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NOSHES ...............................................................4
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SYNAGOGUE DIRECTORY .......................... 17
COVER STORY ................................................ 28
JEWISH WORLD ............................................. 31
OPINION ...........................................................34
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THE FRAZZLED HOUSEWIFE ...................48
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ARTS & CULTURE ..........................................49
CALENDAR ......................................................50
OBITUARIES .................................................... 53
CLASSIFIEDS ..................................................54
REAL ESTATE.................................................. 56

Candlelighting:
Friday, August 17, 7:33 p.m.

Hydrox, the original

Shabbat ends:
Saturday, August 18, 8:34 p.m.

kosher sandwich cookie,

accuses Oreo of sabotage
● You know what Oreos are.
They’re two delicious chocolate
cookies sandwiched around a cream
filling. Oreos also come in Double
Stuff, vanilla, birthday cake and
pumpkin spice. (Really.)
There is some debate on how they
should be eaten, but everyone knows
they’re best when dunked in milk.
What you might not know is that
Oreos are just a copycat of Hydrox,
a sandwich cookie first sold in 1908,
four years before Oreos appeared
on shelves. Even though (or maybe
because?) they were second, Oreos
came to dominate the market, be-
coming a fixture in America’s gro-
cery stores.
But for most of the past century
plus, Hydrox has held on. And at
least in part it’s because of the Jews.
Until a glorious day in 1998, Hy-
drox was the premier kosher sand-
wich cookie on the market, while
Oreos remained “treif,” lacking a
kosher heksher, or seal of approval.
Growing up, I genuinely thought
Hydrox cookies were knockoff Oreos
produced specifically for religious
Jews. Oreos were the forbidden fruit,
and I still vividly remember when,
shortly after they became kosher
certified, my mom snagged a sleeve
of Oreos from a Jewish event. We
gobbled them up.
Hydrox stopped production in
2003, giving Oreo 12 years of a
monopoly, give or take a 100th an-
niversary promotion by Hydrox’s
then maker, Kellogg’s. A Pax Oreana,
if you will. But in 2015, Hydrox, now
part of Leaf Brands, sprang back
like a phoenix and has been trying
to duke it out with Oreo, David and
Goliath style.
And now it’s taking that battle to
Cops nab shul bingo goniff
the Federal Trade Commission ac-
● The caller at a suburban New York Police were tipped off to the alleged
cusing employees of Oreo’s parent
synagogue’s bingo game has been crime and called in the New York State
company, Mondelez, of blocking
charged with fraud for fixing the games. Gaming Commission to investigate
Hydrox from view when it stocks
Neil Simon Gross, 71, turned himself Gross. While the commission did not re-
Oreos on supermarket shelves. The
into police last week after being charged veal the extent of Gross’ alleged crime,
Facebook post says Mondelez uses
with gaming fraud, according toLohud. the felony charge implies that the value
a system called “direct store dis-
com, a local news site. Gross, who calls of the stolen cash exceeds $1,000.
tribution” in which employees of
out the numbers at the Yorktown Jewish Gross is due in court in September.
the brand, rather than supermarket
Center in Westchester County, alleg- The Yorktown Jewish Center’s web-
attendants, stock the cookies. This
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Hydrox aside when they put Oreo
boxes on the shelves.
Loyal Hydrox customers have
sent in pictures of the cookies being
boxed out by Oreos, moved be-
hind other products, or otherwise
obscured from customers. Hydrox
claims a major supermarket chain
brought up the problem at a meeting.
“We believe in competition and
choice but we firmly believe the folks
@Mondelez (the owners of Oreo)
have been undertaking a national
program to damage our brand and
stop us from competing,” Hydrox’s
post says. “Many of you over the last
few years have been great at taking
pictures when you see #hydroxcook-
ies being moved or blocked from
store shelves and we really appreci-
ate your help.”
Mondelez sounds unconcerned
about the complaint, telling Giz-
modo that it is “confident that this
accusation has no merit. The OREO
brand is an iconic one, with a proud
and rich history of delivering great
tasting products and exciting inno-
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“Our communications … were between two adults,
a gay man and a queer woman, who share an
Israeli heritage, as well as a penchant for florid
and campy communications arising from our
common academic backgrounds and sensibilities.”
— The New York Times included this quote, by NYU’s Dr. Avital
Ronell, denying a man-bites-dog claim of sexual harassment by
Dr. Nimrod Reitman, now of Harvard, then a graduate student.

AT THE MOVIES:

Catching up with
one worth catching
“BlackKkKlans-
man” opened last
week in theaters to great
reviews, and it’s being
heralded as the best
Spike Lee movie in many
years. I didn’t write about
the film sooner because
brief advance descrip-
tions didn’t mention that
one of the two most
important police officers
in the film is supposed to
be Jewish.
The film is based on
a 2014 memoir, “Black
Klansman,” by Ron Stall-
worth, the first African-
American hired as a
detective by the Colo-
rado Springs police de-
partment. Stallworth, as
depicted in the book and
the film, is assigned to the
department’s intelligence
division, and in that ca-
pacity he starts to investi-
gate the local Klan chap-
ter. Obviously, he can’t go
undercover to infiltrate
the Klan, so he recruits a
Jewish (in the film) police
officer, Flip Zimmerman,
to pretend to be a white
racist and get info on the
Klan. Adam Driver, who
isn’t Jewish, plays Zim-
merman, and John David
Washington, Denzel
Washington’s son, plays
Stallworth. There are sub-
plots and scenes involv-
ing Stallworth’s relation-
ship with a militant black
woman and with then
Klan leader David Duke.
Stallworth really did
enlist a white detective
to infiltrate the Klan.
However, in real life he
was not Jewish. Like-
wise, the militant black
woman is a composite of
several women. Howev-
er, the real-life, actually
pretty funny interaction
between Stallworth and
Duke is quite accurate
(won’t spoil it for you).
The credited screen-
writers are Lee, African
American comedian
Kevin Willmott, and two
white Jewish guys from
East Brunswick, DAVID
RABINOWITZ and
CHARLIE WACHTEL,
both 31. They gave their
first in-depth interview
about the Jewishness
of the film to the online
magazine Filmmaker on
August 9. First, the duo
optioned the rights to
Stallworth’s book. Then
they began writing a
screenplay. Rabinowitz
told the magazine that a
pivotal moment in their
writing was when they
decided to make the
white cop Jewish. Wach-
tel said, “I think it was just
a practical decision. If
you’re going to be living
with this character who
is going to infiltrate the
Klan, you may as well up
the stakes by giving him
some sort of personal
attachment.” Rabinowitz
then added: “It’s already
high stakes that he’s go-
ing undercover. Making
him Jewish just makes it
that much more. On top
David Rabinowitz
Gal Gadot
of that, we’re both Jew-
ish, so it just makes sense
writing something a little
bit more from our per-
spective; it was our way
into the story.”
Wachtel and Rabinow-
itz reworked the script for
a couple of years and sold
it to Lee. Wachtel and
Rabinowitz told “Film-
maker” that Lee and Will-
mott actually enhanced
their script’s Jewish
content, and anti-Semi-
tism (as well as racism)
remained a big part of
the film. (In other words,
good work all around.)
On the horizon
Variety reports
that GAL
“Wonder Woman”
GADOT, 33, is likely to
star in a Showtime
limited series about
Charlie Wachtel
Sarah Treem
actress and inventor
HEDY LAMARR (1914-
2000). Variety says that
Gadot was intrigued by
an interesting take on
Lamarr’s life presented
to her by SARAH
TREEM, 38. Treem is a
critically acclaimed
playwright who also has
a lot of TV cred — she
co-created and often
wrote the HBO series “In
Treatment”; she helped
launch “House of Cards”
on Netflix; and she
created and often writes
the Showtime hit “An
Affair.”
Netflix is still showing
“Bombshell,” an excel-
lent documentary about
Lamarr. (See my June
15 column.) If you watch
“Bombshell,” you’ll see
that Lamarr’s life was
so multifaceted and just
Sheldon Moldoff
Batwoman making
a TV comeback
● Ruby Rose, an openly lesbian Australian actress, has
been cast in the title role in “Batwoman,” an upcom-
ing CW cable channel series. Batwoman, aka Katherine
Kane, was co-created in 1956 by SHELDON MOLDOF.
The character’s introduction was motivated, in part, to
allay whispers that Batman was gay — she was the caped
crusader’s part-time love interest. The Batwoman char-
acter was phased out in 1966.
In light of Batwoman’s backstory, it was ironic when
the comic book Batwoman was revived in 2006 as a les-
bian character (who also is Jewish). We know that Ruby
Rose will play a lesbian Batwoman. However, there’s no
news on whether her TV Batwoman will remain Jewish.
There have been many fictional Jewish characters that
ceased being identified as Jewish when the character was
transferred from print to screen. –N.B.
plain weird that even an how Treem will address
ordinary viewer of this Lamarr’s relationship to
documentary can appre- her Jewishness. (By the
ciate that it would take way, the “Wonder Wom-
an extraordinary writer, an” sequel will not open
like Treem, to drama- until November, 2019)
tize it accurately. I am –N.B.
especially interested in

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Jewish identity, taught by emissaries and suitcases
Rabbi Kenneth Brander, lately of Teaneck,
on moving to Israel and new programs from Ohr Torah Stone
JOANNE PALMER
I
t’s not at all surprising that the
iconic object that Rabbi Dr. Ken-
neth Brander brought with him on
the Nefesh b’Nefesh flight that he,
his wife, Ruchie, and their youngest son,
Yitzchak, took together last month was a
suitcase.
The case is battered, heavy, oversized,
defiantly unwheeled, and old, probably
more accurately less a suitcase than a
valise. It went with Kenneth Brander’s
father, Rabbi Aaron Brander, when the
then 12-year-old Holocaust survivor left the
DP camp in Europe for New York.
We’ll get back to the valise itself, but
first, let’s consider what you use one for.
Traveling.
Rabbi Brander is the new head of Ohr
Torah Stone, the Israeli-based modern
Orthodox network of schools,
programs, and initiatives that
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, who had
headed Lincoln Square Syna-
gogue on Manhattan’s Upper
West Side before he made
aliyah, created 35 years ago.
Rabbi Brander, who spent
many years in many capacities
at Yeshiva University, and who
made aliyah from Teaneck,
went back and forth between
Israel and the United States
repeatedly as he transitioned
into his new job, and he plans
to continue traveling.
Among the many programs
that he’ll oversee is one that
involves almost constant traveling. It’s
a new initiative from Ohr Torah Stone’s
Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel foundation
programs. (The Straus-Amiel initiative is
sponsored by Daniel and Moshael Straus,
both of Englewood, and their families.)
“There are 200 couples from Ohr Torah
Stone institutions who serve diaspora
communities all over the world, from
Teaneck to Warsaw to Tblisi, and every
place in between,” Rabbi Brander said.
“From Latin America to North America
to Australia. We have 45 rabbinic couples
who are taking on new positions” — the
husbands are rabbis and the wives are
educators. “Two of them are in Teaneck
— the Waks family, who are going to Ben
Porat Yosef, and the Fish family, going to
Yeshivat He’Atid. The Straus and Amiel
foundations produce rabbis and educa-
tors for the diaspora.”
Those families largely stay put, at least
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for a year or two at a time. But there’s
more. “The Ministry of diaspora Affairs
came to us and said, ‘You are doing such a
great job that we want you to expand your
portfolio,’” Rabbi Brander reported. “‘We
want there to be 25 communities across
the globe where you send delegations of
three people seven times. We want you to
do Jewish identity education, Israel educa-
tion, and Jewish art and music.’”
Do the math. That’s a lot of trips.
The senior educator will stay the same
for each of the seven trips, Rabbi Brander
said; the other two will vary, depending on
the content.
It’s a logistically complicated program to
run. Each community must have an active
core of Jews, but no more than 10,000 of
them. The visitors — they’re called emis-
saries, or shlichim — will try to stay in a
geographic region, if you define region
broadly; In the United States, one set will
NEFESH B’NEFESH
At the airport, Rabbi Kenneth, Ruchie,
and Yitzchak Brander are ready to
board Nefesh B’Nefesh’s flight to
Israel, and Rabbi Aaron Brander hands
the suitcase he carried out of Europe
to his son, Rabbi Kenneth.
go to Ottawa, Ontario; West Hartford, Con-
necticut; and Buffalo, New York. Another
will go to New Orleans; Charleston, South
Carolina; and Cherry Hill. Other trios will
go to South America —one Spanish-speak-
ing group to Uruguay and two cities in
Argentina, another to Peru, Ecuador, and
Colombia, and a Portuguese-speaking
group will go to three communities in Bra-
zil. Another group will go to Central Amer-
ica — Guatemala City, Mexico City, and
Cancun. In Europe, one will go to three
cities in Poland, and another to Denmark,
Norway, and Finland. That means having
a group of three people, all able to speak
Danish, Norwegian, and the (entirely dif-
ferent) Finnish. How is that possible? “Wel-
come to the state of Israel,” Rabbi Brander
said in explanation.
Each trio offers about 10 or so programs
at each stop.
“We have just started this program,
and already we have had 258 identity pro-
grams, and we have had 7,881 participants
come to the 25 communities. And this is
literally just the first 35 days.”
The visitors work with the on-site emis-
saries, who can give them a good sense
of the community, and allow them to tai-
lor the programs to the people they want
to attract. “We are calling the program
Amiel BaKehila,” Rabbi Brander said. “As
opposed to the more permanent emissar-
ies who we have in place, these bring in
a surge of energy. They bring that energy
in, and then they leave, and then they go
back. And then they leave, and then they
go back.”
Amiel BaKehila is not aimed just at the
Orthodox community, Rabbi Brander said.
“We are working with the entire commu-
nity, and although most of our shlichim
are Orthodox, they aren’t all. Our goal is
to reach out to all the schools and syna-
gogues and federations and supplemental
schools.” The goal, he said, is to build Jew-
ish identity, in the way that works best for
each community and each Jew.
Therefore, he continued, Amiel BaKe-
hilah is not like the traditional keruv pro-
grams. It’s not standard outreach. “Our
agenda is not to make people Orthodox,”
he said. “It is to inform them, and help
them find a spiritual wave, and catch it,
and take it wherever it takes them. It cre-
ates multiple portals of connection. For
some it will be traditional classes. For
some it will be the Israeli component. For
some it will be music and art.
“To the credit of the Israeli Ministry of
diaspora Affairs, its agenda is not to make
Zionists, but to educate Jews about Juda-
ism. Not to educate them about Ortho-
doxy, but about Judaism.
“It is the Israeli government’s way of giv-
ing back.”
Rabbi Brander also talked a bit about his
own aliyah. “It’s wonderful, exciting, and
scary, all at the same time,” he said; it also
was so new that he did not feel qualified to
offer retrospective wisdom. “We were at a
wedding tonight,” he said. “It took place
overlooking a pathway from the Judean
Hills to Jerusalem. Knowing that in that
valley, 2,000 years ago, there were Jews
who used that pathway as a walkway to
Jerusalem… Knowing that when the Jewish
people were banished from Jerusalem they
probably also used that pathway…
“There are a few moments when it just
hits you.”
Did he think, at that wedding, that he
wasn’t just going to a hotel, but going
home? No, not really, he said. “Maybe I’ll
think about that more the next time, but
now it is too new.”
On the other hand, “We were at a
concert, at the artists colony by Yemin
Moshe, and the mayor, Mayor Barkat,
introduces it, and says by a show of
hands, how many people in the audience
are Jerusalemites?

“So we look at each other, and we real-
ize that we actually fit that category, and
we raise our hands, and all of a sudden
we realize that we don’t live on Winthrop
Road anymore.”
Then there’s the story of the suitcase,
which his father lugged to America and
he took on to Israel.
It became a bit of an Israeli phenomenon,
Rabbi Brander said. Because it’s too big to fit
in an airplane overhead bin, or under a seat,
he had to explain its history to the airline
employees who were checking in luggage.
They didn’t want to let him bring it on the
plane. “So you tell them, and all of a sud-
den there is no question that you can bring
it on, and they even call over a few people
to show it to them, and then you take it with
you when you go through the TSA check
and then you get onto the plane, and you
have to explain it to the flight attendants,
and then all of a sudden they are bringing
over all their friends, and finding the right
place for it, and talking about it as they bring
it back to find room for it in the closet.”
This was a Nefesh B’Nefesh flight, so
there was press attention. “I didn’t plan
to make it a media thing,” Rabbi Brander
said. “But I got interviewed on television
and in the national media. And then peo-
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you to ask you about the suitcase.”
It had gone viral.
There are two vitally and equally impor-
tant messages to the suitcase story, Rabbi
Brander said.
First, “You realize that the story of the
suitcase isn’t a personal story. It’s a national
story. You are making a statement.
“For so many years the Jewish people
have had to pack up their belongings in the
places where they resided. That suitcase
had been touched by people who saw the
most horrific things. And now it gets to a
place where that won’t happen.
“Now it is a vehicle of redemption, in a
place where it doesn’t have to be used in
that same way again.”
But don’t forget the second meaning of
this iconic object, Rabbi Brander said.
“Because of the beauty and freedom of
the United States, we are not running away
from anything,” he said. “We were the first
holders of that suitcase who were not run-
ning from something, but to something.
“That is a blessing that every Jew,
whether they live in the United States of
America or anywhere else in the world,
has to realize,” Rabbi Brander said. “The
United States of America represents a dif-
ferent paradigm of what it means to live
outside the land of Israel.
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“That can’t be ignored and shouldn’t be And we used to live in Florida before we
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It is critically important.” Raton, the hanging chad district.” (He
He recalls that he saw Joseph Lieber- was talking about the infamous paper bal-
man, the retired Democratic and then lots, with their dangling bits of paper, that
Independent senator from Connecticut, at decided the perilously close 2000 presi-
the airport, with his wife, Hadassah. Their dential election for Bush and Cheney — and
daughter was making aliyah. “I showed against Gore and Lieberman.)
them the suitcase,” Rabbi Brander said. “That’s not the typical history of the Jew-
“So here was Senator Lieberman, an ish people in the diaspora,” Rabbi Brander
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Rabbi David Fine and his wife, Alla Fine, stand in front of the Kremlin during a sightseeing break from a conference on Jewish law at Moscow State University.
Halacha in Russia
Ridgewood rabbi talks about Israel-sponsored conference on Jewish law in Moscow
JOANNE PALMER
I
t took a 30-page visa application to
get him there, but in July Rabbi Dr.
David J. Fine of Temple Israel and
JCC of Ridgewood found himself
sitting with a group of academics — most
of them Israeli — at Moscow State Univer-
sity, at an academic conference about the
relationship between Jewish and secular
Israeli law. (That’s Moscow, as in Russia,
not as in Idaho, by the way.)
He was at the conference less as Rabbi
Fine than as Dr. Fine, in his capacity as
professor at Abraham Geiger College, the
rabbinical seminary at the University of
Potsdam in Germany. “So there I was, in
Moscow, an American rabbi, represent-
ing a German seminary at an Israeli con-
ference in Russia,” he said. “It’s the kind
of thing you really can’t make up.
“It was a conference of the Jewish Law
Association, an international association
for academics who teach Jewish law in an
academic setting,” he continued. “Mos-
cow State has been committed to increas-
ing its Jewish studies offerings through-
out the whole university. They’ve made
efforts in other areas beyond this one.
“The conference was organized by the
law school at the University of Tel Aviv, in
conjunction with the law faculty at Mos-
cow State. And by the way,” he added
helpfully, “in Europe, school divisions
are called faculties.”
The relationship between Israel and
Russia is unlike the one between Russia
and the United States, and that differ-
ence affects Israelis; so does geography.
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David and Alla Fine meet with Vadim Polyansky, president of the Masorti Jewish
Community Center in Saint Petersburg.
“It is very easy for Israelis to go to Rus-
sia,” Rabbi Fine said. “They don’t need
a visa, it’s the same time zone, and it is
both close and cheap.”
To get to Russia from the United States,
on the other hand, it takes filling out a
long, detailed questionnaire in order
to get a visa; once you’ve gotten it, of
course, the flight is long and expensive.
That probably is why there were so few
other American academics at this confer-
ence, Rabbi Fine said.
In its unlikely details, the conference
also exhibited the connections that bind
together Jewish life.
“There was a professor there, another
American, who teaches at the Univer-
sity of Texas in Austin,” Rabbi Fine said.
“I had never met him before, but I sat
next to him at dinner at the new Jewish
museum in Moscow. He grew up in Scars-
dale — where I was the rabbi for seven
years, before I came to Ridgewood. And
we both went to Wesleyan; he graduated
in the 70s and I graduated in the 90s,
so we knew the same Jewish professors
there, but I knew them from when they
were about to retire and he knew them
from when they were young.
“So there we were, talking about our
small New England college in a museum
in Moscow. It shows the connections of
the Jewish world.”
Moscow State University is Russia’s
Harvard, Rabbi Fine said, and its host-
ing a conference on Jewish law with Tel
Aviv University is a big deal. The primary
language was English, as is the case at
most international conferences; the sec-
ond language was Hebrew. Russian was
a distant third, although there was some
translation provided. “There was a way
for Russian law students to participate,”
Rabbi Fine said.
The conference was about mishpat
Ivri — halacha, Israeli law, and values and
concepts that flow from one to the other.
“It’s the study of Jewish law through an
academic lens as the cultural and legal
heritage for Israeli law,” Rabbi Fine said.
“There were times, when the state of
Israel was being established, that people
looked to the canons of Jewish law as
precedent for Israeli law.
“The idea of Jewish law as a foundation
for a secular system of law was first imag-
ined 100 years ago by secular Zionists in
Moscow. So the idea of the conference —
its theme — was to go back to Moscow to
celebrate 100 years of mishpat Ivri.
“After all the years of the Soviet Union,
when Judaism was suppressed, when all
religion was suppressed — to have a con-
ference sponsored by Moscow State Uni-
versity, to have a celebration of Jewish
law, makes a powerful statement in terms
of the perseverance of Judaism, and of the
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and grandeur, and it was in everyone’s faces. You
could see why the revolution started there.”
But as there always are, there were Jews with invi-
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and I gave a speech. I said that when I was growing
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very beautiful,” Rabbi Fine said.
Still, more importantly, “I came to Saint Peters-
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told the Russian Jews at Shabbat dinner. “I will leave
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How do people’s wrists work?
Student interns study this and other scientific questions at Bar Ilan University
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
D
o you and I move our wrists in
the same way? Is there a stan-
dard way to move your wrists?
Or are human wrist move-
ments completely random? And does it
matter one way or the other?
College students Mark Kaplan of Wood-
cliff Lake and Chana Tropp of Teaneck
spent seven weeks of their summer vaca-
tion in an Israeli physics lab, working
on a project that will help answer those
questions
They were among 28 undergradu-
ate science majors participating in the
eighth annual Summer Science Research
Internship program, a program spon-
sored jointly by Israel’s Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity in Ramat Gan and Yeshiva University
in New York.
This year’s interns hailed from Yeshiva
University (Yeshiva College for men and
Stern College for Women), Princeton Uni-
versity, UCLA, SUNY Binghamton, Barry
University, Cooper Union, Queens Col-
lege, and City College.
Mr. Kaplan, a 22-year-old YU phys-
ics major, and Ms. Tropp, a 21-year-old
applied mathematics major at Queens,
were placed in Dr. Ronny Bartsch’s phys-
ics lab.
“The goal of their project was to investi-
gate statistical physics measures that char-
acterize the properties of actigraphy — a
non-invasive method of tracking human
rest and activity cycles — fluctuations in
order to monitor the rehabilitation of
patients with traumatic brain injury,” Dr.
Bartsch said.
Putting it in plainer English, Mr. Kaplan
explained that if you track wrist move-
ments of healthy people via an actimetry
sensor worn like a watch for a week or
10 days, you’ll find that their wrist move-
ments are surprisingly similar and corre-
lated. And that’s true, moreover, whether
the subjects are asleep or awake.
“What that means we don’t know,” Mr.
Kaplan said. “There is something in our
brain or autonomous nervous system
that’s the same in every healthy human
being, regardless of activity level. We’re
trying to give this a medical application
for patients with traumatic brain injury.”
Actigraphy, he said, could help thera-
pists assess how far from normal such
patients are at the start and then measure
their progress in therapy by comparing
their wrist movement patterns to those of
healthy people.
“In Israel they’ve developed a way to
help stroke patients by injecting Botox in
the arm muscles to help control spasms,”
Mr. Kaplan said. “In Dr. Bartsch’s lab we
developed a potential method to measure
10 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 17, 2018
Bar-Ilan University summer lab partners Mark Kaplan of Woodcliff Lake and
Chana Tropp of Teaneck work together.
different levels of treatment to see how
random or not random the movements
are. Today it’s mainly guesswork.”
Ms. Tropp said the BIU-YU summer pro-
gram enabled her “to develop valuable
programming skills and apply statistical
physics methods to real-world problems.
It was rewarding to be able to be in Israel
and take advantage of living in this incred-
ible country, while also having the oppor-
tunity to give back to the Israeli scientific
community in my own small way.”
Devorah Saffern of Bergenfield, a chem-
ical and biological engineering major at
Princeton, worked in Prof. Yitzhak Mas-
tai’s chemistry lab. Her project involved
coaxing amino acids to form spherical
crystal structures that have potential use
in the design of pharmaceutical tablets,
and trying to understand the mechanism
by which these structures form.
“This research program has allowed
me to explore my interest in chemistry
research, apply my coursework to inter-
esting and applicable experiments, and
engage in the scientific community in
Israel,” Ms. Saffern said.
Zvi Goldstein of Passaic, now going
into his second year as a physics major
at Yeshiva, worked with Israeli Ph.D. stu-
dent Sagie Asraf in Prof. Zeev Zalevsky’s
engineering lab. They experimented with
a laser-based imaging system to sense the
interaction of light and material waves
within fibers. (In physics-speak, this is
called Brillouin scattering.) Theoretically,
fibers could be inserted into construction
materials and the waves within them mea-
sured by the imaging system as a way of
checking the structural integrity of a build-
ing or bridge.
Talia Schiff of Teaneck interned in Dr.
David Anaki’s cognitive neuropsychology
lab. The 20-year-old Stern College psy-
chology/neuroscience major assisted in a
study on facial recognition and memory
from behavioral and electrophysiological
standpoints. She was involved in design-
ing the experiment, recruiting and testing
participants, analyzing data, and planning
future steps.
“By providing me the opportunity to
gain profound experience in both the field
and country that engage my passions, this
program has humbled, empowered, and
aided me in contemplating my own future
in contributing to the world of brain sci-
ence and the land and people of Israel,”
Ms. Schiff said.
Stern College speech pathology and
audiology majors Nurit Esral and Moreet
Levine of Teaneck interned at Bar-Ilan’s
Language Acquisition Lab in the univer-
sity’s Multidisciplinary Brain Research
Center.
Working with Prof. Sharon Armon-
Lotem of the department of English litera-
ture and linguistics and Dr. Carmit Altman
of the Churgin School of Education, their
research focused on bilingual Israelis from
English-speaking homes.
They examined clinical language assess-
ments collected over the last 15 years in
Israel to determine whether sociocultural
differences among bilingual Israelis affect
clinical language-evaluation test results.
They also were involved in a pilot
project transcribing and coding stories
told by bilingual children, some of them
diagnosed with developmental language
disorder, to test the effect on narrative
skills and vocabulary of an intervention
administered in the home language. And
they coded narratives of bilingual adults
with aphasia to look for patterns indicat-
ing whether mistakes in their speech are
actual errors or attempts to compensate
for language deficiencies.
Ms. Esral explained that their interest
in this work was sparked by two interns
from the previous summer who had done
research in the same lab. “The internship
has enabled me to learn about speech
pathology and linguistics from a differ-
ent angle through taking an active role in
research,” she said. “I gained tools that I
can use as a practicing clinician.”
Ms. Levine said she is interested in
working with cancer patients with speech
impairments. Her experience this summer
at Bar-Ilan “has given me an appreciation
for the research that is necessary for devel-
oping treatment methods that clinicians
use on a regular basis.”
It was rewarding
to be able to
be in Israel and
take advantage
of living in this
incredible country,
while also having
the opportunity to
give back to the
Israeli scientific
community in my
own small way.
Prof. Arlene Wilson-Gordon of Bar-
Ilan’s chemistry department directed this
year’s program. Based on the students’
academic background and interests, she
paired them with Bar-Ilan faculty mem-
bers and research assignments. “We hope
that some of them will return to Bar-Ilan
for their graduate studies and make their
homes in Israel,” she said.
The students were housed at Yeshiva
University’s Jerusalem campus and were
treated to half-day trips around the coun-
try, including to Israel Aerospace Indus-
tries, the Volcani Center Agricultural
Research Organization, Sheba Medical
Center, Teperberg Winery, and the Tel es-
Safi/Gath archeological excavation site.
They also heard lectures by BIU scholars
and took part in nighttime activities, Torah
learning, and Shabbat programming.
The Summer Science Research Intern-
ship Program is supported by Dr. Mordecai
D. Katz, honorary chairman of the Bar-Ilan
Board of Trustees, and the J. Samuel Harwit
Z’L and Manya Harwit-Aviv Charitable Trust.
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More than a fish tale

Rabbi Chaim Jachter of Teaneck writes about Jonah
LARRY YUDELSON

F
orty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
That was the warning presented by the
prophet Jonah, according to the biblical book
that bears his name.
Forty days, and it shall be Yom Kippur.
That is the warning presented by the coming of the
month of Elul last Sunday.
Yes, the season of repentance has begun, even if the
season of August vacations has not passed, and it seems
a propitious time to speak with Teaneck’s Rabbi Chaim
Jachter about his new book, “The Depths of Yonah:
Unleashing the Power of Your Yom Kippur.” (Yonah is
Jonah in Hebrew.)

I had never taught it

before in depth. I was a
nervous Nellie. It turned
out to be the biggest
bracha — a blessing.
I was not satisfied with
any of the current books
on Yonah. Some were
too academic. Others
were just anthologies
of interpretations
without analysis.
Rabbi Jachter leads Shaarei Orah — The Sephardic
Congregation of Teaneck. He also teaches Bible at the
Torah Academy of Bergen County, also in Teaneck.
This book came about because last year Rabbi Jachter
was assigned to teach Jonah to four different classes. (At
TABC, all four grades study the same Jewish texts, allow-
ing a common conversation throughout the school.)
“I had never taught it before in depth,” Rabbi Jachter
said. “I was a nervous Nellie. It turned out to be the big-
gest bracha” — a blessing.
As he immersed himself in preparation and study,
“I was not satisfied with any of the current books on
Yonah,” he said. Some were too academic. Others were
just “anthologies of interpretations without analysis,” he
said.
His work is different. It is focused toward the book’s
role as the Yom Kippur afternoon reading.
“What are the lessons we learn?” he asked. “How
should it impact us?”
In both his class and his book, Rabbi Jachter recounts
the medieval commentators’ classic interpretations of
the biblical story. Then “we try to add another level,” he
said. “We try to make our contribution to the tradition.
At the end of the day, as the Gemara says, there’s no
study hall without an innovation.”
So what is it with Jonah and Yom Kippur?
“The bottom line is that we have a mission in this
world,” Rabbi Jachter said. Just as Jonah was assigned
by God to prophesy to Nineveh, “God has
put us on a mission. We can try to dodge
that mission but it’s not going to work.
Hashem is going to keep us on track for
that mission.
“It’s a sobering thought. It’s probably
the most serious lesson to hear on Yom
Kippur. On a mystical level, there’s a
belief in gilgulim” — reincarnation. “We’ll
have to come back again” if we avoid our
mission. “You don’t have to go as far” as
reincarnation,” he said. “You have a job
to do in the world. Stay the course. Keep Rabbi Chaim Jachter
on with the godly mission.”
Rabbi Jachter said that Jonah also revolves around a
theological issue that is at the heart of the High Holiday
liturgy. “The real struggle is midas hadin” — God’s attri- his release even while he’s still in the fish. It’s the Jewish
bute of judgment — “versus midas harachamim,” God’s
attribute of mercy.
“Yom Kippur is about convincing God to be more
lenient. Yonah tried to convince God to be more strict.
In the end God explains why He is more lenient. The
book is ultimately a triumph of God’s midas haracha-
mim. It’s one of the major reasons we read it on Yom
Kippur.”
Here’s another practical lesson Rabbi Jachter found
in Jonah.
“When the people of Nineveh try to do teshuva, to
repent, they made their animals fast and covered the
animals with sack cloths,” he said. “It’s bizarre.”
This should serve as a warning: “This is what hap-
pens when one tries to repent and do teshuva without
proper direction. Without proper guidance people act
bizarrely; a person will head in a very
unhealthy direction even though they’re
trying to reach out to God.”
Then there’s the fish. Was Jonah indeed
swallowed by a fish? Or is the story an
allegory?
Rabbi Jachter presents both perspec-
tives in his book. He champions the lit-
eral approach. But he also offers an origi-
nal allegorical interpretation: “Yonah in
the fish is like the Jewish people in exile.
As a representative of the Jewish people,
Hashem would not let Yonah die, just like
God wouldn’t let the Jewish people die
out. Even in exile he is not forgotten.”
And another original insight: “Yonah thanks God for
power of positive thinking, the idea that if you visualize
success it will help you achieve it.”
Not all of the insights that are original to the book are
the products of Rabbi Jachter himself. Throughout the
book he attributes insights to particular students of his,
who came up with them in class.
One former TABC student plays a special role — Rabbi
Jachter’s oldest son, Binyamin.
Binyamin was studying in yeshiva in Israel last year,
but sometimes his father would patch him into the class
on speakerphone. He also reviewed drafts of the book’s
chapters.
“He has a very creative mind,” his father said. “This book
is permeated with dozens and dozens of his insights. Some
I quote in his name; others are just integrated in the text.”
Binyamin is listed as the co-author of the book.

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The day’s golfers
JCC plays ‘fore’ the kids
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades held
its 18th annual “Play Fore! the Kids Golf,
Tennis and Games” on August 6. Partici-
pants gathered at Montammy Golf Club in
Alpine for the course and courts — canasta
and mah jongg — and cocktails, dinner,
and an auction. The day raised more than
$300,000 to support programming for
children with special needs who come
to the JCC to participate in educational
and recreational programs that enhance
their quality of life. “Providing meaning-
ful experiences for children with different
abilities is a core JCC mission,” the JCC’s
CEO, Jordan Shenker, said.
A highlight of the evening was Louanna
14 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 17, 2018
Branca and her husband, Danny Boylan,
parents of twins who were born prema-
turely and spent months in the neona-
tal unit at Hackensack University Medi-
cal Center. One of the twins, Ethan, was
diagnosed with autism spectrum disor-
der. After a long search for treatment, the
family was referred to the JCC Guttenberg
Center for Special Services, which helped
him immensely and improved life for the
entire family.
Sponsors included the Hechler fam-
ily, the Kurtz and Spadaccini families,
Maggie Kaplen and the Kaplen Foun-
dation, the Tesser family, the Rubach
family, Jill and Jason Rubach, the Zeller
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family, and Englewood Health. Daniel
Cohn, Cory Hechler, and Tracy Reichel
were event chairs, Michel Fox Blum and
Jamie Molluzzo were auction co-chairs,
and Stephanie Cohn, Jenna Gutmann,
and Jillian Somberg were games and ten-
nis co-chairs. The committee included
Brandis Bukzin, Becky Canarick, Nanette
Greenberg, Amy Handman, Jonathan
Marks, Sarah Nanus, Erica Polavieja,
Jacqueline Pollack, Heather Rabinowitz,
Beth Rubach, Eva Rubach, JoJo Rubach,
Lindsay Skulnik, Joanna Wald, Hope
Waxman, and Jill Zimmerman. The JCC One of the presenting sponsors,
is still accepting donations at jccotp.org/ Richard Kurtz, left, stands with the
playforethekids. JCC’s CEO, Jordan Shenker.
The event committee
included Jonathan
Marks, Jenna Gutmann,
Dan Cohn, Stephanie
Cohn, Jillian Somberg,
Tracy Reichel, Cory
Hechler, Jamie Molluzzo,
Michel Fox-Blum,
Jacqueline Pollack,
Beth Rubach, and
Becky Canarick.
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which protects American businesses
from pressure by international organi-
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DIRECTORY
You Are Cordially Invited…
Closter
Temple Emanu-El of Closter
 What does being Jewish mean today?
What is my role in the community?
How can I help Israel?
If these questions or others like
them have ever entered your mind,
step into Temple Emanu-El.
Our inviting atmosphere inspires
everyone from children to seniors to
learn and connect. Our adult educa-
tion programs offer classes on ethics,
Nursery School, Religious School & Religious, Educational and Social Activities
Israel, the lifecycle, Jewish music, and
Daily Morning & Evening Minyans
so much more.
Spiritual Leaders Our social action calendar is filled
Rabbi Alberto Zeilicovich and Cantor Andrew Schultz with people actively engaged in acts
of chesed and tzedakah.
High Holiday Guest Cantor Aharon Nof
Daily services at Temple Emanu-El
201-797-9321 ~ www.tbsfl.org provide a forum for mourners and
40-25 Fair Lawn Avenue, Fair Lawn celebrants alike to worship in our ma-
jestic prayer spaces.
Our religious school curriculum
Special introductory rate for first time,
brings Judaism alive and blends our
first year members is $436
history and faith with today’s real-
world experiences. Our students are
engaged and motivated to incorpo-
rate our traditions into their daily lives.
Our Shabbat observances are cen-
tered around singing, reflection, wres-
tling with big and important ideas,
and breaking bread together.
At Temple Emanu-El we exemplify
being active for Israel and in Israel.
Multiple missions annually for differ-
ent demographics, along with speak-
ers and activities, are just some of the
ways we connect each person at our
Temple to our homeland.
We look forward to welcoming you
into our family.
180 Piermont Road. www.templee-
manu-el.com. (201) 750-9997.
Englewood
Welcome to the Congregation Kol
HaNeshamah
Temple Emanu-El family! Congregation Kol HaNeshamah
(Voice of the Soul) is the only Conser-
vative synagogue serving the Engle-
David-Seth Kirshner, Rabbi wood/Tenafly community. We are a
Alex Freedman, Assistant Rabbi Havurah style egalitarian shul. Shab-
Israel Singer, Cantor bat and holiday Services are highly
participatory and musical. Beginning
Fran Weingast, President this Sukkot, September 24, we look
forward to welcoming our new rabbi
• Personable and inspiring clergy Lindsey Healey-Pollack. In addition
• Warm and welcoming community to the rabbi, our members also lead
prayers, leyn (chant from the Torah),
• Meaningful Shabbat and Holiday services and offer divrai Torah (teaching).
• Hands-on Social Action Committee Discussion during services is encour-
aged. Kol HaNeshamah is deeply
• Active Sisterhood and Men’s Club
committed to tikkun olam (heal-
• Engaging and Motivating Religious School program ing the world). Members and their
• Full calendar of Adult Education programming children participate in a number of
community projects such as staffing a
• Committed and active Israel Action groups homeless shelter, leading holiday ser-
vices for hospital patients, and visiting
JOIN US! nursing homes.
Hebrew school for grades K-7 and
Special Membership Rates and Unique Programs Hebrew High School are available
for Young Couples/Families through our affiliate community
schools. Adult Talmud and synagogue
FOR MORE INFORMATION: skills classes are led by our mem-
CALL 201.750.9997 bers and visiting scholars. Commu-
WEB - www.templeemanu-el.com nity events and celebrations such as
Facebook.com/TempleEmanuElCloster
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Chanukah and Purim parties, Shabbat
luncheons, Friday night dinners, book
club, sports teams, and theater trips
provide opportunities to share the joy
of Jewish living in an atmosphere that
is warm and respectful of the diver-
sity of observance.
High Holiday tickets are free, but
reservations arerequired. Call (201)
816-1611 or e-mail Info@KHNJ.org.
Shabbat morning and holiday services
are held weekly on the premises of
St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 113 Engle
Street, Englewood. Services begin at
9:45 a.m. Children’s services at 10:30
a.m. Visit www.KHNJ.org.
Sha’ar Communities
Sha’ar Communities is a ground-
breaking suburban initiative in North-
ern New Jersey founded by Rabbi
Adina Lewittes, inspired by a broad
vision of Jewish renaissance, and led
by a team of dedicated lay leaders.
Sha’ar welcomes people of all back-
grounds, and especially seeks to cre-
ate inviting access into Judaism for
singles, LGBTQ Jews, Jews by Choice,
interfaith/multi-heritage families and
individuals, and Jews of color.
A city of many gates. A commu-
nity of many entries. A heart of many
rooms. People are drawn to Jew-
ish life by different values, priorities
and interests, and yet they share a
yearning to belong — to be part of
something larger than themselves,
something that inspires, informs, and
sanctifies their search for meaning
and purpose in our fast-changing
world. A desire for connection mo-
tivates people to seek relationships
with others rooting their lives in Jew-
ish wisdom and tradition, and plant-
ing their souls in the nourishing soil of
Jewish spirituality. In response, Sha’ar
Communities creates multiple gates
(“Sha’ar” = gate) through which peo-
ple can enter, explore and celebrate
Jewish life. Music-filled, evocative
prayer. Deep, transformative study.
Educational, adventurous travel. Per-
sonalized, meaningful lifecycle rituals.
Courageous, committed social activ-
ism. Curious, creative cultural experi-
ences. Together our gates offer a radi-
cally inclusive, innovative, affordable
and pluralistic model for contempo-
rary Jewish living. Our name, Sha’ar,
is formed in the singular to convey
the single, sacred, core community
to which each of our gateways lead,
and our shared commitment to raise
a compelling Jewish voice with which
to join the global conversation about
spirituality, ethics and social responsi-
bility in the 21st century.
For more information and to learn
more about Sha’ar Communities
please contact us.
Rabbi Adina Lewittes, Founder
rabbi@shaarcommunities.org
(201) 220-6743
Andrew Pittel, President
shaarcommunities2@gmail.com
(201) 232-9999
www.shaarcommunities.org
PO Box 1625 Fort Lee, NJ 07024
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• Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Fair Lawn classes, special events, and a scholar-in- covich and Cantor Andrew Schultz,
residence program. Temple Beth Sholom is a traditional

Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation B’nai Israel
The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congre-
gation B’nai Israel invites you to join
our welcoming, egalitarian Conserva-
tive congregation. Spiritually uplifting,
educationally inspiring, socially vibrant,
we create community and connection
Our religious school for grades K-7,
the Howard and Joshua Herman Educa-
tional Center, nurtures Jewish identity
and learning. The school meets two
days a week, utilizing innovative cur-
riculum, including extensive use of
technology. A specially trained faculty
member helps enable students with
learning differences or disabilities to
Youn
Conservative congregation affiliated
with United Synagogue of Conservative
Judaism. It serves the religious, cultural,
and social needs of 150 households in
the Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, Paramus, and
Ridgewood areas.
Temple Beth Sholom is a founding
member of the Northern New Jersey
Jewish Academy, a consortium school

through prayer, education and social of-
ferings for all ages.
The FLJC is strengthened by its
diverse membership, including fami-
lies, couples, singles, Jews by Choice,
interfaith families, and members of the
succeed. For information, contact Rab-
bi Keven Friedman, Principal, at (201)
796-7884 or principal@fljc.com.
10-10 Norma Ave., Fair Lawn, NJ 07410.
(201) 796-5040. www.fljc.com.
Follow us on Facebook at www.face-
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with programs from pre-K to seventh
grade.
The state-licensed Helen Troum Nurs-
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developmentally appropriate program
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LGBT community. By enabling all to book.com/FairLawnJewishCenter. enrichment, early care, a Mommy and
worship, learn, celebrate and find sup- Me program, and a summer camp. The
port, the FLJC creates an openhearted Temple Beth Sholom school welcomes families with children

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atmosphere in which to live Jewishly. For over 60 years, Temple Beth Sholom from other congregations and unaf-
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hard Tannenbaum,
groups. Sisterhood and Men’s Progress
Club provide myriad activities, includ-
ing educational and social events like
concerts, comedy nights, and game
nights. Our synagogue community
munity to feel the warmth of its friendly
congregation and inspiring services.
The synagogue offers a variety of adult
education programs, family program-
ming, and activities sponsored by our
Debora Lesnoy at (201) 797-2865 or
email dlesnoytbs@yahoo.com.
Temple Beth Sholom is offering an
introductory first year rate for first time
members of $436. Call the office for

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shares a commitment to righteous- Sisterhood, Men’s Club, Social Action details at (201) 797-9321. Visit www.
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SAVE THE DATES · SEPTEMBER 2018 Fort Lee where every member matters.
Want to learn more? Visit our web-
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find out all about us and check out
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our calendar of events and services,
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Rabbi Leiah Moser area that holds a twice-daily minyan. are valued asset to the congregation.
RSVP by Wednesday, September 9th)
Pleaseto join
our theReconstructionist
members of Reconstructionist community — Why join? We offer a multitude of
PleaseService
join atthe 6:30 members
p.m. of Reconstructionist Our membership includes people
Congregation Beth Israel for athelively, catered erev
Looking for a place
Congregation Bethwe’ll to
Israel save
celebrate
for you
High
a lively, a Days?
Holy
cateredseat!
erev programs that engage everyone from and families from Bergen and Passaic
Rosh
Ask Hashana
about our dinner
“free on for
seats Sunday, September
first-timers” 13th.
program!
Rosh Hashana
Ask aboutdinner on our Sunday,
free September
seats 13th.
for first-timers tots to seniors: one of the pre-emi- counties, New York, and beyond.
Looking for a place to celebrate the High Holy Days?
Get
Ask about to program;
Dinner
our know seatsus
and/or
“free and
forseat our new
contact
reservation
first-timers” rabbi,
program! and and find out
rcbi@synagogue.org.
information: nent Hebrew Schools in Bergen Coun- Shabbat morning services run
Get to know us and our new rabbi, and find out
more about what makes RCBI so special.
carynstarr@yahoo.com ty, vibrant adult education programs,
Dinnermore about
and/or
RCBI what
seat reservation
“frequent makes RCBI socontact
and information:
fliers”: special. the synagogue office promptly 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon, every
carynstarr@yahoo.com an active Sisterhood and Men’s Club,
for a ticket
Visit us Dinner:
online form (or sendp.m.email to the rcbi address).
at: www.rcbi-online.org
5:00 Saturday. You are invited to light re-
Dinner: 5:00 p.m.
Visit us online at: www.rcbi-online.org
($25 adults, $12 kids ages 12 & under; and special programs for teens. Our freshments at Kiddish 12 noon to 12:30
($25 adults, $12 kids ages 12 & under; rabbi hosts day trips every month
RSVP by Wednesday, September 9th)
RSVP by Wednesday, September 9th)
p.m. immediately following services.
Service to locales that explore our heritage The services are conducted under the
Service at
at 6:30
6:30 p.m.
p.m. and culture. Our atmosphere of joy, leadership of Rabbi Joseph Prouser.
warmth, and spirituality brings fami- Our synagogue is at 558 High Moun-
Looking for a place to celebrate the High Holy Days? lies back from generation to genera- tain Road in Franklin Lakes, overlook-
Looking for a place to celebrate the High Holy Days?
Ask about our “free seats for first-timers” program!
475 Grove Street
Ask about •seats
our “free Ridgewood, NJ 07450
for first-timers” program! tion. With respect, a non-judgmental ing the beautiful Franklin Lakes Na-
Dinner and/or seat reservation and information: attitude, and a supportive outlook, ture Preserve. We can be reached at
201-444-9320
Dinner and/or seat reservation and information:
carynstarr@yahoo.com our goal is to foster a positive Jewish
carynstarr@yahoo.com www.tenjfl.org and (201) 560-0200.
www.synagogue.org experience, and family atmosphere Please visit us.
Visit us online at: www.rcbi-online.org
Visit us online at: www.rcbi-online.org
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Glen Rock
Glen Rock Jewish Center
the Glen rock Jewish Center is a welcoming, vi-
brant, egalitarian congregation with a strong com-
mitment to purposeful Jewish living. we also know
how to have fun. Our social hall comes alive with
weekly events and activities that are sure to appeal.
there is always something happening at GrJC. Our
synagogue blends and balances the rich teachings
of our Jewish heritage with the very best lessons
of modern culture. we are proud of our participa-
tory services, and our commitment to social action
and social programming. Our adult education, Men’s
Club and sisterhood events offer something for
everyone, along with our flourishing nursery school,
and hebrew school.
the great rabbi hillel taught: “Become a part of
your community” (Pirke avot 2:5). it is our hope that
you will become part of our community, and that we
may all grow together. Make your family part of our
family!
we would be happy to answer any questions you
have about our programs and services. Come meet
our rabbi, Jennifer schlosberg. Our synagogue is at
682 harristown road in Glen rock. For information
email office@grjc.org or call (201) 652-6624.
You Are Cordially Invited…
Hoboken teer projects help us to engage with Judaism through our
minds, our hearts, and our hands. Find out more about
The United Synagogue of Hoboken our congregation, and about Jewish life in hoboken, at
www.hobokensynagogue.org or www.facebook.com/
the United synagogue of hoboken is hoboken’s
hobokensynagogue.
vibrant, inclusive, and participatory Jewish com-
munity, serving hudson County. we have revived a
historic synagogue building and century-old Jewish
community, and we strive to nurture and renew the
spark of Judaism in each individual.
rabbi robert scheinberg has led the community
with sensitivity and wisdom since 1997 (see www.
rabbischeinberg.blogspot.com). educational pro-
grams for all ages, led by early Childhood director
rachelle Grossman and Learning Center director
Grace Gurman-Chan, help our children to embark on
the adventure of Jewish life and experiential Jewish
learning. Our partnerships with organizations like
Moishe house hoboken and Jewish Young adults
of hoboken help Jewish young adults in our area
to forge connections with the Jewish community.
For over a decade we have hosted the introduction
to Judaism program of the rabbinical assembly of
new Jersey, drawing adults from around the state
to explore Judaism in a comfortable and validating
atmosphere. services on weekdays, shabbat, and
holidays are musical, participatory, and thought-pro-
voking. Concerts, films, guest speakers, and volun-
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You Are Cordially Invited…
ends (201) 560-0200
Leonia Mahwah
ovah www.tenjfl.org
Congregation Adas Emuno
www.facebook.com/tenjfl
brings us music and prayer that uplifts and enlivens
our services. She also serves as director of our religious
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, at 280 Ramapo Valley
Our synagogue is located at 558 High Mountain Road
We are an inclusive Reform synagogue that has served
the northern Hudson and Bergen County area since our
school, a place of joyful learning that encompasses Jew-
ish culture, prayer and Hebrew. Our congregants find Road, is a warm and welcoming Reform congre-
in Franklin Lakes, overlooking the beautiful Franklin Lakes
founding in 1871. Rabbi Barry Schwartz welcomes all ample opportunities to join together and participate gation serving Rockland and Bergen counties. Its
more than 400 families are led by enthusiastic lay
to Shabbat evening services and morning Torah study, in Shabbat and holiday services, adult education, and
Nature Preserve. Our community is boundless!
bringing a wealth of knowledge and insight that deep- meaningful social action programs. Learn more about leaders in cooperation with Rabbi Ilana Schwartz-
ens our understanding of Judaism and our appreciation us at www.adasemuno.org. Or leave a message at the man and Cantor David Perper. In addition to invit-

The Holidays are just the beginning…

of Jewish writings and history. Cantor Sandy Horowitz
temple office (201) 592-1712. ing and spiritual services, it offers an introductory
young family membership, outstanding one-day-
a-week religious school, including a unique family
school (grades K-2 free of charge for member fam-
ilies), junior-senior youth groups, vibrant lifelong

Join us for
learning, junior and adult choirs, and brotherhood,

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sisterhood, and social action groups. Friday eve-
egation ning Shabbat services are held at 6 p.m. on the first
d. Friday of the month and 7:30 p.m. the remaining

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Fridays. We offer a family service on the first Friday
983 of each month. For more information call (201) 512-
p.m. 1983 or go to www.bethhaverimshirshalom.org

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Music • Spirit • Passion • Intellect Paramus
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Depth • Warmth • Humor • Nature • Connection Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth Tikvah
nce
304 E. Midland Ave.
ool Paramus, NJ 07652
ramming (201) 262-7691
mbership www.jccparamus.org
mbership Rabbi Arthur Weiner
Cantor Samuel Weiss
nd Operations Manager - Rita Greenberg
office@jccparamus.org

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The Jewish Community Center of Paramus/Con-
m.org gregation Beth Tikvah is a spirited and engaging
Conservative congregation located in the center of

201-281-4988
Bergen County. JCCP/CBT offers daily minyanim
and both traditional and egalitarian Shabbat and
holiday services.

shaarholidays@gmail.com
Our progressive Hebrew School provides a dy-
namic Jewish education from ages 4 through bar/
bat mitzvah. The synagogue offers a unique family
bar/bat mitzvah program that helps prepare not
only the child but also parents to participate in
017 their child’s simcha.
Our vibrant and multi-talented rabbi and cantor
help encourage reverence for Torah, the obser-
vance of mitzvot, and Jewish tradition. Shabbat

Why...
services regularly begin at 8 p.m. Friday eve-
nings, and 9 a.m. Shabbat mornings. Our ac-
tive committees include Sisterhood, Men’s Club,
Enriching your life through prayer, celebration, education and social action Community Affairs, and Israel Affairs. Come
by and meet Rabbi Arthur Weiner who would

Because you need help

welcome the opportunity to talk with you. We
Free High Holidays encourage the participation of our members who
call the JCCP/CBT their “second home” and we
Services for families invite you to make it your second home as well.

Our Family provides affordable, quality

with young children See why “Community” is our middle name. We
look forward to welcoming you!
up to age 7
Home Care that enables you and your
Open to All!!
Park Ridge
Temple Beth Sholom
loved ones to live safely, on your terms,
These services will introduce
families to the themes of rituals
of Pascack Valley
Temple Beth Sholom is a progressive and friendly
of the High Holiday season with without fear. synagogue. We are a small shul holding Friday
night and Shabbat morning services along with
snacks and time to socialize
... “The Most Beautiful Bus Stop
Free i t h holiday programming.
w Since 2001
P l a c e
ve in September
High Holy Days services are thought provoking,

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Rosh Hashanah – Monday, 10th – 10 AM-10:30 AM with the right mix of spirituality and reflection.
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Yom Kippur – Wednesday, September 19th – 10 AM-10:30 AM plus years. Join with us when you want to experi-

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299 Market St., Suite 330, Saddle Brook, NJ 07663

(201) 391-4620.
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Temple Beth Sholom is located at 32
Park Ave. in Park Ridge. Our web site
is at www.temple-beth-sholom.org.
Ridgewood
Temple Israel/RCBI at
TI-JCC: two congregations,
one community
Temple Israel and Jewish Community
Center (TI-JCC) offers two worship
alternatives: egalitarian Conservative
at Temple Israel (TI) and Reconstruc-
tionist at Reconstructionist Congrega-
tion Beth Israel (RCBI). The congre-
gations share space and participate
jointly in programs and synagogue
life. Each holds its own religious ser-
vices, open to all, and members join
together for various services and ob-
servances throughout the year. Rabbi
David Fine of TI is the senior rabbi;
Rabbi Leiah Moser is RCBI’s rabbi and
the TI-JCC assistant rabbi.
We are an inclusive community that
welcomes interfaith and multiracial
families, LGBTQ members, Jews by
choice and those considering conver-
sion. Our members span the genera-
tions, from young families to empty
nesters to active seniors, who all share
the vision of an engaged, diverse and
supportive Jewish community.
As a true Jewish community center,
TI-JCC offers: musical Shabbat ser-
vices and cabarets, author events and
insightful lectures, social justice en-
gagement and social events that draw
us together to celebrate holidays,
life and each other. Our students at-
tend the Northern NJ Jewish Acad-
emy (NNJJA), an innovative religious
school consortium held at TI-JCC that
offers small-group, flexible instruc-
tion and creative electives that make
learning fun.
Visit www.synagogue.org for more
information.
River Edge
Temple Avodat Shalom
Temple Avodat Shalom is a vibrant
Jewish congregation located in River
Edge of more than 1,000 individuals.
We welcome all who wish to partici-
pate, regardless of age, marital status,
sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, or
financial means. Straight, lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender individuals,
interfaith families, people of all abilities,
and individuals of all ages are wel-
come. We offer programs to satisfy all
levels of appetite for Jewish learning
and spiritual growth as well as op-
portunities to make a difference in our
world and just to have fun with friends
You Are Cordially Invited…
throughout our diverse community. Our afternoon (Wednesday September 19.
religious school for grades pre-K through including Yizkor) are free and open to
12 has more than 150 students. the public.
Come join our temple family for the Ask us about our $360 introductory rate
holidays. Our rabbi, Paul Jacobson, and
cantor, Maria Dubinsky, in conjunction
for all new members. For more informa-
tion, please call Barbara Herman Hoff, our
with our dedicated leadership, delight administrator at (201) 489-2463 ext. 203,
in welcoming you to our congrega- email director@avodatshalom.net. For
tion. Open House Friday September 7. school registration information, call Barba-
Services on second day Rosh Hashanah ra Haber, educational director, at (201) 489-
(Tuesday September 11) and Yom Kippur 2463, ext. 204. www.avodatshalom.net
Celebrate the High Holy Days
with traditional services at
Congregation B’nai Jacob in Jersey City.
Services are open to all - attendees
will not need tickets and there is no fee.
Rosh Hashanah: September 10 and
September 11, 10:15 a.m.-1 p.m.
Tashlich service: War Monument at the foot of
Washington Street- September 10, 4 p.m.
Kol Nidrei: September 18, 6:30 p.m.
Yom Kippur: September 19, 10:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.
Yizkor: 12:30 - Evening: 5:30- 8:09
176 West Side Ave., Jersey City · (305) 607-9062
rabbiaaron1@gmail.com · bnaijacobjc.com/calendar/holidays/

Jewish Community Center of Paramus/

Congregation Beth Tikvah
Come see why COMMUNITY is part of our name!

The Jewish Center

of Teaneck
70 Sterling Place REGISTER NOW
Rabbi Daniel Fridman
Rabbi of the Jewish Center
Hebrew School starts Sunday, Sept. 16
Shul membership not required
A Modern Orthodox Community Welcoming to All
Shabbat and Weekday Services Happy, Healthy
Extensive Youth Programming for Shabbat and More
Adult Education Classes from Beginner to Advanced New Year
Vibrant Sisterhood, Men’s Club and Social Programming from our
family to yours
Two Free High Holiday Tickets for Members
High Holy Day seats available
Please Contact Us
201-833-0515 304 East Midland Avenue, Paramus
www.jcot.org office@jcot.org 201-262-7691 · www.jccparamus.org
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Teaneck brothers and sisters in Israel, and the

Hear the Call The Jewish Center

of Teaneck
As the High Holidays rapidly ap-
proach, we all consider where we
might most meaningfully spend these
Days of Awe.
The Jewish Center of Teaneck, our
township’s first synagogue with an
illustrious and august history, is a
Modern Orthodox community wel-
coming to all. We are an intergenera-
tional synagogue that proudly serves
as a spiritual home for families and
individuals at every life stage, from
infancy and early childhood into older
adulthood.
Our synagogue community is built
JOIN US FOR THE HIGH HOLY DAYS. on four pillars.
Everyone is welcome at our warm, music-filled services, led by our First, we are a Center for heartfelt
own Rabbi Steven Sirbu and Cantor Ellen Tilem. And with free tefillah, meaningful prayer. Featur-
ing our daily Shacharit and Mincha/
services for children and families, plus our voluntary commitment Ma’ariv services, our main Shabbat
memberships, we make it easy for everyone to hear the call. service, a sephardic congregation, and
a youth minyan, we are committed to
unique, historical gift that the Al-
mighty has bestowed upon His peo-
ple in restoring Jewish sovereignty to
our ancestral homeland.
We welcome you to join our syna-
gogue community. For more informa-
tion regarding membership, including
two free tickets for the high holidays,
please visit us at www.jcot.org, e-mail
us at office@jcot.org, or call us at
201-833-0515.
Temple Emeth
At Temple Emeth, the values and
practices of Reform Judaism are em-
braced every day. We take pride in our
extensive programming, both spiri-
tual and secular, and in our wonderful
members. Our voluntary commitment
model of supporting the temple finan-
cially allows all members to partici-
pate according to their means and the
value they find in membership. Every-
one can afford to join us.
The Temple Emeth family includes

TEMPLE EMETH
Jews by birth, Jews by choice, part-
providing a sacred space for each of ners of Jews, singles, people of color,
us, as individuals and as members of and those in the LGBTQ community.
an eternal covenantal community, to What holds us all together is that
A REFORM CONGREGATION commune with our Creator. Our chil- we care about each other and our
1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck NJ 07666 dren’s groups, from infancy and up, are congregation. Our members’ involve-
www.emeth.org • 201-833-1322 equally nurturing spaces for our chil- ment ranges widely too — from those
dren to develop warm and positive as- who stop by only once in a while — to
sociations with their synagogue, that those who attend our uplifting servic-
plant the seeds which will blossom in es and programs regularly — to those
the years and decades to come. who are so immersed in temple life
Second, we are a Center for Torah that they rarely leave the building!
learning. With a recognition that a We have a terrific religious school for
meaningful spiritual life rests of the grades K-7, which is fully subsidized
foundation of a Jewish education, we for members. We also offer a dynamic
provide classes, both on Shabbat and program for young people in grades 8
weeknights, for all levels of learners. to 12, including confirmation in tenth
With weekly classes in Rambam, Navi, grade.
and Parshah for children, a monthly Rabbi Steven Sirbu writes, “I be-
book-club which synthesizes the fin- lieve each one of us is on a Jewish
Wishing our585 Community a
Russell Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ 07481
201-891-4466 www.bethrishon.org
est of Western Literature with rabbin-
ic texts, in addition to a new women’s
journey that involves wrestling with
our tradition and shaping a relation-
585 Russell Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ 07481
Sweet & Healthy Preschool
Newat The Year as we
Andrew Friedland
201-891-4466 www.bethrishon.org
Tehillim group which we will be form-
ing this year, we seek to provide the
ship with God. Temple Emeth offers
the resources and the support to help
sacred spaces so critical for deepen-
celebrate RoshEarly Hashanah &
Childhood Learning Center
Preschool at The Andrew Friedland
Early Childhood Learning Center ing our Jewish knowledge, and con-
every journeyer find what he or she
seeks. Along the way, we have a lot of
comitantly, our spiritual identities.
Yom Kippur
The Addison M. &5779
Jewish studies at Jewish studies at fun, with lively and stimulating classes,
The Addison M. & Elizabeth Opper Religious School Third, we are a Center for chessed services that engage and inspire, and
Elizabeth Opper Religious School and social programming. To be a social events where we are reminded
member of our synagogue community
Welcome to Wishing
Temple our Community
Beth Rishon...a how many wonderful people have

Wishing our Community a

Sweet & Healthy New Year
is to be enmeshed in a caring network
in which no one has to encounter life’s
chosen to affiliate here.”
Cantor Ellen Tilem is involved in
A High Energy, Participatory Worship Services hardest challenges alone. Our Sister- every facet of temple life. With her
Sweet & Healthy New Year
as we
A Preschool, Mom & Tot Programs celebrateCamp
& Summer
A Religious School, Hebrew High & Youth Group
hood is constantly engaged in creat-
ing wonderful programs which are
beautiful voice, she brings us new
melodies while celebrating our Jewish
Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur equal parts enjoyable and meaningful.
as we celebrate
A Bar & Bat Mitzvah Preparation
A Adult Education Programs & Speakers
Together, we foster an environment
musical heritage. She also works with
our three choirs and amazing Temple
5777 which recognizes the intrinsic sanctity Emeth Band.
Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur
A Jewish Musical Concerts, Theatre Trips & Much More! and humanity of every single member
of our synagogue community.
We are conveniently located at 1666
Windsor Road in Teaneck. Visit us
Finally, we are a Center for support online at www.emeth.org or on Face-
5777
585 Russell Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ 07481
201-891-4466 www.bethrishon.org for the State of Israel. We recognize book. Or call us at (201) 833-1322 for
our sacred obligation to support our a personalized visit.
Preschool at The Andrew Friedland
Early Childhood Learning Center
Jewish studies at
The Addison M. & Elizabeth Opper Religious School

Wishing our Community

585 Russell Avenue, Wyckoff, a NJ 07481
201-891-4466 · www.bethrishon.org
Sweet & Healthy New Year
For information about our High Holy Day services and
Membershipas we celebrate
at Temple Beth Rishon, please contact us
at 201-891-4466 or templeoffice@bethrishon.org.
Rosh Hashanah
Welcome & Yom KippurBeth Rishon...
to Temple
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2018Energy, Participatory Worship Services

Adult Education Programs & Speakers

Social Action Committee & Caring Committee
Sisterhood & Men’s Club
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Congregation Beth Israel This year,

of the Palisades join with us
at the New Synagogue of Fort Lee
Where ‘welcome’ is not just a word!
1585 Center Avenue,
for the
Tel. 201.947.1555
E-mail: shul@cbiotp,org
Holy Days
Check out our website:
www.cbiotp.org ( an d b r i n g t h e ki ds !)
Think of us as your communal home.

We’re a happy home, too.

There’s nothing stuffy, staid, or somber about us.
Even on the High Holy Days, we’re a bit laid back—as a family should be!
And that’s how you’ll be treated when you walk through our doors—
like a member of the family.
But don’t take our word for it.
Come one Shabbat and see for yourself.

Forget about driving!

Our services this year
will be held in the auditorium
of the Fort Lee High School,
3000 Lemoine Avenue.
Leading services will be our rabbi,
SHAMMAI ENGELMAYER,
and CHAZZAN ERIC WASSER
For security purposes,
reservations in writing are a must.
To download the necessary forms, go to
www.cbiotp.org/the-high-holy-days.html,
or call the synagogue office.
Take the Shab-Bus to shul!
The Shab-Bus is a halachically viable
alternative to driving or walking on Shabbatot
and chagim. As a service to our community, we
will expand its route during the High Holy Days,
based on requests received before Labor Day.
A complete schedule of stops and approximate
times will be available after Labor Day.
If you would like the Shab-Bus to come to
your area, please call our office (201-947-
1555), and let us know.
The Shab-Bus and this advertisement are
not meant to impinge in any way on other
synagogues in our area.

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Woodcliff Lake
Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
temple emanuel of the Pascack Valley is constantly
evolving and moving forward. this year, we offer a
new selection of high holiday services to attend:
traditional, contemporary, and young family.
we are a Conservative egalitarian congregation
led by rabbi Loren Monosov and Cantor alan so-
koloff. we believe in respecting the wisdom of our
sages and the torah, and teaching it diligently to
our children by living it daily.
we believe education is a lifelong journey that
takes us from cradle to grave. to that end, ev-
ery activity is social, educational, and religious,
all wrapped into one. these include: “sushi in the
sukkah,” themed shabbat dinners throughout
the year, cultural excursions into nYC, and chil-

Temple Emanuel of North Jersey

dren’s shabbat service. Our members participate
in sisterhood and Men’s Club. Our Keruv initiative
reaches out to interfaith families. Our Community
of Caring assists those in our congregation in their

What Will You Do Better This Year?

time of need. social action reaches out to the
community. we foster love of israel with special
programs and trips to israel.
Our award winning religious school, under the

Join Us for the Holidays! direction of rabbi shelley Kniaz, uses the state-of-
the-art smart boards and tablets in the classroom.
Our students participate in Kids who Care where
each child gives back to the community by select-

(201) 560-0200 ing a project of their choice. Come meet ourne-

wearly Childhood Program (eCP) director, Jessica
Friedman. each eCP child is made to feel special
in our small classes. Our teens partner with B’nai
www.tenjfl.org www.facebook.com/tenjfl B’rith Youth Organization.
Call(201) 391-0801or email us:execdir@tepv.org

Our synagogue is located at 558 High Mountain Road Wyckoff

in Franklin Lakes, overlooking the beautiful Franklin Lakes Temple Beth Rishon
Nature Preserve. Our community is boundless! temple Beth rishon is a warm and vibrant com-
munity made up of individuals and families from
The Holidays are just the beginning… diverse Jewish backgrounds. whether families
seek to continue a spiritually strong foundation
in faith, or desire to feel more culturally connect-

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ed to their Jewish traditions, TBR’s
egalitarian approach is appealing.
For those who were born Jewish,
choose to be Jewish, and those who
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Cover Story
In 1997, Michael Wildes went to court with a terrorism case.
“Often I would feel safer in crowds and comforted by the lights
of the cameras knowing the world was watching,” he wrote.
‘Safe Haven in America’
Immigration lawyer Michael Wildes of Englewood
talks about immigration, Melania, fear, and hope
JOANNE PALMER
T
he zeitgeist really does seem
to have an eye out for Michael
Wildes.
For one thing, he’s running for
mayor of Englewood, or to be more accu-
rate, he’s re-running. Mr. Wildes was Engle-
wood’s mayor from 2004 to 2010; he won
the Democratic primary in June and is hop-
ing to recapture the seat come November.
For another, longer-term thing, Mr. Wil-
des is a prominent immigration lawyer.
For a third thing, he has just published
a book about immigration, “Safe Haven
in America: Battles to Open the Golden
Door,” which chronicles some dramatic
stories. Some have happy endings, some
do not, and some, realistically, end
ambivalently.
It is not surprising that Mr. Wildes chose
immigration as the focus of his practice.
He is the son of a prominent immigra-
tion lawyer — who is his legal partner, in
Wildes & Weinberg P.C. — at a time when
28 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 17, 2018
immigration, and the law surrounding it, is
one of the most contentious issues in the
country.
Michael’s father, Leon Wildes, was John
Lennon’s immigration lawyer, at a time
when the Beatles were among the most
famous musicians — to be realistic, among
the most famous people, musicians or not
— in the country. Probably in the world.
Although John Lennon had said, in 1966,
that the Beatles were “more popular than
Jesus,” the modern Orthodox, early-mid-
dle-aged Leon Wildes had never heard of
them in 1972, when he was hired to keep
Mr. Lennon in the country. But his wife
had. According to Michael Wildes, his
mother, Ruth, was astounded by her hus-
band’s lack of knowledge. “My father, bless
him, was not exactly tuned into the rock
music scene,” Michael writes. His father
told his mother that his new clients were
“Jack Lemmon and Yoko Motor.”
But Leon Wildes turned to out to be a
quick study. It didn’t take him long to find
out who his new clients really were.
John Lennon wanted to be able to stay
in the United States to help his wife, Yoko
Ono, find her daughter, whose father had
kidnapped her. But Lennon had been vocal
about his disgust with the then-raging war
in Vietnam, and with Richard Nixon, the
president who was pursuing it. The noto-
riously thin-skinned Nixon was not happy
with the situation. Nixon was able to use
his power to get immigration authorities to
try to deport Lennon, who had been con-
victed of possessing marijuana.
Leon Wildes fought John Lennon’s
deportation, and he won; it was that vic-
tory, Michael Wildes writes, that under-
lies President Barack Obama’s Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
That’s DACA, which President Trump has
declared to be over, and whose recipients
have lived in unresolved fear and longing
for the last year and a half.
John Lennon won his fight to stay in the
United States — or perhaps more accu-
rately, Leon Wildes won that fight for
him. But then the Beatle was murdered,
assassinated by a young lunatic who stood
in wait for him outside the Dakota, his
looming, foreboding Central Park West
apartment building.
The Wildes still are in touch with Yoko
Ono.
So that’s Michael Wildes’ patrimony.
Probably, given that history, once
he decided to become a lawyer, it was
almost unavoidable that Michael would
become an immigration lawyer, and work
with his father.
Michael Wildes has had a long, visible
career; he specializes in immigration work
with clients who have escaped terrorism,
are accused of terrorism, are somehow
tainted with terrorism.
His latest, most zeitgeisty work, though,
culminated just this week, when perhaps
his second most famous clients were sworn
in as American citizens, and Michael was
all over the American airwaves.
The newly American pair — Viktor and
Amalija Knavs, the parents of Melania
Knauss Trump (she was born Melanija

Knavs in Slovenia, and Anglicized her
name before she changed it more defini-
tively through marriage) — were able to
become citizens because their daughter
sponsored them, through what is called
“family reunification.”
That puts Mr. Wildes squarely in the
middle of the national debate over immi-
gration. His clients’ daughter’s husband
has been loudly bellowing his loathing of
people who come to this country through
what he calls “chain migration.” And one
politician’s chain migration is another
immigration lawyer’s family reunification.
Michael Wildes was not Melania Trump’s
lawyer when she got her green card, or
when she became an American citizen,
but he has worked with her more recently,
looking at her path to citizenship and
declaring it to have been properly laid out
and dutifully trodden. Ms. Trump came to
the United States using a B-1/B-2 visitor visa
in 1996, and later that year, and for years
later, she got an annual H1-B visa, made
for working visitors, popularly considered
to be for geniuses but also aimed at star
models, Mr. Wildes told the Jewish Stan-
dard in December 2016. Ms. Knauss next
sponsored herself for a green card “based
on her extraordinary ability,” Mr. Wildes
said then; as a model, her talents, at least
as far as we media-consuming masses have
seen them, seem to lie in semi-nude, pro-
vocatively posed photographs (semi-nude,
that is, if a hat counts as clothing), duckbill
pouts, and moody glares at the camera.
But apparently, at least in some quarters,
that counts as extraordinary ability, and
it got her a visa, a green card, and
eventually naturalization.
Next, she worked with her immi-
gration lawyer, Mr. Wildes — who
extols her talents, and believes
strongly that she earned and
deserved her H1-B visa — to get her
parents their green cards and then
citizenship.
Mr. Wildes has strong feelings
about immigration. “Our wonder-
ful experiment in democracy is
made stronger with its main ingre-
dient, immigration,” he said. “But
that only works if we get it right.
I don’t see this administration as
steering us in the right direction.
They’re scaring everyone into
believing that we can keep safe by
changing the very content of what
has made America excel among
the nations.”
He is wary about being seen as
working with Republicans, because
he has been a Democrat through-
out his life; he feels that his work MIchael and Leon Wildes flank long-time client Yoko Ono.
for prominent Republicans, as apo-
litical as it is, opens him up to be misun-
derstood. But his work for the Trumps and
Knavs has given him a platform; at least for
the week, he’s been omnipresent on cable
news. (Although not on Fox, Mr. Wildes
said, which has ignored the whole Knav
story, although he has appeared on Fox
Leon Wildes stands by as John Lennon flashes a peace sign on the steps of the
federal courthouse in Manhattan.
a boot. That’s because he first
suffered from bone spurs —
a result, Mr. Wildes said, of
the constant walking he’s
been doing in pursuit of votes
across Englewood. Next, his
oldest daughter got married,
just a few weeks ago; in his
joy, Mr. Wildes jumped up
and down so enthusiastically
in front of the couple as he
danced to honor and please
them that he tore his Achil-
les tendon. (Ouch!) So he had
the bone spur removed and
the tendon repaired; at this
point, the look is dramatic.
This is not the first time
he’s been in the public eye;
Mr. Wildes has testified before
Congress, and he’s been a fre-
quent commentator on both
broadcast and cable net-
works. He’s used publicity to
keep clients safe — it’s harder
to kill an enemy, if you are the
discussing immigration more generally as agent of a foreign government intent on
recently as last month.) shutting up dissident voices, if that person
Perhaps luckily for him, most of his time shows up on television or in the tabloids.
on camera this go-around has him sitting But this is a new level of attention, and Mr.
down, or focusing on his face, talking-head Wildes is using it to make the points that
style. Otherwise, viewers would be treated he feels must be made.
to shots of him hobbling, on crutches, in There are very real problems with our
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system, which has become sclerotic with
bureaucratic over-reach, and the threat
of terrorist infiltration cannot be ignored,
Mr. Wildes said; in fact, he’s said that for
years. But he also believes that both the
country’s promise, in the abstract, and
its need for the energy and intellect and
drive of people who care enough about the
future to make their way here, are fueled
by immigrants.
“Every president has recognized that
the system is broken, and every presi-
dent has put a band-aid on it,” he said.
“This time, a president has been able to
get away with scaring people, because of
a weak and fractured Congress. That is
unacceptable.”
He thinks that although the administra-
tion is talking about terrorism as it works
to stop immigration, “it’s an excuse. They
Immigration has
become a very
comfortable
thing to play
ping pong with,
but this is about
people’s lives.
We can’t afford
to get it wrong.
really are doing it to scare people, to get
the results they want in the election booth.
“Immigration has become a very com-
fortable thing to play ping pong with, but
this is about people’s lives. We can’t afford
to get it wrong. We have several stains on
our nation’s history that we need to move
away from. We cannot return to racism, to
slavery, to the exploitation of people who
are less fortunate, to the separation of fam-
ilies. We haven’t separated families since
we did it on the slave block.
“And in our own history, we saw how
families were separated in the Holocaust,”
he added. “We have to be supersensitive
to that.”
As he makes clear in his book, Mr. Wil-
des is a strong supporter of law enforce-
ment; he does not think that evincing
unhappiness at ICE’s actions now is in
any way an attack on ICE. “I am formally a
member of the law enforcement commu-
nity,” he said. That’s because he’s a lawyer,
but he also is a former auxiliary member
of the New York Police Department, which
he joined when he was 18. “I had the privi-
lege of donning an NYPD uniform and
being introduced to my first bulletproof
vest as a gift from my parents,” he wrote.
He walked a beat in Queens, where he and
his family lived.
Mr. Wildes interned in Congress for
Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and then
for Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic
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congresswoman who ran for vice presi- carried out by Americans, in the name of
dent. “My time in Washington was a for- an incoherent but American ideology.
mative experience,” he wrote. “I never September 11 marked the start of a new
took for granted the liberties and freedoms balance between freedom and safety, Mr.
our founding fathers sought on our shores Wildes said, and he takes the need to be
and the extraordinary sacrifices made safe very seriously. You cannot be free if
by so many to see that the United States you are in danger, or if you are terrified.
remains a safe haven for those at risk and But we must be smart about the balance,
those at need.” he says.
Next, Mr. Wildes became an assistant “As a former federal prosecutor, I want
United States attorney for New York’s our borders protected,” he said. “I want
eastern district; there, he saw firsthand “a them safe. But I am reminded that our
system that was not uniform, and that dis- founding fathers never lost their moral
criminated against people based on their compass when they fought pirates on the
national origins,” he wrote. high seas — and neither should we, in 2018.
All of this gave him insight into the prob- “We are always at risk at our borders.
lems and promises of immigration; that, Our homeland is always at risk. But we
combined with his father’s example, pro- never threw away the recognition of our
pelled him into immigration law. distinction, that among all the lands of the
He is appalled by what he sees. One anec- world, America is the land of liberty.”
dote of many — “there are kids in the court There also is a real risk in turning peo-
system who are given lists of lawyers — and ple away, Mr. Wildes added. “I lecture
they are coloring on the back of the list. Michael Wildes with new Americans Viktor and Amalija Knavs. frequently at universities throughout the
“That is an atrocity. nation, and I meet foreign students who
as family reunification.
“It is a fallacy to think that we approach cannot onboard in companies because
any sense of humanity in the way that we “In general, people will work they are deemed to be a security risk.”
are treating these children. harder and make America stronger That is, students who once would have
“Hachnasat orchim” — welcoming when they have their loved ones been courted for their intellectual, entre-
guests — “is in our DNA as Jews. We shouldaround them,” he continued. “The preneurial, and creative skills, but who
be opening America’s golden doors as hap- president misspoke in public when come from the wrong countries, are not
pily as in the Bible Abraham ran to wash he said that uncles and nieces and allowed to work here. Instead, they return
the feet of the Arab visitors who came to nephews can be brought in. The home, taking their newly learned skills
see him, just 24 hours after he was cir- law does not allow for that. and inherent drive with them.
cumcised. We should be willing not only As for the argument that there are Despite what he’s seen as an immigra-
to invest in their happiness, to remove the
not enough jobs for new immigrants tion lawyer — and perhaps also because of
risks that they are facing, but also to make
— “There are enough blueberries what he’s seen as an immigration lawyer
them part of the stock of citizens we havethat need to be picked in Georgia, — Mr. Wildes is guardedly optimistic about
for the next generation, so that they willenough grass to be mowed in the the future. Personally, he’s got many bless-
pledge allegiance to our flag and pay it for-
suburbs, enough beds to be made in ings. His father, at 85, still comes to the
ward another generation into the future.” the hospitality industry across our MIchael Wildes takes a selfie with Melania office. “We get to sit through client intakes
Mr. Wildes feels very strongly that words
country,” he said. There are plenty Trump. together,” he said. “I have some very deep
matter. “The people who have hijacked of jobs that native-born Americans footprints to fill.”
the immigration dialogue have come up simply do not want, and do not take. “We families, because they understand that it He met his wife, Amy, at law school;
with the worst terminology,” he said. For need all hands on deck. is those workers who work with extraordi- they both went to Cardozo, Yeshiva Uni-
example, “anchor babies. “I deal with the owners of major com- nary enthusiasm. versity’s law school, and took a class that
“I have never seen a woman come to my panies, with major industrialists through- “And right now there is a deafening his father taught together. Now, Amy man-
out the nation, who swear by their immi-
office and wait for 21 years so her child can silence in Washington from our congres- ages the firm’s New Jersey offices, one of
sponsor her,” he said. “And chain migra- grant workforces,” he added. “I work with sional leaders.” four around the country, and Mr. Wildes is
tion is a very derogatory term for a bed- restaurateurs who treat their immigrant In his book, Mr. Wildes tells us that there continuing his family connection with Car-
rock of immigration law and policy known labor as if they were members of their own is no such thing as a typical immigration dozo. His two older children, Raquel and
case — or for that matter a typical immi- Joshua, both are students there, his next
grant. Each would-be American is unique, daughter, Lauren Ruth, just finished col-
he says. lege, and Jacqueline still is in high school.
If he had to point to one event that Mr. Wildes’ mother died when she was
changed the practice of immigration law 56. The Wildes miss her, but her memory
in his lifetime, Mr. Wildes writes, it was permeates their experience at Cardozo.
the September 11, 2001, attacks on the “My father dedicated a room to her mem-
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He ory, and I made my class schedule so that
knows what that nightmare looked like; he I can daven mincha in that room and then
was with Hatzalah, the Jewish ambulance teach the class in her honor while I’m
corps for which he has volunteered for there,” he said.
most of his adult life; in that capacity, he Michael Wildes is confident that eventu-
was at the smoking heap on September 12. ally the immigration system will be fixed,
The terrorist murderers, who killed even if will take a great deal of time and
almost 3,000 people, were not Americans, much so-far-nonexistent goodwill. That’s
and the cause for which they killed was not the promise of this country, he said; as the
American. That led to a suspicion of peo- descendant of immigrants who came here
ple who were not Americans in general, looking for a better life, and whose chil-
and of Muslims in particular; this despite dren and grandchildren and great-grand-
the fact that so many acts of mass murder children found that life, he thinks that the
in the United States, including such atroci- promise will be fulfilled for the next gen-
During his college years, Michael Wildes was an auxiliary officer in the NYPD. ties as the Oklahoma City bombing, were eration of new immigrants.

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 Jewish World

Ronald Lauder helped make Netanyahu prime minister

Now he’s publicly opposing him
BEN SALES just Zionism and a pluralistic Judaism that

I
t’s gotta hurt when the guy who used
to fund your political career writes
two op-eds criticizing you in The New
York Times.
Benjamin Netanyahu would know. That’s
what’s happening to him right now.
On Monday, Netanyahu was the target of
a scathing column by Ronald Lauder, the
cosmetics heir who heads the World Jewish
Congress. Lauder lamented Israel’s recent
nation-state law, which Netanyahu defends
as a safeguard of Israel’s Jewish character
but critics see as a slap in the face to the
country’s minorities.
Lauder wrote that Israel’s turn to the
nationalist right is betraying its commitment
to democratic, humanistic ideals — and it’s
betraying the Jewish people’s commitment
to those ideals as well.
“The Jews of the new era have fused our
respects every human being. So when mem-
bers of Israel’s current government uninten-
tionally undermine the covenant between
Judaism and enlightenment, they crush the
core of contemporary Jewish existence.”
It’s the second time Lauder has taken to
the pages of the Times to lambaste Netan-
yahu’s agenda. In March, he lamented both
the demise of the two-state solution under
Netanyahu and the power of Orthodox par-
ties in Israel. He warned that by “submit-
ting to the pressures exerted by a minority
in Israel, the Jewish state is alienating a large
segment of the Jewish people.”
Lauder may fear Netanyahu’s policies
now. But without Lauder’s support, it’s pos-
sible Netanyahu never would have been
prime minister at all.
In 1996, the first time Netanyahu ran for
the office, he was a major underdog fac- Ronald Lauder speaks next to a lit menorah at a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto
ing a 30-point deficit to incumbent Shimon Uprising in Poland on April 19, 2018.  SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES

national pride and religious affiliation with Peres. Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s prime minis-
a dedication to human progress, worldly ter, had been assassinated months earlier by Beyond the national sympathy for assassination. A month beforehand, he par-
culture and morality,” Lauder wrote. “Con- a right-wing Jewish extremist opposed to the Rabin’s Labor Party, some saw Netanyahu ticipated in an anti-Rabin rally where some
servatives and liberals, we all believe in a Israeli-Palestinian peace process. as complicit in the incitement that led to the SEE RONALD LAUDER PAGE 32

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Jewish World
Ronald Lauder
FROM PAGE 31
people waved photos of Rabin in an S.S.
uniform and chanted that he was a traitor.
It was Peres’ election to lose.
Enter Lauder, a Netanyahu ally since
the man nicknamed Bibi was Israel’s
ambassador to the United Nations in the
1980s. Lauder reportedly was a major
donor to Netanyahu’s 1996 run. More
crucial, he brought Republican campaign
strategist Arthur Finkelstein to work on
the campaign.
Finkelstein came up with the slo-
gan “Peres will divide Jerusalem” in
peace negotiations — and it worked. A
stark attack ad, complete with a black
screen, red text, and ominous nar-
ration, warned that Peres had failed
while a Netanyahu victory would mean
a “secure peace.” A string of suicide
bombings in the weeks before the
election damaged the public’s faith in
Peres, and Netanyahu won in a shock-
ing upset, beating Peres by 1 percent.
Lauder remained in Netanyahu’s
corner for more than a decade, at one
point even offering to buy every unsold
copy of one of Netanyahu’s books. In
1998, Netanyahu enlisted Lauder to
pass on sensitive messages to then-
Syrian President Hafez Assad in a failed
attempt to broker a peace pact.
During Netanyahu’s 1999 re-election
campaign, when Lauder chaired the
Conference of Presidents of Major Ameri-
can Jewish Organizations, the mogul the
mogul praised Netanyahu’s economic
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P.A. will provide cancer-related drugs to Gaza
Despite a year-long series of heavy
sanctions on Gaza, the Palestinian
Authority on Monday ordered vital
chemotherapy medications to be sent
to the Hamas-controlled region.
The terror-run region’s health offi-
cials reported that 700 cancer patients,
including 200 children, did not receive
their chemotherapy doses at Gaza
City’s Abdel al-Aziz al-Rantisi Hospital
on Monday because 45 of 60 chemo-
therapy drugs were out of stock.
The delivery was reported by the
P.A.’s WAFA news site, but details
as to the amount of medication and
their estimated arrival date were not
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policies in a speech to the Shalem Center,
which some took as an endorsement of
his candidacy. Last year, police officers
investigating Netanyahu for corruption
reportedly questioned Lauder about gifts
he has given the prime minister.
So why the falling-out? In 2011, Israeli
Channel 10 aired an unflattering investi-
gation into Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, accus-
ing her of an inappropriately extravagant
lifestyle. Lauder has a partial stake in the
channel, but refused to pressure Channel
10 to drop the segment.
In the meantime, Bibi got a new bene-
factor: Sheldon Adelson. In 2007, the
casino mogul and Republican mega-
donor threw his heft behind Netanyahu.
Adelson funds Israel Hayom, a free daily
newspaper that supports the prime min-
ister. Adelson also donated to President
Donald Trump’s campaign, helping bridge
the two leaders.
Since Trump took office, Lauder
reportedly has tried to use his rapport
with Trump, Netanyahu, and Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to
restart peace talks. But the effort so far
has gone nowhere.
So now Lauder has taken twice to the
op-ed pages of the New York Times, slam-
ming the man he once helped bring to
power.
“Israel is a miracle,” Lauder wrote
on Monday. “The Jews of the diaspora
look up to Israel, admire its astonishing
achievements and view it as their second
home. However, today some wonder if the
nation they cherish is losing its way.”
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The P.A. is the primary provider of
medication to Gaza, though interna-
tional bodies also offer some drugs to
pharmacies.
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Editorial
Immigration
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES

Cory Booker’s declining

T support for Israel
hose of us whose ancestors came and oppression and hunger and the hatred
to the United States before the late of their neighbors. They left for reasons very

1930s are incredibly lucky.
With all the stories about immi-
gration in the news, it’s impossible not to
think about the family stories that float
around for many of us, untethered to specif-
ics, full of emotion, full of gratitude.
My husband has vague stories of his grand-
father escaping Russian conscription under
the bottom of a cart, later getting to Canada
and then crossing from the north to make his
illegal way to Chicago. We don’t know how
true they are, but we do know that he ended
up a doctor in a Catholic hospital, wearing
two pair of glasses when the first one didn’t
help him see well enough to drive. We do
know that he was eternally grateful to this
country, and to the nuns who hired him when
the Protestant hospital told him that they had
too many Jews already.
My husband also has vague memories of
his grandmother talking about how her par-
ents were divorced, at a time when divorce
was rare, and how she came to this coun-
try as a child to escape both the shame and
the even-more-grinding-than-normal pov-
erty that were meted out to the children of
divorce. She ended up married to a lawyer
and an active Labor Zionist, in an apartment
high above Lake Shore Drive.
I remember my great-aunt tearing up as
she looked at photographs of the Hungarian
countryside. It was so beautiful, she said in
her luscious accent, all rolling consonants, as
rich as the country looked in those pictures.
She hung them up in her kitchen — but she
never went back, and never wanted to.
I remember stories of my grandfather, a
brilliant student, fluent, as so many of his
contemporaries were, in seven or eight lan-
guages — he learned Italian when he got here
because it was so close to Romanian, and
much more useful — who never got to become
the scholar murky family lore said he would
have been, but who started a business that
allowed his family to be comfortable during
the Depression.
I remember stories of horses and wagons in
Brooklyn, and about my very young mother
correcting her grandparents’ Hungarian.
Those generations of immigrants left mainly
for economic opportunity, to escape poverty
similar to the reasons that drive immigrants
to our borders now.
Often they had to leave children or parents
behind. To immigrate was to risk never seeing
your family again. It was to leave behind all
the risks you knew, in favor of the risks you
didn’t know.
It’s the same thing for immigrants now. Yes,
some of them are criminals. (Some of the
ones who came over with our ancestors were
criminals too.) Some will be a burden on the
state. (So were some of ours.) But most of
them are looking for a better life. For hope.
Maybe, if they dare think so grandly, for a
chance at happiness, whose pursuit Jefferson
had said is a self-evident right.
The idea that now, instead of welcoming
immigrants, instead of screening them and
letting the ones whose futures seem likely to
benefit all of us, instead of looking at them
as people, we now not only turn them away
but separate parents from children, is both
wrong and devastating.
In the last few weeks, we’ve been hearing
and seeing and reading about (unless we are
able to turn the radio or the podcast or the
television off quickly enough, or turn the
page adroitly enough so that we don’t see the
full story but only ghost images) what hap-
pens to children put in camps or shelters or
other facilities, sometimes medicated, some-
times separated so thoroughly from their par-
ents that like Humpty Dumpty the relation-
ships can’t be put together again. Parents are
deported without their kids, record-keeping
is so abysmal that the system can’t find the
kids. It goes devastatingly on and on.
Those of us who are here now are lucky. As
Rabbi Kenneth Brander reminds us, for the
first time in history, Jews who make aliyah from
the United States are going toward something.
They are not running away from anything.
We are a nation of immigrants. It is those
immigrants’ drive and hunger and energy
and curiosity and unstoppable need to move
forward that made this country grow.
Of course we cannot be stupid or senti-
mental about immigration, but we cannot
forget what made America what it is if we
want it to keep it as a beacon of freedom,
liberty, and light. —JP
C
ory Booker served as my though it empowered a regime that
student president at the repeatedly called for Israel’s annihi-
University of Oxford. At the lation and actively sought the means
time, the Oxford L’Chaim to see it through. What most disap-
Society was the second largest stu- pointed me is that Cory did not once
dent group in Oxford’s history. When take to the floor of the Senate to con-
we both returned to the United States, demn Iran’s repeated promise to anni-
I introduced him to the American hilate Israel.
Jewish community, who would later Then, this past April, the Senate For-
make him the single largest recipient eign Relations Committee — of which
of pro-Israel political support in the Cory is a member — held a vote to halt
nation. But now he has U.S. taxpayer funding for
shocked the pro-Israel the Palestinian Author-
and Jewish communi- ity’s “pay-to-slay” pol-
ties with his cratering icy that granted terror-
support for Israel. ist murderers and their
For years he was seen families actual salaries
as one of the great pro- for the Israelis they’d
Israel voices in Ameri- killed. The Taylor Force
can politics. During his Act, named after a heroic
campaign for and tenure former U.S. Army offi-
as the mayor of Newark, Rabbi cer murdered by a Pal-
Cory would electrify Shmuley estinian terrorist, would
Jewish crowds through- Boteach merely stop American
out the country with taxpayer money from
his knowledge of the being used to fund mur-
Torah, which he and I regularly stud- der. It was nothing but a clear and cru-
ied together. Then there was his sin- cial sign of America’s deep respect for
cere love for Israel, which I arranged human life.
for him to visit for the first time in 1994. Unbelievably, Cory voted against it in
In return, Cory received enormous the Foreign Relations Committee.
Jewish political and financial support, Cory then condemned President
becoming, arguably, the single biggest Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as
recipient of financial contributions the capital of Israel and moving the
from the Jewish community. Even as embassy.
he rose in stature and launched a cam- Last week, Cory would take his
paign for the Senate in 2013, no one increasingly deteriorating relation-
doubted Cory’s kinship with the Jew- ship with the pro-Israel community
ish community and Israel. to a new low.
When he reached the Senate, how- The junior senator from New Jersey
ever, things would quickly begin to flew to New Orleans to address the pro-
devolve, creating friction between gressive mega-event Netroots Nation
Cory and the pro-Israel commu- 2018. The conference brought together
nity and immense pressure on our almost all of the candidates expected
friendship. to seek the Democratic nomination
First, Cory voted for President in 2020, including Senators Elizabeth
Obama’s catastrophic deal with Iran, Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the author of 32 books, including “The Israel Warrior.”
Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

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Harris. Speaking alongside the

presidential contenders were doz-
sign was “Palestine,” and the placard
had been handed to him by a woman Protest and prayer
ens of other leading Democratic fig-
ures, including Mayor Bill de Blasio,
wearing a blatantly pro-Palestinian
t-shirt. The woman activist is Leah to inspire a 21st-century
Democratic congressional nominee
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York
Muskin-Pierret, a BDS conspiracy
theorist who claims the Israel lobby is civil rights movement

gubernatorial candidate Cynthia
Nixon, and many others.
New Orleans was teeming with
t politicians and pundits who are
- viewed as unsympathetic to Israel.
And yet, it would be Cory — my
- soul friend, Torah study partner,
attendee at untold numbers of my
- Shabbat dinners, who rose to power
- vowing the staunchest support of
Israel — who would shock American
- Jewry with a photo with BDS lead-
ers condemning the Israeli security
t fence that has saved an incalculable
r number of Israeli lives.
- Cory was photographed with Pal-
- estinian BDS activists holding a sign
- that read “From Palestine to Mexico,
r All the Walls Must Go,” alongside an
image of a crumbling brick wall. The
photograph was uploaded to Twitter
by the sign’s creators, the US Cam-
paign for Palestinian Rights, and
- from there it went viral.
- To be sure, the crude compari-
son being made by the sign is a lie
peddled by only the most unsympa-
funded by the NRA and the pharma-
ceutical industry and once contrib-
uted to the legal defense of Rasmeah
Odeh, a PFLP terrorist convicted in
1969 for blowing up an Israeli super-
market, killing two young students
and maiming nine others.
Cory’s claim that he did not know
what the sign said is being hotly
disputed by the same BDS leaders
who claim that Cory was speaking
to them for quite a while before the
photo was taken. But I, of course,
believe Cory and not BDS.
So we’ll take Cory’s explanation at
face value. Even with all the visible
markings of an anti-Israel crowd try-
ing to get him to take a photo con-
demning Israel, I understand that in
the rush of a major event he might
have been careless. But having been
duped into supporting the ideas of
radical Israel-haters, one might have
expected Cory to condemn their
deception, both their means and
their ends.
He did not.
B
ryan Stevenson deserves our
attention even if he doesn’t speak
directly to our concerns as Jews.
Stevenson runs an organization
out of Montgomery, Alabama, called Equal
Justice Initiative. It is an NGO legal services
campaign dedicated to representing convicted
blacks, some on death row, whose incarcera-
tion often is the result of racial discrimination.
Stevenson makes the compelling case for a
through-line from slavery to Jim Crow segre-
gation to mass imprisonment, and not only in
the South.
I recently returned from an eight-day vaca-
tion-with-a-purpose — the goal was to trace
the modern civil rights evolution from the
1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision
overturning legal segregation to the 1964
Civil Rights Act. Joined by my wife and two
still-good friends, I mainly visited museums
of conscience — a relatively new repository
development — in Memphis, Birmingham, This section of the National Memorial for
Montgomery, Tuskegee, and three towns in Peace and Justice reminds viewers of
Mississippi — Philadelphia (the scene where the lynchings that targeted members of
voter-registration activists James Chaney, minority groups in the United States.
Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner DENNIS B. KLEIN

thetic to Israel’s cause. Israel’s secu-
- rity barrier was not erected to protect
- an economy or to stem immigration.
r It was a last resort taken by Israel to
stop the river of innocent blood being
shed after more than 1,000 Israeli
civilians were murdered in a five-year
t campaign of Palestinian terror. Until
then, Palestinian terrorists carrying
weapons and explosives were infil-
trating Israel with terrifying ease. Only
after the barrier was made would the
- bloodshed finally be dramatically
y reduced. The Israeli security barrier
is there solely to save lives.
y To compare it to the hotly dis-
- puted Mexican border wall is to
signal willful ignorance and malice
r toward Israel. To call for Israel to
tear down a bulwark against every-
day safety is to proclaim a cold and
callous disregard for Jewish life.
a And yet, there was someone who
was like a brother to me for 26 years,
one of the Jewish community’s most
cherished friends, holding up a
radical anti-Israel sign and smiling
for a photo with radical anti-Israel
activists.
Cory’s spokesman claimed that
“amid the rush…he didn’t have time
to read the sign” and that “from his
cursory glance he thought it was
talking about Mexico.” Cory, in the
end, would claim that “he didn’t
realize [the sign] had anything to do
with Israel.”
It’s an odd thing for Cory to say,
considering the second word on the
In fact, despite having confused
and disheartened the very com-
munity that supported his political
campaigns for decades, Cory has
refused to address the incident per-
sonally at all.
This follows AIPAC’s unsuccessful
attempts to lobby Cory to support
an anti-BDS measure known as the
Israel Anti-Boycott Act and the Com-
bating BDS Act of 2017. BDS seeks the
economic destruction of the State of
Israel. That Cory has not joined his
pro-Israel Senate colleagues in sign-
ing on is disheartening and deeply
disappointing.
Time is running out for Cory to
come out and strongly support Israel
and condemn its enemies, especially
BDS. Every day I receive messages
from people all over the country
expressing deep anger at me at hav-
ing brought Cory to the Jewish com-
munity. They feel he is abandoning
Israel in order to impress extreme
leftist elements of the Democratic
party, when support for Israel must
remain bipartisan. In the end, the
American Jewish community sup-
ported Cory not only with votes and
contribution but with our trust.
It is a trust he can regain not by
quoting to Jewish audiences the
Torah ideas that he and I have studied
together over the decades — impor-
tant as they are — but only with clear
and unequivocal steps to support the
world’s only Jewish state against those
intent on its destruction.
were murdered), Money (where
scholars believe the 1955 mur-
der of Emmett Till launched the
modern grassroots civil rights
movement), and Oxford, the
home of Ole Miss, the University
of Mississippi, where James Mer-
edith dramatically broke that uni-
versity’s color line.
The Equal Justice Initiative’s
National Memorial for Peace and Dennis
Justice, an interactive counter- Klein
memorial in Montgomery com-
memorating documented cases
of public lynching, reminded me of a survey
my synagogue, Congregation Beth Sholom in
Teaneck, conducted some three years ago. The
survey revealed that limitations on members’
disposable time kept them from attending our
programs. It was puzzling, then, that many of
them reported an interest in social justice con-
cerns, suggesting a growing interest within the
Jewish community in matters that influence
our American as well as our Jewish lives.
We four travelers, who are Jewish, observed
and commented on the historical and spiritual
civil rights and Jewish intersections. We were
aware that we were more than spectators.
We also were aware that we were revisiting
an era whose legacy is unraveling. When we
talk about polarization in American society,
we are referring to a process that is redirecting
our multicultural aspirations to culture-war
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belligerence. It helps to recall
that the civil rights movement a
half-century ago was set against
the background of the Cold War.
What inspired bystanders across
the political spectrum to notice
racial injustice and take action on
the street and in Washington was
the shame of our undemocratic,
B. racist behavior, and the hypoc-
risy it exposed in our struggle
against the worldwide commu-
nist threat. It was as if our Cold-
War survival as a democracy depended in
good part on our commitment to racial justice
at home. Many who benefited from social and
economic privileges were willing to accommo-
date them to a higher or competing purpose.
Nothing substantial has taken the place of
the Cold War to inspire our faith in a transcen-
dent good cause. It appears that we again are
concerned if not anxious about number one,
indifferent to if not suspicious of others. It
would be reassuring if the human rights and
transitional justice movements fired our imagi-
nations and galvanized us to principled action.
There is hope that social-justice work is
emerging as a cutting edge in Jewish life. I
love Bryan Stevenson. But nothing, for now,
shames us and our fellow citizens daily into
taking decisive, persistent steps to protect a
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Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue

S
unday, August 12, 2018, in the country. Yet they were verbally abused with obsceni-
marked the first anni- ties and epithets shouted at them; they were called racists,
versary of the horrible Nazis, and Fascists. They even were pelted with projectiles.
events in Charlottes- Reporters were not immune; some reportedly even were

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ville, when white supremacists
marched and violently clashed
with counter-protestors.
The white supremacists
were classic racists and anti-
Semites. Many of the people Leonard
peacefully protesting against Grunstein
them were ordinary people,
who just couldn’t stand by and
not respond to the virulently racist, anti-Semitic, and pro-
foundly un-American rants of the supremacists. Others
though, who violently attacked the supremacists, were
members of an amalgamation of so-called Antifa and other
violent anarchist groups, with virtuous sounding pseud-
onyms. Unfortunately, their ranks also include anti-Semites.
Washington D.C. was the venue selected for the anniver-
sary observance of those clashes. The day was billed as a
fight between the “Unite the Right” rally and the “United
Against Hate” counter-protest. Both were misnomers.
The rally organizers were just a disparate collection of
white supremacist fringe groups. They do not represent the
overwhelming majority of the right.
The counter-protest organizers included Antifa and its
cohorts, who also are fringe groups that don’t represent the
overwhelming majority of the left. There was a lot of hate
expressed by many of the so-called anti-hate protesters. The
DC police are one of the most diverse police departments
physically assaulted. Not everyone in the counter-protest
acted this badly, but if hate has no home on the left, then it
was certainly an invited guest.
These extremist fringe groups, sometimes referred to as
the alt-right or alt-left, might better be labeled violent anar-
chists. They are determined to undermine the existing order
in the United States and forcibly substitute their own false
utopian visions of society in its place. Their immediate goals
are disruption and violence in order to cause a breakdown
of society.
On Sunday, on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C.,
a miracle occurred. God opened up the heavens and rained
on their parades. The downpour was accompanied by thun-
der and lightning. Instead of a day of rage, it was a washout.
Thank God, there was no repeat of the violent out-of-control
clashes of a year ago in Charlottesville. Yes, there were some
masked figures trying desperately to cause trouble, but the
DC police contained them.
I do wonder why the masked individuals were not
arrested for violating DC Code Section 22-3312.03, which
prohibits the wearing of masks or other disguises under
these circumstances. Nevertheless, law enforcement was
well prepared and performed superbly. But the rain. Wow!
Here we sat, on a sunny afternoon in Teaneck, treated
to boring visuals on TV, cable, and social media showing
umbrellas and people seeking shelter from the rain, instead
of violent clashes.
White supremacists gathered at the entrance to
Emancipation Park for last year’s United the Right
march in Charlottesville, Va., on August 12, 2017.
It was, however, cause for reflection. How might these vio-
lent extremist groups be so marginalized that any of their
future appearances similarly would become non-events?
Their goal is to demonstrate the inefficacy of our existing
government and systems. Their provocative actions are not
spontaneous; they are intended to make this point and draw
our attention to it.
This is not a new phenomenon. It occurred in Germany
during the tumultuous period after the end of the First
World War. The radical leftist anarchist group known as
the Spartacists were determined to undermine the Wei-
mar social democratic government. They committed ram-
pant acts of violence in furtherance of their program to
destroy people’s trust in existing government institutions.

If Israel has such bad PR, why is it still so popular?

T
he first mention of “There is … no single authority that coordinates and
the Hebrew word supervises these various activities,” complains Michael
“hasbarah” in JTA Oren, who is (wait for it) Israel’s deputy minister in
was in 1988, at the charge of public diplomacy.
height of the first intifada. The critics, however, don’t make a convincing case
The article focused on Israelis about why any of this matters.
and American Jews and their Complaints about Israel’s hasbarah efforts are as
deep concern that the media regular and ritualistic as the Jewish holidays. Without
were distorting the unrest and answers from a strong PR campaign, the theory goes,
showing the Israeli military in Andrew the litany of anti-Israel charges gains traction.
a bad light. Silow-Carroll But among whom?
The answer, interviewees Israel remains hugely popular among the American
agreed, was better “hasbarah” public. According to Gallup, 64 percent of the U.S. popu-
— a Hebrew word, explained the author (OK, it was me), lation sympathizes with the Israelis over the Palestin-
“whose meaning falls somewhere between information ians, and only 19 percent say they sympathize more with
and propaganda.” the Palestinians. Congress remains firmly pro-Israel.
“Israel has never actually looked at hasbarah as an Yes, a Pew survey in January showed a wide partisan
integral part of policymaking,” Dan Pattir, a former divide over Israel, with 79 percent of Republicans and
press secretary to prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and only 27 percent of Democrats sympathizing more with
Menachem Begin, said then. Israel than with the Palestinians.
Fast forward 30 years. But the poll questions forced respondents to choose
Writing last week in the Los Angeles Times, Noga between Israelis and Palestinians (why not both?), and
Tarnapolsky makes a convincing case that Israel’s pub- the results may have reflected only the deeply partisan
lic diplomacy efforts are flawed, unprofessional, scat- nature of American politics — and that is not anything
tershot, and out of touch. Critics tell her that Prime you can hasbarah away.
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relies too much on Despite wide publicity and Jewish consternation, the
social-media videos to defend Israel. They say its mili- Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement hasn’t
tary spokespeople are ill prepared to answer questions taken root outside the far left. As of June, 25 states
about controversial events, like May’s deadly riots on have enacted anti-BDS laws. In fact, the whole point of
the border with Gaza. BDS is that Israel has a positive image that needs to be
undermined. You wouldn’t know about BDS if celebri-
ties didn’t regularly include Israel on their world tours.
The charge of “pinkwashing” — that Israel touts its
relatively progressive record on LGBT rights to distract
the world from the occupation — targets what the BDS
folk think is a positive and effective means of hasbarah.
Otherwise, why would they bother? And paradoxically,
every charge of pinkwashing only reminds the casual
reader of Israel’s strong LGBT record.
Two kinds of critics, often overlapping, criticize Isra-
el’s hasbarah.
The first is convinced that the media have it in for
Israel. Such critics also hold the mistaken notion that
the media’s role is to tell a story as they would have it
told. Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hardly
perfect, and examples abound of stories becoming sto-
ries only when Palestinians are the victims, or headlines
that ignore cause (a terror attack) for effect (the Israelis’
response). In general, however, Palestinians have a point
when they complain that the media often shape the nar-
rative according to an Israeli point of view, depicting
Palestinian life with an Israeli gaze. If you want to see
what coverage of the conflict would look like otherwise,
read a pro-Palestinian website like Electronic Intifada or
a far-left Israeli site like +972. It’s nothing like the Israel
coverage you see in the mainstream media.
The other kind of critic blames unpopular policy on
bad hasbarah. Good hasbarah, they insist, presumably
could have forestalled the brouhaha over the Israeli
nation-state law (a brouhaha, I’d wager, that most

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Revolution was their creed. The government lacked the will or
resources to restrain the violence.
Old guard right wing elites, who also despised the democratically
elected government, reacted to the threat posed by the Spartacists.
They formed so-called Freikorps (private militias), recruited from
the ranks of demobilized veterans of WWI, to combat the Sparta-
cists. Unlike law enforcement, they acted without legal and govern-
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It’s time to demand that mayors and police do their jobs. People have
the right to protest, but not to hurt people and destroy property.
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Violent protestors should not be able to mask their identity. It is
reported that the ranks of the white supremacists marchers were culture of uncompromising mutual
thinned out because neighbors, employers, and victims knew who respect. We possess good intentions
they were and could sue or react with appropriate outrage. Why and our donations of time and treasure
should the alt-left be immune? The videos of masked Antifa thugs are surely important, but the cause so

mental restraints. Their efforts did not end the violence but only lawlessly breaking windows evoke images of Kristallnacht. I can’t far is piecemeal. We are floundering.
begat more uncontrollable violence. help but view them with revulsion. Disregard for people’s property We are a people whose tradition is
Indeed, the ensuing turmoil supercharged the process of under- rights very quickly devolves into disregard for people, as well. replete with begetting. Short of Cold
mining trust in the existing government and eventually ushered in The beauty of our system of governance is not just our constitu- War II, we can rediscover our prin-
the Nazi regime. tion and bill of rights; it is our respect for the law. To have a society ciples in small steps that might beget
Sound familiar? The alt-right wishes to change things back to con- based on laws, we must enforce them. As the Bible commands in change-making movements. The
form to its mythical and absurd vision of the ways things were. The this week’s Torah reading, Shoftim, judges and law enforcement Equal Justice Initiative offers an idea:
alt-left wishes to change things by forcibly imposing its own odious authorities must be appointed. They are required to govern righ- Counties or perhaps entire regions
vision of a society it controls. Each is pursuing its extreme program teously. Laws can be unjust, but the solution is to challenge them in which lynching occurred can col-
outside our norms of legitimate discourse and proper behavior. in court or elect legislators to change them. Lawlessness, however, laborate with EJI to remember the
Our answer to change is at the voting booth. There is no force cannot be tolerated. It only leads to increasing levels of lawlessness,
permitted. It’s about winning the day with better ideas and policies. including violence. We cannot accept this as the new norm.
This, though, is not the regular means chosen by groups on the alt- We have so much that is beautiful and worth treasuring in this
left and alt-right. wonderful country of America. Make no mistake about it; we are the
Creating the image of a government out of control is their weapon envy of the rest of the world for good reason. Not everything may It appears that
of choice. Hence, the recent events, in Portland, when government be perfect; but we are free to strive for perfection. Our tradition is
offices were shut down forcibly and employees were intimidated to live and let live, exercise our right to free speech peacefully and we again are
physically. But it usually doesn’t end there, because there is the vote at the ballot box. concerned if
inevitable reaction — and all too often it’s an over-reaction. Thus, There is no excuse or justification for violence, and it cannot be
Portland since has experienced violent confrontations between alt- condoned. It’s time for all of us to condemn it, no matter who the not anxious
right groups and Antifa and its cohorts. perpetrator, and without qualification. about number
Whenever government doesn’t act to stop the violence and hold
the wrongdoers accountable, it is complicit. To onlookers, it appears Leon Grunstein of Teaneck, a retired attorney and banker, founded one, indifferent
as if society is crumbling. We can’t allow anarchy to prevail. Proper and was chairman of the Metropolitan National Bank and then to if not
policing is a part of the solution, as demonstrated in Washington, Israel Discount Bank of NY. He also founded He also founded
D.C., on Sunday. Project Ezrah and serves on the board of Revel at Yeshiva University suspicious of
We also have to do our part. We have got to rain on their parade. and the AIPAC National Council. others.
event by requesting a replica of a rep-
resentative part of its memorial for
local installation. One documented
from having children through surro- case of lynching occurred in central
gacy. More broadly, Netanyahu’s close New Jersey — surely there were oth-
ties with President Donald Trump ers throughout the state. Let’s bring
may be understandable and justifi- the story back home. We can explore
able, as his outreach to European installing it among the twin memorials
nationalists may be, but there is a to the Holocaust and U.S. slavery now
political and PR price to be paid for under development in Teaneck. (Bruce
such embraces. Prince, one of my traveling compan-
Netanyahu has good instincts for ions, is a co-organizer.) Even if Bergen
English-speaking audiences, and County doesn’t qualify, we can start a
sometimes he realizes that a posi- conversation leading to joint projects
tive pitch can get you only so far. In with our neighbors.
the past few weeks, left-wing activ- It’s an isolated idea for sure, but
ists have complained that Israeli air- maybe it will lock into other isolated
port security has detained them and events — many showing consider-
asked specifically about their activ- able promise — against a background
ism and their political beliefs. whose features we need to divine.
On Monday, after the liberal Zion- Referring to his participation in the
ist writer Peter Beinart said he was march from Selma to Montgomery,
stopped and interrogated, Netan- Abraham Joshua Heschel believed
yahu issued a statement saying it was that “our march was worship.” It was
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu understands that Israel’s hasbarah can get the an “administrative mistake,” adding “protest and prayer” that I believe can
country only so far.  ILLUSTRATION BY CHARLES DUNST/JTA; PHOTO: MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/GETTY that “Israel is the only country in the and must crystallize a renewed, other-
Middle East where people voice their directed social climate we Jews and all
Americans never even heard about). That story has legs not opinions freely and robustly.” Americans can cherish.
because of a bad marketing rollout, but because the law was a The latter statement is a staple of pro-Israel hasbarah. It’s a
policy decision that fed directly into a perception that Israel’s terrific policy, as long as it has the added benefit of being true. Dennis Klein of Teaneck, a professor
right-wing government was growing less democratic and more But when actions prove unpopular, PR won’t save you. The root of history at Kean University and
nationalistic. meaning of hasbarah is “explanation,” not “alchemy.” the director of its master of arts in
Passage of the law capped a week in which the Knesset allowed  JTA WIRE SERVICE Holocaust and genocide studies and
the education minister to bar groups critical of government poli- Jewish studies programs, is co-chair
cies from speaking in public schools, made it harder for Palestin- Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck is the editor in chief of JTA of Congregation Beth Sholom’s Adult
ians to win land disputes, and blocked single men and gay couples Wire Service. Education Committee.

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Another contributing factor is that
many seniors have outlived cherished
friends and family members and these
losses feel even more painful during the
holidays. The absence of those who are
no longer at synagogue or at the holiday
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the memories of holidays past so out-
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Change your life, change your health
Jill Freidbauer’s path to integrative health
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What happens when you feel like there is more you can be
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that Teaneck resident Jill Freidbauer asked herself when she
found herself suffering from ulcerative colitis.
Her journey began more than 14 years ago when she was
16 weeks pregnant with her first child. Ms. Freidbauer started
experiencing intense gastrointestinal symptoms. She was
diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and put on steroids. She had
asked her doctor whether diet had anything to do with UC
and she was told no. Her son was born early and with some
complications that have since resolved themselves, but over
the next few years, Freidbauer endured many stressors.
Her mother was diagnosed with early onset dementia, her
daughter was born with a rare genetic disorder that occurs
in-utero, and her ulcerative colitis continued to plague her
daily functioning.
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said. And then her paternal grandmother died, a
woman with whom she was extremely close and
who had lived a very healthy lifestyle. “That was my
“a-ha” moment — when I realized that maybe there
was a holistic approach to healing myself,” she said.
“One that involved not only my diet, but acknowl-
edging the stress in my life and doing something
about it.”
Ms. Freidbauer decided to take control of her
health. She began by consulting with Gila Guzman,
a well-known health coach in Teaneck. “At first, I
was very skeptical,” she said.
But then, with the help of an elimination diet,
and really figuring out what made her feel better,
she ultimately went into remission from her UC.
“There is scientific evidence on the effect that food
has on the gut, as it houses 70 percent of your
immune system,” she said.
Ms. Freidbauer knows that this approach
doesn’t work for everyone and that, “if you don’t
also address the stress in your life, you can never get
healthy. Health is a journey.”
She also still believes in seeing her doctor every six
months to make sure everything is ok. “Doctors, over
the years, have come to see that the holistic approach
can work for some of their patients. There are some doc-
tors that practice Functional Medicine — which means
they are conventionally trained doctors, but they recog-
nize the effect that food has on the body. It is a marrying
of the two worlds.” As for the word “holistic,” it really
just translates into “natural” — eating clean foods that
work with your body.
Ms. Freidbauer grew up in River Edge. She received
her masters in physical therapy from Northeastern Uni-
versity. She recently became an integrative nutrition
health coach.
“What I love about coaching is empowering my cli-
ents to see that they have the power within themselves
to change their habits and promote healing within the
body,” Ms. Freidbauer said. Many of her clients have
come to her with various autoimmune diagnoses.
“Their medications are not always working, and they
have been told by their practitioners that they just need
to accept they have an autoimmune disease or another
illness,” she said. But Ms. Freidbauer, who went into
remission through her own health practices, offers a
different perspective.
“I love seeing the independence develop within my
clients when they realize they do have control over their
health and the way that they feel,” she said. “Integrative
nutrition health coaches see ourselves as a guide on the
side, not a sage on the stage.”
Ms. Freidbauer tries to educate her clients, giving
them recipes to try and different books to read. “Then
clients come to see that they do have control over their
health after all,” she said. “It is very powerful when cli-
ents realize that health is not an all or nothing, its not
black and white — that’s when the real changes start
to happen. That’s when clients realize that the goal is
not perfect health, but a vastly improved quality of life
through their new healthy habits. When clients come
through onto the other side and see their blood sugars
stabilizing, thyroid numbers dropping, inflammatory
markers normalizing for the first time in years just from
changing their diets and learning how to control stress,
it feels like magic, but behind the illusion is often some
very simple dietary and lifestyle changes.”
Many people have asked Ms. Friedbauer how she was
able to “heal herself.”
“As I learned myself through my own health journey,
all the healthy food in the world will never heal us since
health encompasses much more than just food,” she
said. “The integrative nutrition approach, created by
Joshua Rosenthal, explains that in our lives we have pri-
mary food and secondary food. Primary foods are all the
things that feed and nourish our lives such as our rela-
tionships, careers, spirituality, exercise level, creativity,
that which brings us joy and much much more. Food is
really secondary! Therefore, in order to truly heal, we
need to address primary and secondary food.”
Ms. Freidbauer has taken all of her experience and all
of her knowledge and with the encouragement of the
many fans who have learned from her story, she wrote
a book. “Heal Your Soul, Heal Your Gut — A Beginner’s
Guide to Healing Autoimmune Disease Based on Science
and Ancient Jewish Wisdom.”
“I know it is a long title, but it was important to me
that it was all addressed and people would know what
they were getting themselves into,” Ms.Freidbauer
explained. She had become religious in college and felt
her Judaism was an important part of her healing. Spiri-
tual healing can be just as important as physical healing,
she believes.
Ms. Friedbauer offers potential clients a free consulta-
tion. She also offers pantry makeovers and supermarket
tours to help clients see what they should be buying to
help themselves in the process of achieving health.
She has three children. Her eldest son just graduated
from Yeshivat Noam in Paramus and he will be attending
the Torah Academy of Bergen County in Teaneck come
fall. Her middle son is 12 and will be entering eighth grade
at Yeshivat Noam. And her nine year old daughter is in the
Sinai program at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey
in River Edge. What kind of foods do they eat?
“I know that food is a social thing and I don’t want
to isolate my children by having them only eat healthy
food,” she said with a smile. “But it does make me very
proud when they would rather eat a salad rather than
chips.”
You can reach Ms. Friedbauer at jpthealthcoach@
gmail.com or sign up for her newsletter at www.
jillfriedbauer.com.
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A fine dining experience
at Arbor Terrace of Teaneck
Arbor Terrace of Teaneck will host a fine
dining luncheon to discuss the impor-
tance of socialization during the aging
process on Friday, September 7, at 1 p.m.
Aging can be a difficult process for
seniors as well as their family mem-
bers. The traditional roles of parent to
(Resident, Lillian Grunfeld with her daughter, child are often reversed. Depression
Dir. of Community Relations, Debbie Corwin) can become a great affliction as friends,
family, and other loved ones pass away.
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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles
Mazyar Ghanaat appointed
program director of urologic
oncology at Englewood Health
Dr. Mazyar Ghanaat has been named
program director of urologic oncology
at The Lefcourt Family Cancer Treat-
ment and Wellness Center at Engle-
wood Health. Dr. Ghanaat completed
a two-year fellowship in urologic
oncology at Memorial Sloan Ketter-
ing Cancer Center, where he received
an outstanding clinical performance
award and additionally achieved a
Responsible Conduct of Research Pro-
gram certificate. Most recently, Dr.
Ghanaat was a member of a basic sci-
ence research lab at Sloan Kettering
that focuses on translational research
in kidney cancer with the ultimate
goal of using precision medicine for
metastatic kidney cancer.
A urologic surgeon who practices
general urology and specializes in
urologic oncology, Dr. Ghanaat will
help meet an important clinical need
for patients in the Englewood Health
Physician Network and broader Engle-
wood Health community.
“With a growing population of indi-
viduals diagnosed with cancer in our
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tations and deliver the highest possi-
ble standard of care,” says Dr. Steven
Brower, medical director of The Lef-
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 Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

Don’t dismiss atrial fibrillation

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trial fibrillation (AFib), the most common type
of abnormal heart rhythm, is not usually life-
threatening on its own. If untreated, however,
AFib can cause serious complications. We
recently had a conversation about AFib with Dr. Suneet
Mittal, director of electrophysiology at The Valley Hos-
pital, and medical director, The Snyder Center for Com-
prehensive Atrial Fibrillation of Valley Medical Group. We
also discussed a new approach to patient consultations
— telemedicine.
Q: What is atrial fibrillation or AFib?
A: Atrial fibrillation, which is otherwise referred to as
AF or AFib, is the most common irregular or abnormal
heart rhythm disorder, affecting more than 3 million
Americans today. Most everyone has experienced an odd
heartbeat — feeling your heart race, pound, flutter, pause
or skip a beat. These episodes of unusual heart rhythm, or
arrhythmia, are caused by abnormal electrical impulses
in the heart and are often minor and harmless. Sustained
or more serious irregular rhythms, however, can pose a
danger and lead to symptoms and complications. Thank-
fully, more options to treat AFib are available now than
ever before.
Q: How is AFib diagnosed?
A: The only way to diagnose AFib is to obtain an elec-
trocardiogram (ECG or EKG). The ECG draws a picture
on graph paper of the electrical impulses traveling
through the heart muscle. An EKG provides an electrical

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“snapshot” of the heart. For people who have symp-

toms that come and go, other methods may be
needed to “capture” the arrhythmia. One such test is
a Holter monitor, which is a small external recorder
worn over a short period of time, usually one to
three days. Another is a portable telemetry moni-
tor that is worn for up to a month by patients who
have less frequent irregular heartbeat episodes and
symptoms. These days, the most exciting develop-
ment is the ability to capture an ECG recording using
a smartwatch or smartphone.
Q:What treatment options are available for AFib?
A: The five most common methods of treating
AFib are medications, lifestyle changes, medical
procedures, device therapy, and surgical treatment.
Medications are often the first approach to treating
AFib. Rate control medications, such as B-blockers
and calcium channel blockers, are used to help slow
the heart rate during atrial fibrillation.
Rhythm control medications (antiarrhythmic
drugs) help return the heart to its normal sinus
rhythm or maintain normal sinus rhythm.
Anticoagulant medications are used to reduce the
risk of blood clots and stroke.
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vice to make it easier for people newly diagnosed are thrilled to have Dr. Ghanaat join the Englewood
with AFib or those whose AFib has not adequately Wellness Center at Englewood Health. family,” says Dr. Stephen Brunnquell, president of the
responded to treatment to access the expertise of Dr. Ghanaat specializes in the diagnosis and treatment Englewood Health Physician Network. “His expertise
Valley’s electrophysiology practice. The goal of the of cancers of the prostate, bladder, kidney, testis, and in urology, and urologic oncology are great additions
consult is to review with the patient their current penis. He performs robotic surgery, laparoscopic and to the growing number of specialists and primary care
treatment strategy. open urologic procedures, and MRI ultrasound fusion physicians in our network who are dedicated to help-
For many patients, no further follow-up will biopsies, which superimposes MRI images with real- ing patients make choices that will best serve their
be necessary. However, for others, care may be time ultrasound images to produce a 3D image of sus- health.”
enhanced with the resources available within The picious areas which leads to a more accurate biopsy of In addition to English, Dr. Ghanaat is fluent in Farsi
Snyder Center. For these patients, further care will the prostate. and has a working knowledge of Spanish.
be delivered through a direct in-office consultation “As we continue to expand the Englewood Health For appointments and referrals, call (201) 608-2849.
with an electrophysiologist. An added bonus is that,
with an online consultation, there is no need to travel
or take time off from work or other daily obligations.
Q: What makes The Snyder Center for Compre-
hensive Atrial Fibrillation’s approach to care unique?
A: The Snyder Center takes a total patient manage-
ment approach to AFib instead of a “silo” approach
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“KOSHER COMPOUNDS?” BY YONI GLATT
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Husband #1 and
the magical bus ride

S
o I had this great idea for my about? Does anyone really want to hear
summer columns. I was going about why my parents’ summer was so
to try new and fun things with utterly miserable? No! And that is why
husband #1 and then I would we have to keep dragging husband #1
write about them. into the spotlight…
The one I was most excited about was When he finally woke up and realized
taking ballroom dancing classes with where he was — of course it took him a
him in that Cedar Lane promenade area few minutes trying to figure out where
— wow, that sounds really fancy, a prom- everybody went — he stood up, walked
enade. As I recall, for a few Thursdays up to the driver and asked, “Why didn’t
in the summer, Teaneck offers dance you wake me up?” The driver looked at
classes, and I wanted husband #1 and I husband #1 and said, “Hey buddy, I ain’t
to learn the rumba. Don’t ask me why. your mommy. It’s not my job to make
It sounded like it would get the funniest sure that you are awake!”
column, but since it didn’t come to pass, Husband #1 was at a loss. He still had
it doesn’t really matter. Now, it almost to get to work, and he had no idea where
happened — like we ate dinner across he was or what to do. The mean bus
the street, with me hoping that when we driver was kind enough to instruct him
walked outside husband #1 would hear to take one of those jitneys. Long story
the music and see all of the dancers and short, he made it to work before the
get inspired. But, alas, what work day was over, and
we saw were a few cute old when he came home and
couples, and husband #1 ran told me that story I had a
back to his car. COWARD! really, really good laugh.
And he didn’t really run, he But why was I even
just walked briskly. But, still reminded of this tale of
a COWARD. woe? Well, I went into the
So, since he knew I now city on Thursday to see
had no column idea, he gave Broadway in Bryant Park,
me permission to tell the which is something I love
Across Down
following story about him. Banji to do every summer, and
1. Cadillac model that debuted in 2012
4. Nest sound
1. 1s, in Hebrew
2. Additionally
This was my reward for him Ganchrow when I was getting off
9. Menu, at upscale eateries 3. Bring under control not wanting to learn how to the bus, I noticed that a
14. Murderer’s Row teammate of Babe 4. File locale, nowadays dance the rumba. friend of mine was still
15. “Why?” in Ashdod 5. It’s best to stay out of its way Now we must go back in time to when fast asleep with headphones on. He was
16. Eyes wantonly 6. Apple debut of 1998 husband #1 was commuting to work by really, really asleep. So I started tapping
17. Recede, at the beach 7. Like a poor decision, perhaps
bus. The heavenly New Jersey Transit. him on the shoulder until he woke up,
18. “...___ I like to call it....” (start of many 8. Non- Arab resident in Gaza, long ago
a punchline) 9. One on a massive expedition I believe the year was 1998, and it was which actually did take a while because
19. Sleep issue 10. Frat letters, for many a Jew his first foray into commuting life. He he was really sleeping.
20. Solid bema for a salty cantor? 11. Delivered formally, as a verdict found a legal place to park, he had his Now, I could have let him sleep,
23. Toon Huckleberry 12. Forest border new briefcase in hand, I packed him his because, well, that would have been
24. Annoy 13. “___ Einai”
lunch and snacks ( just kidding, I never the funny thing to do, but, because it
25. Mason alternative, perhaps 21. “Midnight ___” (Allen’s biggest finan-
27. Word before and after by cial hit) did that…yes, I am just awful and how is now the month of Elul, and I knew it
28. ___ of mistaken identity 22. Homophone of 37-Down does he live with me — blah blah blah). was approaching quickly on Thursday
31. Like Rush 26. Ornamental carp He was all ready for his trip to work. when this happened, I decided to ele-
32. Showing skill 28. Parseghian of Notre Dame Because he had stayed up late with vate my spirituality and wake the poor
34. “If you don’t, ___ will!” 29. Make holy
his babies, he was so very tired (he was guy up. Can you actually elevate your
35. Sacrificial poisonous gas? 30. Gave a hand
38. Calf neighbor 31. Hood’s group probably tired because there was a Yan- spirituality by doing that? I will have to
39. 100-seat site 33. AKA, before a company name kee game on, I was tired because of the ask my local rabbi. Or one of my rabbi-
40. Nile bird 34. Alternative to .doc babies, but whatever). The poor guy fell like sons…
41. Meal that occurs once (or twice) a year 35. Puts an end to asleep on the bus. When he woke up, he In any event, I hope he had a great day
42. Border crosser’s stamp 36. Passing notice
realized the bus was back on the New at work, I hope you enjoyed my story
46. Coffee holder 37. Boat tool
47. Purveyor of AMC Stubs A-List 38. 5%, if you’re a miser Jersey side of the tunnel. That’s correct, about husband #1, and I hope that now
48. Pavarotti, notably 41. Campus in Dallas, TX my husband #1, who you all think I am that we are in the month of Elul — the
49. Liquid burning Lubavitcher? 43. Magazine ad, at times so mean to, that all I do is make fun of month before Rosh Hashanah — you can
54. ___ HaMelech, first king of Israel 44. Shindig him, fell asleep on the bus, went through take stock of the stories in your life and
55. Can’t stand 45. Impassioned, as a plea
the Lincoln Tunnel, stopped at the Port see if there are any changes you would
56. Poetic conjunction 47. G sharp, alternatively
57. Bedroom label 48. Counterweights Authority, let a whole bus full of people like to make.
58. Pick on 50. Mandolin relative off, went back through the Lincoln Tun- And there you go — a teeny tiny d’var
59. Half a cartoon duo 51. Animal that provides large shofars nel, and then was back in New Jersey, Torah. My boys will be so proud.
60. Heretofore 52. Word on many a Jewish necklace heading for the bus depot. All that hap-
61. Escape routes 53. Have shabbat guests
pened whilst my spouse was sleeping Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is so excited
62. 9, in Hebrew 54. 987-65-4321 org.
like a baby. to use her “sanitize” cycle on her washing
Listen, folks, if he didn’t give me such machine when her boys come home from
great material, what else could I write camp!!!!!
The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 55.

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ARTS & CULTURE
‘Memoir of War’
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
I
n 1996, a French filmmaker audi-
tioned several elderly Yiddish-speak-
ing people in Paris for a short film
that he was preparing. At the time,
he spoke to me about his attachment
to Yiddish culture, his fear that it might
be lost, and the special vitality that he
believed the Yiddish language held.
His short film, “Madame Jacques on
the Croisette,” was released in 1996 as a
celebration of a Holocaust survivor gen-
eration that he knew would never again
be. Several of the actors would be cast in
his first feature film, “Voyages,” a largely
Yiddish-language narrative film with
three intersecting stories about Holocaust
survivors; it would be made three years
later. The filmmaker, Emmanuel Finkiel,
who in actuality speaks no Yiddish, has
returned to a Jewish-related theme with
“Memoir of War,” based on two chapters
from French writer Marguerite Duras’
memoir “La douleur.”
In large part drawing on her own story,
after the war Duras had written about her
experiences as a woman in occupied Paris
in 1944 to 1945, waiting for her husband,
Robert Antelme, to return from Dachau.
Antelme, whom the Nazis had found to be
a member of the Resistance, had been tor-
tured and sent off to a concentration camp.
The novel, part autobiography, part fiction,
delves into Duras’ deep emotions as she
tried to gather information about Robert,
sometimes flirting with a French Gestapo
collaborator, while attempting to cope
with the separation from her husband and
her very precarious situation. Marguerite’s
relationship with her husband is revealed
as complex; she had another lover long
before Antelme was deported, and that
lover, Dionys, is there with her in Paris.
Would Robert return home alive after the
war ended? If so, in what condition? Dio-
nys goes to search for him.
Filmmaker Finkiel explores how rather
than distancing herself emotionally from
her husband during the months of sepa-
ration, Duras actually might have been
drawn closer to Robert.
Finkiel, whose grandparents and uncle
were murdered at Auschwitz, approaches
the material with a unique perspective. In
the France of his youth, the French laid
blame for French-Nazi collaboration on
the Vichy government. They were far from
ready to acknowledge any guilt. Finkiel’s
Benoît Magimel is Pierre Rabier and Mélanie Thierry
is Marguerite Duras in “Memoir of War.” MUSIC BOX FILMS
father would share with his son his amaze-
ment that in the weeks after Allied troops
marched into Paris, the same people who
had come out onto the streets to applaud
the speeches of Vichy leaders weeks
before were now matter-of-factly laud-
ing Charles de Gaulle. Liberation in 1945
called attention to the resistance and mar-
tyrdom of the French people, disregarded
French complicity, and ignored the singu-
larity of Jewish genocide. Duras did not
write much about Jews in her work.
It was not until the early 1970s that the
real story of Vichy’s collaboration began to
be told, and France’s role in the round-ups
and expulsion of Jews was acknowledged.
In 1995, Jacques Chirac finally officially
acknowledged the French government’s
responsibility in the deportation of Jews.
Finkiel introduces an Eastern European,
Yiddish-speaking Mrs. Katz into the story.
She is played beautifully by Shulamit Adar,
whose performance in both “Madame
Jacques” and “Voyages” is so memora-
ble. Duras’ Mrs. Kats, spelled differently,
was classic French, but the filmmaker
wanted a character reflective of his own
grandparents. The character is Finkiel’s
effort to introduce a Jewish story into the
postwar French narrative, which largely
had ignored Jews.
Mrs. Katz sings Yiddish songs while wait-
ing to see if her dear ones have survived
and will return from the camps. The hope
for return that she maintains seems even
more important than the actual return. In
a conversation with me in March, Finkiel
reflected on how some survivors, including
his own father, continued to wait long after
learning the news of a loved one’s death. Is
it the same in the film for Marguerite?
Mélanie Thierry is exceptional as Mar-
guerite Duras. Benoît Magimel, as French
collaborator Rabier, does a fine job of
getting us to hate him. Resistance fighter
Robert Antelme’s deportation and journey
was like that of French Jews, and Emman-
uel Finkiel, the child of survivors, provides
us with a powerful film about those who
anxiously waited, hoped, and prayed for
the safe return of loved ones. “Memoir of
War” opens today at the Film Forum in
New York.
Eric Goldman is a film historian
and professor and host of “Jewish
Cinematheque,” seen on the Jewish
Broadcasting Service.
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AUG. Kati Frisch
Grossman,
20, 22
left, and her
daughter,
Lilly, with Stacey Lazar and her
daughters, Sammy and Abby, at
last year’s Supplies for Success.
Volunteers are needed to unpack
and set up supplies on Monday
and then fill up backpacks on
Wednesday for the Jewish
Federation of Northern New
Jersey’s Supplies for Success
drive. Volunteers fill brand-new
backpacks with supplies for
hundreds of disadvantaged kids
returning to school this fall in
northern New Jersey. Donations
also are needed: $18 fills one
backpack, $72 fills four, and $180
fills 10. Supplies for Success is
sponsored by Genesis Foundation,
Artistic Tile, and Myron. Kati Frisch
Grossman and Michal Levison co-
chair the project. Call Beth Figman
at (201) 820-3947, email her at
bethF@jfnnj.org, or go to JFNNJ.
org/supplies.
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the Borscht Belt,” for Kootz Rock Band, 7 p.m.
Friday  Sunday  the CSI Scholar Fund
of the JCC of Fort Lee/
Series runs through
August 30. The Metro
AUGUST 17 AUGUST 19 Congregation Gesher YMCAs of the Oranges
Shalom. Refreshments at is a partner of the
Shabbat in Fort 12:30 p.m., program at 1. YM-YWHA of North
Lee: The JCC of Fort 1449 Anderson Ave., Fort Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
Lee/Congregation Lee. (201) 947 1735 or (973) 595-0100 or www.
Gesher Shalom hosts www.geshershalom.org. wayneymca.org.
a barbecue at 6 p.m.,
followed by services
at 7:15. 1449 Anderson Tuesday  Friday 
Ave. BBQ reservations, AUGUST 21 AUGUST 24
(201) 947-1735.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Shabbat on the
Congregation B’nai Israel
Palisades: Temples
offers an open house
Sinai of Bergen County Film in Franklin Lakes: Shabbat, 8 p.m., with
in Tenafly and Beth El of Temple Emanuel of Rabbi Debra Orenstein,
Northern Valley in Closter North Jersey screens the Cantor Lenny Mandel,
invite the community to 1928 classic romantic Hebrew school principal
its informal “Prayers on comedy “Speedy,” Karen Weiss, religious
the Palisades” service, Harold Lloyd’s last silent school families, and other
led by clergy of both film, 2 p.m. Popcorn congregants. 53 Palisade
congregations, at the and ice cream. 558 Ave. (201) 265-2272,
State Line Lookout off High Mountain Road. membership.chair@
the Palisades Parkway, (201) 560-0200 or www. Yogi Berra bisrael.com, or bisrael.
6:30 p.m. The exit is tenjfl.org. com.
northbound on the PIP, Yogi Berra: Dumont
two miles north of Exit historian Dick Burnon
2. Bring a lawn chair and Monday  discusses “The Wit and Sunday 
bug spray. Participants AUGUST 20 Wisdom of Baseball AUGUST 26
can go on the hiking Legend Yogi Berra,”
trails before the service. at a meeting of REAP
(Retired Executives
If the weather is
inclement, services will and Professionals)
be held at Beth El, 221 at the Kaplen JCC
Schraalenburgh Road, on the Palisades in
Closter. (201) 768-5112 or Tenafly, 10:45 a.m.
www.tbenv.org. 411 East Clinton Ave.
(201) 569-7900 or www.
Concert in Park Ridge:
Saturday  jccotp.org.
The free Bergen County
AUGUST 18 Film in Teaneck: Summer Music concert
Rabbi Aaron Katz Temple Emeth’s adult series at the Wortendyke
Shabbat in Jersey City: education group screens Barn Museum, a county
Congregation B’nai Lunch and learn: Rabbi a Jewish-themed movie, historic site in Park
Jacob has Shabbat study, Aaron Katz leads a lunch as part of its “Movies Ridge, supported by
10:30 a.m. 176 West Side discussion on current That Matter” series, Bergen County Executive
Ave. (201) 435-5725. topics at Congregation 7:30 p.m. Refreshments. Jim Tedesco and
B’nai Jacob in Jersey 1666 Windsor Road. the Board of Chosen
Women’s song circle in City, noon. $10. 176 West (201) 833-1322 or emeth. Freeholders, continues
Teaneck: Join a z’mirot Side Ave. (201) 435-5725 org. with the Charlie Jones
song circle, for women or Info@bnaijacobjc.org. Group (blues/jazz/
only, at Young Israel
of Teaneck, 5:30 p.m.
Thursday  rock), 4 p.m. Limited
seating is available;
868 Perry Lane. Email AUGUST 23 people are welcome to
WomensZmirot+owner@ bring chairs/blankets;
groups.io. a food vendor will be
there and the museum is
open to visitors at noon
and during intermission.
The free outdoor music
series continues Sunday,
September 23, at 4, with
Marty Schneit
Kootz Rock Band the Reggie Pittman/
Loren Daniels Quartet
Entertainment in (rhythm & blues/jazz),
Borscht Belt: Marty
Wayne: The summer and Sunday, October
Schneit, a licensed New
York City tour guide,
concert series at the 28, at 1, with the 8th
Wayne YMCA continues annual Bluegrass & Cider
gives an illustrated
with music from the festival. (201) 336-7292
lecture, “Memories of

or email glucente@
co.bergen.nj.us.
Monday 
AUGUST 27
Healthcare fraud: The
Jewish Home Assisted
Living in River Vale
offers a program,
“Protect Yourself from
Healthcare Fraud,”
failitated by Senior
Medicare Patrol, a
Calendar
a division of New York
Blood Center, 2-8 p.m.
of New York’s Jewish
Community Deaf Part of Alexander’s mural
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or
Interpreter Fund.
(212) 677-0368, www. on display in Englewood
www.nybloodcenter. tandv.org, or email The Sandy Bennett Art Gallery at the Ber-
org. Bram at bramweiser@
usa.net. gen Performing Arts Center in Englewood
presents “Alexander’s Mural,” an exhibit
In New on Stefan Knapp’s post-war expression-
Singles ism, through September 30. There will be
York a special reception on Thursday, Septem-
Friday  ber 13, from 7 to 9 p.m.
“Alexander’s Mural,” a part of Bergen
Saturday  AUGUST 31
County history, is in the Bergen Museum’s

national program for
Medicare recipients
of all ages, 11 a.m.
685 Westwood Ave.
(201) 666-2370 or
JewishHomeFamily.org.
Tuesday  service, with full
AUGUST 28
Blood drive in
Teaneck: Holy Name
Medical Center holds a
blood drive with New
Jersey Blood Services,
COURTESY BERGENPAC
AUGUST 25
Shabbaton: Sharon collection. The mural, by artist Stefan
ASL-interpreted Ganz & Friends hosts Knapp, was installed on the Alexander’s
a Labor Day Weekend
Shabbat service: Town building in Paramus in 1964. Each panel
& Village Synagogue in Shabbaton for Jewish
singles at Young Israel is an example of postwar expressionism.
Manhattan holds an ASL
-interpreted Shabbat of Avenue J in Brooklyn, The exhibit provides a close-up view of
through Saturday Knapp’s unique firing technique; the pan-
readings from the Torah night. Fee includes
els were assembled and painted with com- Knapp worked with Rothko, Dali, Pol-
and haftorah, 10 a.m. three Shabbat meals,
binations of transparent, opal, and opaque lock, and architects including Denys Las-
Kiddush will follow. 334 Flatbush tour, guest
East 14th St., between speakers, and Saturday patented enamels of vibrant colors. dun. His works are in many museums
First and Second night party. Home Stefan Knapp, a Polish Holocaust sur- including MOMA, Dallas museum, and
hospitality. 1721 Avenue
avenues. Underwritten
J. (646) 529-8748 or vivor, said that the mural was inspired by Poland’s Katowice museum. For more
by UJA-Federation
(718) 575-3962. his experiences when he escaped to Eng- information on the exhibit, go to bergen-
land, where he became a World War II RAF museum.com.
pilot. He is the only Polish national ever to The Sandy Bennett Gallery is on the
receive the Churchill Fellowship for mili- mezzanine level of bergenPAC and is open
tary service, which allowed him to pursue to the public.
his art.

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tainty Principle in the Books of Yonah
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30, and again on September 5, from 7 to
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Azerbaijan’s only JCC sold off in painful blow
to a dwindling community
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN — About one year
after Bella Regimov’s two children left
their native country for Israel in the
early 2000s, along with many of her
friends and relatives, she began feeling
socially isolated.
On her own in Azerbaijan’s family-
oriented society, the 76-year-old was los-
ing “the will to get up in the morning,”
she said.
But in 2006, things turned around. That
year, Regimov started volunteering at the
Jewish community center that the Ameri-
can Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
had opened two years earlier in this capi-
tal city of the Caucasus republic.
“This became my home, my real home,”
Regimov said of the Jewish House, a crum-
bling building on a busy street bordering
the Baku Railway Station. “I come here
first thing in the morning and I stay to
close the place.”
Since she started volunteering, Regi-
mov has come to depend on the center
for social interaction, a sense of purpose,
and even exercise. She walks at least two
miles a day to the center and back to her
home in Baku’s old Jewish quarter. In the
summer, she walks briskly to minimize her
exposure to the scorching sun, slowing
down only under the shade of the build-
ings, which showcase the city’s ubiquitous
beige sandstone tiles.
But this month, Regimov and dozens
of other elderly Jews in Baku will have to
leave the building that houses the city’s
only Jewish community center. JDC has
sold it, to streamline its expenses in a city
with a dwindling Jewish community.
The sale is part of a broader effort by
Shaul Davidov greets regulars at the
entrance to the Jewish Home in Baku,
Azerbaijan, on July 18, 2018.
52 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 17, 2018
JDC to respond to shifting Jewish commu-
nity demographics, the New York-based
group said. In the case of Baku, whose Jew-
ish population has shrunk from 16,000 to
8,000 since 2000, JDC will move its offices
to a much smaller space, a JDC spokesper-
son added.
Many Azeri Jews have left for Russia or
Israel in search of opportunities unavail-
able under the corrupt economy of Azer-
baijan, an oil-rich country where many res-
idents nonetheless live in abject poverty.
As the community shrinks, Regimov and
other elderly Jews value the institutions
that have been their solution to loneliness
more and more. “Please tell them not to
take this away from us,” she said. “It’s my
reason for getting up in the morning, and
I’m not the only one.”
The Jewish House, at 13,000 square feet,
includes an auditorium, workshop rooms,
classrooms, and space for exhibitions. JDC
said that the new space is about five times
smaller, but it will have space for activities
and a day center for seniors.
Still, Shaul Davidov, who has headed
the Jewish House since its opening, said
the change means the “end of an era” for
his community.
The organizations that run Jewish com-
munal activities in Baku will find a new
address there, he said, but “it means a
painful loss” for Regimov and dozens of
elderly Jews who come to the Jewish House
daily to play cards, participate in arts and
crafts lessons, and study Hebrew.
“I don’t think they’ll come. It will not be
the same,” he said.
Arnold Zeligman, an 86-year-old volun-
teer Hebrew teacher at the Jewish House,
is determined to resume his activity in the
new space.
“But where will we have concerts?
Where will we have a festive kabbalat
Shabbat?” he asked. “I don’t see it happen-
ing, and it’s a very big shame.”
The Jewish House’s annual upkeep costs
about $60,000, Davidov said.
Baku has two active synagogues in the
old Jewish quarter. Both are small in com-
parison to the Jewish House, and “our
people don’t really feel like it’s their space
there,” said Zeligman, whose only son lives
in Israel.
His students are a dozen or so pension-
ers, who enjoyed the unplanned study
break they were given last month while
Zeligman spoke to this reporter. Watching
him wrap his tongue around some of the
best Hebrew-language words in his vocab-
ulary, they crack jokes at his expense in
Juhuri, the dying dialect spoken here by
many Jews.
A mix of Farsi and Hebrew, Juhuri is
the centuries-old language of the Moun-
tain Jews — a stream of Judaism that is
Arnold Zeligman, left, teaches Hebrew to Bella Regimov, wearing head cover,
and other students at the Jewish House in Baku, Azerbaijan, on July 18, 2018.
 PHOTOS BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
considered neither Sephardic nor Ashke-
nazi, and whose members have their own
manner of singing scripture and songs.
About half of Azerbaijan’s Jews are Moun-
tain Jews. The rest are Ashkenazim who
came here before 1991, when Russia still
ruled what is now Azerbaijan.
Fading and lacking an agreed-upon
alphabet — the few Juhuri books in exis-
tence are divided into volumes using
Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin — the
pensioners’ native tongue is no use for
communicating with grandchildren in
Israel and beyond over Skype, and that
requires them to study Hebrew. But none
of them is thinking seriously about moving
to Israel as long as they are in good health,
Zeligman said.
Michal Frank, the executive director of
JDC in the former Soviet Union, said she
“understands that it can be upsetting” to
some in the community. “We’re very atten-
tive to their needs, but we need to adjust to
demographic shifts and decreasing budgets
for the good of all JDC clients,” she said.
In 2017, JDC spent more than $120 mil-
lion — slightly over one-third of its bud-
get — on supporting Jewish communities
in the former Soviet Union. This included
funding for the Hesed program; that year
the program provided support to some
110,000 people from the neediest seg-
ments of the community.
JDC has had to direct extra resources to
Russia and Ukraine, where most of the for-
mer Soviet Jews live, in order to meet grow-
ing needs there. Since 2013, JDC has seen at
least 6,500 Jews apply for its welfare pro-
grams in Ukraine, in one of the most dra-
matic increases in reliance on JDC aid since
Ukraine gained independence in 1991. It was
part of JDC’s response to a financial crisis
that hit the economies of both Russia and
Ukraine in 2014, in connection with those
countries’ territorial conflict.
These socioeconomic developments
coincided with a decrease in JDC’s
available cash. The group’s assets dropped
gradually from $711 million in 2014 to
$644 million last year; that a 10 percent
decrease. And expenditures dropped
accordingly, from $336 million to $311 mil-
lion, over that same period, according to
its annual reports.
As needs increase elsewhere, they
shrink in places like Baku.
At the Jewish House, the number of peo-
ple receiving services, or clients, declined
by half since 2005, according to JDC. There
now are some 900 elderly clients there.
Few younger Jews apply for aid.
This depletion is not unique to Azer-
baijan. It is being seen across the former
Soviet region, where ailing economies and
the erosion of democratic standards are
prompting many Jews who resisted earlier
waves of emigration finally to leave.
In the Russian Siberian city of Che-
lyabinsk, the JDC Hesed office has seen
a decrease of 51 percent in the number
of its clients from 2004. In Krasnoyarsk,
another Russian city in Siberia, a 63
percent decrease in clients since 2004
resulted in JDC merging that city’s Hesed
operations, serving its 219 remaining cli-
ents, with the one in Novosibirsk.
In Belarus, after the number of clients
fell by half, Hesed offices in Polotsk and
Vitebsk merged.
Israel certainly is seeing the impact of
this trend. Russia and Ukraine alone pro-
vided Israel with most of its immigrants in
2017 — the first calendar year in more than
a decade when this has happened.
Many Jews leave Azerbaijan for Moscow,
where they can easily get work visas and
where many wealthy Azeri Jews can help
them put down roots.
Davidov, the head of the Jewish House,
says he is aware of the bigger picture.
“We’ll soon be gone anyway,” he said. “Is
saving a few thousand dollars a year really
worth tearing all this down?”
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Meyer “Mike” Greenberg, 90, of Teaneck, formerly of
Glen Rock, died August 11.
A CPA, he worked at Israel Aircraft and Ogden
Corporation and was a member of the Glen Rock
Jewish Center.
Predeceased by a sister, Lillian, he is survived by his
wife of 67 years, Rita; daughters, Laura (Mark), Judi;
Dianne (Lawrence); brothers, Milton (Terri) and Sol;
grandchildren, Gregg (Kelly), Jason (Colleen), Lisa
(Kyle), Ricky, Sean, Max, and Sophia; and a great-
grandchild, Charlotte.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Howard Isaacs
Howard Isaacs, 81, of Whitehouse Station, formerly of
Hillside, died August 8.
He worked at the Meadowlands Racetrack for many
years and was recognized for his excellence in guest
services.
Dr. Stanley W. Wollock, 87, died July 31.
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and a doctorate from NYU.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Claire;
children, Dr. Michael (Leslie) and Amy; sister- and
brothers-in-law Irene, Stewart, and Paul; four
grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
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Marcel Rudin
Marcel Rudin, 80, of Fort Lee, died August 15.
Born in Belguim, he owned Power Lines Inc., in
Wallington.
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children, Alicia Rush of Gainesville, Fla., and Howard
of Union City; and four grandchildren.
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Arthur Velardi
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Born in Newark, he was a retired driver in the trucking
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Interstate Expo 2018
The premier construction and management
networking event
Professionals in the construction and
management industries have come to
trust the OJBA (Orthodox Jewish Build-
ers Association) for spearheading their
acclaimed tri-annual expositions which
include the Interstate, Citywide and
Catskills Expos.
Debuting its second annual Interstate
Expo targeting New York’s Orange and
Rockland counties and its neighboring
North Jersey regions, exhibitors and
attendees anticipate a day of productiv-
ity via congregating, communicating,
connecting, and reconnecting with like-
minded professionals in the industry.
This year’s Interstate Expo by OJBA is
scheduled for November 28 at the Mead-
owlands Exposition Center in Secaucus.
The event will serve as a conglomera-
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management firms, as well as for suppli-
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credibility at the most prominent con-
struction and management venue.
Getting to meet prospective contacts
under one roof is guaranteed to gener-
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clients at such an epic event affirms a
congenial rapport. Exhibitors gain brand
recognition by showcasing their prod-
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venue that offers clear booth visibility
and wider aisles for maximal exposure.
Keeping up with the industry’s trends,
fluctuating municipal laws and require-
ments, and the most recent updates in
the constructional spectrum, can be
daunting. The Interstate Expo will fea-
ture educational forums conducted
by leading connoisseurs in the trade.
Each presenter will engage the audience
with their niche’s expertise — impart-
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clarify the aforementioned key compo-
nents, expound on industry specifics
and provide valuable insights. Partici-
pants will increase awareness and esca-
late sales.
“Networking is key,” said Mike Weber,
CEO of OJBA’s exposition events. “The
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tion and appreciation in providing the
community a professional communica-
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are made with businesses acclaimed.”
The enthusiastic response is what moti-
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with the most current networking and
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Mr. Weber concludes: “In construc-
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Shakespeare in the park in Bergen County

Shakespeare in the park in Bergen
County, the summer productions from
Teaneck’s Black Box Performing Arts
Center, continues this month (weather
permitting).
Macbeth and Twelfth Night will play
in repertoire through August 29. Per-
formances are mostly held in Teaneck’s
Votee Park, with some additional perfor-
mances in Englewood. There are mati-
nee and nighttime shows. All shows are
free to the public. Audiences are asked to
bring a chair or blanket to sit on.
Shakespeare in the Park plays the fol-
lowing performance schedule:
In Teaneck’s Votee Park:
Fri 8/17 at 7pm TWELFTH NIGHT
Sat 8/18 at 7pm MACBETH
Sun 8/19 at 2pm TWELFTH NIGHT
Fri 8/24 at 7pm MACBETH
Sat 8/25 at 7pm TWELFTH NIGHT
In Englewood
(outside the Library)
Wed 8/22 at 6:30pm MACBETH
Wed 8/29 at 6:30pm TWELFTH NIGHT
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Edgewood Country Club raises $60,000

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Edgewood Country Club recently hosted its annual Play
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Edgewood Country Club members and their guests — par-
ticipated to raise $60,000. Proceeds go toward advances
in breast cancer detection, treatment, and survivorship.
This year’s fundraiser, which included raffle prizes, dona-
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wood Country Club has run this special event. In fact, the
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The day’s events began with a breakfast at 7:30 am
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and panels, plus a performance by the Benjamin Frank-
lin and Thomas Jefferson Middle School bands, on Sun-
day, November 4, at Benjamin Franklin Middle School,
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the Board on a program that will attract students as well
as adults and inspire interest and involvement in impor-
tant issues.
On the agenda is 101 Seconds, which is being spon-
sored by the National Council of Jewish Women/Bergen
County Section and the Bergen County Brady Chapter.
Both organizations will participate in a talkback fol-
lowing the documentary, which chronicles the debate
on gun control that erupted in Oregon in the wake of
a shooting at Clackamas Town Center and the Sandy
Hook massacre, which occurred three days later. It fol-
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The developer joined its
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