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CONTENTS
Building tomorrows cheese today
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook prom-
ised that in the days of the Messiah,
the world would become vegetarian.
That prophecy has taken a step
closer to reality in recent years
with the development of vat-grown
cloned beef.
Now, a group of self-described
biohackers are bringing the pos-
sibility of vegan future closer, by
developing cheese that never passed
through a cows udder.
This wont be the soy-based, imita-
tion cheese that gracelessly graces
cheeseburgers at kosher establish-
ments. Instead, theyre looking to
turn yeast into factories that create
real cheese molecules.
To create our proteins, we study
animal genomes, choose milk-pro-
tein genetic sequences, and synthe-
size those genes, explains realveg-
ancheese.org. The genes are then
temporarily inserted into yeast and
produced using the cellular machin-
ery of bakers yeast. The genes are
yeast-optimized and, though they
are inspired by animals, have never
been inside an animal!
The project raised $37,369 on In-
dieGoGo enough to demonstrate
the viability of the project, organiz-
ers claim, but they warn theres still a
long way to go before it ends up on
grocery shelves, as they hope it will
in 2016.
Thats time to start considering the
question: Can cheese produced by
bakers yeast be kosher for Pass-
over?
After all, Rabbi Kook never prom-
ised that the messianic era would be
free of vexing halachic questions.
LARRY YUDELSON
Israelis hope to shepherd satellites
Its blast-off time for the start-up
nations.
Israel was the eighth country to
launch a satellite into orbit. With
SpaceIL, it is competing to become
the fourth country to land a craft on
the moon. And now Israel boasts its
first private space start-up, Effective
Space Solutions.
The company is developing a mi-
crosatellite, designed to help bigger
satellites that need a little nudge.
Think of it as an orbiting tugboat.
Dubbed the DeOrbiter, the small
craft is designed to assist larger sat-
ellites, keep them in their proper or-
bit to extend their useful life, monitor
them, deorbit them, and pull lost sat-
ellites back on course. The DeOrbiter
will use highly efficient ion propulsion
thrusters and a patent-pending sys-
tem to reach the satellites and move
them into the correct orbit.
Effective Space Solutions is head-
ed by Arie Halsband, past general
manager of Israel Aircraft Industries
Space Division. Systems engineer
Meidad Pariente, who helped design
Israels AMOS communication satel-
lites is also on the team. They started
Effective Space Solutions in late
2013.
Im in the industry many years and
I know the needs, Mr. Halsband says.
I had the idea to make a powerful
microsatellite, and I focused on the
need to extend the life of commu-
nications satellites that are sent to
the graveyard when they still have
between six and nine months of use-
ful life left.
The Effective Space microsatel-
lite is not only more lightweight and
cheaper to make than a full-size
satellite, but also much cheaper to
launch. This gives the Israeli company
an edge over competitors that are
designing full-size satellite tugboats,
Mr. Halsband says, because the price
tag for launching a satellite into
space is the most substantial cost of
the mission up to $100 million for a
complete launcher.
In addition, DeOrbiters ion propul-
sion system is said to be 10-15 times
more efficient than that of compet-
ing designs.
The company, based in Givatayim
outside Tel Aviv, is funded with ven-
ture capital and plans to launch its
first microsatellite in the last quarter
of 2016 or the first quarter of 2017, if
all goes smoothly.
We finalized our initial design
all the algorithms, analyses and sub-
systems and did feasibility studies.
We conducted a market survey to
show that the market is there and vi-
able, Mr. Halsband says. We filed a
patent in mid-August and were now
ready to start marketing. We are ap-
proaching the big players, the com-
munity of satellite owners.
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN / ISRAEL21C.ORG
Love under fire
Sometimes it takes a missile to move
love along.
Michelle Beck, 23, had been dating
Shmuel Shtessman, 25, for a while, and
had decided it was time to introduce
him to her family.
Ms. Beck is a native of Toronto who
made aliyah to Ramat Beit Shemesh
with her family; Mr. Shtessman is a na-
tive Israeli.
But how to arrange the introduction?
She didnt want to scare him off.
I wanted him to meet my family, Ms.
Beck was quoted as saying by the Jew-
ishInTheCity.com website, but I was
nervous to bring it up.
Of course, romance was far from the
only thing to be nervous about in Israel
this summer. On July 13, as Mr. Shtess-
man arrived at her house for a date, the
rocket alarms sounded. Ms. Beck in-
vited him in and they ran to the shelter
together.
Also seeking shelter: Ms. Becks aunt
and brother.
Ms. Beck felt terribly awkward about
the impromptu introductions. Mr. Sht-
essman, however, kept his cool and
made a good impression.
Our bomb shelter date broke the
ice, Michelle told JewInTheCity. It was
just natural at that point for Shmuel to
say Do you want to meet my family
now?
A November wedding is planned.
LARRY YUDELSON
Candlelighting: Friday, September 5, 7:04 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, September 6, 8:02 p.m.
This illustration shows the DeOrbiter 1 microsatellite attached to a
much larger communication satellite after the rendezvous and docking
process, and pushing it to the graveyard orbit.
Noshes
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He was employed, Jewish, in his 30s and
thats pretty much ideal.
Jessie Nizewitz, 28, lamenting that a man she had been dating for a month
failed to call after she appeared on a reality show, Dating Naked, without
all her private parts blurred properly. Ms. Nizewitz is suing the show for $10
million in damages.
Want to read more noshes? Visit facebook.com/jewishstandard
tor BRETT RATNER, 45.
The September 10 show
(9 p.m./12 a.m.) features
MICHAEL DOUGLAS, 69,
and chef Mario Batali,
whose wife is Jewish.
Future interviewees in-
clude CALVIN KLEIN, 71,
Rolling Stone publisher
JANN WENNER, 68, and
SNL creator LORNE MI-
CHAELS, 69.
Diane Sawyer,
68, who resigned
last week as
the anchor of the ABC
evening news, has been
married to famous direc-
tor MIKE NICHOLS, 82,
since 1988. The couple
had no children, but
Sawyer does have a step
daughter-in-law still in
the news bizRACHEL
ALEXANDER NICHOLS,
40, who wed Mikes son,
MAX NICHOLS, also 40,
in a Jewish ceremony in
2001. Rachel Nichols is
a familiar name to ESPN
viewers she covered
NFL and NBA games
until 2012. Now she has
her own show on CNN
(Unguarded, airs Fri-
day at 10:30 p.m.) Last
year, she also did NCAA
basketball coverage for
CBS.
N.B.
Brett Ratner
FLYNN ON FILM:
At the movies,
on TV
Calvin Klein
Jann Wenner Lorne Michaels
The Last of Rob-
in Hood is open-
ing this month
in very limited release.
Early reviews indicate it
is just charming enough
to make a mental note,
now, to rent it when it
hits rentable media. The
film tells the story of the
erroll Flynnss affair, in
the last year of his life,
with aspiring actress
Beverly Aadland (Da-
kota Fanning). Kevin
Kline, who is now 67, is
aptly cast as Flynn, who
died of a heart attack
in 1959, at 50. By 1959,
Flynn was, as one com-
mentator said, a parody
of himself, with heavy
alcohol use leaving him
prematurely aged. Flynn
thought Aadland to be
18 when he met her, but
quickly learned that she
was about 16. The af-
fair was encouraged by
Aadlands mother (Susan
Sarandon), who thought
it would aid Beverlys ca-
reer. Director STANLEY
KUBRICK (Max Casella)
appears as a charac-
ter in one scene. Last
was co-written and co-
directed by RICHARD
GLANTZER, 50. By the
way, the story that Flynn
was a fascist and secret
Nazi spy has been de-
bunked completely.
The fifth and
final season of
HBOs hit show Board-
walk Empire premieres
on Sunday. TV Guide
recently caught up with
SANDRA LANSKY LOM-
BARDO, 76, the daugh-
ter of gangster MEYER
LANSKY, who is a big
Boardwalk character.
She is unhappy with
the way her father is
depicted and contends
her father didnt deal
drugs and that, person-
ality-wise, the charac-
ter is unrecognizable
to her. She said, I got
sick watching it. It was
so much fiction. They
shouldve done what
they did with Nucky
Johnson and changed
his name.
The Esquire cable
channel, which
can be seen na-
tionally on Direct/Dish
TV and on AT&T cable,
has a new talk show
called My Friends Call
Me Johnny. Its hosted
by Jean Johnny Pig-
ozzi, an Italian rich guy.
We are told he will travel
the globe to ask celebs
tough questions. The
premiere episode aired
on AT&T on September
3, but you can catch a
repeat on Sunday at 10
p.m, or DVR it. The two
guests are Hebrews with
a bad boy reputation:
fashion designer DOV
CHARNEY, 45, and direc-
Celebs for Israel
A couple of hundred Hollywood notables signed a
petition that, while expressing their hope for peace,
condemned the anti-Semitic ideoloy of Hamas and its
rocket attacks. It is posted on the website Creative Com-
munity for Peace. Signatories include Emmy winner
SARAH SILVERMAN, 43, TOM ARNOLD, 55, MAYIM
BIALIK, 38, JOSH CHARLES, 42, Minnie Driver, JAMI
GERTZ, 48, Bill Maher, SETH ROGEN, 32, and Sylvester
Stallone (whose maternal grandfather was Jewish). Nice
to note: Charles and his wife, SOPHIE FLACK, 31, who
wed last year, are expecting their irst child. N.B.
Sarah Silverman
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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Two local shuls try new approaches
on Rosh Hashanah
JOANNE PALMER
R
osh Hashanah is two days long.
Thats something upon
which a surprising number
of observant Jews agree
Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox,
diaspora and Israeli alike.
For some of those Jews, the fact that
the second-day services are basically
a reprise of the first, just with a differ-
ent Torah reading and haftarah, is not a
problem. The sanctity of the holiday, the
power of the music, the grandeur of the
liturgy, and the intensity of the emotion
they evoke make the second day as pow-
erful as the first.
For other Jews, though, that is not the
case. Shul attendance often drops on the
second day, and attention flags.
What to do?
Two local rabbis have come up with two
new approaches.
Rabbi Adina Lewittes of Shaar Com-
munities said that people come to High
Holiday services for many reasons. Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur are unbe-
lievable gifts to us as human beings and
as Jews, she said. We are really being
invited to take the time to think, to reflect,
to celebrate, to connect, and to have the
space to bring the range of feelings that
come to us this time of year.
The melodies, the themes, the expe-
rience of being with family members
some people do it only once a year,
she said. Sometimes, for some people,
its a sanctuary in the larger sense of the
term. They come at this time of the year
because thats when they admit to need-
ing the space and the inspiration to do
something larger in their lives.
This year, she expects that pull to
be even stronger, she added. This has
been a strange and unsettling year, with
the war in Gaza, the evil unleashed in
the Middle East, and a summer of not
just intense anti-Israelism but that anti-
Israelism revealing a very thinly veiled
anti-Semitism.
The desire to come together in com-
munity and seek God can draw people
to shul, but for a lot of them a four-hour
experience in formal worship can be
draining, she said. So Shaar will offer
that traditional formal experience on the
first day. People draw comfort from tra-
dition, which anchors them in a world
that seems to be swirling out of control.
But the second day will be different. It
will be held outdoors, at the Alpine Boat
Basin, and it will engage fully with one
of the days main themes, the identifica-
tion of Rosh Hashanah as the birthday of
the world, the day on which the world
was created. We will be out in creation,
looking at nature, she said, overlooking
the broad glory of the Hudson River, even
though were also looking across the
river at the Bronx, she added.
Music is a big part of our prayer com-
munity, so we have invited additional
musicians to join us to expand the range
and the depth musically. We are going to
draw on the strength of shira btzibur
community singing to access the power
of music. Wordless melodies nigunim
that bypass the mind to go right to the
heart can help people who struggle with
the liturgy, and can allow people to com-
pose the prayers of their hearts in combi-
nation with the voices of the family and
friends sitting around them.
Rabbi Lewittes is still putting together
the elements of the second-day service;
the details are not yet firm. but the out-
line is. We will use highlights from the
Rosh Hashanah service and we will select
pieces that are particularly resonant with
the themes and the hallmark musical
experiences people identify with the High
Holidays, she said. We may compose
something around the refrain BRosh
Hashanah tikatevu from Unetaneh Tokef,
one of the holidays signature prayers.
Instead of a formal Torah reading,
we will have an extended Torah study,
she added. The days reading is one of
the most challenging of the whole year,
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What to do on
the second day
Two local shuls try new approaches
on Rosh Hashanah
Music is a big part of our prayer com-
munity, so we have invited additional
musicians to join us to expand the range
and the depth musically. We are going to
draw on the strength of shira btzibur
community singing to access the power
of music. Wordless melodies nigunim
that bypass the mind to go right to the
heart can help people who struggle with
the liturgy, and can allow people to com-
pose the prayers of their hearts in combi-
nation with the voices of the family and
friends sitting around them.
Rabbi Lewittes is still putting together
the elements of the second-day service;
the details are not yet firm. but the out-
line is. We will use highlights from the
Rosh Hashanah service and we will select
pieces that are particularly resonant with
the themes and the hallmark musical
experiences people identify with the High
Holidays, she said. We may compose
something around the refrain BRosh
Hashanah tikatevu from Unetaneh Tokef,
one of the holidays signature prayers.
Instead of a formal Torah reading,
we will have an extended Torah study,
she added. The days reading is one of
the most challenging of the whole year,
and the most open to a wide range of
interpretations it is the Akedah, the
binding of Isaac, the Torah portion
where Abraham takes his son Isaac,
walks with him for many days, ties him
to an altar, and lifts a knife above him,
but is stayed by an angel. We will be
in sync with the rest of the synagogue-
going world in that we will discuss the
Akedah, but we will do it in a less cho-
reographed way, Rabbi Lewittes said.
There will be facilitated small-group dis-
cussion and a general discussion as well.
There also will be a shofar service,
as is usual, but without the full formal
framework of the liturgy, we will be able
to approach it with more time and more
depth and more interaction.
Because the emotion that runs
through the High Holidays is deep and
complex, the emotions it evokes take
many forms. We hope it will be moving
and meditative and thought-provoking;
we also want to make sure that there is
a deep experience of joy and gratitude
and affirmation and celebration, Rabbi
Lewittes said. So we will we dance.
In another twist of tradition, Shaar
will conduct Tashlich services on the
afternoon of the second day instead of
the first. Tashlich is the time when you
metaphorically throw your sins, gener-
ally symbolized by pieces of bread, into
running water. Shaar will have the Hud-
son at its disposal. And then the entire
community will sit down together to
lunch.
There are practical details to discuss.
The pavilion is open on the sides but
covered on top, so rain would not be a
problem. There is both parking and (in
a sad nod to grim reality) security. And
people are asked to dress comfortably.
Quoting the flier Shaar has circulated,
Put down your prayerbook and lift up
your heart, Rabbi Lewittes said.
Shaar, which is based in Bergen
County, is post-denominational; Rabbi
Lewittes was ordained at the Jewish
Theological Seminary.
Rabbi Paul Jacobson of Temple Avo-
dat Shalom in River Edge has come up
with another solution to the usual sec-
ond-day decline in attendance. This
year, we decided that the second day of
Rosh Hashanah would be a good time to
help promote a younger, more family-
friendly feel, he said. So while there are
three services on the first day the main
service, one for small children, and one
for families on the second day the
three will combine.
Well have a special tot service at
9:30, and at 10:15 well have the Gesher
service gesher means bridge that
will be bridging our traditional service
with youth and family-friendly services
to encourage greater participation.
The synagogues youth group will lead
much of the service; its members will
read Torah, and its president will speak.
Ive asked him to consider the question
of what the Jewish community will look
like in 2034, Rabbi Jacobson said.
He feels strongly about the impor-
tance of involving children and teenag-
ers. Dont just say that we believe in
our children as the future of the Jewish
community, he said. Empower them.
Give them the power to lead us, and give
them the opportunity to do so.
The more doors you open, the more
people can walk through them, Rabbi
Jacobson said.
If you go to second-day High Holiday services on Friday, September 26, at:
Shaar Communities
Where: Alpine Boat Basin
When: 10 a.m.
For information: Call Lisa Kasdan (201)
281-4900, email shaarholidays@gmail.com, or go to www.
shaarcommunities.org
You should know: All are welcome but space is limited. You can buy tickets
for that one service; they are half-price for newcomers.
Temple Avodat Shalom
Where: 385 Howland Ave., River Edge
When: Tot service, 9:30; Gesher service, 10:15
For information: (201) 489-2463 or
www.avodatshalom.net
You should know: Second-day Rosh Hashanah services at Avodat Shalom
are free.
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Overwhelming support
for our emergency needs
Teaneck councilman leading charge for new ambulance for Israel
JOSH LIPOWSKY
A
s rockets rained down on Israel
during this summers conflict
with Hamas, Israels emer-
gency medical services were
working overtime to help the almost 900
Israelis wounded during the fighting.
MDA has approximately 1,200 ambu-
lances in service, running 24/7, accord-
ing to American Friends of Magen David
Adom. The typical lifespan of an MDA
ambulance is seven to 10 years, accord-
ing to Gary Perl, northeast regional direc-
tor for American Friends of Magen David
Adom. The ambulances have been over-
extended during the recent conflict and
many will not last nearly that long.
Since early July, MDA has received
donations of more than 30 ambulances
from across the United States, Mr. Perl
said, noting there has been overwhelm-
ing support of our emergency needs.
Teaneck Councilman Elie Katz, who has
volunteered with the townships ambu-
lance corps since he was a teenager and
with MDA during his post-high school year
in Israel, knows the importance of emer-
gency services. In honor of his father-in-
law Rabbi Joseph Feinsteins 25th yartz-
eit, Mr. Katz and his wife, Esther, have
launched a campaign throughout Septem-
ber to raise $100,000 to purchase a new
ambulance for MDA.
Im intimately impressed by how much
support theyve been giving to the front-
lines and now is the time when they need
to replenish their resources, Mr. Katz said.
EMTs have blinders on, providing help
to anyone who needs it, no matter their
race, religion, or political views, he con-
tinued. Magen David Adom supports and
responds to everybody. Specifically now,
its important we support them and make
sure theyre strong to help our troops and
Israeli civilians.
The drive will begin on Saturday night
with a lecture by Rabbi Steven Weil of
Teaneck, senior managing director of
the Orthodox Union, at Teanecks Young
Israel synagogue. Rabbi Weil will speak
about the concept of teshuva, or repen-
tance, ahead of Rosh HaShanah. Mr. Katz
plans to hold other educational events
throughout the rest of the month as well.
In addition to his own fundraising efforts,
Mr. Katz hopes that local shuls and Jewish
schools will take on additional fundraising
commitments of their own for MDA during
September.
I wanted to make this a month where,
as a community, we could band together
and help with additional resources to
Israel, he said. Id like for Bergen County
to come out very strong for Magen David
Adom.
Rabbi Weils talk is part of Young Israels
scholar-in-residence program, but after
the Katzes approached the shul about
the fundraising drive, the synagogue
was happy to help support MDA, accord-
ing to Young Israels president, Michael
Wimpfheimer. This is an event that will
be beneficial to our members and the
greater Teaneck community and certainly
appropriate given the time of year, Mr.
Wimpfheimer said. Were very apprecia-
tive to the Katz family for spearheading
this effort and look forward to greeting
many from the greater Teaneck and Ber-
gen County communities.
Although Rabbi Weil had scheduled his
talk before it was linked with the MDA
campaign, he is intimately familiar with
the need for the organizations work. Last
week he returned from his second OU
emergency mission to Israel during the
recent conflict, and the OU has raised half
a million dollars across the country for
therapy services for traumatized Israeli
children and their parents.
More than 13,000 volunteers, includ-
ing about 600 from America, serve in
MDA in Israel, from paramedics to emer-
gency medical services. Of the overseas
volunteers, the majority are from the New
York metropolitan area, Mr. Perl said, not-
ing that New Jersey sends MDA the big-
gest number of volunteers each year. In
the past decade, MDA has received more
ambulances and bloodmobiles from North
Jersey than from any other region in the
country, he said.
New Jerseyans can be proud of their
communal accomplishments, but, as Ms.
Katz points out, many people wonder how
they can have a specific impact.
Everybody feels now were so far away,
what can we do to help? she said. What
better way to donate than to give an ambu-
lance? We dont know where this ambu-
lance is going, but we know its going to
help people.
Minefields: Rambams Analysis of the Six
Spiritual Roadblocks That Preclude Teshuva
Who: Rabbi Steven Weil, senior managing director of the Orthodox Union
Where: Young Israel of Teaneck, 868 Perry Lane
When: 9:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 6, dessert reception to follow.
Cost: Free.
For more information: Go to www.yiot.org or email pres@yiot.org.
To donate to the MDA campaign,
go to www.Bergendonate.com
or send a check made out to
American Friends of Magen David
Adom to:
Elie Katz
172 W. Englewood Ave.
Teaneck, N.J. 07666
The MDA ambulance was bought through Bergen County donations.
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Saving Jewish lives
the legacy of Rabbi
Joseph Feinstein
This year marks the 25th yartzeit of Rabbi
Joseph Feinstein, the father of Esther Katz and
father-in-law of Elie Katz and a leader in the
Los Angeles Jewish community. Though Mr.
Katz never met his father-in-law, he continues
to meet people who have been affected by him.
Rabbi Feinstein grew up in the Bronx and
received his smicha and a masters degree in
social work from Yeshiva University. After-
ward, he became an Army chaplain at Fort
Jackson, S.C., and provided spiritual guidance
to Jewish soldiers.
In l972, Rabbi Feinstein became the Hebrew
principal of Hillel Day School in Los Angeles.
He went on to become the head of kashrut for
the Rabbinical Council of California, develop-
ing the RCCs kosher symbol. He later joined
the local Jewish federation and was put in
charge of hiring teachers for the areas day
schools. Rabbi Feinsteins legacy also includes
L.A.s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he
kashered its kitchen, created a kosher menu
still in use today, and hung mezuzot around
the building.
There is that connection between Magen
David Adom and saving lives and what Rabbi
Feinsteins mission was, saving Jewish lives,
Mr. Katz said.
Rabbi Feinstein didnt just tend to spiritual
needs, though. He donated blood four to five
times a year at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,
and encouraged other clergy to donate as well,
Ms. Katz said.
He encouraged others to make it a regular
thing in their lives, she said.
Rabbi Feinstein was diagnosed with cancer
when he was 44, and he died three years later.
His contributions to the Los Angeles Jewish
community are still felt today, according to his
daughter.
Its remarkable when Elie and I travel in
L.A. and Israel, people come up to us and
begin to talk about my father, Ms. Katz said.
People still remember him. He helped so
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This year, as we do every year at just about this time, we introduce you
to the new local rabbis.
This week, moving east to west, we would like you to meet Rabbi Zev
Goldberg of Young Israel of Fort Lee, who is Orthodox, and Rabbi Noah
Fabricant of Temple Beth Or of Washington Township, who is Reform.
Coming home to
Bergen County
Young Israel of Fort Lees
new rabbi looking forward
to growing congregation
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his high holiday season, Rabbi
Zev Goldberg will have both
a spiritual and a physical
journey.
Now assistant rabbi of Young Israel of
Century City in Los Angeles, the young
rabbi will conduct services there for Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur, taking up
his position in Fort Lee just in time for
Sukkot.
Rabbi Goldberg and his wife, the former
Michal Safier, both grew up in Teaneck.
A graduate of Yavneh Academy and
the Torah Academy of Bergen County, he
received his smicha from Yeshiva Univer-
sitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological
Seminary and his bachelors degree in
economics from Yeshiva College.
His parents, Eli and Helen Goldberg, are
members of the Young Israel of Teaneck;
his wifes parents, Steve and Priva Safier,
belong to the towns Bnai Yeshurun.
Returning to Bergen County to head the
Young Israel of Fort Lee is a wonderful
way to come home and give back to the
broader community in which we were
brought up, Rabbi Goldberg said. Now,
however, he and his wife bring two new
Goldbergs with them: 5-year-old Meira
and 2-year-old Yakir.
The couple will do most of their mov-
ing during September, while living with
Michals family. The new year promises
to be busy. In addition to serving his con-
gregation, Rabbi Goldberg will teach part
time at Bruriah High School in Elizabeth.
Michal, who received her Ph.D. from Fer-
kauf, Yeshiva Universitys graduate school
of psychology, will work for Bikur Cholim
in Monsey.
Rabbi Goldberg describes his California
synagogue as a wonderful congregation
of 500 families. I cant say enough about
[senior rabbi] Elazar Muskin. He was an
incredible mentor.
Rabbi Muskins influence on the Gold-
berg family was felt in other ways as well.
Two years into the job, my brother
met his daughter and now theyre mar-
ried, he said.
While the West Coast congregation had
a more diverse population than its east-
ern counterpart, its hard to compare
the two, Rabbi Goldberg said, adding
that he has been taken by the warmth
and vibrancy of the Fort Lee community.
Ill be excited to grow the congrega-
tion, he said. Rabbi Winkler did a won-
derful job of growing it from a handful
to more than 120 members. Everyone is
excited about its future potential.
It has so much to offer, he added,
citing its close proximity to Teaneck
and Englewood. Its a jewel yet to be
discovered.
Rabbi Goldberg said he is particularly
excited about the opportunity to engage
in relationship-building, connecting with
congregants and becoming part of their
family.
He also enjoys teaching and has
Appreciating diversity
Beth Ors new rabbi
talks seriously about his vision
JOANNE PALMER
N
oah Fabricant,
the new rabbi at
Temple Beth Or
in Washington
Township, is a true child of
the Reform movement, a
Reform Jew and a Reform
rabbi by both birth and
conviction.
Rabbi Fabricant grew up
in northern New Jersey; his
family belonged to Temple
Sharey Tefilo-Israel in West
Orange, where he and his
two younger brothers first
became involved and then
drew their parents into
increased involvement in
their wide wakes.
Rabbi Fabricant, 32, first
started singing in the syn-
agogues choir, which of
course meant that he had to
be at services. He became
active in the Reform move-
ments youth group, NFTY, becoming
president of the regional body, called
GER, for Garden Empire Region. He
went to two of the Reform movements
camps, Eisner and Kutz, and learned to
play guitar so he could be a song-leader.
And then, it seemed, enough was
enough.
By the time he got to Harvard in 2000,
I had no interest in being Jewish full-
time, Rabbi Fabricant said. I wanted to
do other things. I decided I wasnt going
to concentrate in Jewish studies, and I
wasnt going to make Hillel my primary
activity. Yeah, right.
But one thing I decided I wanted to
do was learn Hebrew, he continued.
Growing up in the Reform movement
you dont learn it, so I started Hebrew
B. (Harvard has its own idiosyncratic
vocabulary, he said; the b stands for
basic.) Its five days a week, all year
long. I loved it, I became very interested
in Hebrew language and ultimately in
Hebrew literature and I became a lit-
erature major.
At the same time this was when he
had decided to distance himself some-
what from Jewish life Rabbi Fabricant
was teaching Hebrew school and work-
ing in Camp Kutz. Clearly, the distancing
did not work. So I went to the Reform
minyan, and ultimately led services
there, he said.
It was at Harvards Reform minyan
that Rabbi Fabricant met Ali Harwin,
who is now a Yale Law School-trained
lawyer, Rabbi Fabricants wife, and the
mother of their toddler, Lorry.
As he studied Hebrew language and
literature, Rabbi Fabricant considered
his options. I am a very academic per-
son, he understated, and he was drawn
inexorably to Jewish life. Given that, I
was deciding between a Ph.D. program
or rabbinical school. Ultimately, I chose
to become a rabbi because its more
diverse.
I love teaching and learning and
studying, but I also love singing with
children and adults, being part of
Our new local rabbis
SEE GOLDBERG PAGE 12 SEE FABRICANT PAGE 12
Rabbi Zev and Dr. Michal Goldberg are
looking forward to their new lives in
Fort Lee. GOLDBERG FAMILY
Rabbi Noah Fabricant and his wife, Ali Harwin,
hold their baby, Lorry. NOAH FABRICANT
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Where would you turn?
If your child, a rambunctious, happy, intelligent boy, was in a terrible car accident, leaving
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room, how to count, how to recognize letters.
And what about his soul? Where would you turn to keep the Jewish ame alive and
engaged within him?
There are very few schools that could help. Very few schools that could create a completely
unique program to meet his complex special needs. Very few schools that could provide
him with the tools he needs to reach his potential, to grow into an engaged, productive
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can afford to pay only a small fraction of those costs.
And there is only ONE school that will do ALL of this and ALSO provide your child with
a nurturing, inclusive Jewish education.
That school is SINAI.
For over 30 years, parents have turned to SINAI Schools to help their children with
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Whether to craft an educational program in which their gifted child with learning disabilities
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parents turn to SINAI.
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As you consider your High Holiday giving, please think of SINAIs children.
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perceived a thirst for more classes among
the membership.
There are a lot of retirees, and theres
a real excitement for more classes, he
said. Ill be meeting with the adult edu-
cation committee to put together a robust
program with a whole array of opportuni-
ties to be inspired.
Rabbi Goldberg said he would like to
see the younger population of the con-
gregation grow, joking that he is bringing
in two more children. While he is not yet
sure how he will reach out to the commu-
nity, he is considering some programs he
helped implement in Los Angeles.
We had a really interesting program
guide filled with a host of speakers, think-
ers, rabbis, politicians, all sorts of people,
who could speak to a broad range of inter-
ests, he said, noting that every speaker
speaks to a different congregant.
People wont all be pulled in the same
entrance way. For some, it will be prayer;
for some, lectures. I feel passionate about
building a synagogue with different por-
tals. It makes congregants feel like part of
a family. It breeds an organic growth.
Rabbi Goldberg said that with new
technology, we can access so many dif-
ferent ways of learning, of perspectives.
People are being exposed to all kinds of
influences. To have an impact, the syn-
agogue has to adapt, keep up with the
times.
Rabbi Goldbergs goal, however, is not
technical but spiritual.
Im looking to inspire people, to help
them appreciate the beauty of our reli-
gion, he said. The drive to expose more
people to the beauty of our heritage, to
the Torah, is at the core of why I do what
I do. I get really passionate when it comes
to teaching I feel a passion and excite-
ment about religion.
His target audience is large.
There are lots of people in Fort Lee,
he said. I want to make it the place to
be.
He is not worried because the majority
of these people are not yet observant.
We have to think creatively about a
way to bring people through our doors,
he said. There are a growing number
of empty-nesters interested in downsiz-
ing and moving to high-end condos here.
Thats a major source of growth.
communal events, and working with
people of all ages. So he went straight
from college to rabbinical school.
All North American Reform rabbinical
students are obligated to spent their first
HUC year in Jerusalem. They are each
assigned to one of the movements three
North American campuses in Manhat-
tan, Cincinnati, and Los Angeles and
report there for their second year. Rabbi
Fabricant requested and got Cincinnati,
the movements spiritual home.
I am from the East Coast, and I know
what East Coast Jewish life is like, he
said. I wanted to experience a different
kind of community.
In New York, everyone lives in a dif-
ferent place, and its so expensive that
you have to work constantly to support
yourself. Because it is cheaper and more
communal, in Cincinnati you are more
part of your community. There is a real
campus, and people hang out there and
spend time with each other. It is not a
commuter school.
In my first year in Cincinnati I
thought I had made a horrible mistake,
but soon and with marriage that feel-
ing turned around entirely, and he felt
entirely at home.
Rabbi Fabricant graduated from HUC
at a hard time. That was 2009 it was
a terrible year for rabbinical placement,
he said. Only about one third of my
classmates who wanted it got placed in
congregations.
He was lucky, and got a job that he
both wanted and liked. For five years, he
worked at the Washington Hebrew Con-
gregation, where he was first an assistant
and then an associate rabbi. I was part
of a team of five rabbis and two cantors,
he said. It is a 3,000-family congrega-
tion, one of the largest in the country
of any denomination, that makes it a
unique place. Among his responsibili-
ties were both teaching and presiding
at life cycle events he worked with bar
and bat mitzvah students and officiated
at both funerals and baby namings. And
I had the particular pleasure of doing a
lot of weddings, he said. Washington
is a very young city, and I ran our Intro-
duction to Judaism classes. Many of the
couples with whom he worked were
interfaith.
About two years into his tenure in
Washington, Rabbi Fabricant had the
chance to pursue his other, second-best
professional passion, academics. He
entered the Ph.D. program at the Uni-
versity of Maryland, studying Jewish lit-
erature and working as a teaching assis-
tant. I was a full-time Ph.D. student and
a full-time rabbi, he said. (How did he
manage two full-time careers in one very
full-time life? He cant quite answer that
question.)
He has now finished his classwork and
is working on his dissertation, which is
about the origins of modern Hebrew and
Yiddish literature at the end of the 19th
century in Europe. In order to do this
work, he had to learn Yiddish.
A few years ago, Rabbi Fabricant and
Ms. Harwin, who is from Manhattan,
started feeling the urge to move closer
to their families, and he decided that it
was time for him to take my next pro-
fessional step, he said. I wanted to be
in a place where I could be involved in all
areas of synagogue life.
He wanted to be in charge, and to
work in a more intimate setting than was
available in Washington.
In a giant congregation you have a
portfolio. You do some things, but there
are other things that you never do. As a
solo rabbi in a medium-size congregation,
you get to be involved in all the different
parts of the life of the congregation.
He interviewed in many places, he
said; one of the things I wanted to keep
a focus on was that I wasnt only looking
for a job. I was looking for a congrega-
tion that I want to be part of, and where
I want to raise my family.
He is thrilled with Beth Or. It has a lot
of flexibility and openness, which I really
appreciate, he said. A congregation can
be very set in its ways, but Beth Or, par-
ticularly with a new rabbi and a new can-
tor, is energized to try new things.
I am interested in learning and teach-
ing and engaging in Judaism in a seri-
ous and authentic way, Rabbi Fabricant
Goldberg
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Meet Rabbi Zev Goldberg
Where: At the Young Israel of Fort
Lee, 1610 Parker Ave.
When: At a dessert reception after
Selichot services, led by Cantor Dr.
Joshua Kaplan, which begins at 9
p.m. on Saturday, September 20.
Who is invited: The whole
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To learn more: Call (201) 592-1518.
Manhattans Ramaz school clarifies
advice on concealing kippot
URIEL HEILMAN
When Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, the
principal of Ramaz, an Orthodox
day school on Manhattans Upper
East Side a school that attracts
many Bergen County students
first heard about last weeks attack
in the neighborhood on a Jewish
couple by a mob bearing Pales-
tinian flags, he had an instinctual
response. Maybe the male stu-
dents at his school should con-
sider wearing baseball caps over
their yarmulkes when wander-
ing around the neighborhood, he
thought.
So he dashed off an email to his
head of school, Paul Shaviv, suggesting
parents might want to consider talking to
their kids about it.
Then Rabbi Lookstein thought again
and realized he absolutely did not agree
with that policy he had just suggested.
I think that is giving the lunatics and
terrorists a real victory, Rabbi Lookstein
said on Tuesday.
We have to stand up here in New York
and say we are who we are, and this kind
of behavior by people who try to terror-
ize others should never be allowed, he
said. I grew up in the 1930s and 40s,
when Yorkville a German-American
enclave on the Upper East Side was a
hotbed of anti-Semitism. And our answer
to anti-Semitism has to be that we stand
up like exclamation points and not bend
over like question marks.
But Rabbi Lookstein never
relayed his second thoughts to
Mr. Shaviv. So when Mr. Shaviv sent a let-
ter about school security shortly after-
ward to students, parents, and faculty,
many were startled to find in it a sugges-
tion about concealing kippot, which Mr.
Shaviv attributed to Rabbi Lookstein.
The recent incident involving abuse
and harassment of a couple in the neigh-
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seems to have been thankfully an
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isolated incident, the email said. However, Rabbi
Lookstein suggests that parents may consider advis-
ing their children to be discreet in wearing uncovered
kippot, tzitzit, etc. It remains good advice not to walk
around the streets displaying iPads or other vulner-
able items; not to text, or listen to music via ear buds
while walking (distracting your attention from the
surroundings), and under all circumstances being
prudent and aware of personal space and personal
safety.
Mr. Shaviv later took pains to tell a reporter that the
school wasnt advocating that students conceal their
kippot or tuck the ritual fringes of their tzitzit so much
as merely passing along Rabbi Looksteins suggestion.
The school is not suggesting it. Were passing on
a suggestion, Mr. Shaviv said in an interview, noting
that he had no intention of concealing his own yar-
mulke. All were saying is it is something that some
parents may wish to discuss with their kids no more,
no less.
He added, Rabbi Lookstein has now reconsidered
and may not want to suggest that after all.
Now, Rabbi Lookstein says, his view is clear. We
dont want this to become Paris, he said. Its our job
to educate the public and the leadership of this coun-
try that we cannot allow whats going on in Paris and
London and Brussels to happen here.
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said. I found that the people here are interested in
Judaism and its relevance to their lives, not just in
having the synagogue exist for the education of their
children.
His first priority, he said, is to build relationships.
He has begun meeting with various constituencies
within the synagogue. My most important task is to
be connected.
He hopes to channel the work and emotion that
goes into a bar mitzvah into a Jewish path, he said.
The idea that there is only one path doesnt work.
The challenge is finding a lot of different opportuni-
ties to engage with teens.
He hopes to attract more young families to Beth Or.
The YJCC has a wonderful preschool program, he
said. One of my goals is to develop the relationship
with the Y, and with the other organizations in town.
Bergen County has a real wealth of institutions
and synagogues. Our congregation has not always
taken full advantage of the strengths of our wider
community.
That brings him to another issue, adult education.
One of the big problems facing the synagogue is how
to engage adults after the bar or bat mitzvah, he said.
At congregations, people become empty-nesters
when their children are 13.
The people in our congregation are very smart
and accomplished and well educated. For most of
them, though, their formal Jewish education ended
at 13. I try to make the classes I teach pretty similar to
the ones I was teaching at the University of Maryland,
and I think that adult learners appreciate that.
I think that adult Jewish education often is not
challenging enough for serious people to take seri-
ously. If I am going to err, I would rather have it be on
the side of being too serious.
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Running for his life
Wayne man takes exercise very seriously
MIRIAM RINN
A
t 62 years old, Larry Silverman
of Wayne is a testament to the
power and effectiveness of reg-
ular vigorous exercise.
He most recently raced in the Olympic
Length Triathlon National Champion-
ships in Milwaukee on August 9, where the
invited athletes were among the top 33 per-
cent in the country. Each had to have won
a triathlon to qualify Mr. Silverman had
won two. There were a lot of people ahead
of me, he acknowledged when asked
about the result, but I hit three hours, his
personal goal, so he felt satisied.
The notion of three hours of panting and
heaving may leave some of us feeling faint,
but Mr. Silverman enjoys the training. Its
three different sports, and I dont overdo
any one part. If it rains, you can focus on
swimming or running. Exercise makes
him feel healthy, and he enjoys being out-
side. The more he bikes, the more he likes
it. He has completed ive 100-mile bike
rides. He loves to watch the landscape as
he rides, and I can swim outside for three
months of the year, he said about the area
where he lives. In the winter he does some
running and biking, and swims indoors at
the YMCA in Wayne, formerly the site of the
YMYWHA of North Jersey.
Mr. Silvermans athletic life began in
high school, where he was the captain of
the Dumont cross-country team, which
eventually went on to win the New Jer-
sey state championship. In the late 1970s
until the early 1980s, he practiced martial
arts, and during the next 10 years he ran
in many 5k and 10k competitions. When
I got to my forties, I switched to the triath-
lon, he said, because of its focus on biking
and swimming.
Mr. Silverman could be a poster boy for
the governments Center for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention, which recommends
at least 75 minutes per week of vigorous-
intensity aerobic activity for adults, along
with muscle-strengthening activity at
least two days a week. For greater health
beneits, the CDC suggests more of the
same. Only a small percentage of Ameri-
can adults get that much exercise, how-
ever. More than 80 percent of adults do
not meet the guidelines for both aerobic
and muscle-strengthening activities, and
more than 80 percent of adolescents do
not do enough aerobic physical activity to
meet the guidelines for youth, according
to CDC statistics.
The Silverman family is different, though.
The entire family is physically active. Mr.
Silvermans late wife was a championship
swimmer and tennis player, and both his
daughter and his son are swimmers.
Mr. Silverman even gets exercise when
he goes to work. The property-manage-
ment-company owner said he was up on a
roof earlier on the day of his interview with
the Jewish Standard. Work takes so much
time and enery that you need to balance
it, he said, and exercise is a great way to
do that. He still has all his original joints,
despite a lifetime of running and biking,
and insists that age need not limit activity.
Mr. Silverman belongs to the Bicycle Tour-
ing Club of North Jersey, which has more
than 1,500 members. People in our club
are in their seventies and eighties, he said.
In addition to his work and his sports
activities, Mr. Silverman serves on the
community relations committee of the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
something he described as a whole other
story. Despite doing the same exercise for
decades, Mr. Silverman says he doesnt get
bored and credits good coaching and the
support of his family.
The only part of his exercise program to
have changed signiicantly was his swim-
ming style he began to swim seriously
when he was 40. I was probably doing it
wrong all that time, he said. But he has
made adjustments across all his sports.
Injuries four years ago led him to modify
his running style.
Your body ages and changes and you
get new thoughts on how you exercise,
he said. Every season I change my biking
slightly. I dont want to say I know it now.
Triathlete Larry
Silverman stands
between his son,
Jake, and his
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At the Gaza crossing
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
O
n the day after the open-
ended ceasefire between
Hamas and Israel went into
effect, I joined a Government
Press Office trip to the Kerem Shalom
crossing, which opened in 2008 to facili-
tate the movement of goods between
Israel proper and the Gaza Strip.
The Defense Ministry employs a civil-
ian crew of Jews and Arabs to handle
the critical and often dangerous job of
screening each truckload and transfer-
ring a huge assortment of merchan-
dise from school uniforms to genera-
tors to a crew on the other side of the
cement wall, employed by the Palestin-
ian Authority. Some goods also come out
of Gaza, such as strawberries, bound for
markets in Europe and parts of the Mid-
dle East.
Most of the transfers, especially perish-
ables, are made between 6 and 8 in the
morning so the items can get to stores
when they open. All the merchandise
that arrives at Kerem Shalom on the
Israeli side to be transferred to the Gazan
side was bought either by a humanitar-
ian organization or by private citizens/
companies doing business there. Though
Israel foots the cost of the operation of
scanning and transferring the goods, it
does not buy the merchandise. Produce
coming out of Gaza all goes to its final
destination through some kind of private
business deal.
The crossing was closed briefly several
times this summer when rocket fire hit
the work area, yet since the beginning
of Operation Protective Edge on July 8
this year, 5,779 trucks entered Gaza Strip
via the Kerem Shalom crossing, carry-
ing food, medicines, diesel, gasoline and
medical equipment.
In the last six years here, we didnt
lose anyone and we didnt kill anyone,
noted Ami Shaked, the intrepid Israeli
manager of the site.
That stark statement is not to be taken
for granted in this part of the country.
Three days before our visit, more than
20 mortars and rockets landed in or near
Kerem Shalom, whose name, ironically
enough, means Vineyard of Peace.
We had to stop to protect our people,
Mr. Shaked said. We have methods for
operating a special way under fire. And
remember that the Palestinian team is
under fire like us. My people, if they have
to sacrifice themselves to protect the Pal-
estinian people here, they will.
During Operation Protective Edge, only
humanitarian aid was allowed through.
Even so, that added up to more than
6,000 truckloads of merchandise such as
fuel and cooking gas, or almost 120,000
tons of goods.
I will not put my people at risk to sup-
ply chocolate that my son didnt have at
home, said Mr. Shaked, standing near
a pallet full of chocolate wafers from
Europe. I will put my people at risk to
supply the Gazans with food and medi-
cal supplies.
On August 25, for example, 274 trucks
were scheduled to cross into Gaza. Due
to Hamas rockets, only 203 trucks arrived
at Kerem Shalom. Among them were
111 trucks carrying 2,190 tons of food
and three trucks carrying eight tons of
humanitarian supplies. Each truck must
be thoroughly checked for contraband
and weapons.
Small bomb shelters are scattered all
around for the protection of the work-
ers. I noticed that one of them had a sign
proclaiming (in translation) Kosher for
Passover. Please do not bring in leavened
food. Obviously, the shelters are needed
year-round, not just during Operation
Protective Edge and not just during
Passover.
On the day of our visit, the routine was
getting back to normal, or what passes
for normal in the truly abnormal reality
here. About 600 trucks were expected to
bring not only items such as water tanks,
furniture, clothing, sanitary supplies,
and housewares, but also ceramic and
glass for repairing damaged homes.
Several fellow reporters were surprised
to hear Mr. Shaked explain that ship-
ments of cement stopped going through
in October 2013 for the free market, but
never were prohibited for humanitarian
aid until the latest conflict launched by
Hamas. How much of that cement made
its way to the construction of the terror
tunnels that Israeli ground troops risked
life and limb to destroy in the 50-day
war? Thats not a question Mr. Shaked
can answer.
He did say, however, that although
the two crews work together Sundays
through Thursdays, nobody fully trusts
one another on either side of the gray
concrete wall. Still, his Arab and Jewish
workers get along and watch out for one
another.
Even if there is no trust, they come
and work for me every day. We share the
same problems. Everyone is my responsi-
bility and I dont check their ID, he said.
As for the Gazan crews, I dont expect
compliments from the other side. They
know whatever they need that my govern-
ment allows them to get, they will get.
Mr. Shaked, a lean and suntanned
man sporting a salt-and-pepper ponytail
under his hat, was anticipating that in
several days the crews would be process-
ing supplies sent by international organi-
zations to begin rebuilding Gaza.
It is hard to imagine another country
putting its own citizens in the line of fire
to transfer aid to an area that has been
mercilessly attacking that country for
years, especially when its only a mat-
ter of time until the next salvo aimed
at Israeli civilians is fired. It is hard to
imagine another country using taxpayer
money to assure that the citizens of a hos-
tile entity get everything they need.
But, as I have come to appreciate so
fully, were not just another country.
Were Israel.
Abigail Klein Kleichman, our Israel
correspondent, lived in Teaneck for
many years. She frequent files a Letter
from Israel.
This bomb shelter is marked as kosher for Passover.
These chest freezers are about to be transferred to Gaza. ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
In the last six years here, we
didnt lose anyone and we
didnt kill anyone.
AMI SHAKED
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Sour smiles at Teaneck
pickle competition
JOSH LIPOWSKY
T
eanecks gastronomic gladia-
tors met in the salty trenches
on Monday for a sour show-
down to claim the title of
pickle-eating champion.
Contestants lined up outside of Pickle
Licious on Cedar Lane for the stores
annual pickle-eating contest, facing
down a half-gallon of pickles (20 in
each bucket). They chose their weap-
ons: sour, half-sour, or new pickles, and
armed themselves with a quart of water
as they chowed down to see who could
eat the most within eight minutes. (This
reporter claimed the title in 2011, down-
ing 20 pickles in less than 10 minutes.
This year, however, the Force was not
with him. Read on.)
As the dust cleared, Joshua Deutsch,
a 61-year-old mashgiach from Teaneck,
stood triumphant. He had finished all 20
pickles in the bucket, but, he lamented,
he did not have time to start on the
second half-gallon before him. (This
reporter finished 19 and was about to
finish No. 20 when time was called. He
blames the sweltering temperatures and
promises to redeem himself next year.)
For the second year in a row, Mr.
Deutsch claimed the title. Last year he
devoured full-sours, which he said are
easier to chew and thats important
when eating for time. This year he went
with the half-sours, a decision he regrets.
They are harder to chew, he said.
The technique is very important,
Mr. Deutsch said. You have to drink a
lot. Just drink as youre eating. Dont try
to beat the clock because youll gag.
For his efforts Mr. Deutsch will get a
quart of pickles each month for a year.
After the contest, Pickle Licious showed
off a new line of relishes on top of free
hotdogs provided by Maadan. The pick-
les were the appetizer and the hotdogs
were the main course, Mr. Deutsch said.
And for dessert? He went into the store
to sample Pickle Licious olive selection
and pick up his first quart horseradish
pickles as well as $60 worth of other
products.
Mr. Deutsch is no stranger to eat-
ing contests. Hes won the Maadan
latke-eating contest two years in a row
and won last years Pickle Licious con-
test. (This reporter again took second
last year). The most difficult contest,
though? About 15 years ago the Jewish
Community Council of Teaneck held a
community Purim party with a haman-
taschen-eating contest. The dry haman-
taschen were a tough job on the jaw,
and tougher than any of these other
contests, he said.
Pickle Licious has been holding the
contest for several years, but this is the
first time it did so in front of its Cedar
Lane store, said owner Robyn Samra,
aka the Pickle Lady, noting it until
now had been held at the Memorial Day
street fair or at the old store. Its just fun,
she said, promising that the annual con-
test would continue.
Teenagers and adults competed in one
division, and children under 14 were in
another. Binyamin Fuld, 11, and his sis-
ter Racheli, 9, won the boys and girls
categories, respectively, in the childrens
division. Both live in Teaneck and go to
school at Yeshivat Noam. Binyamin, who
plans to enter again next year, has never
done a pickle-eating contest before. His
favorites are the new pickle, because
its not too sour and just good tasting.
And isnt that really what it comes
down to with pickles?
From left, Joshua Deutsch, Binyamin Fuld, 11, and Racheli Fuld, 9, each won a
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Boot camp for young drivers
Franklin Lakes man offers program to teach teenagers safe driving skills
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
D
id you know that the lead-
ing cause of death for 15- to
24-year-olds is car accidents?
Did you know that eight
teenagers are killed in motor-vehicle
crashes every day?
Jason Friedman of Franklin Lakes didnt
know these grim facts until he helped out
at a National Auto Sport Association train-
ing session for young drivers led by his
Pompton Plains friend Joe Casella. What
he saw there led him to launch his Drive
Safer business last year. His goal is to give
new drivers a bigger dose of theoretical
and practical experience. The next Drive
Safer boot camp is scheduled for Octo-
ber 5 at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus.
According to Mr. Friedman, who is the
father of two young children, students at
Mr. Casellas high-performance race driv-
ing courses sometimes include teenagers
who have been involved in serious car
accidents and are afraid to get back on
the horse, as he put it.
One 17-year-old girl was petrified even
to get into a car again, Mr. Friedman said.
Looking at her mom and dad was as scary
as looking at her; they were so stressed
and fearful.
Joe persuaded her to learn more about
how the car works and how to understand
driving better. She took a short class and
then did the actual exercises. In 30 min-
utes she was driving more confidently.
There was skill-building happening before
my eyes. Her parents were crying and hug-
ging. I was very touched, and I realized
that this is where an entrepreneur like me
could make a difference.
His subsequent research revealed not
only the scary statistics about teenagers
and cars, but also that the driver-education
program taught in high schools has not
been upgraded since the 1950s. The aver-
age teen driver gets fewer than 10 hours
of formal practical training, whereas the
average high school athlete puts in hun-
dreds of hours before stepping out onto
the varsity playing field. This struck him
as both absurd and unsafe.
The bottom line is that inexperience is
the problem, and awareness of the prob-
lem and providing experience and training
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Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit orga-
nization supporting young women and
families facing breast or ovarian cancer,
is teaming up with Just Solutions and Bed
Bath & Beyond to raise awareness about
Sharsheret and the programs it offers
breast cancer survivors nationwide.
During September and October, Just
Solutions new special edition pink Hang
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Bed Bath & Beyonds special breast can-
cer awareness section. Just Solutions will
donate 3 percent of the proceeds from
the sale of every Hang It with the spe-
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special-edition Hang It will be available in
Bed Bath & Beyond stores nationwide and
on Just Solutions website throughout the
fall season.
Just Solutions is a group of young,
entrepreneurs who are passionate about
bringing innovative and solution-based
products to market. Like most every-
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firsthand experience with brave women
who have suffered from breast cancer,
said founder/CEO David Klar. We chose
Sharsheret because they are close to home
and heart. Weve seen firsthand the won-
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patients (and associated family!) in our
community.
Sukkah building assistance
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jer-
seys Bonim Builders are available to
help seniors or other physically chal-
lenged people build their sukkahs. Assis-
tance is available all week from Sunday,
September 28, to Sunday, October 5. On
Friday, the hours are until 2 p.m., and
there is no building on Shabbat.
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Abe Foxman speaking in Teaneck
The Ant i - Def amat i on
Leagues national direc-
tor, Abraham Foxman, will
discuss Current Issues
Facing the Global Jewish
Community at Teanecks
Congregation Rinat Yisrael
on Monday, September 8,
at 8 p.m.
Mr. Foxman is known as
a leader in the fight against
anti-Semitism and preju-
dice, and he is an authority
on the Holocaust and Jewish resistance
to the Nazis. He travels to Israel regularly
and works closely with officials there
and in the United States to help ensure
the safety and security of the Jewish
state.
He has had a four-decade career at the
ADL, meeting with national and world
leaders including U.S. presidents George
W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush,
Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald
Ford, and Richard Nixon.
He has had audiences
with Pope John Paul II and
has met with the leaders
of Russia, Israel, Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
China, South Africa, and
Argentina.
Mr. Foxman, who was
born in Poland in 1940,
was saved from the Holo-
caust by his Polish Catho-
lic nanny, who baptized
and raised him as a Catholic during the
war years. He was returned to his par-
ents after a legal custody battle, emi-
grated to the United States, and was
educated at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, City
College, and NYU School of Law. He has
been awarded Frances highest civilian
honor as well as an honorary doctoral
degree from Yeshiva University.
The shul is at 389 West Englewood
Ave. For information, call (201) 837-2795.
Abraham Foxman
Bris Avrohom annual dinner
On Sunday, September 14, Bris Avrohom will hold its
35th annual dinner and 29th gala wedding ceremony
at the Sheraton Parsipanny. A journal will be published
in conjunction with the event. This years honoree is
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, chief rabbi of Tel Aviv and the
chair of Yad Vashem. The immediate past chief rabbi
of Israel, he also is the author of the book Out of the
Depths.For information, call (908) 289-0770 or email
office@brisavrohom.org.
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau
Daughters of Miriam Center
honors Joel Steiger
For 34 years the Steiger
Golf Classic, benefitting
the Daughters of Miriam
Center, a nonprofit, long-
term care and rehabilita-
tion facility in Clifton, has
raised funds to aid seniors
in northern New Jersey.
Under the leadership of
co-chair Joel J. Steiger, who
retired this year, the outing
has grown from a $30,000
a year fundraiser to an
annual event that brings in
nearly a quarter of a mil-
lion dollars.
The tournament was
the brainchild of Mr. Steiger and another
long-time co-chair, Larry Goldman. The
first classic, held in 1981, brought 180 par-
ticipants together to play golf and tennis.
Mr. Goldman stepped down in 1999, but
Mr. Steiger continued to head the team,
organizing the day that attracts business
and community leaders from across the
tri-state area.
Within five years of Mr. Steigers election
to the board of trustees of DMC in 1968, he
was named a vice-president. From 1983 to
1986 he was DMCs president. The Daugh-
ters of Miriam Foundation was formed
during his tenure, and he was its president
until 2010. He also was involved in the
DMC ad journal and capital campaign. Mr.
Steiger and his wife, Carole Ann, endowed
the Steiger Conference room.
In 2005, Mr. Steiger was named a dis-
tinguished past president by his peers.
Also that year, on the 25th anniversary of
the tournament, the center renamed the
annual golf classic the Steiger Golf Clas-
sic in recognition of his dedication and
support of the event and the seniors it
benefits.
During this years August sold-out golf
day at the Preakness Hills Country Club in
Wayne, the center presented Mr. Steiger
with gifts, included a hand-calligraphed
document that highlighted his many
accomplishments.
Carole Ann Steiger also was honored for
coordinating the volunteers during his ten-
ure; so was Morton Klein for 15 years as a
co-chairman.
In its 34-year history, the classic has
raised more than $6 million for seniors at
the center. Three participants have scored
holes-in-one on prize holes, winning cars,
jewelry, and cash.
Retiring DMC Golf Classic co-chair Joel J. Steiger,
left, received a testament of appreciation by DOMC
Foundation president Avi Safer at this years golf
classic.
Local
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Jewelry organizer to benefit Sharsheret
products to market. Like most every-
one, the team at Just Solutions has had
firsthand experience with brave women
who have suffered from breast cancer,
said founder/CEO David Klar. We chose
Sharsheret because they are close to home
and heart. Weve seen firsthand the won-
derful effect theyve had on breast cancer
patients (and associated family!) in our
community.
Leonia shul has new
cantor and school director
Sandy Horowitz, Congrega-
tion Adas Emunos new cantor
and religious school director,
will be installed officially dur-
ing Shabbat services tonight at
7:30 p.m.
Cant or Horowi t z was
ordained at the Academy for
Jewish Religion in May and
received a masters in Jewish
studies from Gratz College. She
was a cantorial intern and reli-
gious school teacher at Temple
Beth Shalom in Hastings-on-
Hudson and served in a cantorial role at Temple Beth Sho-
lom in Flushing, N.Y. Cantor Horowitz was a founding mem-
ber of the Hebrew school at Beth Am and in the Hebrew
Tabernacle of Washington Heights, where she was actively
involved in curriculum development and policy planning.
The shul is at 254 Broad Ave. Call (201) 592-1712, email
adasschool@gmail.com, or go to www.adasemuno.org.
Cantor Sandy
Horowitz
Children blowing out the candles on a shared birthday cake.
Kaplen JCC hosts bnai mitzvah
celebration for visiting Israeli teens
To support Israel during difficult times, the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades hosted a bar/bat mitzvah celebration for 36
boys and girls whose parents were Israeli soldiers killed in
combat. The children came from Israel as part of a three-
week trip to America sponsored by the Children of IDF
Widows and Orphans Organization.
The JCC sought to bring them joy by providing a buf-
fet dinner of Israeli food, homemade birthday cards from
members of the JCC community, gifts including backpacks
and $50 gift cards, and a birthday cake with candles that
the kids blew out together in a special shared moment,
surrounded by local families who are dedicated to Israel.
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Pictures
and words
The New York Times censors
our anti-ISIS ad
A
merica reinforces its values and thus its security by
being transparent about even the worst abuses of those
values, not by hiding the evidence deep in a file drawer.
This sentence is from a New York Times editorial of
30 August, 2014. The editorial was written in response to a decision
by Federal District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein forcing the Obama
administration to justify why it will not release approximately 2,000
photos that allegedly document abuse by the American military and
investigators in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That editorial forces us to ask why The
New York Times forced us to remove a
photograph of a hooded ISIS executioner
holding a knife while standing by Ameri-
can journalist James Foley
We were forced to remove the photo-
graph and replace it with one without
a knife in order to have it appear in the
Times this Tuesday.
Why did the Times condemn the Ameri-
can government when it tried to suppress
images of alleged abuse on the part of the
American military while seeking to sup-
press the horrors of the worlds most monstrous terror organization?
An organization that decapitates Americans?
But even that was a lot better than the Los Angeles Times. That
paper demanded that we also remove a second image, which depicted
Hamas terrorists standing alongside hooded collaborators whom
they were about to execute. The Telegraph in London made the same
demand if it were to publish the ad.
Even the Wall Street Journal demanded the picture with the knife
be replaced.
The only publication that accepted the ad as is was the Washington
Post. It will appear there on Tuesday.
Strangest of all, however, was the Los Angeles Times, which first
told us that we could not use either image and they would have to
be replaced, only later to tell us that it would publish the ad as is if
we reduced the images by two thirds. As of this writing, we have not
acceded to that request.
We found all these demands to be mystifying. The New York Times
will publish the most awful Abu Ghraib photos as it should but
will not publish a picture of an ISIS terrorist holding a knife standing
Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the founder of This World: The
Values Network, to promote universal Jewish values in politics, culture,
and the media. He has recently published Kosher Lust: Love is Not the
Answer. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
JS-22*
Rescuing a generation
T
he body of Aron Sofer,
a student from Lake-
wood, New Jersey, was
found last week in the
Jerusalem Forest.
He had been missing for a
week, since his hiking compan-
ion returned without him, saying
they had gotten separated in the
woods.
It was a tragic ending to what
should have been an innocent
excursion.
We confess to having breathed
a sigh of relief because in the
end, this was not another death
to be chalked up to terrorism.
But we cant help but wonder
whether his death might not be
due to another horrible killer:
ignorance.
Every summer, hikers from
ultra-Orthodox yeshivot get lost,
and hurt, and sometimes die,
when they face dangers their
cloistered education did not pre-
pare them for. Sometimes they
drown because they jump into
pools of unknown depth, not
knowing how to swim, not even
knowing to take their coats off.
Mr. Sofer and his companion
reportedly did not carry water
with them on their hike. Dehy-
dration comes quick in the Jeru-
salem summer. Nor did they
carry cell phones; cell phones
are a forbidden temptation. They
have been told by their teachers,
whom they trust and revere, that
in studying the Talmud they are
learning all they need to know.
And in that, they are being lied
to, either knowingly or not.
In Israel, this school year is
opening amidst tension between
the mini stry of education,
headed by Shai Piron, a modern
Orthodox rabbi, and the charedi
school system. The ministry has
ordered that the charedi schools
begin teaching basic math and
English if they wish to continue
to receive full government fund-
ing. The charedi leadership, as is
their wont, are comparing Rabbi
Piron and the Israeli government
to Pharoah, Achashverus, and
Amalek.
We urge the Israeli govern-
ment to stand firm. The costs of
ignorance, no matter how pious
the motives, are too high. Rabbi
Piron deserves praise for trying
to rescue a generation of Jewish
youth. - LY
Calling evil by name
S
teven Sotloff, an Amer-
ican j ournali st cap-
tured by ISIS, has been
brut al l y murdered.
Beheaded, in fact, in an act
of grotesquerie that leaves us
uncharacteristically speechless.
Photos of this barbarity have
been posted, as 21st century
technology is used in the service
of 10th century evil.
It is hard to write about this
nightmare without resorting
to words we do not usually use
except ironically. It is hard to
imagine what sort of people
other than outright psycho-
paths can contort their brains
and their emotions in a way that
would make this seem anything
other than pure evil. It is impos-
sible to understand how such evil
can exist, and how it can inhabit
human souls. It is impossible to
know how such twisted perver-
sity can be peddled as anything
other than collective psycho-
sis, although we know that the
murderers try to pass off their
actions as moral.
It is impossible to write about
it without sputtering, without
becoming a handwringing cari-
cature, at least at first. That is
because there is no nuance to
evil, and no nuanced way to
respond to it. Our obligation is to
call it what it is. Evil.
Coincidentally, Rabbi Shmuley
Boteach wrote a column about
his fight with the various newspa-
pers that rejected his ads because
they include a disturbing shot of
American journalist James Foley
just before he was beheaded. In
truth, there is an argument to
be made that using that photo,
using his image, steals some of
his dignity; some dignity should
be left in death, particularly after
a death as horrific as his. There
also is an argument that chil-
dren should not be exposed to
such images, although of course
they often are exposed to photos
that would be even worse except
that they are fictional. This one
is real.
We believe, though, that just
as it is important to name things
properly as we wrote last week,
a terrorist is not a militant, and a
murderer is not an executioner
it also is important at times not
to avert our eyes. Most of us will
not watch the video of a behead-
ing, and we should not, but we
should not fool ourselves.
Our enemies are real, they are
violent, they are conscience-less,
and they are evil.
And to Steven Sotloff, may
your memory be for a blessing,
and may your family find com-
fort among the mourners of Zion
and Jerusalem. - JP
Rabbi
Shmuley
Boteach
Steven Sotloff
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Pictures
and words
The New York Times censors
our anti-ISIS ad
A
merica reinforces its values and thus its security by
being transparent about even the worst abuses of those
values, not by hiding the evidence deep in a file drawer.
This sentence is from a New York Times editorial of
30 August, 2014. The editorial was written in response to a decision
by Federal District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein forcing the Obama
administration to justify why it will not release approximately 2,000
photos that allegedly document abuse by the American military and
investigators in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That editorial forces us to ask why The
New York Times forced us to remove a
photograph of a hooded ISIS executioner
holding a knife while standing by Ameri-
can journalist James Foley
We were forced to remove the photo-
graph and replace it with one without
a knife in order to have it appear in the
Times this Tuesday.
Why did the Times condemn the Ameri-
can government when it tried to suppress
images of alleged abuse on the part of the
American military while seeking to sup-
press the horrors of the worlds most monstrous terror organization?
An organization that decapitates Americans?
But even that was a lot better than the Los Angeles Times. That
paper demanded that we also remove a second image, which depicted
Hamas terrorists standing alongside hooded collaborators whom
they were about to execute. The Telegraph in London made the same
demand if it were to publish the ad.
Even the Wall Street Journal demanded the picture with the knife
be replaced.
The only publication that accepted the ad as is was the Washington
Post. It will appear there on Tuesday.
Strangest of all, however, was the Los Angeles Times, which first
told us that we could not use either image and they would have to
be replaced, only later to tell us that it would publish the ad as is if
we reduced the images by two thirds. As of this writing, we have not
acceded to that request.
We found all these demands to be mystifying. The New York Times
will publish the most awful Abu Ghraib photos as it should but
will not publish a picture of an ISIS terrorist holding a knife standing
alongside an American. The Wall
Street Journal, whose excellent edito-
rial page has been consistently sup-
portive of Israel and has advocated
strong military action against ISIS,
also objected to the image.
The purpose of our ad was to dem-
onstrate the symmetry between the
two terrorist organizations, ISIS and
Hamas, both of which are blood-
thirsty death cults that glorify their
public executions of innocent people.
Even the Nazis tried to hide their
crimes, detonating the gas chambers
at Auschwitz just days before its liberation
by the Red Army in January 1945.
Likewise,the Sonderkommando, the
Jewish inmates charged with disposing
the bodies from the gas chambers in the
crematoria, were labeled by the Nazis
Geheimnistrger bearers of secrets and
therefore were warehoused apart from the
other camp inmates. The Nazis did every-
thing to ensure that the Sonderkomman-
dos knowledge of genocide did not reach
the outside world. So they gassed each
Sonderkommando approximately every
four months, replacing him with a new
Jewish inmate who soon would meet the
same fate. Almost no Sonderkommando
survived the war.
ISIS and Hamas are different, regularly
posting pictures and videos of their mon-
strous crimes on the Internet as pride in
their brutality, to instill fear in their ene-
mies, and as recruitment tools to induce
other barbarians to join them.
Yet, rather than educating their read-
ers about the vile nature of these groups,
the Los Angeles Times told us that they
could not publish the photos because they
might upset their readers and provoke a
backlash.
Yet most of these publications published
gruesome pictures of Palestinian children
suffering from what they said were Israeli
military strikes against the Hamas terror-
ists. Why would they not also publish pic-
tures of Palestinians who were about to be
executed without trial by Hamas?
Even stranger is the fact that the Los
Angeles Times rejected the images of Foley
and the knife-wielding terrorist in our ads,
yet used the exact same image on their
website twice, once in a picture gal-
lery and the second time in a video.
The Times of London rejected
our ad with Elie Wiesel accusing
Hamas of child sacrifice, and also
rejected our subsequent ad detail-
ing new U.N. chief Israel investigator
William Schabas relationship with
Ahmedenijad and Iran. The Guard-
ian courageously published our Wie-
sel ad but then succumbed to huge
pressure. In the days after our ad
appeared it published a public letter,
written by notable British Israel-hat-
ers, that read in part:
We write to condemn the decision to
print a wildly inaccurate and inflamma-
tory advert from supporters of the state of
Israel branding the Palestinian resistance
as child killers.
Apparently an online UK petition against
our ad was signed by over 100,000 people,
which just goes to show the impact that a
single pro-Israel ad can make in a coun-
try that is now experiencing a tsunami of
anti-Semitism.
Needless to say, both the Times and the
Guardian both rejected our anti-ISIS ad,
which also is curious given that Foleys
terrorist executioner is widely believed
to be British-born. A senior UK govern-
ment source told the Sunday Times that
the leading suspect is Abdel-Majed Abdel
Bary, a 23-year-old rapper-turned-terrorist
who is known to fellow militants as Jihadi
John. Recently, Bary posted a gruesome
online picture selfie holding a severed
head.
The people of the UK deserve to know
the horrors that are allegedly being perpe-
trated by their citizens.
And thats what makes the rejection of
our ad by so many publications even more
bizarre. Over the last few days there have
been countless beheadings perpetrated
by extremist Islamic organizations all over
the Middle East. There was the behead-
ing of Lebanese soldiers by ISIS videos
of that were posted on the internet. It was
one of the most horrible things I have ever
watched and immediately called to mind
the savage slaying of Daniel Perl. Then
there were the decapitations in Egypt
of four alleged Israeli Mossad spies in
copycat videos that echoed the vile ISIS
postings.
Through all this, rather than convey to
Western audiences the extent of the dan-
ger posed by these barbaric groups, the
worlds leading publications instead con-
tort themselves with Victorian prudery
around our ad and the image of a terrorist
holding a knife.
People deserve to know the extreme
danger civilization faces from monstrous,
stone-age groups like ISIS and Hamas,
which are visiting new brutality on an
increasingly vulnerable world.
JS-23*
Editorial
When burning Jews isnt news
O
n August 30, Palestinian terror-
ists set a Jewish man on fire in
Jerusalem, and on September 1,
other Palestinian terrorists tried
to set an entire bus full of Israeli Jews on fire.
Yet I couldnt find any mention of these
horrific attacks in the New York Times, the
Washington Post, or any other major Ameri-
can news outlet. Why is it that news about
burning Jews is not considered fit to print?
The first of the firebomb attacks took
place in Jerusalems City of David neighbor-
hood. A Molotov cocktaila flaming bottle
of gasoline that explodes on contactwas
hurled through the window of a historic
19th-century house known as Beit Meyuhas.
One of the residents, a 45-year-old man, was
struck by the firebomb and set on fire. He
suffered first and second-degree burns to
his face and head. Second-degree burns
often result in permanent scarring and
require skin grafting.
Burning one Jew is not enough to satisfy
the appetite of Palestinian terrorists. On
September 1, two firebombs were thrown
at an Israeli bus traveling on Route 505,
between the towns of Migdalim and Kfar
Tapuach. The attackers goal was to set the
entire bus on fire and burn all of its pas-
sengers alive. They almost succeeded. The
flaming bombs exploded as they crashed
through the front windshield of the bus.
Flying glass slashed the driver.
It was only by a miracle that
he was able to stop the bus
without crashingand that
the flames did not spread
through the entire vehicle.
Palestinian terrorists some-
times use rocks instead of
firebombs. Stoning is, after
all, a time-honored method
of execution in that part of
the world. Recently, they cer-
tainly have been trying to do
just that.
On August 20, Palestinian rock-throwers
attacked an Israeli automobile traveling
near the Yitzhar junction. An 11-month-old
baby was wounded. Medics on the scene
were quoted as saying that it was a mira-
cle she survived; the rock that hit her was
the size of a fist.
Three days later, Yedaya Sharchaton, his
wife, Hadassah, and their 1-year-old daugh-
ter Nitzan were driving in the Gush Etzion
region. Arab rocks smashed through the
front windshield, causing Yedaya to lose
control of the car. It flipped over. All three
were injured; Yedaya suffered internal
bleeding. My family had been on that road
just a few days before as we headed to cel-
ebrate my granddaughters bat mitzvah by
serving hot dogs to Israeli soldiers at a base
in the Hebron hills.
On August 29, a mob of
Palestinians emerging from
prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque
on Jerusalems Temple Mount
threw rocks at Israeli police
officers. It would be interest-
ing to know if anything in the
sermons they had just heard
encouraged them to try to
murder Jews. Two of the rock-
throwers were arrested; they
were minors. I wonder what
they are learning in school about the idea
of stoning Jews to death.
The next day, Palestinian rock-throwers
targeted Israeli policemen in another sec-
tion of Jerusalem. Three of the officers
were injured. The Israeli media reported
neither their names nor the extent of their
injuries. Did one of them lose an eye? Was
one of them permanently disfigured? Three
more anonymous, forgotten victims of Arab
terror.
On September 1, the rock-throwers chose
the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of
Pisgat Zeev. Spotting an Israeli bus coming
down Uzi Narkis Street from Pisgat Zeev to
the adjoining Arab neighborhood of Shua-
fat, the would-be killers attacked. The rocks
smashed the windows, one striking and
injuring a 3-year-old girl. The Magen David
Adom paramedics who rushed to the scene
to provide emergency treatment knew that
the difference between life and death for
that little girl was just bad aim.
So once again, they are burning and ston-
ing Jews. Yet the New York Times and the
others are not interested. Why? Because it
doesnt fit their preferred narrative.
Most of the editors and reporters in the
mainstream media subscribe to a narra-
tive of the Israeli-Arab conflict in which the
Israelis are the aggressors and the Palestin-
ians are the victims. That narrative supports
the political outcome that most editors and
reporters personally endorse: an Israeli
retreat to the 1967 lines, a division of Jeru-
salem, the rise of a Palestinian state.
But when you report about Palestinians
burning and stoning Israelis, that changes
everything. Americansfrom the average
person in the street to members of Con-
gressregard such behavior as barbaric.
They naturally conclude that giving a state
to such violent extremists is crazy. Telling
the truth about Palestinian behavior makes
it harder to mobilize pressure on Israel to
give in. Thats why in the editorial offices
of the New York Times and so many other
newspapers, news about burning Jews isnt
fit to print. Sadly, its that simple.
JNS.ORG
Steven Flatow of West Orange, who practices
law in Jersey City, is the father of Alisa
Flatow, who was murdered by Palestinian
terrorists in 1995.
Stephen M.
Flatow
Opinion
JS-24*
Professor Schabas and the law
of judicial impartiality
I
t is now well publicized that Pro-
fessor William Schabas, a leading
international law scholar, has made
antagonistic comments about the
State of Israel and its leaders, thereby call-
ing into question his impartiality as the
designated chairman of the U.N. Human
Rights Councils commission investigating
the Gaza conflict.
What may be more disconcerting than
Professor Schabass statements, however,
is his attempt to render the impartiality
issue irrelevant by claiming that he can
ignore his personal views when he is func-
tioning as a judge. As Professor Schabas
well knows, the law of judicial impartial-
ity is not concerned with the judges sub-
jective intent, and due process consider-
ations demand that he be disqualified.
Upon being selected commission
chairman, Professor Schabas
conducted interviews with
Israeli news media designed
to downplay his past state-
ments. He told Israels lead-
ing newspaper, Yedioth
Aronoth: I have solid opin-
ions on Israels actions and its
leadership, the same as the
rest of the citizens of Israel. It
doesnt mean that this would
impair my judgment.
In another i ntervi ew
with Israels Channel 2, Professor Scha-
bas explained: What has to happen in a
commission like this one is that people
like myself have to put anything they
may have thought and said behind them
and approach their mandate in the most
fair and objective and impartial manner
possible. And to Israels i24
News, Professor Schabas
similarly promised: What
I am going to try to do is
park my views at the door
I dont want to talk about
them anymore, theyre not
relevant to the job I have to
do and I am going to try to
approach this as objectively
and independently as I can.
Whether Professor Scha-
bas thinks he can adjudi-
cate the accusations against Israel fairly
and independently has no bearing on
the question of impartiality. Judicial dis-
qualification is not dependent on the
judges subjective assessment of impar-
tiality but is based on an objective test of
whether the reasonable person aware of
the facts and circumstances might con-
sider the judge to be biased. For exam-
ple, the Rome Statute authorizing the
International Criminal Court provides:
A judge shall not participate in any case
in which his impartiality might reason-
ably be doubted on any ground. Even
more directly, the Rules of Procedure and
Evidence applicable to the Rome Statute
establishes as a ground[] for disqualifi-
cation of a judge the [e]xpression of
opinions, through the communications
media in writing or in public actions,
that objectively, could adversely affect
the required impartiality of the person
concerned.
This same objective test applies to United
States judges. The United States Code pro-
vides: [a]ny justice, judge or magistrate of
the United States shall disqualify himself
Daniel D.
Edelman
The sounds of Elul
W
ere in Elul now, the
month preceding Tish-
rei, the month of Rosh
Hashanah.
In many ways, Elul is set apart from the
other months. It shares with Cheshvan, the
month after Tishrei, the distinction of hav-
ing neither holiday nor holy day, neither
feast nor fast. Tishrei is overcrowded with
special times Rosh Hashanah, the Fast
of Gedalia, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shemini
Atzeret, Simchat Torah. Thirteen of that
months 30 days are spoken for, prepro-
grammed. Its no wonder that we must
build up to it slowly, and when we must
recuperate in Cheshvan.
Elul is a bit of a conundrum. Its two spe-
cial observances embody the double mes-
sage it gives us. The uncertainties of divine
judgment and the assurance of uncondi-
tional divine love vie for our attention. To
clarify the core ambiguities, we could start
by looking at the two observances unique
to Elul. First, we blow four blasts on the
shofar at the end of weekday morning
prayers from the beginning of the month
until the day before Rosh Hashanah. In
this penitential season, the shofar, as Mai-
monides explained, wakes us from our
slumber and reminds us to examine our
deeds and repent. The shofars cry is pierc-
ing, unsettling, a jarring reminder that we
need to seek forgiveness both from other
human beings and from God before we
arrive at the judgment of Yom Kippur.
But there is a counterweight to the
somewhat threatening notion that all of
our deeds are written in the metaphoric
divine book and weighed
on the divine scales of judg-
ment. In Elul, Psalm 27,
which is added at the con-
clusion of both morning
and evening prayer services,
offers us a much more posi-
tive vision. Before we go
back to our daily pursuits
we are reminded that God
is our light and salvation,
the source of strength that
makes us fearless. The richly
metaphoric psalm allows lit-
tle room for doubt, as long as we maintain
our faith in God. Even if our parents have
left us, abandoned us, God will gather us
up like orphans and care for us. Although
faith in God seems requisite for Gods love,
the tenor of the psalm is reassurance.
It is with the strength and sense of con-
fidence in Gods benevolence that we
approach the opening of the Ten Days
of Penitence on Rosh Hashanah. But it is
without cockiness or any certainty that
we have done what is expected of us.
We know that we are in Gods hands. In
response to the shofars calls in the Musaf
service on Rosh Hashanah, we publicly
acknowledge that all creatures stand for
judgment, either as children or as slaves.
If as children may God have mercy upon
us, as a parent has mercy on children; if as
slaves, we look to You, hoping that You will
be gracious to us and judge us favorably.
Elul generally is viewed as a prelude to
Rosh Hashanah, a time for beginning the
process of personal self-examination and
reconnection with God, but
it is also a time when we
think about the connection
between God and the people
Israel. In fact the rabbis read
the Hebrew letters that spell
Elul aleph-lamed-vav-lamed
as the acronym for the four
words ani ledodi vedodi li
I am my beloveds and my
beloved is mine (Song of
Songs 6:3). While the Song
of Songs is a series of poems
about erotic human love, it
long has been read also as an allegory for
the intimate and unbreakable relationship
between God and the people Israel. In this
month of Elul we also must take stock of our
behavior as the Jewish people.
The peoplehood aspect of Eluls intro-
spection also is reinforced by another
special feature of Elul: all the prophetic
haftarot recited after the Torah reading
are among the seven haftarot of consola-
tion drawn from Isaiah. Unlike the haftarot
of the rest of the year, the three that pre-
cede Tishah Bav and the seven that fol-
low through the end of the Jewish year are
chosen not because of their connection to
the Torah reading itself but because of the
calendrical cycle. Isaiahs voice resounds
with consolation for the destruction of
Jerusalem and the exile of Jews to Baby-
lonia, conveying further reassurance of
Gods undying love and support.
We human beings pretend to have
dominion over time by measuring it out
in minutes, hours, days, months, seasons,
years, centuries. Fall brings a halt to the
endless summer but it slowly permeates
our lives in stages. We turn the non-digi-
tal calendar page from August to Septem-
ber. Theres the long Labor Day weekend,
which represents the last opportunity for
us in the northern hemisphere to grab that
bit of vacation that eluded us and/or to sit
in traffic snarled by other last-minute vaca-
tioners. The opening of the school year is
a marker. And then, of course, theres the
September equinox itself, this year on the
night of September 22, which seems offi-
cially to put all hope of summer behind us.
But still we await the nip in the air and the
red and golden hues of fall.
But as Jews we live in two worlds and at
the intersection of two calendars. The Jew-
ish calendar clearly is the more ancient.
Thus when we say that Rosh Hashanah is
a little late this year, we really mean that
Labor Day or September 1 is early. As is
the case with the secular calendar, the
Jewish calendar eases us into the season,
which is marked not by football but by
introspection.
The autumnal harbingers of human
fragility, of the days growing cold, of the
long, dark nights, are reinforced by the
liturgy of Elul, of the Yamim Noraim, of
the Awe-filled Days between Rosh Hasha-
nah and Yom Kippur. We are reminded
that although we may be but a little lower
than the angels, we are but driven leaves,
but dust and ashes, in the grand scope of
eternity.
May this year bring health, joy, and,
above all, peace and wholeness to us all.
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in any proceeding in which his impartial-
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impartially discharge all the duties of a
judge. Likewise, the code of conduct for
United States judges imposes an ethical
obligation on federal judges to act at all
times in a manner that promotes public
confidence in the integrity and impartial-
ity of the judiciary.
Moreover, Professor Schabas him-
self instructs that war crimes tribunal
judges should be disqualified where
there is even the appearance of bias
under the objective test. In his book on
the UN war crime tribunals, Professor
Schabas wrote: A judge may be disquali-
fied in any case in which he or she has a
personal interest, or some other associa-
tion which might affect his or her impar-
tiality. The test is one of reasonable
apprehension of bias.
Professor Schabas must concede that
U.N. fact-finding commissions are subject
to these same standards of judicial impar-
tiality. In various interviews, Professor
Schabas has emphasized that he and oth-
ers conducting the fact-finding are obliged
to be as impartial as any judge. Professor
Schabas also is likely to be aware of Pro-
fessor Thomas Francks seminal article
relevant to U.N. fact-finding, Procedural
Due Process in Human Rights Fact-Find-
ing By International Agencies, in which
choice of fact-finders is one of the key
indicators of procedural probity. As Pro-
fessor Franck wrote: impartiality. . . cer-
tainly implies that persons conducting an
investigation should be, and should be
seen to be, free of commitment to a pre-
conceived outcome.
While Professor Schabas undoubtedly
is familiar with the law of judicial impar-
tiality, he seems willing to overlook the
impartiality requirements when it comes
to investigating Israel. Five years ago,
there were questions about the impartial-
ity of Professor Christine Chinkin, who
was appointed to serve on the U.N.s Gold-
stone Commission. Before her appoint-
ment Professor Chinkin had declared
that Israel was the aggressor, and guilty of
war crimes. Professor Schabas, who has
been an ardent defender of the Goldstone
Report even after it was discredited, vigor-
ously supported Professor Chinkins right
to serve on that commission notwithstand-
ing the impartiality questions.
Perhaps Professor Schabas considers
there to be only a few expert scholars with
the necessary knowledge and skills to
function as U.N. fact-finders investigating
Israel. Such elitism, however, should never
be rationalized as an excuse for suppress-
ing the fundamental due process protec-
tions safeguarding judicial impartiality. If
Professor Schabas genuinely cares about
the integrity and fairness of U.N. fact-
finding, he should recuse himself from
the commission immediately. Otherwise,
Professor Schabas and the Human Rights
Council have only themselves to blame
for discrediting the commission as legally
invalid.
Daniel D. Edelman is an attorney who lives
in Teaneck and works in Manhattan. This
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Dialogue, not barricades
I agree that Ferguson matters to Jews
(August 29). It is an excellent test of how
Jews understand justice. Unfortunately,
despite her reading of this weeks Torah
portion on justice, Ms. Roden failed the
test. She convicted police officer Darren
Wilson in the kangaroo court of her own
bias and prejudice. Today, no one knows
if Officer Wilson is guilty of murder. Cer-
tainly, the killing of Michael Brown is a
tragedy for the Brown family and for all
of America. But Officer Wilson has not
even been indicted for murder, yet the
tone of the article assumes his guilt. If
a trial convicts him of murder, then he
deserves the full punishment of the law.
The article assumes more than the
officers guilt. It assumes a racist Amer-
ica and a racist police force. With a black
president and a black attorney general,
this is certainly not true. Just like a small
minority of the Ferguson protestors was
looters and rioters, I believe that a small
minority of white Americans are racists.
I personally feel safer in the presence
of police. When I see a police officer at
our YJCC or at our synagogue, the Jewish
Community Center of Paramus, I thank
the officer for keeping us safe. While
walking to the pro Israel rally several
weeks ago, I thanked every officer, black
and white, for keeping us safe.
I applaud the civil rights movement of
relatively recent times. And I do under-
stand that constant vigilance is impor-
tant in maintaining our civil rights. At
the same time, justice does not involve
a rush to judgment before we have all
the facts.
Harry Lerman
Paramus
I have a number of objections to Thalia
Halpert Rodens op ed, Why Ferguson
matters to Jews (August 29).
First of all, she advocates giving
money to the National Lawyers Guild.
This is an organization that has supported anti-Israel
pro-Palestinian positions, including BDS, for years.
Would Ms. Roden endorse sending money via the Klan
even if she agreed with the issue?
Secondly, while I was initially sympathetic to the dem-
onstrators due to the initial inaction by state and local
authorities, once action was announced by federal and
state authorities, all demonstrations should have ceased.
This is because such demonstrations after that point
jeopardize the police officers right to a presumption of
innocence. Ms. Roden, I would hope you would believe
that even a white police officer is entitled to a fair trial,
not a lynching.
Thirdly, what is left out of Ms. Rodens article was
looting that occurred in Ferguson during the demon-
strations. Granted it was done by a small percentage of
the demonstrators, but the damage they did may require
years for the businesses to recover. The only ones hurt
will be the African-Americans who live in Ferguson.
As an attorney with 25 years of experience in criminal
practice in Brooklyn, I am very much aware of racial and
class profiling in how citizens are treated by the police.
I am also aware that certain laws (marijuana possession
and open container) are much more likely to be enforced
against citizens of specific race and class. I am also aware
that communities like Ferguson, which is 75 percent Afri-
can American, cannot be effectively policed by a force
that is whiter than Ivory soap. I maintain, however, that
dialogue and not a call to the barricades is the answer
Alan Levin
Fair Lawn
A draft for all
While New Jersey native and yeshiva student Aaron Sofer
was missing in the Jerusalem Forest, Rav Aharon Shtein-
man, shlita, todays leading Lithuanian charedi rabbi,
instructed Israeli students at the monumental Mir yeshiva
to put down their Talmuds and look for Sofer in the for-
est. (Parents of missing American yeshiva student offer
$28,000 reward, August 29.)
But charedim and their leaders have refused every sin-
gle proposed compromise that would draft their youth
or at least some of them into the Israel Defense Forces.
They wont even discuss national service. While the chil-
dren of secular and religious Zionist Jews fight and die to
protect our people and our land, charedim have argued
that they, too, play a key role in protecting Israel.
Torah study, they say, is a spiritual shield for Israel,
which is as important as the militarys physical shield.
So then why would Rav Shteinman order Mir students
out of the yeshiva and into the forests? After all, many
non-charedim already were searching physically for Sofer.
Shouldnt the Mir have been a place to search for Sofer
spiritually?
Now, you could argue, leaving their gemaras for a day
to do the national service of searching for a missing Jew
is one thing, but being drafted for years is a much differ-
ent matter.
Well, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw and/or Win-
ston Churchill, if they can do it for a day but refuse to do
it for a week/month/year, then were just haggling over
the price.
The premier argument for granting deferrals to yeshiva
students has just been demolished. If they can put down
their gemaras to search for one of their own, they can do
the same to defend our nation against hostile enemies
I say draft em all.
David Benkof
St. Louis, Missouri
(David Benkof writes the Jerusalem Post crossword puzzle,
which appears weekly in the Jewish Standard. E-mail him
at DavidBenkof@gmail.com.)

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Congregation Bnai Israel
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interfaith families to join us and become a part of our community. Our close-knit membership includes individuals
and families from Bergen and Passaic counties, New York, and beyond.
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Englewood
Congregation Kol HaNeshamah
Congregation Kol HaNeshamah (Voice of the
Soul) is the only Conservative synagogue serv-
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a chavurah-style, family-friendly egalitarian shul.
Shabbat and holiday services are participatory
and musical, as both the rabbi and lay lead-
ers lead prayers, chant Torah, and offer divre
Torah (teachings). Creative tot Shabbat services
and childrens and youth programming occur
throughout the year.
Tikkun Olam (healing the world) is an im-
portant part of the KH community. Adults and
children participate in feeding and clothing the
homeless, leading holiday services for hospital
patients, and visiting nursing homes.
Hebrew school for grades K-7 is available
through our affiliate community school. Adult
Talmud and synagogue skills classes are led by
our rabbi and members. Holiday celebrations,
parties, Shabbat luncheons, Friday night dinners,
book club, and theater trips provide opportuni-
ties to share the joy of Jewish living in an atmo-
sphere of warmth and respect for the diversity
of observance.
Reduced first year membership is offered for
families, young families, and single individuals.
Membership for families with spouses/partners
under 30 are free. High Holiday tickets are free,
but reservations are required. Call (201) 816-1611
or email Info@KHNJ.org. Services are held on the
premises of St Pauls Church, 113 Engle Street,
Englewood. Services begin at 9:45 a.m. Childrens
services at 10:30 a.m. Website is www.KHNJ.org.
Fair Lawn
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel invites you to join our welcoming,
egalitarian, pluralistic Conservative congre-
gation for the High Holidays and year-round.
Spiritually uplifting, educationally inspiring, and
socially dynamic, the FLJC creates community
and connection through a wide range of prayer
and educational and social offerings for all ages.
All are welcome at our Shabbat and daily ser-
vices and holiday celebrations. Egalitarian and
traditional services are held every Shabbat morn-
ing. Experience junior congregation, a nationally
recognized morning minyan for teens, tot Shab-
bat, and family services in the park.
The Shirley and Paul Pintel Nursery School,
for children from 2 to 5, is open to members and
non-members, and Mommy & Me is offered to
all at no charge. Our new early childhood direc-
tor, Carol Weber, will be happy to introduce you
to our school; call her at (201) 796-9434 or email
nursery@fljc.com.
Our religious school, the Howard and Joshua
Herman Educational Center, meets two days a
week. For registration information, call principal
Judy Gutin at (201) 796-7884 or email her at prin-
cipal@fljc.com.
For more information, call (201) 796-5040,
email info@fljc.com, or go to www.fljc.com. Join
us at our Back to Shul BBQ on Sunday, Septem-
ber 22, in our sukkah, sponsored by the sister-
hood and Mens Progress Club.
Temple Beth Sholom
Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn invites the com-
munity to feel the energy, enthusiasm, and inspi-
ration of its warm and friendly congregation. The
synagogue offers a variety of adult education pro-
grams, family programming, and activities spon-
sored by our sisterhood, mens club, 60+ social club,
social action committee, and teen youth group.
Temple Beth Sholom sponsors daily morning and
evening minyans, junior congregation, and a Shab-
bat Torah study group.
Temple Beth Sholom is a traditional Conserva-
tive congregation, affiliated with United Synagogue
of Conservative Judaism, that has served the reli-
gious, educational, cultural, and social needs of more
than 250 households in the Fair Lawn, Glen Rock,
Paramus, and Ridgewood areas for more than five
decades.
The Northern New Jersey Jewish Academy is a
consortium school comprising five synagogues,
including Temple Beth Sholom. Programs for kin-
dergarteners and first- and second-graders meet
once a week and third- to seventh-graders meet two
days per week at Temple Israel in Ridgewood. Many
NNJJA activities are held at Temple Beth Sholom. A
monthly pre-K program for 3- to 4-year-olds is of-
fered. For information on the religious school talk to
Brenda Kaplan through the temple office.
The Helen Troum Nursery School and Kindergarten
provides a developmentally appropriate program for
children from 2 to 5, after-school enrichment, early
care, a Mommy & Me program, and a summer camp.
The school serves families with children from other
congregations as well as unaffiliated families from
Fair Lawn and surrounding communities. For infor-
mation on the nursery school and kindergarten, call
Lori Rothman (201) 797-2865 or email lrothmantbs@
yahoo.com.
Temple Beth Sholom offers reasonable dues and
free Hebrew school for members. The synagogue
is at 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave., corner of Saddle River
Road. For more information, call the shul office at
(201) 797-9321 or go to www.tbsfl.org.
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Individualized Learning Program
Temple Avodat Shalom (TAS) is a vibrant Reform Jewish congregation located in
River Edge. Te synagogue maintains genuine, warm and friendly connections with its
membership more than 1000 individuals of dierent ages and backgrounds. TAS
oers programs for young families, seniors, adult couples, brotherhood, sisterhood,
youth group, and community service opportunities for all ages. We help our members,
including more than 150 students who are registered for our religious school in grades
PreK through 12, to cultivate an appreciation of our timeless Jewish heritage and
celebrate the joys of Jewish life.
Come join our temple family for the holidays. Our young and dynamic rabbi, Paul
Jacobson, in conjunction with Cantor Ronit Josephson and our dedicated leadership,
delight in welcoming you to our congregation. Services on 2nd day Rosh Hashanah
(Friday September 26) and Yom Kippur afternoon (Saturday, October 4, including
Yizkor) include sign language interpretation and are free and open to the public.

Find out what makes Temple Avodat Shalom (TAS) truly fanTAStic. For school
registration information, call Rabbi Paula Feldstein, Education Director at
(201) 489-2463, x204. For more information, including special discounts for
new members and young families, please call Stella Teger, our Executive Director at
(201) 489-2463 ext. 203 or E-mail director@avodatshalom.net. Please present this
advertisement to qualify for a new member discount.
385 Howland Avenue River Edge
www.avodatshalom.net
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Fort Lee
The Jewish Community
Center of Fort Lee/
Congregation
Gesher Shalom
The Jewish Community Center of
Fort Lee/Congregation Gesher Sha-
lom is a warm, family-friendly Con-
servative synagogue that respects
traditional values and incorporates
both traditional and innovative High
Holiday services.
We are completely egalitarian
and inclusive in all aspects of syna-
gogue life. Our many programs serve
a multigenerational congregation
and include many opportunities for
worship, as well as adult and family-
based education. We ensure a posi-
tive Jewish experience and home in
which every member matters.
We offer festive Shabbat dinners,
inspiring lectures, family-friendly holi-
day celebrations, and social activities.
We also are the only Conservative
synagogue in the area to hold a min-
yan twice each day.
Our Hebrew school uses technol-
ogy and emphasizes love of Jewish
heritage, Torah, and Israel. We offer
many learning/registration options.
Call (201) 947-1654 for more infor-
mation. Go to www.geshershalom.
org for more information on current
events and service times, or call the
office (201) 947-1735 for an appoint-
ment to get acquainted with our
synagogue community.
The New Synagogue
of Fort Lee
Congregation
Kehilat Baruch
The story of the New Synagogue of
Fort Lee and Kehilat Baruch is in-
tertwined with the story of its rabbi,
spiritual leader, and cantor, Meir M.
Berger. Inspired by his great grand-
fathers shul in Mea Shearim, the
New Synagogue of Fort Lee is the
brainchild of a tenacious rabbi and a
committed congregation.
From the small space at the Senior
Citizens Center of Fort Lee to a tent
on Palisades Avenue, on to a modest
house on Center Avenue and finally,
as the congregation grew in strength
and numbers, to a brand new, lovely
sanctuary at the corner of Center
Avenue and Whitman Street in Fort
Lee. Our beit tefillah is grounded
in traditional Conservative values,
celebrating Shabbat, holidays, and
Jewish life cycle events. Kehilat Ba-
ruch aims to fulfill the educational,
cultural, social, and charitable needs
of the Jewish community of Fort Lee
and its environs. Our Hebrew school
aims to instill Jewish literacy through
Torah, Hebrew, life cycle highlights
(Shabbat, bat/bar mitzvah), Jewish
values, and history, and to develop a
spirit of Yiddishkeit. A vibrant sister-
hood offers a yearly program of cul-
tural and social activities to benefit
the growing diversity of its member-
ship.
1585 Center Ave. (201) 947-1555.
Franklin Lakes
Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey
Temple Emanuel of North Jersey
welcomes participants of all back-
grounds and ages. We value individ-
ual spiritual growth, Jewish learning,
the Zionist dream, and acting in the
world to make it a better place. Our
prayer services are traditional, egali-
tarian, and Conservative, and men
and women participate equally. We
encourage interfaith families to join
us and become a part of our com-
munity. Our close-knit membership
includes people and families from
Bergen and Passaic counties, New
York, and beyond.
Our synagogue is at 558 High
Mountain Road in Franklin Lakes,
overlooking the beautiful Franklin
Lakes Nature Preserve. tenjfl.org. 558
High Mountain Rd. (201) 560-0200.
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Jewish Center of Teaneck
70 Sterling Place, Teaneck, NJ
201.833.0515 www.jcot.org
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Glen Rock
Glen Rock Jewish Center
The Glen Rock Jewish Center is a welcoming,
vibrant, egalitarian congregation with a strong
commitment to purposeful Jewish living. We
also know how to have fun! Our social hall
comes alive with weekly events and activities
that are sure to appeal. There is always some-
thing happening at GRJC. Our synagogue deftly
blends and balances the rich teachings of our
Jewish heritage with the very best lessons of
modern culture. We are proud of our participa-
tory services, our commitment to social action,
and our dedication to Jewish education for
people of all ages. Our adult education, early
childhood, and religious school offer something
for everyone. The great Rabbi Hillel taught:
Become a part of your community (Pirke Avot
2:5). It is our hope that you will become part of
our community, and that we may all grow to-
gether. Make your family part of our family!!
We would be happy to answer any questions
you have about our programs and services. For
information go to www.grjc.org or call (201) 652-
6624.
Mahwah
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, at 280 Ramapo
Valley Road, is a warm and welcoming Reform
congregation serving Rockland and Bergen
counties. Its more than 425 families are led by
enthusiastic lay leaders in cooperation with
Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, Assistant Rabbi Daniel
Kirzane, and Cantor David Perper. In addition
to inviting and spiritual services, it offers an
outstanding one-day-a-week religious school,
including a unique family school, junior-senior
youth groups, vibrant lifelong learning, junior
and adult choirs, and brotherhood, sisterhood,
and social action groups. Friday evening Shab-
bat services are held at 6 p.m on the first Friday
of the month and 7:30 p.m the remaining Fri-
days. We offer a family service on the second
Friday of each month. For more information
please call (201) 512-1983 or go to www.beth-
haverimshirshalom.org
Montebello, N.Y.
Congregation Shaarey Israel/
The Traditional Synagogue
of Rockland County &
Northern New Jersey
Congregation Shaarey Israel is a traditional
synagogue dedicated to spiritual fulfillment and
connection to the Jewish community. We are
at 18 Montebello Road, just north of the NY/NJ
border off Exit 14B on the NYS Thruway.
We are a warm and welcoming congrega-
tion, where friendships can be made and sup-
port given during all of the life cycle events. Our
rabbi is energetic, nurturing, and motivates us
with his scholarship and deep commitment. Our
cantor brings the services to life with his stirring
melodies and old world nusach. Our synagogue
is housed in a beautiful building with an exterior
of Jerusalem stone and an interior filled with the
works of artists. Our pews were crafted in Israel.
Children are central at CSI. Our religious
school, now in its fifth year, is for children be-
tween 5 and 13. We take pride in our curriculum
of Torah studies and Hebrew language, which is
tailored to meet each students needs and level.
Other activities include participation in Friday
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Clifton/Passaic/Nutley Area
THE CLIFTON JEWISH CENTER
18 DELAWARE STREET
CLIFTON, NEW JERSEY 07011
Rabbi Bob Mark President Elinor Alboum
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FREE High Holiday seats for
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We offer a welcoming, warm environment
Friday night, Shabbat & Holiday Services
with thought-provoking sermons
Sunday, Monday and Thursday morning services
Oneg Shabbat & Special Friday Night Family Dinners
Adult Education Programs, Book Review Club,
Movies, Lectures, Special Programs,
Center Sponsored Singles Group, Holiday Parties, etc.
A very reachable, available,
down to earth, communicative Rabbi
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Shomrei Torah
Wayne Conservative Congregation
30 Hinchman Avenue
Wayne, NJ 07470
973-696-2500
office@shomreitorahwcc.org
www.shomreitorahwcc.org
www.facebook.com/ShomreiTorah
night services, a model seder, and Jewish cooking
and more. Rabbi Stengel personally trains every bar/
bat mitzvah student. Financial incentives are avail-
able for new member families.
Daily morning and evening minyanim are held
throughout the year. Shabbat and holiday services
begin at 8:45 a.m. and are followed by a Kiddush
luncheon.
Our diverse programs are family oriented, educa-
tional, social, engaging, and innovative. The syna-
gogue has an active sisterhood and mens club. CSI
participates in AIPAC conventions and marches in
the Salute to Israel parades each year.
We invite you to join us for Shabbat, holidays, or
any of our activities. CSI welcomes all Jews to join us.
18 Montebello Rd, Montebello NY 10901 (845)
369-0300
New Milford
Shaar Communities
Shaar Communities is a groundbreaking net-
work of small, inclusive, and accessible Jewish
communities. As people gravitate to Jewish
life from different perspectives, priorities, and
interests, Shaar offers multiple gates (Shaar
means gate) through which people can enter
and establish Jewish connections. Each revolves
around a different mode of engagement
prayer, study, travel, youth adventures, lifecycle,
or social action. Our communities offer an inno-
vative, affordable and pluralistic model of Jew-
ish identity-building and affiliation. Shaar is in
the singular to convey the sacredness, authen-
ticity, and sufficiency of each gate.
Meaningful Jewish learning, conscious spiritual
development, social responsibility, and creative
programming distinguish each gate. Of note: the
Gate of Prayer offers monthly Shabbat celebra-
tions with live music and dinner. The Gate of
Tomorrow offers unique, experiential programs
for Jewish youth, including a new initiative for
LGBTQ teens. The Gate of Discovery offers excit-
ing trips to explore different cultures through a
Jewish lens. Destinations have included Israel,
Argentina, Montreal, Cuba and Panama. 2014
trips included a Jewish journey into the civil
rights story in Atlanta, Selma, and Birmingham,
a Mother/Daughter Spa Shabbat and Berlin and
Cracow. Elishas Gate of Wholeness and Healing
invites people confronting illness, transition, or
loss into Jewish life through creative ritual and
spiritual fellowship. A series on the meaning of
menopause is planned for this year.
We welcome people of all Jewish backgrounds,
and especially seek to create inviting entrances
into Jewish life for those historically on the mar-
gins: singles, Jews by choice, interfaith families,
Jews of color, and LGBTQ Jews.
www.shaarcommunities.org
Rabbi Adina Lewittes, Founder
rabbi@shaarcommunities.org
JoAnne Forman, Director of Communities
joanne@shaarcommunities.org
(201) 213-9569
Andy Lewittes, Chief Relationship Officer
andy@shaarcommunities.org
917-412-2639
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Religious School - 2 Days a Week
Free 1 month trial for new students
Children K-2 may attend religious school
with no synagogue membership required
The Shirley and Paul Pintel Pre-School
Newly Renovated Classrooms
Ages 2 to 5
Free Mommy & Me
Join us for our Back to Shul Barbecue Sunday, Sept. 14 - All Are Welcome!
FREE to new members. $12 Adults $6 Children under 13
Reservations: 201-796-5040 10-10 Norma Ave. Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
www.FLJC.com www.Facebook.com/FairLawnJewishCenter
Enriching your life through prayer,
celebration, education and social action
High Holidays begin Sept. 25
Be inspired by our meaningful services
Free Rosh Hashanah service for families with
young children September 25th 10 am
Babysitting and programs for children & teens
Rananna
Arial Hebrew
Creating Community Inspiring Commitment
87 Overlook Drive Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 201.391.0801
www.tepv.org
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Orangeburg, N.Y.
Orangetown Jewish Center
For more than 50 years, the Orangetown Jewish
Center has shared the warmth and spirit of Con-
servative Judaism with Jews throughout Rock-
land and Bergen counties. We are a welcom-
ing, inclusive egalitarian synagogue that offers
something for every interest and need.
Our religious school starts in kindergarten and
continues into an award-winning youth program,
Naaseh, Hebrew High and USY wrapped up into
one great learning experience, chosen recently as
USYs International Chapter of the Year. Sister-
hood and mens club provide a broad and stimu-
lating spectrum of adult education and social
programs.
And our worship services? Well, they are noth-
ing short of enlightening and soul-stirring.
OJC is always filled with youth family ser-
vices, Shabbaba Shabbat and Early Kabbalat
Shabbat (newborns through 5-year-olds and
their grown-ups), singing on the bima on Shab-
bat mornings, and attending our family education
programs. During the years that children spend
as a part of our religious school community, we
provide the education and skills they need to
live a Jewish life, as well as the motivation and
commitment to do so. We offer a wide variety
of topics and formats for ongoing education, so
there is truly something for everyone to begin or
continue a lifetime of learning. There are mem-
bership plans to suit every need and budget, and
High Holiday tickets are included at no additional
charge for members in good standing.
Whether its religious school, sisterhood, mens
club, or Hazak for older adults, OJC offers the
perfect climate to build friendships through
meaningful experiences. Join us in prayer, study,
social action and interaction. We look forward
to welcoming you. For more information, go to
www.theojc.org
Paramus
Jewish Community Center of
Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah
The Jewish Community Center of Paramus/Con-
gregation Beth Tikvah is a full-service traditional
Conservative congregation with 450 member
units. We offer both a weekly egalitarian service
and a traditional service each Shabbat morn-
ing, daily minyanim in both morning and eve-
ning, comprehensive adult education, a young
couples club, sisterhood, mens club, Hebrew
school, and USY youth programs. Were proud
of our extensive involvement in local community
affairs and within the greater worldwide Jewish
community.
Above all, the JCCP/CBT is about being a corner-
stone of the vibrant Jewish community in Bergen
County. The JCCP/CBT is a place for all to grow as
Jews, to worship, to celebrate our joyous occasions,
and to find support from each other in times of need.
We enjoy many festive holiday celebrations, learn-
ing opportunities, and numerous social activities for
all ages and personal interests. Please come for a visit
and see why Community is our middle name.
We pride ourselves in being a dynamic source of
traditional Conservative Jewish worship. We encour-
age participation, personal growth, and cultural enrich-
ment. Youll find a Hebrew school, gymnasium, youth
lounge, social hall, sanctuary, chapel, library, kosher
kitchens, and large on-site parking , all part of the ex-
tensive JCCP/CBT facility.
Call us at (201) 262-7691 or go to www.jccparamus.
org. Were at E. 304 Midland Ave., Paramus.
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FREE and OPEN to the Entire Community!

RSVP to 201-652-6624 or office@grjc.org

Additional Free Community Activities:
Tashlich -- September 25 at 6:00 pm
(Duck Pond off Prospect Street)
Yizkor -- October 4 approximately 12:45 pm
Neilah -- October 4 approximately 6:00 pm
Join
GLEN ROCK JEWISH CENTER
for a Taste of the High Holidays
at the 7th Annual
Thursday,
September 25
2:00 to 3:30 pm
GRJC
682 Harristown Rd.
Glen Rock, NJ
Congregation Kol HaNeshamah is 18!
Join us for the Chai Holidays!
Celebrate Our 18th Year with Our Synagogue Family
Free High Holiday Tickets for Adult & Children Services
Family Friendly, Participatory Services
Fully Egalitarian
Tikkun Olam Projects throughout the Year
Creative Tot & Youth Programming
Adult & Youth Social Events
Reduced First Year Membership
Under 30 Free Membership

The only Conservative shul serving the
Englewood/Tenafly community.

Reservations required for High Holidays
Please contact us today!
E-mail: INFO@KHNJ.org
Call: (201) 816-1611
Visit: WWW.KHNJ.org

Services take place on the premises of St Pauls Church
113 Engle Street, Englewood, NJ. Rabbi Fred Elias

Wishing you a sweet, healthy
and peaceful New Year
All are welcome to attend our
public family services
Rosh Hashanah: Sept. 25 at 4:30 pm
Yom Kippur: Oct. 4 at 3:00 pm
Community Yizkor: Oct. 4 at 3:00 pm
Ridgewood
Temple Israel & Jewish
Community Center
Discover joy and meaning in our egali-
tarian Conservative congregation. Our
inclusive, nonjudgmental community
warmly welcomes everyone: Fami-
lies, singles, couples; young, old, and
in-between. We embrace all levels of
Jewish observance and previous affili-
ation; interfaith relationships; and gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered
families and individuals.
You will find fellowship and enrich-
ment, support and spirituality. We are
dedicated to providing a joyful, mean-
ing-filled experience through multiple
diverse gateways to Jewish life and
practice, within the framework of the
Conservative egalitarian tradition.
The synagogues calendar of regular
Shabbat worship includes special
monthly programming for tot Shab-
bat and early Friday evening family
services, which cater to families with
toddlers and children up through
about six years of age. Young adults
enjoy BYachad, an informal group
that plans outings (with and without
children), potlucks, and other social
get-togethers.
For active seniors with free time
during the day, Hazak meets for
monthly luncheons that feature
programs of interest like movies and
speakers. With a doctorate in history,
Rabbi David J. Fine presents a fas-
cinating look at Jewish history from
a different perspective each year in
his popular Sunday morning lecture
series. This years theme, beginning
after the High Holy Days, is The His-
tory of Jewish Life in Muslim Lands.
Go to our website at www.syna-
gogue.org, email office@synagogue.
org ,or call (201) 444-9320.
River Edge
Temple Avodat Shalom is a vibrant
Reform Jewish congregation in
River Edge. The synagogue main-
tains warm and friendly connec-
tions with its membership more
than 1,000 individuals of different
ages and backgrounds. TAS of-
fers programs for young families,
seniors, adult couples, brotherhood,
sisterhood, youth group, and com-
munity service opportunities for all
ages. We help our members, includ-
ing more than 150 students who are
registered for our religious school in
grades pre-K through 12, to culti-
vate an appreciation of our Jewish
heritage and celebrate the joys of
Jewish life.
Come join our temple family for
the holidays. Our young and dynamic
rabbi, Paul Jacobson, in conjunction
with Cantor Ronit Josephson and
our dedicated leadership, welcome
you to our congregation. Services
on the second day of Rosh Hasha-
nah (Friday, September 26) and Yom
Kippur afternoon (Saturday, Octo-
ber 4, including Yizkor) include sign
language interpretation and are free
and open to the public.
For school registration information,
call our education director, Rabbi
Paula Feldstein, at (201) 489-2463,
ext. 204. For more information, in-
cluding special discounts for new
members and young families, call ex-
ecutive director Stella Teger at (201)
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Wish You a Happy,
Healthy and
Sweet New Year
Rosh HaShannah Services: Sept 25 & 26, 2014 at 8:30 AM
Kol Nidre Service: Oct 3, 2014 at 6:00 PM
Yom Kippur Services: Shabbat Oct 4, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Our doors are open to the community for Yizkor:
Shabbat Oct 4, 2014 at 11:45 AM
For High Holiday Tickets, call 845.369.0300
CONGREGATION SHAAREY ISRAEL
18 Montebello Road, Montebello NY 10901
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The New Synagogue of Fort Lee
1585 Center Avenue, Fort Lee, NJ 07024
201-947-1555
Sponsored by Sisterhood
Discover The New Synagogue of Fort Lee by joining us for our first Open House
Festival taking place this autumn. Bring your friends to this joyous celebration that
pays homage to the Jewish communities of our neighborhood. Enjoy family friendly
activities all day including music, food, folk art demos and crafts, klezmer and
cantorial music, Yiddish lesson, scribal arts, Mah Jongg, and tours of our memorial
Holocaust exhibition. Come participate in Judaica crafts with our Hebrew School staff.
There are many ways to support the Synagogue.
To contribute to this cultural program, send in your donation or contact the office.
OPEN HOUSE
FESTIVAL
Sunday, Nov. 16
2:00 6:00 pm
489-2463, ext. 203, or email director@avodatsha-
lom.net. Present this advertisement to qualify for
a new member discount.
Teaneck
Temple Emeth religious school
Temple Emeth religious school strives to create
a foundation for a just and ethical life, encom-
passing Torah, Jewish ethics and values, Jewish
history, life cycle events. Temple Emeth recently
announced free tuition for the first year for new
students and free tuition for all pre-K to second
grade students. Call (201) 833-8466 or email
bshater@emeth.org.
Jewish Center of Teaneck
The Jewish Center of Teaneck is Teanecks first
synagogue, established 80 years ago. As a full-
service open Orthodox synagogue center, we
provide religious, athletic, and cultural services
to Teanecks Jewish community and help all
Jews make meaningful connections. Our name
captures our essence: JCT fostering Jewish
Journeys, Connections, and Traditions.
We have a 60,000-square-foot facility with a
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JOANNE PALMER
R
abbi Daniel Freelander of Ridgewood is an
avuncular, charming, modest man. To talk
to him is to feel entirely at ease.
And then you realize that you are talking
to someone who has been instrumental in the devel-
opment of liberal Judaism in both the way it looks
and operates, and even more profoundly in the way
it sounds.
Rabbi Freelander, 62, is leaving his comfortable berth
as senior vice president at the Union for Reform Juda-
ism the organization for which he has worked in vari-
ous capacities for 39 years to become president of the
World Union for Progressive Judaism. In some ways the
move is minor the two organizations share a floor in
a midtown Manhattan office building, and Rabbi Free-
lander is keeping his office. But in other ways it is huge
his responsibilities go from national to international,
and from the Reform movement to the larger liberal
world, of which Reform Judaism is a significant but
not the only stream.
In fact, Rabbi Freelanders new position is a moun-
tain-to-Mohammed move. The WUPJ presidency always
had been in Jerusalem; its previous president, the now-
retired Rabbi Richard Hirsch, made aliyah in 1973 to
take the job. It was a clear statement that we perceive
Jerusalem, and Israel, as the center of the Jewish people,
and that we were putting a stake in the ground to build
up progressive Judaism in Israel, Rabbi Freelander
said. That tenet remains unchanged. Our main office
remains in Israel, with a skeleton staff in New York,
and my business cards have our Jerusalem address.
But Rabbi Freelanders wife, Rabbi Elyse Frishman, is
the congregational rabbi who heads Barnert Temple in
Franklin Lakes. Her job is not portable. And he is such
From the Union
to the Union
Rabbi Daniel Freelander of
Ridgewood moves from
one Reform institution
to head another
Rabbis Daniel Freelander and Elyse Frishman met at Camp Eisner; here they and their children are at a reunion at camp.
a natural for the job that his need to live
in New Jersey was accommodated with
the far-from-onerous stipulation that he go
often to Israel.
So who is Rabbi Freelander, and why
would the WUPJ go to such lengths to hire
him?
Daniel Freelander was born in Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, where my parents
were very involved in the Jewish commu-
nity, he said. His mother, Aviva Jacobson,
was born in Tel Aviv; she was sent to Massa-
chusetts on shlichut as an emissary from
Israel to the local Jewish community met
his father, and that pretty much was that.
Her family was from Pinsk, Russia; her
grandfather, Moshe Yacobson, made ali-
yah in 1914, just as World War I was break-
ing out. (It was Yacobson in Israel, Jacob-
son in the English-speaking world.) Her
grandfathers parents were Hebraicists and
Zionists; they sent their 14-year-old son to
Gymnasia Herzylia, where all the students
spoke in newly revived Hebrew. Mr. Yacob-
son was a member of the schools second
graduating class. An engineer, he was one
of the founders of the Palestine Electric
Company. His primary work was wiring
the north the Galil and Transjordan,
Rabbi Freelander said. I have pictures of
him with King Abdullah.
Rabbi Freelanders family arrived in this
country in 1881, and his great-grandfather,
Hillel Friedlander, was an Orthodox cantor
in Burlington, Vermont, and then in Utica,
N.Y., before he moved to Massachusetts. I
was at a book sale in Lennox, and I found
a history of the Jews of Burlington, Rabbi
Freelander said. There was a full-page
picture of my grandfather.
Not only was he a cantor,
he was a shochet a ritual
slaughterer as well. That
was not unusual, Rabbi
Freelander said. He was
the communitys religious
functionary. Thats why
they called him Reverend.
I have strong memories
of my grandfather and his
siblings sitting around the
seder table, singing melodies that my great-
grandfather wrote. Now, it is 120 years
later, and my own kids sit around our seder
table, singing the family melodies.
His great-grandfather eventually moved
his family to Worcester, where he became
the first full-time cantor the town had since
the 1890s. His grandfather lived out most
childrens dream he owned a toy store.
Along the way, the family changed the
spelling of its name, in order to be more
American. Rabbi Freelanders father,
Israel Robert Freelander, fought in the
Pacific theater in World War II. When he
got home, he worked toward a Ph.D. at
Boston University. His thesis was that the
physically handicapped could be employed
at market rates and the company could
still break even, or even make a profit, he
said. A professor challenged that assump-
tion, and Mr. Freelander decided to find
out whether he was right, so he started
a small toy company in 1951, in the back
of my grandfathers toy store. He made
wooden toys and cleaning sets. This was at
the height of the polio epidemic he hired
only people in wheelchairs, or who were
deaf and dumb, or who had lost limbs in
the war.
The company was successful, and he
never finished his Ph.D. Instead, he contin-
ued to grow and run the company, called
Come Play Products, until he retired. He
was chairman of the Presidents Commis-
sion on the Employment of the Handi-
capped, and I have pictures of him with
the governor of Massachusetts and Hubert
Humphrey.
His father also was president of the local
synagogue, Temple Emanuel of Worcester,
which was Reform, and his mother taught
Hebrew school there. And I was the kid
who sang in the choir every Shabbat morn-
ing. I was a soloist. It was a very tight and
supportive Jewish community.
He was woven into the Reform Jewish
world outside town as well. I was very
involved in NFTY the Reform move-
ments youth group and I went to Camp
Eisner a Reform movement camp
where Eric Yoffie was my counselor.
Rabbi Yoffie went on to become the presi-
dent of the URJ, and Danny Freelander met
his wife at camp.
Rabbi Freelanders background made
him uniquely prepared for his eventual
career. I grew up in a family that had a
musical background, a Jewish background,
and a social work background, Rabbi
Freelander said. All of those pieces played
a part in his life.
In 1970, Rabbi Freelander went off to
Trinity College, which he chose because
it was co-ed. I could have gone to Dart-
mouth, where my father had gone but
it wasnt.
Trinity was a really WASPy school, he
continued. I was one of the few public-
school kids there. I helped form the Hillel
there. Among my influences were my class-
mates Susanna Heschel the daughter of
the theologian and social activist Rabbi
Abraham Joshua Heschel, she now teaches
at Dartmouth and Robert Gershenfeld,
now a rabbi at Ohr Somayach in Jerusa-
lem. We were 18-year-old college fresh-
men, trying to figure out how to create a
Jewish place for ourselves in this very Epis-
copalian place, he said. We started hav-
ing Kabbalat Shabbat services in our dorm
rooms, until they told us that we couldnt
light candles there. So we petitioned for a
place to have services.
Now there is wonderful Jewish life at
Trinity, but then
We had our biblical studies with Prot-
estants. Abraham Joshua Hes-
chel would come to visit. It
was a very important time for
me, when I learned to assert
my Jewishness in a very non-
Jewish environment.
After college, Rabbi Free-
lander took a year off to write
songs with his friend Jeff Klep-
per. He moved to Boston,
where he became a Hillel
counselor at Wesleyan Col-
lege. It was a part-time job,
and at night I sat up and wrote new Jewish
songs, he said.
Rabbi Freelander and Mr. Klepper were
close friends with Jewish songwriter Deb-
bie Friedman. It was the time of the
emergence of new Jewish nusach, liturgi-
cal music. We taught these songs in Jew-
ish American summer camps, and in CAJE
conferences. (CAJE was an organization
devoted mainly to Jewish education.) I
wrote some of the best songs I ever wrote
that year. Among them, he added, are
versions of Shalom Rav and Lo Ale-
cha and those are the versions that are
permanently lodged in the heads of most
observant non-Orthodox Jews.
That was an exciting time. Real change
was taking place in Jewish music and the
Reform synagogue, Rabbi Freelander said.
I was part of that generation that brought
great change to the Reform movement. It
is now very different than the movement I
was born into but the community feeling
remains the same.
Once it was clear to him that all his pas-
sions led him to one place the Reform
rabbinate Rabbi Freelander enrolled in
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Rabbis Daniel Freelander and Elyse Frishman met at Camp Eisner; here they and their children are at a reunion at camp.
I grew up in a family that
had a musical background,
a Jewish background, and a
social work background.
RABBI DANIEL FREELANDER
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Hebrew Union College in New York. He
graduated in 1979 but was constrained in
his choice of jobs because his wife, who
was two years behind him, could not move
far from the city. The best available job
was becoming assistant director of NFTY
on a national level. He took it and loved it.
Rabbi Frishman took a job in Suffern, N.Y.,
where the couple moved and their children
were born.
Rabbis Freelander and Frishman have
three children. Adam is a nighttime video
editor for the New York Times. (Terrible
hours but a great job, his father said.) Jonah
is the director of NFTYs service learn-
ing program also known as the mitzvah
corps. Debra is a graduate student in sculp-
ture at the Rhode Island School of Design.
In 1982, Rabbi Freelander became the
regional director for the New Jersey/Hud-
son Valley region of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, as the URJ then
was called. It was a boom time here on
the West Bank, he said. Jews were pour-
ing into Rockland, Monmouth, and Morris
counties. Loads of new congregations were
being built on Routes 278 and 78, which
were just being finished. We opened an
office in Paramus. My job was to build new
Reform synagogues and strengthen the
existing ones.
He held that job for a decade. I loved it,
he said. I learned everything I know about
congregations then.
He also directed the Reform movements
1987 commission on synagogue music,
and that assignment allowed him to con-
tinue to be involved in the vast changes
that affected the movements synagogues.
The commission was part of an initiative
to deepen spirituality in Reform worship,
he said, and it did.
We researched the melodies that were
being sung in Reform congregations that
had choirs and those that did not. We
researched the level of congregational
singing versus listening. We came up with
strategic goals, which were guided by the
realization that congregations no longer
wanted professional choirs on Shabbat.
Volunteer choirs were growing, though.
Jews like choral singing not to listen to,
but to do themselves.
To have good Jewish music, you need
good Jewish musical leadership. We
needed to grow the cantorate to have
more professional Jewish musical leader-
ship in congregations. And we had to pro-
vide good musical resources to synagogues
who couldnt afford cantors so they could
have access to what was happening in Jew-
ish music. We published volumes for con-
gregations without cantors, so a volunteer
or a song leader or an organist can lead the
congregation in song.
Song leaders are specific to the Reform
movement. They are so necessary that a
verb to describe their work to song lead
has evolved.
Song leaders are an invention of the
1960s, Rabbi Freelander said. There
always was song leading at camp. It is the
confluence of a Hebrew repertoire that
started in the late 1960s and the music that
Debbie and Jeff and I wrote, synagogue
music that song leaders are more capable
of leading than cantors are.
That created a real tension. Cantors
called the repertoire camp music and
really denigrated it. They said that it did
not have a place in the synagogue.
In 1981 or 82 Debbie and I had a public
debate with some of the leading compos-
ers, but what happened is that the young
people of the 1960s and 70s became the
temple officers of the 80s and 90s, and
they wanted that music in the synagogues.
So now Debbie Friedmans music, and
Jeff Kleppers, and mine, is the normative
music of the synagogue. That war is over
Three generations of Freelanders Danny, his daughter, Devra, and his father,
Israel Robert.
The European Union for Progressive Judaism
held its biennial conference in Amsterdams
newly built liberal synagogue Liberaal
Joodse Gemeente Amsterdam in 2012.
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but it was a very bitter battle.
Because of his institutional connec-
tions, I was at the center of that battle,
straddling both worlds.
There were other benefits to the
commission, including Shirah, the
chorus housed at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly. I was one of
its founding members, he said. And
in 1990s, we partnered with the Zamir
Choral Foundation to sponsor the first
choral festival, Rabbi Freelander said.
He was a founder of that festival, one
of its animating forces, and its public
face. This summer, he was honored at
its 25th anniversary.
In 1992, Rabbi Freelanders office
moved to Manhattan, and he became
URJs director of programming, in
charge of the movements vast bien-
nial convention and all its program-
ming staff. In 2002 he became senior
vice president, which was the entire
organizations No. 2 position.
I held that job for 11 years, he said.
This is a very big change. I am leaving
the cocoon. I have supervised every
department in the organization. I have
my finger in everything. I spent 10 years
as the executive editor of the maga-
zine. I ran a convention that got 5,000
people in San Diego; I redesigned and
reengineered it. I basically played out
all the new things I could do.
At around my 60th birthday, I real-
ized that I might have another career
in me. So when they the World
Union for Progressive Judaism, that is
decided that I could stay in New York,
I decided that I would do it.
This is a totally different kind of
work.
Well, to be realistic, yes and no.
The work is different, but the world
Reform and Progressive Judaism is
not. First, the name. The words Pro-
gressive and Reform are fairly inter-
changeable, Rabbi Freelander said. In
England, the so-called Reform move-
ment is to the left of the movement as
we know it, and the Reform movement
is called liberal. Progressive is used
around the rest of the world except in
North America, and to some increasing
extent in Israel.
The movement is growing in Israel,
albeit slowly. We now have 41 Progres-
sive congregations; when Rabbi Hirsch
got there we had three, Rabbi Free-
lander said. Because the Israeli gov-
ernment funds Orthodox synagogues
but does not recognize any from other
streams, it is always difficult to main-
tain them. Israelis are not used to pay-
ing synagogue dues. One of the WUPJs
main functions is to pay salaries to
Israeli rabbis, although it is now wean-
ing its shuls from their dependence.
It also works to create an indige-
nous Reform movement that isnt just
expats, Rabbi Freelander said. That
attempt, too, is bearing fruit.
The Reform movement is made up of
seven regions; in North America, the
Union for Reform Judaism is the voice
of Reform Judaism, Rabbi Freelander
said. Each region is independent;
there is no cohesive voice, he added.
There are seminaries all over the
world, but no coherent curriculum.
The World Union for Progressive Juda-
ism functions to identify communities
where there are no Progressive congre-
gations. Often it starts with expats.
The ubiquitousness of Chabad in
eastern Europe means that they iden-
tify many Jews who want a strong Jew-
ish identity but they cant live within
its strictures. We dont have Chabads
resources. Chabad is brilliant in open-
ing the door and making people feel
welcome, but they have an angle. They
know what kind of Jew they are trying
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Jordans King Abdullah conferred on how to
provide electricity to the region.
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80s, he said. Women are very educated, and they
want to be able to lead their communities.
Thats our marketplace.
His job necessarily will involve fundraising, Rabbi
Freelander said. I am so turned on by the work of the
organization, but there is no predictable financial base
for it. It does not have a big endowment or dues base.
We have a very small overhead; most of the money we
raise goes directly to fund programs.
I feel that I am blessed to be part of building 21st cen-
tury Judaism in parts of the world that lost most of 20th
century Judaism. There is a very vibrant scene in Eng-
land, Australia, and Israel, but in the rest of the world
particularly eastern Europe there is a vacuum.
The area of this job that I am not excited about but
I am learning about is what the presence of real anti-
Semitism means to real communities. That is new to
me we dont deal with it in North America but cer-
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Hungary, it is raising its head.
His organization walks a tightrope as it talks about
aliyah versus building strong communities in Europe
and other parts of the world. It wants neither to dis-
courage aliyah nor to abandon the Jews who cannot
or will not leave their homes, Rabbi Freelander said.
Although he knew as much as most of us about
global politics that is, what we can read in the papers
or online his education has advanced radically, Rabbi
Freelander said. For example, the Union funds a two-
week summer camp in Crimea for Ukrainian, Russian,
and Belorussian Jewish teenagers. The Belorussian
parents said to us, Are you crazy? You think Im send-
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out where to send 1,000 kids.
They did.
They also had to figure out what to do with the
synagogue in Crimea; the Russians froze all the bank
accounts, and a Moscow-based Jewish organization
now claims that it owns the building. We are now
dealing with whose synagogue is it anyway? Rabbi
Freelander said. Who has the authority the Russian
Jewish authorities empowered by Putin or the Ukrai-
nian Jewish authorities we worked with before?
Global politics affect Jewish communities in ways
that we never knew about. The support they feel from
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gave the ordination address. The foreign minister of
Germany was there, he said. Why? Because it was
75 years to the day that Germany invaded Poland and
retook this part of Poland as Germany.
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before returning home.
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people with kindness and performing acts of kindness
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parents and families, easily fall into that category.
He set up Drive Safer initially in North Jersey and
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We had 12 students, and it was tremendous,
he said. Theyd never been in control of a vehicle
before and they learned navigating, turning, and
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accelerating. There was a huge jump over two hours in how
they did. This experience will make their future time in driv-
ing schools so much more productive.
There is an advanced five-hour boot camp as well, and
a Power Wheels driving instruction program for children.
At the other end of the spectrum, Mr. Friedman also gives
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In 150 high schools, Drive Safer offers free sessions on
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New Turkish PM: no
normalization if blockade
remains
New Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Mon-
day that there is no hope of his country normalizing
ties with Israel unless the Jewish state ends the blockade
of the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported.
In August, former Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan was elected as the countrys president. Erdogan
was a harsh critic of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza
this summer, saying that Israel surpassed Hitler in barba-
rism and committed genocide against the Palestinians.
Davutoglu commented during an address to Turkish
parliamentary deputies. Israel-Turkey relations have been
frayed since the May 2010 flotilla that tried to break the
Gaza blockade. Militants attacked Israeli soldiers who
boarded the vessel, prompting clashes in which nine
Turkish citizens were killed. JNS.ORG
Israeli police recommend
indicting former IDF chief
Ashkenazi
The Israeli police on Tuesday recommended that former
IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi be indicted for breach of
trust and divulging classified information in connection
to a case dating back to 2010.
The case, known as the Harpaz affair, involves an
alleged plot by Lt. Col. (res.) Boaz Harpaz to sabotage the
appointment of Yoav Galant to succeed Ashkenazi as the
IDF chief of staff.
A document reported by Israels Channel 2 network
that had brought the Harpaz affair to light was ultimately
dismissed as a forgery, leading to a state comptroller
probe and a four-year police investigation into the matter.
Investigators said Ashkenazi failed to disclose his knowl-
edge of the Harpaz document during the state comptrol-
lers investigation and routinely gave reporters classified
information during off-the-record background briefings.
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Political favor or
West Bank game-changer?
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV In the days after the war in Gaza con-
cluded, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
appeared to bear left.
He spoke of a possible diplomatic horizon for
Israel on August 27 and suggested a return to Israeli-
Palestinian peace talks. Reports that Netanyahu had
met secretly in Amman with Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas emerged.
But on Sunday he took a sharp right turn, seizing
nearly 1,000 acres in the West Bank near the Etzion
settlement bloc as state land. The move is a prerequi-
site for settlement expansion and prohibits Palestin-
ians from using the land for building or agriculture.
According to Israeli reports, the government seized
the land in response to the nearby kidnapping and
murder of three Israeli teens in June.
The land seizure Israels largest in decades drew
condemnation from the Israeli left and from the inter-
national community. The U.S. State Department said
it was counterproductive for the peace process. In
a statement, the left-wing NGO Peace Now called the
move proof that Prime Minister Netanyahu does not
aspire for a new Diplomatic Horizon.
Israel is trying to be territorially maximalist in the
area and to deny territorial contiguity to the Palestin-
ians, Hagit Ofran, the head of Peace Nows Settlement
Watch, said. The message of this act is clear: The
inclination of Israel is not to peace and compromise
but to continuation of settlement.
But some experts said that though the move hurts
Israel diplomatically, critics overstate its importance
on the ground. The area is a strip of land adjacent to
the West Bank that Israel intends to keep under any
peace deal. Declaring it state land, they said, was a
way for Netanyahu to placate his allies on the right
after opposing their suggestion to depose Hamas dur-
ing the Gaza war.
I think it falls in a certain pattern, Michael Oren,
Israels former ambassador to the United States, said.
Children play in the
streets of the settlement
of Gvaot on Septem-
ber 2. Two days earlier
the Israeli government
declared that part of
the settlement, near the
West Bank city of Beth-
lehem, to be state land.
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The government does something that is unpalatable to the
right wing, whether it be making concessions in the peace pro-
cess or, in this case, agreeing to a cease-fire in Gaza, and then it
attempts to palliate the right by building in Judea and Samaria
or, in this case, reclassifying land.
According to Maj. Guy Inbar, spokesman for the Israel
Defense Forces Coordinator of Government Activities in the
Territories, the seizure is only the first step toward a potential
settlement expansion.
Palestinians who claim the land have 45 days to challenge
the decision in Israels courts. If the appeals fail, the govern-
ment still has to make an additional decision to legalize build-
ing there before any construction can begin.
An illegal Israeli settlement outpost, Gvaot, already sits on a
portion of the land. Several surrounding Palestinian villages,
according to Ofran, have laid claim to the land. But Inbar said
an Israeli investigation found the land has not been used for
decades.
Netanyahu has backtracked before on settlement expan-
sion plans following international criticism. In 2012, Netan-
yahu announced Israels intention to build in an area known
as E1, which sits between the Palestinian cities of Bethlehem
and Ramallah, as well as between Jerusalem and the Israeli
settlement of Maale Adumim. The United States opposed the
plan, and nearly two years later the land sits empty.
But Sundays seizure does prohibit Palestinian use of the
land. And Israeli politicians and commentators have criti-
cized Netanyahu for alienating Abbas and Israels allies just as
the sides could have restarted peace talks following the Gaza
cease-fire agreement.
[The] announcement, which wasnt brought to the Cab-
inet, regarding 900 acres of land for building in the Etzion
bloc harms the State of Israel, Israeli Finance Minister
Yair Lapid of the centrist Yesh Atid party said Tuesday
in a speech. Maintaining the support of the world was
already challenging, so why was it so urgent to create
another crisis with the United States and the world?
Meanwhile, the future of peace talks remains unclear.
Negotiations ended in April after nine months, as Israel
reneged on a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners.
Abbas responded by applying for Palestinian accession
to a range of international treaties, and talks collapsed as
Abbas formed a unity government with Hamas.
According to reports, Abbas said he wont return to
talks unless Israel proposes a border in their initial stage.
Should Israel refuse, Abbas reportedly plans to turn to
the United Nations Security Council to call for an Israeli
West Bank pullout.
Palestinian officials also threatened recently to apply
for membership to the International Criminal Court,
which could allow the Palestinian Authority to sue Israel
for settlement building and allegedly violating Palestin-
ian rights. But Abbas has yet to submit the application.
Given that theres no negotiations, trust with the P.A.
and Abbas is not at a premium, said Jonathan Rynhold,
a senior research associate at Bar-Ilan Universitys Begin-
Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. If [Netanyahu] offers
a fairly generous territorial offer, this will be irrelevant.
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Lady Gaga concert in Tel Aviv
on track despite summer war
Lady Gaga will perform in Israel on Sept. 13 despite this
summers war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Neil
Young, the Backstreet Boys, and Lana Del Rey all canceled
their planned concerts in Israel this summer.
The singer will perform as part of her international tour
artRave: The ARTPOP Ball at Tel Avivs Hayarkon Park.
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activists have been
calling for entertainers to cancel performances in Israel,
but Lady Gaga is not the only international artist with an
upcoming concert in the Jewish state. Tony Bennett will
perform in Tel Aviv the day after Lady Gaga.
The two concerts will take place about 10 days before
the release of Cheek to Cheek, a joint jazz album Lady
Gaga recorded with Bennett. This has sparked rumors
that the two musicians might perform together at one of
the concerts. JNS.ORG
Israeli children
return to school after conflict
Southern Israeli children living near Gaza went back to
school Monday after a summer spent in bomb shelters
during Operation Protective Edge.
We are a little scared but we are excited, Ronit Bart,
a resident of Kibbutz Saad and an English teacher in its
school, told the Associated Press. A lot of children in our
area really need to go back to a routine.
The school year also began across the country in Israel.
About 2.1 million students in total returned to school, as
well as 165,000 teachers and instructors. About 5,000
policemen volunteered to secure schools around the
country Monday.
On behalf of all the government ministers, I want to
wish the best of luck to all the childrenbut firstly the
children entering the first gradehi there, first graders
may you, may all the children have a good, successful
and safe school year, said Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu. JNS.ORG
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Chefs/food writers celebrate
Latin American Jewish cuisine
Latin American Jewish cuisine is
becoming very popular in restau-
rants and kitchens. With that in
mind, on Sunday, September 14,
at 2:30 p.m., James Beard- nomi-
nated cookbook author Jayne
Cohen will lead a discussion
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the cuisine from early Sephardic
influences to todays Jewish food
landscape.
The talk at the Museum of Jew-
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to the Holocaust features a panel
including chef Sam Gorenstein,
food writers Leticia Moreinos
Schwartz and Susan Schmidt,
and anthropologist Ruth Behar.
A reception featuring tasty Latin
desserts will follow.
Tickets are available online at
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Right is a featured recipe by
Leticia Moreinos Schwartz for
Brazilian Crme Caramel.
Jayne Cohen
Brazilian Crme Caramel (Pudim de Leite)
LETICIA MOREINOS
SCHWARTZ
According to Leticia, almost every cui-
sine has its version of flan, but what
makes the Brazilian take on the des-
sert so special is its use of sweetened
condensed milk, which lends the flan
a smooth, silky and velvety texture.
Another difference is that this recipe is
prepared in a blender or food processor;
Leticia has added a bit of heavy cream
and extra yolks to expand the velvety
texture.
Beloved by all Brazilians for special
occasions, this pudding is perfect for
Yom Kippur break-the-fast and other
dairy menus, as well as a treat for drop-
in guests during the fall holidays. You
can prepare the dessert up to 5 days
ahead of time and invert it the day you
are serving.
Serves 6 to 8
FOR THE CARAMEL:
3/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons water
For the flan:
1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed
milk
1 2/3 cup whole milk
1/2 cup heavy cream
3 large eggs
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Equipment: Round cake mold, 8
inches wide and 2 inches deep (or 4
individual ramekins)
TO MAKE THE CARAMEL:
Place the sugar and water in a clean
heavy-bottomed saucepan. Cook the
sugar over high heat without stirring,
until it turns into an amber-colored
caramel, about 5 minutes.
Pour the caramel into the cake mold
and swirl it around, making sure the
caramel covers the whole bottom
of the pan evenly. You dont want
to have any concentrated lumps of
caramel in any part of the pan. The
caramel will continue to cook once its
off the heat, so work fast. Set the pan
aside.
Pre-heat the oven to 350F.
TO MAKE THE FLAN:
Mix all the ingredients for the flan in a
blender or (ideally) a food processor,
until smooth.
Carefully and slowly pour it into the
prepared caramel pan. Transfer the
caramel pan to a large roasting pan
and fill it with warm water so that it
comes half way up the sides of the
pan. Carefully transfer the roasting
pan to the center of the oven and
bake until the custard is set, about 45
to 55 minutes.
Remove the roasting pan from the
oven. Transfer the custard pan to a
wire rack. Let it cool at room tem-
perature then refrigerate for at least
4 hours. Invert the flan only when it is
chilled completely, otherwise it might
break.
When ready to serve, run a smooth
knife around the inside of the cake
pan. Place a large rimmed serving
platter on top of the cake pan, and
holding the pans together with both
hands, invert the flan onto the platter.
Hold the pans for at least 1 minute to
make sure all the juices of the caramel
fall onto the platter.
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Last week, Kosher Experience closed
its Cedar Lane retail location and will
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Avenue in Clifton.
The new state-of-the-art catering
kitchen will have both meat and dairy
facilities under Star-K supervision. In
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Honey cake biscotti
nut-free and pareve
Makes 30
3 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking powder
dash salt
1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup brewed coffee or espresso
2 large eggs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cover a jellyroll pan
or cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set it aside.
In a large bowl, put the flour, brown sugar, cinna-
mon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, baking powder, and
salt, and mix together. Add the oil, honey, coffee,
and eggs, and mix gently to combine.
Divide the dough in half and shape each half into a
log, 10 to 12 inches long by 4 inches wide, leaving 2
to 3 inches between each loaf.
Bake for 35 minutes, or until the loaves are set and
a little browned on the bottom. Slide the parch-
ment paper off the pan. Let the loaves sit for five
minutes. Slice each loaf into to 1-inch slices. Place
a new piece of parchment paper on the pan and
place the cookies on it, cut side down. Bake for
five more minutes. Let the cookies cool on the pan.
Store in an airtight container for up to five days or
freeze for up to three months.
TO MAKE THE FLAN:
Mix all the ingredients for the flan in a
blender or (ideally) a food processor,
until smooth.
Carefully and slowly pour it into the
prepared caramel pan. Transfer the
caramel pan to a large roasting pan
and fill it with warm water so that it
comes half way up the sides of the
pan. Carefully transfer the roasting
pan to the center of the oven and
bake until the custard is set, about 45
to 55 minutes.
Remove the roasting pan from the
oven. Transfer the custard pan to a
wire rack. Let it cool at room tem-
perature then refrigerate for at least
4 hours. Invert the flan only when it is
chilled completely, otherwise it might
break.
When ready to serve, run a smooth
knife around the inside of the cake
pan. Place a large rimmed serving
platter on top of the cake pan, and
holding the pans together with both
hands, invert the flan onto the platter.
Hold the pans for at least 1 minute to
make sure all the juices of the caramel
fall onto the platter.
A holiday kosher baking book
The Jewish High Holy Days are about family and friends. It is wonderful to see
congregants at synagogue and then share meals together at home.
Our readers are always looking for delicious easy recipes, especially for des-
serts. Paris-trained pastry chef Paula Shoyer, a.k.a. the Jewish baking maven,
recently published The Holiday Kosher Baker, an essential baking book for
Jewish home cooks. You may recognize her name from her earlier book, The
Kosher Baker: Over 160 Dairy-Free Recipes From Traditional to Trendy. She
also is a contributor to websites including kosherscoop.com.
Her latest hardcover book includes 37 gluten-free recipes along with some
vegan, dairy-free, low-sugar, and nut-free ones; it also includes 45 Passover
recipes. The entries range from desserts following the latest trends, to those
that remind us of our grandmothers, but with a modern twist. All special-diet recipes are labeled.
Most recipes include color photographs.
Below is a nice easy recipe for honey cake biscotti - adding a new spin to the tried and true honey cake.
Teaneck Doghouse
celebrates opening
The Teaneck Doghouse, northern New Jerseys irst
kosher sports-themed restaurant, held its grand opening
this week. The restaurant will offer wing specials during
all NFL games this season.
The restaurant aims to provide the local Jewish commu-
nity with a superior game-day experience, a place where
families and friends can root for their favorite sports
teams while enjoying tasty food and wholesome fun. It
also hopes to attract business people and students during
the day.
Follow on Facebook.com/teaneckdoghouse for future
announcements and specials.
The Teaneck Doghouse, 14131415 Palisades Ave.,
Teaneck. (201) 5307733, teaneckdoghouse@gmail.com,
or www.TeaneckDoghouse.com
Challah baking
in New City
The New City Jewish Cen-
ter hosts a challah-baking
event on Tuesday, Sep-
tember 16, at 8 p.m., with
the Challah Fairy herself,
Chanalee Fischer.
Participants will learn
how to braid a challah
and then bring home the
dough to bake. It costs $18
a person and reservations
are required. The syna-
gogue is at 47 Old Schoolhouse Road in New City.
Call (845) 6389600.
Chanalee Fischer
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Your Talmudic Advice Column
Dear Rabbi,
Ive been studying the Talmud and have
come across some passages that take seri-
ously things like demons, demon posses-
sion, and exorcisms. This got me thinking
and asking: If the Talmud promotes primi-
tive superstitions that I reject, why should I
take seriously anything else that it teaches?
Possessed in Paterson
Dear Possessed,
You are correct to be concerned about this
content. The Talmuds Jews lived in Baby-
lonia 1500 years ago, in a world that was
illed with shedim, mazikim, and ruhot
demons and spirits, some evil, some not.
The Talmuds Jews believed that demons
lived all around them, in trees, in bodies
of water, on housetops, and in latrines.
The Talmud cautions its readers that its
a good thing that demons were invisible
since, If your eye could see them, you
could not endure with them around. They
surround a person. They are more numer-
ous than people. Each person has a thou-
sand demons on his left side and ten thou-
sand on his right side. So yes, demons
appeared persistently throughout the Tal-
mud and in the midrashim.
That cultural fact reminds us vividly
of something that most observant Jews
would prefer to forget that the wisdom
of our ancient books comes along with
the naive baggage of a less scientiic, less
philosophical era.
So what are your options? Sure, you
can insist on a take-it or leave-it approach
to the Talmud. Since part of it is supersti-
tion and you reject that, then you may
say lets toss away the whole work.
As a rabbi I am obligated to remind you
that we believe the religious and theo-
logical wisdom of the Talmud provides
a profound and meaningful basis for our
spiritual lives. Its part of the extended
Oral Torah that derives its authority from
what God gave to Moses at
Sinai.
And so does that mean
that we rabbis today believe
that the demons spoken of in
the Talmud were, and are,
real entities?
Some fundamentalist rab-
bis, even today, will say that
yes, demons are real, exactly
as described in the sacred
texts.
More modern rabbis will
suggest to you that there are sophisticated
ways to handle this issue.
The traditional nuanced believers
response will be to remind you that for
centuries great scholars and sages have
distinguished between the halachah (the
legal and ritual content) and the aggadah
(the folklore and legend) in the Talmud.
Serious sages have agreed that we need
not accept the aggadah at literal face value.
And teachings about demons are part of
the aggadah that can be glossed over or
taken symbolically.
A common modern and somewhat trite
and obvious explanation based in this
free approach to the aggadah is the idea
that demons are merely metaphors. We
can say that we all have our own personal
demons of one sort or another, demons
with which we struggle. In this frame of
interpretation we afirm to take hold and
keep the aggadah, including what it says
about demons, but with a grain of salt and
a heap of free associations.
Whats my advice to you then? Talmu-
dically, I see three possible paths. First, if
you have already decided to reject your
faith and community, you will conclude
that you must be utterly consistent and
throw the baby out with the bathwater.
A second path open to you, if you have
decided to continue in your community,
is that you accept the traditional answers
that distinguish between
that which we consider to be
authoritative and that which
we no longer need to heed.
And a third path for you
i s that you continue to
explore and struggle with
the metaphoric use of tal-
mudic ideas like demons.
I know one person who
spends several hours every
month with a professional
therapist trying to deal with
the personal issues of his life in a modern
behavioral way. Yet on occasion he inds
it most helpful to concretize an issue that
he faces, and to imagine it takes the form
of a demon, and then to actively banish
it from his life.
Whatever path you choose, I hope this
question does not haunt you much longer
and that the paths of your life not be beset
by demons.
Dear Rabbi,
I have been attending a 6:30 daily morn-
ing minyan at my local synagogue for
many years. Right after minyan I rush out
to catch a bus and go to work in the city.
Many others at the minyan are on tight
schedules and must connect with car pools
or take their children to school. We always
have completed our services at 7 promptly
to satisfy our schedules.
Recently a man who is a mourner in
shloshim (the irst thirty days of mourning
after losing a relative) was asked to lead the
services, as is our custom. He recites the
prayers clearly and accurately but there is
a problem. He goes too slowly and some-
times inishes at ive or ten minutes after
seven. I have had to leave several times
before the service is completed so that I
could get to my bus.
I want to ask the man to speed up his
davening. My friend says that is rude and
I should not approach him. What is your
advice?
Slow Pray in Bergenfield
Dear Slow Pray,
I play a lot of golf. So please allow me to
describe a somewhat parallel question
involving slow play that I encountered
one recent day in that more profane
activity. I was playing on a local course
with three friends. The group in front of
us was playing way too slowly. After sev-
eral holes we all became antsy waiting for
the foursome ahead of us to hit and move
forward.
One of my friends insisted that we talk
to them when they are on the next tee, to
implore them to play faster. I argued that
was poor etiquette, and if we wanted to
get the pace quickened we had to speak
to the ranger on the course and ask him
to reprove the slow players.
We debated the point back and forth
in our foursome for a while and eventu-
ally we did ind the ranger and asked him
to intercede. He spoke to the slowpokes,
play picked up, and we did not have to
confront the offending players.
Of course, slow play is not the same
as slow pray. But you need to balance
your desire for a steady and predictable
speed with the needs of the community
of praying people. You probably have a
gabbai, a member of your minyan who
is in charge. Its best in a big minyan if
you speak to the gabbai about the delay
and let him approach the mourner who
is leading your services.
If your minyan is small and friendly,
you may take a chance on explaining
your schedule-needs directly to the slow
shaliach tzibbur (leader). Its likely that
he will not be offended and will make
efforts to pick up the pace.
I do hope that you ind helpful this
brief Talmudic analysis and advice for
the day-to-day reality of the pace of our
contradictory world, where one persons
slow pray may be another persons per-
fect day.
Tzvee Zahavy has published several
new Kindle Editions at Amazon.com,
including The Book of Jewish Prayers
in English, Rashi: The Greatest
Exegete, Gods Favorite Prayers
and Dear Rabbi: The Greatest
Talmudic Advice which includes his
past columns from the Jewish Standard
and other essays.
Dear Rabbi
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T
he rabbis of our
t r adi t i on are
always seeking a
way to summa-
rize the list of the laws in the
Torah613 in all. We work
hard to first remember and
then keep all of those laws;
these mitzvot are what guide
us, inspire us, agitate us, and
remind us of the best that is
in us. But 613 laws are hard
to grasp. If you had to boil it
down to its essential message,
what would you say?
Id say the Torahs overriding message is this: Just
because you can, doesnt mean you should.
Take this weeks parashaKi Tetzei. The portion con-
tains a whopping 72 lawsmore than in any other Torah
portion. And we need to study it intently. Its an incredible
and complex guide to family, animals, property, civil and
criminal law, sexual relationships, loans, vows, divorce,
fair wages, proper weights and measures, the laws of war,
and even a law about memory. In order to live out these
texts, we must first study them, delve into their mean-
ings, explore the varied interpretations that the teachers
of Jewish tradition have extrapolated from and overlaid
on them.
But lets say that a person doesnt have time to read
every law and every single interpretation this week. Its
a short week, after all, and this person has to purchase
school supplies, get the kids off to school, and start finding
the brisket recipe for Rosh Hashanah.
If one didnt have time to study every text in Ki Tetzei,
what would be a mnemonic device to help remember
the big picture, the essential value behind the laws in the
portion.
Try this: Just because you can, doesnt mean you
should.
When you go to war, whether that be against another
nation or another person, there are rules. Just because
you have the power to enslave another people, or another
person, doesnt mean you should.
Even if you have a favorite among your children, and
you have the ability to shower him with more gifts than
the others, doesnt mean you should.
Just because you have grown up, and the dynamics
have changed in your family, and you now have the ability
to rebel against your parents, doesnt mean you should.
If you see something that belongs to someone else
and you think, I could keep this, dont. Its not
yours. Return it.
You see a bird sitting on eggs in a nest and think,
by taking the eggs and the mother bird, I can have an
omelet today and more omelets tomorrow! No, says
the Torah. You are permitted to take the eggs, but not
the mother bird. (Make sure to apply this one to situa-
tions beyond literal mother birds and eggs!)
You build a house. You think to yourself, I wash
my hands of liability for anything that happens to
people who visit my house. You might think this, but
the Torah commands that you build a parapet around
the edges of your roof to prevent people from falling
off. Think about that this winter when you debate
with yourself about whether or not you really need to
shovel the whole sidewalk.
What if every one of us lived this way? We have a quick
decision to make. Theres no time in this case to go back
and read the 72 laws in Ki Tetzei, or the other 541 laws in
Ki Tetzei: Just because you can doesnt mean you should
the Torah. But I want to make my decisions by looking through
a Jewish lens. What should I do?
I suggest asking yourself this question. Just because I can do
this thingjust because God has given me the power to create,
destroy, build, break down, take whatever I want, ignore who-
ever I wantjust because I can, does that mean I should?
Sometimes, the answer will be yes, and thats okay. Judaism
is not an ascetic religion, calling on us to deny the pleasures of
the world. But if we ask ourselves this question before making
an impulsive decision, I think it has the capacity to help us be
more aware of our surroundings, more aware of our obligation
to share this world with all of Gods creatures, more aware of the
Torahs big picture mission statement for our lives.
Dont just take my word for it, though. Try it.
Rabbi Joel
Mosbacher
Beth Haverim Shir
Shalom, Mahwah,
Reform
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Crossword BY DAVID BENKOF
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Across
1. More than 1,000 work at Mt. Sinai
Hospital
4. The King David Hotels are considered
fancy
9. Big-shot friend of Stephen S. Wise
12. Hooray, Maccabee Tel Aviv!
13. In official Hebrew, its called Doar
Electroni
14. Judean king with an edifice complex
16. The Shop on Main Street Oscar nomi-
nee Kaminska
17. Judea and Samaria, e.g.
19. Womens ___ (Betty Friedan, Gloria
Steinem, et. al.)
21. He played the grandson of Tambor and
Walter in Arrested Development
22. Blood ___ (Kind of medieval attack on
Jews)
23. If ___ a Hammer, frequent song for
Peter Yarrow
24. Kind of mask in the news in 1991
27. Harry Golden book celebrating the
sucess of U.S. Jewry
31. A kosher phone wont send one (abbr.)
33. The ___ 2 (video game in which a
character could wear a yarmulke)
34. Month for Jewish schools and yeshivas
to start up
35. Arnold, Bosley, and Segev
37. Place for a sukkah
40. British composer Lionel (Oliver!)
41. Adrift on the Exodus, perhaps
42. Ticho who painted the Jerusalem Hills
44. Milwaukee Jewish ___ School
45. Sign-off from Mel Blanc
50. Amazon find (but not from Jeff Bezoss
Web site)
51. It flies to three North American desti-
nations: New York, Toronto, and Los
Angeles
52. Lindsay who starred with Jamie Lee
Curtis in Freaky Friday (2003)
55. Like kosher venison
56. Board at Ben Gurion
58. George Burns, until he was 100 years
old
62. Teach me the entire Torah while I
stand on one ___
63. Lebowitz and Drescher
64. American, Brit, or Canadian in
Jerusalem
65. Gods attitude toward the Golden Calf
66. First word in the name of the Jewish
holiday on which bonfires are lit
67. Locations of mother birds who must be
shooed away
68. Alternative to Z, zed, and omega
Down
1. Prop for Orin Scrivello, DDS, in Little
Shop of Horrors
2. They help you compute how big the
bagel is
3. Your rabbi might invite you to his home
for one
4. Recites the Haggadah again
5. Prominent Canadian Jewish furniture
designer Arbel
6. They were used to get the Jews of
Denmark to Sweden
7. Oy vey iz ___!
8. How Israelis say, Sorry!
9. In Hebrew, its referred to as the sixth
day
10. John ___ (anonymous person; Ploni
Almoni in Hebrew)
11. Abbr. for word #3 in Blowin in the
Wind
14. Mixed multitude
15. BCE part
18. The Dodgers were Sandy Koufaxs
20. Ari ___ Canaan
23. Put programs on your Dell computer
24. Israeli soldier who was a captive for
five years
25. Car whose 2012 commercial starred
Jerry Seinfeld
26. Lox, taste-wise
28. Lyricist Yarburg (Over the Rainbow)
29. Matisyahus mom
30. ___ Tevye (phrase in If I Were a Rich
Man)
31. Herzls The Jewish ___
32. Rav ___ Feinstein
36. First syllable of the name of the worlds
largest chasidic group
38. Gershwins Concerto ___
39. Kiryat ___ (city east of Tel Aviv)
43. Lyle Alzado of the LA Raiders, and
others
46. Department store chain once led by
Julius Rosenwald
47. Tzedaka, in a way
48. Hes definitely not a rabbi
49. ___ ALEPH (newsletter for Renewal
Judaism)
53. Jews believe the Messiah will usher in
___ of peace
54. You might like it in Eilat
55. ___ Eden (First place, according to the
Torah)
56. Hadassah Hosp. tests
57. Tuna ___ (deli order)
58. Org. in which Noah Cantor played for
the Toronto Argonauts
59. Flatow who hosts NPRs Science
Friday
60. Media order when three Israeli teenag-
ers disappeared in June 2014
61. Number for monotheists
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Are you listening?
The case for Israeli music
JOSH SHRON
G
rowing up in New Jersey, we
didnt listen to much Israeli
music. Sure, we would sing
Al Kol Eileh and Bashana
Habaa from time to time, but that was
about it. The lyrics were hard to under-
stand and since the internet hadnt been
invented yet, you needed to find a real, live
Israeli to translate for you.
Jewish music, however, was a different
story. The music was available at my local
Judaica store, the lyrics were either in Eng-
lish or borrowed from prayers we recited
regularly in shul, and of course, we lis-
tened regularly to Art Raymond on WEVD
Radio. As the son of a cantor, I grew up lis-
tening to Jewish music but Israeli music
was completely off my radar.
That all changed in 1994. I was a Rut-
gers University sophomore, and a friend
of mine who was getting ready to graduate
was looking for someone to take over The
Israel Hour, an Israeli music show on the
college radio station. I was always a radio
geek, and the prospect of hosting my own
show was extremely intriguing. So what if
I didnt know Shlomo Artzi from Shlomi
Shabbat? I borrowed some CDs from
friends, played random songs from the sta-
tions limited selection of Israeli LPs and
off I went. Sure, I would mispronounce
names of songs and artists from time to
time, but I was having a ball on the air.
Within a very short time, however, I
began to get to know the artists, saw them
in concert when they would come to the
New York area, even interviewed some of
Israels biggest musical celebrities. David
Broza came to the studio one night before
a gig at Rutgers, Ofra Haza spoke with us
on the phone for 20 minutes to promote
an upcoming show in Atlantic City, we sat
down with Rami and Rita for a backstage
interview in Queens.
But as I was getting acquainted with the
music, something amazing happened. It
wasnt long before I became more con-
nected to the land of Israel than I ever
thought possible.
Once you immerse yourself in a particu-
lar culture, you become a part of that cul-
ture. And so the next time I visited Israel, I
felt like I belonged more than ever before.
I knew the songs on the radio. I bought
nearly a suitcase full of CDs (in the days
before iTunes, obviously). I attended con-
certs and sang along with the audience. I
was now Israeli, and there was no turning
back.
I meet so many Jews in the United States
who have absolutely no knowledge of
the thriving music
scene in Israel. I
dont blame them
after all, I used to be one of those people.
However, if you love Israel, there are so
many amazing reasons to immerse your-
self in the world of Israeli music. Here are
just a few:
Youll improve your Hebrew. For those
of us who struggle to understand every
word, theres nothing quite like the sat-
isfaction you get when you finally under-
stand what the song is all about. Ive
boosted my vocabulary quite a bit, all
thanks to Israeli music.
Youll be part of the family. Unfortu-
nately, we all know that Israel has had its
share of tragic times, and Israeli music
helps us cope. When the country was
grief-stricken over the assassination of
Yitzchak Rabin, the Israeli music commu-
nity was there. When our collective heart
ached over the plight of Gilad Shalit, music
responded. And over the course of this
past summer, a long list of Israeli songs
have been released to help us all deal with
the jumbled feelings of fear, frustration,
pride, and unity we were all experiencing.
Of course, during times of national joy, you
can always count on Israeli artists to say
just the right thing to make you so proud
to be Israeli.
Youll get a better understanding of life
in Israel. From politics in Jerusalem to
parties in Tel Aviv, from the shuk to the
Shabbat table, Israeli music tells the sto-
ries of day-to-day life in the Holy Land
(and by the way, sometimes Israeli rap-
pers tell those stories better than any-
one else!). Youll be ready, as I am (more
or less), to take the plunge and make
aliyah!
Plain and simple, youll hear some
great music. Sit back and soak up the
joyous beats of Sarit Hadads Mediter-
ranean sound. The multicultural flavor
of the Idan Raichel Project. The piano
playing and pop perfection performed
by Rami Kleinstein. The funky groove
of hip hop artists like Hadag Nachash
and Subliminal. The smooth, easygo-
ing vocals of veteran artists like Shlomo
Artzi and the late Arik Einstein. The joy,
dreams, and hopes captured in classic
Israeli tunes of yesteryear.
Ready to join the Israeli music commu-
nity? It just so happens that Ive been crazy
enough to remain behind the microphone
of The Israel Hour, 20 years later. Join in
the fun! Tune in live on Sundays at 18:00
Israel time / 11 am Eastern time at wrsu.org
or catch the latest podcast at the iTunes
Music Store or on TuneIn.com.
And stay tuned to these pages, as I begin
regular reviews of Israeli music, old and
new.
Sarit Hadad
Shlomo Artzi
Hadag Nahash
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Friday
SEPTEMBER 5
Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky
Shabbat in Fort
Lee: Rabbi Dr. Amy
Kalmanofsky, assistant
professor at the Jewish
Theological Seminary, is
the scholar-in-residence
at Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee.
Her talks include The
Risks and Benefits of
Belonging to God and
The Motif of Sacrifice
and its Religious Meaning
in the Torah. Shabbat
dinner tonight at 6.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob offers Back to
Shul Friday Night Live!
with musical services
at 6:30 p.m., and
community Shabbat
dinner at 7:30. 176 West
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725
or bnaijacobjc.org.
Rabbi Debby Hachen
leads First Friday...
Eat, Pray...Shabbat,
with a potluck dinner,
6:30 p.m., an all-ages
service at 7:30, and an
oneg Shabbat. 2419
Kennedy Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229 or
office@betheljc.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
services for families with
young children, 7:30 p.m.
The shuls childrens choir,
Etz Chayim, will perform.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Shabbat in Glen Rock:
Rabbi Neil Tow leads
a pre-Shabbat guided
meditation session to
help get you into the
spirit of Shabbat at
the Glen Rock Jewish
Center, 7:45 p.m. Also
September 12 and 19.
682 Harristown Road.
(201) 652-6624 or
office@grjc.org.
Saturday
SEPTEMBER 6
Shabbat with
sign language
interpretation: The
Orangetown Jewish
Center in Orangeburg,
N.Y., continues a pilot
program offering
American Sign Language
interpretation at Shabbat
services. Interpreting
begins at 10 a.m.;
services start at 9. 2
Independence Ave.
(845) 359-5920 or Rabbi.
Drill@theojc.org. For
information, or to help
make connections to
local Jews who want ASL
interpreting, email Scott
Strauss at jewruscott18@
gmail.com or call via
videophone relay,
(845) 538-4321.
Congregation Bnai
Jacob offers services at
9:15 a.m., followed by a
High Holy Day workshop
for children and Torah
lessons for adults at
10:30. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 7
Welcome breakfast
in Paramus: Jewish
Community Center of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah offers a
breakfast to welcome
families back to school;
hosted by mens
club, sisterhood, and
young Jewish families
groups, 9:30 a.m. Learn
about new programs.
Prospective members
welcome. High Holy
Day seats available.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Celebrating
grandparents in
Rockleigh: The Jewish
Home at Rockleigh
holds its third annual
Grandparents Day
Celebration, A Morning
at the Farm, 10 a.m.-
noon. Sponsored by
JHRs Young Leadership
board. Activities include
a farmers market with
local produce and honey,
line dancing, petting
zoo, pony rides, arts and
crafts, and refreshments.
Rain or shine. 10 Link
Drive. (201) 784-1414, ext.
5524.
Family party at Jersey
City museum: PJ Library
of Hudson County
presents a Pre-High
Holy Day Buzzzz Off
at the Liberty Science
Center, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 222
Jersey City Boulevard.
(201) 653-8666.
Open house in Glen
Rock: The Glen
Rock Jewish Center
hosts an open house,
10 a.m.-noon. Meet the
synagogue community,
including teachers, and
see Hebrew school in
session. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624.
Charity walk in
Paramus: The Friendship
Circle holds its annual
friendship walk at the
Frisch School, 1-4:30 p.m.
Registration at 1, walk
at 2, end-of-walk fair
at 2:30. Circus stunts
by Brent McCoy, rides,
and face painting. 120
West Century Road.
(201) 262-7172 or www.
NJFriendshipWalk.com.
Tuesday
SEPTEMBER 9
Hadassah breakfast
in Paramus: TriBoro
Hadassah meets for a
membership breakfast
at Lord & Taylor, 10 a.m.
$20. East Ridgewood
Ave. Reservations,
(201) 261-8139.
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Cafe Europa, a social
program the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey sponsors for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. The
Syncopated Seniors will
tap dance to standards
and show tunes. Light
lunch. 10-10 Norma Ave.
Transportation available.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org.
Linda B. Lohsen
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Community health talk
in River Edge: Linda
Lohsen, director of the
Center for Healthy Living
at Holy Name Medical
Center in Teaneck,
talks about Chocolate:
Divine Food, Fattening
Junk, or Nutritious
Treat? for River Dell
Hadassah at the River
Edge Public Library,
1 p.m. Dairy refreshments
and chocolate
sampling. 685 Elm Ave.
(551) 265-1573.
Wednesday
SEPTEMBER 10
Jews from Arab
countries: Cairo native
Joseph Levy talks about
The Forgotten People:
The Jews from the Arab
Countries at a lunch
and learn at Young Israel
of Fort Lee, noon. Light
lunch. 1610 Parker Ave.
(201) 592-1518 or yiftlee.
org.
Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin
Mezuzot as security:
Author/scholar Rabbi
Aaron Raskin discusses
Do a Mitzvah for Israel
and Discover How
the Mezuzah is Your
Ultimate Home Security
Device at the Courtyard
Marriott in Montvale,
7 p.m. A project
of Valley Chabads
Mezuzah Initiative
and the Dr. Michael
S. Lippe September
11 Memorial Lecture.
100 Chestnut Ridge
Road. (201) 476-0157
or mezuzah4israel@
valleychabad.org.
Thursday
SEPTEMBER 11
Spiritual conversation
in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israels ongoing Spiritual
Conversations led by
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
continues with Creating
Peace Amidst Turmoil,
7:30 p.m. Attendees
should bring non-
perishable food items for
the High Holy Day food
drive. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Friday
SEPTEMBER 12
Rabbi Lawrence Troster
The New Testament:
Eco-theologian Rabbi
Lawrence Troster
begins a five-part
course, The Story of
Joshua of Nazareth:
A Jewish Reading of
the New Testament,
at the Bergen County
YJCC in Washington
Township, 11 a.m. Course
continues through Jan.
16. 605 Pascack Road.
(201) 666-6610.
Shabbat in New City:
The Nanuet Hebrew
Center hosts an end-of-
summer meet & mingle
Shabbat. Tot Shabbat
at 5 p.m.; barbecue,
5:30 with live music by
NHCs Temple Dudes,
and Shabbat services
at 6:30. Weather
permitting, everything
outdoors; indoors if it
rains. 411 S. Little Tor
Road. (845) 708-9181 or
office@nanuethc.org.
Shabbat in Paramus:
Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah hosts Shabbat
dinner, 6:30 p.m., to
celebrate Shabbat
with friends and family.
Services at 8. $18 per
person. East 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691.
Shabbat in Suffern:
Rabbi Steven Weil, senior
managing director of
the Orthodox Union,
speaks during an OU
community weekend
at Congregation Bais
Torah. The after-Mincha
Concert in Wayne: U2 Nation: The
Definitive Tribute to U2, with vocalist Albert
Saadi, guitarist/keyboardist Matt Dooley,
drummer Jeff Pizzi, and bassist Brad
Grauer, performs for the Rock Tribute Series at the
Wayne YMCA on Saturday, September 13, at 7 p.m. The
Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a partner of the YM-
YWHA of North Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973) 595-0100.
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talk is on The Reenactment
of the Covenant and the
Shabbat morning subject
will be The State of
Marriage and the Family in
the Orthodox Community.
The Fascinating World
of the Rosh Hashanah
Machzor is the afternoon
lecture, followed by What
is the Akeidah Doing in the
Machzor? during seudah
shlishit. His final talk is
After The Apocalypse:
The Orthodox Response
To Jewish assimilation in
America. 89 West Carlton
Road. (845) 352-1343.
Shabbat in Englewood:
Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich,
Soviet refusenik turned Israeli
Torah scholar, is the scholar-
in-residence at Congregation
Shomrei Emunah. He gained
international support after
attempting to hijack a
plane from Russia to Israel
and spending 11 years in
the gulag. Tonight he will
share The Personal Story
of a Prisoner for Zion.
After Shacharit on Shabbat
morning, he will discuss
Confessions of a Jewish
Hijacker. During Shabbat
lunch, by reservation only,
his topic will be From
Mesirat Nefesh for Eretz
Yisrael to Mesirat Nefesh
for Torah and Mitzvot
During 11 Years in Prison.
During seudat shlishit, he
will discuss My Miraculous
Exodus from Gulag to Israel,
and at motzei Shabbat
he will sign copies of his
book, Unbroken Spirit. 89
Huguenot Ave. Reservations,
Chana, (201) 567-9420 or
chanieshomrei@gmail.com.
Shabbat in Woodcliff Lake:
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valleys Cantor Mark
Biddelman, on guitar, hosts
Shabbat Yachad, Hebrew
prayers set to easy-to-sing
melodies, accompanied
by flutist Debra Blecher,
keyboardist Jonathan Hanser,
bassist Brian Glassman, and
drummer Gal Gershovsky,
8 p.m. Free copy of CD with
service melodies available at
the shul. 87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.tepv.
org.
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 14
Atlantic City trip:
Hadassahs Fair Lawn
chapter takes a trip to the
Tropicana casino. A bus
leaves the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation Bnai
Israel at 9:15 a.m.; breakfast
served onboard at 9. $30;
includes $25 slot play money.
Bring ID and Tropicana
Rewards card. 10-10 Norma
Ave. Varda, (201) 791-0327.
Childrens program: The
of Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah begins a
Sunday Specials series
for 4- to 7-year-olds with a
Rosh Hashanah program,
9:30-11 a.m. Songs, crafts
for the holiday table, and
nut-free snacks. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 262-7733
or edudirector@jccparamus.
org.
Rabbi installation in
Jersey City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob holds a formal
installation ceremony for
Cantor Marsha Dubrow,
its spiritual leader,
celebrating her ordination
as a rabbi this summer,
2 p.m. Celebration includes
music by Metropolitan
Klezmer. 176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725.
Teaneck boutique: Sinai
Schools holds its annual fall
Yom Tov boutique, including
sukkah decorations, hats
and hair accessories,
clothing, kippot, tzitzit,
paper goods, gifts, toys,
tablecloths, cash for gold
jewelry, and refreshments by
Gotham Burger, at Teaneck
Marriott at Glenpointe,
5-9 p.m. 100 Frank W. Burr
Boulevard. (201) 837-8309 or
(201) 387-8218.
In New York
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 14
Celebrating Latin American
Jewish food: Chefs and
food writers, including James
Beard-nominated cookbook
author Jayne Cohen,
celebrate Latin American
Jewish cuisine at a talk and
reception featuring Latin
desserts at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage A Living
Memorial to the Holocaust,
2:30 p.m. The panel features
chef Sam Gorenstein; food
writers Leticia Moreinos
Schwartz and Susan
Schmidt; and anthropologist
Ruth Behar. 36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.
mjhnyc.org.
Singles
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 7
Singles meet in Caldwell:
New Jersey Jewish Singles
45+ meets for a fall kick-
off party featuring square
dancing with a professional
caller, dessert, and
mingling at Congregation
Agudath Israel, 12:45 p.m.
$15. 20 Academy Road.
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145, or
singles@agudath.org or slg@
bellatlantic.net.
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 14
Senior singles meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+ meet for
a social get-together with
refreshments at the JCC
Rockland, 10:30 a.m. 450
West Nyack Road. $3. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
Thursday
SEPTEMBER 18
Widows and widowers
meet in Glen Rock: Movin
On, a monthly luncheon
group for widows and
widowers, meets at the
Glen Rock Jewish Center,
12:30-2 p.m. 682 Harristown
Road. $5 for lunch.
(201) 652-6624 or office@
grjc.org.
Shabbat for
seniors at YJCC
The Bergen County YJCC in Wash-
ington Township will offer a monthly
Kabbalat Shabbat program where
seniors can share a traditional Shab-
bat meal during lunch. A community
leader will be there to teach, lead
songs, or share useful information.
The program will begin on Septem-
ber 19 at noon. It costs $4 a session and
is partially subsidized by a grant from
the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey. The YJCC is at 605 Pascack
Road. Call (201) 6666610.
Free family programs
for babies, toddlers, parents
This fall, the Museum of Jewish Heri-
tage A Living Memorial to the Holo-
caust will continue New Families,
New Traditions, a series of free pro-
grams for families with children new-
borns to 3-year-olds.
Families are invited to join the musi-
cal group Yellow Sneaker and their
puppet pals for playful programs that
nurture family bonds and bridge con-
nections to Jewish life and traditions.
Every concert will focus on a different
Jewish holiday or value, including car-
ing for the environment, friendship,
and love and kindness. Families, musi-
cians, and puppets will sing and learn
together as a welcoming community.
The programs will take place one
Sunday a month, starting on October
5, and will continue through April 26.
All programs start at 10:30 a.m. Res-
ervations are not needed and light
snacks are included.
Yellow Sneaker features the Brook-
lyn-based performers and teaching art-
ists Ora and Yoshie Fruchter.
For more information, email fam-
ily@mjhnyc.org, call (646) 4374202,
or go to www.mjhnyc.org/families.
COURTESY OF MELANIE EINZIG
Preparing for the
High Holy Days
Teanecks Congregation Netivot Sha-
lom offers Swimming in the Deep End:
Learning Sefer Yonah, a three-session
mini-course looking at the Book of Jonah
from a literary-theological perspective, led
by Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot. The series, in
preparation for the upcoming High Holy
Day), will be on Sundays, September 7, 14,
and 21, after Shacharit at 8 a.m.
The shul is at 811 Palisade Ave. For infor-
mation, call (201) 8019022.
Sefer Yonah Shiur, a painting by Rabbi
Nathaniel Helfgot
Hike planned
in Boonton
Temple Sharey Teilo-Israels (RE)Con-
nections group in South Orange invites
adults, from 45 to 60, to hike and meet
new friends on Sunday, September
21, at 9:45 a.m. Participants, led by a
guide, will hike Pyramid Mountain in
Boonton and share a prix ixe brunch
at the Montville Inn at noon. Carpools
will be arranged to the mountain.
RSVP to Judy Krandel at jkrandel@
gmail.com or go to www.tsti.org.
JACS sober Taglit Birthright trip
Registration is open for the Jewish Alcohol-
ics, Chemically dependent persons and Sig-
niicant others free sober Taglit Birthright
trip to Israel set for December 14 to 24. It will
leave from New York.
The trip is for those 18- to 26-years-old in
recovery or affected by an addiction.
The itinerary includes a visit to seven cit-
ies in 10 days. The experience allows young
people to make new friendships while
exploring recovery and spirituality in Israel.
Activities include camel rides, hiking up
Masada, floating in the Dead Sea, rafting
down the Jordan River, and ATV-ing in the
North. There will also be visits at treatment
centers including the Jerusalem Sober House
and Villa Phoenix, in-house 12 step meet-
ings, and guest speakers.
Go to www.israelfreespirit.com to com-
plete online pre-registration and call the
JACS ofice at (212) 6324727. For ques-
tions, email JACS program director, Sharon
Darack, at sdarack@jbfcs.org or call (212)
6324727.
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Remembering Milton Berle
Jewish television pioneer inspired modern comedy stars
ROBERT GLUCK
T
odays comedy super-
stars, especially those
whose careers are
driven by television,
may very well owe their success
to pioneering Jewish entertainer
Milton Berle.
Born Mendel Berlinger in Man-
hattan in 1908, Berle became
Americas first small-screen star.
Aptly nicknamed Mr. Televi-
sion, he influenced and helped
promote the work of hundreds of
younger comics.
Milton Berle was deceptively
successful and very Jewish, said
Lawrence Epstein, author of
The Haunted Smile: The Story
of Jewish Comedians in Amer-
ica, published in 2002, the year
Berle died. His success came
about because early television
sets were mostly sold in wealth-
ier urban areas, with Jews and
gentile urbanites accustomed
to and appreciative of Jewish
humor. So Berles quick talking,
his high-speed jokes, his dress-
ing in outlandish costumes, and
his sprinkling of Yiddishisms all
played well. Ironically, it was
Berles success with those urban
audiences that propelled the
sales of televisions around the
nation.
Epstein said that once televi-
sions reached the rural areas of
America, viewers took a look at
[Berle] and said he spoke so fast
they couldnt understand him,
and that he wasnt funny, and
[they asked], What was that for-
eign language?
That is why Berles television
career was meteoric, Epstein
said. It burned brightly but
briefly.
Berles close friend Lou Zig-
man, a Los Angeles-based labor
lawyer and Brooklyn native, dis-
agrees with Epsteins use of the
word meteoric, arguing that
Berle never burned out. Berle
kept performing, assisting other
comics, giving to charities, and
spreading Jewish culture until
his death, and he was even per-
forming card tricks as a hospital
patient at age 90, according to
Zigman.
I asked Milton how come
all the gentiles knew Yiddish
humor, Zi gman sai d. He
answered that the great major-
ity of comedians and writers in
those early years were Jewish.
Thats why it spread, and our cul-
ture spread, all over the country.
Berle won an amateur talent
contest when he was 4, and he
appeared as a child actor in silent
films. He became a vaudevillian
at 12 in a revival of the musical
comedy Florodora in Atlan-
tic City, and was hired by pro-
ducer Jack White in 1933 to star
in Poppin the Cork, a musical
comedy concerning the repeal-
ing of Prohibition. From 1934 to
36, Berle was heard frequently
on the radio on The Rudy Vallee
Hour and attracted publicity as
a regular on The Gillette Origi-
nal Community Sing, a Sunday
night comedy-variety radio pro-
gram broadcast on CBS. Then
came the Milton Berle Show,
a variety format he would revive
for his television debut.
That debut was Texaco Star
Theatre, which began in Sep-
tember 1948 on ABC and contin-
ued until June 1949. The show
became the first-ever appoint-
ment televisiona program
prompting viewers to adjust
their schedules to watch it at a
specific time. Berles autobiog-
raphy notes that in Detroit, an
investigation took place when the
water levels took a drastic drop in
the reservoirs on Tuesday nights
between 9 and 9:05. It turned out
that everyone waited until the
end of the Texaco Star Theatre
before going to the bathroom.
According to Artie Butler, Ber-
les friend and a well-known com-
poser/arranger, Berle had a Jew-
ish sense of comedic wit. When
Butler was 16, he met Berle while
filling in for his piano player at
the Town and Country Club in
Brooklyn.
Milton was a mensch, a lovely
man, a giving man, Butler said.
He had a New York, garment dis-
trict, Stage Deli, vaudeville-based
Jewish sensibility, the theatrical
yiddishkeit ( Jewishness), but not
in Yiddish. I asked him where he
got his first laugh. He told me he
was a chorus boy in one of Zieg-
felds musicals, a hoofer. Every
night his mother was there in the
audience. He was purposefully
out of step with the other danc-
ers and [producer Florenz] Zieg-
feld himself told him after the
show to keep doing that, that it
got a lot of laughs.
Berle assisted popular comics
including Fred Travalena, Ruth
Buzzi, John Ritter, Marla Gibbs,
Lily Tomlin, Dick Shawn, and
Will Smith. Butler says young
comedians sought Berles advice
because he was a pioneer.
Every comic including David
Brenner and Rodney Danger-
field wanted to hear the stories
about how Milton worked in the
Catskills at Grossingers and the
Concord, and how he worked
the Jewish audiences, Butler
said. Milton told them they were
rough audiences and he had to
learn how to finesse them.
What would Mr. Television
think of todays programming?
I think Berle wouldnt much
like current television, Epstein
said. He was a believer in live
comedy, in working hard for
the joke. I dont think he would
have appreciated current subject
matter or language either. It just
wasnt his style.
In 1947, Berle founded the Fri-
ars Club of Beverly Hills. Other
founding members included
Jimmy Durante, George Jessel,
Robert Taylor, and Bing Crosby.
The private show-business club is
famous for its celebrity roasts, in
which club members are mocked
by their friends in good fun.
But occasionally Berles life
took on a more serious note. He
risked his newfound TV stardom
at its zenith to challenge Texaco
Star Theatre when its corporate
sponsor, the gas giant Texaco,
tried to prevent black performers
from appearing on the show.
I remember clashing with the
advertising agency and the spon-
sor over my signing The Four Step
Brothers a black dance group
for an appearance on the
show, Berle wrote in his autobi-
ography. The only thing I could
figure out was that there was an
objection to black performers on
the show, but I couldnt even find
out who was objecting. We just
dont like them, I was told, but
who the hell was we? Because
I was riding high in 1950, I sent
out the word: If they dont go
on, I dont go on. At ten minutes
of eight ten minutes before
showtime I got permission for
the Step Brothers to appear. If I
broke the color-line policy or not,
I dont know, but later on I had
no trouble booking Bill Robinson
or Lena Horne.
Berle deserves credit for tak-
ing a stand on integration in the
context of The Texaco Star The-
atre, Epstein said. His whole
television career depended on
that show. This was six years
before Brown v. Board of Edu-
cation ended segregation. Berle
invited the black singer Pearl Bai-
ley. He also invited Senor Wences,
a Sephardic Jewish ventriloquist
who spoke with a thick accent.
Im not sure too many people
of the era given the stakes would
have had as guests a black singer
and a Sephardic Jew who used
his hand as a puppet.
Berle never forgot his Jewish
upbringing. He hosted the first
charity telethon, for the Damon
Runyon Cancer Research Foun-
dation, in 1949. A permanent
fixture at charity benefits in the
Hollywood area, he was instru-
mental in raising millions for
charitable causes and made it
into the Guinness Book of World
Records for making the greatest
number of charity performances
by a show-business professional.
According to Zigman, he was
a member of the Creative Arts
Temple in Beverly Hills, Calif.,
and spoke at the synagogues
charitable events.
Milton was a product of New
York Jewish culture, Zigman
said. We take pride in ourselves
as being multiracial and multi-
ethnic, having a respect for other
people. JNS.ORG
Baseball players Maury Wills, Jimmy Piersall, and Willie Mays appear with Milton Berle, in the suit,
in a 1967 salute to baseball on the television program The Hollywood Palace.
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Lillian Cohen
Lillian Cohen, ne Lipshitz, of Fair
Lawn, formerly of Paterson, who
would have been 101 on September
14, died on August 26.
Predeceased by her husband,
Morris, a daughter, Sandi Merel,
siblings, Jack Lipschitz and Marilyn
Horowitz, and grandson, Dylan;
she is survived by a son, Len
Howard (Therese) of Henderson,
Nev., a brother, Milton Lane of Fair
Lawn; two grandchildren; four
great-grandchildren, and nieces and
nephews.
Along with her husband, she
owned Broadway Wine & Liquors
in Paterson. She worked for the
Housing Authority in Paterson and
was a member of Temple Emanuel
in Paterson. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Nina Mikityanskaya
Nina Mikityanskaya, 62, of Fort Lee,
died on August 25.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Karen Spector Piotti
Karen Spector Piotti, 63, of Ho-Ho-
Kus, died on September 1 at home.
Born in New York City, she was a film
editor and producer.
She is survived by her husband,
James, her mother, Shirley Spec-
tor of Washington Township, a son,
Nicholas, and a sister, Susan Baker
of New York City.
Steven Sotloff favored
vox pop reporting
BEN SALES
S
teven Sotloff, the jour-
nalist beheaded Tuesday
by the Islamic State, was
Jewish and a dual U.S.-
Israeli citizen.
Hi s detailed and colorful
reporting told stories of ordinary
people caught in conflicts across
the Middle East.
Among articles he filed for a
range of publications, Mr. Sotloff
reported stories from the Arab
world that appeared in the Jeru-
salem Report. He often would
begin articles with personal
anecdotes illustrating the tumult
and desperation of war. In one
story for the Report, he intro-
duced readers to a boy foraging
for wood:
Muhammad Sidqi took a
break from chopping the thick trees
that sheltered Aleppos Sahur Park.
The blisters on his hand made hold-
ing the heavy wooden axe painful. Its
dull blade only prolonged the labori-
ous task. Sidqi was one of many for-
aging for wood around Aleppo on a
cold January day. What made him
different though was his age just 12
years old.
When the winter cold first hit
Aleppo, Sidqi scavenged through
abandoned schools and factories for
wood. But after the residents of the
city had pillaged everything includ-
ing the wooden paneling from ceiling
beams to heat their frigid homes,
Sidqis family was forced to find alter-
native sources of wood.
He filed from across the region to
the Jerusalem Report, from the rev-
olution in Egypt to the uprising in
Bahrain:
My soul, our soul, we offer to
you, the crowd of 30,000, divided
between veil-clad women and men,
chanted as Sheikh Ali Salman, reli-
gious leader of the Shii opposition
movement al-Wefaq, took to the
stage to speak. Wedged in an open
field between Salman and the giant
banner of him that had been draped
around an office building across the
street, the throngs waved their Bah-
raini flags wildly.
Though the largest campaign
rally of Bahrains election season was
ignored by most local media outlets,
the Shia who came out in force did
not seem to mind. They want politi-
cal power and will exploit any open-
ing the regime offers them to attain
it.
Ilene Prusher, Mr. Sotloff s editor
at the Jerusalem Report, wrote at
Haaretz that Mr. Sotloff relied a lot
on what we would call man-on-the-
street interviews or vox pop, which
help readers understand what aver-
age people are thinking, and he was
good at weaving in color
and context, both crucial
tools in the journalists
toolbox.
Mr. Sotloff moved on
to write for other outlets,
including Time maga-
zine, filing several pieces
from Libya. In one report,
shortly after the attack on
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hazi, Mr. Sotloff visited the
scene of the attack:
A visitor rings the door-
bell to a large gated villa in
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metal door. He welcomes
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offering them tea before
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with its swimming pool
and hefty trees, which obscure the
view from prying eyes. But the villa
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owned by a wealthy Libyan seeking
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scene in the world.
But while Mr. Sotloff traveled
throughout the region, he main-
tained his contact with Israel. He
visited Israel last year for a wedding,
according to a story on his Israeli con-
nections in the Times of Israel:
He had such energy. Depending
on how well you knew him, he was
either abrasive or he was like a teddy
bear, Hillary Lynne Glaser, who stud-
ied alongside Mr. Sotloff at the Inter-
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the Times of Israel. I saw that nice
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someone other than his roommates
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Boys Town Jerusalem, a leading Israeli
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The accreditations weve received are
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