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New looks for old books
For lovers of the Jewish past, these
are the good old days.
Rare manuscripts and forgotten
books long hidden in libraries are being
digitized, put online, and made available
to anyone with an Internet connection.
Two very different efforts came to
our attention this week.
In England, the British Library
announced that it is now a quarter of
the way through a three-year plan to
digitize 1,250 rare Hebrew manuscripts
in its collection.
New additions include medieval
manuscripts of the Talmud and
Maimonides, talmudic commentaries,
and Kaarite Bible commentaries.
Also included, as if for the specific
pleasure of those of us who are not fullfledged scholars, are several amazingly
beautiful illuminated manuscripts. They
reflect the varying styles of different
European regions (including France,
Germany, and Portugal). And some of
them raise anew the question: What
would it be like to pray from a gorgeous
gold-leaf siddur?
You can start browsing these rare
treasures at bit.ly/js-bl, a blog post by
Ilana Tahan, the librarys lead curator of
Hebrew and Christian Orient studies
Closer to home, yet in some ways
even more exotic, the Open Siddur
Project has discovered a 19th-century
American book of tekhines, or personal

prayers, which had been scanned by
Googles library digitization project.
Imre Lev: Meditations and Prayers
for Every Situation and Occasion in
Life was translated and adapted
by Rabbi Isaac Leeser and Hester
Rothschild from a French original. It
was published in Philadelphia in 1866.
Prayers range from a adaptation
of Adon Olam (Before Thy heavenly
Word reaveald the wisdom of Thy will;
Before the earth and heavens came
forth from chaos, deep and still)
to Yom Kippur liturgy and even, for
Shavuot, individual prayers for each of
the Ten Commandments.
In a reminder that the 19th century
was not such a different time, there is
even a Prayer of an Unhappy Wife.
Its an oddly modern lament in oldfashioned language. The chain of love
that once bound my husbands heart
to mine has almost been severed; for
discord has usurped the place of sweet
sympathy, the writer mourns.
The Open Siddur Project collects
works of liturgy that are in the public
domain and can be freely reprinted and
modified. Founded by Jewish educator
Aharon Varady, it maintains a Facebook
page; you can find the prayers for all
occasions there at bit.ly/js-os.
LARRY YUDELSON
Above, detail of a miniature of the

second plague from the Golden
Haggadah, Spain, second quarter
of the 14th century. At left, an
illustration from the Tripartite
Machzor, a 14th-century prayer
book for Shavuot and Sukkot. At
right, a 13th-century Italian Bible
contains a menorah enlivened
by animals and hybrids. (British
Library)
LETTERS, P. 21
The disconnect between the mornings murder and

this protest was surreal.
SOLI FOGER, ENGLEWOOD
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CONTENTS
NOSHES ...................................................4
OPINION ................................................ 18
COVER STORY .................................... 22
HEALTHY LIVING &
ADULT LIFESTYLES........................... 41
TORAH COMMENTARY ................... 53
CROSSWORD PUZZLE .................... 54
ARTS & CULTURE .............................. 55
CALENDAR .......................................... 56
OBITUARIES ........................................ 58
CLASSIFIEDS ......................................60
GALLERY .............................................. 62
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Noshes
Thanks to the @JewishStandard for naming

me as 1 of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the US.
Humbled to be in the company of Justice Ginsberg.
Twitter post by State Senator Loretta Weinberg after being named to the Forward Fifty
by the Jewish Forward
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Hunger, eating,
and Seinfeld
Hunger Games:
Mockingjay, Part
I, opens on Friday, November 21. To
make more money, the
studio decided to take
the last Hunger Games
novel and turn it into two
movies. Jennifer Lawrence stars again as the
heroine, Katniss, with
ELIZABETH BANKS, 40,
returning as the ditzy
chaperone Effie Trinket.
The screenplay is by
DANNY STRONG, 40
(Game Change and
The Butler).
On November 21, at 9
p.m., the National Geographic Channel premieres EAT: The Story
of Food, a six-hour
miniseries. The official
description says: The
special satisfies every
question youve ever had,
and some you havent,
about the evolution of
food over the course of
humankind, from our
ancestors throwing raw
meat onto a fire for the
first time, to teams of lab
technicians perfecting
the crunch of a potato
chip. More important,
it will show how this
evolution of what we eat
and how we eat it has
actually defined human
civilization and cultures
around the globe. More
than 70 chefs, food
writers, and others in
related fields are interviewed, including TV
chef NIGELLA LAWSON,
54; former New York
Times restaurant critic
and former Gourmet
magazine chief editor

RUTH REICHL, 64, and
journalist MICHAEL
POLLAN, 59, who writes
mostly about the food
industry and healthy eating. Michael, by the way,
is the brother of actress
TRACY POLLAN, 54.
The top Los Angeles-based chef ERIC
GREENSPAN, 39, also
appears on the show. I
have no doubt that Nat
Geo gave Greenspan a
slot on EAT because he
also is the star of his own
new Nat Geo series. The
show, Eric Greenspan is
Hungry, starts on Monday, November 24, at
10 p.m. It doesnt sound
like Greenspans show is
for vegans, the faint-ofstomach, or Jews who
get turned off watching
other Jews violate every
law of kashrut. Heres
part of the shows publicity release: Eric goes
directly to the source of
local heartland recipes
to meet the people who
farm, raise, nurture, hunt
and butcher animals
such as bison, prehistoric
gar, goat, crawfish, pig
and wild turkey. Its meat
unlike what you get from
a purveyor. Eric and his
cohort will break down
the animal, butcher it and
prepare the recipe all on
location to crank out the
best dishes. His cohort
is a guy named CAPTAIN
MAUZNER, who has a
few acting credits. Hes
Jewish, too.
Crackle is a webbased TV chan-
Elizabeth Banks
Danny Strong
Nigella Lawson
Ruth Reichl
nel, owned by Sony,

that presents, for FREE,
original TV series. Its
the home of the JERRY
SEINFELD series, Comedians in Cars Getting
Coffee, now in its fourth
season. New episodes
are posted on Thursdays
but you can watch them
any time after theyve
been posted. Last week,
SEINFELD, 60, rode with
AMY SCHUMER, 33. You
also can watch all of another Crackle 2014 original show, the 12-episode
legal/murder mystery
thriller Sequestered. Its
not bad at all. The cast
includes the handsome
JAMES MASLOW, 24;
HEATHER KENT DUBROW, 45 (Real Wives
of Orange County); and
DINA MEYER, 45.
On November 8,
Eric Trump, 30,
son of Donald
and brother of IVANKA
TRUMP, 33, wed TV

producer Lara Yunaska
under what the New York
Post called a crystal
chuppah. The chuppah photo in the Post
merely showed a wedding awning made out of
crystals, like those hung
on a chandelier, and I
have little doubt that
the caption writer took
it upon him or herself to
call it a chuppah.
However, because of
the so-called chuppah, a
lot of the Jewish media
is assuming shes Jewish
and some have called
it a Jewish wedding.
Well, a Jewish wedding needs a cantor or
rabbi. However, presiding
over this wedding was a
civilian, publisher JARED
KUSHNER, 33, the modern Orthodox husband of
Ivanka (who converted
to Judaism). Bottom line:
I checked out Yunaskas
Mark Ronson
Ronson, Mars light it up

on SNL musical spots
The November 22 episode of Saturday Night Live
features, as its musical guests, MARK RONSON, 39,
and Bruno Mars (whose paternal grandma was Jewish). Together they will perform Uptown Funk, a song
from Ronsons just released album, Uptown Special.
Ronson, the son of British Jews, was raised mostly in
the States. You may recall that one of his twin sisters,
SAMANTHA RONSON, 37, a DJ, was involved with
Lindsay Lohan a few years ago. His other sister is fashion
N.B.
designer CHARLOTTE RONSON.
family tree via family history sites Lutheran on
her fathers sidealso
Christian on her mothers
side. So not a Jewish
wedding, not a chuppah,
and not a Jewish bride.
Amusing sidelight: Eric

does bear a remarkable
resemblance to Jewish actor JONAH HILL,
when Hill is moderately
slimmed down.
N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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Students at the Frisch
School in Paramus chat by
Skype with George Hantgan,
Marilyn Wechter, and Lillian
Marion, residents of the
Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
Transmitting knowledge
Frisch students learn communal wisdom from Rockleigh Home residents
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
any Jewish schools send

students to visit residential
facilities for the elderly.
Usually there is a group
activity, such as crafts or singing, and
residents tell the students a bit about
themselves. But there hasnt been a specific platform that gives retired communal leaders the opportunity to share their
knowledge with the younger generation.
A new program recently initiated
between the Jewish Home at Rockleigh
and the Frisch School in Paramus is mining the depths of those wellsprings of
wisdom.
Linking the Generations: Training the
Next Generation of Jewish Communal
Leaders grew out of a meeting on September 30 between six student council
representatives from Frisch and Jewish
Home residents George Hantgan, founder
of the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey and the Englewood JCC (now the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly);
Lillian Marion, a long-time member of
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley,
and Allen Nydick, former director of
major gifts at the Jewish Federation.
Mr. Nydick told group how the Bergen
County community raised $1.6 million in
the 1980s to help bring Ethiopian Jews
6 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 21, 2014
to Israel. Ms. Marion talked about her

fathers role in the Jewish Legion, which
fought with the British in 1915 to liberate
Palestine from the Ottoman Empire. Mr.
Hantgan related that when he was president of the student council at Brooklyn
College, he wrote to First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt about the lack of student jobs,
and thereby had a hand in the passage of
the National Youth Act.
Jessica Adler, a 12th-grader from
Teaneck and one of the heads of the
Frisch Chesed (Kindness) Societ y,
said that Mr. Hantgan, who is 98, also
revealed that he played an indirect role in
the founding of the Frisch School in 1972.
The school was built on land donated by
philanthropist Alfred Frisch.
George told us that Mr. Frisch was asking him what to do with his money and
George told him he should make a high
school, Jessica said.
It was Mr. Hantgans idea to help mold
the leaders of tomorrow. He retold a conversation he had with the Jewish Homes
executive vice president, Sunni Herman,
last summer. He had said, he reported,
that although the Frisch students he
met are getting a good Jewish education, they seem to be missing something. What about their responsibility to
the wider Jewish community and Jewish
organizations? Sunni said, Maybe we
have to teach them to use their talents.

So we set up a program where we take
some of the brightest students and ask
them what theyre doing in terms of getting involved in the Jewish community,
and we are attempting to show them how
to do that.
Ms. Herman worked out the details
with Rabbi Joshua Schulman, Frischs
director of chesed programming. After
the initial face-to-face meeting, the first
official session of Linking the Generations was launched using the free video
chat program Skype.
Fifteen students gathered in the conference room at Frisch on November 12 to
watch and listen as George Hantgan, Lillian Marion, and Marilyn Wechter shared
their insights on motivating and inspiring
others to get involved in worthy causes.
Rabbi Schulman prepared students
ahead of time with background information on each Jewish Home participant.
Paramus sophomore Robin Tassler,
who chaired that session, is president of
the Friendship Circle, a program run by
the Paramus Chabad Center providing
youth volunteers to visit and play with
local children with disabilities.
I want others to get involved and get
excited about what Im excited about,
and thats what we talked about in our
session, Robin said. From the stories
they told us, we learned that when they

were excited about a program they were
running, people joined. Both Lillian and
George said, Your passion will help others passion for the activity. As soon as
they said that word, passion, the teachers in the room said that is one of Frischs
core values.
Frischs principal, Rabbi Eli Ciner, took
it a step further. Cultivating Jewish leadership, both inside our community and
in the broader community, is a critical
goal of our school, and there probably is
no better example than those who have
accomplished this in Bergen County and
surrounding areas, he said.
Fortunately they are eager to share
the wisdom of their experience with our
students and give them an appreciation
of what leaders of the past have to offer.
We hope the program will cultivate a
desire for leadership among any of our
students who choose to join in.
Rabbi Schulman said that many students who walked by the conference
room during the session came to him
later and expressed interest in the next
Linking the Generations session, scheduled for November 26 on the topic of
What Can Jews Living in America Do On
Behalf of Israel?
I never ran a program in school using
SEE LINKING GENERATIONS PAGE 58
Local
NCSY is for her

A highly motivated Bergenfield teen
is national OU youth group president
ABIGAIL KLEIN
LEICHMAN
At NCSYs international Yarchei Kallah, Tova Sklar of Bergenfield is flanked by Shani Weis of Hillside and Liat Clark of Teaneck.
NCSY/OU
ova Sklar of Bergenfield, 17, recently

became the first
national NCSY president from New Jersey in a
decade.
But two years ago, she had not
yet even gotten involved in the
youth movement, a program of
the Orthodox Union.
Now a senior at Maayanot
Yeshiva High School for Girls,
Tovas first experience with
NCSY came from a 2012 relief
mission in to New Orleans, led
by New Jersey NCSYs director,
Rabbi Ethan Katz.
I always knew about NCSY,
but I didnt think it was it was for
me, she said. I learned about
the relief mission at school, and I
honestly didnt even know it was

sponsored by NCSY until I went
on it.
Once there, she had the opportunity to meet girls her age, public school students who were
involved in such NCSY programs
as Jewish Student Union clubs,
Teen Torah Center at the Bergen
County High School of Jewish
Studies, Latte and Learning in
Hackensacks Riverside Square,
summer programs, and regional
conventions.
Rabbi Katz suggested I come
back for more events, Tova said.
I discovered that NCSY is not
only about Shabbatons.
What she discovered is that
everyone has a different experience in NCSY, but what is
common to all participants is
this: Everyone needs a spark of
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Saturday, December 13, 2014
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Tribute to Project Ezrahs Founder
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Hakarat Hatov to
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Local
Anything is possible
Adler Center activist teaches others to stretch their boundaries
LOIS GOLDRICH
vi Golden doesnt sit still.

When he is not educating
the medical and lay community about aphasia, he can be
found on a ski slope, or on horseback, or
scuba diving (zip-lining, kayaking, sailing,
rock-climbing, etc.).
The 40-year-old, who is practicing EMT
and former critical care and flight paramedic with Long Island Jewish Hospital
and New York Presbyterian Hospital EMS
and a paramedic with Magen David
Adom in Israel as well is founder, and
cheerleader-in-chief, of NYC Outdoors
Disability, a sports group for people with
a variety of physical disabilities.
I tell them anything is possible, he
said. That philosophy might help explain
how after suffering a stroke during a
medical procedure some 7 l/2 years ago
he was able to graduate from wheelchair
to cane to unassisted walking. And if his
arm is not back to normal yet, its not for
lack of trying.
Twice a week, Mr. Golden can be found
at the Adler Aphasia Center in Maywood,
going from activity to activity, distinguished both by his energy and by his
kippah. Though he has appeared in each
of the centers theatrical productions, he
seems to have cemented his reputation
there with a star turn as Tevye in last years
Fiddler.
I like to perform, he said.
The center is also where he recruits
some of his sports buddies. He doesnt
ask them to do anything he hasnt done
himself.
After my stroke I was afraid to go to
Six Flags adventure park, he said, but he
knew he had to go to overcome his own
fears. Otherwise, he would not be able to
ask others to do the same.
Now, when he invites members of the
center to go, say, skydiving he has gone
twice he can tell them his own story.
So far, he has enticed dozens of local
participants.
Come stretch your boundaries, Mr.
Golden tells them, urging them to expand
your horizons after becoming disabled.

His outdoors program which engages
in activities from nature walks to white,
water rafting is targeted to people who
live with a wide range of disabilities,
including those who have had strokes, spinal cord injuries, amputation, or sensory
impairments. The program partners with
other organizations, and adaptive equipment is available when needed.
Mr. Golden, who was raised in Lubbock,
Texas, had been fluent in both English and
Hebrew. He is determined to recapture
both languages.
To do this, he generally spends about
15 hours a day engaged in some kind of
speech therapy.
Stroke victim Avi Golden plays

an animated Tevye at the Adler
Aphasia Center.
Avi Golden brings his considerable energy to activities at the Adler Aphasia
Center in Maywood.
My mother was born in Jerusalem, he
said. I still understand Hebrew, but I cant
read, write, or speak it now.
As for English, I can understand everything but I cant get the words out, he
wrote in the PowerPoint presentation he
has prepared to help him explain aphasia.
He noted that a review of his EMT manual
showed that aphasia rates only one mention not nearly enough, he said.
Mr. Golden also is engaged in volunteer
work, assisting paramedics at two New

York hospitals and visiting stroke patients
at North Shore Hospital and Long Island
Jewish Hospital.
He said that after someone has a stroke,
he or she may be tempted to retreat. I tell
them not to give up, he said.
Mr. Golden said he attends the Maywood
center because everybody is awesome. I
have fun there. Thank God there are people like this helping those with aphasia.
He values the friendships he has made

there, with other members and with staff.
Before his stroke, it was Mr. Goldens
dream to enter medical school. He decided
that before beginning his medical studies,
he would get a prophylactic operation to
correct a hereditary problem with a valve
in his head. He suffered a stroke during the
operation, and then spent four months in
the hospital.
While he hasnt given up on his dream,
Golden notes that aphasia is frustrating.
He writes in his PowerPoint presentation
that he still has problems with names,
numbers, spelling, and reading, but that it
helps when he can hear the first sound in a
word clearly and when people speak to him
directly.
He is convinced that the advocacy work
he does with doctors, nurses, and medical students both at the center and when
invited to address other organizations is
paying off, giving the medical professionals
new insights into the condition.
Theres so much to say, he said. Weve
got to talk about it, to sensitize them.
On Sunday, November 16, 2014 Jewish Family Service of Bergen & North Hudson held their annual gala, celebrating 62
years of helping people. We are so proud to have honored Theresa de Leon of PNC Bank Wealth Management, Dr. Terri
Katz and Mrs. Lisa Oshman for their leadership, support and dedication to JFS.
Thanks to the generosity of all involved we have had the highest grossing gala to date and for this we
thank you.
This annual event was the culmination of a year of growth and transition for our agency. We all look forward to 2015
as we introduce new services and programs to better provide for those in need.
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How to save a life

Englewood kidney donation drive highlights possibilities
JOANNE PALMER
n one level, its a question of

simple supply and demand.
Someone needs a kidney.
Someone else has one to
spare. No problem, right?
Of course, most of us do not live life on
that level.
Most of us are born with two working
kidneys, although we need only one, if it
is working correctly. Others are not that
lucky. Some find themselves depending on
many-times-a-week dialysis to stay alive;
that procedure, although miraculous,
often sentences people to difficult, highly
constrained lives.
Sometimes, the transplant of a kidney
from a healthy person to a sick one can
revolutionize the patients life, making it
normal again.
But who would do that? Who would
donate a kidney? And why?
As it turns out, growing numbers of
people do it simply because they can, and
because, as they report it, the essential
rightness of the act demands that they do it.
This weekend, representatives from
Renewal, an organization that facilitates
kidney donations from live donors, will be
at Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood to explain the opportunities available to potential life-savers.
Although sometimes it is possible for
patients to get cadaveric kidneys that is,
to get organs donated by the stunned families of recently, often catastrophically dead
relatives it is far more predictable and
efficient to be able to get them from living,
willing donors. When someone is in need
of a kidney, they go through the standard
registration process on the national list,
Boruch Dumbroff, Renewals director of
special projects, said. Unfortunately, the
average waiting time for a live kidney there
is five to seven years. That can be far too
long for a desperately ill patient to wait;
often people are removed from the list
not because they have gotten kidneys but
because they have died waiting.
At Renewal, the average wait is from six
to nine months, Mr. Dumbroff said. This
year we have done 40 transplants, and 31
of those 40 are altruistic.
How is that possible?
Renewal helps would-be recipients find
their own donors, he said, training them
in how to ask for help, and heartening and
emboldening them as they search. It also
helps donors through every step of what
can be a formidable process, allowing
them to keep their goal and motivations in
sight, even in the face of bureaucracy and
jargon.
As is true in so many situations, the key to
all of this is relationships. Some donations
The town of Lakewood honors its kidney donors.
Dr. David Serur
Chaya Lipschutz
are from family members, motivated by

love and obligation. Others called altruistic donations, although certainly any
kidney donation is altruistic are made to
strangers, by donators driven by a particular story, or even by the desire to give what
they can to make some strangers life better. That is the highest level of charity, Mr.
Dumbroff said.
Renewal has been in existence only since
2006, but we have facilitated one in every
four altruistic kidney donations from live
donors in the United States, and currently
we are doing one out of every three. Yes,
that is amazing, he acknowledged, but it
would be even more amazing if the numbers throughout the country were higher.
Renewal works with five hospitals in the
metropolitan area Weil Cornell, Columbia
Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and
Robert Wood Johnson as well as others in
Philadelphia and in other areas around the
country. It is also developing a relationship
with a hospital in Toronto.
But in more cases, potential donors are
moved to pursue donation by hearing the
pleas of sufferers in their own communities.
The best chance for somebody to get a
kidney is through their own network, Mr.
Dumbroff said. People dont necessarily
know how to go about it. They need help
and guidance in bringing that plan to fruition. Relying on community works because
when someone hears that a neighbor
needs a kidney, it is different than hearing
that someone in the Midwest needs one.
He stressed, though, that donors and
recipients do not necessarily ever meet, or
even learn each others identities, and that
requests for privacy always are respected.
It is also important to develop relationships with the hospitals where the transplants are done.
The real thing that sets Renewal apart
from other organizations, for the hospitals,
is that we have a very high rate of success
in turning potential kidney donors into real
donors, Mr. Dumbroff said. So when somebody makes the initial call, there is complete
support.
How does it work?
We sit down with everyone who registers with us, and we meet with our staff and
develop a plan about how they can best be
served.
We do an average of about one transplant a week.
Not only does Renewal accompany
potential donors through the rigorous testing process, it also covers the expenses
they incur lost wages, travel, parking, babysitting, convalescing. It is not legal to buy
or sell organs; Renewal is careful neither to
RENEWAL
break those laws nor to seem as if it might

be, but within those constraints, the group
does whatever it can to help. It also helps
the recipients, who often have been unable
to work for some time and therefore are not
best positioned to help themselves.
Renewals services are free.
We dont get any government grants,
Mr. Dumbroff said. We exist on donations. And we do not take any money from
patients prior to transplantations. We are
very strict about that. The legal constraints
under which they operate dictate that. But
after the transplant, we are happy to take
money from a recipient whose live was
saved.
The organization believes strongly in
being transparent about the process.
Although there is very little risk for the
donor, and it causes very few long-term
problems, still it involves surgery, and it is
not pain-free.
There often is someone in the hospital
just post-transplant, and a potential donor
is brought to talk to that post-transplant
donor, Mr. Dumbroff said. We want them
to hear all the bad stuff before they do anything, instead of coming to us afterward and
saying, My gosh, I wish they had told me
what it was like. If they had, I wouldnt have
done it. That, he said, would hurt the next
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What: The weekend will focus on kidney donation

Who: Representatives of Renewal
What: Will run a kidney donation drive
When: On Sunday, November 23
Where: At Congregation Ahavath Torah, 240 Broad Ave. in Englewood
For more information: Go to Renewals website, www.life-renewal.org/
What: KidneyMitzvah
Who: Chaya Lipschutz, who facilitates matches between donors and recipients
For more information: kidneymitzvah.com
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person in line for a donation.

Finding a match depends on the vagaries
of both the donors and the recipients bodies. It is hard for some potential donors to
find recipients, and there are times when
a recipients wait can be wrenchingly long.
We had a woman from Israel on a list
since 2006 or 07; she received a kidney just
before Pesach this year, Mr. Dumbroff said.
We had to test over 1,000 people thank
God, we found her a match.
She was on dialysis for 21 years. Her two
children were sitting at the Pesach seder,
and one said to the other, Look, Mom is
drinking a glass of water.
It is hard to imagine such a natural act
being noteworthy, but they had never
seen it, Mr. Dumbroff said. When you are
on dialysis, you are limited in your liquid
intake.
Family life is revealed through the stress
of donation. In a non-Renewal transplant,
There was a Knesset member who needed
a kidney, and had a bunch of sons, 8 or 9,
and they were fighting with each other as to
who would be able to donate. They had to go
to a rabbi to determine which of them would
have the merit of saving their fathers life.
On the other hand, we have patients
who have a hard time with the concept of
taking from their children. Weve always
given to them. We tell them that theyre not
really taking theyre giving their children
the opportunity to save their life.
Although Renewal is strongly communitybased, though, and although it was formed
deep within the Jewish community, We
offer our services to everyone who comes
through our door, Mr. Dumbroff said.
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz is Renewals
founder and director; as he has overseen its
growth, he has remained deeply involved in
the process of recruiting donors and guiding
recipients as the matches between them are
made.
We will tell a recipient how to find a
donor in their community, he said. Its
not necessarily the Jewish community, but
any community the golf club, the day
school. Its anyplace where people have
connections.
For example, a newsletter from a school
might say that the grandmother of a student of ours is in need of a kidney, so if
you are blood type A or O and want to find
out more, call, and refer to the reference
number.
The donor doesnt know the name of the
person in need, but just the reference number. We will do a little intake, find out if they
can donate, find out their family situation,
and if it seems like it could work, and if their
blood type is right, we will get them to the
hospital to be evaluated.
What makes people donate? In most
cases, it will be someone who has some connection. Its the connection to the community, not to the person. And if one person in
a community does it, then others will too.
From left, Renewals Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, Mendy Reiner, and Menachem
Friedman, right, flank Dr. Lloyd Ratner, the director of renal and pancreatic
transplantation at Columbia Presbyterian.
RENEWAL
Almost anyone can donate, he added.
What would rule someone out would be
frequency of kidney stones, high blood pressure, diabetes, or cardiac issues. Donors
must be between 21 and 70 years old. Our
oldest kidney donor to date was 62 at the
time of the donation, and the oldest recipient was 82.
Dr. David Serur of Englewood is the medical director of kidney transplantation at
New York Presbyterian Cornell Hospital and
a member of Ahavath Torah. He is enthusiastic about Renewal.
Because Renewal averages about one
transplant every week, a lucky person
gets a living donation from a stranger, and
then you can remove that person from the
deceased donor list, he said. Renewal
is increasing the live donor pool, and in a
small way decreasing the recipient pool.
It would be fantastic if it were to be emulated in other communities, he said.
Although Renewal is growing, it is still
small in fact, its intimacy with its donors
and recipients, and its ability to make
matches, is due in some part to its human
scale. But there is an even smaller organization a one-person operation, in fact that
made another match in Ahavath Torah.
Barbara Goldin, the wife of the shuls
rabbi, Shmuel Goldin, first began thinking
of donating a kidney about a dozen years
ago, after reading a story in this newspaper
about a rabbi who made that gift. I remember thinking at the time I could do that,
she said.
I am not special, but I am different from
most people in that I do not worry about
medical things, she said. Most people are
normal they worry. I happen not to be a
worrier. I am just more optimistic. If I hear
that somebody is sick, I think that of course
theyll get better.
Back then, she still had children at home,
so although I thought it would be cool to
be able to help somebody in that way, it
was just a blip. The idea receded, but as it
turned out, it did not vanish. It just hid in
the recesses of her brain. About a year ago,
there was another blip. A local Chabad rabbi
donated a kidney. I thought that I could
do it. (That was Rabbi Ephraim Simon of
Chabad Teaneck, whose kidney donation

was done in the summer of 2009.)
Ms. Goldin read a post from someone
looking for a kidney on Teaneck Shuls, and
now the time seemed right. The post was
from Chaya Lipschutz of Brooklyn, who
runs KidneyMitzvah.
She said there was a lot involved, but I
said I was okay. I can do this, Ms. Goldin
said.
The testing process was onerous, and she
was not a match for the first two prospective
recipients, Ms. Goldin said. It took a great
deal of perseverance to keep going tests
had to be repeated, often results had to be
queried but she had come to believe that
this was a mitzvah that she could and therefore she should fulfill.
In May, Ms. Goldin donated a kidney. It
went to a donor she had not known, and she
feels strongly that she did exactly the right
thing.
He is a Russian guy, the nicest guy, she
said of the man who now lives a normal life
because her kidney is now in his body. He
had been on dialysis one of the things he
most relished once the surgery was over
was his newfound ability to eat a banana
and now he can live a normal life. I dont
know if I saved his life, but hed have to be
on dialysis, and thats not much of a life.
Someone on dialysis is not in control, she
continued. I hate being helpless. Being powerless, to lie there waiting. To be a victim. I
could change that for him. And she did.
Although she now is entirely healed, Ms.
Goldin stressed that the surgery is not painfree. Had she been able to change anything
about the procedure, it would have been
the amount of information she had. If the
doctor had said that Id be in a lot of pain, I
would have expected it, and I would have
been fine, she said. It is not something
you should underestimate, she stressed,
but if you go into the procedure expecting
to allow yourself to take the necessary painkillers, it should not be a problem.
She is very glad that she donated her kidney, but she now is so thoroughly healed
that I barely think about it. It s not on my
radar now.
A deeply private person, Ms. Goldin did
not want to talk about the transplant; in

fact, until now, she has not. But she feels
an obligation to make it public, because
maybe someone might read it now, and
in ten years from now, say I can do that.
And I read about it a long time ago in the
Standard.
Ms. Lipschutz is like an angel, Ms.
Goldin said.
Ms. Lipschutz would demur, but she
might admit to being driven.
It is possible that some readers might recognize her story. Its been told in two episodes of This American Life. The first, The
Ten Commandments, was broadcast on
May 4, 2007; the second, Matchmakers,
on January 18, 2008. (Both are available as
podcasts on the radio shows website, www.
thisamericanlife.org.)
Ms. Lipschutz lived with her mother (who
since has died) in a small apartment in Borough Park. The two women were very close,
both emotionally and physically. Chaya passionately wanted to donate a kidney, but her
mother strongly disapproved. Therefore,
intent on pleasing her mother but fulfilling the mitzvah that would allow her what
most likely would be her only chance to
save someones life, she lied. She snuck out
for tests and made up stories to explain her
absences.
The biggest problem was that she would
have to be in the hospital for at least one
night after the surgery. So she enlisted the
help of a young mother, Faigie, who had
donated a kidney a few months before.
Chaya and Faigie had met only once; Faigie
and Chayas mother were strangers to each
other. Once Chayas recipient was safely
out of surgery, Faigie went to her mothers
house and carefully, gently broke the news.
It worked. Chaya had been afraid that the
news would give her mother a heart attack,
but instead, eventually, it gave her comfort.
Since then, she has worked to make
matches for kidneys; her first donor was
her brother. Her work is hands-on and small
scale, and she derives great joy from it.
How does it feel to know that shes saved
someones life? I dont feel like what I did
was such a big deal, she said. And Im not
the only kidney donor who feels that way. Its
done, its finished, and its time to move on.
There are people who sacrifice themselves every day, who are involved in organizations that they give to every day. I see
amazing volunteers in the hospital, and to
me thats much more difficult than what I
did.
What I did its finished. Now, I give the
donors all the credit. I really appreciate the
people who have given kidneys.
And because the presurgery tests are so
extensive, sometimes the lives would-be
donors save are their own, she added. One
of my donors or in this case a prospective
donor found out that he had lung cancer. He was only in his 20s. Because it was
caught so early, they removed it in time.
Hes okay now.
And so are all the donors she knows, she
said. So how about all of you?
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Young local woman named to Forward 50
for helping Jews in battle against anorexia
JOANNE PALMER
he Jewish Forward is a national

weekly, so when it picks its top
50 Jews, it has a lot of Jews from
whom to choose.
In 2014, two of those top 50 are from
our area in fact, both are from Teaneck.
Loretta Weinberg, the Democrat who is
the majority leader of the New Jersey State
Senate and a prominent critic of Governor
Chris Christie, is no stranger to our pages;
she was profiled with a cover story in our
April 25 issue this year.
The other is Temimah Zucker, the young
activist whose own struggle with anorexia
has led her to a career fighting eating
disorders.
I was diagnosed with anorexia in the
fall of 2008, Ms. Zucker said. It was her
first semester of college she matriculated at Queens College, and moved from
her parents home to live there. Most of
her friends were away on their gap years,
but she had decided to go straight from
her high school, the now-closed Bat Torah
Academy in Suffern, N.Y., to college.
The transition was hard. Before I
started college, I had been dealing with
some pretty heavy social betrayals, she
said. The type of stuff you might read
about in young adult novels. And then
my grandmother had passed away a few
years before, and it stuck with me. And Id
always been a sensitive person.
All those stresses, which are so common in young peoples lives but often
make them feel as if they are all alone in
the world and the only person ever to confront them, pushed her to anorexia.
It happened at once quickly and slowly,
Ms. Zucker said. In two months, she had
been taken over by the disorder, but it
took her far longer to realize that anything
was wrong, let alone exactly what that
problem was. I didnt wake up and say
that I was anorexic, but I just didnt want
to eat, she said.
Because she lived in Queens during the
week but came home for Shabbat, her
parents could notice the kinds of small
changes to which daily exposure could
blind even the most devoted mothers and
fathers. They saw a change not only in
my appearance but also in my mood, Ms.
Zucker said. She began to withdraw from
them and from her friends most of them
were in Israel, so all she had to do was not
respond to calls or emails and when my
parents asked me about it, I would just say
Im fine. Everything is fine.
It was a very big combination of denial
and wanting to be fine.
Ms. Zucker in fact was not fine; she
was suffering from both anorexia and its
frequent companion, depression. (There

often is comorbidity with eating disorders
and either depression or anxiety, she
said.)
She was lucky. Her parents, Rabbi Saul
and Cindy Zucker, stepped in. First, they
accompanied their daughter to the therapist she had been seeing since her grandmother died. The therapist told the Zuckers that Temimah would be okay. Just
let it run its course, she told them. My
father got up. He was like All right. Were
going to go. Thanks for your time.
Eventually Ms. Zucker was diagnosed.
In just two months, she already had done
some damage to her body. She moved
back home, and her parents oversaw her
meals. She moved back and forth from day
to inpatient treatments.
She was 18 no longer a minor, although
barely and a strong part of this whole
thing was being afraid of growing up, she
said. And there I was, back home, being
fed.
I was like the shadow of a person. I
stopped watching TV. I stopped reading.
I stopped talking on the phone. I even
stopped laughing. I was very stubborn, but
I also was very passive.
During that dark time, her father, who is
now the principal of a high school, Magen
David Yeshivah in Brooklyn, worked in the
Orthodox Unions education department.
He brought home a movie, Hungry To Be
Heard, about eating disorders in the Jewish community. That was the first time
that I acknowledged that I had a problem,
she said. I realized that I wasnt the only
one in the Jewish community who had
this problem, even though nobody talked
about it.
Thats when I said that I need help.
Although it is easy for people with eating disorders not only anorexia, but also
bulimia and binge eating disorder to find
a community online, Ms. Zucker did not.
That community can be terribly destructive, spurring readers on to ever greater
feats of self-denial and self-harm as they
compete with other, equally unhealthy
anorexics or bulimics to win plaudits for
being the most extreme.
Instead, I was more focused on my
own stuff, she said. I would overexercise
secretly, and look at recipes online all day
classic behaviors but I figured them
all out myself.
Temimahs parents Cindy Zucker also
is an educator; she is the middle-school
girls mashgicha ruchanit at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey in River Edge
took care of her throughout this time. It
was not easy. I was so angry at them all
the time, Temimah said. Because they
were feeding me.
Once she decided that she would prefer to emerge from anorexia, it took Ms.
Zucker about three and a half years to
meet that goal. A huge misconception is
that once you go into treatment, you come
out cured, she said. That is far from the
truth. But a strong support system, loving and patient family and friends, and a
desire to heal propelled her. The last jolt
she needed was provided by her parents
promise to send her on a 10-day trip to
Israel if she could be counted on to eat
properly.
It worked. My friends there said that
they dont care how much you weigh or
what you look like, she said. They said
that they just cared if I was happy. I had
heard it before, but this time I believed it.
The trip had given her independence, a
sure sign that she was growing up.
Ms. Zucker began to speak in schools in
2011, three years after her eating disorder
first took root. When her therapist first
asked her to consider public speaking, I
was like No, thats too much. I will feel
exposed. But she said to think about it.
Ms. Zucker did speak, and a girl
emailed to me, and said After hearing
your story, and seeing how hard you are
working, I finally am able to admit that I
have a problem. I will go get help.
And that helped me realize that I didnt
want to be on the wrong side of it any
more. I wanted to live my life.
Ms. Zucker graduated from college
and has now finished a masters degree
in social work at Yeshiva Universitys
Wurzweiler School. She has worked with
people suffering from eating disorders in
both the secular and Jewish worlds.
Eating disorders are a problem in many
communities, but they are particularly
strong in the Jewish world, Ms. Zucker
said. Part of that is because Jewish culture
centers so much around huge, festive,
multicourse meals. When I say to someone in the Jewish community that I work
with people with eating disorders, someone will always say I have an eating disorder. I eat too much.
That is not particularly funny to her, she
said.
There is a stigma about admitting to any
kind of mental or mood disorder. Its sort
of like a taint, she said. And it is such a
close-knit community that if one person
knows something, everybody knows it.
In 2012, Ms. Zucker created an intimate
peer support group for young Jews both
men and women who are grappling
with eating disorders. Although most people assume that the disorder strikes only
women, in fact it victimizes men as well,
she said, and its stigma can be even worse
for men.
Temimah Zucker struggled with

anorexia; she now works to free
others from its grip.
That spring, I decided that I wanted
to take my idea of providing support to
the Jewish community to the next level,
she said. With a friend, I created a website that provided very basic resources,
and it had a forum so people could post
anonymously about what they were going
through.
And then in the fall of 2013, I received
a fellowship from PresenTense. They
wanted to help me turn it into something
even bigger.
Thats her new website, Tikvah
vChizuk, still under construction, which
provides links to some of her writing in
such venues as the Huffington Post and
the Times of Israel, as well as offering an
enhanced list of resources.
I am also creating a nonprofit that will
help the Jewish community by providing
ways for people to connect with other people. They also will be able to submit poetry
or artwork.
She wants to help change the perception
of eating disorders in the Jewish community. No one should have to talk about it if
they dont want to but they should never
feel ashamed of it, she said.
Having had anorexia and recovering
from it has made her another person, she
said. I grew up, she said. And it also was
a big adjustment. Part of it was body image
stuff and the other part was what was
underlying the body image stuff.
One of the last things I had to let go of
was that I could ever be the same person
I was before. I will be a different person
but thats not bad.
Temimah Zuckers website is at www.
tvcsupport.org.
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inspiration that carries them through.

Tova is well suited to providing inspiration. I think
Im able to relate to a lot of people and that helps me
connect, she said. Im not afraid to get up and say
something in front of a crowd. Im a generally cheerful
person and I love Judaism.
She has a particular passion for biblical studies,
which has been growing since her elementary-school
years at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey.
Tova already had been involved in Yachad, The
National Jewish Council for Disabilities, and last summer she had a fellowship at a Yachad sleepaway camp.
Through the Friendship Circle program, directed by
Rabbi Moshe and Zeesy Grossbaum of the Paramus
Chabad Center, Tova visits a child with Down syndrome in her Bergenfield neighborhood every Shabbat so the girls parents can get some rest.
Tovas leadership qualities stood out during New
Orleans, Rabbi Katz said. On that trip, NCSYers from
New Jersey built houses with Habitat for Humanity.
There was no question she was going to rise up the
ranks.
The following year, Tova was recruited for New Jersey NCSYs Leadership Experience and Development
program LEAD a pipeline leadership program cre-
presents
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I think Im able
to relate to a lot
of people and
that helps
me connect.
ated by Rabbi Katz. The selected teens join for a variety of activities and team-building exercises, including working with Habitat for Humanity; developing a
Jewish curriculum for a Jewish school in Buffalo, N.Y.;
staffing NCSY Shabbatons, and attending the national
AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. Successful graduates of LEAD are eligible to become part of
New Jersey NCSYs regional board the following year.
The teams work in Buffalo was especially eye-opening for Tova, because the LEAD fellows became role
models for many of the students.
I met a bunch of public-school students who were
struggling to keep Shabbat, and all this time I had
taken for granted how easy it was for me to keep it,
she said. Seeing how they were so devoted made me
realize how fortunate I am and made me more motivated in my own Judaism.
At Leadership Boot Camp, an invitation-only Shabbaton held over the summer where teen leaders of
NCSY plan for the year ahead, NCSYs international
director, Rabbi Micah Greenland, asked Tova if she
would be willing to take on the national presidency.
Tova is an extraordinary role model, from whom
all of us in NCSY her peers, as well as staff members,
from all backgrounds can learn a great deal, Rabbi
Greenland said.
The second oldest of Joy and Barry Sklars five children, Tova said she hopes to bring ideas for programs
and propose a lot of ideas, such as a national NCSY
day of learning and good deeds, as well as further augmenting NCSYs online programs including a studypartner platform.
I want to be able to meet as many people my age as
I can, and I really want to be able to spread my love of
Torah to other people, she said.
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Amy and Mark Shirvan
Tenafly JCC to host a Big Night Out

The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades will hold
its second annual Big Night Out gala on
Saturday, December 6, at 7:30 p.m. Merle
and Fred Fish, Amy and Mark Shirvan, and
Danielle and Doug Kaplan will be honored
for their generosity and longtime commitment to making the JCC a welcoming centerpiece of the community.
The gala will feature food, drinks, and
music. Proceeds will support the JCCs
community programs, which assist more
than 600 children and young adults with
special needs; provide vital programming, meals, and an engaging environment for hundreds of seniors; and distribute $600,000 in scholarships to families
facing financial difficulty, among other
efforts.
Support Big Night Out by attending
the gala, making online gifts, or placing
personal or professional ads in the commemorative journal.
The JCC established the Big Night Out
as a celebration to honor our community
builders, the JCCs CEO, Avi A. Lewinson,
said. This award is presented to individuals who have shown leadership at our JCC,
whose volunteer achievement demonstrates a commitment to Jewish life, and
who serve as role models encouraging others to become community leaders.
Merle and Fred Fish are second-generation JCCs supporters. Freds father, Nat,
was one of the centers founders. Fred, a
past JCC board member, grew up at the
JCC playing basketball and later becoming a basketball coach. He is also treasurer
of the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey board, and serves on the boards
of AJC Project Interchange and Connect
One Bank. Merle Fish, a JCC board member, has co-chaired many special events,
including Lavish Lunches, and opening
ceremonies for the JCC Maccabi Games.
She is a trustee on the JFNNJ board and
chair of Major Gifts, has served on national
UJA boards, and is a past president of UJA
Womens Division.
Amy and Mark Shirvan both are Tenafly
natives. A past JCC vice president and
active board member, Mark has chaired
the athletics and house committees, a
health and recreation task force, and JCC
Maccabi operations. He also served on
the JCC executive and budget committees
and was awarded JCC chairperson of the
year in 2004. Amy served on the Early
Childhood Parents Association and the
Health and Recreation Committee, where
she helped bring the first spin program to
the center. Together, Mark and Amy dedicated the JCC Intergenerational Garden,
where seniors and children can share
experiences.
Danielle and Doug Kaplan are secondgeneration supporters of the JCC. As
the son of JCC founding members, Doug
always has demonstrated a desire to give
back to his community, including supporting the JCC Golf Classic and the Gift
of Community Capital Campaign. Danielle
served as co-president of the JCC Early
Childhood Parents Association and continues to chair fundraising efforts such as
Lavish Lunches and the Golf Classic.
For information or to place a journal
ad, call Sharon Potolsky at (201) 408-1405
or email her at spotolsky@jccotp.org. To
make an online gift, go to www.jccotp.org/
bignightout.
Jewish Community Forum celebration

will honor pair in Hudson County
Congregation Bnai Jacob will hold a preThanksgiving Lox n Learning program
honoring the Hudson Jewish Community Forums leaders its chair, Michelle
Levine, and its founder, Adam Weiss on
Sunday, November 23, from noon to 3 p.m.
Reuben Rotman, the executive director of
Jewish Family Services of MetroWest, and
Marty Greenberg of the Jewish Federation
of North America will speak. There will be

a dessert reception with an aide to Jersey
Citys Mayor Steven Fulop. The celebration is co-sponsored by Temple Beth-El
of Jersey City and United Synagogue of
Hoboken.
A $5 donation is requested. The shul is at
176 West Side Ave. For more information,
call (201) 435-5725 or go to bnaijacobjc.org.
Yavneh Academys executive

director, Joel Kirschner, and Kayla
Schwartz at the start of the 1-Mile
Fun Run.
Paramus Mayor Richard LaBarbiera,

right, and Kirschner get ready to blow
the horn to start the 5K run.
Yavneh Academy raises funds

with a race for scholarships
Yavneh Academy in Paramus held
its tenth annual Benjamin Schwartz
Memorial 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Run
at the Westfield Garden State Plaza
on November 9. The run, named for
the brother of Yavneh parent Mendy
Schwartz, drew more than 1,000 people and raised more than $10,000 for
Yavneh Academy scholarships.
Participants were treated to a prerace workout with Donna Riker of HNH
Fitness in Oradell, T-shirts, and a buffet
breakfast.
The event, organized by Joanne Zayat

and Amy Buchsbayew, both of Teaneck,
culminated with the presentation of
medals to the top runners in their age
groups.
Richie Yeates, 28, from Glen Rock,
the overall winner, came in at 16 minutes, 13 seconds. Peter Lipa, 46, of
Bloomfield finished the one-mile race
in 6:10. For information about Yavneh,
call Joel Kirschner at (201) 262-8494,
ext. 307.
Albert Nahum with his granddaughter, Mandy Krieger, and his

daughter, Laurie Nahum. Right,
Nahum in his World War II uniform.
Veterans Day observed at GBDS

To mark Veterans Day, Albert Nahum of
Paramus, a World War II veteran and the
grandfather of Mandy Krieger, an eighthgrader at the Academies at Gerrard Berman Day School in Oakland, told his
story at the school.
Drafted in 1943 at 18, Mr. Nahum was
commissioned as a second lieutenant

in 1945, when he graduated from Fort
Sill OCS. He was stationed in Germany
from 1945 to 1946 and then served as a
major in the Army Reserves until 1968.
He remained part of the retired reserves
until 1985.
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Annual interfaith service

Sunday in Woodcliff Lake
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley
invites the community to the annual
Thanksgiving interfaith service on Sunday, November 23, at 7 p.m. It is part of
the shuls Year of Song and Celebration! in honor of Cantor Marc Biddelmans 48 years with Temple Emanuel.
The shuls adult and childrens choirs

will sing, in collaboration with Pascack
Valley synagogue and church choirs.
Refreshments will follow the service.
The synagogue is at 87 Overlook Drive.
For information, call (201) 391-0801 or
go to www.tepv.org.
Dr. Joshua Gross and Dr. Sharyn N. Lewin lead the Jewish womans health symposium.
Holy Name Medical Center presents

Jewish womens health symposium
Nearly 250 people attended Holy Name Medical
Centers Jewish womens health symposium and
brunch at the Jewish Center of Teaneck on Sunday. Dr. Sharyn N. Lewin, a gynecological oncologist and womens health specialist, and Dr. Joshua
Gross, a board-certified radiologist specializing in
breast imaging, both of Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, were the guest speakers.
Participating community partners included
Bikur Cholim/Partners in Health; Bikur Cholim of

Bergen County; Chesed 24/7; iLongevity; the Jewish Center of Teaneck; the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey; Lillian Lee; Nechama Comfort; the National Council of Jewish Women, Bergen County Section; Project Sarah; Sharsheret;
Sinai Schools, and Wellness Wisdom.
For more information on Drs. Lewin or Gross,
call (877) HolyName or go to holyname.org.
Harvey Hershkowitz, NNJR dinner chair, left, with Emily Marks and Michael Green, Congregation Shomrei Torah of Waynes Youth of the Year
and Man of the Year; and Joel Kurtz, NNJR president.
ERIC WEIS
Wayne shul mens club honors pair

for services to the congregation
Retired Admiral Eliezer Marum, Jim Adler, FIDF chief executive officer Alan E. Scholnick, First
Lt. David, Sgt. Avinoam, Dana Post Adler, FIDF national executive director Maj. Gen. (Res.)
Meir Klifi-Amir, and FIDFs New Jersey director, Howard Gases.
RICHARD YUMANG
FIDF dinner salutes lone soldiers

Retired Admiral Eliezer Marum, former Israeli
Navy commander and guest of honor, joined lone
soldiers from New Jersey, former and active duty
IDF soldiers and more than 340 lay leaders and
supporters of the Friends of the Israel Defense
Forces for the FIDF New Jersey chapters 10th
annual gala.
The dinner, at the Hilton Secaucus Meadowlands in East Rutherford, raised $600,000 for
programs that support the men and women of
the IDF and capped a yearlong $3 million community campaign.
New Jersey chapter leaders Sammy Bar-Or
and Avi Oren, who are former lone soldiers,
were at the dinner. The chapter also known
as the Lone Soldier chapter was founded

in 2005 when Mr. Bar-Or, Mr. Oren, and fellow
lone soldier Mike Gross united to provide aid to
IDF soldiers who do not have immediate family
in the country.
Other attendees included master of ceremonies Tal Bar-Or, a former vice president of the
FIDF New York Young Leadership Division;
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir, the FIDFs
national executive director; Alan E. Scholnick,
FIDFs chief executive officer; Maj. Gen. (Res.)
Yitzhak ( Jerry) Gershon, the FIDF national
director and CEO emeritus, and New Jersey
FIDF director Howard Gases. For more information, go to www.fidf.org.
The mens club of Congregation Shomrei Torah in Wayne recently honored

two of its members at the annual
Northern New Jersey Man of the Year
dinner, hosted by the Federation of
Jewish Mens Clubs at Temple Beth
Ahm Yisrael in Springfield. Michael
Green was this years Man of the Year
and Emily Marks was honored as Youth
of the Year.
Green, a past president and longtime
active mens club member, helps lead
community events and celebrations
around the High Holy Days. He grew

up in Wayne, where he lives with his
wife, Laurie, and sons Alex and Jordan.
Emily Marks and her family are
active in the synagogue. She was honored for her many leadership roles
there, including tutoring young children in the religious school, leading
services, and being active with United
Synagogue Youth. She is the daughter
of Michael and Arlene and the sister of
Josh and Matt.
Mitzvah mall in Closter

Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in
Closter will hold its first Mitzvah Mall
on Sunday, November 23, from 9:30
a.m. to noon. The shuls social hall
will be filled with booths representing local, national, and international
charitable organizations. For a donation of $1 to $3, patrons will receive a

holiday card to give as a gift.
Temple Beth El is at 221 Schraalenburgh Road. For information, go to
www.tbenv.org.
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Pure evil
KEEPING THE FAITH
Conversion
confusion
hings fall apart; the center

cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed
upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is
drowned
How often can we quote Yeats? This
summer we saw it coming,
that inexorable red tide of evil
that is lapping ever closer to
Israel, and to us.
We quoted him then.
Today, in the wake of the
murders no, the butchery
at the shul in Jerusalem pure
carnage, pure hatred, and
pure evil we are left almost
speechless. It seems to be an
act of loathing reduced to its
absolute essence. It is not the
Nazi way of killing distant,
impersonal, bureaucratic,
technological. It was evil, and
it was sick. We have seen pictures of the aftermath not,
thankfully, of the violated bodies and we will not use them
on this page. But it is accurate
to say that the blood-dimmed
tide is loosed.
As we go to press, five men have
died. Four were Jews at prayer
Mosheh Twersky, Kalman Levine,
Aryeh Kupinsky, and Avraham Goldberg. All were passionate students and
scholars, and one, Rabbi Twersky, was
the descendent of both the chasidic
Twersky dynasty and the Soloveitchiks,
among the most influential shapers of
modern Orthodoxy. The fifth, Zidan
Saif, was a young Druze policeman
whose courage, unimaginable to most
of us, saved other lives.
Of course, it is not accurate to say
that this is the purest emanation of
evil imaginable. It was just a month
ago that three-month-old Chaye Zisel
Braun, a much longed-for baby, was
killed at a Jerusalem light rail station.
A terrorist drove a car at her.
We do not want to have to grade evil.
The men davening at the shul,
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Hundreds of Israelis mourn
at the funeral of three of the
victims killed on Tuesday, when
two Palestinian terrorists from
East Jerusalem entered the
Kehilat Yaakov synagogue in the
Orthodox neighborhood of Har
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synagogue in the Orthodox
neighborhood of Har Nof,
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saying the Amidah just before they

were slaughtered, brings to mind a
cover story that we ran two weeks ago.
Bus, bomb, book was an interview
with Bergen Record reporter Mike
Kelly, whose new book, The Bus on
Jaffa Road, is about the bombings that
killed Sarah Duker of Teaneck and her
fianc, Matthew Eisenfeld, as well as
an earlier bus bombing that killed
Alisa Flatow of West Orange.
Mr. Kelly wrote about the last night
of Sarahs life, and compared it with
her murderers. Sarah, an extraordinary young woman and to be absolutely clear, her death was no more
tragic because she was extraordinary
than it would have been had she been
average was with a group of friends,
talking about the future and about
her spiritual life, full of love and hope
and light. She glowed. Meanwhile, the
young suicide bomber, who knew that
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he would blow himself up the next day,

prepared for his short future.
One was light and love. The other
was darkness and death.
As the Jews who did not yet know
that they were to die that day in Har
Nof began the central prayer of the liturgy, their assassins, who knew that
their lives also would end, attacked.
As we send this issue off to the
printer, we know that the situation
may grow even worse. This act of
evil may be followed immediately by
others. We hope and pray for some
respite.
We hope that although Yeats was
descriptive, he was not prescriptive
as well. We hope that he was not prescient as he wrote:
And what rough beast, its hour come
round at last,
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Israeli Representative
he current controversy over whether the Rabbinical Council of America may soon water down its
standards for conversion demands the question:
Are the RCAs current conversion standards more
difficult than they should be?
For that matter, are anyones conversion standards, regardless of stream, more stringent than they should be?
The question is as old as rabbinic Judaism itself, and it is not
easily resolved, because the
answers range from yes, to no,
to maybe yes, maybe no, to it
depends.
Seriously; this is not an attempt
at being glib. The answers really
are all over the place.
The Tanach offers no help
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texts for one opinion or another.
The Torah certainly does not deal
with conversion.
In the Prophets, Davids third wife, Absaloms mother, was
a daughter of the king of Geshur. Solomon married many
women, including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, and even
an Egyptian princess. Did any of them convert? Nehemiah
said no. (See Nehemiah 13:26.) And even the Talmud insists
that no converts were accepted either in Davids day or Solomons. (See the Babylonian Talmud tractate Yvamot 24b.)
Rampant intermarriage left Ezra ashamed and mortified, and he ordered Israels men to cast out their non-Jewish
families.
And then there was Ruth. Did she convert? Was conversion
in her day a simple matter of stating that your people shall
be my people, and your God, my God? Could she convert,
seeing that Ruth was a Moabite and the Torah forbids any
Moabite from entering into the congregation of Israeleven
in the tenth generation.? (See Deuteronomy 23:4.)
So the Tanach is of no help in deciding the question. If anything, it would seem to preclude conversion, unless it was
based on a sincere desire to be a part of Israel and a righteous
follower of Israels God.
The Talmud would seem to settle the matter when it states,
If a pagan comes to us prepared to accept all the words of the
Torah except for one thing, we do not accept him, adding
that this is so even if he accepts the entire Torah but rejects
an enactment of the Scribes. (See BT Bchorot 30b. Also see
Tosefta Demai 2,5.)
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In other words, unless a person is prepared
to observe all the mitzvot as interpreted by
the Sages, he or she may not be accepted as a
convert.
This strict rule is based on Exodus 12:49,
which requires that there shall be one law for
the citizen and for the [circumcised] stranger
who dwells among you. The verse refers to the
Passover sacrifice, but was interpreted to mean
the proselyte [is] equal to the born Jew regarding all the mitzvot of the Torah. (See Mechilta
dRabi Yishmael, Tractate Pischa, Chapter 15.)
Elsewhere, however, the Talmud lets us know
that many of its Sages adopted far more liberal
approaches.
Conversion for the sake of marriage or even
for some truly frivolous reason, such as to be a
waiter at King Solomons table is not something to be encouraged, but it is acceptable,
they said. (See BT Yvamot 24b.)
Then, of course, there are the three people whom Hillel converted, including a man
who wanted to become Israels high priest
because he liked the special clothing, and
a man who wanted to be taught the entire
Torah while standing on one foot. One of
them came to gentle Hillel years later and
blessed him for bringing me under the
wings of Gods Spirit, a blessing the other
two echoed. (See BT Shabbat 31a.)
There also is the story of the harlot who
was so smitten by how a young mans tzitzit
prevented him from sleeping with her after
he had paid her 400 gold dinars for the privilege that she decided to marry the young man.
Because he was a student of Rabbi Chiyya, she
went to the sage, and asked him to convert her
so that she could marry the student. The sage
apparently converted her on the spot. (See BT
Mencahot 44a.)
To these Sages, the conversion process was
not meant to be onerous or made to be onerous by stringencies, at least according to BT
Yvamot 47b.
Thus, the Talmud says, If at the present time
a man comes [before a bet din] to convert, we
say to him: What is it that you saw [in or about
Judaism] that brought you here to convert? Are
you not aware that Israel currently is [despised
and/or beset by great troubles].... If he says, I
know this and yet [I consider myself] unworthy
[to be a part of Israel], we accept him immediately. And we instruct him in some minor commandments and some major ones....We do not,
however, intimidate him in any way or burden
him [with the particulars of individual mitzvot].
Clearly, if the prospective convert is not
taught all of the mitzvot before conversion, the
strict ruling of BT Bchorot 30b was not widely
accepted back then, or even a millennia later.
Neither the law code of Maimonides nor
the now authoritative Shulchan Aruch of
Rabbi Joseph Karo included the strict statement in BT Bchorot 30b. Instead, they
echoed the more lenient views, while adding
more structure to them. Says Karo, inform
[the prospective convert] of the principles of
the faith, of the unity of God, of the prohibitions against idolatry, and go on at length
with him about this. Also, instruct him [or
her] a bit in a few of the less strenuous mitzvot and a few of the more serious mitzvot,
[and] about a few of the punishments [for
transgressing] the mitzvot. (See Shulchan

Aruch, Yoreh Deah 268,2.)
Compare all this to what the RCA informs the
prospective convert on its website. Conversion,
it says, is a commitment that cannot be made
without extensive thought, learning and preparation. The process of conversion to Judaism is
a lengthy one. Before a beit din (rabbinic court)
will approve the conversion, its members must
be positive that you are fully knowledgeable and
committed to observing all of the laws and precepts of Judaism, that you are fully integrated
into the Jewish way of life and are comfortable
in the Jewish community that you will be able
to live a full, happy and productive life as a Jew.
Most Orthodox authorities would agree with
this. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein expressed it quite
strongly in one of his later responsum on conversion: I do not know the motive of the rabbis who maintain otherwise, he wrote, referring to accepting converts even if they are not
prepared to commit to a fully Orthodox lifestyle.
Besides, what use are such converts to the community of Israel? (See lggerot Moshe, Yoreh
Deah, Vol. No 157.)
Simply put, he said, a convert who has not
accepted the mitzvot is not a convert even after
a conversion ritual.
This in itself is strange, because that does not
appear to be the prevailing view in the Talmud.
For example, the rival Babylonian sages Rav and
Shmuel both agreed that in their day converts
who were never taught the basic laws of Shabbat
observance were still acceptable Jews by choice.
(See BT Shabbat 68a.) Once they do learn the
rules of Shabbat observance, both agreed these
converts remained Jewish, but were required to
bring sin offerings for each violation, just as a
born Jew is so required.
Both Maimonides and Karo codified that the
conversion rituals alone suffice to make a person a part of Israel, although they ruled that way
reluctantly. (See Maimonides, Issurei Biah 13:17
and Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 268,2.)
What motivated the lenient talmudic sages
was a sense of pragmatism, coupled with a
heavy dose of exigent circumstances, blended
with a several hefty dashes of hope. They obviously felt it was more important to keep the Jewish partner in the fold, even if it meant converting the non-Jewish partner, even if he or she was
not serious about being Jewish, while hoping
that exposure to a Jewish life would bring that
person around eventually.
Conservative and Reform conversion guidelines follow this liberal approach. Even those
guidelines, however, require more extensive
study than the liberal rulings in the Talmud or
the codes are willing to accept.
So the question remains: Are anyones conversion standards, regardless of stream, more
stringent than they should be?
Another question must be answered before
answering this one can be: With the intermarriage rate in the United States now estimated
at 58 percent, and with 32 percent of American Jews born after 1980 saying they have no
religion and more than two-thirds of them
also saying they are not raising their children
as Jews are stringencies of any sort in our
best interest?
I pose these questions. Thank God, I am not
the one who must answer them.
Past imperfect
or traditional communities,
the past is normative.
The past, rather than the
present, provides the best
model for daily life. As the pasts standard-bearer, the traditionalist may
even question the legitimacy of the
present: Leaving aside technological advances, what moral or spiritual
value can modernity offer, compared
to the timeless legacy of the past?
Religious traditions especially,
which are by nature highly conservative, judge new trends
by their conformance
to time-honored ways
of life. Intellectual innovation, to be sure, may
be encouraged, as long
as it remains within the
boundaries of tradition.
In our own society, for
example, a hallmark of
David S.
Talmud scholarship long
Zinberg
has been the ability to formulate a novel legal analysis, whose implications
are normally theoretical. But in practical matters, custom rules. (There are
notable exceptions among halachists of
great stature; the Vilna Gaon, for example, often ruled against common practice based on talmudic sources.)
Still, we can observe the evolution of
attitudes toward religious tradition, and
changes to the tradition itself, within a
single lifetime. In the last few decades,
accompanied by a trend toward stricter
observance, Orthodox society increasingly has turned to texts, rather than
prevailing custom, for religious guidance. This trend has been defined and
interpreted meticulously by Haym
Soloveitchik in his 1994 essay, Rupture
and Reconstruction. Soloveitchik contrasts the culture of pre-war European
Jewry a mimetic society, where behavior was transmitted by example and
imitation with the modern text-based
culture. Where previous generations
absorbed the rules of Jewish observance
in the home, street, or synagogue, much
of Orthodox society has come to rely on
books, thought to be more authoritative sources of halachah. Among other
factors, this trend represents a desire to
restore the more religiously authentic
world of Europe before the Holocaust,
based on a reconstituted image supposedly captured in halachic texts of
what it was really like.
It would seem that tradition should
view this phenomenon favorably.
After all, we are describing an ostensibly deeper commitment to tradition. What could be truer to the traditionalist than a religious life restored
to its original state, to a period of history unweakened by dislocation and
acculturation? The old-world traditions

of our great-grandparents and grandparents would appear to be superior to
those of our parents, which may have
been indeed, in some cases have been
diluted by compromise.
But some of these assumptions do not
hold up under scrutiny. What many perceive as restoration a more rigorous
observance derived from the past in
fact may be religious innovation.
In Minhagei Lita: Customs of Lithuanian Jewry, the late Rabbi Menachem
Mendel (Manuel) Poliakoff of Baltimore sets out
to correct misconceptions about the yeshiva
culture of pre-war Lithuania. Rabbi Poliakoff,
a participant in that
culture, studied at the
Telshe Yeshiva during the
1930s. He cites several
modern religious practices wrongly assumed to
have been followed in the
great Lithuanian yeshivot
and in their surrounding communities.
For example, the wide adoption of the
upsherren custom (allowing a boys
hair to grow uncut until he turns 3
years old) and the glatt kosher standard (based on a kosher meat stricture), he says, are recent innovations
unknown in Europe or confined to
particular communities that gained
currency only after World War II. He
also points to rulings of R. Israel Meir
Kagan in the Mishnah Berurah
today considered the most authoritative code which never were followed
in Lithuania, or even in the authors
hometown, despite his great prestige.
If certain customs that appear
restorative actually are innovative, in
broad segments of Orthodox society
we also are witnessing the acceptance
of practices that are undeniably new.
Bat mitzvah and simchat bat celebrations, for example, were unknown in
Ashkenazic Orthodoxy a generation
ago. (Simchat bat has some precedent among Sephardim). These innovations are drawn primarily from the
present; they are the product of egalitarian notions of gender and greater
public visibility of women both
modern phenomena and regarded
as consistent, if not continuous, with
tradition.
Under the right conditions, tradition can successfully assimilate the
best modern values. This is one way to
leave our children a more perfect past.
David Zinberg lives in Teaneck with
his wife and three boys and works in
financial services. His blog is Realia
Judaica.
Opinion
Cold hearts and sub-Saharan Jews
remember vividly how moved and

inspired I was as a child when at
a very early stage of my Jewish education I was introduced to the
sage Hillel and his own youthful entre
to Jewish scholarship.
Hillel went on to become a renowned
scholar, a beloved and oft-quoted
national leader, and the founder of an
important rabbinic dynasty. The brief
story my first Talmud lesson is
familiar. Working as a poor woodchopper, Hillel would devote half of his meager earnings to daily necessities. The
other half he spent on the fee required
for admission to the bet midrash the
Babylonian academy where Torah
was taught by the great Shemaiah and
Avtalyon. One winter Friday (during the
month of Tevet, the Talmud records) he
was without sufficient means to enter the
citadel of learning. He was turned away.
Undeterred, he climbed atop the roof, to
listen to the lesson through a skylight.
There he stayed until Shabbat morning,
when he was found covered by three
cubits of snow. The snow came down
from Heaven, the text (Yoma 35B) says
lyrically. (Even in my New England childhood, that daunting volume of snow fired
my imagination!)
Members of Ugandas Abayudaya Jewish community outside a synagogue in Nabagoye.
BECHOL LASHON
The snow and Hillels now frigid
young body obscured the skylight.
Avtalyon, my brother, Shemaiah pointedly observed, Every day this house
of Israel. The Abayudaya students were
community) or in the local river.
is brightly lit, but today it is dark.
planning a period of study at the ConIn a quirky aspect of Israeli law, an appliservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Refused
cant need not be Jewish at all to obtain a
The scholars lifted up their eyes
entry to the Jewish state,
visa to study in a degree-conferring Israeli
and ascended the roof
these remarkable, devoted
college or university. Only Jews, however,
and retrieved the young
students of Torah future
are eligible for special visas used to study in
man who was destined to
leaders of their own Jewish
non-degree programs, such as in yeshivot.
become their most distinguished disciple, and the
community were, like HilUgly, exclusivist religious politics in the state
lel, left out in the cold.
leading scholar of the Jewof Israel and in its rabbinic officialdom have
ish people, warming him
The Ugandan scholars
impugned the validity of the conversions
by the fire, properly taking
are part of a community
conducted in Uganda, supervised by my
life-saving measures (as Shethat has been living as Jews
colleagues and me. If the conversions are
maiah and Avtalyon themsince 1919, some now for
invalid, the Abayudaya are not Jewish, the
selves commented) ordinarRabbi Joseph
six generations. The cominsidious argument goes. Ergo their leading
H. Prouser
ily deemed a desecration of
munity undertook formal
and most accomplished students of Torah
the Sabbath.
conversion to Judaism in
may not enter the Jewish state, at least not
It is no surprise that Hil2002, under the auspices
its academies of sacred learning. Let them,
lel came to embody inclusivity, assuring
of a bet din a rabbinic court comlike Hillel, go back to chopping wood.
prised of Conservative rabbis. It was my
even the poor a place in the Academy.
How much, indeed, these young Ugandan Jews have in common with Hillel Hagreat joy and privilege to serve on that
(Shammai accepted only the elite and
Bavli Hillel the Babylonian. They, too,
bet din, which held three Americans and
the wealthy.) It also is no surprise that
are children of a dynamic diaspora with
one Israeli. The conversion process was
Hillel came to embody a loving openness toward aspiring converts, receiving
a proud history. They, too, defiantly perexacting and stringent in its standards:
severe in leading lives of Jewish learning
them with generous patience. In this he
detailed questioning of candidates for
youth activities, in addition to all the
and piety, despite the burden of abject
was unlike Shammai, a builder by profesconversion, eliciting testimony regardsion, who famously took a yardstick and
ing their faith and halachic observance
other necessities for raising children
poverty. Abayudaya leader J. J. ( Joab
menaced a heathen who did not mea(the intensity of their faith in God was
and maintaining comfortable homes.
Jonadab) Keki whom I cherish as a
sure up to his expectations or vision of
humbling; Sabbath and kashrut obserKeki discusses the challenge of faithful
dear friend and admire as a true hero of
vance, and devotion to Jewish education
Jewish life.
observance of Shabbat or three consecuJewish religious life recently observed
tive days of holiday restrictions (as in this
and family life were universal); ritual
I was reminded of this rabbinic narthat poverty (no longer isolation) is the
rative, so formative a lesson in my own
years festival calendar) when you must
drawing of blood (hatafat dam all the
greatest challenge facing the Abayudaya.
religious life, when I recently learned
retrieve and carry water from distant
males already were ritually circumcised),
When American Jews complain about
that 20 aspiring Jewish scholars, young
communal pumps, to be boiled before
and immersion in a kosher mikvah (the
the high cost of being Jewish, they generally point to synagogue dues, day school
people from the Abayudaya community
human consumption, and when a compresence of which spoke volumes about
munity of struggling subsistence farmers
tuition, and Jewish summer camps and
of Uganda, were denied visas by the State
the longstanding religious fidelity of the
Ugly, exclusivist
religious politics in
the state of Israel
and in its rabbinic
officialdom have
impugned the
validity of the
conversions
conducted
in Uganda,
supervised by
my colleagues
and me.
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lack the income to purchase or prepare

food in advance.
Despite these challenges, Keki and
his community continue to place the
highest premium on Jewish learning
and faith, observance and joyful celebration of Jewish life. Take great
care with the children of poor families, the Talmud presciently counsels,
for from them will go forth Torah
(Nedarim 81A). There is no doubt that
the 20 students denied the opportunity
to study in yeshiva will learn and teach
and bring honor to the Torah, and will
fire the souls and the imaginations of
fellow Jews young and old in the
years ahead. As did Hillel.
The story of Hillels origins speaks to
us all. The state of Israel is in so many
ways a shining beacon of freedom and
democracy and of opportunities for
Jewish learning, bringing light to Jews
and our neighbors throughout the
world and on a daily basis.
The exclusion of these 20 Abayudaya
students the political cold shoulder
offered by Israeli officials in the name
of religious exclusivity is a shameful
offense, unworthy of the Jewish state.
To quote Hillels master: My brother,
every day this house is brightly lit, but
today it is dark. The exclusion of faithful Jews seeking to learn more Torah
seeking to grow in piety, to master
our sacred literature, and to spread
its wisdom and beauty is worse
than darkness. It is, in terms tellingly

invoked by Shemaiah and Avtalyon, a
desecration this time, in the interests
neither of Jewish survival nor of Jewish
learning.
In our corner of the diaspora, winter is
upon us, and Tevet is not far off. When
Shemaiah and Avtalyon finally lifted up
their eyes, it was almost too late. What
a tragic and sinful loss the Jewish people
would have suffered how truly impoverished the Torah would have been if
those sages had not acted when they did.
If they had not seen the light, if they had
not ascended to a higher plane, if they
had not, finally, admitted a poor diaspora Jew with Torah in his heart to the
rarefied and sacred precincts of Jewish
learning, which is the rightful inheritance of every Jew.
It is my fervent hope and it is my earnest prayer that the disappointed Ugandan youth also will be brought in from
the cold, to be warmed by the fire of Jewish scholarship, as is their spiritual birthright. If the offense they have endured
brings attention and just resolution to
their admirable quest, then perhaps it,
too, was snow fallen from heaven.
Economic conditions notwithstanding, take great care with the children of
the Abayudaya. And make no mistake:
From them will go forth Torah.
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Emanu-El of Franklin Lakes.
LETTER
Why do they do it?
The horrible murders of rabbis during

their morning prayers in Jerusalem,
killed in their prayer shawls in a synagogue. I was thinking about this horrific
act, and ISIS beheading a journalist in
northern Syria, while walking this evening along Broadway on Manhattans
Upper West Side.
Then I found myself face to face with
a protest in front of Symphony Space,
where Idan Raichel, a singer from Israel,
was scheduled to play with Vieux Farka
Toure, a musician from Mali, in west
Africa. They were building bridges.
At the same time a mob outside was
trying to stop the show, screaming about
Israels crimes against the Palestinians,
rapping a song about how Gaza is us.
The disconnect between the mornings
murder and this protest was surreal. I
understand that a permit probably was
issued before the murder occurred, but
then I realized that no murder of innocent Jews would ever stop these fanatics.
They do not protest against Saudi Arabia, or Kuwait, about their mistreatment
of women and gays or their support of
terrorism. They do not protest against

Assads killing more than 100,000 of his
countrymen. For them, all the problems
in the world begin and end with Zionism.
What, I wondered, did they invest in
their cause? What do they get out of it,
other than the social thrill of hanging
out with other extremists? And I realized
that it is safe and interesting for them to
hang out in this inexpensive moral blanket, which covered all wrongs with one
wide swing. They will go home feeling
good about themselves, even if it inspires
more terrorist acts and beheadings.
After all, its our demand for meaning
that creates this endless supply of causes
and priceless ideology.
Soli Foger
Englewood
EDITORS NOTE: Idan Raichel and Vieux
Farka Toure, well-known, well-respected
musicians who both explore world music
from a dizzying range of traditions, have
aroused the ire of Boycott Divestment
Sanction groups because Mr. Raichel is
Israeli. The November 18 concert was the
target of a protest by one such group.
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Survey says
What the federation study tells us about us
LARRY YUDELSON
ho are you?
Thats a question we
wonder about here at the
Jewish Standard: Who are
you, our reader?
And its a question the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey wanted answered:
Who are you, the Jewishly involved resident of northern New Jersey?
As Jason Shames, the federations chief

executive officer, put it: How are you
going to know what to do if you dont
know who you have?
To answer these questions, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
recently undertook a marketing survey.
The federation created an online survey,
which it promoted through mailed postcards, emails from the federation and area
Jewish agencies, synagogues, and schools,
22 Jewish standard nOVeMBer 21, 2014
and advertisements in newspapers like

this one and the Bergen Record. It also
called a few hundred randomly selected
people with Jewish last names. All told,
the federation received 2,815 responses to
its questionnaire, which included 86 questions many of which had many parts.
Thats a lot of data.
The federation has begun presenting the
results in a series of public meetings and
board discussions. Federation leaders sat
down with the Jewish Standard to discuss

the findings, and responded to several
requests for specific data analysis.
Unlike the survey conducted in 2001
by the UJA Federation of Bergen County
& North Hudson one of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys predecessor organizations this was not a demographic survey, designed to find all the
Jews in the region.
Repeating such a survey, Mr. Shames
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said, likely would have cost at least twice

as much as the marketing survey it did
conduct, because of the expense of reaching people who are not otherwise connected to the Jewish community or any of
its organizations.
And it would have been less helpful to
the federation and its agencies as they
work to improve their services.
The Jews can be divided into three
groups, Mr. Shames said.
There are the already affiliated the

group he jokingly called the Kool-Aid
drinkers.
At the other extreme are the non-affiliated. This survey did not aim to find them.
In between are the somewhat affiliated.
Those are people who identify as Jews
but may not be consistent users of Jewish community offerings, he said. They
occasionally will go to a JCC program,
show up to our rally, go to temple twice or
three times a year.
Theyre ripe for further engagement
if were better able to meet their interests
and needs.
So if the survey sheds no new light on
the dark mass of people who identify as
Jews but arent connected, it does tell a
fair amount about you, a reader who cares
enough about the Jewish community to
read this article.
Of course, surveys dont answer the
question of who are you, individually.
You, the reader, probably identify as
Reform, Conservative, or Orthodox.

(Thats not meant as a knock against those
of you who identify as Reconstructionist,
Just Jewish, or something else. There are
just fewer of you.)
However, you, dear reader, probably are
not 26 percent Reform, 40 percent Conservative, and 20 percent Orthodox, like
the aggregate respondents to the federation survey. (In a recent marketing survey
How are you

going to know
what to do if you
dont know
what you have?
JASON SHAMES
the Jewish Standard conducted, we found

a virtually identical denominational breakdown: 29 percent Reform, 41 percent Conservative, 18 percent Orthodox, and 12 percent other.)
The relationship between Orthodox and
non-Orthodox was an issue that surfaced
in a separate set of interviews, conducted
by the research firm that ran the survey, of
federation and community executives and
philanthropists.
Theres a divide, a gap between the
Orthodox and the non-Orthodox, Mr.
Shames summarized. When youre trying
to build one Jewish community and you
have such strong walls based on a religious
denomination, thats a major challenge.
Theres a desire for more platforms for
multiple denominations to get together,
said Lisa Harris Glass, the federations
managing director for community planning and impact.
Overall, the federation survey found the
Orthodox community to be geographically
concentrated two-thirds live in Teaneck
and relatively young. Sixty-two percent
are under 50 with 37 percent in the 35 to
49 bracket. The median age for the Orthodox respondents was 45, as compared to
note: we asked a representative
group of community members to
help us illustrate this story. the federations survey was anonymous.
Name: Jeff Bernstein

Town: North Bergen
Synagogue: Temple Beth Abraham,
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51 overall. (All the respondents had to be 18 or older.)

The least represented age group was from 25 to 29.
Clearly, Bergen and Passaic are not counties for young
adults.
The federation had worried that the surveys online
format would discourage the elderly from participating.
That wasnt the case. Older people were happy to take
the survey online, though it took them a little longer,
Mr. Shames said.
A quarter of respondents were 65 or older; 4 percent
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increase in intermarried couples who are raising their
children as Jews.
We have to find a better way to include them, she
said.
Though they were a small group, the intermarrieds who
responded to the survey are distinctive in some ways.
Most notably, they are younger than the average

respondent. More than half are under 50 37 percent
are between 35 and 49. Overall, only 23 percent of the
respondents were 35 to 49. But if the intermarried are
young, conversely, 37 percent of the married 35- to
49-year-old respondents are intermarried.
The denominational affiliations of the intermarried
also stand out. Fifty-three percent identify as Reform
the religious stream that has made outreach to the intermarried a priority. Thats double the general Reform
affiliation. Twenty-two percent identify as Conservative
thats half the rate of the survey overall. As a result,
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90 percent said they viewed the school favorably. Three
attached to Israel, as against 68 percent overall, and 26
One finding Mr. Shames highlighted was the correlaother long-standing day schools the Solomon Schechter
tion between a respondents high income and his or her
percent said they were not at all attached, as against
Day School in New Milford, the Yavneh Academy in Parafeeling included in the community. A household income
only 6 percent overall.
mus, and the Moriah School in Englewood also had high
of $200,000 or more allows people to feel theyre more
The bulk of the survey respondents 81 percent
favorability and high recognition. In fact, they were better
engaged, he said.
live in Bergen County. Eleven percent are from Passaic
recognized than the Jewish federation itself, which was recNearly a quarter of respondents didnt answer the quesCounty. Seven percent are from Hudson County: 2 percent from the northern part of the county, including
tion on income. Of those who did, 30 percent reported
ognized by 77 percent of respondents.
North Bergen, and 5 percent from the southern part,
an income of more than $200,000; a further 15 percent
The discrepancy possibly reflects the federations having
including Hoboken. That division reflects two separate
reported income between $150,000 and $200,000.
changed the name of the agency three or four times, Mr.
Jewish communities in the county. In the north, the
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bergen Countys
Shames said. What would UJA have scored?
average age of the respondent is 63, far older than the
median income is $79,272, ranking it 39th in the country.
Of those who were familiar with federation, 83 percent
overall average of 51. But in the Hoboken community,
One key set of questions for federation concerned how
rated it as excellent or good.
the average age is only 39.
the community viewed its institutions. Have you heard of
But Mr. Shames doesnt want to look at the federations
The denomination figures for southern Hudson
various agencies, community centers, federation programs,
glass as being four-fifths full and be satisfied. For me,
reflected the strong influence of the United Synagogue
and schools, it asked. And if you have heard, what do you
theres a lot of room for growth, he said.
of Hoboken, which is Conservative: 62 percent identithink of them?
That potential growth can be seen in the gap between
fied as Conservative, versus 21 percent as Reform and
The survey showed that people generally were familiar
respondents who say they donate to their synagogue 72
only 2 percent as Orthodox. But answers to a differwith those institutions.
percent and those who give to federation 45 percent.
ent question highlight the impact of Hobokens new
The Frisch School in Paramus was the most recognized
Jews who are affiliated who dont give to Federation are
Lubavitch congregation: 28 percent of south Hudson
institution 92 percent of respondents said they were someour best market, Mr. Shames said. Our growth opportuwhat or very familiar with it. Of those who were familiar,
nity is from the marginally affiliated, and the affiliated who
respondents said they belong to or support Chabad,
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while Chabads services are provided free.)
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response for synagogue support. The total for Chabad
OR
association is 17 percent. (Five percent said that they
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Going forward, the survey and in particular its
questions and answers about philanthropic priorities
will shape how the federation presents itself.
The alignment of what people are really interested
in reaffirms for me that the federation has a very real
role to play, Mr. Shames said.
The top three priorities are ensuring a vibrant
Jewish future, a safe and secure Israel, and fighting anti-Semitism. Theres a clear message in that.
These things wholly play into what the federation is.
It gives us an opportunity to galvanize the community differently.
Will such shifts help the federation? Mr. Shames
said he wants it to start putting aside money so it can
conduct a similar survey in five or seven years. (This
survey was funded by special grants from the Russell
Berrie Foundation and the Henry and Marilyn Taub
Foundation. And Mr. Shames singled out Norman
Seiden for pushing the federation to make the study.)
But enough about them.
Heres one more thing about you:
Unless youre reading this article on our website,
youre part of the 73 percent of survey respondents
who get news from print newspapers. And youre part
of the 69 percent of those people or half of everyone
who reads the Jewish Standard.
Now you know.
Who might we be?
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In 2001, the UJA-Federation of Bergen &

North Hudson survey reported 78,200 Jews
in 28,000 households in Bergen County.
By design, this years federation marketing survey wasnt about counting the Jews of
North Jersey.
But that doesnt mean estimates arent
available.
The Steinhardt Social Research Institute at
Brandeis University has an estimates for the
Jewish population of most of America (sorry,
Alaska and Hawaii). And for New Jersey, the
estimates are broken down for each county.
First, a word on the institutes methodology. It gathers information from consumer
marketing surveys that ask respondents their
religion. As of 2012 the most recent data
available online more than 6,000 adults
reporting themselves as Jewish had been
contacted by the surveys aggregated on the
site.
Two categories of Jews arent included in
this methodology: children, and Jews not by
religion.
With that caveat out of the way, the
Brandeis institute estimates the adult Jewishby-religion population of Bergen County at
56,000 with a possible range from 43,000
to 70,000.
Throw in the children and the Jews who
dont identify by religion, and Dr. Leonard
Saxe, who heads the institute, figures the
Bergen County Jewish population to be
about 90,000.
One indication of the difference between
the demographic methodology and the
survey of the affiliated can be seen in the
denominational response to the 2001 survey.
Then, there were 30 percent who identified
as Just Jewish, a category selected by just
9 percent in this survey.
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Is Mahmoud Abbas to blame
for Jerusalem synagogue attack?
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV After a gruesome attack by
two Palestinian cousins left five dead at a
Jerusalem synagogue, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu singled out one
person for blame: Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas.
In a statement issued by his office,
Abbas denounced the Tuesday morning
attack, saying he condemns the killing
of civilians no matter who is doing it. But
over the past few weeks, as a string of violent attacks have unsettled Jerusalemites,
Abbas has issued statements that some see
as encouraging violence against Israelis.
In late October, he called for a day of
rage over the temporary closure of the
Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, saying the
move amounted to a declaration of war.
Days later he called the shooter of Jewish Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick a
martyr in a letter to the attackers family.
This is the direct result of the incitement being led by Hamas and Abu Mazen,
incitement which the international community is irresponsibly ignoring, Netanyahu said after the synagogue attack, using
Abbas nom de guerre. We will respond
with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of
Jews who came to pray and were met by
reprehensible murderers.
Israeli police and rescue squads at the scene where two terrorists from East Jerusalem entered Kehilat Yaakov
synagogue in Har Nof.
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Terror victims mourned

in Jerusalem and beyond
BY BEN SALES
TEL AVIV They all lived on the same street.
They had all moved there from abroad. They
were all rabbis. They all prayed at the same
synagogue.
And it was at that Jerusalem synagogue
that they were all murdered on Tuesday
morning.
Mosheh Twersky, 59, Kalman Levine, 55,
Aryeh Kupinsky, 43, and Avraham Goldberg,
68, were killed when two cousins from eastern Jerusalem entered Kehilat Yaakov Synagogue, in the haredi Orthodox neighborhood of Har Nof, wielding a gun and butcher
knives. The attackers, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
injured eight others before they were killed
at the scene by Israeli police.
An Israeli Druze police officer Zidan
Saif, 30, of the Druze village of Kfar Yanouch

died on Tuesday night of injuries suffered
during the attack
Twersky, Levine, and Kupinsky were
Americans. Goldberg was from England.
All of the men were buried in Jerusalem on
Tuesday.
We are here, standing in front of these
three holy men, the best of our community, Torah scholars whose blood flowed
like water, said Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai
Rubin, the chief rabbi of Kehilat Yaakoy,
according to the Times of Israel.
Twersky, the head of the Toras Moshe
Yeshiva, was the eldest grandson of the influential American Orthodox scholar Rabbi
Joseph Soleveitchik. Twersky left behind his
wife, five children, and 10 grandchildren.
Rabbi Menachem Genack of Englewood, CEO of the Orthodox Unions Kosher
Division and a student of Soleveitchik, knew

Twersky for most of his life and said that he
was in every respect extraordinary, noting
his kindness, his stunning brilliance.
He was a great scholar, Genack said.
You saw his devotion to his students and
their love for him. He was reserved, very
insightful. He came from the most exalted
rabbinic family and yet he was just so
humble.
Levine, who is survived by his wife, nine
children, and five grandchildren, grew up in
Kansas City, Mo. He was born Cary Levine
and attended the Hyman Brand Hebrew
Academy there. A friend told the Kansas
City Star that he was a gentle soul with a
kind heart. His son eulogized him as a diligent scholar.
My father would study all day long and
would return home at night only to learn
We are here,
standing in front
of these three
holy men, the best
of our community,
Torah scholars
whose blood
flowed like water.
RABBI YITZCHAK MORDECHAI RUBIN
some more until he would fall asleep in his

chair, the son said, according to Israels
Foreign Ministry. Abba, you were in the
middle of saying the Shema when your soul
left your body and the terrorists came and
murdered you.
Kupinsky, who also emigrated from the
United States, leaves behind his wife and five
children. He lost a daughter, Chaya Chana,
Jewish World
In the attack, the two Palestinians

entered a synagogue in a haredi Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem and
attacked worshippers with a gun and
butcher knives.
Four Israeli rabbis were killed in the
attack: Mosheh Twersky, 59, head of the
Toras Moshe Yeshiva in Jerusalem and a
grandson of Rabbi Joseph Soleveitchik,
the founder of modern Orthodoxy, Kalman Levine, 55, Aryeh Kupinsky, 43, and
Avraham Goldberg, 68.
Twersky, Levine, and Kupinsky were
dual Israeli and American citizens; Goldberg was an Israeli and a British citizen.
Eight others were wounded, including
one Israeli police officer.
An Israeli Druze police officer Zidan
Saif, 30, of the Druze village of Kfar
Yanouch in the Galilee died Tuesday
night of wounds suffered during the
shootout with the assailants.
The assailants, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
were killed at the scene by Israeli police.
Despite Abbas condemnation, Israeli
politicians and American Jewish groups
admonished him for inciting the violence.
Theres hypocrisy at work here,
Finance Minister Yair Lapid said in an
interview with i24 News. You cannot
incite in the evening and condemn in the
morning.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who
called the attack an act of pure terror
while traveling in London, also called for
an end to Palestinian incitement, though
he didnt mention Abbas by name.
So the
Palestinian
leadership must
condemn this,
and they must
begin to take
serious steps to
restrain any kind
of incitement
that comes from
their language.
JOHN KERRY
To have this kind of act, which is a

pure result of incitement, of calls for
days of rage, of just an irresponsibility,
is unacceptable, Kerry said at a news
conference Tuesday. So the Palestinian leadership must condemn this, and
they must begin to take serious steps
to restrain any kind of incitement that
comes from their language.
In the West Bank, a senior official
from Hamas political echelon told a
visiting journalist that he found Tuesdays attack encouraging. The attack
appeared to be a spontaneous response
to Israeli actions, the Hamas official said,
not a coordinated assault organized by
the military wing of Hamas.

Hamas has been trying for a long
time, but particularly since the summer,
to foment and incite unrest in Jerusalem
and the West Bank, the journalist, Neri
Zilber, now a visiting scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said
of his meeting with the Hamas official,
whom he declined to identify by name.
Its obviously a high Hamas interest to
foment this type of instability to keep the
Palestinians in the West Bank rising up
against both Israeli authorities and Palestinian authorities, which they see as
going hand in hand.
Zilber, who meets regularly with
Hamas political figures and has written
for the Washington Post, the Atlantic,
and Foreign Policy, said the attack wasnt
unexpected given the current environment in Jerusalem.
You have an escalating pattern of
lone wolf attacks, and I think it was only
a matter of time before a bigger attack
materialized, he said.
Some analysts say that it is mistake to
place the blame on Abbas. They point
to the Palestinian presidents longtime
opposition to violence as well as to the
Palestinian Authoritys ongoing security
cooperation with Israel, which some
credit with preventing the recent unrest
from spiraling into a full-blown uprising.
From the perspective of the Palestinians, every Palestinian that is killed in
the conflict with Israel, no matter the circumstances, is thought of as a martyr,
said Itamar Radai, a research fellow at
Tel Aviv Universitys Moshe Dayan Center. Abu Mazen lives in his society. There
are codes he cant completely break.
Radai said that recent statements
by Abbas should be understood as a
reflection of his frustration with Israel
and his efforts to curry favor with his
constituents.
On Tuesday, Yoram Cohen, the head
of Israels Shin Bet internal security service, told the Knessets Foreign Affairs
and Defense Committee that Abu Mazen
isnt interested in terror and isnt causing
terror, according to Israeli reports.
Mr. Abbas is a true partner of Israel
who wants peace, said Munib al-Masri, a
member of the Palestine Liberation Organizations Legislative Council. We are
fed up with occupation. We dont want
harassment in our holy sites. We want to
sit down and talk about this.
But Mordechai Kedar, an analyst at
Bar-Ilan Universitys Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, said Abbas
only opposes violence when speaking to
an international audience and that his
inflammatory Arabic pronouncements
show his true position.
Within the Palestinian Authority, he
calls for violence, Kedar said. In English, they speak with one mouth and in
Arabic they speak with a different mouth.
He cant clearly say Go kill Jews, but he
says it in an unclear way.
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JTAs Uriel Heilman contributed to this
report.
who died in her sleep two years ago at 13.

According to the Foreign Ministry, he was
known to be very generous and was a daily
worshipper at the synagogue.
Goldberg, who moved to Israel in 1993, is
survived by his wife, six children, and grandchildren. His friend from the neighborhood,
David Osborne, remembered him as devout
and kind.
He was the most wonderful person you
could meet, a pillar of the community,
Osborne told the British Jewish News. Avraham prayed there most days for the last 10
years or so. He was a devout Jew with no
political agenda. All he wanted was to live
a peaceful life.
The terrorists in Tuesdays attack were
identified as Uday and Ghassan Abu Jamal.

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Thousands of Israelis mourned at

the funeral of three of the victims
killed on Tuesday, November 18.
Here, women stand on playground
equipment, hoping to be able to see
the ceremony.
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a final agreement with Iran
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And as more and more
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people are forecasting,
the same number of centrithings arent looking too
fuges could produce the
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The issue isnt whether we get an
The addition of more centrifuges would
agreement, but what kind of agreement
simply speed up this process.
we get. Moreover, if we dont get an
None of that exactly suggests that a
agreement, what happens next?
forthcoming deal would arrest the mulFundamentally, Western negotialahs desire which they insist they
tors are being hampered by the same
dont have! to weaponize their nuclear
knowledge and intelligence gaps that
program. Even the looming November
have dogged the entire Iranian nuclear
24 deadline hasnt curbed the Iranian
saga for more than a decade. Put simdetermination to circumvent restricply, the Iranian regimes deliberately
tions on any nuclear activities that they
obstructive strategy has been to prevent
are able to. And we are compelled to ask
inspectors from the International Atomic
not just how insistent the Obama adminEnergy Agency from building up a true,
istration is being with the Iranians, but
verifiable picture of Irans nuclear instalwhether they are now engaged in outlations and capabilities. While IAEA
right wishful thinking.
experts are frequently very good at
Take a recent Reuters report that
guessing what they havent been told,
stated, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
the fact remains that the Obama adminMarzieh Afkham gave no indication that
istration is pushing for a deal without the
Iran had stopped feeding natural uracritical data on which success depends.
nium gas into the so-called IR-5 centriIndeed, so unreliable have the Iranians been that the Joint Plan of Action
agreed to in Geneva on November 24
last year wasnt actually implemented
until January of this year, leaving Irans
uranium and plutonium production programs significantly closer to breakout
capacity than if the Joint Plan of Action
had been implemented on November
24, 2013, according to former IAEA Deputy Director General Dr. Olli Heinonen.
I conducted a long interview with Heinonen earlier that may come to haunt
those seeking an Iranian deal at almost
any cost. Everything that happens
[with Irans nuclear program] is at a
known, declared place, he said. There
is no assurance that there isnt another
enrichment plant under construction
somewhere else.
This week, Heinonen again highlighted Irans duplicity with regard to
whats known diplomatically as the PMD
(Possible Military Dimensions) of the Iranian nuclear program. Speaking to the
Sunday Times in London, Heinonen
fuge a more advanced device that
offered an independent assessment of
also speeds up the enrichment process.
Irans nuclear capacity specifically
Yet the same report says, Washington
that Iran could have up to 5,000 IR-2m
said on Monday Tehran had ceased [that
centrifuges, rather than the 1,008 it has
activity].
claimed. The IR-2m devices are up to
Frankly, that is just flabbergasting.
five times more effective in enriching
Our own administration is confirming
uranium than their predecessor model.
Iranian compliance before the Iranians
Then, on a conference call organized
themselves do.
And we are
compelled to
ask not just
how insistent
the Obama
administration is
being with the
Iranians, but
whether they
are now
engaged in
outright wishful
thinking.
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If you read what the Iranians have to

say, you will learn that they regard the
whole centrifuge problem as an irritating irrelevance. As regime mouthpiece
Press TV reported, Sources close to the
Iranian negotiating team say the main
stumbling block in the way of resolving the Western dispute over Irans
nuclear energy program remains to be
the removal of all the bans imposed
on the country, and not the number
of centrifuges or the level of uranium
enrichment.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
long feted as a moderate despite his own
shadowy role in the development of the
Iranian nuclear program, not to mention
the appalling human rights abuses that
have marked his time in office is also
getting fed up with anything that sounds
like a demand from Western negotiators. On Wednesday, he told his cabinet,
Iran has made its utmost efforts and
made the necessary adjustments to its
demands and we hope that all the P5+1
countries, particularly the U.S., which
occasionally seeks excessive demands
in the nuclear talks, will understand the
circumstances.
In other words, shut up and make a
deal.
President Obama, sadly, may not need
much convincing. By writing secret letters to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Obama has proved
that he wants a final accord, and getting
one on November 24 will, he calculates,
limit the damage that might be done
once the Republicans take control of the
Senate in January.
Republicans, however, have launched
an immediate push to require the
approval of Congress for any deal. We
can also expect a fight if the president
decides to use any of his executive powers to override congressional pressure.
In that sense, failure to reach a deal
on November 24 should be welcomed,
because the only deal that can be made
in the limited time remaining is a bad
one. True, it would mean that Obamas
ambition of a historic peace with Iran
falls by the wayside. But what the
president understands as peace will
for other countries in the region like
Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and
the United Arab Emirates be interpreted as the green light for further
Iranian expansion in the Middle East.
It would also be a game-changing shift
in the regional balance of power that
an eventual Iranian nuclear weapon
would usher in.
Thankfully, our federal legislators
seem to understand the stakes involved
here. For the time being, then, the main
brake on Irans further accumulation
of power and influence lies in the U.S.
Congress.
JNS.ORG
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Journal, Commentary, Haaretz, and
other publications. His book, Some Of
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Pastrami? Check.
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Welcome to Kosherfest, the annual kosher food trade show
where hundreds of kosher food companies come together
to display their wares, luring their potential customers with
free samples of everything from vegan lasagna to an imitation bacon (facon) to carrot cake macaroons. There was also
plenty of spirits on hand, including vodka, arak, and tequila.
Not bad for a weekday afternoon.
Held last week at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in
Secaucus, the two-day convention featured a mix of old and
new. There were longstanding staples like Streits matzah,
Kedem wine, and Golds horseradish (unfortunately, too far
away from the booth of A&B Famous Gefilte Fish). And there
were lots of newer entries to the market, like a nitrate-free
cured meat called biltong (courtesy of Joburg Kosher), hot
sauce from a company called Burning Bush, and kosher-forPassover chocolates shaped like frogs and locusts from Zeldas
Sweet Shoppe (more plagues may follow!).
Theres a lot more sampling than other food shows,
observed second-time Kosherfest exhibitor Terry Grant, the
president of Smokinlicious, which sells kosher-certified wood
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The market for kosher food in America is growing.
Consultants maintain its a $12.5 billion-a-year industry, though its hard to say exactly what the figure
represents.
What is clear is that in this age of heightened food
awareness and concern about the provenance of food,
a growing number of companies are going out of their
way to advertise their kosher status or obtain kosher
certification.
About 8,000 facilities representing some 4,500 companies are under the supervision of the Orthodox Union,
Americas largest kosher-certification agency. About 28
percent of all new food products launched in 2008 (the
latest year available) were certified as kosher, according to
a study conducted by the marketing firm Mintel.
Kosher may be enough of a dietary restriction for
most, but a growing number of companies are trying to
reach more restricted segments of the kosher market. At
Kosherfest, there were gluten-free cookies from Allies
Gluten Free Goodies, organic poultry from Wise Organic
Pastures, and vegan seafood from Sophies Kitchen.
There also were nutritional shakes from Nugen certified
as cholov Yisroel, meaning that the dairy production
was supervised by Jews to adhere to a more stringent
strain of kosher observance favored by some strictly
Orthodox Jews.
One oddly labeled product offered cooked, textured
soy slices certified as both pareve and glatt an impossibility since glatt refers to meat from animals whose
lungs were inspected and found to be without blemishes, and pareve is by definition free of dairy, meat,
or poultry.
The kosher-for-Passover category included everything
from the anti-constipation pills (Natures Cure) to a cake

baked to resemble a seder plate (Munch Real Kosher) to
matzah-based granola (Foodmans Matzolah). There also
were plenty of Passover breads, which are made with
potato flour instead of wheat to circumvent Passovers
prohibition against chametz, or leavened foods.
Some of the non-Passover breads were specially
marked as mezonot, meaning they are made with
fruit juice rather than water. That means that consumers are not required to wash ritually and recite the
blessings before and after meals. Mezonot rolls are
commonly used on airplanes for kosher meals, so diners can avoid getting up and navigating past seatmates
and food carts to find a sink before eating. At Kosherfest, the mezonot breads included full loaves of rye.
Not all the exhibitors at Kosherfest were food
companies.
Kosher certification agencies came, including one all
the way from Australia. A payment processing company offered free shoe shines to those willing to hear
a pitch. And Haynes Lubricants operated a booth promoting its lubricating oils for machines used in food
preparation.
The most frenzied moment at the convention came
near the end, when exhibitors prepared to pack up and
leave. Consumers rushed forward to grab some final free
samples, including items that until then had been for
display only. After a mad rush for the Bissli and Bamba
snack bags at the Osem display, a few women emerged
with their goody bags full and their wigs slightly askew.
It was definitely more intense than I was used to,
said an employee of a promotional company who works
helping exhibitors at food conferences who identified
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At Paris meeting, French Jews

hear from their Muslim allies
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
PARIS Shadowed by two bodyguards, Hassen Chalghoumi a target of many anti-Semitic attacks in recent
years mingled with friends and colleagues at the fifth
national convention of Frances Jewish community
umbrella group, CRIF.
But Chalghoumi is not a member of the Jewish
community.
He is a Muslim spiritual leader, or imam, who is being
targeted for his vocal condemnations of anti-Semitism and
his work to commemorate the Holocaust.
Honestly, it has come to a point where I feel safer
when Im abroad, said Chalghoumi, who has received
countless death threats. Theres a minority within the
Muslim community that is trying to agitate and to tarnish
our name. Its not only a Jewish problem. Its a Muslim
problem. Its a French problem.
Chalghoumi was one of several Muslims who attended
the conference on Sunday, where organizers highlighted
the contribution of non-Jews to the fight against anti-Semitism to show that Jews are not isolated in French society,
as some might think, and that the fight against anti-Semitism is a fight for republican values, as CRIF President
Roger Cukierman said.
The conference, which organizers said drew more than
500 people, took place amid a spike in the number of antiSemitic attacks coupled with record-breaking immigration
to Israel from France.
And though the conference offered speeches about Jewish spirituality by Frances newly elected chief rabbi, Haim
Korsia, and a speech by the French-Jewish celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy on the future of French Jewry
he called on Jews to stay in France French anti-Semitism
nonetheless dominated the discussions at the convention.
Frances Jewish community, which numbers 500,000,
became a major target of hate crimes over the summer
during Israels war with Gaza. The community recorded
527 incidents in the first seven months of this year; there
were 423 such incidents in all of 2013.
Most violent acts in 2014 have been perpetrated by people of Muslim background, according to Sammy Ghozlan,
founder of the National Bureau Against Anti-Semitism
watchdog group.
Over the past 20 years, Muslims have taken over from
the far right when it comes to violent acts, Ghozlan said.
Patrick Klugman, a human rights lawyer who serves as
a deputy mayor of Paris and is a former head of Frances
Jewish student union, said: We had terrible anxiety, of
historical proportions, over the very future and sustainability of the Jewish community of France, and what
would happen to France itself two concerns that are
intertwined. Now its time to reflect. And while the situation is dire, the Jewish community has more friends than
it knows. This is an attempt to show it.
The conference included a lunch session with Latifa
Ibn Ziaten, the Muslim mother of one of three French soldiers killed by the Islamist Mohammed Merah before he
murdered another four people three of them children
at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012. Ziaten spoke of
her indignation when she hears young Muslims speak of
Merah as a martyr.
I cant believe my ears and I tell myself this is simply
not possible in the France I know, she said.
Chalghoumi told listeners of a recent incident in
which a young man gave him the thumbs-down sign
from some distance.
This time, I went over and tried to ask him why he would
do that. He told me to go to my Zionist friends, recalled Chalghoumi, the imam of Drancy, near Paris. Then he told me goodbye, Mr. Rabbi.
Notably, back in 2010, Chalghoumi was the target of scores
of Muslims who burst into a prayer service he was leading and
yelled, We are going to liquidate him, this imam of the Jews.
To Chalghoumi, anti-Semitism and the indifference to it are
part of a bigger crisis afflicting French society, also visible in the
departure of hundreds to fight as jihadists in a war which has
nothing to do with real Islam, he said in reference to young
men and women who left for Syria since 2011. The French daily
Le Figaro put their number earlier this year at 250.
As noted during the lunch, these and other factors resulted
in the growing popularity of the far-right National Front party,
which many perceive as anti-Muslim, not only in the general
population but also among Jews. Its founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen,
has been convicted many times for hate speech and Holocaust
denial. But with his daughter, Marine, at the helm, the party has
courted the Jewish vote.
One person working to solve issues of interreligious discord
is Martine Ouaknine, president of the CRIFs Nice-based office.
At the conference, Ouaknine showcased a recently launched
scouts group for Muslim, Jewish, and Christian children.
While the CRIF convention highlighted Frances republican values and its longstanding embrace of secularism, it
also named Muslims (as well as far-right and far-left voters) as
Latifa Ibn Ziaten and CRIF President Roger

Cukierman.
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more susceptible than others to anti-Semitic views. Conference

organizers revealed the results of surveys conducted in recent
weeks by the IFOP polling company. Among the findings: 74 percent of the more than 1,500 respondents who self-identified as
observant Muslims agreed that Jews have too much influence
on French economics, compared to 25 percent in the general
population.
Chalghoumi did not take issue with the results, saying we
need to look at what we fear, not shy away.
Watching Chalghoumi and his bodyguard leave the CAP
15 conference center near the Eiffel Tower, Martine Levy, an
active member of the Jewish community, spoke of her admiration for what she said was Chalghoumis courage. But she also
wondered what kind of message other Muslims who oppose
extremism receive when they see that he has to walk around
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Jewish World
Forced laborers now can claim

wider pensions from Germany
DR. WALLACE GREEN
ifty-seven years ago, the German Compensation

Act was enacted. Now, over and above any other
reparations, the Ghetto Workers Compensation
Law (ZRBG) recognizes the work survivors conducted for the Germans while they were at forced labor in
the ghettos, factories and labor camps. German law now
recognizes it as labor that entitles them to social insurance
and therefore grants them eligibility under this law for social
security pension.
Experienced legal experts at Beit Ahava VeTorah will fight
for the full compensation of any Holocaust survivors and
heirs. They understand how significant knowing the details
and particular procedures may be. They are the most knowledgeable professionals, and understand why this is a great
mitzvah.
Since it was established in 1971, Eliahu Weber and Co. has
focused on the rights of Holocaust survivors and maintained
a legal team in Israel and Germany, and has now joined
forces with Beit Ahava VeTorah throughout the United
States and Canada.
For decades, the firm filed thousands of legal cases against
the federal government, forcing the German government to
acknowledge Jews rights to receive pensions from Germany.
As of the early 1990s, the firm continued to work on various legislations, and compensation programs such as the
Swiss bank litigation, ICHEIC life insurance policies, Article 2 Jewish Claims Conference fund, and the Israeli finance
ministry (the Israeli compensation arrangements). It was
among the leading firms to sue the federal government,
causing Germany to create the slave labor fund in 2000.
Throughout this period, members of the firm acted as
external consultants to both members of the Israeli Knesset
and the government, assisting in clarifying complicated legal
issues relating to German and Israeli law.
Due to several key Supreme Court decisions, more than
30,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel were recognized by
the government as eligible to receive a monthly pension.
Furthermore, the firm led the largest ever retroactive case
against the Israeli finance ministry. It resulted in a Supreme
Court decision ordering the government to pay retroactive
payments to some 20,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel.
In 1975 the treaty for Social Security recognition between
the Federal Republic of Germany and the state of Israel
came into being. This treaty was the legal basis for the creation of compensation for Holocaust victims under the General Social Security law.
It is important to note that these arrangements are external to existing compensation laws, and thus they are additional pensions that are paid to survivors. The ghetto pension law is based upon a Supreme Court decision made
possible by the firm in July 1997.
The firm continued to bring more cases to the Supreme
Court and is pleased that the federal government has
decided to bring the issue of ghetto pensions to an end, and
recognize all cases as of 1997.
Beit Ahava VeTorah, in collaboration with Eliahu Weber
and Co., now provides its services and expertise to American and Canadian survivors and heirs, and is confident that
they will obtain their well-deserved rights and compensation. Through its work and experience its can help many
survivors and their heirs go through this detailed, long and
complicated process.
Because of the complexity of the federal law, and the fact
that these pensions are regulated under the general federal
Expanded pension compensation for Holocaust survivors who labored for the Nazis is now firmly rooted
in both Israeli and German legislation.
law, this legal advice for the claimants is essential, and might
result in a difference in both the size of the pension and the
retroactive payments.
If a survivor has not filed an application for a German
pension in the past but meets the requirements, he or she
should fill out the pension application form and start the
process as soon as possible. If a survivor already has filed
an application and was rejected according to the previous
interpretation of the law, he or she can explore the case and
possibly get a new decision. If a benefit already has been
claimed or paid according to the ordinance of recognition,
the claim for a pension under the ZRBG does not conflict
with that.
By law, victims of national socialist persecution can
receive a payment in recognition of labor in a ghetto which
did not constitute forced labor. The claim according to the
ordinance of recognition, does not replace the pension
application under the ZRBG.
The ZRBG defines the conditions for making pensions
payable for the Holocaust survivors who labored in a ghetto
that was in a territory occupied by the Germans or under
Nazi influence.
Since the federal social court has now recognized the periods of contributions completed in the ghetto, the changes in
the interpretation of the ZRBG law are allowing more survivors to claim their compensation.
A persecuted person who was only in the ghetto now
can be recognized under the ZRBG. That was the first time
ghetto workers were entitled to pensions. A survivor whose
application had been rejected in the past or who waived
an application can now receive a pension. Even someone
who is already getting a pension might receive an increased
pension.
A survivor who wishes to claim his or her compensation
must prove that he or she was forced to live in a ghetto, in a
territory that was occupied by the German Reich or under
Nazi influence. The stay in a concentration camp or work
camp is not covered by the ZRBG, but these periods can be

accounted for as substitute periods after reaching the age
of 14.
While the ghetto workers law was enacted during 2002,
it was fully implemented in 2011. Until this day, there are still
many Holocaust survivors and heirs who did not even apply
to claim their right for compensation.
Since an agreement was never signed between Germany
and the United States, most survivors who are U.S. citizens
never received any compensation. That is why U.S. citizens
now will be entitled to receive an increased payment of 5
percent per year as of their 65th year.
The legal team, both here and in Germany, will strive
to get the maximum award and use their experience and
expertise to get survivors their well-deserved compensation
as soon as possible.
On September 20, 2013, the German Bundestadt called
upon the federal government to submit legislation that
would allow all applicants to receive a retroactive payment
as of July 18, 1997.
Heirs who are entitled to inherit from a survivor who died
after June 2002 and received an old age pension will receive
a retroactive payment from the time the pension should
have been paid until the time that the survivor died.
Please note that this is not a class action suit. Each claim
will be filed on behalf of the individual survivor.
For more information, call (888)-888-2180, email info@
beitahavavetorah.com, or go to www.beitahavavetorah.
com. There is no upfront application fee.
Dr. Wallace Greene taught Holocaust courses at Upsala
College, was among the first to debunk the Holocaust deniers
in the academic press, and has been a distinguished member
of the Holocaust Commemoration Committee of the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey for more than two
decades. He is also a consultant to The International March of
The Living and Beit Ahava VeTorah.
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First global social network for doctors

The ability to have discussions on medical and paramedical issues between physicians
all over the world is very exciting, says a leading Israeli neurosurgeon
Abigail Klein Leichman
-Med, the worlds first

and only global socialprofessional network
exclusively for physicians, allows doctors anywhere
to consult with colleagues, manage multinational research projects and offer virtual services to
patients.
Launched in Israel last year,
G-Med proved so popular that its
founder, Hagar Mordoch, took it
global at the end of 2013. Today
this unique social network has
about 20,000 users from more
than 50 countries.
That kind of diversity was just
what Dr. Sagi Harnof needed
when he recently began planning
brain surgery for a patient
who is a Jehovahs Witness.
This religion forbids blood
transfusions. Harnof, deputy
chief of neurosurgery at Israels
Sheba Medical Center, rarely
encounters Jehovahs Witnesses
and so he presented the case via
G-Med.
I got comments from
colleagues in North and South
America and Europe, says
Harnof, who is one of the sites
two medical advisers. The online
guidance helped him strategize
the best surgical procedure for
the patients health and religious
beliefs.
For me, the ability to have
discussions on medical and
paramedical issues between
physicians all over the world
is very exciting. There are no
borders for medicine, and its
only natural to talk between
professionals and share

thoughts, Harnof says. Its only
the beginning, but I feel its a very
nice platform to communicate
between physicians.
Consultations
and research
G-Med members are categorized
by medical specialty, making
it simple to find an expert in a
particular field. Mordoch points
out that specialists often need a
consultation in a different specialty, for example an obstetrician needing advice on treating
a pregnant patient who has an
infectious disease.
In any consultation, you can
see each medical case is being
solved from the input of many
physicians from a lot of different
specialties and countries, she
says.
Users can join and create
physician groups and expert
panels around common
interests, ideas, activities, or
events. They can comment on
posts and publications of peers,
and post job offers, text, pictures,
videos, and files under their real
names or anonymously. They
can participate in professional
surveys, focus groups and
distance-learning courses.
Because of its international
nature, the websites common
language is English, though
physicians may write queries in
their native language.
There is social networking
just for U.S. physicians and a
few in other countries such
as Germany, all in the local

language, but until G-Med there
was no international closed
network, Mordoch says.
One heavily used feature is
managing research projects that
span more than one country.
Im running several clinical
trials internationally, and all the
participating physicians are in a
unique group on G-Med where
we can share information on
patients and protocols and solve
problems, says Harnof.
This secure feature is compliant
with the U.S. HIPAA regulations
for patient privacy, and can also
be used for promoting research
and publicizing requests for
recruiting trial participants.
Private clinics
coming next
Mordoch reveals that the Tel
Aviv-based G-Med will soon provide the option of private online
clinics, giving any physician,
or group of physicians, exposure to patients around the

world via text, audio and video
components.
A lot of users are interested,
says Mordoch. Hundreds of
physicians want to start their
clinics now. This will give
patients anywhere the ability
to speak to the best doctors in
the world without leaving their
home.
Mordoch expects this will
be popular especially in areas
where its difficult to get health
care services. At some point,
she also wants to start a separate
pro-bono medical consultation
program for needy locales.
Her original intention was
to build a social net work
where patients could share
their opinions about specific
physicians, with a feature for
viewing physicians according
to their professional ranking,
in order to help users choose
doctors in the most objective

manner.
T h at wa s a c ou p l e o f
years ago, and we started to
build something along those
lines, says Mordoch, whose
background is in finance. In
working with doctors, however,
we saw that what they needed is
to talk to each other, to consult
in a secure way and build an
international community. So
we decided to start such a
community in Israel and see
what happens. We got a few
thousand doctors participating
here, and decided to open it
globally. Its amazing how were
growing.
G-Med was launched with
private equity and continues to
be supported by private investors
as a new funding round begins.
The staff currently consists of
eight employees.
Visit g-med.com for more
information. Israel21c.org
Discover Prospect Heights Care Center in Hackensack

Prospect Heights Care Center is an accredited health care facility that provides highquality holistic patient-centered care. It is
one of the few post-acute rehabilitation
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meeting the high standards of service
and excellence of both the Joint Commission and CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) accrediting organizations. The foundation of
its services is evidence-based practices
monitored through a comprehensive quality assurance and performance improvement program.

Prospect Heights Care Center is
proud of its service delivery, which
earns it excellent satisfaction survey
results. Patients scored the facility over
90 percent for overall care satisfaction
and would recommend this facility to
others. Services are provided seven days
a week in a variety of rehabilitation gyms.
Prospect Heights also offers the patients

the opportunity to continue the progress
they have made by transitioning to the
outpatient program upon discharge from
the facility.
The centers rehabilitation department
consists of highly-skilled, competent
staff with an array of credentials. Its
treatment approaches integrate the
patients personal goals and are geared
toward the patients level of ability. The
interdisciplinary team provides frequent

meetings with the patients and families to
update them on their status in preparation
for discharge to the community. A social
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Now offering a 30-day trial residency
tudies have shown a direct correlation between

seniors quality of life and their level of activity or
socialization. Yet when retirement age is reached,
these types of opportunities often decrease, especially for seniors who must rely on others for transportation.
Thats why many families consider the all-inclusive Esplanade at Palisades Senior Community the ideal solution for
those looking to start the next phase of their life.
The Esplanade Luxury Senior Community located

on the border of Bergen and Rockland Counties
combines the best of rural and suburban living in
one of the areas most vibrant neighborhoods, with
spacious, fully furnished apartments, along with a
host of onsite amenities.
The Esplanade believes active lifestyles can help

minimize aging. It recognizes its critical for a seniors wellbeing and can ultimately increase feelings of happiness,
while developing a sense of belonging. The amenities
and programs at the Esplanade, along with its family
atmosphere, make the transition easy and offer both
caregivers and residents peace-of-mind.
Esplanade staff keeps residents engaged with a
variety of regularly planned onsite and off-site activities,
entertainment, trips, and wellness programs that are
fun, educational, and cultural. By being proactive, its the
Esplanades hope to increase each residents activity level
so they can enjoy a greater independence as they age. The
host of Esplanade alternatives ensures that more than one
activity will appeal to the unique interests of each resident
while meeting their individual physical, social and
emotional needs. Participation is always encouraged, and
transportation is provided for outside events.
Located on the border of Rockland and Bergen counties,
prospective families find the residence impressive, and
current Esplanade residents love their new home. The
Esplanades affordable, yet luxurious setting of wellness
and vitality offers seniors many outlets in its safe,
comfortable home-environment. With on-site health
services also available, the Esplanade further facilitates
seniors aging in place. A highly trained, attentive staff
consistently delivers a quality of care that the elderly have
rightfully earned, in an atmosphere that fosters dignity for
every resident.
Every effort is made to make seniors feel special once
Keeping busy and making friends, Esplanade

seniors stay happy and engaged in regularly
scheduled activities and an active lifestyle. Two
examples: Natalie Feingold, standing, and Florence Cohen.
an Esplanade resident, said Joyce Rogers, Esplanades

director of marketing. Each senior brings something
new to our residence and we try to get to know each
persons preferences so your family becomes part
of our extended Esplanade family and we can inspire
our residents to make senior living the best it can be.
For more information, call (845) 359-7870 or visit
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Dr. Charlotte Sokol, left, and Dr. Martin

Blechman
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BVMI gala honors

Dr. Charlotte Sokol
Dr. Charlotte Sokol, recipient of the Bergen Volunteer
Medical Initiatives Community Leadership Award,
was joined by her husband, Dr. Martin Blechman, at
the groups gala at the Seasons in Washington Township to celebrate BVMIs fifth anniversary. The organization helps low income Bergen County residents who
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Pathway smoother this time

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Abbe greenberg
id you know that open enrollment for Obamacare began

on November 15?
This year I have had many
questions from clients about Obamacare.
Here is what I generally tell them.
If you do not have health insurance or,
if your health insurance is too expensive
for you, go on to Healthcare.gov and
begin to enroll on-line. The process is a
bit long, somewhat tedious, and often a
little frustrating. However, if you go into
it knowing all of this in advance you will
find it less of a burden. And in the end,
going through the process pays off with
good information to help you make a
very important decision.
You will need to create a username
and password. What is great about this is
that it will allow you to quit and return in
the event that you do not complete your
enrollment in one shot.
Once you have entered all of the
necessary information into the system,
you will be given your health insurance
options. You can use this information
to decide what plan is right for you or if
Obamacare is the direction you want to go.
Remember, there is a tax penalty for
being uninsured. In 2014 the tax penalty
for going without insurance was $95 per
adult and $47.50 per child or 1 percent
of the family income (whichever was
greater). In 2015, those numbers go up
considerably. You are not obligated to
sign up or purchase anything by going on
Healthcare.gov. However, if you choose
to, the instructions are right there.
A bit about New Jersey, Obamacare,
and Medicaid. In 2014 Medicaid was
expanded in New Jersey to include
coverage for individuals who might
not have been eligible before due
to income. If over the course of
your enrollment your information
demonstrates that your income is
below a certain threshold and you meet
eligibility criteria, your Medicaid option
and follow-up information will be

presented right to you. Case in point:
While assisting a client to complete
an application last year, his income
information was entered and when
we pressed send we were directed to
a personal page which stated that he
was eligible for Medicaid and should
he desire it, his information would
be sent to the state for processing. He
did. It was. And now he is covered
by Medicaid. I cant say that the New
Jersey process was seamless but in the
end, coverage was obtained at no cost
to the insured.
Open enrollment is now under way
and ends February 15 for coverage
beginning in 2015. If you already
have coverage through Obamacare,
re-enrolling online is advised. This is
because your information from the
previous year needs to be considered as
you proceed with continued coverage.
You may have received a subsidy which
is no longer available to you because
your income changed. You may have
been ineligible for a subsidy and are
now eligible because of income changes.
Plans and coverage may have changed.
These are examples of what may not
go smoothly if you opt for an automatic
re-enrollment. The best way to know is to
re-enroll by December 15. Re-enrollment
has a shorter window, especially if you
want all of your coverage details to be in
effect for January 1, 2015.
If you need help with your enrollment,
there are free services to you in the
community. These assistance providers
are called navigators and they have
been trained to provide help and
support for enrollees who need it.
Abbe Greenberg, M.S.W., is a trained
and credentialed essential life planner
and behaviorist, giving her clients
constructive guidance, allowing them
to hone the skills needed to live more
productive and fulfilling lives. She can be
reached at (201) 530-5770.
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Coping with loss of a loved one is difficult at any time, but even more so during
the holiday season. Susan Breithaupt, a
social worker with Valley Hospice, will
provide information to help with the
grieving process during a program at
the Bergen County YJCC on Wednesday,
December 3, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Ideas for supporting the bereaved and

struggling families during this sensitive
time will be offered. This program is free.
However, pre-registration is appreciated
at www.valleyhealth.com/events or
by calling (800) VALLEY1. The Bergen
County YJCC is located at 605 Pascack
Road, Washington Township.
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o many women have experienced menstrual cramps that

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Period pain is due to contractions of
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women with high prostaglandin levels
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The first thing many women use to
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reproductive tract infections. Its time
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becomes suddenly worse or is different
from usual cramps. Signs of infection
including fever, chills, or overall body
aches during a womans period should
also prompt a doctors visit. Excessive
bleeding is another symptom that should
be evaluated by a doctor or other health
care provider.
Women should come to us to discuss
menstrual or abdominal pain thats
getting in the way of daily activities,
said Dr. Myriam Langer of Hackensack
University Medical Group Pascack Valley.
We understand that women need to
keep going no matter what day of the
month it is. However, its important to
know whats causing the pain and see
if anything needs further investigation.
Dr. Langer works as part of an allfemale group of OB/GYNs and health care
providers with offices located in Montvale
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In his book The Road Less Traveled, psychiatrist
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virtues of a disciplined life, delay gratification, and
accept responsibility for oneself and ones actions.
He wrote, Problems do not go away. They must
be worked through or else they remain, forever
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pain of the consequences of that behaviorWe cannot solve lifes problems except by solving them.
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a physical and financial burden to society that consigns them to a corner of the room rather than at
its center.
Let us remember that this group confronted
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the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall,
the Beatles, the Vietnam War, the March on Washington, Martin Luther Kings assassination, Robert
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of terrorism, the birth of the computer age, and
the Internet. This group of seniors branded society with activism, pacifism, and the weed; they lit
up, protested, and tuned-out; they marched for
peace, civil rights, and the right to get high. As a
group, they challenged and shaped our militaryindustrial complex, championed the landing on the
moon, witnessed Kent State, invaded Woodstock
and demanded a president resign. They forged an
indelible stamp upon our world, its direction and
focus. And yet age has placed them in a corner!
I have known and worked with many seniors;
they have taught me far more than I have
bequeathed to them. As they lived as a group, so
they live now as individuals. Recognizing life is
difficult, I know of not one senior who does not
directly confront their problems. Age bestows
frailty, so these seniors exercise for strength and
balance; cancer attacks their bodies, so they confront that disease with committed determination
to maintain a quality of life; our economy erodes
their wealth, but they persevere and financially aid
their children; their friends die and they stoically
accept death as part of life; their minds forget, so
they impart their wisdom through their past performance and present verve. They confront the
pain of life and therefore teach us all how to live.
Life is difficult and we can all benefit from the
example, history, and teachings of our seniors. Perhaps we should respect them as if they still occupy
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Breast cancer risk seminar at Theurer Center

John Theurer Cancer Center ( JTCC) and Hackensack University Medical Center is holding a breast cancer risk and
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Here are some tips from A Recipe for
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Keep active.
Remember to get five servings of
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Keep hydrated.
Before leaving for a party, eat a light
snack like raw vegetables or a piece of
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Offer to bring a healthy dish to a
holiday gathering to ensure you have a
healthy option available.
Try making homemade soups. See
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We, as a society, are often multitasking,
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Eat often: Eating every 3 to 4 hours
can help to fuel a healthy metabolism,
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between-meal hunger that leads to
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Eat light: Eating just enough, but not
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Balance Your Plate: A balanced meal
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fiber-rich fruits and vegetables, fat-free
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Snacks are a bridge: Dont skip
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Remove energy zappers: Skip the
soda, sugary coffee, and energy drinks.
These foods may leave you buzzing for
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Holy Name Hospice schedules

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Lymphedema occurs when lymph vessels are
unable to adequately drain lymph fluid, usually from
an arm or a leg, according to the Mayo Clinic website.
It can occur on its own (primary lymphedema) or be
caused by another disease or condition (secondary
lymphedema). Any condition or procedure that
damages lymph nodes or vessels can cause this
condition, such as removal of lymph nodes or
radiation that causes scarring or inflammation.
In August, Ms. Ribustello took a course that ran
135 hours, followed by a test for certification in
lymphedema treatment at Sacred Heart University in
Fairfield, Conn. A resident of Haworth, she received
her undergraduate degree and her doctorate from the
same school. She is planning to take another exam
from the Lymphedema Association of North America
to add to her credentials. She says shes excited about
doing this. Its great to help people.
There are only a handful of lymphedema specialists
in the county. The goal of this specialization is to
control swelling, Ms. Ribustello said, but it cant be
cured. We try to bring it to a level so that the patient
can maintain it. Before patients are discharged,
they receive training in exercise, skin care, and
an explanation of the use of proper compression
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The rehabilitation program at Rockleigh is managed
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Volunteers shop for residents at JHAL
Jane Levy and Shira Antonoff,
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cookies or candy at supermarkets for visiting grandchildren.
Each week, when they see the
morning, helping with activities and
volunteers seated in the lobby of the
one-on-one time with residents, and
home, JHAL residents line up with their
then spends the afternoon shopping.
list of requested items and money to
She says she enjoys the relationship she
pay for them. Then the volunteers go
has with seniors at the home.
shopping at nearby stores and deliver
Ms Light added, I like the feeling of
the items to the rooms.
being helpful and enjoy the interaction
The program has been in place for
with seniors.
three years. Ms. Levy, who has been
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was looking for something meaningful to
that provides assisted living for the
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elderly in Bergen, North Hudson, and
and spoke to Julie Cochrane, director of
Rockland counties. JHAL and its sister
recreation and volunteer activities. I get
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a good feeling when I do this, she said.
the Jewish Home Foundation, and now
Ms. Antonoff, who is a nurse although
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Diabetes linked
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Diabetes and hearing loss are two of Americas most
widespread health concerns. Nearly 26 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, and an estimated 34.5
million have some type of hearing loss.
Fact: The National Institute of Health (NIH) has
found that hearing loss is more prevalent in people
with diabetes. Also, of the 79 million adults thought
to have prediabetes, the rate of hearing loss is 30
percent higher than in those with normal blood
sugar.
Fact: Hearing depends on small blood vessels and
nerves in the inner ear. Researchers believe that,
over time, high blood glucose levels can damage
these vessels and nerves, diminishing the ability to
hear.
Fact: Hearing loss is often accelerated in diabetic
patients when their blood-glucose levels are
not being controlled with medication and diet.
Physicians have been encouraging diabetics to
regularly test their vision. However, screening for
hearing loss has often been neglected.
Fact: A certain degree of hearing loss is associated
with aging. For most people, hearing loss is gradual
and happens over time. If you are over the age of 50,
have your hearing tested annually. If you are under
age 50, test your hearing every 2 to 3 years.
Common signs of hearing loss include:
Frequently asking others to repeat themselves
Trouble following conversations that involve
more than two people
Thinking that others are mumbling
Problems hearing in noisy places such as busy
restaurants
Trouble hearing the voices of women and small
children
Turning up the TV or radio volume too loud for
others who are nearby
Early diagnosis of hearing loss is accomplished
with a simple examination. Studies have shown that
untreated hearing loss can have a negative impact on
quality of life. Conversely, treating hearing loss has
a very positive impact: better relationships, more
engagement with family, friends, and life, and safer
working conditions.
If you or a loved one has diabetes and has not had
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Ben-Gurion University researchers report
startling findings on autism brain anatomy
In the largest MRI study to date, researchers from BenGurion University of the Negev and Carnegie Mellon University have shown that the brain anatomy in MRI scans
of people with autism above age six is mostly indistinguishable from that of typically developing individuals
and, therefore, of little clinical or scientific value.
The study, Anatomical Abnormalities in Autism?
was published in the prestigious Oxford journal Cerebral
Cortex.
Our findings offer definitive answers regarding
several scientific controversies about brain anatomy,
which have occupied autism research for the past 10 to
15 years, says Dr. Ilan Dinstein of BGUs Departments of
Psychology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Previous
hypotheses suggesting that autism is associated with
larger intra-cranial gray matter, white matter and
amygdala volumes, or smaller cerebellar, corpus
callosum and hippocampus volumes were mostly
refuted by this new study.
The researchers used data from the Autism Brain
Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE), which provides an
opportunity to conduct large-scale comparisons of
anatomical MRI scans across autism and control groups
and resolve many outstanding questions. This recentlyreleased database is a worldwide collection of MRI scans
from over 1,000 individuals (half with autism and half
controls) ages 6 to 35 years old.
In the study we performed very detailed anatomical
examinations of the scans, which included dividing each
brain into over 180 regions of interest and assessing
multiple anatomical measures such as the volume,
surface area, and thickness of each region, Dinstein
explains.
The researchers then examined how the autism and
control groups differed with respect to each region
and also with respect to groups of regions using more
complex analyses.
The most striking finding here was that anatomical
differences within both the control group and the
autistic group was immense and greatly overshadowed
minute differences between the two groups, Dinstein
explains. For example, individuals in the control group
differ by 80 to 90 percent in their brain volumes, while
differences in brain volume across autism and control
groups differed by 2 to 3 percent at most. This led us
to the conclusion that anatomical measures of brain
volume or surface areas do not offer much information
regarding the underlying mechanism or pathology of
Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), he states.
These sobering results suggest that autism is not
a disorder that is associated with specific anatomical
pathology and, as a result, anatomical measures alone
are likely to be of low scientific and clinical significance
for identifying children, adolescents and adults with
ASD, or for elucidating their neuropathology.
This conclusion stands in sharp contrast to numerous
reports of significant anatomical differences described
by smaller studies, which have typically included
comparisons of 40 to 50 individuals. The problem with
small samples, large within-group heterogeneity, and a
scientific bias to report only positive findings, is that
small samples are likely to yield significant differences
across autism and control groups in a few of the 180
brain regions, Dinstein explains.
In such a situation one would expect that each study
would find significant differences in different brain
areas and that findings will be very inconsistent across
studies, he says. This is exactly what you see when
you examine the autism anatomy literature from the
last decade or so. Our study simply explains why this
has been happening and puts an end to several ensuing
debates.
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Parashat Toldot
an you tell the difAmud.

ference between
We s t a r t e d h i k i n g a
a jackal and a fox
gorgeous arid riverbed
from 200 feet away?
nestled between two ridges,
Neither can I.
passed the imposing stela
It would have been helpful
for which Nachal Amud is
two weeks ago when my wife
named, and figured wed
Andi, son Aaron, and I were
continue for a while on what
hiking Nachal Amud in the
was simply a different, less
Rabbi Adina
lower Galil.
traveled section of the trail
Lewittes
We were visiting Aaron
we had planned to hike.
Shaar
wh o i s o n He v r u t a , a
We were chatting a lot as
Communities
gap year program at the
we walked, maybe in part to
Shalom Hartman Institute
suppress a little anxiousness
in Jerusalem, and went up
not knowing exactly where
north for two days in part because we
we were heading, when I stopped
love to hike amidst its rugged beauty and
suddenly.
in part to escape a bit from the growing
About 200 feet ahead of us on the path
chaos in Jerusalem where simply waiting
was an animal I didnt recognize.
for a train could be fraught with mortal
None of us did.
danger.
It had the strong, curved body of a
These days, in cities throughout Israel,
dog, but the face and eyes of something
being able to tell the difference between a
potentially more vicious. It was sand
pedestrian and a terrorist, between a car
colored and quite handsome.
and a weapon, though nearly impossible,
Could it be a fox?
has become a matter of life and death.
A hyena?
Twelve miles east of Nahariya and nine
Was it dangerous?
south of Lebanon, we settled into our
Friendly?
favorite tzimmer guest house in Kfar
When it started trotting down the path
Vradim, a stunning bed and breakfast
toward us, we decided not to wait to find
perched on a mountain overlooking rolling
out.
hills dotted with Arab and Jewish villages
We turned around and quickly started
known for their millennia long ability to
to retreat.
live together in relative peace and quiet.
Annoyed that I hadnt hired a guide for
(How tragic that on the day we left
the day like we usually do, I called one I
the north for Tel Aviv that quiet was also
knew in the area for a reality check.
shattered by clashes between Israeli police
When I described the animal to him
and Arab residents.)
he instantly recognized it as a jackal
The next morning we awoke to a
and reassured me that theyre harmless
breathtaking sunrise and a sumptuous
to humans, unless of course they feel
outdoor breakfast that also filled us until
threatened and bite you and happen to
we could hardly breathe. While davening
be rabid... We turned around again and
on the terrace surrounded by the Galils
continued, undisturbed, on our hike.
verdant sights and smells, I held my tziztit
How does one discriminate between
in my hand as we do at the end of the
safety and danger, between friend and
Shema when gazing at them reminds us of
foe, between good and evil? There are
the Torahs myriad commandments that
circumstances and people who create no
give form and purpose to our lives. Except
confusion.
rather than stare at the strands of wool
Indeed, plenty of evil abounds in Israel,
in my hands, my eyes were drawn to the
the Middle East, and throughout the world
homes and towns on the hills around me,
today.
sensing in their varying colors, shapes,
But what we find so vexing and so
and sounds the demand of our tradition
terrifying are the circumstances and
that we and our enemies find a way to live,
people who defy simple classification,
and not die, together.
who both beckon and repel us, make us
Off we went to hike Nachal Amud, a
feel optimistic and despondent, confident
beautiful trail that passes an inviting water
and utterly vulnerable.
hole before circling back.
While its tempting and infinitely easier
The tzimmers owner said the start was
to see the world in zerosum terms, being
a mere 30minute drive away, but 50
able to tolerate the risks of standing in a
minutes later, as our GPS was taking us
place and in the presence of people that
down towards the Kinneret, we realized
cannot be so simply reduced is key not only
we were off course.
to our personal and national aspirations
Finally, we pulled onto the shoulder of
with respect to our adversaries, it is also
a road with a small sign pointing to Nachal
key to our selfunderstanding.
We learn this from none other than our

foremother Rivkah in the opening of this
weeks parasha.
Finding themselves childless, Isaac
pleaded with God lenochach ishto.
This is usually translated as on behalf of
his wife but Rashi explains it as opposite
his wife, meaning they were each praying
for a child.
The verse then reads Vaye ater
lo Hashem, God responded to his
pleading meaning Isaacs and not Rivkas
and Rivka becomes pregnant.
Rashi brings the Talmuds conclusion,
eyn domeh tefilat tzaddik ben tzaddik
ltefilat tzaddik ben rasha (there is no
comparison between the prayer of a
righteous person who descends from a
righteous person to one of a righteous
person who descends from an evil
person) to explain why it was Isaac, son
of the righteous Abraham, whose prayer
was answered and not Rivka, daughter of
Bethuel the Aramean.
The Kotzker Rebbe (17871859) asked:
How can the Torah say it was Isaacs
prayers that were answered when they
were both praying for a child and she
became pregnant?
Clearly both their prayers were
answered!
He explained: Both Isaac and Rivkah
knew they were going to have two sons,
one righteous and one evil.
Isaac prayed that the righteous one
would be completely righteous, even
though this meant that all the evil qualities
would be concentrated in his other son
who would then be completely evil.
Rivkah, on the other hand, prayed that
her evil son would not be completely evil,
even though this meant that her righteous
son wouldnt be completely righteous
because some of those qualities would be
given to the evil son, and some of his to the
righteous one.
The Kotzker then restated the Talmuds
conclusion to explain why Isaacs prayers
were chosen: There is no comparison
between the prayers of a righteous person
for a righteous child and the prayers of a
righteous person for an evil child.
While the Kotzker Rebbe preserves
the traditions preference for pure
righteousness (which is also reflected in
commentaries about Esaus wickedness
that often feel forced or lacking in textual
support), theres something compelling,
even haunting, about Rivkahs prayer that
her wicked son not be completely wicked,
knowing that she would then have to
contend with her other sons imperfect
righteousness.
In fact, it would seem that in spite of the
parashas prizing Isaacs prayer, Jewish
tradition actually chose Rivkas.
Many are the sources that remind us that
no human being is wholly evil any more
than one can claim to be wholly righteous.
We are taught that we are each composed

of both good and evil inclinations, our
yetzer tov and yetzer ra, and that it is the
mission of each human to tip the scales
toward goodness by putting our selfish
impulses and egobased energies toward
positive uses, like building businesses and
families. And homelands. And making
peace.
After all, while Rabbi Simhah Bunim of
Przysucha (17651827) wrote: A person
should have two pieces of paper, one in
each pocket, to be used as necessary. On
one of them is written, The world was
created for me, and on the other, I am
dust and ashes, it was the Kotzker Rebbe
who added that the trick is to know which
piece of paper to take out and when.
To accept that we are a combination of
virtues and vices is one thing.
To acknowledge that duality in our
personal and our political adversaries,
is another.
And yet, Parashat Toldot suggests
that our ancient mothers plea that her
unborn son destined for great wickedness
be blessed with even a small measure
of the goodness of her other, righteous
son, might be the very source of our own
limitations.
If we are capable of misdeeds, then our
enemy is capable of decency.
Rather than see Rivkahs prayers as
flawed for having been willing to sacrifice
Jacobs righteousness for a measure
of decency in Esau, lets see them as
heroic for being willing to see something
redemptive in someone whom we could so
easily dismiss or reject.
And as further proof of the ultimate
acceptance of her prayers over Isaacs, the
Sages boldly recalled Esaus merit for his
unwavering dedication to his father, and
even for his settling of the land of Israel
while Jaacob lived in PadanAram.
They were no less courageous than
Rivkah, for they acknowledged his merit
even as they resolutely condemned his
vicious and murderous actions.
Minutes after we had settled back into
our pace in Nachal Amud, free of fear of
the jackal and warmed by the midday sun
and our restored confidence, we heard the
noise.
It was faint at first but then it sounded
clear and close though we couldnt locate it.
It was a series of notes flowing from a
chalil, a flute.
Someone somewhere up on the ridge
was playing this nondescript, unhurried,
Middle Eastern melody.
Was it a shepherd? A hiker? A child? An
adult? A Jew? An Arab?
We had no idea.
Alone on a trail we hadnt prepared
for, deep in the grooves of earth, we were
grateful for the musical company, listening
carefully for the sweetness and the hope in
each anonymous note.
comedian
ROBERT KLEIN
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14. First word of a magic phrase adapted from Hebrew
15. Put it in an uzi
16. Place to build a sukkah
17. Koestlers Darkness at ___
18. Moses Montefiore and Isaiah Berlin
19. Cause of death for Sartre (author of
Anti-Semite and Jew)
20. Name in the news on August 8,
2000
23. Gives a blessing to
24. Today in Ladino
25. Kind of drink a limonana is
26. Word after hamotzi lechem
27. Something to do while shuckling
29. Bar mitzvah boy, the next day
32. Shallow part of the Kinneret
35. Wise Wiesel
36. Material for Jewish caskets
37. One of them refers to murder
40. Green and Garfunkel
41. Faith ___ Darkness (Holocaust
book)
42. Bancroft and Roiphe
43. It modifies Orthodox or Nazi
44. Less ___ Zero (Jami Gertz film)
45. Shabbat observers sometimes get a
special one for their hot water
46. ___-Devil (1989 film starring
59-Across)
47. Judean town with a palindromic
name
48. Org. for Arafat
51. Each one comes from the Prophets
57. Palmach commander Yigal
58. When doubled, sound Mel Blanc
made for the Road Runner
59. See 46-Across
60. Sababa, e.g.
61. Shekel alternative, once
62. Comedian Kaufman or Samberg
63. Promotes, like an anti-Semitic rumor
64. L.A. Republican congressional candidate Carr who lost Nov. 4
65. Gypsy role
1. Instrument for bluegrass musician Eric

Weissberg
2. One version of a JPS title
3. Quality that might make you say
Blech
4. Successful Freud patient
5. ___ Hara (evil speech)
6. Gilda Radner character Litella
7. Casspi of the NBA
8. Schnozz
9. Warner Brothers mouse Gonzales
voiced by Mel Blance
10. Abba in Acapulco
11. Something sold at Sears
12. Glee city in Ohio
13. ___ extent (a bissel)
21. Jewish philosopher from Alexandria
22. Echoed Davids flock
26. Many Facebook employees use them
27. Bagel choice
28. An etrogs is thick
29. Home st. for Al Franken
30. Join a game of dreidel
31. Suffix for Jewish
32. Getz with a saxophone
33. Wish You Were ___ (Jewish
Museum program)
34. Gershwins Hang ___ Me
35. Lazarus of The New Colossus
36. Milk portrayer in a biopic
38. He argued with Affleck about Islam
39. Seder substance
44. Footwear for Eilat
45. Something to do to the ark to let
people sit down
46. Implement for some Biblical capital
punishments
47. Klinghoffer is a controversial one
48. Billy Joel plays it
49. Jonathan Sacks and others
50. One way to order pastrami
51. Latke alternative in potato preparation
52. Iran is Hezbollahs
53. Where you can find Faye Kellermans
photo on her hardback books
54. What is crooked will not be ___ to
be straightened... (Ecclesiastes 1:15)
55. Third Reich greeting
56. Way up Mt. Hermon
The solution to last weeks puzzle

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Arts & Culture

Kutshers documentary captures
the eclectic legacy of a Borscht Belt relic
JEFFREY F. BARKEN
hen young independent music enthusiasts

descended on Kutshers, an antiquated Jewish hotel, for an international indie rock
concert series in 2008, it was kind of
like Cocoon meets The Shining, Barry
Hogan recalls in the forthcoming documentary film Welcome to Kutshers: The
Last Catskills Resort.
The comment by Hogan, founder of the
All Tomorrows Parties music festival organization, exemplifies the widening generational gap that ultimately forced Kutshers
to close in December 2013. Yet despite the
hotels obvious state of physical decline,
Hogan observes, the venue still had the
right charm and intimate stage for
bands. It allowed indie nerd fans to raise
the roof during electric performances.
Similar nostalgia, pride, and humor
characterize the other interviews in Welcome to Kutshers, which is premiering on
December 6 in Palm Beach, Fla. Viewers
will be treated to a quirky smorgasbord of
Borscht Belt culture. Directors Ian Rosenberg and Caroline Laskow explore the origins of Jewish American investment in the
Catskill Mountains, beginning in the late
19th century. Next, the filmmaking pair
visits Kutshers Country Club. This prominent hotel was a magnet for vacationing
Jewish families, as well as a springboard
to success for prominent entertainers and
gifted athletes throughout the latter half of
the 20th century.
Now that the Catskills region is in
decline, the film honors the legacy of those
who made summer memories so colorful
for so many generations, and sheds new
light on a vibrant chapter of the American
Jewish experience.
Mark Kutsher, then the hotels owner,
was proud to host the indie rock concert
series in 2008. Staying true to his familys
inviting and experimenting business style,
he admires the youthful spirit and dedication of the festival participants, even
though he finds their loud music physically damaging.
Indeed, the famous concert hall at Kutshers is a cherished relic of an illustrious
past. Ray Charles performed there. Jay
Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, the late Joan Rivers, and many other stars made regular
appearances at the hotel at some point
in their careers. Assembling this cast of
characters epitomized the inclusive spirit
that was at the heart of the Borscht Belt
experience.
Basketball legend
Wilt Chamberlain
worked as
a bellhop at
Kutshers.
MARK KUTSHER
Below,
a Kutshers
postcard.
MARK KUTSHER
We shouldnt forget that the Jewish

resorts in the Catskills were created in
large part because other hotels in the
region refused to admit Jews around the
turn of the century through the 1930s,
Rosenberg reminds audiences.
The phrase No Hebrews or Consumptives were included in advertisements for
these restricted hotels, he adds.
The culture of Kutshers and other Jewish hotels in the Catskills evolved to accommodate religiously observant patrons, providing Friday night and holiday services as
well as kosher cooking. For the first time in
history, it was possible for strictly religious
Jewish families to go on holiday.
The story of Kutshers also is a tale of
assimilation. Ironically, the oppressed
people who initially sought refuge and

release in the form of an affordable and
accessible family vacation ultimately outgrew the resorts that had nurtured their
prospering culture. The Catskills no longer
appealed to newly affluent Jews.
One poignant moment in the film
recounts the effect the advent of jet travel
had on the hotel. As things went on, people were asking for all the amenities with
the hotel, family matriarch Helen Kutsher, often called the First Lady of the
Catskills, says.
Do you have an indoor pool? Do you
have a golf course? callers would often
ask before making a reservation, according to Helen. They wanted everything.
I asked many people, Do you play golf? Do
you like swimming? No, theyd answer,
but I like to know that you have it.

Competition for Kutshers was intense
as luxury hotels proliferated around the
country, offering deluxe packages with
no discriminatory barriers to entry. Likewise, Caribbean cruises came into vogue.
Even more alluring, the prospect of buying
property in Florida, where aging patrons
could live on what became known as permanent vacation, defined decades of exodus from the Catskills tradition.
Perhaps the most nostalgic description of a vacation culture in decline can
be found in the popular film Dirty Dancing, which shows a Jewish resort largely
believed to be based on Kutshers, Laskow says. Toward the end of the film, Max
Kellerman ( Jake Weston), a fictional hotel
owner, watches the season-ending pageant
and remarks, It all seems to be ending.
You think kids want to come with their
parents to take foxtrot lessons? Trips to
Europe, thats what the kids want. Twentytwo countries in three days.
From the 1970s through the 1990s,
diverging interests and a widening generation gap unraveled the close-knit traditions that Jewish families had established
at their favorite Catskills resorts. What
exactly are these traditions? Welcome
to Kutshers wont leave you hungry for
details. The documentary focuses on the
Jewish home cooking that earned the
region its Borscht Belt nickname. Viewers will enjoy learning about the unique
personalities in the Kutsher family, who
contributed to the hotels family-oriented atmosphere. Dedicated employees
recount the warm feelings they harbor for
the owners, and guests share fond memories of their family vacations.
Rosenberg and Laskow admit that they
arrived late to the Kutshers scene, making their first trip to the hotel in 2002.
But thinning crowds and unrented rooms
aside, there was still plenty of magic. The
experience inspired them.
Ian learned to ice skate after an
impromptu lesson with Celia Duffy, whom
we would later feature in our documentary, Laskow recounts. We took the
Seabreeze special cocktails out to the pool,
attended a still-life art class, and enormously enjoyed our many meals.
Perhaps time was running out for this
form of entertainment and the Catskills
resort atmosphere, but its clear that this
filmmaking duo taps into an essential
aspect of Jewish American culture. Welcome to Kutshers offers a heartfelt view
of an iconic Jewish establishment, chroniJNS.ORG
cling cherished memories.
Calendar
Friday
NOVEMBER 21
Shabbat for seniors: The
Bergen County YJCC in
Washington Township
continues Kabbalat
Shabbat, a monthly
program with lunch and
a speaker, noon-2 p.m.
Next program December
19. Partially subsidized by
a grant from the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610.
Early Thanksgiving
in West Nyack: The
Rockland Jewish
Academy offers the
ThanksGIVING Project,
an early childhood
celebration for 3to 6-year-olds and their
parents, with learning
about tzedakah through
art, storytelling, math,
and science, 10 a.m. At
1:30 p.m., there will be a
Sifriyat Pijama BAmerica
Hebrew story time with
activities and a snack.
Bring canned goods to
donate to a local food
pantry and gently worn
shoes for Soles4Souls.
Sifriyat Pijama continues
on Jan. 23, March 6, and
April 12. 450 West Nyack
Road. Judy Klein, (845)
627-0010, ext. 104, www.
rocklandjewishacademy.
org, or kleinj@
rocklandjewishacademy.
org.
Shabbat in Franklin
Lakes: Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey hosts a
pre-Thanksgiving kosher
wine tasting following
Kabbalat Shabbat and
Maariv services, which
begin at 7:30 p.m. 558
High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers a
musical service led by
Rabbi Steven Sirbu and
Cantor Ellen Tilem with
the Temple Emeth band,
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.emeth.org.
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 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.
Saturday
NOVEMBER 22
Bible Players
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County
and Congregation Beth
Sholom offer Shabbat
afternoon fun with
Torah comedy duo, the
Bible Players. Kiddush
luncheon at 11:30 a.m.;
show at 12:30 p.m.
354 Maitland Ave. All
welcome. RSVP, www.
ssdsbergen.org/
schechter-rocks.
James Mattern
Comedy in Washington
Township: The Bergen
County YJCC hosts
Fall Into Laughter: An
Evening of Cocktails
and Comedy, 8 p.m.
Comedians include
headliner James Mattern
and Grant Gordon. Cash
bar. 605 Pascack Road.
(201) 666-6610 or www.
yjcc.org.
Sunday
NOVEMBER 23
Rabbi Berel Wein
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
Rabbi Berel Wein is
scholar-in-residence at
the Young Israel of Fort
Lee. Co-sponsored by
the Destiny Foundation.
Services tonight at
4:20 p.m., followed
by dinner and lecture.
Shabbat morning
services at 8:45 a.m., with
lecture. 1610 Parker Ave.
(201) 592 1518 or yiftlee@
gmail.com.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
services led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
Cantor Rica Timman with
the Shabbat Unplugged
Band, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth, as part
of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New
Jerseys One Book, One
Community, offers a day
of learning focusing on
this years book, The
Golem and the Jinni.
Torah study, 9 a.m.,
services at 10:30, kiddush
lunch at 12:15 p.m., and a
presentation/workshop/
discussion, Project
Identity: Share Your
Familys Journey, with
Jill Kravitz, at 1. 1666
Windsor Road. (201) 8331322 or www.emeth.org.
Robert Klein, who has a four-decadelong, award-winning career in comedy on

Broadway, in film, and on television, will be
at the Victoria Theater at NJPAC in Newark
on Saturday, December 6, at 8 p.m. A Bronx native, Mr.
Klein received a Tony Award best-actor nomination for
Theyre Playing Our Song and an Obie for his role in
Wendy Wassersteins The Sisters Rosensweig. He also
is a two-time Emmy nominee. VIP packages include the
best seats in the house, a meet and greet with Klein, a
photo opportunity, and a signed DVD of Robert Klein:
Unfair & Unbalanced. For information, go to www.
NJPAC.org or call the box office. (888) 466-5722.
1 Center St., Newark.
DEC.
and home dcor, 10 a.m.

-4 p.m. Proceeds benefit
the Early Childhood
Center. 1 Engle St. (201)
568-6867.
Ave. (201) 262-9898, ext.

213 or ssdsbergen.org/
Schechter-rocks.
Preschool program in
Leonia: Congregation
Adas Emuno holds Tot
Mitzvah, a monthly
program for preschoolers
with arts and crafts, food,
stories, and music, led by
Doris White, 9 a.m. 254
Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712
or www.adasemuno.org.
Coffee and breakfast

in River Edge: Temple
Avodat Sholom hosts
Java Nagila, a gathering
for parents of Sunday
school children and
parents of nonschoolaged children, with
coffee, breakfast goodies,
and schmoozing,
9-11:30 a.m. 385 Howland
Ave. (201) 489-2463
Holiday boutique in
Tenafly: The Temple
Sinai early childhood
education committee
holds a boutique
with jewelry, clothing,
childrens accessories,
Bob Schapiro
Journalist/filmmaker in
Leonia: Bob Schapiro,
Family program in New
Milford: Solomon
Schechter Day School of
Bergen County offers
Sundays @ Schechter, a
communitywide Jewishthemed interactive family
series for 2- to 7-yearolds, with Whats for
Lunch Today? a
Thanksgiving puppet
show by Yellow Sneaker,
10-11:30 a.m. Sing-along
with the Healthy Snack
Band. Puppet-making
arts and crafts after the
show and nut-free
snacks. 295 McKinley
a journalist and
Emmy Award-winning
filmmaker, talks about
From Beirut to Beijing: A
Jewish Journalists Story,
11 a.m. 254 Broad Ave.
(201) 592-1712 or www.
adasemuno.org.
Tricky tray in Fair

Lawn: The sisterhood
of Temple Beth Sholom
holds its annual tricky
tray auction. Doors open
at 1 p.m.; calling starts at
2. Refreshments. 40-25
Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 7979321.
Uncle Moishy in Passaic:

Jewish Family Service &
Childrens Center hosts
an all-new concert with
Uncle Moishy at Ahavas
Israel, 2:30 p.m. Sponsor
opportunities available.
181 Van Houten Ave.
(973) 777-7638, ext. 623,
or jfsclifton.org.
Monday
NOVEMBER 24
Memory screening in
Tenafly: The Senior
Services Department at
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades offers free,
confidential screenings
by the Alzheimers
Foundation of America
to community members,
10 a.m. 2 p.m. The
screening, on National
Memory Screening
Day, is part of National
Alzheimers Awareness
Month. Judi Nahary, (201)
408-1450 or jnahary@
jccotp.org.
Calendar
Senior program in
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
continues its Smile on
Seniors program with
a mini yoga chair class
at the center, 11:30 a.m.
Light brunch. $5. 194
Ratzer Road. (973) 6946274 or Chanig@
optonline.net.
Networking in Franklin
Lakes: Barnert Temple
joins with Beth Rishon of
Wyckoff, Beth Haverim
Shir Shalom of Mahwah,
Temple Beth Or of
Washington Township,
and Temple Beth
Tikvah of Wayne for a
meeting of the Temple
Community Network
at Barnert, 7-9 p.m.
747 Route 208 South.
(201) 848-1800 or www.
barnerttemple.org.
Music in Teaneck:
Chabad of Teaneck offers
a musical evening for
women only celebrating
the power of prayer with
Australian born singer/
songwriter Rivka Leah,
8 p.m. Refreshments.
513 Kenwood Place.
(201) 907-0686 or
rivkygoldin@gmail.com.
Holy Name Medical

Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a division
of New York Blood
Center, in the hospital
parking lot, 1-7 p.m. 718
Teaneck Road. (800)
933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Sunday
NOVEMBER 30
Vintage jewelry
and small sale in
New City: The West
Clarkstown Jewish
Center invites the
community to pick up
a little something small
for the holidays, noon.
195 W. Clarkstown Road.
(845) 352-0017.
Monday
DECEMBER 1
Book discussion: The
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
holds its Book and
Lunch program as Dr.
Rita Jacobs discusses
Art Speigelmans Maus,
noon. Lunch served. 1010 Norma Ave. (201) 7965040.
Tuesday
NOVEMBER 25
Film in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah concludes its
annual Jewish Film
Festival with a screening
of Jakob the Liar,
starring Robin Williams,
8:15 p.m. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 2627691.
Friday
NOVEMBER 28
Singles
Thursday
DECEMBER 4
Wine & whiskey:
Temple Israel & Jewish
Community Center
in Ridgewood holds
a singles party, with
wine, whiskey, and hors
doeuvres, for Jewish
singles 40+, 7 p.m. $36.
475 Grove St. (201) 6526624 or email office@
grjc.org.
Itzhak Perlman will solo

at Lincoln Center recital
Israeli-born violin virtuoso Itzhak
Perlman will perform his first New
York solo recital since 2007 at Lincoln Centers Avery Fisher Hall on
Wednesday, December 3, at 7:30
p.m.
Pianist Rohan De Silva, Mr.
Perlmans longtime recital partner, joins him for a program that
includes Vivaldis Sonata in A
Major for Violin and Continuo,
Op. 2 RV 31; Schumanns Fantasiestcke, Op. 73; Beethovens
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.
7 in C Minor, Op. 30; and Ravels
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.
2 in G Major.
Mr. Perlman, a four-time
Emmy Award-winner and 16
time Grammy Award-winner,
has appeared as violin soloist with every major orchestra
Itzhak Perlman
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Jewish Heritage museum to host

a Manhattan maj jongg marathon
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Blood drive in Teaneck:
The Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will host
the fourth annual mah jongg marathon on
Sunday, December 7, from noon to 5 p.m.
Advance tickets are $36. For $54, participants will also receive a boxed lunch.
Walk up tickets are $72 on the day of the
marathon and do not include lunch.
The last day to reserve a boxed lunch is
November 30. All proceeds will benefit
the museum.
Melissa Martens Yaverbaum is the
curator of the museums Project Mah
Jongg. That popular exhibition, which

inspired the marathon, is touring the
country. She will open the event at
11 a.m. with a lively discussion of the
games history.
Single players will be matched with
other players on their level. Participants
can play for as little or as long as they
wish. Participants can register online
either singly or as a team at www.
projectmahjongg.com/games, by calling (646) 437-4320, or by emailing mahjongg@mjhnyc.org.
Cantors join in song at Kaplen JCC
Chanukah store opening in Wayne

The Chabad Center of Passaic Countys
Chanukah Wonderland Store will open on
Monday, December 1, at 10:30 a.m. The
store is in the Wedgewood Plaza (formerly
T-Bowl) at 1055 Hamburg Turnpike. Its
and in recitals and festivals

around the world. In 2003,
the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts granted
him a Kennedy Center Honor
celebrating his distinguished
achievements and contributions to the cultural and educational life of the United States.
He has performed many times
at the White House, most
recently in 2012 for Israeli president and presidential medal
of freedom honoree Shimon
Peres. He was awarded an
honorary doctorate and a centennial medal at the Juilliard
Schools 100th commencement
ceremony in 2005.
For information, call (212) 7216500; buy tickets online at www.
tickets.lincolncenter.org.
hours are 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday

to Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday and Friday.
For information, call (973) 694-6274.
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades will

present its 14th annual cantorial concert
on Sunday, November 23, at 3 p.m. It will
feature local cantors and melodies from
their Shabbat repertoire.
Performing cantors include Mark Biddelman, Caitlin Bromberg, Phyllis Cole,
Estelle Epstein, Orna Green, Ilan Mamber, David Perper, Faith Steinsnyder,
and Sam Weiss, representing Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, Temple
Israel & JCC, Congregation Beth Shalom,

Har Sinai Temple of Pennington, Temple
Beth Rishon, Beth Haverim-Shir Shalom,
Temple Israel & JCC, and the JCC of Paramus/ Congregation Beth Tikvah.
The concert is funded in part through
the support of the Weinflash Family Cantorial Concert Endowment Fund. For
information, call Ruth Yung at (201) 4081418 or go to the JCC websites, www.
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amazed that once youre able to break
down the walls of school, the possibilities
are endless as to what we can offer our students, he said.
Mr. Hantgan already had been involved
in a Skype conversation about bullying with students from Yavneh Academy in Paramus. During those calls, he
shared insights from his childhood with
the Yavneh middle schoolers. For Marilyn Wechter, however, the Frisch session was her first experience with video
conferencing.
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themselves.
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Mrs. Wechter, 78, was happy to tell
about her successes as vice president
of fundraising for a chapter of the Childrens Asthma Research Hospital and
Institute. I told them how I used newspapers and fliers and even something
called the telephone! and how I traveled to different places to get people
involved, she said. One year I brought
in the most money of any chapter and
won a trip to Denver to see the facilities.
I think the children gained from what I
was able to tell them.
At the end of the session, she and Ms.
Marion treated the Frisch students to a
rendition of the classic Yiddish song Oyfn
Pripetshik. It was met with resounding
applause, according to Ms. Herman.
Intergenerational programs like
this are so important, said Carol Silver
Elliott, the new head of Jewish Home
Family. Working with older adults, we
know that age is just a number. We know
that our older adults have much to contribute and that the opportunity to share
their wisdom is invaluable.
Future sessions will touch on what the
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Briefs
Israeli technology will protect

Germanys new transport planes
Haifa-based Elbit Systems Ltd. will equip
Germanys new Airbus A400 fleet of transport planes with Israeli-developed laser
technology to counter the threat of shoulder
missiles, Elbit announced Monday.
Elbit said it had been awarded a contract to install its J-MUSIC Multi-Spectral
Directed Infrared Counter Measure systems for the first phase of the German
air forces self-protection program. The

project, which will last 12 months, is part
of a joint venture with the German corporation Diehl Defense.
Elbit noted that it has completed
extensive testing of the J-MUSIC system
and has already delivered systems to
equip several types of aircraft to various
JNS.ORG
customers.
Temple Mount activist describes

being seriously shot by attacker
Jewish Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehudah
Glick, who was seriously wounded in an Oct.
29 shooting attempt on his life, spoke for the
first time about the attack on Monday.
I am not in the hospital because I had
appendicitis. I am not here because I was
shot for being a redhead. I am here because
someone thought they would attack Israel,
Glick said, speaking to Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi
David Lau, who had come to visit him at
Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The attacker came up to me and stood in
front of me, Glick said. I, in my naivet, did
not suspect anything. He said to me, I am
very sorry but you are an enemy of Al-Aqsa,
and then he shot me. There was someone
with me, Shai [Malka, director of the Likud
partys nationalist camp], and he told me,
Yehuda, we need you, and then we ran.
JNS.ORG

Israeli Druze leader: We are not Palestinians

Israeli Druze are not Palestinians, a Druze
leader said regarding a proposed law to officially codify Israels status as a Jewish state.
As opposed to Muslim Arabs, members of
the Druze community tend to be pro-Israel.
We are not Palestinians and do not have
religious or cultural connections with them,
but are full Israeli citizens. I want the state
to be a Jewish state and not one of all its
citizens, said Atta Farhat, the head of the

Druze Zionist Council for Israel, according to
the Jerusalem Post.
Farhat said Jews respect others and their
way of life.
We see what is happening in Iraq, Egypt,
and other Arab countries. We dont want to
live under a government of darkness, but
where we have freedom, he added. JNS.ORG
Obituaries
Moses Arm
Moses Arm, 84, of Norwood died on

November 17.
Born in Poland, he was a Holocaust
survivor. An Army veteran of the Korean
War, he was an engineer for Riverside
Research in Manhattan.
He is survived by his wife Betty,
children, Sarah Gallob (Barry) of Teaneck,
and Karen Gallo (Chris) of Brooklyn,
stepchildren, Diane Saxon and Gretchen
Blum, both of California, and five
grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial
Chapels, Fort Lee.
Dr. Solomon Chazan
Dr. Solomon Chazan, 89, of Pompton

Plains, formerly of Fair Lawn and Fort
Lee, died on November 12.
Born in Poland, he came to the U.S. at
16, after a two-year journey.
A graduate of the University of West
Virginia and the Chicago Medical School,
he was a pediatrician in Fair Lawn for
26 years. Afterward, he joined Valley
Pediatrics in Ridgewood/Ho-Ho-Kus, until
retiring in 2001.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years,
Phyllis, ne Ginandes, daughters, Terry
Chazan Rothberg and Wendy Chazan
Mensch (Andrew), and five grandchildren.
Donations can be made to Doctors
Without Borders, or Bergen Volunteer
Medical Initiative. Arrangements were
by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel,
Paramus.
Helen Fellows
Helen Fellows, 102, of Ridgewood,

formerly of the Bronx, died on
November 13.
Born in Hungary, she survived
the Holocaust and a death march of
Hungarian Jewish women. Her story was
recorded with the Shoah Foundation. She
was a longtime member of Temple Israel
and JCC in Ridgewood.
Predeceased by her husband Donald,
she is survived by her children, George
(Diane) and Martha Tikten; nine
grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to Temple
Israel, Ridgewood, Arrangements were
by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel,
Paramus.
Nechuma Gruenberg
Nechuma Gruenberg, ne Koszerek, 100,

of Rockleigh, formerly of Union City, died
on November 17.
Born in Poland, she was a Holocaust
survivor. She was member of Temple
Israel Emanuel in Union City.
Predeceased by her husband,
Leo, in 1970, she is survived by her
children, Annette Gielchinsky ( Jacob) of
Elizabeth, Jack of Park Ridge, and Max of
Edgewater; five grandchildren, and six
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial
Chapels, Fort Lee.
Harvey Levine
Harvey Levine, 75, of Fort Lee, formerly

of Bergenfield and the Bronx, died on
November 16.
He was a member of the Bergenfield
Lions Club and owned several businesses. In Fort Lee he was a board
member of Horizon House and a member of the Democratic County Committee. An eBay education specialist, he
was in a feature story for Entrepreneur
Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.
Predeceased by his wife of 36 years,
Frances, he is survived by his partner
of 17 years, Marcia Cooper, sons, Jay
(Marla) of New Milford, and Mitch of
Lincoln Park; a brother, Len (Sherry) of
Beckett, Mass., and four grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Childrens Tumor Foundation, Scoliosis
Research Society, or the American
Heart Association. Arrangements were
by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Myron Lewis
Myron Mike J. Lewis, 89, who lived in

Boston, Closter, and Hoboken, died on
November 13.
A U.S. Navy World War II veteran,
he served in the Pacific and was discharged with the rank of PHM 2nd Class
after being based at USN Base Hospital
18 in Guam. He graduated Brown University in 1951.
Before retiring, he was the owner of a
textile company and an active member
of various trade and civic organizations.
He was a past president and 41-year
member of the Closter Lions and served
on the Closter Borough Council for 11
years. He was also among the founders
of the Belskie Museum in Closter.
Predeceased by his wife of 55 years,
Barbara, ne Lowenberg, in 2005 and a
son, Steven, in 2009, he is survived by a
daughter, Deborah Steinhart, (Eugene),
and a granddaughter.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Eva Miller
Eva Miller, ne Levine, 94, of Fair

Lawn, formerly of Paterson, died on
November 12. She was a member of the
Fair Lawn Senior Citizens Club.
Predeceased by her husband,
Sam, she is survived by her children,
Barbara Staum ( Joseph) and Arlene
Arthur; two grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Stephen Sorkenn
Stephen J. Sorkenn, 74, of Mahwah died

on November 17.
A graduate of Stuyvesant High
School in New York City and Columbia
University College of Pharmacy, he
worked for a medical economics
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for Food Action in Mahwah, and Temple Beth Rishon
in Wyckoff.
He is survived by his wife, Susan, ne Kurtin,
children, Jonathan ( Jodie) of River Edge, and
Elizabeth Mayeri (David) of White Plains, N.Y., and five
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Michael J. Fox
Foundation for Parkinsons Research or a charity
of choice. Arrangements were by Robert Schoems
Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
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on June 3, 1920, to David and Lena Weinflash
on the Lower East Side of New York, Bernie
served honorably in WWII - US Army Air Corps.
He graduated from CCNY and New York Law
School. While an accountant and lawyer by
education, and stockbroker for Oppenheimer &
Co., by vocation, Bernie, at heart was a lover of
mankind both by nature as well as by intellect.
He served on the board of trustees at TempleEmanu-el of Closter and the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly; the board of directors of the
Jewish Book Council, and was a past president
of the American Jewish Committee of NNJ. His
heart and soul went into the founding, along
with his wife Ruth, zl, of the Shirah Chorus
conducted by Mati Lazar. Cherished husband of
Ruth (nee Stupell) of 55 years who predeceased
him. Survived by his adoring children: Jody
(Steve) Konstadt, Jeff (Elahna) Weinflash and
Carol (Michael) Kopelman; and treasured
Granbee of Michelle, Debbie, Sarah, Eden, Noah,
Emily, and Naomi. Two of Bernies wonderful
brothers survive him, Nathan of Florida, and
Irving of Hicksville, NY. His beloved brother
George, a cantor, passed away in 2004. Bernie
was a man of supreme intellect, unquenchable
curiosity, and above all, love for his fellow man.
Services were held on November 11, 2014 at
Temple Emanu-el in Closter, NJ. Donations may
be made to Temple Emanu-el or to Shirah Chorus
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n 1 In honor of Parashat Vayera, early childhood students at Ben Porat Yosef visited Sarah and Abrahams tent. Abraham and Sarah
aka the schools director, Rabbi Tomer Ronen, and Jessica Kohn,
the schools early childhood director offered Shabbat songs
and the opportunity to do mitzvot in the tent. COURTESY BPY
n 2 Bob Berliner, left, Harry Hakoun, and Max Singer, congregants and veterans, represented the Glen Rock Jewish Center at the towns Veterans Day observance. COURTESY GRJC
n 3 The 160 tzofim (Israeli scouts) who meet at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades on Sundays held a memorial ceremony to mark
the 19th yahrzeit of Yitzhak Rabin. More than 200 people attended the special ceremony. ILANIT SOLOMONOVICH HABOT
n 4 Non-alcoholic beer was flowing during an Oktoberfest celebration

at the Gallen Adult Day Health Care Center. Music was by Eric Kerrsen of West Milford. Gallen participants Frank Malora of Norwood and
Charles Pane of Sparkill, N.Y., were at the program. COURTESY GALLEN
n 5 Morris Zimmerman of Teaneck, fourth from left, was among the participants in the recent weeklong Boys Town Jerusalem Legacy mission. The
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n 6 Alon Davidi, the mayor of Sderot, the southern Israel community less than a kilometer from Gaza, visited the Orthodox Union
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bergenPAC announces Arts Access Initiative for charitable groups
bergenPAC, located at 30 N. Van Brunt St.,
Englewood, is launching the Arts Access
Initiative, offering up to 200 free tickets for
every show on the main stage to qualified
nonprofit charitable organizations.
Over the last 10 years, bergenPAC has provided access to the arts for those in need by
offering free tickets to performances, scholarships to performing arts school programs,
and arts education in schools where budget
cuts have limited the curriculum.
The new Arts Access Program is a strategic initiative developed by bergenPAC to

further its mission of making the live performing arts accessible to all. bergenPAC is
providing free tickets to performances to
underprivileged individuals and organizations in an effort to enhance the quality of
life of residents in the region.
Throughout the year bergenPAC will
distribute up to 200 tickets for every performance presented on the main stage to
Yeshiva University apps

win national recognition
Two apps designed by Yeshiva Universitys Office of
Communications and Public Affairs (CPA), This is
Yeshiva University and Cardozo Life, have won
highly competitive awards from the University & College Designers Association (UCDA), the nations first
and only association for professionals involved in the
creation of visual communications for educational
institutions.
The YU apps received two out of four awards in
the Mobile App category of UCDAs design competition. There were more than 1,100 entries to the overall
competition and 179 received awards. Digital entries
were peer-reviewed and judged for appearance, flexibility, interactivity, message, and suitability for their
intended audiences, with creativity in solving the problems of designing for digital media as a primary focus.
Weve designed our tablet publications to take full
advantage of the medium incorporating interactivity, animation, sound, video to bring our stories to
life and to create a captivating experience for our readers, said Judy Tashji, creative director at CPA. Our
design team has led the way on this platform: YU is
one of the first institutions of higher education in New
York City to offer folio apps on the iPad. These awards
acknowledge our ability to lead the way in offering
new solutions for new ways of learning.
This Is Yeshiva University offers a concise, visual
overview of the school. Users can tour YUs undergraduate and graduate schools, learn about the universitys history and the exciting activities taking place on
campus. From interactive maps to videos and photo
galleries, users can get acquainted with YU through
this innovative publication.
Cardozo Life, the magazine of YUs Benjamin N.
Cardozo School of Law, reports on the schools activities, faculty and alumni, and includes interviews, articles and insights about current issues and compelling
legal topics. Users can scroll stories, watch videos and
share information to connect to Cardozo in a full interactive experience.
Founded in 1886, Yeshiva University brings together
the ancient traditions of Jewish law and life and the
heritage of Western civilization. More than 7,600
undergraduate and graduate students study at YUs
four New York City campuses. YU is ranked among the
nations leading academic research institutions.
these underserved groups. By the end of

the year bergenPAC will have provided
more than 30,000 area residents access
to the live performing arts that they likely
would not have normally experienced due
to financial or physical barriers.
The initiative has been guided by
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New trustee officers announced
at Englewood Hospital and Med Center
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
(EHMC) has elected new officers to its
Board of Trustees as well as to the boards
of its parent organization, Englewood
Healthcare System (EHS), and its fundraising organization, Englewood Hospital
and Medical Center Foundation.
New members elected to the EHS
Board of Trustees were Jonathan Abad,
who is currently serving on EHMCs
board, and Dr. Mark Shapiro, who has
also been voted to the EHMC board. Dr.
Gerald Lee, Richard Lerner, and Steven
Rudnitsky were also chosen. New members elected as foundation trustees were
Dr. Marc Arginteanu, Eun Rae Jo, and
Amy P. Shirvan.
Mr. Abad is co-owner of General Trading Co., a wholesale food distributor in
Carlstadt.
Dr. Lee is a partner at the Park Medical
Group and has practiced internal medicine
at EHMC for nearly 15 years. He is chair of
EHMCs Korean Physicians Council and
director of Korean Medical Services at
Mercy Garden in Norwood.
Mr. Lerner is a partner at Housing and
Healthcare Finance, one of the countrys
largest financiers of health care and senior

housing real estate.
Mr. Rudnitsky is president and chief executive officer of Dolce Hotels and Resorts,
based in Rockleigh, where he also serves on
the board of directors.
Dr. Shapiro is chief of radiology at
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center,
where he has served in various capacities
for 20 years.
Dr. Arginteanu is chief of neurosurgery
at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
and president of the New Jersey Neurosurgical Society.
Dr. Arginteanu holds a position as clinical
associate professor of neurosurgery at the
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Mr. Jo is an entrepreneur with nearly 30
years of experience in the hospitality industry. He is now overseeing his latest business
venture, a 200,000-square-foot hotel and
spa in Edgewater, which is set for completion in 2015.
Ms. Shirvan is a philanthropist with personal ties to Englewood Hospital, where
her father previously served as chief of
orthopedics and where both of her daughters were born.
Kosherica announces winter

and Passover vacations
15% off for Atlantis Yeshiva-break bookings
by December 5; hotels featured in Bahamas,
Miami, Palm Beach, and British Columbia
Cruises to the western Caribbean for
Chanukah and the eastern Caribbean
for a Jewish Music Festival at Sea are
only part of the allure.
Kosherica, the glatt kosher travel and
leisure giant, is famous for its attention to detail, fresh cuisine, and worldclass entertainment. This upcoming
winter and Passover, Kosherica will
provide guests with the most soughtafter luxury resorts and cruise lines
in the world. This family-owned business offers everything from meaningful Shabbat services, inspiring lectures
with scholars in residence, Daf Yomi
classes and minyanim, to top-notch live
concerts with Jewish headliners.
Koshericas winter lineup will begin
at the AAA rated, Four Diamond Atlantis Resort and Spa in Paradise Island,
Bahamas. The Yeshiva week fun will
start on January 18. This perfect getaway for families will offer world class
glatt kosher cuisine, casinos, golf,
breathtaking water parks, state of the
art spas, and unparalleled customer
service. Book Kosherica at The Atlantis
Resort in the Bahamas and get 15 per
cent off. The offer expires December 5.
In addition, Kosherica will host an
exceptional Chanukah cruise to the
western Caribbean December 21-28,
and an All Star Jewish Music Festival Cruise to the eastern Caribbean
January 18-25 aboard Royal Caribbeanss Allure Of The Seas. Featured
performers include Avraham Fried,

Manis Friedman, Yaakov Motzen, and
Boaz Davidoff.
Koshericas 2015 Luxurious Passover
Collection gets under way this spring
at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.
Passover will never be the same once
you experience this family-oriented
resort.
The collection will also feature the
legendary Eden Roc Hotel in Miami
Beach, another AAA rated Four Diamond award hotel. The glamorous new
Eden Roc embraces its role as a classic of American luxury, yet welcomes
guests with a gracious new contemporary spirit. Once again, guests can luxuriate in spacious rooms and suites. Sunworshipers can relax poolside at one of
four, heated, infinity-edged pools, or
claim a chaise lounge on the beach
For ski buffs or those who like to
sit by a roaring fire and watch others,
theres the Four Seasons in Whistler,
British Columbia. It boasts Olympic-caliber slopes and lifts. The hotel is known
for service and comfort.
F i n a l l y, f o r go l f a f i c i o n a d o s ,
Kosherica offers the highly sought-after
PGA Resort and Spa in Palm Beach,
which has sold out early for four years
in a row and has only a limited space
available. All resorts with the exception
of Atlantis are in association with LTT.
Call Kosherica at (305) 695-2700 or (877)
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Village Apartments
of the Jewish Federation
commemorates Veterans Day
Residents at Village Apartments of the Jewish Federation in South Orange heard exciting and poignant
stories from World War II veterans in honor of Veterans Day.
Murray Brill, a participant in the Essex County
Kosher lunch program at Village Apartments,
described how his plane was shot down over
Germany, leading to his capture and escape. He
brought his Purple Heart to display.
Village residents and fellow WWII veterans Joe
Posner and Simon Gang also shared recollections
of wartime experiences. Posner was wounded by
German snipers and Gang was in the Normandy
Beach landing.
Village Apartments of the Jewish Federation is a
host site for the congregate kosher lunch program.
Brill comes every Tuesday to enjoy a nutritious hot
lunch and socializes with other seniors from the
South Orange area.
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New to Englewood, 23 South Gifts and Accessories boutique is a fourth generation family business, located on
the corner of East Palisade and Van Brunt in Englewood.
The store features a mix of unique gifts, jewelry, accessories, handbags, home goods, fragrances, and sweets.
Visitors are encouraged to wander in and peruse at
their leisure.
Featured designers include Alex and Ani, Michael
Aram, Brighton, Lafco, Nest Fragrances, Jonathan Adler,
Hobo the Original, Vera Bradley, Satya, and Anna Beck.
New merchandise arrives every day.
The Goffin family is excited to be joining the Englewood
community and hopes 23 South will become your favorite
one-stop gift shop.
Mention the Jewish Standard and receive a free 4-piece
box of Godiva truffles wrapped and ready for Hanukkah.
23 South is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m
to 7 p.m. For more information, call (201) 408-5911.
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Holy Name retains

Magnet status for
nursing excellence
After a rigorous review process and on-site inspections,
Holy Name Medical Center was again granted Magnet
recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center this week, placing it in the top 6 percent of hospitals
nationwide. Members of the ANCCs Commission on Magnet Recognition once more voted unanimously to bestow
the honor, one of the highest levels of recognition a hospital can achieve, on Holy Name. The Magnet Recognition
Program, a four-year designation, signifies the Medical
Centers continued commitment to maintaining outstanding nursing practice.
Fewer than 400 hospitals across the country and only
24 in New Jersey have received Magnet recognition.
Recertification demonstrates Holy Names commitment
to patients, its nursing staff, and the entire team of health
care professionals who embrace the medical centers mission of healing. Appraisers from the ANCC met with 352
Holy Name nurses and 18 community members during
the review process. As a result of the evaluation, Holy
Name was also given two exemplars in practice for patient
safety and nurse satisfaction.
The Magnet Recognition Program has identified five
major categories of excellence that serve as its foundation: transformational leadership, structural empowerment, exemplary professional practice, new knowledge, innovation and improvement, and empirical
quality results. These principles, when precisely implemented, translate to a culture of safety, quality care, excellent patient outcomes, innovative practices, meeting or
exceeding national standards, attracting and retaining
top-notch staff, and maintaining high job satisfaction
among nurses.
We are impressed with your dedication to excellence,
Deb Zimmerman, chairman of the ANCC commission,
said when informing Holy Name of the Magnet achievement. You are truly exemplary and serve as a role model
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Studies have shown a Magnet designation means better
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Its November, and in honor of National

Diabetes Awareness Month, here are
some simple and healthy nutrition tips
to help prevent, control and/or reverse
the disease.
Avoid commercially made, overprocessed foods laden with sodium, trans
fats, sugar, additives and preservatives.
Eat real, nutrient dense, whole foods.
Choose lots of organic non-starchy
vegetables. Eat whole fruits (especially
organic apples, organic berries, and
citrus), with the fiber intact in place
of drinking fruit juices (sugar water).
When selecting whole grains, choose
those in the form that is closest to how
they exist in nature, i.e., brown rice
and not brown rice pasta or brown rice

bread.
Balance all of your meals and snacks
with a combination of high quality, lean
protein plus high fiber (slow release)
carbohydrates and healthy fats.
Read all labels! Be aware that 4 grams
of sugar equal 1 teaspoon; you will be
shocked to learn the quantities of sugar in
the foods you eat regularly.
Health is wealth!
Rachel Miller is a certified personal
trainter and a holistic health, wellness and
nutrition coach at The Gym of Englewood.
For more information, call (201) 567-9399
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Englewood East Hill Homes for Sale and for Rent
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Seven bedroom suites, with a guest suite on the
main level. Lower level movie theater, entertainment
lounge, gym, bedroom and one and one half baths.
191 Walnut Street $2,590,000 for Sale

$12,000 for Rent 8000 SQF custom modern residence completed in 2002. Seven bedroom, six and
one half bath home on 3/4 acre gated property. Main
level guest suite, three fireplaces. Master bedroom
with sitting area and fireplace, walk in wardrobes,
spa bath and private outdoor porch. Near houses of
worship, downtown Englewood.
Dessanti named top producer

Wendy Wineburgh Dessanti, a broker and sales associate with the Weichert Tenafly office, was named the
offices top producer and top sales awardee for October.
She was also recently awarded the prestigious Five
Star Award for 2014 by New Jersey Monthly Magazine.
The Five Star Award recognizes the top 2 percent of all
agents and brokers in New Jersey based upon production, expertise, and high client satisfaction.
Ms. Dessanti is a member of the Teaneck Community
Relations Advisory Board, a supporter of the Teaneck
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488 Cumberland Street $699,000
Contemporary four or five bedroom split level home
on the East Hill of Englewood with plantings and
decks near Flat Rock Nature Center. Formal entry
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On a crisp, sunny morning in late-October, associates from Brightview Tenafly

joined thousands of others at Bergen
Community College in Paramus for the
annual Walk to End Alzheimers.
According to the Alzheimers Association website, the Walk to End Alzheimers is the worlds largest event to raise
awareness and funds for Alzheimers
care, support and research and is
held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide.
Alina Vanden Berg and Sherry Zimmer as well as Samantha Kantor were
delighted to join families, friends,
social and religious groups, and others
for the 3-mile walk, representing the
community complex that is under construction at 55 Hudson Ave. in Tenafly.
Scheduled to open next year, Brightview Tenafly will feature assisted living apartment homes and a secure
Wellspring Village neighborhood,
Brightviews specialized environment,
and a program for people living with
Alina Vanden Berg and Sherry

Zimmer participate in the walk to
end Alzheimers.
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