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Meet the next Jewish astronaut
● Jessica Meir has been preparing to go into space space. She’s had to analyze her food intake and
since she was 5. She went to her first space camp undergo a range of medical tests.
after she finished middle school and she went to She documents it all on her Instagram page.
a training program at the Kennedy Space Center The youngest of five children, Meir spent her
after her sophomore year at Brown University. childhood in Caribou, Maine, though her parents
It took Meir three tries to be chosen for NASA’s grew up far from there. Her late father was born
highly selective astronaut training program, which in Iraq but immigrated with his family to prestate
she started in 2013 and from which she graduated Israel as a young child, later fighting in the coun-
two years later. Last month, NASA announced try’s War of Independence in 1948. He went on to
that Meir will be participating in her first mission. become a doctor and took a job in Sweden, where
She’s 41 now. he met Meir’s mother, a nurse who was raised in
It still feels surreal, Meir said, on the phone from a Christian Swedish family. The couple moved to
the Johnson Space Center in Houston. “When I’m Maine when Meir’s father was offered a job there.
sitting on that rocket about to launch, it’s really Though Meir’s mother did not convert, the fam-
going to be then that it finally sets in.” ily identified as Jewish and attended synagogue in
On September 25, Meir will co-pilot a Russian the nearby town of Presque Isle. Living in a mostly
Soyuz spacecraft launching from Kazakhstan with Christian town, Meir felt different at times but did
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka. They will be not experience anti-Semitism.
joined by Hazzaa Ali Almansoori, the first astro- outside the space station. She says being Jewish is an important part of
naut from the United Arab Emirates. “I’m very excited to participate in the science,” her identity.
Meir, the daughter of a mother from Sweden she said. “And also the other big thing personally, “Personally I’m not really a religious person,”
and an Iraqi-Israeli father, holds Swedish and my dream has always been to go for a spacewalk. she said, “but I think that my Jewish cultural back-
American citizenship. She will be the first Swed- There’s never a guarantee — things can always ground is obviously a big part of my culture and
ish woman, the fourth Jewish woman, and the 15th change with the mission when we get up there — especially traditions.”
Jew overall to be part of a space mission. but right now per the current plan I will be doing Astronauts are allowed to bring a number of
The mission will go to the International Space spacewalks as well.” personal items to the International Space Station.
Station, where Meir will perform a range of physi- Meir has spent the last year preparing for the Meir’s include an Israeli flag and a pair of socks
ological, medical, and chemistry experiments to mission. That includes learning Russian and taking with menorahs. (She is a big fan of novelty socks
study the ways in which being in space affects training trips to Russia. She has run on an anti- and will include several pair among her posses-
humans. Meir also hopes to do some exploring gravity treadmill used to prevent muscle loss in sions headed for the station.)
Noshes
“No one else in my Hungarian and Irish
family had any interest in books. There’s a
tragedy at the loss of my grandmother’s
history, but then a joy in this connection.”
— Joyce Carol Oates, speaking about her Jewish grandmother,
DOLLARS, SCENTS:
who hid her Jewish identity, in response to being awarded
the Jerusalem Prize for literature.
‘Dog’s Purpose’
spawns sequel
“A Dog’s Journey” is a in which he plays Ant- number of missions he rington Park, and
sequel to the hit 2017 Man. The film doesn’t has to fly until he is ro- MICHAEL OREN, 63,
film “A Dog’s Purpose.” need any more public- tated home keeps on the former Israeli am-
Both are based on a ity — it’s now the sec- being raised. There is a bassador to the United
series of novels that ond biggest grossing lot of other mishegoss States, is his uncle.
tell their story from the film of all time; at $2 going and the novel’s If you like the new
dog’s perspective. The billion and counting. description of that series, you might
novels and films center “Blood and Trea- mishegoss caught the want to see or re-see
on a dog named Bailey sure,” a new CBS wave of the anti-es- the 1970 film ver-
who changes the lives series, premieres on tablishment sentiment sion of “Catch-22,”
of his human families. Tuesday, May 21. The of the 1960s and made directed by the late
JOSH GAD, 38, returns first two episodes, the novel a favorite MIKE NICHOLS. It got
as the voice of Bailey. “The Curse of Cleopa- Josh Gad Paul Rudd of the hip. Will it play mixed reviews when
The film opens Friday, tra, Parts I and II,” will well today? We’ll see. it opened and didn’t
May 17. be shown together on Some advance reviews make much money —
“Trial by Fire” tells the 21st, from 9 to 11 are very good (Forbes, but has become a cult
the true story of Cam- p.m. Two good-look- favorite in the last 20
the Hollywood Re-
eron Todd Willingham, ing people, Matt Barr years. “Catch-22” is a
porter), while others
who was executed in and Sofia Pernas, tricky novel to film and
are decidedly mixed
Texas in 2004 for killing star as, respectively, you can be the judge
(Variety). All praise
his three young chil- a brilliant antiquities where Nichols did
Christopher Abbott,
dren with a deliberately expert and a cunning better, or worse, than
who plays Yossarian.
set fire. There were and art thief; they team Clooney and Heslov.
The series was
are serious allegations up to catch a ruthless Nichols’ version starred
co-produced by
that scientific and other terrorist who funds ALAN ARKIN, now 85,
George Clooney, who
evidence that the fire his attacks through as Yossarian, and ART
also directed two
was accidental was stolen treasure. Israeli Oded Fehr Andrew Garfield GARFUNKEL, now 77,
episodes and has as Nately.
suppressed, and there- actor ODED FEHR,
a co-starring role.
fore that an innocent 48, who is best known cated to Los Angles in on Hulu on May 17;
man was executed. for co-starring in a hit 2007, where she met all the episodes will
GRANT HESLOV, 55, Upcoming
an actor who has been ANDREW GAR-
Laura Dern co-stars. movie, “The Mummy,” her future husband, be released then. Of
Clooney’s producing FIELD, 35, and Jessica
The film was directed in 1999, has a co-star- SETH COOPERMAN, course, it is based on
by EDWARD ZWICK, partner for decades, Chastain will co-star
ring role as the terror- 45ish, at an acting the famous satirical
66 (“Glory,” “Defi- ist, Karim Farouk. co-produced the se- in an upcoming Fox
workshop. They got 1961 novel of the same
ance”). Opens May 17. Canadian-American married in a civil cer- name by JOSEPH ries, and also directed Searchlight film about
actress ANNA SILK, emony in 2009 and in HELLER (1923-1999). two episodes. Heslov the late TV evangelist
On TV and 45, appears in the re- a Jewish ceremony in The novel was inspired has a big supporting Tammy Faye Baker
streaming curring role of Roarke. 2011, after Silk convert- by Heller’s experience role as Doc Daneeka, and her husband, Jim
PAUL RUDD, 50, hosts Silk was born in New- ed to Judaism. They in WWII; he enlisted at the character who ex- Bakker. The Bakkers
the season finale of foundland, where her now have two young 19 and flew 60 combat plains what “Catch-22” rode high in the 1970s
“Saturday Night Live” mother is a prominent sons, SAMUEL and missions on a B-25 as means. The large cast and ‘80s, until finan-
on May 18 on NBC. I actress and theater di- LEVI AARON. “Blood” the plane’s bombar- includes British Jewish cial and sex scandals
suspect that Rudd’s rector, and she moved is Silk’s first big Ameri- dier. His novel (and actor RAFI GAVRON, brought down their
appearance marks the to Toronto in 1999, can TV role. the series) centers on 29, as Aarfy Aardvark empire. MICHAEL
end of the publicity where she worked “Catch-22,” an origi- Yossarian, a bombar- and JON RUDNITSKY, SHOWALTER, 48
push for his latest film, steadily in Canadian nal six-episode minise- dier. Yossarian’s big 29, as McWatt. Rud- (“The Big Sick”),
“Avengers: Endgame,” TV shows. She relo- ries begins streaming problem is that the nitsky is from Har- directs. -N.B.
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Remembering Watergate
Elizabeth Holtzman will discuss impeachment — and much more — for NCJW in Teaneck
JOANNE PALMER So how is the situation now similar to
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what it was in 1973, and how is it different?
n 1973, when Elizabeth Holtzman Ms. Holtzman, whose most recent book,
was 31 years old, she was elected which came out last year, is called “The
to the United States House of Case for Impeaching Trump,” sighed.
Representatives. “Let’s look at the articles of impeach-
She was the Democrat who upset ment against Richard Nixon,” she said.
Emanuel Celler in the primary that year; “The committee voted to impeach him,
Mr. Celler had held his Brooklyn-based for example, for offering presidential par-
seat for 50 years, such a long time that dons to the Watergate burglars to keep
it seemed as if it were almost part of his them from cooperating with the pros-
body. Ms. Holtzman, on the other hand, ecutors. It was part of the coverup. We
seemed at first to have no business being see something that looks almost iden-
there. A brilliant student, a Radcliffe tical now. In Watergate, one of the arti-
and then Harvard Law School graduate, cles charged President Nixon with trying
already a successful lawyer in a promi- to enlist the CIA in obstructing the FBI’s
nent firm, a local politician and a delegate investigation. That’s almost identical to
to the Democratic national convention, the claim that Donald Trump tried to
she became the youngest woman elected enlist the head of the CIA and the director
to Congress, a record she held until 2014. of national intelligence to shut down the
Ms. Holtzman’s career went from FBI’s investigation. And Nixon’s firing of
height to height, from strength to the special prosecutor was one of the arti-
strength; she’ll talk about some of its high- cles of impeachment. Here we have not
lights on Tuesday, May 21, at a meeting of Elizabeth Holtzman only the firing of Comey but the attempt
the Bergen County section of the National to fire Mueller for the purpose of inhibit-
Council of Jewish Women. (See box.) were in charge of declassifying “more “Having lived through Watergate, ing or stopping the investigation.” (She’s
Her life and her choices always have than eight million pages of secret Nazi it is very distressing, to say the least, talking about Mr. Trump’s removal of FBI
been influenced heavily by her Jewish war crimes files held by the U.S. govern- to see some of the same misconduct director James Comey and his attempts
identity, Ms. Holtzman said. The daugh- ment,” her bio says. She’s also immensely that is almost identical to that in which to fire special counsel Robert Mueller III,
ter of two immigrants — her mother, Felia proud of her work with Massachusetts Richard Nixon engaged is reoccurring,” attempts reported by Mr. Mueller himself
Ravitz Holtzman, came from a small town Senator Ted Kennedy on the Refugee Act she said drily. in his recently issued report.)
outside Kiev, she said, and her father, of 1980, which “was the foundational act To back up, when the Saturday night “It’s really shocking to see a repetition
Sidney Holtzman, was from a town near for refugees in the United States,” she massacre happened — that was the night of this behavior, and it’s awful for our
Pinsk — her resume is full not only of civic said. “My mom was a refugee, so that was of Saturday, October 20, 1973, when Mr. democracy,” she said. “The president
accomplishments — she was the first and very important to me. And I played a role Nixon, desperate to get rid of his special doesn’t seem to have learned from his-
so far only woman elected as New York in the admission of Soviet Jews into the prosecutor, Archibald Cox, who was tory. What we are talking about is the per-
City comptroller and she was Brooklyn’s United States, and in the paroling of Ira- looking into the odd, almost farcical version of our democracy.”
district attorney — but also, and relatedly, nian Jews into this country.” break-in at the Watergate Hotel, ordered What about impeachment? “We have to
to causes that spoke particularly to Jews. At this inflection point in our nation’s the U.S. attorney general, Elliot Richard- study what the framers meant,” Ms. Holtz-
“Some of the work that I’m proudest of history, however, as extraordinarily son, to fire Mr. Cox; instead, Mr. Rich- man said. “The impeachment power was
that I was able to do as a Jewish woman, groundbreaking as all of Ms. Holtzman’s ardson resigned. Nixon ordered the next given to Congress to protect the democ-
for the Jewish people and for the Ameri- work has been, it perhaps is fair to say lawyer in line, Deputy Attorney General racy from a president run amok. The
can people, includes uncovering Nazi and that right now the part of it that happened William Ruckelshaus, to fire Mr. Cox, and framers feared executive power.” As with
Japanese war criminals,” Ms. Holtzman when she was young — just 10 months into instead, Mr. Ruckelshaus also resigned. so many things, there’s a tension there, a
said. She later built on that congressional her congressional career, as she points The next man in line, Solicitor General balance that’s hard but necessary to main-
work as a member of the Nazi and Japa- out — was when she and her colleagues Robert Bork, did fire Mr. Cox, but by tain. “They knew that executive power is
nese Imperial War Criminal Records Inter- on the House Judiciary Committee found then the bodies were lying unignorably necessary to run a country, but they also
agency Working Group. In that position, themselves researching possible articles out in the open, and in a few days the knew that there could be excesses. They
to which she was appointed by President of impeachment for President Richard House Judiciary Committee, backed by had seen it. They had fought a revolution
Bill Clinton, she and the other members Nixon. What was that like? newly ignited public rage, began its work over it. They didn’t want to repeat it.”
on impeachment. Because nobody knew much about
Who: Elizabeth Holtzman “That was just 10 months after I took impeachment when the hearings
What: Will speak at the general meeting of the Bergen County section of the office,” Ms. Holzman said. And her pres- began, “We had to start from scratch,”
National Council of Jewish Women ence on the Judiciary Committee was a Ms. Holtzman said. “The last one had
When: On Tuesday, May 21, at 12:30 p.m. major accomplishment. Barbara Jordan, been about one hundred years before.
the nearly legendary Democrat from So I read. I read memos. I read some
Where: At Temple Emeth, 1666 Teaneck Road, Teaneck
Texas whose groundbreaking work for pretty big British tomes about impeach-
How much: Free for members; $10 for nonmembers civil rights made a world-changing dif- ment. Everybody was in the same boat.
What else: Refreshments ference, “and I were the first women to Nobody had known much about it.” As
For more information: Go to www.ncjwbcs.org or call (201) 385-4847. sit on the House Judiciary Committee,” it turns out, impeachment has a long
Ms. Holtzman said. and colorful history; she found herself
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reading about Warren Hastings, the first Briton to hold public had a chance to hear about Watergate firsthand, there even would be enough votes on the Judiciary
the wonderful title of Governor-General of Bengal. The to watch the story as it unfolded on television, “because Committee to support impeachment.
House of Commons tried but failed to impeach him for of the Senate hearings, led by Sam Ervin,” the folksy “We don’t have to know what the outcome of a trial
offenses committed in Calcutta, giving up the effort in Democrat from North Carolina who chaired the Select will be before it starts.” In fact, we can’t. “But you have
1795. (Some parts of this information were more rele- Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, known to get the evidence.”
vant than other parts of it.) less formally as the Senate Watergate Committee, “and To go back, way back, before Watergate, what was it
Impeachment is a powerful tool. “It was a huge respon- Howard Baker,” the committee’s ranking member, a like for Ms. Holtzman to be elected to Congress? Unex-
sibility, and nobody knew what the outcome would be Republican from Tennessee “who really was very con- pected and surprising, she said. “We were unable to raise
when we started. We just knew that the president was a servative.” Together, they allowed the hearings to be very much money for my campaign,” she said; her oppo-
danger to the country, and that we had to follow the Con- televised, and members of both parties took the chance nent, Mr. Celler, was thought to be unbeatable. “So my
stitution fairly and honorably. to gather information and assess its value seriously. And victory was a big shock to the political establishment. I
“The impeachment process has to be used carefully,” so could everyone else. wasn’t a familiar presence on TV. We had no TV commer-
she continued. “It has to be used fairly and appropri- “The American people could see the key witnesses cials. We didn’t even have any radio commercials.”
ately, and only when it is justified.” It worked with Rich- testify, and they could see exactly what their demeanor So when she was elected, not only was it a shock to
ard Nixon, she said, although he quit before he could be was,” Ms. Holtzman said. “It was an important educa- the rest of the world, it was, a bit, to her too. “I didn’t
impeached. “The evidence against Nixon was fairly over- tion for the American people,” and it gave people the know what it would be like.” So when the House Judi-
whelming, and the consensus was bipartisan. The coun- chance to make up their own minds, based on evidence ciary Committee hearings made her an ultra-public per-
try accepted it, history accepted it, and Nixon resigned, as well as emotion. son, “when I had a huge public recognition on a per-
forever disgraced.” “Now, with the Republicans controlling Congress until sonal basis, I didn’t expect it.”
What about now? There are many similarities, but this year, and controlling the Senate still, they basically Elizabeth Holtzman approached the idea of impeach-
surely there also are differences. Trump and Nixon are are not holding public hearings. The public has not had ment in 1973, as she has approached the other public
very different presidents. “Nixon was well informed a chance to see Don McGahn, who basically is the John issues she’s dealt with, from a strong sense of Jewish
about foreign affairs,” she said; he knew and cared about Dean equivalent” — like Mr. McGahn, Mr. Dean was White identity and values. “What I brought as a Jew is the con-
policy and programs. “Trump doesn’t seem to care about House counsel for the president — “testify in public. cern about preserving our democracy, because the rule
much beyond the wielding of power.” There hasn’t been a coherent narrative presented yet.” of law and our constitutional system is really important to
Another difference, at least for now, is the Ameri- But she thinks it’s possible, because providing the the survival of the Jewish people,” she said. “We see how
can people’s understanding of the situation, but that’s facts and allowing the public to learn them takes time fragile our situation is, no matter where we are, so having
because we’re at the beginning of it, she suggested. “We “When we started our impeachment process, there was a government that is lawful is very important to us as a
don’t have the whole story yet.” It’s not public. The no head count,” Ms. Holtzman said. “Nobody knew if people — and to me as a person.”
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The group from the JIB visits the Canadian National Institute for the Blind’s Community Hub in Ottawa. From left, Dianne Bekritsky of Teaneck, a member of
JIB’s executive board; Les Breiner of the Canadian Friends of JIB; Shabtai Deutch, JIB’s director-general; Duane Morgan, CNIB’s executive director; JIB’s prin-
cipal, Menucha Trop; JIB’s deputy director, Rachel Skrobish; Diane Bergeron, vice president of the CNIB Foundation; and Cathy Radnor of CNIB. Ms. Bergeron
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of knowledge and expertise to share with its North
American counterparts, there is also much that we
can learn from them as part of our ongoing effort
to further enhance the programs and services that
we can offer.”
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The delegation from Israel consists of JIB Direc-
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Rachel Skrobish, and Principal Menucha Trop.
“Shabbi took over the reins of the JIB last fall
from our wonderful director-general, Chaim
Reshelbach, who was there about 40 years,” Mr.
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Four of the employees of Lillian’s Café, which just opened in the lobby of the JCC Rockland in West Nyack. The young men are on the autism spectrum.
At Lillian’s Café
Rockland Jewish Family Service reopens snack spot
in the JCC lobby using staffers on the autism spectrum
JOANNE PALMER “The premise is to be able to employ can we do this?’ So as soon as the last
adults with autism, so we are running it vendor left, we said, ‘Let’s see what we
When is a café not only a café? as a program, but it is also an indepen- can do.’
When it is also a social services pro- dent business.” “So we sat down and figured out who
gram that provides young adults on It’s not a new idea, she said; similar are the key figures we need to make it
the autism spectrum with jobs, and the but not identical ventures have been a success.”
practical education that comes along opened in other places. It’s also an Given that they wanted to run a café,
with getting and holding a job. outgrowth of a summer program. “For the first person they needed was some-
When is a social services program not some time, Maria and I have been toying one “with a background in food and
only a social services program? with the idea,” Ms. Koenig said. (That’s catering,” Ms. Koenig said. They’d been
When it is also a café! Maria Dowling, RJFS’s CEO.) “We run very impressed with Angela Rivera,
Lillian’s Café is in the lobby of the JCC a summer camp for teens with autism, who was in charge of food preparation,
Rockland in West Nyack, in a space that for people from 14 to 21, and over the menus, and purchasing at the summer
has tended to defeat entrepreneurs; last five years we have run a café on program, “so we approached her, and
it provides grab-and-go breakfasts, the camp’s campus, so we have been she said yes right away.”
lunches, and snacks to the staffers, working with the idea of teens on the “And then we said that we also needed
gym-goers, parents, and other people spectrum learning work skills.” Camp two other typical” — as in neurotypical
who hurry or saunter through the lobby Lillian Adler Kipanga is on the campus of Ramapo — “employees,” Ms. Koenig continued.
between 7 in the morning and 2:30 in College in Mahwah, on the other side of “One to work in the back, handling food,
the afternoon; soon it will be open until somewhere stocking shelves or bagging the Rockland/Bergen line, and so is the and one to work in the front, who can
4. (It opened on May 1, although it will groceries. (Not that there is anything at all summer café that some of its campers help with the register, with the customer
have a more formal launch on May 30, wrong with doing those important jobs, staff. “The café is so successful during service piece.”
once the initial challenges have been but sometimes people on the autism spec- the summer that we’ve wondered about Then “we had to think about adults
worked through.) trum, like anyone else anywhere else, how we can expand it,” Ms. Koenig said. on the spectrum who can benefit from
And it provides an opportunity for peo- want to challenge themselves to do more.) The agency’s offices are at the JCC, this opportunity for more meaningful
ple who have autism to work, to grow, to The café is doing two things at once, so she and Ms. Dowling have watched employment.
learn, to meet new people, and to estab- Michele Koenig, the director of clinical a procession of vendors trying and fail- “So we handpicked four young adults.
lish relationships. It’s not make-work, programs at Rockland Jewish Family Ser- ing to run a café, Ms. Koenig said. “We They’re all post high school, from 19 to
and they’re not stuck away in the back vice, who is heading the project, said. looked at it, and we said, ‘Hmmm. How 26 years old, three men and one woman,
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and we’ve slowly been training them.” Three of with other agencies to try to provide other internships and it’s printed on each menu, so it’s hard to miss. “But
the four already have part-time jobs — their jobs and work study. “We will be doing a lot of collabora- if you just walk up for a sandwich, you wouldn’t know,”
at Lillian’s Café are part-time as well — “working tion,” Ms. Koenig said. Ms. Koenig said. “It is operating very much as a café.”
at ShopRite and Stop & Shop, mostly bagging and The JCC lobby is a great place for the café both because The Lillian in Lillian’s Café is Lillian Adler, who lived
stocking shelves. They’re maybe getting two shifts a lots of people go by it very often, and therefore it’s a in Rockland County before moving to Englewood at the
week. That’s not enough. Our goal is not to employ tempting place to stop for a quick snack, but also because end of her life. She died in 2018; on May 19, many of
them full-time, but to give them maybe three, four, of its proximity to the RJFS offices. “Our staff is always the organizations that create Jewish life in Rockland
or even five shifts a week. And it’s more meaningful available,” Ms. Koenig said. “From an emotional stand- County, including Rockland Jewish Family Service, will
employment.” point, it is useful to have us here, should an issue arise.” join to remember her at a tribute brunch.
For example, Ms. Koenig said, “One of our The soft launch has gone well so far, she added. “She was so warm and caring and giving and support-
employees had started his career working at “There has been a wonderful reception to it, from staff- ive that we thought that her name was the ideal name
McDonald’s. He’d worked there for a year or ers and gym-goers and adults who are coming here to to give to the café,” Ms. Koenig said.
so, and then came back and said, ‘I’m ready for play cards. The space was empty for five months, so The café has its own website, lillianscafe.org; now the
more.’ So we found him a job at ShopRite. He’s they were waiting for us.” site has the café’s menus and a bit of its story, but it will
bagging groceries, for two shifts a week. He’s Because the café is at the heart of the community, grow and develop, like the café it chronicles, as time
been there for about two years, and he told me most people who buy food there know the backstory, goes by and the café and its staff also grow.
again, ‘I think I’m ready for more.’ And I thought,
‘Interesting.’
“So when we started thinking about the café, I
thought that this was a perfect opportunity for him.
“He had some anxieties about starting some-
thing new, but he picked up on how to run the
register super quickly; he’s doing a great job, and
he tells me that he is very happy. This is a more
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meaningful type of employment, and he’s learn-
one
ing new, much higher-level skills.”
The tasks are divided up among the four
employees on the spectrum. “We have one who
pretty much works in the back, handling the food;
lives
month
one who works primarily in the front, dealing
with the cash register and customer service; and
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Celebrating
in the rain
The JCC’s Rubin Run
and Yom Ha’atzmaut
festivities kept going,
as more than 1,100
people embraced Israel A mother and daughter supported the Israeli Scouts. NOURIT Eilam
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Joanne Palmer none of the organizers.
And then it rained and poured — back to those
emember “It rained and poured for aforementioned forty daysies, and also nightsies.
forty daysies daysies — drove those What to do?
animals crazy crazy, Children of The race went off as planned, with perhaps
the Lord”? fewer runners but still the same amount of
(It’s the ark song, the animals are money raised, and perhaps even extra enthu-
“elephants and kangaroosies,” and for those of siasm in response to the weather. (How often
you who now have it chirping endlessly, mind- can you run with the ducks?) As planned, each
lessly, in your head, we’re sorry!) mother who ran got a red rose as she finished.
It’s rained almost that much here for the past As they crossed the finish line, the runners could
interminable weeks, but last Shabbat was dif- see their reflections in the puddles in the road.
ferent. It was bright. The sun shone, the flow- “As an Israeli, I am not used to this weather,”
ers glowed, the trees showed off, the little white Arielle Elad said. She’s the manager of commu-
clouds were placid. It was so full of promise. nity leadership and engagement for the New Jer-
Then on Sunday, nah. Back to the nasty drip sey chapter of the Israeli American Council. “I
of cold mud. couldn’t believe what a miserable day it was.”
This is relevant here because Sunday was a But — perhaps again as an Israeli — “it was
big day for the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in okay because we plan ahead. Plan A was to have
Children got
Tenafly. It was the USA Track & Field-approved it outside, and Plan B was to move indoors, so
their faces
Rubin Run, where about a thousand or so seri- we switched.”
painted and also
ous runners race on courses of various distances, She and other staffers at the JCC and the IAC,
created their
early in the morning, to raise money for the JCC’s which is an independent organization housed
own art.
special services, as they have been doing for at the JCC, “brought the outdoors indoors,”
Nourit Eilam
nearly four decades. And then it was the JCC’s she said.
Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration, where Israeli and They covered half of the auditorium floor with
American families can go to celebrate the State turf, moved in the tables, covered with blue-and-
of Israel, meet each other, eat, schmooze, and white tablecloths, and put vases of the little yel-
have fun. low wildflowers that carpet Israel at this time of
Oh, and it’s also Mother’s Day, a fact lost on year on them. They added sunflowers and beach
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The race begins, and a little boy encourages his mother as she runs.
umbrellas. “It was a very fun area to hang out it,” Arielle the Israeli Scouts, lots of Israeli childhood games” —
said. “It made it feel like the outdoors and gave a little she’s not quite sure what many of them are in English,
bit of the vibe of Israel.” but they include hopscotch and jump rope, as well as
Many of the organizations that sponsor the IAC and another rope-jumping game similar to the one we used
the celebration showed up. Many of them are aimed at to call Chinese jump rope. There was a scavenger hunt
the American Jewish community in general, while oth- around the building.
ers are more specifically for or at least about Israelis. Because the theme was Women of Valor — Eshet
There were about 1,100 people at the celebration, Chayil, in another nod to Mother’s Day — many of the
Arielle said. Exhibits and displays and games and activ- stations on the scavenger hunt were about women.
ities were scattered around the JCC. “We had a Hebrew One was about Golda Meir, and another one was about
program called Bereisheet, the nitzaim from Fair Lawn, Jewish and Israeli women in the film and television
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The fact that Zelensky’s Jewish origins, about which he Meylakh Shoychet, the Ukraine director for the Union of influence. That, she said, “would be a return on
has spoken openly during the campaign, played no major of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, is less everything that was achieved at Maidan.”
role in the elections was held up as evidence of Ukraine’s certain of that. “Zelensky hasn’t said anything concrete Before Maidan, Liebiedieva said, she did not trust
immunity to anti-Semitism during the Kyiv Jewish Forum on how he gets this country’s economy moving forward,” the court and “would try to avoid police” for fear
last week. A two-day event devoted to discussing various Shoychet said, echoing an oft-heard criticism of the pres- of being shaken down by them for money. “Now I
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show of unity by a fractious community deeply divided think that there’s a good chance he will fail.” money, and I think of the police as working to pro-
on many issues, including how to respond to the glorifi- If that happens, Shoychet said, the failure could tect me,” she said.
cation of Nazis. unleash anti-Semitism because Zelensky is Jewish. Liebiedieva said she feels safe as a Jew in Kiev and
“How many of us would have thought that Ukraine But to Elan Carr, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and that the issue of glorifying Nazis “is about the past,
would become the least anti-Semitic country in Europe?” combat anti-Semitism, the “absence of anti-Semitic rhet- in the past, not a part of everyday life that affects
asked Boris Lozhkin, president of the Jewish Confedera- oric during the campaign is a miracle, a stunning fact that me in any way.”
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Prime Minister Vlodymyr Groysman is Jewish, too, ference. Carr added that he would serve as “champion of Ukraine actually has made any great strides in the
making Ukraine the only country in the world except Ukraine,” partly for that reason. fight against anti-Semitism.
Israel where both the president and the prime minister Lena Liebiedieva, a 42-year-old Jewish mother of one Last year, Israel’s government singled out Ukraine
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2017 on anti-Semitism. “A striking exception in the
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In other words, we cannot help others if we allow ourselves
to become destitute by doing so. Not only will we not be able here’s lots of talk among educators today own use of it, making me more aware of how I feel after
to help others in the future, we may have to rely on others to about the role that social media is play- I scroll through my Twitter or Facebook feeds. Often
help us. It follows that if we risk our lives to save others when ing in our students’ lives, but whether it’s not good. Even if people aren’t hate-filled, they’re
doing so likely will result in everyone dying (the situation in you’re a parent, child, educator, stu- often very negative and they can suck you into the cha-
the bunker), halacha puts our lives first. dent, or just any human being on this planet with otic whirlwind of their emotions, so you all start feed-
The film’s underlying premise echoes a discussion in BT a reasonable WiFi connection, you’re probably a ing off of each other and escalating negativity, instead
Bava M’tzia 62a, which begins with its own no-win life-and- victim of social media, too. of calming it down. Just as the Joker predicted.
death scenario: Two people apparently are lost in a barren By victim, I mean that you’re probably abusing I don’t know exactly how our children perceive
area. One of them has a jug of water; the other does not. social media in some form, but you also might be an the platforms. They don’t remember a time when
Because they assume they are much too far away from civ- actual victim of the internet, someone who’s expe- they didn’t have them, so it may be less pernicious
ilization, they conclude that if they were to share the water, rienced bullying or meanness there, or, as in the to them. I don’t know. What I do spend a lot of time
both of them would die, because there is not enough water case of a friend I spoke to recently who owns her doing with them is gently encouraging them to
to sustain them both. According to an otherwise unknown own business, shady behavior from a competitor remove themselves from the web, particularly from
sage named Ben Petura, it is “preferable that both of them who tried to harm your enterprise. video games, which they perceive as social encoun-
drink and die.” This, we are told, was the accepted view “until I’ve attended meetings with educators where ters because they “play the games together.” Never-
Rabbi Akiva came and taught [that Leviticus 25:36 says,] ‘let we’ve tried to come up with solutions for our chil- theless, as some of you may may be able to attest,
him live by your side,’ [which in such a case means] your life dren’s tech addiction, but doing so has made me talking to a child while they’re on their device is like
takes precedence over his life.” more cognizant of the ways we all need to modify our trying to make contact with someone who is stuck
For Ben Petura, the verse cited by Akiva means that both behavior. As a society we’re only beginning to grap- down a deep well.
men must share the same fate. It must always be “we first,” ple with the results of our tech-cen- And what’s scary about trying to
not “me first,” regardless of the consequences. For Akiva, the tered lives, so I thought I’d weigh in communicate with that person is that
problem the two men face is the one facing the 12 people in with my thoughts as I try to decrease they often react negatively when you
the bunker: whether to use a limited resource to help another my own social media use and encour- do manage to pierce the tech bubble
if it could mean that neither would be saved. According to age my students to do the same. into which they’ve been sucked. I’ve
Akiva and to the earlier citation in Bava M’tzia 33a, therefore, The dark recesses of the web work had experiences where I’ve asked a
the one who brought the jug of water is the only one allowed well when they prey on our fears and student to get off their device and
to drink from it. anxieties. They take our bogeymen they have been totally unresponsive.
That leaves only one matter to be dealt with: In the bun- and enlarge them, making them into When I’ve reached out to touch the
ker situation, is it also permissible to “dispose of ” those monsters we feel we have to slay in device, the student reacted angrily, as
who have limited or no worth to the group, or should real life. Consider an extreme and Tikvah if they’d been assaulted. The encoun-
such people be forced to go back outside the bunker, horrific example, the terrorist who Wiener ters reminded me of trying to get
where they might be able to muster enough others to attacked the Tree of Life synagogue between an addict and their drug
storm the bunker down the road? in Pittsburgh. Goaded by and given and again made me mindful of my
Regarding deciding who is worthier to live, the Talmud a platform on the internet, he succumbed to his own behaviors, of the times when my own children
in BT P’sachim 25b tells us of a man who was commanded fears of a “migrant caravan,” railing against HIAS, made fun of me because I was too engrossed in my
by a tyrant to kill another person, or be killed instead. He an organization that aids refugees and Jews, whom phone, texting, or tweeting or engaging in whatever
asked the Babylonian sage Rava whether it was permissible he hates and 11 of whom he then managed to kill. nonsensical and unimportant goings-on the inter-
for him to do so. Said Rava, “Do you think your blood is While most of us, of course, don’t succumb to net was convincing me were crucial.
redder [than his, meaning that your life has more value]? hatred in such grotesque ways, the terrorists who So what’s the solution?
Perhaps that man’s blood is redder.” That applies even if the are inspired by the web’s pathologies do make me Becoming more aware of my own behaviors has
man doing the killing is a sage and the one to be killed is an wonder about the effect the internet has on even caused me to re-engage with the world in healthier
ignorant pauper. That would seem to settle the question, those of us who are more well-balanced. I’ve been ways. Instead of feeding online hate, I put down my
but it does not. thinking particularly about Christopher Nolan’s phone and joined Salaam Shalom Sisterhood, an
True, we are commanded not to commit murder, and “dis- Batman movie, “The Dark Knight.” The movie interfaith group where Muslim and Jewish women
posing” here is murder. On the other hand, there is the mat- seems prophetic, as it imagines Gotham under the meet and share our experiences, connecting over
ter of the rodef, the pursuer who seeks to kill another. It may spell of fear-inducing drugs, causing its inhabitants our commonalities as women, Americans, and peo-
be argued that if the bunker can only sustain 12 people, any to wander in a solipsistic haze where everyone’s ple of faith. Instead of scrolling endlessly through
other person is a “pursuer.” While it is permissible to kill a worst nightmares engulf them. pictures of other people’s vacations and lives, I
rodef, that is only if there is no other way to stop him or her, I sometimes feel like social media has that effect close my Facebook app and go on hikes or walks,
such as by maiming the rodef in some way. (See Maimonides, on all of us. We’re all turning on each other, point- spend extra time exercising, or pick up one of the
Mishneh Torah, The Laws of the Murderer and the Preserva- ing accusatory fingers at our enemies, real and per- many books I have stacked on my night table. And
tion of Life 1:7.) This would suggest that expelling the extra ceived, and ratcheting up the threats that they rep- why tweet when you can phone an old friend or
person is the only proper course, especially “because one life resent. I don’t mean to say that some people aren’t have coffee with someone you haven’t seen in a
may not be taken to save another” (see BT Sanhedrin 72b). to be feared and stopped, but the Joker under- while? In short, I’m returning to that state I was in
To be considered a rodef, however, requires an intent to stands well that the best way to control people is to before the smartphone entered my life, and having
kill someone. The intent of the extra person here is not to kill turn their fears and anxieties against them. experiences IRL — in real life — instead of shadow
anyone, but to save him or herself, even though that almost The accumulation of hate-filled incidents on and ones on the web.
certainly will result in the death of others. That person, there- fueled by social media has made me reconsider my Now the trick is getting our kids to do the same.
fore, would be committing a sin, and it is permissible to kill a At the Idea School, we don’t have a standard tech
rodef in order to prevent him or her from committing a sin (in Tikvah Wiener of Teaneck is head of school of the policy. Students don’t take out their phones during
this case, causing the death of others; see BT Sanhedrin 73a). Idea School, a new coed Jewish high school at the class unless they have to for an assignment, but
What is your opinion? Should the bunker be available to Kaplan JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. Learn more they often feel tempted by video games that are
all comers, or limited to a few so that they might survive? at www.theideaschool.org. SEE CENTERED PAGE 48
Should the group be allowed to kill those whose survival
could threaten everyone’s survival — or is Rava’s statement The opinions expressed here are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the newspaper’s editors, publishers, or other staffers.
regarding whose blood is redder the operative one? Please We welcome letters to the editor. Send them to jstandardletters@gmail.com.
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M Garret is a former leading unbeknownst to them, most of them had playground bullying, some- stands behind the shield —
white supremacist who once lived in the same small municipality all of thing that we only recently Anthony Cureton. Mr. Cure-
was a rising star in KKK-affili- their lives — and yet they never had met have taken with necessary ton is a former president of
ated organizations. each other. These students might all be seriousness, pushed him to the Bergen NAACP, and he
Dwania Kyles is a member of the famed shopping at the same ShopRite in Palisades extremism. He talked about stood side by side with me
Memphis 13, who led the integration of the Court, eating the same ice cream at Ben what some people brush and others just a year or so
Memphis public school system and whose & Jerry’s, and passing by the same iconic off as harmless banter, and ago as we aimed to root out
family had a close relationship with Dr. monument in the center of their town, how those children who anti-Semitism in the town-
Martin Luther King Jr. but their life experiences never much gave might come from more ship of Mahwah.
Me, I’m just the Orthodox Jewish kid them any reason to cross paths. difficult childhood circum- Michael Who better to add to the
who was born and raised in Brooklyn and All the students had two things in com- stances, those who might Cohen practical symbolism of the
moved to the suburbs. mon — they could all talk about how hate be slightly more vulnera- moment?
On a morning a few weeks back, the is recognizably around them, and neither ble, as he was during his While I am hopeful that
three of us were driving up the West Side group truly had a meaningful feel for the adolescence, might interpret such behav- the words they heard will prove valuable
Highway together, heading up to the Ber- other’s narrative. iors and even act upon them. to the participating students, part of me
gen County sheriff ’s office for an event It was for this very reason that the Dwania Kyles was thrust into the lime- believes that the demonstration of unity
aimed at breaking down the barriers that co-sponsoring organizations realized the light before she even turned 6 years old, in and of itself, the collection of the dif-
exist in far too many of our communities imperative of showing all of the teenagers when she asked to be brave, to challenge ferent people, each with a different story,
— and we were going to do it for the next how we prioritized our own cooperation, generations of hate-based segregation who each try to combat hate individually,
generation to see. if we are to instill such behavior in our practices. We can only imagine the polar- showed itself to be even more powerful
On very short notice, we brought children. It was for this reason that the izing upbringing she experienced, on one together. That it matters when you take the
together high school juniors and seniors Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Bergen hand heading out each morning into the time to understand each other’s stories,
from the Frisch School in Paramus and County Chapters of the National Urban abyss of the hatred of the peers who artic- pains, hardships, and historical challenges.
their counterparts from the Englewood League and the NAACP all organized this ulated their desire to rid themselves of her Even as Ms. Kyles, Mr. Garret, and I
public school system. We gathered project together. We all are standing arm because of the color of her skin, but still headed up the highway we realized how
these students together because largely in arm together. coming home often to see the great Dr. much we have yet to learn about each
In order to combat hate, you first King and his colleagues from the South- other and the places we each come from.
Michael D. Cohen of Englewood is the must understand its origins. That was ern Christian Leadership Conference, who I look forward to continuing the many lay-
eastern regional director of the Simon part of Mr. Garret’s presentation; he can were inspiring the nation toward tolerance, ers of partnership we saw at this import-
Wiesenthal Center. He represents his city’s talk about it from firsthand experience sitting at her very own dining room table. ant event. Even more so, I look forward
Second Ward on Englewood’s City Council, in a manner that few others can. He Why did all this unfold at the sher- to such activities being continued by the
and he belongs to Congregation Ahavath opened up and let his defenses down and iff’s office? Not at all because of the title students who will be responsible for car-
Torah there. talked about the effect that childhood “sheriff,” but because of the man who rying this burden into the future.
R
epublican lawmakers like Our headline on Monday read whole period — and sup- your vision for a one-state
Representative Lee Zeldin “Rashida Tlaib says her Palestinian ported by the neighboring solution that meets both
were criticized, deservedly, ancestors made a ‘safe haven’ for Jews Arab states — did all they Palestinian and Israeli-Jew-
for distorting Representa- after Holocaust.” We quoted the remarks could to prevent Jews trying ish national aspirations?
tive Rashida Tlaib’s comments about she gave to the podcast Skullduggery, to escape Nazi hands from Tlaib: Absolutely. Let
the Holocaust by suggesting she said in which Tlaib asserted that she gets a reaching the (relatively me tell you — I mean, for
that she gets a “calming feeling” when “calming feeling” when she considers safe) shores of Palestine.” me, I think two weeks ago
she thinks about the genocide. that the Palestinians “created a ‘safe That is an important we celebrated, or took
If you read or listen to the Michigan haven’ for Jews during the Holocaust.” assertion of the histori- a moment I think in our
Democrat’s comments, it is crystal That was the take amplified around cal record, and one made Andrew country to remember, the
clear that she said no such thing. The the Jewish world and the Israeli press, repeatedly in the press Silow-Carroll Holocaust. And there’s a
Republican pile-on, joined by Presi- in which historians of the era pointedly and on Twitter in the wake kind of a calming feeling,
dent Donald Trump, is a further wea- refuted her purported version of history. of Tlaib’s remarks. But it I always tell folks, when
ponization of anti-anti-Semitism, this They noted that far from welcoming assumes that she was crediting Palestin- I think of the Holocaust and the trag-
time based on a comment that the tar- Jewish refugees during the Nazi era, the ians with welcoming refugees and “cre- edy of the Holocaust in the fact that it
get never made. Palestinian leadership actively worked ating” a safe haven for Jews, when the was my ancestors — Palestinians — who
But it’s not just Republicans who against their immigration to British-con- transcript of her remarks suggests she lost their land and some lost their lives,
appeared to distort Tlaib’s now noto- trolled Palestine and collaborated with was saying something else. their livelihood, their human dignity,
rious remarks. It was the ostensibly the Nazis in their war against the Allies. Here are the relevant quotes, which I their existence in many ways had been
nonpartisan Jewish commentariat and “Rashida Tlaib is either completely transcribed from the video. wiped out, and some people’s pass-
media as well, in which I will include ignorant of the history or is a deliberate Interviewer: Congresswoman, you’ve ports — I mean, just all of it was in the
our own site, the Jewish Telegraphic liar,” Benny Morris, the Israeli historian, created something of a stir by coming name of trying to create a safe haven
Agency, and take full responsibility. told Haaretz. Palestinians “did nothing to out in favor of a one-state solution, Israel for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the
alleviate the suffering of the Jews at Nazi and Palestine, and I think you may be tragedy and the horrific persecution
Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck is the hands. Rather, the opposite: The Arabs of the only Democrat who’s publicly sup- of Jews across the world at that time.
editor in chief of JTA Wire Service. [British Mandatory] Palestine, during the ported a one-state solution. So what is SEE TLAIB PAGE 48
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tion into practice with skill and confidence. throughout the program and teaches the resident that away from their patient care responsibilities to focus on
Englewood Health’s acute care hospital is the they, personally, can contribute to the delivery of safe, their professional development.
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and the second in New Jersey to implement the Like many community hospitals nationwide, Engle- itors the progress of both the group and the individual
Vizient/American Association of Colleges of Nurs- wood traditionally provided newly graduated nurses nurses with a survey component provided through the
ing (AACN) Nurse Residency Program. Engle- with a mentor as they began their clinical careers. program. By measuring at quarterly intervals, the team is
wood’s initial group of nurse residents began their During the mentorship, medical/surgical care was able to assess the new nurses’ skill development, comfort
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Mother’s Day
M
other’s Day has become Day gift made by Son #3 (I only know
a touchy subject — and this because there is a picture of him
with good reason. There in the middle of the flower). Each petal
are women who want to of the flower is a coupon for me to use.
be mothers and have not been able to “Help you with laundry.” “Take you to a
achieve that goal because Devil’s game.” Of course I
of circumstance or health never cashed in on any of
restrictions. There are these coupons. I am hop-
those who have lost their ing to start using them in
mothers, who don’t speak September, so he misses
to their mothers, who his flight to Israel…
don’t know who their Any seasoned mother
mothers are. There are knows that the more
mothers who have lost M o t h e r ’s D ay s t h a t
children. The day can Banji have passed, the less of
be extremely painful for Ganchrow a chance you have to
some people. To those of spend Mother’s Day with
you in any of those cir- all of your children. Kids
cumstances, I am very sorry, and I hope grow up, move out, possibly get mar-
that the day went by quickly for you. ried, possibly live in a different coun-
This column is for the rest of you. The try — the possibilities are endless. The
new mothers who are so sleep deprived really really blessed mothers have all
they don’t even realize it is Mother’s of their kids nearby, and they all con-
Day. The women who just found out verge on her every year to acknowl-
they are going to be mothers. The edge her awesomeness.
women who have children who make That is the goal. That is the dream. So
Across Down them presents in school. The women this year, when Son #3 asked me what
1. Talking Lake? 1. Shred who have children who can buy them I wanted for Mother’s Day, I jumped at
6. Feed for hogs 2. Not 100% presents and do. The women who have the chance to say, “I just want all of us to
10. Dunk 3. Hornets, on the scoreboard children who can buy them presents be together.” “No, really mom,” he said.
14. Colleague of Rashida (Tlaib) 4. Disputed Asian land and don’t. The women who have very “What do you really want?” I replied, “I
15. A Mrs. Charlie Chaplin 5. Interested
high hopes for Mother’s Day and are dis- really want us all to be together.”
16. Sound of music 6. Declaration from one who
17. Schnozz operatives won’t be outdone appointed year after year… and for the Fortunately, I got what I wanted for
20. Kotb of note 7. Part of L.A.P.D. folks who say that “every day is Moth- Mother’s Day. We all went out to din-
21. Contact lens solutions 8. Burden er’s Day.” Every day is Mother’s Day — ner. This wasn’t an easy feat, because
22. Treif in a can 9. Way to get high in Eilat? that’s a good one. we had to take Mincha and Maariv
25. Navy’s C.I.A. 10. Gertrude of rose fame My first Mother’s Day involved Hus- times into account. Along with after-
27. #1 draft pick Deandre Ayton, 11. Cuckoo
band #1 bringing 50 bags of frozen noon Torah learning and evening
for one 12. Designer Klein
28. Morning minyan item 13. Something to clean up breast milk to my parents’ freezer and Torah learning (commonly referred
31. Yomi preceder 18. Judaism no-no surprising me with an overnight trip to to as “night seder”). Traffic from New
34. Red vision 19. Gulper’s sound Atlantic City. The real surprise was that Jersey to Washington Heights, traffic
35. Name that can partner with Gail 22. Julia in the “Bourne” movies unbeknownst to either of us, we already from the Heights to the Upper West
36. World leaders often have large 23. Colony to be avoided were pregnant with Son #2 … but that Side, traffic back…you know, things
ones 24. Dreyfus, e.g.
was to be discovered on Father’s Day. that everyone has to work into their
37. Ireland’s palindromic coronation 26. 12 months from today
stone, ___ Fail 29. “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
Husband #1 tried really hard that first dinner considerations.
38. What the green do with the items character’s nickname year, and I did appreciate it. My favor- But we did it. And I enjoyed and
in 17, 28, 48, and 60 Across 30. Channel across the pond ite Mother’s Day gifts have been the appreciated every second. Because who
42. ___-a-Lago 31. Lessen ones that the boys have made in school. knows what next year will bring (forget
43. He raised Samuel 32. Sampras rival Allow me to share a poem with you — next year, who knows what tomorrow
44. Mets div. 33. Woodlands
and I will not reveal who the author is will bring) and you have to cherish
45. Noisy flight crew? 39. Adds to one’s coffers
47. Biblical talk: Abbr. 40. 2016 W.S. losers to the Cubs
(mainly because I have no idea because every single moment. It doesn’t hurt
48. What a new Jewish groom will 41. It may be beaten there is no name on it). “Mom is the that I got great cards that they filled out
often do 46. Seder guest best. Often in a good mood. The skinni- in the car on the way to the restaurant,
51. Word after “Borei”, often 48. Judaism’s most ancient ritual est woman on earth. Has a good sense because it is the thought that counts.
52. M.D.’s right hands 49. One who is aware of humor. Everyone says you’re funny. Hope you all had a wonderful day.
53. “Put a sock ___!” 50. Poses
Really young.” For those of you paying
54. Neil Diamond hit 51. Computer menu option
58. “Sure” 54. Like an unshut door
attention, the first letter of each sen- Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck also got an
60. This publication, e.g. 55. Funny image, nowadays tence spells out “mother.” amazing cookbook that Son #3 picked
65. To ___ (everybody) 56. Actor McGregor Every year I am astounded at how out for her at the Judaica House in
66. Kitchen or bachelor add-on 57. Part of a pot on the table intuitive my boys were about me. Here Teaneck. She looks forward to making
67. Two prime ministers 59. Strong animals I thought I was always in a good mood him many recipes in 20 minutes or less of
68. Tenant’s payment 61. TLV letters
… apparently not. I also have a Mother’s prep time.
69. Lightly blacken 62. Bulldog cousin
70. Piece of gemara 63. First name in ice cream
64. Cape Town’s country: Abbr.
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TORAH KNOWLEDGE?
D’var Torah
JoinEmor:
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rich with important sub- reads “like the stranger, like the citizen resentatives c an figure We need comprehensive
jects that are also diffi- will be.” The first “like” seems unnec- out what is going on.” He immigration reform that val-
cult and fraught. Who is essary, even confusing. It is clearer to promised that he would ues the stranger and the citi-
fit to serve as a religious leader, and assert “the stranger will be like the citi- “send back” all Syrian refu- zen. We need to root out rac-
how will that service affect their pri- zen” than “like the stranger will be like gees seeking asylum in the ism and other forms of bias
vate lives? What behavior protects the citizen.” United States, if elected. and discrimination. We need
and magnifies God’s name, and what The word “like” is indicated in Since becoming President, to act zealously for inclusion
behavior sullies or even desecrates it? Hebrew with the single letter kaf. The he has instituted policies and equal justice in all our
How shall we celebrate and sanctify “extra” kaf/”like” is interpreted by to at least exacerbate and Rabbi Debra spheres of influence.
time, including and especially Sab- most commentators to emphasize the arguably create a crisis on Orenstein Now, more than ever, we
baths and holidays? When people defy equality between strangers and citi- the Southern border. He Congregation B’nai also need a philosophical
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This last question takes up much of indicates that the women among con- gions with demeaning and We need to take it into our
the last chapter in the Torah reading, verts and the women among born demonizing language. He has made it hearts and souls. Each of us is called to
in the form of laws and, more unusu- Jews should be included and legally harder for legitimate asylum seekers become more inclusive and more just.
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of Jewish cinema, and an AIPAC policy
Women’s song
Friday circle in Teaneck:
2 p.m. Popcorn and
ice cream. 558 High
conference delegate
this year, is the guest
MAY 17 The Jewish Center Mountain Road. speaker. Refreshments.
of Teaneck offers a (201) 560-0200 or 10-10 Norma Ave.
Shabbat in Jersey z’mirot song circle for tenjfl.org. (201) 873-2476 or
City: Congregation women only, 4 p.m. l.felner@att.net.
B’nai Jacob has 70 Sterling Place. Jewish trivia in
“Shabbat Achlah WomensZmirot Ridgewood:
(awesome)” +owner@groups.io. Reconstructionist Tuesday
with classic and Congregation Beth MAY 21
contemporary Israel
music, dancing, and
Sunday Israel offers a pop-
quiz game of Jewish
MAY 19 Treating eating
food, led by its new Jeopardy at Temple disorders in Jewish
rabbi, Bronwen Mullin, Israel & Jewish women/girls: The
7 p.m. 176 West Side Lag B’omer in Community Center, Renfrew Center, a
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or Paramus: The JCC of 3 p.m. Led by RCBI national network
rabbibnaijacob@gmail. Paramus/Congregation members Chrissi of eating disorder
com. Beth Tikvah, O’Donnell and David treatment facilities
Congregation Beth Volin. 475 Grove for women and
Shabbat in Tenafly: Tefillah, the Sephardic St., second floor. adolescent girls,
Temple Sinai of Bergen Congregation of synagogue.org. with a local center
County holds Rock Paramus, Temple Israel in Ridgewood, offers
Shabbat. Dinner with & JCC of Ridgewood, Origami workshop in
reservations, 6:15 p.m.; and the Fair Lawn Teaneck: In time for MAY Tal Brody, Israel’s “Feasting, Fasting and
goodwill ambassador, Eating Disorders in the
19
services, with Temple Jewish Center/CBI Shavuot, Congregation Jewish Community,”
Sinai’s Rock Shabbat join for sports and Beth Aaron continues a has had an exciting a professional
Band, at 7:30. 1 Engle relay games, s’more free origami workshop
St. (201) 568-3035 or making, and ice cream series, with “Tulips
life. Starting as an development
seminar for health
Templesinaibc.org. truck, at Petruska Park, in a Flowerpot,” led All-American basketball player professionals including
Celebrating Shabbat:
475 N. Farview Ave., by origami artist and at the University of Illinois, he dietitians, nutritionists,
10 a.m–12:30 p.m. If congregant Yaacov
Rabbi Leiah Moser it rains, it will be held Metzger, 5 p.m. All went on to a career in the NBA therapists,
psychologists, and
leads an informal at the JCCP/CBT, E. materials supplied. before making aliyah. He is the family counselors, at
discussion about the
weekly Torah portion
304 Midland Ave. Those younger distinguished speaker at the Teaneck Marriott
JCCParamus.org than 8 require adult
at Reconstructionist supervision. Also on Temple Beth Rishon in at Glenpointe, 8
a.m.-1:15 p.m. Five
Congregation Beth Lag B’Omer May 27 at 10 a.m. 950 Wyckoff, on Sunday, May 19, at CE credits available.
Israel of Ridgewood’s in Emerson:
“Dessert & Discussion,” Congregation B’nai
Queen Anne Road. 10 a.m. Reservations, 585 100 Frank W. Burr
(201) 836-6210 or
in lieu of a service, at Israel hosts a spring bethaaron.org/event/ Russell Ave. (201) 891-4466 or Boulevard, Teaneck.
Register, (800)
a private home, 7 p.m. barbecue with TulipOrigami. bethrishon.org. RENFREW or
Location information, vegetarian options, an
rcbi@syngaogue.org. inflatable slide, games
• RenfrewCenter.com.
and prizes, 10:30 a.m.– Monday Tal Brody also will present the
Saturday noon., after the Hebrew
school’s moving up
MAY 20 film “We Are on the Map — We
MAY 18 ceremony. 53 Palisade College student panel
Are Staying on the Map, Not
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or in Woodcliff Lake: Only in Sports, but in
Shabbat in Emerson: bisrael.com. Temple Emanuel of Everything” and tell his story
Sportswriter Neil the Pascack Valley’s
Amdur of the New Picnic in Wayne: college students, from
for the Israel American Center
York Times will speak Congregation Shomrei schools including at the Kaplen JCC on the
at Congregation B’nai Torah’s “spring fling”
Israel during services has outdoor games,
Lehigh, University of Palisades in Tenafly, on
Michigan, Tufts, and
led by Rabbi Debra live music, a bounce Tulane, talk about
Wednesday, May 22, at 6:30
Orenstein, 10 a.m. house, and lunch, their experiences p.m. .411 East Clinton Ave., Book talk in Fort
Mr. Amdur also co- 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Lee: The sisterhood
authored books with 30 Hinchman Ave.
adapting to college Tenafly. jccotp.org or (201) of the JCC of Fort
life, roommates,
Arthur Ashe, Chris (973) 696-2500 or academics, study
569-7900. Lee’s Book Club
Evert, and Olympic shomreitorahwcc.org. abroad, and Jewish meets to discuss Nomi
champion Vincent life on campus, at the Eve’s “Henna House,”
Matthews. 53 Palisade Film in Franklin Lakes: Jewish Center/ 1 p.m. Refreshments.
Temple Emanuel of shul, 7 p.m. Coffee and AIPAC delegate
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or dessert. 87 Overlook CBI, 7:30 p.m. Geri 1449 Anderson Ave.
bisrael.com. North Jersey screens in Fair Lawn: The Lipschitz, Hadassah
Drive. Reservations, (201) 947-1735.
“Almonds and Raisins,” Fair Lawn chapter Northern New Jersey
a documentary about Membership@tepv.org of Hadassah meets
or (201) 391-0801. region vice president
the golden years at the Fair Lawn
Ethical matters:
Senior Source and
Salon,” led by Rabbi
Leiah Moser of
Healing Prayer,
Traditional and New JFNNJ to bolster hunger relief
Defining Moment
Foundation convenes
Reconstructionist
Congregation Beth
Rituals, Bikur Cholim
(Visiting the Sick),” with poker, dinner, and auction
a panel, “Why Do
Israel in Ridgewood, for the “Hearing Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Federation Full House is set for the
offers an insider’s look Women’s Voices: Alpine Country Club on Thursday, May 23, at 6:30 p.m. It offers a Vegas-style
Ethics Matter? Or Do at Reconstructionist Body & Spirit” series
They?” featuring Dr. Judaism — what it at Temple Emanuel Texas Hold ’Em poker tournament, blackjack, dinner fare, Scotch and stogies,
Joseph Chuman of is about, why it was of the Pascack and silent and live auctions. All net Proceeds will fund JFNNJ’s hunger relief
Columbia University, founded, and how Valley in Woodcliff efforts. For more information, call Andi Lewittes at (201) 820-3930 or go to
local activist Charlotte it has evolved — at Lake. 87 Overlook
Bennett Schoen, jfnnj.org/fullhouse.
Railyard Tavern, 14- Drive. Reservations,
educator Cheryl Maller, 26 Plaza Road, Fair (201) 391-0801 or tepv.
lawyer Eddie Raynord Lawn, 7-8:30 p.m. Free org.
Hadden, and Brad
Ruder, the founder and
appetizers; cash bar
available. Reservations,
Tee off with Tenafly shul
president Brad-Core, at
1:30 p.m., at the Shops
rcbi@synagogue.
org; information,
In New York Temple Sinai of Bergen County holds available to non-golfers.
at Riverside, Second synagogue.org. its golf outing on Thursday, May 30, For reservations, email info@tem-
Floor, in Hackensack.
(201) 342-0962 or Saturday at the Alpine Country Club in Demar- plesinaibc.org. Synagogue member-
seniorsourcenj.org. Thursday MAY 18 est. Howard Cohen, Eric Kleiner, and
Erik Maschler are the golf outing’s
ship is not required and foursomes
can be arranged. Proceeds will pro-
MAY 23
ASL-Shabbat Across co-chairs and Heidi Reichert is the vide a significant discount to families
Lag B’Omer in Wayne: America in NYC: Town event director. who want to be part of the Temple
The Chabad Center & Village Synagogue The day-into - evening outing Sinai community. “Finances should
in Manhattan holds
of Passaic County includes nine holes, cocktails, and not be a barrier to synagogue mem-
has a community- an ASL-interpreted
Shabbat service, dinner. Golfers will go straight from bership or to the education of the next
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a barbecue, games, 10 a.m. 334 East 14th the course to the barbecue dinner of generation,” Sinai’s rabbi, Jordan Mill-
and bonfire, 5:30 p.m. St. (212) 677-0368V, grilled meats, fish, and veggies. A sep- stein, said.
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