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Florida synagogue sets

world record for largest tallit
l A synagogue in Boca Raton, Fla., has
set a world record for the largest prayer
shawl.
The Guinness Book of World Records certified a special tallit made for
the Boca Raton Synagogue, a modern
Orthodox congregation, for its yearly
Simchat Torah service. The new category was certified earlier this month,
the Florida Sun Sentinel reported.
On Simchat Torah, it is customary
for children younger than bar and bat
mitzvah age to gather under a tallit to
receive an aliyah to the Torah and the
Kol Hanearim blessing. The congregation, which according to the newspaper has nearly 1,000 children, decided
it would create a special large prayer
shawl for the occasion rather than have
many tallitot held up together.
The congregation first used the
prayer shawl, the size of 40 regular tallitot and created by Boca Judaica, at
its 2013 Simchat Torah celebration. It
covers the entire sanctuary and is held
up by wooden poles, according to the
newspaper.
Last October, the congregation applied to Guinness to register the record,
Knessets roof is a solar beacon

l The much-talked about solar field
on the Knesset rooftop is now a reality. At a festive dedication ceremony
at the end of March, Knesset Speaker
Yuli Edelstein called the new energy
source a turning point with regards
to the environmental awareness revolution.
The installment of the solar panels,
the highlight of the Green Knesset
Project, will bring about the optimal
use of solar energy, which, thank God,
we have here in abundance, and will
lead along with the other [energysaving] measures we have taken to
major savings in the consumption of
electricity which constitutes a third
of the Knessets total energy con-
but no category existed for largest

prayer shawl. So Guinness added the
category, saying that a tallit should be
at least 10 times the size of a regular
one in order to qualify.
JTA Wire Service
sumption, Edelstein said.

The project had been heavily promoted over the past two years.
What is happening before our
very eyes is indeed exciting, a true
revolution. It is not just the solar panels; it is the message, the idea, the
new path, he said.
The Knessets solar roof is said to
be the largest solar field of any parliament in the world.
I hope this solar roof will serve
as a green beacon of environmental
activity for the entire public in Israel
and for the new Knesset members,
Naor Yerushalmi, CEO of the Life and
Environment organization, said.
JTA Wire Service
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CONTENTS
Noshes....................................................4
oPINION................................................20
cover story 26
Gallery 35
Passover gallery 36
keeping kosher 37
passover greetings 38
dear rabbi50
torah commentary 51
crossword puzzle 52
arts & culture 53
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Noshes
Cannabis isnt chametz, and you

can quote me on that."
Efraim Zalmanovich, the chief rabbi of Mazkeret Batya and author of the book
Alcoholism and Drugs in Judaism. But lighting it? Thats another story.
BAD REVIEWS, GOOD STORY:
A quest to
recover looted art
Woman in Gold
dramatically
recounts the decadeslong campaign by
MARIA BLOCH ALTMANN (1916-2011) to
recover from the Austrian government a
collection of Gustav
Klimt paintings that the
Nazis seized from her
late uncle, FERDINAND
BLOCH-BAUER. The title
refers to the most
celebrated of the
paintings: Adele Bauer
I, the portrait of Ferdinands wife, ADELE
BLOCH-BAUER, in a gold
dress. Helen Mirren stars
as Altmann, with Ryan
Reynolds as E. RANDOL
SCHOENBERG, a Los
Angeles attorney who at
first was reluctant to
take the case. Gradually,
though, he became a
fierce and effective
advocate; he broke the
Austrians legal roadblocks to recovery one
by one as he demolished
their self-serving excuses
about why they should
benefit from Nazi theft.
(Schoenberg, 49, is the
grandson of famous Austrian Jewish composer
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG.) The story is
partially told in flashbacks to the pre-war era.
(I should note that early
reviews by reputable
critics arent good.
However, Mirren is
singled out for praise
and the true story is so

dramatic that the movie
is worth seeing despite
plodding direction.)
Note: Opens in many
cities on April 3. Check
local listings.
Poor AMY PASCAL, 57,
the former head of Sony
Pictures. First, she was
booted out of her job
following the disclosure
of hacked emails that
showed her in a poor
light. The emails probably were hacked by the
North Koreans, who were
upset by The Interview,
which co-starred SETH
ROGEN, 32. As a sort-ofconsolation prize, Sony
gave Pascal an office on
the studio lot to use for
whatever after her discharge. Ironically, it is an
office that until recently
had housed Rogen.
Then, last month, Pascal became the subject
of Hollywood chuckling
when the usually reliable
Hollywood Reporter
said that her move into
the office was delayed as
crews struggled to get
Rogens heavy marijuana
smell cleaned out. Rogen
responded that the story
was completely untrue
and pot smells [arent] a
stench.
Craig Ferguson,
who recently left his
CBS Late, Late Show
talk show, has been cast
as the star of a ABC
sit-com pilot, The King
Maria Bloch Altmann
Amy Pascal
Jack Gahan and Sigal Mamis
Depeche Mode in Israel
Ione Skye
Ben Lee
of 7B. He plays a guy

suffering from agoraphobia who only recently
has begun to go outside.
His co-star is IONE SKYE.
Here are excerpts from
her recent profile/
interview in the Hollywood Reporter: Its fun,
because its a love
interest. I was thinking
Wow, I wonder if I ever
get to play a love
interest again? because
Ive been playing the
quiet concerned mother
lately. And Im not that
old. Im 44.
Skye broke out as the
teen who John Cusack
courted in the hit 1989
movie, "Say Anything,"
but she hasnt had a big
career since. I had that
classic arc where you

get a good run in the
beginning and then you
sort of sabotage yourself and live your life and
face the regular ups and
downs of a career, she is
reported as saying. But
over the years, it has
never come to a complete halt.
Skye is the American-raised daughter of
Donovan, the famous
Scottish 60s folk rocker,
and an American Jewish
mother. She was married
to Beastie Boy ADAM
HOROVITZ from 1992 to
98 and has been married to Australian Jewish
musician BEN LEE, 36,
since 2006. They have
one child. In 2014, she
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A couple of weeks ago, Dave Gahan, the front man for

the famous Brit New Wave band Depeche Mode, made a
surprise visit to Israel. He was there to attend the Jewish
wedding of his son, JACK GAHAN, 27, to Israeli native
SIGAL MAMIS. (Given Israeli marriage laws, it is virtually certain that Jack Gahan converted to Judaism.) Jack
Gahan met Mamis after a Depeche Mode concert in Tel
Aviv in 2009. It was the second live appearance by the
band in Israel, where they are very popular. By the way,
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is married to an
Israeli, as is reggae musician Ziggy Marley, the son of the
legendary Bob Marley. Both Radiohead and Ziggy Marley
have played Israel.
Reports breaking as I write this say that musician
Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian, plan to
visit Israel and Jordan during mid-April. No concert is
planned.
N.B.
published a childrens
book, My Yiddish Vacation, about two children
who visit their Jewish
grandparents. The book
explains various Yiddish
words so a child can
understand them. In a
recent interview, she said
the book is an homage
to her Hungarian Jew-
ish grandparents, who I

was very close to. In the
same interview, she dispelled reports that she
is a practicing Buddhist,
Hindu, or anything else.
She says she has looked
into many spiritual traditions and secular therapies.
N.B.
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Asking questions, finding
your Jewish trajectory
Noted journalist to join
conversation in River Edge
and a 15-year-old daughter doing the Forward
bigail Pogreseries, going deeper into
bin recalls that
the Jewish holidays, is a
when she was
personal journey. Its the
g row i n g u p,
most alive Ive ever felt
her family frequently had
professionally.
dinner guests. Their minMs. Pogrebin said that
hag, apparently, was to
one of the wonderful
grill those guests, asking
gifts of this pursuit is that
them a lot of questions
she hears often from rabbis she had never met.
about themselves.
Abigail Pogrebin
She added that her emails
That was the Pogrebin
from River Edges Rabbi
way, she said.
Paul Jacobson have contained some of
Learning to interview people, causing
the most interesting comments she has
them to recognize that they were their
received. There are sages everywhere,
truer self, even for a moment, in that
she said. Every one of his emails teaches
interview, has served her well, allowing
me something.
her to dig deeper not only into the lives of
On writing her column, Ms. Pogrebin
others, but into her own life as well.
said, I couldnt just go through every JewA noted journalist, author, and producer, her knack for asking questions,
ish holiday and write Judaism 101. Thats
for engaging in conversation, will form
the basis of a program at Temple Avodat
Shalom on April 7, when Ms. Pogrebin
will engage in conversation with Rabbi
Paul Jacobson and answer questions from
audience members.
Dubbed Moments that Matter, the
program co-sponsored by Congregation
Beth Sholom of Teaneck, the Glen Rock
Jewish Center, the Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah, Temple Beth Or, Temple Emanu-El of
Closter, Temple Emeth, and Temple Sinai
of Bergen County will be followed by
a kosher-for-Passover dessert reception,
sponsored by the synagogues sisterhood.
RABBI PAUL JACOBSON
This year, Ms. Pogrebin is writing a
series for the Forward, 18 Festivals, 1
already accessible, [from] people more
Wondering Jew, in which she considers
erudite and educated. So, she said, I
each holidays as it presents itself on the
grilled myself to make it more interesting.
Jewish calendar. The goal of her talk, she
Many people, she said, do not live strictly
said, is not only to entertain attendees but
by the Jewish calendar. But, she asked herto make them think about their own Jewish trajectory. What path am I taking, and
self, If you live by the scaffolding of the
am I finished with it?
Jewish year, what is that like? And not only
If she can, she said, she might even offer
has she done a good deal of research, but
some tips on how to go a little deeper,
she tries to take note of her own feelings,
she said. She knows how if feels to start
taking inventory of her experiences.
without much knowledge, she added. I
One of the things the series has done is
started from a non-observant place.
to show me so many levels of Jewish engagement, she said. Some people are in it up to
Ms. Pogrebin, who graduated from
their noses, fully immersed and unquestionYale, was a producer for 60 Minutes
ing. Others, like me, feel powerfully Jewish
It was an incredible education, she
and feel strongly that its not just important
said and for Charlie Rose and Bill Moyers at PBS. She said that although mothbut is in our DNA, but we havent really
erhood has proved the most satisfying
explored what a Jewish life means.
So much of Jewish identity is holiof her many pursuits she has two children, a son graduating from high school
day based, not just family based, she
LOIS GOLDRICH
From left, the Four Firsts Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Rabbi Amy Eilberg, Rabbi
Sandy Sasso, and Rabbi Sally Priesand have been touring and speaking
together.
Remembering Regina Jonas

Rabbi Sally Priesand
talks about her predecessor
JOANNE PALMER
egina Jonas was the first

woman to be ordained as a
rabbi.
Sally Priesand was the first
American woman to be ordained as a
rabbi.
There is therefore a great deal of
poetic justice in having Rabbi Priesand
introduce a film about Rabbi Jonas.
Rabbi Jonas, who grew up in Berlin,
was murdered in Auschwitz. Her story
has been forgotten for most of that
period from then almost until now, but
interest in her story and in her courage, brains, and charisma has been
reignited.
Rabbi Priesand, who was ordained by
the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1972, retired from the
pulpit of Monmouth Reform Temple in
2006 and now lives in Asbury Park. On
Wednesday, April 15, she will introduce
the documentary Regina at Ramapo
College. (For more details, see box.)
Last summer, a group of rabbis, educators, and scholars, under the leadership of the American Jewish Archives
in Cincinnati and the Jewish Womens

Archive in Boston, went to Germany and
Terezin, where Rabbi Jonas had been
imprisoned on her way to Auschwitz.
The film does not concentrate only on
her death, but also on her life, her dedication and determination, the hurdles
she overcame, and the career she made
for herself before the Nazis demolished
it.
I saw many similarities between her
story and mine, and that shocked me,
Rabbi Priesand said.
Her mentor at the seminary died the
year before she was to be ordained, she
continued. (Regina Jonas began her rabbinical studies at the Hochschule fur die
Wissenschaft des Judentums in 1924.)
The same thing happened to me.
Dr. Nelson Glick was the president of
Hebrew Union College, and he wanted
to ordain women. He was my supporter,
and behind the scenes he cleaned up a
lot of little problems that I never heard
about until much later.
He was the kind of person you stood
in awe of. I was a kid, in my early 20s, but
one of the things that I did in rabbinical
SEE JONAS PAGE 62
Who: Ramapo Colleges Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and
the Pascack Valley Jewish Coalition. (The coalition is a newly formed alliance
committed to strengthening and enhancing Jewish life in the region. It is made
up of Beth Or in Washington Township, Emanuel in Woodcliff Lake, Bnai Israel in
Emerson, Beth Sholom in Park Ridge, and the YJCC.
What: Will sponsor a screening of the documentary Regina
When: Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m.
Where: At the Bergen County YUCC, 605 Pascack Road, Washington Township
What else: Freelance writer and editor Amy Stone will lead a discussion of the
film; in Regina, British actress Rachel Weisz provides Rabbi Jonass voice. Rabbi
Priesand will speak as well.
How: The evening is free. For information, go to bit.ly/reginatherabbi or call (201)
666-6610, ext. 5782
Abigail brings a
multitude of
perspectives
on Jewish life
and has an
openness to
seeing a vibrant
Jewish world.
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continued. People come together around
holidays to break the Yom Kippur fast,
for example, or to light Chanukah candles.
My journey has been an exploration of
Jewish identity by the calendar, she said.
What has it been like for me? What would
I do again? What left me cold? When was I
alienated and when inspired?
Ms. Pogrebin said her Jewish identity became important to her after she
became an adult. We were raised in a
kind of Judaism-lite, she said, though
her family did light candles and celebrate
major holidays. There was no bat mitzvah or Hebrew school. I missed the primal
years, where it gets under your skin.
It was only when she wrote her first
book, Stars of David, interviewing
famous Jews and grilling them about
what matters to them, that she realized
she was questioning them without having answered the questions for herself. I
wanted to know more, she said.
The book, subtitled Prominent Jews
Talk About Being Jewish, was adapted
for a musical in 2005; it ran off-Broadway
last year and is now on tour. Another of
her books, One and the Same: My Life as
an Identical Twin and What Ive Learned
About Everyones Struggle to Be Singular,
is a deep exploration of what it means to

be a twin. I approached it personally and
then like a reporter, she said, talking to
twins experts and looking at everything
from psychological implications to scientific manifestations.
What she hoped to learn was how they
set themselves apart, mapped out their
own identity.
Abigail and her sister, Robin, a New
York Times reporter, are identical twins.
Her sister has not embarked on a Jewish
journey, she said.
The Pogrebin twins mother is Letty
Cottin Pogrebin, an influential writer and
feminist whose books include Deborah,
Golda, and Me.
Rabbi Paul Jacobson, who initiated the
upcoming program, said his congregation
was looking to do something different
and special for Pesach. Passover programs are often family and home based.
He thought it would be interesting to bring
in a speaker over Pesach and combine
with other congregations to draw a big
name to the community.
A reader of Ms. Pogrebins columns, he
thought she would be a good choice.
Knowing her history outspoken and
passionate about Jewish issues, not just
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wondering but wrestling he thought

she would be a good fit for a Bergen
County audience.
She struck me as the kind of person
who could shed some light on issues [of
Jewish identity] what really matters in
Judaism today, he said. Thats how we
came up with the title. Different people
will make their moments matter in different ways.
So he sent Ms. Pogrebin an email and
started a dialogue, sharing with her a High
Holiday sermon he had written on the
topic. She accepted his invitation to participate in the program.
The event, he said, will begin with a
short presentation. There will be a roundtable format, in which I will sit with her
and pose the initial questions. Then it will
be Phil Donahue-style, with a roving mic,
where people can ask questions that are
on their mind.
Among the questions he may ask are
Does ritual matter? How can you craft
a meaningful Jewish identity given your
hectic life? Are synagogues the way of
the past, and how can they be a way of
the future? and How can we respond to
issues in Israel today?
The congregation is excited, he said.
Her presence is huge. He added that

other area congregations were happy to
sign on and help defray the cost of the
event as well as help with publicity.
Abigail brings a multitude of perspectives on Jewish life and has an openness
to seeing a vibrant Jewish world, not limited to a particular movement, he said.
She has a far-reaching, wide perspective,
reaching out to rabbis and Jewish leaders
across the denominational divide.
He hopes that people will leave the program with some sense of a different perspective and thoughts about being Jewish
in the 21st century, Rabbi Jacobson said.
What: Moments That Matter: An Evening with Abigail Pogrebin
When: April 7 at 7:30
Where: Temple Avodat Shalom
Cost: $10 per person if paid in advance
$15 per person at the door
For reservations: Call (201) 489-2463,
ext. 202, or email administrator@avodatshalom.net
Copies of Stars of David: Prominent
Jews Talk about Being Jewish will be
available for purchase and for the author to sign following the program.
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Taking interfaith relations seriously

Muslim scholar who focuses on Holocaust to speak in Ridgewood
JOANNE PALMER
n a sane world, there would be

nothing in any way eyebrow-raising
about a Muslim scholar teaching
a course about the Holocaust at a
Roman Catholic college.
No, no, scratch that. In a sane world,
there would not have been a Holocaust.
But suppose that after the war ended
and the camps were liberated, the world
came to its collective senses, recoiled in
horror from what it saw, and decided that
such evil never could happen again. In that
world, there would be nothing at all surprising about a Muslim scholar teaching
a course about the Holocaust at a Roman
Catholic college.
We do not live in such a world. So it
is both a surprise and an ongoing act of
courage that Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, who is the
director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and
Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan
College in Riverdale and who will give
the keynote address at the Interfaith Holocaust Memorial Service in Ridgewood this
year (see box for more information) has
chosen to devote her life to it.
When I went to
the Middle East,
I was shocked,
because there
was no mention
of Jews.
Dr. Afridi grew up exposed to a huge
range of cultures. Her parents are Pakistani, but because her father worked at the
sort of high-level job that demanded that
the family move every two or three years
but afforded her access to good schools
and cultural experiences, she met and felt
comfortable around many people.
She lived in Pakistan, Dubai, London,
Dr. Mehnaz Afridi
and Geneva. Later, she moved to Scarsdale, N.Y., where she finished high
school.
Dr. Afridi speaks an unaccented, colloquial English occasionally she will
come up with usages that are not entirely
familiar here, but that is rare. I feel very
native in English, but I learned it when
I was 9, she said. I worked at not having an accent, because as a teacher, you
dont want to sound like a foreigner. But
the language she spoke at home when
she was growing up was Urdu, she had
a tutor who taught her classical Arabic,
and she is comfortable in four or five
languages, she said.
I was raised to accept people of all
faiths, Dr. Afridi said. When I went to
the Middle East, I was shocked, because
there was no mention of Jews. There
were no Jews in my classes. They would
censor the word Jew. I asked my mother,
and she said that Jews were fine, but
Israel was a political thing.
And then we moved to Scarsdale, a
very Jewish suburb in Westchester.
I was about 14 it was in the late
80s and I felt that there was a lot of
anti-Arab sentiment, she said. Sometimes, as a kid, you get confused. Whats
going on there?
And then I went to Syracuse, where
she earned her masters degree in religious studies, and I took a class in the
Holocaust. I realized that there is a lot of
relativism and denial in Muslim society,
belittling the Holocaust. They didnt actually say that it was a fiction, but that it
was far smaller and less important than
were told. I became very suspicious. I
started to wonder what was going on.
She went on to the University of
South Africa, where she earned a Ph.D.
in Islamic literature. Along the way, her
interest in the Holocaust deepened. I
wanted to understand more about it,
she said. I also wanted to learn about
Jewish immigration post World War II,
and about Israel.
She was particularly struck by how
unique it was. It was horrific. Jews were
killed just because they were Jewish.
It was unlike other genocides each is
different, of course, and each is evil
because in Bosnia, for example, it was
terrible, the genocide, the rape camps,
but they didnt go to Albania and kill all
the rest of the Muslims. The genocide
had geographic boundaries. On the other
hand, there were camps in North Africa,
where Moroccan Jews were imprisoned
on their way to their deaths in Poland.
The Holocaust, she said, was unbounded
genocide.
Next, she realized that I had never
interviewed survivors, so I started to
interview them, she said. My daughter
had just been born, and I had decided to
work only part-time, so I had more time.
I started to interview survivors. I went to
Dachau during that time.
It was very hard. I couldnt sleep at
night.
Many of the survivors had never met
a Muslim before, certainly had never
talked to one, and it became a very interesting conversation.
Teaching about the Holocaust to mostly
Catholic students has its own challenges,
she added. It is hard for the students to

understand that these sentiments the
hatred of Jews came from the Bible.
A lot of them say No way, and I say Yes
way.
I tell them that we are all capable of
such horrific crimes. The question is
what are you going to do about it? How
do we do what is ethical? What is good?
If a tiny minority of my students can hear
me, if they can recognize it and honestly young people today are so disempowered, there is so much apathy. They
say, What can we do? and I say, If you
hear a Jewish joke and they probably
will step in. If you hear something
against Muslims, step in.
Dr. Afridi also went to Israel, getting
an even more well-rounded view of the
situation.
Why has the situation between Muslims and Jews deteriorated to where it is
now? Ignorance, she said. When you
are not educated about each other, you
only see each other through the lens of
repressed and oppressor.
We are bigger, and unfortunately
extremists have taken this as a tool, and
Who: Dr. Mehnaz Afridi
What: Will headline Ridgewoods Interfaith Holocaust Memorial Service
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education. Muslims in America arent anti-Semitic,
but they are still very nervous about Jews. They have
these same old theories, about how the Jews control
Congress. They use the anti-Semitic tropes so familiar in the Christian world, as well as some new ones.
For me, it was disturbing to see a dramatic version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Egypt,
she said. There is all this underlying resentment.
Jews are seen by Muslims and Arabs as a colonial
force because of Israel.
Jews and Muslims have two very different, very
stark perceptions of each other, and that creates more
problems, she continued. Look at what is going on in
Europe, at Charlie Hebdo and the kosher grocery store.
But the man who rescued the Jews? Hes a Muslim.
There is really so much nuance in what is going
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Jews. How different is that? We have to look at everything with a critical lens.
What does the Koran say? It is the most positive
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We can speak up for one another. When I am in a
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can have dinner with each other. That helps a lot.
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each other. Even in the United States, we have segregated ourselves, she said. But if there is a place
where it can happen and this is the hope, that it
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About a cemetery
Centerville yields rich historical data, but much remains unknown
LOIS GOLDRICH
hat do you do when all the

people who can answer
your questions died long
ago and then, when you
search for relevant documents, you find
that most have disappeared or are moldering away in a damp cellar?
What happens is that you end up with
partial answers many of them mere
speculation and with more questions
than when you started.
In 1847, Bnai Jeshurun, a small congregation of Orthodox German Jews in
Paterson, acquired land for a cemetery

in the Centerville section of Acquackanock Township, now modern-day Clifton.
According to an article by George Holmsey in the Herald-News in 1967, the plot
was nestled between several backyards
of homes off Broad Street, overlooking the
New York skyline.
The fledgling shul containing only a
handful of families bought the property
from Joseph V. Ashman, a doctor from
New York City, for $50. The oldest organized Jewish cemetery in the state, today
Centerville lies hidden away, virtually inaccessible, and scarcely remembered.
What do we know? Not a lot
Totally surrounded
by private homes,
the cemeterys
only point of
entry is through
a homeowners
backyard.
In 1911, the 50 x 100 cemetery which

saw its last burial in 1894 was fenced in
to deter vandalism. While we dont know
exactly how many people were interred
there, Mark S. Auerbach former historian and archivist of the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey and currently
Passaic City historian maintains that
based on the size of the plot, there might
have been as many as four dozen burials,
although others speculate that the number
was considerably smaller. There is no way
to tell for sure. Records are sparse, and
those gravestones that have weathered the

elements have been removed to Mt. Nebo
or other cemeteries.
When the first batch of headstones was
moved, the bodies underneath them were
transferred to Mount Nebo as well. That
was not true later, when more stones were
moved; then bodies were not moved and
reburied along with the stones that had
marked their graves.
The cemetery is still owned by the synagogue, which over the years morphed into
Barnert Temple, a large Reform congregation in Franklin Lakes. Totally surrounded
by private homes, the cemeterys only
point of entry is through a homeowners
backyard. The public right of way, off View
Street, is partially obstructed.
The cemetery was the first piece of
property the congregation purchased,
said Barnerts rabbi, Elyse Frishman. In
fact, she said, Bnai Jeshurun was incorporated solely for the purpose of buying the
cemetery. This was typical of the earliest
congregations, she noted.
Dorothy Starr, Barnerts archivist, said
that whatever records exist from the old
synagogue were in beat-up old cartons
in the basement of the old Barnert building on Derrom Avenue in Paterson. She
and another congregant went to the

basement and dug them out and put them
in a station wagon, she said. I got most
into archival sleeves, but a lot has to be
SEE CEMETERY PAGE 12
Until at least the 1990s, these

broken gravestones were
scattered throughout the
small cemetery in Centerville.
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organized. She found nothing relating to

the cemetery.
Mr. Auerbach, who has done a good deal
of research on the cemetery, noted that
the land for the cemetery was purchased
by German Jews who came to the country
after the failed 1840s revolutions. Over
the years, as Clifton went from farms to
residences, and as housing was needed
for veterans returning from World War II
and the Korean War, the cemetery became
surrounded by tract homes.
Letting it go
She came to Barnert in 1995, Rabbi Frishman said, and within a year or so I went
over to the cemetery to try to see what
condition it was in. We found it landlocked. There was no easy way to get in
or out.
Then, and then several times after that,
we went through it to clean up the garbage tossed in by locals, she continued.
There were no defined gravesites anymore. Stones had broken and were scattered. And there were no records; it was
so long ago.
In 1887, Bnai Jeshurun bought a cemetery site in Totowa Mt. Nebo for $200.
Nathan Barnert, among others, later was
buried there. In the mid-1990s, a group
of synagogue volunteers took some of
the gravestones from Centerville, some of
which were illegible, and brought them
to the current cemetery to have them in a
place of reverence, Rabbi Frishman said.
Ultimately, because they had very limited access to the cemetery and they did not
know who was buried there or where the
graves were located, we made a decision to
allow it to return to its natural state, though
periodically members of the cemetery committee and a landscaper in the congregation
have tried to clean it up, she said
Centervilles story
is far from unique
In 2013, the Times of Israel ran a JTA report
by Julie Wiener noting that countless Jewish cemeteries across the country [are] in
varying states of disrepair. Some 40 to 50
of them are in the New York area alone.
Take for example, Congregation Shaare
Tzedek on Manhattans Upper West Side,
founder of the Bayside Cemetery in
Queens. The cemetery is in total disrepair.
While the descendants of those buried
there are outraged, it would cost the synagogue a tremendous amount of money to
maintain the property.
There are a plethora of reasons for
Jewish cemeteries troubles, Ms. Weiner
wrote. Many are owned by synagogues,
associations, or burial societies that no
longer exist or are on their last legs. Once a
cemetery stops bringing in revenues i.e.,
fresh graves the operating budget dries
up unless sufficient money has been set
aside for the long term. At Bayside, annual
cemetery upkeep costs $90,000.
The issue is nothing if not complex, and

often controversial. But for some, it is also
deeply personal.
Adding leaves
to the family tree
Marcia Minuskin of Fair Lawn, who has
joined her cousin Don Kalish in researching their family history, believes that at
least one of her ancestors is buried at Centerville. Thanks to the Jewish Historical
Society of North Jersey, a ledger book from
Bnai Jeshurun was uncovered that seems
to bear out her belief.
Granted, the handwriting in the ledger,
the second part of Bnai Jeshuruns cash
disbursement book (the first part, 18471876, is missing), is flowery and often illegible and sometimes the English melds
into Yiddish but Ms. Minuskin has reason to believe that the $3 burial of Mrs.
Le in April 1886 was that of her greatgrandmothers sister, Bertha Levine. Ms.
Levines death certificate, which Mr. Kalish
now holds, cites Centerville as her resting
place.
And yes, $3 is not a typo. Nor is the $1
charge for burying children. According to
the ledger, many young people found their
way into Centerville as well.
Bertha Levine died in April 1886 at the
SEE CEMETERY PAGE 14
As this overhead Google map shot and the diagram both show, the cemetery
is entirely surrounded by houses.
Being number two

wasnt so bad,
but being NUMBER ONE
is a whole lot better...
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Cemetery
FROM PAGE 12
age of 31. As was often the case at the time,

her husband, Morris Levine, then married her sister, Pauline. Morris and Pauline are buried in Mt. Nebo. Mr. Kalish
said that a fallen stone lies next to their
graves. He wonders if it might be the gravestone of Bertha Levine, moved there from
Centerville.
But Mr. Kalish and Ms. Minuskin are still
looking for other family members, especially for Flora Bibo, Mr. Kalishs greatgreat-great grandmother, who was listed
in the 1880 Paterson census although not
in the one for 1890.
I found an 1878 newspaper [in the Paterson library], Mr. Kalish said. Morris
Kalishs store had burned down, and it tells
how his invalid grandmother was saved by
firefighters. So she was still there.
Ms. Minuskin did her best to comb
through the old synagogue ledger provided by Jerry Nathans of JHSNJ. In an
unexpected aha moment, she discovered that her great-grandfather, Morris
Levine, was one of the men certifying
the books of the synagogue treasurer,
beginning in 1881. His signature appeared
throughout the ledger.
Among the burials she found recorded
(and there were others, but names were
illegible or unlisted) were that of Capt.
Joseph B.s wife (1876); Sellings child
(1876); M. Cohens child (1878); Brown
(1882); Loewy (1882); R. Cohens Child
(1883); Mrs. Roth (1883); Loewenthals
child (1883); Ely Primer (1883), spelling unclear; Katzs child (1884); Hillthals
child (1884), spelling unclear; Levy (1885);
Cohen (1883); Mrs. Le (1886); Mrs. Lederer
(1886); Simon (1887), spelling unclear; and
Mrs. A. Simon (1889).
Not found in the ledger, but reported in
the 1967 Herald-News article, were stones
reading Post Wife of Mac Rosenstien.
Died March 19, 1876. Age 42 years; and
In Memory of Rosa Goldstein. Died September, 1873. Aged 68 years.
(Also noteworthy in the journal were
regular payments to a poor man, generally ranging from fifty cents to one dollar.
Water taxes ran to $3, gas to $3.57, and synagogue cleaning to $4. A High Holiday ad
in the Hebrew Standard cost $1.50.)
More questions than answers

The history of cemeteries, like that of families, yields fascinating data. Mr. Nathans
recalls hearing that local residents probably melted down Centerville cemeterys
metal gates to help with the war effort,
although he doesnt remember for which
world war.
Bea Okker, longtime caretaker of the
Mount Nebo Cemetery, who now lives in
Florida, recalls that she and her husband,
Walt, took over the job of cemetery maintenance from her father-in-law, Stephen
Okker, and her mother-in-law, Georgette.
Not only did the Okkers live on the property, but Beas husband and in-laws are
Bertha Levines death certificate
buried there. Ms. Okker remained there

until 2006.
Ms. Okker told Ms. Minuskin that while
she was caretaker, she worked with the
Barnert cemetery committee, then led by
Herb Teisch and Mike Becker. According
to Ms. Minuskin, Ms. Okker remembered
going with congregants Alvin Sauer and
Herb Teisch to clean up Centerville, but,
she recalls, she met with resistance from
one or more of its neighbors.
But cemetery committee chair Len Diamond has had a different experience, noting that neighbors generally have been
very accommodating in allowing volunteers to go through their yards.
Ms. Okker recalled that a number of
stones were removed from Centerville and
put into her garage at the Mt. Nebo residence. Barnert planned to build a memorial at Mt. Nebo to display the stones from
Centerville. But, she said, when she left in
2006, the stones still were in her garage.
Mr. Diamond confirmed that the stones
are still there.
There are pieces of about six headstones, he said, adding that the stones
were moved before he joined the committee. Theyre not all intact. But, he said,
he is sure that there are still a few headstones remaining in Centerville. Our
intent is to get that vegetation under control and bring the headstones back.
He also pointed out that the State of New
Jersey maintains an archive of old death
certificates. Once archivists there are given
a specific name, they may be able to provide a certificate.
A page from Bnai Jeshuruns ledger
These headstones marked the graves of Esther, whose last name is illegible, and
of Reuban Simon.
Mr. Diamond said he and a group of volunteers had hacked down the weeds at
Centerville pretty well at one time, but
that as with many volunteer groups
we ran out of steam again. Our intention
is to find the money and restore the cemetery, he said. But he notes that the easement to the cemetery goes through someones yard and questioned how the town
had allowed that to happen.
So what to do? In some communities,

federations have taken on the upkeep
of derelict cemeteries; in others, cemetery collectives have been formed to see
to the maintenance of local cemeteries.
In others, the cemeteries simply have
disappeared.
Whatever becomes of Centerville, the
memory of those within its walls should
be honored. May they rest in peace.
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Robert Menendez talks Israel, anti-Semitism in Franklin Lakes
LARRY YUDELSON
Its not every day that a United States senator stops by a synagogue to discuss the
Middle East.
Thats what happened Sunday morning,
when Senator Robert Menendez visited
Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes.
He anchored the talk in this Passover
holiday.
Friday night begins the eight-day festival of Passover commemorating the emancipation of the people of Israel, a story that
is not over for Israelis still longing to live
in their homeland of thousands of years,
he began.
This year, as Passover approaches, let
us pray that the time of peace and security
will finally come for Israel and for the Jewish people.
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From left, Josh Gottheimer, Rabbi Elyse Frishman, and congregation President
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debate and disagreement is a necessary
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Sen. Menendez congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu
on a hard-fought victory and wished wish him well
in dealing with the challenges he will face challenges
all of us share in bringing peace and stability to the
Middle East.
Let me address some of the criticism and concerns
about the prime ministers remarks about a two-state
solution that have caused such a furor.
As you know, I have always been committed to a
two-state solution. And anyone who has ever been at
the negotiating table for any deal knows that getting to
yes requires two partners, each willing and capable.
Each willing to take the deal back to their constituents and sell it. And each willing to put in the years of
implementation that will make it work.
I believe the road to peace is a negotiated two-state
solution that ensures both the security of Israel and
a sustainable future for the Palestinian people, and I
will continue to work in the Senate, with the administration, and with our partners in the region to make
sure that conditions are conducive to a viable twostate solution. That means conditions on the Israeli
side, but also on the Palestinian sideand I have my
doubts about the commitment and capacity of the current lineup of Palestinian leadership.
Notwithstanding what Prime Minister Netanyahu
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To say otherwise, is to admit defeat of a peace process that has lasted for generations, and accept an endless cycle of violence in the worlds most dangerous
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and new immigrant children, will hold its
annual gala dinner on Wednesday, April
29, at the IAC building at 555 West 18th
Street in Manhattan. This years galaits
largest annual fundraiserwill honor supporters who have contributed to the organizations success over its 42-year history.
Nancy and Tzvi Fishman of New York
City and Teaneck are guests of honor, and
Laurie and Todd Scherzer of New York
City are the Young Leadership Couple of
the Year.
The evening will include a special program featuring Migdal Ohrs founder and
dean and 2004 Israel Prize-winner, Rabbi
Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, who will pay

tribute to Dr. Belle Rosenbaum, zl, who
lived in Monsey. She and her late husband,
Cantor Jacob Rosenbaum, were among
the founders of the American Friends of
Migdal Ohr.
In addition, five teens who have participated in the bar and bat mitzvah twinning
program will be honored for sharing their
bnai mitzvah with students at Migdal Ohr to
help mark their Israeli peers special days.
Allison and Michael Bromberg and Jordana and Adam Grunfeld, all of New York
City, and Mindy and Steven Fink of Woodmere, N.Y., are the gala co-chairs.
For information, call (212) 397-3700 or
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TABC students holding a first place plaque.
COURTESY LANDER
TABC students place first

in Lander Beis Din competition
Torah Academy of Bergen County in
Teaneck students came in first place,
among teams from eight U.S. high
schools, in the second annual Lander
College for Men Model Beis Din Competition. This is the second straight
year that TABC earned first place in
the competition.
The following question, based on
a tragic real-life scenario, was put to
competing students in the second
annual competition:
A pilot in the Israeli air force is sent
on a mission to destroy an enemy platoon. As he is en route and outside the
range of communications, the air force
learns that the intelligence was flawed
and the target actually is an area populated by civilians.
According to Jewish law, is the air
force permittedor even obligatedto
shoot down its own plane, sacrificing
the pilot for the sake of the civilians?
According to Rabbi Yonason Sacks,
rosh hayeshiva of the Beis Medrash
LTalmud, The Model Beis Din
was an exciting and creative way of
demonstrating the dynamic nature of

halachahow the Torah can inform
and confront moral and legal challenges in the most sophisticated way.
Each high school received the details
of the scenario in January, along with a
packet of relevant halachic sources to
consider for its arguments. A rabbinic
faculty member for each school served
as an advisor for his team.
Because the matter is subject to
debate, the winners were chosen
based on the quality of the presentations and their mastery of the different opinions and Talmudic sources as
related to this case, and on how well
they supported their findings.
Students from TABC, Shaare Torah,
and Ohr Yisrael were awarded plaques
and sforim. In addition, LCM dean Dr.
Moshe Sokol offered each member
of the three first-place teams who is
accepted and matriculates to LCM a
$2,500 scholarship. All participants
received a copy of Rabbi Sacks commentary on the haggadah and a
Lander College for Men duffel bag.
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Thoughts on Pesach
here certainly has been a lot

of bad news recently.
Last week, it was the horrific deaths of the seven
Brooklyn children in the fire that raged
on erev Shabbat.
This week, the disasters have not
had any specific Jewish angles, but
they are enough to give all of us shuddering nightmares. The stories of the
pilot who murdered 149 people by flying them into a mountain and of the
victims who died when a downtown
Manhattan building exploded, burned,
and imploded, most probably because
someone was trying to cheat the gas
company, are the stuff from which agoraphobes are made. (Although thats
not going to work either, because
youre not even safe at home)
The world seems to be a grim place
right now.
But spring is coming.
That seems hard to believe. Its been
visible only in tantalizing little whiffs,
soon dissipated. But we know its
coming.
And the earth knows too. Crocuses
have started showing up, and sometimes they even venture to open.
The occasional
foolish forsythia has
bloomed
yellow.
And the daffodils are poking
through as well. (Daffodils
are the absolute essence of
spring. Even the name shows
it. Theyre a little bit goofy
thats the daffy part and
they are also upright, spiky,
and above the line all
those ds and fs and l. And
theyre yellow, the color of
springtime.)
By the time you read this, it
will be our springtime holiday.
Passover is the holiday of our
liberation and our redemption.
It is also called chag he-aviv
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the holiday of spring. We can begin

to think more easily about liberation
when we can go outside without dressing up like the Pillsbury Doughboy,
when we see color around us, when
the light lasts into evening and begins
to have some golden body to it, when
the air tastes of new beginnings and
although you cant name exactly what
you are feeling you know that you
really like it.
So right now, it feels as if we are at a
crossroads. The winter, with its heaviness, its tragedy, its darkness, and its
never-ending snow, is behind us, in
theory at least. The spring, with its
promise of liberation, shines at us,
beckons to us, promises us a chance of
at least the pursuit of happiness.
We hope that all of us will be able to
move forward, that if we work toward
liberation we will find ourselves ever
closer to it.
All of us at the Jewish Standard hope
that all of you, our readers, have a
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Iran and the

coming cataclysm
ets turn the tables for a moment.

Imagine if Ayatollah Ali Khameini was threatening to murder
all blacks in the Middle East. What
if he tweeted regularly that people of dark
skin are of the devil and must be annihilated.
Would the American government be negotiating with him? Or would we face international
opprobrium for legitimizing a government
with racist, genocidal intent against an identifiable ethnic group.
Or what if he was threatening to murder
every fifth woman in the Middle East due to
some ritualistic, orgiastic requirement of his
demented worldview? Would we be dealing
with this man prior to his repudiation of such
murderous intent?
Why is it that threatening to murder the
Jews is acceptable? Khameini has threatened
to annihilate six million Jews in
Israel at least as many times as
Hitler himself threatened the
extermination of European
Jews in the 1920s and 30s. In
November he tweeted that
there is no cure for Israel utter
than annihilation. And here
we are witnesses to the worlds
foremost republic and sole
Rabbi
superpower negotiating with
Shmuley
a government with a clearly
Boteach
defined agenda of carrying out
a second holocaust.
On MSNBCs The Ed Show
this week, I debated Joe Cirincione of Ploughshares about the Iran deal. Weve had many
debates on MSNBC over the last few weeks.
He is an honorable opponent. But I made this
point: How can we be legitimizing a government that openly and repeatedly calls for the
extermination of all Israels Jews? Would we
do the same if the Iranians called for the annihilation of another ethnic group, say, blacks
in the Middle East. Gays in the Middle East?
(Oh, Iran is already doing that!). Joe got upset
and worked up. Now wait just a minute. But
he didnt answer the question.

Theres got to be one red line in world
negotiations today, and that line has to be
genocide. Any government that is engaged
in genocide or that is building weapons to
carry out a genocide or that is actively calling for a genocide cannot receive international legitimacy. Its the reason we dont talk
to ISIS. Aside from its obvious brutality and
beheadings, which Iran also practices, it is
engaged in the wholesale slaughter of Yazidis
and Christians. So why does the president of
Iran get a phone call from President Obama
joking about New York traffic when his government is repeatedly calling for the liquidation of all Jews?
And this is just one of the mystifying
aspects of President Obamas engagement
in the Iran deal. The other: how could a
leader who showed such
courage and resolve in taking out Americas foremost
enemy, Osama bin Laden,
now surrender, capitulate
to, and appease its foremost
threat, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the terror overlord who
just recently yet again promised Death to America?
Indeed, in full-page ads that
our organization, the World
Values Network, took out in
the New York Times and the
Washington Post, we put in a
bold headline: Mr. President, Fighting alQaeda made you like Churchill. Appeasing
Iran will make you like Chamberlain.
In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain believed he could satisfy Hitlers ravenous ambitions with the sacrifice
of Czechoslovakia in the infamous Munich
Pact. The doomed agreement was endorsed
by the New York Times as the price for
peace. A more lamentable, discrediting
editorial seldom has been written. The
price turned out to be 60 million lives.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the author of 30 books, including The Fed-up
Man of Faith: Challenging God in the Face of Tragedy and Suffering. Follow him on
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Today, the United States is on the verge of concluding
a pact that will enable the worlds foremost state sponsor of terrorism to become a nuclear power, leaving Iran
with a military-grade, 6500-centrifuge-strong enrichment capability, along with long-range missiles. Here is
todays price for peace.
But just as there was no peace for our time in
appeasing Hitler in the 1930s, there will no peace by
appeasing the Hitler-wannabe Khamenei in the 2010s.
The comparison is not extreme. Hitler publicly promised the extermination of the worlds Jews. Khamenei
promises exactly the same.
President Obama is a historic figure, the first African-American president. Every year he honorably
conducts a Passover seder in the White House. He
is very familiar with the long, painful history of the
Jewish people, later mirrored in the painful AfricanAmerican experience.
I do not doubt that President Obama is a friend of
the Jewish people, even as he has shown unfortunate
and undisguised loathing for Israels elected leader,
Benjamin Netanyahu. But the President is a witness to
how Jews today are being murdered all the world over.
He likewise understands that just 70 years ago, one
out of every three Jews on earth was shot or gassed
and cremated.
We need him to stand up for us. We need him to fight
evil. Signing this calamitous Iran deal does precisely the
opposite.
The president must demand that Khamenei personally
and publicly repudiate all genocidal threats against Israel.
Second, he should demand that Iran, which has murdered thousands of American troops through Shia
proxies and is called by your State Department the
worlds most active state sponsor of terrorism, cease
all support of terror worldwide.
Third, Before any deals are signed, the president
should condemn stoning women and hanging gays.
America cannot legitimize a government engaged in
such barbarity.
Finally, the United States cannot sign a deal with a
catastrophic one-year-weapons-breakout period that
endangers America, Israel, and the world.
Iran now has control over five Middle Eastern capitals. President Obama himself said that its obtaining
a nuclear weapon is a game changer for the world.
Faced with a threat of this magnitude, the American
people deserve the right to have the final say on any deal
with Iran by allowing their elected leaders in Congress
to vote. The plan now calls for taking it to the United
Nations Security Council, where Vladimir Putins veto
will decide the issue.
There are now some 65 senators prepared to vote for
the Corker-Menendez-Schumer bill, which will require
Senate review of the Presidents arms-control treaty
with Iran. Indeed, in all of American history there has
never been an arms-control treaty that was not ratified
by the Senate. This would be the first one.
There are also 367 members of the U.S. House of
Representatives from both parties, and many of Irans
neighbors, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates, Qatar and others, who have expressed grave
concern about the Iran deal.
Winston Churchill prophetically warned Neville Chamberlain: You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.
The shortest road to war is always the path of
appeasement. It is a road we dare not choose, so
that we are not confronted shortly with a much more
ruinous Middle East war. Iran cannot be allowed to
become a nuclear power.
Pesach, the election,

binary opposites, and redemption
hametz, loosely translated as leavening or leavened products, brings us into a world of binary
opposites.
Chametz is perfectly permissible all year
round. On Pesach, however, the smallest amount of chametz in food, cooking vessels, or utensils renders them
totally unusable.
Given the stringencies surrounding even owning chametz, you would have imagined that the central symbolic
food of the Pesach holiday, matzah, would be made only
of grains that never could become chametz. Exactly the
opposite is true. If a particular species of grain cannot
become chametz, it cannot be used to produce matzah.
Matzah also is characterized by a binary opposite. It is
at once lachma anya, the bread of the affliction of slavery, and at the same time the symbol of freedom and
redemption.
There is a message in the binary opposites that characterize chametz and matzah. The message is that to be
healthy spiritually and emotionally, a person must integrate binary opposites and have them interact with each
other in a way that is fruitful.
That message has become even more poignant now,
after the elections in Israel.
I have close friends and relatives who in aggregate present
a binary opposite. They cover
the full spectrum of opinions
and ideologies in Israeli society. These people represent
the far, far left and the far, far
right. They run the gamut from
dyed in the wool secular Jews,
Rabbi Dr.
who cannot fathom why anyMichael
one would be religious, to chaChernick
redim who cannot fathom how
anyone lives without faith in
God. And of course, there are
all the Israelis who inhabit the middle of this continuum.
Since the elections, these Israelis are living a binary-opposite life.
The left and center-lefts binary opposites look something like this: Within three days before the election, the
polls were suggesting the possibility of a left and centerleft win. When dawn broke on Wednesday, March 18, the
left and center-left discovered itself trounced by the rightwing Likud and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu.
My friends in that leftist camp virtually sat shiva. The
existential binary opposite they now feel is that they
deeply love their country, would never think of leaving it,
and even would die for it, but they detest what they feel it
is becoming derisive of democracy, tangibly racist, and
less committed to the moral, ethical, and humanistic values of what they understand Judaism to be. The greatest
disappointment for them is that the newly elected governments proclaimed stance that there will be no Palestinian
state during its time in office provides no vision of how
to prevent more violence and death for both Israelis and
Palestinians.
Most of all, they have had to come to grips with the fact
that the largest percentage of the vote went to right-wing
nationalist or ultra-Orthodox parties.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clarified

his position on the two-state solution in an interview after his election win with Andrea Mitchell of
MSNBC on March 19.
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The right, which has become primarily the far right, also
presently is living a life riddled with the self-contradiction
inherent in binary opposites. It constantly projects a tough
muscular image of itself, and claims that its strength is the
only hope for the security of the state and its people
but the right-wing government that has been elected came
into power not because Bibi spoke to the Israeli peoples
self-confidence. Rather, it was his scare tactics, addressed
to the peoples abject fears and insecurities, that brought
them to the polls to vote for him and the Likud.
Bibis campaign on the last day of the election came to
be known in the press as the Gevalt campaign. Gevalt!
The Arabs are coming to the polls in droves! You better get
out and vote for Likud. Gevalt! The left will give away the
country unless you vote me in! The binary opposites of
the New Israeli Jew, whose characteristics are courage,
autonomy, and self-assurance, and the golus Yid, the powerless, vulnerable, dependent, and insecure exile Jew,
were both at play in the rights victory.
Though not a binary opposite, the voting patterns of
Israels Jewish electorate present an internal contradiction. The left, which still represents the socialist values of
early Zionism, is made up mostly of educated, upper-middle-class to moderately wealthy people. They vote against
their own interests, as do many affluent, educated American Jews who vote Democratic. That is, they vote for more
benefits to the socially and economically marginalized. Yet
it is primarily the marginalized and the newly made billionaires who vote for the right.
I understand why the nouveau riches vote right. After
all, the right under Netanyahu has vigorously encouraged
an economic platform that favors a free-market orientation. This orientation has made Israel one of the major
start-up nations in the world, which is basically good.
Unfortunately, the extremes that this orientation has
allowed has been a disaster for the middle class, who went
to the streets two years ago to demand reasonably priced
housing, education, and food.
The middle classs situation, as bad as it is, doesnt begin
to compare to the yawning chasm that now exists between
rich and poor in Israel. Poor here is truly dirt poor.
Why do those who do not benefit from a right-wing governments social and economic policies vote for it?
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Freedom from violence against women

At your seder, think about liberation and act on it
e are about to sit down

at our seder table to celebrate the foundational
freedom narrative of the
Jewish people. Joining family and friends in
an environment of privilege and plenty, we
recount the history of hardship and travail,
when our ancestors in Egypt suffered brutal
oppression. This year, my thoughts are with
those who continue to live under the threat
of constant violence, especially women and
girls across the globe.
As a participant in the American Jewish
World Service Global Justice Fellowship, I
have become involved in the We Believe
campaign to stop violence against women
and girls. Inspired by our Jewish values and
teachings that assert that dignity of every
human being, our intergenerational cohort of
AJWS fellows is actively pressing lawmakers
to support the International Violence Against
Women Act, which would link international
diplomacy and foreign aid to global efforts to
end violence against women and girls.
The horrifying realities of continuing persecution sadly is very prevalent in the 21st
century in many parts of the world. A recent
front-page headline in the New York Times
asserted U.N. Reveals Alarmingly High
Levels of Violence Against Women. In early
March, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
reported on the results of a study to the General Assembly, claiming that despite the gains
The American Jewish World Services chart shows how laws are made; it hopes that laws helping to stop violence against
women make it through the process. For more information go to ajws.org.
AJWS
women have made in education, health, and

even political power in the course of a generation, violence against women and girls worldwide remains widespread. About 35 percent
of women worldwide more than one in
three said they had experienced physical
violence in their lifetime, the report finds.
The immediate priority of We Believe,

a national advocacy campaign of American Jewish World Service, is the passage
of IVAWA, which recently has been introduced in Congress by Representative Jan
Schakowsky of Illinois, with the support of a
bipartisan group of sponsors. Two weeks ago,
U.S. senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Barbara

Boxer (D-CA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mark
Kirk (R-IL), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced the International Violence Against
Women Act in the Senate. This bipartisan
legislation would make reducing the levels of
violence against women and girls worldwide
This Passover, lets free ourselves from ideological slavery
s a mother of five, Im something

of an expert on temper tantrums. (You should see me when
they miss the bus!)
So it is hard not to notice that the term has
been used repeatedly to describe the presidents outsize reaction to the reelection of
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
including his repeated threats to overhaul
the U.S.-Israel bond. Throughout the Jewish
and secular media, commentators, including
Senator John McCain and the Wall Street Journal editorial board, have referred to the presidents post-election threats as a tantrum
from which he should calm down and regain
controlled restraint.
I wish I could agree. A tantrum is an emotional meltdown, an out-of-control child kicking and screaming to get his way. Obamas
reaction, by contrast, is calculated and
planned. It is consistent with his actions over
years. And the presidents focus on Netanyahus election-eve statements merely provides
an excuse, not the motivation, for the presidents threatened policy changes and overt
hostility.
Since he came into office, the president has
sought to put daylight between the United

States and Israel. This administration has
taken many unprecedented actions in pursuit
of that goal, from interrupting pre-arranged
arms transfers during a war, to damaging
words like chicken... and Secretary of State
John Kerrys infamous apartheid comment, to the despicable policy of maintaining
funding to the Palestinian Authority after its
decision to form a coalition with the terrorist group Hamas. Most recently, last weeks
revelation that top-secret U.S. defense documents with details of Israeli nuclear weapons
research were intentionally declassified and
leaked to Iran and Russia in the days before
Netanyahu spoke to Congress shows just how
much darkness this daylight can yield.
The election results, a confirmation by
Israelis of their commitment to their own
survival, serve merely as the White Houses
latest excuse to chip away at the U.S.-Israel
bond. In a press conference last week, a
reporter noted the administrations repeated
refusals to accept Netanyahus explanations
of his remarks, and asked what, if anything,
the Israeli leader could do to prove himself
sincere. Obamas 10-minute answer could be
reduced to one word: Nothing. Like the pharaoh we all will read about this weekend, the
president has hardened his heart. He will not
be swayed.
It is small comfort that Israel is not the only
nation finding itself unable to rely on its traditional alliance with the United States. American inaction as ISIS marches through Syria
and North Africa and Iran-backed forces take
over Iraq and Yemen has left the Saudis, Jordanians, and Egyptians equally adrift, much
like Yemens President Hadi, who had to flee
the country by boat in the face of Iran-backed
Houthi attacks.
Although there is much at stake in the 21
months ahead, we know that this pharaohs
term will pass. Yet many American Jews
remain enslaved to their own false ideas
about what Israel must do going forward.
On this eve of Passover, we should reflect
on these ideas and attempt to break free.
The Torah powerfully demonstrates that
our ancestors enslavement went far beyond
their physical reality, beyond anything pharaoh could impose. Long after their bodies had exited Egyptian soil, Jews were still
slaves in their minds, asking again and again
to return to an awful reality rather than

embrace the unknown.
So, too, American Jews have been slaves to
fixed ideas about Israels future that contradict daily realities. And like our ancestors, we
must strive to free ourselves from the slave
mentality.
We have been slaves to the accusations of
our enemies, ever apologizing for our very
existence. To become a free people, we must
reject their libels and define ourselves on
our own terms. Zionism is the movement
of the Jewish people to form a nation-state
in our ancient homeland of Israel. Israel has
absorbed immigrants from every nation and
race, and its entire population enjoys equal
rights and a free society unlike in any Arab
nation. We must free ourselves from internalizing the worlds false charges that we have
become oppressors.
We have been slaves to the false idea that
Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria
are somehow obstacles to peace, just because
Palestinian Arabs demand a Jew-free country.
Why should the world endorse this racism?
And why should Israel block natural growth
of existing communities while her partners
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a top diplomatic priority for the

in their daily lives in our day.
United States.
The We Believe campaign
We urge Bergen County membecomes a personal commitment
bers of Congress from both parwhen someone listens empathities who have not yet joined this
cally to the transformative stories
important initiative to follow the
of hope of a number of extraordinary, resilient people that are
lead of several of their New Jersey colleagues (notably Rodney
recorded on the AJWS website
Frelinghuysen, R. Dist. 11 and
you can find it at webelieve.
Dr. Elaine
Leonard Lance, (R Dist. 7) and
ajws.org. I urge readers of the
Shizgal
add their name to the growing
Jewish Standard to do this as a
Cohen
list of the IVAWAs sponsors and
way to make the awareness of
supporters.
this pressing issue more personal
The first action step is for all of
and immediate. The passage of
us to recognize how prevalent violence against
IVAWA will lead to the implementation and
women and girls continues to be around the
funding of innovative, cost-effective programs
world. Believing in the dignity of all people and
that have been shown to decrease violence
their basic human right to a life of freedom from
against women. This is a fundamental issue that
fear and abuse, we must renew our Jewish comall people of good faith can support, regardless
mitment to justice for all. As we commemorate
of their political affiliation, religious inclination,
the escape from slavery of the Jewish people
or party preference.
and acclaim the story of our redemption, it is
At our family seder we incorporate the new
incumbent upon us to recognize that an estiritual of placing a Miriams cup, filled with water,
mated one of every three women across the
on the table. This tradition honors the role that
world will be beaten, coerced into sex, or oththe prophetess played in the crossing of the
erwise abused in her lifetime.
sea and recognizes the leadership of women in
This is a time for American Jews and other
Jewish life and culture. This year, we will add
supporters of human rights to take action and
a reflection about women and girls around the
advocate for policies that will improve the lives
world who continue to need our advocacy so
of people in the developing world. By signing
that they, too, may one day sing jubilant songs
the IVAWA petition and calling on our congresof freedom.
sional representatives to support its passage,
every person can take a small step toward makElaine Shizgal Cohen, EdD, is currently a
ing significant change in our deeply troubled
participant in the New York area Global Justice
world. Just as we are enjoined to recall that we
Fellowship of American Jewish World Service. She
were once slaves in Egypt, we should take a
lives in Teaneck and is a member of the executive
moment to reflect on what life is like for women
and board of Congregation Beth Sholom.
and girls who suffer from violence and coercion
Gay? Not okay
in peace continue to reject all

overtures? We must free ourselves from the need to blame
Jews for the failure of Palestinian
Arabs to accept our existence.
Most of all, we have been slaves
to the idea that the failed policies
of Oslo are the only way to maintain a Jewish, democratic Israel.
Laura
To become a free people, we
Fein
must recognize that a better life
will not come from this stillborn
plan.
Whether you were swept up in the dramatic hope of the handshake or believed it
was doomed from the outset, the fact is that
for more than 20 years the land-for-peace formula has proved a failure. Twice Israel offered
comprehensive agreements including an Arab
capital in Jerusalem, and twice Palestinian
Arab leaders rejected them without counteroffers. Instead, they reignited terror wars on the
Israeli people that continue to this day. Areas
that Israel unilaterally withdrew from have not
become building grounds for a peaceful society, despite levels of international aid unprecedented in human history; instead, they have
devolved into launching pads for more attacks
on Israeli citizens. Israeli devotion to the process is simply not enough when Palestinian
leadership in all parties deny Israels right to exist in any borders,

reward violence and hatred, and
continue to devote themselves to
Israels destruction.
Just as the ancient Israelites
nearly rejected freedom because
they could not accept its uncertainties, so too many modern Jews
risk Israels future by focusing on
something that has been proven
to be a dead end. Peace requires
that Palestinian Arabs stop funding terror and war, accept Israels right to exist,
and re-educate their society to embrace peaceful coexistence. The sooner efforts are focused
on these goals, rather than on pressuring Israel
to take ever greater security risks, the sooner
real progress will be possible.
In this election, Israelis have rejected the false
hopes of past plans. Let us Americans free ourselves as well, and support them as they begin
applying their immense capacity to finding solutions that address realities, not fantasies.
Laura Fein of Teaneck is the executive director
of ZOA-NJ, which will hold its annual Mission to
Washington on Tuesday, April 28. Reach her at
ZOANJ@zoa.org.
Let me take issue for the article

regarding Eshel for several reasons
(Oy vey, my child is gay, March 27).
First of all, the article takes a
number of things out of context.
The Helfgott letter never spoke of
the halachic legitimacy of a same
sex intimate relationship; it simply
stated that gay individuals should be
respected and tolerated the same as
other Jews who are lacking in observance of Shabbat or kashrut. Rabbi
Boteach made the same point. The
call for a reinterpretation of the
verse in Leviticus prohibiting homosexual relations is outside the realm
of Orthodox Judaism just as reinterpreting the Torah to eliminate
kashrut or Shabbat would be.
Secondly, there is a problem that
I have with both Eshel and Keshet via the Orthodox community.
They are not asking for respect and
inclusion (the same way one would
include a Jew who violates certain
precepts of the Torah). They are asking for a heter for same sex intimate
relationships.
That the Orthodox community
cannot do and remain faithful to the
Torah.
Respect and limited inclusion, yes
but permission of a same-sex intimate relationship, no.
Alan Mark Levin
Fair Lawn
More Brundibar
survivors
It was stated in your paper that Ela

Weissberger was the last surviving member of the original cast of
Brundibar (You are not numbers.
You have a name, March 27.)This is
incorrect. There are several surviving members, including my cousin,
Dita Kraus, who is a good friend of
Ms. Weissbergers.
Elizabeth Warms
Tenafly
Wrong again
about Obama
Last weeks letter from Dr. Terdiman

leaves me shaking my head in wonderment (Wrong about Obama).
He says that Obama is perhaps the
worst president in our history. I
look at Obama and recognize some
of his accomplishments. (He got a
stimulus bill passed that started us
out of a severe recession; reinvigorated the U.S. auto industry; took
over from Bush when we were losing 800,000 jobs a month and has
had about 60 months of steady job
increases to a total of over 3 million new jobs, mostly in the private
sector; presided over a stock market that was about 7 thousand and
is now 18 thousand on the Dow;
brought the deficit down from 10

percent of GDP to under 4 percent;
has taken steps toward recognizing
the threat of global warming; got
Osama bin Laden; passed health
care reform; ended the war in Iraq,
and is drawing down in Afghanistan.) And these accomplishments,
I ask myself, rate him the grade of
worst?
It make no sense to me. Maybe Im
living in an alternate universe than
that of Dr. Terdiman.
Bernard Appel
Ringwood
Still not wrong
In Wrong about Obama, Dr. Terdiman

paints a picture with a wide brush, but
with few facts and no specifics.
In blaming President Obamas
strained relationship with the opposition, he is missing the Republican
leaderships meeting on January 20,
2009, the day of Obamas first inauguration, where the Senate Minority
Leader, Mitch McConnell, indicated
that the top priority for the Republican party was for Obama to be a oneterm president.
The country was in the midst of a
financial crisis, unemployment was
a major problem, the economy was
sputtering, and we had an unnecessary military adventure in the Middle
East, but the oppositions priority
was to defeat Obama.
Health care reform, originally an
idea of the Heritage Foundation, a
Republican think tank, was signed
into law by Governor Mitt Romney
in Massachusetts. When embraced
by Obama, it became a leper. Has the
opposition proposed an alternative?
No! The Republican-controlled Congress is sterile.
This has been the misguided position of the opposition. To blame
Obama alone demonstrates a clear
lack of reality.
Elisha Gurfein
Englewood
Kindness to pets
It is surprising that Rabbi Engelmayer did not reference the Hebrew

rubric tzaar baalei chayim, which
enjoins us to be sensitive to the plight
of the living creatures of the world
(Learning Torah by caring for a pet,
March 27). Of equal note is the fact that
in the Torah, only two mitzvot carry
with them the promise of a lengthening of days. The best known is the
behest that one is to honor thy father
and thy mother. Less well known is
the fact that such a reward is promised to one who returns a fallen fledgling bird to the nest, where its mother
can care for it.
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Obama, not Netanyahu,

is killing the
two-state solution
ISRAEL
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From the Oval Office, U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the phone to
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on September 27, 2013. PETE SOUZA/WHITE HOUSE
resident Barack Obama is corclear substantive challenge: We believe

rect. There is, as he said on
that two states is the best path forTuesday, no realistic prosward for Israels security, for Palestinpect of a Palestinian state
ian aspirations and for regional stabilbeing created through a diplomatic
ity, Obama said. Then he added, drily,
process for the foreseeable future.
And Prime Minister Netanyahu has a
What we cant do is pretend that
different approach.
theres a possibility for something thats
The Netanyahu approach, as undernot there, Obama said. And we cant
stood by Obama, was summarized in
continue to premise our public diploremarks he made the previous day.
macy based on something
Prime Minister Netanthat everybody knows is
yahu in the election runnot going to happen at
up stated that a Palestinleast in the next several
ian state would not occur
years.
while he was prime minisSo that, it would seem,
ter, and I took him at his
is that. In 2012, Obama
word that thats what he
confidently told the U.N.
meant, and I think that a
General Assembly, The
lot of voters inside of Israel
road is hard, but the desunderstood him to be sayBen Cohen
tination is clear: a secure
ing that fairly unequivoJewish state of Israel and
cally, said the president.
an independent, prosperHe concluded that the
ous Palestine. Now, he has conceded
prospect of a meaningful framework
that his own journey is over and the
that would lead to the establishment of
destination remains virtually invisible
a Palestinian state was not in sight.
upon the horizon. The elixir that is a
In the future, Obama said, a credfinal settlement of the Israeli-Palestinible negotiating framework would be
ian conflict has eluded Obama, just as
one that gives the Palestinians hope,
it did his predecessors.
the possibility that down the road they
That is not an outcome we should
have a secure state of their own standcelebrate. I also applaud the vision of
ing side by side with a secure and fully
a secure Jewish state of Israel living
recognized Jewish state of Israel. In
peaceably with a neighboring, prosperthis sentence, there was a faint admonous Palestinian stateonly I would add
ishing of Netanyahu, the implication
the entire Middle East to the equation.
being that the Israeli governments
But here is where any empathy I have
negotiating positions and actions in the
with the president ends.
current framework left the Palestinians
It was entirely predictable that
with no hope at all.
Its here that we get to the heart
Obama would blame his predicament
of the dispute between Obama and
on one man: Israeli Prime Minister BenNetanyahu, far beneath the surface
jamin Netanyahu. The issue is a very
Opinion
noise of their mutual dislike. The issue is not a
matter of relations between leaders, Obama said.
And he is right. Ultimately, Israel maddens Obama
because its people and its leaderswhatever their
disagreements over how Netanyahu has handled
his personal relationship with Obamaare rightly
wary of his strategy of enabling Iran to become the
dominant power in the Middle East, among the
many consequences of which is that many Sunni
Arabs turn to groups like the Islamic State terror
entity in response.
What this reveals quite sharply is that Obama has
never really empathized with the emotions that govern Israeli perceptions of the wider regionoutrage
that nearly 70 years after the Jewish states creation,
the Arab and Muslim world remains consumed by
anti-Semitism and eliminationist ambitions towards
Israel; impatience when it comes to a peace process
that promises so much and requires so many sacrifices, like the 2005 evacuation of Gaza, and yet
seldom, if ever, makes good; fear of a nuclear Iran,
and contempt for the negotiating process that is
abetting it.
freeze on settlement building that was implemented in

late 2009, are worthless.
Each man kills the thing he loves, wrote Oscar Wilde.
And the president bears him out. Obamas zeal to create
a Palestinian state, and his elevation of that quest to the
most important goal of American policy in the region, has
been profoundly disquieting for Israel. Not only do Israelis perceive Obama as placing undue pressure and censure upon Netanyahu, but they also perceive him as an
appeaser of the Iranian mullahs and of the Assad regime
in Syria. Should the phrase two-state solution become a
permanent metaphor for a failed policy, Obamas contribution on that score will have been decisive. But he will
choose to blame Israel and its outspoken leader instead.
That, after all, has been one of the few constants of this
administrations Middle East policy.
JNS.ORG

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on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics have been
published in Commentary, the New York Post, Ha aretz,
The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.
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Obama has never

really empathized
with the emotions
that govern Israeli
perceptions of the
wider region
From Obamas point of view, though, its all about
the current distribution of power and resources.
Israel, Obama believes, controls the land, has a prosperous economy, and is robustly protected by a firstclass military that enjoys a close, productive relationship with its American counterpart. It also has
the support of Americas influential and prosperous
Jewish community, which further cements the distinctive relationship between the two nations. And
yet, despite all those advantages, Israel refuses to see
that a complete moratorium on construction activities in Jewish communities in the West Bank and
eastern Jerusalem is in its best interests, thus fueling the anger of extremists who oppose the peace
process, thus leading to repeated wars in Gaza, thus
provoking international condemnation and isolation, and so on and so forth.
We cannot compel Obama to see things differently.
But I do fear that his legacy, as it applies to Israelis,
will be a wholly negative one: namely, to kill off any
remnants of support for a two-state solution.
After all, its not just about the last seven years.
The Oslo process, the second Palestinian intifada,
the withdrawal from Gaza, and the assaults from
Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north, all
have persuaded Israelis that hard, territorial compromises can actually bring more war, rather than
less conflict. Yes, a good number of Israelis might
dislike Netanyahu personally, and think that he
bears a portion of the blame for the fractious relationship with the White House. But that does not
imply their support for a peace process that defines
Israeli concessions as the main yardstick of progresssuggesting, at the same time, that the compromises theyve already made, like the 10-month
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The with-luck-not-toolonely woman of faith
Local hiker joins love of Judaism and wilderness to create walking adventures
local Conservative shul, Beth El. Ms. Abelsons father, Shel (yes, she said, her parents really are Shelley and Shel) grew up
in Worcester, Mass., a blue-collar town,
where his father was a postal carrier. They
belonged to an Orthodox shul, and spoke
about it with respect, but did not visit it
often. Sheldon Abelson was poor but
smart; he says that Jewish boys who were
good at math and science became doctors
or lawyers, Ms. Abelson quotes her father.
If theyre poor and good at math and sci-
JOANNE PALMER
hen you think of the

words wild and New
Jersey, you might think of
bloated, run-amok politicians, or Sopranos in driveways or diners,
or cement-shod bodies tossed under the
Meadowlands. It is, after all, the countrys
most densely populated state, and better
known for the stadium than for actual, you
know, meadowlands.
But New Jersey also is home to natural
beauty, to wild animals and rattlesnakes,
to gravity-defying geological formations,
and to part of the Appalachian Trail, as
well as to abandoned iron mines, crumbling old mansions, and other humanmade artifacts decaying back into nature.
If you look at the maps put out by the
New York-New Jersey Trail Conference,
sturdily and colorfully printed on a ripproof, paper-like material called Tyvek
because it is meant to be used by serious hikers on real trails you will see that
the northern part of this state, beginning
in western Bergen County and going west
from there, is full of parks that are ringed
with hiking trails. Just to their north, Rockland, Ulster, and Sullivan counties in New
York state are similarly rich in accessible
but rough trails.
Okay, so the trails are there. How do you
go about hiking them?
Well, if you are a Jewish woman (actually, you dont have to be either a woman
or even Jewish, really, but the comfort
level helps) you can join Shani Abelson of
Teaneck as she hikes, guides, and teaches
about those trails and what you see as you
walk them.
Because Ms. Abelson grew up with an
understanding of the north woods, she
knows how to see each individual tree,
as well as the creatures that live around
it. Because she is an Orthodox Jew, both
Jewishly educated and spiritually alert, she
It is not so
much about the
destination.
It is about
the journey.
Shani Abelson holds a box turtle. It is a protected species; Ms. Abelson and her
brother found it on a trail and moved it to safety.
feels Gods presence there too, she says.

Ms. Abelson grew up in Niskayuna, N.Y.,
outside Schenectady, in a household that
prized intellectual achievement, Yiddishkeit, Jewishness, and nature. It was an
unusual mix, created by her parents, both
of them unusual people, products both of
their time and background and their own
personalities and interests.

Ms. Abelsons mother, Shelley, a retired
English teacher, was born in the Bronx
and grew up in New Rochelle. Her father
was a pharmacist and the son of a pharmacist; he owned Ledermans Pharmacy
on Fordham Road in the Bronx. They were
Jewishly connected, active members of the
ence, they become engineers. He is an

engineer; they live in Schenectady because
the town also is home to General Electric.
There happened to be an unusual Jewish day school in Albany, the Bet Shraga
Hebrew Academy, created and run by the
charismatic Shraga Arian, when Ms. Abelson was a child. Her mother taught there,
and when her children were old enough
for school, they went there. When you
give your kids a structured Jewish education, you are giving them a fighting chance
Jewishly, she said. And of course kids
bring these experiences home. Lets do
Friday night dinner, lets go to shul The
family, which always had kept kosher,
became increasingly observant.
There, already, the two main elements
of Ms. Abelsons life her soul-deep Jewish identity and her joy in the wilderness
were formed and entwined.
Her father is an avid camper, and her
mother was not. Shes from the Bronx,
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A group climbs a trail in Pyramid

Mountain HIstoric Area in Boonton.
Ms. Abelson said. Shelley

MIT and Harvard professors.
Lederman was attracted by
She loved it. It is not a boarding school, but the principal
the romance of camping, and
found her a place to live. It
of campers. The Abelsons first
was with a different family
date was in a canoe, and I
every year. It was a fantastic
thought he was like Thoreau,
education, she said.
she recalls her mother telling
After high school Ms.
her. Still, enough was enough.
Abelson headed to Barnard;
So, my dad was not mindful
between her junior and
of gender stuff, and I was the
senior year she married, and
oldest, Ms. Abelson said. He
soon after graduation she was
used to take me camping and
pregnant. That marriage did
canoeing in the backwoods.
not last I was young and
Schenectady is near Albany,
stupid, she said but she
toward the head of the Hudson
feels no bitterness toward her
River; it is the states capital district, but it also is the gateway
ex-husband.
to the rugged mountainous
It was with that husband and their young son,
country that makes up northern New York. We would drive
Zakai, that she first moved
roughly 3, 3 hours, for a twoto Teaneck, in 1990; in 1994
Hikers stand on an overlook called Pinwheels Vista, part of the Bearfort Waters trail in the
or three-night trip. Wed porthe family moved to ElizaPequannock watershed in Passaic County.
tage theyd carry their canoes
beth. Eventually, Ms. Abelson
around rapids. There were no
and her son moved back to
decided that she did not want to go to pubbathrooms.
Teaneck.
the frame, and then you treat the wood.
lic school. My options were New York or
The Adirondacks have been my fathers
Fifteen years ago, Ms. Abelson married
Her father, who is 75, still is an outdoorsman, she added. Until very recently he
Boston, because we were roughly equicampground, she continued. In the sumJerry Schneider, an accountant who is the
mer he canoes, and in the winter he walks
distant from them, she said. New York
went winter camping in Chibougamou,
CFO of the Henry Kaufman Campgrounds
over the lakes that he canoes on in the
looked like a fast lifestyle, so we went to
1,000 miles north of Montreal.
in Pearl River, N.Y. They are the parents of
As high school loomed, with no local
summer. He built a toboggan you have
visit the Maimonides school in Boston. The
two young sons, Shammai and Hillel.
Jewish options available, Ms. Abelson
to boil the wood so you can bend it into
kids there were mainly nerds, children of
After they moved to Teaneck, Ms.
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Abelson started looking around for ways
to get outside. She spent some time with
the Jewish Outdoors Club, but although
she loved it, she found it a bit too daredevil for her tastes. She remembers one of
its members, an adrenaline kind of guy,
wire skinny, who had an event where you
jumped out of a plane with a huge kite. It
sounds thrilling, but I dont think he got
anyone to go with him, she said.
The club is fantastic, she said. It is
not a singles group, but it has produced
many shidduchim. That is not accidental.
There is no artifice in the forest. Insects
and bears are attracted to scents why do
you want to be more attractive to insects
and bears? In place of artifice there is true
feeling, she said.
Ms. Abelson still wanted to hike, and she
did not want to hike alone not only is
that less gratifying, it is also actively dangerous. And I am not exactly a paragon
of fitness, she said ruefully. The joke in
my group is that I am usually the one least
in shape. So its good that Im the leader.
But I said that if I can do this, I can get
other women to do it too.
In 2003, she put a notice on Teaneck
Shuls, the local listserv, asking for women
who were interested in hiking. I got a
huge response and then three women
actually showed up.
Why women? I feel that women in general and particularly Orthodox women
are reluctant to carve out time for themselves, she said. But a human being
should have some alone time, some time
to consider who you are, and why you are.
There is a reason why Soloveitchik wrote a

book called Lonely Man of Faith.
If a man says, Honey, Im going to play
softball with the guys on a Sunday morning, his wife thinks thats great. But women
feel that if they say the same sort of thing,
its a revolutionary statement.
The walks the group takes are moderately paced, Ms. Abelson said. In fact,
some might say they are glacially paced.
Adrenaline junkies dont like my group.
I dont want a fast pace. I want to see and
encounter things. I want to see wildlife.
I am very into geoloy, natural history,
human history, so when we see an interesting mushroom or rock formation or
bark or old mine pit or bird, we stop.
We learn to identify birds. I am into
frogs and snakes, and any time we see
one, we stop. If we see a beautiful view, we
stop. Or a pond I like to lob rocks into the
pond. You throw it up high, and it comes
down and makes a good noise.
It is not so much about the destination.
It is about the journey. The forest is an
elemental place. It is a kind of equalizer. It
makes other things seems stupid. The forest is uncomplicated, and it is cleansing.
Hiking is great for the body, the mind,
and the soul, she said. Everyone comes
home tired and dirty, but refreshed.
It also can be dangerous. Those rattlesnakes? There are two varieties of poisonous rattlesnakes in New Jersey, the eastern timber and the northern copperhead.
Also, we see plenty of bears. Because we
are well east of the Rockies, though, there
are no grizzlies. Those are the really
Above, the group explores a stone tower holding a cistern

that supplied water to a now-ruined mansion nearby. Its in
Ramapo Mountain State Forest near Oakland. Below, Turkey
Hill Lake in Harriman State Park in Rockland County.
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dangerous ones they are not called ursus
arctos horribilis for nothing. The black
bears they see are happy to avoid hikers if
they are given the chance.
Hikers face some man-made perils as
well. New Jersey was the iron mining
capital of the United States from the Revolutionary War until the Civil War, Ms.
Abelson said. And we have no old growth
forests. They were all cut down to make
charcoal for the iron furnaces. Thats why
all northern New Jersey forests are second
or third growth. The pits were deep, and
although they have been filled in by leaves
and other debris over the last century and
a half, careless hikers still can tumble in,
although they do not fall to the bottom.
And then there are the mysteries. Some
are the result of human activity. Sometimes we will come across an old car from
the 30s, she said. Just in the middle of
the woods, nowhere near any road. Theyre
usually stripped. And one time I was in
Rockland County and I saw a kids bicycle, 20 feet up in the air, in a tree with no
branches. Why? We have seen old moonshine equipment. That one, she gets.
Other mysteries are geological. You see
trees growing out of rocks. How does that
happen?
One of the things we often see is glacial erratics. That is a big boulder that
is perched in a very unlikely way. Why
is it there? How did it get there? At the
end of the last ice age, when the glaciers
retreated, it was dragged under the ice
and then dropped ungracefully. Pyramid
Mountain in Morris County is well known
for its glacial erratics, she said.
Ms. Abelson dresses carefully, and
advises the other hikers to do so as well.
Hiking boots are necessary. Although
many of the hikers wear pants, she does
not, although she is careful to wear thermal leggings or bicycle shorts underneath
her skirts, and you always have to spray
yourself with bug spray, she said. There
is not a huge market for tzniusdik adventure-wear. I am always on the lookout for
it. She wants skirts that look like something youd wear in the Little House on
the Prairie or on the steppes. It should
be loose but not so loose that it flaps.
Sometimes I think I was born in the
wrong century, she said. I should have
been born in the 1870s. And camping and
hiking is trying to recreate a more primitive, even primal experience.
The group the Teaneck Ladies Hiking
Club usually draws six to 10 hikers. She
has walked with as many as 11; more, she
said, would make the tranquility that is her
goal harder to reach. At 46, Ms. Abelson
usually is the youngest member, although
occasionally teen or even preteen sons or
daughters come along as well.
She holds walks just about every other
Sunday unless it is a Jewish holiday, over
80 degrees, or otherwise meteorologically unappealing. She picks them from
the trail maps sometimes they are walks
she knows, other times they are not, and
In December 2012, hikers skirt fallen branches on the Bearfort Waters trail above Buckabear Pond in the Pequannock
watershed in Passaic County.
Seventy miles of the Appalachian Trail are in New Jersey. Here, in Wawayanda State Park in Sussex County, it crosses a
cow pasture.
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then she is as surprised by their reality, as opposed to their
appearance on the map, as everyone else is.
In order to hike with Ms. Abelson, you have to call her
first. She gets a feel for potential hikers who need not be
Orthodox and discourages or even turns down the ones she
knows will not enjoy the walks. They are not fast, but they
are not easy either. The long, slow rambles encourage trusting, talking, and eventually sharing; I have brought people
together, she said.
There is something both profoundly universal and quintessentially Jewish about the experience of being in nature,
according to Ms. Abelson. When you are in the forest, and
you behold a beautiful vista we have a saying, Mah gadlu
maasecha Yah How great are your works, Hashem. If there
is any place to behold God there is a shul, there is a beit
midrash a study hall and there is the woods.
There is a chasidic saying that God is not to be found in
the city, she continued. Cities in those times were dirty,
cramped, uncivil places. You feel God in the woods.
Ms. Abelsons group has a Facebook page go to Facebook
and type in Teaneck Ladies Hiking Club. She hopes to offer a
walk during the middle of Pesach April 6, 7, or 8. For information, and to find out if you would like to walk with her,
email her at slabelson@gmail.com.
Hikers pause by a waterfall in springtime in the Apshawa Preserve in Passaic Countys Wyanokie Mountains.
The beavers lodge is in the

center of this beaver-engineered
wetland in Wawayanda State
Park near West Milford.
A hiker or sawyer with a

sense of humor came by this
tree stump near the Kakeout
Reservoir near Kinnelon.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, third from left, in Lausanne, Switzerland, with his counterparts, representing the
other world powers, negotiating with Iran before the nuclear
talks resumed on March 30.
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Diplomats in Lausanne, Switzerland, have extended

their deadline on a framework accord on Irans nuclear
program. But even if an agreement is reached this week,
its merely a way station toward a comprehensive deal
that is due by June 30.
If a deal is reached, who has to approve it?

If the six world powers negotiating with Iran thats
the United States, Britain, Russia, China, France, and
Germany manage to reach a final deal, Irans Ayatollah
Khamenei still must grant his approval, and President
Obama will have to overcome opposition in Congress.
The deal need not be subject to a congressional vote,
but there are several ways Congress could scuttle it anyway. Opponents could assemble a veto-proof congressional majority for a bill that either negates the deal or
makes implementation extremely difficult perhaps
delaying the lifting of sanctions until Iran satisfies certain conditions, or automatically reinstating them if Iran
supports a terrorist act.
While Congress alone has the authority to suspend
congressional sanctions against Iran permanently, the
president has the power to waive them temporarily. In
practice, that means Obama can circumvent Congress
indefinitely by continually suspending sanctions much
the same way the president invokes a national security
waiver every six months to avoid implementing the 1995
law requiring the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Why is Israel so against a deal?
The Israeli government believes a bad deal is worse
than no deal. At best, the deal under consideration would
leave Iran with the capability to produce a weapon its
so-called breakout time in about a year. At worst, Tehran would continue secret work toward a bomb while
capitalizing on the easing of sanctions to reinforce the
Islamic regime and expand its power abroad.
Despite his bluster, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu says hes not against any deal, just this particular one. The Israelis believe that the harsher the
sanctions regime against Iran and the tougher Washingtons negotiating stance, the more concessions theyll be
able to get from Iran. United States officials believe additional sanctions would scuttle the talks and that Israels
expectations for a deal are unrealistic.
What are Israels alternatives?
The Israeli government will continue to push for sanctions against Iran, with the hope that they hobble the
Islamic regime, either toppling it or forcing it back to
the negotiating table under more favorable terms for
the West. Meanwhile, Israel likely will continue its clandestine efforts to disrupt the Iranian nuclear program,
including tactics like Stuxnet, a software virus designed
to destroy Iranian centrifuges. Israel also is believed to
have been behind the assassination of Iranian nuclear
scientists.
Its not clear whether Israel has a viable military
option. Aside from the diplomatic consequences of a
military strike, the geography of Irans nuclear facilities
multiple sites, dispersed and underground makes
it highly unlikely that Israel would be able to wipe out
Irans nuclear program as successfully as it did Iraqs
Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 or a Syrian nuclear facility in 2007. An Israeli attack on Iran also is likely to set
off harsh responses from Tehran, its Hezbollah proxy in
Lebanon and its allies elsewhere in the region. Reprisals
might not be limited to Israel, and could include Israeli
and Jewish targets abroad.
What are Americas alternatives?
While the United States has never officially taken
the military option off the table, Obama is exceedingly unlikely ever to use it. Aside from the difficulty of
mounting a successful attack on Irans nuclear installations, Obama is not likely to take such an extreme step
given his cautious nature, the rapport the U.S. administration has built with the Iranians and the lack of international consensus for such a move.
Obama may try again with the Iranians if a deal is
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not reached by the June 30 deadline. But if Congress
strengthens sanctions first and the Iranians balk at
returning to the negotiating table, the most likely outcome is that Obama goes back to Chicago without an
agreement when his term expires in 22 months, leaving
the problem for the next U.S. president to resolve.
How is the rest of the Middle East reacting to a prospective Iran deal?
There is great concern among the regions Sunni
Arab regimes (Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Persian Gulf
nations) that Washingtons pursuit of a deal with Tehran
is widening Shiite Irans regional influence and power.
Since the 2003 Iraq War, Iranian allies have taken over
in Iraq, Lebanon, and now Yemen. While Sunni Arab
governments regard the Sunni extremists of the Islamic
State as a threat, they dont want them replaced with
Iranian proxies either.
Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt long have relied on
cozy relationships with Washington, but things have
cooled in tandem with Washingtons negotiations with
Tehran. The relationship between Obama and Netanyahu has devolved into bitterness and dysfunction;
Cairo has been kept at arms length since the Egyptian
military deposed the democratically elected Islamist
president, Mohamed Morsi, and installed Abdel-Fattah
al-Sisi in his place; and Saudi Arabia feels it doesnt have
the U.S. administrations ear when it comes to Iran.
So these countries have been taking matters into their
own hands. Netanyahu has bypassed the White House
in trying to marshal U.S. opposition to an Iran deal. In
Yemen, Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes with support
from Egypt and Gulf regimes to counter the Iranianbacked Houthi rebels who overran the U.S.-backed
Yemeni president and prompted U.S. officials in the
country to flee.
If these Sunni Arab regimes now believe they cant
rely on the United States to stop Iran from acquiring
nuclear weapons, theyre likely to pursue nuclear weapons, too. So might Turkey, igniting a regional arms race.
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Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was convicted of bribery in a retrial at the Jerusalem District
Court after previously being acquitted. Olmert was
found guilty of accepting illegal payments from an
American businessman in 2012 based on new evidence
reviewed by the court.
The court ruled that Olmert received about $600,000
from Morris Talansky while he was mayor of Jerusalem, and additional funds while he served as a cabinet
minister. The court did not rule, however, that Olmert

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he knew what he was doing, the three judges who made
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The Jewish charity Colel Chabad hosted a
mass bar mitzvah celebration at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday for 113
boys who had lost a parent.
Each boy received a new set of tallit
and tefillin as well as a dress tie and kippah, and made the traditional blessing
over the Torah for the first time. Many of
the boys came from economically disadvantaged families that could not afford
to organize a full bar mitzvah celebration. Causes of death for the boys parents included illness, accidents, terrorism, and suicide.
The Colel Chabad bar mitzvah program, in its seventh year, was the brainchild of Rabbi Yitzchak Mishan of Brazil,
a father of 13 who lost his wife to illness.
Colel Chabad also runs a bat mitzvah program for girls.
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Report: Israel sought European mediation

for talks with Hamas
Israel asked European officials to serve
as arbitrators in talks with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas about the
return of remains of Israeli soldiers
killed in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge last summer, al-Araby alJadeed reported Monday.
According to the London-based
news outlet, senior Hamas officials
said they refused to discuss the issue as
long as Israel still holds prisoners who
were released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, but were later
rearrested.
Meanwhile, Arab media outlets

reported that Hamas leaders are conflicted over whether to have indirect
lines of communication with Israel
to discuss a five-year ceasefire. It was
recently reported that Qatari officials
contacted Israel on behalf of Hamas
and offered to mediate a long-term
ceasefire agreement. While Hamas
leaders in Gaza were in favor of this initiative, Hamas leaders abroad remain
opposed to any negotiations that could
bring about a long-term cease-ire.
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ADL audit records 21-percent

increase in U.S. anti-Semitic incidents
Anti-Semitic incidents rose by 21 percent in America from 2013 to 2014, the
Anti-Defamation Leagues annual audit
of those incidents revealed.
ADLs audit, released Monday,
recorded 912 anti-Semitic incidents
in 2014, up from 751 the previous
year. The figures marked what ADL
described as the first time in nearly
a decade of declines where the overall
number of incidents has substantially
risen.
While the overall number of antiSemitic incidents remains lower than
we have seen historically, the fact
remains that 2014 was a particularly
violent year for Jews both overseas
and in the United States, ADL National
Director Abraham Foxman said, singling out the fatal pre-Passover shootings in the Kansas City area by white
supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.
ADL said in a press release that last

summer saw a marked increase in antiSemitic incidents during the 50-day war
between Hamas and Israel in Gaza.
Anti-Semitism manifested on the fringe
of anti-Israel movements during and after
Israels Operation Protective Edge as Jewish individuals and institutions became
the targets of anti-Semitic rhetoric and
acts of vandalism, said ADL.
New York experienced 231 anti-Semitic
incidents last year, the most of any U.S.
state. Other states that saw the most antiSemitic incidents in 2013, according to
the audit, included California (184), New
Jersey (107), Florida (70), Pennsylvania
(48 incidents), and Massachusetts (47).
The audits 912 recorded anti-Semitic
incidents included 513 incidents of
harassment, threats and events; 363
incidents of vandalism; and 36 assaults.
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n 1 Ben Porat Yosef drama club students

performed Alice in Wonderland to two
sold-out crowds last month. COURTESY BPY
n 2 Hundreds of people attended a concert in memory of Stephanie Prezant
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly. Her brother, Jonathan, center,
joined her father, Jeffrey, and sister,
Jaqueline, along with members of Manhattan City Music. Other performers included singer Susan Collins Caploe and
Victor Lesser, Manhattan City Musics
musical director. Stephanies mother,
Elana, organized the concert, which
benefitted the Stephanie I. Prezant Maccabi Fund at the JCC. COURTESY JCCOTP
n 3 Fourth graders at Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley learned about kashrut
by sorting stuffed animals by kosher
and treif, learning about milk and meat,
shechting, koshering, and heksherim;
discussing the meaning of kashrut, and
then shopping for items with kosher ingredients, all for a brunch they cooked
and ate with their parents. COURTESY TEPV
n 4 On March 13, a quartet from the New
Jersey Symphony Orchestra performed for
students and teachers at the Academies

at Gerrard Berman Day School. The event,
sponsored by Larry and Rosalie Berman,
commemorated the yahrzeit of philanthropist Gerrard Berman. After speaking
about her father-in-law, Rosalie Berman
posed with the musicians and GBDS
pre-kindergarten students. ELISA BERGER
n 5 The Jersey Hills section of the National
Council of Jewish Women presented a
$1,000 check to the Bergen County YJCC
for Camp Shalom, the YJCCs summer program for children and young adults with
autism and other special needs, during
NCJW Game Day at the YJCC last month.

Kim Locicero, left, program coordinator
for YJCCs SAIL day program for adults
with developmental disabilities, accepts
the check from Sheila Packer and Ina
Pearlman-Laman, section co-presidents,
and Jane Levine, section vice president
for membership and event chair. At left
is a SAIL participant. COURTESY NCJW
n 6 Rabbi Yonah Landau visited Anshei
Lubavitch in Fair Lawn to talk about his
book, The Rav Hakolel and His Generation. Rav Yosef was chief rabbi of New York
from 1888 to 1902. COURTESY ANSHEI LUBAVITCH
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n 1 Rabbi Michel Gurkov of

the Chabad Center of Passaic
County led a model matzah bakery in Passaic, for participants
in the Friendship Circle of Passaic County. COURTESY CHABAD
n 2 Rabbi Moshe Grossbaum
of the Living Legacy of Friends
of Lubavitch led a matzah factory with children at the Helen
Troum Nursery School and Kindergarten at Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn. COURTESY TBS
n 3 Bergen County High School
of Jewish Studies students took
part in the Exodus Games, a prePassover program that included
charoset making, pictured, and a
mitzvah art activity to enhance
the seders of the group-home
residents of the Jewish Association for Developmental
Disabilities. COURTESY BCHSJS
n 4 Boy Scout Troop 226 members, including Moshe Gutfreund,
Yoni Stern, Eli Schachter, are
shown here at a pre-Pesach
fundraising car wash in the

parking lot of the Jewish Center of Teaneck. MICHAEL LAVES
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n 5 Students in the Leah Sokoloff Nursery School in Fair Lawn

hold pretend matzah from the
schools kosher for Passover
kitchen area. COURTESY LSNS
n 6 Frisch students in the schools
Linking the Generations program led a model seder with Gallen Adult Day Health Care Center
participants. Gallen participant
Charles Lehmann of Cresskill
is pictured with students Isaac
Aronoff, Elior Holzer, Leo Ottensoser, and Moshe Shoenfeld. Frisch
teacher Rabbi Joshua Schulman
led the seder. The Gallen Adult
Day Health Care Center is a program sponsored by Jewish Home
at Home, a member of the Jewish
Home Family. COURTESY GALLEN
n 7 Preschoolers at Chabad
of Fort Lee make charoset. COURTESY CHABAD
n 8 Children in the three-year-old class at Temple Sinai of Bergen Countys Early Childhood
Center visit Egypt for Passover. TEMPLE SINAI
n 9 SINAI students got a hands-on Passover experience by making matzah with
students at its partner school, the Joseph
Kushner Hebrew Academy. COURTESY SINAI
n 10 Children in the Ilanot class at
Gan Aviv Bergenfield learned about
the 10 plagues. COURTESY GAN AVIV
n 11 The story of the Exodus took on new meaning as Boys Town Jerusalem students from across
the globe reenacted escape from Egypt at Israels Eretz Beraishis. COURTESY BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM
n 12 Three-year-olds at the Andrew Friedland
Early Childhood Learning Center at Temple Beth
Rishon of Northwest Bergen County sewed
matzah covers for Passover. COURTESY TBR
Keeping Kosher
Pesach Cooking
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For the last few weeks, the Jewish Standard has featured
Passover columns, with useful ideas, recipes, and tips
to help with holiday prep. Also, check for some great
recipes at the Cooking With Beth blog at www.jstandard.
com. This week on the blog, read about OU Koshers
Passover questions frequently asked by consumers.
Below is a favorite farfel recipe that a dear friend of
mine has shared. It has been a staple in her family for
generations, and now it will become one of yours. As a
matter of fact, I made a batch last night with a friend and
it came out perfectly. (See photo.)
Mushrooms and farfel

INGREDIENTS:
1 box matzah
water
4 eggs
vegetable oil
4 boxes mushrooms cut in quarters with the stems
2 large Vidalia onions cut in thin rings
salt and pepper
Crush a boxful of
matzah in a large bowl.
(Not too small!) Pour
water to just cover
and then quickly turn
over, holding onto the
matzahs to get rid
of the water. Mix the
beaten eggs with salt
and pepper and add to
the crushed matzah.
Fry in batches in oil.
The pieces will stick
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together. Keep wiping
editor Beth Chananies
the frying pan clean so
freshly made farfel.
whatever is left doesnt
burn.
Fry the onions and get rid of the liquid. Fry the
mushrooms. Mix it all together with the pieces of fried
matzah. Pour into a large baking pan.
Put in oven to warm before serving uncovered so
the top gets a little crispy.
Enjoy. Delish.
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Dear Rabbi
Your Talmudic Advice Column
Dear Rabbi,
At a family dinner, after I criticized Israeli
policies and Bibi Netanyahus politics, my
uncle accused me of being a self-hating Jew.
I am a proud Jew, with my own opinions.
But I was caught off guard by his caustic
remark to me. I had no comeback. What
should I have said to him?
Loving My Jewish Self in Lodi
Dear Loving,
From novelist Philip Roth in the sixties to
TV personality Jon Stewart today, numerous Jewish writers and commentators
who are critical of particular Jews or who
depict negative Jewish stereotypes have
been accused of self-hatred. After publishing his early fiction, which was peopled with controversial and comical Jewish characters, Roth often was accused of
self-hatred. Back then, people apparently
mistook Roths fiction as philosophy, and
his theatrical characters as theology, and
called him by a nasty name, self-hating
Jew. And lately people mischaracterize
Stewarts comedy as political dogma and
go on to label him the same way.
It would be accurate to depict writers
like Roth and Stewart as comical Jews, selfberating Jews, self-critical Jews, self-analytical Jews, or even simply as self-conscious
Jews.
But I cannot accept the hating side of
the term. Its rude and pretentious to pretend to know another persons emotional
state, to say someone is hating. And in
fact, few people can maintain the emotion
of hatred for more than a little while. To
characterize a person as a hater is rarely
true and not at all helpful.
Aside from that, our sacred Jewish literature, the Tanach, Talmud, and midrash,
are full of negative stories about Jews
behaving badly and Jews scathingly criticizing other Jews. The editors of those
works, who gathered and published such
narratives and accounts about those
Jews of the past, are highly venerated
and respected in our tradition. I cannot
remember hearing anyone use the term
self-hating midrash.
It seems that your uncle is ignorant of
the dynamics of Jews criticizing Jews in
both the classical prophetic tradition, so

prominent in the Tanach, and in the entire
body of Talmudic argumentation and criticism. It appears that he misuses the notion
of chosenness (see the next question in
this column) to create for himself a sense
of entitlement that first of all makes him
immune to complaints from other people
and then, beyond that, empowers him to
pejoratively classify those complaining
folks in a bad way.
And so self-hating Jew is not valid as a
descriptive category. It is after all nothing
more than a lazy epithet, political namecalling that is meant to attack and dismiss
criticism or negative stereotypes, rather
than to respond to them.
Calling someone a self-hating Jew is
not much different from calling someone
a son of a bitch or a bastard. It was a
form of name-calling, more prevalent in
the 50s and 60s, directed mainly against
secular Jews like Roth, who publically said
or published critical things about Jewish
characters (real or fictional), or about real
Jews in general.
If your uncle calls you any rude childish
name, my advice to you is that either you
do not answer him at all, or you reply with
a disarming Thank you, or you simply
try, No I am not, or, if all else fails, try a
childish retort, Hey uncle, it takes a selfhating Jew to know one.
Dear Rabbi,
Why is the world media so unfair to Israel?
When I read about Israel in the newspapers, especially the New York Times, I often
find myself getting angry about how onesided and biased the media is toward the
Jewish state. The Times criticizes Israel for
many things, especially what it perceives
as the mistreatment of Arabs. Sometimes I
am so annoyed at the media, I can hardly
control myself. The enemies of Israel do all
kinds of violent, evil things to Israelis and
to their own people. Yet that barely gets
covered by the papers and on TV. But if an
Israeli harms a fly, that gets blown up in
dramatic fashion and roundly criticized.
What gives? How can I come to terms with
this?
Agitated in Alpine
www.jstandard.com
get put into the spotlight.

Dear Agitated,
Accordingly, its not right
You are right. Israel is covto question the fair or unfair
ered by the media with more
treatment of one player versus another player. Its right
scrutiny than other countries. The Israelis are held to
that the stars of the show
higher standards. And its not
will get the more thorough
only Israel. Jews in general
reviews the greater praise
get more ink and more scruwhen they shine, and the
tiny than people of other reliRabbi Tzvee
harsher criticisms when they
Zahavy
gions. And you know what?
slip up.
Its our own fault. Heres why.
My advice to you: it
We make no secret of our
shouldnt make you angry
belief that we are Gods chosen people.
or upset when the Times runs a long
Thus, if all the world is a stage (as Shakeappraisal and detailed evaluation and
speare said) and all the nations are playassessment of the actions of the Jewish
ers on the stage (as I suggest), then Israel
state, the Israel Defense Forces, or the
and the Jewish people are the self-declared
citizens of Israel. We expect to be in the
stars of the show. And you do understand
center of the stage. We proudly say of ourselves that we are special people. We invite
that in the reviews of dramatic public
attention and the spotlight. So when we
performances, the stars always get more
get it, we really should not be surprised,
attention and more criticism.
and certainly we should not be displeased.
When the Torah tells us the stories
You cannot rewrite the Jewish theology,
of Gods promises to Abraham and our
ideology, and religious history, which say
forefathers, its narratives proclaim that
with loud and clear voices, Look at us, we
the Jewish people are the chosen ones.
are the greatest. I advise you to come to
And the promise of the special selection
terms with us Jews and with Israel being
of Israel is renewed in the Sinai stories
stars on the global scene.
and by the bulk of the historical materials in the Tanach and the preaching of the
And rightfully, when we celebrities go
prophets. Later Jewish philosophers reitout on the public platform with some
erate the theme that Jews and Israel are
defect, when our makeup is smudged, or
the select, the chosen, the special folk in
when we suffer a wardrobe malfunction,
other words, the stars of the show of world
we must expect it to appear prominently
history and destiny.
in all the media reviews.
The notion of chosenness does not make
us immune to scrutiny. It invites intense
Tzvee Zahavy earned his Ph.D. from Brown
interest and the accompanying criticism.
University and rabbinic ordination from
Rightfully, the stars get the focus and
Yeshiva University. He is the author many
attention in the reviews and notices. When
books, including these Kindle Edition books
they do good, they get recognized. But
available at Amazon.com: The Book of
when they stumble, miss one line, or fail to
Jewish Prayers in English, Rashi: The
impress, they get roundly criticized. Thats
Greatest Exegete, Gods Favorite Prayers
how it works in the world of punditry and
and Dear Rabbi which includes his past
in the realm of media writing. Those highcolumns from the Jewish Standard and
profile subjects, the people with notoriety,
other essays.
The Dear Rabbi column offers timely advice based on timeless Talmudic
wisdom. It aspires to be equally respectful and meaningful to all varieties
and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first Friday of the
month. Send your questions to DearRabbi@jewishmediagroup.com.
Tonight is Pesach.
he theme the Rabbinic sages chose to emphasize for the festival of Pesach is zman cheruteinu the time of our freedom. We use this
expression in the holidays Amidah and in its
Kiddush. Obviously, the attention and focus of Pesach is to
be centered on freedom, and what it means to us as Jews.
We should know. Our freedoms have often been curtailed. But while most are familiar with that memorable
battle cry Let my people go, used to protest the Soviet
Unions unfair treatment of Jews, not too many can finish
the sentence. It was first used by Moses who challenged
Pharaoh to let the people go. But the message did not stop
with those words.
The complete statement goes like this: Let my people go, so that they can serve me (God) in the desert.
The people were to swap
the ruthless and merciless
slavery of Egypt with divine
worship. While Egyptian
bondage carried no reward,
only suffering, divine servitude would bring benefit and
gain. By establishing a relationship with God at Mount
Sinai, the people would be
able to lead a life of blessing
Rabbi Moshe
and accomplishment.
Schapiro
This was highlighted by
Chabad of
the famous tablets of stone
Hoboken,
Orthodox
upon which were etched
the Ten Commandments.
The Hebrew word for
engraving is spelled the same way as the word for freedom. The engraved writing was a reference to the freedom that is accomplished by keeping and observing the
commandments.
Jewish freedom is thus defined as, first, freedom from
physical slavery, but also, using that freedom to become
subservient to a higher supreme being God.
In truth, most people dont see it that way. Religion is
viewed by many as the greatest burden of all. Religious
commitment is seen as being far removed from being
free. Perhaps the following story will help to clarify why
this approach is misguided.
A man was seen struggling with a heavy sack slung
over his shoulder. The weather was hot and humid,
making his task arduous and tiring. To compound his
misery, the road began to slope upwards. A passer-by,
clearly intrigued by this individual, asked him what was
in the sack. The man replied that he was carrying rocks
and stones.
He persisted to inquire as to the weight of the sack.
The reply was not long in coming; it was quite heavy and
laborious, he said with a long sigh. To his exasperation
and annoyance, the man then asked him if he would
be interested in having some more stones added to the
load. The reaction to this ridiculous suggestion is totally
predictable and understandable!
Now lets imagine the same man walking along, in the
same heat and in identical conditions. But this time, in
response to the question about the contents of the sack,
he replies that he is carrying diamonds, rubies, and
other precious stones. When asked if the sack is heavy,
again the reply is in the affirmative. But when asked if
he would like to have more added, how do you think he
would react? Of course, it would be an emphatic yes!
The different reactions in the two stories are reasonable and logical. Although the man was carrying a substantial load on a very warm day, and up a hill, the contents of the sack were highly influential to his condition
Dvar Torah
and well-being. When it was mere rocks, it was a real effort,
but the knowledge that a great fortune was in the bag helped
to lighten that burden.
In the same way, the reaction we have towards our responsibilities, particularly to the mitzvot that we are directed to
perform, depends entirely on our approach to them. They
could be burdensome like rocks or treasured like precious and
expensive diamonds.
Indeed, we are encouraged to view mitzvot as just that; precious and special. Yes, it is not always easy to observe Shabbat, to eat kosher, to pray, or to study Torah. But the knowledge that we are accumulating precious cargo is surely the
best stimulus to overcome any and all doubts.
Yes, Judaism makes one free. But first one must liberate the
mind and realize just how valuable its opportunities are. It is
why freedom was chosen as Pesachs symbol.
Jewish Federation
ISRAEL
WEEK
Commemorate Yom HaZikaron (Day of Remembrance for Israels Fallen

Soldiers) and Celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day)
SUNDAY
APRIL 19
MONDAY
APRIL 20
TUESDAY
APRIL 21
WEDNESDAY
APRIL 22
Yom HaAtzmaut Celebration
THURSDAY
APRIL 23
Yom HaAtzmaut celebration for your entire family
THURSDAY
APRIL 23
Israel HiTech Business Panel featuring Jeff Pulver, founder of
SATURDAY
APRIL 25
YJCC 605 Pascack Rd, Township of Washington | 2:30-4:00pm
Beneath the Helmet documentary film

Wayne YMCA, 1 Pike Drive, Wayne | 6:00pm
Yom HaZikaron Ceremony

Fair Lawn Jewish Center, 10-10 Norma Ave, Fair Lawn | 6:00pm
Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut Cantors Concert

Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, 87 Overlook Drive,
Woodcliff Lake | 7:00pm
Wayne YMCA, 1 Pike Drive, Wayne, NJ | 5:00-7:00pm
Vonage and NJ State Senator Loretta Weinberg. Jewish Federation

of Northern New Jersey, 50 Eisenhower Drive, Paramus | 7:00pm
co-sponsored by Israeli American Council
Cruisin for Israel - Yom HaAtzmaut

Young professionals boat party. Cornucopia Destiny,
14th Street Pier, Frank Sinatra Drive, Hoboken | 9:00pm
SUNDAY
APRIL 26
Yom HaAtzmaut Outdoor Celebration for families
SUNDAY
APRIL 26
Partnership 2Gether Art Exhibit Belskie Museum of Art

and Science, 280 High Street, Closter | 6-8pm
Israeli food, games, arts and crafts, petting zoo, music, & dancing.
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 E Clinton Ave., Tenafly | 3-5:30pm
www.jfnnj.org
For more information, contact Danit Sibovits, 201.820.3907 | DanitS@jfnnj.org

Crossword
PASSOVER PREP BY YONI GLATT

EDITED BY DAVIDBENKOF
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY
Across
1 Prayer that involves a single bow
6 The Cohen gene is made up of it
9 Many shuls have one for Elijah
14 Territory in Israels far north
15 Marc Roberge and Benj Gershmans
rock band with a nautical-sounding
name
16 Son of Sam David Berkowitz, e.g.
17 Prepare for Passover
20 ___ Poke (kosher-certified caramel
candy)
21 Where to start when counting in
Ladino
22 They might be served after Shabbat
lunch
28 ___ gezunt! (Yiddish for As long as
you have your health!)
29 ___ Foods Kosher Fiber Love Bar
30 Way to prepare a brisket
31 The Jewish War Veterans have an
award for cadets in this prog.
33 Chanukah candles are lit earlier
because of it: Abbr.
35 Musical instrument referred to in
the title of Roman Polanskis 2002
Holocaust film
39 Setting for David O. Selznicks Gone
with the Wind
40 Seder bone
43 Tel follower
44 Ten Commandments physical descriptor
46 Something Zsa Zsa Gabor liked to
wear around her neck
47 Foch who played Pharaohs daughter
in The Ten Commandments
48 Where some might watch The
Goldbergs
51 Letters that might stop a gonif
53 Casspis target
57 Ahava ingredient
59 ___ Jewish? (Avi Hoffman one-man
show)
60 Sat. delivery in shul
67 Genre for folk musician Regina Spektor
68 It covered Noahs Ark
69 First name in commentators?
70 The Jewish calendar has six main ones
71 Like Hodel (at first) in Fiddler on The
Roof
72 Jerusalem zoomed in on a map, e.g.
The solution to last weeks puzzle
is on page 59.
Down
1 Michael Mukasey and others with the
same Cabinet position: Abbr.
2 The Dead Sea, geologically
3 Samuels mentor
4 Sometime Yiddish transliteration for a
German anti-Semite
5 Get the schmaltz out of the sink
6 Part of the Jerusalem Posts web
address
7 A minor prophet
8 Where some Jews once fought for sport
(or their lives)
9 CBS show produced by Jerry
Bruckheimer
10 Josephus, e.g.
11 They might be felt the day after running
the Jerusalem marathon
12 Swedish superstore with locations in
Netanya and Rishon LeTzion
13 A Friend
18 Acts aggressively like a Forward
reporter might toward a Jewish leader accused of bribery
19 Make like a Jewish mother
23 Krustys number-one fan, and others
24 German W.W. II menace
25 Father-in-law of Moses
26 Try to get into AEPi
27 Shoot Han Solos gun
32 Like a Shabbat table
34 Part of a Dr. Browns can
36 ___ Malkeinu
37 With the, a number to dress to under
the chuppah?
38 Like a ball used by quarterback Jay
Fiedler
41 The oldest man on Earth, four thousand years ago
42 Seder starting step
45 ___-haw! (interjection from Kinky
Friedman and the Texas Jewboys)
49 Org. Israel is an ally but not a member of
50 Where some treif animals oink from
52 Rabbi Isaac Luria
54 Bubbie might make Jewish penicillin
(chicken soup) to treat them
55 Prime Numbers setting?
56 Suze of CNBC
57 Alicia Silverstones Clueless catchphrase
58 Girls girl Dunham
62 Amen!
63 Sound at a bris
64 Middle of Jerusalem?
65 Start of 189 Seinfeld episode titles
66 You wont find one on Adam Levines
face in his Proactiv ads
Arts & Culture

Trouble on Martyrs Street
MIRIAM RINN
e are either a
Jewish state or
we are nothing,
says the Hebron
settler Tsadok ( Jonathan Raviv) in Misha
Shulmans earnest and compelling play,
Martyrs Street, now at the Theater for
the New City in the East Village.
Tsadok is prepared to offer a blood sacrifice if that is required to bring about the
Israel he imagines. As he tells the Arab terrorist bomb-maker he pays for a suicide
vest, We are both fighting the same thing
peace. A Jewish terrorist, Tsadok hopes
to catapult the country into civil war.
Director Ian Morgan establishes the
central conflict in the play immediately
through the set designed by Stephen
Dobay and Caleb Levengood, two rooms
side by side on the stage, separated by a
narrow alley. On the right is an illegal Jewish outpost used as a religious center by
Tsadok, his cousin Dvorah (Nicole Kontolefa), and members of Tsadoks group,
Hand of God. On the left lives Noor (Maria
Silverman), a widowed Palestinian sociology professor, and her teenage daughter
Aisha (Dahlia Azama). Noors house is also
in legal limbo; she has no official authorization to build, but she has long had
the protection of an Israeli official who
was a friend of her late husband. But the
Israeli has retired, and Noor has received
a notice that the army wants to demolish
her home. Her Jewish neighbors also are
worried that the government will destroy
the building they have taken over.
Shulman tries to avoid a simplistic symmetry between the two sides by giving his
characters nuanced histories. Dvorah is an
American Jew who has come to Israel to
find a transcendent meaning for her life.
She does not want normality; she wants a
heightened and deepened reality, which
comes through war and violence. She has
fallen in love with the kind-hearted Israeli
Eliyahu (Amir Babayoff ), a close friend
of Tsadoks and a former group member,
but she believes in Tsadoks apocalyptic
visions much more than in Eliyahus reasonableness, and she wont leave. Because
hers is perhaps the least fully developed
character in the play, Dvorahs actions
dont always seem credible, particularly
her behavior with Noor.
Eliyahu visits the group for Chanukah
and tries to warn Tsadok and Dvorah that
the government will not stand for violence,
especially against Jews. Embedded within
the debate (and it does feel like a debate)
between Eliyahu and Tsadok is one of the
plays most intriguing questions: Just what
A Jewish terrorist and an Arab bomb maker display a strange symmetry in Martyrs Street.
The stage is set with two side-by-side rooms.
is the relationship between the Israeli government and the nationalist settlers? Does
the government encourage and support
the settlers violence toward the Palestinians? After all, as Tsadok smugly points out,
they have never done anything much to
stop them. Martyrs Street itself, the central
commercial street in Hebron, was closed
to Palestinians after the attack on praying
Arabs by Baruch Goldstein. The settlers,
on the other hand, can move freely. Does
the government and Israeli public tolerate
the settlers aggression because it provides
an excuse to apply harsh measures? It is
impossible to avoid such thoughts after the
last Israeli elections.
Noor is the sort of secular intellectual
Palestinian feminist it is easy to like, and

its clear that Shulmans sympathies lie
with her. (In general, the Arabs get the
few funny lines in the play.) But Noor has
a big problem of her own. Her son Nimer
(Haythem Noor) is a member of Hamas
and embodies the opposite of everything
she believes in. When he brings his sister
a hijab, Noor explodes in anger, and she
is equally contemptuous of the Palestinian
heroes Aisha studies in school. People
who make bombs to kill people are not
heroes, she insists. They are murderers.
Like Eliyahu, Noor cannot convince the
people she loves that they are wrong, and
she is anguished by her failure.
Shulman grew up in Jerusalem and
served in the Israel Defense Forces, so he

is no stranger to the situation in the West
Bank, and Martyrs Street is far more
complex than most treatments of the
subject. Less exposition and more effective dialogue would make it a better play,
but just avoiding propaganda is a major
achievement when it comes to Israel and
the Palestinians. Here, Shulman has succeeded. Neither the Arabs nor the Jews
are presented as heroes or villains. Rather,
they are both struggling to find some sense
of self-respect in a frightening and incomprehensible world, and that may be the
scariest scenario of all.
Talkbacks are scheduled for several performances. The play runs through April 26.
Calendar
Childrens program
in West Nyack: The
Friday
april 3
Rockland Jewish
Academy offers Sifriyat
Pijama BAmerica Hebrew
story time with activities
and the Pizza Palooza,
5-6:30 p.m. April 12. 450
West Nyack Road. Judy
Klein, (845) 627-0010,
ext. 104, www.
rocklandjewishacademy.
org, or kleinj@
rocklandjewishacademy.
org.
Chametz burning: The

Jewish Center of Teaneck
holds its 8th annual Al
and Joy Amsel Memorial
Biur Hametz program,
aka the Big Bread Burn,
in partnership with the
Teaneck fire department,
the Jewish Community
Council, the RCBC,
Heichal Hatorah, Bnai
Yeshurun, Beth Aaron,
Netivot Shalom, Ohr
Saadya, Rinat Yisrael, and
Young Israel of Teaneck,
9:30-11:40 a.m. The fire
department will bring
a truck and fire safety
trailer. Bring chometz in
paper bags. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-0515, or
www.jcot.org.
Saturday
april 4
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers services led by
Rabbi Kenneth Emert
and Cantor Ilan Mamber,
with participation
by its mens club,
10 a.m. 585 Russell Ave.
Passover lunch follows.
(201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.
Tuesday
april 7
Wednesday
april 8
Caregiver support in
Rockleigh: A support
group for those caring
for the physically frail or
people with Alzheimers
disease meets at the
Gallen Adult Day
Health Care Center at
the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m.
Topics include long term
care options, financial
planning, legal concerns,
and the personal toll
of caregiving. Shelley
Steiner, (201) 784-1414,
ext. 5340.
Book talk in Teaneck:

Temple Emeths
Viewpoints Committee
offers a discussion on
Elana Dykewomons
book, Beyond the Pale,
7:30 p.m. Viewpoints
is a shul committee
formed to celebrate
the diversity of the
Jewish community and
includes programs that
highlight the interfaith
and LGBT communities.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Yom HaShoah
commemorated: The
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
and its Mens Progress
Club offers a candle
lighting ceremony and
will honor Holocaust
survivors, World War II
liberators, and veterans,
7:30 p.m. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040.
Singles
Sunday
april 12
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
Abe Barzelay on harmonica and friends

will present an evening of Villa-Lobos,
Mozart, Saint-Saens, and Schumann, as
well as popular and traditional Jewish
music, on Saturday, April 11, 8 p.m., at the Puffin Cultural
Center in Teaneck. He is an Israel Academy of Music
graduate and studied with Larry Adler, the acclaimed
harmonica player. Doors open at 7:30; reservations
held until 7:45. 20 Puffin Way. (201) 836-3499 or tix@
puffinfoundation.org.
apr.
11
Friday
Sunday
april 10
april 12
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Shabbat in Washington
Township: Temple
Saturday
april 11
Susan Dworkin
Author in Teaneck:
Susan Dworkin discusses
her book, The Nazi
Officers Wife: The
Amazing Story of Edith
Hahn, at Temple Emeths
Byachad group bagel
breakfast, 10:30 a.m. 1666
Windsor Road. Breakfast
reservations, (201)8331322 or www.emeth.org.
Moshiach meal in
Tenafly: Lubavitch on
the Palisades hosts its
moshiach meal at the
Chabad House, 6:30 p.m.
It was the Baal Shem
Tovs custom to eat three
meals on the last day of
Passover; the third meal,
late in the afternoon, was
called the moshiach
meal. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org.
Israeli correspondent in
Paramus: Herb Keinon,
author and Jerusalem
Post correspondent,
tackles Israels 2015
elections: The country
spoke, but what in the
world did it say, and
what in the world does
it mean? at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 7 p.m.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Monday
april 13
Support group in
Tenafly: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
offers a four-session
bereavement group with
therapist Judy Brauner,
Widows and Widowers:
You Are Not Alone, at
6:15 p.m. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1456.
Yom HaShoah in Jersey

City: Congregation
Temple Emeth offers

services for families with
young children, 7:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Beth Or offers Shabbat

Hallelu, a musical family
service including singing,
clapping, and birthday
blessings for children,
7:30 p.m. 56 Ridgewood
Road. (201) 664-7422 or
www.templebethornj.org.
Troster, noon. 1 Engle St.

Registration, (201) 5683075 or bwaldman@
templesinaibc.org.
Herb Keinon
65+ meet for a social

bagels and lox brunch
at the JCC Rockland,
11 a.m. 450 West Nyack
Road. $8. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.
Bnai Jacob, Temple

Beth-El, and the United
Synagogue of Hoboken
commemorate Yom
HaShoah at Bnai Jacob,
3-5 p.m. Prayers and
comments, survivor
testimony, musical
selections, candlelighting. 176 West Side
Ave. (201)435-7525 or
www.BnaiJacobjc.org.
Courtesy TGS
Author in Teaneck:
A Great Heretic: Temple

Sinai of Bergen County
in Tenafly begins a threesession course, The
Great Heretic: The Life,
Times and Thought of
Baruch Spinoza, led
by Rabbi Lawrence
The sisterhood of the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel is sponsoring a walking tour of Manhattans Lower East Side on Sunday, April 19. A bus
will leave the FLJC at 10 a.m., for the 2- to 3-hour tour,
which will be followed with lunch at Buddha Bodai, a
kosher vegetarian restaurant on Mott Street. The bus
returns to the center about 5 p.m. It costs $50 a person
and includes transportation and lunch. For information, call (201) 796-5040 or email office@fljc.com.
Library seeks books for sale

Brian Morton
Rabbi Lawrence Troster
Lower East Side tour
Brian Morton, a Teaneck

High School graduate
who is on the faculty of
Sarah Lawrence College,
discusses his book,
Florence Gordon, at
the Teaneck General
Store, 4 p.m. His novel
Starting Out in the
Evening was made into
a film. 502a Cedar Lane.
(201) 530-5046.
The Friends of the Teaneck Public Library is planning

its upcoming book sale. Donations of books, DVDs,
and CDs will be accepted from May 4 to 10. Membersonly sale days will be May 14 to 15. Everyone else is welcome from May 16 to 19. The annual sale is the librarys
main fundraising event. Membership costs $10. For
questions, email TeaneckLibraryFriends@esb.com.
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Zionist Organization Jubilee. The Jews

who wish for it shall have their state.
Herzls assertion after the First Zionist
Congress that a Jewish state would
arise within 50 years proved prophetic.
Mt. Carmel - Mt. Zion. The Hebrew

Ships. Haifa-Constanza-Haifa. The high
quality of its home-grown produce
opened the doors to international
trade for Israels enterprising pioneers.
Bugs and Balloons, a childrens theater

duo, will present The Lizard of Oz, an
interactive family performance, on Sunday, April 12, at 1 p.m., at William Paterson University in Wayne. The performance is in the universitys Shea Center
Photos courtesy JCCOTP
Zionist vintage
poster exhibit
Israels Attic: Yesterday, Inspiring Tomorrow, an exhibition of 18 authentic posters
dating from pre-state Israel through its early
years of independence, will be on display this
month at the Waltuch Gallery of the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades.
More than a historical record, the collection offers an insight into the atmosphere
and spirit of the times. Intended as a source
of inspiration for fulfilling the Zionist dream,
each poster is inscribed with a brief description (in Hebrew, English, Spanish, and
French) with context and background.
Admission is free and open to the community. For information contact Gili Grady, (201)
408-1428 or www.jccotp.org.
Family show in Wayne

for Performing Arts on campus, shown
as part of the WP Presents! series. Preshow creative activities begin at 12:15. Tickets are available at the Shea Center Box
office in advance at (973) 720-2371 or at
wp-presents.org.
Jerusalem A City Full of

Atmosphere Eternal capital of the
Jewish people. More than just a
place. Dreams fulfilled. Longings
appeased. Promises to be kept.
Anticipation of days to come.
Two Events for Yom HaShoah
Jewish Community Center of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah
EVENTS
ARE FREE TO
THE PUBLIC
FILM SCREENING
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 7 P.M.
Defiance, starring Daniel

Craig, is set during the Nazi
occupation of Belarus, and tells
the story of the Jewish partisans,
led by the Bielsky brothers, who
hid in the forest and fought back.
MEMORIAL SERVICE/
GUEST SPEAKER
THURSDAY APRIL 16, 8 P.M.
The Yom Hashoah service includes a

talk by Robert Bielsky, son of the
legendary partisan commander, on the
group that saved more than 1,200
Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
304 East Midland Avenue, Paramus, NJ

201-262-7691 or www.jccparamus.org
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Menendez
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Senator Corker (R-TN) and I

have worked both sides of the aisle
to reach a consensus, and, at the
moment, the bill is cosponsored
by Senators John McCain (R-AZ),
Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Marco Rubio
(R-FL), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND),
Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Bill Nelson
(D-FL), Jim Risch (R-ID), Angus King
(IN-MN), Rand Paul (R-KY), Susan
Collins (R-ME), Michael Bennet
(D-CO), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Lamar
Alexander (R-TN).
And thats as bipartisan as it gets
in Washington or in Franklin Lakes.
The fact is, in my view, the only
way we can send a message to Tehran is if Congress puts politics aside
and acts together in the national
security interest of the United States
and the CorkerMenendez bill is in
our national security interest.
Our goal is to make certain Iran
does not have a nuclear weapon
capability and is not able to ignite
an arms race in the Middle East, the
tinderbox of the world.
But let me say, I cannot support
a deal if it leaves Iran as a threshold
nuclear state, or if Iran decides to
kick out inspectors.
In my view, its not a good deal if
Iran proceeds on a covert path and
we have no more than one year to
respond.
One year is not enough time for
us to do anything other than exercise a military option.
When it comes to Iran, I say to
the ayatollah and President Rouhani
that any deal to be a good deal
has to be built on more than mothballing Irans program more than
on an inspection-and-verification
regime focused on monitoring a
one-year break-out capability.
You can be certain, the mullahs
are not going to call us in Washington when they decide to breach the
agreement.
They are going to sneak out
covertly, gradually, over time
when they think were not looking, just as they have in the past
and they are going to parse the
words of this agreement and argue
as they have already about
whether a nuclear advancement
technically violates the agreement.
At the end of the day, we must do
all we can now to get an agreement
that dismantles Irans illicit program
and ensures that it will not have to
be a military response.
A good deal, not just any deal, is
what we need.
That said, today let us reflect
on one overriding fact as Passover
approaches and we celebrate the
emancipation of the Israeli people
and that is that Israel has always had
the right to exist the right to live in
peace and security in the homeland
of the Jewish people.
Even now, you can see as record
numbers of European Jews make
the decision to make aliyah to Israel
a country that stands for justice
and protection in a world that even
now is filled with anti-Semitism,
brutality, ignorance, and suffering a new wave of anti-Semitism
that weve seen rearing its ugly
head everywhere in example after
example.
In May, a gunman killed four
people when he opened fire at
the Jewish Museum of Belgium in
Brussels.
In July, Molotov cocktails were
thrown at the synagogue in Germany which had been burned to
the ground by the Nazis during the
1938 Kristallnacht and was rebuilt
as recently as 2002.
And on January 9, four members
of Frances Jewish community were
murdered in an attack on a kosher
supermarket following the terrorist
attack on the Paris offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo. And the list
goes on. The fact is that anti-Semitism is alive-and-well in too many
places. Violence is thriving in too
many parts of the world. And hatred
and intolerance continue against
the Jewish people everywhere. Our
challenge in Washington, in Tel

Aviv, or in Franklin Lakes is to
stand against intolerance stand
against anti-Semitism in any form
everywhere at this time of year
especially at this time of year
when Jews celebrate Passover and
Christians celebrate Easter let us
hope and pray for peace.
Let us recommit to the values
we share and our common cause
that the U.S.-Israel relationship
is sacrosanct and we will always
have Israels back. And that means
fighting back against efforts by any
nation or any anti-Semitic group or
groups any haters or Holocaust
deniers who try to delegitimize
Israel.
As Ive said many times and on
many occasions, the Holocaust was
the most sinister possible reminder
that the Jewish people in exile lived
in constant jeopardy.
But while the Shoah is central
to Israels identity, it was never the
reason behind its founding, and it is
not the main justification for Israels
existence today.
The true justification is written
in thousands of years of undeniable
history with deep roots going back
to the time of Abraham and Sarah.
The argument for Israels existence has been nurtured by the suffering of the Jewish people by the
courage of generations of men and
women who have made the desert green, by Nobel Prizes earned,
by groundbreaking innovations
and enviable institutions by lives
saved, democracy defended, peace
made, and battles won.
There can be no denying the
Jewish people their legitimate right
to live in peace and security on
a homeland to which they have
had a connection for thousands of
years.
You can be sure that I will not
yield when it comes to stopping
Irans nuclear weapons ambitions
and on preserving the unshakeable
bond between Israel and the United
States. Shalom.
BRIEF
Shin Bet arrests Israeli Arab for joining Islamic State

Israels Shin Bet security agency announced Monday
that it recently arrested an Israeli Arab man from Jerusalem for traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State
terror group.
Khalil Adel Khalil, 25, was arrested March 1 after admitting to interrogators that he, along with an associate, Sami
a-Aziz Abu Sneina, began planning to join Islamic State last
August after watching recruitment videos online.
After training in a gym on Hebrew Universitys Mount
Scopus campus and telling his family that he was leaving
to make the Hajj Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Khalil and
his friend left for Greece and then Turkey in January, and
eventually arrived at an Islamic State safe house on the
Turkish-Syrian border. There, with other Islamic State
recruits from around the world, the two were smuggled
into Syria. Khalil returned several weeks later to Israel,
where he was arrested.
The Shin Bet noted that the arrest was part of a
trend of Israeli Arabs interested in joining Islamic
State. About 40 Palestinians and Israeli Arabs have
gone to Syria to fight with terror groups there amid
JNS.ORG
the countrys civil war.
Barbara Berger
Barbara Berger of Teaneck died March 30.

She was born in the Bronx and was a member of the
Workmens Circle in New York City.
Predeceased by her husband, Martin, she is
survived by sons, Robert of River Edge and Bruce of
Connecticut; siblings, Jean Levy of Connecticut and
Ernie Schoenbach of Maryland; and five grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Adrienne Berkowitz
Adrienne Berkowitz, ne Levine, 81, of Fort Lee, died

March 29.
Born in the Bronx, she was a retired teacher and
a member of Linas Hazedek of Hudson and Bergen
County.
Predeceased by her husband Lawrence in 1985, she
is survived by a son, David (Ashley) of River Vale.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
HugH William Friedman
Hugh William Bill Friedman, formerly of

Ridgewood, N.J., died on March 30, 2015. Beloved
husband of the late Phyllis Friedman, ne Zweig;
devoted father of David (Deborah) Friedman,
Dr. Michael (Kate) Friedman, and Dr. Heather
Friedman (Randy Cohen); dear brother of Gyl (Jim)
Burkhard and Jacque (Evelyn) Friedman; loving
grandfather of Chaim, Max, Zachary, Henry and
Grace Friedman, Jake, Jeremy and Phoebe Cohen;
dear fiance of Lydia Nusbaum, and fondly
remembered by her children, Curt (Rachel)
Nusbaum and Julie Nusbaum.
Services were at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC.,
8900 Reistertown Road, Baltimore, MD., on
Tuesday, March 31. Interment was at Swinicher
Woliner Benevolent Society, Baltimore, MD.
Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory
may be sent to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for
Parkinsons Research, Grand Central Station, P.O.
Box 4777, New York, NY 10163.
For information about shiva, please contact
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Louise Mach
Louise Mach, ne Kashmann, of

Teaneck, died March 16.
Born in Newark, she was an
administrative assistant for UJA.
She is survived by her husband,
Edward; sons, Jonathan and Daniel; and
grandchildren, Ilan, Arielle, Yarden,
Nava, and Tatum.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
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Louise Rittenberg
Louise Ann Rittenberg, ne Wernick, 86,

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Shje was born in Massachusetts.
She was predeceased by her husband,
Arthur, and is survived by her children,
Gerald of Bedford, N.Y., Cindy Forney of
Monroe Township, and Margie Schulz
of East Brunswick; brothers, Louis
Wernick of Arizona and Alan Wernick
of Florida; six grandchildren, and five
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial
Chapels, Fort Lee.
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FROM PAGE 21
As far as I can see, the answer is that the poorer elements of Israeli society tend to be more committed to a
traditional understanding and observance of Judaism,
even when that does not conform to Orthodox standards.
This population views the left as less Jewish because the
left is in fact more cosmopolitan and universalistic in outlook, and it is not always as respectful or knowledgeable
as it should be of pre-State Jewish history, Jewish observance, and the traditionalist communitys sensibilities.
For one unfortunate example, the artist Yair Garbuz used
his bully pulpit at a rally on behalf of the left and center-left parties to call the religious and tradition-oriented
Israeli population idolators (Haaretz, March 9, 2015).
During the election campaigns, Likud and the other rightwing parties successfully demonized the left as antiZionist, that is, anti-Jewish (Netanyahus remark cited
in Haaretz, January 2015, when Herzog and Livni created
the Zionist Union Party). Thus, Zionism itself is now a
binary opposite in that the left and right both claim to be
its true representative, though they have completely different understandings of what the term means. In typical
Jewish fashion they are both in some ways right (or left).
Unfortunately, rather than integration, this kind of
polarization has been the hallmark of Israeli politics since
the states beginning, and it reached another one of its
heights in this election. If, as Karl Jung held, striking a
balance between binary opposites is the key to emotional
and spiritual health, then Israel has a long way to go in
order to become a truly whole society.
When or if the people of Israel can find sufficient commonalities to come together to make peace with themselves, that will be the prelude to making peace with the
Arab Other.
It is clear that the Israeli elections had a serious impact
on the American Jewish community. Our binary opposite
situation is now this: In general, Jewish America, at least
as much of it as is represented by Jews 50 years old and
older, wants to speak on behalf of Israel, its people, and
its policies. This sector of American Jewry now is caught
in a position in which supporting Israel means supporting
a one-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a
resolution with which most American Jews disagree. No
matter how Benjamin Netanyahu (under pressure) has
reinterpreted his own statement about no Palestinian
state on my watch, he and his right-wing government confreres have, little by little but consistently, created facts on
the ground that make a two-state scenario less and less
feasible. Further, this prime minister is a man whose political methods and style in Israel and abroad are distasteful
if not abhorrent to a great swath of American Jewry.
How will major Jewish organizations support him and
his government without compromising themselves? And
if they do not support him and the policies his government creates, what will support of Israel mean in the
near future?
Pesach, our Festival of Freedom, confronts us with
the tensions that binary opposites and multiple truths
engender. It is Passovers purpose to set us on the road
to confronting and resolving these tensions, not by taking the easy way out and acknowledging only one side of
multifaceted truths, only lefts or rights. It is this holidays
purpose to bring us back to the heart of the Jewish tradition the tradition of questioning, debating, and listening to a narrative that begs us to use our freedom to
redress injustices like those we suffered when we were
slaves in Egypt.
An Israel committed to that tradition would not view
Jewish and democratic as binary opposites, in conflict
with each other a dichotomy that is a commonplace
in todays left-right discourse. Rather, it would see these
aspects of Israeli statehood as interfacing and mutually
enriching. But this would mean listening to the Other, and
this has not been typical of how the Israeli polity behaves.
The secret of redeeming this situation lies in a practice
that is part of the seder. On Pesach night we open our
doors to Eliyahu ha-Navi, Elijah the Prophet, who heralds
the world of messianic peace.
As we open our doors to him let us open our hearts
to each other in compassion and mutual respect. In the
merit of such an act of love may God grant us the full
redemption of our people and of all the peoples who
inhabit Gods world.
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Family Chair in Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at
the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New
York. Professor Chernick received his doctorate from the
Bernard Revel Graduate School and rabbinic ordination
from R. Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He has written
extensively about Jewish law and lore and has lectured on
these topics in the United States, Europe, and Israel.
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people every year.
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The Gutmann family also built a playground in Nofey Prat, which was dedicated in 2010. The park is a memorial to
Bens grandparents, Hedwig and Benno
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school, when I had difficulties, was to

think of the day when he would put
his hand on my head and then Id be
a rabbi.
I was fortunate that his successor
was Dr. Albert Gottschalk. I didnt know
it at the time, but there were professionals who tried to talk him out of it. It was
only in recent years that I came to realize how hard it was for Dr. Gottschalk to
walk in someone elses shoes, and fulfill
someone elses dream.
But he had the courage to do it.
Regina Jonas was not so lucky. They
wouldnt ordain her, even though she
had fulfilled every requirement. She
had written her thesis on the subject
of whether women could be ordained,
Rabbi Priesand said. And she came up
with many of the same arguments that I
had come up with independently.
In 1935 Rabbi Max Denman of the Liberate Rabbinerverband the Conference of Liberal Rabbis finally ordained
Regina Jonas.
At the beginning, she was only

allowed to work in homes for the
elderly, schools, places like that. But
then, as people began to be deported,
they allowed her to come into synagogues. She apparently was a very good
preacher, Rabbi Priesand said. She
spoke often about people being allowed
to fulfill their God-given potential.
Rabbi Priesand is part of a group
called the Four First the other members are Rabbi Sandy Sasso, the first
Reconstructionist woman ordained as a
rabbi; Rabbi Amy Eilberg, her counterpart in the Conservative movement, and
Rabba Sara Hurwitz, who is Orthodox
and was ordained by Rabbi Avi Weiss.
The four have spoken publicly together,
and they were together on the trip to
Germany. Together, they dedicated a
plaque to Regina Jonas, and we each
read a passage that Regina Jonas had
written, Rabbi Priesand said. We said
El Moleh Rachamim and Kaddish for her.
That was probably the first time either
of those things had been said in her
memory.
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