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CONTENTS
Candlelighting: Friday, April 25, 7:27 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, April 26, 8:30 p.m.
This Passover story
will make your rabbi cry
Eric Afriat skipped both family sed-
ers to play poker, but all is forgiven.
Not only did his mother not lay on
any guilt, he won more than a million
dollars as champion of the Seminole
Hard Rock poker tournament.
Thats not to say that Mr. Afriat, 45,
didnt feel some pangs of conscience
when night began to fall on Monday,
April 14, the first night of Passover.
He was one of nearly 1,800 contes-
tants at the tournament, which began
at noon on Pesach eve. As night be-
gan to fall and the family seder was
beginning at his mothers house 30
miles away, he began to question his
decision to take a pass over the seder.
Here I was moving up the ladder
in a big poker tournament, yet I kept
getting more depressed, he told the
Florida Sun-Sentinel.
He even thought about making his
own exodus from the game, and join-
ing his wife and extended family at his
mothers.
But his consistently good hands
would not let him go. Tuesday night
he was still there, missing the second
seder.
Wednesday night, he won the tour-
nament with a pair of eights, winning
$1,081,184. On hand was the extended
family he had ditched the previous
nights.
Mr. Afriat has been playing poker
for 25 years, but he was the only ama-
teur among the final six. He already
had won a $110,128 prize in Las Vegas
in 2012.
I couldnt be prouder, his mother
said. LARRY YUDELSON
Not quite the spirit of St. Louis
It surely seemed like a good idea at
the time.
May 13 marks the 75th anniversary of
the departure of the SS St. Louis from
Hamburg. It left in 1939 with 937 Jewish
refugees aboard. The trip was dubbed
the voyage of the damned after the
ship was denied permission to dock in
Cuba and then turned away from the
United States and Canada. After the St.
Louis returned to Europe, 200 of the
refugees it carried died in Nazi concen-
tration camps.
So it is a timely moment for the SS
St Louis Legacy Project to sponsor a
unique educational cruise that for two
weeks in November will enable pas-
sengers of the Crystal Serenity to meet
survivors of the St. Louis, watch the
projects new documentary, Complicit:
The untold story of why the Roosevelt
Administration denied safe haven to
Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Lou-
is, and see original State Department
documents.
We will breathe life into history by
using this unique cruise experience
aboard the Crystal Serenity to trace
the voyage of the SS St. Louis in a
deeply respectful and meaningful way,
explained Dr. Ruth Kalish, the projects
associate director. To keep this history
alive, its essential that our efforts are
brought forth in todays environment.
One way to do that is by using drama
to educate, but were finding another
way is to incorporate this particular
commemoration into a modern cruise
experience.
But then theres the aspect that
journalist Jeffrey Goldberg described
as really creepy on Twitter. It was this
paragraph of the cruises press release:
The sailing also coincides with the
acclaimed Crystal Wine & Food Festi-
val on the Crystal Serenity and features
famous chefs and wine authorities, thus
providing guests with unparalleled ex-
periences.
Ouch. Maybe not such a good idea
after all.
LARRY YUDELSON
The Clinton grandchild
and the Jewish problem
Chelsea Clintons announcement
last week that she and Jewish hubby
Marc Mezvinsky are expecting their
first child has set off a fairly predict-
able wave of reactions Jewish-wise,
not unlike the interest their 2010
wedding generated.
Interfaithfamily.com quickly seized
the pregnancy as an opportunity to
share with ALL expecting parents its
various resources for new interfaith
parents, including a booklet called
To Circumcise or Not: That is the
Question.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the
spectrum, the Jewish Press chose
this headline: Chelsea Clinton Preg-
nant With Non-Jewish Child. Calling
the former first daughter Americas
poster child for intermarriage, the
Brooklyn-based Orthodox newspa-
per noted that in marrying four years
ago the pair was effectively prun-
ing away that 3,300 year old Jewish
branch of the Mezinsky family. (And
apparently also pruning away the v
from the grooms name.)
The Jewish Press also reminded its
readers of Rabbi David Stavs appar-
ently clairvoyant question posed to
Union for Reform Judaism President
Rabbi Rick Jacobs at a meeting back
in November about Israels adherence
to Orthodox standards: Do you want
me to recognize Chelsea Clintons
child as a Jew?
Under the traditional policy of
matrilineal descent, adhered to by
Orthodox and Conservative Jews, the
child will not be Jewish unless s/he
undergoes a conversion, but Reform
and Reconstructionist Jews will rec-
ognize the baby as a Jew if s/he has
a Jewish upbringing.
Not surprisingly, Stormfront, the
anti-Semitic website, does recognize
the child as a Jew, as evidenced by its
charming headline: Chelsea Clinton
pregnant with jew spawn.
And now, bring on the months of
intense speculation: If a boy, will the
child have a brit milah? Will s/he be
given a Jew-y name? Jewish nursery
school? Hebrew school? How will all
this affect Grandma Hillarys pros-
pects in 2016? And if, as is widely
expected, the not-yet-born Clinton
heir is elected president in 2060, will
he or she be the first to celebrate
a Tu BShevat seder in the White
House?
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On the cover: State Senator Loretta Weinberg, right, honors Joan Grzenda, the
executive director of the Womans Rights Information Center in Englewood, at the
State Senate last month to mark Womens History Month.
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it was the hardest thing I ever had to do;
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was raised in the UK, but
he has dual American/
British citizenship. My
sense is that he has little
Jewish religious back-
ground. However, I am
sure he was not raised
in another religion. The
actor has called himself
Jewish in interviews
and says that when he
visits New York, he visits
Jewish delis in order
to consume copious
amounts of matzah ball
soup, which he loves.
Big Bang Theory,
the megahit CBS
sitcom, was just renewed
for three full seasons
and now is scheduled
to run thorough 2016-
17 (which would be its
ninth season). I believe
it is now the most Jewy
show on broadcast TV
more than half the cast
of starring and recurring
characters are played by
Jewish thespians (SIMON
HELBERG/Wolowitz:
MELISSA RAUCH/Ber-
nadette; MAYIM BIALIK/
Amy; KEVIN SUSSMAN/
Stuart; BRIAN GEORGE/
Rajs father). Heres a fun
fact: SIMON HELBERG,
33, has been married
since 2007 to JOCEYLYN
TOWNE, an independent
filmmaker, and they had
their first child in 2012.
Jocelyns uncle is screen-
writer ROBERT TOWNE,
79, who wrote some
great films in the 70s,
including Chinatown. I
was surprised to learn in
2006 that he was Jew-
ish and was born Robert
Schwartz.
N.B.
Andrew Gareld
WHO KNEW?
Kosher spider
Simon Helberg
Melissa Rauch Mayim Bialik
Normally, I cover mov-
ies the week they open
but I am making an
exception for Amaz-
ing Spider-Man Part 2,
which opens on Friday,
May 2. Why? Because
the films star, ANDREW
GARFIELD, gave a long
quote to the Indepen-
dent, a British paper,
about Spider-Man being
Jewish. I figure you are
likely to have read this
quote somewhere in the
last week and maybe you
want a bit more back-
ground on Garfield and
the film now. Most of you
probably know that Mar-
vel rebooted the Spider-
Man movie series back
in 2012 by replacing
Tobey Maguire in the title
role with Garfield, now
30. The first Garfield/
reboot flick retold the
story of how a teenage
boy named Peter Parker
became Spider-Man, a
superhero. The sequel
finds Spider-Man fighting
off a veritable hoard of
super baddies.
Part 2 features STAN
LEE, 93, the co-creator
of Marvel Comics and
the co-creator of Spider-
Man, in a cameo role.
Stan Lee never laid out
Parkers ethnic or reli-
gious background in the
Spider-Man comics he
wrote. However, Garfield
told the Independent
that Parker/Spider-Man
is culturally Jewish.
Here is most of his expla-
nation, in his own words:
Spider-Man is neurotic.
Peter Parker is not a sim-
ple dude. He cant just
switch off. He never feels
like hes doing enough.
And Peter suffers from
self-doubt. He ums and
ahs about his future
because hes neurotic.
Hes Jewish. Its a defin-
ing feature. Hes an
over-thinker. It would be
much easier if he was a
life-saving robot. I hope
Jewish people wont
mind the clich, because
my fathers Jewish. I have
that in me for sure.
Garfield, who will
host Saturday Night
Live on May 3, is not a
super-easy biographi-
cal subject. But this is
the Jewish story Ive
pieced together His fa-
ther, RICHARD, was born
in 1950 in America to
English-born parents of
Eastern European Jewish
descent. Richards par-
ents immigrated to the
States in 1945, and not
long after, they changed
the family name from
Garfinkel to Garfield.
Around 1980, Richard
met and wed Linda Hill-
man, a Brit working in
Los Angeles, and they
co-ran a design firm. (I
am now virtually sure
that Linda is not Jew-
ish.) In 1986, Richard and
Linda decided to settle
in the UK, and of course
Andrew, then 3 years old,
went with them. Andrew
Going to any length
to get a position
If you want to see a very Jewish web comedy video
featuring SETH ROGEN, 32, and Zac Efron and the cast
of the Comedy Central series Workaholics, simply
google Rogen, Efron, and Workaholics and youll ind it.
Its a tie-in of sorts with Neighbors, a movie that will
open in two weeks and co-stars the duo. In the video, the
two play regular guys who show up for a job interview
conducted in a large ofice cubicle. Rogen suggests at one
point that the company would do well to hire a minority
and Efron says that he is Jewish and proceeds to show
that he is circumcised. No, he doesnt really show us
but he does show his prospective male bosses and
their remarks are unexpectedly funny, without being
mean. In real life, Efron is not Jewish he was raised in
no religion, and his paternal grandfather was Jewish. He
has reportedly just started dating HALSTON SAGE, 20
(NBCs Crisis). I can certainly understand Sages attrac-
tion to Efron. He recently was photographed shirtless
and he is as ripped as anyone in Hollywood, including
Ryan Gosling.
Seth Rogan and Zac Efron on the set.
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were crammed up check by jowl.
The people who ran the barrack make
sure they had classes for these kids. They
taught them Jewish history, they taught
them math. Life was happening even in
this unbelievable pressure cooker.
Not all of their life had been sapped
from their spirits.
For Alex Moscovic, the hardest part
of the film was basically to go back to
Buchenwald, and seeing it. Though Buch-
enwald by the time we went back there
didnt look like the original Buchenwald.
All the barracks were destroyed while the
East Germans were in control. The rest of
it is still there: the barbed wire, the main
building the SS had, one other building.
But barrack number 66 no longer exists.
As a filmmaker, Mr. Cohen found shoot-
ing in Buchenwald a thrill. It created an
enormous visual opportunity to make
interesting abstract pictures.
Mr. Cohen said Buchenwald felt like the
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served historical artifact.
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Moscovic came to the Bronx. Excited by
the new technology of television, he stud-
ied at the RCA Institute and had 30-year
career as a film editor at ABC Sports before
retiring to Florida.
He was more than just a subject of
Kinderbloc 66.
Because my son was also the executive
producer, I had a lot of input, he said. I
said we should concentrate on the positive
side, on what has become of the boys who
were in barracks 66. So there are a few
parts of when the Americans arrived and
the atrocities, after that the film is basi-
cally concentrating on the four of us, on
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How the boys survived
Paramus-born filmmaker tells story of Buchenwalds barrack 66
LARRY YUDELSON
F
or Rob Cohen, the road to Buch-
enwald started at Paramus High
School.
It was a high school English
teacher who saw the hint of an interest
in filmmaking in Mr. Cohen. He encour-
aged me, made it possible for me to make
a couple of small films with a Super Eight
camera, he said. His interest sparked, he
crafted a film major at Yale, which was not
yet formally offering one when he gradu-
ated in 1974.
A few years ago, Mr. Cohen, who now
lives in New York, created two future-
focused documentaries for CBS and
the Discovery Channel: FutureCar and
NextWorld.
But his project opening in two New Jer-
sey theaters this week looks backward.
Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald
tells the story of four boys who survived
Buchenwald, and chronicles their return
visit there in 2010, on the 65th anniversary
of their liberation.
Mr. Cohen wrote the documentary, but
the lead force behind it was Steven Mosco-
vic, a friend whose father was one of those
boys. The two had become friendly as col-
leagues, so when Mr. Moscovic decided to
make a documentary about his fathers
experience, he brought Mr. Cohen on
board.
It looked like an extraordinary gift a
son was giving a father, Mr. Cohen said.
I wish I could do something like that for
my dad.
In 1945, Stevens father, Alex, was 13
years old. Born in Sobrance, which had
alternately belonged to Hungary and Slo-
vakia, he had been in Auschwitz-Birke-
nau in Poland, and then, as the Germans
retreated on the eastern front, he was
shipped by train to Buchenwald in Ger-
many, enduring nine January days in an
open coal car.
Day-to-day control of Buchenwald was
in the hands of a Communist-led under-
ground, whose international connections
made them useful to the SS officers who
ruled over them. The man in charge of
the barracks where Alex Moscovic and
his brother were assigned told them there
was a better place they could go to, Alex
Moscovic said last week. He said that they
have a barrack, number 66, that only had
children. He suggested that it would be
much better for us to be with other boys.
He made the arrangements, and a few days
later we were transferred. Thats when we
met Antonin Kalina.
Mr. Kalina was a Czech Communist who
had been imprisoned in Buchenwald since
1939. He oversaw a barracks that was des-
ignated for the children who were arriving
from the East. Located in the most remote
part of the camp in an area rife with dis-
ease, it was far from the eyes of the SS. He
did everything he could to save the chil-
dren in his care. He exempted them from
labor obligations and twice-daily roll call.
And when, on the eve of liberation, the SS
wanted to gather the inmates for a final
death march, Mr. Kalina changed the boys
badges to read Christian and told the SS
that there were no Jews in the barracks.
More than 900 Jewish boys survived this
way, among them Elie Wiesel and another
Nobel laureate, Hungarian novelist Imre
Kertsz.
Mr. Kalina returned to Prague after
the war, and died with little recognition.
Last December, he was honored by Yad
Vashem as a righteous among the nations,
following entreaties by the Moscovics.
He deserves it, Mr. Moscovic said. I
dont have too many heroes, but hes one
of my heroes.
Mr. Cohen found the story Mr. Moscovic
and the three other survivors told amazing
for what it said about human resilience.
Sixteen hundred of these boys were
crammed into a barrack, formerly a house
barn, a tiny little space that shouldnt have
accommodated more than 40 people,
Mr. Cohen said. They were from all these
different countries. They were Hungarian
and Czech and Polish and Lithuanian, and
they fought like teenage boys do. They
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Visit the Museum without charge and speak with Holocaust survivors.
(Survivors in galleries until 2 P.M.; Museumopen until 5:45 P.M.)
In our Keeping History Center, access 2,500 Holocaust video testimonies
from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
Take time to reflect in Andy Goldsworthys memorial Garden of Stones.
At the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust,
we remember the six million Jews who were murdered,
and reflect upon the meaning of their loss.
the type of life we led.
Immediately after the war, some of the
boys ended up going to Paris. There was
a psychiatrist who took care of a hundred
of the boys. She was a young woman and
had just finished school; psychologically
she was not ready for that kind of job. She
wrote that by us going through the Holo-
caust we would never be normal again.
She thought we would never be able to
have children because of what we went
through.
I felt that we can show that four of us
out of 900 were able to overcome what
happened in the camps. We had normal
families. We had children, we have grand-
children, he said. (Steven the filmmaker is
one of Mr. Moscovics two sons; he has six
grandchildren.)
All of our lives turned out pretty good,
Mr. Moscovic said. The memories are
still there but we are able to live a nor-
mal life. Thats the big difference in this
documentary.
Mr. Cohen agrees that this was the
approach to take with the film.
I think the film is wonderfully optimis-
tic, he said. The four men and who they
are and what theyve done with their lives,
the lack of hate thats in their lives, its very
uplifting. People came through this. These
men came through this.
Did they get robbed of their child-
hoods? I guess they did, on some very obvi-
ous level, maybe most levels. But theyre
full human beings, fully generous, certainly
generous in letting us make this film about
their lives and they were very sharing.
The film is very much in the present as
well as in the past.
One present-day touch that Mr. Cohen is
proud of: He gave the four survivors mini-
ature video cameras. Thats a marvelous
thing, seeing 80-year-old men being taught
to use and embrace this modern technol-
ogy. It serves as a real basis for a lot of the
material in the film. A lot of the filming is
done when theyre sitting by themselves.
Theyre kind of narrating their lives into it.
It was just them and their stories and their
secrets and their thoughts. Its the most
personal kind of testimony, he said.
Since retiring, Alex Moscovic has told
his story hundreds of times, speaking at
local schools.
Its a subject that has to be told,
he said. The more people who know
about what happened in Europe dur-
ing the Second World War, the better off
we are. Hopefully because of that in the
future theyll do something about it, and
we wont have anything like that repeat
again.
Mr. Moscovic didnt know how eighth
graders would react to the film the first
time he showed it at a school near his
home in Hobe Sound, roughly a hundred
miles north of Miami. The presentation
was for the entire grade about 300
students.
Would these boys and girls be able to
sit through a Holocaust documentary for
an hour and a half? he wondered.
I introduced the documentary, and
then went in back of the group and sat
down to see what their reaction was.
Theres no talking. Its quiet. Now we
are into about 10 minutes. Its still quiet.
Every once in a while I hear one of the girls
sob. Then from another part of the group,
I heard some more sobbing. And so on. We
went through the hour and a half docu-
mentary until the credits came on.
I start to answer the questions the
questions kept coming and coming. The
next thing I know the bell sounds, the stu-
dents have to leave their classes and go to
their buses.
The teachers said they had never seen
anything like this before, a class of eighth
graders sitting through a film of an hour
and a half, and then another hour and
a half of questions and answers. I came
home and called up Steven. I said, If we
can keep the attention of eighthgraders
for this period of time, I think we have a
winner.
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A Torahs journey
Fair Lawn shul learns
about the Holocaust
scroll it houses
LOIS GOLDRICH
H
ousing a Holocaust memorial
Torah in your own synagogue
is a privilege and an honor.
Learning where that Torah
came from who touched its parchment
and read its words is a blessing. But it is
not one that is gained easily.
Indeed, says Rabbi Ronald Roth, reli-
gious leader of the Fair Lawn Jewish Cen-
ter/Congregation Bnai Israel, it is only
after months of research that he now
understands the journey his shuls memo-
rial Torah has taken, and the people it has
reached.
The Torah has been with the Fair Lawn
synagogue for several decades.
Congregant Ed Davidson brought it
here from London in 1978, Rabbi Roth
said of the Czechoslovakian Torah, now
encased in a glass cabinet in the synagogue
sanctuary.
He explained that the Torah was one
of some 1,564 scrolls stored in Pragues
Michle Synagogue during World War II.
The damp 18th-century
shul served as a ware-
house for scrolls from
Prague and surround-
ing communities in
Bohemia and Moravia.
According to a docu-
ment from the Memo-
ri al Scrol l s Trust ,
founded more than 30
years ago to help get
these scrolls back into
the life of Jewish con-
gregations, a British philanthropist who
was a member of Londons Westminster
Synagogue bought the scrolls in the 1960s.
On February 7, 1964, two trucks filled with
scrolls arrived at the synagogue, ready to
be sorted, examined, and catalogued.
Some could be made kosher, but the
vast majority could not, so the people in
London offered them on permanent loan
to synagogues around the world as memo-
rials to the Holocaust, Rabbi Roth said.
This year the 50th anniversary of
the scrolls arrival in London the West-
minster synagogue asked each Torah
recipient to make a poster, which would
be displayed at a major commemoration
ceremony.
Up to this point, Rabbi Roth knew only
that the Torah came from the city of Pacov.
Writing to the Trust for more information,
he learned little, so the synagogue planned
to use a picture of a Holocaust survivor
holding the Torah, surrounded by his
grandsons, on its poster.
Then [in January] I found that there
were photos of both the synagogue and
the Jewish cemetery in Pacov online,
Rabbi Roth said. So I downloaded them
and put them on the poster. We shipped it
off to London and it was on display there
with the other posters.
Not stopping there, he realized that
doing further research into the origins of
the Torah could be a valuable educational
experience for students in the synagogues
religious school.
I wanted to work with a religious school
class, so I started doing research with the
seventh-graders, he said. So far, weve
found a couple of things.
For example, he said, the students
pointed out to me the existence of Wiki-
media, which contains another series of
photos. Two years ago, a Czech man went
[to Pacov] and took a series of photos. The
cemetery has a building at the entrance
with a historical exhibit about the Jews of
Pacov.
Because the Wikimedia entry included
the photographers name, Rabbi Roth
reached out to him, asking him to trans-
late some of the material in the photos he
took of the exhibit.
The photographer responded, and
included the translations. From these
Rabbi Roth learned that the cemetery
dates from 1680 and has been preserved as
a cultural monument by the Czech Repub-
lic. One or two photos showing the interior
of the synagogue before the war also were
on Wikimedia.
Spurred on by his success, Rabbi Roth
decided to learn even more. Looking at
the website of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, he found not only
more photographs but also the names and
history of some Pacov residents. He also
found some home movies.
Who would have thought it, he said.
It was purely random and by luck.
The movies were donated by Gabrielle
Reitler, now Rosberger.
Her mother came from a large family,
Rabbi Roth said. The family photos and
movies were entrusted to a non-Jewish
family during the war. Surviving both
The exterior and interior of the old synagogue in Pacov, now in the Czech Re-
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Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, Ms. Ros-
bergers mother, Blanka Bruck (later
Reitler), returned to reclaim these
items. Later, she married and moved
to Canada.
I looked online for Gabrielle and
found a Facebook page, Rabbi Roth
said. I sent her a message, but she
didnt respond. However, the page
said we had a mutual friend, a woman
named Linda Shecter. Shes an old
friend of Gabis.
Another random and fortunate
occurrence. The rabbi had known Ms.
Shecter in Nashville, when he headed
the West End Synagogue. She and
her husband had lived, among other
places, in Montreal.
So I sent a message to Linda, who sent
an email to Gabi, who then responded,
Rabbi Roth said. She told me that in the
home movies were her young cousins
Nina and Peter. They were the happy
little kids walking down the street.
Sadly, the two children later were
sent to Theresienstadt. While she was
there, Nina drew a number of pictures,
including one, Girl looking out of the
window, which appears in I Never
Saw Another Butterfly, a collection of
drawings and poetry by Jewish children
who lived in that concentration camp.
Its on pages 38 and 39, Rabbi Roth
said. It was made by this little girl who
had been so happy as an 8-year-old. In
the back of the book, it gives her name
and says she was a member of Group
2. She did the drawing in the spring of
1944. She died in Auschwitz on May 15,
1944, at age 12 and a half.
In Auschwitz, Ms. Rosberger said,
her aunt Ninas mother, who came
from Pacov made a fateful decision.
Because Peter was too young to work,
he was selected for the gas chamber.
Unwilling to let him die alone, his
mother decided that the three of them
she, Nina, and Peter would enter
the chamber together.
Religious school teacher Debbie
Propper Lesnoy said that her seventh-
grade students took the research proj-
ect very seriously, as it was a hands-
on way of approaching a topic that we
have been studying all year. Each stu-
dent contributed in his or her own way,
with artwork, poetry, and an incredibly
informative PowerPoint.
Ms. Lesnoy noted that it was particu-
larly moving when we researched the
[U.S. Holocaust Memorial] museum
to locate an old video of a family in
Pacov that we knew from our cemetery
research had perished. We saw young
children and typical-looking family
members enjoying life as if all were
well. My students faces dropped when
we realized that all but one of these
people were killed not long after.
Every student in the class gathered
around the video, she said. Though
many things we learned impacted us,
this connection between typical life
and impending death, and the Torah
we now have that these people used,
affected my students in a profound way
and me, too.
Another moving moment occurred
when we connected a cemetery plot
with the family name, Lederer, of a
synagogue leader. The cemetery plot
told us that Emil Lederer had died in
the Holocaust. We had just seen his pic-
ture and name in our research of [life
in] Pacov.
Ms. Lesnoy said that when the
class saw a Google street view of the
synagogue as it is today, the students
reacted strongly. It is the only build-
ing that has not been kept up. Why?
asked one, while another mused on the
fact that so many who had attended the
synagogue had died.
Ms. Lesnoy said the students used
technology during the whole year to
learn about the Holocaust.
The way they approached this
through technology, art, and poetry
showed me how each student pro-
cessed the information differently, and
how important it is as a teacher to use a
variety of strategies when approaching
such an emotional and critically impor-
tant topic, she said.
Now that he has learned more about
Pacov and the people who lived there,
Rabbi Roth is eager to preserve that
information. He is working on a slide
show featuring the photos he has found,
and he plans to work with the students
to create some narration as well.
The research has put a human face
on the Holocaust, especially for the
kids, he said. Now we have a real
picture of where [the Torah] was the
synagogue, town, and the people who
no doubt were in the synagogue getting
aliyot and lifting that Torah. It makes
it much more personal and touching.
Gabrielle Reitler Rosbergers moth-
er survived Auschwitz and donated
home movies of murdered children
to the United States Holocaust Mu-
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Welcome to Radzyn
Local man finds a new way to tell sort-of old stories
JOANNE PALMER
I
t is 1896 in Radzyn, a small town hid-
den deep in a Polish forest. There,
Mottel the musician tries to find a
few zlotys for Shabbat.
It is 1933 in Radzyn, a small town hid-
den deep in a Polish forest. There, the
rebbe warns about lost children for whom
nobody will hunt and who never will be
found.
Radzyn, as it unfolds in 1896, is home to
a collection of chasidim who at first glance
embody the timeless archetypes who
seem to replace real people in such mythic
towns.
But it is also 2014 in the United States.
The story of Radzyn, which will jump from
era to era, from character to character,
and eventually from the web and mobile
devices to other media as well, has just
begun to unfold. It will follow the form
and conventions of Jewish folktales, but it
is being devised to speak most clearly to its
own generation.
We believe that the Jewish folktale is
singular, unique, and powerful, Michael
Weber said. Mr. Weber, 28, now lives on
the Upper West Side, but he grew up in
Teaneck, where his parents still live, and he
graduated from the Yavneh Academy and
the Frisch School, both in Paramus, before
going on to the University of Maryland.
They are a very interesting combination
of Jewish humor, Jewish perspectives, and
Torah, he continued.
Veering from the conventional defini-
tion of a folktale as a piece of folk art that
cannot be attributed to a particular writer
but instead to a group, and as a work that
has changed over time and from place to
place, instead Mr. Weber broadened it to
include author-written stories with folk-
loric themes. I think the Torah aspect
ranges from someone like I.L. Peretz, the
19th century Yiddish writer, who was not
interested in the Torah aspect at all, to
someone like Reb Shlomo, who was trying
to relate to Jewish tradition in a mystical
way, to someone like Rebbe Nachman
the 18th-century mystic Nachman of Brat-
zlov, founder of the Breslov chasidim
who was telling Torah truly in story form.
But, Mr. Weber continued, the folk-
tale really hasnt been approached in
a new way since Reb Shlomo Rabbi
Shlomo Carlebach, that is in the 1960s
and 70s. The struggles that people were
going through in the 60s were different
than the ones we are going through in the
Internet age.
A new generation has to absorb these
Michael Weber wrote and Joel Golombeck illustrated the new online fictional world called Radzyn.
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stories, and we think that there is an oppor-
tunity to approach them in a new way.
It is still beautiful and compelling and
rich, but the story, the characters, and the
plot can be re-imagined in a way that we
millennials are used to reading plots and
approaching characters. We have differ-
ent reading habits and different literary
expectations.
His generation, Mr. Weber continued, is
used to such fiction as Games of Thrones
and The Hunger Games. They do not
feel comfortable with characters who are
archetypical but lack depth, he said. There-
fore, we are taking a lot of the tropes,
like the holy street sweeper and the poor
Yid collecting rubles before Shabbes, and
we are delving into the characters. What
do they really feel? We take it in our own
direction, in a way that we think resonates
better for readers who are more used to
going into characters depths, into seeing
the 3-D version.
My experience with Jewish stories has
been that they are very deep, but you only
see the characters for a few pages, so you
cant go into them deeply.
To change that, Mr. Weber and his busi-
ness partner, Joel Golombeck, also 28,
have created the world of
Radzyn, which he said, is
a fantasy Jewish folktale
about a chasidic shtetl that
survived the Holocaust, and
the generations of spiritual
legacy that inspired it.
As much as a clich the
idea of Jewish journey gen-
erally has become, it seems
so true when applied to Mr.
Webers life story that the
term itself is refreshed.
When Mr. Weber was a
child, his parents belonged to Congrega-
tion Beth Sholom in Teaneck. I kind of
grew up Conservative, but all four of us
kids went to an Orthodox school, so it was
a very open environment, he said. We
are now all over the place religiously. We
have been given an open landscape to dis-
cover and explore.
From Beth Sholom, the family moved
to the Teaneck Jewish Center, which then
was more or less Conservadox it since
has become unequivocally Orthodox and
then Mr. Weber went to Congregation Beth
Aaron, then as now Orthodox. He spent a
year in Israel in Mevaseret before college.
Now, he davens at the Kasnetz shtiebel on
the Upper West Side. I was always very
religiously minded, but I didnt really feel
like I found my place until I discovered cha-
sidus, he said. In Israel, and even more
in college, and even more after college, I
knew what I liked, but I didnt know what
it was called. Then he found it and that
passion is relevant because it is reflected
in Radzyn. Love of chassidut animates the
town.
I have seen the products that modern
Orthodox yeshivas produce,
Mr. Weber said. It seems that
there is a failure at some level
with what theyre producing,
whether its the relationship to
ourselves, or to Judaism, or to
our community. There is a lack
of commitment on some level.
I think that the chasidic
message resonates more with
this generation than the mod-
ern Orthodox experience
does. What I am trying to do is
embed chasidic thought in the story itself,
and share that with the community.
Of course, as much as Radzyn lovingly
displays centuries-old Jewish tradition, it
uses brand-new technology to do so.
His partner, Mr. Golombeck, Mr. Weber
said, is the founder and creative director
of Rocket Chair media, a digital storytelling
studio that explores new ways to read in
the digital age. Their mission is to find new
ways to tell stories that dont need to be
paginated. Now a lot of the ebooks that we
read are paginated, in book form. You turn
the pages digitally, like you do in a book.
What Rocket Chair does is figure out how
we can tell stories in ways that are native to
phones, tablets, or web experiences.
Mr. Webers own background took him
from a college major in science and a job
in finance to marketing in tech startups.
He is a writer as well, and when his last
startup job ended, about six months ago,
he decided to devote most of his time to
writing. Thats when Radzyn was born,
he said. I have the writing and the tech
design and marketing approach. Its not
just thinking about it as a story, but about
how it will be prepared and how it will be
consumed.
Joel is very much the same way. He is
an artist, he graduated from Tisch thats
NYUs Tisch School of the Arts and went
on to Parsons the school of design in
digital reading experiences, specifically for
the tablet. So he approaches Radzyn as an
artist, but also in a very technical way. Mr.
Golombeck does all the art for the project,
as well as its technical back end. Mr. Weber
handles both writing and marketing.
So far, the pair has released the prologue
and introduction. The next part, due out
on May 18, will tell a related story. All the
stories will be connected to the main nar-
rative, but the vision we have is that it will
be like an good television episode. You can
watch any good episode on its own and
enjoy it, even though it will be a little hard
to understand all of it.
We want each story to be a singular folk
tale, but if it is consumed as part of Radzyn
it will be an even better experience. Unini-
tiated readers should still be able to enjoy
it.
He also assures readers that he and Mr.
Golombeck plan to introduce some women
and their stories to what is now an almost
entirely male world. Radzyn will continue
to expand, he said.
To read the unfolding story of Radzyn,
go to www.radzynstories.com. The web-
site offers readers the opportunity to sign
up for email alerting them to each new
episode.
Joel Golombeck
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community. Ceremony in English and
Hebrew. Songs will be sung in Hebrew.
Sun, May 4, 7 pm, Free
Into the Arms of Strangers:
Stories of the Kindertransport
A FILM/DISCUSSION SERIES WITH HAROLD CHAPLER
Film features the stories of eleven young Jewish
children sent by their parents from Germany, Austria
and Czechoslovakia to England. Now, years later,
the children, a mother, an English foster mother, a
survivor of Auschwitz who didnt go to England,
and two Kindertransport organizers remember their
experiences and reunions. Narrated by Judy Dench.
Mon, Apr 28, 7:30 pm, $3/$5
Yom Haatzmaut Celebration
Celebrate the 66th anniversary of Yom Haatzmaut,
Israels Independence Day, with this fun, open-to-the-
community celebration featuring Israeli food, arts and
crafts inspired by Israeli cities, a Kibbutz style petting
zoo, activities for teens and adults, a musical program,
Israeli dancing and more.
Tues, May 6, starting at 3:30-6:30 pm, Free
Yom Hashoah Commemoration
Our annual commemoration will include keynote speaker
Herbert Kolb, a survivor of the Theresienstadt Ghetto
Camp, a choir performance and a candle-lighting
ceremony by survivors and their families. It will also
feature the presentation of the Abe Oster Holocaust
Remembrance Award to a high school student winner
who created a poetry slam project that conveys the
continuing relevance of the Holocaust in the 21st century.
Chairs: Leah Krakinowski and Andy Silberstein.
Sun, April 27, 7 pm, Free
FILM
FILM SCREENING
Making Trouble:
To Be Funny, Jewish
and Female
A fascinating documentary that spans
more than a century of theater, lm
and television to prole funny, Jewish,
female personalities, who made an
indelible impact on the entertainment
world. Sponsored by the Jewish
Womens Connection. For more info or
to register, call Jessica at 201.408.1426
Tues, May 20, 12:15 am-1:45 pm, $10/$12
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
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The politics of recognition
Is Israels Jewish state
demand a dead end?
JOSH LIPOWSKY
C
an the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
be solved without the Palestin-
ians recognizing Israel as a Jew-
ish state?
Is it enough for a future state of Pales-
tine to recognize the reality of Israel but
not the Jewish character of Israel?
The issue of recognition has been a
sticking point throughout the Israeli-Pal-
estinian conflict. From the time of its cre-
ation in 1964, until Yasser Arafats 1988
declaration renouncing terrorism and
calling for a Palestinian state alongside
Israel, the PLO refused to recognize Isra-
els legitimacy. The declaration paved the
way to mutual recognition between Israel
and the PLO and 20 years of on-and-off
negotiations. When the sides resumed
negotiations last year, Israels Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced a
new demand: that the Palestinians rec-
ognize Israel as a Jewish state. Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has
steadfastly refused, arguing that the PLO
already recognized the fact of Israel and
its not up to the Palestinians to recognize
Israels character.
Such recognition would be a humiliation
for the Palestinians, said Khaled Elgindy,
a former adviser to the Palestinian nego-
tiating team from 2004 to 2009. He called
recognition a technical legal act and
emphasized there is no precedent for rec-
ognizing a countrys character. The Jewish
state demand is an ideological condition,
he said, dismissing Israeli claims that the
demand at its core signals an end of Pales-
tinian claims and an end of conflict.
A Palestinian leader should not have to
sacrifice his own legitimacy in order to get
Americas approval or an agreement with
Israel, Mr. Elgindy said. End of claims
will come at the end of negotiations neces-
sarily because all of the claims have been
satisfied. You dont get the end of claims
up front.
Thomas Pickering, the U.S. ambassador
to Israel from 1985 to 1988, said he under-
stands why Prime Minister Netanyahu
insists on recognition of Israel as Jewish,
given the number of voices in the region
who would like to expel the Jewish people,
but he also understands why its so diffi-
cult for Mr. Abbas. Recognition of Israel as
a Jewish state would mean abandoning the
Palestinian right of return to Israel, and
the bankruptcy of their own internal nar-
rative, said the ambassador, who grew up
in Rutherford.
The interesting thing is nobody any-
where, certainly the Palestinians, can
contest Israels right to call itself what it
wishes, Mr. Pickering said. In a peace
treaty, the Palestinians will have to deal
with an Israel that declares what it is.
While Mr. Arafat and the PLO recog-
nized the reality of Israel, it is questionable
whether they accepted its legitimacy. The
PLOs 1988 transition came after the orga-
nization spent years building influence
and legitimacy in the international com-
munity, while coupling its political track
with deadly terrorist attacks against Israeli
and Jewish targets, carried out by Mr. Ara-
fats Fatah party and other PLO factions.
Fatah in its purest form is not that dif-
ferent from Hamas, Mr. Elgindy said.
Where they really differ is on the ques-
tion of recognizing Israel.
Hamas, the potential spoiler to any
agreement between Israel and the PLO,
remains steadfastly opposed to recog-
nizing Israel. Its leaders believe that the
PLOs recognition of Israel without recip-
rocal recognition of Palestine was a mis-
take. Hamas has remained ideologically
opposed to Israels existence and its 1988
charter declares that Israel will exist until
Islam will destroy it, elevating the organi-
zations opposition from a nationalist posi-
tion like the PLOs to a religious obligation.
And this is what makes moderation so dif-
ficult for Hamas.
Hamas will never go down the road of
even recognizing Israel as a member of the
United Nations, let alone as a Jewish state,
Mr. Elgindy said. Imagine what Hamas
will do if Abu Mazen Mr. Abbas nom
de guerre recognizes Israel as a Jewish
state, abandoning negating the Pales-
tinian narrative?
The international community has
demanded that Hamas renounce terror-
ism, recognize Israel, and accept past
agreements signed by the PLO before it can
receive recognition, but declarations such
as those in Hamas charter make recogni-
tion of Israel impossible and stand in the
way of Mr. Abbas attempts to pull Hamas
under the PLO umbrella. Mr. Elgindy rec-
ognizes why the international community
is so fixated on the language of Hamas
charter, but said in the end it is the actions
of the organization that matter more than
its founding documents. He pointed to the
Likuds revisionist Zionist ideology, which
at one point included all of the West Bank
in its map of Greater Israel an idea that
is antithetical to the existence of a Palestin-
ian state, and yet a Likud government now
is negotiating just that.
Charters are important but theyre
not really what motivate the day-to-day
political decisions of any organizations,
Mr. Elgindy said. When the PLO formally
renounced violence in 1988, that was more
important than changing the words in the
PLO charter. The same is true for Hamas.
Asked if the Palestinians might be will-
ing to accept a different wording, perhaps
a more generic recognition of two states
for two peoples, Mr. Elgindy said this is
a matter of semantics for the negotiators.
This hints that even the most seemingly
intractable issues can be resolved with
some creativity, which brings us back to
the initial question of how much of a road-
block is the recognition demand.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has
evolved through the years but it has always
revolved in some form around a combina-
tion of territory, national identity, religion,
historical narratives, and a sense of injus-
tice, Daniel Kurtzer said. Mr. Kurtzer, who
lives in New Jersey, was U.S. ambassador to
Israel from 2001 to 2005. Despite the hur-
dles in the start-and-stop negotiations, there
is nothing necessarily unsolvable about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he added.
Both sides will not be happy with an
outcome and therefore an outcome cant
aspire for mutual satisfaction, but an out-
come can aspire to meet the minimum
requirements of both sides, he said.
Khaled Elgindy Thomas Pickering Daniel Kurtzer
In a peace treaty,
the Palestinians
will have to deal
with an Israel
that declares
what it is.
THOMAS PICKERING
End of claims will
come at the end
of negotiations
necessarily
because all of
the claims have
been satised.
You dont get
the end of
claims up front.
KHALED ELGINDY
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Author Edwin Black
to speak in Wayne
JOANNE PALMER
On April 27, author Edwin Black, about
whom we wrote on March 21, just before
his talk for United4Unity in Englewood,
will be back in our area. He plans to key-
note the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jerseys Yom HaShoah commemo-
ration in Wayne.
Mr. Black, according to his website,
has focused much of a long career on
exploring and writing about genocide
and hate, corporate criminality and cor-
ruption, governmental misconduct, aca-
demic fraud, philanthropic abuse, oil
addiction, alternative energy and histori-
cal investigation. At the bottom of most
of his reporting is the act of evil that has
spurred all of his work the Holocaust.
The investigative work uncovering the
truth that some U.S. companies were at
least in part responsible for financing
and administering the Shoah underlies
much of his work.
He thinks that the timing of Yom
Ha Shoah this year is fitting, given whats
going on in Eastern Europe right now.
The methodologies of the Holocaust
that I document in IBM and the Holo-
caust including registration and prop-
erty itemization instantly come flood-
ing back to our collective consciousness
the very moment unrest subsumes the
Ukraine, he said.
I intend to remind the Wayne audi-
ence of this event as a prelude to my
more specific revelations about IBMs
role in the Holocaust. And what was that
role? A prime mission of IBM was to reg-
ister all the Jews of Europe for the Nazis.
You see that the impulse never dies.
In this century it would be accomplished
not with punch cards, but with comput-
ers. Not with a painstaking 1940s clerical
process, but in the twinkling of a digital
eye.
Mr. Blacks work on IBM and the
Holocaust might well result in a movie,
according to such media outlets as
the Vulture, New York Magazines
entertainment blog. According to the
Vulture, Brad Pitt is developing the film,
which, it says, might go straight to video,
or might end up as a feature film.
The movie, like the book, will answer
the question of how the Nazis were able
to round up Jews so efficiently. Accord-
ing to Mr. Black, as filtered through the
book, IBMs head, Thomas Watson, used
punch cards, then a brand-new and
highly effective technology, to slice and
dice data. As we now know, it worked.
Mr. Black added that he had chosen
to speak about the Shoah in northern
New Jersey on Yom HaShoah because
this observance is our nations oldest,
commencing in the late 1940s, when the
horrors of the Holocaust were just being
assessed.
We have to ask ourselves how much
has really changed when the grandchil-
dren of the perpetrator generation are
now reliving old habits in France, across
the Arab world, in Eastern Europe, in
Scandinavia, and even in Great Britain.
Mr. Black plans to enlarge some of
documents so that audiences will be able
to see them clearly. This is the first time
he has done that, he said, and he thinks
that it will provide viewers with sober-
ing data.
Who: Prolific journalist Edwin
Black, who specializes in Holo-
caust-related investigations
What: Will give the keynote ad-
dress at the Yom HaShoah com-
memoration
Where: At Shomrei Torah: The
Wayne Conservative Synagogue,
30 Hinchman Ave. in Wayne
When: At 3 p.m.; the photo exhibit
will be on view starting at 2:30
Why: To remember the Holocaust
and learn its lessons.
Sponsored by: The Jewish Federa-
tion of Northern New Jersey
For more information: Call (973)
696-2500 or Dr. Wallace Greene at
(201) 873-3263.
Schreiber is
man of the year
Temple Israel & JCC in Ridgewood recently
honored Howard Schreiber of Ramsey,
left, as its Brandeis Mens Club Man-of-the-
Year. Freddie Kotek, last years honoree,
is pictured giving him the honorary clas-
sic bowler that belonged to Harry Grant,
a longtime Brandeis Mens Club member.
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YU to mark 83rd
commencement
Dr. John S. Rus-
kay, execut i ve
vice president and
CEO of the United
Jewi sh Appeal -
Federation of Jew-
ish Philanthropies
of New York, will
deliver the key-
note address and
receive an honor-
ary doctorate at
Yeshiva Universitys 83rd commencement
ceremony on Thursday, May 22, at the Izod
Center in East Rutherford. YU President
Richard M. Joel also will confer honorary
doctorates on Joshua Gortler, president
of the Kline Galland Center Foundation
and alumnus of YUs Wurzweiler School
of Social Work, and Dorothy Schachne,
a YU benefactor. Dr. Morton Lowengrub,
provost and senior vice president for aca-
demic affairs, will receive the presidential
medallion.
NORPAC event
to hear Lowey
Rabbi Steven and
Yael Weil host a
NORPAC meet-
ing in Teaneck for
Congresswoman
N i t a L o we y
(D-N.Y.) on Sun-
day, April 27, at
5 p.m. Congress-
woman Lowey,
now serving her
13th term in Congress, represents parts of
Westchester and Rockland counties. Call
(201) 788-5133 or email Avi@NORPAC.net.
John S. Ruskay
Nita Lowey
Local student awarded prestigious scholarship
Kayla Applebaum of Teaneck, a junior at Stern Col-
lege for Women, received the Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarship, a highly competitive grant that sup-
ports undergraduates who intend to pursue careers
in science, math, or engineering.
She was among 271 college sophomores and juniors
across the country selected for the scholarship, which
covers the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and
board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.
Ms. Applebaum, a molecular biology major, will
use her scholarship to continue her research of tar-
geting molecular pathways of breast cancer with
Dr. Marina Holz, associate professor of biology at
Stern, with whom she has worked with for the last
three years. After graduation, Ms. Applebaum, who
is also a member of the colleges S. Daniel Abra-
ham Honors Program and a recipient of the Anne
Scheiber Science Academic Scholarship, hopes to
attend medical school and launch her a career in
cancer research.
Kayla Applebaum
David and Jayne Petak Debbie and Ron Eisenberg Jason and Jennifer Auerbach
YJCC names honorees for May 15 spring gala
The Bergen County YJCC will hold its
annual Spring Gala on Thursday, May 15,
at the Rockleigh Country Club. The gala
begins at 6:30 p.m. with cocktails, fol-
lowed by the program, dinner, and danc-
ing. An ad journal will be published in
conjunction with the event.
This years honorees are the couple
of the year, Debbie and Ron Eisenberg
of Woodcliff Lake; community builders
Jayne and David Petak of River Vale, and
young leaders Jennifer and Jason Auer-
bach of Woodcliff Lake.
The Eisenbergs have three children,
24, 21, and 20, all graduates of the YJCCs
nursery school. Debbie and Ron took
leadership roles in a variety of YJCC
projects throughout the years, and are
involved in the YJCCs Open Hearts, Open
Homes, the program that welcomes Israeli
teens affected by violence and terror to
enjoy respite in northern New Jersey.
Jayne and David Petak have been
involved with the YJCC since it opened
in 1987, enrolling one son in its nurs-
ery school and the other in after-school
karate. Their involvement has ranged
from chairing the golf outing or the
annual dinner-dance to serving on the
board. Jayne Petak also is a board mem-
ber of the Jewish Federation of North-
ern New Jersey and the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh.
Jennifer and Dr. Jason Auerbach, also
of Woodcliff Lake, have two daughters, 9
and 6, who are YJCC nursery school grad-
uates. The Auerbachs have been leaders
and supporters of a variety of YJCC events
and committees; Jennifer Auerbach has
been a member of the board. Jason Auer-
bach also is president of the New Jersey
Dental Society of Anesthesiology.
Sharry and Mark Friedberg and Joan
and Dan Silna are the galas event chairs,
and Martin Kornheiser is the ad journal
chair. For information, call Ashley War-
ren at (201) 666-6610, ext. 5832, or email
her at awarren@yjcc.org.
Sharsheret highlights bnai mitzvah
for its 12th anniversary benefit
Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit
organization dedicated to addressing
the needs of women and families facing
breast cancer and ovarian cancer, will
celebrate its 12th anniversary on Sun-
day, May 4. More than 500 people are
expected at the celebration, held at the
Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe. This
years benefit also marks Sharsherets bat
mitzvah year; it will include highlights of
the organizations bnai mitzvah program
and its participants.
Blair Muss of Manhattan, an active
Sharsheret peer supporter, is the guest
of honor. Batya Paul of Teaneck is this
years Lisa Altman Volunteer Tribute
award recipient. The event also will fea-
ture a silent auction showcasing valuable
gift packages, electronics, jewelry, Juda-
ica, sports memorabilia, and fine dining
gift certificates.
So far, Sharsherets bnai mitzvah pro-
gram has welcomed nearly 100 young
adults from across the country, who have
coordinated creative projects, including
Sharsheret Pink Shabbat, challah baking,
basketball tournaments, design and craft
sales, fashion shows, and outreach to
local health care professionals and com-
munity leaders.
For information, call (866) 474-2774,
go to www.sharsheret.org/benefit, or
email Ellen Kleinhaus at ekleinhaus@
sharsheret.org.
Batya Paul Blair Muss
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KEEPING THE FAITH
Let all who are
hungrystarve?
R
ight now, we are in the midst of a seven-
week journey that began on Pesach and
will end on Shavuot.
There are 38 days left on our trek from
Egypt to Sinai, where we will receive our instructions
as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
In the words of Isaiah, the task we received at Sinai
was to unlock fetters of wickedness, and untie the
cords of lawlessness; to let the oppressed go free; to
share [our] bread with the hungry, [and] when you
see the naked, to clothe him.
How sad it is that too many of us prefer not to fully
comprehend the meaning of those words.
This Shabbat, in synagogues across the world, we
receive a condensed version of what those words
mean, and what the task is that we were given. That
task is why we were enslaved in the first place, and
why we were freed. It is why the sea parted on the sev-
enth day, and why the journey to the Land of Promise
had to begin at Sinai, not in Egypt.
The alien seer Balaam called us a people apart,
and he was correct. We
are a people apart, but not
because of our rituals. The
body of law we were given
at Sinai is what sets us apart,
that and the reason for that
Law: to create a world in
which all are equal, a world
that is ruled by the princi-
ples of justice, equity, and
mercy.
That world did not exist
before the Torah was given.
In the ancient world, the
haves always were more important than the have-nots,
and they were considered more valuable.
For example, in the Code of Hammurabi, if someone
accidentally killed a person higher up on the societal
pecking order, that persons relatives had the right to
kill two members of the accidental murderers family.
Blood vengeance, after all, was accepted in the
ancient world. Because this was too much a part of
accepted practice 3,500 years ago, the Torah did not
challenge it directly. Instead, it made blood vengeance
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Yom HaShoah
T
his Monday is Yom HaShoah.
It is a day when we think about the genocide
carried out, with stunning efficiency and naked
evil, against our people. (Note that we cannot
say that Yom HaShoah is the day because when we do
so, that implies that we think about it only once a year,
and that is not true.)
As is true every year, there are many commemorations
in northern New Jersey, as we detailed in last weeks Jew-
ish Standard there are more details about one of them,
featuring Edwin Black, held in Wayne, and sponsored by
the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, on page
15 this week. Each of them is bound to be profound and
heart-stirring.
(To find our list, just google Jewish Standard and
Yom HaShoah.)
Across the Hudson River, on Manhattans Upper West
Side, the tradition of reading the names of Holocaust vic-
tims continues. A consortium of the rabbis and represen-
tatives of most of the local shuls, including Orthodox, Con-
servative, Reform, and Reconstructionist, come together
to read the names throughout the long dark night. This
year, the reading begins on Sunday at 10 p.m. at Congre-
gation Ansche Chesed, goes until 8 a.m. there, and then,
half an hour later, moves to the JCC of Manhattan, where it
continues until Kaddish is recited at 7 on Monday evening.
Every year, now, the calculus of Yom HaShoah changes.
The survivors age, and so do their children. New genera-
tions grow into awareness.
As we mourn the victims of the Holocaust we cannot
truly be said to remember them, because they died before
the overwhelming majority of us had a chance to meet
them we also see and glory in the huge number and
variety of their descendants.
Every single Holocaust survivor, every Holocaust ref-
ugee, has an important and entirely unique story. We
should listen to every story, and be sure that it is not lost.
We also should look around, realize that it is springtime,
realize that we all are still here, and that no matter what
demographic challenges face us we can surmount them.
As unlikely as it seems, were still here. -JP
More Jewish groups should
offer paid parental leave
W
hen it comes to man-
dated paid maternity
or paternity leave,
this nation has some
catching up to do.
The United States is the only indus-
trialized country not to mandate paid
maternity leave. In the private sector,
only 11 percent of employees have
access to maternity leave.
A recent JTA report shows that
although Jewish organizations also
have to catch up in providing paid
maternity leave, they are showing
favorable growth. At the urging of the
advocacy group Advancing Women
Professionals, Jewish nonprofits are
working to provide the paid leave.
AWP organized itself in 2010 with
the goal of enlisting 100 Jewish orga-
nizations as a catalyst for making
healthy work-life policy the norm
in our community, according to
its website. Our ultimate goal is to
make these same standards through-
out the non-profit sector and Ameri-
can society, it continues.
One of its framing principles
reads: By adopting healthy work-
life policies, the Jewish community
will enact its stated priorities around
family, education, community and
spirituality.
More than 80 groups have been
enlisted on AWPs Better Work/Bet-
ter Life list. To be listed, a Jewish non-
profit must offer at least four weeks of
paid maternity leave or have flexible
scheduling policies to make it easier
for parents to care for their newborn
children.
Twenty groups on the list, includ-
ing the Jewish Federations of North
America and the American Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, offer 12 weeks
of paid maternity leave and six weeks
of paid parental leave for fathers,
partners, and adoptive parents.
But even though those groups have
signed on, there still are no individ-
ual Jewish day schools enrolled. One
school, Manhattans Rodeph Shalom
School, affiliated with the Reform
movement, is referred to as being in
the pipeline.
And RAVSAK, a network of 130
nondenominational Jewish day
schools, is enrolled.
So what we have is a start.
The Jewish communal world,
which does so much good work
for others, has to provide its own
workers what they need to support
the very ideals for which they are
employed.
It all starts will families.
Lets let the new parents of these
families have the paid time they need.
PJ
Shammai
Engelmayer
Op-Ed
virtually impossible by creating the concept of the city
of refuge (first mentioned at Sinai [see Exodus 21:13]
and elaborated on elsewhere, especially in Numbers
35). Then it also imposed a trial and set rules of evi-
dence that included the requirement that no one
could be convicted of a capital crime without the tes-
timony of at least two qualified eyewitnesses (see Deu-
teronomy 17:6).
The Code of Hammurabi, however, went beyond
simple blood vengeance. Law No. 210 states that if a
man strikes a freeborn woman and she dies, the mans
daughter is put to death. Law No. 230 states that if a
poorly constructed building collapses, killing the own-
ers son, the son of the builder shall be put to death.
This the Torah did address directly. Parents shall
not be put to death for children, it declared, nor chil-
dren be put to death for parents: a person shall be put
to death only for his own crime. (See Deuteronomy
24:16.)
Justice, equity, mercy.
Just as there is no hierarchical nature to the society
Gods kingdom of priests was tasked to create, so
there also was no hierarchy of law. This is made clear
in Leviticus 19, where no distinction is made between
our obligations to God and our obligations to other
people, and even to the world around us.
Reverence for parents is followed by Shabbat
observance; is followed by a ban on idol worship; is
followed by rules about a voluntary sacrifice; is fol-
lowed by laws about what we owe to the poor and the
stranger; is followed by a rule against misusing Gods
Name to defraud others; is followed by a prohibition
against fraud itself; is followed by a prohibition against
robbery; is followed by a requirement to pay labor-
ers in a timely fashion; is followed by laws about not
speaking ill of people, and not leading them astray; is
followed by rules requiring fair and equal treatment
under the law; and so on.
At Sinai, when we accepted Gods assignment as
His kingdom of priests and holy nation, we agreed
to obey Gods mitzvot, period. Whatever classifica-
tion people gave to each mitzvah was irrelevant. All
the mitzvot were Gods mitzvot; all had to be observed
equally.
This message, however, seems to have escaped us
or, perhaps more accurately, we allowed it to escape
us. We adopt the values of the society around us rather
than try to reform those values to meet the Torahs
requirement.
One example should suffice: Last year, 49 million
Americans were considered food insecure, meaning
that at one point or another during the year they were
unable to put food on their tables. That is almost one
in every six people living in arguably the richest coun-
try in the world.
Yet the U.S. Congress recently voted to further cut
food aid programs to these people. Where is our out-
rage? As Gods kingdom of priests, we should be
leading massive protests, yet for the most part we are
silent.
What is the point of journeying from Egypt to Sinai
if not that?
JS-19*
KEEPING THE FAITH
Let all who are
hungrystarve?
R
ight now, we are in the midst of a seven-
week journey that began on Pesach and
will end on Shavuot.
There are 38 days left on our trek from
Egypt to Sinai, where we will receive our instructions
as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
In the words of Isaiah, the task we received at Sinai
was to unlock fetters of wickedness, and untie the
cords of lawlessness; to let the oppressed go free; to
share [our] bread with the hungry, [and] when you
see the naked, to clothe him.
How sad it is that too many of us prefer not to fully
comprehend the meaning of those words.
This Shabbat, in synagogues across the world, we
receive a condensed version of what those words
mean, and what the task is that we were given. That
task is why we were enslaved in the first place, and
why we were freed. It is why the sea parted on the sev-
enth day, and why the journey to the Land of Promise
had to begin at Sinai, not in Egypt.
The alien seer Balaam called us a people apart,
and he was correct. We
are a people apart, but not
because of our rituals. The
body of law we were given
at Sinai is what sets us apart,
that and the reason for that
Law: to create a world in
which all are equal, a world
that is ruled by the princi-
ples of justice, equity, and
mercy.
That world did not exist
before the Torah was given.
In the ancient world, the
haves always were more important than the have-nots,
and they were considered more valuable.
For example, in the Code of Hammurabi, if someone
accidentally killed a person higher up on the societal
pecking order, that persons relatives had the right to
kill two members of the accidental murderers family.
Blood vengeance, after all, was accepted in the
ancient world. Because this was too much a part of
accepted practice 3,500 years ago, the Torah did not
challenge it directly. Instead, it made blood vengeance
A resurgence of anti-Semitism
in a different world
T
his year, Passover was met with
two terrible reminders that the
dangers posed by anti-Semitism
continue to haunt us.
First, a white supremacist in Kansas went
on a shooting rampage at a Jewish commu-
nity center and an assisted living facility, kill-
ing three people. Then, worshippers leav-
ing synagogue services in Donetsk, Ukraine,
were accosted by masked men who handed
out pamphlets ordering all Jews to report to a
state registry or prepare to be denationalized.
These two shocking outbreaks put a pale
over the celebration of Passover. It was reminiscent of
Passovers of old, when the Jews would fear Easter-time
anti-Jewish violence. And yet there are differences, new
aspects to these current events that mark our times as dis-
tinct and more blessed than those that came before.
The violence in Kansas was recognized by everyone,
from the president of the United States down to the local
authorities, as no mere triple murder. The seriousness
of the hate crime charges that the alleged shooter will face
are a symbol of the zero tolerance that our society has for
anti-Semitic violence. I know this on a smaller scale. As
the local rabbi, I have been called from time to time by
local authorities regarding an anti-Semitic incident. Usu-
ally graffiti, usually teenage perpetrators acting out their
own complex issues of identity. What has connected each
unrelated incident was not only the traditions of anti-
Semitism but also the priority with which the crime was
handled by the authority of that jurisdiction. Responsible
government and society no longer tolerate what all too
often was accepted in the past.
Something more marks the recent tragedy in Kansas.
All three victims were Christian. No doubt the perpetrator
intended to kill Jews. That his three victims were Chris-
tians speaks to the successful integration of the Jewish
community in America. It means that Jewish communal
institutions are no longer enclave institutions, but inte-
gral components of the wider community. That someone
could drive into the parking lot of a Jewish community
center and hit a Christian physician and his grandson
marks the change of times. Today, Jews can have non-Jew-
ish doctors and volunteers from the wider community can
serve the Jewish community, which finally has become a
true subgroup of the people.
While the United States has become alarmingly more
prone to gun violence, it is an ecumenical violence. This
shooting apparently was motivated by a hatred of Jews,
but a hatred of Jews amidst a psychology of hatred of
many others and among other shooting crimes that
were driven by other factors. Even as the anti-Semitism
of this attack has reminded us of the continued other-
ness of the Jew, at the same time it marks a normalization
unknown in older times.
Similarly, the incident in eastern Ukraine marks a transi-
tion from anti-Semitic incidents of the past even as it stirs
up the worst of memories. An order for Jews to register
with the authorities, as though being a Jew is a mark of
Cain, is reminiscent not only of the Nazi period but also of
the abuse of Jews and Judaism in the Soviet Union. Ukraine
suffered under both of those regimes, and
saw enough anti-Semitic violence and com-
plicity to rival anywhere else. This is a story
I know personally, as my wife and her family
emigrated from Ukraine years ago to escape
the indignity of being Jewish in the USSR.
And so the re-emergence of anti-Semitism
there, in Ukraine of all places, is particularly
disturbing.
And yet the differences between what
happened now and the past are striking. Not
only were the pamphlets with the order
to register not official, and not only were
they immediately condemned from around the word
and denounced by Secretary Kerry as grotesque, but
they also were disavowed by both sides of the conflict in
Ukraine. While purportedly representing the pro-Russian
party, the local pro-Russian leadership explicitly denied
authorship and accused Ukrainian loyalists of manufactur-
ing it to discredit the Russians. In various media, the Rus-
sians have accused the Ukrainian leadership of anti-Sem-
itism, a charge that the Jewish community in Ukraine has
denied. Anti-Semitism is being volleyed around between
the two competing factions, but rather than being made
a part of the arsenal, each one accused the other of it, in
what almost seems to be a competition to see who is the
more philo-Semitic.
No one should misunderstand me in thinking that we
need not be vigilant in watching and guarding against anti-
Semitism. If anything, these recent incidents make clear
how important our vigilance is. My point is that our atten-
tion to anti-Semitism is successfully effective today. In our
world, a world filled with criticism of Israel and resent-
ment of any who succeed in society, we should recognize
the miracle that such obvious cases of anti-Semitism are so
roundly condemned, for it was not always like that.
Although the Kansas incident raised the level of alert
at Jewish institutions across the nation, we should not
allow these events to support the continuing of the siege
mentality that has marked the Jewish community for so
long. Perhaps one explanation of the attrition of the
American Jewish community reported in the recent Pew
study is that we are losing the successfully educated and
integrated younger generation because they do not buy
the siege mentality. They are completely comfortable in
America. It is possible that one day they will encounter
anti-Semitism, which will renew their interest in their
Jewish roots. But in the meantime, the only chance we
have of reaching them now is to move beyond the siege
mentality to a community consciousness that is comfort-
able where it is.
The more integrated we become, the stronger the wider
communitys condemnation of real anti-Semitism.
As we move beyond Passover 5774, let the message we
remember from the Haggadah be not only the promise
that in every generation there will arise those who seek to
destroy us, but the faith that we will be redeemed and that
their plots will be spoiled.
David J. Fine, Ph.D., is the rabbi of Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center in Ridgewood.
Rabbi Dr.
David J. Fine
Op-Ed
JS-20*
Doing it ourselves
I
n September of 1972, an armed
group of guerrilla fighters call-
ing themselves Black September
stormed the dormitory of the Israeli
athletes at the Olympic Village in Munich,
Germany. After killing two of the eleven
athletes in particularly gruesome ways,
they demanded the release of more than
250 prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
The world was glued to its television
sets while the standoff continued. Golda
Meir, Israels prime minister at the time,
mobilized an elite commando team to go
to Germany and rescue their brothers. The
German government and the International
Olympic Committee denied the Israelis
any jurisdiction to free the hostages. The
IOC wanted these games to be peaceful.
Bloodshed would tarnish the games the
first in Germany since before World War
II and the IOC and German government
were committed to peaceful means to end
the standoff.
The IOC offered limitless amounts of
money to the Palestinian people and the
hostage-takers. Black September refused
the offer. Then a group of German com-
mandos maneuvered their way to the top
of the building where the athletes were
being held, hoping to slide into the venti-
lation systems and shoot the terrorists.
But the commandos were not well
trained for this scenario and the terrorists
watched every one of their moves on tele-
vision. They were prepared for a breach.
Later in the evening, the hostages were
taken to Frstenfeldbruck airport, where
a jet waited to take the terrorists to any
destination they chose. But when they
boarded the plane there were no captains
or flight personnel who could get the plane
airborne.
Then t he shoot i ng
erupted. As we all can
hear in our minds ear, Jim
McKay told the watching
world, Our worst fears
are realized. They are all
gone.
Less than four years
later, in an airport in
Entebbe, Uganda, an Air
France plane that was
hijacked with more than
100 Jewi sh and some
Israeli passengers landed. The passengers
were held for a high ransom, including the
release of prisoners in Israeli prisons. A
daring rescue mission led by elite forces in
the Israeli military stormed the terminal,
rescued 102 hostages, and flew them home
to Israel. Sadly, the unit commander, Yoni
Netanyahu, was killed in the raid.
Israel learned a valuable lesson the
hard way. It would not allow its citizens
fate to be entrusted to others. These two
well-known narratives of modern Israel
Munich and Entebbe demonstrate that
painful lesson, gleaned from experience
and tears: We are most often best served
when we are the architects of our own fate.
Last week, Secretary of State John
Kerry, a stalwart supporter of Israel dur-
ing his tenure as senator, claimed that the
peace talks between Israel and the Pales-
tinian Authority failed because the Israeli
government did not release 400 prison-
ers, some of whom had blood on their
hands, from incarceration. Mr. Kerry has
been indomitable in his pursuit of peace.
He has been to the region more in a short
span of time than any of his predecessors.
I do not know the secretary personally but
I have not questioned once the sincerity of
his motives, which is to make a
lasting peace for all parties.
I celebrate him and his tire-
less efforts.
Still, the release of prison-
ers has turned into a benign
phrase that has little implica-
tion for the outside world. Just
a few years ago, 1,000 prison-
ers were released in return
for one Jewish soul. The mas-
termind and the driver for the
Park Hotel massacre, which
happened in Netanya on Passover, were
among those freed prisoners. The mother
of a dear friend and a member of our com-
munity was one of the 30 people who
were murdered while at a seder. Each of
these prisoners, reunited with their fami-
lies, mirror Israeli homes, whose voids can
never be filled.
Mind you, the release of these prison-
ers would have to be accompanied with
a freeze on settlement building in all dis-
puted territories. That means in practical
terms that if you live in Ariel or Efrat or
Maale Adumim areas that always have
been part of Israel in every negotiation
and you had another child and had to
build a temporary wall to create another
bedroom in your apartment, or if wanted
to lay down pavers for your patio, or if
SodaStream wanted to add another place
of prayer at its factory, it would be forbid-
den. In return for this release and this
freeze, the Israeli government would earn
the right only to future negotiations.
There was no offer of agreement on
Jerusalem, borders, security, or the right
of return. It only brings the Palestinians to
the table, but no conditions are put upon
them at all.
Rabbi David-
Seth Kirshner
LETTERS
Understanding chained
womens plight
I was pleased to see your admirable con-
cern for the plight of agunot women
unable to remarry according to Jewish law
due to a recalcitrant spouse in your April
10 editorial, Seeking the Promise of Pass-
overs Freedom for Agunot. Your conclu-
sion, however, that Orthodox Jewish lead-
ers are apathetic and timid regarding these
womens struggle stems from a lack of
familiarity and communication with Ortho-
dox rabbinic judges, called dayanim.
As one who has served for more than 20
years as a rabbinic judge administering git-
tin Jewish divorces I, together with my
colleagues, have diligently endeavored to
resolve situations of igun for both women
and men. From visits to maximum security
prisons, spending entire days in civil court,
to devoting long hours seeking the coopera-
tion of recalcitrant spouses, no stone is left
unturned in our efforts to secure a get for
those caught in a predicament of igun.
My colleagues and I have championed
the Rabbinical Council of Americas pre-
nuptial agreement, introduced in 1992, that
has made longterm igun relatively rare in
Bergen Countys Orthodox Jewish com-
munity and many other Orthodox Jewish
communities.
Most important, we make every effort
to insure that all divorcing Jewish cou-
ples, regardless of affiliation and/or level
of observance, feel comfortable with the
Orthodox get procedure.
The fact that Orthodox Jewish leaders are
unable to resolve every situation of igun
does not stem from either apathy or timid-
ity but rather is due to our understanding
of the halacha Jewish law. An English lan-
guage explanation of the acceptable and
unacceptable solutions (such as hafkaat
kidddushin, or annulments) to igun prob-
lems according to the Orthodox standards
appears in the first volume of my work,
Gray Matter.
While the editors may not agree with
mainstream Orthodox interpretation of
halacha, I hope you take the time to study
these writings to enable you to understand
the Orthodox approach.
I again applaud your concern for agunot
and I welcome further dialogue and discus-
sion to help avoid future misunderstanding
of Orthodox Jewish law and the efforts of
Orthodox rabbinic judges.
Rabbi Howard Jachter
Teaneck
How to serve
Hudson County Jews
In his op-ed, Josh Einstein makes a strong
case for an increased Jewish federation
presence in lower Hudson County (Hud-
son County needs a federation, April
11). However, one would get the errone-
ous impression from his piece that lower
Hudson County is not part of the federa-
tion system whatsoever.
The communities of Bayonne, Hobo-
ken, and Jersey City are part of the Jewish
Federations of North Americas Network
of Independent Communities. This is the
arrangement that JFNA has with more than
300 small Jewish communities that are not
part of North Americas 153 Jewish federa-
tions with professional leadership. As fully
independent communities, Hoboken, Jer-
sey City, and Bayonne each conduct their
It is hardly an equitable proposal.
After the second intifada, Ariel Sharon
unilaterally decided to erect a division wall
between Israel and the Palestinian villages
that were fertile areas for homegrown
terror. (By unilaterally, I mean that he did
not have the sanction or approval of out-
side governments.) The wall stands, and
the world condemns it. But crime in Israel
dropped 97 percent as a result of its exis-
tence. All crime. Carjackings and rape and
burglaries, along with suicide bombings,
all fell precipitously.
When we leave our fate in the hands of
others, our best interests are not always
met, even when those others have the
best of intentions. I am confident that the
IOC and the German government did not
want bloodshed. They did not relish the
loss of Jewish life on German soil. Nor do I
think that Secretary Kerry wants anything
but peace in the region, and a permanent
homeland for both Israel and the Palestin-
ians, where they can live peacefully side-
by-side. When we put our fate in the hands
of the other, however, our best interests
are not always achieved.
There isnt a reasonable soul who does
not want peace. Nevertheless, our psyche
has been scorched by architects who have
no plans to live in the structure they are
building. The best designers are those who
understand the abode they are building
and know how it will be used.
In order to make outcomes more like
Entebbe, we must be the architects of our
own fate. May we be the architects of our
own fate, and may that design be worthy
of a strong and lasting peace, brought on
by ourselves and celebrated by our friends
and supporters.
David-Seth Kirshner is rabbi of Temple
Emanu-El in Closter
Letters
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own fully independent volunteer-run UJA campaign and
conduct a fully independent allocations process.
Our community has greatly benefited from the dedica-
tion of Ed Finkel, Networks northeast regional director,
who provides professional support to Bayonne, Hoboken,
and Jersey City, together with all other Network communi-
ties from Maine to Maryland, plus South Florida and Puerto
Rico. Especially when our community in Hoboken was dev-
astated by Hurricane Sandy, we greatly appreciated Eds
devotion to our communitys needs and his assistance at
marshaling regional and national support in our hour of
crisis. As Josh Einstein noted in his piece, we also have ben-
efited from the generosity of our neighboring federations,
who have shared some federation services with us even
though we are outside of their catchment area.
Many of us in lower Hudson County long have noted that
our communities are quite anomalous in the Network of
Independent Communities. Most other Network communi-
ties nationwide are small and isolated Jewish communities
with minimal Jewish infrastructure. Other than Hoboken,
Jersey City, and Bayonne, no other Network communities
are at the center of a major metropolitan area with a large
Jewish population. Few if any have a quickly growing Jewish
population, including many young adults and young fami-
lies, as Hoboken and Jersey City do. For all the reasons that
Josh Einstein cites in his piece, reaching out to the Jews of
lower Hudson County should be not only a local priority,
but a regional priority. The Jewish residents and institutions
of lower Hudson County ought to receive a level of Jew-
ish communal services that are typical of the investment
that Jewish federations make in areas with quickly growing
Jewish populations. I think we would be most likely to
achieve that level of Jewish communal services by becom-
ing part of one of our neighboring federations, though I
believe our local leaders would consider any option to
bring this level of Jewish communal services realistically to
lower Hudson County in the short and long term. We look
forward to continuing our discussions with our neighboring
Jewish federations, with the JFNA Network, and with the
JFNA central leadership to ensure that the lower Hudson
County Jewish population is most effectively connected to
Jewish communal life.
Rabbi Robert Scheinberg
United Synagogue of Hoboken
Trustee, United Jewish Appeal of Hoboken
Although Joshua Einstein raises some valid points, his

recent opinion piece does not accurately portray the his-
tory or current state of the United Jewish Appeal presence
in Hoboken.
For many years, Hoboken has been a part of JFNAs Net-
work of Independent Communities, the umbrella group
for Jewish communities not served by local federations. As
a part of the Network, we have run an all-volunteer annual
campaign and allocation process for several decades. In
addition, we have sponsored many successful events,
brought in engaging and informative speakers, and sent
participants to regional and national conferences, includ-
ing the Jewish Federation of North Americas Tribefest
conference for national young leadership.
Contrary to Mr. Einsteins contention, Hoboken has been
attracting post-college Jewish young adults for at least the
past 20 years. In fact, before the existence of Moishe House
and other Jewish young adult groups, we had a very active
and thriving UJA young leadership division.
During these years, Hoboken and the rest of the Hudson
County community have partnered successfully with our
neighboring federations in various ways, including those
listed by Mr. Einstein. These initiatives have been under-
taken with the input and participation of many local profes-
sional and lay leaders, and in my opinion they have been
to the benefit of both the Hudson County Jewish commu-
nity and the federation communities to which many of our
young leaders eventually move.
Throughout all of these efforts, we have been supported
by Ed Finkel and his predecessors at the Network. We owe
them a big thank you for shepherding a small commu-
nity through a period of enormous growth. If we are now
ready for a more established federation presence and I
believe we are it is in no small part due to their efforts
and guidance.
As we move forward in determining the best way to bring
such a presence to Hudson County, we need to learn from
the lessons of our recent past and we need to involve a
broad crosssection of professional and lay leaders locally
and from our neighboring federations. In the meantime, I
invite Mr. Einstein and the rest of the young Jewish adults in
Hudson County to support our local UJA campaign and to
join us as we continue to strengthen our vibrant and grow-
ing community.
Marni Kriegel
Co-chair, United Jewish Appeal of Hoboken
JOANNE PALMER
M
aybe youve heard of a
Spidey-sense, that vague
tingling that tells you that
something is wrong.
Its not limited to superheroes, though
or maybe we should redefine our sense
of superhero to include short, tough, no-
nonsense grandmothers.
If it werent for Loretta Weinberg, it is
far from impossible that the imbroglio at
the George Washington Bridge that tied
up traffic for four stomach-churning days
in September might have been left alone,
and the web of malfeasance behind it
never unraveled.
But because Ms. Weinberg of Teaneck,
New Jerseys state senate majority leader,
had a feeling that something was wrong,
and had the courage and tenacity to fol-
low up on that sense, the web is begin-
ning to unravel, and Governor Chris
Christie, who once threatened her with a
baseball bat perhaps in jest, but its an
odd joke is beginning to fear deflation.
So how did Ms. Weinberg find herself in
this position?
Is it too easy to say practice?
Loretta Isaacs was born in 1935. Her
father, Murray Isaacs, was American-
born. Her mother, Raya Hamilton, was
born in the Ukraine, from someplace in
the general area that were reading about
now, Ms. Weinberg said.
Her family had a caviar fishing busi-
ness in the Black Sea. She was the young-
est of 10. The story is that her 17-year-old
and 19-year-old sisters were about to go to
the United States. Their father took them
to the boat; when they got there they got
so upset about leaving that he got on the
boat and went with them.
I often say that I dont know if that was
love or hostility behind that decision.
Her grandfather told his wife and
remaining children that as soon as he
could he would send for them, and a few
years later, he did.
Ms. Weinberg, the youngest of three
siblings, lived on the Grand Concourse
in the Bronx, but then, unusually for
that time, her parents divorced, and her
mother decided to get as far away from
her ex-husband as possible. She took
her two younger children Loretta was
9 and moved to southern California.
Ms. Weinberg went to Beverly Hills High
School, far before 90210, she said.
It was quite a culture shock. For one
thing, I had gone to PS 356, and I real-
ized pretty quickly that I was a little bit
ahead in school, she said. The school
system in New York was good.
The school buildings were so differ-
ent, she added. Classrooms dont open
onto hallways. They open outdoors. The
schools were flat, built around court-
yards, and they were much brighter.
Ms. Weinberg went to school with the
children of people who were influential
in the film industry. The only famous-for-
himself person she recalls is the man she
called Dick Chamberlain the rest of us
know him as Richard, early televisions
Dr. Kildare. He was the chief justice of
the student court, she said. The place
you got sent if you were caught in some
infraction of the rules.
She remembers her first trip to Califor-
nia. Her mother had gone out ahead, let-
ting her kids live with relatives and finish
the school year in the Bronx. They put
us on a two-motored plane that landed on
every flat piece of ground between here
and there, she said. I remember getting
out at all these airports. It was something
like a 26-hour plane ride; we werent in
the air that long, just spent a lot of time
going up and down, up and down. It is
not a pleasant memory.
World War II was winding down then.
I remember seeing servicemen kissing
women in all the airports. I am assuming
they were coming home, she said.
Soon after they arrived, my mother
went into Beverlywood, a Los Angeles
neighborhood, and she bought a house.
It was $2,000.
She couldnt get a Frigidaire a
refrigerator because of the huge build-
ing boom needed to house all the return-
ing servicemen and their growing families
so for the first couple of months we
had a block of ice in the stall shower. And
ants were a problem. So every so often
wed have an influx of ants. Wed have to
throw it all out food and ants together.
Reva Isaacs worked in a number of jobs.
She was a bit of a pioneer, her daughter
remembered. At one point she sold gour-
met foods in a department store. We
used to kid her that she brought home
more in the way of gourmet food than a
salary, Ms. Weinberg said. Shed bring
things like brandied peaches. Things that
you dont really eat. Her mother went
on to own a landscape nursery, on rented
land that she could not buy but by now is
the site of a high-rise development.
In her 50s, Ms. Isaacs began losing her
eyesight to macular degeneration. If you
live in L.A. and you cant drive, forget it,
Ms. Weinberg said. So her mother moved
to Palm Spring, a small town with good
services for seniors. She started a group
called the Desert Blind, which provided
services to sight-impaired people.
Talk about a role model for her
daughter
Ms. Weinberg began college at the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley this was
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Facing bullies,
detangling Bridgegate,
and so much more
Teanecks Loretta Weinberg talks about her long life and unlikely experiences
Loretta Weinbergs life has taken her from the Bronx to California to Teaneck,
from working in a home office to being state senate majority leader.
out at all these airports. It was something
like a 26-hour plane ride; we werent in
the air that long, just spent a lot of time
going up and down, up and down. It is
not a pleasant memory.
World War II was winding down then.
I remember seeing servicemen kissing
women in all the airports. I am assuming
they were coming home, she said.
Soon after they arrived, my mother
went into Beverlywood, a Los Angeles
neighborhood, and she bought a house.
It was $2,000.
She couldnt get a Frigidaire a
refrigerator because of the huge build-
ing boom needed to house all the return-
ing servicemen and their growing families
so for the first couple of months we
had a block of ice in the stall shower. And
ants were a problem. So every so often
wed have an influx of ants. Wed have to
throw it all out food and ants together.
Reva Isaacs worked in a number of jobs.
She was a bit of a pioneer, her daughter
remembered. At one point she sold gour-
met foods in a department store. We
used to kid her that she brought home
more in the way of gourmet food than a
salary, Ms. Weinberg said. Shed bring
things like brandied peaches. Things that
you dont really eat. Her mother went
on to own a landscape nursery, on rented
land that she could not buy but by now is
the site of a high-rise development.
In her 50s, Ms. Isaacs began losing her
eyesight to macular degeneration. If you
live in L.A. and you cant drive, forget it,
Ms. Weinberg said. So her mother moved
to Palm Spring, a small town with good
services for seniors. She started a group
called the Desert Blind, which provided
services to sight-impaired people.
Talk about a role model for her
daughter
Ms. Weinberg began college at the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley this was
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almost a decade before it turned into the
Berkeley of the 1960s, the home of radi-
calism, free speech, sex, drugs, and rock
and roll and then transferred to and
graduated from UCLA. I was not politi-
cally involved at all, she said. I remem-
ber a professor at Berkeley giving us a big
lecture about how uninvolved everyone
was, and how different it was when he
was in college, in the 1930s.
After she graduated from college, Ms.
Weinberg and a friend went to Europe.
They called it hitchhiking, but we didnt
go on a road with our thumbs out, she
said. Youd go to the local American
Express office in whichever city you were
in, and youd find someone who was will-
ing to drive and share expenses.
It was in the American Express office in
Paris that Ms. Weinberg cast her first vote
for president. It was for Adlai Stevenson.
I remember being very impressed with
myself, she said. It was very glamorous.
It was wonderful, she continued. We
had many an adventure. And then I ran
out of money, and it was time to come
home.
There were big differences between the
United States and Europe; some favored
one region, some the other. I remem-
ber the first time in a department store in
London, and I was asked, Have Madams
wants been attended to? she said.
She came back across the Atlantic by
ship, carrying only one little suitcase. I
had one good skirt, she said. It was gray
and pleated. It also was very wrinkled. I
rang for the steward on the ship, to see if
I could get it pressed. He knocked on the
door, and said, Whadya want, ladies?
We hadnt even left Southampton yet,
and I knew we were going home.
When the ship docked in New York,
Ms. Weinberg decided to stay there and
try her luck on the East Coast instead of
heading back west. She found a shared
Loretta Isaacs
as a teenager.
With her daughter, Francine Graff, in Israel. With her husband, Irwin Weinberg.
At a rally for
womens health
outside the state
house in Trenton.
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apartment on Manhattans Upper
West Side 75th and Columbus
and learned that an old high-school
friend lived one building down the
street from her. It was Bill Marx
Harpos son. One of his roommates,
Irwin Weinberg, ended up being
Lorettas husband.
When she first began to work,
Ms. Weinberg was not at all career-
minded; after all, it was not a time
when many women thought about
long-term jobs. I went to an employ-
ment agency, and I said I wanted
something between 40th and 50th
streets, and Fifth and Madison ave-
nues, she said. I got a job as a
receptionist at a trade publication
for American Aviation Publications. I
was a college graduate, they offered
me a job as a receptionist and switch-
board operator, and I was perfectly
satisfied.
She was promoted quickly, and
soon worked for the advertising man-
ager; next, she saw an ad for a posi-
tion as assistant to the advertising
manager at Scientific American. She
got that job, and stayed there until
her first child was born.
It was a fun job, and a good
place, she said. It was owned by
the Piel brothers, who also owned
the brewery. This was maybe 10
years after the war, and they would
not accept any advertising from the
Krupp empire because of their par-
ticipation in the Holocaust.
The Piel brothers were not Jew-
ish. That was remarkable. They
were turning down money for moral
principles.
The Weinbergs first child, Danny,
was born in 1962. Francine followed
in 1963. In 1964 the family, then com-
plete, moved to a brave new world.
Teaneck.
Not surprisingly, it was a different
town then. There were Jews, but it
was not the center of modern Ortho-
dox life that it is today.
There was a very large and
diverse Jewish community when
we moved in, Ms. Weinberg said. I
was and still am a member of Tem-
ple Emeth, which is Reform, and
there was the Teaneck Jewish Cen-
ter, which then was Conservative, so
the town ran the gamut from Reform
to Conservative. The growth of the
more traditional Jewish community
happened thereafter.
Bnai Yeshurun was there then;
Im not even sure I know how many
other synagogues there were in
town. The Weinbergs lived next
door to a doctors house and office;
when it went on the market, a group
wishing to start a more traditional
shul in the neighborhood bought it.
There was a big fight over variances
Ms. Weinberg stands with State Senator Gordon Johnson,
also a Democrat of Bergen County, and the Assemblys
deputy speaker, at the White House to celebrate Chanukah.
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and board of adjustment issues and so on,
she said. It ended up in court. My hus-
band was a big supporter of theirs, and
he worked really hard for them. He felt
that people had a right to form a house of
worship.
That fight won, the house grew into Con-
gregation Beth Aaron.
We had a red retaining wall in front of
our house, she added. We always said it
was a rite of passage for kids at Beth Aaron
to run up and down it, because it was too
inviting for any kid to pass up. I watched
every kid at Beth Aaron grow up and I
took care of some of them. (Blessings of a
skinned knee!)
Teaneck was a politically active place
then. It was a hotbed of civic activism,
Ms. Weinberg said. Remember, this was
the 1960s. We had the school integration
issue going on here in 65, and nationally
the womens equality movement, the fight
over the Vietnam war, and the civil rights movement.
Still very much a woman of her times, Ms. Weinberg
was a stay-at-home mom, although she did work for her
husband, whose business was home-based. I had an
electric typewriter and whiteout, she said. That was
a nod toward modernizing.
Ms. Weinbergs social conscience was galvanized
into action during those years. Her first political work
was as a volunteer with the Lyndon Johnson cam-
paign. The campaign headquarters was on Cedar
Lane, where Noahs Ark, a popular local kosher deli,
is now, she said. She and her friends mostly other
stay-at-home mothers of young children felt we
were doing important work to change our country, and
in many cases, collectively we did.
In 1965, local battles in the war for school integration
were fought across the country. Teaneck was an active
battleground. I had a very high-level job, distributing
literature, Ms. Weinberg said. I remember going up
and down all those stairs in the apartments on State
Street.
The integration battle was being fought through
the school board elections, she continued. Those
who wanted to make sure our schools were integrated
against those who didnt want to do that. It was a hard-
fought campaign, with high passions on both sides.
The pro-integration side won. Teaneck was the first
town in the country to voluntarily go and vote to inte-
grate the schools, she said. There were other towns
before that had court-ordered integration, but we did
it voluntarily.
Like Ms. Weinberg, many if not most of her friends
and allies in the political campaigns of that period were
Jewish. Was that coincidental? She pauses. I dont
think we articulated the connection then between
social activism and being Jewish, but it was engrained
in me, she said. I was doing Jewish stuff, but it was
not something that I was conscious of at that point.
Later, that connection became more clear.
For decades, Ms. Weinberg remained a volunteer,
active in volunteering in whatever the good cause
was, she said. She also paid close attention to the poli-
tics around her
In 1975, the Democratic party won back control of
Bergen County, after nearly half a century on the out-
side. Her good friend Jeremiah OConnor a mem-
ber of the Irish contingent of my family, she joked
became freeholder director, and convinced me
to go to work for the county. (The county had not
yet switched to the county executive form of govern-
ment by which it is run today, and the freehold direc-
tor was its top official.) She became clerk to the board
of freeholders and an assistant county administrator,
and held those positions for almost 10 years. The job
entailed making policy. I helped start the first domes-
tic violence shelter, Shelter Our Sisters, Ms. Weinberg
said. I wrote the first affirmative action program for
any county in the state of New Jersey. Through Jere-
miahs leadership, it was the first time we were able to
get block grants from the federal government there
was no town in Bergen County large enough to qualify
but we put towns together into regions, and that lit-
erally brought millions of dollars here for affordable
housing, road improvement, making public buildings
barrier free, and other similar projects.
This kind of collaborative effort between towns is
hard in New Jersey, where the tradition of home rule is
deep if not always particularly logical. Im very proud
of what we did, Ms. Weinberg said. It was pretty
significant. It was a very creative government, and I
learned a lot. It was a combination of having the right
leadership and the government having the money and
being willing to spend it in that way, for infrastructure
and social services.
It was a great period, a time for understanding what
governments really can do if a whole bunch of good-
thinking people get together.
Eventually, this idyll ended, as all idylls do. In 1985,
the Republicans won back the county. Loretta Wein-
berg was out.
In 1990, she ran for Teaneck council. It was a bit
scary, she acknowledged. It was also interrupted by
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We have nonpartisan government in
Teaneck, Ms. Weinberg said. We file for
office at the end of March, and on April 10,
1990, after the filing deadline but before
the election, was when the Pannell shoot-
ing took place.
I often say that I filed for office in one
town and ran for office in another one. It
felt like a different town, because every-
thing was turned upside down.
Some history is in order here.
Phillip Pannell was 16 years old, an Afri-
can-American teenager with something in
his pocket a gun? a starters pistol? some-
thing he was reaching for? something his
hands were nowhere near? when he was
shot in the back and killed by a Teaneck
police officer on a spring evening. The epi-
sode remains murky, but the fact that the
teenager ended up dead was incontrovert-
ible. The tragedy was terrible.
Racial tensions had been rising in the
town, and the shooting was the spark that
set off a blaze. It attracted men like Al
Sharpton, and the circus, media and other-
wise, that always trailed him in those years.
We had demonstrations, and what some-
one described as a mini-riot, Ms. Weinberg
said. It was a real upheaval.
She won the election, and those first few
months were another big learning experi-
ence, she said. Our council meetings were
filled with people. The meetings already
were being televised at that point, and lit-
erally we had a line halfway out the door
of people coming to share their opinions of
what we should be doing in Teaneck.
I spent a lot of time listening and learn-
ing more about the community I thought I
knew. There was a lot more to learn about
the feelings of the African American com-
munity vis--vis the police. Out of that came
community policing programs, to bring the
police and the community closer to under-
standing each other, and understanding the
role of law enforcement.
One night I did a ride-along with the
police. I ended up going with them on Cab-
bage Night the night before Halloween,
where teen pranks not infrequently esca-
late into real trouble and we actually got
rocks thrown at us.
I had to kind of duck down as the car
pulled up.
There isnt much in my life that I hadnt
experienced first-hand, she mused. Some
of it was wonderful and exciting, and some
of it I would have chosen not to have expe-
rienced but there we go
And life continued to happen.
In 1992, my predecessor in the
New Jersey General Assembly, Bennett
Mazur, who was a very close friend,
resigned midterm because of illness.
He died two years later. It is a conven-
tion that the committee of that party
gets to pick a successor. There was a
convention, and a bit of a fight, but I
won that, and I went to the Assembly.
As was not infrequently the case, her
gender was a hurdle to be overcome.
If I had not run for and been elected
to the Teaneck Council, my guess is
that I would never have been consid-
ered for an assembly seat, she said.
In my experience, if a man decides to
run, thats one thing but if a woman
decides to run, you have to have a really
good resume.
Loretta Weinberg remained in the
state Assembly for 13 years. In 1998,
she ran a sacrifice campaign for county
executive against Pat Schuber; she did
lose, but by a far smaller margin than
expected. Because it had not been an
Assembly election year, she was able to
retain her seat.
In 2004, Byron Baer resigned from
the state Senate. The same kind of
thing happened, she said. There was
a convention, and this time there were a
lot of party bosses aligned against me.
Nonetheless, she won both the nomi-
nation and the election. She is now the
Senates majority leader.
Teaneck, like every other place,
has changed in the years since 1964,
because change is natural. It kind of
happened over the course of a lot of
years, she said. I have always taken
the attitude that there is no way that
anybody could or should try to control
what kind of people move in and out
of a community. You can just control
yourself you stay in a community until
there might be a time when you want
to leave, for whatever the reason. The
changes that happened in Teaneck are
just natural movement. You should not
attempt to meddle with it.
Ms. Weinberg stayed in the same
house until 1998, when she moved to
another part of Teaneck. Her husband
died the next year. Her son still lives in
Bergen County; her daughter, son-in-
law, and grandchildren are in southern
California.
As Ms. Weinberg says, she has experi-
enced a great deal. Some of it is wonder-
ful, some not good at all. In 2008, she
learned that her life savings, which she
had invested with a money manager,
had vanished, gone with Bernie Madoff
and his Ponzi scheme.
Ms. Weinberg has never hidden either
her status as a Madoff victim or her
desire to rise above and move beyond
it, to refuse to let her life be defined by
someone elses evil rather than her own
successes.
One effect has been to push retire-
ment off even farther.
Bridgegate has made retirement seem
even less appealing.
As a member of the Senate, Ms. Wein-
berg can go to meetings of such bodies
as the Port Authority.
As a long-time Bergen County resi-
dent, and as a representative from Ber-
gen County, which of course includes
Fort Lee, she knows a great deal about
its infrastructure, about its roads, and
about its omnipresent traffic problems.
Someone could sneeze on the Cross
Bronx, and it congests Fort Lee, she
said. Complaints about traffic fill her
inbox all the time.
Still, she said, there was something
about the reports of traffic problems
last September that sounded different.
John Cichowski, the Bergen Records
traffic correspondent, the Road War-
rior and yes, you can learn a great
deal about Bergen County simply by
knowing that its local daily has a colum-
nist called the Road Warrior, who never
runs out of copy wrote about it too.
Her Spidey-sense pinged.
After trying to learn more from Pat
Schuber, her one-time county executive
opponent who now is a Port Authority
appointee a position he gained with
Ms. Weinbergs vote and failing he
ignored her Ms. Weinberg decided to
show up at a meeting.
Life is a long series of learning expe-
riences, she said. This was one of
them.
There was no regular meeting sched-
uled for that week, but there was a
subcommittee meeting, chaired by Mr.
Schuber, about governance and eth-
ics. I think Im going to this one, Ms.
Weinberg recalls having thought. She
told the subcommittee members that
she would be there, and they allowed
her the chance to speak.
One of the key players in the Bridge-
gate scandal, Bill Baroni, was there. I
know Bill Baroni very well, Ms. Wein-
berg said. I know him from my service
in the Senate. Mr. Baroni had been a
state senator before Governor Christie
appointed him to be the Port Authori-
tys deputy executive director. We had
worked on marriage equality together,
she said. He was the one Republican
who had supported it. She had both
liked and respected him.
She could see that something was
wrong.
I walked into that room, and I used
my mother antenna, she said. I said
to the staffer who was with me that Bill
Baroni knows something.
I knew it just by looking at him. He
had his eyes down. He had trouble look-
ing at me directly.
She asked questions about the traffic
disaster at the meeting but they never
were answered.
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One effect has been to push retire-
ment off even farther.
Bridgegate has made retirement seem
even less appealing.
As a member of the Senate, Ms. Wein-
berg can go to meetings of such bodies
as the Port Authority.
As a long-time Bergen County resi-
dent, and as a representative from Ber-
gen County, which of course includes
Fort Lee, she knows a great deal about
its infrastructure, about its roads, and
about its omnipresent traffic problems.
Someone could sneeze on the Cross
Bronx, and it congests Fort Lee, she
said. Complaints about traffic fill her
inbox all the time.
Still, she said, there was something
about the reports of traffic problems
last September that sounded different.
John Cichowski, the Bergen Records
traffic correspondent, the Road War-
rior and yes, you can learn a great
deal about Bergen County simply by
knowing that its local daily has a colum-
nist called the Road Warrior, who never
runs out of copy wrote about it too.
Her Spidey-sense pinged.
After trying to learn more from Pat
Schuber, her one-time county executive
opponent who now is a Port Authority
appointee a position he gained with
Ms. Weinbergs vote and failing he
ignored her Ms. Weinberg decided to
show up at a meeting.
Life is a long series of learning expe-
riences, she said. This was one of
them.
There was no regular meeting sched-
uled for that week, but there was a
subcommittee meeting, chaired by Mr.
Schuber, about governance and eth-
ics. I think Im going to this one, Ms.
Weinberg recalls having thought. She
told the subcommittee members that
she would be there, and they allowed
her the chance to speak.
One of the key players in the Bridge-
gate scandal, Bill Baroni, was there. I
know Bill Baroni very well, Ms. Wein-
berg said. I know him from my service
in the Senate. Mr. Baroni had been a
state senator before Governor Christie
appointed him to be the Port Authori-
tys deputy executive director. We had
worked on marriage equality together,
she said. He was the one Republican
who had supported it. She had both
liked and respected him.
She could see that something was
wrong.
I walked into that room, and I used
my mother antenna, she said. I said
to the staffer who was with me that Bill
Baroni knows something.
I knew it just by looking at him. He
had his eyes down. He had trouble look-
ing at me directly.
She asked questions about the traffic
disaster at the meeting but they never
were answered.
Loretta Weinberg does not give up.
I went to the meeting of the full board of commis-
sions in mid-October, she said. They never acknowl-
edged anything at that meeting. I went to the Novem-
ber meeting, and then the December meeting. They
werent answering anything, but by that time there was
press there, and of course they would corner me and
ask me questions.
That kept the story alive. The press continued to
look at it.
We know from the emails that at first the Port Author-
ity thought that it would just go away. She laughed.
Although it is not clear that the New Jersey legisla-
ture will have the subpoena authority it needs to look
at more emails, the investigation continues, more wit-
nesses have been subpoenaed, and the federal govern-
ment and New York are looking into it as well.
Ms. Weinberg knows what happened, but we still
dont know why it happened, she said. I have gone
through every scenario in my head. We have proof for
none of them. I have gone through everything, from frat
boys out of control to an orchestrated attempt to punish
someone. The truth eventually will out, she said.
She is not a big fan of Governor Christie.
To be fair, he is not fond of her either. Evidence of
that is the bat affair, which was driven by internal poli-
tics about when elected officials in particular, part-
time elected officials well beyond retirement age can
begin to collect their pensions.
That episode had frightened her granddaughter,
Shayna, who wrote a letter, in a 7-year-olds severely
challenged spelling, asking Mr. Christie to stop bully-
ing her grandmother. He had publicly requested that
someone be inspired to take a bat to Ms. Weinberg,
and Shayna had been seriously alarmed by the pros-
pect of the large governor going after her small grand-
mother, even by proxy.
We didnt suggest that she write the letter, but it
happened at a time when schools were starting to focus
on bullying, Ms. Weinberg said. Her granddaughter
quickly made the connection between the governors
plea and the social problem, bullying. Perhaps coinci-
dentally, the governor often is accused of such behav-
ior. It was an inappropriate choice of words by the
man who was the leader of the state of New Jersey, Ms.
Weinberg said carefully.
She minces far fewer words in talking about the gov-
ernor now.
He presided over an administration that if noth-
ing else had a feeling that the ends might justify the
means, she said. He was going through an election
that had implications for his national ambitions, so
there was a whole push to get Democratic elected offi-
cials to endorse him.
We had three in Teaneck, she added. (Those were
Councilmen Elie Y. Katz, Yitz Stern, and Mark Schwartz,
who proudly and publicly endorsed Mr. Christie in
early September, before the lanes were closed.)
There is much more work for Loretta Weinberg to
do the mystery of Bridgegate to unravel, a legacy of
progressive social activism to ensure, and a lifelong tie
to Teaneck to nurture. She plans on continuing. Her
Spidey-sense is twitching
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Kansas hate crime
didnt emerge from a vacuum
W
hen you look at the image
of Frazier Glenn Cross,
aka Glenn Miller, the
shooter who cold-blood-
edly murdered three Christians in a bloody
eve-of-Passover spree at two Jewish com-
munity buildings in Overland Park, Kan.,
what do you see?
Ill tell you what I see. The dead-eyed
stare, the pasty, blotched skin and lousy
teeth, the unkempt facial hair this is
exactly the kind of face we associate with
anti-Semitic and racist thuggery. In the
20th century, Cross could have been a con-
centration camp guard, wearing his igno-
rant, vulgar sneer as he shoved his Jew-
ish victims into a gas chamber, screaming
barely literate, anti-Semitic epithets along
the way.
As we mourn the dead, and agonize over
the fact that security at Jewish institutions
becomes more necessary and the institu-
tions themselves more vulnerable when
Jewish holidays draw near, we comfort
ourselves by saying that such exemplary
specimens of the master race as Cross
are a rarity. Neo-Nazis are at the fringe of
the fringe, most of them dont have the
guts to go beyond harassing their enemies
on social networks, and the odd ones
who do engage in violence unfortunately
have easy access to guns. What this means
is that Jews and other minorities occa-
sionally have to shoulder atrocities like
the one in Kansas. It absolutely does not
mean that America is an anti-
Semitic country, or that such
attacks are a prelude to greater
persecution.
We might add that the wider
communitys reaction to the
Overland Park murders show-
cased a humble, hard-working,
tolerant America at its best. We
suffer and we pull through
just as we pulled through the
shootings at Jewish commu-
nity centers in Los Angeles in
1999 and Seattle in 2006. Just as French
Jews pulled through 2012 murders by an
Islamist of a rabbi and three beautiful chil-
dren at a Jewish school in Toulouse. Just as
Jews in Israel overcame the enormous pain
that accompanied the Palestinian bomb-
ing of a Passover seder, which claimed
the lives of 30 people at a Netanya hotel
in 2002.
But something is missing. By overly
focusing on punks like Frazier Cross,
theres a danger that we ignore those ele-
ments in our broader culture that sustain
and inspire them.
Look at some of the posts that Cross left
on various neo-Nazi and white supremacist
bulletin boards, and youll see what I
mean. Amidst his hate-drenched rants
against Jews, he warmly recommended an
article by Jew journalist Max Blumen-
thal, whom he complimented for exposing
Israels attempt...to buy the presidential
election for the neo-con, war-mongering
republican establishment... the kikes sim-
ply do not trust a lame-duck black presi-
dent with the name Hus-
sein. (Incidentally, its not
unheard of for Nazis to
recommend certain Jew-
ish authors Hitler himself
reportedly described Otto
Weininger, a Viennese Jew-
ish philosopher who lam-
basted the modern Jew-
ish era, as a rare example
of a Jew he admired.)
Its not an accident that
todays Nazis are attracted
to left-wing, viscerally anti-Zionist writ-
ers like Blumenthal. Both share the view
that the so-called Israel lobby drove the
United States into foreign wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Both believe that politicians
kowtow to Jewish interests because they
fear the costs of not doing so. And both
are convinced that the type of Jewish
supremacism practiced in Israel makes a
nonsense of American Jewish appeals for
tolerance and understanding.
Two years ago, Blumenthal mocked the
Department of Homeland Security for
describing Jews as a community facing
special risks.
Its clear whats going on here, he
said, in a nod toward undue Jewish politi-
cal influence. Blumenthal also has actively
promoted the idea that Judaism itself is
a hateful religion, a slander propounded
by his Israeli collaborator, Yossi Gurvitz,
who has said that Rabbinical Judaism is
a Judaism that hates humans. On Twit-
ter, meanwhile, Blumenthal has used
his own account to retweet the rantings
of one David Benedetti, who taunted a
Jewish user with Holocaust imagery, say-
ing your grandmother also made a nice
lampshade.
Now that the Kansas atrocity underlines
that Jews do, in fact, face serious risks, Blu-
menthal has shifted tack, writing on the
anti-Semitic website Mondoweiss on the
alleged similarities between Frazier Crosss
Nazi ideoloy and Zionism. Elsewhere on
the same website, which receives part of
its funding from conservative businessman
Ron Unz, another contributor, Annie Rob-
bins, wondered aloud whether Kansas was
an Israeli conspiracy.
Why does any of this matter? Left-wing
anti-Zionists are increasingly regarded as
acceptable company in the intellectual
mainstream. Blumenthal, for example,
recently addressed the New America
Foundation, a leading liberal think-tank in
Washington, D.C., which apparently was
unperturbed by his flock of Nazi admirers,
or by the fact that he was the subject of a
flattering proile on Press TV, the oficial
mouthpiece of the Iranian regime.
How much longer will we buy into the
ludicrous idea that Blumenthal carries
no responsibility for the way his screeds
are interpreted? Similarly, when we read
leading political scientist Stephen Walt, co-
author of the miserable book The Israel
Lobby, telling Haaretz that 9/11 was Isra-
els fault, why do we continue to view his
discourse as more sophisticated than the
bigots who parrot him?
People like Frazier Cross dont emerge
from a vacuum. They are enabled by the
same deadly ideas about Jews and Israel
that have become so fashionable in parts
of the media and academia. In the wake of
the hate crime in Kansas, its time to start
highlighting those links. JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen, JNS.orgs Shillman analyst,
writes about Jewish affairs and Middle
Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York
Post, Haaretz, Jewish Ideas Daily and many
other publications.
Ben Cohen
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, one of the two sites of Frazier Glenn Crosss eve-of-Passover shoot-
ing spree. Three Christians died in the attacks. FACEBOOK
Its not an
accident that
todays Nazis
are attracted to
left-wing,
viscerally anti-
Zionist writers
like Blumenthal.
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Mothers Day Recipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Sweet or savory pancakes
Mothers Day Reections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the day to think of your own values
Birthday Bashes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
A plethora of places to celebrate
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Why Barbie is no living doll
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f you dont use it, you lose it.
A truism when referring to your muscles and your brains, but
your gift certifcates?
When Jeff and I got married 14 years ago, in addition to getting a
great husband, I got several settings of beautiful china (Lenox India pat-
tern, lovely), many generous gifts in the form of checks and a few gift
certifcates to favorite stores.
Im not sure about most peoples shopping habits, but sometimes
these gift certifcates would linger at the bottom of a drawer because,
while I liked the store to which the certifcate belonged, there wasnt
necessarily something I needed or wanted at the time I might be visiting.
And to just use a gift certifcate for the sake of using up the gift cer-
tifcate for something that I just had to buy just because, well, I just had
to buy it, didnt seem like a satisfying shopping experience. (And after
all, shopping is a feeling)
So unused gift certifcates that were stored underneath other draw-
er essentials or non-essentials got forgotten about. Every now and then,
I would think about what I might get from this particular store, The
Judaica House on Cedar Lane in Teaneck. I was working for another
Bergen County newspaper at the time and I would wander into the store
and admire the beautiful books, artwork, ceramics and other items of
Judaica.
Perhaps I should get some art? No.
Perhaps a mezuzah? No.
So without buying anything at the time, the gift certifcate remained
unused.
At one point I thought I should buy a hot water
urn that I could use on Shabbat. It would serve my
guests and us and it would be a ftting wedding gift.
Furnishing a way for our guests that we hosted to
have a nice warm drink on Shabbat.
Nah, advised my friend, Devorah. They get
yucky on the inside and need replacement. Use the
gift certifcate for a sefer, a book for the kids, she
suggested. Again, I never got to the store. Never
purchased anything.
Then it was time for our family to have another simcha.
It was our son, Yehudas bar mitzvah, and as is the fashion for the
bar mitzvah boys, Yehuda wanted to design his own kippah. He wanted
a cool kippah that was ftting for his turning a bar mitzvah.
So we returned to The Judaica House, and Yehuda designed a won-
derful royal blue and yellow yalmulke, with a logo of two lions, the To-
rah and a big letter Y. It was gorgeous.
Remembering that I had the gift certifcate, I thought to bring it
when we went to pick them up. It was so long ago, our wedding. Id
have to wipe the dust off that gift certifcate, but I thought why not try?
When I paid the balance, I presented the gift certifcate to the sales
clerk. This is pretty old, I explained. It was from our wedding. But can I
use it? It was from so long ago, the sales clerk that signed it in 1999 was
no longer working at the store.
To my absolute surprise and delight, not only were they willing to
take it, but they were amused and saw the poetry in that transaction.
What a wonderful use for the gift certifcate.
Better than art. Better than a mezuzah. Even better than a book.
We used our wedding gift for our frst-born sons bar mitzvah. For
his kippah.
It certainly was a gift certifcate that kippahs on giving.
Cheers,
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otherhood is a 24-hour job with
no pay, no vacation and few
fringe benefts. Fortunately, there
is a day set aside to give mothers the at-
tention and appreciation they deserve.
After asking dozens of moms what they
would like for Mothers Day the answers
were irrefutably the same.
Its not so much what is purchased,
but the gift of I love you through words
and actions, says mother and grand-
mother Ella Catron, local mother and
grandmother.
Karen Kolek, mother of three,
agrees. Anything the kids come up with
for a craft-type memory is well worth the
time, effort, and messiness. These things
go further than any expensive item.
So stash your wallets and start brain-
storming about what would make their
mother feel appreciated and special.
Here are fve no-cost ideas to get you
started.
1. A Family Tree. Show Mom what
a special part of your family she is by
creating a family tree. Find a short tree
branch and place it in a decorated can.
Stabilize the branch with sand, clay or
plaster. Next cut out large leaf shapes
from construction paper. Write the
names of family members on one side
of the leaves and tape or paste photo-
graphs of them to the other side (dont
forget your pets!). If you dont have a pic-
ture of someone, draw it. Punch a hole
through the top of each leaf and thread
a piece of yarn through it. Now tie the
leaves to the tree branches.
2. At Your Service. The gift of ser-
vice is something that keeps on giving.
Talk with family members about the
chores your mother does around the
house. On small strips of paper write
down each job she does, and on the
other side write the name of one family
member who will volunteer to do that
task for her. Continue this until you have
covered all of her responsibilities. Find
an old shoe box, place the strips of pa-
per in it, and wrap it up. Present this to
Mom and in the days to come give her
service with a smile.
3. This is Your Life. Make Mother
feel honored with a special presentation
of This is your Life. Stage the show as
if it were a television special. Have one
person be the show host who interviews
other family members regarding what
they love about Mom. They may also
want to share a story or memory they
have of her. Between interviews, prepare
a special song, poem or other talent in
her honor. Ask Dad to videotape the pro-
gram and your mother will have a keep-
sake for years to come.
4. Queen for the Day. A day of re-
laxation and royalty will make Mom feel
extra special. When she wakes up, greet
her with a homemade crown and tell her
she will be queen for the day. Serve her
favorite breakfast in bed and ask what
she would like to do today. If she needs
a little prompting, suggest a family hike
in the morning, a picnic in the park for
lunch, and a nap in the afternoon. While
she is having down time, wash her car
and fll it up with gas. Make the evening
special with a home-cooked dinner and
movie. During the movie, dote over her
by rubbing her feet, brushing her hair, or
giving her a manicure. Throughout the
day, remind her of how much you love
and appreciate her.
5. Time Alone. Most mothers of
young children have little time for them-
selves. Give Mom the day off to get a
massage, go shopping, or sip coffee with
an old friend. While she is gone, clean
the house, do the grocery shopping,
and prepare a special Best Mom in the
World banner for her arrival home.
Still want to purchase something for
Mothers Day? Here are a few tried-and-
true ideas: fowers, plants, or a tree; per-
fume; jewelry; scarf; bath set; clothing;
CD or DVD; gift certifcate for a massage,
manicure, book, coffee, home clean-
ing service, etc.; tickets to a show; gym
membership.
Denise Yearian is the former editor of two
parenting magazines and the mother of three
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For Breakfast or Brunch, Sweet or
Savory Pancakes to Make Mom Smile
RAC HE L HA R K HA M
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mothers day haiku anagram:
Maybe go out for brunch?
Or make her breakfast-in-bed-
Mom will love these pancakes.
Whether she has a sweet toot, or
is the spicy-savory type, Mom will def-
nitely enjoy a hot plate of pancakes on
Mothers Day especially if she doesnt
have to cook them herself. These reci-
pes serve up two versions of pancakes:
sweet and fruity and spicy and savory.
Both are full of favor.
The Lemon-Ricotta Pancakes with
Berry Conft, are sweet and lemony
and berry juicy. Thick creamy ricotta
is mixed into the batter together with
fresh lemon juice and bright lemon rind.
These fuffy pancakes go to the next level
of luscious when you serve them with a
gorgeous puddle of stovetop berry con-
ft. Garnish with sour cream or whipped
cream if youd like. Its a breakfast treat
any which way.
For later-in-the-day pancakes or for
those who prefer a salty/savory bite, a
batch of Cornmeal Green Chili Pancakes
with Spicy Mango Salsa would be just
right. This recipe is more of a Johnny-
cake than a traditional pancake. The
batter is made from cornmeal and four;
diced green chilies and sharp cheddar
cheese are mixed in for piquant favor.
Fresh, colorful mango salsa offers a juicy
spice, but if you like things on the mild-
er-side, substitute a dash of red pepper
fakes for the diced jalapeno.
This Mothers Day offer Mom a
homemade dish that is as unique and in-
teresting as she is.
Lemon Ricotta Pancakes
2 to 4 tablespoons canola oil
cup all-purpose our
1 tablespoon baking powder
teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons sugar
1 cup ricotta cheese
2 eggs, room temperature
cup milk
Zest from one large lemon
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice or about
half a lemon
2 to 4 tablespoons canola oil
1. In a medium sized bowl combine the
our, baking powder, salt, and sugar.
2. In a separate large bowl mix together
ricotta, eggs, milk, lemon zest, and lemon
juice.
3. Pour the our mixture into the wet ingre-
dients and mix until the ingredients are well
combined.
4. Heat canola oil in a frying pan over medi-
um-high heat. When pan is sizzling drop
batter in cup increments onto pan.
5. The pancakes are ready to ip when
small bubbles form on the surface. Repeat
process until batter is all used up. Serve
with Berry Cont.
Makes between 8-10 pancakes
Very Berry Confit
1 cup of fresh blueberries
1 cup fresh raspberries
cup sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
teaspoon potato starch or cornstarch
1. In a medium saucepan over medium heat
combine blueberries and raspberries. Mix in
sugar, lemon juice and potato starch, break-
ing down berries as you stir. Cook for 3 to 4
minutes until a thick and juicy.
Recipe yields approximately 1 cups berry
topping
Rachel Harkham is a recipe developer,
cookbook author and chocolatier. She lives
with her family in Rockland County. Visit
her at www.reciperachel.com
Cornmeal-Green Chili Pancakes
cup cornmeal
cup all-purpose our
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons taco seasoning mix or 2 tea-
spoons chili powder
2 teaspoons sugar
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons corn oil
cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1 4 ounces can diced green chilis
2 to 4 tablespoons corn oil
1. In a large sized bowl whisk together
cornmeal, our, baking powder, salt, taco
seasoning mix, sugar.
2. In a medium bowl stir
together egg, milk, corn oil.
Pour into the dry ingredients
and mix ingredients together
until just combined.
3. Fold in the shredded
cheddar and the diced
green chilis.
4. Heat corn oil in a frying
pan over medium-high heat.
When pan is sizzling drop
batter in cup increments
onto pan.
5. The pancakes are ready to
ip when the pancakes sides
pull away from the pan.
Repeat process until batter
is all used up. Serve with
Mango Salsa.
Makes between 8 to 10
pancakes
Mango Salsa
2 ripe mangoes, peeled and
diced into small cubes
6 scallions, white and light
green parts sliced thin
1 red pepper, nely chopped
1 jalapeno, diced or a pinch of red chili akes
Juice of I lime (about 2 tablespoons)
cup white vinegar
Salt and pepper, to taste
1. Place ingredients in a medium bowl and
mix well. If you prefer a chunkier consis-
tency leave as is. For a smoother texture,
pulse in a blender or food processor for a
few seconds.
Recipe yields 2 cups
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Using Mothers Day to
Reect on Your Familys Goals
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others Day gives us a valuable
chance to pause and refect on
our goals for our family life. So
whether youre a mother or not, take
a few minutes to sit quietly and think
about your answers to the following six
questions.
1. What do I want the atmosphere
to be like in my home?
John Lennon famously said life is what
happens while youre making other
plans. Too often, the mood in our homes
is a by-product, what naturally happens
while were busy pursuing other goals.
One of the highest Jewish wishes for a
person is that they should have shalom
bayit, shalom peace in their homes.
Shalom is an absence of strife, a state of
relating to each other with respect and
kindness. But in Hebrew, Shalom means
even more than that. Shalom has a
second meaning as well: it denotes com-
pleteness. When we wish for shalom in
our homes and our families, were asking
for more than a mere cessation of argu-
ments; were asking for a sense of com-
pleteness, a sense of truly knowing one
another.
2. Do we have enough unscripted
time together?
Getting to know other people takes time,
and families are no exception. Yet these
days, time seems like the one commod-
ity were low on. With pressures from
work and from school, not to mention
the constant pressure of staying con-
nected electronically, spending time to-
gether with no outside distractions can
seem like an impossible goal. One place
to start re-thinking our schedules is
mealtimes. A host of studies has shown
that children who eat regularly with their
parents have signifcantly lower rates
of drug and alcohol abuse, earn higher
grades, and have better self-images. The
way in which families eat together seems
to be important too: families that ate
together while watching TV had higher
rates of family tension than those who
conversed during the meal. Judaism also
gives us a weekly formula for the kind of
togetherness associated with healthier
families. Shabbat is a time when families
traditionally tune out of the pressures
of work, school and the like, and turn
inward to focus on each other instead.
Shabbat dinner and other meals can be a
needed break from the thick of the week,
giving us a chance to relax, unwind, have
a live conversation with loved ones and
guests, and even begin to get to know
one another again.
3. What are my familys
spiritual goals?
Many of us arent used to thinking in
terms of spirituality, but each family has
a spiritual part of their life (whether we
use words like spiritual not). Every-
body craves a connection with some-
thing larger than themselves. Children,
especially, wish to make sense of the
world around them. And the ways in
which we choose to live help our fami-
lies come up with their own answers to
the big questions in life.
Do our children see us doing char-
ity? Going out of our way to help others?
Acting with honesty and honor? Are we
showing them that we value our tradi-
tions? That we care for our communities
and turn to them in times of trouble?
That we seek to connect with God? It can
seem daunting to infuence the spiritual
growth of our families, particularly when
many of us havent completely worked
through our own thoughts and feelings
yet. But others are watching our exam-
ples just the same.
A famous Jewish story shows the
awesome power of a Jewish woman. Its
recorded that in ancient times, there was
a righteous Jewish couple. Unfortunate-
ly, they were unable to have children
with each other, so they decided to di-
vorce and seek better fortune with new
spouses. Each of these righteous people
in turn married a very wicked spouse
but their fates were very different. For in
time, the virtuous mans evil wife infu-
enced him to become wicked also. But
the righteous woman gradually induced
her wicked husband to become good
like her. Like this woman, we each have
the power to infuence those around us.
Mothers, especially, are well placed to
display behavior they wish their families
to absorb.
4. What am I going to buy today?
The ideal Jewish woman is good at shop-
ping. This isnt a line out of pop culture,
but a deep observation in Jewish tradi-
tion. Each Friday night, Jews around the
world recite the Woman of Valor prayer
praising the supreme Jewish woman.
The poem, taken from the end of the
biblical Book of Proverbs, describes this
supreme woman as a businesswoman,
making and trading goods from afar. Jew-
ish educator and writer Tziporah Heller
comments on this image. She points
out that each one of us is a merchant,
selecting what things not only goods,
but also ideas and values we wish to
bring home from afar, from outside our
homes. Each of us thus goes shopping
every day. Its our job to be discerning:
to identify and embrace those things
that will strengthen our families, and us
and to have the wisdom to leave the rest.
5. What is my legacy?
Alfred Nobel, a 19th Century Swedish
chemist, invented dynamite. In 1888,
when he was 55, a French newspaper
erroneously published his obituary,
and he was horrifed by what he read.
Death and destruction were his only
legacies.
Nobel decided to change and do
something positive with the rest of his
life. He used is fortune to establish the
Nobel Prize, given in perpetuity to hon-
or advances in sciences, literature and
peace. In 50 years, when our grandchil-
dren tell their own grandchildren about
us, what do we want them to say? Most
of us wont have the shock that Alfred
Nobel did, but we can each heed his ex-
ample and consider what our legacy will
be.
6. What are you grateful for?
Its easy to get caught up in the work
of being part of a family and forget the
joy. Many people feel that in order to be
happy, its easiest to go out: see a mov-
ie, have a meal, to somehow be enter-
tained. Yet researchers fnd that outside
sources of happiness quickly lose their
potency. (Theres even a psychological
term for it: hedonic adaptation.) Instead,
researchers fnd, the quickest way to in-
crease our happiness is to focus on the
good in our lives. Specifcally, psycholo-
gists have found that writing a list of
things were grateful for makes people
signifcantly happier.
Try taking a moment to write down
what were thankful for. Thinking about
our families, our health even the mi-
raculous fact of our very existence can
help us appreciate our families much
more, and enjoy them better too.
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f all the things we do as a family
each year, sending our children
to Jewish summer camp is one
of the most meaningful. It bolsters our
childrens Jewish identities, strengthens
our familys bonds, and helps all of us to
enjoy our Jewish life more. Not everyone
feels the way we do about Jewish camp,
but I thought it worthwhile to comment
on a few myths Ive heard about the Jew-
ish summer camp experience, and share
the reality weve experienced.
Myth #1
I want my kids to enjoy summer, not
have to learn about religion.
A lot of children spend long hours
each year in Sunday or Hebrew school,
or with a bar- or bat-mitzvah tutor.
Shouldnt summer give them a break
from all that studying?
The beauty of Jewish summer
camps, of course, is that they make Jew-
ish life fun. In fact, for many children
Jewish summer camp is the one time
all year when being Jewish is a joy, not
a burden.
When youre with a group of young-
sters and counselors, all singing along
to beautiful Jewish songs together, it
creates a magical Jewish experience
that has nothing to do with studying or
tutors. When children do fun crafts to-
gether that have a Jewish theme, theyre
learning about their religion in a fresh,
new and non-threatening way.
Summer camp is also a chance for
youngsters to try out fun aspects of Ju-
daism that they might not get to at home.
Most Jewish camps have some sort of
Shabbat celebration, for example. Even
if your own family doesnt always do
Shabbat, summer camp provides chil-
dren with the chance to celebrate Shab-
bat more fully, along with their friends
and counselors, in a fun way.
Sometimes children even bring home
what theyve learned at camp like a
new Shabbat song and teach the rest
of the family. My own children learn a
lot of traditional Jewish stories at their
Jewish camp, and I always enjoy hearing
them when my children come home. Its
a chance to bring a fun new side of Juda-
ism into our family each summer.
Myth #2
Jewish summer camp is too expensive.
This is another complaint I hear a
lot, and theres no one answer. Certainly,
the costs of Jewish summer camps vary
widely. My own childrens Jewish camp
is cheap relative to others in the area,
but I know of others that offer a Cadil-
lac camp service: very fancy, but very
expensive.
Luckily, there are a number of com-
munity initiatives that help to cover the
cost of Jewish camp, particularly for
children who havent attended Jewish
camp before. One place to start looking
(in the United States) is your local Jew-
ish Federation (www.ujc.org). Indepen-
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pjlibrary.org) and One Happy Camper
(www.onehappycamper.org) also offer
help with camp costs.
Another option, if you can, is to talk
with grandparents or great grandpar-
ents. Many grandparents would love to
help enhance their grandchildrens Jew-
ish experiences, and some might be will-
ing to help contribute to their grandchil-
drens Jewish camp costs.
Finally, one option for older children
might be to look into being a junior or
a regular camp counselor at a camp
for younger kids. At my own childrens
camp, for instance, a group of teenagers
helps the younger ones with activities
(swimming, going to amusement parks,
crafts, putting on plays, etc.). The coun-
selors get to have a fun summer outside,
with the obvious beneft of being paid to
enjoy the camp experience, rather than
paying.
Myth #3
Jewish summer camp sounds nice, but
my kids are really interested in soccer
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summer at space camp, and the other half at Jewish camp.
Look into Jewish camps, though, and the range of
activities they provide might surprise you. Theatre,
music, swimming, and sports: these are all common at
Jewish camps, but often more esoteric activities such
as gymnastics, rocket building, computers and ballet
are part of Jewish camp schedules, too.
Take a look at some nearby Jewish camps. Talk to
kids whove attended them if you can, or browse the
Internet. The number of Jewish camps is growing year
by year, and there truly is something for everyone.
Finally, take a moment to think of what your kids
will gain from Jewish camp, even if going means they
cant indulge their every specifc hobby. Children often
outgrow particular interests and activities, but they
never outgrow being Jewish. Giving children the gift of
Jewish summer camp means giving Jewish memories
and knowledge that will never leave them, and will en-
rich their whole Jewish lives.
Myth #4
Jewish summer camp isnt for us because were just
not that religious.
Jewish summer camp gives youngsters from all
sorts of homes from the most secular to the most reli-
gious the chance to forge their own Jewish identities.
Away from their homes and parents, kids fnd new
Jewish friends and role models. In a Jewish camp, its
normal to be Jewish, and fun too. Small wonder that
many kids fnd that Jewish summer camp is a welcome
break: a chance each year to live and grow fully in their
Jewish identities. The results pay off. Jews who attend-
ed Jewish camp are more likely to marry other Jews as
adults, more likely to belong to a synagogue, to donate
money to Jewish causes and to identify with Israel.
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NATHAN BARCUS
Nathan Barcus, son of daugh-
ter of Janet and David Barcus
of Woodcliff Lake and brother
of Sophie, 15, and Gillian, 8,
celebrated becoming a bar
mitzvah on April 5 at Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley in Woodcliff Lake.
JUSTIN BECKER
Justin Becker, son of Shari
and Daniel Becker of Wyckoff
and brother of Zachary and
Matthew, celebrated becom-
ing a bar mitzvah on March
29 at Temple Beth Rishon in
Wyckoff.
ELYSE BELL
Elyse Bell, daughter of Lynda
LiVecchi-Bell and Jeffrey
Bell of Hillsdale and sister of
Jacob, celebrated becom-
ing a bat mitzvah on March
29 at Temple Beth Or in
Washington Township.
HANNAH DELLA FAVE
Hannah Della Fave, daughter
of Geri and Paul Della Fave
of Franklin Lakes, and sister
of Sarah, celebrated becom-
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Dylan Distell, son of Stacey
and Gary Distell of Cresskill,
mitzvah at Temple Sinai of
Bergen County in Tenay
on March 29. He is the twin
brother of Ryan and older
brother of sister, Sami, 10.
He is the grandson of Susan
Wax, Rochelle and Donald
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Ryan Distell, son of Stacey
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mitzvah at Temple Sinai of
Bergen County in Tenay
on March 29. He is the twin
brother of Dylan and older
brother of sister, Sami, 10.
He is the grandson of Susan
Wax, Rochelle and Donald
Greenbaum, and Stephen and
Judith Distell.
MATTHEW FISHMAN
Matthew Jacob Fishman,
son of Pamela and Simon
Fishman of Oakland and
brother of Joshua, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah
on April 12 at Temple Beth
Rishon in Wyckoff.
AMY GERSHBERG
Amy Gershberg, daughter of
Merrill and Barry Gershberg
of Woodcliff Lake, and sis-
ter of Charlotte, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
March 22 at Temple Beth Or
in Washington Township.
LILY GREENBERG
Lily Greenberg, daughter of
Abbe Seidman of Teaneck
and Eric Greenberg of
Teaneck and sister of Maya
and Russell, celebrated
April 12 at Temple Emeth in
Teaneck.
ANNA KASMANOFF
Anna Kasmanoff, daughter of
Caryn and Sam Kasmanoff
of Wyckoff and sister of
Nathan and Noah, celebrated
March 22 at Temple Beth
Rishon in Wyckoff. Her
grandparents are the late
Harriet and Marvin Paul of
North Woodmere, N.Y., and
the late Trudy and Norman
Kasmanoff of West Orange.
JARED LAWRENCE
Jared Lawrence, son of Mala
Lawrence of River Vale and
Keith Lawrence of Hillsdale
and brother of Alexis, cele-
brated becoming a bar mitz-
vah on April 12 at Temple
Beth Or in Washington
Township.
JARED LIPSKY
Jared Lipsky, son of Danielle
and David Lipsky of Glen
Rock, celebrated becom-
ing a bar mitzvah on April
5 at Temple Israel and
Jewish Community Center in
Ridgewood.
EMILY LOMBERG
Emily Lomberg, daughter of
Linda and Paul Lomberg of
Wyckoff, and sister of Perri,
celebrated becoming a bat
Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.
ALEXA MILLER
Alexa Miller, daughter of
Karen and Scott Miller of
Tenay and sister of Emma,
Sinai of Bergen County in
Tenay. As a mitzvah proj-
ect, Alexa has been working
with local libraries to donate
American Girl dolls so that
children can lend them out
just like books. She has been
collecting gently used dolls
(and donations to purchase
new dolls) and is organizing
tea parties and other fun
events for local children.
ALYSSA MUSARRA
Alyssa Musarra, daughter
of Liza and James Musarra
of Paramus and sister of
Julie, celebrated becom-
ing a bat mitzvah on April
SHELBY PEARLMAN
Shelby Pearlman, daughter
of Deborah and Joffrey
Pearlman of Woodcliff
Lake and sister of Kyle, 15,
and Alexis, 18, celebrated
April 12 at Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley in
Woodcliff Lake.
EVAN RUDOLF
Evan Rudolf, son of Cindy
and Howard Rudolf of Fair
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a bar mitzvah on April 5 at
the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel.
OLIVIA SCHAPIRO
Olivia Schapiro, daughter of
Rachel and Daniel Schapiro of
Ridgewood and sister of Zoe,
Beth Or in Washington
Township.
SARAH STEINBERG
Sarah Steinberg, daugh-
ter of Jamie and George
Steinberg of Westwood and
sister of Rachel, celebrated
April 5 at Temple Beth Or in
MAXWELL URIBE
Maxwell Uribe, son of
Debra and George Uribe
of Woodcliff Lake and twin
brother of Olivia, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah on
March 22 at Temple Emanuel
Woodcliff Lake.
OLIVIA URIBE
Olivia Uribe, daughter of
Debra and George Uribe
of Woodcliff Lake, and twin
sister of Maxwell, celebrated
March 22 at Temple Emanuel
Woodcliff Lake.
MADISON YORMARK
Madison Yormark, daughter
of Amy and Brett Yormark
of Franklin Lakes and sister
of Drake, celebrated becom-
ing a bat mitzvah on April
Wyckoff.
JAKE ZAGE
Jake Zage, son of Marcie and
Jeffrey Zage of Franklin Lakes
and brother of Andrew, 23,
and Brian, 20, celebrated
becoming a March 29 at
Barnert Temple in Franklin
Lakes.
SAMANTHA ZAINTZ
Samantha Zaintz, daughter
of Ellen and Glen Zaintz of
Woodcliff Lake and sister of
Charlotte, celebrated becom-
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Blaming Barbie: Raising Daughters with Self-Esteem
S L OV I E J UNGR E I S - WOL F F
M
any have criticized Barbie for her
super thin, impossible to achieve
fgure that has had a negative ef-
fect on the way girls see their own bod-
ies. Some have even connected Barbie
dolls with eating disorders and girls
poor body image.
Meet the Lammily Doll. Dreamed up
by 25-year-old Pittsburgh artist Nickolay
Lamm, this doll is being described as the
Anti-Barbie. Lamm frst posted his rendi-
tions of what Barbie would look like if
she had an average 19-year-olds body.
The difference between the two fgures
was eye opening and his post went viral.
After getting tons of inquiries, Lamm de-
cided to produce the more realistically
proportioned doll. He raised more than
$400,000 in 10 days, exceeding his goals.
Lamm describes himself as a normal
dude with a laptop who thinks we can
use another option.
Lamm says that he had not thought
about this issue until one day when he
looked at Barbie and thought it looked
weird. I can sometimes feel insecure;
its hard for me to imagine what women
have to go through. Theyre subjected
to much higher beauty standards than
men.
The motto of this new doll is Aver-
age is Beautiful.
As much as I would like to believe
that we are all in agreement when it
comes to the awful pressure girls and
women face with keeping up their body
image, I do wonder how many parents
out there would fnd it easy to say my
daughter is average and average is
beautiful. We have somehow been con-
ditioned to feel that our child must be
special, amazing or awesome. And when
it comes to our girls, there is an increas-
ing focus on how they look and their
physical shape being tied to this feeling
of special. Who would proudly say, My
daughter looks average?
How can we parents help our daugh-
ters discover healthy self-esteem in this
materialistic society that constantly
stresses perfect beauty and size?
Your Daughters Self Worth
We are surrounded by media and fashion
magazines that are obsessed with wom-
ens looks. Magazines track the weight
of celebrities. Ads are constantly telling
us that we can look better if we would
only use this new product. Airbrushing
and Photoshop create distorted images
that our girls aspire to become. And too
often, movies, videos, reality TV shows,
and advertisements all portray women
and girls in a demeaning manner. Body
posture, exposed clothing and facial ex-
pressions do not mirror a woman who
lives with self-dignity and self-worth.
Our girls have come to defne beauty
with impossible body measurements.
Often they end up feeling that that they
just dont measure up. Disregarding
the cost to ones self-image, the heart
and soul that lie within become easily
ignored. The emphasis on the perfect
pose creates a culture where it is hard
to see beyond ones clothing or fgure
to realize the intrinsic value of a human
being.
Too many feel that their self-esteem
is connected to their bodies; they dont
see the treasure that lies within.
While gauging themselves against
these impossible standards, our girls
have neglected to learn the meaning
of true self-worth. Too many feel that
their self-esteem is connected to their
bodies; they dont see the treasure that
lies within. Selfesteem comes when we
value our internal beauty. Its not based
on the size of our waist or how others
think we look. One of the greatest life les-
sons we can teach our daughters is that
their self-worth is based on the unique
role they play in this universe of ours.
Looks can come and go. Attractiveness
is based on the perceptions of others
and has nothing to do with greatness of
character or effort to accomplish and
create goodness. Instead of focusing
on fashion and fgures, we must teach
our daughters to ask themselves these
questions: What have I done to make
a difference in this world? What is
my mission? How have I brought love to
the people in my life? What is my spe-
cial fngerprint that will one day become
my personal legacy? This is about the
identity of our young girls, our tweens
and teens knowing who they are beyond
their outward appearance.
No one can ever negate the acts of
kindness you have accomplished, the
efforts you have exerted, or the feeling
of success after picking yourself up and
trying once again. Sadly, we fnd weekly
stories about celebrities and society
women who seem to have had it all
fashion, beauty, gorgeous homes, and an
incredible social life yet a void remains
and they end up destroying their lives.
Something is missing. It is the inherent
belief that I count. I am vital. I am here
for a higher purpose. This is the defni-
tion of true self-worth.
Girls who possess high self-esteem
are bold and fearless in their beliefs.
They are not afraid to express them-
selves or to side with those who are
not the it girls. They possess a serene
confdence, a spirit that goes beyond a
name brand jacket or pair of expensive
boots. Independent of other peoples
perceptions, girls with high self-esteem
feel secure. These girls see themselves
as a positive force in this world, and no
celebrity or media mes-
sage can strip their
energy away.
Anti-Barbie
As girls grow, their
sense of self-esteem
changes and often de-
clines. Buckling under
Barbie continued on p.19
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Role Modeling Our Way to
Teaching Children to be Happy
A DI NA S OC L OF
H
appiness has become a na-
tional preoccupation. Will
the latest, greatest iGadget
make our children happy? The
biggest birthday bash? The most
expensive gym shoes?
Of course we want our to be
children happy. The question is
how do we give our children the
gift of authentic happiness, hap-
piness that is internal, the kind
of happiness that lasts after the
boredom from the iGadget sets
in, the partys over and the gym
shoes get worn out?
The essential factor wheth-
er or not you will live a happy life
is not based so much on external factors such as wealth
success or fame but on your attitude towards life, to-
wards yourself, towards other people and towards
events and situations, says Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, author
of several books on happiness.
So how do we teach this attitude to our children?
1. Role modeling:
In Martin Seligmans book, The Optimistic Child,
Seligman states the importance of children having good
role models. He feels that parents who are optimistic
are more likely to have children who are optimistic. An
optimistic mindset is key to dealing with adversity in
life. Being able to deal with adversity in positive ways is
one of the keys to true happiness.
Children are watching our every move, so when
parents deal with adversity in positive healthy and fex-
ible ways are actually using their behavior (often un-
knowingly) to teach children these very skills.
Seligman suggests that we should be more con-
scious about it and talk out loud, where our children
can hear us, about our thought process as we deal with
our everyday problems.
For example, lets say the washing machine re-
pairman is late in coming and you need to leave to a
doctors appointment, you can say in earshot of your
children:
This is a really big problem. I have this doctor ap-
pointment, and the repairman was supposed to be here
already. I have a few options. I can call Grandma and
see if she could let the repairman in. I could reschedule
the repairman, but I really need the washing machine
repaired. I could reschedule my doctor appointment,
but thats pretty important too. Let me start by calling
Grandma and then I will work from there.
Speaking in this way gives children a clear picture
of positive thought processes that help us handle our
everyday stresses.
2. Its not going to last forever:
Another key to happiness, according to Seligman, is un-
derstanding that our problems are usually temporary.
Thinking our problems are permanent and insurmount-
able can breed hopelessness and despair.
People who feel their problems are generally transi-
tory, will have an easier time believing that they have
the resources to cope with whatever comes there way.
For example, if you did not get the job you want-
ed, do you tell yourself, I cant
believe it. Something must be
wrong with me. I will never get
any good jobs?
Or do you think that it is
temporary, and think, Thats
too bad. I am pretty upset but
Im not going to let this get me
down. Im going to brush up on
my interviewing skills and make
some more phone calls starting
tomorrow.
How do we teach this con-
cept to our children? Again, the
best way is by role modeling
and talking out loud about your
thought processes:
Gosh, I cant believe my
computer crashed again. This
is crazy! I have to remember that I can get it fxed and
this problem is not going to last forever. If I keep that
in mind, I can think clearly and do what I need to do to
come up with a solution to this problem.
3. Embrace bad moods and let children be sad:
I was meeting with the director of a prestigious pre-
school. We were discussing the content of the parent-
ing workshops I would be presenting. I asked her, What
is the most important problem your parents have with
their kids? She said, Its not so much that they have
problems with their kids, its that they want a quick fx,
they dont know how to just leave their kids alone and
let them be sad when theyre sad, and that their job is
not to make their kids happy all the time. They need to
stop micromanaging their kids feelings.
Its true. As parents we think a childs mood refects
our ability to parent effectively. A happy kid equals
good parents, an unhappy kid equals bad parents.
When we work from this baseline our childrens angry
moods become unbearable. We cannot stand to see our
children distressed or disheartened.
Our job is not to make our kids happy all the time.
Instead we need to remember that all people have low
states and high states, good moods and bad moods.
It is part of the human condition. Our job as parents
is not to make our children happy all the time but to
teach children ways to help themselves manage the in-
evitable ups and downs of life. They need to learn not
to sweat the small stuff through trial and error.
Children need to fnd their own ways to deal with
lifes bumps, and to pursue happiness and satisfaction
in life. It is a very personal journey. Pushing children to
be happy and not letting them be sad robs them of that
opportunity.
It is more helpful if we empathize and name their
feelings and then leave them alone.
Boy you look kind of down. Looks like you had a
rough day. That could be tough. Not getting the toy
that you want can make you feel pretty sad. I can see
how disappointed you are
Just having someone understand your feelings can
be all the help you need.
Adina Soclof, is the director of Parent Outreach for A+
Solutions, facilitating How to Talk so Kids will Listen and
Listen so Kids will Talk workshops as well as workshops
based on Siblings Without Rivalry. Visit her at www.
parentingsimply.com
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Autism Awareness
for Every Month of the Year
HE I DI MA E B RAT T
I
n order to highlight the growing need
for concern and awareness about au-
tism, the Autism Society has marked
April as National Autism Awareness
Month since the 1970s. But every day
is an opportunity to educate the public
about autism and issues within the autism
community. About Our Children turned to
Dr. Lisa Nalven, director of Developmen-
tal Pediatrics and Director of Adoption
Screening and Evaluation Program at the
Kireker Center for Child Development at
Valley Hospital, for her expertise and in-
formation on the matter.
Q: What is autism?
A: Dr. Lisa Nalven: Autism is a disor-
der of brain development and function
that usually presents in the toddler and
preschool years, although in mild cases,
the symptoms may not be obvious until
school age, when increasing demands are
placed on the child. Autism is a label that
is used to describe a recognized pattern
of atypical behaviors. Individuals with
autism have a range of diffculties in the
areas of communication (use and under-
standing of language), socialization (inter-
acting with others) and behaviors (play
skills, atypical behaviors, sensitivities). In
many cases there is a delay in skill, but the
defning feature is an abnormal or atypi-
cal quality to how a child speaks, plays,
and interacts with others. Pragmatics,
the social rules or the how of commu-
nication, is a primary area of diffculty. A
child will have diffculties knowing how
close to stand to someone, modulate eye
contact, take turns in a conversation or
during play.
Q: Who is at risk for autism?
A: The most recent statistics released
by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control)
for the year 2010 report that the preva-
lence of autism in the United States in 1
in 68 children ages 8 years of age, but the
prevalence can vary greatly depending
on geographic location, gender, and level
of severity. This represents a signifcant
increase over the rates in 2008 and the
reasons remain unclear. We know that we
are identifying more children with milder
cases of autism than in the past. In some
cases, families are moving to areas that
are known to provide good services, but
overall there seems to be a true increase
in the number of cases. Siblings of chil-
dren with a diagnosis are at increased risk
for the diagnosis due to an underlying ge-
netic factor, with a recurrence risk of ap-
proximately 18 percent. Other situations
that are associated with an increased risk
for being diagnosed with autism include
older parental age, premature birth and
certain medications if used during preg-
nancy (e.g. Valproate). In addition, certain
medical/genetic conditions are associ-
ated with higher rates of autism such as
Fragile X, Down syndrome, tuberous scle-
rosis. The exact cause of autism remains
unclear, but genetic and other prenatal
factors with the possibility of environ-
mental triggers which turn on/off autism
related genes continue to be researched.
Q: What does being on the autism
spectrum mean?
A: The DSM 5 (Diagnostic and Statis-
tical Manual 5th Edition) was released in
May 2013 and redefned the criteria for
an individual being diagnosed as having
an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In
the prior edition of the DSM, there was
a category of disorders called Pervasive
Developmental Disorders which included
three subtypes: autism, Aspergers syn-
drome, and pervasive developmental dis-
order-not otherwise specifed (PDD-NOS).
These subtypes represented differences
in the severity of symptoms, with autism
being the most severe, PDD-NOS repre-
senting milder symptoms, and Aspergers
identifying a group of individuals with
normal intelligence but atypical behav-
ioral profles. With the DSM 5, the range
of symptoms and severity all come under
one diagnosis called Autism Spectrum
Disorder, and symptoms are described
as being mild, moderate or severe and the
prior subtypes no longer exist.
Q: What are the signs and symptoms
of autism and how and when do they
present?
A: According to the DSM 5 there are
two major domains that are affected in
individuals with autism: social commu-
nication and a pattern of repetitive and/
or atypical behaviors. Research indicates,
that in some cases, signs of autism can
be detected as early as one year of age,
but may be subtle and therefore may not
be noticed until a child is a bit older and
does not meet expected developmental
milestones during the toddler and pre-
school years. There is also a group of
children who are reported to exhibit nor-
mal early development, but somewhere
around 15 to 18 months exhibit a regres-
sion or loss of skills, particularly in the
area of language and social engagement.
Early signs of social communication def-
cits that raise the concern for autism
include, poor eye contact, limited or un-
usual language, absence of pointing to
draw parents attention to something or
to indicate wants. The absence of joint
attention which involves reciprocal play
(playing catch with a ball) and a prefer-
ence for solitary or parallel play in an old-
er child. Older children may have extreme
reactions if they are not frst in line, or
if they lose at a game. In mild cases, a
child may seem shy or socially awkward.
Atypical language patterns may also de-
velop such as echolalia (repeating some
or part of what someone else has said),
scripting (repeating lines from TV shows,
books), or a tendency to label without us-
ing language to communicate. Atypical
behaviors may include lining up objects,
repetitive play, hand fapping, walking
on toes, sensory issues such as an aver-
sion to certain textures, sounds or high
pain tolerance; extreme pickiness with
regard to foods based on color, texture
or smell. Overfocus on shapes, colors,
numbers, letters may be seen in toddlers.
In older children, excessive preoccupa-
tion and knowledge about certain topics
may emerge (Thomas the Train, cars, di-
nosaurs, geography, presidents). http://
www.frstsigns.org/ It is important to rec-
ognize that there are other disorders that
may have overlapping symptoms with au-
tism but still need to be identifed as they
also require intervention (i.e., hearing or
vision loss, or language delay in combina-
tion with anxiety.)
Q: Traditionally, what is the treat-
ment for autism?
A: There are many advertised in-
terventions, but we focus on those that
are evidence based and confrmed to
be effective by well-done research. ABA
or applied behavior analysis has been
shown to be a highly effective teaching
strategy, which starts by breaking tasks/
skills down into smaller steps and reward
each attempt made by the child to do the
skill. Behavioral approaches can also be
used to reduce unwanted behaviors. As
a childs skills develop, the approach ex-
pands and becomes more complex. The
Early Start Denver Model combines ABA
with developmental approaches, such
as speech, occupational therapy and has
been shown to have a signifcant impact.
For older children, the development of
approach social skills (particularly inter-
acting with peers under different situa-
tions) becomes important, and there are
social skills curriculums (e.g. Carol Gray
Social Stories) available. The focus of in-
tervention is social engagement and the
explicit teaching of skills, which the chil-
dren are not learning on their own (inci-
dental learning). There has been a fair bit
of press regarding the role of immuniza-
tion, gluten, dairy, heavy metals, vitamin
defciencys as causes for autism. To date,
none of these have been proven, yet there
are people who promote treatments di-
rected at these causes. There are children
who truly have food allergies, and other
issues that may make them uncomfort-
able or irritable and thus make their be-
havior worse, but this is different that be-
ing the cause of autism.
Q: What sorts of intervention are
helpful and useful? When should a parent
begin intervention?
A: Focusing on engaging a child as
soon as a diagnosis has been made has
been shown to have a signifcant impact
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15
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on changing a childs developmental tra-
jectory. 20 years ago, we did not provide
intensive early intervention and children
were left to their own course and many
become less engaged and did not develop
skills to be independent. With interven-
tion, we are seeing more children enter-
ing mainstream classes, have less severe
symptoms with skills development and
having much more successful outcomes.
However, there are children, that despite
the best available intervention, who con-
tinue to have signifcant diffculties. In
New Jersey, if you have concerns about
any aspect of your childs development,
the following resources are available for
an initial evaluation and intervention ser-
vices for children who qualify:
1: For children under the age of 3
years can be obtained by calling Early In-
tervention/Special Child Health Services
at 888-653-4463.
2. For children ages 3 years t and old-
er, the Child Study Team can be contacted
through your school districts board of
education offce.
Autism Starts Here: What Families
Need to Know is an excellent resources
that can be down loaded for free from
Autism New Jerseys website http://www.
autismnj.org/document.doc?id=23) This
publication summarizes early signs, diag-
nosis, interventions, and resources
Q: Are there any cutting edge treat-
ments that are on the horizon for autism?
A: Current research is looking at
medications that target specifc receptors
in the brain that are responsible for neu-
ron development and function. The role
of autoimmune functions is also being
explored. Ongoing research uses highly
specialized imaging studies of the brain
that look at microarchitecture and brain
function during different activities are
helping to understand which parts of the
brain are developing and working differ-
ently. Identifying specifc genes and gene
combinations that play a role in the devel-
opment of autism is also an active area of
research.
Q: What is the role of a developmen-
tal pediatrician and when should a parent
seek out such a specialist?
A: Developmental pediatricians re-
ceive their initial training in general pedi-
atrics and then additional training in de-
velopmental/behavioral pediatrics and/
or neurodevelopmental disabilities and
are board certifed physicians in these
area of specialty. (certifcation status can
be checked at www.abp.org) Develop-
mental Pediatricians evaluate children
who either demonstrate developmental
differences (such as a child with autism)
or who at risk for developmental issues
because of their prior history (e.g., pre-
mature birth, diagnosis of Down Syn-
drome) Developmental Pediatricians can
be consulted any time there is a concern
about a childs development. As part
of the consultation, the physician will
evaluate the childs entire developmental
profle in order to determine the childs
strengths and weaknesses. Is there only
language delay or are there other con-
cerns, such as atypical behaviors that are
seen in autism? Does the child have low
muscle tone or other motor abnormali-
ties consistent with cerebral palsy and
therefore is exhibit delays in mastering
motor skills? Other area of expertise in-
clude diagnosing learning disabilities or
ADHD in a school age child, intellectual
disabilities, and syndromes that impact
a childs development. Once there is an
understanding of what the childs devel-
opmental/behavioral issues, the next
step is trying to determine if there is an
identifable cause for the childs diffcul-
ties. Further evaluations may include vi-
sion and hearing evaluations, blood work
including genetic tests, and in some cases
and MRI of the brain or other specialized
studies. The physician may also recom-
mend more detailed testing of skills by an
occupational therapist, speech/language
therapist, school psychologist or other
professionals. In addition, making recom-
mendations for the types of therapeutic
and educational interventions is key as
is monitoring the childs progress and
helping families to identify appropriate
resources in the community that will sup-
port their childs development.
Autism Awareness
for Every Month of the Year
each attempt made by the child to do the
skill. Behavioral approaches can also be
used to reduce unwanted behaviors. As
a childs skills develop, the approach ex-
pands and becomes more complex. The
Early Start Denver Model combines ABA
with developmental approaches, such
as speech, occupational therapy and has
been shown to have a signifcant impact.
For older children, the development of
approach social skills (particularly inter-
acting with peers under different situa-
tions) becomes important, and there are
social skills curriculums (e.g. Carol Gray
Social Stories) available. The focus of in-
tervention is social engagement and the
explicit teaching of skills, which the chil-
dren are not learning on their own (inci-
dental learning). There has been a fair bit
of press regarding the role of immuniza-
tion, gluten, dairy, heavy metals, vitamin
defciencys as causes for autism. To date,
none of these have been proven, yet there
are people who promote treatments di-
rected at these causes. There are children
who truly have food allergies, and other
issues that may make them uncomfort-
able or irritable and thus make their be-
havior worse, but this is different that be-
ing the cause of autism.
Q: What sorts of intervention are
helpful and useful? When should a parent
begin intervention?
A: Focusing on engaging a child as
soon as a diagnosis has been made has
been shown to have a signifcant impact
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How to Know if You Need to Go
to the Emergency Room
Children fall down, scrape their knees,
catch viruses, and run fevers all the time.
So can you distinguish a minor injury or
illness from a true medical emergency
that warrants a trip to the emergency
room?
A lot depends on how your child
looks and behaves, says Dr. John McG-
real, pediatric emergency medicine physi-
cian at The Valley Hospital Bolger Emer-
gency Departments pediatric ER.
For example, Is she drinking and act-
ing like her happy, lively self? Is he run-
ning around? Or, is she listless, grumpy,
and refusing to drink? Is he out of breath,
moping, and sitting on the couch? he
asks.
Common medical emergencies in-
clude high fevers, ingestion of a foreign
object or poison, and broken bones.
If your baby is newborn to 3 months
old and has a rectal temperature of 100.4
degrees or above, contact your pediatri-
cian or come to the ER for an evaluation.
For children older than 3 months, the de-
gree of the fever tends to be less impor-
tant than the childs general appearance.
See if your child will take some sips
of water or other liquid that does not con-
tain sugar, says McGreal. Seek medical
care if your child is also vomiting and ex-
periencing persistent diarrhea, because
children can become dehydrated very
quickly.
Refrain from offering anything to eat
or drink if your child has ingested a for-
eign object, such as a button, screw, or
coin; adult medications; too much of any
kind of medication (even a small overdose
of acetaminophen can result in liver dam-
age); or a liquid that could be poisonous.
If you have an old bottle of syrup of
ipecac in your medicine cabinet, throw it
out, says Peter Lee, M.D., director of Val-
leys pediatric ER, of the liquid that was
once prescribed to induce vomiting. Do
not try to get the child to throw anything
up. Call the Poison Control Center hotline
at 1-800-222-1222, contact your pediatri-
cian, or jump in the car and get to the ER.
Bone and joint injuries can be hard
for parents to evaluate and may require
an exam by an ER doctor or orthopedist.
Because childrens bones continue
to grow until they are about 17 years old
and are more fexible than adult bones, an
injury that appears minor in a child can
actually be major, says McGreal. The
only sure way to know if a bone is broken
is to evaluate it clinically and on an X-ray.
If a child can bear weight on an in-
jured leg or use an injured arm, rest and
putting ice on the injured area are rea-
sonable frst-aid measures, notes Dr. Lee.
However, if the pain persists, or the child
cant bear weight on the extremity, or the
injured area swells quickly and signif-
cantly, its time to seek medical care, he
adds.
Should you hold off giving your sick
child medication to ease the pain or fever
until you get to an ER?
No, says McGreal. One dose of
acetaminophen or ibuprofen to help the
child become more comfortable will not
affect the childs treatment in most cases,
unless surgery is required.
All head injuries should be reported
to your pediatrician, say Drs. Lee and Mc-
Greal. Loss of consciousness, vomiting,
and trouble walking are three sure signs
that your childs head injury requires a
physicians evaluation. Close observa-
tion is imperative, of course. If you are
unsure of what to do, contact your childs
pediatrician.
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1. Nineteen students from The Elisabeth
Morrow School (EMS) won regional awards
in the 2014 Scholastic Art and Writing
competition. Each year, more than 250,000
art and writing pieces are submitted by
seventh through twelfth grade students
across the country, Canada, and U.S. schools
abroad. EMS students won with three art
and 16 writing submissions, and one of the
four regional Gold Key award winners, Claire
Fink of Cresskill, New Jersey, won a National
Gold Medal for her personal essay/memoir
Braving Fear. Historically, the national gold
medal winners represent the top 1 percent of
entries.
2. Ben Porat Yosef third graders visited the
New York Botanical Gardens on Wednesday,
April 9th, in conjunction with their study of
desert and rain forest plant adaptations. The
students were guided by Ben Porat Yosefs
science specialist, Jean Myers.
3. Jordana Braverman and Alison Stiel,
residents of West Orange, currently studying
at Midreshet AMIT in Jerusalem, recently
participated in the Jerusalem Marathon.
Jordana and Alison were members of Team
AMIT, which raised more than $16,000 for
the children of AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled.
Beit Hayeled, located in the Gilo section of
Jerusalem, is a home to 110 children, ages
5 to 15, in foster care. The young women
who attend Midreshet AMIT, which is a post
high school program, live on the Beit Hayeled
campus. They both engage in advanced
Judaic studies and serve as big sisters to
the children living at Beit Hayeled.
4. Lubavitch on the Palisades Elementary
School Science Day was a big hit. Students
were assigned groups and stations based on
interest and ability. There were 9 stations
set up around the elementary school and
students were able to visit four stations. I
liked science day because I learned things
I never knew and I had fun. I liked the
static electricity station the most. I learned
that your hair can spike up when you walk
with socks on a rug, said 3rd grader Ariel
Hakimian.
5. Glen Rock Jewish Center Gimel students
had a mock trip to Israel This photo imagines
them on a plane to Israel. They would then
experience customs, visiting a kibbutz,
bargaining in the shuk and tasting Israeli
foods. For information about Glen Rock
Jewish Centers Hebrew School, contact
officegrjc.org or 201-652-6624.
6. Glen Rock Jewish Center Hebrew Schools
Daled Class Shtetl and Sephardic Jewish
Fair. Glen Rock Jewish Centers Daled class
recreated the feeling of shtetl lifestyle and
enjoyed delicious Eastern European and
Sephardic foods on March 23.
7. Youngsters from the School of Dance at
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly
entertained seniors at the Jewish Home
Assisted Living in River Vale, recently.
Eighteen girls, ages 6 to 13, performed a
variety of jazz, hip hop and tap dances for
the residents.
8. The Kitah Hey class at Temple Emanuels
Religious School recently welcomed some
residents of the Jewish Home Assisted Living
in River Vale for a model Passover seder. The
seder was led by teachers Beth Held and Amy
Wolk. Rabbi Benjamin Shull also participated
in the event. Pictured are the Hey students
from Woodcliff Lake, Upper Saddle River,
River Vale and their guests. A wonderful
afternoon was enjoyed by all.
9. Ben Porat Yosef Kindergarten students
learn experientially about how grapes must
be squashed in order to make the grape juice
for the four cups of grape juice that they will
drink at the family seder on Pesach. Shown
here, a group of children removed their shoes
and socks and did their best squishing.
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at bergenPAC
Check out the 11th Annual YCS Blossoms Art Exhibit, which has become a much-
anticipated tradition at bergenPAC in Englewood. This years show, displaying the work
of special needs students in grades K through 12 in Bergen, Hudson and Essex counties
Youth Consultation Services
schools, promises to be diverse
and inspirational. Much of the
work includes Inca-inspired
metal embossed masks,
Impressionist painting, Peruvian
and Tlingit-inspired weaving,
Colonial American yarn dolls
and more. The show will be
on view during the month of
May in the mezzanine. Bergen
Performing Arts Center,
30 North Van Brunt St.,
Englewood.
Special Delivery:
Best Baby Shower Ever
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center is helping expectant moms prepare for baby
by delivering a day of fun and education with The Best Baby Shower Ever, now in its
8th year. This popular and free event on May 10 offers complimentary consultations
with board-certied pediatricians and maternity staff, an opportunity to meet with
top baby product vendors, special activities for dads-to-be, pre-natal tness demos,
rafes, giveaways, refreshments and more. Last years shower drew more than 200
participants. Saturday, May 10, 2 to 4 p.m. Englewood Hospital and Medical Center,
The Ferolie Gallery, 350 Engle St., Englewood. 866-980-34-62, www.englewood-
hospital.com.
Sweets for the
Sweetest: Mothers Day
Chocolate Program
What could be sweeter for mom than a mothers
day chocolate program? Treat the mothers in your
life to something delicious this year a chocolate
tasting that features tasty tidbits and bite-sized
facts about Jews and chocolate. The program fea-
tures Rabbi Deborah
R. Prinz, author of On
the Chocolate Trail: A
Delicious Adventure
Connecting Jews,
Religions, History, Travel,
Rituals to the Magic of
Cacao. Sunday, May 11,
2:30 p.m. The Museum
of Jewish Heritage:
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Edmond
J. Safra Plaza 36 Battery Place, New York, NY
(646) 437-4202, www.mjhnyc.org.
Dinosaurs Wake Up
Secaucus this Memorial Day
Get ready for the Jersey Jurassic
adventure as Field Station: Dinosaurs
reopens to the public Memorial Day
weekend for its third season. Families
can enjoy 32 life-sized animatronic
dinosaurs as well as interactive shows
starring a 15-foot juvenile T-Rex,
game shows to test your dinosaur
knowledge, a dig site, the 3D movie
Dinosaurs Alive! and other activi-
ties throughout the day. There are
also hands-on workshops, created
with paleontologists and scientists at
the New Jersey State Museum. Field
Station: Dinosaurs 1 Dinosaur Way,
Secaucus, 855-999-9010,
www.eldstationdinosaurs.com.
To Our Readers: To Our Readers: This calendar is a day-by-day schedule of events. Although all information is as timely as we can make it, its a
good idea to call to verify details before you go.
To Add Your Event to Our Calendar
Send it to:
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or fax it to: 201-833-4959
Deadline for Summer issue (published May 23):
Tuesday, May 14
Saturday, April 26
Teddy Bear Clinic: The Valley Hospital Volunteer
Department is offering a free education for
children ages 3 to 8 years old to learn through
medical play, childrens crafts and tour an ambu-
lance how things work. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The
Valley Hospital Terrace. 201-447-8138, teddy-
bearclinic@valleyhealth.com.
Sunday, April 27
Open House: Temple Beth Tikvah, 950
Preakness Ave., Wayne, hosts open house 10:30
am to 12:30 p.m. Families with children pre-K to
3rd grade can stop by to learn what Temple Beth
Tikvah and its Religious School have to offer. This
event is free and open to the community. 973-
628-5504.
Yom HaShoah at the JCC: Commemoration at
7 p.m. with keynote speaker Herbert Kolb, a sur-
vivor of the Theresienstadt Concentration camp.
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 E. Clinton Ave.,
Tenay. 201-408-1426.
Kids in Action: Chabad of Passaic County will
hold its monthly program focusing on the ve
senses and the eyes to see a good world. Join
and visit Israel, make Israeli food and watch a lm
about the countrys history. 1 to 2:30 p.m. $10
per child. The Chabad Center, 194 Ratzer Road,
Wayne. 973-694-6274.
Monday, April 28
Wear Your Pajamas Day: The Gerrard Berman
Day School, Solomon Schechter of North Jersey
invites children ages 3 to 5 to a Russian bedtime
story hour and craft before bed. Springtime story
in Russian and craft before bed. To register, Susan
Scher, 201-337-1111, gbds@ssnj.org. The Little
Academies at GBDS, 45 Spruce St., Oakland.
Thursday, May 1
Fancy Nancy Tea Party: Calling all Fancy Nancy
fans! Kids K-3rd Grade are cordially invited to a
Fancy Nancy Tea Party. At 3:30 p.m. Wear your
best and well do the rest. RSVP by pre-register-
ing in the Childrens Room. Johnson Public Library,
274 Main St., 201-343-4169 to pre-register.
Story Time in Closter: Temple Beth El invites
nursery school-age children to story time with
school director, Abbe Rosner, 4:30 p.m. Open to
the community. RSVP nsdir@tbenv.org or 201-
768- 3726. Temple Beth El 221 Schraalenburgh
Road, Closter.
Friday, May 2
Tot Shabbat in Closter: Temple Beth El hosts
Tot Shabbat led by Rabbi David S. Widzer and
Canter Rica Timman, which starts at 5:15 p.m.
Tot Shabbat is open to all nursery school age
children and features song, stories, and crafts.
An optional Shabbat dinner follows at 5:45 pm.
Open to everyone. 221 Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. RSVP for dinner, 201-768-5112.
Temple Emeth Family Worship: Shabbat ser-
vices for the family starting at 7:30 p.m. Temple
Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck. 201-833-
1322, www.emeth.org.
Saturday, May 3
Healthy Kids Day: The Wayne YMCA holds its
2
nd
annual event from 11 to 2 p.m. Free and
open to the community. Activities include climb-
ing wall, swim, zumba, gym games. There will be
plenty of giveaways. The Y is located at 1 Pike
Drive in Wayne.
Sunday, May 4
Fit Run: Benet Rutgers Hillel Israel Advocacy
with this Fit 5K run/Walk. Registration is ongoing.
All proceeds for the run, which will take place in
Buccleuch Park, New Brunswick, will go directly to
funding Israel programming at Rutgers University
Hillel. For information, Diana Diner at Rutgers
Hillel, 732-545-2407, Diana@rutgershillel.org.
Randy Kaplan in Concert: Blending her
American roots, Delta blues, ragtime and
quirky lyrics, this musician entertains families
at 2 p.m. at the Jewish Museum. Tickets, $18
adults, $13 per child. The Jewish Museum, 1109
Fifth Ave., Manhattan. 212-423-3337, www.
thejewishmuseum.org.
Open House: Temple Avodat Shaloms Religious
School will house an open house from 9:30 to
10:30 a.m. where parents and children will be
able to observe classes for students age 3 to
grade 12, meet the rabbis, cantor and teach-
ers and see the synagogue. 120 Sylvan Ave.,
Englewood Cliffs, 201-947-6900, ext. 274.
Ghetto Tango: The National Yiddish Theater-
Folksbiene presents Ghetto Tango with artistic
director Zalmen Mlotek and singers Daniella
Rabbani and Avram Mlotek. 2:30 p.m. $20, $15
museum and Folksbiene members. The Museum
of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust, Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery
Place, New York. 646-437-4202, www.mjhnyc.org.
Monday, May 5
Robotics at the Library: Learn to create func-
tional robots from simple household items. For
students grades 4 through 6. Pre-registration
required. Johnson Public Library, 274 Main St.,
201-343-4169 to pre-register.
Tuesday, May 6
Israels Independence Day at the Wayne Y:
Celebrate Yom Haatzmaut from 4 to 6 p.m. with
a tour of Israel, craft making, eating an Israeli din-
ner at the Tel Aviv Caf and enjoy birthday cake.
Free event is open to all in the community. The Y,
1 Pike Drive, Wayne.
Wednesday, May 8
Meet & Greet: Brunch for Family Support
Organization of Bergen County celebration
Childrens Mental Health Week. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30
p.m., pizza dinner 4 to 6 p.m. For more informa-
tion and to RSVP Danielle, 201-796-6209 x107,
dc@fsobergen.org.
Saturday, May 10
Tot Shabbat at Temple Emeth: Bring your chil-
dren to the bimah while Cantor Tilum and Rabbi
Sirbu lead in song and story. 9:30 a.m. Services
followed by a bagels brunch. Temple Emeth, 166
Windsor Road, Teaneck. 201-833-1322, www.
emeth.org.
Best Baby Shower Ever: Englewood Hospital and
Medical Center is helping expectant moms pre-
pare for baby by delivering a day of fun and edu-
cation. Come to Englewood Hospital and Medical
Centers Ferolie Gallery, 350 Engle St., Englewood
from 2 to 4 p.m. for free and complimentary con-
sultations. Registration, 866-980-3462.
Sunday, May 11
How sweet it is: Mothers Day Program with
author Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz, who penned
On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure
Connecting Jews Religions, History, Travel Rituals
and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao. 2:30 p.m.
sample tasty tidbits of chocolate and bite sized
facts about Jews and chocolate. $5, free for
members. The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A
Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Edmond J. Safra
Plaza, 36 Battery Place, New York. 646-437-
4202, www.mjhnyc.org.
Monday, May 12
Magic Tree House Discussion Book: Join and
read and discuss another book in this series.
Grades 1 to 3. 3:30 p.m. Johnson Public Library,
274 Main St., 201-343-4169 to pre-register.
Thursday, May 15
Arts and Crafts: For grades 2 and up. 3:30 p.m.
Johnson Public Library, 274 Main St., 201-343-
4169 to pre-register.
Friday, May 16
Musical Shabbat at Temple Emeth: Sing and
dance to the joy of Shabbat music starting at 8
p.m. Temple Emeth, 166 Windsor Road, Teaneck.
201-833-1322, www.emeth.org.
Tot Shabbat in Franklin Lakes: Service and pizza
dinner starting at 5:30 p.m. Barnert Temple,
747 Route 208 South, Franklin Lakes. For more
information, 201-848-1800. Visit our Web site at
www.barnerttemple.org.
Sunday, May 18
Lag BOmer BBQ: PJ Library and the Bergen
County YJCC invite families with children 2 to 6
to a Family Field Day and BBQ from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. at the YJCC, 605 Pascack Road, Township
of Washington. Carnival games, sports and story
time. RSVPs requested. $5 per person, $20 per
family. 201-666-6610.
Summer Youth and Teen Show Auditions:
Auditions for shows Godspell, Jr. for ages 5 to 13
from 2 to 4 p.m. For Avenue Q (school edition)
for ages 13-18 will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. call
the Ys Cultural Arts Director, Meryl Budnick, to
reserve a timeslot, 973-595-0100 ext. 257. The
Y, 1 Pike Drive, Wayne. 973-595-0100, www.
wayneymca.org.
Monday, May 19
Murder Mystery: A body has been found! Egads!
Who done it? Search for clues by asking charac-
ters throughout the library for forensic clues to
solve this crime! Grades 4-6. 3:30 p.m. Johnson
Public Library, 274 Main St., 201-343-4169 to
pre-register.
Wednesday, May 21
Volunteer Appreciation Evening: The Friendship
Circle hosts its annual event 7 to 8:30 p.m.
at the Chabad Center of Passaic County, 194
Ratzer Road, Wayne. Featured speaker is Richard
Bernstein, an attorney, blind since birth and an
advocate for disabled rights. $18 per guest. To
RSVP, email chaya@fcpassaiccounty.com or call/
text 973 694 6274. www.fcpassaiccounty.com.
Thursday, May 22
Beatles Hit the Library: When the Fab Four
appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show 50 years ago,
they made history. Liverpool musician Kenny
Cunningham will serenade the audience at 7 p.m.
in celebration. Johnson Public Library, 274 Main
St., 201-343-4169 to pre-register.
Lego Day: Calling all future architects and dream-
ers. Have fun making buildings and see what
works. Second grade and up. 3:30 p.m. Johnson
Public Library, 274 Main St., 201-343-4169 to
pre-register.
Thursday, May 29
Story Time in Closter: Temple Beth El invites
nursery school-age children to story time with
school director, Abbe Rosner, 4:30 p.m. Open to
the community. RSVP nsdir@tbenv.org or 201-
768- 3726. Temple Beth El 221 Schraalenburgh
Road, Closter.
Friday, May 30
Tot Shabbat in Closter: Temple Beth El hosts
Tot Shabbat led by Rabbi David S. Widzer and
Canter Rica Timman, which starts at 5:15 p.m. Tot
Shabbat is open to all nursery school age children
and features song, stories, and crafts. An optional
Shabbat dinner follows at 5:45 pm. Open to
everyone. 221 Schraalenburgh Road, Closter.
RSVP for dinner, 201-768-5112.
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See Teddy Bear Clinic, Saturday, April 26
See Lego Day, Thursday, May 22
Sunday, April 27
Open House: Temple Beth Tikvah, 950 Preakness
Ave., Wayne, hosts open house 10:30 am to 12:30 p.m.
Families with children pre-K to 3rd grade can stop by to
learn what Temple Beth Tikvah and its Religious School
have to offer. This event is free and open to the commu-
nity. 973-628-5504.
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societys pressure can bring our daugh-
ters to see themselves in an unhealthy
light. Among 5th to 12th grade girls, 59
percent surveyed were unhappy with
their body shape. 47 percent in the
same survey admitted that they wanted
to lose weight because of magazine pho-
tos. By age 15, girls are twice as likely as
boys to become depressed. Too many
children grow into adulthood having
suffered from anorexia, bulimia and
binging-sometimes never conquering
their eating disorder. Yo-yo dieting be-
comes a way of life.
Can a Barbie doll be held partially
responsible?
According to Mattels spokeswom-
an, Kim Culmone, Barbie is not the prob-
lem. She feels that the infuence on these
Barbie continued
issues of body image comes from peers,
moms, parents and social circles.
While psychologist have differing
views when it comes to the negative im-
pact toys can have on developing chil-
dren, we can certainly decide to take a
stand with our kids and try to make sure
that we are giving them a positive mes-
sage about their selfworth. Mothers es-
pecially have tremendous infuence on a
daughters body image. When a mother
looks at her daughter with a judgmental
eye or comments on weight and size-
even complaining about her own fgure,
she is becoming part of the problem.
What We Can Do
Be a positive role model. Try not to be
obsessed with talk about fashion, di-
eting, and criticizing your own body.
Remember that your daughter is listen-
ing to your words and sees the world
through your eyes. Show your child that
you are happy with who you are.
Dont nag about the pounds. If you
have a concern about your daughters
(or sons weight) stress the importance
of health and ftness instead. Get your
family moving. Be active in a fun way.
Play a sport, go bike riding, take up an
active hobby together instead of singling
out one child to go do exercise that feels
like a punishment. Keep healthy foods
and snacks around.
Watch your praise. Do you praise
your daughter solely for her looks? Have
you forgotten to focus on her character
and efforts? This includes dads too! Girls
need fathers who offer emotional sup-
port and who are present as a positive
voice in their lives.
Most importantly, encourage your
daughter to see the great power she has
to accomplish good in this world. Help
her feel vital. Discover the power of pas-
sion for a cause. Teach her, as Judaism so
wisely teaches us, that the real beauty of
a woman lies deep within. We walk with
dignity. We are called the daughters of
the King and our ever day refects the
majesty of our soul.
True beauty cannot be defned by
a doll or a perfect dress size. It is the
wonder of recognizing who we are and
the joy of fnally realizing that we are,
indeed, each beautiful, created in the im-
age of God.
Slovie Jungreis-Wolff is a parenting coach
and author of Raising a Child with Soul
(St. Martins Press).
Reprinted with permission of Aish.com
PeeWee Pilates
The Valley Hospitals Center for Family
Education is offering PeeWee Pilates, a
great way to regain core strength, pelvis
foor control, and get rid of your post-
pregnancy tummy. The program will be
held on Friday, May 2, 23 and 30 from
10:30 11:30 a.m. Held at the Destination
Maternitys Learning Studio, 35 Plaza on
Westbound Route 4, Paramus. To regis-
ter online, www.ValleyHealth.com/Fami-
lyEducation. 201-291-6151.
CATS Audition at bergenPAC
BergenPACs Performing Arts School is taking it to the next level with CATS. If
you are 13-25 years old and have a passion for musical theater then this is where
you want to be this summer. Auditions will take place Sunday, April 27, 4 p.m.-
8 p.m.; Saturday, May 17, 12 p.m.-7 p.m.; and Wednesday, May 28, 5 p.m.-9 p.m.
All auditions will take place at The Performing Arts School located at 1 Depot
Square. Accompanist will be provided. Please make an audition appointment with
Arlene 201-482-8373 or by emailing education@bergenPAC.org. Those audition-
ing should prepare (1) Song from the show CATS & (1) additional Song from an
Andrew Lloyd Webber Show (not from CATS). Please prepare a monologue one
minute or less in length. Bring dance clothes as you will be asked to dance.
Help Send Cancer-Stricken
Children to a Broadway Show
For the past three summers, Miss Pattis
School of Dance has sponsored a trip
to Manhattan for children with cancer
to dine at Johns Pizzeria and to see a
Broadway show. Last years trip to see
Cinderella was a great event for the
children and their families. For many of
the youngsters, it was their frst Broad-
way show. This years choice, Lion
King, is already being met with great
anticipation. Given the cost to fund the
trip, Julie Dance is seeking donations
from our dance school community.
Donations can be made at the dance
school or at the dance recital where a
Julie Dance table will be set up. Please
forward donations to: Julie Dance, 85
Godwin Ave, Midland Park, NJ 07432 or
call Darryl Vigon 201-670-4422.
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ings for parties sometimes two to three
months in advance, Horwich says.
An up-roar-ious time is in store for
celebrants at the recently opened Field
Station: Dinosaurs in Secaucus. But you
have to have a birthday, or at least cel-
ebrate it, during the season in which the
part flled with prehistoric animatronics
is opened, from May 24, Memorial Day
to Nov. 2, says Lynn Schreur, director
of marketing. Packages include the Cre-
taceous Celebration, with VIP seating
to the show and a photo opportunity
with T-Rex, to the Fossil Fete, another
popular package. If you cant make it to
Secaucus, no worries. Off-season, Field
Station: Dinosaurs offers a T-Rex Trou-
badour, who will come to the house for
either 45 or 60 minutes and play guitar
while he educates party-goers on the
prehistoric facts.
For dance or yoga or acting or arts
and crafts fans, Cresskill Performing
Arts will whip up any party that will be
both creative and fun, says owner Betsy
Daly. Birthday parties galore are for the
making her at this diverse arts studio
which offers everything from all kinds of
dance parties to yoga parties to acting
and theater games to arts and crafts par-
ties. Most parties are at their Cresskill
location. The studio will accommodate
kosher partiers with kosher food or
bring-your-own. Cresskill Performing
Arts hosts parties for youngsters from
three to teenagers.
For the good sport, the Jewish Cen-
ter of Teaneck provides fun gym or swim
parties for all occasions. Celebrate a
birthday, a bar or bat mitzvah, gradu-
ation or any other special event with a
memorable or unique party. Parties take
place in the centers full-sized, heated in-
door pool or sports basketball court and
private party room.
Ice skating fans can glide anytime of
the year The Ice Vault in Wayne, which
offers three fun-flled party packages.
All parties include private party room,
Carvel ice cream cake, food, soft drinks,
invitations and an off ice party attendant.
For golf and go-kart fun, the Tappan
Golf Center in Tappan, N.Y., lets the birth-
day boy or girl celebrate in style with
mini-golf, go-karts and batting cages.
At Medieval Times, this dinner the-
ater venue in Lyndhurst is a rollicking,
jousting good time that takes its audi-
ence back to the days of King Arthurs
Court. Offering several different pack-
ages from the Kings Royalty Package to
the Celebration package, participants
can get goodies along with their dinner
and theater. Partnering with kosher ca-
tering, Medieval Times is able to provide
a kosher meal to its customers
At Monster Mini Golf, guests get to
plan 18 holes of Monster Mini Golf in a
glow-in-the-dark arena as part of their
celebration.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of About Our
Children.
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Children become ill at all hours of the day and night. Thats why
The Valley Hospital is keeping its Pediatric Emergency Room open
around the clock, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Pediatric
Emergency Room offers young patients a soothing environment in which
to be evaluated and treated. It is equipped with appropriate pediatric technology
and is situated away from the adult treatment areas.
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39 East Palisade Ave Englewood, NJ
Sun-Thurs: 11am-10pm
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201.569.5600
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473 Cedar Lane, Teaneck
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252 Schraalenburgh Rd
Closter, NJ 07624
201-750-9966
201-750-9967 FAX
WWW.HARVESTBISTRO.COM
Bistro
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132 Veterans Plaza, Dumont, New Jersey 201.384.7767
(Corner of West Madison Ave.) www.njdiningguide.com/ilmulino
ExcellentThe Record, 3/17/2000
Parties up to 120 to fit any budget, call Jimmy.
Beautifully Renovated
Voted Top 5
BYOB
Restaurant
Spring 08
Italian
Restaurant
Winner 2009
You dont have to break the bank for top-notch
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regular dinner menu entres cost under $20, and on
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diners can order off the specially priced Sunset
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soup or salad, an entre, fresh fruit and coffee or tea
(price levels range from $13.95 to $17.95).
Bergen Health & Life, Sept 2009
Best Value even during these economic
times, you can afford to dine at Il Mulino.
#1 Italian Restaurant #1 BYOB Restaurant
#1 Best Prices #1 Family Friendly Restaurant
Open 7 Days A Week
Excellent
The Record, 3/17/2000
132 Veterans Plaza, Dumont, NJ 201.384.7767
www.njdiningguide.com/ilmulino
Voted #2
BYO Restaurant
Spring 2008
132 Veterans Plaza, Dumont, New Jersey 201.384.7767
(Corner of West Madison Ave.) www.njdiningguide.com/ilmulino
ExcellentThe Record, 3/17/2000
Parties up to 120 to fit any budget, call Jimmy.
Beautifully Renovated
Voted Top 5
BYOB
Restaurant
Spring 08
Italian
Restaurant
Winner 2009
You dont have to break the bank for top-notch
Italian fare at this charming Dumont eatery. All
regular dinner menu entres cost under $20, and on
Mondays through Thursdays from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
diners can order off the specially priced Sunset
Dinner menu, which includes an appetizer choice of
soup or salad, an entre, fresh fruit and coffee or tea
(price levels range from $13.95 to $17.95).
Best Value even during these economic
times, you can afford to dine at Il Mulino.
#1 Italian Restaurant #1 BYOB Restaurant
#1 Best Prices #1 Family Friendly Restaurant
Open 7 Days A Week
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Voted One of the Most Popular Italian Restaurants
in All of Bergen County by Top Vote-Getters from
Various Magazines and Newspapers
Come See Why We Are So Popular!
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Open 7 Days
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Come Celebrate
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Celebrate
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Special Menu
Prepared
Middle Eastern Restaurant
178 Piermont Road Cresskill, NJ
(201) 816-7343 Fax: (201) 816-0254
www.samdanrestaurant.com
Celebrating our
19th Year Anniversary
15% OFF DINNER
AND TAKE-OUT
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guests, Chakra provides the perfect environment.
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201-461-0075 f: 201-461-0078
hours: sun-Wed: 6am-1am thurs-sat 24 hours
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Let us help you make
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Other Packages Available, Call For Details
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120 Terhune Drive
Wayne, NJ
973.616.0999
Call For Reservations
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Everything on the menu there is good. New Jersey Monthly
Accepting
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Well known for its authentic cuisine from
Spain, serving only the freshest seafood as
well as its large menu selections, tapas and
daily specials including Steak Mesn.
343 Bergen Blvd.
Palisades Park, NJ
201.947.1038
www.MesonMadrid.com
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9011 Palisade Ave., North Bergen
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Daily Specials
Serving Brick Oven Pizza
Live Entertainment Friday
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Complimentary Appetizers (at bar only)
Private Party Room for all occasions
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serving only the freshest lobsters and seafood
as well as its large menu selections, tapas and
daily specials.
Considered by many to be a staple in Bergen
County, it remains a landmark for being one
of the areas finest Spanish restaurants and the
only one in New Jersey to have received
4 Stars from the New York Times.
Some of the famous dishes served are:
Steak Meson a 3lb original, Twin 1 lb.
lobsters, Shrimp Plancha as well as many
other delicious entrees.
343 Bergen Blvd., Palisades Park, NJ 201.947.1038 www.MesonMadrid.com
Going to New York City (VISIT OUR SISTER RESTAURANT
MESON SEVILLA IN NYC www.mesonsevilla.com 212-262-5890)
The Next
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Dining in Spain
Open for Lunch & Dinner
Located 1/2 Mile from GW Bridge
Large Private Parking Lot
We have Private Party Rooms (25-150 guests)
Corporate catering
delivered offering a
variety of menus to
host your event
10% OFF Lunch & Dinner valid
Monday-Thursday for May.
Must bring ad in. Valid for table check of $50 for dinner or
$30 for lunch. Discount for cash payment only, not valid
with credit cards. Offer is only one per table and
cant be used with other offers.
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Meson Madrid in Palisades Park is well
known for its authentic cuisine from Spain,
serving only the freshest lobsters and seafood
as well as its large menu selections, tapas and
daily specials.
Considered by many to be a staple in Bergen
County, it remains a landmark for being one
of the areas finest Spanish restaurants and the
only one in New Jersey to have received
4 Stars from the New York Times.
Some of the famous dishes served are:
Steak Meson a 3lb original, Twin 1 lb.
lobsters, Shrimp Plancha as well as many
other delicious entrees.
343 Bergen Blvd., Palisades Park, NJ 201.947.1038 www.MesonMadrid.com
Going to New York City (VISIT OUR SISTER RESTAURANT
MESON SEVILLA IN NYC www.mesonsevilla.com 212-262-5890)
The Next
Best Thing to
Dining in Spain
Open for
Lunch & Dinner
Located 1/2 Mile
from GW Bridge
Large Private
Parking Lot
We have Private Party
Rooms (25-150 guests)
10% OFF Lunch & Dinner valid
Monday-Thursday for May.
Must bring ad in. Valid for table check of $50 for dinner or
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with credit cards. Offer is only one per table and
cant be used with other offers.
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MOTHERS DAY
Serving Bergen County from more than 30 years
Park West
Diner Cafe
Rt. 45 West Little Falls, NJ
973-256-2767
Park Wayne
Diner Cafe Bar
721 Hamburg Turnpike Wayne, NJ
973-595-7600
2 GREAT
LOCATIONS
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YOU!
Fine Dining in
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Enjoy Live Music
in our Lounge
Fri. & Sat. Evenings
53 W. Passaic St., Rochelle Park
201-843-1250
Lunch 11:30 am-3 pm
Dinner 5 pm - 11 pm
Lunch on Saturday from 1:00 on
Open Monday-Sunday for lunch & dinner
Ask about our party facilities
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and The Herald News 8/12/87
The Record 8/14/98 - 2/1/02
Excellent - Zagat
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2014
TAVERNA
Authentic
Greek
Cuisine
201-703-9200
238 Broadway Rt. 4 East
Elmwood Park, NJ 07407
WWW.TAVERNAMYKONOS.COM
LUNCH & DINNER
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75 Franklin Avenue Ridgewood
201-652-0686 201-652-0615 www.dimsumdynastynj.com
dim sum DYNASTY
C a n t o n e s e C u i s i n e
A Wonderful Variety of Dim Sum Dishes & Live Seafood
Zagat Review 2006-2013
Taking reservation
for Mothers Day
Special banquet
menu and rolling
dim sum carts
will be served on
Mothers Day.
Mon-Thurs 11-10 Fri 11-10:30 Sat 10:30-10:30 Sun 10:30-10
In Celebration of our 9th Anniversary
50% OFF
Dim Sum Items (assorted Dumplings), dine-in only
Monday-Friday Lunch Only Cash Only
Please present coupon for discount. Not to be combined with any other offer. Not available on any holiday! (Not on Mothers Day)
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PUERTO IGUAZU, Argentina The youthful group of
60 drew their chairs around tables strewn with jars
of markers and the occasional Rubiks Cube, nearby
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The conference hall was suffused with a can-do vibe
that wouldnt have seemed out of place in Silicon Val-
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Instead, the crowd of social entrepreneurs and
activists had come to a resort near the famous Iguazu
Falls on the Argentina-Brazil border to brainstorm a
future for Jewish life in small communities across Latin
America.
The decline of communities in smaller cities is our
biggest problem, said the events co-chair, Ariela Lija-
vetzky, director of informal education at Maccabi, a
Jewish sports club in Buenos Aires.
The recent four-day gathering, called Lazos Span-
ish for ties was sponsored by the U.S.-based Schus-
terman Philanthropic Network as part of its Connec-
tion Points initiative.
One of many thematic gatherings of young Jews
convened around the world by the initiative, Lazos
focused on the challenges faced by shrinking Jewish
communities in Latin America.
Across the region, Jewish population increasingly is
becoming centralized, leaving once-flourishing com-
munities in smaller towns and cities struggling.
Its at a critical point, said Carlos Vilches Haquin,
a lawyer from the city of Concepcion in Chile.
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a new synagogue in the Argentine
city of Corrientes and a network for
Jewish travelers journeying to Bra-
zil during the World Cup. Technol-
ogy was offered up as a means of
changing the status quo.
Everyone is asking where young
adults have disappeared to, said
Victor Rottenstein, the head of
search engine optimization opera-
tions at Mercado Libre, the Latin
American version of eBay. Ill tell
you where they are. Theyre on
Facebook.
Participants discussed how to
capitalize on the potential contri-
butions of community members
who had left and to improve the
way resources are shared among
communities.
Communities are widely dis-
tributed across a broad area, said
Diego Goldman, a psychologist
from Buenos Aires who co-chaired
the Lazos meeting with Ms. Lija-
vetzky. There is a big necessity for Latin America to
work as a network.
The effort to strengthen small communities is com-
plicated by economic uncertainty in some countries,
however. In Argentina, an inflation rate of approxi-
mately 30 percent and the prospect of further cur-
rency devaluations make it more difficult for insti-
tutions to stay afloat, and synagogues in a number
of smaller cities are selling off their properties and
merging.
Even communities with storied histories are
struggling.
Moises Ville, a town in the Argentine province of
Sante Fe, famed for its Jewish gauchos, or cowboys,
once was a shining symbol of Jewish community life
on the plains of Argentina. With the financial patron-
age of the German-Jewish philanthropist Baron Mau-
rice de Hirsch, Jews fleeing czarist Russia and Central
Europe had taken advantage of Argentinas open-door
immigration policy and established the colony in 1889.
The city is still called the Argentine Jerusalem for its
history and culture, and it is now celebrating its 125th
anniversary. Today, however, only about 250 of its
2,000 inhabitants are Jews.
One of our main concerns is the lack of young peo-
ple, lamented Claudia Baer, secretary of the commu-
nity synagogue, before adding that she, too, would like
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The trend toward centralization is
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In the Argentine city of General Roca,
in Patagonia, the Jewish community
once numbered about 400 families.
These days, an egalitarian minyan still
convenes for Friday night services at a
synagogue in the center of town. But the
few active community members, whose
number hovers at around 25, illustrate
how times have changed.
Our principal income is from the
cemetery, said Pablo Indelman, the
synagogue president, community direc-
tor, and Hebrew teacher.
Jewish population movements paral-
lel larger trends in Latin America, where
people are flocking to their countries
main urban areas. Young Jews often
do not return to their hometowns after
studying or working in the big city. Oth-
ers leave for Israel or destinations abroad.
Theres almost no youth, said Moshe Sefchovich, who
lives in Guadalajara, a city of more than 1 million in the Mexi-
can state of Jalisco. Theyre all grandparents. He describes
a mass movement of community members to Mexico City.
While aware of the difficulty of reversing migration
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WASHINGTON Alan Gross did not warn his family that
he was launching a hunger strike, but hearing the news,
they understood why: The U.S. government subcontractor
languishing in a Cuban prison feels forgotten.
Mr. Gross, a 64-year-old Jewish father of two from
Potomac, Md., is serving a 15-year sentence in Cuba for
crimes against the state. He was arrested in December
2009 while on a mission to hook up Cubas small Jewish
community with the Internet. The company he was work-
ing for had a contract with the U.S. Agency for Interna-
tional Development.
Were asking that the U.S. government do whatever it
takes, Jill Zuckman, a spokeswoman for the Gross family,
said in an April 11 interview. That was the day when Gross
ended his fast after eight days. This situation is not going
to be resolved unless President Obama takes a personal
interest in it.
The intervention of his mother, Evelyn Gross, who
turned 92 last week, led Mr. Gross to quit his hunger strike.
In a statement, he said he was angered by the approach of
both Cuba and the United States.
My protest fast is suspended as of today, although there
will be further protests to come, Mr. Gross said in a state-
ment. There will be no cause for further intense protest
when both governments show more concern for human
beings and less malice and derision toward each other.
Efforts to win Mr. Gross release have faced diplomatic
and political obstacles. Cuba wants the release of its citi-
zens who have been convicted of espionage, while anti-
communist Cuban-Americans have been resistant to
compromise.
It all leaves Mr. Gross and his advocates feeling ignored
and seeking new ways of finding attention. Increasingly,
Jewish groups have been criticizing the U.S. governments
handling of Mr. Gross case.
Quoting from the statement by Mr. Gross announc-
ing his hunger strike, the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations, the foreign policy
umbrella body for U.S. Jewish groups, issued a similar pox-
on-both-houses admonition.
We believe that his case has not been given the urgent
attention it warrants, said the statement signed by Mal-
colm Hoenlein, the bodys executive vice president, and
Robert Sugarman, its chairman. The U.S. government
has a special responsibility to Mr. Gross who is fasting to
object to mistruths, deceptions and inaction by the gov-
ernments ... and to call attention to the lack of any rea-
sonable or valid effort to resolve this shameful ordeal.
He launched his hunger strike on April 3, leaving a mes-
sage with his lawyer, Scott Gilbert, the next day.
After hunger strike, Gross backers ramp up calls for action
We didnt know that he was going to go on a hunger
strike, Ms. Zuckman said. Weve all been very worried
about him. He wasnt in great health to begin with to not
eat any solid foods for over a week.
A final straw for Gross was the revelation that USAID
had launched a bid after his arrest to open a Twitter-
like channel of communications to promote democracy
and anti-regime sentiment among Cubans. The initiative
ended in 2011 due to a lack of funding.
Once Alan was arrested, it is shocking that USAID
would imperil his safety even further by running a covert
operation in Cuba, Mr. Gilbert said in a statement. Mr.
Gross had been subcontracting for a contractor that was
working for USAID.
USAID has made one absurdly bad decision after
another, the attorney said. Running this program is
Supporters of Alan Gross, who has been imprisoned
in Cuba since 2009, rally outside the White House
on December 3. ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
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contrary to everything we have been told
by high-level representatives of the Obama
Administration about USAIDs activities in
Cuba.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told
the Senate on April 3 that efforts have been
launched to free Gross but added he could
not elaborate.
We have a number of efforts under
way, which I would be happy to talk to
you about privately, Mr. Kerry said in
response to a question from Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-Fla.), whose parents were Cuban
immigrants. But we are very, very focused
on trying to get Alan Gross out of there. His
treatment is inhumane. And he is wrong-
fully imprisoned.
Mr. Gross family will not say what spe-
cifically they believe the Obama admin-
istration could do to free him. In 2011
his wife, Judy, advocated humanitarian
gestures for the so-called Cuban Five
Cubans who were convicted in the United
States of spying offenses in 2001.
Since then, the Obama administration
has released two of the five before their
sentences were complete for good behav-
ior. While still on parole, one of the two
was allowed to visit an ailing family mem-
ber in Cuba.
Cuban officials have not explic-
itly offered Gross in return for the
Cuban Five, but they have said
it would be a natural trade. On
April 9 the Miami Herald quoted
Josefina Vidal, the Cuban official
in charge of U.S. relations, as say-
ing that meeting the humani-
tarian concerns regarding the
three spies still in prison could
resolve Gross case.
The still-imprisoned Cubans
had received longer sentences
than the other two. One is serving
a life term because of his involve-
ment in the Cuban Air Forces
fatal 1996 downing of two planes
belonging to a Cuban activist group. Four
Americans were killed in the attack.
The Cuban governments interests sec-
tion here did not respond to a request for
comment, but in the past its officials have
said that the situations of Mr. Gross and
the Cuban Five are not comparable. They
noted that Mr. Gross was allowed to see his
wife in prison and the Cuban Five are not.
In its statement, the Presidents Confer-
ence said Mr. Gross is being held hostage
to apparently unrelated demands and
actions.
In an interview, Mr. Hoenlein did not
explain who was making the demands
or actions. But Mr. Hoenlein said the
Obama administration has lifted some
travel restrictions on Cuba, and he sug-
gested refraining from further U.S. ges-
tures toward Cuba pending a resolution of
Gross situation.
The feeling is there hasnt been any
serious negotiation, he said. We are
doing things with the Cubans, we made
concessions with Cubans. Maybe we have
to hold back.
Mr. Obama has eased some
policies, including travel and
money-transfer restrictions,
but has held back on other roll-
backs, in part because of the
influence of American critics of
Cuba.
A delicate issue for Mr. Gross
advocates in the Jewish commu-
nity is that some of the fiercest
opponents of accommodation
with Cuba are also some of Isra-
els most prominent congressio-
nal allies, including Sen. Robert
Menendez (D-N.J.), the chair-
man of the Senates Foreign
Relations Committee.
Mr. Menendez, considered key by pro-
Israel groups in overseeing the current
nuclear talks with Iran headed by the
United States, has expressed support for
the Cuban Twitter program that triggered
Mr. Gross hunger strike.
The whole purpose of our democracy
programs, whether it be in Cuba or other
parts of the world, is in part to create a free
flow of information in closed societies,
Mr. Menendez told the Associated Press,
which uncovered the programs existence.
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When a 2009 Holocaust-era assets conference con-
cluded with a landmark statement of principles on
Holocaust restitution, many restitution advocates had
high hopes that a corner had been turned in the strug-
gle for survivor justice.
The Terezin Declaration, which had the support
of 46 countries participating in the conference in the
Czech Republic, outlined a set of goals for property
restitution. It recognized the advancing age of Holo-
caust survivors and the imperative of delivering them
aid and justice in their final years.
Participating States urge that every effort be made
to rectify the consequences of wrongful property sei-
zures, such as confiscations, forced sales and sales
under duress of property, which were part of the per-
secution of these innocent people and groups, the vast
majority of whom died heirless, the June 2009 dec-
laration stated.
But five years on, progress on securing restitution
has been painstakingly slow.
The lingering Euro Zone crisis has hampered efforts
to get Eastern European countries to pass restitution
legislation. The Terezin Declaration, while verbally
bold, did not require any concrete commitments or
even the signatures of representatives of those coun-
tries present. Poland, the only European country
occupied by the Nazis that has not enacted substan-
tial private property restitution, did not even bother to
send anyone for a follow-up conference in 2012.
In fact, since 2009, Lithuania has been the only
country to enact substantial restitution legislation: a
$53 million package announced in 2011, to be paid out
over 10 years for communal property seized during
Holocaust restitution moves slowly in Eastern Europe
the Holocaust.
Most countries resist having to engage in restitution or
compensation for lost property, said Douglas Davidson, the
U.S. State Departments special envoy for Holocaust restitu-
tion issues.
The week before Passover, Mr. Davidson was in Zagreb
with Jewish restitution leaders negotiating with Croatian
government officials. Croatia is one of the few countries that
negotiators say is holding serious restitution talks and where
a deal is conceivable in the foreseeable future.
They want to do it, they know they should do it, but
their economy is in disastrous shape and by their reckon-
ing it would cost them 1 billion euros to compensate for
property that was nationalized by the communist regime in
Yugoslavia after the war, Mr. Davidson said.
In a bid to add some fuel to the campaign for restitution
in countries that are dragging their feet, the World Jewish
Restitution Organization is mounting a new effort to drum
up public and political pressure within the European Union.
In February, the group helped orchestrate a letter by 50 Brit-
ish parliamentarians to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk,
pressing him on restitution.
Unfortunately, Poland stands out in its failure to fulfill
or even recognize its responsibility to victims, said the
letter, whose primary signatory was Baroness Ruth Deech. A
Jewish member of the House of Lords, grandparents on both
sides of her family owned substantial property in Poland.
Israeli President Shimon Peres and Lithuanian
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Poland has a responsibility to elderly
Holocaust survivors, their heirs and other
victims to return property which was seized
by the Nazis or subsequently nationalized by
the Communist regimes, the letter
continued. Democratic Poland
continues unjustly to benefit from
the victims private property. Many
of these victims and their heirs
both Jews and non-Jews are Brit-
ish citizens.
This month, British Foreign Sec-
retary William Hague lent his sup-
port to the campaign.
Europe is a partner that is as
important and in some cases more
important than the United States,
said Gideon Taylor, WJROs chair-
man of operations. Making this a
multilateral issue is going to be the way we
need to go if we really want to use the last
few years survivors are with us.
The Obama administration also is trying
to strengthen restitution efforts, with Vice
President Joe Biden reportedly raising the
issue in private meetings with European
leaders.
During the heyday of Holocaust resti-
tution legislation in the 1990s, the newly
independent countries of Central and East-
ern Europe viewed restitution as a way to
curry favor with the West and improve their
chances of gaining admission to NATO. Holo-
caust restitution often came up in U.S. Sen-
ate hearings on NATO membership, and it
was during that era that several major res-
titution agreements were reached. The
opening of state archives after the fall of
the Iron Curtain helped keep a spotlight
on the issue.
When Germany reunified in 1990, the
restitution of East German properties
once owned by Jews was a condition
of the nations reunification
agreement, and since then
more than $3 billion in assets
have been restituted.
Today, the main lever-
age for negotiators is the
demand for justice, as well as
the urgency of getting deals
done before the last genera-
tion of survivors dies out.
We had some leverage at
a certain point in this pro-
cess the issue of countries
coming into NATO or the
EU but that was accom-
plished in the 1990s or the early part
of the 2000s, said Daniel Mariaschin,
executive vice president of Bnai Brith
International, which is a member of the
WJRO. What we really are dependent
on now is the moral imperative of the
case, or the goodwill or lack of it by the
governments involved, and on WJROs
persuasive abilities. Thats a pretty chal-
lenging task.
The task is made more difficult by
the pace and duration of negotiations.
Stretched out in many cases over a
decade or more, negotiations wax and
wane while governments come and go,
recessions and austerity budgets take
hold, and in some places, rising nation-
alist sentiment makes any kind of deal
more difficult.
Even for governments that recognize
their responsibility to return property
seized from Jews, the idea of transferring
local assets to Jews overseas is seen as a
political liability. For that reason, even
some of the countries that have passed
restitution or compensation legislation
bar noncitizens or those living outside
the country from benefiting.
Greg Schneider, the executive vice
president of the Claims Conference,
which deals primarily with restitution
related to Germany and Austria, says the
European public needs to understand
that its not an issue of giving something
away but of restoring assets to their
rightful owners.
The thing about property restitu-
tion is its not a gift, its not a favor, Mr.
Schneider said. Its giving back prop-
erty that was stolen.
For the most part, European govern-
ments have accepted that principle,
negotiators say. The issue is what is eco-
nomically and political feasible. Theres a
lot on the table. Depending on the coun-
try, negotiators may focus on communal,
private or heirless property. Many coun-
tries have some kind of restitution legis-
lation on the books, but the many loop-
holes, restrictions and implementation
problems must be worked out.
Countries that bear responsibility for
perpetrating the Holocaust also have the
issue of compensation for suffering.
In Lithuania, where nearly all of the
countrys prewar Jewish population of
200,000 was murdered often with
the complicity of local Lithuanians the
2011 deal on restitution also provided
about $1 million to fund symbolic one-
time $600 compensation payments to
1,775 Lithuanian Jewish Holocaust vic-
tims worldwide.
The big money about $53 million
stayed in Lithuania, designated for
religious, cultural, health care, sports,
educational, and scientific purposes
of Lithuanian Jews in Lithuania. The
sum amounted to about one-third of
the estimated value of lost Jewish com-
munal property. (The restitution of
private property was not part of the
negotiations.)
Negotiators say the next country to
pass substantial restitution legislation
may be Serbia, where restitution is seen
as part of its campaign to complete entry
into the European Union.
It is widely agreed that the worst
offender on restitution issues is Poland,
where some 3 million Jews lived before
the war. It has not enacted any private
property restitution laws.
Mr. Taylor, a former chief of the
Claims Conference, says Poland should
not be put off by the magnitude of pos-
sible claims.
Poland, Hungary and Romania are
probably the most important countries
because they were the biggest communi-
ties before the war, he said. Our posi-
tion is that what were looking for in
these countries is a system and process,
not a lump sum. Sometimes you end up
with a settlement. We want a process
thats fair.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Today, the main leverage
for negotiators is the
demand for justice, as
well as the urgency of
getting deals done before
the last generation of
survivors dies out.
Restitution
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A
llow me a rabbinic parlor
trick. Think of a person you
have known personally whom
you would call holy. Not
knowing anything beyond this descrip-
tion, I would hazard two guesses: 1) in
some significant ways, this person does
not go along with the crowd and 2)
when he or she connects with you, the
connection is profound.
You feel embraced.
These predictions prove
accurate for most people
because of the nature of
holiness. Holiness finds
both its source and its
expression in two seem-
ingly opposite inclinations:
separation and union.
This weeks Torah por-
tion, Kedoshim (meaning
holy) addresses sanctity
in ritual, speech, sex, law,
business, and community
relations, among other
spheres. It advocates both
separation (e.g., from pro-
hibited sexual partners, gossip, deceit,
class bias, and impurity) and union (e.g.,
with neighbors, the innocent who are
harmed, God, parents, and the proper
sexual partner).
The word kadosh (holy) connotes
separation because it originally meant
set aside for a dedicated use. It applied
first and foremost to contributions that
were designated for the Temple. Holiness
is that which is set apart. A holy occa-
sion, place, text, or person is elevated
above what is normal and acceptable.
Rashi comments on the first verse in
Kedoshim: You shall be holy means
you shall be separate. If we are going
to be holy, we will have to oppose some
popular trends. We will regularly need
to distinguish and filter out the unholy.
The Holiness Code encourages us to
make distinctions between kosher and
non-kosher, between pure and impure,
between good and evil.
Many traditions promote separation to
achieve holiness. If you want to be holy,
find a mountain top away from general
society and meditate there. Separate
yourself from commerce (take a vow of
poverty or live simply); separate your-
self from routine speech (take a vow of
silence and/or pray much of the day);
separate yourself from your own bodily
needs and urges (fast or eat simply, bathe
in cold water, and/or take a
vow of celibacy).
Overall, Jewish tradition
and particularly the Book
of Leviticus are dedicated
to finding holiness in the
midst of society, with all
its temptations and impu-
rities. Yet separatism has
a place in our tradition,
too. Mystics and chasidim
have sancti fi ed them-
selves through ascetic and
separatist practices. Once
a year for 25 hours on
Yom Kippur, Jews live like
monks. We eschew food,
drink, commerce, bathing,
anointing, and sex, to focus exclusively
on repenting for our sins and elevating
our lives to a new level of holiness.
Holiness draws boundaries. This
unequivocally cuts some things off, while
separating others as chosen. There are
moments in life we call holy because
we experience them as different and
special outside the bounds of the
mundane. Yet boundaries also mark the
points of connection. And this is the sec-
ond aspect of holiness: union.
While many holy experiences are char-
acterized by a sense that something is
set apart, there is another kind of holy
experience which springs from a sense
that nothing at all is separate. This type of
holiness sometimes called numinous
is mysterious; it cannot be planned or
scheduled. Suddenly, you discover or
plug into an awareness that may sound to
others like a clich, but feels to you like
a revelation: I am connected to every-
thing, and everything is part of the One.
You feel blessed and comforted by this
unity. In religious terms, ein od (Deuter-
onomy 4:39) there is nothing but God.
If you have one such experience in a
lifetime, it can be enough to influence
or even transform your sense of reality.
Mystics talk about fleeting moments of
union with lasting impact and so do
everyday people. Elizabeth Gilbert found
and lost union in a moment of medi-
tation, as she describes in the bestseller
Eat, Pray, Love. Grief-stricken people
sometimes find a reprieve when they see
a light or hear a voice which confers both
Rabbi Debra
Orenstein
Congregation
Bnai Israel,
Conservative,
Emerson
Kedoshim: The paradox of holiness
comfort and sanctity. They experience them-
selves and everyone else included in a cos-
mic embrace. Moments of extremis are not
required. You can know complete and holy
union when you make love with your spouse,
witness a sunrise, serve food at a homeless
shelter. The commandment to be holy was
not given just to Moses or the elders, but to
the entire people. Holiness is available to
everyone.
A famous verse in Kedoshim points to the
quality of unification: Love your neighbor as
yourself. I am God. In a mystical reading, this
means that the distinctions we draw between
ourselves and our neighbors are insignificant
and ephemeral. Your neighbor is as yourself.
As children of the One, we are one.
This is heady stuff. How do we apply it in
daily life? Three suggestions for this years
run at Parashat Kedoshim: consider your role
model, your separations, and your union.
1) Recall the people you first thought
of when you began reading this column.
Whether or not they fit my description, they
clearly fit your definition of holiness. How
might they serve as a role model for increas-
ing holiness in your daily life?
2) What are you letting in (through the
media, gossip, reading, routines, friendships,
etc.) that you may wish to filter? Do you
engage in practices, appropriate or helpful
at one time, which are now damaging to your
sense of holiness? What is your separate and
special use to God, humanity, and yourself?
3) What can you do to foster a sense of
union with God, people, and nature? What
songs, prayers, settings, or memories inspire
an awareness of union? If you have had a
numinous experience, how can you feed
and water it, so that it stays alive for you and
through you?
Kedoshim tehiyu, you shall (must) be
holy, is a commandment. And it can also be
read as a promise: you shall (will) be holy.
Ki kadosh ani. For I, Adonai, your God, am
holy. Created in Gods image, we, too will
be holy. Sooner or later, ready or not, here
it comes
A holy occasion,
place, text,
or person is
elevated above
what is normal
and acceptable.
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Across
1. Nickname for Moses Sofer, 19th cen-
tury Hungarian rabbi
6. Ritual object, e.g.
10. You can get 20 of them for green
paper currency in Israel
14. Addis ___ (birthplace of Israeli Jazz
saxophonist Abatte Barihun)
15. Matriarch of a Harvey Korman TV
show
16. Brins partner in tech
17. Spanish diplomat-scholar Hasdai
19. Jew-hater Pound
20. Tikkun, e.g.
21. Woodys ex
22. More like the Three Stooges
24. Hester Street actress born in St.
Louis
27. Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the ___
by Jennifer Moses
30. Was a wandering Jew, e.g.
31. She once had a relationship with
Heidigger
33. Intensive Hebrew verb construc-
tion
34. Some IDF fighters
37. You Cant Stop the ___ (Marc
Shaiman song)
38. Understanding Genesis author
Nahum
40. Nick and ___ (1991 musical with a
book by Arthur Laurents)
41. Babi ___ (Shostakovich symphony)
42. Kibbutz near Afula
43. Logue played by Geoffrey Rush in
The Kings Speech
45. Having a meal at Sushi Rechavia
47. Numbers, part two
48. Blogger and UCLA law professor
52. Metric for Dave Price, the former
weatherman for the Early Show
on CBS
53. What Simone Weil would say if she
agreed
54. King who rooted out idolatry
57. Common time of blood libels
58. Democratic congressman whos the
ranking member on the Foreign
Affairs Committee
62. Hamburger or Nadel
63. New Rochelle, N.Y., mayor Bramson
64. Dybbuks goal
65. Title for Jew-hater Nicholas II
66. Amounts of time between occur-
ances of Thanksgivukkah
67. ___ of the Patriarchs (Hebron site)
Down
1. Saban of Inspector Gadget and
Power Rangers fame
2. Kovner or Eban
3. Wu-___ Clan (Group including the
Jewish rapper Remedy)
4. Parts worked on by Weider readers
5. Abbas in the Middle East
6. What Israels cyberattacks try to do
to Irans computers
7. ___ Heel (Lewis Black or Paul
Wellstone, e.g.)
8. Animal on display at Gan Guru kanga-
roo park at Kibbutz Nir David
9. Its useful for latkes and kugels
10. Performed a synagogue honor with
the ark
11. Samson, e.g.
12. Common sight in the sky over the
Bet Shean Valley
13. Julius Rosenwald owned part of it
18. ___ France flight 139 (Entebbe
plane)
23. Early human whose Hebrew name
means, appropriately, futility
24. Well-known Streisand song
Everybody Says ___
25. Loanshark Hesh Rabkins friend Tony,
on HBO
26. Richard Pryors Jewish daughter
27. Sondheim song Broadway ___
28. Jerusalems ___ code is 02
29. Richard Benjamins 1982 film My
Favorite ___
32. Work for women subtitled The
Pentateuch in the Language of
Ashkenaz
34. Bernie Madoff and Ivan Boesky
35. Laterite ones are found in southern
Israel
36. Jewish history Baron
39. Chag Ha-___ (Passover)
40. 2014 Darren Aronofsky Biblical epic
42. Actress Bellman from the TNT series
Leverage
44. Ethiopian Jews in Israel, from one
vantage point
45. Someone turning for advice to Suze
Orman, often
46. Moods on Tishah BAv
48. City thats sunny 360 days a year
49. Mark Zuckerberg customers
50. West Side Story lyric: The Jets are
___ have their day tonight....
51. They sold ___ Israel (what Rep.
Michele Bachmann said of American
Jews in 2014)
54. Artist whose last name means lake
55. Ethnic cleanser, perhaps
56. Maccabee and Goldstar
59. Somewhere Sir Moses Montefiore
would go
60. Kinsler or Ziering
61. Char. in Philip Roths Defender of
the Faith
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The
German
Doctor
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
T
here are few names that elicit
more contempt and horror than
Mengele, the so-called Angel of
Death who served as one of the
physicians at Auschwitz.
Though he was one of 30 doctors at the
concentration camp, he is the one most
often associated with the selection process
that took place when trainloads of people
arrived at the camp. Who would be physi-
cally able to work and who would be sent
to the gas chamber? It was the medical
staff that decided who would live and who
would die.
At Auschwitz, Mengele, who had con-
ducted legitimate research on twins before
the war as a way of studying variant fac-
tors of human heredity, now was
given full license to do whatever
he wished with his subjects. Many
of his test subjects were maimed,
died as a result of the experimen-
tation, or simply were murdered.
At wars end, though he wound
up in U.S. custody, this war crimi-
nal somehow was released; by
1949, along with a multitude of
other Nazis, he made his way to
Argentina. There, and in neigh-
boring countries, they found
government protection and com-
munity indifference. There, they
were able to live out their lives.
It is at this point that the story of
The German Doctor begins.
Over the years, several Ameri-
can filmmakers chose to build
thrillers around the Nazi haven in South
America. There were films like The
Odessa File and Marathon Man; after
all, Nazis made the perfect bad guys and fit
so nicely into the good guy-bad guy Holly-
wood plotline. Now, an Argentinean film-
maker takes on the subject from a totally
different perspective. How was it possible
to live in a community knowing that your
neighbor was a fugitive and murderer?
How was it that war criminals like Josef
Mengele and Adolf Eichmann were able to
find protection and even adoration?
The film, set in 1960 Patagonia, begins
with what appears like a chance meet-
ing between a German doctor and an
Argentinean family. There, in the massive
expanse of southern Argentina, the family
of five and the doctor are drawn together.
They travel to Bariloche, a town where
they plan to start a new life.
The parents, Eva (Natalia Oreiro) and
Enzo (Diego Peretti), have taken over a
family resort. Their first guest will be this
German doctor (Alex Brendemuhl). Eva,
whose parents were German speakers,
and her daughter, Lilith, are drawn to this
supposed veterinarian, who has such fine
manners, but Enzo does not trust the man.
The story looks on questions of trust and
mistrust and how this German doctor is
able to gain the acceptance of all.
In a very real way, filmmaker Lucia
Puenzo uses the story to provide a pic-
ture of the interconnectedness of Nazis
and Argentineans during this period. I
could never understand the complicity
how so many families could know what
was going on and never say
anything, the filmmaker told
me. It seems very difficult not
to put things together when
you had this German living
nearby. Drawing a great deal
from Carlos Echeverrias pow-
erful 2007 documentary, Pact
of Silence: The Second Life of
Erich Priebke, she weaves her
story of how Lilith is intrigued
by this man, who gives her a
great deal of attention at a time
when she is reaching woman-
hood, and how Eva turns to
the doctor for assistance when
she learns that she is preg-
nant with twins. Mr. Echever-
ria told the story of a Nazi war
criminal who was a highly esteemed mem-
ber of the community and whose past
seemed to have little relevance. When he
was finally extradited to Italy for crimes
against humanity, most of the townspeo-
ple protested because he was such a nice
little man, the perfect citizen, Ms. Puenzo
said. The film brings us into Liliths school,
where pro-Nazi sympathy is strong, and to
a local bar where German exiles are held
in special esteem.
How could such an evil man be so loved
and admired? Although filmmaker Ech-
everrias Nazi, Priebke, would be brought
to justice, in real life Mengele made him-
self a new and comfortable home. He
never was found.
It seems that the only party interested
in seeking to bring this criminal to justice
is Israel. Ms. Puenzo places a school librar-
ian, Nora Eldoc, who speaks some Hebrew
and somehow has ties with the Mossad,
into the equation. Ms. Eldoc was a real per-
son, who met a mysterious death, and her
life has been tied to the attempted capture
of Mengele. Her inclusion in the story adds
a nice element of suspense as we try and
understand why this elusive evil man was
never caught.
Lucia Puenzo is the talented 37-year-
old daughter of Luis Puenzo, whose 1985
film, The Official Story, raised serious
questions about Argentinas Dirty Wars. It
went on to win the Oscar for best foreign
language film. Lucia is both a novelist and
film director. The German Doctor, her
third feature film narrative, is the adapta-
tion of her fifth novel, Wakolda. It was
Argentinas Oscar submission for best for-
eign language film this year. When I met
her, I understood how this Argentinean
bore part of the burden of her countrys
complicity in harboring Nazi war crimi-
nals. Through her film, I could make sense
of her desire somehow to right the wrongs
of a previous generation, which turned its
back on an evil past.
The German Doctor is a reckoning of
sorts. It is a powerful drama with fine act-
ing, cinematography, and direction. The
film opens today at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
and IFC Center in New York.
Eric Goldman is adjunct professor of
cinema at Yeshiva University. He is
president of Ergo Media, a Teaneck-based
distributor of Jewish cinema.
Florencia Bado as Lilith and Diego Peretti as Enzo in The German Doctor. SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS
Diego Peretti as Enzo and Alex Brendemuhl as Josef
Mengele in The German Doctor SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS
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Friday
APRIL 25
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel welcomes Shabbat
with songs, prayers, and
an intergenerational
drumming circle, 7 p.m.;
traditional services at
8. Drums provided; you
can bring a percussion
instrument. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers Carlebach-style
davening, 7 p.m. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
a spiritual Shabbat
led by Rabbi David S.
Widzer and Cantor Rica
Timman and featuring
Rebecca Young, an
associate principal
violist with the New York
Philharmonic, 7:30 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Saturday
APRIL 26
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers services at 9 a.m.;
then Rabbi Lawrence
Zierler discusses
Whatever Happened to
the War on Poverty? A
Fifty Year Reappraisal,
as part of the Three Cs
Cholent, Cugel, and
Conversation. Kinder
Shul for 3- to 8-year-olds,
while parents attend
services, 10:30-11:45. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel offers A Shabbat
Experience The
Philosophy and Practice
of Holiness, a Shabbat
morning service led by
Rabbi Debra Orenstein,
10 a.m. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee
offers tot Shabbat led
by Roberta Seltzer and
an alumni family service,
11 a.m. 1449 Anderson
Ave. (201) 947-1735.
Sunday
APRIL 27
Farmers market in
Franklin Lakes: Barnert
Temple holds its third
annual farmers market,
featuring products
from local farmers and
artisans, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
747 Route 208 South.
(201) 848-1800.
Childrens program:
The Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah begins a four-
session Taste of Hebrew
School, for pre-K to first-
graders, 9:30 a.m. Series
continues May 4, 11, and
18 with a Lag Baomer
barbecue. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 262-
7733 or edudirector@
jccparamus.org.
Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Valley holds Club Katan
for children who will
begin kindergarten
in September 2014,
10:15 a.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801,
ext. 12.
Hebrew school open
house in Wayne: Temple
Beth Tikvah holds an
open house with crafts,
cookie decorating, story
time, face painting,
games, refreshments,
and goody bags, for
families with children
entering pre-K through
third grade in the fall,
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 950
Preakness Ave. (973)
595-6565.
Childrens program in
Wayne: Kids in Action,
for 6- to-12- year-olds,
meets at the Chabad
Center of Passaic County
for a program on the
five senses, 1 p.m. Make
Israeli-style food and
watch a film on Israel.
194 Razter Road. (973)
694-6274 or Chanig@
optonline.net.
Monday
APRIL 28
Senior program in
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
continues its Smile on
Seniors program at the
center, 11:30 a.m. Light
brunch. $5. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Hadassah meets in
Teaneck: The Teaneck-
Hackensack chapter
of Hadassah meets
to see the film The
Children of Chabonnes
by Lisa Gossels and
Dean Wetherell, at
Congregation Beth
Sholom, 1 p.m. 354
Maitland Ave. Light
refreshments. (201) 837-
2948.
Film in Tenafly: The
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades continues
its Israel film series
with Into the Arms of
Strangers: Stories of
the Kindertransport,
7:30 p.m. 411 East Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493.
Russian bedtime story
hour in Oakland:
The Gerrard Berman
Day School, Solomon
Schechter of North
Jersey invites 3- to
5-year-olds to a Russian
bedtime story hour,
6 p.m. Springtime
story in Russian, light
dinner, and crafts. Wear
pajamas. 45 Spruce St.
Susan Scher, (201) 337-
1111 or gbds@ssnj.org.
Tuesday
APRIL 29
Sammie Moshenberg
NCJW meets in
Teaneck: Sammie
Moshenberg, director of
Washington operations
for the National Council
of Jewish Women,
speaks at the general
meeting of the NCJWs
Bergen County section at
Temple Emeth, 12:30 p.m.
Afterward, Lisl Malkin, a
kindertransport child and
NCJW BCS life member,
will offer a Yom Hashoah
commemoration. 1666
Windsor Road. (201) 385-
4847 or www.ncjwbcs.
org.
Emergency
preparedness in
Teaneck: Holy Name
Medical Center offers a
presentation with officers
Michael Sunga and Daniel
Dalessio of the Teaneck
Police Departments
community policing
squad, 1 p.m. 1-877-HOLY-
NAME, prompt #5 to
register.
Fashion show/tricky
tray in Wood-Ridge:
The sisterhood of Temple
Avodat Shalom holds its
biannual fashion show/
tricky tray auction at the
Fiesta, 6:30 p.m. $45;
includes hors doeuvres,
dinner, and door prize
ticket. Fashions by GiGis
Closet in Dumont. 255
Route 17 South. Ellen,
(201)-385-2884 or
ezamma1@verizon.net.
Aspergers program in
Wayne: Jewish Family
Service of North Jersey,
with the Sam and Nina
Wolf Caregiver Support
Center and Arden
Courts of Wayne, offers
A Dual Perspective of
the Life of a Child With
Aspergers Syndrome
at the Wayne Public
Library, 7 p.m. Steven
Paglierani, a therapist
who treats children and
adults with Alzheimers,
is the speaker. 461 Valley
Road. (973) 595-0111 or
mlester@jfsnorthjersey.
org.
Author in Woodcliff
Lake: Author Ellen
Feldman discusses her
book The Boy Who
Loved Anne Frank
for the sisterhood of
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley, 8:15 p.m.
87 Overlook Drive. (201)
391-0801.
Wednesday
APRIL 30
Jewish refugees
discussion in Wayne:
Joseph Levy discusses
Jewish Refugees
from Arab Lands: The
Second Exodus for
Congregation Shomrei
Torahs adult education
speaker series, 8 p.m.
30 Hinchman Ave. (973)
696-2500 or office@
shomreitorahwcc.org.
Book review in Tenafly:
Psychologist Bena
Schwartz reviews
The Big Disconnect:
Protecting Childhood
and Family Relationships
in the Digital Age at
a parent workshop
for Lubavitch on the
Palisades Preschool,
8:15 p.m. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org.
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene presents Ghetto
Tango Music of the Underground Cabarets at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on
Sunday, May 4, at 2:30 p.m. The concert was co-created by
Zalmen Mlotek and the late Adrienne Cooper. 36 Battery Place. (646) 437-
4202 or www.mjhnyc.org. MELANIE EINZIG
MAY
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Photography
in Tenafly
Through My Lens Photography
by Linda Weiss Baruch, will be dis-
played at the Waltuch Art Gallery at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, from May
1 to 27. An artists reception is set for
Tuesday, May 6, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Ms. Baruch studied photography at
the New School, New York University,
and the New York Insti tute of
Photography. Her award-winning work
has been selected for juried shows and
can be found in private art collections
and at the Jewish Home for Assisted Living in River Vale.
For information, call Jessica Spiegel at (201) 408-1426 or go to www.jccotp.org.
Thursday
MAY 1
Celebrating Israel in
Fort Lee: The JCC of
Fort Lee/Congregation
Gesher Shalom continues
its Celebrate Israel
Month with a discussion,
Israel @ 66 Great
Challenges, Outstanding
Achievements, led
by a representative of
the consulate general
of Israel in New York,
7:30 p.m. Reception
featuring Israeli wine
tasting. 1449 Anderson
Ave. (201) 947-1735 or
anat@geshershalom.org.
Friday
MAY 2
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel hosts a casual
Generation Z Shabbat
service; traditional liturgy
will be set to tunes by
todays musical stars
and Generation Z Israeli
music, as part of the
shuls monthly casual
Shabbat series, 7:30 p.m.
53 Palisade Ave. (201)
265-2272 or www.bisrael.
com.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
family services, 7:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Sunday
MAY 4
Blood drive in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel holds a community
interfaith blood drive
in conjunction with
Community Blood
Services, 10 a.m.-
3 p.m. Co-sponsored by
churches in Westwood
and Park Ridge, including
the Lebanon Baptist
Church, Parkside
Community Church,
Zion Lutheran Church,
Westwood Methodist
Church, Grace Episcopal
Church, St. Andrews
Church, and the PPT
Worship Center. 53
Palisade Ave. (201) 265-
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
Childrens program:
The Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah continues a four-
session Taste of Hebrew
School for pre-K to first-
graders, 9:30 a.m. Series
continues May 11 and
18, with a Lag Baomer
barbecue. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 262-
7733 or edudirector@
jccparamus.org.
Play group in River
Edge: Shalom Baby of
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey
offers play time, music,
story time, snacks,
and crafts, with a Yom
Haatzma-ut theme,
for new moms/dads/
caregivers with babies
and toddlers, to connect
with each other and the
Jewish community, at
Temple Avodat Shalom,
9:30 a.m. Administered
by JFNNJs Synagogue
Leadership Initiative.
385 Howland Ave. (201)
489-2463, (201) 820-
3917 or www.jfnnj.org/
shalombaby.
Vintage jewelry/garage
sale in New City: The
Clarkstown Jewish
Center holds a sale,
10 a.m.-4 p.m. 195 West
Clarkstown Road. (845)-
352-0017.
Shul open house: The
Glen Rock Jewish Center
holds an open house,
10 a.m.-noon. Meet
the rabbi, Hebrew and
nursery school staff,
and congregants. 682
Harristown Road. (201)
652-6624
Israeli Independence
Day solidarity:
StandWithUs, Rutgers
Hillel, Israeli Consul of
Media Affairs, Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey, Temple
Beth Sholom of Pascack
Valley, Park Ridge;
Congregation Bnai Israel,
Emerson; Temple Beth Or
and the Bergen County
YJCC both in Washington
Township; and Temple
Valley and Valley Chabad,
both in Woodcliff Lake,
sponsor Call to Action,
an inspiring 90-minute
Israel Independence Day
program at Temple Beth
Sholom in Park Ridge,
11 a.m. 32 Park Ave. (201)
391-4620.
Torah dedication:
Young Israel of Fort Lee
dedicates a repaired
and restored Holocaust
Torah entrusted to
it by the Holocaust
Torah Memorial Trust/
Westminster Synagogue
in London. Dedicated
to the memory of Ulo
Barad by his family.
The repair of the
200-year-old Torah will
be completed after a
brief ceremony, 11 a.m.
Light lunch. 1610 Parker
Ave. (201) 592-1518 or
yiflholocausttorah@
gmail.com.
Yom Hazikaron in
Paramus: Ben Porat
Yosef commemorates
Yom Hazikaron
with a slide show,
tefillot (prayers), and
inspirational stories
about soldiers and
victims of terror,
8:30 p.m. East 243 Frisch
Court. (201) 845-5007 or
www.benporatyosef.org.
In New York
Sunday
MAY 4
ORT annual meeting:
Speakers Shmuel Sisso,
the director general/
CEO of World ORT; a
speaker from the Israeli
mission to the United
Nations; a student from
World ORTs Kadima
Mada program in Israel,
and an alumna from
Bramson ORT College
in New York City are
among the speakers at
ORT Americas meeting,
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Also
break-out sessions on
fundraising, expanding
membership, and
marketing. Program
at UJA Federation
Headquarters, 130
East 59th St. www.
ORTamerica.org/
annualmeeting.
Jewish Heritage
Festival: The Lower East
Side Jewish Conservancy
presents the sixth
annual festival with all-
day activities, sale, and
speakers. 10:45 p.m. (212)
374-4100 or www.lesjc.
org/calendar.
Family concert: Randy
Kaplan performs a
concert for families at the
Jewish Museum, 2 p.m.
Adults must accompany
their children. Fifth
Avenue and 92nd Street.
(212) 423-3337 or www.
thejewishmuseum.org.
Singles
Friday
MAY 2
Singles Shabbaton
in Teaneck: Sharon
Ganz & Friends host a
Shabbaton weekend for
Orthodox Jewish singles,
30+, at Congregation
Bnai Yeshurun. There
will be three Shabbat
meals, Oneg Shabbat,
singles mixers, group
discussions, speakers,
including Rabbi Steven
Pruzansky, a Shabbat
tour of Teaneck, and
Saturday night fun. (718)
575-3962 or (646) 529-
8748.
Tickets are now available
for JFSNJ Broadway tribute
The Jewish Family Ser-
vice of North Jersey will
present Neil Bergs
Night of Broadway Stars,
an Encore Performance
on Sunday, May 18, at 7
p.m. The show will be at
Indian Hills High School
in Oakland. Mr. Berg
and company will recre-
ate great moments from
fine shows featuring
Broadway performers
with songs from the hits
in which they starred.
Doors open at 6:15.
General admission is $36; students,
$18; preferred seating, $54; and JFSNJ
supporter tickets cost $150. Ticket prices
are 100 percent tax deductible.
The evenings proceeds will support
J FSNJ s er vi c e s a nd
programs. So far the
sponsors include Benzel
Bu s c h, Gr e e nb a u m
Interiors, Valley National
Bank, Massage Envy of
Closter and Waldwick,
N i c h o l a s Ma r k e t s
Foodt own, Pat er s on
Papers, TD Bank, the A.L.
Levine Family Foundation,
Advisors Capital, and Marc
and Beth Mintz.
For tickets, call JFSNJ at
(973) 595-0111 or at www.
jfsnorthjersey.org. They
are for sale as well at JFSNJs Wayne
office, at 1 Pike Drive, and at its Fair
Lawn office, at 17-10 River Road, as well
as onsite the night of the performance.
Neil Berg
Economist to deliver YU lecture
Dr. Michael Robert Kremer, Harvard Uni-
versitys Gates Professor of Developing
Societies in the Economics Department,
will give the annual Alexander Brody
Distinguished Lecture in Economics at
Yeshiva University on Tuesday, April
29, at 7:30 p.m. The talk, Improving
Health in the Developing World, will
be at Weissberg Commons on YUs Wilf
Campus, 2495 Amsterdam Ave. in Upper
Manhattan.
Dr. Kremer is an American develop-
mental economist whose work focuses
on the use of incentives, particularly
the design of mechanisms to encourage
the development of vaccines in devel-
oping countries and the use of random-
ized trials to evaluate interventions in
the social sciences. He is the creator of
Kremers o-ring theory of economic
development, a well-known economic
theory about skill complementarities.
He also is the founder and president of
WorldTeach, a Harvard-based organi-
zation that places college students and
recent graduates as volunteer teachers
on summer and yearlong programs in
developing countries around the world.
The Professor Alexander Brody dis-
tinguished service lecture is presented
annually by YUs Economics Depart-
ment, chaired by Dr. James Kahn, the
Henry and Bertha Kressel Professor and
Chair of Economics at YU. It is named for
Alexander Brody, a professor of econom-
ics and history who died in 1968 after a
34-year tenure at YU.
Admission is free and open to the pub-
lic with a valid photo ID. For informa-
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Ohel sponsors rappelling fundraiser
Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services is
sponsoring Over the Edge! on May 20; the
program provides an opportunity to rap-
pel more than 20 stories down the side of a
building.
Friends and supporters of Ohel will go Over
the Edge at the Heritage Capital Group build-
ing in Newark. All proceeds will support the
children and families of Ohel and help Ohel
children with disabilities, children in foster
care, and children in Ohels domestic violence
shelters.
There will be giveaways and food. Ohel also
offers a special chicken fee for people who
want to just stand and watch.
Ohel corporate sponsors include the Heritage
Capital Group, Century 21 Department Stores,
and Newarks Robert Treat Hotel. For more
information or to register, call Laurie at (718)
686-3316 or go to www.oheldoyoudare.org.
Run raises domestic violence awareness
More than 800 people from New Jersey
are expected at the Memorial Oval in Liv-
ingston on Sunday, May 18, for the 14th
annual Run for Rachel. Members of the
community are invited to help the Rachel
Coalition reach its goal of raising $75,000
to benefit victims of domestic violence by
participating in the run. Online registra-
tion is available through May 12 at www.
raceforum.com/rachel or www.jfsmetrow-
est.org. Those who pre-register receive a
race day tech shirt.
The Run for Rachel raises funds to
benefit the Rachel Coalition, a division
of Jewish Family Service of MetroWest
and a partnership of nine northern New
Jersey organizations including Hadassahs
northern New Jersey region and Jewish
Women Internationals North Atlantic
region. Those groups work together to
help victims of domestic violence.
For information, call Sylvia Heller
at (973) 765-9050 or email sheller@
jfsmetrowest.org.
Museum to feature portrait
of Jewish life in Cuba
The Jews of Cuba: A Photographic Por-
trait will be on exhibit at the Jewish
Museum of New Jersey in Congregation
Ahavas Sholom in Newark. It will open
on Sunday, April 27, and run through
June 8. The exhibit, a two-person show,
features the work of West Orange-based
photographer Heidi Sussman and Brook-
lyn native Debbie Rosenfeld.
An opening reception will take place
from noon to 4 p.m. on April 27, with a
lecture by Professor Jonathan Golden of
Drew University set for 2. A screening of
the documentary Jubanos with film-
maker Milos Silber will be on Sunday,
May 4, at 1:30 p.m.
A screening of the film Adio Kerida,
about anthropologist Ruth Behars
search for her Sephardic roots in Cuba,
will be on Sunday, June 1, at 1:30. A
closing reception is scheduled for Sun-
day, June 8, from 1 to 5 p.m., featuring
a Ladino poetry reading and a dance
performance.
The museum will be open on Sundays
by appointment. Suggested donation for
all events is $10 or donation of personal
hygiene products for men and women
to be delivered to Cuba. There is free
off-street parking. Congregation Ahavas
Sholom, the oldest continually operating
synagogue in Newark, is at 145 Broadway.
For information, call (973) 698-8489 or
go to www.jewishmuseumnj.org.
Tickets are now available
for JFSNJ Broadway tribute
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Levine Family Foundation,
Advisors Capital, and Marc
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For tickets, call JFSNJ at
(973) 595-0111 or at www.
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office, at 1 Pike Drive, and at its Fair
Lawn office, at 17-10 River Road, as well
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n 1 Congregants at Temple Beth Ris-
hon in Wyckoff packed and distributed
Passover gift bags for elderly Jewish
residents in Allendale Nursing Home,
Oakland Care Center, Ridgewood Cen-
ter, Van Dyke Manor of Ridgewood,
Woodcliff Lake Manor, and the Chris-
tian Health Care Center. COURTESY TBR
n 2 Children at Lubavitch on the
Palisades School re-enacted the
Exodus from Egypt with kinder-
garteners celebrating the splitting
of the Yam Suf. COURTESY LOTP
n 3 Sisterhood members at Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley wrote a
letter in the shuls new Torah, assisted
by scribe Rabbi Levi Selwyn. The Si-
yum HaTorah (celebration of the com-
pletion of the writing of the new Torah),
dedicated to Rabbi Emeritus Andre
Ungar, will be on June 1. COURTESY TEPV
n 4 The annual Langfan family con-
stitutional oratorical competition at
Yeshiva University was held last month.
At front are the three judges, Michele
Filorimo; Michael Wildes, a former
mayor of Englewood and managing
partner of Wildes & Weinberg, P.C.; and
Ben Kelsen. In the back row, from left,
are the winners of this years compe-
tition, Gavriel Brown, Uri Segelman,
and Joshua Hillman. The competi-
tion has recognized student excel-
lence in public speaking and rhetoric
since it was established in 2001.
n 5 Students at the Helen Troum
Nursery School and Kindergar-
ten at Temple Beth Sholom in
Fair Lawn learned about Pesach
at a model seder. COURTESY TBS
n 6 Ralph Nurnberger, Ph.D., the keynote speaker, left,
and the president of the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey, and Dr. Zvi Marans, flank the honorees, Drs.
Deane Penn, Sari Zimmer Block, and Louis Evan Teich-
holz at JFNNJs recent annual Physicians & Dentists
Gala. Nearly 280 people attended the gala, which was
held at Temple Emanu-El of Closter. Dr. Nurnberger is
a professor of international relations, a political com-
mentator, and a Middle East expert. COURTESY JFNNJ
n 7 Four-year-olds in the Bergen County YJCCs David
Rukin Early Childhood Center Nursery School and their
families, including Tyler, Lisa, and Silas Halperin, celebrat-
ed Passover with a model seder led by YJCC Early Child-
hood Director Amy Nelson and Rabbi Benjamin Shull of
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley. COURTESY YJCC
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Harald Dulberg
Harald Stuart Dulberg, 66, of Glen Rock died on April
14. Born in the Bronx, he is survived by his wife, Debbie,
and daughters, Dana (Mike), and Faran; a brother, Marty
(Carol), and a niece, a nephew, and cousins. Arrange-
ments were by Louis Suburban Chapel Fair Lawn.
Henry Farber
Henry Hy Farber, 90, of Ridgewood died on April 14.
Born in New York City, he graduated from Brooklyn Col-
lege and received a masters from Medill School of Jour-
nalism at Northwestern University. He served in the U.S.
Army Signal Corps and was vice president of communi-
cations at Home Life Insurance Company for 37 years.
He volunteered for community organizations includ-
ing UJA and the Hebrew Free Loan Association. He is
survived by his wife of 65 years, Yetta, daughters, Susan
Farber Straus (David) and Marilyn; sisters, Sylvia Legman
and Barbara Golden; two grandchildren; three great-
grandchildren, and nieces and nephews. Arrangments
were by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Ira Feinberg
Ira A. Feinberg, 84, of Fort Lee, died on April 21. He was
an Army veteran of the Korean Conflict and a member of
Young Israel of Fort Lee. He was the youngest American
volunteer to join the Palmach via the Jewish Under-
grounds New York Office . Traveling to Europe, he was
smuggled into a DP camp in France. He was among a
small group of soon-to-be soldiers in Israels first army
that left Marseilles. For 50 years, he spoke on Israels
fight for survival for United Jewish Appeal and Israel
Bonds. In 2008, he produced/directed the award-win-
ning documentary My Brothers Keeper as a tribute to
the men and woman of the Haganah. He is survived by
his wife of 50 years, Yaffa (Betty) ne Hausfater, chil-
dren, Bryan (Anat) of Fort Lee, and Juliette Silver (Larry)
of Roslyn, N.Y., and four grandchildren. Donations can
be made to the American Veterans of Israel. Arrange-
ments were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Joel Goodman
Joel Goodman of Cranford, Boca Raton, Fla., and Rock
Hill, N.Y., formerly of Union and Newark, died on April
20. He served in Iceland and Europe during World War
II. Afterwards, he worked in the family business Malins
5 & 10 in Roselle for over 30 years. He also founded
Goodman Realty in Cranford. He was a past president
of Temple Beth Shalom in Union and chaired the Union
Israel Bond drive for many years. He is survived by his
wife of 67 years, Eleanor, ne Malin, his children, Gary
of Cranford and Sue Greenberg of Paramus; three grand-
children, and one great-grand-
child. Arrangements were by
Menorah Chapels at Millburn.
Aron Kurnov
Aron Kurnov, 93, of Wayne
died on April 19. Arrange-
ments were by Louis Subur-
ban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Alice Mandel
Alice Mandel, ne Dranger,
87, of Fort Lee died on April
20. Born in Vienna, she was
a bank manager in New
York City. Predeceased by
her husband, Irving, she is
survived by her children,
Howard (Susan), and Michelle
Frankel (Bryan); and four
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Rosenbaum-Ruth Bettina, (ne Van Dyck), dazzled
with her intellect and beauty. Died peacefully on
April1 at Fritz Reuter Lifecare, New Jersey, after a
valiant battle against Alzheimers and Parkinsons.
Born in Danzig in 1920, Ruth was a 40-year resident
of Englewood, NJ. A wiz on Wallstreet, she edited
Whos Who in Banking. Ruth is predeceased by
Harry, her husband of 60 years. Survived by her
devoted daughter, author/educator Helen Rosenbaum
of Manhattan, and Ruths cherished friend, Madeline
Liberatore and family of Bergen County. Service at
Leber Funeral Home, conducted by Rabbi/Cantor
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Chapels, Fort Lee.
Helen Morganstein
Helen Morganstein, ne Greenberger, 96, of Forest
Hills, N.Y., died on April 12. Born in New York City, she
was a showroom manager in the garment industry.
Predeceased by her husband, Alex, she is survived by
her children, Sandy, Sanford, and Joan Cooper; five
grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Arrange-
ments were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Lee Sheiman
Lee Sheiman, 60, of Fair Lawn, formerly of Yonkers,
N.Y., died on April 22. An Indiana State University
graduate, he was director of operations and human
resources at Mosholu Montefiore Community Center
in Bronx, N.Y. for over 25 years. He is survived by
his wife of 23 years, Diane; his parents, Beverly and
Walter Sheiman, a sister, Rochelle Sheiman; and two
nieces. Donations can be sent to Mosholu Montefiore
Community Center, Bronx, N.Y. Arrangements were by
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Cinderella
In each of the past three summers, Miss Pattis
School of Dance has sponsored a NYC trip for
children afflicted with cancer to have dinner
at Johns Pizzeria and to see a Broadway show.
Last years trip to see Cinderella was met
with great excitement and joy by children and
their families. For many of the children, it was
their first Broadway show. This special day
away from the hardships and suffering these
sick children endure was a wonderful lift for
them and their families.
This years show, Lion King, is already
being met with great enthusiasm and antic-
ipation. Given the cost to fund the trip
($20,000+), JulieDance, in the hope of raising
funds, is seeking donations. If several hundred
people donate $2, $5, $10 or more, fundrais-
ing can be successful for this event. Donations
can be made at the dance school, located at
85 Godwin Ave., at the rear of Midland Park
Shopping Center, Midland Park, or by calling
(201) 670-4422.
Noelle and Baby Hal
help Valley Hospital staff
practice for emergencies
In a private room at The Valley Hos-
pital Center for Childbirth, Noelle is
about to give birth to her first child.
One minute everything seems fine; the
next the labor and delivery team spring
into emergency response mode as the
obstetrician detects the signs of shoul-
der dystocia, an obstetrical emergency
in which the head is delivered but one
of the shoulders fails to pass through
the pelvis and is stuck.
As they have been well-trained to do,
the team responds quickly and Baby
Hal is delivered safely. But Noelle is in
no condition to appreciate their work.
Noelle is essentially a robot a full-
sized, blond mannequin that can give
birth and be used to simulate a wide
range of obstetrical, medical, and surgi-
cal emergencies.
Valley purchased the Noelle Mater-
nal and Neonatal Birthing Simulator
and Newborn Hal through grants from
The Van Houten Foundation and The
Valley Hospital Foundation. A five-
year-old Hal mannequin has also been
purchased. The high-tech mannequins
are the cornerstone of Valleys simula-
tion training program, which has been
under way for about a year. Future
plans include the establishment of a
Simulation Laboratory funded by a
$2.5 million grant from the foundations
Board of Trustees.
Simulated emergencies have been
implemented in the OR and Center for
Childbirth and are planned to expand
into other areas of the hospital. The
obvious benefit of simulation training is
that it may be accomplished with abso-
lutely no risk to the patient and allows
nurses, physicians, and other members
of the health care team to practice and
review their performance before being
faced with a live patient. This is partic-
ularly valuable in the case of high-risk,
low-frequency occurrences, which staff
may not see often in their careers, said
Beth McGovern, clinical practice spe-
cialist at Valley and one of the simula-
tion educators.
It also fosters teamwork between dif-
ferent disciplines as all members of the
team work together on the simulation
exercises, which can improve processes
and patient safety, McGovern said. The
Institute of Medicine has recommended
interdisciplinary team training pro-
grams as one way to encourage a cul-
ture of safety that makes patient safety
a top priority. In a simulation exercise,
we have physicians, nurses, techs, and
other members of the health care team
working training side-by-side, which
mimics what happens in a real medical
emergency, McGovern said.
To see a video of this simulation
program, go to www.YouTube.com/
ValleyHospital.
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ALEH encourages the disabled
with symboloic Jerusalem march
For the fourth consecutive year, a pro-
cession of over 350 marchers, including
children with severe physical and cogni-
tive disabilities under the care of ALEH,
their families, caregivers, and volunteers
and friends from around the world, set
out from ALEHs Jerusalem facility to
cross over the Jerusalem Chords Bridge
in a powerful display of integration of
Israels disabled community within
Israeli society.
The march on Wednesday, April 16,
featured singing, dancing, and a cere-
mony during which over 500 balloons
were released as a display of the unre-
stricted potential of Israels disabled
children.
ALEH is Israels largest and most
advanced network of residential facili-
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Claire Fink of Cresskill wins
Scholastic National Gold Medal
Elisabeth Morrow school students
receive 19 regional awards
Nineteen students from The Elisabeth Mor-
row School (EMS) won regional awards in
the 2014 Scholastic Art and Writing com-
petition. Each year, more than 250,000
art and writing pieces are submitted by
students in grades seven through 12 across
the country, Canada, and U.S. schools
abroad. EMS students won with three art
and 16 writing submissions, and one of
the four regional Gold Key award winners,
Claire Fink of Cresskill, won a National
Gold Medal for her personal essay/memoir
Braving Fear. Historically, the national
gold medal winners represent the top 1
percent of entries.
EMS students also won eight silver keys,
and seven honorable mentions.
In total, there were 58 EMS entries to the
competition. All of the students put forth
tremendous effort to perfect their submis-
sions. The students put their passion and
energy into this competition, and they are
really all winners, said writing instructor
Laura Khutorsky.
Jewish Family Service names
NVE Bank executive to
policy-review committee
Alice Vetrone-Layne, executive vice
president and chief lending officer of
NVE Bank, has been appointed to serve
on the Professional Services Committee
of the Jewish Family Service of Bergen
and North Hudson counties. The Pro-
fessional Services Committee review all
policies governing the agencys services
and is responsible for ensuring that the
agencys board remains responsive to
changing community needs.
Ms. Vetrone-Layne joined NVE Bank in
1994 and oversees the Englewood-based
community mutual banks commercial
lending operations.
The mission of Jewish Family Service
is to strengthen and preserve the well-
being of individuals and families to help
them effectively meet the challenges and
changes through life by providing quality
human services and professional coun-
seling to all who call upon its services.
NVE Bank, established in 1887, offers
an extensive range of personal and busi-
ness products and services. The Bank
maintains 12 offices conveniently located
throughout Bergen County. For more
information, please call their toll-free
number or visit their website at www.
nvebank.com.
Blue Card to hold benefit
for Holocaust survivors
The Blue Card, a national nonprofit orga-
nization dedicated to aiding more than
2,000 needy Holocaust survivors, will
hold its annual fundraising social event,
Pong on the Terrace, on Thursday, May
1, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Sunset
Terrace at Chelsea Piers
Featuring a competitive pingpong
tournament, open bar, silent auction and
panoramic views of the Hudson River at
sunset, the event will be attended by
Aviva Sufian, the White Houses first
special envoy for U.S. Holocaust Survivor
Services, and Ambassador Ido Aharoni,
consul general of Israel in New York.
Aharoni will speak at 6:45, followed by
Ms. Sufian.
The Blue Card, established in 1934 in
Germany and organized in the U.S. in
1939, is the only organization whose sole
mission is to provide critical financial aid
for emergency medical, dental, housing
and food needs to survivors of Nazi
persecution.
While the Holocaust seems like a
long-ago nightmare, for survivors it is a
continuing one. Of the 75,000 Holocaust
survivors in the U.S., one-third live
at or below the federal poverty level.
For many, the losses they experienced
decades ago are compounded by their
current struggles to subsist on meager
incomes and threadbare or nonexistent
support systems. Studies show that
Holocaust survivors have higher
incidences of mental illness, cancer, and
other debilitating diseases.
The Blue Card is delighted to bring
together young professionals committed
to raising funds and heightening
awareness of the pressing needs of
Holocaust survivors, said Executive
Director Masha Pearl. We are most
grateful to special envoy Aviva Sufian
and Ambassador Ido Aharoni for
participating in this important event.
The program is open to the public.
Tickets may be purchased by visiting
http://www.bluecardfund.org/bluecard-
events-ping-pong-social-2014.html.
The Blue Card has distributed over
$24 million to date, with individual
donations going directly to survivors.
For more information on The Blue Card,
please visit www.bluecardfund.org or
call The Blue Card at (212) 239-2251.
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Interstate Park.
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information or to sign up as
a volunteer. The activities
begin at Ross Dock and
the out-and-back run takes
place along Henry Hudson
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