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CONTENTS
Candlelighting: Friday, August 1, 7:55 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, August 2, 8:58 p.m.
SATIRE
Area man resolves Mideast conflict
by incessant checking of Facebook
A New Jersey man has
single-handedly brought
calm to the troubled Israel-
Gaza region merely by
checking his Facebook
feed.
I was refreshing maybe 100 to
200 times a day, he said. When
Gaza and Israeli leaders learned
how deeply concerned I was, and
how unproductive I was at work,
they came to the simultaneous
realization that the madness had
to end.
In a statement, Hamas leader
Kaled Meshal said The impact
on the American economy due
to lack of capitalistic activity has
been sufficiently large. We have
made our point and will immedi-
ately cease fire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu noted that he was feel-
ing very worried about the psyche
of progressive American Jews in
general, and this man in particular.
They just cant handle it. Our
American brethren are in trouble.
We have to sue for peace, he said.
Netanyahu later acknowl-
edged that the Iron Dome in-
terceptor rockets were being
manually fired each time the
man liked or shared a post.
Meanwhile, the American
National Security Agency (NSA)
quietly admitted that the contents
of the articles this man clicked
through supporting one or the
other side of the conflict were be-
ing automatically imprinted onto
the neural networks of the leaders
of the opposing side, triggering
their empathy pathways. Accord-
ing to an unnamed NSA source,
Hamas was coming to understand
how threatened Israelis felt by the
rockets and tunnels. Israeli leaders
began to suffer deeply the trauma
of living in Gaza and the deaths of
children.
When it was revealed that this
man was Jewish, European anti-
Semitic rioters suddenly changed
their minds, joined hands, and be-
gan singing the score of Fiddler
on the Roof in appreciation of all
the man had done. BRIAN SOKOL
Babies in the stairwell
It might be adorable if it werent so
horrible.
When sirens go off across Is-
rael, hospital staff must crowd with
newborn babies into the stairwell
for shelter. This picture, taken by Dr.
Ruti Vigler, shows staff and babies
at Petah Tikvas Schneider Childrens
Medical Center.
ISRAEL21C.ORG
How you can help Israel
The Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey is collecting money to help
Israelis affected by the violence.
The federation is sending all the
funds to its social service partners in Is-
rael, who are being called upon to help
children in areas closest to Gaza, to
provide assistance to the disabled who
cant get to a safe place when sirens go
off, and to counsel people with post-
traumatic stress disorder.
So far, more than 1,000 donors have
donated more than $440,000 to the
campaign.
Go to www.jfnnj.org/supportisrael to
donate and for more information.
New wound-closure technique
helps heal Israeli soldiers
Some of the soldiers wounded in
Operation Protective Edge are ben-
efiting from a brand-new Israeli tech-
nology to close open wounds quickly
and temporarily prior to further evalu-
ation and treatment.
Just on the cusp of the market, the
TopClosure 3S Trauma Management
System is approved by regulatory
agencies in Israel, the United States,
and Europe for mass-casualty situ-
ations such as combat and natural
disasters. Soroka University Medical
Center in Beersheva is using TopClo-
sure for incoming injuries from the
Gaza conflict, according to the tech-
nologys inventor, Dr. Moris Topaz.
Weve been using it clinically al-
ready for a few years, collecting a lot
of data to show the scope of applica-
tions, says Dr. Topaz, chief of plastic
surgery at Hillel Yaffe Medical Cen-
ter in Hadera. Its changing the way
weve been handling the closure of
wounds to avoid further damage and
contamination to the injured tissues.
Until now, emergency protocol for
a large open wound involved clean-
ing and suturing, then applying a skin
graft. TopClosure instead enables
stretching the edges of the skin over
the wound with adhesive attach-
ment plates placed on either side
and secured with an approximation
strap inserted into the first and then
the second plate. This fast procedure
also simplifies healing substantially,
Topaz says.
When trying to close a wound with
sutures, we apply high tension to the
skin, he says. With TopClosure we
can spread the tension on the skin
about 100,000 times higher than we
could do before.
The device can be zipped open
after the emergency situation has
passed so the wound can be further
evaluated and treated. This tempo-
rary wound closure system is meant
to be used by medics, paramedics,
surgeons and other physicians. Topaz
is teaching orthopedic and hand sur-
geons how to use it.
The most important thing about
TopClosure is its simplicity, says
Dr. Topaz. Doctors commonly say,
Why didnt we think of this earlier?
My wish is that it would be exposed
to every doctor and every patient
as an emerging technology that can
be applied anywhere in the world
without sophisticated plastic surgery
procedures.
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN / ISRAEL21C.ORG
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Institution. Long story
short: some years ago,
Clinton noticed that the
famous Banner flag,
housed at the Smithson-
ian, was looking frayed
and faded. Curators con-
firmed that intermittent
preservation treatments
were inadequate and an
expensive state-of-the-
art preservation effort
was needed. Lauren
responded to an appeal
to preserve the flag with
a $10 million donation to
restore it via high-tech
procedures and kicked
in another $3 million for
other historic preserva-
tion programs.
Actually, the flag
conservation work was
completed in 2008 and
a Smithsonian book
was published that year
in connection with the
re-installation of the con-
served flag. In that book,
Lauren expressed his
feelings about the flag.
The son of immigrants
from Belarus, he wrote,
I am a product of the
American dream, and the
flag is its symbol. The
flags enduring legacy,
he said, is important
to Americans because
those who succeed us
will understand our na-
tions heritage and the
ideals on which the Unit-
ed States was founded.
Warner Bros. has hired
a screenwriter to adapt
a scholarly book on the
creation of the Apollo
space suits. The proj-
ect has the temporary
working title of Bras in
Space.
Space suits made out
of stiff materials, like
Patricia Arquette
AT THE MOVIES:
Boy, oh, Boyhood
Woody Allen
Ralph Lauren Abram N. Spanel
Virtually every
critic is describ-
ing Boyhood as a
great film and an amaz-
ing accomplishment. It
was filmed over 12 years
from 2001 to 2013.
The central character is
Mason Jr., played by Ellar
Coltrane, who is 6 years
old when the film begins.
Largely through his eyes,
we watch him grow up,
literally, until he is 18 and
a high school graduate.
In other words, Coltrane,
the star of the film, really
was 6 years old when
filming began, and now
he really is 19.
Ethan Hawke plays Ma-
son Sr., his father, and
PATRICIA ARQUETTE,
now 46, plays his mother.
(Arquette was 33 when
filming began). Lorelei
Linklater, the daughter
of Richard Linklater, the
films director/writer,
plays Mason Jr.s sister.
Observers who have fol-
lowed Linklaters long
career know that he is a
master at following char-
acters over a long period.
Most people have seen
at least one of his three
related and critically ac-
claimed films co-starring
Hawke and Julie Delpy:
In 1995, Before Sunrise
told the story of a young
couple meeting on a Eu-
ropean train and bonding
over the course of one
long evening. The same
pair reconnects for the
first time since that night
in 2004s Before Sun-
set. In 2012, the most
recent film, Before Mid-
night, finds them mar-
ried and trying to deal
with problems unique to
them, as well as coping
with difficulties common
to middle-aged long-
married couples.
Magic in the Moon-
light, a new romantic
comedy by WOODY AL-
LEN, 79, is much lighter
than Boyhood. The
setting is the opulent
French Riviera in the
1920s. Colin Firth stars
as a master magician
who is trying to ex-
pose a charming me-
dium (Emma Stone). It
opens Friday, August 1 in
many cities.
It didnt get a great
deal of publicity
and I didnt read
about it until recently
so apologies to RALPH
LAUREN, 74, for not
previously noting that
he was the most recent
recipient of the presti-
gious James Smithson
Bicentennial Medal,
recognizing his lifetime
contributions to Ameri-
can entrepreneurship,
artistry, creativity, and
vision especially his
role in the preservation
of the flag that flew over
Baltimores Fort McHen-
ry during the famous
War of 1812 battle that
inspired Francis Scott
Key to write The Star
Spangled Banner. Hill-
ary Clinton gave Lauren
his award in a ceremony
held on June 17, 2014 in
front of the Smithsonian
No maverick marriage
for the Garners
As you no doubt heard, the likeable and talented
James Garner died on July 19 at 86. One footnote not
found in most bios: his widow, LOIS CLARKE GAR-
NER, is Jewish. They had been married since 1956. In his
autobiography, published in 2011, Garner wrote about
meeting Lois, I fell in love for the irst and last time in
my life. Beside being a great family man, Garner was
a twice-wounded veteran of the Korean War, and one
of the relative handful ofHollywood stars who flew to
Washingtonto attend the 1963 civil right march in which
Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous I Have a Dream
speech.
N.B.
Lois Clarke and James Garner, then and recently.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
knights armor, proved
to be a dismal failure.
What did work beauti-
fully was the suit made
by the Playtex Com-
pany, made up of many
gossamer-thin layers of
material and constructed
much like a bra. Playtex
was founded by ABRAM
N. SPANEL (1905-1988),
a brilliant inventor who
was famous for treating
his mostly female work
force very well, as well as
supporting medical and
Jewish charities.
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A way to thwart their funding
Hackensack lawyer takes lead in first U.S. civil terrorism lawsuit against a bank
JOSH LIPOWSKY
O
n May 18, 2003, Steve Aver-
bach boarded a Jerusalem
commuter bus and noticed
an Arab man aboard dressed
like a haredi Jew. When Mr. Averbach, an
Israeli immigrant from West Long Branch,
approached, the man detonated his explo-
sives, killing seven people and wounding
20, including Mr. Averbach.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the
bombing. Mr. Averbach, left paralyzed
from the neck down, was hailed as a hero
for scaring the bomber into prematurely
detonating his suicide vest and reducing
the death toll.
Eleven years later, the Averbach family
is taking part in a massive lawsuit against
Jordan-based Arab Bank, alleging that the
bank facilitated fundraising for Hamas and
other terror groups, as well as payments
to dead terrorists families, and thus bears
responsibility for Hamas terrorism. The
case is set for an August 11 trial in federal
court in Brooklyn.
The lawsuit now includes approxi-
mately 100 families of American terror
victims, about half of whom are repre-
sented by four law firms referred to in
court records as Linde counsel, after the
lead plaintiffs family. John Linde Jr. was a
U.S. citizen working as a security contrac-
tor for the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv who
was escorting a diplomatic convoy in the
Gaza Strip that was scheduled to inter-
view Palestinian applicants for Fulbright
scholarships. He and two other mem-
bers of the security detail were killed
by a remote-controlled bomb in Gaza
on October 15, 2003. His widow and
parents initially filed the suit in 2004
against Arab Bank under the U.S. Anti-
Terrorism Act, which grants U.S. citi-
zens legal recourse against those who
knowingly provide material support to
foreign terror organizations.
The plaintiffs charge that Arab
Bank, which has branches across the
globe, including New York, provided
financial services to Hamas leaders
and senior operatives. According to
court documents, programs such as
the Saudi Committee in Support of the
Intifada al Quds allegedly used Arab
Bank to transfer payments to families
of so-called martyrs, including sui-
cide bombers, prisoners, and those
wounded in the second intifada. Arab
Bank allegedly processed millions of
dollars on behalf of the Hamas global
funding network, and facilitated an
Iranian funding program through a
Hezbollah charity in Lebanon called the
Shahid Foundation.
Created in October 2000, the Saudi
Committee allegedly provided millions of
dollars to the families of these so-called
martyrs, including over $42 million in
November 2001 alone, according to court
documents. Arab Bank allegedly main-
tained lists of beneficiaries to whom it was
to distribute the funds.
We allege that this was a key channel
to provide a form of indemnification to
Palestinian terrorists and would-be terror-
ists who would be incentivized by know-
ing that their families would be financially
cared for if they were killed, injured or
imprisoned as a result of their violent
activities, said Gary Osen of Hackensacks
Osen LLC, the Averbachs attorney, who is
also representing about 235 other victims
in the case.
Arab Bank denies liability, saying it had
no intent to fund terrorism and lacked
knowledge that the funds would be used
for that purpose.
In 2005, Shukri Bishara, then Arab
Banks chief banking officer, told the Wall
Street Journal that while the bank acknowl-
edged $20 million worth of specific trans-
actions to or from suspected terrorists or
groups, it denied knowledge of any orga-
nized funding program for terrorism.
We find suicide bombing an abominable
An injured girl is evacuated from the scene of a Palestinian suicide bombing at the
Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem August 9, 2001. The liability of Arab Bank for this
and 23 other Hamas attacks is up for trial in Brooklyn. PHOTO BY FLASH90
Gary Osen, the man giving victims an opportunity
JOSH LIPOWSKY
For attorney Gary Osen of Hackensacks
Osen LLC, the case against Arab Bank
is the continuation of a career built on
fighting for people who have been cast
into the role of victims.
Its not who they want to be or how
they want to be remembered, he said.
This case provides them an opportunity
to do something, to be proactive, and
perhaps change the world just a little bit
for the better and maybe salvage some-
thing from the circumstances that have
been thrust on them.
Inspired by his father, attorney Max
Osen, Mr. Osen began his career in Holo-
caust restitution. Max Osen came to the
United States at age 11, fleeing from Nazi
Germany. He returned in 1945 as a U.S.
soldier, and after the war he received his
law degree and began taking on restitu-
tion cases. When Gary Osen graduated
from law school in 1992, his father took
him to Germany to see properties that
had been seized during the war, and the
younger Osen became fascinated by the
history behind his fathers cases, four
of which were successfully resolved by
Germanys highest courts. Gary Osen
began taking on additional cases, includ-
ing those fighting for the return of stolen
artwork.
Its never been boring and never been
dull, he said, and along the way weve
been able to help some people.
Mr. Osen first got involved in terrorism
law after the September 11, 2001, attacks,
in which one of his neigh-
bors had been killed.
The family asked him to
look into joining a law-
suit against al Qaeda, and
his research on that case
led him to begin focusing
on Saudi Arabias global
donations, particularly to
Hamas.
I saw in my research
that the Saudi s who
funded al Qaeda were
relatively clandestine
because there was some pushback in the
kingdom because of al Qaedas criticism
of the Saudi royal family, he said. The
funding of Hamas in the beginning of the
century, however, was something largely
encouraged and done
openly. When the second
intifada broke out, the
Saudis infamously raised
money for the intifada in a
telethon and much of that
was reported in the Arabic
press.
From Holocaust restitu-
tion to September 11 vic-
tims to Palestinian terror-
ism, Theres no question
that these cases have cer-
tain common themes, Mr.
Osen said. Often, at least at the begin-
ning, they seem to be a bit quixotic. We
take great pride in trying to help people
who havent had a lot of other places to
turn.
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human act, he told the paper.
In a statement sent to this paper this
week, Arab Bank argued that it did not
cause or provide material support for the
acts of terrorism involved in this case.
Arab Bank has great sympathy for all
victims of terrorism but is not liable for
the tragic acts described by Plaintiffs,
the statement read. This case raises very
important issues not only for Arab Bank
and the plaintiffs, but also for the inter-
national finance system, which processes
trillions of dollars in transfers each day.
Plaintiffs argue banks should be liable for
the millions of routine, automated transac-
tions that they process even when proper
compliance requirements are followed
and the parties were in good standing at
the time. Plaintiffs theory, if adopted by
the Court, would undermine the auto-
mated compliance systems that regulators
around the world require banks to employ,
and create vast uncertainty and risk in the
international finance system.
The trial will begin by focusing on 24
Hamas attacks, as Hamas is responsible
for about 60 percent of the attacks listed
in the suit. (Other attacks cited
in the suit are credited to Pales-
tinian Islamic Jihad, the Popu-
lar Front for the Liberation of
Palestine-General Command,
Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and
other terror groups.) Hamas is
not itself defendant in the case,
but a liability verdict would
likely have a strong impact on
the organization since it might
make other banks think twice
before transfering money into
Gaza.
There are only a limited
number of financial institu-
tions that operate in the Pal-
estinian territories, Mr. Osen
said. Its one thing to move
a million dollars through a
courier through a tunnel. The
kind of money needed to run a
proto-government can only be
done through formal banking
channels.
Arab Bank, for example, facilitates
salary distribution for the Palestinian
Authority. Since Hamas and Fatah signed
a reconciliation agreement in April, the PA
has refused to pay the salaries of Hamas
civil servants in Gaza. Qatar
recently offered to provide sev-
eral million dollars to pay those
salaries, but pressure from the
United States blocked the trans-
fer and Arab Bank refused to pro-
cess the funds.
Well actually have a trial and
the public will hopefully gain a
unique insight into how terror-
ist organizations like Hamas are
funded and the mechanisms by
which they create this larger cul-
ture of martyrdom that has taken
hold in so much of the Middle
East, Mr. Osen said.
The August trial is to deter-
mine the banks liability. If Arab
Bank is found liable for the terror
attacks, then the judge will task
another jury to assess the indi-
vidual damages to the plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs are not seeking
a specific amount of damages,
which would be determined by
the court, Mr. Osen said.
The late Steve Averbach, an Israeli immigrant from New
Jersey, who was paralyzed in a 2003 bombing attack
aboard a Jerusalem bus. COURTESY AVERBACH FAMILY
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Comics demand equal time for Jewish fathers
Diverse threesome to launch tour at Wayne synagogue
LOIS GOLDRICH
If Jewish mothers are the butt of so many
jokes, thats because so many comedians
are Jewish fathers, quips Rockland County
comedian Adam Oliensis.
To help address that gender imbalance,
Mr. Oliensis is teaming up with fellow com-
ics Rabbi Bob Alper and Alex Barnett in
The Jewish Fathers Comedy Tour, which
will launch in Wayne on August 10.
Asked how the three-man collabora-
tion came about, Barnett replied, Have
you heard us sing? If you had, you would
quickly understand why were doing
standup together and not forming a rock
band.
But seriously Also, Ive known Adam
for a long time. Weve worked together
many times and then I met Bob at a show
of mine. We all then got on a call together
and hit it off, and during that call we came
up with the idea for the tour.
As it happens, the show where Mr. Bar-
nett met Rabbi Alper The Diversity
Show, featuring comedians from differ-
ent ethnic groups is not unlike Rabbi
Alpers own Laugh in Peace ensemble,
including Jewish, Muslim, and Christian
performers.
The new Jewish fathers group is also a
study in diversity, said Rabbi Alper.
Alex Barnett is a 40-something lawyer
with a toddler, Adam Oliensis is a 50-some-
thing financial industry executive with
teenagers, and Im a 60-something rabbi
with adorable 42- and 38-year-olds.
Its a great fit, said Rabbi Alper. We all
do material about being Jewish fathers,
so we dont have to reinvent the wheel.
All three of us can work 100 percent
clean, and our comedy is not hateful or
self-hating.
For his part, Mr. Barnett who has
performed at clubs, colleges, and ven-
ues throughout the country and has also
appeared on both television and radio
declined to comment on whether Jewish
mothers are funnier than Jewish fathers.
I have a Jewish mother, a Jewish step-
mother, and Im married to a Jewish
mother, so I plead the fifth, as any answer
may tend to incriminate me, he said.
He does, however, offer a reason for the
perceived neglect of Jewish fathers.
I think Jewish dads perhaps get over-
looked because historically were not the
ones who do the cooking. People tend to
focus their attention and devotion on the
person providing them with sustenance
and nutrition. Either that or because were
pretty bad with tools.
Mr. Oliensis has a different take on the
issue.
I remember reading something by Dick
Cavett where he asked a famous agent the
difference between a successful comic and
a star. The answer, said the agent, is a cer-
tain largeness of personality. Jewish moth-
ers have that, so they naturally become the
star of a joke. The stereotype of the Jew-
ish woman as someone who wont be
deterred is overwhelming, a great persona
to put in the middle of a joke. A huge char-
acter, like a Jewish female Jackie Gleason.
The typical Jewish father, though, has
been seen as someone who goes to work,
comes home, and tells the children to do
what the mother says.
But now, said Mr. Oliensis, women are
becoming the men theyve asked men not to
be. Fathers now are more available to their
families and are becoming more on a par
with the mother as a presence in the home.
The comic, who also produces a stock
market newsletter, said employment sta-
tistics from the early 1980s to 2000 show
increasing numbers of women entering
the workforce.
Mom doesnt make dinner, he said.
She works and buys dinner. So the void in
the home is filled by Jewish fathers. Weve
seen the advent of non-gender-specific
helicopter parents.
Rabbi Alper, on the other hand, thinks
Jewish fathers are funnier for sure.
Theyre the joke tellers. Its our time.
The Jewish Fathers Comedy tour will
open at Waynes Temple Beth Tikvah, a
synagogue familiar to Mr. Oliensis.
I lived in Wayne in the early 60s, said
the comic. We were members of Beth Tik-
vah. My earliest and most vivid religious
memory is sitting in the sanctuary at my
sisters 1965 bat mitzvah and looking at the
stained glass window, letting my eyes wan-
der and play visual tricks.
He notes that when his family first came
over from Europe, they were called Olasky.
They changed it to fit in, he said. My
great uncle thought he was anglicizing it.
In addition to the unusual name Any-
one with that name is probably a relative,
said the Rockland County comedian Mr.
Oliensis has reason to believe that he is an
11th-generation direct descendant of the
Vilna Gaon.
My great-grandmother heard from her
grandfather that she was the eighth gener-
ation, he said. This makes him part of gen-
eration 11; and his kids, generation 12. Still,
he noted, while such illustrious lineage
may have helped him develop a healthy
respect for academic achievement, it is
absolutely no help when it comes to rais-
ing teenage girls.
Mr. Oliensis who plays clubs in New
York City and the surrounding area, as
well as synagogues, theatres, and JCCs
throughout New York, New Jersey, Con-
necticut, and Pennsylvania said there
are good reasons why a disproportionate
number of comedians are Jewish.
Humor was probably not huge before
the destruction of the Temple, but we live
in a hostile world and our strengths are
intellectual, so making light of catastro-
phe becomes a necessity, and then a vir-
tue, deflecting pain and anguish.
Humor, he said, is also very talmudic.
It looks at a little detail everyone takes for
granted and unfolds and unpacks it with
questions turning it over and examining
it from every aspect. The synthesis squirts
out as humor.
Mr. Oliensis, who studied martial arts
What: Jewish Fathers Comedy Tour
When: August 10 at 7 p.m.
Where: Temple Beth Tikvah,
950 Preakness Ave., Wayne
Cost: $18 a ticket
Information: Call the synagogue,
(973) 595-6565
Adam Oliensis, Bob Alper, and Alex Barnett, the members of The Jewish Fathers
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for many years, said he thinks of comedy as a kind of
intellectual aikido.
You turn [your opponents] enery against him. While
comedy is obviously a friendlier pursuit, its the same
kind of process. You take whats given and turn it around
into something else.
Mr. Barnett agrees with this assessment.
Our tradition of questioning lends itself to examining
life and trying to explain the ironies and misfortunes
that befall humanity, which is what comedy is all about.
Also and Im certainly not the first to say this given our
history, with so much tragedy, you have to be able to laugh
or you wont survive.
Mr. Alper an ordained rabbi who holds a doctorate
from Princeton Theological Seminary detailed three
possible reasons why Jews have flocked to comedy. First,
he said, alluding to the traditional answer that humor is
a response to victimhood, if you can intellectually out-
smart your oppressor, youve scored your own modest
victory. In addition, Jews have always prized portable
professions. You cant take your factories or farms when
youre kicked out, but you can take your brains.
Finally, Jews are in love with language playing with
language and examining meaning. Standup comedy, too,
involves playing with language, he said.
Are there any drawbacks to being a rabbi in this
profession?
In standup, you dont see a long story building, and
rabbis usually tell really long stories, he joked. But being
a rabbi is only a handicap if youre in a comedy club with
a bachelorette party going on.
Usually, he said, his only problem is when people
think Ill be like their own rabbi. That misconception, he
added, usually disappears quickly.
Otherwise, he said, being a rabbi is an asset, since
comedians need to be unique to make their way in the
world. I have an amazing niche market.
Throughout his 27-year career as a comic, Rabbi Alper
has performed all across North America and England, at
corporate events, theaters, nonprofits, conventions, pri-
vate parties, churches, and synagogues. Hes done more
than 200 shows with his Arab and Muslim comedy part-
ners, at a variety of venues, but primarily colleges and uni-
versities. A frequent guest on television programs, he is
also the author of three books.
As a regular presenter on Sirius/XM Radio, Rabbi Alper
fondly remembers sitting next to a cattle truck driver from
Kansas during one of his trips and hearing the man who
follows his show avidly repeating his material word for
word.
If this is any indication, the Jewish Fathers Comedy tour
will resonate with non-Jews as well.
Barnett has no doubt about that.
I say this because Ive performed for non-Jewish audi-
ences and gotten a good reaction. Also, we started doing
the act in English instead of just Hebrew and Yiddish
so now non-Jewish people really get our stuff. [Editors
note: Hes joking.]
Rabbi Alper, who lives in Vermont but maintains a vaca-
tion cottage on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, said the
group hopes to pursue a synagogue-based project where
families can memorialize living or deceased loved ones
fathers or grandfathers by sponsoring a show in their
behalf.
I would do it for my father, he said, recalling how his
late father loved to tell jokes. He described the venture as
an opportunity to memorialize [or honor] someone by
giving the community an opportunity to laugh.
The nicest thing that ever happened was when a
woman came up to me after a show and said My husband
died six months ago. This is the first time Ive laughed.
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By the waters of Babylon
Local scholars look at the horror and the beauty of Tisha BAv
JOANNE PALMER
T
isha BAv, which always falls
during golden summer, is the
darkest day of the Jewish year. It
marks the times when our ene-
mies triumphed, and those tragedies echo
through our history.
Its the day, our tradition tells us, when
both Temples fell, when Jerusalem was
conquered, its inhabitants massacred, and
the Jews who survived herded away.
This year, Tisha BAv, which begins on
Monday evening, has an added resonance
because of the nightmare in Israel and
Gaza, which began soon before the
three weeks that usher in the period of
mourning that climaxes in Tisha BAv and
has grown only more intense.
Two local scholars, Rabbi Dr. Michael
Chernick and Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Diamond,
both of Teaneck, agreed to talk about
Tisha BAv, its history, its relevance, and
the relationship between the beauty
and horror inherent in its liturgy. Rabbi
Chernick was ordained and earned his
doctorate at Yeshiva University; he teaches
Talmud at Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion. Rabbi Diamond
was ordained at the Jewish Theological
Seminary, where he is a professor of
Talmud and rabbinics.
The Romans destroyed the Second
Temple because the Jews were a pain in
the neck, Rabbi Chernick said. That was
in 79 C.E.; the Bar Kochba revolt followed
in 132. You would have thought
that they would have got it by that
point, but no. There was another
revolt, in Sepphoris, in 351, he
said.
So what was going on that
caused the Jews to revolt as
many times as they did? he
asked. They revolted many
more times than any other group
in the Roman Empire. Its not
just because they resented their
overlords, as all conquered
groups did. No, it was because
they found it theologically
unacceptable that the Romans should have
domination over the land of Israel. When
the Romans acted as conquerors when
they placed their standard, with the image
of an eagle, on the gates of the Temple
Thats all the Jews needed. They fought
back and, invariably, eventually they lost.
Although it is likely not the case that
both Temples were destroyed on the
ninth day in the month of Av Tisha BAv
Jewish tradition applied some creative
anachronism. There is also a midrash
saying that the spies returned from casing
the Land of Israel during the beginning
of the Israelites stay in the wilderness
and reported it to be desirable but
unconquerable, thus dooming an entire
generation to wander and die outside the
land, on Tisha BAv. The Sephardim date
the expulsion from Spain to Tisha BAv. It
is not a good day for Jews.
Although summer in Israel is hot, it is
still a time of fecundity, Rabbi Chernick
said, when trees bear fruit and their
aroma is in the air. It is a jarring time to
be mourning, he said.
In the Ashkenazi tradition, mourning for
the disasters of Tisha BAv lasts for much of
the summer, with the three weeks and the
eight days before demanding increasing
levels of self-denial.
There is a custom not to say the
blessing over anything new, and
therefore not to eat, use, or buy
anything new, so that there would
be need to say that blessing, the
Shehecheyanu, he said. There is all
that good summer fruit that Eastern
European Jews would avoid.
There is a sense that the tragedy is
intensified by some Jews, who push
away every enjoyment that you
could have in the summer.
The three-week period starting on
the 17th of Tammuz, which is said to mark
the breaching of Jerusalems walls, begins
with a dusk-to-dawn fast, and of course
Tisha BAv is a full fast. The period shows
the difference between the Ashkenazi and
Sephardi world views, Rabbi Chernick
said. The intensity of the period fed the
Ashkenazic tendency toward asceticism
that began in the Middle Ages, which
led some Jews to fast on Mondays and
Thursdays Torah reading days either
during part or even throughout the
year. If it hurts, its Ashkenazic, Rabbi
Chernick said.
The Talmud says that a persons joy
should increase during the month of
Adar, which includes the no-holds-
barred holiday of Purim. But joy should
diminish during Av. The Ashkenazim
took that to mean that you dont eat
meat and you dont drink wine, except
maybe on Shabbos, Rabbi Chernick
said. The nine days menu tends to be a
lot of dairy, and it stretches many cooks
imaginations. The Sephardic community
observes those restrictions only starting
on the week in which Tisha BAv falls, so
this year they start on Sunday and end
Monday night.
Rabbi Chernick said that he once went
to Tisha BAv services at Shearith Israel,
the Spanish-Portuguese congregation on
Manhattans Upper West Side that is the
oldest in New York City. It is one of the
most beautiful services on the face of the
earth, he said. It is intense, but there is
no yelling or crying. Its very austere. The
synagogue is set up with dim lights, just
candles, and the ark has a black curtain
in front of it. The kinnot the dirges
are sung to a lot of different melodies,
very frequently with congregational
participation.
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Artist Francesco Hayez depicts the Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in this 1867 painting. Tisha BAv, which begins
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You can really have the sense that 1492 when the
Jews were expelled from Spain happened about three
minutes ago.
The book of Lamentations Eicha is chanted on Tisha
BAv; its verses of horror and despair, thought to have been
written by the prophet Jeremiah, are sung to a melody of
haunting beauty.
How long does it take for horror to be remembered with
beauty?
One of the psalms associated with Tisha BAv is 137,
which begins By the waters of Babylon and is set after
the destruction of the first Temple on that day. Our
enemies ask us there to sing the songs of Zion, but how
can we sing those songs in a foreign land? Rabbi Chernick
said. We are supposed to picture the people going into
Babylonian exile, and if they are saying that they couldnt
sing the songs of Zion, at that moment they probably
couldnt. The Talmud says that after the destruction of
the Temple, songs that had been sung at weddings were
prohibited, as was all instrumental music.
But that ban could not last for more than one generation.
It was found that the people couldnt resist music, so the
rabbis said OK, we have to back off from there. There is
a limit to how much you can demand from people, and
there was a tendency in rabbinic Judaism to demand from
people only what they could do.
Music is a palliative for horror, he continued.
Sometimes a beautiful setting is an attempt to blunt the
reality of all this stuff.
The conversation came back to the nightmare in Israel
and Gaza. I saw a heartrending YouTube video, Rabbi
Chernick said. Its not really about beauty but maybe
it is.
It shows kids with their teachers in a safe room in
Israel. All sorts of things are going off overhead, and these
little kids 6, 7, maybe 8 at the oldest and theyre all
singing this song, with hand motions, about whats going
on. Its done to decrease the fear and terror that they are
feeling. You see them smiling. Its a game the lets-get-
into-the-safe-room-because-its-dangerous-out game and
there are motions, like my legs are shaking.
They made a game out of this horrendous situation. I
think that in some ways the music is to keep people from
feeling the intensity of the historic reality.
Sometimes some of the music is almost inappropriate,
in that its kind of happy. You really sense that someone
put these words to this music to make them seem less
powerful. Almost as if to say that it couldnt really have
been that bad.
There is some ambivalence about Tisha BAv in the
modern world, Rabbi Diamond said. The condition for
which the liturgy seems to yearn is the restoration of
the Temple, and there is a feeling somewhere between
ambivalence and distance from the sacrificial cult,
particularly in the liberal Jewish world, he said. There
are plenty of people who pray for the rebuilding of the
Beit Hamikdash the Temple but I am not always so
sure that in their heart of hearts that is what they want.
And anyway it would be a tall order.
The sense in which Tisha BAv does have a hold is the
narrative of us as an oppressed people, he continued.
Whereas Pesach is the optimistic story of coming out
of oppression, Tisha BAv is a look at all the times when
liberation has not come.
Traditionally, the importance of Tisha BAv from a
religious perspective is that is sees the destruction of the
Temples as punishment from God.
It is better to see it that way than as just something that
happened the enemy being a superior military force.
That would mean that history is not part of the divine
plan, and that God is absent, or really is not concerned
with us.
Although it is a day of mourning, it is also a day of
reflection and repentance, Rabbi Diamond said.
Another way to look at Tisha BAv is that destruction
is brought about by sinat chinam senseless hatred in
this case among Jews, when we havent stood together
as a people, he said. When you put something in the
background, what you have left moves to the foreground.
Because liberal Jews do not see Tisha BAv necessarily
as Gods punishment, they are more likely to see it
as a response to hatred. They often tie it as well to the
prophets call for social justice; it is a similar although not
identical theme.
A third approach to the day comes from the Conservative
movement, where some people have taken on the idea of
fasting for half a day. If you are not tied to the rebuilding of
the Temple, then what takes its place is the establishment
of the State of Israel. Fasting for half a day acknowledges
both our history of exile and our return to the land.
Recently, Rabbi Diamond said, Tisha BAv has been
tied to the Holocaust. That is particularly true at summer
camps. The day falls during the camp season, after all,
and it poses a great challenge to administrators and
staff. But that connection comes with its own built-in
contradictions. I think once you associate Tisha BAv with
the Holocaust, then you really are bringing up something
new the tragic nature of Jewish history.
You are thinking about the evil that dwells in the
human heart, but now its not sinat chinam, not about
Jews, but instead its about the Other.
If you ask most Jews in the country about whats most
important about their Jewish identity they will mention the
Holocaust, he said. Although that seems to be a circular
argument the reason to remember the Holocaust is
to remain Jewish, and the reason to remain Jewish is to
remember the Holocaust it is a popular one. But its
really moving far from the original sense of Tisha Bav.
Rabbi Diamond said that the elegiac music of Tisha BAv
indeed is beautiful, but it does not contradict the words.
And the words, he said, are not full only of horror, but
also of anger. The prophet is turning to God, and saying
How can you allow this to happen? he said. Eicha is
extremely complex, in a way that I find beautiful and
meaningful.
It is somebody stumbling around, trying to make sense
of what is happening. At the beginning, there is a picture
of desolation, a description of sinfulness and the cruelty
of other nations.
And then the prophet begins talk to God.
In the beginning, its all at a distance, in the third
person. And then the prophet breaks in, as if he cant
take it any more. He turns to God, and says, Whatever
we did, this is just unacceptable. It is cruel. It is totally out
of proportion. And then, especially in the third chapter,
there is the theme of God as the enemy. And then you
have the theme of reconciliation. And throughout there is
the call for vengeance.
There are a number of themes, and thats whats so
great about the book.
At the beginning, you could think that this is a neat
package. I am born to destruction, and I acknowledge
that it came about through our sinfulness but its not
that simple. We want to return, and we want you to return
to us. That is the side of light. And then the dark side is the
call for vengeance.
This may be apologetics, but the way I interpret that
call is that for Jews, the world should be has to be a just
place. If people do the horrible things that they do, and in
particular they do the horrible things they do to the Jewish
people, and there is no retribution, that means that we are
living in an unjust world.
Some of the calls for vengeance are just visceral, but
I think that in there is something saying that God has to
be just.
One of the themes of Eicha is asking where is justice.
We were punished way beyond what we deserve. Where
is the justice? How did the people who did this get to walk
away and go on living their lives?
I am very interested in liturgy, Rabbi Diamond said.
Quoting an Elton John song, Sad Songs Say So Much,
he said that When every bit of hope is gone, it becomes
OK liturgically to attack God in some daring ways. Meir
of Rothenberg, the 13th century French scholar, wrote a
kinnah in reaction to seeing Torah scrolls burnt in a town
square. He says, Maybe, God tell me if I have got this
right maybe you are allowing these Torot to be burned
to say that we should lay aside the old covenant and pick
up the new one.
He is really trying to provoke God, using anger and
sarcasm.
This tone is not found often and when it is, it is
Ashkenazi and it is striking to me because in general
we see very little complaint in our liturgy. The kinnot are
one of the few places where at least some liturgical poets
allow them to be angry.
Its like Job, when Job has nothing left. Then he is ready
to say, You know what? I dont accept this.
He is not going to be a good boy anymore. He is not
willing to go as far as his wife, who tells him to curse God
and die.
Why should we accept that God has a plan? We have
nothing now. God has taken everything away, so there is
nothing left but anger.
Eicha allows the anger to surface, and then, at the very
end, there is some room for hope. The books movement
is no more simple and clean than the story it tells, but it
does not end with despair.
May that be a model for the world today.
Babylon
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YU physicist receives $375,000 grant
Dr. Anatoly Frenkel, a physics
professor at Yeshiva Universitys
Stern College for Women, will be
principal investigator on a three-
year $675,000 grant from the
National Science Foundation for
an internationally collaborative
study of colloidal semiconduc-
tor nanocrystals. The tiny syn-
thetic particles, containing metal
impurities have properties with
intriguing implications for the electronics,
solar energy, and biological fields.
Dr. Frenkel will work with Hebrew Uni-
versity of Jerusalems Dr. Uri Banin, the
Alfred & Erica Larisch Memorial Chair
at its Institute of Chemistry. The grant
is administered by NSF, which awarded
$375,000 to Dr. Frenkels group, and the
Binational Science Foundation in Israel,
which awarded $300,000 to Dr. Banins.
The team expects the fusion
of their diverse backgrounds
in physics and chemistry,
respectively, to yield signifi-
cant results.
Dr. Frenkel and Dr. Banin
will conduct their portions of
the research independently,
but the grant will fund twice-
yearly visits between their
research groups, which will
allow them to share their work and partic-
ipate in each others projects. Undergrad-
uates at Yeshiva and Stern colleges will
have the opportunity to contribute to Dr.
Frenkels research, which uses advanced
X-ray absorption spectroscopy, electron
microscopy, and Raman spectroscopy to
study the characterization of the nanocrys-
tals, and they also will have the chance to
accompany him on his visits to Hebrew U.
Michigan U Hillel reaches out
Hillel at the University of Michigan Hil-
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at a private home in Tenafly on Sunday,
August 10, at 7 p.m.
Hillel staff, students, and parents will be
on hand to provide information about Jew-
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location information, call (734) 769-0500
or email hillelmeetngreet@gmail.com.
Surviving Monuments Man at JFSNJ
At a recent Jewish Fam-
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Harry Ettlinger, one of the
last surviving Monuments
Men, spoke about his war-
time experiences.
During World War II,
this group of men and
women helped protect
churches, museums, and
monuments from destruc-
tion, and then recovered
nearly 5 million pieces of
art and artifacts stolen by
the Nazis. Mr. Ettlinger
was depicted in a recent
film, The Monuments Men, directed
by George Clooney. Congress recently
passed a bill to honor the Monuments
Men and presented them with a Con-
gressional Gold Medal.
JFSNJs Cafe Europa is a monthly social
program for Holocaust survivors. For
information, call Melanie Lester at (973)
595-0111. JFSNJ has offices in Wayne and
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Monuments Man Harry Ettlinger and JFSNJs executive director, Leah
Kaufman, center, are surrounded by Holocaust survivors. From left, Marcel
and Gladys Kozuch and Andre Sitbon; from right, Irving Blau, Esther Smith,
and Bernie Roth.
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Kaplen JCC golf outing raises funds
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The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades held its 14th annual golf classic, Play Fore! the Kids,
at the Montammy Golf Club in Alpine on July 14. Thanks to its sponsors, participants,
and donors, the events raised funds to help provide programming for nearly 600
children with physical, emotional, and developmental disabilities at the Kaplen JCC.
This years event highlighted Camp Dream Street, celebrating its 25th year at the
JCC. The free camp is for children with cancer and blood disorders, together with
their siblings.
The event featured a shoot-out, hole-in-one competitions, prizes, awards, 50/50
raffle, lunch, dinner, cocktail reception, and auctions.
Presenting sponsors were the Kurtz family; event co-chairs, Jeffrey Jagid, Eric
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Kollender, Jeff Jagid, Jason Rubach, and JoJo Rubach.
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Alana Hurewitz, Jennifer Schiffman, Audrey Gabel, Tracy Reichel, Jeanine
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KEEPING THE FAITH
Why to say
never to
Say No!
L
ast Thursday, July 24, an anti-Israel demon-
stration was held in Manhattan. It attracted
hundreds, according to news reports, with
protesters carrying such signs as U.S. dol-
lars feed Israeli war crimes. Similar demonstrations
were held in other cities across the country.
Anti-Israel demonstrations are becoming common,
and the media looks at them as a dog bites man story,
meaning the story is not worth the ink. What makes
these protests the preferred man bites dog story is
that it was organized by two Jewish fringe organiza-
tions, Jewish Voices for Peace and Jews Say No!, and
the protesters were Jews. At least one protester is an
expatriate Israeli who served in the IDF.
Two days earlier, on July 22, nine Jews were arrested
for staging a die-in at the Manhattan office of the
Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces.
It is fatuous to suggest that all Jews support Israel. It
is just as fatuous to suggest that all supporters of Israel
support Operation Protec-
tive Edge, or any similar
action in which Palestinian
civilians are killed in large
numbers.
Indeed, many people
here, throughout the dias-
pora, and even in Israel
itself are so appalled by
the number of Palestinian
casualties, they are content
either to sit this one out or
to make their opposition
to Israels current actions
known by joining in anti-Israel demonstrations.
These people are putting Israel at risk of losing pre-
cious support from the United States. (As it is, only
25 percent of Americans under 35 support Protective
Edge, according to a Gallup Poll.) They also, however,
are putting at risk the legitimacy of the Jewish dias-
pora, at least as viewed from the perspective of the
Torah.
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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.
Shammai
Engelmayer
Tunnel vision
A
s Israeli soldiers put their
lives on the line to destroy
the tunnels Hamas sought
to use to murder Israelis,
the diaspora community is fighting
another battle on behalf of Israel a
battle of hasbara, of explaining Israels
position.
There is the need to spread the mes-
sage that Hamas wants to eradicate the
Jewish state; that it sees no difference
between a soldier stationed on the
Gaza border and a child on a school
bus in Tel Aviv and damned are any
Palestinians who stand in the way.
Consider the elaborate terror tun-
nels under the Gaza-Israel border.
Constructing these tunnels used tons
of cement, lighting, and carried a
cost estimated at over $1 billion, all of
which could have been used to build
hospitals, schools, homes, and other
infrastructure to better Palestinian
lives. And who built these tunnels? A
2012 study by the Beirut-based Insti-
tute for Palestine Studies hardly
a Zionist organization found that
Hamas had used forced child labor
to build the tunnels, resulting in the
deaths of at least 160 children.
Hamas has demonstrated time and
again that it cares more about hurting
Israel than helping Palestinians. But,
like the Hamas terrorists hiding among
civilians in Gaza, the combatants in
the hasbara battle are not always clear.
Israels just cause against Hamas has,
unfortunately, been hijacked by both
the far left and the far right.
On the far left, there are those who
argue that, of course, Hamas is bad,
but Israel is behaving monstrously
in Gaza. These voices straddle and
often obliterate the line between
being pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel.
They pay lip service to Israels right
to self-defense, but blame the Jew-
ish state for overreacting to Hamas
Israel is responding to a slap with
a kick to the head, as one Internet
commenter put it. These voices have
hijacked the Palestinian cause and use
it to mask their own demonization of
Israel. They argue they support Pales-
tinian human rights, but cast all blame
on Israel while ignoring Hamas hor-
rific record and treatment of Palestin-
ians. These people dismiss the words
of Hamas leaders, calling for the
destruction of Israel and for Palestin-
ian civilians to become human shields,
as mere rhetoric, while pointing to
every extreme government minister
or rabbi in Israel as emblematic of the
Zionist cause.
On the far right is a group of people
who use Israel to score political points
against President Obama, declaring
him an enemy of Israel who is actively
undermining the Jewish state at every
turn. During the search for the miss-
ing Israeli teenagers and the painful,
devastating discovery of their bodies,
these voices could loudly be heard
condemning Obama for not speaking
out against Hamas, ignoring multiple
statements by the president, the State
Department, and others in the admin-
istration. In their telling, last weeks
short FAA ban on flights to Israel was
not an overreaction to recent events
in Ukraine, but a purposeful ploy by
Obama to destroy Israels economy.
Both of these groups defy logic,
ignore facts, and shift the focus away
from the real enemy: Hamas. Yes,
Israel has made mistakes in its rules
of engagement during this conflict. No
child should ever die in war, and trag-
edy is the only word to describe the
children killed on the Gaza beach. The
Obama administration does not have
a perfect record on Israel; Obamas
foreign policy has been marked by
policy failures, such as the continuing
violence in Syria and Russias increas-
ing international aggression. But there
have been a few bright spots, such
as Obama standing up for Israel and
rejecting the 2012 Palestinian U.N.
statehood bid, and securing hundreds
millions of dollars in funding for Iron
Dome.
Both groups of extreme critics, the
anti-Israel leftists and the anti-Obama
rightists, seek to advance their own
political goals by painting complex
issues as black and white which of
course they are not. Obama is not
the worst president in history, set on
destroying the Jewish state. And just
because Israels armaments are vastly
superior to Hamas does not make
Hamas cause just.
What is black and white is that
Hamas has murdered hundreds of
people through suicide bombings,
indiscriminate rocket fire at civilians,
and other attacks, while offering Pales-
tinian lives as a sacrifice to the alter of
hatred. Our path is resistance and the
rifle, and our choice is jihad, Hamas
leader Khaled Meshaal said just a few
months ago.
It is time to put aside our disagree-
ments and focus our outrage on the
real enemy, rather than the enemy of
political convenience.
JOSH LIPOWSKY
Kol hakavod
As Israel fights a difficult battle
against Hamas terrorism and
public opinion, we are proud
that the northern New Jersey
Jewish community has taken a
firm stance in support of Israel.
Last weeks community rally at
bergenPAC drew an overflow
crowd of more than 2,200
people, waving Israeli flags and
shouting their support.
Its horrible that we have
to come together at times like
these.
But its wonderful that we
can, and do.
Opinion
Israel is the Jewish state not a Jewish state, but
the Jewish state, the only Jewish state and we in the
diaspora share in the responsibility for its well-being.
This is an obligation of ours; it is not voluntary. It
goes back to the days of the 40-year sojourn in the wil-
derness, even before the conquest of Canaan, which
marked the onset of the obligation.
We saw the birth of the Jewish diaspora in the Torah
reading last week, as we read Chapter 32 of Numbers.
Virtually on the eve of Israels crossing over to the west
bank of the Jordan to claim its rightful inheritance,
at the very moment when Israel had to be united,
Moses divided Israel by creating the diaspora. With
Gods obvious approval, if not under His direction,
Moses granted the tribes of Reuven, Gad, and half of
Menashe the right to live outside the Land.
There can be only one reason why the diaspora was
permitted to be born at that time: It was created to
benefit Israel.
This is made clear in Deuteronomy 3:18-20, when
Moses recalls the moment he approved the request of
the two-and-a-half tribes to live outside the Land of
Israel:
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The
Lord your God has given you this land to possess it;
you shall pass over armed before your brothers the
People Israel, all who are fit for the war.[And there
you shall remain] until they also possess the Land
which the Lord your God has given them beyond the
Jordan. And then you shall return every man to his
possession, which I [in this case clearly referring to
God] have given you.
Reuven, Gad, and half of Menashe may have
thought living outside the Land was their idea, but
Moses says it was all part of Gods plan. This means
the right of Jews to live outside Israel exists only for
those who actively assist the people inside Israel to live
securely. For those of us who are not active in assisting
our brethren in Israel to live securely, the right to live
in the diaspora never existed in the first place, and we
sin against God every moment we live anywhere but
Israel.
The Torah, however, is only stating the obvious.
Israel can survive only if all the Jews support it, not
just those who live within its borders.
Everyone has the right to his or her opinion, and
the right to voice that opinion. When Israel is under
the gun, however, is not the proper time to do so. That
is the time to attend rallies; to write letters to govern-
ment officials and legislators, and the media; to orga-
nize Buy Israel campaigns, and to do anything else
that demonstrates support for Israel.
Politicians run governments, and they count heads.
If it looks as though support for Israel is waning among
American Jews, this will have a negative impact on the
support politicians have for Israel.
The media especially will pounce on anti-Israel sen-
timent among Jews. To them, this is a man bites dog
story, especially in the wake of recent events. They
also will regard it more broadly than simply a state-
ment about Jewish support for Protective Edge. The
more such demonstrations, the more such stories. The
more such stories, and politicians will not worry about
the Jewish vote as much as they have in the past.
All Israel is responsible one for another, the Tal-
mud tells us.
We are the People Israel. If we live in the diaspora,
our number one priority no, our number one task
as diaspora Jews is to support the people of the State
of Israel.
JS-17*
KEEPING THE FAITH
Why to say
never to
Say No!
L
ast Thursday, July 24, an anti-Israel demon-
stration was held in Manhattan. It attracted
hundreds, according to news reports, with
protesters carrying such signs as U.S. dol-
lars feed Israeli war crimes. Similar demonstrations
were held in other cities across the country.
Anti-Israel demonstrations are becoming common,
and the media looks at them as a dog bites man story,
meaning the story is not worth the ink. What makes
these protests the preferred man bites dog story is
that it was organized by two Jewish fringe organiza-
tions, Jewish Voices for Peace and Jews Say No!, and
the protesters were Jews. At least one protester is an
expatriate Israeli who served in the IDF.
Two days earlier, on July 22, nine Jews were arrested
for staging a die-in at the Manhattan office of the
Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces.
It is fatuous to suggest that all Jews support Israel. It
is just as fatuous to suggest that all supporters of Israel
support Operation Protec-
tive Edge, or any similar
action in which Palestinian
civilians are killed in large
numbers.
Indeed, many people
here, throughout the dias-
pora, and even in Israel
itself are so appalled by
the number of Palestinian
casualties, they are content
either to sit this one out or
to make their opposition
to Israels current actions
known by joining in anti-Israel demonstrations.
These people are putting Israel at risk of losing pre-
cious support from the United States. (As it is, only
25 percent of Americans under 35 support Protective
Edge, according to a Gallup Poll.) They also, however,
are putting at risk the legitimacy of the Jewish dias-
pora, at least as viewed from the perspective of the
Torah.
Reflecting on reflection
Jewish life needs and provides an opportunity
to slow down, think, and soul-search
O
ne of the personal challenges we
all face here and now, in 21st cen-
tury America, is finding a time
and a place for reflection.
In the last century, it was said that no
one has had a complete thought since the
invention of the telephone, a device that we
brought into our homes so that we could be
interrupted by the outside world at any hour
of the day or night. How quaint and how
nave that seems today, now that we carry
our phones around with us wherever we go,
and are continually bombarded by a variety
of email and text messages, alerts, apps to play with, and
yes, even actual phone calls. There seems to be no room
in our busy schedules to simply sit and think, no escape
from the deluge of information, interaction, and enter-
tainment made available at our fingertips, the habitually
twitching digits of this digital age.
Thinking, in and of itself, is not unique to our species,
but human beings have developed a unique set of tools for
thought that sets us apart from other forms of life.
First and foremost is language. Much of what we call
thinking consists of talking to ourselves silently, carrying
on an inner dialogue or monologue. Notice that for the
most part, we do not think by somehow imagining that we
are writing or typing, or reading our own words on a page
or screen. Language is a set of sounds that convey mean-
ing, and for tens of thousands of years which is to say
for most of our history as a species human beings sur-
vived without the aid of the written word. And somewhere
along the line, we learned how to internalize speech in the
form of thought.
Compared to the spoken word, writing is a relatively
recent development, dating back only about 5,500 years.
Its purpose was to record speech in a durable form. Before
writing, both speech and thought were fleeting, ephem-
eral, subject to the vagaries of memory. And while we
should not discount the power of collective memory, writ-
ing gave language a permanence that we had never known
before. Writing also made it step back from our words, to
see them as fixed signs, available for study.
In other words, writing gave us new tools for thought,
allowing us to fix language in place, allowing our words to
become the object of prolonged contemplation. Writing
recorded the speech and the thoughts of others, allow-
ing readers to view and review their statements and argu-
ments. And writing gave us a way to step outside of our
own thinking processes, to observe our thoughts from the
outside.
Simply put, writing gave us a mirror for the mind. And
in doing so, the written word made possible our capacity
for reflection.
That capacity is the subject of an extended essay by
Ellen Rose, a professor of education at the University
of New Brunswick, which was published in book form,
titled On Reflection: An Essay on Technology, Educa-
tion, and the Status of Thought in the Twenty-First Cen-
tury. In considering the meaning of the word reflec-
tion, Dr. Rose relates, when I close my eyes and try to
picture reflection, I immediately envision someone sit-
ting in a book-lined room, reading or pondering silently.
She concludes that the essence of reflection is deep, sus-
tained thought for which the necessary pre-conditions
are solitude and slowness. Dr. Rose rightly argues that
reflection is in decline has been for some
time now because of our many techno-
logical innovations, particularly electronic
media.
The decline of reflection is a cause for con-
cern among thoughtful people everywhere,
but it ought to be viewed as particularly
alarming in regard to the future of the Jew-
ish people. Our religion, tradition, and cul-
ture are based on the written word, on the
Hebrew aleph-bet and the study of sacred
texts, on Torah, Tanach, Talmud. Our rite
of passage from childhood to adulthood, the
bar or bat mitzvah, is a literacy test. Our houses of wor-
ship also are houses of learning, our synagogues also are
schools.
It is worth recalling that one of the goals of Nazism was
to wipe out the capacity for reflection, and not simply in
the service of totalitarian domination. Consider the fol-
lowing observation on the part of historian Elizabeth
Eisenstein in Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Recep-
tion of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the
Sense of an Ending:
Anti-Semitic stereotypes attributed a soft, flabby,
and sedentary lifestyle to the bookish Jew, in contrast
to the masculine, muscular Aryan. Observers
in 1933 witnessed the book-burnings of works by Jews
and other decadent authors, along with the elimina-
tion of the same works from libraries and bookshops.
The elimination of Jewish books served as a prelude to
measures in the next decade aimed at eliminating the
Jews themselves.
The problem we face today is not the elimination of
books, but their growing irrelevance to our lives. Could
the disappearance of the quiet time we need for reading
and for thinking, for the solitude and slowness that forms
the basis of deep, sustained thought, possibly be a prelude
for a more serious threat to Jewish survival, as a culture or
even as a people?
For Dr. Rose, the best hope for the future lies with edu-
cation. But we also can turn to another opportunity to
claim a time and space for reflection, in Jewish worship
services of any stream, Orthodox or Conservative, Reform
or Reconstructionist. Prayer is a form of thought, an exer-
cise in ways of thinking that differ from our everyday
thought patterns. And prayer provides an opportunity for
profound forms of soul searching, serious introspection,
contemplation, and meditation. If we are to reclaim our
capacity for reflection, and in doing so safeguard what is
essential to our tradition and culture, we will need both
our schools and our shuls.
Dr. Lance Strate of Palisades Park is a professor of
communication and media studies at Fordham University
in the Bronx and president of his synagogue, Congregation
Adas Emuno in Leonia. He is the author of Amazing
Ourselves to Death: Neil Postmans Brave New World
Revisited.
Dr. Lance
Strate
Prayer is a form of
thought, an exercise
in ways of thinking
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FAA decision flies in face of reality
Ben Gurion airport shutdown brings back bad maritime memories
I
n May of 1939, the MS St. Louis set
sail from Hamburg, Germany, to
Cuba with 937 Jewish German pas-
sengers aboard. They were fleeing
for freedom and for their lives.
The boat made its way to Cuba but
was denied entry to port. Even though
the passengers had legal visas, the
Cuban government would not allow the
travelers to even enter as visitors. Only
22 passengers, non-Jews, were allowed
to disembark in the Caribbean. The rest
stayed on the boat and saw the lights and
nightlife of Havana from less than a mile
away, but they could not touch it. After
six tumultuous days anchored on the
coast of the haven of Havana, the boat
ventured to other ports.
The boat was denied entry to the
United States and even to Canada.
Eventually, the St. Louis returned to
its point of origin and the passengers
disembarked in various
cities in Western Europe.
It is estimated that one-
third of the people on that
boat were murdered during
the Holocaust.
I often think of the St.
Louis when I visit Israel: It
was the voyage that failed
to find Jews a new home.
For the past 66 years, the
reality of a Jewish state
has enabled us to say,
whether in France or Berlin or London
or Shanghai or Chicago, that Jews can
always come home and always have a
place to land.
The n t he Fe de r a l Av i at i on
Administration got involved.
The unprecedented decision by
the FAA to ban flights to Israel felt to
me like another administrative body
denying entry to those who
wanted to go to Israel
and come home. When the
FAA prohibited American
airliners from flying to Tel
Aviv, they denied men and
women returning to fight in
the IDF the ability to go home
and defend their country.
They stopped mothers and
fathers returning to visit
their children, many of
them fighting in Gaza, the
opportunity to wash laundry and make
food and give hugs. The FAA denied
temple trips and solidarity missions the
ability to offer love and support and
supplies. They stopped Jews from coming
home.
The purpose of Israel was to never
allow another doomed St. Louis voyage.
The FAA trumped that.
The FAAs ill-fated decision will have
lasting and reverberating effects.
Firstly, it hinders world opinion on the
safety and accessibility of Israel. In the
book Start Up Nation, Dan Senor and
Saul Singer explain that during the first
Gulf War while Scud missiles were raining
down on Tel Aviv, Intel, operating and
producing in Israel, was manufacturing
the i386 processor chip used by most
of the worlds computers. There was
tremendous worry that the war would
affect Intels productivity. Worse than
that, other countries and companies
would see Israel as a volatile region that
could not meet quotas and deadlines
when it was called into war, a somewhat
regular occurrence. But Intel diligently
kept production going even as Scud
missiles fell and Israel went on to become
a central address for tech companies and
global businesses.
Rabbi David-
Seth Kirshner
Madeleine Albright,
still pressuring Israel
after all these years
I
ts been 22 years since
Madeleine Albright
was a foreign policy
adviser to President
Jimmy Carter, 17 years since
she was Americas ambas-
sador to the United Nations,
and 13 since she was secre-
tary of state. Yet all these
years later, Albright is still
pressuring Israel and trying
to appease Israels enemies.
Li ke many f or mer
government officials, Ms. Albright, who is
now a professor at Georgetown University,
keeps showing up in the media as a foreign
affairs expert. Unfortunately, shes doing
it at Israels expense. Interviewed by
CNNs Wolf Blitzer on July 22, Ms. Albright
paid lip-service to Israels right to self-
defense, but then got to her main point,
accusing Israel of overdoing it in Gaza.
She said Israels anti-terrorism actions are
disproportionate and claimed Israel has
lost its moral authority.
This is the same Madeleine Albright
who was asked by Lesley Stahl
on 60 Minutes, on May 12,
1996, if international sanctions
against Iraq were worth it,
since we have heard that half
a million [Iraqi] children have
died. Albright replied: We
think the price is worth it. So
much for proportionality!
This is the same Madeleine
Albright who helped bring
about NATO air strikes on
Yugoslavia in the Kosovo war
in the spring of 1999, killing more than
2,000 people. So much for overdoing it!
This is the same Madeleine Albright
who worked overtime to sell Yasser Arafat
to the world as a peacemaker. Few of us
will ever forget the incredible events of
October 4, 2000, when Ms. Albright,
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Mr.
Arafat were meeting at the residence of the
U.S. ambassador in Paris. Mr. Arafat had
one of his usual tantrums and stormed out
of the meeting. Ms. Albright went running
down the hall after him, stumbling in her
high heels, and shouting to the guards,
Shut the gates! Shut the gates! in the
hope of blocking Arafats car from leaving.
A Palestinian negotiator happened to be
in the hallway, speaking on the phone
to a Reuters correspondent, just as the
chase and shouting erupted. The Reuters
reporter overheard what happened and
broke the story.
Less than 15 months later, Israel
intercepted a ship carrying 50 tons
of weapons that Mr. Arafat was trying
to smuggle into Gaza. His image as a
moderate was blown forever. But Ms.
Albright has never once acknowledged she
was wrong about Mr. Arafat.
Ive had my own share of unfortunate
experiences with Ms. Albright.
Several years after my daughter,
Alisa, was murdered by Palestinian
Arab terrorists, the Israeli government
identified, by name, several of the
suspects involved in the attack. I
repeatedly asked Secretary Albrights
State Department to post a reward for
information leading to the capture of the
killers. They eventually caved in to public
pressure, but at the first opportunity
pulled back on the rewards program.
Today, the U.S. governments Rewards
for Justice Web site doesnt name Alisa
or any other murdered Americans, and
there is no specific reward to help capture
their murderers.
Meanwhile, my family and I sued the
government of Iran for sponsoring the
group that carried out the attack (Islamic
Jihad). The courts ruled in our favor. Other
victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism
won similar lawsuits. We tried to collect
the judgments that the courts awarded
from Iranian assets that were frozen in
the United States. But Secretary Albright
fought us tooth and nail.
The Clinton administration was hoping
to renew relations with Iran, so it didnt
want a penny of the terror-sponsors
money being touched. Ms. Albright also
initiated various steps to ease sanctions
on Tehran, such as lifting the ban on
U.S. imports of Iranian carpets, pistachio
nuts and caviar. Appeasing the Iranians
and improving their economy was more
important than justice for the many
Americans killed by Iranian-sponsored
terror groups.
Now, all these years later, Ms. Albright
continues to show more concern for
Palestinian terrorists and their Iranian
sponsors than for their Israeli and
American victims.
If Ms. Albright has her way, Israel will
cease firing, Hamas will be free to rebuild
its terror state, and the Iranians will
continue to win again. Its Ms. Albright, not
Israel, who has lost her moral authority.
Mr. Flatow, a New Jersey attorney, is the
father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered
by Palestinian terrorists in 1995.
Stephen M.
Flatow
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However, when the FAA banned flights
last week, it hindered productivity and
accessibility for companies ranging
from Google to Teva. It told companies
around the world that Israel might be a
place where their staff is not safe (which
is preposterous) and also communicates
that they might not get supplies and
personnel as needed. That is a tragic
and criminal outcome of this senseless
decision.
Secondly, the FAA decision told new
visitors to Israel that they should be
fearful before they even land in the
country. That kind of fear-mongering
is unfounded and feeds the lowest
common denominator. I always tell
travelers from our community that the
most dangerous part of our trip will be
arriving in Newark!
Thirdly, the FAA ban halted tourism,
a major source of revenue and strength
for Israel. I love going to Israel with
people who have never been before and
watching their personal and spiritual
transformation. They are in awe of the
food, the development, the safety, and
the history of this amazing country, all
at the same time. Seeing the culture of
tourism and how it positively infects its
visitors inspires me.
Because of the FAA ban, many trips
were canceled, not only for the duration
of the ban, but also for the future, as
most airlines offered a no-questions-
asked refund for any travel to Israel. This
takes a huge bite out of the economy
and demoralizes Israelis. Seeing visitors
to Israel, especially in times of conflict,
warms the hearts of the natives. It lets
them know they are not alone and
that we are one people with different
addresses.
You cannot un-ring a bell. The FAA
decision happened. It should not have.
This is not only my assessment but also
the assessment of many politicians and
countless security officials who have
the perspective from both the aisle and
window, if you will. So, how do we move
forward?
I suggest a simple formula: Book your
flight, get on the plane, and head home
to Israel. Now more than ever. It is
safer than the media depicts (I was just
there and am speaking first-hand). Also,
encourage your friends to invest in Israeli
companies now more than ever.
The State of Israel means Jews can
never be denied entry again. Lets ensure
that this colossal blunder by the FAA is
a blip on the radar and indeed, doesnt
happen again.
Rabbi David-Seth Kirsher is the rabbi of
Temple Emanu-El in Closter.
Seeing visitors to Israel, especially in
times of conict, warms the hearts
of the natives. It lets them know
they are not alone and that we are
one people with different addresses.
Proud of our community
How proud we were to be leaders of
Northern New Jerseys Jewish community
on Thursday night. After watching news
reports about Israels efforts to stop Hamas
rockets from falling on civilian targets and
destroying terror tunnels, our community
filled the bergenPAC auditorium to capac-
ity to support Israel.
Being thousands of miles away from
the country we love can elicit a sense of
helplessness, even isolation, in a time of
crisis. But that feeling melted away on
Thursday, replaced by a feeling of unity
and hope that Israel will prevail against her
enemies and restore a sense of normalcy
to its civilian population.
We were thrilled to stand with the
2,200 members of the community who
stood proudly with Israel and with Consul
General Aharoni, Senator Menendez,
Malcolm Hoenlein, and many other
political leaders. We are grateful to the
inspiring speakers who reminded us that
even though we are far away, we can
support the Israeli Defense Forces through
buying products made in Israel, by
lobbying our representatives, by speaking
truth about the morality of the Israeli
Army, and the right of Israel to defend
herself against terrorism.
We were so pleased to be represented
as clergy by our own Rabbi David-Seth
Kirschner, who through his powerful
words brought the room to standing, and
by Father Donald Sheehan who gave a very
touching account of his own connection to
Israel.
Thank you to the staff and volunteers
of the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey for organizing and promoting this
solidarity event which drew people of all
generations and affiliations. The North
Jersey Board of Rabbis, represented by
22 rabbis at the rally and 50 rabbis in
the community, stands in solidarity with
Israel, with our local Northern New Jersey
community and with Jews around the
world.
Rabbi Steven Sirbu,
President NJBR
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner,
Vice President;
Rabbi Cathy Felix,
Treasurer;
Rabbi Sharon Litwin,
Secretary
Time for U.N. action
I urge that the Israeli government call on
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to
convene an emergency session of the U.N.
Security Council to consider and condemn
the following:
1) The genocidal charters of both the PA
and Hamas calling for the destruction of
Israel (a member state).
2) The indiscriminate rocket attacks
aimed specifically against Israeli civilians
(a war crime)
3) The use of civilians as shields in
order to blunt Israels defensive efforts to
neutralize rockets, rocket launchers and
other weapons etc, which are located in
(and under) civilian homes, mosques,
schools, hospitals, and ambulances (a war
crime).
If the Security Council is thwarted in its
duty to condemn these acts, these issues
should be brought before the General
Assembly.
It is long past due for the world to pass
judgment on the criminal, genocidal
behavior of Hamas.
Jerrold Terdiman, M.D.
Woodcliff Lake
Bigger problems
than a kosher bar
The fact that the local community rabbis
at the Rabbinical Council of Bergen Coun-
cil and the Orthodox Union are not allow-
ing a kosher bar to open in our commu-
nity reminds me of the classic division of
household responsibilities whereby the
husband makes all the important decisions
such as paying taxes and how to vote while
his wife manages mundane items such as
the household budget and bills.
It is time for the community rabbis
to address the real issues facing the
community, and its not a bar opening up
or girls putting on teffilin or even support
for Israel. No, at the forefront of issues
facing our community is the outrageous
cost of living in an Orthodox community!
Leaving tuition aside that is an old
issue that will continue until it is untenable
the cost of synagogue and kosher food
makes it really hard to be observant. I
personally resent going to synagogue on
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur due to
the exorbitant cost. I feel like a goose being
asked to enjoy foie gras. I had asked my
synagogue for a break and they took only
10 percent off!
Rabbis, it is time to man up and address
some facts. The cost of Jewish living is
birth control. There, I said it! Our youth
dont want this lifestyle and are starting
to choose not being observant. Our young
married couples resent the costs and I
cant blame them.
As a suggestion, perhaps the RCBC and
OU and Kof-K should lower their kosher
license costs. While the manufactures are
paying for the kosher license, they simply
pass that cost onto the consumers, i.e., us!
It is a chuzpah to see certain members
of the kosher license community live in
beautiful homes with manicured lawns
and put their name up on plaques in
schools when the money all comes from
their community, whose members struggle
to make ends meet and live paycheck to
paycheck.
Im glad I got that off my chest. I could
do with a bar to drown my sorrows in. Pity
there isnt a kosher bar in town.
Michael Greenberg
Bergenfield
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JOANNE PALMER
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o very many people! So very much
energy! So many Israeli flags! So
much passion that it sizzled!
Those are the overwhelming
impressions from the Israel solidarity
rally organized by the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey in Englewood last
week.
The 1,370-seat bergenPAC theater was,
well, packed; so were overflow rooms
inside the theater, and unlucky seatless
latecomers milled about in the street. Dr.
Zvi Marans, the federations president,
estimated the crowd at more than
2,000. The crowds size was even more
impressive given the short time in which
it was pulled together the rally had been
organized in just two days.
Security was formidable police
officers with dogs checked out the area,
beginning well before the rally, and
visitors bags were opened and bodies
were wanded as we went in. As the rally
opened, Dr. Marans warned us that it was
not impossible that there might be some
attempts made to disrupt it. If someone
started shouting, we were to remain quiet
as security dealt with the problem.
As it turned out, the security worked
and the warning was unnecessary. The
rally was upbeat, somehow, despite the
dire news from Israel. The feeling of
togetherness, of shared mission and of
being on the right side predominated.
There were many local elected officials
at the rally, including, among many
others, State Senator Loretta Weinberg
of Teaneck, former U.S. Representative
Steven Rothman of Englewood, and
Englewoods Mayor Frank Huttle. There
were representatives of other religions
(thats the interfaith community in rally-
speak), and many rabbis. The crowd was a
notably diverse cross-section of the Jewish
world; this issue has brought us together
as few others have, at least recently.
The list of speakers was long and star-
studded. From the local Jewish world,
Dr. Marans and the federations CEO, Mr.
Jason Shames, were joined by terrorism
expert Dr. Leonard Cole, who is a former
federation president, and Rabbi David-
Seth Kirshner of Temple Emanu-El of
Closter. The larger Jewish world was
represented by Ido Aharoni, the consul
general for Israel in New York; Jerry
Silverman, who is president and CEO of
the Jewish Federations of North America
(and also lives in Bergen County), and
Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chair
of the Conference of Presidents of Major
Jewish Organizations. From the outside
world, the Rev. Donald Sheehan, retired
pastor of Saint Matthew R.C. Church in
Ridgefield, an ardent Zionist, spoke. So did
U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat
of New Jersey and chair of the Senate
Foreign Relations committee, who had
rushed up from a vote in Washington and
arrived, panting, to give a stirring talk. Mr.
Menendez was instrumental in ensuring
that Israel got the funding it needed
for Iron Dome; his talk, like the others,
avoided politics, but clearly if there had
been an election for anything that night,
he would have won it, hands down.
Much of the talk had to do with Israels
right to defend itself, and the imbalance
between Hamass hatred and Israels love
for life. The speakers all said that they
grieved for all the innocent dead, but they
all reviled Hamass human-shield policy,
Community stands with
Israel at bergenPAC
which makes them martyrs.
With all the talk of defense and rockets
and blood, though, one of the most
frequently repeated words that evening
perhaps was hugs. That what Israelis
crave most, we are told, hugs, and all
that embrace means. They need money,
of course, and they need our political
backing. Even more than that, they need
love, they need understanding, they need
succor. They need to know that we are
behind them.
The evening began as Natalie Janowski,
a preternaturally self-possessed student at
the Solomon Schechter Day School in New
Milford, who has a lovely voice and great
stage presence, led the audience in the
Star-Spangled Banner. It ended as she
led us in Hatikvah. All that blinking going
on around was tears being held back.
It was that kind of evening.
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which makes them martyrs.
With all the talk of defense and rockets
and blood, though, one of the most
frequently repeated words that evening
perhaps was hugs. That what Israelis
crave most, we are told, hugs, and all
that embrace means. They need money,
of course, and they need our political
backing. Even more than that, they need
love, they need understanding, they need
succor. They need to know that we are
behind them.
The evening began as Natalie Janowski,
a preternaturally self-possessed student at
the Solomon Schechter Day School in New
Milford, who has a lovely voice and great
stage presence, led the audience in the
Star-Spangled Banner. It ended as she
led us in Hatikvah. All that blinking going
on around was tears being held back.
It was that kind of evening.
Federation CEO Jason Shames and local children hold the Israeli flag.
Senator Robert Menendez was one of
many speakers on behalf of Israel.
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Whats the toughest part of working for the Hamas Propa-
ganda Unit? You need equipment to stage ilms and you
cant go to B&H Photo.
Teaneck-bred standup comic Ari Teman brought
a suitcase of jokes like this one when he flew to Israel
late last week to headline a series of comedy shows in
regular venues as well as bomb shelters and army bases.
With fellow American standup Danny Cohen and
Texan-Israeli comedian Benji Lovitt, Mr. Temans Rocket
Shelter Comedy (http://RocketShelterComedy.com)
shows took place from this week in cities including
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Beersheva, and Modiin. All
proceeds are to be donated to the Friends of the IDF
Lone Soldier Fund.
When asked how he got the idea for the comedy
mission, Mr. Teman a graduate of the Torah Academy
of Bergen County explained that it resulted from a
memo from his attorneys at the Israeli law firm GKH.
I have startup based in Israel still in stealth mode
and GKH sent me a message saying one of their
associates got called to the army so they needed a few
extra days to get me the paperwork. I thought that
was the most badass thing to say: Just let us crush the
terrorists first and then well get to your paperwork.
How am I sitting in New York when even my attorneys
are in uniform?
Being a seasoned social activist who founded the
Jewish volunteering movement JCorps in 2008, and
having appeared often on prime-time television doing
standup comedy, Mr. Teman is more comfortable
grabbing a microphone than a rifle.
You dont want me fighting for you, he joked. But
heres what I did: I messaged my friend Danny [Cohen],
who was planning on heading to Israel later this summer
anyway, and I said, Lets go now and tour around and
tell people jokes and then theyll know what real misery
is. So we moved everything up and arranged to go now.
How does one put together a tour on short notice, in
wartime no less? We know some Jews, he quipped.
We got a lot of help from Rami Cohen, CEO of Telesofia
Medical, an Israeli-American healthcare video
company.
Finding venues with the security situation was a bit
of a mess, but we said yiheye tov, it will all be good.
The duo added Mr. Lovitt to the mix as well. He
and I have known each other for years. Hes very
funny, speaks English, hes a great guy, and hes
been committing genocide in the likes-for-war-jokes
department on Facebook.
The Manhattan resident said he and Mr. Cohen
started the initiative out of pocket, then received a grant
from a foundation to cover one venue, and got further
individual donations. There is still time for a Jew to
stick their name on this, he said.
He posted on his Facebook page that the taxi driver
who picked them up at Ben-Gurion International Airport
on June 25 had both hands free to gesticulate while
talking about Hamas, thanks to his hands-free devices.
Ari Teman
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Im going to die from the conflict being discussed,
the comedian noted drily.
But he also noticed how many people in Israel are
smiling. A row of cars drives past you at a light and
everyone in them is smiling and chatting. They worry
for their children, 20-year-old boys and girls defending
them in the South, our cousins and siblings, but they
smile. Israels anthem, Hatikva, is about hope. Israel
accomplishes so much because despite challenges, its
people continue to hope, dream, and create. Even in
darkness Israel seeks and creates light.
Mr. Temans ultimate goal is this: We want to bring
laughter to people here in Israel but also show the
thousands of comedians we know on Facebook that
Israel is not just brown people throwing sand and
rocks at each other. Well be showing the shopping
malls and startups and health care companies, the
space program, the cafs, beaches, and restaurants,
the people walking around and going to work. They
may have to duck every few hours for an incoming
rocket, but then they go back to work to make the
world a better place.
Ari Teman:
Can we PLEASE bring Hamas to NYC?
The Second Avenue subway tunnel is taking
FOREVER.
Cabs in Israel have hands-free devices so
the Jewish driver can talk to you with BOTH
hands. Im thinking, Im going to die from the
conflict being discussed.
With all the tension theyre saying Israel is
becoming one big family. Weve suffered
enough!
My parents made Aliyah, which is Hebrew for
Abandoned Me.
My friend told me, The Jewish community is
no longer safe in France and seeing my family
there makes me really sad. I can relate, seeing
my family ANYWHERE makes me sad.
The Iron Dome is far more effective this
conflict thanks to an upgrade to iOS7.
PFLP-GC Secretary-General Ahmad Jibril
recently told Lebanons Al-Manar TV that
Hamas received arms and training from Syria,
Iran, and Hezbollah. Whats next? CNN
reporting that Darth Vader is Lukes father?
Hamas official Izzat Al-Rishq responded on
Facebook to President Obamas call for an
immediate ceasefire and demilitarization of
the Gaza Strip. We say for the millionth time,
Al-Rishq wrote. Those who try to take our
weapons, we will take their life.
After hearing his statements, the NRA gave
him a free lifetime membership.
People rioting and burning their own cities
around the world because they dont like Israel
is like me trashing my apartment because Im
mad at the cable guy.
The times are so tense. I ran out to the shelter
naked. There wasnt even a siren.
Its difficult being gay in this situation. Every-
ones running to the shelter and my mom is
screaming, Go in the closet! Go in the closet!
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In Ramle, a Holocaust survivor and convert to Islam
worries about her family living in Gaza
BEN SALES
RAMLE, ISRAEL In her living
room in the Israeli town of Ramle,
Sarah says she wants a peaceful
life. At 79, she deserves one.
A Hungarian-born Holocaust
survivor, Sarah was sent to a Nazi
concentration camp in Serbia as
a child, arriving in Israel at age 17.
Her entire family perished in the
Holocaust.
Now she wat ches f rom
her armchair as her family is
threatened once again. Sarah
not her real name is now a
Muslim, and her daughter lives in
Gaza City.
The whole city is in ruins,
Sarah says. Everyone is just
trying to find a piece of bread.
Sarah arrived in Israel in 1950,
one of the tens of thousands of Jewish survivors who
found refuge in the young Jewish state. From there, her
story departs from the conventional narrative.
In 1962, she married an Arab Israeli and, with no
surviving family of her own, converted to Islam to join
his. Neither of them were particularly religious.
In my time it wasnt Arab or Jew, said Sarah, who
speaks Hebrew with a slight European accent. We knew
there was no problem between Jews and Israeli Arabs.
Im very liberal; my husband was the same. We felt no
discrimination.
Light-haired and soft-spoken, Sarah has lived for
decades in the same Ramle apartment, which she now
shares with her daughter, Nora. Both women leave their
hair uncovered, and Nora said not to worry as she set
out tea and cookies on the last day of Ramadan. She
wasnt fasting.
Sarahs other daughter, also an Israeli citizen, moved
to Gaza in 1984 after she married. On Sunday, Sarah and
Nora waited by the phone as the Arabic news network
Al Jazeera played on the television.
In the first days of Israels Operation Protective
Edge, Sarahs daughter took her six children and one
grandchild and fled their home in the Zeitoun district of
Gaza City for a calmer area in the southern Gaza Strip.
The day they left, their four-story home was destroyed,
most likely by an Israeli airstrike. Since then, the family
has survived on dry goods and whatever they can
scrounge up during brief cease-fires.
Along with food, electricity is scarce in Gaza, so Sarah
has a hard time getting in touch with her daughter. She
learned the house was destroyed only when another
relative posted on Facebook a picture of the rubble.
She hopes for the rare phone call when her daughter
manages to charge her phone. But sometimes, no call
at all is better.
With every phone call, we pray that shes charged so
we can reach them, talk to them, see how they are, said
Nora. Every call jolts us, that we wont hear bad news.
Neither women would agree to be photographed or
give many personal details out of fear of retribution
from Israeli authorities or Hamas, the reigning power in
Gaza. Only Nora would give her first name.
Though they have lived through such conflicts before
Protective Edge is the third such campaign in Gaza in
six years Sarah says this round has been harder than
previous ones. Anti-Muslim discrimination flared up
during previous conflicts, but Sarah said the antagonism
seems stronger this time.
I go to day centers [for the elderly], and they dont
talk to me, Sarah said. Behind my back, they curse
me. I hear it. I hear Their name should be erased. They
should die.
Sarah and Nora used to enjoy driving to Gaza City to
visit Sarahs daughter. But Nora hasnt been allowed to
visit since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. Sarah
was allowed only once, for a five-day visit several years
ago.
Will the family return to Zeitoun to rebuild its home?
When will Sarahs daughter be allowed to visit the
family in Ramle? Will Sarah ever be able to visit her
grandchildren and great-grandchild in Gaza?
They dont know.
Is there still hope for peace? At that question, Nora
shakes her head.
Honestly, no. I dont think the situation will get better
after this war, Nora said. Theres tension between me
and my Jewish friends. They want to justify themselves
and this war. I never encounter a person that says,
Enough spilled blood or Poor civilians. I havent heard
that.
Like most Israelis, Nora has coped with the sirens that
warn of incoming missiles for a month now. She opposes
Hamas, she says, and understands that Israel needs to
protect its citizens, though she wishes the government
would scale back its operation and pursue diplomacy
more aggressively. Her family in Gaza, she said, is not
affiliated with any movement not Hamas, not Fatah,
not any other.
Israel has the full right to self-defense, Nora said.
The missiles dont differentiate between Jew and Arab.
We dont need to see houses destroyed, women crying,
dead soldiers. A soldier is the son of a mother. Anywhere
in the world, the pain of a mother is the same pain.
Palestinian men react to a fire raging at Gazas main power plant
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People over politics
Sharing a message under Muslim-Jewish hashtag
MAAYAN JAFFE
#JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies.
To some, its just a hashtag. To others,
its a way of life.
When Israeli Abraham Gutman and Syr-
ian Dania Darwish, students at Hunter
College in New York City, recently posted
a photo of themselves holding signs with
the above hashtag on Facebook, they
didnt know it would create a worldwide
sensation.
We are not politicians, not PR people,
Gutman told JNS.org. We are students.
We know a hashtag wont solve this long
conflict, but we wanted to be part of the
solution and not part of the problem.
But since the hashtag campaign started,
dozens of others have posted similar pho-
tos in an attempt to demonstrate that peo-
ple of different backgrounds, religions,
and countries of origin can be friends, lov-
ers, and even spouses.
This is about people, said Gutman.
People such as Sara and Maggie Amin,
sisters born to an Egyptian Muslim father
and a Jewish American mother. Their par-
ents have been married for 39 years.
Growing up, the Amins said they
didnt think anything of their mixed ori-
gins. Mom cooked matzo ball soup and
grandma would come in the summer to
make homemade falafel and other Middle
Eastern cuisine. In Rockville, Md., they
attended a school that catered to children
of foreign diplomats her parents were
not diplomats and hence had friends of
every religion and culture.
We had one friend whose father was
Hungarian and mom Filipino. Another
friend was Greek, recalled Sara Amin, her
sister noting that at one point there were
92 nations represented at her high school.
But when Maggie Amin left for Pennsyl-
vania State University at 18, she encoun-
tered for the first time people who were
taken aback by her background.
I used to call my parents crying
because I was so angry, said Maggie
Dr. Sahar Eftekhar, an Iranian Muslim, and Zachary Wettenstein, her Jewish boy-
friend. PROVIDED PHOTO
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Amin, recalling the hateful taunts and
questions of her peers. She said students
would say, How is that possible? or Do
your parents fight all the time? or Is your
dad a terrorist how does your mom deal
with that?
Maggie Amin said she would stand up
for her parents, telling peers that her par-
ents not only didnt fight, but were deeply
in love. If they discussed the Middle East
at the dinner table, theyd usually agree
and their debates were no different than
any other married couples.
The girls used to travel to Egypt regu-
larly when they were younger, though in
recent years and since the passing of their
grandmother, the family has been more
hesitant. Sara Amin recalled that the vis-
its required more-than-average planning.
Their parents had to bring their marriage
license, for example, to prove they were a
couple, and the group would be stopped at
border control for questioning. Authorities
could not understand what this Egyptian
man was doing with three white women.
It was frustrating sometimes, said
Maggie Amin, but nothing we couldnt
overcome.
Salem Almaani, 26, of Jordan and Matt
Martin, 32, of California live together in
Brooklyn. The gay couple met through
mutual friends two years ago and were
among the many to post a photo with
#JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies.
Martin told JNS.org that he and his part-
ner have often joked that they are the rep-
resentation of peace in the Middle East.
The couples mixed background has
never proved to be an obstacle. If any-
thing, it has opened their eyes to a new
reality. Martin, for example, was raised
culturally Jewish and during college
became a more active supporter of the
state of Israel. Since meeting Almaani, he
said, I am not on one side or the other. I
see both sides a lot clearer.
Almaani said his decision to date Martin
was met with some resistance by his par-
ents. His mother had a hard time accept-
ing his homosexuality and his choice to
date someone of a different background.
His father, he said, is pretty conserva-
tive and he has had to alter some of his
perspectives.
A product of the media mainly, it
seems you always have to marginalize
people, paint someone as the bad guy
or good guy, said Martin. But there are
two sides and people from different back-
grounds can get along, work together,
be as successful and happy as other
friends or couples that are from the same
background.
Dr. Sahar Eftekhar, an Iranian Muslim
dating Jewish American Zachary Wetten-
stein, expressed similar sentiments. She
said the couple celebrates each others
holidays and sees each others rich culture
as a benefit, not an obstacle.
When Eftekhar and Wettenstein
posted a photo, however, hateful com-
ments came in from every direction. Eft-
ekhar said Muslims from Arab countries
accused her of overstepping her bounds,
being that she is of Persian and not tech-
nically Arab origin. Others called them
names, and made accusations she is con-
fident they only felt comfortable express-
ing from behind their computer screens,
rather than face to face.
These comments, she said, give her post-
ing and the #JewsAndArabsRefuseTo-
BeEnemies hashtaggreater importance.
Sometimes it is hard for others to put
themselves in someone elses shoes or
to see the world through someone elses
eyes, said Eftekhar. I think this is a
very dangerous thing. Underneath these
stereotypes, which we have placed on each
other, we are the same. We are all human.
I hope our generation will be more open-
minded and spread this message.
Sara Amin hopes so, too. She said watch-
ing her Facebook feed she works at a
Jewish federation has been interesting.
Her Jewish friends are reporting one side
of the story, her Palestinian and Egyptian
friends another.
Its like a seesaw. You keep getting
yanked back and forth. You feel everyone
wants what is best for themselves. But
what about whats best for the whole? she
said, adding, I think the hashtag #JewsAn-
dArabsRefuseToBeEnemies is saying we
have a choice of how to live our lives, how
to treat others, whether to embrace oth-
ers or not.
Gutman, the hashtags co-creator,
stressed social medias upside and
downside.
Social media is a great tool for social
good, he said. But it also makes us use
harsh words, get in arguments quick,
fast, short, and bold. Thats not produc-
tive. #JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies
says, Lets be respectful and have a con-
versation. JNS.ORG
Maayan Jaffe is a freelance writer in
Overland Park, Kan. Reach her at
maayanjaffe@icloud.com or follow her on
Twitter, @MaayanJaffe.
Maggie, left, and Sara Amin. PROVIDED PHOTO
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On the U.S.-Israel front
Amid uncertainty of an open-ended war, tensions rise and fall
RON KAMPEAS
T
he dramatic developments in
the war between Hamas and
Israel have been accompanied
by sharp ups and downs in U.S.-
Israel relations.
On Monday, the Israeli ambassador to
the United States, Ron Dermer, made nice
with the U.S. national security adviser,
Susan Rice, before an audience of anxious
U.S. Jewish leaders. But immediately before
that, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu bluntly vowed to continue
Israels military campaign against Hamas,
notwithstanding President Obamas
unequivocal demand for a cease-fire.
And within a day of Israeli and American
pledges not to afflict one another with
damaging leaks, Israeli television
was running the transcript of what it
said was a fraught Obama-Netanyahu
telephone conversation.
The tumult in U.S.-Israel ties reflects the
confusing and open-ended nature of the
current war between Israel and Hamas,
insiders and experts suggest.
The [Israeli] government is confused,
the [Israeli] public is confused, and Im
not sure the [Obama] administration is
giving absolutely clear signals, said Peter
Medding, a political science professor
emeritus at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem whose specialty is Israel-U.S.
relations. Thats not a good situation.
In the first weeks of the war, Netanyahu
and Obama seemed to be on the same page,
with both leaders angling for cease-fires
and putting the blame squarely on Hamas.
But as the war has dragged on, the
leaders have been pulled in opposite
directions. Obama has been concerned
with the rapid growth of civilian casualties
while Netanyahu has been concerned with
the vast network of Hamas-built tunnels
running under the Gaza-Israel border.
We will not complete the mission, we
will not complete the operation, without
neutralizing the tunnels, the sole purpose
of which is the destruction of our civilians
and the killing of our children, Netanyahu
said at a news conference Monday, a day
after Obama had called for an immediate,
unconditional humanitarian ceasefire.
Within an hour of Netanyahus news
conference, the national Jewish groups
held a pro-Israel rally at the National Press
Club. The star guests were Rice, who is
one of Obamas closest confidantes, and
Dermer, the Israeli ambassador.
They seemed to be on the same page.
Israel will continue to destroy the
tunnels we have found, regardless of
whether there is a cease-fire or not,
and I know the Obama administration
understands and supports that, Dermer
said.
Israel has the same, unequivocal right
to self-defense as every other nation,
Rice said. No nation can accept terrorists
tunneling into its territory or rockets
crashing down on its people.
It was a change from only a few days
earlier, when Israels Security Cabinet
rejected what was being widely referred
to as a cease-fire proposal from Secretary
of State John Kerry (the Americans
denied that it was a formal proposal). The
documents details were leaked, and Kerry
was maligned in Israeli press accounts.
U.S. officials responded publicly with
anger at the treatment of Kerry.
During his appearance on Monday,
Dermer agreed that Kerry had been
unfairly maligned.
Officials in both governments have
expressed dismay with how the other side
seems to misunderstand its postures so
deeply.
A U.S. official told JTA that the Israeli
Cabinet misunderstood the document
Kerry had forwarded. It was an update of
an existing Egyptian cease-fire proposal
with notes from Turkey and Qatar, serving
as Hamas interlocutors, and it was not a
final version, the official said.
The reacti on was overwrought
considering it was procedural, the official
said of the proposal Kerry had sent.
Israels Security Cabinet, understanding
the document to be final, put it to a
vote, and it was defeated 8-0. Then
the document was leaked to Israeli
news outlets. Israeli officials, quoted
anonymously, said it amounted to a
terrorist attack and said Kerry was
acting on behalf of Hamas.
The Israelis were appalled by a proposal
to funnel funds to employees affiliated
with Hamas.
By Tuesday morning, although it was
clear from Netanyahus remarks the day
before that there still were differences over
a cease-fire, the mutual recriminations
seemed to have been laid to rest by the
joint Rice-Dermer appearance.
Then, Tuesday evening, Israels Channel
One quoted a senior American source
who painted a very negative portrait of
Obama. The source said that the phone
conversati on bet ween Obama and
Netanyahu on Sunday was tense and that
Obama was condescending and hostile
to Netanyahu, and that the president
behaved like the law professor he
once was, showing impatience and
a lack of understanding of Israels
problems.
The source provided a purported
transcript of the Obama-Netanyahu
conversation. The transcript has
Obama demanding that Israel adhere
to a cease-fire and arguing with
Netanyahu over the role of Qatar and
Turkey as interlocutors. According
to the transcript, Netanyahu says
he does not trust those countries
because of their closeness to Hamas,
but Obama counters that Israel is
not in a position to pick and choose
mediators.
Within minutes of the broadcast,
Dan Shapiro, the U.S. ambassador
to Israel, Caitlin Hayden, the
spokeswoman for Rice, and Ben
Rhodes, the deputy national security
adviser, were expressing alarm.
We have seen reports of an
alleged POTUS-Netanyahu transcript;
nei ther reports nor al l eged
transcript bear any resemblance to
reality, Hayden said on the NSCs
official Twitter account, using
the acronym for the President Of
The United States. Shocking and
disappointing someone would sink to
misrepresenting a private conversation
between POTUS and PM in fabrications to
Israeli press.
Rhodes and Netanyahus office both
echoed Haydens insistence that the
transcript was false.
Experts on U.S.-Israel relations said the
fast-changing pace of the war inevitably
was going to lead to misunderstandings
and mischaracterizations, exacerbated by
the parlous relationship between Obama
and Netanyahu.
Seeing the United States negotiating
with Hamas allies while the war is going
on and suffering casualties once you see
this it brings out very harsh reactions, said
Dan Arbell, a former second in command
at the Israeli Embassy in Washington who
is now a fellow at the Center for Middle
East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
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Dvarim: How despair is displaced
T
his Shabbat, we
begin reading the
final book of the
Torah, the book
(and portion) of Dvarim, in
which Moses recounts the
triumphs and trials of his
leadership. He implores the
Jewish people to follow faith-
fully in the ways of God in an
extensive oratory, which will
prove to be his final words to
the Jewish people.
This Shabbat also has the
distinction of being called
Shabbat Chazon The
Shabbat of Vision in tribute
to this weeks haftarah,
which relates the prophetic
vision of Isaiah in which the Jewish people
are chastised for deviating from the Torah
and the just ways of God. The haftarah
concludes with Gods assurance of
forgiveness and the eventual redemption
of Zion and its restoration to greatness
with the building of the third Temple.
The chasidic master Rabbi Levi Yitzchak
of Berditchev says that on
the Shabbat of Vision
each and every one of us is
granted a vision of the third
and final holy Temple a
vision that, to paraphrase
the Talmud, though we
may not see, our souls see.
In an interesting twist,
we actually celebrate this
vision during the three-
week peri od when we
lament the destruction of
the Holy Temple and the
subsequent exile. And its
not just any time during
the Three Weeks but the
Nine Days the most
intense period of mourning
before Tisha BAv (a 25-hour fast that
begins Monday evening), the day on which
the Temple was destroyed
Only Jews, while in the midst of
mourning such profound loss, can
suddenly turn to celebration. Indeed, it
is this strange combination of melancholy
and joy, mourning and hope, despair and
faith, which defines the Jewish experience.
Our tradition provides us with a year-
round framework through which we
experience these conflicting emotions at
once.
On the one hand, there are numerous
daily observances to recall the Temples
destruction, the pain of our 2,000-plus
years of exile and the concealment of
Gods countenance when we are like
children exiled from their fathers table.
On the other hand, the belief in moshiach
and the anticipation of his arrival every
day is a fundamental principle of our faith.
In other words, God wants us to be fully
cognizant of our past blunders and the
tragic dispersion it brought in its wake.
But God forbid that we should despair,
surrender, or even make peace with our
present condition. We need to utilize the
pain of past failures to propel us forward
toward a greater appreciation of the
goodness awaiting us with moshiachs
arrival a time when there will be justice
and peace, health and happiness, and the
knowledge of God will blanket the world.
In fact, our sages tell us that moshiach
will be born on Tisha BAv, an allusion
to the principle that redemption springs
precisely from the seeds of destruction.
Austrian journalist Nathan Birnbaum
(who is credited with coining the term
Zionism and was the founder of the Jewish
nationalist organization Kadimah 10 years
before Theodor Herzl became the leading
spokesman of the Zionist movement) had
dabbled in numerous religious doctrines
before becoming observant in his early
30s.
He writes that having deprived his soul
of its natural spiritual climate of Judaism,
he had wasted valuable years searching
for lifes answers in the worlds numerous
social orders and isms. His education
both Jewish and secular had eminently
failed to provide a vision of hope for the
future.
He finally discovered the elusive answer
in his own tradition: the age-old idealistic
Jewish notion of moshiach and the state of
perfection that era will usher in.
Shabbat Shalom, and may this years
Tisha BAv become a time of celebration
with the coming of moshiach now.
Rabbi
Chanoch
Kaplan
Chabad of
Northwest
Bergen County,
Franklin Lakes,
Orthodox
OPINION
Are circumstances getting worse for Jews and Israel?
That February, in Sarcelles,
flaming objects were thrown
into the Tiferet Israel School,
destroying the building. In
April, at Garges-les-Gonesse,
firebombs were hurled at
the synagogue. From Nice to
Marseille, anti-Semitic mail
was delivered. In the offices
of CRIF, located in the Fifth
Arrondi ssement several
blocks from the popular food
market on the Rue Mouffetard, an enve-
lope arrived filled with white powder and
a message: The biological war against the
Jewish lobby has begun.
Those words could have been written
this week. In fact, they come from an
excellent piece by Marie Brenner on
the subject of anti-Semitism in France,
published by Vanity Fair in 2003.
I revisited Brenners article after several
readers asked me whether, a fortnight into
the latest Israeli defensive
operation in Gaza, we
as in diaspora Jews and the
state of Israel are now in
a new, and much deadlier,
situation. Part of the trigger
for this question is the
realization that within the
confines of liberal and left-
wing opinion, historically
a political home for Jews,
contempt for Jewish fears of
anti-Semitism and detestation of Israel as a
state is becoming the norm.
Its true that with each war, our
predicament appears to get worse. If you
go all the way back to 1956, when Israel
joined an Anglo-French military attack on
Nassers Egypt, the outpouring of antiwar
sentiment in western circles did not lead
to the demonization of Zionism. In both
1967 and 1973, Israels wars for survival
generated a great deal of support among
progressive Europeans and Americans.
But by 1982, when Israel was at war with
the PLO in Lebanon, that had changed.
The image of Israel as a brutal aggressor,
and as the inheritor of Hitlers legacy,
a favorite theme of Soviet propaganda,
started to win traction. Then as now, the
extremes of left and right came together
to confront the Zionist State. Going
through my archive of literature on anti-
Semitism, I came across the headline
anti-Zionists of the world unite and fight!
That could easily have appeared in a left-
wing newspaper, but the source, in fact,
was Nationalism Today, a neo-Nazi rag
published by Britains National Front, in a
comment on the Lebanon war.
Moreover, in the years preceding
the war in Lebanon, we witnessed the
enthusiasm with which young leftists
outside the Middle East embraced
Palestinian terrorismspurred by such
abominations as the claim that Zionism
is racism, enshrined in a later-rescinded
U.N. resolution of 1975.
There was the Japanese Red Army attack
on Ben Gurion (then Lod) Airport in 1972,
in which 26 civilians were murdered. There
was the hijacking, in 1976, of an Air France
jet carried out by young Germans from
Ben Cohen
Are we seeing
another spike of
anti-Semitism
and Israel-
hatred that will
die down once a
cease-re deal is
reached in Gaza?
Dear Rabbi
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Dear Rabbi,
I am generally a polite, well-
mannered person. Yet I feel
like my significant other
keeps track of any lapse
in my behavior when we
are together, especially if
something that I did embar-
rassed her in public. I was
recently rude toward some
noisy people when we were
out in a restaurant. Now
she reminds me about this
occurrence whenever we go out. This makes
me sad. What can I do to make her forget
about this?
Memories in Mahwah
Dear Memories,
In the personal question that you pose you
do raise one of the most complex issues
of human culture. Does a person have the
right to have acts that he or she commits
to be forgotten? If you did something that
you do not want remembered, can you get
it erased from the record?
The answer to your direct query is
there is nothing you can do to make your
significant other forget your actions.
Our biological memory banks are hard-
wired to preserve certain data in a spe-
cial way. We have a prominent place in
our psyches where we store information
about people or events that we judge
harmful to us or dangerous to our well
being or survival.
That includes a wide spectrum of events
and facts ranging from personal acts
between people to more global events and
intelligence data about dangerous threats,
past and present.
The question you pose operates on an
individual memory level. You
want your significant other
to suppress a particular act of
yours from her memory-bank.
The question you pose also
can be applied to collective as
well as individual memory. Just
how much should a people, a
tribe, or a collective continue to
recall the past?
Consider that religion in gen-
eral serves in part as that ele-
ment of our human nature that
selects and preserves memories. We Jews
as a collective have decided never to for-
get many accumulated past bad deeds that
were threats to our survival. And we make
the act of remembering those bad things
into sacred acts.
The fast of Tisha BAv, for instance,
memorializes the destruction of our Tem-
ple 2000 years ago. The feast of Purim
recalls the threats to our people by polit-
ical foes in ancient Persia. Holocaust
Remembrance Day concretizes the more
recent memory of the six million Jews who
were murdered in the Shoah.
Zachor (remember) is the mitzvah to
remember Amalek, the ancient enemy of
Israel. And in the modern era in the 60s
and 70s in NYC the militant JDL the
Jewish Defense League coined a slogan
to justify their activism against physical
threats to Jews in Brooklyn: Never Again.
Its in our DNA to remember. As a peo-
ple, we evolved biologically and culturally
to value the preservation of memories.
We believe this helps to protect us from
extinction by honing and perfecting our
tribal memory of dangers and threats to
our continued existence.
In light of all this, it seems to me that
if you or others acted badly, you have
no right for your acts to be forgotten
and little chance that those acts can
be erased from memory once they are
recorded. Our human genetic makeup is
programmed to retain bad memories so
that we will survive. Our Jewish DNA if I
could argue that it is distinctive is even
more sensitive to the need for preserving
such memory.
Intriguingly, the question you pose per-
tains by extension also to the modern digi-
tal memory maintained by Google in its
massive databases.
In Europe, now people can petition
Google to remove certain negative search
results about them. That by no means
removes the evidence of their bad deeds
from the historical records. It just gives
people the feeling that they have some
power over Big Brother Google. The peti-
tioners can get the search results about
themselves filtered, and thereby they can
can slow down the process by which the
bad information about them can be found
by everybody else on earth.
Google as a corporation has no actual
biology or DNA. It has a business model
and algorithms. Yet keep in mind that
these factors were designed and pro-
grammed by human beings. Its more than
likely that basic drives for human preser-
vation are embedded in the computer
code that processes Google searches.
Even if you live in Europe and can get
Google to forget you, the best you can
hope for is that your negatives will not
appear in the search results for your
name. There will be other searches that
do retrieve the bad information about you
that remains in the databases.
Let me come back to answer your per-
sonal question. Memories may fade. They
may over time get lower search-optimiza-
tion in the consciousness of our partners,
our community, and our cultures. But its
unlikely that the bad deeds you do will be
forgotten.
People die, and so eventually some
privately shared memories of your res-
taurant bad behavior will die too (unless
they are memorialized in a memoir or
diary or letters). And sure, you can put
distance between yourself and the bear-
ers of troubling memories by ending your
relationships.
Based on the principles I described
here, what then is the bottom line? On a
personal level my advice to you is: Dont
do any bad things in restaurants. She will
never forget.
And my advice to the world at large is:
Dont do any bad things to us Jews. We will
never forget.
Dear Rabbi,
I was unemployed recently and during that
period I negotiated a discount for my fam-
ilys synagogue membership and a scholar-
ship for my childrens day school tuition.
Now I have been hired to a new position with
good pay, and I also made some prudent
investments that have paid off nicely.
Now that I got a job and a windfall do I
need to inform my synagogue or yeshiva of
the change in my circumstances?
Lucky in Lodi
Dear Lucky,
Legally you may be obligated to tell your
institutions if that was a term specified
by them when they gave you reductions
in fees. But the explicit stipulation of that
contingency is rare. So you probably do
not have a legal obligation to inform your
organizations until next year.
Morally, though, you do have to step
up and inform the school and shul that
you can pay more of your fair share. Oth-
ers will benefit from the funds that your
good fortune provides. Our communities
depend on you to act with generosity and
compassion on every level and in every
such circumstance.
Rabbi Dr. Tzvee Zahavy was ordained at
Yeshiva University and earned his Ph.D. in
religious studies at Brown University.
The Dear Rabbi column offers timely advice based on timeless Talmudic wis-
dom. It aspires to be equally respectful and meaningful to all varieties and de-
nominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first Friday of the month.
Send your questions to DearRabbi@jewishmediagroup.com
Rabbi Tzvee
Zahavy
the Red Army Fraction terrorist group
once they landed in Uganda, then under
the heel of the dictator Idi Amin, these
same young Germans turned into Nazis,
separating the Jewish from the non-Jewish
passengers. There was the abominable
1982 bombing of Jo Goldenbergs, a kosher
restaurant in Paris, as a retaliation for
Israels operation in Lebanon. Six people
were killed in that attack, which one
magazine noted was the heaviest toll
suffered by Jews in France since World
War II.
So, as the French might say, is this a
case of plus a change, plus cest la mme
chose? (The more things change, the
more they stay the same.) Are we seeing
another spike of anti-Semitism and Israel-
hatred that will die down once a cease-fire
deal is reached in Gaza?
To begin with, those hatreds dont just
simply disappear in times of quiet. They
percolate below the surface, occasionally
arising in the form of an atrocity like the
murders of three children and a rabbi at
a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012. And
when Palestinians intensify rocket attacks
on Israel, so does the opprobrium against
Jews and Israel intensify and multiply, as
weve seen these past few weeks.
But there are two aspects of the
current situation which suggest that
circumstances are changingand not
for the better. First, a stalemate in
Gazawhich I define as Hamas remaining
in power, because Israel, despite all the
accusations of war crimes, is reluctant
to deploy overwhelming military force
to defeat the terror groupwill keep alive
the notion that Jews and Israel are at the
center of the worlds ills. Secondly, mob
violence against Jews in Europe is now
a real and pertinent threat. From Berlin
to The Hague to Paris, many of those
attacking communal institutions and
chanting Death to the Jews! are likely to
continue these attacks after a cease-fire.
A significant number might even head to
the Middle East, to join the same jihadi
organizations that were behind both the
Toulouse attack and the recent gun assault
on the Jewish museum in Brussels.
All that said, I dont foresee an
apocalypse anytime soon. But if we want to
emerge from this current round of conflict
with confidence, we as a community
will need to conduct a thorough audit of
the impact of Operation Protective Edge
inside and outside the Middle East. And
that means not shying away from the
necessary conclusionsmost obviously,
the importance of communal self-defense.
JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen is the Shillman Analyst for JNS.
org and a contributor to the Wall Street
Journal, Commentary, Haaretz, and other
publications.
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Across
1. James of Brians Song
5. Title for Jackie Mason, believe it or not
10. Sometimes its hard to find Israel
on ___
14. Deal ___ Deal (Howie Mandel game
show)
15. Avraham Shlonskys free-verse
Toil-___
16. ___ thou thy time... (verse from
Judah HaLevi)
17. There were dozens in the Borscht Belt
18. Isaiah criticized necromancers, saying
they ___ and mutter
19. Key line in Spielbergs Saving Private
Ryan: ___ this
20. Most popular girls name in Israel
14 years in a row
21. Author of Conservative Judaim:
The New Century
23. Gimel, e.g.
25. Baseballs Bud
26. Israelis, technically
28. Hes in the same profession as Slatkin
and Barenboim
30. Temporary memory on Dell
computers
31. Guys and ___ (Frank Loesser
musical)
32. ___ BaOmer (holiday next celebrated
on May 7, 2015)
35. ___ Dodi (Friday night prayer)
36. Judith was the second female
astronaut, after her
37. Paul of Clueless
38. Grp. that enabled Al Jolson and Dinah
Shore to perform for the troops
39. How a dybbuk moves
40. Shankbone, technically
41. Non-Jewish Auschwitz victim
42. ___ Club (Bnai Brith-like group)
43. Remember the plagues with ones
wineglass
45. Etrog go-with
46. State of the Touro Synagogue
49. Yecch!
52. Event at Macys
53. Shemer with a zemer
54. Kyles best friend on South Park
55. Larry, Moe, and Curly
56. The Torah at Mt. Sinai, for example
57. One of Israels 5,472,140
58. Sarah Jessica Parker Broadway
vehicle Once ___ a Mattress
59. Vehicles for the frozen chosen
60. Pronoun from the Bible
Down
1. A five-shekel piece is one
2. Holocaust victim/musician Nadel
3. Famous female artist from Jerusalem
4. To reach Israeli phones you have to
dial nine of them (abbr.)
5. NASCAR driver Kenny Bernstein
and others
6. Pest at some kibbutzim
7. It was part of one of the plagues
8. Cartoonist Dave of Mad Magazine
9. The way many Billy Crystal jokes
are told
10. Rosalie of the Canadian Supreme
Court
11. Florida city with the third largest
Jewish population in the United
States
12. What the rabbis sermon is, for a
bored Jew
13. He played Milk in Milk
21. Yestons 1982 Tony winner for Best
Musical
22. Monty Hall show ___ Make a Deal
24. Sound that delights Sarah Silverman
26. It defended the Nazis who wanted to
march in Skokie, Ill.
27. Cul-de-___ (Levittown sights)
28. Picon of the Yiddish theater
29. Feminist Bulkin
31. Krav Maga levels
32. Chabad-___
33. ___ Hu (Nirtzah song at the seder)
34. Greeting from Australias Miriam
Margolyes
36. The JNF plants them
37. Las Vegas performer Rudner
39. ER alumnus who played Jobs in
Pirates of Silicon Valley
40. Related a Jewish joke
41. Judge in Judges
42. Police encounters Bugsy Siegel tried
to avoid
43. Like a successful Talmud scholar
44. Jonas Salk was famous for
conquering it
45. It starts 35-Across and 45-Across
46. Its like dalet-heh-vav-zayin
47. Try to break the Gaza blockade
48. The Jewish Way in ___ and
Marriage
50. Kind of package sent to Camp Sabra
51. To Me shall every ___ kneel (Isaiah
45:23)
54. Test that offers an exam in modern
Hebrew
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Delving into the mystery of mortality
JONATHAN KIRSCH
S
ara Davidson is a best-selling
memoirist (Joan: Forty Years
of Life, Loss and Friendship
with Joan Didion), a biogra-
pher (Rock Hudson: His Story), and an
astute observer of our culture (Loose
Change: Three Women of the Sixties). In
her compelling new book, The Decem-
ber Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and
a Skeptical Seeker Confront Lifes Great-
est Mystery (HarperOne, $25.99), how-
ever, she achieves a remarkable level of
intimacy by allowing us to eavesdrop on
two years of conversation with Rabbi Zal-
man Schachter-Shalomi, the charismatic
founder of the Jewish Renewal movement
who died earlier this summer. It is a con-
versation that began in 2009 when Reb
Zalman, as she calls him, was 85 years
old and, as he well understood, in the
December of [his] years.
The theme of their encounter, and of
Davidsons book, is the ultimate challenge
of life, what we all must face,
regardless of our beliefs or
nonbelief: mortality.
Of course, it is the wisdom
of Reb Zalman that shines out
from the books pages. Davidson
reminds us that he bridges two
worlds the ancient Orthodox and
the current cutting edge, which
gives him a useful perspective on
which things change and which
things remain the same. Born in
Poland, ordained as a Lubavitcher
rabbi in Brooklyn, he broke away
from the tradition in which he
was raised. One of his 11 children,
for example, is the offspring of a
lesbian rabbi for whom he was a
sperm donor. His life mission,
Davidson writes, has been to take
the blinders off Judaism.
Davidson herself, as she readily
concedes, was raised Jewish,
but the 613 commandments and
all-powerful Hebrew God do not
resonate with me as much as do
the philosophies of Buddhism and
Hinduism, she writes. But the master
and the student he calls her Saraleh
ind it easy to bridge the generational and
religious gap between them. Indeed, the
book describes a spiritual journey of two
people: When its my time, Id like you
to let me go, the rabbi once told his wife,
who answered: Okay, on one condition:
that youll take me with you as far as you
can. To which Davidson adds: I would
make that deal.
The rabbi and writer travel together
back to the early 20th century, covering
all of the shattering events Reb Zalman
has experienced, not just as an observer
but also as an eyewitness. Such as, for
example, when he shocked the Chabad
community by announcing he wanted to
be cremated and was told that if his mortal
remains were reduced to ashes, he would
not be resurrected when the Messiah
comes. To which he answered: Okay, if
God decides not to resurrect the people
who were burned at Auschwitz, He can
leave me out of it too.
Some of the books liveliest moments
descri be how Reb Zal man found
the courage to come up with radical
innovations in Jewish observance while,
at the same time, maintaining a lifeline to
tradition. Before he called upon Timothy
Leary to guide him on an LSD trip, for
example, Reb Zalman decided to check
in with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who
seemed to intuit what Reb Zalman was
up to and enigmatically toasted him with
a large glass of shnapps. Later, while on
his acid trip in an ashram, Reb Zalman
was visited by a vision of the Rebbe, who
wished him a good meditation and a
good retreat! According to Davidson,
Zalman said to Leary, This is better than
schnapps.
But it was a purely spiritual revelation
that set the rabbi on his path toward the
invention of Jewish Renewal. I was sitting
in a Hindu ashram with Tim Leary, who
was Irish Catholic, and I realized that all
forms of religion are masks that the divine
wears to communicate with us, Reb
Zalman tells Saraleh. Behind all religions,
theres a reality, and this reality wears
whatever clothes it needs to speak to a
particular people. For Jews, its a Torah
with a crown. For Christians, the log-on to
the ininite is Jesus. But no single point of
view alone is right.
In fact, Reb Zalmans own relationship
with God is one of the most pervasive
and provocative themes in The
December Project. He is capable of
referring to God in ironic terms in one
breath (the extra-galactic super duper
one!) and mystical terms in the next:
A source of cosmic compassion. For
him, however, God is not a theological
construct, but an active agent of care
and comfort, as when the skeptic and
the rabbi compare their reactions to the
distressing experience of memory loss
in old age: If we cultivate the interior
where the One who makes it all happen
is present we dont need the outer
memories, he says.
Reb Zalman was still alive when the book
was published, but the contemplation of
death casts a deep shadow over what is,
at its core, a celebratory book. Continuing
his experiential exploration, at one chilling
moment he undergoes the ceremony by
which a corpse is prepared for burial to
experience what its like to be a corpse.
He accepted his fate, which is after all
the fate of us all: God, Im ready. You can
take me now, he says. Any way you want
me, Im your man.
Jonathan Kirsch is books editor of the Los
Angeles Jewish Journal, where this irst
appeared. Reprinted by permission.
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi shared an acid trip in an ashram with Timothy Leary.
Calendar
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Saturday
AUGUST 2
Shabbat with
sign language: The
Orangetown Jewish
Center in Orangeburg,
N.Y., continues a pilot
program offering an
American Sign Language
interpretation at Shabbat
services. Interpreting
begins at 10 a.m.;
services start at 9. Also
Sept. 6. 2 Independence
Ave. (845) 359-5920 or
Rabbi.Drill@theojc.org.
For information, or to
help make connections
to Jewish people in the
area who want ASL
interpreting, email Scott
Strauss at jewruscott18@
gmail.com or call via
videophone relay, (845)
538-4321.
Comedy in Springfield:
Temple Shaarey
Shalom holds A Night
of Comedy featuring
Springfield native Josh
Spear, Soul Joel
Richardson, and Hilary
Schwartz, 8 p.m.
78 S. Springfield Ave.
(973) 379-5387.
Monday
AUGUST 4
Tisha BAv in Jersey
City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob offers a
community supper,
6 p.m., and erev Tisha
BAv service at 7.
176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725.
Tisha BAv in Teaneck:
After services at
7:50 p.m., the Jewish
Center of Teaneck will
screen A Strength to
Tell, produced by the
Jerusalem based Maaleh
School of Television,
Film and the Arts. The
film follows a group of
Jerusalem teens who are
victims of broken homes
and shattered lives. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515, ext. 200, or jcot.org.
Tuesday
AUGUST 5
Tisha BAv in Teaneck:
Congregation Keter
Torah screens the
63-minute documentary
narrated by Alan Alda,
50 Children: The Rescue
Mission of Mr. and Mrs.
Kraus, 6 p.m. In early
1939, as conditions were
worsening for Jews
living in Nazi Germany,
the Philadelphia couple
embarked on a risky and
improbable mission
an effort to rescue 50
Jewish children and bring
them to safety in the
United States. To view a
trailer, visit www.youtube.
com/watch?vJAnRo2e
jEW8#t12. 600 Roemer
Ave. (201) 907-0180.
Wednesday
AUGUST 6
Caregiver support in
Rockleigh: A support
group for those caring
for the physically
frail or suffering from
Alzheimers disease
meets at the Gallen Adult
Day Health Care Center
at the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m.
Topics include long-term
care options, financial
planning, legal concerns
and the personal toll
of caregiving. Shelley
Steiner, (201) 784-1414.
Thursday
AUGUST 7
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Congregation Rinat
Yisrael holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 2-8 p.m.
O-negative blood donors
particularly needed.
389 W. Englewood Ave.
(800) 933-2566.
Summer concert in
Wayne: The Summer
Concert series at the
YM-YWHA of North
Jersey continues with
a performance by
the Carolyn Dorfman
Dance Company, 7 p.m.
Dorfman is the daughter
of Holocaust survivors.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 237.
Friday
AUGUST 8
Shabbat in Wayne:
Congregation Shomrei
Torah offers Shabbat
Under the Stars with
a picnic barbecue at
5:30 p.m.; services
outside at 7. Bring a
blanket or chair to sit on.
Indoors in case of rain.
30 Hinchman Ave. (973)
696-2500 or office@
ShomreiTorahWCC.org.
Irene Bressler
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel and JCC of
Ridgewood concludes its
Summer Music Fridays
series with performances
by Nick Borghoff on
viola, Irene Bressler on
harp, Adam Har-zvi on
bass, Emily Schreiber on
clarinet, and Dan Singer
on vibraphone. Doors
open at 7:15 p.m.; recital
at 7:30 in the sanctuary,
services at 8:30, and a
festive oneg follows. 475
Grove St. (201) 444-9320
or www.bisrael.com.
Saturday
AUGUST 9
Concert in Wayne: Nick
Stefanacci performs for
the Concert Under the
Stars summer series
at the Wayne YMCA,
7:30 p.m. The pop fusion
artist, on saxophone,
is accompanied by an
eight-piece horn band.
Indoors if it rains. 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.
The Tzofim-Friendship
Caravan from Israel
will perform at the
Wayne Ys Rosen
Theater on Tuesday, August 5,
at 7 p.m. The group of 10 tzofim
(Israeli scouts), all entering their
senior year of high school, travel
throughout North America each
summer as emissaries, sharing
their lives in Israel through song,
dance, and story. The performance
is sponsored by Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey. Free in
advance; $5 at the door. www.
metroymcas.org/waynetheater/
rosen-theater-events/. The Metro
YMCAs of the Oranges is a
partner of the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey, 1 Pike Drive, Wayne. (973)
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Sunday
AUGUST 10
Rummage sale in
Springfield: Temple
Shaarey Shalom holds
a sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Fill a bag sale, 5-7 p.m.
78 S. Springfield Ave.
(973) 379-5387.
Hillel meet & greet: The
University of Michigan
Hillel hosts a meet &
greet for incoming U of
M freshmen and parents
from the northern New
Jersey area at a private
home in Tenafly, 7 p.m.
(734) 769-0500 or email
hillelmeetngreet@gmail.
com.
Wednesday
AUGUST 13
Book discussion in Fort
Lee: The sisterhood of
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee
meets for a discussion
of Julie Otsukos book
When the Emperor
was Divine, 8:15 p.m.
Refreshments. 1449
Anderson Ave. (201) 947-
1735.
In New York
Wednesday
AUGUST 6
Film in NYC: A free eight-
session summer film
series, Close Encounters
of the Spielberg Kind,
continues at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to
the Holocaust, with
Jaws starring Roy
Scheider, Robert Shaw,
and Richard Dreyfuss,
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
Saturday
AUGUST 2
Shabbat games in
Teaneck: West of
the Hudson, a Jewish
young professionals
group for 20s-early 40s,
meets at the Jewish
Center of Teaneck to
play board games, 4
p.m. Refreshments. 70
Sterling Place. west.
huds@gmail.com.
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.
Sunday
AUGUST 10
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meet for a bagels
and lox brunch at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. $8
with reservations, $10 at
door. Gene Arkin, 450
West Nyack Road. (845)
356-5525.
Sunday
AUGUST 17
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+ meet
for summer brunch at
Congregation Agudath
Israel, 11 a.m. $10. 20
Academy Road. (973)
226-3600, ext. 145, or
singles@agudath.org or
slg@bellatlantic.net.
Sunday
AUGUST 24
Water park: West of the
Hudson, a Jewish young
professionals group for
20s-early 40s is going to
Camelbeach Water Park
in the Poconos. $36 with
payment by Aug. 20.
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west.huds@gmail.com.
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Jewish Museum will highlight
Russian American quiltworks
A rare, colorful patchwork Russian
American quilt is the focus of Master-
pieces & Curiosities: A Russian Ameri-
can Quilt, a new exhibition opening
August 22 at the Jewish Museum in
Manhattan.
The exhibit continues a series
focused on quilts in the Jewish Muse-
ums world-renowned collection. The
quilt was owned by a Russian Jewish
family that is likely to have arrived
in America during the late 19th cen-
tury; it incorporates imagery from
both cultures. Related works from the
museums collection that feature Rus-
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included. The exhibition will be open
through February 1.
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presentation of Cats The Musical,
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Jersey. The adapted production, directed
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Closing a chapter
Shimon Peres hailed by normally divided Knesset
BEN SALES
I
n the midst of a grinding war in Gaza,
a sometimes near-empty Knesset
gallery was packed last week for an
uplifting moment: what probably
was the final political act of Israels elder
statesman.
Shimon Peres former Israeli prime
minister, defense minister, foreign
minister, and now former president
stood before the Knesset for the last time
as a public servant on July 24, just prior to
the inauguration of his successor, Reuven
Rivlin.
Facing his professional home for almost
all of the past six decades, Peres gave
a farewell speech that traced the arc of
his long career, recounting Israels past,
defending it in its present predicament
and offering hope for its future.
We are a people that experienced
unimaginable agony, Peres said. And we
are a people that reached the lofty heights
of human achievement. We made great
efforts. We paid a heavy price.
It was a toned-down ceremony due to
the continuing conflict in Gaza and was
an inauspicious time for Peres, 91, to be
exiting the political scene.
For decades, the man who in 1994
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
helping engineer the Israeli-Palestinian
Oslo Accords has repeated over and
over that peace is within reach and
could be achieved in his lifetime. Yet the
final months of his presidency saw the
acrimonious collapse of Israeli-Palestinian
peace negotiations, the murder of four
boys three Israeli teenagers and a
Palestinian teen and Israels bloodiest
military offensive in five years.
Peres is known today as a peacemaker,
but he began his career in the Defense
Ministry, helping to cement a close
military alliance with France in the 1950s
and developing Israels nuclear program in
the 1960s. Following the 1967 Six-Day War,
Peres advocated the settlement of the West
Bank and Gaza.
Only in the 1980s, as Labor Party leader,
did Peres become the peacenik hes known
as today. And it was only after he left party
politics for the presidency, in 2007, that he
rose above the parliamentary rivalries and
failed leadership bids that had embroiled
and foiled him over the previous few
decades to become the unifying figure he
is today.
Peres is the phoenix of Israeli politics.
From hawk to dove, from faction leader
to uniter, he has ridden the wave of
Israeli history and somehow stayed afloat
while others fell, faded away or died. It
is that history that makes Peres one of
the few Israeli leaders who could deliver
the speech he did last week: at once
vociferously defending Israels offensive
in Gaza while also calling for an aggressive
approach to Israeli-Palestinian peace.
There is no place to doubt our victory,
Peres said, adding immediately: We know
that no military victory will be enough.
There is no permanent security without
permanent peace. Just as there is no real
peace without real security.
In a political career that spans 55 years,
Peres has never prevailed in a popular
election. He became prime minister
in 1984 after his party, unable to form
a government, entered into a unity
coalition with the Likud. He also occupied
the post briefly in 1977, after Yitzhak
Rabin resigned, and in 1995, after Rabins
assassination.
The peace treaty Peres yearns for has
yet to be signed. But whether or not peace
comes in his lifetime though in his tenth
decade he still appears energetic his
starring role in so much of Israeli history
has earned him a respect that transcends
political divisions.
At the Knesset session on July 24, Peres
received thunderous applause from a
generally divided house.
The man who succeeds him, Reuven
Rivlin, is in many ways Peres opposite.
Rivlin is a lifelong Likudnik; Peres has
bounced between three parties. Rivlin
wants to annex the West Bank; Peres
prefers a two-state solution. Rivlin has
pledged to focus his efforts on healing
Israels internal divisions; Peres at times has
acted like Israels second foreign minister.
Though he is no longer a government
official, Peres is unlikely to disappear. He
intends to continue working for regional
reconciliation at his Peres Center for Peace
and he still will be a presence in the media
and at international conferences.
And Peres story remains woven into the
history of Israel its successes, its failures,
its frustrations, and its resilience.
When I return and meet the beauty
and strength of the State of Israel, I find
myself shedding a tear, he said near the
end of his speech. Maybe excited slightly
more than my younger friends. Because
throughout my years I witnessed the
entire incredible journey, and the miracles
of Israel.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Shimon Peres visited bereaved families who lost loved ones during Operation Protective Edge.
We are a
people that
reached the
lofty heights
of human
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Solomon Altman
Solomon Sol Altman, 91, of Fair Lawn died on July 28.
Born in Belgium, he was a textile printer for Allied
Printing Company and later a postal worker for the
United States Postal Service. He was an Army veteran
of World War II, receiving a Bronze Star and two Purple
Hearts among other medals.
Predeceased by a son, Alan, he is survived by his wife
of 30 years, Frances, ne Cahn, children, Frank (Diane)
of Florida, and Robyn Stowell of Massachusetts; three
grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Alzheimers Association,
Denville. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Allen Cohen
Allen Cohen, 103, formerly of West Caldwell, Miami, Fort
Lee, and West Orange, died on July 27.
Born in Bayonne, he was the president of Victory
Baking Company in Jersey City and a former member of
Congregation Bnai Shalom of West Orange.
He is survived by his wife, Pearl (Essenfeld/Goldberg),
children, Stewart Goldberg (Lisa) and Ellen Goldberg
Sciarrillo ( Jerry); and many grandchildren, great-grand-
children, and great-great grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to Orphaned Pets Inc., West
Caldwell. Arrangements were by Jewish Memorial Cha-
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Harriet Copeland
Harriet Copeland, ne Bressler, 78, of Fair Lawn died on
July 28.
She graduated from William Paterson University and
earned a masters from Yeshiva University. A social
worker and psychotherapist, she volunteered for social
causes.
Predeceased by a sister, Phyllis Lane, she is survived
by her husband, Aaron, daughters, Tamar (Greg) and
Carla ( Julian); grandsons; and nieces, nephews, and
grandnephews.
Donations can be sent to Mount Sinai Beth Israels
Pediatric Epilepsy Center, New York. Arrangements were
by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Ralph Gladstein
Ralph Gladstein, 86, of New York City, formerly of Jersey
City and Puerto Villarta, Mexico, died on July 29.
Born in Jersey City, he owned M&G Auto Parts in Jer-
sey City and Royal Auto Parts in Paterson.
Predeceased by his wife, Joan, he is survived by a
daughter, Dr. Babette Gladstein of New York City, and
several cousins.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels in Fort
Lee.
Estelle Grobe
Estelle Tribacher Grobe of Clifton, formerly of Paterson,
died on July 24. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Barbara Marcus
Barbara Bobbie Marcus, ne Gardner, 68, of Fort Lee
died on July 24.
Born in Brooklyn, she was a New York City teacher
before retiring.
Shge is survived by a son, Daniel, of Malibu, Calif., and
two sisters, Sharon Cohen of North Bellmore, N.Y., and
Gerri Paul of Washington, D.C.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels in Fort
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Binnie Rotenberg
Binnie Rotenberg, 93, of Elmwood Park, died on July 23.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Everett Strasser
Everett S. Eddie Strasser, 89, of Fair Lawn, died on July 29.
Predeceased by his wife of 61 years, June, ne Leavy,
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An Army World War II veteran, he served in the Euro-
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graduate. He was a former member of Temple Avoda and
the Fair Lawn Jewish Center.
Donations can be sent to the Parkinsons Disease Foun-
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Herbert Taff
Herbert Taff, 94, who lived in Jersey City, Teaneck, and
Brooklyn, died on July 20.
An Army veteran of World War II who served in the
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and a Purple Heart. He worked in sales for Federal Wine
& Liquor in Kearny and was a past commander of Jewish
War Veterans, Robert P. Grover Post 10.
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A declaration of liability would hope-
fully create a deterrent for other finan-
cial institutions, he said.
Looking for accountability
After the Hamas attack left him para-
lyzed, Mr. Averbach became a voice for
terror victims, speaking out in Israel
and in the United States, including at
events sponsored by the Jewish Federa-
tion of Northern New Jersey. After years
of moving in and out of rehab facilities
and speaking about his experiences, Mr.
Averbach died in 2010.
His revenge was demonstrating that,
although physically paralyzed, Hamas
would never succeed in extinguishing
his spirit, said his sister, Eileen Sapadin,
a Bergen County resident. His life was
filled with purpose and our collective
resolve was strengthened.
For Ms. Sapadin, no amount of money
can return what was taken from her, but
perhaps the monetary rewards for the
so-called martyrs families will cease and
the funding for all of the murder will end
once and for all, she said.
Mr. Osen was contacted by a fam-
ily friend of Mr. Averbach after he was
injured. The Anti-Terrorism Act, passed
in the aftermath of the 1985 murder of
Leon Klinghoffer, opened the door for
victims of September 11 and other terror
attacks to seek legal retribution against
private organizations and individuals
that sponsor terrorism.
Im hoping it will hit them hard on
some level, hold them accountable for
aiding terrorism, and Im hoping that
itll deter banks and commercial entities
from funding cash for these martyrs
families, Ms. Sapadin said. Theres no
restitution thats going to bring back any
lives or cure injuries of victims really, but
Id like to see it brought down. Whatever
secrecy theres been about this, Id like
brought to the public.
According to Ms. Sapadin, the bank
has not reached out to her or other
victims to offer an explanation of its
involvement or condolences.
It has been a long journey to the trial.
Since the inception of the lawsuit, Arab
Bank refused to turn over records from
its branches overseas, claiming that
doing so would violate foreign bank
privacy laws. In 2010, a U.S. district
judge rejected Arab Banks position and
ordered it to disclose the records, as
well as ordering various remedial mea-
sures to deal with the withholding of
evidence. That decision was affirmed by
the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and
then proceeded up the ladder until the
Supreme Court refused to hear the case
in June, clearing the way for the Linde
case to go to trial.
The plaintiffs were told early on that
their case could take years to resolve,
and Ms. Sapadin didnt expect to be in
court any earlier. That the trial date was
finally scheduled when Israel is at war
with Hamas is incredible, she said. While
Israel seeks to destroy Hamas physical
infrastructure, this lawsuit provides vic-
tims of Hamas with the opportunity to
strike at its pocketbooks.
There is some satisfaction in knowing
that theres a way to thwart their fund-
ing, she said.
Following the money
Tracking terrorists financing is a subject
Stephen Flatow of West Orange is all too
familiar with. His daughter, Alisa, was
murdered in a 1995 Palestinian Islamic
Jihad attack on a public bus, and ever
since he has been fighting a legal battle
against Iran for sponsoring the attack. Mr.
Flatows case opened the doors for terror
victims looking for legal retribution, and
he believes the fact that the case against
Arab Bank is a civil case against a corpo-
rate entity as opposed to his litigation
against the nation Iran makes the case
easier and harder at the same time.
Here its victim against bank. There
should be no involvement by the Ameri-
can government in this type of case,
he said. The U.S. Department of Justice
intervened on behalf of Iran in Mr. Fla-
tows litigation, arguing for the principal
of sovereign immunity.
Arline Duker of Teaneck also brought
Iran to trial, holding the country ulti-
mately responsible for the 1996 death of
her daughter Sara in a Hamas bus bomb-
ing. The Flatow and Duker cases were
brought against Iran under the Foreign
Sovereign Immunities Act, and both fam-
ilies continue trying to collect on Iranian
assets in the United States. While Irans
sponsorship of Hamas and Islamic Jihad
is based on ideology, Arab Bank is a busi-
ness with a bottom line. A liability ver-
dict could force the bank to re-examine
its risk-management strategy.
The message to institutions from this
type of case is you are culpable when
someone is killed because of your com-
mercial activities, Mr. Flatow said. If
we cut off the terror funding by making
it difficult for a bank, then theyre going
to be watching more closely where the
money comes from and where it goes.
Ms. Sapadin offers words of solidarity
to other victims of terror:
We are in this journey together in
a way that most people cannot fully
understand, she said. It starts with
utter destruction, disbelief, denial, and
despair, but eventually moves us to a
place of Godliness. This realm is beyond
nature when we realize that our loved
ones sacrifice was for others for our
entire nation. We help one another to
feel more, to give more, and to pray
more. Please realize that what happened
to you was not in vain. Human beings
care deeply for one another in our reli-
gion. We connect and unite and prove
that we are one.
Thwart
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Donate nonperishables when you get fresh foods at the Teaneck Farmers Market.
market cannot keep them overnight. The
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The Joint Commission

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