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A Jewish mother for a galactic cop
l DC Comics

But does it run on time?

Photo bt Ann Toback

l Philip K. Dick was a science fiction

writer who understood the overwhelming and annoying power of advertising,

even if his own book sales didnt benefit
from big-budget marketing during his
lifetime. Fifty years ago, he predicted
that if flying robot birds were invented,
they would fly around tweeting advertising jingles.
When you read his work, you can
see that an overwhelming, often
heartbreaking sense of kindness
and empathy is at its heart. So we
truly doubt that were he the one
implementing advertising policies
for New Yorks Metropolitan Transit
Authority, he would have approved
Amazons scheme for promoting the
television series based on his book,
The Man in the High Castle. What part
of decking out a train in American-Nazi
flags made sense? It is one thing, after
all, to enter the horrific possible world
where Nazis and Imperial Japanese
have divided up rule over America
imaginatively, through a book or a
video. It is another to live it in real life
on the 42nd Street shuttle train.
As Ann Toback told Gothamist,
I shouldnt have to sit staring at a
Nazi insignia on my way to work.
Toback is the executive director
of the Workmens Circle, a Jewish
organization. It boggles the mind
that someone could take the time to
decorate an entire subway train with
Nazi insignia and not think, This is a
poor choice, she said.
An MTA spokesman defended the

train redesign, saying that since it

wasnt a political ad, the transit agency
had no choice in the matter. The
updated standards prohibit political
advertisements. Unless youre saying
that you believe Amazon is advocating
for a Nazi takeover of the United States,
then it meets the standards. Theyre
advertising a show, MTA spokesman
Adam Lisberg told Gothamist.
When The Man in the High Castle
was first published in 1962, it was
marketed to readers of Cold War
thrillers like Fail Safe, and it featured a
swastika on the cover. Later paperback
reissues, however, appeared under
publishers science fiction lines and
featured generic science fiction designs
that didnt reflect the books contents
nor include swastikas. (It was only for
his final novels that Dick, who died in
1982 at 53, merited custom cover art for
his science fiction novels.)
For a review of The Man in the High
Castle, sans swastikas, see page 49.
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a lot of changes.
Originally a blond
man named Alan
Scott, who had a
magic ring, when
he was created in
1940, he was reinvented as darkhaired Californiabased test pilot
Hal Jordan in 1959.
The ring was no longer magic, but
super-science, and we learned of an
entire corps of Green Lanterns. After
several decades of being sidelined
by other ring bearers, Hal Jordan has
fairly recently returned to being the
main Green Lantern, but with a small
change. As of this month, Hal Jordan
is now one of the tribe.
In Darkseid War: Green Lantern,
a flashback reveals that while
Hals father was Catholic (already
a departure from the era of his
creation, where everyone was
implicitly a WASP, even if guiding
editor Julius Schwartz and artist
Gil Kane were not), his mother was
Jewish. Intriguingly, the story also
gives a pretty strong reason for why
Hal is non-practicing. But no spoilers.
In an era when we have an AfricanAmerican Captain America, a Muslim
Ms. Marvel, and a female Thor, its
easy to dismiss the idea of a Jewish
Green Lantern as an editorially
driven gimmick. Not so, says the
storys author, Tom King.
This was a story about God
and will power, so prior to getting
started, I researched the seemingly
simple question of what was Green
Lanterns religion, he told us.
There were quite a few (conflicting)
answers, but I found some
compelling blogs that argued that
he was half Catholic and half Jewish,
though this had never been explicitly
stated. Im half Jewish and half
Protestant myself, and Im married
to a lovely woman who is half Jewish
and half Catholic, and we have some

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lovely half Jewish childrenso this

idea appealed to me.
I wrote this origin into the script
and I never heard another word
about it from editorial. Im insanely
proud that I got to add this to Hals
legacy, though I think its important
to note that the idea itself comes
from the characters history as culled
together by his fans, King said.
King also noted that much of
the core values of the medium
come from the Jewish experience
in America, the experience of my
grandparents, children of immigrants
trying to do good by and in America.
Unfortunately, despite their ability
to place these values in comics, 75
years ago these Jewish creators
could not create explicitly Jewish
characters. Its nice to know that
now we can.
DC has had Jewish characters in
the past but they were all basically
B-list heroes. Green Lantern, on the
other hand, is absolutely A-List. Hes
been the star of his own cartoon, will
be featured in the upcoming Justice
League film, and has a movie coming
out eventually. (Lets all pretend
the one with Ryan Reynolds never
happened.)
I doubt well be seeing Hal Jordan
sitting down to Shabbat dinner
anytime soon (unlike Superman, who
did exactly that in Action Comics
#835), but thats not the point. The
point is that the comic book universe
is finally starting to reflect everyone
who reads it, and especially those
Mordechai Luchins
who created it.

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Is the makeshift holy site

available for birthday parties?
TABLET WRITER YAIR ROSENBERG, REFERRING TO A REPLICA OF THE
DOME OF THE ROCK SET UP BY IRANS REVOLUTIONARY GUARD FOR WAR
GAMES SIMULATING THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEMS TEMPLE MOUNT.

STILL SCARY:

A new take
on old horror tale
Victor Frankenstein, a new take
on the classic
horror tale, opened on
Wednesday, November
25. In this version, Igor
(DANIEL RADCLIFFE,
26) is the brilliant
protg of Dr. Victor
Frankenstein (James
McAvoy) and the two
share a noble vision of
aiding humanity via their
research into immortality.
But Victors experiments
go horribly too far and
only Igor can bring his
friend back from the
brink of madness and
save him from his
monstrous creation.
Radcliffe, who recently
got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is
high on this film, promoting it in a blitz of media
interviews. In these same
interviews, he disclosed
that the end of Harry
Potter films led him to
sow some wild oats,
including drinking too
much (but hes now
completely sober).
Victor F was written by MAX LANDIS,
30, the son of director JOHN LANDIS,
65 (Blues Brothers,
Animal House, and the
scary Thriller video).
Maxs mother DEBORAH
NADOOLMAN LANDIS,
62, is an Oscar-nominated costume designer.
She and John have been
married for 35 years.
Maxs writing credits include Chronicle (2012),
a smallish budget sci-fi

film that became a surprise box office smash.

The new comedic
Netflix series
Master of None
was created and is
written by Indian-American Aziz Ansari and
Chinese-American Alan
Wang. The first seasons
central character, Dev
(Ansari), is a first generation Indian-American
trying to make it as an
actor. There are interesting parallels between
how Dev, a fairly assimilated American, navigates in the wider
American world and the
Jewish experience in
overwhelmingly nonJewish American society
(being pretty much
comfortable with the
dominant culturebut
still often standing
outside it).
The first season features H. JON BENJAMIN,
49, as Benjamin, Devs
friend and his co-star in
a movie they hope will
get made; NOAH EMMERICH, 50, as the husband of a woman (Claire
Danes) with whom Dev
has a one-night stand;
and LYNN COHEN, 82,
as the nice, non-racist
grandma of Devs white
girlfriend. The series has
got very good reviews,
and Cohen, who played
Mirandas nanny, Magda,
on Sex and the City,
says about the shows
scripts: This is great to
see something like this. I
dont normally get stuff

Max Landis

H, Jon Benjamin

Rachel Platten

Singing as she floats by

Noah Emmerich

Donny Deutsch

thats as rich as this.

The USA network
sit-com Donny!,
starring top
(real-life) advertising
man DONNY DEUTSCH,
57, as a fictional version
of himself, is getting
not-so-good reviews. It
premiered on November
10 and probably will not
get renewed. Deutsch,
who really has no acting
experience, isnt bad as
an actor but the
shows largely improvised writing fails him.
Too bad, because Ive
liked to watch Deutsch
spiel on talk shows like
Morning Joe. I recall
once that ultra-conservative pundit Ann Coulter
made some snarky
remark about people of
faith all hating some-

thing (I dont recall what

that something was).
Deutsch said he didnt
hate it and Coulter said
youre a non-practicing
Jew and Deutsch said,
Thats not true (implying he practiced and was,
therefore, a person of
faith). This reply brought
Coulter up short, and, for
once she shut up.
Thanksgiving is
the best allAmerican holiday.
Even though it began in
ultra-WASP 17th century
New England, it lends
itself to being celebrated by every immigrant
group and it easily
incorporates differing
culinary, ethnic, and
religious traditions. One
bonus is that different
traditions often mix

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song, Fight Song, which then was near the top of the
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than 2 million downloads. Plattens follow-up single,
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The power of relationships
New Jersey AJC reaches beyond its borders
LOIS GOLDRICH

ever underestimate the power of

relationships, says John Rosen,
the American Jewish Committees New Jersey director.
Noting that in recent years the venerable
organization has shifted much of its focus to
diplomacy, Mr. Rosen said that New Jersey
has been entrusted with developing special
ties to diplomats from India, Nepal, Malaysia,
Greece, Slovakia, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Its all about relationships, Mr. Rosen
said. When you have established relations
with a diplomat, and have met with that
person formally and informally, theyll begin
to trust you and value what you do and bring
to the table. Those relationships can last for
years, and can pay off down the line.
This is not the AJC of even five years ago,
he continued. Eighty percent of our work
now is interfacing with world leaders and diplomats. Theres a misconception that somehow theres this world out there beyond New
Jerseys borders where diplomats huddle
together, and thats where the conversation
is taking place. Thats not the case.
Interactions with these countries happen
around the world, often on our own soil, and
these conversations are going on all the time.
AJC recognized a number of years ago that no
Jewish groups were holding these conversations, advocating for Jewish interests.
While AIPAC focuses on educating Congress about matters involving Israel, no
one was doing this at the global level, so
AJC decided to fill that role, Mr. Rosen
said. Unlike AIPAC, however, our agenda
is broader, focusing not just on Israel but on
the welfare of the Jewish community around
the world. Were talking to world leaders.
Those conversations are not lobbying they
are diplomacy. Were talking to world leaders and diplomats the same way other countries are talking to each other. Were using the
same language and the same etiquette. And,
he said, AJC trains both staff and volunteers
to follow this etiquette.
In general, meetings are formulaic. The
team leader the volunteer assigned to
that country leads the meeting, inviting
the diplomat to express whats on his mind.
Then we present the talking points we
reviewed with experts on [the AJC] staff.
These may include, for example, anti-Semitism, and how the country in question can
play a role in dealing with other countries
that face this problem.
On the issue of Israel, We talk to our diplomatic partners about Israels treatment at
the U.N. and the bias built into the U.N. In
his experience, the diplomats have a vested
interest in making sure the U.N. works.
6 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Theyre distraught about the anti-Israel bias.

We work with them to raise the issue going
forward. And that, he said, means a better
chance of things changing.
By way of example: Some 20 years ago,
when Yugoslavia broke apart, we built up a
good relationship with the consul general at
the time from Bosnia. We had a close relationship. Now hes the foreign minister. When,
two years ago, Palestine asked the U.N. Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state,
the swing vote was Bosnia, Mr. Rosen said.
Because of our relationship, we convinced
them to abstain. Indeed, he said, even the
U.S. State Department recognized AJCs
efforts in bringing this about.
Mr. Rosen said that the meetings are helpful to both sides. We have influence and
Alain Sanders, at right, with Carol Arce Echeverria and Ambassador Juan Carlos
Mendoza Garca; she is a counselor in Costa Ricas U.N. delegation, and he is that
reach, he said. We have offices worldwide
countrys ambassador to the U.N. 
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and we meet with members of Congress.
At the top of AJC, its executive director, David Harris,
problems and issues vis--vis Israel. Then
Sanders, a professor of political science at Saint Peters
meets with leaders, ambaswe discuss our positions on some of the
sadors, and heads of state,
University, explained that,
same, or different, matters. They often
engaging in continuous
typically, New Jersey diploagree with what we say. We let them know
matic volunteers meet with
dialogue and contact. They
we are a resource. We do extensive research
the ambassador or consul
know we do that. Its useful
and extensive advocacy work. If they give us
general of those countries
to speak to us. With intera call, well try to help.
national offices in Tokyo,
assigned to the state.
Really, this is a mutual relationship. Discussions have been friendly. Even when we
Singapore, Hong Kong,
Im the diplomatic team
disagree, its not antagonistic. Were meant
Delhi, Paris, Berlin, Brusleader regarding Costa
sels, San Paolo, and Jeruto be supportive of one another.
Rica, he said. Recently, he
salem, were well-placed
Mr. Sanders, who has been engaged in
met with Juan Carlos MenJohn Rosen is the Ameridoza Garca, Costa Ricas
around the world.
this work for a year and has attended
can Jewish Committees
permanent representative
In between formal meetmeetings with diplomatic representatives
New Jersey director.
ings, we engage inforto the U.N.
of Panama, India, and Greece said such
mally, Mr. Rosen said.
We discussed our conmeetings are very productive.
cerns pertaining to Israel and the Jewish
Were often most productive when we get
Before undertaking their diplomatic
community worldwide, Mr. Sanders said.
to know them better. For example, the New
assignments, New Jersey volunteers sit with
Meetings are off the record so we can
Jersey team may invite diplomats from their
AJC staff experts, meeting with a team that
become good friends. The purpose is to
assigned countries to sit with them at the
concentrates on a particular geographic
share AJCs views on issues because [these
U.N.s Holocaust commemoration, or they
area and evaluates the country in question:
diplomats] do communicate back with their
may participate in those countries special
Where things stand, what opportunities
home government.
exhibits.
exist for outreach, Mr. Sanders said. In
Diplomats tend to operate in the upper
At our instigation, the Indian consulate
each case, we evaluate what is the best possible approach.
atmosphere, he said, noting that meetings
holds a Chanukah party every year, Mr.
At the Costa Rica meeting, every New
such as his are a reality check. They hear
Rosen said. Its a wonderful celebration.
Jersey volunteer was there and we were at
from people on the ground and communiThere are two Indian Jews who are part of
cate back.
the top of our skills. It was an impressive set
the diplomatic effort. They both go to this.
In addition, he said, in many forof talents at our end.
Sometimes, interactions are dictated by
eign countries, the initial entryway into
After the meetings, volunteers ask permiscircumstance. After the terror attacks in
sion to take notes for internal use, recording
national politics may be a post in the U.N.
Paris, AJC invited diplomats to a commemoration at the New York office, co-sponsored
their impressions of the gathering.
or an ambassadorship. Subsequently,
by the French consulate. It was a powerful
These meetings are valuable because
they may rise in their home country to
program, Mr. Rosen said.
they create relationships and friendships,
become an influential politician. We
Clearly, theres a lot of diplomatic work
Mr. Sanders said. We cant forget that there
befriend these officials as they rise and
to be done. And if we only used staff, we
are human beings behind the policies. As
maintain that relationship over a long
wouldnt get very far, he added. So we
long as you maintain dialogue, theres less
period of time, including when they get
learned we could train volunteers and have
chance to escalate into conflict.
there. Its a good investment.
them participate.
Jews are often maligned around the
Mr. Sanders said that the AJCs informal diplomatic teams typical approach is
One such volunteer, Alain Sanders of
world; its important for leaders to see that
to first invite [the diplomat] to tell us the
River Edge, recently led a meeting in New
were like any other people. We have concerns and interests and we share them.
issues and problems of his country and
York with diplomats from Costa Rica. Mr.

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They didnt dance

Jersey Citys Mayor Steven Fulop calls out Donald Trump
JOANNE PALMER

ccording to Donald Trump, the

Republican Partys front-runner for its presidential nomination, there was a massive public celebration in Jersey City as the Twin
Towers imploded on September 11, 2001.
I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down, he was reported
as having said on Saturday, at an event in
Birmingham, Ala. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and
thousands of people were cheering as that
building was coming down.
That never happened, Steven Fulop,
Jersey Citys mayor, said.
Although Mr. Trump later clarified that
he was not in Jersey City on September
11, despite having implied at first that he
had been, he refused to back down from
the rest of his assertion. But, Mayor Fulop
said, there was no television broadcast of
something that did not happen.
When you look at the media outlets,

Jersey Citys Mayor Steve Fulop

there isnt one that substantiates what he
said, Mr. Fulop said. There is not footage
of it, and there are no reports.
The original rumor which set the public jubilation over the deaths of thousands

of people in Paterson, not Jersey City

was an urban legend, fueled by antiMuslim sentiment, and Trump is looking
to capitalize on it, Mr. Fulop continued.
He resents it.
We in Jersey City do not appreciate
it. We have done a lot of work to create a
community that is diverse, where everyone works together. We do Muslim events,
we do Jewish events. Jersey City is a city
that speaks to a lot of American culture on
diversity. So for him to single us out as an
example of hatred His voice trailed off.
It certainly evoked a response from
people here, though, he resumed. People resent what he said. The silver lining is
that I believe that a campaign of hate will
not win in the general election. If he is the
nominee for the Republican side, the end
result will be a Democratic president.
Which works for me, added Mr. Fulop,
who is a Democrat.
Mr. Trump did evoke a response from
Jersey City residents. A lot of people in the
Muslim community reached out, he said.

Jersey City is right across the Hudson

from the World Trade Center, and the
attack, clearly visible across the river,
spurred many people there into action.
Jersey City first responders helped out in
lower Manhattan. Jersey Citys trauma center was set up to help victims, and Liberty
State Park was used as a staging center.
Thousands of people volunteered.
The Jewish Standards coverage of those
nightmare weeks shows no evidence of
street celebrations of the carnage anywhere in the United States, although we
did report in passing on the rumors from
Paterson, which we pointedly said that no
one could source, much less prove. On
September 28, a long story looked at reactions in Jersey City. We quoted three local
rabbis Orthodox, Conservative, and
Reform none of whom mentioned anything about street celebrations. Each one
instead talked about the profound shock,
deep sadness, and feeling of community
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Letter from Israel

Soothing the savage breast
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

his letter is not about stabbings, shootings, or

global jihad. This is a calm musical interlude
that I am sure we all need. So sit back and relax
as I tell you about my evening.
It is 9 p.m. on November 17. I just got home from a
magnificent performance of the Maaleh Adumim Youth
Symphony in an equally magnificent new concert hall
five minutes drive from my home. The hall is part of the
grand new George and Irina Schaeffer Cultural Center; it
includes a music conservatory, performance halls, and a
kosher caf called Piano.
Under the baton of Binyamin Shapira, 49 extraordinarily talented teenage musicians played compositions
by Mikhael Glinka, Jean Sibelius, Edvard Grieg, Johann
Strauss, Antonin Dvorak, and Arturo Marquez to a full
house of 500 patrons.
The program began, oddly enough, with the Star-Spangled Banner, which the performers played before they
played Hatikva. That is because this performance really
was a kind of dress rehearsal for the
four-year-old Youth Symphonys
November 22 show at Carnegie Hall.
As the old joke goes: How do you
get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice! Clearly these young
Israeli girls and boys practiced hard,
because they took third place in the
Bratislava International Competition
for Youth Symphonies last July. They
earned themselves the privilege of
toting their violins, violas, cellos,
flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons,
trumpets, French horns, trombones,
tuba, and percussion instruments
across the pond to the fabled Carnegie Hall.
For me (and several other New Jersey expats in the audience) there was
an even-closer-to-home connection.
The performance was preceded by
a moving tribute to Mel Parness of
Cliffside Park, who died earlier this
month. He was executive vice president emeritus of the
Bnai Zion Foundation, an American philanthropy whose
generosity made possible many significant institutions
throughout Israel, including the Maaleh Adumim Library
of Peace and the Schaeffer Cultural Center.
Mr. Parness established his first Bnai Zion chapter when
he was no older than the kids in the Youth Symphony.
He was elected executive vice president in June 1983 and

Members of the Maaleh Adumim Youth Symphony will perform at Carnegie Hall. At
left, conductor Binyamin Shapira.
PHOTO BY DANIEL SANTACRUZ
served until July 2006, though
he continued to be a driving
force within the national organization after his retirement.
Maaleh Adumim got onto
the Bnai Zion radar in the early
1990s, when our mayor, Benny
Kashriel, took Mr. Parness on
a tour of this then-new suburb
of Jerusalem. The mayor told
us they needed a real library,
related Mr. Parness several years ago. They had a storefront library and there was virtually nothing for the kids.
He told us how the city was growing, and we were very
impressed with him and the city and decided we could
help.
Mayor Kashriel was not at the performance November
17 because he was paying his respects to the Parness
family in New Jersey.

Another guiding light of Bnai Zion, Jack Grunspan, died

last July. The prelude to tonights program, Elegie Opus
24 by Gabriel Faur, was performed in his memory with
Shapira on the cello.
All in all, it was a proud evening for Maaleh Adumim
and for our American patrons, many of whom were present for the cultural centers dedication on October 11.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev were among the dignitaries in attendance
at the dedication, despite an Arab womans attempted car
bombing that very morning on the highway leading from
Jerusalem to Maaleh Adumim.
I believe that the juxtaposition of events that day sends
a strong message that despite the unfortunately constant
threat of violence, we never will stop the music.
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast; to soften
rocks, or bend a knotted oak, wrote 18th century British
playwright William Congreve.
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having many readers, even writers from elsewhere often visit to talk about their
books. In the next section, we highlight local writers and speakers; in the cover
story, we look at three writers who live on the other side of the river.

BOOKS

The new Jews

Teaneck professor examines
settlement movement in
Our Promised Land
LARRY YUDELSON
When Dr. Charles Selengut was growing
up in Manhattan he learned the Jewish
response to an anti-Semitic insult or a
potential fight.
We were told to run away, he recalled
recently.
Today Dr. Selengut lives in Teaneck; the
former student at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in
Brooklyn is now a professor of sociology at
County College of Morris in Randolph. His
new book, Our Promised Land: Faith and
Militant Zionism in Israeli Settlements
examines the revolution he has seen in
his lifetime. The one that began with Israels Gush Emunim, its settlement movement, and has spread through Orthodox
Jewish communities around the world.
The settlement movement said Jews in
the State of Israel or the diaspora wont
accept their inferior pariah status, but

What motivates
religious settlers is
not political issues
or economic
issues, but a
feeling that history
is on our side.
would become not passive but aggressive
and determined to establish their own identity, he said. This is a psychological stance
that is new in Jewish history. As a sociologist, I saw it transforming contemporary
Judaism. Almost all modern Orthodox Jews
are now supporters of the settler movement. And though charedi leaders reject
the movement, with its messianic claims,
If you talk to the charedi people in the
streets, theres a great deal of sympathy.
While the psychological reality it has
created is new, Dr. Selengut shows how
the settler movement draws on ancient
strands in classical Jewish teachings.
Our Promised Land was named one of
the ten best religion books of 2015 by the

American Library Association. It combines

fieldwork many visits to the settlements
and interviews with their residents, starting a decade ago and intensively between
2010 and 2012 with an analysis of their
religious beliefs, as seen through the
teachings of such pivotal yet
seldom translated figures as
Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, who
was the son of Israels first
chief rabbi and the spiritual
guide behind the founders
of Gush Emunim in the early
1970s.
One of the tragedies in
Israeli intelligence and in the
American Jewish community
is the refusal to acknowledge
the power of religious motivations, Dr. Selengut said.
What motivates religious settlers is not political issues or
Charles Selengut
economic issues, but a feeling
that history is on our side, that
Soloveichik, an American Talmudist who
God promised us this land, and that even
taught at Yeshiva University, similarly justhrough suffering we will somehow inherit
tified holy war on this basis, Dr. Selengut
our rightful land.
The key religious innovation of the setsaid, and ruled that It is obligatory for the
tlers, he said, is the belief that the creJewish people to engage in battle against
ation of the State of Israel means the mesany gentile nation that seeks to deter Jews
sianic era has occurred and everything
from rights in the whole Land of Israel.
has changed. We can make war. This is
In short, Dr. Selengut said, the settlers
not Poland, this is not Baghdad. We can
have a great deal of halachic and rabbinic
defend ourselves.
data on their side. You can argue against
He cites a quotation from Rabbi Kook,
them the charedim do that but one
who died in 1982: The Ramban Nachcannot argue that theyre de novum.
Besides having historical rabbis on their
manides, a 13th century halachic authorside, they also claim the mantle of the lesity clearly determines that conquering
sons of 20th century Jewish history, he
the Land of Israel to ensure Jewish soversaid. That gives their cause resonance
eignty is the milchemet mitzvah, holy war,
among Jews who dont necessarily take the
of the Torah. This is a precept of the Torah
Talmud and its commentators as holy writ.
and there is no getting around it.
Rabbi Kook acknowledged that this mitzThe argument of the settlers is that
vah hadnt been practiced in previous genthe whole Zionist movement was imbued
erations Because we were in a situation
with faith that was realized, even though it
where, against our will, we could not.
didnt seem rational or realistic, he said.
But today, Rabbi Kook said, we have
If I were to say to a German Jewish burthe weapons of war and this precept has
gher in Munich in 1920 that there would
returned to our hand. Torah, war, and
be a Holocaust or State of Israel, he would
settlements are three sides of a triangle.
have laughed.
and how incredibly privileged we are to
Yet there are plenty of debates within
be assertive in all.
the settler movement. Dr. Selengut finds
Dr. Selengut said this idea was not
the largest fault line to be generational.
exclusive to Rabbi Kook. Rabbi Ahron
Among the young people, under 35,

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theres much more militancy, a sense the

leadership betrayed them, disappointed
them, he said. That shocked me.
The sense of betrayal is rooted in Israels 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip,
which was traumatic for religious Zionists. They say their rabbis promised them
they would never have to leave Gush Katif
in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Selengut said.
Rabbi Avraham Shapira, who succeeded
Rabbi Kook as head of the Mercaz Harav
Yeshiva and served as Israels Ashkenazi
chief rabbi for a decade, had promised
that God would prevent the withdrawal.
God didnt.
We cant trust them, Dr. Selengut
quoted this generation as saying of the
older generation of rabbis and leaders.
All we have is ourselves.
This has led many of them to embrace
a militancy that the older generation, the
generation that founded the settlements
on hilltops in the West Bank, largely
rejected. The militancy takes the form of
so-called price tag attacks against Palestinian and sometimes Israeli government
targets. While most attacks consisted of
vandalism or property damage, in July the
phrase price tag was left on the scene of
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that killed a Palestinian infant and his parents.
The settler movement presents itself as very mainstream but there are elements that are gurgling under
the surface that are very Kahanist in their outlook,
he said.
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg is a central figure in these
extremist circles.
The settlement establishment cant stand him, but
hes a very important figure, Dr. Selengut said. Hundreds of young people come to his lectures. He articulates their concerns. De facto he has a lot of ground
troops. Hes a version of Meir Kahane; more sophisticated perhaps.
Yitzhak Ginsburg has the idea that for kavod, the
honor of the Jewish people, violence may be legitimate. This is a variation of a statement by Rabbi Kahane that Dr. Selengut quotes in his book: A Jewish fist
in the face of an astonished Gentile that has not seen it
for two millennia, this is Kiddush Hashem, sanctifying
Gods name.
That also is not new, Dr. Selengut said, noting
the ideas origins in the Zionist thought of Zeev Jabotinsky and his Beitar movement. These things have
histories.
Dr. Selengut said that Rabbi Ginsburg and his followers are mistakenly dismissed by mainstream supporters of the settlement movement as crazy people and homeless people.
This is their opinion, he said. Its not the truth.
Dr. Selengut came to the project of Our Promised
Land in part to answer the question of how Zionism
became messianic, in part because he saw a new Jew,
people who were frum, Torah observant, determined
to take their destiny into their own hands.
It also served as a more focused follow-up to his previous book, Sacred Fury: Understanding Religious
Violence, which looked at all the Western religions
to ask How is it that an institution like religion, that
preaches love and kindness and chesed, also kills and
maims people in its name?
There are two sides of religion. One is loving kindness, loving the other as you love yourself. On the
other hand, there is the idea that we have to kill the
infidel, we have to follow our scriptures and kill those
that disagree with us. Theres a tension in all religions
between those two. I try to show how this develops in
the Western traditions and try to offer some ways out.
You see it in Islam. Islam talks about tolerating
other religions but theres a lot of violence. You see it
in Christianity in the religious wars. Even in Judaism,
think of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Or even
with the chief rabbinate, where people convert and
theyre not welcome. On the one hand, you want to
welcome the stranger; on the other hand, you want
to deny people the right if they dont agree with the
minutiae of your point of view.
The solution cant come from the outside. The
solutions have to come from people within the system. Nothing the Christians or Jews will tell Muslims
will change them. Its from Islam itself, from people
who are knowledgeable about the Koran, the hadiths, the traditions in Islam. People who are scholars
can make changes in a religion, not the people who
are outside.

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Hydro-diplomacy
In Teaneck, author Seth Siegel to speak about how Israel can help impending water crisis
JOANNE PALMER
Many of the countries that surround Israel
have oil. Israel does not.
Few of those countries have obvious
sources of water. Neither does Israel.
Somehow, though, Israel has managed
to make itself a center of water technology, a place that, if you pardon the clich
because its true, has made the desert
bloom.
As it turns out, the scarcity of water
and our wanton carelessness with it, our
inability to see how precious it is as it trickles away, is likely to cause a crisis not limited to the Middle East.
I am a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and about four years ago
I attended a seminar on the water problem, serial-entrepreneur-turned-Jewishphilanthropist-activist-and-advocate Seth
Siegel said. I was surprised to discover
what a horrible, multi-decade water crisis
is plaguing us. The U.S. government now
estimates that by 2025, 60 percent of the
worlds landmass and 40 of our 50 states
will be facing water scarcity. In other
words, in 10 years the problems facing
California now will affect almost all of us.
But, Mr. Siegel who has written about
the crisis in Let There Be Water and will
discuss it in Teaneck on November 28 (see
box) sees an opportunity in the crisis.
The amazing part is that the solution

is Israel, he said. As an AIPAC member

and a strong, vocal supporter of Israel,
still, I feel that there is way too much of
Let me explain Israel to you in context,
he said. Israels supporters always feel the
need to give too much backstory, to parse
and defend, to go on the defensive. That
doesnt always work. We need a positive
uplifting message, he said.
And then it hit me like a thunderbolt,
he said. If we are smart about it, if we
can do it well, we can accomplish two
things instantaneously, and they both are
important.
One is to make the citizenry and
elected officials aware of the problem of
water scarcity, and the other one is tell a
positive, true story.
I am not doing hasbara. I am not speaking for the foreign minister. I am not a
defense lawyer.
I am here to tell the good news that
Israel has the worlds most sophisticated
water system.
So, the t wo-birds-with-one-stone
approach (and oh the lure of clichs when
speaking about truths) The world needs
to fix the problem of water and fast!
and how wonderful to have a positive message about Israel.
So Mr. Siegel decided to get to work.
First, some of his backstory.
A restless lawyer-turned-businessman,
Mr. Siegel started a number of companies;

Seth Siegel sees water supply as a

pipeline to peace.

he sold one of them, Beanstalk, to Ford

Motor Company 16 years ago, and that
freed him from the need to worry about
supporting himself and his family ever
again. Then I decided that what I wanted
to do was spend the rest of my life in the
service of the Jewish community, he said.
Since then, I have taken on a variety of
communal roles, and treated them as fulltime jobs, from Jewish education to campus Jewish life to Israel advocacy.

Why did he do it?

Well, he said, The Bengali community is too spicy for me, and there is too
much treif. More seriously, There is an
extraordinary message that the Jewish
people have to give the world, and now
we are under siege. So, I thought, if not
now, when? And if not me, then who? So I
decided to make that leap.
(He also has followed other interests; in
2002 he was a backer of a revival of Man
of La Mancha. Impossible dreams seem to
attract him.)
Mr. Siegel is not a scientist, and he did
no scientific research himself. Instead, he
tackled the subject as a journalist. When
I applied to law school, I also applied to
Columbias school of journalism, he said.
I didnt get in. If I had, I would have gone.
I was on the wait list, and I got into seven
or eight law schools. I paid my deposit
to Cornell, and I decided that if I got into
Columbia, Id give up the deposit and go.
But I never got off the wait list.
The dream of being a journalist, he said,
was the life not lived.
So the idea of writing this book appealed
to him on a third, entirely personal level
too.
When he decided to tackle the issue
of Israel and water scarcity, a lot of my
friends who have written books said that
doing the research would be hard, dry,
and miserable. It was not, he reported.

The Eshkol Central

Water Filtration Plant,
near Nazareth.

Who: Writer/advocate/entrepreneur Seth Siegel

What: Will talk about his book, Let There Be Water
When: On Saturday, November 28, at 8 p.m.
Where: At Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, 641 West
Englewood Avenue, Teaneck
Why: To learn about the global water crisis and how
Israel can help
More: Light refreshments will be served; book sale
and signing will follow the talk
More information: www.SethMSiegel.com or
@SethMSiegel
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Research has become much easier, and
much perhaps even most of it can be
done online, he said.
As he researched his book, Mr. Siegel
said, he learned that worries about water
went back to the states earliest years, and
even before. Herzl wrote about it, he
said. He started his story in 1930, with the
British White Paper severely limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine. Although its
real reason was the British fear of Muslim
uprisings, its stated reason was that they
said that there wasnt enough water.
In response, a man who I revive from
the dustbins of history, a total virtuoso of
water, the man who made Israel what it
is, a man who deserves to be in the pantheon of Israels founders a man named
Simcha Blass, one of the many men and
women whom Mr. Siegel credits with great
and forgotten achievements presented
the British with a water plan.
Blass was a brilliant engineer, who
went to Polands equivalent of MIT before
World War II; an impressive accomplishment for anyone but particularly striking in a Jew in that terrifyingly Jew-hating
time and place. When he got to Palestine,
one of the two survivors of his entire
extended family, he worked on desalinating and sewage treatment plans for the

government. Later, after he had lost at

bureaucratic infighting and was moldering at home, 59 years old, impoverished,
unhappy, he had a lightening-bolt idea
that will save Israel and revolutionize agriculture, Mr. Siegel said. For three years,
he develops the technology that comes
from this epiphany drip agriculture.
Mr. Blass became very rich, and Israel
benefited even more than he did..
Profiting from the work of Mr. Blass
and other hydrologists, Israel today has
become a world leader in water science.
A wonderful second-order benefit of
that status, Mr. Siegel says, is that it allows
Israel to practice what he calls hydrodiplomacy, and that can help limit its
isolation around the world. Until the fall
of the shah of Iran, Israel provided backchannel water aid to that country; since
the early l980s, it has provided the same
service to China, which has dropped its
implacable public disdain for Israel and
instead established a diplomatic relationship with it in 1992.
Today, there are countries that you
would think would have no relations with
Israel based on what you read in newspapers but youd be entirely wrong,
Mr. Siegel said. Israel now trades water
technology with 150 countries around the

world. Israeli businessmen carry Israeli

passports and travel to these countries.
They also carry messages, and they
open doors, he added. He is not allowed
to name those countries, he said; he had
to promise that secrecy in order to learn
about the relationships.
Another aspect of water diplomacy has
to do with the West Bank, Mr. Siegel said.
We read only about the implacable hatred
between the Israelis and the Palestinians,
but water is a pathway to peace and dialogue and cooperation.
Fifty-five percent of the West Banks
water comes from Israeli sources. So the
water they are drinking in the West Bank is
the same as the water they drink in Tel Aviv.
Israel built a very sophisticated water
system for the Palestinians when they
conquered the West Bank, he continued.
Then, less than 10 percent of the population there had running water. Today,
97 percent of the West Bank has running
water in their home the other three
percent is Bedouin encampments. It is
an amazing quality-of-life improvement,
whether or not they acknowledge that it
is from Israel.
Israel trains most of the Palestinian
water engineers. It is a very good peopleto-people dialogue; it brings them to Israel

for a week at a stretch to educate them.

And possibly best of all, the cooperation has never stopped. Not even during
the second intifada. Not even when Netanyahu and Abbas dont talk to each other.
The water officials still do talk to each
other. And if they thats Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian
Authority want to pass messages, they
have this method.
The Israelis also provide water to Gaza.
Even during the war in Gaza, when
the rockets were flying, the water never
stopped flowing, Mr. Siegel said. It is a
special story, and it is not often told.
His book was published right after the
holidays, and he began touring universities to talk about it, Mr. Siegel said. Most
of his audiences are not Jewish. I have
spoken in more than 40 venues, and what
amazes me is the degree to which this resonates with audiences.
I expected hostile audiences, but only
one time was there ever a hostile question,
and then it was just one. The audience
are primarily Asian and South American
students.
I feel as if I have found the holy grail,
Mr. Siegel concluded. This is an inspiring
story that we can tell about Israel.

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A fantasy off Route 17

Andrew Mayer brings memories of New Jersey and his Jewish father to his novels
LARRY YUDELSON

etsey Weisz is just a typical

young half-Jewish, half-Korean
woman in northern New Jersey,
working in a diner off Route 17,
with a feeling that her life has hit a dead
end.
Then a bright light appears over the
parking lot and people start transforming.
One eats the soul of her boyfriend.
Yes, Betsey Weisz is fictional. Shes the
central character in a fantasy series by
Andrew Mayer, a San Francisco writer who
grew up in Upper Saddle River. The second
volume in the series, The Lost Dragon,
was just published.
The point of the series is to keep
her off balance as she tries to figure out
whats going on, he said. By the end of
the adventure, shes pulled through to an
alternate reality.
It is a reality with different dimensions,
with alternate versions of New Jersey (and
New York) that features fantastic inhabitants, a reality that has its share of vampires
and changelings and dragons.
A perfect setting for an adventure for
those who like that sort of thing.
Betsey Weiszs background is partially a
reflection of her creators.
His father was Jewish; he grew up in
Frankfurt until his family was chased from
Germany by the Nazis. His mother was
British, not Jewish.
My dad had an interesting background, Mr. Mayer said. When he got to
the U.S. he did a lot of alternative religion
stuff.
And by alternative, Mr. Mayer means
really alternative, including taking part in
UFO religions focusing on teachings from
and contact with aliens.
We would do different religious ceremonies, go to synagogue, go to church,
Mr. Mayer remembered. My dad was a
man of adventure. As was his grandfather,
who had been a World War I battle doctor
and war hero.
When the Nazis came in, at first he was
protected, then he was hunted, because
they didnt want any Jewish heroes. He
was literally sneaking back and forth over
the border into Holland to get out of Germany. They ended up in British Honduras, he said.
His father was 12 or 13 at the time.
My grandfather was a real character,
Mr. Mayer said. At one point he was the
only dentist in Belize. My father pedaled a
bicycle to drive the dental drill. He told me
he had to be very careful about how fast he
would pedal, because if he went too fast it
would cause the enamel to crack.
Mr. Mayer said his father didnt really
harbor harsh feelings toward Germany.

New Jersey native Andrew Mayer doesnt follow the herd.

My father just saw it as something people did. He saw that cultural racism in so
many ways. He was fairly forgiving actually. I remember some arguments as a kid
between the family members about that.
Near the end of his life, he went back to
the school he went to and spoke to the kids
there about what happened. He said that
grandfather was sure the Nazis werent
against them, but only against the eastern
Jews; that the German Jews somehow had

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safety and superiority.

So how is Andrew Mayers Jewish
background reflected in Rachel Weiszs
personality?
My experience that I bring to her is
the questioning. When stuff is put in front
of her and given the literary context
in which she lives, the stuff can be rather
fantastic she doesnt either accept it
or reject it whole cloth. She wants to take
some time, and have some compassion and

understanding of what is that in front of her.

Thats my experience of the Jewish
side of my family. Even if its something
you disagree with, theres a curiosity and
an attempt to understand it, rather than to
run away and say that youre not going to
talk about it.
When you come from different backgrounds, you get to pick and choose a little. Its a bit of a buffet. What are you keeping? What are you rejecting? Thats forced
on you because people see you a certain
way.
Its not an epic conflict. Its an interesting one and it informs the character. Its
fun for me to play with.
He feels comfortable with his characters Jewish side. For her Korean side, he
talks to a friend whose father is Jewish and
mother is Chinese to find out the JewishAsian experience.
He has been a fulltime writer for only a
couple of years. Before that, Mr. Mayer, 49,
spent 20 years as a video game designer
and director.
He has published a trilogy of superhero
novels set in New York City in the 1880s.
New York in that period is very exciting, he said, explaining why he didnt
follow the conventions of the steampunk
genre, which generally features adventures in a high tech variation of 19th-century London. I wanted to do something
that didnt follow the herd.

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Where are the babies?

Local mother considers why she is not yet a grandmother
JOANNE PALMER

he impetus for Debbie Slevins

book, Unpregnant Pause:
Where Are The Babies? was an
odd fact that struck her a few
years ago when she was at her book group.
Ms. Slevin, 61, and her husband, Jeff, live
in Edgewater now theyre empty-nesters
and were more than ready to exchange
a large house for a cosy place with less
demanding maintenance and a river view
but until a few years ago she lived in
Demarest. We the eight women in the
group raised our children together, we
were in the PTA together, and since then,
for the last 15 years, weve belonged to a
book group together.
One night I looked around, and I realized
that we had seven daughters among us. Two
of the women there were grandmothers
both from their sons and our daughters
are all in their 30s but none of us were
grandmothers through our daughters.
None of them was married.
We all thought that was weird.
That initial insight led her to start asking questions everywhere. Wherever I went
to the nail place, shopping, in Starbucks
whenever I saw women about my age, I
would ask them if they had grandchildren.
A pattern started to emerge.
The pattern showed itself among

Debbie Slavin: A voice for single

daughters
metropolitan, upscale, well-educated
young women the daughters of the
women she approached with her questions, Ms. Slevin said. (It is far less common among more religious observant
women, Ms. Slevin added. Those women
tend to marry earlier and begin to have
children earlier.)
Its particularly marked among women
who have gravitated to cities because they
want to make their mark. In my book, I

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compare Sheryl Sandbergs book, Leaning In, with Susan Pattons Marry Smart:
Advice for Finding THE ONE.
Sandberg says wait until after college,
give at least 15 years toward making a
career. Patton says you should find your
man in college because you will never have
such a good collection of men again.
I go back and forth between those two
models. I dont know if I stressed family
enough when my daughter was younger,
and I take responsibility for that. I wanted
her to be independent and make her own
choices, and I dont think I ever said, Oh,
by the way, having a family is the best
thing in the world.
Of course, even when Debbie Slevin was
young, many couples waited until they
were not particularly young before they
got married. Not her, though. I got married at 22 and had my first baby at 26, she
said. I knew that many women did not
have babies then, but I was so caught up
in trying to fix a dysfunctional childhood
that when the wave of feminism came by, I
was standing on the shore, cheering everyone else on, and meanwhile baking cookies for the PTA and driving other peoples
children home from work.
Now, though, her daughter and her
friends daughters all are in the same position unpartnered and childless.
Some of those women mind; others

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revel in it. They are not interested in having

children now; some would like to become
mothers at some far-away time, and others
would like to remain child-free.
And some of them worked on supercareers, and then they think, Oh wait. Am I
missing my fertile time? The clock ticks.
There are some ways around that ticktock. It is possible to buy eggs. Eggs from
women at Ivy League schools are worth
more than eggs from other places, Ms.
Slevin said. (Thats a side issue in her book,
though; she looked far more at women
who do not have children than at those
who sell their eggs.) Some people suggest
that women freeze their eggs while they
still are in college. That way, theyll have
a 20-year-olds eggs when they are 35, Ms.
Slevin said. That is a very expensive proposition, way out of reach of most college
students not forward-thinking enough to
be born into trust funds, so often parents
fund the undertaking, one that catapults
helicopter parents into an entirely more
rarefied league.
In her book, Ms. Slevin talks to professionals who work with infertility, and she
talks to the women themselves.
One of the things I want people to know
is that one of the factors that drove me was
to try to eliminate the shame that these
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Barry and Susan Mirsky, left, with Carol and Henry Ramer, Paula and Sarah
Ramer, Rabbi Randall Mark, and Dr. Seymour and Elaine Schlossberg.

COURTESY ISRAEL BONDS

Shomrei Torah holds Bonds reception

Shomrei Torah: The Wayne Conservative Congregation and New Jersey Israel
Bonds honored Carol and Henry Ramer
at a brunch at the synagogue. Susan and
Barry Mirsky and Elaine and Dr. Seymour Schlossberg chaired the brunch,
and guest speaker Professor Jonathan
Adelman of the Josef Korbel School of
International Studies at the University of
Denver discussed Israel and the Middle
East Crisis Today.

On behalf of Israel Bonds, Paula and

Sarah Ramer presented their parents
with a tzedakah box crafted of Jerusalem
stone, honoring them for their commitment and support of Israel over many
years.
For information about buying or
financing an Israel Bond, call Linda
Schmidt at (973) 712-1408 or email her at
linda.schmidt@israelbonds.com.

Lamdeinu will
celebrate first year
Lamdeinu will celebrate its first year of
adult Jewish education at a Chanukah
breakfast, with music and dancing, on
Sunday, December 13, at 9:15 a.m., at
Congregation Beth Aaron in Teaneck.
Lamdeinus dean, Rachel Friedman,
will speak. Advance reservations are
required; make them at www.lamdeinu.org.

More than 50 community volunteers the

Community Based Emergency Caregivers
of the United Rescue program graduated
during a ceremony hosted by Mayor Steven Fulop at City Hall in Jersey City. United
Rescue is modeled on the highly successful
program designed by United Hatzalah of
Israel, a grassroots initiative that brought
Israels national average emergency
response time down to just three minutes.
Through a partnership between the Jersey City Medical Center Barnabas Health
and Jersey City, United Rescue brings the
nations first community-based emergency
response program to New Jerseys second
largest city.
The newly certified community-based
emergency caregivers each completed
60 hours of training from the Jersey City
Medical Centers EMS team. As of November 13, all graduates will be able to respond
to 911 medical calls and be dispatched to
emergencies. They will be able to provide immediate emergency care to victims before Jersey City Medical Center

ambulances arrive.
Celebrating the graduation of 50 new
volunteer medics who will help save lives
in Jersey City is one of the most rewarding
moments I have had, said Eli Beer, president and founder of United Hatzalah of
Israel, who flew to the United States for the
ceremony. Sharing the Israeli model of
lifesaving from United Hatzalah with this
new initiative in Jersey City will help all
residents and visitors to the city and will
inspire other communities to follow the
lead of Mayor Fulop and United Rescue.
With the goal of substantially decreasing
emergency response times, United Rescue
emergency caregivers are linked to the Jersey City Medical Centers dispatch system
using a GPS-based mobile app called NowForce. When a United Rescue caregiver
receives an emergency call to a nearby
location, he or she is dispatched through
the app and will arrive on foot, by bicycle,
or on a medically equipped motorcycle.
This system uses Israeli technology and
techniques to serve Jersey City residents.

Rachel Friedman, dean of Lamdeinu

Hussein Aboubakr addresses BCHSJS students and parents.

BCHSJS has busy month

The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies recently held three programs, including a lecture by Hussein
Aboubakr, a former Muslim and Egyptian prisoner. StandWithUs, an international nonprofit organization dedicated
to informing the public about Israel and
to combating extremism and anti-Semitism, brought the program to BCHSJS.
The school also hosted a fall overnight

United Rescue kicks off in Jersey City

that included activities at SkyZone in

Allendale and Havadalah, pizza, gym
activities, and a pre-Chanukah party at
the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth
Tikvah. The school also had a Kristallnacht commemoration, presented to
students and faculty, which included
the screening of a student-made video.
Students also read passages written by
Kristallnacht survivors.

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Glen Rock Jewish Center president Rob Weiss, left, with GRJC
trustee Jack Linefsky, GRJC Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg, GRJC
trustee Bruce Nirenberg, and Walter Harrison, president of the
University of Hartford.

Rabbi Schlosberg is honored

The Glen Rock Jewish Centers Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg was selected as the first
recipient of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies alumni award at the
University of Hartford, her undergraduate
alma mater. The ceremony was held last
month.
The Maurice Greenberg Center for

Judaic Studies alumni award honors outstanding alumni of the University of Hartford whose years on campus were characterized by high academic achievement at
the center along with active, campus-wide
engagement, and whose subsequent life
continues to reflect the knowledge and values imparted by their time at the center.

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We create warm memories of happy times.
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Giving Tuesday

Putting the give into Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving and Americas sole four-day yontiff.
And in the late 20th century, Thanksgiving begot
Black Friday, when the Christmas shopping season
was heralded with amazing discounts that were instore only, leading some pilgrims to camp out overnight and others to trample their fellow pilgrims to
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And lo, in 2005 Scott Silverman of Shop.org said:
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out a press release, and the New York Times duly
reported that millions of otherwise productive working Americans, fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend of
window shopping, were returning to high-speed Internet connections at work Monday and buying what
they liked.

And the shoppers saw Cyber Monday, and it was good.

And in 2006 online spending on Cyber Monday jumped 25
percent to $608 million, and by 2011, notwithstanding the
spread of high speed Internet at home, and the fact 7 percent of human resource managers had reported firing an
employee for holiday shopping, that figure had doubled.

So it was that in 2012 the 92nd Street Y and the United

Nations Foundation decided to combine Thanksgiving spirit
of gratitude with Cyber Mondays spirit of online credit card
use to draw attention to philanthropy.
Thus was born Giving Tuesday, a day in which Americans are encouraged to give back to their community and

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to highlight their philanthropic sides in

their online interactions, and of course
to give generously.
And in 2013, online gifts on Giving
Tuesday rose 90 percent over 2012, and
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So it was that in 2014 the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey came
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In keeping with the principles of Reverend Browne, who was the founder of
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At the federation itself, Giving Tuesday
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The Jewish Federation of Northern

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Editorial
On Thanksgiving

cientists tell us that gratitude is

good for the heart.
Its a folk truth thats always
been around, one that cynics
mock and the more earnest among us
repeat as a mantra, and now scientists
confirm it too. Recognizing and giving
thanks for the positive aspects of life
can result in improved mental, and ultimately physical, health in patients with
asymptomatic heart failure, the American Psychological Association tells us.
Many of us have much for which to be
grateful. We live in a terrifying world, yes
and when has the world not been terrifying? When have enemies not wanted
to attack us? (Please note that I do not
mean only Jews. Most peoples have had
enemies; most of those peoples are long
gone.) When has disease and natural
disaster, which still pose huge risks to us,
and which ultimately will kill most of us,
been as domesticated and held at bay as
they are now?
Never.
Now, as Thanksgiving approaches,
as the season of golden glowing leaves
and red-glowing apples and pumpkins
and plaids begins to give way to winters
clear thin pure light if were lucky and
its dirty snow and hidden ice if were not
our secular calendar our American
calendar gives us the chance to appreciate and celebrate what we have, before
the last leaf is raked up and the pumpkins eaten or tossed.
Now is a good time to give thanks.
We are lucky to be able to live in the
United States of America we as Jews,
we as the descendants of immigrants, we
as hyphenated Americans, we as Americans. Just plain Americans.
Yes, this country is imperfect, as any
human institution must be. As, in fact,
Israel is. It has sinned against people, at
times grievously. It allows injustice to
fester, poverty to persist, inequality to
endure.
But it also has provided a haven of
freedom to all of us, a place to breathe,
expand, create our own communities,
learn from our neighbors, teach our
neighbors, say what we mean, mean
what we say, taste and smell and see

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and glory in new colors and smells and

shapes. To expand our creativity and
explore our own truths.
This Thanksgiving, as the world seems
to go crazy around us, is a time to be
thankful. We will fight traffic to go to our
families or our friends (and often friends
become our families) and maybe well
even fight with someone in our family
once we get there, ragged with annoyance,
because both families and interstates are
human institutions, and by definition
far from perfect. The soup will be cold
and the turkey will be overdone and the
vegetables will be steamed to death and
there wont be enough of the right kind
of soda and there will be far too much of
the wrong kind, and the wine will be too
sweet or too white or too cold, and it will
be a long wait for dessert because cooking
is a human invention and therefore imperfect, as is the art of timing a meal and preparing it for hordes.
But underlying all of it will be love,
and comfort, and bone-deep knowledge
of each other. And gratitude.
We know that at least one local synagogue refuses to acknowledge Thanksgiving, labeling it legal holiday on its
calendar. We know that some yeshivas
do not close for it. We cannot understand that.
To stand apart from the country where
you live, where you have the opportunity the great gift, even the blessing, as
anyone who has grown up somewhere
where he or she did not have that chance
to vote, is an inexplicable, counterintuitive, finally indefensible choice. To live
in a country where you can say whatever you want to say, where you can do
almost anything you want to do, where
democracy flourishes, and not revel in it
makes no sense. And to be willing to take
whatever the country gives but to hold
back from joining, from sharing, from
lowering a lifted nose and uncurling a
sneered lip, seems simply wrong.
Luckily, that is a minority approach.
And, of course, its a free country! Which
is, after all, the point. And it is something
for which all of us at the Jewish Standard
are deeply thankful.
JP
Happy Thanksgiving.

Editor
Joanne Palmer
Associate Editor
Larry Yudelson
Guide/Gallery Editor
Beth Janoff Chananie
About Our Children Editor
Heidi Mae Bratt

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Correspondents
Warren Boroson
Lois Goldrich
Abigail K. Leichman
Miriam Rinn
Dr. Miryam Z. Wahrman
Advertising Director
Natalie D. Jay
Classified Director
Janice Rosen

Responding to a rabbis attack

hat might account for Rabbi

D av i d - S e t h K i r s h n e r s
unusual and unhealthy
obsession with me (Please,
Rabbi Boteach, November 20)?
Over the past few months, Iran repeatedly
has threatened to annihilate the Jewish people. Israelis are being slashed, blown up, and
murdered on a near-daily basis. And ISIS is
mowing down people around the world.
But what is the pressing issue that makes
Rabbi Kirshners blood boil to where he
exclaims, I have been biting my tongue for
so long I am afraid that I might have a hole
in it?
Me.
While some in America
believe in the first amendment,
Kirshner calls my columns a
crime. In this hysterical and
repetitive rant, I was reminded
of the sad legacy of Rabbi Steven S. Wise.
Wise was the Reform Jewish
leader during the Holocaust
who was more upset by Jewish
Rabbi
activists who publicly called
Shmuley
Boteach
out FDR for inaction against
the annihilation of European
Jewry than by the atrocities
themselves. Wise condemned Peter Bergson,
the heroic leader who took out hundreds of
ads in the New York Times to publicly criticize American officials who were blind to the
horrors in Europe, as being worse than Hitler. Wises name today lives in infamy. Bergsons efforts helped to save 200,000 Jews.
For too long the Jewish community has
chosen political access over legitimate public
agitation. Rather than taking my cues from
Steven Wise and his ideological bedfellow
David-Seth Kirshner, I prefer the example of
Martin Luther King Jr., arguably the greatest
American of the 20th century, who repeatedly risked his relationship with presidents
and senators to march against the abomination of segregation and racism.
In April 1963 King wrote his famous Letter

from Birmingham Jail in response to a group

of eight white clergy who, like Rabbi Kirshner,
published an attack on King, painting him an
agitator whose activities were unwise and
untimely. In the letter King wrote his famous
line: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere. He added, We have waited for
more than three hundred and forty years for
our God-given and constitutional rights.
Well, Rabbi Kirshner, a threat to annihilate the Jews anywhere is a threat to civilized
people everywhere. Why would you not join
me in demanding our president and elected
leaders hold Iran accountable for repeatedly
threatening to annihilate Israel?
As a people, Rabbi Kirshner,
we have waited 2,000 years
for our right to speak out courageously against policies of
our government and elected
officials that would endanger
human life, such as giving $150
billion to the bloodthirsty mullahs of Iran.
I believe in speaking truth
to power and calling out our
elected officials when they
play politics with genocide
and genocidal intent. But in
his obsessive condemnation of
Jews who publicly challenge authority, Kirshner becomes blind to his own hypocrisy. He
accuses me of ad hominem attacks but refers
in his writings to Prime Minister Netanyahu
as sneaky, a man guilty of cheap moves.
Bibi makes him embarrassed to be a Zionist. So consumed is Kirshner with contempt
for Israels elected leader that he is not above
invoking old anti-Semitic, Shylockian stereotypes to attack the prime minister, going so
far as saying Netanyahu unnecessarily feeds
a derisive narrative of the conniving Israeli in
the marketplace.
But Kirshners inconsistency is most glaring with his attack on rabbis who are not
courageous enough to speak out on Israel. I
am surprised, he writes, to see an article
in the New York Times which claims many

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rabbinic colleagues most maintaining anonymity for fear of
their views affecting their positions will not broach Israel
for fear of offending the right or left. So which is it, Rabbi
Kirshner? You want rabbis to defend Israel but never criticize
President Obama for remaining silent in the face of Iranian
calls for another Jewish genocide? You want rabbis to protect
Israel but not hold Susan Rice accountable for falsely accusing Netanyahu of opposing Obamas Iran deal because the
President is black, as the administrations own Dennis Ross
revealed? You want us to guard Israel but not hold John Kerry
accountable for justifying terrorism in Israel as being provoked by settlements?
Do you think these individuals are princes or noblemen,
above any censure? Are you not an American who believes
they are merely servants of the people and are accountable
for their actions?
I mean, really?
In a truly regrettable line in light of recent events in Paris,
Rabbi Kirshner even attacked Netanyahu for addressing a
joint session of Congress against the Iran deal with this: Do
we want Francois Hollande standing before our elected officials and explaining ... what is the best vehicle to stop terror? Come to think of it, David, why, yes. Most Americans
would welcome a speech from the French leader who has just
pledged to be pitiless against the monsters of ISIS. Wouldnt
you?
Rabbi Kirshner also invokes blatant sexism when he insinuates that we dare not criticize elected officials who are women.
One could only imagine the horror on the faces of people like
my friend Ambassador Samantha Power when they read
that a gallant knight like David-Seth Kirshner is riding to the
defense of the helpless, weaker sex. I was Samanthas biggest
public supporter for the nomination to become UN ambassador, until she inexplicably refused to pledge backing for
Israel against a unilateral UN declaration of Palestinian statehood. She then protected the administration after it refused
to punish Bashar Assad for gassing Arab children. I will always
protest the murder of my Arab brothers and sisters by bloodthirsty tyrants, however much it offends Samantha or Rabbi
Kirshner.
But Rabbi Kirshner is not done yet. In a final desperate
lunge he maligns me with trying to turn support for Israel
into a political football that will further divide the political
parties.
Hmmm.
I seem to recall that it was I who wrote in these pages just
two weeks ago that Israels greatest friend in the entire United
States Senate is not a Republican but New Jersey Democrat
Robert Menendez. Indeed, together with my close friend and
former student Ron Dermer, Israels ambassador to the United
States, I presented Senator Menendez with the Defender
of Israel award at our World Values Network International
Champions of Jewish Values Gala in Times Square last May. It
was also our organization that took out a full page ad in the
New York Times thanking Senator Menendez for being Israels great friend and Irans worst nightmare.
And unless he has been living on Mars, Rabbi Kirshner is
aware that for the past quarter century I have championed
the cause of my close friend Cory Booker in the Jewish community. He happens to be a Democrat.
Im sorry that my outspokenness offends you so, Rabbi Kirshner. But get over it. You can publish another ten screeds of
character assassination and I will not stop. You may call on
publications to censor me and I will not cease.
Not until Jewish life is finally prized as much as every other
life. Not until Israel is treated with fairness and decency. Not
until Jewish blood ceases to flow like a river in Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv. Not until genocidal threats against our people and all
people come to an end. And not until I rouse even Jews like
yourself to take up the cudgel for your people.
Even if it means that youll need to see the dentist for the
holes in your tongue, I will not stop.

Old Glory and ancient glory

hapter 1 of Title 4 of the United States Code

is a set of rules and guidelines, etiquette
and protocols for the display and care of the
American flag.
The Flag Code of the United States sufficiently
detailed to make a talmudist blush is unenforceable:
penalties for its violation long since have been deemed
unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. Nevertheless, it is a time-honored set of patriotic prescriptions and a fascinating insight into the American
psyche and national sense of self.
The Flag Code addresses a number of predictable
issues. How, where, and in what position is the flag
to be displayed? How is the American flag displayed
together with those of individual states or other countries? How is the flag raised and lowered? May the flag
be flown in inclement weather or at night? How do we
dispose of a worn or tattered flag?
Section 6 of the Flag Code discusses on what occasions it is appropriate to display the American flag. Subsection D (!!) explains that
the flag should be displayed
on all days but especially
on a variety of holidays and
historic anniversaries. Not
surprisingly, these special
occasions include Veterans
Day (November 11), Flag Day
Rabbi Joseph
( June 14), Lincolns birthday
H. Prouser
(February 12), Washingtons
birthday (February 22), etc.
Growing up in Northampton, Massachusetts, I was taught that the American
flag also was to be flown on the birthday of former
Northampton Mayor (and, incidentally, U.S. President)
Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge was born on the Fourth of
July, so, indeed, the flag is customarily (if coincidentally) flown on his birthday as well. Naturally, the flag
also is properly to be flown on Thanksgiving Day. The
list of such patriotic occasions is extensive.
It may come as a surprise to some that the Flag
Code of the United States prescribes that the flag also
be flown on Christmas Day. The reasoning behind
this practice is open to debate. Is the Christmas Day
display of Old Glory an implicit assertion that ours
is a Christian country? Or, conversely, is it a corrective measure in response to such inclinations. Is it
a reminder on a day sacred to the Christian faithful
that there are Americans of many religious stripes,
with diverse beliefs and modes of worship, all equally
American? Perhaps the Christmas Day display of the
American flag simply is a humble expression of gratitude for the freedom of religion and expression that
the nation it represents guarantees as a sacred trust.
While I find the Flag Codes Christmas codicil constitutionally curious, I welcome such patriotic expression
by my Christian neighbors, on Christmas or any other
day of the year.
As for my fellow Jews, I invite you to consider that
there may be no more appropriate time to display
the American flag than during the holiday of Chanukah. Our approaching Festival of Lights celebrates the
heroic victory of a citizen army against the forces of
tyranny and religious exclusivism. Chanukah, by all
accounts an historically minor holiday, has taken on
far greater significance in the 20th century because
it so directly speaks to the experience of the State of
Israel, and to the Jewish peoples continuing quest for

national and cultural self-determination, sovereignty,

and peace. But the history recalled on Chanukah also
has spoken with compelling clarity to the American
experience, and has inspired American leaders and
luminaries since the very founding of the republic.
Consider the case of Benjamin Rush, born on Christmas Eve 1754. Rush was a physician; in fact, he served
as surgeon general in the Continental Army. He was
a civic leader in Philadelphia, attended the Continental Congress, and signed the Declaration of Independence. He opposed slavery and advocated for educational opportunities for women. He is considered one
of the founding fathers not only of the nation, but also
of American psychiatry. It is Dr. Rush who helped to
reconcile John Adams and Thomas Jefferson after the
former presidents estrangement.
In a 1773 letter addressed To His Fellow Countrymen, Rush wrote:
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as
necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae
is both a moral and a religious duty. It comprehends
not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of
our fellow creatures. This virtue we find constitutes
a part of the finest characters in history. The holy men
of old, in proportion as they possessed a religious were
endowed with a public spirit. What did Moses forsake
and suffer for his countrymen! What shining examples
of Patriotism do we behold in Joshua, Samuel, Maccabeus, and all the illustrious princes, captains, and
prophets among the Jews!
Even before the establishment of the United States
on July 4, 1776, Dr. Rush saw in Maccabeus that is,
in Judah Maccabee and the Hasmonean campaign he
led against Seleucid Greek oppressors an inspiring
model for American patriotism and our own struggle
for freedom and independence.
Chanukah 2015 marks not only the anniversary of
the Hasmonean victory, but also an important (if much
neglected) centennial anniversary in American Jewish
history. It was precisely 100 years ago, on Chanukah
1915, just six months before he was appointed to the
United States Supreme Court, that the renowned jurist
and American Zionist leader Louis B. Brandeis distributed this message:
As part of the eternal world-wide struggle for democracy, the struggle of the Maccabees is of eternal worldwide interest. It is a struggle of the Jews today, as well as
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A VIEW FROM A VOLUNTEER

Get out of Dodge now

From Vive La France to Am Yisrael Chai

have been a stranger in a

percent of the population. Thats according
strange land (Exodus 2:22).
to Benjamin Allouche, who heads part of the
Throughout history, the
organization that represents Jewish institutions in France, the Conseil Representatif des
Jewish people have found
Institutions Juives de France, better known as
themselves living in countries where they
CRIF. In April, when Jason Shames, the CEO
were a small minority of the entire population. Once the State of Israel was born in
of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, and I visited Paris to support the Jewish
1948, for the first time in two millennia we
community there, Mr. Allouche graciously
had a country of our own, where we were
took us around. We saw firsthand the daily
the majority.
danger that the Jewish community experiIn 1948, there were approximately 850,000
ences through visits to Hyper
Jews living in Arab countries
Cacher, the kosher supermaraccording to a U.N. document
ket where four Jews were murcalled Trends and Characteristics of International Migration
dered in January, and Sarcelles
Since 1950. By 2011, according
Synagogue, the synagogue
to reports from the U.S. State
where the president, rabbi
Department, there were fewer
and congregants were imprisoned during Palestinian riots
than 5,000 Jews in all Arab
in 2014.
counties combined. Morocco
Based upon what we saw
had 265,000 Jews in 1948 it
Daniel M.
in Paris, the stories that we
was the biggest community in
Shlufman
heard (and I will share below),
the Arab world. In 2011, only
the growing anti-Semitism in
2,000 remained. That is an
France, and the most recent
overall drop of 99.995 percent.
terrorist attack, all signs indicate that it is time
This is a handy number to remember when
for the Jewish people to leave France en mass
Palestinians use their disingenuous rationale
and immigrate to Israel. Unlike in the past,
and fuzzy math to support their unsupportable position that is misnamed as the Right
there now is a country that wants Jews and
of Return.
is open to them. It also has a modern way of
It is now about two weeks since the unconlife, which is as or possibly more advanced
scionable terrorist act in Paris that rocked
than the life they will leave behind in France.
Europe to its core. As Jews, we support the
When we were at the Hyper Cacher, we
people of France and condemn the cowmet a woman who is the head of resources
ardly and inhumane acts of violence comand development for the Jewish agency that
mitted in the name of Islamic fundamentalis responsible for Jewish security in France,
ism. Unlike our administration, which will
the Service de Protection de la Communaut
let the emperor walk around naked in the
Juive. She declined to be photographed or
streets, I am not afraid to be the little boy in
allow us to interview her because, she said,
the street, shouting Mommy, the emperor
if her name and face were known, her life
has no clothes. We must call out terrorism
would be in danger. She told us that the SPCJ
for what it is.
has enough resources to protect only about
According to official estimates, there are
one quarter of the countrys Jewish day
now between five and seven million Muslims
schools and food markets from terrorism.
in France. This would be approximately 10
During our visit, Hyper Cacher was cordoned
percent of Frances total population. Howoff by metal barricades. There was a police
ever, there likely are twice that number of
van there, and machine-gun-wielding officers
Muslims in France nearly 15 million, or 20
guarded it.

Old Glory
FROM PAGE 25

of those of 2,000 years ago. It is a struggle

in which all Americans, non-Jews as well as
Jews, should be vitally interested because
they are vitally affected.
Brandeis was the first Jew to serve on the
Supreme Court, and many consider him to
be one of the Courts greatest champions of
free speech and the right to privacy. Like
Benjamin Rush before him, Brandeis understood that the Maccabean revolt and its celebration on Chanukah (which he called the

Feast of the Maccabees) has profound significance for all Americans: not a military
victory only; but a victory also of the spirit
over things material a victory of democracy over aristocracy.
The Flag Code of the United States does
not recognize Chanukah as an American
holiday, nor should it. The First Amendment, which has rendered the entire
Code of customary significance only,
would seem to preclude it. However,
historically attentive and spiritually sensitive American Jews after the worthy
example of Benjamin Rush, M.D., and

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In Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris, pro-Palestinian rioters broke shop windows and

set fires on July 20, 2014.
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

As we drove the 10 miles to Sarchelles Synagogue, Mr. Allouche told Jason and me that
if we were to put on kippot, get out of the car,
and try to walk, we would not make it to the
corner. Though we did not see anything happening on the street, he assured us that we
would be attacked and beaten just for being
Jewish. Though neither of us are particularly
tough were both middle-aged Jewish men
we are not seen as typical victims either.
This revelation, therefore, was quite sobering and very depressing. We got to Sarchelles,
which was protected by soldiers in full combat gear. We were able to enter with our car
only after the president and rabbi greeted us
and let us in. The year before, we were told,
Palestinians set fires in the street outside the
synagogue, and they blockaded the building. It was only through the bravery of their
congregants, who surrounded the synagogue
and protected them, that they were able to
escape.
This is no way to live. And the prospects
for French Jews are getting worse, not better.
There is little future for Jews in France as the
Muslim population and its radical influence
continues to grow. As difficult as that is, and
as deep-rooted as the Jewish community is

there, it is time to make arrangements. Its

time for them to get while the getting is good.
Now they can sell their businesses, take their
money out, move their families and start
new lives in Israel. As conditions continue to
worsen the financial hardship will become
much greater.
In 1970, there were 2 million Jews in the
Soviet Union. As of 2011, there were only
300,000 left. Unfortunately, this is the model
that the 500,000 French Jews will have to
use if they want their families futures to be
bright.
Vive la France. We wish the French people
well, and we will continue to support them
in their fight against terrorism. But when the
barbarians are not only at the gate but inside
the fortress, it is time to get out of Dodge. The
Jewish people of France no longer need to
be strangers in a strange land. They have a
home, and it is time to return to it.
Am Israel chai!

Justice Louis Brandeis should recognize

an instructive nexus between the observance of Chanukah and the expression of
amor patriae love of country.
The treatment of Chanukah in the Flag
Code notwithstanding, there could be
no more American a holiday. This Chanukah we will celebrate the ancient glory
of the Maccabees, as we do every year,
by lighting the Chanukah menorah. Each
night it burns with greater intensity. The
prominent display of Chanukah lights
fulfills the religious mandate of pirsumei nisa publicizing the miracle the

holiday commemorates. The full impact

of Chanukah and of Maccabeus is
even more effectively communicated by
the additional, prominent display of the
American flag at Jewish homes and institutions each day of the Festival of Lights.
Old Glory meets much, much older glory.
May our appreciation of this relationship
and of its miraculous nature also
increase with each passing day.

Daniel Shlufman of Tenafly is a member

of the board of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey and one of its Berrie
Fellows. He is an attorney and a mortgage
broker.

Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple

Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin
Lakes.

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What that reader did not do was take his research one step
further, to discover that Pollard had confessed fully, thus
freeing the United States government of the need to hold an
open trial. And because Pollard confessed, the government
was spared the need to produce the documents he stole in
an open court. Those documents would have caused the
United States government considerable embarrassment visa-vis its Middle East allies.
So, as a reward for confessing and sparing the government the need to hold an open court trial, the prosecution and Pollards lawyer came to a plea deal: 10 years
in prison. Readers should know that 10 years in prison
is not nothing. It is 3,060 days of repetitively trying to
cope with almost unbearable living conditions, one day
at a time, in the midst of others suffering similarly, many
of whom would have been decidedly hostile because
thats who makes up a prison population. And that is
only part of the agony.
But Caspar Weinberger, then a member of Reagans cabinet, was reported to have been outraged at the leniency
of the proposed punishment and contacted the judge in the
case to protest. The judge, knowing whereof his bread was
buttered, ignored the plea deal and sentenced Pollard to life
in prison without parole.
So what did we co-religionists of Pollard do? Nothing.
Absolutely nothing. Well, hes guilty, we all said and we
pushed the problem out of our minds and went about our
business and our lives. And no one looked further into the
case. Were all busy we have so many problems of our own
the guy should not have done this, etc., ad infinitum. So

Everyone looked away

So Jonathan Pollard is finally free after having served 30

years in prison and little thanks to co-religionists who did
little, if anything, to help free him. Yes, yes, we agonized
and sympathized and probably prayed but we said Well,
hes guilty and that was true. He was indeed guilty and
never should have done what he did. And never more were
Standard readers so well informed about Pollards guilt as
when a Standard readers letter to the editor, about two
years ago, painfully listed all of Pollards transgressions.

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of his words. He cautioned those who were then attacking
Netanyahu. He urged us to unite as one Jewish people; to
respect the wishes of the Israelis, who are on the front lines
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Netanyahu the strength to prevail.
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And you are your brothers keeper? That had no relevance to us most sadly, not the first time about who we
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So Pollard is free now, having spent the best of his years
in prison. And what a sad commentary it is on the rest of us.
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I was born and raised in Paterson, attended and graduated

from Yavneh Academy, and personally knew David Goldberg and his family (Torah tales from Paterson, November 20). Mr. Staretz sat next to my father in shul, and Mrs.
Staretz was the most amazing person, who could cook for
400 children every day with no effort. And the food was
always superb!
The Sussmans and Kossmans lived around the corner
from me and we always interfaced with one another. I find
this story to be fascinating, and thank you for bringing alive
this great segment of American Jewish history. Almost every
person you mentioned in the article I knew personally. I
cherish these memories of a wonderful Jewish community
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among the Jewish people and all of humankind.
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Ezra Schwartzs memory

memorial ceremony was

held at Ben Gurion Airport
just before the body of 18
year-old Ezra Schwartz was
flown to the United States for burial last
Saturday night. William Grant, deputy
chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in
Tel Aviv, was in attendance.
But if the ceremony had
taken place at the site of
the attack in which Ezra
was murdered, U.S. diplomats would have boycotted the event.
Thats because the attack
took place in Gush Etzion,
and believe it or not, the
Stephen
policy of the U.S. governFlatow
ment is to boycott the
funerals of American victims of Arab terror if the
funerals take place beyond the pre-1967
armistice line.
On top of all the pain that an American
family suffers when a loved one is cruelly torn from this world by Palestinian
terrorists, our own government adds to
their pain and suffering with this pointless insult.
This incredibly insensitive policy first
came to public attention in May 2001,
after a Long Island woman, Sarah Blaustein, was murdered by Arab terrorists.
The funeral was held in Efrat, a large
Israeli city that is all of 13 miles south of
Jerusalem. But that is past the 1967 line,
which for no logical reason is treated
as if it is sacrosanct, when in fact it is
nothing more than an old and irrelevant
armistice line. And so Martin Indyk, who
was the U.S. ambassador to Israel at the
time, boycotted Sarahs funeral.
The presence of an American diplomat at such a funeral is only symbolic.
But in this world, symbols are important.
When American representatives stand
shoulder to shoulder with the families of
terror victims, it sends a message to the

terrorists that America has Israels back.

But when the U.S. government boycotts a terror victims funeral because it
is in disputed territory, then the United
States is saying that the territory really
belongs to the Palestinians, and in
effect that the victims had no business
being there in the first
place. It drives a wedge
bet ween America and
Israel. It gives the terrorists
encouragement.
American Jews have to
press the Obama administration to take specific,
concrete steps to demonstrate American solidarity
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with the American victims
of Palestinian terror. Ending the boycott of victims
funerals is just one small
step. Here are some others:
Court-awarded compensation
for terror victims families should be
deducted from the annual U.S. aid to
the Palestinian Authority.
American officials should refuse
to visit any Palestinian city in which
streets or parks are named after killers
of Americans.
U.S. training of Palestinian policemen should be made conditional on the
Palestinian Authority firing all police
officers who have been involved in
attacks on Americans. (There are more
than a few.)
Ezra Schwartz was the 138th American citizens to be murdered by Palestinian terrorists since the 1960s. How
many more will die before the U.S.
government takes even these minimal
JNS.ORG
steps for justice?
Stephen M. Flatow of West Orange, an
attorney who practices in Fairfield,
is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was
murdered in an Iranian-sponsored
Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

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For Mr. Fulop, there is some irony

in Mr. Trumps attack on Jersey City.
Mr. Fulop, who is Jewish, the grandson
of Holocaust survivors, had moved to
Jersey City in 2000. He was not politically active then. He worked for Goldman Sachs at 1 New York Plaza in lower
Manhattan. On September 11, at work
there, I felt the building shake when
the planes hit, he told us last year. It
shook him in every possible way. Soon
I started talking to recruiters, he said; it
wasnt long before he was in uniform. A
Marine uniform. After boot camp at Parris Island, he served in Iraq.
Jersey City is a big city, he said;
it is the states second largest, with a

population of more than 262,000 people reported in 2014. So I am sure that

there are some people here who harbor
a hatred for the country. But to say that
there were thousands of people who
were dancing in the streets it is a tall
tale.
It is Trump having a vivid imagination. And at some time I hope that the
public calls him out on it. But he has
crossed the line so many times, and no
one does call him out on it.
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I have changed that. I have told my

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The important message is that these
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Telling
stories
Master storyteller Penninah Schram
tells Jewish tales of love and marriage

JOANNE PALMER
o be able to sit alone with
Penninah Schram, to listen to her tell a story just
to you, just for you, is to be
transfixed.
Ms. Schram is a small,
silver-haired woman, straight-backed,
soft-voiced, and clear-eyed. She sits in her
Upper West Side apartment, her home
for decades, full of artwork and Judaica, a
lived-in, personal place, and looks directly
at you as she speaks.
Theres magic in the way she tells the
story the rhythm she uses, the way she
varies her voice, the way she looks directly
at you and responds to you as you react
to her.
Although Ms. Schram tells stories that
have descended through the oral tradition,
she also has written books. (She also has a
distinguished academic career; before she
retired last year she spent four decades
teaching speech and drama at Yeshiva Universitys Stern College for Women, and in
1995 she won the Covenant award, given to
outstanding Jewish educators.) Her most
recent book, Jewish Stories of Love and
Marriage, co-written with Rabbi Sandy
Eisenberg Sasso, is just out, and she loves
talking about it.
There are differences between telling
stories aloud and reading them, Ms. Schram said, and Jewish culture reveres both.
Much of our tradition is oral; the center of
religious services on Shabbat, holidays,
and Mondays and Thursdays the point
toward which they aim and from which
they reverentially retreat, with pomp and
velvet and silver and parades is when
the Torah is unscrolled and read aloud.
For many centuries many Jews were

barely or not at all literate; even when they

were able to read in their vernaculars, for
much of our history only a small group
could read Hebrew. Oral transmission was
paramount.
And, of course, we read aloud from
other texts as well the haftarah on
Shabbat, the megillot on holidays, the
Hagaddah on Passover. The written is
transformed into the oral; each retelling
is slightly different, filtered through the

For much of our

history only a
small group could
read Hebrew. Oral
transmission was
paramount.
tropes and melodies and inflections of its
teller and the tellers culture.
Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage,
like Ms. Schrams other books, is a compilation of Jewish folk tales from around
the world.
The book is divided into three sections.
The first looks at biblical and rabbinic love
stories, the stories that formed the background understanding of love for centuries of Jews. The second is folktales, still
very old but dating from after the rabbinic
period. The third is love letters, ranging
from one from medieval India to correspondence between Ms. Schrams own
parents, Cantor Samuel E. Manchester
and Dora Markman. The fourth is contemporary love stories, and the fifth is

instructions on how to write your own love

story. (Of course, instructions for finding
love are not included. Those instructions,
for readers wise enough to recognize
them, are in the books earlier sections.)
There are many themes from Jewish
tales that have made their way around
the world, and others, from outside, that
have made their way into Jewish stories.
It is hard to trace them, but sometimes
you can tell by the ending, Ms. Schram
said. She told one of her favorites, which
appears in this book as The Man and
Woman From Sidon.
In the story, which comes from the
midrash Pesikta de Rab Kahana, to be
specific a man and woman who have
been married for 10 years, are happy with
each other, in fact genuinely love one
another and have many material goods
but no children reluctantly decide to
divorce. That way, they figure, either or
both can remarry and maybe be blessed
with children. Reluctantly but with great
resolve, they ask their rabbi for permission
to divorce.

You may do so, Rabbi Shimon ben

Yochai said, but only if they end the marriage as they began it, with a celebration.
Then the wife could retreat to her fathers
house. Puzzled and unhappy but obedient, they comply. Drowning his sorrows,
the man drank until he was drunk. Just
before he passed out, he told his not-yetex-wife, My beloved, choose anything in
my house that you desire and take it with
you to your fathers house.
Once he was dead to the world, his wife
instructed her servants to carry him to her
fathers house. When he awoke, puzzled,
asking why he was there, his wife told him
that she had followed his demand. There
is nothing in the world I desire more than
you, she told him.
That story that has traveled and
returned to the Jewish world; what marks
it as having come under the Jewish influence or filter what marks it as a Jewish
story is the ending, she said.
At the end of the story, the couple returns
to the rabbi, telling him that they love each
other far too much to separate. And then,

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it concludes, The rabbi prayed for them,
and before long the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a child.
This story, Ms. Schram said, is a prime
example of the clever young woman
and a quintessential Jewish love story. (It
might even sound particularly familiar to
close readers of this newspaper; in July, Zalmen Mlotek of Teaneck and his company,
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene,
in partnership with Rutgers Universitys
Mason Gross School of the Arts, put on a
one-night-only performance of Di Goldene Kale. The golden bride in question was
the very smart albeit adopted, but still it
counts daughter of an innkeeper. And the
trope is so powerful that the opera soon
will reopen off Broadway, at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan.)
Ms. Schram came to storytelling
through her own parents. She grew up
in New London, Connecticut, where her
father, the communitys cantor, saw to all
its needs, physical and spiritual; also was
New Londons mohel, who did circumcisions; its shochet, who was in charge of its
ritual slaughter and therefore much of its
food, and a composer of classical music.
He also was a storyteller, whose voice,
rhythms, and deep passion for the stories
of our people formed some of his daughters earlier memories. The stories told,
read, and heard in childhood fill the storehouse of memories from which a person
can draw the needed wisdom, perhaps
many years later, Ms. Schram wrote. Penninahs mother told stories too; while Chazan Manchesters were more inspirational,
Ms. Manchesters were practical life lessons. She often minded them at the time,
Ms. Schram said, but she was always
right, even if I often didnt realize it until
much later.

Through both her parents, she drew

the nourishment and stimulation that
a creative imagination needs, she said.
Images stay in your mind longer than lessons taught in other ways manage to do.
Ms. Schram graduated from the University of Connecticut and then from Columbia, and began working in Jewish theater,
creating plays for children, teaching college students, and recording books for the
Jewish Braille Institute. Soon, she developed her interest in Jewish storytelling
into a career, trailblazing a new field into
which other storytellers have followed
her.
Like her parents and now her own son
and daughter, she was married happily,
but unlike them she was widowed young.
Her daughter, Rebecca, married an Israeli
and made aliyah; she is now the mother
of three children. Her son, Mordechai, a
cantor like his grandfather, and his wife
have a son as well.
There are so many stories there! (In
fact, Sonia Gordon-Walinsky tells the story
of her marriage to Mordechai in visual
images in her mother-in-laws book; some
of them are reprinted here, at right.)
In the end, though, despite the lure
and very real value of written or drawn or
danced or filmed or sung stories, there is
no substitute for a human voice telling a
story, Ms. Schram said.
Sometimes stories can be told without
words. Here and on the cover, Penninah
Schrams daughter-in-law, Sonia GordonWalinsky, draws the very Jewish love
story that united her and her husband,
Mordechai Schram.
SONIA GORDON-WALINSKY, SUKKAT SHALOM: A
MICROGRAPHIC LOVE STORY, 2014, INK AND PAPER, 7X5,
JEWISH STORIES OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

Solomon learns about love

King Solomon had the gift of understanding the language of all the animals, including the birds and the bees.
One day, as Solomon was walking
in the royal gardens, he overheard
two birds talking on a branch of a
pomegranate tree. One bird said
to the other, My love, I would do
anything in the world for you.
Is that really true? questioned the other bird.
Yes, It is absolutely true. I
would do anything and everything you would ask for
or wish for. Would you
like me to destroy
King Solomons Tower, where his throne
room is located? Ask it
and I will do it happily, answered the first bird.
When Solomon heard
this boast, he became furious. He returned to his throne room and tried to
calm his anger. So he strode over to the
window and called for the bird he had
heard boast to come to his window.

When the bird heard that Solomon

spoke his own language, he felt very
important and proud. He flew immediately to the window where Solomon
was waiting impatiently.
Yes, Your Majesty, I came as quickly
as my wings would allow me to fly. How
can I serve you, Your Majesty? asked

32 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 27, 2015

the little bird.

I overheard what you said to someone in the pomegranate tree. You are
an arrogant impudent little
bunch of feathers! How dare you
even think you could destroy the
tower of my throne room?
Please, Your Majesty, let me
explain, pleaded the little bird,
now shaking and trembling
before the great king.
Very well, explain yourself, replied Solomon, still
shaking with fury.
Your Majesty, said
the little bird, you
are the wisest
man in the world
and yet you have
lost your logic and
intelligence if you
think I could ever do
what I had said. You
see, I was talking with
my lady-love. As you may have for-

gotten, it is the way of talking between

lovers to state exaggerated boasts to
the beloved. In that way my love will be
impressed and love me back. All I was
doing was telling tall tales to my love in
order to find favor in her eyes.
King Solomon gave a hearty laugh
when he heard this explanation. Ah,
yes, I had forgotten about the boasts
between lovers. Return to your ladylove and continue telling your tall tales.
The little bird returned to the branch
and his love bird was waiting for him.
The bird said to her, Do you know why
King Solomon called for me? Come
closer and Ill whisper it to you. Solomon had heard what I planned to do
and he begged me not to destroy the
tower of his throne room. I listened to
his pleading and my heart softened.
Of course, I promised that I would not
destroy his tower, after all. What do you
think of that, my fair love?
And the two love birds winged their
way to their feathered nest.

Penninah Schram, based on Louis Ginzbergs The Legends of the Jews, and on Hayyim
Nahman Bialiks And It Came to Pass. From Jewish Stories of Love and Marriage by
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Penninah Schram. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.)

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Merry Christmas, Rachel Rosenstein?

Actress Amanda Peet talks about her December Dilemma book
HEIDI MAE BRATT

and it just kind of evolved over time.

In addition to giving permission to kids to
experience the feeling of being left out, the
women are donating part of the proceeds
from the sales to Seeds of Peace, an organization that brings youngsters from conflicted areas together in a summer camp in
Maine.

loved spending time at the house of

one of my best childhood friends,
Linda Diamond.
Linda lived three doors away, and
come mid-December, her familys two-family brick home would be resplendent with
twinkling colored lights, metallic garlands,
and holiday hoopla. As if the razzle-dazzle
outside wasnt enough, inside there was a
delicately decorated tree, stockings to be
filled with gifts, and my favorite a threeand-a-half-foot cardboard chimney with
an overstuffed Santa propped atop it to
greet you. (And in case youre wondering,
yes, her father was Jewish but her mother
was Catholic, and so was she.)
At the same time in December, my house
in fact most of the houses on my Brooklyn block had a white plastic menorah
with glowing orange bulbs peeking out of
their windows. We did enjoy our Chanukah,
and today, as an adult, I especially embrace
it with a bear hug. But as a kid growing up
with the Christmas-Chanukah conundrum, I kind of know how young
Rachel, the Jewish protagonist of the
new childrens Chanukah-themed
book, Dear Santa, Love, Rachel
Rosenstein (Doubleday), written
by actress Amanda Peet and Andrea
Troyer, feels.
For Rachel, who celebrates Shabbat,
Rosh Hashanah, Passover, and Chanukah with her family, the twinkly lights,
the gi-normous tree, and the store
windows crowded with Santas, elves,
candy canes, glittery tinsel, and piles
and piles of presents are the longing
of the young girls heart. Rachel goes
to great lengths, including smashing a
few chocolate chips into the latkes to
make them look like cookies, to try to
get Santa Claus to stop at her house.
But at the end of the day, she realizes
that she may have been focused on
the wrong things after all.
Ms. Peet and Ms. Troyer are scheduled to
have a book signing and reading at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan on December 6
during the museums daylong family Chanukah Day celebration.
The premise for the picture book was
born last summer in an unlikely place
Belfast, Northern Ireland, where Ms. Peet
and her friend, Ms. Troyer, a writer, are living while their husbands, David Benioff and
D. B. Weiss, co-creators of HBOs Game of
Thrones, work on the show.
The books premise is drawn in part from
Ms. Peets real life.
We were shopping for Chanukah presents for our kids, as we sometimes do during the summer, and we thought about our

Amanda Peet, right, and her friend Andrea Troyer co-wrote a book about Jewish
children dealing with the inescapability of Christmas.

anxiety about telling our kids why they cant

celebrate Christmas, said Ms. Peet, who
grew up in New York City as a self-described
secular Jew who celebrated both Christmas with a tree, and a bare minimum of
Chanukah.
But David, who is Jewish, and I had
made the decision not have Christmas,
so Andrea was helping me about how to
tell my kids, and we thought, wow, there
should be a book to help us with this issue,
said Ms. Peet, the mother of three, daughters Frankie, 8, and Molly, 5, and a son,
Henry, 1.
Ms. Troyer, who grew up Catholic but is
raising her two sons, Leo, 7, and Hugo, 5,
Jewish, with her husband, said, We kind

of scoured the Internet so see

if we could find a book like
that, and there seems to be that
gap in the market. So we got
excited to try to write a book
that would be for our kids, and
that people would find helpful,
useful.
Ms. Peet said that her children started longing for Christmas as well.
We live really near a Christmas tree yard, and my children
started asking us, Why dont
we have a tree? Why dont we
have decorations? Then Molly
started asking about Santa.
Is Santa coming? and talking
about Santa as if hes a real person, and I found myself having
really juvenile feelings of inferiority about Chanukah. Initially,
Andrea and I tried to write a book about
how great Chanukah is compared to Christmas, and we couldnt do it.
Ms. Troyer said, In the process of writing that version, we realized this is not so
much a story about pumping up Chanukah. It is really more a story about feeling
left out and longing to be part of something
that everyone else seems to be participating in. I spoke to my Jewish mother-in-law,
who loved Christmas growing up. They did
not celebrate it in her Jewish household, but
she would go to her neighbors every year
and make Christmas ornaments, and that
was her way of taking part. We just kind of
wanted to write more about that, and we
realized that was what the story was about,

It is really more
a story about
feeling left out
and longing to be
part of something
that everyone
else seems to be
participating in.
ANDREA TROYER

So far, the reaction to the book has been

mainly positive.
A lot of Jewish parents seem very
relieved and excited, and then I think that
a lot of people from our parents generation are also kind of tickled by it, because
they remember feeling that way on their
blocks growing up, Ms. Peet said. All the
kids were celebrating except for them, and
I know my mother-in-law felt really touched
by it, because thats how she felt in her town
where she grew up.
Hopefully people will just think its fun,
and can relate to it a little bit, she said.
Amanda Peet and Andrea Troyer
will talk about their new book, Dear
Santa, Love, Rachel Rosenstein
Where: At the Jewish Museum, 1109
5th Avenue at 92nd Street on Manhattans Upper East Side
When: On Sunday, December 6, during
the museums Hanukkah Family Day.
from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Ms. Peet
and Ms. Troyer will sign books in the
museums shop, off the main lobby. At
1 they will read the book in the auditorium, and after the reading they will
greet visitors and sign more books until
1:45.
For more information: Call 212-4233200 or go to thejewishmuseum.org
Where: At Barnes and Noble on 2289
Broadway at 82nd Street on Manhattans Upper West Side
When: Friday, December 4, at 4 p.m.
For more information: Call 212-3628835 or go to stores.barnesandnoble.
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Ezra Schwartz died as a kadosh, a holy martyr, Sendor said.
A graduate of the modern Orthodox Maimonides
School in Boston, Ezra was spending a gap year studying at Yeshivat Ashreinu in the central Israeli city of Beit
Shemesh. He was planning to attend Rutgers University
in the fall.
According to the Ashreinu faculty, Ezra and five classmates had gone to the Etzion bloc, south of Jerusalem,
to beautify a nature reserve dedicated to the three Jewish teens kidnapped and killed by terrorists last year. A
terrorist, reportedly a Palestinian, opened fire on them,
killing Ezra and wounding his classmates.
Two others were killed in the attack: Yaakov Don, 51,
a teacher from nearby Alon Shvut, and Shadi Arfah, a
24-year-old Palestinian from Hebron.
Speaking at the funeral, Sendor recalled Ezras life,
hearing what he called Ezra stories from his wife, who
was the boys kindergarten teacher.
He had a mischievous smile, Sendor said. He might
have done something a little out of line, a kind of bull out
of a china shop, in the best way. If he smiled at you, you
knew he couldnt help himself. But it would be OK. He
was full of gentleness and kindness.
Ezras physical strength was paired with his strength
for caring for and protecting others, the rabbi said. At
Camp Yavneh in New Hampshire, where Ezra was a
counselor, he relished his role.
He had great patience with younger children, who
adored him, Sendor said.
In touching remarks, Ezras close-knit family echoed
the rabbi.
Ezra was the second oldest of five children born to
Ari and Ruth Schwartz, who both spoke at the service.
Each of his siblings Mollie, Hillel, Elon, and Avi also
shared remembrances.
So did two of his grandparents, Mark and Heni
Schwartz. Despite the distances, they were in regular communication by cellphone, text messages, social media
and video chats from Israel. Several of his yeshiva friends
traveled from Israel for the funeral, as did the head of the

Some of Ezra Schwartzs many friends mourn

over the coffin of the American terror victim at a
service at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel before the
body was repatriated to Boston for his funeral the
following day, November 21.
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yeshiva, who spoke passionately. Schwartz is also survived

by his other grandparents, Alan and Laurie Senecal.
He had a great life, Ari Schwartz said. We are proud
of who he was. He had 18 great years. That is how we will
remember him.
Some people live long lives but have unfortunate
circumstances that make life hard. Ezra had a wonderful life, and he died a happy person, and that is more
important than anything else.
Ari Schwartz expressed gratitude to the Jewish community and thanked the U.S. and Israeli governments for
their assistance and condolence calls.
It made us feel Ezra was important, he said.
Ari and Ruth Schwartz acknowledged their sons many
friends who have visited them since his death, sharing
stories, photos, and videos, including one of Ezra reciting parts of Harry Potter books by heart.
We will never forget his sense of humor and his love
for sports, his father said.
With tears streaming down his face, Ari recalled their
conversations about baseball games, from championship seasons to losing games.
But it was always the social connection that was paramount for Ari, who admitted that he used to worry
about how his oldest son would fare in the wider world
because he had idiosyncrasies that could be annoying,
he said to laughter from the audience.
Now I know there was nothing to worry about, he
said, realizing that his friends saw these quirks as Ezras
way of saying I love you.
He transformed his passion and skill for sports to
nurturing younger players, especially his younger brothers, Ari observed, recalling the nights when the family
had to shine lights onto their backyard so the brothers
could finish games of wiffle ball.
Ezra brought his leadership skills to school sports, as
well, according to Josh Prybyla, his baseball coach from
Maimonides School.
Ezras older sister, Molly, a student at the University of Maryland, recalled a recent conversation, when
she worried aloud about an upcoming college exam in
chemistry.
Stop worrying so much. Do your best. You need to
try to have fun, Molly recalled him encouraging her.
At first she dismissed his casual remark, Molly said.
Now she appreciates his words of comfort.
Ari Schwartz encouraged family and friends to honor
Ezras memory together by remembering who he was
and how he made our lives better and happier. We love
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Amid identity crisis, Conservative Jews pay for rebranding

URIEL HEILMAN
SCHAUMBURG, ILL. Conservative Judaism is at a crossroads.
The movements constituents increasingly are leading lives at odds with the
core values and rules of Conservative
Judaism, especially when it comes to
intermarriage. The number of Conservative Jews has shrunk by one-third over the
last 25 years. And even some of the movements brightest success stories, like the
leaders of thriving independent egalitarian minyans, eschew formal association
with the movement.
In this movement, which is committed
to Jewish tradition but seeing its young
people walk out the door to Reform
Judaism more than to anywhere else

community leaders have struggled to

figure out how to appeal to a new generation of Jews without abandoning their
core values or becoming a near-facsimile
of Reform.
Tradition and change has long been
considered a tagline of Conservative Judaism, a concise statement of what we are
about, said Margo Gold, the international
president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the movements congregational arm. But in the 21st century, the
vision of Conservative Judaism requires
that we rethink this as a community and
see what we really want our core message
to be.
Golds remarks came at the United
Synagogues biennial conference, held
this week in the Chicago suburb of

Schaumburg. As part of the effort to reposition Conservative Judaism, United Synagogue has launched a $350,000 rebranding effort and hired a branding firm, Good
Omen.
Weve bought into the narrative of
decline of our own movement, United
Synagogues CEO, Rabbi Steven Wernick,
said in his address. We need to stop
shraying our kups Yiddish for screaming our heads off about everything
that is bad and get to work.
The focal point for the dilemma over
how much to stick to tradition versus how
much to change has been intermarriage.
Though the movement forbids it and does
not count as Jews those whose fathers are
a childs sole Jewish parent, four out of
every 10 Conservative Jews is marrying out

of the faith, and community leaders want

to reach out to intermarried Jews.
Were in an awkward situation, where
the sociology is pushing us in one direction, but our organizational structure is
hindering us moving in the direction we
need to be moving, said Rabbi Charles
Simon, executive director of the Federation of Jewish Mens Clubs and an outspoken Conservative proponent of embracing
interfaith families.
There was perhaps no better illustration
at the conference of the movements identity crisis than at its penultimate session.
Led by Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple
in Los Angeles, some 200 to 300 participants tried to brainstorm a new tagline
for the movement. They were looking for
something that could convey its essence,

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appeal to young Jews, and fit on a bumper

sticker.
Tradition and change is actually not a
slogan; it is a paradox, Wolpe said. It says:
We stand for two exactly opposite things.
We are the oxymoronic movement.
Wolpe said he also dislikes the movements name, not least because of its
unwanted association with a political
ideology.
I dont know of anyone who thinks Conservative Judaism is a great name, said
Wolpe, who 15 years ago led an unsuccessful proposal to rebrand it Covenantal Judaism. As long as Conservative Judaism is in
the tagline, we start off with a deficit.
Among the audiences suggestions for a
new tagline:
Our grandparents would be proud. Our
grandchildren will be Jewish.
The Judaism of dynamic relationships.
Honoring our past, embracing the
future.
Traditional Judaism, comfortable in
modernity.
Where herit age meets whats
happening.
Between 1990 and 2013, the number
of American Jewish adults who self-identify as Conservative dropped from about
1,460,000 to 962,000, according to an
analysis by sociologist Steven M. Cohen,
a professor at Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion, based on the
1990 National Jewish Population Study
and the 2013 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. Jews.
The Pew survey also showed that the
number of Conservative Jews from 55 to
64 years old who say they are synagogue
members is almost triple the number
among those between 35 and 44, and that
only 13 percent of Conservative Jews attend
religious services at least once a week.
Thats bad news for United Synagogue,
which has seen the number of its member
synagogues fall to 580 today from 630 in
2013 and 675 in 2009.
United Synagogue has acknowledged
the problem. The opening session of the
conference was called Moving Beyond
the Crisis.
The movements own restrictions compound the debate about how to chart the
way forward for Conservative Judaism.
Conservative rabbis are not permitted to
officiate at interfaith weddings. Theyre not
even supposed to be there as guests. That
puts them at a disadvantage when congregants or their children in interfaith relationships seek a rabbi to wed them. (By contrast, the Reform movement encourages
its rabbis to perform interfaith unions.)
Likewise, the Conservative movement
does not recognize so-called patrilineal
Jews, while the Reform movement does.
Some Conservative institutions nevertheless allow patrilineal children into
their schools and educational programs,
but they may draw a line when it comes
to allowing the child to become bar or
bat mitzvah.

We need to address patrilineality. Its

the elephant in the room, Rabbi Jeffrey
Lipschultz of the Tri-City Jewish Center in
Rock Island, Ill., said during a conference
session. The reality of whats happening in
the movement is not reflective of the reality
of what is happening on the ground. As a
movement and as leaders of congregations,
we have to figure out how to do better.
On the plus side, many participants at
the conference, which drew several hundred people, said United Synagogue has
gotten better at serving its constituent congregations. About 170 of those communities
sent representatives to the conference.
I have been a USCJ skeptic. The USCJ, to
me, felt like an organization that did a lot of
talking, and very little listening, Rabbi Eric
Woodward wrote in a report on the conference on his Times of Israel blog.
But this week, at the USCJ Shape the
Center conference, I heard a different
USCJ, he wrote. I saw the USCJ listening,

The reality
of whats
happening in
the movement
is not reflective
of the reality
of what is
happening on
the ground.
RABBI JEFFREY LIPSCHULTZ

without responding in any insecure topdown Jewsplaining sense, to a world that is

quickly sprouting up around it.
In recent years, United Synagogue has
struggled with yawning deficits, a rebellion
against fees by a group of member congregations, and criticism of cutbacks that
included staff layoffs and the elimination of
the organizations college program, Koach,
despite the organizations stated desire to
work extensively with college students and
other young Jews. Its flagship program,
United Synagogue Youth, is shrinking as
well, as the numbers of teenagers it draws
decreases steadily.
But the deficit has been narrowing. In
2011 and 2012, the cumulative budget deficit was $6 million. In fiscal year 2013-2014,
it was $2.8 million, and this years projected
deficit is $600,000. United Synagogues
total budget is about $25 million.
Earlier this year, United Synagogue sold
its two-floor condo in midtown Manhattan for $15.9 million and moved into rental
space farther downtown. It had occupied
that building since only 2007; the organization sold off its six-story headquarters in
the booming Flatiron District of downtown
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from the condo sale is being used to create
an $8 million sustaining foundation that will
support programming but will be controlled
by a separate board of directors.
United Synagogue did not have a good
track record of prudent financial management, and my job has been bringing that
into line, Wernick said in an interview. We
are closing the budget gap. Thats our No. 1
priority.
United Synagogue is one of the Conservative movements three main arms; the others
are the Rabbinical Assembly and its flagship
New York rabbinical school, the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Rabbi Ed Feinstein of Valley Beth Shalom
in Encino, Calif., said that for the Conservative movement to survive and thrive, it must
make adaptive changes for the 21st-century,
not just technical changes.
We will not find our way if we say: Lets
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dues structures. Those are all very important
technical changes; none of them are going to
save us, Feinstein said. Were only going to
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confined to New York
Convicted spy can explore Internet
for the first time

JOE DiPIETRO

In 2013, in Jerusalem, Israelis called for the release of convicted spy Jonathan
Pollard.
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WA S H I N G TO N A n e m p l oye r
rescinded a job offer to released spy for
Israel Jonathan Pollard over the conditions of his parole.
According to the Jerusalem Post, an
unnamed respected investment firm
officially revoked its offer of a research
analysts position on Monday, saying the
conditions would have interfered with
his ability to do the required work.
Attorneys for Pollard, who was freed
last Friday after spending 30 years in a
federal prison, filed an appeal Friday
asking that the parole conditions, including wearing an electronic ankle bracelet
with GPS tracking and surveillance of
his and any employers computers, be
dropped. The attorneys described the
conditions as unlawful and said they
would make it impossible for Pollard to
have a job.
Pollard, 61, is also confined to his New
York home between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Eliot Lauer, one of Pollards attorneys,
said Sunday night at a Zionist Organization of America event in New York that
the conditions mean Pollard is still not
free, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The parole commissions unnecessary conditions make it virtually impossible for him to obtain a normal job
in New York City, Lauer said. The
employer who offered him work took
back the offer because federal authorities asked to install monitoring devices

in the companys computer system if it

employed him.
Still Pollard is no longer in prison.
His every move is tracked by GPS, his
computers monitored 24/7, his outings
subject to a curfew, but Pollard nonetheless will be able to enjoy for the first time
a 21st-century indulgence so many others take for granted: surfing the Internet.
A filing from lawyers in Israel for the
convicted spy reveals that they won a single concession from the U.S. government
in months of wrangling over Pollards
parole conditions. Pollard, may go on the
internet without prior permission.
The filing in the U.S. District Court
in Manhattan just hours after Pollards
release from a federal prison in North
Carolina 30 years into his life sentence,
was for habeas corpus. Pollards lawyers,
Lauer and Jacques Semmelman, argued
that the restrictions attached to Pollard amounted to illegal detention and
were statutorily and constitutionally
impermissible.
( Jacque s Semmelman live s in
Teaneck.)
The revelations in the contentious filing along with statements, out that day,
from the White House, supportive Jews
and Jewish groups, and Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bury
for now any hope that Pollards release
would end three decades of pronounced
disagreement between the United States
and Israel over what Pollard represents,
and whether his punishment was just.

Pollard wants to make aliyah, or immigrate to Israel.

Every signal the U.S. government has sent suggests
that is not going to happen in the near term. The Justice Department has said it will stand by the conditions of Pollards parole, which do not require a review
for another two years. The White House repeated
emphatically on Friday that it will not intervene.
In July, after announcing that Pollard would be
released in November, the U.S. Parole Commission
issued parole conditions that would require him
to submit to GPS monitoring, obtain commission
approval to get on the Internet, and agree to monitored computer use, with unannounced inspections of
his equipment possible at any time, according to the
filing by his lawyers,
The commission also said that Pollards probation
officer could subject him to curfew and exclusion
zones, which would be in addition to the statutory
requirement that Pollard request permission to travel
outside the area of New York City, where he will live.
Pollards lawyers appealed the conditions to the
commissions appeals board, which removed only the
need for the commissions approval to gain access to
the Internet. The GPS requirement was reasonably
related to the need to deter you from further criminal
conduct, the appeals board said, although, according to the filing by Lauer and Semmelman, the board
did not explain how Pollard, after 30 years in prison,
would be able to spy now that hes out.
The lawyers included statements from Robert Bud
McFarlane, the national security adviser at the time of
Pollards 1985 arrest, and former Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz., who was on the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, that whatever classified information Pollard still knew is now useless.
The computer monitoring, the appeals board ruled,
was warranted for home and business computers
because the boundaries between personal and business computer use are blurred. That requirement,
Pollards lawyers argue, will make it almost impossible
for the Stanford University graduate to find work.
The Probation Office charged with monitoring Pollards release exacerbated the conditions, the filing
said, apparently requiring Pollard to wear a tracking
device. GPS monitoring does not require a monitor
attached to the body, the lawyers said, and claimed
that because of Pollards diabetes, any restraint place
on his ankle or leg would be dangerous.
A handful of Jewish organizations welcomed the
release of Pollard, an American Jew and a former
Navy intelligence analyst who pleaded guilty in 1987
to sharing classified information with Israel. A recurring theme was that the sentence was unfairly long.
While we still believe his sentence was disproportionate, we hope that after having paid his debt to society, he should now be able to rebuild his life together
with his wife, the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations said in a statement.
As the Conservative Movement has iterated many
times in the past, including in Rabbinical Assembly
resolutions in 1992, 1994, 1995 and 2011, Jonathan Pollard was handed a remarkably unfair sentence, the
Rabbinical Assemblys president, Rabbi William Gershon, said, adding that Pollard had suffered decades
of injustice. The National Council of Young Israel,
which took the lead among groups in advocating for
Pollards release, also welcomed it.
Two groups, Agudath Israel of America and the
Zionist Organization of America, called on the Obama
administration to grant Pollards wish to move to Israel.
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crimes. As someone who raised Jonathans case for years with successive
FROM PAGE 39
American presidents, I had long hoped
have any plans to alter the terms of
this day would come, he said. After
Pollards parole now that he has been
three long and difficult decades, Jonathan
released, Ben Rhodes, the deputy
has been reunited with his family.
national security adviser, said on FriThe Parole Commission may end Polday, when reporters asked him about
lards parole at any time, but it is not
whether Netanyahu had asked Obama
obliged to reconsider its terms for two
to release Pollard from parole.
years. After five years, Pollard must be
This is something that Prime Minreleased from his parole terms unless the
ister Netanyahu has regularly raised,
commission has a compelling reason to
Rhodes said. The fact of the matter is,
keep him on probation.
we have deferred to the Department of
Pollard appeared relaxed and pleased
Justice and the process of justice with
to be out of prison. Following his predawn
respect to the Jonathan Pollard issue.
release from the federal prison in Butner,
Last week, the Justice Department indiNorth Carolina, he traveled to New York
cated it will abide by the conditions of PolCity, where he checked in with his parole
lards parole. The Department of Justice
officer. The World Jewish Congress posted
has always maintained that Jonathan Pola photo of Pollard smiling serenely, seated
lard should serve his full sentence for the
in front of his wife, Esther.
serious crimes he committed, a spokesAt 9:09 a.m., a Twitter user posted
man said.
a photo of the ex-spy with his wife and
The disagreement over whether Pollard
another man (whom Tablet Magazine
had committed serious crimes or was a
speculated was National Council of Young
well-meaning ideologue fretting over IsraIsraels former executive, Rabbi Pesach
els vulnerability has been the crux of one
Lerner) at the corner of Houston Street
of the longest-standing tensions between
and Second Avenue, on the Lower East
the United States and Israel.
Side. He is looking, with apparent curiosity, at his wifes smartphone.
Netanyahus statement on Pollards
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The National Football Leagues New England
Patriots held a moment of silence before the
start of its Monday night football game in
honor of Ezra Schwartz, the Massachusetts
teen who was killed in a Palestinian terrorist
attack on November 19 near Gush Etzion.
The decision to honor the Sharon, Mass.,
native came in reaction to an email exchange
between Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who is
Jewish, and former Israeli Knesset member
Dov Lipman.
It would mean so much to the people of
Israel, to supporters around the world, and to
Ezras family and friends if the Patriots could
do something in his memory, Lipman wrote
to Kraft, the Jerusalem Post reported.
According to Ezra Schwartzs father, Ari,
his son was a passionate fan of the New England Patriots and football helped the family
stay close while Ezra was studying in Israel
for his gap year between high school and
college.
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The United Kingdoms Labour Party voted
last week to boycott a multinational British
company, G4S, reportedly over the companys links with Israel.
G4S is a security firm employing more than
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including 6,000 people in Israel. Activists
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It is with great sorrow that we mourn the loss of

Edward (Eddie) Epstein

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Founding member and beloved friend of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades.
Eddie will be remembered as a man of extraordinary generosity who loved and supported Judaism, Israel, and the Jewish world
at large. He aimed for excellence and as a founder of our JCC, he helped build not only a Jewish Community Center,
but a Jewish community that will embrace Jewish life, learning and recreation for generations to come.
Eddies life is an inspiration to us all and his devotion to Jewish continuity will remain immeasurable in our minds.
We have been blessed by having him in our midst.
We send our sincerest condolences to his wife Eleanor, Former JCC President; his four sons and daughters-in-law:
Mark and Jodi, Larry and Nancy, Andy and Laurel, and Steven and Robin; his grandchildren Brett, Jessie, Amanda, Erika,
Joshua, Michael, Zachary, Danielle, Caroline, Jacob, Olivia and Ben; and seven great grandchildren.
May they find comfort among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
He was deeply loved and will be sorely missed.

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Last flight from Addis Ababa?

9,000 Ethiopian Jews may make aliyah, Israel says
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV The Israeli government
has approved entry of the last
group of Ethiopian Jews awaiting
immigration to Israel.
The move comes two years after
the arrival of 450 Ethiopian Jews
then deemed to be the last such
group. Indeed, there have been several groups said to have been the last
since Ethiopian immigration began in
the 1970s.
The initial wave was supposed to
have ended with a giant militarystyle operation in 1991. Then Ethiopian aliyah ended again, in 1998.
Then again in 2008. And again in
2010. Each time, advocates of continuing Ethiopian immigration preFalash Mura making aliyah kiss the ground as they land in Israel on
August 28, 2013.
vailed upon the government to let in
MIRIAM ALSTER/FLASH90
not just more Jews, but other groups
with Jewish ancestry.
Debates over who is an Ethiopian Jew have drawn out
Experts and Ethiopian community members say this
the aliyah process.
group actually may be the one capping three decades of
After Operation Solomon, advocates for the community urged the government to let another group of
Ethiopian immigration. But when the new arrivals hit
Ethiopians move to Israel. The group, whose members
Israel, theyll encounter a whole new set of challenges.
are known as Falash Mura, has Jewish ancestry but is
Ethiopian-Israelis lag in employment, wages, and education, and they have protested what they call institutional
descended from Ethiopians who converted to Christianity about a century ago.
discrimination.
Some Israeli officials opposed the aliyah of the
The need is not to just bring olim to the land, but
Falash Mura, saying their ties to Judaism were too
to invest in their integration, said Roni Akale, directorweak. But in the 1990s and 2000s, successive governgeneral of the Ethiopian National Project, which develops educational programs for Ethiopian youth. If they
ments brought waves of Falash Mura to Israel. The new
dont invest, there will be damage. The state needs to
immigrants underwent formal conversion to Judaism
take care of them.
after their arrival.
Heres who Israels 135,000 Ethiopian Jews are, why
Experts say this wave really may be the end of Ethiopian aliyah because it includes every Falash Mura known
their aliyah has taken more than 30 years, and how the
to Israel. Its primary purpose, according to the governimmigrants have fared.
ment, is to reunite families split by earlier immigrations.
Jews have lived in Ethiopia for 3,000 years.
To qualify for this round, candidates must have family in
Many believe that Jews first arrived in Ethiopia three
Israel and must have arrived in pre-aliyah compounds in
millennia ago, after splitting off from King Solomons
Ethiopia run by the Jewish Agency by the start of 2010.
ancient Jewish kingdom. Since then, Ethiopian Judaism developed mostly in isolation from the rest of world
For many Ethiopians, getting to Israel is only half the
Jewry. Ethiopian Jews do not celebrate post-biblical holibattle. Ethiopian immigrants, often from poor and uneddays like Chanukah and Purim, and they maintain their
ucated families, have struggled to integrate.
own unique celebrations, like the fall festival of Sigd.
According to data compiled by the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, a government-sponsored think tank, as of
Successive Ethiopian governments persecuted the
2013 only 27 percent of Ethiopian-Israeli students qualiJews, leaving them impoverished and relatively isolated
fied for university, as opposed to 51 percent of all Israein agrarian communities amid the countrys northern
lis. Average wages for Ethiopian-Israelis were more than
mountains. Contacts with outside Jewry increased in the
a third lower than the Israeli average.
20th century. In 1973, Ovadia Yosef, then the Sephardic
Ethiopian-Israelis claim that state institutions dischief rabbi of Israel, ruled that the Ethiopian community
criminate against them. Following the emergence earwas Jewish, paving the way for their immigration.
lier this year of a video showing police officers beatThousands came to Israel via military operations.
ing an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier, Ethiopians massed in
Ethiopian aliyah began with a trickle in 1977. Between
protest. Police responded with stun guns and a water
1984 and 1985 thousands of Ethiopian Jews fleeing famine crossed into Sudan, some of them traveling for up to
cannon. Following the unrest, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to take steps to address the
a month on foot. From there, in a mission called Operation Moses, Israeli Defense Forces planes airlifted about
discrimination.
8,000 to Israel.
Among the general population, Im sure there
In 1991, with Ethiopias government on the cusp
are some stereotypes, prejudices that affect access
of being overthrown by rebel groups, mass aliyah
to employment, Myers-JDC-Brookdale director Jack
resumed with the clandestine Operation Solomon,
Habib said. How much of that is perception and how
which brought 14,500 Jews to Israel on 40 flights in
much of that is reality we dont know. But there are
just 36 hours. Some of the flights held double their
these strong feelings of discrimination. Its not an issue
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BRIEFS

Israeli researchers create

self-healing material
Israeli researchers at the Technion Israel Institute
of Technology in Haifa have created a new, flexible
material that is sensitive to touch and can heal itself
automatically if there is damage within 10 to 30 minutes, according to research published in the Advanced
Materials journal.
The material is described as electronic skin with
sensors that can simulate human skin in its ability to
respond to pressure and heat, even monitoring a persons health while attached to them.
The self-repair function can occur in any part
of the material, so anywhere that the platform is
injured, it can renew itself. This way full repair can
take place while it continues to function under varying
temperatures, pressure and while exposed to volatile
particles, Prof. Hossam Haick, head of one of the labs
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at Technion, said.

Hamas officials to be paid

with formerly Jewish land
The Hamas terrorist government in the Gaza Strip
reportedly has started allotting plots of land Israel
withdrew from in 2005 to officials whose wages have
been delayed.
According to Palestinian sources, Hamas Finance
Minister Ziad al-Zaza announced Sunday that officials
who served in the Gazan parliament before the formation of the 2014 Fatah-Hamas unity government
who are still waiting for wages or severance pay will
be given land as compensation.
All the land included in Hamass remuneration plan
was once part of Gush Katif, the bloc of 21 Jewish communities in southern Gaza that was home to 8,600
Israelis before August 2005, when the communities
were evacuated and the homes razed in Israels unilateral disengagement from Gaza.
Hamass decision to divvy up the land enraged Fatah
officials in Ramallah, who said the move constitutes
unparalleled corruption, and urged the Palestinian
people to come together and oppose the division of
Gazas lands to [Hamas] cronies.
Since the Fatah-Hamas unity government was
formed in 2014, the Ramallah-based Fatah government has been paying Gaza-based Hamas officials
wages, but Fatah has refused to dole out severance
pay for some 40,000 Hamas government officials who
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were dismissed.

Palestinian workers barred

from Gush Etzion over
security fears
Israeli soldiers barred Palestinian workers from entering the Gush Etzion area on Monday following recent
terror attacks in the region, a Gush Etzion Regional
Council spokesman said.
According to Israels Channel 2, security forces are
discussing steps to separate Israelis and Palestinians in

the area in order to prevent more attacks.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
Monday that Israel will revoke work permits belonging to
families of terrorists.
Netanyahu said that the families know that it has in its
midst someone who is extreme or someone liable to attack,
and a family like that does not have the right to work in Israel.
Other security measures will be implemented, including checks on Palestinian cars driving on main roads and
increased security forces in the Gush Etzion region.


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Israeli soldier killed in

terror attack north of Jerusalem
Eighteen-year-old Israel Defense Forces soldier Ziv Mizrahi
was stabbed and killed at a gas station on Route 443 north
of Jerusalem on Monday. Mizrahi is the 21st Jew to be murdered in the current wave of Palestinian terror.
According to reports, Mizrahi and a woman arrived at the
gas station when a Palestinian terrorist tackled then stabbed
and eventually killed Mizrahi. A police officer then shot and
killed the terrorist.

Two other Israelis were lightly wounded in the attack,

including the woman with Mizrahi and another woman hurt
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by gunfire from security forces.

Israeli-made airplane protection

system passes NATO test
A new civilian aircraft system that protects against shoulder-launched missilescreated by the Israeli defense firm
Elbit Systemssuccessfully passed a demonstration in
Germany for NATO last month, according to a company
report issued Monday.
A NATO team conducted the test of the Directed Infrared Countermeasure systems, which is integrated with the
advanced Passive Airborne Warning System IR based missile warning system, and the results proved its capability
to detect, acquire, track and jam the trial test equipment
on the ground, under extreme conditions, the report said.
The DIRCM system can jam man-portable air defense systems or infra-red, ground to air heat-seeking man-portable
missiles that would potentially be used to shoot down jets.
The test was demonstrated on an Airbus C295 aircraft.

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Aly Raisman has her eyes on Rio

DVORA MEYERS
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Once the
music started playing not Hava Nagila,
which made her the Jewish poster child of
the London Games, but something equally
folksy Aly Raisman tumbled right out of
bounds. On her first bit of gymnastics at
her comeback World Championships here
last month, she had quickly incurred a
major setback.
This certainly was not how the 21-yearold defending Olympic champion on floor
exercise saw the start of her first World
Championships in more than four years.
The competition, after all, comes less than
a year before the Olympic Games in Rio,
where she hopes to compete, and at a time
when she faces her stiffest competition yet
from her U.S. teammate and two-time
world champion Simone Biles.
After winning two gold medals in London, including one with the U.S. team,
Raisman, then 18, took time off from gymnastics to enjoy opportunities that had
come her way. She performed on tour with
her teammates, competed on Dancing
With The Stars, and was a special guest at the 2013 Maccabiah
Games in Israel, the global Jewish
sporting event.
Aly Raisman competes in the floor exercise at the 2015 World Artistic
It was a departure for Raisman,
Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. ALEX LIVESEY/GETTY IMAGES
who is careful about preserving
her energy while she is training.
There will be in the times in
of black out, Raisman said. Its the worst
won the bronze medal behind
the summer well go to the Cape,
feeling. Its almost traumatizing. I cant
two of her U.S. teammates.
and shell be like, Its going to
even explain. Its like the worst feeling in
She won bronze again in the
be too exhausting driving to the
the world.
all-around at the U.S. Championships in August.
Cape. Its too much. Im just going
The results were even worse. She did
But these are not the medto stay home, said her mother,
not qualify to make the all-around finals.
als shes after in her comeLynn, who raised Raisman in a
But in the team finals in Glasgow, with
back. Raisman is chasing the
Reform Jewish home in Needno individual medal opportunities on the
ham, Massachusetts. That year
one that got away a podium
line, Raisman redeemed herself. On the
off, everything that came her way
position in the Olympics allbeam, her nerves were gone; she moved
she could say yes to because she
around competition, after she
quickly and aggressively. And on the
wasnt training.
was bumped to fourth place
floor, she managed to contain her power
According to Lynn Raisman, a
in 2012. She thinks about that
and stayed in bounds, helping the United
mother of four, her eldest child
missing medal all the time,
States to a five-point victory over China
always had this focus and intenshe said, and now that Olymand Great Britain. Raisman and her teamsity, even when she was a young
pic disappointment is motimates celebrated on the sidelines, hands
vating her to try to make her
girl.
clasped and raised in victory after Biles
second Olympic team. Thats
I look back at some of those
floor score was posted. It was a similar
no mean feat in the United
times when we didnt do things
scene to the one that played out in London, when the five members of the OlymStates, which has such a deep
as a family and she stayed home,
pic team waited for the final mark to make
bench that it could send more
like, you were so young, you were
their victory official.
than one medal-worthy team
such a low level. She just always
For Raisman, the hardest part of her
to Rio.
was like that, very devoted, very
Perhaps Raisman simgymnastics comeback seems to be learnregimented with the training,
Aly Raisman lights the torch during the opening ceremoply wanted it too badly in
ing how to control the nervous energy.
she said.
ny of the 19th Maccabiah Games at Jerusalems Teddy
Glasgow. After her disappointI was just a little too hyper, she said.
According to her mother,
Stadium in 2013.
YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90/JTA
ing floor exercise, her afterPhysically, despite no longer being a
despite all the fun she was having,
noon went further downhill.
teen, Raisman says she has been able to
Aly decided that she would come
There was a botched landing on vault. On
recoup every skill she had in London.
back very early into her year off.
Aly Raisman took it slow.
the bars, she peeled off on a release move.
Shes even added new elements to her
Initially, two weeks later [after the
Though she resumed training in the fall
She appeared to be stunned momentarily
repertoire.
Olympics], she was like, Yeah, Im done,
of 2013, just more than a year after her
as she picked herself up off the mat and
I almost feel like Im stronger than I
Lynn recalled. But then a couple months
Olympic performances, she didnt start
remounted the event to finish her routine.
was last time, she said.
later, she told her mother, I want to come
competing again until this spring, at a
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n 1 Students at the Solomon Schechter Day

School of Bergen County raised funds to
buy 48 turkeys in less than 48 hours. They
responded to the Center for Food Action in
Englewoods plea to help place a feathered
fowl on the Thanksgiving tables of 2,500
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n 2 The Chabad Center of Passaic County
in Wayne had its first Cooking for the Chic
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Chanukah Recipes

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Cook, Pray, Eat Kosher

A new cookbook, Cook,
Pray, Eat Kosher, by Mia
Adler-Ozair and released
this month by Feldheim
Publications, contains 90
essential kosher recipes
with amazing photos.
The author believes that
the kitchen is the heart of
a family and cooking for
family is one the best ways to show love,
especially with healthy and nutritious
foods. A licensed psychotherapist in Los
Angeles, and mother of 9, she combined
the culturally diverse nature of her own
marriage (Ashkenazi and Sephardi heritages), along with some of her familys

favorite recipes to create

the book.
The author narrates
holiday menus, cooks
tips, and kashrut. There
are also guides on how
to prepare meals for and
observe Shabbat and holidays, the mitzvah of making challah (by hand, with
food processor, using water, and making
pull-apart), and a reflection on the relationship between food and the Jewish
soul.
Heres a recipe from Cook, Pray, Eat
Kosher, the Essential Kosher Cookbook for
the Jewish Soul for Chanukah.

Sufganiyot
(Israeli jelly
doughnuts)

mixture, quarter cup sugar,

margarine, nutmeg, and salt.
On a well-floured surface,
knead until dough is soft and
smooth and bounces back
when poked with a finger.
Place in an oiled bowl, cover,
and allow it to rise until doubled (about 1 to 1 1/2 hours).
On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4 inch thickness.
Using a 21/2 inch round cutter or drinking glass, cut 20 rounds, cover with
plastic wrap, and let rise for 15 minutes.
In medium saucepan over medium heat,
heat oil until a deep-fry thermometer
reaches 370 degrees. Using slotted
spoon, carefully slip 4 dough rounds
into oil; fry until golden, about 40 seconds. Turn donuts over; fry until golden
on other side. Using slotted spoon,
transfer to paper towel-lined baking
sheet and roll in sugar while warm.
Repeat frying and rolling until all donuts are complete. Fill pastry bag with
choice of filling; use #4 tip. Use wooden
skewer or toothpick, make a hole in one
side of each donut and insert tip of pastry bag to fill.

Yield: 20 donuts
Source: Bubby
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons active dry yeast
1/2 cup warm water
1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon sugar, plus
more for rolling
2 1/2 cups flour, plus more for dusting
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons unsalted margarine (or
butter for dairy)
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups vegetable oil, plus more for bowl
1 cup seedless jam of choice, or creamstyle filling (choose pareve filling if
making pareve)
Instructions:
In a small bowl, combine yeast, warm
water, and one- teaspoon sugar; set
aside until foamy (about 10 minutes).
Place flour in a large bowl, make a
well in the center and add eggs, yeast

Mama Joanies Family Cookbook

Joan Bongiorno of Alpine has combined her familys multi-cultural heritage into a cookbook, Mama Joanies Family Cookbook, celebrating Jewish and Italian holidays. There are many
recipes that have been passed down through the generations.
The book, which is not kosher but recipes can be adapted, is
available at the gift shop at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly. Ms. Bongiorno and her family were members of the
Teaneck Jewish Center. Her grandchildren were bnai mitzvah at
the JCC of Fort Lee and at Temple Beth El in Closter. Her sister,
Joyce Silber, was also a contributor to the book. Here is a recipe
from the book.

Apple sauce
6 Macintosh, 3 Granny Smith,
and 3 Golden Delicious apples, all
peeled, cored, and cut into pieces
12 Italian prune plums, or regular plums,
pitted (if available)
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Combine the apples and plums (if avail-

able) in a large saucepan, adding just

enough cold water to cover about 1/3
of the fruit. Add cinnamon if desired.
Place over medium heat and bring to
a boil. Cover and simmer an hour and
make sure mixture is not drying out.
Add water, if necessary, to continue
cooking. If the mixture is too wet, uncover and continue to cook until desired consistency.

48 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Across
1. Former Chief Rabbi of Israel
5. Chatzot, at its simplest
9. Like Casspi missing a lot of shots
14. She was directed by Frank Satenstein
on The Honeymooners
15. Start of a 1969 hit by a Brian Epstein
managed band
16. Its 265 miles from Zion
17. Annan who went to Iran and said the
Holocaust happened
18. Robert in Spielbergs Jaws
19. What David and Solomon may have
worn
20. She wrote for Michaels
22. ___-haw, sound from Balaams donkey
(before she spoke)
24. James Goldsmith and Julian Goldsmid
25. Actor Teller
28. No-no with chalav
30. YU Chanukah Chagigah, e.g.
31. Geller not from Friends
32. Saul Berensons org.
34. Absalom was guilty of it
36. Purim was one, but not for the Jews
39. It comes before Num.
40. They surround this puzzle
43. Gabriel or Marino
44. Cup from Aroma, perhaps
47. What Antiochus V did to some wrongs
of Antiochus IV
51. The Rocket___, 1991 Jennifer Connelly
film
52. Jerusalem has a Biblical one
53. Jeroboams ben Nevats was large
54. Pri etz hadar
56. Actor Sulkin of Wizards of Waverly
Place
58. Presses for shekels
60. Hollywood producer ___ C Siegel
61. She played Maude
62. Philistine god
64. Ship sailing at the time of a notable
expulsion
66. He played Harrisons son in 2008
70. Greece to the Maccabees, e.g.
71. Fridays, to Jews
72. He tries to kill Menzels Elsa in Frozen
73. The Israeli Air Force uses it
74. Has a prophecy
75. Ambassador Eban

The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 55.

Down
1. Anti-Semitic org. founded in 1865
2. LBJs War on Poverty org.
3. Hodor on Benioffs hit show, e.g.
4. Shechita item
5. Teen oriented org.
6. Response to a Copperfield trick
7. Somewhere in middle America song
sung by Adam Duritz
8. Ted Lerners Nationals, to MLB
9. Airer of Robert Siegel
10. Dara Torres and Joseph Jacobi won
them at Barcelona in 1992
11. David Cross on Arrested Development
12. Take a shtick too far
13. He prophesied to Dovid Hamelech
21. What tensions often do in the Middle
East
23. A Jewish slave may have this pierced
to a door
25. Problem on a korban
26. One of the Shalowitz brothers in City
Slickers
27. Moses may have had one
28. Moshav structure, often
29. Make like Elijah after Mount Sinai
33. Mary Tyler Moore displayed it in
Ordinary People
35. Verify to a beit din
37. Part of the High Priests garb
38. Koch and others
41. He directed (Tony) Curtis in
Insignificance
42. Refaelis might be a 6
45. Quaff around Chanukah, but not for
Chanukah
46. Foe in a foreseen battle
47. Esau, compared to Jacob
48. Lizard Rabbi Natan Slifkin tried to
make a shidduch for in 2009
49. Dismissed, on a Chuck Barris show
50. They perform missions for the IDF
55. One of a notable Seven in Judaism
57. Doeg, e.g.
59. Brave New World intoxicant
61. Simmons plays it
63. Mike Hartmans former MSG team
65. Lois Griffin, ___ Pewterschmidt
67. Book before Zephaniah: Abbr.
68. Goldmarks Piano Quintets ___ -flat
Major
69. Al (Jolson), really

Arts & Culture

What if the Nazis had won?
Amazons new drama answers that question slowly
CURT SCHLEIER

dmittedly, The Man in the

High Castle, the new original
series from Amazon Prime,
is in a tough spot. Many TV
fans are wondering if the much-hyped
drama can live up to the standard set by
its Emmy-award winning Amazon predecessor, Transparent.
High Castle is based on but takes liberties with Philip K. Dicks Hugo Awardwinning novel of the same name, an alternate history in which the Axis Powers win
World War II after exploding a nuclear
device on Washington, D.C.
Its 1962 15 years after the Americans surrender and the United States
is divided into three sections: the Greater
Nazi Reich in most of the East, the Japanese Pacific States along the West Coast,
and a neutral zone along the Rockies.
In a crowded field of dystopian pop
culture offerings think The Hunger
Games books and movies and HBOs The
Leftovers High Castle has some clever
American Nazi official Obergruppenfrer John Smith (Rufus Sewell) in The Man in The High Castle.

Producer and
writer Frank
Spotnitz
deserves credit
for tackling
something
different; a kind
of sci-fi universe
that doesnt
include zombies.
tricks to set it apart. Its an arresting concept of an Axis-controlled America that
might have come true but for a cold Russian winter. Plus, the shows muted color
palette is dreary and suitably oppressive;
there are only occasional flashes of color,
like the bright red, white, and black swastika displayed on the strangely out-of-place
LED display over 1962 Times Square.
But an appropriate visual patina alone
does not carry a story. Where High
Castle falters is that viewers never get a
sense of what Americans lives are like. It
appears that most continue on as before
except for the Jews, who have been mostly
exterminated (more on that later). For
the most part, people go to work, watch

television, and seem to accept the German

and Japanese occupation.
Whats that stuff flying in the air? Oh, its
just ash from the hospital, explains an amiable Midwestern cop sporting a swastika
armband. Tuesdays are when they burn
cripples and the terminally ill, he says.
The story opens with Juliana Crain
(Alexa Davalos), who lives with boyfriend
Frank Frink (Rupert Evans) in Japanese
San Francisco. She spends most of her
time studying Aikido. Just seconds before
her younger sister, who joined the resistance, is killed, she hands Juliana a film
reel of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. It
needs to get to the neutral zone, to the
mythical man in the high castle.
Meanwhile, in New York, Joe Blake (Luke
Kleintank) also starts out for the neutral
zone, in a truck carrying the same film.
Both characters watch and are moved
by the film, which is mostly newsreel footage of Allied victories early in the war. Why
the Nazis fear this, or why either Juliana
or Joe are surprised is one of many puzzles in the series after all, its not ancient
history. The war ended in their lifetimes.
Surely there are enough people around
who remember that the Americans were
not entirely pushovers?
The two meet in Canon City, Colorado,
in the neutral zone. Neither is aware of the
others mission; the episode ends with a
surprise that raises hopes for the series

potential.
But, alas, it doesnt quite live up to them.
For one thing, there are too many story
lines. There is the tension between the two
Axis partners: Hitler is alive, but ill. The
Japanese fear that once he dies, Joseph
Goebbels or Heinrich Himmler will assume
power and attempt to take the West Coast
as well. (Which of course underlines the
obvious question thats never addressed:
Why would the Germans and Japanese
even allow a neutral zone?)
The Japanese trade minister, Tagomi
(Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), seems to have a
mysterious agenda all his own, which he
advances based on his reading of a Chinese oracle although, given the state of
Chinese-Japanese relations at the time, the
idea of a Japanese minister relying on the
I Ching raises other interesting questions.
These mysteries arent necessarily problematic but the super-slow pacing is.
Consider the shows most interesting
character, Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith
(Rufus Sewell). In some ways, hes a typical
American suburbanite, with a large colonial house and a nuclear family on Long
Island. Yet he has a keen knack for evil.
How and why would he rise so fast in the
Nazi party?
It isnt until the sixth hour the last
offered to critics for review that there is
a hint that something terrible happened in
his past.

COURTESY OF AMAZON STUDIOS

In the sixth episode.

And we still dont know what the terrible thing was.
Still, producer and writer Frank Spotnitz
deserves credit for tackling something different; a kind of sci-fi universe that doesnt
include zombies. Also, it is a Holocaust story
that doesnt downplay the Holocaust.
Frank, Julianas boyfriend, had a Jewish
grandfather. Brought in for questioning by
Japanese cops about his girlfriends disappearance, hes accused of being a Jew.
When Frank complains that he isnt, his
Japanese interrogator tells him that Jews
dont get to decide who is Jewish.
Just how many Jews are left in this new
world is unclear, but there seems to be a
Jewish underground. Following the Zyklon
B gassing of his sister and her family, Frink
is contacted by one of her friends, who
whispers to life in his ear. It kindles a
memory of his grandfather. Eventually, the
friend recites Kaddish for Franks family.
Youd think a scene like that would elicit
a strong emotional response, but Frink
and others are drawn so blandly that it
comes across as artificial, rather than as a
natural outgrowth of the story.
And yet, though I may have been disappointed by the first six episodes, Ill be
back to watch the last four if only to discover if there actually is a man in a high
castle, and why hes there.
JTA WIRE SERVICE

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at 6:45. Sponsored by
Jewish Home Family,
American Friends of
Bar-Ilan University, with
Englewood Hospital,
and in celebration
of the Jewish Home
Familys centennial. 350
Engle St. Reservations,
(201) 784-1414, ext. 5538.

Womens mind/body/
soul: The Chabad
Womens Circle in
Teaneck presents Getting
in Shape, Mind, Body,
Soul with fitness trainer
Lelia Marcus, health
coach Gila Guzman, and
mindfulness instructor/ed
consultant Aviva Edelstein
at Chabad of Teaneck,
8 p.m. $25. 513 Kenwood
Place. (201) 907-0686 or
rivkygoldin@gmail.com.

Thursday
DECEMBER 3

The award-winning a cappella singing group SIX13 performs

at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valleys Chanukah
Extravaganza on Sunday, December 6, at 10:15 a.m. Community
candle lighting. Food available. 87 Overlook Drive. Registration,
(201) 391-0801.
JESSICA GIOVANETTI

DEC.

Friday
NOVEMBER 27
Black Friday sale: The
Jewish Home Assisted
Living in River Vale
holds a sale; offerings
include jewelry, adult
and childrens clothing,
handbags, accessories,
candles, makeup,
chocolate, and silver,
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Raffles
every half hour and facility
tours. 685 Westwood
Ave. (201) 666-2370.

Blood drive in Teaneck:

Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 1-7 p.m.
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.

Sunday
NOVEMBER 29

on the Palisades offers its

annual cantorial concert,
2 p.m. Music includes
Songs of Thanksgiving,
solo performances
and ensembles,
classic chazzanut, and
contemporary selections.
Cantors include Mark
Biddelman, Caitlin
Bromberg, Phyllis Cole,
Estelle Epstein, Orna

Monday
DECEMBER 30
Racism in Israel: The
Nanuet Hebrew Center
in New City welcomes
Liraz Levi, Jewish
Federation of Rocklands
new shaliach, who will
discuss Racism in Israel,
11:45 a.m. 411 South
Little Tor Road, off exit
10, Palisades Interstate
Parkway. (845) 708-9181
or www.nanuethc.org.

Tuesday
DECEMBER 1
Michal Negrin shopping
in Paramus: The Bergen
County High School of
Jewish Studies hosts a
fundraiser at the Michal
Negrin Concept store
at the Westfield Garden
State Plaza, 7-9 p.m.
Shopping, champagne,
and berries. The store
will donate 15% of all
purchases to BCHSJS. 24
karat gold necklace free
with any purchase over
$99. Store is on Level
1, next to Lord & Taylor.
(201) 488-0834 or www.
bchsjs.org.

Harold St. (201) 871-1152

or www.chabadlubavitch.
org/19kislev.

Wednesday
DECEMBER 2
Caregiver support in
Rockleigh: A support
group for those caring
for the physically frail or
people with Alzheimers
disease meets at the
Gallen Adult Day
Health Care Center at
the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m.
Topics include long-term
care options, financial
planning, legal concerns,
and the personal toll
of caregiving. 10 Link
Drive. Shelley Steiner,
(201) 784-1414, ext. 5340.

Shomrei Torah and the

Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey hold
a Shalom Baby play group
for newborns through
3-year-olds and their
parents at the shul, 30
Hinchman Ave., 9:30 a.m.
Jessica, jessicak@jfnnj.
org or www.jfnnj.org/
shalombaby.

Film in Tenafly: The

Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades continues a
daytime film school
series featuring Dr. Eric
Goldman with a screening
of The Secret in Their
Eyes, 10 a.m. Course
runs through Dec. 17.
411 East Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1493.

Blood drive in Teaneck:

Congregation Rinat
Yisrael holds a blood drive
with New Jersey Blood
Services, a division of
New York Blood Center,
2-8 p.m. O-negative blood
donors especially needed.
389 W. Englewood Ave.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.

Aphasia presentation/
jewelry sale: The
Fair Lawn chapter of
Hadassah meets at the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
CBI, 7:45 p.m. Staff
from the Adler Aphasia
Center in Maywood will
discuss its services and
activities, and jewelry
designed and created
by Adler clients will be
sold. Light refreshments.
10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040 or
l.felner@att.net.

50 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Rabbi Lazer Gurkow

Adult fabrengen in
Tenafly: Rabbi Lazer
Gurkow of Congregation
Beth Tefilah in Ontario
discusses Searching
For Me And Finding
God: The Contribution
of Chassidus To Jewish
Life, in honor of the 19th
of Kislev, at Lubavitch on
the Palisades, 7:30 p.m.
Dinner and live music. 11

PHOTO PROVIDED

Cantorial concert in
Tenafly: The Kaplen JCC

Green, Ilan Mamber,

David Perper, Faith
Steinsnyder, David
Wallach, and Sam Weiss.
Sponsored in part by
the Weinflash Family
Cantorial Concert
Endowment Fund.
(201) 408-1418 or www.
jccotp.org.

Childrens program in
Wayne: Congregation

Eitan Okun
Future of Alzheimers:
Eitan Okun, neuroscientist
and international lecturer,
discusses The Future of
Treating Memory Decline:
Developing a Vaccine
for Alzheimers Disease
at Englewood Hospital
& Medical Center. Buffet
dinner, 6 p.m.; lecture

Gale S. Bindelglass
Jews of Cuba: The
Jersey Hills section of
the National Council
of Jewish Women
marks Chanukah with a

celebration at Temple
Beth Sholom in Fair
Lawn, 1 p.m. Gale S.
Bindelglass, chair of
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jerseys
Jewish Community
Relations Council, will
discuss The Jews
of Cuba, based on
her personal family
humanitarian mission to
Cuba. Chanukah treats
and menorah lighting.
40-25 Fair Lawn Ave.
Sheila, (201) 794-0970
or Ruth, (201) 791-1096.

Womens crafts in
Wayne: The Women
of Chai at Temple
Beth Tikvah meet over
Chanukah ceramics
at the shul, 7 p.m.
Choose from a variety
of projects to buy and
decorate. Wine, cheese,
desserts. 950 Preakness
Ave. Reservations,
(973) 595-6565,
smpbs@aol.com, or
templebethtikvahnj.org.

Friday
DECEMBER 4
Shabbat in Glen Rock:
The Glen Rock Jewish
Center holds a family
Shabbat Club service,
5:30 p.m., followed by
dinner and dessert,
crafts and activities at
6. 682 Harristown Road.
(201) 652-6624.

Shabbat in Fort Lee:

The JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom holds a preChanukah dinner and
contemporary musical
service featuring the
musicians from High
Holy Day services.
Dinner, 6 p.m.,
service, 7. Dinner
reservations required.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.

Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Tizmoret, Queens
Colleges premier
Jewish a capella group,
led by Daniel Henkin,
performs at Temple
Beth Rishon. Shabbat
dinner at 6 p.m. At 7,
Tizmoret joins Cantor
Ilan Mamber, Rabbis
Ken Emert and Lois
Ruderman, and the
shuls adult choir
for a pre-Chanukah
service. The Tizmoret
concert, supported by
the Channa Mamber
Memorial Music Fund, is
at 7:45. 585 Russell Ave.
Dinner reservations,
(201) 891-4466.

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Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley
welcomes flutist Wendy
Stern at its guest artist
Shabbat, 7:30 p.m. She
is a member of the
group Flute Force, has
performed and coached
chamber music all over
the world, and has many
Broadway credits. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.

Saturday
DECEMBER 5
Boutique in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth holds
a designer boutique,
5-8 p.m., with designer
wear and high-end items.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.

Shaping Jewish history

in Teaneck: The adult
education committee
of Congregation Rinat
Yisrael presents Noahs
Wine vs. Pharaohs
Beer the Culture War
That Shaped Jewish
History, led by Biblical
botany expert Dr. Jon
Greenberg of TorahFlora.
org, 8:30 p.m. Wine, beer,
dessert. The talk is only
for people 21 and older.
389 West Englewood
Ave. (201) 837-2795.

Sunday
DECEMBER 6
War veterans meet
in Hackensack: The
Teaneck/New Milford
Post #498 Jewish War
Veterans meets for
breakfast at the Coach
House Diner, 9 a.m.
Prospective members
welcome. Route 4 East.
Past Commander Stan
Hoffman, (201) 836-0814.

Bazaar in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth holds
its annual bazaar,
with a food court,
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Early
birds welcome at 9 with
a $10 donation; free after
that. A new Facebook
page lets you see some
of the available items.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322g.

Chanukah in Fair Lawn:

Northern New Jersey
Jewish Academy and
the early childhood
committee at Temple
Israel & Jewish
Community Center
in Ridgewood offer
Dummies & Dreidels,
for children 3 and
older, at Temple Beth
Sholom, 9:30 a.m.-noon.
Ventriloquist Jonathan
Geffner and his whimsical
wooden sidekicks
perform the Maccabee
Mishegash Puppet Show.
Latkes courtesy of the
mens clubs of Temple

Israel and Temple Beth

Sholom. 40-25 Fair Lawn
Ave. Rabbi Estelle Mills,
emills@synagogue.org.

Jews in sports: Dr.

David Kristol talks
about Jews in Sports
at Congregation Adas
Emuno in Leonia,
10 a.m. Dr. Kristol is
a professor emeritus
at the New Jersey
Institute of Technology.
Refreshments. 254 Broad
Ave. (201) 592-1712 or
www.adasemuno.org.

Chanukah at Home
Depot: Chabad of
Upper Passaic County
partners with Home
Depot in Riverdale for
a Chanukah menorah
workshop, 10-11:30 a.m.
Free workers apron and
Chanukah treats. The
Home Depot, 106 Route
23. (201) 696-7609 or
JewishHighlands.org.

Ron Blomberg in
Ridgewood: Former
New York Yankee Ron
Blomberg talks about
his life and baseball
at a bagel and latke
Chanukah breakfast
and book-signing at
Temple Israel and JCC,
10:30 a.m. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320.

Israel summer program/

gap year fair: The
Bergen County High
School of Jewish
Studies hosts its
annual Israel summer
program and gap
year fair at the Moriah
School in Englewood,
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Program
features representatives
from USY, BBYO, March
of the Living, NCSY,
Friends of Israel Scouts,
Young Judaea, and Masa
Israel. (201) 488-0834 or
email studentactivites@
bchsjs.org.

Chanukah in Fort Lee:

The JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom participates in
a community Chanukah
candle lighting with
songs at the Triangle
(Main Street & Lemoine
Avenue), 4:30 p.m.
(201) 947-1735.

Chanukah in Fort Lee:

Chabad of Fort Lee
celebrates Chanukah
with a menorah lighting,
latkes, dinner and donuts,
entertainment by Jeff
Boyer the bubble artist,
the chance to take a
family Minion selfie,
and gelt and dreidels,
4:30 p.m. (201) 886-1238.

Chanukah in Ringwood,
Bloomingdale,
Wanaque, and West
Milford: Chabad of
Upper Passaic County
lights four public
menorahs, followed
by community-wide

celebrations organized
by Chabads Rabbi
Mendy Gurkov. Tonight,
Ringwoods menorah
lighting is at 5 p.m., in
front of Wells Fargo
Bank. Bloomingdales
lighting is on Monday,
7 p.m., in front of
Bloomingdale Town Hall.
Wanaques lighting is
Tuesday at 7 p.m., in front
of the new Wanaque
Town Hall. West Milfords
lighting is Thursday
at 7 p.m., in front of
West Milford Town
Hall. Local officials will
participate. Afterward,
there will be dancing,
singing, hot latkes,
donuts, gelt, crafts,
and glow giveaways.
(201) 696-7609 or www.
JewishHighlands.org/
Chanukah.

Chanukah in
Ridgewood: The
Jewish community of
Ridgewood holds its
annual menorah lighting
party at Memorial Park,
Van Neste Square,
5:30 p.m., with musical
entertainment and
refreshments. A public
lighting continues
Monday through
Thursday and Sunday
at 4:30 p.m.; Friday at
4; and Saturday at 5:30.
www.synagogue.org.

Singles
Friday
DECEMBER 4
Singles Shabbaton
in Highland Park: A
Weekend Bash(eirt)
hosts a Shabbaton
for modern Orthodox
singles, 25-38, at
Congregation Ohav
Emeth, 4:15 p.m.
Two catered meals,
Seudah Shilishit in a
home, Saturday night
bowling and pizza.
Home hospitality
in Edison/Highland
Park. 415 Raritan Ave.
xaweekendbasheirt@
gmail.com or www.
aweekendbasheirt.com.

Sunday
DECEMBER 13
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social bagels
and lox brunch at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All
are welcome, particularly
if you are from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. $8
with reservations, $10
at door. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.

Sculptures by
Caryl Herzfeld

Chessed art featured in Fort Lee

Staten Island artist Caryl Herzfeld will
discuss some of the sculptures included
in her art project, Chesed in 3-D, at a
December 2 lunch and learn at Young
Israel of Fort Lee at noon. The artworks
were created with recycled paper and
other recyclables.
In Chesed in 3-D, Ms. Herzfeld pays
homage to her community, which, over
the last half century, established selfhelp groups as needs arose, embodying

chesed, acts of kindness.

The project was made possible with
funds from the Decentralization Program, a program of the New York State
Council on the Arts with the support of
Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New
York State Legislature. It is administered
by Staten Island Arts.
The shul is at 1610 Parker Ave. Call
(201) 592-1518 or go to yiftlee.org.

Museum plans Chanukah party

for young professionals
Young Friends of the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust in Battery Park City meets to
celebrate Chanukah. Young Friends
Light Up the Night, for the areas young
professional community, from 21 to 39
years old, is set for Thursday, December
3, at 8 p.m. The annual party typically
draws 500 young professionals.
The museum is at 36 Battery Place in
lower Manhattan; the celebration is in its

Events Hall, which has a panoramic view

of New York Harbor. It will include dancing, a premium open bar, a dinner buffet with sushi and latkes, and a high-end
silent auction.
Dietary laws are observed. Proceeds
support the museums education programs. For information, call (646) 4374252, email youngfriends@mjhnyc.org,
or go to www.mjhnyc.org/youngfriends.

OU Job Board has programs for all

The OU Job Board will go on tour as representatives explains its eight programs
that help people develop their careers in
different fields. The Job Board plans to
host three networking events in its New
York City headquarters. The first, for
attorneys, will be on Tuesday, December
8; the second, for accountants, will be

on Tuesday, December 15, and the third,

for real-estate professionals, on Tuesday,
December 22. The Job Board also plans
to host resum workshops.
For information, go to www.oujobs.
org or call (212) 563-4000 and ask for
the Job Board.

Bears for Chanukah

This year, Build-A-Bear Workshop has furry
friends for Chanukah including this teddy bear
dressed in a Blue Fair Isle hat and scarf set. The
blue teddy bear size scarf and hat have a white
snowflake pattern. Build-A-Bear Workshops
are in local malls. Visitors create their very own
teddy bears and other stuffed animals by choosing, stuffing, stitching, fluffing, and dressing a
new furry friend. The bears and other animal
creations make wonderful gifts all year long, or
do a mitzvah by creating and donating one to a
local toy drive. www.buildabear.com.
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The Ocers, Board, and Sta of

Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey

mourn the passing of

Edward Epstein
Ed Epstein was a community visionary and philanthropist. With his devoted
wife, Eleanor, by his side, he was a founding Trustee of the predecessor to Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Ed and his family were fervent and early supporters of the State of Israel. In the
1940s when he was president of a Poale Zion chapter of the Labor Zionists, he
surreptitiously packed arms for the Haganah.
Ed founded Alden Leeds and Jet Line. He was chairman of the Swimming Pool and
Allied Industries Division of UJA Federation of New York for 15 years and was
honored by them in 1980.
Ed and Eleanors philanthropic dedication to Israel was unwavering. From the
Naamat Technical High School in Holon, to the Neve Yosef Community Center and
a residential apartment for young immigrants learning how to adapt to life in Israel,
both located in Haifa, their loving legacy lives on.
We extend our deepest condolences to Eleanor and their four children, Mark (Jodi),
Larry (Nancy), Andrew (Laurel), and Steven (Robin), their twelve grandchildren, and
seven great-grandchildren.

May they be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem

and may his memory be for a blessing.

Jayne Petak
President

Jason M. Shames

Chief Executive Ocer

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Obituaries
Ida Gonta

Ida Gonta, 82, of Fair Lawn, died Nov. 18.

Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.

Herbert Newman

Herbert Magic Man Newman, 48, of Wayne, formerly

of Elmwood Park, died Nov. 22. He was the long time
owner of Ann-Dys Magic and Costumes in Pompton
Lakes.
Predeceased by his mother, Lisa, he is survived by
his father, Marvin; siblings, Lisa, and Andy ( Jeanine);
half-sister, Rhonda Newman; nieces and nephews.
Donations can be made to the Rutgers Foundation
Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.

Arthur Shayne

Arthur Shayne, 88, of Hasbrouck Heights, formerly of

Paterson, died Nov. 16.
Born in Poland, he was a Holocaust survivor, and
before retiring was a salesman at the He Man Shop in
Paramus.
Predeceased by his wife, Betty, he is survived by
a daughter, Cindy Kahn; two grandsons; and his
caregiver, Gretell Gayle.
Donations can be sent to the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington, D,C. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

EpstEin, Edward

The officers and members of the Board of

Directors of the Jewish Home Family note with
profound sorrow the passing of our devoted
supporter and very dear friend, husband of our
board member Eleanor, and father-in-law of our
board member Nancy - Ed Epstein. Ed and his
beloved wife Ellie were critical driving forces in
the development of the Jewish Home. Their
foresight, counsel, and ability to involve others in
our mission of providing for elders in our
community resulted in the creation of our Home
and continues to this day. A successful business
man and generous philanthropist, together Ed
and Eleanor exhibited a profound commitment to
countless organizations and causes in the local,
national and international Jewish communities.
He will be missed by many. We extend our
deepest sympathy to his wife, Eleanor, his
children Mark and Jodi, Larry and Nancy, Andrew
and Laurel, Steven and Robin their many
grandchildren, great grandchildren and his entire
family. May his memory be for a blessing.
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Carol Silver Elliott, President and CEO
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FIDF leaders tour Israel
for rare look at army
More than 100 leaders and supporters of
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, representing communities from across the
United States, South Africa, and Australia, joined the FIDF National Leadership
Mission to Israel to get a rare glimpse into
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soldiers.
The mission brought members of
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met with state leaders, including Israeli
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by side with the brave and courageous
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New performing arts
center opens in Teaneck
Black Box Studios, which has offered theater workshops and performance for everyone, from 5-yearolds to adults, since 2007, has opened its new performing arts center in the West Englewood section
of Teaneck, at 200 Walraven Drive just off Palisade
Avenue. The venue houses theater workshops,
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productions will lure audiences from throughout
Bergen County and beyond.
Matt Okin, the studios founder and artistic
director, explains: Our diverse student body and
artistic community finally has a central location to
operate within around the clock, all season long,
and with full artistic freedom.
Students will now have more options to choose
from than ever before, including both new and
familiar classes in musical theater, theater dance,
drama, acting technique, playwriting, directing,
and improvisation at various levels. Additionally, BBS musical directors are now offering private instruction in guitar, drums, bass, keyboard,
and rock vocals; by mid-January, additional group
music workshops will be offered within the space
as well.
Concurrently, the new venue will also form as
the areas only real black box: an intimate 40- to70-seat theater that morphs dramatically depending upon the specific needs of a show or production. The stage area and seating configurations
adjust to accommodate a larger-scale musical,
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their new space starting in early January, go on sale
on December 1.
Meanwhile, Black Box Studios continues to provide theater programs in a number of local private
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Bill Zolna and Jude Roppatte, caterers
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If you have a great idea for a company

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So Terra Venture Partners in Tel Aviv
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Nahariya to Beersheva on December 15.
About a dozen investors, business
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evaluate pitches from 150 vetted startups from a broad range of fields.
The goal is to develop the periphery
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Ashdod, Netanya or Nazareth as you
will in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem or Herzliya.
He says that Terra Ventures particularly saw a need to provide a platform
of recognition for many talented entrepreneurs from Haifa and Beersheva,
although Beersheva is getting less and
less peripheral because of the growing
cyber-tech industry there, he notes.
The country is small enough that
you can do the whole thing in a day,
and the best way to do that is via train.
Its efficient and comfortable, says
Abrams.
Israel Railways agreed to provide

a train car, and some of the municipalities on the MoneyTrain route will
decorate their railroad stations with
red carpets and balloons. The international network of WeWork co-working
spaces, which just opened a branch
in Beersheva near the train station, is
a MoneyTrain sponsor and will greet
the locomotives arrival with a party
before the train heads back to Tel Aviv.
Sponsors of the MoneyTrain include
Bosch VC, Tyco International, Motorola Solutions, Poalim Hi-Tech, Vertex
Ventures, the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality, and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
(TASE). The day after the event,
December 16, TASE will host a closing ceremony at which a prize will be
awarded to the top startup based on
analysis of investor evaluations.
Currently, startups in Israels
periphery dont get the same exposure to investors and mentorship as
their more centrally located counterparts, eroding their growth prospects.
At the same time, investors and corporations are always looking to build
a competitive edge through innovation, which creates an opportunity to
bridge this gap between the parties,
says Abrams.
Startups have until late November
to apply for a spot on the MoneyTrain.
Those accepted will get onboard at the
stop closest to home and make a series
of five-minute one-on-one pitches followed by questions and answers. Each
startup rep is expected to stay on the
train for about 45 minutes before the
rolling group of investors pulls out for
ISRAEL21C.ORG
the next station.

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