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Wordsmiths toy with Israeli ambassador

cancels party for kicks
Hebrew word for fidget spinner l Rather than celebrating Israels uniforms, balls, and coaches.
birthday with a fancy embassy party, Our intention was to bring a
l The fidget spinner, the simple palm-
Israels ambassador to Nigeria funded message of hope to the children,
size toy that has spun its way into the
a soccer league for refugee children. which is also the Zionist message,
hearts of kids around the world, has
Ambassador Guy Feldman Feldman said.
Israeli linguists twisting their tongues
used the money budgeted for the League members are from 8 to 12
trying to come up with a Hebrew name
embassys Yom Haatzmaut reception years old and live in refugee camps
for the tchotchke.
to set up a league for 225 children in the Nigerian state of Adamawa, on
Scholars at the Academy of the
who escaped Boko Haram, Ynet the border with Cameroon.
Hebrew Language, the institution that is
reported. The embassy provided JTA Wire Service
the authority on modern Hebrew, have
turned to the Israeli public for help,
asking kids and teachers to try their
hands at coming up with the right term
for the propeller-like toy.
Its a good learning opportunity,
Ronit Gadish said. She is the academys
scientific secretary. We decided to
take advantage of it.
Gadish said that most toys and its necessary to make up a new word
commercial products have proper for a trend that may be over within a
names that end up being used by few months.
Hebrew speakers. Among the suggestions getting likes
Lego doesnt have a Hebrew name, are sahriron, which combines sahrir, or
she said. But spinner is just a basic spin, with the structure of sevivon, the
English word. Its not a commercial Hebrew word for a dreidel or top, and
name. And there are plenty of Hebrew savsevet, which uses the root sav, or
words and roots that have to do with turn. But neither of them are as popular
spinning. as an idea to make it an homage to the
The academy put forth its challenge spinner-in-chief, Benjamin Netanyahu
on Facebook, listing 18 different calling it a Bibi, or perhaps a Sabibi.
Hebrew words that have to do with Were not taking it that seriously,
spinning, turning, and circling. Gadish said. Its just a great
The Facebook post already has opportunity to think about how a new
David Friedman, left, ran into Steven Tyler at the Western Wall on May
received more than 1,000 comments, word is formed, about language and its
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Mayim Bialik Diary of a Wimpy tion. (Opens May 19.) Operators, by the late who is based on Crystal,
Kid: The Long Drucker was born and Michael Hastings. You and War Machine fol-

Big Bang and book

Haul is the fourth grew up in Hollywood, may recall that in 2010 lows the events leading
installment in the Diary Florida. His father is an Hastings did a Rolling up to his firing. EMORY
click for Mayim Bialik series. It takes place a
year after the events in
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Stone interview with
General Stanley McCrys-
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As usual, the season finale of The Big Bang Theory the third film, but the instructor. Your intrepid tal, then the head of member of McMahons
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Sheldon. Its now certain that the series main the focus
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insurance didnt lapse. I gather that her sporadic work
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sit-com, when she was 16. But, in a recent Marie Claire Her new book, Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart gent and embracing their quirky sides, I dont want to be
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Finding their political voices
Representative Josh Gottheimer talks to students at Yavneh in Paramus
BANJI GANCHROW

P
arents send their kids to school
to learn. They learn how to read
and write, they learn about his-
tory and math, and at the Yavneh
Academy in Paramus they learn about the
importance of using their voices to make
positive changes in their environment and
their country.
Dr. Aliza Frohlich, the director of guidance
at Yavnehs middle school, oversees the advi-
sory program; part of that programs focus is
Do not stand idly by. This biblical directive
is connected to bullying and cheating within
the school, and expands to getting involved
with political action, Dr. Frohlich said.
Every student should know that bullying will
not be tolerated; they should not just stand
by and say nothing. They have the power to
do something. The program empowers stu-
dents to speak up and have a chance to make
a difference.
As they get older, students learn that they
have the power to make a difference in the
political arena, if they so desire. Rabbi Jona-
than Knapp, Yavnehs principal, spoke about
the activism that these students are learning.
They learn, he said, that they must stand up
to eradicate evil and to protect peace.
Teach NJS is a division of the Orthodox Congressman Josh Gottheimer takes a question from a student at the Yavneh Academy in Paramus during a program on
Union that works to gain funding for nonpub- political activism.
lic schools. Part of its programming includes
bringing congressional representatives and of Israel, a subject that is very close to these
senators to local schools. As part of Teach students hearts.
NJS, Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-5th Mr. Gottheimer talked about his accom-
Dist.) paid a visit to 113 very politically aware plishments since he was sworn into office
seventh graders. He told these young people for his first term in January. They include an
how much he enjoys meeting students, and amendment he introduced to help veterans
he encouraged them to follow their politi- both those fresh out of the service and those
cal aspirations and lobby for issues that are who are older get jobs. He told the students
important to them. that his hopes for his time in office include
The congressman was even so honest as to working on Israel, fixing tax codes, and fix-
talk to the audience about the anti-Semitism ing roads, bridges, and trains. The students
that he experienced in his own campaign, were surprised to hear that New Jersey has
how upsetting it was to him, and how impor- been rated as having the ninth worst roads
tant education is in eradicating these issues. in the country.
When he was asked about bullying, Mr. Got- Students at the Yavneh School were pas-
theimer said, As Americans, we should sionately engaged in learning about Ameri-
value and treat one another with respect. My can civics and good government, and their
advice to middle schoolers is that we must questions made it clear that they share my
be brave and stand up against hate in all its unshakeable commitment to Israel and its
forms. Hate and intolerance have no place in security, Mr. Gottheimer said. I look for-
the greatest democracy in the world. ward to seeing the great things these young Congressman Gottheimer accepts a presentation from two Yavneh students at
An innocent onlooker might assume that people will do in service of our community the assembly.
because these students are only 13 years old, and nation.
their questions would be benign. But they Ozzie Wimpfheimer, one of the seventh Ozzie said. He explained every question to Gottheimer? Yes, Ozzie said. I personally
werent. These students came up with ques- graders, was very excited about hearing from all the kids. He would dissect the question felt like he really covered everything that he
tions ranging from What is a typical day for a Mr. Gottheimer. I thought the congressman and explain that first, and then explain every- came here to do. He spoke about Israel and
congressman? to What do you think about really answered the questions very well, for thing that he was talking about. what it is like to be a congressman. I mostly
President Trumps plans for healthcare in the kids who either knew generally what was I feel like he really got to every kid in enjoyed him talking about his day-to-day life,
United States? A lot of time was spent ask- going on in Washington or kids who didnt the room. learning what a congressman does every day,
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Volunteering for Israel
Local women describe how packing medical supplies is good medicine for them
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
They ate mediocre meals, slept in spar-
tan rooms, and donned drab work clothes
to perform repetitive tasks from 8 in the
morning until 4 in the afternoon for five
straight days.
And they cant wait to do it again.
Hilda Froelke of Hoboken, Tobey Lyden
of Fort Lee, and Iris Coleman of Leonia
a trio of 60-something friends who met
through their mutual membership in the
JCC of Fort Lee/Congregation Gesher Sha-
lom took off on April 21 for a stint with
Volunteers for Israel.
VFIs partner organization, Sar-El
National Project for Volunteers Israel,
places the visitors on Israel Defense Forces
supply bases and oversees their activities.
Approximately 1,200 Americans each
year join thousands of volunteers, 17 and
older, from more than 60 countries. Not
because theyre expecting fabulous food
or four-star accommodations, but only
to contribute their time and labor to the
defenders of the Jewish state.
Marion and Steve Mittelman of Mor-
ris County, voluntary North New Jersey
Ambassadors for Volunteers for Israel,
emphasize that no training or skills are
required and participants may choose
one-week, two-week, or three-week stints
all year round.
When Israel has a crisis or a need,
people are clamoring to volunteer, Ms.
Mittelman said. This year is a little qui-
eter, but usually we have about 12 groups
per year from northern New Jersey.
Ms. Froelke, Ms. Lyden, and Ms. Cole-
man were assigned to a group of 19 and
put to work checking and packing medi-
cal supplies.
Ms. Froelke admits to a moment of
cynicism on the first day. It was hard
work, and at one point I said, Well,
this is just cheap labor. But in the eve-
ning we all met in the club room and the
commander who handles the volunteers
explained why they do this.
He told them that as a defense army on
a tight budget, the IDF keeps the number
of active-duty personnel to a minimum,
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Hilda Froelke stands with some of the
medical backpacks she assembled on
an IDF supply base.
calling in reservists when there is a flare-
up or conflict. There arent enough stand-
ing soldiers for the unglamorous day-to-
day jobs required to keep the army ready
for action.
So thats why they count on volun-
teers to do the prep work, Ms. Froelke
said. After I heard that, I felt a lot better
and very motivated to do my part. One
day we were asked to work till 5:30, and
we all said okay, even though its all day
doing the same thing.
They also came to realize the vital
importance of their repetitive tasks.
Ms. Lyden and Ms. Froelke were shown
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how to pack and seal medical supplies into
plastic bags. They then placed the sealed
bags into trunk-sized canvas bags and into
13-compartment backpacks in which each
item had to be in a specific compartment
for fast access.
The big bags, which were extremely
heavy and would require multiple people
or machinery to carry, contained medi-
cines and equipment for any medical situ-
ation you could imagine, Ms. Lyden said.
These were used both within Israel and
outside of Israel in countries that require
medical aid due to disasters. The smaller
backpacks held field supplies for medics.
She never will forget what the civilian
supervisor said when they performed a
related task, she added. The volunteers
were asked to disassemble medical bags
that came back from the field. After a
certain amount of time, they must be
updated with fresh items. When we
opened the unused backpacks to resup-
ply them, our manager said, Thank God
they were not used.
Israelis want peace. They dont want to
have to use this equipment.
Ms. Coleman recalled that on the last
day, All the bags Tobey and Hilda
had put together were wrapped up
on a pallet to be sent out. I thought
about how these items might help
wounded soldiers or Syrian women
and children who come to the bor-
der for medical assistance. To me,
that was totally amazing.
She was working under a differ-
ent civilian supervisor, unpacking
and checking medical gear, includ-
ing CPR kits, stethoscopes, and
blood-pressure cuffs that had been
packed two years before. Equip-
ment found to be in perfect work-
ing order was then repackaged and
sealed for another two years.
At first, I thought, Israelis are
so inventive; cant they build a
machine to package all this stuff and
check the gauges?, Ms. Coleman
said. But then I looked at a piece
From left, Hilda Froelke, Iris Coleman, and of tubing and saw some cracks, and
Tobey Lyden worked for Volunteers for Israel. I realized maybe we cant develop a
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machine that looks for cracked tubing. And

that could be a matter of life and death. You
really need eyes on this equipment because
lives are at stake.
In the evenings, two female soldiers
assigned to the group led programming
for the volunteers. Many people wanted
to learn more about the base and the
army and the volunteer programs in gen-
eral, so they brought us speakers, Ms.
Froelke said.
She noted that there were both reli-
gious and secular military personnel on
the base. They learned that Israel pro-
vides civil-service alternatives for men,
and especially for women, whose strin-
gently religiously observant lifestyles pre-
clude military service.
The friends stay in Israel coincided with
three special commemorative days: Yom
Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day),
Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day), and Yom
Haatzmaut (Independence Day).
On the night of Yom Hashoah, we went
with the soldiers for a very meaningful cer-
emony where one of the young women read
a story her great-grandmother had written
about being a survivor, Ms. Lyden said.
The program was extremely mov-
ing, and made me realize that in spite of
everyones efforts to annihilate the Jew-
ish people, we are strong and we have our
own army and a future. My group leader
said that evening and she was all of 20
Thank God we can defend ourselves now.
The next day, we stood at attention for
two minutes when the siren was sounded
throughout Israel.
Although most of this cadre of overseas
volunteers was Jewish, thats not always the
case. Ms. Lyden and Ms. Coleman went to
Israel with VFI last year as well, and about
half of that group was gentile.
One mans grandfather had liberated a
camp and said that he felt he owed it to the
Jewish people, Ms. Lyden said. We also
had two German women in our group.
Bev Cohen, co-manager of the VFI Phila-
delphia Region which covers New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia
said that in recent years, New Jersey resi-
dents have accounted for 55 to 60 percent
of volunteers from the region. The number
ranges from 80 to 100 annually.
It takes a special person to leave the
comfort of home and family and live in a
barracks and do physical labor all day,
she said.
Tobey, Hilda, and Iris are three of
the most enthusiastic volunteers I have
Tobey, Hilda, and Iris are three
of the most enthusiastic
volunteers I have processed for
our program in Israel.
processed for our program in Israel, Ms.
Cohen continued. They were meticu-
lous in submitting their applications and
in their preparation for this great adven-
ture. I just knew they would be outstand-
ing volunteers and contribute in a mean-
ingful way to their assigned IDF base.
They will be active ambassadors for our
program, and I hope they will return as
participants in the near future.
After the women finished their week on
base, they traveled to Jerusalem for Shab-
bat. Walking in the Old City on Friday
night, they spontaneously joined a ser-
vice at Robinsons Arch, a continuation
of the Western Wall, with a group from
a Reform congregation in North Carolina
that had just come from the March of the
Living in Poland. They found it especially
moving to see a 94-year-old Holocaust
survivor, a member of the congregation,
lead the prayers.
BEV COHEN
They were in Tel Aviv for Memorial Day
and Independence Day, back-to-back hol-
idays on which the somber mood of the
first gives way to the joy of the second as
night falls. On that transitional evening,
they joined the crowd at Rabin Square,
the plaza next to the municipal building.
There were thousands of people
there families with children, everyone
out in the streets and everyone at ease,
Ms. Froelke said. We felt that we all
belonged there, and were all the same.
Before leaving for the airport on May
2 at the end of Independence Day, they
watched the annual Air Force flyover on
the Tel Aviv beach.
The impression I got from our trip was
that Israel is a growing and thriving econ-
omy under constant threat of war, yet
Israelis live their lives each day happily and
seemed to appreciate that we cared enough
to give our time, Ms. Lyden said.

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Bringing back old pictures
The Foundation for Preserving the Visual History
of the Jewish People works to save rare footage, photos
JOANNE PALMER
W
hen Eric Mayer of Wayne,
who was born in Worms,
Germany, escaped the
H o l o c au s t , a n d h a s
devoted his life to preserving the memory
of the worlds it demolished, and to the
state of Israel, has a project in mind, that
project happens.
Recently, his attention has been focused
on the Foundation for Preserving the
Visual History of the Jewish People, a foun-
dation on whose small board he sits.
Last week, at the foundations din-
ner at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
in lower Manhattan in a room whose
huge windows overlook New York Har-
bor and the Statue of Liberty, whose
presence makes it hard to forget our past
its founders talked with passion about
the images that are disintegrating, taking
parts of our past with it.
Vanessa Lappa is a film director, Tomer
Eliav is a sound designer, both are Israeli,
and both are film producers. Together,
they worked on a documentary, The
Decent One, about Heinrich Himmler.
The film took eight years to make; four
of those years were spent on archival
research, all over Europe, in more than 30
countries, Ms. Lappa said. They learned
that there is a vast amount of footage of
our Jewish history all over the world, she
said, but it is not in one place. It is not in
one archive.
Lets say that in about 90 percent of the
archives worldwide, no matter how big or
how small, in any country, there are film
reels and nobody knows their contents. Its
in a corner or a cupboard or on a shelf; its
disintegrating. There are rooms with hun-
dreds and hundreds of reels, thousands of
them, all disintegrating.
The oldest one she knows of is from
1897, she said, but there may be some that
are older.
There are some films and stills that we
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These two pictures show Sir Winston
Churchill in Jerusalem in 1921; the
one above is the original, and the
one the right has been restored.
see often, but you always see the same
footage, Mr. Eliav said. But most of the
footage is never published.
There are many images taken during
the Holocaust, but there also are many
that show Jewish life before then, and it
is vitally important to preserve those pic-
tures as well, the filmmakers said.
Because there are so very many images,
so very much work to do, they must priori-
tize it. Their triage plan is to allow donors
to chose which of the many subjects the
images show to chose the one that is clos-
est to their hearts, Mr. Eliav said. Once the
broad field is chosen, the work will focus
first on the most decayed images; the goal
is to preserve as much as possible.
The foundations goal is to find, docu-
ment, contextualize, and digitize the
images, and to make it available both to
researchers and to the general public. Its
very important to make it available to the
public free of charge, Ms. Lappa said.
Its the kind of idea that makes sense
intuitively, but its far harder to imple-
ment than it is to grasp, the filmmakers
said. Thats why it was so encouraging to
them when Mr. Meyer began to run with
the idea.
I got interested in it from a historical
point of view, he said. I think that it is
very important as a teaching tool, a visual
witness to our history. It is something that
needs to be told to a younger generation
of Jews, who are falling away from our
history.
Hes put Ms. Lappa and Mr. Eliav in
touch with Cory Bookers office; New
Jerseys junior U.S. senator is working to
allow their images to be available through
the Library of Congress.
Abraham Foxman of Bergen County,
the retired longtime head of the Anti-
Defamation League, is a fan of Mr. May-
ers, and he spoke at the dinner. There is
so much to save, he said; there are worlds
that will be lost to memory if their images
are allowed to vanish. Vanessa and Tomer
and also Eric care so much. They are
so dedicated, and so talented, and so
understated. Its that simple its not ego
for them. Its that they really care.
There is more information about the
foundation at www.preservingjvh.org.
A Jewish man in Warsaw in
1941; the picture on the left
is the original, and the other
has been restored.
Volunteering
Generations Lucille J. Amster

Angelica Berrie

Tradition Nancy G. Brown

Geri Cantor
Leadership
Israel Mariam Davis

Sharyn J. Gallatin
Jewish values
Community Adrienne M.
Greenblatt, MD
Marjorie
Immerman

LOJE is a wonderful thing.

June Kozak Kane

Legacy
Responsibility
Giving Back
Lee Langbaum

Sue Ann Levin

Susan Penn

Pearl Seiden

Michele Sweetwood
May is LOJE month, the time of year
Louise Tuchman
that Jewish Federation celebrates our

Lion Of Judah Endowment

(LOJE) donors. Creating a LOJE demonstrates a
womans dedication to tzedakah, taking care of Jews Jackie Weiss

in need, and building Jewish community today and for Arlene Zweifler
future generations. A LOJE gift can be very simple to do,
Anonymous
and may not cost you anything now.
Please join us in this special endeavor.
Look for more of these special women next week.

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Turning the IDF green
Israeli sustainability expert to speak in Ridgewood on climate change
LARRY YUDELSON
What is sustainability?
Is it the same thing as protecting
the environment?
Major Victor Weis can answer
that question with examples from
his 23 years in the Israeli army. Now
retired from the IDF, where he led
the armys environmental efforts,
Mr. Weis heads the Heschel Center
for Sustainability in Tel Aviv. (Next
month he will speak in Ridgewood.
See box.)
Take, for example, the problem of
a leaking oil tank that contaminates
groundwater.
A simple solution to protect the
environment would be to protect the
groundwater by enclosing the oil tank
in a protective box, Mr. Weis said,
For sustainability, however, the
real question is not just how to deal
with the problem; its to ask why we
have the problem. Why do we need
to heat water with oil?
So the army began looked for other
ways to heat water. It turned out that
using gas and solar power not only Map shows the vulnerability of the Nile Delta region to rising levels of the Mediterranean Sea
didnt pollute, but it was cheaper brought about by climate change.
than using oil.
Dont try to make a
solution at the end of
the problem, Mr. Weis
said. Try to prevent the
problem.
The Heschel Center
was founded in 1998. It
serves as a think tank for
the Israeli environmental
movement and it offers
training in sustainability
to government officials,
non-profit activists, and Victor Weis
private citizens.
Mr. Weis was one such government offi-
cial. After being assigned to deal with envi-
ronmental affairs by the army, he studied at
the center as a fellow. That experience con-
vinced him of the importance of thinking
about sustainability, and led him to make
sustainability the focus of his IDF career
he had the chance to move on to a different
post but chose not to. He cared about sus-
tainability too much to stop working on it.
Another example of an environmental
problem he helped solve: undetonated
but unusable ammunition. Items like artil-
lery shells, wire-guided missiles, and smart
bombs.
For many years we threw it into the sea,
he said. After Israel signed on to the Bar-
celona Declaration, we couldnt do it any
more.
So IDF engineers tried to find a solution.
They took TNT and tried to bomb the
12 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 19, 2017
ammunition, he said. But they same way. In our area, its going to be much
couldnt be sure every piece
was destroyed and this made
a big environmental mess.
The engineers were look-
ing into using liquid explosives
instead when they brought in
Mr. Weis. They were trying
to find a solution at the end of
the process, he said. Instead,
he convinced them that the
unused ammunition is a raw
material, he said. Its not gar- level will rise.
bage. Most of it is metal. Metal
you can recycle.
So he urged them to find ways to open the
ammunition, reuse parts of it, and dispose
of the rest.
The next step toward sustainable weap-
onry was to make it reusable from the begin-
ning. Make it so if the circuitry or the battery stop millions of people who are starved,
were to fail, that one part could be replaced.
If that wasnt possible, then the entire unit
could be taken apart safely for recycling.
We saved a lot of money for the army,
he said. Its about how you frame the
problem.
So its worth listening to how Mr. Weis
frames the question of how climate change
will affect Israel.
He sees it as being about national secu-
rity. If you are Jewish, you need to be con-
cerned about the future of Israel because of
the influence of climate change, he said.
Its not going to influence every place the Its because were concerned about us. If
hotter. The influence of that is amazing in
our geopolitical area.
There are 85 million people in Egypt.
Most of them live near the Nile and espe-
cially in the Nile Delta, Mr. Weis said. But
probably the Delta is going to disappear.
All of Egypts agriculture system, all of its going to influence our society? The rich peo-
food system, depends on the Nile Delta, he
continued. Its going to disappear. All the
fresh water they have from their aquifer is
going to be contaminated because the sea
Millions of people will find themselves
without houses, without jobs, without food,
without water. Egypt is going to be a in a
very bad situation. We know from history
that in those times extremist political orga-
nizations, Islamic movements, rise.
People start to be starved. No one can
who take everything they have left and start
to walk. Where are they going to walk? To
the neighbor with those resources, with
food and water. In this area, its only Israel.
How are you going to deal with millions
of people who are starving and want to
come to Israel?
The situation is not much better in Jor-
dan. Israel already provides Jordan with
more than is mandated under its peace
agreement. Its not just our responsibil-
ity, Mr. Weis said. Its not just because
we like the nation or people so much.
people there overthrow their
government, its not going to be
so good for Israel.
Already, he said, the region
has seen the effect of the climate
on the regions geopolitical sta-
bility. The Syrian civil war fol-
lowed a multiyear drought that
devastated the countrys agri-
culture. Syrians were starving,
and they got no help from their
government. When ISIS came,
never mind who they are and
what they want, everyone wel-
comed them just because they
were so mad the government
wasnt helping, he said. They
had no other choice.
That kind of thing is going to
increase. We need to worry.
The impact on Israel of a heat-
ing climate and rising oceans
may not be as dire as in Egypt,
but it will be real.
We take water from the
sea. We have great technology.
Where are all these desalina-
tion factories? They are near the
water. Near the sea. When the
sea levels rise, all our desalina-
tion plants will be gone.
Look where all our electricity stations
are. They are on the beaches near the sea.
They too are going to vanish. This is critical
infrastructure. It is about our national secu-
rity, he said.
Already, the hotter weather is contribut-
ing to a rise in food prices in Israel. How is it
ple can manage. Im not sure the poor can
deal with it. Thats the part of society that is
going to pay the bill for climate change.
Thats why sustainability and economy
and society are interconnected, he said.
Its about justice. Its about how we spread
our resources, how we use them smartly.
Everything is connected. We cant look at
the solution from just one point of view,
just from the perspective of the society or
economy or the environment. Everything is
connected. Sustainability combines every-
thing into one way of thinking.
Who: Victor Weis, executive
director of the Heschel Center for
Sustainability in Tel Aviv
What: Talk on the significance of
climate change for Israels national
security
Where: Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center, 475 Grove St.,
Ridgewood
When: Shabbat morning, June 10,
immediately following kiddush,
approximately noon
 In Memoriam

Jewish values
Ella Berman

Belle Bukiet

Tradition Marion Cutler

Generations
Miriam Josephs

Israel
Ellen Kaufman

Zelda Levere

Leadership Adele Rebell

Community Martha Richman

LOJE is a wonderful thing.

Barbara Seiden

Giving Back Legacy

Jewish Federation fondly remembers these remarkable

Responsibility
Lion Of Judah Endowment Barbara Moss

women. Thanks to their foresight and generosity, their

support of Federation continues. Their names and
memories will forever be tied to this community and
Yvette Tekel
recalled for good. We pay tribute to these women along
with all our LOJE donors as part of May is LOJE month. Beate Voremberg

Helen Wajdengart

Your legacy matters.

Jewish Federation
OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY

Zvi S. Marans, MD Joan Krieger

Endowment Foundation, Chair LOJE, Chair

To learn more, please contact

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Local
Michelle Azar tells of a life
One-woman show will weave stories, songs, and vivid memories
LOIS GOLDRICH
H
ow to describe Michelle Azar?
Perhaps by noting the seem-
ing dichotomies that make up
her life.
First, the mix, though certainly not the
clash, of cultures. The singer/actress/reb-
betzin who will present her one-woman
show, From Baghdad to Brooklyn, at the
JCC of Fort Lee/ Congregation Gesher Sha-
lom next week describes herself as a
product of intermarriage between her
Iraqi-born, Israeli-raised businessman father,
Shaul, and her Brooklyn-born-and-raised
Who: Singer Michelle Azar
What: Will perform her one-woman
show, From Baghdad to Brooklyn
When: On May 22 at 8:15 p.m.
Where: At Gesher Shalom/JCC of Fort
Lee, 1449 Anderson Ave, a project of
the CSI Scholar Fund
Free to the public.
No reservations required.
Jennifer Weiner up close
Best-selling author speaks candidly
before addressing Rockland gathering
J
BANJI GANCHROW
ennifer Weiner is a heroine to so
many women.
Her best-selling novels might often
be called chick lit, but they always
focus on a strong woman. A woman who
might not always be the thinnest or the fit-
test, but who is always smart, fierce, and
ready to take on whatever challenges come
her way. Ms. Weiners books have been read
by women, and possibly some men, from all
over the world. One of her recent literary
gems is her autobiography, Hungry Heart:
Adventures in Life, Love and Writing, a raw
and honest look at her life. Her journey has
empowered women from every walk of life,
and she continues to keep in touch with
her fans via Twitter. She appeared on Time
Magazines list of Best Twitter Feeds, and
on Forbes list, 25 Working Moms to Fol-
low on Twitter. Ms. Weiner has more than
100,000 fans on social media
On May 18, the Jewish Federation &
Foundation of Rockland Countys Wom-
ens Philanthropy division hosted Cele-
brate the Power of Women, featuring Ms.
Weiner. As a run-up, she answered some
of our questions:
14 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 19, 2017
singer-performer Ashkenazi mother, Marsha.
Her show, she said, tries to balance her Mid-
dle Eastern heritage with her own American
upbringing.
Middle Eastern culture has a sort of
through line where we take care of each
other, she said. Having an Ashkenazi mom
helped balance my understanding that not
everyone is here to help. In addition, while
bartering and bargaining are hallmarks of
Middle Eastern society, that approach does
not work here. You cant trade yoga lessons
for Prada shoes, she observed.
On a day-to- day basis, I feel more Sep-
hardic, she continued. I have a sensibility of
community around me all the time. My hair-
dresser is Israeli, and I prefer going to a mar-
ket with people speaking Hebrew. I feel more
connected. On the other hand, she said, she
works daily to tamp down her Middle Eastern
temper embodied, she said, in her fathers
black stare.
Then, of course, Ms. Azar has to balance
the widely divergent worlds of stage and shul.
Her husband, Rabbi Jonathan Aaron,
senior rabbi at a Reform synagogue, Tem-
ple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, is definitely a
Jennifer Weiner TAMARA STAPLES
Q: Many people regard you as their favor-
ite author. Who is your favorite author? And
why?
A. Thats very kind! I always go back to
Susan Isaacs books I love their humor, their
heart, their wit, their happy endings and
their Jewish protagonists, who save the day
and get the guy because of their smarts and
not just their beauty. Almost Paradise and
Shining Through are two of my favorites.
Q: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram social
media in general have you found it to be
moderating influence on her temperament,
she said, coming as he does from a docile
German background and, as it happens, from
solid cantorial stock. His uncle, Samuel Adler,
wrote, among other things, the catchy mel-
ody still used for motzi, while his grandfather,
Hugo Chaim Adler, was a respected chazzan.
Music is a family passion, she added. Ms.
Azar and Rabbi Aaron have two daughters,
16-year-old singer/songwriter Adina and
12-year-old Sela, whom her mother describes
as a talented guitarist. As for Ms. Azar herself,
one of her proudest memories is of singing on
stage with Placido Domingo.
My Ashkenzi mother pushed me into the
Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago-raised
Ms. Azar said. But I didnt want to sing and
learn another language, and anyway she
preferred high school plays. Still, the young
girl sang Yerushalayim Shel Zahav and
obviously they liked my voice. I sang with
them for years. I had a tiny little role in La
Boheme. The then 15-year-old got to take her
bow standing next to Placido Domingo.
While singing clearly has continued to
be a major focus of her life, so too is Jewish
involvement. She was not only a longtime
helpful or detrimental in regard to life in gen-
eral? And your profession more specifically?
A: Whether its helpful or detrimental,
its no longer optional. Only a very small
handful of authors can get away with
telling their publishers thanks, but no
thanks. The rest of us are, shall we say,
strongly encouraged to maintain our own
websites, and an online presence.
For the most part, I like social media. I
like connecting with readers on Facebook,
I like having a place for fast, funny com-
ments on the news or pop culture on Twit-
ter. Im less successful with Instagram,
because thats all pictures, and Im a word
girl, although Ive been known to gram a
picture of my gefilte fish in progress, or my
kids funny artwork. But, in general, Ive
found social media to be a benefit, not a
detriment, to my writing life, which can
get a little lonely. Its like a virtual water
cooler, where you can always find people
who are ready to talk.
Q: Your autobiography, Hungry Heart,
was amazing. You truly put yourself out
there. Why did you decide to write it after
so many fiction masterpieces?
A: Some of it had to do with wanting a
permanent place for the stories I tell when
I do readingsthe story of my Nanna vol-
unteering as an extra in In Her Shoes,
or how I wrote my first book. Then there
were other stories the more painful,
personal ones that I wanted to put out
there as a way of telling other women that
Michelle Azar
attendee of Habonim-Drors Camp Tavor,
but its as though I never left, she said.
I spent eight years as a camper and two
years as a counselor. And with her sister
a past leader of the national movement,
she was involved there as well. In fact, she
said, when she comes to New York, shell
stay with camp friends.
Last year, around 300 of us came together
for the camps anniversary, she said,
they arent alone. I think, so many times,
we as women put a positive spin on our
lives, and thats especially true online. We
dont talk about things like addiction, or
postpartum depression and so when
those things happen, a woman can end
up feeling like shes the only one, the only
woman who struggled with breastfeeding,
or a parents addiction, the only one who
felt ashamed of how her birth story ended,
or who felt inadequate and not up to the
task of being a mother.
The amount of loneliness and isolation
is very sad, and with things like postpar-
tum depression, its not just sad, its dan-
gerous. There was a recent case where a
young Jewish woman committed suicide
after giving birth, and literally every-
one whod seen her said, She seemed
to happy. We had no idea. I think there
needs to be a space for telling our stories,
in all of their gory, unlovely details. And
the more those stories circulate, the more
women know theyre out there, the less
alone theyll feel.
Q. Self-deprecating humor are you pro
or con?
A. I get depressed sometimes that self-
deprecation is womens go-to method of
getting a laugh but the truth is, some-
times its funny! And sometimes you have
to laugh at yourself to keep from crying.
Q: What is your favorite Jewish holiday,
and why? (This is the Jewish Standard, so I
thought I would throw that one in there...)
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describing it as a place where she made lifelong friends Yiddish songs. Her original goal, she said, was to protect some While Ms. Azar is hard to sum up in a few words, she
and learned about the community aspect of Jewish life, version of my fathers honor while acknowledging the fears would describe herself as a deeply investigative, inquisitive
our connective tissue as Jews living outside of Israel. some Americans harbor of people from the Middle East. person, searching for truth to go deeper in all my connec-
Also, while she now spends much of her time on stage, Ms. Azar also is deeply involved in a joint project with her tions, in every relationship I have, to myself and to my past.
she takes her role in her synagogue very seriously. Indeed, sister-in-law, Melissa Greenspan, whom she first met at NYU What do we want to keep, to tinker with? People think Im
no matter what else she accomplishes, she said, her father when they were both studying acting. Later, Ms. Azar man- a bright, funny, positive person, but I have shadowy sides I
insists on calling her rebbetzin. aged to arrange a shidduch between Ms. Greenspan and her want to bring into the light.
I volunteer, read Torah on Shabbat morning, deliver brother. Called How to Beat Your Sister-in-Law (at every- Has anything surprised her as she put her show together?
meals, and sing in the choir, she said. She also teaches thing), its really going great, Ms. Azar said of the project, Im surprised by how many songs I learned from my father,
yoga there. It feels very appropriate, she said. Were which will premiere on June 9. The networks are beginning the non-singer of the family, and by how many weve shared,
forming a little chevruta. to meet with us. and by how important that thread has been.
Her connection to Israel remains strong, and she recalls
spending most summers of her young life in the Jew-
ish state. Her father left Iraq in 1942, headed for Israel.
Although his siblings returned to Iraq subsequently for
business reasons, ultimately everyone was kicked out.
When they left, on a Friday night, my fathers father,
a devout Orthodox Jew, at first said he wouldnt go. But
because they were going to the Holy Land, he relented.
Her mother, born on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn,
met her husband there, his first week in the United
States, where he was dying to make money. He
wanted to go back to Israel and buy land. As it hap-
pens, he did buy a textile factory in Israel, but they
never made it back to live.
Ms. Azar describes her show as having a unique spirit,
seeing this American grappling with these very different
worlds. She tries to embody her grandmother and her
father, among others. My dad is funny his accent, his
line of reasoning. Theres a great amount of humor and
some pathos, as well as interesting music, including
Broadway songs, Iraqi prayer melodies, and Hebrew and

A. Im lucky enough to celebrate the Jewish holidays

with my extended family my siblings and their kids, my
mom and her partner and theres something special and
wonderful about all of them. The High Holy Days are my
favorite, because they always coincide with the start of a
new school year, and my favorite weather. The air is crisp,
the leaves are changing colors, and it feels like an oppor-
tunity to reflect, to close the book on the past and move
forward in a positive, loving way.
In terms of favorite foods (because I have to talk
about food!), I always host break-the-fast, which I love,
because people always tell me what an amazing cook
I amand, of course, the truth is that everyone is so WHAT THE BEST DRESSED BABIES
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A. Im working on a novel thats set in the not-too- the reunification of this timeless city.
distant future, where a familiar-feeling politician has
declared himself President for Life. Abortion is ille-
gal, affirmative action is gone, there are curfews and
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seventy-two. My working title is The Girl at the End of
the World, and it should be out in the spring of 2018.

JEWISH STANDARD MAY 19, 2017 15

Briefly Local
New director of Sinai named
at Manhattans SAR Academy
Aura Lurie has been named
director of Sinai at SAR Acad-
emy in Riverdale, N.Y., which
is set to open in the fall of
2018 to serve children with a
wide range of complex learn-
ing and special needs.
Rabbi Binyamin Krauss,
SAR Academys princi-
pal, encouraged Ms. Lurie
to apply for the position.
Aura has been a rising star Aura Lurie
at SAR for over 10 years,
he said. I am thrilled that Sinai recog-
nizes what a great leader she will be
and delighted that she will remain here,
within our SAR family, to help establish
and guide this partnership between our
two schools.
Ms. Lurie has worked at SAR Acad-
emy as a head teacher and as an inclu-
sion teacher in the elementary school,
teaching children with a range of learn-
ing disabilities. She also has served as
a mentor to other teachers through
the Jewish New Teacher Project/New
Teacher Center for the last five years,
and has participated in the Educa-
tional Leadership Advancement Ini-
tiative, through the Lookstein Center
for Jewish Education. She holds a mas-
ters degree in elementary and special
education from the Bank Street Gradu-
ate School of Education and has been
working with children who have learn-
ing, behavioral, or emotional issues for
the last 18 years.
Ms. Luries CV and reputation as an
outstanding special educator and leader
make her eminently qualified for this
position, the dean of the Sinai Schools,
Teaneck shul dinner set for June
The Jewish Center of Teaneck will
hold its annual dinner at the shul on
June 15 at 6:30 p.m. It is in celebration
of the 50th year of the reunification of
Jerusalem and in conjunction with the
revitalization of the JCT this year.
Isaac and Nechama Student, the
guests of honor, will be celebrated
for their service to the congregation.
They have served as president, and on
the kiddush committee, respectively.
Rabbi Reb Yitz Cohen, the JCTs
ritual director, will receive the distin-
guished community service award.
He played a crucial role in stabilizing
the congregation during challenging
times over the last few years.
The dinner will celebrate the
growth of the synagogue over the
last year membership has grown by
20 percent, the sisterhood has been
relaunched, there is youth program-
ming for Shabbat morning and after-
noon, including the recently launched
16 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 19, 2017
Rabbi Dr. Yisrael Roth-
wachs, said. The fact
that she comes from
within SAR is really
icing on the cake for
us. Integration and
inclusion are at the
cornerstone of Sinais
mission statement.
The inclusive envi-
ronments we are able
COURTESY SINAI to create for our stu-
dents work so well
precisely because of the cooperative
relationship we share with each of our
partner schools. We are so grateful to
Rabbi Krauss and SAR for welcoming
Sinai with open arms and because Ms.
Lurie comes to us from within SAR, we
will have a tremendous edge in the suc-
cessful operation of our inclusion model
at SAR from Day One. We feel so lucky to
have found her for this position.
Sinai at SAR initially will work with
6- to 8-year-olds with a wide range of
complex learning challenges or devel-
opmental disabilities. Its goal is to
expand to serve more children each
year. Sinai now has six other elemen-
tary and high schools, but this will be
Sinais first in New York City. Its part-
nership with SAR will enable Sinai to
serve many more families from New
York City and Westchester who have
children with special needs that can-
not be met in a regular education class-
room, or even the inclusion classrooms
that SAR now provides to support chil-
dren with learning needs.
For more information, go to www.
sinaischools.org or call (201) 833-1134.
MICHAEL LAVES
Isaac and Nechama Student
for Technology and Leadership Values.
youth minyan, and there are many
choices of classes and special pro-
grams for all ages and demographics.
In addition, as the dinner marks
the culmination of the good year,
the shul will be making a siyyum, a
completion, of four tractates of Mish-
nah, beginning with the Hebrew let-
ters z,i,w,t, which correspond to the
Hebrew year, 5777.
For information, call (201) 833-0515
or go to JCOT.org
Rabbi Ephraim Simon addresses the Bikur Cholim gathering. 
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Bikur Cholim celebrates Awareness
Bikur Cholim Bergen County held its Eve-
ning of Awareness, Inspiration, and Oppor-
tunity at its inaugural Melava Malka on
motzei Shabbat, May 6. The evening topped
off the Shabbat of Awareness, when rabbis
throughout Bergen County talked to their
congregants about the mitzvah of Bikur
Cholim and the valuable service that Bikur
Cholim Bergen County provides.
More than 200 guests, including com-
munity rabbis, volunteers, and supporters,
attended the event, hosted by Dr. Jessica
and Laizer Kornwasser.
Organization president Meredith Yager
talked about the organizations diverse
chesed activities, including providing
meals to families dealing with illness, hos-
pital visits, driving patients to therapies and
medical care, lending medical equipment,
offering a taxi service with Shabbat arrange-
ment, and visiting homebound patients.
She also introduced Bikur Cholims newest
endeavor: hospitality apartments serving
people whose family members are patients
at local hospitals. Tastefully decorated and
offering all the amenities necessary for
AMIT event to feature Moshe Uziel
The AMIT Shalva Chai chapters annual
Mother-in-Israel evening will feature
guest speaker Moshe Uziel, an alum-
nus of the AMIT Kfar Blatt Youth Vil-
lage and its new director of the Center
returned to AMIT to fulfill what he calls
The evening, honoring Elaine Jacobs,
Shira Jacobs, and Michal Jacobs, is set
for Tuesday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m., at a
private home in Englewood.
Mr. Uziel is an AMIT success story.
Born into a difficult family, he found a
new home at AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled
when he was 7, and went on to live at
Kfar Blatt Youth Village as a teen. He
credits AMIT with nurturing him and
giving him the tools he needed to go on
to become a commander in the Israeli
Shabbat, the apartments are a home away
from home for those struggling with the
fear, confusion, and disruption of illness in
the family. According to Ms. Yager, When
we opened the apartments, we knew they
would be a source of comfort for patients
families but we were not prepared for the
staggering need we encountered. We were
astonished that since November, the beds
have been used over 500 times and, as
more people learn about the service, the
number of requests is constantly growing.
She also shared some of the many notes she
receives from grateful families and guests
who heard from others whose lives were
touched by the organization.
Rabbi Ephraim Simon spoke of his deep
pride with the overwhelming community
support shown by the large attendance at
the event. He also challenged the group as
a call to action, inspiring people to become
involved in Bikur Cholims chesed work.
For information about Bikur Cholim Ber-
gen County go to bikurcholimbergencounty.
org, call (201) 579-3066, or email info@
bikurcholimbergencounty.org.
armys elite Golani Brigade.
In the army, Mr. Uziel was awarded
a scholarship to pursue his bachelors
and masters degrees. After 13 years of
service in the Israel Defense Forces, he
his mission in life, inspiring the future of
Israel. As the new director of the Center
for Technology and Leadership Values
at Kfar Blatt Youth Village, run in coop-
eration with the IDF, the program will
train young soldiers to become diagnos-
tic technicians for the tank and armored
corps, opening opportunities in the army
and in the tech sector afterward.
For information, call Aliza Schulman
at (212) 477-4730 or email her at AlizaS@
amitchildren.org.
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Briefly Local

BCHSJS
announces
gala honorees

Photos courtesy BchsJs

The Bergen County High
School of Jewish Stud-
ies, Bergen Countys only
weekly Hebrew high school,
will hold its annual gala din-
ner on Wednesday, June
7. The schools largest fun-
draiser will honor David
Goodman and Dr. Hope
Dr. Hope Schlossberg and
Schlossberg of Paramus
David Goodman
with its LDor VDor award,
created to recognize people
who further Jewish continuity by support-
ing programs for Jewish teens. Alex and
Doug Sobelman of Paramus are the parent
honorees, Rabbi Shelley Kniaz is educator
of the year, and BCHSJS teacher Barnett
Goldman will receive the exemplary ser-
vice award.
David Goodman, a CPA, is managing
director of Lawrence B. Goodman & Com-
pany in Fair Lawn. He helps Jewish edu-
cational institutions and other nonprofits
create efficiencies through accounting and
financial reporting. He is a past president
of both the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey and the Jewish Family Service
of North Jersey and he is a past chair of the works as director of sales for Leesik Part- education; a writer and trainer for ETGAR,
JFNNJs endowment committee. He is on
the boards of JFNNJ and Jewish Family and
Childrens Services of North Jersey. Among
his many awards, he was a recipient of the
Marge Bornstein award for outstanding
Rabbi Shelley Kniaz
Doug and Alex Sobelman
volunteerism. Dr. Hope Schlossberg is opportunity for a Jewish education when
an obstetrician-gynecologist with Com- they were young, so they have made Jew-
prehensive Womens Care in Englewood. ish education and identity an important
She is involved in educational and social focus for their three sons. Two already
programs in the northern New Jersey Jew- have gone to BCHSJS, and the third will
ish community, volunteers at Solomon begin there when he enters eighth grade.
Schechter Day School of Bergen County, Rabbi Shelley Kniaz of Teaneck is the
and serves on the chesed committee at the director of congregational education at
JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah, Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley, where
where the family belongs. she is responsible for the religious school,
Alex and Doug Sobelman, also members adult education, and family program-
of the JCCP/CBT, have worked to support ming. She was a synagogue school princi-
Jewish continuity among the teenagers in pal in Manhattan; a teacher at a Solomon
northern New Jersey. Alex has degrees in Schechter day school; the assistant direc-
electrical and computer engineering. Doug tor of United Synagogues department of
ners, a health care investment bank. He is a synagogue school curriculum, and co-
a former president of the young families founder and co-director of KULANU NNJ,
club of the JCCP/CBT. Alex serves on the a consortium of congregational schools
board of the shuls Hebrew school and at and the federation. She recently received
BCHSJS. The Sobelmans did not have the an honorary doctorate of divinity from JTS
Barnett Goldman
for 30 years of service in the rabbinate.
Barnett Goldman of Westwood, a mem-
ber of Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley,
teacher, and parent, has served the Jew-
ish community in many capacities. He sits
on his shuls board as youth chair and co-
chair of continuing education, he teaches at
BCHSJS on Sundays and he is a fourth-grade
teacher at Brookside Elementary School in
Westwood. He has led many BCHSJS proj-
ects, including organizing Shabbatonim,
overnights, field trips, and special events.
He has led the schools Jewish Volunteer
Corp on visits to senior citizen residences
and young leadership students on trips to
Israel to visit and tour with an Israeli cohort
of students. Barnett also works at URJ Crane
Lake Camp in the summer.
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place an ad in the journal, go to www.bch-
sjsdinner.org.

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Carla Silver lauded An evening of friendship, appreciation, and awards

for volunteer work The Friendship Circle of Passaic County will hold its annual
evening of awards on Monday, June 5, at the Chabad Center,
with disabilities in Canada. He is an advocate for competitive
employment for people with disabilities and was a candidate
The Bergen County section of 194 Ratzer Road in Wayne. Volunteers will be honored for for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida.
the National Council of Jew-
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their hours of giving to the Friendship Circle and its families. The Friendship Circle has more than 100 volunteers and
ish Women honored Carla Josh Halpern, Adam Lang, Julia LiPuma, Samantha Segreto, programs that include Friends at Home, yoga, music, swim,
Silver as its April Volunteer of Felicia Shectman, Kalina Tozeva, Skylar Levitt, Sydney Levitt, holiday events, a sports series, parent workshops, and camps.
the Month. Bella Black, Olivia Black, and Emily Bolson, all of Wayne, and The Friendship Circle serves children with special
Carla Silver grew up in Gabriel Alteras, Esther Nasser, Rivky Terebelo, Rena Cohen, needs and their families in the Passaic County area. For
the Bronx and Queens and and Rebecca Bral of Passaic are among the honorees. information on volunteering, or if you know a family that
moved to Bergenfield 41 years Joseph ( JB) Bensmihen, the guest speaker, who has cere- could benefit from services, go to fcpassaiccounty.com or
ago. She was a stay-at-home bral palsy, was instrumental in changing laws for people call (973) 694-4970.
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office manager in two synagogues. She joined NCJW
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Fighting intersectionality,
one meeting at a time
Local college student
takes on BDS at Wisconsin,
the fight gets ugly and she wins
Joanne Palmer
H
ow do Jewish students
take on a student gov-
ernment council that
seems determined to
sanction Israel, establishing it as the
perfect example of evil in the world,
making the effort to vote against
that idea personally dangerous and
morally corrupt?
How can they fight against what
seems to be the general consensus?
How can they maintain their sanity
and feeling of being at home in the
world as they do it?
University of Wisconsin student
Ariela Rifkin of Teaneck, a rising
senior and member of the student
council, spearheaded a fight against
a resolution condemning Israel,
withstood a barrage of personal
invective aimed at her, and won.
The story of how she did what she
did is heartening; a story of commu-
nity support and personal courage.
Ms. Rifkin, who graduated from Ariela Rifkin of Teaneck will be senior class president at the University of Wisconsin next year.
the Frisch School and grew up
in the modern Orthodox community to which she still
belongs, has been on the student council at the univer-
sitys huge main campus at Madison since her freshman
year. To some extent, her story started then, when she
began to build the relationships and reservoir of good
will from which she drew later, but the main narrative arc
began in March, during spring break.
Ms. Rifkin and about 24 other Jewish students went
from home to the AIPAC policy conference in Washing-
ton, D.C.; that huge gathering of advocates for Israel met
from March 26 through March 28 this year. We returned
only to find a very long and extensive BDS resolution on
the agenda for the next day, she said. (BDS, short for Boy-
cott, Divestment, and Sanctions, is a tool that anti-Israel
groups use to try to harm Israel economically as a way to
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affect it politically.)
The resolution not only was very long, it also was par-
ticularly egregious in its attempt to link the rise of the alt- many of these instances, its particularly hard to fight that
right movement in America right now to Israel.
It was particularly offensive because, of course, the
alt-right movement the radically right-wing movement
that calls itself white nationalist or white separatist when
it is trying to be respectable, and that traffics in anti-Semi-
tism and racism, and that finds its home more online than
in any more physical manifestation is so anti-Semitic,
she said.
And it was going to be discussed at the council meeting
the very next day.
The resolution was particularly hard to fight because
many of its targets were right, Ms. Rifkin said. It didnt
only talk about Israel. It also
was about some very just and
important social justice causes
in America right now and then
it said that if you care about all
those things, then you must also
oppose the Occupation.
It said that we stand with the
indigenous people of America,
we stand against the Dakota
Access Pipeline, we stand against
the border wall, we stand against
police brutality, we stand against
the police who are killing young
black men, the same way that
we stand with the indigenous
people of Palestine.
In other words, the resolution
written with input from local
chapters of Students for Justice
in Palestine and Jewish Voice
for Peace, among other groups
was an example of intersec-
tionality, the idea that all forms
of discrimination and social pow-
erlessness are connected.
Because Jews tend to be lib-
eral, and because the Jewish
population in Madison is incredibly liberal and social-jus-
tice oriented, and because theyre right when it comes to
idea, Ms. Rifkin suggested. The resolution took these stu-
dents and told them that they cant love Israel and believe
that it has a right to exist and at the same time stand
against police brutality and the Dakota Access Pipeline.
It told everyone that they have only a binary choice.
Only black or white. There is no gray area. There is no
room to understand anything further. No room to do
research. If you stand with human rights, then you stand
against a whole list of things and Israel is on that list.
It was really offensive, she said.
We gathered as best we could, in the short time we
had, she continued. We came to the open forum, some

200 students strong, and we had about 40 students
speak. There were students representing a wide range
of backgrounds students whose parents had fled Iran,
students whose immigration stories made them deeply
sympathetic to other immigrants, students who talked
about how their Judaism and their Zionism are insepa-
rable, Ms. Rifkin said.
Throughout the night, comments were made that this
resolution was only about transparency, Ms. Rifkin said.
That it was only about wanting to see where the Univer-
They listed examples
but every example
they listed was Israel,
and never any
other country.
sity of Wisconsin foundation is investing. That we dont
get those figures from them, and that we want to see it.
The argument was that the foundation should not
invest in corporations that are committing human rights
abuses. They listed examples but every example they
listed was Israel, and never any other country. Its backers
argued that it is not a BDS resolution, because it doesnt
ask for an academic boycott on campus, or to boycott the
companies BDSers traditionally boycott. But my argument
is that if it makes students feel that they cant be openly
Zionist on campus, that their student body council doesnt
represent them or believe in them then it is BDS.
They kept saying that they just wanted transparency.
But my final argument was that what you have created is
a terrible division between us. If you want to talk about
transparency, wed be more than happy to talk about it
but thats not this.
The debate lasted for six hours. At the end, a motion to
table it indefinitely was made, voted on, and passed. The
vote was 13 in favor and 12 opposed, with one abstention.
At this point, we were all very exhausted, Ms. Rifkin
said. We didnt necessarily take it as a win, because once
something like this hits the floor of the student council,
things are said that cannot be unheard. Accusations are
made that cannot be unsaid.
They made accusations like, All you students who talk
in favor of Israel, you all have privilege. You all sound like
Donald Trump.
It was a very difficult, emotional night for everyone
involved. Still, although this was not really a victory for
anyone, we were relieved to hear student council mem-
bers say that whatever their personal feelings might be,
this was not the sort of issue that students should be pass-
ing resolutions about.
We have skyrocketing rates of sexual abuse on campus.
We have a campus that is famous for drinking too much.
We should focus on those issues rather than on blaming
everything on Israel.
That was the night of March 29.
Student council meetings are scheduled every two
Ben Meisel of the University of Michigan and Tenafly, Ariela Rifkin, Aliza Ohnouna from the University of
Pennsylvania and Fort Lee, and Hillel director Talia Mizikovsky served on a panel at the iCan conference
sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey in March.
On March 26,
an anti-Israel
resolution was
tabled indefinitely,
after a painful
struggle.
weeks. I knew that there would be a new piece of legisla-
tion, and I knew that no matter what shape or size it came
in, whether or not it would single out Israel, it would be a
clear continuation of the other one, Ms. Rifkin said.
This year, the first Passover seder was Monday, April
11. The meeting was scheduled for Wednesday, April 13,
right after the first two days ended. I wrote an email to
the chair of the council, that said that anything that talked
about social responsibility, investment, and transparency
could not be brought on Passover.
The email went unanswered, and the agenda was
mailed out on Passover. One of the items on that agenda
was the intent to change the bylaws to create a stu-
dent government subcommittee to do research about
divestment.
That was dangerous, Ms. Rifkin said, because such a
committee could present research that pointed to the
need for divestment every two weeks, until something got
voted in. So at the very least we wanted to be there when
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it was discussed, because it was a clear

continuation of the last discussion, and by
having it on Passover you take away the
opportunity for students who were there
before to be there again.
It also was a problem because there is
a process for such bylaw changes. It is a
six-week process, Ms. Rifkin said. It has to
be introduced in one meeting, discussed
again at the next meeting, and then voted
on in the third. A member of the student
council who had been elected to chair it
next year made a motion to suspend the
rules and not only to introduce it but to
vote on it the first night it was presented.
That motion passed.
Ms. Rifkin and other Jewish community
members filed a suit with the student judi-
ciary; last week, they learned that they had
won on all counts. We won a temporary
injunction, we asked for the vote to be
voided because there was discrimination
in the timing, we asked for a sanctioning
of the chair, who did not answer the email
and did not take it into consideration, and
we asked for the sanctioning of the repre-
sentative who changed the rules despite
being asked not to, she said.
There was a personal dilemma in this for
Ms. Rifkin. They countersued me, she
said. It just so happened that they both
are black women, and they said that I sued
them because I hate black women. They
wanted a full third-party investigation into
my acts, based on gender and race.
For whatever reason perhaps the women didnt have Above, Ariela Rifkin is
enough time, perhaps they changed their minds, perhaps among the speakers
it was just meant as a threat in the first place the two at the recent AIPAC
women who filed notice to sue Ms. Rifkin did not follow confrence in Washington.
through. They just wanted to scare me into withdrawing
my notice of intent, she said.
The threat was real, she added. Had the suit gone
through, every time someone googled her name, the
top results likely would have labeled her a racist and a
sexist, not because she is, nor because there is any evi-
dence showing her to be, but simply because the accusa-
tion would have yoked her name to those words. Those
headlines would have followed me for the rest of my life,
Ariela and other
she said. I had to think about what is more important to
Jewish Badgers pose
me I am getting ready to graduate and get a job or am
with the school banner.
I going to sacrifice my Jewish community here, and say its
okay, they can say what they want.
They presented me with that choice, and they were
pretty sure that I would drop my case. But I did not.
Dont breathe easily yet, though. The worse was still to
come, Ms. Rifkin said. The council had one more meet-
ing before the end of the year April 26 and we knew
that we could expect some type of resolution, some legis-
lation, something because this was their last chance. So
we were anxiously waiting for the agenda to come out.
It was released about 24 hours before the meeting. And open forum once the meeting was closed, things could the room. Somebody made a comment about how I sit on
for many Jewish students it was wonderful, Ms. Rifkin change. piles of student dollars, piles of money and we all know
said. It called for divestment from a list of things fos- She was right. Jewish people from the community what that means.
sil fuels, border walls, arms manufacturers, and prison came to say that they agree -that prison labor is terrible, The meeting came just after Kendall Jenner, the model
labor. There was no mention of Israel. that we should divest from fossil fuels, thank you for writ- and Kardashian half-sister whose commercial connecting
I dont make decisions on my own I represent my ing this legislation as it stands now. But the council had Pepsi with virtue and herself as the representative of the
community. So a bunch of us got together and asked how a much different idea. They came prepared with para- worlds downtrodden, had debuted to worldwide scorn
we feel about it. Students said that we were thankful that graphs of revisions. and been hastily pulled back. In a coordinated prank,
they took our needs into consideration, realized that you Even with its noncontroversial surface, the open forum when I spoke many council members and 50 or so stu-
cant make Israel synonymous with everything thats was incredibly hostile, Ms. Rifkin said. I was viciously dents took out cans of Pepsi and opened them, she said.
wrong in the world, she reported. attacked. It got really personal. After I made a point of saying, Guys, we are putting in
Still, she was troubled. She knew that this was just the Some people referred to me as the white elephant in amendments that are almost verbatim what was tabled

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indefinitely a month ago and as far as I can tell, indefi-
nitely hasnt expired yet the chair of the student council
took a sip of her Pepsi and said, k white supremacy.
People came with my name on signs. It was a targeted
and coordinated effort to make sure that I was as intimi-
dated as possible.
What about administrators? Wasnt there anyone
around who could stop this campaign of intimidation and
humiliation? No matter what the issue, was there no way
to stop this behavior?
No, Ms. Rifkin said. Because of the way the University
of Wisconsin at Madisons student council is set up, those
33 representatives of the universitys various schools are
overseen directly by the board of regents, not the school
itself. They have no power or control over us, she said.
All they can do is complain to the board of regents. So,
although some of the staff members who were in the
room had to step out and cry, there was nothing they
could do, she said. They have absolutely no control over
student government.
Ms. Rifkins ordeal by shaming lasted until she left. I
made a final statement, and then I walked out, to cheer-
ing and dancing and clapping, because they finally got rid
of me, she said. But I had to be there, and I had to say
something.
They were trying to intimidate me personally. They
were trying to make it abundantly clear that should anyone
else speak up or voice a similar position or try to defend
me, that would be their fate too. So how could I not show
up, if what was at stake was the freedom to speak?
There was great irony in the proceedings that night,
she added. The stated point was transparency, but they
orchestrated it so that the opposition wouldnt know
about it. They would keep Israel out at first and put it
back in when it was too late.
Her love of Israel does not blind her to Israels faults, she
said, but it is not right that all of the worlds failures have
fallen on Israels back.
Within our very progressive Jewish community, we
spent plenty of time around coffee tables arguing over
every decision that Israel has ever made. We would love
to have these discussions with people outside the Jewish
community, but that gets shut down when student govern-
ment says, Israel bad. That is not a good foundation for
a conversation.
That evening, the vote passed, 22 to 0, with two
abstentions. She wasnt surprised. People who would
have opposed it were intimidated. There was a coordi-
nated effort to intimidate or harass. If I had been watch-
ing this happen, of course I would have voted in favor
of it too, particularly if I didnt have any grounding or
foundation about Israel. If I hear that anyone who votes
against it is a white supremacist, of course I would have
voted for it.
The resolution passed but that was not the end of it.
We received the final judgment in the case, she said.
The court voided the vote to create the committee.
The court also voted to suggest that the former chair,
on whom it no longer had any jurisdiction, take religious
sensitivity and competency training, Ms. Rifkin said. The
court does still have jurisdiction over the woman who
will chair it next year; it demanded that she must email
the last session of the council to apologize for her actions
and explain why they were wrong. She has to notify the
current council that no religious discrimination of any
sort will be tolerated. And she has to write an official let-
ter apologizing for her actions, explain why Passover is
important to Jewish students, and read it out loud at the
council session.
Next year, Ms. Rifkin will not be on the council. Instead,
she has been voted president of the senior class.
Where did she get the courage and backbone to stand
On an AIPAC trip, Ariela Rifkin stands outside the Israeli Parliament.
up to the bullying, harassment, and intimidation she
faced? She answers that question less fluidly than the ones
about the situation. I talked to my parents, and I have a
really large and wonderful support network of Jewish stu-
dents and faculty members here, and of Hillel. Everyone
said that we are all in this together. It was my name, yes,
but I put myself in that position. I could not take myself
out of the community I grew up in.
Her parents, Oleg and Cheryl, supported her. My dad
is Russian, she said. He knows what discrimination looks just in numbers. She needed other students to be able to
like. He didnt come to America for that, and he didnt stand up with her.
raise me for that.
My parents are remarkable, and so are my grandpar-
ents, she added. They said that you never ever choose
the easy thing over the hard thing, if the hard thing is the
right thing to do.
One of my grandfathers served in the Coast Guard dur-
ing the war, fighting for this country. And my other grand-
father fought to get into this country, to get his sons here. really unfortunate that this happened but it still is beau-
So if my parents and my grandparents could go through
that so I could be here, then I will make sure that as a Jew,
as an American, as a person, as a Rifkin, I will not allow us Northern New Jerseys Jewish Community Relations Coun-
to be treated like this again.
Donna Weintraub of Haworth is a member of the board
of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, and she
was involved actively in creating iCan, a federation-sup-
ported advocacy group that helps local high school stu-
dents prepare themselves for the hostility they might face
on campus should they mention that they support Israel.
Ms. Rifkin came back from Wisconsin to speak at iCan.
Ms. Weintraub also is the mother of Jillian Weintraub,
who just graduated from the University of Wisconsin
this week. Like Ariela Rifkin, Jillian Weintraub had been
involved with pro-Israel advocacy on campus. In fact,
it was Jillian Weintraub who held the video camera and
recorded the whole of the last student council meeting.
I first met Ariela at the first meeting of iCan, last sum- University. Her younger brother, Binny, will begin Frisch
mer, and she started to tell me a little bit about what was
coming at Wisconsin, Donna Weintraub said. She told
me that student reps had told her that there was a strong
possibility that an anti-Israel resolution was coming.
Forewarned, she was forearmed.
Ms. Rifkins grasp of politics, and how politics affect
people, is among her most striking characteristics, Ms.
Weintraub said. At iCan, she talked about how it is
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important as a student to find out what
resonates with other members of student
government and use language that works
for them. For example, if she is talking to
someone who is very active on the sus-
tainability committee, when she was talk-
ing about Israel she would talk about what
Israel is doing about sustainability, and
clean earth, and things like that.
Ms. Weintraub feels deeply that one of
the lessons that Ms. Rifkin puts into prac-
tice is vital for students to learn. We can
give these kids the tools they need to advo-
cate for Israel, she said. We can suggest
that they reinforce their knowledge and
their interest.
But if we dont encourage them to take
an active role in voting for their represen-
tatives on campus, then all that is lost.
At Wisconsin, only about 9 percent of
the student body votes for the student
council, even though that body allocates
the so-called segregated fee that is part
of each students tuition. Those fees are
small, but they add up.
This year I chaired the grant alloca-
tion committee, Ms. Rifkin said. Its over-
seen by the student council. In that capacity, my com-
mittee and I were responsible for the distribution about
$600,000 throughout the course of the fiscal year.
It would be wise, therefore, on some many levels, both
theoretical and practical, for each student to vote.
As parents and Israel-loving Jews, we have to teach our
children to participate, Ms. Weintraub said. Ariela is an
unusual girl an incredibly brave girl but she needed
other students to be there to support her, even if it was
You cant advocate alone. You cant advocate in a vac-
uum. If we could get more kids to run for student council
which, by the way, looks good on a resume or to vote,
and to understand what they voting for and what they are
voting against, that would be really important.
Wisconsin is a great, beautiful, wonderful campus for
a Jewish kid to be on, Ms. Weintraub concluded. It is
tiful place.
Laura Fein, the director of the Jewish Federation of
cil, has known Ariela Rifkin since Ariela was a small child.
She comes by her adamant refusal to give in naturally, Ms.
Fein said.
Her father was at Juilliard, she said. He was a con-
cert pianist. But when he realized that the life of a concert
pianist, with constant traveling, would not work with a
family, he applied to law school. He applied himself to law
with equal diligence and skill, and he is now a very suc-
cessful lawyer.
Arielas sister, Dahlia, who will begin Penn State in the
fall, is an ice skater in fact, she is a former U.S. juvenile
ladies national champion; her older brother, Naphtali, is
a Fulbright scholar who lived in Latvia for year while he
pursued his studies and now is a student at Cambridge
in the fall, and he is in my opinion, the best Rivkin, his
sister said. Their mother is the chief administrative officer
at the financial planning firm Muzinich & Co.
The whole family has an almost military-level disci-
pline, and yet they are all very relaxed, Ms. Fein said.
Ariela has unusual people skills, along with tremendous
discipline and the understanding that sometimes you
need to play a long game.
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Six things you didnt know

about the Six-Day War
Ron Kampeas

T
he three paratroopers casting eyes upward at the
Western Wall. The troops reveling in the waters
of the Suez Canal. The sweeping views of a Gali-
lee no longer vulnerable to shelling from atop the
Golan Heights.
Not to mention Naomi Shemers anthem Jerusalem of
Gold, reissued after the Six-Day War with a new verse cel-
ebrating access to the Old City. Or the settlements, the Pal-
estinians, the tensions, the violence.
These and many others are the images, memories,
and challenges that persist after 50 years of triumph, soul
searching, and grief.
But there are anomalies small, telling wrinkles in what
the war wrought that, if they are not quite forgotten, have
faded into the recesses of memory. They are worth reviving
to deepen our understanding of an event that changed Jew-
ish history.

1. For 20 years, Jews paid fees

to a symbol of Palestinian pride.
In the wake of Jerusalems reunification, its mayor, Teddy
Kollek, was faced with a dilemma: Jewish neighborhoods
were sprouting up in the eastern part of the city. Any Israeli troops prepare for battle during the Six-Day War in 1967.  Three Lions/Getty Images

attempt to extend electricity to them from the electricity

provider in Israel would be likely to elicit local and interna-
tional protest because the world did not recognize Israels
claims to the city.
Kolleks solution: Allow the Palestinian-run Jerusalem
District Electric Company, or JDEC, which predated Israels
establishment, to continue providing power in and around
the Old City, including to the new Jewish neighborhoods.
Areyvuts chesed cAmp
So until 1987, Jews living in the Old City and the new
neighborhoods received electric bills that seemed a mirror
image of their other utility bills: First the text was in Arabic,
then in Hebrew.
The JDEC held exclusive rights to a radius of 50 kilome-
ters, or 31 miles, around the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
the Old City site believed to be the site of Jesus burial.
After 1948, Israel assumed responsibility for provid-
ing electricity to western Jerusalem.
The JDEC, which had become a symbol of Pales-
tinian aspirations for independence, was helmed by
Anwar Nusseibeh, the scion of an ancient Palestin-
ian family.
According to a 1999 book, Separate and Unequal,
about relations between Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem,
even after the JDECs limited capacities were exhausted
by the rapidly expanding demand, Israeli authorities
balked at extending the Israel Electric Corp.s reach
into eastern Jerusalem. Instead, the Israeli company
sold capacity to the JDEC.
In December 1987, the government finally quietly
shifted total responsibility for the Jewish neighbor-
hoods to the Israeli company.
Separate and Unequal, written by three Israelis
Amir Cheshin and Avi Melamed, two former munici-
pality liaisons to the citys Palestinian population, and
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example of the balancing act that Israeli officials had to
perform: Maintaining a Jewish claim to the entire city,
while at times deferring to Palestinian nationalism, in
order to keep the peace.
Israel could not expect to wipe out an important
Palestinian national symbol without a reaction, pos-
sibly a severe reaction, from the Palestinian public,
they wrote.
The JDEC still exists, although it provides electricity
only to Palestinian residents now.
2. King Hussein longed for peace
and liked his Israeli hardware.
During most of his reign, King Hussein of Jordan sought
a peaceful arrangement with Israel, taking a cue from
his beloved grandfather, King Abdullah I, whom he
saw assassinated in Jerusalem in 1951 because he was
seeking peace with Israel.
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Like his grandfather, Hussein sought
peace in secret, but he did not escape
opprobrium and he was wary of meeting
Abdullahs fate. Hussein felt he had little
choice but to join President Gamal Abdel
Nasser of Egypt in saber rattling against
Israel in 1967. Nasser, wildly popular in the
Arab world, already had taunted the king
as being subservient to Israel.
Moreover, Israel had humiliated Hus-
sein a year earlier with a massive daylight
raid into his territory to exact revenge for
an attack carried out by Palestinian Fatah
troops, who then operated with relative
impunity from Jordanian soil.
According to historian Martin Gilberts
Jerusalem Illustrated History Atlas, on
June 4, 1967, Israeli Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol relayed a message to Hussein:
We shall not initiate any action what-
soever against Jordan. However, should
Jordan open hostilities, we shall react
with all our might and [Hussein] will
have to bear the full responsibility for all
the consequences.
At 8:30 a.m. the following day, Jordan
started shelling western Jerusalem, and at
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The king was present at Israels Arava terminal when
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed a peace
treaty with his Jordanian counterpart, Abdelsalam
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The next day Maariv, a newspaper then owned by
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In the photo, a smiling King Hussein is cradling an
Israeli-manufactured Uzi submachine gun.

3. When did Israel unite Jerusalem?

Did it unite Jerusalem?
The future belongs to the complete Jerusalem that
shall never again be divided, Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu said two years ago on Jerusalem Day,
which marks the Hebrew calendar anniversary of
Israels capture of eastern Jerusalem during the Six-
Day War.
The adjectives vary complete, united, indi-
visible but the meaning is clear enough: Israel will
never cede an inch of the Jerusalem it reunited.
Except when Israel formally reunited Jerusalem is
not so clear: 1967? 1980? 2000? Ever?
On June 27, 1967, less than three weeks after the
wars end, Israels Knesset passed ordinances that
allowed Israeli officials to extend Israeli law into areas
of their designations. The next day, the Interior Minis-
try acted on those new ordinances, extending Israeli
law into the areas that now constitute the Jerusalem
municipality. They included 28 Palestinian villages,
the Old City, and what had been defined by Jordan as
municipal Jerusalem.
So, June 28, 1967, apparently is when Israel united
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Six things Not long after, Abba Eban, then Israels foreign minister, In 1980, the Knesset passed a Basic Law what
from page 27 told the United Nations that the ordinances had a practical passes in Israel for a constitution declaring united
Jerusalem. Except Ian Lustick, a professor at the University consequence, not a national one. Jerusalem to be Israeli. The complete and united
of Pennsylvania, published a widely cited paper in 1997 that The term annexation is out of place, he said. The Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, it said.
showed unification was not necessarily the intention of the measures adopted related to the integration of Jerusalem But the law left out a definition of what constituted
1967 ordinances. in the administrative and municipal spheres and furnish a the complete and united Jerusalem. It took until
An Interior Ministry news release from June 28, 1967, said legal basis for the protection of the Holy Places. 2000 for the Knesset to pass an amendment to the
the basic purpose of its order was to provide full munici- As Lustick noted, even within these parameters, anoma- 1980 Basic Law specifying that Jerusalem was defined
pal and social services to all inhabitants of the city. Any lies persisted: For decades, Jordanian curricula prevailed in by the Interior Ministry order of June 28, 1967.
expression of political purpose was absent. Palestinian schools in eastern Jerusalem. So was 2000 when Israel formally set down in
law what constituted the united, indivisible, com-
plete Jerusalem?
Not exactly, according to a Haaretz analysis in 2015,
which said the 1980 law is essentially declarative:
Nowhere does it include the words annexation or
sovereignty.
Marshall Breger and Thomas Idinopulos, in a 1998
Washington Institute for Near East Policy tract, Jeru-
salems Holy Places and the Peace Process, suggest
that these are distinctions without a difference and
say that Israeli court decisions that treat eastern Jeru-
salem as essentially annexed should be determinative.

4. The first Jewish settlement

in the captured territories

S U M M E R There are plenty of dramatic markers in the history

of the return of Jews to the areas Israel captured in
the Six-Day War:
The first homes reoccupied by Jews in the Old Citys
Jewish Quarter, in 1969; the Jews, led by Rabbi Moshe
Levinger, who moved into a Hebron hotel to mark
Passover in 1968 and would not leave until the gov-
ernment allowed them to establish the settlement that
would become Kiryat Arba; the settlers who would
not leave the area of Sebastia in the northern West
Bank until the government allowed them to establish
Elon Moreh in 1975.
But the first settlement? That would be Merom
Golan, a kibbutz originally named Kibbutz Golan,
when Israelis quietly moved in on July 14, 1967, just
over a month after the war.
Why the urgency? A clue is in who founded the
kibbutz: Israelis from the eastern Galilee, who had
suffered potshots and shelling from Syrian troops
for years.
From the beginning, the Israeli attachment to the
West Bank and to Jerusalem has been defined by emo-
tion, history, and identity. Occupying and settling the
Golan Heights an area traditionally not defined as
within the boundaries of the biblical Land of Israel
was seen as a matter of security and practical neces-
sity Israel, atop the Golan, was less vulnerable.
These days, Merom Golan is a resort.

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten 5. That ancient church in Gaza?
It was a synagogue.
Now you will pleasantly remember price as well. The Western Wall, Qumran, Shiloh, King Herods
tomb the Six-Day War was a boon for historians
seeking evidence of ancient Jewish settlement in the
Holy Land.
Most of these sites are in the West Bank and eastern
Jerusalem. But a team of archaeologists rushed to the
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Israeli archaeologists immediately understood it was
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It was a synagogue.
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This was the myth: Between 1949 and
1967, the heart of a city identified since
the beginnings of history with the Jews
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The myth largely was based in fact,
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weeks, a convoy of Israeli troops would
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According to the report, Gulf states would allow Israeli
companies to do business with Arab countries and would
permit Israeli planes to fly over Arab airspace, in exchange
for an Israeli commitment to freeze settlement construction
and ease trade restrictions on Hamas-ruled Gaza.
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McMaster, who was outlining President Donald
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McMasters comments came a day after U.S. and
Israeli officials who were planning Trumps visit got
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American official, identified as David Berns, a politi-
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your territory. The Trump administration quickly dis-
avowed the statement, but stopped short of saying the
Western Wall belonged to Israel.
The Western Wall (also known as the Kotel),
regarded as one of the holiest sites in Judaism, is the
by the Romans in the first century A.D. Israel gained
control over the Western Wall during the 1967 Six Day
War as it captured the eastern half of Jerusalem from
Jordan. Despite the Kotels significance in Judaism
and Israels control over a united Jerusalem, the inter-
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Additionally, McMaster said that Trump would not
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Hes going to the Western Wall mainly in con-
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While in the Old City of Jerusalem, Trump also will
visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is held
by many Christians as the site where Jesus was cruci-
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Lauder/Adelson
from page 32
years. Both Lauder and Adelson have been asked by
Israeli investigators about gifts they have given the
prime minister over the years. In the 1990s, when
Netanyahus career took off, Lauder was a key U.S. con-
duit. Netanyahu asked Lauder to try to help broker a
peace deal with Syria during his first term as prime min-
ister, from 1996 to 1999. In a highly unusual move in
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99, when Lauder chaired the Conference of Presidents

of Major American Jewish Organizations, the billionaire
came to Israel during campaign season and effectively
endorsed Netanyahu in a speech.
The two reportedly fell out six years ago, when
Lauder refused to use his ownership stake in Israels
Channel 10 to censor reporting there into allegations
of corruption by Netanyahu and his wife, Sara.
Adelson shifted from the politically neutral support
for Israel typical of much of the pro-Israel community
to outright support for a political party Netanyahus
Likud in 2007. The trigger was then-Prime Minister
Ehud Olmerts embrace of an aggressive peace plan
known as the Annapolis process. Adelson believed
(and believes) that Palestinian statehood, at least
under the current Palestinian leadership, would be
catastrophic for Israel.
His best-known expression of support is his owner-
ship of the pro-Netanyahu newspaper Israel Hayom,
a free publication that has come to play a dominant
role in the Israeli media. The relationship between
Netanyahu and Adelson remains strong; the news-
paper, which leads in circulation in Israel, recently
changed editors in part, reportedly, because the long-
time incumbent was not sufficiently pro-Bibi.

The relationship with Abbas

Rumors that Lauder and Abbas were close were con-
firmed during Abbas visit at the beginning of May,
when, the night before meeting Trump, the Pales-
tinian leader dined at Lauders home in this citys
Georgetown neighborhood. Notably present at the
dinner: representatives of the Trump administration.
Notably absent: anyone from the Israeli Embassy.
Lauder and Netanyahu, who have dodged on-the-
record comment over their disagreements, were ready
to dish to another wealthy philanthropist: Isi Leibler,
the Australian travel agency magnate who retired to
Israel and has become a prominent activist on its right
wing. In his column for the Jerusalem Post on their
conversations, Leibler related a lengthy harangue he
delivered to Lauder, in which Leibler described Abbas
as an inveterate anti-Semite who speaks with a
forked tongue, portraying himself as a man of peace
and moderation to the outside world while continu-
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Mothers and Fathers Day, in May and June,
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for parents and grandparents. The season pro-
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of the older generation, to show gratitude, and
to express the commitment to supporting the
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This commitment includes supporting
seniors in their efforts to remain indepen-
dent and respecting their decisions regard-
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Safely@Home allows Propert y inspections from a trusted propert y

seniors to age in place
Stacy K. Orden
Recently, members of the sandwich generation began
becoming anxious about their aging parents. The
parents insisted on living on their own and aging in
their own home, and their adult children became
concerned. Are their parents safe in their home?
Is the home equipped for folks their age? Who is
going to make those fixes needed to keep the house
in good repair? They contacted the Jewish Home at
HomesSafely@Home membership program and were
relieved to be able to subscribe to the benefits pro-
vided by this inclusive program.
For those elderly aging in place in the comfort and
familiar surroundings of their own homes, falls are the
leading cause of accidents for this population. Which
of the following are some easy ways to create a safer
environment?
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Stacey K. Orden has spent more than 15 years
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She served for five years as a professional with the Jewish
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(a) Securing rugs to the floor with double-sided

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(b) Applying contrasting, reflective, colored tape to

stairs and landings

(c) Adding additional lighting

(d) Having handrails professionally installed

(e) All of the above

If you answered (e) All of the above, you are correct.

Although it cannot be guaranteed that you will never
fall in your home, there are some easy ways to cre-
ate a safer environment, such as securing rugs to the
floor and applying colored tape to stairs and landings.
Having extra lighting and handrails professionally
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Studies have shown that minimal investments in
home modifications and repairs, coupled with coor-
dinated visits by supportive services such as occu- Suneet Mittal, M.D.,
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pational therapists, nurses and handymen, reduce
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Residents moving to Cedar Crest take advantage of booming real estate market
People moving to Cedar Crest Retire-
ment Community have been selling their
northern New Jersey homes quickly
thanks to New Jerseys booming real
estate market. According to Associated
Press analysis, home prices in New Jer-
sey are rising while housing inventory is
at a 20-year low.
Weve had some bidding wars due
to low inventory, which has benefited
sellers moving to Cedar Crest in getting
above asking price on occasion, said
personal moving consultant Anne Con-
nor. In the last six months, over 20 prop-
erties by incoming Cedar Crest residents
sold in under one week.
Through the Erickson Realty and Mov-
ing Services program, Connor assists
prospective Cedar Crest residents by
connecting them with preferred realtors
who are experts in the sale of homes in
their specific neighborhoods. Also, Con-
nor travels to individual homes to assess
future residents particular needs and to
help customize a plan for their approach-
ing move. Services include assisting with
home staging, downsizing, clean-out
and packing plans, hiring movers, and
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helping with furniture placement and
decorating of their new home.
New residents are moving to Cedar
Crests from Morris, Sussex, and Bergen
Counties.
Residents appreciate the worry-free
lifestyle of Cedar Crest where they can
enjoy their independence, free from the
burdens of home ownership and mainte-
nance, said Connor.
Cedar Crest resident Joyce Renner sold
her former home in Pine Brook in three
days. She moved to a two-bedroom apart-
ment home on campus a few months ago.
I am thrilled to be part of the Cedar
Crest community. People are content and
happy here, said Renner.
There is always something going on,
said Renner, who enjoys taking walks on
campus and being a member of the com-
munitys knitting club. Personal moving consultant Anne Connor, right, helps Loretta Mora simplify
It is a good time to put your home on her move to Cedar Crest with the use of a miniature, magnetic floor plan of her
the market, said Connor. Home inven- apartment home.
tory is down nearly 25 percent from this
time last year, making it completely a sell- by Erickson Living. The scenic 130- amenities, many clubs and activities,
ers market. acre campus is located in Pompton on-site restaurants, a state-of-the-art
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Holy Name Medical Center

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among the top 50 large companies across Medical Center
the state. is once again the
This achievement reflects the tradition
of Holy Name and demonstrates the dedi- only hospital in (Resident, Lillian Grunfeld with her daughter,
Dir. of Community Relations, Debbie Corwin)

cation evident in all our employees, said
Michael Maron, president and CEO of Holy
Name. Our staff members sense of pride
and commitment to their jobs results in a
high level of care and patient satisfaction.
The Best Places to Work survey by NJBIZ
magazine ranks 100 New Jersey companies
in two categories, 35 large organizations
and 65 small and medium-sized businesses.
It looks at a number of areas, including
work/life balance and salary and benefits.
The program also identifies, recognizes,
and honors the top places that benefit the
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Healthly Living & Adult Lifestyles

Stay sun smart throughout year

Dental Care for the Whole Family Did you know that skin cancer is highly
preventable? Because May is National
Achieve the confidence and Skin Cancer Awareness Month, let
positive attitude that comes us highlight the fact that our lifestyle
with a beautiful smile. We will choices contribute greatly to our chances
of getting skin cancer. The most prevent-
customize your care according
able risk factor for all skin cancers is sun
to your needs and desires. exposure.
Specializing in chipped, According to Dr. Tamar Zapolanski, a
cracked, and worn teeth, dermatologist with Valley Medical Group
- Park Ridge, Repeated overexposure to
dentures, and implants, with the sun can lead to premature aging and
care for your whole family. skin cancers called basal cell carcinoma,
squamous cell carcinoma, and malignant
Diane Jonas, DMD melanoma, which is the deadliest form of
General Dentistry skin cancer. Current estimates are that
one in five Americans will develop skin
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protection factor (SPF) of at least 30, reflecting or scattering the suns rays on
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sticks, sprays or in cosmetic products Avoid tanning beds. Ultraviolet light

like make-up and lipstick.
The best thing you can do for your skin
is to make sunscreen a part of your daily
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Below are some additional tips to help
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Wear protective clothing, such as
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brimmed hat and sunglasses, when
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Seek shade when appropriate, remem-
bering that the suns rays are strongest
between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Protect children from sun exposure
by having them play in the shade, wear
protective clothing and apply sunscreen.
Use extra caution near water, snow,
and sand, as they reflect the damaging
rays of the sun, which can increase your
chance of sunburn.
Get vitamin D safely through a
healthy diet that may include vitamin
supplements.
from the sun and tanning beds can cause
skin cancer and wrinkling. If you want to
look like youve been in the sun, consider
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 Healthly Living
Doctors should
be managing Womens top 3
skincare mistakes
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from aging you
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Medical Practice Networks Digital Imaging WIFI Firewalls 1. Skimping on sun protection
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of our skin: They cause inflammation and damage
wherever they go. The long term result of all this?
Wrinkles, sunspots, prominent blood vessels, and an
overall inability to repair our skin.

2. Lack of sleep
Well-rested skin is beautiful skin! Sleep is a time of
skin regeneration and repair, so cutting down on
this essential process can lead to dehydrated and sal-
low skin. Lack of sleep also creates a stress response
within our bodies. This leads to fluctuating hormone
levels, particularly cortisol, which in turn means that
our bodies are in a pro-inflammatory state. Inflamma-
tion in our skin means lack of collagen production and
more redness, acne, and irregular pigmentation.

3. Over-exfoliating
To many people, exfoliation means scrubbing the skin
until you have that squeaky clean feeling. Abrasive
scrubbing can create micro tears within the skin that
leads to redness and irritation, particularly in people
with a history of acne or rosacea. It also dehydrates
the skin and robs it of essential oils that are an inte-
gral part of the skins barrier protection. This leaves us
more susceptible to environmental toxins and bacteria
that can age our skin.

Prevention
1. Wear sunscreen daily! I recommend that my patients
wear a sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30 every day,
rain or shine. If you want to go the extra mile, you can
also add an antioxidant or vitamin C serum to fight
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eat foods which are high in antioxidants (such as blue-
berries and even dark chocolate) during the day to
help your body recover.
3. Exfoliating is a great part of a skin routine, but it is
important to do it properly. Instead of physical scrub-
bing, try products that have gentle chemical exfolia-
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acid, which is an AHA (alpha hydroxy acid) that can
dissolve dead skin cells and encourage fresh collagen
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National Institutes of Health-trained
urologic oncologist appointed to
leadership roles at Englewood Hospital
Dr. Maximiliano Sorbellini has been named director of
urologic oncology and associate medical director of The
Lefcourt Family Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center
at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
A board-certified urologist with expertise in bladder,
prostate, and kidney cancer and complex urologic condi-
tions, Dr. Sorbellini performs minimally invasive genito-
urinary procedures focused on tissue sparing and organ
function preservation. These include laparoscopic and
robotic urologic surgery for the treatment of malignant
and benign conditions affecting the male and female uri-
nary tract system and male reproductive organs. He has a
special interest in using novel diagnostic imaging, such as
MRI ultrasound fusion guided biopsy.
We are very excited to welcome Dr. Sorbellini to our
team. His expertise in urologic oncology will be instru-
mental in furthering our efforts and commitment to
expanding access to world-class therapies and technolo-
gies for patients in our community and the region, said
Dr. Michael T. Harris, chief medical officer at Englewood
Hospital and Medical Center.
Dr. Sorbellini comes to Englewood Hospital after his
most recent roles as urology site chief at NewYork-Presby-
terian/Lower Manhattan Hospital and assistant professor
of urology at Weill Cornell Medical College. After receiv-
ing his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, Dr. Sorbellini completed his urology residency
at McGill University Health Center and his urologic oncol-
ogy fellowship at the Urology Oncology Branch, National
Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH).
As an NIH-trained urologic oncologist, Dr. Sorbellini
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Society of Clinical Oncology, and a fellow of the Royal
College of Surgeons in Canada.
Dr. Sorbellini is a member of MDPartners, the physi-
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in English, Spanish, French, and Italian.
Holy Name Foundation
hosting golf outing
The Holy Name Medical Center Foundation is hosting its
23rd annual Classic Golf Tournament on Monday, June
5, at the Hackensack Golf Club in Oradell, with morning
and afternoon shotgun starts. Golfers will be provided
breakfast, lunch, cocktail hour, and buffet dinner.
Our Classic Golf Tournament is always a special
event that is fun for golfers and our volunteers while
providing crucial funding for our expanding services,
technology and clinical staff, said Michael Maron,
president and CEO of Holy Name. All of the partici-
pants and sponsors are essential to helping us con-
tinue our mission of offering the highest quality care
to every patient.
Joining the golfers on the links once again will be
MVP of Super Bowl XXV, two-time Pro Bowler, and
Giants running back, O.J. Anderson. Also returning
to participate this year is Stanley Cup champion Ken
Daneyko of the NJ Devils Alumni Association and tele-
vision color analyst for the Devils.
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Maron said. Their participation reflects the impor-
tance of this endeavor and brings some additional
well-deserved recognition to the event.
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Can cannabis arrest
the aging process?
Israeli researchers restore the memory
performance of lab mice to a juvenile stage
with trials on humans coming next
Israel21c Staff
As our brain ages, our cognitive abili-
ties naturally decrease and it becomes
more difficult to learn new things or
devote attention to several things at the
same time.
Researchers have long been looking
for ways to slow down or even reverse
this process.
Scientists at the University of Bonn
in Germany and the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem report in Nature Medicine
that they have now achieved this goal
in mice by administering a small quan-
tity of THC, the active ingredient in the
hemp plant (cannabis).
Mice have a short lifespan and begin
displaying pronounced cognitive
deficits even at one year old. So the
researchers gave doses of THC to lab
mice at the ages of 12 and 18 months
over a period of four weeks.
A low dose was chosen to avoid any
intoxicating effect in the mice.
After the regimen of treatment, the
scientists tested learning capacity and
memory performance in the animals
including, for instance, orientation
skills and their ability to recognize
other mice.
Mice that were given only a placebo
displayed natural age-dependent learn-
ing and memory losses. In contrast, the
cognitive functions of the animals treated
with cannabis were just as good as the
functions of two-month-old mice used as
a control group.
The treatment completely reversed
the loss of performance in the old ani-
mals, reported Professor Andreas Zim-
mer from the Institute of Molecular Psy-
chiatry at the University of Bonn and
a member of the Cluster of Excellence
ImmunoSensation.
Cannabanoid
receptors in the brain
This groundbreaking study was car-
ried out following years of meticulous
research, according to the scientists
involved.
First, the researchers discovered that
the brain ages much faster when mice do
not possess any functional receptors for
THC. These cannabinoid 1 (CB1) recep-
tors are proteins that act as docking sta-
tions for cannabinoids like THC from sub-
stances such as hashish or marijuana.
THC imitates the effect of cannabi-
noids that are produced naturally in
the body and fulfill important functions
in the brain.
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epigenetic changes in the mices brains dementia, encouraging them to make
after sustained low dosages of THC.
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no longer corresponded to that of
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Editorial
Yom
Yerushalayim
I W
ts been 50 years since the Six-Day War. Half a cen-
tury since Israel took back Jerusalem.
Most of us either never knew or cannot remember
what it was like before then, but those iconic pic-
tures of Israeli soldiers at the Kotel carry so much emotion
that to see them now is to feel rocked by it still.
History is happening so quickly now so insanely
quickly that it feels as if 50 years must have happened
sometime before the flood, but no.
The world is terribly muddled now; we are shocked by
the Trump administration official who said that the Kotel
is not Israels. (That is not all that shocks us, of course, but
to list any of the shocks would make this newspaper, by
the time it comes out on Friday, so terribly Wednesday
afternoon)
We probably each have our own mental image of
Jerusalem.
When I think of the city, I think of the light that bathes
it; its harsh and clear and unforgiving and beautiful. Its
not as much golden, I think, despite what weve been told,
as it is pure. It demands that we see what is before us, in
all its splendor and terror and brokenness and wholeness,
its starkness and its shadows, its pits and its cracks and its
roundness.
Its not surprising that the light, and the sense it gives of
being somewhere ancient and pulsing with life, the knowl-
edge that you are at the absolute center of the world, the
place where everything began (and if we are not careful
everything might end), drives people mad.
To walk through Jerusalem and see the varieties of reli-
gious dress, and to see as well how hot people look, how
they sweat, how ill-adapted the dress seems to the climate,
and to see as well how at home they look in what in almost
any other place would seem like a costume rather than
clothing, is to realize that peoples relationships to time
and space somehow seem different there.
That is of course not to realize that most of the time
most life in Jerusalem is just regular life; people eat, drink,
work, sleep, learn, read, play, tease, fret, and do every-
thing else that everyone else does every place else. I do
not mean to rhapsodize or romanticize (and in fact I do
not want to live there. I like New York). But still it is strik-
ing that in a way Jerusalem, that ancient city, looks newer
than Tel Aviv, with its 1930s Bauhaus architecture. That
style has aged, and so have the building materials. Much
of it looks ill tended, even shoddy. But stone doesnt age.
We know that Israelis will have to make a lot of tremen-
dously difficult decisions, and that its path is not clear. But
we cannot imagine the Old City being anything other than
Israeli. And we cannot imagine the city without the clarity
of its light. JP
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KEEPING THE FAITH
Maternal death rates:
Americas enduring shame
hen Chapter 19 of Leviticus was read in race and ethnicity, education, and income level,
synagogues two weeks ago, the chap- from the poorest parts of the United States to the
ter began with these words: You shall richest. The women died from various heart prob-
be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am lems, from massive hemorrhaging, from blood clots,
holy. The very next thing it says, the very first com- infections, and pregnancy-induced high blood pres-
mandment it gives, was this: You shall each revere sure, and so forth. Many died days or weeks after
his mother and his father. It then adds, I, the Lord, leaving the hospital.
am your God. Our medical system in great part is to blame for
As noted in my last column, not only does Chapter this: Mothers are sent home from the hospital much
19 summarize the entire Torah, it also references the too quickly. Too many doctors opt for C-sections over
Aseret Hadibrot, the so-called Ten Commandments. natural births, often leading to more life-threaten-
(Dibrot means statements or declarations, not com- ing complications. Our health care system makes it
mandments.) In the Aseret Hadibrot, we are told, harder for new mothers, especially those without
Honor your father and your mother. Father is listed good insurance, to get proper care. And so on.
first there (Exodus 20:12), but in Leviti- There also is the notion that infant
cus 19:3, mother came first. This is the care, as super important as it is, some-
Torahs way of saying that mothers and how is more important than maternal
fathers are equal in Gods eyes. care. One federal/state program that
Mothers deserve the same respect as helps fund maternal and child health
fathers. allocates just about 6 percent of its block
In America, it seems, mothers do not grants to programs for mothers, com-
get that kind of respect. We set aside a pared to 78 percent for infants.
day to celebrate mothers, and last Sun- As for Medicaid, which pays for about
day was that day, but in truly substan- 45 percent of births, in too many states
tive ways, we ignore their needs and Shammai it covers mothers for only 60 days after
such issues as maternity leave and equal Engelmayer giving birth, compared to a full year for
pay only skim the surface. their babies. The CDC, however, says a
One way in particular is most frighten- mother is at risk for that same full year.
ing. As NPR and ProPublica reported in the run-up For the record, the bill the House recently passed
to Mothers Day, each year 700 to 900 women die to replace the Affordable Care Act would end almost
from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes in the all Medicaid funding for both mothers and infants.
United States, while some 65,000 others nearly die. Considering that the infant mortality rate in the
That is the worst record of any developed country United States is the lowest it has ever been, thanks
in the world, and even of many less-developed ones. in no small part to Medicaids funding, that itself is a
Only here in arguably the richest, most developed crime in the making.
country in the world has the rate of women who In our One Nation, under God, God seems to
die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes have no influence when it comes to setting policy,
been going up. whether at the government level or in the medical
According to statistics cited by NPR and ProPublica, profession. In both, the Almighty Buck rules.
women here are more than three times as likely as The first human being to be created as we under-
Canadian women, and six times more likely than stand human beings was a woman, and she also
Scandinavian women, to die from the start of preg- was the first human being in the Torah to be given a
nancy to one year after the pregnancy ends. Even name: Chavah, meaning the mother of all the living,
worse, nearly 60 percent of these deaths are prevent- the Torah says. Adam is not a name; it is just a word
able, according to the Centers for Disease Control meaning human being. The First Man has no name;
Foundation. the First Woman does, because she was a mother.
Included among these deaths are women of every The first human being to give God a name in the
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Torah was a woman Hagar. She obeyed God when
He told her to put up with the harsh treatment and
insults meted out by her mistress for the benefit of
her soon-to-be-born son.
The most selfless people in Genesis are the
women, Hagar and the matriarchs Sarah,
Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah and also Bilhah and
Zilpah. They all sacrificed much for their children,
and Gods Torah honors them for it. Long before
God ever speaks to Isaac, for example, He speaks
to Rebekah.
And, as noted, the Torah goes out of its way to
make sure we understand that mothers are on the
And, as noted, the
Torah goes out of its
way to make sure we
understand that
mothers are on the
same level as fathers.
same level as fathers.
In 1985, it was revealed that one of the most pop-
ular birth control devices at the time, an IUD called
the Dalkon Shield, caused all kinds of problems for
women, including sepsis, injury, miscarriage, and
death.
The company that produced the Dalkon Shield
knew about its problems and what caused them,
but it did nothing to remove the IUD from the mar-
ket. Instead, it carried on a decade-long cover-up
while some women died, and others suffered long-
term medical problems, including for too many the
inability ever to have children.
One of the most astounding findings in the case
was this: If the Dalkon Shield had posed any danger
to mens health, it would have been pulled off of
the market until the problem was corrected. Since
women only were its victims, however, nothing was
done to protect them.
If we truly want to celebrate mothers in America,
we need to raise our voices as high as they can go,
so that our politicians can hear those voices, even
if the health industry is deaf to them.
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Chteau de Chabannes was an OSE-run orphanage in the village of Chabannes. It housed about 400 Jewish
refugee children, who survived the Holocaust.
Thank you, OSE
Jewish organization saved Jewish
lives during World War II
including my husbands
W
hen I read about Mordecai Paldiel talking
about Jews who helped saved other Jews in
Saving Ones Own in the April 20 issue of survivors was the late Elie Wiesel.
the Jewish Standard. I realized that I know
another story about Jews saving other Jews.
Its an important story, and I believe that more people
should know it.
Its the story of the OSE the Oeuvre de Secours aux
Enfants.
The OSE was founded in 1912 by a group of Jewish doc-
tors and intellectuals in Russia. Their goal was to provide
social and medical services to Jewish families in need. In
1922, OSEs head office moved to Berlin, and in 1923 Albert
Einstein became its honorary president. Ten years later,
the OSE moved to Paris, where it continued to provide
assistance to Jewish families (and of course it was then
that its name was translated into French, as it remains
today). Even before the war Jewish children who escaped
from Germany and Austria were placed in homes that OSE
ran in the Paris region. In 1940, OSE staffers Jews, who
were not able to get jobs anyway, because of racial laws
began to provide social service work inside internment
camps and to place imprisoned Jewish children in OSEs
newly opened homes through the region.
My husband, Charles Roman, and his mother moved from
Vienna to Paris, and from there his mother sent him to Cha-
bannes a small village in France in 1938, when he was
12. Soon, he helped set up the home for the new arrivals.
After the Germans occupied France, OSE began its clan-
destine activity, finding false papers and safe sanctuaries for
thousands of children in the homes of non-Jewish French
citizens, or in institutions they ran. Hundreds of children
found shelter and were nurtured in the 14 homes operat-
ing in the Vichy zone of France until 1942. In 1941, with the
help of the American Friends Service Committee a Quaker
group OSE managed to get visas for 340 children, and they
left for the United States. More children were saved when
they were sent across the borders to Switzerland or Spain.
By the end of 1944, the OSE had rescued between 7,000
EMMANUEL DYAN VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
and 9,000 Jewish children from
certain death.
After the liberation of Buchen-
wald in 1945, the OSE, with the
cooperation and financial assis-
tance of the French government,
took in more than 436 surviving
children and adolescents, plac-
ing them in special rehabilitation
facilities in France. Among those
Inge Roman
Today, the OSE continues to
assist needy Jewish (and non-Jewish) children and their fami-
lies in the Paris region.
A group of children who had been saved by OSE honored it
at a reunion at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
in 2000. This was the first time that Righteous Jews were rec-
ognized for having rescued Jewish children.
About 350 people, including representatives of second- and
third-generation survivors from Europe, Israel, and the United
States, were there. The organization honored six heroic Jew-
ish adults who risked their lives to save Jewish children.
The president of OSE, Jean-Francois Guthmann, and other
dignitaries were there. The program included a reception at
the French embassy, and the documentary The Children of
Chabannes which is available at the Teaneck Library, was
screened.
In the United States, we incorporated Friends and Alumni
of OSE-USA Inc., and we raise funds to give back and help oth-
ers as we and the people we love were helped in our time of
need.
I feel strongly that this wonderful organization not only
saved the children, but also nurtured and took care of them,
so that they could become decent human beings. My husband
spoke about his past in schools and other organizations. He
looked at it as an adventure. (Good attitude!)
Our pictures are in the book of photographs by Brian Mar-
cus called Still Here. Under the photo, our quote is Educa-
tion is very important, as no one can take that away from you.
Whatever life brings you, if you have the knowledge to under-
stand, you can always do something with your life. Thats
what we always believed, and I believe it still today.
Inge Roman is an immigrant from Germany to Portugal to
the United States. She and her late husband, Charles, moved
to Teaneck in 1971, and for 35 years they owned their own
electronics store in the Bronx.
JEWISH STANDARD MAY 19, 2017 49
Opinion
The presidency and the pulpit:
Easing fears and uniting the faithful
F
or more than six months,
many progressives and liberal
Jewish leaders have described
a sense of fear provoked by
the Trump presidency. They are con-
cerned that executive overreach or the
abuse of administrative powers might
harm groups disfavored by the Trump
administration.
It is easy to forget that only six months
ago, many conservatives also lived in
fear, albeit of a potential Clinton presi-
dency. It even may seem a fading mem-
ory that their concerns were induced by
eight years of an Obama presidency that
witnessed some of the worst abuses of
executive power in American history,
including attempts to silence and intim-
idate political opponents, such as the
surveillance of organizations and con-
gressmen opposed to the Iran deal, and
the use of the IRS to target tax-exempt
organizations opposed to administra-
tion policies.
Where does this lead us as a nation?
Are liberals and conservatives doomed
to an endless cycle of fear every
election?
As a minority, alienated and perse-
cuted throughout history, Jews of all
denominations and political beliefs
should approach the current unsettling
Trump goes to an uncertain Middle East
P
resident Donald Trumps
impending trip to the Middle
East is intended to strengthen
relations with Americas allies
in the region.
The presidents travels are his first
overseas ventures since attaining the
office, which signals the importance
of the trip to the administration. His
itinerary includes visits to Israel and
the Palestinian territories, in hopes
also of spurring negotiations toward
a peace agreement between those
two parties. Yet the consequences of
the Israeli-Palestinian effort remain
highly speculative.
Shifting concerns and alignments by
nations in the area appear to offer pos-
sibilities for improved relations between
Israel and several Arab neighbors. But
longstanding obstacles, especially regard-
ing Israeli-Palestinian relations, remain
in place as well. The chances for moving
50 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 19, 2017
environment as an opportunity to
make beneficial long-term changes to
our political system. Jews should work
together to pursue policies intended to
make Americans secure in expressing
their views, regardless of who sits in
Congress or the White House. Despite
the prevalence of political divisiveness,
there are opportunities for finding com-
mon ground.
The Trump administration recently
highlighted one such opportunity in its
executive order of May 4, 2017, which
orders the IRS to limit its enforcement of
the Johnson Amendment. That amend-
ment bans 501(c)(3) nonprofit organiza-
tions from engaging in partisan political
activity. This piece of legislation not only
forbids endorsing candidates, but argu-
ably even advocating for specific policies
in a context that seems to favor a partic-
ular candidate for public office. Regard-
less of the wisdom of the executive order
itself, which has faced a considerable
degree of criticism, Americans, and Jews
in particular, should support repealing
the Johnson Amendment, as well as the
reversal of other regulations and judicial
rulings rules that allow the government
to use the granting of tax-exempt status
to regulate or stifle speech by nonprofit
organizations.
the two parties toward resolution of their
issues depend on the relative influence of
these pro-con features and the perceived
authority of the U.S. president.
The most dramatic shift of attitudes has
arisen from the threat of Iran as a grow-
ing regional power. Several Arab states,
including Saudi Arabia, which also is on
the presidents itinerary, worry about
Irans aggressive behavior. Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regards
Iran as an existential threat to his coun-
try. The common concerns have led
to cooperative security and economic
arrangements between Israel and many
of its Arab neighbors. With Israel no lon-
ger regarded as a foe, Arab states could
be positioned to pressure the Palestin-
ians to be more forthcoming at a negotia-
tion table.
Still, while Arab leaders are more
accommodating to Israel, surveys show
that their populations continue to see
Some concrete cases illus-
trate how far-reaching the
Johnson Amendment truly
is. Consider an election fea-
turing a progressive sup-
porter of single-payer health
care versus a conservative
free-market reformer. Sev-
eral weeks before the elec-
tion, a synagogue could lose Rabbi Mitchell
its tax-exempt status if its Rocklin
rabbi preached that Juda-
ism prioritizes supporting
social justice in all areas of life. Similarly, ing funding from Planned Parenthood,
a synagogue could lose its status if its
rabbi preached that Judaism is strongly
opposed to socialism in all its forms, and
that his congregants have a religious obli-
gation to oppose it. All that would matter
for the purposes of enforcement is who
is running the IRS. Indeed, the law is so
ambiguous that many rabbis refrain from
making any remarks that could even be
perceived as political.
A similar legal problem was created
by the Supreme Courts decision in
Bob Jones v. United States (1983). In a
ruling involving the tax-exempt status
of a university that banned interracial
dating, the court allowed the IRS to
do something that no law actually per-
mits: revoke the tax-exempt status of
the Jewish state as an enemy.
Tourism to Israel is discour-
aged. Journalists and teach-
ers from Egypt and Jordan
have been punished for visit-
ing across their borders. Fea-
ture stories and cartoons in
Arab newspapers commonly
include anti-Semitic tropes.
Perhaps the most regret- Leonard
table contradiction in the Cole
quest for peace is what is
taught to Palestinian chil-
dren. During Palestinian President
Abbass recent visit to the United States,
he said, We are raising our youth, our
children, and our grandchildren on a cul-
ture of peace. When delivered at a press
conference in Washington, these words
went unchallenged. Yet a report on the
Palestinian elementary school curricu-
lum indicates that it teaches students
to be martyrs, demonizes and denies
any nonprofit that it thinks
does not, in a broad sense,
serve the public good. The
precedent set by this deci-
sion could of course be
used to revoke the status
of such loathsome orga-
nizations as the KKK or
the Nation of Islam, but
it places a target on the
backs of many ordinary
charities. Just imagine if,
instead of simply withhold-
the Trump administrations IRS revoked
Planned Parenthoods tax-exempt sta-
tus, arguing that the organization does
not serve the public good? What if it did
the same to the ACLU or other progres-
sive groups? After the Obama admin-
istration IRSs discrimination against
conservatives, does this step seem so
far-fetched?
Civil society the ways people come
together outside of work, family, and
government should enjoy the high-
est degree of freedom from coercion.
The only alternative is to live in fear
that the other side may take control
of the executive branch and discrimi-
nate against its opponents using the full
force of the government. Eligibility for
the existence of Israel,
and focuses on a return
to an exclusively Palestin-
ian homeland.
Consistent with these
teachings, for years Palestin-
ians have bombed, stabbed,
and driven vehicles into
Israelis men, women,
A. children, and the elderly.
While they are in Israeli pris-
ons, the terrorists and their
families receive as much as
$3,000 per month from Abbass Pales-
tinian Authority. If they are killed during
their murderous actions, the terrorists are
deemed martyrs. Their families receive
cash from the PA and schools and sports
stadiums are named after them. The Israe-
lis contend that the payments are an incen-
tive for more terrorism.
When meeting with the Palestinian
president at the White House, Trump

Progressive and conservative
Americans both should be free
to preach and teach their
religious and political views
without the fear of losing tax-
exempt status for holding the
wrong views or for weighing in
on political matters.
tax-exempt status should be determined
by simple, clear-cut requirements that
give little room for subjectivity and
political manipulation. Progressive and
conservative Americans both should be
free to preach and teach their religious
and political views without the fear of
losing tax-exempt status for holding the
wrong views or for weighing in on polit-
ical matters. Progressives should not
have to worry that the ACLU will lose its
tax-exempt status, nor should conser-
vatives have to be fearful of the Obama
administrations solicitor generals
remark that religious institutions might
lose their tax-exempt status if they advo-
cate traditional views of marriage. And
Jews, who have endured so much perse-
cution and who now find themselves on
urged that the PA cease making pay-
ments to the terrorists and their fami-
lies. Nabil Shaath, an adviser to Abbas,
said the idea that payments be stopped
was insane.
Despite such hardened attitudes, Pal-
estinian security forces under Abbass
control have cooperated at some levels
with Israelis to forestall terror attacks.
This ironic behavior derives in part from
political divisions among the Palestin-
ians. President Abbas heads Fatah, the
political party that controls the Pales-
tinian Authority in the West Bank. It is
rivaled by Hamas, which controls the
Gaza strip. Unlike Fatah, Hamas openly
aims to eliminate Israel and is regarded
as a terrorist organization by much of the
West. It often is against Hamas loyalists
in the West Bank that Abbass security
forces take action.
Which highlights another dilemma. If
Netanyanu and Abbas were to negotiate,
both sides of the political aisle, should
seize the opportunity to unify and lead
the effort for religious and political free-
dom in this area.
It is therefore particularly tragic and
shortsighted that many progressives
support the Johnson Amendment,
which the Trump administration has
expressed a desire to repeal.
Organizations like Freedom from Reli-
gion seem to feel that the government can
and should forcibly separate politics from
religion, thinking that religious Americans
will promote only conservative causes
that they find objectionable. But Ameri-
can Jews provide a case in which progres-
sive groups are far more political and vocal
than traditional groups. Congregants are
far more likely to hear political sermons in
Hamas would not be at the table. Where
this leaves the 1.5 million Palestinians
in Gaza still ruled by Hamas and geo-
graphically separated from the West
Bank is anybodys guess.
Layered upon these uncertainties is
the question of how much influence any
U.S. president can have in the quest for a
resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict. President Obama tried but failed
and in the end was viewed as ineffec-
tive by both parties. President Trump,
though still early in his term, is mired in
domestic political conflict, which cannot
help his stature when dealing with over-
seas issues.
Yet perhaps there is hope in the oddly posi-
tive reactions to Trump by both the Palestin-
ian and Israeli leadership. Abbas reportedly
was surprised to be favorably impressed by
Trump when they met at the White House.
Netanyahu already had expressed delight
that Trump had become president.
Reform synagogues, which tend to empha-
size progressive political issues as part of
their religious outlooks, than in Orthodox
ones, which tend to eschew politics in the
synagogue in favor of ritual or spiritual
matters. And yet, in defending the Johnson
Amendment, some progressive Jews are
defending a policy that is more likely to be
enforced against their own communities.
As for the Orthodox, some rabbis pri-
vately believe that the Johnson Amend-
ment is a good thing, helping the Ortho-
dox to keep politics out of religion, and
thereby fostering religious devotion in
synagogues that tend to be more politi-
cally divided than Reform or Conserva-
tive congregations. But opposing legal
reforms in this area is a tremendous mis-
take, and it sets an incredibly dangerous
precedent that we are willing to toler-
ate excessive governmental restrictions
on speech simply to avoid engaging in
debate.
During my years as a congregational
rabbi, I never wished to violate the John-
son Amendment from the pulpit, and
most fellow Orthodox rabbis I know
feel the same way. But we might, under
the right circumstances. The instinct of
many rabbis, across the denominations,
to feel that religion and politics are
best kept separate is a noble one. But
Layered upon these
uncertainties is the question of
how much influence any U.S.
president can have in the quest
for a resolution of the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict.
So what would constitute resuscita-
tion of the peace process? As a start, an
announced willingness by each party to
give something that is desired by the other.
Netanyahu might agree to suspend settle-
ment activity in areas likely to become
part of a future Palestinian state. Abbas
might agree to suspend paying terrorists
and celebrating them as martyrs. If mean-
ingful actions such as these cannot be
undertaken the chances for a deal in the
near future will recede ever further.
Opinion
shouldnt it be up to clergy and, by
extension their congregants to decide
when exceptions should be made? Par-
ticularly when a society is headed in
the wrong direction, religious institu-
tions can provide a critical and neces-
sary moral voice. We wish the Catho-
lic Church had done more against the
Nazis. We are glad that the Catholic
Church opposed communism. In the
United States, religious organizations
fought slavery, worked with organized
labor to win postal workers Sunday as
a day off work, pressed the government
to aid victims of foreign genocide, and
promoted immigration policies that
helped build our nation. In these and
many other areas, vibrant religious pol-
itics influenced public policy in positive
directions. We should not ignore these
developments, and we should vigilantly
protect the abilities of all Americans to
speak their consciences without fear of
government retaliation.
Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin is a resident research
fellow at the Tikvah Fund. He is also a
chaplain with the rank of captain in the New
Jersey Army National Guard and a doctoral
candidate in U.S. history at the City University
of New York. He lives in Teaneck with his wife
and two daughters.
Whether Trump will succeed in promot-
ing Middle East peace is yet to be tested.
Success where so many others have failed
seems unlikely. Still, he is the only president
who has written a book titled The Art of
the Deal.
Leonard A. Cole of Ridgewood is an
adjunct professor of emergency medicine
and director of the program on terror
medicine and security at the Rutgers New
Jersey Medical School.
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Opinion

The drumbeat against Jewish ritual

in Europe sounds once more

T
his last week, Jewish
ritual observance
has come under
attack in both Bel-
gium and Norway.
While there is nothing suggest-
ing the respective moves against
shechita (kosher slaughter) in
Belgium and brit milah ( Jewish
circumcision) in Norway were Ben Cohen
coordinated, both speak to an
ingrained tendency in Europe
that dismisses these core requirements for Jews as no more
and no less than cruelty of a particularly Jewish sort.
The environment committee of the parliament in Wallonia
a French-speaking region accounting for more than half of
Belgiums territory and a third of its population voted unani-
mously May 8 to ban shechita on the grounds that the prac-
tice involves cruelty to animals. The decision will take effect in
September 2019. On the same day, the annual convention of
Norways Progress Party a libertarian, anti-immigration party
that is a partner in the countrys ruling coalition passed a
resolution urging a government ban on ritual circumcision for
boys under age 16, on the grounds that what is involved here is
a violation of human rights. Jews, as is well-known, circumcise
their sons eight days after birth, in accordance with the biblical
covenant between God and the patriarch Abraham.
You may say these developments are about many things.
You might even make the case that anti-Semitism is a minor
factor here. There are many more Muslims than there are
Jews in Belgium, Norway, and pretty much every other coun-
try in Western Europe and they, too, circumcise their sons
for religious reasons and consume ritually slaughtered halal
meat. That certainly explains why right-wing populists like
the National Front in France and the United Kingdom Inde-
pendence Party have made halal slaughter a primary focus of
became distinctly visible in 1989, when the Iranian regime
issued a fatwa for the killing of the British author Salman
Rushdie over his novel satirizing the Quran, The Satanic
Verses. By contrast, for more than a century, anti-Semites
have demonized Jewish rites with the same enthusiasm as
their Church forebears.
One of the first acts of the Nazis after they came to power in
Germany in 1933 was to ban shechita. The famous Nazi pro-
paganda film Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) portrayed
shechita as a gruesome Jewish celebration of animal suffering.
Nor was the revulsion at shechita confined to Germany.
Associates of Arnold Leese, a reasonably prominent British
fascist during the 1930s, often said Leeses violent anti-Sem-
itism was intimately connected to his love of animals (he
served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during World
War I) and hence, his distaste for the kosher method of slaugh-
ter. I doubt this sentiment was Leeses alone.
Despite this frankly creepy history, contemporary advo-
cates of the shechita and brit milah bans angrily deny they
are motivated by anti-Semitism in much the same way, and
for the same reasons, that anti-Zionists present the cause of
eliminating Israel as a legitimate human rights campaign. It is,
of course, tiresome for them to have to deal with the charge of
anti-Semitism every time they take aim at Jews as a collective,
so they flip the equation by depicting themselves as victims of
a malicious reputational smear.
The sad thing is that this approach often works. It feeds into
the sentiments of those segments of the European public that
regard anti-Semitism as a censorship tool preventing them
from protecting animals, babies, national reputations unfairly
soiled during World War II, and the right to condemn Israel
for alleged human rights abuses.
To their great credit, Europes often-cautious Jewish lead-
ers rarely have failed to condemn the anti-ritual campaign
in the strongest of terms. Back in 2012, when 600 German
doctors signed a letter to a prominent newspaper advo-
on legislators to step back from the brink of the greatest
assault on Jewish religious rights in Belgium since the Nazi
occupation of the country in World War II.
It may sound like bombast, but it isnt. For 2,000 years
in the diaspora, Jewish identity was preserved by adher-
ence to these religious commands. This, in turn, bred the
resentment of supersessionist Church theologians, and
later on of universalist Enlightenment philosophers. Both
groups despised Jewish separateness even as their rulers
enforced it through ghettoization and other discrimina-
tory measures. From Martin Luther to Karl Marx, the
imperative of ending the conditions for a separate Jewish
existence through means varying from outright perse-
cution or conditional emancipation has been a binding
thread in European thought.
It follows logically that even in a modern democracy, a
ban on the core rituals making Jews Jewish and Muslims
Muslim effectively ends the conditions for a separate exis-
tence as a Jewish community. Its true that many Jews dont
keep kosher, but virtually all Jewish males are circumcised,
regardless of their familys degree of religious observance.
Ending the right to engage in those practices poses a choice:
stay if you are willing to obey the law, leave if you are not.
Norway and Belgium are not the only countries where
political battles over Jewish rites have erupted. Shechita is
outlawed in Poland, New Zealand, and Switzerland, among
others, while nasty public campaigns against circumcision
have been seen in San Francisco on one half of the globe,
and Oslo on the other. The campaign advances in fits and
starts, but it is always there, and is present among liberals
and nationalists alike.
American Jews are fortunate to live with a constitution
clearly demarcating religion and state. European Jews dont
have such clear guidelines, and therefore become hostages to
the fortune of political clashes in which their freedom of wor-
ship is just one consideration among many. JNS.ORG

their broader campaign against what they see as social accep-
tance of Islamic sharia law-based rites.
What this interpretation ignores, however, is that the
problem of encroaching Islamism within European-Muslim
communities is a relatively recent one. I would argue it first
cating a ban on circumcision, Charlotte Knobloch, then
leader of the German-Jewish community, wondered aloud
whether this country still wants us. When the Wallonia
committee announced its ban on shechita last week, Moshe
Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, called
Ben Cohen writes a weekly column on Jewish affairs and Middle
Eastern politics. His work has been published in Commentary,
the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street Journal and many
other publications.

Letters
Hes for the grant too!
I am writing in regards to the April 27
article Beefing up security, and would
like to also express my strong support
for the Federal Emergency Management
Agencys (FEMA), Nonprofit Security
Grant Program (NSGP).
Unfortunately, terrorist threats have
been all too real for many community
centers, synagogues, schools, and other
community organizations across the
country. Our nation was built on the
foundation of religious tolerance, and
although the perpetrator of recent anti-
Semitic threats was apprehended, all
manifestation of anti-Semitism and big-
otry must end.
As chairman of the House Commit-
tee on Appropriations I have been a key
advocate for this critical program which
provides target hardening and other
physical security enhancements to non-
profit organizations that are at high risk
of terrorist attack. Your article seems
to imply a lack of support on my part
for this important program when the
only reason I did not sign the Dear Col-
league letter alongside my New Jersey
colleagues was because the letter was
addressed to me!
I would add that Congress recently
passed, and the President signed into
law, my legislation, H.R. 244, the Con-
tinuing Appropriations Act for Fiscal
Year (FY) 2017 which included a signifi-
cant additional funding for the NSGP,
in order to provide much-needed dol-
lars to respond to rising incidents and
threats of violence that have gripped
New Jersey and the nation.
As a member of Congress who repre-
sents a synagogue and the JCC in West
Orange that has been targeted, I con-
tacted personally the secretary of the
Department of Homeland Security to
urge him to expedite the release of this
years Non-Profit Security Grant funding.
In the months ahead, I look forward
to the working with the entire New Jer-
sey delegation to ensure our communi-
ties and houses of worship have access
to critical funds provided by the NSGP. In
a larger sense, I hope we will be able to
strive in a bipartisan way to eliminate all
shameful episodes of anti-Semitism.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Member of Congress (R-11th Dist.)
Whoops!
More info on meeting
Thank you so much for your excellent
coverage of our LGBTQ study group on
May 23 (Special challenges in aging, May
12). The only thing is, the article doesnt
give details of when and where the talk
is. Would it be possible to put it in next
weeks calendar?
Elizabeth Halverstam
Vice president
Bergen County section,
National Council of Jewish Women
Editors note: Were sorry! The study group is
set for 1 p.m. on May 23 in Hackensack at the
Shops at Riversides conference center lower
level. For information, call (201) 385-4847 or
go to www.ncjwbcs.org.

52 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 19, 2017

 Dvar Torah
Behar-Bechukotai: Creatures of earth transformed

I
n this weeks Torah portion we read
about the mitzvah of shmitah the
sabbatical year. Every seventh year
the Torah instructs the farmer in
Israel to let his land rest.
There is however an oddity in the lan-
guage employed in the passage preced-
ing the injunction. The Torah says: Six
years you shall sow your field which
seems to imply that sowing the land is also
an imperative. Could sowing the field be
part and parcel of the mitzvah of shmitah?
Why isnt this left to the farmers personal
discretion?
The answer lies in our understanding of
the core idea underpinning the mitzvah of
shmitah.
The farmer spends a lifetime engaged in
agricultural pursuits. Day in, day out, he
toils in the field, his back scorched by the
sun and his calloused hands caked with
dirt. Seemingly, his survival is completely
dependent on the natural dictates of his
environment. He is a creature of the earth.
When the sabbatical year arrives, however
everything changes. The farmer lays down
his tools, shutters his enterprise and turns
his eyes to Heaven. The mandated hiatus
empowers him to transcend his earthiness
as he is edged into a new reality, a tran-
scendent life of faith. Now, he is a creature
of heaven.
A modern day equivalent might be the
requirement for a countrys ambassador to
return home periodically. This is meant to
reinforce his emotional attachment to his
homeland and shield against the phenom-
enon in which an ambassador begins to
identify with his host country as he walks
its corridors and tastes of its culture.
This brings us back to the Torahs imper-
ative to work the fields. Indeed, working
ones field serves as both preparation for
and concurrently the goal itself of the sab-
batical year.
It serves as a preparation for shmitah
since transcendence without rootedness
is illusory. Only following six years of
earthly engagement in which the farmer
has painstakingly followed the Torah laws
governing agricultural work no mixing of
crops, leaving the corners of the fields to
the poor, ethical treatment of T h e d e s i re f o r t r a n -
employees, and the like has scendence is innate to the
he internalized the proper human condition, stem-
configuration for living and ming as it were from the
may now begin to climb the Divine image in which we
spiritual ladder of transcen- are fashioned. While the
dence. In this manner, the world offers a plethora of
imperative six years you disciplines and distrac-
shall sow provides the reli- tions to blunt this craving,
gious framework and roots Rabbi the truest and most satis-
for the transcendent faith Chanoch fying solution can only be
that follows. Kaplan answered from within the
And following the Sab- Chabad Jewish condition itself: The Divine
Center of
batical year, six years you Northwest Bergen image needs Divine connec-
shall sow takes on a new County, Franklin tion. The study and practice
dimension. As the farmer Lakes, Orthodox of the Torah and mitzvot
re-engages his natural sur- are the incubators for faith
roundings, the transcendent and transcendence which in
empowerment reaped during the shmi- turn invest our natural lives with higher
tah year now serves to keep his soul alight purpose.
even as he must submit to the work imper- As we conclude the third book of the
ative. But now he is no longer beholden Torah, Leviticus, this Shabbat, may we
to the earth. He is a creature of heavens be strengthened in our attachment to
engaged in natural life, his every step our precious heritage. Chazak, chazak
infused with a higher purpose: to elevate vnischazek.
the world around him. And now, onward to Mt. Sinai.

BRIEFS

German Holocaust denier In a video that Mahler published April 9 on the inter- It seems like it was malicious nonsense from kids
who fled jail term is net, he said he was a victim of political persecution and playing around, said Kaye, founder of the Lower East
arrested in Hungary announced his intention to seek asylum. Side Jewish Conservancy. JNS.ORG

The one-time founder of the far-left Red Army Fac-

BERLIN German right-wing extremist Horst Mahler has
been arrested in Hungary, where he had gone into hiding
to avoid serving out the rest of a sentence in Germany for
Holocaust denial and incitement to anti-Semitism.
Mahler, 81, reportedly asked Hungarian Prime Minister
Viktor Orban for political asylum in a letter he published
May 12 on the internet. It was widely circulated in the Ger-
man media as well.
Referring to Orban as the Fuehrer of the Hungarian
nation, Mahler said he placed his fate in the hands of
his government. Instead of accepting him, the Hungar-
ian government is likely to honor Germanys request for
extradition.
In April, Mahler had been ordered to return to the Bran-
denburg/Havel correctional facility on May 19 to begin serv-
ing the final stretch of a 10-year sentence handed down in
2009. He had been released temporarily for health rea-
sons, and reportedly had part of a leg amputated due to an
infection.
But despite the health problems, he allegedly contin-
ued to give talks to neo-Nazi audiences, as recently as last
month. According to Die Zeit newspaper, in January Mahler
spoke to right-wing extremist audiences on such topics as
Jewry is the real enemy and the so-called plan by Jews to
destroy the German people.
His arrest in the Hungarian city of Sopron while trying to
cross into Austria was confirmed by the attorney general of
Munich district II.
tion terror group famously underwent a transformation
in the 1990s to the extreme right. He served as a lawyer
for the right-extremist National Democratic Party of Ger-
many until he left the party in 2003.
In November 2007, he was sentenced to six months
in jail for raising his arm in the illegal Hitler salute to
greet his jailers while serving a previous sentence.
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Fire severely damages
historic N.Y. synagogue
A fire severely damaged a historic synagogue on Man-
hattans Lower East Side, the 167-year-old Beth Hame-
drash Hagadol.
Police sources said three people, believed to be
minors, were spotted on surveillance footage fleeing
the synagogue as it burst into flames, the New York
Post. An eyewitness corroborated the report, telling
fire officials he saw three people fleeing the synagogue
as the fire began.
The synagogues Gothic-style building is almost com-
pletely destroyed. Holly Kaye, who has worked for sev-
eral years to preserve the historic synagogue, said she
doesnt believe the fire was the result of a hate crime.
Trespassers had broken into the site repeatedly in
recent weeks, she noted.
Netanyahu contradicts
reporter claim on embassy
move to Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office said a
Fox News reporter spread false information by posting on
Twitter that Netanyahu had told President Donald Trump
in February not to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem.
Fox News correspondent Conor Powell tweeted Monday,
Everyone Ive spoken to in D.C. that has been briefed on
#Jerusalem embassy move says #Netanyahu told #Trump not
to move embassy at this time.
In response, the Prime Ministers Office issued a statement
without naming Powell saying, The claims posted by a
Fox News correspondent are false, quoting summaries of
Netanyahus mid-February meeting with Trump and Israeli
Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermers mid-January meeting
with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as proof
Netanyahu supports the embassy move.
The Prime Ministers Office added, This is the clear and
consistent position of Prime Minister Netanyahu, which he
reiterated today.
Netanyahu told lawmakers from his Likud party Monday
that he fully supports moving the embassy. My consistent and
unequivocal position is that the U.S. embassy should move to
Jerusalem, as should other embassies, he said. JNS.ORG

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The Frazzled Housewife
I am Toast Part Deux
W
hen we last left
off, I was shar-
ing my Toast-
masters expe-
rience with all of you.
I had decided to join to
learn how to be a better pub-
lic speaker, in preparation for
my speeches at the undisclosed
Passover hotel. Toastmasters is Banji
a lovely and warm environment. Ganchrow
Everyone cheers everyone on
and encourages them to do their
very best. All critiques have positive spins Aside from the four people related to me,
to them, and no one ever leaves a meeting
feeling dejected or embarrassed. There is
lots of laughter and camaraderie.
It is also like the Statue of Liberty, or that is a good question. Only one person
more specifically, Ellis Island, as the
majority of its members are not United
States-born. In fact, my name, Banji a
name that is so unusual that few can spell
or pronounce it correctly upon first try
or glance is akin to the name Bob or
Sue or Tom. Everyone elses name in my
group is more unique than my own.
I feel very at home. It is not a common
occurrence to have my name the easi-
est to figure out. Though someone was
surprised when I stood up to give the
joke of the day and I was a female.
He looked at me and said, Youre Banji?
Arent you a man? Nope, but I do act like
one when I clean out the sewer trap
(For another time.)
For almost every week that I have
attended Toastmasters, I have been the
winner of the Table Topics speeches. Dont
be impressed. I have won this, I believe,
because I am one of the few who can claim
English as a first and only language. While
I joined Toastmasters to learn how to give
a speech without sweating profusely or
passing out, others join to learn how to
speak English properly.
This only becomes a problem for me
because the man who gives the speeches
about how to give speeches has such a
thick accent that I can only understand
every fourth or fifth word that he says.
The other problem is that I had joined the
group in order to practice my speeches
before I gave them at the hotel, and I dis-
covered that because it only meets twice
a month, there wasnt going to be enough
time for me to deliver these literary beau- will tell but as for right now, I am basking
ties to my new friends.
What to do, what to do?
Well, I continued to go to the meet-
ings and I stood up in front of my fellow
group members and tried my best. And
then it was Passover and I had to give my
speeches. I had two topics. The first was,
How to Write the Perfect Simcha Speech.
I was delivering this one on the Sunday
before the second days of Yom Tov. My
name was listed on the schedule, my boys
were very proud of me, and I was just
54 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 19, 2017
trying to figure out when I
could start drinking. ( Just
kidding no tequila on
Passover, unfortunately.)
I got to the room assigned
to me and there was no
turning back. Fortunately,
it was a beautiful day out-
side, and there were few
attendees at my TED talk.
Son #2 recorded it (just in
case any of you are inter-
ested, she said laughingly).
there were about 15 people in the room. I
got through it. How was it? I have no idea.
How could I not know how it went? Well,
walked out, one person fell asleep, and no
one was texting. I guess that is OK.
The next time I spoke was on Yom Tov.
The topic? Finding Humor in a Humor-
less World. This was code for, Stories
about my life that I hope people will find
interesting, but I cannot imagine that they
actually will. As it was Yom Tov, folks
didnt really have much else to do, so we
Only one person
walked out, one
person fell asleep,
and no one was
texting. I guess
that is OK.
had about 40 to 50 people in attendance.
How was it? Again, I have no idea. All I
do know is that I was having trouble swal-
lowing and I was so happy that I swiped a
bottle of Diet Coke from the dining room
because I was drinking that stuff like I had
been in a desert. Why does this happen?
Man, I hope they will teach me about
that in Toastmasters, and if they do teach
it, I hope I will understand that person
who is presenting the topic.
So I will continue to go to Toastmasters,
because who doesnt like being clapped
for? Will I speak publicly again? Only time
in the glow of the review one hotel guest
gave me, You werent any better or worse
than any of the other speakers. And that
is just fine by me!
Banji Ganchrow still remembers singing
the Hebrew alphabet at her siddur play.
She wore a red dress with red ribbons in her
hair. She was so scarred by the ribbons, she
has never worn anything in her hair since
she became an adult. When that will or will
not change is still questionable.
Crossword
CITY OF GOLD BY YONI GLATT
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: CHALLENGING
Across
1. ___ Miriam (seminary in Har Nof)
5. Shivah ___ bTammuz (fast day com-
memorating the breaching of the walls of
35-Across)
9. 58-Across played a secret one that pleased
the L-rd (according to Leonard Cohen)
14. ___ ran (like Moshe Lion for Mayer of
35-Across)
15. Large womens college in 35-Across
16. Make like a drone over Gan Sacher
17. Dynasty that ruled in 35-Across
19. Jordan, in 1967
20. Like Jordan in 1967
21. Theres one named for 58-Across standing
in 35-Across
23. Hadassah Medical Organization head
Kalman and director Michael
24. Depend (on G-d), like Hezekiah did when
he was besieged
25. ...___ all nations shall gather to it (Jer.
3:17)
28. Yeshiva Torat ___ (Chabad yeshiva in
35-Across)
29. Cache (of Byzantine coins recently found
in Ein Hemed)
31. Natalie Portman, e.g. (who was born Neta-
Lee Hershlag in 35-Across)
32. Some Hebrew U. degrees
33. Highest ranking Jew in 35-Across, once
34. YU school with a satellite program in
35-Across
35. The heart of this puzzle, and the Jewish
people
38. Meal whose last word is 35-Across
41. Gies recognized as Righteous Among The
Nations at Yad Vashem
42. Musical notes on 35-Across by Matisyahu
45. It can shut down 35-Across
46. Many a song by 58-Across written in
35-Across
48. Rabbi Moses Isserles (author of Torah
Ha-Olah on the Temple)
49. Web address ender for Hebrew Union
College
50. ___ II of 35-Across (king in 1284)
51. Parts for those on Shtisel
52. Many a site at the Mount of Olives
54. Item for one busking on Ben Yehuda
Street
56. Common power in 35-Across
58. He purchased the Temple Mount approxi-
mately 3,000 years ago
61. Make like Solomon when inaugurating the
Temple
62. They will take you to 42-Down before you
can go to 35-Across
63. Quirks one might think some passionate
prayers at the Western Wall posses
64. Like IDF members operation out of
35-Across
65. Aussie billionaire and 35-Across Great
Synagogue donator Frank
66. Actress Green who once portrayed
Sibylla, Queen of 35-Across, et al.
The solution to last weeks puzzle is
on page 62.
Down
1. Aru, aru ad hayessod ___! (part of
46-Across)
2. ___, The Heart of Dixie (store found on
David Street)
3. Sect that once had a Quarter in 35-Across
4. Destroyers of 35-Across
5. Frank with a memorial in the Martyrs
Forest
6. Like Srugim, on Hulu
7. Shes in the middle of the Mount Zion exca-
vation?
8. One leasing a home in Katamon
9. Like Marzipans (delicious) rugelach
10. Fine-tune (as the Hostages cast does
with their skills)
11. Had too much at Ticho House
12. Rock band that played in 42-Down in 1995
13. Like the summer weather in 35-Across
18. Extra times for Hapoel basketballers,
briefly
22. The ___ City
23. Border of 35-Across? (BIvrit)
24. Aly who visited 35-Across to watch the
Maccabiah Games
26. Turner who was hanged in 35-Across (in
Virginia)
27. Some workers at Herzog Hosp.
29. ___ habayit beyadeinu!
30. Midwest sch. that ran a Living 35-Across
program
31. Card one might get when visiting
35-Across
33. ___ Tamid (flame in the Beit Hamikdash)
34. Cong. member more likely to support the
embassy move to 35-Across
35. Many a 35-Across resident
36. Be laid up, like one at Shaare Zedek
Medical Center
37. J___, Abbr. for 35-Across
38. Kiryat Moshe to Rehavia dir.
39. What the Six Day War did on June 11, 1967
40. Kirk who has a theater named after him
at Aish HaTorah in 22-Down
42. Its 33 miles (54km) from 35-Across
43. Where many residents of 35-Across once
lived
44. Some Hebrew U. degrees
46. Angle (of the Jerusalem Post): Abbr.
47. Common coin in 35- Across
48. Make like the shawarma spit at Halo
Teiman
50. Visitor of 35-Across with Donald
51. He got ___ of the foreign gods... in
35-Across (2 Chronicles 33:15)
53. Price, at the Inbal
54. Need drove the starving to ___ at
anything (Josephus, on the siege of
35-Across)
55. What a sunrise over 35-Across never is
56. What some do at the Western Wall on
9 Av
57. Light moshav located right outside
35-Across
59. U.N. gp. that calls some of 35-Across
occupied territory
60. Abbr. of the most iconic documents at
the Israel Museum
 Arts & Culture
Treasures from Oxford
JOANNE PALMER

orpus Christi
College, one of
the colleges that
make up Oxford
University, was
established in 1517.
As part of the
celebration of its first half-millen-
nium, curators have put together
500 Years of Treasures From Oxford.
Normally, that would be very
interesting, but not very relevant for
a Jewish publication.
But because the collection of arti-
facts mainly manuscripts, some
of the illuminated, and early books,
along with some other objects
includes pieces of Judaica, its
being hosted at Yeshiva University
Museum at the Center for Jewish
History in Manhattan.
Corpus Christis collection is
unusual in that its guardians over the
centuries kept the old manuscripts
and books rather than replacing them
as they were revised or updated or
simply superseded. Because back
in 1517 there were three founda-
tional languages for scholars Latin,
Greek, and yes, Hebrew there are
a fair number of Hebrew language
texts; the fact that the Jews had been
expelled from the country in 1290
and formally allowed back in 1656,
and therefore its unlikely that any-
one at Corpus Christi might have met
a Jew, didnt alter that.
The collection also includes pas-
sages of the Hebrew Bible translated
to Latin, along with some illumina-
tions. It also includes science texts From top left: The beginning of I Samuel, in parallel Latin and He-
and drawings theres nothing Jewish brew versions, with a Latin translation written above each Hebrew
at all about Robert Hookes extraordi- word. Written in England, in the first half of the 13th century. Corpus
narily detailed sketches and legible, Christi College, Oxford, MS 9; From Adam and Eve to King Edward IV
intricately explained accompanying Manuscript in Middle English showing the genealogy of the kings
prose, but its compelling and fasci- of England, from Adam and Eve to King Edward IV (14331483) in a
nating. The exhibit illustrates the way vertical line. Written and illuminated in England, ca. 146769. Corpus
that science, religion, and literature Christi College, Oxford, MS 207; Rashi, Commentaries on books of the
all had common roots, at a time when Hebrew Bible; one of the oldest versions extant. Written probably in
just about all knowledge could be con- France in the late 12th century. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 165.
tained in one library.
Despite the existence of anti-Sem- bishops status is a close
itism, at least in its abstract form copy of the one in the exhibit.
What: 500 Years of Treasures
remember, there were no actual Jews The panel at the press preview included (That one features St. Peter; the New York from Oxford
there the library contains very little the heads of Yeshiva University Museum, one replaces him with St. John, the name-
Where: Center for Jewish History,
overt anti-Jewish writing. The only anti- the Center for Jewish History, and Corpus sake of the diocesan seat.)
15 West 16th St., Manhattan
Semitic text, the curator, Peter Kidd said, Christi College. It also included the Epis- Its an unusual Jewish event that
When: through August 6
most likely was in Geoffrey Chaucers Can- copal archbishop of New York, Andrew M. includes a crozier-wielding Episcopal
terbury Tales; the Prioresss Tale has some L. Dietsche, resplendent in a purple shirt archbishop. He is of course not part of Sponsored by: Yeshiva University
nastily anti-Jewish bits in it. But the Jew- and a full, well-trimmed white beard, car- the exhibit, but there are enough unusual, Museum
ish texts were treated with respect, even if rying a huge gold crozier. The crozier the eye-opening, and moving objects to make For more information: (212) 294-8301
actual Jews were not. crooked staff that is the official sign of a it worth a visit.

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Calendar
Remembering the
Friday Six-Day War: Anshei
MAY 19 Lubavitch in Fair Lawn
marks 50 years since
Shabbat in Teaneck: the Six-Day War with
Temple Emeth offers a new a six-week Rohr
musical services with Jewish Learning Institute
the Temple Emeth Band, course, Survival of
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and a Nation: Exploring
Rabbi Steven Sirbu, Israel Through the Lens
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor of the Six-Day War,
Road. (201) 833-1322 or 7:30 p.m. 10-10 Plaza
www.Emeth.org. Road. (201) 362-2712,
RabbiBergstein@
FLChabad.com, or www.
Saturday myJLI.com.
MAY 20
Monday
MAY 22
Golf/tennis/cards in
Alpine: The Jewish
Home Foundation
hosts its 23rd annual
outing, with golf,
tennis, and cards, at the
Montammy Golf Club,
rain or shine. This year,
it honors Robert Peckar.
Yehoshua November (201) 784-1414, ext.
5539, or mshulman@
Poetry reading: jewishhomefamily.org .
The adult education
committee of
Congregation Rinat JUNE Empowering Children for Life, the Israel Tennis Centers
Yisrael in Teaneck Foundation, rolls into June with events in the tri-state area.
presents chasidic poet
Yehoshua November
reading from his new
1 Upcoming events include an exhibition and buffet dinner on
Thursday, June 1, at the Maywood Tennis Club; Shabbat supper
book, Gods Optimism, on Friday, June 2, in Short Hills; tennis exhibition and reception on Tuesday,
6:35 p.m. 389 West
Englewood Ave. June 6, at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia; and another one
(201) 837-2795. in a private home in Scarsdale, N.Y., on Saturday, June 10. A diverse team of
Shabbat in Teaneck: Israeli players and coaches representing various Israel tennis centers will tell
Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin, their stories about what the ITC has meant to them, their families, and their Rabbi Hayyim Angel
NCSYs director of communities. They also will participate in a high-energy tennis exhibition. Jewish learning in
education, is the
scholar-in-residence ITC focuses on changing childrens lives every day so they can become Teaneck: Lamdeinu,
at Congregation Beth better human beings. Through its social impact programs, a wide range of a center for Jewish
Aaron. On Shabbat children are served, including those at risk, immigrants from Ethiopia and learning that meets
morning after the main at Congregation Beth
minyan, he will discuss Russia, and children with special needs. Call Yoni Yair, ITC vice president Aaron, continues a pre-
The Chasidic Revolution at (954) 480-6333, ext. 223, email yyair@israeltenniscenters.org, or go to Shavuot series with The
Against the Grand www.israeltenniscenters.org. Righteous Shall Live by
Chasidic Rebbe: The His Faith: The Message
Story and Relevance of Haftarat Habakkuk
of Polish Chasidut. and Shavuot, taught
Center of Teaneck. Road, 5-9 p.m. Get by Rabbi Hayyim Angel,
At 6:45 p.m., he will
Coffee and refreshments, ready for summer 1 p.m. Dean Rachel
discuss Right vs. Left: A
9:15 a.m.; lecture, 9:30; with duffels, sleeping Friedman will teach on
Jewish Approach to Our
question and answer bags, sweats, kippot, Wednesday, May 24, at
Economic and Political
session. 70 Sterling Place. tzitzit, graduation gifts, 10:15 a.m. 950 Queen
Cycles, and after Mincha
(201) 833-0515. toys, clothing, jewelry, Anne Road. Register
at 7:45, he will tackle
and hair accessories. at lamdeinu.org or
Rabbis Son Syndrome: Brunch/music in Refreshments available. lamdeinu@aol.com.
Why Religion Makes Bayonne: Sing along (201) 833-1134, ext. 105,
Some Leave Religion. with the Jewbadours or asiletski@sinaischools. Pre-Shavuot talk:
950 Queen Anne Road. and have brunch at org. Chabad Womens Circle
(201) 836-6210 or www. Temple Beth Am,
bethaaron.org. of Teaneck invites you
Tal Becker 10:30 a.m. Reservations Film in Paramus: Knitting/book to hear a talk by Mindy
requested. 111 Avenue The JCC of Paramus/ discussion: The Lankry, author of Parsha
Sunday Reflecting on Israel: B. (201) 858-2020 or
templebethambayonne@
Congregation Beth sisterhood of the Jewish
Center of Teaneck hosts
in Pink, followed by
MAY 21 Dr. Tal Becker, principal Tikvah shows Steven Malka Neuman of Malkita
deputy legal adviser gmail.com. Spielbergs Lincoln, Knitting Night, 7 p.m. Designs demonstrating
at the Israeli Ministry starring Daniel Day- Afterward, the Leaves floral arrangements
Breakfast in Wayne: TV quiz shows: Temple of Faith Book Club will
The Renaissance Club of Foreign Affairs, Lewis, 3 p.m. Optional in honor of Shavuot,
Emanuel of North Jersey discuss Yehuda Amichais
of Temple Beth Tikvah a research fellow at deli dinner follows the 8 p.m. Cheesecake
in Franklin Lakes screens Poems of Jerusalem and
holds its end-of-year the Shalom Hartman movie. East 304 Midland buffet and dairy salad
episodes of Whats My Love Poems in honor
breakfast after the 9 a.m. Institute, and a member Ave. Dinner reservations, bar. 513 Kenwood Place.
Line? Ive Got a Secret, of the 50th anniversary
minyan. Comedian Wally of the Hartman Institutes (201) 262-7691. (201) 907-0686 or
and other early television of the reunification of
Ferguson, a retired iEngage Project, rivkygoldin@gmail.com.
quiz shows, 2 p.m. Ice Teaneck boutique: Sinai Jerusalem. 70 Sterling
computer analyst, will discusses Jewish
cream and popcorn. 558 Schools holds its annual Place. (201) 833-0515.
entertain. 950 Preakness Aspirations, Israeli Reality:
High Mountain Road. spring tov boutique at
Ave. (973) 595-6565 or Reflections on 50 Years
(201) 560-0200 or www. a new location, Temple
hs3550@optonline.net. Since the Reunification of
tenjfl.org. Emeth, 1666 Windsor
Jerusalem, at the Jewish

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TONY AWARD NOMINEE

BEST PLAY
Kills Three: Lashon
Hara in Halakhah
and Aggadah.
Wednesday
Refreshments, MAY 24
12:30 p.m., program at
1. 1449 Anderson Ave. Dinner and fashions

ASUPERBLY REALIZED,
(201) 947-1735. in Fair Lawn: The
Sisterhood of Temple

REMARKABLY POWERFUL
Beth Sholom holds
a dinner by Kosher

NEW PLAY
Nosh of Glen Rock
and fashion show by
Michelle Azar Soft Surroundings
Sharing Middle Eastern
in Paramus Park,
6:30 p.m. 40-25 Fair by Pulitzer Prize winner PAULA VOGEL,
heritage: The JCC of
Fort Lee/Congregation
Lawn Ave. Reservations, sensitively directed by REBECCA TAICHMAN.
(201) 797-9321.
Gesher Shalom hosts THE NEW YORK TIMES
From Baghdad to Benjamin Fisher
Thursday
Brooklyn, a one-woman
show with Michelle Plight of older LGBTQ MAY 25 100 minutes of
Azar, a CSI Scholar
Fund program, 8:15 p.m.
adults: Benjamin
Fisher, health and Poker/dinner/ POTENT THEATRICAL MAGIC.
1449 Anderson Ave. wellness coordinator entertainment in NY1
(201) 947-1735. for Garden State Demarest: The Jewish
Equality, discusses The Federation of Northern
Progressive Zionism Needs of LGBTQ Older New Jersey holds its
in Teaneck: Eran Adults for the Bergen Federation Full House
Schwartz of the Yigal County section of the at the Alpine Country
Allon Center in Israel National Council of Club, 6:30 p.m. Vegas-
speaks about the Jewish Womens study style Texas Hold Em
attempt to see Zionism group at the Shops at poker tournament,
again as a pluralistic, Riverside Conference dinner, including
egalitarian movement, Center in Hackensack, scotch and stogies,
A Provocative New Play With Music
7:30 p.m. Co-sponsored Lower Level, 1 p.m. and entertainment. 80
by Partners for Pro- (201) 385-4847 or www. Anderson Ave. Andi,
gressive Israel and the
Ethical Culture Society
ncjwbcs.org. (201) 820-3930 or Celebrating Jewish Culture
www.jfnnj.org/fullhouse.
of Bergen County, the Life care planning:

AN EXHILARATING
talk is at the Ethical Jewish-Association
Culture Society, 687 for Developmental Friday
Larch Ave. (201) 836
RIDE YOULL
Disabilities continues MAY 26
5187. an ID/DD informational
workshop, Accessing
NEVER FORGET.
Shabbat in Jersey
Tuesday Services Through
Support Coordination,
City: Bnai Jacob
MAY 23 with speaker Errol
hosts a special dinner DEADLINE
celebrating Shabbat
Seltzer, 6:30 p.m. 190 and Jerusalem Day,
Water sustainability
in Teaneck: The
Jack Flamholz
Moore St., Suite 272,
Hackensack. Register,
led by Rabbi Aaron
Katz, 7 p.m. 176 West HHHHH
CAPTIVATING & GORGEOUS.
(201) 457-0058, ext. 12, Side Ave. Reservations,
Water Sustainability or events@j-add.org. (201) 435-5725 or www.
Project inaugurates
its first local system
bnaijacobjc.com. TIME OUT NEW YORK
at the Hawthorne
Elementary School; Sunday BRILLIANT,

ceremony at 9 a.m., MAY 28
reception and q-and-a
at 9:45. 201 Fycke ELECTRIC & SURPRISING!
Lane. Reservations,
Israeli film in Tenafly:
IAC Cinematec, a
A masterful exploration of the
(201) 836-2403 or
alexa@teaneckcreek.
series of Israeli films theatrical past and present!
with English subtitles at - TABLET MAGAZINE
org.
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, concludes
with Is That You?
7 p.m. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
PHOTOS BY CAROL ROSEGG

(201) 408-1409.

Pamela Etzin Monday

COURTESY JFCSNNJ MAY 29
Women in the
workplace: Pamela Pre-Shavuot shiur:
Etzin of Eye for Detail Rabbi Hershel
Rabbi Joyce Newmark gives a hands-on Schachter, rosh
COURTESY JCC OF FORT LEE
fashion workshop, The yeshiva at Yeshiva
Power of Image, Dress, Universitys Rabbi Isaac
Visiting scholar series: Elchanan Theological
The JCC of Fort Lee/ and Perception, for
JFCS Relaunch Career Seminary, discusses
Congregation Gesher Shavuot and Practical
Shalom welcomes Services, 6:30 p.m.
1485 Teaneck Road, Hilchot Yom Tov at
visiting scholar Rabbi Congregation Beth
Joyce Newmark for a Teaneck. Reservations,
(201) 837-9090, Aaron in Teaneck, 9 a.m.
two-part CSI Scholar Light refreshments.
Fund program. Her SandraL@JFCSNNJ.org,
or www.jfcsnnj.org. 950 Queen Anne Road.
first presentation is (201) 836-6210.
Tell Me Why: Fanciful
Answers to Serious
Questions. On June IndecentBroadway.com Telecharge.com 212-239-6200
6, she will discuss
The Evil Tongue CORT THEATRE 138 W 48th St, New York @IndecentBway
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In New York
Books going on sale Anderson Cooper coming to Tenafly
at Teaneck Library Anderson Cooper literary events. Program
Sunday Gently-used or new books, CDs, and DVDs, will be one of Americas most subscribers will receive
MAY 21 sold at the Teaneck Librarys book sale, May 20 popular broadcast jour- special benefits, includ-
through 23. The library is at 840 Teaneck Road in nalists, television per- ing concierge service,
Teaneck. For information, call (201) 403-4629 or sonalities, and authors VIP ticket access, and
TeaneckLibraryFriends@ESB.com. will be at the Kaplen reserved parking.
JCC on the Palisades on It is our honor to
June 4 at 7 p.m. He will have Anderson Cooper
share his observations join us for what prom-
on topics ranging from ises to be an exciting and
Temple Emeths eye-opening insights on
American politics and
thought-provoking eve-
ning that will also create
Matthew Lazar casino night current events to life as a the perfect platform to
Benefit concert: The Fun, Food, Friends, and Fabulously Entertain- traveling journalist and introduce our patrons
Zamir Choral Foundation, ing, Temple Emeth in Teanecks annual spring what it was like to grow program, the JCCs CEO,
founded and directed by fundraiser, is set for Saturday, June 3, at 7:30 p.m. up in public, as the son Anderson Cooper Jordan Shenker, said.
Matthew Lazar, presents Members and their guests are invited to a pro- of Gloria Vanderbilt. His The JCC is devoted to
Celebrate Jerusalem,
a gala concert with fessionally operated casino night with blackjack, presentation will be followed by a moder- providing forums for thoughtful commu-
the Zamir Chorale and craps, poker, roulette, and a big six wheel. Each ated question and answer session. nity discussions and intellectual explora-
friends. Alberto Mizrahi ticket includes entry, $50 in chips, full bar, buffet VIP seats come with a private dessert tion, and drawing a nationally celebrated
and Netanel Herstik dinner, and dessert. Prizes and silent auction items reception and a photo opportunity with global newscaster like Anderson Cooper
are featuring soloists;
performers include include theater tickets, spa packages, and gift cer- Mr. Cooper. to our community is a memorable way
Zamir Noded HaZamir, tificates to local restaurants. Mr. Coopers appearance also will mark to showcase our new initiative. It demon-
the international Jewish By law, no chips will be exchanged for cash, and the launch of the JCCs new Patron of the strates our commitment to taking high-
high school choir. At
attendees must be at least 21 years old. For infor- Arts program, which will provide sub- level programming to new heights.
Jazz at Lincoln Centers
Frederick Rose Hall, mation, call (201) 833-1322 or go to www.emeth. scribers with access to cultural arts at the To buy tickets, go to www.jccotp.org/
3 p.m. Broadway and org. JCC in new and innovative ways through cooper, call Nina Bachrach at (201) 408-
60th Street in Manhattan. performances, films, art exhibitions, and 1406, or email nbachrach@jccotp.org.
(212) 721-6500,
www.jazz.org, or
zamirchoralfoundation.
org.
Travel to Canada
Singles with NCJW tour
Wednesday The Jersey Hills section of the National Council of
MAY 24 Jewish Women is sponsoring a five day/four night
trip to Montreal and Quebec City. The trip will
Seniors meet in leave from Fair Lawn on July 17 and return there
Orangeburg: Singles
65+ from the JCC on July 21.
Rockland meets for Highlights include guided tours of Montreal,
dinner at Hogans Diner Old Montreal, Quebec City, and Old Quebec. Stops Rabbi Michael Rebbetzin Shani Rebbetzin
in Orangeburg, N.Y.,
include the Notre Dame Basilica, the Spanish and Rosenzweig Taragin Tziporah Heller
6 p.m. Individual checks.
17 Dutch Hill Road. Gene, Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal, and the Albert
(845) 356-5525. Gilles Copper Art Museum. There will also be a
boat cruise in the Quebec City area.
Reunited Jerusalem celebration
All taxes, meal gratuities, luggage handling, and Congregation Beth Aaron in Teaneck hosts at Midreshet Lindenbaum, Midreshet
transportation by motor coach are covered, and a a multimedia Yom Yerushalayim Torah Torah VAvodah, MaTaN, Migdal Oz,
souvenir gift will be given to each trip participant. exploration, celebrating the 50th anniver- Shaalvim for Women, Lander College,
For information, call Joan Donow at (201) sary of the reunification of Jerusalem, on and the Womens Beit Midrash in Efrat
796-0524. Sunday, May 21, at 6:15 p.m. Via video pre- and Ramat Shilo, Israel. Rabbi Michael
sentations made available by the OU, Reb- Rosenzweig is a rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi
betzins Shani Taragin and Tziporah Heller, Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of
and Rabbi Michael Rosenzweig will offer Yeshiva University and the rosh kollel of
insights and perspectives, with sources the Beren Kollel Elyon. Tziporah Heller is
2017 provided. The theme of each presentation an author and teacher at Neve Yerusha-

VOTE NOW!
is Why Yerushalayim Is Important to Us layim College, Jerusalem. Congregation
as Religious Jews. Beth Aaron is at 950 Queen Anne Road
Shani Taragin is an author and teacher in Teaneck.
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Boys Town Jerusalem serves up
chocolate cheesecake for holiday
Though a cheesecake had no place what-
soever on her Persian-Israeli familys Sha-
vuot table, Rachel Cohen-Pur, registrar
and housemother at Boys Town Jerusalem,
has no qualms about breaking this tradi-
tion. I prepare this chocolate cheesecake
at Chanukah, and every holiday that fol-
lows, she said. Yet the real holiday starts
when Rachel bakes this cheesecake for
her boys in the Boys Town Jerusalem
dormitory on special occasions. The boys
tell me that this chocolate cheesecake is
guaranteed to make life better, she added.
That, of course, gets me straight to the
White chocolate
cheesecake
Crust:
1 1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
2 tablespoons cocoa
4 tablespoons sugar
3/8 cup melted butter
2/3 cup chopped roasted pecans
Filling:
1 1/3 cups cream cheese
1 1/4 cups sour cream
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 1/3 cups white chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup whipping cream
vanilla extract
Teens help Jewish Home residents mark Shavuot
On May 9, teens from Valley
Chabads Linking Hearts pro-
gram visited residents at the
Jewish Home Assisted Liv-
ing in River Vale to decorate
flower vases and play games
together. A Shavuot custom
is to decorate your home and
synagogue with flowers, to
recall the the way the desert
at Mount Sinai was miracu-
lously filled with flowers
when the Torah was given to
the Jewish people there.
kitchen to whip up some more.
This Shavuot, Rachels chocolate cheese-
cake will be the star of the dessert menu at
Boys Town. We pray for better, wonder-
fully joyous times for the Jewish people
everywhere, she said.
Boys Town Jerusalem is one of Israels
premier institutions for educating the
countrys next generation of leaders in the
fields of technology, commerce, educa-
tion, the military, and public service. For
more information, go to boystownjerusa-
lem.org.
Topping:
1 3/4 cups sour cream
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Preparation:
Mix the cocoa and sugar with the gra-
ham cracker crumbs and pecans. Add
the melted butter and mix until thor-
oughly combined. Using a spoon, press
the crumbs onto the bottom and up
the sides 3/4 of the way of a 10-inch
diameter pie pan. Bake at 350 degrees
for about 7 minutes. Cool slightly after
baking.
Prepare a chocolate ganache by bring-
ing the whipping cream to a boil in a
saucepan. Turn off the heat, add the
white chocolate pieces, and let them
melt. Stir until the chocolate is com-
pletely melted. Refrigerate the ganache
until slightly cool. Mix the cheese, sugar,
eggs, and vanilla extract. Add the ga-
nache.
Gently pour the mixture into the crust.
Bake at 330 degrees for around 60
minutes. In the meantime, mix the sour
cream and powdered sugar for the top-
ping. At the end of the baking, once the
cake is firm, remove from the oven for
5 minutes. (If the cake rose, it may sink
a bit.) Spread topping and bake 5 more
minutes. Cool and serve.
Courtesy Chabad
Shavuot
Cookbook offers
balanced meal ideas
Beth Janoff Chananie
In Kosher Taste Plan Prepare Plate, a 304-page
hardcover cookbook, Amy Stopnicki offers her best
innovations from years of experience and combines
them with her passion for creating balanced and beau-
tiful meals. There are 100 simple-to-replicate recipes
and more than 100 photos that bring those recipes to
life. In addition, there are weekly menus with planning
tips and a Pesach index.
The recipes are very basic, with few steps, and include nice ingredient additions.
Heres a recipe printed with permission from Kosher Tastes publisher, Feldheim
Publishers, for a perfect Shavuot (or anytime) quiche to eat for lunch, brunch, or even
a dinner party. Stopnicki even recommends making it in mini pie shells to serve at a
bridal shower. Anyway, enjoy!
Ingredients:
6 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
3 cups baby spinach, cleaned and
checked, chopped
13 cup feta cheese
13 cup pine nuts
salt and pepper to taste
1 ready-to-bake frozen deep-dish pie
shell
Spinach quiche
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a
Dairy: serves 4-6
large mixing bowl, combine eggs,
By Amy Stopnicki milk, cheese, spinach, feta cheese,
This is a superb recipe to double, pine nuts, salt, and pepper. Pour
freeze, and have on hand for a busy mixture into frozen pie shell. Bake for
day. I try to have pie shells in my 35-45 minutes or until set. According
freezer on a regular basis so if I have to Stopnicki, Its especially nice when
some extra time and the filling ingre- served plated individually, with a
dients, I can make a quiche or two for nice healthy salad, and a fresh crispy
the freezer. bread.
Englewood shul hosts
lunch and learn program
The Dor LDor group at Congregation Ahavath
Torah in Englewood offers a pre- Shavuot talk,
Mainstream Mysticism: The History of Stay-
ing Up All Night on Shavuot, on Tuesday, May
23 at 12:30 p.m. The speaker is Rabbi Chaim
Poupko, the shuls associate rabbi. Deborah
Billig will demonstrate how to make a no-
bake cheesecake. The shul is at 240 Broad
Ave. Lunch reservations, (201) 568-1315 or Rabbi Chaim
email office@AhavathTorah.org. Poupko
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Gallery
1 2
3 4
5 n 1 J.J. Goldberg, the Forwards editor-at-
large and senior commentator, left, and
Jonathan S. Tobin, contributing writer to
National Review and former Commentary
Magazine and Jewish Exponent editor, right,
discussed Left vs. Right: The Battle For
Israels Soul. Congregant Dr. Richard
Winters, center, was the moderator at the
event, at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, funded by the Harold Lerman
Fund for Israel Education and Engagement.
SANDRA ALPERN
n 2 From left, Miriam Berman, Patty Borodach,
Lamdeinus dean, Rachel Friedman, and Ruth
Hartstein celebrated at Lamdeinus annual
Yom Haatzmaut celebration. The day included
tefillah, breakfast, lunch, shirah, live Israeli folk
music by guitarist Elana Greenspan, and
divrei Torah.
COURTESY LAMDEINU
n 3 Members of the JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher Shalom went on a
Jewish harbor cruise tour with Rabbi Ken
Stern. Once a month, Rabbi Stern takes
congregants on Jewish-related trips to such
places as museums and exhibits. The 17
60 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 19, 2017
participants went to Ellis Island, the
Brooklyn Bridge, the Lower East Side, and
the Technion.
COURTESY JCC FORT LEE
n 4 Sharon Elwin, 57, of Fort Lee, left, with
UJA-Federation of New Yorks Tamar Gibli in
Jerusalems Western Wall Plaza. Ms. Elwin
was among 50 New York-area baby
boomers who were visiting Israel for the first
time, on UJA-Federation of New Yorks
centennial mission. The trip coincided with
Israels 69th Independence Day.
COURTESY UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK
n 5 The Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey hosted a Tribute to Israel concert
on May 1 at Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.
The concert, in recognition of Yom
Haatzmaut and Yom Hazikaron, included
nine cantors and musicians and choirs from
Beth Rishon, Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake, Temple
Beth Or in Washington Township, Beth
Haverim Shir Shalom in Mahwah, and
Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn.
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Pauline Bergman
Pauline Bergman, ne
Ciporin, 99, of Tamarac,
Fla., formerly of Fair
Lawn, died May 10.
Born in Russia, she
was predeceased by
her husband, Bernard,
in 1987, and is survived
by children, Arthur
of Leonia and Beverly
Joroff of Wayne, three
grandchildren, and one
great-grandchild.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Doris Goldberg
Doris Goldberg, ne
Soskin, 94, of Palm Beach
Gardens, Fla., died
May 10.
Born in New York City,
she was predeceased by
her husband, Abraham,
in 2011 and is survived by
children, Gail and Bruce,
both of Florida, and
Stephen of Wayne, three
grandchildren, and one
great-grandchild.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Norman Koch
Norman Koch, 91, of Fair
Lawn died May 15.
Born in Paterson, he
graduated New York
University, was an Army
Air Corps World War II
veteran, and a partner
in the insurance agency
Harelick, Dresner,
Koch, Co.
Predeceased by his
wife, Charlotte, and a son,
David, he is survived by
children, Eric, and Lisa,
a brother, Buddy, and a
grandson, Jeffrey.
Donations can be
made to Camp Veritans/
Veritans Club or the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/CBl.
Arrangements were by
Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Milton Lane
Milton A. Lane, 93, of
Fair Lawn, formerly of
Paterson, died May 11.
Before retiring, he
was the deputy police
chief of Paterson and a
former member of Temple
Emanuel in Paterson and
the Police Benevolent
Association in Paterson.
Obituaries
Predeceased by his
siblings, Jack Lipschitz,
Lillian Cohen, and Marilyn
Horowitz, and a niece,
Sandi Merle, he is survived
by nephews, Norman
Horowitz (Lois), Dr. David
Lawrence ( Joan), and Len
Howard (Therese), and a
niece, Ellen Lipschitz.
Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Maxwell Lazarus
Maxwell Lazarus, 89, of
Paramus, formerly of Fort
Lee, died May 10.
Born in Jersey City, he
was a Korean War Army
veteran, former Fort Lee
Councilman, and a self-
employed printer.
He is survived by his
wife, Arline, ne Lewis,
sons, Joshua of Fort
Lee, Michael of New
York, and Abel of Nova
Scotia, and stepchildren,
Clifford Cohen and
Cindy McCarthy, both of
New Jersey.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Anne Nussman
Anne K. Nussman of
Aventura, Fla., died
May 12.
A homemaker, she is
survived by a niece.
Arrangements were
by Gutterman Musicant
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Hackensack.
Raymond Sussman
Raymond L. Sussman, 71,
of Fair Lawn, formerly of
Paterson and Elmwood
Park, died May 10.
Before retiring, he was a
newspaper distributor for
the Daily News and was
was an active member of
Gamblers Anonymous for
42 years.
He is survived by his
wife of 21 years, Karen,
children, Marsha Del
Donna (Kenneth), Lauri
Rosenstein, and Jacquelin
Mancilla, all of Fair Lawn.
and five grandchildren.
Donations can be made to
the South Orange chapter
of Gamblers Anonymous.
Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
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between Syrias alleged use of a crematorium to dispose
of bodies to actions committed by the Nazis during the
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Jonathan Greenblatt, the groups national director,
also called on the international community, including
Russia, to take action to stop the violence perpetuated
by the Syrian government under the leadership of Presi-
dent Bashar Assad.
As Jews, we are particularly shocked by the extreme
brutality of the Syrian regime, which invokes the worst
nightmares of Nazi atrocities against the Jewish people,
Greenblatt said in a statement. The world learned from
the twentieth century that it did not do enough to stop
the crimes of the Nazis which led to the genocide of six
million Jews.
Israeli and Italian cyclists pay tribute
to champ who saved Jews during the Holocaust
ROME Italian and Israeli cyclists are paying tribute this
week to Gino Bartali, an Italian cycling champion who
saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust and in 2013
was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations.
Bartali, who died in 2000, smuggled in his bicycle
frame Resistance messages and false documents for Jews
when riding through central Italy, supposedly as part of
his training schedule.
For the second consecutive year, members of the Israel
Cycling Academy, Israelis first professional cycling team,
retraced one of Bartalis routes the 190 kilometers, or
The nations of the world including first and foremost
Russia, which continues to aid and abet Assads brutality
must act to put an end to the inhumane actions of the
Syrian government.
The United States said it believes the Syrian government
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50 detainees a day at a prison north of Damascus.
Although the regimes many atrocities are well-docu-
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A clean-meat revolution is cooking in Israel Foundation (MAF) with sponsors including the U.S.-
based Good Food Institute, Future Meating was the
Global researchers, NGOs and industry leaders gather in Haifa first international conference to attract such a broad
to strategize mass production and learn about Israeli advances spectrum, MAF Director Yaron Bogin said.
Even large meat processors Tyson Foods (US) and
Israel21c Staff only if its affordable. Soglowek Food Group (Israel) were represented due
Strategies to reach this goal were discussed at a gather- to their interest in expanding their lineup of more
Would you pay $1,000 for a meatball? How about $18,000 ing in Israel of top-tier researchers, government officials, humane and earth-friendly sources of animal protein.
per pound of ground beef? NGOs and leaders of the cultured and conventional meat It was not coincidental that this gathering took place
Thats the cost of todays prototype cultured meat (also industries from Israel, North America and Europe earlier in Israel, the home of tissue engineering advances,
called clean meat) produced in bioreactors from ani- this month. innovative entrepreneurship, and the worlds largest
mal cells. Real meat made without slaughter and without Held at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology per-capita population of vegans.
fast-dwindling pastureland will make it to the dinner table in Haifa by the Israeli nonprofit Modern Agriculture Israel is truly becoming leader in the field, says
Bogin, who has a doctorate in cell biology.
He points out that three of the six clean-meat start-
ups in the world are Israeli: SuperMeat, established
in 2015; Future Meat Technologies, founded this year;
and a brand-new venture soon to be named.
These three join Memphis Meats of California, Mod-

NEST
ern Meadow of New York, and Mosa Meat, the Dutch
company working to bring clean-meat pioneer Mark
Posts so-called test-tube burgers to market. Post spoke
at the Israeli conference as well.

feeling
Amir Zaidman, vice president for business develop-
ment at the Strauss Groups Kitchen FoodTech Hub in
Ashdod a sponsor of Future Meating notes that
Israel is already a world leader in stem-cell and tissue-
culture science for medical purposes.

a little
A lot of the knowledge accumulated in Israel in
those areas is applicable, with some adaptations, to
developing and manufacturing clean meat, Zaid-

empty?
man says.
This is why I believe Israel is a very good place to
get a head start on creating clean-meat tissues that can
later be produced in reactors and become a large-scale
industry, Zaidman says.
The first markets will probably be the United States
and Europe but its important for us to position Israel
as the right place to start product development.
Senior Scientist Liz Specht of the nonprofit Good
Food Institute says that Israel has the right mix of
governmental support of technology and innovation,
active research in cultured meat, and an openness to
conventional meat alternatives.
This conference was pretty unique in bringing in
a range of interested parties, from government play-
ers to stem-cell companies, says Sprecht. How fast
the path will be to commercialization depends on how
much financial and human capital goes into this space.
Its a relatively early-stage field and there are opportu-
nities for companies to step in and realize some com-
mercial benefit.
Spring is a time for new beginnings... The MAF aims to accelerate that pathway by advanc-
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When youre ready to move, were ready to help! to develop clean-meat technologies and products,
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SuperMeat CEO and cofounder Ido Savir says that
samples of organically cultured chicken meat could be
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Getting into the market will then be the next step,
maybe five or six years down the line, says Nahmias,
a biomedical engineer and entrepreneur.
Right now, cultured meat is too costly to produce
and the current technology can never produce meat
for less than $650 per pound, Nahmias says.
Rather than large bioreactors, FTM is developing a
small machine to culture chicken meat. A factory that
has 10,000 of these machines could generate as much
meat as a farm with 50,000 chickens. Based on our
calculations, we can drop the price to $11 per pound.
Professor Shulamit Levenberg, a biomedical engi-
neer doing interdisciplinary research on stem cells
and tissue engineering at the Technion, told attendees
about the possibility of using her labs skeletal-muscle
tissue engineering expertise to culture a piece of meat
using bovine cells and edible scaffolds that will mimic
the tissue structure and mouth feel of beef.
Other Israeli speakers at Future Meating were Pro-
fessor Smadar Cohen of Ben-Gurion University, Strauss
Group VP of Technology Professor Eyal Shimoni, Tech-
nion Professor Yoav Livney, Tel Aviv University Pro-
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