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CONTENTS
Candlelighting: Friday, July 18, 8:07 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, July 19, 9:13 p.m.
Israelis throughout the country
have been adjusting to a new regi-
men, that includes listening for sirens
and running to shelters. This aspect
of wartime has not been without its
lighter moments, collected here from
friends of friends and Facebook post-
ings.
The other day I was waiting at a bus
stop with a woman and her teenage
daughter. The daughter was of course
texting her friends on the phone.
Then a siren sounded. When you are
out with a child and unable to get to
shelter you get on the ground and
cover your child with your body. For
the next few minutes the woman and
her daughter cuddled on the ground...
you should have seen the look on the
mothers face, pure joy. Then when
they got up the daughter hugged her
mother and they walked arm and arm
onto the bus.... this Hallmark moment
brought to you by Hamas.
Rachel Hartman
Its 6:27 on Sunday morning and I
was awoken by the siren for incoming
missiles. As I roll over to go t
back to sleep, I realize the terrorists
have a better work ethic than I do.
Robby Berman
Last weekend, Hamas made a big an-
nouncement that it was scheduling
a barrage of missiles at Tel Aviv at 7
p.m. This prompted one Israeli friend
of a friend, Tova, to message the fol-
lowing to her family, who had already
gathered in shelters a couple of times:
Dear friends. Pay attention. Hamas
has announced that lights out will be
at midnight, breakfast at 7 a.m., and
at 12:30 activities by the pool.
Then theres the message from the
friend who understandably doesnt
want his name attached to this an-
ecdote. Call him J. He was meeting
with his therapist when the sirens
sounded, and they went down to the
public shelter. Where he met people
he knew. Awkward!
LARRY YUDELSON
Life during wartime
Tel Aviv artist Gal Perlman has used the sirens as inspiration in adapting
childrens books for the situation. Here is her Hamas-inspired variation on
Dr. Seusss classic, Oh the Places Youll Go. Find more at facebook.com/
galspoems
12 things you didnt know
about the Iron Dome
The Iron Dome anti-missile defense
system is without a doubt the cham-
pion of Israels current conflict with
Gaza. Without it, the hundreds of mis-
siles fired by Hamas into Israel day af-
ter day are likely to have caused many
deaths and severe damage.
Regular people and security ex-
perts alike all want to know more
about this box-like contraption that
is helping keep Israelis safe from the
barrage of rockets.
Here are 12 facts you may not know
about the Iron Dome system:
1. Iron Dome is the worlds only
dual mission system that provides an
effective defense solution for coun-
tering rockets, artillery and mortars
as well as aircraft, helicopters, UAVs,
and PGMs. It can detect and intercept
rockets and artillery shells headed for
population centers within a 43.4-mile
(70-kilometer) range.
2. A toy car sold by Toys R Us in-
spired developers as they built the
Iron Dome. One of the leading de-
velopers recently told Hayadan , the
Technion-Israel Institute of Technol-
ogys magazine, that due to schedule
and budget constraints, some of the
missile components were taken from
a toy car he had bought for his son at
a local Toys R Us.
3. The Iron Dome system was de-
signed to be operated easily by an
average-size female soldier.
4. Iron Dome can handle many
threats simultaneously and efficiently.
The system only intercepts an incom-
ing rocket if it is deemed a critical
threat. A unique interceptor with a
special warhead detonates any target
in the air within seconds.
5. The cost of launching a missile
from the Iron Dome has been report-
ed to cost anywhere from $20,000 to
$100,000. The rockets terror groups
fire at Israel are estimated to cost be-
tween a few hundred to a few thou-
sand dollars.
6. It took less than four years to
move the Iron Dome system from an
idea to the drawing board to combat
readiness. In 2007, a year after the
Second Lebanon War, Defense Minis-
ter Amir Peretz chose the Iron Dome
to be developed as Israels defense.
In March 2011, it was declared opera-
tional. That April, the advanced mis-
sile interception system successfully
shot down Grad rockets Hamas fired
at Israel from the Gaza Strip.
7. Many critics predicted that the
Iron Dome would never work. One of
the project leaders said: We knew
that eventually our critics would get
our response, which came in April
when the first operational deploy-
ment destroyed eight out of eight
rockets aimed at Ashkelon and Beer-
sheba. Indeed, the strange-looking
battery contraption was hailed as the
hero of Operation Pillar of Defense.
Today, the systems operators report a
best-in-the-world 90 percent success
rate.
8. Israeli contractor Rafael Ad-
vanced Defense Systems and Israeli
company mPrest Systems designed
and programmed the core of the Iron
Dome management system.
9. Iron Dome operates in all weather
conditions, including low clouds, rain,
dust storms, and fog.
10. Aesthetics were important to
the systems designers and develop-
ers. One developer said: I wanted the
battery system to look super-modern
and threatening, because it was obvi-
ous that within an hour of its use it
would be featured on the likes of CNN
and Al-Jazeera.
11. During Iron Domes deployment,
the IDF realized that it is also effective
against aircraft up to an altitude of
32,800 feet (10,000 meters), accord-
ing to a report by the Hebrew-lan-
guage Flightglobal magazine.
12. Two young Israelis run Facebook
and Twitter accounts that follow the
Iron Dome:
twitter.com/IronDomeCount and
facebook.com/IronDomeCount
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Iron Yarmulke sounds sort of more
Mel Brooks than Dayan or Rabin.
Journalist Josh Marshall, speculating about the humor potential of a colloquial
translation of Israels Kipat Barzel anti-missile system, normally referred to as
Iron Dome
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celebration. My gut feel-
ing: Dylan decided that
he wants to connect to
a Jewish identity and,
perhaps, Jewish spiritual-
ity. I can see why Michael
would wish to foster this
healthy impulse. Camer-
on Douglas, 35, Michaels
son from his first mar-
riage, found his solace
in drugs early on. He has
been in prison since 2010
and cant be released
earlier than 2018.
Ive often wondered
whether Michael Doug-
las, who co-starred with
Robert Downey Jr., 49,
in the very good movie
Wonder Boys in 2000,
sought Downeys coun-
sel about Camerons de-
cades-long drug prob-
lem. While he remained
sober while working,
Downey didnt over-
come his serious drug
problem until 2003; he
even did time in state
prison. Downey, who
has one Jewish grand-
father, credits his wife,
agent SUSAN LEVIN
DOWNEY, 40, whom he
wed in a Jewish cer-
emony in 2005, with
keeping him sober. The
couple had a son in 2012
and just announced they
are expecting a daugh-
ter this November. On
the down side: Downeys
example didnt deter
Indio Downey, his son
from his first marriage,
from using cocaine. He
was arrested in June for
coke possession. The
elder Downeys post-
arrest statement noted
that there is a genetic
component to addic-
tion, and that his family
would support Indio and
help him recover. N.B.
Brett Gelman
MARRIED ON FX:
New on the tube
and in theaters
Jennifer Slate
Rob Reiner Michael Douglas
Married began
on the FX chan-
nel on July 17. New
episodes air Thursdays at
10 p.m., but you can eas-
ily catch up via encore/
on-line showings. Nat
Faxon and Judy Greer
co-star as a married cou-
ple who try to remember
what brought them to-
gether as they find them-
selves overwhelmed with
things like child care and
bills. Comedian BRETT
GELMAN, 37, co-stars as
A.J., a newly divorced
guy who is one of the
couples best friends.
Another best friend, Jess,
is played by comedian
JENNIFER SLATE, 32.
Jess is an ex-party girl
whose much older hus-
band (PAUL Mad About
You REISER, 57) tries to
keep up with her.
Slates celebrity quotient,
especially among the
intelligentsia, has risen
in the last two months
with the strong criti-
cal reception of her film
Obvious Child, a think-
ing persons comedy/
drama. By the way, Greer
is a talented performer
who just might break
out with this role. While
not Jewish, she has a
Jewish persona, and she
was really authentic as
the Jewish girlfriend of
the title character in the
hilarious 2003 farce The
Hebrew Hammer.
Opening today is
And So It Goes,
directed by ROB
REINER, 67. MICHAEL
DOUGLAS, 69, who
toured Israel last month
with his newly bar-mitz-
vahed son, DYLAN, stars
as Oren Little, a self-
centered and obnoxious
realtor whose estranged
son leaves a grand-
daughter he never knew
existed on his doorstep.
Little enlists his kindly
neighbor (Diane Keaton)
to help care for her.
Justin Bieber
recently posted
a short video of
Tom Hanks, wearing a
tallis and yarmulke, as
Hanks sang and danced
at the Jewish wedding of
SCOOTER BRAUN, 33,
Biebers manager. Braun
married YAEL COHEN,
28, the CEO of a medical
charity, in June. Hanks
looks like a rabbi in the
video. Its up on the To-
day show site. Go to To-
day.com, enter Hanks
in the search box.
Last month, I
reported that
DYLAN DOUG-
LAS, the 13-year-old son
of Michael Douglas, had
a bar mitzvah in May.
This came as a surprise
since Michael has always
been secular and nei-
ther Michaels mother
nor his wife (Dylans
motheractress Cath-
erine Zeta-Jones) are
Jewish. Then, in mid-
June, I was surprised
again when Michael and
Dylan toured Israel as a
kind of post bar mitzvah
Could be fun flick
Sex Tape, which opens today, is a farce that re-
unites Bad Teacher director JAKE KASDAN, 39, with
Teacher star Cameron Diaz. JASON SEGEL, 34, and
Diaz star as a married couple who are horriied to ind
out that a sex tape they made is missing.
N.B.
Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
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Helping kids play outside again
Local federation delegates in Israel assess the situation, prepare to help
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Theres an image from his trip to Israel last
week that Jason Shames, CEO of the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey, cannot
get out of his head.
Shames was with a delegation of 125
administrative and fundraising execu-
tives from the Jewish Federations of North
America. They traveled together to Greece
and Israel to assess overseas needs.
Obviously there has been a lot of
change in itinerary due to whats been
going on, Mr. Shames said on Sunday,
referring to Operation Protective Edge and
the constant salvos from Gaza.
Since we landed in Israel on Thursday,
when things started escalating, we spent
time devising what an emergency cam-
paign should look like, and we decided
to take a small group to show support in
Sderot and Beersheva.
The residents of these hard-hit com-
munities are hurting, frustrated, and
scared, though they are standing strong,
Mr. Shames noted. The success of the Iron
Dome defense battery system in shooting
down many of the fired missiles from Gaza
has certainly made life easier for many,
but I dont feel the same way about folks
in Sderot and Beersheva.
In Beersheva, the group visited an
immigrant absorption center and met
new immigrants from Colombia, Kishinev,
Tunisia, and Cuba. In the room next door,
children were attending classes.
Suddenly the [Code Red] alarm went
off and we had 45 seconds to run into
the shelter, Mr. Shames said. We saw all
these adorable kids running for their lives,
some tripping in their haste. We heard a
bunch of boom booms, and one little girl
broke down crying and shaking.
Letter from Israel
How many booms today?
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
My daily phone conversations with my daughter in Tel
Aviv when she is on her way home from work have been
starting with a new question over the past week: How
many booms were there today?
This is the absurd reality of living through a war that has
half of Israel scrambling for safety whenever an air-raid
siren begins to wail.
Where I live, northeast of Jerusalem, weve had just two
as of this writing. But in Tel Aviv, and certainly in more
at-risk places such as Ashdod, the sirens and the inevita-
ble booms that follow it are much more frequent. In the
stairwells of apartment buildings, in bomb shelters or safe
rooms, its impossible to tell if the booms indicate missiles
falling or missiles being intercepted successfully by Iron
Dome. That you only find out later from the news reports.
Last week we went to a wedding in Ness Ziona, one of
the cities newly in rocket range of Gaza. The brides fam-
ily is involved in interfaith dialogue with Israeli Arabs in
Ramle. When an air-raid siren sounded during the salad
course (most guests, including me, did not hear it due to
the music and the conversation and the clinking of dishes)
the father of the bride reportedly remarked with a smile,
I wonder if Hamas knows how to differentiate between
the Jews and Arabs in this room.
The past week has been filled with summer
weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other happy occa-
sions throughout Israel. Even if guests from
overseas cancel their reservations due to the
situation, the show goes on and the joy will not
be denied.
Because summertime marks most immi-
grants aliyah anniversaries, several English-
speaking families in our neighborhood long
have been planning a celebratory event head-
lined by the standup comic Benji Lovitt, who
made aliyah in 2006. With the horrific kid-
napping-murders, and the increasing attacks
from Gaza, organizers agonized over whether
to cancel the evening but decided to forge ahead. Benjis
hilarious routine preceded by words of encouragement
and Psalms by local community leaders proved to be a
happy distraction that the crowd sorely needed.
Quite a few members of the audience, originally from
England, South Africa, Australia, Canada, or the United
States, told me over refreshments that their sons, sons-in-
law, or husbands are among the 40,000 reserve soldiers
and countless ground troops heading into the fray. Etched
into their worried eyes are the words that dont have to
be spoken to be understood loud and clear: It will take a
miracle to avoid casualties in the battles ahead.
I write this on Tuesday morning, on the fast of the 17th
of Tammuz, which begins a three-week period of tradi-
tional mourning associated with the cataclysmic destruc-
tions of our two Holy Temples and the consequent exiles
one lasting about 70 years and the other still very much a
reality despite the relative ease with which Jews anywhere
now can come home to live.
The Three Weeks, culminating in the fast of the ninth
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys CEO, Jason Shames, in black t-shirt second from left, and the Jewish Fed-
eration of North Americas CEO, Jerry Silverman, fourth from left, as the delegates meet with Sderots Mayor Alon Davidi,
center.
A gas station in Tel Aviv opened soon after shrapnel from a
Gaza rocket landed at the site on July 10.
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It was the most heartbreaking thing Ive ever seen. I keep
reliving the sight of watching an adult trying to console her.
That morning, his group had awoken at 5, had breakfast
and a security briefing, and then took off for Sderot, where
they met with Mayor Alon Davidi and Talia Levanon, direc-
tor of the Israel Trauma Coalition.
We heard a lot about the trauma and stress, the chal-
lenges and dreams of Sderot, said Mr. Shames, who didnt
take a break to eat for nearly 12 hours. I want to bring back
the message that a Jew in Sderot is no less than a Jew in Tel
Aviv and no less than a Jew in northern New Jersey.
That message will underline a special campaign to raise
$10 million to assist in the response to the rocket threat in
the south, helping to provide respite for children and social
services for victims of trauma, seniors, and people with
disabilities.
I will go home and explain why its so important to
support Federation, because its motivating to see what is
going on here on the ground, said Mr. Shames, who lives
in Haworth. We are helping people. My utopian dream is
that every single Jew in North Jersey will support Israel at
whatever level they can, so these Jews never have to worry.
This is an investment in Jewish youth. The little girl I saw
in the absorption center deserves a shot to live a Jewish life
the way she sees fit.
Other local residents accompanying Mr. Shames were Dr.
Zvi Marans of Teaneck, who is JFNNJs president; incoming
president Jane Petak of River Vale; planning and allocations
chair Roberta Abrams Paer of Montvale; JFNNJ Endowment
Foundation managing director Robin Rochlin of Teaneck;
Jewish Federations of North America CEO Jerry Silverman
of Teaneck; JFNA senior vice president of philanthropic
resources Reuben Romirowsky of Teaneck; and Elissa Maier
of Englewood, head of JFNAs Mandel Center for Leadership
Excellence.
Additional JFNA missions were arriving in Israel this week
to express support for the affected communities and outline
specific initiatives.
Mr. Shames said the mood he detected in Israeli com-
munities farther away from Gaza, but still in rocket
range, was extremely concerned, somewhat unsure,
maybe borderline frightened, but certainly not fearful
for the existence of the state. The idea of kids not being
able to play outside has gotten in the way of normal life
without destroying it. You do see people on the beach
in Tel Aviv, but theres not the buzz you normally see.
As for Athens and Salonika, Mr. Shames reported see-
ing a small, vibrant Jewish community that was once
economically sustainable but now needs lots of help and
support to allow them to build a Jewish community for
tomorrow. We have an opportunity to positively help
them. There was nothing better than going to a Greek
Jewish school and seeing 75 kids coming to sing Hatik-
vah with us during their summer vacation.
of Av, historically have been dangerous times for Jews.
In recent years, we have seen many a tragedy during this
period, especially the expulsion from Gaza nine years ago
that theoretically could have led to a thriving Palestinian
state in the strip and instead as many warned, unheeded
led to the terror we now face.
Many of us feel that the Three Weeks seem to have
arrived early this year, specifically on June 12, when Naftali
Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrach were kidnapped
and murdered. We shudder to think what else may be in
store, God forbid.
Yet having said all that, I must emphasize that most of
us outside the direct line of fire are not panicked and have
not curtailed work or leisure activities. I appreciate that
Jewish and gentile friends abroad have let us know they
are praying for us or thinking of us, but I dont want them
to imagine we are cowering in fear.
The residents of Gaza border communities are experi-
encing much more serious interruptions to daily life than
are we in the Jerusalem area, yet most of them are strug-
gling despite their trauma to use music, prayer, relaxation
exercises, counseling sessions, and any other helpful tool
to remain steadfast as they await better times.
Some friends have asked whether I yearn to escape to
New Jersey until the situation stabilizes. I have no such
desire. Its not just that the daily news about random
shootings in the States, riots in Europe, and massacres
in Africa and our neighboring countries remind me that
there is no such thing as a truly safe place. It is simply clear
to me that this is where I belong, no matter how many
booms we may hear in the sky.
My utopian dream
is that every single
Jew in North Jersey
will support Israel at
whatever level they
can, so these Jews
never have to worry.
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Rabbi Ira Kronenberg retires
A changing of the rabbinic guard at Daughters of Miriam
LOIS GOLDRICH
R
abbi Ira Kronenberg of Passaic clearly has
staying power.
He also has a strong sense of responsibility
and a deep concern for the people he serves.
Director of religious services at the Daughters of Mir-
iam Center/The Gallen Institute in Clifton for some 39
years, the rabbi also enjoyed a long association from
1972 to 2008 with the United States Army. In both
arenas, he played many roles and touched the lives of
countless people.
At Daughters of Miriam, Rabbi Kronenberg conducted
religious services, paid pastoral visits, supervised the
kitchens, mentored social work students during their
internships, and served as staff coordinator for the eth-
ics committee and the residents council.
In the military, where he attained the rank of colo-
nel, he served as a chaplain both on active duty and
in the reserves coordinated the work of the chap-
laincy corps, and held yom tov services in both Iraq and
Afghanistan. On his retirement from the military, he was
awarded the Legion of Merit.
So what has given him the most pride?
After 39 years, Im most proud of the fact that I have
maintained a minyan at DMC, Rabbi Kronenberg said
in a telephone conversation from Israel, where he was
attending a grandsons bar mitzvah.
And its getting harder and harder. All Jewish nursing
homes have changed their business models, he said,
noting that while such facilities had mostly Jewish resi-
dents in their early days, that has now changed.
Also, those who first came were from the generation
of Jews that came here at the turn of the last century
or after World War I, he continued. No matter what
their religious status, they were used to going to shul.
With those who came in later, its more of an effort to
get them there.
Rabbi Kronenberg said that when he first came to
Daughters of Miriam, the nursing home model was
closer to that of an old age home. They got people,
especially men, who when their wives died, didnt know
how to make a cup of coffee. In addition, he said, Med-
icaid only looked back six months when checking resi-
dents financial status.
Now it looks back six years, so people try to keep
[loved ones] at home as long as possible because of the
financial situation. As a result, he said, people coming
in for long-term care are sicker, both mentally and physi-
cally, than they were 30 or 40 years ago.
In addition to maintaining a minyan, the rabbi also
has ensured the kashrut of the facilitys kitchens.
Im proud that when we built a new kitchen, we
could make it a perfect glatt kosher kitchen, he said.
The state inspector of kashrut came on a surprise visit.
He said we were a perfect example of whats supposed
to be done.
A graduate of Yeshiva University when he began his
tenure at Daughters of Miriam he received his bach-
elors degree in mathematics from Yeshiva College and
later earned a masters degree in Semitic languages from
YUs Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies
Rabbi Kronenberg headed back to the university shortly
after he was hired.
This time, he attended the Wurzweiler School of
Social Work, on the advice of Harvey Adelsburg, then
DMCs executive vice-president.
He wanted me to get more counseling skills, to have
more credibility with doctors and nurses, Rabbi Kro-
nenberg said. So I got the training and started to do
some things that normally are not done by rabbis, like
offering training in dealing with Alzheimers, residents
rights, and so on. It also made it easier to deal with
families. Education never hurts.
The rabbi began active military duty after receiving
smicha.
My father came here after World War II, he said. I
went to yeshivas on scholarship my whole life. I was a
math major in college, but I went on to receive smicha
because I figured it was only three years more. I wanted to
do something for the Jewish community and, at the time
the war in Vietnam was going strong. The more liberal
groups didnt support it, and there was a shortage of Jew-
ish chaplains. So I volunteered.
He was not the first person in his family to join the mili-
tary. In 1941, his mother was one of the few religious
girls who joined the WACS.
After three years of active duty, Rabbi Kronenberg real-
ized that he liked chaplaincy work. So even after he was
hired by Daughters of Miriam, he stayed in the army, join-
ing a reserve unit. In 2003, the unit was mobilized and
assigned to Fort Dix.
I would get off for Shabbat and come back to [Daugh-
ters of Miriam], he said. Some of the residents particu-
larly those who were veterans of World War II would get
a big kick out of my leading services in uniform espe-
cially with the rank of colonel.
Over the next several years he was sent to both Iraq and
Afghanistan, leading religious services during Rosh Hasha-
nah, Yom Kippur, and Pesach.
Theres a lot of truth to the saying that there are no
atheists in foxholes, he said, noting that the services
attracted quite a lot of soldiers.
There was one Jewish captain at a forward operating
base who wanted to come, he remembered, but because
it was the spring, and the seasonal rains had ended, the
base anticipated an enemy offensive.
He asked if I could come to see him. I flew out there
after Pesach and the young soldier, from Fair Lawn, had
wanted to see a chaplain because he had yahrzeit for his
father. The rabbi not only assisted the son, but I called
his mother when I got back.
Also memorable, Rabbi Kronenberg said, was lighting
Chanukah candles in Saddams palace. I conducted the
davening in a room with pictures of Scuds hitting Jerusa-
lem during the first Gulf war.
Rabbi Kronenberg is confident that his successor, Rabbi
Moshe Mirsky, will do an excellent job at the center.
Hell continue everything I did and may do some
things better, he said. I dont have a good singing voice,
and he does.
In the meantime, the rabbi still plans to work at the cen-
ter but as a volunteer. Ill come on Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur to blow shofar, he said.
Next week, we will introduce Rabbi Moshe Mirsky to
our readers.
A rabbi and an ofcer: Ira Kronenberg played many
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Whats it like to be Jewish in Great Britain?
A visiting Brit, former Board of Deputies head, talks about similarities and differences
JOANNE PALMER
I
n a way, British Jewish life can seem
to us, here in the United States, to be
an alternative universe version of our
life here.
Most British Jews have backgrounds simi-
lar to our own most are the descendants
of eastern Europeans, some of whom can be
traced back three or four generations, others
who are Holocaust refugees or survivors. A
smaller number of them are Sephardi.
British Jews celebrate the same Jewish holi-
days, speak the same language, share many
Jewish and general cultural references. They
even can trace their mythic origins in their
country to the east side of its biggest city
Manhattans Lower East Side for us, Londons
East End for them.
There are many differences as well,
though. To begin with, we do not say a prayer
for the Queen during our prayer services. Our
community is much larger they have fewer
than 300,000, representing about .4 percent
of all Britons. (Thats roughly the number of
Jews in northern New Jersey.) We have some-
where between 4.2 and 5.3 million, depend-
ing on which definition of Jewish the statis-
tician uses. Thats about 1.8 percent of all
Americans. They have those lovely, dancing,
enviable accents; we plod along in our flat
heavy Americanese.
Some can boast of family in the country
since the eighteenth or even the seventeenth
centuries; far fewer of us can do that.
And they have a communal structure that
is far more inclusive, organized, and official
and far older than ours.
Jon Benjamin, who lives in the bustling
Jewish neighborhood of Hampstead Garden
Suburb in north London, was in Tenafly vis-
iting his brother- and sister-in-law, Neil and
Rachel Czuch Taylor. A lawyer by training,
he has spent many years in Jewish commu-
nal life in England. From 2005 to 2013 he was
the chief executive of the Board of Deputies
of British Jews, the organization that is the
liaison between the Jewish community and
the government. He is now the chief oper-
ating officer of World ORT, which describes
itself as the worlds largest Jewish education
and vocational training non-governmental
organisation.
Mr. Benjamin met with the Jewish Standard
to talk about his community and his work.
First, he explained himself although that
discussion is entirely entwined with the com-
munity that is so integral to his life.
Although the Jews had been expelled from
Great Britain in 1290, around the time that
Oliver Cromwell ruled the community, they
began to reappear in the mid- seventeenth
century. Mr. Benjamins fathers family,
believed to have originated in east Prussia,
first appears in British records in 1770. Fam-
ily lore has it that in the absence of a large
Jewish community anywhere, its ancestors
moved to North Wales, where they bred
horses. Eventually, when the nucleus of a
Jewish presence in London pulled at them,
they moved to join it.
His family was Ashkenazi, but most of
those early British Jews were Sephardi; their
families had gone from Spain to Amsterdam
and then to England. They spread out all
over Great Britain, Mr. Benjamin said, not-
ing that some Jews flourished in Penzance,
where not only trade but also smuggling con-
tributed to the local economy. Later, they all
settled in clusters. The early immigrants were
more adventurous. Later, they went where
the money was.
The oldest synagogue in Great Britain,
Bevis Marks, a Sephardi shul, was founded in
1704; it still is a shul today.
The Board of Deputies was established in
1760. It was founded when George III, of
American Revolution fame,
came to the throne, Mr.
Benjamin said. They sent
a letter to the king welcom-
ing him. Most of the mem-
bers were Sephardi, and the
minutes of the first meeting
were in Portuguese. Fairly
soon, Jews were reasonably
well accepted. Obviously
they kept a sort of low-ish
profile, but English history
is interesting, Mr. Benja-
min said. There were other groups that
were seen as more of a threat Catholics and
Nonconformist Protestants. Groups, in other
words, that were more familiar and therefore
posed a more understandable risk.
The Board of Deputies started meeting reg-
ularly in the 19th century. It had more of a
purpose then, Mr. Benjamin said. It started
advocating for rights for Jews. The group
now meets in the home of the father of the
first more-or-less Jewish prime minister, Ben-
jamin Disraeli. (The Disraelis were received
into the Anglican church when Benjamin was
young, but he always was thought of as Jew-
ish the conversion just for show by his
enemies, his supporters, the Jewish commu-
nity, and, it seems, even by himself.)
In 2010, when the Board of Deputies had
its 250th anniversary, we were invited to a
private audience with the queen at Wind-
sor Castle, Mr. Benjamin said. It was really
impressive. There were only six of us, so it
was pretty private. She asked each of us
where we were from. Remembering that
her ancestors, the German-speaking House of
Hanover, became assimilated Britons after his
did, I felt like saying, Weve been here quite
as long as you have been, Your Majesty. But
he held that thought.
The Board of Deputies represents the
entire Jewish community. It is not synony-
mous with United Synagogue, the Orthodox
organization headed by
the chief rabbi. About 60
percent of the community
is Orthodox, at least nomi-
nally, Mr. Benjamin said. A
growing percentage of Brit-
ish Jews are charedi, and some are observant;
as for many others, the shul that they go to
three times a year is Orthodox, he said.
The board is made up of about 280
deputies, elected by their synagogues, the
synagogue movements, and other organiza-
tions, he continued. It pretty much reflects
the cross-section of the community, and it is
involved in pretty much any issue that affects
the Jewish community.
It does not involve itself in intra-commu-
nity religious disputes, but it takes a stand on
issues that affect the communitys ability to
live a religious life governmental attempts
to regulate kosher slaughter and religious
circumcision come to mind. Then, the high-
level watermark we use is Orthodox, and
everyone more progressive is happy with
that, Mr. Benjamin said.
In Great Britain religious schools can be
state funded, and there have been court
cases exploring the obligations and limits
that such funding demands. That is a knotty
issue that often conflicts head-on with the
definition of Jews as an ethnic group who,
in that case, can offer or refuse membership
in that group? The interface between civil and
religious law is never easy, and it differs from
country to country.
About 65 percent of Jewish children now
go to day schools, because they are the best
schools in the area, because they can be state
funded, because their parents want to rein-
force Jewish religion and culture, because
their parents dont know much and they
wont get it anywhere else, Mr. Benjamin
said. Part of it, he added, is the result of a
campaign spearheaded by the former chief
rabbi, Jonathan Sacks.
The relationship of the Jewish community
to Israel is strong, Mr. Benjamin said. Part of
that is simple geography Israel is only about
four and a half hours away. If you can afford
it, it is an absolute rite of passage for 16-year-
olds to go to Israel, and lots of them go on
school trips as well. Because Israel is closer
physically, there is a closer relationship politi-
cally and spiritually as well.
When they first immigrated to Britain,
Jews, like other immigrants in other places,
wanted to fit in. They wanted to be more
English than the English, Mr. Benjamin said.
In large part, they have succeeded. There
is a sitcom called Friday Night Dinner, he
continued. Its about two boys who go home
every Friday night and have dinner with their
families. As is true of sitcoms around the
world, hijinks and complications ensue. It is
infantile but mildly amusing, Mr. Benjamin
said.
Those two young men and their family
are Jewish. There is challah on the table and
candles glisten from a sideboard. They are,
after all, at a Shabbat dinner. That fact is nei-
ther obscured nor stressed in this low-end
television show. It is just a given, part of the
background.
Another thing that defines British Jewry,
Mr. Benjamin said, is that we tend to see our-
selves as sitting off the continental coast. We
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are not part of the mainland. So when people talk about
whats going on in Europe, we say that they are not talk-
ing about us.
So, he said, the problems that are confronting Euro-
pean Jews are not looming as large for their British coun-
terparts. There have not been serious efforts to ban
kosher slaughter or circumcision. There is not blatant
anti-Semitism. The one thing that is probably true to
say is that because of the BBC and the Guardian, and the
nonprofits like Oxfam that are based in Britain, that sup-
port BDS, people can get the wrong idea, he said. If you
insist on reading the Guardian or hitting yourself over the
head with a brick well, youll get a headache in either
instance.
Most Brits dont remotely care about any of this stuff,
he continued. There never has been an academic boycott
of Israel. If anything, there has been a pushback in recent
years, a strengthening of British-Israeli cooperation.
There are debates on campus at Oxford, and a couple
of years ago there was an attempt to introduce an Oxford-
wide boycott of Israeli products. There are 37 colleges at
Oxford, and it didnt pass at any one of them.
Britain is home to a large Muslim community there
are nine times more Muslims than Jews, Mr. Benjamin
reported. They are predominately South Asian rather
than Arab, and for a couple of generations they were not
particularly politicized, and if they were, it was about
South Asian politics. That has changed we have issues
of radicalization now, of people going off to fight in Syria.
But what we have not seen is shootings, like in Kansas
City, or in Seattle.
Britain is safer than the continent in general, he con-
tinued. You go to Brussels or Vienna there are armed
police outside the synagogue. We dont have that. We have
some guy like me standing outside, just keeping an eye
out. (Mr. Benjamin does not have a particularly police-
like affect.) The police might drive by once in the course
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Shoes, glorious shoes
Local couple finds success weaving footware
LARRY YUDELSON
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oday, the shoes that Itamar
Carmi of Teaneck designs with
his wife, Rachel, are found in
1,200 stores around the world.
But his adventures in the shoe trade
started with a bad loan in New York City.
Mr. Carmi had grown up in Tel Aviv.
After the army, he studied at university
for a year before deciding it wasnt for
him. So he came to New York to seek his
fortune. The year was 1985.
He wasnt penniless. He had enough
money to lend a not insignificant amount
to a friend who owned a shoe store on
Fifth Avenue.
Rather than being repaid, he was
brought on as a partner and an employee.
Then the friend returned to Israel,
leaving Mr. Carmi in charge of the shoe
store and with $300,000 worth of debt
to his suppliers. He convinced the shoe
wholesalers to keep doing business with
him as he gradually paid it off.
It took two years, but then the busi-
ness was in the black and it was all his.
At the peak of his retailing success, Mr.
Carmi owned four stores in Manhattan
three of them on Fifth Avenue as well
as in Englewood and in Cedarhurst, one
of Long Islands Five Towns.
Meanwhile, back in Israel, his sister
had become friends with Rachel, who
had studied fashion design at the WIZO
France High School of Art and Design in
Tel Aviv. Itamar met Rachel at his sisters
wedding.
If I send you a ticket to New York, will
you please come? he asked her. She said
yes and came to New York. Within a year,
they were married.
That was in 1991.
I hope he thinks Im the best import
hes done, she said.
When Rachel first came, she ran a
small jewelry business. Then she started
raising a family. (Their oldest three chil-
dren are 20, 18, and 16; the youngest, the
only boy, is 3.)
As their children were growing, Itamar
was making a change from selling shoes
to creating them. It started with import-
ing shoes from Italy under his own pri-
vate label.
It was our own designs, our own
shoes, Itamar said.
I n 2000, one of hi s suppl i ers
approached him. His name was Bernie
Mev. He made shoes in the Bronx. But
the shoe industry in America was dying.
The components he needed for the
shoes were no longer made locally. Wait-
ing for overseas deliveries meant missed
deadlines and lost business. So Mr. Mev
decided to sell his factory, and partner
with Mr. Carmi in importing shoes from
Europe, now under the Bernie Mev label.
In 2007, after four decades in the shoe
business, Mr. Mev decided it was time to
retire, move to Florida, and work on his
golf game. Itamar Carmi took over Bernie
Mev shoes.
The next year Mr. Carmi came up with
what has become Bernie Mevs signature
creation: a woven shoe.
He was thinking about a comfortable
shoe. The result, he says,
is an upper thats breath-
able and elasticized. We are
marching to a new concept, a
new kind of category.
Rachel Carmi says: If is
not comfortable, it cant be
Bernie Mev. It has to be prac-
tical, wearable, its a special
niche.
With the children older,
the time was opportune for
her to start working with her
husband, bring her design
training to the shoe industry.
Theyve mostly moved on from retail-
ing, though they keep Medici Shoes in
Englewood as a showroom and to stay
in touch with customer sentiment. Their
offices are in Teaneck; the shoes are
manufactured in Asia and warehoused
in California.
The new Bernie Mev shoes come in
some 200 styles, and some of the styles
come in as many as 25 colors. Some are
leather and suede, but most are elasti-
cized cloth. Colors range from demure to
rainbow pop. The soles are made from
memory foam, and prices range from
$49 to $79.
And now, the Carmis have brought
their older children into what has
become a family business. The girls are
helping with the companys marketing
and social media campaigns.
Its nice to see how you can recruit the
children in a positive way, Rachel Carmi
said.
Itamar and Rachel Carmi with their shoes that blend comfort and
style.
At the peak of
his retailing
success, Mr.
Carmi owned
four stores in
Manhattan
three of them on
Fifth Avenue.
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Orange County land trust
honors Birnbergs
The Orange County Land
Trust recently recognized
the Birnberg family of Ber-
gen and Essex counties at
its annual beneit reception
last month. The trusts mis-
sion is to protect Orange
Countys working farms and
open spaces.
Jeffrey Birnberg is from
Franklin Lakes; Michael is
from Short Hills, and Ste-
ven is from Pine Brook;
thei r parents Jack and
Louise Birnberg maintain
a home in Wyckoff. Jack
and Michael both served
as presidents of the Daugh-
ters of Miriam Center/The
Gallen Institute in Clifton,
where Michael still is on
the board. Michael also is
the past president of the Millburn/Short
Hills board of education.
The 186-acre preserve, which the Birn-
berg family gave to the Orange County
Land Trust in 2012, is set to open this
summer. When it is complete, it will have
two looped nature trails, a kiosk, and
interpretive signs. It is accessible from
the Heritage Trail, Orange Countys recre-
ational rail trail.
Jeffrey Birnberg, left, with his brothers Steven and
Michael, and their mother, Louise Birnberg, stand
with the sign that will welcome visitors to the
Jack and Louise Birnberg Preserve in Chester and
Blooming Grove in Orange County, N.Y.
Talk on Eishet Chayil in Teaneck
Rabbi Davi d Fohrman,
founder and dean of Aleph
Beta Academy, spoke last
weekend at Congregation
Beth Aaron in Teaneck
on the Hidden Mean-
ing of Eishet Chayil. Hus-
bands usually sing the
poem, whose title means
A Woman of Valor, to
their wives on Friday night
before reciting Kiddush. He
noted that King Solomon,
the author of Mishlei (Proverbs), where
the verses that constitute Eishet Chayil
are found, was writing about his great-
great-grandmother, pointing out paral-
lels in language as well as allusions in
Eishet Chayil to the Book of Ruth.
Aleph Beta Academy cre-
ates videos to help peo-
ple experience Torah in
ways that are relevant and
meaningful to them. Rabbi
Fohrman is author of The
Beast that Crouches at the
Door, a 2007 National Jew-
ish Book award inalist, and
The Queen You Thought
You Knew. He has taught
at Johns Hopkins University
and was a lead writer and
editor for ArtScrolls Talmud translation
project.
Shelley and Philip Stein sponsored the
program in honor of their children and
grandchildren.
Rabbi David
Fohrman
Esther Kazlow Shira Kaye
Academies at GBDS
welcomes science leadership
Sheila Barbach is joining the Academies at Gerrard Berman Day
School in September as the academies coordinator. Her role will
include co-teaching science at every grade level, with a special
concentration on eighth grade bioloy, coaching and mentoring
GBDS teachers to engage students in science, and writing curri-
cula for the academies.
Most recently, she was a professor in the department of biol-
oy and chemistry at the County College of Morris, where she
was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation. She
has 10 years of experience teaching at elementary, high school,
and community college levels. She uses inquiry-based instruc-
tion and is trained in Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning.
Sheila Barbach
Jaffe named to Wayne shul post
Judith Kuper Jaffe is the irst director of
congregational learning at Congregation
Shomrei Torah Wayne Conservative Con-
gregation. Her plans include launching
young family engagement, strengthening
the religious school, Kadima, USY, and
post bnai mitzvah programming at Shom-
rei Torah; and invigorating informal Jewish
education.
Ms. Jaffe was the director of congre-
gational learning at Shomrei Emunah in
Montclair for seven years. Before that,
she was principal of Beth Am Temple reli-
gious school in Pearl River, N.Y. She also is
a member of the irst cohort of graduates
of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Insti-
tute of Religion/Jewish Theological Semi-
nary Leadership Institute for synagogue
congregational educators.
Bess Adler, left, BCHSJSs principal,
and Judith Jaffe at a workshop on
the teenage brain held last month at
the Jewish Education Project in New
York City.
Local students participate in summer
scientific research at Einstein
Esther Kazlow of Teaneck and Shira Kaye
of Bergenield are among nine Yeshiva
University undergraduates selected to
participate in the Summer Undergradu-
ate Research Program, an advanced bio-
medical research program at YUs Albert
Einstein College of Medicine. The two
also were among eight students awarded
scholarships through the Roth Institute
Scholars Program, funded by the Ernst
and Hedwig Roth Institute of Biomedical
Science Education at YU.
Ms. Kaye is working in an anatomy
and structural bioloy lab with Dr. Wei-
Li Lui, studying the tumor-suppressant
protein p53, which is mutated in about
50 percent of all cancers. She is major-
ing in bioloy with a minor in English
literature, at Stern College for Women,
and she hopes to become a doctor spe-
cializing in neuroloy or pediatrics. Ms.
Kazlow is researching liver disease in
Dr. Allan Wolkoff s laboratory. She is a
bioloy major, also planning to pursue
medicine.
Directed by Dr. Victoria Freedman,
Einsteins associate dean for graduate
programs in the biomedical sciences,
and Dr. Barry Potvin, a bioloy profes-
sor at Yeshiva College and visiting pro-
fessor in the cell bioloy department
at Einstein, the summer program has
drawn 44 students from a variety of col-
leges and universities to engage in cut-
ting-edge scientiic studies.
In addition to their laboratory
research, participants gain a broad over-
view of the many types of research con-
ducted at Einstein, as well as strategies
to become better scientists, through
group seminars and workshops over the
course of the summer. In August, the stu-
dents share their work as part of a poster
session.
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An extremely
horrifying
anniversary
F
ifty years ago, on July 16, 1964, on the
8th day of Av, a man at times described
as the grandson of a Jewish peddler
proclaimed that extremism in the
defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the
pursuit of justice is no virtue!
With those words rebounding throughout the
Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif., and bouncing off
the worlds airways, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater
accepted the Republican presidential nomination.
Rising to the Arizonans defense a few months
later in a debate at the Oxford Union was no less a
champion of extremism in the defense of liberty
in any formMalcolm X.
I believe that when a man is exercising extrem-
ism, a human being is exercising extremism, in
defense of liberty for
human beings, its no
vice, Malcolm X said
on Dec. 3, 1964. And
when one is moderate
in the pursuit of justice
for human beings, I say
hes a sinner.
A little more than
two months later, in
February 1965, Mal-
colm X was shot dead
by an extremist acting
in defense of liberty as
the assassin saw it.
Weeks before Goldwater spoke, Andrew Good-
man, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney were
murdered by extremists defending their liberty.
Weeks after Malcolm X was assassinated, civil
rights worker Viola Liuzzo was gunned down.
Extremism in defense of liberty brought
about the deaths of Yitzchak Rabin and Meir
Kahane. It set Baruch Goldstein on a rampage
that ended with 29 Palestinians killed and 125
wounded. It is why we now mourn the deaths of
Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaer, and Naftali Fraenkel,
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael
in Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North
Bergen.
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In praise of travel in trying times
U
sually, all it takes to go
from here to Israel is a
valid passport and enough
money for an airline ticket.
Just now, though, it also takes a fair
amount of courage, or at least the
determination not to listen too closely
to the voices of friends and family who
might urge you to stay away.
But there is so much every traveler
can gain by going, and so much good
that can be done by that trip.
That is of course always true, but it
is even more true now.
Clearly it would be foolish to rush
into a war zone, but most of the coun-
try is not facing imminent danger. At
least so far Israel is facing an enemy
whose malice far outstrips its compe-
tence. For that gift we all should be
very grateful.
Luckily, many parents have allowed
their children to continue on the sum-
mer trips they had planned, and most
organizations are going ahead with
those trips. (See page 29.) Trip organiz-
ers always undertake a huge responsi-
bility when they take charge of other
peoples children, and those responsi-
bilities are even heavier now, but we
know that they work in close coopera-
tion with Israeli agencies and respond
quickly to even the hint of danger.
There have been many other tense,
dangerous summers; teen travelers
so far have returned unscathed and
therefore strengthened. We hope that
this will be another such summer.
Federation officials also are going to
Israel, both to support it and to learn.
The Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jerseys CEO, Jason Shames, is
there now; he talks about his trip on
page 6.
In fact, David Hyman, a former sha-
liach to our federation, sent us a letter
begging all of us to make the trip. We
printed it on page 18.
If spending time in Israel now is
a declaration of faith and love, how
much more so is making aliyah during
this difficult time. As you can read in
the letter on page 18, though, the Fein-
berg family, up until just about right
now, is making that choice.
We wish the Feinbergs, the federa-
tion officials, all teenage travelers to
Israel and all other visitors there an
easy flight and a safe landing; we hope
everyone who comes back brings new
wisdom and fresh insight, and we
hope that all Israel soon will be free
from the scourge of war. Millennia ago,
these days led to the destruction of the
Temples. This year, we hope they lead
to hope and to peace. JP
Grateful for Iron Dome,
there and here
W
ere writing this Tues-
day morning with the
Beatles song Here,
There, and Every-
where playing on our iPhone broad-
cast through the Israeli army Galgalatz
radio station. At any moment, the love
song may be interrupted by the quiet
announcement of an alert; missiles
have been fired at Israel from Gaza
all day as Hamas rejected a proposed
cease fire.
When and how this round of fight-
ing will end has yet to be determined.
After the last song, the DJ provided a
brief reminder of road etiquette when
encountering one of the tanks that are
moving toward the border with Gaza.
(Bottom line: Keep your distance and
be patient.)
But one thing is clear: Israels invest-
ment in missile defense has paid off.
The Iron Dome defense system was
conceived in 2005; the first battery was
unveiled in 2011. Now, Israel has eight
units each with several launchers
holding 20 interceptors and the ninth
was announced to be coming on line
this week.
Israel boasts that it has a 90 percent
success rate for bringing down incom-
ing rockets. More than one thousand
rockets have been fired at Israeli cit-
ies, including Tel Aviv and Haifa; so far
only one Israeli has died in the rocket
attacks.
And in this, we have to acknowledge
the role played by the United States.
American officials were initially skep-
tical of Iron Dome; missile defense had
been hyped in Washington too hard,
for too long, for Pentagon officials to
believe that this would work.
But it did.
And after the initial development
and funding by Israel, the United States
jumped on board, allocating more than
$700 million in aid for Iron Dome.
Senator Robert Menendez serves as
chair of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, and he has been instru-
mental in pushing this funding through
Congress.
Hes New Jerseys senior U.S. senator,
of course.
So as we listen to the Israeli radio
now playing Shlomo Artzi and ner-
vously await the next report of Israeli
missiles, we can know that we are not
only listening to Israels war. Through
our senator, and our government, we
are helping to fight it.
And for that, senator, we are grateful.
Thank you. LY
Senator Robert Menendez,
center, has been instrumental
in pushing through Iron Dome
funding.
Shammai
Engelmayer
KEEPING THE FAITH
Opinion
may the memories of these martyred children be for
a blessing. It is why three Israelis, two of whom are
minors, allegedly set fire to a 16-year-old Palestinian
boy and watched as he agonizingly burned to death.
It is why potentially deadly missiles rain down from
Gaza on Israeli cities.
Extremism is extremism, no matter how one
chooses to characterize its motives. There is noth-
ing heroic about it, and there is nothing honorable
about it.
But wait! Torah law approves of just such violent
extremism; taking the law into ones own hands is a
virtue. Last Shabbats Torah portion proves it. Pinchas,
son of the High Priest Eleazar, committed a murder-
ous act of extremism and was rewarded for it by God
Himself, who grants him His covenant of priesthood
for all time.
There is only one small problem with that reward:
Pinchas already had a covenant of priesthood for all
time through his grandfather Aaron, to whom God
gave the priesthood in perpetuity. The reward was no
reward at all.
The Torah at times says something nice when it
means just the opposite, like uttering a blessing when
a curse is meant. Here, Pinchas is given a reward that
is not a reward, because his murderous act was a just
thata murderous act.
He was wrong. Says the Talmud:
Rav Chisda said: Someone who comes for advice
[to a bet din about whether to use deadly force against
a person who is committing a sin such as that done by
Zimri, whom Pinchas murdered], they do not sanc-
tion it. It was also stated: And not just that alone
[but] had Zimri removed himself [from his public
dalliance with a Midianite woman], and Pinchas killed
him, [it would have been murder and] he [Pinchas]
would have been executed because of him. Had Zimri
turned around [to defend himself ] and killed Pinchas,
he would not have been executed because of him
because he [Pinchas] was a rodef [someone who pur-
sues another in order to kill that person]. (See the
Babylonian Talmud tractate Sanhedrin 82a.)
True, rabbinic literature is replete with suggestion
that Pinchas morphed into Elijah, so favored by God
that he was taken up alive to heaven.
Not everyone among the sages of blessed memory
hold that view. In a midrash in Breishit Rabbah (60.3),
Pinchas comes under criticism for putting the author-
ity of his office as high priest ahead of the life of Jeph-
tahs daughter. He could have saved her life by going
to Jephtah and telling him his vow was defective and
thus not a vow at all, but he refused to do so because
Jephtah was an ignorant peasant who was unworthy of
a visit from the high priest of Israel.
The midrash then brings as proof 1 Chronicles 9:20,
which says: And Pinchas ben Eleazar had been chief
over them in time past; the Lord was with him. Says
the Midrash: It was not written that he was chief over
them, but had been chief over them in time past.
That is, he had been chief, but then he stopped being
chief. The Lord abandoned Pinchas because, in his
extremism, Pinchas saw the task of saving a girls life
as beneath him.
Rather than condone extremism, the Torah warns
us several times not to veer to the right or to the left;
follow only the path which the Lord commanded you
to follow. (See Deuteronomy 5:29 and elsewhere.)
A nation has a right to defend itself against extrem-
ists who seek to harm its people. That is not extrem-
ism, but self-defense. To advocate that extremism in
defense of liberty is no vice is nothing less than a call
for the murder of innocents. It should be condemned,
never condoned.
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Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael
in Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North
Bergen.
The stuff of life
A
friend from down the
block made aliyah the
other week.
I dropped by a cou-
ple of times the week before and
watched the hustle and bustlethe
rush to pack up 10 years of a fam-
ilys life into one single moving truck.
What to take? What to discard? How
is someone to choose such things
when faced with years and years of
stuff, of objects that awaken memo-
ries? To-keep labels were attached
to the furniture, but piles of books
and toys that had accumulated over
the years were for the taking. Any-
thing left over was to go to charity or
into the trash. My friend quipped that
they were moving only to get her fam-
ily finally to clean up the house.
One day that week, I drove slowly
past her house toward my own.
There she stood in the street next
to a huge moving truck, watching as
men carried all the furniture out of
a house that her family for so many
years had called home. Which led
me to clichd thinking: What defines
us? Are we defined by all the stuff we
keep? Does home mean a collection
of objects that create our own per-
sonal history? And can we ever really
go back again?
This, too, connects to the end of the
school yearprojects and papers
objects that we debate whether or
not to keep based on what memo-
ries they might evoke in later years.
With my oldest child, at first I kept
just about everythingand Im sure
many parents can attest to thisfrom
her first crayon scribble to the scrap-
book of the seasons (to which she
probably added one cotton ball; and
while her teacher finished the rest of
the project she probably tried to get
as much glue in her hair as possible in
preparation for her evening bath). As
years went by, my rule of thumb was
to keep the projects and papers that
made me teary-eyed and that I truly
believed Id want to look back at in
later years.
While cleaning out the storage box
the following year, about half of that
was thrown out and a few more keep-
sakes were added to the pile. With
my pre-schooler, most of what comes
home, in all honesty, gets thrown into
the trash within the week. I save all
the photos, of coursejust cut them
right out of whatever project to
which theyre attached
and chuck the rest.
(Sorry, super awesome
daycare teachers!)
Im actually at a cross-
roads when it comes to
keeping such school
papers and projects.
Growing up, I made my
parents keep some of
mine, and Im glad they
did. Looking at book
reports and the like, in
chronological order, creates a time-
line of sorts that sparks fragments
of memories long past. This, I value.
Elementary school: Optical illusions.
The Solar System (back when Pluto
was a planet). High school: Imagery
in The Great Gatsby. Analyses of
Frost, Whitman, Dickinson, T.S. Eliot.
College: a paper arguing that Yankee
Stadium was a symbol of the Amer-
ican dream (it was a sound argu-
ment), pieces of creative writing. To
me, these artifacts awaken memories
that I hold sacred. Had those papers
not been kept, those memories most
likely would have disappeared.
So now what? Do I keep my childs
Van Gogh-style painting? Her first
illustrated 2-page, 5-sentence fairy
tale book? And the toys, the toys! The
same predicament. How can I throw
out their old toys to make way for
new ones, when my hypocritical self
still owns (and hides) some of my vin-
tage Strawberry Shortcake figurines?
And seriously, how many times have
I heard the line, I had a mint-condi-
tion Mickey Mantle rookie baseball
card but my mom threw it out when I
was younger, along with all the other
cards that might have helped pay for
half of yeshiva tuition? And, Had I
only kept those record albums. They
dont make them like they used to,
says every person over the age of 60.
Had I only kept. Had I only kept.
But then I think about those books,
toys, old clothing, and other give-
aways piled in the corner of my aliya
friends dining room. This makes
me think is all this stuff that I own
really that important in the grand
scheme of my life? No, would be my
answer most of the time. And yet I
still save some of my daughters proj-
ects (until next year, when I reeval-
uate and throw out half ), and I still
keep my old toys (which I let the kids
play with), and books, and mix-tape
cassette, and old cloth-
ing that hasnt fit since
12th grade, and all those
pictures from various
summer teen tours.
Again, I ask myself,
do I really need all this
stuff?
The dilemma, for me
anyway, is not know-
ing what will be valued
in later years, either
by me or by someone
else down the line. How does one
know? My zaide, for example, while
cleaning out his apartment, found
a Young Israel of New Haven bulle-
tin from 1959, which announced the
guest cantor for the holidays, who
happened to be my husbands grand-
father. It was remarkable, so many
years later, to see both grandfathers
names in the same paragraph. (My
zaide was an officer of the shul and in
charge of Yom Tov seating.) Had we
not known this information, would
our lives really be any different? Is
this tidbit a necessary thing? Well no,
not really. But how nice it is to have
a little bit of family history, saved
because it was among the stuff my
zaide put in the to-keep pile.
In this day and age of eEverything,
maybe it will be slightly different
books, music, games, term papers,
and so forth all will be online, where
there is no to keep or not to keep pre-
dicament because we have the abil-
ity to store them in the ether. Even
so, we cannot keep all of it. Will this
object or that object disappear from
our lives forever, or will it be saved
and become our own personal arti-
fact? We have to make choices about
our stuff, whether it is mundane
objects from day to day life, or an
entire house.
Still, although my aliya friend may
never be able to go home again, her
family will create a new home with
entirely new stuff in Israel. This,
because she, just like everyone else,
always will move forward, picking
up whatever new stuff along the way,
whether or not it is worth keeping.
Dena Croog is a Teaneck-based writer
and editor whose work has focused
primarily on psychiatry, mental
health, and the book publishing
industry. More information is
available at www.denacroog.com.
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Opinion
JS-18*
From the narrow places
A
s a teenager I was a competi-
tive faster and summer was
my season.
As a camper and then as a
staffer at Camp Yavneh in Northwood,
New Hampshire, I shone in my ability to
fast for two long, hot summer days, sepa-
rated by only three weeks and the sec-
ond of those fasts even started at sundown
the night before.
Dont jump to any conclusions. There
was no eating disorder involved. If
anorexia and bulimia were known at the
time, they must have been banned in Bos-
ton. It is simply a Jewish ritual that, maxi-
mally observed, got you out of swimming
for three weeks, without having to plead
menstruation, and garnered praise from
the more Orthodox among the faculty.
As you read this we will have entered
into that tough time on the Jewish calen-
dar. The period known as bein hamet-
zarim, or between the straits or narrow
places, is the three weeks between the
17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz,
falling this year on July 15, and Tisha Bav,
the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av this
year, August 5. The Jewish calendar tends
to agglomerate many significant events
to the same date. Thus, various disasters
have been associated with the 17th of Tam-
muz. These include the breaching of the
walls of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar in
586 B.C.E. and again by Titus in 70 C.E.
Additional events associated with the day
in some sources include Moses descent
from Sinai and breaking the first set of
Torah tablets, the setting up of an idol in
the First Temple at the time of its destruc-
tion, and the burning of a Torah scroll by a
Roman leader before Bar Kokhbas revolt
in 135 C.E. Only the breachings of the walls
of Jerusalem were in my database back at
Yavneh, but that was enough to fuel my
fasting.
Traditionally, the period of bein
hametzarim is marked by the
gradual increase of mourn-
ing customs, culminating in
the 24-hour fast of Tisha Bav.
Over the centuries the rituals
observed in this period have
become more restrictive, as
often happens in Judaism and
other religions. The expres-
sion between the straits
or between the narrow
places is drawn from Lam-
entations 1:3, where it refers
to the troubles at the time of
the destruction of the First Temple. Its first
extant use as a description of this period,
however, occurs only in the midrash on
the biblical book of Eicha Lamentations
generally dated to a period about a thou-
sand years later.
Tisha Bav generally is viewed as the sad-
dest day of the Jewish calendar because it
marks the destructions of the First Temple
and then of the Second, some 655 years
later. Again the Jewish traditions propen-
sity for merging events plays a role. Reach-
ing back into biblical history, the spies
sent by Moses to check out the Promised
Land reportedly returned on the 9th of Av,
bearing a majority report that convinced
the Israelites that they would not be able
to overcome the inhabitants of the Land,
thereby prolonging the desert wandering
to 40 years. Later the Romans defeated
Bar Kokhbas revolt, destroying the city
of Betar and killing more than 100,000
Jews on this date, and the Roman gover-
nor plowed over the Temple Mount and
its environs in the final suppression of
Bar Kokhbas revolt. But Tisha Bav also
was tied to a number of medieval events,
including the expulsion of the Jews from
England in 1290, from France in 1306,
and most famously from Spain in 1492.
Indeed, it is linked even to Holocaust
events, as Himmlers receiving approval
of his planned Final Solution
in 1941 and the beginning of
the mass deportation of Jews
from the Warsaw Ghetto to
the death camp of Treblinka
in 1942 became tied to this
date.
It seems somehow hereti-
cal to ask whether there can
ever be an end to mourning.
The question, however, is
not new; it was raised as the
Second Temple was being
built (Zechariah 7:3), and
there is considerable doubt that Tisha Bav
was marked as a day of fasting and mourn-
ing during the Second Temple period. In
fact, the origins of the fast on the 9th of
Av are murky. Although fasting in times
of crisis goes back at least to the story of
King Davids fast as he prayed, to no avail,
for the recovery of his son (2 Samuel 12:15)
that is a personal, not a communal, prac-
tice. Further, some of the restrictions that
originally applied only on the day before
Tisha Bav gradually became applied to the
first eight days of the month of Av or even
to the whole three-week period.
Do we hold memory best through fast-
ing, or through study, or through joy?
Do changed circumstances ever dictate
changing rituals? Can we appreciate,
yes, even in these terrible weeks, that
Jewish autonomy has been restored?
What does it do to our perceptions of
the present to hold so many calamities in
our active memory? Does acting out our
grief in the controlled rituals of fasting
and mourning help channel feelings to a
point where we can reach acceptance, or
does it reopen the wounds? Is it time to
let go of the deep mourning of Tisha Bav
and openly say, as does a majority opin-
ion of the Israeli Masorti (Conservative)
rabbinate, that we should fast only half
a day, thus retaining historical memory
and recognizing that the situation has
changed? To do otherwise, they say, is to
fail to recognize the achievement of the
State of Israel.
This year even before the 17th of Tam-
muz we have been feeling what it is to
be bein hametzarim, caught in the nar-
rows with no room to turn. Since the kid-
napping and murder of the three Jewish
teenagers, Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer,
and Eyal Yifrach, and the kidnapping and
murder of the Arab teen Mohamed Abu
Khdeir, the situation in Israel and Gaza
has been on a downward spiral, with hun-
dreds of rockets shot deep into Israel from
Gaza and hundreds of airstrikes on Gaza
by Israel.
No nation can tolerate rockets raining
down on its territory without a response.
There is no ready solution and, at this writ-
ing, no clear way out. I continue to pray
that there will be some modicum of peace
before this reaches print, but I am less
than confident.
Yet, as a people, we often have man-
aged to come out of the narrow places.
In fact, the word metzarim has the same
consonants as the Hebrew word for Egypt,
mitzrayim. The passage through the straits
of Egypt led to redemption. It was not an
easy path; it took a great deal of cour-
age and divine guidance. It took courage
on the part of both national leaders and
ordinary Israelites. However we choose to
mark this historical period, may we pray
to find a way out of the narrow places and
into the sun.
Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner is an emerita
member of the Jewish Theological Seminary
faculty and was the first woman to serve as
vice chancellor there. She is also a research
associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis
Institute at Brandeis University. She and
her husband, Rabbi Stephen C. Lerner, are
long-time Teaneck residents.
Dr. Anne
Lapidus
Lerner
Come to Israel and show support
Im a little confused please help me
out here.
Since this all started I have been
receiving many emails from my Ameri-
can friends and clients. The clients are
worried and want to cancel the upcom-
ing summer tours, and my former cli-
ents and my many friends are worried
and ask me how they can help.
Can I please make a suggestion? Can
all of you who are sending your sym-
pathetic words change them to action?
Please get on those empty El Al seats,
fill the empty hotel rooms, visit our
empty beautiful historic sites and join
us here now. We need you now more
than ever.
See you all next week in Jerusalem
David Hyman
Jerusalem
[Editors note: The writer was the
shaliach to the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey.]
LETTERS
40 Years in Teaneck and now aliyah
Bnai Yisrael took 40 years to get to Israel.
So too, we have spent 40 years in Teaneck.
Thats a long time in one community. We
are now leaving to make Aliyah on the
Nefesh Bnefesh flight this Monday.
We came to Teaneck with our 7-month-
old son. The town had very few kosher
establishments, no pizza store, and no
mikvah. We joined Congregation Beth
Aaron, which was just getting its variance.
Beth Aaron started in one congregants
home and then moved to someones
basement. As the congregation grew, ser-
vices were in the Eugene Field School,
the present Board of Education building.
Then Dr. Stuart Litwin, who practiced at
950 Queen Anne Road, offered his office
for services. When he decided to move,
Beth Aaron bought the house and office
and it became its permanent home. The
small membership all participated in
each others smachot. We couldnt wait
to welcome new families. As we outgrew
the space, there were many renovations
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a new shul was built. We were all there
to help each other. We had faith that the
shul and community would grow, and so
it did.
Our children grew up here, attending
the local day school, Moriah, participated
in the Teaneck Recreation Center, sports
and arts, soccer, Beth Aaron youth pro-
grams, and NCSY.
Each of our three children married,
started families, and decided that Israel was
really the place to live. One by one, they
made aliyah. Grandchildren came, but we
were 6,000 miles away. So, we made the
decision to join them and make aliyah, too.
It will be very bittersweet leaving the
friends and community that we love, but
with that comes the excitement of moving
to Israel to be with our children and grand-
children. We will miss Teaneck very much.
Lets pray that God will protect us and
we will have peace.
Barbara and Kal Feinberg
Stop it, N.Y. Times!
Kudos to Ms. Shankman! I too feel the
very same as Helen Maryles Shankman
(Goodbye, New York Times, July 11).
The N.Y. Times has always been anti-
Israel. However, the latest horrific news
about the three boys shows emphatically
that they are without a doubt anti-Israel. I
said that I should have the courage of my
convictions and cancel the NY Times. I
have not canceled as yet but am getting
there.
Paula Brill
Hackensack
No equivalence
NBC Nightly News just aired a short piece
on the conflict in Israel and Gaza. It fol-
lowed stories on immigrants at the Texas
border, President Obama, the White
House bowling alley, and a Hollywood
celebrity coping with slanderous tabloid
gossip.
NBCs story on the renewed Mideast
conflict presented a picture of two sides
trading blow for blow, on an equal foot-
ing, bearing equal responsibility. The
implicit message was that both sides are
at fault for the carnage. NBCs view is a
canard, and it follows the path of age-old
anti-Semitism.
Israel did not start things in 70 CE. It
did not start things in 1933. It did not start
things in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, or 2012.
And it has not started things this time
either. In each case, provocations and
attacks were made on Jewish people
most recently, three teenagers were kid-
napped and murdered. NBC and the rest
of the world see Palestinians as David,
confronting a Goliath of Israel. But they
fail to read Bible. David did not provoke
the Philistines. He was a shepherd boy of
peace and song, pressed into service by
a king with limited options.
Todays adversaries are not the same;
they follow the ways of war and armed
violence. They dress for war like Goliath.
They invite the fight, the blood, and the
gore. They teach their children to hate
and to welcome death, even their own.
Somehow, NBC and most of the world
are blind to this truth. They cannot see
past the military events and explosions
to the underlying causes. It is like report-
ing on the Second World War by blaming
both sides, while ignoring Adolf Hitler
and the rise of Nazism.
Israel will survive. Its people have not
been cowed for 2000 years. They hope
for peace, and for a day when all men
will beat their swords into plowshares.
Israelis will never celebrate death, mur-
der or martyrdom. No, NBC, there is no
equivalence.
Eric Weis
Wayne
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Born
to
heal
Dr. Sharyn
Lewin, new to
Holy Name,
talks about
gynecological
oncology,
helping
women, and
saving lives
JOANNE PALMER
E
ver since she was a small girl,
Sharyn Lewin knew that she
wanted to be a doctor.
But not just any doctor. The
laser-like precision of her goal, from
the time she was very young, was oddly
specific.
My earliest memory was going to
school with a white coat and a stetho-
scope for Career Day, Dr. Lewin said. By
the time she was about 8, I didnt even
know what an obstetrician or a gynecolo-
gist was but I knew I wanted to be one.
Very soon, Dr. Lewin narrowed her
goals even further. She wanted to be a
gynecological oncologist, studying and
curing womens cancers. She wanted to
take after her grandmother, Dr. Gerda
Bruno, who was a gynecologist at a time
when few women were. And she suc-
ceeded. Dr. Lewin is newly arrived at Holy
Name Medical Center in Teaneck, where
she has begun a practice and eventually
will inaugurate a full-service womens
health center. It will be a comprehensive
venue, where women can come for com-
plete care, she said.
Dr. Lewin grew up in Lawrence, Kansas,
with a family history that tied her both to
medicine and to this area.
Her great-grandfather, who was a Ger-
man Jew, contributed research that even-
tually led to Dr. Jonas Salks polio vac-
cine while he still lived in Germany. Her
fathers parents both escaped World War
II by coming to this country. Her paternal
grandfather, Norbert Lewin, was an oph-
thalmologist with a practice on Manhat-
tans heavily Jewish Upper West Side. They
lived on West End Avenue, in a beautiful
first-floor apartment that now has been
made into four apartments, Dr. Lewin
said. Her grandfathers wife Dr. Bruno
worked in Washington Heights, in north-
ern Manhattan. The neighborhood was a
magnet for Jews fleeing the war in Europe.
Dr. Bruno worked with Margaret Sanger,
the great pioneer in the movement that
both legalized birth control and gave it
to the poor women who needed it most
desperately. In fact, Ms. Sanger quoted
Dr. Bruno in the foreword to one of her
books. My grandmother was an advocate
for women, Dr. Lewin said. She advo-
cated for women to have control over their
reproductive systems, so they could con-
trol when they had their families.
She was really before her time, not only
medically but also socially and politically.
She really was my first role model and
mentor. She used to talk to me about being
a physician particularly about being a
woman physician. And so I always wanted
to be a womens health care doctor.
The urge to become a physician seems
to have skipped a generation in the Lewin
family. Dr. Lewins father, Thomas Lewin,
is an academic; he is a professor of history
and business at the University of Kansas at
Lawrence. He is a very entrepreneurial
person, his daughter said. Her mother,
Phyllis Lewin, also New York-born, is a
junior-high-school guidance counselor.
Lawrence is an active, liberal, intellec-
tually oriented place, Dr. Lewin said; the
one thing it lacks is a large, active Jewish
community. When she grew up, I was not
as connected to the Jewish community as I
would have liked, she added.
Dr. Lewin earned her undergraduate
degree at the University of Kansas in Law-
rence. She lived at home I was very
industrious, she said. I studied all the
time. I knew the path I was on. She next
went to the University of Kansas in Kan-
sas City for medical school not living
at home and then did her residency at
Washington University in St. Louis. Then
she moved to New York.
For four wonderful years she did a fel-
lowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering, she
said, and then she went to Columbia Uni-
versitys New York Presbyterian Hospital,
in Washington Heights. I had come full
circle, practicing where my grandmother
did, she said.
On July 3, Dr. Lewin went to Holy Name,
which is a wonderful place to take care of
people in a compassionate, professional,
cutting-edge way, she said.
Although she has been living in Man-
hattan, she plans to move soon to Bergen
County. She also plans to become an active
part of the Jewish community.
Dr. Lewin is unusual in that she per-
forms a great number of jobs usually
divided among more than one physician.
She is a surgeon and an oncologist she
provides the chemotherapy that many of
her patients require along with surgery.
We are all trained to do both, but most of
us do one or the other, she said.
Dr. Lewin was recruited specifically to
spearhead a comprehensive center in Ber-
gen County that will focus on womens
health, and on their lives. Now she is work-
ing out of Holy Names cancer center, but
eventually she and the center will move,
although it will remain part of Holy Name.
She is working with Phyllis A. Tarallo,
a nurse practitioner with a doctorate in
nursing and many years of experience in
womens cancers.
There is an unclaimed market in Ber-
gen County, Dr. Lewin said. Although
there are many doctors, There are not a
lot of oncological gynecologists, and stud-
ies have shown that women with ovarian
cancer do better if they are treated by
specialists.
Dr. Lewin has a particular interest in
hereditary cancers. We know that women
with ovarian cancer have a 25 to 30 per-
cent chance of having a BRCA problem,
she said. BRCA is the name given the chro-
mosomal mutation that often, although
not always, leads to breast and other can-
cers. (Of course, just as having the BRCA
gene does not mean that woman will go on
to develop cancer, just as not having the
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I didnt even
know what an
obstetrician or
a gynecologist
was but I
knew I wanted
to be one.
Dr. Sharyn Lewin and Dr. Phillis Tarallo stand in an operating room at Holy Name.
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will remain cancer-free.)
National guidelines have just recom-
mended that all women with ovarian
cancer receive genetic testing, she said.
Also, certain women under 45 with
breast cancer or family histories of can-
cer also warrant genetic testing. Testing
is a huge area of prevention.
Ashkenazi Jewish women are more
likely than members of other groups to
test positive for the BRCA gene. I think
we have a real need in Bergen County to
educate women. If they have a family or
personal history of cancer, they should
be evaluated to see if it is a genetic pre-
disposition. The testing is easy, requir-
ing just blood or saliva.
Although she works with all kinds of
womens cancers, Dr. Lewin does not
confine her work to malignancies. I also
do a lot of surgery on benign tumors,
she said. She talks to her patients about
healthy living and exercise living in as healthy a way
as possible, although not a guarantee, is the best way to
prevent disease. But it is far from foolproof.
I see a lot of women who already have ovarian can-
cer, she said. I encourage them to have their children
tested. The surest way to keep cancer at bay is through
constant vigilance. If women have the BRCA mutation,
we can screen their ovaries every six months until they
are done having children, and then we can remove their
ovaries and tubes, she said. With breast cancer, early
discovery can catch it when it is still Stage I, and some
women choose prophylactic surgery if testing shows
their risk to be high.
Perhaps surprisingly, we know that removing tubes
and ovaries reduces the risk of breast cancer, Dr. Lewin
said. We think its the hormonal depletion. Neverthe-
less, although menopause reduces a womans hormone
levels, the risk doesnt usually go down with naturally
occurring menopause. Why might that be? Sometimes
we learn more things, and then we have three times as
many questions, she said.
Doctors already know, as the result of six randomized
trials, that women who do the best have surgery first
to remove the cancer, and then a port in their bellies for
chemotherapy. It has been shown to give a huge survival
benefit to women.
Dr. Lewin talked about some of the research that
most excites her. When I was at Columbia, I worked
with Hipec heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy, she
said. When cancer spreads in the peritoneum, we can
remove the cancer and do a hot chemotherapy bath in
the belly. We think that the heat makes the cells more
sensitive to the chemotherapy.
It works like a perfusion pump. A machine heats up
the chemo, and it runs through a tube, sloshes around,
and then leaves. It circles for at least 60 to 80 minutes.
Its been shown to be effective in some cancers.
She is also interested in personalized medicine, par-
ticularly with molecular targets for cancer. It involves
seeing what targets are in the tumor itself, so we can give
patients newer biological agents that have been shown
to be effective with different types of cancer, Dr. Lewin
said. In women with the BRCA mutation, studies show
that a drug called a parp inhibitor can work. But how
and what to target is highly individual.
Just as she is unusual in that she is a researcher and a
clinician, a surgeon and a care-giver, Dr. Lewin also cares
both about the hard science and the harder-to-quantify
issues of quality of life. I was the medical director of the
Woman to Woman program at New York Presbyterian,
she said. Presbyterian was the first pilot site; it now
expanded to about 15 sites in the country. It was funded
with a one-time grant from the Ovarian Cancer Research
Fund. The great part of the program is that we match
women newly diagnosed with cancer with women who
have survived that cancer, so they have peer one-on-one
mentoring. The program also includes the services of a
dedicated psychologist.
We try to train people to advocate for themselves, to
empower them to be advocates in their own health care,
and also to help address some of the financial burdens,
which are very real and very powerful.
Dr. Lewin has great ambitions for a similar program
at Holy Name.
What I want to build here is a multidisciplinary team
for patients with cancers, so we can address the psy-
chosocial aspects as well as providing things to improve
their quality of life, including acupuncture, guided imag-
ery, and massage.
That kind of care is expensive. In order to fund it past
the initial stage, nurtured by the seed grant, I started
a foundation to raise more money. Its called the Lewin
Fund to Fight Womens Cancers.
By this point, the listener is staring with open-
mouthed amazement at this 39-year-old woman, who
can talk about science and compassion as if they co-exist
in the real world, who juggles clinical distance and lov-
ing connection as if they went together like a horse and
carriage. Not many doctors who do surgery and admin-
ister chemotherapy and educate other medical pro-
fessionals (yes, she does that too) also have their own
foundations.
So where did the money for the Lewin Fund, which
opened in December 2012, come from? I had a very
grateful patient, and she really wanted me to continue
this work, Dr. Lewin said. So when she passed away,
she gave us money to start the foundation, and then, just
through a lot of energy and excitement from our board,
we have helped make it grow. Seven people now sit on
the board.
It will take a lot of philanthropy to build and support
these programs, and part of my job will be fund-raising.
I really want the foundation to partner with Holy Name,
she said. We hope to make this a national program, but
now our work is definitely starting to help women in this
part of the country.
We have a lot of plans to help women with preven-
tion and also by funding research. We also want to be
Dr. Gerda Bruno, Dr. Lewins grandmother, earned her medical
license in 1938.
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That is a big and ambitious job. I
love taking care of patients, so when
the foundation is big enough I hope
that someone else will run it, but for
now Im doing it, she said. I dont
think I could ever give up taking care
of patients. Holy Name, she said, pro-
vides the mix of friendly professional-
ism and cutting-edge medical care that
is so important.
There are a lot of people we care for,
and we extend many womens lives and
improve their quality of life, she said.
Thats what I really love the bond we
create with patients and their families.
Thats whats special about being a sur-
geon and doing chemo. We get to know
patients and their families so well.
There is another balancing act that Dr.
Lewin, like all doctors, must perform.
That is the dance between letting her-
self become emotionally drawn to her
patients to the point where her clarity of
vision might be compromised, or draw-
ing boundaries that keep even necessary
and healthy feelings in a soul-draining
quarantine.
I really believe in the war against
cancer and it really is a war, she said.
My goal is to work my hardest to give
patients the best quality of life I possibly
can. There are women I get very emo-
tionally connected and bonded to, and
I think about them and their families all
the time.
Sometime it is really hard. The young
patients are particularly heartwrench-
ing, she said. The first day I started
at Holy Name, I saw a 25-year-old with
ovarian cancer.
How do I deal with it? People who
are drawn to take care of patients with
cancer need a blend of a good bedside
manner and compassion and bonding
and also to protect themselves. All phy-
sicians deal with sick patients and tough
outcomes. I always want to know that
my patients and their families know that
I am always there for them, as an emo-
tional as well as an intellectual resource.
Part of her mandate is education.
September is ovarian cancer aware-
ness month, she said, but all year round
women should pay attention to possible
symptoms. They include feeling bloated
or full too quickly after eating too little
food, having any pain in the abdomen
or pelvis, or having trouble urinating.
Any of these signs, if they are recurring,
should be checked out.
Her job, she concluded, is addressing
the whole person, not just the cancer.
Ellen Kapito, who has just retired after
a 35-year career as an oncological nurse,
worked with Dr. Lewin for two of them.
I can count the special doctors on one
hand and she is one of them, Ms. Kap-
ito said.
She is very sweet, and she is very
caring. She doesnt sit behind her desk;
she will give patients 100 percent of her
attention. She really listens and takes
care to explain everything.
But the other side is there as well.
She is from the Midwest, she is so nice
but she is aggressive. When she is
doing surgery, she will stand there for
six hours and pick out every cancer cell.
She is relentless. Thats what you want
somebody who will be aggressive with
your cancer.
She is a top-notch surgeon, but she
doesnt have a huge ego. She is really
passionate about womens health. It is
not an act.
Ms. Kapito is on the board of the
Lewin Fund. There is not enough sup-
port for women with cancer, she said. I
think thats because they are always jug-
gling so many things. Mothers, daugh-
ters, wives they are always trying to
protect their loved ones, but there is
not enough support out there for them.
I think that womens cancers are a little
bit different.
Part of the need for the Woman to
Woman program is to make the kinds
of cancers women have less unmention-
able. Because it generally deals with the
sex organs, its more taboo, she said.
Part of the support the group supplies
is providing women with the vocabu-
lary and the permission to discuss their
bodies.
Another important function is to pro-
vide the kinds of services that provide
patients with support but are neither
obvious nor exotic services including
acupuncture, massage, and nutrition
therapies. They are mainstream but
thought to be minor, so they are rarely
offered to patients.
The foundation wants to support all
these things, plus, hopefully, ongoing
research for womens genetic cancers,
Ms. Kapito said.
Patricia Myruski lives in Monroe, N.Y.,
now, but she grew up in Bergenfield. She
was born at Holy Name, and worked as
a candy striper there when she was in
high school. That makes it even more
comfortable for her when she follows
her doctor, Sharyn Lewin, to her new
professional home.
She is more than a doctor, Ms.
Myruski said. She is a friend.
I dont even know how to describe
it, she continued, emotion clear in her
voice. My surgery took 10 hours, and I
was in the hospital for 17 days.
She was there every day. Dr. Lewin
made me her last patient at night, so we
could just sit and talk. One day, when I
had been there a long time and it was
getting frustrating, I said to her that I
would just like a cup of coffee and a muf-
fin. Is that so much to ask?
And the next day, she brought me cof-
fee and a muffin.
She gave me and my husband her
number, and she called me at night to
see how I was doing. She called me after
I went home.
Ms. Myruskis loyalty is unshakable. I told
my husband, very seriously, that I will go
wherever she goes. If she ever went to Cali-
fornia, I would be flying there every three
months. She brought me so far I dont
want to lose her.
She told me exactly what to expect all the
way through, and what not to expect, so that
I wasnt in for any surprises.
When I first met her, I said I need more
time with my family with my husband, my
kids, my grandchildren. She said, I have
devoted my life to treating people like you.
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8 things you should know
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URIEL HEILMAN
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srael and Hamas are fighting their
third major conflict in six years,
and while some things have stayed
the same, the battle lines have also
shifted in a few notable ways. Here are
eight things you need to know about the
current conflagration:
Iron Dome has been a game changer:
The U.S.-funded Israeli anti-missile system
was operational during the last conflagra-
tion, in November 2012, but its remarkable
success rate this go-around has reduced
Gazas missiles to more of an irritant than
a deadly threat for Israel so far.
In the eight-day conflict in 2012, Gaza
fired some 1,500 rockets into Israel and
killed six Israelis, five of them from rocket
fire. In the three-week war of 2008-09, 750
rockets were fired into Israel, killing three
(another 10 Israelis were killed in fighting).
By comparison, more than 1,100 rockets
have been fired toward Israel this time and
so far theres only been one Israeli death
by mortar fire at a border area, not by a
rocket attack.
Although one missed rocket can make
things drastically worse, the success of
Iron Dome has bought Israel time to carry
out its Gaza operation without overwhelm-
ing domestic pressure for either a cease-
fire or an escalation.
Iron Domes success is bad for Israeli
PR: Its a paradox of Israels able defenses
that media coverage of this conflict has
focused overwhelmingly on Palestinian
suffering in Gaza, prompting complaints
from some supporters of Israel. But in
the absence of Israeli deaths, Gaza is
where the story is. The scenes of devas-
tation there, the tales of human loss, and
the Palestinian death toll are much more
compelling for most viewers and readers
than images of Israelis hunkering down in
bomb shelters, taking cover in shopping
malls, or peeking into a hole in the ground
where a rocket landed.
But Israelis would rather suffer bad PR
than battlefield losses.
Israel does not want a full-scale war:
Israels quick embrace of an Egyptian-
proposed cease-fire early Tuesday was a
sign of its reluctance to launch a ground
invasion of Gaza and turn this into a full-
scale war, despite calls from some hawkish
Israeli Cabinet members to deal Hamas a
death blow.
Israel would love to eliminate Hamas,
but it doesnt seem able to do so. Despite
some limited success, after every confla-
gration Hamas has managed to rearm and
improve its rocket capacity, as evident in
the rocket range on display in this round of
fighting. Another ground operation would
be likely to result in greater loss of lives on
the Israeli side and worse carnage in Gaza.
The Israeli government wants this over
quickly because the longer it lasts, the
greater the chances that an errant Israeli
strike causes mass Palestinian civilian
deaths or a Palestinian rocket manages to
penetrate Israels defenses and cause sig-
nificant Israeli casualties.
Israel and Hamas are at a stalemate: On
the defensive front, this confrontation has
been a big win for Israel. Iron Dome has
managed to render Hamas rockets mostly
impotent, and the Israeli army foiled an
attempt by Hamas attackers to infiltrate
Israel via sea. There has been just one
Israeli death so far from mortar fire at
the Erez border crossing where Israel and
Gaza meet.
On the offensive front, however, Israel
hasnt managed to curtail the rocket fire,
kill the top leaders of Hamas, or signifi-
cantly disable its fighting capabilities.
Hawks argue that Israel could accomplish
those goals if it launched a full-fledged war,
but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
either doesnt agree or is unwilling to pay
the price in Israeli lives or Palestinian col-
lateral damage.
For Hamas, which started off the war
severely weakened politically, the battle
has been an opportunity to demonstrate
the improved range of its rockets and
reassert its position as the Palestinian fac-
tion willing and able to take on Israel. But
Hamas inability to inflict any significant
damage on Israel or protect Gaza from
Israeli assault is not good for its reputation.
Hamas Egyptian lifeline is dead: If
it wasnt clear before Egypts cease-fire
proposal, it certainly is now Hamas
has no friend in Egypt. The proposal did
not include any of the Hamas leaders
demands, highlighting the stark changes
in the Egypt-Hamas relationship since
Hamas 2012 confrontation with Israel.
When the Muslim Brotherhoods
Mohamed Morsi was elected Egyptian
president in June 2012, Hamas rulers in
Gaza gained a powerful ally in their neigh-
bor to the south. (Hamas is affiliated with
the Brotherhood.) Trade and arms traffick-
ing in the tunnels linking Gaza and Egypt
increased, and with the blockade of Gaza
breached, Egypts Sinai Peninsula became
a staging ground for attacks against Israel.
Thats over now. Egyptian President
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi treats Hamas with
the same disdain and antagonism he has
for the Muslim Brotherhood, and he has
choked off Hamas access point at the
Egypt-Gaza border.
And in todays Egypt, where intimidated
press outlets take their cues from the gov-
ernment, Egyptian media have followed
suit. A clip of excerpts from Egyptian TV
programs taken July 9 to 12 and compiled
by the Middle East Media Research Insti-
tute shows Egyptian commentators and
anchors slamming Hamas.
We are not prepared to sacrifice even
a single hair from the eyebrow of an Egyp-
tian soldier or civilian for the sake of
Hamas and all the people who wage jihad
while indulging them in all kinds of dishes
at the swimming pool, Egyptian talk-show
host Mazhar Shahin said on July 12. They
goad people into fighting, terrorism, and
violence under the pretext of jihad while
they themselves sit at a hotel, a swimming
pool, or a nudist beach.
The psychological effects of air-raid
sirens across Israel may be long-lasting:
For the first time, Israels populous cen-
ters, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,
are the sites of frequent air-raid sirens.
Though the incoming rockets are either
being intercepted or allowed to fall harm-
lessly in unpopulated areas, the psycho-
logical impact of this conflict is likely to
reinforce Israelis sense of being under
siege particularly for those too young to
remember the last time their cities were
the site of bombings or rocket fire.
As Israeli author and journalist Ari Sha-
vit wrote in Londons Sunday Times, the
quiet of the last decade or so in metropoli-
tan Tel Aviv since the end of the second
intifada helped lull many Israelis into
thinking they lived in some kind of Middle
Eastern version of California, complete
with skyrocketing real estate prices and
high-tech start-ups. But with parents now
running to bomb shelters with their kids,
that bubble has burst.
Combined with the wars in Syria and
Iraq, the revolution and counterrevolution
in Egypt, and the rest of the Arab Spring,
Israelis now may have more reason than
ever to be wary.
The link between Middle East ferment
and anti-Semitism worldwide persists: As
with past conflagrations between Israel
and the Palestinians, anti-Semitic inci-
dents around the world have spiked since
Israel launched its bombing campaign in
Gaza. A rabbi in Morocco was attacked
on his way to shul last Friday night. Pro-
testers in Paris marched to the Abrava-
nel synagogue on Sunday chanting anti-
Semitic slogans, throwing projectiles, and
clashing with police and Jewish security
guards. A synagogue elsewhere in France
was firebombed. In Chile, a Jewish home
was stoned while assailants yelled anti-
Semitic epithets, according to the World
Jewish Congress.
American Jews are playing their famil-
iar role: The Israel-diaspora relationship
may be changing, but the way American
Jews react to Israel in a time of crisis is
not. The American Jewish organizational
establishment is collecting money, going
on solidarity missions and taking to the
airwaves to defend Israels reputation
abroad. Those staples of solidarity efforts,
Israel emergency fundraising campaigns,
are back in full swing.
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t was often remarked that the late Palestine
Liberation Organization leader Yasser Ara-
fat would sound moderate when speaking
in English and utterly intransigent when
speaking in Arabic. Much of the same could be
said about his successor, Mahmoud Abbas, the
president of the Palestinian Authority.
In an exclusive op-ed for Haaretz published
to coincide with the Israeli newspapers one-day
conference on peace in Tel Aviv that was rudely
interrupted by a barrage of rockets from Gaza
Abbas sounded rather statesmanlike. As the
president of the Palestinian people I am totally committed to
the vision of a two-state solution, normalization and peace with
our neighbor Israel, Abbas wrote.
Such statements are music to the ears of the White House.
In his own Haaretz op-ed, President Obama wrote admiringly
that in Abbas Israel has a counterpart committed to a two-state
solution and security cooperation with Israel. Obama could
not, however, bring himself to say something positive about
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The vision of Abbas as a moderate is sorely compromised
when you look at his other statements. Speaking to other senior
members of the Palestinian leadership about the murder of the
Palestinian teenager, Mohammad Abu Khudair, Abbas rhe-
torically asked, Shall we recall Auschwitz? Later on, Abbas
accused Israel, on the second day of its Operation Protective
Edge to counter Palestinian terrorism in Gaza, of
carrying out a genocide against the Palestinians.
Is Abbas simply seeking to offend Jewish and
Israeli sensibilities, or is there a stratey behind
these appalling claims? I would argue that its the
latter.
As brutal as the killing of Abu Khudair was, to
invoke in the same sentence Auschwitz, a death
camp run by the Nazi Reich with eficiency and
savagery in equal amounts, is morally obscene.
Around 2 million people, the vast majority of
them Jews, were exterminated at Auschwitz.
Many were children flung into the gas chambers. Few things
compare with this horror, and certainly not the murder of one
individual by a gang of freelance thugs.
Yet Abbas proudly makes this comparison and for good mea-
sure throws in the genocide accusation as well. Genocide is a
crime that involves the systematic attempt to wipe out an entire
group. Since the Second World War, weve witnessed geno-
cide in places like Cambodia, Rwanda, and the Darfur region
of Sudan. If we look carefully enough, we can ind examples of
genocides happening right now for example, against the Mus-
lim Rohinya minority in Burma. Nothing the Palestinians are
experiencing at the hands of the Israel Defense Forces remotely
approaches the legal deinition of what constitutes a genocide.
But to Abbas, that doesnt matter, because he knows there
is a sympathetic audience in the West and across the Muslim
world thats already predisposed to the belief that Israels
aim is to wipe out the Palestinians, in much the same way
that the Nazis wiped out 6 million Jews. In Europe alone,
a staggering 40 percent of respondents to a 2011 poll orga-
nized by Germanys Ebert Foundation agreed with the
statement that Israel is conducting a war of extermina-
tion against the Palestinians.
Indeed, the naked theft by Palestinian leaders of the
most monstrous slaughter in Jewish history passes virtu-
ally unnoticed, never mind being condemned. Twenty-
four hours after Abbas made these comments, not a sin-
gle mainstream outlet not the New York Times, not the
BBC, not CNN had reported them, likely because they
dont regard such analogies as scandalous.
At the same time, Palestinian apologists eagerly lap
them up, while ignoring the fact that, as Hamas spokes-
man Sami Abu Zuhri proudly confessed, Gazan civilians
are being encouraged to become human shields against
Israeli bombs. For their own leaders, it seems, dead Pales-
tinians are good news: their corpses stoke up world anger
against Israel and provide television images to buttress the
accusation that Nazi Germany has been reincarnated in
the form of the Jewish state.
All of which makes great political sense to Abbas. Many
Palestinians understand that Israel is not going to be
defeated militarily. They also understand that a third inti-
fada could well peter out in the manner of the irst two.
Still, as the Palestinian commentator Rami Khouri argued
in Beiruts Daily Star newspaper, there is another stratey:
a coordinated campaign of civil disobedience, advocacy
of boycotts and sanctions akin, Khouri says, to the anti-
apartheid stratey against racist South Africa, and the
pursuit of a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state in
U.N. bodies and institutions.
For this to succeed, the Palestinians have to maintain
their position in the Western conscience as the worlds
most downtrodden nation. And what better way to do
that than by referencing two of the Wests btes noire
the Nazi Reich and the apartheid regime?
Israel is often accused of creating facts on the ground.
Actually, the Palestinians are creating facts in our minds,
revising and distorting history to it their political goals.
You have to admit that its smart: at the same time they
warn Israelis that death will reach you from north to
south a quote not from Hamas, incidentally, but from
the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade of Abbass own Fatah move-
ment they depict themselves as victims of a genocide.
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Teen tours turn tense
Fighting in Israel forces
youth leaders to alter
itineraries on the fly
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV When the siren rang out in Jeru-
salem last week, the 41 teenage participants
in a five-week summer Israel trip already
were asleep, exhausted from a day that had
begun with a flight from New York.
Within minutes, they were awake, out of
their rooms and in a fortified room. From
their shelter, they could hear rockets explode
overhead.
It was July 8, the first day in Israel for par-
ticipants in a trip organized by NCSY, the
youth arm of the New York-based Orthodox
Union. It was also the first day of Operation
Protective Edge, the military campaign Israel
has launched against Hamas in Gaza.
This wasnt the trip theyd bargained for.
Obviously, it was scary, said Barry Gold-
fischer, who directs the NCSY trip. The pol-
icy is to keep kids far away from the rocket
fire. Its harder and harder.
The fighting between Israel and Hamas
over the last week has caught thousands of
American kids on summer tours in the cross-
fire. Previous rounds of conflict in Gaza hap-
pened later in the year, and their impact
largely was confined to Israels south. In con-
trast, this round is taking place during the
height of tourist season and has already seen
rockets aimed at major cities like Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem.
As a result, leaders of high school trips are
changing itineraries to keep participants out
of missile range and increasing contact with
parents to preempt undue worry. Instead of
taking kids to the Western Wall in Jerusalem
or the beach in Tel Aviv stops typically at
the core of the Israel teen tour itinerary
trips are headed for northern cities like Safed
or taking hikes in sparsely populated areas.
Trip directors are coordinating with Israels
Education Ministry, which sends out daily
guidelines about which sites are off-limits.
Trip directors say they plan to return to Jeru-
salem and Tel Aviv if the conflict ends before
the trips do.
A group from Cleveland on a 10-day Taglit-
Birthright Israel trip replaced its night out in
Tel Aviv with unplanned stops farther north.
Headquarters wont take chances, said
Max Katzir, the trip leader. We should have
had a full day in Tel Aviv. I gave them com-
pensation for the planned day.
Leaders say the teenagers have followed
directions during attacks and have kept calm
despite the missiles. Because the goal of the
trips is to teach participants about Israel, the
fighting hasnt caused the trips to change
their educational component significantly.
Bailey Dinman, 16, a participant in a BBYO
trip, said the conflict has prompted spirited
discussions among her friends.
Some kids with more observant back-
grounds or conservative views have differ-
ences from kids who are more Reform or lib-
eral, Ms. Dinman said. What should the U.S.
do in this scenario? Do we think a cease-fire is
necessary? As a Reform Jew whos liberal, Im
not necessarily exposed to the more conser-
vative viewpoint.
None of the trip leaders said that kids had
flown back early due to the conflict. That
includes some 3,500 participants now in
Israel on Birthright trips.
Trips have also made efforts to reassure
parents that their children are out of harms
way, including sending out daily emails to
them or establishing a hotline parents can
call for information. NCSY held a conference
call last week to brief parents of its 500 partic-
ipants on the situation; 400 parents called in.
Parents are following news on a
minute-to-minute basis, and our communica-
tion with parents has needed to become min-
ute-to-minute, NCSYs international director
Micah Greenland said.
Ms. Dinman, the BBYO participant, said
that whenever airplanes fly over, she felt a
drop in my heart wondering whether they
were on a combat mission. Experiencing the
conflict has helped her identify with Israel,
she said, but it has also made her hungry for
news updates, a need sometimes hard to
satisfy.
Were in a foreign country, so Wi-Fi is a
bit spotty, she said. So we cant read all the
news all the time. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Birthright participants visit Masada
in summer 2012. That was a more
peaceful time. TAGLIT-BIRTHRIGHT
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How is this Gaza conflict different
from other Gaza conflicts?
BEN SALES
SDEROT, Israel In a little more than a
week, Israel has endured more than a
thousand rockets.
Yet the only Israeli death so far from
Hamas attacks was a civilian killed Tues-
day by mortar fire while visiting soldiers
near the Erez border crossing into Gaza.
In many ways, Israels Operation Pro-
tective Edge its third Gaza operation in
six years is much like previous Israeli
campaigns in the territory. Israel has
used airstrikes to exact a toll on Hamas
and has massed troops on the Gaza bor-
der, threatening a ground invasion.
So far, Israel has conducted nearly
1,500 airstrikes over Gaza, and more
than 190 Gazans died as of Tuesday.
With only a single Israeli fatality so far,
this conflict has been like no other in the
countrys history. Despite Hamas rockets
that travel farther than ever, Israels Iron
Dome missile defense system has inter-
cepted 90 percent of the rockets heading
toward population centers, and early-
warning sirens and shelters have pro-
tected residents.
Iron Dome was first used during Isra-
els 2012 conflict with Hamas, though
the system has added batteries and been
more fully developed since. In that con-
flict, six Israelis were killed, five of them
by rocket fire.
The protective shield provided by Iron
Dome has allowed most Israelis to con-
tinue their daily lives. And even amid
discussion of a cease-fire, it has given
the army breathing room to continue its
mission.
We are striking Hamas with increas-
ing strength, Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu said at a Cabinet meet-
ing Sunday, addressing Israeli citizens.
Regarding civil defense, we need not
only an Iron Dome but iron discipline
as well. You have shown this up until
now. This could yet take a long time, and
we need both your support and your
discipline.
Israels goal in this conflict is to destroy
Hamas rocket stocks and launchers
while reasserting the Israel Defense
Forces military deterrence. Meanwhile,
the Israeli home front has been guarded
by Iron Dome. Within seconds of when a
rocket is launched, Iron Dome identifies
the type of missile fired, maps where it
came from and where it will land, and
if necessary fires a missile to knock it
out of the sky.
The missile defense system has man-
aged to intercept about 90 percent of its
targets.
If anyone hit 9 of 10 in the majors, he
would be cast in gold and sent to Cooper-
stown, Eran Lerman, deputy chief of
Israels National Security Council, told a
Jewish Federations of North America del-
egation Monday, referring to Americas
Baseball Hall of Fame.
Lerman hailed Israels remarkable abil-
ity to defend ourselves technologically.
Experiencing loss of life from war has
been central to the Israeli experience.
Yom Hazikaron, Israels memorial day, is
a solemn occasion for the country. Civil-
ian and military deaths have been a key
part of the calculus of when to begin and
end military campaigns.
With Protective Edge, Israel has so far
experienced a new kind of conflict.
But Amichai Cohen, a research fellow at
the Israel Democracy Institute, wrote that
Iron Dome could lead to more blame being
assigned to Israel because its civilians
are less exposed to harm than is Gazas
population.
Given the real, yet much smaller threat
that rockets pose to Israeli civilian lives
after the invention of Iron Dome, there is
a real question of whether the IDFs free-
dom of action has been curtailed, Dr.
Cohen wrote in an email sent out Monday
by his institute. Is the IDF, in effect, penal-
ized for this life-saving technology?
One place that doesnt benefit from
Iron Dome is Sderot, a city in the western
Negev that has been absorbing Qassam
rockets from Gaza since 2000. Because
Sderot is only about a half-mile from the
Gaza border, Iron Dome doesnt have time
to intercept the rockets. Residents have
15 seconds from the time a warning siren
wails to run for shelter.
Speaking to leaders of North American
Jewish community federations who came to
show solidarity with the city including the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys
CEO, Jason Shames, (see page 6) Sderots
mayor, Alon Davidi, encouraged the Israeli
army to fight until it eliminates Hamas
offensive capabilities. He said that the long-
range rockets now being fired into the rest
of the country have made millions of Israelis
understand what Sderot has had to endure.
All of the country feels what it means to
want to save your life, Mr. Davidi said. In
Tel Aviv they have two minutes. We have
15 seconds. We have a joke: If we lived in
Tel Aviv we could take a shower and make
coffee before seeking shelter.
We pray the army can do the job and
succeed with the operation, he added.
Many Israelis would likely welcome the
respite from running to bomb shelters that
a cease-fire would provide. But Talia Leva-
non, head of the Israel Trauma Coalition,
said that if this operation ends like Israels
last in 2012, there will hardly be a break in
the conflict for Sderot.
Whether its called an operation or
its called a war, we need to seek shelter
with my children and grandchildren, Ms.
Levanon said. Right now we speak of a
cease-fire. Well wait a year or two years
for it to happen again.
Were always licking the wounds of
the previous operation and preparing for
next time. JTA WIRE SERVICE
An Iron Dome missile defense battery set up near the southern Israeli town of Ashdod fires an interceptor missile
at incoming Hamas rockets on July 14. DAVID BUIMOVITCH/FLASH 90
The protective
shield provided
by Iron Dome
has allowed
most Israelis to
continue their
daily lives.
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BEN SALES
BEERSHEBA, ISRAEL During Israels conflict with
Hamas in 2009, Eli Nachmani, already using a wheel-
chair, injured his leg when a rocket hit this southern
Israeli city.
In the last clash in 2012, Mr. Nachmani sustained a
head injury when the blast from a rocket knocked him
out of his wheelchair.
The nearest bomb shelter is 50 yards from his house,
and he cant cover the distance on his own in the sec-
onds between the sounding of the air-raid siren and the
impact of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip.
Calls to Israels Welfare Ministry and the Beersheba
municipality have gone unanswered. His only help is
Noa Pney-Gil, a 24-year-old education major from the
nearby Ben-Gurion University.
I thank her, thank her, thank her from the bottom of
my heart, Mr. Nachmani said. We should have many
more like her.
Fortunately, there are.
After Israels latest round of fighting with Hamas in
Gaza broke out last week, Ms. Pney-Gil joined hundreds
of Ben-Gurion University student volunteers who stayed
in the conflict zone past the end of the school year to
assist city residents in need.
The volunteers have helped out in hospitals, deliv-
ered supplies to the homebound elderly and disabled,
and assisted with post-trauma care.
When you go home, you understand people need
help here and are waiting, said Ms. Pney-Gil, a Tel Aviv
native who considers herself a Beersheba-ite. I want
to be connected to the place I live. I wont escape to
Tel Aviv every time theres a problem. Ill deal with the
problem here.
The size of the volunteer corps is a testament to the
success of university efforts to inculcate a culture of
community involvement and serve as a catalyst for the
citys improvement. Some scholarships are tied to the
number of hours students volunteer with underprivi-
leged residents. The university provides discounted
housing to students willing to live in Beershebas run-
down city center.
Tami Ivgi Hadad, 32, a doctoral student researching
nonprofits, began volunteering as an undergraduate in
exchange for a scholarship. Over time she came to real-
ize she really enjoyed it.
Today, Ms. Ivgi Hadad coordinates city volunteers
during emergencies in addition to her studies. In a
municipal building near the university earlier this week,
she alternated between phone calls and typing on her
laptop. Of her 250 volunteers Sunday, 200 were Ben-
Gurion students.
During routine times, you see a lot of adults volun-
teering, and young people dont find free time, she
said. But when there arent work or classes, they come
out. They have this kind of adrenaline. Adults have gone
through things in life. They dont come out quickly
under fire.
Missiles overhead Sunday morning didnt faze Dafna
Kandelman, a first-year medical student volunteering as
a counselor at an impromptu day camp for the children
of the local hospitals staff.
Israeli law compels hospital workers to stay on the job
in times of emergency, but it poses a child-care dilemma
for employees since many day camps have been can-
celed because of the missile threat. So medical students
set up and run a camp for some 250 children of hospital
workers.
An interesting summer in Israel
At 10:45 a.m., the kids were having a late breakfast in the
bomb shelter when a missile siren blared. Ms. Kandelman and
other volunteers rushed to gather campers playing outside,
only to find that many of them already were filing into the
shelter.
Growing up in southern Israel, a major target for rocket
attacks from Gaza, the kids knew the protocol. Ms. Kandel-
man found it harder to adapt.
You cant get used to it, she said. You say, OK, theres a
siren, lets go to a stairwell, lets go to a reinforced room. Most
of the day its OK. Then you let your guard down and it comes
out of nowhere. It catches you off guard every time. Thats
the hard thing.
While Israel suffered its first death in the conflict on Tues-
day, some Beersheba residents have been treated for shock
from missile strikes. At a temporary treatment center for
trauma victims, student volunteers handle administration
and engage the patients in preliminary conversation before
professional social workers and psychologists treat them. Stu-
dents are responsible as well for helping to move patients to a
shelter when a siren goes off.
They can run and hit a wall, fall down the stairs, said
Moshe Levy, 27, a physiology student volunteering at the
trauma center. Theyre already in a sensitive situation, so any
alarm puts them off balance.
Helping out during the conflict comes naturally to medical
students because the medical schools students association
places a high priority on volunteering all year, said Nadav Zill-
cha, the associations chairman.
Mr. Zillcha, 30, who has graying hair and a firm expression,
was skipping one day of a rotation at another hospital to orga-
nize volunteers. He said helping out during the conflict pre-
pares medical students for the gravity of saving peoples lives.
Theres a need here, Mr. Zillcha said, adding, We need to
realize that now. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Holocaust monument opens in Crimea
Putin burnishes Russias image as defender of minorities
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
SEVASTOPOL, CRIMEA Before last
week, Holocaust commemorations in this
port city were generally low-key gatherings
of a few dozen people saying Kaddish for
victims of the near-annihilation of Crimean
Jewry in 1942.
But on Thursday, a memorial service
at the Sevastopol Holocaust monument
attracted hundreds of visitors, including
a delegation of prominent Chabad rabbis
from across Europe and an international
press corps of journalists from Germany,
India, China, and elsewhere who arrived
on a charter flight from Moscow.
The visitors traveled from the airport to
the 2014 Remembrance Day for Victims of
the Nazis a date commemorated here
since 1992 with police escorts that shut
down traffic to let the entourage pass. At
the spruced-up monument, a security
detail of 15 soldiers provided protection.
Radical though it was, the upgrade came
as no surprise to locals.
Its to be expected that now that we are
in Russia, there will be more emphasis on
the war on fascism, said Genady Tebankin,
a local Jew who attended the ceremony.
Thats the Kremlin line.
The event was the first state-spon-
sored Jewish event in Crimea since Russia
annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in
March, a move Russian President Vladimir
Putin justified in part as a move to protect
Crimean Jews from surging anti-Semitism.
The commemoration was an ideal oppor-
tunity for Putin to burnish his image as a
protector of minority rights. Crimea has
seen a number of widely publicized anti-
Semitic incidents in recent months, includ-
ing the placing of two pig heads at a syn-
agogue in Sevastopol in November, just
days before the revolution broke out that
ultimately drove former Ukrainian
President Viktor Yanukovych from
power.
In late February, vandals spray-
painted death to Jews on the
entrance to Ner Tamid, a Reform
synagogue in the Crimean capital
of Simferopol.
The propaganda element of the
Holocaust commemoration was
clear to critics of the Kremlin, but
it was scarcely concealed even by
the events organizers.
You cant hide the fact that
it is very important for Putin
and the Kremlin that everything
takes place in an orderly fashion
in Crimea, said Boruch Gorin, a
senior aide to Russian Chief Rabbi
Berel Lazar, who led the com-
memoration. Theres much more
media interest in this ceremony
this year. And of course, this is also in the
interest of propaganda, to show that every-
thing is going all right there and that theres
no anti-Semitism but peace and quiet.
Misha Kapustin, Ner Tamids rabbi and
a vocal opponent of Russian annexation,
recently made good on a promise to leave
Crimea if it became part of Russia. But his
position does not seems to be the domi-
nant view among Crimeas 10,000 Jews.
Many community leaders have welcomed
the annexation, crediting it with curbing
anti-Semitism and giving a second wind to
efforts to revive Jewish life in the area.
The situation has changed for the bet-
ter, Binyomin Wolf, the Sevastopol-based
chief Orthodox rabbi of Crimea, said. Jews
feel at ease here. They are not ashamed to
identify themselves as Jews, and its partly
because of instructions that come from the
top, from high-level bureaucrats to junior
ones, that Jews are to be respected and
assisted.
Rabbi Wolf, Rabbi Gorin, and Rabbi
Lazar are all affiliated with the Russian
branch of Chabad, the chasidic sect that
often appears to be Mr. Putins address of
choice for all things Jewish. Before the cer-
emony in Sevastopol, Rabbi Lazar and the
other visiting rabbis met with Mr. Putin for
over an hour in Moscow.
Binyomin Jacobs, a Chabad rabbi who
is also a chief rabbi of the Netherlands,
described the meeting as warm-hearted
and open. Mr. Putin pledged his support
for developing Jewish life and preserving
religious freedoms now under threat in
Europe, including circumcision and kosher
slaughter.
The Russian leader also spoke out
against Holocaust denial, according to
Rabbi Jacobs, calling it the revival of neo-
Nazism. Mr. Putin has used neo-Nazi to
describe Ukrainian nationalists, though he
did not do so at the meeting, Rabbi Jacobs
said.
Mr. Putin also told the rabbis a joke about
circumcision, Rabbi Jacobs said. The punch
line was that in the future foreskins may be
used to genetically engineer perfect tax
inspectors.
On a more serious note, Mr. Putin
thanked the rabbis for their efforts to
oppose fascism.
Such gestures are nothing new for Mr.
Putin. During the Sochi Olympics, he
ordered special arrangements be made so
that Rabbi Lazar could attend the opening
on Shabbat. In June, Mr. Putin is believed
to have intervened to have an alternative
date set for Jews unable to take the national
matriculation exam, which fell on of Sha-
vuot. He also recently visited Moscows new
$50 million Jewish Museum
and Tolerance Center, which
the Russian state helped
fund.
But while Putin has been
vocal in his support of the
Jewish community, Russia is
facing international criticism
for its treatment of another
Cri mean mi nori t y, t he
300,000 Muslim Tatars who
make up around 12 percent
of the peninsulas population.
After the annexati on,
Russia banned two of the
communitys leaders, Mus-
tafa Dzhemilev and Refat
Chubarov, from entering
the region, in what some
allege was score-settling for
their perceived allegiance
to Ukraine. The Council of
Europe said the situation of Tatars in Rus-
sia raises the utmost concern, while intel-
lectuals from across Europe have signed a
petition calling for action against Russia
over to its treatment of the community.
The Holocaust commemoration in Sev-
astopol was initiated by Mr. Putin and
financed largely by the Russian govern-
ment, according to Rabbi Wolf, who said
Mr. Putins office was directly involved in
making sure the event is carried out not
only well, but as perfectly as possible.
Anything the community needs, Rabbi
Wolf said, we get from the new govern-
ment. The level of care is phenomenal.
Yet the alliance with Mr. Putin has
exposed Rabbi Lazar to criticism by Ukrai-
nian Jewish leaders.
It is impossible for him or any other
person in his position to express views that
do not align with the Kremlins official line
and propaganda, Vyacheslav Likhachev,
a spokesman for Ukraines Vaad Jewish
group, said earlier this year.
Rabbi Gorin rejects this criticism, argu-
ing that Rabbi Lazars relationship with
the Kremlin is apolitical and ultimately
designed to profit not Mr. Putin, but Rus-
sian Jewry. He also noted that the Krem-
lin has been involved in and supportive of
Holocaust commemorations for the past 15
years, long before the conflict with Ukraine.
We do our work, Rabbi Gorin said. If
its used for diplomacy, or propaganda
depends whom you ask then were not
necessarily against it.
When anti-Semitic acts occur here, we
are very vocal. But when the government
demonstrates that they want to do every-
thing so that Jews will live peacefully with
that we are prepared to cooperate.
Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, left, and Crimean Chief
Rabbi Binyomin Wolf tour Sevastopols new synagogue
and Jewish community center before the high-profile Ho-
locaust commemoration ceremony.
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The dangers of
drowsy driving
Drowsy driving has been suggested as a possible contribut-
ing factor in the horrific crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in
which a truck struck a limo bus, killing one man and injur-
ing four others, including comedian Tracy Morgan.
The fact is, sleepiness and driving is a dangerous com-
bination. While most people are aware of the dangers of
drinking and driving, they dont realize that sleepiness
can impair driving performance as much as or more
than alcohol.
Like alcohol, sleepiness slows reaction time, decreases
vigilance and awareness, and impairs judgment, all of which
increase your risk of crashing. During even a brief lapse of
attention, a vehicle can move into another lane, off the road,
or into oncoming traffic. This can occur even without the
driver closing his or her eyes or being aware of falling asleep.
Drowsy driving has many causes, including insufficient
or poor night-time sleep, shiftwork, medications or alcohol,
or a variety of sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea or narco-
lepsy, says Dr. Jeffrey P. Barasch, director of pulmonology
and medical director of The Center for Sleep Medicine at
The Valley Hospital.
In a 2012 study, The American Automobile Association
estimated that drowsy driving was responsible for 7 percent
of all crashes in which a passenger vehicle was towed, 13
percent of crashes that resulted in a person being admitted
to a hospital, and that 16.5 percent of fatal crashes involved
a drowsy driver.
In addition, fatigue and inattention due to sleep depriva-
tion are considered significant factors in several disastrous
accidents, including the 1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile
Island, the 1986 nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, and the
grounding of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker.
Here are some signs that mean
you should stop and rest:
Difficulty focusing, frequent blinking, or heavy eyelids
Daydreaming; wandering or disconnected thoughts
Trouble remembering the last few miles driven; missing
exits or traffic signs
Yawning repeatedly or rubbing your eyes
Trouble keeping your head up
Drifting from your lane, tailgating, or hitting a shoulder
rumble strip
Feeling restless and irritable
In view of the dangers of drowsy driving, several states
are considering legislation that would allow police to charge
drowsy drivers with criminal negligence if they injure or kill
someone while driving if they have not had adequate sleep.
In fact, in 2003 New Jersey became the first state to do so
with the passage of Maggies Law. The law states that a
sleep-deprived driver qualifies as a reckless driver who can
be convicted of vehicular homicide.
To avoid drowsy driving:
Get adequate sleepmost adults need 7-9 hours to main-
tain proper alertness during the day
Schedule proper breaksabout every 100 miles or 2 hours
during long trips
Arrange for a travel companionsomeone to talk with and
share the driving
Avoid alcohol and sedating medicationscheck your labels
or ask your doctor
If you are sleepy in spite of adequate sleep, consider the
possibility that a sleep disorder is present
If you regularly suffer from excessive daytime drowsi-
ness, you may have a sleep disorder and consultation with
a sleep specialist may be warranted. For more information,
contact The Valley Hospital Center for Sleep Medicine at
(201) 251-3487.
How to age successfully
with adult diabetes
KARIN KLOOSTERMAN
By 2050, one quarter of the people in the world will be
over 60 years old. Unfortunately, as baby-boomers age
they are more susceptible to conditions such as type 2
diabetes, which is on the rise worldwide.
Researchers have noticed a worrying link between
type 2 diabetes and dementia. It seems that diabetes
causes us to age faster. As a result, quality of life for the
elderly is a concern for professionals such as Dr. Tali
Cukierman-Yaffe, an endocrinologist and epidemiolo-
gist who started a new center in Israel to help people
over 60 age better.
The Center for Successful Aging with Diabetes at the
Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer is a model for
how diabetes can be managed in the Western world.
The worlds population is aging, says Dr. Cukier-
man-Yaffe. We are in the midst of a biological experi-
ment. The human race has never encountered the age
that people have reached today. There will be so many
medical and social issues that we dont know how to
confront, she says.
How do we want to see this population living in
the next 50 or 100 years? We want to see these peo-
ple functioning, living on their own and taking care of
themselves.
Based on referrals or self-referrals, patients get a five-
hour physical and cognitive checkup from a team of
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Englewood Hospital and Medical Center (EHMC) is
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Patient comfort and privacy were at the core of this
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Thin for real:
A summer toolbox
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SUSAN L. HOLMBERG
At the first sign of serious warm weather, I search
for my beach bag, pull out last years sunscreen and
predictably wonder, Does sunscreen have an expira-
tion date? In my youth, I associated sunny skies with
a healthy looking tan, but now I think of unsightly
brown spots that I continue to pay good money to
have lasered off every few years. Who knew?
I also have a beach bag (or toolbox of sorts) filled
with summertime strategies for weight manage-
ment behaviors specific to the pleasurable lack of
structure and spontaneity that summer also usu-
ally entails unexpected barbecues, neighborhood
block parties, days that I just didnt want to leave
the beach. Being prepared for the unexpected is key.
Foods for everywhere:
Foods to keep in the fridge at home: ice tea, broccoli
slaw, smoothie makings
Foods to bring to eat: yogurt or cheese and fruit,
hummus and veggies, cottage cheese with cucumber
and tomato, turkey roll-ups
Foods to bring to other peoples houses: a crudite
platter, berries, spritzer makings
On the road real food and treat options: anybodys
salad, frozen yogurt, skinny lattes
Equipment to carry food: a thermal bag and ice
packs
Equipment to exercise: socks for the sneakers I always
have in my trunk, a sun visor, bug spray, sunscreen
Equipment to do something other than eat: My cam-
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like keeping track or deliberately creating structure in
meal format and timing may be critical. You can even
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Enjoying the spontaneity and treats of summer
and still being able to keep a grip on my weight and
myself? Priceless.
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Strengthen your legs: simple chair exercises
RICHARD PORTUGAL
With a little effort, you can reap great gains. Leg strength
is so important to a seniors balance and exercises to attain
that strength can be easy and fun, but also quite effective.
These easy exercises strengthen all the leg muscles
required for walking, going up and down stairs, ris-
ing and lowering onto a chair, and getting into and out
of a car. Strong muscles are necessary for good balance
and coordination. Try these chair exercises and see how
your balance, coordination, and confidence measurably
improve.
Exercise 1
Sit on a chair with your feet together and hands on either
side of the chair. Slowly lift right leg up lifting foot off
floor, hold, then lower until foot placed on floor; perform
10 repeats; repeat with left leg. Repeat until you can per-
form exercise for 2-3 sets; then perform using light ankle
weights. Exercise 2
side of the chair. Bring your right leg in a large arc to
your right until leg parallel to your body and place foot
on floor; bring leg back to center; perform 10 repeats;
repeat with left leg. Repeat until you can perform exer-
cise for 2-3 sets; then perform using ankle weights.
Exercise 3
Sit on a chair with your feet together and hands on
either side of the chair. Slowly raise right foot straight
out until leg is totally parallel with floor; slowly lower
foot back to floor; perform 10 repeats; repeat with left
foot. Repeat until you can perform exercise for 2-3 sets;
then perform using ankle weights.
Exercise 4
side of the chair. Position feet directly under knees;
slowly raise both feet onto your toes, then lower back
to floor; repeat 15 repeats. Repeat until you can perform
exercise for 2-3 sets; then perform using ankle weights.
Exercise 5
out until leg is totally parallel with floor; from hip, raise
entire leg upwards two times; slowly lower leg back to
floor; perform 10 reps; repeat with left leg. Repeat until
you can perform exercise for 2-3 sets; then perform
using ankle weights.
Exercise 6
either side of the chair. Slowly bring heel of right foot
back and raise toward buttocks; slowly lower heel back
to floor; perform 10 reps; repeat with left leg. Repeat
until you can perform exercise for 2-3 sets; then perform
Exercise 7
out until leg is 45 degrees off floor; rotate foot in a cir-
cle to right 3 times; then rotate to left 3 times; lower leg
to floor; perform 3 repeats; repeat with left leg. Repeat
until you can perform exercise for 2-3 sets; then perform
Suggestions:
During exercises, place both hands by your sides and
hold onto chair seat for stability; when able, use 2 lbs.
ankle weights and progress up to 5 lbs. each leg; utilize
deep, even breaths.
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specialists under one roof. Not only does this spare
the patient from running around, but also enables the
health care professionals to see the bigger picture and
give recommendations that treat the whole person.
According to Dr. Cukierman-Yaffe, the clinic is the
first of its kind in the world to take a holistic look at
managing adult-onset diabetes, and subsequent com-
plications like dementia.
Organizations from Japan to the United States are
asking to know how to replicate the model, she says.
Dr. Cukierman-Yaffe has spent about a decade
researching the link between diabetes and aging.
Since I am a clinician, I wanted to bring the research
into the clinic. Thats how we founded this Center for
Successful Aging, she says.
Findings over the last five years suggest that people
with diabetes experience an accelerated loss of physi-
cal function because they have more muscle loss. Peo-
ple seem to have more functional impairments and
more disabilities, so diabetes seems to be a disease of
accelerated aging, she explains.
People with diabetes suffer from more dementia,
more cognitive impairment, more frailty, and deterio-
rated physical function.
Dr. Cukierman-Yaffe started working in this area
at McMaster University in Canada, where she was
inspired by her supervisor to look at the relationship
between diabetes and cognitive dysfunction.
My supervisor said to me: Listen, Tali, if you go
into a room and you ask people will you be willing to
take this medication to avoid a heart attack, 20 per-
cent will raise their hand for the medicine. But if you
ask the same people if they would be willing to take
the medicine to avoid dementia, everyone will raise
their hands, she recalls.
Under her direction, the Israeli team at Sheba looks
to figure out which domains of the human experience
are affected by diabetes, and what mechanisms create
disease and loss of function.
How does the center work?
Anyone aged 60 and up with diabetes can come in
for an evaluation. This is followed up with an appoint-
ment to get individualized recommendations from the
staff regarding dietary and lifestyle changes and man-
aging medications for other diseases.
Eye and kidney examinations are standard for peo-
ple with diabetes, but this new center works to iden-
tify clinical stages for intervention on issues people
might not be aware about.
We put an emphasis on sleep, depression, and sex-
ual function. The effects have a lot to do with hormone
profiles and other issues, Dr. Cukierman-Yaffe says.
However, people should understand that there are
no miracle cures. We provide a way to survey the dis-
ease over time and try to slow the rate of the decline
of cognitive function.
In some cases, rehab may be possible.
In Israel, one of the good things is there is a lot of
experience in cognitive rehab of traumatic brain injury
because of the army, she says.
Given that most of the worlds diabetics do not yet
have their own Center for Successful Living with Dia-
betes, one must ask: If there are three things a person
with diabetes can do to keep their mind fit as they age,
what would they be?
For Cukierman-Yaffe, the answer is clear: Exercise,
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JCHC offers neighbor to neighbor
coffee and networking for partners
at Lautenberg JCC in Whippany
The atrium of the Jewish Federation of
Greater MetroWest NJ building in Whip-
pany was buzzing with more than caf-
feine on the morning of June 26. It was
the scene of a cross-agency Neighbor to
Neighbor meet and greet sponsored by
the Jewish Community Housing Corpora-
tion of Metropolitan New Jersey ( JCHC).
The purpose: to bring together federa-
tion agency partners and representatives
from the Lester Senior Housing Commu-
nity in Whippany and the Village Apart-
ments of the Jewish Federation in South
Orange, two of the senior living commu-
nities owned and managed by the JCHC.
Neighbor to Neighbor, which included
a buffet breakfast and coffee bar, was
conceived by Laurie Loughney of the
JCHC. Her goal was to better acquaint
and connect all of the various agencies
that work out of the Whippany facil-
ity with each other and with the JCHCs
senior housing communities.
I thought it would be beneficial to
bring together the various agencies that
work with MetroWest to get to know
each other as well as to find out more
about our residences. For instance, even
though the Lester Senior Housing Com-
munity is next door to the Federation
offices and the Lautenberg Family JCC,
there are many people associated with
MetroWest who are unaware of what the
JCHC communities offer to seniors, said
Ms. Loughney.
JCHC staff members greeted the
MetroWest attendees and shared infor-
mation about the various options, ame-
nities and programs available to seniors
at the JCHC buildings. The Lester Senior
Housing Community offers both inde-
pendent and assisted living in luxury
surroundings; Village Apartments, for
independent seniors, is located in the
heart of downtown South Orange, within
walking distance to dining, shopping
and transportation.
Ms. Loughney said that many positives
came out of this gathering. This was a
great way for all of us to meet our col-
leagues from the Jewish Federation. Peo-
ple suggested many new ways of com-
municating between their agencies and
how to better cross-promote each oth-
ers programs and services. She added
that in addition to new ideas, many busi-
ness cards were also exchanged. Each
attendee received a gift card to Caf
Ruth, a lunch bistro at Lester that is
open to the public.
It was wonderful to connect our com-
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Matot: Winning and losing at once
A
t the end of Para-
shat Matot (Num-
bers 31:2), God
commands Moses
to avenge the Midianites for
their having tried to destroy
the Jewish nation. God adds
that after Moses does this he
will die. The midrash notes
that Moses could have pro-
longed his life by putting off
this mission, which he was not
told had to be done immedi-
ately. He was, however, told that his death
was contingent on completing this task.
Nevertheless he acted with alacrity. Doing
this mitzvah was a sacrifice on Moses part
and reveals his selflessness as a person and
as a leader.
On the other hand, Moses had his own
reason to want to complete this task as
soon as possible. Midian was involved in a
rare situation, which almost brought down
the Jewish people, and in which Moses did
not take control and did not
know what to do. He was
given a chance to rectify his
mistake and this is some-
thing he very much wished
to do, even if it was literally
the last thing he did before
he died.
This is a stark example
of how in life everything is
a trade off and we win and
lose at the same time. This
applies specifically to any
mitzvah we fulfill in life. There is gain and
loss involved all at once. It is for this rea-
son that the rabbis tell us, in Ethics of the
Fathers, to weigh the loss of a mitzvah
against the gain. They add that we should
also weigh the gain of a sin against its loss.
Its worthy of note that the order
switches; when referring to a mitzvah
the rabbis warn to weigh the loss against
the gain, and regarding a sin they say to
weigh the gain against the loss. This may
be because when it comes to doing a mitz-
vah we focus on what we are sacrificing,
on the loss. We are warned to take that loss
which is prominent in our minds and place
it against the great gain which we are less
prone to focus on in the moment. When
it comes to a sin the opposite is true. We
focus primarily on the gain and need to
take that gain which is in the forefront for
us and balance it against the loss which we
have pushed back to the recesses of our
consciousness and need to remember to
avoid serious mistakes.
In Deuteronomy (10:12-13), Moses says to
the people that God does not ask much of
them. Then he says what God does want,
and it is a long list, which includes loving
and fearing God and following every one of
his commandments. Nachmanides resolves
this apparent contradiction by pointing out
the oft missed last words of these verses.
The text states that all that God asks is letov
lach for your own good. When someone,
for example a doctor, tells us to do things
that are for our own good they cant ask too
much because theyre not asking for any-
thing for themselves. When God commands
us to do things it may sometimes feel like we
must give up a lot for Him. Truly all God asks
for is in our own best interest.
At the end of his life, in one act , Moses
makes what seems like a sacrifice and
what is also for his own good. Similarly, on
a daily basis we may feel like we are giv-
ing something up to do the will of God. In
truth keeping a life of Torah is what is best
for us. As Moses tells the people in his part-
ing words (Deuteronomy 11:27), listening
to Gods word is a blessing in and of itself.
May we be blessed to listen and see that
when we follow the path of righteousness
we always win.
Rabbi Neil Fleischmann is a teacher
and guidance counselor at The Frisch
school. He is a prolific writer and his
poetry and other work can be found at
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Teen engagement
project launches
in Denver area
A national and a local foundation are join-
ing to launch a wide-ranging initiative for
Jewish teens in the Denver-Boulder area.
The San Francisco-based Jim Joseph
Foundation pledged to help fund the Col-
orado effort by matching local individual
and foundation contributions totaling up
to $2.26 million over four years. The Den-
ver-based Rose Community Foundation
has made an initial grant of $1.07 million
over two years.
The initiative, launched last week, is
designed to increase the number and
diversity of high school-age Jewish teens
participating in Jewish education and
engagement experiences, and to improve
the quality and variety of those experi-
ences. It also seeks to expand the Jew-
ish Student Connection network of Jew-
ish clubs in secular schools, as well as
the Moving Traditions organizations
teen discussion groups Rosh Hodesh:
Its a Girl Thing! and Shevet Achim: The
Brotherhood.
The effort aims as well to facilitate col-
laboration among Jewish youth groups
and synagogues, increase training and
support for youth professions, and pro-
vide micro-grants and support to Jewish
teens interested in creating peer-led Jew-
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Brooklyn baby named
for three murdered
Israeli teenagers
A Brooklyn baby was named Eyal Gilad
Naftali in memory of the three murdered
Israeli teens.
The name was announced at the babys
brit milah on Monday, according to the
website NRG. He is the son of Yankee
and Bina Teitelbaum, who live in Crown
Heights.
Reports that circulated on social media
saying that a set of triplets was named for
the boys proved to be false.
Two of the couples other five children
also were named for terror victims. Their
daughter Shalhevet was named for Shal-
hevet Pass, an infant who was killed by a
Palestinian sniper in 2001, and their son
Ehud Daniel was named for the captive
and murdered Israeli soldier Ehud Gold-
wasser, whose body was recovered from
Hezbollah in 2008, and Daniel Agami, an
American soldier killed in 2007 in Iraq.
Those three boys are our family, even
more now that we gave our own son their
names, Bina Teitelbaum said. We called
him this name because we want him to
continue the unity the boys have brought
to all of Israel united in prayer, and then
reunited in grief. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Five groups win
Ruderman Prize
in Inclusion
Organizations from the United States,
Israel, Canada, and Australia were named
recipients of the Ruderman Family Foun-
dations Prize in Inclusion.
The winners are Jewish Vocational Ser-
vice of Toronto; JewishCare Big Brother
Big Sister in Sydney, Australia; Bar-Ilan
University in Israel; Jewish Family Services
of Houston, and the St. Paul Jewish Com-
munity Center in St. Paul, Minn.
The Ruderman Prize in Inclusion, in
its third year, recognizes groups that pro-
vide services to foster the full inclusion
of people with disabilities in the Jewish
community.
This years winners include programs
dedicated to employment, higher edu-
cation, mentoring, leadership training,
and inclusion in communal activities and
schools. They each receive $50,000 to
help them continue their work or innovate
new programs.
It is our hope that these awards will
inspire Jewish organizations around the
world to embrace the inclusion of people
with all abilities in our community, said
foundation president Jay Ruderman.
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1. Yom Kippur, et. al
5. Choked, for Ed Koch: Abbr.
9. Cleopatra star, 1917
13. Hebrew pronoun
14. The Kosher ___ (Mexican restaurant in
Lakewood, New Jersey)
15. Irving Berlins Call Me ___
16. Erich Segal novel
18. Fear of Fifty author Jong
19. 15 seconds in Sderot, when rockets are
falling
20. With a Talmudic mind
21. ___ Ben Canaan, of Exodus
22. Be like a Cohen vis a vis a Levi, in being
called to the Torah
23. Michael Dukakiss campaign manager
28. Some Israelis
29. Outreach organization with branches in
Costa Rica and Toronto
30. It may be required of a Start-Up
Nation employee
33. Purim taunt toward Haman
34. The tree at the end of The Giving
Tree
36. Be a peddler
37. Kings king
38. Leopold and ___
39. Pareve snack
40. You might call her a great actress, but
she wouldnt hear you
43. Where Al Franken works
46. Californias Chabad of Del ___
47. Acts like Paul Krugman in the New York
Times
48. God did this to clay to make Adam
53. Connoisseur
54. 2nd century revolt
55. Siren to warn of rockets from Gaza
56. Product of the id, according to Freud
57. Passover no-no
58. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Charles
Schumer (D-N.Y.)
59. A mitzvah is a good one, in common
parlance
60. ___ Search for Meaning (Auschwitz
memoir)
Down
1. The Western one is well-known
2. You want __? (line from The Big
Lebowski)
3. Hes often associated with Abaye
4. Genesis 1:17: And God placed them in
the expanse of the heavens to ___
light upon the earth
5. Its fancy for a bar mitzvah
6. ___ Song (young adult book about a
character from the Book of Ruth)
7. Israeli city holy to the Bahai faith
8. Lo Yisa ___
9. Seder step
10. Take ___ (lose value on the Tel Aviv
Stock Exchange)
11. Used chariots
12. Leehov, in Italy
15. Part of most blessings
17. Some countries Soviet Jews came from
20. Kosher falafel chain
22. Adjective for Abigail of the Book of
Samuel
23. The Tenement ___ (Book about the
Lower East Side)
24. QB VII author
25. Abbas Abba
26. Pollin who owned the Washington
Wizards
27. Philanthropist Tad
30. Tony winner Carter
31. Year BCE when the term Diaspora
was coined
32. Actor Rickman in Sondheims Sweeney
Todd
34. Palindromic billionaire
35. ___ Me a Riddle (Tillie Olsen story
collection)
36. Shabb.
38. Kind of anti-Semitism
39. Marx brother who performed in mime
40. First customers of Levi Strauss
41. Exit Noahs ark
42. Ready for Purim
43. Ariel Sharon and Mel Blanc states
before death
44. Catherine the Great established ___ of
Settlement for the Jews
45. Emmy winner Jeremy (Entourage)
48. Like late onset Tay-Sachs disease
49. Israel has one named Jericho III
50. She played Carla on Cheers
51. Israels Abba
52. Nichols and Glickman
54. Selig of baseball
The solution for last weeks puzzle
is on page 47.
Arts & Culture
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ERIC A. GOLDMAN
T
he moment I heard the siren go
off outside the seminar room
in Tel Aviv, I knew that my
visit to Israel would be altered
dramatically.
Etgar Keret, the writer and ilm direc-
tor, changed his prepared talk and started
instead by reading one of his short sto-
ries, Pastrami, about how in the midst
of a rocket attack, he and his wife pulled
off to the side of the road and comforted
their frightened child by playing a game. By
doing this, he reassured all of us. Later that
afternoon I learned that that there had been
red alerts all across the country, including
Jerusalem, and I understood that my plans
for the next week were now in flux.
I was to attend the opening of the 31st
annual Jerusalem Film Festival at Sultans
Pool last Thursday, preceded and followed
by a variety of fun receptions that make
Oscar parties pale in comparison well,
maybe I am exaggerating a bit! The annual
festival opening is an event to which I
always look forward, with hundreds in
attendance at this incredible open-air ilm
screening, just below the walls of the Old
City. I still remember one of the special
moments of past festival openings, when
in the Coen brothers ilm, The Big Leb-
owski, Walter ( John Goodman) tells the
Dude ( Jeff Bridges) that he is Shomer f
ing Shabbos. It is one of the great Jewish
cinematic moments of all time, and the
audience that year reacted with an out-
burst of joy and laughter as they heard this
implausible one-liner as they sat in Jeru-
salem. I anticipated another such special
moment, with the premiere of Eran Riklis
Dancing Arabs, scheduled for July 10.
Just a few days earlier, in Haaretz, Sayed
Kashua, one of Israels most respected
Arab-Israeli columnists and writers, the
author of Dancing Arabs, reacted to
the growing tension in the country in the
wake of the murders of the four teenagers.
There was a great deal of unrest on the
streets, and the Old City of Jerusalem was
closed to visitors. The writer, whose televi-
sion series, Arab Labor, is very popular,
and who is highly regarded in the Israeli
literary world, shared his frustration he
writes in Hebrew in a society where he
feels like an outsider. Mr. Kashua is going
to be spending a year teaching in Illinois;
in his column, he wrote: Its the 11th hour.
I have to get out of here. Maybe Ill never
come back. The attempt at life together
with Jews has failed.
Most Israelis felt betrayed, for had not
Mr. Kashua been accepted, even revered in
Israel? But Mr. Kashua repeated what his
father told him as he left for his irst day
at a Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem:
Remember that for them you will always,
but always, be an Arab. Understand?
When I read the article, I looked for-
ward to the screening of Dancing Arabs,
and the dialogue with the ilms creators
that was to follow. Dancing Arabs is
based on Mr. Kashuas 2002 novel of the
same name, and it is highly autobiographi-
cal. The ilm was directed by Eran Riklis,
one of Israels foremost ilm directors, who
has been struggling onscreen with Arab-
Israeli issues since 1991, when his ilm
Gmar Gavia (Final Cup), about Israeli
soldiers captured by Palestinians during
the 1982 war in Lebanon, gained a great
deal of attention. Mr. Riklis has not shied
away from questions of Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, with ilms like The Syrian Bride
(2004), Lemon Tree (2008), and last
years Zaytoun.
But the red alert sirens continued to
blast and opening night was canceled. I
never did get to see the ilm.
This year was to be a new beginning for
the Jerusalem Film Festival, Israels pre-
miere international ilm festival. Each July
ilmmakers from across the world come
to Jerusalem to screen their work, give
master classes to ilm students, and tour
the country. It is a Jewish ilm lovers sum-
mer camp. But unfortunately, in the last
few years many ilm artists have joined
the international boycott of Israel. They
have refused invitations, leaving the festi-
val with fewer ilm personalities and less
Rockets fall,
but the show
must go on!
The 31st annual Jerusalem Film Festival
This month, Eric Goldman was a fellow at
the Schusterman Institute for Israel Studies
at Brandeis University and in Israel. He
teaches and writes about Jewish and Israeli
cinema.
Dancing Arabs is based on a
novel by Sayed Kashua, right,
and directed by Eran Riklis, inset.
SEE FILM PAGE 48
Calendar
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Friday
JULY 18
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort
Lee holds a summer
barbecue and service,
beginning at 6 p.m., on
the shuls lawn. Bring
friends, family, and
picnic blankets. Free but
reservations required.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.
Shabbat outdoors:
Temple Beth El of
Closter invites the
community to an
informal Prayers on
the Palisades service
at 6:30 p.m., at the
State Line Lookout off
the Palisades Parkway.
All are welcome;
bring a lawn chair and
bug spray. In case of
inclement weather,
services will be at TBE,
221 Schraalenburgh
Road, Closter. Next
service August 22,
jointly with Teanecks
Temple Emeth. (201)
768-5112 or www.tbenv.
org.
Saturday
JULY 19
Concert in Wayne:
Theatre Rock kicks off
the Concert Under the
Stars summer series in
the Berman Atrium at
the Wayne YMCA, 7:30
p.m. The band plays
songs from 40 years of
Broadway rock musicals.
The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100 or www.
wayneymca.org.
Sunday
JULY 20
Youth theater in Wayne:
The Rosen Theater
at the Wayne YMCA
presents Godspell
Junior, performed
by the Ys Youth
Performing Ensemble,
2 p.m. Conceived and
originally directed by
John-Michael Tebelak;
music and new lyrics by
Stephen Schwartz. 1 Pike
Drive. (973) 595-0100 or
www.wayneymca.org.
Thursday
JULY 24
Summer music in
Wayne: The Copa
Boys perform for the
Wayne YMCAs Summer
Concert Series, 7 p.m.
Tickets, $12. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100.
Friday
JULY 25
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
holds Shabbat
Tzavta (together), a
participatory folk-rock
service, 8 p.m. Selections
from contemporary and
classical repertoires, folk
rock melodies, liturgical
selections, traditional
motifs, and Israeli and
Argentinian melodies.
Service led by Cantor
Ilan Mamber with Mark
Kantrowitz on guitar,
Cantor Mamber on
guitar and harp, Jane
Koch on keyboards,
Jacob Niederman on
saxophone, Jimmy Cohen
on percussion, and other
guest musicians. Dessert
and coffee. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.
In New York
Wednesday
JULY 23
Film in NYC: A free
eight-session summer
film series, Close
Encounters of the
Spielberg Kind,
continues at the
Museum of Jewish
HeritageA Living
Memorial to the
Holocaust with Close
Encounters of the Third
Kind, starring Richard
Dreyfuss, Francois
Truffaut, and Teri Garr,
6:30 p.m. Series runs
through August 13.
Raffle prizes will be
given away at each
screening. 36 Battery
Place. (646) 437-4202
or www.mjhnyc.org/
spielberg.
Singles
Sunday
JULY 20
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meet for a social
get-together with
refreshments at the JCC
Rockland, 10:30 a.m.
450 West Nyack Road.
$3. Gene Arkin, (845)
356-5525.
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+
meet for brunch at
Congregation Agudath
Israel, 11 a.m. $10. 20
Academy Road. (973)
226-3600, ext. 145, or
singles@agudath.org.
Sunday
AUGUST 3
Comedy in Clifton:
North Jersey Jewish
Singles Meetup (late 40s
to 60s+), sponsored by
the Clifton Jewish Center,
hosts Cake, Coffee, and
Comedy, 7 p.m. Howard
Newman, this years
Broadway Comedy Club
in NYCs Funniest Jewish
Comedian of the Year, is
the featured comic. $20.
18 Delaware St. (973)
772-3131 or www.meetup.
com.
Comedian Eli
Lebowicz, winner of
the 2009 Last Comic
Standing contest,
performs at the Teaneck General
Store at 4 p.m. Mr. Lebowicz has
performed at college campuses
all over the United States and at
comedy clubs in New York City,
including Carolines on Broadway,
Standup NY, and Gotham
Comedy Club. Free. 502 Cedar
Lane. (201) 265-2272 or www.
teaneckgeneralstore.com.
JULY
30
HBO film recounts
synagogue bombings
On May 20, 2009, four men from the impoverished
and largely African-American city of Newburgh, N.Y.,
were apprehended for an alleged terror plot. They
had no history of violence or terrorist ties, but had
been drawn by a Pakistani FBI informant into a care-
fully orchestrated scheme to bomb synagogues in a
wealthy New York City suburb and fire Stinger missiles
at U.S. military supply planes. Their dramatic arrest,
complete with armored cars, a SWAT team, and FBI
aircraft, played out under the gaze of major television
outlets, ultimately resulting in 25-year prison sen-
tences for the co-called Newburgh Four.
Chronicling the story, The Newburgh Sting will
debut on HBO on Monday, July 21, at 9 p.m. The film
includes FBI hidden camera footage and insights from
Muslim leaders and high-level Washington insiders,
including former FBI assistant director Thomas Fuen-
tes, Congressman Keith Ellison, and former FBI under-
cover agent Mike German, as well as interviews with
the families of the Newburgh Four. The film is directed
and produced by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner.
Other HBO playdates are July 21 at 3:35 a.m., July 24
at 12:30 and 7:00 p.m., July 27 at 3:30 p.m., July 29 at
11:15 a.m., and August 2 at 10 a.m.
PHOTO CREDIT: FBI/COURTESY OF HBO
Golf, tennis, cycle
with Moriah
The Moriah School holds its 11th annual Golf, Tennis
and Cycling Outing on Monday, August 11, at the Edge-
wood Country Club in River Vale, rain or shine.
The full day of activity includes a breakfast buffet,
lunch, Zumba, cocktails, dinner, entertainment, and
awards.
Moriahs online auction, with more than 300 items,
is from August 6 to 10 at www.biddingforgood.com/
moriah.
Call Nila Lazarus at (201) 567-0208 ext. 373, email
her at nlazarus@moriahschool.org, or go to www.
moriahgolf.org.
www.jstandard.com
Gallery
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n 1 North Jersey rabbis at the Hartman
Institute in Jerusalem are studying A
Time for War, A Time for Peace. The
photo was taken July 9, the night after
rockets landed in Jerusalem. Pictured
front row from left are Rabbis Ned Soltz,
Neil Tow, Kenneth Emert, Ziona Zelaso,
and Amy Small. At top, from left, are Dori
Kirshner, with Rabbis David-Seth Kirsh-
ner, Jeffrey Salkin, and Jonathan Woll.
n 2 The Glen Rock Jewish Centers Eliza-
beth Fish, Vicky Katzman, and Rabbi
Rachel Schwartz who is married to
the shuls Rabbi Neil Tow have cre-
ated the template for a mural that tells
the story of the Jewish people and the
GRJC story. The community art project
will add color and light to the shul and
be a community educational resource.
It will be hung in the stairwell leading to
the GRJCs third floor. GRJC members of
all ages are participating in the project.
n 3 The NJ State Association of Jewish
Federations announced its new officers at
its annual meeting. From left, the award re-
cipients and NJSAJF leaders are NJSAJFs
executive director, Jacob Toporek; Danny
Goldberg, executive director of the Ocean
County Jewish Federation; Gerrie Bamira,
executive director of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Middlesex County; Shlomi Kof-
man, Israels deputy consul general; Mark
Levenson, who is NJSAJFs president until
June 2015, chair of the N.J. Israel Commis-
sion, and the former president of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Clifton-Passaic; Ruth
Cole, NJSAJFs immediate past president,
board member of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey and national Ha-
dassah, and the past president of Jewish
Family Service of Bergen County; Max
Kleinman, CEO of the Jewish Federation of
Greater MetroWest; and Toby Shylit Mack,
NJSAJF president-elect. Among NJSAJF
executive committee locals not pictured are
Susan Penn, JFNNJ, vice president; Jason
Shames, JFNNJ, appointed by NJSAJF
president; and Herb Klein, Jewish Federa-
tion of Clifton/Passaic. COURTESY JFNNJ
n 4 Jason Conk, Will Mitchell, and Jac-
lyn Andriano, participants in the Bergen
County YJCCs S.A.I.L. program for adults
with developmental disabilities, har-
vested fresh herbs from the YJCC com-
munity garden and then packaged them
for donation to Helping Hands Food
Pantry at the Hillsdale United Method-
ist Church. The herbs began as seeds
planted by children during the YJCCs
community day in April. COURTESY YJCC
1 2
3 4
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JS-44
of a Shabbat morning or not. Its nothing
like Paris. You see people coming to work
in kippot. You dont feel threatened.
Moving back to a discussion of his own
life, Mr. Benjamin said that he did not go
to a yeshiva. Instead, he was sent to public
school that is, as any Anglophile would
know, a private school. His was Dulwich
College, founded by one of Shakespeares
colleagues, Edward Alleyn, and set in part
on the banks of the Thames. (Raymond
Chandler, the quintessential early 20th
century L.A. noir thriller writer, inexpli-
cably graduated from Dulwich. So did
the explorer Ernest Shackleton and the
lawyer Hartley Shawcross, who was the
lead British prosecutor at Nuremberg.)
Next, he went to Manchester University,
and then to law school. For eight years, I
practiced law as a litigator which is good
practice for Jewish communal work, he
said. I moved into the communal world
I thought that with all the tsouris in being
a lawyer, I could do it perhaps for a higher
calling.
Now, at World ORT, Mr. Benjamin over-
sees fundraising and programming all
around the world, managing the relation-
ship between the fundraising countries
the United States, Britain, Canada, Swit-
zerland and the operations countries,
which are many and varied, including
Israel and the former Soviet Union, South
America, and South Africa.
We share best practices that we build up
in one country with another one, he said. I
arrived in South Africa for a seminar, where
Israeli instructors were teaching South Afri-
can teachers about hi-tech. A similar program
was running in Lithuania. We might try some-
thing in Lithuania and refine it in South Africa
and offer it in Argentina. The whole world is
part of the network.
Part of the organizations goal is to train
disadvantaged children to be able to work
with technology. Although it would be
wonderful if some of the children with
whom they work show themselves to be
gifted and work their way toward Nobel
prizes, ORT has no illusions that most of
their children, like children anywhere, will
be anything other than average.
World ORT is helping deal with the
ongoing situation in Israel. Among other
things, it provides training and programs
for disadvantaged children there partic-
ularly for children sent up north for safety,
and others who are still in the south, in
rocket range. We do a lot of robotics, he
said. We try to make science fun.
We offer very practical physical
responses to the situation, he said. To
help the kids mental welfare, and so that
their parents can know that their kids are
safe and looked after.
In the end, the British and American
Jewish communities are more similar than
they are different. The same issues come
up again and again, he said. And then the
community tackles them.
Great Britain
FROM PAGE 11
BRIEFS
Iraqi Christian bishops warn:
We are in danger of disappearing
Despite finding temporary refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan in the
wake of the invasion by jihadists from the Islamic State in Iraq
and Greater Syria, Iraqs top Christian leaders say the com-
munity is disappearing.
We are in the process of disappearing, just as the Christians
in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and North Africa have disappeared.
And even in Lebanon they now constitute only a minority,
Archbishop Yousif Mirkis, head of the Chaldean Catholic Arch-
diocese of Kirkuk, told the Catholic charity group Aid to the
Church in Need.
Iraqi Christians, despite being a minority, long have been
important to the countrys social fabric by operating schools,
hospitals, and charities. But since the ISIS invasion, many Iraqi
Christians have fled to Iraqs Kurdistan region, which has been
Iraqs most prosperous and stable area over the last decade.
Not only is there security here, but the government is pre-
pared to listen to our concerns. This became evident in the
present refugee crisis, said Archbishop Matti Ward, head of
the Chaldean Archeparchy of Erbil. The Kurdish government
has opened the borders to Christians.
Before 2003, it was estimated that 130,000 Christians lived
in Mosul, Iraqs second-largest city, but only about 10,000
remained before the recent ISIS invasion. Overall, nearly two-
thirds of Iraq Christians have fled the country since 2003.
JNS.ORG
Palestinians refuse
Israeli humanitarian aid
Israels Magen David Adom emergency services organization
offered to transfer blood units and donations to the Gaza Strip
on Monday, but the Palestinian Authority rejected the offer.
According to MDAs director, Eli Bin, the organization then
offered to assist the PA by facilitating blood drives involving
Palestinian or Israeli Arab donors, but that offer also was
rejected.
Bin described Israels attempt help Palestinian medical facil-
ities as a humanitarian gesture. JNS.ORG
Israel utility workers brave
peril, restore power to Gaza
After a day without power, electricity was restored to
some 70,000 Gazans when the Israeli government gave
the Israel Electric Corporation the green light to repair
a high-power line that had been damaged by a rocket on
Saturday, Israel Hayom reported.
The Israel Defense Forces said that one of the rockets fired
by Gaza terrorists Sunday night hit an electricity infrastruc-
ture in Israel that supplied electricity to the Gaza Strip, caus-
ing a power outage to some 70,000 Gaza civilians.
IEC employees dispatched to repair the damage were
accompanied by IDF soldiers and outfitted with bulletproof
vests. They wore special helmets to minimize the threat of
shrapnel injuries. JNS.ORG
Irans only Jewish MP
compares Israel Gaza strikes
to action by Nazis
Iranian-Jewish minority member of parliament Siamak Moreh
Sedgh, who is the only Jew in Irans parliament, compared
Israels bombing of the Gaza strip in response to the firing of
rockets by Hamas to the actions of the Nazis.
The Zionist regimes crimes are reminiscent of the actions
taken by the German Nazis, Sedgh said, according to Irans
Fars News Agency. He also compared Israels actions to Sad-
dam Husseins persecution of Shiite Muslims.
Iran grants a parliament seat to the Jewish religious minor-
ity. The seat was previously held by Maurice Motamed, who
had criticized former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads
Holocaust denial, reported Haaretz. Sedgh has not voiced
similar criticism. JNS.ORG
Pro-Israel activists are clubbed
with wooden sticks in Los Angeles
Pro-Palestinian activists wielding wooden sticks attacked
participants at a pro-Israel solidarity rally in Los Angeles on
Sunday.
The rally, attended by more than 3,000 people, took place
in front of the Federal Building in the neighborhood of West-
wood. A pro-Palestinian protest drew roughly 200 people
across the street.
A federal officer attempting to stop the altercation fired a
single shot. He has since been placed on administrative leave
while the incident is being investigated.
Four menidentified as Mostadafa Gamaleldin Hafez, Has-
san Mustapha Kreidieh, Mohammed Said Elkhatib, and Fadi
Ali Obeidallahwere reportedly arrested on suspicion of
assault with a deadly weapon. One protester called out Free,
Free Palestine as he was placed in the police car, accord-
ing to the Los Angeles-based Israel education organization
StandWithUs.
The altercation may have started after a pro-Israel rally
participant grabbed a Palestinian flag from a truck in which
the protesters were sitting and stepped on it, the Los Ange-
les Times reported. The eventually arrested men then got
out of the vehicle and began hitting pro-Israel protesters with
wooden sticks. One person was hit in the arm. JNS.ORG
Rockets land in Golan Heights
as Egypt thwarts Sinai attack
As rocket attacks from Gaza continue, Israel is also facing an
increase in rockets fired from Lebanon and Syria.
According to the IDF, a rocket fired from Syria on Monday
exploded in an open area near an Israeli town in the Golan
Heights. Also on Monday, more rockets were fired at Israel
from Lebanon, with the IDF responding with artillery fire. It
was the third rocket attack from Lebanon since Friday. Both
Hezbollah and Palestinian terror groups operate in southern
Lebanon.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian military thwarted an attempt to
launch two rockets from the Sinai Peninsula at Israel on Sun-
day, Al-Arabiya reported.
Since the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the Sinai Peninsula has
become increasingly lawless, with several terrorist groups
operating in the region, including al-Qaeda-linked fighters.
The Egyptian military, with Israels blessing, has launched an
offensive against these groups. JNS.ORG
Protective Edge protest
turns violent in Germany
A protest against Israels Operation Protective Edge turned
violent in Frankfurt, Germany, over the weekend, with pro-
testers hurling stones at police and another protestor using
a police megaphone to shout child murderer Israel and
Allahu Akhbar to demonstrators.
According to the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau,
nearly 2,000 people attended the pro-Gaza protest, with sev-
eral Islamists and local neo-Nazi groups there.
Local German leaders have sharply criticized how the
police handled a situation in which a protester was apparently
given access to a German police cars megaphone and began
shouting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slogans.
Im shocked that a German police car was used to spread
hatred and agitation, the head of the Central Council of Jews
in Germany, Dieter Graumann, told The Associated Press. It
was a big mistake.
Frankfurt police also confirmed that a local synagogue had
been vandalized, with a anti-Semitic slogan written on the
synagogues walls. JNS.ORG
Obituaries
JS-45
When someone you love
becomes a memory
that memory becomes a treasure
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Abraham Eisen
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He was an Army veteran of
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United Nations, and National Defense
service medals, and the Combat
Infantry Badge. Before retiring, he was
a longshoreman.
Predeceased by his wife, Lois, he is
survived by his second wife, Elsie; sons
Mark (Marcia), Dean (Norma), and
Howard; a brother, Paul; stepchildren,
Nancy Remson ( Jeff ) and Donna
Fielding (David); 10 grandchildren, and
one great-grandchild.
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Association, Park Ridge.
Arrangements were by
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Stanley Gurian
Stanley Gurian of River Edge
died July 8.
He was an Army veteran of the
Korean War, earning three Bronze
Stars and a United Nations Service
Medal. He was a self-employed
accountant and treasurer at Industrial
Acoustics in the Bronx. He was a
member of Temple Avodat Shalom in
River Edge, and received the Bergen
County Volunteer of the Year award
last month.
He is survived by his wife, Judith;
children Wendy Segal (Richard) and
Kenneth ( Jill); a brother, Richard; and
four grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the
World Jewish Congress, New York.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Jerome Solomon
Jerome Spencer Solomon, 68, of Ridge-
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Suzanne and Philip Solomon, wife,
Barna; children, Samantha Moss
(Michael), and Jason (Elli Kaplan); a
brother, Dr. Gene; four grandchildren;
and brothers/sisters-in-law, Susan and
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Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning South Afri-
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English-born mother, Ms. Gordimer, who was Jewish,
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Witwatersand. She began to publish stories and novels
chronicling the affects of apartheid on both black and
white South Africans. Some of these works were banned.
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to apartheid. That refusal led to a bitter dispute with her
biographer, Ronald Suresh Roberts.
Ms. Gordimer is survived by her daughter, Oriane,
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and library boards.
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Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Anita Weisz
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he felt a mixture of sadness and grow-
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hard and long with the writer to create a
film of which they both would be proud.
It was the first time they worked together
and though Mr. Kashua had a few novels
and a television series under his belt, he
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incredible resolve of the Israeli people.
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deter would-be burglars from taking a
second look at your house.
You can also buy home security alarm
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