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Israeli sailing club members

rescue Syrian and Iraqi refugees
l It was a nautical jaunt to remember.
A group of Israeli sailing club

members out for a leisurely cruise
on Sunday morning quickly found
themselves leading a dramatic rescue
operation to save the lives of 11 Syrian
and Iraqi refugees whose boat had
capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Poseidon Sailing Club members
pulled eight adults and four children
out of the water.
The dramatic rescue, first reported
by Ynet, took place near the Turkish
tourist town of Kas, not far from a
Greek island called Kastelrizo.
Ive been at sea for 40 years and
this is the first time something like
this happened to me, the Israeli
yachts captain, Shlomo Asban, told
Ynet. I heard save me from the
waters, we stopped the boat and saw
a youth with a life jacket. We brought
him out of the water and he told us
his brother had gone missing and
was probably dead.
The young refugee told his saviors
that he was from a town in Syria.
He spoke Arabic and said he was
from Syria. We asked him if he was
with other people, and he began to
cry and point all over the place, Gal

Baruch, one of the rescuers from the
Ashdod club, told Ynet.
Asban recounted that a few
minutes after the stirring rescue,
the Israeli sailors noticed other
heads bobbing in the water beside
an overturned dinghy. The Ashdod
sailing club members pulled them out.
The refugees came from Iraq and
Syria. Asban said that he and his
friends gave them water and let them
use their cell phones to call their
families.
Baruch said that one of the people
rescued was a man going into
diabetic shock. We gave him sweet
things to eat and were able to save
his life.
After we told them that we are
Jews from Israel, they kissed us and
said thank you, Asban related.
Baruch added that the rescue was
extremely trying: Its not easy to see
this kind of situation. After an hour
at sea with us, we dropped them off
safely and they were transferred to
Greek authorities.
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Photos by Gal Baruch
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Hummus discount for Jews

and Arabs breaking pita together
l Whats the opposite of a food fight?
An Israeli restaurant is making

headlines across the globe for its latest
menu deal: 50 percent off any hummus
dishes served to tables where Jews and
Arabs sit together.
Breaking bread together throughout
history always has been an act of
sharing and reconciliation. So, in
response to the latest wave of terror
attacks and incitement in Israel,
Hummus Bar at the M Mall in Kfar Vitkin,
near the coastal city of Netanya, posted
a Facebook call for customers to share
pita and hummus together and to
pay less if they do.
The October 13 post reads: Scared
of Arabs? Scared of Jews? At our place,
we dont have Arabs! But we also dont
have Jews weve got human beings!
And genuine, excellent Arab hummus!
And great Jewish falafel! And a free
refill for every serving of hummus,
whether youre Arab, Jewish, Christian,
Indian, etc.
Speaking to local media, manager
Kobi Tzafrir said there were a number of
people taking up on the offer from his
joint, which is famous for its chickpea
spread. But, he added, the short post
also fueled interest from around Israel

and the world.
Hummus restaurants are countless in
Israel, yet Tzafrir reported that visitors
have come from around the country
to show support for the Hummus Bars
message of tolerance and camaraderie.
If theres anything that can bring
together these peoples, its hummus,
Tzafrir told the Times of Israel.
Hummus Bars Facebook page
continues to garner positive posts from
abroad as well.
Love the idea of bringing people
together with food! Love and food
conquers all!! writes Urbian Fitz-James
from the Netherlands.
I think it is amazing what you guys
are doing to unite people! posts Josh
Friesen from Canada.
Thank you. This is marvelous, writes
Samir Kanoun from Turkey.
There are other messages of support
from the U.K.], the United States, and
Japan on the restaurants Facebook page.
The Muslim and Jewish community
agree that hummus, of course, is
a national dish in Israel. In fact, the
International Day of Hummus began
Viva Sarah Press / Israel21c.org
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Only 23% of registered voters identify

Sanders as Jewish, while 48% were not
sure. 1.5 percent identify Sanders as a Muslim.
The L.A. Jewish Journal, reporting on a recent Emerson College Polling Society. If elected,
Democrat Bernie Sanders would be the first Jewish president.
ROCK THE KASBAH:
An Afghan romp
for Bill Murray
Rock the Kasbah
stars Bill Murray as
Richie Lanz, a
has-been rock manager
who takes his last
remaining client, played
by Zooey Deschanel, on
a USO tour of Afghanistan. But she dumps him,
and Lanz finds himself in
Kabul, abandoned and
broke. Then he finds an
Afghan girl with a great
voice who wants to be
the first woman on her
countrys version of
American Idol. Lanz is
aided by a sharpie
hooker (KATE HUDSON,
36), a war profiteer
(SCOTT CAAN, 39), and
a wacko mercenary
(Bruce Willis).
Murray and Willis seem
perfectly cast in their
roles, and on paper, this
film appears to have
all the elements of a
hit. However, director
BARRY LEVINSON, 72,
has turned out a number
of films in the last decade that sounded good
and ended up getting
lackluster reviews and
dying at the box office.
Its a long time since the
Oscar-winning director regularly turned out
hits like Rain Man and
Bugsy. More ominous
is the fact that MITCH
GLAZER, 62, wrote the
screenplay. Mostly a journalist and producer, the
only other film he wrote
(Passion Play) was a
dour drama that nobody
liked, and his Showtime
series, Magic City,

about Jewish gangsters, lasted only a year.
He managed to make
gangsters boring; there
was no humor, and virtually no Jews in the cast. I
hope for Levinsons sake
that Glazers script surprises me.
Sidelight note: Deschanel married producer JACOB PECHENIK, 40ish, last summer,
shortly before the birth
of their daughter. No
details on their wedding were released (like
whether it was a Reform
Jewish ceremony). The
groom, a Texas native,
comes from a practicing
Jewish family. His Austinbased film company coproduced Kasbah.
In my last column, I
wrote that on
October 7 Amazon
TV released the first
season of Red Oaks, a
series centering around a
mostly Jewish country
club. I should have noted
three more Jewish actors
with important series
roles. The star character
is Jewish college student
David Meyers (played by
British actor Craig
Roberts). His father, as
previously noted, is
played by RICHARD
KIND, 58. I should have
told you that JENNIFER
Dirty Dancing GREY,
55, plays Davids mother.
By the way, in a recent
interview, the essentially
secular Grey said that
Barry Levinson
Jennifer Grey
Phil Rosenthal
Oliver Cooper
Alexandra Turshen
tradition became more

important to her as she
aged and she was
pleased when her only
child, her daughter
STELLA, now 14, who
was being raised secular
(with Greys husband,
actor Clark Gregg) asked
to have a bat mitzvah
(and had one).
I also neglected to
mention the (Jewish)
acting duo at the center
of what most critics have
called the shows best
subplot the romance
of Davids fairly homely
friend, Wheeler (OLIVER
COOPER, 26), and Misty
(ALEXANDRA TURSHEN, 29), a beautiful
young blonde. Cooper
co-starred in Project X
(2012) and played DAVID
DUCHOVNYs love child
in the last season of
Californication. She is a
talented newcomer.
My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premiered on the
CW network on Monday,
October 12. New episodes air Mondays at 8
p.m., but you can catch
up free online, or pay
for on demand or Hulu.
The show stars RACHEL
BLOOM, 28, as a successful but unhappy
New York lawyer who
is inspired to seek her
bliss in Los Angeles after
a chance meeting with
the summer camp boyfriend who dumped her.
Each episode includes at
least two full-out musical production numbers,
and the humor is pretty
sophisticated.
Bloom became a
YouTube star with 40 or
more mostly musical vid-
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Everybody loves Phil,

especially when dining
Check out the entertaining PBS series, Ill Have what
Phils Having, which premiered on September 28 (easy
to catch up online, on demand, and so on). The charming PHIL ROSENTHAL, 55, the co-creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, travels the globe (Tokyo, Italy,
Paris, Hong King, Barcelona, and Los Angeles) seeking
out good eating experiences in restaurants he knows and
in places local food mavens recommend. Sometimes he
even has a home-cooked meal. Occasionally, he is joined
by his two teenage children and his wife, MONICA
HORAN, 52. A Jew by choice, Horan played Amy, the
wife of Raymonds brother, Robert (played by BRAD
N.B.
GARRETT), on Raymond.
eos, in which she sings
and often dances. Millions have viewed these
shorts. Many of them are
very Jewish (including a
sexy and funny parody
of Santa Baby called
Chanukah Honey).
Well, the YouTube Bloom

block was discovered by
top screenwriter ALINE
BROSH MCKENNA, 48.
McKenna crafted a series
pilot with Bloom and got
it on the air.
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TWO LOCAL VIEWS OF THE SITUATION IN ISRAEL
Reflections on six tough days in Jerusalem

Teaneck woman writes about the way citizens, tourists are dealing with the new realities
TANYA KRIM
I flew back in to the New York metropolitan area this morning, after six days in
Jerusalem visiting my daughter, who is
spending the year there.
Needless to say, it was an emotionladen week. Seeing my daughter after a
two-month hiatus was wonderful. It was
tempered, however, by my deep distress
at hearing about the multiple piguim
terrorist attacks that happened this
week. I saw her increased pallor, and I saw
her anxiety level go up each day.
I live in Teaneck, grew up in England,
and spent a year in Israel 30 years ago. I
recall a Chefetz Chashud experience or
two by Machane Yehuda and some other
bits and pieces during my stay. But nothing compares to the palpable, ever-present
fear that was visible on the faces of Jewish
tourists and Israeli citizens last week.
Tanya Krims daughter Eliana in her

dorm room, soon after she arrived in
Israel.
Never before have I heard the vast

majority of my friends and family
who have been living in Israel for 12 to
20-plus years talk about how serious
the situation is. An old and dear elementary school friend, who has the calmest,
most even-keel disposition, admitted that
she has been having a tough time focusing
on her day-to-day activities because of her
all-consuming fear. It is not crazy to run
into the local supermarket as quickly as
possible, hoping to minimize the chance
of being stabbed by the supposedly loyal
and trustworthy Arab employee behind
the meat counter. Walking down the
street to the coffee place to pick up a kaffee hafuch or some apple strudel delicacy
is not as delightful as it was a month ago.
Even those who dare to sit outside the caf
with their cappuccino and cinnamon bun
check out every passerby in an unusually
penetrating fashion.
Israeli citizens and tourists all are keeping pepper spray on key chains and in
backpacks, and using rolling pins, umbrellas, and guns defensively. I do not doubt
Tanya Krim is an independent qualitative marketing research consultant who has lived in Teaneck since 1992. She is married, with three
kids, and always has felt deeply connected to the land of Israel, where her father was born in 1941.
Not losing hope

Gap year student from Closter
mixes fear, anger, optimism in Israel
TAMAR ARENSON
I write this post with a heavy heart and an
unfortunate sense of dj vu.
In 2014 I spent my summer in Israel
traveling with Young Judaea on its Israel
program, Machon. I loved Machon. I had
looked forward to Machon my whole
Young Judaea life. What could be better
than a carefree trip through Israel with my
closest friends?
But my summer was not easy. We
arrived at the height of the conflict in Gaza,
just before Operation Protective Edge
began. Our trip quickly turned into schedule changes, security briefings, and practice sirens. Then we experienced a siren
for ourselves. I still remember sitting in a
shelter in disbelief as our Israeli madrich
our counselor told us that unfortunately
this is just normal for him. It becomes second nature after a while, he said.
When Machon ended, I felt as though
even with all of the hardships I was lucky
that I got to experience Israel not only in
its glory but also in its troubles. I learned a

lot more that summer than I think I would
have had I not experienced the conflict
in this way. I looked at my experience on
Machon and carried it with me as I stepped
back onto an El Al flight to embark on my
Year Course journey.
Sadly, I am flooded with similar feelings as my time on Year Course also has
become overshadowed with terror.
Violence in Israel, specifically in Jerusalem, has increased dramatically over the
last few weeks, leaving the country in disarray and its people living with terror. Last
week, my roommate decided she could
not get on a bus because there was too
high of a risk of a pigua a terror attack.
We could not celebrate Simchat Torah in
the Old City, because Year Course students
were restricted from going for security
purposes.
When I got the text that the Old City
was too unsafe and we were not allowed
to enter my heart dropped. Was I back
on Machon? Would plans have to change
constantly in order to keep us safe? Would

I miss out on key moments because they
were located in areas too unsafe for me to
walk through?
When I told people I was leaving to
spent a year in Israel, I was constantly
asked whether I felt safe doing so, in light
of my previous experience. I always said
yes. Young Judaea proved to my family
and to me that they can and will keep us
safe. I felt prepared and comforted knowing I had been through it before.
But in reality, my experience on Machon
could not prepare me for this. This violence is vigilante acts of terror. As I write
this, I have just received a Facebook notification saying that because of the multiple attacks spanning across Israel, which
happened only this morning, we cannot
leave our home base. We cannot go out
in groups of less than three. We can leave
only for classes and necessary errands,
and we must be in contact with our madrichim at all times.
When we discussed the situation last
night, one of our Israeli scouts told us
how much it upsets her that this is the
Israel we have to experience. This isnt
even the Israel that Israelis experience.
Its an unfortunate reality but it is not
the norm. Yes, violence and terror are constantly associated with Israel, but the last
time Israelis experienced terror that was
that soon people will place orders for

bullet-proof, stab-resistant shirts. I tried
to get a couple for me and my daughter,
but learned that it would take six weeks to
get them made, so I settled on a cheaper,
slash-resistant option instead.
Many well-liked restaurants and stores
This sign the eternal people are

not afraid was taped on a Jerusalem bus stop.
Tamar Arenson experienced the Gaza

violence of 2014 and now feels new
anxiety from attacks by terrorists.
manifested in this way was 2001, before

anyone of my generation can remember.
Some of us feel that this experience can
only enhance our time in Israel, and allow
us to be better advocates when we return
home. While I agree and try to have the
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Amidst all this negativity, here is the more positive spin:
Cabs are doing well; Israeli citizens and tourists alike
avoid the buses
Private bus companies are in higher demand
Take-out food places are doing well, because people avoid
eating in the restaurants
Importers of pepper spray and bullet-proof/stab-resistant
shirts are likely to fare well
Home-based activities think needlepoint, art, baking,
pottery are likely to become increasingly popular.
There is an opportunity to develop a pair of glasses that
allows the wearer to see in front, behind, and on the side.
That could prevent a terrorist from attacking.
There appears to be no obvious solution beyond beefing
up our intelligence and security and digging deep inside
ourselves to find faith, courage, and hope. It is the displays
of this perennial tikva of hope that seems to brighten
up some of the darkest days. Learning that an Arab doctor saved the life of a 13-year-old Jewish boy, seeing a group
of Jews at the Tachana Merkazit in Jerusalem bursting into
a Zionist songathon after the latest attack, hearing an Am
Yisrael Chai song blasting from a car on the streets of Baca
late on Friday afternoon, or seeing an inspirational quote,
am netzah lo yifached the eternal people do not fear
taped to a bus stop also help raise peoples spirits, at least
temporarily.
As I ambled through Ben Gurion on the way to my El Al
departure gate, I felt overwhelmed by the emotion of the
past days: sadness at saying au revoir to my daughter, deep
anxiety about leaving her to deal with the matzav-induced
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same mindset I did during Machon, I am scared. I am

angry. I am sad.
Today I saw a post on Facebook that really stuck
with me: If killing people on the streets is wrong in
NYC, wrong in London, wrong in Paris, then why is
it acceptable here? It pains me to say that I felt safer
when there were rockets shot into Israel daily than I
do now. Theres no intelligence to collect on someone
who wakes up and decides in that moment to murder,
no Iron Dome to stop a knife, no shelter protocol for a
gun on a bus. This is new territory for us all.
I want to end here on a more inspiring note.
Although I am scared, there is a national sense of
comfort that is unique to Israel. I dont know how to
explain it but when I am here, even in the most troubling of times, I feel that there is someone looking out
for me. Theres a sense of protection even when we
are vulnerable.
In a classic twist of fate, Yihiye Tov by David Broza
has just come on my iTunes. Id like to conclude with
some of the lyrics, We will learn to live together
between the groves of olives trees. Children will live
without fear, without borders, without bomb shelters.
On graves grass will grow for peace and love. One hundred years of war, but we have not lost hope.
I have not lost hope. I will not lose hope. I wish for
a better tomorrow.
all sorts of questions: Which Arab can be totally trusted

these days? What about the one who worked for Bezek who
went on a murder spree last week and killed a rabbi and
injured others? What about the apparently loyal man at the
well-known hotel reception desk? How long has he worked
there? And even if he has worked there for a while, how do
we know that he is truly trustworthy, or if his brother or son
or cousin is not planning some horrific terrorist rampage?
And even if the hotels chief of security did another background check of all these loyal Arab workers last Thursday, does that guarantee that all of them are reliable on the
next Tuesday morning? Nobody can be sure not even the
colleagues who have known them for many years can vouch
for them 100 percent.
The perception of safe now has taken on a new meaning.
There is a need to be 110 percent sure. For many people, the
matzav the situation now dictates that the rule of thumb
is guilty unless proven innocent. Once-trusted Arab cleaners in schools, shuls, and offices can no longer be assumed
to be okay; neither can construction workers. Some have
been dismissed; others might be in the future if this state of
unrest continues.
How tragic for both the Jewish employers and the Arabs
who are grateful for the employment. Why do the heinous
acts of hate-filled Arabs have to totally ruin it for everyone
on both sides? Of course there are innocent Arabs who also
long for peace and regular employment.
And this Arab unemployment issue one that is likely to
grow bodes ill for the future. Wont it alienate those Arabs
who once were employed by Jews? The cycle of dislike and
hatred appears likely to be perpetuated.
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are empty as the anxiety about random attacks

mount. Malls are not doing well either. Rock-throwing has become common on some high-traffic roads,
so staying close to home has become the best way to
stay safe. I refused to allow friends from Bet Shemesh,
Neve Daniel, or Efrat to drive in to visit me in Jerusalem. I did not want them to risk their safety for a visit.
Usually laid-back Israelis are becoming helicopter
parents, who now drive kids to school. Some even
miss work to pick their kids up in the middle of the
day. Students now often travel in large schoolbuses;
one Israeli friend told me that her school principal
made his students stay 90 minutes after school to
ensure that each child got on the bus. He felt that it
was his responsibility to do so. Contrast this with the
very Israeli fostering independence style of yesteryear or even last month.
Public buses no longer feel secure; terrorists can
clamber onto them and stab one or two unsuspecting
travelers, or possibly kidnap them. More soldiers are
now visible on some buses. Gun-armed parents now
stand on duty in front of schools alongside security
guards.
No place feels safe. I was so upset to hear that a
friend of mine taught his 11-year- old son how to escape
from their home. The age of childhood in Israel seems
to be getting shorter and shorter; even some 4-yearold kids have witnessed the murder of their parents or
have been instructed to play dead or hide from mechablim terrorists.
Last week, I noticed how each encounter with
another person on the street, in a hotel, in a restaurant or store resolves instantly into this question:
Is the person shelanu or lo shelanu? One of us or
not one of us? And if they are not one of us, do they
seem to be trustworthy? Your mind presents you with
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will recount arguing for gay wedlock before the Supreme Court
Holocaust survivors, who
nearly unheard-of age
loved to dance and kept her
of 31 to take her case.
he story of the overturning
back straight and her insight
The issues the case
of DOMA the Clinton-era
and analytic intelligence
t ackled had to do
Defense of Marriage Act, which
intact throughout her strugwith the relationship
gle with the multiple scleprevented legally married gay
bet ween state and
rosis whose complications
men and lesbians from benefitting from
federal law; marriage
eventually killed her. It is the
any federal benefits enjoyed by their maris governed by each
ried straight peers is a story of jurisprustory of Edie Windsor, the
state, but the thicket of
dence and changing cultural mores and
Jewish lesbian who first marregulations that govern
ried a man whom she truly
assumptions.
each married couples
loved, but not as she knew
It is an American story.
rights, obligations, and
she should love a husband;
According to Roberta Kaplan, the lawtax situation often are
yer who won the case against DOMA in the
who was a computer system
federal. That generAttorney Roberta Kaplan
ally is not a problem;
Supreme Court, and who will be speakconsultant for IBM at a time
successfully challenged
ing at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
states all recognize
when women were not comthe Defense of Marriage
puter system consultants. It
Tenafly on Thursday, it is also a deeply
each others marriage
Act before the Supreme
is the story of two women
Jewish story.
certific ates. DOMA
Court.
who found each other.
Still, Ms. Kaplan stresses, even before
introduced a tangled
When Dr. Speyer died,
we get to the Jewishness, it is a story, a hislayer of complications
tory, a tale of two people two Jews who
Ms. Windsor was expected to pay more
because basically it mandated that some
loved each other and lived together for
than $350,000 in taxes, money for which
people be married and not married at the
more than 40 years, who stayed together
a surviving spouse would not be billed. It
same time.
throughout debilitating illness, who marwas that relatively small-scale injustice to
As is true of so many legal cases, at the
ried as soon as they could, who were sepaa very real person that led Ms. Kaplan a
heart of the complicated regulations and
rated only by death.
hotshot litigator who made partner at the
armies of affected people were human
It is the story of Dr. Thea Speyer, a
very impressive Manhattan law firm Paul,
stories. It was one of those stories the
clinical psychologist, the daughter of
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison at the
elderly woman, with her pearls, her perfectly styled blonde bob, her upright posture, her self-composure, her dignity
that was the catalyst for the end of DOMA.
It is important to point out, however, that
the situation in the United States is opposite to the situation in Israel, where only
religious marriage exists. No one can have a
civil wedding in Israel. Here, we have both
civil and religious weddings couples get
a license, and the officiant neatly tucks the
civil ceremony into the religious one but
the courts have jurisdiction only over civil
marriage. All of the decisions in DOMA are
about civil marriage. Our First Amendment
rights to freedom of religion mean that no
government authority can force any rabbi
or other clergy member to marry anyone.
Rabbis may refuse to marry gay men or lesbians to each other, just as they may refuse
to do intermarriages, to perform weddings
for people whose halachic Judaism they
Roberta Kaplan talks with her client Edie Windsor, left. The two became close
question, or even to say no to Jews whose
friends as the case unfolded.
plans to marry seem ill-advised and unlikely
Joanne Palmer
to end well.
So DOMA.
Ms. Kaplans taking Ms. Windsors case
was bashert, preordained, Ms. Kaplan
said, and it played out in a very Jewish way.
First, there is Ms. Kaplan herself; she
grew up in a strong Jewish community in
Cleveland, and her references and worldview have been shaped by it. In fact, she
said, her reluctance to come out as lesbian
in the early 1990s was my fear that if I did,
I would lose my ties to the Jewish community. The potential of having a Jewish family and a Jewish home were far too important to me to risk it.
The rhythms of the Jewish year are
deeply familiar to her; she had to present oral arguments to a court on the day
after Yom Kippur and the first thing that
popped into my head was Sandy Koufax,
who famously sat out the day itself, she
said. Two days before the argument that
she made before the Supreme Court the
first time she ever appeared there was
the first night of Passover, and she made
a seder. My whole family was there,
Ms. Kaplan said. My parents, my wifes
mother and brother and sister, and their
kids, as well as everyone who worked on
the case, and also Edie and her friends.
I dont think that there was anyone in
the room who wasnt incredibly moved by
the fact that we were celebrating this particular holiday, she said.
In her new book, Then Comes Marriage, where she chronicles Edie Windsors story as well as her own, Ms. Kaplan
adds that they went around the huge table
at that seder, and everyone added a personal dayenu, a reason why what they
already had would have been enough.
Beyond that, it was very important for
me not to cede the religious issue to the
other side, Ms. Kaplan said. One mistake our side makes is to let the impression exist that all religious people are
anti-gay.
The arguments against DOMA, as well
as in Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that
made gay marriage legal throughout the
country, are infused with the language of
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dignity, with the idea that gay men and
lesbians are the same as everyone else,
Ms. Kaplan said. I believe that comes
from a fundamentally religious view,
the Jewish and not only Jewish belief
that every human being is created in the
image of God.
If you believe that, then it is hard to
come up with a reason why gay people
shouldnt be treated just like everyone
else.
There were 45 amicus briefs submitted on each side of the DOMA case. On
the other side, they were largely focused
on the religious argument, saying that
My religion says that being gay is a sin,
and therefore it would be violating my
religious beliefs if the government recognized gay marriage.
The first group that wanted to file an
amicus brief against us was the Westboro
Baptist Church, the group of extremist
haters who have found fame in picketing such events as funerals for U.S. soldiers, on the grounds that the United
States is so corrupt that anyone in its
armed forces must be as well. (Westboro
also has found its fortune, such as it is,
in that picketing; it enrages people until
they strike out, and then it sues.)
Westboros argument was something
equating gay marriage to slavery, Ms.
Kaplan said. To quote from Beauty
and the Beast, when I heard that they
wanted to submit an amicus brief, my
response was Be my guest.
Among the 45 briefs submitted in support of Ms. Windsor was one from the
Jewish Theological Seminary, the academic headquarters of the Conservative
movement, as well as from the Rabbinical Assembly, its rabbinic group. This
was the first time the entire Conservative
movement signed onto a brief, and the
first time in its history that JTS has even
submitted an amicus brief, Ms. Kaplan
said. That was really important to me.
I wanted the justices on my side the
justices she knew would agree with her
and vote her way even before she presented her case, as opposed to the ones
shed have to win over in order to prevail
Who: Litigator Roberta Kaplan, partner at Paul Weiss
What: Will talk about her new book,
And Then Comes Marriage: United
States v. Windsor and the Defeat of
DOMA
When: On Thursday, October 29, at
10:45 a.m., after coffee at 10:30
Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 411 East Clinton Ave.,
Tenafly
Why: At a session of the JCCU www.
jccotp.org/adult-jcc-university (or go
to jccopt.org, click on the Adults tab,
and then click on Adult Programming, Lectures and Learning, and
then JCCU.)
to know that all religious groups

werent on one side of it.
The reason that she and her allies,
many of whom had been working on
this and similar issues for decades, had
been able to win Windsor and Obergefell
so quickly was the result of a sea change
in public perception. I lost a marriage
case in 2006, and if you look at the briefs
we filed, you see theyre the same, Ms.
Kaplan said. What has changed is not
the arguments, but the judges ability to
hear the arguments.
What has changed is the perception
of what gay people are. Once you have
accepted that gay people are human, and
not some strange unhappy other, none of
the arguments against it make sense.
There is no question that there is
no other issue in legal history that has
changed so quickly. When we won, in
2013, 12 states allowed gay marriage.
When Obergefell happened, two years
later, it was 37 states. There has never
been a tidal wave of cases going in one
direction like this in American legal
history.
For Ms. Kaplan, the personal and the
professional have joined in profound
ways. The summer of 2013, when we
got the decision, I felt like the guy in
the Chagall painting. You know the one.
Hes flying. Soaring, in fact, over the
rooftops. She went out to her shul, the
Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons, where her rabbi, Jan Uhrbach,
who is not lesbian but has been an outspoken proponent of gay rights since
before it was either safe or fashionable,
had the assistant rabbi, Michael Boino,
write a musical composition based on
two psalms, about truth and justice, and
then the entire congregation danced
with the Torah.
I dont have words to describe how
that felt. To quote the Haggadah, dayenu. It would have been enough.
We do have to go back to regular life.
I still have to wake up and make my son
breakfast and do all the other things that
we do, and thats a good thing. But there
are moments when I still have a sense of
exultation, when I realize that something
that would have seemed extraordinary
a few years ago seems ordinary now.
That feeling of exultation, of pure joy,
she added, is like Rabbi Abraham Joshua
Heschels description of somehow feeling the ineffable.
Leaving that sphere, she had a more
down-to-earth example of how much
times have changed. One recent night,
she, her wife, and their son, Joshua, who
is movie-obsessed, watched My Fair
Lady. He loved it, she said, but at the
end, he said, I have a question. Whats
the question? He said, I guess its a kind
of old-fashioned movie, his mother
reported. I guess it was made before
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Is the IDF funny?

Comedian Joel Chasnoff, an Israel army veteran, performs to support Lone Soldier Center
JOANNE PALMER
oel Chasnoff was a lone soldier in Israel
in 1997-98.
Because he was a deeply committed Jew, a day-school graduate, and
an idealist, he decided to leave his life in the
United States to join the IDF; because he is a
comedian, he was able to write a funny book
about it. (Because his mother, who was not
born Jewish, had a Conservative conversion,
he was not allowed to get married in Israel,
and so did not make aliyah but thats a different story, told, along with his IDF adventures and misadventures, in The 188th Crybaby Brigade.)
Much of Mr. Chasnoff s comedy comes
from his Jewishness not the kind
of self-deprecating if not actively
self-hating Jewish humor that used
to propel so many Jewish comics,
but instead a deeply rooted understanding of Jewish assumptions,
vocabularies, and worldview. I
used to play at a lot of colleges
and clubs, as well as at some Jewish events, but my best comedy is
Jewish, he said; by now, most of his
audiences are Jewish. In the Jewish world, word of mouth is very
strong. Of course that goes in both directions, he added. You have to be good but
people seem to like what I do.
Mr. Chasnoff still feels deeply connected
to lone soldiers his performance for the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys Comedy Night on Thursday, October 29 (see box for more information), is
to raise funds for the Lone Soldier Center
in Memory of Mickey Levin. That connection goes both ways. My book has gained
somewhat of a cult following among lone
soldiers, he said. They dont buy it
they pass it along to their friends and
they write to me. It is very moving for me.
Comedy Night
Who: Joel Chasnoff
What: Performing to support the
Lone Soldier Center in Memory of
Michael Levin
When: Thursday, October 29; dinner at
7 p.m., show at 8
Where: Space, 491 S. Dean St.,
Englewood
Sponsored by: Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
Information about the evening: Danit
Sibovitz, director of the Center for
Israel Engagement, at (201) 820-3909
or danits@jfnnj.org
Information about Joel Chasnoff:
joelchasnoff.com
Joel Chasnoff and his family during their travels in South America.
The comedian will appear in Englewood on Thursday, October 29.
Its challenging to be
a soldier, and its even
more challenging to be
a lone soldier, so if I can
bring them a little bit of joy, I am thrilled,
and I am thrilled every time I can raise
money for them.
Mr. Chasnoff was a lone soldier in a very
different army from the IDF as it is now, he
said, and in an Israel that saw lone soldiers
differently than it does now. When he was
there, he said, the IDF was going through
a sort of adolescence. It had begun with a
clear mission. The idea was to keep Israel
from being blown off the map, he said.
But after the Yom Kippur war, we knew
that wouldnt happen. The army, like other
Israeli institutions, became less clearly
focused. It was a transitional period, Mr.
Chasnoff said. Rabin had been assassinated
just a short time before, Israel had been in
Lebanon for years, and we were wondering
what kind of army this was. Parents were
wondering, Are we sending our kids off
only to fight Palestinian teenagers?
The army was looking for its identity as
I was searching for mine, he said. His book
details some of both searches; much of it is
funny, and some of it is very sad.
I think that the Lebanon war of 2006
was the culmination of a lot of what I
mentioned in my book. It was a war that
wasnt so well organized. Israel could have
dominated then, but it didnt and that
was because of a lot of the issues Id mentioned the lack of organization, the lack
of a clear goal.
The war in Gaza was different, he added.
There were 60 or so deaths on the Israeli
side, and that was obviously terrible, but
they had a clear goal to blow up tunnels,

to stop terrorists. The army has gotten its
act together. It knows that it needs to tell
parents and families that it knows what it is
doing. The Israeli public wont accept things
any more without knowing what its for.
They ask: How do we know when its over?
How do we know when weve won?
Israelis also now understand more about
lone soldiers. Much of that new knowledge
is a result of the death of Michael Levin, an
idealistic young man who went from Pennsylvania to the IDF in 2006, and was killed
in Lebanon at 22. Mickey Levins death,
and his parents refusal to allow Israel to
forget him, made a huge difference. For
the first time, Israelis realize that there are

these guys coming from Australia and the
United States and England, Mr. Chasnoff
said. Last summer, three lone soldiers
were killed in Gaza, and 20,000 to 30,000
people showed up at their funerals.
Israelis are finally appreciating what lone
soldiers do, and the sacrifices they make.
Mr. Chasnoff, his wife, and their four children 14-year-old twins, an 8-year-old, and
a 5-year-old lived in New Rochelle, N.Y.,
until mid-August. But now, with their cars
sold, their rented house no longer theirs,
and their other possessions in storage, the
Chasnoffs are spending a year exploring the
world. Theyre chronicling it on a blog, www.
chasnoff-we-go.com. They began their journey in Peru, and have been to Bolivia and
Chile. They are now in Argentina; Mr. Chasnoff will fly to this country for a series of performances, including the one in Englewood,
before rejoining them. Next, they will go to
Africa. Mr. Chasnoff has performances scheduled in South Africa and in Australia.
Although it is not a specifically Jewish
trip, the family is sampling shuls and other
Jewish institutions on their path. Theyve
been struck by the high levels of security
theyve encountered; just to go to shul in
Argentina was like trying to get onto an El
Al flight, Mr. Chasnoff said. They asked us
where we had been, who do we know, what
do we know, what do we know about Shabbat. Its a very tight community, and they
are very wary of anti-Semitism.
The Chasnoffs dont know whats coming
next, and theyre excited about that.
We dont live anywhere right now, Mr.
Chasnoff said. We have no home. Nowhere
to come back to. We are still deciding where
we will go next. We might settle in Israel. Its
all up in the air.
Joel Chasinoff and his son explore the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru.
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Cliftons Daughters
of Miriam
Apartments II
manager Linda
Emr and apartment
tenant Claire
Greenwald, left,
display a specially
made pink
challah roll for
Pink Shabbat in
commemoration
of Breast Cancer
Awareness Month.

Courtesy DOMC
Baking pink challah

Local women join others across the country
in Pink Shabbat breast cancer campaign
Abigail Klein Leichman
roup baking of pink challah,

talks by breast-cancer survivors, and educational handouts are some of the ways in
which about 150 Jewish institutions in 16
states are marking Pink Shabbat during Breast Cancer Awareness Month this
October.
The annual Pink Shabbat has been sponsored for the last five years by Teaneckbased Sharsheret (www.sharsheret.org), a
nonprofit organization offering confidential free information and personal guidance
to support Jewish women who have breast
cancer or are at risk for the disease, as well
as their families.
According to American Cancer Society
statistics, by the end of 2015 some 231,840
American women will be diagnosed with
breast cancer. About 25,000 of them will be
younger than 45. Thats the demographic
on which Sharsheret focuses most.
Overall, white women have the highest incidence of breast cancer, and one in
400 has a BRCA genetic mutation, which
increases a womans lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer up to 84
percent. However, women (and men) of
Ashkenazi Jewish heritage have a 1 in 40
chance of being BRCA-positive.
Breast cancer is not a Jewish womans
issue; its a Jewish family issue, a Jewish
community issue, Sharsherets executive
director, Elana Silber, said. Welcoming so
many communities to the Sharsheret Pink
Shabbat program enhances our efforts and
expands Sharsherets reach to Jews of all
backgrounds.
Pink Shabbat has been very popular on
college campuses and its grown tremendously in local communities this year, as
has the number of women reaching out for
support from Sharsheret, she continued.
Weve been putting a lot of effort into raising awareness and strengthening our outreach and education efforts, and people are
responding.
She noted that especially in reaction
to media attention on BRCA mutations
thanks in large part to the actress Angelina
Jolie going public about her prophylactic
double mastectomy more Jewish women
are looking for guidance. In addition to
information, Sharsheret offers 12 programs
to fit specific needs, including the trademarked Pink Shabbat.
At Sharsheret, we understand what its
like to be a young Jewish woman or man
reading all the confusing information out
there, and wanting to know what you can
do to protect your health, she said. We
have trained, skilled professionals on staff
to answer the questions people have. You
can reach us on live chat, phone, or email,
and we respond in a place and a time thats
good for you.
Among the locally participating shuls are
Kol Haneshamah in Englewood and Temple Sinai in Tenafly, which held Sharsheret
Pink Shabbat earlier this month, and Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson at 53 Palisade Ave., which is planning Sharsheret
Pink Shabbat programming this Friday,
October 23, from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Sponsored by the Bnai Israel Sisterhood, the service will focus on living a
healthy lifestyle in thought and deed, and
will include inspirational poems and some
yoga moves. We will also have literature
from Sharsheret and will end the evening
with some pink treats, according to sisterhood chairs Andrea Collier and Tracy Ganbarg. Those who come are encouraged to
wear pink.
Many Temple Sinai worshipers also wore
pink clothing as a sign of solidarity in the
fight against breast cancer, said Andrea
Klein, a member of the board of trustees.
The synagogues Pink Shabbat programming included a congregational dinner
where the tables were graced with pink
challahs, an upbeat Rock Shabbat service
led by Cantor Nitza Shamah, and a Pink
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Feeling the river of history flow

Rabbi Yishai Fleisher, once of Wayne, promotes aliyah to Israel
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
nternational journalist, broadcaster,

lawyer, and educator Rabbi Yishai
Fleisher recently was back in Wayne.
He was helping his mother, Zhenia,
pack up for Israel after 30 years in Passaic
County.
The suburban surroundings in which
he spent much of his childhood could
hardly be more different than his home in
Maaleh HaZeitim (Olive Heights), a small
Jewish community on the Mount of Olives
in East Jerusalem, where rocks and hostility are more common than lawns and basketball hoops.
He wouldnt have it any other way.
Maaleh HaZeitim is about as close to the
historic heart of the Jewish people as any
place can be. Moving there in 2011 with his
wife, fellow Cardozo Law School graduate
Malkah Bernath, entailed certain risks, but
is essential to Rabbi Fleishers stated dual
mission helping to highlight the centrality of Israel in modern Jewish life and
helping to bring the divine presence back
to Zion.
With his cogent insider insights and ability to express himself calmly and clearly
in three languages, Rabbi Fleisher has
become a go-to Israel expert for international media, including CNN, BBC, Al
Jazeera, Russia Today, Xinhua, MTV, Sipa
Press, and Fox News. He does a podcast
radio show available at yishaifleisher.com,
has appeared on American talk radio, and
writes regularly for the Jerusalem Post and
the Jewish Press.
He has lectured in 14 American states
and two Canadian provinces and has
addressed the Canada-Israel Inter-Parliamentary Group; a bipartisan group of
Texas lawmakers, and policymakers, and
analysts in Washington, D.C.; many Jewish
and Christian groups, and college students
on 12 campuses.
Its not so easy to be able to analyze
and blend together the geopolitics, economics, and sociology of the conflict with
nationalism and a believers perspective,
but thats how I look at the world, and in
the end I think they are part of the same
truth much more than many people think
they are where science never conflicted
with the feeling of God and so for me
geopolitics doesnt conflict but informs
our ancient understanding.
At the same time, new steps must be
taken. Our past does not totally guide
us. Were in a new situation; we havent
been on this land for 2,000 years and
have forgotten how to run a commonwealth and we have a lot of challenges:
ingathering the exiles, conflict with the
Arabs, navigating our relationship with
the West, dealing with our various cultural
Rabbi Yishai Fleisher prepares for a radio podcast. He is in demand as an analyst on israel for many media outlets.
Rabbi Fleisher has lectured to college students on 12 campuses.
differences, and instilling in us with strong

values pioneered by Americas founding
personalities.
At the same time, the passion of our
times is Israel.
Zhenia and Alexander Fleisher were
Russian chemists who eventually got permission to emigrate to Israel in the 1970s.
Yishai, their firstborn, arrived in 1976 and
spent his first eight years in Haifa, speaking Russian and Hebrew. When his family
moved to Passaic and then a year later to
Wayne, his transition was difficult.
I learned English watching He-Man

and ThunderCats, Rabbi Fleisher said.
My sister, who came to America as a baby,
and my brother, who was born in New Jersey, had an easier adjustment than I did. It
was hard and confusing because my parents were not yet Americanized.
The newcomers were not religiously
observant, but they sent young Yishai to
Hillel day school. Ironically, sometimes
Jews need to leave Israel to find God, and
thats what happened to my family, he
said. Slowly we started getting closer to
classic Jewish spirituality and a Jewishly

inspired lifestyle.
After the move to Wayne, Yishai
switched to the forerunner of Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, and then went to
Frisch in Paramus for high school. Today
I really see how those experiences shaped
me, and while I still feel myself to be not
exactly fitting in any particular mold, I
can sort of seamlessly transition between
American and Israeli Jews, from ultraOrthodox to secular, and to understand
their inner psyche, he said. I was sensitized to many different types of cultures,
including the Russian part of me.
At 17, he returned to Israel as a lone soldier and entered a hesder yeshiva, a fiveyear program combining Torah learning
with military service. At the time there
werent so many American kids doing
the army, he reflected. Joining the first
Jewish fighting army in 2,000 years is an
element of renewing Jewish strength. Its
absolutely key to throwing off our selfidentification as weak Jews. We are a tough
lot and we need to be the best trained,
armed and prepared troops to defend the
Jewish people. I believe the Zionist vision
of the strong and empowered Jew is part
of the healing process from the diaspora
experience.
After he was injured seriously by a
roadside bomb in Lebanon in 1996, Rabbi
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Raising awareness
of heroin addiction
Local teen takes on an important issue
LOIS GOLDRICH
ew doubt that the behavior of

celebrities is of major interest to
our young people (and, lets face
it, not-so-young people) Some
might contend that this influence is purely
negative but that is not always the case.
Horrified by the drug-related death of
31-year-old Glee actor Cory Monteith in
July 2013, Stephanie Reifman of Upper Saddle River, a sophomore at Northern Highlands Regional High School, was inspired to
create a program furthering awareness of
heroin addiction.
When I was going into eighth grade and
thinking about my Silver Project for the
Girl Scouts the 15-year-old Stephanie
has been a member of Troop No. 850 since
kindergarten I heard about his death,
she said. She subsequently learned that the
star, who died from a combination of alcohol and heroin, had struggled with addiction during his teenage years.
Stephanies project developed into a
middle school program, featuring a montage about the dangers of addiction and
presentations by recovering addicts. At the
event, for which she received help from the
Bergen County Department of Health Services, the program organizer interviewed
the speakers and invited audience members to ask questions as well.
Staff members at Spring House, Bergen
Countys halfway house for women recovering from alcohol and drug abuse, set on
the grounds of Bergen Regional Medical
Center in Paramus, also were on hand to
answer questions.
Not only did the program win Stephanie the Silver Award, but the teen resolved
to expand her project, making addiction
awareness the goal of her Girl Scout Gold
Project as well.
A member of her schools yearbook committee, student council, and Relay for Life
group, which organizes fundraising events
to fight cancer, Stephanie also is active in
her synagogue, Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake. Attending both its early childhood program and
its religious school, she celebrated her bat
mitzvah with the congregation and now is
an aide in the religious school.
According to a statement from the Girl
Scouts organization, The Girl Scout Gold
Award is the highest award a Girl Scout can
earn and requires the completion of a leadership project of at least 80 hours. Each
girl must discover an issue in the community, connect with experts and community
members, and take action to effect positive
change.
For her Gold Award, Stephanie created what she called H.A.P.P.Y. (Heroin
The dangers of heroin addiction

are highlighted by the Girl Scout
projects and school presentations
of Stephanie Reifman, 15, of Upper
Saddle River.
Addiction Prevents Peoples Years) Week to

educate her peers about the dangers of heroin addiction. Pointing out that many outreach efforts can get very negative, the
teen said she chose that acronym because
I wanted to create a positive spin while
noting that being addicted can cost a person his or her life.
As the program progressed, Im doing
more and more, she said; her middle
school programs are geared to both parents
and students.
While evening programs tend to draw
mostly parents, some students attend as
well. The day programs are more like
assemblies, Stephanie said. The students are interested. Usually they only
hear [about this] from an authority figure. I
think hearing from a peer appeals to them
more. Also, while they usually hear a thirdperson perspective, her programs include
stories from recovering addicts themselves,
as well as from parents who have lost children to drugs.
To expand her project for the Gold
Award, Stephanie added more elements to
the program itself and more venues for the
presentation.
I expanded the program itself by adding the parents view, she said, noting
that after delivering her first program, she
heard from parents who had lost children
and wanted to help educate other parents
and students. She also has begun to visit
different schools around the area and soon
will go to Glen Rock, Emerson, and Franklin Lakes.
While Stephanie has learned a great
deal about the issue of heroin addiction
indeed, she said that Bergen Community
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Norpac evening features
GOP leader in House
On Thursday, October 29, at 7 p.m., Rabbi Steven and

Yael Weil will host Representative Steve Scalise (R-La.),
the House majority whip, at a Teaneck Norpac event. For
information email Avi@NORPAC.net or call (201) 788-5133.
Representative
Steve Scalise
Yachad breakfast set for Sunday

Yachad will hold its third annual Bergen
County breakfast reception on Sunday,
October 25, from 9:15 to 11 a.m., at a private home in Teaneck.
Yachad, which is an Orthodox Union
agency and the Orthodox Unions
National Jewish Council for Disabilities flagship program, provides unique
social, educational, and recreational
programs for people with learning,
developmental, and physical disabilities. The agencys goal is their clients
inclusion in the total life of the Jewish
community.
The breakfast will pay tribute to guests
of honor Rabbi Michael and Bassie
Taubes and their family. The Taubes
family hosted the grand opening of New
Jersey Yachad nearly 10 years ago. Bassie
Taubes has run many half-marathons
with Team Yachad. The Taubess son,

Yosef, 20, is a Yachad member and an
active participant in its activities.
The Community Inclusion award will
be presented to Debbie Greenwald,
director of the Art Place and host of the
Ruth Ulevitch Lang Inclusive Art Program, which was dedicated by Linda and
Mark Karasick. Lillian Lee, the owner of
Lillian Lee Salon, will receive the Vocational Services award. Ms. Lee trains
Yachad participants at her salon and
helps women learn about self-care.
Helen and Manny Adler, Terri and
Yitzi Karasick, Ravital and Avi Korn, and
Esther and Jackie Schlanger are the event
chairs. A variety of sponsorship opportunities are available. For information, call
(201) 833-1349 or go to www.yachad.org/
njbreakfasts.
Carol Newman, left, Womens Philanthropy co-president, with

event chair Tina Lieberman, Donna Kissler, Karen Bukiet, and
Womens Philanthropy co-president Rena Klosk.
Federation
salutes women
The Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jerseys Womens Philanthropy
enjoyed its annual Lion luncheon
at the home of a JFNNJ Lion, Elaine
Abrams. Ms. Abrams home is the
2015 Hackensack University Medical
Centers Designer Show House of New
Jersey. The guest speaker was Jane
Weitzman, an author, philanthropist,
and former CEO of Stuart Weitzman
Shoes.
Participants Jacqueline Kempner,
left, and Michele Sweetwood.
PHOTOS COURTESY JFNNJ
From left, Dr. Jennifer Ashton, Gayle Gerstein, Eva Rubach

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Kaplen JCCs Big Night Out

pays tribute to women leaders
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades will hold
Strong Women, Strong Community, its
annual Big Night Out celebration, on
Saturday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m., at
the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New
York City. This years party will recognize
the accomplishments of three strong and
exceptional local women: Dr. Jennifer Ashton, Gayle Gerstein, and Eva Rubach. Jen
Maxfield, a weeknight reporter for NBC 4
New York, is the master of ceremonies.
The evening will feature food, drinks,
and a special guest performance by
Grammy Award-winning artist Miri BenAri, the Israeli-born violinist whose talent
was so evident so early that Isaac Stern
gave her a violin when she was 12. She has
been named one of the 10 most influential
Israelis in America, recently honored as a
remarkable woman by Michelle Obama,
and named the Goodwill Ambassador of
Music by the United Nations.
Strong women who possess the courage and conviction to change the world
inspire us and we are grateful to have
women with this level of passion in our
community who we can recognize and
honor with pride, the JCCs CEO, Jordan
Shenker, said.
Proceeds will support programs and services at the JCC that benefit Bergen County
residents; specifically it will go to special
needs programming, meals and programming for seniors; and scholarships to families facing financial difficulty.
Dr. Jennifer Ashton, a board-certified obgyn, is a leading voice on womens health.
Dr. Ashton co-hosts an Emmy Award-winning medical television show, The Doctors, and is the senior medical contributor/
chief womens health correspondent for

ABC News Good Morning America/World
News Tonight. She maintains an active
clinical practice, is a fellow of the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,
and is on the attending staff at Englewood
Hospital and Medical Center.
Gayle Gerstein joined the JCC when
it was still in Englewood. Coming from
a family of active volunteers and philanthropists, she has chaired the health
club, served as board secretary, and was
awarded the JCCs prestigious Advanced
Leadership award. She and her family
also became longtime JCC supporters,
establishing JCC endowments and offering support for its capital campaigns. She
is serving her fourth term as an Alpine
councilwoman, is on the board of Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey and
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center,
and will become the president of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
Eva Rubach, a Holocaust survivor,
escaped to the United States in 1957, during
the revolution in Hungary. She moved to
Bergen County in 1979 and joined the JCC,
where she became an active supporter
of the capital campaign that allowed the
JCC to move from Englewood to Tenafly.
Committed to Jewish life and learning, Ms.
Rubach and her family have continued
to support the JCC as well as Englewood
Hospital and Medical Center, the Museum
of Jewish Heritage, and both Mount Sinai
Hospital and the Aventura Jewish Center,
both in Florida.
That evening, partygoers will see a commemorative ejournal. For more information, call Sharon Potolsky at (201) 408-1405
or email her at potolsky@jccotp.org.
YU students enliven holiday celebrations

During Simchat Torah, more than 250
Yeshiva University undergraduates traveled to synagogues across the United
States and Canada to enrich holiday celebrations by sharing divrei Torah, youth
programming, and their passion for
Judaism as part of the annual Aaron and
Blanche Shreiber Torah Tours program.
Congregation Ahavat Achim in Fair Lawn
was among the host synagogues.
Now in its fourth decade, Torah Tours
sends small teams of young men and

women to communities for Simchat Torah
and Shavuot, where they teach classes,
lead singing and dancing, meet with synagogue youth, and create a fun and spirited
Yom Tov experience.
The people of Ahavat Achim were
amazing, very friendly and open to visitors, said Amitai Rosen, a student who
went to Fair Lawn with Torah Tours this
year.
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Mitzvah Day
Families are invited to the JCCs
Hands-on Mitzvah Project Fair where
children and teens can participate
in various projects to help make a
difference in their community. In
collaboration with JFNNJs Mitzvah
Day. Teens are asked to register in
advance to run the projects.
Grades K-12, Sun, Nov 1, 3-5 pm
neW!
Art History Series
With michael norris, ph.d
Dr. Norris, educator and lecturer from the

Metropolitan Museum of Art, will lead us on
a 3-part journey into the History of Great Art.
Contact Judy at 201.408.1457.
Vincent van Gogh - Brilliant and Beleaguered
Impressionist Painters - Rebels with a Cause
Roman Art and Artifacts
3 Mondays, Nov 2, 9 & 16, 11-12:30 pm
$40/$55 series, $15/$18 per session
seniors
Senior Health Fair

Join us for a complimentary senior
wellness event that will include fall risk
assessment, blood pressure screening,
memory screening, Dermascan, body
fat assessment and more. Brought to
you by the Health Awareness Regional
Program (HARP) of Hackensack
University Medical Center.
Thur, Oct 29, 10 am-12 pm, Free
music
The Great
American Songbook
With michael reingold,
associate director of
Jcc thurnauer school of music
Join Michael as he explores The Great

American Songbook, a compilation of the
most important and influential American
popular songs of the 20th century. Contact
Judy at 201.408.1457.
4 Tuesdays, Nov 3-24, 1:30-2:30 pm, $45/$55
Kaplen
film
Above and Beyond

This documentary about the Jewish-American airmen in
the 48 Arab-Israeli War weaves together new interviews
with the pilots with stunning aerial footage that presents
a fascinating, little-known tale filled with heart, heroism
and high-flying chutzpah.
Mon, Oct 26, 10:30 am-12 pm, $10/$12
to register or for more info, visit
jccotp.org or call 201.569.7900.
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JFNNJ Mitzvah Day will feature
blood drives, collections, and cleanups
Sarah Struhl
Mindy and Muttie Stein
Emunah gathers to support Israel

at benefit dinner honoring six
Friends and supporters of Emunah of
America will gather on Saturday, November 14, at 8 p.m. at the Sheraton New
York for its Circle of Life benefit dinner.
The event will recognize the organizations accomplishments and their effects
on Israelis, and laud outstanding people
who have had an impact on the lives
of the children and families who benefit from Emunahs services. Proceeds
raised will benefit people who are relying on Emunah now, as the situation in
Israel continues, as well as its year-round
projects.
Mindy and Muttie Stein of Teaneck
are the Presidential Leadership awardees; Sarah Struhl of Boca Raton, Fla.,
and New York, formerly of Englewood,
is the Young Leadership awardee; Maureen and Larry Eisenberg of Los Angeles
are the Bonei Yerushalayim awardees,
and Eva Palgon Traub of Brooklyn will
receive the Aishet Chayil award. The
Steins families long have been involved
with Emunah. I am proud to be part
of the second generation that has made

Israel and Emunah such a priority,
Mindy Stein said. Sarah Struhl, a student
at Stern College, spent the last five summers working with the children who live
at Bet Elazraki Childrens Home.
Chanie Greif and Sheryl Schainker are
dinner chairs, and Karen Spitalnick is
Emunahs national president.
Emunah maintains 250 social welfare
and educational projects in Israel. It has
had to take urgent security measures to
ensure the safety of the children in its 135
day care centers and four high schools.
Emunahs 13 family and crisis counseling
centers have seen a large influx of people suffering from anxiety and seeking
treatment. Children in its five childrens
homes are being instructed on how to
practice extra vigilance and caution in
school and in transit.
For reservations or information call
(212) 564-9045 ext. 303, or reserve
online at emunah.org/dinner.
YU student-run conference highlights

medical/Jewish perspectives on
pediatric physical and mental health
Yeshiva Universitys Student Medical Ethics Society will host the Ninth
Annual Fuld Family conference, Protecting Their Future: Medical and Jewish Perspectives on Pediatric Mental and
Physical Health, on Sunday, October 25,
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The conference is
at YUs Wilf Campus, 500 West 185th St.,
Manhattan.
Through interactive panel discussions, the conference will explore the
halachic implications of preventative
medicine, childhood vaccinations, and
the treatment of pediatric ADHD, adolescent suicide and depression, and teen
alcoholism.
The conferences panelists include
Dr. David Pelcovitz, Ph.D, who holds
the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus chair
in psychology and Jewish education at

the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish
Education; Dr. Glenn S. Hirsch, medical
director at the NYU Child Study Center;
Dr. Yoni Schwab, Ph.D, assistant head of
school at the Shefa School; Dr. Susan K
Schulman, pediatrician at Maimonides
Infants and Childrens Hospital; and Dr.
Barry Holzer, director of the Center for
Attention Deficit Disorders.
MES, a student-run organization
under the guidance of YUs Center for
the Jewish Future, was founded in 2005
to promote education and awareness of
medical ethics on campus.
The conference is open to the public but pre-registration is required. For
information or to register, go to www.
yumedicalethics.com.
Join more than 1,100 volunteers across northern

New Jersey and participate
in the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jerseys
18th Annual Mitzvah Day.
Volunteers, young and old,
will perform acts of kindness, charity, and thoughtfulness at more than 40
sites. Sari Gross and Laurie
Ann Weinstein are Mitzvah
Day co-chairs.
B l o o d d r ive s , w i t h
Children and adults take part in Mitzvah Day holiday
appointments preferred
projects. This one from last year was at the YJCC.
and ID required, will be at

HERB BENKEL
the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah, 304
E. Midland Ave., Paramus,
8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Glen Rock Jewish Center, 682 Harristown Road, 8:30 a.m.-1:30
p.m.; Temple Sinai of Bergen County in
Tenafly jointly with Kesher Community
Center at Temple Sinai, 1 Engle St.; and
Temple Israel & JCC in Ridgewood, 475
Grove St., 8:45 a.m.-2 p.m. Blood donors
can sign up in advance. Go to www.redcrossblood.org and then type the sponsor
code in the upper right corner: mitzvahdayparamus, mitzvahdayridgewood, and
so on.
There will be collections and drives for
items including adult briefs, arts and crafts
supplies, baby clothing for Israel, blankets
and towels, Chanukah toys, eyeglasses,
musical instruments, paper goods and
Michael Chananie donates blood at a
cleaning supplies, books, new socks, toiprevious Jewish Federation Mitzvah
letries, and toothbrushes.
Day blood drive.
Clean-up sites include Flat Rock Brook
Nature Center in Englewood, Great Oak
Park in Oakland, the historic New Bridge
school supplies and backpacks, and working on a lone soldier project in support of
Landing in River Edge, and the Paterson
the Israel Defense Forces.
Great Falls National Historic Park.
For information, go to www.JFNNJ.org/
Activities include assembling packages
MitzvahDay, call E.J. Solomon at (201) 820for soldiers and emergency kits for Kosher
3962, or email ejs@jfnnj.org.
Meals on Wheels recipients, organizing
Forum offers tools for caregivers

The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly
and the Jewish Home at Home present
Toolbox for Caregivers Providing People with the Tools They Need & the Skills
to Use Them on Tuesday, November 10,
from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the JCC.
Alzheimers and other age-related illnesses affect the entire family, leaving millions of people to act as caregivers. Often
those caregivers are overwhelmed with
stress and the difficult decisions that are
added to what already are full and stressful lives.
That is why the JCC, in collaboration
with the Jewish Home, is offering the free,
informative forum, planned to help caregivers. Topics include: Choosing the Right
Program/Service for Your Loved One;
Tried & True Tips from Experienced Caregivers; Navigating the System and Making the Most of Community Resources;
and Caregivers How Do You Care for
Yourselves?
For information, call Judi Nahary at (201)
408-1450 or email jnahary@jccotp.org. To
register for Toolbox for Caregivers, email
Susan Lilly at the Jewish Home at Home at
slilly@jewishhomeathome.org or call (201)
750-4247.
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left in the stomach for up to six months.
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The gastric balloon procedure is suitable
for those who are overweight and have
been unable to achieve their desired
weight loss through traditional weight
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Unlike other weight loss surgeries which
require a higher body mass index (BMI),
you only need a BMI of 27 or above to
undergo the gastric balloon procedure.
As a result, it is a weight loss option for
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to lose 2540lbs and may not be candi
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What Are the Ins and Outs of the

Gastric Balloon Procedure?
The placement of the stomach balloon
is performed under sedation and takes
approximately 20 minutes. Patients tend
to be able to go home two hours after the
balloon is inserted and inflated.
The balloon is inserted using endoscopy,
not surgery. There are no incisions. The
balloon will be filled with saline, and
placed inside the stomach. By occupying
space in the stomach, the gastric balloon
will create a sense of fullness after a
very small meal. If you overeat with the
stomach balloon, you may feel nauseat
ed or vomit. Hence the device will force

you to change your eating habits and
eat small portions of food.
Life with the Gastric Balloon

The most important lifestyle change
revolves around your diet. The balloon
decreases the available space for food
so you eat smaller amounts of food
before feeling full. It also causes the
food to stay in the stomach longer so
you feel full for a longer period of time.
Our registered dietitian can help design
a healthful diet with all the necessary
vitamins and minerals. Our program will
also provide you with the education and
principles needed to change how you
eat so that you will continue to lose or
maintain the weight you have lost. This
is a longterm program supervised by a
team of clinical experts consisting of a
physician, dietitian, exercise physiol
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Weight loss varies based on how well
you follow dietary advice. Some studies
suggest you can expect to lose 35
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What Happens After the

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Your stomach will return to normal once
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Krim
FROM PAGE 7
lockdowns in our trouble-filled land;

pride that she was staying and witnessing a tough period in Jewish history and
feeling it in her heart and soul; love for
the stamina, energy, and passion that
permeates the hearts of our people even
in the midst of an exceedingly perilous
and frightening period.
Pink Challah
FROM PAGE 11
Oneg featuring pink-ornamented desserts. Information from Sharsheret was

available for the taking.
Our goal is to raise awareness and offer
spiritual support and comfort to all the sisters, mothers, aunts, and friends who successfully battled breast cancer and those
who are battling the disease, Ms. Klein
said. Temple Sinai stands with its arms
open in support during Breast Cancer
Awareness Month.
According to Ms. Silber, Sharsheret is
planning a major expansion of services
And when I arrived at Newark, I felt sad

to be so far from our complex miracle
on the Mediterranean land. It was a feeling of emptiness, coupled by the acknowledgment that I was now back home in a
land that really is only temporarily mine.
Because, when push comes to shove, Im
just a temporary sojourner in this land. I
am and always have been, first and foremost, a Jew whose heart is Bamizrach.
over the next five years to implement

more fully the vision of Sharsheret founder
Rochelle Shoretz. Ms. Shoretz, who lived
in Teaneck, died in June of complications
from recurrent breast cancer. She was 42.
We are proud to lead the Jewish
response to breast cancer, providing hope,
strength and support for thousands of Jewish women and their families facing breast
cancer, Ms. Silber said.
To learn more about hosting a Sharsheret
Pink Shabbat in your community any
time throughout the year, email Sarah
at seagle@sharsheret.org or go to www.
sharsheret.org/node/add/plan-event.
Fleisher
FROM PAGE 12
Fleisher returned to United States for a

few years. He completed an undergraduate degree in political science at Yeshiva
University and a law degree from Cardozo, where he met his future wife. They
wed in 2002 in the biblical city of Hebron
and moved to Beit El the following year.
They remained in Beit El for seven years.
Rabbi Fleisher was director of Israel
National Radio (Arutz Sheva), which is
based there, and he was a member of the
towns rapid response anti-terror team.
He continues to serve in the paratroop
reserves.
Though he does not practice law, his
legal education has served him well. It
gave me the ability to see the other side,
to make a cold analysis, to resolve conflicts, to understand somebody may have
a smart point; techniques for thinking and
speaking, he said.
While living in New York during college and law school, he taught children at
Temple Emanu-El in New York, worked
on the media response team at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, conducted research at the Conference on
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany,

and led four Birthright trips to Israel.
In 1999, the same year Birthright
began, he founded the not-for-profit
group Kumah and embarked on a campaign of pro-Israel education, myth-busting, advocacy, and outreach through a
variety of media. He describes Kumah as
the spinal cord for many different projects and it still serves as the organizational base for his activism.
Im working to strengthen the character of the Jewish state and help people
understand our rights to the land. Im
reaching a hand across the Atlantic to
encourage people to be part of the story
on whatever level, said Rabbi Fleisher,
who has ordination from the Kollel Agudath Achim.
Making the move to Israel called aliyah literally going up, because moving to Israel is considered spiritual elevation is not the only goal.
Physical aliyah is the ultimate way to
get on board, but there are so many more
aliyot people can do, he said. I know a
lawyer who rents a house every summer
in Jerusalem and works at night so his kids
can live their summer in Israel. I know
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other lawyers who hire Israelis to work for
them. My question is, Whats your step,
whats your aliyah? I want to excite North
American Jews to take that step into this
incredible story.
Naturally he is pleased that his mother is
making the move; his father died 12 years
ago and is buried in Israel. His sister lives
in Manhattan with her husband, while his
brother, Joshua, lives in Jerusalem with his
wife and two children. Having a brother
in Jerusalem is awesome, and I look forward to seeing my sister and her new husband coming home soon, Rabbi Fleisher
said.
Josh Fleisher is a professional videographer, and the brothers collaborated on a
2012 video, The Land of Milk and Honey,
dedicated to the memory of their father.
But its not all milk and honey. Living in
Maaleh HaZeitim, Rabbi Fleisher and his
wife and three children 8, 4, and two
months old have been subject to rockthrowing, firebombing, and other forms
of intimidation and aggression. Yet he has
had surprising conversations with some
of his neighbors about their true feelings
toward Jews and the Jewish state, the kind
of stuff you wont read about in the New
York Times because East Jerusalem Arabs

are subject to intense intimidation from
their own.
Despite the escalation of terror attacks
in Jerusalem and elsewhere, Rabbi Fleisher
radiates serenity and positivity.
I do get frustrated, sure, he said. But
we are living in great times, and people in
general are good and smart. I even love the
problems and the challenges. I think you
either tackle it and change it, or accept it
and embrace it.
Rabbi Fleisher looks at Maaleh HaZeitim
as a tenacious project in practical Zionism.
We are trying to normalize our existence here and push back against the
jihad, he said. Ten years ago, this community was 20 families, and now we have
110 families and good public transportation. Situated across from the Temple
Mount, protecting the Mount of Olives
cemetery, we are opening the pathway for
Jews to feel normal and safe.
Its not seductive like New York City,
but Jerusalem is our passion, he concluded. You can feel the river of history
flowing here, from the majestic past to the
magnificent destiny, and you can see that a
step you take can build something.
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recent wave of violence in Israel, Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
turned to the usual suspects, Hamas
and the Palestinian Authority.
But he also has accused a lesserknown group that operates within Israels borders: the Islamic Movement, a
religious-political group and social service organization.
Netanyahu has seized on the inflammatory rhetoric of the movements
northern branch, which claims the AlAqsa mosque in Jerusalem is in danger and has funded protest groups
that harass Jewish visitors to the site.
Netanyahu has blamed the movements
rhetoric for inciting the attacks and is
seeking to formally ban its activity.
Heres what the movement does,
what it believes about the Temple
Mount, and why it might be difficult to
ban.
What is the Islamic

Movement?
The Islamic Movement is a political
organization, religious outreach group,
and social service provider rolled into
one. Formed in the 1970s, the movements overarching goal is to make
Israeli Muslims more religious, and
it owes much of its popularity to providing services often lacking in Israels
Arab communities. Today the group
runs kindergartens, colleges, health
clinics, mosques and even a sports
league sometimes under the same
roof.
Their popularity stems from the fact
that they had, in every place, changed
the face of the local village or town,
said Eli Rekhess, the Crown Chair in
Middle East Studies at Northwestern

University. Its this combination that
underlies the Islamic Movements
formula.
The movement split two decades
ago. One faction, known as the southern branch, began fielding candidates
for Israels Knesset in 1996 and now is
part of the Joint List, an alliance of several Arab-Israeli political parties. Three
of the Joint Lists 13 current Knesset
members are part of the movement.
The more hardline northern branch
rejects any legitimization of Israels government and has called on its adherents to boycott elections. The branches
now operate essentially as two separate
organizations.
The Al-Aqsa is in danger

conference
The movements northern branch is in
Netanyahus sights now for its aggressive advocacy for Islamic control over
the Temple Mount, the Jerusalem
shrine known to Muslims as the Noble
Sanctuary. The branchs leader, Raed
Salah, has called on his followers to
redeem the mount, which houses the
Al-Aqsa mosque, from purported Israeli
aggression.
Every year, Salah hosts a conference
titled Al-Aqsa is in danger, and has
promoted the idea hotly disputed
by Israeli officials that Israel seeks to
change the status quo at the site.
The movement also funds a group
called the Mourabitoun, whose protests against Jewish visitors at the Temple Mount have occasionally turned
violent. On September 9, Israel banned
the group from the mount, sparking the
riots that preceded the latest wave of
attacks. Salah has accused Netanyahu
of declaring war on the mosque.
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An offshoot of Egypts
Muslim Brotherhood
Netanyahu also sees the group as something of an Islamist fifth column within
Israel. The movement, according to Haifa
Universitys Nohad Ali, is an ideological
offshoot of Egypts Muslim Brotherhood,
as is Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza and is considered a terrorist
organization by the United States.
Though they all share the same principles and operate similarly Hamas and
the Muslim Brotherhood also operate
educational and social service programs
in addition to their political activities
the Islamic Movement has no organizational relation to the others. Rekhess says
remaining separate gives the movement a
Netanyahu
will be hardpressed to
outlaw the
whole group
for incitement
to violence.
niche within Israel. And Ali says keeping

its distance from Hamas helps the movement avoid prosecution.
BRIEF
Theres not much Netanyahu

can do to ban it
A petition was launched over the weekend calling on NBC to fire MSNBC
reporter Ayman Mohyeldin for his misleading report on a stabbing in Jerusalem last week.
The petition, which had more than
14,000 signatures as of Monday afternoon, calls on NBC to have Ayman
removed from our television sets and
have him stop poisoning the minds of
the less informed.
Last week, Mohyeldin reported on
the failed stabbing attack by Palestinian
terrorist Bassel Sidar, who attempted to
stab Israeli police outside of the Old City
of Jerusalems Damascus Gate. Sidar was
shot dead by police.
In his report, Mohyeldin said that he
did not see the alleged stabbing attempt
and that the assailant was unarmed.
He did not look to be particularly
armed. Again, that was confirmed by the
fact that the police ultimately removed
his clothes, Mohyeldin claimed.
Salah has served prison time for assaulting an Israeli police officer and is appealing a conviction for incitement, but
several experts say Netanyahu will be
hard-pressed to outlaw the whole group
for incitement to violence. Its official pronouncements are too ambiguous to qualify as illegal, they say.
They dont call for violence, Ali said.
They know that use of violence will
cause the destruction of the movement.
Im not saying theyre angels or that they
oppose violence, [but] theyre using
vague concepts.
Outlawing the group could also spark
a broad backlash in Israels Arab sector.
Knesset member Talab Abu Arar, a member of the movements southern branch,
said he could view any ban on the group
as an attack on Arab-Israelis as a whole.
The Islamic Movement includes most
of the Arab public in Israel, Abu Arar
said. Outlawing it, you could say, is outlawing the entire
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But Mohyeldin was interrupted by
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showed a picture of the Palestinian terrorist clearly holding a knife in his right
hand.
But in the video that we have that
you havewe can clearly see the man in
camouflage T-shirt and pants with what
appears to be at least in his right hand, a
knife, Diaz-Balart said.
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KEEPING THE FAITH
Nows the time

for all Israel,
all the time
T
Jews and the Western Wall
ews have no connection to the land of Israel?

Wait. What? Who knew?
We do know that the meme that Jews are an eastern
European people, or that we come from the Caucasus,
that we have no biological link to the people of the Bible if
in fact any of those people were anything other than mythological figures that none of the archaeological discoveries
in Israel can be traced back to Jews, and that we are selfrighteous parvenus who have no right to any of the land
of Israel and should get lost immediately is a potent one.
Its appeal to Jew-haters is obvious. If we cannot prove that
our roots go back to this place, then we have no business
being there. Maybe the Germans and their collaborators
knew what they were doing; even if they didnt, Europes
internal barbarities shouldnt be the Middle Easts problem,
these anti-Semites think.
Now, though, as the situation in Israel worsens, as the violence there gets terrifyingly personal, as it becomes more
and more clear that it is driven not only by anti-Zionism and
economic despair but by pure Jew-hatred because otherwise how could someone go up to a stranger, a child, a
young parent, a human being, and stick a knife into skin and
hit bone and draw gushes of blood? How can anyone who is
not psychotic to begin with do that without objectifying and
dehumanizing the victim first?
The movement to divorce Jewish history from the place
at the center of our liturgy, our vocabulary, and our dreams
took an odd new step recently, as six Arab countries banded
together to ask the U.N. agency UNESCO to declare the Western Wall, the retaining wall for the Second Temple in Jerusalem, as a Muslim holy place. Calling the wall only by its Muslim name, the Buraq Plaza, the statement from the group
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entirely ignored any Jewish connections to Jerusalem.

There is no little irony to this. Not only has there been
tension between Jews and Muslims over the entire Temple
Mount-Dome of the Rock complex Jews are occasionally allowed to be there but they not allowed to pray there,
although it is hard to know how silent internal prayer can
be policed but there also has been a great deal of tension
between different groups of Jews over the Kotel, as the Western Wall is called. The Kotels rabbi, Shmuel Rabinowitz, has
been adamant in his determination to make the open-air
synagogue conform to strictures against womens prayer,
saying that only stringent Orthodoxy is acceptable there; the
Women of the Wall, in its attempt to engage in women-only
prayer with Torah scrolls and tallitot, has fought him, won
in court, and lost in the battlefield that the Kotel occasionally has become.
As a result, many liberal Jews do not go to the Wall when
they visit Jerusalem; it does not provide them with joy or
history.
But no matter how the battles for the soul of the Kotel play
out in the Jewish world, that world will unite to assert our
claims to truth and history.
In fact, that has begun to happen. UNESCO, perhaps surprisingly, is not acceding to the demands of the Arab world;
its director-general, Irina Bokova, has come out against it, as
have U.S. officials. The clause was removed from the resolution, which goes on to criticize Israel harshly for what it
describes of wanton destruction of holy sites that actually
belong to Muslims. Despite the blatant untruth, the resolution still passed, but it was not as bad as it could have been.
This storm might pass, but the hatred behind it seems
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here are many issues on the communal

agenda, and our attention is drawn to all
of them by a barrage of letters, emails, and
robocalls. There seemingly is no end to the
list of needs we are called on daily to help meet.
Yet one issue stands out above all the rest right now,
and it is one we must address daily, in all kinds of ways,
even at the expense of other concerns. Common sense
demands nothing less.
That issue is a twofold one: the safety and security
of the State of Israel and its peopleour people, living
in the homeland of the Jewish peopleand the tepid, if
not wholly skewed, response
emanating from the worlds
leaders to the current spate
of violence.
At this writing, since the
beginning of October, at least
nine Israelis have been murdered. After the first four
Rabbi
were killed, a profoundly
Shammai
alarmed Ban-Ki Moon, the
Engelmayer
United Nations secretarygeneral, issued a statement in
which he never directly mentioned those deaths, whereas it did specifically reference the deaths of four Palestinians.
The secretary-general condemns the killings, the
statement said, and looks to the Government of Israel
to conduct a prompt and transparent investigation into
the incidents, including whether the use of force was
proportional.
It also said Israels policy of demolishing the homes
of the attackers only serves to inflame tensions still
further.
Similar sentiments echo the world over. The message is clear and disturbing: Jewish blood is cheap. The
Jewish right of self-defense is nonexistent.
Moon did comment again after eight Israelis were
dead, but his statement was not about their deaths.
Rather, he condemned the torching of Josephs Tomb.
Judging from his statement, his concern had less to do
with a Jewish pilgrimage site being attacked, than a fear
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that pilgrimage places of other
religions might also be targeted
down the line.
The act was reprehensible,
the statement said, owing to
the religious significance of
Josephs Tomb, but apparently for no other reason. The
secretary-general calls on all
sides to respect the sanctity of
all holy sites.
This blame the victim attitude, pervasive as it is throughout the world, is why Israel
must be our only concern
at this moment. We must be
proactive in how we respond,
including donating money to
Magen David Adom and similar
organizations whose task it is
to deal with the injured.
Money is not enough, however. We must write letters
to members of Congress, to
the administration, and to
the media, demanding stronger support for Israel and less
of a balanced or nuanced
approach, because balanced
and nuanced in this case distorts reality and helps perpetuate the violence by rewarding
the perpetrators with a credibility they do not deserve.
We also must demand an end
to U.S. taxpayer dollars going
to the PA until it takes a firm
and effective stance against
violence.
This is a fact: If Palestinians did not commit violence,
Israel would not respond with
violence. If the Palestinians
truly were willing to talk peace,
Israel would be the first one at
the table.
Most important, we need to
be given the information we
need to respond properly and
effectively. For this, we must
hold meetings in our synagogues and other venues not
to hear speakers invoke the
Shoah, or promote a political
agenda, but to give us the facts
we need for us to be effective in
our own responses.
One example suffices: the
issue of demolishing homes. On
the surface, we can understand
the revulsion these demolitions cause among the enlightened of the world. It should
enrage us, as well, because it
goes against everything we are
supposed to believe. Collective
punishment is the province of
God alone; for us mortals, Deuteronomy 24:16 is the gold standard: only those who commit
crimes are to be punished, and
no one else.
Only these demolitions are

not about collective punishment. They are in response to
something hardly ever mentioned by the Ban-Ki Moons
of this world: The Palestinian
Authority and its allied institutions routinely honor terrorists
who attack Jews.
On the evening of October
3, Safiq Muhannad Al-Halabi
stabbed two Israelis to death,
and wounded another. He was
killed early the next morning.
On October 10, the Palestinian Bar Association decided
in its meeting today to award
an honorary law degree to the
martyred hero Muhannad AlHalabi and to hold its next [bar]
swearing-in ceremony in [his]
honor, according to a statement
released by the group, which is
funded in part by the PA, and
also by the United Nations, and
the European Union.
This is nothing new. As the
Palestinian Media Watch website notes, the PA actively elevates violence as a valid and
heroic means to achieve political goals.Palestinian leaders
and society honor even the
most loathsome of murderers,
portraying them as heroes and
role models. As one example,
PMW cites the case of Dalal
Mughrabi, who led a bus hijacking in which 37 were killed,
[and now] has schools, summer
camps, and many other events
and places bearing her name
to immortalize and glorify her
and her terror attack.
A law signed by the Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud
Abbas, a decade ago, requires
the PA to pay a monthly stipend to the families of what the
law calls these martyrs and
the world should call murderers. Palestinians in Israeli jails
are paid monthly salaries by
the PA, because of another law.
It is hard to accept Abbas or the
PA as partners for peace when
they so clearly act otherwise,
while the world remains silent.
Demolitions are Israels
only possible countermeasure.
Without them, committing
acts of terrorism carries only
reward, not punishment.
These are the kinds of things
we need to know, and need
to constantly remind others
about.
Do not stand idly by the
blood of your fellow. (See
Leviticus 19:16.) Nothing else
on the communal agenda
comes close right now.
Let the suffering end with me
suffer from what I call Holocaust fatigue.

My grandparents and my mother, all of
blessed memory, survived the war my
grandparents in Nazi camps, my mother
as a hidden child. And while some people
remain fascinated with this horrific part of our
history (and no judgment here), its not a subject I willingly choose to engage in.
I rarely read books or see movies
about it, nor do I attend talks or
lectures with Holocaust themes.
Ive known about it for as long as I
can remember, and I feel its in my
very DNA.
As a writer, though, its tough.
When people hear my family story,
they innocently say, You should
Alix
write a book about it. Ive come to
Wall
hate that statement.
Recently, however, I went to
hear historian Joshua Zimmerman
talk about his book The Polish Underground
and the Jews, 1939-1945. I felt I had to go 10
pages of the book are about my grandfather,
Abraham Melezin.
Because of his non-Jewish looks and impeccable Polish, my grandfather fled the Vilna ghetto
Like all survivors,

my grandparents
suffered deeply.
But perhaps their
greatest gift was
their determination
to ensure that their
suffering was not
passed down to me.
and joined the Polish Home Army. Even when
he was in the Stutthof concentration camp, he
was held with the Polish political prisoners
instead of the Jews.
Josh found out about my grandfather when
he met my father, a fellow historian, and
learned that my grandfathers memoir was
housed at YIVO, the Yiddish archive in Manhattan, and that he had given testimony as part
of the Shoah Foundations oral history project.
I hadnt met Josh before, but we emailed, and
I sent him a photo of my grandfather as a young
man, which he included in his book.
Joshs talk drew people interested in PolishJewish history, and friends and family of the
author. The man sitting next to me said he was
of Hungarian descent and was interested in
why so much of the world continues to hate

the Jews so much.
When Josh asked if I wanted to say anything
to the group about my grandfather, I told them
I was grateful that even a fraction of his story
was being told. Even though he left an incredibly detailed memoir he did it at my request,
and didnt think about publishing it I had decided it was not
my lifes work to edit it because it
would mean years with my head in
a dark and disturbing place.
Four years ago I took part in a
workshop with Armand Volkas, a
California-based drama therapist.
The son of Auschwitz survivors, he
focuses on Jewish-German reconciliation and the effects of inherited trauma. I had taken his workshop to deal with my own legacy.
The work I did there helped me
stand up to the shoulds in my head, which
felt as if they were coming from a Jewish communal voice insisting it was my responsibility
to speak for survivors because they could no
longer do so for themselves.
I got teary-eyed at Joshs talk as I shared my
feelings about being the only descendant of
the survivors in my family, and the incredibly
difficult decision not to do something with my
grandfathers memoir.
My neighbor turned to me. I know its none
of my business, he began. I knew what was
coming next. You should do something with
your grandfathers memoir. It would be in service to the Jewish people.
Ugh. There was that should voice again,
from a total stranger. It was the very voice I
worked so hard to liberate myself from.
What I didnt say then but am saying now is:
Youre right, sir. Its none of your business. If
editing the memoir would cause me suffering,
they wouldnt want that for me.
In Armands workshop, I spent a lot of time
exploring what my grandfather would have
said to me now about my choice. Given that he
didnt want his memoir published in the first
place, I know he would be fine with it. He may
have objected to me writing about such fluff
as food and weddings, but I can live with that.
People need good news, too. At least, I do. But
what I really came to in my exploration of what
my grandparents would want was this: They
would want me to be happy.
Like all survivors, my grandparents suffered
deeply. But perhaps their greatest gift was their
determination to ensure that their suffering
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was not passed down to me.
Alix Wall, a contributing editor to J. Weekly in
northern California, is a former Jewish Standard
managing editor and writer.
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Off balance
usually defend The New York Times against

charges that it is biased against Israel.
I know its journalists occasionally will write
a headline that seems to minimize Palestinian
responsibility in terror attacks, or reverse cause and
effect in what many media lazily refer to as the cycle
of violence. But Ill also note that on the whole, the
Times coverage of Israel matches reality. And unlike
many other news outlets which seem to report only
on violence and strife in Israel its pages feature Israelis who are working, playing, and creating outside of the
narrative of conflict.
And then the newspaper will publish something so
bizarrely one-sided or mischievously inaccurate that I
find myself about to speed dial CAMERA.
On October 8, Times foreign editor Rick Gladstone
published a piece in response to the violence surrounding Jerusalems Temple Mount, under the headline Historical Certainty Proves Elusive at Jerusalems Holiest
Place. According to the article, The question, which
many books and scholarly treatises have never definitively answered, is whether the Temple Mount is the
precise location of two ancient Jewish temples, one built
on the remains of the other, and both long since gone.
Andrew
Silow-Carroll
A rush of commentators pointed out that
that is not the question at all. Jodi Magness of the University
This model of the Second Temple is from the Israel Museum.
of North Carolina, one
of the experts interviewed for the article, was moved to point this out in a
Sanctuary.
letter to the editor. The only real question, Magness
The Times knew it had blundered. It issued a correction acknowledging that this article misstated the queswrote, is the precise location of the temple(s) on the
tion. The question, it continued, is where precisely on
Temple Mount. The key word there is on. Without
the 37-acre Temple Mount site the temples had once
that simple preposition, Gladstones article seems to
stood, not whether the temples had ever existed there.
support the Palestinian narrative that the temples, if
For want of an on, a Jewish kingdom was lost.
they existed at all, never sat on or near their Noble
What the Klinghoffers taught me and the world
first met Leon Klinghoffers daughters in 2004, shortly

after my father and stepmother were murdered in a
robbery.
Back then I was a TMI machine, telling my story not
only to friends but also to anyone in my line of vision. One
Shabbat, after going to the Village Temple in New York to say
Kaddish, I approached the rabbi, Chava Koster, and told her,
too. Unlike the sales clerk at Staples or the dinnertime telemarketer I had forced off script, Koster listened intently and
offered to connect me with two of her congregants who had
experienced something similar.
Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffers father, Leon Klinghoffer, wasnt
just the victim of a random murder. He was shot and thrown
overboard by Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the cruise
ship on which he and his wife had been vacationing.
Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old man in a wheelchair, was the sole
victim of the Achille Lauro hijacking. His murder 30 years
ago this month prompted a dramatic U.S. military operation, and inspired books, made-for-TV movies, and a controversial opera produced at the Met last year.
In honor of this years milestone anniversary of the attack,
Lisa, 64, and Ilsa, 58, have donated their parents archive
family photographs and stacks of condolence notes written by
everyone from schoolchildren to Holocaust survivors to President Ronald Reagan to the American Jewish Historical Society. The archive will be housed at the Center for Jewish History in New York, where the Klinghoffer sisters recently went
onstage to recount the story of the siege and its aftermath.
When you read through [the letters], which the sisters
did on tough days in the beginning, and then every couple of
years after that, they are just amazing, inspiring, overwhelming, Ilsa told me when we reconnected last week after more
than a decade.
My own family tragedy was of the more mundane variety
mundane in that it happens every day to someone, if not to
someone you love or even someone whose name you know.
I was 24 when a methamphetamine addict forced his way
inside my father and stepmothers home in Sedona, Arizona,

and killed them.
Most of my friends hadnt lost
parents, let alone known anyone who had been murdered.
I was eager to connect with
others who understood what it
was like to lose a loved one to
Gabrielle
violence, who understood that
Birkner
if these kinds of things could
happen on a cruise ship in the
middle of the Mediterranean,
where the Achille Lauro was
hijacked, or in view of Sedonas dramatic red rock formations, they could happen anywhere.
Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer understood.
There was something reassuring about meeting the Klinghoffer sisters. Here were two women who had endured something so hellish as young adults and gone on to lead lives so
positive, productive, and purposeful. In honor of their parents their mother, Marilyn, died just four months after their
fathers murder (and six weeks before Ilsas wedding day)
Lisa and Ilsa have long dedicated themselves to educating
people about terror and its victims. They are a driving force
behind what is now the Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation of the Anti-Defamation League, which leads
conferences for law enforcement on combating terrorism,
anti-Semitism and hate crimes.
If they could find happiness and meaning after what they
endured, I reasoned, so could others. So could I.
Fast forward more than a decade, and the Klinghoffer
sisters were at the Center for Jewish History on October
8, telling an extended version of the story from which I
had drawn inspiration. They painted a vivid portrait of
their parents: their family Shabbat dinners, their Saturday nights on the town, their circle of friends who spent
summers at the Jersey Shore (the beach people), the
Ilsa and Lisa Klinghoffer tell their story at the Center

for Jewish History in Manhattan on October 8.
PHOTOS COURTESY AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL
SOCIETY AT THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY
planning that went into what would be their final vacation.

One thing that keeps us going is that were just a regular
family and knowing that this can happen to anyone, Lisa told
me. Its one of the reasons we continue to speak out, so people wont forget what happened.
The Klinghoffer archive at the American Jewish Historical
Society includes Leons U.S. Army-issued Jewish prayer book,
a menu from the Achille Lauro dining room on which a fellow hostage sketched composites of the captors, and the Mr.
& Mrs. Roto-Broil Cookbook. Never heard of the Roto-Broil?
It was a countertop rotisserie oven popular in the 1950s
invented by none other than Leon Klinghoffer.
We wanted people to know things that hadnt been in the
news personal things, factual things, Ilsa told me of their
decision to tell their story publicly, and to donate to the historical society 15 boxes of their parents belongings. The American Jewish Historical Society said to us, Were not just going
to take these papers. We want to know: Who was Marilyn?
Who was Leon?
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I dont know what was going on in the heads of
Times editors, but I can guess. Anti-Semitism? I
doubt it. Incompetence? Liberal bias? Maybe but
of a certain type. The article seems to be a product
of a headlong quest for objectivity, in which the
author overcorrects in pursuit of even-handedness.
The Mideast conflict invites this pursuit. Both sides
have been fighting the same battle for so long, and
each side has such a compelling narrative, that it follows that there must be two sides to any issue they
are fighting over. Wary of appearing to take sides,
the reporter looks for balance where there actually
is none. The pitfalls of such objectivity have plagued
mainstream coverage of the climate debate and the
dangers of tobacco.
The article also suggests the Times tendency to
reflect its image of its idealized reader. Like many of
the Times staffers themselves, these are highly educated, superbly informed, and (stay with me) disproportionately Jewish readers, who appreciate a story
that rejects the one-sided narratives of the proIsrael community. In truth, the so-called media
watchdogs often confuse propaganda with journalism. Most of these groups are clearly ideological. As
a result, reporters and editors feel brave in standing
up to the hasbara, aiming their stories instead at the
cool kids.
I also suspect that journalists bristle at the sameness of

the Israeli-Palestinian story interchangeable attacks and
counterattacks, peace talks and diplomatic failures. I have
been writing the same headlines since the 1980s. Israelis,
Palestinians in violent clashes. White House aims to restart
peace process. Benjamin Netanyahu is prime minister.
Tedium can lead to a search for fresh angles where often
there are none. Editors often demand this. The two sides
have been fighting about the Temple Mount for years. Maybe
there is a new way to think about this ancient grudge?
And then there is the If both sides are angry, we must
be doing something right defense. No doubt, the Times
does hear it from both sides just as many Jews think the
paper has it in for Israel, Palestinians complain that the
Times ignores the broader narrative of colonization and
resistance, as a pro-Palestinian website puts it. Standing
up to this anger and goading the critics becomes a point of

journalistic pride.
But these are merely temptations to be resisted. Perhaps
some Times editors and reporters have an animus toward
Israel, or toward Jews, or an animus toward Jews disguised
as an animus toward Israel. That doesnt mean that on
balance the paper doesnt provide deep, comprehensive,
and nuanced coverage of a vital issue. It does. But it also
allows too many examples of shoddy journalism and baffling choices.
You cant expect a major news outlet to ignore legitimate claims on both sides of a major dispute. But you can
demand that it gets its facts straight.
Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck is editor-in-chief of
MetroWests New Jersey Jewish News.
Leon Klinghoffer on the Achille Lauro.
The realization that Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer were people like any other that we are all just
as exposed as the next person can foster not only a
resolve to fight terror, but empathy for victims of violence everywhere. It was a point that Marilyn Klinghoffer herself expressed before a House Foreign Affairs
subcommittee in testimony delivered just three weeks
after her husbands murder and whose contents are preserved in the archive.
I believe my husbands death has made a difference
in the way people now perceive their vulnerability,
Marilyn testified. I believe what happened to the passengers on the Achille Lauro and to my family can happen to anyone, any time, any place.
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Gabrielle Birkner is the managing editor of JTA and the
co-founder of Modern Loss.
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Kerry falls for the Big Lie
heres no stoppin the c retins

from hoppin, sang the legendary
Ramones, in one of their two-minute
barnstormers that enters my head
every time I see U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry getting on a plane.
And never more than when his destination is Israel.
If Kerry receives a frosty welcome in the Jewish state,
it shouldnt come as a shock, at least not to someone
capable of empathizing with the ugly situation Israelis are now facing. Part of the anger lies in the moral
equivalence that Kerrys State Department has molded
to explain a deadly explosion of Palestinian violence that
is motivated by pure hatred of Jews.
Sometimes thats been done in ways that are both
insulting and incompetent, as when, on October 15, Kerrys State Department tweeted that the secretary had
addressed the tragic, outrageous attacks on civilians in
Israel and the West Bank. Nothing wrong with that, you
might say, except that two minutes later, the tweet was
deleted, and then rewritten with the words tragic and
outrageous removed.
Then there was the frankly pathetic echoing of the
false Palestinian claim that, as Kerry put it in a Harvard
University speech (in remarks that were later awkwardly
walked back), Theres been a massive increase in settlements over the course of the last years and theres an
increase in the violence because theres this frustration
thats growing.
The actual data confirms that the reverse is true:
Sunday, October 25
2pm 4pm @ Camp Veritans
From 2009 to 2014, an

average of 1,554 housing
units were constructed in
the West Bank each year,
a marked decline of the
previous several years,
and connected in the
main to natural population growth.
Ben Cohen
But what bugs me most
of all is Kerrys failure to
recognize that his criticism of Israel, along with his sympathetic arm
around the shoulder of the Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas an aging autocrat
respected by the secretary as an embattled moderate to whom Israel can, and should, make concessions is built upon an insidious lie. A lie worthy of
the term Big Lie: a strategy beloved of totalitarian regimes, which involves concocting the most
toxic falsehoods, and then repeating them with
increasing volume and venom.
Todays Big Lie is the endless stream of propaganda from the Palestinians, and Abbas in particular, that there was never a Jewish Temple on Jerusalems Temple Mount, and that Israel is changing
the status quo at the site to the extent that the very
survival of the Al-Aqsa mosque is at stake. Asking
for Israeli reassurances that this is not the case, as
the U.S. administration has done, is like asking Jews
to prove that the Holocaust is not a myth, or that
Passover matzah doesnt contain the blood of nonJewish children. It legitimizes an allegation that is
patently false, and it legitimizes as well the belief
behind it, which is that Jews have no claim upon
the city that for centuries they have faced during prayer. (I wonder, incidentally, if anyone who
mocked that last sentence would mock similar
emotions about Jerusalem, or Mecca for that matter, from a Muslim.)
The immediate impact of this latest in a series of
Big Lies from Abbas has been a campaign of murder and terror founded upon anti-Semitic loathing.
As the savage Hamas cleric Sheikh Muhammed Sallah declared from Gaza, Stab! My brother in the
West Bank: Stab the myths about the temple in their
hearts! Eight Israelis now lie dead and dozens more
have been wounded because of a culture of incitement that rejoices in and celebrates brutality.
Some readers will have heard of the notorious radio station in Rwanda, Radio Mille Collines, whose hourly incitement against that countrys Tutsi population led to a 1994 genocide
that claimed the lives of 800,000 human beings
over a period of 100 days. In one broadcast, the
announcer growled, They will be struck by misfortune, they will be struck by misfortune...those
living in Mburabuturo, in the woods of Mburabuturo, look carefully see whether there are no
Inyenzis [cockroaches, a dehumanizing word for
Tutsis] inside.
I have little doubt that were the Jews of Israel
as vulnerable and exposed as were the Tutsis
and moderate Hutus in Rwanda two decades ago,
they would be struck by misfortune on a similar scale. Because the vile rhetoric of Palestinian
leaders, clerics, and even regular people venting
on social media, echoes that broadcast by the Hutu
genocidaires.
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When Israel
emerges
successfully
from this latest
spate of murder
and terror, as it
inevitably will,
it will have only
the resilience of
its people and its
security forces
to thank.
But if Rwanda seems too distant,
and too gargantuan in scale, lets put
this in American terms. A similar outbreak of violence here in the United
States would have brutalized more
than 3,000 people. Its purpose would
be an exact reflection of the words
of Chris Harper Mercer, the shooter
in the recent murder spree at a community college in Oregon, who told
his victims, Because youre a Christian youre going to see God in just
about one second. Thats how Abbas
whose most recent outrage was
claiming that a 13-year-old Palestinian terrorist was executed by Israeli
security forces just hours before
photos revealed the boy recovering

in, of all places, Jerusalems Hadassah
Hospital wants Palestinians to see
the Jews.
Even though many of these same
Palestinians who attack Jews loathe
Abbas, because he has achieved nothing in nearly a decade of power, Abbas
continues with the incitement an
especially chilling example of leading
from behind. That is why a responsible secretary of state would, upon
meeting Abbas, ask him, Do you
really believe the things you say about
the Jews and their tie to Jerusalem, Mr.
President? If so, please look at where
such words have led in the past. And
look at where they are leading now.
When Israel emerges successfully
from this latest spate of murder and
terror, as it inevitably will, it will have
only the resilience of its people and its
security forces to thank. On one level,
thats a source of pride, for Israelis
and for those of us who care about
Israel. But it also underlines a more
significant misfortune: the bilateral
relationship between Israel and the
Obama-led U.S. just took another dive.
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His work has been published in
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Above and Beyond
Screenwriter to talk about swashbuckling
pilots at the center of Israels early air force
Joanne Palmer
ou never know what soldiers or

sailors or fliers will be like when
they come home from war. Any
war.
Some ex-servicemen are very happy to
get back to normal life, to relegate what
they saw to the murky inner recesses
of their minds, to hammer them in with
long iron nails. Others, though, find regular life boring, constraining, pointless,
soul-deadening. They are on the prowl for
adventure.
If the war was World War II, and the
ex-serviceman had seen the horrors of
the Holocaust, or the extreme cruelties
the Japanese perpetrated in the Pacific;
and if the ex-serviceman was Jewish (or
even in some cases simply a good friend
of the Jews) and wanted to help create a
state for those Jews who survived the war,
and could also use the adrenaline rush
that came with it well, many of those exservicemen found their way to Palestine,
where they helped give birth to the state

of Israel, not to mention the new states
air force.
The story of some of those World War
II veterans, pilots who smuggled excess
It is an untold
story; what those
guys did was so
secretive. And it
was so brave,
and it mattered
so much.
airplanes into Israel, and went there to
fly them during its war of independence,
is told in the film documentary Above
and Beyond. (The Jewish Standards
Eric Goldman reviewed it in our January
30 issue this year; it is easily Googleable

online.) Sophie Sartain, who wrote the
film, will talk about it on Sunday evening
as she helps in the effort to raise funds for
the Solomon Schechter School of Bergen
County in New Milford. (For more information on the screening, see the box on
this page.)
The idea for the movie began when
producer Nancy Spielberg, Stevens sister, saw an obituary for Al Schwimmer,
the American-born Israeli engineer and
entrepreneur who founded Israels aerospace industry. Mr. Schwimmer, like the
other pilots, not only risked his life during
his missions, he also risked his American
citizenship, veterans benefits, and even his
freedom when he returned to the United
States. He had violated the U.S. Neutrality
Acts. (Mr. Schwimmer was awarded the
Israel Prize in 2006. Eventually, President
Bill Clinton pardoned Mr. Schwimmer,
who died at 94 in 2011.)
Once she learned about Mr. Schwimmer,
Ms. Sartain said, Ms. Spielberg became so
Screenwirter Sophie Sartain
passionate about it. It is an untold story;

what those guys did was so secretive. And
it was so brave, and it mattered so much.
The pilots were recruited from across
the English-speaking world by an unofficial underground network of Zionists. A
lot of them were heroes in World War II;
they just answered the call, Ms. Sartain
said. Some stayed in Israel, some came
back, but they didnt talk about it.
Ben-Gurion had come to the United
States to try to raise money, knowing that
a war was coming, Ms. Sartain said; BenGurion was David Ben-Gurion, one of Israels founders, arguably its most important
founder, and its first prime minister. They
knew a war was coming, so he came to get
support from American Jews in whatever
way they could help monetary help,
weapons, volunteers. A lot of people volunteered. Many young people who were
not tied down with commitments and
had specific areas of expertise went to
Palestine.
Who: Screenwriter Sophie Sartain will
talk about her movie,
What: Above and Beyond, about
the fliers who fought in Israels war for
independence
When: Sunday, October 25, at 7 p.m.;
sponsors dinner at $45.
Where: The Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County, 275 McKinley
Ave., New Milford, New Jersey
Why: To benefit the Stephanie Prezant
zl Israel Scholarship Fund
Lou Lenart, Gideon Lichtman, and Modi Alon are among the pilots profiled in Above and Beyond.
For more information: Email Alyssa

Wolf at awolf@ssdsbergen.org or call
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From left, George Lichter, Leon Frankel, and Gideon Lichtman.
Sometimes, people were recruited

because of their background or connections. Others were recruited through what
basically were cold calls. The recruiters
went through rosters of Air National
Guards, looking for Jewish-sounding
names, Ms. Sartain said.
Israel had no air force, and they knew

that they would be invaded from all directions, including from above, she continued. So when they declared the state, it
was a mad scramble to get help. It was a
desperate time.
Altogether, about 3,500 volunteers from
43 countries fought for the nascent state

of Israel. Of that number, about 190 were
in the air force. It was a tiny percentage
of the volunteers, but they were critical,
because they were skilled and experienced, and had flown so many missions in
World War II. It gave Israel an advantage to
A model Zionist
Larry Yudelson
Outside the theater where Above
and Beyond was about to play, a man
stood at a table featuring models of
the airplanes Israels nascent air force
flew in 1948.
This was six months ago, in Rochester, New York, and that man was my
father.
Dr. Julian Yudelson builds model
airplanes, carefully putting in details
that the kit makers leave out. His mission is to build a replica of every plane
flown by Israels air force over the decades. Each is marked as being part
of Squad 101, that initial unit founded
by Ezer Weizman, whose American
volunteers are interviewed in Above
and Beyond.
Before his retirement more than a
decade ago, my father was a professor of business. He earned his Ph.D.
for a different kind of modeling: An
attempt to optimize the retail markdown problem through the use of
dynamic programming.
I remember him working on the
models in our basement, and that I
played with Legos while he worked.
For a time I even tried building my
own models, but I lacked his patience.
I enjoyed watching the liquid glue that
cemented the plastic pieces dissolve
the Styrofoam packing crate he had
Dr. Julian Yudelson displays his models outside a showing of Above and Beyond in Rochester, New York.
Howard Levant
set up as my workbench, But I was
frustrated by the time and effort it
took to make a perfect model. I never
finished my model of the U.S.S. Enterprise. But he finished one for me, and
I had a wonderful Star Trek space ship
hanging in my room.
It takes my father about 40 hours of
work to build an airplane. Depending
on whether the kit is built for children
or obsessive hobbyists, a kit might
have between 15 and several hundred
pieces of plastic; most have around
100. Its not the gluing that takes the

most time. Its adding the details. To
make the cockpit look realistic, a dedicated modeler paints dials and lights
the size of punctuation marks. Some
kits come with enough detail to please
my father, sometimes he can buy addons that provide the detail, and at other times he will painstakingly cut tiny
pieces of plastic with an X-acto knife.
He has magnifying glasses for the
small work, and clamps, and dentist
tools that are the right size for to be
have them, Ms. Sartain said.

Many excess airplanes and other pieces
of equipment were smuggled out. There
was a lot of intrigue, Ms. Sartain said.
They couldnt fly planes directly to Palestine. They had to fly them all over the
world. Often they went through Panama,
honest, Ive had too many bad times in

the dentists chair to ask what he uses
them for. But use them he does.
Its not just the cockpit that needs
detailing. The seams where the pieces
were joined have to be carefully
sanded and filled in. The plane has to
be painted, which is a two-step process. First, a coat of primer. Then, the
final coat perhaps silver, perhaps
a multicolored camouflage design
spray-painted on. Then putting on the
decals, and when he can find the right
references, the actual unit markings
and serial numbers.
Back in the 1960s and 70s, when
model building was still a young persons hobby, companies like Aurora
made inexpensive plastic models of
American planes and tanks being used
in Vietnam several models of which
were being used by the Israel Defense
Forces as well. The cheap kits had
their cost for a dedicated perfectionist
like my father: The rivets in the model
were sized to look cool, not to be realistic. To scale, they would have been
the size of grapefruits. So there was
work to be done. Now, most sets my
father buys are for hobbyists as dedicated as he is; often imported from
Japan, with Japanese instructions.
My father entered the world of
plastic modeling at its beginning. It
was the early 1950s, and plastic injection molding was just beginning
to displace the cruder wooden kits.
He might have been 12 or 13 still
See model zionist page 30
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Dr. Yudelson
at his
modeling
bench.
Larry Yudelson
Model Zionist
from page 29
David Ben-Gurion with pilot Modi Alon
in an oversized kind of plane-laundering

operation. They created a fake Panamanian airline, she added. It was a crazy
story.
Nancy was really on fire, wanting to tell
the story, and she impressed on us us
was Ms. Sartain and the director Roberta
Grossman, whom Ms. Spielberg recruited
for the film the urgency of telling it right
away. These guys were getting on. They
were in their late 80s, early 90s, and we
were losing them.
The first thing we did was interview
them; we feature six in the film and we
interviewed about twice that number.
The volunteers came from all over. The
six in the film all are Jewish. One of them
was raised in a Zionist household. The others were not. They did not heavily identify as Jewish growing up, and a couple of
them kept it at arms length.
But the experiences they had in Israel
transformed them.
Two of them stayed in Israel for the rest
of their lives; others moved back and forth.
Some of the air force volunteers died
in 1948. Of the six in the film, which was
released just last year, only two are still
alive; one of them, Leo Frankel, died just

last week.
Another of the fliers, Gideon Lichtman,
who now lives in Florida, grew up in Newark. He was our bad boy, he was the one
whose family was Zionist, and he is hilarious, Ms. Sartain said. He talks about
going to Newark Airport when he was a kid
and seeing the guys flying the planes; that
made him dream of being a pilot.
He is superhandsome. He tells a lot of
funny stories a lot of the guys partied a
lot when they were over there, especially
when there was a cease-fire. Gidi tells a lot
of stories about them being in their 20s,
good-looking, swashbuckling. They had a
good time over there.
He loves going to screenings; he
loves the reception that he gets. Hes a
character.
All this is to say that the heroic pilots
and other servicemen and women and
other volunteers who went to Palestine
as it turned into the State of Israel were
both heroes and normal people. We have
much reason to be grateful to them, and
we should pay attention to their stories.
in grammar school. His first kit was

one of a series of models of racing
airplanes. Air racing was really big
in the 30s, he says, speaking from
historical knowledge, not memory.
(He was born in 1938.) Competitive
planes would fly a close course that
might be a hundred miles. That was a
major source of the development of
aircraft.
He built a bunch of those plane
kits, which he bought at the fiveand-dime store for 25 or 30 cents.
Then he built a series of antique cars,
including a 1911 Hudson that he built
because his father had one. Even earlier, he built old stage coaches and
covered wagons.
Then he started high school.
There were too many other things
to do, like flirt with girls and all that
stuff, he said. Stuff that included
running his Jewish youth group and
editing its newspaper.
But in freshman year in college, he
had to relax before final exams, and
rediscovered his hobby. This time, he
focused on the airplanes of the first
world war. He kept at it, and years
later, when studying for his doctorate, he even joined the Cross and
Cockade, a World War I aviation historical society. He liked that the kits
were readily available, and that he
could study and research and learn
about the history of the planes and
their pilots.
There were so few pilots that you
could get information on the planes
and most of the individuals, he said.
Some of the
many model
airplanes
Dr. Yudelson
has built.
Larry
Yudelson
From left, producer Nancy Spielberg, former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres,
and director Roberta Grossman.
Then came another break in his

hobby, as my younger sisters were
born and he began teaching. When
he started again, it was after the Six
Day War, and the military machines
that spoke to him bore Israels Jewish
star.
It wasnt hard to find a kit for a
U.S.-made Patton tank like the ones
Israel used to conquer the Sinai desert. Getting the French-built Mirage
jets the Israeli air force flew was only
a bit trickier. If the hobby store didnt
stock them, and wouldnt special
order then, by then there was the
Squadron Shop, and overstuffed mail
order catalog kits.
In either case, the planes had to
be modified with Israeli markings. I
started sending letters to Israel to
get information in terms of colors
and markings, my father told me
when I asked him recently.
Israeli security policies, however,
made that information hard to obtain.
In 1972, on his first trip to Israel, my
father saw a halftrack a vehicle with
treads in the rear like a tank, tires in
the front like a truck, and in this case
with an open back, used to transport
soldiers. It hardly seemed like a state
secret. He wanted to capture the colors so he could replicate it.
If you take the picture I have to
take your camera away, the tour
guide said.
In the pre-Internet days, the government press office had real power,
and the military censor really examined stories and photographs of anything with potential military information. Sure, you might see a picture
of an Israeli tank or plane in Life or
Cover Story
conversation about Israeli
military history. Israels first
plane, in what was to be
dubbed the 101 squadron,
was a Spitfire cobbled together with parts left behind
when the British evacuated and took their working
planes with them.
Then they started flying in
the Czech Messerschmitts,
he said. Czechoslovakia was
willing to sell weapons to
Israel. The Messerschmitts
were disassembled and
flown in to Israel in cargo
planes and had to be put
back together once they got
there. In the fall of 48 they
started getting Spitfires in,
also from Czechoslovakia.
They cost $23,000. Czechoslovakia offered 50, enough
to start a second squadron.
Among the models in his
collection are some planes
that were one of a kind.
Theres the Russian plane
Models of the first four planes in the Israeli
captured from Syria, and
Air Force
Larry Yudelson
flown by the 101 in maneuvers. Theres the Lavi, the
Time, but to my fathers chagrin, the
fighter developed by Israeli
squadron markings were censored,
Aircraft Industries but canceled amid
the aircraft numbers were censored,
controversy. A prototype was built
he said. Some of the tank gun barand flown, and theres a model of it
rels were censored. They didnt want
in my fathers basement.
anyone to know where the tanks
The pace of his model building
had come from. As histories written
slowed in the past couple of years,
decades later revealed, some of the
after my mother grew sick. Now hes
tanks used in Israel during the Six
taking care of matters in the wake of
Day War had come from American
her death. Hes also kept away from
stocks in Germany shortly before the
his modeling bench, perhaps ironiwar broke out.
cally, by his ever-deepening connecIt was hard to get information
tion to Israel. Keeping up with the
about a lot of things, he said.
news online takes time. And last year
If current Israeli military materiel
he helped found Roc4Israel, which
was secret, what about the historical
holds rallies, screens films, and crerecords of obsolete equipment? He
ates an interfaith pro-Israel coalition
wrote to the Israel Defense Acadein Rochester.
my, asking for old photographs from
But he plans to keep on building,
the 1956 war and before. Was there
and hopes that with enough headany way to get aircraft markings
way on his to-do list he can devote
from 56? No response came. He did
time to the models again. He has
get markings of the three B-17 Flying
one kit he wants to build one of
Fortress bombers that Israel acthe rarest planes ever to fly for Israel.
quired in 1948 despite the American
One of the rarest planes ever, actuarms embargo. (A fourth purchased
ally: The Douglas DC-5. 1938, as it
plane was impounded, thanks to the
turned out, was not the best time to
FBI.) But he didnt get the color data
introduce a civilian passenger plane,
he had asked for. More than a deand only 12 ever were built. In 1948,
cade after the planes were decomthe last surviving DC-5 was smugmissioned, that was still deemed too
gled to Israel and the name Yankee
sensitive.
Pasha The Bagel Lancer was
Now the veil has lifted. Talk with
crudely hand-painted on its nose. On
my dad about his model planes,
bombing missions, they would roll
and hell pull out a prize volume
the bombs out of the side door, my
from his library of Israeli military
father explained.
history: 101 IAF First Fighter SquadMeanwhile, he brings a perspecron. Published in 2007, it collects all
tive on Above and Beyond refined
the material he couldnt scrounge
by the thousands of hours spent
in the 1970s, with hundreds of color
delicately painting details on model
photos. (His collection of books on
planes, getting to know the shape
Israeli military matters is rivaled only
of their lines, the curves of their
by his collection of biographies of
wings, and how the engines fit into
retailers, which, given the preponthe fuselage. The planes they were
derance of Jews among department
actually flying in the film were Messstore founders, also has a decidedly
erschmitts from the Spanish air force
Jewish tilt.)
that had been re-engined, he told
Inevitably, a conversation about
me. The only people flying that varimy fathers models becomes a
ety were the Spanish air force.
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MANCHESTER CENTER, VT. Bernie Sanders reads from
the Passover Haggadah in Hebrew and jokes with his seder
hosts about finding chametz, traces of leavening, after they
have thoroughly cleaned the house in preparation for the
holiday.
The presidential candidate, a socialist competing for the
Democratic nomination, also follows Israeli politics close
enough to understand the influence of the charedi Orthodox parties in government. And like many Jews of his generation, Sanders, 74, chafes at what he sees as disproportionate critical attention applied to Israel.
But little of this emerges in his public profile.
More has been written about the Judaism of his Brooklyn childhood than about his interactions with the faith and
community today.
I know hes Jewish and I know he has a good heart, but
give us something, make us feel proud of you, said Rabbi
James Glazier of Temple Sinai, a Reform congregation in
South Burlington. I cant tell him what to do thats not my
business. He owns his own spiritual journey. But we need a
Jewish hug from him every once in a while.
As a politico, Sanders appears averse to hugs, Jewish or
otherwise. Consider his awkward handshake with Hillary
Rodham Clinton during the first Democratic presidential
debate last week after he said her use of personal emails
while in government shouldnt be a campaign focus.
Its not like hes embarrassed or ashamed of [his faith],
said Richard Sugarman, an Orthodox Jew who is among
Sanders closest friends and a professor of philosophy. He
continues to be a universalist; he doesnt focus on those
issues.
The Jewish Vermonters who know Sanders say his reluctance to make his Judaism central to his public persona is
a function of his preference for the economic over the esoteric, as well as a libertarianism typical both of the state and
its Jewish community one that embraces expressions of
faith and the lack of them.
Sanders, like many Jews who came here in the 1960s and
70s, migrated to Vermont for reasons having little to do
with his Judaism. He once told NPR that travel brochures he
saw as a teenager depicting the states open spaces attracted
him. Sanders, his first wife, and his older brother bought 85
acres of land for $2,500. (Sanders has been married twice,
and neither his first wife nor his current one is Jewish.)
Ben Scotch, a lawyer who worked in the state attorney
generals office and for the American Civil Liberties Union
for decades, said that he and Sanders were part of a generation of Jews who supplanted the states more conventional
Jewish community.
The children of Jewish families that settled here generations ago frequently looked at Vermont and said, What are
we doing here, this is no place to identify as Jews, the real
Jewish centers are in the cities, and they doffed their hats,
said Scotch, who lives in Montpelier, the state capital, and
knows Sanders through his dealings with government.
One generation was heading south on the interstate to
New York, and meanwhile heading north on the interstate
are children of city-bound Jews, saying enough of my parents materialistic values, I dont want to be in the undershirt business for the rest of my life.
Eventually, many of the new Jewish migrants found Jewish community, albeit one that worked with Vermonts
counterculture. Today Montpelier is home to four female
rabbis three Reconstructionists and one who identifies
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as Orthodox, having attended a transdenominational

rabbinical school.
The Orthodox-identifying rabbi, Tobie Weisman,
said she has encountered an abundance of stories like
Scotchs through her group, Yearning for Learning,
which organizes Jewish programming throughout the
state.
For example, she asked the owner of a local gelato
shop what ingredients he used to ascertain whether
the desserts would be suitable for the kosher-observant, only to find out that the mans mother was Jewish. Several months later, the shop owner was seeking
advice on how to make horseradish-flavored gelato for
a seder.
Being a rabbi, I find Jews, Weisman said, noting
that when she speaks to people with children, about
one in three times shell find a Jewish connection.
Susan Leff, who founded Jewish Communities of
Vermont two years ago to coordinate Jewish activities
in the state, said counting Jews in Vermont is a challenge, precisely because the Jews who arrived in the
60s value the states nonconformist ethos and resist
organization.
Before launching her start-up, Leff asked around at
Jewish congregations about setting up an affiliate of
the Jewish Federations of North America, but it was
a nonstarter.
People would say, why send our money to New
York? she recalled.
Leff said her mailing list suggests that there are
more than 20,000 Jews among the states 600,000
residents. Thats four times the 5,000 Jews who
appear on outdated databases. From three functioning synagogues in 1975, when she arrived in the state
to study at Bennington College, there are now 14 with
rabbis, along with an array of lay-led prayer communities, or chavurot. Of the 10,000 students at the University of Vermont, where Leff served as Hillel director for a decade, she estimates 2,000 are Jewish. The
campus has a kosher kitchen.
David Fried, Weismans husband a New York
native who is a farmer and a jam maker described
his own trajectory from secular Jew to observance.
Checking trees ripe with produce on a cool autumn
day, he remembered being nervous the first time he
shut down his farm, Elmore Roots, on Shabbat. Fried
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said he discovered quickly that his clients
and neighboring farmers respected his
observance.
Michael Steinweis, who heads the University of Vermonts Center for Holocaust
Studies, said the states libertarian traditions created a convivial environment for
diverse Jewish expression.
Its a comfortable place for Jews to
move to, he said.
Steinweis noted that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against
Israel, or BDS, had failed in its bids to gain
a foothold at the university, despite its reputation for being among the most liberal in
the United States.
Its traditional Yankee libertarianism,
he said. Its OK to criticize, but dont
censor.
Sanders fraught encounter with BDS
supporters who challenged his defense of
Israel at a town hall meeting in Cabot last
year was captured on YouTube. Sugarman
said he was not surprised that his friend
stood up to the hecklers, telling them to
shut up.
Many of us were gratified, not amazed,
that Bernard had the beitsim to stand up
against these nihilists, said Sugarman,
using the Hebrew colloquialism for balls.
(Most Vermonters call Sanders Bernie;

Sugarman prefers Bernard.)
Sugarman has known Sanders since they
met on a slow train home to Vermont in
1976. Sugarman was returning from defending his doctorate at Yale, Sanders from a
family reunion in Brooklyn events that
were traumatic for both of us, Sugarman
said.
They spoke all night, and Sanders
moved in with Sugarman for a while following the breakup of Sanders first marriage and kept a kosher kitchen in deference to his friend. (Sugarman, who
roomed with former Senator Joe Lieberman, of Connecticut, at Yale, may be the
only person to have lived with both serious
Jewish contenders for the U.S. presidency.)
Sugarman encouraged Sanders, who had
run several hopeless third-party bids for
statewide office in the 70s, to run as an
independent for Burlington mayor in 1981;
Sanders defeated the Democratic incumbent by just 12 votes.
Sanders went on to be elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives in 1990 and to
the Senate in 2006.
He has chosen friends who complement his wonkishness: Sugarman, the
philosopher, and Stanley Huck Gutman,
Richard Sugarman, a professor of

Jewish philosophy and a close friend
of Bernie Sanders, in his University of
Vermont office.
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a professor of poetry at the University

of Vermont who has written about the
Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. In 2010, the
Washington Post profiled Gutman, who
was Sanders chief of staff for four years,

because Gutman routinely sent Senate
staffers favorite poems. Gutman acknowledged he got nowhere in talking poetry
with his old friend and boss.
In his cluttered office, Sugarman, whose
expertise is Emmanuel Levinas, the Talmudist and philosopher, pulled out from a
table tumbling with books on Levinas (and
one kids book about Chanukah) a compilation of speeches from a Levinas seminar
he organized in 2000. He opened it to the
welcome speech by Sanders, who mentioned Levinas only to wonder jokingly
whether he was a candidate because his
name cropped up on signs around town.
But Sugarman said the candidates Jewish identity is principally expressed in
his understanding that elections make a
difference, sometimes with catastrophic
consequences.
He once said that as a child in Brooklyn, he learned there was an election in
Germany in 1932, Sugarman recalled of
Sanders, whose father lost family members in Holocaust-era Poland and who is
on the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. And although it was not decisive, it was quite important.
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abbi Jonathan Sacks, a philosopher and member of the U.K. House of Lords who served as
Britains Orthodox chief rabbi from 1991 to
2013, is in America lecturing and promoting
his latest book, Not in Gods Name: Confronting Religious Violence. JTAs Uriel Heilman caught up with Sacks
in New York for a conversation about his prolific writing
pace 25 books and counting, along with a new line of
Koren Sacks prayer books the crises facing Jews today,
and whether Sacks, 67, would consider the presidency of
Yeshiva University.
JTA: Youre a member of the House of Lords, you teach
at Kings College London and New York University, and
you travel the world lecturing. How do you have time to
write, too?
Sacks: I used to take, when I was chief rabbi, six weeks
in the summer, and instead of taking a holiday Id write a
book. You go into a kind of trance when that happens. Id
be thinking about it for the preceding year, so it wasnt out
of nothing. At the age of 40 I completed my first book, and
Ive done one a year since. I usually write the books I want
to read. Long ago I made a list of the books that I think
need to be written, and I just knock them off one by one.
JTA: You know what your next project will be already?

Sacks: Well, I know whats for the next 20 years, we
should all live so long.
JTA: You have 20 lined up?
Sacks: Oh, more. Im sorry about that, but thats how
it goes.
JTA: Whats your next project?
Sacks: I am writing a new commentary to the Chumash
[the Bible]. There was a commentary its still used in
Anglo Jewry called the Hertz Chumash, written by one
of my predecessors. It is a commentary that asks: How do
we set this against its historical background? What does it
mean to us today? Nobodys done a Hertz Chumash since
Hertz, a century ago, and its an urgent necessity. ArtScroll
anthologizes traditional commentaries, and its done tremendously well. But they have not stepped outside that
world of the yeshiva and said how do we make sense of
this today?
JTA: That sounds almost Reform.
Sacks: If Maimonides was a Reform Jew, then I suppose
it is. But Maimonides wasnt. That is the classic tradition.
The rabbis formulated it in a very simple way: Theres
the Written Law and Oral Law. Although the text never
changes, you always need that act of interpretation to
translate the word of God for all time into the word of God
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks latest book is Not in Gods

Name: Confronting Religious Violence.

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for this time. Generation after generation reads the same

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Why Ivanka Trump is her dads first lady

BRIAN SCHAEFER
vanka is to Donald Trump as Lisa is to Homer Simpson: brainy, composed, and unflinchingly loyal to
her outrageous and unpredictable father.
At least thats the portrait painted in a Politico article published last week. The article explores the relationship between the Republican presidential front-runner
and the daughter who has managed to grow up gracefully
under his glaring spotlight.
Last month, the articles author, Michael DAntonio,
published the biography Never Enough: Donald Trump
and His Pursuit of Success. Here he draws from his interviews with Ivanka Trump, 33, to examine her effect on
The Donalds campaign.
When Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Donald
Trump whom he counts on most, the real estate mogul
named Ivanka Trump first. When entangled in yet another
web of his own words, this time over questionably misogynistic remarks aimed at Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in
August, Donald Trump again invoked his daughter.
So my daughter Ivanka, who is a terrific person,
she came to me and she said, You care so much about
women, and you care so much about the whole thing with
womens health issues, he said in a profile in the Hollywood Reporter shortly after the controversy erupted.
She said, You are really misunderstood, and you have
to get the word out.
Privately, Ivanka Trump is said to try to shape her
fathers opinions or at least help him walk them back.
New York magazine reported that she allegedly provided
him with several statements to backtrack from his antiimmigrant comments, which he nevertheless rejected.
Publicly, however, she remains mum on his gaffes. She
shrugged off the Kelly incident as sensationalized, saying
Ivanka Trump speaks at Fortunes Most Powerful

Women Summit in Washington, D.C., last week.

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it didnt interest me much.

Her presence seems to have a humanizing effect on
Donald Trumps image, making his unsavory outbursts
easier to swallow. Even those who write him off as a raving bigot would have a hard time denying that he and her
mother, Donalds first ex-wife, Ivana Trump, managed to
raise an intelligent, rational, and compassionate young
woman.
(Ivanka Trumps ability to straddle both political parties in her private life adds to this sense of sensibility.
DAntonio points out that she has criticized President
Barack Obama on Fox News but also fundraised for New
Jersey Senator Corey Booker, a liberal Democrat, and is

friends with Chelsea Clinton.)
Having grown up playing in her fathers office, Ivanka
Trump now has her own office, just one floor down. By 16
she had launched a modeling career, but pivoted toward
business in her 20s, demonstrating sharp judgment,
insightful and direct criticism, and a placid demeanor
all in evidence when she joined her father as a judge on his
popular reality TV series The Apprentice.
She is now an executive vice president of development
and acquisitions at the Trump Organization, focusing on
Trump hotels and fashion-related enterprises. Her brothers Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump also are officers.
In 2009, Ivanka Trump underwent an Orthodox Jewish conversion for her nuptials to real estate mogul Jared
Kushner, who grew up in northern New Jersey and graduated from Frisch. The couple now have two children.
Ivanka has spoken about her religious observance and the
influence that Judaism has on her as she raises her family.
Familial loyalty is something Ivanka clearly learned during her childhood and adolescence. She introduced her
father when he announced his candidacy in June, a duty
often assumed by a candidates spouse. If the campaign
is any indication, she might serve as a de facto first lady
in a Donald Trump White House. Trumps current wife,
Melena Knauss, has mostly taken a back seat on the campaign trail thus far.
Perhaps recognizing the scrutiny and obligations that
a Trump presidency would inflict on her and her family,
Ivanka Trump hedged on a question about whether she is
happy about his run for the presidency. Speaking at the
Fortune Most Powerful Women summit in Washington,
D.C., on Wednesday, she said, As a citizen, I love what hes
doing. As a daughter, its obviously more complicated.

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Sacks: If it is not safe to be a Jew in Europe, it is not

safe to be a human being in Europe, and if Europe
ever lost its Jews it will have lost its soul. So this is a big
problem. And the real trouble is that Jews continue to
talk about it in a way that does not communicate itself
to non-Jews. Theres a deep danger when the Jewish
response to anti-Semitism is complaining to other Jews
or using language that will only really be heard by other
Jews. Its the ultimate exercise in futility.
JTA: Is there a crisis of leadership in the Jewish world
today?
Sacks: Theres a crisis of leadership in the world. That
is manifest. And theres a great desire for magical leaders
who will solve the problems of the world, and that leads
to violence, tyranny and all sorts of bad things. So we are
in a crisis of democratic leadership, I would say.
JTA: But what about in the Jewish world?
Sacks: Im very impressed by the rabbinate here in
America. Not an easy position; it never was. Ive traveled
to a lot of communities and seen a lot of very, very impressive young Orthodox rabbis and young leaders.
JTA: Yeshiva University is beginning its search for its
next president. Would you be interested in the job?
Sacks: No comment.
best answer for the Jewish people right now. We are living in a very dangerous world. The people of Israel are
exposed to immense danger, and now is not the time for
internecine domestic squabbles. We have to stand hand
in hand and shoulder to shoulder with Christians, moderate Muslims, secular humanists, and people of other faiths
in defense of religious freedom and humanitarian values.
Because right now we are at one of the most dangerous
turning points in history.
JTA: Whats the danger?
Sacks: I dont know if the West really knows what to do
with radicalized political Islam. I dont know if the Muslim
world really knows what to do with it.
JTA: Do the Jews know what to do with it?
Sacks: Fundamentalism is the attempt to impose
a single truth on a plural world. Jews have always
stood against that. We never went with the majority.
We insisted on our right to be different. That is why
Jews carry a very important message to the world. If
youre al-Qaida or ISIS, attempting soon or eventually
to impose the caliphate on the world, you will have to
oppose the Jews and the State of Israel because historically we were the ones who stood against them.
JTA: I imagine youre often asked about anti-Semitism
in Europe.
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JTA: Theres a lot of disagreement among Jews when it
comes to interpretation.
Sacks: Judaism is a religion of argument. Its the classic environment. Judaism is a choral symphony scored by
many voices. I dont see that as a problem. I see that as a
sign of vitality.
JTA: Tell me about your new book about religious
violence.
Sacks: I have tried to get to the roots of the historically
fraught and potentially violent relationship between Jews,
Christians and Muslims. [Those roots are] highly specific
narratives in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and
the Koran, all of which lead back to the stories of sibling
rivalry in Genesis. Sibling rivalry, according to Sigmund
Freud, is the primary driver of violence through history.
Its a very serious book to be read seriously by people
who care for the future of humanity. It took me 12 years
to write.
JTA: Is this a Jewish book?
Sacks: Not in Gods Name was very consciously written for an audience that is predominantly not Jewish. It
is directed to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, with equal
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Gilad Millo recording his second single at a studio in Nairobi earlier this month.
RAYMOND NDIKWE
Meet Gilad Millo

The Israeli ex-diplomat is Kenyas biggest pop star
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
ipping between meetings at Nairobis five-star hotels wearing

a suit and tie, Gilad Millo looks
every bit the ex-diplomat he is.
But looks can be deceiving: Though he
may be balding and slightly pudgy, Millo is
one of Kenyas hottest pop stars.
Hes so popular, in fact, hes known
throughout the country simply as Gilad, a
la Madonna or Prince.
The word celebrity feels strange, but,
yeah, people now ask me to pose for selfies with them, said Millo, the former deputy head of mission at the Israeli Embassy
in Kenya, speaking to JTA by telephone
from his home in Nairobi.
Millo made his musical debut in April
with the song Unajua Do You Know
in Kiswahili, one of Kenyas four official
languages.
By May, Unajua, a mellow tune about

the lingering attachment of ex-lovers,
topped the weekly chart of X FM, a popular Kenyan radio station, and stayed
on the top 10 lists of other stations for
months. By August, the track received
a rave review in the Daily Nation, one of
Kenyas largest newspapers.
In the video, Millo, an Ashkenazi Jew,
takes his bicycle and guitar and walks
around the Nairobi neighborhood where
the songs producer lives. A classier
indoor set is used for the songs guest
artist: Wendy Kimani, a young Kenyan
singer who rose to fame in 2008 as a
finalist on the East African version of
American Idol.
Kimani who recently moved to
Amsterdam, where she lives with her
Dutch husband concedes that Millo does
not exactly possess the looks that Westerners would expect for an up-and-coming
Hes so popular, in fact,

hes known throughout the
country simply as Gilad, a la
Madonna or Prince.
pop star. But in Kenya, the masses are
still quite rural, so theyre not so much
into looks and fashion, she said.
For them its all about the music,
Kimani said. If someone has the music,
thats all that they care about.
Plus, the song topped the charts before
the video was released so few people
knew Millo was what East Africans call
mzungu, a white man.
And even after, many couldnt believe
Gilad was really singing because few
white people in Kenya speak Kiswahili,
Kimani said.
Music always has been a major part of
Millos life. In his twenties, he was a member of a Jerusalem rock band, White Donkey, and he had planned to become a professional musician rather than follow in the
footsteps of his late father, Yehuda Millo,
who served as a diplomat for 37 years.
But when Millos son was born, his
wife, Hadas, said that theres no money
in music and we need to find a real job,
Millo recalled in an interview that he gave
to Israels Channel 2 last month.
After working as a journalist, Millo
became a diplomat in 2003. He served in
Nairobi and Los Angeles before leaving Israels Foreign Ministry in 2008 and settling in
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The connection with Kenya was instant, Millo
said. Ive never encountered a more open, generous people.
It was only recently, on a quiet afternoon when his
wife and teenage kids were away, that Millo called up
a music producer, M.G., whom he had met through a
friend. Millo showed up at the studio with a song he
wrote just to see how it goes, he recalled.
We realized we had a hit the second we finished
recording, Millo said.
Thanks to Unajua, he has landed dozens of guest
appearances on Kenyan radio and television shows.
There he promotes his campaign about farming for the
Balton CP Group the British firm where Millo works
as head of business development and public relations
which represents mostly Israeli agriculture and communications companies.
After we establish that Im white, that I sing in Kiswahili, and that this place is home for me, theres still 10
minutes of airtime, so the interviewers and I often go
into other things that Im passionate about, Millo said.
Titled Farming is Cool, the campaign tries to
appeal to the millions of young Africans who swapped
their now-aging rural communities in favor of the perceived opportunities of big metropolises like Nairobi
and its suburbs and slums, where only a third of about
6 million residents have adequate sewage systems.
The aim is to attract young people to more sustainable and advanced agriculture.
Last month, Millo released his second single, Sema
Milele (Say Forever), which the well-respected online
magazine Afrika Nmbiu crowned as the perfect wedding song. He is working on a third single with a Kenyan
artist, 22-year-old HK Gachago.
He may be big in Kenya now, but Millo says hes
not making money from his music yet. Still, whatever income his musical career may generate, he
plans to donate.
In addition to hoping to help empower youth
through farming, another cause is Israel for Africa,
the nonprofit that Millo and his family established in
memory of his father that promotes Israeli innovation and culture in Africa.
Europeans and Americans dont always get the connection that many Israelis have with Africans, he said.
But we feel it instantly, every time we crack a joke or
slap one anothers back.
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1. ___-ran, like Herzog
5. Early priest
10. False god with a quiver
14. Survivor: Africa winner Ethan
15. Its like a blintz
16. Kellerman protagonist Lazarus
17. Wager in the Israeli government?
19. Weapon of concern for Israel: Abbr.
20. Tip on some Yom Kippur footwear
21. Jewish day sch. in Riverdale, NY
22. Mahktesh sound
23. Like some characters in Mel Brooks
High Anxiety
24. High school for kindergarteners near
Tel-Aviv?
27. Were ___! (Words before an IDF
operation, perhaps)
28. Ability in Cronenbergs The Dead
Zone
31. Title for Michael Kadoorie
32. Actress Graynor
33. ___ shall slumber nor sleep...
Isaiah 5:27
35. Trains through Boro Park
37. ___ of Silence
39. Look through Chagalls work on
a Mac?
42. Israels Darking, e.g.
45. One is worth much less than a
shekel
46. Many a Bible tale, e.g.
50. Rahab had one
51. Insect for Rudd
53. It could start with 613: abbr.
55. Shavuot need?
56. Odd place for a seder?
59. A forefather, once
61. Moms in Israel (var.)
62. Too Close was one for Clare
64. The Wreck of the Mary ___,
Heston film produced by Julian
Blaustein
65. Where the Jews found 12 wells of
water and 70 date palms
66. Coming of age candy?
68. Lisa with a #1 hit, once
69. Eizeh yofi!
70. Dweller by Eilats reefs
71. ___ fatso, Bunker line from Lears
All in the Family
72. Golam hiding spot
73. Perlmans occasional Cheers
co-star
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2. Biblical times, e.g.
3. Levines co-judge on The Voice
4. Genesis, e.g.
5. IAF hero
6. Crystal and Diamond are involved
in them
7. Pack again, at the makolet
8. Schoenberg works
9. One is useful for work in the
Mediterranean
10. Writer Brown
11. What Tevye dreamed of being
12. Agreeable to (Bibis policies)
13. Two judges, for short
18. Cause of the bad pun eye vey
22. Saul not killing Agag was a big one
25. Pesach months
26. Contraction for Emma Lazarus
29. Altschul of MTV and CBS
30. West Bank gp.
34. Baltic country that lost nearly half its
Jewish pop. in the Holocaust
36. See 57-Down
38. College player highly unlikely to
be Jewish
40. Shows Joel love at the Garden
41. CEO Moonves
42. Feature on Ben Gurion, for example
43. Wrap (shawarma in laffa)
44. David and Goliath, e.g.
47. The Garden of Eden story, to some
48. Like Moses, after bringing back the
first Commandments
49. Billy Wilder used them
52. Basic garb in the Negev
54. Bubkes
57. Iconic character played by 36-Down
58. Occupy a Shabbat table
60. Joy who is often mistaken for
being Jewish
63. The Chacham ___
65. High Priest with bad sons
66. Deg. for Bloomberg
67. Midler is one: abbr.
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 47.
Arts & Culture

Death of a Salesman
MIRIAM RINN
great play remains vital and

relevant no matter how old it
is, and Arthur Millers Death
of a Salesman certainly has
proven itself to be a great play.
Close to seventy years old, the plays
desperately striving characters, obsessed
with money and making it, feel as contemporary today as they did when they first
stepped onto the stage in 1949. With each
production, the attentive viewer finds
something new to explore, and in New
Yiddish Reps presentation of the play at
the Castillo Theatre, we can appreciate the
deep Jewish roots of this essentially American story.
Arthur Miller was a Jew and grew up
among Yiddish-speaking Jews in New York.
Many Jews who see Death of a Salesman
feel intuitively that the dialogue has a Yiddish tang, and that this is a Jewish family.
Though Willy Loman is not identified as
Jewish, its never really in question. The
Lomans are the classic lower-middle-class
Jewish family, hoping for greater things for
the kids, terrified of sliding down the ladder into the working class.
The translation New Yiddish Rep is using
was done by the great Yiddish actor Joseph
Buloff, and it feels as natural and convincing as if the actors were speaking the original words. Switching to English when
Willy speaks to non-Jews,
or when the sons Biff and
Happy speak to each other,
adds to the realism. Thats
just how bilingual families
behave. Miller was famously
protective of his work, but
Daniel Kahn as Biff and Lev Herskovitz as Happy with their characters
he eventually granted profather, Avi Hoffman, as Willie.
duction rights to Buloff, who
PHOTOS BY RONALD L. GLASSMAN
had staged an unauthorized
Yiddishist Shane Baker plays Charley,
Yiddish version in Argentina
by Suzanne Toren with almost
the Lomans neighbor, with quiet assurwhile Salesman was still in
saintly devotion and dignity. The
ance and empathy. His speech at the end
the middle of its premiere
Lomans are a portrait of what
of play is one of the few that does not do as
run on Broadway.
married love can be a sanctuary of understanding and sympawell in Yiddish; I guess It comes with the
Directed by Moshe Yassur,
thy. Hoffman and Toren are both
territory is too perfect a line to change.
the New Yiddish Reps production eliminates the scenexperienced and talented actors,
Most Jews are financially secure today,
ery and elaborate sets and
and their Yiddish is flawless.
but everyone except the super-rich is
focuses on the actors and
There is little understanding
haunted by the possibility of ruin. We
the words. The simplicity of
between Willy and his sons Biff
hound our children to study ever harder,
the production underlines
(Daniel Kahn) and Happy (Lev
engage special tutors to teach them esoteric skills, fight with their teachers and
the expressionistic quality
Herskovitz). These two have
Avi Hoffman and Suzanne Toren in Death of a Salesman
coaches to be more forgiving. In other
of the play. While it is often
been wounded by their fathers
words, we do all the things that Willy
considered a realist clasenslavement to the illusion of
sic, Death of a Salesman is not a strictly
does or wants to do. Somehow, its never
the pathos of the aging salesman teetering
success, and perhaps by their mothers
naturalistic play. Dead people appear,
enough. Millers vision of the ravenous
on the edge of suicidal depression. He is
neglect. The ridiculous names Miller gave
time shifts abruptly, memory merges with
nature of American capitalism is as acute
a man who feels himself a failure in every
the sons gains sharper meaning in this production as an expression of Willys assimireality. Stage veteran Avi Hoffmans heartas ever, and the New Yiddish Reps producway, unable even to hold on to the little
lationist dreams.
tion brings it into sharp focus.
rending performance as Willy brings out
he has. His wife Linda is beautifully played
Calendar
Charles Belfoure, 10 a.m.
Breakfast. 10-10 norma
ave. (201) 796-5040.
Friday
october 23
Walkathon: the
Tot Shabbat in Closter:

temple Beth el has a
family service, 6:45 p.m.,
led by rabbi david s.
widzer and Cantor rica
timman and joined by
rinat Beth el Junior
Choir. 221 schraalenburgh
road. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.
Shabbat in Fort Lee:

JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
shalom offers a
contemporary shabbat
service featuring the J.
Lewis Musical ensemble,
which was featured at
high holy day services,
7 p.m. 1449 anderson
ave. reservations,
(201) 947-1735.
Shabbat in Jersey
City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob has Friday
night Live! services with
musical instruments and
original music by rabbiCantor Marsha dubrow,
8 p.m. 176 west side
ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
Saturday
october 24
Shabbat in Glen
Rock: rabbi Jennifer
schlosberg leads a torah
study course, 10:30 a.m.,
as part of shabbat
morning services at
the Glen rock Jewish
Center. 682 harristown
road. (201) 652-6624 or
office@grjc.org.
Film and dinner in

hoboken: United
synagogue of hoboken
screens the awardwinning documentary
deli Man after
havdalah and deli dinner,
6:30 p.m. 115 Park ave.
(201) 659-4000 or office@
hobokensynagogue.org.
Concert in upper
Nyack: Peace ensemble
a Faith initiative, an
ensemble of Christian
and Jewish clergy, gives
a benefit concert for
Congregation sons of
israel, 7 p.m. Performers
include Cantor Michael
Kasper of sons of israel,
rabbi Zoe B. Zak of
temple israel of the
Catskills, and Pastor
everett newton of First
immanuel Missionary
Baptist Church, Central
nyack. 300 north
Broadway, Upper nyack,
n.Y. (845)-358-3767.
Jewish association
for developmental
disabilities holds its
annual walkathon,
rain or shine, at the
englewood Boat Basin
recreational area. sign-in
at 11 a.m., walk at noon.
Proceeds benefit adults
with developmental
disabilities.
(201) 457-0058, ext. 10,
or www.J-add.org.
Naomi Miller
Cabaret in Englewood:
singer naomi Miller
presents From
Klezmer to Broadway
at Congregation Kol
haneshama, on the
premises of st. Pauls,
8 p.m. admission
includes hors doeuvres
and wine. 113 engle st.
(201) 816-1611 or info@
khnj.org.
Music/celebration
in Pearl River: Beth
am temple presents a
fundraising concert in
honor of Mark Burke
and eileen rosen, 8 p.m.
Music by the cover
band incidental Contact
with congregants evan
and Greg Karzhevsky.
admission includes
wine, beer, soda, and
light fare. 60 e. Madison
ave., Pearl river, n.Y.
(845) 735-5858 or email
office@bethamtemple.
org.
Sunday
october 25
Charity walk in
Paramus: the
alzheimers association
northern regional
chapter holds the walk
to end alzheimers at
Bergen Community
College. registration,
8:30 a.m.; walk at 10.
400 Paramus road.
(201) 261-6009 or
ewinter@alz.org.
Garage sale in Cresskill:

a multifamily garage
sale with proceeds
benefitting hadassah
etC chapter in Bergen
County is at 9 Oxford
Place, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. rain
date, sunday, november
1. amie, (201) 615-1244.
Garage sale in New City:

the west Clarkstown
Jewish Center hosts a
garage sale, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
195 west Clarkstown
road, new City, n.Y.
(845) 352-0017.
Childrens program:
the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
tikvah continues its
sunday special series
for 4- to 7-year-olds with
a nature program, Fun
in the woods, by elinor
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Film in Paramus:
Temple Beth Rishon in

Wyckoff offers a free
concert of classical
music with worldrenowned Israeli-born pianist Itay
Goren on Sunday, October 25,
at 3 p.m. The program includes
selections by Beethoven, Brahms,
Mendelssohn, and Chopin, and
the world premiere of pieces
composed in Mr. Gorens honor by
Randall Svane. Mr. Goren is on the
faculty of the music department
at Ramapo College, where he is
the founder and artistic director of
the colleges Open Door concert
series. The concert is supported
by Temple Beth Rishons Channa
Mamber Music Memorial Fund.
585 Russell Ave. (201) 891-4466.
OCT.
25
Grayzel, a Flat rock

Brook nature Center
educator, 9:30 a.m.
arts and crafts and
kosher, nut-free snacks.
east 304 Midland ave.
(201) 262-7733 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Breast cancer
awareness in
hackensack: holy name
Medical Center will be
hosting its first think
Pink event at the shops
at riverside, including a
gynecologic and breast
cancer seminar 10 a.m.
1 p.m. it is part of the
malls annual October
think Pink campaign
to raise awareness of
breast cancer. 1 riverside
square. holyname.org/
events or (201) 833-3336.
Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: temple
emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds Club Katan
for children who will
begin kindergarten in
september, 10:15 a.m.
87 Overlook drive.
(201) 391-0801, ext. 12.
the JCC of Paramus/

Congregation Beth
tikvah screens woman
in Gold, starring ryan
reynolds and helen
Mirren, 3 p.m. deli dinner
follows with reservations.
east 304 Midland ave.
(201) 262-7691.
Film in New Milford:

solomon schechter
day school of Bergen
County screens the
acclaimed film above
and Beyond, produced
by nancy spielberg,
followed by a Q&a
with the films writer,
sophie sartain, 7 p.m.
all proceeds benefit
the stephanie Prezant
zl israel scholarship
Fund. 275 McKinley ave.
(201) 262-9898, ext. 275
or awolf@ssdsbergen.
org.
october 27
American suffragist:
club of the sisterhood

of the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/CBi reviews
the Paris architect by
Vicki Caron
French CatholicJewish relations:
Vicki Caron, a Cornell
University professor,
discusses CatholicJewish relations in
19th Century France
at ramapo College
of new Jersey, 1 p.m.
sponsored by ramapos
Gross Center for
holocaust and Genocide
studies. 505 ramapo
Valley road, Mahwah.
(201) 684-7409.
School open house in

Paramus: Ben Porat
Yosef holds an open
house for parents of
prospective students,
toddlers through eighthgraders, 7:45 p.m.
east 243 Frisch Court.
(201) 845-5007, ext. 16,
ruthr@benporatyosef.
org, or www.
benporatyosef.org.
hebrew high parlor

meeting in Westwood:
Tuesday
Book review: the book
the Palisades in tenafly,

10:30 a.m. 411 e. Clinton
ave. (201) 569-7900 or
www.jccotp.org.
dumont historian dick

Burnon offers a video
and lecture, american
suffragist Leader alice
Pauls Fight for the
womens right to Vote,
at a meeting of reaP
(retired executives and
active Professionals)
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Bergen County high

school for Jewish studies
holds an informational
meeting a private home,
7:30 p.m. BChsJs
principal Bess adler
and teacher Barnett
Goldman will discuss
myths and realities of
attending hebrew high
on sunday mornings.
Light refreshments. 17
william st. (201) 4880834, office@bchsjs.org,
or www.bchsjs.org.
Wednesday
october 28
Ancient Egypt: the
JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
tikvah and Brightview
Paramus host ancient
egypt, a presentation
by the Morris Museum,
including history and
artifacts, at the JCCP/
CBt. Brightview sponsors
a lunch at 12:30 p.m.;
program at 1:15. all
welcome at no charge.
304 east Midland
ave. reservations,
(201) 262-7691.
Calendar
of Chabad Jewish Center
Upper Passaic County,
7:30 p.m. 1069 Ringwood
Ave, Suite 315, Haskell.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
myJLI.com.
Thursday
october 29
Open house in
Englewood: The
Rabbi Arthur Weiner

Learning about
Chanukah: Rabbi Arthur
Weiner begins a six-week
course, The Story of
Chanukah, at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, at 3 p.m.
and repeated at 8:15 p.m.
304 East Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
School open house

in Teaneck: Torah
Moriah School invites

prospective parents
to an open house,
8-9:30 p.m. Faculty
and administrators
will be on hand. Tours
and information
about its tuition
affordability program.
53 South Woodland
St. (201) 567-0208,
ext. 376, ekessler@
moriahschool.org, or
www.moriahschool.org.
Simon Sinek
Author in Fort Lee:
Simon Sinek is the guest
lecturer at Chabad of
Fort Lee, 7:30 p.m.
808 Abbott Boulevard.
(201) 886-1238 or www.
chabadfortlee.com.
Sunday
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Learning Institute offers

a course, Where Does
the Soul Go After It
Departs This World? led
by Rabbi Mendy Gurkov
Mitzvah Day: The

Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
Yavneh Academy schedules

5K/1 mile fun run (or walk)
The 11th Yavneh Academy Benjamin
Schwartz Memorial 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun
Run/Walk is set for Sunday, November
8, at the Westfield Garden State Plaza in
Paramus. The run, named for the brother
of Yavneh parent Mendy Schwartz, offers
an opportunity for the community to join
the Yavneh Academy family in supporting the school. Last year, the runs and
walk drew more than 800 participants
and raised more than $50,000 for Yavneh
hosts Mitzvah Day, a

community-wide day
of volunteering, local
collections, and blood
drives. (201) 820-3962
or www.JFNNJ.org/
MitzvahDay.
scholarships.
Participants of the 5K Run and 1 Mile
Fun Run/Walk have a pre-race workout
and buffet breakfast. At the end, medals
are presented to the top runners in various categories.
To register or to sponsor a runner, go to
www.yavnehacademy.org and click on Fun
Run/Walk. For information, call (201) 2628494, ext. 309.
Academy of Bergen
Academy holds an open
house. Registration,
9:15 a.m.; program
10 a.m.-1 p.m. 1600
Queen Anne Road.
Preregistration at www.
tabc.org/admissions/
open-house-2015. Donna
Hoenig, (201) 837-7696,
ext. 107.
Sinatra and Elvis

birthday celebration:
Temple Beth Sholom
in Fair Lawn holds Ol
Blue Eyes Meets The
King, celebrating Frank
Sinatras 100th birthday
and Elvis Presleys 80th
birthday, with music by
crooner Steve Maglio
and Elvis impersonator
Bob McArthur,
5:30 p.m. Dinner
combines Hoboken and
Memphis fare catered by
Kosher Nosh. 40-25 Fair
Lawn Ave. Reservations,
(201) 797-9321.
School open house in

River Edge: Rosenbaum
Yeshiva of North Jersey
holds an open house,
7 p.m. 666 Kinderkamack
Road. (201) 986-1414, ext.
338, welcome@rynj.org,
or www.rynj.org.
In New York
Sunday
october 25
Films in NYC: The
Museum of Jewish
Heritage A Living
Memorial to the
Holocaust screens
Ambulance, directed
by Janusz Morgenstern,
and Kornblumenblau,
directed by Leszek
Wosiewicz, 2 p.m. Both
in Polish with English
subtitles. 36 Battery
Place. (646) 437-4202 or
www.mjhnyc.org.
Singles
Sunday
november 8
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social gettogether with music by
Jeff Sherer, at the JCC
Rockland, 11 a.m. All are
welcome, particularly
those from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties.
450 West Nyack Road.
Refreshments. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
Fundraiser at Modiani showroom

benefits Leonias Adas Emuno
Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia
presents Treats and Treasures, a fundraiser to benefit its religious school, on
Thursday, October 29, from 6:30 to 9:30
p.m., at Modiani Kitchen Showroom
in Englewood. Along with a silent auction, the evening will include a cooking
demonstration by Chef Gibson B (Gibson Borelli, winner of Food Networks
Rachael vs. Guy Kids Cook-off Season 2),

and a wine and cheese tasting bar with
pairings by sommelier Scott Lawrence.
Finger foods and desserts will be served.
Participants must be 21 and older. To
buy tickets, click on the special events
link at www.adasemuno.org, or go
through brownpapertickets.com. For
information, call (201) 592-1712.
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades continues

to expand its range of fitness offerings
Enjoying a workout at The Kaplen JCC.
In celebration of a new season, the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades is offering an expanded slate of fitness options. Dedicated to everything health and wellness, it has classes for
everyone. They include swimming, basketball, running,
spinning, group exercise, and circuit training.
Some of the new options included Keiser M3i bikes
for the cycling program, featuring advanced technology, adjustable seating, and built-in wireless Bluetooth
to track and save workouts; a new cycling class, Cycling
Fusion, which is cycling followed by weight training;
Express Classes, which allows people to create their own
workouts and vary their routine; more Pilates options;
and more than 90 complimentary group exercise classes
included in membership, including yoga, Zumba, barre,
Piloxing, interval training, and cycling.
To launch the fall program, the JCC offers individuals,
A personal trainer works with a member.
families, and seniors the chance to join the JCC and receive

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$150 off membership until October 31. If a friend who
already is a JCC member refers them, both will receive an
additional $50 in JCC Cash which can be applied to classes
For information, call (201) 408-1448, email join@jccotp.
and programs within the JCC.
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Larry David is spot-on as Bernie Sanders on SNL

BEN SALES
Whats the deal with emails,
anyway?
Sounds like a line on a Seinfeld episode (or Modern Seinfeld, anyway). But last night we
heard it on the Saturday Night
Live spoof of the first Democratic debate. The speaker was
Bernie Sanders doppelganger,
Seinfeld creator Larry David.
David is a Jewish curmudgeon who also plays a Jewish
curmudgeon on his HBO show,
Curb Your Enthusiasm. So
when Sanders, another Jewish
curmudgeon, decided to run for
president, it was clearly the role
David was born to play.
Slap half a white toupee on his
bald spot and David becomes a
dead ringer for Sanders, bouncy
hand motions and all. He won
laughs on SNL by playing
Sanders straight, but couldnt
resist throwing in a couple of
Larry as presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live on October 17.
Seinfeldisms, spewing outrage

at the most insignificant of daily
annoyances.
Eh, not a fan of the banks,

David (I mean, Sanders) griped.
They trample on the middle
GOOD OLD-FASHIONED ENTERTAINMENT!
YOuTuBE
class, they control Washington ...

and why do they chain all their
pens to the desk? Whos trying to
steal a pen from a bank? Makes

no sense!
And heres David/Sanders on
email:
I forgot my password the
other day, so they say, Well
email you a new one. But I cant
get into my email to get the
password! I mean, talk about a
ball-buster!
But David seemed most like
himself at least his Curb
character at the beginning,
when he channeled his life-isgreat-but-I-still-complain attitude. Asked how hes doing, the
Sanders impersonator said, Im
good. Im hungry, but Im good.
So although pundits are saying the real-life Sanders may not
have won the debate, wed have
to say that overall, Davids SNL
performance was pretttay,
pretttay good.
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Obituaries
Annette Aarons
Annette Aarons, ne Goltz, of Mahwah died on October 15.

She is survived by her children, Beth and Jay Nadel, Lori
and Robert Feiss, and Marc and Heidi Edelman; and grandchildren, Hillary, Leslie, and Ross Nadel, Leyna and Robert
Feiss, Carli and Jason Alexander, and Lee and Gretchen
Edelman.
Donations can be sent to Englewood Hospital and Medical
Center or the Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Alane Block
Alane Laney Block, 67, of Delaware, formerly of Bayonne,

died on October 18.
Along with her husband, she owned and operated Dcor
Creative Designs and Flower Place in Bayonne.
She is survived by her husband, Martin, children, Sharon
Spitz (Benjamin), and Michael (Melissa Rondone-Block); siblings, Judy Dobrin (Steve), Marc Berkenfeld (Nancy), and Alan
(Beverly), and two grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Domenick Dellaguzzo (Don Wilder)
Domenick Dellaguzzo, aka Don Wilder, 82, of Cliffside Park

died on October 14.
Born in Philadelphia, he was a well-known entertainer,
master of ceremonies, and dancer in Catskill Mountain
hotels.
His wife, Iris, ne Ross, and many friends survive him.
Iris Ferber
Iris S. Ferber, ne Goldstein, 71, of Middletown, N.Y., formerly of River Vale, died on Oct 14.
Born in Brooklyn, she was a librarian in Upper Saddle
River before retiring.
Predeceased by her husband, Donald, in 1984, she is survived by daughters Barri Zollo of Westtown, N.Y., and Robin
Wanner of Fair Lawn; a brother, Steven Goldstein of Wynnewood, Pa., and three grandchildren.
Barry Gold
Barry Arthur Gold, 74, of Paramus, formerly of Fair Lawn

and Harlem, N.Y., died on October 8.
A Fair Lawn High School and court reporting school
graduate, he worked for the Bergen County Courthouse in
Hackensack for 47 years and retired in 2009.
Predeceased by his parents, Sydelle, ne Brown and
David, he is survived by his sister, Carolyn, brother, Stephen,
and nieces and nephews.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel,
Paramus.
Lila Lane
n 1 On Simchat Torah, participants carried Torah

scrolls and danced with them at Temple Beth El
of Northern Valley in Closter. Courtesy TBENV
n 4 Sandi Chernoff and family helped

decorate the sukkah at Temple Beth
Sholom of Fair Lawn. Courtesy TBS
n 2 More than 80 sisterhood members from Temple

Emanuel of the Pascack Valley celebrated the Night in
the Sukkah indoors, due to the weather. Courtesy TEPV
n 5 Rabbi Uri Regev, center, gave the annual Rabbi

Joshua Trachtenberg lecture at Temple Emeth
in Teaneck on October 9. He discussed Magic,
Superstition and the Challenge of Religious
Freedom in Israel. He is flanked by Cantor Ellen
Tilem and Rabbi Steven Sirbu. Barbara Balkin
n 3 Students at the Bergen County High School

of Jewish Studies took a trip to the Alpine Scout
Camp, where they learned how to start a fire,
to find medicinal plants, and to make Shabbat
candles out of animal tracks. A campfire with
Smores ended the day. Courtesy BCHSJS
Lila Lane of Paramus, formerly of Nutley and Jersey City,

died on October 13.
A Fulbright Scholar, she was a member of Temple BNai
Israel and its sisterhood in Nutley. Before retiring, she was a
teacher in Newark.
She is survived by her husband of 70 years, Murray, and a
daughter, Tammy, of Paramus.
Donations can be made to the Alzheimers Association.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Stanley Roberts
Stanley Joseph Roberts, 80, of River Vale died on October 14.

Born in the Bronx, he was a salesman for PDI Everic in
New York City.
His wife, Melinda, ne Seidman, and children, Andrew
and Ericka, survive him.
Obituaries
Anneliese Schott
Anneliese Schott, 85, of Teaneck, formerly of River Edge,

died on October 11.
Predeceased by her husband, Werner, she is survived by
sons Mark ( Janice) of Pennsauken, and Allan (Sheri) of Mahwah; granddaughters, Marissa Zinn ( Jared), and Amanda
and Allison Schott, and nieces and nephews.
Donations can be made to Villa Marie Claire Hospice,
Saddle River, John Thuerer Cancer Center, Hackensack, or
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel,
Paramus.
Martin Swade
Martin Lawrence Swade, 86, of Fair Lawn, formerly of

Jersey City, died on October 18.
Before retiring, he was a registered pharmacist in
New Jersey.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Marian (ne Sieber),
daughters Laurel Carnazza ( John), and Melanie Anagnos
(George); siblings, Deborah Margolis and Ronald; two
grandchildren, and nieces, nephews, grand-nieces, and
grand-nephews.
Donations can be made to the Daniel Pearl Foundation or
the Humane Society of Bergen County. Arrangements were
by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
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Abe was born in Paterson, NJ to Jerome and
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Jewish community. He was a founding member of
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Vasudevan. Abe took great joy in the
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In March 1996, Florence died and later Abe
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Dr. Mary Ann Picone
For the past 30 years, the Holy Name MS Center has
provided unparalleled, holistic care to patients of all
ages living with MS. It is the only facility in Bergen
County to be affiliated with the New Jersey Metro
Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
On Thursday, November 12, the Holy Name Medical Center Foundation will host the 2015 MS Awards
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Approximately 2,000 patients from the New York
metropolitan area visit the MS Center for its clinical
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Since 1985, our MS Center has served as a regional
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complex. We provide individualized services addressing
each patients clinical and non-medical needs, as well as
the opportunity to participate in clinical studies and trials that give participating patients access to medications
years before they are put on the market.
During the awards reception, Dr. Mary Ann Picone,
medical director of the MS Center, will receive the
Lawrence R. Inserra Leadership Award for her expertise, leadership, and determination to help improve
the quality of life for MS patients and their families.
Dr. Picone has been the medical director of the center
since 1993 and is a member of the Clinical Advisory
Board of the New Jersey Metro Chapter of the National
Multiple Sclerosis Society. This unique award is in
memory of Mr. Inserra, who never let MS dampen his
zest for life.
Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating immune disease
caused by the immune system attacking the protective
sheath covering nerve fibers, which creates communication problems between the brain and the rest of
the body. More than 400,000 people in the U.S. and
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help manage symptoms.
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Links Residential is proud

to welcome Bruce Elichman
as the broker manager of its
Teaneck office location.
With over 28 years of experience as a business owner
and a leading professional in
the real estate industry for
over 18 years, Mr Elichman
brings his seasoned management and marketing skills to the team.
We are honored to have Bruce as a
member of our team. His knowledge
and experience in the field are second to
none. He has a tremendous work ethic
and will play an important role in growing this company, said Marc Stein, broker/owner of Links Residential.
Mr. Elichman is a veteran not just in the
industry, but for our country as well. He
served in the U.S. Army from 1968-1970,
seeing combat in Vietnam. He continues
to stay involved and gives back to his community. Mr. Elichman has held numerous positions on various local boards. He
served on the board of directors for the
Jewish Federation, and was the treasurer
of Jewish Family Services. He is a former
president of the Veterans Club in Haledon
and was a chairman on the United Jewish
Appeal campaign in Wayne.
Mr. Elichman is a licensed real estate
instructor for the State of

New Jersey, was treasurer
for the Bergen County Board
of Realtors, and is a member of the board of directors
for both the Bergen County
Board of Realtors Executive
Committee and the New Jersey Association of Realtors
(NJAR). He is also a part of the
NJAR Circle of Excellence Committee.
He has received the NJAR Million Dollar
Circle of Excellence Sales Award on eight
occasions over the last 15 years.
I really pride myself on my commitment to providing exceptional customer
service to clients and doing whatever I
can to use my knowledge and experience to help younger, newer agents in
the industry, said Mr. Elichman.
ABOUT LINKS RESIDENTIAL: Links
Residential is a progressive Real Estate
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number one ethic at Links is taking total
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Brightview Tenafly schedules

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Donna L. Brown
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River Vale Office
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Cresskill Office
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Arthur Tassaro
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Adela Chersich
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Miriam Lambert
Alpine Office
Nini Wong
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This is an important day for Brightview Tenafly, said Alina Vanden Berg,
executive director. We are thrilled to
officially welcome our wonderful residents and their families as well as thank
everyone who was instrumental in
bringing this community to life.
Their hard work and dedication to
excellence is evident in this beautiful
building, she said.
We are proud to bring everyone
together to welcome residents and their
families to their new home, adds David
Holland, vice president of development.
As the companys fourth community
in New Jersey, Brightview Tenafly features assisted living apartment homes
for people who need some support
services and are looking for a vibrant
lifestyle and Wellspring Village, Brightviews specially designed neighborhood
for people living with dementia and
memory impairment,
In our specially designed Wellspring
Village neighborhood, we create joy for
residents and their families despite the
challenges people living with dementia

face, Ms. Berg explains. Families tell
us everyone benefits from our dedicated
team and the outstanding care and support they provide.
Known for offering a holistic approach
to care and life enrichment, Brightview
communities empower residents to live
an independent and purposeful life,
with a focus on possibilities rather than
limitations. A full calendar of tailored
programs addresses all dimensions of
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Call Sherry at (201) 510-2060 to learn
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ON THE SCENE IN JERUSALEM page 6

MUSING ON THE WINDSOR CHANGE page 8

Above and Beyond

Ippolito family, Bergen County, NJ

Four generations. One hospital.

2 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 23, 2015

Israeli sailing club members

A group of Israeli sailing club

cry and point all over the place, Gal

Photos by Gal Baruch

Hummus discount for Jews

An Israeli restaurant is making

also fueled interest from around Israel

Candlelighting: Friday, October 23, 5:46 p.m.

For convenient home delivery,

PUBLISHERS STATEMENT: (USPS 275-700 ISN 0021-6747) is

Jewish Standard october 23, 2015 3

Only 23% of registered voters identify

ROCK THE KASBAH:

series, Magic City,

tradition became more

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Everybody loves Phil,

Well, the YouTube Bloom

California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

OPEN HOUSES 2015

BERGEN COUNTY JEWISH DAY SCHOOL

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

The Academies at Gerrard Berman Day School

Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Ben Porat Yosef

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Monday, November 9, 2015

The Moriah School

Robert Smolen, Head of School

Ruth Roth, Director Admissions/PR

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

Erik Kessler, Director of Operations

Sarah Sokolic, Director of Admissions

Mrs. Judy Friedman

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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey

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Tamar Kahn, Director of Admissions

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We welcome you to contact the schools and schedule a private tour!

Reflections on six tough days in Jerusalem

Tanya Krims daughter Eliana in her

Never before have I heard the vast

Not losing hope

its glory but also in its troubles. I learned a

constantly in order to keep us safe? Would

that soon people will place orders for

This sign the eternal people are