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CONTENTS
Candlelighting: Friday, May 16, 7:49 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, May 17, 8:55 p.m.
The secret sharers
There are some billionaires who
flaunt their charity by taking out full
page ads in the Los Angeles Times to
advertise their gifts.
And then there are those who
hide their generosity behind dummy
corporations and anonymous founda-
tions.
Not surprisingly, we tend to hear
less about the latter group.
This week, however, Bloomberg
Businessweek yes, the magazine
now named after its billionaire owner
outed three reticent donors.
Former partners in a pioneering
hedge fund, TGS Management, C.
Frederick Taylor, David Gelbaum, and
Andrew Shechtel have given billions
to causes such as fighting Hunting-
tons Disease and fighting landmines.
The three used a Roseland law firm,
Lowenstein Sandler, to cover their
tracks as they set about doing their
goodly work.
Among the foundations set up
for this quiet charity is the Matan
BSeter Foundation, Hebrew for giv-
ing secretly.
The Matan BSeter Foundation fun-
neled its donations to donor-advised
charities run by mutual funds, mean-
ing that recipients would have had
no idea where the gifts originated. It
distributed $65 million to charity in
2011 alone.
Businessweek reporter Zachary R.
Mider tracked down Mr. Shechtel at
the Jewish Funders Network confer-
ence in Miami in March.
Heres how he tells the story:
Shechtel stretched out on a hotel
deck chair by a pool looking out over
the beach. Earlier that day, his wife,
Raquel, had given a presentation on
encouraging Jewish teens to donate
to charity. The hotel was crawling
with fundraisers, but when I asked
half a dozen conference attendees
about Shechtel, none had heard of
the guy. They didnt know they were
in the presence of one of the coun-
trys biggest Jewish philanthropists.
Shechtel leaned forward and
smiled when I approached. His col-
lar was open, and he had a round
face and a close-clipped black beard
flecked with white. He wore bright
orange socks. When I introduced
myself, his expression changed. He
didnt want to talk. He dismissed me
with a few words and turned away. He
just wanted to be another guy by the
pool, watching the shadows stretch
out over the sand. LARRY YUDELSON
Sweet
redemption
The Jerusalem Talmud teaches that
redemption will come for Israel like the
approach of the dawn.
Candy makers in Brooklyn, however,
seem to think it will crawl in like gummy
worms.
What else to make of the Geula
meaning redemption brand of can-
dy worms found in a Boro Park store?
LARRY YUDELSON
Fresh off its merger with MyJew-
ishLearning, which publishes Kvel-
ler, a Jewish parenting blog, JTA, the
one-time Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
has come out with one of its most
in-depth investigations in some time:
Americas Top Mohels.
Uriel Heilman, JTAs managing edi-
tor and author of the report, cautions
that The list is not meant as a defini-
tive ranking.
He writes:
I did not inspect thousands of
instances of their workmanship. I did
not rate them according to precision,
style or performance. I relied on some
tips (!) from insiders, with an eye to-
ward quantity and diversity.
We offer one local entry below
Andrew Silow Carroll of Teaneck,
a former JTA managing editor and
now editor of the New Jersey Jewish
News, expressed concern on his blog
that the list may mean the death of
Jewish satire as an art form.
However, he said he would not give
up so easily on Onion-style respons-
es to the Forward 50 or Newsweeks
late and not lamented Most Influen-
tial Rabbis.
He proposed that the following lists
remain to be compiled:
Americas Least-Empowered
Assistant Rabbis
The Nations Most Over-Qualified
Sunday School Teachers
36 Gabbais Who Are Making a
Difference
The NBAs Least-Inspiring Jewish
Owners
New York Times Op-Ed Writers,
Ranked by How Much They Hate
Israel
13 Reasons We Love Aliza, recited
(shut up, you guys!) by (I mean it,
quit it!) Aliza Greenbaums best
friends (no, you go first) at her
recent (giggle) bat mitzvah (We
love you, Aliza!)
Foreskin count: 20,000+.
Market niche: New York-New
Jersey area, with a focus on high-
end clients. Ive been to Japan,
Hong Kong, Bermuda, Aspen. I do
everybody: religious, assimilated,
interfaith families, non-Jewish cir-
cumcisions. Most of my referrals
come from the medical community
their kids, their grandkids, their
patients kids.
Trademark: I wear a bow tie, and
because Im a cantor I can sing. I
dont tell jokes. I do not hand out
refrigerator magnets or business
cards. I try to make each bris warm,
meaningful, inclusive and spiritual.
First bris: In Brooklyn during the
blizzard of February 1978. We knew
it was coming, so I stayed over
in Brooklyn the night before. The
snowstorm brought the city to a
standstill, and only about six people
made it, including the parents and
the baby.
Most memorable bris: My record is
11 in one day a pair of twins and
seven others. I once did a bris in
Long Island where the family built a
4-foot platform across the swim-
ming pool. One wrong turn either
way and youre in the pool.
Inspiration: My grandfather was a
rabbi, a dayan (religious judge), a
shochet (ritual slaughterer) and a
mohel he did it all. Im just a can-
tor and a mohel.
Time: 15-20 seconds, no prep.
Device of choice: A modified Mo-
gen clamp. I altered it so it doesnt
close completely and stop the
blood flow if its on too long that
was Rabbi Moshe Tendlers sugges-
tion.
Anesthesia: No. Many parents want
to use products that are not ap-
proved, formulated or tested for use
on infants of this age.
Price: $800
Entourage: Im a solo act, but
sometimes my son drives me
around so I dont have to find park-
ing.
What you do when youre not
circumcising: Im in the Screen Ac-
tors Guild, and I have a motorcycle.
Ive been in commercials, movies,
TV. I did a film with Paul Rudd and
Rashida Jones, Our Idiot Brother.
I played a mohel, but the scene was
cut. How ironic.
Website: emoil.com
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since 1978 to win the
Triple Crown the Derby,
the Preakness Stakes (to
be aired on NBC, on May
17 at 4:30 p.m.), and the
Belmont Stakes, set for
June 7.
Art Sherman was
loath to predict any-
thing about the Triple
Crown. He said he is
just enjoying the atten-
tion that is going to the
oldest trainer, ever, of a
Kentucky Derby win-
ner. I have been photo-
graphed more times in
the last few days than in
my whole life people
on planes are asking for
my autograph, he said.
Meanwhile, Arts other
son, STEVE SHERMAN,
47, is having a banner
year as a trainer at a
Northern California race
track.
No, Art Sherman didnt
become a religious Jew
with age. His wife of 53
years, Faye, isnt Jewish.
Still hes a pretty Jewish
guy mentioning how
much he loves eating lox
and eggs with one of the
several Jews who own
horses he trains. He also
fondly recalled that he,
his wife, and his nieces
loved their trip to Israel
two years ago.
The new season of
The Bachelorette
on ABC begins on
Monday, May 19, from 8
to 10 p.m. ANDI DORF-
MAN, 27, who publicly
rejected the titular star
of last seasons Bach-
elor program, is the first
Jewish woman to be the
star of The Bachelor-
ette. Dorfman usually
is described as beautiful
and very smart she is
an assistant district at-
torney in the county that
includes Atlanta. N.B.
CHROME TURNS TO GOLD:
The horseshoe fits
for this Cinderella
Art Sherman with California Chrome
California Chrome,
the winner of this
years Kentucky Der-
by it was run on May 3
is a for-real Cinderella
story, as are his owners
and trainer. The horse is
owned and was bred by
Perry Martin and Steve
Coburn, one an engineer
and the other a press op-
erator, who live, respec-
tively, in a small city in far
Northern California and
in a small Nevada town
near Lake Tahoe. Neither
earns much money, but
they took a chance and
bred two horses, worth
$10,500 together. That
yielded a foal, California
Chrome, who showed
early promise.
When Chrome was
two years old, they told
ALAN SHERMAN, 45, a
trainer based part-time
in the San Francisco area,
about him. Sherman talk-
ed to his father and boss,
trainer ART SHERMAN,
77, and they agreed to
train him. Coburn told a
Sacramento newspaper
that he chose Art Sher-
man because Hes a
regular guy. He doesnt
have a huge barn. He can
spend quality time with
every horse. You can tell
Chrome likes him, and he
really loves this horse.
Like Chrome, Art Sher-
man had modest be-
ginnings. He was born
in Brooklyn, where his
father, the son of Rus-
sian Jewish immigrants,
scraped out a living in
construction. In a recent
telephone interview,
Sherman told me that his
fathers brothers were
doing a bit better in Los
Angeles so they moved
there in 1945, when he
was 7, and his father
opened a small barber-
shop.
The family wasnt reli-
gious, Sherman said, but
they sent him to Hebrew
school for awhile. He left
when his teacher, a rabbi,
hit him, and he never
returned. Meanwhile, Art
was only 52 when he
was 15, so a barbershop
customer encouraged
him to become a jockey.
Nobody he knew rode
horses, but he found his
way to a track and found
that he could learn what
he needed by working
at a nearby ranch that
trained jockeys.
Art had only mod-
est success as a jockey.
In 1980, he became a
full-time, licensed trainer
and gradually he became
pretty successful. But un-
til Chrome, he never had
a really big-time thor-
oughbred. Chrome won
five big races in a row
before the Derby and
entered the race a heavy
favorite. Pundits say that
he has a good chance
of being the first horse
On TV: Walters Retires
On Friday, May 16, BARBARA WALTERS, 84, retires
from her ABC show, The View, and from regular on-
air work. That same day, at 9 p.m., ABC will mark this
milestone with a two-hour retrospective of her career.
Walters told TV Guide that I made this choice. She
added that she still will be executive producer of The
View and would do something for ABC in the event of
the death of a major igure she knew.
Walters said her biggest regret was never being able to
interview Queen Elizabeth or a pope. On the other hand,
she said that the thing that she is most proud of is: That
there are there are so many women in television now.
Thats my legacy. Top female TV anchors were quoted
praising Walters and her groundbreaking interviews.
Katie Couric said, Her [MENACHEM] BEGIN and Sadat
interview was historic. It was just unheard to have these
two adversaries together.
N.B.
Barbara Walters
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SSDS broadens its Holocaust curriculum
LOIS GOLDRICH
W
hen Jewish schools teach
about genocide, they
stress the mass killing of
Jews during World War II.
That is entirely as it should be.
Still, says Beryl Bresgi, librarian and
coordinator of Shoah studies at the Solo-
mon Schechter Day School of Bergen
County, these studies should go even
deeper.
We teach the Shoah as a unique event
that happened to the Jewish people, but
it has universal implications, she said. It
should be never again for everybody.
The Shoah should be studied within
the context of the world and the choices
that people make, added Ms. Bresgi, who
recently visited Rwanda together with
Ruth Gafni, Schechters head of school.
The trip came about through a conflu-
ence of things, Ms. Bresgi said, explaining
that the direct cause was a donors inabil-
ity to participate in a mission to the Afri-
can nation and his suggestion that she and
Ms. Gafni take his place.
He lost both of his survivor parents
and wanted to donate a Shoah center at
Schechter, Ms. Bresgi said. We were
working on that. As they were speaking
sometime last spring, he said, You wont
believe it; I have Stephen Smith in my
office.
Dr. Smith is the executive director of the
USC Shoah Foundation. As it happened,
the New Milford school already had
been in touch with the foundations IWit-
ness program, which uses the collected,
indexed, and catalogued testimony of hun-
dreds of Holocaust survivors. It also pro-
vides resources for educators to build cus-
tomized activities based on that testimony.
Dr. Smith knew we were looking into
the IWitness program, Ms. Bresgi said.
We made a nice connection.
In February, the donor a supporter
of both Schechter and the Shoah Founda-
tion was invited to go to Rwanda with the
foundation to see the work being done by
the organization with testimony from both
perpetrators and survivors.
It was both complicated and interest-
ing, Ms. Bresgi said. He couldnt go, so he
invited Ruth and me to go on the mission.
She said she had already begun think-
ing that as the culmination of the schools
Shoah program in eighth grade, she would
like students to make digital recordings of
the stories of survivors from their own
community. The trip to Rwanda, she
thought, might give her some new insights
into that project.
Since the school had decided to embrace
the Shoah curriculum Facing History and
Ourselves which confronts the issue of
the Holocaust and human behavior this
seemed like a good opportunity to learn
and investigate.
Ms. Gafni and Ms. Bresgi, the only school
educators on the trip, joined foundation
supporters as well as educators from the
foundation itself.
It lasted eight days, Ms. Bresgi said.
We were on a bus with two Rwandan
survivors, working as Shoah Foundation
cataloguers. There are a lot of schools
there. The language of instruction is
English, she added.
Five or six secondary schools are using
the testimony of Holocaust survivors, she
said. The students were fascinated that
genocide could happen to Europeans.
Ms. Bresgi said that the messages of
the trip still are emerging she returned
shortly before Pesach and then she and
Ms. Gafni went to Poland with the schools
eighth graders, who had a chance to visit
the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
and speak with some survivors there.
Then Ms. Gafni went on to Israel with the
students, and Ms. Bresgi returned home.
Whatever the final outcome of the
Rwanda visit, it already has borne tangible
fruit. First, the school made a connection
with the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village,
founded by the late Anne Heyman.
ASYV, a residential community in rural
Rwanda, cares for young people who were
orphaned during and after the genocide
there in 1994. It is modeled on a similar
program created for Jewish children in
Israel after the Holocaust.
These children were born into destruc-
tion, Ms. Bresgi said. There was no infra-
structure, no roads, no running water.
Twenty years later, look at whats been
done. Through great investment from the
West, they have a strong government, and
women have been empowered. Their slo-
gan is remember, unite, and renew.
Theres a strong sense of dont for-
get, dont allow denial, she said. But
so is the importance of forgiveness and
reconciliation.
Its a waste of time to indulge in
revenge. It helps both the perpetrators
and victims, who are living together. There
is no diaspora.
Reconciliation is powerful.
During the trip, Ms. Bresgi said, she
asked a man who had suffered great loss
about the idea of revenge.
Im more interested in getting my mas-
ters degree than in killing my neighbors,
he said.
In addition to forging a connection with
the youth village, Ms. Gafni and Ms. Bresgi
learned that eight residents of the village
were planning a visit to the United States.
Happily, the school was able to join the
group of host organizations. The young
Rwandans visited the New Milford school
on Yom Haatzmaut.
Leah Silberstein, the schools direc-
tor of communications, said the visit
included learning, impromptu singing,
and a joint game of soccer. But most of the
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visit revolved around exchanging stories
about each others lives and enjoying each
others music.
After Blaise Rwamukwaya, 20, men-
tioned that the eight visitors would be
happy to sing for their hosts, nearly 50
SSDS students and faculty leapt from their
chairs in the schools library and made
their way to Makom Shira, the schools
music room, for an impromptu concert,
Ms. Silberstein said. Agahozo-Shalom
students surprised everyone with their
version of such American pop songs as
John Legends All of Me and Bruno Mars
Count on Me. They also sang an a capella
South African hymn.
SSDS students responded with a spon-
taneous rendition of Let It Go, from the
animated film Frozen, followed by Hatik-
vah, Ms. Silberstein said.
The SSDS students were spellbound as
Innocent Nkundiye, the 22-year-old self-
proclaimed poet of the group, performed
a spontaneous poetry slam he called We
are the New Blood of Rwanda, referenc-
ing his generations efforts to help heal and
rebuild Rwanda after the genocide.
In addition, Ms. Silberstein said, when
Jacky Tuyisenge, 18, told the SSDS mid-
dle school students that she has fully
embraced the value of tikkun olam,
repairing the world, a concept she
learned at Agahozo-Shalom, an SSDS
seventh-grader replied, That is what we
learn here every day, too.
Ms. Bresgi is proud of the schools
approach to teaching about the Shoah.
While students learn about the events that
have befallen the Jewish people, the new
curriculum helps show that this happens
to other people a lesson the Rwandans
visit brought home forcefully.
Children should have a sense of their
responsibility to speak out even in mid-
dle school, to see what needs to be done
locally and help out, she said.
They should have the awareness of
injustice. We dont expect them to join
the U.N. and solve the worlds problems,
but we want to raise awareness of their
responsibility and empowerment, starting
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Breast cancer and bone health
Demarest doctor does groundbreaking study based on Israeli data
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Does breast cancer affect bone health?
It is very likely that there is a connection,
according to Dr. Ethel Siris of Demarest.
Just before she headed off to her grand-
sons bar mitzvah in Jerusalem, Dr. Siris
spoke to the Jewish Standard about the
groundbreaking study on breast cancer
and osteoporosis that she is co-leading at
Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva.
Dr. Siris (pronounced like Cyrus) is
a professor of medicine at Columbia Uni-
versity Medical Center and directs its Toni
Stabile Osteoporosis Center. She also is a
past president of the National Osteopo-
rosis Foundation and a member of the
National Bone Health Alliances executive
committee.
I do some public policy work and take
care of a lot of patients, she said.
She shares some of these patients with
Dr. Larry Norton, medical director of the
Evelyn Lauder Breast Center at Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Breast-cancer patients always have been
assumed to be less susceptible to osteopo-
rosis, and vice versa. This simplistic con-
cept did not account for the fact that many
of our patients had both breast cancer and
osteoporosis, and we needed to look at
this, Dr. Siris said.
Although long-term medications to con-
trol breast cancer can lessen bone density
because they lower estrogen levels, Dr.
Norton suspected that breast cancer itself
impacts bone metabolism.
So with funding from the New Jersey-
based Cure Breast Cancer Foundation,
a retrospective study of 15,000 breast-
cancer patients began in 2010 at Soroka,
which serves all of southern Israel. Prelim-
inary results were published in the jour-
nal PLOS One, and the study moved into a
seven-year prospective phase.
The retrospective study taught us that
when people with breast cancer have frac-
tures, those fractures seem to occur at
better levels of bone density. Normally,
the risk of fracture goes up as density goes
down, Dr. Siris said.
It seems breast-cancer patients had bet-
ter bone density than peers who did not
have breast cancer. Something unusual is
going on here, and it also happens in peo-
ple with type 2 diabetes and those who
take large amounts of steroids.
It could be that density alone does not
address the quality of the bone. Steroids
and diabetes, and maybe breast cancer,
impact the quality of the bone even if it is
dense and does not have metastases. This
is a totally new concept, and a compli-
cated, fascinating area to explore.
The Israeli hospitals diverse population
of Jews from different ethnicities, as well
as Bedouin Arabs, provides an unusually
rich testing environment.
Soroka was carefully chosen for this
research, Dr. Norton said when he was
visiting Israel in April with colleagues,
including Dr. Siris, for a cancer conference
at the Beersheva teaching hospital.
It is one hospital serving many people
in one geographic area; it keeps immacu-
late records; it has superb clinicians and
great science; and it has Ben-Gurion Uni-
versity right there.
The immaculate records can be cred-
ited in part to the Israel Health Founda-
tion, formed in America at the request of
Israels Clalit health maintenance orga-
nization, which runs Soroka and other
hospitals.
Healthcare in Israel is wonderful
because everybody gets it, but resources
are limited, Dr. Siris said. I enthusiasti-
cally got involved in the IHF, and one of
the efforts is to support Soroka. We now
have good electronic medical records
there partly as a result of the IHF.
Years ago, as a member of American
Friends of Soroka Medical Center, Dr. Siris
helped raise funds to buy bone-density
equipment for Soroka. She recognized its
potential for U.S.-funded research.
Hundreds of women newly diagnosed
with breast cancer at the southern hos-
pital are being matched with cancer-free
control partners who have similar clinical
characteristics.
We will collect data on them so that
over time we can look at what happens
to their bone density and what corre-
lates with ultimately having fractures,
Dr. Siris said.
Cure Breast Cancer Foundation founder
Andrew Abramson of North Caldwell,
whose wife Lisa has suffered three bouts
of breast cancer, says this is the first Israeli
study his foundation is supporting.
It was a byproduct of research were
done in New York with Dr. Siris, he said.
My wife is on the verge of osteoporosis, so
she could very well be helped by the results
of these studies.
Dr. Siris first got interested in Israeli
healthcare when her son, Benjamin
(Boruch) moved to Israel in the late 1990s.
She and her husband, Sam, a psychiatrist,
began visiting several times a year.
We wanted to give back, so when IHF got
organized it was an obvious opportunity for
me to share knowledge and expertise with
the excellent people in Israeli healthcare
and raise some money for them, she said.
The current study is an example of how
the IHFs efforts are helping to do good
things in Israel and will help others around
the world.
Dr. Siris notes that her son was hosted
in Teaneck and Bergenfield homes several
years ago, when his first wife was being
treated at Sloan Kettering for osteosar-
coma, or bone cancer. After she died, he
wrote a book called Noas Strength, using
the name Boruch Sirisky. It was published
by Mosaica Press. In the book, Benjamin
Siris expresses his gratitude to these Bergen
County families.
He has since remarried and now has four
children. The eldest just celebrated his bar
mitzvah, and his New Jersey grandparents
were proudly in attendance.
The Sirises also have a daughter, Sara Siris
Nash, a psychiatrist at Columbia University
Medical Center.
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Major league baseball umpire Al Clark talks about his ups and downs
PHIL JACOBS
L
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managers, Major League
Baseball umpires have
numbers.
Al Clarks was 24. He wore it on his
uniform shirt for 26 seasons.
But thats not the number that Mr.
Clark keeps above his bathroom mir-
ror, where he can see it every day.
The number that does hang there,
26140-50, was assigned to him by the
Federal Bureau of Prisons. He wore it
for the 120 days he was incarcerated
after a baseball memorabilia scheme
resulted in a mail fraud conviction in
2004.
Three years before, Mr. Clark had
been fired abruptly, when the league
learned that he had traded in the first-
class airline tickets it had given him for
seats in the economy section. He pock-
eted the difference, and used it for per-
sonal travel.
It was a steep decline for a man who
once had to make split-second decisions in
stadiums packed with fans and who could
call such places as Yankee Stadium or Shea
Stadium my office. He had been a top-tier
umpire, who worked two World Series and
two All-Star Games; suddenly he was teach-
ing fellow convicts how to umpire a baseball
game in a worn-out prison recreation yard.
Its no wonder that the book he wrote
with sports writer Dan Schlossberg is called
Called Out But Safe: a Baseball Umpires
Journey.
Mr. Clark, 66, will be in the metropolitan
area this weekend to sign the books which
are published by the University of Nebraska
Press and answer questions. See bottom
of the article for times, locations and dates.
Mr. Clark now lives in Williamsburg, Va.,
but he grew up in Trenton, where his family
belonged to an Orthodox shul, Ahavas Yis-
roel Congregation.
His excitement was tangible over the
phone as he talked about how he was the
shuls shofar blower during high holidays.
I enjoyed studying Jewish history and
Judaism itself, he said. Friends called me
the Yiddishe umpire. I never hid my Juda-
ism during my career. I was never embar-
rassed by it.
Still, when there were games to be played
on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur, Mr. Clark
went to work.
My name was not Sandy Koufax or Hank
Greenberg, he said. (Those two Jewish Hall
of Famer players famously did sit out Yom
Kippur.) As a young umpire I was too timid
to ask for the Jewish holidays off. Once the
precedent was set, because I did work dur-
ing the high holidays early in my career, I
had to keep working on the holidays.
Mr. Clark grew up around professional
sports. His father, Herb, the sports editor
for the Trenton Times and the Trentonian,
covered the New York Yankees.
Mr. Clark starting umpiring in local youth
leagues when he was in junior high.
Look, no one grows up wanting to be
an umpire, he said with a laugh. I grew
up wanting to be a major league baseball
player. But theres this harsh reality that says
youre not good enough.
Mr. Clark attended Eastern Kentucky Uni-
versity as a health and physical education
major. But he did not complete his degree;
instead, he graduated from umpire school.
He went to work in the low minor New York
Penn League before he was promoted to
the MidWest League, which had teams in
small towns throughout Iowa, Illinois, and
Wisconsin.
When he did play high school baseball,
during his junior and senior year, Mr. Clark
was a catcher. He thinks it is the catchers
vantage point that led him to his career as
an umpire.
As a catcher, I saw the same things that
the umpires did, he said. I liked the idea
of being in control. There is a Type A per-
sonality one needs to be an umpire. Once
I got my drivers license at age 16, I started
umpiring wherever I could all through
high school and college. I
umpired amateur leagues
and semi-pro leagues
all through central New
Jersey.
Mr. Clark got the call
to the big leagues in
the spring of 1976, after
spending time in the
minor leagues. His first game
as a Major League umpire was
in Arlington, Texas; the contest
was between the hometown
Rangers and the Minnesota
Twins.
Yes, I remember it, he said.
It was great. I dont remem-
ber my feet ever touching the
ground. I worked third base for
that game.
I l ived a dream, he
continued.
He also had many major
moments. Among them:
He was scheduled to umpire
the 1989 World Series. That
game was postponed when an
earthquake stopped everything
in the San Francisco Bay area.
He umpired the 1978 playoff
tiebreaker game between the
Yankees and Boston Red Sox,
when Buckey Dent hit his leg-
endary three-run home run to
give New York the win.
He was behind the plate on September
5, 1995 when Baltimore Oriole Hall of Famer
Cal Ripken tied Lou Gehrigs record of 2,130
consecutive games.
He was third base umpire the next eve-
ning, when Mr. Ripken broke the record.
He umpired in the 1983 and 1989 World
Series.
He umpired in the All-Star games of 1984
and 1995.
He was on the umpiring staff for the
opening of Oriole Park at Camden Yards in
Baltimore; Jacobs Field in Cleveland, and
the ballpark in Arlington, Texas.
Mr. Clark said that he covered his career
low points honestly and straightforwardly
in his book.
I went away for 120 days to federal
prison camp, he said; the prison is in
Petersburg, Va.
I do believe in turning something that
is negative into a positive. So I asked if I
could take about 40 inmates and teach
them about officiating. We went out
onto the intramural fields at the prison
with the hopes that some of those guys
would learn something and use what
they learned after jail.
I learned in jail that if you dont
occupy your mind with something sub-
stantial, doing something to help others,
your time could be troublesome. Depres-
sion is a huge enemy of inmates. I wasnt
going to allow that to happen to me, and
I wasnt going to allow it to define who
I am.
I had 26 straight years of success and
then I fell down, he continued, We are
all one decision away from having every-
thing taken away from us.
Mr. Clark said he remains humbled
by his experiences experiences that
he calls a rags to riches to screw-up to
redemption to being okay story.
I feel privi l eged to have been
employed by Major League Baseball for
26 years, he said. I lived a dream every
day. On one stretch of three consecutive
days I umpired games at Wrigley Field
in Chicago, Fenway Park in Boston, and
Camden Yards in Baltimore. If you are a
fan of baseball like I am, it doesnt get any
better.
Yes, there was a totally Jewish moment
for Mr. Clark. As the 1998 season wound
down, with Rosh Hashanah just days
away, Shawn Green, a Jewish player for
the Toronto Blue Jays, came to the plate
against the Milwaukee Brewers. Jesse
Levis, another Jewish player, was catch-
ing for the Brewers that day.
I took off my mask and swept off
home plate, and while my mask was off
I said good yom tov to Shawn and to
Jesse. They responded to me and to one
another with a good yom tov. That hap-
pened in a major league baseball game.
Mr. Clark said he ran into anti-Semitism
only once and that was before he went to
the majors.
The career of Denny McLain, a 31-game
winner with the Detroit Tigers, was com-
ing to its end. Mr. McLain was playing
for a minor league team. After a game
in Indianapolis, Mr. McLain attacked Mr.
Clark. What was this Jew bastard was
doing in our game? Mr. Clark reports Mr.
McLain as saying. Theres no place for
your kind in our game.
He reported the incident, and Mr.
McLain received a league suspension.
He is not a fan of any particular team,
Mr. Clark said. Instead, hes a fan of the
game of baseball.
It is a tremendous game. I loved being
on the field, he said.
So here is one more number. Mr. Clark
umpired 3,392 baseball games.
You can meet him away from the field:
May 17 Bookends Book Store, Ridgewood, 11 a.m. -1 p.m.
May 18 Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center, campus of Montclair State University, 2-4 p.m.
May 19 Arm & Hammer Ballpark, Trenton, 5-7 p.m.
May 23 Somerset Patriots minor league baseball team, Somerset, 4:30 -7 p.m.
May 24 Diamond Nation, Flemington, 10 a.m. -2 p.m.
May 25 Unionville Vineyard wine tasting party, Ringoes, 4-6:30 p.m.
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YUs tennis team
makes history
T
he Yeshiva University Macca-
bees mens tennis team made
history on April 27, when it
became the universitys first
athletic program ever to earn a berth in
a National Collegiate Athletic Associa-
tion tournament.
The distinction was won automatically
when the Macs bested Mount Saint Mary
College in the championship round of
the 2014 Skyline Conference postseason
tournament.
Though the Macs did not get far in the
NCAA Division III mens tennis champi-
onship they lost to Skidmore College
5-0 in the opening round on May 8 at Mid-
dlebury College in Vermont the teams
head coach, Ira Miller of Tenafly, still
was pumped about the unprecedented
accomplishment when talking to the Jew-
ish Standard three days later.
I was very proud of the teams per-
formance, Mr. Miller said. Before work-
ing with the Macs, he coached the tennis
teams at Fairleigh Dickinson University in
Teaneck for 15 years, and before that he
did the same at Drew University in Madi-
son for seven years. We showed we can
compete with a nationally ranked team. I
think we also learned what we need to do
to go even further into the tournament.
The Macs season ends with a 13-3 over-
all record. Mr. Miller noted that the team
won 10 of those 13 matches with a score
of 9-0.
YUs appearance at the Division III
championship was historic for another
reason as well. It was the first time that
NCAA officials needed to change the
schedule for a regional round due to Jew-
ish Sabbath observance.
Originally, the men were supposed to
begin playing on Friday, and if they won
they would play the next match on Satur-
day, Mr. Miller said. If we won on Fri-
day, we werent going to play on Saturday
unless it was very late at night. So they
decided to start our regional round a day
early, on Thursday.
In the history of the NCAA, they never
had to accommodate anybody for Saturday
play. In the 1950s, Brigham Young Univer-
sity said they wouldnt play on Sunday, and
others have since followed suit, but this was
the first Saturday exemption.
YU has been part of the NCAA Division III
since 1956. The nonprofit association regu-
lates athletic programs at colleges and uni-
versities throughout North America. The
Skyline Conference includes YU, Mount
Saint Mary, Farmingdale State, Maritime,
Mount Saint Vincent, NYU Polytechnic,
Old Westbury, Purchase, Sage, and Saint
Joseph-Long Island.
Macs team member Avi Seidman of Ber-
genfield, a YU sophomore who finished
the season with a 4-0 record, said that for
him the highlight of the season was the
camaraderie that we had. We took it match
by match and everyone worked hard. No
one messed around. We knew where we
wanted to go and took it step by step.
Mr. Seidman first played competitive ten-
nis at the Frisch School in Paramus. He said
he attributes YUs Skyline Conference vic-
tory to the coach, who began working with
the Macs in January and instituted a rigor-
ous training regimen. He brought all the
drills and focus that we needed as a team.
It was an incredible season and everyone
tried their hardest.
In relation to the loss to 20th-ranked
Skidmore, We werent prepared to play a
team at that high a level, Mr. Seidman said.
As we get better, we will get better
draws, Mr. Seidman said. We need to start
playing tougher teams. Next spring, we will
set out to defend our conference champi-
onship and hopefully make it deeper into
the NCAA tournament.
Meanwhile, Mr. Miller will direct the Adi-
das summer tennis camp at Ramapo Col-
lege in Mahwah, for boys and girls, from
8 to 18 years old. Hes holding a free clinic
there on June 1 from 1 to 3 p.m.
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Freeing Gilad
Noam Shalit tells local students how Hamas released his son
JOANNE PALMER
Some questions every parent hopes never
to have to answer:
How far would you go to rescue your
child?
How brave would you be?
How resourceful?
How resilient?
How smart?
How crafty?
How compliant?
How non-compliant?
Noam Shalit had to face those questions.
In 2006, his son, Gilad, then 19 years
old, a corporal in an Israel Defense Forces
tank unit, was kidnapped by Hamas in an
attack that killed three IDF troops and
wounded three others. Gilad, also shot
and hurt, was forced through tunnels back
into Gaza.
Gilad was held in captivity for five and a
half years, and released pale, weak, and
with a still-mangled hand, but alive in
2011.
Noam Shalit has been touring Bergen
and Rockland counties, talking about his
sons captivity and his familys response
to it, not to sell anything but to thank the
American Jewish community for the sup-
port that helped keep him and his family
from sinking. Last week, he spoke to stu-
dents at the Solomon Schechter School of
Bergen County in New Milford. After the
presentation he talked more about his
experiences, and about Gilads.
The first they heard about the episode
that would mark their lives was a few lines
on a radio news broadcast, Noam Sha-
lit said. It was a Sunday morning, the
beginning of a regular summer week. We
were at work, my wife and I, and I heard a
report about an incident. He is trained as
an industrial engineer, and his wife, Aviva,
was a secretary. But as far as I knew, that
wasnt where Gilad was stationed.
And then, at 9:30 a.m., they called me
to the City Hall office, and I saw the IDF
representatives, and they told me.
It was a very big shock, and I had a
strong feeling of dj vu. I had faced army
officers like that 40 years ago, when they
came to tell us that my twin brother, Yoel,
was killed in the Yom Kippur war.
Later, when he returned home to Mitzpe
Hila in the Galilee, his street, where we
dont usually see anything but cats and
dogs, was full of journalists and reporters
and trucks from media from all around
the world. Until then, I had never seen a
microphone in front of me.
That changed quickly.
For the first two years, the Shalits kept
a relatively low profile, Mr. Shalit said.
But then we realized that the government
was in no hurry to get him back. Its not
that government officials didnt want his
son returned, Mr. Shalit elaborated, but
the price they were willing to pay wasnt
high enough. It also wasnt that they
werent acting in good faith, but in Israel
there is what I called the trust system. Its
you can trust me until you cant. I know
it, so I was very alert to it.
Mr. Shalit knew that if his son contin-
ued to be out of sight, soon hed be out of
mind, and soon after that hed no longer
be anything. Including alive.
In part, that knowledge was instinctive,
and in part it came from his friendship
with Tami Arad. Her husband, IDF aviator
Ron Arad, had been kidnapped by Hez-
bollah in 1986. His captors released a few
letters and photographs to prove that he
was still alive, and the Israeli government
negotiated for his release, but no agree-
ment ever was reached, and there were
no more signs of life from him. He is now
presumed to be dead, but no one except
his kidnappers and eventual executioners
knows where, when, or how he died.
That was a precautionary tale Mr. Shalit
took to heart.
A year after Gilad was captured, the
bodies of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwas-
ser, two other young IDF soldiers who
had been taken prisoner, were released.
And then, when Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert was forced to resign in 2009, we
demanded that he conclude the crisis
before he stepped down from office. He
didnt, so we went for the first time to
protest in Jerusalem, during his last days
in office.
He and his supporters established a
headquarters and engaged a public rela-
tions firm. We upgraded our campaign
gradually until the summer of 2010, when
we saw that we now are facing four years
of captivity, and nothing would happen.
I told Prime Minister Netanyahu that
four years of captivity with no results, no
light at the end of the tunnel that wasnt
a train, was for us a causus belli, a rea-
son to wage war. A public relations war, he
meant. I told him that we are going to the
public, Mr. Shalit said. We were going to
test our case publicly.
Mr. Shalit and many supporters
marched from the Galilee to Jerusalem. It
took 11 days in the heat of an Israeli sum-
mer. We were roughly 10,000 people
every day. Overall, about 200,000 people
participated in the march in some way.
In Jerusalem, the group settled in a park
across from the prime ministers home.
Mr. Shalit and his supporters erected a
tent, where he spent most of his daylight
hours for the next 15 months. We set up
a sign in from of the house, with a counter
showing the days of Gilads captivity, he
said. We updated the counter every day.
The prime minister could not ignore
us. He saw us every day when he goes
out to work, and every evening when he
comes back home. And his family couldnt
ignore us.
This happened at just about the time
social media took off, and Twitter and
other platforms made Gilad Shalits plight
and his fathers fight to rescue him a cause
celebre.
In order to spearhead the struggle for his
son, Noam Shalit had to quit his job, sup-
porting himself on his companys generos-
ity, and on the kindness of both friends and
strangers. Of course, when you live in a
tent you dont need much, he said.
Gilad Shalit eventually was released in a
Noam Shalit told Schechter students
about how his son was captured, how
he was freed, and how it all felt.
LESLIE BARBARO
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Freeing Gilad
Noam Shalit tells local students how Hamas released his son
public, Mr. Shalit said. We were going to
test our case publicly.
Mr. Shalit and many supporters
marched from the Galilee to Jerusalem. It
took 11 days in the heat of an Israeli sum-
mer. We were roughly 10,000 people
every day. Overall, about 200,000 people
participated in the march in some way.
In Jerusalem, the group settled in a park
across from the prime ministers home.
Mr. Shalit and his supporters erected a
tent, where he spent most of his daylight
hours for the next 15 months. We set up
a sign in from of the house, with a counter
showing the days of Gilads captivity, he
said. We updated the counter every day.
The prime minister could not ignore
us. He saw us every day when he goes
out to work, and every evening when he
comes back home. And his family couldnt
ignore us.
This happened at just about the time
social media took off, and Twitter and
other platforms made Gilad Shalits plight
and his fathers fight to rescue him a cause
celebre.
In order to spearhead the struggle for his
son, Noam Shalit had to quit his job, sup-
porting himself on his companys generos-
ity, and on the kindness of both friends and
strangers. Of course, when you live in a
tent you dont need much, he said.
Gilad Shalit eventually was released in a
prisoner exchange, which always is touchy
and controversial. The prisoner exchange
was the idea of the Egyptians, who were
mediators at the time, Noam Shalit said.
But Olmert made a huge strategic mistake
when he asked Hamas leaders to issue a list
of 450 prisoners to be released. Once they
issued the list with the names of the most
hardcore prisoners they didnt want to
withdraw from it. You told us to provide
the list, and we did. So what do you want
now? they asked.
Although negotiations had been under-
way for some time, it was not until the
third negotiation that they bore fruit. That
time, the special coordinator for captive
and missing soldiers, as the lead nego-
tiator was called, was David Meidan. He
was a senior officer of the Mossad at that
time, Mr. Shalit said. He was able to read
the map much better than his predeces-
sors. He was born in Egypt, he is fluent
in Arabic, and he knows our cousins the
Palestinians very well. Through all sorts
of backchannel shortcuts, as well as more
straightforward diplomatic channels, a
deal eventually was cut.
According to polls, 70 percent of Israelis
were in favor of the exchange, although no
one saw it as anything other than painful.
Nobody, including us, was happy to see
prisoners going free, Mr. Shalit said. It was
especially hard for the families of terror vic-
tims. Unfortunately, the government failed
to create any other alternatives.
It was Sukkot eve 2011, he continued.
David Meidan texted me a message to say
that they had reached a deal. Still the cab-
inet had to approve the deal and it was
Netanyahus right-wing cabinet. I doubted
that he could lead the cabinet to approve it,
but eventually there was a lot of support.
Twenty-seven out of 30 cabinet ministers
voted in favor of it.
And so, on erev Simchat Torah, Palestin-
ian prisoners were released, and Gilad Sha-
lit was let free.
Gilad talked very little about his captiv-
ity, and we dont want to pressure him,
Noam Shalit said. He offered a few details,
among them the fact that his love for
sports kept him sane. He had the chance
to see some soccer channels that his cap-
tors allowed, and he made a ball out of
rolled-up socks, and used a garbage can for
a basket. He craved sunlight, and when he
first was released he would ride his bike,
pedaling freely in the light, going where he
chose.
Now Gilad Shalit is in college in Herzliya,
studying economics and sustainability. He
has a girlfriend. He is recognized wher-
ever he goes, so his life is different now, his
father said. He has some disability in his
hand he was not treated well, and when
he came back he had a complicated opera-
tion. Otherwise he is quite well. His first
year in university was not easy after eight
years of disconnection from school, but he
is looking forward to finishing.
Noam Shalits life also has changed. He
ran unsuccessfully for Knesset as a member
of Shelly Yachimovichs Labor Party, at
her request, and is not interested in trying
again. He sells real estate, does some teach-
ing for the IDF, and goes on the occasional
speaking tour not for money, but to say
thanks.
When he is asked what he thinks of pris-
oner swaps in general, he is careful in his
reply. I am in favor of peace negotiations,
and of separation from the Palestinians, he
said. I am in favor of two states for the two
people. I believe that one state for the two
people would be a disaster for Israel and the
Israeli state.
We need to separate from the Palestin-
ians, and to do whatever it takes to achieve
that goal, including releasing Palestinian
prisoners. Im not sure about the timing, or
if there are other ways to do it, but I believe
that eventually there will be a peace agree-
ment, and at the end of the conflict Israel
will have to release the Palestinian prison-
ers, one way or another.
So an onlooker is left with the question
how did he do it? How did he manage to
get his son out of captivity and back into
the sunlight, free from Hamas? How did he
manage to shift public opinion and political
reality?
Where did his strength come from?
I am in favor of
two states for
the two people. I
believe that one
state for the two
people would
be a disaster for
Israel and the
Israeli state.
NOAM SHALIT
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Local girls win national Bible contest
Two seventh-graders at the Rosenbaum
Yeshiva of North Jersey in River Edge swept
the top two spots in the Hebrew middle
school division of the 55th annual National
Bible Contest-Chidon HaTanach on May 11 at
the Manhattan Day School.
Tehila Kornwasser of Teaneck won first
place, and second place went to Nechama
Reichman of Englewood.
In the Hebrew high school division, Shalva
Eisenberg of Passaic placed second. Her
older brother, Yishai, tied for first place in the
International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
in Jerusalem last year.
Because her score was high enough,
Shalva has qualified to join the first-place
winners at the international round in Jeru-
salem next May.
The Hebrew middle-school contestants
had to answer detailed questions about peo-
ple, places, and events in the books of Gen-
esis and Judges, as well as parts of Psalms
and commentaries on Genesis by Rashi. The
high-school syllabus also included parts of
the book of Ezekiel.
Tehila said the most difficult part of the
quiz was the second half, which requires
contestants to identify minor differences
between similar verses in the syllabus mate-
rial. Altogether, contestants must answer
about 125 questions.
Last year she placed fifth, and also
launched a bat mitzvah fundraising project
for the Babian family of Israel, whose finan-
cial straits were publicized after their son
Elior tied with Yishai Eisenberg for first place
internationally.
Tehila attributes her performance to a
love for learning Torah, which I got from
RYNJ and my amazing family, the help and
support of my Chidon teachers, and an
insane amount of studying.
As a first-place winner, Tehila has won a
place in next springs international round.
She and Nechama studied with a group
coached by Reuven (Ruby) Stepansky of
Passaic.
Mr. Stepansky has a record of coaching
local Bible Contest champions, including
Asher Brenner, then an eighth-grader at YBH
of Passaic-Hillel, who won first place in the
Hebrew middle school division last year with
a perfect score.
He started coaching three years ago at
the request of the Eisenberg siblings father,
Saadia. I believe that Hashem has given me
the enthusiasm of learning and allowing the
Tanach, and learning in general, to be an
integral part of life, he said, adding that he
tries to convey his enthusiasm and attention
to details.
I make the learning fun by includ-
ing germane but tangential material as
it relates to the Tanach, such as Hebrew
grammar, history, and Jewish law, he
added. For the students, I believe the fun
is a key aspect.
Tehila Kornwasser is on the left and Shalva Eisenberg is on the right. Behind
Tehila is Avi Shaver of Minneapolis, English division winner, and behind Shalva is
Benjamin Kepecs of Riverdale (SAR High School), Hebrew high school division
winner. On the left is Bible Contest Coordinator Rabbi Ezra Frazer and Lerone
Edalati, project manager at the Jewish Agency. On the right is Rabbi Dr. Mark
Licht of the U.S. Chidon Steering Committee.
Tehila Kornwasser, left, and Nechama
Reichman with RYNJ teacher and
Bible Contest coach Sharon Motechin.
Tanach and Israel perfect together
Local student talks about international Bible contest in Israel
SHIRA LICHTMAN
This has been the best experience of my
life, Daniel Peyser of Teaneck said.
Dani, a senior at the Torah Academy
of Bergen County in Teaneck, was talk-
ing about making it into the international
round of Chidon HaTanach and being sent
to Israel to compete in the finals, which
took place on Yom Haatzmaut.
Dani always had been drawn to the sto-
ries of Tanach but his love for Israel was
even stronger than his love for Tanach. As
he grew up he began to appreciate the cen-
trality of Israel in Tanach; Israel is the set-
ting for so many of its stories.
Dani heard of Chidon HaTanach for the
first time when he was in seventh grade. In
eighth grade he signed up for weekly pre-
paratory classes in school. He didnt do so
well then, but he didnt give up.
In 10th grade he took another shot at it.
By then he was more familiar with the text
and had acquired the skills to study it on
his own. He had a tutor over the summer.
The more he studied, the more he got into
it, and the more he felt that he was devel-
oping a personal connection with Tanach.
Dani had been taught different parts of
Tanach his whole life, but only as he read
them over and over again was he able to
appreciate their meaning and the way all
the parts came together. Adopting a habit
of studying every day, Dani learned that
consistency is most important.
That year, he placed fifth nationally.
Still Dani refused to give up on his dream
of winning first place, and its guaranteed
trip to Israel
In 11th grade he was at it again, this time
placing second, one spot short. Oh well,
he figured
A few months later he learned that the
top contestant in his region dropped out.
His dream was coming true he was going
to Israel!
Dani had been to Israel many times to
visit family and friends, but never on a pro-
gram. His goal was to win the nationals so
that he could go to Israel. He wasnt there
to win. He didnt expect to
win. Being part of the pro-
gram and getting the expe-
rience of meeting new peo-
ple from around the world
who shared his passion for
Tanach was what interested
him the most.
But not only did he make
it to Israel, he also man-
aged to place second in
the diaspora competition
and eighth in the interna-
tional one. The highlight for him was meet-
ing kids from all over the world (France,
Turkey, Colombia, Netherlands, Finland,
Croatia, Costa Rica, and Uruguay). Its
amazing, he says It really feels like kibutz
galuyot here.
The group studied together, giving
each other advice and tips even though
they were competing. It was so nice,
Dani said.
Being on stage, live on national TV,
was nerve wracking, Dani said. But they
were all in it together. Just
before he went on stage,
Dani tried lightening up
the mood by telling his
fellow contestants to put
their notes down and try
to enjoy the experience.
Dani did not want to
look nervous on stage. This
was more important to him
than answering correctly.
He tried his best to appear
friendly and cheerful.
Cheering him on in the audience were
his aunts, cousins, and his sister, Avital.
Dani knew where Avital was seated and
he looked in her direction often, trying
not to think about the fact that millions
of people were watching him on live TV.
Dani didnt expect to win. He knew
he was up against geniuses who knew
Tanach by heart. He felt fortunate and
privileged to be on stage with them. Dani
was proud of himself for learning all the
material and placing at the top of the U.S.
Dani Peyser
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Mazel Tov
to our honorees,
whose leadership
lights a path
for others
Eli Ungar:
2014 Tree of Life Recipient
Ruth Gafni:
2014 Shirley and Harris zl
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Tehila Kornwasser, left, and Nechama
Reichman with RYNJ teacher and
Bible Contest coach Sharon Motechin.
Nechama gave kudos to most of all, Hashem, and to
her coaches Mr. Stepansky, RYNJ teacher Sharon Mote-
chin, and Rabbi Moshe Stavsky of the Bais Medrash of
Bergenfield and the Ramaz Upper School. In addition,
I would like to thank my school for introducing me to
Chidon HaTanach. I very much enjoyed this wonderful
experience, especially because I experienced it with my
classmate and good friend, Tehila Kornwasser.
Though she did not qualify for a trip to Israel, she may
reenter the competition any time through 11th grade.
Shlomi Helfgott of Teaneck, a student at the Yavneh
Academy in Paramus, placed seventh in the Hebrew mid-
dle school division. Altogether, 134 students participated
in the contest.
At this years international round, broadcast on live
television in Israel on Yom Haatzmaut (Independence
Day), May 6, North Jersey students Elisheva Friedman of
Passaic and Dani Peyser of Teaneck were among the 16
finalists.
Rabbi Ezra Frazer, coordinator of the National Bible
Contest for the Jewish Agency for Israel, related that when
he was introduced on stage in the 1995 International Bible
Contest, host Avshalom Kor mispronounced Teaneck as
Teanock, and was corrected by head judge Yosef Burg.
This year, when Dr. Kor introduced Dani Peyser, he
said, Dani Peyser of Teaneck, New Jersey a city that has
provided us with many Tanach champions, which speaks
to the tremendous number of children from this region
who have represented the United States in the Interna-
tional Chidon over the past 20 years.
As a young Chidon participant in Teaneck, I felt that
the Chidons values dedication to Torah study and con-
necting that study to a love of Israel corresponded to
the core values of my community, Rabbi Frazer con-
tinued. I believe that the continued success of children
from northern New Jersey in the Chidon reflects the fact
that we have many communities in this area that continue
to cherish these values.
category in the diaspora chidon. Im so fortunate to
have even made it to olami, the international con-
test, he said. Im just so happy to be a part of this.
The people are amazing.
The contestants went on trips together, and had
team building exercises. It was surprising to find
that the group had much more in common than just
Tanach. During one of the activities the kids paired
up and had to find at least five similarities between
them. Dani was amazed to learn how much he had
in common with these kids he never met, from all
around the world.
The program broke down so many barriers, he
said. Everything from personal, religious, cultural,
and age barriers were broken.
Dani will be studying in the Maale Adumim
yeshiva in Israel next year and hopes to make aliyah
and join the army soon after.
His new goal is to finish Tanach. Just having the
basis is so great, he said. Only after having that
foundation of the general knowledge can he delve
deeper. His knowledge of Tanach strengthens his
connection to the land and to Judaism, and he hopes
to use it in to pursue other aspects of his Torah
learning.
As they hiked through the mountains of Israel,
the kids tested each other on the various things that
happened in those places in Tanach. Thats what
it was about. Dani said. Learning Tanach in Israel
was a perfect combination.
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SSDS marks 40th anniversary
with honors for leaders
Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen
County celebrates its 40th anniversary by
honoring Eli Ungar, its board president,
and Ruth Gafni, its head of school, during
its 40th annual community celebration
on Sunday, May 29. The party, set to begin
at 6 p.m., is at the Hilton Pearl River.
Mr. Ungar, who is completing a three-
year term as president, will receive the
Tree of Life award, which recognizes
his work and dedication to Schechter. A
product of local Jewish day schools, he
was president of Brown Universitys Hil-
lel, later joining the boards of Brown Hil-
lel Foundation and the Jewish Council on
Urban Affairs. He also chairs the board
of the Jewish Home Family. He is a co-
founder of Antheus Capital, a private real
estate company. He and his wife, Harley,
live in Englewood. They have three chil-
dren, all SSDS students.
The Shirley and Harris zl Shapiro com-
munity award will be given to Ruth Gafni,
Schechters head of school since 2008.
The award is presented to a Schechter
leader who is a role model for the Jewish
community. Before she went to Schech-
ter, Ms. Gafni, who is from Givatayim,
Israel, was the director of special needs
and English as a Second Language pro-
grams and coordinated the gifted and tal-
ented program in the Ridgewood public
schools, where she was honored as edu-
cator of the year. In 2013, Ms. Gafni was
a contributing author in a book, Grow-
ing Jewish Minds, Growing Jewish Souls.
She lives in Fair Lawn with her husband,
Yigal. The Gafnis have two daughters.
Tickets and ads for the tribute jour-
nal are on sale at Schechters website,
www.ssdsbergen.org. For information,
call Amy Glazer, director of institutional
advancement, at (201) 262-9898, ext. 277.
AIPAC Bergen/Rockland event in June
AIPACs annual Bergen & Rock-
land dinner is set for Wednes-
day, June 11, at 6:30 p.m. The
pro-Israel activists will celebrate
the organizations mission: to
strengthen, protect and promote
the U.S.-Israel relationship in
ways that enhance the security
of Israel and the United States.
The buffet dinner, with its
accompanying keynote talk, is a
way to thank local AIPAC club members.
The speaker, Jeremy Bash,
was chief of staff for CIA
director and defense secre-
tary Leon Panetta. Mr. Bash
has spearheaded a num-
ber of key national security
initiatives throughout his
career.
Debbie and Mickey Har-
ris of Demarest and Nina
Kampler and Zvi Marans of
Teaneck are the evenings co-chairs, and
more than 120 area couples are serving as
vice chairs or host committee members.
AIPAC club membership starts at
$1,500 per couple; and two seats to the
celebration are included in the donation.
The evening will include catering by
Foremost, music, and a reception. The
location will be provided when the res-
ervation is made. For more information,
call AIPACs Bergen and Rockland direc-
tor, Arielle Brenner, at (917) 210-6327 or
email her at abrenner@aipac.org.
Teaneck shuls
have upcoming
Shabbat events
Eli Ungar Ruth Gafni
Jeremy Bash
Cantor Yaakov Motzen
On Shabbat, May 16 to
17, Cantor Yaakov Mot-
zen will be baal tefillah
at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael in Teaneck.
Kabbalat Shabbat ser-
vices are at 7 p.m., and
Shabbat morning dav-
ening begins at 9 a.m. Cantor Motzens
career spans 45 years in many countries.
The shul is at 389 West Englewood Ave.
For information, call (201) 837-2795.
Avi Silverman
On Shabbat, May 17,
at 6:45 p.m., Avi Sil-
verman of Nef esh
BNefesh will discuss
Medinat Yisrael: Does
it Still Inspire? at Con-
gregation Beth Aaron,
Teaneck. The shul is
at 950 Queen Anne Road. For informa-
tion, call (201) 836-6210 or go to www.
bethaaron.org.
Professor Aaron Koller
Aaron Koller, associate professor of near
eastern and Jewish
studies and assistant
dean at Yeshiva Col-
lege, will focus on
Submissiveness vs.
Assertiveness in the
Jewish Tradition dur-
ing Shabbat, May 23
to 24, at Congregation Rinat Yisrael in
Teaneck.
He will give an introductory talk on Fri-
day evening, before Maariv. On Shabbat,
his topic during the 9 a.m. minyan will
be On the Economics of Shemitta and
Yovel. At 6:40 p.m., he will talk about
Bar Kokhba in Rabbinic Thought and
after Minchah, at 7:40, the subject will
be The Aqeda: Submission or Assertive-
ness? For information, call (201) 837-2795.
Support group aims to
help people live within
their means
The Jewish Family Service of Bergen and
North Hudson is starting a support group,
Establishing Financial Freedom, begin-
ning May 27. The groups goal is to help
guide people through the process of living
within their means.
The group will meet every Tuesday from
11 a.m. to noon at JFS, 1485 Teaneck Road,
in Teaneck. For information, call (201) 837-
9090 or go to www.jfsbergen.org.
Basketball star at Ben Porat Yosef
Ben Porat Yosef in Paramus
was rocking last week when
CMEK, a basketball program
for youngsters, hosted a free
training session with Tamir
Goodman for student athletes
and their parents.
Mr. Goodman, who invented
Zone 190, a basketball-training
device that enables players to
harness their skills by repli-
cating game-time scenarios,
demonstrated his invention
with children participating in
cutting-edge basketball drills.
Goodman grew up in an
Orthodox Jewish family in Baltimore,
with six brothers and two sisters. He
began playing basketball when he was 5
and garnered national attention in high
school, averaging 35.4 points per game
for the Talmudical Academy of Balti-
more. He earned recognition in Sports
Illustrated and was interviewed by ESPN,
60 Minutes, and Fox Sports.
In 11th grade, he was ranked
the 25th-best high school
player in the country even dubbed the
Jewish Jordan in Wikipedia.
Event highlights were when Simon Fis-
chman and EJ Heumann (both in pre-k at
Moriah) scored on the 10-foot hoops.
For more information on Tamir Good-
man, go to Zone190.com.
For information on upcoming CMEK
programs, special events, and camps, go
to www.CMEK.com
Tamir and Chad Mekles
Tamir leading basketball drills.
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Schlossbergs are
GBDS honorees
Dr. Sy and Elaine Schlossberg
will be honored for their con-
tinuous leadership and sup-
port of the Gerrard Berman
Day School, Solomon Schech-
ter of North Jersey, at Gala in
the Garden, to benefit Acad-
emies at GBDS, June 8, at 6:30
p.m., at a private home in
Franklin Lakes.
The eveni ng i ncl udes
food, an auction, and a live
performance by the a capella
group Six13. Berman Society
members are invited for a
lakeside champagne recep-
tion at 5:30 p.m. Leah Matsil
and Howard Greenberg and
Michal and Zachary Levison
are the event chairs.
For information, call Amy
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Emunah luncheon
to honor
empowered women
Emunah will pay tribute to
Empowering Women at its
spring luncheon on May 20 at
the Prince George Ballroom in
Manhattan. Dr. Ruth Gruber,
the distinguished journalist,
writer, photographer, and her-
oine, who used her talents to
rescue fellow Jews during and
after World War II, will be the
guest of honor.
Sheryl Schainker of Teaneck
and Melodie Scharf are the luncheon chairs.
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girls educational and vocational high schools and its
college for young women in Israel. For information,
call (212) 564-9045, ext. 306.
Dr. Ruth Gruber
Michael Oren to receive
honorary degree at Touro
Michael Oren, Israels ambas-
sador to the United States from
2009 to 2013, will receive an
honorary degree at Touros
40th annual commencement
exercises at Avery Fisher Hall
in Lincoln Center on May 26.
More than 700 candidates are
set to receive baccalaureate and
associate degrees from eight of
Touros schools: Lander College
of Arts and SciencesFlatbush; Lander Col-
lege for men in Queens; Lander College for
Women The Anna Ruth and Mark Has-
ten School in Manhattan; the School for
Lifelong Education in Brooklyn; Machon
LParnasa Institute for Profes-
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in Miami.
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2014 commencement season,
the Touro College and Univer-
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awarded approximately 6,000
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of osteopathic medicine, doctor of phar-
macy, juris doctor, masters, and bacca-
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from 32 schools and colleges in the United
States and around the world.
Michael Oren
Local named to Ben-Gurion high post
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before that, she was develop-
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Schechter Day School of Ber-
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She also has held develop-
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friends groups of Israeli universities, and
she was a development professional at
the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Why never
again happens
again and again
I
n my last column I recounted how last month I
traveled to Rwanda, at the invitation of President
Paul Kagame, to speak at Amohoro National Sta-
dium to mark the 20th anniversary of the geno-
cide. A survivor took the microphone, and in a slow
voice, recounted episodes from the slaughter of the
countrys minority Tutsis.
The stadium was filled with the sounds of women
quaking, men thundering, children shrieking. The
sounds were of the trauma of people reliving the hor-
rors as they were recounted.
The UNs secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, got up
and said that never again must mean just that, never
again. But even as he said
it, children continued to
be gassed in Syria. Women
were being machined gun to
death in South Sudan. Chris-
tians were being slaugh-
tered in the Central African
Republic.
And why?
Because the world has yet
to embrace Jewish values.
The Jews were the ones
who taught the world that
every human being Jew,
Christian, Muslim, and atheist; white, black, and every
shade in between were created equally, all in the
image of God. The Jews were the ones who gave the
world the Ten Commandments, with its fiery exhorta-
tion, Thou shalt not murder. And the Jews were the
ones who declared, in the book of Leviticus, Thou shalt
not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.
Let my Christian brothers speak of loving your
enemies. Let my Catholic friends tell me to turn the
other cheek. When it comes to mass murder, I can-
not but reject both New Testament teachings. Instead,
I embrace Solomons proclamation in Proverbs: The
fear of the Lord is to hate evil. I will embrace what King
David proclaimed regarding the wicked, I have hated
them with a deep loathing. They are as enemies to me.
Because Lincoln hated the abomination of slavery he
fought to stop it, as he said in 1854 in Peoria, I can-
not but hate slavery. I hate it because of the monstrous
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood has just
published Kosher Lust: Love is Not the Answer. Follow
him on Twitter @rabbishmuley.
JS-18*
Bring them home
I
t doesnt matter whether you are
Christian, Muslim, or Jewish. It is
impossible not to feel waves of
overwhelming heartbreak when
you think about the 200-odd Nigerian
girls who were taken from their school
by an armed Islamist group calling
itself Boko Haram.
Like the Taliban, this savage group
sees nothing worthwhile in educating
girls.
The kidnapping is exactly what
Nigeria, which is trying to raise its
economic image, didnt want to see
happen. It particularly didnt want
it to happy now. The country hosted
the World Economic forum last week.
There, Nigerian President Goodluck
Jonathan thanked foreign nations for
their support in the fight against Boko
Haram.
It seems this nightmare comes too
soon after the attempted murder of
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl
who was shot by the Taliban because
she championed education for girls.
How could anyone put the trigger
to the head of an innocent girl? Much
less do so because she wants to be edu-
cated? What could so threaten grown
men? Is it the fear that through edu-
cation, girls might live independent
lives?
The Boko Haram are no better than
the Taliban. Both have guns and use
them to inflict fear.
We worry that Boko Haram will sell
these kidnapped children into the
growing epidemic of the world slave
trade.
Almost 150 years ago, our nation
fought a war to end slavery, but
although it is unimaginable to us, slav-
ery continues around the world. We
must take action when young girls are
captured and sold into slavery. Slavery,
especially into the sex trade, cannot
be allowed to happen. Not ever again.
And even if our prayers are answered
and these kidnapped girls are brought
home safely, we will still worry about
whether girls and young women have
the same opportunity to live lives of
hope that their brothers have.
And we also know that there are
countless other young girls who we
still must find and save, even in the
United States and in Israel.
These girls could very well be our
sisters and daughters, our future sci-
entists, educators, doctors, and world
leaders.
We need to bring our worlds chil-
dren home now. Eradicate slavery.
It must be our priority.
-PJ
Time for Israel to focus on hate crimes
I
n December 2011, swastikas and
white supremacist slogans were
discovered on Temple Beth
Israel, the Reconstructionist
congregation in Maywood.
Two weeks later vandals struck
again at Temple Beth El in Hackensack.
And then the attackers escalated,
as people consumed with hate often
will, and they threw Molotov cocktails
into the upper story of Congregation
Beth El in Rutherford, where Rabbi
Nosson Schuman and his family were
sleeping.
At this point the Bergen County
Prosecutors Office made the investiga-
tion a top priority, and soon afterward
they arrested the first suspect. Detec-
tives discovered that the ingredients
for the bombs came from Walmart,
and then released pictures from the
stores security camera.
Say what you want about Americas
growing number of surveillance cam-
eras, but they help capture criminals.
Two weeks ago, anti-Semitic slo-
gans were spray-painted in Brooklyns
Manhattan Beach neighborhood. A
former New York Police Department
officer soon was arrested. He had been
caught on a security camera.
Last week, two Maryland high
school students were charged with
hate crimes, accused of drawing swas-
tikas on a synagogue and a school bus.
It doesnt matter to us what their
motives were, Police Chief J. Thomas
Manger told the Washington Post.
What they did was a hate crime of
the most hurtful and offensive nature.
The suspects were caught on surveil-
lance video.
This week, swastikas were again
drawn on a synagogue. This time, in
Jerusalem.
The attack on a Conservative
Moreshet Yisrael synagogue in down-
town Jerusalem follows a growing
surge in vandalism against Muslim and
Christian targets in Israel and the West
Bank, believed to be committed by
radical Orthodox Jews. Only a handful
of arrests have been made. And many
people, including former heads of
Israeli intelligence, charge that Israel
is not serious about investigating the
matter.
One proposal is for Israel to classify
these crimes as terrorism, allowing for
greater latitude in investigations.
Were not fans of this idea. Instead,
we think that Israel should borrow
the approach of the American govern-
ment, which makes tens of millions
of dollars available for security grants
for religious institutions, primarily
synagogues.
As it happens, Israel has a ministry
of religions, with a budget reported to
be $100 million. While 20 percent of
Israels population is Muslim or Chris-
tian, non-Jewish religious institutions
receive only 5 percent of this budget.
Wed like to propose that Naftali
Bennett who is the minister of reli-
gious affairs, as well as minister of
the economy and head of the right
wing Bayit Hayehudi party allocate
a couple of million dollars to provide
every mosque and church and non-
Orthodox synagogue in Israel with a
video surveillance system. Israel long
has affirmed the principle of support-
ing minority religious rights. Security
cameras are a cheap investment in a
priceless principle.
- LY
Rabbi
Shmuley
Boteach
Opinion
injustice of slavery itself.
Because Churchill hated Hitler, he inspired a nation to fight the
beast. The French, who did not hate Hitler, collaborated with him
instead.
Loving victims might generate compassion for their suffering. But
hating the perpetrators generates action to stop their orgy of mur-
der. While innocence should evoke compassion, evil should evoke
only contempt.
Our organization, This World: The Values Network, whose gala
dinner is this Sunday, Lag Bomer, is dedicated to the spread of uni-
versal Jewish values. In so doing, we seek to bring healing and jus-
tice to a world that seemingly cannot be healed.
Where the Greeks spoke of fate, the Jews spoke of destiny. We
Jews reject the disempowering belief that our future is scripted in
the stars, that what we will become already has been decided from
the moment of our birth. We do not accept that life must be tragic,
and we are doomed to live out a future over which we have no con-
trol. To the contrary, the Jews gave the world the idea of choice, of
setting moral goals that are within our reach to attain.
When I was a boy, I saw my parents argue. I had little peace. As
a child of divorce, the statisticians told me that I was likely to live
out the same fate. But at my bar mitzvah I had the privilege of one
of the last private audiences with my great teacher, the Lubavitcher
rebbe, who looked at me penetratingly. In his blue eyes I saw a sea
of infinite compassion as he said to me, You will grow to be a light
to your family, your school, the Jewish people, and the entire world.
Believe it, and it will be so.
We Jews reject the evolutionary model of men as inseminators
who will always gravitate to many women. We teach instead that
every man must honor one woman. Who would have believed at
our higher academies of learning today we would have an epidemic
of one of five women facing sexual assault? This is a disgrace, and
there is no excuse.
My Judaism taught me that whether or not I stayed married had
nothing to do with parental history or biology and everything to
do with personal choice. Would I take my wife for granted or show
appreciation for a soul mate? Would I criticize or would I compli-
ment? Would I be selfish or selfless? The future was entirely in my
hands. It was my choice. And there is no more empowering idea in
the world than the Jewish emphasis on personal accountability and
choice.
My Palestinian brothers and sisters condemn Israel and blame
it for the spread of Hamas violence. If you stopped humiliating us
with checkpoints we will stop blowing up buses, they say. Yet the
Jews of Germany, as Alan Dershowitz argues, were subjected to
the most inhuman cruelties, but they never took it out on German
schoolchildren.
Victor Frankl spent three years in Nazi death camps. In his classic
Mans Search for Meaning, he says the Germans took away every-
thing from him. The pleasure of love, by gassing his wife. The joy
of hope, by exterminating his family. The exultation of freedom, by
incarcerating him behind barbed wire. His very humanity, by brand-
ing him with a cattle iron. And his human dignity, by forcing him to
defecate in a bucket. But there was one thing they could never take
from him his choice of how to react to it. They wanted him to claw
like an animal, but he could still choose to share his last morsels of
bread with those who were even hungrier than he. They wanted
him to surrender all to despair but he could still choose to live with
faith and belief.
I have watched how the media already has picked apart our din-
ner. It is a motley collection of opposites, they say. Sheldon Adelson,
they said, believes in the Republican Party. Sean Penn is a social-
ist. Chris Christie said something objectionable about Israel. Rick
Perry said one thing in a debate that should overshadow any other
achievements.
To all of them I respond not with Christian but with Jewish values.
I could not care less what people believe. I dont much care how
they vote. And I dont much care if they make verbal gaffes. What
do I care about is what they do.
Judaism is a celebration of righteous action. In Judaism its not
belief in a savior that will get you into heaven. Its the good deeds
you do the mitzvot you perform that will create heaven on earth.
JS-19*
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Why never
again happens
again and again
I
n my last column I recounted how last month I
traveled to Rwanda, at the invitation of President
Paul Kagame, to speak at Amohoro National Sta-
dium to mark the 20th anniversary of the geno-
cide. A survivor took the microphone, and in a slow
voice, recounted episodes from the slaughter of the
countrys minority Tutsis.
The stadium was filled with the sounds of women
quaking, men thundering, children shrieking. The
sounds were of the trauma of people reliving the hor-
rors as they were recounted.
The UNs secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, got up
and said that never again must mean just that, never
again. But even as he said
it, children continued to
be gassed in Syria. Women
were being machined gun to
death in South Sudan. Chris-
tians were being slaugh-
tered in the Central African
Republic.
And why?
Because the world has yet
to embrace Jewish values.
The Jews were the ones
who taught the world that
every human being Jew,
Christian, Muslim, and atheist; white, black, and every
shade in between were created equally, all in the
image of God. The Jews were the ones who gave the
world the Ten Commandments, with its fiery exhorta-
tion, Thou shalt not murder. And the Jews were the
ones who declared, in the book of Leviticus, Thou shalt
not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.
Let my Christian brothers speak of loving your
enemies. Let my Catholic friends tell me to turn the
other cheek. When it comes to mass murder, I can-
not but reject both New Testament teachings. Instead,
I embrace Solomons proclamation in Proverbs: The
fear of the Lord is to hate evil. I will embrace what King
David proclaimed regarding the wicked, I have hated
them with a deep loathing. They are as enemies to me.
Because Lincoln hated the abomination of slavery he
fought to stop it, as he said in 1854 in Peoria, I can-
not but hate slavery. I hate it because of the monstrous
Lag Bomer at the pyramids
WASHINGTON On the outskirts of
Cairo, on a blistering hot afternoon
in May 1942, British Army chaplain
Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz ordered the
driver of his military transport truck
to pull over for a group of uniformed
women who were hitchhiking.
We want to go as far as the pyra-
mids, one of the women explained.
Her accent betrays that she is not
English, and instantly I realize that
they are the Jewish Palestinian A.T.S.
[volunteers in the British armed
forces], the first Jewish Amazons in history! the
rabbi recalled in his memoir. With a grin, I lapse
into Hebrew. (Imagine the womens surprise!)
I shall be very glad indeed to take you, the rabbi
said.
It would be the most remarkable Lag Bomer he
would ever experience.
Thirty thousand Jewish men and 4,350 Jewish
women from Mandatory Palestine volunteered
to serve in the British Army during World War II.
Although horrified by the British White Paper,
which cut off most Jewish immigration to the holy
land, they were eager to take part in the Allies war
effort against the Nazis.
The women served in units known as the Pales-
tine Auxiliary Territorial Service, and some were
assigned to British positions in Egypt. There, along
with their male comrades, they played important
roles in bolstering the British fight to halt General
Rommels advance across North Africa.
One of the most famous missions carried out by
these Palestinian Jewish soldiers is described in the
1943 book The Forgotten Ally, by the renowned
journalist (and Christian Zionist) Pierre van Paas-
sen. Twenty soldiers, German Jewish refugees,
donned German military uniforms. With their flaw-
less accents, they managed to infiltrate Nazi lines in
western Egypt. When their true identities were dis-
covered, the saboteurs opened fire on the enemy;
according to the sole survivor, they managed to kill
more than 100 Germans.
The women hitchhikers for whom Rabbi Rabi-
nowitz stopped were on their way to meet up with
comrades at the pyramids for a Lag Bomer celebra-
tion. The Galilean village of Meron [site of the most
famous Lag Bomer festivities] transported to Gizeh,
the rabbi marveled, and Palestinian songs and
dances in the shades of the Pyramids.
They arrived to find dozens of young
Jewish soldiers igniting a huge bon-
fire. Round and round they danced
the Horah with increasing enthusiasm
and tempo, the rabbi recalled. Ben
Yohai!, El Yivne Hagalil!, Anu Olim
Artzah! The flames throw the eager,
laughing, joyous arcs into vivid relief.
From time to time, a figure would
detach itself from the whirling circle,
and with an ecstatic cry of triumph
would leap high over the burning pile,
to land safely and triumphantly on the other side.
Standing there in the silhouette of the pyramids,
Rabbi Rabinowitz was moved to offer a dvar Torah
with a message that uniquely linked past to present:
I spoke of Bar Kochba and of Rabbi Akiva, of his
disciple, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai, who is so inti-
mately connected with Lag Bomer; of [Bar Koch-
bas] war for Jewish independence; of the long and
weary exile of the Jewish people; of the significant
fact that from that time we had not until the present
day seen Palestinian Jews enrolled and organized
to fight for the freedom of humanity and their own
future.
But the connection to Pharaoh, builder of the pyr-
amids, was even more significant, he said. Pharaoh,
after all, had ordered the murder of all Jewish male
babies for fear they would grow up to be soldiers
who would turn against him; but he let the Jewish
female babies live.
What possible military value could there be in
women? the Egyptian ruler reasoned. Surely girls
posed no threat of becoming Jewish fighters.
And now, 4,000 years after, Rabbi Rabinowitz
declared, these Palestinian A.T.S. were showing, in
no uncertain way, within sight of these Pyramids,
that they too could fight for the Jewish nation. These
Jewish Amazons, as the rabbi proudly called them,
were living proof of the failure of the enemies of the
Jewish people.
As I left them that evening, he wrote, my mind
was filled with the vivid conviction these mighty
Pyramids will crumble to dust before the Jewish peo-
ple will perish.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Rafael Medoff is director of the David S. Wyman
Institute for Holocaust Studies.
Rafael
Medoff
A U.S. Army
transport plane
flies over the
pyramids in
Egypt in 1943.
KEYSTONE/GETTY IMAGES
Opinion
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Jews in Mad Men and beyond
Mad Men is back.
The AMC series created by Jewish writer,
producer, and director Matthew Weiner
has returned for its final season, having
taken us through that most transformative
of decades, the 1960s. And while the main
character, Don Draper, isnt Jewish, there
is something hauntingly familiar about
the story of a man who adopts a different
name and identity to hide his true back-
ground, and then works his way up from
poverty to a comfortable middle-class exis-
tence. Reflecting the experience common
to all European immigrants during the first
half of the 20th century, Draper personi-
fies the belief that in America it is possible
to shape and fashion your own individual
identity, to recreate yourself in your own
desired image.
In some ways he seems to echo the Jew-
ish-American novelist Norman Mailer, who
was known for his media savvy and pen-
chant for self-promotion. In fact, he called
his 1959 anthology of short pieces Adver-
tisements for Myself.
The message of commercial advertising,
taken as a whole, is that we can become
whoever and whatever we want to be sim-
ply by buying the right products. And the
title of the series is a pun based on the fact
that New York City-based advertising firms
all used to be located on Madison Avenue.
Much like Hollywood, it was an industry in
which Jews were quite prominent. In fact,
Thomas Cahill included advertising in his
celebratory book, The Gifts of the Jews,
a remark that generated some criticism
among reviewers.
But Mad Men avoids this
association. Draper and his part-
ners are WASPs, and its not until
season five that they hire a Jewish
copywriter, Michael Ginsberg.
Much like the famous beat poet
Allen Ginsberg, Michael is quite
talented and creative, although
his gifts are not given the respect
that they deserve by Draper and
his partners. There even are
instances where he is used sim-
ply as a token Jew for exam-
ple in an attempt to secure an
account from Manischewitz. Still,
the character is given a compel-
ling background he was born
in a concentration camp. And
like Draper, Ginsberg tries to dis-
guise his origins. His ethnicity,
however, makes it impossible for
him to construct an entirely new
identity as Draper did.
In the most recent episode,
The Runaways, Ginsberg again
parallels Draper in suffering a
nervous breakdown, but in much
more extreme fashion. He suc-
cumbs to paranoid delusions
and engages in self-mutilation;
the catalyst for his action was
the agencys addition of a main-
frame computer. The episode
includes an homage to the
scene in 2001: A Space Odys-
sey, where the homicidal com-
puter HAL reads the lips of the
two astronauts he is supposed
to be aiding, thereby learning
of their decision to shut him
down.
Presumably Ginsberg had recently seen
this movie, which was released on New
Years Day 1968. It is worth noting that
2001 is considered one of the greatest
films ever made, and its director, Stanley
Kubrick, one of the most important film
directors of all time. Kubrick was one of
many prominent Jewish-Americans who
grew up in the Bronx during the early and
mid-20th century, and the strong distrust
of authority evident in his films would have
struck a resonant chord with any child of
the Holocaust. Moreover, the Nazis, being
meticulous record keepers, were quite
fond of the technological forerunner of
the computer, tabulating machines of the
sort produced by IBM, the company that
became the pre-eminent computer manu-
facturer of the postwar era. (It often has
been noted that moving each letter of IBM
back one step in the alphabet yields HAL,
the name of the computer).
While Michael Ginsberg is a minor char-
acter on Mad Men, he remains a major
example of Jewish stereo-
types. He is clever and
funny, but also awkward
and often inappropriate
in social situations, and
otherwise nervous and
neurotic. (In his case, his
neurosis intensified into
psychosis.) It was prob-
ably the influence of all of
those immensely popular
Woody Allen movies of the
60s, but for a long time it
seemed as if any Jewish-American male
character who appeared on a TV sitcom
or dramatic series was cut from the same
cloth: whiny, nervous, short, unattractive,
not handy or athletic, smart and intellec-
tual, but not exactly leadership material.
After all, William Shatner and Leonard
Nimoy may have been Jewish, but Cap-
tain James Tiberius Kirk was just another
WASP, and his first officer, Mr. Spock, was
an alien from the planet Vulcan albeit
one who incorporated some Jewish influ-
ences. While the Enterprise was popu-
lated with a veritable melting pot of crew
members, there never seemed to be a
Shapiro or Levine out there on the final
frontier.
Of course there have been exceptions,
like Gabe Kotter on Welcome Back, Kot-
ter, Barney Miller on Barney Miller, Jerry
Seinfeld on Seinfeld, and Josh Lyman on
The West Wing, but these characters
ethnicity and especially their religion
was rarely mentioned or acknowledged.
At the same time, the Jewish identities of
stereotypical characters, such as Miles
Silverberg on Murphy Brown, Joel Fleis-
chman on Northern Exposure, and Ross
Geller on Friends, were continually on
display, and very much an integral part of
their characters.
This fall, a new sitcom was introduced,
a vehicle for Robin Williams, called The
Crazy Ones. Clearly inspired by Mad
Men, the series is set in a Chicago-based
advertising firm and features several Jew-
ish actors, including Sarah Michelle Gel-
lar (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame),
Amanda Setton, Brad Garrett, and James
Wolk. What is remarkable about Wolks
character, a copy writer named Zach Crop-
per, is that he is extremely confident, like-
able (he is the favorite of the agency head,
Robin Williams character Simon Roberts),
handsome (he is a veritable ladies man),
and maybe a little bit shallow, although
certainly a talented and innovative pro-
fessional. And he is Jewish. In fact, in an
episode called Zach Mitzvah, it turns
out that he once was a very successful bar
mitzvah DJ, and he reprises that role in
order to please a client.
Not only does the Cropper character
counter the typical stereotype of the Jew-
ish male, but another character, art direc-
tor Andrew Keanelly, embodies many of
those stereotypical attributes. He is intel-
ligent but also insecure, awkward, and
jealous of the favor shown to Zach. You
might expect his character to be Jewish
but he is identified as not Jewish.
For this reason, I believe that The Crazy
Ones merits our respect and recognition.
Unfortunately, however, the series
failed to catch on with television
audiences and garner the kinds of
ratings its creators had hoped for,
and so CBS has cancelled it. And
truth be told, its no Mad Men.
But as far as Jewish characters go,
Zach Cropper has been altogether
refreshing. Series creator David E.
Kelley has a track record of creat-
ing interesting and unique Jewish
characters in programs such as
Picket Fences, Chicago Hope,
The Practice, Boston Public,
and now The Crazy Ones. For
that he deserves our kudos.
Dr. Lance Strate of Palisades Park
is a professor of communication
and media studies at Fordham
University in the Bronx and
president of his synagogue,
Congregation Adas Emuno in
Leonia. He is the author of the just-
released Amazing Ourselves to
Death: Neil Postmans Brave New
World Revisited.
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Strate
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Jews in Mad Men and beyond
stereotypical characters, such as Miles
Silverberg on Murphy Brown, Joel Fleis-
chman on Northern Exposure, and Ross
Geller on Friends, were continually on
display, and very much an integral part of
their characters.
This fall, a new sitcom was introduced,
a vehicle for Robin Williams, called The
Crazy Ones. Clearly inspired by Mad
Men, the series is set in a Chicago-based
advertising firm and features several Jew-
ish actors, including Sarah Michelle Gel-
lar (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame),
Amanda Setton, Brad Garrett, and James
Wolk. What is remarkable about Wolks
character, a copy writer named Zach Crop-
per, is that he is extremely confident, like-
able (he is the favorite of the agency head,
Robin Williams character Simon Roberts),
handsome (he is a veritable ladies man),
and maybe a little bit shallow, although
certainly a talented and innovative pro-
fessional. And he is Jewish. In fact, in an
episode called Zach Mitzvah, it turns
out that he once was a very successful bar
mitzvah DJ, and he reprises that role in
order to please a client.
Not only does the Cropper character
counter the typical stereotype of the Jew-
ish male, but another character, art direc-
tor Andrew Keanelly, embodies many of
those stereotypical attributes. He is intel-
ligent but also insecure, awkward, and
jealous of the favor shown to Zach. You
might expect his character to be Jewish
but he is identified as not Jewish.
For this reason, I believe that The Crazy
Ones merits our respect and recognition.
Unfortunately, however, the series
failed to catch on with television
audiences and garner the kinds of
ratings its creators had hoped for,
and so CBS has cancelled it. And
truth be told, its no Mad Men.
But as far as Jewish characters go,
Zach Cropper has been altogether
refreshing. Series creator David E.
Kelley has a track record of creat-
ing interesting and unique Jewish
characters in programs such as
Picket Fences, Chicago Hope,
The Practice, Boston Public,
and now The Crazy Ones. For
that he deserves our kudos.
Dr. Lance Strate of Palisades Park
is a professor of communication
and media studies at Fordham
University in the Bronx and
president of his synagogue,
Congregation Adas Emuno in
Leonia. He is the author of the just-
released Amazing Ourselves to
Death: Neil Postmans Brave New
World Revisited.
Take care of victims
Taking care of the victims (May 2) is a column that
had to be written. Its intent is spot-on. I would com-
ment that so-called Orthodox Jews, no matter who
they are, are not Orthodox when they veer off the
Torah path. It is a terrible shame that one of the sis-
ters is disassociating herself from the community,
based on her horrific experiences, rather than based
on what the Torah says about how we should live. I
understand why someone would judge a Torah way
of life by those who claim to lead such a life, but this
is frequently not the case.
Thats why we are taught to choose our spiritual
guides and friends very carefully.
Joanne Asher, West Orange
Appreciating the Glustroms
I thank you so very much for this tribute to Rabbi
Simon Glustrom (Up from the South, May 2). Hav-
ing been introduced to Rabbi Glustrom and his lovely
wife Helen so many years ago, I have treasured their
friendship throughout the years. I have enjoyed Rabbi
and Helen combined sharing of wisdom, encourage-
ment, and the embodiment of all that love brings
to define the word friend. All that I have treasured,
learning from my beloved grandparents and parents,
are within these two blessed people. My love and grat-
itude go out to them, with all blessings.
Hana Bogen, Brooklyn
Texas not our homeland
Anthony Weiss May 3 page 3 story, A New Israel in
Texas? was enlightening and interesting. However, it
ignored one historical and biblical tie, which is to the
land of Israel itself. I personally found very interest-
ing the idea of settling European Jews in the Alaska
territories, which was the subject of an entertaining,
sophisticated and quirky Michael Chabon novel, The
Yiddish Policemens Union. This novel, in large part
a murder mystery and alternative history of the after-
math of World War II, centers around the fictional
Jewish communities in Alaska. It is far more enter-
taining if the reader is a Yiddish speaker, or at least
familiar with enough Yiddish phrases that have crept
into the American English Language.
I didnt mean for this letter to be a book review. I
intended to point out that Mr. Weiss article neglects
entirely the role of the land of Israel itself, where
visitors can see the Valley of Elah, where David slew
Goliath, and can visualize the confrontation; the road
to Calvary, which Jesus was forced to walk, carrying
the cross on which he was crucified; or the Temple
Mount, where Mohammeds mount, Al-Buraq, stood.
These are places that exist, even if the events
around them may not be universally accepted. They
dont exist in Texas. A homeland is more than a long-
term diaspora. It is a place that touches a persons
heart and soul.
Eli Uncyk, New York City
No to J Street
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jew-
ish Organizations was absolutely correct in rejecting
an application from J Street (Who will set the table?
May 9).
Since its inception, the organization has seemed to
define its policy positions as simply the exact oppo-
site of the rest of the Jewish community. Its shadowy
financing was shown to simply be a front for George
Soros, whose ability to fund anti-Israel activities seems
to know no bounds. J Street lied about receiving these
funds. According to Federal Election Commission
filings, dozens of Arab and Muslim Americans and Iranian
advocacy organizations donated tens of thousands of dollars
to J Street. The fact that our enemies donate to this group
speaks volumes about its nature.
The Jewish community in America has a wide array of
positions, but there are limits to any discussion. The BDS
boycott movement is simply anti-Semitic in nature, yet it
enjoys a dialogue with J Street. Iran has announced its inten-
tion to incinerate Israel, yet J Street serves as its apologists.
The Goldstone report was probably the worst libel against
the Jews since the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, repudiated
even by its own author but it was embraced by J Street.
The real damage and immediate danger of J Street is that
it provides cover to any politician who now opposes any
position of the rest of the Jewish community. While the
political power of the American Jewish community contin-
ues to evaporate as our numbers and influence diminish,
J Street has prevented us from speaking with a unified voice.
Its opposition to the sanctions on Iran confused our allies
and aided our enemies. In our world talk translates to bul-
lets; sanctions can serve as armor; and defamation can dam-
age as much as an earthquake.
J Street sadly provides no support to Israel and drowns
out our communitys voice at home.
Dr. Scott David Lippe, Fair Lawn
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JOANNE PALMER
H
ow did a poor milkman from a
godforsaken mud-slicked Yid-
dish-inflected shtetl in tzar-
ist Russia come to dominate
stages around the world for half a century?
And why will so many Tevyas and Gol-
des, and Tzeitels, and Motels, and Hodels,
and Perchicks, and Chavas, and Yentas,
and Lazar Wolfs all be together on one
stage at one time?
Somehow, the specificit y of the
musicals time and place a world so
particularly and hauntingly late 19th cen-
tury Ashkenazi that a Sephardic Jew who
lived, lets say, 200 years earlier would
find it bafflingly foreign, and a modern
secular Israeli would see it as anthropol-
ogy and its profound universality, which
touches on themes of family and growth
and loss and change and separation and
abiding love familiar to everyone every-
where, combined to make magic in Fid-
dler on the Roof.
The fact that its a wonderful show also
doesnt hurt, said Alisa Solomon, a theater
critic and Columbia School of Journalism
professor who wrote about it in Wonder
of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler
on the Roof.
Because of the convergence of so many
things Fiddler turning 50, its lyri-
cist, Sheldon Harnick, turning 90, and
the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene
entering its 100th year the theaters artis-
tic director, Zalmen Mlotek of Teaneck, is
creating a huge semi-centennial celebra-
tion, called Raising the Roof, at Manhat-
tans Town Hall on June 9.
Fiddler is about families (among many
other things), and many of the actors who
have been in it have created their own
families through it. Ms. Solomon will talk
about the play, and Mr. Harnick will remi-
nisce. Joshua Bell will carve time out of his
schedule to perform, and a klezmer band
headed by Frank London will play behind
him. Actors will reproduce some of the
musicals set pieces. Hearts will swell, and
eyes will well.
Just as Fiddler brings together the
universal and the specific, it also brings
together two worlds that often intersect
but are distinct from each other Broad-
way and Yiddish culture. If those two
Feting Fiddler
By Raising the Roof, Folksbiene honors musicals first half century
worlds, in fact, can be thought to have had
a child brash, bustling Broadway would
be the father, and then there is oh, this is
too easy! a Yiddische mama that child
would have been Fiddler on the Roof.
The Folksbiene has chosen to produce
Raising the Roof which also is this
years annual fundraiser because its
mission, as Mr. Mlotek sees it, is to bring
people from the outside not from the
Yiddish world into our audience, to
see the kind of work we do. That has not
always been the case. My predecessors
gave their lives for the theater, Mr. Mlotek
said. They maintained this theater. From
1915, when it was founded, to 1998, when I
took over, there was not one season with-
out one play going on.
When I took over, I broadened the
base. I said that this is not just about the-
ater it is about Yiddish culture. I brought
in people from the wider spectrum of Jew-
ish life, who had a connection with Yiddish
theater.
For the gala, we engaged two directors,
Erik Liberman and Gary John La Rosa,
who have had extensive experience with
Fiddler. In fact, Mr. La Rosa had worked
with Jerome Robbins, who directed and
choreographed the original production,
so its a direct connection to the original
concept, Mr. Mlotek said.
Were reaching out to all these artists,
and their answer immediately is yes. They
are donating their services, flying in from
all over. There will be at least 100 people
on that stage.
Just the fact that were celebrating this
icon of the Broadway musical under our
auspices shows something about the way
that Yiddish culture found its way into
Broadway, he said.
Fiddler manages to keep running bril-
liantly on the tracks of both the universal
and the particular at all times, Ms. Solo-
mon said.
Her favorite example is the wedding
scene at the end of the first act. If you
stop your ears and just watch it, you will
see that it is unmistakably and in careful
detail an Ashkenazi Jewish wedding, she
said. There is a chuppah, and the ring on
the index finger. But if you close your eyes
and just listen, you hear Sunrise, Sunset.
Its a waltz; the song is a popular American
style. The lyrics are universal.
So if you are a Jewish audience
member, you feel completely at home with
what you saw; if youre not, you are not
barred from emotional entry to that scene.
It is open to you and you also see a set of
charming customs.
Fiddlers creators were sure that any-
thing that would not be immediately obvi-
ous to its audiences would be defined,
Ms. Solomon continued. Case in point:
the lyrics To life, to life, lchaim; lchaim,
lchaim, to life.
Fiddler was very much of its time and
place in that it catches some of the promi-
nent concerns of the mid-1960s the ris-
ing civil-rights movement, what tolerance
is, what bigotry and prejudice are, she
said. And it touched as well on the new
mood of rebellion among college students.
When Perchik is introduced, he insults
someone, she said. Someone asks him
Where do you come from? and someone
else answers From the university. Thats
where they taught him to speak like that.
Its set in 1905, and it is very coherent
and has integrity within that period, but
it also is speaking very directly to the con-
temporary concerns of the 1960s.
As she pointed out, those concerns still
vex us today, so the show has aged well. At
the deepest level, Its all about change
and that never gets stale.
Addressing the charge that Fiddler is
schmaltzy, she said that it is not. Robbins
wanted to move away from the sentimen-
tal. The Sholom Aleichem stories upon
which the musical is based are dark, but
the treatment those stories had received
in the 1950s had been grossly sentimental.
The first act ends in a pogrom, and the
second with exile, she pointed out.
Mr. Harnick said that when he and Jerry
Bock, wrote the shows music, they had no
idea that Fiddler would be popular.
We had hoped that wed get good
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Raising the Roof
Who: The Folksbiene Theater and
many Fiddler alumni
What: A performance celebrating
Fiddler on the Roofs 50th anniver-
sary
Where: Town Hall, 123 West 43rd
Street, Manhattan
When: Monday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m.
For tickets: 212-213-2120, ext. 203
For more information: www.nation-
alyiddishtheatre.org
Fiddler manages
to keep running
brilliantly on the
tracks of both
the universal and
the particular
at all times.
ALISA SOLOMON
The original Broadway production with Zero Mostel
front and center.
Zero Mostel
as Tevye and
Joanna Merlin
as his oldest
daughter,
Tzeitel.
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reviews, and run maybe for a year or two,
he said.
The two men worked separately Mr.
Bock on the music, Mr. Harnick on the lyr-
ics and then theyd get together in Mr.
Bocks basement studio in his house in
New Rochelle. Meanwhile, Joseph Stein
was somewhere else, writing the book.
When wed finish a song, wed call his
wife, Patty, to come down so we could get
her reaction. We played Sunrise, Sunset
for her. I know from experience that when
I sing I dont like looking at the person Im
singing to, so I looked away, and when I
looked at her face she was crying.
I said, Is the song that bad? and she
said No. Its very touching.
The same thing happened when he
played it for his sister, and then I thought
Wow. This must be special.
The first song the two men wrote for
Fiddler was the dream song, which
was based directly on Sholom Aleichems
story; that was for a scene that they knew
would have to stay in the show because it
was integral to the plot. If I Were a Rich
Man also was drawn from the stories.
There are sentences in various stories
Fiddler is popular around the world. At left, a Japanese
production, with fiddler atop a Japanese house; at right, Fiddler
in India.
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Fiddler was the dream song, which
was based directly on Sholom Aleichems
story; that was for a scene that they knew
would have to stay in the show because it
was integral to the plot. If I Were a Rich
Man also was drawn from the stories.
There are sentences in various stories
where Tevye talks about wishing he were
rich, and I was able to use them. Some
of his work lent itself to lyrics; for other
songs I had to rely more on my own imagi-
nation, he said.
Asked about the first Tevye, the mythic
one, the extraordinary and inimitable Zero
Mostel, Mr. Harnick paused and sighed.
Zero was difficult, he said.
He was so imaginative, so creative, that
he tended to improvise on stage, rather
than doing exactly what the director had
asked him to do.
Sometimes that was fine, and some-
times it was funny, and sometimes it led
to problems. Sometimes an actor would
deliver a line to him, and turn around
and he wasnt there.
The plays first tryouts were in Detroit.
Jerry Robbins had staged If I Were a Rich
Man so that Zero had a canister of milk
with him he was, after all, a dairyman
and at one point he raises his hands to
heaven, and then, when he puts his arms
down, by accident he puts one of them in
the can. When he takes it out, its all wet,
and he is just supposed to wring it out,
and to look to God as if to say This too you
have to do to me?
By the third day, the song was 10 min-
utes longer. Zero used it as a way to show
all the things that you could possibly do
with that bit. He would use it as perfume
behind his ears. He would use it to grease
the wheels of his cart. He milked it.
And then, on the third day, he sighs, he
raises his hands to heaven, he lowers his
arm into the can and then he is in shock,
because there was nothing in the can, and
his arm was dry. Robbins had to do that to
get him to stop.
He could endure no criticism, no matter
how gently put, but no matter what he
did, audiences adored him.
Some time before Fiddler, Mr. Mostel
had been run over by a bus. They took
him to a hospital and he was conscious,
and heard them say that they would have
to amputate his leg, Mr. Harnick said.
He begged them not to do it. He said
that he was a performer, and he would be
lost without it. They did save it, but after
about seven months in Fiddler, we got a
letter from his doctor that said he cant do
seven performances a week, and asking if
he could be in for three months and then
out for three.
Of course, that was impossible. No one
would go to see a Fiddler headlined
half of the time by Zero Mostel during
the half of the time when Tevye would
be somewhere else. So Mr. Mostel went
out with the first national road company,
where he could rest more and put less
stress on his leg.
Zero was sure that the grosses would
fall after he left, but they didnt, Mr.
Harnick said. He was replaced by Luther
Adler, of the famous Yiddish stage Adlers,
whom Mr. Harnick liked, and then by the
man the lyricist considers to have been
possibly the best of a stellar group of
Zalmen Mlotek
Sheldon Harnick
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Tevyes, Herschel Bernardi.
Mr. Harnick is more interested in the shows universality
than its Jewishness, but he is fascinated by the way other
cultures find their own specificity in it. It once ran simulta-
neously in London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Helsinki,
and he saw all four of those performances. When we got
to Finland, we saw that they had left out some of Tevyes
monologues the particularly Jewish ones so we asked.
The answer? Well, you must realize that there are very few
Jews in Finland. Maybe 4,000. So there is nothing Jewish
about the show that appeals to Finns. But what does appeal
to us is that this is a small country next to a large country
the Russian bear. Russia is our problem.
They had cast a 65 actor as the constable, and when he
walked out on stage, that was Mother Russia walking, Mr.
Harnick said. So the show had a lot to say to the Finns but
not particularly about Jews.
Moishe Rosenfeld, the president of Golden Land Concerts
and Connections, is producing Raising the Roof, as he has
produced many other Folksbiene performances.
Its going to be a beautiful night, he said.
He places Fiddler in the Roof in the context of
the world out of which it grew. Its about the east-
ern European experience, he said. Its not just about
Yiddish culture, although that is central to us at the
Folksbiene. It is also about the life, the ethics, the rela-
tionships with the neighbors, the thousands of years
of diaspora that Jews live through, that is so central to
who we are as Jews and as people.
Nothing else before, no piece of art, had brought
that to the whole world as Fiddler does.
Yes, there is Chagall, he added. But thats why
Fiddler included Chagall. (The musicals title is
taken from a painting by Marc Chagall that shows a
violin player precariously keeping his footing on a roof
as he plays his instrument; its all about balance, as
always both particular and universal.)
Its a major part of the modern American Jewish
experience, he continued. Nothing else that was pre-
sented artistically ever captured such a tremendous
part of the American Jewish consciousness. It was
ubiquitous when it was on Broadway, and the film,
and all the revivals! Whenever it travels, it sells out.
Tevye was a wise working man who struggles with
good and evil, who struggles with choices and struggles
with love versus tradition. As it was then, so is it now.
Joanne Merlin was the first Tzeitel, the oldest
daughter.
Fiddler was very meaningful to me, because
my parents both were born in Russia, she said. My
mother came over here as a baby, but my father was
born in a shtetl, and my grandparents had lived there
all their lives.
Of the actors in the original production, only
Tevye and Lazar Wolf and I were Jewish, she said.
The rabbi and the innkeeper were too, and a lot of
the smaller parts, but I think its important for people
to know that.
These are actors. Hamlet is very rarely played by
a Dane.
Jerry Robbins was very fastidious about teaching us
Fiddler catches
some of the
prominent
concerns of
the mid-1960s
the rising civil-
rights movement,
what tolerance is,
what bigotry and
prejudice are.
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dox wedding, and he brought in all kinds of resource
material, Ms. Merlin continued. The dancing was
based on authentic chasidic dancing.
When we opened in Detroit, we thought that once
the Jewish audience all has seen the show, it will close.
We had no idea of the universality of the piece. But its
played in 28 languages, all over the world, and for a long
time it was the longest-running show on Broadway.
Mr. Robbins had pursued Ms. Merlin who at the time
did not realize how well she could sing for Fiddler,
and later he uncovered her nascent talent as a casting
director. That happened because Ms. Merlin, then the
mother of two young children, was about to leave the
show, and suggested her own understudy as a perma-
nent replacement although the casting director did not
think it was a good idea. Ms. Merlin prevailed, and her
understudy got the part.
Who was that understudy? Bette Midler.
Erik Liberman is a co-director of Raising the Roof.
He had toured with the show before making his Broad-
way debut in Love Music, and when he was asked to
be in the gala evening, I had so many ideas about what
could possibly make this evening incredibly memorable
and historic that they asked me if I could come aboard
as one of the creators, he said.
We decided that we wanted it to be the largest
reunion possible for the people who created these roles,
so we went on a major investigative hunt for them. We
found people who are retired, or in their 90s; we found
everyone who is alive and well and kicking. Some of
them made their Broadway debuts as little children and
some in their 40s.
We are creating this as a testament to the timeless
and ongoing nature of this show. It is a gift that keeps
on giving.
Mr. Liberman said that before he first was in Fiddler,
in 2009, I hadnt even seen the show. I was the only
person alive who hadnt seen it.
I remember my grandparents telling me about escap-
ing the pogroms, but I didnt understand. It wasnt until
they had passed and I did the show that I felt that I could
truly honor their memory.
The gift that the show gave me was the chance to
understand myself as a link in a chain.
He is excited about the guest performers, who
include Topol, who hasnt been back on a New York
stage in 24 years, Jerry Zaks, and Andrea Martin, along
with many others. We are reuniting three trios of sis-
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Lincoln Center revival, he said. There will be three
Motels and five Yentas.
We have been collecting anecdotes from all of them,
he continued. We are releasing them as part of our
social media campaign.
That campaign will be on Facebook at folksbiene and
on Twitter as @folksbiene.
When Hal Prince, the original producer, another
huge Broadway name, didnt think the show would do
well, because it hadnt been lifted to that universal level,
he said that the only person who could do it was Jerry
Robbins, Mr. Liberman said.
Jerry kept asking Joe Stein and Jerry Bock and Shel-
don Harnick, for months, what the story is about. They
kept saying its about a milkman. They were going for
plot rather than thesis.
And then one of them finally broke through, and he
said that it was about the dissolution of a way of life. And
then Jerry rendered it into something that anyone could
identify with. That was his gift.
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BEN COHEN
F
rance has a rich Jewish history and a vibrant
Jewish community of approximately 500,000
souls.
At the same time, France is a country where
anti-Semitism has deep, seemingly immutable roots.
Modern Zionism evolved partly as a reaction to the
Dreyfus trial at the end of the 19th century, while in the
middle of the 20th around 90,000 Jews were murdered
during the Nazi Holocaust.
In our own time, France has provided fertile ground
for Holocaust deniers, known in local parlance as nega-
tionistes. During the last 10 years, we have witnessed
a horrifying hate crime involving the kidnapping and
murder of a young Jew, Ilan Halimi, an Islamist terror
attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse that claimed the
lives of three children and a rabbi, and a burgeoning
anti-Semitic social movement that takes as its symbol an
inverted Nazi salute known as the quenelle.
Small wonder, then, that
French Jewish leaders are
continually asked whether
their community has a future
in the long-term. Nonethe-
less, it is a question as I
discovered when I met with
a delegation from CRIF,
the representative body of
French Jewry, in New York
this week that the leaders
answer with patience and
good grace.
At the head of the delegation is Roger Cukierman, the
elder statesman of French Jews, who first was elected
as CRIFs president in 2001. Sitting in the offices of the
World Jewish Congress, where he also serves as a vice
president, Mr. Cukierman was candid about the pro-
found problems the community faces, while empha-
sizing its extraordinary durability. There have been
Jews in France for the last 2,000 years, he said, listing
Rashi, the great 11th-century rabbi and Marcel Proust,
the 20th-century novelist. Even as he acknowledged the
many instances of anti-Semitic persecution through the
ages, Mr. Cukierman noted simply and proudly, We are
still here. And we are not the only country where anti-
Semitism is developing. It may develop in America also.
Still, there is a genuine urgency about the situation in
France. A recent survey of global anti-Semitism issued
by Tel Aviv University reported 110 violent attacks on
French Jews in 2013, the highest single number for any
country. More alarming is the fact that although Jews
make up just one percent of the French population, they
are the target of 40 percent of racist assaults in the coun-
try. It isnt surprising, then, that David Tibi, a Jewish
leader in Paris, recently declared, We no longer have
a place in France.
Mr. Cukierman is insistent that Jews do have a place
in France, adding that anti-Semitism emanates from
three distinct sources, rather than being a general
phenomenon. First, there is the far right and par-
ticularly the National Front party which traditionally
has been the home of Holocaust deniers and Vichy-era
apologists. Second, there is the far left, whose aggres-
sive promotion of the BDS campaign against Israel
affects the comfort of living in France for Jews, Mr.
Cukierman said. Third, there are the banlieues,
run-down suburbs that are home to many young
disaffected Muslims, who frequently are responsible
for violent anti-Semitic acts.
Any mention of the banlieues inevitably leads to a
discussion of Dieudonne Mbala Mbala, the notorious
comedian whose attempts at humor often are little more
than crude Jew-baiting antics. It was Dieudonne who
popularized the quenelle, the anti-Semitic gesture that
became internationally known when it was performed
by the French soccer star Nicholas Anelka, a friend of
Dieudonnes, during a match in England.
Among the many challenges in responding to
Dieudonne is his appeal to young people in France,
many of whom are attracted by his anti-establishment
stance, his hatred of Israel, and his mockery of the
Holocaust. So brazen is Dieudonne that he recently
suggested to Ilan Halimis mother, Ruth, that the two
of them embrace the idea of reconciliation this in
spite of the fact that Dieudonne has openly defended
one of the murderers of her son. Ruth Halimi, of course,
rejected Dieudonnes overtures, but his general appeal
remains strong. Using conventional methods, like anti-
discrimination legislation, to counter him merely boosts
his reputation.
Dieudonne, Mr. Cukierman said, brings together the
extreme right with the black and Muslim population.
How to reverse this trend is an especially knotty ques-
tion. Yonathan Arfi, a young CRIF leader traveling with
Mr. Cukierman, observed that European Jews histori-
cally have adopted a so-called vertical approach to anti-
Semitism, pushing for government agencies to address
the problem. But nowadays, Mr. Arfi said, the approach
is becoming more horizontal, engaging and dealing
directly with the twists and turns of public attitudes
to Jews, their religion, their culture, and their political
loyalties.
France, in that sense, increasingly seems like a lab-
oratory for both contemporary anti-Semitism and our
response to it. I left my conversation with the CRIF del-
egation with two abiding impressions: that the Jewish
presence in France will be sustained, and that, as the
young leaders accompanying Mr. Cukierman proved,
there is no shortage of fine minds to take the community
forward. How they manage the persistence of French
anti-Semitism, however, will be the most fearsome test
they face. JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen, JNS.orgs Shillman analyst, writes on 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
Dieudonn Mbala Mbala is the French comedian
who popularized the Nazi-style quenelle salute.
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W
hen Ari Orski was planning a
recent holiday office party for
his colleagues at the Secaucus
branch of Ernst & Young, he
envisioned having the soiree at
a venue with a little more pizzazz than the
usual catering hall or restaurant.
Not only did he get pizzazz. He got out of
the rat race at least for the duration of the
party and into another kind of race when
he decided to hold the holiday bash at Pole
Position Raceway, a go-karting wonderland
in Jersey City where would-be racers, both
young and old, come in to start their adrena-
line engines.
There were 150 Ernst & Young employees,
men and women, 25 to 60 years old, big boss-
es alongside the support staff at that holiday
party.
It was just great, says Orski. We got to
show our competitive spirit when we raced
and then socialized afterward with food and
drink. People were just thrilled.
Likewise when Vito Brunetti of Hawthorne
threw a surprise birthday bash for his buddy
Edward Villerosa, he also chose Pole Position
Raceway.
It was unique party and a great expe-
rience, says Brunetti, 38, whose guest list
included 40 people, who nished four races in
the course of the party.
More and more celebrations and events
are being held at sporting venues that offer
something physically challenging or a sports
diversion for guests.
From go-kart racing to trampoline bounc-
ing to playing ping pong to dunking a basket-
ball in the middle of a restaurant, these sports
and entertainment venues are hosting more
life cycle events, such as bar and bat mitz-
vahs, anniversary parties, birthday bashes, in
addition to events for corporate team build-
ing, company parties, new product launches,
or family reunions.
These days, people are looking for unique
party experiences, something that is multi-
tiered, an interactive good time.
Theyve done the bowling alleys and
theyve done the golf courses, says Karen
Davis-Farage, who owns Pole Position Race-
way, which is housed in an 80,000 square-foot
former pharmaceutical warehouse, with her
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Pole Position Raceway, Jersey City
Israeli-born husband, Eyal.
Here we offer people something that theyve never
done before. The racing is high-performance fun. Its
clean. Its green. Its safe. Its high-tech and very cool-
looking.
Bounce! Trampoline Sports in Valley Cottage, N.Y.,
is a popular destination for school groups and parties
and fun-seeking individuals, but it has also hosted cor-
porate team-building parties and other events for such
companies as Merck and other businesses such as
the Waldorf-Astoria, says Michael Gross, a managing
partner of Bounce!, which opened in Rockland County
about two and a half years ago.
At these events guests get to jump on the giant
trampolines no skill necessary or play a sweat-
inducing game of trampoline dodge ball or slam-
dunk basketball. Plenty of party rooms at Bounce! are
equipped to handle the after-the-activity-meeting
when folks are ready to have a bite and get down to
business.
It helps to give them a real spirit of fun outside of
the workplace and really builds camaraderie, says
Gross.
Besides, he adds with laugh, where else do you
get to throw a dodge ball at the boss?
Some venues, like West Rock Indoor Sports & Enter-
tainment Complex in Nanuet, N.Y., can mix sports and
fun, and help create fantasies.
The venue boasts over 100,000 square feet of space,
which can be tailored to feel like an intimate environ-
ment or vast hot spot, and includes two full-sized
basketball courts and 25,000 square feet of turf elds,
in addition to a lounge with 12,000 square feet, says
James Miller, the owner of West Rock Indoor Sports &
Entertainment Complex.
When Dr. Richard Goldstein of Woodcliff Lake was
making a bar mitzvah for his second son, Bennett,
there was no question that he would go back to the
venue in which he made his son Harrys bar mitzvah.
It is a gigantic space, says Goldstein, a podiatrist
with a practice in midtown Manhattan. With the right
vision and the right people, you can create anything.
Anything is what they did create, says Goldstein.
With the help of Millers team, the bar mitzvah for the
Goldstein family included a Napa Valley garden party
replete with a stone bar, a full-on New York City disco,
and a lounge for all the youngsters to hang out and
relax.
On the other side of the Hudson River, spanning
the entire stretch of 10th Avenue from 37th to 38th
Streets in Manhattan, Clyde Fraziers Wine & Dine,
the eponymous high-end sports restaurant named for
the former basketball great, is a natural place for team
building, says its staff.
The 10,000-square-foot restaurant, which serves
new American cuisine, has a lounge section with an
open basketball court, a long bar, and another dining
area with an open kitchen. Throw in 42 screens that
play sports from basketball to football and a famous
owner, who stops by a few times a week to meet and
greet his guests, and all this spells a great spot for cel-
ebrations and events from corporate team building to
parties for youngsters, says Sam Boudloche, catering
sales manager for Clyde Fraziers Wine and Dine.
In an email from Walter Clyde Frazier, the former
Knick says that his restaurant should top the list as a
destination because of its friendly atmosphere and
positive vibes. Were the only restaurant with a free
throw court inside.
Also in Gotham, another restaurant, Slate, offers a
space that is also a food and fun emporium, offering
such diversions as billiards, foosball, and ping pong in
a night club restaurant atmosphere, says Kyle Rinderer,
events coordinator for Slate.
Its location on W. 21st Street between Fifth and Sixth
Avenues near both Chelsea and Flatiron in Manhattan
also makes it a very centrally located spot for business
clients and corporate guests to gather for anything
from an informal happy hour gathering to a more of-
cial networking event, says Rinderer.
Closer to home, the Jewish Center of Teaneck is also
raring to go with sports-themed parties that can be
held in its refurbished facilities, including its redone
pool and a brand new tness center.
The Jewish Center of Teaneck has been a magnet for
an array of sports-like parties, which included a recent
Ladies Night Out, in which some women rented the
pool and had a local caterer bring in victuals.
Also recently, a bat mitzvah turned into a physical
fun time for the girls, who under the guidance of coun-
selors had fun with hula-hoops and did double Dutch
jump roping and other activities that appeal to tweens,
says Rose Sigler, the administrator at the Jewish Center
of Teaneck.
Likewise, a few bar mitzvah parties have also used
the gym for basketball, flag football, and other fun
sports.
In Mahwah, Down Town Sports is a great venue
for parties such as bar and bat mitzvahs. With its two
full-size basketball courts, boys especially into basket-
ball can be out there shooting hoops like their sports
heroes, says Adam Brown, manager of Down Town
Sports.
The space also has several other sports options,
including volleyball and dodge ball and it is perfect for
parties where guests want to do these sports.
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Dessert has also become a moving
affair.
Gone are the big dessert tables or the
slab of cake served at each place setting
in favor of a butler-style service where
waiters pass around tapas-styled des-
serts such as frozen cheesecake lolli-
pops or cake pops.
Of course, sushi is still a big favorite,
and Chai Ko of Teaneck makes the most
of it, says Yamin Dayan, owner of Chai
Ko.
But even sushi is newfangled.
Instead of sushi rolls, more people
are asking for sushi cones, which come
shaped in traditional seaweed wrap or
in a colorful array of soy paper wrap.
Mediterranean cuisine is also very
popular, and Dayan has brought his
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Less of some things, more of
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in a lighter, brighter, and more aestheti-
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The new wave of catering no lon-
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following a heavy-duty smorgasbord
of chang dishes brimming with such
past favorites as Swedish meatballs and
stuffed cabbage .
The cuisine at affairs today is cre-
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with lots of small bites, tapas-type
tasting, variety and choice galore, and
movement, movement, movement.
People want to move around at a
party. Theres an interactive ow, a lot
of passing around, and a variety of food
stations, says Elvira Grau, owner of
Space in Englewood. People just dont
want the boring chicken or fish dish
anymore. People want variety.
In fact, says Yossi Abadi, owner of Pal-
isadium in Fort Lee, even weddings are
following the trend of more buffet-style
dining rather than a sit-down, multi-
course dinner.
Les Friedman, a partner at Northern
Valley Affairs at Temple Emanu-El in
Closter, agrees.
Its not like years ago with the large
portions and big chang dishes, says
Friedman. Its more tapas-style smor-
gasbord done on individual small
plates.
Even main courses are served buffet-
style with a variety of stations.
People dont want to stop and sit for
their courses, says Friedman.
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David Attias of Prime
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serves fresh fish sushi, but
also takes the Japanese favor-
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sushi roll made with pastrami
or roast beef or Kobe beef.
We want to be different
and innovative, says Attias.
We work a lot on our presen-
tation as well as making sure
the food is very fresh.
Pairings are big, too, says
Noam Sokolow, director of
catering of Rave, based in
Englewood and New York
City. For example, pairing
sliders with beer or a tuna
taco with a margarita. Hearty
retro dishes, like spaghetti and meat-
balls, may still be seen on the menu, but
now served as hors doeuvres, smaller
and more elegantly.
Deena Greenstein, of Deena Green-
stein Events/Five Star Caterers, says
people are also interested in a farm-
to-table dining experience with whole-
some foods that are healthfully pre-
pared. Grilled vegetables, such as whole
ears of corn, fennel, kohlrabi, and red
onion are on the menu. People are even
asking for wild salmon.
Stations offering exciting varieties
on favorites also are the rage, featuring
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Also popular are desserts that resemble home-style
favorites, such as apple cobbler or Rice Krispy treats,
Greenstein says.
Rebecca Martin, director of catering at Fairway,
advises that if one doesnt want to jump into the trend
for the full menu, one ought to make at least part of
the meal a memorable standout.
Have some exciting signature items, something
outside of the box, Martin says. Instead of a plain
salmon, do a black cod. Or, if you want to do salmon,
do a kicked-up version like salmon with pistachio.
These days the diner also wants to know exactly
what he or she is eating, says Bob Shorr, owner of Har-
olds Kosher Market in Paramus.
They come in and always ask what is inside the
dish, says Shorr, who adds that big sellers are vegeta-
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or zucchini; Brussels spouts; salads with a light vinai-
grette; and butternut squash and spinach.
Anthonys Pier 9 in New Windsor, N.Y. is serving up
its elegant affairs at its Hudson Valley venue following
a multimillion dollar renovation. The venue is also fea-
turing a variety of food at its several stations, including
a wok station, pasta station, carving and more.
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Hire a professional, he says. Many people are try-
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Bar or Bat Mitzvah,
graduation or any other
special event with a
memorable and unique party.
Parties take place in the JCT
full-sized sports/basketball
court or heated, indoor pool
and private party room.
BEVERLY LEVITT
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hile its a given that you want
your special simcha to have
spectacular food, beautiful
decorations, and danceable
music, the best gift you can give your
guests is adding a healthy dollop of fun
into the mix. Lynn Buono, owner of
Feast Your Eyes Catering in Philadelphia
suggests interactive buffet tables where
guests can pick, choose, season, spice,
and drizzle ingredients to customize
their courses.
The goal is that guests of all ages
have endless possibilities and instead of
glancing askance at the same old buffet
lineup of prosaic pieces of chicken and
poached salmon waiting to be speared
and plopped on to a plate, they can pick
and choose from exciting entres and
then accessorize, spice up, or sauce
down, and create a plate as colorful,
original, or conservative as they desire.
Take these interactive dishes influ-
enced by the French:
For a lovely beginning to a dairy
meal, picture a steaming tureen of
roasted tomato soup surrounded by
copper containers of fresh herbs such
as winter savory, thyme, basil, rosemary,
or tarragon and edible fresh or dried
flowers including lavender, nastur-
tiums, and calendula. Add to that two
Provencal sauces rouille (a melange
of olive oil, breadcrumbs, garlic, saffron,
and chili peppers) and a spicy roasted
eggplant puree. For the dnouement,
a dollop of crme fraiche nestled in a
bowl of Provencal pottery and a marble
slab of aged cheese, including a proper
knife or grater and dishes of Dijon mus-
tard and coarse French salt.
For an unforgettable final ending,
a colorful dessert table with platters
of empty puff pastry shells and col-
orful containers of fresh fruit fillings
raspberry, blackberry, apple, pear,
plus those same luscious mixtures that
flavor tarte au citron and chocolate
mousse. Add crystal goblets of freshly
whipped cream with a dash of Tahi-
tian vanilla, a Limoges dessert plate of
Valrhona chocolate pearls, and any-
thing else that strikes your fancy so
that guests can individualize their own
French tarts.
For a bit of savory, a cheese cart,
lled with favorite soft French chees-
es at room temperature and sitting
on wooden cutting boards or marble
slabs, with a serving knife for each
variety. Fill rustic baskets with breads,
crackers, fruits, and nuts. We love clus-
ters of plump green, purple, red, and
black grapes firmly attached to their
stems; a lazy Susan of raspberries,
blackberries, strawberries, and blue-
berries; apple and pear slices; walnuts,
almonds, and pecans; and green and
black olives. And for that pice de rsis-
tance, a crystal bowl filled with fine
chocolate trufes.
That display of goodies can be an ice-
breaker with the heretofore unknown
person standing in front of you.
Here are some practical party-giving
pointers.
GET ORGANIZED
If theres a rst word of successful party
giving its lists.
Organization doesnt come easy, so
when I plan any party my mantra is
lists, lists, and more lists, says Buono.
Make one for every aspect of the party
including a timeline of what to do
when and check it off as each task is
accomplished.
THEME THE PARTY
Buono emphasizes that a party should
have a certain feel. Instill a sense of sur-
prise and cohesion by choosing a theme
that you can have fun with and then be
consistent from the dcor to the des-
sert. And that carries over to the ow-
ers and the colors youre going to use
for the dishes and linens. Even the bar
should accent the menu.
Since the style of Provence is casual
yet elegant it seemed the perfect tem-
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THE INVITATIONS
From the rst announcement of your event, guests get
a glimpse of what to expect. If Provence is your theme,
design invitations with a Provencal palate of French
blue, mustard yellow, burgundy, burnt orange, and
hints of rust. Add the happiest ower in nature the
sunflower or the most sophisticated, the stylized
French lily. For a bit of whimsy, include the Gallic
rooster.
DONT REACH TOO HIGH WITH YOUR MENU
Balance the menu with spectacular, centerpiece dishes
and less complicated recipes with fewer ingredients.
Figure out what can be prepared in advance and what
must be made that morning or at the last minute,
whether by your caterer or in your kitchen.
WHAT YOURE DRINKING SHOULD ACCENTUATE
WHAT YOURE EATING
Everyone has a favorite French wine, but cocktails are
once again en vogue so, if you are doing a French bis-
tro theme, for example, serve Kir Royale (Cassis and
Champagne), French 75 (gin or cognac, Champagne,
lemon juice, and sugar), or two of my favorites, Aperi-
tif dAbsinthe (Pernod licorice liqueur, wormwood
extract, water, and sugar) or Dubonnet Rouge with a
twist of lemon. Many cocktails can be made in pitch-
ers, instead of mixing to order. Or consider a Cham-
pagne punch with oating fruit and dry ice. Youll need
to buy or rent a cut-glass punch bowl with a glass or
plastic ladle.
PACE THE PARTY & USE A TIMELINE
For the first hour put out an assortment of hors
doeuvres, and set up the soup tureen (if soups on the
menu) complete with a glass or plastic ladle and an
assortment of tea cups. No need for soup spoons, but
youll need serving spoons for your accoutrements. For
this course guests arent bogged down by a heavy plate,
which makes it easy to mingle. Observe the guests; if
they look hungry and like they want to sit down, begin
setting out the entre.
Add a nice touch to the party and a warm ow to
the next course by making a toast perhaps honor-
ing your son, guests who have traveled far to get here,
or saying something about the year so far, or even the
season. After dizzying your guests on great Cham-
pagne, its on to the main course. After 45 minutes or
so you can start setting out the salad, then 30 minutes
later, the dessert, the cheese (if a dairy meal), dessert
wine, coffee, and tea.
TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND SEATING ARRANGEMENTS
Create a comfortable traffic pattern, making sure
guests are not waiting in a long line for their food. If
your party and room are big enough, have two identi-
cal tables of food.
Organize them by how one would go through the
line: rst the china, silverware, napkins, then dishes
that go together, grouping the entre and its accoutre-
ments, making it easy to accessorize dinner plates.
Even at a buffet, guests will want to sit down. If you
dont have enough chairs, consider renting. But you
dont have to have a seat for every guest. Thats the fun.
There will always be guests who still want to mingle,
whatever the course.
FORKABLE IS KEY
Its fun to be portable not bogged down by a heavy
plate and unwieldy utensils. Some courses, such as
the hors doeuvres, require no utensils, simply napkins
and small plates. For the soup, guests will drink right
from their cups. For the entre and salad, simply a
fork. And for the dessert and cheese course, rien.
RENTING IS NO LONGER A DIRTY WORD
Paper and plastic or china and silver? Because were
conserving on silverware, you might opt for thick,
lovely paper plates and quality atware. Since were
being forkable, were not using much silver at all.
But if you do want to use china, crystal, and beautiful
linens, consider renting. It saves time with cleanup,
and how sad it is to ruin that antique tablecloth of
moms. This last New Years Day, my friend spilled
sauce on moms favorite tablecloth. It cost $18 to
launder and the stains didnt come out. Better put
the antique cloth away. If, however, you have a crew
in the kitchen and a helper clearing stray dishes and
goblets of wine, thereby preventing disastrous spills,
go for it.
Entertaining is great fun. And,
while amazing food is essential,
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BEVERLY LEVITT
A
n impending shidduch is just one
reason for sharing a cup of tea.
Sealing a business deal, having
a heart to heart with a long-lost
but newly found friend, celebrating your
daughters engagement or naming her new
baby, congratulating your son on his gradu-
ation, wishing bon voyage for your daugh-
ter on her rst trip to Israel the taking of
tea has an intimacy and grace that a cup of
coffee or even a flute of Champagne can
only aspire to.
During a mild early summer, an after-
noon tea party (we are not talking politics)
is a stress-less yet elegant way of entertain-
ing for almost any simcha. Tea sandwiches
are classic, easy to prepare, and best served
cold or at room temperature. Desserts can
be created at home or ordered from a near-
by bakery.
When sending out invitations to the
party, dont call it high as in high tea but
rather afternoon, as in those long hungry
hours between lunch and dinner. Although
authentic high tea is still taken in Great
Britain by hungry youngsters, theatergo-
Hosting an afternoon tea party
ers tiding themselves over until their late supper, or
less affluent citizens who grab a hearty savory late
in the day and forget dinner altogether, the popular
tradition of mid-afternoon tea was inaugurated in the
mid-19th century.
As the story goes, when the duchess of Bedford
served tea and breadstuffs to her friends at 4 p.m.
because everyone was hungry and couldnt wait until
dinner, they enjoyed it so much it became a national
ritual so delightful it turned into a party.
Today, afternoon tea is so popular that the Ritz
Londons Palm Court has a three-to-six-month waiting
list, according to Executive Chef John Williams. There
are ve seatings, but his most popular is at 3 p.m. The
master chef is a traditionalist for his afternoon tea
menu and the elegant sandwiches have few, but very
specic, ingredients.
Cucumber sandwiches are a must, but served only
with cream cheese and chives. Mustard cress is the star
of its own sandwich, with a dollop of egg mayonnaise.
The smoked salmon is always on sourdough, accented
by butter, black pepper, and a squeeze of lemon. His
tuna is mixed with shallots, chives, and crme fraiche
mayo.
Desserts at the Palm Court range from fruit tarts to
chocolate delice to a mango-topped sponge cake and
a thick buttery fruitcake.
Chef Williams favorite teas are Darjeeling rst ush,
picked from the tiniest, most tender leaves, Earl Gray
infused with bergamot, an infusion of Lemon Verbena,
fresh mint tea, and South African Rooibos.
It is denitely PC to follow the lead of afternoon tea
experts for the party were about to orchestrate. Weve
offered slight variations to some of the petit layered
sandwiches, but feel free to be creative and create your
own favorites.
THE TEA
Tea connoisseurs describe its subtleties as they would
a prized glass of wine. The well-dressed tea table offers
guests several varieties of tea.
Darjeeling tea is considered the Champagne of
teas and is described with the same reverence as a ne
bottle of wine. It is considered a lighter afternoon tea,
but the taste varies depending on the time of year the
leaves are harvested.
Lapsang Souchong or Tarry Souchong is a smoked
tea with the heady aroma of an oak fire. Delicious
alone or with milk and honey.
Lemon Verbena is a smooth, citrus-favored herbal
tea.
Moroccan Mint is made by taking fresh leaves and
branches of mint and infusing them with hot water
and a little sugar or honey.
Rooibos tea from South Africa is ruby red, smooth,
and comforting. Delicious with lemon or milk and
honey.
White Peony Tea is delicate, refned and flled with
healthful anti-oxidants. White tea is the new green.
Chai is basically black tea brewed with selected
spices and milk.
BUYING TEA
Try to nd small-farm teas that are hand-picked and
not machine-processed. Buying tea in bulk rather than
in a package usually yields fresher, higher quality tea.
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BREWING THE PERFECT POT OF TEA
1. Choose a good teapot clay, porcelain, or silver.
Fill pot with hot water to warm it, and then discard the
water.
2. Start with great-tasting cold water, such as spring
or ltered. Do not overboil this depletes the oxygen
and tea will taste at.
3. Add one heaping teaspoon of loose tea per six-
ounce cup. For stronger tea add one extra teaspoon
for the pot. Brewing teas loose rather than in a tea ball
or, heaven forbid, a bag, allows the leaves to open fully
and release their avor.
4. For black tea, as soon as water comes to rolling
boil, turn off heat, wait 10 seconds, and then pour into
the teapot. Stir the tea; cover and let it steep for three
to five minutes. When brewing red, white, or green
teas, or fresh mint tea, water should be well below
boiling. Steep for ve to eight minutes.
6. Until you are familiar with a particular tea, take
a sip after a few minutes. Pay attention to taste rather
than color. When you like the avor, place a ne strain-
er over a cup and pour your tea through it. You should
have a perfect cup of tea.
THE TEA SANDWICH
Some hints from a party planner extraordinaire in
Effortless Entertaining with Colin Cowie:
Tea sandwiches are diminutive and delicate. It takes
only one or two bites to nish one, so each piece must
be avorful and distinctive.
The bread should be very thin. You can ask your
bakery to cut it horizontally instead of vertically or buy
a loaf of unsliced bread and slice it yourself. Or you can
use a rolling pin to atten it.
For most of the sandwiches you can use a spread
made of equal parts of softened butter and cream
cheese, white pepper, and a dash of Tabasco.
THE TABLE
Since most afternoon tea parties are not sit-down
affairs but encourage guests to mingle and graze, the
tables should not only be gracious and inviting but
carefully organized. Amid the lovely linens and sump-
tuous spring flowers, create a tea area with all the
accoutrements, a sandwich section with accompany-
ing napkins and plates, and a tray of desserts. There
are lovely three-tiered platters available that are per-
fect for a tea party.
Guests pick up a lightweight plate that they will ll
with bite-size sandwiches and sweets. Utensils are not
usually offered, as guests will be walking around nib-
bling from their petit plate of treasures and taking a sip
of tea.
In my grandmothers china closet, I found kidney-
ers tiding themselves over until their late supper, or
less affluent citizens who grab a hearty savory late
in the day and forget dinner altogether, the popular
tradition of mid-afternoon tea was inaugurated in the
mid-19th century.
As the story goes, when the duchess of Bedford
served tea and breadstuffs to her friends at 4 p.m.
because everyone was hungry and couldnt wait until
dinner, they enjoyed it so much it became a national
ritual so delightful it turned into a party.
Today, afternoon tea is so popular that the Ritz
Londons Palm Court has a three-to-six-month waiting
list, according to Executive Chef John Williams. There
are ve seatings, but his most popular is at 3 p.m. The
master chef is a traditionalist for his afternoon tea
menu and the elegant sandwiches have few, but very
specic, ingredients.
Cucumber sandwiches are a must, but served only
with cream cheese and chives. Mustard cress is the star
of its own sandwich, with a dollop of egg mayonnaise.
The smoked salmon is always on sourdough, accented
by butter, black pepper, and a squeeze of lemon. His
tuna is mixed with shallots, chives, and crme fraiche
mayo.
Desserts at the Palm Court range from fruit tarts to
chocolate delice to a mango-topped sponge cake and
a thick buttery fruitcake.
Chef Williams favorite teas are Darjeeling rst ush,
picked from the tiniest, most tender leaves, Earl Gray
infused with bergamot, an infusion of Lemon Verbena,
fresh mint tea, and South African Rooibos.
It is denitely PC to follow the lead of afternoon tea
experts for the party were about to orchestrate. Weve
offered slight variations to some of the petit layered
sandwiches, but feel free to be creative and create your
own favorites.
THE TEA
Tea connoisseurs describe its subtleties as they would
a prized glass of wine. The well-dressed tea table offers
guests several varieties of tea.
Darjeeling tea is considered the Champagne of
teas and is described with the same reverence as a ne
bottle of wine. It is considered a lighter afternoon tea,
but the taste varies depending on the time of year the
leaves are harvested.
Lapsang Souchong or Tarry Souchong is a smoked
tea with the heady aroma of an oak fire. Delicious
alone or with milk and honey.
Lemon Verbena is a smooth, citrus-favored herbal
tea.
Moroccan Mint is made by taking fresh leaves and
branches of mint and infusing them with hot water
and a little sugar or honey.
Rooibos tea from South Africa is ruby red, smooth,
and comforting. Delicious with lemon or milk and
honey.
White Peony Tea is delicate, refned and flled with
healthful anti-oxidants. White tea is the new green.
Chai is basically black tea brewed with selected
spices and milk.
BUYING TEA
Try to nd small-farm teas that are hand-picked and
not machine-processed. Buying tea in bulk rather than
in a package usually yields fresher, higher quality tea.
shaped Depression glass plates with an indentation
for the tea cups. These are perfect for a garden party,
as everything can be placed on one plate. Since tea
parties are becoming a popular way of entertaining,
expect some resourceful manufacturer to bring them
back.
If youre not lucky enough to have a set in the family
or to nd them at a nearby antique store, select dishes,
cups, and glasses that are lightweight and lend them-
selves to being carried around.
Dress the table with a variety of linens and laces,
flowers, and your most beautiful silver, crystal, and
china.
Its a lovely touch to offer sherry, port or Champagne
with the tea. I could also suggest a small pot of coffee
but that would be missing the point entirely.
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I
n The Pocket Idiots Guide to Choos-
ing a Caterer (Penguin), authors
Phyllis Cambria and Patty Sachs
provide recipes for success. Here are
some pointers culled from the book:
Attend other parties and speak to
the hosts afterward. Did all go as they
planned? Were they completely happy
with their caterer? How did you find
the caterer at that event? Were you
impressed? Your rabbi will also be able
to advise you about a number of cater-
ers.
Questions to ask prospective cater-
ers include: How long have you been
in business? What is your specialty?
Can you accommodate menu adjust-
ments for special dietary requirements,
themed menus, or family recipes? What
types of food and beverages can you
provide on my budget?
Do you cook from scratch or do you
prepare dishes elsewhere and bring
them in? Do you use fresh or frozen
food? How is the food transported? How
soon before the event will the food be
delivered?
What is the minimum amount of
guests you will work with and when do I
have to give you a nal head count?
May I have contact information for
your last six clients and also customers
who had a similar event to mine in the
last year?
Included in the book are:
expert tips on negotiating a good
deal for your catered event;
tasteful advice on planning a menu
your guests will love;
helpful tips on how to get your
moneys worth;
Information about guarantees,
refunds, and gratuities;
and straightforward advice on
everything from checking references to
signing the catering contract and han-
dling legal and insurance issues.
Youll read that Success Starts with
the Right Ingredients and All About
Food and Drinks, as well as Finding
a Caterer with references, Getting Up
Close and Personal with the Caterer,
and Meeting the Whole Team.
The authors say that there are two
times you will want to see your pro-
posed caterer in action. One is just
before an event. The other is when the
party is in progress. You will want to
meet every key person, do a thorough
kitchen inspection for hygiene and
potential safety issues, and attend a
pre-event wait-staff meeting to evaluate
your catering managers performance.
Dressed properly, in order to appraise
their performance, you will also want to
stop in to an event where the group is
working.
Youll learn about party themes, add-
ing your personal touches, and equip-
ment. In selecting the perfect menu,
you will want to pass your guests needs
on to the caterer.
Evaluating proposals and discuss-
ing costs and contracts are an impor-
tant part of your affair, and this book
will help you every step of the way. An
important addition to the rest of your
plans, it is available in your local book-
store or online at www.idiotsguides.
com.
Choosing a caterer
M
ost children only know of knights and
princesses through stories. Adults experi-
ence action by sitting on the couch watch-
ing Game of Thrones or Vikings. Using your
imagination is encouraged but why not give your mind
a little food for thought to help it grow. Medieval Times
Dinner and Tournament in Lyndhurst, N.J., gives you
the opportunity to take a journey to the middle ages.
Surrender to an age of bravery and honor and wit-
ness epic battles of steel and steed. From ringside
seats, discover a feast of the eyes and appetite with
more action, more fun, and more excitement than ever
before! As you witness live jousting tournaments and
marvel at awe-inspiring horsemanship and falconry,
Medieval Times serves a four-course meal t for roy-
alty.
In this mystical place, little girls become princesses
and children can get knighted by the king himself!
Adults can enjoy an entertaining night out with friends
and family. Souvenirs are in abundance and a bar is
available for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks
and slushies.
Time to party! Have a birthday, special occasion,
corporate event, school trip or just a friendly group
outing? Medieval Times is still the perfect place for
you! Special pricing for groups of 15 or more is offered.
Upgrade packages that include special seating, pho-
tos with the king or princess, banners, programs, and
behind-the-scene DVDs are available as well. Need a
place for a business or personal party? Ask about our
venue rental. Renting a castle? How cool is that!
For those who keep kosher, there are two options.
One kosher meal is already included in the ticket price.
This consists of a chicken leg with gravy, roasted pota-
toes, and green beans almondine for your meal and
Italian ice for dessert. A more extensive meal can be
requested, and Medieval Times will bring it in from
The Kosher Experience in Teaneck. It consists of toma-
to bisque soup, garlic bread, oven-roasted chicken,
herb-basted potato, spare rib, fresh fruit or lemon ice.
This meal is glatt kosher and is under the supervi-
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Kosher meals available for joust watchers
sion of the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County. Two
rounds of Pepsi, iced tea, or water as well as coffee or
tea will be served during the show with either kosher
meal option.
Both kosher meals must be ordered ahead of time
so please make sure to mention which one youd like
when you make your reservation.
Fun for the family? Sure! But its also a fantastic
place to gather with a group of friends to let loose for
an adventurous time! A little competition goes a long
way. Wear your color crown proudly and cheer on your
knight as he shows his skill and heads into battle! Take
a deep breath, dont blink because the show is about to
begin. For more details or to make your reservation go
to medievaltimes.com or call 1-888-WE-JOUST (935-
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took control of it from Syria in 1967, says licensed tour
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Often when I take repeat visitors there, they expect
to go swimming, which you could do in the 1970s and
1980s, says Even-Chen, who has been to Banias (also
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30-foot Banias Waterfall (Mapal in Hebrew), the lon-
gest such cascade in Israel. The Hermon Stream meets
the Dan River farther along, and together they feed the
Jordan River.
In ancient times, the spring gushed from a cave in
the limestone bedrock down into the valley and into
the Hula marshes. You can still see the cave, though
the water in modern times seeps from the bedrock
below it.
The site was originally named Panias after the
Greek god Pan. There are remains of a temple, court-
yards, a grotto and niches for rituals dedicated to the
worship of Pan, dating to the beginning of the Com-
mon Era.
Since there is no p sound in Arabic and the region
was long under Syrian rule, the village that grew up
around the spring came to be called Banias.
The time period most famous here is the Roman
one, because it was the most prosperous, Even-Chen
says. On the site was a very large complex of build-
ings focused on the worship of the god Pan of the wild.
From the god Pan, we get the word panic, referring to
something popping up in the wild.
THE NATURE SIDE OF THE RESERVE
You can enter Banias from two separate locations,
each with its own ticket booth and each popular for
different groups.
If the waterfall is your main destination, Even-Chen
suggests entering the reserve from Kiryat Shmona on
the west side, known as the Falls entrance.
There are multiple trails through the entire park,
and the shortest takes 10 or 15 minutes in each direc-
tion, leading to the impressive waterfall, he says. Its
owing all year round, but there is more water in the
winter since its fed from snow melting on Mount Her-
mon.
A few years ago, the Israeli Nature and Parks Author-
ity built a suspended circular walkway across the
gorge. Youre walking on the vertical cliff halfway from
the top of the cliff and riverbed, and its really cool,
says Even-Chen. That has opened a view of the Banias
that was never visible before.
The walkway takes just over an hour to complete. I
highly recommended it for families, but you cant take
a stroller so put your toddler in a back carrier, he rec-
ommends.
Another trail runs along the riverbed from one side
of the park to the other. Youll need two cars to accom-
plish this hike unless you want to walk two hours back
to the parking lot where you started.
En route to the waterfall, you get to see but not
wade into concrete pools built in the river by Syrian
ofcers in the 1960s, says Even-Chen. The river at
that point is fed by natural springs whose temperature
is warmer than the frigid waters of the river bed, and it
was a great place to swim.
A BIT OF CHRISTIAN HISTORY
Interested in the religious and historic side of Banias?
Travel half a kilometer down the road to the opposite
side of the highway to the Springs entrance. If you
have a ticket from the Falls side, present it here.
The Springs side has ruins from the Roman period,
when the village was called Caesarea Philippi after
King Herods son Philip, who inherited the area and
made it his capital. The palace of Agrippa the Second,
grandson of Herod, is among the relics.
According to the Gospels, it was in the Banias
that the disciple Simon informed Jesus that people
believed Jesus to be the messiah. In response, Jesus
renamed Simon Peter, which means rock in Greek
the rock upon which his church would be founded.
For Christians, especially Catholics, Peter was the
rst pope, so for pilgrims the site helps them under-
stand the environment in which this pivotal scene
takes place, says Even-Chen.
Caesarea Philippi remained important during the
Christian Byzantine period. It was later conquered by
the Muslims and then the Crusaders, then went back
under Islamic rule and fell from its heyday.
The Nimrod Fortress National Park is nearby, dating
to the time of the Crusades. The fortress was actually
built by the Crusaders Islamic enemies. You can buy
a combination ticket for the Banias and Nimrod For-
tress.
The importance of the area is that its a major route
between Damascus and the Lebanese coast, so if you
control that area it gives you the high ground, Even-
Chen explains.
Also within a short distance is the Tel Dan Nature
Reserve. Here there is a family-friendly wading pool.
Even-Chen recommends stopping for Druze pita
bread made alongside the road on either side of the
Banias, drizzled with honey or labane. And for adven-
turous travelers, the Hermon area offers ski slopes in
season plus opportunities for off-road jeeping and
rappelling.
The Banias is open from 8-5 Sunday to Thursday
and Saturday (till 4 on Fridays and holiday eves) from
April to September. From October to March, its open
from 8-4 (till 3 on Fridays and holiday eves). Visitors
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ANTHONY WEISS
LOS ANGELES According to Jewish tradition, the
Torah is so sacred that even a single error made on
a single letter renders the entire scroll unfit for use.
And yet the Hebrew Bible including the Torah,
its first five books is riddled with corruptions and
alterations that have accrued and been passed down
over the millennia.
Now an international team of scholars is working
to fix all that.
For the past 14 years, the team behind The
Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition has been laboring
on a project to sift through the text and reverse the
accumulated imperfections and changes, returning
the books of the Hebrew Bible to something like their
original versions. The first volume is due out later this
year.
It is a little chutzpadik, acknowledged Ronald
Hendel, HBCEs general editor and a professor of
Hebrew Bible at the University of California, Berkeley.
Its also a messy, painstaking, and controversial
endeavor that has been criticized by some of the
worlds leading biblical scholars. The critics argue
that what Dr. Hendel and his team are attempting
to do is misleading, counterproductive, or flat-out
impossible.
I think it will actually end up causing more prob-
lems, said Michael Segal, a senior lecturer in Bible at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The difficulties in the project stem from the Bibles
long history of transmission from scribe to scribe
through the centuries. HBCE is trying to reverse engi-
neer that process, to sift through the various extant
texts of the Bible, and by analyzing grammatical
glitches, stylistic hitches, and contradictions of the
texts establish a reading that if not original is at
least closer to the archetype on which later copies
were based.
The goal is to rewind the clock as far as possi-
ble toward the time when the various biblical texts
attained their canonical form, around the start of
Chasing air?
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from the Second Rabbinic Bible, a text assembled in
16th-century Venice. The Jewish Publication Society
uses the Leningrad Codex, which, at approximately
1,000 years old, is the oldest complete surviving text.
Still others use the 10th-century Aleppo Codex, which
the Torah scholar Maimonides praised for its accu-
racy but has been missing much of the Torah since
a 1947 fire.
Contemporary scholars seeking to understand the
history of the Hebrew Bibles text use a range of other
sources, including ancient Greek and Syriac transla-
tions, quotations from rabbinic manuscripts, the
Samaritan Pentateuch, and others. Many of these are
older than the Masoretic text and often contradict it,
in ways small and large.
Some of the errors are natural outgrowths of the
process of scribal transmission essentially typos
in which the scribe mistook one letter for another,
skipped a word, or transposed words. In other cases,
the scribes may have changed the text intentionally
to make it more comprehensible or pious.
The level of variation differs from book to book.
Dr. Hendel estimates that it ranges from approxi-
mately 5 percent in Genesis to about 20 to 30 per-
cent in books such as Samuel and Jeremiah.
While many changes are small, others are more
substantial.
Just before Cain slays Abel, the Masoretic text
announces that Cain speaks but offers no dia-
logue. Both the Samaritan Pentateuch and the
ancient Greek translation called the Septuagint sup-
ply the missing speech: Let us go out to the field.
In this instance, emending the text is relatively
straightforward.
But elsewhere the task becomes complicated. The
book of Jeremiah in the Septuagint is approximately
15 to 20 percent shorter than the version in the Maso-
retic text, and the text appears in a different order.
In this case, editors are dealing not just with glitches
but with entirely different versions of the same text.
The scholars behind The Hebrew Bible: A Criti-
cal Edition argue that textual scholars now have
enough evidence at their disposal to make reason-
able judgments about where the text has been cor-
rupted, why it happened, and how to fix it, thanks
in large part to the discovery and publication of the
Dead Sea Scrolls.
These ancient manuscripts, though largely frag-
mentary, are by far the oldest Hebrew copies of the
Bible, and they gave scholars a key by which to judge
the accuracy of the subsequent texts.
The Dead Sea Scrolls have created a new era in
the study of textual history of the Hebrew Bible,
Dr. Hendel said. The kind of thing that were doing
couldnt have been done even 15 to 20 years ago,
because the field wasnt really ripe.
Dr. Hendels team uses a twofold approach: In the
case of the more limited variations, they make the
correction in the text according to their best judg-
ment, while noting the variants and the reasoning
in the accompanying notes. Where entirely sepa-
rate versions seem to exist, as in Jeremiah, HBCE
will reproduce both side by side, indicating many
editions.
The effort now is bearing fruit. The Society of Bib-
lical Literature is preparing to publish the first HBCE
volume, Proverbs, this fall. It is edited by Michael
Fox, an emeritus professor at the University of Wis-
consin-Madison. Dr. Hendel hopes the project will
continue to print a new volume every year or two.
(Up until a few months ago, the project was slated
for printing by Oxford University Press and was
known as the Oxford Hebrew Bible. Dr. Hendel said
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of an electronic edition. Oxford did not return a call
seeking comment.)
There have been various earlier attempts to pro-
duce a single, corrected text of the Bible, dating
back for over a century. All have foundered due to
the inherent difficulty in peering back through the
centuries.
Instead, the preferred method has been to pro-
duce what is known in the field as a diplomatic
edition that is, a reprint of some version of the
Masoretic text, accompanied by notes listing possi-
ble variants and corrections that could be made to
the text.
In fact, there are two such scholarly biblical proj-
ects now going on.
One, the Hebrew University Bible Project, was
established in 1956 to assemble every known textual
variant of the Hebrew Bible. Unlike HBCE, the proj-
ect is designed to assemble variations, not to choose
one that is correct. Massively comprehensive and
aimed largely at high-level scholars, the HUBP has
published only three volumes in its more than half-
century of existence Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
A fourth, of the 12 minor prophets, is slated for pub-
lication this fall.
At the same time, the German Bible Society is pro-
ducing the Biblia Hebraica Quinta, its fifth version of
a diplomatic Hebrew Bible; the first was published in
1906. Intended as a more accessible, single-volume
text, it strikes a middle ground, indicating preferred
readings but not altering the text itself. The project
has published 10 of the Hebrew Bibles 24 books.
Criticisms of the HCBE effort fall into two very
broad categories.
The first main critique is primarily practical: Is it
in fact possible to reconstruct the biblical text accu-
rately after so many centuries, through so many lin-
guistic layers, and with so much uncertainty?
The more years Ive been involved in the study
of the history of the biblical text, the less confident
I am in deciding what is more original or not, said
the Hebrew Universitys Dr. Segal, the Hebrew Uni-
versity Bible Projects general editor.
In response, the editors of HBCE say that errors
and uncertainty are inherent in any of the biblical
texts, and thus unavoidable.
Everyone knows that no manuscript is without
error, said Eugene Ulrich, a professor at Notre Dame
University and a co-editor of two volumes of HBCE.
You could ask, why do you want to print a text in
which you know there are errors?
But there is also a second, more fundamental cri-
tique of HBCE can such a thing as an original truly
be said to exist? Was there ever a moment when the
biblical text crystallized into a single version, or has
it simply continued to evolve?
In other words, by chasing what the field of tex-
tual study calls an ur-text, the scholars of HBCE
may be chasing a ghost. Critics of HBCE argue
that in creating a single text, the series will create
the fiction of unity where there always has been
multiplicity.
Dr. Hendel argues that what he and his team are
presenting is not meant to be a definitive text but
simply the most definitive that can be achieved. And
he says he is not put off by the criticism.
Theres a lot of pushback in the field. A lot of peo-
ple think that this is still premature, or just unthink-
able, Dr. Hendel said. But thats OK. I live in Califor-
nia. We can do new things.
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University of New Mexico grad
students rescind divestment
measure
The University of New Mexico Graduate and Profes-
sional Student Association rescinded an Israel divest-
ment resolution that it had passed last month.
The initial vote on the measure on April 28 had
taken place without the knowledge or presence of any
members of the UNM pro-Israel community, accord-
ing to the Israel education organization StandWithUs.
Members of the student group Lobos for Israel and
UNMs Hillel affiliate worked to bring about the rever-
sal of the decision. In early April, an Israel divestment
resolution was defeated in a 12-7 vote in UNMs under-
graduate student government.
UNMs chapter of the anti-Israel group Students for
Justice in Palestine vowed in a Facebook post that it
would make sure to continue our divestment initia-
tive in the coming semester. JNS.ORG
EU urges peace talks restart
The European Union urged Israelis and Palestinians to
restart peace talks.
The EU urges the parties to use the coming weeks
to find the common ground and political strength
needed to resume this process and to make the nec-
essary bold decisions, said an EU statement issued
Monday at a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels.
The EU also warned Israel about construction in the
West Bank.
The EU calls on all sides to exercise maximum
restraint and to avoid any unilateral action which may
further undermine peace efforts and the viability of
a two-state-solution, such as continued settlement
expansion, the statement said.
On the unity talks between Fatah and Hamas, the
EU welcomed reconciliation between the two Pales-
tinian factions, saying it has consistently supported
intra-Palestinian reconciliation on clear and certain
terms. JNS.ORG
Iran boasts of victory
in Syrian civil war
Senior Iranian officials are claiming that Iran and Syr-
ian President Bashar al-Assad have defeated the U.S.-
led campaign to topple the Syrian dictator.
We have won in Syria, Alaeddin Borujerdi, chair-
man of the Iranian parliaments national security and
foreign policy committee, told The Guardian. The
regime will stay. The Americans have lost it.
At least 150,000 people have been killed during
Syrias three-year-old civil war, which has become
increasingly sectarian, with an opposition becoming
dominated by al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist groups.
On the other side, Iran and its proxy Hezbollah have
provided fighters, supplies, and political cover to the
Assad regime.
Another senior Iranian officialgovernment strate-
gist and adviser Amir Mohebbiantold The Guardian,
We won the game in Syria easily. The U.S. does not
understand Syria. The Americans wanted to replace
Assad, but what was the alternative? All they have
done is encourage radical groups and made the bor-
ders less safe. JNS.ORG
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percussion program by Musical IQ at the Alpine
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All families welcome!
For more info, call Jessica at 201.408.1426.
Sun, May 18, 1-3 pm, Free
Kabbalat Shabbat
SHABBAT DINNER AND SONGS
Join us for this community Shabbat dinner
Israeli style with our Shlicha, Gili Grady.
Enjoy Kiddush, Shabbat songs, childrens
activities, light dairy dinner and more.
Presented by the Israel Center.
Reservations required by May 23.
For more info, call Gili at 201.408.1428.
Fri, May 30, 5:30 pm, $20/$25 for parents
with one child ($10 for additional child)
Free Caregiver Support Groups
The Alzheimers Associations support groups provide an
opportunity for caregivers, families and friends to learn more
about Alzheimers disease, share their feelings and concerns,
and support each other in coping with the efects of the
disease. For more info, contact Judi Davidsohn Nahary at
201.408.1450
Groups meet monthly: 2nd Mondays, 7 pm,
2nd Tuesdays, 10:30 am, and/or 4th Thursdays 11 am
FAMILIES
Join us to dispel myths about what constitutes sound
nutrition with our panel of medical and nutritional
experts at our latest health symposium, You Are
What You Eat: Dietary Trends, Intolerances, and
More! Moderated by Carol Rubin, MS, RDN, our three
panelists include: Elena Ferran, MD, gastroenterologist
at NYU Langone Medical Center; Stephanie Middleberg,
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WITH HOWARD STOFFER
Hear how the unraveling of neighboring
countries surrounding Israel has created a
fundamental dilemma that is being debated in
national security circles in Israel and elsewhere.
Dr. Stofer is a professor and senior advisor to
the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task
Force in the UN. Sponsored by the Edwin S.
Soforenko Foundation and the Berit and Martin
Bernstein Open Forum Endowment Fund.
Mon, Jun 2, 7:30 pm, $3/$5
Looking over the past year, we have a lot to celebrate.
Please join us as we share the State of the Center at
our Annual Meeting.
EVENING CHAIRPERSON Steve Rogers
VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD
presented to The Danzger Family
CHAIRPERSON OF THE YEAR AWARD
presented to Lisa Beth Meisel
STAFF RECOGNITION AWARD
presented to Steven Lebson, Printshop Associate
Tuesday, May 20, 7:45 pm
Annual Meeting
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Flashback 1954
Sixty years ago, the Jewish Standard was
published at Journal Square in Jersey
City. Israel was celebrating its sixth
birthday (see the editorial at left) and
the proposed introduction of a beginners
Hebrew course in Jersey Citys high
schools was a very big deal.
Jewish World
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Former PM Ehud Olmert
sentenced for bribery
conviction
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, convicted
in March of having received bribes to facilitate the con-
struction of the Holyland housing project in Jerusalem
a decade ago, was sentenced Tuesday to six years in
prison.
Tel Aviv District Court Judge David Rozen attrib-
uted Olmerts conviction to moral turpitude, and also
ordered him to pay a $290,000 fine.
According to Israeli law, a public official convicted
of a criminal offense to which moral turpitude has
been attributed is barred from civil service for seven
years, regardless of the length of his sentence. Ehud
Olmert has gone from holding the highest and most
respected position in Israel to that of a felon, one
who has been convicted of severe and contemptible
offenses, Rozen said.
JNS.ORG
Pope Franciss Western
Wall visit reworked to
accommodate Jewish prayers
A compromise on the timing of Pope Franciss planned
visit to the Western Wall on May 26 appears to have
been reached. The pope was originally scheduled to
visit the holy site at 8 a.m. on a Monday. But contro-
versy arose when some Jewish officials said the early
visit would disturb Jews during their morning prayers.
A senior Western Wall official had told Israel Hayom
that sunrise prayers, which have been held for the past
four decades, could not be canceled for the popes
scheduled visit. The official also noted that around
100 families had already registered to hold bar mitz-
vah ceremonies on the morning of the popes visit,
and that 50 more were expected to do so.
Recent discussions between Israeli officials and the
Vaticans ambassador to Israel resulted in a proposal
to delay the pontiff s visit by an hour and close off
the Western Wall plaza only after the Jewish morn-
ing prayers are concluded. According to the proposal,
prayers will continue inside the hall throughout the
event. Bar mitzvah ceremonies scheduled for that
morning will take place after the pope leaves the site.
JNS.ORG
Fake Holocaust memoirs
author ordered to pay
publisher $22.5 million
The author of a Holocaust memoir now proven to be
faked was ordered to pay back $22.5 million to the
publisher from whom she had won a judgment.
Twenty years ago, Misha Defonseca wrote Misha:
A Mmoire of the Holocaust Years, which detailed
how her parents were deported by Nazis when she
was 6 years old, as well as her subsequent journey
across Belgium, Germany, and Poland to find them.
The book described how she survived by clinging to a
pack of wolves.
In 1998, Defonseca and her ghostwriter won $32.4
million in a lawsuit against U.S. publisher Mt. Ivy
Press, which allegedly hid profits from book sales. Subse-
quently, as part of the appeal of that verdict, documents
were discovered revealing that during the time Defonseca
claimed to be living with wolves, she was actually enrolled
in a Brussels school in 1943, reported Courthouse News.
Moreover, Defonsecas original name was Monique De Wael,
and she is not Jewish. The author, who now lives in Massa-
chusetts, eventually admitted her story was fabricated.
Judge Marc Kantrowitz ruled April 29 that Defonseca must
pay back her publisher for the money she was awarded in
the 1998 lawsuit.
JNS.ORG
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NOMINEES FOR ELECTION AS OFFICERS FOR ONE (1) YEAR TERM
PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENTS SECRETARY
Dr. Zvi S. Marans Stephanie Goldman-Pittel, Campaign Daniel M. Shlufman, Esq.
Roberta Abrams Paer, Planning & Allocations
Fred Fish, Treasurer
Lee Lasher, At Large
NOTICE
ANNUAL MEETING OF JEWISH FEDERATION
Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.
at Yeshivat Noam
NOMINEES FOR ELECTION AS TRUSTEES FOR TWO (2) YEAR
Other members may be nominated for election as Trustees by the ling of a petition in the ofce of
the Chief Executive Ofcer and Executive Vice President within fteen (15) days after such notice.
Each petition shall be signed by not fewer than twenty-ve (25) members who will be qualied to
vote at the Annual Meeting.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT, pursuant to Article II, Section 2 of the By-Laws of the
above named Corporation, the Annual Meeting of its members will be held on Thursday, June
19, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at Yeshivat Noam, 70 West Century Road, Paramus, NJ 07652.
Date: May 16, 2014 Jason M. Shames, Chief Executive Ofcer
and Executive Vice President
Jewish Federation
Dana Adler
Lauri Bader
Leo Gans
Gayle Gerstein
Sarita Gross
Daniel Herz
Harry Immerman
Nathan Lindenbaum
Mark Metzger
David Nanus
David Opper
Susan Penn
Will Rukin
Daniel Silna
Louise Tuchman
Benay Taub
Larry Weiss
Tracy Zur
ASST. SECRETARY
Jason M. Shames
INCOMING
PRESIDENT
Jayne Petak
IMMEDIATE
PAST PRESIDENT
David J. Goodman
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n 1 To commemorate Israels 66th
year of independence on May 6,
students at Academies at Gerrard
Berman Day School reenacted the
1948 proceedings that established
a Jewish state in Israel. Students
read Ben Gurions words, lowered
the English flag, and raised the Is-
raeli flag. The celebration included
singing, dancing, cake-decorating,
jewelry-making, drawing, and
falafel sandwiches. COURTESY GBDS
n 2 Members of the Jewish Com-
munity Center of Paramus/Congre-
gation Beth Tikvah stand in front of
Kehila Kedosha Janina, a Lower East
Side synagogue built in 1926 by Jews
of Greek descent and still in active
use. The group was in Manhattan
on a walking trip. SANDRA ALPERN
n 3 Yehuda Avner, adviser to four
former Israeli prime ministers (Levi
Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yizhak Rabin, Me-
nachem Begin) and best-selling au-
thor of The Prime Ministers, was at
the Moriah School on May 2. He spoke
to the seventh and eighth grades and
spent time with his great-grandchil-
dren, who are Moriah students. School
principal Dr. Elliot Prager is pictured
with the group. COURTESY MORIAH
n 4 In celebration of Israel, children
of Gan Rina left for a two-week
pretend trip to Israel. They are pic-
tured getting their passports and
tickets ready to board the plane
to Israel. Afterward, they watched
a flight clip from Shalom Sesame
1 2
3 4 5
6 7
and had a special snack as they
flew to Israel. COURTESY GAN RINA
n 5 Junior high students at Ben
Porat Yosef participated in a
school-sponsored, community-wide
Yom Hazikaron commemoration
(memorial ceremony for Israeli
soldiers and victims of terror) on
May 4. Students reading stories
and poems included Odelia Fried,
left, and Julia Kohen. COURTESY BPY
n 6 More than 1,100 people attend-
ed the Jewish Community Council
of Teanecks 28th annual Holocaust
commemoration at Teaneck High
School. Rabbi John Krug, direc-
tor of student life and welfare at
the Frisch School, shown at left,
and Arlene Duker read Those We
Have Lost, names of community
members relatives who died during
the Holocaust. Six families, repre-
senting three and four generations,
including Holocaust survivors, lit
candles. The Yavneh Academy
Choir, under the direction of Marsha
Greenberg Motzen, sang songs of
the Shoah, and there was a display
of childrens Holocaust-themed
artwork, which now is on display at
the Teaneck Library. PHOTO PROVIDED
n 7 Students at Yeshivat HeAtid
in Bergenfield celebrated Yom
Haatzmaut with dancing, a con-
cert, and Israel-centered activi-
ties. COURTESY YESHIVAT HEATID
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Thin for real: Small actions
equals big inspiration
SUSAN L. HOLMBERG
If you have ever successfully lost weight, then
you have likely experienced that initial momen-
tum, that glorious feeling of catching the wave
and having it carry you effortlessly right up onto
the sand. Youre absolutely bulletproof... for a
while.
While that momentum might have felt like
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management?
Was I listening to a health related book on CD
in my car (there are tons free from the library)
to remind myself of the why? Left to my own
devices, I still want to believe that those nutri-
tion people are being awfully goody two-shoesy.
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prepping all my veggies for the week?
I had always had it backwards, thinking I had
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Consumer report gives
Holy Name top scores for safety
Out of 76 New Jersey hospitals rated for
safety by Consumer Reports in its 2014
hospital safety score program, Holy
Name Medical Center came in at Num-
ber 4 overall, the only hospital in Ber-
gen County to make it into the top five.
The ratings were derived from scien-
tifically based data about patient expe-
rience and outcomes, specifically:
mortality, readmission, scanning,
infections, and communication.
This report affirms Holy Names
commitment to providing the high-
est standard of patient care by foster-
ing a culture of safety and quality,
said Michael Maron, president and
CEO of Holy Name Medical Center.
We credit our outstanding medical,
nursing, technical and administra-
tive staff for meeting and exceeding
expectations.
Holy Name Medical Center was
also honored with an A grade from
The Leapfrog Group in its hospital
safety score, which rates how well
hospitals protect patients from acci-
dents, errors, injuries, and infec-
tions. The hospital safety score is
compiled under the guidance of
the nations leading experts on
patient safety and is administered
by Leapfrog.
AMA honors Dr. Samuel Cassell
Dr. Samuel Cassell will receive the
2013 Jack B. McConnell MD Award for
excellence in volunteerism from the
American Medical Association. The
reward recognizes Dr. Cassells out-
standing accomplishments as founder
of the Bergen Volunteer Medical Initia-
tive. The BVMI Healthcare Center in
Hackensack, which opened in 2009,
provides free medical care to work-
ing, low-income, uninsured residents
of Bergen County. More than 1,000
patients receive care from 65 volunteer
physicians, nurses, and other health-
care practitioners in nearly 6,000 med-
ical visits each year.
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FACT:
More than 1 million cases of
skin cancer will be diagnosed in
the United States this year
When it comes to melanoma, early detection is essential. Fortunately, melanoma
is nearly always curable if detected at an early, and therefore treatable, stage.
MoleSafe is a state-of-the-art procedure involving the digital imaging,
archiving and diagnosis of moles and other suspicious lesions. By monitoring
and comparing images over time, MoleSafe is able to detect lesions at an
earlier stage that are new, have changed, and/or become suspicious.
While the screening requires an initial payment of $425, it could be the most
important investment you ever make. Leave nothing to chance by scheduling
your appointment for a MoleSafe screening through The Valley Hospital.
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Help your
allergies
with honey
RACHEL MILLER
April showers bring May flowers... what do May flow-
ers bring?
Seasonal allergies!
Those of you who suffer from the itchy, scratchy,
watery, runny, sneezy, wheezy annoyances of spring-
time allergies may be able to find some relief in an
unlikely place.
Just a spoonful of honey helps the medicine go
down, sang Mary Poppins. In this case, the honey itself
is the medicine. Raw organic local honey has been
known to relieve seasonal allergy symptoms.
Heres why: Raw honey is full of natural antioxi-
dants, enzymes, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals,
including iron, zinc, potassium, phosphorus, magne-
sium, and selenium. It also contains bee pollen, which
has been known to ward off infections, allergies, and
boost immunity.
If you suffer from seasonal allergies, here is some
food for thought. The bees in our area are going from
flower to flower collecting the pollen that you are
allergic to and suffering from. It would make sense
then that eating some raw organic local honey would
build up your immunity towards the pollen, in turn
reducing or eliminating your symptoms.
Use throughout the spring months and start again as
early as next November.
Health benefits of raw honey include:
Eliminates allergies
Anti-inflammatory
Strengthens the immune system
Anti-fungal
Anti-bacterial
Improves bronchitis and asthma
Please beware: Not all honey is created equal. Brands
in the cute little bear squeeze bottle and that look clear
and golden in jars are nothing more than liquid sugar
highly heated, chemically refined, ultra filtered, and
devoid of any nutrients. If you want to experience
the extraordinary benefits of honey only select raw
organic local honey.
This may not be safe for you if you have allergies to
honey and/or bees; please discuss this with your allergist/
doctor.
Rachel Miller, NASM, Certified Personal Trainer, is holistic
health, wellness, and nutrition coach at The Gym of
Englewood. (201) 567-9399. www.gettotheym.com
Free health screenings at
Englewood Hospital
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center is offering a
free health fair for seniors, in partnership with the Ber-
gen Family Center. The event will be held at the hospi-
tal on Friday, May 30, between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00
p.m. and will include free health screenings, wellness
information, vendor demonstrations, complimentary
lunch and more. Parking is free. Englewood residents
only. No registration required.
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Shloimis Story
Solomon Spierers memoir
chronicles experiences around the world
Holocaust survivor Solo-
mon Spierer speaks six lan-
guages and has lived in five
countries, having endured
the travails of World War
II as a youth in Poland.
The resident of the Lester
Senior Housing Commu-
nity in Whippany looks
back on his life as one of
determination and tenac-
ity characteristics that
ferried him from Poland to
Siberia to Germany and Austria and finally
to America. He has written Shloimis
Life Story which chronicles his personal
events from his birth in 1923 to 1949, when
he came to the United States to start his
new life. He plans to self-publish the book.
Spierers family endured upheaval and
tragedy in the years leading up to and
throughout World War II. His father, identi-
fied as a bourgeoisie Zionist, was jailed by
the Russians in 1938 and the family never
saw him again. Spierer, his mother and sis-
ter were deported to a Siberian work camp
for the duration of the war.
I spent six years cutting lumber by hand
and later studied automobile engineering
in Russia, which was helpful to me when I
came to the States, said Spierer. After the
war he planned to return to his town in
Poland which by then was in Ukraine; he
and his family went instead to the German
town of Shtetin, which the Poles had taken
during the war.
With Eastern Europes shifting borders
and wartime occupations, residents com-
monly spoke several languages, of their
countries, homes, and of local commerce.
Spierer was no exception. By the end of the
war, he spoke fluent Polish, Yiddish, Ger-
man, Hebrew, and Russian and a smatter-
ing of Ukrainian.
Polish was our native language, and
my mother spoke German which we used
in the home; the school my father sent us
to taught entirely in Hebrew; and because
we were in an area that bordered and later
became part of Ukraine, Ukrainian was
commonly used in local stores, including
the one my parents had owned, Spierer
explained. I learned Russian during the
occupation as well.
The Post-War Years
In Germany, he tried to get a job as an auto
mechanic but was turned away because he
was Jewish. Unable to enter then-Palestine
or the United States where relatives were
living, the Spierers went to Austria. The
job he found there was perverse, given his
background.
I was hired to dismantle an oven that
had been used in a concentration camp
to burn Jews, and rebuild it for a bread
bakery, he explained.
Immediately after the
war, the family was sep-
arated and lived in dif-
ferent displaced persons
camps. They eventually
reunited and made plans
to leave Europe. Spierers
aunt and uncle in Amer-
ica eventually responded
to letters and with jobs
for Jews scarce in Europe,
Spierer came to the States
alone in 1949.
The new immigrant spoke no English
but his multi-lingual and mechanical abili-
ties served him well in Americas melting
pot. An ad in a German newspaper from
a Dutch company about a mechanics job
caught his eye. He interviewed for the posi-
tion in German and got the job, until the
employer discovered his Jewish heritage.
He eventually found employment at a Jew-
ish-owned gas station and his professional
life in America was started.
Many car repairs later, Spierer bought his
own gas station and mechanic shop which
he sold after two years. He married and
bought a Hallmark card store out in Stony
Brook, Long Island, where he and his wife
Rosalie raised their family. I wanted some-
thing I could develop for myself, without
the smell and grime of the car grease, he
noted. Because his parents had owned a
store in Poland, Spierer understood the
basics of retail and how to deal with cus-
tomers, and enjoyed success as a merchant.
Eventually the long hours of the retail
business wore on him, and the Spierers
retired to Florida for 20 years. With their
family up here, however, they moved to
the Lester Senior Housing Community in
November 2013 to be near their sons and
grandchildren, who live in West Orange.
The senior living community is one of four
that are owned and managed by the Jewish
Community Housing Corporation of Metro-
politan New Jersey.
Today, Spierer enjoys the communi-
tys discussion groups and he and Rosalie
attend the movies there. He works on his
computer, the one on which he wrote his
memoir, and they both enjoy computer
games. His wife has found a companion to
play Scrabble with and Spierer added that,
Right now Im looking for a good poker
game.
is located at 903-905 Route 10 East on the
Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Commu-
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a range of living options, upscale ameni-
ties, and social, educational, and cultural
programs for seniors in a traditional Jewish
environment. For more information call
(973) 929-2725 or visit www.jchcorp.org.
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detection with MoleSafe
May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month
The Valley Hospital has launched a new
initiative to improve its melanoma and
skin cancer preventative care services
through MoleSafe, an advanced mela-
noma detection and surveillance pro-
gram, at its Blumenthal Cancer Center
in Paramus. Valley is the first hospital in
Bergen County to offer MoleSafes state-
of-the-art, comprehensive program.
and May 5 has specifically been desig-
nated as Melanoma Monday to raise
awareness of melanoma and other types
of skin cancer, and to encourage early
detection.
We recognize the critical importance
that preventive care and early detection
programs play in the health and wellbe-
ing of our community, said Dr. Iris Kopel-
off, M.D., co-director of The Valley Hos-
pitals Melanoma and Skin Cancer Center.
Incorporating the MoleSafe program
into our melanoma care services enables
us to provide patients with a compre-
hensive detection and surveillance pro-
gram to ensure their skin health. It is
our hope that the MoleSafe program will
provide another option for early detec-
tion for patients and at-risk community
members.
The statistics are alarming. According to
the American Academy of Dermatology:
On average, one American dies from
melanoma every hour.
In 2014, it is estimated that 9,710 deaths
will be attributed to melanoma.
Melanoma is the most common cancer
for young adults 25 to 29 years old and
the second most common form of cancer
for adolescents and young adults 15-29
years old.
The good news: When caught early,
skin cancer including melanoma is
highly treatable.
MoleSafes program incorporates a
suite of advanced melanoma detection
and diagnosis tools and technology,
including total body photography, digital
dermoscopy, and digital serial monitor-
ing. Part of a worldwide network of more
than 40 melanoma centers that was devel-
oped by MoleMap in New Zealand and
Australia, the countries with the highest
incidences of melanoma, MoleSafes U.S.
locations include New Jersey, New York,
Georgia, North Carolina, and New Mexico.
Skin cancer continues to become
increasingly pervasive in the U.S., with
New Jersey ranking in the top ten states
with the highest numbers of new mela-
noma cases, making it imperative that
individuals take precaution in their skin
health and physicians provide patients
with the most comprehensive detection
programs available, said Dr. Richard
Bezozo, president of MoleSafe. Incor-
porating the MoleSafe program into Val-
leys melanoma care continuum will sig-
nificantly increase the numbers of lives
saved through early detection and will
decrease the number of unnecessary
biopsies, leading to an overall increase
in patient satisfaction and health and
wellness throughout the community that
Valley serves.
The MoleSafe procedure represents a
new standard of care and is part of a life-
long program for the early detection of
melanoma. Its key elements include:
Risk Assessment: Using its database,
MoleSafe has developed a risk assessment
model that can help identify patients who
may be at higher risk of melanoma.
Total-Body Photography: The use of
total-body photography creates a baseline
of the patients skin and therefore helps
the MoleSafe specialists to identify both
new and changing lesions that might indi-
cate melanoma skin cancer.
Serial Digital Dermoscopy: Individual
moles are imaged using dermoscopy, a
technique that combines high magnifica-
tion and high light intensity, allowing doc-
tors to see below the skin surface, provid-
ing them with more information than the
naked eye to determine if skin lesions are
benign or malignant. Moles are tagged to
their location on the body for subsequent
diagnosis, identification, and comparison
over time.
Diagnosis and Management: The
patients complete skin record, including
digital images and clinical information,
is sent via a secure tele-dermatology net-
work to MoleSafes panel of world-class
melanoma dermatologists for analysis
and reporting. Patients and their desig-
nated doctors receive their reports and
their digital melanogram.
Education and Follow-up: The MoleSafe
melanographer, a trained nurse, educates
patients about the risks of sun exposure,
and helps generate a continuing partner-
ship between MoleSafe, the patient, and
his/her doctor.
To book an appointment or for more
information on MoleSafe, please visit
www.molesafe.com or call (201) 634-
5706. The cost varies depending on what
procedure you have. When you call, a
customer service representative will talk
you through the options. They can also
explain what insurance options may be
available to you.
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The Valley Hospital
offers advanced melanoma
detection with MoleSafe
individuals take precaution in their skin
health and physicians provide patients
with the most comprehensive detection
programs available, said Dr. Richard
Bezozo, president of MoleSafe. Incor-
porating the MoleSafe program into Val-
leys melanoma care continuum will sig-
nificantly increase the numbers of lives
saved through early detection and will
decrease the number of unnecessary
biopsies, leading to an overall increase
in patient satisfaction and health and
wellness throughout the community that
Valley serves.
The MoleSafe procedure represents a
new standard of care and is part of a life-
long program for the early detection of
melanoma. Its key elements include:
Risk Assessment: Using its database,
MoleSafe has developed a risk assessment
model that can help identify patients who
may be at higher risk of melanoma.
Total-Body Photography: The use of
total-body photography creates a baseline
of the patients skin and therefore helps
the MoleSafe specialists to identify both
new and changing lesions that might indi-
cate melanoma skin cancer.
Serial Digital Dermoscopy: Individual
moles are imaged using dermoscopy, a
technique that combines high magnifica-
tion and high light intensity, allowing doc-
tors to see below the skin surface, provid-
ing them with more information than the
naked eye to determine if skin lesions are
benign or malignant. Moles are tagged to
their location on the body for subsequent
diagnosis, identification, and comparison
over time.
Diagnosis and Management: The
patients complete skin record, including
digital images and clinical information,
is sent via a secure tele-dermatology net-
work to MoleSafes panel of world-class
melanoma dermatologists for analysis
and reporting. Patients and their desig-
nated doctors receive their reports and
their digital melanogram.
Education and Follow-up: The MoleSafe
melanographer, a trained nurse, educates
patients about the risks of sun exposure,
and helps generate a continuing partner-
ship between MoleSafe, the patient, and
his/her doctor.
To book an appointment or for more
information on MoleSafe, please visit
www.molesafe.com or call (201) 634-
5706. The cost varies depending on what
procedure you have. When you call, a
customer service representative will talk
you through the options. They can also
explain what insurance options may be
available to you.
JCC offering Four session
seminar to assist senior
caregivers
The JCCs family caregiving training seminar will take
place on four Mondays in June, beginning June 2 at 7
p.m.
This four-session course has been specifically
designed to prepare individuals facing their new role
as caregiver for a loved one. Participants will acquire
essential information on day-to-day strategies and
skills, as well as how to properly plan for the future.
This workshop will feature:
How to recognize early warning signs of Alzheim-
ers and dementia
How to identify and understand behavioral
changes caused by Alzheimers disease and other
dementias, as well as techniques that are helpful in
dealing with them
How to monitor health issues speciically related
to these conditions
How to create a personal caregiving plan
Opportunities to participate in activities designed
to provide caregivers with a firsthand understanding
of what it feels like to suffer from these diseases
Presentations from Eldercare law experts, who will
advise participants about proper legal and financial
planning and more.
Cost is $80 for JCC members and $100 for non-
members. Register online or contact Judi Nahary at
(201) 408-1450 or Marlene Ceragno at (201) 569-7900,
ext. 439 for more info.
Englewood Hospital
celebrates volunteer week
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center recently
observed Volunteer Week, celebrating the more than
600 volunteers who contributed 72,000 hours of ser-
vice in 2013. The Medical Center showed its appre-
ciation for their selfless dedication, compassion, and
hard work during a special awards ceremony and
luncheon.
Eight junior volunteers were selected to receive
scholarships in recognition of their service, which
often took place weekdays after class, during desig-
nated school breaks, and on weekends. The recipients
are seniors in high school and contributed a combined
total of 4,327 volunteer hours to the Medical Center.
Junior volunteers at Enghlewood Hospital: Me-
gan Donnelly; Heba Arshad; Radhika Malhotra;
JM Bryan Claveria; Vindra Marsoubian, program
coordinator; Kimberly Gonzalez; Rae-Ann Steele;
SuWan Kim.
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The senior care tidal wave
RICHARD PORTUGAL
There is a tidal wave that is just starting to crash upon
the shores of the United States it is the Baby Boom-
ers, those born during WWII and the decade following.
This is one of the largest birth groups in U.S. history
and this population is rapidly approaching seniority.
The demand for medical, social, and generational care
will quickly diminish the available tax base dollars and
cause a financial hardship that will erode our shores for
decades to come.
Are there ways to soften the effects of this economic
tsunami? Yes by reducing the need for social and med-
ical dollars to care for individual senior citizens. How?
By encouraging seniors to remain independent both
physically and financially!
Half the seniors in nursing homes are residents not due
to medical problems, but rather because they are frail.
Seniors need to maintain their strength, balance, endur-
ance, and flexibility to remain independent and perform
activities of daily living. Senior communities, including
nursing homes and assisted living residences, cost on
average between $70,000 and $100,000 a year. Whether
covered by Medicare or personal financial resources, the
economics of senior care is escalating while senior health
is declining. Every year a senior citizen remains indepen-
dent will enable them to remain financially solvent and fill
their remaining years with purpose and fulfillment. The
less time spent in hospitals and senior care facilities and
the more time spent on preventive health care translates
to a more efficient use of available medical moneys.
Cardiac, pulmonary, and respiratory medical issues
require medical intervention and diseases such as
diabetes, Parkinsons, MS, heart attacks, cancers
and strokes demand medical attention. But undeter-
mined muscular atrophy and problems with balance,
strength, and cognitive fitness can be successfully
attended to by the individual. Seniors need not accept
muscle weakness and problems with walking, balance,
sitting and rising, or overall stability with a finality and
malaise.
We have the bodies of hunters. Our muscular system
wants to be robust and flexible. With use through exer-
cise, our bodies will become stronger and more agile.
We were made to run long distances, be flexible, and
exhibit strength both aerobically and anaerobically. To
remain independent, do not be reactive, but be pro-
active. Muscles want to be exercised and will react to
programmed stress and proper training. At any age,
you can become stronger and more self-reliant. As it
is written, use it or lose it!
To perform activities of daily living with ease and con-
fidence, we all must strive to remain strong and resilient.
In so doing, you can help make the financial tidal wave of
senior care more like a gentle ripple upon the shore.
Richard Portugal is the founder and owner of Fitness
Senior Style, which exercises seniors for balance,
strength, and cognitive fitness in their own homes. He
has been certified as a senior trainer by the American
Senior Fitness Association. For further information,
call (201) 937-4722.
Here comes the sun
DR. MARCY GOLDSTEIN
We are finally out of winter. Off come the heavy coats,
socks, hats, scarves, and jackets. Here comes short
sleeves and sandals!
With the great relief of shedding clothing for summer
comes the responsibility for taking care of your skin.
Naturally, feeling the warmth of the sun on arms, legs,
and face is delightful. However, it is important to protect
yourself and your kids against the suns harmful rays
I am often asked by my patients, What is the best
regimen to take care of my skin? There are numerous
products on the market and it can be overwhelming
viewing the many bottles and tubes adorning drugstore
shelves. The first thing I tell my patients is to wear sun-
screen. There are many moisturizers and cosmetics on
the market and one should choose a product with sun-
screen as an ingredient for daily use.
What type of sunscreen should you use? Brand names
do not mean much to me. The important protection
you should look for is broadspectrum, which means
the sunscreen protects against UVB and UVA rays and
helps prevent skin cancer and sunburn. People often
ask about SPF, which stands for Sun Protection Factor. If
you check bottles you can find numbers as low as 4 and
as high as 100. SPF 15 is the FDAs minimum requirement
for protection against skin cancer and sunburn, how-
ever dermatologists recommend choosing a sunscreen
with an SPF of at least 30 that is water resistant.
What about those higher SPFs? Studies have shown
that once the numbers go above SPF 30, there is not a
huge gain in actual sun protection. In my opinion there
is no reason to spend the extra money for SPF 70.
Water resistance is an important factor to look for
when choosing a sunscreen, especially for outdoor pool
and beach use. Ideally a sunscreen should be water
resistant up to 40 or 80 minutes, which means the sun-
screen provides protection while swimming or sweating
up to the time listed on the label. Sunscreen manufac-
turers are now banned from claiming that a sunscreen
is waterproof or sweat proof, as the FDA has deter-
mined that those terms are misleading.
Dont forget to re-apply sunscreen after water expo-
sure. This is where many people are not consistent with
sunscreen use. It is often difficult to remember while
you are having a fun beach day to continue to apply, but
you will be grateful that you did.
Dont be a hermit this summer. Get out and enjoy! But
make sure the largest organ of your body is well protected.
For more information, contact Dr. Marcy Goldstein at
21st Century Dermatology, 1 W. Ridgewood Ave, Suite
305, Paramus. (201) 445-8786.
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Haiti responsible for providing care to
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staff on missions there during the past two
decades. After the region was ravaged by the
2010 earthquake, Hpital Sacr Coeur was
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mayor at groundbreaking ceremony
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dignitaries, including State Senator Gerald Cardinale;
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company, and we are pleased to have them serve the
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Brightview is about the people, noted Sherry Zim-
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friends, associates everyone at the community. Its pal-
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Behukotai: All or nothing?
This weeks reading from
the Torah, Parashat Behuko-
tai, is the final reading from
the book of Leviticus. It con-
tains an interesting tension.
In Leviticus 26:3, the open-
ing verse of our parashah,
we read, If you will follow
My decrees and observe My
commandments and per-
form them. The text con-
tinues to explain numerous
ways in which the people
will be blessed including
nourishing rains, peace in
the land, and sufficient food.
For the time being, all seems
well and good.
However, just a few verses later the text
knocks the wind right out of us. In Leviticus
26:14 we read, But if you will not listen
to Me and will not perform all of these
commandments. This parashah is one of
two places in the Torah (the other being Ki
Tavo in Deuteronomy) where the Israelites
are given tochecha a very strong rebuke,
an admonition of the terrible things
that will befall them if they fail to live in
accordance with Jewish law.
For failing to live within the
boundaries established by
the commandments, the
people learn that they will be
subjugated by their enemies,
punished mercilessly, and
find their cities ravaged and
in ruins.
Ther e i s a s t r i ki ng
discrepancy between these
two verses, a division that
hinges upon the word all.
If a person should follow the
decrees and commandments
and perform them, they will
be blessed. However, if a
person will not listen and will not perform
all of these commandments, then they will
be surely cursed. So, which one is it? Does
God simply want us to follow the decrees
and commandments, or does God want us
to perform all of these commandments
and is taking scrupulous notes when we
transgress? Is Jewish tradition so black-
and-white as to suggest an all-or-nothing
approach to Jewish life?
The 13th century text Sefer Ha-Chinuch,
a work that provides an analysis of the 613
commandments according to the order
of the weekly parashiot, offers us some
additional perspective. Nestled within
the fifty-three commandments found
in Parashat Mishpatim (Exodus 21-24) is
the commandment to celebrate on the
pilgrimage festivals of Pesach, Shavuot,
and Sukkot. The author writes:
Even if [a person should] have a vile,
offensive occupation... they cleanse their
bodies and their clothing, and go up
into the presence of the Eternal Lord (be
He blessed), and they are as acceptable
before God as the other Israelites. For the
foulness of spirit is what makes human
beings abhorrent before the omnipresent
God, and not the occupation, as long as
they work at it in honesty.
This text presents a gentle, supportive,
and l ovi ng approach wi th regards
to observance of a particular Jewish
practice. Would that it were this easy in
our contemporary world. Instead, we see
a tendency to impose additional strictures
on ourselves and upon others, to try to
enforce systems that are black-and-white,
inflexible, rigid, and uncompromising.
Many of us live colorful lives and
we exist somewhere on the spectrum
in the gray matter the area between
black-and-white. All-or-nothing doctrine
simply doesnt speak to us. More than
asking, Does God want us to follow all
the commandments? there are many
of us who need to hear the voice that
asks, Have you tried your best? Have
you conducted yourself honestly in the
presence of others and in My presence?
The idea that simply by bathing,
wearing fresh clothing, and making
the effort to undertake and participate
in a lengthy journey (in the case of this
mitzvah of pilgrimage to Jerusalem),
each of us could be regarded as equal to
one another in the sight of God, and all
the more so, equal in one anothers eyes
too, would bring refreshing change to the
way of the religious world and perhaps
to the world in general. Our challenge
is to focus on the bigger picture, rather
than sweating the small stuff and trying
to achieve all of Jewish tradition.
Simply beginning the journey of Jewish
observance is enough challenge for a
lifetime. And if we could begin or engage
in this journey by seeing one another as
equals, equals who are striving, trying
to do our very best, and living honestly,
rather than acting with foulness of spirit
and engaging in judgment, our world
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Crossword BY DAVID BENKOF
Across
1. Obad. alternative
6. ___ of David
10. Shwarma-like Greek dish
14. Miss America Bess Myerson wore one
15. Kosher Twizzlers product
16. Concern for Bank Hapoalim
17. Camp David Accords participant
19. Seder plate features
20. Violator of the Eighth Commandment
21. Redefining Judaism in ___ of
Emancipation (2006 history book)
22. How people act in an empty sukkah
26. Beauty Refaeli
28. David Lee Roth album ___ Em and
Smile
29. Like the animal whose Hebrew name is
Dov
30. First word of a famous Chanukah song
31. Loc. of the Garment District
32. Former Chief Rabbi Lord Dr. Jonathan
33. Tu BShvat month in 2014, 2016, and
2018
35. Tsar ethnicity
36. Paul Simons St. Judys ___
37. Cultural Zionist Ahad ___
40. Another name for Kabbalist Rabbi
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
42. Move like a co-worker of Elaines on a
Seinfeld episode
43. ___ Moines Jewish Academy
45. ___, O Lord God! Behold, I know not
to speak for I am a youth (Jerem. 1:6)
46. Kibbutz pioneer Shochat and others
47. Specialist who studied at Einstein medi-
cal school
48. Something to atone for
49. Her Kabbalah name is Esther
50. Spitz and Cuban
52. Break for 11-Down?
54. Cape Town-born Israeli diplomat
55. Leading Kabbalist also known as the
Ari
60. Rashis
61. Kaiser, for example
62. Garcetti and Cantor
63. The Chicken ___ (Toronto kosher res-
taurant)
64. Jewish parenting guide The Blessing of
a Skinned ___
65. Oys
Down
1. The Jewish AP
2. Famous article of Freuds?
3. Warren Zevons Rub Me ___
4. Golden Age of Spain or Second Temple
period
5. Buber and Landau
6. Like Eves tempter
7. Israel Abramofskys monoprint At Low
___
8. Torah commentator from Portugal
9. Its similar to lamed-mem-nun
10. David Mamets Glengarry ___ Ross
11. Israeli archaeologist who was also a
politician
12. Matisyahu combines it with Jewish
themes
13. Geneses
18. Cheap El Al fare, perhaps
21. Left-of-center pro-Israel grp.
22. Former Wisconsin Sen. Feingold
23. ___ Torah (Talmud, etc.)
24. U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor
under Teddy Roosevelt
25. Chicago Judge Abner who is close with
Barack Obama
27. Summer month for Camille Pissarro
30. Last of the Red Hot ___ (Sophie
Tucker)
33. Shes the first brand ambassador for
SodaStream
34. Record label for Bette Midler
36. 251 to Josephus
38. Little Shop of Horrors composer
Menken
39. Masada is a famous one
41. The M in Einsteins E=MC squared
42. Blazing ___ (Mel Brooks film)
43. Use a word like shiksa
44. What an eruv does for carrying on
Shabbat
46. Cohn or Chagall
49. Jerusalem suburb ___ Adumim
51. Make a kippah, perhaps
53. ___ Barns (Manchester village with a
sizable Jewish population)
55. Nudge
56. Geller who can bend spoons with his
mind
57. Rube Goldberg contraption, for example
58. ___ libe dich (I love you in Yiddish)
59. Balaams was famous
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The Substance of Fire revival lacks spark
MIRIAM RINN
I
thought that if I published
Hazlitt and Svevo, Id be
spared, says Isaac Geld-
hart, the patriarch pub-
lisher in the disappointing revival of The
Substance of Fire, now at the Second
Stage Theatre.
A hidden-child survivor of the Holo-
caust, who spent the war in a basement
reading, Isaac has built a publishing house
in New York devoted to serious works by
serious writers, hoping that timeless art
would provide a bulwark against the hor-
ror of the world. And for a while it does
Isaac is a successful, sophisticated mem-
ber of the New York literati, with a charm-
ing wife and a glamorous social life, a
razor-sharp wit and custom-made shoes.
When the play opens, however, the
world has turned on Isaac. It is the late
1980s, and his reined tastes have brought
the Geldhart publishing house to the brink
of collapse. His M.B.A. son Aaron (Carter
Hudson) wants to change course radically
and publish commercial iction rather
than a six-volume set on Nazi medical
experiments. Aaron has a Japanese com-
pany ready to invest, but to wrest con-
trol of the company from his imperious,
scornful father, Aaron has to convince his
brother, Martin (Daniel Eric Gold), and
his sister, Sarah (Halley Feiffer), to release
their shares in the company to him.
The irst act takes place in the irms
book-lined boardroom, where the father
and children struggle for control not only
of the business but also of their emotional
ties to one another. As each member of the
family invites another to share a meal and
is refused, it is clear that those ties already
are broken. Martin, a landscape archi-
tect, accuses Isaac of creating a family of
literary zombies. Books have ruined them,
he says, as he confesses that he has built
shelves all over his house for the 14,386
volumes his mother left him. No sex, no
people, just books till I die. Isaac has sub-
stituted books for feelings, for honesty, for
human connection, and his children can-
not forgive him for it.
Originally staged in 1991, The Sub-
stance of Fire marked the start of an
illustrious career for playwright Jon Robin
Baitz. He was only in his late twenties at
the time, and the plays brilliant dialogue
much of it searingly funny and its enthu-
siastic engagement with real ideas about
the role and value of art and literature
and family dynamics made it stand out
during that theater season. Mr. Baitz has
fulilled that early promise and gone on to
write Other Desert Cities, the 2012 inal-
ist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well
as other plays, and to create the television
series Brothers and Sisters.
To watch the current production,
directed by Trip Cullman, is to consider
how fortunate Mr. Baitz was with his origi-
nal cast. John Noble, who was so lovable
as Dr. Walter Bishop in the science-iction
series Fringe, is miscast as Isaac Geld-
hart. Unlike Ron Rifkin in the original pro-
duction, Mr. Noble is neither scathing nor
charming enough to make it clear why
Isaacs children are so desperate for his
approval and so furious at his emotional
remove. And, to be blunt, he is not Jewish
enough. Mr. Rifkin captured those strange
qualities of moral superiority and furious
condescension that some Holocaust sur-
vivors wear like a cloak of entitlement.
Although Mr. Noble is much better in the
second act, where Isaac reveals his vul-
nerabilities, there is not enough contrast
to the overbearing bully of the irst act.
His delivery of Isaacs zingers is not sharp
enough to elicit the shocked laughter they
deserve, so Isaacs involuntary giving way
in the second act is not as mournful.
Mr. Baitzs play has structural prob-
lems, without doubt. The second act
takes place several years later and is set in
Isaacs apartment. His son Martin appears
briefly, but the other two siblings are gone.
A new character is introduced, a social
worker come to decide on Isaacs com-
petence. Charlayne Woodard is effective
as the social worker Marge Hackett, who
it turns out met Isaac during better days,
years ago. But it is easy to imagine that you
suddenly are at a different play. Still, with
skilled actors and good direction, The
Substance of Fire is riveting theater.
The production at Second Stage is some-
what less than that, but every now and
then, the words shine through.
Above, Charlayne Woodard and John Noble;
below, Mr. Noble, Halley Feiffer, Daniel Eric
Gold, and Carter Hudson. PHOTOS BY CAROL ROSEGG
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Friday
MAY 16
Shabbat in Wayne:
Temple Beth Tikvah
offers tot Shabbat for
children up to 8 and their
families, with stories,
songs, parades, and
prayers, 7:15 p.m. Bring
candlesticks; candles
will be provided. Snacks
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Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth holds a
musical Shabbat service
with Rabbi Steven Sirbu,
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and
the Temple Emeth band,
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
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Saturday
MAY 17
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
offers its monthly family
Shabbat, with a focus
on Lag Bomer; separate
groups for different ages,
10:30 a.m. Informal lunch.
53 Palisade Ave. (201)
265-2272 or www.bisrael.
com.
Sunday
MAY 18
Play group in Oakland:
Shalom Baby of Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey offers a
Lag Bomer celebration
with a pretend bonfire,
outdoor games (weather
permitting), songs,
crafts, and snacks for
moms and dads of
newborns through 3
year olds, to connect
with each other and
the Jewish community,
at Gerrard Berman
Solomon Schechter of
North Jersey, 9:30 a.m.
Administered by JFNNJs
Synagogue Leadership
Initiative. 45 Spruce St.
(201) 820-3917, or www.
jfnnj.org/shalombaby.
Turbulent teens: The
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly
offers Transitioning
the Turbulent Teens,
a seminar for parents
of children in seventh-
through ninth grades, 10
a.m. Panelists include Erin
Guberman, Talia Filippelli,
Abbie Rabin, and Cory
Chargo. Discussion will
focus on the emotional
and academic challenges
children will face during
this important, exciting,
potentially difficult life
transition. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 569-7900.
Lag Bomer in Tenafly:
Lubavitch on the
Palisades and Kehillat
Kesher Community
Synagogue celebrate
with March as One, a
parade of pride and
unity through Tenafly,
10:30 a.m. Afterward,
there will be a barbecue,
bonfire, rides, live music
from noon to 2 p.m.,
childrens entertainment,
and a carnival. Food,
drinks, tickets for ride
for sale. Special discount
for those who sign up
for Camp Gan Israel
that day. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org.
Lag Bomer in
Washington Township:
PJ Library and the
Bergen County YJCC
invite families to a
family field day and
barbecue for 2-to
6-year-olds and their
families, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Carnival games, sports,
face painting and PJ
Library story time.
Partially funded through
a grant from the Jewish
New Jersey. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610 or
pjlibrary@yjcc.org.
Music in Tenafly: In
celebration of Israel,
Cantor Nitza Shamah
leads Our Bible in
Songs, exploring the
songs of Israeli musician
Naomi Shemer to show
how she connected the
ordinary with the festive,
and the past with the
present, at Temple Sinai
of Bergen County, 11 a.m.
1 Engle St. (201) 568-
3075.
Lag Bomer in Wayne:
Congregation Shomrei
Torah, has a picnic-style
dairy lunch, rock climbing
wall, inflatables, relay
races, and games, 11 a.m.
30 Hinchman Ave. (973)
696-2500.
Lag Bomer in
Ridgewood: Temple
Israel celebrates
in a grand carnival
atmosphere beginning at
11:30 a.m., with activities
in the parking lot for
all ages, including a
barbecue and bounce
house. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or
office@synagogue.org.
Lag Bomer in New City:
The Young Members
Association (YMA) at the
New City Jewish Center
celebrates Lag Bomer
outside with a family fun
day with games and a
barbecue, 12:15 p.m. 47
Old Schoolhouse Road.
(845) 638-9600 or www.
newcityjc.org.
Lag Bomer in Wayne:
Chabad of Passaic
County offers a family
fun day with inflatables,
jousting, face painting,
temporary tattoos, game
truck, and barbecue,
12:45 p.m. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Military bridge in
New City: The West
Clarkstown Jewish
Center offers a military
bridge game, 2 p.m.
Prizes and refreshments.
195 West Clarkstown
Road. (845) 352-0017.
Film in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah screens
Gentlemans
Agreement starring
Gregory Peck, 3 p.m. Deli
supper. $10 per person;
reservations required for
food. East 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691.
Neil Berg
Performer/composer
in Oakland: Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey presents Neil
Bergs Night of Broadway
Stars, an Encore
Performance, at Indian
Hills High School, 7 p.m.
Doors open at 6:15.
Berg and company will
recreate great moments
from the finest shows
featuring Broadway
stars. Dessert reception
follows. 97 Yawpo Ave.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org. Tickets
are on sale at JFSNJs
Wayne office at 1 Pike
Drive or the Fair Lawn
office at 17-10 River
Road, as well as onsite
performance night. All
proceeds benefit JFSNJ.
Monday
MAY 19
Hadassah meets
to discuss notable
women: Dumont
historian Dick Burnon
gives a video/lecture on
Women Who Mattered
at a meeting of the
Fair Lawn chapter of
Hadassah, at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel,
8 p.m. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 791-0327 or e-mail
vardagrinspan@yahoo.
com.
Tuesday
MAY 20
Jane Brody
GRADA
NCJW meets in
Teaneck: Jane E. Brody,
the personal health
columnist for the New
York Times, speaks at the
general meeting of the
Bergen County section
of the National Council of
Jewish Women at Temple
Emeth, 12:30 p.m. 1666
Windsor Road. (201) 385-
4847 or www.ncjwbcs.
org.
Wednesday
MAY 21
History of anti-
Semitism: Rabbi Dr.
Jacob Reiner is the guest
lecturer for lunch and
learn at Young Israel of
Fort Lee, noon. Rabbi
Reiner, a professor
of Jewish history at
Yeshiva University, rabbi
emeritus at Congregation
Ohab Zedek in Belle
Harbor, N.Y., and a
YIFL congregant,
discusses The Historical
Dimensions of Anti-
Semitism. 1610 Parker
Ave. (201) 592-1518 or
yiftlee.org
Thursday
MAY 22
Poker/dinner/
entertainment in
Demarest: Jewish
New Jersey holds the
Federation Full House
Holocaust exhibit opening: The
Museum of Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the Holocaust
welcomes the Knickerbocker
Chamber Orchestra for a powerful musical event
Pices de Rsistance: Music Celebrating the
Polish Spirit, on Sunday, May 18, at 2:30 p.m.
Inspired by the museums new exhibit, A Town
Known As Auschwitz: The Life and Death of a
Jewish Community, which opened on May 16.
Concert conducted by Gary S. Fagin featuring
violinist Shir Victoria Levy. 36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.
MAY.
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Marta Swiderska, left, and Olga
Pressler, 1934, from the collec-
tion of the Auschwitz Jewish
Center, part of the museums
new exhibit.
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at the Alpine Country
Club, 6:30-11:30 p.m. It
includes Vegas-style
Texas Hold Em poker
tournament, dinner and
cocktails all dietary
laws strictly observed
Scotch and stogies,
live and silent auctions,
and entertainment. 80
Anderson Ave. Andy,
(201) 820-3955 or
andyl@jfnnj.org.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
Jewish life cycle: Rabbi
Debra Orenstein of
Congregation Bnai Israel
in Emerson discusses
New Perspectives on
the Jewish Lifecycle:
Spirituality, Gender and
What Our Lives Are
Really Like for Pascack
Valley/Northern Valley
chapter of Hadassah,
at the Bergen County
YJCC. Refreshments,
7:30 p.m.; program at 8.
605 Pascack Road. (201)
573-8351.
Friday
MAY 23
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.
Saturday
MAY 24
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers services at 9 a.m.;
then Rabbi Lawrence
Zierler discusses To
Serve and Protect: Stop
and Frisk Revisited and
Revised and the Role
of Law Enforcement in
Society, 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.
Sunday
MAY 25
Movie in Bayonne:
Temple Emanu-El
screens Jewtopia as
part of its spring movie
festival. Coffee, cake, and
schmooze, 9 a.m.; film
at 9:30. 735 Kennedy
Boulevard. (201) 436-
4499.
Tuesday
MAY 27
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a division
of New York Blood
Center, in the hospital
parking lot, 1-7 p.m. 718
Teaneck Road. (800)
933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
In New York
Sunday
MAY 18
Lag Bomer in
Brooklyn: The Jewish
Union Foundation,
in conjunction with
Yachad/National Jewish
Council for Disabilities,
hosts its Creative Arts
Fair, with artwork
showcasing talents
of those with special
needs, at the IVDU Girls
School, noon to 4 p.m.
The JUF is a nonprofit
organization dedicated
to strengthening the
independence of people
with developmental
disabilities. Yachad is
the flagship program of
the Orthodox Unions
National Jewish Council
for Disabilities. Artwork
will be available for sale.
There will also be live
music, dancing, and
sports tournaments. 1277
East 14th St. (212) 613-
8320 or jufjobs@ou.org.
Singles
Sunday
JUNE 8
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles 65+
meet for a social event/
bagels & lox get together,
at the JCC Rockland,
11 a.m. 450 West Nyack
Road. $8. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.
Take me out to the ball game
The youth committee of the New City Jew-
ish Center is hosting a family trip to see
the Rockland Boulders play the Quebec
Capitales on Sunday, May 25, at 2 p.m. in
Pomona, N.Y. Children will be able to run
the bases and players will sign post-game
autographs.
Tickets cost $16 and include a ticket and
voucher for a kosher hot dog and soda.
Those under three are free. To buy tickets,
go to www.rocklandboulders.com/tickets/
fundraiser or go straight to the box ofice.
Mention NCJC. The stadium is at 1 Provi-
dent Bank Park Drive in Pomona.
Jazz concert set for May 18
A jazz quartet with pianist/vocalist
Barbara Hassenfeld (also know as
Barbara Evans), flutist Steve Paley,
bassist Paul Ivory, and drummer
Barry Walter will perform at 2:30
p.m. on Sunday, May 18, at the Helen
Hayes Hospital atrium in West Haver-
straw, N.Y. The group met informally
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly more than 20 years ago.
Last month, the group performed
at Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes for a
Renaissance Music Festival, and it is going
to be at Temple Bnai Or in Morristown.
All are welcome to the performance.
JNF redesigns iconic blue box
Jewish National Fund intro-
duced its re-designed pushke,
better known as the Blue
Box, last week, highlighting
the seven program areas JNF
supports.
The box has seen many
iterations over the years. The
irst one was Theodor Herzls
hat. At the ifth Zionist Con-
gress in 1901, Herzl removed
his hat and asked delegates
for donations to buy land in
Eretz Yisrael to re-establish a
Jewish homeland. Two weeks
later, the iconic Blue Box
was born. Stamped with the
words National Fund, the small tin
boxes were distributed to Jewish com-
munities across the globe. There were
more than one million of them by the
time World War II began. Their impact
was immediate, generating vital funds
to develop and cultivate the land of
Israel.
The new box highlights JNFs work
in seven program areas in seven dif-
ferent colors: Community Building
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Ivory, and Barry Walter
Holocaust film/discussion
with rabbi in Ridgewood
The Ridgewood Public Library screens The Lady in Num-
ber 6: Music Saved My Life, this years Academy Award-
winner for best documentary short subject, on Tuesday,
May 27, at 7 p.m. Afterward, Rabbi David J. Fine, Ph.D., of
Ridgewoods Temple Israel, will lead a discussion.
The short ilm is about Alice Herz-Sommer, a 110-year
old Holocaust survivor, who died on February 23. The ilm
features interviews with Ms. Sommer, then 109 and the
worlds oldest pianist and Holocaust survivor.
Rabbi David J. Fine
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Bringing back bakashot
Young Sephardic Jews embrace old musical tradition
TALIA BLOCH
T
he group of young Jewish pro-
fessionals had gathered to par-
ticipate in the revival of a Sep-
hardic tradition hearkening
back to the days of their grandparents and
great-grandparents.
Arriving at an apartment on Manhat-
tans Upper West Side, they greeted each
other in French and settled in around a
dining table laid out with snacks and bot-
tles of arak.
They had come to listen to the chant-
ing of bakashot, a class of traditional
Sephardic liturgical poems praising and
petitioning God. Singing bakashot, which
literally means requests, once was a
common practice among Sephardic Jews
across the Middle East and North Africa,
but it has waned in many communities
over the past two generations.
Sung to classical Sephardic musical
modes, bakashot traditionally were per-
formed in synagogues during the pre-
dawn hours before Shabbat morning ser-
vices in the months between Sukkot and
Passover.
Ninety percent of the classic tunes sung
in the synagogue are based on bakashot,
said Mony Abergel, who grew up in Casa-
blanca, Morocco. Every Moroccan, even
if he does not know the bakashot, knows
the tunes.
Abergel was one of the gatherings four
singers, men in their mid-20s to early
30s from Moroccan Jewish families. They
meet every week to learn and rehearse
bakashot.
The men mainly sang in unison, occa-
sionally breaking out into solos. One of
them, the groups founder, Sacha Oua-
zana, also played a drum, called a dar-
bouka. The music was of a piece with clas-
sic Sephardic liturgical chanting, but with
a supplicatory yet insistent quality.
Most of the people at the March 29 gath-
ering were members of the West Side Sep-
hardic Synagogue. The synagogue is the
spiritual home for a growing community
of young Jews of North African heritage,
many of whom grew up in France and
have immigrated to New York over the
past decade. Mr. Ouazana, for example,
grew up outside Paris and now serves as
the synagogues cantor.
Mr. Ouazana said he began his cantorial
training when he was 5 years old, but dis-
covered bakashot only when he went to
study in the Alsatian city of Strasbourg in
his late teens. Before starting the bakashot
group in 2011, he spent 10 years gathering
and studying materials.
My goal was first to learn the bakashot
and then to perpetuate this tradition, espe-
cially in the U.S., he said.
Bakashot draw heavily on Hebrew
piyutim Jewish liturgical poems from
the Spanish Golden Age. Popular wisdom
has it that the bakashot tradition origi-
nated then, but many scholars disagree.
Ethnomusicologist and musician Sam-
uel Thomas said that the traditions real
roots lie in the kabbalism of 16th- and 17th-
century Safed in Israel. The works of the
kabbalistic poet Israel Najara, who figured
prominently during that period, also are
heavily represented among the bakashot.
It basically comes from the Lurianic
kabbalist tradition that looks to inspire a
mystical brotherhood and tries to force the
hand of God through mystical practice,
said Mr. Thomas, a scholar of Sephardic
musical traditions who composes new set-
tings for piyutim for his musical ensemble
Asefa. A major theme of the bakashot is
asking for redemption. They are indel-
ibly marked by the tragedy of the Spanish
expulsion, and by the urgency that this has
got to be the time of redemption.
The tradition spread throughout the
Sephardic world, with each community
developing its own repertoire over the
ensuing centuries. Among Syrian Jews,
for example, there is a set group of 66
bakashot that are recited completely or in
part each week. In the Moroccan tradition,
by contrast, the bakashot change from
Shabbat to Shabbat, based on the weekly
Torah portion. The communities with the
most codified traditions were in Morocco,
Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Jerusalem, Mr.
Thomas said.
On this Saturday evening, the perform-
ers sang the bakashot that in the Moroccan
tradition normally would be sung on the
Shabbat before Purim, although Purim
had been several weeks ago. The melodic
mode used for this particular group had
been heavily influenced by classical Anda-
lusian tunes, Mr. Abergel said.
Both Mr. Ouazana and Mr. Aber-
gel emphasized how hard it is to learn
bakashot.
Bakashot are very complex, and if you
dont have someone to teach you, they
are very difficult to transmit, Mr. Abergel
said.
Experts said that the difficulty of the
music is one reason why the practice of
singing bakashot has waned.
Its a tradition that really requires
devoted and dedicated people, said
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila, director of the Sep-
hardic Educational Center in Los Angeles.
Like many other aspects of Sephardic life
in the United States, a lot was lost. For a
long time the narrative was that we were
the other. So we assimilated into Ashke-
nazi Jewry or assimilated out of Judaism
altogether.
The general decline in religious obser-
vance during the 20th century and the
great disruption to Sephardic communi-
ties that was brought about when they left
homelands in which they had been rooted
for centuries also were contributing fac-
tors to the decline in the practice.
Today, in the United States, its a mat-
ter of small pockets here and there that
are bringing it back, Rabbi Bouskila said.
Its a slow surge rather than a major
revolution.
He pointed to several Sephardic syna-
gogues in Los Angeles that have occasional
performances and one that goes through
the entire traditional Moroccan cycle of
bakashot, but on Monday evenings.
Mr. Thomas, who has helped organize
bakashot classes among Brooklyns Moroc-
can Jews for the last two years, said that
there has been a resurgence in the prac-
tice of chanting bakashot in the local Syr-
ian community.
The renewed interest in bakashot can
be attributed in part to increased religious
observance, experts said, but it also takes
its impetus from two phenomena spilling
over from Israel. The first, Mr. Thomas
said, is a surge in interest in piyutim across
both secular and religious Israeli society.
The second is the tremendous reawaken-
ing of Sephardic pride and culture in Israel
that began in the 1970s and that recent
immigrants to the United States have
brought with them.
In Israel, the bakashot tradition has
experienced a much more vigorous
revival, even reaching into popular music.
We are recapturing our identity, Rabbi
Bouskila said. Bakashot is part of the
package.
Brigitte Dayan, who hosted the gather-
ing with her husband in their apartment,
called the evening incredibly moving.
What I was seeing in front of my eyes
in the modern day and in a modern way
was the perpetuation of our tradition, she
said.
It is what my husband and I want to
transmit to our children. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Joachim Nahmani, Sacha Ouazana, Haim Fedida, and Mony Abergel chant bakashot, a king of Sephardic religious poetry,
at an apartment on Manhattans Upper West Side on March 29. TALIA BLOCH
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SUSANNE
DAVIDESCU SEGAL
APRIL 12, 1933 - MAY 1, 2014
Born in Bucharest, Susanne Davidescu Segal came
to Cliside Park via Israel, Canada, California, and
Brooklyn. Lacking a high school education, she took
the GED and then completed both a bachelors and a
masters degree at John Jay College of CUNY, while
employed as a full-time bookkeeper. She was married
to her husband, Otto, who predeceased her by 13 years
or so, and together they formed a team of helpers to
their many friends as they arrived from abroad. In
addition, she was a regular, gift-laden visitor to her
sister Elana and her family in Israel. She and her sister
talked on the phone daily and she often shared with
me her concerns about her sister and her family.
We met in the swimming pool at the Palisadium
many years ago and continued our friendship even
though we could both no longer swim. She was a
voracious reader, seamstress, knitter and gourmet cook
and baker; she also crocheted and did needlepoint.
She would unhesitatingly rip out her work and
start anew, always creating a new color or pattern
combination in her own creative manner. A Holocaust
survivor, she could not bear to hear stories of that
tragedy and instead regaled her listeners with the
many tales she carried in her memory. She was keenly
aware of the severe anti-Semitism in Roumania
and declined her sisters invitation to meet her in
Bucharest when the latter visited.
Susanne was a great lady, talented and creative. She
was interested and interesting and our talks covered a
wide range of topics. She was respectful and respected
and a careful observer of life and people, information
that she sparingly shared. On her last birthday, April
12, I called, but she no longer recognized my voice.
Tinking that I was her sister, she thanked me in
Hebrew which was ne, but then she switched to
Roumanian. I couldnt get through to her because she
was already deep into the malady that took her from
us. Susanne gave me the gift of friendship; we had
long, and almost daily conversations and I will certainly
miss those. It is my hope that somewhere in the
universe Susanne knows that what Ive written is a true
description of her. May her memory be for a blessing.
Telma L. Borodkin
Cliside Park, NJ
PAID NOTICE
Marjorie Cohen
Marjorie E. Cohen of Clifton, formerly of Paterson and
Fair Lawn, died May 6.
She was a dance instructor for many years and a for-
mer member of Temple Emanuel in Paterson.
Predeceased by her husband, Monroe, and a son,
Marvin, she is survived by a daughter, Barbara A. Roth-
man of New York City.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Sanford Feingold
Sanford Feingold, 88, of Fort Lee, died May 11.
Born in Brooklyn, he was an Army veteran serving
in the last World War II battle on Okinawa. He was an
insurance agent for various companies, a founder of
Montammy Country Club, and a member of Temple
Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly.
He is survived by his wife, Audrey, ne Vogel; chil-
dren, Susan Carruthers of Brooklyn and Carolyn Lloyd
of Colorado; and three grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
David Regenbogen
David Regenbogen of Fair Lawn died May 8.
A retired chemist, he served in the U.S. Army infantry
in World War II.
He is survived by his wife, Frances; children, Dr.
Howard (Dr. Aparna Oltikar), and Patricia Rosen-
blatt (Dr. Michael); four grandchildren; and five
great-grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to Valley Hospital, Ridgewood.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah Cha-
pel, Paramus.
Herbert Schusterman
Herbert L. Schusterman of Fort Lee, 75, died April 26 at
Care One in Teaneck.
Born in Brooklyn, he served with the Army military
police in Germany and worked in sales in the marketing
department of Revlon.
Predeceased by a sister, Fran Hellerman, he is sur-
vived by his wife, Marcy, ne Katz, and a daughter, Yael
Adler (Marc) of Morristown.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Obituaries are prepared with information
provided by funeral homes. Correcting errors is
the responsibility of the funeral home.
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Eddy Taylor
Eddy Taylor, 92, of Pompton Plains, formerly of New Milford,
died May 8.
She was an interior designer in New York City and Bergen
County before retiring in 2001, and a former member of the
New Milford Jewish Center.
Predeceased by her husband, Philip, in 2002, she is
survived by her daughters Suzanne and Judy Taylor Sharpe
(Robin), and five grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the American Diabetes Asso-
ciation. Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
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HOUSES FOR SALE
Lovely Neighborhood in
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Moving to Florida
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Call for appt. 210-797-4764
CEMETERY PLOTS FOR SALE
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Beth El/Cedar Park
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Gravesites Available
$1050 ea.
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TEACHERS, Part Time
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Experienced Only!
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afternoons. fax: 973-472-7438
email : bhykop@gmail.com
YBH of Passaic seeks a
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MS Math (P/T)
Elem Genl Stud PM Positions
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ARE you elderly and need some-
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transportation. Call 908-277-3819
CERTIFIED Home Health Aide w/
over 15 years experience to care
for the elderly. Good references!
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SITUATIONS WANTED
CERTIFIED NURSES AIDE look-
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valid lics. Call Rosa 551-404-1071
CHHA - 8 yrs experience with spe-
cial care hospice/hospital/home.
Also care for elderly/loved ones.
Available days. Good references.
Own transportation. Joy 201-449-
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CHHA looking to care for the elder-
ly or sick. Experienced! Reliable!
Speaks English! Will do light
housekeeping & cooking. 973-519-
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CHHA seeks position to take care
of sick/elderly. Live-in/out. 24 hr
care. Specialize in Parkinsons,
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References available. Call 201-
749-7292
ELDERCARE, live-in, over 22 yrs
experience, excellent references.
Please call 973-930-4083
EXPERIENCED CNA/HHA seeks
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id lics. Great references. Call Joy-
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EXPERIENCED, Private CARE-
GIVER/COMPANION with excel-
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anytime. Caring, friendly, reliable;
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Airbrush event at Marcias Attic
for Kids in Englewood
Penelope Wildberrys arti st John
OLeary will be visiting Marcias Attic
for Kids from Las Vegas on Sunday and
will be airbrushing to order. Marcias
Attic will have Uggs, tees, tanks, trucker
hats, shorts and more on hand, so your
children can watch him perform his
artistic airbrush magic and then take
home one-of-a-kind clothing.
There will be prizes and giveaways.
A portion of the days sales will go to
the Jennas Rainbow Foundation. For
further information call the store at
(201) 894-5701.
The event will take place on Sunday,
May 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Marcias
Attic for Kids is located at 29 N. Dean
Street, Englewood.
Cinco de Mayo celebrated
at Heritage Pointe
Mariachi Nuevo Mexico celebrated Cinco de Mayo with residents at Heritage
Pointe of Teaneck. Pictured with the mariachi band are residents Lee Meyer and
Irwin Geller. LARRY YUDELSON
Links opens Paramus/Maywood office
Links Residential has opened a second
office, located in Paramus/Maywood.
As a technology driven agency offering
real estate sales and consulting services
throughout northern New Jersey, Links
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sellers, enabling them to achieve their
real estate goals through a seamless
relationship.
To celebrate its growth, Links Resi-
dential hosted a gala networking event,
attended by more than 300 colleagues,
clients, and friends on Thursday, May
1. The new office is at 946 Spring Valley
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420 Euclid Ave, Loch Arbour, NJ
$979,000
www.coldwellbankermoves.com
1122 3rd Avenue
Spring Lake
(732) 449-2777

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Prime Location! Pristine 3/4 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath ranch with
spacious Master Bedroom en suite, LR, DR, newer EI kitchen
w/stainless steel appliances, full finished basement. C/A,
C/V, HWD floors, wood burning fireplace. Beautiful land-
scaped backyard oasis with gorgeous water and sunset
views. Glass enclosed spa house. A MUST SEE!
Anita Maloney
Sales Associate
Cell: 732-598-1380
Anita.Maloney@cbmoves.com
Real Estate Associates
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Sales Associate
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123 Broadway, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677
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ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS
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All Close to NY Bus / Houses of Worship / Highways /
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TEANECK OPEN HOUSES
613 Winthrop Rd. $749,000 1-3 PM
W Eglwd Desig Colonial. LR /Marble Fplc, Banq DR, Ultra
Marble Kit/Bkfst Bar, Cath Ceil Fam Rm, .5 Bath, Deck. 2nd
Flr Mstr Brm, 2 More Brms, Newer Jacuzzi Bath. Walk Out
Bsmt /Recrm & Newer Bath. Fenced Yard.
418 Woods Rd. $329,000 12-3 PM
Charming Tudor. Ent Foyer, LR/Custom Built Fplc, DR, MEIK,
Heated Sun Porch. 3, 2nd Flr BRs. Full, Part Fin Bsmt. C/A/C,
1 Car Gar.
792 Hartwell St. $419,900 1-3 PM
Lovely Colonial in Country Club Sec. LR/Fplc, Form DR, Gran
Eat In Kit/Bkfst Area, 3 Season Por. 2nd Flr: 3 Brms + Newer
Full Bath. Part Fin Bsmt/Den & Full Bath. Newer Wins &
C/A/C. 1 Car Gar.
1212 Emerson Ave. $449,000 1-3 PM
Lovely 3 Brm Tudor Colonial. Deep 147 Property. Lg Liv Rm,
Din Rm, Fam Rm/.5 Bath, Kit/Skylit Bkfst Area. Fin Bsmt. Gar.
NEW MILFORD OPEN HOUSE 1-4 PM
1133 Korfitsen Rd. $485,000
Absolute Perfection! Colonial/Wrap-Around Mahogany Cov
Porch. LR/Fplc/Built-ins, FDR, Den, Oak Kit/Bkfst Area &
Deck. 26 Mstr BR/Sit Rm + 2 More Generous BRs +2 Mod
Baths. Game Rm Bsmt. C/A, Sprinklers, Gar.
PARAMUS OPEN HOUSE 2-4 PM
385 Burlington Rd. $565,000
Expanded Col /1st Flr Brm, 4 Addl 2nd Flr Brms, 2 New Full
Baths. LR, Mod Eat In Country Kit, Fam Rm/Slders to Deck.
C/A/C. Fenced in Yard. Low Taxes! Many Updates!

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201-692-3700
SUNDAY MAY 18TH
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765 Queen Anne Rd, Tnk $1,250,000 12:00-2:00pm
15 Mahurter Ct, Bgfld $619,000 1:30-3:30pm
414 Wildrose Ave, Bgfld $469,000 12:00-2:00pm
131 Sussex Rd, Bgfld $325,000 1:00-3:00pm
1072 Allessandrini Ave. N Mlfd $459,000 1:00-3:00pm
UNDER
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641 Odgen Ave, Teaneck
159 Edgemont Pl, Teaneck
1600 Parker Ave, #21A, Fort Lee
VERA AND NECHAMA REALTY
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2.5 bath, large living, dining & family rooms, kitchen w/stainless sink, basement
w/playroom & bath, new windows, oak floors, fireplace, lovely
gardens. DIR: Queen Anne Rd to 109 Herrick Ave.
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS
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TENAFLY
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CRESSKILL
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TEANECK BY APPOINTMENT
1130 Magnolia Rd. $438,500
Prime W. Eng Area CH Colonial. Lg LR/Fplc, Form Din Rm,
Den, Ultra Eat In Kit. 3 Lg BRs, Newer Baths. Fin Bsmt. Beaut
Perennial Gardens & Mature Trees. Gar.
676 W Englewood Ave. $389,000
W Eglwd Col. Mint Cond. LR/Fplc, DR, Screened Porch, MEIK.
3 BRs, Newer Baths. Fin Bsmt. C/A/C. Gar.
432 Maitland Ave. $799,000
Stately CH Col. W Eng Area. 100'x120' Prop. Lg LR/Fplc,
Banq DR, EIK, Bkfst Rm, Den, Fam Rm/ Priv Ent. 2nd Flr:
Mstr BR/Bath, 3 Addl BRs + Hall Bath. 3rd Flr Sit Rm + 2
Addl BRs + Bath. Oak Flrs, 2 Car Gar.
All Close to NY Bus / Houses of Worship / Highways /
Shops / Schools
Please contact Shirley Sosland,
Broker-Sales Associate
Russo Real Estate,
for these and other listings.
Off: (201) 837-8800 ~ Cell: (201) 394-5614
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Royal Realty Services LLC
10 N. Wood Avenue, Suite B Linden, New Jersey 07036
201-281-6369 908-862-8100

101 N. WOODLAND, ENGLEWOOD
SPECTACULAR ESTATE, 2.6 ACRES, 9,000 SQUARE FEET.
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ENGLEWOOD
8 HOWARD PLACE $438,000
ENGLEWOOD
94 GLENWOOD ROAD $995,000
ENGLEWOOD
Classic East Hill Colonial. Half acre.
ENGLEWOOD
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2-story building. 37,740 sq. ft. $2.5M
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FORT LEE
Buckingham Tower. Pristine corner unit.
FORT LEE
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Spacious ex 1 BR. Doorman building.
MIDTOWN EAST
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GREENPOINT
Gorgeous 2-family. 3 BR & 1 BTH. $1,895K
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Stylish luxury building. Heart of Brooklyn.
UPPER EAST SIDE
Continental Towers. Full-service building.
EAST VILLAGE
Sleek one-of-a-kind brownstone penthouse.
MURRAY HILL
Condo bldg. w/doorman, elevator & gym.
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Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
Remarkable Service. Exceptional Results.
Friedberg open house day is a success
On Sunday, May 4, Friedberg Properties & Associates held an open house day to welcome
the spring real estate market. All sales associates were encouraged to have open houses
from 1 to 4 p.m. and 31 responded. The turnout was far above what was expected and
very encouraging.
Preparing for their open houses are Tenafly agents Alicia Grodentzik,
Ravit Advocat and Vira Manus.
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Ruth@MironProperties.com www.MironProperties.com/NJ
Each Miron Properties office is independently owned and operated.
Contact us today for your complimentary consultation!
ENGLEWOOD
8 HOWARD PLACE $438,000
ENGLEWOOD
94 GLENWOOD ROAD $995,000
ENGLEWOOD
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ENGLEWOOD
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2-story building. 37,740 sq. ft. $2.5M
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Picturesque setting. Private oasis.
FORT LEE
Buckingham Tower. Pristine corner unit.
FORT LEE
The Palisades. Beautiful 2 BR w/views.
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Spacious ex 1 BR. Doorman building.
MIDTOWN EAST
Spacious corner 1 BR/1.5 BTH. Sutton Place. $599K
GREENPOINT
Gorgeous 2-family. 3 BR & 1 BTH. $1,895K
WILLIAMSBURG
Sleek penthouse duplex. City views.
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WILLIAMSBURG
Stylish luxury building. Heart of Brooklyn.
UPPER EAST SIDE
Continental Towers. Full-service building.
EAST VILLAGE
Sleek one-of-a-kind brownstone penthouse.
MURRAY HILL
Condo bldg. w/doorman, elevator & gym.
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Jeffrey Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
Remarkable Service. Exceptional Results.
Preparing for their open houses are Tenafly agents Alicia Grodentzik,
Ravit Advocat and Vira Manus.
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