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The luck
of the Yiddish
On a recent Chanukah visit to Monsey, N.Y., we
discovered Gelt.
Not the chocolate coins, but rather the Yiddishlanguage childrens game, which is popular in the
areas chasidic communities.
The game takes players through a month;
it has 30 spaces, one for every day, divided
into rows for weeks and columns for
days. Players land on spaces and follow
instructions on difference spaces
they can draw post and mitzvah
cards (modeled on Monopolys
chance and community
chest,) receive gelt, or follow
other directions written
on the board in Yiddish
that exceeds our narrow
vocabulary.
But wait. Is that a greenclad leprechaun on the
cover of the game?
Why yes it is.
But look closely. On the
first square of the game
board itself, the leprechaun
boasts a respectable, if
decidedly un-Irish, set of peyos.
Gevalt!
LARRY YUDELSON
About the cover: Artist Irmari Nacht took a physically appealing copy of Charles
Dickens Oliver Twist a book that she discovered to be appallingly anti-Semitic
distressed, distended, and defanged it.
CONTENTS
NOSHES ...............................................................4
BRIEFLY LOCAL ..............................................14
COVER STORY ................................................ 22
OPINION ........................................................... 26
DVAR TORAH........................................... 35
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ................................ 36
ARTS & CULTURE .......................................... 37
CALENDAR ...................................................... 38
OBITUARIES .....................................................41
CLASSIFIEDS .................................................. 42
GALLERY ..........................................................44
REAL ESTATE.................................................. 45
Noshes
Heres a rundown
of best nominees
The Golden Globe
awards ceremony is
on NBC on Sunday,
January 8, at 8 p.m.
Jimmy Fallon will host.
Unlike the Oscars, the
Globes have separate
acting awards for best
actor/actress in a drama
and best actor/actress in
a musical or comedy.
However, the best
supporting actor/actress
award is given to only
one actor and actress,
regardless of type of film.
Here are the Jewish
acting nominees in the
movie categories: Best
actress, drama: NATALIE
PORTMAN, 35, Jackie;
best actor, drama:
ANDREW GARFIELD, 33,
Hacksaw Ridge; best
actress, musical or comedy: HAILEE STEINFELD,
20, The Edge of Seventeen; best actor, musical or comedy: JONAH
HILL, 33, War Dogs;
supporting actor (comedy or drama): SIMON
HELBERG, 36, Florence
Foster Jenkins.
Note: As I said in a recent column, best actress
(drama) nominee Isabelle
Hupert (Elle) had a Jewish father, but was raised
in her mothers Catholic
faith. Also, Aaron TaylorJohnson, nominated for
supporting actor, film
(Nocturnal Animals),
once called himself Jewish. But details are few,
and Ill just call myself
unsure about him until I
learn more.
Here are the Jewish
actor nominees in the TV
A heartfelt note
on Carrie and Debbie
Kenneth Lonergan
Hans Zimmer
benzelbusch.com
As I write this, it is just a couple of days after the sudden deaths of CARRIE FISHER and her mother, Debbie
Reynolds. Ill have more to say in my next column, but
heres two things that struck me right away. A TV commentator whose name I didnt catch made me smile
when he said: It would have been great to hear Carries
commentary on this event.
Hes right, of course: The witty and insightful Carrie
would have said something memorable about the backto-back passing of two Hollywood icons.
Next, I remembered that Reynolds had a recurring role
as Graces Jewish mother on Will and Grace. In one
episode, the script had Reynolds using several Hebrew
and/or Yiddish words. I distinctly remember that she
pronounced them perfectly and I thought, then, Well,
two Jewish ex-husbands and a lifetime in Hollywood
certainly shows. Most Jewish actors couldnt pronounce
these words as well.
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Do we have to forgive?
Franklin Lakes shul panel to look at How Are We To Relate To Our Enemies?
There is also a great deal of potential
in the discussion with Reverend Busker,
Enemies. The word sounds almost melohe continued. The Jewish and Christian
dramatic to most of us. Enemies are for
responses for how we relate to our enemies can be very different, and from a cermovies, or sagas. Theyre not real, any
tain perspective, one of the major points
more than evil is.
of departure between the two perspecBut some of us have encountered real
tives is in discussing questions like what
enemies, been face to face with real evil.
is forgiveness? Is the goal always reconciliTwo people who have had that experience Arline Duker of Teaneck, whose
ation? Is forgiveness sometimes morally
daughter, Sara Duker, was
objectionable?
blown up on a bus in JeruI am eager to hear what
salem in 1996, and Bella
Mrs. Miller will say about
Miller, whose experiences
what crimes are beyond
d u r i n g t h e Ho l o c au s t
redemption, and how
included living in bunkers
a representative of the
and selection lines at AusChristian religious tradichwitz, and much of whose
tion will respond to that
family was wiped out by the
perspective.
Nazis will speak as part of
Rabbi Prouser plans
a panel that Rabbi Joseph
to bring in all sorts of
Prouser will moderate as
sources, from the new
part of his Moral Literacy
book, Against Empathy,
Rabbi Joseph Prouser
series on January 12. (See
by Paul Bloom, to Elie
box for more information.)
Wiesels Sunflower, to
A third panelist, the Rev. Nathan Busker,
stimulate discussion. He has been thinking
the pastor of Ponds Reformed Church
about a quote from the writer Maya Angelou A wise woman wishes to be no ones
in Oakland, will talk about the Christian understanding of how to deal with
enemy. A wise woman refuses to be anyones victim. Ms. Angelou was not Jewish,
enemies.
but this is a very Jewish response, Rabbi
Although he had been planning the
Prouser said. Its one that the Jewish companel for some time, its unfortunately
munity can relate to.
timely right now, Rabbi
And then theres another
Prouser, who heads Temple Emanuel of North Jerquote, a little prayer that
sey in Franklin Lakes, said.
is anonymous but often
Thats because of the vitattributed to Irish folk wisriol and the extent of the
dom, that he plans to add
hateful rhetoric we heard
to the evening. May those
during this election cycle.
who love us love us. Those
Still, he said, it is not
who dont love us, may
intended as anything speGod turn their hearts. And
cifically political.
if God doesnt turn their
The panel will consider
hearts, may he turn their
how we relate to our eneankles. So well know them
Rev. Nathan Busker
mies. Arline Duker and
by their limping.
Bella Miller represent two
Because I grew up in
very sensitive areas of Jewish identity and
the Jewish tradition, Ive always had the
Jewish concern, in how we relate to those
notion that forgiveness is someone taking
who are our worst detractors and eneresponsibility for what they have done,
mies, Rabbi Prouser said. From a hisand requesting that you forgive them, Ms.
toric Jewish perspective, they will be quite
Duker, a psychotherapist in private practice who also teaches pastoral counseling
an effective tag team.
JOANNE PALMER
Bella Miller
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That lack of relationship between forgiveness and psychopathy is something
that Bella Miller knows well. Ms. Miller
was born in 1932, in eastern Poland; when
World War II started, she was 7 years old.
Ms. Miller was born into comfort; her
hometown, Borislaw, which now is part
of Ukraine, was known for petroleum,
she said. It supplied most of Poland.
About 30 percent of the small town was
Jewish, and my father had a beautiful,
elegant store, a clothing store, for children and ladies.
Then the war started, and the noose
around Jews began to tighten. Her father,
Egon Friedler, her mother, Serafina, and
her older brother, Edek, and young Bella,
along with other family members, were
able to find hiding places with families
who were willing to risk their lives for
them and also were paid well for it. Eventually the Jews were no longer able to find
such hiding places, and moved between
bunkers in the woods and the ghetto into
which they had been forced in the center
of town. After a series of terrifyingly close
calls, they were caught, herded into the
ghetto, and then, in its final liquidation,
shoved onto cattle cars and sent on a twoweek trip through Hungary and Austria to
get to Auschwitz. It was August, 1944.
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that they should be more
cautious.
In fact, Dr. Perelis said, most
people who did the penance
didnt talk about it afterward.
They were embarrassed. You
can see it come up in different ways. There was a debate
in Amsterdam where Jews
were free to practice their
ancestral faith over memorial prayers for family members killed by the Inquisition.
Do you remember the victims? Or do you hide from the
shame of having converted
and then being caught?
Luis de Carvajal, however,
took his escape as sign of
Divine favor, and so he began
keeping his diary.
A page from the 1595 memoir of Luis de Carvajal the
He wanted to create a
Younger, who was burned at the Inquisition stake.
record of Gods kindness and
providence in his life and the
life of all the Jews in Mexico, Dr. Perelis said.
He reads his experience and that of his family
He was going to send it to his brother, who
as a biblical drama unfolding in New Spain.
had escaped to the safety of Italy.
He describes many events in over-the-top
He wrote the diary in the third person. He
theological terms.
didnt use his legal name. He used his Jewish
When his sisters are engaged to wealthy
name, Joseph the Luminous. Theres a very
converso merchants, he describes the arrival
clear Joseph narrative thats being played out.
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A new flashpoint
brews in Congress:
Two states or
not two states
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Theres a striking difference between competing bids in Congress that both address last months U.N.
Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
Its not that they differ on the United Nations the two nonbinding congressional resolutions under consideration condemn the Security Council, as well as the outgoing Obama
administration for abstaining and not exercising the U.S. veto.
Heres the difference: Missing from one of the resolutions
are the word two states. In the other resolution, the twostate outcome features prominently.
Sponsors said little on the record about the differences, but
what the simultaneous introductions signal is a battle over
whether it becomes U.S. policy to regard the two-state solution as dead or alive.
In one corner is the mainstream pro-Israel community,
combining leftists and centrists and led by the American Israel
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud President Abbas, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu before peace talks at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on September 2, 2010.
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the outcome by 2002.
Three rounds of failed
peace talks under Clinton,
then Bush, then Obama have
dampened expectations that
the outcome is set to arrive
anytime soon.
Whether the two state is
dead crowd wins the bigger
game depends on overcoming
a number of formidable obstacles. Congressional leaders,
even in this most polarizing of
eras, still seek bipartisanship.
Whatever the tensions
between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
President Barack Obama in
recent years, congressional
Democrats have shown they
Representative Dennis Ross, left, with Ehud Barak after a meeting at the
favor pro-Israel resolutions
Israeli Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv on August 5, 2010.
as long as they endorse two
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states. And Republican leaders like Royce and Representanot refer to the two-state solution.
tive Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the majority leader who
Two states was omitted, a Ross spokeswoman, Joni
announced Thursdays vote, will always be willing to
Shockey said, because the resolution was more narrowly
tweak language to get the overwhelming majorities that
focused. The resolution is a very narrow response to
show they are bridge builders.
the U.N.s vote, specifically condemning President
Additionally, AIPACs role in this signifies the imporObamas instruction to abstain and abandon our closest
tance that the American Jewish establishment still
ally, she said.
attaches to a two-state outcome.
Where the Royce resolution emphasizes backing
Simply calling for a demilitarized and democratic
Israel in its quest for peace, the Ross resolution stresses
Palestinian state living side by side in peace and harthe alliance, saying that Congress affirms its commitmony with Israel doesnt necessarily translate into
ment to the State of Israel as our loyal friend and strong
enduring reality, American Jewish Committee CEO
ally in the Middle East.
David Harris said. Were talking about the Middle East,
Senate versions of each of the House resolutions are
after all. But given the weak alternatives, this approach
expected to be introduced in the coming days.
still seems the most feasible, particularly if Israels JewBallabon said that the Ross resolution made more
ish and democratic character are to be preserved for
sense, as it focused directly on the U.N. Security Counfuture generations.
cil Resolution 2334.
Then theres Netanyahu, who still embraces the
Instead of focusing on the real crime of 2334 its
notion of two states, however much his party and govabandonment of Israel and its legitimization of ethnic
erning coalition have abandoned the policy.
cleansing of Jews from the Jewish homeland Royces
David Makovsky, a fellow at the Washington Institute
resolution laments the damage to the Two-State Solufor Near East Policy, said Netanyahu may encourage
tion the fetishized fantasy of a peaceful PLO state, he
the Trump administration to preserve two states as an
wrote in an email.
outcome by reviving President George W. Bushs 2004
United States administrations, both Democratic and
approach. In an April 14, 2004 letter to then-Prime MinRepublican, have embraced a two-state outcome since
ister Ariel Sharon, Bush essentially recognized settlethe early 2000s. It was the solution sought by Presiment blocs bordering the 1967 lines as likely to remain
dent Bill Clinton at Camp David in 2000, and although
in Israel, and opposed expansion of settlements beyond
George W. Bush seemed at first skeptical, he embraced
the security fence now bisecting the West Bank.
A reaffirmation of the Bush letter would help establish U.S. policy at a time when a U.S. administration will
be preoccupied with other more urgent priorities, said
Makovsky, who was a member of the State Department
team that last tried to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace
in 2013-14. This would be convenient for Netanyahu
and Trump and would retain the viability of two states.
Why would Trump defy his closest Jewish advisers
and continue to bank on a two-state outcome? Trump
has proven unpredictable. He said several times while
campaigning that he would like to take a stab at this
most knotty of American foreign policy challenges.
And the AJCs Harris and Makovksy, in separate interviews, cited another factor in the president-elects biography: He cant resist the challenge of a deal that has so
far defeated all comers.
Representative Ed Royce participates in a House
Hes a lifelong dealmaker, Harris said of the author
Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill
of the best-selling The Art of the Deal. This one may
on November 4, 2015.
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Bennett announces plans to annex Maaleh Adumim
Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett announced that his
party is planning to draft a bill to annex the Jerusalem suburb of Maaleh Adumim. The community is east of Jerusalem, beyond the 1967 lines.
Bennetts announcement coincided with a Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting about the application of Israeli sovereignty to Maaleh Adumim.
Today, we are moving forward to Maaleh Adumim, and
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Netanyahu questioned
by investigators
over illicit gift allegations
Israel Police Major Crimes Unit investigators arrived at
the prime ministers residence in Jerusalem to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for three
hours over allegations that he received illicit benefits
from two businessmen.
Police investigators questioned Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu under caution Monday on suspicion of receiving alleged illicit benefits, an official
police statement said. We cannot release further
details at this time.
Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit also
commented on the investigation.
The review comprised several cases, reviewed
successively as a single unit, he said. This review
included numerous operations, including deposing
dozens of witnesses, some overseas, some of whom
were deposed several times, and the seizure of relevant documents.
Before he was questioned, Netanyahu said, Ive
said it once and Ill say it again: Nothing will come of
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into regular units in the military and ultimately into
Israeli society. Lahat was the programs first-ever
wheelchair-bound participant.
After first integrating into the Palmachim Air Base,
Lahat enlisted as a full IDF soldier in late December
following a Special in Uniform letter-writing campaign
that made the case for his military service to various
IDF officials. To date, Special in Uniform has facilitated
the voluntary enlistment of about 50 Israeli soldiers
with autism and other disabilities.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at
a December 29 graduation ceremony for an Israeli
Air Force pilots course, underscored the IDFs spirit
of inclusion.
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Israeli-Arab woman
is among 39 killed in
Istanbul nightclub attack
Lian Zaher Hassan, a 19-year-old Israeli woman from
the predominantly Arab city of Tira, was among the 39
people killed in the New Years Eve shooting attack in
an Istanbul nightclub.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the
attack, saying through the Aamaq news agency, In
continuation of the blessed operations that Islamic
State is conducting against the servant of the cross,
Turkey, a heroic soldier of the caliphate struck the
most famous nightclub where Christians were celebrating their pagan feast.
Israels Interior Ministry and the Israeli ZAKA volunteer emergency response group worked to return the
Arab teenagers remains to Israel for a proper burial.
ZAKA is an international humanitarian organization that honors the dead, regardless of religion, race
or gender, ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav said
in a statement.
Hassan was killed in a horrific attack and the state
is duty-bound to lend its support and bring her body
to Israel, said Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri.
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promote the bottom-up independent shaping of its borders, even if the Palestinians are
still holding their extreme position, he said.
The main changes under the institutes
plan would be to Area C, the 60 percent of
the West Bank under full Israeli control per
the 1993 Oslo Accords. Besides carving out 17
percent of the area for the settlement blocs,
where 86 percent of settlers live, Orion and
Dekel suggest using up to 42 percent for
development on behalf of the Palestinians
and up to 33 percent for protection of vital
security sites, including the Jordan Valley.
The rest of Area C would keep its current
status, and settlers would be encouraged to
relocate to the settlement blocs.
The Palestinian Authority would administer the major Palestinian population centers
in Areas A and B, which comprise 40 percent
of the West Bank and are home to 99.7 percent of Palestinians, as it already largely does.
But the Israeli military would retain the right
to act as needed.
The status of Jerusalem, which Israel governs as its capital but the Palestinians also
claim as theirs, would not change. Most of
the world considers all Israeli building in the
West Bank and eastern Jerusalem illegal, but
Israel disputes this.
Orion and Dekel recommend that Israel
and the world promote security and development in the West Bank. This could bolster the
Palestinian Authoritys declining legitimacy
on the West Bank street and help prepare the
society for eventual final-status negotiations,
they say. An alternative, they say, would be
for Israel to take independent steps to politically separate from the Palestinians.
The Hamas-governed Gaza Strip would be
handled separately, ideally with a combination of military deterrence, border security
and development.
Yadlin said the Institute for National Security Studies long had preferred a negotiated
final-status agreement with the Palestinians,
The West Bank security fence that runs near Jerusalem as it looked in April 2016.
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Open books
Englewood artist talks
about the books she redesigns
JOANNE PALMER
Irmari Nacht of Englewood is an artist who has chosen to work with books as physical objects, cutting them,
exploding them, presenting them as works of beauty and
meaning, sometimes in relation to the words they hold,
and sometimes independent of those words.
Ms. Nacht, whose work has been exhibited in galleries
around the country, in every major museum in New Jersey, and soon will be on display not for the first time at
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, does not work
only with books; she started as a painter, is a sculptor, and
is actively engaged in other media. But it is the exploding,
unfurling, twisting books that occupy most of her imagination and her wall space right now.
Irmari Weinstein (who will not explain her unusual first
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Peace is a fervently hoped-for goal, created here from five similar but not identical books.
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if someone from
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it was sculpture,
then it was
sculpture.
911 shows the Twin Towers, along with the terrorists and their imaginary virgin rewards.
Cover Story
appalled her. This book was so horrible to read, with the
Jew, the Jew, the Jew, that I couldnt finish it, she said.
That Jew, of course, is Fagin, the villain. I know it was of
its time, but it was so anti-Semitic that I just couldnt read
it. But now it is a pretty little object. She cut it into little
slivers, and defanged it. (You can see Ms. Nachts version
of Oliver Twist on our cover this week.)
How does she cut them? Carefully, she said. She can
work for only so long, because the cutting requires a certain kind of mindless concentration that could lead to
carelessness and injury. Xacto knives are very sharp.
She also distresses books, and when I squenched it
thats a word that seems to mean squeezing and squashing and generally smushing I might have squenched it
harder than I would have, because I was so incensed and
shocked by reading it.
An artwork born of the September 11 attacks, made of
books cut to show the numbers 911, show the terrorists and
the 72 virgins they didnt get. Peace shows the word
peace, cut out of five similarly shaped, differently colored
little books. Water and Tao shows water cut books,
painted blue tumbling in perpetual frozen beauty.
A few years ago, Ms. Nacht decided to see what would
happen to books if they were left to decompose naturally.
I wanted them to be part of nature, she said. She took
100 books again, discards that no one else wanted
arranged them in neat piles in her backyard, and waited,
photographing them monthly. At first, not much happened. Then it snowed, and soon a fawn decided that
some of them looked like lunch. More animals nibbled at
them Ms. Nacht has photos of the fawn, but never caught
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Opinion
Most tragic of all in the fall of Aleppo is the fall of Samantha Power who once held a unique position for speaking
truth to the worlds powers, but held her tongue while
people are being murdered every day in the Middle East
and North Africa. Shiites and Sunnis kill each other on a
daily basis throughout the Middle East, while thousands
die in Sudan, Nigeria, Libya and Yemen. Under Samanthas watchful eye, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have
died, and millions have become refugees.
Lets not forget that the carnage in Syria is largely a
result of Obamas disastrous foreign policy. When he precipitously pulled American troops out of Iraq, he created
a vacuum that has been filled by Iran, ISIS, al-Qaeda, and
other radical Islamic groups. Rather than work to bring
down the brutal Assad regime and support Syrians who
reject his totalitarian rule and the proposed Sharia law of
the Muslim extremists, Power stood by while Iran and its
Hezbollah terrorist puppets rushed into bolster the tottering Assad regime. Given that Syria is Irans only ally in the
region, removing Assad would have had the twin benefits
of eliminating one of the regions last dictators and leaving
Iran without a friend in the region.
Acting early on would have saved tens of thousands
of lives, prevented the devastating immigration problem that threatens to bring down Jordans pro-American
regime and seed Europe and perhaps the United States
with radical Islamists trained by ISIS and al-Qaeda to infiltrate Western societies for the purpose of committing terror and mayhem.
By failing to act swiftly and surely, Obama also opened
the door to Russian intervention. After keeping Russia
contained in the region for more than 40 years, Obamas
inaction woke the sleeping bear, and Vladimir Putins
forces are now bombing civilian areas and doing everything possible to maintain their own foothold in the
region. While Power has fiddled, Putin also has extended
his tentacles into nations that had been staunch U.S. allies
before Obama turned on them.
Obamas most devastating decision was his failure to
follow up his threat to take action against Syria if Assad
used chemical weapons. Instead, he patted himself on
the back for a brilliant diplomatic coup (as he did with
his disastrous nuclear deal with Iran) in reaching a deal
with Russia to remove and destroy Syrias chemical weapons stockpile. Just as Iran has cheated on the nuclear deal
while Obama and his U.N. mouthpiece Power have buried
their heads in the sand, Syria also ignored the toothless
warnings of the president and kept enough weapons to
continue to slaughter civilians and rebels alike.
But the biggest failure of all was Obamas blindness
on the real causes of conflict in the region. Men who
are taught they will be granted virgins for murder, sex
for violence, are creating a culture where harming others is the ultimate test of masculinity and manhood.
But contrast, men who are taught that fighting is never
something to celebrate but rather to be used only in the
defense of life are those who ultimately will reap not
discord but peace.
Hence, Hamas building weapons rather than Jews
building homes is the ultimate source of the conflict.
Hamas easily could have used Israels withdrawal in
2005, and the billions it received in international aid,
to build homes as well. But that would not have brought
glory. Firing rockets at Israel made them into truly religious men.
But heck, at least Obama, Kerry, Susan Rice, and
Samantha Power, who have missed all this, have finally
socked it to Bibi and Israel. Thatll finally teach those stubborn condo-building Jews a lesson they wont forget at
the U.N., even if it did come at the expense of the Obama
quartet being hence and forever referred to tragically as
bystanders to genocide.
In the rush of
everyday life, we
seldom take the time
to learn from our
experiences, to listen
to each other, and
to contemplate what
could be.
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n a year rich in disturbing politiHeil Trump, heil our people, heil our
cal developments, one of the most
victory. Next, characterizing the mainstream media as the Lugenpresse (the
troubling is the emergence of the
lying press), he continued, one wonders
alt-right from the fringe shadows
whether these people are people at all,
of American politics.
or instead soul-less golem animated by
The alt-right crawled out of the dark
some dark power. He went on to declare
alleys and sewers of our society promoting plutocratic policies for the benefit of
the role of those assembled in the room
the wealthy. Masquerading in the guise of
was to conquer or die that to be white
Dr. Mark Gold
economic nationalism, the alt-right
is to be a striver, a crusader, an explorer
explicitly rejected traditional American
and a conqueror. To applause and Nazi
right-wing politicians promoting similar
salutes, he continued, America was,
views, instead melding those policies with
until this past generation, a white country
racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and antidesigned for ourselves and our prosperity.
Semitism. Pandering its message of hate
It is our creation, it is our inheritance and
to the vulnerable, the alt-right seeks the
it belongs to us. You can listen to the full
support of people who have much to lose
speech google for it on YouTube. (Warning: you may need an adult beverage or
from its program.
two to sit through the whole thing.) This
The alt-right of the United States
was the master race ideology against
is inspired by and aligned with similar
Hiam Simon
which Americas Greatest Generation
movements in Europe as well as Putins
fought until victory in 1945.
Russia. While it may seem contradictory
Andrew Anglins opinions and ideology
that different national movements, each
are best described in his own words:
promoting their own nativist, anti- immigrant chauvinism, should find inspiration in each other, it becomes
White man are you sick and tired of the Jews
clear when we recognize that their ultimate enemy,
destroying your country through mass immigration
their universal targets, are an inclusive democracy and
and degeneracy? Join us in the struggle for global
the belief that there should be a governmental responwhite supremacy at The Daily Stormer. March 2016
sibility to preserve and protect civil society. They all
Jews, Blacks and lesbians will be leaving America
view social justice and a liberal state with contempt.
if Trump gets elected and hes happy about it. This
Of course we have seen this before. It is 71 years
alone is enough reason to put your entire heart and
since the world emerged from the ashes of global war
soul into supporting this man. April 26, 2016
ignited by con men promoting the same poisons. Yet,
And following Donald Trumps announcement during the presidential campaign that he would deport all
here we are again.
Muslims, Andrew Anglin wrote: Get all of these monWe should have no illusions about the danger.
keys the hell out of our country now! Heil Donald
The alt-right uses social media and non-mainstream platforms such as Breitbart News to promote
Trump THE ULTIMATE SAVIOR. (Time for another
drink perhaps?)
The alt-right has tried, so to speak, to whitewash
its image, in a concerted effort to normalize its hateful
extremism and somehow get itself included as part of
the American conversation, but it differs from traditional
conservatism in its vicious racism, viewing native-born
residents limited to white, European Christians, (and,
on occasion, only males) as Americas only legitimate
citizens. While vicious racism and nativism are essential
defining characteristics of the alt-right, in its economic
views it shares the features of the narrowest perspectives
of corporate self-interest at the expense of the very people
who so proudly wave its flag.
Its platform proudly proclaims the elimination of all
institutions and regulations that have moved our civil society into the modern era. It combines a call for the effective
elimination of collective bargaining and the removal of
their hate and instill distrust and fear of the other.
regulatory protections with trade protectionism and tarSteve Bannon, the former chief executive of Breitbart News, proudly proclaimed the site as the home
iffs, a kind of pure capitalism except where that would
of the alt-right. He will hold the newly created posibe inconvenient to entrenched corporate interests. The
tion of White House chief strategist, created by the
alt-right wants to make America great again by dragging us back to the late 19th century with the return of past
Trump transition team. That position needs no Senate
economic abuses financial trusts, high prices, false marapproval. Bannon will have the ear of our new president, and that brings up a crucial question who will
keting, unsafe unregulated products, and the unsafe and
Bannon be listening to?
abusive labor conditions that made the rich richer and the
The real core of this rotting apple called the altpoor poorer. These were the practices and the horrendous
right is represented by such figures as Richard Spenconditions that led to the reforms of the Progressive era.
cer, president of National Policy Institute, and Andrew
The Progressives successfully broke up the monopolies,
Anglin of The Daily Stormer, an American neo-Nazi
lowered tariffs, introduced regulatory and worker protections, and created middle class prosperity. The improvewhite supremacist news and commentary website.
ments that followed included Social Security, Medicare,
Delivering the closing speech at the NPI annual
Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act all of which are
conference on November 19, 2016, Spencer began:
Pandering its
message of hate to
the vulnerable, the
alt-right seeks the
support of people who
have much to lose
from its program.
Opinion
Letters
Thats not an apology
It is entirely acceptable for the United States to (fervently) disagree and remonstrate with Israels settlement
policy. This has been the approach of the past three
presidents administrations.
However, to abandon her to the tender mercies of
the United Nations wolf pack is unconscionable. We
should not punish nor extort with threats or otherwise
actively interfere with our good friends internal affairs.
They (like we) are a sovereign state with a democratically elected government.
Jerrold Terdiman MD
Woodcliff Lake
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Jewish World
He added: The court has made its decision and now we also have a role to prevent a rift in our society and to ensure no
harm comes to the peoples army.
Arab-Israeli lawmakers said the verdict
was not enough.
Dozens of other soldiers and commanders who have senselessly killed Palestinians should also have been convicted,
said Arab Joint List lawmaker Ahmed Tibi.
The head of the Arab Joint List, Ayman
Odeh, used the conviction as an opportunity to criticize Israels military rule over
much of the West Bank.
While it is clear that a soldier is responsible for his own actions, those really
responsible are the governments of Israel,
which for 50 years now have chosen to
turn young men and women into soldiers whose job it is to maintain military
rule over a civilian population devoid of
rights, Odeh said.
The father of the dead terrorist told
reporters that he felt good about the
verdict, which he called fair. Other family members were quoted as saying that
they would take Azaria to the International
Criminal Court for prosecution.
Azaria family spokesman Sharon Gal
told reporters that the verdict made it
seem like the court was detached from
the fact that this was the area of an attack. I
felt that the court picked up the knife from
the ground and stabbed all of the soldiers
in the back with it.
The shooting was captured on video,
and Azaria was arrested the same day and
indicted nearly a month later. Autopsy
reports showed that the shots by Azaria
killed Sharif.
Azaria will be sentenced at a later date.
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Dear Bewildered,
that you ought to answer
Your son is most certainly not
your sons type of question
the first to uncover this type
as follows. You must become
of quandary. What advice do
comfortable with mystery
you think that your son wants?
and our limited powers of
Rabbi Tzvee
Among the strange things
understanding. Everything
Zahavy
in Scripture, do these alone
we purport to understand
bother him?
is only a sliver of a glimpse.
Please accept that I am not
Both science and religion ultimately are flawed and limited attempts at
going to be able to reconcile religion and
trying to get at the Truth.
science here in a column in the local Jewish newspaper. But let me try to offer some
Just to be clear, let me add a few thoughts.
advice. When you do take a close look, you
The field of ethnobiology teaches us that
may find that there are many troubling
we humans have evolved to cherish and
things about the Bible.
rely on both science and religion, because
For example: I have studied science and
doing so makes us stronger and fitter. Science provides us with great power to know
find that it conflicts with the Tanach, in
and control the world via experimentation
ways like those you mentioned. I believe
and invention and engineering.
that science is based on solid empirical evidence and study. Does that mean I must
And have no doubt, religion inspires
believe that the Tanach is false? If science is
us to great heights and binds us together
truth, maybe you want to ask, why I should
to achieve national, social, and communal goals and benefits for the sake of
continue to be a religious Jew?
If that is the case, I have an answer. Yes,
all humanity.
you should continue to be a religious Jew,
Humankind will not survive and thrive
even though science and religion may be
without all our great human accomplishments and disciplines. I cant argue with
incompatible in many ways. Each discipline of the intellect deals with different
those who say put science first. Yet I cannot
challenges of humankinds eternal quest to
disagree with those who say religion is indispensable to human existence.
explain existence. Science explains a massive set of concerns about the physical and
I hope those thoughts help you and your
biological universe. It has paradigms and
child respect and ponder the great ways
models for verifying its conclusions. It is
men and women seek to use the powers
based on rigorous disciplines of investigaof science and religion to create goodness,
tion and thought. And religion explains an
mercy, and lovingkindness in our world.
equally great number of questions about
life and the spirit.
Tzvee Zahavy received his Ph.D. from Brown
Both modes of thinking and investigating
University and his rabbinic ordination from
life are powerful and true in their own ways.
Yeshiva University. He is the author of many
My view is that trying to reconcile them
books about Judaism, including The Book
is a worthy task, but not one that has much
of Jewish Prayers in English, Gods Favorite
chance of success. They are fundamentally
Prayers and Talmudic Advice from Dear
incompatible disciplines.
Rabbi which includes his past columns
A wise friend of mine told me recently
from the Jewish Standard and other essays.
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column offers mindful advice based on talmudic
wisdom. It aspires to be equally open and meaningful to all the varieties and
denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first Friday of the
month. Please email your questions to zahavy@gmail.com.
Israel itself, how to make a phone call, restaurants, and the weather. It also suggests ways
to spend weekends.
One writer from Emory just graduated
and is moving to Israel to study at Neve College for Women in Jerusalem. Shes committed to writing articles about her experience.
We also have a bunch of writers studying in
Israel this coming semester who are planning to put something together, and we have
a wonderful relationship with Birthright
through social media. Wed love to support it
because its incredible.
Shes been interested in history from the
time she was young, Ms. Hertz said, and her
entire family loves to travel. That combination,
Dvar Torah
New Years Resolution: Reconciliation
Enemies
FROM PAGE 7
reconciliation, he weeps
Yet, on this first Shabbat of
upon the brothers, finally
the secular New Year, and as
allowing the brothers to
we read parashat Vayigash, the
speak to him, after so many
story holds another message.
years of truly being unable.
It becomes a reminder of the
What was it about that
power of teshuvah between
moment together that
a father and a son, or more
caused Joseph to finally
precisely between one person and another. Secular New
reveal his identity to his
Rabbi Loren
Year celebrations include makbrothers and behave in
Monosov
ing resolutions for the coming
such a way that he was able
Conservative
year, which more often than
to move forward a relationTemple Emanuel of
ship that was so troubled?
not includes reconciling chalthe Pascack Valley,
Woodcliff Lake
lenging relationships from the
The answer is teshuvah.
year past.
Ramban teaches that comOur parashah this week
plete repentance is done by
drives home this important message.
the one who is confronted by the identical situation in which he transgressed and
As the parashah begins, Joseph is standing before his 11 brothers. Benjamin is
so it is within his power to commit the
accused of theft and is facing a punishsame sin, but he does not succumb, not
ment of imprisonment. The brothers fear
out of fear or weakness, but because of
returning to their father, Jacob, without
true repentance.
him. Judah pleads on Benjamins behalf,
Josephs brothers were faced with the
offering himself in Benjamins stead,
same scene from earlier in their history.
only to realize that the man with whom
Years ago, they threw Joseph into the
he is pleading is the man he had helped
pit and reported his false death to their
throw into a pit and sell, a long time ago.
father, Jacob. Would they be willing to
The relationship between Joseph and
return home without Jacobs beloved Benjamin, or had they repented? Was history
his brothers has been fractured for so
to repeat itself or would the story, and the
many years.
Finally, at this moment in our parafamily, move forward?
shah, Joseph finally reveals his true idenJudah the brother who suggested years
tity to his brothers. In this moment of
ago that Joseph be sold finally stood up
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11. ___ the love of G-d!
14. Biblical brother often paired
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15. Norman Lears ___ the Family
16. Oliver Stones ___ Given Sunday
17. Cartoon family that breaks all
the Commandments?
19. YUs high school for boys
20. Mother who brokered a temporary
cease-fire in the 1982 Lebanon War
21. Unreturned serve for Sela
22. Jerusalem or a National Park in
62-Down
23. Israeli news site
24. Avrahams oldest
27. Mix (the cholent)
29. Towards Genesis
32. Theyre near this puzzle
35. One of 49
37. Mark of Cain, e.g.
38. Bird locale for doing the mitzvah of
Shiluach HaKan
40. What some might do at the Kotel
on 9 Av
42. Young Frankenstein hunchback,
and others
43. Allergen in most challah
45. Kippur and HaZikaron
47. Jew
48. Empire that ruled Jerusalem for
400 years
50. The Plot Against America author
52. Yoni Netanyahu helped free several
of them
54. ___ Olam
58. Steven Bochcos Blue cop show
60. Davids was 70 at his end
61. Shtetl locale
63. Rock genre of Joe Trohmans Fall
Out Boy
64. Cartoon about writer R.L.s ancestors? (with The)
66. What ppl. used to use to tape
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67. Esa ___
68. End an IDF mission early
69. Common tree in Israel
70. Rabbi Avi that made headlines
71. Simcha dances
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1. Mashuga like the Joker
2. How some look after fasting
3. ___ Will Be Blood (Day-Lewis film)
4. Does teshuva, in a way
5. Ben Canaan and Gold
6. Where Israel is outlined
7. Idinas Queen of Arendelle, and others
8. Say G-d willing by you at a wedding, e.g.
9. Rav Chen or City (viewing centers)
10. Response to a Talmudic Q
11. Cartoon about a gentile man of
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12. Im ___ you! (Im no yutz!)
13. Baseballer Braun
18. Bialik who played Blossom
22. 1983 Woody Allen title character
25. Recent red states of those in
blue states?
26. Chagall, e.g.
28. Poles that might be idoltarous
30. First name in Israeli basketball
31. ___AQ, where many Israeli stocks
are traded
32. 2013 Best Picture winner with
52-Across
33. Yutz
34. Cartoon thats pure tref?
36. Star of Stevens Jaws
39. Respected an elder
41. Make like Ben Stein in Ferris
Buellers class
44. Actress Portman
46. Greatest of the prophets
49. Voldemorts snake that tries to kill
Radcliffes Potter
51. Maker of kosher (and tref) gummies
53. Simmons and Kelly
55. Jewish Federation funder
56. Work by Gershwin or Mozart
57. Bird locales for doing the mitzvah of
Shiluach HaKan
58. Har where 46-Down died
59. JCC alternative
62. See 22-Across
64. Rob Reiners A ___ Good Men
65. Frank McCourt memoir or a contraction for Lazarus
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about Talmudic sages and reflects on his life in his latest book.
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Calendar
session course through
March 6, at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
10 a.m. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1457.
Saturday
January 7
Adoption support in
Ridgewood: Adoption
Memory loss:
jan.
Zumba in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades hosts a
Zumba party with exotic
rhythms, high-energy
Latin and international
beats, and easy-to-follow
moves, for everyone 12
and older, led by a team
of skilled, inspirational
JCC Zumba instructors,
7:30-8:45 p.m. 411 East
Clinton Ave. Roberto
Santiago, (201) 408-1481,
www.jccotp.org, or
rsantiago@jccotp.org.
Sunday
January 8
Red Apple Rest:
The mens club and
sisterhood of Temple
Beth El of Northern
Valley in Closter host
brunch and a program
on the Red Apple Rest,
9:30 a.m. Author Elaine
Freed Lindenblatt,
the youngest child of
15
Misha Piatigorsky
Jazz in Glen Rock:
New York-based jazz
pianist Misha Piatigorsky
performs original jazz
compositions and the
music of John Coltrane
and Miles Davis at
the Glen Rock Jewish
Center, 5 p.m. Bassist
Charlie Dougherty and
two GRJC members
saxophonist Jeremy
Fishman and drummer
Sam Fishman will join
him. Refreshments. The
concert will be recorded
and available online.
682 Harristown Road.
(201) 652-6624 or grjc.
org.
Monday
January 9
Memoir writing in
Tenafly: Ruth Padawer
begins Memoirs: Explore
Your Life Through
Writing, an eight-
Tuesday
January 10
Music in Tenafly: The
Alacorde Piano Trio,
with violinist Jee Sun
Lee, cellist Suji Kim,
and pianist Jacqueline
Schiller-Audi, performs
at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades,
11 a.m. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1457.
Friday
January 13
Nursery school open
house in Tenafly:
The Leonard & Syril
Rubin Nursery School
at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades
holds an open house,
9:30 a.m. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1436 or
eyurowitz@jccotp.org.
Saturday
January 14
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth holds a
Shabbaton exploring the
themes of Let There Be
Water by Seth M. Siegel,
this years JNNJ One
Book One Community
selection. Torah study,
9 a.m.; services at 10:30,
where Rabbi Sirbu will
incorporate themes from
Siegels book; lunch at
noon; and ending with
a discussion, Water
and Environmental
Peacebuilding in Israel,
by Shahar Sadeh, Ph.D.,
of Columbia University.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Sunday
January 15
Matt Chertkoff
Kosher jazz in Fort Lee:
The JCC of Fort Lee/
Cong. Gesher Shalom
hosts Kosher Jazz With
Matt Chertkoff, a CSI
Scholar Fund program,
1 p.m. Chertkoff plays
with a four-piece combo
and he explains how
Yiddish songs speak to
the Jewish experience
and how religious
melodies morph into
jazz. 1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.
Wednesday
January 11
Using your iPad:
The EGL Foundation
Computer Center for
Adults 40+ at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly offers a course
on the iPad, 1:30 p.m. 411
E. Clinton Ave. MaryAnn,
(201) 569-7900, ext. 309.
Concert in Wayne:
The YMCA of Wayne
begins a new Backstage
at the Y series with a
performance by the Hit
the Roof Band in the
Rosen Performing Arts
Center, 11:45 a.m. The
Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100.
Yiddish music in
Franklin Lakes: Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey
plays a recording of
the Folksbiene Yiddish
Theaters American
Treasures concert, 1 p.m.
Ice cream and popcorn.
558 High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Sarah Rindner
Michael Laves
Television concert:
Acclaimed Israeli
cantor/Broadway star
Dudu Fisher debuts
a concert on NJTV,
8 p.m., in anticipation
of an upcoming public
television concert on
stations nationwide in
March. It also can be
seen on WLIW21 on
January 22 at 7:30 p.m.,
and on Channel 13 in
February. Dudu Fisher in
Jerusalem is distributed
by American Public
Television and presented
by WPBT, Miami.
Singles
Sunday
January 8
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social bagels
and lox brunch at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All
are welcome, particularly
if you are from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
Thursday
January 15
Widows and widowers
meet in Glen Rock:
Movin On, a monthly
luncheon group for
widows and widowers,
meets at the Glen Rock
Jewish Center, 12:30 p.m.
682 Harristown Road.
$5 for lunch. Next
date, February 16.
(201) 652-6624 or email
Binny, arbgr@aol.com.
Gadi Dagon
Calendar
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades presents IAC Cinematec, a U.S. public introduction to Israeli films, filmmakers, and
daily life in Israel. The four-film series
will be screened with English subtitles,
and a guest director, actor, or a film professional will discuss the film.
The series begins on Sunday, January
8, with Mr. Gaga. There will be a reception at 7:30 p.m., and the film will follow
at 8. Gagas director, Tomer Heymann,
will be joined by by Eran Polishuk, director of film and media at the Israeli Consulate. Before the film there will be a Gaga
dance workshop. For information, call
(201) 408-1427 or go to www.jccotp.org.
Courtesy TBENV
Local/Opinion
Narratives
FROM PAGE 9
see when you read a lot of colonial narratives is that there are things like this text
that are presented in a very factual way
that nonetheless strain belief. Sometimes
we know theyre actually true. Sometimes
we know theyre stretched. Sometimes we
know theyre completely made up.
Were dealing with this brave new world,
and people are wrapping their heads around
it the best they can.
I believe that he did not lie. I dont believe
he fabricated it. He got nothing out of it. He
seemed very sincere. I dont think hes trying
to make something up.
My good friend Jonathan Schorsch
devotes the last chapter of his book Swimming the Christian Atlantic to this text.
He tries to think about it ethnologically.
What do we know about that part of South
America at that time?
Martin Indyk
FROM PAGE 30
Blame
FROM PAGE 30
one party is hardly accurate or constructive. Too many Israelis hold the Palestinians totally responsible, and too many Palestinians hold only Israel responsible and
yes, too many Americans also apportion
responsibility unfairly on one of the two
sides. And the incoming U.S. administration seems to hold the Obama administration as the main culprit in the current
stalemate. None of these approaches is
accurate or constructive.
As a new U.S. administration prepares
to take office, we hope and pray it will
no, beg that the U.S., Israeli and Palestinian leadership, present and future,
stop blaming everyone else and accept
responsibility for moving us forward, not
backward.
Now that Chanukah has ended, lets
not let the light go out the light of courageous leadership, the light of truth and
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Obituaries
Dorothy Baig
Hannah Coen
Aharon Ivanir
Lvy
FROM PAGE 37
its longtime tyrant Moammar Ghadafi. With a single phone call, Levy
arranged for rebel leaders to meet
then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Levy flew them to Paris at his
own expense about $160,000
according to Frances Channel 2.
Weeks later, France intervened
militarily in Libya, effectively ending
Ghadafis 42 years in power. Levy was
with Sarkozy on stage when the president delivered a speech in Benghazi
after Ghadafis fall.
Famously, Levy a former Maoist whose father was a decorated
fighter in the Allied invasion of Italy
was filmed giving an interview in
1992 to a journalist in Sarajevo under
mortar fire. During that visit to the
former Yugoslavia, he arranged for
then-French President Francois Mitterrand to visit the besieged capital,
paving the way for the return of U.N.
peacekeepers there.
In 1993, a suspension of air traffic
left Levy stranded in Sarajevo on his
wedding day. So Mitterrand sent a
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