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Knesset member sees red
okay, pink in parking fracas
Freshly sworn into the Knes- According to Channel 2, Fadida later filed
set, MK Lea Fadida quickly was a complaint with the Knessets sergeant-at-
thrust into the rough-and-tumble arms over the incident.
world of Israeli politics on Tues- Svetlova later called the incident a mis-
day, when she parked in the parking understanding and said she apologized to
space of fellow Zionist Union lawmaker
Fadida.
Ksenia Svetlova.
Friends, calm down, @leafadida and I are
Apparently irked that her reserved spot
good friends. This was a misunderstanding
was taken, Svetlova was filmed scrawling on
that I apologized for. We talked now and
Fadidas car windshield with pink lipstick, He-
everything is good, tweeted Svetlova.
brew media reported, citing Knesset sources.
By the way, both of us love pink lipstick,
It is forbidden to park in other peoples spots,
she added.
the message said.
Fadida, meanwhile, tweeted: I forgive
Fadida later sent a photo of the windshield to the
things done by mistake and am not angry.
Zionist Unions Whatsapp group, and wrote, what a
TIMES OF ISRAEL
shame, Ksenia.

British neo-Nazi comes out as gay, Jewish Dessert hummus spreads

A British Neo-Nazi said
he has decided to quit the
far-right group that hed
belonged to for a long time
after coming out as gay and
admitting to having Jewish
roots.
Kevin Wilshaw, a former
member of the UK National
Front, talked about his Jew-
ish heritage in an interview
with British Channel 4,
where he acknowledged the
paradox of being a gay, Jewish white
supremacist.
For decades, the NF has been a
marginal party within the UKs far
right, attracting neo-Nazis, fascists,
and other racists to its ranks.
According to Channel 4, Wilshaw
was active in the movement, and
spoke at a number of its rallies. He
later joined the BNP, another radical
far-right party, and was active there
self-defense, but never sought out
members of minority groups to at-
tack.
Id never do that, but I have seen
incidents where people were singled
out because they were black by a
group of people, he said. It turned
my stomach, I rejected that, I pushed
it to the back of my mind.
Wilshaw, who continued to partici-
pate in far-right circles until earlier
win Shark Tank investment
Bad news for hummus purists:
A company that offers sweet
hummus spreads enjoyed a suc-
cessful stint on ABCs Shark
Tank, with Jewish billionaire
Mark Cuban agreeing to invest
$600,000 in the venture.
Shark Tank sees entre-
preneurs pitch their business
schemes to a panel of investors,
who must choose whether or
not to invest in the projects.
Cuban made the investment
in the company, called Delighted By, available in stores throughout America.
on last weeks show, in exchange for 12 To its credit, Delighted By appears to
percent of the company shares. realize that its hummus concept is not a
Delighted By offers vegan hummus natural one to most, and acknowledges
dessert spreads in flavors that include as much in an ad featured on its website.
vanilla bean, choc-o-mint, brownie bat- Were not entirely sure were con-
ter, and snickerdoodle. vinced. Score 10 out of 10 for originality,
The companys products already are though. TIMES OF ISRAEL

as well. this year, said he now feels appall-

Despite having Jewish blood on
his mothers side, Wilshaw said he
wrote about his hatred of Jews on
his application to join the National
Front.
That term the Jews is the global
faceless mass of people you cant
personalize it, not individuals. Thats
the generalization that leads to 6
million people being deliberately
murdered, he said in the interview.
Noting he often had attacked both
Jews and gays, Wilshaw said he did
not realize the problem with his ac-
tions until he was targeted when he
was suspected of being gay.
Its a terribly selfish thing to say
but its true: I saw people being
abused, shouted at, spat at in the
street. Its not until its directed at
you that you suddenly realize that
what youre doing is wrong, he said.
Wilshaw said during his years as
a neo-Nazi, he had used violence in
ingly guilty about his white suprem-
acist past and wants to do some
damage to his former comrades.
I feel appallingly guilty as well, I
really do feel guilty. Not only that,
this is also a barrier to me having a
relationship with my own family, and
I want to get rid of it, its too much of
a weight, he said.
I want to do some damage as
well, not to ordinary people but the
people who are propagating this
kind of rubbish want to hurt them,
show what its like for those who are
living a lie and be on the receiving
end of this type of propaganda. I
want to hurt them, he added.
Having now repudiated the far-
right ideology to which he had
ascribed for so long, Wilshaw said, I
am going to find it difficult, granted,
to fill a void that has occupied my
life since childhood.
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MARCH27,
Noshes
IN WEINSTEINS WAKE:
A jaw-dropping,
stomach-turning
series of events
On October 19, the
Huffington Post
did a round-up of the
actresses and writers
who have accused
HARVEY WEINSTEIN,
65, of sexually harassing
them. There were 42
women listed; their
names were accompa-
nied by a photo and a
summary of their
allegations. By the time
you read this, there will
probably be more. When
you see a list like this, the
extent of Weinsteins
depravity is made more
real. You ask questions,
including: How many
more have not gone
public yet, including
those who out of fright,
or for career reasons,
gave into Weinsteins
demands? How many
more Weinsteins are
there out there? Not just
in Hollywood, but in any
field where power gives
a man a virtually unfet-
tered opportunity to
harass women.
The list makes it clear
that Weinstein had no
type other than the
woman be attractive
and no older than about
35 (at the time of the
harassment). The list
includes women who
are black, white, Asian,
Hispanic, French, British,
Italian, Canadian, Ameri-
can, Vietnamese, Filipino
and Jewish.
The list includes Amer-
ican actresses ROSANNA
ARQUETTE, now 58, and
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A quiet and modest life brings more
joy than a pursuit of success bound with
constant unrest.
Albert Einsteins theory of happiness, written in a note given to a courier in 1922
in lieu of a tip. This week in Jerusalem, the note sold for $1.56 million at auction.
GWYNETH PALTROW, tests or other avenues. I
now 45; French actresses wouldnt be shocked to
EVA GREEN, now 37, and learn that the Jackson
JUDITH GODRECHE, children have two Jewish
now 45; and Canadian biological parents.
actress MIA KIRSHNER, This month,
now 42. (Also, Canadian Netflix began
actress and filmmaker streaming the 2016
Sarah Polley, who as an documentary Eva
adult discovered that her Hesse. Hesse, a painter
father is Jewish.) and sculptor, was noted
Thank You for for her use of then-un-
Your Service, usual materials and is
which opens in theaters Rosanna Arquette Gwyneth Paltrow Mia Kirschner regarded as a founder of
on October 27, follows a post-minimalist art. Her
group of U.S. soldiers reputation, already
returning from Iraq who strong at time of her
struggle to integrate death from cancer, at 34,
back into family and in 1970, has soared since
civilian life, while living then. Whatever you
with the memory of a think of her art, the story
war that threatens to told in the documentary
destroy them long after is a moving Jewish story,
theyve left the battle- very well told. Hesse was
field. AMY SCHUMER, 36, born in Nazi Germany in
co-stars as the wife of 1936, and she and her
one of the veterans. parents and younger
Schumer had a small role sister (whos inter-
in one dramatic film, but Amy Schumer Judah Friedlander Brad Garrett viewed) barely made it
this really is her debut as to the States. The
a dramatic actress. I on CBS on October 27 at Michael Jacksons with children. It was a trauma of that time, we
expect shell be good. 8 p.m. Heres the official now-grown children. business relationship and learn, continued to
Most stand-up comedi- description: A young Polley, a very smart she ceded parental rights affect Eva and her family
ans make good dramatic man and woman cross woman, made Stories after she and Jackson as long as she lived.
actors. (The reverse isnt paths on Halloween We Tell, a documentary divorced. However, in Here are two things not
true.) night. As a result of their about discovering her 2004, when she heard in the film that can
Comedian JUDAH meeting, they and their mother had an extramar- Nation of Islam officials enhance your viewing:
FRIEDLANDER, puppy find themselves in ital affair with the Jewish were hanging around the Her close friend, famous
30 (30 Rock), has a a magical adventure of man who was her children, she threatened artist SOL LEWITT
stand-up special that personal discovery The biological father. This court action noting (1927-2007), named his
starts streaming on story culminates in a knowledge changed her shes a convert to Juda- first child Eva. And Sir
Netflix on Halloween. Its dance finale featuring an view of herself, even if it ism. Theres rational NICHOLAS SEROTA, 71,
called America is the animated version of didnt lead her to speculation that Jack- is the director of the
Greatest Country in the Michael Jackson himself. embrace Judaism (or any sons children may have a famous Tate Gallery, and
United States. BRAD GARRETT, 57, other faith). Jewish biological father. he is Jewish. A huge fan
Michael Jacksons voices a character. The mother of Jack- Its possible that one day of Hesse, he offers
Halloween is a Writing about sons children is DEBBIE one of Jacksons children incisive commentary
one-hour animated Sarah Polley made ROWE, now 58, a nurse will reveal if they pur- about her.
special that will premiere me draw a connection to hired to provide Jackson sued the truth via DNA N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
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Scotch Plains
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Thilim, Elizabeth
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Cantor Caitlin Bromberg, Temple Hatikvah, Flanders
Rabbi Josh Cantor, Temple Shalom of Sussex County, Franklin
Rabbi Yosef Carlebach, Chabad House Jewish Student Center,
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Rabbi Stuart Gershon, Temple Sinai, Summit
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Rabbi Arnold Gluck, Temple Beth-El, Hillsborough
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Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, Congregation Netivot Shalom, Teaneck
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Rabbi Michael S. Jay, Jewish Community Center of LBI, Spray Beach
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Local
New Jersey to Mahwah: Drop eruv battle
Attorney Generals lawsuit seeks more than $3 million for anti-chasidic park ordinance
LARRY YUDELSON
T
he State of New Jersey has
weighed in on the battle in Mah-
wah Township over the eruv.
On Tuesday, State Attorney
General Christopher S. Porrino filed suit in
state court against the township, declaring
that its efforts to block the construction of
an eruv and to exclude out-of-state cha-
sidic Jews from using the townships parks
was bigoted and illegal.
In addition to being on the wrong
side of history, the conduct of Mahwahs
township council is legally wrong, and we
intend to hold them accountable for it,
Attorney General Porrino said in a state-
ment announcing the suit. To think that
there are local governments here in New
Jersey, in 2017, making laws on the basis of
some archaic, fear-driven and discrimina-
tory mindset, is deeply disappointing and
shocking to many, but it is exactly what
we are alleging in this case. Of course, in
this case we allege the target of the small-
minded bias is not African-Americans, but
Orthodox Jews. Nonetheless, the hateful
message is the same.
The suit seeks damages for civil rights vio-
lations, and for the township to return $3.4
million in state funds granted for the cre-
ation and upkeep of its parks over the years
under the states Green Acres Program.
Whats been happening in Mahwah
with respect to the townships parks ordi-
nance is not in accordance with the origi-
nal intent of the Green Acres Program,
the Department of Environmental Protec-
tions commissioner, Bob Martin, said. As
such, it is unacceptable, and it cannot be
allowed to stand.
The Bergen Rockland Eruv Association
already has filed federal suits again Mah-
wah, Upper Saddle River, and Montvale.
Starting in 2015, the organizers of the
Rockland eruv began work to extend its
eruv, which symbolically demarcates the
boundaries within which observant Jews
can carry on Shabbat, from Airmont, N.Y.,
into New Jersey. Upper Saddle River and
Mahwah officials initially signed off on
the expansion, allowing police to super-
vise and divert traffic as plastic piping
was attached to utility polls to define the
area of the eruv. Orange and Rockland,
the utility company that owns the poles,
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Christopher S. Porrino
approved the piping.
But as the state lawsuit noted, starting
this summer Mahwah residents began to
object to the presence of chasidic visitors
in their townships parks, and to the eruv
that had gone up along part of its pro-
posed path.
Comments in council meetings and
online contained stark anti-Semitic
slurs and stereotypes concerning the
Orthodox Jewish community, the lawsuit
alleges. Rather than address the prob-
lematic nature of the comments, Defen-
dants that is, the Township of Mahwah
and the Mahwah Township Council
promptly took steps toward removal of
the eruv, and to prevent and discourage
Orthodox Jews from using public parks
located in the Township.
The lawsuit quoted comments from the
community supporting the ban on out-of-
state visitors.
I was wondering if there are any
thoughts and procedures in place to keep
the chasidic Jewish people from moving
into Mahwah? one comment said. They
have chased us out of two towns we lived
in and now they are buying up houses
in Suffern. This is too close for comfort.
I see them in our parks and remember
thats how it starts. I heard rumors that
they brought a business in Mahwah. Is
this true?
The suit declared that that efforts to
block the eruv has discriminatory intent
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and constitutes and unlawful and uncon-
stitutional effort to interfere with the free
exercise of religion and the ability of indi-
viduals with certain religious beliefs to live
in the Township.
It also maintained that blocking the
eruv was illegal housing discrimination,
since it made the town inhospitable to
Orthodox Jews.
The suit filed by the state, like those filed
by the Eruv Association, seeks an injunc-
tion permitting the eruv. However, it also
asks for statutory damages under New Jer-
sey anti-discrimination statutes as well as
the court-determined damages the stat-
utes provide for.
The state suit argues that in blocking
the eruv, Mahwah is violating the U.S. and
New Jersey constitutions, as well as anti-
discrimination provisions of state law.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center
applauded the state suit. The centers East
Coast director, Michael D. Cohen of Engle-
wood, has attended several Mahwah coun-
cil meetings about the symbolic barrier.
Mr. Cohen praised the attorney gen-
eral for recognizing that the unfortunate
series of events in Mahwah over the past
few months required serious action, and
for having the initiative and leadership
to combat discrimination in all its forms,
including anti-Semitism.
In addition to being on the wrong side
of history, the conduct of Mahwahs
township council is legally wrong.
While we are saddened that the sever-
ity of this situation now requires serious
action from the attorney general, we com-
mend him for his bold actions.
The lawsuit reopened the conflict
between Mahwahs mayor, William
Laforet, and its council president, Rob-
ert Hermansen. Mr. Laforet had sought to
accommodate the eruv and had opposed
the township ordinances cited by the state
lawsuit. In response, Mr. Hermansen led
the council in censuring Mr. Laforet.
Now, Mr. Laforet is feeling vindicated.
It has been a lonely and painful strug-
gle for me and my family these past
several months, having to deal with a
reckless and oblivious council president,
Rob Hermansen, Laforet said in a state-
ment to NJ.com. He personally led his
council mates to this action by the states
highest law enforcement official, and is
most accountable.... His race-baiting ban-
tering has now bitten him back. His dis-
graceful behavior is now worsened by the
severe potential financial penalties facing
the townships taxpayer.
According to the state lawsuit, Coun-
cil President Hermansen directed an
inquiry to the Police Chief while in a
meeting of the Councils Ordinance
Committee asking whether it was true
that the Police Chief had recently given a
tour of police headquarters to a group of
chasidic children.
Mr. Hermansen told NJ.com that he
thought the attorney generals suit was
politically motivated. Mr. Hermansen is a
Republican county freeholder.
I believe this has everything to do with
trying to get Phil Murphy and [Laforets]
council candidates elected, he told NJ.com.
Am I shocked that the mayor of Mahwah is
backing Phil Murphy after having received a
$2,600 check from him? Not really.
Attorney General Porrino was appointed
by Governor Chris Christie, a Republican.
Next month, Mahwah voters will have
a chance to weigh in on their townships
response to the lawsuits. Two council
members, both serving temporary terms,
will be up for election. Mr. Hermansen and
Mahwah Strong, a group that has opposed
the eruv, support the incumbents.
The incumbents face challenges from
two candidates, Vicky Galow and Susan
Steinberg, who are campaigning under the
banner of Make Mahwah Stronger.
We are deeply saddened that Mahwahs
current Council has put our community in
this precarious position, read a post on
Make Mahwah Strongers Facebook page
after the state lawsuit was announced.
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Reliving those campy days
Jewish Historical Society reunion exhibition will kindle warm memories
LOIS GOLDRICH
I
na Cohen Harris of Fair Lawn still
laughs when she thinks about
camp food.
Those were wonderful times,
said Ms. Harris, a former Camp Veritans
counselor and teacher in the Paterson school
system. We used to laugh at the food, she
added, recalling dishes such as Spanish rice.
I learned to eat apple butter for the first
time. That was on the table in case the food
was not to our liking.
Ms. Harris, who worked at Camp Veritans
in Haledon in the 1950s, is chairing the Sum-
mer Camp Reunion exhibition at the Jewish
Historical Society of North Jersey. Its set to
open on October 29; the press release for the
opening invites readers to Come and drink
some bug juice. (See box for information.)
Ms. Harris hopes that other former camp-
ers will come to share their own memories.
My fondest memory is of all the children
who were mine, she said. Her bunk was
filled with 5-year-olds. I remember having a
wonderful time with them. They were ador-
able. She still is in touch with several of them
through Facebook, although they are scat-
tered throughout the country.
There was nothing I didnt like, she
said. The staff was fabulous, everybody
was so kind to each other, and so willing
to help each other. She still has a letter
she received from a parent. Mrs. Brom-
berg sent me a letter to thank me for her
daughters experience. (That daughter
Debbie Grossman of Caldwell, on the committee of the Jewish Historical Societys
Summer Reunion project, paddles the summer away with her friends at Y Camp in
August 1966. Camp and college, those were the best years of my life, she said.
8 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 27, 2017
Sue Kampner of Paterson was a junior counselor at Camp Veritans in 1959. She
is surrounded, left to right, by Linda Rich and Larry Waxman of Paterson, Elliot
Nochimson of East Paterson, and Debra Rich of Paterson. This photo appeared in
the Paterson News and was contributed by society member Debbie Grossman.
went on to become a counselor herself.) Ms. Harris said the camp always had a
I still have that letter wishing me luck Shabbat service on Friday. We were a day 29 will feature five speakers: Mickey Gilbert
in college. camp so we didnt have camp on Saturday,
She noted that many of her friends, then she said. Students traveled to camp by bus. I
fellow students at Patersons Eastside High loved getting on the bus with the kids. I loved
School, also worked at the camp. Today, the hugs. This is something that you always
many of those same friends are volunteers remember. It was a joy every day to go.
in the community. She said one of the exhibits goals is to
stir up warm memories and facilitate unex-
pected reunions, and another is to promote
the Jewish Historical Society. May people
still dont know that we exist, she said. We
have such a wonderful base of information in
our archives. We thought, lets do something
people can really focus on and remember
with fond memories. What was better than
ALBERT E. FOUGEL
going to camp?
Apparently, nothing, according to a for-
mer camper.
I met so many friends at camp who are
still my friends, 50 years later, said Andy
Zettler from Hackensack, who attended Veri-
tans and Teen Trails and now is a member of
the historical society. Whether as a camper
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or counselor, as much as I loved school, it
was only the bridge to get back to camp!
The exhibit will include photos and
memorabilia from a wide range of camps
including Veritans, Hi-Ho, Crestmere, the
Passaic Clifton Y camps, Brae Bank, Belle,
Knights, Ramah, Teen Trails, New Jersey Y
camps (both Nah-Jee-Wah and Cedar Lake),
Wasigan, Pine Crest, Warshawsky, and Akiba.
Some were under Jewish auspices, Ms. Har-
ris said, and those that werent had predomi-
nantly Jewish campers. Many of those camps
no longer exist.
Ms. Harris laughed again, recalling a song
that she uncovered during her research
presumably originating at Wasigan but
apparently known to some Veritans alumni
as well. Ikey, Jakey, Sam were the boys who
ate no ham.
Arts and crafts projects on loan from
Veritans will be on display. Theyll be inter-
spersed with more than 300 pictures.
The photos will be displayed on the walls
around the societys main room as well as in
the conference room and on tables. Display
cases will showcase memorabilia from Akiba
and Warshawsky. An area marked Canteen
will offer cookies, doughnuts, and cider.
In addition, the grand opening on October
from the Passaic/Clifton Y, Arthur Minsky
from Hi-Ho, Amy Cooper from Ramah, Janet
Fleigelmen from NJ Y camps, and Mark Mur-
ray from Veritans.
Debbie Grossman of Caldwell grew up in
Paterson. She is a member of the reunion
team and the historical society. I didnt cry
when I sent my son to sleepaway camp, she
said. I was so glad he was going to have that
opportunity.
She went to Veritans in Haledon from
1959 through the summer of 1965, and to
the Y camps in Milford from 1966 to 1971.
What did she love? The whole environ-
ment, the atmosphere, being outside, my
friends, the activities, she said. Just a won-
derful, happy, healthy environment. Some
friendships she made during camp have
continued via Facebook.
Ms. Grossman recalls that Veritans served
a kosher hot lunch every day. And at the Y
camps, there was peanut butter and jelly on

Its 1954 at Camp Brae Bank in Kinnelon. Seated, left to right,
Cheryl Friedman, Gail Weiner, Ellen Opper, Anne Friedman, Ilene
Shaft, Barbara Bornstein, Judy Sheldon, and Sharon Cosloy.
Standing, left to right, Marilyn Green, Mickey Cohen, Karen Krug,
Sissy Tanenbaum, Barbara Sonofsky and Jenny Katz. Anne Marie
Patterson and Joanne Weisser are the counselors.
the table at every meal in case you didnt like what they were
serving. The Y camps, which were under Jewish auspices,
had Friday night services and Saturday was a special day,
with a special schedule and different programs.
Ms. Grossman is looking forward to a fun afternoon at
the exhibit. Hopefully, a lot of people will come so they will independence, nurtured friendships if not friendships for a
be reunited, she said, noting that the photos and exhibits,
especially of their own camps, will bring back memories so
they can reminisce.
Former camper Joy S. Kurland she went to Camp Belle in
Totowa is now the historical societys executive director. It My friend Cookie came from Newark, she said. People
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is our hope that faces will be linked with names at
the reunion, she said.
Ms. Kurland recalled a chance meeting at a
swim club when she was in her 30s. My hus-
band and I already had kids, and we met a man
my husband had gone to law school with. All of
a sudden, the guys wife said, Omigod Joy! We tance, learning of the plan, brought in memorabilia from
went to Camp Belle together. The two had last
met when they were 5 or 6. Today, they are once
again good friends.
Ms. Kurlands best memories of camp are that
we formed special bonds of friendship. Going
into that group experience for the first time, it
meant a lot to be able to have those warm connec-
tions with fellow campers. Whether it was color
war or a sports competition, we were rooting for
each other. She also recalled the option of eating
peanut butter and jelly at meals, from which I
really got an affinity for peanut butter and jelly.
I really came away with a positive feeling,
she said, adding that she has great memories of singing camp
songs on the bus and getting the spirit of the camps. I
didnt get homesick at all. When I sent my daughter Meredith
to camp, feelings and memories resonated.
Camping is a good experience, she said. It encouraged
lifetime then at least memories for a lifetime teamwork, and
team building. It always remains with you.
Ms. Kurland lives in Parsippany now, but she grew up in
Paterson. So she lived close to camp, but not everyone did.
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came from different areas. And although the camps were
coed, they tended to have separate boys and girls divisions,
she added.
Ms. Kurland said that when the historical society envi-
sioned the exhibit, board members each shared their camp
experiences and memories. In fact, she said, an acquain-
her own camp, Akiba. The historical society, Ms. Kurland
said, has grown by leaps and bounds. What we do here is
preserve, collect, and educate. We have phenomenal collec-
tions and exhibits. The last one featured Jewish businesses
in our catchment area. Wed like the community to see the
space and understand what we do. We hope to achieve that
through programs such as this.
Who: The Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey will
unveil its
What: Summer Camp Reunion Exhibition
When: The opening is set for October 29 at 1 p.m. The
exhibit will be on display through December
Where: At the Societys home, 17-10 River Road, Fair Lawn
Cost: Members in good standing and children under 12 are
free, others are $10 per person.
For more information: Call (201) 300-6590 or email
JHSNNJ@gmail.com. The societys website address is
https://jhsnj.wordpress.com/
The public is invited and welcome to bring photos or
memorabilia from their camp days in North Jersey.
Refreshments will be served, and the program will
include speakers from five of the featured camps.
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Speaking Jewish English
Linguist will talk about word inclusion and identity at Wyckoff shul
LARRY YUDELSON
S
ometimes, the choice of band for your bat Jewish
mitzvah celebration makes all the difference in the
world.
Sarah Bunin Benor might not be coming to
Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff (see box) were it not for the
klezmer band that played her bat mitzvah and sparked her
interest in klezmer.
As a college student at Columbia College, she played violin
in a klezmer group she formed. It was called Uptown Klezmer
and it released a CD, Ashnelerando, in 1997. By then, her
interest in klezmer had grown into an interest in Yiddish and
Who: Sarah Benor
What: Mentsch, Bentsch, and Balagan: Language as a
Marker of Jewish Identity
Where: Temple Beth Rishon, 585 Russell Ave., Wyckoff
When: Sunday, November 5. Breakfast buffet at 9:45
a.m.; presentation at 10:30, followed by Q&A
How much: Synagogue members $15 in advance, $20
at the door. Non-members $25.
Stand-up nation
Israeli comic Benji Lovitt brings his act to Hoboken
LARRY YUDELSON
W
hy did the Israeli chicken cross the road?
Thats one of the questions I forgot to
ask Benji Lovitt when I spoke to him ear-
lier this week.
As an Israeli comedian whose circuit of North Amer-
ica will take him to Hoboken next Saturday night (see
box), Mr. Lovitt would be well positioned to answer that
question.
Mr. Lovitt grew up in Dallas. But after making aliyah 11
years ago, he found a niche in performing standup com-
edy about his adopted country.
He promises a good laugh about Israel, he said. It
will remind people why we love this magical and crazy
country in the first place. Its not political. I make fun of
Israelis, laugh at myself, and by the end theyll hopefully
book their next trip to Ben Gurion.
New immigrants think names like Dudu, Osnat, and
Moran are funny, he continued. Im used to those. Id in Dallas. When he was a kid, he said, Young Judea was the
hate to move to the States with the name Or.
American: Can I ask your name?
Israeli: Or
American: (confused) .....or else?
It was 20 years ago last week when Mr. Lovitt first stood
up before the microphone to get a laugh. It was in Hous-
ton. He was right out of the University of Texas.
Once he turned 21, he had started going to comedy
clubs. The people I watched seemed so cool, he said. I
just worshipped these guys. I started writing down funny
thoughts.
One time at an open-mike night, he started talking to
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Jewish languages more broadly. She majored
in comparative literature and linguistics, then
went to Stanford for a doctorate in linguistics.
She now teaches at Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.
It was at Columbia that Dr. Benor encoun-
tered the linguistic subspeciality that occu-
pies her, and is the topic of her talk at Beth
Rishon: the diverse varieties of American
Jewish English. Her big insight came when
she realized that her Orthodox friends used
the same syntax she was studying in her Yid- Sarah Bunin Benor
dish classes. Her undergraduate thesis was
on how the Orthodox Jews at Columbia spoke English; her
dissertation expanded her anthropological investigations and
became her first book, Becoming Frum: How Newcomers
Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism.
We may not think of our English, infused with the occa-
sional Hebrew or Yiddish, as its own language mamash for
real. But the lines between languages and dialect always are
porous. Jews have spoken more than two dozen distinctively
Jewish languages over the centuries, as Dr. Benor documents
on her website, Jewish Language Research (www.jewish-
languages.org). And while Yiddish and Ladino are the best
one of the regulars, who asked him, Why
dont you come on?
When Im ready, he replied.
I used to be the same way, he was told
Then I grew a pair.
That did it. Something was lit in me.
He prepared a routine, practiced, and
did six minutes.
It wasnt terrible, Mr. Lovitt remem-
bers. It was actually pretty good.
But he wasnt an overnight success.
He didnt quit his day job. He moved to Benji Lovitt
Atlanta and then to New York.
He was in one of the centers of the entertainment
world. I went on five times in three years, he said. I
cant believe I didnt do it more. I was busy with work
and life.
Work meant running the Israel programs department for
Young Judea, the Zionist youth group he had grown up with
shops. It combines my creative comedic side with my
biggest thing in my life outside of school. So it wasnt a huge
surprise that in 2006, right at the end of the Second Leba-
non War, he made aliyah and moved to Israel.
He was too old for army service. I was 31, not 18.
He worked for Young Judea in Israel. He took ulpan, to
upgrade his Hebrew. And for fun, he started doing com-
edy shows.
I love how Israelis can be completely indifferent to pol-
itics but will still argue about their favorite hummus place
until they blow an artery, he said.
I love that Tel Aviv has a gay beach, a religious beach,
and a dog beach. As for the gay, religious dogs, they should
known of those languages, they are the least
typical because they lasted for centuries and
spread far beyond their starting point.
For the most, part when Jews moved to a
new land they picked up the local language
and Judaicized it, Dr. Benor said. They
spoke a Jewish version of the local languages.
Sometimes it was not intelligible to outsiders;
sometimes it was.
Thus you got Jewish Aramaic and
Judeo-Persian.
That, she says, is how it is with Jewish Eng-
lish. Most Jews in America can speak English
without indicating theyre Jewish through their language, but
some who grew up speaking Yiddish in chassidic communities
are not able to do that.
Jewish English is not really one language. The way one Jew
speaks might be totally incomprehensible to the way another
Jew speaks, she said. You might say its a state of mind.
We use various Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, Ladino, and
Russian words and phrases, depending on where our family
is from and which communities were in. Sometimes we use
distinctive grammatical features or distinctive intonations.
Generally, American Jews know when theyre speaking
have their own political party by 2029.
The dream of every comedian who goes
up to the microphone in New York or Los
Angeles is that some television talent scout
will chance upon a show and offer them
their big break. Heres how Mr. Lovitts big
break came about in Israel:
In early 2009, I was contacted by an ali-
yah representative for the Jewish Agency,
he said. He proposed sending me on a six-
city seven-day tour to promote aliyah.
It was amazing.
Now he comes to the States regularly.
His Hoboken gig is part of an itinerary that includes
Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Dallas, Milwaukee, and Fish-
kill, New York.
At home in Israel, he combines stand-up in clubs with
its daytime buttoned down equivalent, offering his wry
take on Israel through cultural presentations and work-
background in informal education, he said.
Theres a workshop he gives on Israeli history through
comedy. Theres cross-cultural training on overcoming
cultural differences.
Israelis often need to know how to work with Ameri-
cans, he explained. Americans think Israelis are rude.
Israelis think Americans are fake. It can lead to tension.
Theyre both right. Theyre both right.
Heres more Lovitt on Israel: I love that instead of wor-
rying about kids developing peanut allergies, parents feed
their babies Bamba before the doctor has even finished
cutting the umbilical cord.
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Jewish and dont do it with outsiders. Within the group, it Another article title tells a similar story, this time with a adding a distinctive Hebrew flavor to the camps language. The
is bonding. Distinctive language helps Jews identify other Hebrew word: From Sabbath to Shabbat: Changing Language result often was a language with a unique vocabulary, which she
Jews, and identify themselves as certain types of Jews. of Reform Sisterhood Leaders, 1913-2012. captured in a blog post called Meltzing, Marps, and Shabbop-
Subtle differences in language send a message: Im a And sometimes speaking Jewish English involves inventing tions. Meltz is a verb based on meltzar, Hebrew for waiter. Marp
religiously observant Jew, or a Sephardic Jew, or a Yiddish totally new words. is short merpaah, Hebrew for pharmacy. And Shabboptions is
enthusiast, Dr. Benor said. Whatever group and groups In a research project on the use of Hebrew in summer camp, a portmanteau for Shabbat options.
theyre involved in, they use language to affiliate. she found that Hebrew was not taught as a language, even if While campers dont gain fluency in Hebrew, the words they
Generally, speaking a Jewish variety of English doesnt announcements and even theater productions were made solely learn send a clear message: Hebrew is important, and it is our
interfere with communication with the broader world. in Hebrew. Instead, she found, the goal was Hebrew infusion special language, she wrote.
Most people are quite aware of the distinctive features
of their language and are very able to temper them when
theyre speaking to outsiders. For the most part, when
Orthodox Jews speak with people outside their commu-
nity they tend to remove the Hebrew and Yiddish words.
Sometimes, though, some bits of Yiddish syntax slip
through nonetheless.
But Jewish English is not just about retaining words
from your Yiddish ancestors, a phenomenon that might
be expected to lessen over the generations. The English
in my home growing up was not as distinctively Jewish
as the English in my home now, Dr. Benor said. In the
last few decades, theres been a shift in American Jewish
communities in using more Hebrew and Yiddish words
in certain realms. I didnt grow up saying shul but now I
do, and now my parents do too. Its one of those shifts you
might not notice happening.
How did that happen? The details are in her article,
How Synagogues Became Shuls: The Boomerang Effect
in Yiddish-Influenced English, 1895-2010.

Jews throughout
history have laughed
to keep from crying,
and nobody does it
better than Israelis.
I love that certain stores advertise their depend-
ability by claiming to be open 24/6.
So is it time to rebrand Israel as Stand-Up Nation?
Israel is great at laughing even at the dark things,
Mr. Lovitt said. Theres humor in everything. Jews
throughout history have laughed to keep from crying,
and nobody does it better than Israelis.
And heres a follow-up. I did ask Mr. Lovitt about
the Israeli chickens road-crossing motivation. Why
did it go?
So many possible answers, he said. Most of them
too cynical for an American Jewish audience.

Who: Comedian Benji Lovitt

What: What War Zone? Israel Through Stand-Up
Comedy
Where: United Synagogue of Hoboken,
115 Park Ave., Hoboken
When: Saturday, November 4, 7:30 p.m.

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Challah: My gift to the world
A Hoboken amateur baker pinches, punches, and gets a kneaded rise out of life
CHARLES RUBIN
T
he biblical injunction is to honor Shabbat
and keep it holy.
Over the ages, complex rules and practices
have evolved to satisfy this requirement. In
my home, bread makes the day special but not just
any bread. Two golden braided challah loaves, as close
to fresh from the oven as time allows, have graced our
table nearly every Friday night for the past 30 years.
Assemble the following ingredients:
1 tablespoon of yeast
1/4 cup plus one teaspoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
4 cups bread flour
1 egg
3/8 cup plus 3/4 cup lukewarm water
1/4 cup canola oil
Ive always been fascinated by bread of any kind. I grew up
in a multiethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn where, within a
span of a few blocks, a rich assortment of baked items could
be found. Italian breads, pita, rye, pumpernickel, Portu-
guese rolls, bagels, bialys, and challahs all were available.
Buying bread at our neighborhood bakeries were the
first errands my mother sent me on. I never knew it
was wrong to bite the ends off the long seeded Ital-
ian loaves or steal the heels of the raisin pumpernickel
breads on my way home until I was much older and
so I did. At a Shabbat meal, challah is often torn apart
by hand and distributed rather than sliced with a knife,
so it felt as if getting physical with bread was my right.
In a small bowl mix together with a whisk
1 tablespoon yeast
1 tablespoon flour
1 teaspoon sugar
3/8 cup lukewarm water
Let the mixture sit for about 10 minutes until it gets
frothy.
When I was young, I went to Hebrew school at an Ortho-
dox synagogue. My family was not Orthodox, nor were
most of my classmates, but it was the neighborhood syna-
gogue, and in those days you supported the local insti-
tution. My grandmother, born in Lahoysk, a town in the
Minsk area of Belarus, reminded us of a tradition never
walk past one synagogue to go to another.
My parents mostly worked on Saturdays, but our
Friday nights were special. A tablecloth graced our
usually utilitarian kitchen table, wine glasses were
filled, and candles were lit. I could go out on Friday
nights with my friends, but only after my parents,
two sisters, grandmother, and I shared a special din-
ner together. Unlike other nights, where my mother
excelled in getting a meal together in a few minutes
and it was consumed just as quickly, this meal often
included soup, chicken, a noodle or potato pudding,
carrots cooked in honey, dessert, and of course two
braided loaves of challah.
In a large bowl combine the following
2 cups bread flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1/4 canola oil
3/4 cup warm water
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I attended a summer camp that in hind-
sight almost seems like a parody of the sum-
mer idyll. Camp Kindervelt couldnt decide
exactly what it was. Zionist? Yiddishist?
Proudly American? Reform? Conservative?
All of the above? Our color war cheers were
in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. The spon-
soring organization was called the Farband,
which split from the Workmans Circle over
the founding of Israel in the 1930s and even-
tually closed its doors in 1971. The camp is
now the site of Kiryas Joel,
the largest Satmar chasidic
community in the world.
There was a kosher kitchen
at the camp, and we said
motzi before meals and
birchat hamazon afterwards,
something those of us from
secular homes had perhaps
never experienced. Other-
wise, religious practice was
kept in check. It was a nor- Charles Rubin
mal camp, with sports, swim-
ming, sunburn, and young love as we matured.
Friday night, however, was different. Every camper
dressed in white, and we walked in a long line to the din-
ing halls singing Shabbat songs. It was the one night when
we could sit with family and friends who were not our
bunkmates. Normally meals took about 15 minutes, but on
Friday night it went on for hours. The tables were covered
in tablecloths, we had real grape juice in our cups instead
of the bug juice that we craved and hated for the rest of
our meals. (We craved it because it was all that we had
to drink and we were desperately thirsty; we hated it for
obvious reasons. It didnt taste very good.) There was real
challah on the table, not the sliced white bread that served
as a platform for our peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
the other days of the week. We grabbed pieces of the chal-
lah after the blessings until not a crumb was left, and we
begged our servers for more.
Add the contents of the smaller bowl to the larger
bowl and begin mixing with a wooden spoon.
Slowly add 2 more cups of bread flour, mixing first
with the spoon and then by hand.
When the mixture holds together, take it out of the
bowl and begin kneading on a floured counter or
board.
Fold, turn, and push down with the heel of your
hands repeatedly and get a rhythm going. You have
to do this for a while.
Add small scoops of flour to reduce the stickiness.
Keep kneading until the bread is smooth like a
babys bottom. This usually takes about 10 minutes.
Pour about a tablespoon of oil in the larger bowl,
coat the dough in oil, and cover with a dish towel.
Let this sit for about 2 hours.
In 1982 I married a woman who also had been a camper at
Camp Kindervelt. While it would have made a great story
to say that we met there, we did not. We do share unique
memories of those summers and the magic of Friday eve-
ning Shabbat dinners. Our wedding ceremony was per-
formed by the rabbi from my childhood synagogue, but
PHOTOS BY ARVIT RUBIN
Mr. Rubin baked many loaves for Rosh Hashanah.
as a couple, we had no definite religious identity. We did
the things we were accustomed to my wife lit the can-
dles using candlesticks she had inherited from her grand-
mother, and I said an abbreviated prayer over wine and a
store-bought challah.
In 1989, with a 2-year-old daughter in tow, we volun-
teered for a year on a kibbutz in the Galilee region of
Israel. It was a young kibbutz, founded by Americans affili-
ated with the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary
in Manhattan. Several months before embarking on this
adventure, I made my first challah, using a recipe I found
in Bernard Claytons Complete Book of Breads. I failed
a few times, producing dense, inedible, and grossly pro-
portioned loaves, but eventually, with tweaking, persis-
tence, and a new respect for yeast, I nailed it. I learned to
braid, figured out what the dough should feel like when it
was properly kneaded, and how to rap the loaves to know
when they were done.
Punch it down to get all the air out.
Knead for around 2 minutes.
Return it to the bowl, cover it with the dish towel,
and let it rise for another hour.
Despite the kibbutz life communally prepared meals that
we ate together with our neighbors I continued my Fri-
day tradition of making challah. It soon became a friendly
competition among kibbutz members to bake and sample
each others work at the Friday evening meal. The Shab-
bat meal differed from all others in that we were served
instead of lining up at the food trolleys, like children in
school. The dining hall was freshly scrubbed, with fresh-
cut flowers on the tables and the places set as if a banquet
were in the offing. Kibbutzniks arrived newly scrubbed,
wearing their neatest outfits. That was in sharp contrast to
their regular dress blue work clothes that often smelled
of cow dung.
There were several kibbutz members who would have
been interested in joining a friendly bread-making compe-
tition but were reluctant to try their hands at it for the first
time. It was then that I began my one-on-one instruction
in English, fractured Hebrew, and even worse Spanish.
One Friday afternoon, a neighbor burst into the bathroom
while I was taking a shower to ask how she could tell if the
bread had risen enough.
These students still are making their own challahs in
Israel, England, the Netherlands, Colombia, Ecuador, Can-
ada and the United States.

Put a thin film of canola oil on a cookie sheet.
Punch the dough down.
Pinch a small piece of dough the size of a raisin,
make it into a ball, and put it on a corner of
the cookie sheet. This is what makes challah
spiritually special. It is the sacrificial offering, a
holdover from biblical practice.
Divide the dough in half.
Divide each half into four pieces.
Take three pieces and roll them into a rope about
15 inches long
Pinch the three pieces together and start
braiding. Take the piece on the right and bring it
over the middle piece. Take the piece on the left
and bring it over the new middle piece. Repeat
this on the right and left until you run out of rope.
Pinch the ends together.
PHOTOS BY ARVIT RUBIN
requirement, nothing beats coming home to the aroma of a
freshly baked bread and digging into a warm challah for our
weekly Sabbath gathering.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
In a small bowl beat 1 egg
When the oven is ready, brush the loaves with the
beaten egg
Place the loaves in the center rack of the oven
Bake for 30 minutes or until the loaves are golden
and a rap on the bottom with your knuckle produces a
hollow sound.
My daughters make their own challah now, using my recipe.
When we visit them in their homes in Waterville, Maine,
and in Haifa, Israel we find that it is gratifying to taste the
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loaves of a new generation.
I have no memory of teaching them, but they assure me
that they received detailed coaching. Week after week they
would watch and assist. Sometimes they would make their
own small breads from a piece of dough I would give them,
and sometimes they would help by adding flour as I mixed
and kneaded.
I often feel like this is my gift to the world; the ability,
technique, and confidence to take raw ingredients, which
alone have little meaning but when they are put together in
a proscribed way produce something of wonder.
They make the Sabbath day holy.
Charles Rubin is an information technology manager in New
York. He recently moved to Hoboken.

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pieces, making each rope about 16 inches long.
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Ive been making challah for almost 30 years now.
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ishing schedule that does not give me the luxury to
mix, knead, knead again, braid, and bake most weeks.
I often leave for work, even on Fridays, before 7 a.m.,
and I dont return until 7 in the evening. Challah-mak-
ing in my home has become a team sport. On most
Fridays nowadays, I wake up at 5:30 and mix and
knead the challah. I leave the other steps to my wife,
also an accomplished baker. She spaces them out so
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Local
First Person

Ethical brew
Teaneck couple offers house concert; some proceeds benefit charity
Curt Schleier
If I were to write an article, from my point of view, its
how two empty nesters found a whole new life after kids.
This is according to Beth Stein, who fortunately is not
writing this article.
Fortunately, because in many ways this story is about
something far larger. Its about tikkun olam, the changing face
of the music business, and how artists are struggling to adapt.
Beth and her husband, Perry Stein, run Ethical Brew,
placed themselves on the mailing list of folk singer/song writer
Vance Gilbert; they got an eblast from him, saying that he was
thinking about doing a few house concerts.
And, yes, house concerts are exactly what the name sug-
gests. People like former Hillsdale resident Peter Shafran
and his wife, Paula, literally open their Hastings-on-Hud-
son, N.Y., home to professional roots singers or groups and
invite music lovers into their living room to listen 10 times
a year or so. Its a pot luck afternoon, with guests bringing
food and $20 each, with all cash going to the artist.

a series of roots (or folk) concerts run out of the Ethical
Culture Society in Teaneck. The series is, in their words,
a quality blend of live music and social action.
The Steins became involved in the concerts because of
their love of music and a family history of social activism.
It was a fluke, Perry said in a recent interview. We go to
a lot of concerts as fans.
One series they attended on a regular basis, Outpost
in the Burbs in Montclair, combined music and charity.
Those concerts were run by a group of young progressives
and, Perry said, it looked like a very familiar place, simi-
lar to the culture at Ethical Culture, where the Steins
are members.
It was here that fate intervened. At an earlier concert, theyd
The Steins wrote to Mr. Gilbert to see if hed be willing
to come to Teaneck to do a large house concert, and he
said yes. They got the Ethical Culture board to let them
use the organizations facility. And they were in business.
Their first concert, in January, 2013, was a sell out,
with the Bergen County Sanctuary Coalition as the char-
ity of record.
It was a big success and we had so much fun doing it,
Beth said.
Although it was supposed to be a one-off, we felt good
about it, Perry added. We asked ourselves why dont we
start doing this on a regular basis.
It combined two things were about: music and social
action, Beth said.
Curt Schleier
From left, Perry Stein, Eric Schwartz, Honor
Finnigan, and Beth Stein.
Both of us are Jewish, Perry added. Beths family was
more secular while mine was more traditional. I attended
Hebrew school through bar mitzvah. My parents were
active members of the synagogue in Franklin Square
thats on Long Island and enjoyed many lifelong friend-
ships through this connection.
See Brew page 33

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Annual
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BENOVITZ KAMINETZKY WEINBERG MACY ZL
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S UNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 R ESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW!

NCSY. ORG/GALA
Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, NY
Following the Ben Zakkai 23rd Annual Scholarship Reception

4:00 PM
SHIUR BY R ABBI ZVI SOBOLOFSKY Dinner Chairs
Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva University; Rabbi, Congregation Ohr Gila & Dovid Weinstein Laurie & Lewis Barbanel Bernice & Seme Joszef
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5:00 PM Avi Katz, Chairman, NCSY Rabbi Micah Greenland, International Director, NCSY
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 Briefly Local

AMIT dinner honors leaders

and the students who benefit
AMITs 2017 annual dinner, this year
called Heroes, will honor outstand-
ing leaders who have devoted their
time and energy to the organizations
mission of providing the best possible
Jewish valuebased education to tens
of thousands of children in Israel. It is
set for Sunday, November 19, at Pier
Sixty in New York City, beginning with
a reception at 5 p.m.
This years honorees include Sha- Sol and Sharon Merkin  COURTESY AMIT

ron and Sol Merkin of Englewood,

Last years group at Paterson Falls 
Federation Mitzvah Day approaches
Join many volunteers across northern
New Jersey by participating in the Jew-
ish Federation of Northern New Jer-
seys annual Mitzvah Day, set for Sun-
day, November 5. This years theme is
Do Good. Feel Good.
On Mitzvah Day, volunteers, young
and old, will perform acts of kindness,
charity, and thoughtfulness. There are
morning and afternoon sessions 10
a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m., at JFNNJ
headquarters in Paramus, as well as a
few outdoor sites. Mitzvah Day spon-
sors include Tackle Kids Cancer and
Maadan.
At the federation offices, activities Sorting baby clothing for Yad Leah
include filling 500 snack packs for the
Center for Food Action, sorting baby
clothing to benefit Yad Leah in Israel,
making memory books for Alzheimers
patients, and packing activity bags for
Tackle Kids Cancer.
Other sites include MEVOs Fresh
Roots Farm at the Campgaw Mountain
Reservation in Mahwah; the historic
New Bridge Landing and Steuben House
in River Edge; Paterson Great Falls
National Historical Park in Paterson;
and Palisades Interstate Park in Alpine. by November 1 at the federations office,
There will be an American Red Cross
Blood drive, with appointments pre-
ferred and ID required, at the Glen Rock org/MitzvahDay, call (201) 820-3947, or
Jewish Center, 682 Harristown Road,
from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
PHOTOS COURTESY JFNNJ
Among them are Nili Block, a world
JFNNJ is collecting rattles and stimu-
lating toys for infants; like-new and
gently used baby clothing; magazines,
glue sticks, three-ring binders, scissors,
and plastic sleeve protectors; and teen-
appropriate DVDs, iPhone chargers,
fidget spinners, adult coloring books,
fine line markers, colored pencils, jour-
nals, planners, arts and crafts kits, gel
pens, and Lego sets for adults and teens
12 and older. Items must be dropped off
50 Eisenhower Drive in Paramus.
For information, go to www.JFNNJ.
email BethF@jfnnj.org.
who will receive the Presidential Lead-
ership award; Jordana Alpert of Manhat-
tan, who is getting the Young Visionary
award; Martin Elias of Glenhead, N.Y.,
the Boneh Olam award recipient; and
guests of honor Audrey and Max Wagner
of Woodmere, N.Y.
The dinner also features four cur-
rent and former AMIT students who are
examples of how AMIT transforms ordi-
nary people into extraordinary ones.
champion kickboxer; Hila Yemini,
who aspires to be a world-renowned
violinist; Yair Ben Yishai, who gave an
elderly Holocaust survivor a moving
final farewell; and Roni (Ron) Vanunu,
who served in the Israeli Armys Golani
Brigade, following the path of her late
brother, who was killed in the 2104
Gaza war.
The people Ive met at AMIT,
whether they are staff or volunteers are
incredibly passionate and dedicated to
helping AMITs children, Sharon Mer-
kin said. They are a smart and driven
group of people, and their enthusiasm
is contagious. Our missions to Israel to
visit AMIT schools and meet with stu-
dents and staff highlight the fact that
we are a family, and I am honored to be
included.
In addition to honoring AMIT heroes,
a featured actor from the Tony Award-
winning musical Dear Evan Hansen
will perform with the Ramaz Chamber
Choir, and actors in another hit Broad-
way musical will make a surprise appear-
ance. To register, email Robin Rothbort
at RobinR@AMITchildren.org, call (212)
477-4725 or go to www.AMITchildren.
org/event/AMIT-2017-annual-dinner.

Weekly Moroccan minyan in Teaneck

The Jewish Center of Teaneck has begun a weekly Moroccan min-
yan that will meet for Shabbat and holidays. According to Daniel
Fridman, the JCTs rabbi, the shuls Moroccan and main minyans
will come together for kiddush at the conclusion of davening.
The shul welcomes neighborhood Moroccan and Sephardic
families to join it.
Among the JCT members who oversaw the creation of the
Moroccan minyan are Ruth Ezrapour, Jacob BenHarush, Amir
Cohen, Shmuel Elhadad, and Asher Toporovsky; past shul presi-
dents Isaac Student and Sandy Hausler; current president Abbe David-Seth Kirshner, the rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Closter, offered the
Rosner; and treasurer Allen Ezrapour. Rabbi Daniel opening prayer at the House of Representatives on Tuesday, October 24.
The shul is at 70 Sterling Place. For information, call (201) 833- Fridman Here, Rabbi Kirshner, left, stands with his congressman, Representative Josh
0515 or email or go to www.jcot.org  MICHAEL LAVES Gottheimer (D-NJ District 5).

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l Briefly Local

PHOTOS COURTESY NCSY

Esti and Benyamin Rabbi Ethan Katz Rabbi Moshe and Serena The late Joseph and Julia Macy Jeffrey and Sharona
Kaminetzky of Teaneck of Bergenfield Benovitz of Israel Weinberg of New York

Locals among honorees at reception and NCSY gala

NCSY, the Orthodox Unions youth group,
will hold its gala on Sunday, November 12,
at 6 p.m. at the Cradle of Aviation Museum
on Charles Lindbergh Boulevard, in Gar-
den City, N.Y. It follows the 23rd annual
Ben Zakkai Honor Society scholar-
ship reception.
Honorees include Benyamin and Esti
Kaminetzky of Teaneck, Rabbi Moshe and
Serena Benovitz of Ramat Beit Shemesh,
Israel, and Jeffrey and Sharona Weinberg
of Woodmere, N.Y. A Ben Zakkai memorial
tribute will be presented in honor of the
late Joseph and Julia Macy for their stalwart
support of NCSYs New England chapter.
The gala celebrates the growth of NCSY
across the country; the group has worked
with more than 24,000 Jewish teens. In
addition to local, national, and regional
programs throughout the school year,
NCSY offers more than 17 summer pro-
grams for nearly 1,500 teens in the United
States and abroad.
Support from this years honorees has
made an impact on Jewish teens around
the world. Rabbi Moshe Benovitz, NCSYs
managing director, has been the direc-
tor of the NCSY Kollel summer program
in Israel for more than 18 years. He also
teaches at Yeshivat Reishit. Both the
Kaminetzky and Weinberg families have
sent their children to various NCSY sum-
mer programs and are generous support-
ers of the organization.
Recently NCSY was on the ground in
Houston on a chesed mission. And quite
frankly, NCSY is always on the ground
making a difference in Jewish communi-
ties around the globe, the OUs president,
Moishe Bane, said. As we continue to
reach more and more teens through our
innovative programing, we are proud to
acknowledge all of our supporters and
are especially grateful to our honorees,
all of whom help to inspire our Jewish
teens to develop a positive Jewish iden-
tity and embrace Torah as they journey
into adulthood.
The Ben Zakkai reception honored the
newest members inducted into the Ben
Zakkai Honor Society, including Rabbi
Ethan Katz of Bergenfield and Freda
Greenbaum and Dr. Allan Jacob, of Flor-
ida. Dvorah and Ben Gasner of Israel
will be recognized at a Ben Zakkai event
in Israel.
For tickets or journal ads for the NCSY
dinner, email Amy Mauskopf at amy@
ncsy.org, or call (212) 613-8193.

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DR. MARCIA ROBBINS-WILF SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, United Kingdoms Foreign Secretary

Balfour Declaration: Origins and Legacy

Centennial of International Recognition of a Jewish Homeland

Dr. Daniel Gordis

Shalem College

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2017 I 7 P.M.

Yeshiva University Museum I Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York City (Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
Tickets are complimentary and available at yeshiva.imodules.com/balfour
Photo ID is required for admission
For more information or to register by phone please call 212.960.5400 x5430

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 OPEN HOUSES 2017
BERGEN COUNTY JEWISH DAY SCHOOL
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 Sunday, November 5, 2017
7: pm 7:00 pm

Ben Porat Yosef Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey

E. 243 Frisch Court 666 Kinderkamack Road
Paramus, NJ 07652 River Edge, NJ 07661

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

Ruth Roth Tamar Kahn, Director of Admissions
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ruthr@benporatyosef.org welcome@rynj.org
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Monday, November 6, 2017

7:30 pm 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Yavneh Academy Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County

155 North Farview Avenue 275 McKinley Avenue
Paramus, NJ 07652 New Milford, NJ 07646

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

Charlotte Carter, Director of Admissions
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Monday, October 30, 2017 Wednesday, November 8, 2017

7:30 pm 7:30 pm

Yeshivat Noam Yeshivat HeAtid

70 West Century Road 1500 Queen Anne Road
Paramus, NJ 07652 Teaneck, NJ 07666

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

Esther Feil Gitty Eisner
201.261.1919 ext. 220 201.374.2272 ext. 6
efeil@yeshivatnoam.org admissions@yeshivatheatid.org

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Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Sunday, December 10, 2017

7:30 pm 10:00 am

The Moriah School Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy

53 S. Woodland Street 110 South Orange Avenue
Englewood, NJ 07631 Livingston, NJ 07039

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

Livia Marcovici Allison Lyons, Director of Admissions
201.567.0208 ext. 322 862.437.8050
admissions@moriahschool.org alyons@jkha.org
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Rockland
Time, words, and found objects
Nyack poet writes about shiva, creates art from sardine cans, brings it all together
Joanne Palmer
T
ime passes.
Things change. They morph.
Time works on them. Time also
works on us.
Poet Maxine Silverman of Nyack knows
that.
She has written a book of poems, Shiva
Moon, that focuses not only on sitting
shiva for her father, Abraham Silverman,
but on the year that followed.
Things are never the same. Even things
that at first look as if they cannot change.
Even standardized, assembly-line things.
Time changes them. Circumstances
change them. We change them.
Artist Maxine Silverman of Nyack knows
that.
She has created a series of objects made
of sardine cans, each assemblage different
and each can somehow different as well,
60 of them, one for each week of the year
and then a few extra, because it was too
hard to stop.
Both series as well as Ms. Silvermans
other books of poetry and other pieces of
visual art have to do with really looking
and really seeing, with change and differ-
ence and time passing. And with love.
The book is about saying kaddish, but I
called it Shiva Moon because I ended up
doing research and learning a lot about
astronomy, Ms. Silverman said. Her father
died in December 1999. Thats because
when we were sitting shiva, there was an
In Unfinished Work of Creation, the vertical rows show the six days of creation. It was created for
Beth Sholoms Artists Beit Midrash.
18 Jewish Standard OCTOBER 27, 2017
Maxine Silverman with her dog, Mtooka; the mainly-Jack-Russells name means
sweet in Hebrew.
unusual celestial display. There was a full
moon and the winter solstice and the lunar
perigee. It happened for the first time in
133 years. The moon was so close and so
bright and, and I remember that at the
funeral the rabbi said something about
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how maybe it could bring some comfort.
And I said, well, my father sure did
shine on me, all of my life. And so the title
of the book grew from that week of sitting
shiva.
About a month later, she said, around
This figure, made of Mexican handcrafted bits, is
carrying a sardine-can backpack.
the end of shloshim, there was a total
lunar eclipse; you could see the so-called
red moon up high in the sky that night.
You also could see, on that crystalline win-
ter night, the glimmer of many other stars
that the normal moon blocks. It was spar-
kling and unearthly beauty.
I was so porous then, Ms. Silverman
said. I was so porous that everything
turned to language.
My father and I were extremely close,
and I was with him when he died, hold-
ing his hand. We were so close that I never
felt that there was anything left unsaid,
and so I was free to grieve freely, with no
remorse.
The depth of my mourning was the flip
side of how much I loved him.
Heres the start of North Star, the first
poem in her book.
Look,
my father murmured, how
my hand shimmers.
That poem sort of sets up how significant
language was to my father, Ms. Silver-
man said. He loved language. He wasnt a
writer, but he loved to play with language.
At the end of his life, he had a palsy,
and he shook, she continued. One day,
he held up his hand, and he said, Look
how my hand shimmers. I think he meant
shivers it was very close to the end but
it sets up his relationship to language very
nicely.
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And there is another poem, called Jour-
ney Cake, she continued.
We fill his breast pocket.
Not what he needs,
what we need to give
for the rest of our journey.
That poem describes how we decided what
to put in his pocket, she said. It was clear
that it wasnt for him. It was for us.
The same was true about saying kaddish,
Ms. Silverman said. Its for the living. Its to
honor the person, but also to comfort you,
and you hope that some day someone will
say kaddish for you.
Why did she find the act of saying kaddish
comforting? Because it would have mat-
tered so much to my father, she said. There
is the phrase This is my kaddish, that par-
ents say about their children. Traditionally,
only men could say kaddish, so a parents
kaddish would be a son, but Abe Silver-
man, the father of no sons and three daugh-
ters, was not bothered by that. My father
used to tell his friends, who would tease him
about it, that their sons would start borrow-
ing their fathers ties and their cars so that
they could take his daughters out, she said.
Ms. Silverman belongs to Congregation
Sons of Israel, a Conservative shul in Nyack.
She took comfort from that community,
and from the tradition it embodies. I found
that the tradition offered me what I really
needed at every point, she said. During
shloshim, her husband, Howard Andrews,
asked her to go door to door with a peti-
tion about a cause she cared deeply about.
I said, I cant, she recalled. I couldnt
imagine knocking on doors then. And then
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Disturbing the Peace in Orangeburg

The Orangetown Jewish Center in Orangeburg, N.Y., hosts a
screening of Disturbing the Peace, followed by a discussion
with its director/producer, Stephen Apkon, on Sunday, October
29, at 7 p.m.
The film follows former enemy combatants Israeli soldiers
from elite units and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served
years in prison who have joined together to say enough. The
film reveals their journeys from soldiers committed to armed bat-
tle to nonviolent peace activists; journeys that led to the creation
of the organization called Combatants for Peace.
The OJC is at 8 Independence Ave. For information, call (845) Stephen Apkon
359-5920 or go to www.theojc.org

Candidate forum at JCC Sofia Jean Gomez Dorice A. Madronero

The annual Rockland County Candidates
Forum will be on Sunday, October 29,
from 2 to 4:30 p.m., at the JCC Rockland,
450 West Nyack Road, in West Nyack.
The candidates for county executive are
Maureen Porette, Edwin Day, and Thomas
Sullivan.
Candidates for Clarkstown supervi-
sor are Michael R. Sullivan and George A
Hoehmann.
Candidates for Orangetown supervisor
are Thom Kleiner and Christopher Day.
Candidates for Ramapo supervisor are
Michael B. Specht and William J. Weber Jr.
All questions from the audience must be
submitted in writing and will be screened
by a panel of the sponsoring organizations.
NCJW features Hamilton music
Rick Feingold presents a program featur-
ing music from the Broadway production
of Hamilton, including a discussion of
the characters, for the Rockland section of
the National Council of Jewish Women on
The forum is free and open to the pub-
lic. It is co-sponsored by Rockland chap-
ters of the AARP, American Association of
University Women, League of Women Vot-
ers, Statewide Senior Action Council, JCC
Rockland, Jewish Federation & Foundation
of Rockland County, Rockland section of
the National Council of Jewish Women,
Rockland Childrens Advocacy Network,
and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. NY. All are
volunteer nonpartisan organizations that
never support candidates or parties but
do take positions on issues after study
and discussion. For information call Linda
Berns at the League of Women Voters at
(845) 357-3568.
Wednesday, November 1, at 7:30 p.m. The
program will be at the JCC Rockland, 450
West Nyack Road, in West Nyack. Refresh-
ments will be served. For information, go
to ncjwrockland.org.
World premiere of Fall River
Penguin Rep Theatre, the award-win-
ning professional Equity theater under
the leadership of founding artistic
director Joe Brancato and executive
director Andrew M. Horn, is showcas-
ing the premiere of Fall River. The
Holocaust museum benefit
The Holocaust Museum & Center for
Tolerance and Educations annual ben-
efit brunch is on Sunday, November 5,
at 10:30 a.m., at Congregation Shaarey
Israel in Suffern.
Barbara and Sam Weinberger are the
honorees, Paul Galan will receive the
Holocaust museum salutes veterans
The Holocaust Museum & Center for
limited engagement runs through Sun-
day, November 5 at Penguin Rep The-
atre in historic Stony Point in Rockland
County. For tickets or information, go
to www.penguinrep.org or call (845)
786-2873.
Elie Wiesel Memorial award, and Dr.
Mehnaz Afridi, the keynote speaker, will
discuss Shoah Through Muslim Eyes.
All proceeds will benefit Holocaust
and tolerance education programs. For
information, call (845) 574-4099 or go to
holocauststudies.org.
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Tolerance and Education offers a pro- In addition, there will be a Traveling
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ber 16, at 12:30 p.m., and again at 7, at a wish, hope, or dream on a piece of col-
On the first Wednesday of the month, practices have been deeply rooted in Juda- Rockland Community Colleges Ellipse, ored paper and place it into the holes in

Tovah!
Rockland Jewish Family Service offers a ism for thousands of years. Technology Center in Suffern. the wall. Scott Fine, the artist who cre-

Tovah!
mindfulness and meditation class led by
Carole Brill, who outlines techniques to
reduce stress and enliven your life by expe-
riencing relaxation and peace. She works
with music, mindfulness, and other simple
tools you can use in daily life. Meditative
Wishing you a sweetyou
Wishing
RJFS is at 450 West Nyack Road in West
Nyack. The next class is on Wednesday,
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354-2121, ext. 142, or email her at cking@
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newa sweet
year. new year.
The program will include a keynote
address by war veteran Alan Moskin,
the museums vice president. Artist Walt
Nygard will present Combat Paper,
an art project where artists decon-
struct American military uniforms,
reclaim them as paper, and use them to
ated the unique and colorful display of
light and shadow, will be there.
Refreshments will be served. For
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Cheryl Rosenberg, former BPY president, runs for Englewood City Council
C
JOANNE PALMER
hoosing to run for public
office is a big step.
You open yourself up to
scrutiny and to rejection;
you have to get used to see-
ing your name in big letters
on peoples lawns. You have to learn about
issues, some of which interest you, some
of which dont, and you have to figure out
where you stand on them. You have to
develop a thick skin. And despite all the
commonly believed truths about local poli-
ticians, it helps if you have a big heart.
It also helps if you have the skills that
come from training, experience, and
focused education.
Cheryl Rosenberg is running for the
Englewood city council; she hopes to rep-
resent the First Ward, the citys northeast-
ern quadrant, where she lives. It is a logical
culmination of the 36-year-olds interests,
history, passion, and clear-eyed training.
Given the way Englewood politics works, As president of Ben Porat Yosef, Ms. Rosenberg is at the podium at Bergen
her position on the Democratic party bal- County Plaza as the Israeli flag is raised on Yom Haatzmaut.
lot gives her a good chance of winning.
So who is she?
Ms. Rosenberg comes from York, Pennsylvania, where
her father, Fredric Weiner, was a general practitioner, and Why? It was about community organizing, she said. Not
her mother, Nancy Weiner, was an active parent and com-
munity member. The Weiners belonged to the only syna-
gogue in town, Temple Beth Sholom. Its Reform, and like
many Reform congregations, it stressed social justice. I
grew up feeling very deeply Jewish, Ms. Rosenberg said,
and she absorbed Beth Sholoms values.
22 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 27, 2017
As a student at the University of Penn-
sylvania, Ms. Rosenberg worked on issues
that she cared about. I started working
with two different reproductive health
groups, she said. During her senior year,
she worked for an endocrinologist who
treated adolescents, particularly the vic-
tims of sexual assault, teaching them
about their reproductive rights. I taught
teens about their bodies and their rights,
she said. She also did similar work for the
American Civil Liberties Union.
She also was a leader for a group that
helped students understand body image,
diet, and healthy eating, she continued.
Most of what I did involved womens
issues, and all of it touched me, and had
personal meaning for me in some way.
Ms. Rosenberg majored in communica-
tions, but I am very numbers oriented,
she said. Thats where my skill set is. Its
a potent mixture of talent and education
for a politician, being able to talk about
budgets and finance not only with convic-
tion but with actual understanding.
Although she graduated college in the
standard four years, in 2003, Ms. Rosen-
Given that background, Ms. Rosenberg became very berg finished her coursework in three. She spent the last
political very quickly. She became student body president. year working on the Clara Belle Duvall Reproductive Free-
dom Project, where the Pennsylvania state chapter of the
about particular issues, back then, but about bringing peo- ACLU focused its efforts on womens reproductive health.
ple together and talking about the values that unite us. It Its director, Carol Petraitis, became a mentor. She taught
was about making relationships. me to be an activist, Ms. Rosenberg said.
She also was involved in the model United Nations, and The project she helped organize was the huge rally,
in fundraising for her class. It really was community orga- the March for Womens Rights, that the national ACLU
nizing from the bottom up, she said. held on the mall in Washington in the summer of 2004.

It attracted hundreds of thousands of people the orga-
nizers said it drew 1.5 million, and more dispassionate
observers said perhaps 800,000, and they agreed that it
was the biggest gathering on the mall to date.
It was amazing and remember, it was before cell
phones, Ms. Rosenberg said. That day, it felt hopeful.
And thats why I went into politics. To have hundreds
of thousands of people on your side, and to feel that
people hear you, that you can make a difference that
is so very powerful.
And it was powerful for me also because I was able to
bring my passion and my skills in execution together.
She was 23 years old then.
That year, she also got married, to Mordy Rosenberg.
(The two now are about to divorce amicably, she added.)
So when the ACLUs project ended with the marchs suc-
cess, she went to work for her new husbands family
foundation, the Murray and Sydell Rosenberg Founda-
tion, which funds impoverished communities and indi-
viduals around the world. As the foundations only ded-
icated full-time employee, she developed managerial
skills, and even more than that, I developed an under-
standing of the legal aspects of foundations and nonprof-
its, she said. I did a lot of accounting for them. It helped
me transfer my skills.
Also, I was working with some families in very hard
situations, one-on-one, so there a little bit of a social work
component to what I was doing too.
Although she had grown up strongly connected to the
Jewish community, shed grown a bit away from it dur-
ing college, Ms. Rosenberg said, but her courtship and
marriage drew her back, in a new way. When she met her
No matter what you
look like, or where you
are from, or how you
practice, it doesnt
matter. We are all
the same people.
future husband, I started to explore Orthodox Judaism,
she said. I didnt think at first that it was for me, but even
then I fell in love with some parts of it with the commu-
nity aspect, the meals, the friendships, and the concept
of Shabbat. I loved that from the very beginning, the idea
of a day of relaxation and community and connection.
After the first two of their four children were born, the
Rosenbergs, like so many other new families, decided that
they needed more space. They moved to Englewood in
2007, drawn by the towns beauty and its proximity to
Manhattan, but also to Kesher, the Orthodox community
just taking root there. I grew up in a small Jewish com-
munity, and I really wanted that, Ms. Rosenberg said.
Although Englewoods Jewish community is not at all
small, Kesher was then.
She also was attracted to Englewood because I wanted
a diverse multicultural experience for my kids, she said.
Although there is a limit to the diversity a suburban Jewish
As BPY officially went green, PSE&Gs Joe Prusik, Cheryl Rosenberg, Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle,
Senator Robert Gordon, PSE&Gs Susanna Chiu, and BPYs treasurer Asher Toporovsky marked the occasion.
day school can offer, I wanted their experiences out of
school to be diverse, she said.
The family quickly became active in Kesher, and soon
Mordy Rosenberg became its president. I wanted to be
more involved too, Ms. Rosenberg said. I wanted to have
an impact in the community. She thought about the pos-
sibilities open to her. I hadnt gotten involved in activism
in Englewood then, and I was much more connected to
my kids school.
Their children Asher, 11, Caleb, 10, Siona, 8 1/2, and
Shai, 5 all are students at Ben Porat Yosef, a pre-K
through eighth-grade day school in Paramus that is differ-
ent from other local day schools in that it teaches Sephardi
traditions alongside the Ashkenazi worldview, instead of
as exotic outliers.
The Rosenbergs chose the school because It is warm
and small and educationally progressive. It wants kids to
be happy and confident and engaged. They understood
that its approach to learning was a natural outgrowth of
its Sephardi background and culture.
So, Ms. Rosenberg said, when she was looking around
for a way to fulfill her drive for relationships, leadership,
and community outreach, I became president of Ben
Porat Yosef.
It was not, of course, that easy. I was the first woman
and the first Ashkenazi to be elected by the full board to a
full term, she said. But it was that fulfilling. It was amaz-
ing and eye-opening in a million ways, she said.
There was the cultural aspect. I always had been
intrigued by the uniqueness of the Sephardi traditions and
culture, but I actually learned so much more about it, Ms.
Rosenberg said. The ideology is that it is a big tent. We
are all part of the same people. We all pray together. No
matter what you look like, or where you are from, or how
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you practice, it doesnt matter. We are all the same people.
I found it so beautiful to lead from this place, by being
inspired by what we were trying to accomplish.
And then there was what she learned about herself, and
about herself as a leader. I had never been in a leadership
position this big, so I got myself a personal coach, she
said. I enmeshed myself in leadership training and evalu-
ation. I really wanted to learn about myself and to be sure
that I could be successful.
Her gender was an extra challenge. Whenever she met
with other school leaders, I would walk into a room full
of men, she said. There were almost no women.
At the same time, Ms. Rosenberg was one of the fourth
cohort of the Berrie Fellows Leadership Program, funded
by the Russell Berrie Foundation and the Jewish Federa-
tion of Northern New Jersey. That program is specifically
focused on taking up-and-coming local leaders and train-
ing them to focus and refine their skills, understand and
direct their passion, and become bigger, better versions of
themselves as leaders.
Ms. Rosenberg was the president of BPY for three years,
and I spent the last year and a half of my presidency
deeply involved with the Berrie program, she said.
Angelica Berrie, the foundations president, really
touched me in a major way, because she kept saying
Dream big. Dream big, Ms. Rosenberg said.
Laura Freeman, who is the federations interim market-
ing and communications director, is a former Berrie fellow
and the programs liaison to the federation. The Berrie fel-
lowship program doesnt speak to specific passions, Ms.
Freeman said. It speaks to listening to your heart. It gives
individuals the tools to really build upon what is simmer-
ing inside them.
The program focuses on three areas personal
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leadership development, organizational leader- presentation to the municipal committee. Thats

The Berrie fellows grin after finishing a break the box exercise. Ms.
Rosenberg holds the box; she is surrounded by Christine ODonnell,
Eileen Pleva, Clive Lipshitz, Greg Haber, and Sarah Nanus.
ship development, and understanding the issues
facing Jews today. We feel that by intersecting
these three areas, we give the fellows the tools to
be competent in doing whatever speaks to them.
So there was Cheryl Rosenberg, at the end of
her BPY presidency, with the experience that a
so-far-still-short but active life had given her, and
with the leadership skills that a great deal of train-
ing had given her, faced with a decision: What
should she do next?
When I was talking about it to a close friend, I
said, Do you think I would be okay in politics?
Ms. Rosenberg said. And she said, I think youd
be great at politics. And there just so happens to
be an open seat in our ward.
So she went for it.
Ms. Rosenberg started out with the understand-
ing that she would represent not only the Jewish
community but her entire ward which stretches
west of the wealthy East Hill, west of the railroad
tracks, to far more diverse middle-class neighbor-
hoods. That fit well with her worldview; she had
moved to Englewood, remember, to look for both
Jewish community and diversity. She found it in
her own ward.
Like many towns and small cities, Englewoods
politics are complicated. A candidate for city
council tries to win the party line that party is
Democratic and to do that they have to make a
32 elected officials, eight from each of the citys
four wards; a man and a woman from each wards
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At the end of that process, Ms. Rosenberg got
the party line.
How did she do it?
I started by just getting to know the people on
the committee, Ms. Rosenberg said. It was the
most incredibly fascinating experience. She got
to know and to be awed by Sandy Greenberg,
the 88-year-old woman who had been mayor in
the mid 1970s, and whose encyclopedic mem-
ory provided Ms. Rosenberg with huge swathes
of local history. She got to know Gene Skurnick,
who is just about to leave the city council after
many years, and who also has a vast and idiosyn-
cratic understanding of local politics. She learned
from many local officials and activists. As is true
in most places, there are racial tensions in Engle-
wood; often they are masked but frequently they
become visible. I think Englewood was never a
fully integrated town, and we still struggle with
that, Ms. Rosenberg said. That inconvenient
truth was the subject of many of her conversa-
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up with Wow. I am so inspired.

These leaders were so committed and
engaged, and when I think of what they
went through...
It has really changed me. It gave me
more of a sense of what the town needs, and
how we got in the position were in now.
She is running, she said, because I feel
that I am the right person to represent
the community because I understand the
needs of the Jewish community, and the
Jewish communitys values, and I am also
deeply committed to the broader demo-
cratic values of the general Englewood
community. I feel that I can bridge the
two, instead of favoring one to the exclu-
sion of the other.
I think that Englewood needs a
long-term financial plan, and a strate-
gic vision, she continued. There have
been attempts in the past, but nothing The Rosenberg children from left, Asher, Caleb, Siona, and Shai are
has taken hold for long enough or deeply on vacation in Hilton Head; at right, Siona helps with a lawn sign.
enough for us to make progress. I know
that doesnt sound exciting, but that is what we need. That out if she will represent her ward on Englewoods city coun-
is what will enable us to work toward those ideas that were cil. My kids are pretty sure that this is just one step down
passionate about. Its when the city is on stable ground and from being president of the United States, she said. She
we have the resources we need for everyone and we can doesnt know what will come next for her shes pretty sure
make sure that our schools are as good as they can be, that that in fact its not the U.S. presidency but I am on a jour-
we can do that. ney, and every time so far I have figured out my next step
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Israel bans decade-long scam that bilked millions worldwide

ANDREW TOBIN
JERUSALEM Israels multibillion-dol-
lar binary options industry, which has
scammed millions of people around
the world over the past decade, is out of
business.
On Monday, the Knesset unanimously
passed a law to ban the industry. There
were 53 votes in favor of the measure, and
none against. By the time it goes into effect
in three months, all binary options firms
will have to shutter. Anyone who stays
involved in the industry will face up to two
years in jail.
We worry about the BDS movement,
Knesset member Rachel Azaria of the
Kulanu party said in her introduction
to the law. This industry has a huge
impact on how Israel is viewed through-
out the world. Our government officials
go to international conferences and their
colleagues abroad raise their eyebrows
because of this industry.
According to the Times of Israel, whose
dogged English-language reporting on
binary options pushed officials to take
The Azrieli Towers stand over Tel Aviv.
action, the binary options industry in
Israel has brought in up to $10 billion a
year over the past decade. Hundreds of
local companies have defrauded millions
of people worldwide.
enriched and strengthened because of law
and misrepresent their location, creden-
MOSHE SHAI/FLASH90
Only a handful of Israelis have been
arrested for binary options fraud, and
none have been indicted, even as interna-
tional law enforcement against the indus-
try has ramped up. In August, Israel Police
Superintendent Gabi Biton said that Israeli
organized crime was being massively
enforcements failure to grasp the scope of
the problem.
Binary options are marketed as a finan-
cial instrument that can yield big returns
fast. The companies websites allow cli-
ents to place bets on whether a com-
modity, like a stock or trading index, will
increase or decrease in value over a short
time. In most cases, though, clients lose
all or nearly all the money they invested,
because the game is rigged.
Salespeople regularly use false identities
tials, and product.
A Hong Kong woman who asked to
remain anonymous lost about $10 million
to an Israel-based binary options company
over the past two years. Aggressive and
dishonest salespeople bilked her of her life
savings, the unmarried retiree said, as well
as millions of dollars she borrowed from
family and friends.
The cost is not just money, she said in
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Texass Governor Greg Abbott signs his states anti-BDS bill at a Jewish
community center in Austin on May 2, 2017.
State anti-BDS laws are
hitting unintended targets
and nobodys happy
Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON On May 2, Israels
Independence Day, Texas state Rep. Phil
King stood smiling as Gov. Greg Abbott
signed Kings bill banning the state from
doing business with boycotters of Israel.
Anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas
policies, and we will not tolerate such
actions against an important ally,
Abbott said of the bill that passed the
Legislature overwhelmingly.
Less than six months later, King had
to explain why his signature pro-Israel
policy was not an anti-Texas policy.
City officials in Dickinson, a suburb of
Houston hit hard by Hurricane Harvey,
required any applicant for relief grants
to verify that he or she (1) does not boy-
cott Israel; and (2) will not boycott Israel
during the term of this Agreement. The
American Civil Liberties Union took
notice and objected loudly. Observers
noted the queasy-making optics of a pro-
Israel policy standing in the way of hur-
ricane relief.
King, a Republican whose district
includes Fort Worth, immediately started
making calls to track down the Dickinson
officials who drafted the contract.
Its a complete misunderstanding of
the statute, he said in an interview after
what had been for him a surprisingly
busy Friday, after the ACLUs objections
made news. The office of Larry Taylor,
a Republican who sponsored the law
in the state Senate and whose district
includes Dickinson, also was fielding
questions about the law on Friday.
If Dickinson is indeed misunder-
standing the law, the case nevertheless
brought to the fore misgivings about
the measures passed in more than 20
states targeting the Boycott, Divest-
ment and Sanctions movement aimed
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when issues have come up, weve spoken
with attorneys and legislators in various
states, said Jacob Millner, the Midwest
director for the Israel Project.
The controversies over Dickinson and
the Kansas case come at a critical time
for a congressional bill that would extend
1970s laws targeting the Arab League boy-
cott to those who comply with boycotts ini-
tiated by international organizations like
the European Union or United Nations.
The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which has
support from the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, also would expand the
prohibited boycotts to those that target
only settlement goods. Violators who do
participate in boycotts face fines, and in
some cases imprisonment.
AIPAC wants broad bipartisan backing
for the bill, but only 14 of the Democratic
caucuss 48 members are co-sponsoring
the legislation. Notably, Sen. Kirsten Gilli-
brand of New York who has assiduously
courted the pro-Israel community in the
past dropped her co-sponsorship after
representations from the ACLU and pro-
Palestinian activists.
Sen. Ben. Cardin of Maryland, the lead
Democratic sponsor of the bill, said the
law is sound, but he is open to some revi-
sions to make it clearer that it does not
undercut free speech.
Dickinson City Management assistant
Bryan Milward said that the city was apply-
ing the law correctly. Because our appli-
cation also functions as a contract, it was
included in there, he said.
King said that simply was not the case.
My understanding of what Dickinson is
doing is they have private funds being dis-
tributed for a grant program for individu-
als, he said in the interview. The law has
nothing to do with private funds. It has
nothing to do with individuals.
A reading of the law bears out Kings baf-
flement: It refers only to for-profit com-
panies as the targeted boycotters, and
goes to lengths to define company as
not applying to an individual. It also lists
six specific government entities that are
required not to do business with the tar-
geted companies: five retirement systems
and the school fund. Dickinsons grant
program, with funds raised from private
individuals, would not qualify. A survey
of other hurricane-afflicted local authori-
ties in Texas by Electonic Intifada, a pro-
Palestinian news site, found no other such
requirement.
Laws have unintended consequences
and even when they misapplied can back-
fire on their drafters intent, said Rachel
Lerner, the senior vice president for com-
munity relations at J Street. The liberal
Jewish Mideast lobby opposes BDS but
sees the anti-BDS laws as infringing on free
speech. Pro-Israel groups should stick to
advocacy to counter BDS and avoid legisla-
tive bids to stop the boycotts, J Street says.
Youre pursuing a strategy thats out
of your control how its implemented,
Lerner said. Its like using a cudgel for an
issue. Its the wrong tool. Its not good for
the Jews or Israel that people think that
they cant have a roof over their head if
they boycott Israel.
The New Israel Fund, another liberal
group, said in a release that the Texas case
proved the anti-BDS laws were just plain
wrong.
The Jewish Federations of North Amer-
ica will feature a session on how to pass
such laws at its General Assembly in Los
Angeles next month. The session, featur-
ing three lawmakers who put forward
such bills, is still very much on, said Ethan
Felson, the director of the JFNA-affiliated
Israel Action Network.
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Shes a consumer boycotter, shes trying to bootstrap
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Hauss of the ACLU, who is representing Koontz, said
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It seems to me that theyre enforcing the statute
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Jewish Voice for Peace, a group that supports BDS,
also is seizing on the Kansas and Texas cases to illus-
trate the pitfalls of the laws. Its government affairs liai-
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the Kansas law an anti-democratic attempt to silence
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Israel advocacy should be on Israels government and
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The way to increase support for Israel is not to shut
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Conservative movement
doubles down on intermarriage to offer feedback.
It comes off as digging its heels in the sand, said Rabbi

its rabbis ask why
BEN SALES and ultimately it doesnt help those families
who are hurting.
It doesnt help. The letter was prompted by declarations
I dont know how it happened or why from a few Conservative rabbis, who said ear-
it happened. lier this year that they would begin perform-
The most common response Im see- ing mixed marriages. It affirms the traditional
ing is confusion. practice of reserving rabbinic officiation to
Thats what some Conservative rabbis two Jews, but emphasizes that its authors are
are saying about their movements recent equally adamant that our clergy and com-
major statement on intermarriage, which munities go out of their way to create multiple
reasserts the ban on rabbis performing opportunities for deep and caring relationships
interfaith weddings while urging its mem- Rabbi Bradley Shavit between the couple and the rabbi, the couple
ber synagogues to welcome interfaith cou- Artson YOUTUBE and the community.
ples in any and all ways, both before and Despite the effusive language welcoming
after the nuptials. non-Jewish partners, several leading Conservative rabbis
The letter, signed by the leaders of the centrist move- are criticizing the letter, questioning why it was necessary
ments four major institutions and made public last and calling for the ban to be either lifted or modified.
Wednesday, does not reflect a change in policy. Some rabbis say the letter is at best repetitive and at
A lot of rabbis felt like this latest letter really is non- worst damaging. It is another reminder to interfaith
news, said Rabbi Jason Miller, a technologist who serves couples that the movement does not sanctify their mar-
as a part-time pulpit rabbi in Toledo, Ohio, and adminis- riages. The rabbis also complained that they were pre-
ters a Facebook group for Conservative rabbis. To just sented with the letter this week as a fait accompli, just
come out and restate the ruling in a nicer way isnt news, days before it was published, without having the chance
Jesse Olitzky of Congregation Beth El in South Orange. It
comes off as trying to be welcoming without being wel-
coming. We try to celebrate all those who are part of our
community, and statements like this make it harder for
us to do so.
Rabbi Jack Moline, for decades the rabbi of Agudas
Achim Congregation in Alexandria, Virginia, and now
a civil liberties activist, added: This is a phenomenon
weve been dealing with for a long time, and why this par-
ticular statement was issued at this particular moment is
confusing to me. My objection to it isnt that we shouldnt
be taking this position. My objection to it is theres no
there there. Why am I focused on this right now? Every-
thing about it seems to be random.
The Conservative movement long has attempted to
straddle the question of intermarriage, neither accept-
ing it like Reform Judaism nor declaring it anathema like
much of the Orthodox movement. Its ambivalence toward
mixed marriages comes from the movements mission to
observe Jewish law while embracing the modern world,
and from congregations that include both traditionalists
and, like a majority of American Jewish communities, fam-
ilies affected by interfaith marriage.
Conservative Jewry falls in the middle when it comes
to the data on intermarriage. About a quarter of Con-
servative Jews are intermarried, compared to almost no

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Orthodox Jews and half of Reform Jews,
according to the Pew Research Center.
t We are committed to the princi-
- ples of inclusiveness and welcoming
r and human dignity of all people, said
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean of
the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies
in Los Angeles, who wrote the letter.
Were also committed to the princi-
ples of the integrity of Jewish law and
- commanded-ness.
s The prohibiting-yet-welcoming pos-
t ture isnt new. Its the same stance that
the Rabbinical Assembly took in 1972,
- when the association of Conservative
rabbis adopted a paper prohibiting
o interfaith marriage. Written by Rabbi
- Aaron Blumenthal, the paper urged
e that every effort should be made to
retain contact with the intermarried
couple, who deserve our deep con-
, cern, according to the Jewish thought
s journal Zeramim.
- Similar language appeared in a June
statement from the United Synagogue
of Conservative Judaism, which restated
- the ban and urged the movement to
o expand our efforts to welcome all fami-
lies, including those that are interfaith,
to explore Judaism together with us.
Artson says the language of welcom-
ing is more assertive in this letter than in
past statements, and that the unanimity
it represents among Conservative insti-
tutions makes it especially powerful: It
was co-signed by Arnold Eisen, the chan-
cellor of the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary; Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, CEO of the
Rabbinical Assembly; and Rabbi Steven
Wernick, CEO of the United Synagogue
of Conservative Judaism.
Artson said he consulted with 15 up-
and-coming young rabbis as he wrote
the letter. The fact that we periodically
reaffirm our core convictions is part of
being a healthy organization, he said.
Christians have been believing in Jesus
for a long time, but they keep sharing the
good news.
Artson portrayed the letter as another
stage in a long process of re-evaluating
the ban. Conservative rabbis are prohib-
ited from officiating at or even attending
intermarriages; failure to heed the ban is
one of three ways a Conservative rabbi
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More and more rabbis feel uncom-
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Jewish World
Orthodox Unions new project
says women dont have to be rabbis to be leaders
BEN SALES
The Orthodox Union is founding its own
division to advance women as congre-
gational leaders, as well as to promote
Jewish study and communal participa-
tion for women in modern Orthodoxy.
The announcement comes nearly
nine months after the group, an
umbrella association of Orthodox syna-
gogues, issued a ruling banning those
synagogues from hiring women for
clergy roles.
The Department of Womens Initia-
tives, which will launch on Nov. 1, aims
to increase womens participation in
synagogues in a way that the O.U. feels
is consonant with Orthodox tradition.
I think its important for women to
hear what they can do, said Dr. Adina
Shmidman, the departments incom-
ing director. This department is really
focused on the positive, and the will
to continue and find opportunities for
women. I think positivity and enthusi-
asm and uniting women through Torah
study is primary, whether it be personal
leadership opportunities or communal
leadership roles.
The department will have a budget
in the hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars and provide guidance, networking,
and funding for women who want to be
professional leaders in Orthodox syna-
gogues. It also will promote women as
congregational scholars-in-residence
and encourage women to take on
lay leadership roles at synagogue. In
addition, it will encourage the physi-
cal expansion of womens spaces in
synagogues.
The department also will offer high-
level womens classes in Torah study, as
well as programs for young women. And it
will form a think tank to analyze programs
and resources for Orthodox women.
Conceived three years ago, the
department is in part a response to the
ascendance of women to public leader-
ship roles during the past few decades,
O.U. leaders said. They also noted that
there is a much wider range of educa-
tional opportunities available to Ortho-
dox women than there used to be. A
synagogue with an entirely male senior
staff risks unintentionally sidelining half
its membership, OUs president, Moishe
Bane, said.
Its difficult to expect that when men
are the primary communal leadership
that theyll understand and appreciate
the roles women play and should be
playing, and the needs they have, Bane
said. I think theres a recognition in the
Orthodox Union that the world is chang-
ing rapidly, and peoples expectations
are changing rapidly.
32 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 27, 2017
Adina Shmidman, who earned a
doctorate in educational psychology and
is the founder of a mentoring program
for rabbis wives, will be the first
director of the Orthodox Unions new
Department of Womens Initiatives.
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In February, the group issued a ruling
barring women from holding a title such
as rabbi, or even from serving with-
out title in a role in which she would be
performing common clergy functions,
including ruling on legal matters, offici-
ating at lifecycle events, delivering ser-
mons from the pulpit during services,
leading services, and serving as a syna-
gogues primary authority.
The same ruling urged an expanded
role for women as teachers and pastoral
counselors, and as lay leaders and pro-
fessionals. The Rabbinical Council of
America, another Orthodox umbrella
group, also has issued a ruling against
women clergy.
Four Orthodox synagogues that are
O.U. members now employ women
in such positions. All the women are
graduates of Yeshivat Maharat, a liberal
Orthodox womens seminary in River-
dale, N.Y. Women who graduate from
the seminary receive the title maha-
rat, a Hebrew acronym for Jewish
legal, spiritual and Torah leader that
avoids conferring the title rabbi. But
earlier this year, the O.U. sent represen-
tatives to these synagogues asking the
female clergy to change their titles.
According to a recent survey, a major-
ity of American modern Orthodox Jews
agree, either fully or somewhat, that
women should have expanded roles in
the clergy. More than one third either
fully or somewhat support a woman
holding a position that has rabbinic
authority. A solid majority says that
a woman can serve as president of a
synagogue, which is a lay position. The
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliances
website lists more than 80 women
who have been presidents of Orthodox
congregations.
Bane and Allen Fagin, the O.U.s exec-
utive vice president, said the depart-
ments establishment is not a reaction
to fallout from the ban. Rather, Bane
said, the ban itself was a result of the
departments planning process, which
included an examination of Jewish legal
limits on womens leadership.
The department will advance women
as teachers, professional staff, and
pastoral counselors. But Bane said a
woman should not be the face of the
synagogue.
One of the most important conversa-
tions we believe needs to take place in
our community is to define appropriate
job descriptions and titles for women
who will serve as synagogue profes-
sionals, in roles that are consistent with
Jewish law, consistent with tradition,
but are extremely important within the
shul, he said.
Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, the direc-
tor of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist
Alliance, said she hoped the O.U. would
make good on its promises to advance
women and invest more in womens
programs. Along with those positive
actions, she recommended that the
O.U. stop actively opposing Orthodox
women clergy and the congregations
that employ them. Weiss-Greenberg
spoke to JTA without knowledge of the
departments establishment, which is
being reported here first.
They list all these things that women
can and should be doing, she said,
referring to the O.U.s Jewish legal rul-
ing. Actions speak louder than words.
Lets hear from women women who
are not token women, who are highly
educated, passionate and invested.
Shmidman is the kind of synagogue
leader the O.U. hopes to develop more
of. She has a doctorate in educational
psychology and serves her community
as the rebbetzin, or rabbis wife, of her
synagogue in the Philadelphia suburb
of Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. In 2015,
she founded the Rebbetzin to Rebbetzin
Mentoring Program under the auspices
of Yeshiva University; the program pairs
younger rabbis wives with more experi-
enced rebbetzins who guide them on how
to serve and navigate their communities.
While Shmidman hopes to continue
training rebbetzins, she wants to expand
leadership and learning opportunities for
other women as well. The department
will push synagogues to offer classes for
women on par with what men receive
such as a daf yomi, which covers a and our value system is eternal, we have
page of Talmud daily as well as weekly
or monthly womens learning groups and
mother-daughter study programs.
But Shmidman said she also wants to
move beyond formal frontal learning.
She suggested, as an example, a model
where participants each study texts and
teach them to each other.
Text study is extremely important,
but classes on mind, body, soul, theres
so many avenues where Torah can come
through beyond text study, she said,
adding that a goal will be helping peo-
ple find God and Torah in all areas of
their lives.
One of the departments goals is to
make the synagogue a friendlier space
for women, who sit separated from
men during prayer, and often during
Torah study as well. Fagin said that at
some synagogues the womens section
of the sanctuary feels isolated from the
mens section, and that its not always
accessible.
Theres no question that shuls are
organized in many ways around specific
activity that is typically engaged in by
I think positivity
and enthusiasm
and uniting
women through
Torah study is
primary, whether
it be personal
leadership
opportunities
or communal
leadership roles.
DR. ADINA SHMIDMAN
men, often not by women, Fagin said.
There were physical things that could be
done to be more conducive to the physi-
cal participation of women in prayer.
Bane acknowledged that among Jews to
the right of the O.U., some of the depart-
ments activities may be controversial.
But he said the group hopes to show
that just because Jewish law is primary, it
doesnt mean that Jewish women have to
be secondary.
Were not suggesting that these
parameters are appropriate for every
community, [but] theyre appropriate
for the Orthodox Union community, he
said. Although our Jewish law is eternal
to be attuned to how we have to adjust
our focus for the values of the time.
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Editorial
The beginning of the fall
R is all about gratitude
ussell Baker, a longtime New
York Times columnist, was a
brilliant writer and a startlingly
clear and wonderfully human
thinker. (He quite possibly still is all those
things; although hes long retired from the
Times, my good friend Google tells me that
hes old now but still alive.)
He opened his memoir, Growing Up,
with a view of his mother, at the end of
her life, with memories whirling around
her like leaves. He was born in 1925 and
she guarded him ferociously as he grew
up during the Depression. The book
came out in 1982 and I remember little
specific about it except for the beginning,
which was so fierce and brightly colored
and deeply felt that it seared itself into
my memory.
(It is an extraordinary book. Anyone
interested in memoir writing or for
that matter in any kind of good writing
should try to find it.)
I think about it every fall, when the
bright leaves whirl around us, and we
cant grab them and we cant hold onto
them and we know they will fade and
we know that winter is coming, but we
still can glory in them. I think about it
now even more this fall, with my own
mother starting to be surrounded by that
bright illogical whirl that Russell Baker
described as she too starts to fail.
Are the concepts of fall and fail related?
This week, everything outside is start-
ing to change. Finally, leaves are starting
to change color, and the heavy winds are
tossing them in a satisfactorily autum-
nal way. It also reminds me of chil-
drens poetry. Its almost November. In
Chicken Soup With Rice, one of Mau-
rice Sendaks many masterpieces and
arguably his least dark one November
is described perfectly.
In Novembers gusty gale/I will flop
my flippy tail/And drink hot soup! Ill be
a whale! Flipping once!/ Flipping twice!/
Flipping chicken soup with rice!
It reminds us that although there will
be no Jewish holidays in November, two
very important civil days are coming.
The end of November, of course, is
Thanksgiving, when we all celebrate our
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democracy, the glory that is our coun-
try, and the hope that somehow, some-
day soon, things will get better, as they
always have since the bravery of the
countrys founders brought us into being.
We also celebrate our place in the glori-
ous tapestry, the multicultural, glowing
diversity that nourishes all of us.
And on November 7 we that is, all
of us who are citizens and who are old
enough will all go to the polls, even
though this is an off-year election, to earn
our right to celebrate Thanksgiving.
There is much at stake this year, as
there is every year. Its particularly
important to vote in New Jersey, because
the state will elect a new governor, and
that choice will be telling. If you think
your candidate has no choice, vote any-
way. If you think your candidate is a
shoo-in, vote anyway. Dont be compla-
cent. It matters.
And now also is a good time to encour-
age people not only to vote, but to con-
sider running themselves. Take courage
from Cheryl Rosenberg. Like everyone
else who runs, she risks losing which
is always painful, not matter how thick
your shell and robust your defenses in
order to have the chance to lead. And
for her, as for many other candidates,
leadership isnt about ego or exhibition-
ism. (Of course, you need a healthy ego
to run for office, but note the modifier
healthy.) Its genuinely about public ser-
vice, about being galvanized by what you
see and wanting to change it. Pardon the
clich, please, but it genuinely is about
giving back.
So we urge anyone who feels secure
enough to risk it and driven enough
to risk it to consider running for office.
Start (relatively) small. Start at the city
council level, maybe, or freeholder, or
state legislature. Those are important
jobs, and theyre hands-on, retail rather
than wholesale. Learn the craft, and then
maybe stay there, because its deeply sat-
isfying to work with and for people you
actually know, or then consider moving
on to even more contested positions. But
think about trying. If you have something
to offer, we all need you. JP
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Honoring our parents
W
hen my mother, Eleanor share them with my children, who adore
Paul, turned 70, I wrote a their grandmother. But one story especially
tribute to her that asked stands out.
the question why the Bible I was a child of perhaps 6 in Los Ange-
includes Honor your father and mother les and we were driving in her unreliable
among the 10 most important moral station wagon on a night where the heav-
commandments. ens opened and a torrential downpour
Is it really as important as Do not mur- descended. The car stalled, and we were
der and Do not steal? stuck in middle of traffic. My mother got
I answered that gratitude is the mother of out of the car, refusing to allow us to follow
all virtues. The Bible is telling us that with- her so we wouldnt get soaked. She opened
out our parents we would have no life, no the hood of the car and tried her best to get
love, no security, no future. Forget that, and the car to start. Soon, she had cut her hand
your humanity has been fun- and blood was dripping out.
damentally compromised. Still, she refused to allow her
Now, on her 75th birth- children out of the car as she
day, its time for me to offer asked passersby to help.
a tribute, however inade- I was little boy but it was on
quate, to a woman of extraor- that unforgettable night that I
dinary power and steely learned what a mother is pre-
determination. pared to do for a child.
My mother raised five chil- When my wife and I lived
dren on her own, working in Oxford for 11 years, where
two jobs to support us, clothe Rabbi six of our nine children were
us, feed us, and send us to Shmuley born, amid constant money
a Jewish day school where I Boteach issues, there never was a fam-
could discover the tradition ily celebration my mother
of my ancestors. I am cur- missed. Not when a first
rently returning from a weekend as scholar- daughter, Mushki, was born, not when we
in-residence in Munich, Germany. Without had a bris, not when our 3-year-old son
my mother I could not have become a rabbi, Mendy had his hair cut, and not when our
and so much of the work I do in the Jewish girls pleaded with her to join us for the Jew-
community would not exist. ish holidays. When she walked through
Single parents are the unsung heroes of the door the childrens eyes would light up.
our community. Raising five children by Grandma! Their hero had arrived.
herself involved my mother getting up early Most of all and this is painful I remem-
to prepare us for school, running to her job ber my mothers loneliness. When youre a
at a local bank, coming home to make us boy of 8 and your mother divorces, youre
dinner, and then, for a few years, working convinced shes in her 60s. You cant com-
as a checkout clerk in a supermarket to earn pute that a mother of five children really is
extra income for her kids. such a young woman.
My mother did all this for my siblings Just a few years ago, with my wife, Deb-
and me so we could enjoy a normal life and bie, sitting next to me, I made a calculation
know, amid significant financial challenges, about how old my mother was at the time
that we were loved. of her divorce. I was shocked when I real-
There are so many stories of her sac- ized that she was 32. She remained alone
rifices that I will never forget, and I often for many years, save for a few intermittent
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the author of 31 books, most recently The Israel Warrior.
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relationships, many of which had no future because
my mother always put her children first.
Still, she never once complained, always bearing the
most positive outlook on life and bidding me to do the
same. The other night I was speaking to my children
about their grandmother and they told me she is the
most positive person they have ever met. She never
complains, never has a bad day, is always a blessing and
never a burden to anyone. Her sunny disposition raises
her grandchildren up.
y When her financial situation improved after she and
my siblings opened a jewelry business in Miami free
- plug, its called Sibling and its a great place to shop she
instituted a policy of giving money to every represen-
- tative of a yeshiva or poor family who came through
r its building requesting support. And she regularly sits
down with Jewish newspapers, and if she sees a story
t of tragedy or woe, she sends a check, unsolicited, to the
w families who are suffering.
Named after Queen Esther in Hebrew and after
t Eleanor Roosevelt in English, my mother always
endeavored to bequeath to me her positive values.
. When she would call me and I would sound despon-
r dent because of mounting bills or a professional
challenge, she would not let me off the phone until I
heard her out completely. Shmuley, the only bless-
ing in life is the wife that loves you and healthy chil-
I dren, she said. It was what I told your father all the
- years we were married. You are such a blessed man.
You have five healthy children. How could you let
anything else bother you?
Sometimes, as she repeated this mantra, it became
almost irritating. I hear you, Mom. Youre right. But
y I have to go. No, she would not let me off until I
- listened again and absorbed the truth of her words.
r And as I have matured, my mothers voice has begun
t to play like a loop in my mind. Few things matter other
than the strength of our relationships and the well-being
of our loved ones.
r And a few more things really matter to her the
- strength of the Jewish people and the security of the
State of Israel. My mother bequeathed to me an iron
. Jewish identity and she regularly tells all her children
and grandchildren that keeping the religion and sticking
- up for Israel is paramount.
a Now, my mother, thankfully, is with a man who
appreciates her and with whom she has built a life.
- My siblings and I are ever grateful to him for taking
loving care of a woman who always took care of oth-
ers. At her 75th birthday, my mother is, thank God,
- an adored matriarch of children, grandchildren, and
n great-grandchildren. I have dedicated several of my
books to her as the inspiration behind so much of me
- that is decent or good.
Mom, happy, happy birthday. I cannot equal you
t in nobility or heroism. Less so can I ever climb your
heights of sacrifice. But know that I will never forget, for
the length of my days, that I am blessed with a mother
who is extraordinary in every way.
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When creativity fills the doughnut hole
I
m late.
I loop around the parking lot, fervently hoping that
today Ill find a good parking spot. Is there one near the
back door, close to my classroom? Nope. How about
near the main entrance? Alas, also no. I settle for a spot in the
back. Balancing two boxes of Dunkin Donuts and schlepping
a bagful of art pads, I scurry toward my classroom.
When I get there, I drop the doughnuts and art pads on
a chair. From the corner, I grab spools of plastic sheeting
and roll them down the tables, protecting the surfaces from
shmears of acrylic paint and graphite.
I click open my art closet and survey my supplies. Today,
were studying still life. Thats what the doughnuts are
for. Well need pencils, erasers, the larger drawing paper. I
arrange the materials across one of the tables and wait for my
class to arrive.
In the days before school began, there were meetings. Meet-
ings about handling specific classroom situations, meetings
that directed us about who to contact when certain occasions
arose, meetings where we shared best prac-
tices for teaching students with various learn-
ing styles, meetings on mentoring, meetings
about sharing knowledge ... in short, meetings
to make us better educators.
Scattered among the exercises were stories.
Stories of how, from all the occupations an
educated young man or woman could choose
in this day and age, this person came to be a
teacher. As I listened, I thought about my own
story. If someone asked me why I became a Helen
teacher, what would I say? Maryles
Ive never made much money, but Ive been Shankman
blessed in the range and variety of my occupa-
tions. Ive worked as an illustrator. Ive worked
as a graphic designer at a couple of big-name magazines. Ive
been an assistant to artists and to the editorial director of
Cond Nast. Ive known giants in the fields of art, illustration,
design, and publishing. I cant believe how lucky Ive been.
And now I teach art at a boys yeshiva high school.
My first class of the day is juniors. At the sound of the bell,
they crowd into the room. The sound of them dropping their
backpacks onto the floor is like thunder.
What are we doing today? And then they notice the pink
and orange boxes. Excitedly: Dunkin Donuts? For us?
They grab for the boxes. Ah ah ah, I say, wagging my fin-
ger. Were drawing them.
The boys are confused, concerned. But...can we eat
them?
Yes, I say. But only after youve drawn them, and I okay
your drawing.
This elicits howls of anguish. They want to eat those dough-
nuts right now.
But they resist. Each student chooses a doughnut, grabs a
pencil, paper, and an eraser, and sits down.
How do you draw a doughnut? Is it just a circle with a
smaller circle inside it? Artists dont copy whatever they see;
artists impose order on chaos. You need to have a system.
I choose a pencil and begin the lesson, glancing at a pink-
glazed doughnut on the table near the window. Sunlight gilds
the frosted top of the pastry, throwing the sides into shadow. I
sketch, demonstrating, on a paper I tack to the bulletin board.
Its a cylinder, I explain. I draw an oval for the top, an oval for why I teach. To pass along the knowledge Ive been entrusted
the bottom, two straight lines connecting them. The sides are
a bit rounder, but if you begin with a cylinder, your doughnut
will have volume. Your doughnut will be three-dimensional.
I put down my pencil. The boys bend over their papers
and begin to draw. Its loud in the art room. I hear a lot of
moaning and groaning about how badly they want to eat their
doughnuts.
Yoni Sapadin painted this doughnut in
Ms. Shankmans class.
I stalk up and down the aisle between the tables, watch-
ing them work. Some boys are immediately absorbed in the
assignment, some need to hear the instructions again. As they
draw, they chat about the game last night, an
upcoming math test, movies, SATs. Someone
puts on music. People entering the building stop
to gaze at us through the big picture windows.
A student calls me over. Whats wrong? he
asks unhappily. I look at his drawing. Its beauti-
fully, sensitively rendered. The frosting dripping
off the side is perfect. The doughnut hole is the
right shape, and in the right place, not too big,
not too small, just right. But still, something is
off. What? He made the top oval correctly, yes,
but where the doughnut sits on the table, he
has drawn a straight line. It makes his doughnut
look flat, breaking the 3-D effect. Here, I say,
indicating with my pencil. The bottom line has
to echo the curve of the top line. See?
He nods and makes the correction. Suddenly, magically, his
doughnut is perfect. An expression dawns across his face, like
a lightbulb turning on behind his eyes.
The class is 40 minutes long, and 30 have passed. Mrs.
Shankman, Mrs. Shankman! the students cry, competing for
my attention. Am I done?
I evaluate each drawing. Each boy is different. Some are
talented artists. For some, this is the first time theyve taken
art. Make this line rounder, I say, or Draw a shadow under-
neath so it looks like its sitting on the table, or Doughnut
holes are actually more oval, or, Wow. Thats amazing.
One by one, the boys triumphantly gobble down their
doughnuts. They leave their papers in a drift on the table. The
next class is more advanced; theyre painting. As they wander
in, they admire the work the juniors have done.
It was fun making fashion layouts. It was fun going to gallery
openings. It was fun working in an illustration studio.
But there is something about teaching about hand-
ing down the steps of an arcane, specialized process that
is unlike anything else Ive ever done. As a teacher, you are
the guardian of knowledge, the knower of secrets. And as a
teacher, you are seeing that it gets passed along to the next
generation. At the heart of any subject, whether it is math,
chemistry, physics, literature, or Gemara, thats what teach-
ing really is.
If anyone ever asked me, thats the story I would tell. This is
with. To watch that lightbulb come on.
Helen Maryles Shankman of Teaneck is an artist and writer.
Her work appears in many fine journals, including The
Kenyon Review, Gargoyle, Jewishfiction.net, and Cream
City Review. Scribner recently published her second novel,
In The Land of Armadillos.
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Opinion
The curious case of David Myers
and the Center for Jewish History
D
avid Myers is an out-
standing scholar of
Jewish history.
A 1982 gradu-
ate of Yale University, Myers
undertook graduate studies at
Tel-Aviv and Harvard universi-
ties before receiving his Ph.D.
with distinction in Jewish his-
tory from Columbia University Dr. Mark
in 1991. He has written widely Gold
in the fields of Jewish intel-
lectual and cultural history. A
respected academic, he also
is an experienced and effec-
tive administrator; he was the
director of UCLAs Center for
Jewish History from 1996 to
2000, and again from 2004 to
2010. From 2010 to 2015, he
held the Robert N. Burr Chair
at UCLAs history department, Hiam Simon
and now he is the inaugural
director of UCLAs Luskin Cen-
ter for History and Policy. He has held a number of visit-
ing faculty positions in the United States and abroad; he
is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Jewish
Research and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the
Humanities; and since 2002 he has been the co-editor of
the Jewish Quarterly.
It therefore seemed a natural choice when the Cen-
ter for Jewish History, which needed a new executive,
announced last June that Myers would become its presi-
dent and CEO. The center is a Manhattan-based partner-
ship among five prominent Jewish cultural and schol-
arly groups: The American Jewish Historical Society, the
American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute
of New York, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research. These organizations are
committed to preserving the records of the Jewish past
while promoting Jewish culture in the present.
The center provides a physical home for the groups,
and it allows them to organize and coordinate research,
exhibitions, events, and performances. Its mission is to
collect, preserve, and document the history of the Jew-
ish people so the Jewish legacy can be transmitted to
our community and the world, now and in the future. It
is the foremost archival repository of Jewish records in
North America.
In June, when the center announced that Myers would
head it, the academic community overwhelmingly was
excited about his appointment. Jonathan Sarna, a pro-
fessor of American Jewish history at Brandeis Univer-
sity, who many see as one of the most prominent his-
torians of American Judaism, said that Myers is the
very embodiment of what the center should be. The
chancellor of Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute
of Religion, Rabbi David Ellenson, described Myers as
a pre-eminent scholar, teacher, writer and editor of the
modern Jewish experience.
Seems like this should have been a slam-dunk hire.
Almost overnight however, a concerted campaign
developed to push for Myers removal. Two New York
public relations specialists, Ronn Torossian and Hank
Sheinkopf, and political campaign consultant George
Birnbaum are leading the campaign. They wrote a blis-
tering opinion piece calling for Myers to be fired. That
36 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 27, 2017
It is no surprise that advocates of West Bank
settlement activity are eager to conflate BDS
and anti-settlement campaigns. It is important
that the distinction between these two very
different approaches be clarified and recognized.
piece was picked up either as an op-ed, or an unvetted,
un-fact-checked news article, by Arutz Sheva, the Jewish
Press, and the Algemeiner
Torossian has an eclectic list of clients that includes
rapper Lil Kim and former mayors of Tel Aviv and Jeru-
salem. Sheinkopf does PR for companies such as Home
Depot, and he runs political campaigns. Birnbaum is a
former chief of staff for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and was an adviser for Ben Carsons presi-
dential campaign.
The opinion piece alleges that the Center for Jewish
History has made an unfit choice, saying that Myers
supports a boycott of Israel. That would be a cause for
concern if it was true. It is not.
Opponents also charged that Myers is on the board of
the New Israel Fund (true), an organization that oppo-
nents claim supports a boycott of Israel (not true). The
opinion piece also condemns Myers for being a fierce
critic of Netanyahu and his policies, which, while true,
is entirely irrelevant with respect to Myers responsibili-
ties at the center.
Individuals who hold views such as Myers should
not hold positions of leadership in the Jewish commu-
nity, the piece concluded. But the conclusion remains
unclear. Many of Americas Jews largely share Myers
views about religious pluralism and West Bank settle-
ments and consequently are critical of Netanyahu and
his administrations policies.
Time for some fact checking here. Myers is on record.
In a 2014 essay, Why I Oppose a Boycott Mostly, he
wrote I cant support a global boycott against Israel,
and he chided Israeli academic boycotts. Later in that
article, Myers wrote, If necessary steps werent taken
toward Palestinian sovereignty by the end of 2015, then
a boycott of Israels settlements and commercial activ-
ity in the West Bank may have to be the necessary next
step. This withholding of financial and political support
for the settlement enterprise is radically different than
the Palestinian BDS movement.
Why were these opponents targeting Myers with false
claims? To unravel the truth requires understanding the
bigger picture.
Twelve years ago, 172 Palestinian organizations and
international support groups announced a call for Boy-
cott, Divestiture and Sanctions against Israel; Israeli com-
panies; international companies connected with Israel;
and Israeli cultural, sporting, and academic institutions.
Proposed sanctions include the expulsion of Israel from
the United Nations and the soccer federation, FIFA.
The campaign is guided by the BDS National Commit-
tee, which first met in Ramallah in 2007. The committee
is comprised of 29 Palestinian organizations. The 2005
action had been preceded by calls for an academic boy-
cott of Israel in 2002 and 2003. BDS proponents are said
to be inspired and guided by the anti-apartheid move-
ment, but in many ways, BDS is little different from
previous boycott campaigns against Israel, indeed reach-
ing back to pre-state efforts. The primary difference is
that previous campaigns primarily were led by Arab
states, while BDS mainly is led by Palestinian NGOs.
The proclaimed goal of BDS is to fight against the
Israeli occupation, but there is a lot to dislike about BDS
even for those opposed to Israeli policies in the West
Bank and Gaza. BDS targets Israel and Israelis generally.
Its sanctions are thinly disguised efforts to delegitimize
Israel. This establishes a defensive political dynamic
within Israel rather than one that opens Israelis to the
moral, political, economic, demographic, and social
problems connected with the ongoing policies of West
Bank settlement and occupation.
The boycott of Israeli cultural and academic institu-
tions is particularly pernicious, not only because schol-
ars, artists, and journalists are leading critics of Israeli
policies in the territories, but because these institu-
tions often provide vital networks for the intellectual
exchanges and personal connections that are so vital for
the reshaping of opinions and the resolution of conflicts.
Unlike the Palestinian-driven BDS movement, a West
Bank settlement boycott aims its focus not on Israel but
on particular activities that occur outside its borders.
Rather than seeking to weaken Israel, it reflects the con-
cern that continuing settlement and occupation are dam-
aging to Israeli society, and to the future of Israel as a
democratic Jewish state. Settlement activity is expensive,
and it detracts from resources the country has avail-
able to meet enormous internal needs. The occupation
requires violent repressive actions that are demoralizing;
it imposes an unstable and unsustainable condition in
which millions are denied political and civil rights. Yet to
include the populations of Gaza and the West Bank within
a democratic framework would cause Israel to cease to
function as a Jewish nation-state capable of addressing
specific Jewish national needs. A two-state solution could
address these problems, but settlement activity is inimi-
cal to processes that could lead to such a solution.
Over the past decade, this particular Israeli govern-
ment and its American cheerleaders have moved the
goalposts of what is pro-Israel. Now, anything short of
a warm embrace of a settlement movement and Israels
50-year occupation of Judea and Samaria is considered
anti-Zionist and anti-Israel.
It is no surprise that advocates of West Bank settle-
ment activity are eager to conflate BDS and anti-settle-
ment campaigns. It is important that the distinction
between these two very different approaches be clari-
fied and recognized. Efforts to promote the conflation
of these two political propositions abound. It has been
promoted in the Knesset and Israeli law. It has been pro-
moted in laws proposed and enacted by states within
the United States. It is being promoted in Jewish institu-
tions as an effort to silence American Jews opposition
to West Bank settlement. Such a position, however, is
 Opinion

backfiring, because American Jewry, and issued a second statement. After the
Jewish youth in particular, generally do Boards recent receipt of a stream of
not support the ongoing occupation. This vituperative emails demanding that
leads to a corrosive dynamic between The campaign against Myers is Professor Myers be dismissed by rea-
Jewish organizations, the greater Jewish
public, and particularly its youth. More-
just the most recent battle as the son of political opinions the Board
has reaffirmed its complete confi-
over, if fighting BDS in the United States Zionist right fights to criminalize dence in Professor Myers and the out-
truly is important and it is then we
should recognize that the effort would
the Zionist left. The campaign is standing leadership he is providing
as the Center moves forward to ful-
be far stronger if Jews opposed to settle- aimed at ostracizing anti-settlement fill its mission in promoting the study
ment activity are included. Their exclu-
sion raises questions about what truly are
views, and it is ongoing. It has real and understanding of Jewish history.
David Myers is a distinguished scholar
the priorities. victims, and Myers is one of them. who brings enormous energy, intel-
It would seem self-evident that the lect and executive talent to the task.
Center for Jewish History would not impose political kind of progressive Zionist thought continues to grow as It is ironic that Myers political opponents are calling
tests, particularly for posts that are administrative and a network of little known, highly vocal, and well-funded for his removal from an academic and cultural institu-
scholarly and do not involve political advocacy. right-wing Jewish groups, some of them with prominent tion on anti-boycott grounds. This contradiction, how-
You would think that any institution made up of five Jewish leaders on their boards of advisors, ramp up ever, emerges because his opponents do not want to
separate cultural and scholastic organizations would attacks on the leading Jewish history expert. discuss the real political issues, the implications of West
make tolerance of a pluralism of views inevitable. It is A barrage of emails to the CJH demanding Myers Bank settlement activity and the ongoing occupation,
unthinkable that the centers president must walk in removal appears to have been facilitated by a small advo- but want to bury them.
lockstep with a particular partisan view on Israel and cacy organization called the Israel Group. The Israel It is incumbent upon us to shine a light on those
Zionism to be considered as qualified. Groups board of advisers includes Kenneth Abramow- issues. The very future of the Jewish state as it was envi-
Myers was hired because of his unparalleled ability itz, a prominent Republican donor and supporter of sioned is dependent on it.
to articulate and celebrate the ideals of the center itself. President Trump. Abramowitz is the national chairman
The Center for Jewish History has responded to the full of American Friends of Likud and also has served on the Dr. Mark Gold of Teaneck holds a Ph.D. in economics
court press to dismiss Professor Myers by saying: Vari- board of the Zionist Organization of America from NYU. He is on the executive board of Partners
ous allegations have been made about David Myers. He Meanwhile, Richard Allen, founder of a New York- for Progressive Israel, a member organization of the
is an eminent historian. The Board of the Center for Jew- based advocacy group called JCCWatch.org, proudly American Zionist Movement, and an affiliate of the World
ish History has full confidence in his ability to lead the announced that he is planning a string of protests Union of Meretz.
Center in the fulfillment of its mission to preserve the against the center. Allen said he would announce the
treasured sources of the Jewish past and advance public demonstrations through an advertising campaign in Hiam Simon of Englewood is the past chief operating
knowledge of the Jewish historical experience. the Jewish press and on the radio. Allen has run simi- officer of Ameinu, the leading progressive Zionist
The campaign against Myers is just the most recent lar campaigns in the past against the UJA-Federation of membership organization in the United States. He lived in
battle as the Zionist right fights to criminalize the Zion- New York, the Celebrate Israel Parade, and the Manhat- Israel for many years, where he was the dean of students
ist left. The campaign is aimed at ostracizing anti-settle- tan JCC for allowing leftist Zionist organizations space to at what is now the Alexander Muss High School, and he
ment views, and it is ongoing. It has real victims, and speak and be heard. served in the IDF as a noncommissioned officer in the
Myers is one of them. The campaign to delegitimize any In response to the ongoing attacks, the CJH board artillery.

Founders feared standing armies
In his October 20 letter (We need our guns,) Mr.
Shel Haas omitted from his defense of gun rights an
important fact concerning the origins of the Second
Amendment.
He neglected to mention that what actuated the
Founding Fathers was their morbid fear of standing
armies, which they believed would be tempted while
idle during times of peace to concoct mischievous ways
to interfere with sound governance. The Founders
intended to avert this danger by relying on an armed
citizenry who, like the Minutemen at Lexington and
Concord, would store their muskets over the fireplace
until danger called them forth. Hence, the prominent
reference to militias at the beginning of the amendment.
Thus, Mr. Haas assertion that the amendment was
intended to allow citizens to protect their homes and
hearths from intruders and enemies both foreign and
domestic is incorrect. Rather, it was the government
which was the intended beneficiary of the law, granting
it protection against an ascendant military.
Mr. Haas might benefit from engaging in some reme-
dial reading on this subject by exploring the unani-
mous opinion of the U.S Supreme Court in U.S. v. Miller,
307 U.S. 174 (1939), in which this history is extensively
delineated.
Sanford Kluger
Englewood Cliffs
What about BDS, Mr. Murphy?
In urging that we all stand up against anti-Semitism (Its
Time to Urgently Speak Out Against Anti-Semitism in All
Forms, Oct. 20), Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Phil Murphy lost an important opportunity to speak
out against a current, serious manifestation of the prob-
lem: the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement
against Israel.
BDS is based on demonizing lies about Israel, includ-
ing the absurd claim that Israel is an apartheid state.
The movement unfairly blames Israel alone for the lack
of peace, without acknowledging the Palestinian Arab
terrorism that Israelis endure and the Palestinians
Letters
repeated rejection of a state.
Mr. Murphys forceful declarations against BDS were
essential, given that his running mate, Assemblywoman
Sheila Oliver, was one of only three lawmakers to vote
against a state anti-BDS bill in 2016. The bipartisan bill,
which overwhelmingly passed and became law, pro-
hibits the states pension funds from investing in any
company that participates in the BDS campaign against
Israel.
Mr. Murphy should have made three points: first, that
BDS is anti-Semitic; second, that he disagrees with his
running mates vote on the New Jersey bill; and finally,
that if he is elected, he and his administration will vigor-
ously enforce the anti-BDS law and work to strengthen
New Jerseys already strong ties with Israel.
Susan Tuchman
Tenafly
Ms. Tuchman is the director of the Zionist Organization
of Americas Center for Law and Justice.

JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 27, 2017 37

Opinion

Iranian nuclear revelations from Argentina

I
sraels ambassador to
the United Nations,
Danny Danon, made a
good point at a Security
Council meeting on the Mid-
dle East this week when he
said that the Iranian regime
has tried to obtain nuclear
capabilities for years.
Today, the regimes inten- Ben Cohen
tions are no different than
before, he continued.
Iran wants nuclear weapons for pretty much the
same reasons that North Korea pursued and obtained
them: to ascend to the commanding heights of global
politics as a genuine adversary of the United States; to
cow and confound its regional adversaries; and to engi-
neer a situation in which the West, having failed to pre-
vent an Iranian bomb just as it did the North Korean
one, frets on a daily basis over whether an Islamist
regime with a nuclear weapon will be more or less as
amenable to national security interest-based negotia-
tions than the Soviet Communist one was.
Danons observation should be borne uppermost
in mind in the ongoing debate about American policy
toward Iran, and in particular the future of the nuclear
deal with Tehran announced in July 2015. Even if the
deal survives until its sunset in 2030, when all restric-
tions on Iranian nuclear development will be lifted, a
future U.S. president very well may express fury that The AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires was reduced to rubble in the 1994 bombing.
his predecessors didnt deal with the problem when LA NACIN VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

they had the chance. And that president may also find
themselves in a situation where START-style talks with
a nuclear-armed Iran is simply one of a limited number
of bad options.
So, while some hope remains for preventing Irans
nuclear weaponization, the case that Irans nuclear
ambitions essentially have remained unaltered must
be stated with absolute clarity. In that sense, a timely
example arrived this week, in the form of the testi-
mony by a former Argentine intelligence operative,
Ramon Bogado, to a court in Buenos Aires.
Bogado testified before a judicial inquiry into allega-
tions made by the murdered Argentine federal pros-
ecutor, Alberto Nisman, that the former Argentine
government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner nego-
tiated a secret pact with the Iranians in 2011 to exon-
erate Tehran of responsibility for the 1994 bombing
of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Accord-
ing to Bogado, a part of the deal involved the transfer
of nuclear expertise, technology, and equipment to
So, while some
hope remains for
preventing Irans
nuclear weaponization,
the case that Irans
nuclear ambitions
essentially have
Iran from Argentina, which has operated a domestic
nuclear program since the early 1960s. Many observers
see that program as the gold standard in that industry.
Any nuclear transactions, Bogado said, would be President Donald
moved through shell companies in Uruguay and Argen-
tina, under the watchful eye of the late Venezuelan
Trump makes many
dictator Hugo Chavez. Bogado confirmed that Chavez of the right noises
was the key influence on Kirchner in her decision to
embrace Tehran as strategic partner, leaving the unre-
in response, but the
solved AMIA case, and Nisman personally, as danger- kind of structural
ous obstacles in the way of that goal.
Its important to remember that by the time former
ambiguity plaguing
Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and his his policy toward Iran
Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Salehi, signed a secret
pact in January 2011, the revelation of Irans surrep-
ultimately serves the
titious nuclear activities was almost a decade old. A Iranian regime more
series of U.N. Security Council resolutions had been
passed, calling on Iran to cease its enrichment activi-
than anyone else.
ties and open its nuclear facilities to international
inspection, and international sanctions against Tehran Trump understands that the Iranians want nuclear
were locked in place. weapons, but he clearly doesnt judge everything the
It wasnt an ideal situation, but it was far better Iranians do through that filter. Otherwise, he would
than the one we have now. For that reason, Bogados
statements in Argentina are a reminder that the Ira-
not have adopted a Switzerlandesque neutral posi-
tion when Iranian-backed Iraqi forces unilaterally
nian regimes goal is to obtain complete, unsupervised attacked Kurdish areas of northern Iraq this week.
authority over its nuclear program. To that end, it will
do its level best to circumvent any restrictions laid
Instead, he is pretending that the Iraqi government in
Baghdad is sovereign and independent in the same way
down by the international community just as North that, say, the Danish government in Copenhagen is.
Korea did.
Iran may have lost its friends in Latin America
To the Iranians, this is a sign of weakness, and as
Bogados account of their negotiations with the pliant
friends like Kirchner and the unlamented Chavez, the Argentines appears to confirm, weakness is their best
man who fathered the current destruction of Vene-
zuela but its influence in its own region is as never
advantage. JNS.ORG

remained unaltered before. President Donald Trump makes many of the
must be stated with right noises in response, but the kind of structural
ambiguity plaguing his policy toward Iran ultimately
absolute clarity. serves the Iranian regime more than anyone else.
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.

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(201) 684-7409.
School open house
in Teaneck: Torah
Academy of Bergen
County has an open
house. Breakfast
and academic fair,
9 a.m.; program,
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Pnina
Seplowitz, (201) 837-7696,
ext. 607. 1650 Queen
Anne Road. admissions@
tabc.org or TABC.org/
Rabbi Gordon Tucker
openhouse2017.
Liberal Judaism in
School open house in
Ridgewood & River
Teaneck: Maayanot
Edge: Conservative
Yeshiva High School for
Temple Israel in
Ridgewood and Reform
Girls has an open house.
Breakfast/registration,
Temple Avodath Shalom
9 a.m.; program
in River Edge join to
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Dena
consider liberal Judaism
over Shabbat. Each
Block, (201) 833-4307,
ext. 255. 1650 Palisade
shuls rabbi speaks at the
Ave. admissions@
others shul on Friday
maayanot.org or www.
night and Shabbat
maayanot.org.
morning. Rabbi Gordon
Tucker of Temple Israel
5K run in Washington
Center of White Plains
Township: Temple Beth Or
talks about Choice,
holds its first annual Mark
Commandment, and
Samitt USATF-certified 5K
the Future of non-
run, rain or shine, 9 a.m.
Orthodox Judaism at
Family-friendly event
Avodat Shalom at 8:30
begins and ends at Temple
Saturday night; wine
Beth Or, 56 Ridgewood
and cheese will follow.
Road. Proceeds will benefit
Temple Israel: 475 Grove
two of the late Mr. Samitts
St., Ridgewood; Avodat
passions: Temple Beth
Shalom: 385 Howland
Or and the Melanoma
Ave., River Edge. Research Foundation,
avodatshalom.net. where he created Mark
the SPOT!, a melanoma
Sunday awareness campaign. Mark
Samitt died of melanoma
OCTOBER 29 at 52 in 2015. Register at
www.marksamittrun.org,
Charity walk in call (201) 664-7422, or
Paramus: Alzheimers
www.templebethornj.org.
New Jersey holds
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Petting zoo in Paramus:
TevaLand Animal Rescue
Farm, a nonprofit
farm, animal shelter,
rescue, and rehab,
brings a petting zoo
for 4- to 10-year-olds
to the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah Hebrew school,
9:30-11:30 a.m. Also,
art projects and kosher
and nut-free snacks.
304 East Midland Ave.
Reservations required,
(201) 262-7733 or
edudirector@jccparamus.
org
School open house
in Hartsdale: Schechter
Westchester holds an
open house for its high
school, grades nine to 12,
9:30 a.m.-noon. 555 West
Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale,
N.Y. (914) 948-8333.
www.THINK.
SchechterWestchester.
org or www.
schechterwestchester.
org.
Senior residence
open house: The
Esplanade at Palisades
has an open house,
11 a.m.-1 p.m. 640 Oak
Tree Road, Palisades, N.Y.
(845) 359-7870 or events@
esplanadeatpalisades.
com.
Camp open house in
Haledon: Camp Veritans
will hold its annual fall
festival at the camp, with
activities including arts
and crafts, hayrides, cider
and donuts, and camp
tours, 225 Pompton
Road, 1-3 p.m. One-day
only registration special.
(973) 956-1220, or
Registrar@CampVeritans.
com. If you cant make
the open house, call the
office for a personalized
tour.
Camp reunion exhibit:
The Jewish Historical
Society of North Jerseys
summer camp reunion
exhibit includes photos
and speakers telling
stories of experiences
at camps including
Brae Bank, Pine Crest,
Knights Day Camp,
Ramah, Veritans, Teen
winning film, Disturbing
the Peace, and offers
a discussion with its
director, Stephen Apkon,
7 p.m. 8 Independence
Ave., Orangeburg, N.Y.
(845) 359-5920, or
theojc.org.
Hessy Taft in Wayne:
Hessy Taft, an 83-year-
old professor, was the
perfect Aryan child
on the cover of a Nazi
magazine during the
1930s but she was
Jewish. She will talk
about it at the Chabad
Center of Passaic
NOV. Barbara Kirshenblatt- County, 7 p.m. Open
3-4
to those in high school
Gimblett, chief curator and older. 194 Ratzer
of the core exhibition Road. (973) 694-6274 or
at the Polin Museum Jewishwayne.org.
of the History of Polish Jews,
is the scholar-in-residence at
Congregation Beth Sholom. for
the weekend. Her presentations
center on Rising from the Rubble:
The Renewal of Jewish Life in
Poland Today. 354 Maitland Ave.
(201) 833-2620 or cbsteaneck.org. Professor Sarah Rindner
MICHAEL LAVES
Knitting/book club in
Trails, New Jersey Y The Dybbuk, with
Teaneck: The sisterhood
Camps, and Passaic/ easy-to-read English
of the Jewish Center
Clifton Y, at the JHSNJ, subtitles, 1:30 p.m. Ice
of Teaneck hosts
1 p.m. Refreshments. cream and popcorn. 558
Knitting Night, 7-8 p.m.
17-10 River Road, Fair High Mountain Road.
Afterward, the Leaves
Lawn. (201) 300-6590 or (201) 560-0200 or www.
of Faith Book Club will
JHSNNJ@gmail.com. tenjfl.org.
discuss Jane Austens
novel, Mansfield Park
with Professor Sarah
Rindner and Rabbi Daniel
Fridman. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-0515 or
jcot.org.
Tuesday
OCTOBER 31
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Film in Franklin Lakes:
Temple Emanuel of Film in Orangeburg: Center holds a blood
The Orangetown Jewish drive with New Jersey
North Jersey screens
Center screens an award- Blood Services, a
the classic Yiddish film

division of New York
Blood Center, 2-8 p.m.
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Elaine Adler
NCJW meets in
Hackensack: Elaine
Adler, founder of the
Adler Aphasia Center,
tells her story, Making
A Difference: One
Womans Journey to
Helping Others, at a
meeting of the Bergen
County section of
the Nation Council of
Jewish Women at the
Shops at Riverside in
Hackensack, Conference
Center (downstairs
near the spa), 1 p.m.
(201) 385-4847or www.
ncjwbcs.org.
Rabbi Stephen Wylen
Rabbis roundtable in
Wyckoff: Rabbi Stephen
Wylen continues a round
table discussion series
with Jewish Religion in
the First Century Sects
at Temple Beth Rishon,
7 p.m. Series continues
through November 28
with The Trial of Jesus
Historically Considered
(November 7), The
Jewish Titles of Jesus
(November 14), and Hillel
and Jesus (November
28). 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
Rabbi Mordechai Shain
Great debates in Jewish
history: Lubavitch on
the Palisades in Tenafly
offers six sessions on
great debates that
shaped Jewish history,
led by Rabbi Mordechai
Shain, 8 p.m. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152, ext. 501, or
myjli.com.
New Jerseys Israeli
Wednesday Film Festival presents
My Hero Brother, Paramus: The Frisch
NOVEMBER 1
following a group of
young Israeli adults with
Down Syndrome as they
climb in the Himalayas,
at the Warner Theater,
7:30 p.m. The films admissions@frisch.org.
director, Yonaton Nir, will
be there. Also November
8 at the United
Synagogue of Hoboken.
190 East Ridgewood Ave.
(201) 820-3907 or www.
jfnnj.org/filmfestival.
Lost amusement parks:
The Passaic County
Saturday,
Historical Society hosts NOVEMBER 4
Rick Geffken, co-author
of the new book Lost Night out in Jersey
Amusement Parks of City: Join Temple
the North Jersey Shore, Beth-El for Sips, Nips
at the Louis Bay II & Salsa, an evening of
Library in Hawthorne, mystery boxes, wine and
7 p.m. 345 Lafayette chocolate tasting, silent
Ave. (973) 247-0085 or auction, and raffle, 7 p.m.
lambertcastle.org. 2419 JFK Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229.
Open house in
Englewood: The Moriah Comedy in Hoboken:
School invites parents of Comedian Benji Lovitt
prospective students to performs What War Language and Jewish
an open house, 7:30 p.m. Zone? Israel Through
53 South Woodland Stand-Up Comedy for Benor, contemporary
St. Livia Marcovici, young professionals at
(201) 567-0208, ext. the United Synagogue
322, admissions@ of Hoboken, 7:30 p.m.
moriahschool.org, Co-sponsored with
or www.moriah.org/ Jewish Federation of
openhouse. Northern New Jersey
and Moishe House
Hoboken. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or office@
hobokensynagogue.org.
Marking Kristallnacht
in Fair Lawn: Natalia
Indrimi, executive Emert Memorial Adult
director of Centro Primo
Levi, discusses the film
Oro Macht Frei at
Congregation Shomrei
Torah for the 9th annual
Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan
Susan Nelson Glasser
Memorial Kristallnacht
Great debates in Jewish
commemoration, 8 p.m.
history: Chabad of
The film was the 2015
NWBC in Franklin Lakes The Kaplen JCC on the
Best International
offers six sessions on Palisades offers a vendor
Documentary at the
great debates that boutique with holiday
Garden State Film
shaped Jewish history gifts, including jewelry,
Festival. Doors open
at the Chabad Jewish womens fashions and
at 7:45. Q&A session
Center, led by Rabbi accessories, stationery, ,
with Ms. Indrimi.
Chanoch Kaplan,
Refreshments. Sponsored
7:30 p.m. 375 Pulis Ave.
by the Kovacs family.
(201) 848-0449, or myjli.
19-10 Morlot Ave.
com.
(201) 791-7676.
Thursday
NOVEMBER 2 Sunday
NOVEMBER 5
Community mitzvah
day: Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey
holds Mitzvah Day Emanuel of the Pascack
Do Good, Feel Good Valley holds its annual
a community-wide fun-filled Chanukah
day of volunteering,
10 a.m.-3 p.m. Choose
from activities at
JFNNJ or at outdoor
sites. 50 Eisenhower
Drive, Paramus. Beth,
(201) 820-3947, BethF@
JFNNJ.org, or www.
Film/discussion in JFNNJ.org.
Ridgewood: Jewish
Federation of Northern
Calendar
welcome@rynj.org, or North Jersey Jewish
School open house in
rynj.org/openhouse. Singles at the CJC at
www.meetup.com.
School holds an open
house, 9 a.m.-noon. 120 Monday Singles meet in
West Century Road. NOVEMBER 6 Caldwell: New Jersey
Judith Goldsmith, Jewish Singles 45+
(201) 267-9100, meets at Congregation
Lunch and learn: Rabbi
Agudath Israel, 2:30 p.m.
Aaron Katz leads a
Register at www.frisch. Group trivia, dessert
discussion over lunch
org/openhouse. buffet, prizes. 20
on current topics at
Congregation Bnai Academy Road. Sue,
Walk in Wayne: Temple (973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
Beth Tikvah leads a walk Jacob in Jersey City,
noon. $10. 176 West Side or singles@agudath.org.
the first Sunday of the
month at Laurelwood Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
Arboretum in Pines Lake. Info@bnaijacobjc.org. Friday
Meet at 9:30. Dogs on NOVEMBER 3
School open house in
leashes are welcome.
New Milford: Solomon
Reservations: Mitchell.
borger@gmail.com
Schechter Day School Teaneck Shabbaton:
of Bergen County The Shidduch Project
invites parents of hosts a One in a
prospective students Minion Shabbaton for
to an open house, modern Orthodox/
7-9 p.m. 275 McKinley machmir professionals,
Ave. (201) 262-9898, ext. 21-36, at Congregation
203 or www.ssdsbergen. Keter Torah. Includes
org/openhouse2017. three interactive meals,
Friday night mad
Film in Paramus: minion tea party, oneg,
The JCC of Paramus/ speakers, nature walks,
Congregation Beth improv session, musical
Dr. Sarah Bunin Benor Tikvah shows the Oscar
Havdalah and kumsitz,
Award-nominated The housing, and catering
identity: Dr. Sarah Bunin House of Rothschild by Five Star Caterers.
as part of a Jewish Shidduchprojects@gmail.
Jewish studies professor Film Festival, hosted com or (201) 522-4776.
at Hebrew Union College by Cantor Sam
Jewish Institute of Weiss, 8:15 p.m. East Shabbaton: Sharon Ganz
Religion in Los Angeles, 304 Midland Ave. & Friends host its Tachlis
discusses Mensch, (201) 262-7691. Shabbaton for Jewish
Bentsh, and Balagan: singles, late 20s-30s-
Language as a Marker 40s, at Young Israel of
of Jewish Identity
for the kick-off of the
In New York Avenue J in Brooklyn,
through Saturday night.
Distinguished Speaker Fee includes three
series at Temple Beth Saturday Shabbat meals at the
shul, Flatbush tour,
Rishon in Wyckoff. OCTOBER 28 and Saturday night
Sponsored by the Fred
party. 1721 Avenue J.
Hackathon: Yeshiva (646) 529-8748 or
Education Fund with TBR
University students (718) 575-3962.
patron support. Breakfast
host their fourth annual
buffet, 9:45 a.m.; event hackathon, beginning at
at 10:30. 585 Russell Ave. 8:30 p.m. and running Sunday
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
through Sunday at NOVEMBER 5
8:30 p.m., in the Heights
Lounge on the Wilf Senior singles meet in
Fall boutique in Tenafly:
Campus, 515 West 185th St. West Nyack: Singles 65+
The forum is for observant meets for a social get-
Jews to connect, together over bagels and
brainstorm, and partner to lox at the JCC Rockland,
build anything from apps 11 a.m. 450 West Nyack
to code for robots, in a 24- Road. $8. Gene Arkin,
hour period. This year, the (845) 356-5525.
childrens clothing, and
focus is on giving back by
summer camp items,
developing creative ways
10 a.m.-5 p.m., and on
to use technology to help
Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
the Jewish community.
Proceeds benefit the
There will also be a Senior
JCC Leonard and Syril
nonprofit fair. www.yu.edu. residence
Rubin Nursery School.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1435 or email open house
mkleiman@jccotp.org. Singles The Esplanade at Pali-
Chanukah shopping in sades hosts an open house
Woodcliff Lake: Temple Sunday on Sunday, October 29,
OCTOBER 29
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The
Brunch/mingle/sing: luxury senior residence at
shopping event, The North Jersey 640 Oak Tree Road in Pali-
noon-2 p.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801.
Jewish Singles group sades, N.Y., offers many
(50s-60s) at the Clifton
amenities, including three
School open house in Jewish Center offers a
bagels and conversation kosher meals served daily
River Edge: Rosenbaum
Yeshiva of North Jersey brunch, 11:30 a.m., with in its dining room. Call
holds an open house, a sing-along led by (845)359-7870 or www.
pianist Martin Yospe.
7 p.m. 666 Kinderkamack
18 Delaware St. esplanadeatpalisades.com.
Road. Tamar Kahn,
(201) 986-1414, ext. 338, (973) 772-3131 or join
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r Calendar

Mah jongg in two locations Rabbi Shel-

The Jewish Federation of Northern ley Kniaz,
New Jersey holds Mah Jongg With left, director
Meaning, a mahj-athon including of congrega-
cocktails, dinner, entertainment, and tional learn-
raffles on Wednesday, November 30, ing at Temple
at 6:30 p.m., at Montammy Golf Club Emanuel of the
in Alpine. Lessons will be available Pascack Valley,
beforehand. with Hebrew
Proceeds will benefit children and reading stu-
women in need. For information, go dents Karen
to www.JFNNJ.org/mahjongg. Albert and Gail
Julich. 
Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter hosts Mah jongg: The Fun Continues with  COURTESY TEPV

classes on Mondays, November 13, November 21, 27, and December 4, at 7 p.m. The sister-
hood fund-raiser offers instruction and practice time to learn the game. Shul membership
is not required. For information, call (201) 768-5112 or go to www.tbenv.org.
Adult education in Woodcliff Lake
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley reading, and a yearlong class in ethical
in Woodcliff Lake offers new courses Jewish values.
Estate planning discussion for adults. Courses include parashat
study, the history of prayers, lunch
All are welcome to join the classes, but
registration is required. For information,
Leonard J. Witman, a lawyer, lecturer, and writer who special- and learn, Sunday morning minyan go to tepv.org, call (201) 391-0801, or
izes in tax, estate, and elder law planning and deferred com- study, beginning and advanced Hebrew email gail@tepv.org.
pensation, talks about estate planning at the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth Tikvah, on Sunday, October 29, at 10 a.m.
The talk, sponsored by the shuls mens club and sisterhood,
includes a light breakfast. Mr. Witman is a former chairman of
the New Jersey State Bar Associations taxation committee and Global day of learning in Rockland
has written extensively for many tax periodicals. He is a manag-
ing member at Witman Stadtmauer, P.A., in Florham Park. For Leonard J. Witman Join 500 communities in 40 countries, the Craftsman.
information, call (201) 262-7691 or go to www.jccParamus.org. including the Rockland Jewish Com- Classes will be taught by experienced
munity Campus in West Nyack, for the Jewish educators including Rabbi David
Global Day of Learning on Sunday, Berkman, Dr. Martin O. Cohen, Rabbi
November 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Paula Mack Drill, Rabbi Joshua Finkel-
Courses on the theme of Beauty and stein, Rabbi Paul Kurland, Rabbi Brian
Help for the young in despair Ugliness include Appreciating Beauty
and Art, Beauty, Power and Tempta-
Leiken, Rabbi Dan Pernick, Dr. Debra
Raice, Judith Rose, Rabbi Benjamin
BaMidbar Jewish Wilderness Therapy holds program is a wilderness-based recovery and tion; Hiddur Mitzvah: Beauty, Awe and Sharff and Rabbi Elchanan Weinbach.
a parlor meeting at a private home in West treatment program for Jewish young adults. Action; the Good and the Beautiful; the Sign up online or call Roberta Seitzman
Orange on October 30 at 8 p.m. BaMidbar is There will be no solicitation. For informa- Mirrors of the Women: Beauty, Desire at (845) 362-4200, ext. 130.
a new program for 18- to 26-year-olds who tion about the parlor meeting, email pam. and the Divine; and the Ugly Vessel and
are struggling with mental illness, trauma- greenwood@gmail.com or go to www.
related issues, or addiction. The therapy bamidbartherapy.org.

Doo-wop and rock at bergenPAC

Chanukah The Bergen Performing
Arts Center in Englewood
boutique hosts Oh What a Night
of Doo-Wop & Rock n
Michele Loskant, left, and Debra
Roll, presented by LAR
Feiler, co-presidents of the sister-
Enterprises, on Saturday,
hood at Temple Emanuel of the
November 4, at 7 p.m.
Pascack Valley, held a pre-Cha-
Hosted by Cool Bobby
nukah shopping event during the
B of Sirius Radio 50s on 5,
shuls Sukkah Social on October
the show includes seven
8. The group will hold its annual
doo-wop and rock n roll
Chanukah shopping day on Sun-
groups: the Happenings (See You In (Imagination). Some acts may not con-
day, November 5, from noon
September), the Capris (Moon Out tain all original members.
to 2 p.m., at the Woodcliff Lake
Tonight), Larry Chance & the Earls Tickets are available at www.ticket-
shul. For information, call (201)
(I Believe), Kid Kyle (The Diary), master.com, www.bergenpac.org, or by
391-0801.
Jimmy Gallagher & The Passions (Just calling bergenPACs box office at (201)
To Be with You), the FireFlies (You 227-1030.
Were Mine), and the Quotations

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Silverman
FROM PAGE 19
people, Genesis tells us, just as her own
father Abraham was.
In her last What I Learned So Far, we are
told
Night.
A tribe gathers around fire.
Someone begins a nigun.
A song. A wordless melody that bypasses
the brain on its way to the heart. A way to
remember.
As she was working on this book, which
she began soon after her father died but
finished this year, Ms. Silverman also was
creating sardine-can art.
She began writing when she was 9
years old, she said, but she did not begin
working in visual art until 10 or so years
ago, when she discovered the artists beit
midrash at Congregation Beth Sholom in
Teaneck. The beit midrash is wonderful,
and I love it, she said. I always laugh, that
they let me in without a passport, as she
goes from New York to New Jersey.
She had never created art before, and
quickly realized that as good as it feels to
just make things, its better to learn some
technique, to have some idea what shes
doing. She worked with Harriet Finck,
who has a way of meeting each piece
where it is, without having some precon-
ceived idea about it, she said.
How does she decide what should
be created with words, and what with
Ban
FROM PAGE 26
April. I lost my peace of mind. Im very
jumpy. My health has deteriorated. The
burden of having to repay my family is
weighing on me every day.
In 2016, responding to the Times of
Israels work, Israeli leaders began to
call for action. In August, the head of the
Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky, urged
the government to shutter the repug-
nant, immoral industry. In October,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus
office advocated a worldwide ban on its
unscrupulous practices.
Early this year, the Knessets State
Control Committee held a series of
sessions to discuss how to stop binary
options fraud. Soon after, Israel Securi-
ties Authority Chairman Shmuel Hauser
drafted legislation that would have out-
lawed not only binary options compa-
nies, but also those involved in the for-
eign exchange market, or Forex, and
CFD financial instruments.
Heavy pressure from the binary
options industry and lobbyists on its
behalf failed to stop the passage of the
new law, but it was narrowed to leave
out the other investments.
physical objects? I started doing visual art
when I was going through a rough period,
and I knew exactly how I felt, she said. I
didnt have to clarify it with words. Some-
times I dont know what Im feeling or
what I mean until I see it in words on the
page, but this time I knew exactly.
So I fled into material things. I saw that
I could just follow my hands. I just follow
my hands.
Much of Ms. Silvermans work is with
found objects, with things that most
people see in one way but she can see in
another; for example, she brought home
a wheelbarrow frame, stood it up just for
storage, and saw that it clearly was a wom-
ans body. The artwork that she made with
it made that vision clear to others.
She created a series using found X-rays,
which she framed. The first time she did
it, it was at the beit midrash, to illustrate
a biblical passage about how judges are to
be chosen. I said that a diagnosis is a kind
of judgment, she said. So I turned X-rays
into a portrait of someone who might
come before a judge.
There was an elegant woman with
pearls, and a Japanese scholar, and a
stranger, at the door, she said.
The woman with pearls is framed in
a rich brown satin, and Ms. Silverstein
put fake pearls at the bottom. The frame
around the Japanese scholar is made from
kimono material. That X-ray, she said, was
of her husbands neck. Another X-ray was
one of a cat that a friend found in a house
shed just moved into. A friends son broke
his collarbone playing football; that X-ray
Israeli opponents of the industry wel-
comed the Knesset action.
Yossy Haezrachy, a partner at Fried-
man-Haezrachy, a law firm in Tel Aviv,
said that the law, though too long in com-
ing, would aid his pursuit of justice for
victims of binary options fraud.
I think it has an effect on the judicial
system, he said. The passage of the bill
shows judges that a major part of this
industry is fraudulent.
However, Austin Smith, the founder of
Wealth Recovery International, a com-
pany that reclaims money for binary
options victims, called the law total gar-
bage. He said it left scammers free to
shift into new rackets without answering
for their past wrongdoing.
Its more a political talking point than
actually something with teeth thats going
to stop more fraud from being perpe-
trated, he said. It also does nothing to
help victims of fraud recover any of their
money.
Smith said he is working with attorneys
around the world to track the heads of
binary options companies as they open
operations in Cyprus and other countries
and move into industries like diamond
sales, cryptocurrencies, and predatory
business loans. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Local/Jewish World
became a bride.
Ms. Silverman also began working with
cans, utilitarian objects, but there are
so many variations, she said. Once her
friends knew what she was doing, they
began bringing her cans, sometimes leav-
ing them on her porch so shed see them
when she went outside in the morning. It
became a collaborative project, she said.
Sardine cans come in different colors,
she has learned. Some are silver on the
outside and coppery gold on the inside,
and some are the reverse. Some are all
silver, some are all gold. And the designs
imprinted in them are different.
I was just so taken with the fact that
someone would spend so much time and
attention on making this basic, utilitar-
ian thing. We recycle them, and pat our-
selves on the back for our civic virtue, but
it amazed me what you can see when you
look at them.
Shes learned a great deal about sardine
cans, and about sardines in general, since
she began the project, Ms. Silverman said.
There are several museums around the
world dedicated to sardines and the sar-
dine industry. Logically enough, one of
those museums is in Portugal, and another
is in Maine; both places are sardine hubs.
Some of my cans are about the can
itself, and some are homages to other art-
ists, Ms. Silverman said. There is an artist
who lived in Rockland for many years and
influenced people like Robert Rauschen-
berg. In her day, she was a big deal.
Her name was Sari Dienes, and my hus-
band, Howard, who is brilliant, said Sari
BRIEF
Former Israeli, Saudi intelligence
chiefs meet in NYC synagogue
The former director of
Israels Mossad intel-
ligence agency, Efraim
Halevy, and the former
head of Saudi Arabias
G e n e r a l I n t e l l i ge n c e
Directorate, Prince Turki
al-Faisal, met and pub-
licly debated U.S. for-
eign policy in an unprec-
edented event Sunday
at Manhattans Temple
Emanu-El. Prince Turki al-Faisal
The meeting took is the former head of
place in the synagogues Saudi Arabias General
Streicker C enter last Intelligence Directorate. counterpart off guard by
Sunday, shortly after the
government of Saudi Arabia denied that
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman recently visited Israel for secret
meetings with Israeli government offi-
cials. The Saudi denial followed reports
in Israeli media about the alleged visit.
At the meeting, al-Faisal attributed the
rumors to Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahus mistaken impression.
Dienes. Sardines! So that was the first one
I did as an homage.
Others are quite political. Theres one
with a face looking out through bars, as if
its a prison and hes a political prisoner.
And others are abstract, and some look
like jewelry.
She likes using found objects because
People throw stuff away when its old or
broken, but that doesnt mean that its use-
less. I always come home with stuff. How-
ard asks me how[?]
Or, as she says in the fifth What I
Learned So Far,
Specialized bodies of knowledge,
disciplines,
require their own language,
griefs aleph bet,
the jargon of mourning,
a grammar of loss and longing
in the context of love vkavanah.
Who: Maxine Silverman
What: Will read from her new book,
Shiva Moon
Where and when:
Three times:
1. On November 19, at 1:30 p.m. at the
JCC of the Hudson, 371 South Broad-
way, in Tarrytown.
2. On December 3, at 2 p.m., at the
Nyack Public Library, 59 South Broad-
way, in Nyack.
3. On January 28, at 2 p.m., at the Val-
ley Cottage Library, 110 Route 303, in
Valley Cottage.
I dont think there are
any under the table talks,
MUELLER/MSC VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
the former Saudi intelli-
gence chief said. I think Mr.
Netanyahu painted a picture
for himself in which there
are some clandestine under-
standings between the two
countries because of Iran,
and is thus trying to present
supposed support from the
Arab world in order to encir-
cle Iran while avoiding the
Palestinian issue altogether.
Halevy caught his Saudi
recounting an attempted
secret meeting that nearly took place in
London in the 1970s between then-Israeli
Foreign Minister Abba Eban and al-Faisals
predecessor, Kamal Adham.
A colleague of mine failed to wake
Eban up in time, so he missed the meet-
ing, Halevy said. I always regretted that
incident. Maybe things would look differ-
ently today. JNS.ORG
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Sam Bloom Geller, he is survived Heather Bloom, Spencer He had a long career
Sam Bloom, 102, of by children Diane Bloom; and two great- in hematology and
Obituaries are prepared with Teaneck, Deerfield Aronsky of Millville and grandchildren, Sean oncology, serving as chair
information provided by funeral homes. Beach, Florida, and Norman of Boca Raton, Keegan Smyth and Emma of the departments of
Correcting errors is the responsibility Brooklyn, died Florida; a sister Ann Rose Smyth. medicine at New York
of the funeral home. October 14. Blank of Arizona; four Arrangements were by Polyclinic and St. Clares
Predeceased by wives grandchildren, Amy Gutterman and Musicant Hospital, before joining
Goldie Gulitz and Helen Aronsky, Adam Aronsky, Jewish Funeral Directors, the staff at Roosevelt
Hackensack. Hospital.
Predeceased by his
201-791-0015 800-525-3834 Carol Feinstein wife, Elaine in 2006, he
Seymour Edward Kantrowitz LOUIS SUBURBAN CHAPEL, INC. Carol Jane Feinstein, 67, is survived by children,
Seymour Edward Kantrowitz, Fort Lee, NJ Exclusive Jewish Funeral Chapel of New York City died Steven (Barbara) and
(Dec. 26, 1921 - Oct. 18, 2017). 95, WWII veteran, Sensitive to Needs of the Jewish Community for Over 50 Years October 11. Mona Rubin (Michael)
Serving NJ, NY, FL & Israel Born in Jersey City, of Tenafly, and Harvey
& ad man. He said It was a wonderful life,
Graveside services at all NJ & NY cemeteries she was a private (Lael) of California, and
and it really was. Beloved husband to his late
Prepaid funerals and all medicaid funeral benefits honored chef. A sister, Marjorie seven grandchildren.
wife Deborah, & adored father, grandfather &
Always within a familys financial means Feinstein Whitaker of Arrangements were by
great-grandfather to his children Pam Gladstein
Massachusetts, survives Gutterman and Musicant
(Matthew), Lori Ludmer (Chuck), Jamie 13-01 Broadway (Route 4 West) Fair Lawn, NJ
her. Jewish Funeral Directors,
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Eden Memorial Chapels,
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(Carly); & great-grandchildren Jordan, Ryan, Marcella Katz, 90, died
Mason & Jay. Donations may be made in his Dr. William Frost October 15.
memory to palmbeachpolicefoundation.org.
The Christopher Family William Robert Frost,
D.D.S, 90, of Wayne
Born in Paterson, she
was predeceased by her
serving the Jewish community
Paid Obituary
and Hackensack, died husband, Dr. Abraham,
since 1900 October 23.
A World War II U.S.
and is survived by a son,
Mark Grabow (Lori),
Dr. Newton David Scherl
Dr. Newton David Scherl, died October 20, 2017,
Paterson Monument Co.
MAIN BRANCH
Army Air Force navigator,
he graduated from
stepdaughter, Joan, and
grandson, Jesse.
age 86, peacefully surrounded by his devoted Paterson, NJ 07502 Pompton Plains, NJ 07444
Seton Hall University Arrangements were
family. Beloved husband of Sheila Scherl for 60 317 Totowa Ave. 681 Rt. 23 S. and Temple University by Robert Schoems
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He was a dentist in Paramus.
Rutherford for 43 years
He attended Bronx High School of Science and
graduated from Marquette University and medical
and donated treatment to Dorothy
handicapped patients at Morrisroe
school in 1955. During his internship at Mount
the Cerebral Palsy clinic Dorothy Morrisroe,
Sinai Hospital, he met Sheila Meisler across the
Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Inc in Clifton. 102, of Fair Lawn died
table in the operating room. They were married Jewish Funeral Directors Predeceased by October 16. She was
in 1957. He served in the Air Force in France Family Owned & managed his wife of 45 years, recently predeceased
for 2 years and subsequently did a fellowship Generations of Lasting Service to the Jewish Community Sheila, ne Cohen, and by her sister, Marie Joan
in gastroenterology. He practiced medicine in sisters, Sylvia, Ruth, Walsh. Arrangements
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user of fiberoptic endoscopes. He practiced Graveside Services Parking Area survived by children, Chapel, Fair Lawn.
at Englewood Hospital for 40 years where he Dr. James and Cheryl
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served as a President of the medical staff and Frost of Westfield and Dr. Karen Norton
Conveniently Located
Chief of Gastroenterology. He was respected by Dr. Lee and Alison Dr. Karen Ina Norton,
W-150 Route 4 East Paramus, NJ 07652
his colleagues and much loved by his patients. 201.843.9090 1.800.426.5869 Frost of North Caldwell; 63, of New York City,
A lifelong poet, passionate joke teller, and the grandchildren, Jennifer formerly of Tenafly, died
consummate practical joker, he always found the and Brian Disler, October 23.
humor in every situation. He traveled the world Jason Frost and Alyssa She was a radiologist
and was a passionate Jew and ardent Zionist. Langenthal, Maxx Frost at Mount Sinai Hospital
Newton is survived by his wife, Sheila; his brother and Lexi Rosenbaum, in New York City and
Burton; four loving children: Michael (Stephanie), and Carlye Frost, and a Englewood Hospital &
Sharon (Eric), Zev (Rachel), Saul (Jodi); and great-granddaughter. Medical Center.
adoring grandchildren: Dr. Sophie, Jacob, Zeke, Arrangements were by She is survived by her
Randi, Isabel, Jen, Hannah, Adinah, Sam, Jonah, Louis Suburban Chapel, husband, Dr. Louis Sobel,
and many loving nieces and nephews. His legacy Fair Lawn. daughters, Jessica Sobel
and Megan Batzer, both
and immensely positive spirit will survive in all
who knew him. The funeral was held Sunday in the
Dr Julian Bennett of New York City, and a
Hyman brother, Dr. Larry Norton
Englewood Hospital & Medical Center auditorium
Dr. Julian Bennett of New York City.
followed by burial at Riverside Cemetery in Saddle
Hyman, 92, of California, Arrangements were by
Brook, NJ. Contributions in Newtons memory formerly of Teaneck, died Eden Memorial Chapels,
can be made to the Jewish Federation of Northern October 13. Fort Lee.
New Jersey, 50 Eisenhower Drive, Paramus, NJ Born in New York
and Englewood Hospital & Medical Center and City, he was a medical Herbert Picker
Foundation, 350 Engle St., Englewood, NJ. officer in the U.S. Navy Herbert Picker, 82, of
Paid Obituary during the Korean War. Fort Lee, died October 15.

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He owned a human William ( Judy Eisenberg), Jewish Brotherhood of New York. ladies sportswear with his June Suser
resource company. Ruthanne Warnick (Larry), and She is survived by siblings, brothers. June May Suser, ne
Predeceased by his Cindy Andrews (Mark), and nine Joshua Salem of Paramus, Betty Predeceased by his wife of 50 Schechter, 87, of River Edge
wife, Isa, he is survived grandchildren. May of Queens, N.Y., and nieces years, Yvette, and brothers, Zelig died October 23.
by a daughter, Rachel Donations can be sent to and nephews. and Richard, he is survived by She was a retired fashion
Herbert of Ridgewood. Hadassah. Arrangements were Arrangements were by Eden children Hall (Beth) and Suzanne designer for Evan Piccone in
Arrangements were by by Louis Suburban Chapel, Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee. (Scott), and grandchildren, Jake, New York City.
Eden Memorial Chapels, Fair Lawn. Becca, Christina, and Artur. Predeceased by her husband,
Fort Lee. Ira Strauss Donations can be sent to Barnett, she is survived by a son,
Nina Salem Ira Strauss, 90, died October 16. the Lustgarten Foundation for Jack of Fort Lee.
Jacqueline Nina Salem, 91, of Lindenhurst, An NYU graduate, after serving Pancreatic Cancer Research. Arrangements were by
Rubenstein N.Y., died October 12. in the Army, he worked in the Arrangements were by Louis Eden Memorial Chapels,
Jacqueline E. Rubenstein, She was member of Sephardic family business manufacturing Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn. Fort Lee.
ne Schlossman, 91,
of Georgia, formerly
of Bridgewater, We continue to be Jewish family managed,
Pennsylvania, and
Paterson, died
A Traditional Jewish Experience knowing that caring people provide caring service.
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On behalf of Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and the entire

medical staff, we mourn the passing of Dr. Newton Scherl, beloved
colleague, former chief of gastroenterology and past president of our
medical staff. Dr. Scherl served our medical center with distinction for
four decades, retiring in 1999, touching the lives of countless patients
and colleagues. We extend our condolences to his wife Sheila; children
Michael and Sharon, both of whom are physicians at Englewood Hospital
and Medical Center, Zev, and Saul; his brother Burton, who is a retired
physician from our medical center, and his entire loving family.

Warren Geller Gregg Lobel, MD

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The Frazzled Housewife
All hail the queen
BANJI GANCHROW
Yes, I must admit, I love follow-
ing British royalty.
There is just something
about the pomp and circum-
stance. The idea that there
really is a queen somewhere
who waves to her people and
wears really, really amazing Banji
jewelry, even when her suits Ganchrow
and shoes are orthopedic in
nature. Hmm, maybe that is
why I relate to the queen?
In any event, when I was a young girl,
I watched all of the Diana and Charles
wedding specials, all those years ago.
After all, if Diana found her prince, I
could find mine one day, right? Who
cares if finding mine involved kissing
way too many frogs? It was all so beauti-
ful and glamorous. Romance was in the
air. The innocent kindergarten teacher
and the not-really-handsome-but-defi-
nitely-a-prince.
Yup, I even watched the wedding. I
think. Or at least I read several People
magazines that had lots of pictures of the this one up! I hope they are as happy in
wedding. And who could forget the dress?
The bows and the puffiness and the miles
and miles and miles of train.even this
tomboy was in love with it. But realisti-
cally, she knew that it wasnt going to be me, I think he might have fallen asleep.
the figure flattering ensemble that she
would wear one day to her own wedding.
(Yes, I just spoke of myself in third per- own president to worry about, and he
son, probably because I would look like
three people were wearing one dress
but enough of the self-deprecation.)
So you had the fairy-tale wedding, the
horse and carriage, the royal kiss on the
balcony in front of millions and millions
of people, with not a cell phone in sight.
Wait. If a prince gets married and it isnt the queen. It was awesome. The discus-
on Facebook, did it really happen? Of
course it did. This was the 80s.
It was spectacular. I am sure at least
one of you reading this has a plate or a
tea cup or a photo of some sort from that
magical day. And then, just as magically
as it began, the unraveling began as well. their opinions. It was simply brilliant.
But before we address the demise of
the marriage, there was my other favor-
ite royal couple, Prince Andrew and
Fergie. Ah yes, Fergie, the red-headed,
freckle-faced, high-spirited young lady
who ended up capturing the hearts of
Weight Watcher members all over the
world. Yes, if a princess could weigh
in and go to weekly meetings, so could
everyone else. It was truly heart warm-
ing and normalizing.
But back to Charles and Di.
That gosh darn Camilla. I always
wanted to be a fly on the wall of the royal the evil mother-in-law.
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DIFFICULTY LEVEL: CHALLENGING
home. The whole thing
was like an actual fairy
tale, and Camilla was
the evil witch. And yet
in the end, she and
Charles found their
happily ever after,
whilst the poor, beauti-
ful princess was tragi-
cally killed at such a
young age, leaving
her beautiful princes
without a mother. The
moral of the story? Life is not always a
fairy tale.
But there can be sunshine after the
storms. (Another life lesson.) We have
William and Kate. Another amazing love
story. Kate is a role model for young
women everywhere on how to get your
man. Play your cards right, and he can
be yours. Be patient and your dreams
will come true.
Can you imagine being Kates mother,
having to give her advice? Now Kate, I
can hear her saying. William is a prince.
A prince. A real life PRINCE. Dont screw
real life as they are in public.
Across Down
I even made son #2 wake up early to
1. Observes Asara B Tevet 1. Like Ahabs arrow wound
watch the wedding with me. And it was 6. He loved Rachel, on TV 2. Big name in halva
totally worth it well, it was worth it to 10. Gad who voices 11-Down 3. Sorkin wrote a lot of his presidential
14. ___ Shaalti dialogue
So why am I babbling on and on about 15. Just a smidge 4. How one might learn a Piamenta song
16. Oscar winner Kazan 5. Storm production
royalty? I am an American. I have my
17. With 25-Down, statement made on 6. There was one between David and
November 2, 1917 Absalom
isnt any kind of fairy tale at all. (Well, 19. Jewish-Roman ___ 7. Winner of a kids game
maybe a really really bad one.) The 20. Bklyn. J with many Jewish businesses 8. A shikur may lie in one
other night I had two Brits over for din- 21. Its equal to 9 9. Its a wrap
22. Sight from Venices Shul on the Beach 10. 17-Across and 25-Down paved the way
ner. They were comparing accents; I, of
24. The Blues Brothers director for it
course, thought they both sounded the 26. Basketball defenses 11. See 10-Across
same. Silly me, they disagreed. 27. Napoleon relative 12. One who can tell you when sunset is
And then they started talking about 29. Abu follower 13. Camp for children and adults with dis-
33. Billy Joel often covers their Highway abilities
to Hell 18. Funny Jones and Nielsen
sion about who really killed Diana came
36. Agcy. for displaced persons, 1947-51 23. Make like Egypt in 67
up. Apparently my guests knew some- 37. Neatniks banes 25. See 17-Across
thing that the rest of us didnt. And the 38. Disturb 26. One who was probably excited by 17-
whole subject of the monarchy became 39. Hebrew eyes Across and 25-Down
akin to a Wimbledon tennis match, 41. Like a pomegranate 28. Rabbi Isaac Luria, with The
42. Israel got a couple in Rio 30. Trei ___
watching them go back and forth on
44. The Holy Land: Abbr. 31. Suffix for many a Jewish name
45. Iran set Best Picture winner 32. Lenins What ___ Be Done?
They spoke as if the royal family were 46. Schluff sound 33. Galils and Tavors
part of their family. And apparently, no 47. Shemini ___ 34. Ethan or Joel
one likes Prince Phillip. 49. Common feeling for Woody Allen 35. Her biggest hit was Thank You
51. Old combination 37. Reflects
But in the end, we all want to live
55. Jewish areas in Rome and Venice 40. Nahariyya to Karmiel dir.
happily ever after and be treated like 58. Giveret, in Madrid: Abbr 43. Advanced
kings and queens. Whether we are Brit- 59. Magniv 47. Arrange according to class
ish or not. 60. Shimons partner in crime 48. Passes, like the Knesset
God save the queen! 61. Lord Walter who first received 17- 50. Makes like a bad ox
Across and 25- Down 52. Naphtali, e.g.
The end.
64. Cookie that was once tref 53. 2008 robot movie
65. New York county thats home to a 54. More like Neil Simons couple
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck knows that kosher animal city 55. Alison Bries Netflix show
she is Cinderella, not a princess. She also 66. Seder setting 56. Eli Cohen, for one
hopes that no one will ever think of her as 67. Like frayed tzitzit 57. Penultimate fairy tale word
68. Sterns opposite end? 58. Early biblical survivor
69. Animal seen in Crystals City Slickers 62. Black ___ (simcha)
63. Borsalino, e.g.
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