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Van manna from Los Angeles
l Sometimes a little bit of
The breaking of two fasts

l We are accustomed to the way that
the Jewish and Christian calendars

remain in sync; sure, Chanukah may
bounce back and forth from early December to early January, but thanks
to the occasional leap month, Chanukah is always near December 25 and
Passover is always near Easter.
The Muslim calendar, however,
poses a more interesting challenge
or opportunity to interfaith activists. Like the Jewish calendar, it is
lunar; every year, each Muslim month
begin within a day or two of the start
of a Jewish month. But since the
Muslim calendar lacks a leap month,
its months rotate through the year. A
month that coincides with Kislev in
the winter one year drifts into Tishrei
in the fall a years later, and from there,
a few years on, into Tammuz in the
summer.
This year, the Hebrew month of
Tammuz is the Muslim month of
Ramadan. Ramadan, of course, is a
month of dawn-to-dusk fasting. Tammuz has one Jewish fast day the
17th of Tammuz, marking the siege
of Jerusalem, the beginning of the
events that led to the destruction of
the Temple. (This year, because the
17th of Tammuz fell on Shabbat, it was
marked on Sunday, 18 Tammuz.)
The Jewish fast falling during Ramadan led interfaith activists to hold joint
Muslim-Jewish iftars, as the celebratory evening break-fast is called in
Arabic.
One such iftar took place near Boston on Sunday night. It was hosted by
Anne Meyersa student at Harvard
Divinity School and aspiring Muslim
chaplainand Dr. Jill Smith, who is
Jewish and teaches sociology at Tufts
University.
The gathering was called for 8 p.m.

But when could they eat? Iftar, as it
turned out, began at 8:25. And what
about the fast of Tammuz? Jewish participants looked it up on their
phones and found conflicting answers:
9:02, 8:59, 9:07. The Muslims ate the
traditional milk and dates at 8:25; the
Jews broke their fast at 9:02.
While waiting to break their fasts,
everyone speculated about how long
you could survive without eating,
and if it still counts if you drink. They
shared legends of people who fasted
for years straight, mulling over the
credibility of these tales.
They compared rules for people
who are ill, pregnant, or breastfeedingmust they fast? May they fast?
and discovered an interesting discrepancy: In Islam, as in Judaism, there is
leniency for the infirm. In Islam, however, once you are healed, you must
make up the missed fast days within 11
months.
It is easy to become discouraged
by the many conflicts between different groups of people, Dr. Smith said.
Hosting a small-scale event like this is
a way of bringing people of different
backgrounds together, and hopefully
bringing about understanding on a
micro level.
It just seemed like a nice thing to
do, to feed fasting people, Ms. Meyers said. As to sharing faith experiences, I love it, she said. It helps
me connect to God in a different way
than Im used to.
If all this has you eager to hold a
17th of Tammuz iftar next year well,
the calendar has some bad news.
Next year, Ramadan falls in the Hebrew month of Sivan.
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But that wasnt enough to
deal of good news.
The bad news was that a
allow them to claim victory
Teaneck family failed to win
or the van.
a contest that would have
However, philanthropist Shlomo Yehuda
given them a van accessible
Rechnitz, who heads the
to people with handicaps.
Brius Healthcare Service
For Esther Herzfeld,
in California, heard about
a teacher at Teanecks
the story via Vos Iz Neias, a
Maayanot Girls High School,
Jewish news site, and when
the van would have meant
Shlomo Yehuda
the familys 90,000+ votes
a great deal. The Herzfeld
Rechnitz
were not enough to sway
familys four children all have
the judges, he stepped forbeen diagnosed with a rare
ward to donate the van.
muscular condition that has immobilized
Their needs are enormous, and I am
one of them and limits the others movement.
hoping that others will come through for
The family won more than 90,000
the Herzfelds, Mr Rechnitz told Voz Iz
Larry Yudelson
votes in the contest sponsored by the
Neias.
Wazer, can you spare a ride?

l No more crowdsurfing on Facebook,
asking your friends
and their friends for a
ride to or from work.
Waze, the popular navigation app, is
launching a carpooling pilot program that
will connect commuters to a ride going
their way.
The Google-owned,
Israel-based mapping
company has chosen
Israel to test its new
project. According
to Haaretz, Google
chose to launch the
ridesharing pilot in Tel
Aviv because of the
widespread use of
Waze in Israel.
Were conducting
a small, private beta
test in the greater Tel Aviv area for a
carpool concept, but we have nothing
further to announce at this time, Waze
told Reuters.
According to reports, the new program will match riders and drivers going
the same way. Riders will pay a small fee
for the drive to and from work.
The RideWith application will use
Wazes navigation system to find out the
most popular routes drivers take to work
and match them up with people looking

for a ride.
Waze is reportedly limiting drivers to
two paid journeys a day in order to curb
the possibility of this turning into a side
business for drivers.
The pilot will run in Tel Aviv, Raanana,
and Herzliya, according to the Haaretz
report, and Google will expand the service to the rest of Israel if it is successful.
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I am trying to think of any other context

in which two relatively staid Jewish news
services would provide a link to a video
featuring a naked Jewish woman.
New Jersey Jewish News editor Andrew Silow-Carroll, of Teaneck, after JTA
and the Jerusalem Post posted a video from ESPN where Jewish gymnast Ally
Reisman posed naked.
AMYS AGONY:
Nothing spared
in documentary
Amy is a documentary about AMY
WINEHOUSE, the
acclaimed British jazz
singer who died of
alcohol poisoning in 2011,
when she was 27. The
films director, Asif
Kapadia, demanded and
got creative control
when he was recruited to
make this film by
Winehouses family and
her British record label.
The result has not
pleased many, including
Amys family, who put
out a statement that
said, in part, that It is
both misleading and
contains some basic
untruths.
However, reviewers
say that Kapadia hasnt
attributed Winehouses
train-wreck decline
and death to one source,
like her family. There
is enough guilt to go
around (including Winehouses own demons;
a father who may have
wanted to ride her success too much; and her
junkie husband and his
creepy entourage).
To his credit, Kapadia opted to focus on
what will most endure:
Winehouses music and
its creation. He had
some luck early on, when
Amys first manager told
him that he had archived
of 12 hours of film from
the singers early career.
Kapadia drew on this film
and hundreds of hours of
interviews and other ar-
chival film to tell the story of a really great talent

whom no one seemed
able to save. (Opens July
10 in Cincinnati.)
Personally, I am going to wait for the DVD/
streaming version to
come out. I first became
aware of Winehouse in
2006, and I was waiting
for disaster almost from
the beginning. The word
heartbreaking is almost
always associated with
Winehouse, and indeed,
that word is used on the
first page of the documentarys own website.
I found it heartbreaking
to watch Winehouse selfdestruct over the five
years I followed her. During this period, there was
never even one substantial respite in the flood
of news stories about
how she was destroying herself. I dont think I
could sit in a theater and
watch a capsule version
of those five years. Id
rather have the option of
turning off the film when
I want and coming back
to it.
Impastor premieres on the
TVLand station on
Wednesday, July 15, at
10:30 p.m. It stars
MICHAEL ROSENBAUM,
42, as Buddy Dobbs, a
gambling addict slacker
who, in order to go on
the run from a loan shark,
ends up stealing the
identity of a gay pastor
in a nearby small town.
Amy Winehouse
Michael Rosenbaum
Adam Goldberg
Michael Ian Black
Lena Dunham
Jack Antonoff
(Rosenbaum is best
known for playing Lex
Luthor in the long-running Smallville TV
series.) Another Jewish
thespian, SARA RUE, 36,
has a co-starring role as
Dora Winton, an assistant to the pastor who
also is the town gossip.
Rue is best known for
starring in an ABC series,
Less Than Perfect
(2002-2006). She has
slimmed down a great
deal since Perfect
ended, and, in 2013, she
and her husband (a rabbi
officiated at their
wedding) had their

first child.
Starting at 10 p.m. on
the same day, also on
TVLand, is the Jim Gaffigan Show. Jim Gaffigan plays a comedian
named Jim Gaffigan who
has five kids and a wife
named Jeannie. In real
life, the comedians wife,
Jeannie, produces the
new show but shes
played in the series by
actress Ashley Williams.
The setting is a New York
City two-bedroom apartment that can barely
hold the whole family.
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The two regular supporting characters are

played by tribe members
ADAM GOLDBERG,
44, as Jims best friend,
and MICHAEL IAN
BLACK, 43, as Jeannies
confidante. By the way,
Gaffigan played Israel in
2010. Visiting Israel on
vacation (with the wife
and kids), he was quickly
persuaded to do one
show at a comedy club
in Tel Aviv and another in
Jerusalem.
As I write this, there
are reports that Malia
Obama, 17, the presi-
dents daughter, is working as an intern for the

TV show Girls, starring LENA DUNHAM,
29 (who also writes and
produces the show and
probably has ultimate
hiring authority). These
rumors were fueled by
pics of Dunham and Malia on the set of a July 3
Girls outside shoot in
front of a Brooklyn restaurant. The presidents
older daughter long has
expressed an interest
in working in entertainment, and last summer
reportedly interned on
Extant, Halle Berrys
show.
Meanwhile, Dunhams
boyfriend of three years,
JACK ANTONOFF, 31,
who grew up in Bergen
County and went to
school a the Solomon
Schechter Day School
here, has kept up a hot
career as a rock musician/songwriter and
has recently ventured
into auteur TV series
work like Dunham. A
couple of weeks ago,
his quasi-documentary
series, Thank You and
Sorry, was released for
free viewing on Google
Play. Antonoff insisted
it be a free view. The episodes sometimes track
his real life as a touring
musician and sometimes
details are fictionalized.
He confronts issues like
his struggles with depression.
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This is what a Zionist looks like
Local high-school grads head off to IDF service in Israel
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
heir parents did it. Their siblings did it. Many of the friends
they left behind are doing it.
So its not surprising that
new high school graduates like Lior Peri
of Cresskill, Yonatan Hochberg of Closter,
and Lihi Moshe of Fair Lawn are headed
to Israel later this summer to prepare for
service in the Israel Defense Forces.
Their journey back to the land of their
birth is facilitated by Garin Tzabar, an
Israel Scouts-affiliated organization dedicated to providing a framework of support
for any Jew from anywhere who decides
to move to Israel and join the army as a
lone soldier, according to
Yair Ran, director of Tzofim
Garin Tzabar for North America through Friends of Israel
Scouts.
Garin Tzabar (literally a
seed group of sabras) holds
seminars educating prospective participants and their
parents about IDF culture,
arranges group flights, and
perhaps most importantly
places each seed group of 20
to 25 teens on one of 50 kibbutzim that cooperate with
the program. The lone soldiers
dorm together and contribute
labor to the kibbutz. In return,
their meals and laundry are taken care of,
and each gets assigned a surrogate family.
Those who do not already know Hebrew
are provided with intensive lessons.
The program is entirely voluntary. No
Israeli citizen living abroad is required to
join the military, although it is compulsory
for Israeli residents when they turn 18.
We are not trying to convince anyone
to do this; in fact, we want them to think
carefully and understand how difficult it
is, because army service is not a Hollywood movie and we dont want them to
be disappointed, Mr. Ran said.
We are here for those who make that
decision and for those thinking about it.
Our main goal is to bond and build them
into a cohesive group before their move,
and to let them know from alumni what
its really like. We have parents meetings
and groups to support them as well, before
and after their children go to Israel.
Mr. Ran notes that the program attracts
more participants each year even though
it does no active publicity or marketing.
After a war, as there was last summer,
interest always peaks.
Garin Tzabar now processes about
400 lone soldiers from around the world
Garim gather in New York before they go to Israel.
Lior Peri
Lihi Moshe
every year, and more than 1,200 Garin

Tzabar participants are now serving in all
branches of the IDF; 25 percent of the boys
and many of the girls are in combat units.
In North America, Garin Tzabar sponsors
nine groups in the summer and three in
the winter, or about 200 teens altogether.
New Jersey is one of the biggest states

from which we draw, because there are
a lot of Zionist Jews and a lot of Israelis
here, Mr. Ran said.
Nearly all of the eight Bergen County
residents going to Israel on Garin Tzabar
this summer are Israeli by birth. In North
America, about 60 percent of Garin Tzabar

members have Israeli parents. This can be
a strong motivating factor.
I always knew I wanted to go to the
army, said Ms. Peri, 18, the oldest of five
siblings born in the Tel Aviv suburb of
Ramat Hasharon. She was 14 when her
Local
Yonatan Hochberg
family moved to Cresskill. My parents

both served in the IDF and they support
me. I also heard from a lot of my friends
in Israel who are starting their service,
and that will definitely help me through
the process of the army, since my family
is staying here in the U.S.
Ms. Peri says that her Cresskill High
School classmates encouraged her decision. Most of my basketball and track
teammates asked what motivates me,
and I told them that the experience will
mature me and teach me and make me
stronger, she said.
Shell be leaving late this month to
visit relatives and friends, and then on
August 19 will join her Garin Tzabar
group of 21 young adults at Kibbutz
Yizreel in the Jezreel Valley, where they
will spend about three months getting
their paperwork, their bodies, and their
Hebrew skills in shape for the military.
Once they begin their service, they will
meet every weekend back at the kibbutz
to share their feelings and experiences
through Garin Tzabar facilitators.
For now Im planning to serve two
years and come back for university, Ms.
Peri, who hopes to be a physical trainer,
said. Generally, female soldiers serve
two years while male soldiers serve
three, though the term of service for all
young men soon is to be reduced to 32
months.
Yonatan Hochberg of Closter expects
to stay in Israel and go to medical school
there. In fact, the recent Northern Valley
Regional High School graduate already
had applied to colleges here as a pre-med
major when his parents encouraged him
to attend an introductory Garin Tzabar
seminar along with some friends.
Mr. Ran said that 70 percent of Garin
Tzabar members stay in Israel at least a
few years after the army, often completing college using their post-army financial benefits. Furthermore, 30 percent
of the families eventually follow their
sons or daughters to Israel or back to
Israel, in the case of Israeli expats.
Like Ms. Peri, Mr. Hochberg grew up
in Ramat Hasharon, moved to New

Jersey at 14, and will be staying at Kibbutz Yizreel. Im still in touch with
friends going into the army now,
he said. Im most excited about
serving in the army and spending a
few months on the kibbutz with my
garim. The hard part is that Im not
going to have my parents with me
and wont have a lot of time on my
own and the military service itself,
obviously.
Mr. Hochberg would like to go into
the artillery corps but he understands
that inductees are not guaranteed to
get their first choice.
Lihi Moshe of Fair Lawn said that
she is a little nervous about learning
how to live independently. She came
to New Jersey with her parents and
siblings when she was just 8 years old.
We grew up in a very Israeli home
and we traveled to Israel every year,
she said. My two older siblings also did
Garin Tzabar. Its always been a plan
of mine to move back, and I got more
interested in the army after my siblings
did it. I feel, like any other Israeli, that
this is something I have to do. I know
it will be a challenge but Im determined to do it.
The other area members of the group
are Michal Elyasaf, Gale Dayan, and
Inbar Zick of Tenafly; Shaked Naftalovich of Cresskill, and Gabriel Haymes of
Fair Lawn.
People look for

meaning in their
lives, and these
boys and girls
feel very
connected to
the Jewish state.
We always ask Garin Tzabar participants why they want to do this,
Mr. Ran said. Many of them grew up
on stories of their own parents in the
army. But the main thing they stress is
that they are not running away from
anything. They want to go to Israel.
People look for meaning in their
lives, and these boys and girls feel very
connected to the Jewish state. Most
have very supportive parents. What
usually makes the decision is a visit to
Israel. They see soldiers on the bus next
to them and they think, I want to be
like him or her. They want to challenge
themselves, and be part of something
bigger.
Anyone interested in Garin Tzabar
may email Mr. Ran at garin@israelscouts.org or call him at (212) 390-8130,
ext.304.
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Orthodox body looks at conversion

Rabbi Shmuel Goldin talks about the RCAs tightening its centralized system
JOANNE PALMER
Since 2007, when it first centralized its
conversion system, the Rabbinical Council
of America the organization of modern
and centrist Orthodox rabbis has been
navigating the tension between regulating
the relationship between potential converts and acknowledging the personal connections at that relationships heart.
Last week, at its annual convention, the
RCA presented new guidelines, offered by
an 11-member committee that worked for
about eight months in a series of stressful
late-night meetings. The guidelines are
designed to streamline and regulate the
conversion process.
The RCAs need to shape the conversion
process a need that had been acknowledged for some time, according to Rabbi
Shmuel Goldin of Englewood, the RCAs
immediate past president and the committees chair was given new impetus by
the arrest and conviction of Rabbi Barry
Freundel, who is now serving a 6 1/2 year
sentence for voyeurism. Rabbi Freundel
took advantage of the intensity and privacy of the relationship between a potential convert and a sponsoring rabbi in
ways that were both venal making some
of them do his office work and outr
secreting cameras in the mikvah and then
demanding that converts perform what he
inventively if inaccurately called practice
dunks, for his private pleasure.
(The RCA still faces the possibility of
lawsuits as a result of Rabbi Freundels
voyeurism, Rabbi Goldin said; the group
might be accused of not acting on knowledge that it should have had.)
The report, by what is called the GPS
Review Committee (GPS stands for Geirus Policies and Standards Network, and
geirus means conversion), is 22 pages of
densely packed prose, presented in outline form.
Its bureaucratic and very technical
because we have a lot of moving parts
here, Rabbi Goldin, who heads Englewoods Congregation Ahavath Torah, said.
Our primary concern is the converts, and
Bethany Mandel, a convert and a member of the GPS review committee, speaks. The panel onstage, from left: Evelyn Fruchter, like
Ms. Mandel a convert and a GPS review committee member; Rabbi
Yonah Reiss, Av Bet Din in Chicago, a dayan on the Bet Din of
America and a committee member; Rabbi Gedaliah Schwartz, Av
Bet Din of the Bet Din of America, Rosh Bet Din on the ChicagoBet Din, and one of the RCAs major halachic arbiters, and Rabbi
Shmuel Goldin, on the panel and inset right.
COURTESY OF RCA
then there are the dayanim the judges

who sit on the beit din, the rabbinical
court that decides whether a potential
convert can be admitted as a member of
the Jewish people. Many of the people
involved are volunteering, and we have to
be careful of their time. There are many
constituent groups that we have to satisfy
and keep on board.
When the GPS network was created,
many rabbis, including Rabbi Goldin,
thought it unnecessary. I had strong reservations about it, he said. This is the
debate. Do you allow individual rabbis to
do conversions, or do you create a centralized system? There are benefits to both.
The benefit to allowing conversion to
remain in the hands of individual rabbis is
that they are the ones who know the converts best. When you create a centralized
system, you are putting another layer on
top of it. On the other hand, what we have
found what has turned me into a proponent of this system is that the converts
want it.
The converts say, We want a conversion that will not be questioned. As long
as you leave it to individual rabbis, then
everyone is going to question it. By creating a centralized system, we are giving
converts peace of mind.
When he talks about conversions being
questioned or accepted, Rabbi Goldin is
talking in large part about Israel, where
the system is highly centralized in fact,
it is government-run and where over the
last decade or so many conversions, even
Orthodox ones, have been questioned.
As a critical case in point, when the
whole thing broke with Rabbi Freundel, a
number of us Rabbi Matanky and Rabbi
Dratch went to meet with a group of converts and significant others, who had gone
through the process with Rabbi Freundel.
(Rabbi Leonard Matanky is the RCAs president, and Rabbi Mark Dratch is its executive vice president.) It was a very difficult
meeting. The first question they posed to
us was not how could this have happened,
it was what will happen now? Will our conversions be accepted?
The rabbis understood not only how
important the question was to the converts, but also that its answer was not necessarily clear. But we were able to contact
the authorities in Israel, and ensure that
there would be smooth continued acceptance of their conversions. Within a few
days, we had clear statements from the
Israeli authorities that their conversions
would be accepted.
That could not have been
accomplished had we not set
up this system.
Some critics will say that by
definition, any system that you
create becomes more bureaucratic, and potentially more
stringent. Our response is that
we have to work to make sure
that it will remain reasonable,
and that the benefits of the system outweigh the deficits.
The GPS review committee includes
women, two of whom have converted to
Judaism.
The committees including them is
reflected in its report. The language
throughout talks about the need for sensitivity, in ways that range from the words
sponsoring rabbis use when they talk to
potential converts to the care taken to
ensure that a woman feels safe as she disrobes to immerse herself in the mikvah
for conversion, and that the safety allows
her to feel the moments overarching
spirituality.
The review committee decided to begin
its work with a look at GPS statistics. It hired
an outside consultant, Avraham Y. HaCohen. Mr. HaCohen interviewed people
whose conversions had been completed,
people still involved in the conversion process, and some people who had entered the
system but left without converting.
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Mr. HaCohens report showed that a full
78 percent of potential converts entering the GPS system are women. Of them,
45 percent are between 20 and 29 years
old, and another 27 percent are between
30 and 39. In other words, almost three
quarters of the female potential converts
are at the most vulnerable period of their
lives, as Rabbi Goldin put it. They are
They are young,

and their lives
including their
childbearing
is being put
on hold.
young, and their lives including their
childbearing is being put on hold.
That, Rabbi Goldin said, accentuates
the power imbalance inherent in the
relationship between the potential convert and the sponsoring rabbi. There are
many such imbalances, in all kinds of

relationships, he said, and there is nothing wrong with that but it can lead to
feelings of powerlessness, and even, at
times, as with Rabbi Freundel, to outright abuse. We are trying to sensitize
everyone to it, he said. If only the people going through conversion with Rabbi
Freundel had a safe place, a way to raise
some of their concerns openly, we would
have known about him sooner. As it was,
the way he operated, he created a situation where they were dependent to a
degree where they were afraid to bring
it forward.
Another interesting piece of information, according to the report, is that
45 percent of all the conversion candidates have some Jewish ancestry. Of
that group, 70 percent had grown up in
Jewish households. According to Rabbi
Goldin, some members of that group
were considered Jewish under the
Reform and Reconstructionist movements understanding of patrilineal
descent in other words, their fathers
or grandfathers were Jewish. Others
were the children of mothers converted
through a Reform conversion, or one
that did not include the acceptance of

mitzvot the way we understand it, and
therefore could not be accepted within
the Orthodox world, Rabbi Goldin said.
The report suggested that until they
were sensitized to the individuality of
potential converts, sometimes sponsoring rabbis could overlook the facts of their
lives, and that can cause pain. The balance
between structure and experience must
be negotiated constantly. For example,
those with no experience or history of
engaging in a religion other than Judaism
should not be asked about rejecting Christmas, the report reads.
There you see the danger of a bureaucratic process, and how we have to work to
fight it, Rabbi Goldin said. The bureaucratic process sees everyone in the same
way. The personal process means that you
have to look at the person before you.
The majority of people we surveyed
said that their experiences were fundamentally positive, but significant numbers
of people raised significant issues, he concluded. Thats what we are focusing on.
The committee really brought together
a variety of different viewpoints, he
said. There was a spectrum of rabbinic
participation from left to right within the

RCA, women, converts who had gone
through the process with Barry Freundel,
and mental health professionals. It was a
fascinating experience.
We would hold weekly conference
calls, beginning at 9:30 at night and running until 11:30 or midnight.
There were last-minute discussions,
adjustments to the language that had to
take place to satisfy the entire group. And
in the end, everybody was on board.
We didnt want the report to be a consensus. We wanted to know that everyone
on the committee agreed with the report
and was willing to put their names on it.
Two of the women who converted with
Barry Freundel, Evelyn Fruchter and Bethany Mandel, spoke at the meeting. That
was important, Rabbi Goldin said. The
rabbis have to see the converts. They have
to look them in the face. They have to see
who they are dealing with.
There were rabbis in tears. We are dealing with some exceptionally courageous
women.
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Another voice on the RCA

YCTs Rabbi Asher Lopatin, newly resigned from the Orthodox group, talks conversion
JOANNE PALMER
Last week, as the Rabbinical Council
of America met, Rabbi Avi Weiss of the
Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, whose relationship with that body had been contentious for some time, publicly dropped his
membership in it.
Soon thereafter, Rabbi Asher Lopatin
followed suit.
Both rabbis live in Riverdale, the verdant, surprisingly suburban Bronx neighborhood that faces New Jersey just north
of the George Washington Bridge. Rabbi
Weiss founded Yeshivat Chovevei Torah,
and Rabbi Lopatin, who moved east from
a pulpit in Chicago two years ago, now
heads the school, which draws many rabbinical students from Bergen County.
Both said that they dropped their
membership in the Orthodox group
because it refused to admit Choveveiordained rabbis, and that they could no
longer belong to a group that excluded
their students. Beyond that, Rabbi Lopatin added in his resignation statement,
The RCA was once a groundbreaking
organization devoted to bringing in contemporary Orthodox rabbis whom other,
addresses that concern. He worries

about another issue as well, though.
Are they willing to convert
adopted children, when the parents
are not going to send the children to
day school? When the parents are not
halachically observant? When the parents are of the same sex? If they are
an intermarried couple, are they willing to go the extra mile to convert the
non-Jewish spouse, even if the family
is not committed to a fully halachic
life?
That is the deeper challenge for
Orthodoxy, and I do not believe they
are dealing with it.
I would convert people in those situations, and I would follow the rules
of many important rabbis of our time
who are really pushing for that.
If parents adopted a kid, if the
Rabbi Asher Lopatin, left, dances with Rabbi Raif Melhado, YCT 15, right, and Rabbi
parents are not fully shomer Shabbes
Ysoscher Katz, chair of the Talmud department at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. Rabbi
but wanted to send the child to day
Lopatin gave each of the graduates the customized tie he designed and is wearing
school, how would they get the child
here.
YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH
admitted to a school? Sometimes
schools will do conversions on their
Marc Angel, who was not involved with
added. For many years, we had the feelown, quietly.
ing that if we accept women, no one will
Chovevei but still thought that we needed
Things like that all have to be done
accept it as an Orthodox institution, but
another organization that would speak
outside the system. I dont believe that
finally we voted on it. We realized that we
the GPS system helps in those cases, and
had to do the right thing.
thats where we really need the help.
Rosh Kehilla Dina Neiman of Kehillat
It comes down, in some senses, to menschlichkeit, Rabbi Lopatin said. Do mass
Orech Eliezer on Manhattans Upper West
conversions of kids. Use the leniencies of
Side is an IRF member, he said, and so are
children converting. I realize that there
some maharats. Im not sure if there is
are some opinions that say that you can
a rabbanit, but there will be rabbaniot,
only convert a child if a parent is going to
and new women rabbis from Israel will
raise them religious, but others say that it
be accepted if they apply.
is a blessing to be Jewish.
A rabbanit has to be a community
He acknowledged the issue of having
leader, knowledgeable, and a frum person, regardless of whether her husband
conversions acknowledged by the state
for our values, formed the International
is a rabbi, he added. And yes, this is a
of Israel, but he is troubled by the logic.
Rabbinical Fellowship, Rabbi Lopatin
big thing. It is huge, Rabbi Lopatin said.
The rabbanaut is such a corrupt organisaid. (Rabbi Angel, a former RCA president, is the rabbi emeritus of Manhatzation, such a chillul haShem a desIts very exciting and its also very
tans oldest congregation, Congregation
ecration of Gods name that the goal
natural. Its true to our modern Orthodox values, our menschlichkeit. We value
Shearith Israel.)
needs to be finding a way around it, not
being inclusive and supportive.
Since the IRF was founded in 2007,
trying to placate it, he said. Placating
He had felt ambivalent about leaving
Rabbis Weiss and Lopatin have belonged
it is going in exactly the wrong direction. The rabbanaut is a political tool, a
the RCA, he said, but but when I came to
to both that organization and the RCA.
patronage system, a disaster and the
this position two years ago, I felt uncomI have been a member of the RCA
fortable being part of an organization that
more we try to placate them, the worse
for about 20 years, and in some ways it
did not allow my talmidim, my students,
things get.
speaks to my values, but it doesnt do
We all have to use our influence to
to be part of it. Our musmakim encourenough, Rabbi Lopatin said. It does not
aged me to stay and be a voice there. So
change that system. It is a corrupt monopspeak for all my values.
oly, and people know that. It doesnt
it wasnt really until this year, with a lot
The IRF has about 200 members; YCT
seem to bother the RCA they are willing
of the scandals that have come out the
has 95 alumni, and not all of them particularly the educators, who do not need
to go along with it but it is alienating a
story of Rabbi Barry Freundel, discussed
a membership organization in the same
large number of Israelis and Americans.
in more detail on page 8, continues to cast
way that pulpit rabbis do belong to the
Rabbi Lopatin has some lingering
large shadows and on the other hand,
IRF. About 10 to 20 percent belong to
warmth for the RCA. There are a lot of
there were constant calls for condemning
both the RCA and the IRF. More than half
good people in the organization, and they
women rabbis.
of our members are not Chovevei musdo good work, and I respect their leadI just felt that things had changed.
makim, rabbis who have been ordained
ers, he said. I want to be positive and
When it comes to conversion, Rabbi
there, Rabbi Lopatin said. Some are YU
hopeful, and I do hope that the RCA can
Lopatin feels that it is necessary that
graduates, and many are from Israel.
get back to its roots and be the organizathey be done in a warm and sensitive
tion that it used to be.
And some IRF members are women, he
and welcoming way. The RCAs report
I have been a member of the

RCA for about 20 years, and in
some ways it speaks to my values,
but it doesnt do enough.
older organizations, specifically Agudas
Harabanim, rejected because RCA rabbis were too modern and open to the
world. It now appears to be an organization devoted primarily to patrolling its
borders.
In a telephone interview, Rabbi Lopatin
explained his reasoning.
When YCT first opened, its administrations goal was to have its graduates accepted by the RCA; in fact, Rabbi
Lopatin said, no one at the new school
thought such acceptance to be a hardto-reach ideal. But politics intervened
YCT is seen as more liberal than Yeshiva
University, which graduates many of the
RCAs members. It increasingly became
clear that YCTs graduates would not be
accepted by the RCA, and so the new
school decided not to apply and thus risk
rejection.
About a decade or so ago, when it
became clear that the situation was not
about to change, and that YCTs rabbis needed the support an organization
could give them, Rabbi Weiss and Rabbi
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A decision in Trenton made day-school

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Last week was when New Jerseys new
budget took effect a late June rollercoaster wherein the governors original
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vetoes. For the Jewish organizational lobbyists who spend the year working the halls of
Trenton, not until June 26, when Governor
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It was a successful budget season, said
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Unions New Jersey political arm.
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Hes working with schools and synagogues to gear up their efforts in the fall.
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Expressing themselves in words

Local middle-schoolers win Jewish essay contest
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Benjamin Edelman and Eliana Suldan, both
of whom live in Teaneck and both recent
graduates of Yavneh Academy of Paramus, were among six finalists in this years
national Kaplun Foundation Essay Contest
on the seventh- to ninth-grade level.
Benny was awarded the grand prize
of $1,800, which hes using to finance a
belated bar mitzvah trip to Israel next
month with his father, Daniel. Eliana won
$750.
I love to write; its very fun for me to
express my thoughts in words, Benny
said. And I love being able to articulate
my thoughts in complex ways.
The theme of this years contest, which
drew 300 submissions from middleschoolers across North America, was My
Jewish Values: How They Can Help Me
Make the World a Better Place. Benny
wrote about his experience interacting with residents of the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh through a Yavneh visitation
program supported by a Legacy Heritage
Fund grant, Better Together: Connecting
Generations.
I made my essay into a personal narrative because I thought that was much
more real than just stating statistics, said
Benny, the youngest of four siblings. In
2010, his sister Shoshana, now a 19-yearold rising sophomore at NYU, was a finalist
in the same contest for her essay about the
American poet Emma Lazarus.
My kids are blessed to be really great
writers, Bennys mother, Nancy Edelman, a teacher of English and art history
at Torah Academy of Bergen County, said.
They are pretty passionate about certain
things, and that comes through in their
essays.
What impressed me most and what
I am proudest of in both Bennys and
Shoshanas submissions was not so much
that they wrote award-winning essays
on their own, their father added. It is
that they formulated and shared deeply
thoughtful ideas about their own lives that
enabled others to benefit from their wisdom and sensitivities.
Even before Bennys essay was declared
the winner of the Kaplun contest during
a gala luncheon at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan, it already had
won first place in the

Better 2 Write/Tov
Lchtov essay contest
associated with the
Better Together grant.
The prize for this contest is up to $5,000
toward a Jewish summer enrichment or
experiential program.
Benny hopes to use it
next summer.
Both he and Eliana will be freshmen
Eliana Suldan and Benjamin Edelman display their
at the Frisch School
awards as they stand with Yavnehs Barbara Rubin.
in Paramus come

THE KAPLUN FOUNDATION
September.
Honorable mentions in the Kaplun essay contest went to
high-school level in the contest.
Yavneh eighth-grader Talya Wimpfheimer,
Barbara Rubin, Yavnehs middle school
who has now graduated, and soon-to-be
associate principal for general studies, said
eighth-grader Gittel Levin. Both come
the Kaplun contest allows our students
from Teaneck. Each year, all seventh- and
to participate with children from all over
eighth-graders at Yavneh are encouraged
the country in public and private schools,
to submit essays to the contest, which
and gives our students the opportunity
is sponsored by the Morris J. and Betty
to enhance their writing and explore
Kaplun Foundation to strengthen Jewtopics specific to our Jewish culture and
ish heritage and values. There is also a
heritage.
Kibud av vem: Honoring ones elders

BENJAMIN EDELMAN
If children are our most valuable
resource, then elders are our most
treasured ones. I myself did not realize this truth until this past year. My
school, Yavneh Academy in Paramus,
has a monthly visit to the Jewish Home
at Rockleigh and there I learned personally just how much our elders can
teach, inspire, and enlighten us. As a
participant in the program, I was given
the privilege of learning that simply taking care of an elders physical state isnt
enough. Their mind is something to be
treasured and held in high esteem. The
bond between an elder and a youth is
a mutual experience. Elders will share
wisdom, knowledge, and insight for the
youth to inherit, while the youth gives
the elders a love for life and a renewed
spark in their final years. Also, as one of
the Aseret HaDibrot, and a core Jewish
value, this ideal is an important one that
the whole world can learn from Judaism.
Adolescence can be a rough and challenging emotional rollercoaster for any
teenager. An adolescent may be plagued
by stress, emotional disarray, and social
anxiety. The major problem at hand with
these predicaments is that teens arent
sure how to deal with them. Although
they may seek the advice of their peers or
Danny, Shoshana,
Benny, and Nancy
Edelman; now
both Shoshana
and Benny have
won the Kaplun
award for their
essays.
other sources, sometimes these just dont

cut it. When a youth doesnt have anywhere else to turn to for advice, an elder,
someone of a long life of experience and
knowledge, can give them the insight they
require. The Jewish Home at Rockleigh
showed me this truth as I have been going
through certain challenges in my life. On
my first visit, I, along with my friend, sat
with an elder and talked to her about
her life and what she went through and
experienced. It was a wonderful thing,
but near the end of the conversation,
she had asked me what I hoped to do as

a job or career. I told her that I aspired
to work in animation or art. For a while I
had been uncertain about whether or not
art was a useful career and even doubted
my artistic talent, but what she had said
afterward had given me new hope. She
had told me an anecdote about how she
aspired to be an artist as well, but her parents refused to let her go to art school.
She eventually became a teacher and still
regrets that to this day, but used the story
to teach me an important life lesson:
follow your heart and your dreams. Its

your life, not anyone elses. She taught
me that day that I didnt have to live up
to anyone elses standards and to believe
in myself. Its clear that elders can help
even the most doubtful and anxious child
in a time when everything is uncertain
to them.
Although elders can help youths
through tough times, the same applies in
the opposite manner. Elders spirits light
up when they are with youths who share
their passions. At my most recent trip to
Rockleigh, I sat down with an elder who
enjoyed art. I grabbed some art supplies
that were lying around and we both made
watercolor paintings of tree-filled landscapes. Although he had not painted in
a long time, as he said doubtfully, I reassured him and he painted beautifully.
When I saw him paint, it was like seeing
an adult ride a bicycle for the first time
since childhood. It was as if the passion
inside them was relit and they had added
meaning in life. The same goes for when
the youths talk to the elders. You can see
it in their expression when they talk how
much they love sharing their wisdom and
experience. Their eyes light up wide and
a bright smile is not hard to see on their
faces. Giving elders a chance to talk to the
younger generation can obviously benefit
their mental state and give them a purpose of sharing with the next generation
in their final years on this planet.
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In 1979, the Esther and Sam Schwartz
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women; Gittin with Rabbi David Nachbar;
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There is also an evening class, The End of
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managing director, Rabbi Steven Weil.
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ithin days or at most weeks, the

United States will be concluding
its Iranian nuclear deal.
Those of us who have
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as a threat of nuclear proliferation throughout
the Middle East.
But perhaps the most troubling thing about
the negotiations is that President Obama has
not once demanded that Iran cease its public promises to murder the six
million Jews of Israel. Can the
leader of the free world really
welcome back into the community of nations a government that
repeatedly pledges its commitment to the annihilation of Israel
and its Jews? Will the 44th president of the United States confer
legitimacy on a government that
Rabbi
promises a second holocaust?
Shmuley
Perhaps we Jews have become
Boteach
so inured to threats against our
people that we are no longer
shocked by just how shocking this all is. But
aside from the disappointment about President
Obama not objecting even once to Ayatollah Ali
Khameinis tweet that there is no solution for
Israel other than annihilation, or even moderate President Rouhanis comment that the
Zionist regime has been a wound on the body
of the Islamic world for years and the wound
should be removed, there is the larger question of why none of this sickens our president.
Does President Obama hate evil? Is he
repulsed by these repeated Iranian pledges of
millions of Jews incinerated, presumably in a
nuclear fire?
I have long believed that one of the prerequisites of great and global leadership is a hatred
of evil.
Abraham Lincoln had no hesitation declaring his hatred for the abomination of slavery. In
1854 in Peoria he said, I cannot but hate slavery. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice
of slavery itself. Churchill said openly that I
hate no man but Hitler. And because he hated
the beast, he inspired a nation to fight him. The
French, who did not hate Hitler, collaborated
with him and sent Jews to the gas chambers
instead.
Hatred is itself hated, as if it serves no purpose, even in the confrontation with evil. Judaism, however, begs to differ. King Solomon
says clearly in Proverbs: The fear of the Lord
is to hate evil. King David says of the wicked in
Psalms: I have hated them with
a deep loathing. They are as enemies to me.
Let my Christian brothers
speak of loving their enemies.
Let my Catholic friends tell me
to turn the other cheek. When it
comes to governments that hang
gays from cranes, stone women
to death, and shoot peaceful
protesters through the heart, I
cannot but reject both New Testament teachings and instead
embrace the moral obligation to
loathe and resist them.
Ayatollah Ali Khameini is the number one
terrorist in the world. He delights in seeing his
merchants of death blow up innocent people
around the world. Yet our government treats
with him despite his repeated declarations
that no military sites will be open to IAEA
inspections.
This is not a deal. It is a farce.
This is not an agreement. It is an act of
desperation.
Ayatollahs who can publicly hang gay Muslim men from a construction rig may once
have been created in the image of God. That is
true of all human beings. But they have since
erased every last vestige of Gods image from
their countenance. They have ceased to be our
human brothers, have forever forfeited our
kinship, and have earned our enmity instead.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the founder of This World: The Values Network, which
defends Israel in world media. He is the author of Judaism for Everyone and 30 other books,
including his most recent, Kosher Lust. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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Loving the victims of such barbaric crimes may
generate compassion for their suffering. Still, it is not
enough. We must also hate the perpetrators in order
to stop their orgy of murder.
This is what has been missing in the West until now.
There have been so many excuses for terrorism and
a lack of moral clarity as to why terrorists do what
they do, especially when it involves the murder of
Jews. Suicide bombers in Israel have been excused as
being motivated by Israeli checkpoints and the lack of
an economic future. Hamas terror rockets, aimed at
Israeli cities, are dismissed as resulting from a naval
blockade.
We could easily say the same thing of the Charlie
Hebdo cartoonists who were murdered in cold blood
in Paris. Who can blame the Islamic terrorists for
feeling incensed at the constant attacks against their
prophet by scoundrels with a pen? Indeed, White
House spokesman Jay Carney said two years ago that
while the cartoonists had every right to freedom of
expression, they ought to exercise judgment as to
whether this incitement was prudent.
This kind of muddled moral thinking is dangerous.
It is exactly why the West has not summoned the iron
determination needed to defeat terrorism.
So let me be clear: I am repulsed by the government of Iran, which is hell-bent on acquiring nuclear
weapons and which is committed to the annihilation
of Israel. I loathe them. You should too.
I believe those who do not hate men who brutalize women and have their sons throw giant rocks at
their heads until they are dead have a broken moral
compass.
When it comes to the slaughter of innocents we must
brook no excuse, allow no rationalization, accept no
form of justification. Murder is always wrong. Period.
Forgetting how to hate can be just as damaging as
forgetting how to love. I realize that immersed as we
are in a Christian culture that exhorts us to turn the
other cheek, this can sound quite absurd. Little do
we remember, it seems, the talmudic aphorism that
those who are kind to the cruel end up being cruel to
the kind.
Indeed, exhortations to hate all manner of evil
abound in the Bible. Hatred is a valid emotion an
appropriate response when directed at the truly
evil: those who have gone beyond the pale of human
decency by committing acts that unweave the basic
fabric of civilized living.
In my deep and abiding respect for the Christian
faith, I state unequivocally that to love the terrorist
who flies a civilian plane into a civilian building or a
white supremacist who murders nine African-Americans at prayer in church in South Carolina is not just
misguided but immoral. To love evil is itself evil. It
constitutes a passive form of complicity. Indeed, to
show kindness to unrepentant murderers is to violate
the victims again.
The purpose of our hatred is not revenge but the
preservation of justice. I wholeheartedly embrace the
example of Simon Wiesenthal, one of the most inspirational men of the 20th century, who devoted his life to
the pursuit of justice by not allowing Nazi murderers
go to their graves in peace. Only if we hate evil passionately will we summon the determination to fight
it fervently. Odd and uncomfortable as it may seem,
hatred has its place.
One of the most frequent themes of my writings is
how we a generation with a 50 percent divorce rate
have forgotten how to love. But when it comes to the
war on terror, our biggest impediment might just be
that we have forgotten how to hate.
If Israel was not a democracy,

would American Jewry still support it?
merican Jews have flourished in America

the curtailments of democracy in Israel that I will describe
because America is a democracy, providing
below. Indeed, the history of Israel before the ascendency of
equal rights for all its citizens by law.
the right wing Likud-Bayit Yehudi-Yisrael Beitenu confederation is replete with suppression of freedom of expression of
True, this often has been more of an ideal
political views, especially under David Ben-Gurion.
than a reality, but that is not because our democratic system is inherently flawed. Since that is so, it has been posBen-Gurion heavy-handedly suppressed Revisionism,
sible for Jews to demand their rights when they were denied
Zeev Jabotinskys form of Zionism. Jabotinsky envisioned a
illegally, and to establish themselves as fully equal citizens
Jewish state, with borders on both banks of the Jordan and
in the United States. It is for this reason that American Jews
a Jewish majority populating it. Well aware of the Arab presence in this future state, Jabotinskys platform proposed that
not only value democracy, but it is why they generally view
Arabs would be completely equal citizens, serving in all the
Jewish values as equivalent to democratic ones.
states institutions, its government, and its army. Arabs also
Jewish values are not as straightforwardly democratic as
would serve as vice-premier when the prime minister was
American Jews of most stripes tend to think, however. There
Jewish, as would a Jew when an Arab was prime minister
certainly are democratic trends, even major ones, in the
(Ephraim Karsh, Middle East Quarterly, 2005, XXI, 31-42).
Jewish tradition, but there are authoritarian ones as well.
In response to Beitar, a Revisionist youth movement, BenOn one hand, the Talmud in terms of its general features
Gurion organized Hapoel, which was basically a militia. Its
reflects a democratic ethos. As is well known, it records
members physically and violently attacked
many views on any given subject and respectfully records and analyzes them. On the other
members of Beitar, often sending Beitar men
hand, in traditional Jewish thought the perfect
to the hospital.
government at the end of days is a monarchy.
There was also the infamous hunting season in which Menachem Begin, a Revisionist,
It is interesting to note that the Declaration
and his followers were pursued by the Haganof Independence of the State of Israel does
nah in 1944 and 1945. Revisionists including
not mention democracy. It was not until 1985
Begin were captured, jailed, tortured, and
that the Knesset passed the Basic Law that
turned over to the British authorities by Bendeclared Israel a Jewish and democratic
Gurions orders. After 1948, followers of the
state. This was done, believe it or not, to
Rabbi Dr.
Revisionists were denied aliyah visas and
thwart efforts to make Israel a theocracy. The
Michael
jobs under the leftist Labor party. And there
Basic Law has become the yardstick used by
Chernick
are still left-wing political figures who have
Israels Supreme Court to measure the validity of a law. The Basic Law, however, has not
served as MKs in the recent past who call
quite resolved a knotty question, Is Israel more a Jewish
every expression of a right wing position an incitement.
state or more a democratic one?
That can be an actionable crime in Israel. Indeed, one of
For American Jews, this debate appears to be a straw
these left-wing MKs, Yuli Tamir, fired teachers espousing
man. After all, as noted above, in the American Jewish mind
even center-right political views when she held the Ministry
Jewish and democracy subscribe to the same values. In
of Education portfolio. Now that the right is in the political
Israel, however, this is not as clear. For example, there are
drivers seat, it seems to be paying the left back for its sins.
Jewish religious factions that hold that if the democratically
Thus, for example, the prime minister consistently has
decided law of the state conflicts with what these groups
tried to win Israel Hayom (Israel Today), a daily newspaper,
consider to be the law of God, then the states law is not to
the right to be circulated free of charge. That would give it
be obeyed.
a competitive edge in the marketplace against newspapers
Certainly non- or anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jews accept
that are for sale. Israel Hayom, underwritten by American
this view. So, for example, their schools do not teach the
billionaire Sheldon Adelman, is basically a mouthpiece for
basic curriculum required by law for all Israel schools,
Netanyahu, the Likud, and its policies. The last Knesset tried
which includes a civics section. Similarly, some rabbis in
to pass a law prohibiting the papers free circulation as a
the religious Zionist camp have ordered their students who
danger to democracy, but it disbanded before it could do
serve as soldiers in the IDF to refuse to dismantle settleso. No doubt the prime minister and his supporters will try
ments that are declared illegal by the Israeli government.
again to pass legislation to allow foreign monetary support
According to them such an act is a violation of Jewish law,
and free circulation for the right wing Israel Hayom, even
which supersedes the law of the Knesset and the Supreme
as they continue their attempts to curtail financial support
Court.
for left wing NGOs.
It is not, however, the religious sector alone that has chalDespite the Declaration of Independence of the State of
lenged the equation between Jewish and democratic.
Israel declaring that Israel will ensure complete equality
There are laws presently proposed by secular members of
of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of reliKnesset to prevent non-governmental organizations that
gion, conscience, language, education and culture, there
are critical of Israels policies from receiving donations
has been an attempt to introduce the National Law. The
from outside the country. In many if not most instances,
law, if passed, would state the obvious that Israel is the
this would greatly curtail freedom of speech and the right
nation-state of the Jewish people. Less obviously, it would
to criticize government policy in Israel.
grant Jews citizenship as a collective; others in Israel would
Lest anyone think that this is about to be a condemnation
have citizenship as individuals. This means that no Israeli
of the Israeli right alone, I want to make it clear that the
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History in the making
Buffoon-in-chief
The disastrous Iran deal, and how to stop it
ast week brought another

extension in the negotiations of the historic capitulation that, left unchecked,
stands to endanger all of Western
civilization.
In the words of Charles Krauthammer, The devil is not in the details.
Its in the entire conception of the Iran
Laura
deal[.] The very underpinnings of
Fein
the deal, including the fabrication of
a new right to enrich uranium and
granting of significant sanctions relief
merely for staying at the table, empower the Iranian
regime and offer little hope that the deal will meet
its original intent of stopping Iran from obtaining a
nuclear weapon.
Other than the negotiators themselves and the
administrations own PR team, there are few who
doubt the deal has slipped far from its original goals
in every respect, and that it will fail to maintain
effective pressure on a regime that makes no pretense of its intentions to become a nuclear power.
Gone is the requirement that Iran disclose its past
nuclear research and designs, in order to provide a
baseline to judge if it continues to advance its program. Instead, Secretary Kerry made the ludicrous
assertion that Irans disclosures are unnecessary
because we have absolute knowledge already.
Gone too is the demand for anytime, anywhere
unimpeded inspections. Instead, we are asked to
buy the lie that managed access will suffice. The
deal cannot provide opportunities for cover-up and
delay to a regime known for secrecy and deceit.
Also discarded: the demand that performance
and verification precede sanctions relief. Already
billions of dollars in sanctions have been lifted, giving Irans economy a critical boost just when the
world needed to clamp down. The endless delays
and extensions testify to the impact of that relief.
Iran is in no rush.
Nor is Iran changing its rhetoric; earlier this week
Iran again called for Israels destruction, and said
that the United States will remain an enemy even
after the deal is signed. Releasing up to $150 billion in frozen assets as a signing bonus, and tens of
billions a year in sanctions relief, as currently proposed, will fund nuclear weapon development at
facilities that will not be inspected or even disclosed.
The money also will fund a generation of terror
and human rights abuses. In another abandonment
of principles, the negotiators seek to grant Iran a
financial bounty even as it remains the leading state
sponsor of terrorism, arms Hamas and Hezbollah,
and abuses human rights with impunity.
As Secretary Kerry shuttled off to Vienna for the
latest round of concessions, the State Department
issued new reports documenting Irans abuses. The
annual human rights assessment reported that the
Iranian government had arrested students, journalists, lawyers, political activists, womens activists, artists, and members of religious minorities,
many with crimes such as propaganda against the
system and had engaged in unlawful killings,
including, most commonly, execution after arrest
without due process.
The assistant secretary of state for human rights
said there had been no discernible

progress on human rights since Rouhani became president. Similarly, the
State Departments annual report on
terrorism, released a week earlier,
revealed that Iran continues to provide arms, financing, and training
to terrorist proxies in Iraq and Syria,
as well as refusing to bring senior Al
Qaeda members to justice. The number of attacks that kill more than 100
people has multiplied, from two in
2013 to 20 in 2014. The terrorism
assessment also concluded that neither the election
of President Rouhani nor the prospect of a nuclear
accord has had a moderating effect on Irans foreign
policy in the Middle East.
Even the administrations inner circle is growing alarmed. In an open letter to the White House
and State Department, reported in the New York
Times, five of Obamas former top advisors on Iran
expressed their concern that the negotiations will
not prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapons
capability nor require the dismantling of Irans
nuclear enrichment infrastructure. The letter
continued, Precisely because Iran will be left as a
nuclear threshold state (and has clearly preserved
the option of becoming a nuclear weapon state),
the United States must go on record now that it is
committed to using all means necessary, including
military force, to prevent this.
Congress clearly recognizes the need for a stronger deal or no deal at all, and an overwhelming
majority passed legislation to require Congressional
oversight. Yet actually exercising that oversight and
rejecting a feeble deal in opposition to the administration will take tremendous political will. Will
enough Democrats have the courage to vote against
the Presidents signature foreign policy initiative,
even as they come under tremendous political pressure and threats? Advocating military action, should
that become necessary (as many experts predict it
will) will take an even stronger commitment. That
commitment must be strengthened by voters themselves calling, writing, and demonstrating that they
will tolerate nothing less than the rejection of this
catastrophic deal.
On July 22, we will get the chance to show where
we stand. The Stop Iran Rally, featuring top military
experts and expected to draw more than 20,000
demonstrators, offers us all a chance to be authors
of history rather than passive observers. We must
show our leaders that we cannot tolerate their abandonment of principles in their zeal for detente, and
provide support to those who will stand firm and
reject a bad deal despite the political risks.
The course of history can be altered by citizens
banding together to demand leaders act on their
values. Demonstrations for civil rights and Soviet
Jewry sparked historic change and encouraged
strong leadership. This is a historic moment. Dont
miss your chance to make history.
Laura Fein is the executive director of ZOA-NJ. Email
her at ZOANJ@zoa.org. The Stop Iran Rally will take
place in Times Square on July 22 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
For more information, see www.stopiranrally.org.
It should be abundantly clear that

Donald Trump is our Buffoon-in-Chief
(One candidates Shabbos Trump
card, July 3). The idea that the Standard gives any coverage to this P.R.
hound is unfortunate, as it is a waste
of time and paper.
He adds nothing to the election
process but noise.
Elisha Gurfein, Englewood
Testing would-be
gun owners
I am convinced that an effective tool

for determining risk of violent behavior in individuals who desire ownership of firearms is psychometric testing (Working for smart guns, June
26). These are standardized examinations of personality performed by
expert psychologists. They are very
difficult for the tested individual to
manipulate. Polygraph (lie detector) examinations also would be
included. These methods are routinely used on individuals who are
being screened for security positions
in government, law enforcement and
private sector concerns. Some of the
well known tests are the Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory
(MMPI), the Myers-Briggs Preference
Type Indicator, the Personality Preference Inventory, and the Attitudes
Studies-Likert Scale.
I strongly contend that all individuals who apply for firearm ownership
and have already passed thorough
background checks should be
required to pass such testing batteries
in order to secure a license for ownership of dangerous firearms. The tests
should be repeated at appropriate
intervals for renewal of the permit.
This policy would involve significant expense to the applicant (who
will be held responsible for this) and
it would take a long time. Sometimes,
deserving applicants will be excluded
until they are able to pass the tests
after a required time interval. Some
few undeserving applicants may slip
by. Of course, the black market will
always be a factor. But many dangerous (criminal/mentally ill) applicants
will be weeded out.
I feel that this approach is worth a
try. Lives would be saved.
Jerrold Terdiman MD, Woodcliff Lake
We need more guns
I would like to respond to the article

by Joanne Palmer that was published
on June 26, 2015 about Rabbi Joel
Mosbacher and his mission to bring
smart gun technology to the market.
The biggest impediment to bringing smart guns to the market is the
New Jersey smart gun mandate that
was passed with the strong support
of State Senator Loretta Weinberg.
This law mandates that once a smart
gun is sold anywhere in the country,

that within three years that will be the
only gun that can be sold in New Jersey. This law needs to be repealed in
its entirety, because it will keep this
technology from coming to the market and it will also serve as a de facto
ban on handguns, thus violating the
Second Amendment.
Second Amendment supporters
stand together nationwide to fight
attacks on our liberty by individuals like Loretta Weinberger and will
never sell smart guns as long as doing
so will trigger the New Jersey smart
gun law. We saw this recently when
the Oaktree Gun Club in California
put such a firearm on the market and
quickly took it off of its shelf when
they realized the impact it would
have in New Jersey. Therefore, New
Jersey will have to take a more practical approach if it wishes to impact the
advancement of firearm technology.
The safe gun law is also a transparent yet subtle attempt to do nothing
other than make firearm ownership
more restrictive for law-abiding New
Jersey residents. It will limit their
access to only a few firearms that will
be vastly inferior and more expensive than firearms available in other
states. The smart gun law is clearly
not geared towards its stated purpose
of promoting the technology by guaranteeing a market to manufacturers.
If that were the case, instead of such
a mandate, New Jersey would enter
into agreements with manufacturers
to purchase these firearms for use by
law enforcement. Not only would this
guarantee the manufacturer a high
volume of sales, but having the product in use by law enforcement would
be great marketing for the general
public. Instead, the law exempts law
enforcement from its effects.
There is no reason whatsoever to
exempt law enforcement from this
law. The sole difference between
a police officers right to use a firearm and a regular citizens is that a
citizen has a duty to retreat before
using deadly force in self-defense,
whereas a police officer is prohibited
from retreating. This technology creates no practical difference that warrants different treatment between law
enforcement and the public. If the
technology is not good enough for
our police officers, it is also not good
enough for law-abiding citizens who
have the right to defend themselves.
Moreover, the underlying tone of
the article warranted placing it into
the editorial section rather than as a
news story. The author states that it
would be understandable for Rabbi
Mosbacher to want to ban all guns,
presumably because his father was
murdered with a firearm.
Like it or not, the Supreme Court
has repeatedly held that the Second
Letters
Amendment guarantees individuals the
right to keep and bear arms. The irony
that one of the laws that was held unconstitutional was the same law that put Lester
Mosbachers murderer on notice that Mr.
Mosbacher would be unarmed was apparently lost on Joanne Palmer. Moreover, I
have seen previous articles in this publication that have had a heavy slant towards
impeding upon the Second Amendment.
Recent Supreme Court decisions on firearm rights guarantee that our society will
have to deal with the reality of armed criminals into the foreseeable future and disarming the law-abiding citizens will only serve
to make criminals more dangerous. Therefore we need to consider how to make ourselves safer within this context and should
look to repeal many of the laws that disarm
our law-abiding citizenry against criminals
who do not adhere to these laws.
As the right to bear arms is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution, it
is intellectually dishonest to advocate for
laws that infringe upon these rights just
because one does not agree with the Second Amendment, while also advocating
against restrictions on other fundamental rights, such as the right to free speech,
abortion, or even marriage. Would it be
acceptable to those who supported the
New Jersey smart gun law to require all
abortions performed within New Jersey
to be performed only using tools that significantly raise the price of the procedure
and thereby reduce the number of medical
providers who can provide the procedure?
Would it be acceptable to make it so cumbersome to obtain an abortion that it took
90 days to get the procedure performed?
New Jersey laws make obtaining a firearm so difficult that it takes months to get
a permit approved. Where was the outrage
in this publication when Carol Browne was
murdered in June, long after applying to
her local New Jersey police department for
a firearms permit? Although the law states
that the police have only 30 days to approve
a permit, it is impossible for the police to
complete the required investigation within
that time period. If New Jersey adhered to
the federal requirements and background
check Carol Browne would have had a gun
and might still be alive today.
For these reasons, New Jersey needs to
eliminate its smart gun law and roll back
many of its firearm laws that serve no purpose other than making it more difficult for
law abiding citizens to exercise their fundamental rights. Every New Jersey firearm
restriction that is unduly burdensome or
does not enhance public safety needs to be
Michael Reich, Teaneck
eliminated.
No place for BDS
The recent article by progressive Zionists invoked George Orwell in their claims
about attempts at unfair exclusion from the
World Zionist Elections process (Its not
1938, its 1984, July 3).
One of the Orwellianisms they failed to
cite was Lies are Truth.
The progressive Ameinus Hatikvah
slate should have been excluded from the

Zionist elections. Why? Because Ameinu
falsely claimed that the Hatikvah slate
groups combat the Boycott, Divestion, and
Sanctions movement. The truth is that the
Partners for Progressive Israel, one of the
top Hatikvah slate members, has been promoting discriminatory boycotts against
close to 200 Israeli and Jewish-owned businesses and industries, as seen on its website. PPI also supports cultural anti-Israel
anti-Jewish boycotts, including against the
performing arts center in Ariel, a university
community where over 25,000 Jews live.
PPI had also been working against the antiboycott bill in the state of Illinois. Ameinu
also shares offices with PPI. Through its
The Third Narrative subsidiary, it promotes severe international sanctions,
including travel restrictions and financial
penalties, against Israeli officials [fellow
Jews] with whom it disagrees.
The article also does not mention that
the Hatikvah slate included leaders of
virulent supporters of the BDS movement,
including Americans for Peace Now. Peace
Now can be clearly seen on its website promoting boycotts against Jewish and Israeliowned businesses that have any facility
over the Green Line, including in eastern
Jerusalem. The slate also included the New
Israel Fund, which funds BDS groups in
Judea and Samaria, and funded the BDS
infrastructure. The Progressive Zionist list
included J Street, which promotes and
delivers leading BDS speakers to conferences and college campuses. They also
included Open Hillel, which works with
the vile anti-Israel group Students for Justice in Palestine, to try to force campus Hillel chapters to host BDS events who openly
promote Israels destruction.
While there is always room for legitimate
differences of opinions within the Jewish
people, those who wholeheartedly support
the BDS movement are outside the realm of
acceptability. The BDS movement is clearly
anti-Semitic. To discriminate against the
over 600,000 Jews who live beyond the
Green Line simply supports the enemies of
the Jewish people and embitters the lives
of all the Jews in the land of Israel, wherever they live. Those who point this hypocrisy out do not demonize the progressives. Zionism can never include boycotts
against Jewish communities simply based
on where they live. Those who sit with the
enemies of all Jews delude themselves into
believing that they somehow help.
Withdrawal from Gaza brought missiles and terror. Withdrawal from Lebanon
brought missiles and terror. Withdrawal
from Judea and Samaria based on a forced
concession from Israel will bring doves and
rainbows? Hardly. Orwell would recognize
the Surrender is Peace and National Suicide is a Bright Future as slogans that truly
reflect the actions of these left-wing groups.
They hardly reflect the opinion and views
of what is acceptable for American Jewry
and they should never be allowed a place
at the table.
Scott David Lippe, M.D., Fair Lawn
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recall all too clearly, the noted hisBalkans that followed the disintegration
torian Tony Judt wrote a searing
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and strengthening of the Union was exemReview of Books.
plified by the adoption and subsequent
Titled Israel: The Alternative, Judt, whose
expansion of the Euro single currency in
impressive scholarship was focused largely on
2002, which resulted in established curEurope, depicted the Jewish state as a reacrencies like the German mark and the
tionary outpost of 19th century nationalism
French franc being consigned to the hisBen Cohen
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economies that were at dramatically different stages of
Insofar as an article can be said to have gone viral during
development started to multiply. And now Greece, an EU
a year when most people were still accessing the Internet
veteran that first entered the Union in 1981, is experiencing
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works on two levels. One is a complex dispute about
Yet there was one important difference: Judt was writdebt rescheduling and the degree to which austerity
ing at a time when the EU as an institution, along with
measures should be imposed. The second is a far simits underlying post-nationalist political vision, was very
pler contest, rooted in politics. Competition between
much in the ascendant. One year after his article was
nation-states, and therefore nationalism itself, has
published, the EU expanded its membership with 10
returned to Europe with a vengeance. One has to wonnew states, from Central and Eastern Europe and the
der whether Tony Judt, who sadly died in 2010 following
Mediterranean. Then, in 2007, Romania and Bulgaria
a devastating illness, would be describing the European
joined the roster. In 2013, Croatia entered in the EU, just
idea as an anachronism were he still with us.
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Of course, partisans of Europes grand unifying ambitions
always had a tendency, for ideological reasons, to exaggerate the influence of this project upon European national politics. (In the early 1970s, the terrorist Irish Republican Army
used a Judt-like argument when it sneered that Britain, in
contrast to its European neighbors, was a recidivist nation,
psychologically vulnerable, unstable, and mentally immature.) Even so, the case for Europe as the locus for what
the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant termed the
perpetual peace now seems decidedly shaky.
We are seeing the disintegration every day on the streets
of Athens, Thessaloniki, and other Greek cities. The sight of
pensioners jostling outside banks to withdraw their meager
savings is one of the more distressing aspects of this entire
episode. The Greek government, locked in a bitter fight with
Germany over the 68 billion euros it owes to Berlin, invokes
not the European idea, but the heavily nationalist, anti-austerity political platform that its far-left Syriza government
was elected on.
Thats why Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called
on his fellow citizens to vote no in the referendum over
whether to accept the EUs punishing conditions for a fiscal
rescue operation. (Ultimately, the people of Greece decisively rejected the bailout in Sundays vote.) Its also why the
violently anti-Semitic neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party, which
finished third in the last Greek election, backed Tsipras. For
too many Greeks, the EU is no longer a symbol of wealth
secured through regional integration, but rather in the
words of Tsipras himself the originator of absurd and
unrealistic proposals that will leave his country at the
mercy of Europes Central Bank.
It is far too early to say whether Greece will reverse the
course of European history by reviving the ugly political traditions that the EU thought had been vanquished
after World War II. But with the collapse of the European
idea there, along with the severe disillusionment in other
EU states (the U.K. will soon hold its own referendum on

whether to leave the Union), there is every reason to worry
that both the far left and the far right will reap the rewards
that will flow from Europes shattered consensus.
In such conditions, anti-Semitism flourishes. In his recent
book, The War of a Million Cuts, the Israeli political analyst Manfred Gerstenfeld quotes a rabbi in Greece as telling
him, Greece is a very traditional society, and they blame
the Jews for killing Jesus. There are still people who believe
that Jews drink the blood of Christians on Passover. A justreleased poll from the Anti-Defamation League reveals
that a whopping 67 percent of Greeks harbor anti-Semitic
attitudes.
Greece is not alone. Similar discontent, expressed
through communal chauvinism and exclusivist nationalism,
is visible in the east and west of the continent, from France
to Poland. Rachman, the Financial Times columnist, candidly expresses the stakes involved. If Greece departs the
Euro, he argues, that would undermine the fundamental
EU proposition: that joining the European club is the best
guarantee of future prosperity and stability.
Again, I dont want to sound apocalyptic. This isnt 1933,
when Hitler came to power, nor (in a date that will be more
familiar to U.S. readers) is it 1861, when the slave states
seceded from Americas Union, ushering in four years of
civil war. Nor is Europes crisis a Jewish crisis, though you
can be sure that the blame the Jews chorus that invariably
accompanies financial meltdown will grow louder. Hence, if
Europe has proved anything, its not that Israel is an anachJNS WIRE SERVICE
ronism. It is, rather, a necessity.
Democracy
favor of these laws, and has publicly stated that she thinks
it is appropriate to rein in the Supreme Court. In fact, she
has set it as a major goal. She considers this restoring the
rule of law to Israel.
If it passes, the prime ministers and Ms. Shakeds legislation would render the Supreme Court essentially powerless. Thus, for example, if the Knesset passed a law in
conflict with the Basic Law, which protects human rights
and dignity, and the Supreme Court declared the legislation invalid, the Knesset could reverse the Courts decision were the prime minister and Ms. Shaked to have their
way.
None of this bodes well for Israel as a democracy. So I
cannot help but wonder whether the majority of American Jews would support Israel if it was no longer the
only democracy in the Middle East. Let us hope that the
American Jewish community wont ever have to make that
choice. And let us use all the available means of communicating our concerns about Israel and its policies to its
leaders, along with reiterations of our support for it as a
Jewish but clearly democratic state.
You can contact Benjamin Netanyahu, Israels prime
minster, with your thoughts, concerns, and comments by
using your search engine to find Contact the Prime Minister of Israel and following the directions on the prime
ministers home page.
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Jew could be deprived of his or her citizenship or citizens

benefits under any circumstances. Israeli Arab citizens,
however, could lose their citizenship and its benefits if
the judiciary or the states DA thought they should. Fortunately, the bill was not passed. But its proponents plan
to bring it up again at what they consider a propitious
moment for its passage.
One of the important bulwarks that maintains democracy in Israel has been the Supreme Court. Its judges for
the most are part fairly conservative. Indeed, their decisions often have been controversial from the point of view
of the Israeli left. Its judges have approved of political
assassinations and the indefinite incarceration of prisoners, notably Palestinians, without the government stating
the charges against them. It has, however, also declared
certain settlements illegal, and ruled in favor of Palestinian claims of rights violations when the Israel security
fence separated their homes from their fields.
In light of the above, it is a matter of concern that the
prime minister saw fit to appoint Ayelet Shaked, who is
neither a lawyer nor a jurist, to head the Ministry of Justice. This gives her considerable say about what the powers of the Supreme Court are, and what they will be in
the future. One bill proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahus right-wing Likud and Jewish Home would
make it easier for the Knesset to override judicial quashing
of Knesset legislation. Another seeks to limit the courts
ability to invalidate Knesset legislation by requiring such
decisions be considered by its full 15-justice bench (Forward, May 17, 2015). Ms. Shaked, who is a secular Jew, is in
Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org and The Tower

Magazine, writes a weekly column for JNS.org on Jewish
affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the
Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.
Professor Michael Chernick holds the Deutsch Family Chair

in Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York; his
area of expertise is the Talmud. He received his doctorate
from the Bernard Revel Graduate School and rabbinic
ordination from R. Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.
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Promised Land
Israeli rapper, Jersey rocker team up to translate Grateful Dead to Hebrew
LARRY YUDELSON
hen you listen to the

record, its no surprise
that the two friends who
made it met in a bar.
The Promised Land: The Grateful Dead
/ Jerry Garcia Hebrew Project features 16
songs from the legendary bands repertoire translated to Hebrew.
As the whole world knows by now, the
Grateful Dead just played its final series of
concerts in Chicago last weekend, marking both the end of its touring life and the
50th anniversary of its creation.
The Promised Land is not just translated, but relocated: The Grateful Dead
songs set in the American South and West
have been remapped to Israeli locations
Sderot, the Galilee, and Jerusalem replace
Reno, Tennessee, and San Francisco. What
hasnt been changed is the outlaw side of a
band whose members often were pigeonholed as hippies for their starring role in
the Acid Tests and Summer of Love of the
1960s. If the Deads best known songs are
cosmic, perhaps stoned contemplation
(Ripple, Uncle Johns Band, Box of
Rain), Promised Land reaches a
bit deeper into the set list for tales
of bank robbers, thieves on the
lam, prostitutes, and miscellaneous
drunk neer-do-wells.
The record is a collaboration
between Khen Rotem who as
Sagol 59 recorded Israels first hip
hop album back in 2000 and Ami
Vares, a Cherry Hill-born musician who just recently returned to
America after nine years in Israel.
Mr. Rotem wrote the lyrics. Mr.
Vares played lead guitar and led
the band, which included drums
and keyboard.
Khen and I had crossed paths
a number of times, Mr. Vares
said. We met at a local bar.
Mr. Rotem noted that Mr. Vares
played a lot of country music and
folk songs and Americana the
musical genres behind the Grateful Dead sound.
I threw this thing at him, Mr.
Rotem said. He immediately jumped on
my proposal to do it together. It was a very
fruitful collaboration. He provided the
music and a lot of the ideas. We recorded
at his flat in Jaffa. Its a good partnership.
Khen Rotem, left, and Ami Vares collaborate on the Grateful Dead
tribute in Hebrew at Vares apartment in Jaffa. MARK SEGAL/SEGAL STUDIO
Mr. Vares had been playing many of

these songs with their original English
lyrics for years. He first discovered the
Grateful Dead as a budding guitar player
in high school in Cherry Hill. The people I
looked up to were all Deadheads, he said. But he

never heard them play; he
was only 15 when Jerry Garcia died. I got to the Dead
after things had all ended,
unfortunately. The closest
I came to hearing them was
RatDog, a band featuring
the Grateful Deads rhythm
guitarist Bob Weir and bassist Rob Wasserman.
I like rockabilly and two
step shuffle stuff, Mr. Vares
said. I had been playing
with a group, primarily bluegrass and Americana. We had our following in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv but were by
no means successful. We were two guitars
and a mandolin and a washboard. That
sound was the template for The Promised

Land.
The result is a Hebrew-language record
that highlights how little the twangs of
American country music penetrated
Israeli pop and rock over the decades
until now.
Country and western is not that big
here all this roots Americana music, Mr.
Rotem said. I have this theory that Israelis prefer British music. Israelis like the
Beatles, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Dire Straits,
Police, Cure, Radiohead. A lot of big name
American bands are not that well known
in Israel, like the Allman Brothers, Leonard Skynyrd.
Mr. Rotem had known some of Grateful
Deads well known songs like Truckin
and Casey Jones and Throwing Stones
and Touch of Grey. But his relationship
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Jerry Garcia with the Lark Street

guitar; the guitar in close up.
Jerry Garcia, left, and David Grisman.
Jerrys guitar
JOANNE PALMER
Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Deads leader, at least unofficially, died in 1995.
(He was just 53; hed lived in a way
that was hard on his body.)
(For a sweet bit of trivia although
Mr. Garcia was not Jewish, he was
named after a Jew. Jerome Garcia
was named for the composer Jerome
Kern.)
Mr. Garcia left a huge amount of
music behind him, as well as a band
that in various incarnations has toured
until its last stand, last weekend, 50
years after it began. He also left his
guitars.
with the band changed two years ago,

when I moved in with my girlfriend, a
certified Deadhead who grew up in San
Francisco, he said. I got deeper into it.
I chose the songs

that have more
ballad or blues
format, a more
square format,
that can be more
easily translated.
I started to dive deeper into the material.
That was the beginning of the translation project.
I went through nearly all of the songs,
he said. Some are virtually untranslatable. I chose the songs that have more ballad or blues format, a more square format,
that can be more easily translated. Songs
One of those guitars, a prototype

Alvarez-Yairi, is at Lark Street Music in
Teaneck.
It was one of Jerrys main acoustic
guitars. He used in the early 90s, when
he played it on his collaborations with
David Grisman, Buzzy Levine, Lark
Streets owner and presiding genius,
said. You can see it in several places
on YouTube.
Its unique, in that it has a graphite composite neck and a peghead
shape, he continued. Its very identifiable. You can see him using it in the
that I like and that touched me on a certain

level and that could be easily interpreted.
He focused on the songs where Jerry
Garcia wrote the melodies and Robert
Hunter wrote the words. He got permission from the Deads publishing company
to do the project.
Back in 2000, Mr. Rotem released Israels first solo hip hop album, The Blue
Period. On this and his subsequent hip
hop albums, he included an Israeli version of a classic hip hop track. He doesnt
see the move from hip hop to the Grateful
Dead as a big leap.
I was always playing the guitar and I
like to sing the blues, he said. I like to
play fresh and interesting stuff and not get
stuck in one particular style. Even Snoop
Dogg did some country music.
I dont like to limit myself as an artist. I
want to go where the inspiration takes me.
Im always looking for new avenues and
new challenges.
One challenge the project posed was
diving into someone elses world, he
continued.
Usually rappers write their own stuff.
Warfield Theater in San Francisco, in

Squaw Valley in California, in all kinds
of venues.
Alvarez gave Jerry three guitars
but the others were not as distinctive
looking as this one is.
David Grisman Dawg is the
Hackensack-born bluegrass mandolin
player and composer who has played
with influential, top-of-their-field musicians ranging from the bluegrass-y
Doc Watson to the klezmer-y Andy
Statman, as well, of course, as with
Jerry Garcia.
The company gave it to him as a
prototype in 1990, and Jerry played it
for a couple of years, Mr. Levine said.
David told me that he used it at most
of the acoustic disks he and Jerry
did they did a couple of albums
together. He used it at festival and in
performances.
How to listen to or buy

The Promised Land
You can stream or buy a digital
copy of The Promised Land at
thepromisedland1.bandcamp.com.
Streaming is free; the download is $7.
Here you have to get on the same wavelength of the original people who wrote it
30, 40, or 50 years ago. I learned a lot from
reading the lyrics over and over and toiling
over the translations.
One of the decisions I made very early
was to try to preserve the phonetics of
the songs, so the syllables and the way it
sounds will be familiar, and to Israelize the
lyrics. It was unnatural to sing in Hebrew
about Wichita and Utah and Reno.
These two goals came together in his
translation of the song Tennessee Jed.
The original chorus: Tennessee, Tennessee, there aint no place Id rather
be/Baby wont you carry me back to
Tennessee.
The Hebrew version sings about Kfar
Nasi, a kibbutz in the Galilee a mile from
the Golan. Kfar Nasi, Kfar Nasi, zah
Around 92 or 93 they were in the

studio together, Jerry and David, and
Jerry asked the engineer what kind of
guitar he played. The guy said a Penco
a cheap $100 guitar and Jerry
said Here, have this one, and he gave
it to him.
Why did he give it? Because there
wasnt a lack of guitars in his life, and
he was a kindhearted person. The guy,
the engineer, had put in a lot of time
over the years with him.
It was a gift.
Flash forward to today. The fellow
who owns it has mounting health care
bills. This is the one thing we have that
is of value. He has a mountain of bills,
so we are trying to sell it for him, Mr.
Levine said.
Of course, he has played the guitar.
Its deep and resonant and it speaks
well, Mr. Levine said. Jerry loved it.
hamokom hachi tov bishveli / Baby boI

kchi oti el Kfar HaNasi.
And where the verses in English conclude along the lines of You know you
bound to wind up dead, If you dont head
back to Tennessee Jed. Or Got a letter
this morning, baby all it read / You better
head back to Tennessee Jed. The Hebrew
version has the character similarly hapless, drunk, and breaking his spine eyeing a return to the Galilee and the Golan.
Shake shake Sugaree becomes Sheket
sheket metukatee sheket meaning
hush, but sounding like shake; metukatee
meaning my sweetie, a translation both
literal and phonetic.
Musically, the goal was to put together
something that caught a little of the Dead
over the years, Mr. Vares said. Not copying; playing tribute, without reinventing
the wheel. Being inspired by them to do
our own improvisation of what they were
doing.
Things just came up in terms of the
arrangements. The oud solo in I Know
You Rider was holy crap, I have an oud
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Touch of pray
Celebrating Shabbat and the Grateful Dead
HOWARD BLAS
CHICAGO What a long, strange trip its
been for Shu Eliovson.
The American-born resident of Kfar
Maimon, a religious moshav in southern
Israel, Eliovson is CEO and co-founder of
the tech start-up Likeminder, an anonymous social networking site for authentic
conversation with likeminded people.
He is also an ordained rabbi, though his
colorful pants, fedora, and purple T-shirt
with the Grateful Deads famed dancing
bear logo make him unconventional, to
say the least.
A father of five, Eliovson is also the
founder of JamShalom, a grassroots
movement bringing spiritual connection
to music festivals across North America.
Since 2011, he has become a legendary face
and somewhat of a pied piper to fellow

Jewish travelers on the American jam band
scene. Eliovson speaks of music festivals
as a tremendous opportunity to create a
spiritual encounter and looks for places
to throw down a big Shabbos.
JamShalom is about celebrating the
inherent spiritual joy of music, and
its power to bring like-spirited people
together and sharing a Jewish experience
that is unique, he said.
And what better place was there to
have an epic Shabbat throwdown than
the Grateful Deads Fare Thee Well Tour
three nights of shows, Friday through
Sunday, at Chicagos Soldier Field marking
the 50th anniversary of the bands founding (as well as the 20th anniversary of the
groups final show with frontman Jerry
Garcia)?
Typically, Grateful Dead shows (along

with those of their like-minded brethren,
like Phish) occurred over several days, at
venues in which camping becomes an integral part of the experience. But because of
strict ordinances against camping in downtown Chicago, Eliovson found himself in a
bind in the weeks leading up to the Deads
final shows: How could he create a temporary, intentional community in a space
where camping wasnt allowed? And how
would people keep the spirit of Shabbat if
they needed to shlep long distances to the
stadium?
I needed a miracle! Eliovson quipped,
using the familiar Dead lingo.
His miracle came in the form of Rabbi
Leibel Moscowitz of Chabad of the South
Loop. After a few calls, Moscowitz was able
to offer use of a lot owned by a Chabad
supporter the space was undeveloped

but highly visible to concertgoers. Eliovson was granted permission to set up several RVs and a Shabbat tent. Along with his
18-year-old daughter and a few members
of the JamShalom crew, he set out by van
from New York to Chicago, kosher food in
tow.
On Thursday evening, the entourage
began setting up camp only to discover,
at 9 p.m., that the ban on RV camping was
to be strictly enforced, even on a privately
owned lot. The JamShalom village was
shut down; desperate posts on Facebook
informed followers that the group was
seeking a new site.
With Shabbat only four hours away, on
Friday afternoon the group worked out a
deal with a less conspicuous parking lot on
South Michigan Avenue, one block from
More than 70,000 fans packed
Chicagos Soldier Field for the
finale of the Grateful Deads
three-concert Fare Thee Well
tour on July 5.
HOWARD BLAS
Cover Story
the Chabad HQ at a luxury residential building and just

a few blocks from Soldier Field.
Volunteers quickly set up tents, chairs, tables, and
Grateful Dead-themed decorations. The unexpected
move meant canceling some advertised programs, like
Munches and Meditations with Rabbi Shu, as well as
the 3 p.m. Beer and Blessings. But fortunately, by the
time Shabbat rolled in, the tent, two RVs and a colorfully painted bus with God is One and Na Nach (for
Rabbi Nachman of Bratslov) in Hebrew were set up on
the site.
At 6 p.m., some 25 guests who were encouraged to
bring instruments, voices and dancing shoes met for
a musical Kabbalat Shabbat service. Rabbi Moshe Shur,
Hebrew project
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and I havent used it! Maybe next time it will have more
regional influences.
Next time?
Hopefully there will be another album. Khens
already working on more translations. Ripple is in the
works, he said.
So is a winter tour of the United States, or at least the
East Coast.
Mr. Vares is back in Philadelphia after years in Israel,
where he was a freelance musician and teaching artist.
I did a lot of work for the U.S. embassy teaching
social action music. A lot of work for the Reform movement teaching about pluralism, he said.
He ran an Israeli-Palestinian youth project exploring
how to be change-makers via their art. I used music in a
creative way to bridge people, to spread tolerance and
understanding.
He wrote and performed his own music with a couple
of different albums. And before returning to the U.S., he
finished a world music album featuring musicians from
Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, Jordanians, Iranians, and
Indians. That album is coming out soon.
Now he travels up and down the East Coast, giving
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It belonged to a customer, who
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here.
The board soon sold but then the
purchaser moved to Estonia, a bit far
north for comfortable surfing.
So I bought it back from him, Mr.
Levine said. Its had its own long,
strange trip.
the former director of the Queens College Hillel and a

longtime member of the Jewish music scene, led the service with an inspiring rendition of Lecha Dodi set to
the classic Dead songs Ripple and Uncle Johns Band.
Midway through the service, those lucky enough to have
tickets for Friday nights show headed out.
Zach Finkelstein, 22, of Long Island, who drove from
New York with the JamShalom caravan, was happy with
the scene.
It is almost like going to Israel, he said. You land,
you feel it in your heart. You are home. There are no
strangers. We are all here for the same reason peace,
music and a good time!
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concerts and workshops about social change, generally

at high schools and universities.
His favorite song on The Promised Land?
I love Mission in the Rain, which in Hebrew is
about Nachlaot, the Jerusalem neighborhood that today
is home to a number of Deadheads and to the Radio Free
Nachlaot Internet radio station, featuring a mixture of
Torah and classic rock.
Theres plenty of cosmic wisdom in the lyrics of Robert Hunter. Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,
he wrote in Ripple. If your cup is full may it be again /
Let it be known there is a fountain /That was not made
by the hands of man. Or, from another song: Its just a
box of rain / I dont know who put it there / Believe it if
you need it / or leave it if you dare.
But thats not the side that comes out in the songs chosen for The Promised Land.
Yes, they have motifs and recurring themes, like
gambling and drinking and outlaws and guns and life
and death. Theres a lot of recurring themes that pop up.
Its not all mellow. Its something about the cycle of life,
living and dying in America.
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The U.S. and Iran

What might happen once a deal is in place?
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Years before it is
deemed a success or a failure, a nuclear
deal between Iran and the major powers
could unleash far-reaching changes in the
region.
Much of the focus in Congress and the
media in recent weeks has been on whether
the deal would inhibit Irans nuclear capability via a tough inspections regimen, or
enhance that capability by keeping some
amount of uranium enrichment in place.
And while the full military dimensions
of the deal may not be known for years,
its political and diplomatic dimensions
are likely to play out within months of an
agreement. Much depends on what the
deal looks like, whether its backers or opponents prevail in shaping its public perception, and how the Obama administration
handles the post-deal landscape.
It will take several months to determine if this agreement will function,
said Aaron David Miller, a vice president at the Wilson Center think tank and
a longtime Middle East negotiator for
several presidential administrations.

Hurdles facing the Obama administration include congressional approval, which
is required after a deal is reached, and
obstruction from the deals opponents,
chief among them Israel, Miller said.
The Saudis and the Israelis and Republicans will make a great effort to persuade
[congressional] Democrats that this is a fundamentally flawed agreement, he said. I
wouldnt rule out the idea of Israelis going
to cyber warfare, to black ops against Iran.
Israel has been blamed for assassinations
targeting top Iranian nuclear scientists in
recent years.
Among the issues Iran watchers will be
tracking:
Will a nuclear deal between Iran and
the major powers improve the Islamic
Republics relations with the United States,
or will it further stoke tensions? And which
scenario would be better for Israel?
Saudi Arabia and Persian Gulf states
have increased their purchases of antimissile systems in the last few years, leading Israel to press the Obama administration to maintain its qualitative military edge
President Barack Obama teleconferences about the Iran nuclear talks from the
White House with Secretary of State John Kerry on March 31.
PETE SOUZA/FLICKR
over those countries. Would a deal abate

regional anxieties and slow down the arms
race now underway among the Gulf States
and Israel? Or will it push regional powers
to consider nuclear weapons development
seriously?
Would a deal free Iran to expand its
regional hegemony, or would it moderate
Irans mischief-making?
Ken Pollack, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institutions Center for Middle East
Policy, has focused his work on Iran and

its nuclear capacity. He outlined four postdeadline scenarios: a deal and a U.S. retreat
from the region, which would embolden
Iran; a deal and U.S. engagement in the
region, which would moderate Iran; a failure to achieve a deal, in which the United
States is blamed and the sanctions regime
collapses, which would embolden Iran; a
failure to achieve a deal, blamed on Iran,
SEE IRAN PAGE 40
Spoilers alert
Six guys to watch the day after an Iran deal
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON A nuclear deal between
Iran and the major world powers is due to
be finalized by Tuesday. Until now, critics of
the emerging deal have argued that its bad,
getting worse, but could be improved. Once
negotiators on both sides come up with a
final deal, the skeptics will have to decide
whether and how to oppose it.
Here are six people to watch once the
deal is done:
Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu
This agreement is going from a bad agreement to a worse agreement, and is becoming worse by the day, the Israeli prime
minister said Sunday when he met with his
Cabinet just two days before the original
deal deadline, June 30.
So once its signed, sealed, and delivered,
hes going to do his best to foil it, right?
He might want to, but his options are
limited. It wouldnt be unprecedented
for Israel to take military action without consulting the United States. In 1981,
Israel struck the Osirak nuclear site in
Iraq without warning the United States.
Then as now, the Israeli prime minister

and the American president did not get
along. But Irans nuclear program is more
diverse, spread across the country and
better reinforced than was Saddam Husseins program (partly to defend against an
Osirak-like Israeli attack). A strike could be
counterproductive.
Israels military establishment is known
to have resisted a preemptive strike in the
past, when Netanyahu and Ehud Barak,
then the defense minister, advanced the
prospect between 2009 and 2011. While
Netanyahu may then have argued in favor
of a strike, he also has a reputation for caution when it comes to waging war. In 2012
and last year, he resisted pressure from
his Cabinet to strike back against rocket
attacks in the Gaza Strip until he believed
there were no other options.
There is still at least one other option for
Netanyahu: Persuade Congress to nix the
deal, which it is entitled to do under legislation passed earlier this year. Such a turn
of events would not be unthinkable, but
it would place a foreign leader in direct
conflict with a sitting U.S. president in a
domestic political arena. Like thats never
happened.
Egypts President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is among the six people whose reactions
to the deal will matter.
ADAM BERRY/GETTY IMAGES
Howard Kohr,
AIPACs executive director
Kohr likely will be with his aides, poring
over the agreement, as soon as it hits the
Internet, and maybe before.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has been circulating a five-point
sheet outlining what it would consider a
good deal.
The emerging deal appears to satisfy the
first three of AIPACs criteria: access for
inspectors, access to past information on
Irans nuclear weapons development, and

sanctions relief tied to Iranian compliance.
AIPACs condition No. 4, rejecting the 10-15
year time limit for deal compliance, and No.
5, the dismantlement of Irans nuclear infrastructure, will be harder.
Kohr could decide to rally opposition to
the president. He has taken on presidents
before. He famously engineered the 1995
passage of a U.S. law recognizing Jerusalem
as Israels capital, angering both President Bill
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July 13th from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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4 The Invention ___ Jewish People
(2010 book)
9 ___-shekel (Purim currency amount)
13 Magician Geller
14 Pre-pogrom feeling
15 Like Levicks The Golem, for
instance
16 Executed
17 Magician
19 Messianic concept
21 German symbol that didnt enter
Yiddish orthography
22 Shemini ___
25 Synagogue starter?
26 With 38 Across, magician
29 Sacrificial place
31 Skip, as with some Rosh Hashanah
prayers when the service is running
long
32 Tony Curtis, during World War II
34 Make a glitch
37 Philanthropist Lauder
38 See 27 Across
39 Quintana ___ (location of Chabad
Jewish Center of Cancun)
40 Write Dear Abby
41 Yiddish songs, usually
42 Fodder for impressionists like Kevin
Pollak
43 Oregons Jewish U.S. senator
44 With 62 Across, magician
45 Israel-Somalia dir.
47 Lena Dunham type, perhaps
50 IDF command
52 One of four examples of this architectural feature at the Temple Mount
56 Magician that shares a first name
with 17 Across
59 Typing system used by Magen David
Adom
60 He wrote a poem describing Jews as
being beneath rats
61 Hes without a prayer
62 See 44 Across
63 Heartthrob played by Franco in 2001
64 Like laundry being cleaned with Ariel
detergent
65 The Lubavitcher Rebbe spent two of
them at the Sorbonne
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2 During Prohibition it became known as
the Jewish Lake
3 Bernard Sanderss for the presidency
in 2016, and others
4 2013s Thanksgivukkah, e.g.
5 He was more than Kafkaesque
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11 1967 role for Bob Balaban in Youre a
Good Man, Charlie Brown
12 Cubits alternative
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18 Red of the stage
20 Like some hamentaschen
23 Pulling an Entebbe?
24 British singing star Goulding
26 Lets have a party, well all dance the
___...
27 He said The Lord shall roar from
Zion
28 With The, a 1984 Kander/Ebb musical
30 Exodus hero
32 Carl Reiner, during World War II
33 Poet who wrote Refugee Blues
about German Jews
34 Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti
35 Gene Simmons genre
36 Looking up
38 Today in Ladino
42 Knowing how to ___ tzitzit knot (skill
for a Jewish craft worker)
43 Uzi, e.g.
44 What Israel hopes the Jordan wont
do
45 Nabbed the Afikoman
46 Schindlers List film stock type
48 What the Vilna Gaon was known to
do to faulty Jewish texts
49 Character in the Merry Christmas,
Mrs. Moskowitz episode of Frasier
50 Nailed, as the Bagrut exam
51 Pair of tefillin
53 South Asian melech
54 Abba of Israel
55 Dreidels or grogers
57 Some accomplishments for Hayden
Epstein on the gridiron: Abbr.
58 Something Marcus Goldman made
money buying or selling before he
founded Goldman Sachs
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A personal memoir of Saul Bellow
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the great American Jewish writers birth
CURT LEVIANT
aul Bellow (1915-2005) is probably the most renowned American

writer of the second half of the
20th century.
He was born in Lachine, Quebec, on the
outskirts of Montreal (It was like a shtetl,
Bellow told me, just like all other shtetls
in Eastern Europe, with all its pluses and
minuses), where his first language was
Yiddish. Bellow later moved to the United
States and spent most of his life in Chicago,
teaching at the University of Chicagos distinguished Committee on Social Thought.
His first novel, Dangling Man, was
published in 1944, and he continued publishing novels until his ninth decade. He
won the National Book Award three times
(l964, 1965, 1971) and the Pulitzer Prize
and the Nobel Prize in 1976. In 1988 Bellow was awarded the National Medal of the
Arts. He died in 2005 at 89.
Bellows connection with his Jewishness
is strong. Most of the protagonists of his
novels are Jews, and he is the author of a
marvelous nonfiction work, To Jerusalem
and Back. Beside speaking and understanding Yiddish, Bellow also read Yiddish and got the basic Hebrew religious
education that youngsters growing up
in and around Montreal got in the 1920s.
His fluency in Yiddish paved the way for
Isaac Bashevis Singers first success on the
American scene. It was Bellow who translated Singers classic story, Gimpel the
Fool, into English; it was published in the
prestigious literary quarterly, The Partisan
Review.
Although this story catapulted Singer
to fame, Singer didnt like the fact that
the translator was more famous than the
author, and so this was the last time that
Bellow would translate any of Singers
works. As far as I know, this is the only
time in literary history that one future
Nobel laureate translated the work of
another future Nobel laureate.
It was Yiddish, too, that was the passport
to our acquaintance. When I was a graduate student, Bellow gave a talk at Columbia University that I eagerly attended, for I
had never before seen my favorite American author in person. By that time I had
already published my first book, a collection of Sholom Aleichem stories that I
had translated. At the end of Bellows talk
I went up to him, introduced myself, and
Curt Leviant is the author or translator
of 25 books, which include seven critically
acclaimed novels, the most recent of which
is the comic A Novel of Klass.
At right, Saul Bellow; above, the glowing comment Bellow wrote for Curt
Leviants first novel, as it appeared in
an ad that ran in the New York Times
Sunday book review section.
after a couple of questions, told him about

the Sholom Aleichem volume. Seeing that
his eyes lit up at the mention of the great
humorist, I said that if hed like to read it I
would gladly send him a copy.
Sure, Id love to read it. Why dont you
send it to me at the Chicago University
Committee on Social Thought?
I sent the book out the next day, and
about 10 days later I got a short, hand-written note from Bellow thanking me for the
book and telling me that he was enjoying
the stories very much.
In the spring of 1976 my first novel, The
Yemenite Girl, was accepted, and publication was set for spring 1977. It is a story
about Ezra Shultish, a middle-aged, European-born professor or Hebrew at a small
New York college who had written the
definitive book on the style of the Israel
Nobel laureate Yehiel Bar-Nun. Shultish
adores a short story, The Yemenite Girl,
by Bar-Nun, and goes to Israel with the
hope of meeting the old master and getting a tape recording of the story.
I had written to a few writers for a
blurb or comment that would introduce
an unknown writer to the public. Then I
had an idea: write a note to Saul Bellow
and ask him if he would read the manuscript, and if he liked it, to write a comment. It was a chancy thing to do. Why
should one of the most famous writers in
America, who had just won the Pulitzer
Prize, take the time to read a manuscript

by someone he didnt know, and, moreover, write a comment for it? He probably was inundated by dozens of such
requests from established writers.
But on the other hand, what did I have
to lose? He could always say no. (As did
Robert Penn Warren on his famous printed
postcard with the rubric: I dont provide
comments checked off.) But if I didnt write
to Bellow I would never get the word Yes!
So I sent off my letter to him, mentioning
my Sholom Aleichem volume. After about
four days, I anxiously awaited the mailman.
On the fifth or sixth day a letter came. Bellow had responded with a lovely handwritten note. Yes, do send me the manuscript
of your novel, he wrote.
Now began another period of suspense. What would he say? Would he like
it? Or would I get a short, polite response
that would show my novel wasnt to his
taste?
A month later the letter came and it

wasnt a short note. It was a long, singlespaced letter that filled the entire page, a
letter that sent me floating skyward with
joy. Well, first I leaped and then I floated. I
may even have hit the ceiling. Bellow loved
The Yemenite Girl. He told me he read
it straight through without a stop, and he
usually didnt read that way. And more, he
recommended me to his agent, so that she
could handle my future work.
I called my publisher and told him the
good news, and then I wrote a letter to
Bellow expressing my thanks for his kindness and graciousness. I also asked him if
we could excerpt a few lines from his letter
for the dust jacket and for ads. Again Bellow acquiesced to my request.
Sure, go right ahead, he wrote.
And then, that fall, in October 1976,
another stroke of good fortune for Bellow of course, and, by extension, for my
first novel: the announcement from Stockholm that Saul Bellow had won the Nobel
Prize in literature.
What mazel! Now we would have the
words of praise of a Nobel winner for
The Yemenite Girl. When the book came
out early in March of 1977, the publisher
placed a rather large ad in the New York
Times Book Review that featured Bellows
beautiful words of praise for my novel.
And so, because of Bellows generosity,
The Yemenite Girl was reviewed in more
than 100 newspapers and magazines all
over the country.
Around that time, I read that Bellow had
been chosen by the National Endowment
for the Humanities to deliver that years
Jefferson Address, an honor given annually to a leading American intellectual. He
would be invited to Washington to deliver
this major public lecture. I decided to go to
Washington to hear him, and if I was lucky,
thank him in person for what he had done
for me. I also had something else in mind,
which Ill come to later.
And so early in May I took the trip to
Washington to hear Bellow talk about
The Writer and His Country Look Each
Other Over. I had a friend in Silver Spring,
at whose house I would sleep; both of us
drove down to D.C. to the lecture. At the
end of Bellows talk, the master of ceremonies announced that all invited guests
should proceed to the State Department
for the reception and dinner.
Invited guests? I thought and muttered
those words to my friend. Id love to go to
that reception. With the crowd in this hall
Ill never be able to see Bellow.
I looked at my friend and said again,
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Calendar
Friday
JULY 10
Sunday
Tot Shabbat in Nyack:
JULY 12
PJ Library in Rockland
County and Ramah
Day Camp in Nyack,
N.Y., co-host Bim Bam
Shabbat, a free Friday
morning program with
Shabbat-related songs,
stories, and Jewish
activities for toddlers
and preschoolers, at
Ramah Day Camp,
9:30 a.m. Program is
weekly through August
14. 303 Christian Herald
Road. Lara Epstein,
(845) 362-4200, ext.
180, or lepstein@
jewishrockland.org.
Shabbat outdoors:
Temples Beth El of
Northern Valley in Closter
and Emeth in Teaneck
invite the community
to an outdoor familyfriendly Welcome
Summer service at the
State Line Lookout off
the Palisades Parkway,
6:30 p.m. Rabbis David
Widzer and Steven Sirbu
and Cantors Rica Timman
and Ellen Tilem lead the
songs and prayers. All are
welcome; bring a lawn
chair and bug spray. If
the weather is inclement,
services will be at TBE,
221 Schraalenburgh
Road, Closter. Enter off
the northbound Palisades
Interstate Parkway two
miles north of Exit 2.
Prayers on the Palisades
services also are set for
July 24 and August 14.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Saturday
JULY 11
Shabbat in Teaneck:
The Jewish Center of
Teaneck hosts a special
simchah Kiddush to
honor those who have
served as prayer leaders
and Bible readers for
the congregation:
Deborah Wenger and
Judi Resnick, who led
the womens megillah,
and Reb Yitz Cohen,
Josh Levine, Sandy
Hausler, David Secemski,
and David Schwartz.
70 Sterling Place.
(201) 833-0515 or www.
jcot.org.
Shabbat in Fair Lawn:

Congregation Darchei
Noam hosts a Shabbat
luncheon at a private
home after Musaf.
Supervision for children.
Registration, Drora@
Arussy.com or www.
darcheinoam.com.
Film in Franklin Lakes:

Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey screens the film
Catskill Honeymoon,
a story of a YiddishAmerican musical variety
show, 2 p.m. Popcorn
and ice cream. 558
High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Monday
JULY 13
JULY 16-SEPTEMBER 6 The Israeli theater troupe Tziporela brings its
show Odd Birdz back to the New York City

stage from its world tour for a seven-week stint, July 16 to September 6.
Performances are at the Players Theatre, 115 Macdougal St., in Manhattan.
Find more information at www.tziporela.com.
Wednesday
JULY 15
Social security benefits:

Michael Karlin discusses
Maximizing Social
Security Benefits, at
Congregation Bnai
Yeshurun in Teaneck,
8 p.m. Hosted by the
shuls Chai Society. 641
West Englewood Ave.
(201) 836-8916 or www.
bnaiyeshurun.org.
Tuesday
JULY 14
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Cafe Europa, a social
program the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey sponsors for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel,
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Jack Berger
will discuss Shtetl Life
in Eastern Europe. Light
lunch. 10-10 Norma Ave.
Transportation available.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org.
Book discussion in
New City: The Nanuet
Hebrew Center offers a
discussion on Christina
Bakers novel The
Orphan Train, 12:30 p.m.
Lunch at noon. 411 South
Little Tor Road, off Exit
10, Palisades Interstate
Parkway. (845) 708-9181
or office@nanuethc.org.
Yiddish club: Khaverim

Far Yiddish (Friends for
Yiddish) at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah meets to
discuss how participants
learned Yiddish. Yiddish
short stories and jokes
welcome. Group meets
the third Wednesday
of the month. East 304
Midland Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
to safety from occupied

Belarus, with a screening
of Kiselevs List, 8 p.m.
Bertha Cramer-Karasek,
one of the survivors, will
be there. Sponsorships
available. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org/
movie.
Thursday
Friday
JULY 16
JULY 17
Yiddish in Wayne: The
Shabbat in Closter:
Wayne YMCA offers the

Yiddish Vinkle, led by Ray
Fishler and sponsored
by Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
1 p.m. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 236.
Family mixer in
Leonia: The religious
school of Congregation
Adas Emuno holds its
Midsummer Family
Mixer, with pizza
and make-your-own
ice cream sundaes,
5:30-7:30 p.m. Meet
clergy, the religious
school director, board
members, and other
families. 254 Broad
Ave. (201) 592-1712,
adasschool@gmail.com,
or www.adasemuno.org.
Blood drive in
Ridgewood: The
American Red Cross
holds a blood drive,
3-8 p.m. 74 Godwin
Ave. (800) RED CROSS,
(800) 733-2767, or
redcrossblood.org.
Film on Soviet partisan:

Lubavitch on the
Palisades in Tenafly
holds a movie night to
pay tribute to Soviet
partisan Nikolai Kiselev,
a World War II hero who
led more than 200 Jews
the balalaika, garmoshka,

bayan, gypsy guitairs,
domra, and violin, for
the Summer Concert
series at the YM-YWHA
of North Jersey, 7 p.m.
The series, produced
by Naomi Miller, runs
through August 20.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 237.
Summer concert in
Wayne: The ensemble
Barynya presents
Russian, Cossack,
Ukrainian, Jewish,
and Gypsy traditional
dancing, music,
songs, and virtuoso
performances on
instruments including
Rabbi David S. Widzer

and Cantor Rica
Timman lead informal
tot Shabbat, with
songs, stories, and
crafts, 5:15 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Saturday
JULY 18
Shabbat in Fair
Lawn: Rabbi Shalom
Hammer, an IDF
chaplain and educator,
is scholar in residence at
Congregation Darchei
Noam. His shiur after
Kiddush is What Are
We Fighting For?
Instilling ideology in
the IDF soldier today.
His afternoon talk is
The Churban HaBayit:
A Review of Jewish
Leadership, and there
will be a discussion
during Seudah Shlishit.
Sponsorships available.
10-04 Alexander Ave.
www.darcheinoam.com.
In New York
Tuesday
JULY 14
Polish Jewry
documentary: The
Museum of Jewish
Heritage A Living
Memorial to the
Holocaust hosts the first
screening of an original
documentary produced
by Project Witness,
Once Upon a Family,
the saga of Polish Jewry.
Buffet dinner reception,
5:30 p.m.; program
begins at 7. 36 Battery
Place. (718) 305-5244,
(646) 437-4202, premiere.
projectwitness.org.
Singles
Sunday
JULY 12
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meets for a social
get-together at the JCC
Rockland, 11 a.m. All
welcome from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, and
Rockland counties.
450 West Nyack
Road. $3. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.
Wednesday
JULY 22
Singles meet in Old
Tappan: Singles 65+
meets for dinner at
Charlie Browns, 6 p.m.
Individual checks. The
group meets monthly
at the JCC Rockland.
Seymour Chenkin,
(845) 848-2038 or
salcssc@optimum.net.
Calendar
Tee off for the kids

The Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly will
hold its 15th annual Play
Fore! the Kids golf day at
the Alpine Country Club
in Demarest on Monday,
August 3.
The fundraiser helps
pay for JCC programming for more than 500
children with special
needs that helps them
learn life skills, attend
summer camps, and
take part in other educational and recreational
programs that enhance
their lives.
This year, the event
will feature Play Games
Fore! The Kids, where
participants can play
canasta, bridge, or mah
jongg, or take mah jongg
lessons.
Play Fore! the Kids has
an afternoon shotgun,
Participants at last years JCCOTP golf day.
Million Dollar Shoot
Out, hole-in-one competitions, prizes, awards, and a 50/50
and Allison Hechler chairs the games
raffle. The day also includes brunch,
committee.
a cocktail and dinner reception, live,
Sponsorship opportunities are also
fisherman, and silent auctions, featuravailable. Proceeds support children
ing hard-to-get items such as sporting
with physical, emotional and developmental disabilities who attend the
events, special theater tickets, exclusive romantic getaways and more.
Guttenberg Center for Special Services at the JCC.
The Kurtz family is the presenting
For reservations or information,
sponsor. Jeff Jagid, Eric Kleiner, and
call Sharon Potolsky at (201) 408-1405
Jason Rubach are chairs; incoming
or email spotolsky@jccotp.org.
chairs are Cory Hechler and Tracy
Reichel; Tara Jagid is auction chair,
Golf, tennis, cycle,

and barre with Moriah
The Moriah School
holds its 12th annual
Golf, Tennis & Cycling
or Barre Outing on
Monday, August 10, at
the Edgewood Country Club in River Vale.
The event will be held
rain or shine.
Cycling will be with
six members of the
Champion Systems/
Stans No Tubes Pro
Cycling Team from
Bikers pause during last years event.
COURTESY MORIAH
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
ride is supported by
include tickets to major sporting events and
Strictly Bicycles and will be at a social/moderate pace.
concerts, golf foursomes, beauty treatments,
The day goes from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., with
childrens classes and camps, personal training packages, travel-related items, and local
the shotgun start for golf at 11:30 a.m.
shopping and restaurant certificates.
Included with the day of activity is a buffet breakfast, tennis clinic, barre class, lunch,
For information, call Nila Lazarus at (201)
cocktails, dinner, and awards.
567-0208, ext. 373, email her at nlazarus@
Moriahs online auction is from August 5 to
moriahschool.org, or go to www.moriahgolf.
9 at www.biddingforgood.com/moriah. Items
org.
July 19th 4PM
July 21st 8PM
August 5th 8PM
August 6th 7:30PM
Organizing a museum exhibition

The Jewish Museums curator, Susan
L. Braunstein, and its assistant curator,
Daniel S. Palmer, will talk about organizing the Jewish Museum in Manhattans
exhibition Repetition and Difference
on Thursday, July 16, at 6:30 p.m.

The museum is at 1109 Fifth Ave. at
92nd Street in Manhattan. Call (212) 4233337 or go to theJewishMuseum.org.
Jewish World/Arts & Culture
Israeli pols attack on liberal Judaism provokes response

Israeli Religious Affairs Minister David
Azoulay has again drawn fire for controversial comments that belittle Reform
Judaism.
A Reform Jew, from the moment he
stops following Jewish law, I cannot allow
myself to say that he is a Jew, Azoulay told
Israels Army Radio on Tuesday. These
are Jews that have lost their way, and we
must ensure that every Jew returns to the
fold of Judaism, and accept everyone with
love and joy.
Last month, Azoulaya member of Shas,
an Orthodox political party in the Knessetalso harshly criticized Reform Judaism, calling the movement a disaster for
the Jewish people.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Azoulays hurtful remarks
do not reflect the position of his government. I have spoken with Minister Azoulay to remind him that Israel is a home for
all Jews and that as Minister of Religious
Affairs, he serves all of Israels citizens,
Netanyahu said.
Azoulays comments were swiftly condemned by other Jewish organizations.
The Union for Reform Judaisms President Rabbi Rick Jacobs applauded Netanyahu for his unequivocal rejection of
Minister Azoulays offensive comments

about Reform Judaism. We appreciate
the Prime Ministers strong and welcome
words, while noting that the time may
well come soon when he is forced to make
clear that Minister Azoulay has forfeited
his right to be a member of the [Israeli]
government, Jacobs said.
The Rabbinical Council of America,
which represents Orthodox rabbis, also
rejected Azoulays remarks. The group
reiterates the well-known position of
halachic Judaism, that all Jews, regardless of their observance or belief, are full
members of the Jewish people, and are
our brothers and sisters, an RCA press
release said.
In the press release, the RCAs president,
Rabbi Leonard Matanky, said, The RCA,
representing traditional standards of religious practice and definition of Jewishness, has well-known objections to some
of the fundamental tenets of Reform Judaism. There is no question, however, that
we certainly embrace all members of the
Jewish community. This is clearly the
undisputed position of Jewish law.
In addition, our late teacher Rabbi
Joseph Soloveitchik spoke of a covenant of
peoplehood that is defined by our shared
history and common fate that binds

together all Jews as one people. The ties
that bind us to all other Jews are strong
and eternal.
Its executive vice president, Rabbi
Mark Dratch, added, We fear that Minister Azoulays comments will hamper
the efforts we all support to bring all Jews

closer to their religious legacy, and alienate many with whom we work daily to
strengthen both the State of Israel and our
own community.
Diaspora Jews, and especially Jews in
America, where Reform Judaism is the
largest Jewish religious affiliation, are
critical to Israels sense of wellbeing and
security, said Jay Ruderman, president of
the Ruderman Family Foundation, which
prioritizes the issue of Israel-diaspora relations. Representatives of Israels government should treat them accordingly. Ruderman added that Netanyahu should make
it clear that further derogatory comments
will result in the ministers dismissal.
It is unconscionable that for a second
time in the less than a month, Minister
Azoulay has publicly demeaned Reform
Jews, said Abraham H. Foxman, national
director of the Anti-Defamation League.
His disturbing comments come at a time
of widening divisions between the Rabbinate and non-Orthodox Israeli Jews, and
growing tensions with the non-Orthodox
Jewish diaspora. Instead of bridging those
divides, Azoulays disturbing remarks contribute to an atmosphere of exclusion and
JNS.ORG
growing mistrust.
Bellow
President Walters Mondale wife, who was

very active in the arts.
When I got up to Bellow, I introduced
myself and shook hands with him. He
asked me at once how The Yemenite
Girl was doing, and I told him that thanks
to him I got so many reviews, including a
wonderful one in the New York Times. I
was delighted he had remembered me.
Again I thanked him for his help and
stepped away, realizing that there were
many more people waiting to greet the
evenings honoree.
Only after I had said goodbye and was
wandering around the high-ceilinged,
beautifully decorated reception hall did
I realize that I had forgotten to ask him
to sign Dangling Man. Meanwhile, as
I meandered I saw luminaries from the
world of politics. Here was the tall Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from New
York, towering over everyone in the room.
There, chatting with someone, was Henry
Kissinger, the former Secretary of State.
And here, before me, was one of my senators from New Jersey, Harrison Williams. I
didnt get to Kissinger, but I couldnt resist
saying a few words to each of the senators.
Then I returned to the area of the reception line. I saw that it was ending, with only
about a dozen people waiting. I decided to
go back for seconds.
When I got to the head of the line, Bellow laughed and said, Wait a minute,
werent you here already?
No, I said. That was my twin brother,

and he forgot to ask you to sign his copy
of Dangling Man. And I opened up the
book to the title page.
At this everyone burst out laughing,
and just at that moment a photographer
approached and captured the scene. Bellow signed the book, for Curt Leviant
still hanging in there.
About 13 years passed before I saw
Saul Bellow again. In the spring of 1989
both of us had been invited to a writers
conference at Trenton State College, Bellow as keynote speaker and I as writer in
residence. After Bellows talk I did what I
had done before I came up to him and
began a conversation in Yiddish. We reminisced about our previous encounter and
then added that since we both had summer houses in southern Vermont Id like
to invite him to dinner one evening in July.
He accepted at once, pulled out a note
pad, and jotted down his phone number.
In mid-summer we exchanged phone calls
and settled on a date. By now it was no longer Mister but Saul and Curt.
On the evening my wife and I expected
him we thought he would bring the
Romanian mathematician, but to our
surprise he came with a much younger
woman, Janice Freedman, his new wife,
a former colleague at the Committee for
Social Thought. She was a very engaging,
warm, and friendly woman, and a superb
prose writer.
After that visit Saul invited my wife and

me to his house; we exchanged two more
visits after that. He spoke of growing up
in Lachine, in an area he compared to a
shtetl. By saying that it had all the pluses
and minuses of a shtetl, he was pointing
out that despite the nostalgia-laden Yiddish stories of shtetl life, with everything
there sweet and fine, there were disadvantages and negative aspects of daily life
there too. He spoke of growing up with
Yiddish and starting to speak English only
in early childhood. He also said he had a
warm relationship with his parents and
siblings.
Do you still dream about your parents? I asked Saul, and he quickly
answered, Yes, I do.
On the mantle of the fireplace in the living room stood an advance copy of his latest book, the short novel The Bellarosa
Connection, a fictional account of how
the impresario Billy Rose helped organize a Jews escape from a Fascist prison
in Italy.
Bellow was proud of that book, but
complained that the New Yorker had not
accepted it for publication before it was
published in book form.
After that summer in 1989 I did not see
Saul Bellow again, but his generosity of
spirit still hums within me. When my novel
Diary of an Adulterous Woman was published in 2001, I dedicated it to him in
friendship and admiration.
FROM PAGE 33
with a downspin in my voice: Invited

guests!
Im inviting you, he said.
Really?
Absolutely!
Then Im inviting you, I said.
Okay, now we both have invitations,
he said.
Then I hesitated. Should we really try
crashing the party?
If we dont, he said, well surely
never get in.
The State Department was practically
across the street. I remember running up
the wide steps of the State Department,
along with scores of other guests. Nowadays, of course, such access to a major
federal building would be impossible. But
in 1977 there were no guards, no security
checks. If there were guards in the lobby
they just assumed that all the well-dressed
people coming in were invited guests.
Upstairs, I saw a long line of people. It
was the reception line to greet Saul Bellow. And, oh yes, I had brought a copy of
Bellows first novel, Dangling Man, with
me, in the hope that he would sign it for
me. The line moved slowly. At the head of
it stood Bellow; his wife at the time, the
Romanian mathematician, Alexandra Tulcea, a pretty, round-faced woman with
a lovely smile, and Joan Mondale, Vice
Israeli Religious Affairs Minister David

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Iran
FROM PAGE 28
which would tighten sanctions and constrain the regime.

The deal itself is not definitive in any
way about whats going to happen in the
future, Pollack, a senior Clinton administration National Security Council staffer
who handled Iran, said in an interview.
How the United States responds to a deal,
or no deal, will have an impact.
On a visit to Israel a month ago, Gen.
Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S.
Joint Chiefs of Staff, coupled an understanding for Israels concerns that sanctions relief would expand Irans influence
with assurances to Israel that the United
States would mitigate any such expansion with arms sales.
If the deal is reached and results in sanctions relief, which results in more economic
power and more purchasing power for the
Iranian regime, its my expectation that its
not all going to flow into the economy to
improve the lot of the average Iranian citizen, the Associated Press quoted Dempsey
as telling reporters on June 9, after meeting
with his Israeli counterparts. I think they
will invest in their surrogates. I think they
will invest in additional military capability.
Its not clear that view pervades the
Obama administration.
Spoilers
FROM PAGE 28
Clinton and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

What might prove more vexing is losing
Democrats in Congress. President Obama,
in his final stretch, is entering into hallowed
territory with the partys base, with his soaring speeches about race, efforts to increase
wages, and Supreme Court victories preserving his signature health care law and expanding marriage equality to all 50 states. It will be
hard under these circumstances for Democrats to nix a deal that majorities in the party
already believe is good enough.
Making the process more fraught is the
possibility that the deal will face two votes:
First a vote on the deal, which Republican
majorities in both chambers could very well
reject, and another to override Obamas
promised veto of that vote. Getting to the
two-thirds threshold to override a presidential veto is much less likely than winning simple majorities. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
the cant-be-defied Democratic leader in the
House, already has aligned herself with the
deals backers.
AIPACs byword since its inception has
been bipartisanship, and in recent years it has
fiercely resisted efforts by some major Jewish
persons of influence (Hello, Sheldon Adelson)
to agree to back initiatives that would align
AIPAC almost wholly with Republicans, even
in the Iran arena.
Richard Nephew, a former Obama

administration Iran negotiator now at
Columbia University, scoffed at the possibility of Iran using sanctions relief to fund
terrorism. Instead, he wrote last week in
Foreign Policy, Irans leaders were likelier
to invest in their battered economy.
To ensure the stability of their government, Irans leaders must tend to the
problems at home and make the investments necessary to sustain their future,
Nephew wrote.
Dempsey also said he told his Israeli interlocutors that the United States would continue to enhance Israels military posture.
The emerging deal focuses only on
Irans capability to produce fissile material and leaves aside delivery systems,
including ballistic missiles. That has
fueled an arms race among Gulf Arab
states eager to buy state-of-the-art American weapons systems in anticipation of
being a counterweight to Iran.
That in turn has led Israeli officials to
express concerns to their Obama administration counterparts, as well as their allies
in Congress, about Israel maintaining its
qualitative military edge in the region.
Israeli officials say they do not perceive a
threat from the Arab regimes, but they are
concerned that the upheaval roiling the
region could replace friendly governments
with hostile forces who would have access
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.)

Once upon a time the go-to Democrat for
Iran skepticism was Sen. Robert Menendez
(D-N.J.), but his legal difficulties have gutted
his influence, for now, within the partys
Senate caucus.
Iran deal hyper-skeptics like the Emergency Committee for Israel think the guy
to convince now is Sen. Chuck Schumer
(D-N.Y.), who had a fondness for noting
that his name means shomer, guardian of
Israel. Yes, he is the highest-ranking Jewish
senator.
But heres the thing. Ive attended briefings with Menendez and Schumer. They
tend to shout. Cardin tends to speak loud
enough to be heard, but he also considers all options carefully before making a
decision.
Thats one of the reasons he is now the
senior Democrat on the Senates Foreign
Relations Committee, and one of the reasons fellow Democrats especially his fellow nine Jews in the caucus are likely to
look to him to decide how to vote.
Cardins voice was key in shepherding the
law that mandated a congressional up-ordown vote on the deal, but he also made his
support conditional on stripping out of the
bill any conditions that would preemptively
shape the nuclear deal between the United
States and Iran.
That keeps him from being tied down
to any narrow conception of what a deal
should look like.
to sophisticated arms.
Another critical element fueling Arab and
Israeli anxieties was the Obama administrations 2013 retreat from a pledge to strike
Syria should the Assad regime use chemical weapons in that countrys civil war. The
Assad regime has remained ensconced, in
large part because of substantial backing
from Iran.
Theyre concerned that the Obama
administration will use a nuclear deal with
Iran as a get out of the Middle East free
card, Pollack said, referring to Israel and
Arab allies of the United States. Greatly
stepping up its involvement in Syria, that
would be a great way to show that the
United States is not walking away from the
Middle East.
President Barack Obama appears ready
to do just that. On Monday, he convened
a news conference at the Pentagon to
announce that he will do more to train and
equip the moderate opposition in Syria,
without providing details.
Should the Assad regime collapse, the
likelihood is that Iran will enhance its influence in Syria and Lebanon, said Alireza
Nader, an Iran analyst at the Rand Corp.
think tank, which consults with the U.S.
governments defense sector.
Lets say the Assad regime begins to collapse six months from now and Iran steps
up its involvement and the United States
Once negotiators
on both sides
come up with
a final deal, the
skeptics will
have to decide
whether and how
to oppose it.
Saudi King Salman and Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi
Its familiar cry: If Iran achieves nuclear
capability, everyones going to want nuclear
capability. Egypt sought it in the distant
past, and Saudi Arabia, Irans chief rival for
leadership of the Muslim world, will want
in as well.
Both Egypts and Saudi Arabias leaders
are relatively untested. Salman ascended
to the throne in January and Sisi has been
in office barely a year. (As a chief of Egypts
military, Sisi ousted Egypts democratically
elected president, Mohamed Morsi of the
Muslim Brotherhood, a year earlier.)
Both Sisi and Salman are skeptics of a
U.S-Iran deal. Salman blew off an Obama
invite for May meant to formulate a postdeal strategy with Americas Arab allies. Sisi
To ensure the
stability of their
government, Irans
leaders must tend
to the problems
at home and make
the investments
necessary to
sustain their
future.
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doesnt like that, Nader said. If there is

no political process for determining the
post-Assad government, then Iran and the
United States might be at odds.
In those circumstances, renewed tensions between the United States and Iran
might ultimately affect the agreed-upon
deal.
There is a possibility Iran and the U.S.
can reduce tensions, but also the possibility
that based on circumstances that tensions
regionally with Iran could also increase,
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Nader said.
was said to be behind an Arab League call in

March to set up a combined Arab moderate
force to counter Iran and the Islamic State.
He is wary of Iran spreading its hegemony
in the Persian Gulf. The security of the Gulf
is for Egypt a red line, he told Fox News in
March.
They also are on edge: Saudi Arabia is
taking on the Iran-backed Houthis in neighboring Yemen and facing down ISIS terrorist attacks at home. Sisis own ISIS problem
horrifically intensified on Wednesday with
coordinated attacks by groups in the Sinai
that killed dozens of Egyptian police.
Yet the instability may pull the Saudis and
the Egyptians from disrupting the Iran deal,
for now, especially given to the degree that
each country relies on U.S. backing.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Irans Supreme Leader could be the deals
supreme spoiler. All he has to do is just say
no. Unlike in the United States, adherence
to the deal in Iran may be decided by a
single man.
What will the mullah do? On the one
hand, the red lines he set down last week
depart radically from the interim agreement
produced in April and make AIPACs memo
look like the sheet music to Kumbaya.
On the other hand, Khamenei has, virtually in the same breath, made clear he trusts
the moderates who are leading the negotiations more than he does the extremists.

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donation for every point Amare scored.
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participants to the campaign.
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money weve raised will save countless
lives, but the real goal was to encourage
young people to become involved in saving lives and forge a deeper connection
with Israel.
United Hazalah Founder and President Eli Beer added that the money
raised would supply enough medical
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very grateful for the amazing support
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This will help us tremendously to save
lives by being the first to arrive on scene
after car accidents, terrorist attacks and
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Hapoel Jerusalem, considers himself
culturally Jewish and visits the country often. He first learned about United
Hatzalah, however, last year through
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