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Tech guru solves seedy problem
l Its a common problem in the Jewish
world, but one that seldom is discussed:
When you eat an everything bagel, some of
the everything falls off your bagel and onto
other things, including your shirt.
Good news: Theres a solution.
Grateful bagel noshers should direct their
thanks to Nathan Myhrvold, Microsofts for-
mer chief technology officer, who became
an expert in high-tech cuisine. In 2011 he
published the $500, five-volume Modern-
ist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking.
On Tuesday, the sequel will be published.
Its called Modernist Bread, and it claims
plausibly that its five volumes are the
most in-depth look at bread to date.
Which brings us back to bagels.
Mic.com has gotten an advance look at
the 1,200 recipes in the volumes, and reports
that among them is an innovative take on
preventing seed spills: a starch-based slurry
coating applied before garnishing the bagel
with seeds.
Page 3
We probably tried seven to eight dif-
ferent types of starches before we found
the one that worked, Myhrvold said in an
email to Mic. Once we found the starch that
worked best we then had to play with the
water-to-starch percentages. If you add too
much, the slurry drips off the bagel, but if
you add too little, its like working with glue.
Mic tried an everything bagel prepared the
Myhrvold way, and reported: When I bit into
an everything bagel prepared by Myhrvolds
team, not a single seed dropped from the
bagel onto my lap.
The secret: modified tapioca starch, mixed
with water, using an immersion blender and
thickened at room temperature for two to
three hours.
Bonus feature: Myhrvold says the starch
glue is strong enough to let you (or an en-
terprising bagel shop) affix heavier toppings
to the bagels, like shredded coconut, cocoa
nibs, sunflower seeds, and walnuts.
Yum? Larry Yudelson

The scoop on Matzo Ball Snoop

Jewish comics of the future
l We first met Steven
Bergson a decade ago at
the convention of the As-
sociation of Jewish Librar-
ies. He was a regular on the
AJL mailing list, chiming in
with recommendations for
Jewish-themed graphic nov-
els and comics.
At the convention, he
told us about his idea of an
anthology, where he would
reprint Jewish-themed
comic stories dating back to
the 1930s and also include
original work. His dream
came true in 2014, with the
publication of his Jewish
Comix Anthology, Volume 1:
A Collection of Tales, Stories and Myths
Told and Retold in Comic Book Format.
Now hes editing volume two for
publication, and its totally different and
highly ambitious.
All its 18 stories are new. None are re-
future-focused to his publishing partner,
Andy Stanleigh.
He liked the idea of taking an old
story and giving it a futuristic slant. Not
just updating it, but projecting it into
the future, Bergson said.
l We recently were de-
lighted to learn that one
of the television pleasures
of our childhood sick days,
The Jokers Wild, was
returning to television.
Updated for a new century,
the game show is hosted by
the rapper known profes-
sionally as Snoop Dogg and
features new categories of
questions, such as Name
that Strain, where contes-
tants have to know names of marijuana game for him too.
strains, and Canadian Bacon, where What fun!
the question is with which Canadian So imagine our disappointment when
Seth Rogen would most like to smoke. we watched the first episode last week
So we were very excited to discover on TBS, and only one question was
that one of the promised categories was asked in the Matzo Ball Snoop. And
Matzo Ball Snoop. for that question, the focus was on the
According to HollywoodJunket.com, soup, not the matzo.
The Matzo Ball Snoop had contestants In particular it was about chowder.
guessing what Jewish terms meant. It Boston chowder.
was a category of great struggle for Does it get treifer than that?
host Dogg as well, who said no one in Were hoping for a better Snoop time
production prepped him beforehand on in a future episode, when, as revealed
the correct pronunciation of the terms. by a promotional video, a category will
Thus, it was a different kind of guessing be Gin and Jews. Larry Yudelson

prints. But they all are based on Jewish
lore. Some are familiar folk tales; others
are among the little-known eye-pop-
ping stories buried in the Talmud, like
the man who grew breasts to nurse his
child (which you can find on page 53b
of Tractate Sabbath of the Babylonian
Talmud).
But all the stories have been relocat-
ed to the future for this science-fiction-
themed anthology.
The theme grew out of one of the sto-
ries in volume one, which the writer had
transported to the future. Bergson attri-
butes the idea of making this volume all
Candlelighting: Friday, November 3, 5:31 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, November 4, 6:31 p.m.
This also promised to open the stories
up to a new audience of readers.
The planned list of contributors
includes some names well-known in
comics land, among them Ty Temple-
ton, Rachel Pollack, Bill Sienkiewicz, and
David Mack. Bergson selected the origi-
nal stories, and gave some guidance on
how they might be adapted. Stanleigh
handed out the writing and art assign-
ments.
Intrigued? SCI: The Jewish Comics
Anthology Volume 2 is a quarter of the
way to its Kickstarter fundraising goal at
kck.st/2kZatPX. larry Yudelson
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HERES THE SKIN-NY:
Jeff wont be blue
in new Thor flick
Thor: Ragnarok is Jewish Chronicle profiled
a Marvel Studios actor COOPER AN-
flick based on the DREWS, 30ish, another
Thor comic book Jew with South Pacific
character. Thor (Chris roots. He plays Jerry, a
Hemsworth) is in a race big ax-wielding body-
to save his whole guard, on the hit TV
civilization from his evil series The Walking
sister, the goddess Hela Dead. His American
(Cate Blanchett). JEFF Jewish mother, a Peace
GOLDBLUM, 65, has a Corps volunteer, had a
big supporting part as brief relationship with his
the Grandmaster, an Samoan father while she
Elder of the Universe was stationed in Samoa.
who enjoys manipulating His mother raised him on
others. The films direc- Long Island.
tor, TAIKA WAITITI, 42,
gave Goldblum some
Wonderstruck is
based on an
license to improvise, to
make the character his
acclaimed juvenile
fiction novel of the same
own. Grandmaster has name by BRIAN SEL-
blue skin in the comics. ZNICK, 51. He also wrote
However, Waititi opted to the The Invention of
not use blue skin make- Hugo Cabret, which was
up, so that more of adapted into a hit film.
Goldblums personality The film version of
could come through. Wonderstruck, like the
Waititi, a New Zealand- book, follows a young
er, is the son of a Maori deaf girl in 1927 and a
father and a Jewish boy suddenly struck deaf
mother. (For a time, the in 1977. Eventually the
director used Cohen, his two stories are tied
together. The cast
mothers maiden name,
includes Michelle
as his last name.) Thor
represents Waititis move Williams and Julianne
into big-money, big-time Moore. (Limited release
filmmaking. A 2004 on November 3, wide
short film he made at- release November 10.)
tracted notice; then he The director is TODD
helmed three small-bud- HAYNES, 56 (Carol,
get feature films that got Certain Women).
great reviews. Almost as Haynes mother is Jewish
important to Hollywood: and while he is secular,
all three films earned he identifies as Jewish.
five times what they cost Last month, the
to make. Rock and Roll Hall
By coincidence, last of Fame announced
week the U.K. the nominees for
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They certainly werent desperate for
pastrami.
New York State Senator Simcha Felder, after thieves stole $5,000
from a Brooklyn deli next to his office but left the food untouched.
Taika Waititi Cooper Andrews
Brian Selznick Todd Haynes
induction in 2018. You 71, bass guitar; DICK
have until December 5 to SALWITZ, 71, harmon-
vote for nominees. Just ica; and STEPHEN JO
google Rock and Roll BLADD, 75, drummer.
Hall of Fame vote and I have to say some-
youll quickly find the thing about Mark Knop-
vote page. Its easy fler and his brother,
to vote. Dave Knopfler, who are
The Jewish nominees nominated as members
this year are DAVID of the famous band Dire
BRYAN, 55, keyboard- Straits. Mark really was
ist (as a member of the the center of Dire Straits,
band Bon Jovi); ELLIOT and its likely they will
EASTON, 63, lead guitar- get into the Hall. The
ist (as a member of the brothers father was Jew-
band The Cars); BRAD ish by birth, but defined
WILK, 49, drummer himself as a Marxist. In
(as a member of the every interview Ive seen,
band Rage Against the Mark (who I dont think
Machine) and the J. Geils is religious) has resisted
Band. Everybody in the having the description
J. Geils Band except for Jewish or half Jewish
the late J. Geils is Jewish: applied to him. When
PETER WOLF, 71, lead asked, he mentions his
singer/songwriter; SETH fathers politics and
JUSTMAN, 66, key- moves on quickly.
boardist; DANNY KLEIN, Honorable mention
Drake and Rabbi Jason Miller in the HYFR video.
Drake takes the cake
during Re-bar mitzvah
On October 24, superstar rapper DRAKE celebrated
his 31st birthday with what he called a Re-bar mitzvah.
Before the party, Drake hinted at what was to come with
an Instagram post of a photo of a board at his real bar
mitzvah. (Thats a cardboard board with pasted photos
of him as a baby and toddler; bar mitzvah guests signed
it.) The Re-bar mitzvah really was just a big party
but it included touches like pizza boxes with a photo of
Drake at 13, and red plastic Solo cups imprinted with
the words Aubreys Re-Bar Mitzvah. (Aubrey Drake
Graham is Drakes birth name.)
N.B.
goes to the English Hall of Fame nominee as
band Radiohead, which a member of the band)
is immensely popular is married to Israel-born
in Israel it has played artist SHARONA KATAN
there eight times since and he has collaborated
1993. This past summer, with Israeli musicians.
Radiohead defied calls to Greenwood and Katans
boycott Israel and played kids all have Hebrew
there again. Lead guitar- names: TAMIR, OMRI,
ist Jonny Greenwood (a and ZOHAR. N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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9:30 am 12:30 pm
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Happy endings on purpose
Federations Israel Film Festival seeks uplift over angst in its selections
CURT SCHLEIER

The Israel Film Festival spon-

sored by the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey will cel-
ebrate its bar mitzvah this year.
The 13th annual fest, which
runs from November 2 to Novem-
ber 19, will feature seven films
shown in many locations.
It is different from many Jew-
ish film festivals in that the mov-
ies selected must be produced in
Israel. Typically other festivals
consider films of Jewish inter-
est, no matter where they are Ethan Behling
produced.
We want to connect the north- behind a mehitzah in the reno-
ern New Jersey community with vated synagogue.
Israel in a different way, give The women rebel and yes,
them access to the countrys eventually there is a happy end-
films, culture and language, says ing to this fable of female empow-
Ethan Behling, director of JFNNJs erment. The film already has
Center for Israel Engagement. The JFNNJ Israel Film Festival features The Womens Balcony, a drama of female empowerment. played commercially in area the-
Another difference is that this aters, but if you missed it, dont do
festival avoids politics, a reasonably difficult chore given The selection committee started with about 30 films, that again. It was the most enjoyable film out of Israel in
the circumstances of life in the Mideast, and it has shown a number winnowed to seven full-length features plus a the last year.
a marked preference for uplifting films. Some Israeli films short. The two best known, The Womens Balcony and It will be shown at the Wayne YMCA (1 Pike Drive) on
are not so uplifting, Mr. Behling concedes, which is not Wedding Plan, are dramatically different in theme and Wednesday, November 8, at 7:30 p.m.
so surprising given the circumstances of life ... Well, you provide a vivid demonstration of the breadth, variety and If The Womens Balcony is about the triumph of femi-
get the idea. vitality of Israeli cinema. nism, Wedding Plan is about female subjugation. The
When the festival first began, screenings were held In The Womens Balcony, a bar mitzvah at an Ortho- films writer-director, Rama Burshtein, was born in New
exclusively in synagogues. While some still are, most are dox Mizrahi synagogue in Jerusalem is interrupted when York, raised in Israel, and became baala teshuva in her
shown in movie theaters and theres even one you can the womens balcony collapses mid-service, leaving the mid-20s.
watch at a YMCA. The change of venues has increased the rebbetzin in a coma, the elderly rabbi in shock, and the Shes described herself as feminine, not a feminist
number of attendees and skewed the average age down. sanctuary in ruins. and she believes that if a man or woman is not loved by
Since we moved into these theaters, weve attracted A young and charismatic ultra-Orthodox rabbi volun- someone from the opposite sex they are not whole.
a new crowd, people who arent necessarily comfortable teers to fill the void, an offer that the men in the congre- In Wedding Plan, her fianc dumps Michal, an Israeli
walking into synagogues they dont belong to, Mr. Behling gation accept happily. But he subtly moves the congrega- Orthodox woman and the movies central character, a
said. Were also getting younger people, who bring their tion further right, insisting the women wear modest dress month before what was to be their wedding. She keeps the
children. and cover their heads and ultimately shunting them off SEE FILM FESTIVAL PAGE 59

Scenes from The Womens Balcony,

left frame, and the Wedding Plan.

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Own your health
Holy Name Medical Centers Sharyn Lewin will lead panel at Kaplen JCC
Miryam Z. Wahrman, Ph.D.
With all the resources of the internet at
our fingertips, it is tempting to think that
all answers to medical questions are avail-
able at the click of a mouse.
But information thats out on the web
can be complicated, misleading, or down-
right incorrect, so it pays to get medical
advice directly from the experts. At an
upcoming panel at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, Dr. Sharyn Lewin, the medical
director of gynecologic oncology at Holy
Name Medical Center in Teaneck, will
moderate a panel of medical experts that
will discuss what we can do to prevent can-
cer and live longer, healthier lives.
Nearly half of all cancers could be pre-
vented by eating a healthy diet, getting
enough exercise, maintaining a healthy
weight, not smoking, and limiting alco-
holic consumption, Dr. Lewin said. For
example, there are 11 different types of
cancers associated with obesity.
That idea that we can reduce the inci-
dence of cancer by altering our habits is
based on decades of biomedical research,
Dr. Lewin said. She cited a study, pub-
lished this year in the British Medical Jour-
nal, that completed an umbrella review of
the literature on obesity and cancer. (An
umbrella review gathers together many
studies done by many research groups to
Who: Dr. Sharyn Lewin of Holy Name
Medical Center in Teaneck
What: Moderating a panel, Own Your
Health,
Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the Pali-
sades, 411 East Clinton Ave., Tenafly
When: On Sunday, November 12, from
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Also: Admission is free, and the morn-
ing includes complimentary childcare,
kid-friendly activities, a photo booth,
chair massages, refreshments, and
giveaways.
To register: Google Own your health,
Kaplen JCC, and Eventbrite
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determine the strength of evidence for a
medical claim.)
In a podcast posted on the journals web-
site, British researcher Dr. Maria Kyrgiou,
the studys primary author, noted a seri-
ous public health issue: The prevalence
of obesity has more than doubled since the
1980s, and it is projected that we will see
significant further increases in the future.
Her teams research study confirmed that
obesity increases the risk of developing or
dying from cancer. This is particularly the
case for cancers of the digestive organs,
and for hormonally driven malignancies.
The 11 types of cancer linked to obesity are
stomach, esophageal, multiple myeloma,
colon, rectal, biliary tract system, pancre-
atic, breast, uterine, ovarian, and kidney
cancer. I think the clinical message from
all this is we now know which cancers
are strongly associated with obesity, and
we can target these high-risk groups that
would benefit from targeted prevention
strategies, Dr. Kyrgiou said.
Dr. Lewins goal is to provide her
patients and the public with the edu-
cation that will help them make better life
choices. In 2014, she founded the Lewin
Fund to Fight Womens Cancers, which is
dedicated to combating the serious chal-
lenges facing one in three women and
their families The funds website, www.
thelewinfund.org, explains that as a lead-
ing nationally recognized public charity
for ALL women with cancerthe Lewin
Fund strategically partners with innova-
tive organizations and esteemed research-
ers from the global community.
The fund, a nonprofit with a completely
volunteer board, was started with a gift
from a grateful patient who passed away
from advanced uterine cancer, Dr. Lewin
said. She had a vision of how women
with cancer should be treated. Dr. Lewin
wanted to name the foundation after the
patient, but her family, who is very pri-
vate, declined the honor. The fund, there-
fore, is named for Dr. Lewin.
Describing the funds benefactor, She Englewood Hospital, will talk about gyne-
had lived a wonderful life, and was par-
ticularly struck by the young women who
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Dr. Sharyn Lewin
had cancer, Dr. Lewin said. And since
her care was integrative, meaning that
it included both medical and psychoso-
cial support, she wanted other women to
have those opportunities.
Womens health care has always been
my passion, Dr. Lewin continued. The
foundation lets us help women on a
broader scale. It is the only organization
that helps women with any type of cancer,
their spouses, and their families.
She plans on introducing some of these
concepts when she speaks at the JCC.
The JCC program will focus on health
and wellness, she said. The panel will be
moderated in a relaxed, interactive, talk-
show style, and audience members will
be encouraged to ask questions. There
are four dynamic speakers, she said. Dr.
Jason Konner is head of medical oncology
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Monmouth
in Middletown. He will talk about gyne-
cologic cancer prevention as well as the
latest treatments for gynecologic cancer.
Dr. Wendy Hurst, a gynecologist at
which provides essential tips on how to
cologic health, sexual health, hormone
replacement therapy, bone health and
osteoporosis, and general health and qual-
ity of life issues, Dr. Lewin said.
The third panelist, Dr. Dorothy Chae, is
an acupuncturist in Bergen County. Acu-
puncture has been used for thousands
of years in Eastern medicine, Dr. Lewin
said. It is used in weight reduction, smok-
ing cessation, infertility, to help prevent
neuropathy, prevent nausea, and reduce
pain.
Finally, Debbie Besson, a nutritionist at
Holy Name Hospital whose work is dedi-
cated to the Cancer Center, will talk about
how good nutrition can prevent cancer.
Other local organizations, including
Sharsheret, the Teaneck-based group that
provides support to patients and families
facing breast and ovarian cancer, also will
be at the panel discussion.
Less than half of women see their
gynecologists annually, Dr. Lewin said.
Women tend to prioritize their families
before themselves. At the event they will
learn about the importance of taking care
of themselves, so they can then worry
about taking care of others in their lives.
Dr. Lewin said that women should see
a gynecologist every year to screen for
cervical, uterine, and breast cancer, to
get mammograms, and learn about bone
health, family history and genetics, the
importance of healthy body weight, life-
style issues, contraception, and sexual
health practices.
Dr. Lewin, who now lives in Bergen
County, grew up in Kansas and graduated
from the University of Kansass medical
school. She was inspired to pursue a medi-
cal career by her grandmother, Dr. Gerda
Bruno, a gynecologist and a pioneering
advocate for womens healthcare, who
practiced in Washington Heights.
Dr. Miryam Z. Wahrman, the Jewish
Standards science correspondent, is a
professor of biology at William Paterson
University. She is the author of The Hand
Book: Surviving in a Germ-Filled World,
avoid harmful germs and reduce the risk of
infectious disease.
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Startup Schechter
Two parents talk about their role in Israels high-tech scene
LARRY YUDELSON

Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen

County was looking to raise money for its
Stephanie Prezant zl Israel Scholarship
Fund, which helps send eighth-graders
to Israel.
Solomon Schechter Day School
also has students whose parents are
Israeli innovators.
Putting them together made good sense.
It further reinforces students under-
standing of modern Israel as a leading
technology innovator, Leah Silberstein,
the schools director of marketing and
communications, said. And it demon-
strates a core educational value of stu-
dents finding their passions, and stretch-
ing the limits of their imaginations.
The program drew more than 100 peo-
ple who came to listen to two Schechter
fathers: Gil Eyal, co-founder and CEO of
Hypr, and Ron Teicher, founder and CEO
of EverCompliant. Both are high-tech
CEOs, both have roots in Israel, and both
told their fellow parents about the Israeli
startup scene.
Mr. Eyal was born in Israel. His father, a Gil Eyal, left, and Ron Teicher describe the Israel startup scene to parents of Solomon Schechter Day School students.
shaliach for the Jewish Agency,
brought his family to the influential persons audience. Our tool allows
United States when Gil was 4, brands to come in, describe their audience, and
and then they stayed here. Gil find thousands of people online who can help
Eyal returned to Israel when reach them, Mr. Eyal said. Look at Waze.
he was 18 to enlist in the IDF.
There he became a computer
Hyprs staff is divided between an Israeli team
working on the technology and a New York team
Israeli technology is
crimes investigator, working to focusing on sales. growing up. This
stop attempts to hack into mili-
tary computers. It got me very
The biggest advantage of Israel is that my co-
founder was the commander of the program-
ecosystem is becoming
interested in the world of tech- ming course that trains programmers for the bigger and bigger.
nology, he said. Israeli army, Mr. Eyal said. We have a very
After his army service, Mr. strong pipeline of developers from his former Do you want to learn more about Israeli startups? Mr.
Eyal studied law and then came pupils. We dont need to interview. He knows Eyal recommends going to Israelimappedinny.com, which
back to the United States for a who is best. maps the Israeli startups.
career in business. By 2010, he The best are very good. If youre looking for an internship, or to invest, or to
was chief operating officer for Gil Eyal Israel produces very performance-driven work for a startup, go there and start browsing and find
an Israeli start-up called Mobli developers. They want to win. They want to someone doing something youre excited about whether
Media, which he described as a photo and video sharing build the best software, he said. it is AI or drones or self-driving cars, he said. Connect
platform before Instagram. It used to be the common belief that Israelis know with them, see if you can become involved. Its an amazing
The strategy for the site was to acquire deals with influ- how to build technology but dont know how to market, community of people who like to help each other.
ential celebrities to use the platform and promote us. he said. We saw this change. Israeli companies became Mr. Eyal wants to forge connections between the
Those celebrities included Leonardo DiCaprio, Serena worth billions of dollars. Look at Waze. Israeli technol- Schechter community and his company.
Williams, and Lance Armstrong. ogy is growing up. This ecosystem is becoming bigger I plan on offering internships over the summer to
This led Mr. Eyal to the core idea for Hypr. and bigger. eighth graders after they graduate, he said.
As a marketer I was used to seeing audience data every- Hypr is in good company in having Israeli roots and a Gil and his wife Inbal live in Hoboken, and they send
where, he said. I would never buy advertising space New York center, Mr. Eyal said. New York has become, their first grader to Schechter. The other child will be
without knowing who reads it. Yet I was hiring these celeb- some would say, a mecca for Israeli entrepreneurs. A lot of there eventually, he said. There are seven or eight kids
rities without knowing anything about their audience. startups are moving to New York. who take this bus from Hoboken. Its a long ride, but
There was no way to learn about the reach and impact Compared to Silicon Valley, New York offers the con- its worthwhile.
of the celebrities social media accounts. I tried to look venience of a relatively shorter time-zone difference, I was a Schechter student as a kid. I value the Hebrew
for a tool that tells me who follows them, but it wasnt more visitors from Israel, enormous markets that you access, the familiarity with biblical stories. We want
available. So I decided to start a company, he said. can target. to make sure our kids keep the language, understand
At first, Hypr was just him and his co-founder, a technol- Mr. Eyal said that there are 400 Israeli startups in New where they came from, know the holidays.
ogist in Israel. They found venture capital and investors York City, and they are having an impact. Israelis are the The fund is named for Stephanie Prezant, who died in
and their first customers. Now they have 32 employees driving force in this major shift in the way New York views 2012, at 22, in a rock-climbing accident. Her family has
and are closing in on $10 million in revenue. itself, from a capital of finance to something that can offer chosen to honor her memory through benefiting the
We collect data from social networks about each a whole lot more, he said. school from which she graduated, and that she loved.

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If All the Seas Were Ink

Ilana Kushan will talk about reading Talmud, writing poetry in Teaneck
JOANNE PALMER still-searching-for-equilibrium 27-year-old and loved over the course of my life, she

T
he Talmud, the seminal text of
rabbinic Judaism, has almost
everything in it.
Its got closely reasoned logic
and wildly fantastic lore, leaps of imagina-
tion and magic realism and strictly con-
structed legal proscriptions. Its got mul-
tigenerational time-defying conversations,
and it understands the compulsive need
to argue with absolutely everything as the
most basic Jewish cultural assumption.
Its like an old-fashioned hard suitcase
when youve shoved absolutely everything
you can think of in it, in a jumbled mess
thats logical to you, and then you remem-
ber lots of other things, and then you have
to sit on it to get it to close, and some ran-
dom things still stick out, but then you can
fasten it and its ready and you can bring it
with you wherever you go.
Its culture defining, and has been
for millennia.
But its rarely seen as a vehicle
for memoir.
In her brilliant, beautifully written, sen-
sitive, original new book, If All the Seas
Were Ink, Ilana Kurshan writes about
how Daf Yomi, the worldwide seven-year
program that encourages Jews to study a
page the same page of Talmud every
day, took her from life as a not-very-happy,
to a 35-year-old mother, still searching
shell always be searching, that much is
entirely clear but in a different, older,
although equally smart way.
Ms. Kurshan who will talk about her
memoir in Teaneck on November 9 (see
box) started her talmudic explorations
soon after she made aliyah, but she already
had an impressive intellectual background
from which to draw.
The oldest of the four children of Rabbi
Neil Kurshan, the Conservative rabbi of the
Huntington Jewish Center on Long Island,
who has just retired after 30 years in the
pulpit there, and Dr. Alisa Rubin Kurshan,
who retired as a senior vice president of
New Yorks UJA Federation, Ilana gradu-
ated from Harvard and then spent a year
as the John Harvard fellow at Cambridge
University in England. Shes always been
and still is the kind of person who liter-
ally cannot put down her book. When she
lived in Manhattan, you could run across
her on Riverside Drive. Shes easy to spot
she was the tall thin blonde reading as she
walked. It could be alarming.
When she moved to Jerusalem, she said,
she did the same thing, and eventually
people recognized her as yes, that young
woman with the book.
She is also an avid runner; she listens
to podcasts, often of Talmud talks, as
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she runs, and so she associates different
streets, vistas, hills, stores, shapes, and
even smells with very specific bits of text.
Ms. Kurshan also reads widely; she loves
poetry and writes it herself. Her under-
standing of the Talmud often is filtered
through English writers; her ability to
bring together Jewish and English sources,
in ways that illuminate both of them, is
idiosyncratic and valuable.
As I learned, I found myself hearing
echoes of other texts that I had learned
said. I would read about the cure for lep-
rosy it started out with something like
Take a cauldron, and it totally was like
eye of newt. I could find myself think-
ing Did Shakespeare read Talmud? It
seemed like there were so many echoes
because they were responding to the same
human influences.
I was very drawn to the sorts of ideas
that brought up my historian of science
side and my historical side and my roman-
tic side, and I explored a lot of that.
The romance of the Temple was very
real for me. The nostalgia for the Temple,
and the love of talmud Torah I would
hear echoes of Keats.
I couldnt think about Rabbi Yochanan
being sick without thinking about Keats
and beauty and evanescence. I would
have those associations and not be able to
disassociate them, so I clearly had to write
about them.
Talmud is highly gendered, and histori-
cally it has not been accessible to women
(or, to be honest, particularly kind to
them). When I read the text, I often find
myself identifying far more often with the
male characters than with the women,
Ms. Kurshan said. That because by tal-
mudic definition, I am more a man than a
woman. Shes independent, has a job, can
support herself, was unmarried during

These are a few of the limericks that Ilana Kurshan wrote to sum up that days learning:
(Chagigah 9b) (Bava Metzia 2a)
A person who learns and reviews Two are holding a tallis they find
A full hundred times still he will lose Each one cries out, This tallis is mine!
Out on what hed have learned Each guy swears that at least
(Chagigah 5b)
Had he once more returned, He owns half the whole piece.
Rebbi used to read Eicha and sigh
Said Bar Hey Hey. For knowledge accrues. Then they split it. Both parties dont mind.
With the book on his lap, he would cry
He could bear it no more
(Sukkah 28a) (Bava Kama 27a)
The book fell to the floor
A student of Hillel of fame: Someone falls off a roof and he lands
He cried, We who sink low were once high.
Yonatan ben Uzziel was his name. In a woman (Er not in her hands)
When he learned, when he read What was done has been done
(Ketubot 2a)
Any bird overhead (And perhaps it was fun)
On Wednesdays the virgins should marry
Would spontaneously burst into flame. Are they married? This was not the plan!
So their husbands can wake and not tarry
To go Thursday to court
(Sukkah 37b) (Kidushin 8b)
(If they wish) and report:
This sugyas about number two Be my wife with this loaf of fresh bread.
Theres no blood on the sheet that I carry!
For what is a person to do A dogs chasing her! Soon shell be dead!
When he goes on Shabbat She throws bread to the beast
(Ketubot 17a)
Can he carry, or not? It slows down for the feast
How to dance before a bride
Just three stones may be brought to the loo. She escapes. Is she single, or wed?
Who is lovely, but on the inside?
Hillel says: Say shes pretty
(Taanit 9b) (Bava Metzia 58b)
Says Shammai: A pity
Ulla tasted in Bavel a date. If a convert comes by, you cant say
To lie. But you must! Hillel chides.
It was yummy. He filled his whole plate It was ten years ago to the day
He said, Why dont they learn more That your Dad ate some pork
In Bavel. They earn more. With a spoon and a fork
His bowels, alas, met their fate. Do not torture or turn him away.

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She found that the talmudic text often triggered
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And she also writes about the joy that shes found
in her second marriage. Her husband, and the father
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A life all about love
His widow remembers Dr. Newton Scherl, dead at 86
LOIS GOLDRICH
There is a beautiful scene in The King
and I where the kings wife sings to Anna
about her extraordinary husband.
Rarely does this scene replay in real life.
Yet listening to Sheila Scherl speak about
her husband, Newton, who died on Octo-
ber 20 at 86, comes close. Listening to her,
you get a sense not only of how deep their
bond had been but of how remarkable
Newton Scherl really was.
A beloved doctor, doting husband and
father, lifelong poet and joke-teller, there
was something about him that elicited
expressions of affection not only from fam-
ily and friends but from patients as well.
Mrs. Scherl said she has dozens of let-
ters from former patients, some several
pages long. They spoke about him as an
individual, she said. About who he was.
And on his 85th birthday, his children, Zev
and Rachel, honored him with a poem
expressing their admiration for his accom-
plishments, character, and devotion to the
Jewish people and the State of Israel. Not
surprisingly, when he died at 86, he was
surrounded by loved ones.
A poet in his own right, Newton started
writing poems when he was 10, said his
Remembering Joseph Taub
Co-founder of ADP, onetime New Jersey Nets owner, dies at 88
JOANNE PALMER
You can take the boy out of Paterson, but
you cant take Paterson out of the boy.
That seems to have been a deep truth
that gave meaning to the life of Joseph Taub
of Tenafly, who died on Saturday at 88.
Mr. Taub grew up poor, became rich,
successful, beloved, and happy, but he
never forgot where he came from, and he
never stopped supporting other kids, gen-
erations of Patersonians, as they grew up
poor but because of him full of hope.
Joe Taub grew up in Paterson, the sec-
ond son of two Eastern European immi-
grants, Sylvia and Morris Taub. His father
was a junk dealer, his son-in-law, Scott
Tesser, said. He drove a horse and cart
around Paterson, buying and selling junk.
Joe, like his older brother, Henry, went to
East Side High School; they both missed
World War II but grew into young adult-
hood just as it ended.
Henry Taub, who had gone to NYU,
became an accountant. He had a client
whose bookkeeper was sick on the day
that they were distributing payroll, so the
14 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Dr. Newton Scherl
wife, showing the book in which her hus-
band recorded these works. His earliest
poems dealt with topics from Spring to
Rudolph Hess, reflecting his wide range
of interests even then. Later poems deal
with World War II the liberation of Paris,
General Douglas MacArthur, and D-Day.
Always there are poems on Jewish themes,
from Chanukah and Purim to his own bar
mitzvah. Most of the works, however, are
dedicated to friends and family, celebrat-
ing their accomplishments and milestones.
Dr. Scherl also wrote a memoir, a copy
Joseph Taub
employees didnt get paid that day, Mr.
Tesser said. So Henry came up with the
idea that he could provide a service that
would outsource payrolls. It was 1949;
that company, first called Automatic Pay-
rolls, later called Automatic Data Process-
ing, or ADP, became hugely successful.
Henry asked his younger brother to join
the company. Joe, who was gifted work-
ing with people, according to just about
everyone who talked about him, ran the
operations, and Henry did the technical
Dr. Scherl places an American flag on a lawn ornament at his home in
Englewood Cliffs.
of which he gave to every grandchild
using the concluding pages to leave what
you might describe as an ethical will. In
it, he writes of the importance of giving
work. The Taubs soon took a third part-
ner, Frank Lautenberg, who went on to
become the Democratic U.S. senator from
New Jersey.
Eventually ADP went public; Joe Taub
retired when he was 40. They were doing
very well, and my father-in-law decided it
was time to move on, Mr. Tesser said.
He and his wife, Arlene, had three chil-
dren, Sandra, Michelle, and Marc; they
also had four grandchildren, and a seven-
week-old great granddaughter. One of the
things that kept him going at the end was
that he wanted to see his great grandchild,
Mr. Tesser said. He didnt get the chance to
know her, but he did get to see her.
Mr. Taub loved sports, and much of his
life revolved around them.
He loved basketball he played it in high
school, and although he stopped playing
after he left school, he never lost his love for
watching it. He was a real sports guy, Mr.
Tesser said. The two Taub brothers owned
the New Jersey Nets for a few years. The
Nets started on Long Island, and the Taubs
brought it to New Jersey. After he sold the
team, it moved to Brooklyn, and that pretty
tzedakah, living a moral life and teaching
by example, the value of friendship, and
his love of Judaism. He prays that his fam-
ily will remain close and will cherish these
much killed him, Mr. Tesser said.
Mr. Taub also loved baseball. Larry Doby
was the first African American to play in
the American League he played center
field for the Cleveland Indians and just
the second to play major league baseball
at all. Joe and Larry grew up next to each
other in Paterson, Mr. Tesser said. In
those days, Paterson was a very mixed
community of Jews and blacks.
Growing up, my father-in-law and Larry
were best friends. Larry had a very success-
ful baseball career, and after it was over
they continued to be very close friends.
My father-in-law started the Taub-Doby
Basketball League. Its a philanthropic
entity; basically he provided a broad range
of activities and scholarships for kids in
Paterson. Its for a combination of athletic
and scholastic abilities; there are camps in
the summer, to get the kids out of the city,
and all different kinds of programs during
the school year.
Its for both boys and girls, and its a
way to give them a future.
There have been professional athletes
who have gone through the program, Mr.
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After graduating from medical school in 1955, Dr. rooms for NYs #1 Dept. Store)
Scherl served his internship at Mount Sinai hospital.
There, in the operating room, he was holding retrac-
tors with the patients stomach open, recalls Sheila. For a totally new look using
She was the nurse. your furniture or starting anew.
Their eyes met, and he asked to see her outside. She
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become teachers. (Newton and Sheilas own daugh-
ter, Sharon, attended nursing school as well, but
then raised the bar a bit higher, announcing that she
wanted to become a doctor.)
After a two-year stint in the Air Force, Newton Scherl
did a fellowship in gastroenteroloy and was an early
user of fiberoptic endoscopes. When his father, Sam,
died, he took over the latters medical practice in the
Bronx. His father died at a young age, so he took over
his practice, Ms. Scherl said. It was connected to the
house, so he saw his mother three times a week.

Beyond the
But she wanted to move back to New Jersey. I
grew up in Weehawken and Fort Lee, she said. As a
result, the couple moved to Englewood Cliffs 52 years
ago. We stayed in the same house, Ms. Scherl said,
adding that it grew to accommodate their expanding
family. Indeed, they remained in that house until just

Start-Up Nation
a few years ago, when they moved to an apartment
in Fort Lee.
We had a family room on the lower level, she
recalls of their Englewood Cliffs home. Their family
grew to include four children and 10 grandchildren.
At some seders, we had more than 40 people.
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Tesser said; the most well known perhaps is Victor
Cruz of the New York Giants. Hes just one example 7:00PM
of a kid who probably would have had a harder time
getting to where he got without the program, Mr. Tes-
ser said. There are students who excel, and Joe gave
them scholarships to private schools or colleges.
There is no real definition for the program. He just
did whatever Paterson needed.
If they needed a new basketball floor in the ym,
hed put it in. If they needed uniforms, hed pay for
them. He never forgot where he came from.
He could walk down the worst street in Paterson,
and everyone would know who he was, Mr. Tesser said.
His father-in-law was a striking physical presence,
he added; he was tall, with long white hair, and always
well dressed. Whenever he walked into the room,
everyone would know it, he said.
He owned race horses; he was very involved in the
science behind horse racing. He did a lot of trying to
understand what made a horse run faster.
It wasnt that he was a gambler, Mr. Tesser

explained. He had been a gambler growing up,

because thats how he survived, but once he made his
money, it wasnt about gambling. He got involved with
horses because he loved them, and he loved watching
them run. One of his horses, Sensitive Price, ran the
Kentucky Derby in 1978; despite an early lead, how-
ever, he did not win.
It is possible, however, that the cause that was clos-
est to his heart toward the end of his life was find-
ing a cure for breast cancer. His oldest child, San- WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP TO BUILD A STRONGER ISRAEL THROUGH ALIYAH

dra, died of breast cancer when she was 52, about 10

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Dr. Steven Starkman Assemblywoman
Valerie Vainieri
Three new members appointed
to New Jersey Israel Commission
Dr. Steven Starkman and state Assembly-
woman Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D-37th
Dist.), both from Englewood, and Assem-
blyman Gary S. Schaer (D-36th Dist.) of
Passaic, were among the new appointees
to the New Jersey Israel Commission. Mr.
Schaer represents Passaic County, Dr.
Re-rolling the Torah for a new year
At Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn,
Helen Troum Nursery School director
Debbie Lesnoy and students watched
as Alan Lewis, left, Rabbi Alberto
High schoolers face challenge
of escape room complexities
Students at the Bergen
County High School of
Jewish Studies went on a
trip to the Cipher Seeker
Room Escape Challenge
in Waldwick. There, they
worked together to solve
the puzzles and riddles
they faced as they tried to
escape. One of the teams
made it out just before
the one hour time limit
was up. Students who did
not escape the rooms
challenge in time are hop-
ing to try again and those
who did to do it again.
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Two shuls will join to present
Kristallnacht commemoration
Ridgewoods Temple Israel & Tamara Freeman, viola;
JCC and Temple Avodat Sha- and Sara Brown, cello, will
lom in River Edge join to mark accompany the choir. Dr.
Kristallnacht at Avodat Sha- Joan Rivitz, associate direc-
lom on Sunday, November 12, tor of the New Jersey Com-
at 2 p.m. mission on Holocaust Edu-
The program includes cation, will attend. Rabbi Dr.
Assemblyman a musical performance of David Fine of Temple Israel
Gary S. Schaer Anne Frank: A Living Voice, and Rabbi Paul Jacobson and
a seven-part piece by local Cantor Maria Dubinsky of
composer Linda Tutas Hau-
gen, with the Bella Voce Sing-
Jessica Corbin Avodat Shalom will lead the
memorial prayers, and River
ers Womens Choir, and directed by Jes- Edges Mayor Edward Mignone will speak.
Starkman, who owns Czin Opticians in sica Corbin. A string quartet with Gabriel A dessert reception follows. For informa-
Teaneck, and Ms. Vainieri represent Ber- Schaff and Wendy Kosakoff, violins; tion, call (201) 489-2463.
gen County.
The three new members join 15 Ber-
gen and Passaic county residents who
were reappointed to the commission.
Elaine Adler honored for MS efforts
Elaine Adler, Adler Aphasia Center co-founder, will be honored
at Holy Name Medical Centers MS awards reception on Thurs-
day, November 9, at Il Villaggio, beginning at 6 p.m. She will
receive the Lawrence R. Inserra Leadership award for her com-
mitment to the multiple sclerosis community.
For information, call (201) 833-3000 ext. 3899, email
futterman@holyname.org, or go to www.holyname.org/
msawardsreception.
Elaine Adler
KAREN COHEN-PROSNITZ
Zeilicovich, and Cantor Ted Prosnitz re-
rolled a Torah to prepare it for reading in
PHOTO COURTESY OF BARBARA REISS
the coming year.
Author shares nostalgia in Wayne
Author Jennifer Ranu recently spoke about her nostalgic novel, Skate Key, at an
Adult Daytime event at Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne. She is joined by Judy Segal,
Barbara Reiss, and Mort Segal.
JCC global world conference convening
COURTESY BCHSJS
More than 50 Jewish community centers in Tarrytown, N.Y., from November 5 to 9.
around the world will speed date to cre- The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly
ate new global partnerships and build a and the JCC Metrowest in West Orange will
network of Jewish peoplehood during the be among the JCCs represented there.
upcoming JCC Global World Conference
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CareOne executive honored
as a Leading Intrapreneur
Elizabeth Straus, CareOnes execu-
tive vice president, was honored as
one of New Jerseys top 25 Leading
Women Intrapreneurs for her com-
mitment to innovation, corporate
diversity, and philanthropy. She
was recognized with other women
executives in the category at the
Top 25 Leading Women Intrapre-
neurs celebration on October 16 at
the Liberty House in Jersey City.
Earlier this year Ms. Straus and
her father, Daniel Straus, CareOnes
president and CEO, were the joint
recipients of the Make-A-Wish New
Jersey Foundations 2017 Humani- Elizabeth Straus, left, of CareOne and
tarian of the Year award; CareOne Linda Wellbrock, founder of Leading
was honored as the 2017 Corpora- Women Intrepreneurs.
tion of the Year.
On October 19, Ms. Straus spear-
headed Starry Night Masquerade, a award, and a 2015 finalist for the NJBiz
Puerto Rico relief effort organized by
CareOne and InnovaCare at the Skylight
Clarkson North in Manhattan. Ms. Straus
was a NJBiz 40 Under 40 winner, a recip-
ient of the Community Resource Council
Painting volunteers needed
Safely@Home, formerly Bonim Build-
ers, needs volunteers, 12 and older, on
Sunday, November 5. They will paint
the inside of the Jewish Association for
Developmental Disabilities home in Ber-
genfield. Two shifts are available: from
8:30 a.m. to noon and from 12:30 to 4
p.m.
Safely@Home continues to Repair the
World, One House at a Time, by using
volunteers to perform repairs and reno-
vations for low-income homeowners, the
elderly, the disabled, and the chronically
ill. It is a project of the Jewish Home at
Home, a member of the Jewish Home
Family.
Touro dean leads national program
Dean Steven Huberman of Touro
College Graduate School of Social
Work facilitated a major national
program on Combating the Isms
of Modern Life Undoing Anti-
Semitism and Racism on the Col-
lege Campus at a meeting of the
National Association of Deans
and Directors of Schools of Social
Work. Dr. Martell Teasley, dean of
the College of Social Work at the
University of Utah and president
of the NADDSSW, and more than
200 deans attended the NADDSSW
event during the annual meeting of Dean Steven Huberman, left, with
the Council on Social Work Educa- Dr. Martell Teasley.
tion in Dallas, attended by over
3,000 educators and international leaders.
18 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 3, 2017
of Northern New Jerseys Harry Brandeis
Healthcare Heroes awards program.
CareOne, a family-owned health care
company, has more than 31 centers in
New Jersey.
Twelve- to 15-year-old volunteers
must be accompanied by a participat-
ing adult, with a ratio of one adult for
each child. Water and kosher snacks
will be provided. Dress for a mess, with
closed-toed shoes and clothing you do
not mind getting paint on.
Register in advance by emailing
Safely@Homes director, Stacey Orden,
at SOrden@jewishhomefamily.org or
by calling (201) 518-1175. Once you are
registered, you will receive the proj-
ect address and waiver forms, which
must be completed and brought to the
project.
back in the United States after overseas
deployments and helping newly returned
COURTESY TOURO
PHOTOS COURTESY AFK
Dr. Alex Zendel, Yair Segev, Dr. Charlotte K. Frank, and David Mallach.
American Friends of Kidum reception
More than 90 donors, who is the granddaugh-
partners, educators, ter of Louis Boyar, the
and friends attended visionary founder of
the American Friends of Mae Boyar High School;
Kidums inaugural New and Ambassador Zion
York reception at the Evrony, a Boyar High
Jewish Museum on Octo- School graduate who
ber 17. went on to become
AFK is the newly estab- Israeli ambassador to
lished U.S. nonprofit the Vatican. The legend-
dedicated to building ary folk songwriter and
awareness and financial musician Peter Yarrow
support for the Society of Peter, Paul and Mary Musical guest Peter
for Advancement of Edu- performed and led a Yarrow of Peter, Paul
cation in Jerusalem. SAE singalong. and Mary
provides gifted teenagers
from disadvantaged com-
Honorees included Dr.
Charlotte K. Frank, who the United States; and
munities in Israel with has been a leader in edu- the Naale Elite Academy,
high-quality high school cation policy and prac- a program founded and
education and full partic- tice in the United States run in cooperation with
ipation in Israeli society. for more than 40 years SAE that has brought
The speakers included and supports educational more than 17,000 stu-
Ambassador Dani Dayan, projects both here and in dents from 65 coun-
Israels consul general in Israel; the United Israel tries to Israel to study in
New York; SAEs exec- Appeal, which allocates Israeli high schools over
utive director, Eitan funds raised by Jewish the past 25 years.
Moran; Karen Kennedy, federations for Israel in
Shuls plan to salute veterans
during a recognition program
Temple Beth Sholom and the Fair Lawn Beth Sholoms Rabbi Alberto Zeilicovich
Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel and Cantor Ted Prosnitz and FLJCs Rabbi
are co-sponsoring a veterans recognition
program on Friday, November 10, at 11
Ronald Roth will take part in the program.
Members of the Jewish War Veterans, Lt. J.I.
a.m., at Temple Beth Sholom. Platt Post 651 in Fair Lawn will be attending.
Marine Cpl. Stephen Harris enlisted There will be a photo and poster exhibit
after he graduated from high school. Now and refreshments will be served. Veterans
of all wars and engagements, their families,
and the community are invited. For infor-
veterans, he is the guest speaker. Temple mation call (201) 796-5040.
Darchei Noam to honor three couples
for work on congregation expansion
Congregation Darchei Noam in Fair Lawn anniversary; the expansion doubled the
will hold its fourth annual dinner on Sun- size of the main sanctuary and added a
day, November 12. It will honor three cou- new social hall. Under the leadership of
ples who played key roles in the congre- Rabbi Jeremy Donath and president Mark
gations recent expansion: Mark Moerdler Moerdler, the congregation has grown to
and Galina Datskovsky, Harvey and Lynn more than 120 member families. For infor-
Schwartz, and Andy and Jessica Schultz. mation, go to is www.darcheinoam.com.
Darchei recently marked its 11th
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Local

Shira Rein Kraft, left of center in pink, leads her spin team.

JCC,
Sharsheret
spin together
In recognition of National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, women and men of all
ages came to the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly on October 29 to take part in Spin
4 Sharsheret.
On that high-energy morning, the organiza-
tions raised a significant amount of funding
for Sharsheret, the locally based nonprofit
with an international reach that that sup-
ports women and their families as they battle
breast or ovarian cancer.
In between spin classes and a Zumba pro-
gram, participants listened to personal sto-
ries. They learned about the importance
of cancer screening, early detection, and Englewood Hospital and Medical Centers
genetic testing, and they heard in-depth Sharsheret board member Jonathan Blinken stands with his wife, nutritionist Nina Spiegel and acupuncturist
explanations of Sharsherets mission. They Barbara, and spin instructor Hagit Tal. Carleen Implicito from EHMC.
also learned about its Peer Support Network,
which links newly diagnosed participants to
others farther along in their treatment, and
still others who have survived their bouts
with cancer. Sharsherets database allows it
to link women with specific questions and
needs to others who already have asked and
answered similar questions.
The JCC partners with Englewood Hospital
and Medical Center, and that partnership also
helps with early detection and treatment.
Experts from EHMCs Graf Center for Integra-
tive Medicine were on hand; they included a
licensed acupunturist and a nutritionist.
Saranne Rothberg, a breast cancer survivor
who founded the Comedy Cures Foundation, Cynthia Rosenbloom won a free JCC
also visited the spin. massage, here she stands with the JCCs
Learn more at www.jccotp.org. group exercise director, Hagit Tal. Carleen Implicito, a licensed acupuncturist at EHMC, counsels a participant.

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Cover Story
Making friends
for life
As Yachad plans its gala, leaders talk about
why inclusion matters, and what it means
JOANNE PALMER
C
ommunity is a real thing.
It can be messy. It can be
uncomfortable. It means includ-
ing everyone, including people
who look different or sound different or in
some other way are for-real different.
It sometimes take work to learn to
include everyone in the community, but
the younger you are when you first learn
how to do it, the more natural it is.
And when most of the community
accepts the truth that not everybody is like
everybody else, in a wide range of ways, in a
myriad of ways, then everyone can be more
comfortable in his or her very own skin.
Yachad proves that truth every day.
Yachad is the part of the Orthodox
Union that works with people with disabil-
ities. Yachad New Jersey is the local chap-
ter of that organization. That is the most
blunt and least inclusive way to describe
what Yachad does.
Yachad works with people with special
needs, seamlessly weaving them into the
community. It does not provide school-
ing here, thats the province of the Sinai
Schools, an unrelated organization whose
mission dovetails with Yachads but gives
children, teenagers, and adults with dis-
abilities a range of afternoon, weekend,
and summer activities, and with them a
firm foothold in the world around them. It
also gives the adults with whom they live a
break, and it gives their siblings a chance to
be around people who understand their sit-
uation exactly, and neither judge nor fawn.
Yachad is not just for the Orthodox com-
munity, either; it is open to the entire Jew-
ish world, and welcomes everyone who can
benefit from it, either by getting or by giving
(or, as happens very often, by doing both).
Chani Herrmann of Teaneck, Yachad
NJs creator and director, who has grown
New Jersey Yachad, and grown person-
ally along with it, talks about the many
advances Yachad has made recently.
We just opened a community center
22 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Julia Miller and Sarah Leah Elison of New Jersey Yachad share some joy.
program, she said. That was a huge leap
for us. Its the Mendel Balk Community
Center; Mr. Balk, who lived in Englewood
and died two years ago, was the husband
of Ariela and the father of Yoel, now 24,
who has been part of Yachad ever since
he was a little boy, Ms. Herrmann said.
We were looking to do something to com-
memorate Mendel Balks name, and also
help Yoel and his friends.
PHOTOS BY SHIRA SHEPS
We realized that there was a tremen-
dous void in the evenings. So now, the
center is open every evening from Mon-
days through Thursdays, and it includes
dinner. Its for people 18 and older, and
offers programming as well as social
opportunities.
When we started the center, we tried to
think about what might be helpful for par-
ents, Ms. Herrmann said. What would
Who: Yachad, the Orthodox Unions
organization for people with special
needs
What: Holds a festive melava malka
Where: At Congregation Keter Torah,
600 Roemer Ave., Teaneck
Where: On Saturday, November 18, at
8 p.m.
Why: Honoring three families for their
special dedication to Yachad
For more information and reserva-
tions: Go to Yachad.org/njgala2017 or
call (201) 833-1349.
make it easier on them. So we bought one
15-person van and one minivan, and we
can take them home. Most people at the
center come from Bergen County, but oth-
ers come from Passaic County, and even
as far as central Jersey Edison, Highland
Park, and Elizabeth, she reported.
The center is an unbelievable tribute to
Mendel Balk, and a jumping-off point for
Yachad, she continued. It is amazing to
have someone like Ariela Balk, who steps
up and invests in us.
As in all Yachad program, the special-
needs participants are joined by more
typical ones; mainstream high school
students participate in the program, and
college students work there. We usually
have between 15 and 20 people there each
night, and thats the maximum number we
can hold, Ms. Herrmann said.
The way that mainstream and special-
needs participants come together unself-
consciously is key to Yachads success.
When people, no matter what their abili-
ties, meet when they are young, before
they start making assumptions about each
other, before they start judging each other,
when they are still open to the range of dif-
ferences that any naturally occurring com-
munity encompasses, they stand a much
better chance of accepting each other
when they are older.
When they are part of a community
that values that range of differences, that
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In September Yachad members, staff, and volunteers celebrated the opening of the Mendel Balk Adult Community Center.

rewards understanding, they are likely to

hold onto that understanding, and even to
pass it on to their children.
So when students with special needs
meet each other in school, at shul, in
camp, in afterschool programs, on the
bus, at each others homes, everything
seems much more natural.
That doesnt mean that people with spe-
cial needs dont need programming partic-
ularly geared to those needs. They do.
Thats what Yachad provides.
We joke about New Jersey Yachad being
in your backyard all day, every day, Ms.
Herrmann said. Theres the vocational
program from 9 to 4, and then the evening
program from 4 to 7. And then theres a
Shabbaton for New Jersey participants
about eight to 10 times a year.
Yachad runs afterschool clubs, and Chani Herrmann
it has started to work with synagogue Kayla Murad, Yaffa Elyakin, and Arielle Mandel smile together at a New Jersey
youth groups, both in training the youth of Northern New Jersey thats our own Yachad program.
group leaders and in providing them with federation on two projects. It gave us a
programming. grant to run 10 Sunday social programs for otherwise, and that gives them the oppor- popular upstate New York camp attracts
Synagogues are looking for profession- young adults. tunity to broaden their horizons. large numbers of modern Orthodox kids,
als to make them more accessible, so that The other program Yachad is doing with On November 19, Yachad New Jersey and they have embraced Yachad, Ms.
their parents can come to shul, Ms. Her- the federation is the planned trip to Israel; will celebrate the years accomplish- Herrmann said. They have embraced the
rmann added. Often, when parents bring its not easy for young and youngish adults ments at a melava malka that doubles as community. The camp has Yachad kids
special-needs children to shul, they end with disabilities to travel to Israel without the years main fundraising gala. (See box alongside their more mainstream peers.
up devoting themselves entirely to their their families, but Yachad and the federa- for more information.) The honorees who Yachad always has enjoyed the things
children and its easier, safer, and less tion, as we described a few weeks ago, is will be feted that night match up with that Camp Mesorah offers, Ms. Herrmann
frustrating to do that at home. Yachad is working on it. our theme, Ms. Herrmann said. Thats said. Ari and Deena always talk about how
starting to work to change that. One of the things that will be beautiful Yachads constant theme Because their community is better because Yachad
And then there are Sundays. We have about the trip will be what happens when Everyone Belongs. is part of it. They said thats not the other
partnerships with two New Jersey fed- its over, Ms. Herrmann said. The partici- Rabbi Ari and Deena Katz of Bergen- way around.
erations on multiple programs, she said. pants will be able to make friends with field, the guests of honor, are the own- Yes, its easy to say that, but the Katzes
Were working with the Jewish Federation other people who they wouldnt have met ers and directors of Camp Mesorah. The live it. Ari acknowledges Yachad kids at

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Yachad New Jerseys director, Chani Herrmann, left, and Leora Verbit, vocational
Corinne Blyumin, Sara Gdenski, Gavy Levy, Avi Tsadok, and Yoel Balk at the coordinator at the Mendel Balk Yachad Center, flank Yachad participant Donny
Moriah/Yachad color run. Hain.

every event, Ms. Herrmann said. He
gives them a spotlight. He makes them feel
like a million dollars.
And, she added, the Katzes did not come
to Yachad because they had a child who
needed its services. That is a time-honored
and entirely valid to find your way there,
of course, but, as so many Yachad enthusi-
asts have found, thats not at all necessary.
The young leadership honorees are
Shira and Scott Sheps. The couple, who
live in Fair Lawn with their two young chil-
dren, came to Yachad through Shira.
Shira Lankin Sheps grew up in Edison,
went to Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva,
and I had my first Yachad Shabbat when
I was in eighth grade, Ms. Sheps said. It
was a very powerful experience.
It was all of us together, in an inclusion
program. It was the first time that I had
met anyone with special needs, and I was
taken with how joyful and loving and fun
and spirited it was, she said. I remember
it as a really great experience.
Trying to recapture that experience
and succeeding Ms. Sheps worked
with special needs students as a camp
counselor while she was in Stern College,
and then I just started doing Yachad shab-
batonim as often as I could, she said.
Why? People with special needs have
this amazing capacity to reach beyond the
kind of faade that people who do not have
special needs put up to protect themselves
from the world, she said. They have a
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them, and it is beautiful.

They are complicated. They have chal-
lenges but everyone has challenges. And
it is in the company of people with spe-
cial needs that I have been able to achieve
some of the purest moments of my life,
with spirituality and love and joy.
People with special needs just are, she
continued. If they are sad, they are sad. If
they are angry, they are angry. If they are
joyful, their level of joy is cosmic. They are
not guarded.
If you make a friend who has special
needs, you have a friend for life.
Ms. Sheps earned a masters degree in
social work from Hunter College, and I
had the beautiful honor of being able to do
my internship with Chani Herrmann, she
said. It was 2010, 2011, and the operation
was really small, based out of the NCSY
office in Teaneck. Chani sat at a little desk, New Jersey Yachad members and staff at the Mendel Balk Yachad Adult Community Center.
and the NSCY director sat at a little desk,
and I sat between them on a couch. first person to encourage me creatively. She is also a photographer; it is her work lot of responsibility, and she trusted me.
There was no other staff. Occasion- As it turned out, there was a great deal that tells the stories of many Yachad par- Chani never says no. If it is a good idea,
ally there were volunteers, and there was to encourage. Shira Sheps is the founder ticipants weve featured some of it in she will say yes, and then find a way to do it.
another intern part of the time, but basi- of the Layers Project, which tells the com- these pages as well as many other sto- She taught me this way of interacting. She
cally it was just the two of us. plex, layered, far-from-straightforward, ries, including some showcased on Layers. also taught me serious professionalism.
Chani is an amazing role model. She honest, challenging stories of young She credits Chani Herrmann with In other words, Chani Herrmann taught
taught me how to be a social worker. She Orthodox women online, in a variety of unlocking those stories in her. She said, Shira Sheps how to weave community;
taught me how to run an organization. She media, in a beautifully designed site. (Its You are really talented, and she encour- sometimes a special need is the absolute
encouraged my creative side. She was the at www.thelayersproject.online.) aged me, Ms. Sheps said. She gave me a need to be creative, to take the way you

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SHOES FOR CHILDREN
AND PRETEENS
After 22 years, we are
closing our doors forever. Moshe Rosenberg and Mendel Reis of Yachad work on their culinary skills.
see something, which is not at all like the
way anybody else sees it, and find a way
LIQUIDATION to share that vision.
Eventually, Ms. Sheps had to stop
STARTS working with Yachad. Now she is back,
in another capacity, as an artist and
FRIDAY, NOV. 3 supporter. I know a lot of people who
did Yachad when we were younger
and then they grew up, she said.
Those friends never stopped support-
EVERYTHING
ing Yachad, but it became less of a daily
force in their lives. But for her, it has
been not only a place that continued to
give to me as a young adult, but also it
MUST GO!
has given to me as a professional, and as
a person.
It is a tremendous honor to be hon-
ored by Yachad, she continued. They
nurtured me they nurture each other
and its like family.
My two kids come and play at
Yachad. It is an unbelievable opportu-
ALL nity for my kids to learn the true mean-
ing of chesed, and the importance of
UGG BOOTS inclusion on every front. And its not just
including people who look overtly differ-
& SLIPPERS
ent, because not everyone who is differ-
ent looks different.
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No matter who it is, you should be
loving and inclusive and kind, Ms.
Sheps concluded. The people at Yachad
do more for me than I possibly could do
STARTS THIS for them.
FRIDAY, NOV. 3 Although it is Shira who has been the
family leader in the Shepss relationship
with Yachad, the award is going to both
spouses for very good reason, Ms. Her-
MUST SELL
rmann said. Scott is always there, sup-
porting Shira, she said. He has been
at her side from the beginning. You will
DOWN TO THE
never see her at an event without him.
He is an active participant, and they are
tremendous role models in the commu-
BARE WALLS!
nity, and beyond.
People really look up to them, she
said.
The family honorees are the Tsadok
family of Englewood, Shlomo and
9 FASHION CENTER, PARAMUS, NJ Debbie, and their Avi, who has been a
5 26 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Yachad participant since he was 8, Ms.
Herrmann said. Hes been with us for
more than 25 years.
Avi has Down syndrome, hes 34
years old, and he is very social, Ms.
Tsadok said. He has been social since
he was a little boy. Yachad offers him the
opportunity to interact with other peo-
ple, with his own peers and also with
members of the regular population, in
very positive and constructive ways.
Without Yachad, I dont think that
there would be a vehicle for that, she
added.
Yachad is just about the same age as
Avi not the New Jersey chapter, that
is, but the national organization, head-
quartered in Manhattan. When he
was 8, he started going to Shabbatons.
We went to so many family Shabbatons
together, with families and social work-
ers and siblings. So my other three kids
were exposed to other kids with special
needs since they were very little. It is
both very special and very wonderful.
And as he has grown up, Yachad has
grown and expanded. He went to Israel
with Yachad he might do it again this
summer and he goes to Camp Mesorah.
We are so fortunate that Yachad now
has a vocational program, and Avi par-
ticipates in it. We are so fortunate that
Yachad has the social program in the
evening, and he participates in that
too. Otherwise, hed be sitting at home
watching TV and being miserable.
And Avi goes to the Sunday Yachad
programs, and he works at camp
over the summer. Without Yachad, he
wouldnt be doing any of that.
Avi is thrilled about being honored,
along with his parents, his mother
added. He is telling everyone about the
gala. He is obsessed with birthdays. Its
not that he wants presents, its that he
wants people to say happy birthday to
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Sharansky warns of new flare-up in Israel-diaspora crisis

RAPHAEL AHREN
Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky
warned Israeli lawmakers on Tuesday that
another major flare-up between Israel and
diaspora Jewry is brewing, and will hit if
the government fails to take action on the
Western Wall and conversion.
I have to warn you that the crisis con-
tinues. And in two months we might
have a new crisis, Sharansky said at the
beginning of a special session of the Knes-
sets Caucus for Strengthening the Jewish
People.
Addressing a room packed with Jewish
leaders from across the word and Israeli
MKs from various political parties, Sharan-
sky thanked the government for its willing-
ness to discuss the matter, but lamented
that no progress has been made since June,
when the cabinet surprisingly canceled an
agreement it had reached with non-Ortho-
dox streams and Jewish organizations.
We agreed to a six-month cease-fire,
in which there would be no moves in the
Knesset and no moves in the Supreme
Court, he said. But four months have
passed and nothing happened. If in two
months I will be asked again to organize a
cease-fire, I wont be able to.
Sharansky went on to urge the legisla-
tors to take very seriously the contro-
versy over pluralistic prayer at the Western
Wall in Jerusalem and proposed legislation
on conversion to Judaism. This is not
about coalition or opposition. Its about
acting on behalf of the unity of the Jewish
people.
In June, the cabinet suspended the Jan-
uary 2016 agreement, reached after four
years of negotiations, that promised sig-
nificant upgrades to the pluralistic prayer
platform at the Western Wall. It also froze
a decision to advance a controversial bill
that would deny state recognition to con- Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, center, and Knesset member Dov
versions conducted in Israel by rabbis Lipman, to his right, at a protest about conversion held by American and Israeli
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for the task by the state rabbinate.
After vociferous and across-the-board protests from the
Jewish world, Prime Minister Netanyahu appointed Moshe
Nissim, 82, a former justice and finance minister, to find
a solution to the conversion controversy. He also tapped
Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi to sort out a
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On Tuesday, Hanegbi told the delegates of the Jewish
Agencys Board of Governors that Israel plans to go ahead
and renovate the pluralistic prayer platform at the Wall. But
Hanegbi made plain the government will not fully imple-
ment the January 2016 deal, which provided for joint over-
sight including representatives of non-Orthodox streams
of Judaism of a permanent pavilion. Most notably, he
insisted that Israel will not build a common entrance to
all three prayer areas the Orthodox mens and womens
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section and the so-called Ezrat Yisrael plaza, where
men and women can worship together.
During Tuesdays 90-minute session in the Knesset,
countless lawmakers from the opposition and the
coalition took the mic to express their appreciation
for diaspora Jewry and their concern over the cur-
rent crisis, but did not offer any concrete proposals
to solve it.
I want to tell you that the relation [between Israel
and] American Jewry is very, very important to us.
Its true that it doesnt always look that way. But its
very important, said coalition chairman David Bitan
(Likud), who also co-chairs the Caucus for Strengthen-
ing the Jewish People.
Were aware of your needs and the influence you
have in America and in Israel, but we also have inter-
nal problems, he added, likely alluding to constraints
stemming from his partys ultra-Orthodox coalition
partners. So we always try to navigate between all
I want to tell you
that the relation
[between Israel and]
American Jewry is
very, very important
to us. Its true that it
doesnt always look
that way. But its
very important.
DAVID BITAN
different existing problems. But things will eventually
find a solution and they will work. Like everything in
Israel, things take time, he said.
Deputy Minister for Diplomacy Michael Oren
(Kulanu) was one of few coalition members to explic-
itly call on the government to implement the original
Western Wall agreement. In the interim, however, he
recommended insisting on improvements to the phys-
ical appearance of the pluralistic platform.
MK Yehudah Glick (Likud) went even further, accus-
ing the government of betraying diaspora Jewry.
In basic human relationships, a deal is a deal. We
cant break a deal. Here I believe the Israeli govern-
ment has turned its back [on diaspora Jewry], and the
responsibility to solve this issue is on the Israeli gov-
ernment, the U.S.-born freshman lawmaker said, lest
parts of the Jewish people become alienated from the
Jewish state.
Wrapping up the session, Sharansky once again
reminded the Israeli politicians that time is running
short for a solution, as in just a few weeks the cease-
fire agreed upon in June will expire.
We deeply appreciate the strong sentiments
expressed by all of the Knesset members who spoke
on the importance of resolving the issues before us,
David Breakstone, the Jewish Agencys number two,
told the Times of Israel after the debate. What is
important for us to hear now is what practical steps
are being made in order to advance these issues.
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Children enter the Halom Jewish Community Center in Kiev in September.
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KIEV This city of 2.5 million residents
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but it offers a dazzling selection of luxury
services to those who can afford them.
On potholed streets, where some
elderly people are forced to rummage
for food in dumpsters, well-heeled
Ukrainians can enjoy dining at all-night
sushi restaurants, shopping at designer
bag stores, and riding around in 16-seat
Hummer limousines.
Their children also get the VIP treat-
ment at world-class childcare facilities
like the Leleka kindergarten, a river-
side mansion where the annual tuition
easily surpasses the average annual sal-
ary of only $3,250. To regular Ukraini-
ans, such Western-standard childcare is
utterly unaffordable.
Unless, of course, they want to enroll
their kids at the kindergarten of Kievs
new Jewish Community Center, Halom,
a 17,000-square-foot building that
opened last year with funding from the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, or JDC.
Located in an accessible office district
downtown, the Halom center, which
has an annual budget of more than
$500,000, features what is probably this
citys only subsidized luxury kinder-
garten, allowing working-class parents
access to amenities that used to be the
exclusive domain of this citys wealthi-
est residents.
I could never afford any other place
like this, said Anna Snitsruk, a working
mother of two children. This place is
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preschool is part of a hive of activity at
and much more
Halom. Parents picking up their kids
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Kiev
FROM PAGE 29
conference rooms, computer stations,
and art displays, including an exhibition
of hyper-realistic models of famous syna-
gogues made from matchsticks by the well-
known artist Iosif Ostashinsky.
A former teacher herself, Snitsruk opted
to become a stay-at-home mom just to
avoid sending her eldest, Lev, to a kinder-
garten with one teacher per 20 children,
where the food is not so great, where he
wouldve gotten no attention and zero
stimulation, she said.
I enrolled him right away after Haloms
opening, she added. I can see how he has
developed emotionally. Its a change that
has affected our family profoundly.
Even at a subsidized rate of $90 a
month, tuition at Halom is making a dent
in the household budget of Volodia Paster-
nak, a retired athlete and father of three
whose youngest, four-year-old Maria,
attends Halom.
But I wouldnt call it a sacrifice, he
said. Im so glad that I get to send her to a
place that she actually likes. Its because of
the attention each child gets here. Its not
something I thought I could afford.
Halom accepts all children regardless
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Alla Shakhova, left, the head of the
volunteer department, stands with
volunteer Adrianna Golubka at the Ha-
lom Jewish Community Center in Kiev.
Bodnar, the 30-year-old director of Halom.
Most recipients of Halom services do, how-
ever, self-identify as Jewish, she added.
Kievs Jewish population is estimated at
60,000.
Snitsruk, who is Jewish, said she is
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I came here for the pedagogic approach
and facilities, he said a sentiment that
recalls those Jews, including immigrants
from Ukraine, who enrolled at Jewish-run
settlement houses in America in the
early 20th century. JDC supports efforts
that bring non-affiliated Jews into Jewish
life, but also encourages mutual respect
among Jews and non-Jews.
The opening of Halom (the name means
dream in Hebrew) in November was a
watershed moment for other age groups,
too.
The center, which greets 1,000 to 2,000
users monthly, instantly became a hit with
the golden-age population.
I used to just stay at home all day,
I didnt go anywhere, said Valentina
Basova, a septuagenarian who lives alone
since her son immigrated to Israel with his
family four years ago. Its great to also be
around young people, Jewish children,
she added.
A regular at Halom, Basova comes
nearly every day to participate in inter-
generational programs in which elderly
people are paired with children or teen-
agers to exchange skills. Elderly partici-
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The exchange program, and its promise
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Her sign language teacher, septuagenarian
Halom regular Irina Yosepavna, became an
inspiration to Golubka in all areas of life.
When Im depressed or tired, I think of
Irina, of how positive and energetic she is
after leading a long and not so easy life,
and I snap right out of it, she said.
Part of Haloms charm, she says, is in
amenities that few public spaces boast in
Kiev, including the lobby, the WiFi, the
free coffee, and art displays. Its just very
pleasant to come here, interact and relax,
Golubka said.
For the elderly users, Halom also is a
promising dating scene. The center has led
to several successful shidduchs, or roman-
tic matches. And last month, Halom cel-
ebrated the union of the first couple who
married after meeting there: Maya Sere-
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72 respectively.
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Jewish conservatives defend Bannon
McConnell allies accuse former Trump adviser of being anti-Semitic
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shocked conservative Jewish backers of Bannon who have
robustly defended him in the past when Democrats made
the same allegation.
We defended him aggressively when he faced these
accusations from the left, and Ill defend him when he
faces these accusations from the right, said Matt Brooks,
the director of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
The charge blew into the open this week with a salvo
on Twitter from the Senate Leadership Fund, helmed by
Steve Law, McConnells former chief of staff. In one tweet,
the fund included a link to a New York Daily News article
from 2016 that alleged that Bannon had a history of
making anti-Semitic comments.
Meanwhile, Josh Holmes, another former McCo-
nnell chief of staff and outspoken critic of Bannon,
called Bannon a white supremacist in an interview
with The Hill.
The attacks came in the context of a primary chal-
lenge in Nevada from a Bannon-backed candidate,
Danny Tarkanian, to the states incumbent Republi-
can senator, Dean Heller. Brooks noted that the RJCs
affiliated PAC will back Heller in 2018 and likely will
face off against Tarkanian. Dean Heller is a perfect
example where Bannon and the RJC are on different
sides, but I will absolutely defend Bannon he is not
anti-Semitic, he said.
The Senate Leadership Fund is no outlier: It raised
more than $100 million in the last election and McCo-
nnell endorsed it. Law also helms Crossroads USA,
the massive PAC founded by Karl Rove, formerly a
top aide to President George W. Bush.
Holmes, now a PR strategist, was also McConnells
campaign manager.
Lets not act like everybody doesnt know exactly
who Steve Bannon is, he told the Washington Post
this week, noting Bannons avowed associations with
the alt-right, a loose association of anti-establishment
conservatives that includes white supremacists and
anti-Semites, as well as robust defenders of Israel.
Morton Klein, the president of the Zionist Organi-
zation of America, was furious with the McConnell-
backed attacks. What Mitch McConnells people
are doing is a disgraceful political act, promoting
an ugly lie about someone he disagrees with, Klein
said, adding that the salvos have caused him to lose
respect for McConnell. Bannon is scheduled to
attend a ZOA fundraising dinner next month.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who ran an unsuccessful
2012 congressional campaign in Bergen County as a
Republican, ridiculed the notion that Bannon is anti-
Semitic, noting that he has hired Orthodox Jews in
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Israels left: Rabin commemorations hijacked for unity

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TEL AVIV Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabins assas-

sination will be memorialized differently this year.
The new organizers of the annual rally in the Tel Aviv
square where Rabin was killed have shifted the focus from
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national unity. Many Israelis have welcomed the changes,
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attempt to whitewash the national tragedy.
Two advocacy groups that urge separation from the
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rally this year. The Darkenu movement and Commanders
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from past years because we dont play the
blame game or talk about peace. We talk
about who we are as a people.
Right-wing extremist Yigal Amir shot
Rabin to death on November 4, 1995, at
the end of a rally the then-prime minis-
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for his efforts to make peace with the
Palestinians. In the following days, and
every year since on the Saturday near-
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of Israelis have gathered in the square
where the assassination took place to
honor Rabin.
For many years, an alliance of youth
groups and social organizations, which
has become the main way to commem-
orate Rabin, organized it. But last year
the alliance opted to instead hold round-
table discussions in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem,
and Haifa. The Labor Party, part of the
Zionist Union, stepped in at the last min-
ute to save the rally from cancellation.
Unlike in past years, no Israeli politi-
cal parties or lawmakers were invited
to speak at the rally. The six living for-
mer chiefs of staff of the Israel Defense
Forces received invitations. But after all
expressed interest, they declined one
by one. Israels Channel 10 TV station
reported that they feared being tagged
as leftists for their association with the
organizers. Dweck said he did not know
their motivation.
Darkenu emerged from V-15, a group
also co-founded by Dweck that sought
to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu in the 2015 election.
Dweck said that by eschewing politics,
the organizers have been able to attract
Israelis who would have felt unwelcome
in the past. One of the speakers this year
will be Esther Brot, who left her home in
the West Bank settlement of Ofra out of
respect for the High Court of Justices rul-
ing that it must be demolished because
it was built on private Palestinian land.
Another speaker will be Tel Aviv Deputy
Mayor Mehereta Baruch-Ron, who immi-
grated to Israel from Ethiopia as a child.
Yehuda Glick, an Orthodox Jewish law-
maker in Netanyahus Likud party, sent
a letter Monday to the Knesset encour-
aging his fellow lawmakers to attend
the rally this year. He said that he was
ashamed by the politicized atmo-
sphere of last years rally, when speak-
ers scored the right and demonstrators
heckled the left. But Glick said he was
convinced Darkenu and Command-
ers for Israels Security would create a
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Rabin
FROM PAGE 35
different atmosphere.
I personally spoke to the organizers
of the rally and was convinced they were
going above and beyond to preserve a
dignified and stately atmosphere, he
wrote. The slogan chosen for the We
Are One Nation event expresses the pub-
lics strong desire to heal the rifts within
us, and the organizers seek to create as
broad a common denominator as possi-
ble against the violence and hatred that
destroys every good part of the Knesset.
But the avowed nonpartisanship of
the event upset some Israeli leftists, who
said Rabins assassination was inherently
political and should be remembered
as such. They also pointed out that the
advertisements did not mention that
Rabin was assassinated.
A foreigner reading that weird, mis-
leading ad might think that Rabin died
peacefully in bed, after retiring, and now
the gang is getting together to have a lit-
tle sing-along and share fond, amusing
memories, lawmaker Shelly Yacimovich
of the center-left Zionist Union political
alliance wrote on Facebook. Well, prime
minister and defense minister Yitzhak
Rabin was murdered. M-u-r-d-e-r-e-d.
It was a political assassination designed
to eliminate an elected political leader
and to change the path of the nation by
that murder.
She added that the assassination should
be taught to everyone, not just those in
Rabins political camp, but the adver-
tisements did the opposite.
This ad denies that memory to every-
one erases it, whitewashes it and hides
it, Yacimovich said. Its an embarrass-
ing ad that reeks of fear. Theres still time
until the rally to recover and remember.
Many other leftists shared simi-
lar criticism.
Sickening, Alon Pinkas, a former
Israeli consul general in New York, wrote
on Facebook, according to Israels left-
wing Haaretz newspaper.
Its sad, depressing, insulting. Makes
people forget! responded Shimon
Sheves, who was the director general of
the Prime Ministers Office during Rabins
last term.
Dweck said members of the Israeli
left were having a hard time letting go of
their anger at the right especially the
settlement movement, some of whose
leaders incited against Rabin and helped
inspire Amir. Since Rabins death, the
Israeli publics faith in peace with the
Palestinians has dwindled and the coun-
trys politics have shifted rightward. But
Dweck said he still expects leftists to
show up at the rally.
Everyone here wants peace and secu-
rity and better lives, he said. We just
have to respect one another and under-
stand each others challenges.
Itamar Rabinovich, a self-described
centrist who served as Rabins ambas-
sador to the United States and chief
negotiator to Syria, said both the left
and the right held some responsibility
for the bitter atmosphere surrounding
the rally, which he said has existed from
the beginning.
I feel sorry that mostly the religious
Zionist camp has not gone through
the soul searching it should have gone
through immediately in the aftermath of
the assassination, he said. I also think
the left has been mistaken in seeking to
turn the principal commemoration at
Rabin square into a political statement.
Rabinovich said the challenge was to
make the rally an event that reflected
the national consensus without making
it meaningless.
I personally think the organizers have
struck the right note, he said.
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BRIEF
Jordan furious
over Palestinian
reconciliation deal
Jordans King Abdullah expressed strong
disapproval of the recent Fatah-Hamas
reconciliation deal during a meeting
with Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, Palestinian
and Jordanian sources told Israel Hayom
last week.
In the meeting, Abdullah said he was
apprehensive about the possibility that
former Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal
will vie for the PA presidency as well as
the Gaza-ruling terror groups influence
in the West Bank. Those factors consti-
tute a threat to Jordan since they will
likely destabilize the internal security of
the kingdom, Abdullah told Abbas, who
heads the PA-controlling Fatah party.
Jordan also reportedly rejected a
request by Mashaal to reopen Hamass
offices in Amman. Abdullah briefed
Abbas on that decision, explaining that
renewing the terrorist organizations
activities in Jordan would strengthen the
Muslim Brotherhood, Hamass parent
movement.  JNS.ORG

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and his lifelong dedication to assisting at-risk youth.

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FROM PAGE 38
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damage he could do to the Republican
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Bannon is an anti-Semite and a white
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members of the alt-lite, figures who
reject the open racism of some on the
alt-right but nonetheless peddle dan-
gerous and false conspiracy theories.
Cernovich and Posobiec were both
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that, the conspiracists falsely claimed,
hosted a pedophilia ring led by Hill-
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the Forward reported, Mandel was the
first candidate to accept the endorse-
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and Posobiec.
Mandel did not reply to requests
for comment.
The Washington Post reported that
Bannons reaction to the Senate Lead-
ership Funds attack on him, citing his
ex-wifes claims, was to laugh out loud.
Bannon has said over the years that
while he welcomes the resurgence of
a nationalist right in Europe and the
United States, he recognizes that it
attracts racists and anti-Semites, and
he aims to push them away from the
movement. Breitbart News is robustly
pro-Israel and has also decried anti-
Semitism on campuses and in Europe.
Bannon also has said, however,
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who are fed up with tales of minor-
ity disenfranchisement.
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his opponents into making the charges
of racism. He and his proxies have
mimicked some of the themes popular
among white supremacists and anti-
Semites: Breitbart News included for
a time a news tag called black crime.
Bannon refers repeatedly to global-
ists who seek to control the worlds
economy, a framing typical of anti-
Semitic conspiracy theorists.
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Trumps campaign last year, the can-
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balists and bankers central to his
campaign. Milo Yiannopoulos, the far-
right provocateur who co-authored a
major piece on the alt-right that ran
in Breitbart in 2016, vetted the piece
before publication with a neo-Nazi
and a white supremacist, although it is
not known whether Bannon, who was
then directing Breitbart, was aware of
the outreach.
In its last major ad before the elec-
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tering images of Clinton, President
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 It is with profound sorrow that we mourn the loss of

Leon Rubach
Generous philanthropist, Holocaust survivor,
beloved friend of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
and father of JoJo Rubach, current chair of the JCC Board.

Leon will be remembered for his lifelong devotion to social service

and Jewish heritage and his deep commitment to ensuring that
the world never forgets the atrocities of the Holocaust.

He established the
Eva and Leon Rubach Holocaust Educational Fund
at the JCC to be certain these lessons are remembered
from generation to generation.

A generous humanitarian and distinguished leader,

Leon made a profound commitment to the Jewish world at large
as well as our community; and his impact on our JCC
will remain immeasurable in our minds.

We send our sincerest condolences to his wife Eva,

his sons JoJo (Elle) and Jason (Jill);
grandchildren Bri, Tessa, Cami, Blake, Noah and Grant; and brother Marc.

He was deeply loved. May his memory be for a blessing.

JODI SCHERL JORDAN SHENKER

Chair-Elect, Board of Directors Chief Executive Officer

and the Staff, Board of Directors & Board of Trustees

KAPLEN JCC on the Palisades

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Editorial
Building
community
L
ast Shabbat, two liberal synagogues Temple Avo-
dat Shalom in River Edge, which is Reform, and
Temple Israel in Ridgewood, which is Conserva-
tive joined forces, mingling their services and
their sermons, demystifying each others practices, talking
about shared values and beliefs. On Saturday night, Rabbi
Gordon Tucker, a towering intellect in the Jewish world,
the leader of Temple Israel Center, the Conservative shul in
White Plains, spoke in the Reform synagogue. Last year, the
speaker, the Reform Rabbi Gary Zola, spoke in the Conser-
vative one.
The entire program, for this second year, was the gift of
Rabbi Selig Salkowitz, an HUC-ordained rabbi who feels him-
self to be very much a member of both communities.
This week, our cover story is about Yachad, the Orthodox
Unions program for people with special needs; we concen-
trate on the New Jersey branch, which is led by the visionary
Chani Herrmann, and which keeps growing and innovating.
When I talk to people at Yachad I always am astonished
by how personally and passionately they take their work
(which very often is volunteer). That is true if they have spe-
cial-needs family members, and it is true when they do not.
That doesnt seem to matter. What does matter, they make
abundantly clear (and not to impress me as a reporter, but
because it is among their deepest truths and they are com-
pelled to talk about it), is that Yachads clients are members
of their community. And once thats a fact, then what is there
to talk about? Of course they do what they do. Who wouldnt?
In fact, it is clear that the Orthodox community believes
deeply in demystifying special needs, in teaching their chil-
dren that everyone doesnt have to be alike to be valued and
loved and cared for.
It is possible to romanticize this, of course. No community
is perfect. But in the course of one week, Ive seen and heard
and talked about inclusion in so many ways of how it is
possible to overlook differences in theology, in ideology, in
ability, in appearance, because what we share is more pro-
found than what divides us.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Certainly thats a romantic vision, pos-
sibly even simplemindedly so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all can
think of times when this vision hasnt come anywhere close to
reality, times when its fallen embarrassingly, painfully short.
But to listen to Yachad staff and volunteers talk about their
work, to listen to Rabbi Paul Jacobson of Avodat Shalom and
Rabbi David Fine of Temple Israel, to listen to Rabbi Gordon
Tucker, to listen to the people they attracted really, just
to be open-minded and open-eared and open-eyed is to
feel hope.
And right now, we all can use some hope. And we all can
use some community. JP
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A halachic guide to voting correctly
SHAMMAI ENGELMAYER tractate Chulin 94a, for example), they have specific
W
applications to Jewish business ethics.
e will hear much next week about Both are derived from Leviticus 19:14: You shall
how Jews voted on Election Day, but not...put a stumbling block before the blind, which is a
we should not be as concerned with general principle that goes beyond its simple meaning.
whether Jews vote, but whether they If politics followed these two principles, most can-
vote as Jews should vote, putting Jewish law and values didates today would be disqualified from running
ahead of mundane considerations. because their deceptive campaign advertising and
There is a halachic approach to choosing people to stump speeches place a stumbling block before the
represent us in government. From a practical stand- blind and amount to theft of knowledge. Opponents
point, however, it is an approach that would keep us records often are distorted beyond recognition, as are
home on Election Day, which in itself would violate hal- their positions on hot-button issues.
achic rules relating to our communal responsibilities. For example, if one candidate supports a more
Of course, elections, as we know them, were not a humane approach to immigration, his or her opponent
part of either the Torahs or the Talmuds explicit legis- likely will accuse that candidate of wanting to flood a
lation, but we are offered subjective guidelines on the community with rapists, murderers, and drug lords.
kinds of leaders we should choose. A case in point is a political commercial
In this regard, I frequently cite an by the Republican candidate for New Jer-
excerpt from the Takkanot of the Council sey governor, Kim Guadagno. It says that
of Cracow (which ruled Jewish life there her Democratic opponent, Phil Murphy,
in the Middle Ages). It tells us that voters would rather protect dangerous crimi-
must act for the sake of heaven and the nals and murderersthan stand up for
common good, and not out of favoritism the law abiding people of New Jersey,
or self-interest or personal grudge, such because of his views on immigration. His
as by voting against candidates who favor proposals, she said, are designed to pro-
social welfare programs because we want tect violent criminals.
to pay less in taxes. Most important, vot- Shammai The Newark Star-Ledger, which only
ers should not act hurriedly, but should Engelmayer grudgingly supports Murphy, said that
think carefully, because once the votes Guadagno is using distortion to fan fear
are cast, nothing can be changed. of minorities and stir up the white vote
Such guidelines are too general and too subjective, much like the infamous, race-baiting attack ad from
however, so we need to find an appropriate halachic George [H.W.] Bush did in 1988, starring [Willy] Horton,
model from which to deduce more unambiguous a black felon. That ad began a major slide into oblivion
guidelines. for Bushs opponent, Massachusetts Governor Michael
The United States is a republican form of democracy. Dukakis.
In the words of Abraham Lincoln, it is a government The nature of many political contributions also is at
of the people, by the people and for the people. Thus, issue as a form of bribery, in the eyes of halacha. The
the people we elect to run our government are our gun lobby, for example, gives money to candidates
equals when it comes to the rights, obligations, and who will protect its interests. (This also is a violation of
privileges of citizenship. They are us. That makes our the Torahs insistence not to favor either the rich man
elected representatives our active partners in gover- or the poor one in a dispute.) Since bribery must be
nance. Perhaps we should choose them as we would avoided, we also must avoid those who give or accept
choose a business partner. Our search for guidelines, the bribes. Any candidate liberal, conservative, or
therefore, should look first to Judaisms business laws. middle of the road who takes money from special
Two principles stand out here lifnei iver, or the interests, then, would be disqualified.
placing of a stumbling block before the blind, and We also should avoid those who sell something
geneivat daat, the theft of knowledge (a category of potentially dangerous to someone who might use it in
economic/halachic crime that includes false and mis- a dangerous way, because such a sale is forbidden. Spe-
leading advertising, and deceptive packaging). While cifically, BT Avodah Zarah 15b bans the sale of weapons
they apply generally (see the Babylonian Talmud to people who are known to use them in an illegal way
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or who possibly may do so. It also bans selling
a weapon to someone who might sell it to a
suspected thief or murderer. It is not too far a
leap to see here a prohibition against facilitat-
ing such a sale, meaning politicians who oppose
putting limits on weapons sales.
The same can be applied to many issues,
especially including the current opioid epi-
demic, and to anyone who seeks to make it eas-
ier for drug companies to sell these drugs with
abandon.
The stumbling block rule applies here as well.
Unless a candidate is willing to disclose any
understanding, stated or implied, that went
with a particular special interest contribution,
the public is being denied necessary informa-
tion regarding a potential danger to its welfare.
The necessity for full disclosure has other
applications in the political sphere. Candi-
dates, for example, talk about their plans, but
rarely provide the specifics we need to evalu-
ate those plans properly. Im for cutting taxes
could mean cutting taxes for lower-income
people only, or for upper income-people only,
or across the board, or some other permuta-
tion. What the candidate means by the phrase,
and what each voter means by it, can be very
different.
Cutting taxes, especially with abandon, is
halachically dicey, in any case. The Torahs
emphasis on our obligations to the poor out-
weighs a communitys right to decide what its
taxes should be, as some rabbinic decisions
have made clear over time. If the communitys
ability to aid the poor will be injured substan-
tively by a tax cut, a majority vote in favor of
that tax cut must be ignored. On the other hand,
the majority rules if the cut does not so harm
the communitys ability to help the poor.
Without full disclosure, then, we inadver-
tently might give someone the power to do
what we ourselves are not permitted to do. That
is a stumbling block placed before the blind, if
ever there was one.
As I said earlier, from a practical standpoint,
trying to apply these guidelines would keep us
home on Election Day and that also is not
permitted.
That leaves us with nowhere to go, except to
choose a candidate who we believe will best
heed the words of Isaiah that we read as the
haftarah on Yom Kippur (Chapter 58):
Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen
[says God] to loose the chains of wickedness,
to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the
oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is
it not to share your bread with the hungry, and
that you bring the poor, who are cast out, to
your house? When you see the naked, that you
cover him; and that you hide not yourself from
your own flesh? Then shall your ... righteous-
ness go before you...; then shall your light rise
in darkness, and your gloom be as the noon
day; and the Lord shall guide you continually....
That is the Jewish way to vote.
Opinion
Jerusalem vignettes
The Jerusalem Biennale
My wife, Miriam, and I spent six weeks in Jerusalem during
the fall High Holy Days period. We actually arrived a week
before Rosh Hashanah because Miriam, an artist, had two
pieces in the Jerusalem Biennale, an international art show
centered in Jerusalem, featuring works by Jewish artists
themed around Jewish subjects. Since she had volunteered
to help the group she was showing with set up its exhibit, she
needed some time before the opening to be there. Hence, our
arrival a week before the Yamim Tovim.
The Biennale showed works that went from the sublime to
the funny. There was an exquisite paper cut called the Tower
of Babel that contained the letters of 70 languages, follow-
ing the Jewish tradition that holds that there are 70 nations
that make up the world community. Every letter was cut by
hand and arranged in an upward spiral of mixed
letters. The walls contained plaques telling the
biblical story of the Tower in 70 different dia-
lects. This work of a Brazilian artist, Mirtka Kup-
ferminc, took five years to make, and it unques-
tionably was the star of the show in the venue
where Miriams group showed.
A truly funny show was called Popodox and
featured pop art by Orthodox Jewish artists.
Probably the best piece was a red framed glass
with the words In case of Moshiach, break Rabbi Dr.
glass. Behind the glass was a huge shofar wait-
Michael
ing to welcome the Redeemer should he, or
Chernick
maybe she, show up. The Ten Commandments
were done up in the form of square and regular
bar codes.
And this is only the tip of the artistic iceberg. It was amaz- pared to the etrog mall near the open air Machaneh Yehudah
ing and uplifting to see how many active Jewish artists there
are who bring a deep Jewish sensibility to the art they create,
whether the topic is serious or satirical.
The High Holy Days
On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Miriam and I attended
a women-friendly modern Orthodox Jerusalem congregation
called Yedidiah. The congregations members include a great
many spiritually sensitive, Jewishly knowledgeable, and intel-
lectual Orthodox Jews. This is a marriage of characteristics
made in heaven. When you know what youre saying and
doing and really feel it, the experience can be overwhelm-
ing. And, indeed, we were overwhelmed on the second day
of Rosh Hashanah.
All services at Yedidah are led by lay prayer leaders. On
the second day of Rosh Hashanah God gave us a gift. The
shaliach tzibburs voice, his understanding of the liturgy,
and his presentation of melodies that brought out its mean-
ing were more than merely exceptional. His rendition of the
Rosh Hashanah-Yom Kippur liturgical gem called Unetanah
Tokef was presented so beautifully that there were many eyes
that needed dabbing to keep the tears from rolling down their
owners cheeks. And I was one of them.
At that moment I palpably felt the presence of our Divine
Parent, and I pleaded with Him to grant me the strength
and compassion to be a good husband to my wife, a good
parent to my children, and the best Saba (grandfather) I
could be to my grandchildren. My heart nearly broke think-
ing of being so far away from our little ones, but it also
Professor Michael Chernick of Teaneck holds the Deutsch
Family Chair in Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York;
his area of expertise is the Talmud. He received his doctorate
from the Bernard Revel Graduate School and rabbinic
ordination from R. Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.
overflowed with joy that I was privileged to be in the midst
of this group of worshippers.
The Lemon Laws
Sukkot follows swiftly on the heels of Yom Kippur, with many
things to do. First, there is the purchase of the arbaah minim
(four species) consisting of an etrog (the lemon-like citron),
lulav (a palm frond), three hadassim (myrtle branches), and
two aravot (willow branches). Those who know the experi-
ence of buying these items, which we wave and march with
on Sukkot, know that it doesnt take five minutes. Each item
has a halachically determined definition of what constitutes
its most beautiful form. These are the Lemon Laws.
Selling what can be pretty pricey lemons (citrons,
etrogim) have many merchants doing a once a year business.
In our neighborhood there were tables manned
by teenagers running the length of the street in
front of our local supermarket. I looked over
some of the four species at one table and wasnt
impressed enough to buy. The young man said,
Not a problem. My partner is working at the
table down the block. Who knew there were
etrog conglomerates?
At any rate, I bought my treasured lemon
and all of its accessories for 120 shekels (around
$45 U.S.) from a shy teenager, who was not ter-
rific salesmen, and a girl who was. In the states
I would have probably paid $100 for it. Check
out your local Judaica shop next year and see
if I am kidding.
But the four tables in our neighborhood were nothing com-
market in the middle of Jerusalem. In an 80-meter-square
area there must be 50 or 60 etrog stands with lemons
going for anything from 35 shekels ($10) to 400 shekels (about
$120). There is a cacophonous hawking of wares and a lot of
haggling about price. Its China and Egypt put together.
The men buying the higher priced etrogim, the ones that
follow the lemon laws to the letter, use jewelers loupes in
search of any defect on the fruit. Scab-like dry spots on the
etrogs skin or spots that look like a teens blackheads in the
etrogs surface mean rejection by connoisseurs.
But one thing this process does accomplish: It forces us to
look at nature carefully, see its magical beauty and intricacy,
and realize that it is so often the key to the seasons of our joy.
Sukkahs, sukkahs, everywhere
Once the fours species are taken care of, its sukkah-building
time. Since Jerusalem is overwhelmingly an apartment house
city, and sukkot cannot have anything covering them except
products that grow from the ground, finding a place to build
a sukkah is not easy. Where there are courtyards, sukkot
appear there. But often the sukkah winds up on an apart-
ment house roof, battened down because of wind.
In some apartment houses there are higher floors with
small porches extending from individual apartments with
no other porches above them. Tiny sukkot stand precari-
ously there. Some of these porches have contraptions that
extend the porch area, so you can build a sukkah beyond an
overhanging porch. They say that those who perform a mitz-
vah will not be harmed. For people whose sukkah is built on
these platforms in the air I hope its true.
We lived near Emek Refaim, a trendy restaurant row.
The sidewalk areas in front of every restaurant were lined
with sukkot, since it is a mitzvah to eat in them. Because
the weather was still summery, some people slept, ate, and
studied in their sukkah, thereby literally fulfilling the Torahs
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Opinion

Whats up, doc?

F
or starters, lest I upset or disre- That goes for doctors, nurses, and medical
spect anyone reading this, I must
say, doctors, you have the ability amount of time, effort, sleepless nights,
to help save peoples lives and
enhance their quality of life. And for that,
I love and respect you. Please have that in
mind as you read this column.
At the same time, please also draw from
this column some input that may positively
affect the manner in which
you treat your patients. The
following is about some doc-
tors not all doctors.
My gripes about doctor-
patient communication or,
rather, its deterioration
bubble to the surface from
time to time, but I often let
my frustration simmer down
after a little while. By a little Dena Croog
while I mean it can be days
or it can be weeks. Usually, it
doesnt hit the one month mark, but I cant
say for sure as I have probably blocked out
those experiences out of necessity. Anger
and frustration are no good for the soul.
To be clear, again, I think that anyone
who has dedicated themselves to the med-
ical field has chosen a noble profession.
Dena Croog is a writer and editor in
Teaneck and the founder of Refaenu,
a nonprofit organization dedicated to
mood disorder awareness and support.
More information about the organization
and its support groups can be found at
www.refaenu.org. You can also email
dena@refaenu.org with any questions or
comments.
professionals of all stripes. An enormous
and keeping up to date with the newest
treatments and technology are require-
ments within the medical field and all its
specialties and subspecialties.
Now that youve heard my disclaimer, I
will tell you my ultimate pet peeve: a hor-
rible bedside manner. This
manifests in multiple ways.
First: when a doctor comes
into the exam room with
a holier-than-thou, conde-
scending manner, all his
(or her, of course) experi-
ence and expertise under
his belt, and treats a patient
like a mere case to plow
through and Next! get doctor originally meant.
out the door for the sake of
expediency.
Second: when a doctor steps into the
exam room, and after hearing three sen-
tences or less from the patient, stops the
patient in her (or his, of course) tracks and
starts talking over the patient.
Third: when a doctor, in addition to
talking over the patient, is dismissive and
doesnt allow the patient time to explain
his or her symptoms and possibly related
medical history.
Fourth: when a doctor, while talking
with a patient, is looking at a computer
screen for most, if not all, of the session.
Fifth: when a doctor takes one look at
a patients psychiatric diagnosis, and with
the smell of preconceived notions in the
air, thinks he has the patient pegged and
chalks up the issue at hand to something
like anxiety. (Of course, no, this never
happened to me.)
Sixth: when a doctor looks up a patients
medication that he knows virtually noth-
ing about, reads the possible side effects,
and says, Oh, look, I see here that this
medication may cause dizziness,weight
gain, weight loss, depression [insert here
any other reaction that might be listed so
that if it does occur, the pharmaceutical
company wont get sued]. Thats probably
the root of your problem.
Seventh: when a doctor speaks doc-
toreez to a patient who doesnt know the
language and then, in an impatient, conde-
scending manner, translates the issue into
patienteez, making the patient feel like
an idiot for not duh! knowing what the
Eighth: when a doctor states, Ive seen
hundreds of cases like yours before; you
must have this condition, without thor-
oughly evaluating the patient and listening
to her own personal observations before
coming to his conclusion.
Or, as my friend, who is in the medical
field herself, says: Thats great that you
went to Harvard Medical School but my
body didnt read your textbook.
Ninth: Im not sure I have a ninth, but I
bet you do.
The bulk of doctors, I would hope, are
nothing like this. The bulk of doctors have
patience with their patients and listen and
ask clarifying questions and work with their
patients to understand whats going on. But
in addition to experiencing all of the above,
I have, indeed, heard the stories of many
others who have had similar experiences at
their appointments and consultations.
Im certainly okay with a doctor not
knowing something. Pass me along to
another specialist, sure thing. But dont
pretend that you do know until you come
to the point toward the end of the appoint-
ment when you realize that you dont
know and then just shrug and walk out.
And please, all the while, show
some semblance of respect during my
appointment.
Ill let you in on a little secret, says a
doctor friend who Ive known all my life.
Doctors dont know everything. Some
may act as though they do, but oftentimes
theyre shooting in the dark and learning
as they go.
Honesty. Practicality. Lets say it like it is.
To sum up, doctors need to listen to
their patients better, exhibit a more wel-
coming and reassuring bedside manner,
treat patients as people, dont talk over
patients, ask relevant questions for clarifi-
cation, dont act pompous and all-knowing
as if they automatically know the patients
body more than the patient, and recognize
their own limitations.
At the same time, patients often need
to learn how to hold their own. They
need to come prepared with a list of spe-
cific questions as well as a list of specific
symptoms. They need to ask as many
questions as necessary in order to under-
stand what the doctor is telling them
about their condition and other matters
of concern and, if need be, write down
what the doctor says. They also need to
be their own advocates and not let the

Jerusalem
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injunction, Seven days shall you dwell in
sukkahs to remember how your forebears
left Egypt in makeshift dwellings.
We did not have immediate access to
a sukkah at our apartment. Fortunately,
a local synagogue built one for members
of the community who lacked one. It had
tables, chairs, lights, and a few sad look-
ing decorations. It was a few steps from
our apartment, and nobody thought it
was crazy that I was schlepping trays of
breakfast or lunch through the streets to
this square tent-like thing with bamboo
on top, because this was Jerusalem, not
New Jersey.
Watch out for the little old
lady with the granny cart
There are three stops on the Jerusa-
lem Light Rail route that are particularly
crowded: Central Bus Station, Machaneh
Yehudah, and Jaffa Street Central.
Now all of us who travel on New York
public transportation have experienced
crowded trains and buses. But there is no
comparison between that experience and
the crowds on the Light Rail.
For example, it seems that no one has
learned the law of physics that says that
two objects cannot inhabit the same space
at one time. In Light Rail travelers terms
this means that virtually no one has fig-
ured out that it might be easier to get into
the train if you let some people out first.
No, its two-way traffic on a single lane
highway when it comes to the getting on
the Light Rail at Machaneh Yehudah.
Heres a scene: I got to my stop and
prepared to get out. A rather corpulent
fellow standing in the doorway is intently
conversing on his cellphone and is oblivi-
ous to anything else. No passenger can
get out because of him, and the crowds
of course are trying to get in. Dumbo
doesnt move.
How do you handle this? In this case,
generally mild-mannered I scream at this
tembel ( jerk) and push him to the side,
thereby gaining my freedom from the
Cuckoos Nest. Polite, no?
But fear not, I will get my comeuppance.
After shopping at Machaneh Yehudah,
whose prices cant be beat and whose
fresh produce is fantastic, I try to get
on the train with my packages. Nobody
moves, so I do a little squeeze-in maneu-
ver. I notice that there is actually room
in the train, and so I think, Maybe its
because all these people stepped in Crazy
Glue that they arent moving. But I know
better. Its actually a turf issue.
I become resigned to my fate: I will just
have to stand by the door and be run over
every time we stop.
But I am saved. A little old lady with
her granny wagon shopping cart pushes
in behind me, throwing me into the arms
of a stranger, whose surprised body is the
only thing that kept me from falling, and in
order to get fully into the car she proceeds
to run me over with her granny wagon.
Hurrah! It is she who will now have to
fend off the entering crowds. All I have
to do is rub my scraped calves and enjoy
watching her being pushed around like I
was. But then I remember. Shes got three
dangerous weapons: her granny cart, inor-
dinate strength for an octogenarian, and
infinite measures of chutzpah.
Why dont you just leave?
While all Israeli men and women are
conscripted, some do not wind up in the
army. Orthodox women, many of whom
do serve, are given the option of doing
national service, which adds to the ranks
of medical personnel, school teachers,
and caretakers for the elderly and chil-
dren. One group, however, is exempted
en masse: Ultra-Orthodox men, otherwise
known as charedim.
The general Israeli population is fed
up with this arrangement. Indeed, the
demand for sharing the burden of defend-
ing the country got so vociferous that a law
has been passed requiring charedi men to
enlist, or at the very least appear for enlist-
ment at conscription offices. In general,

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Courageous Mahwah resident proves

kinds of doctors mentioned above intimi-
date; remember that the doctor is working
the need for attorney generals actions

for the patient, not the other way around.
They also should not be afraid to call out
the doctor if the patient doesnt think he
or she is being heard.
A week or two after a recent appoint-
ment, I received an email from the medi-
cal practice requesting feedback. The email
said:
Thank you for choosing [our practice]
for your recent health care services. To pro-
vide the best possible care for our patients,
we hope to learn more about what patients
experience and how we can improve the
quality of our care. Below is a link to a sur-
vey asking about your experiences. Your
participation in this survey will be very
helpful to us and to future patients.
Im sorry (not sorry), Dr. X, for com-
pletely bashing your professional perfor-
mance as it relates to items one through
eight listed above. You may or may not
have a wealth of knowledge up there,
but down in the exam room, your doctor-
patient communication skills leave much to
be desired.
And again, hopefully, all matters listed
here dont apply to most of you doctors
reading this. Still, I hope Ive offered a little
food for thought. And please, dont take
offense; some of my dearest friends are
doctors.
Its just that sometimes, you know,
your patients, who are already struggling
with whatever condition at hand, leave
your office feeling even more frustrated,
wondering:
Hey, whats up with that doc?
A
nyone doubting the neces-
sity of the New Jersey
attorney generals power-
ful intervention against
Mahwah Townships governing body
should have been sitting next to me
last week, when Inna Shusteris rose to
speak at the city council meeting there.
During the public ses-
sion, Ms. Shusteris looked
the council members in
the eyes and declared
that as an 11-year Jew-
ish Mahwah resident she
could no longer keep
silent. As someone whose
family e sc aped from
anti-Semitism in Rus-
sia, she could no longer Michael
allow such behavior to go Cohen
unchallenged in her own
hometown.
Ms. Shusteris charged that the town
was acting in a manner that would
exclude her own relatives in Rockland
from being able to use the parks with
their children when they come to visit
her. Ms. Shusteris, emotionally dis-
traught, added that she feels as though
she is living under the Third Reich.
Painfully, I watched many people
at the meeting heckle her and her
husband as they went out the door.
Some said that she too is a fraud, that
she couldnt possibly actually live in
Mahwah, that she too must be just
another paid Jewish actor targeting
their town. She rebutted those claims
by challenging anyone to look at the
address listed on her drivers license.
The despicable reaction to Ms. Shus-
teriss comments was reflected in the
celebratory atmosphere that pervaded
the council chambers. Its
council president arrived
after the proceedings
had begun.
I and many other lead-
ers in the region had
hoped that the New Jer-
sey attorney generals
legal actions would have
cooled passions and
D. helped set a more seri-
ous tone and direction
for the council.
Instead, I found myself
to be one of the few people at the meet-
ing who did not jump to my feet to
join in the standing ovation that the
council president received upon his
arrival. I sat in disbelief as the round
of speeches began that continued to
champion the townships position to
rounds of sustained applause. It was
into this toxic environment that Ms.
Shusteris bravely stepped when she
attempted to respectfully address the
council. We should all salute her dig-
nity and courage.
In my comments at that session I
addressed the governing bodys con-
tinued denial that a perception of anti-
Semitism exists by pointing to the New
Jersey attorney generals filing a nine
count discrimination lawsuit claiming
the town is acting like 1950s era white
flight suburbanites who sought to keep
African Americans from moving into
their neighborhoods. In addition, the
Democratic gubernatorial candidate,
the state Senate majority leader, the
county NAACP president, many other
state and municipal elected officials
around the county, and organizations
including the Simon Wiesenthal Cen-
ter all recognized that peoples fear of
the unknown has driven rhetoric and
policies that crossed the boundary into
anti-Semitism.
We can only hope that the township
of Mahwah alters its reckless course
and works with all parties, includ-
ing the Jewish community, to forge a
path of dialogue, understanding, and
mutual respect, rather than repeating
public bullying and bias.
Michael Cohen of Englewood is the
eastern regional director of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center. He represents
the Second Ward on Englewoods
City Council, and he belongs to
Congregation Ahavath Torah there.

they do, and many are given what are
considered legitimate exemptions. Nev-
ertheless, this year more than 2,000 cha-
redi men showed up for conscription and
voluntarily entered the ranks of the Israel
Defense Force.
Unfortunately, there is a fringe group,
called the Jerusalem Faction, that has
opposed the idea that charedi men should
be show up at conscription offices at all.
According to its adherents, the very exis-
tence of a law demanding potential con-
scription of so-called yeshiva students is
an attack on the full-time Torah study in
particular and on the charedi lifestyle in
general. Its method of protesting this evil
decree is to block the major traffic arter-
ies into and out of cities, along with the
citys internal bus lines.
Miriam and I had the special treat of
being caught up in one of these protests.
This group does not request city permits
for its demonstrations. It just called 8,000
men to show up to block highways or to sit
on railway tracks or to block bus routes.
Returning to Jerusalem from Rehovot,
usually about a 30- to 45-minute trip, we
were shooed off the bus by an infuriated
driver who informed us that the road into
Jerusalem was closed. I said to Miriam, I
bet its a charedi protest against conscrip-
tion. Which, of course, it was.
Now the way the police try to disperse
these crowds is by spraying them with what
smells something like a mixture of compost
and dog droppings. Of course, anyone who
is in the area must endure this horrendous
odor along with this charedi fringe group.
So we discovered a new fragrance in the
Jerusalem air while we wondered how to
get home about a five-mile trek away.
Finally, the police cleared enough of
these bullies away from the Light Rails
tracks, and the train took us to the middle
of Jaffa Road, where in theory we could get
a bus to our apartment. But theory is the-
ory, and reality is reality. The buses had no
schedules since they were tied up all over
the city. What should have been at most
a 90-minute trip home had become an
almost three-hour event. We found a cab
and called it a day.
As we reviewed this adventure, we
thought, How many brides didnt make
it to their weddings? How many sick or
injured people could not get picked up
by an ambulance? How many people our
age or older, who could not walk to their
homes, got stranded, and where did they
take refuge?
I have prided myself in being a lover
of my people, but honestly, I felt like tak-
ing a swing at one of these criminals in
saints clothing. And for sure I thought,
Since you guys dont want to defend the
country that supplies you with welfare,
since you dont work, and since you are
content to see other Jews children die in
combat when necessary, but God forbid,
not one of your own, and since you call
the legal authorities of the state Nazis,
and since you dont recognize Israels
laws or the legitimacy of its existence,
why dont you just leave?
But that is too much to ask of people who
like violence and troublemaking masked
as religiosity.
Fortunately, the more reasonable lead-
ership in the charedi community has been
using the powerful resource of community
pressure to bring this craziness to a halt. I
doubt, however, that it will work immedi-
ately. Fanatics are indefatigable.
Shalom, Yerushalaim
I hope these vignettes give you a sense
of Jerusalem. She is holy and wholly crazy.
She is spiritually beautiful and religiously
off-the-wall in equal measure. Her sunlight
and sky make her elegantly beautiful, and
too often her people make her appear
incredibly ugly.
There is nothing pareve about Jerusa-
lem. Like the clothing of the many charedi
groups that live there, she is black and
white.
But when all is said and done she is the
Jewish peoples Jerusalem of precious gold
and the spiritual center of all of Abrahams
spiritual and physical children.
Pray for her welfare.

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Opinion

Year zero
The Palestinians and the Balfour Declaration

F
or the Palestinians, the year zero is not 1948,
when the state of Israel came into being, but
1917.
In November 1917 Great Britain issued the
Balfour Declaration, expressing support for the establish-
ment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
So central is the Balfour
Declaration to Palestinian
political identity that the
In an interview with Ian Black of the which the Balfour Declaration was embod-
Guardian, the prominent Palestinian ied could not have intended that Palestine
academic Hanan Ashrawi positioned should be converted into a Jewish State
all of this as classic orientalist schem- against the will of the Arab population of
ing, chiding Balfour for his so patron- the country.
izing, so racist indifference to the You can even say that Britain ended up
Arab population of Palestine. Here, disowning the Balfour Declaration, going
again, we see the broader discursive so far as to abstain during the Nov. 29, 1947
pattern: white settlers, visible to United Nations vote on the 30th anniver-

Zionist invasion officially is
deemed to have begun when
it was issued. In 1917, not in
1882, when the first trickle
of Jewish pioneers from Rus-
sia began arriving, nor in
1897, when the Zionist move-
ment held its first congress in Ben Cohen
Basel, nor in the late 1920s,
when thousands of German
Jews fleeing the rise of Nazism chose to go to Palestine.
The year 1917 is the critical date because that is when, as
an anti-Zionist might say, the Zionist hand slipped effort-
lessly into the British imperial glove. It is a neat, simple
historical proposition upon which the entire Palestinian
version of events rests: an empire came to our land and
gave it to foreigners, we were dispossessed, and for five
generations now we have continued to resist. Moreover,
it is given official sanction in the Palestine National Cov-
enant of 1968, in which article 6 defines Jews who were
living permanently in Palestine until the beginning of the
Zionist invasion as Palestinians an invasion that is
dated as 1917 in the covenants notes.
As the Balfour Declarations centenary approaches on
November 2, this theme is much in evidence. There is now
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
and cherished by their colonial mas- sary of the declaration that legitimized
ters, and black natives, demeaned the creation of a sovereign Jewish state.
and ignored by the very same. That none of this evidence moves those
Ashrawi is not entirely wrong, inso- who advocate for British reparations to the
far as Balfour did not pay much heed Palestinians is largely explained by their
to Arab objections. Walter Laqueur, overall take on the situation: the oppressed,
in his indispensable History of Zion- Arthur James Balfour with whom history ultimately sides, remain
ism, quotes Balfour as saying that the indigenous Palestinians, and the oppres-
whatever someones view of Zionism might be, its ulti- sors, whose day of reckoning always beckons, are the Brit-
mate goal was of far profounder import than the desires ish imperialists and their willing Jewish settler dupes.
of 700,000 Arabs. Neither did Balfour apparently think Perhaps the best way to understand the Balfour Dec-
much of the ability of Palestines Arabs to overcome the laration is to take it literally. What the British helped the
maximalism of their leaders, writing in 1919 that as Jews to create in Palestine during the mandate period fits
Laqueur puts it he did not think Zionism would hurt with what we imagine a national home might look like
the Arabs, but that of course they would never say they and its certainly not an independent state with sover-
wanted it. eign control over its borders and its immigration policy.
Nor were they ever prepared to make peace with it. Indeed, while its borders were open, that national home
That is one reason why the elation that greeted the Bal- may have felt like a state, as it saved Jewish lives and
four Declaration among Jews gradually faded over the crystallized into a cohesive Jewish national society. But
next decade, as the Zionist chalutzim (pioneers) realized when these were abruptly closed, sending thousands of
that when it came securing Jewish communities from Jews back to their deaths in Europe, the national home
Arab violence and winning British consent for further was just one more British colony. Irrespective of the
Jewish immigration, it was little more than a piece of ongoing Palestinian circus, thats something for Jews to
paper. Balfour did not prevent serial outbreaks of vio- mull over as we reflect on our place in the world 100
lence and terror against Palestines Jews during the 1920s years after Balfour. JNS.ORG

a dedicated Balfour apology campaign in the U.K., seeking
both British government contrition and British taxpayer-
funded reparations for the supposed handing of Palestine,
in the words of one British Mandate-era Arab organiza-
tion, into the claws of the Jews.
and 1930s. And on the eve of the Holocaust, when Britain
decided to restrict Jewish immigration to Palestine to just Ben Cohen writes a weekly column on Jewish affairs and
75,000 people over five years out of almost 10 million Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published in
Jews in Europe the 1939 White Paper outlining the new Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
restrictions reasoned that the framers of the Mandate in Journal, and many other publications.

Letters
They really are lucky
As one of Joseph Kaplans adult children, I
can confirm that he is very gentle in giving
advice and only when asked (Deciding Is
What Adults Do, October 20). But when
we do ask, his advice is always very, very
good.
How lucky we are!
Raquel Kaplan Goldberg
Toronto, Ontario
Eruvs not a religion
The text of the First Amendment reads as
follows:
Congress (or any legal governmental
authority) shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof;
It continues on to forbid abridging of
the freedom of speech or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government
for a redress of grievances.
The proposed eruv in Mahwah does not
establish a religion. Neither does it aid,
prefer or favor one religion over any ing Jewish community (The curious case
other.
What it accomplishes is the allowance
for the free observance (exercise) and
expression of an established faith.
In my opinion, when the Township
of Mahwah passes a law that blocks the
eruv, it is in violation of the free exer-
cise protection guaranteed in the First
Amendment.
Additionally, when laws are passed that
prevent the use of public parks by nonresi-
dents (as well as other harassments) ugly
xenophobia is clearly in evidence.
Jerrold Terdiman M.D.
Woodcliff Lake
At it again
The team of Simon and Gold are at it
again, presenting their extreme left-wing
interpretation of reality to an unsuspect-
over 600,000 Jews and damaging the
of David Myers and the Center for Jewish
History, October 27).
While they criticize the BDS move-
ment [boycott, divest, sanction] which
is a clearly anti-Semitic movement to tar-
get Jews in their homeland, they praise
a targeted boycott of Jews in the settle-
ments in the West Bank. The use of
boycotts against Jewish communities
is obscene. The nuance of a West Bank
settlement versus one against Israel is a
subtlety that will be lost on everyone but
the Jews who fight among themselves.
Please remember that to leftists, the set-
tlements include all of the West Bank as
well as the Golan Heights and Jerusalem.
Also remember that Arabs perceive all
Jews in the land of Israel as settlers, and
Tel Aviv is as much a settlement as those
the leftists deride. Discriminating against
entire State of Israel seems to fit the left-
ist, blame-Israel-first, ideology. Raising
an international campaign to prohibit
the purchase of arts and crafts made in
the Old City of Jerusalem accomplishes
-- what? Complaining that there really
is a difference between BDS and a West
Bank boycott is Orwellian doublespeak
for empowering anti-Semites. There are
red lines in Jewish political discourse,
and of course Simon and Golds latest
diatribe has crossed it again.
Scott David Lippe M.D.
Fair Lawn

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Dear Rabbi Zahavy

Your talmudic advice column

Dear Rabbi Zahavy, and churchesthey sought a Jew, he had no identifiable thoughtful of what type of food I hold in
At my health club I have joined a class regimen that would help them connections to Judaism. my hand, how that food is to be regarded
in meditation. We practice techniques of achieve a sensation that they His insights mainly were and classified, and to recall what is its cor-
breathing and mindfulness and achieve tan- could transcend or go beyond derived from Eastern reli- rect berakhah.
themselves. They sought to
gible positive physical and mental results. In gions and practices. I had All forms of mindfulness heighten my
the past, I have associated meditation with bend their consciousness by to make all the connec- moments of experience and elevate ordi-
spiritual movements. So why cant I find a variety of methods, such as tions back to my practices nary events from a background of aware-
more of it in my Jewish contexts? What can Iby finding their mantra or via of Judaism on my own. ness to a foreground of thinking. Mindful
do to become a more meditative Jew? deliberation on gnomic Zen Over time and through occasions of blessings help me savor my
Distractedly Seeking sayings, called koans. Rabbi Tzvee sustained training, wher- conscious awarenessthe consistency and
Spirituality in Demarest The rapid spread in popular- Zahavy ever I went, including the flavor, the origins and essences of my living.
ity of TM a generation ago wor- synagogue, I became an Meir, a second-century talmudic rabbi,
Dear Seeking, ried some leaders of organized religion. accomplished mindful meditator. I could spoke of his expectation that every Jew
If you seek properly, you can find many A few rabbis declared it to be a forbidden moderate my own thoughts, to stand out- could experience 100 triggers of mindful
meditative opportunities in our Jewish form of idolatry. In 1978, the Lubavitcher side them and observe the flow of my con- meditation each day.
practices. Our traditions are rich in inte- rebbe railed against the threats of medita- sciousness going by, much like a naturalist This mindful meditation through ber-
rior modes of spiritual expression. I prac- tive cults on the one hand, while on the might observe the currents of a river. akhot that Im describing is not identi-
tice Jewish meditations throughout the other hand he called for Jewish doctors to When I came into the synagogue after cal to that which Kabat-Zinn and others
day, and not just at times of prayer. develop a kosher form of therapeutic medi- training as a mindful meditator, I started taught me in secular contexts. I adapted
There are many resources available. tation. He meant that they should come up to find analogues to that style of medita- my mindfulness to apply it to my Jewish
Teanecks Len Moskowitz offers medita- with an independent new course of medi- tion in the existing practices of my estab- context. In fact, I came to realize over time
tion training at nearby Yeshiva University. tative exercises within Jewish practice and lished Jewish rituals. I realized that I was a that through my blessings, I engage in a
Books by Aryeh Kaplan and others have based on Jewish principles or contents. practitioner of the meditations that we call complex form of mindfulness, a height-
been popular for years. In Brooklyn, Jeru- More recently, I have learned in my blessings, our berakhot. I discovered new ened relationship to my multiple worlds,
salem, and elsewhere you can find many own external travels and inner quests that dimensions of my old prayers. both personal and cultural.
Jewish meditation teachers and groups. there is no reason to exit the synagogue or I found that a blessing is more than a I came to understand that when I hold an
The main shortcomings of such options to abandon standard Jewish practices or formula of Hebrew words that have sim- apple and recite the blessing for it, I have
is that they assume that to practice Jew- study kabbalah to discover ways to medi- ple knowable meanings. In the past, I had to know which proper berakhah to make.
ish meditation, you must learn peripheral tate. I and many others practice meaning- thought that the fixed opening phrase of That meant I had to relate first to that con-
kabbalistic texts or seek practices outside ful meditation at the core of our regular a berakhah, Blessed art thou O Lord, tent from my religious world, Jewish tradi-
of the regular cycle of Jewish rituals. standard Jewish prayer, and in our daily our God, King of the Universe, semanti- tion, halakhah. Still holding that apple, I
I believe that need not be the case. A life through the ordinary texts and actions cally expressed the speakers intention to add on mindfulness of the fruit, to feel its
person can become an adept meditation of Jewish living. bestow good wishes upon God or to exalt heft and taste its tartness as I bite into it.
practitioner within the regular daily prac- Your question is valid. It is true that the God, who is referred to in the formula Because Im mindful, my interaction
tices of our religious communities. rich meditative qualities of regular Jew- by three names. I learned this formula with daily life is defined not just by the tor-
Let me give you some background, and ish practice are not at all self-evident to when I was 2 or 3 years old and hardly rents of my rushing thoughts. My think-
then tell youhow I have developed and many of us. Few Jewish teachers instruct pondered the theological meaning or ing is formed in a duplex relationship to
integrated my mindful Jewish practices. us about them. We reach our insights and even the simple semantics of this phrase that combination of both the cultural and
You can describe the activity of medita- practices through a journey of discovery, each time I recited it as an older child or personal contexts that I activate mindfully
tion as study or thinking intently and at often alone, and often in several stages. as an adult. in my conscious mind, disentangled from
length, as for spiritual purposes, or as I described in my book Gods Favorite So what new purpose or function of the those twisting currents of distractions
contemplation of spiritual matters. The Prayers how an exemplary Jewish medita- berakhah formula did I discover when I gushing around in my life.
ancient rabbis did not have a term directly tor can sit in the synagogue visibly engaged came back to reexamine it as a mature med- My blessing-meditations turn the rush
correlated to what we call meditation. in everyday regular prayers, and at the itator? I saw that these recitations served for of my daily living into a series of discrete
They called some meditative dimensions same time, practice effective mindfulness. me as the known cues for many instances of moments of experience, each savored fully
of prayer the service of the heart. To To do this you must be trained in a my daily, periodic, repetitive or occasional with thanksgiving, gratitude, and ideally
them, that indicated an inner intellectual course of mindfulness meditation, a deriv- mini-mindful meditations. These provided with compassion.
and emotional activity that they located ative of Eastern practices, that seeks to for me meaningful guidance to the rush of And so my advice to you is to do as I did.
in the heart, since they saw that it beats foster your clear awareness of the sensa- my thoughts and to the meanderings of the Seek and learn and come to know and prac-
slower or faster depending on your state tions of your physical and mental state as awareness of my waking life. tice meditation along your own paths, and
of mind. Ancient rabbis had no explicit it unfolds in the present moment. Traditional Jews recite blessings before then bring it into conversation with your
ideas about brain activity and few terms As a mindful meditator, you learn to eating, after performing bodily functions, Judaism. And yes, you can be sure that our
to speak about modes of consciousness. observe more vividly the place you are when witnessing meteorological events, rich traditions offer many Jewish moods,
Now, we use the term meditate for inthe tones, shades, gradations, and seeing flowers, or hearing good or sad motivations, and actions that you can make
many varieties of activities that we call nuances of your present, your immediate news. And of course we recite blessings in meaningfully and mindfully meditative.
meditative. Consider those meditators exterior reality, and the flowing progres- the synagogue.
from the 1960s or 70s, who practiced a sion of your inner thoughts and emotions. As part of my mindful practice, our for- Tzvee Zahavy received his PhD from Brown
popular form of Transcendental Medita- Years ago, during my training, I discov- malized Jewish blessings functioned to University and his rabbinic ordination
tion, Zen, or other related types of medi- ered Wherever You Go, There You Are, a demand of me a meditative awareness of from Yeshiva University. He teaches
tation. Far outside of establishment places perceptive book on mindful meditation by my person, my body, and the surrounding advanced Talmud and Jewish law codes
of worshipseparate from synagogues Jon Kabat-Zinn. Although Kabat-Zinn is a external world. For a simple example, take at the Academy for Jewish Religion in
the blessing I recite before eating an apple, New York. He is a prolific author and has
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of published many books about Judaism and
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column offers mindful advice based on talmudic the Universe who creates the fruit of the Jewish texts. He also is CEO of Halakhah.
reasoning and wisdom. It aspires to be equally open and meaningful to all tree. This is a cue to savor the taste and com, a site that distributes for free
the varieties and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first texture of my foods mindfully. The bless- annually worldwide more than 600,000
Friday of the month. Please mail your questions to the Jewish Standard or ings serve as triggers for me. They tell me English translations of the Talmud and
email them to zahavy@gmail.com. to stop, to be mindful of my actions, to be other Judaic books.

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 Dvar Torah

Vayera: The first Jew

F
or the last few weeks, we have
been learning in the weekly
Torah portion about the life of
the first Jew, Abraham. One of
the children in our preschool asked me,
Why was Abraham chosen to be the first
Jew? Without much thought, I reflexively
told him what I had learned when I was
a child: that Abraham was the first to dis-
cover God on his own.
Afterward, I could not help but think
that perhaps there was more to it than just
that. The question kept pestering me. Why,
indeed, was Abraham the first Jew? There
were many others before him who seem-
ingly were worthy to have been chosen.
For example, let us consider Adam. The
Midrash tells us that God Himself formed
Adam and blew the breath of life into
him and, as such, Adams knowledge and
awareness of God was greater than that of
any other person in history. Indeed, we
are told that Adam had greater knowledge
of the nature of God than did the minister-
ing angels! So why then was Adam not the
first Jew?
Or let us consider Enoch, about whom
the Torah tells us that he walked with
God; or Methuselah, who was so righ-
teous that God waited to bring the great
flood until after Methuselah passed away
at the ripe old age of 969 years, I was also then struck
and then delayed the flood with an answer to another
for another week, until after question that was both-
shiva for Methuselah; or Yak- ering me. In this weeks
ton an exceedingly humble Torah portion we read
person; or Noah, whom the that, when God decided to
Torah describes as righteous destroy Sodom, He said to
and perfect; or Noahs son Himself, Shall I conceal
Shem or great-grandson Ever, from Abraham what I am
the founders of the Yeshiva of Rabbi Levi about to do? God decided
Shem and Ever. Neubort to reveal His plans because
Anshei Lubavitch,
So why did God wait until Abraham is to become a
Fair Lawn,
nearly 2,000 years after Cre- Orthodox great and mighty nation
ation to choose Abraham to be . . . [and Abraham] com-
the first Jew? mands his children and his
At our shul this past Sunday, we dedi- household after him [to] preserve the way
cated a newly completed Torah. To great of God, doing charity and justice. What
fanfare, we penned in with a feather quill I had been wondering was, Why, simply
the very final letters of the Torah (which because Abraham was educating his chil-
has more than 304,000 handwritten calli- dren to do Gods work, did God feel com-
graphic letters). The shul was crowded and pelled to reveal to Abraham His plan to
the atmosphere festive, as we danced with destroy Sodom? Indeed, what connection
the new and old Torahs alike. It was truly is there between Abraham educating his
a sight to behold. children and Gods decision to reveal His
As I stood there taking in this beautiful plan to Abraham?
scene, I watched as a young mother lifted Many leaders, when leadership is thrust
up her little daughter, who lovingly kissed on them, take to the task with great zest,
the Torah. It was at that moment that I was zeal, and devotion. They truly achieve
struck with an answer to the childs ques- greatness, and may be lauded by the
tion that was still bothering me, Why was masses even long after their passing. But
Abraham the first Jew? if you were to ask the children of those
leaders about their childhood, they would
tell you of their serial disappointment at
the absence of their father or mother from
their life, because their parents were always
busy helping others how their father was
not there for homework, how their mother
missed the class play, how neither attended
their sporting events, and so on. God chose
Abraham to be the first Jew, and chose to
thrust world leadership on Abraham (begin-
ning with giving him the task of advocating
for the doomed people of Sodom), because
God knew that Abraham, while lifting his
gaze to look afar, even to distant shores, to
take on the worlds problems, would never
forget to also look down to see whether
there might be his little child standing right
at his own feet who needs to be lifted to
touch the Torah, to have a boo-boo kissed,
or to help with homework. God chose Abra-
ham to be the paradigmatic Jew, and the
one to emulate.
God wants us to look around, like Abra-
ham, to see how we might alleviate the
misfortune of anyone in need, no mat-
ter how far but, just as importantly, no
matter how close; to teach the masses,
but also to be available for for your childs
homework; to spread morality universally,
but also to say prayers with your son and
daughter at home.

Scherl
FROM PAGE 15
Newton Scherls reputation as a
gastroenterologist is as impressive
as his devotion to family.
He practiced at Englewood
Hospital for 40 years, where he
served as a president of the medi-
cal staff and chief of gastroenter-
ology. He clearly was respected by
his colleagues. He retired in 1999,
but he meant so much to the hos-
pital his funeral was held in the
medical centers auditorium.
He also was treasured by his
friends. Among them was Rabbi
Irving Spielman, then the rabbi
of Gesher Shalom, the Fort Lee
Jewish Center. The couple joined
the synagogue in 1962 and have
remained members throughout
the years. I still keep in touch
with Rabbi Solomon Rothstein,
whos now in Florida, Ms. Scherl
said. Rabbi Rothstein was the
shuls spiritual leader when they
first joined.
Sheila Scherl uses the word
love frequently when describ-
ing her husband. He loved his
family. He was very close to
his parents he adored them.
He loved his children, and me,
unquestionably. He loved Israel
we went there 22 times, almost
every 18 months. He found mem-
bers of the family who were saved
from the Holocaust and re-estab-
lished a connection with all of
them.
And then there were the jokes
particularly an old Red Buttons
comedy routine that Newton
Scherl mastered and performed
at every opportunity. At every
big festival he would get up and
do a whole 20-minute routine,
his wife said. Some jokes were
a little risqu, but none were vul-
gar. Just funny, and they got a
good laugh.
Newton Scherl continued to
work even after three open heart
surgeries. He was still practic-
ing, but he realized it was too
much stress, Ms. Scherl said.
But there are other Drs. Scherl
their daughter Sharon and son
Michael.
Dr. Newton Scherl is survived
by his wife, Sheila; brother, Bur-
ton; children, Michael (Stepha-
nie), Sharon (Eric), Zev (Rachel),
and Saul ( Jodi); grandchildren,
Dr. Sophie, Jacob, Zeke, Randi,
Isabel, Jen, Hannah, Adinah, Sam,
and Jonah, and many nieces and
nephews.
Taub
FROM PAGE 15
years ago. After that, my in-laws funded
breast cancer research, Mr. Tesser said.
They donated a lot of money to all kinds of
programs through the Breast Cancer Research
Foundation, but most of their philanthropic
work went toward the research side.
Joe and Arlene Taub also were generous
donors to the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly, and to Temple Emanu-El, first when it
was in Englewood and then when it moved to
Closter a move he helped to make possible,
Mr. Tesser said.
Joe and Arlene and Henry and Marilyn Taub
all lived in Tenafly, and the six children they
had between them lived in Bergen County too.
(Henry Taub died in 2011.) Theyre all close;
its all basically one big Taub tribe.
Henry and Marilyn have two sons, Ira and
Steven, and a daughter, Judy. The two sons
talked about their uncle (and if their sister
were with them on the phone, they added,
she would be saying exactly the same thing).
Joe was famous for figuring out how to get
his fun time in and make everyone happy, Ira
said; But dont forget that both he and our
father were very hard workers, Steven added.
Joe worked very long and hard hours; ADPs
success wouldnt have been possible if they
hadnt worked that hard.
Joe was the people motivator, he contin-
ued. Our dad used to say all the time that Joe
could get people to move mountains. You just
wanted to work with him. He was all about
life, and all about living.
He loved his brother and it was entirely
reciprocal. He would call our father the
Angel, or the Ange. And thats how he felt
about everyone in the family. He was the
best.
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner, who heads
Temple Emanu-El in Closter, knew Joe Taub
as a congregant and officiated at his funeral.
He traversed the socioeconomic ladder, and
he never forgot each rung that he climbed,
Rabbi Kirshner said. He was incredibly phil-
anthropic in the community, and in Paterson.
His son-in-law said that when Joe would
leave a diner, hed be sure to give the busboy
a tip. He said that everyone tips the waiter, but
the busboy works just as hard.
Like Mr. Taubs son-in-law and his nephews,
Rabbi Kirshner stressed Mr. Taubs commit-
ment to breast cancer research. They have
been leading the charge to find a cure, he
said. It is critically important to him.
He has a clear visual memory of Mr. Taub.
He was the most sharply dressed, dap-
per guy, Rabbi Kirshner continued. He was
incredibly tall and incredibly handsome, with
pale blue eyes. Hed flash you a smile, and
youd feel like the luckiest guy in the world.
He knew that the life expectancy for some-
one born in his year was 72, and he saw every
day after that as his birthday, and every night
as New Years Eve.

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Arts & Culture
Steven Pasquale as bombastic financier Robert Merkin (think Michael Milken) in
Ayad Akhtars new play, Junk.
1945
Postwar Hungary and its Jews
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
T
he train pulls into the depot,
and we watch the stationmas-
ter taking special note of who
gets off.
The opening scene of a new Hungar-
ian film seems to be straight out of Fred
Zinnemanns 1952 masterpiece, High
Noon. Almost! In screenwriter Carl
Foremans memorable screenplay, out-
law Frank Miller comes to Hadleyville
with the clear intent of killing the man
who sent him to prison. Now out of jail,
he is in town for one reason only to
seek revenge on Sheriff Will Kane. Who
in town will join with the sheriff to fight
Miller and his gang?
In many ways, the movie was writer
50 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 3, 2017
original proposition is that a companys
Carl Foremans contemporary commen-
tary on an America that allowed citizens
with unpopular views and associations
to be blacklisted, shunned, and at times
even imprisoned. Who came to their
defense? Who was ready to fight for jus-
tice, freedom of speech, and freedom
of assembly? We quickly learn that the
lawman is left very much on his own.
Nobody seems ready to stand with him.
What writer Gabor Szanto and writer-
director Ferenc Torok give us in their
powerful new movie, 1945, are two
Jews coming to a Hungarian village to
what exactly are they going to do?
The war has ended, the Nazis are
defeated, Soviet soldiers are keeping
the peace. We see a black-hatted, black-
cloaked older Jewish man with a nicely
Junk
A shanda far di goyim?
MIRIAM RINN
A
fter a high-flying decade on
Wall Street, Michael Milken,
known as the junk-bond king,
was indicted for securities
fraud in an insider-trading investigation
in 1989. By then, he had made many mil-
lions of dollars for his investment bank-
ing firm as well as for himself and shep-
herded a boom in leveraged buyouts and
other financial hijinks, which either trans-
formed the American economy or left it
crippled and bleeding, depending on your
perspective.
Now Ayad Akhtar has used Milkens
experience to create his new play, Junk,
at Lincoln Center. Junk presents the cen-
tral character, Robert Merkin, as a brilliant,
arrogant, and ultimately destructive force.
Determined to take over a traditional
steel company in Allegheny, Pennsylva-
nia, for his client, Izzy Peterman, Merkin
begins to manipulate the companys stock
with the help of a shady associate, Boris
Pronsky. (Any similarity to arbitrageur
Ivan Boesky surely is intentional.) Merkins
he demands, and why should an American
Peter Rudolf, left, portrays one of two Jews who returns to a Hungarian
village after the war.
trimmed white beard getting off the
train. He is accompanied by a youth in
his late teens with dark scruff on his face,
also black-hatted and black-cloaked.
cash flow can be considered collateral
in order to borrow huge sums of money,
and that money then can be used to buy
the company. The steel companys third-
generation owner, Thomas Everson, cant
believe hes listening to such nonsense,
but before he knows it, Merkin and his pals
have made the companys stock price rise
dramatically and then fall precipitously.
The board is unnerved, and Everson is
guilt-stricken about what will happen to
the workers who have been with the plant
for decades. A white knight is sought to
buy the company, but will he be able to
stand up to Merkins chutzpah?
Directed crisply by Doug Hughes, Junk
has the satisfying structure of a Law and
Order episode. We know the good guys
and bad guys, and there isnt much ambi-
guity about who to root for. Akhtar gives
Merkin the most interesting speech in the
play at the beginning of the second act. As
Merkin, Steven Pasquale scorns the argu-
ments of the legacy manufacturers and
bankers who insist that American business
and labor must be protected. Who says that
American steel is better than Chinese steel,
These two are not outlaws, but they
do seem to be outcasts, and certainly
they are unwanted. Jews had not had a
presence in this village since the day, not
fathers desire to provide for his fam-
ily trump an Indian fathers desire to do
the same? Trump is the operative word,
of course, because Merkins trust in the
power of global capitalism stands in direct
contrast to the America First prescrip-
tions of the current occupant of the White
House. In that sense, the 1980s brought us
the presidency of Donald Trump. Many of
the people who lost jobs and money and
faith in the American promise of ever-ris-
ing affluence voted for Donald Trump to
make America great again.
Akhtar skims some fascinating issues
here: Is there any actual value to finance,
or is it just clever kids shuffling money
around? Is making things, such as steel,
morally superior to money shuffling?
Why? Since capitalism always creates
winners and losers, should we be con-
cerned about who wins and who loses?
The play hints at all these questions, but
Akhtar is too focused on the nuts and
bolts of Merkins fall to dig deeply. These
are essentially moral, therefore reli-
gious, matters, pitting material against
spiritual values.
John Lee Beattys minimalist set and
Ben Stantons lighting design contribute
mightily to the plays momentum, and
for the most part, the large cast is excel-
lent. Pasquale certainly captures Merkins
cockiness and intense competitiveness.
Akhtar is the author of two other plays
produced at Lincoln Center, the 2012
Pulitzer Prize-winning The Disgraced
about a Muslim mergers-and-acquisitions
lawyer and The Who and the What.
He is sensitive to the delicate situation of
minorities trying to navigate worlds that
may be hostile despite insisting other-
wise. As a Jew, Merkin is introducing new Minimalist sets of
ideas into a largely static, traditional gen- the financial world
tile world. Is the resistance he encounters add to the tension of
due to his ideas or to his Jewishness? Junk, now playing
Junk does not shy away from the at Lincoln Center.
covert and overt anti-Semitism infus-
ing American society, nor does it cast
Merkin and Peterman as heroic advo-
cates for fairness. Everyone in the play
is scrabbling to get ahead, including U. S.
Attorney Giuseppi Adesso, the character
based on Rudy Giuliani, the government
official who indicted Michael Milken and
then went on to be mayor of New York
City. Junk tells the tale of someone who
might be a shanda far di goyim or the
smartest guy in the room.

too long before, when they were herded
away, most to their death, on those same
train tracks. The stationmaster is stunned
when the two arrive. Why are they there?
Are they seeking out revenge of some
kind? Who have they come to take on?
Will the town stand strong in unity? Will
the constable be left alone with these
strangers? And what might be in the two
heavy black crates that are pulled off
the train and placed on a wagon? What
exactly do these Jews want?
Off goes the railway official to warn the
police chief and villagers as the two men
begin their trek to town, walking behind
what looks like a horse-drawn funeral
caisson carrying the black crates.
This is Toroks sixth film, and he does
a splendid job of showing us the per-
spectives of various villagers who follow
the wagon and watch its Jewish escorts
arrive in town. He is a master of creat-
ing shots through windows, doors, and
cracks, allowing us to come up with
our own interpretation of what each
observer sees.
There is no color; cinematographer
Elemer Ragalyi effectively uses black and
white to create striking visual textures.
It has not been long since Jews lived
comfortably among these villagers, so
why such curiosity? So what if two Jews
come into town? Exactly what is the
point of Szantos story? We will learn that
there are many stories, apparently tales
that most people in the hamlet might
have hoped would be buried and lost.
This film seems intent on making sure
that some of those accounts are shared,
and that nobody forgets them.
I was fortunate to meet both Torok
and Szanto in New York last week.
Szanto, a novelist, poet, and editor of
a monthly Jewish journal in Budapest,
had written the short story upon which
the film is based 13 years ago. He spent
the next decade working with Torok on
adapting it for cinema. I asked Szanto,
a Jew, and Torok, a non-Jew, why they
made the film. They told me that they
wanted to move in a totally new direc-
tion in a telling of the post-Holocaust
period in Hungary. They chose to par-
allel a story of returning survivors with
that of guilty villagers.
I asked them how the film was
received in Hungary, and whether they
were at all concerned by the perceived
move to the right these last years. In
2014, 20 percent of Hungarians voted
for Jobbik, a party often compared to the
pro-Nazi Iron Cross of the war years. The
two kept reassuring me that although the
film looks at how Jews were treated both
during and immediately after the war, it
was widely applauded in Hungary. Audi-
ences and critics accepted it and loved
it, they told me. And there were no
death threats.
1945 is a powerful observation
on what Jews who survived the war in
Europe and returned to their homes
found when they got home. Some
found temporary hospitality that waned
with the years, and some suffered
indescribable cruelty and tragedy. They
were left with unavoidable questions:
What did the non-Jews who watched
their neighbors, friends, and business
partners sent off to die think? What did
they do? What happened to the homes
the Jews left behind? What happened to
their belongings?
In 1945, two Jews return. They may
not be the same Jews who had left just
months before, but in any event, they
are back. Would the town sheriff gather
the townspeople and seek justice? Would
he be left alone to investigate, or simply
fend off these Jewish interlopers? And
what of his responsibility for upholding
the law?
1945 is beautifully photographed,
raises important questions, and gives
us a perspective on a Hungary seem-
ingly ready to tackle difficult questions. I
highly recommend it.
Film historian Eric Goldman writes and
lectures on aspects of Jewish cinema.

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Calendar
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Barbara Kirshenblatt-
Gimblett, chief curator
of the core exhibition
at the Polin Museum
of the History of Polish
Jews, is the scholar-
in-residence through
Sunday with a lecture at
7 p.m., at Congregation
Beth Sholom. Her
presentations center
on Rising from the
Rubble: The Renewal
of Jewish Life in Poland
Today. 354 Maitland Ave.
(201) 833-2620 or www.
cbsteaneck.org.
Saturday,
November 4
Yosef Mendelevich
Shabbat in Franklin
Lakes: Refusenik Yosef
Mendelevich, an 11-year
gulag survivor, tells A (201) 659-4000 or office@
Refuseniks Story of hobokensynagogue.org.
Never Giving In at the
Chabad Jewish Center ,
11:30 a.m. Kiddush lunch
follows. 375 Pulis Ave.
www.chabadplace.org/
rym.
Night out in Jersey
City: Join Temple
Beth-El for Sips, Nips
& Salsa, an evening of
mystery boxes, wine and
chocolate tasting, silent
auction, and raffle, 7 p.m.
2419 JFK Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229.
Comedy in Hoboken:
Comedian Benji Lovitt
performs What War
Zone? Israel Through Congregation Shomrei
Stand-Up Comedy for Torah for the ninth annual
young professionals at
the United Synagogue
of Hoboken, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
and Moishe House
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childrens clothing, and
summer camp items,
10 a.m.-5 p.m., and on
Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Proceeds benefit the
JCC Leonard and Syril
Rubin Nursery School.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1435 or email
mkleiman@jccotp.org.
Community mitzvah
day: Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey
holds Mitzvah Day
Do Good, Feel Good
a community-wide
day of volunteering,
10 a.m.-3 p.m. Choose
from activities at
JFNNJ or at outdoor
sites. 50 Eisenhower
Drive, Paramus. Beth,
(201) 820-3947, BethF@
JFNNJ.org, or www.
JFNNJ.org.
nov. Fannys Journey, based on a true Holocaust story about the
courage of children, is screened at the Teaneck International
5 Film Festival at Teaneck Cinemas, 11:30 a.m. Sponsored by
the Jewish Standard. Q&A with film critic Eric Goldman
follows. 503 Cedar Lane. For full film schedule and information, go to
www.teaneckfilmfestival.org or call (201) 203-1723.
Dr. Ira Spar
Hoboken. 115 Park Ave. Festival. Doors open admissions@frisch.org. Ancient Israel in
at 7:45. Q&A session Register at www.frisch. Language and Jewish Ridgewood: Dr. Ira Spar,
with Ms. Indrimi. org/openhouse. identity: Dr. Sarah Bunin professor of history
Refreshments. Sponsored Benor, contemporary and ancient studies
by the Kovacs family. Walk in Wayne: Join Jewish studies professor at Ramapo College,
19-10 Morlot Ave. Temple Beth Tikvah at Hebrew Union College discusses Solomons
(201) 791-7676. congregants for its Jewish Institute of Temple and Religion
monthly dog-friendly Religion in Los Angeles, in Ancient Israel at
Kumsitz in Teaneck: walk through Laurelwood discusses Mensch, Temple Israel & Jewish
Chanani Sandler and Arboretum in Pines Bentsh, and Balagan: Community Center,
Benjy Rosenbluth offer Lake, 9:30 a.m., weather Language as a Marker 10:30 a.m. The lecture is
live music, song, and permitting. Walk on of Jewish Identity the second of his three-
words of inspiration., unpaved well-maintained for the kick-off of the part series, Revealing
at Congregation trails with several modest Distinguished Speaker the Past: Archaeology &
Beth Aaron, 8:15 p.m. hills. Children welcome. series at Temple Beth the Bible; it concludes
Refreshments. 950 Walks will continue the Rishon in Wyckoff. December 10. 475 Grove
Queen Anne Road. first Sunday. Sturdy shoes Sponsored by the Fred St. (201) 444-9320 or
Marking Kristallnacht (201) 836-6210 or www. and baggies for dogs Emert Memorial Adult www.synagogue.org.
in Fair Lawn: Natalia bethaaron.org/event/ required. Meet at the Education Fund with TBR
Indrimi, executive Kumsitz2017. Sensory Garden, between patron support. Breakfast Chanukah shopping in
director of Centro Primo the two parking lots. 725 buffet, 9:45 a.m.; event Woodcliff Lake: Temple
at 10:30. 585 Russell Ave.
Levi, discusses the film
Oro Macht Frei at Sunday Pines Lake Drive West,
Wayne. Email Mitchell. (201) 891-4466 or www.
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds its annual
November 5 borger@gmail.com bethrishon.org. fun-filled Chanukah
with questions. www. shopping event,
Susan Nelson Glasser School open house in templebethtikvahnj.org. Fall boutique in Tenafly: noon-2 p.m. 87 Overlook
Memorial Kristallnacht The Kaplen JCC on the Drive. (201) 391-0801.
Paramus: The Frisch
commemoration, 8 p.m. Palisades offers a vendor
School holds an open
The film was the 2015 boutique with holiday
house, 9 a.m.-noon. 120
Best International gifts, including jewelry,
West Century Road.
Documentary at the womens fashions and
Judith Goldsmith,
Garden State Film accessories, stationery,
(201) 267-9100,

Gimblett, chief curator
of the core exhibition at
the Polin Museum of the
History of Polish Jews,
lectures at Congregation
Beth Sholom in Teaneck,
7 p.m. 354 Maitland Ave.
(201) 833-2620.
Film in Teaneck: The
Bergen County section
of the National Council
of Jewish Women and
state Senator Loretta
Weinberg sponsor
Birthright: A War
Story at the Teaneck
Nitsana Darsha-Leitner
International Film
Festival at Temple Emeth,
Activist attorney in
4:30 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Teaneck: Nitsana
Road. (201) 203-1723 or
Darsha-Leitner, Israeli
www.teaneckfilmfestival.
activist attorney and a
org.
leader in the fight against
Palestinian and Islamic
School open house in
terror group financing,
River Edge: Rosenbaum
discusses her new book
Yeshiva of North Jersey
Harpoon: Inside the
holds an open house,
Covert War Against
7 p.m. 666 Kinderkamack
Terrorisms Money
Road. Tamar Kahn,
Masters for the adult
(201) 986-1414, ext. 338,
education committees
welcome@rynj.org, or
of Congregations Rinat
rynj.org/openhouse.
Yisrael and Beth Aaron
Warsaw Museum: at Rinat, 8 p.m. 389
Scholar-in-residence West Englewood Ave.
Barbara Kirshenblatt- (201) 837-2795.
Monday Tuesday,
November 6 November 7
Lunch and learn: Rabbi Music lecture in Tenafly:
Aaron Katz leads a Dumont historian Dick
discussion over lunch Burnon gives a video/
on current topics at lecture, Funny Ladies of Story at the Teaneck
Congregation Bnai the Stage and Screen, Cinemas, 7:30 p.m. A
Jacob in Jersey City, at a meeting of REAP
noon. $10. 176 West Side (Retired Executives
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or and Professionals) at
Info@bnaijacobjc.org. the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 10:45 a.m.
School open house in 411 East Clinton Ave.
New Milford: Solomon
(201) 569-7900.
Schechter Day School
of Bergen County Hot topics in Bayonne:
invites parents of Temple Beth Am
prospective students continues its Point/
to an open house, Counterpoint series,
7-9 p.m. 275 McKinley a Jewish take on
Ave. (201) 262-9898, ext. current events, led
203, or www.ssdsbergen. by Rabbi Cathy Felix,
org/openhouse2017. 1:30 p.m. 111 Avenue B.
(201) 858-2020.
Film in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/ Rabbis roundtable in
Congregation Beth Wyckoff: Rabbi Stephen
Tikvah shows the Oscar- Wylen continues a
nominated The House roundtable discussion
of Rothschild as part of series on Jewish Religion Rabbi Manis Friedman
a Jewish Film Festival, in the First Century
hosted by Cantor Sam Sects with a discussion, Learning to feel good:
Weiss, 8:15 p.m. East The Trial of Jesus
304 Midland Ave. Historically Considered, discusses If It Is All For
(201) 262-7691. at Temple Beth Rishon,
7 p.m. Series continues
through November
Calendar
28. 585 Russell Ave. open, 7 p.m.; lecture at
(20s1) 891-4466. 7:30. 215 West Ridgewood
Ave. (201) 476-0157 or
Film in Teaneck: The Valleychabad.org.
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jerseys
Israeli Film Festival
presents An Israeli Love
bonus short film, The
Little Dictator, also will
be shown. 503 Cedar
Lane. (201) 820-3907
or www.jfnnj.org/
filmfestival.
Wednesday Film in Wayne: Jewish
November 8 Federation of Northern
New Jerseys Israeli
Film Festival presents
the Israeli box office hit
The Womens Balcony,
7:30 p.m., at the Wayne
YMCA. 1 Pike Drive.
(201) 820-3907 or www.
jfnnj.org/filmfestival.
Film/discussion in
Hoboken: Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jerseys Israeli Film
Festival presents My
Rabbi Manis Friedman Hero Brother, following
a group of young Israeli
adults with Down
The Good Why Does It
Syndrome as they climb
Feel So Bad? for Valley
in the Himalayas, at the
Chabad at the Ridgewood
United Synagogue of
Womens Club. Doors
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Hoboken, 7:30 p.m. The
films director, Yonaton
Nir, will be there. 115 Park
Ave. (201) 820-3907
or www.jfnnj.org/
filmfestival.
School open house
in Teaneck: Yeshivat
HeAtid, a Bergen County
yeshiva, holds an open
house, 7:30 p.m. 1500
Queen Anne Road. Gitty
Eisner, (201) 374-2272,
ext. 6, admissions@
yeshivatheatid, or www.
yeshivatheatid.org/open-
house.
welcome state Senator White Plains, NY.
Loretta Weinberg
for its paid-up event,
Sunday (914) 948-3111. www.THINK.
SchechterWestchester. Singles
7 p.m. Wine, cheese, and november 12 org, or www.
homemade desserts.
School open house in
schechterwestchester. Friday
Bring childrens hats, org.
scarves, and gloves Livingston: Rae Kushner November 3
to donate to www. High School holds an School open house
flamesofgiving.com. open house. Registration, in Teaneck: The Idea Teaneck Shabbaton:
950 Preakness Ave. 9 a.m.; program at School holds an open The Shidduch Project
(973) 595-6565. 9:30. 110 South Orange house, 2-4:30 p.m. 70 hosts the One in a
Ave. Allison Lyons, Sterling Place. Tikvah Minion Shabbaton for
(862) 437-8050, alyons@ Weiner, (917) 209-2665, modern Orthodox/
Friday MJCs Cantor Michelle jkha.org, or www.jkha. admissions@ machmir professionals,
november 10 org/RKYHopenhouse. theideaschool.org, or 21-36, at Congregation
Rubin Keter Torah in Teaneck.
www.theideaschool.org.
Cancer prevention/ Includes three interactive
Shabbat in Fair Lawn: Cantorial concert
wellness in Tenafly: meals, Friday night mad
Bris Avrohom offers in Montebello: The
Teanecks Holy Name

Thursday
november 9
Loretta Weinberg
Courtesy TBT
State senator in Wayne:
Women of Chai of
Temple Beth Tikvah
a beginners service
with separate childrens
Montebello Jewish
Center in Montebello,
service, 7 p.m.; dinner, N.Y., presents From
7:30. 30-02 Fair Lawn Bima to Broadway IV
Ave. Reservations, featuring eight cantors
(201) 791-7200. from Rockland County,
New Jersey, Westchester,
Saturday and Long Island, along
with the MJCs adult,
november 11
childrens, and teen
choirs performing Israeli,
Film in Teaneck: Temple cantorial, and musical
Emeths adult education theater selections.
group screens a Jewish- Dessert reception.
themed movie, 7:30 p.m., 34 Montebello Road.
as part of a Movies That montebellojc.org or open house for its lower
(845) 357-2430.
Matter series. Popcorn. school, K-fifth grade,
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Medical Center and In New York minion tea party oneg,
holistic speakers, nature
Myriad have partnered walks, improv session,
with the Lewin Fund to
Fight Womens Cancers
Saturday musical Havdalah and
kumsitz, housing, and
November 11
to present Own Your catering by Five Star
Own Health a power Caterers. (201) 522-4776.
panel at the Kaplen Ramaz School open
JCC on the Palisades, house: The Rabbi Joseph
Sunday
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 411 H. Lookstein Upper
E. Clinton Ave. Register, School of Ramaz holds November 5
TheLewinFund.org. an open house. Doors
open, 7:15 p.m.; program
Senior singles meet in
School open house in at 7:45. 60 E. 78th West Nyack: Singles 65+
White Plains: Schechter St., Manhattan. Shara meets for a social get-
Westchester holds an Lipson, (212) 774-8093, together over bagels and
admissions@ramaz.org. lox, at the JCC Rockland,
Register at www.ramaz. 11 a.m. 450 West Nyack
10 a.m.-noon. Brunch org/openhouse. Road. $8. Gene Arkin,
served. Activities for (845) 356-5525.
3- and 4-year-olds.
30 Dellwood Road.,

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Boutique planned at aphasia center
The Adler Aphasia Cen-
ter, a nonprofit in May-
wood and West Orange
that offers aphasia com-
munication groups
throughout New Jersey,
will host its Something
Special boutique and
open house on Wednes-
day, November 8, from 4
to 8 p.m., at its flagship
center, 60 West Hunter
Ave. in Maywood.
The boutique offers
handcrafted jewelry and gift items
made by stroke survivors with apha-
sia. Gifts include jewelry, hostess sets,
handmade greeting cards, and knit-
wear. Each gift-wrapped purchase
includes a bio of the artists, which helps
the center raise awareness about apha-
sia. Many of the artists will be on hand
to greet attendees. All proceeds from
Something Special sales support the
centers scholarship fund, so that no
one with aphasia is turned away from
the centers programs and services
because they cannot pay for them.
Jerusalem Real Estate Project is Attracting Major Interest from NJ Buyers
The next Ramat Givat Zeev sales events will take place on Thursday, November 9, from 5PM-11PM at
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Light refreshments will be served.
For information, email Amy May at
amay@adleraphasiacenter.org, email
www.AdlerAphasiaCenter.org, or call
(201) 368-8585. Tours of the Adler
Aphasia Center also will be available
during this open house.
Congregation Keter Torah, 600 Roemer Ave. in Teaneck
Calendar
JCC exhibits collages
The Waltuch Art Gallery at the Kaplen JCC on the Pali-
sades in Tenafly presents Inspiration, an exhibition
of collage on paper by Arlyne Berzak. The show will
be on display though November 30, with a meet-the-
artist-reception on Thursday, November 9, from 7 to
9 p.m. The Waltuch Art Gallery is a community space
that exhibits thematically Jewish artwork, or art pro-
Courtesy JCCOTP
duced by Jewish artists. All artwork is available for
sale and a portion of the proceeds support cultural
arts programming at the JCC.
For information, call Nina Bachrach at (201) 408-
1406 or email her at nbachrach@jccotop.org.
Once We Were Slaves in
Egypt by Arlyne Berzak.
American-Israeli author in Leonia
Steven Hartov, an author of fiction and non- co-authored with Michael J. Durant, The
fiction, journalist, screenwriter, and for- Night Stalkers, co-authored with Michael
mer editor-in-chief of Special Operations J. Durant and Lt. Col. (ret.) Robert L. John-
Report, is the guest speaker at Congrega- son, and Afghanistan on the Bounce, co-
tion Adas Emuno on Sunday, November authored with Robert L. Cunningham. His
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the Israeli espionage trilogy, The Heat for the feature film, The Point Men.
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and The Devils Shepherd. His nonfic- a Thief, is due to be released in May by
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While there has been consistent interest from foreign buyers
in many quality Jerusalem residential projects, something
fascinating is happening at a building site located on the
outskirts of the Holy City in the Jerusalem hills.
The upscale Ramat Givat Zeev residential project, which
is being erected by Chish Nofei Israel, has attracted dozens
of buyers from the metro Teaneck area. This has spurred
Chish Nofei Israel to return with a special sales event on
November 9 that will take place in Teaneck.
According to Chish Nofei Israel, a growing number of
young couples and families from Teaneck have purchased
a variety of palatial homes and impeccably designed
apartments at Ramat Givat Zeev. Because of the heightened
interest in this unique project, when Ramat Givat Zeevs first
residents (including those from New Jersey) move into the
beautiful town in mid-January, they will discover that the
price of their property will have risen in dramatic fashion.
The rising value of these properties can be directly traced to
the fact that only a few dozen homes and apartments within
the 350 plus unit complex remain to be sold.
Ramat Givat Zeevs sales success is based on facts on
the ground. The complex is being built with exacting
standards, duplicating the lifestyle that its buyers have
been used to in the USA. Ramat Givat Zeev will highlight
the religious and cultural quality of life quotients found in
bustling religious enclaves such as Teaneck, Five Towns,
Brooklyn and Queens, New York. Ramat Givat Zeev will
feature synagogues, mikvaot and quality schools, as well as
a country club with a pool and gym, tennis and basketball
courts, green parks and a shopping center.
Special prices for the remaining Ramat Givat Zeev
properties will be featured at the special sales events. This
is once in a lifetime opportunity to have it all, living in the
lap of luxury amidst the pastoral beauty of the Jerusalem
hills. Its not by accident that many buyers from the Teaneck
area have made their Aliyah dreams come true in a unique
setting, said a Chish Nofei Israel sales representative.
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 The Frazzled Housewife
The real watsapps of sheva brachot
B
efore I be gin,
I would like to
explain, for those
who are unfa-
miliar with the term, what
sheva brachot are.
In a traditional Jewish
wedding, when the excited
bride and groom stand
under their chuppah/canopy Banji
of flowers, tulle, satin, lucite Ganchrow
or a combination of the four
(or an entirely different com-
bination every bride has her own taste
and unique vision), they are blessed with
seven different blessings. In Hebrew,
thats sheva brachot. These blessing are
read by people chosen by the families
rabbis, relatives, friends, etc.
I truly believe that these blessings
should be updated to keep up with mod-
ern times and social media, but it doesnt
seem like that is going to happen any
time soon, so we will have to revisit that
in a later column.
After the magnificent wedding is over,
the seven blessing are said with the grace
after the meal portion of the evening.
And then, for seven nights post wedding,
the bride and groom are the guests of
honor at a festive meal hosted by friends
or family. And wouldnt you know it, the
seven blessings are said at each of the
sheva brachot meals. Gee, seems that
there is something significant about the
number 7.
Alrighty then. I will include that infor- ning sheva brachot are no exception.
mation in part two of this column.
When my friend told me that her
daughter was getting engaged, I told her
that I wanted to make a sheva brachot.
And just like that, I was given the name
of the point person. Yes, just like every
organization, every high-level com-
pany, every unioneven sheva brachot
needs a point person. A person to keep
everyone in line. I was ready to report
for duty. (And I was just so excited to be
a part of something as I rarely leave my
house.)
Before I knew it, I received a wat-
sapp from the point person. There were
seven or eight other people in the group.
My first thought was, What did we do
before watsapp groups?
In the olden days there were phone
calls. You would have to call each per-
son individually. And then, with tech-
nology, you could do three-way calling
or a, gasp, conference call! Wow, have
we come far. This initial watsapp was
to have an introductory meeting to
discuss the discussion for the sheva
brachot. The dinging of the phones
began. When you have eight mothers,
with eight different schedules, how are
you supposed to come up with a time to
meet, exactly?
DING-My kids bus comes at 815
DING-My kids are out of the house by
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DING-My kid has a sci-
ence project that I have to
drive to school, wont be
home till 845
DING-I work that day
DING-DING-DING
And yet, after all of the
three day yom tovs, which
means that between the
eight of us, our families
probably devoured a
farms worth of chickens
and cows (apologies to the vegan/vege-
tarians), we all came together one morn-
ing (well, almost all of us, some signed
proxies giving others permission to rep-
resent them at the meeting I am kid-
ding, no one did that. At least not that I
know of.) We came together to get this
party started.
Full disclosure, I was not a part of
the sheva brachot that this group made
before. They were a well-oiled machine
and I was the new one. What does this
mean? I sat there and smiled and said
yes to every decision and volunteered
to do whatever they wanted me to do
Across Down
(and even what they didnt want me to
1. Clark in Selznicks Gone With the 1. Sound astonished
do, because that is how I get in trouble.
Wind 2. Ahava ingredient
Hence, this column, which, hopefully, 6. Kind of collar 3. ___ Chametz (burning)
will not get me in trouble). As a middle 10. The skinny 4. Chanukah food
child, I am all about making sure every- 14. J.J. Abrams TV hit before Lost 5. Its a flame
one gets along, though I am hardly 15. Campus military org. 6. Savage of The Wonder Years
16. America singer Diamond 7. Challah unit
successful at this. Middle children just
17. Miami locale where a lot of Jews go on 8. Like Seinfelds yada yada yada: Abbr
want everyone to be happy, and plan- vacation in January 9. Parshat ___ Mot
19. Tennis player Dudi 10. It keeps you up
So menus were made, colors were dis- 20. Fringe benefit 11. Food or shelter, e.g.
cussed, beverages, paper goods, you 21. Protectors of Isr. 12. Reebok or Naot alternative
22. ___ zarah (idol worship) 13. Kind of korban
name it, this crew covered it. We also
24. Yikes! 18. Rode around HaYarkon Park
came up with resolutions for the prob- 26. Fictional Reaper 23. Routing word
lems with the Iran deal, the Russia elec- 27. One might happen before Passover? 25. Ben Gurion data, briefly
tion scandal, and the Mahwah eruv 33. Sacrificial animal 26. Hang ___
controversy. 34. Added Jewish month 27. Connection device
35. Aladdin parrot voiced by Gilbert 28. In the know
DING-How many people are coming?
Gottfried 29. Famously funny Gilda
DING-I thought we said 30? 37. Belonging to the first man 30. A boy getting his bris, e.g.
DING-I only have 24 39. Impersonated 31. Chip dip
DING- Who has the list of responses? 40. Malha and Azrieli Center, e.g. 32. Ehud killed him
DING-OK we have 28 41. Lima has its largest Jewish community 33. Skull___ (keepah)
42. Earn a blessing? 36. C.I.A. predecessor
DING-I only made 25 challah rolls
44. Brillo rival 38. Dirty Dead Sea treatments
DING-Are any of them gluten free? 45. Some Israeli water? 40. Burger Ranch listing
DING DING DING. 48. Hlne considered the French Anne 42. Worked hard at
Good thing there was a cardiologist Frank 43. Ahmed who owns American Pharoah
married to one of the women making 49. You betcha 46. Suffix with cash, cloth or hotel
50. King Solomons Mines expedition 47. Late writer Nora
sheva brachot, in case any of us felt faint
53. Im ___ pay phone trying to call 50. Genesis creator?
from the pressure to make sure every- home (Maroon 5) 51. ___-Ra (Egyptian god)
thing went smoothly. And, thank God, 55. Smoggy 52. Weapon of Yuri Foreman or Floyd
everything was beautiful. The food was 59. Radiate (like light from the face of Mayweather
delicious, the tablecloths matched the Moses) 53. Got gray
60. One who would not eat the meat of 54. Some shekel coins
plates, and those who were gluten free
the Passover sacrifice 56. Puts on YES or NBC
had what to eat as well. But in the end, all 63. Holy cow! 57. Actor Billy of Titanic
that really matters? The bride and groom 64. Like the numbers 18 and 36 58. An Israeli online news source
should be blessed with a wonderful life. 65. Matt Damons action franchise char- 61. Actress Green of Casino Royale
DINGonto the next watsapp group! acter 62. Blood-typing system
66. Paul Rudds tiny friends in the Marvel
Universe
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck received 67. Danny Tanner and Phil Dunphy, on TV
permission from the sheva brachot group 68. Genesis, e.g.
to write this column. They are a lovely
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 58.
group of women and she hopes they are
still speaking to her after reading this.
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catering plans in place and instead of giving up is deter-
mined to find a replacement groom over the next four or
so weeks.
In the process she goes out on many dates and man-
ages to turn off even the most nebbishy of prospects. Yes,
theres the happy ending the JFNNJ likes, but the road to it
is really sad for anyone rooted in the 21st century. It should
be noted, however, that Ms. Burshtein won the Israeli Ophir
for best screenplay, Noa Koler (Michal) won best actress,
and Hava Levi Rozelsky won for best costume design.
Wedding Plan will be shown at the Teaneck Cinema
(503 Cedar Lane) Monday, Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Other films, all shown at 7:30, include:
My Hero Brother: A documentary that follows a group
of young Israeli adults with Down syndrome as they set out
on an arduous mountain-climbing trek in the Himalayas,
each accompanied by a brother or sister. It will have two
showings on Thursday, November 2, Warner Ridgewood
Theater (190 E. Ridgewood Ave.) with the films director,
Yonaton Nir, in attendance, and on Wednesday, November
8, at the United Synagogue of Hoboken (115 Park Ave.).
Call us. A so-called double feature combines An Israeli Love
Story with The Little Dictator, a 28-minute short. In
We are waiting for Israeli Love Story, Eli and Margalit, living in pre-state
Palestine, are torn between their love for one another and
your classified ad! where they see their futures in the Jewish state: the theater
world of Tel Aviv or on a kibbutz. Margalit finds the spot-
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Jewish independence.
who feels unappreciated both by his students and by his
domineering wife. He comes to terms with his situation at
a surreal 90th birthday party for his wifes grandmother, a
Holocaust survivor.
Both films will be shown at the Teaneck Cinema on Tues-
day, November 7.
Mr. Predictable: After a computer error causes bor-
ing, put-upon Adi to believe he doesnt have long to live,
a chance encounter with a stunning free spirit turns into
a crash course on how to live life to the fullest. Now Adi
must choose between a steady, dependable existence and
a chance at genuine happiness.
Shown on Wednesday, November 15, at the Warner
Ridgewood.
Our Father: Desperate to save his marriage, the cash-
strapped Ovadia goes to work for a small-time mobster,
collecting debts to pay for his wifes expensive fertility
treatments. His eventual attempt to break free from a life
of violent crime will test his loyalties and force a difficult
choice: does he protect his family or betray his friends? This
film won two Israeli Academy Awards, including for best
actor.
Shown on Thursday, November 16, at the Edgewater Mul-
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Finally, Past Life: Two Israeli sisters must unravel the
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Why hundreds of Brazilian immigrants
flock to this suburb of Tel Aviv
MARCUS M. GILBAN
RAANANA, ISRAEL This small, quiet
town with an easy commute to Tel Aviv
may not have Rios breathtaking land-
scapes and beaches. It also lacks the
culture and nightlife that makes Sao
Paulo famous.
And yet, sleepy Raanana despite its
tendency to shut down almost completely
for Shabbat rapidly has become the pri-
mary destination for Brazilians who move
to Israel. Some 220 Brazilian families live
in this town of approximately 80,000 peo-
ple, and it is now the first choice among
the 1,800 Brazilians who have started the
aliyah process with the Jewish Agency
for Israel, an organization that assists
the Israeli government with immigration
and absorption.
Today, from synagogues to schoolyards,
the influx of Brazilians is palpable through-
out Raanana. You can hear Portuguese
on every corner here, said Oshra Sharvit,
the director of the local ulpan, the state-
subsidized school where new immigrants
can learn Hebrew. Sharvit estimates that
about one-fourth of her schools students
are from Brazil.
Raanana has been labeled the chosen
city by Brazilians, Sandro Maghidman,
a Brazilian immigrant who has lived in
Raanana since 2012, said.
Maghidman is an organizer of Kehila
Yalla Chaverim, or Lets Go Friends Com-
munity, a Facebook group with more
than 400 members thats a virtual meet-
ing place for Brazilians living in Raanana
and its environs. Online, its members
exchange experiences, meet for events,
Brazilian immigrants play a weekly soccer game in Raanana.
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60 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 3, 2017
and advertise services by and for Brazil-
ians, who offer everything from walking
dogs to making coxinhas, the deep-fried
chicken croquettes that Brazilians love.
The large group of Brazilian residents,
both vatikim old-timers and cha-
dashim newbies plays a pivotal role
to facilitate the integration of newcom-
ers, Maghidman said during a picnic
this month at Raanana Park celebrating
the groups first anniversary. Living in
Raanana is a privilege.
Last year, an all-time annual record
of 700 Brazilians immigrated to Israel.
That made the South American coun-
try the sixth-largest source of new immi-
grants to the Jewish state, after Russia,
Ukraine, France, the United States, and
the United Kingdom.
Violence is the most common reason
that Brazilian Jews cite for making aliyah.
The country has one of the highest homi-
cide rates in the world almost 60,000
murders a year, or 26 per 100,000 resi-
dents, according to a think tank, the Iga-
rape Institute.
By contrast, Raanana is considered one
of Israels safest cities.
Here I walk on the street without
looking back and with my earphones
in, said Denise Faldini, who moved to
Raanana in 2016 with her husband and
their 5- and 9-year-old children. My kids
have learned that, yes, car windows can
be opened.
Going back to Brazil is not an option
for me, added Faldini, who spent two
years on heavy medication after she was
abducted in her armored car in Sao Paulo
and forced to withdraw her own ransom
At a picnic at Raanana Park last month, Brazilian Israelis celebrate the first an-
niversary of Kehila Yalla Chaverim. 
from an ATM. I dont want to die because
of a cell phone and leave my kids orphans,
nor bury them for the same reason. Life is
not valued there.
Michel Abadi presides over a network of
120 volunteers, spread across Israel, who
support Brazilians before, during, and
after they immigrate. Abadi, a venture
capitalist, arrived in Raanana with his
wife and three kids in 2003. His parents
and several cousins came years later, too,
and his fourth child was born in Israel.
It is a set of factors: political situation,
street violence, economy, quality of public
services, greater transparency of informa-
tion about the Israeli reality among Bra-
zilian Jews, he said of the wave of immi-
gration. And even a snowball effect: the
more Brazilians come, the more Brazilians
they attract.
These new immigrants are drawn to cer-
tain institutions for example, the TALI
school, whose Hebrew acronym stands for
Enhanced Jewish Studies. Unlike most
Israeli schools, TALI emphasizes Jewish
and traditional values in the spirit of plu-
ralism; thats similar to what most Brazil-
ian Jewish schools teach. Israeli schools
tend to divide the strictly religious and the
purposefully secular.
In 2016, there were three Brazilian kids
in the entire school of nearly 500 stu-
dents. This year, however, there are seven
Brazilian kids in the TALI schools first
grade alone.
We wanted a school that offered a bit of
religion, but one that was not religious, as
well as a strong English curriculum, said
Lea Kaczemorska, whose two kids attend
the school.
Another example of the growing com-
munity is Or Israel, a small but cozy
SAMUEL GABBAY
60-family Orthodox synagogue estab-
lished in January 2017, led by Brazilian
Rabbi Ivo Zilberman, who gives his ser-
mons in Portuguese.
It goes beyond being a meeting place
for Brazilians to pray, said Martin Teit-
elbaum, who, as gabbai, assists the read-
ing of the Torah. There is also the social
and community side, where each member
feels part of a large family.
Then theres that real estate adage: loca-
tion, location, location. Raanana is cen-
trally located its less than 9 miles from
Tel Aviv and is sandwiched between Her-
zliya and Kfar Saba. The three cities have
the largest concentration of high-tech
industries in the country a backbone of
Israels economy.
Raanana also is known as a hub for
Anglo Jews, who come from English-
speaking countries. The town was
founded in the 1920s by a group of
New Yorkers, and some 20 percent
of its residents speak English as their
first language. For Brazilian Jews who
once dreamed of immigrating to the
United States but found it difficult to do
so legally, living in Raanana with its
upscale lifestyle, abundance of single-
family homes, and preponderance of
English speakers is the next-best thing.
But perhaps Nehama Efrati, the man-
ager of the absorption department at the
Raanana municipality, summarized Bra-
zilians interest in the city best: The Bra-
zilian aliyah matches Raanana with per-
fection, she said. Here they have both of
the best: keep their culture and integrate.
We respect both sides of this identity. We
dont want to be only blue and white, we
want all colors.
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Englewood Hospital
one of only three in state
to get straight As for
patient safety since 2012
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center has earned
an A designation from The Leapfrog Group, a
national nonprofit health care ratings organization,
for the 12th consecutive time since 2012 one of only
59 hospitals in the United States and three in New Jer-
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As the health care industry continues to evolve,
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We applaud all hospitals that earn an A for safety,
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Developed under the guidance of an expert panel,
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publicly available hospital safety data to assign A, B, C,
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Valley Hospital to host
program for women
on pelvic dysfunction
The Valley Hospital will host a free community health
program, Lets Talk About Dropped Bladders, on
Monday, November 13, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at The
Ridgewood Public Library, 125 N. Maple Ave, Ridge-
wood. This program is part of the Ridgewood Health
Series, a partnership between The Valley Hospital and
Ridgewood Public Library designed to bring Village
residents up-to-the-minute health and wellness educa-
tion and events for the whole family.
Even though one in 10 women suffer from condi-
tions related to pelvic floor dysfunction, most dont
feel comfortable talking about it. Women often feel
embarrassed sharing these intimate issues with their
friends and loved ones.
Pelvic organ prolapse occurs when one or more
of the pelvic organs the uterus, bladder, or rectum
lose their support due to weakening of the pelvic
floor and protrude into the vagina, often causing a
feeling of pressure in the pelvic area. Other symptoms
include urinary problems and lower backache.
Fortunately, there are many effective treatment
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and minimally invasive procedures, that can improve
quality of life and get the patient back to doing the
things they love, quickly, comfortably and with full
peace of mind.
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director for urogynecology and pelvic reconstructive
surgery, and learn about the latest treatment options
for this common condition.
There is no fee to attend this program, but registra-
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please call (800) 825-5391 or visit www.ValleyHealth.
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