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A sign upon his arm
If you dont want
to follow the traditional Jewish prohibition against getting
tattoos, you should at
least follow the more
modern wisdom of
not getting tattoos in
languages you dont
understand. The most
recent evidence for
that principle or
perhaps the principle that absolutely
everyone should learn
Hebrew comes from
Sruli Schochet, a Los
Angeles resident who
was traveling in the
South. As he reported
on Facebook:
So we were at the Walmart in Bentonville, AR buying some food and
we see this guy with a massive arm tattoo. Shmueli Newman asks him if he
know what it means. Yes he proudly says, it means strength just like my
name. I got it while I was in the military.
We didnt have the heart to tell him...
For those of you who dont read Hebrew: It says matzah. LARRY YUDELSON
Adult Jews by gender (2014)
Male: 52%
Female: 48%
Knesset opposition
plays for the gallery
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu passed the final hurdle

in forming his new government. The
Knesset passed a law expanding the
number of ministers by a narrow 61-to59 vote, reflecting his new coalitions
thin majority.
This replaced the law passed by his
previous coalition, which limited the
government to 18 ministers. That was
a priority of then-Finance Minister Yair
Lapid. But now that Lapid is out of
the coalition, his government reforms,
along with his efforts to bring Israels
ultra-Orthodox community into the
army and the work force, are being
rolled back.
Lapid and his colleagues in the opposition are promising to make life
difficult for Netanyahu. They certainly
didnt make it easy for him to pass this
government expansion, which Netanyahu needed to deliver on his promises
to his new coalition partners. In the
Knesset, you cant exactly filibuster
but you can propose amendments to
the bills, which takes time and requires
that the government maintain a majority on the Knesset floor. With only a
two-seat margin, that pretty much anchors everyone to their seats during the
proceedings.
William Booth, the Washington Posts
Jerusalem bureau chief, noted on his
blog that Knesset correspondent Akiva
Novick at the Israeli newspaper Yedioth
Ahronoth posted a list of some of the
more original and weird motions that
the opposition put on the agenda with
the goal of wearing down the coalition.
Here are his top 8 (translation by the
service Israel News Today):
A motion to replace the word cabinet that appears in the bill with the
words Bibis crew.
A motion to add to the end of the
various clauses in the bill the words
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

occupies himself during the Knesset
proceedings by reading Henry Kissingers most recent book, World Order.
just kidding.
A motion to turn Netanyahu into
the prime minister of everyone, except
anyone who throngs to polling stations
in buses. (Netanyahu famously warned
his voters on the eve of the last election
that Arabs were being bused to the
polls by liberals and voting in droves.)
A motion stipulating that the governments seat is not in Jerusalem but
on Mount Olympus.
A motion to replace the words
minister without portfolio with an MK
who knowingly wastes public funds.
(MK stands for Member of Knesset.)
A motion to apply the law only during even years or during years in which
the weather is pleasant.
A motion that would obligate the
deputy prime minister to send Netanyahu flowers once a week.
A motion to have double padding
installed into all the MKs seats.
LARRY YUDELSON
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Enough Jewish men (and women)

to go around after all
On page 34, we have a minyan of
findings from the new Pew report on

religion in America. Heres an eleventh.
It turns out that Judaism is relatively gender balanced.
According to Pew, 52 percent of
American Jews are male. That makes
us the second most gender-balanced
religion, after Buddhism, which boasts
a 51:49 male-female ratio.
The most male religious groups are
Muslims (65 percent male), Hindus

(62 percent male), and the religiously
unaffiliated, or nones (57 percent).
The most female groups are
Jehovahs Witnesses (65 percent
female), black Protestants (59 percent female), and both mainline and
evangelical Protestants (55 percent
female).
The Pew report does not speculate
about why.
LARRY YUDELSON
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I think the time has come for the Israel police, together
with the state, to re-examine their stance on cannabis.
Yohanan Danino, Israels national police chief, speaking to high school students in Beit
Shemesh, as reported in the Jerusalem Post.
AT THE MOVIES:
Mad Max back

after 30 years
Mad Max: Fury
Road is the
fourth in the
series of Mad Max films
and the first in 30 years.
After a series of worldwide apocalyptic
disasters, Mad Max (Tom
Hardy) meets Furiosa
(Charlize Theron), a
woman trying to cross a
huge desert. With her are
five former female
captives, called the Five
Wives, of a real bad guy
with a bloodthirsty gang.
First Max helps them,
and then, when he is
captured, he depends on
Furiosa and the Five
Wives to help him
escape. ZOE KRAVITZ,
26, plays Toast the
Knowing, one of the
Five Wives. In a recent
interview, Kravitz
described her character
as the toughest of the
five. By the way, Kravitz,
along with her mother,
actress LISA BONET, 47,
appeared in People
magazines recent most
beautiful issue.
Pitch Perfect 2 is a
sequel to Pitch Perfect,
a 2012 musical comedy
flick about a college
female a cappella group
that became a sleeper
hit. The sequel marks
the directorial debut of
ELIZABETH BANKS, 41,
who co-produced the
original (and the sequel)
with her husband, MAX
HANDELMAN, 42. Banks
also acted in the original, playing a reporter
who comments on the
singing competitions,
and she reprises that

role. The sequel finds
the same college group,
the Barden Bellas, in a
worldwide singing competition. SKYLAR ASTIN,
27 (born Sylar Astin
Lipstein), co-stars again
as Jesse, who sings in
the colleges male group
and is romantically involved with Beca (Anna
Kendrick), a member of
the Bellas. BEN PLATT,
21, also has a big part;
hes Benji Applebaum,
a comic scene-stealer
who is Jesses roommate
and also a singer. (Both
guys have top Broadway
credits. Last fall, Platt,
whose father, MARC, is a
prominent entertainment
producer, did a one-man
cabaret show in New
York in which he sang,
and told tales about my
big Jewish family.)
HAILEE STEINFELD,
18, is joining the cast for
the first time as Emily
Junk, a new Bella member. I knew she could act
(she got an Oscar nomination for True Grit),
but I didnt know she
could sing, too.
JOSH RADNOR,
40, the star of
How I Met Your
Mother, returns to TV
next winter as the star of
the PBS original six-part
drama series, Mercy
Street. The series is set
in a Union army hospital
during the Civil War and
Radnor plays a civilian
who is a contract army
surgeon. The kicker is
that the doctor comes
Zoe Kravitz
Elizabeth Banks
Natalie Portman on the set.
A Tale of Love
and Darkness
Hailee Steinfeld
Josh Radnor
from a slave-owning
family.
Congratulations
to Garden Staters
ARRON ZIMMERMAN and SPENCER
WEISZ. Zimmerman, a
senior at American Univ.,
from Wayside in Monmouth County, was
named to the Jewish
Sports Review magazines Womens College
Basketball All-American
Team (Div.1). Likewise,
Weisz, a Princeton
sophomore, from
Florham Park in Morris
County, was named to
the Reviews Mens
All-American Team
(Div. 1).
Actress MAYIM
BIALIK, 39,
recently told
Parade magazine that
shes just learned how to
play mahjong. Can this
mean that the game,

which was especially
popular with Jewish
women during its
American heyday from
the 1920s to the 50s, is
making a comeback in
Hollywood circles? By
the way, the American
Mah Jongg Association
holds its annual tournament at the Trump
Resort Casino in Atlantic
City. Perhaps Bialik and
other celebs can hit
Atlantic City, play
mahjong, and help revive
the faltering resort.
Meanwhile, Bialiks Big
Bang theory co-star,
MELISSA RAUCH, 34, a
Jewish woman who plays
Bernadette, the nonJewish wife of the
(Jewish) scientist
Howard Wolowitz, just
appeared on the FHM
magazines 2015 list of
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Preserving identity, sharing traditions

American Israelis light up the sky on Lag BOmer
LOIS GOLDRICH
srael is one big bonfire when it

comes to celebrating Lag BOmer,
says Shai Nemesh, director of New
Jerseys Israeli-American Council,
based in Paramus.
The entire state is one big cloud of
smoke, he said. For Israelis, its a big
celebration for families, sitting around the
fire drinking coffee and eating potatoes.
Mr. Nemesh, whose group co-sponsored a Lag BOmer celebration on Saturday night, said the program had two
major goals For us, to keep the tradition and the culture we left at home and
do as much to preserve it as possible,
and, when we have something like this,
to share it.
With few exceptions, he said, Lag
BOmer does not receive the same attention here as it does in Israel.
This is something new, he said. Its
not addressed at the level we do it. Its
important to introduce our traditions
and to share them, working with the
American Jewish community to tighten

the bonds between these two communities that live among each other and break
down the barriers.
Saturday nights program, which Mr.
Nemesh called amazing, attracted some
1,500 attendees, 80 percent of them Israe-
I can only
start and end
with the word
amazing.
SHAI NEMESH
lis or children of Israelis. While he and his

wife recognized many people from Bergen County and around the state, others
simply walked in, he said.
The celebration, cosponsored with
Bereisheet, a Tenafly-based after-school
program that Mr. Nemesh described as
The Lag BOmer bonfire burned brightly, as it does in Israel.
focused on Israeli culture and Hebrew

immersion, was held at the Henry
Kaufman Campground in Pearl River,
N.Y.
I can only start and end with the word

amazing, Mr. Nemesh said. There was a
bonfire, an art circle, sports, a drum circle, plenty of food, and, other than the
Local
$20 per family admission charge, no cost
to participants. Along with an Israeli-style
barbecue, with humus, tahini, hot dogs,
marshmallows cooked in the fire pit, and
potatoes, it featured activities for children, including some led by members of
the youth movement Hashomer Hatzair
Everything was led by volunteers, Mr.
Nemesh said, noting that the event ran
extremely smoothly, with plenty of parking. People walked in with lawn chairs
and blankets, and children had ample
room to run around. All that, and a 90
minute concert by well-known Israeli pop
star David Broza.
Mr. Nemesh said Bereisheet ran a similar program in the past, but it was targeted only to the children and parents
associated with its after-school programs.
This year, with IACs participation, we
were able to open it up community wide,
as big as we can, he said. He stressed,
however, that it is important to maintain
the volunteer nature of the program.
Attendees came from all over the
area, including mainly people who saw
it in the newspaper or heard about it
from friends. We had people from West
Orange and the entire Bergen County
area. Because the group is trying to
grow its presence in East Brunswick, IAC
sponsored a bus from that community.

The IAC started 8 years ago in Los Angeles, going national two years ago, Mr.
Nemesh said. Now it has seven branches
throughout the United States in Los
Our desire is
not to replace
existing Jewish
organizations,
but to attend
to the Israeli
American
community.
SHAI NEMESH
Angeles, Las Vegas, Florida, Boston,

New York, New Jersey, and most recently
Washington, D.C.
The expansion plan is working, Mr.
Nemesh said, adding that the organization of each regional office is guided by
the unique needs of the community.
He pointed out that his chapter has no
formal membership system. Rather, people just come to activities. The chapter
does, however, have a council, with 11
members.
Every chapter has its own council,
with the autonomy to decide how to use
their funds, he said. His group has held
many successful programs, including one
in Closter featuring the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. It drew some
170 people.
We aim for activities that connect the
two communities, to bridge gaps and
strengthen connections, he said.
On Purim, the IAC attracted 500 people
to a Purim party with more than 100
teens attending their own party, in costume. Last Sunday, Mr. Nemesh attended
an activity for Russian Israelis in North
Bergen that drew 150 local residents.
On Shavuot, the New Jersey chapter
will work with Nitzanim, a non-profit,
non-religious Israeli Hebrew school in
Fair Lawn, to create a holiday activity.
Theyve been running for 20 years, Mr.
Nemesh said. Were here to allow them
to become better known.
While the Lag BOmer program was
the jewel in the crown, Mr. Nemesh
said he wouldnt hesitate to offer an activity for only 30 people if it was a valuable
program that has deep impact.

He said that Gvanim, one of the educational programs the chapter offers,
deals with the triple identity of Jewish
Israeli Americans and how to deal with
those three points of identity. Where do
we stand in the triangle? he said, citing
the goal of merging Israelis into the wider
Jewish community.
Our desire is not to replace existing
Jewish organizations, but to attend to the
Israeli American community and their
specific needs, he said. Some communities, such as Bergen County, are fortunate
to have resources like the Israel Center at
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, which
meets many of their needs.
But go a half-hour south to West
Orange and the JCC doesnt have a specific program for Israelis, he said. And
go an hour, to East Brunswick, and there
is no Israeli programming.
Mr. Nemesh said that Saturdays Lag
BOmer event was a success because it
was, to his knowledge, the biggest gathering of Israelis around an Israeli festival
to have taken place here.
They were all happy. There were no
issues. There was a calm atmosphere,
and people had patience, and smiles, and
enjoyed themselves.
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Above, Judah Rubin and Jascha Weiss, third graders at the Solomon Schechter Day School of
Bergen County, bid farewell to their eighth grade schoolmates, who are leaving for Israel, in a ceremony that was streamed over the Internet. At right, eighth graders Elisheva Drillich, Abe Teicher,
and Noah Solovey record a podcast for the schools website.
The whole world is watching

Schechter uses technology to connect school with broader community
LARRY YUDELSON
new project at the Solomon

Schechter Day School in New
Milford brings a personal
story to mind.
After his first day of kindergarten, my
son figured out how to bridge the gap
between home and school.
When I asked him question after question about his day, he finally said in exasperation: If you want to know so much,
why dont you just put a camera on my
head?
Perhaps by the time its my sons turn
to send children off to kindergarten, kid
cams will be as accepted, as cop cams
are starting to be. But in the meantime,
some schools are using video technology
What weve
done is take
the benefits
of technology
to create
connections.
AMY GLAZER
to connect the school to parents, grandparents, and the broader community in

ways that arent quite as all consuming
or intrusive as the full-time monitoring
that, to be honest, I probably would have
wanted as the parent of a kindergartener.

At the Solomon Schechter Day School of
Bergen County in New Milford, a grant has
enabled the school to invest in the audiovisual equipment needed to connect the
school and the community. The school is
using its new ability to broadcast streaming video to bring the spirit of Shabbat,
Jewish holidays, and special school events
to watchers at home or work.
It takes family education and family
engagement into the 21st century, recognizing that were not all able to come to
physically to the same space, said Amy
Glazer, the schools director of institutional advancement.
Technology today has the bad rap
of making people more isolated, more
insular, she said. What weve done is
take the benefits of technology to create

connections.
Once a month, the school holds a special Friday afternoon event that it calls
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One faculty member focused a camera
on the Players; another roamed, taking
in the students reactions.
I was essentially live editing that program, Mr. Marans said.
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Broadcasting its own events forces the school to

make sure they run smoothly and more efficiently
than they otherwise might have.
You want to make sure the content of what youre
streaming is tight, Ms. Gafni said. It pushed us to
get us to get our act together even more. Youre conscious someone is watching and you dont want to
waste their time.
Its not all video, however. That ReLiSh page also
includes podcasts that Mr. Marans has been training some of his seventh and eighth grade students
to prepare. They intertwine interviews with the
schools rabbi and fellow students along with audio
of younger students singing holiday songs.
It has to not only interest people, but to be educational, Mr. Marans said.
The interviews and the songs constitute the basic
structure of the podcasts, he said, but its really
the students voice, their addition, their fun, their
jokes, that will bring listeners in. Im slowly building
them into an understanding of what it means to put
together an audio event.
Preparing audio shows about the holidays is an
outgrowth on the work he does on audio editing in
his music classes.
For some of my students it comes very easily
since most of the music theyre listening to is from
samples, he said. Its one way of learning harmony
through multitracking.
Two thirds of the middle schoolers have learned
how to use audio editing software, he said. The lessons pay off in their better understanding of music.
Theres a visual conceptual thing that makes it a
little easier for students to get through, he said. It
allows them to bypass some resistance to old-school
fundamental music theory and focus on the actual
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Nostra Aetate 50 years later

Local rabbi looks back at half-century of progress
since radical document was published
JOANNE PALMER
udaism and Christianit y have
shared the world for just about two
millennia, and it seems fair to say
that for most of that time, the relationship could have been better. Much,
much better.
In the last half century, though, the
relationship between Jews and Christians
and particularly between Jews and
Roman Catholics has changed radically,
Rabbi Noam Marans of Teaneck says.
It was in 1965, 50 years ago, that Pope
Paul VI promulgated Nostra Aetate, a surprisingly brief but thoroughly revolutionary Vatican II document that reworked
the churchs relationship with non-Christian faiths.
Rabbi Marans is the American Jewish Committees director of interreligious and intergroup relations. He will
be at Catholic University in Washington,
This is a moment
for celebration of
this history and
commitment to
the future of this
project, which
is ongoing.
RABBI NOAM MARANS
D.C., on May 20, where he will be on a

panel investigating the document; he will
respond to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the
Manhattan-based archbishop of the diocese of New York. The other Jew on the
panel, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, the founder
of Klal, will respond to another intellectual cleric, Cardinal Kurt Koch, president
of the Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity.
The talk will be streamed live; it will be
linked from the AJCs homepage, www.
org; the ambitious typists among our
readers can go directly to the link, http://
ustre.am/11EDZ.
It was Pope John XXIII who began the
process that led to Nostra Aetate, which
means in our time, by saying something to the effect of Someone should
open up a window and let some air into
the Vatican, Rabbi Marans said.
John XXIII had a good relationship with
Jews. Once, a group of American Jews
came to visit him, Rabbi Marans said.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Cardinal Augustin Bea look at a Yiddish
newspaper in the offices of the American Jewish Committee in 1963.

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His birth name was Angelo Giuseppe

Roncalli; he played with his middle name
when he told them I am your brother
Joseph.
John XXIII was elected pope in 1958,
and as part of his bringing a new era to
Catholicism, he convened the second Vatican council in 1962, as part of opening up
the church to the world, and the world
to the church, Rabbi Marans continued.
Among his agenda items was creating a
new relationship with the Jewish people.
It was partly because of his personal
experience during the Shoah, in which
he saved scores of Jews when he served
as a Vatican diplomat in many European

capitals, in part by issuing false baptismal
certificates. It was also the result of his
ongoing education regarding the history
of Christian and Catholic anti-Judaism
through the millennia, and its complicity
in violence directed at Jews; of course its
nadir was the Shoah.
Pope John XXIII did not live to see the
end of the process he began with Vatican
II; he died in 1963. But Nostra Aetate,
which was promulgated by Pope Paul VI,
took the seeds he planted and nurtured
them.
These, Rabbi Marans said, are the
documents five highlights:

I t a f f i r m s t h e Je w i sh ro o t s o f
Christianity.
It rejects the charge of deicide the
accusation that the Jews killed Jesus that
has led to so many killings of Jews. With
that, it rejects the so-called teaching of
contempt aimed at Jews.
It decries anti-Semitism.
It affirms Gods eternal covenant with
the Jewish people, thus rejecting the
secessionist theology that sees that covenantal relationship as replaced with a
newer, Jesus-centered one.
It calls for fraternity and dialogue
between Catholics and Jews.
Nostra Aetate was earth-shatteringly
revolutionary, Rabbi Marans acknowledged, but it was in some sense a strategic plan, and it could have suffered the
same fate as most such plans. It could
have been admired and then shelved.
Instead, though, it has grown in
importance since its dissemination,
because the Catholic church followed
through, he said. It issued guidelines
and notes and curricula that enabled
Nostra Aetate to be a living document.
And even more importantly, it was the
very public gestures of successive popes
that gave body to the document.
Pope John Paul II was the first pope
since Peter to visit a synagogue, Rabbi
Marans said. Later he traveled to Auschwitz, where on bended knee he recognized the horror of the Shoah, and later
acknowledged Christian culpability in the
Shoah, established diplomatic relations
with Israel, and made the first papal state
visit there.
If it had stopped there, John Paul II
could have been seen as an aberrant
pope, but Benedict, his successor, did
Rabbi Noam Marans,

center, stands with
a group of AJC representatives as they
present Pope Francis
with the photos of
Rabbi Heschel and
Cardinal Bea in 2013.
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all of those things again.
Benedicts successor, Pope Francis,
whom Rabbi Marans calls remarkable
and unique, is an Argentinian, whose
documented friendship with Jews and
The process
has been
remarkable, both
for Christians
and for Jews.
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knowledge of Jewish life makes him

entirely unlike the unbroken line of European popes he follows.
The Jewish response to Nostra Aetate
was complex and divided. There were
Jews then, and there are Jews today,
who understandably reject entreaties by
Christianity in general, and Catholicism
in particular, Rabbi Marans said. But
much of the Jewish world embraced it as

the beginning of a new era, that would be
followed by a process by which it would
ultimately be measured.
Some Jewish groups notably his, the
American Jewish Committee had been
involved in the process that gave birth to
Nostra Aetate all along, and maintained
their involvement after it was released.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, the
20th-century theologian and writer
who taught at the Jewish Theological
Seminary, worked closely with Cardinal
Augustin Bea on the document. They
had multiple meetings in New York and
in Rome, including on March 31, 1963,
right here where I am sitting, here in the
AJC office, Rabbi Marans said.
The process has been remarkable, both
for Christians and for Jews, through dialogue, education, institution-building, and
above all for relationships that were inconceivable before Nostra Aetate, he continued. Today we take it for granted when
a cardinal or a bishop or a priest appears
together with a rabbi. We have generations of Jews and Catholics who dont even
know what we are talking about, because
the process has been so successful.

Many young Jews have never heard of
the concept of Christ killer, he said;
others have learned it, but only in an academic context, as history.
Today we take it
for granted
when a cardinal
or a bishop or a
priest appears
together with
a rabbi.
RABBI NOAM MARANS
Still, Rabbi Marans said, it would be

unwise and ahistoric to pretend that the
relationship between Catholics and Jews
is perfect. There is an asterisk on all
this, he said. Innumerable challenges
have arisen since Nostra Aetate.
Some are small-scale; there are lingering theological differences that most likely
are irreconcilable. The question there is
whether they matter. And then there are the
missteps and insensitivities that cannot be
ignored. The biggest two were Pope John
Paul II welcoming Kurt Waldheim on a state
visit in 1987, and the second would be the
Carmelite convent in Auschwitz, he said.
And there were many others.
A little background Kurt Waldheim, a
former United Nations secretary-general,
was the president of Austria when he paid
a state visit to the Vatican. Mr. Waldheim
also had been a member of the Nazi Wehrmacht, stationed in Salonika, Greece, when
the Jews there were deported to their deaths.
That, said many people, including many Jewish groups, made him guilty of war crimes.
The convent was built on the concentration
camps grounds in 1984; it was moved in
1994, but a huge cross there remains.
Still, despite these missteps, This is
a moment for celebration of this history
and commitment to the future of this project, which is ongoing, Rabbi Marans said.
It is not complete. But still it is worthy of
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Before Saddle Brook walk, families of ALS patients talk about the diseases impact
LOIS GOLDRICH
n early 2014, just shy of his 12th birthday, Eitan David Jacobi of Teaneck told
his parents he was having trouble raising his arms. It was particularly hard
for him to shoot basketballs.
This was a first for the youngster, said
his mother, Rabbi Lori Forman-Jacobi, who
described her son as an active, funny, and
very social kid.
In fact, she said, he had spent the previous
summer as a camper at Ramah Nyack. And
when he fell off a horse in early November,
we told him to get back on. Usually thats
good advice. But Eitan did not have the
strength to stay on the horse.
We didnt have a clue, Rabbi FormanJacobi, a past vice-principal of the Bergen
County High School of Jewish Studies. It
took us until Thanksgiving to get to a neurologist. By that time, Eitan was unable to reach
to get to the microwave or to open cabinets.
His parents thought Eitan might have a
condition known as FMA, focal muscular
atrophy. We thought wed be tested to see if
we carried it, she said, noting that with FMA,
We cant forget
that millions of
people are still
suffering from
ALS, and there is
still no cure.
RABBI LORI FORMAN-JACOBI
known to be genetic, muscle deterioration is

very slow. Since her husband, Simcha Jacobi,
has a cousin with this condition, it was worth
a try.
Still, she said, it became clear that the
progression of Eitans disease was too fast.
He couldnt walk by early January.
If Eitans condition stumped his parents, it
also confounded his doctors. In late March,
the Mayo Clinic told the parents that the boy
had a motor neuron disease. They couldnt
call it ALS, Rabbi Forman-Jacobi said. There
was no genetic proof, and they hadnt seen it
in a 12-year-old.
ALS, or amyotrophic laterals sclerosis
often called Lou Gehrigs Disease is a
progressive neurodegenerative disease that
affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal
cord.
Its a very complex disease, Rabbi Forman-Jacobi said. Its not just one thing. He
had the rarest of all the mutations, a sporadic
mutation, not hereditary. It affects the very
youngest and has the most severe kind of
Eitan and Simcha Jacobi are in Washington last April.

progression.
Eitan died in June 2014, leaving his parents
and his sister, Maya, 15, to miss him every
day, his mother said. He was 12 years and 9
months old. In his memory, and to call attention to the devastating disease that claimed
his life, the family will take part in this years
Walk to Defeat ALS. Scheduled for May 31,
two weeks before Eitans first yahrzeit, the
3-mile walk will begin at Saddle River County
Park beginning at 10:30 a.m.
We have formed Team Eitan to walk in his
memory, Rabbi Forman-Jacobi said, noting
that the ALS Association sponsors five walks
in the spring. The goal is to raise $325,000
for the May 31 walk, she said. Weve got
quite a way to go, she added.
Everyone is welcome to contribute to the
walk. They can support any of the teams,
she said, suggesting that would-be contributors and walkers go to walktodefeatals.org.
Its as much about awareness as it is to
raise funds, she said, pointing out that ALS
has been very much in the news as a result of
last summers Ice Bucket Challenge, the viral
phenomenon that invited people to pour a
bucket of ice water over their heads and then
challenge others to do the same or make a
donation to fight ALS within 24 hours. (Most
people both contributed money and videoed
themselves dousing themselves.)

It raised millions of dollars, Rabbi Forman-Jacobi said. Thats great, but we cant
forget that millions of people are still suffering from ALS, and there is still no cure.
As a rule, ALS affects people older than
Eitan.
Gilad Tsabari of Englewood Cliffs was 54
when he started having problems with his
lower back and his right leg, his wife, Debbie,
said. By the time we took him to a neurologist, his condition had worsened, but they
still ran every test under the sun to rule out
everything else. ALS doesnt have a simple
test that one can take. Instead it is a process
of elimination. No genetic link was found.
According to Debbie Tsabari, Gilads disease has necessitated changes in the family
dynamic. Anyone who says that it doesnt
affect the life of the family would be lying,
she said, noting that her 20-year-old son and
25-year-old daughter understand and continue to hope for a cure.
In the meantime, the Tsabaris had to
change the physical structure of their home.
We went through complete renovations of
our home, as Gili is now in a wheelchair and
doesnt have the capability of getting around
our home without ramps, Ms. Tsabari said.
It is also expensive.
We have full-time help, because this

year Gili lost the use of his arms along with
his legs, she said. I think that most ALS
patients find that it is very costly to live with
ALS. Medicare and private health insurance
will not cover any home care, so basically you
are forced to go through all your savings to
qualify for Medicaid, and then you can have
limited home care, which is substandard to
the care you get when you pay privately.
Ms. Tsabari said the ALS Association and
the Muscular Dystrophy Association both
offer help with support group meetings and
lender closets, where you can borrow medical equipment for as long as you need it. I
have found that this has come in handy on
many occasions.
Walks like the one scheduled for May 31
also are important.
The ALS Association not only raises monies for research and equipment but it brings
communities together and helps spread the
word that ALS is a serious disease and we
want to see a cure, Ms. Tsabari said.
She also feels strongly that people in the
community should not forget people who are
suffering from this condition. ALS patients
are usually stuck at home most of the day,
and if you are truly a friend, you need to
make time in your week to visit, she said.
Those visits mean the world to ALS patients.
Keeping the ALS patient part of the family
and friends is very important.
I have a group of five families that we are
very close with. When Gili was diagnosed
with ALS in 2012, he could still get around
and we would be able to attend events at
our friends homes. But now that he is in a
wheelchair, my friends insist that we hold
all occasions at my home so that Gili remains
part of the extended family celebrations.
All I can say is dont stay away.
Irving Zeidel is a longtime Teaneck resident. His daughter, Dassi Zeidel, who captained a successful walk for her father last
year, will be walking again on May 31.
At some point during 2011, my father
started noticing that he was having trouble
using his fingers to unlock doors, button his
shirts, Ms. Zeidel said. He also had what
seemed like nerve pain in one of his arms.
He saw his orthopedist, who recommended
surgery.
Still, when he was recovering from surgery
which proved to be completely unnecessary he noticed that the muscle weakness
was getting worse, and it was spreading.
What: Walk to Defeat ALS
When: Sunday, May 31, 10:30 a.m.
Where: Saddle River County Park in
Saddle Brook
To register for the walk or contribute
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Clockwise from top: Irving Zeidel and his grandchildren, Gilad Tsabari, and
Rabbi Jehiel Orenstein.
Finally, a neurologist specializing in ALS
diagnosed him on June 25, 2012.
It took several months and visits to several doctors before we got this devastating
diagnosis, Ms. Zeidel said. ALS is the kind
of diagnosis where you have to rule out
everything else before settling on ALS. My
father was 64 at the time of diagnosis; he
is now 67.
Moving from a cane to a walker to a
motorized wheelchair with spine and neck
support, Irving Zeidel now is paralyzed
from the neck down. He breathes through
a ventilator. Unable to speak, he communicates through an eye-gaze machine, which
is exactly what it sounds like, his daughter said. His eyes focus on a letter on a
screen. Those letters turn into words, and
the words turn into sentences. This can be
quite time-consuming and tiring.
Mr. Zeidel also is able to use the machine
to text, check email, listen to music, and
browse the web. There is also a siddur
and other Hebrew and Jewish books and
materials on it; you can customize the
machine by uploading other materials and
programs, his daughter said.
People in my parents shul, Congregation Beth Aaron, and in the community
have been very supportive, she said.
People come by to visit, to learn with my

dad, to read to him on a regular basis. In
the early days, he was still able to work part
time and go to shul, but now he is confined
to home most of the time.
The Walk to Defeat ALS and supporting the ALS Association is so important
because while this disease has been ravaging people and families for so many years,
there is still no cure, she continued. The
ALS Association raises money to fund
research for a cure. Supporting the walk
and the association also raises awareness.
All of these things will lead to a cure.
She added that since her fathers diagnosis, things have been very tough for
the familyboth for my mother, us children there are three of us and the 10
grandchildren.
My father was a regular guy, someone
who was able to play with the kids, work,
and go about his everyday life, but now he
cant do anything for himself anymore. In
the beginning, we did not tell the little kids
the name of the disease that their grandfather has, but they spend a lot of time with
him and theyve seen the progression.
Theyve also become very involved in the
walk. This is our third year participating in
the Walk to Defeat ALS.
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Putting the coalition back together

Rabbi Saul Berman to speak at joint JCRC, NAACP event
LARRY YUDELSON
fter 50 years, Rabbi Saul Berman hasnt forgotten Purim

1964.
He spent it in a prison cell
in Selma, Alabama.
He had traveled from Berkeley, California, where he led an Orthodox congregation, to take part in the civil rights movement, registering voters and protesting
injustice.
In a letter he left to be read on Shabbat
in his absence, Rabbi Berman explained
that my going to Selma did not arise
out of my social activism, it arose out
of my Jewish commitments. The Torah
works very hard to instruct us in a sense
of responsibility for the disadvantaged.
Not just a theoretical responsibility but
in having a sense of active responsibility.
On Monday, he will tell the story of
his trip to Selma as part of a program
in Englewood sponsored jointly by the
Jewish Community Relations Council of
the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey and the Bergen County branch of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The collaboration between the JCRC
and the NAACP is just one of three
efforts to build coalitions with other
communities that have been funded by
a grant from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, according to Joy Kurland, the
JCRCs director.
Another, with the Korean community,
created a Korean-Jewish Teen Coalition.
The third is launching later this month,
as 10 rabbis and their Christian clergy
counterparts gather for a private discussion moderated by a professional
facilitator.
The NAACP partnership included joint
sponsorship of candidate debates in the
fall. And it grew out of an already good
relationship.
They were incredibly supportive
when all of the synagogues suffered the
desecrations and attacks, culminating in
What: Voting Rights Act, 50 years
revisited.
Who: Rabbi Saul Berman, who
marched in Selma, and Richard Smith,
New Jersey State NAACP Conference
president.
When: Monday, May 18, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Where: Dr. John Grieco Elementary
School, 50 Durie Avenue, Englewood.
The program is free and open to the
community. For information, call Joy
Kurland at (201) 820-3946 or email
her at joyk@jfnnj.org.
Rabbi Saul Berman recalls events in Selma 50 years ago.
the firebombing of a synagogue in Rutherford in January 2012, Ms. Kurland said.

They came and stood with us, and from
that point on we began to develop a nice
working relationship together.
In all of this the idea is to begin building relationships by working together on
commonalities, on mutual issues of concern, and eventually working together on
issues involving Israel, she said.
Mondays event also will feature Richard Smith of Vineland, president of the
NAACPs New Jersey region.
Rabbi Berman, who is an associate professor in Jewish studies at Yeshiva Universitys Stern College for Women and an
adjunct professor at the Columbia University Law School, has been speaking
about his Selma experiences on college
campuses in recent months.
On one level, its sort of ancient history for them, he said. On another,
most of the campuses Ive been at are
deeply invested in the concerns for social
justice. They understand that there are
lessons that can be learned from 50 years
ago that can be applied in contemporary
situations.
At this point, the dominant concern
of Jewish students is Israel. At the same
time, at a variety of campuses there is
a very active engagement between Jewish and black students. At Brandeis, a
group of Jewish and black students visited Selma just prior to my visit. Theres
a broad desire on the part of students to
remain actively engaged in coalition with
other student groups, at least on social
action issues, he said.

Rabbi Berman said the portrayal of the
events 50 years ago in the recent movie
Selma was very realistic.
I know that lots of people had been
concerned about the sort of minimization of the role of President Johnson,
having made him into a reluctant participant, he said. In the Jewish community,
there was concern about the absence of
any particular Jewish presence.
Its true there was an enormous
amount of Jewish presence in Selma at
that period of time, in terms of the rabbis
who were there and, more significantly,
in terms of the young people who had
come for the march.
But he wasnt particularly concerned
about those omissions.
Its not a historical tract, he said. Its
a movie. It was intended to engender a
sense of pride on the part of the black
community in moving forward. I think
that purpose was very much achieved by
the film.
For people to build a sense of identity they need to have a sense of pride in
their own past. The movie was designed
to portray the black contribution to their
own advancement. It consciously minimized the role of others, whether the
president of the United States or Jewish
participants, he said.
The black-Jewish coalition of the civil
rights era gave the Jewish community
an opportunity to give some expression
to some very significant ideals in terms
of responsibility for the ethical society in
which we live. It also provided the Jewish

community with the stamina to engage in
its own battles. I think the participation
in the civil rights movement was a significant element that empowered the Jewish
community in the Soviet Jewry struggle,
as well as the sense of pride that emerged
after the Six Day War.
At the same time, it made a significant contribution to the advancement of
equality in American society.
It was a great loss that the coalition
collapsed in the early 1970s.
The assassination of Martin Luther King,
Jr., was one of the factors that led to the
coalitions collapse, Rabbi Berman said.
His voice, which had been raised for
Soviet Jewry and on behalf of Israel, was
a significant force in empowering the
Jewish community to engage in solidarity with the black community.
Socioeconomic factors, particularly
in major urban areas, which made for
increasing conflict between black and
Jewish interests, were not dealt with, in
part because of the absence of voices of
leadership that could have enabled the
communities to get past that.
Now, Rabbi Berman said, I believe
were headed into another period of
time where the most significant social
issue will be one of equality, the need for
greater economic equality, as well as the
resurfacing of voting rights issues.
It will behoove the black and Jewish leaderships to look closely for ways
for rebuilding the kind of coalition that
existed in the 60s.
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Last year, Ms. Zeidels team was the #1

team in Saddle Brook, raising over $35,000,
and the kids come every year. My 6-year-old
niece Tamar will say, I really wish we could
find a cure for ALS.
The children have adapted to their grandfather being sick in bed, lying next to him,
watching TV with him, telling him stories,
she added. Theyll help the aides do things
like take his blood pressure or his temperature. They make pictures to hang up on his
walls and call him to tell him things that
happened in school. In many ways, they
are much more at ease with him than many
adults are.
She pointed out that while there are three
major hospitals in this area with ALS clinics,
there is not a lot that doctors can do for ALS
patients. There are ways that occupational
and physical therapists, speech therapists,
and respiratory therapists can help with the
techniques, but at a certain point there is
nothing that can be done.
In some ways, ALS feels like a do-it-yourself disease. Each patients progression and
story is different. People feel the symptoms
in different places. While ALS is known to be
a painless disease, we, and so many other
people we know, have found this not to be

true.
The walk program is such a wonderful
thing because in addition to raising awareness
about ALS, and raising money for research,
we belong to a support group funded by the
ALS Association and have met many people
with ALS and their families who share our
struggles and our journey, she said. Its a
very tough disease to go through both as a
person with the disease and as a family member. Having other people who share our experiences can really help ease the pain. Its nice
to walk with these people every year to fight
and raise money for a cure.
According to Debra Orenstein, the rabbi
of Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson,
researchers believe that there is some
genetic component to ALS, but it may also
be activated or aggravated by environmental
conditions. Interestingly, Rabbi Orenstein
said, ALS occurs twice as often in military veterans as in the general population, no matter
when or where veterans served and no matter whether they saw combat.
She noted that only two conditions are
fully covered by the Veterans Administration: Agent Orange poisoning and ALS.
Determining the trigger or toxin that veterans share is vital to understanding the
disease process. ALS also strikes people
who are fit and athletic more than it does

the general population.
In 2013, Rabbi Orenstein lost her father,
Rabbi Jehiel Orenstein, who led Congregation Beth El in South Orange for more than
40 years, to ALS.
My father was a veteran, she said. He
played tennis three times each week. He
was the healthy one in our family. He
was hospitalized only once in his life to
repair a rotator cuff injury he sustained
when he dove to catch a falling Torah.
Rabbi Orenstein said a cure for ALS not
only would help those people afflicted
with it, but also is likely to illuminate
other issues and diseases. How can military training, medical care, and living
conditions keep our troops healthy? What
other motor-neuron conditions might be
alleviated? To arrive at a cure, we will
need to gain a greater understanding of
the brain and the body.
My father was a gifted rabbi, but the greatest Torah he taught was after he had ALS, as
he gradually lost his ability to speak, she
said. He demonstrated the value of the soul.
He showed in the most heartbreaking, brave
way the inherent dignity of every human
being. He had never judged anyone else by
superficialities, and he didnt judge himself that way either. It didnt matter that he
Having other
people who share
our experiences
can really help
ease the pain.
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couldnt move, care for any personal needs,

scratch an itch, or speak. He was neither
embarrassed nor embittered by that. He still
found ways to enjoy life and especially the
people around him.
Her father scheduled visitors and regular massages, she said. He listened to books
on tape. He elected, at every juncture, to
undergo surgeries and use devices that would
extend his life. Even when he had to communicate only by spelling out words laboriously he made jokes, he taught Torah.
Also, increasingly, he withdrew into a rich
inner life. He lay quietly, looked at nature out
the window, thought, prayed. I would in no
way impugn or question anyone who refuses
intervention. But my dad found quality of life
holiness of life in any life at all. That was
his gift and his lesson.
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of fitness and fun at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly. Nearly 1,600 seasoned athletes, eager runners,
and willing walkers participated, making this race the
most well-attended in Rubin Run history. Participants
ranged from infants in strollers to vigorous 80-year-old
senior adults, who all ran the course in high spirits to
support a great cause: programming for people with
special needs in our community.
The Rubin Run is named for the late Leonard Rubin,
a past president and founder of the JCC, who established this community-wide athletic event to encourage and promote healthy living.
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n 4 A little girl plans to give her mother flowers after
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n 7 Michael Fonder of Tenafly, places first in the half
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Ohels film on divorce

draws large Teaneck crowd
Many community members came to the northern New Jersey screening
of Ohels groundbreaking
new film, Rising from
Divorce, at Congregation
Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck.
Through the film, Ohel
aims to educate the community about the impact
of divorce, and the specific
Child psychiatrist Dr.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky
roles that the wider comMark Banschick was
also was a panelist.
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among the panelists.
community leaders, and
educators, can play to help
ensure that both parents
and children can thrive.
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Congregation Bnai
Yeshurun in Teaneck was
part of a panel of educators and mental health professionals who answered
questions after the film.
A large crowd in attendance.
Photos Courtesy OHEL
Rabbi Jeremy Donath,
Ohels Bergen County community coordinator, said, As reflective of
discourse and much belated action in
the size of the audience, and the nature of
every community, as it is incumbent upon
the questions, the issues are very real and
us all to provide help where we can.
affect everyone, and Ohel hopes the film
To see a trailer and for information go
will be a catalyst for much necessitated
to www.ohelfamily.org/risingfromdivorce.
AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,

will celebrate the strength of the U.S.-Israel relationship at a dinner on Tuesday, June 16, at 6:30 p.m.,
at the Rockleigh Country Club. Janene and Richard
Edlin of Tenafly, Debbie and Mickey Harris of Demarest, and Miriam and Ezra Lightman of Teaneck chair
the event. In addition, nearly 200 couples are showing their support as Host Committee members for
the event, with their names listed on both the invitation and the program. Those couples are committed
to promoting the event among their friends and within
Mosab Hassan Yousef
their communities.

Courtesy AIPAC
Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of the founder of Hamas
and a former Shin Bet spy, is the guest speaker. AIPAC
Club members receive two complimentary tickets with their membership, along with
a years worth of briefings, events, receptions, and educational conference calls.
To register or for more information, call Ayelet Kahane at (646) 360-1542 or email
her at akahane@aipac.org.
BCHSJS holding graduation

The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies will hold its annual graduation at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel on Tuesday,
May 19, at 7:30 p.m. The graduates are
Miranda Alper, Julia Baer, Jason Baretz,
Alexandra Castiel, Harold (Harry) Cohen,
Elisa Damari, Deborah Frank, Brian Graziano, Jonathan Graziano, Carly Haber,
Maya Hanan, Samuel Jacobs, Marcelle
Katri, Leah Koretski, Scott Koszer, Brett
Levine, Danielle Shabi, Michael Sobelman, Bennett Susman, and Jonathan

Swill. Closing exercises for all other students will be on the last day of school,
Sunday, May 17.
The president of the schools board,
Elayne Kalina, its principal, Bess Adler,
and the students congregational rabbis will present diplomas and gifts to the
graduates.
Wisse speaking at YU commencement
Courtesy YU
The Yiddish scholar and literary and social critic Dr.

Ruth Wisse will deliver the keynote address at Yeshiva
Universitys 84th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 17, at noon, at the Prudential Center in Newark. YU President Richard M. Joel will confer honorary
doctorates upon Peter Frates and Martin Greenfield,
and Pearl Berger, the dean of YU Libraries, will be
awarded the presidential medallion.
Dr. Ruth Wisse
Congregation Darchei Noam

dinner to honor two couples
Congregation Darchei Noam of Fair
Lawn will hold its second annual dinner on Sunday, May 17. Doris and Lenny
Eis and Rachel and Israel Sabo will be
honored.
The Eises are among the shuls founding families. Doris Eis has been a member of the building design and kiddush
committees and has coordinated High
Holy Day seating. Lenny Eis has chaired
the facilities committee since the shul
moved into its current home and coordinates various charitable collections
18 Jewish Standard MAY 15, 2015
for it and other organizations.

The Sabos will receive the Bonei
Yerushalayim award. Israel Sabo
worked on managing the original construction of the shul and on building
upgrades. The couple oversees Seudat
Shlishit each week.
The dinner will begin at 6 p.m. at the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center, with entertainment by Chicago City Limits. For
information, go to darcheinoam.com
or email Rabbi Donath at rabbidonath@
gmail.com.
Courtesy JFSNJ
JFSNJ fundraiser brunch

with NY Times columnist Paula Span
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey held
a fundraising brunch for its Sam & Nina
Wolff Caregiver Support Center. New York
Times columnist Paula Span was the featured speaker. Here, from left, are JFSNJs
community outreach coordinator, Melanie Lester; Ms. Span; Ilene Wolff, who
sponsored the program in memory of her
husband, George; JFSNs executive director, Leah Kaufman, and its board president, Allyn Michaelson. The Wolff Caregiver Support Center provides resources
and support for people caring for loved
ones with Alzheimers and other forms of
dementia. For information, call (973) 5950111 or go to www.jfsnorthjersey.org.
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Sy Syms School of Business

celebrates 28 years
TABC scholarship breakfast/

inauguration of scholarship fund
Yeshiva Universitys Sy
Syms School of Business
celebrated its 28th anniversary, its faculty, and the
graduating class of 2015
at its annual gala awards
dinner on April 30 at the
Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust. Talia Kugelman, co-president of the
Sy Syms Student Council,
organized the evening.
Philanthropist Harold
Marcy Syms with Harold Grinspoon
COURTESY YU
Grinspoon, founder of
Aspen Square Managereceived the Professor Peter Lencsis
ment, received the Sy Syms Humanitarian
Adjunct Professor of the Year award
award, and then joined Sy Syms Foundation president Marcy Symswho estabboth awards are given according to stulished the awardfor a chat during the
dent votes. Shragie Lichtenstein received
dinner reception. Mr. Grinspoon founded
the Ryan Khaldar zl award for outstanding character and academic excellence in
the Harold Grinspoon Foundation in 1991
finance, awarded for the first time and preto engage Jewish families in the richness
sented by Professor Sidney Mehl and stuof their tradition. The foundation distributes Jewish childrens literature and music
dent Eitan Khaldar, brother of the awards
through its PJ Library and raises funds for
namesake. Other students received awards
Jewish camps and other organizations.
for excellence in accounting, business,
Dr. Robert Greenberg, clinical associate
finance, marketing and management.
professor of business law, received the LilYechiel Auman and Elana Schreier-Glatt
lian F. and William L. Silber Professor of
received the Dean Harold Nierenberg
the Year award, and Rabbi Ozer Glickman
Memorial Valedictorian award.
Torah Academy of Bergen County will hold

its annual scholarship
breakfast on Sunday,
June 7, at the school
at 9:30 a.m. Leora
Fineberg and Dr. Jeff
Levine will be honored
for their years of dedicated volunteer service
to TABC.
Leora Fineberg
Dr. Jeff Levine
Ms. Fineberg has
served on the TABC
of the Bruce Ritholtz zl Scholarship
executive board and board, including
Fund. The late Bruce Ritholtz, a TABC
working on the open house, annual dinner, Chanukah lunch, and scholarship
alumni parent and community member, was instrumental in launching the
breakfast. As a member of the education
TABC capital campaign that enabled
committee, she has worked on developing the special services department,
the school to build its new campus. He
including TABCs new learning center.
and his wife, Michelle, whose son Dani
Ms. Fineberg and her husband, Marty,
graduated in 2014, dedicated time and
have five children, including two TABC
resources to TABC and many other community causes.
grads.
Members of the community are
Dr. Jeff Levine, a 10-year member of
invited to invest in the next generation
the TABC board, is a loyal supporter
of Jewish leaders by contributing to the
and an advocate for TABC within the
Bruce Ritholtz zl Scholarship Fund. For
school and the community. He is also the
information on the breakfast or scholarschools volunteer sports photographer.
ship fund, go to tabc.org/scholarshipJeff and his wife, Sheryl, have five children, including four TABC grads.
breakfast or email Sharon Rifkind at sharon.rifkind@tabc.org.
The event also marks the inauguration
Senator Cory Booker
Honorees, left, and right, including Rabbi Raphy Goldstein, center, flank RYNJs president, Azi Mandel, its head of school,
Rabbi Daniel Price, and Sen. Cory Booker.
PHOTOS COURTESY RYNJ
Cory Booker at RYNJ scholarship reception

Nearly 400 people attended the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jerseys scholarship
reception earlier this month. The reception honored 13 RYNJ alumni who are
now faculty members. U.S. Senator Cory
Booker (D-NJ) gave the keynote address.
Dr. Ben Chouake, NORPAC president and
RYNJ grandparent and board member,

arranged his visit.
Naomi Senter Danzger, Rabbi Raphy
Goldstein, Chana Eisenman Greenberg,
Deena Fischer Katz, Gail Richman Landerer, Daniella Lejtman, Sarah Levy,
Penina Feigenbaum Richman, Yedida
Rosenbaum, Bracha Klein Schreiber, Miriam Stanislavsky, Mira Leifer Stokar, and
Chana Weil Rossman were the alumni faculty honorees.
Teacher Deena Katz spoke on behalf of
the alumni faculty, and 8th-grader Tehila
Kornwasser, last years Chidon HaTanach
national winner and this years 10th place

winner in the international Israel competition, shared her experiences. It was the
schools most successful campaign and
reception to date.
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Editorial
Pew News for Jews
ait. What is this?

Good news about Jews?
From the Pews?
Yes, it is. After last years
jeremiad about how we are dribbling
away American Jews, sweating them out
from every last one of our communal
pores, presented to us in a study done
by the Pew Foundation, we now are presented with a different set of numbers.
Now, we are told that in fact the number of Jews has risen slightly. We are now
approximately 1.9 percent of all Americans, and the largest group among the 5.9
percent belonging to the non-Christian
faiths. In 2007, the last time the study
was done, we were at 1.7 percent. Its a
small change but baby steps
This Pew Study quite reasonably
focuses on Christians, who now make up
about 70.6 percent of the population. The
big news for them is that their decline has
been precipitous, although their numbers still are high. In 2007, they made up
about 79 percent of all Americans. That
drop seems to be more or less the same
in all demographic groups across the
country. Although younger people seem
a bit more likely to have given up identifying themselves as belonging to a particular faith tradition, they are not alone.
Many of their elders have made the same
move.
Most of the erstwhile Christians seem
to have left their faith for nothing in particular. This echoes the findings of last
years Pew study, the one focused on
Jews, which noted that Jews did not as
much join other faith groups as lose faith
in belonging to any group.
So the interesting if surprising news for
us is that either there are more self-identified Jews than there had been, or at least
we represent a bigger percentage of the
Americans still identifying themselves as
anything. (We note that the study, which
does not study Jews in depth, does not go
into the question of what identifying as
a Jew means, whether it has to with religious belief, cultural affinity, or a deep
and generalized sense of belonging. The
term, as is probably correct and certainly
necessary, is self-defined. Of course, that
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means that it is not possible to compare

Jews to Christians directly, because our
self-definition is so much more complicated that theirs is. But we do what we
can with what we have, and this is the
data we have.)
Most of the nuggets of information in
the studys heaped mountains of data are
not particularly new, although certainly
they are flattering. Jews tend to be highly
educated (although not all are). Jews tend
to be more financially secure (although
not all are). Yes. We know. Not news.
But how about the fact that increasingly Jews are not white?
Some readers will say that this is not
news. There always have been Jews of
color, and the fact that they are unacknowledged means that life is even
harder for them as Jews and as people of
color than it would have been otherwise.
Those readers are entirely right.
Other readers will protest that Jews
still are overwhelmingly white. They too
are correct. The study shows that about
90 percent of us are but in 2007, that
number was 95 percent. The change is
not insignificant.
The other perhaps surprising statistic
is that more and more people who identify as Jews now were not born that way.
According to the study, 17 percent of
Jews grew up in another faith. That statistic makes intuitive sense to those of us
who know many of those new Jews, and
know as well that Jews by choice tend to
be the most dedicated, the most devout,
the most whole-hearted. They have chosen what most of us simply are given.
They have had to work for it. They really
mean it.
Other statistics talk about our intermarriage rate (high), our birthplaces
(mainly here, to parents also born here),
and other pieces of demographic information. To read more, go to page 34; to
read the study itself, google Americas
Changing Religious Landscape 2015.
In the meantime, now that its springtime, lets ponder the fact that for once,
at least right here right now, we seem not
to be particularly endangered.

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The plight of black men

in America and why
Jews should care
have been close friends with Sena- me. You taught me, Tatty, to always be
tor Cory Booker for nearly a quarter
proud of who I am. You taught me that its
century. When Cory speaks, I take
an honor to be a Jew. Thats true in every
him seriously.
place and every time.
Recently, at a speech to my childrens
So we toured Istanbuls great mosques as
school, Cory mentioned an astounding sta- the Jews we are, yarmulkes and tzitzit flying.
tistic: there are more black men currently
There were no incidents.
locked up or under federal or state superBut what I remember from that expevision in America than there were slaves in
rience was the feeling of being a marked
the United States in 1850. And while the cir- man. I was a marked man. I was disliked
cumstances of course are different, it surely
for something intrinsic to my being.
makes you think.
It was a horrible feeling.
My friendship with Cory has
Many African-Americans in America face that
been distinguished by an effort
feeling every day. When
on both our parts to rise above
a man is arrested in Baltiour respective identities and
more on a charge of carexperience the others community. For Cory, that meant
rying an illegal knife and
learning thousands of hours
ends up dead a week later,
of Torah with me and visiting
there is something desperately wrong. Is there any
synagogues throughout the
Rabbi
mystery about the anger
United States. For me it meant
Shmuley
of the African-American
immersing myself in the history
Boteach
community?
of the civil rights movement
To understand what is
and speaking at African-American churches, culminating in my becoming
going on, it is important to consider a few
the first white radio personality to serve as
facts. Some of it has to do with the total
morning host on Americas legacy African- injustice and incompetent policies that the
American radio station, WWRL 1600AM. African-American community has had to
Peter Noel, my co-host, a renowned jour- deal with for decades, and some has to do
nalist as well as a critic of Israel, became
with the dangers police face every day as
and remains a brother to me.
they do their jobs.
I now need to look at the most recent,
Unfortunately, African-Americans in this
painful stories of African-American men
country have faced discrimination at every
dying at the hands of police through the
turn. Even after segregation ended, blacks
eyes of a Jewish man.
faced all types of bigotry and racism. They
A year ago I visited Istanbul with my son
had poorer schools, fewer resources, faced
Mendy. Everyone told us how dangerous
bias and hatred because of the color of their
it is there, and I should never wear a yar- skin, and their needs often were ignored
mulke in the street. I was torn. I have never
and treated as an afterthought by those in
succumbed to hiding my identity. I was not
power.
about to now. But should I risk my life and
Many solutions were brought up over the
Mendys?
years to try to balance the field for AfricanIn the end my son made the decision for Americans, to invest in their schools and
Shmuley Boteach 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 Twitter @
RabbiShmuley.
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neighborhoods, and to bring an end to racial discrimination. Some of these solutions worked well. Many others,
however, did little to bring positive change, and in fact
made things worse.
Baltimore is a perfect example of solutions that have
failed. Baltimore is now 63.7 percent African-American.
It has been controlled by Democrats for almost 50 years.
The mayor is black, the city council is close to 2/3 black,
the chief of police is black, and the majority of police officers are black.
In the past five years, $1.8 billion in stimulus money has
been poured into Baltimore, and yet almost nothing has
changed for the African-American population there. Look
at these shocking statistics.
According to the Washington Post, 15 Baltimore neighborhoods, including the one Freddie Gray came from,
have a life expectancy lower than North Korea.
Teens living in Baltimore were most likely to report
witnessing violence in their neighborhoods. Teens experienced the highest rates of sexual violence, depression,
substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Out of the 100 largest counties in the United States, children in lower income households in Baltimore had the
worst odds when it came to upward mobility.
Furthermore while the national average of unemployment for black men is around 10 percent, statistics show
that in Baltimore, among working-age black men, 42 percent were not employed in 2010. This rate was 20 percent
higher than for whites. More recent statistics have not
shown much improvement.
Baltimore spends the third highest amount per capita in
its public schools, but test scores have remained very low
and these schools are still terrible for students.
An inevitable result of all these dismal facts is that Baltimore has one of the highest violent crime rates in the
country.
This pattern in Baltimore is typical of what happens in
many black communities around the country.
Now, how does all this relate to accusations of police
violence against African-Americans?
Well, there are now about 800,000 police officers in the
United States. As part of their jobs, they can arrest people.
These are the men and women who go out every day to
ensure that America does not descend into lawlessness
and chaos.
Every year, there are an average of almost 52,000
assaults against police officers in the line of duty. Approximately 15,000 of these assaults result in injuries to the
police officers. And about 150 officers are killed each year
in the line of duty.
These are scary numbers. What they mean is that every
year 6 percent of police officers are physically assaulted,
and of those, about 2 percent are injured. So when police
officers are out patrolling they have to think that after
working as an officer for 10 years they have about a one
in five chance of being physically injured doing their jobs.
Obviously, when police officers are patrolling in areas
with higher crime rates, the probability of being attacked
and harmed jumps exponentially.
So, on the one hand, you have an area like Baltimore,
whose African-American population has been neglected
for decades by elected officials. They face inferior education, fewer opportunities, higher unemployment, desperation, and, as a result, very high rates of violent crime.
On the other hand, you have police officers who are
very aware of the high rates of injuries that officers suffer
each year.
Remember, the majority of cops in Baltimore are black.
In fact, of the six officers indicted for Freddie Grays death,
three are black and three are white. So even black officers
can and do sometimes racially profile African-Americans.
JDate it really works
t works. It really works.

It is hard to find a Jewish organization today
that is not talking about Jewish continuity in some
form or another. In the wake of the Pew report on
Judaism, we have learned that intermarriage rates in the
Jewish community continue to rise. And perhaps more
noticeable a trend than the charted increase is the fact
that it is worrying to fewer people.
All surveys point in the same direction: endogamy
Jews marrying Jews is the simplest recipe for Jewish
continuity.
The best program I know of to get that result is JDate.
I am the rabbi of a congregation well known for its
beauty and its world-class caterer, so weddings are common occurrences here at Temple Emanu-El. Not only do
I meet with every couple at whose I nuptials I officiate, I
also invite them to our home for Shabbat dinner beforehand. That way, my family can model the blessings of
Shabbat and get to know one another better.
About eight years ago, a
group of couples all getting
married in the coming months
sat around our table. My wife,
who does not get to know the
couples in meetings as I do,
always asks each one for their
story: how they met, their proposal stories, and so on. On
that Friday night, in between
Rabbi
chicken soup and gefilte fish,
David-Seth
each couple told their story
Kirshner
and we learned we were at
a JDate table. Each of the five
couples met through JDate.
After that dinner, I started keeping track of how the
couples whose weddings I performed met. I was amazed
when the data showed that more than 70 percent of
them were the result of JDate.
Shortly after, I decided to do something radical. On
Rosh Hashanah, I described my findings to our congregation and offered to pay for monthly subscriptions
to JDate for all eligible members. A few minutes after
Havdalah, my phone began ringing off the hook. Single
members of all ages were asking for me to sign them up.
For many, the barrier that stopped them from doing it
for themselves was not the money. It was their mother
or father nagging them to go on JDate that inhibited
them. They thought JDate had a stigma, that it signed
desperation or embarrassment. For some reason, the
cover I offered encouraged people to take the plunge.
(Of course, I kept all registrations a private matter.)
While half of the singles in the congregation were getting subscriptions, the parents and others donated funds
to power the endeavor.
This past year, our synagogue community witnessed
a wonderful dividend on our investment. Three couples
were married there, all of whom had heard about the
JDate initiative on Rosh Hashanah and followed up with
subscriptions. They were married within a few months
of each other.
One couple is in their late 20s, another couple is a
set of widowers who had lost their spouses a few years
earlier, and the third couple was both professionals
Dr. Jonathan and Beth Lustgarten
Dr. Herbert and Carol

Marton
Morgan and Matthew

Cohen
We have come a
long way from Yenta
the matchmaker
or maybe we
havent. Maybe she
is just doing the
same work using a
different platform.
who were approaching 40. In each case, the magnetic
field of JDate allowed them to pull one toward the other.
Now, their hearts are filled and their lives are infused
with added meaning. I can hear my Bubbie saying from
above, every jar has a special lid. Indeed.
We have come a long way from Yenta the matchmaker
or maybe we havent. Maybe she is just doing the same
work using a different platform, one that speaks the language of our tech-driven society.
I guess that is the essence of Judaism: synthesizing
new realities with our tradition.
So, all the single ladies (and men) get on JDate. It
works. It really, really works!
David-Seth Kirshner is the senior rabbi of Temple
Emanu-El of Closter and president of the New York
Board of Rabbis.
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Opinion
Should we still consider ourselves the Chosen People?
he fast-approaching holy day of

Shavuot, once strictly a Templeoriented agricultural observance
was turned by a more urbanized
rabbinic Judaism into the season of the giving of our Torah.
To recall that event, the Torah portion for
the first day of Shavuot is the section that
describes Gods self-revelation on Mount
Sinai and the giving of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites encamped around it.
Part of that Torah reading says, Now
then, if you will obey Me faithfully and keep
My covenant, you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples. Indeed, all the
earth is Mine, but you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Exodus
19:5-6). This verse is the root of the Chosen
People idea.
Modernity put this idea to the test. Many
Jews found themselvesand continue to
find themselves uncomfortable with the
thought that the Jews are the Chosen People.
This is especially true in an age in which the
equality of all peoples is the regnant way of
thinking, at least in Western countries.
Further, the claim to be chosen smacks of
being a claim to racial superiority a surefire way to arouse the ire of those who feel
that they are being viewed as racially inferior.
The painful truth is that for many Jews of a
certain time and place, this sentiment was
not uncommon. For example, the originally
neutral term goy or goyim, meaning just

nation or nations, became almost universally a pejorative in Jewish linguistic usage. It
connoted lack of intelligence, cultural inferiority, boorishness, and a host of negative
behaviors, many of which were considered
intrinsically characteristic to non-Jewish
peoples.
We might attempt to excuse this by citing
the victimization of Jews by their non-Jewish
neighbors in most countries of the Exile,
with its concomitant normal human reaction toward the victimizers. After all, Judaism
does not teach Love thine enemy, a precept
not rigorously followed even by the nations
who claim to have accepted the words of the
man who said it.
Nevertheless, given the high ethical bar
that Judaism sets for its adherents, we might
have hoped that the sense of being chosen
would have led to more high-minded thinking and action, even in the face of persecution. Our tradition has many statements
that direct us to that high-mindedness. For
example, the Mishnah queries and responds,
Why was the first human created alone? So
that no person could say My father is greater
than yours. The Talmud declares, Just as
we must give economic support to the poor
of Israel, so must we give such support to the
poor of the non-Jews. Just as we visit our sick,
aid in burying our dead, and comfort our
mourners, so must we visit the sick of the
observance of mitzvoth, which

non-Jews, help them bury their
exist to purify and sensitize
dead, and comfort them when
our souls, that makes Jews a
they mourn.
treasured possession and a
The shift in attitude toward
kingdom of priests and a holy
Jews that gave them citizenship
nation. We forfeit that status
in Central Europe, and then
when we turn chosenness into
further east, promoted a definition or better a return to
a racist claim that my father is
the rabbinic definition of chobetter than yours and thereby
Rabbi Dr.
senness as noblesse oblige,
fail to keep Gods covenant.
Michael
a higher level of religious and
May we take the opportuChernick
nity presented to us on this
moral obligations to be borne
and on every Shavuot, the
by the Jewish people. According to this definition of chosenseason of the giving of our
ness, all peoples were created in the image
Torah, to dedicate ourselves to living exemplary lives of ethical responsibility and moral
of God, which made them invaluable. However, God chose us to carry more responsicourage. And may we give ourselves the gift
bility and greater allegiance to his dictates,
of living mindfully in the present through the
in order to help make all societies better. We
observance of the spiritual practices of Judaism that open us to a deeper appreciation of
would thereby fulfill Isaiahs charge to be a
our inner selves, the world around us, and
light unto the nations.
the divinity that lives within us and beyond
This being said, should we still consider
us. Then we will truly be the kingdom of
ourselves the Chosen People?
priests and holy nation we were chosen to be.
Sure, as long as we keep in mind the Torah
verses that created the concept: Now then, if
Professor Michael Chernick holds the Deutsch
you will obey Me faithfully and keep My covenant, you shall be My treasured possession
Family Chair in Jewish Jurisprudence and
among all the peoples. Indeed, all the earth
Social Justice at the Hebrew Union Collegeis Mine, but you shall be to Me a kingdom of
Jewish Institute of Religion in New York; his
priests and a holy nation.
area of expertise is the Talmud. He received his
Indeed, all the earth is Gods and all peodoctorate from the Bernard Revel Graduate
ples are Gods children. It is only obedience
School and rabbinic ordination from R. Isaac
to the moral tenets of Judaism and to the
Elchanan Theological Seminary.
Going too far

A call for religious pluralism in Israel
nce again, an Israeli official has

forced his personal religious
preferences on the public.
Shockingly, two weeks ago,
the mayor of the Israeli city of Rehovot,
Rahamim Malul, forbid a bar/bat mitzvah
celebration for children with severe disabilities, which was scheduled to be held
in a Masorti (Conservative movement in
Israel) synagogue.
The cancellation was because otherwise
it would have meant that Orthodox families would have to set foot in a synagogue
where men and women daven together,
wearing tallit and tefillin if they choose.
This was more important to Mayor Malul
than the fact that these children had put
in as much effort as humanly possible to
reach this moment.
The Masorti movement has run the bar/
bat mitzvah program for children with
special needs in Israel for more than 25
years. It affords hundreds of families the
opportunity to watch proudly as their sons
and daughters reach the age of mitzvot in
a public and incredibly moving ceremony. The Conservative movement had
determined that it was appropriate, even
necessary, to teach every child according
Richard Kahn and

Rhonda Jacobs Kahn
to his or her needs, and that autism, cerebral palsy, and other conditions should not
limit a childs chance to join the community of adult Jews.
Many of us in Bergen County have had
the privilege of attending these celebrations; no one leaves the service unmoved
by the courage of these children and their
parents.
The anguish of the families was heartbreaking. One mother asked of the mayor,
Why, Mr. Mayor? Evidently, you do not
understand that autistic children are different from other children. For half a year
they prepared, they rehearsed and it
was hard. How will I be able to explain the
A child with special needs celebrates becoming bar mitzvah with family and
friends at Robinsons Arch in Jerusalem.
MASORTI FOUNDATION
despair that we are experiencing? And to
her child she says, I ask forgiveness for
not being able to win this battle for you.
How much longer will Israel permit
its ultra-Orthodox minority to erase the
rights of those who dont practice Judaism the way they do? When will Israel
ensure the same religious freedoms that
we enjoy in this country? As heartbreaking as this incident is, it should be a clarion
call to all of us to advocate for and demand
religious pluralism in Israel, and to focus

our support to institutions and causes that
embrace this philosophy.
Richard and Rhonda Jacobs Kahn
live in Teaneck, where Ms. Kahn is the
communications director of the Womens
League for Conservative Judaism and
Mr. Kahn is the secretary of the Masorti
Foundation for Conservative Judaism in
Israel.
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TRANSFORMING LIVES.
INCLUDING YOURS.
The vast majority of African-Americans

are honest, law-abiding, hard-working citizens, who must deal with the stress and
fear that they may be unfairly profiled and
judged simply because of the color of their
skin.
It is also important to understand that
because government money often is
thrown at these communities as a panacea, without regard to private investment
that leads to jobs, in many cases this can
cause an eventual breakdown of the family unit and the values that go along with
it, leaving young people without guidance and proper role models. Meanwhile,
young people are assaulted with attitudes
and messages about violence, women, and
police expressed in rap culture that can
compound the problem. All these factors
increase the crime rate.
Once they are arrested, many cannot
afford the expensive attorneys who win
lower sentences for more affluent clients.
And, unfortunately, with the privatization
of prisons you even hear of large corporations lobbying for longer sentences, including for juveniles. Keeping people locked up
longer earns these corporations greater
profits.
What is so tragic is that it costs about
$27,000 a year to house one person in jail
for a year. Imagine if that money had been
invested in job creation.
In the end, whatever is being done in
Baltimore has failed the African-American
community. The same policies have been
tried time and again and have not worked.
Yet politicians will insist that they must
double down on these failed solutions and
Democracy
FROM PAGE 25
Pending Israeli legislation lays down

the groundwork to deny civil rights to
select elements of society. These laws
serve as an expedient to preserve control within a state already conceived as
lacking a Jewish majority. There is a bill
to eliminate Arabic as a legal language
in Israel. There is a bill that proclaims
that when there is a conflict between
democratic law and Jewish law, Jewish
law will prevail.
The loss of civil rights protects no one.
In abandoning the framework of democracy, the erosion of civil liberties will not
end with the non-Jewish segment but will
ultimately be imposed by Jews on Jews.
And in vain, because this expedient will
not solve the fundamental problems of a
minority ruling over a majority.
Israels Jewish character emerges from
its population. The Jewish states ability to serve the nation rests profoundly
on its democratic character. The founders understood this, and their vision is
enshrined in their declaration, framing a
provide ever more cash infusions to implement them.

There was an interesting idea floated by
ESPN commenter Stephen A Smith, who is
African-American. He asked that all blacks
in the United States vote Republican for
just one election. Why? Because close to
90 percent of the black vote in America
goes to the Democrats. As Smith explained
it, Black folks in America are telling one
party, We dont give a damn about you.
Theyre telling the other party, Youve got
our vote. Therefore, you have labeled yourself disenfranchised, because one party
knows theyve got you under their thumb.
The other party knows theyll never get you.
Nobody comes to address your interest.
If the Democrats thought they would
lose the black vote they might start trying
a little harder by pushing corporate and
private investment that leads to upward
mobility. And if Republicans believed that
African-Americans would start voting for
them they might invest more in trying to
address black voters concerns.
Clearly, none of us has all the solutions.
But I have to say that as a Jew, I deeply
empathize with my African-American
brothers and sisters, who must experience
the fear and stress of being judged just
because of appearance. We Jews have had
to experience something similar throughout our long and trying history. We must
do everything in our power to help make
this country a place where race no longer
matters.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best when
he dreamed of a country that would judge
his children for the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.
We all hope that this dream will be
turned into reality.
state and civil society for all its residents.

For its Jewish character, the Jewish state
rested upon the territorial concentration
of a Jewish majority. The deviation from
the path set by the founders imperils the
entire project.
A nation state without a significant
national majority, preserved by anti-democratic expedients, will neither serve the
nation nor its citizens. Fundamentally, it
is not viable.
Mark Gold of Teaneck holds a Ph.D. in
Economics from NYU. He serves on the
executive board of Partners for Progressive
Israel, a member organization of the
American Zionist Movement and an
affiliate of the World Union of Meretz.
Haim Simon of Englewood is the
chief operating officer of Ameinu, the
leading progressive Zionist membership
organization in the United States. He
lived in Israel for many years, where he
was the dean of students for what is now
the Alexander Muss High School, and
he served in the IDF as a sergeant in the
artillery.
Letters
Shameful work
from 60 Minutes
The Jewish world is aroused with dismay at a biased CBS 60 Minutes report
that aired on Sunday, May 3, implicitly
blaming Israel for last summers Gaza
conflict. In last weeks Standard, Rabbi
Shammai Engelmayer responded to
the CBS attack (Eye on a big lie,).
Rabbi Engelmayer claims that the
war had nothing to do with the deaths
of the three (Israeli) teenagers.
I agree with Rabbi Engelmayer that
the kidnapping and murders did not
start the war. Hamas and their proxies
created the conditions that resulted
in hostilities. The kidnappings, tunnel building, and rocket launches all
were part of the package. But of those
three, only one happened in July of
last year.
The fact is that Palestinians have
launched rockets from Gaza for 15
years. Tunnel building has been going
on for eight years ever since Hamas
seized power in 2007. What happened
last July was not unique. So why did
war break out again? Since 2005, there
have been three Israeli operations
(Cast Lead, Pillar of Defense, and Protective Edge). In each case, the catalyst was a Palestinian reaction to (in
their eyes) some sort of provocation.
This last time, it was the West Bank
manhunt for the killers of the Israeli
teenagers. Hamas seized on this as an
excuse to attack Israel. With rocket
fire escalating, and tunnel terrorists
invading in the south, Israel had no
choice but to respond. And so the
rockets rained down, approximately
3,900 in less than seven weeks. Israel
continued until the tunnels were
destroyed and rocket supplies were
exhausted. Since September 2014,
rocket fire indeed has dwindled.
Contrary to the CBS report, Hamas
started the war and has the blood of
its own children on its hands. But lets
be clear. It is inaccurate to say that the
timing of the war was unrelated to the
abductions of the Israeli teenagers.
Events have consequences. Israel had
no choice but to respond.
Operation Protective Edge was
just another chapter in the book of
Israels fight for survival. This cycle
of violence wont end until the PA is
able or willing to challenge Hamas for
ideological supremacy, convincing the
Palestinian people that two states are

their only future. Will the Palestinians
ever accept this? Will so-called moderate Arab states really back a two state
plan? Only God knows.
One thing is sure. The CBS 60 Minutes report was nothing new. It just
presented the same old story from a
different angle. This kind of journalism may sell papers, but in the long
run it does nothing to further the
cause of peace and merely hardens
Palestinian hearts. CBS deserves to be
castigated.
Eric Weis
Wayne
Respect limited
by halacha
In response to last weeks letter,

Respect for gays in the Orthodox
world, any embrace has to be limited
by Jewish law.
There are certain aspects of the lives
of gays and lesbians that cannot be
embraced by any Orthodox synagogue
without surrendering its fealty to Jewish law. If that is deemed bigoted, so
be it.
Alan Mark Levin
Fair Lawn
More about a cemetery
We have one correction and a comment

about the article About a cemetery
that appeared in your April 3 issue.
Correction: In the section Adding
leaves to the family tree the article
mistakenly states that Morris Kalishs
store burned down... The article
should have identified the store as
belonging to Morris Levine, my great
grandfather.
Comment: We were truly surprised
to read Barnert Temples account of
their treatment of the cemetery. The
few partial attempts to remove garbage, and the abandoned project to
relocate the gravestones to Mt. Nebo
cemetery, do not seem to fulfill the
sacred responsibility a congregation
has to maintain Jewish gravesites. We
suspect that it is not a standard of care
that the current congregation would
deem adequate for their family resting places.
Marcia Minuskin
Jeffrey Zonenshine
Fair Lawn
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Local Orthodox family wins
the Kentucky Derby. Really!
American Pharoah wins the

Kentucky Derby; above,
Ahmed Zayat and jockey
Victor Espinosa celebrate.
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Joy, champagne spray, shocked disbelief, and a blanket of roses greet Kentucky Derby winners.
JOANNE PALMER
t took American Pharoah barely

more than two minutes and two
seconds to win the 2015 Kentucky
Derby.
For Joanne Zayat of Teaneck, whose husband, Ahmed, owns American Pharoah
(and yes, that is how it is spelled), those
two minutes and barely more than two
seconds stretched out and then blurred
and bore little relation to regular time as
it usually passes.
There she was really, there they were,
Ahmed and Joanne Zayat, their four children all Orthodox Jews and a small
crowd of friends and relatives, in one of
the owners boxes at Churchill Downs in
Lexington, Kentucky, on a glorious flowering spring Shabbat, watching as their
horse won Americas most iconic horse
race.
How did they get there?
Its an unusual story.
Although most Jews in Egypt left the
country in the 1950s when its ruler,
Gamal Abdel Nasser, made it clear that
their lives were likely to be longer, healthier, and happier were they to live them
elsewhere some affluent Jews stayed,
for various reasons, Joanne Zayat said.
That group included Ahmed Zayats family.
Mr. Zayat, born in 1962, grew up in
Maadi in suburban Cairo. It was a very
mixed neighborhood, with a lot of expats, Ms. Zayat said. It looked a lot like
here. To foreshadow a bit among his
pastimes was riding horses at his country
club.
When he was 18, Mr. Zayat came to
the United States; he went to Harvard,
graduated from Yeshiva University, and
then earned a joint masters degree with
Harvard and Boston University. A natural entrepreneur, he worked in a number
of fields. Among his companies was Al
Ahram Beverages, which eventually he
sold to Heineken. He did very well.
Ashley, Ahmed, and Justin Zayat, along with the rest of the family, travel together as often as they can.
About 10 years ago, Mr. Zayat retired

or so he said. He decided he needed to
stop traveling, his wife said. He wanted
to be home with my kids.
But everyone who knows my husband
knows that he cant be retired for more
than 15 seconds. So he decided to take his
passion and turn it into a business.
What did he love? Horses!
There is a phrase if you do what you
love, you will never work a day in your
life, Ms. Zayat said.
So he decided to go into the horse
business.
Because her husband is a very
zero-to-180 kind of person, he is either

not in it or in it to win it, she said. So
he decided he would go buy some horses.
Mr. Zayat decided that he would go into
the thoroughbred part of the horse business. When he needs to know something,
he becomes engulfed in research, Ms.
Zayat said. So he learned about it.
When he began, nine years ago, he
knew a little about horses, but not enough
to say at that point, I am a horse maven,
she continued. So he started learning
about the industry what it means to
buy a horse, at what age to buy a horse,
what are the great pedigrees. You want to
make sure that your investment is a smart

investment.
He is a very good businessman.
Looking at the world of thoroughbred
racing, Mr. Zayat noticed some things right
away. It is a very old business, Ms. Zayat
said. It is known as the sport of kings.
Many of the families in it are old-time families, like the Vanderbilts. Its a high- stakes
world.
In some ways, Mr. Zayats approach
to this old world was new. He uses computer analytics to study all sorts of aspects
of breeding, buying, training, and racing
horses. He also decided to develop a more
broadly based business than most of his
competitors. There are many different
elements, Ms. Zayat said. There are people who only race horses, who only breed
them, people who have only broodmares,
people who have only stallions, people
who only have babies, or buy babies and
sell them.
He decided that he would have a much
more eclectic stable. We have every end
we have broodmares, racing horses, stallions, and babies.
Thus Zayat Stables was born.
Experts at their stables and there are
many, each specializing in a different part
of the same world decide which horses
to keep and which to sell, which to train
for turf and which for grass, and which to
pair with which trainer. Each racehorse
every horse has a personality, she
added. We have to know what kind of
personality it is.
The stable, only eight years old, started
big and has stayed big.
We bought 25 horses the first time,
Ms. Zayat said. We probably have one
of the biggest stables in North America.
We keep the babies anywhere from 20
to 25 of them in a stable in Florida, and
then they go to the trainers to learn how to
become a racehorse.
Note her use of the word we. It is a
family business; the Zayats oldest child,
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Justin, 23, has worked in the business more or less since he was in
10th grade. He is now graduating
from New York University, and he
is our stallion and racing manager.
He and my husband work hand-inhand as far as doing financial analysis and race analysis. Ms. Zayat
works in the business as well.
The next oldest child, Ashley, who
is married to Glenn Weiss, owns a
costume jewelry business called
Point Ashley named after her familys first winner, a horse also named
Point Ashley, after her. Benjamin is
a sophomore at the Frisch School,
and Emma is an eighth-grader at
Lotus of the Nile, then a colt, and a
Yavneh.
relative of American Pharoahs, plays at
Not only has computerized data
Zayat Stables.
analysis changed horse racing, Ms.
Zayat said, but so has social media.
Zayat Stables has owned a remarkable
siring the new generation of aspiring
number of winners in the nine years
racehorses.
since it opened, including three KenThe Zayats try to give their horses
tucky Derby runners-up. (It is a mean
names that have some meaning, somefeat to get a horse into the Derby they
thing to do with our lives or our friends,
must qualify by winning enough of the
Ms. Zayat said. Justin decided that he
right races. It is not a berth that can be
wanted to do a contest with the fans.
bought. There are probably 30,000
They could submit names, and we would
three-year-olds across the world, and
pick one.
only 20 horses make it to the race, Ms.
A woman from Arkansas submitted
Zayat said. It is an honor even to get
American Pharoah. Hes named in homyour horse into the Derby.) It also has
age to Ahmed Zayat, who was Eyptian to
developed and nurtured a strong fan
start with and is American now.
base.
This woman, the anonymous horseMy husband and Justin are very
namer, clearly was very good with hisaware of the fan base, Ms. Zayat said.
tory and allusion, but spelling seems not
You have to keep them apprised of
to have been her strong point. She miswhats going on.
spelled Pharaoh, putting the o in front
People follow our horses on Twitter
of the a. After the family chose it, Justin
and Facebook.
cut and pasted the name from her email,
A couple of years ago, we had a horse
and sent it to the Jockey Club. (The club
named Paynter. He was a wonderful
vets the names, and rejects those that
horse, but he got sick after a big race
are already taken or considered someone summer, and we had to take him
how offensive.)
home and out of racing all summer. We
We never thought about it and now
put a tremendous amount of time and
people ask if there is a reason for that
energy and finances into him, because
spelling, Ms. Zayat said. But it was just
we wanted to do right by the horse.
cut and pasted!
If you do right by a horse, the horse
American Pharoah was particularly
will do right by you. A horse is not a
dear to the Zayats even before he won
machine.
the Derby, because he is the stables first
Paynter had many fans, and his illness
second-generation winner. American
worried them.
Pharoahs dad, Pioneer of the Nile, was
Our fans were concerned, so we
our very first home-bred winner, and
decided that we would keep them
he was the runner-up in the Kentucky
apprised, Ms. Zayat said. And then
Derby, Ms. Zayat said. He was nipped
Paynter became like a cult. They would
at the wire in other words, his victory
send him pictures and letters. It became
was snatched from him. We bred him
like Paynter was a person. A group went
with Little Princess Emma named
to visit him, and took pictures of him.
after the familys younger daughter
Paynter came back the next summer,
and American Pharoah got revenge for
and his fans were overjoyed. It was like
his father.
he was the comeback kid. It was a crazy
What is it like being Orthodox Jews at
feeling; after the race, people would say
the Kentucky Derby? There is no conto us, You dont know what Paynter
flict, Ms. Zayat said. Most of our big
means to me.
races are on Saturdays, so we walk to
He really caught the hearts of so
the track.
many people, she said.
They stay at a hotel in Lexington,
Its okay. This story has a happy endwhich is an easy walk on race day, and
ing. Paynter is now a stallion at the famget kosher meals, including full Shabilys Winstar Farms in Kentucky, happily
bat dinners, from a caterer, but for the
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Preakness and the Belmont we cant
walk from any hotel, so we rent a trailer.
Its not just a regular old RV; It is 45
feet long, has two bathrooms, has a full
kitchen and dining area, and sleeps six
to eight people.
Shabbes is still Shabbes. You are still
getting gefilte fish for dinner, she said.
I think that when you are true to
yourself, and you have a strong value
system, people respect it.
This is a free country, and people get
that.
As exciting as she finds horse racing
in general, Ms. Zayat considers the Kentucky Derby to be particularly thrilling.
It attracts such a diverse and interesting group of people, she said. There
are Derby groupies, who spend all year
making their hats and getting their outfits together. There are men in floral
suits, and women in crazy outfits. There
are people who are there either because
they are in the industry or because they
are Kentuckians, and this is what Kentuckians do.
Hank Aaron is there, and Bill and Hillary Clinton have been there, and Michael
Phelps, and Hugh Hefner. It goes from
the president of Visa to Ogden Phipps to
people who own stallion farms to racing
families to the loved ones of people in
the industry.
We like that it is a family thing for
us. We all travel together for all the big
races. We go together as much as we can.
It is not just a business. We are close to
our trainers and their families. Thats
part of what makes it nice.
Yes, its big business, but its also a
humanistic thing. We all know each others kids. We have watched each others
kids grow up.
Being in the Derby is the dream of a
lifetime, Ms. Zayat said, but for her, it is
a recurring dream. Zayat Stables has had
at least one horse in the Derby almost
every year since its second year in the
business.
May 2, Derby day, was business as
usual, Ms. Zayat said. They were not
the only group to walk from the hotel
traffic and parking both are nightmares,
so many people avoid it. It was a beautiful day. We walked down the street
toward Churchill. Its a pretty stadium.
Everyone was trying to sell souvenirs,
and security was checking bags, blocking off streets.
Once they reached the stadium, the
Zayats and their guests peeled off from
the spectators. We sit in certain dining
rooms. We have viewing boxes. Churchchill is a huge track, and it is very well
organized.
The day goes by. There are 12 races on
Derby day, and the Derby itself is the 11th
to be run. (It helps with crowd control to
have another race after the big one, so
not everyone tries to leave at once, Ms.
Zayat hypothesizes.) As the day progresses, there is more time in between
each race, she said. Tension builds.

After the 10th race, most of the
owners go to the barns, where the
staff would have taken the horses out
and start to prep them for the race, to
freshen them up, she said. They take
the horses out, the trainer and the assistant trainers and the grooms and the
owners, and you walk with them on the
track if you choose to.
We always walk our horses from the
barns all the way around the track to
the paddock, where they are saddled.
(We, at this race, was me, my husband, all four children, and our guests,
maybe 20, 25, 30 people.)
The crowds are roaring as you are
passing by. People are yelling Go,
American Pharoah, we love you! They
are trying to pat you. They wave at you.
You talk to them. They are screaming
and hooting. There are zillions of TV
cameras.
It is fun. It is exciting. It is exhilarating. It is show time.
Everyone dresses up. I wore a pink
suit with a hat. I dont wear heels, but a
lot of people do.
You go to the paddock, and every
owner is in front of his horse. It is jam
packed. The horses go into the carrel to
be saddled. The jockey, Victor Espinoza,
is a great guy. I said, Come on, I promise you a home-cooked meal if you bring
this home to me. And he said, Mrs.
Zayat, just sit back and watch the show.
The race finally started. It is only two
minutes but it is the most exciting two
minutes in sports history every year,
Ms. Zayat said.
They are coming down the stretch,
and I see Firing Line and Dortmund
coming down, and I see American Pharoah coming, and hes behind them, and
then they are neck and neck, and I say
that I cant. I cant do this again. I cant
come in second again. The other times
we lost at the wire. And I become hysterical. And I start to cry, this emotion
of ohmigod.
And then the next thing I know, I hear
that American Pharoah and Victor Espinosa have won the Kentucky Derby.
And then you go in five seconds from
despair to elation. It was an out-of-body
experience. It was crazy. And then they
hustle you off to get your trophies.
You dont know how much time has
passed. It could have been a long time.
It could have been a short time. I dont
know. They brought us to the podium,
they brought us to a cocktail party.
This is ours. This is a real Zayat horse.
There is something really special about
it. Its still surreal now.
When you look at horses, Ms. Zayat
said, there is a lot of science; numbers,
anatomy, genetics, and much more. But
there is also the emotional component.
The objective and the subjective have to
meld together.
And I know that this is the horse.
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Museum is thoroughly wasted opportunity
or two weeks in June, Washington, D.C., will

play host to a group of pro-Palestinian activists
who have assembled an exhibit about the dispersion of the Palestinians during Israels War of
Independence.
The exhibit takes place under the auspices of the Nakba
Museum Project of Memory and Hopenakba is the Arabic word for catastrophe, which is how Palestinians and
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refer to the 1948 upheaval
that accompanied the
war launched against the
nascent state of Israel by
five Arab armies.
Its a clever idea that
requires a clever response.
And that means lookBen Cohen
ing closely at both the
image and the message
that the Nakba Museum is
projecting.
The online publicity materials for the museum are
decked out in autumnal tones and soft, inclusive language that is occasionally indecipherable. (Hows this
for a sentence? The goal of each display or event will be
to create a culture of listening and represent a non-contested space, through a simple invitation to witness.)
The mission statement is a little clearer in that
regard. We believe that refugee stories need to be
acknowledged, witnessed and finally for the refugees
to be empowered to respond in acts of healing and
reconciliation, it says.
Terms like healing and reconciliation are much
in evidence. The brainchild of Bshara Nasser, a Palestinian from Bethlehem, and Sam Feigenbaum, an
American Jew, the Nakba Museum is dedicatedthey
say to building hope for both Palestinians and Israelis that sharing the land is indeed possible.
Conspicuous by its absence from the museums
website is the lexicon of Palestinian solidarity those
drearily familiar words like boycott, apartheid,
genocide, and war crimes. How, though, does the
museum define the Nakba, a term Palestinians traditionally use to signify what they consider the original
and irredeemable sin committed by the Zionist movement in forging Israels existence?
The Nakba, says the museum, refers to the mass
expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 and
represents a dark period in the Palestinian existence.
It then adds, However, the Nakba is not just a singular event in the past, but an ongoing reality for all the
Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.
So, for the Nakba Museum, as for the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions movement, the Nakba is
portrayed within the conventional framework of Zionist original sin. Consequently, an observer has to wonder whether the ambition of sharing the land really
entails what Palestinian activists call the one-state
solution, which most Jews understand as meaning
the elimination of Jewish national sovereignty.
Though many supporters of Israel would disagree
with me, I dont have an a priori objection to the term
Nakba. George Deek, an articulate young ArabIsraeli diplomat, uses it. When I interviewed him for
the Algemeiner last year, he told me, People were
driven out of their homes because of intimidation, or
because of the warnings of other leaders. It cant be
described as anything other than a terrible tragedy.
But, Deek added, The question is not what happened, but why it happened. To this day, both the Palestinians and the Arab states steadfastly refuse to recognize that the flight of British Mandatory Palestines
Arabs was, as the historian Benny Morris has said, a
product, direct and indirect of the attack on Israel. As
Deek pointed out to me, Imagine what things might
have been like if the Palestinians would have said to the
Jews, Welcome back. This is your home, but its also our
home, so lets find a way that we can live here together.
The problem, then, is not the word Nakba, but
the manner in which it is interpreted and deployed.
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If those who use it were to be faithful

to the historical record, they would be
duty-bound to accept that culpability for
the Palestinian refugee issue is shared. I
am confident enough, when it comes to
Israels moral and legal legitimacy, to say
that Israel does share some of the culpability, but those who say that Israel is
entirely responsible are either ignoring
the eliminationist war waged by the Arab
states or are silently sympathetic with its
aims aims that have since been picked
up by organizations like Hamas.
Some will say that the choice of Washington as the location for the Nakba
Museums first physical exhibit is no
accident. Americas capital is where
the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum is situated and the centrality
of the Holocaust means that other peoples who have suffered from genocide,
like the Armenians and the Cambodians,
often invoke it as a reference point that
most people will recognize. The Nakba
Museum, it would seem, is doing the
same, and brazenly so.
Except that the Nakba was not a genocide far from it. But as far as the official narrative of the events of 1948 is
concerned, that doesnt really matter.
What counts to critics of Israel is enshrining eternal Palestinian victimhood at the
hands of the Israelis, and then continually reinforcing that message.
Its still early in the life of the Nakba
Museum, but at this point, the entire
project looks to me like a wasted opportunity. Arguing that Israel bears a degree
of responsibility towards Palestinian
refugees is one thing; trotting out the

same tired Arab League propaganda
points is something else entirely. And
however many Jews with doubts about
Israel might be attracted by the museum,
the vast majority will shun its message
and everything it stands for.
The Nakba Museum could still be an
exciting venue, both online and offline.
It is ideal for an exhibition about the
ongoing suffering of Palestinians in Yarmouk and elsewhere in Syria, the vast
majority of whom are experiencing
actual displacement for the first time in
their lives. It might even host a seminar
about the wholesale movement of populations in the wake of World War II, from
the Sudetenland to India and Pakistan,
and thence to British Palestine.
Id even dare to suggest that they
include in that list the 800,000 Jews from
the Arab world who lost their homes
and livelihoods following Israels creationanother hidden nakba that the
Arab states, having first violently agitated
against their Jewish populations, now
depict as a Zionist plot to rip the Jews
away from their loving Muslim neighbors.
Some histories, it seems, are more
memorable than others.
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released 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape
Study offers a trove of data on American
Jews based on interviews with 35,071
American adults, 847 of whom identified their faith as Jewish. Here are some
of the more interesting findings about
the Jews.
Were highly educated! There are
more American Jews with two or more
university degrees than those who have
just one 31 percent have a graduate
degree and 29 percent have just a bachelors degree. With a college graduation
rate of about 59 percent (more than
twice the national average of 27 percent), American Jews are the second
most-educated religious group in America after Hindus, at 77 percent.
Were the biggest religious minority! Judaism is the largest faith group in
America after Christianity, and its relative size in America has grown slightly
since 2007 from 1.7 percent of the
U.S. population in 2007 to 1.9 percent in
2014. The denominational breakdown

of Jews who identify with the Jewish
faith (Jews by religion) is 44 percent
Reform, 22 percent Conservative, 14 percent Orthodox, 5 percent another movement, and 16 percent no denomination.
Were not as white as we used to be!
Ninety percent of American Jews are
white, 2 percent are black, 4 percent are
Latino, 2 percent are Asian-American,
and 2 percent are other non-Hispanic.
Thats a notable change from 2007, when
whites comprised 95 percent of American Jews, Latinos comprised 3 percent,
blacks comprised 1 percent, and the percentage of Asians was negligible.
A quarter of us are losing our religion! When it comes to religious retention rates, American Jews come in third,
retaining 75 percent of people raised as
Jews. By comparison, Hindus retain 80
percent and Muslims 77 percent. Behind
the Jews are evangelical Christians at 65
percent, Mormons at 64 percent, Catholics at 59 percent, and mainline Protestants a t 45 percent. Jehovahs Witnesses
retain only 34 percent.
Netanyahu welcomes back IDF aid team

from Nepal as major aftershock hits
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
greeted the returning Israel Defense
Forces aid delegation from Nepal as a
major aftershock hit the mountainous
South Asian country on Tuesday.
I am certain that you are already prepared for the next mission, wherever it
may be needed, and it appears, according to the news, that this next mission is
already in front of us, Netanyahu told the
delegation, referring to the aftershock.
The IDF aid team treated some 1,600 at
its field hospital in Katmandu, performing
85 surgeries and delivering eight infants.
I told the Nepali ambassador just a
few minutes ago that we are prepared to
the best of our abilities to help now too,
Netanyahu said.
On Tuesday, a major 7.3-magnitude
earthquake hit Nepal, which is still
reeling from a 7.8-magnitude earthquake

on April 25. According to Nepali authorities, 42 people have been reported dead
and 1,117 have been injured in the latest
earthquake. More than 8,000 people
died in Aprils earthquake.
Chabad-Lubavitch said that 133 Israelis
have again taken shelter at its facility in
Nepal.
Although everyone we know appears
to be safe, we are sad to report that there
are many more casualties in Nepal again
today, said Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz, codirector of Chabad of Nepal. There is
so much more work that now needs to
be done.
In light of the aftershock, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
called on the Jewish and international
communities to renew their efforts to
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But 17 percent of us have found Judaism! Seventeen percent of American Jews say they were raised
in another religion. Six percent say they were raised
unaffiliated, 4 percent as mainline Protestant, 3 percent as Catholic, and 2 percent each as evangelical and
in some other religion.
Who are we marrying? Sixty-five percent of American Jews who are married or living with a partner are
with a Jew, and 35 percent are with a non-Jew. Nine
percent of American Jews are partnered with Catholics, 8 percent with mainline Protestants, 4 percent
with peoples of other faiths, and 11 percent with unaffiliated Americans.
Nu, when are we going to get married already? The
percentage of Jewish adult singles is growing; its up
from 19 percent in 2007 to 23 percent in 2014. Fifty-six
percent of Jewish adults are married, and another 6
percent are living with a partner. Fifteen percent were
married but are now separated, divorced or widowed.
The Jewish fertility rate is 2.0 children, compared to
2.1 children for all Americans.
Were mostly American born and bred! Sixty-six
percent of Jewish adults are Americans born to American-born parents. Of the 12 percent of American Jews
who are immigrants, 5 percent were born in Europe, 4
percent in the Americas, 2 percent in the Middle East,
and 1 percent in the Asia-Pacific region.
We still heart New York! Where do Americas Jews
live? Forty-two percent in the Northeast, 27 percent
in the South, 20 percent in the West, and 11 percent
in the Midwest. In the Northeast, where Jews are most
numerous, Jews comprise roughly 4 percent of the
total population. Eight percent of the New York City
area is Jewish.
Were rich! (but also were poor): American Jews (44
percent) are more than twice as likely as average Americans (19 percent) to have annual household incomes
over $100,000. But 16 percent of Jewish adults have
annual household incomes of $30,000 or less, and 15
percent live in households that earn between $30,000
and $50,000.
(The Jewish data in the survey has a margin of error
of 4.2 percentage points.)
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Court filings show Freundel also had extramarital sexual encounters
URIEL HEILMAN
In addition to secretly recording women undressing
for the mikvah the ritual bath Rabbi Barry Freundel engaged in sexual encounters with several women,
according to prosecutors.
Thats one of several new details about the mikvahpeeping rabbi to emerge from two documents filed in
Washington, D.C. Superior Court on May 8 one each
by the prosecution and defense before Freundels
sentencing on Friday. The documents, which attempt
to sway the judges sentencing, shed new light on
Freundels behavior and offer some particulars about
his life since his arrest on October 14, 2014 including
that he has resumed some rabbinic teaching.
Freundel pleaded guilty in February to 52 counts of
misdemeanor voyeurism for installing secret cameras
in the shower room of the mikvah adjacent to Kesher
Israel, the prominent Washington Orthodox synagogue he led for some 25 years.
He used one to three cameras, hiding the devices
in a digital clock radio, a tissue box holder, and a
small tabletop fan, and aiming them at the toilet and
shower in the mikvah dressing room, according to the
prosecutions memo. In addition to the 52 women he
filmed while they were completely naked between
March 4, 2012, and Sept. 19, 2014, Freundel recorded
another 100 women between April 2009 and 2012.
They were not part of the criminal complaint because
the offenses happened too long ago, according to the
statute of limitations.
In addition to his crimes, Freundel videotaped
himself engaged in sexual situations with several
women who were not his wife, according to the
memo. Many of the women may not have consented
to being taped or were not aware that they were being
recorded. A spokesman for the court declined to elaborate on what the sexual situations constituted.
In its memo, the defense argues that Freundels
public humiliation has been punishment enough for
a first-time nonviolent offender.
The prosecution memo notes that in addition
to the hidden cameras at the mikvah, Freundel
Rabbi Barry Freundel leaves the courthouse on

February 19, after entering his guilty plea.
surreptitiously videotaped a domestic violence abuse victim in the bathroom and bedroom of a safe house that he
had established for her so she could escape her husbands
violence.
I thought I saw a holy man of God, a man whom I could
trust to protect me from outside evils, but I have come to
see the blackness which hid beneath the garments, the
victim said in a court document. The dreadful symptoms

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I scream out against the darkness in the nightmares of my
sleep. I have constant flashbacks of the worst times of my
life, as I am forced to repeatedly relive the horrors I once
knew. I dare not look at myself unclothed in a mirror, for
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Shavuot
W
e will celebrate Shavuot next week its

always a good idea to plan ahead! Below
are a few dairy recipes to consider. In
addition, heres an article on wine pairing selections for the holiday. Enjoy!
Special wines for Shavuot

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COURTEY BTJ
Shavuot casserole
from Boys Town Jerusalem
Israeli native Avi Chamal has headed the Boys Town
Jerusalem kitchen for 15 years, producing 3,000 daily
freshly cooked and baked meals for the schools student
body.
As Shavuot approaches, he sent along this recipe for
a festive dairy meal that is easy to prepare, healthy, and
delicious.
Mushroom and
three-cheese casserole
INGREDIENTS:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 onion, thinly sliced
7 ounces fresh mushrooms, chopped
pinch of coarse black pepper
salt
7 ounces mascarpone cheese (or whipped cottage
cheese)
4 ounces ricotta cheese, crumbled
4 ounces Roquefort cheese, crumbled
4 eggs
2 tablespoons flour
INSTRUCTIONS:
Saut onion until golden, add mushrooms, salt, and
pepper. Cool. Add crumbled cheeses, eggs, and flour.
Mix well. Place in a casserole dish and bake for 20
minutes at 325 degrees. Optional: Cover casserole with
a layer of phyllo dough before baking.
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As the spring season is here and people are thinking about warmer weather meals and the traditional
dairy foods of Shavuot, kosher wine lovers will be
contemplating their white wine options. Two grape
varieties that have much to offer, both in terms of
range and food paring adaptability, are chenin blanc
and riesling.
The chenin blanc grape is believed to have been cultivated first in the Loire Valley of France in the ninth
century, though it long since has migrated across
the globe from California to South Africa, and most
recently to very good effect to Israel, where it seems
to grow nicely in the climate. Chenin, including Pierre
Miodownicks Domaine Netofa white wines, also pairs
well with Mediterranean foods.
Chenin Blanc is one of the most versatile white wine

grapes. It can produce light-bodied or delicate tasting
wines across the spectrum: dry, off-dry, very sweet, or
sparkling. Chenin aromas range from spicy to citrusy
to floral and even tropical, depending on the place
where it is grown.
Similarly, the riesling grapewhich originated in the
Rhine region of Germany, but also has migrated across
the globeis thought of as a generally flexible varietal
because it is especially good at transmitting into the
final wine the character of whatever its local soil and
climate happens to be. Riesling is considered by many
wine connoisseurs to be the white wine grape equivalent of pinot noir in Burgundy. Unlike the cherry and
red fruit notes of pinot, the fruit elements in riesling
tend to be more like peach, pear, nectarine, apricot,
honey-crisp apple, and even lychee. LChaim!
s promised, here are two great Shavuot

cheesecake recipes from the Jewish Womans Circle of the Chabad Center of Sufferns
newly published A Taste of Chabad - a
Treasured Collection of Recipes From Chabads Shabbat Dinners, Programs, and Community Members. To
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Cheesecake-Reva
CRUST:
1 package graham crackers, crushed
1/2 stick butter (or margarine), melted
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon flour
FILLING:
1 pound cream cheese
1 cup sour cream
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/4 cup flour
Blend together ingredients for crust and press into a

9x13 pan or two 9-inch rounds.
Mix filling ingredients with a mixer. Pour over crust.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
Non-dairy cheesecake
1 graham cracker crust
2 egg whites
1/2 cup sugar plus 1/4 cup sugar
2 egg yolks
8 ounces Tofutti cream cheese
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
In a mixer, beat the egg whites and 1/2 cup sugar until
stiff. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix. Pour into
the pie shell and bake at 350 degrees for 1/2 hour.
Optional: crush Oreo cookies and mix into the batter
before baking.
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South Carolina school seeks to bring diverse populations to the table
RUTH ELLEN GRUBER
CHARLESTON, S.C. Renowned for its gracious architecture and signature Southern
charm, Charleston increasingly also is celebrated as a foodie haven.
The trouble is, in a city whose culinary
specialties embrace (and glorify) oysters,
she-crab soup, and shrimp and grits, the burgeoning restaurant scene is nearly off limits to
anyone who keeps kosher.
But things are set to improve for the
kosher-observant later this year, when the
College of Charleston opens a $1 million
kosher vegetarian dining hall in a new wing
of its Sylvia Vlosky Yaschik Jewish Studies
Center, home to the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish
Studies Program.
The dining hall, funded by several private
donors, is an integral part of the colleges
comprehensive $10 million fundraising campaign for the Jewish studies program. The
three-story brick wing will double the size
of the Jewish studies center, which is in the
citys historic peninsula district. The dining
hall, set to begin operations around Chanukah, will occupy the ground floor, with an
open-plan design featuring curved ceiling
details, cool pastel colors, an entry wall of
Jerusalem stone, and seating options for up
to 75 people.
Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, the
dining hall will be run by the colleges dining
services and cater to students on the schools
dining plans. But it also will be open to the
public for a la carte meals, with an eclectic
menu using organic and local ingredients.
One of the aims, according to the dining
halls vision statement, will be to attract an
eager and emergent audience of student and
community members by sourcing ethical,
sustainable and local food in an energized,
hip facility that will utilize recycled and local
materials.
All the food will be kosher and vegetarian, and some will be vegan (containing no
eggs or dairy). Mark Swick, the Jewish studies
programs community liaison, said the food
will be certified by Charlestons Kosher Commission, which is made up of local Orthodox
rabbis.
Some 800 Jewish students attend the
12,000-student school, and the college is
using the new dining facility as a recruiting
tool to attract more.
A lot of students are looking for kosher
possibilities, Jewish student recruitment
counselor Helen Slucki said. For some it is a
need they keep kosher and couldnt come
here without it. But for a lot of them it is a
symbol. They dont keep kosher, but like the
Jewish studies program, it is a symbol that the
college is welcoming to Jews.
Dara Rosenblatt, the colleges Jewish
The College of Charlestons new dining hall is modeled after Grins Vegetarian Cafe, a popular kosher eatery at Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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student life program coordinator, said the

new dining hall is already making waves
among students. Buzz also has begun to build
outside the college Charlestons City Paper
placed the dining hall on its list of 20 new eateries set to open in town this year.
But Paige Lincenberg, a Jewish studies
major from Atlanta, said she wasnt sure yet
what impact the new facility would have
on her eating experience. She already eats
kosher style, separating meat and dairy and
avoiding pork and shellfish.
For the strictly kosher observant, she said,
finding kosher meat tends to be more of a
challenge than finding vegetarian food.
Its possible to buy vegetables and cook
them, she said.
Jewish history in Charleston dates back
more than 300 years, and the city, which in
1800 had more Jewish residents than New
York, was a cradle of Reform Judaism in the
United States. Charlestons first organized
congregation, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim,
was founded in 1749, and its home now, a
graceful Greek revival building dedicated in
1841, is the second-oldest synagogue building
in the United States. Today, approximately
6,500 Jews live in the Charleston area.
The colleges Jewish studies program,
established in 1984, offers majors and minors
in Jewish studies, but outreach to the Jewish
community at large also is a priority. The
program hosts numerous events open to

both students and the public, including film
screenings and lectures. Many local senior
citizens audit academic courses.
Swick said that in designing the new dining facility, We paid close attention to what
other colleges across the country have done
in offering kosher and vegetarian options.
(It is not known how many Charleston students are vegetarians, but the school hosts
a vegan student group.) A model, Swick
said, is Grins Vegetarian Cafe at Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tennessee. Opened
more than a decade ago in the Shulman
Center for Jewish Life, Grins offers kosher
vegetarian meals both on student dining
plans and to the community at large, and is
consistently ranked as one of Nashvilles top
vegetarian restaurants.
The intention in Charleston, according
to the dining halls vision statement, is
to help create an environment in which
diversity is represented, not only by
appealing to the observant Jewish (Muslim
and Hindu) students, but reaching out to a
constituency that sees eating choices as a
manifestation of deeply held ethical and
environmental values.
Ghazi Abuhakema, director of the Asian
studies and Arabic programs at the college,
said the dining hall, which would meet
the standards of most halal-observant
Muslims, is a very good project, and

that the local Muslim community is likely
to patronize the facility if it is advertised
properly and adequately.
The new dining hall will be named in
honor of philosophy professor Martin
Perlmutter, who has been director of the
Jewish studies department since 1991 and
who helped develop the idea for the dining hall. His championing the dining hall
as a way to promote ethical eating and
coming together through food led the
citys Charlie Magazine to name Perlmutter last year one of Charlestons 50 most
progressive people.
A vegan diet is a statement about values
and lifestyle, whether it is because of concern
for the environment, interest in ones health,
or caring about the well-being of animals,
Perlmutter said. So, too, keeping kosher or
observing halal requirements is a commitment to traditions of religion and culture.
Representing that diversity in a vegan/vegetarian kosher/halal dining hall is a physical
way for the College of Charleston to become
more diverse and progressive.

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head and shoulders. (If in the beginning
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knees to form a straight body line to your
head.)
d. Support this position for a count of
30 -60 seconds; relax upon the floor and
repeat once more.
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on the floor; hands are by your side.
b. Take one hand and slip it under
your back; you will find the natural arch
in your spine.
c. Slightly hinge your hips toward the
floor and press your belly-button toward
the floor. Your back should now be flat
with the floor (remove your hand and
put it to your side).
d. Hold this position for a count of
two, and then relax. Repeat exercise 25
50 times. You should feel your lower
abdominals and lumbar muscles contracting and the additional flow of oxygenated blood to the area will warm your
lower back.
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a. On the floor, go onto your hands

and knees.
b. Bow your back by stretching your
head and shoulders toward the ceiling;
your back will now be in a gentle downward curve.
c. Move your head and neck towards
the floor while raising your back gently toward the ceiling creating a mound
with your back.
d. Alternate forming the bow and the
mound; repeat for 10 repetitions; 3 sets.
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inner structure. The bridge is
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erectedso its inner core is proudly displayed and remains as a monument to
strength and stability.
So it is true with the human body.
Although you cannot see our inner
core muscles, they perform as does the
cross-hatched steel of the George Washington Bridge. Our core muscles give us
strength and stability, enabling our bodies to rotate, bend, and stand upright.
These muscles lie under your belly button and beneath the fat of your stomach.
They reach around and work together
with the lumbar muscles in the lower
back. Work these muscles and your body
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There are a few, simple core exercises
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on the floor; hands are by your side.
b. Lift your buttocks off the floor while
supporting your body with your feet and
shoulders.
c. Raise your buttocks until a straight
line is formed by your body from the
knees, through the stomach, to the
shoulders.
d. Slowly dip the buttocks to the floor
and rise again to a straight body line.
e. Repeat for 10 repetitions; 3 sets.
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oly Name Medical Center was

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said Michael Maron, president and CEO
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our outstanding medical, nursing, technical and administrative staff for meeting
and exceeding expectations.
Holy Name Medical Centers A grade
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harm within the hospital, and we are
proud to recognize the efforts of the care
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assigned scores in spring 2014, with
about 31-percent receiving an A grade.
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in three patients aged 70 and
older who are independent
in their daily functioning and
are admitted to hospital for acute conditions like pneumonia are discharged
with functional decline has prompted
Israeli researchers to seek what is it
about the hospitalization that causes
decline in older adults functioning.
A patient who is admitted for a serious illness, like complications from
pneumonia or exacerbation of a heart
condition, expects to leave the hospital in a better state than the one she
entered, but in practice this isnt always
the case, say Dr. Anna Zisberg and Dr.
Efrat Shadmi from the University of Haifas Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, who conducted the study.
The study looked at some 900 people
aged 70 or older who were hospitalized
in the internal medicine departments of
Israeli hospitals for illnesses that were
not associated with loss of functioning
(for example, they did not undergo surgery or suffer paralysis).
The findings showed that a third of

the patients, when discharged, were in
a state of reduced function compared
to the period preceding the hospitalization, and nearly half (46%), reported
reduced functioning as late as a month
post-discharge.
When a man of 78, who was able
to walk, go to the bathroom, and eat
independently before the hospitalization, is admitted for three or four days
to be treated for arrhythmia, there is no
apparent explanation for why after his
condition is treated, he should become
dependent, need a cane to walk, and
require adult diapers, says Dr. Zisberg.
The findings showed that one of
the main factors leading to functional
decline among older hospitalized
patients was their reduced mobility
while in the hospital. According to the
researchers, patients often mistakenly
think that if theyre sick, they ought to be
in bed, and around half of the patients
didnt leave their rooms during their
entire hospital stay.
Lack of mobility leads to reduced
muscle mass and is liable to cause older
people difficulty in daily functioning and
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large employer category every year since 2006. This
year, Holy Name ranked 10th in the large company
category, and #1 in the hospital category. In the past
ten years, Holy Name placed five times as #1 among all
hospitals in the state.
Holy Name is honored to be listed among the Best
Places to Work in New Jersey, said Mr. Maron. This
accomplishment speaks to the incredible legacy of
Holy Name and reflects the pride and commitment
that is unique to our medical center. The sense of
shared purpose translates to compassionate care
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other complications, says Dr. Zisberg. This study

shows, for the first time, that in addition to the many
other risk factors present before and during the hospitalization itself, mobility is a significant factor, and
making sure the patients move around the room and
in the wards corridors, can greatly influence their
functioning after hospitalization.
The study was recently published in the Journal of
the American Geriatrics Society.
Also taking part in the study were Dr. Nurit Gur-Yaish
of the Gerontology research center, research student
Orly Tonkikh, and Dr. Gary Sinoff of the Department
of Gerontology, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health
Sciences at the University of Haifa, in cooperation with
Dr. Hanna Admi, nursing director at Rambam Medical Center, and Dr. Chen Shapira and Haya Peker, the
director and nursing director, respectively, of Carmel
Medical Center.
According to the researchers, the most important
recommendation is to encourage the patient to stay
mobile while hospitalized, even if it means walking
through the corridors or around the room.
Sometimes we want to help a patient and do things
for him, says Dr. Zisberg. But if we really want to
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that because skin cancer is largely a lifestyle disease, it is also highly preventable. Sun exposure is the most preventable risk factor for all skin cancers, including melanoma, the most
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Promise Foundation and The Valley Hospital offer the
following tips to help you decrease your risk for developing skin cancer:
Generously apply a water-resistant sunscreen with
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If you want to look like youve been in the sun, consider using a sunless self-tanning product, but continue to use sunscreen with it.
Check your birthday suit on your birthday. If you
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Melanoma is the fastest growing cancer in the U.S.

One American dies of melanoma every hour.
One in 50 Americans has a lifetime risk of developing melanoma.
Melanoma is the most common form of cancer for
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If caught in the early stages, melanoma is treatable, with an excellent prognosis.
The majority of melanoma is caused by UV light
and sun exposure.
Exposure to tanning beds before the age of 30
increases the risk of developing melanoma by 75
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According to the American Academy of Pediatrics,
on average, a childs exposure to the sun is three times
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Just one bad blistering sunburn during childhood
can more than double the risk of melanoma later in life.
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of a drill sergeant who is not sensitive to
the issues and needs of an individual.
That is quite the opposite from reality.
When people come to see me for health
and fitness in my studio in Cliffside Park,
I am really amazed how people perceive
my profession, and how misinformed
they are on what a personal trainer actually is.
Today many adults have various muscle skeletal issues with their bodies.
Eighty percent of people have issues
with their lower backs in their lifetime.
People have shoulder pain and neck
pain due to postural misalignments.
Many have wrist problems and elbow
problems from sitting at the computer
too long. Others have hip, knee, and
ankle issues that prevent them from
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Thats why I have developed my
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muscular endurance, flexibility, and
balance, with body composition which
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Incorporating these key components
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achieve pain relief and are simultaneously able to reach their fitness goals.
When people come to my private studio, I usually find that they have weak
lower backs, misaligned shoulders, and
poor ankle stability. These issues prevent them from exercising to the point
where they would see results. Good
personal trainers are able to strengthen
lower backs, make shoulders more
functional, and rehabilitate all areas of
the body so the client can start an exercise program.
In my practice, I combine physical rehabilitation with strength training. This helps the client become more
flexible, addresses their balance issues,

and enables them to move pain-free.
Only when you move pain-free can you
positively reach your health and fitness
goals.
My training is not only based on corrective exercise I am trained and educated to help clients understand their
issues and work through them. I help
many people start to exercise again
without any pain, discomfort, or fear
of injury. As a personal trainer, I have
helped hundreds of people rehabilitate
and re-align their bodies.
Personal trainers are also trained
in helping and supporting the client
through a healthy lifestyle nutrition program. This is very important for the client, not only to meet their fitness goals,
but also to avoid additional pain issues.
Unhealthy lifestyle choices prevent
many adults from overcoming pain in
their joints and muscles. Surprisingly,
making smart food choices is a key component of keeping a pain-free body. We
can design, program, and help the client meet their pain-free lifestyle through
proper nutrition and education.
Im really grateful for how my clients commend my efforts to give them
confidence, motivation, and guidance
through their fitness journey. Fitness
is not a destination point. Its a lifestyle. I teach people how to make smart
choices, engage in proper movement,
and give them the confidence they need
to succeed in their fitness and lifestyle
goals.
The value of the right personal trainer
is priceless. The key is finding a qualified
one who has both knowledge and inspiration, along with chemistry between
the client and the trainer.
Michael Metchikian, NASM, CPT, CES,
and CNS, works one-on-one with his clients
in his private studio in Cliffside Park.
He sees people from the north Bergen
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begun offering a genetic
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test, administered on a sample of saliva,
would inform women if they carry the
BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation which
puts women at a higher risk for developing breast and ovarian cancer. The test
sounds simple enough, but understanding what to do with the results can be a
complicated, gut-wrenching journey.
Along with the news of the test came a
recommendation from Dr. Marie-Clare
King a renowned genetics researcher
whose work led to the discovery of the
BRCA1 gene that all women be tested
for the gene mutation from age 30 on.
Although I sit as the national president
of Hadassah, the Womens Zionist Organization of America, Inc., I write this as
a breast cancer survivor. I think every
woman has to evaluate her own reality
before making the decision about testing.
The psychological impact of the BRCA test
is complex. A positive result can be terrifying and upsetting, but if properly counseled, can also be empowering.
Hadassah Medical Organization ( Jerusalem) has done extensive research with
the BRCA gene mutations that significantly increase a womans risk of developing breast cancer. The Hadassah medical
organization discovered Ashkenazi Jewish women have 20 times the frequency
of BRCA mutations than non-Ashkenazi
women. Approximately one out of every
40 individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry have a mutation in the BRCA1 or
BRCA2 gene, as compared to one out of
every 800 members of the general population, according to The Center for Disease Control.
According to Dr. Asher Salmon, oncologist and deputy director, Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, Thirty percent of women
tested will have a gene alteration for which
we dont know the significance, whether
it is dangerous or benign, leaving women
uncertain as to whether they are at risk

or not. The results of BRCA testing alone,
without genetic counseling and extensive
analysis of family history, do not provide
women with the complete picture needed
to make an intelligent decision about
treatment.
As actress Angelina Jolie said in the
New York Times on March 24, A positive BRCA test does not mean a leap to
surgery. I did not do this solely because I
carry a BRCA1 gene mutation, and I want
other women to hear this. In my case
surgery to remove my tubes and ovaries
was the best option. On top of the BRCA
gene, three women in my family have died
of cancer.
According to Susan G. Komen, Most
women who get breast cancer do not have
an inherited gene mutation. Five to 10 percent of breast cancers in the US are linked
to an inherited gene mutation.
And what about women who test negative for the gene as I did? I was diagnosed
with breast cancer 20 years ago. My sister
also had breast cancer and a first cousin
died at age 40 of breast cancer. After my
diagnosis, both my sister and I decided to
be tested due to our strong family history
and we both tested negative. However,
testing negative for the BRCA mutation
obviously did not mean we were riskfree for breast cancer. Had my sister and
I not continued with our regular breast
health protocols, regular mammograms
and breast self exams, neither of us
would have discovered our breast cancer reoccurrences in time for successful
treatment.
Taking a one size fits all approach to
womens health is dangerous. Each womans body is unique, her circumstances
different and her family history critical. I
encourage women to consider all of their
options before making serious, life-altering decisions.
Marcie Natan is the national president
of Hadassah, the Womens Zionist
Organization of America, Inc., which
owns Hadassahs hospitals in Israel
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Israeli medical clowns bring smiles to Nepalese earthquake victims
Abigail Klein Leichman
He arrived yesterday with his older brother, with a bandaged leg and an amputated foot. He was lying on a stretcher
in the surgery tent. The battalion medic (a man with a HUGE
heart and full of love) turned to me: Go ahead, Dush! This
kids for you. Yes, sir! Its an order!
So begins the moving account of David Barashi, a.k.a.
Dush, an Israeli therapeutic clown working in the Israel
Defense Forces field hospital in Nepal along with four colleagues specially trained for disaster situations.
No other country includes medical clowns in its overseas disaster-relief crew. But Israel has blazed a trail in
professionalizing clown therapy through the Dream Doctors

Project, a privately supported program that oversees 110
trained medical clowns working at 29 hospitals across Israel.
Israeli research on professional therapeutic clowns has
shown that their inclusion on a medical team has measurable benefits in pain relief, stress reduction and boosting
immunity. They are now used in Israel anywhere from adult
and childrens wards, to operating rooms, delivery rooms
and with sexual abuse victims.
Dream Doctors previously joined Israeli relief teams in Thailand, Indonesia and Haiti, says Karin Schneid, project coordinator for the Philnor Foundation, which supports the project.
Theyve developed a unique methodology for working
with trauma in disaster zones. They are trained by

professionals here in Israel before their missions,
Schneid says.
We believe we do unique work that no one else will
do. Our clowns have proved very useful in the past and
its important for us to be part of this effort, she added.
Two Dream Doctors arrived in Nepal on May 2 to
assess needs, and another three followed the next day.
The clowns are not part of the official Israeli aid
delegation; their expenses are covered by individual
and corporate donors. We had a campaign in the last
couple of days to raise funds for this mission, and allocated part of our existing budget to this as well. If we
can, we might send two more clowns, Schneid says.
Years ago when we introduced clown therapy into
the adult patient sector, we entered unchartered territory, says Larry Rich, director of development at
Emek Medical Center. Since then, the therapeutic
influence of a medical clowns presence has been well
documented, so the step into the traumatic world of
post-earthquake Nepal was another natural step in
unconventional therapy.
The key is to take a patients mind off their pain
and immediate situation and transfer them to a magical world of fantasy and fun.
On the Dream Doctors Facebook page, Dush continues his story of the boy with the amputated foot: My
eyes meet his in an unclear look,wondering if Im just
another of the strangers around him? Those smockwearers, those dressed in uniforms, with those weird
objects. But then he notices Im a bit different a bit
strange and unreal.
I return his gaze with my mischievous smile.
Its now both of us in a moment thats as strong as life
itself. I approach him slowly, I gesture, he responds
with a surprised smile. Its a world without language,
in which everything is clear, without disputes. Now I
find were in a duel with swords.
The odor of the wounded leg comes and goes, threatening to end our game. Lucky I have a red nose, a nose
which protects me from bad smells, from disasters
Now one of the doctors becomes a victim when he
turns around, I stick a balloon in the middle of his butt.
He laughs loudly, a rolling laugh of pain and wounds.
The boy needed further surgery but the staff waited
until his parents could be brought from their village.
In the meantime, Dush kept the child and his brother
entertained with a wheelchair race and squirting one
another with water from medical syringes.
Schneid says there are many other amazing stories like this coming from the Dream Doctors who
are not only working at the field hospital with doctors
who already know and trust them from civilian situations but also are helping Israeli Embassy officials
ease fears among displaced persons.
Max reports: Near us there is a camp of Nepalese
soldiers families, which accommodates 200 women
and children sleeping in tents. A week after the earthquake, diseases are starting to spread, and in this
camp the residents suffer from stomach problems. In
order to even get close to them, we were required to
keep contact precautions.
Nevertheless, we insisted on visiting them. We
paraded around the camp and improvised a one-hour
clowning show together with these sweet people. We
sang and danced, and in the end, the children would not
let us go until we high-fived them, gloves and all. This
place is where once in a lifetime experiences happen 10
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Dvar Torah
Parashat Behar-Bechukotai: Getting back to work
aybe its time to

move the museum
di splays to the
side and get back
to work.
Thats what one of my students said, and
I couldnt have been prouder.
Recently, I had the privilege of journeying with members of our staff and teens
from our congregation on a service/learning trip to New Orleans and Mississippi. It
was meant to be a transformative Jewish
experience for them, and I am convinced
it was. What I didnt expect was that it
would be transformative for me.
This is a season of counting the omer,
the days of our journey from our festival of
freedom at Passover to the time when we
received the Torah at Mount Sinai on Shavuot. There are 50 days in all; this Shabbat
marks the 43rd day. And since these holidays are also connected with the agricultural cycle, the counting of the omer is a
time of trepidation these days of spring
will determine whether we have an abundant harvest or not. Will the hard work of
planting and tending come to fruition, or
will it be wiped away by drought or pests?
It is a time of both fear and anticipation.
On our groups journey, we planted
Yes we can
Israeli food-waste charity
turns supermarket fare
into installation art
BEN SALES
TEL AVIVFrom the wrong angle, it looks
like a bunch of unevenly stacked tuna
cans, as if someone in the grocery store
did a bad job.
Look at it from the other direction, and
its shape becomes clear: The cans are a
sculpture of a giant open hand holding a
bag of clementines.
Thats the idea behind Come and See
What Cans Can Be, an exhibit of seven
installation artworks constructed almost
entirely from canned food. On display
in the atrium of Raanana Park, in a Tel
Aviv suburb, its organized by Leket
Israel, which salvages hot meals from
caterers and unused crops from farmers,
and donates them to NGOs that feed the
hungry.
Along with the hand, the installations
show a Leket truck used to transport food,
a silverware set, an olive tree in a field,
a giant sculpture of a food can (itself, of
bulrushes in the bayous outside New

Orleans to help prevent soil erosion. (How
amazing to do that during Passover, thinking about baby Moses hidden among the
bulrushes in the Nile!) We worked on a
Habitat for Humanity build, where we
had the privilege of working alongside the
future owner of the home.
As our trip continued up the Mississippi
Delta, we encountered other countings.
It had been exactly 150 years since the
formal end of the civil war and 50 years
since the march over that narrow bridge
in Selma. It is a season of great celebration
for all the work that has been done to
make this a more just society, a more perfect union. There has been reunion after
reunion to honor those who gave their
blood, sweat, tears even their lives to
move us closer to the promised land.
Along the way, we stood in the old
headquarters of COFO in Jackson, Mississippi. COFO was the Council of Federated
Organizations a coalition of the major
civil rights organizations operating in Mississippi in the early 1960s. I personally
had never heard of COFO, and the more I
learned, the more I was amazed, inspired,
agitated. Here was a place that brought
together the NAACP, the Congress of
course, made from food cans), and a giant

watermelon slice. The pieces are made
solely of the cans and cardboard sheets
that stabilize them.
One more installation is a sculpture of a
refrigerator, its shelves holding just the kind
of produce that Leket redistributes vegetables too ugly to be sold at market, but
which are still just as edible. A screen showing more misshapen produce is embedded
in the piece, displaying a potato shaped like
a heart or a cucumber that looks especially
like something else.
Everyone understands cans, said Leket
founder Joseph Gitler, who added that the
exhibits goal is to raise awareness of food
waste. Its a basic necessity, its cheaper
often than fresh produce. We wanted something where we could bring in creative
people.
The exhibit is done in conjunction with
Canstruction, a global charity that creates
installation art pieces out of food cans all
over the world, then donates the cans to
charity as Leket also will do. Canstruction exhibits have been shown in 150 cities worldwide and have donated 25 million
pounds of food since its founding in 1992.
The Leket exhibit, in total, includes some
70,000 cans, ranging from tuna to tomato
paste to white beans. The largest piece, the
truck, has 13,500 cans alone. Under the
Maybe its time to move the

Racial Equality (CORE), the
museum displays to the side
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), and the
and get back to work.
Student Nonviolent CoordiWhen we were enslaved
nating Committee (SNCC)
in Egypt, the Torah says,
to coordinate voter registrathe Egyptians made us
tion and other civil rights
serve them bfarech, with
activities.
crushing labor (Exodus
It was incredible to stand
1:13). This weeks Torah porRabbi Joel
tion demands that, when we
in this space with a bunch of
Mosbacher
enter the promised land, we
17 and 18 year olds, hearing
Beth Haverim Shir
not rule over others bfarech
about how a group of (in no
Shalom, Mahwah,
(Leviticus 25:43).
small part) 17 and 18 year olds
Reform
As we count the years
many Jews among them
since the great movement
worked 50 years ago in relative anonymity to make
in our own nation, we also
the world a better place. COFO brought
wonder if the planting that was done in
together rivals and people with competthe civil rights era will come to fruition,
ing philosophies about how to bring true
if we will reap the harvest of our predecessors hard work. Americans are being
civil rights to fruition.
crushed once again, with violence and
Now, the offices of COFO are a beautiful museum dedicated to the organizaeconomic and racial inequality. We have
tions that had the courage to fight uphill
not yet achieved the magical, transcendent moment of Sinai.
battles and the wisdom to come together
We should celebrate the legacies of the
despite their differences and pull in the
past the times when we glimpsed freedom.
same direction.
But then, we need to get back to work.
And as we were standing in that truly
Our Torah commands it.
sacred space, listening to inspiring stories
Courtesy of Truah: The Rabbinic Call for
of the work that was done there by ordinary people, one of our students said,
Human Rights
One of seven installation artworks constructed almost entirely from canned food
in an exhibit organized by Leket Israel.
COURTESY OF LEKET ISRAEL
direction of a curator and two designers,

100 Leket volunteers set up the exhibit from
Sunday to Tuesday, when it opened.
Leket hopes to draw 10,000 visitors,
including groups of schoolchildren, by the
time the exhibit closes Saturday night. It
invited visitors to bring a can of their own
to donate as they arrived.
Some of the installations like the fridge
with the awkward produce are there to
prove a point. Others aim to evoke Israeli
nostalgia, according to exhibit curator

Hadas Avtalion-Jackont. Israelis, she said,
will feel drawn to the installation depicting
an olive tree, or the giant can with a picture
of a farmer the logo of Tal Tomatoes that
lines so many supermarket aisles.
Its an Israeli character from the kibbutz,
the kibbutz farmer with a crate of tomatoes, she said. Were not getting into marketing, but we wanted to get a recognizable
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14 Something Ktonton often appears to be
15 He might wear a Polo T-shirt
16 2010 Israeli film with a musical name
17 Seder plate lettuce
18 Along with HOT its one of Israels leading cable companies
19 August: ___ County (2013 film released

by The Weinstein Company)
21 Break ___ (something to say before

the Purim spiel)
22 When tripled, a Richard O. Fleischer-
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Jewish learning
23 Word that Jews capitalize when writing
about God
24 Book of Mormon creator Matt
28 The Dead Sea gets less than 50 millimeters of it every year
30 Start of Steve Wynns Vegas
33 ___ Alto (place where Brin and Page
invented Google)
34 Like Ed Asners characters assistants in
a 2003 comedy
36 1980s Interior Secretary who referred to
liberals of the Jewish community in a
controversial letter
37 Place to breakfast
38 Barbras ex Elliott
39 Architectural feature of Calcuttas Neveh
Shalome syagogue
40 Rent
41 Knife created by Barry Becher
42 Go off the derech
43 Zayin variant
44 ___ if you love Israel (bumper sticker)
45 Blowin in the Wind singer-songwriter Bob
46 Reuben alternative
47 Morales whose mother was an ILGWU
activist
50 Felix Saltens Bambi, for example
52 NYUs Jonas Salk, Woody Allen, and
Idina Menzel
53 Masada was struck by a battering one
56 Bird family whose females are olivecolored
57 Brazilian city in the title of a 1964 Stan
Getz hit
59 For Jewish communal jobs, this kind of
salary is $42,000
60 Game of ___ (Hit show written by D.B.
Weiss and David Benioff)
61 The men whose clues are starred in this
puzzle all have one
62 Celebrity fitness guru Richard
Down
1 June 6, 1944
2 British-American actress Skye
3 They make shidduchim, grammatically
4 Sondheims Marry ___ Little
5 Kind of people machers are
6 Schmegegge!
7 All drained of brilliance in the ___ light of
the Zoo (line from Howl)
8 Yoni was Bibis

9 Refuse to leave ones homeland
10 Minerals that are sometimes blue and
white
11 Ron Howard role on a sitcom created by

Aaron Ruben
12 Saul was the first

13 Fershtay?
15 Halachic ___-nup
20 Paul Simons collaborator Art
23 Certain polytheist
24 Olympian gold medalist Mark
25 Lake near 53-Down
26 Please, ___ save now! (verse from the
Hallel prayer)
27 Lo!
29 Has reason to go to Mt. Sinai
30 Place for an Israeli flag
31 Having left Haifa
32 Radio shock jock Howard
34 Noodge
35 Something a Biblical character might
gird
36 ___ Gravy (bygone Ben & Jerrys flavor)

44 Place to find some El Al planes
45 What anti-Zionists want Israel to do in
Gaza
46 David, compared to Goliath

48 USA Network legal drama starring
Gabriel Macht
49 Prefix for Caesareas theater

50 For some, macaroons on Passover is
theirs
51 How the Torah is read at the end of the

High Holidays
52 Ryan ONeals Chances ___

53 Site of Temple Emanu-El, the oldest
Jewish congregation in Nevada
54 How to respond to the Hamotzi

55 St. of Barney Frank
56 ___ Mahal (Atlantic City casino Carl
Icahn has invested in)
58 Adolph Cremieux was a fameux one in

19th century France
The solution to last weeks puzzle

in on page 59.
Arts & Culture

The father of modern Israel
Yales Jewish Life series looks at Ben-Gurion
JONATHAN E. LAZARUS
arly in World War II, David Ben-Gurion

entered the United States as an unheralded Zionist.
His standing was so modest that immigration authorities temporarily detained him and
he left the country after a brief, unfulfilling visit.
It was in stark contrast to the treatment accorded
the face of movement, Chaim Weizmann, whose
arrival on these shores was greeted with fanfare.
Even though his visit bore little fruit, it became
apparent to Ben-Gurion, who first arrived in America in 1915 as a political deportee from Palestine
and then stayed three years and married here, that
the United States, not Britain, would be the engine
of support for surviving postwar European Jewry
and the birthing of the State of Israel.
This equation mostly eluded Weizmann. The
courtly British chemist, who lost a son flying for the
RAF, was still wed to beliefs about Mandatory Palestine and counted on his personal contacts with
British leaders as the key to establishing a Zionist
home. The wavering actions of Downing Street during the 1920s and 30s about Jewish immigration,
indulgence of Arabs, and dissembling on two-state
partition hadnt fully sunk in.
Once again, Ben-Gurion grasped the connection
where others couldnt. And he did so knowing that
the Jews of Palestine would have to work within
the contradictions and constraints of British military protection during the war, while at the same
time flouting immigration quotas and paradoxically providing the British Army with a Jewish brigade.
Ben-Gurions next visit to the States, in
late 1941, yielded greater results. He connected strongly with grassroots Zionists
and fired their imagination. No longer
would Weizmanns stratey of cooperating through gradualism and deference to
British position papers and high commissioners suffice or for that matter, would
dependence on American leaders whose
focus remained fixed toward Europe and
the Pacific.
To those leaders, Palestine was a sideshow at best, and the lack of unity between
mainstream American Jewish groups
and their Zionist counterparts only compounded the inaction. President Franklin
Roosevelt had advanced Jews to the highest levels of any administration, but the
U.S. policy agenda did not address consideration of nationhood for the Yishuv.
Although Anita Shapira, professor
David Ben-Gurion with Albert Einstein.
Jonathan E. Lazarus is a former news editor

of the Star-Ledger.
emerita and a former humanities dean at Tel Aviv

University, doesnt use the term, the new Zionist
approach might have been designated as the BenGurion corollary to the Balfour Declaration. Her
taut yet unsparing Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern
Israel, clearly captures his vision of a direct postwar route to an independent Jewish state, spurred
by massive immigration and the crucial participation of the American Zionist community.
These explicit, ambitious goals came to be codified in what was known as the Biltmore Program.
It was sold on this side of the Atlantic in large measure by Ben-Gurion, who then immediately left
on a roundabout wartime journey home and convinced his policy council in Jerusalem to adopt the
manifesto intact.
Quite an accomplishment, and one Ben-Gurion
had been struggling toward since his arrival in Palestine in 1906 as part of the second aliyah. Then
On his watch, events

were both dramatic
and formative.
he was known as David Green, a Hebrew-speaking,
idealistic migr from Plonsk, Poland, who found
himself unfit for the agricultural tasks of a pioneer
but discovered that he could doggedly succeed
in the world of ideological ferment and political
infighting. His experience as a co-founder of Poaeli
Zion, or Social Democrat Jewish Workers Party, at
the University of Warsaw had prepared him well.
Now, decades later, he was Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Zionist Executive, head of the Histadrut
labor federation, and leader of Mapai, the predominant political coalition in Palestine. He hadnt come
to these positions easily or elegantly, sometimes
managing to be everyones second choice or by
upsetting delicate coalitions with his volcanic temper. Yet by the middle of the war, he had devolved,
de facto, into the indispensable man,
Shapiras compact yet probing biography, part
of the Jewish Lives series from Yale University
Press, gives full vent to his outbursts, obstinacy,
and penchant for grudge-settling (going out of his
way, for instance, to keep Weizmann from signing
the Israeli declaration of independence). But she
freely acknowledges that these traits, which would
severely handicap a lesser person, proved selfincentivizing to someone with Ben-Gurions blazing
insights, remarkable intuition, and commitment to
action.
Churchill and Lenin, both of whom he admired,
no doubt would have found great use for his talents
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Calendar
Friday
Monday
MAY 15
MAY 18
Shabbat in Wayne:
Learning to say no:
Shomrei Torah offers

tot Shabbat for
preschoolers through
second graders and their
families, with stories,
songs, and snacks,
5 p.m. 30 Hinchman
Ave. (973) 696-2500 or
LearningDirector@
ShomreiTorahwcc.org.
The Wayne YMCA, with

Jewish Family Service
of North Jersey, offers
a discussion with social
worker Melanie Lester,
Setting Boundaries,
Learning to Say No,
noon. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100.
Shabbat centennial
in Hoboken: The
United Synagogue of
Hoboken celebrates the
100th anniversary of its
buildings dedication.
Community oneg at
6 p.m.; service at 7. Block
party on Sunday, May
17, 1-4 p.m. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or www.
hobokensynagogue.org.
Rabbi Saul Berman

Voting Rights Act
talk in Englewood:
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
services led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
Cantor Rica Timman with
the Shabbat Unplugged
Band, featuring
congregants, 7:30 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
musical services, 8 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Rick Recht performs at a family Yom Yerushalayim Jerusalem

Day concert for PJ Library at the New City Jewish Center, in
New City, N.Y., on Sunday, May 17, at 1 p.m., as part of his Free
to be the Jew in Me tour. 47 Old Schoolhouse Road. (845) 3624200, ext. 180 or lepstein@jewishrockland.org.
MAY
17
three mothers after her

son, Naftali Fraenkel, and
two other Israeli teens
were kidnapped and
murdered.
Saturday
MAY 16
Comedy in River
Edge: Temple Avodat
Shalom presents a
collection of one-act
plays and surprises
from The Company
Theatre Group, 8 p.m.
Dessert reception. $18.
385 Howland Ave.
(201) 489-2463
or Brotherhood@
avodatshalom.net.
Comedy in Emerson:
Music in Leonia: Eugene
Rachelle Sprecher
Fraenkel
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rachelle Sprecher
Fraenkel, veteran yoetzet
halacha (womens
advisor) and halacha
and Talmud teacher at
Nishmat, speaks at two
Teaneck synagogues,
Congregations Rinat
Yisrael and Keter Torah.
In honor of Jerusalem
Day at Rinat Yisrael,
she will give a drasha,
Jerusalem The City
That Unites All Israel,
after the 9 a.m. minyan.
At Keter Torah, at
6:40 p.m., she will discuss
Emerging United From
Summer 5774: An Open
Discussion. Last year she
became internationally
known as the inspiring
spokesperson for the
Marlows Heritage
Ensemble performs
original compositions
and arrangements
of Jewish melodies
in various jazz, AfroCaribbean, Brazilian,
and classical styles at
Congregation Adas
Emuno, 7 p.m. Featured
band members include
Grammy Award-nominee
Bobby Sanabria and
Michael Hashim. Wine,
coffee, and dessert. 254
Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712
or www.adasemuno.org.
Congregation Bnai
Israel hosts three
comedians from Headline
Entertainment Moody
McCarthy, Robyn Schall,
and Johnny Lampert
at 8:30 p.m. Tickets
include two margaritas
or beers. Soft drinks and
munchies. BYO kosher
wine. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Roberta Grossman and

produced by Nancy
Spielberg, 9:45 p.m.
The film recounts the
inspiring story of
Jewish American pilots
who secretly fought
for Israel in its war of
independence. 389
W. Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
Sunday
MAY 17
Benefit walk in Wyckoff:
The Temple Beth Rishon
community hosts the
annual Murray Prawer
walk; later, congregant
Stephanie Naphtali talks
about living with MS for
20 years. All funds raised
benefit the Multiple
Sclerosis Center at Holy
Name Medical Center
in Teaneck. Registration
begins at 9 a.m.; walk is
at 9:45. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466.
Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds Club Katan
for children who will
begin kindergarten in
September, 10:15 a.m.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801, ext. 12.
Family field day: The

Bergen County David
Rukin Early Childhood
Center and PJ Library
offer family field day and
a barbecue in celebration
of Yom Yerushalayim,
noon-2 p.m. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610 or
pjlibrary@yjcc.org.
Catskills homage in
Franklin Lakes: Temple
Youth orchestras in
Bergenfield: More
than 135 of Bergen
Countys finest young
classical musicians will
perform for the Bergen
Youth Orchestras
season finale concert at
Bergenfield High School,
7 p.m. The Bergen Youth
Orchestras are based
in Englewood. www.
bergenyouthorchestra.
org.
speaks at a breakfast
sponsored by the mens
club of the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 9:15 a.m.
The Monuments Men
recovered precious art
and artifacts stolen by
the Nazis during WWII.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Film in Teaneck:
Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, in conjunction
with the Friends of the
Israel Defense Forces,
presents the acclaimed
new film Above and
Beyond, directed by
Harry Ettlinger and

George Clooney
Monument man in
Teaneck: Harry Ettlinger,
the last of the original
Monuments Men,
Emanuel of North Jersey

salutes the Catskills with
a screening of Rise and
Fall of the Borscht Belt,
2 p.m. Refreshments.
The second and third
parts of the series will be
shown in June and July.
Ice cream and popcorn.
558 High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
and the Bergen County
NAACP invite the public
to a free program
commemorating the
50th anniversary of the
passage of the Voting
Rights Act, at the Dr.
John Grieco Elementary
School, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Rabbi Saul Berman, an
active participant in the
civil rights movement,
who was at the
1965 demonstrations in
Selma, Ala., and Richard
Smith, New Jersey State
NAACP Conference
president, will speak.
50 Durie Ave. Natalya,
(201) 227-1875.
Preventing skin
damage/skin cancer
surgery: Leading
doctors in the fields
of dermatology,
oncology, and plastic
surgery discuss causes,
prevention, and
advanced treatments of
skin cancers as well as
cosmetic procedures,
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
7:30 p.m. Noted Israeli
physicians from the
Medical Center of the
Galilee in Nahariya
will also be there. Cosponsored by the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey. 411 East
Clinton Ave. (201) 4081456.
613 commandments
in Fair Lawn: Anshei
Lubavitch begins Torah
Studies @ The Table
given by Rabbi Avrohom
Bergstein through June
29, 8 p.m. 10-10 Plaza
Road. (201) 362-2712
or Rabbibergstein@
flchabad.com.
Tuesday
MAY 19
Eugenia Zukerman
Flutist in Teaneck:
Renaissance woman
Eugenia Zukerman, an
internationally renowned
flutist, discusses A
Patchwork Life and
plays a few pieces at the
next general meeting
of the Bergen County
section of the National
Council of Jewish
Women at Temple
Emeth, 12:30 p.m. 1666
Windsor Road. www.
ncjwbcs.org.
Song, dance, drama

in Teaneck: Maayanot
Yeshiva High School
for Girls invites
women to a studentdirected performance,
Heartbeats: A Night
of Song, Dance, and
Connection, at Temple
Emeth, 7 p.m. Proceeds
to go to the Lone Soldier
Center in memory
of Michael Levine.
1666 Windsor Road.
Maayanotheartbeats2015@
gmail.com.
Auschwitz, Rabbi Nissen

Mangel, is at the Chabad
Jewish Center, 8 p.m.
1069 Ringwood Ave,
Suite 101. After liberation,
Mangel immigrated to
America and began a
life dedicated to the
Jewish community
as a scholar, author,
speaker, and philosopher.
(201) 696-7609 or www.
JewishHighlands.org.
Thursday
MAY 21
Yiddish in Wayne: The
Wayne YMCA offers the
Yiddish Vinkle, led by Ray
Fishler and sponsored
by the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
1 p.m. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 236.
Poker plus in Demarest:

Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
holds its Federation
Full House at the
Alpine Country Club,
6:30 p.m. Evening
includes Vegas-style
Texas Hold Em poker
tournament, dinner, silent
and live auctions, and
mentalist Oz Pearlman.
80 Anderson Ave. Beth,
(201) 820-3911 or bethj@
jfnnj.org.
Kilmer talk in Fort Lee:

Sisterhood of the JCC of
Fort Lee/Gesher Shalom
welcomes Alex Michelini,
who will talk about the
poet Joyce Kilmer and
his poem Trees, 8 p.m.
Michelini, a retired N.Y.
Daily News reporter,
is the founder of the
Joyce Kilmer Society of
Mahwah. Refreshments.
(201) 947-1735.
Friday
MAY 22
Book discussion in
Washington Township:
Memoirs of an Imaginary
Friend by Matthew
Dicks is discussed at the
Bergen County YJCC,
7:30 p.m. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610.
Wednesday
MAY 20
Yiddish club: Khaverim
Far Yiddish (Friends for
Yiddish) at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah meets to
celebrate Jerusalem
Day, 2 p.m. Group meets
the third Wednesday
of the month. $10. East
304 Midland Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
Holocaust program in
Haskell: Where Was
God in the Holocaust?
an evening with the
youngest child inmate at
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
offers Shabbat Tikvah,
a service of inspiration
and renewal, 8 p.m.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org.
Cantor Rica Timman,

with Yizkor at 10:30 a.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Tuesday
MAY 26
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 1-7 p.m.
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Singles
Sunday
MAY 17
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meet for a social
get-together at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m.
450 West Nyack Road.
Refreshments. $3. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+ meet
for fun, an original group
game of Trivial Pursuit
with prizes, and to
mingle at Congregation
Agudath Israel, 12:45 p.m.
$10. 20 Academy Road.
Sue, (973) 226-3600, ext.
145, or singles@agudath.
org.
Middle Eastern food/

mingling in Manhattan:
YUConnects, in
conjunction with the
Yeshiva University
Sephardic Community
Program, presents Dine,
Chat, Meet, for modern
Orthodox singles, 22-32,
at the Edmond J. Safra
Synagogue, 5:30 p.m. 11
E 63rd St. yuconnects.
com/upcoming-events or
yuconnects@yu.edu.
Saturday
MAY 23
Shavuot in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley holds
Tikkun Leil Shavuot on
Conversion to Judaism
after services, 8:45 p.m.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801.
Sunday
MAY 24
Shavuot in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
services led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
Canasta
in Wayne
T h e Way n e Y M C A
offers weekly canasta
on Thursdays at 1 p.m.
Lessons are available.
The Metro YMCAs of
the Oranges is a partner of the YM-YWHA of
North Jersey. The Y is at
1 Pike Drive in Wayne.
For information, call
(973) 595-0100.
Spring music concert in Tenafly

The Thurnauer School of Music at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly
holds its annual Music Discovery Partnership Spring Concert on Wednesday,
May 20 at 7 p.m. The concert features
students and faculty from the longrunning partnership between the Thurnauer School of Music and Englewoods
public schools. It is supported by the
National Endowment for the Arts, the
Richard H. Holzer Memorial Foundation,
High school jazz

band festival
The bergenPAC Performing Arts
School hosts its High School Jazz Band
Festival on May 18 at 7:30 p.m., at bergenPACs main stage, 1 Depot Square in
Englewood. The festival features performances by jazz bands from local
high schools including Cresskill, Saddle Brook, and Westwood.
Each participating jazz band gets
a professional recording session in
the recording studio at the Performing Arts School. Each school will
keep its recordings and can use them
for promotional purposes at their
schools. The recordings will be produced by bergenPAC studio engineer
Tom Tarkizikis at the new bergenPAC
recording studio at the Performing
Arts School.
Tickets are $10; call (201) 482-8194 or
email education@bergenPAC.org.
JANE KICKS
the Englewood Board of Education, the

Community Chest serving Englewood,
Tenafly, and Englewood Cliffs, the Marion Cutler Fund for Community Music
Education, the Samuel & Anna Cutler
Memorial Scholarship Fund, the Lillian P. Schenck Fund, and individual
contributions.
The event is free, with a $10 suggested
donation. For information, call (201)
408-1465 or go to jccotp.org/Thurnauer.
Shavuot art show

Congregation Beth Sholom presents its
annual Artists Beit Midrash art show,
featuring works drawn from the study
of The Book of Ruth: Are Your People My People? and The Jew and the
Other: Exploring the Book of Jonah.
This years program teachers are
Harriet Finck, a collagist whose work is
focused on two related ideas putting
the pieces of broken things together
and finding form within chaos; and
Rabbi Gary Karlin, a teacher of Bible
and rabbinic literature, who is writing
a curriculum on the book of Jonah for
the Schechter Day School Network.
The opening reception will be on
Tuesday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m., at CBS,
354 Maitland Ave., in Teaneck. The
installation runs through Monday,
May 25. For information, call (201)
833-2620.
Film addresses anti-Semitism on campus

Crossing the Line 2: The New Face of
Antisemitism on Campus, a film about
anti-Semitism on college campuses, will
be screened at the Teaneck Cinemas on
May 20 at 8 p.m. The event is sponsored
by ZOA-NJ, which offers a VIP reception
at 7:30. A panel discussion with campus and legal advocates including Justin
Hayet, a student activist featured in the
film; Zach Stern, ZOAs national director of campus programs; and Susan B.
Tuchman, the director of the ZOA Center for Law and Justice, will follow the
screening.
As of press time, co-sponsors include
Congregation Beth Sholom of Teaneck,
StandWithUs, Camera on Campus, Masa
Israel, and Hillel Binghamton. The theater is at 503 Cedar Lane in Teaneck.
To register, go to may20teaneck.eventbrite.com.
Gallery
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n 1 Students at Chabad Hebrew School in Franklin Lakes

learned about Lag BOmer and enjoyed outdoor activities, including making smores. COURTESY CHABAD
n 2 In celebration of Lag BaOmer, Rabbi Mordechai
Shain and Tenaflys mayor, Peter Rustin marched in the
streets of Tenafly with students of Lubavitch on the Palisades Preschool and Elementary School. COURTESY LOTP
n 3 Students at the Bergen County High School of
Jewish Studies worked with Bonin Builders of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey to renovate a
kitchen in a seniors home in Teaneck. COURTESY BCHSJS
n 4 In celebration on Lag BOmer, students at Congregation Shomrei Torah in Wayne had a barbecue and enjoyed activities including crafts and
a bounce house. COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH
n 5 Participants at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley
in Woodcliff Lake traveled to the Kehila Kedosha Janina
Synagogue on Manhattans Lower East Side. The group
also enjoyed a kosher Greek lunch there. COURTESY TEPV
n 6 Students at the religious school at the JCC
of Paramus/CBT Hebrew school and their parents enjoyed a day of sports and a barbecue in
celebration of Lag BOmer at the Cliff Gennarelli
Sports Complex in Paramus. COURTESY JCC/CBT
Obituaries
Robert Harrison
Robert J. Harrison of Englewood Cliffs died May 8.

Born in North Bergen, he was an Air Force veteran of
the Korean conflict and a broker for Drexel Burnham in
Manhattan.
He is survived by his wife, Joan, ne Podvorny;
children, Helen Dolan of East Windsor, Debbie
Konowitz of West Windsor, Jill Cohen of Haworth, and
Jeffrey of Delaware; a brother, Harvey Karmiller of
Florida; and eight grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to Autism Speaks or
Womens Sports Foundation.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Bernard Hillman
Bernard Hillman, 90, of West Orange, formerly of New

Milford, and Del Ray Beach, Fla., died May 12.
He graduated the Cooper Union and was a member
of the Fighting 69th, serving in the European Theater
in World War II. He was a past president of the New
Milford Jewish Centers Mens Club and worked in the
packaging industry.
He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Marilyn, ne
Heller; sons, Kenneth ( Judy) and Brian (Nancy); five
grandchildren, and one great-grandson.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Daniel Kane
Daniel Abraham Kane died May 8. Born and raised

in Brooklyn, he received a masters degree from the
Columbia University Graduate School of Public Health
and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
He was chairman of Bayonne Medical Center and
Carepoint Health and worked for more than 50 years
as an administrator and CEO at various hospitals
nationwide. He revitalized hospitals on the edge of
bankruptcy. He was a philanthropist and the recipient
of several awards for his actions.
He is survived by his sons, Joshua and Seth; a
daughter-in-law, Erin; his former wife, June KozakKane; a brother, Robert; his caregiver, Daniel Acquah,
and nieces and nephews.
Donations can be made to the ALS Association.
Services were at Temple Beth El in Closter, under
supervision of Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral
Directors, Hackensack.
Janet Rosenberg
Janet Rosenberg, ne Fox, 90, of Rockleigh, died

May 10.
Born in the Bronx, she was an insurance account
executive. Predeceased by her husband, Joel, she is
survived by a daughter, Ilene Rosenberg.
Fort Lee.
Mark Samitt
Mark D. Samitt, 52, of Woodcliff Lake, died May 6.

He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
earned a masters from the University of Rhode Island,
and another from the Harvard Business School. He was
a management consultant with Deloitte and Touche,
an executive at Movado Group, COO and president of
Steuben Glass, and then created a consulting firm, RD
Management Group.
While battling melanoma, he created Mark the
SPOT!, a partnership with the Melanoma Research
Foundation aimed at creating awareness among hair
stylists about spotting unusual moles or lesions during
the routine styling process.
He is survived by his wife Gayle; daughters, Rachel
and Danielle; parents Bruce and Florence Samitt;
siblings, Craig (Steven Hart), and Alison Samitt
(Anthony Calcagni); and in-laws, Robert and Barbara
Allen.
Donations can be sent to the Melanoma Research
Foundation. Arrangements were by Robert Schoems
Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
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Jay Goldberg, Chairman
Ilse Rothschild, ne Anspach, of the Bronx, formerly of

Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, died May 8.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, she was a Holocaust
survivor and worked as a seamstress until retiring in
2001.
Predeceased by her husband, Ludwig, she is
survived by a son, Michael (Meryl), and grandsons,
Jonathan and Jason. Contributions can be sent to the
YM-YWHA of Riverdale, N.Y. Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Renee Seikovsky
Renee Seikovsky, ne Schaum, 78, of Coconut Creek,

Fla., formerly of Yonkers, N.Y., died May 11.
Born in the Bronx, she is survived by sons Jeff
Saunders of Norwood and Robert Seikovsky of New
York; a brother, Stanley Schaum of Florida; and three
grandchildren.
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if he were available and non-Jewish. To his credit, he

could learn from the masters of imperialism and communism, discarding the politics but embracing their
ability to act decisively and bring the masses along, especially in time of conflict.
The Churchill lionization is especially ironic, considering the tension between the not-yet-nation and
the worlds reigning empire. Ben-Gurions service as a
corporal in the Jewish Legion during the late stages of
World War I instilled in him a respect for British army
discipline, something he would try to impose on Israels
rambunctious, factionalized early military. It also was
quite at odds with his own abrupt and unruly lifestyle.
His wife, Paula, reluctant to make aliyah after their
American courtship, was notoriously apolitical, and
regarded her primary function as one of a gatekeeper
and making sure her spouse was presentable, which
meant teaching this Ashkenazic migr the basics of regular bathing, brushing, and grooming. The Ben-Gurions
had three children, two girls and a boy, and Ben-Gurion
went out of his way to love his son Amoss British-born
gentile wife.
Shapira makes only brief reference to Ben-Gurions
mid-life love, Miriam Cohen, an Emergency Committee
secretary whom he had been assigned to him while he
was in Washington during the war. Their relationship
proved intense, cerebral, and short-lived, although correspondence continued between them for years. She
was, according to Shapira, the only one to whom BenGurion could unburden himself emotionally.
Friendships also eluded Ben-Gurion, with the exception of Berl Katznelson, his confidante, sounding board,
and co-activist. When Katznelson died prematurely in
1944, Ben-Gurion experienced profound grief. He hardly
felt this way about his father, Avigdor, whom he dunned
mercilessly for law school money when he wore a fez
and studied in Istanbul on the eve of World War I. And
later, he took in Avigdor only grudgingly, and reluctantly
found him a job. Paula loathed the old-world gentleman.
Ben Gurions only self-indulgence was as a bibliophile.
He prowled the bookshops of Europe and America and
leaned heavily on global contacts and Israeli legations

to buy rare editions for him. His home in Sdeh Boker
in the Negev served primarily as an overstuffed library
or as a refuge to which he would repair in a huff when
he periodically threatened to resign (or did) from the
government.
After spurring Israeli independence, creating the
organization and nomenclature of a government from
scratch (in Hebrew, of course), fashioning a secular state
with religious sensibilities, and directing (critics would
say meddling in) the nations defense establishment,
Ben-Gurion next prioritized the microfilming of Jewish manuscripts from all over the world for archiving at
Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This outsized project
went forward despite dire economic and immigration
pressures bearing down on the fledgling nation.
While it is tempting and somewhat glib to say that Israels first and twice serving prime minister (plus portfolio
as defense minister) made the nation his extended family and invested his emotions in its peoples, a more realistic assessment, which Shapira hints at in this compact,
interpretive profile, might be that he comes closest to
being an eponymous leader in the sense of vision, activism, and implementation.
Leadership for Ben-Gurion was a series of zig-zag trajectories, strategic retreats, bold thrusts, blood-letting
debates, scandals, and ego-bruising encounters with
only one destination: creation and sustainment of the
Jewish state. On his watch, events were both dramatic
and formative: the building of the Dimona nuclear plant,
while keeping it secret from the United States, a reparations treaty with Germany, arms deals and the establishment of a defense industry, massive irrigation projects,
the capture and trial of Eichmann, the war for independence, constant military threats, and later Suez and
Sinai.
Shapira pegs Ben-Gurions peak years as being
between 1942 and 1953. The patriarch died in 1973 at
87, somewhat depleted, still iron-willed, but politically
marginalized by a new generation. Her biography will
help recapture his aura, audaciousness, and appeal for
the current citizens of a now robust nation whose legacy
survives him.
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Orthodox Judaism but one that provided

him with ample opportunities to record
them undressing.
As many victims note, it was difficult if not impossible to say no to the
rabbi in charge of their conversions,
the prosecutions memo says. Many of
the victims now feel isolated from their
faith entirely, including other religious
leaders, as a result of the defendants
actions.
In arguing for a lenient sentence, the
defense memo says that six of Freundels victims wrote unsolicited letters
of support. (Later reports, however,
allege that the notes are not all from
victims and were taken from Facebook
out of context and without permission.)
Freundel has resumed some rabbinic
teaching, leading classes by phone on
Sundays and Tuesdays and convening a
small Torah study group on Shabbat, the
memo adds.
Freundel also has sought medical
counseling to ensure that he never again
engages in such conduct, according to
the memo.
The defense notes that Freundel never
disseminated or sought to distribute the
videos, and that women were not filmed
immersing in the mikvah itself.
Its memo also devotes considerable
attention to Freundels accomplishments as a scholar, including a citation
of a positive review by author Herman
Wouk of one of Freundels books on Jewish prayer.
There is no need for the Court to
incarcerate Rabbi Freundel in order to
punish him, the defense memo says.
He has been publicly humiliated, forced
to leave his office as a rabbi, and is now a
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convicted man.
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it is a glaring reminder of what was taken

and stolen.
Freundel edited the videos to delete
footage when the woman was not in
the room, and meticulously labeled and
stored each video segment. It is believed
that he removed the recording devices
from the mikvah dressing room at the
end of each day, the prosecution memo
said.
When Freundel was arrested, investigators seized materials from his home,
including five desktop computers,
seven laptops, six external hard drives,
20 memory cards, 11 flash drives, and
an instruction manual for a recording
device disguised as a fan. Additional
equipment was seized from Freundels
office at Towson University in Maryland,
where he taught ethics and religion.
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potential penalty of one year in prison
and a fine of $1,000 to $2,500, or both.
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17-year prison sentence for Freundel,
noting the harm he caused his victims
and the destructive consequences to
their faith in rabbinic leadership, the
importance of mikvah, and religious
observance.
In addition to occupying a prominent
pulpit at a synagogue frequented by
such igures as former U.S. Sen. Joseph
Lieberman, and writer and cultural critic
Leon Wieseltier, Freundel had been a
proliic author and scholar of Jewish law
and led Washingtons Orthodox conversion court. As a conversion supervisor
and mentor, Freundel instructed many
women to engage in practice dunks at
the mikvah an unheard-of practice in
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