particularly grievous, he said, is that
Rabbi Schwartzs court is recognized
for its fierce dedication to halacha and
very rigorous standards.
If they dont accept this, a decision
of a beit din in this area, why should
they accept their divorces, why should
they accept their marriage or anything? he asked.
In other words, it seems like the Israeli
Orthodox rabbinate is treating its American colleagues with the same disrespect
it has shown to the non-Orthodox rabbis
who represent the overwhelming majority of Jewish Americans.
This is against halacha, Rabbi Farber said. Maimonides says that even
if three laymen do a conversion, it is
accepted. In this case, we have three
Orthodox rabbis who performed each
conversion, and certification from
another Orthodox rabbi that this was
done by our standards.
JTA Wire Service contributed to this story

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has pitted the Israeli army against one of
its soldiers and divided Israelis loyalties.
Charged with manslaughter in the
shooting of an already subdued Palestinian attacker, Azaria, an army medic,
has driven a wedge between those who
believe that Israels citizen army should
be above reproach and others who insist
that terrorists get what they deserve.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
has tried to straddle the divide, as he
demonstrated in a TV interview he gave
on the subject over the weekend justifying his decision to call the soldiers
father to offer support. Coupled with a
new survey of Israeli attitudes about the
Azaria case, the interview showed that
if nothing else, Netanyahu is an expert
reader of his countrys sentiments.
In March, Netanyahu faced criticism
for calling the soldiers father a week
after the shooting to offer support.
Critics said it was inappropriate, since
the army had just charged Azaria with
manslaughter.
On Saturday, with Azarias military
trial ongoing, Netanyahu was asked
about the phone call in an Israeli TV
interview. In his defense, the prime minister said he had simply urged Charlie
Azaria to have faith in the army.
You know what I told him? Word for
word: Place your trust in the IDF, in the
chief of staff, in our commanders and
soldiers and our justice system, Netanyahu said. (He went on to compare

Azarias parents to those of soldiers who

die or go missing in combat, for which he
apologized Monday following an outcry.)
Opinion polls by a think tank, the
Israel Democracy Institute, reveal a
political logic to Netanyahus simultaneous support for Azaria and the army. A
large majority of Israelis both justify
the shooting by Azaria and trust the
Israel Defense Forces.
With that phone call, I think Netanyahu was speaking to his support base
of right-wing voters, who support Elor
Azaria in very high numbers, Chanan
Cohen, a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute who co-wrote the August
Peace Index, said. On the other hand,
he doesnt want to contradict the IDFs
position, which is very clear.
Here are four numbers that tell the
story of how Israelis feel about the
Azaria case and perhaps help explain
Netanyahus phone call.

65 percent of
Jewish Israelis
support what Azaria did
The March 24 shooting by Azaria
instantly made international headlines, thanks to a video shot at the
scene by the Israeli human rights group
BTselem. The Palestinian attacker had
stabbed Azarias fellow platoon member
in Hebron, a predominantly Palestinian
city where hundreds of Israeli settlers
live under heavy military protection.
Azaria testified in July that he had
feared the attacker would detonate a
bomb on his body. The prosecution has

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks
on the phone in Tel Aviv in January 2013.
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argued the soldier acted out of a desire for vengeance.

Along with then-Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and
the army, Netanyahu initially came out against Azaria,
saying, What happened in Hebron doesnt represent
the values of the IDF.
But for most Israelis, the shooting isnt so simple.
Sixty-five percent of Jewish Israelis justify Azarias
act 42 percent strongly and 23 percent moderately
according to an August survey by the Israel Democracy Institute. The think tanks Peace Index surveys
600 Israelis at the end of every month, with a 4.1 percent margin of error.
Many of Azarias supporters dont seem to care if
hes innocent or not. Forty-seven percent of Israeli
Jews support killing a captured Palestinian attacker
who no longer poses a threat, compared to 45 percent
who would hand the attacker over to legal authorities,
the survey found. Among right-wingers, 83 percent
justify the shooting by Azaria and 62 percent favor
executing Palestinian attackers in principle.
There is some empathy with the soldier, partly
because many Israelis and their children have served
in the IDF, and they try to think what they would have
done in the same situation, Efraim Yaar, a sociologist
at Tel Aviv University who helps lead the Israel Democracy Indexs Peace Index, said. All this of course is
inflamed by basic hostility to Palestinian terrorists.
By calling Azarias father on March 31, a week after
the shooting, Netanyahu moved toward the center
of public opinion and his right-wing political base.
According to Haaretz, he told the elder Azaria, As a
father of a soldier, I understand your distress.

Eighty percent of Jewish

Israelis trust the Israeli army
At the same time, Netanyahu told Charlie Azaria, by
Haaretzs account: I trust the IDF, the chief of staff,
and the investigation 100 percent, and I think that
you as well should trust the commanders and the
examination.
Such an exhortation resonates with many Israelis.
Eighty-seven percent of Jewish Israelis trust the army

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a lot or quite a lot, according to the

August Peace Index. Forty-five percent of
them put a loss of trust and 35 percent
put quite a loss of trust in the army.
Netanyahu reportedly added, The
Israeli people must remain united around
its army because we have only one army
and many great challenges ahead.

charges against Azaria were baseless and

said he did not trust Moshe Yaalon,
then serving as Israels defense minister,
based on his handling of the affair.
Two days after the rally, Netanyahu
called Charlie Azaria. Two months later,
Liberman replaced Yaalon as defense
minister.

49 percent of the far

right thinks the army
doesnt represent Israel

About 2,000 people rallied

for Azaria in Tel Aviv

Although trust of the army is high across

the political spectrum, it is lowest among
right-wing Israelis at 85 percent, compared to 91 percent among centrists and
leftists, the August Peace Index found.
According to the July Peace Index, far
right-wingers also are the most likely to
say the army does not reflect the values
of Israeli society. Forty-nine percent of
them feel that way. Just 38 percent feel the
opposite that the army represents Israel
compared to 49 percent of the public.
Those Israelis likely were well represented among the some 1,000 people
who rallied on behalf of Elor Azaria the
week after the shooting. Gathered outside the military court where he was
appearing before a judge on March 29,
some in the crowd yelled racist slogans
against Arabs and invoked the ultranationalist Kahane movement.
Avigdor Liberman, a hardline nationalist politician, told demonstrators that the

Despite the widespread support for

Azaria, Israelis dont seem ready to take
to the streets en masse to protest his
prosecution.
Ultimately, the majority of the Israeli
public will accept the verdict because of
the overall legitimacy of the IDF, Yaar
said. This is an institution that Israelis
see as more important than any other for
Israels very existence.
A rally for Azaria at Rabin Square in
central Tel Aviv in April was something
of a flop. Organizers had expected tens
of thousands to show up and police had
planned accordingly, but only about
2,000 did, by Israeli media estimates.
Pop stars who had been slated to appear
pulled out, and few mainstream figures
showed up.
Speaking from the stage, Charlie
Azaria told the largely empty pavilion:
You cannot believe the amount of people here. All the sane people are here.
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Adelsons pledge
$14 million to IsraeliAmerican community

Israel signs $10

billion, 15-year natural
gas deal with Jordan

Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson made the

announcement on Sept. 26, at end of the
Israeli American Councils annual national
conference. Mr. Adelson told the audience
of 2,100 attendees that there are hundreds
of thousands of Israeli Americans who
could integrate into the U.S. Jewish community. He hopes that the IAC can have
greater political influence in Israeli-American outreach.
Dr. Adelson said that Israel will be
strengthened once the IAC becomes stronger and referred to members as Israeli soldiers in the U.S.
The Adelsons efforts to build connections between the U.S. Jewish community
and Israel were also evident during a private meeting with a Yesha Council delegation at the IAC conference.
Mr. Adelson was extremely excited to
hear about a new Amazon-like Buycott
website that the council is in the process
of launching . . . to promote Israeli goods
directly to consumers in the fight against
the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement, read a statement from the
Yesha Council, the umbrella organization
of municipal councils of Jewish communities in the West Bank.
JNS.ORG

Israel and Jordan finalized a landmark

15-year, $10 billion agreement in which
Israel will supply its neighbor with natural
gas from the offshore Leviathan field.
The agreement is Israels first energy
export deal and follows the approval of
Israels national energy plan, which still
causes controversy in the Knesset.
Leviathan, discovered in 2010 roughly
130 kilometers (81 miles) west of Haifa,
holds an estimated 22 trillion cubic feet
of natural gas. The field is one of the
worlds largest offshore discoveries of
the past decade.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz lauded
the deal as a national achievement,
saying that those who criticize the deal
should apologize to the Israeli public this coming Yom Kippur. Had their
ridiculous campaign of deception succeeded, Israel would have lost one of
its most important strategic resources.
The gas framework has proved itself and
it will facilitate the future development
of Leviathan. This is a historic moment
for Israel, which has become, for the
first time, an energy exporter. I have no
doubt more deals with more countries
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Is Berkeleys course on
Palestine the end of history?

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he Wall Street Journal cornow on offer from the University of Calirespondent Sohrab Ahmari
fornia, Berkeley. An activists seminar masdevotes a few paragraphs in his
querading as a unit of academic study, the
forthcoming book, The New
course was pulled last week after univerPhilistines, to a symposium on art and
sity authorities determined that it didnt
identity convened by the radical magazine
comply with required teaching standards.
Artforum.
This week, it was reinstated, following the
Indeed, there was never any real disintervention of a group called Palestine
agreement among the participants, and
Legal on behalf of the courses teacher,
Ben Cohen
this was typical, he writes. These are
Paul Hadweh.
discussions among in-the-know artists,
Interestingly, the web page advertising
academics and critics, who all agree about
the course specifies that its open to all
nearly everything: everyone knows that neoliberalism
students and that no prior knowledge is necessary.
is something bad; that liberal democracy is merely a
Judging by the themes examined in Hadwehs course,
more subtle form of tyranny; that Western societies are
along with the set textual readings, it might just as well
racist and sexist by design.
have said prior knowledge unwelcome. In this course,
Ahmaris insights into radical groupthink in the art
students are expected to behave like blank pages upon
world equally could apply to other disciplines in the
which an uncontested, single truth is engraved and
humanities and social sciences, such as literature, interanyone who says otherwise must, by definition, be a racnational relations, and history. The fact that this trend
ist, a colonial sympathizer, or a Zionist.
exists is hardly news; university teachers tendency to
There are many reasons why American-Jewish groups
discourage their students from engaging with conflicting
are fretting over the course, not least its functional excluor competing views by imposing a mixture of dogma, sosion of students with pro-Israel sympathies. But we also
called trigger warnings, and intellectual bullying long
need to understand that more than Jewish sensitivities
has been established. But the situation is getting worse.
are at stake here. What this course represents, above all,
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Specifically, the State of Israel,
whose establishment Bellerose
considers the greatest human
rights story ever, can offer a
blueprint for securing land and
rights for indigenous tribes
around the world.
This connection between
Israel and native peoples is personal: Bellerose, 40, of Calgary,
is a member of the Metis nation,
which is recognized by the
Canadian government as one of
the countrys official aboriginal
peoples.
Bellerose, who was raised
Ryan Bellerose, who founded a pro-Israel
Roman Catholic and now pracorganization before taking the Bnai Brith
tices Cree spirituality, jokes that
job, stands with actress Roseanne Barr.
his friends call him Rabbi Ryan.
Courtesy of Bellerose
He rose to prominence within
Jewish circles when he launched
more than a decade in the semi-pro Canaa successful pro-Israel organization, Calgary United With Israel (now known as
dian Major Football League. His tolerance
Canada United With Israel) in 2013.
level for political correctness is low. BelAnd now Bellerose, who was raised
lerose displays interest in well-argued
in northern Alberta in the Metis settleviews by opponents, but often admits to
ment of Paddle Prairie, has been hired
losing patience with those posting antiby Bnai Brith Canada as its advocacy
Israel lies and slurs. (The word asshat
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While hes not a member of the tribe,
you are threatened by indigenous people
he feels that he has some valid things
asserting our rights, you are probably an
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An international NGO has joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movements efforts to pressure FIFA not to sanction Israels soccer association because
they hold matches on stolen land.
Human Rights Watch said in a
recently published report that FIFA,
the ruling body of world soccer, is in
violation of their own rules by sponsoring soccer matches in Judea and
Samaria on behalf of the Israeli Football Association.
It is disturbing, but not surprising, to see that Human Rights Watch
has joined Jibril Rajoub and the Palestinian Authoritys political warfare against Israel, this time in the

campaign targeting Israel within FIFA.

Human Rights Watch has long supported BDS campaigns against Israel,
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Palestinian Media Watch reported
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note in their report how Rajoub and
the Palestinian Authority use sports to
promote terrorism and glorify terrorists as heroes.
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organization jump-start operations in provinces west
of Ontario that were dormant for years.
Bnai Brith is trying to change and become more
relevant, she said. Ryan is the face of that new
dynamic.
Hohmann said Belleroses past work in building
relationships among ethnic groups is an advantage in
his first assignment: helping the organization to confront the growing problem of anti-Semitism in western Canada.
Because he comes at Jewish issues from the outside,
Bellerose said, my voice in your struggle is amplified.
Im not doing it because I expect Jews to stand up
for my people, he said. You guys were always involved
in standing up for other people, even when you were a
marginalized minority. Lets all stand together.
Bellerose came to pro-Israel advocacy from years of
volunteer work to advance the rights of Native Canadians, including urging tribes not to sell their land to
provincial governments at below-market value.
He was first inspired by the Jews return to Israel,
seeing it as a model for the Metis.
When I started doing this, I thought, This is a great
example to my people. Honestly, we get a little jealous
because you have an ability to manifest a bit of your
identity that we dont have, he said.
Having a Native Canadian representing the oldest
American-Jewish organization makes perfect sense,
said Hohmann, who called him a tremendous asset
to the organization.
Ryans not Jewish, Hohmann said. He doesnt
have all that baggage.
For too long, weve allowed the other side the
anti-Israel activists to define the terms of engagement, she said. I dont know why thats acceptable.
Ryan has blown that open, he engages on his terms
on this issue. He comes from a background of First
Nations advocacy: to demand that his rights be heard
and listened to. When he does Israel advocacy, he
keeps that perspective.
Much of Belleroses appeal within the Jewish
community lies in his ability to reframe the debate
between Israels proponents and its detractors. The
narrative, he said, should center on Jews indigeneity
to the Land of Israel, continued presence there and
mass return after two millennia of exile.
You didnt have your land [conquerors] took

everything but your identity, Bellerose said. Then, you

didnt just take Israel you seized it.
I saw a people who were successful in the same struggle
my people are in, but for a much longer period of time. You
maintained your nation in exile. You maintained your identity. It pushes home to me that we are very, very similar.
In 1869, the Metis Belleroses ancestors among them
lost their land in the Red River region of present-day Manitoba to the Canadian government. They have since sought
unsuccessfully to return home.

Some observers see Belleroses style as well as his

unapologetic, unqualified support for Israels right to statehood as providing a breath of fresh air in Jewish circles.
We as Jews are so vocal in support of others, but were
afraid to speak up for ourselves, said Sarah Bernamoff, a
Jewish Albertan who co-founded Calgary United With Israel.
Ryan, by his example, has opened a huge door.
She added: The voice of Ryan coming as it did from the
outside, from a First Nation has traction.
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BOSTON A new study, touted as the
first-ever state-by-state, county-bycounty Jewish population estimate,
shows how the Jewish vote could play a
crucial role in key battleground states.
The study, released in late September,
was conducted by the Steinhardt Social
Research Institute at Brandeis University in suburban Boston. It found that in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania one of the
areas closely watched this election cycle
Jewish adults make up more than 6
percent of the population.
Thats three times more than the
national numbers of Jews, research
associate Daniel Parmer said.
Jewish voters have a record of higherthan-average turnout.
If its a tight race, Jewish voters could
swing the election in that county, Parmer said.
The study also shows how the Jewish
vote could have significant impact in
Floridas Palm Beach area, where, it says,
the 209,400 Jews there make up nearly
15 percent of the adult population.
That number is significant in a state
that President Barack Obama won in
2012 by less than 1 percent that was
74,309 votes.
The study also looked at American
Jews party identification, finding that 54
percent of them identify as Democrats,
while 14 percent identify as Republicans.
But only 43 percent of American Jews call
themselves liberal, a lower percentage
than those who say they are Democrats.
We see a higher proportion of Jews
who identify as Democrats but a lower
proportion have liberal political views,
Parmer said. Conversely, there are
more Jews who identify as conservative
21 percent than Jewish Republicans.
The results also show that 36 percent
of American Jews consider themselves
neither liberals nor conservatives, and
that 32 percent identify as neither Democrats nor Republicans.
The American Jewish Population Projects latest report, which is based on
population figures from 2015, includes
new data on gender and race, as well as
population profiles for major metropolitan areas on the East Coast, West Coast,
and Chicago.
The study and updated map is based
on nearly 250 independent samples of
the U.S. adult population collected from
2008 to 2015. This includes more than
280,000 respondents, of whom nearly
6,000 are Jewish.
The institutes director, Leonard Saxe,
Parmer, and the population projects
director, Elizabeth Tighe, talked about
the numbers.
Among the studys most notable

findings is the diversity among Jewish

millennials, defined as young adults who
are between 18 and 34 years old, they
said. The study puts the number of millennial Jews at 1.4 million.
The study shows a decline in party
identification among millennials, with 37
percent saying they identify with neither
Democrats nor Republicans. Among those
who do identify, 51 percent of millennials
say they are Democrats, compared to 56
percent of Jewish adults, 65 or older, who
identified in that way. Only 12 percent of
millennials say they are Republicans.
The study also finds perhaps surprising diversity among the younger Jews,
with 19 percent identifying as non-white.
Thats more than double the figure for
Generation X, the next cohort up.
The information is relevant at the
local level, where most Jewish community surveys do not include the racial
breakdown, said Parmer, who noted
the diversity in two New York City boroughs: Nearly 12 percent of Manhattans
Jews identify as non-white, while in the
Bronx, the figure swells to nearly 30 percent. He said this has implications for
the political issues they care about, like
social justice and racial inequality.
Overall, the study estimates that 4.2
million adults identify as Jewish by religion. Adding Jewish adults who identify
in some other way, plus an estimate of the
number of Jewish children, results in an
overall population estimate of 7.16 million.
Saxe noted the challenges of estimating
the Jewish population the small sample
size, the absence of religion data in the
U.S. Census, and disagreement about criteria for determining who is a Jew.
The population of Jews who identify
by religion is consistent with the 2013
Pew Research Centers Portrait of Jewish Americans, whose results were factored into the study.
The population is continuing to
grow, Saxe said. If you read media
reports, you might think the sky is falling and that we are continuing to see
declines in the Jewish population, and
thats not the case.
Other highlights of the study include:
57 percent of Jewish adults are college graduates.
More than 1 in 10 Jewish adults identifies as a person of color.
More than one-quarter of Jewish
adults are 65 or older.
Nearly 50 percent of the U.S. adult
Jewish population lives in one of three
states: New York (23 percent), California
(13 percent), or Florida (13 percent).
The researchers say that the studys
state-by-state analysis could be useful in
understanding the Jewish dynamics of
Novembers presidential election.
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Rodinson, the articles by the collective of Arab and

Israeli communists around the journal Khamsin, and
the book To be an Arab in Israel, an autobiographical
account by Fouzi el Asmar all are absent. (Hey, if youre
going to study this stuff, you might as well be thorough,
right?) Perhaps Mr. Hadweh feels its unfair to ask his
students to read too much. Or perhaps he feels he can
make his point by assigning just one book for each
course component; for example, to learn about The
Character of the Zionist Settler-Colonial State, the only
text you need to consult is Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh. The lazier students probably can
wing it simply by remembering the title.
As for the work of other historians with dissenting
viewpoints including Benny Morris on the left, Martin Gilbert in the middle, and Efraim Karsh on the right
these might as well not exist. One gets the distinct
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Deutscher suddenly turned up in Hadwehs seminar
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building, lands on another man, and then proceeds to
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out of class.
Can this approach to the study of history be challenged effectively? One answer might be to play these
academics at their own game, by instituting a class

entitled Israel: The Culmination of Three Thousand

Years of Jewish Yearning. You could certainly assign
some fantastic texts, like Arthur Hertzbergs anthology
The Zionist Idea or Walter Laqueurs History of Zionism. And you could focus on some fascinating themes,
like the IDFs approach to asymmetrical warfare, or the
decision to airlift Ethiopias Jews away from the devastating famine in that country.
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history and politics should read as much as they can,
from Edward Said to Shabtai Teveth. Study, discuss,
argue but above all, demand that your teachers guide
your intellect rather than telling you what to think. And
with Hadwehs course, credits are awarded based on
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and other rock legends
Gabe Friedman
If youre a rock fan, no matter your age,
youve probably heard of bands like the
Doors, the Ramones, and the Stooges.
But chances are you havent heard of
Danny Fields.
Fields, a Jewish guy from Forest Hills,
Queens, deftly made the punk scene
happen. He helped sign now-iconic
groups to record labels, get them on
magazine covers, and ultimately etch
them into the rock n roll lexicon.
Born Daniel Henry Feinberg, Fields
rose to prominence as the ultimate
jack-of-all-trades. He was never a top
executive, but with his myriad roles
in the music business publicist, artist liaison and manager, among them
Fields pressed all the right buttons.
Many of the musicians he mentored
took decades to make it, yet his forward-thinking taste is the stuff of legend
among industry insiders.
Danny is like the Zelig of punk hes
everywhere and hes so important with so
many things, Steven Lee Beeber, author
of The Heebie Jeebies at CBGBs: A Secret
History of Jewish Punk, said, referring to
the chameleonic Woody Allen character.
We kind of live in Dannys world today.
No one else had his sensibility or the
pulse of what was really coming.
Now this unsung hero is having his
own moment in the spotlight. Danny
Says, a documentary out September 30
named for a song about him written by
the Ramones may be short on personal
details but is full of the sex, drugs and
music that Fields navigated during rocks
golden age.
Fields graduated from high school
at 15 and earned his bachelors degree
from the University of Pennsylvania. He
enrolled in Harvard Law School, but left
after a year, embedding himself in New
York Citys hip Greenwich Village scene
in the early 1960s.
Over the course of that decade and
the next, he befriended Andy Warhol
and Lou Reed, publicized bands like the
Doors and Cream, introduced Jim Morrison to the singer-model Nico, discovered

MC5 as well as Iggy Pop and the Stooges,

and managed the Ramones.
Fields intuitively understood something about buzz. Before working in the
music business, he was an editor of the
teen magazine Datebook. There he was
the first to publish John Lennons quote
about the Beatles being more popular
than Jesus, which spawned a massive
backlash and discouraged the group
from touring in the United States again.
The film details all this, and perhaps
surprisingly it also offers a glimpse into
how Fields Jewish identity shaped his
view of the world and its music scenes.
Fields grew up in a somewhat observant Jewish household and had a witty
sense of humor about it. Among the
several Jewish moments in the film,
footage shows Fields watching a video
from his bar mitzvah party and remarking, Isnt this mortifying? An image
of his Harvard yearbook shows that he
drew blue Stars of David next to photos
of his Jewish classmates.
While he may have embraced his Jewish identity, one of his biggest discoveries came from something Fields saw as
the opposite. In September 1968, he traveled to Detroit to check out a new band
called the Stooges. He was knocked out
by the bands visceral, heavy, and in his
opinion non-Jewish sound.
Detroit is the most goyishe hub of
civilization Thats why I loved it so
much, Fields says in Beebers book.
[The guys here] were tall and big and
butch, not like New York Jews.
Fields, who is gay, called them macho
men.
I just thought the virility of it was
something, he said. I mean, virility is
not, shall we say, a characteristic of the
Jewish community.
Fields worked with the Stooges until
the groups first breakup in the early
70s. A few years later he discovered the
Ramones a black-clad group of scruffy
fellow Forest Hills natives that Fields
found more heimish.
They were like the MC5 and the
Stooges except that they were funny and
ironic, Fields says in the book. And,

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like Jews, they were steeped in the showbiz tradition.
Singer Joey Ramone (who was born
Jeffrey Hyman) and drummer Tommy
Ramone (born Thomas Erdelyi to Hungarian Holocaust survivors) both were Jewish. As Michael Croland, author of Oy
Oy Oy Gevalt! Jews and Punk, points out,
the band also consciously toyed with Nazi
themes and imagery, as evidenced in songs
like Blitzkrieg Bop and Commando.
While he laments this lack of virility and toughness, he also loves the

braininess, Beeber said.

The author said that what Fields loved
about the Ramones when he saw them
is that they were like the MC5 and the
Stooges, and yet they were also like a selfconscious joke about those kind of bands.
Danny Says follows Fields exploits,
from doing drugs with Morrison, the
Doors lead singer, to nearly getting
punched in the face by a co-worker at Elektra. Legends like Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper
and Patti Smiths Jewish guitarist Lenny
Kaye offer amusing personal anecdotes.

But the film omits Fields post-Ramones

life. He eventually fell from the industrys
inner circles and returned to journalism.
Now 77 and still living in New York, Fields
released a book of Ramones photographs
earlier this year. He had vowed never to
watch the final cut of the film about him,
but wound up viewing a DVD that director
Brendan Toller gave him.
Though his peak years in the industry have passed, praise is still heaped on
Fields. You could make a convincing
case that without Danny Fields, punk rock

would not have happened, The New York

Times wrote in 2014. The dedication of
rock journalist Legs McNeils 1996 book
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk reads: this book is dedicated to Danny Fields, forever the coolest
guy in the room.
As Beeber puts it, Fields remains forever at heart a nice Jewish boy who
embodied punks simultaneous reaction
against yet embrace of New York Jewishness. Not a bad reputation to have.
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Goodbye, Mr. Peres

TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES

know that this is over the top

Shimon Peres was exemplary
but he was not Moshe Rabbeinu. Starting a new year is
a solemn and hopeful experience,
unavoidable to every living soul and
if youre taking it seriously of great
spiritual and emotional significance,
but still it is not crossing over for the
first time from the wilderness to the
Promised Land.
Still, its hard not to think that
Shimon Peres extraordinary lifes
journey has stopped just short of
this new year. Like Moshe, who was
unable to enter the land but permitted just to look at it across the river,
death stopped Mr. Peres just short of
that next crossing.
And what an amazing life he had!
Shimon Peres was the last giant
(at least metaphysically he was not
particularly tall) of the generation
that created Israel. He was there at
the beginning. He held just about
every office there was to hold. He
saw death and destruction, and he
held on to hope. Batting off the criticism of naivete and certainly such
a consummate politician can be
accused of many vices but naivete
seems unlikely to be among them
he always held on to hope.
In fact, in the last years of his life,
Mr. Peres was a strong proponent of
technology; he was never too old to
marvel at the new.
I heard him speak a few times,
always with great hope, but it was
the first time that I remember most
vividly.
It was 1996, and Mr. Peres was the
prime minister of Israel. It was Shabbat, and I was at my shul, Congregation Bnai Jeshurun, on Manhattans
Upper West Side.
Toward the end of the service,
after Musaf, our rabbis started

singing and signaled us to join them.

Theres often music at BJ, and it
almost always includes the congregation, but somehow this was different. It was at an odd point in the
service. And it kept going. And going.
And going. We all started wondering
what might be going on. Joy in music
is one thing but this was getting
very old increasingly quickly.
Then men started standing up
against the walls. Hard-faced men,
hard-jawed, completely expressionless, wearing dark suits, with little
swirls of wire coming out of their
ears. There were, at least in my
memory, very many of them, and
they all were staring coldly at us.
Then the rabbis told us that Prime
Minister Peres was coming to talk to
us. And then we kept singing.
Later it felt like much much later
a small man came in from a side
door and walked to the bimah. We
all stood, not because we were told
to please rise but because suddenly,
spontaneously, we all wanted to.
Mr. Peres talked to us of hope. And
the thing is that we felt it. We tend
to be a fairly cynical group and
theres nothing like a room lined
with security guards who looked
like theyd tackle you if you tried to
scratch your nose to dampen your
natural enthusiasm but this small
elderly man, so full of energy, so full
of history, so full of curiosity, so full
of experience, so very extraordinarily full of life, brought hope to us,
crackling along our neurons, dancing in our hearts.
The other times I heard him speak
were less dramatic, but his hope, his
unquenchable hope, always sparked
hope in return.
We mourn his death, and we celebrate his life. 

JP

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Shimon Peres,
From Oxford to Davos,
with a serving of kosher sex

himon Peres was the whale who had

eluded me.
It was about 20 years ago. I was
the rabbi at Oxford University. I was
heavily immersed in the great campus battles
for Israel that were just beginning. And I had
already booked or hosted most of Israels great
leaders, from Binyamin Netanyahu to Yitzchak
Rabin to Arik Sharon to Yitzchak Shamir. But
Peres was a tough one. Not only could I not
get him to agree, I couldnt even get him on
the phone.
I traveled to Israel from Oxford several times
a year to hunt down my speakers. Everyone
wanted to speak at Oxford. But
Peress office gave me excuses.
Until one day.
I called his office and asked to
speak to him again. The receptionist told me to hold. And then,
the familiar and famous gravelly
voice came on the line. Is it true
that youre the one who wrote
Kosher Sex?
Shmuley
Huh, you mean thats what it
Boteach
took. Not my battles on Israels
behalf but my Kosher Sex book.
All along I could have gotten him
on the phone if he knew I was the author?
I replied that I was.
He continued in a perfect but heavily accented
English. So tell me, what is Kosher Sex?
I replied that I would tell him all about it. But
only face to face. He had to give me a meeting.
He passed me to an assistant, the meeting was
set, and a day or two later I was in his office
in Beit Amot Hamishpat, where Israels former
Prime Ministers are given offices and where I
normally visited Yitzchak Shamir.
He was warm and jovial and got straight
down to business. What is Kosher Sex? His
assistants and there were about five in the
room all laughed.
I felt confident. On Israel, he was the expert.

But Kosher Sex, that was my terrain.

Its sex that combines passion and intimacy.
Its sex that is supercharged with erotic passion but with intimate commitment. Will you
speak for me at Oxford?
He laughed. And the meeting went along like
that. It was a blast. I rarely had such a rockrolling time.
Here was one of Israels greatest founders and leaders. A Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Father, in many ways, of Israels nuclear arsenal. An icon of peace. And we were talking
about a book that I had just published, and
that has just been translated into Hebrew by
Modan publishers, called Kosher
Sex. And Peres knew about it
because I was doing interviews
in Israel about the book.
He agreed to come.
A few months later I introduced him to our students at
Cambridge University. A capacity
audience came to hear the living
legend. But, amazingly, a group
of Palestinian and British students tried to have him arrested
on charges of war crimes because
of Israels attacks on Lebanese
terrorists while he was prime minister. They
were serious. Fortunately, the British police
were not inclined to arrest one of the worlds
most respected statesmen.
The next evening Peres spoke to another huge
audience for us in London. He and I spent a
great deal of time discussing personal matters.
He was always warm, engaging, accessible.
I asked him about this connection to Jewish
values, something he talked about all the time.
And if I remember correctly, he told me his
grandfather was a rabbi and he was particularly close to him.
But one thing I remember perfectly and I
will never forget. I was sitting across the table
from Shimon when I asked him why he had

Shmuley Boteach is the founder of The World Values Network and is the author of 30 books,
including Wrestling with the Divine and The Fed-Up Man of Faith, both of which deal with the
problem of human suffering. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

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had Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear secret
revealer, arrested in a Mossad operation in Rome.
Peres look right at me. Because he was a traitor, he
said, deeply enunciating the last r.
He said nothing more about it.
I continued my friendship with the great man over
the next few years. When I was Michael Jacksons
rabbi, I wanted to surround him with men of great
learning and wisdom. Serious men who give Michael
light and guidance. I took him to meet Elie Wiesel, and
they developed a friendship. And then I told Michael
he had to meet the other great Jewish Nobel Peace
Laureate, Shimon Peres. We spoke with Shimon on
the phone. And we brought Shimons granddaughter,
who was working in Los Angeles, to meet Michael at
home at Neverland.
I remember seeing how Shimon spoke to his granddaughter. He was all affection. All love. All tenderness
and compliments.
But the best part of seeing Peres was at Davos at the
World Economic Forum over the past few years. Israel

I never doubted that

Peres loved Israel
with every fiber of
his being, was totally
committed in every
sense to the future
of his people, and
made his life a
Kiddush Hashem.
was, to say the least, not very popular in Europe and
certainly not at the WEF. Two years ago the rock star
of the conference was the President of Iran, Rouhani.
And yet, every year, arguably the person who was
most respected at the entire conference, by almost
everyone, was Shimon, whose stature towered over
everyone else. Here he was, president of a country
that was unfairly despised by so many. Yet he was
loved and respected.
And most beautiful of all at Davos there is a Shabbat dinner every year. Shimon was a regular and
always spoke. The last time I heard him speak there,
he spoke beautifully, in the presence of Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and about 200 of us, about the
parsha of the week, the importance of Judaism and
Jewish values, and the special place and role of the
Jewish people. When he spoke, he wore a kippah; he
kept it on the entire time. And he graced and honored
the Sabbath with his beautiful words.
He did the same for the Jewish people and Israel.
For decades.
Yes, I disagreed with him profoundly on many of his
policies, especially the Oslo accords, which led to truly
painful results.
But I never doubted that Peres loved Israel with
every fiber of his being, was totally committed in every
sense to the future of his people, and made his life
a Kiddush Hashem, a sanctification of Gods name by
serving as a light to the nations.

n a grassroots effort to promote financial transparency in yeshiva day school education, an unofficial
listing of tuition and fees has been circulated online.
Aside from the numbers, which have become
nearly all-important to many parents who send their children to yeshiva, the shared spreadsheet also has a column
for Religious Self-Identification. Anyone can enter a day
schools official or perceived religious affiliation.
As expected, most yeshivot are tagged with the familiar labels: Modern Orthodox, Conservative, Yeshivish
(non-chasidic Haredi), Pluralistic. But a number of
unusual subclasses make an appearance especially
among Orthodox schools in heavily populated areas
including Classic Yeshivish, Modern Yeshivish, Liberal Yeshivish, Chabad-ish, Modern Orthodox-ish,
and Bais Yaakov (lite).
Such an elaborate taxonomy might seem comical, and
likely was crafted with more than a little whimsy (we are
unlikely to find Liberal Yeshivish, for example, on the
About Us webpage of any school). But as fanciful as
these particular labels may be, they represent accurately
the wide range of choices in the field. And for
some members of the Orthodox community,
such variations are clearly not trivial. Subtle
degrees of classification may reflect real differences in religious and social norms.
On one level, an abundance of choice in
the day school marketplace is good news. It
is a sign of population growth, diversity, and
financial success. With increasing numbers
comes a variety of hues and shades, and parents naturally will seek out a school with a
David S.
Zinberg
coloring that matches their own.
All this sounds like a success story. Whats
not to like?
The potential downside of too much choice is its moral
toll. The more we have to choose from, the more alien
all of the rejected options will seem. We have grown so
accustomed to variety, and at the same time so enamored of our own particular brand, that we may demand
nothing less than a perfect match for our choice of shul,
yeshiva, social circle, and marriage prospect.
Ironically, choice can undermine our tolerance for
diversity.
One way to accommodate the diversity that accompanies the growth of the Orthodox community is to broaden
the religious boundaries of our existing communal structures. Instead, we often find that each subgroup draws a
tight circle around itself, so that it becomes necessary to
add new circles, and circles within circles, based on variations in dress, culture, religious practice, or ideology. A
circle of likeminded individuals provides necessary fellowship and comfort, but a circle can easily turn into a wall,
sometimes without windows or exit doors.
Several of the themes underlying the Tishrei holidays
can help check our obsession with creating ever-morenarrow labels for our communities, our institutions, and
ourselves.
The Rosh Hashanah prayers combine universalism and
particularism. In the Amida, we try to transcend human
divisions when we imagine a unified society of the future:
May all your creations become a single fellowship to do

The potential
downside of too
much choice is its
moral toll. The more
we have to choose
from, the more alien
all of the rejected
options will seem.
your will with a perfect heart. This precedes the prayer
for the dignity of the Jewish people Grant honor to your
people and praise to those who revere you. Similarly,
Alenu, which originally was composed for the Rosh Hashanah Musaf service, begins with an affirmation of Jewish
exceptionalism but ends with a vision of all
nations united in serving God. (Rabbi Joseph
B. Soloveitchik wrote that Jewish chosenness
is linked with an aspiration for humanitys
redemption. Particularism and universalism
are inseparable). If there are any labels here,
they are simply Human and Jew.
The ancient rabbis believed that the major
festivals were significant events on the global
calendar. On Rosh Hashanah, in the words
of the Mishna and repeated in the Unetaneh
Tokef hymn, all the worlds inhabitants
pass before God [in judgment] like a line of
sheep. And according to the same mishna,
the entire world not only the Jewish people is judged
for rainfall on Sukkot. The rabbis also said that the sacrifice of 70 bulls in the Temple over the course of Sukkot
was offered on behalf of the 70 nations of the world, as
if to say that we are all in this together.
The Yom Kippur vidui (confession) comes in two
versions public and private. The congregation sings
the public confession out loud, joyfully. But during the
silent, private vidui, we stand before God alone, as individuals, honestly confronting our personal shortcomings. At this stark moment, there is no subgroup or sublabel behind which to hide. When we consider either
our common humanity or our uncommon individuality,
we can stem the tendency to create compound social
layers that break us apart.
It seems as though there was practically never a time in
history when all of humanity feared a single God or when
Jewish society lacked tribes, competing kingdoms, sects,
or denominations. We will have to work patiently toward
those Messianic ideals. But well before the lion lies down
with the lamb, and until all men become brothers, we can
still make great strides in the right direction. Rethinking
our proliferating divisions during the early fall holidays
could be a good first step.
David S. Zinberg lives in Teaneck with his wife and three
sons. He works in financial services.

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On my mothers 25th yahrzeit

or pulpit rabbis (and I am certainly

no exception) the High Holy Days
are a busy, complicated, consequential, and emotionally fraught
time of the year.
There are major sermons to be planned,
written, and delivered. Synagogue attendance swells as on no other occasion, and
there is an opportunity to address and to
shape the spiritual experience of the most
committed and devoted Jews, as well as
those with the most tenuous or peripheral of
relationships to Jewish religious and communal life. The rabbinic responsibilities on the
holidays include the mundane and the temporal: Is the service on track to conclude on
time? What is the name of that fellow in the
fourth row? Is the room too hot? Too cold?
Of all the moral, spiritual, political, practical, and theological questions bearing on the
lives of 21st century Jews, which are properly
addressed from the pulpit, and which are to
be avoided? Is it time for a page announcement or an extemporaneous comment,
explanation, vort, or a prayer in the vernacular? Are guests and newcomers being
suitably welcomed by the community and
warmly included in the holiday experience?
With so many details and concerns to
manage, it often is difficult for the pulpit
rabbi to maximize his or her own personal
experience of the Holy Day the personal
reflection, the genuine prayer, the probing

moral introspection, the process of sincere

repentance that she or he so strives to provide for the rest of the congregation. To lose
yourself in prayer is a rare privilege. It is an
indulgence.
My own experience of the Days of Awe is
colored each year by observance of my mothers yahrzeit. My mother and teacher, Anne
R. Prouser, of blessed memory, died 25 years
ago, exactly 24 hours before Kol Nidre. Since
family members could not be reached immediately, the funeral was delayed until the day
after Yom Kippur. I spent that Holy Day on
the pulpit as an onen a mourner in limbo
someone whose departed had not yet been
buried.
It was, to say the least, a Yom Kippur still
more complicated and far more emotionally fraught than usual. The memory of that
experience is evoked (and to some extent
revisited) by each annual observance of my
mothers 8 Tishri Yahrzeit.
This year, as I prepare for my mothers
25th yahrzeit, I have come to discover that
the timing of her passing does not compound the obstacles to achieving a satisfying
personal experience of Yom Kippur. To the
contrary. In both life and death, my mother
has taught me some of the most important
lessons inherent in Yom Kippur.
A great deal of attention is devoted on Yom
Kippur to speech, language, and the power of
words variously to harm or to heal. Fully one

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attentive in conveying the intrithird of the sins we enumerate in Al Cheit and Vidui
cacies of German grammar.
(Ashamnu) are related to our
Wiederholung ist die Mutter
use of language. (This emphader Weisheit: Repetition is the
sis on language is in addition to
mother of knowledge. (She
the ample verbiage deployed
left my immersion in Hebrew
in hours of liturgical poetry,
and the ways of Jewish prayer
prayer, and God willing
and piety primarily to my
well-crafted homilies.) My
father.)
Rabbi Joseph
mother was my most imporMy mother, an alumna of
H. Prouser
tant, influential, and gifted
Smith College in our native
teacher of language. She was
Northampton, Massachusetts,
an unforgiving grammarian.
was a schoolmate of future
She taught all her children the importance
First Lady Nancy Reagan there. (We moved
of clarity in both the written and the spoken
in different circles, she explained delicately.)
word. Sloppy diction and pronunciation were
At Smith she became a gifted linguist. So
offenses to be identified and corrected with
gifted, in fact, that she was awarded a fellowship to the University of Berlin which, alas,
dispatch (Al cheit shechatanu). Whenever I write a sermon, a letter, a shul bulletin
she was constrained to decline. Berlin was no
message, or an op-ed piece for the New Jerplace for Annie Goldberg in 1938. My mother
sey Jewish Standard, I feel my mothers prois remembered by countless Northampfound influence and her spirit, and I apply
ton High School students as a much loved
specific principles of style and usage that she
teacher of geometry. I often wonder if, after
methodically inculcated in me, beginning at
geopolitics derailed her studies as a linguist,
a very young age.
she sought refuge in the universal logic and
While most of my mothers linguistic
predictable results of mathematics.
efforts focused on the Kings English, she
My mother died before the advent of email,
also guided me through years of French littexting, and Twitter. She was a master of pererature. Jenfouis ce trsor dans mon me
sonal letters and thank-you notes, written
immortelle, et je lemporte Dieu, as poet
in elegant longhand. When the need for a
Alfred de Musset wrote (I enfold this treacommercial greeting card arose, she would
sure within my immortal soul, and I will
add thoughtful personal lines to the printed
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carry it to God). She was just as skilled and

Gods accountants

ts more than half a year until Tax

Day, but Gods accountants already
are busy at work.
On Saturday, September 3, 2016,
the launch of the Amos 6, a $200 million
Israeli satellite, failed. Rather than the
anticipated heavenly flight, a massive
fireball engulfed the satellite. Its owners
and their experts, as well as the Florida
launch pad owners and experts, still are
uncertain about the cause of this disaster.
However, the experts at United Torah
Judaism, a charedi political party that is
a member of Israels governing coalition,
immediately knew the answer, claiming
that the fiery destruction resulted from
the date of the launch. The explosion
was punishment for chilul Shabbat. And
the rabbinical head of the Tunisian Jewish community in Israel, who earlier had
blamed the gay pride parade in Jerusalem
for the murders of R. Eitam and Naama
Henkin hyd, doubled down by blaming
not only the Amos 6 explosion but also
the subsequent collapse of a Tel Aviv
parking garage, which killed six people,
on chilul Shabbat.
This is not the first time that these
celestial savants have been active. The

reason for the tragic collapse of a floor

at an Israeli event space, which killed
many people and injured many others?
Mixed dancing at that space. An increase
in the number of cancer deaths in a community? Womens immodest dress. Devastation to New Orleans from Hurricane
Katrina? Insufficient U.S. support of
Israel.
Of course, other religions also have
their all-knowing seers. Jerry Falwell said
that abortionists, feminists, gays, and the
ACLU helped the tragedy of 9/11 happen.
Pat Robertson said that the 2010 Haitian earthquake, which killed more than
300,000, was a result of a pact Haitians
made with the devil. Others blamed the
Ebola epidemic on same-sex marriage
and somehow knew that the AIDS plague
and the Orlando massacre were heavenly
punishment of gays.
But, some argue, isnt this type of
understanding valid Jewish theology?
Dont we believe in sin and Divine punishment? Doesnt our yom tov musaf
amida begin with mipnei chataeinu galinu meartzeinu because of our sins we
were exiled from our land?
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insists that pronouns are
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important. Our sins, not
the hosts shameful behavior, an equally integral and
their sins. Our failings,
essential part of this story
not those of others. What
was the timorous refusal
should initially and primarily be important and releJoseph C.
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party to stand up to the
is what we did wrong, not
hosts actions, and later,
how others observe Shabthe refusal of other rabbis
bat, dance, dress, love, or do a myriad
to stand up to R. Zechariah ben Abkulas
of other activities that some believe are
legalistic and short-sighted rulings. In
improper. Our sins. True moral leaders
other words, even in assigning a cause to
first take responsibility before they assign
the First Century destruction, the rabbis
blame; when they point one finger of cenmade sure to accept some responsibility;
sure outward, three fingers point inward.
as true moral leaders they pointed their
And yes, its also true that the rabfingers at themselves too, making the
bis seem to assign blame to others with
concept of chataeinu, our sins, very real
respect to the destruction of the Second
and personal.
Temple and the resulting exile when they
Moreover, sinat chinam is not the only
say that it was caused, among other sins,
sin linked to exile in our tradition. In the
by sinat chinam, baseless hatred (Yoma,
Mishna (Avot, 5:9), the rabbis teach that
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Trump and the big lie

The big lie (German: groe Lge) is a propaganda technique. The basic idea is that the bigger a lie you tell, the
more likely people will be to believe it, because its difficult for them to accept that someone could tell a lie that
huge with a straight face.
It is the telling of a lie so colossal that no one would
believe that someone could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
Donald Trump has repeated lie after lie about almost
every area of what passes for his knowledge of history,
politics, economics, and foreign policy. He has been
called a racist, a nativist, a misogynist, and worse. The
theory of the big lie was developed by Adolf Hitler in
his 1925 book Mein Kampf ( James Murphy translation,
page 134):
in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always
more easily corrupted and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to
the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often
tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to
resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come
into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they
would not believe that others could have the impudence
to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts
which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their
minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue
to think that there may be some other explanation. For
the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it,
even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known
to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire
together in the art of lying. These people know only too
well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.
Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers minister of propaganda,
stated that if a lie is repeated enough times it would
become widely accepted as truth. Res ipsa loquitur.
Dr. Wallace Greene
Fair Lawn

T is for Treif

Regardless of the question of whether or not to vote for Donald Trump, there is a moral issue that has been troubling
me. It will have to be dealt with in the post-election era.
When The Donald decided to run for the presidency
of the United States, he considered it an opportunistic
step, whereby even if he loses, he wins. It is now known
that his finances have been on shaky grounds for some
time, and if nothing else, the presidential race would
give a far greater value to his brand name. Trump is
a very sophisticated player, who during the course of
three decades learned how to manipulate banks, lenders, and investors. Now hes doing the same by manipulating the voters, the media, and everybody involved in
the process of choosing the next American president.
While he seems to be doing well on the political front,
it has come out over the long year of his candidacy that
everything he has touched was infected with malicious
deception. His overall focus seems to have been on
extorting money without giving the investors, buyers,
and workers involved in his many enterprises the value
he had promised them.
From Trump University, Trump gambling casinos, and
real estate ventures to buyers from whom he has taken
money with promises of delivering fantastic Trump
quality, all the way to the Trump Charity Foundation,
everybody who has done business with him has been
left cheated, and often defeated through his complex
network of deception.
Students didnt gain anything from the so-called
Trump University, which some of its own employees regarded as being a massive rip-off (and have said

so), and that even the highest legal officer in New York
State has described as a classic bait-and-switch scheme!
Ronald Schnackenberg, who worked in Trumps office
at 40 Wall Street, testified in an affidavit that Trump
University was a fraudulent scheme, that preyed upon
the elderly and uneducated to separate them from their
money.
Mr. Trump does not appear to have given his own
money to the Trump Foundation since as far back as
2008. Rather, the charity has been funded by others.
That has not stopped Mr. Trump from claiming credit for
doling out other peoples cash, and he is being pursued
by the authorities for claiming deductions on charity
donations contributed by others, not by him.
We all heard how The Donald claimed that the banks
knew what they were doing in their investments on his
gambling enterprise, but in fact he alone had bankrupted many small businesses in Atlantic City. These
were small contractors who supplied him with goods
and delivered him services in good faith, relying on his
payment as a fair and decent businessman. He even
bullied some businesses into accepting a settlement of
10 cents on the dollar, threatening that otherwise they
would not see a penny in bankruptcy.
His refusal to pay his architect and the surfacing of
many of his victims, each telling their individual stories
of his lack of payment for work they provided, suggests
that we are dealing with a dishonest and deceptive businessman. Unfortunately, there has been much dishonesty in business and politics, but not to this degree and
not so arrogantly in the open.
Whether you are voting for him or not, I ask you a
simple question: Should we support a businessman who
left such a trail of victims and pain in his wake? I am not
even discussing politics here, but the fact that Trump
seems to be unscrupulous in his desire for one thing
your hard-earned money.
He is counting on your gullible naivet to be able to
sell you stuff: a golf membership or a high-end apartment bearing his name, or cufflinks, tie-pins, shirts,
suits, ties, and even the campaign hats that he manufacturers outside the USA and overseas while talking about
the evils of companies outsourcing manufacturing, just
as if he were not doing that very thing himself.
We should teach The Donald a lesson! We should
teach him what fairness and decency is and show him
that average Americans, regardless of our politics, are
fair people who despise swindlers. We should refuse to
buy anything, or stay anywhere, that is in any way connected with his egoistic fraudulent T mark.
We should treat his merchandise as treif that is what
Jewish people call anything that is non-kosher and substitute this name for his brand name. The Treif Brand.
You dont need to be Jewish to exile his brand to the
nickel & dime section of the economy. To say to his face
that he is not being morally or ethically worthy of holding any office in the U.S. government, all you need to
be is a fair, open-minded person, who has decided that
supporting Trump in any of his enterprises is a mark of
shame.
Let your friends know that you refuse to golf, congregate, buy merchandise or visit any place that bears the
Treif (Trump) brand name, or associate with anybody
who does.
Lets teach him that there is no free lunch from the
backs of more hard-working, unsuspecting victims.
We may not get the president we want, the tax simplification we want, or the health care we want, but we can
do one good thing this year.
We can Stump the Trump.
Soli Israel Foger
Englewood

Remembering Alan

My husband Alan was truly one of a kind. He was empathetic, personable compassionate, loving, and honest.
He always put others before himself, even when he
was very sick. Alan was born in Johannesburg, South
Africa, and came to Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
I met him right after that. He owned a pub, one of the
first in Tel Aviv. It was Christmas Eve and I had a friend
who invited me to join her in an evening there. I was
confounded by the irony.
We met there on that Xmas Eve and got to know each
other. Both of us had the same outlook on life, family,
children. We talked like we had always known each
other.. Alan was an alcoholic. He had a very rough life
in South Africa a lot of losses and a lot of pain. He
managed to overcome it with his own method: simply
stop drinking. He did and it was forever.
He also lost his mother to cancer and his father soon
broke down, so he had to help raise his brother, too,
before he could live his own life.
Our marriage came after a few years. He was not the
kind of man I thought I would marry, but yes I did. He
was loyal and responsible, and together we adopted
three children in Israel, who had been waiting so
many years. Not much time went by with our lovely
children, and Alan became sick with pneumonia, and
that became the beginning of 11 years of suffering from
lung cancer.
There were ups and downs. Many times we thought
he would be all right and sometimes we gave up. We
still had young kids to raise and no family in Israel
to help us. We came back to the U.S. from Israel for
that reason. Being alone without support is very, very
tough with illness and young children.
Toward the end of his years of cancer, Alan had a
major stroke, which he did overcome to some degree.
His willpower was enormous, but God had other plans
for him, and he died of the cancer after three years of
suffering with the stroke. Very little stopped him, but
that did. It would have bent the strongest tree.
Alan ran the NYC marathon with one lung. He was an
avid runner and swimmer. He did more than his share
to raise our children, and helped to look after both of
my parents when they needed it.
I looked to his spirit for my guidance, but I needed
him back then and now, to get through the days. It
didnt happen. I have suffered from depression all
of my life, and he, and only he, understood so well
and helped me with it. Our losses can destroy our
memories.
I have to remember that he didnt get a chance to live
his life. He died at 54 with so many years of sickness
behind him. I have never known a stronger man than
he was, in every conceivable way. He never ignored
someone who needed him, even in the midst of his
own troubled life. He deserved a good life more than
most, for all he did for others. He listened to all and
answered all. He did not use his handicaps as excuses.
He let the rest of us complain to him. He put others
first. I know so few people who give their time and
hearts to others so selflessly.
It is so very sad that the world lost a true mensch.
He may have had a life of great accomplishments, but
as we Jews know so well, God doesnt really make that
distinction between good people and bad. At least, I
believe that much. Our children suffered and are still
suffering, but I doubt they understand the deeper
meaning of what losing him meant.
He had nothing to ask forgiveness for on Yom Kippur. Nothing.
Sandra Steuer Cohen
Teaneck
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message. Still, she would torment herself

for what seemed hours before selecting the
card with precisely the desired sentiment
and appropriate nuance.
If I find myself too preoccupied on Yom
Kippur to take the liturgys focus on language to heart, my mothers efforts in life,
as well as the timing of her passing, more
than compensate for my distraction.
Admirably and frankly confronting her
own mortality, as we are called upon to do
on Yom Kippur, my mother composed her
own obituary. If in my holiday preparations
I would otherwise neglect this moral and
spiritual accounting, 8 Tishri rouses me
from my torpor.
My childhood home was directly across
the street from my mothers alma mater.
Each summer, students would arrive on
our block and unpack their vehicles on
their way to Smiths MSW program. How
vividly I remember my mother standing
at our living room bay window, envying
those aspiring social workers, even in her
declining years. She, too, longed to make
a difference in the lives of families and
individuals navigating lifes challenges,
to facilitate reconciliation where relationships had strained, and to offer wise
counsel to those unsure of their course or
seeking insight and guidance. Of course,
she did all this and more, informally, as a
function of her personality. But how she
admired those who devoted their professional training and energies to such
endeavors. If, as Yom Kippur approaches,
I find myself too preoccupied with the
logistics of the day to attend to those I
have offended and to repair strained relationships, my mothers 8 Tishri yahrzeit
restores me to a more appropriate and
sensitive set of priorities.
Sadly, my children have few memories
of their paternal grandmother. At the time
of her passing, my daughter and son were
5 and 3 years old, respectively, and my
youngest was in utero. Gratefully, however, each is shaped by her legacy. My
youngest Ayal Chanan inherited her

name, Chanah, as well as her knack of

making friends with remarkable ease. My
son Eitan inherited his grandmothers skill
as a teacher and her love of music (as well
as an extensive album collection of classical music and opera). My daughter, Shira,
is a graduate of Columbia University (not
Smith College) School of Social Work, and
she is an accomplished and devoted practitioner of the profession my mother held
in such high esteem. If Yom Kippur Yizkor becomes more of a pulpit task than an
exercise in personal reflection (an occupational hazard), my mothers yahrzeit
moves me to remember, and proudly to
see her values and efforts taken up by her
grandchildren.
What more worthy expression of yizkor?
As the busiest days of my professional
year approach, as my congregation convenes for their observance, and as my
family gathers to celebrate together and to
mark the yahrzeit of our mother and grandmother (and, now, great-grandmother)
I will do my best personally to embrace
the wisdom and prayer, the introspection and reconciliation to which our Holy
Days and our tradition beckon us, my rabbinic responsibilities and pulpit functions
notwithstanding.
Throughout that process, I take comfort
and strength from all I have learned and all
I continue to learn from my mother. To my
holiday prayers I add these words by the
19th Century American Quaker poet, John
Greenleaf Whittier:
We search the world for truth;
We cull the good, the pure, the beautiful,
From all old flower fields of the soul;
And weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said,
Is in the book our mothers read.
I am grateful.
Yehi zichrah baruch. Her memory is a
blessing.
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.

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year. And in the Tosefta at the end of Menachot, the

destruction of the Second Temple is ascribed to loving money and hating ones neighbor. So even in
terms of national tragedy where we believe that sins
result in punishment, the rabbis, by giving numerous
reasons, indicate that it is way beyond anyones pay
grade to match up any one specific sin with a specific
punishment.
I would suggest going a step further. Perhaps the
rabbis, in listing this plethora of sins as causes of
exile using the language of their times, were acting
in a manner similar to the description by the Rav, R.
Joseph B. Soloveitchik zl, of the proper Jewish reaction to suffering.
In his magnificent and inspiring essay, Kol Dodi
Dofek: It is the Voice of my Beloved that Knocketh
(trans. Lawrence Kaplan), the Rav deals in part with
this issue by noting that asking why following tragedy is a question that has no answer. It is insoluble.

True moral
leaders rst take
responsibility before
they assign blame;
when they point one
nger of censure
outward, three ngers
point inward.
He further explains that we do not inquire about the
hidden ways of the Almighty but, rather, about the
path wherein man shall walk when suffering strikes.
We ask neither about the cause nor about its purpose but rather about how it might be mended and
elevated.
So rather than assigning blame, the rabbis may
have been struggling to react to the tragedy of
destruction and exile by focusing on a number of
sins of which many in their community, including
themselves as demonstrated by the Bar Kamtza
story, were guilty. Their underlying message: Its not
truly an issue of cause and effect. Whats important
when tragedy strikes is that all concentrate on specific areas in which to improve going forward.
This message certainly is timely, with the Days
of Awe looming before us. Once again, I turn, in
part, to the words of the Rav. We are now in a time
of rigorous self-examination and self-evaluation,
untainted by the slightest hint of partiality and selfindulgence; a time to understand and take to heart
that suffering and tragedy are wake-up calls for the
future and not explanations of the past; a time to
contemplate our past and envisage our future with
complete and unwavering honesty. Its a time focus
on ways in which we can and should act that will
help us become better, kinder, more decent, observant, and loving people.
Shana tova to all.
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.

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Cover Story

Shimon Peres
1923-2016

The last of Israels founding fathers

Beloved abroad,
polarizing at home,
Peres was the
peace-making face
of Israel
RAPHAEL AHREN

himon Peres, one of Israels most

eminent politicians and the last
of the states founding generation to wield power, died early on
Wednesday, September 28, in Tel Aviv, two
weeks after suffering a stroke. He was 93.
When he ended his presidency in 2014,
Peres was the worlds oldest head of state,
and the only person to have served as both
Israels prime minister and its president.
Although his long and illustrious career
was full of internal rivalries and professional disappointments including a
leadership ploy that entered the history
books as the stinking maneuver in
his later decades Peres became known
as Israels elder statesman, admired by
leaders across the globe and more widely
respected at home than at any point in his
turbulent political career.
Peres, who never won a popular election his accession to the presidency in
2007 was a result of a secret ballot among
Knesset members was one of Israels
most successful, shrewd, divisive, and
ultimately beloved politicians. A man of
many stripes a lifelong Labor leader who
defected to the free market center of the
Kadima party; a Nobel Peace Prize laureate
who, according to foreign sources, gave a
scarred and threatened state the ultimate
deterrent weapon; and a signatory to the
Oslo Accords who years earlier, as defense
minister, helped lay the foundations of the
settlement movement he was considered by many to be one of Israels strongest assets, an erudite politician unblemished by corruption.
On the international stage he was

Shimon Peres speaks at a World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 28, 2005.

respected for his conciliatory positions and

his unending quest for peace; on Israels
ideological right, for years, his name was
synonymous with naivet and far worse.
The Palestinians are our closest neighbors, he said often. I am sure they can
become our closest friends.
Peres was the countrys eighth prime
minister, serving from September 1984
until October 1986, and again from
November 1995 to June 1996 in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of his
greatest rival-turned-ally Yitzhak Rabin. In
2007, he became Israels ninth president.
Peres served in the Knesset for nearly
half a century, from 1959 until 2007, holding virtually all senior ministerial positions
over the years. In 1994, he was awarded the

42 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Nobel Peace Prize together with Palestinian

leader Yasser Arafat and his Labor party
colleague, then-prime minister Rabin.
Born in 1923 as Shimon Perski, Peres
grew up in the Polish city of Wooyn
(today Valozhyn, Belarus), which was decimated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Peres often recalled his grandfather Rabbi
Zvi Meltzer, who once took him to the
Chofetz Chaim, one of the giants of prewar Jewry, to receive a blessing.
Peres was raised by his grandfather, who
saw him off when he left for Palestine at
age 11. I remember the last words and the
order that I heard from his mouth: My
boy, always remain a Jew! Peres recalled
once. The Nazis later locked Peress grandfather in the towns synagogue and burned

MARCEL BIERI

him alive.
Peres went to school in Tel Aviv and Ben
Shemen and later co-founded Kibbutz
Alumot, where he worked as a farmer and
shepherd.
In 1945, he married Sonya Gelman,
who died in 2011. Two years after their
wedding, Peres joined the Haganah, the
militant Jewish underground organization headed by David Ben-Gurion. Israels
founding prime minister was Peress political mentor and remained his role model
until the end of his career. Ben-Gurion
was the greatest of all statesmen; he had a
prophetic vision, Peres said.
In many ways, historian and foreign
policy analyst Azriel Bermant wrote about
Peres in 2012, he has certainly acted as

Cover Story

YITZHAK NAVON

wonders what Peres could have accomplished as he strove to make peace, had he
displayed more of Ben-Gurions steel and
ruthlessness toward domestic rivals.
In recent years, Peres enjoyed the role
of Israels elder statesman beyond petty
party politics, but the early days of his
career looked distinctively different.
In the Haganah, Peres was responsible
for manpower and arms and later headed
Israels navy. After the War of Independence, he became the director of the
Defense Ministrys delegation in the US. In
1953, the then 29-year-old Peres became
the ministrys youngest-ever director-general. In this position, he helped form strategic alliances that would prove crucial to
Israels survival, and established the countrys nuclear program in Dimona.

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A man like
Shimon Peres
cannot not
speak his mind
when he feels
the fatefulness of
the hour and
believes with all
his heart that its
his obligation to
exert influence.

In 1959, Peres entered the Knesset for

Mapai (the Labor Partys predecessor) and
was appointed deputy defense minister, a
position he held until 1965. In 1974, Rabin,
who then was prime minister, made Peres
his defense minister.
Three years later, Rabin got embroiled
in a foreign currency scandal and had to
let Peres take over as Labor head and unofficial acting prime minister. Under Peress
leadership, Israels left wing lost power
for the first time in the countrys history.
The right-wing Likud partys Menachem
Begin became prime minister and Peres
headed the opposition. In 1981, Labor lost
again. Three years later, the party won the
most seats but was unable to form a leftwing coalition. Peres and Likuds Yitzhak
Shamir agreed to a rotation agreement, in
which the two leaders alternately served
as prime minister and foreign minister.
Peres became prime minister for the first
time on September 13, 1986.
In 1988, Labor lost yet again to Likuds
Shamir, albeit narrowly, and Peres served
as vice premier and finance minister in
a national unity government. But that
unlikely alliance fell apart in 1990 over
disagreement about a U.S.-backed plan for
peace talks with the Palestinians.
Peres then tried to grab power by staging a political ploy widely known as the
stinking maneuver.
With the help of the ultra-Orthodox Shas
party, Peress left-wing bloc successfully
filed a no-confidence motion in March
1990, marking the first and to date the
only time a sitting government was
ousted by such a measure. Peres was asked
to form the government but failed to do so,
due to opposition from the ultra-Orthodox
Degel Hatorah party. The leading ultraOrthodox rabbi at the time, Eliezer Menachem Schach, famously forbade his followers from entering a coalition with the
pork-eating left, and so a humiliated
Peres was left without a majority.
Rabin, who tried unsuccessfully to
unseat Peres as party chair, said that this
bluff and corruptibility which came into
the Israeli political life in an attempt to
form a narrow government failed not only
tactically but also conceptually.
Two years later, Peres lost the Labor

Pope Francis and President Peres meet in Jerusalem on May 26, 2014.

leadership to Rabin, who went on to

become prime minister and made Peres
his foreign minister. In 1993, the Rabin government signed the Oslo Accords with the
Palestine Liberation Organization, which
won him, Peres, and PLO leader Arafat the
1994 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to
create peace in the Middle East.
We are leaving behind us the era of belligerency and are striding together toward
peace, Peres said in his acceptance speech.
The bitter rivalry between Peres and
Rabin lasted almost half a century. It didnt
end with the success of Oslo or another historic peace treaty Israel signed with Jordan
in 1994. Indeed, Peres was upset that Rabin
marginalized his role in the peace agreement with Amman, feeling that he deserved
most of the credit because of his many years
of holding secret contacts with Amman.
This tension is completely unnecessary, Labor minister Moshe Shahal said
after the cabinet session that approved the
peace deal with Jordan. There is enough
room for both of them in history for what
they have done and the achievements they
have attained.

MARK NEIMAN/GPO

Ben-Gurions successor, combining elements of far-sighted pragmatism and

hawkishness throughout his career, even
though Peres is often seen as an idealistic,
unrealistic dove.
But of course there were important differences between the two leaders, Bermant
stressed in a review of Peress 2012 book on
Ben-Gurion. Peres is the consummate diplomat who has always seemed to care about
both domestic and international opinion.
Indeed, some might say that he is too concerned these days about the former. One

REMY STEINEGGER

Mr. Peres at the

World Economic
Forums annual
meeting in
Davos in 2001.
Yasser Arafat is
behind him.

Mr. Peres hugs a mother bereaved as

a result of Operation Protective Edge
in 2014.

JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 43

Mr. Peres and NBA star Amare Stoudemire

compare heights at the presidents house in
Jerusalem on July 18, 2013.

Indeed, even as an octogenarian, Peres

who received an honorary knighthood
from Queen Elizabeth and the Presidential
Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama
was indefatigable. In the mid-1990s, he
became the first Israeli prime minister to
have a website, and two decades later he
was still on the cutting edge of technology.
In 2012, he released an ultra-hip video
showing him shaking hands with world
leaders and stars from Hollywood and the
world of sports, and playing on his iPad, all
the while imploring the viewer to be my
friend for peace.
We used to be the people of the book.
Now weve become the people of the Facebook much better, Peres said in the clip.
For the videos background music Peres
hired Noy Alooshe, an Israeli journalist
and musician who became famous for the
Zenga Zenga spoof making fun of Muammar Gaddafi.
Even on the very day he suffered from a
stroke and was sedated and intubated by his
doctors in Tel Avivs Tel Hashomer Hospital,
Peres published a video clip on Facebook
urging Israelis to buy home-made products.

44 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

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Israels diplomatic achievements at

the time were ascribed to the two Labor
leaders working in tandem, despite their
personal enmity. Its a miracle that this
combination exists, Israeli writer Matti
Golan, who chronicled Peres and Rabins
relationship, opined at the time. But
there is no doubt that without Rabin (the
peace initiatives) couldnt be, and there is
no doubt that without Peres it would be
impossible, too.
After Rabin was assassinated in November 1995, Peres became acting prime minister, vowing to continue on the path to
peace. He called for new elections, but a
series of brutal terror attacks against Israeli
civilians right before the elections led the
people to focus on security over reconciliation, and narrowly brought to power
Likuds hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the next Labor government, under
Ehud Barak, Peres served in a minor post
as regional cooperation minister. After this
government collapsed in 2000, Peres ran
for president but lost to Moshe Katsav. He
then staged a political comeback, becoming foreign minister in a coalition government under Likud hardliner Ariel Sharon.
In 2005, he followed Sharon to the newly
founded centrist Kadima party, where he
stayed until he resigned from the Knesset
after being elected president in 2007.
As is customary for the mainly ceremonial position, President Peres abandoned
partisan politics and henceforth focused
his speeches on the need to achieve
peace in the Middle East, the dangers of
a nuclear Iran, and the miracle of Israels
high-tech success. After a stormy career in
politics, Peres was no less vigorous in his
new, apolitical position, keeping up with a
tight schedule that included meetings all
over Israel and across the globe.
I dont how where he gets the energy
from, one of Peress staffers said a few
years ago, after her boss had addressed a
crowd of senior American communal leaders at 8 in the morning before heading to
his next appointment. Believe me, she
continued, hes over 80 and Im in my
30s, but he has more energy than all of us.

Mr. Peres gives Barak Obama the Presidential Medal in Jerusalem on March 21, 2013

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Shimon Peres and U.S. President Bill Clinton are at the White House in April 1996.

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Cover Story

From left, Barbra Streisand, Bill Clinton, Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are in Jerusalem to celebrate Mr. Peres 90th
birthday on June 18, 2013.

In the summer of 2012, as Prime Minister Netanyahu publicly mulled attacking

Irans nuclear facilities despite opposition from Washington, Peres entered the
political fray one last time. Jerusalem cannot go it alone in a preemptive strike,
he said, sparking a storm of controversy.
Likud leaders called Peress comments a
gross attack on the elected governments
official policy and one lawmaker went so
far as to suggest Peres be impeached.
But Yitzhak Navon, Israels fifth president (1978-83), defended him. A man like
Shimon Peres cannot not speak his mind
when he feels the fatefulness of the hour
and believes with all his heart that its his
obligation to exert influence, Navon said.
Before the 2013 elections, some dovish Israeli politicians and pundits pressured the then 89-year-old to quit the
presidency and run once again for the
premiership, but Peres refused, saying
he was committed to conclude his sevenyear term as president. On July 27, 2014,
he was succeeded by Reuven Rivlin, whom
he had defeated in the presidential elections seven years earlier. But even after six

decades of holding political offices, Peres

did not retire, continuing tirelessly to call
for peace and to defend Israels good name
in the world.
We do have a partner. But we have to
decide do we want a partner for peace
or a partner for war? Im speaking about
Abu Mazen another name for the Palestinian Authoritys president, Mahmoud
Abbas. He talks about peace, he talks
against terror. He doesnt talk the Zionist
language, but I dont expect him to, Peres
said in a recent interview.
In December 2015, rumors about his
death spread on social media, which
Peres, true to form, dispelled on his Facebook page. Im continuing with my daily
schedule as usual, he wrote, to do whatever I can to assist the State of Israel and
its citizens.
On September 13, he suffered from a
stroke and was admitted to the Sheba
Medical Center in Tel Aviv, where doctors
sedated and intubated him. Wishes for
his recovery poured in from across the
globe, but despite minor improvements
in his condition he did not recover.

Cover Story

Shimon Peres, relentless advocate

of a better Israel, a better world

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A personal appreciation of a leader who touched

countless Israeli lives including mine
DAVID HOROVITZ

hen you work with a countrys founding prime minister at the very start of
its statehood, and youre
still its iconic elder statesman seven
decades later, youre going to impact a lot
of peoples lives. Directly and indirectly,
Shimon Peres surely affected the lives of
more Israelis than anybody else. And if we
havent yet become the nation at peace
that he strove for us to become, it surely
wasnt for the lack of his trying.
Looking back through clips today, I realize I must have interviewed Shimon Peres
more than Ive interviewed anybody else.
Year after year when he was president; a
few years ago onstage at the Jewish Federations General Assembly in Jerusalem; at a
world Jewish media summit here in 2014;
at The Times of Israels Gala in New York
last year in front of 1,200 people, and a few
more times besides. And I only knew him
in the latter stages of his extraordinary life.
The consistent theme in his conversations, in the presidential years and
beyond, was that peace is attainable. He
would argue, even in the darkest of periods, that Mahmoud Abbas
is absolutely a partner for
peace. He would implicitly
quiet, gentle, but relentless way of his, that the
criticize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and othforces of technology, of
ers, for not doing enough to
aspiration, and of youth
advance it. If youve decided
are ultimately beneficial
on a Palestinian state, then
and ultimately irresistible. Irresistible even
you have to make that decision happen, he told me
to regimes such as the
once, asking plaintively, So
ayatollahs. The present government in Iran
whats the alternative? That
doesnt have a future,
there be one state and the
David Horovitz
he told me with commajority will determine its
plete conviction, back
nature?
in 2013. The problem of Iran is timing,
US President Barack Obama was quick
not verdict. Its a government that doesnt
to hail Peres, on his passing, as a man who
have a message not only for humanity,
changed the course of history, and as the
but for their own people.
essence of Israel itself. The trust and affection were mutual. That was another of
Two years later, at our gala, he elaborated: Iran too will change. You cannot
Peress firm beliefs in the last few years
have the ayatollahs as the eternal governthat Israel could and should trust Obama,
ment. Pressure for reform from young Irato ensure Israels security if and when it
nians would be among the factors to spell
moved ahead with the Palestinians, and to
the demise of the regime, he predicted: In
prevent Iran from attaining the bomb.
10-15 years, Iran will be out of water and
Peress critics, many of whom became
thus out of ayatollahs, in my judgment.
more appreciative and respectful of him
As the years passed, Peress pace melas the years passed, would say he was
lowed a little, his speech patterns slowed.
naive about Palestinian intentions, naive
But his curiosity never dulled, nor did his
about Iran. When this was put to him, he
passion for the new and the innovative.
would shake his head mildly, not unduly
When Obama visited in 2013, it was Peres,
perturbed. And he would argue, in that

then 89, who was the natural choice to

guide the American president through
an Israel Museum exhibition of groundbreaking Israeli technology. Three years
earlier, I remember him speaking at a
conference in Jerusalem, without notes,
for more than an hour about nanotechnology. In a hotel restaurant on the evening before our gala last year, he was to
be found deep in conversation with the
young computer prodigy Kira Radinsky,
who utilizes web knowledge and dynamics to predict future events.
Peres was the face of the Israel that the
world wants to see: Warm and wise, a
believer in the essential good of humanity.
Indeed, he was the face of the Israel that
we want to see constantly questing for a
safer, better, more tranquil future.
Not all of us, however, were able to
share his confidence in what can be
attained. To which Peres once patiently
responded to me: Doubt is not a policy.
Doubts are a riddle. If you want to do
crossword puzzles, go ahead. You need to
take positions.
It was, he granted, understandable and
acceptable, as Israelis, for us to feel threatened. And thus, he urged, Practically,
prepare as best as you can for the worst,

and prepare to change the situation for the

better. I do not suggest that Israel reduce
its strength. I also dont suggest that Israel
reduce its desire for peace.
Shimon Peres touched many, many lives
in his unique career. He certainly impacted
mine. When I was considering setting up
The Times of Israel, I asked his presidential office if he would meet with me, and
he readily agreed. He urged me to somehow build the site in partnership with Palestinians, but sensing that I was not about
to do that, was encouraging nonetheless.
Peress voice was somewhere in my mind
when, once the site was up and soaring,
we decided to open an Arabic version of
The Times of Israel not, as Im sure he
would have most wanted, as a vehicle to
advocate peace, but as a means of enabling
the Arab world to better understand Israel
via professional, fair-minded journalism,
which I know he also respected.
Along with many millions, Ill greatly miss
Shimon Peres. Id like to live in that better
world that he believed, to his dying day, is
out there to be attained, if only we have the
TIMES OF ISRAEL
vision and the will.
David Horovitz is the founder, publisher,
and editor of the Times of Israel.

JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 45

Jewish World

Israels Bedouin get their close-up

in Oscar entry Sand Storm
TOM TUGEND
LOS ANGELES The movie Sand Storm, Israels entry
for Academy Award consideration, has won prestigious
awards and glowing reviews in its limited release by defying almost every rule of Hollywood success.
There are no stunts, no good guys vs. bad guys shootouts, and the erotic highlight consists of a young woman
taking off the hijab covering her hair in the privacy of her
bedroom.
What the film does have is the depiction of an extended
Bedouin family, whose social rules hark back to ancient
times but whose emotions and struggles are instantly
recognizable by the most urbane residents of New York,
Paris, or Tel Aviv.
There are about 200,000 Bedouins, a minority within
an Arab minority, in Israel. Most of them live in towns and
villages in a northern Negev triangle bounded by Beersheba, Arad, and Dimona.
At the heart of the film is the relationship and the
tension between a mother and daughter. The mother,
Jalila, is preparing for the arrival of the much younger
women who will be her husbands
second wife. The daughter, Layla,
is studying Hebrew literature at
nearby Ben-Gurion University and
Jalal Masarwa, left, and Lamis Ammar in a scene from Sand Storm.
VERED ADIR
secretly meeting privately with
a boy and fellow student who is,
into a 10-year project for Zexer,
Zexer would not discuss the budget for the film, but
adding to the taboo, from a different Bedouin tribe.
who directed three short films
it came together largely through two Israeli government
The situation threatens to bring
after graduating from the film
funds and two private funds.
eternal shame to her parents and
school at Tel Aviv University, now
The Oscar entry is the latest in a series of honors for the
ruin the chances that her sisters will
known as the Steve Tisch School
film, which included the $65,000 first prize for a work in
find good husbands. It also escalates
of Film and Television.
progress at the Locarno International Film Festival; top
the tension between Layla and her
Determined to make an accurate
awards at film competitions in Jerusalem, Taiwan, Seattle,
parents, particularly Jalila.
film and honor the confidence of
and South Korea, and the 2016 World Cinema Grand Jury
It is this basic plot rebellious
the Bedouin women she had met,
Prize at Sundance.
teen, traditionalist parents that
Zexer took four years to write,
In the run-up to the Ophir Awards, presented by the
gives the film its universal appeal,
rewrite and polish her script.
Israeli Academy of Film and Television, the film led the
says Elite Zexer, who wrote and
My interactions with the Bedfield with 12 nominations out of 18 categories. At the Sept.
ouins shaped every frame of the
directed Sand Storm, her first
22 presentation of what commonly are called the Israeli
film, Zexer said. The script is
feature film.
Oscars, the film won six top prizes, including best picture,
fictional, but it is based on real
Wherever we have screened
best director, and best supporting actress. The best picElite Zexer, director-writer of Sand
ture distinction meant that the movie automatically would
stories, real circumstances. I felt
the film, from Sundance to Korea,
Storm, won the Israeli equivalent
represent Israel in the Oscar competition for best foreign
an obligation to make the story as
women have come to me afterof the Oscar as best director for her
wards to tell me thats me, thats
language movie.
real as possible and to represent
film about a Bedouin family in the
the way it was between my mother
The success of her first feature has bowled over the oththe people I had met in the most
Negev. It will represent Israel in the
erwise sober-seeming director and writer.
and me, Zexer said.
accurate way.
Oscar competition for best foreignMy hope was just to make an honest picture about
The movie was shot on location
Once the script was honed to
language film.
COURTESY KINO LORBER
a little-known segment of Israeli society, Zexer said.
in four Bedouin villages. Contrary
her satisfaction, Zexer set out just
Never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be so
to media reports of incessant strife
as meticulously to find the right
well received, and move so many people.
among Israels diverse people, the
actors for the roles. The casting of
Israeli critics frequently have charged their government
films crew consisted of Jews, Muslim Arabs, Christian
Jalila the mother is the films strongest figure was relatively easy. It ended in the selection of Ruba Blad-Asfour,
with neglecting the Bedouins and expropriating their
Arabs, and Bedouins.
the only professional actor in the cast.
lands, but Zexer hopes her film will motivate her Jewish
Nobody cared about religious, political or ethnic differences, Zexer said. She remembers our entire crew workThe search for a young girl to play Layla, the daughcompatriots in at least one way.
ing together for the same goal, while taking pleasure and
ter, was more difficult. After seemingly endless auditions,
Israelis constantly drive past these Bedouin villages
pride in being part of one family.
Lamis Ammar, a young Bedouin woman, won the part. It
without ever stopping to take a closer look, she said. If
Zexer, 35, who was born in Netanya and lives in Tel Aviv,
is her first professional role.
they did, they would find that the people there would welcome them warmly.
was introduced to the Bedouin lifestyle in a fortuitous way.
Suliman, Jalilas husband, is played by Haitham Oman,
Israeli films have been nominated for an Oscar 10 times,
My mother is a still photographer and began to take
a photographer in his day job.
but none has ever received the winners golden statuette.
pictures of Bedouin women in the Negev Desert, the
Sand Storm is the first Israeli all-Arabic-language
Israelis hope that Sand Storm will be the breakthrough
director said in a Skype interview that linked Los Angeles
Oscar entry. The actors speak in a distinct Arab dialect.
film in more ways than one.
and Tel Aviv.
On set, most of the Bedouins spoke Hebrew, the younger
Sand Storm, in Arabic with English subtitles, opens in
One day about 10 years ago, Zexer accompanied her
ones more fluently than their elders. In a pinch, English
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New York on September 28.
mother for a days photography. The one-day trip turned
instructions helped the director get her points across.
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Shimon Peres, zl
1923 - 2016
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey deeply mourns the passing of
Shimon Peres, zl, universally recognized as one of Israels greatest leaders,
a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and one of North American Jewrys closest Israeli friends.
A member of Israels founding generation, an eloquent spokesperson for his country,
and a strong advocate for Jewish peoplehood, Peres was both a pragmatist and an optimist.
He always believed that Israel would reach peace with its neighbors.
He dedicated his life to that pursuit.
Shimon Peres held nearly every cabinet position during his storied career,
serving multiple times as prime minister and once as president. He had an air of grace about him,
never forgot his humble beginnings in Poland and believed in dreaming big.
He will be remembered along with the great leaders of Israel who fought
in the War of Independence.
May the memory of Shimon Peres be a blessing, and may his children,
Dr. Tsvia Walden, Yoni Peres, and Nechemia Peres, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren
be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

Jewish Federation

OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY

Jayne Petak
President

Jason M. Shames

Chief Executive Ocer

50 Eisenhower Drive, Paramus, NJ 07652 | 201.820.3900

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Jewish World

Indian-American student becomes pro-Israel symbol

for trying to stay neutral
GABE FRIEDMAN

hen Milan Chatterjee arrived at UCLAs

law school in 2014, Middle East politics
wasnt one of his core interests.
He describes himself as an Indian
American who is interested in corporate law and has
strong connections to his South Asian and Hindu heritage.
He has played the Indian tabla drums on many recordings
with prominent Indian musicians.
But now Chatterjee, who was the president of the Graduate Student Association at UCLA, has chosen to leave the
school before completing his degree. Its in response to a
nearly yearlong battle hes been carrying out with activists
from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
against Israel.
After stipulating that a diversity event would receive no
funding if its organizers had any connection to the BDS
movement, Chatterjee claims that he was harassed by the
activists, and that UCLA administrators mishandled an
investigation into his alleged policy infractions.

I really feel bad for the

Jewish student body.
These are some of the
nicest, most cultured,
most hardworking
people Ive ever met.
The administration is working in collusion with BDS
activists, Chatterjee said. I really feel bad for the Jewish
student body. These are some of the nicest, most cultured,
most hardworking people Ive ever met. They come to
school to enhance themselves academically and enhance
the diversity of the campus. But theyre regularly targeted
and bullied by the BDS movement.
Rabbi Aaron Lerner, executive director of the Hillel at
UCLA, said the BDS controversy has not affected the average Jewish Bruin.
There are far too many incidents, but BDS does not
affect the daily lives of our Jewish students, Lerner said,
referring to other recent public altercations at UCLA,
such as the one involving Rachel Beyda, who was asked
about her Jewish heritage at a student government meeting in 2015. Students are motivated to get involved, both
to fight BDS and even more so to take back their student
governments.
Nevertheless, Chatterjees public critique of the school
has made him a symbol of anti-BDS resistance among
pro-Israel alumni and activists. In the past week, more
than 500 alumni have signed a Change.org petition that
calls for UCLA to issue a public apology to Chatterjee and
rescind its Discrimination Prevention Office report, which
concluded that Chatterjee violated the schools viewpoint
neutrality policies.
Some donors even have threatened to stop giving to
the school. David Pollock, a Los Angeles-based financial
adviser, has considered taking back an art collection he
donated to UCLAs Anderson School of Management.
Helen Jacobs-Lepor, a vice president of a large biomedical
device company, wrote a letter, published on a Facebook
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Milan Chatterjee said the UCLA administration worked in collusion with BDS activists.

page called UCLA Bruins Supporting Milan Chatterjee,

that she has taken UCLA out of her will.
I am appalled as to how you treated Milan Chatterjee
and your failure to protect him from the vicious actions of
the BDS movement, Jacobs-Lepor wrote.
And in June, the American Jewish Committee gave Chatterjee its inaugural Campus Courage Award for demonstrating unusual courage and moral clarity in standing
up to anti-Semitism and the BDS movement. Peter Weil,
a prominent real estate lawyer and former president of the
AJCs Los Angeles chapter, has given him pro bono legal
help.
The issue even made its way onto the desk of U.S. Rep.
Brad Sherman, D-Calif., a staunchly pro-Israel House
member who represents the San Fernando Valley in Los
Angeles County. He has corresponded with UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, but Sherman is still researching the
situation and is not ready to issue a full statement. (Both
Sherman and Block are Jewish.)
Sherman said that he is concerned about Chatterjees
claims of harassment and the way the universitys report
was leaked online.
I dont think [UCLA] is a hostile environment for Jews.
The question is, is it a hostile environment for Zionist students? Sherman asked. To think that you go from being

COURTESY MILAN CHATTERJEE

elected graduate student body president to fleeing the

university, that is an enormous change in ones feelings. I
would hope that we would make sure that other students
dont feel that.
It has all been a wild, unexpected ride for Chatterjee,
a 27-year-old Las Vegas resident who said he was merely
trying to stay completely neutral on the Israeli-Palestinian
issue.
For two years I never had any problems, we worked
peacefully with student groups, he said. But then BDS
activists made a Mount Everest out of a mole hill.
The ordeal began last October, when a campus group
called the Diversity Caucus reached out to the graduate
student government to ask Chatterjee for funding for a
panel event. Chatterjee initially agreed to hold a GSA vote
on whether to provide $2,000 for the event, but later sent
an email to the Diversity Caucus stipulating that the group
could not receive the funding if it engaged with any groups
that supported divestment from Israel. He argued that
funding Students for Justice in Palestine, a national antiZionist group with chapters on many college campuses,
would imply taking a stand on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
He also said it would have made some members of the student government uncomfortable.
Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA was allowed to

Jewish World

Chatterjee says proBDS students also

launched a smear
campaign that
attempted to have him
removed as graduate
student president
three separate times.
have a table outside the event, but the panel discussion
itself avoided talk of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The
pro-Palestinian group complained to the campus administration, which launched an investigation that concluded
that Chatterjee broke the schools viewpoint neutrality
rules, regardless of his intentions.
In a statement, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA
called Chatterjees actions a direct effort to bar the ability
of an organization to associate with or engage in speech
about a particular viewpoint.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Palestine Legal sent a letter to the UCLA administration after

BRIEFS

Chinese crackdown on
Jewish practices in ancient
community of Kaifeng
The Chinese government has been cracking down on
the small Jewish community whose ancestors settled in
the central Chinese city Kaifeng over 1,000 years ago,
according to The New York Times.
Only 100 to 200 Chinese Jews are active out of 1,000
claiming Jewish ancestry in Kaifeng and have been targeted by President Xi Jinpings government campaign
against non-licensed religions.
Organizations that have helped in rebuilding the
Jewish community have been shut down, and the government has prohibited gatherings for Passover and
other Jewish holidays, closed Hebrew and Judaism
classes and removed Jewish historical signs and objects
from public places.
Buddhism, Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism and
Taoism are the only approved state religions in Communist China.
The whole policy is very tight now, Guo Yan, 35,
a tour guide, who runs a small museum on Kaifengs
Jewish past, told The Times. China is sensitive about
foreign activities and interference.
No arrests have been made and the Jewish community can still gather in small groups to pray, but they
JNS.ORG
are closely monitored by the government.

the original incident, saying that requiring that GSAfunded programs have zero connection to BDS supporters violates students First Amendment rights.
Chatterjee, who is finishing his last year of law school
at New York University, alleges that UCLAs viewpoint
neutrality rules never were explained to students a
fact the UCLA report acknowledges and the school
evaluated his actions under a University of California
policy, titled PACAOS 86.30, that UCLA never formally
adopted. He wants UCLA to rescind the report and clear
his record.
This isnt about free speech or free expression, Weil
said. Hes not saying that people shouldnt be entitled to
criticize Israel or to defend Israel. His objection is how
the university scapegoated him. When he applies to a bar
exam, the bar is going to say have you ever been investigated, and hes going to have to explain it.
Furthermore, Chatterjee claims that UCLA allowed
BDS activists to leak the confidential report online. Vice
Chancellor Jerry Kang, who headed the report, also wrote
about the report on his blog and linked to it.
Chatterjee says pro-BDS students also launched a
smear campaign that attempted to have him removed
as graduate student president three separate times.
He blames BDS activists for what he calls defamatory
articles about him in the student paper and on such antiZionist websites as Mondoweiss and the Electronic Intifada. Toward the end of his term, several months after the
diversity event, the student government voted to censure

him. At one government meeting, Chatterjee says a student declared a holy war on him.
In response to an inquiry about the reports confidentiality, Ricardo Vasquez, UCLAs associate director of media
relations, said the school was legally obligated to provide
it to the Los Angeles Times in response to a public records
request.
Both Block and Kang declined to respond to JTAs inquiries. However, Block issued a statement to UCLA stakeholders and other members of the public last week saying
that UCLA does not support divestment from Israel.
I personally am extremely proud of our numerous academic and cultural relationships with Israeli institutions,
he wrote. We have a thriving and vibrant Jewish community at UCLA, and I know from engaging with many of its
members that they truly believe that UCLA is a welcoming
and nurturing community for their beliefs. That it remains
so is non-negotiable.
We will not tolerate anti-Semitism or discrimination
against any member of our community. We will not allow
groups or individuals to harass others, whether based on
beliefs, opinions or speech.
Weil said that Chatterjees case should make college
administrations formalize the way they handle complaints
from the BDS movement.
The fact is that none of these administrators are trained
in how to deal with this stuff. This is new stuff, Weil said.
BDS is a very sophisticated group but now you have to
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figure out how to deal with it.

Watchdog group calls out

LA Times for misinforming
readers on Israel terror wave

Israel calls on Norwegian theater

to denounce fake BDS video

The Los Angeles Times is being called out by a media

watchdog group for obscuring Palestinian responsibility for a series of recent terror attacks.
LA Times writer Joshua Mitnicks Sept. 20 article
depicts Palestinian attackers as victims rather than
being responsible for terror attacks against Israelis in
Jerusalem and the West Bank. In particular, six Palestinians and one Jordanian were killed in recent attacks,
but Mitnicks article fails to report they perpetrated
the violence.
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America called it a gross neglect of journalistic
responsibility.
Mitnick also notes specific attacks during the recent
wave of violence including the Sept. 20 stabbing
attempt in Hebron, but he never says Palestinians are
responsible for the continuous attacks in the last year.
CAMERA identified various media outlets, not
known for being pro-Israel, that have held to a higher
journalism standard than the LA Times. The Guardian, Al Jazeera, the New York Times and Reuters all
reported that the majority of the attackers killed in the
terror wave that began last year were Palestinians.
With the LA Times piece, readers are left on their
own to deduce that it is Palestinians who are responsible for the ongoing attacks of the last year, or not,
JNS.ORG
CAMERA said.

Israels Ministry of Foreign Affairs is calling on the National

Theatre of Norway to denounce a video falsely produced
on its behalf by Norwegian actors that calls for a boycott
of Israels national theater.
Hypocritically hiding behind the guise of freedom of
speech, Norwegian actors have produced a video using
official funding in which a fake spokesperson for the
National Theatre of Norway disgracefully calls for a boycott
of Israels national theater, HaBima, and the entire state of
Israel, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement said.
The video, published online and transcribed in a Sept.
20 article in a Norwegian weekly, Morgenbladet, dramatized an apology from the Norwegian National Theatre
for cooperating with HaBima on a project called Terrorisms. The actress claimed the theater was unaware of the
powerful role HaBima and other Israeli art institutions
play in normalizing the Israeli occupation.
The actress also apologizes on behalf of the theaters for
being ignorant of the colonial conflict based on ethnic
cleansing, racism, occupation and apartheid.
The MFA said the disinformation clip is reminiscent
of the works of the Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph
Goebbels, or the Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.
Israel calls on the National Theatre of Norway, in
whose name the libelous statements were made, to clearly
and immediately repudiate them as well as to take the necessary measures to have the video removed from every
JNS.ORG
site, Israeli officials said.

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Gallery
1

n 1 Ten Israeli Air Force cadets talked

to a crowd of 300, including
students, faculty, and parents from
the religious school at Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in
Woodcliff Lake. The Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey
sponsored the evening, as Temple
Emanuel welcomed the new
Partnership2Gether delegation from
Nahariya, Israel, its sister city. The
cadets showed a video and
answered questions. A pizza dinner
followed. COURTESY TEPV
n 2 Nearly 100 differently-abled
athletes and more than 50 volunteers
turned out on September 25 for the
annual Special Games, a field day
celebration and community event
presented by the Chuck Guttenberg
Center for the Physically Challenged
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades.
Attendees received ribbons for every
event they participated in and a
barbeque with a DJ ended the event.
COURTESY JCCOTP

n 3 Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ),

left, is with Rena and David Schlussel
at a Norpac event the Schlussels
hosted in their Teaneck home. Rep.

Smith is a senior member of the

House Foreign Affairs Committee and
chairman of the U.S. Helsinki
Commission. COURTESY NORPAC
n 4 Students at Waynes Shomrei
Torah religious school learned handson about the shofar with Rabbi
Yisroel Rosenblum of Living Legacy.
COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH

n 5 Temple Emeth congregant Paul

Rubock helps the Teaneck shuls
religious school students plant
hydrangea bushes to commemorate
the 15th anniversary of the 9/11
attacks. Afterward, there was a
service led by Teaneck Mayor
Mohamed Hamaduddin; participants
included Councilman Alan Sohn and
Rabbi Steven Sirbu. Louis Santos
played Taps on his trumpet.
Afterward, a group helped to clean
up Windsor Park. CARLA SILVER
n 6 The new school year began at
the Bergen County High School of
Jewish Studies. Returning students
joined new students, who had an
orientation at Bowler City in
Hackensack. More information is at
www.bchsjs.org. COURTESY BCHSJS

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of the 18 century, the
royal gates. Try as he might
Baal Shem Tov, told
to return, his pleas go
a parable about the
ignored as they view him as
deeper meaning of the shofar
an unhinged fellow seeking
blasts on Rosh Hashanah.
access to the palace.
Distraught and hopeless,
A young prince was once
he sits by a stoop at the casexiled from the royal palace of
tle walls and begins to cry.
his father, the king. The young
Rabbi Yosef
The king sitting in his
boy spent years wandering
Orenstein
royal chamber hears a faint
among the peasants and forgot about his royal roots and
Valley Chabad,
but familiar voice. He folWoodcliff
lows his ear and the voice
aristocratic upbringing. After
Lake, Orthodox
gets louder until he reaches
years of wandering, he finally
his long lost son. After an
hit the low point in his life and
emotional embrace he is
he sought to return home. By
welcomed back home to the palace.
that point his clothes were well-worn and
The Baal Shem Tov related this story in
torn, his hair was long, and he outwardly
regard to Rosh Hashanah. The prince is
resembled nothing of the prince he was
the Jewish people and his cry is the shoraised to be.
Upon arrival to the palace, the guards, of
fars blast.
course, do not recognize him and quickly
Throughout the year we may find our

relationship with God slipping or moved to

the back burner. We become preoccupied
with our work and the various life challenges thrown our way. We become consumed with our daily business and focus
less on the preciousness of who we are as
a people.
When Jewish people from around the
world come together in shul on Rosh
Hashanah we share one voice. While we
hail from various backgrounds and ways
of observance, we are united, joining as
one, to fulfill the great mitzvah of the day
to hear the shofar blasts.
The shofars cry is simple and sweet.
Its soft yet persistent. It represents the
cry from the deepest core of our soul, our
Godly soul. With this sound we gather as
one, asking God for a sweet new year.
The cry of the shofar is like a cry from a
child to parent. As parents we often know
our children could have done better, could

have tried harder, and followed what we

told them the first time. Yet when our children come around and ask for our support, we are there for them. We are present and we are ready, regardless of the
mistakes they have done.
On Rosh Hashanah we turn to God with
that same innocence of a child to parent.
We may not be fully deserving, but we are
here and committing to good for the coming year. As the prayer says, with repentance, prayer, and righteousness we have
the ability to anul any negative decrees.
So, on this Rosh Hashanah, in addition
to the traditional dinners we have with
family and friends, make a point of taking
your children and parents to go to shul and
hear the shofar. Make sure you take part
in the most important mitzvah this Rosh
Hashanah.
Ksiva vachasima tova may you be
inscribed for a good year.

Descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews

rediscover roots, move to Israel
MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Sonya Loya never felt Catholic. She was
drawn to Judaism instead.
In the 1990s, when she was in her late 30s,
Loya, who is from New Mexico, discovered
her familys hidden secret. I found out my
ancestors were Jews forced to convert during
the Spanish Inquisition, she said.
Loya traced her family line back to 1430;
she learned that she was descended from a
Spanish rabbinic dynasty. Since then, she has
delved into Judaism. At her first Shabbat dinner, she saw the woman of the house lighting
Shabbat candles, and that sparked something
inside her.
That was what my grandma used to do,
Loya said. The dreams I had had begun to
finally make sense.
When she shared her discovery with her
parents and asked for their blessing to convert back to Judaism, not only were they supportive, but her father said hed known that
he was Jewish since he was 6.
His uncle came back from liberating the
[Nazi] camps and told his mother and brothers it was still not safe to be a Jew, Loya said.
They swore my father to secrecy at that

time. He held onto that secret for 64 years.

Today, Loya runs tours to Israel for Bnei
Anusim (a term for the descendants of forced
Sephardi Jewish converts to Christianity)
from the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish
communities. There is such a longing to
reconnect to my people Israel and to the land
of my forefathers, she said.
Around the world, there are an estimated
100 million to 150 million Bnei Anusim,
according to Ashley Perry, president of Reconectar (Spanish and Portuguese for reconnect) and director general of the relatively
new Israeli Knesset Caucus for the Reconnection with the Descendants of Spanish and
Portuguese Communities. He was advisor to
Israels Minister of Foreign Affairs from April
2009 to January 2015.
The Spanish Jewish community was seen
as one of the strongest and most powerful
until the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand
and Queen Isabella, ushered in the Spanish
Inquisition, which lasted for centuries, forcing conversion to Christianity, along with
persecution and expulsion. Some 200,000
people were forcibly converted between 1491
and the 16th century.
Reconectar provides todays descendants

Sonya Loya, at right, leads Bnei Anusim on a tour of the ancient Sephardic
community of Safed.
MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

of those Jews who were forced to convert

with personalized tools to explore, learn,
and connect with Judaism, the Jewish community, and Israel. It also helps communities
and organizations with this process.
To begin the process, applicants fill out a
questionnaire on the groups website. They
are asked to explain why they would like to

connect. Then the group responds by linking

them with the right resources. Since the sites
recent launch, 300,000 people have visited
Reconectar; 14 percent of them said they selfidentify as Jewish. Another 30 percent said
theyre aware of their ancestry and want to
know more.

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Arts & Culture

Denial

Historian Deborah Lipstadt takes on Holocaust denial

ERIC A. GOLDMAN

t is not unusual to learn that

while audience members
may love cinema with Jewish
themes, they have little interest in seeing more films about the
Shoah.
The plethora of Holocaust movies
that have been on the screen have,
sadly, turned off a number of cineastes. I often make the point that there
is much to learn from each new
movie. Films made around the world
not only tell us about aspects of the
Shoah with which we may not be
familiar, but also offer a great deal of
information about the country and
culture in which it was made. Case
in point several of the superb Holocaust films made the last few years
are from Germany and Poland.
Films made recently in this country or the United Kingdom are of
special interest. Edward Zwicks
2008 Defiance put forward a Hollywood-style look at resistance, with
the good guys the Bielski brothers,
torn between waging a fierce armed
fight against the Nazis and protecting
a community of Jews hiding in the
forests. The next year, Quentin Tarantino provided us with Inglourious
Basterds, a fairy tale-like story about
a platoon of Jewish American soldiers who take on the task of assassinating Hitler. Then there was Simon
Curtiss 2015 Woman in Gold,
which had an Erin Brockovich feel to
it. It was about the crusading lawyer
who manages to extract a prized piece of
stolen art from the Austrian government
for the family of the original Jewish owners. Each one was a feel good as a Jew
film but, with the possible exception of
the Tarantino film, far from brilliant. Now,
Mick Jackson has directed Denial, the
true story of an academics fierce battle
to prove that the Holocaust actually happened, and the strategy waged by the legal
team that had the task of proving it.
Denial has us join Emory University
professor Deborah Lipstadt in her classroom as she teaches a course about the
Shoah. Having us meet Lipstadt provides
a wonderful teaching opportunity, and
Jackson uses it to launch the film. The
Holocaust denier David Irving is in the
class, and he challenges the scholar on

Classroom and
courtroom scenes
in Defiance.

her facts and asserts that the Shoah never

happened.
This is the essence of the film. The question left to producers Gary Foster and
Russ Krasnoff was where to go with the
story. What kind of film was this to be?
Could it possibly replicate the importance
of last years Best Picture Oscar-winning
Spotlight in taking on an important
issue and setting the record straight on
fact, not fiction?
That Holocaust denial has become more
widely accepted around the world and had
to be refuted was clearly an underlying
issue for the filmmakers. The question was
what approach to take. David Hare, who
had done a brilliant job adapting German
author Bernhard Schlinks novel, The
Reader, for the screen was hired to write

the screenplay. In
The Reader, a
former Auschwitz
guard is put on trial
in Germany; the
films best scenes
take place not in the
courtroom, but in a
law school lecture
hall. In Denial,
Hare moves most of
the action from Lipstadts classroom, the site of the encounter, to a British courtroom. Irving has sued
Lipstadt, claiming that she libeled him in
a book she wrote. The next question to be
answered is whether she will settle with
him out of court or defend herself in the
United Kingdom. Under British law, the
burden of proof lies with the defendant;
she is guilty of libel until proven innocent.
The film has us get to know and admire
Lipstadt, who seems always to be jogging.
Shes smart and Jewishly identified; she
clearly loves her research and lifes work.
Lipstadt has lectured in our community
several times and is a force to be reckoned
with; I can testify to that, having attended
graduate school with her. She finds herself defending the truth that is not a role
she had chosen for herself, but it is one for

which she is fit.

Rachel Weisz does a superb job playing Lipstadt, and though her Queens
accent sometimes is missing, she comes
across as likable and admirable. Hinting that she sees herself as a modernday Deborah, a warrior like her biblical
namesake, may be taking it a bit far,
but there is little doubt that a legal victory for Irving, a man who claims that
the Shoah was a made-up event, would
have been a disaster for historicity and
the memory of the Six Million.
Some of the more powerful moments
in the film come when Lipstadt must
choose between allowing survivors to
testify or deny them this opportunity
in order to win the case in a British
court. Her connection and interaction
with one such survivor is a highlight of
the film. Another momentous scene is
when Lipstadt sits at the dinner table
with wealthy British Jews who advise
her to settle with the denier quietly rather
than bring undo attention to Englands
Jews. Back to the 1930s and 40s, with Jews
hiding under the table?
What could be better than watching
some of Britains foremost barristers and
solicitors putting such an abhorrent man
on the witness stand and proving his
falsehoods to a far-from-empathic British public? Oh, if such a stage were readily available for todays purveyors of lies
and falsehoods! But does this make great
cinema? It could have we have seen
many a great courtroom drama prove it.
But Denial somehow does not make the
mark. Far too much time is spent on legal
strategies and not enough on the personalities at the heart of the story.
If you are looking for a film that shows
the good guys us beating the bad guys
those who hate us then this is a film for
you! I must tell you that I left the screening pleased with the outcome but dissatisfied with what I felt could have been an
outstanding motion picture. The film does
showcase brilliant performances by Weisz,
Timothy Spall as Irving, and Tom Wilkinson as Barrister Richard Rampton. Want to
feel good? See it!
The film opens today in theaters
throughout the metropolitan area.
Eric Goldman is the author of The
American Jewish Story through Cinema.
He is founder of Ergo Media and adjunct
professor of cinema at Yeshiva University.

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Calendar
Friday
SEPTEMBER 30
Book and gift sale:
The Jewish Home at
Rockleigh hosts Books
Are Fun, a book and gift
fair in the social hall, 8
a.m.-2 p.m. Enter a raffle
to win a free item. A
portion of the proceeds
benefits the Resident
Council Fund. 10 Link
Drive. (201) 784-1414.

War veterans meet

in Fair Lawn: Jewish
War Veterans Post 651
of Fair Lawn meets for
brunch at the Land &
Sea Diner, 10 a.m. Wives
and guests welcome.
Edward Rosenblatt,
(201) 797-3190.

Shabbat on the
Palisades: Temple Beth
El of Northern Valley
in Closter invites the
community to its first
informal Prayers on the
Palisades service this
fall, led by Rabbis David
Widzer and Beth KramerMazer and Cantor
Rica Timman, at 5:45
p.m., at the State Line
Lookout off the Palisades
Parkway. The exit is
northbound on the PIP
two miles north of Exit
2. Bring a lawn chair and
bug spray. If the weather
is inclement, services will
be held at the shul, 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112.

Saturday
OCTOBER 1
Havdalah/Selichot
in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob has a brief
Havdalah service
followed by a thoughtprovoking live
performance of the play
Who Shall Live by the
Isramerica Company, 7
p.m. 176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725 or www.
bnaijacobjc.com.

Sunday
OCTOBER 2
Erev Rosh Hashanah in
Wyckoff: Temple Beth
Rishon offers short family
services with music, 6
p.m. 585 Russell Ave.
Call for free tickets.
(201) 891-4466.

Erev Rosh Hashanah

in Woodcliff Lake:
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley offers
community services,
6:15 p.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. Call for free tickets.
(201) 391-0801.

Erev Rosh Hashanah in

Closter: Temple Beth El

Tuesday
OCTOBER 4

of Northern Valley offers

services, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
Call for free tickets.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.

Rosh Hashanah in
Teaneck: Temple Emeth
offers services, 10 a.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
Call for free tickets.
(201) 833-1322.

Erev Rosh Hashanah in

Pearl River: Beth Am
Temple offers services,
8 p.m. 60 East Madison
Ave. Call for free tickets.
(845) 735-5858.

Rosh Hashanah in Pearl

River: Beth Am Temple
offers services, 10 a.m.
60 East Madison Ave.
Call for free tickets.
(845) 735-5858 or www.
bethamtemple.org.

Monday
OCTOBER 3

Rosh Hashanah in
Washington Township:

Rosh Hashanah in
Washington Township:

Temple Beth Or offers

services, 10 a.m. 56
Ridgewood Road. Call for
tickets. (201) 664-7422.

Temple Beth Or offers

Shofar Kids services, 9
a.m., and family services,
2:30 p.m. 56 Ridgewood
Road. Call for tickets.
(201) 664-7422.

Rosh Hashanah in
Closter: Temple Beth
El in Closter invites the
community to attend a
Rosh Hashanah morning
service at 10:30 am. No
tickets required. www.
tbenv.org.

Rosh Hashanah
in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob holds services, 10
a.m., and Tashlich at the
Korean War Memorial at
1:30 p.m. Services also
Tuesday. 176 West Side
Ave. No tickets required.
(201) 435-5725 or www.
bnaijacobjc.com.

Rosh Hashanah in
Woodcliff Lake:
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley offers
family services for
children 8 and younger
with parents, 1 p.m.
87 Overlook Drive.
Call for free tickets.
(201) 391-0801.

Rosh Hashanah in Fair

Lawn: The Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/ CBI holds
a special service for
families with preschool
and early elementary
school students,
including stories,
songs, and activities,
10 a.m. All children
attending will receive a
gift. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.

Rosh Hashanah in
Woodcliff Lake:
Valley Chabad has
family services led by
Rabbi Dov Drizin, 10:30
a.m.; at 11, Rabbi Yosef
Orenstein leads the Teen
Leadership Initiative
service, all at the Hilton
Woodcliff Lake, 200
Tice Boulevard. Repeats
Tuesday. Registration,
(201) 476-0157 or
valleychabad.org.

Rosh Hashanah in
Woodcliff Lake:
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley offers
young family services
for children 8 and
younger with parents,
1 p.m. Services also on
Tuesday. 87 Overlook
Drive. Call for free tickets.
(201) 391-0801.

Tashlich in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers a family service
at the pond, 1:15 p.m.
585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466.

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Thursday
OCTOBER 6

The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly

holds Spin 4 Sharsheret on Sunday,
October 9. In recognition of National
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the
morning features three 45-minute sessions, set for
8:15, 9:15, or 10:15. There are many gifts for participants,
including free JCCaf smoothies and refreshments,
breast care information, and the opportunity to
schedule a mammogram at the Leslie Simon Breast
Care and Cytodiagnosis Center at Englewood Hospital
and Medical Center on October 13, 20, 27, or 31. The
Graf Center for Integrative Medicine at Englewood
Hospital will provide acupuncture and nutritional
information. Participants should wear something pink.
Register online at www.jccotp.org/spinforsharsheret,
call Hagit Tal at (201) 408-1477 or email her at htal@
jccotp.org.

OCT.

Rosh Hashanah in Pearl

River: Beth Am Temple
offers a short service
for young children, 2:15
p.m. 60 East Madison
Ave. Call for free tickets.
(845) 735-5858 or www.
bethamtemple.org.

Rosh Hashanah in
Teaneck: Temple Emeth
offers family services,
3 p.m., and Tashlich at
4. 1666 Windsor Road.
Call for free tickets.
(201) 833-1322.

Rosh Hashanah in
Closter: Temple Beth El
of Northern Valley offers
family services, 3:15 p.m.,
and Tashlich at Demarest
Duck Pond at 4:30. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
No tickets required.
(201) 768-5112.

Peter Balakian
Pulitzer Prize poet:
Peter Balakian, 2016
Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet, who grew up in
Tenafly, gives a lecture
and reading in the
Trustees Pavilion (PAV
1&2) at Ramapo College
in Mahwah, 4 and 7 p.m.
He will talk about his
work about the Armenian
genocide. Sponsored
by Ramapos Gross
Center for Holocaust and
Genocide Studies. 505
Ramapo Valley Road,
Mahwah. (201) 684-7409.

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

Calendar
Sunday
OCTOBER 9
Fundraiser for animals:
START II, Save the
Animals Rescue Team,
holds its annual kitten/
puppy shower fundraiser
at Vitales in Teaneck, 11
a.m.-3 p.m. Tricky tray,
50/50, auction, gift
certificates, brunch with
vegetarian options. 293
Queen Anne Road. Joan,
(201) 368-2743.

Holocaust
remembrance
in Wayne: Alan
Moskin, a liberator
of the Gunskirchen
Concentration Camp, a
sub-camp of Mathausen,
is the guest speaker at
the Chabad Center of
Passaic County. Chinese
buffet at 5 p.m.; talk
at 6. 194 Ratzer Road.
(973) 694-6274 or
Jewishwayne.com.

Author in Tenafly: Kate

Siegel discusses her
book, Mother Can You
Not?, at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades, 5:30
p.m. Meet the mother/
daughter (Kim Friedman)
team that created the
popular Instagram
account @Crazy Jewish
Mom. Followed by a
Q&A and book signing.
Presented in part with
the James H. Grossmann

Memorial Endowment
Fund for the celebration
of Jewish Book Month.
(201) 408-1454 or www.
jccotp.org.

In New York
Sunday
OCTOBER 9
Understanding Yonah:
Yitzchak Etshalom leads
Yonah vs. God A
Prophetic Polemic at
the Drisha Institute, 6
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.

Singles
Sunday
OCTOBER 9
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social gettogether with music
by DJ Jeff Sherer and
refreshments 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,
(845) 356-5525.

Mother Can You Not authors talk in Tenafly

Come to the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades on
Sunday, October 9, at 5:30 p.m., to meet the
mother/daughter team that created the popular
Instagram account @Crazy Jewish Mom. Kate
Siegel and her mother, Kim Friedman, will talk
about Kates new book, Mother Can You Not?
According to Kate, her mother drove her so
crazy that she broadcast their hilarious conversations on Instagram, drawing hundreds of
thousands of followers eager to know what outrageous thing Kates mom would do or say next.
Kate Siegel is a writer and social media guru
who has been featured on BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, People Magazine, Nightline, and the Ellen DeGeneres
Show. After she graduated from Princeton,
Ms. Siegels one-act play Sam the Man won
the Sondheim Young Playwrights National Playwriting competition and was produced at their
New York showcase. It also was selected by the
Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival and
received a full production at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
Kim Friedman is an Emmy-nominated prime
time television director; she has worked on
Kim Friedman and Kate Siegel
Beverly Hills 90210, Star Trek Voyager and
Deep Space Nine, Sabrina and the Teenage Witch, and Lizzie McGuire. She also is a theater
website, www.jccotp.org
director, with two Obie Award nominations and two Los
Jewish Book Month programs at the JCC are supported
Angeles Drama Critics Awards.
in part by the James H. Grossmann Memorial Endowment Fund for the Celebration of Jewish Book Month.
The presentation will be followed by a question and
The JCC also is a member of the Jewish Book Fair Netanswer session and book signing. For information or
work, coordinated by the Jewish Book Council.
to register, call (201) 408-1454. Register at the JCCs

Local JFNNJ honoree writes new cookbook

BETH CHANANIE
WITH LORI LANDAU
Israeli-born Michal Levison
has written her first cookbook, Seasoned Moments
Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur: Recipes for a Happy
New Year. It will inspire
you as you plan your Rosh
Hashanah or break-the-fast
table or even an everyday dinner.
Michal sits on the Womens Philanthropy Board of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey, where she
also is co-vice president of Womens
Outreach and was honored as Rising
Star this year. She also hosted a JFNNJ
Womens Philanthropy culinary event
and a gala to benefit the Academies
at Gerrard Berman Day School in her
Franklin Lakes home. Some readers
also may recognize her from her food
and parenting blog, Bump to Bean
Confessions of a Modern Mom, www.
bumptobean.com.
Michals cookbook has more than
40 recipes and beautiful color photographs and features such autumnal family favorites as zucchini latkes and apple
sauce, wine braised short ribs, and

roasted carrots,
as well as exciting
desserts, including
apple parfait, crepe
cake and boozy
fruit salad. Michal
makes cooking a
full meal for Rosh
Hashanah and Yom
Kippurs break-thefast a creative culinary endeavor that will dazzle your family and guests, while leaving you plenty
of time to enjoy the celebration outside
the kitchen.
With its easy instructions and inspiring visuals, this comprehensive collection of recipes is appropriate both for
those new to the kitchen, and for seasoned chefs looking for new ideas.
Seasoned Moments is available for
download as an ebook, at www.seasonedmoments.com/books, or in hardcover from Amazon.
My colleague, Amy Silna Soukas,
who also is a friend of Michals, highly
recommends this recipe from the
book. It is very simple it calls for just
three ingredients. Follow the instructions. It will bring a bit of Israel to your
holiday table; the second one, too.

Kati
Chicken
with
Zaatar
INGREDIENTS:
1 whole chicken
3 teaspoons salt
1/3 cup zaatar
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
You have to dry the chicken. Dont
wash it first (this spreads germs all
over your kitchen). Just lay out a
bunch of paper towels, then blot
the chicken, inside and out, with
more paper towels. Do this until
it no longer looks wet. Then wash
your hands.
Sprinkle the entire chicken with
salt. Make sure you get salt all over
the bird. This will seal in the moisture. Do the same with the zaatar,
until the bird looks green.
Place the chicken in the middle
of a baking dish lined with parchment paper. Cook for an hour and
15 minutes, or until the skin is nice
and crispy and browned. Make sure
to collect all the drippings from the
bottom of the pan to either drizzle
on top or use as a dipping sauce.
Egg, gluten, and nut free.
Serves 8

Middle Eastern
Sweet Potato
INGREDIENTS:
4 sweet potatoes
1 15-ounce can chickpeas,
drained
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 teaspoon each cumin, coriander,
cinnamon, smoked paprika
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
Garnish:
1/4 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced
1/4 cup parsley, chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Salt and pepper to taste
Techina (theres a great recipe in the book for
this) or you can buy ready made
Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a large
baking sheet with foil.
Rinse and scrub potatoes and cut in half lengthwise. Toss rinsed and drained chickpeas with olive
oil and spices and place on a foil-lined baking
sheet. Rub the sweet potatoes with a bit of olive
oil and place face down on the same baking sheet.
Place the baking sheet in the oven and roast
until sweet potatoes are fork tender and chickpeas are browned, about 25 minutes.
For serving, flip potatoes flesh-side up and
smash down the insides a little bit. Then top with
chickpeas, techina, and parsley-tomato garnish.
Egg, gluten, nut free, pareve, and vegan.
Serves 8
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Descendants
FROM PAGE 66

There are those who want to formally

convert and become a part of the Jewish community and others who are just
exploring, and everything in between,
said Perry, who lives in Israel and is bringing together politicians, diplomats, academics and heads of Jewish organizations
to embrace the cause.
Why the passion?
Perry is dedicated to this cause. It is a
moral, ethical and even halakhic ( Jewish
law) imperative, he said, noting that many
great rabbinical figures, who ruled on the
Jewish status of people forced to convert,
determined that those forced converts still
were Jewish.
He said reconnecting Bnei Anusim with
Judaism could have many benefits for
todays Jewish community, which faces
challenges including anti-Semitism, the
Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement, diplomatic disputes, shrinking
affiliation, and assimilation. We are taking a top-down approach and a bottom-up
approach through the people, he added.
Until 2008, Jay Sanchez was living in
what he calls blissful ignorance. Then he

discovered that hes likely a descendant of

Spanish and Portuguese Jews on his mothers side.
Sanchez had embarked on a standard
ancestral search when he learned his
mothers maiden name, Dorta, was associated with a small number of families
spread predominantly throughout the
Canary Islands.
I found references to more and more
Dortas, and each and every one of them was
referred to as either a Jew or a New Christian, until the 1700s, by which time the Dortas seem to have assimilated, he said.
Today, Sanchezs bookshelves are
packed with Jewish books as he grapples
with his Jewish roots.
Many thought the Ethiopian aliyah
would be the last major influx of lost Jews
into Israel, Loya said. But she believes the
return of Jews from the Sephardic exile
will be much larger, with Bnei Anusim
moving to Israel from Cuba, Portugal,
Spain, Morocco, India, South America, the
Canary Islands, and the southwest United
States.
Our Spanish Jewish community has
been lost and raped of its identity and the
beauty of what Judaism is, Loya said. My
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goal is to get them home.

THE TOURO COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

extends heartfelt condolences to
The Newman and Kastner families on
the untimely death of

MRS. JENNY NEWMAN

Wife of Touro Senior Vice President Michael Newman

Her kind heart inspired all who knew her.

May the family be comforted among the
mourners of Zion and Jerusalem

BRIEFS

Most British Jews think

Labour Party too tolerant of anti-Semitism
A majority of British Jews believe the
Labour party is too tolerant of anti-Semites in their own party, according to a
new study by their Campaign Against
Anti-Semitism.
CAAs Anti-Semitism Barometer study,
done in cooperation with Jewish community groups, surveyed 1,864 British Jewish
adults about their feelings toward political parties tolerance of anti-Semitism
among parliament leaders and members
and supporters.
Among British Jews, 87 percent believe
the Labour party is too tolerant of antiSemitism compared to its rival, the Conservative party, at 18 percent. When asked
about other parties, including the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, Greens and SNP,
answers ranged from 37 to 49 percent of
British Jews saying they were too tolerant
of anti-Semitism.

CAA said the comparison is important

because left-wing parties are traditionally
known for fighting racism. But now British Jews consider them to be strongly lacking in their stance against anti-Semitism.
The Labour party suspended 18 members over anti-Semitism allegations and
incidents, since its leader, Jeremy Corbyn,
was elected on Sept. 18.
Jews are the canaries in the coal mine,
and in large numbers are falling silent in
Jeremy Corbyns Labour Party, said Joe
Glasman, head of Political Investigations
and Liaison at CAA. The whole nation
should listen to that silence and shudder. The Jews of Britain understand both
historically and intuitively what they are
witnessing, and every accusation that
they are concealing a hidden agenda confirms their fears that Britains Left is now
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Israeli researchers make breakthrough

in autism research
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University in
the Negev have made a significant breakthrough in a unique study to better understand autism, discovering a particular
evolutionary signature in autism genes.
The breakthrough brings doctors one step
closer to understanding the genetic mechanism for the disorder, and being able to
diagnose it prior to birth.
Dr. Idan Menashe and his colleagues,
Erez Tsur and Prof. Michael Friger,
studied more than 650 genetic variations out of the 1,000 genes linked to
autism, and found characteristics that
differentiate them from other genes in
the human genome.
If we find the remaining genes out of
the thousand, we will not only be able
to understand autism better, but also be
able to conduct a genetic test before pregnancy even, and perhaps, in the future,
also find a cure to help fix the genetic distortions to prevent autism, Menashe said.

We can certainly estimate that within

five years it will be possible to conduct
this type of genetic test.
The unique characteristics of genes
associated with autism spectrum disorder, among others, are unusual genomic
length they are longer than other genes
manifested in the brain and a genetic
similarity to such diseases as Alzheimers
disease and schizophrenia. Additionally,
researchers found that ASD-related genes
carry a signature typical of the genetic
process known as negative evolutionary selection. This process is responsible
for purging deleterious impacts on the
genome, through a gradual process that
spans generations.
These findings expand our understanding in relation to the genetic
mechanisms involved in autism, and
provide new tools for the discovery of
additional genes linked to the disorder, Menashe said.
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The family has established the Jenny Newman Fund at

the Touro College and University System. For more
information, please visit www.touro.edu/jennynewmanfund

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Predeceased by a daughter, Robin, he is
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at his side. He was born January 21, 1929 in Bayonne,
New Jersey, the son of Clara Parish Witt and Casper Witt,
both of Bayonne, New Jersey. He grew up in Bayonne.
He earned his bachelors degree from NYU in 1950,
a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1953. He
completed his active duty service in the army immediately after graduating from Harvard Law School and was
honorably discharged in 1960.
While in law school, he met Leonore Allen. They were
married in 1954. They moved to Atlanta, Georgia where
he was serving in the army. They returned to New York
City and he was admitted to the bar in New York, New
Jersey and in the District of Columbia.
He opened his own practice in Englewood, New Jersey.
He moved to Fair Lawn, New Jersey, welcoming Joanne
in 1957, Debra in 1959, Susan in 1962 and Stephanie
in 1965. He moved to Teaneck where he was an active
member of the Teaneck Jewish Community Center. After
moving to Tenafly, he joined Temple Emanuel in Englewood where he enjoyed volunteering. He was an active
supporter of the State of Israel.
He built a law practice where his clients were like
extended family members. He was a caring boss who

went above and beyond to help his employees with their

personal problems.
He was a loyal fan of the New York Yankees and a
lifelong Democrat, but his real passion was his family.
He was the loving brother of Judith Witt Brodman and
uncle to Steven and Alan Brodman. He supported and
took great pride in the accomplishments of his daughters
and later his grandchildren, cheering on every win and
consoling the losses. He was a loving father-in-law to
Lewis Schreck and Cameron Sedgwick.
He and Leonore Allen Witt divorced in 1986. He spent
the following years with Joyce Rosen. After Joyces death,
he reunited with his high school girlfriend, Audrey Alterman. They spent the last few years living very happily
together in Boca Raton. Florida.
Sheldon is survived by his companion, Audrey Alterman; his daughters Joanne Witt, Debra Witt, Susan Witt
Schreck and Stephanie Witt Sedgwick; his sister, Judith
Witt Brodman; his grandchildren Jesse, Emily and Katie
Schreck and Ben and Sam Sedgwick; and his nephews
and niece, Alan Brodman, Nancy Markhoff, Richard
Allen and Jeffrey Allen.
Donations in his honor can be made to Birthright
Israel Foundation. A memorial for friends and family
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Avenger Holocaust survivor,

who tried to poison Nazis,
dies at 91
Holocaust survivor Joseph Harmatz, who led a
revenge plot to poison former S.S. officers after
World War II, has died at the age of 91.
The Lithuanian-born Harmatz, who lost most of
his family in the Holocaust, was one of the Avengers. The group of 50 young men and women
wanted to punish the perpetrators of the Holocaust. Several undercover members of the group
began working at a bakery that supplied the American Stalag 13 POW Camp at Langwasser near
Nuremberg, Germany. On Apr. 13, 1946, Harmatz
oversaw the coating of 3,000 loaves of bread with
arsenic to kill 12,000 S.S. personnel.
The goal was Kill Germans, Harmatz told the
Associated Press before his death. As many as possible, he said.
For unexplained reasons, while many S.S. officers became sick, none died as a result of the arsenic, despite a recently declassified U.S. military
report showing that the amount of arsenic used
should have been fatal. Authorities in Nuremberg
later investigated, but decided not to press charges
because of the extraordinary circumstances.
The terrible tragedy was about to be forgotten,
and if you dont punish for one crime, you will get
another, said Dina Porat, chief historian at Israels
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, who is publishing
a book on the Avengers. This is what was driving
them, not only justice but a warning, a warning to
the world that you cannot hurt Jews in such a manner and get away with it, she said.
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Women and electoral politics today

Arbor Terrace Teaneck, a premium independent senior living community, will host
a free health and wellness fair on Sunday,
October 9, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 600
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Included will be a flu vaccine clinic.
Those wishing to get a flu shot should
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The fair will also focus on keeping healthy, including various options

The Network for Responsible Public Policy, formerly known as the North Jersey
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women in politics? What issues do women
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Valerie Vainieri Huttle, a Democratic
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available to seniors, as well as chair yoga

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Visit one of the centers below to get your
cheek swabbed.
You may be a match!
The drive will take place on Thursday,
October 6, at different Care One offices.
In Fort Lee, it will be at 173 Bridge Plaza
North from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
In Paramus, it will be at 100 W. Ridgewood Ave., from 6 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and
2 to 7 p.m.
In Westwood, it will be at 300 Old
Hook Rd. From 6 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and
2 to 7 p.m.

Center For Hope And Safety joins the Allstate

Foundation Purple Purse Challenge

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On an average day, nearly 11,000 requests

for emergency shelter, childcare and other
services go unanswered due to a lack of
funding at domestic violence (DV) nonprofits around the country. Even as demand
for services increases, these programs continue to operate with limited resources.
Allstate Foundations Purple Purse is trying to change those numbers, and Center
for Hope and Safety has been selected as
one of more than 160 participating nonprofits across the country to be a part of
the Purple Purse Challenge, which raises
funds for nonprofits serving domestic violence victims.
Center for Hope and Safety, Bergen
Countys only non-profit agency that
offers a diversified continuum of services
including emergency shelter and transitional housing for DV victims, was chosen
for its commitment to providing financial
empowerment services to domestic violence survivors.
Through the Allstate Foundation Purple Purse Challenge at PurplePurse.com,
each participating organization can raise
program funds. And to encourage public donations, the Allstate Foundation is
investing $600,000 in sweepstakes and
contests. In addition to donating through

the Challenge, Purple Purse charms can

be purchased for $10 at PurplePurse.com,
with proceeds benefiting Purple Purse
Challenge nonprofits.
One in four women will experience
domestic violence in her lifetime. In 98
percent of cases, victims will suffer from
financial abuse, which means abusers will
deny them access to money and financial
resources. Without resources of their own,
victims are often unable to care for themselves and their families, find employment
and housing or save for the future. They
often become homeless.
Center for Hope and Safety (formerly
Shelter Our Sisters) is dedicated to
assisting victims of domestic violence,
and their children, by turning fear into
safety, helplessness into strength, and
isolation into hope. Our mission is to
help people heal and grow through a
wide range of services that offer the
tools needed to leave the violence and
to make new beginnings possible.
Since October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Challenge
runs from Sept. 28 through Oct. 225, 2016.
Supporters can donate at www.crowdrise.
com/CenterForHopeAndSafety-PurplePurse2016

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Brightview Tenafly
gives back
Because helping others is important to the residents and associates at Brightview Tenafly, a popular senior living community in Tenafly, they have
organized several events to benefit worthy causes
over the next several months.
Giving back to the larger community means a
lot, says resident Lois Pentafalo. We are spreading joy and helping others. We get so much in
return.
Residents and associates tell us they want to
contribute and make a difference in the lives of
others, adds executive director Toni Musto. The
generosity and compassion for others is inspiring.
On October 5, Brightview Tenafly will challenge
Tenaflys first responders to a chili cook-off. Residents will serve as judges and Tenaflys mayor,
Peter Rustin, will be an honorary judge. Proceeds
from the contest will benefit The Alzheimers Association of New Jersey.
A Purple Pancake Breakfast, with homemade
blueberry pancakes, will be held on October 28,
and will also support the Alzheimers Association
of New Jersey.
In partnership with The Community Food Bank
of New Jersey, Brightview Tenafly is hosting a food
drive during November. Get Your Can to Brightview kick-off event will be held on November 4,
and donations of non-perishable food items will be
collected through the end of the month. Residents
and associates will then deliver the items to The
Community Food Bank.
Finally, in partnership with the United States
Marine Corps, Brightview Tenafly has volunteered
to be a host site for the Marine Corps annual Toys
for Tots drive. Donated toys will be wrapped by
residents, then distributed by the Marines to families in need during the holidays.
We can make a big difference in our community
with these events, concluded Toni. It is incredible to see what happens when we work together.
Brightview Tenafly, located at 55 Hudson Avenue, features Assisted Living apartment homes
and Wellspring Village, Brightviews specialized
program and environment for dementia care.
To learn more about the Community Food Bank
of New Jersey, visit www.cfbnj.org. To learn more
about Toys for Tots, visit www.toysfortots.org.
To learn more about Brightview Tenafly, please
call Shannon or Richard at 201-510-2060.
Brightview Senior Living and its parent company,
The Shelter Group, successfully create and manage
innovative senior living communities in the midAtlantic to New England region. For more information on Brightview Senior Living, please visit www.
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Best Wishes for a New Year

filled with Good Health, Happiness
and A World at Peace.

Wishing you and your family

a sweet and Happy New Year!

Happy
New Year

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DLD Tel Aviv celebrates innovation

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Tel Aviv hosted international and

domestic delegations of startup founders, innovators, entrepreneurs and
investors at the annual DLD Tel Aviv
Innovation Festival this week.
The DLD festival, which ran through
Thursday, included a slew of mini
events including the Start Tel Aviv
competition, an annual contest featuring leading startup founders from 31
countries.
This year, the competition celebrated
women entrepreneurship around the
world.
Among the 31 winners, who came
to Tel Aviv, are Magdalena Rodrguez,
co-founder and director, Uruguays
GPSGay network for the GLBT community the biggest one in Latin America;
Maneerat Wongjaroenporn, co-founder
of LenNam (TechFarm) in Thailand,
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life; Ursula Salazar Roggero of Peru,
co-founder of oChat, which will allow
physically disabled people to communicate through instant messaging
applications by moving their eyes; and
Andrea Palmer, CEO & founder, Awake
Labs, Canada.
The DLD also included the Tel Aviv
Cities Summit. Mayors and influencers traded ideas on local solutions for
global challenges. Speakers included
the mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Huldai,
Deputy Secretary General of the OECD
Douglas Frantz, and Bogota Mayor
Enrique Pealosa.
On Tuesday, the citys main hub,
Rothschild Boulevard, was transformed into an Innovation Boulevard
with open-air displays of digital media,
tech exhibitions and interactive digital
Israel21c.org
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