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Titanic victim’s Hebrew-letter watch sells for $57,500
l A silver pocket watch with Hebrew letters
on its face that belonged to a Jewish Russian
immigrant who died aboard the Titanic sold at
auction for $57,500.
Heritage Auctions offered the pocket watch at
its headquarters in Dallas on Saturday in a pub-
lic auction of important Americana memorabilia.
The watch features Moses holding the Ten
Commandments on its back. John Miottel, a col-
lector of timepieces relating to the Titanic disas-
ter, is its new owner.
Miottel operates the Miottel Museum in Berke-
ley, California. The museum specializes in mari-
time memorabilia; Miottel already owns watches
from Titanic victims Col. John Jacob Astor, the
liner’s richest passenger and the era’s richest
person in the world, as well as a watch once owned by
Oscar Woody, the Titanic’s U.S. Postal Clerk. Miottel
also holds the timepiece once owned by the first per-
son to receive the distress call from the Titanic, Harold
Thomas Cottam, who served as a wireless operator on
the rescue ship RMS Carpathia.
The Hebrew-language watch “will take one of the
primary spots in our collection,” Miottel said. It will be
added to the museum’s Ocean Liner Section, which
includes thousands of historic maritime artifacts and
memorabilia.
The watch’s original owner, Sinai Kantor, was an im-
migrant from Russia bound for New York with his wife,
Miriam, who survived the accident aboard the Titanic
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when it sank during the cruise ship’s maiden voy-
age in 1912. Dozens of Jews were among the 1,503
passengers who died. The British liner had a kosher
kitchen.
The pocket watch was sold by a direct descendant
of Miriam and Sinai Kantor, who provided a letter of
provenance and who does not wish to be identified.
The Kantors, who paid 26 pounds sterling (approxi-
mately $3,666 today) for their tickets, were among
285 second class passengers. They boarded the ship
in Southampton, England.
Kantor, a furrier who wanted to study dentistry or
medicine in America, was 34 when he and his wife,
24, also an aspiring doctor, boarded the Titanic. They
came from Vitebsk, today a city in northwest Belarus.
Miriam Kantor received her husband’s clothing,
Russian passport, notebook, telescope, corkscrew, and
Russian, German, and English currency, along with his
watch, on May 24, 1912.
Sinai Kantor is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in
Queens, according to Israeli Titanic researcher Eli Mos-
kowitz, author of a book on the Jews of the Titanic.
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Equestrian chooses fast over race Candlelighting:

l An Israeli equestrian rider has
withdrawn from next month’s
world championships because the
competition will take place on Yom
Kippur.
The International Equestrian Fed-
eration race, which will take place this
year in North Carolina, is a prelude to
the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo,
where Israel’s equestrian federation
hopes to compete for the first time.
Israeli rider Dan Kramer sent a letter
earlier this month to the international
federation saying that he would not
compete due to the conflict with the
holiest day on the Jewish calendar,
Ynet reported.
“I decided not to join the other
members of the Israeli national team
and not to participate in the upcom-
ing world championships in the United
States, because the competition is
taking place on Yom Kippur and I want
to honor this day as well as the Israeli
public and Jewish diaspora,” Kramer
wrote in a letter to the Israel equestri-
an federation’s chairman Kenny Lalo.
Kramer, who lives in Belgium, grew
up on Moshav Hayogev in northern
Friday, August 31, 7:12 p.m.
Israel, where his family owned a horse Shabbat ends:
and he dreamed of competing in the Saturday, September 1, 8:10 p.m.
Olympics. He suffered a leg injury
while serving in the Israel Defense
Forces, and returned to riding as
part of a physical therapy regimen. For convenient home delivery,
He qualified for next month’s world call 201-837-8818 or
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Other members of the team were
divided over Kramer’s decision be-
cause his absence could cost the ON THE COVER: Fatima Abu Roomi,
Israeli team am Olympic berth. “Venus 8, 2017.” Courtesy of Gordon
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Gallery.

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Noshes
EICHMANN CAPTURE:
‘Operation Finale’
gets mixed reviews
“Operation
Finale,” which
opened on August
29, is a dramatization of
Israeli Mossad agents’
capture of Adolf Eich-
mann in Argentina in
1960. Eichmann, of
course, was the SS officer
who headed the round-up
of European Jews during
the Holocaust. There is a
lot of talent involved in
this film. I hoped that it
would turn out to be
extraordinary because
the subject matter
deserves a great movie.
But early reviews of
“Finale” by leading
outlets, like “Variety” and
“The Guardian,” were not
very good. The acting
was praised, especially
Ben Kingsley as Eichmann
and Oscar Isaac as PETER
MALKIN (1927-2005).
Malkin was a leading
member of the team that
captured Eichmann. As
shown in the film, he
interrogated Eichmann in
depth before the Nazi
was smuggled out of
Argentina and flown to
Israel for trial. The reviews
also praised the way the
film establishes Argen-
tina’s Nazi-welcoming
atmosphere, as well as its
exciting re-creation of
Eichmann’s last hours in
Argentina. (He was
drugged and put on an El
Al plane, under the noses
of Argentine officials).
This line from the “Va-
riety” review seems to
sum up most reviews:
“[Y]et taken on its own
here’s how it really hap-
pened terms, the movie
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is at once plausible and
sketchy, intriguing and
not fully satisfying.” Most
of the criticism seems to
be directed at the interro-
gation scenes. But some
invented details also are
getting the thumbs-down.
They include an Israeli
nurse, who is supposed to
be Malkin’s old flame, who
wasn’t really in Argentina.
(She’s played by French
actress MELANIE LAU-
RENT, 35.) The film is di-
rected by CHRIS WEITZ,
48 (who had three Jewish
grandparents). The Jew-
ish members of the cast
include NICK KROLL, 40,
PETER STRAUSS, 71, and
ALLAN CORDUNER, 68.
If you subscribe to
Netflix, check out “The
Eichmann Show,” a 2005
BBC TV movie that dra-
matizes the hurdles that
American director LEO
HURWITZ (1909-1991)
and an Israeli TV pro-
ducer had to overcome to
get permission to film the
trial, and then to get the
worldwide news media
to show their daily trial
footage. It’s a very inter-
esting story, and I hadn’t
known about it. The BBC
film received mostly very
good reviews. Hurwitz
won a 1961 Emmy for
an American TV special
(“Verdict for Tomorrow”)
that was made up mostly
of his footage of the most
important moments of
the trial.
Other flicks
“Kin” opens
everywhere on
Friday, August 31.
“I spent years with Joe Lieberman, eating salmon,
riding the Shabbat elevator, no cars on Saturday.
So I said — I’m going through all this with no
benefits, I’m converting to Judaism. Joe said:
great — only I’d have to have a bris.
So I changed my mind.”
— Senator John McCain at the 2014 AIPAC conference
supernatural origin.
The director is Irish Jew
LENNY ABRAHAMSON,
51, who helmed a number
of acclaimed indie films
before receiving a best
director Oscar nomina-
tion for “Room” (2015).
“Room” also was a best
picture nominee. “Kin”
star Jack Reynor, whose
mother is Irish, had his
breakthrough role in
Melanie Laurent Chris Weitz Nick Kroll Abrahamson’s 2012 film,
“What Richard Saw.”
Back in 2014, Abraha-
mson accurately said
that he is “the third most
famous Irish Jew” (behind
the late CHAIM HERZOG,
the Israeli general who
became president of Is-
rael, and the late ROBERT
BRISCOE, lord mayor of
Dublin).
“Juliet, Naked” is a
comedy-drama based
on a novel of the same
Allan Corduner Lenny Abrahamson Jesse Peretz name by big-selling Brit-
ish author Nick Hornby
It’s a sci-fi/action crime “The Little He becomes acquainted (“About a Boy,” “High
thriller about two Stranger” and with the manor’s almost- Fidelity”). It focuses
adopted brothers on the “Juliet, Naked” broke owner, Angela on the story of Annie
run. Shortly after being open in Bergen County Ayres (Charlotte Ram- (Rose Byrne) and her
released from jail, Elijah (check listings) on August pling), and her two adult unlikely romance with
(Jack Reynor), who is 31, too. “Stranger” is children, Caroline (Ruth singer-songwriter Tucker
about 25, is forced to based on an acclaimed Wilson) and Roddy (Will Crowe (Ethan Hawke).
flee with his teen brother 2009 Gothic novel that Poulter). Faraday begins The complication is
Jimmy (Miles Truitt). reviewers said went treating Roddy, a disfig- that Annie’s boyfriend
They are being pursued beyond spooky stuff and ured WWII pilot, for both (Chris O’Dowd) is a huge
by crime lord Taylor touched on serious issues, his physical wounds and Crowe fan. The direc-
Bolek (JAMES FRANCO, like class (especially the his post-traumatic stress. tor is JESSE PERETZ,
40) and an army of decline of the English He forms a sometimes 50, the son of MARTY
otherworldly soldiers. landed gentry). As the romantic relationship with PERETZ, 79, the former
The brothers’ only movie begins it’s 1947, Caroline. Things start to publisher of the New
protection is a mysteri- and Dr. Faraday (Domh- turn spooky when a child Republic. The screenwrit-
ous ancient weapon. The nall Gleeson; “Ex Machi- visiting the house is ers include Jesse’s sister,
supporting cast includes na”), the son of a house- mauled by a previously EVGENIA PERETZ, 48,
Dennis Quaid as the maid, is called to treat a placid dog. A series of and TAMARA JENKINS,
brothers’ father and ZOE maid at Hundreds Hall, an increasingly traumatic 56 (“Slums of Beverly
KRAVITZ, 29, as Milly, 18th century country events occur, which may Hills”).
Jimmy’s girlfriend. manor that is falling apart. or may not have a –N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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Local
Houston after Harvey
North Jersey federation helped
send Texas kids to Jewish camp
LARRY YUDELSON
Dana Levy Germain learned about Texas hurricanes in
2008, two weeks after she moved to Houston.
She had lived in San Francisco, where she prepared for
earthquakes by having emergency plans. But preparing
for an incoming hurricane — this one was named Ike — was
different. “The crazy thing about a flood is you know it’s
coming,” she said.
She found herself “standing in a grocery store with
people who had 4,000 bottles of water and cans of soup.
You’re listening to the stories about past hurricanes. You
know it’s coming, you just don’t know if you’re going to
lose everything or will it be a little wind storm and you’ll
rake up the leaves in the morning.”
In the end, Hurricane Ike blew through, “and we ended
up being fine.”
But a year ago, with Hurricane Harvey heading toward
Houston, Ms. Germain and her three children left town,
staying with friends in Mississippi.
“I did not want to be one of those families that — God
forbid — someone has to come in on a boat and rescue,”
she said.
Ms. Germain told her story to the Jewish Standard last
week, on the eve of the first anniversary of Hurricane Har-
vey’s devastation of Houston.
Hers was one of the Jewish families affected by Hurri-
cane Harvey. She was able to send her children to Jewish
sleepaway camp this summer because of a special grant
from the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Houston has a Jewish community of around 60,000
people, living in about 26,000 households. “It’s a very
close-knit community,” Avital Ingber, the head of the Jew-
ish Federation of Greater Houston, said. “Much of the
6 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 31, 2018
Jewish community lives in the Meyerland area, and that
was extremely impacted.”
Ms. Ingber said that one in every 11 Jewish families in
Houston was affected by the hurricane.
Ms. Germain said her family was “luckier than some.
Water didn’t come into the house proper. Our roof leaked
and we had water on the second floor. There were several
feet in the garage. It flooded a storage unit where we had
almost all of my dead husband’s things. We lost 90 per-
cent. That was traumatic for the kids.”
And they had vicarious trauma too. “We had Facetime
access to friends who stayed. We saw friends evacuated by
helicopter,” she said.
The Germains had insurance, “which paid a huge claim.
But we still had tens of thousands of dollars of out-of-
pocket costs we didn’t plan for.”
After she paid for a new roof, it didn’t seem like there
would be enough money for summer camp for her children,
who had gone to Camp Sabra, a Jewish camp in Missouri.
That’s where the Houston federation, with help from
the North Jersey federation, stepped in.
“We were fortunate that there was extra funding avail-
able for people impacted by Harvey,” she said. “I was able
to say to the kids: Guess what! We’re all going back to
camp! It was a blessing to be able to say that.”
For Jason Shames, head of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey, responding to natural disasters is
just something that has to be done.
“It was not just an affinity for helping out our fellow
Americans and Jews, but a real appreciation for how we
were helped when Hurricane Sandy hit us hard,” he said.
The federation raised $331,685 for Hurricane Harvey
relief; $98,000 was earmarked for camp aid.
“Some of our donors had expressed an interest in using
Clearing the hurricane debris in Houston.
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HOUSTON
our money specifically to help the Jewish community there
and to align it with our priorities here,” Mr. Shames said.
“It became apparent to us that one of the biggest needs
in Houston was parents needing help for summer camp.
A lot of people had lost businesses and a lot of income. It
was damaging not just to institutions but to households.”
Supporting Jewish summer camp is a priority for the
North Jersey federation, which gave out 149 summer camp
grants to local families this year.
Ms. Ingber said that not only did the hurricane damage
the homes of thousands of Jewish families, it also dam-
aged three major synagogues, the Jewish community cen-
ter, and the senior home.
“Many of the institutions have rebuilt, but not all,” she
said. “There are still whole neighborhoods that are almost
like ghost towns when you drive through at night. Many
people are still out of their homes.
“While we are looking back from a place of resiliency
and pride in our community, we have a long road ahead,”
she said.
“Flooding is a very complicated crisis to deal with.
You’re dealing with the complexities of insurance and
you’re trying to navigate funding on a county, local, state,
and national level. You’re dealing with post-traumatic
stress. Middle class families are having to make choices.
Do you just take the money you get from insurance and
rebuild your home? Do you lift your home and raise it,
which is not covered by insurance? Or do you move?
“If you choose to pay to build, what does that mean for
the funds you would have been spending to send your kids
to a Jewish summer camp or an Israel trip?
“That’s why the funds to help pay for camp scholarships
were so critical.”
All told, the Houston federation received nearly $23 mil-
lion in emergency aid from Jewish federations and other
donors across the country.
Ms. Germain said that Hurricane Harvey hasn’t soured
her on Houston.
“This is an awesome place to live and an awesome com-
munity of people,” she said. “I have plenty of friends for
whom this is their third major flood. People were gung ho
to rebuild. I don’t know anyone who left.”

Paul Aronsohn goes
from mayor to ombudsman
Murphy appoints former Ridgewood
mayor to head commission helping
people with lifelong disabilities
LOIS GOLDRICH
Paul Aronsohn of Ridgewood — actually
a former mayor of Ridgewood — has a
new portfolio.
Gov. Phil Murphy has appointed Mr.
Aronsohn to head up the state’s newly
created Office of the Ombudsman for
Individuals with Intellectual or Develop-
mental Disabilities and Their Families.
In this capacity — according to the
news release announcing his appoint-
ment — Mr. Aronsohn will be “the admin-
istration’s lead advocate and ally for
New Jersey residents in need of critical
services ranging from early childhood
through adulthood.”
The field of disabilities is something
that Mr. Aronsohn, an active member of
Local
Ridgewood’s Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center, cares about deeply.
“All three of my siblings have a differ-
ent range of disabilities,” he said, adding
that in particular, the life and experience
of his late sister Patricia are a constant
reminder of the need for such services.
“Patty was never effectively diag-
nosed,” he said. She had both cognitive
and learning disabilities. “In her 20s, it
became physical. She couldn’t walk. She
needed a feeding tube.” and we didn’t know if she knew that mom and challenges.” Indeed, he continued,
Their mother nursed Patricia through- passed away. But she must have known. “Although I have years of professional
out her life. “Last June, 2017, my mother They lived their lives together.” experience working on disability issues, I
passed away,” he said. “Three days later, His “biggest credential” for the believe that Governor Murphy appointed
Patricia died. It was both heartbreaking ombudsman position, Mr. Aronsohn said, me primarily because of my personal
and beautiful. “comes through Patty’s experience and experience. He wanted someone who
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Local
Scouting plus synagogue equals art
Eagle Scout’s project leaves Woodcliff Lake synagogue a lasting legacy
LOIS GOLDRICH
It’s hard to become an Eagle Scout.
To reach that rank — the highest in
boy scouting — candidates must do more
than earn a minimum of 21 merit badges
and demonstrate the proper
spirit and attitude. They have
to do that too, but the young
man working toward that
honor also must undertake
an extensive service project
that he organizes, leads, and
manages himself.
That is no easy task — and
to combine that mandate
with a desire to benefit the
Jewish community is harder
still. Still, that is the task that Noah Mandelman
18-year-old Noah Mandelman
of Montvale took upon himself, and he has
completed it with honor.
Noah is a graduate of Pascack Hills High cally, it’s the synagogue’s logo and is still
School and plans to spend his gap year in
Israel before beginning his college stud-
ies at Binghamton. He and his family are
members of Lake’s Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake.
“When I was deciding what I should do
for my Eagle Scout project, I knew that I
wanted to do something that would com-
bine my temple and Boy Scout communi-
ties and leave a lasting impact on them,”
Noah said. “I eventually came up with the
idea of painting a mural on the retaining
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wall in the parking lot of Temple Emanuel
to beautify this large and prominent space.
“I was looking for a project and Rabbi
Monosov came up with the idea of paint-
ing the wall to beautify it.” (Loren Mono-
sov is Emanuel’s rabbi.)
“I ran with it.”
But what to paint?
“When deciding what
artwork I felt would be
the best fit for the mural,
I immediately turned to
the stained glass windows
in the main sanctuary of
Temple Emanuel,” Noah
said. “I contacted the art-
ist, Nancy Katz, and she
enthusiastically supported
the idea and gave me per-
mission to use her artwork.
“It had a large impact when it was
installed in 2008,” Noah continued. “Basi-
Above and at the top, volunteers begin their work on the art project inside the
talked about in sermons. It’s been a huge Mandelman family’s garage.
inspiration to the temple and has brought
the community together.” executive at a local Benjamin Moore store, describing his project, “I printed out
Despite deciding that his project would Greg Hourdajian, worked with Noah. As large, blown-up pictures of the windows,
involve creating art, Noah had no real part of the process, “I painted test PVC and with the help of a color wheel, I color-
background in art. “But my Scout mas- panels that Benjamin Moore tested in their coded each and every shape,” using some
ter had experience in contracting,” he labs to ensure its longevity outside against 35 different colors. Then “I projected the
said. “He knew that painting on the walls the elements, and I recommended paints images of the stained glass windows onto
was not an option, but painting on panels that would look best and withstand out- 8’x3’ PVC panels, traced them out, and
would work.” door conditions,” Mr. Hourdajian said. then numbered each shape with the color
To test out different paints’ durabil- Next, Noah’s team used a color wheel. that it corresponded to.”
ity and suitability for outdoor use, an According to a report he wrote SEE SCOUTING PAGE 10
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The mural now is in place outside Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake.

Scouting
FROM PAGE 8
“It became paint by numbers,” Noah said. “That made
it easier for family, friends, and members of the temple
to follow.” Painting was done in his garage, which was
converted into a workshop. A coating of polyurethane
was used to seal the images and “after the panels were
painted, we mounted them onto the retaining wall by put-
ting an aluminum frame onto the wall and then gluing the
panels with silicon adhesive. “
Noah said that he didn’t expect Ricciardi Brothers paint
store in Lodi to donate the paint, “but when they found
out it was an Eagle Scout project, they did.”
He had expected to do fund-raising for the project, selling
$5 blue and white wristbands reading “Eagle Scout Mural
Troop 334,” the name of his Montvale Boy Scout troop.
“The main aspect of an Eagle Scout project is to make
an impact on the community while showing leadership
in working with other people,” Noah said. His project —
which took about two years from planning to completion
and involved some 57 people — “including boy scouts,
temple members, family, and friends” — took 1,083 work-
ing hours to complete and showed Noah the incompara-
ble value of teamwork.
Scouting has had a big impact on his life, Noah said.
He has been a BSA member for more than 10 years and it
has taught him both how to participate and how to lead.
“Judaism is also a large part of who I am,” he said, noting
that after becoming a bar mitzvah he continued his stud-
ies at the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies.
What is his take-away from the project? Volunteers install
“Get things done as soon as possible,” Noah said. “If you the panels, above;
leave things until the last minute, it can get very stressful.” at right, Noah
He has also learned how to direct volunteers and “how to Mandelman
delegate and make sure everyone gets involved. cuts the ribbon
“It wouldn’t have been possible to do by myself,” as the mural is
he said. introduced to the
He had other commitments, and also learned how to community.
split his time among various commitments. This summer,
he worked this summer as a camp counselor at Spring
Lake in Ringwood. “It was essential to have a lot of help,”
he said.
Providing a project where people could come to social-
ize and meet each other was “profound, beyond my
expectations,” Noah said. He already has received mes-
sages expressing pleasure at having another beautiful
piece of artwork at the synagogue, calling the outdoor
mural “beautiful and amazing.” He is pleased that the
project was completed “just before the chagim, when
most people.
“It will be a great thing for the community.”

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FIRST PERSON

‘My playwright, telling my stories’

A memorable conversation with Neil Simon
CURT SCHLEIER

F
or years, Neil Simon, who died
on August 26 at 91, was the
Susan Lucci of dramatists —
almost always the bridesmaid of
the Tony Awards.
While the establishment largely over-
looked him back then — his work received
eight Tony nominations for best play
between 1963 and 1983 but he won only
once — the public didn’t. There were years
when Simon had two, three, even four
plays on Broadway at the same time, each
filling theaters to the brim.
I loved his work, because it was funny
and sometimes sad and to me personally
it always was meaningful. Neil Simon was
my playwright, telling my stories.
There may have been a cat on a hot
tin roof, but that roof was in Brooklyn or
the Bronx.
I spoke to Simon in the mid-1990s. By
then, of course, his brilliance had widely
been recognized. Tributes flowed in like
a country stream in the springtime, swol- Neil Simon tells stories during a memorial tribute to Cy Coleman at the Majestic Theatre in Manhattan on
len by melting snow. There was a second January 10, 2005.  PAUL HAWTHORNE/GETTY IMAGES

Tony in 1985 for “Biloxi Blues.” Another

in ’91 for “Lost in Yonkers,” which also
won the Pulitzer that year. And then the
Kennedy Center Honors and a slew of
lifetime achievement awards followed in
rapid succession.
It took a while, but the critics caught on
to what I’d felt for years: Neil Simon was
one of the great American playwrights of
the 20th century, perhaps even the great-
est. Certainly I’ve seen “Death of a Sales-
man” and “The Crucible,” that “Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof ” and “A Streetcar Named
Desire.” I’m familiar with the works of
Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and
Eugene O’Neill.
But what made Simon’s achievement so
remarkable is that he wrote all his plays —
more than 30, produced over roughly 35
years — while also turning out screenplays,
adaptations of his stage plays (“The Odd
Couple,” “The Sunshine Boys”) and origi-
nals (“The Good-bye Girl,” “The Heart-
break Kid,” “Max Dugan Returns”).
Finally, in addition to quality, his work
was accessible in the way Shakespeare was
accessible to the masses 400-plus years
ago. While there was almost always a seri-
ous subtext to his work — usually about
relationships and family and the human
condition — it was conveyed through
humor — and there was the rub.
You didn’t have to be highbrow to
enjoy it.
“Because I was so accessible and
popular, I think the critics thought the
popularity did not equate with quality,”
Simon told me. “Also, I came up so often.
I produced a play so often they thought it
must be easy, and if it was easy it couldn’t
be good.”
I spoke to him around the time he’d
published the first volume of his mem-
oirs, “Rewrites,” and so I asked if he’d
looked back and had any thoughts about
his career.
“I’m beginning to get a better look
at it now from where I’m standing,” he
said. “But I can’t put myself in a numeri-
cal place in a standing of America’s liter-
ary figures.”
When I offered him my assessment, he
was, of course, pleased. “I’m delighted to
hear that,” he said. “What I see is the pro-
lificness of my career, how much I’ve writ-
ten, and I believe a great deal of it has qual-
ity. I’ve looked back at a chronological list
of the things I’ve done from the very begin-
ning, from the time I was 19 years old, until
now, 69, so that’s 50 years of writing. I see
that I have done a great deal.
“What’s happening now is that young
people are more anxious to meet me and
see me. I’ve become legendary — but only
because no one is around doing it now. I
mean consistently writing plays. There are
playwrights who do a play now and then.
But I did a play almost every year.”
His productivity and longevity were
recurring topics with Simon, as if the
awards had been given out only because
he survived. He also recognized that the
quality of his work had improved, and that
was shaped by two factors.
To begin with, his grasp of the art
of playwriting became firmer, he said.
But also his powers of observation had
improved. “As you become older,” he told
me, “you become more sensitive to things,
more aware of the dark side of people’s
lives. You want to do more than just trying
to entertain them.”
The turning point came with “Chapter
Two,” about how Simon coped with the
death of his wife, Joan, from cancer, and
the early days of his marriage to his second
wife, Marsha Mason. Simon already had
appeared as a character in his plays. It was
Neil and his brother, Danny, at the center
of “Come Blow Your Horn.” Neil and Joan,
freshly married, at the heart of “Barefoot
in the Park.” While Simon had moved pro-
gressively to more serious works, “Chapter
Two” was the first time he put his own guts
on the table.
But it was not the last time.
In his autobiographic al trilogy,
“Brighton Beach Memoirs” (1983), “Biloxi
Blues” (1984), and “Broadway Bound”
(1986), Simon really began to tackle his
demons, a function of growing up in a
largely dysfunctional family. He followed
that with what he considered his master-
piece, “Lost in Yonkers.”
I ask Simon if those demons ever go
away, if writing exorcises them. “They
don’t go away,” he responded. But “they
dissipate, and they become less important
in your life.”
Then I mention a moment in “Broadway
Bound” when Linda Lavin (playing Eugene
Jerome’s — i.e. Neil’s — mom, Kate) wipes
the dust off a dining room table and then
wrings her hands. That’s exactly what my
mother did. So our conversation naturally
veers into his Jewish identity.
“I go to synagogue occasionally, when
someone invites me,” he says. “And then,”
he adds almost wistfully, “I get a sense of
my Judaism again, because I know I’m
with people I belong to.
“My parents practiced their traditions of
the High Holidays and Passover, and when
I got married to Joan our family practiced
the traditions as well. So I was always part
of that.
“I wasn’t agnostic at all. I knew I was a
Jew. I was proud to be Jew. But it was hard
for me to believe in a particular god.
“I had so many questions in Hebrew
school that were not answered for me.”
For example, he said, “we are reading the
Old Testament about Cain and Abel, and
it said they were two sons of Adam and
Eve. And when Cain slew Abel, he was
sent out into the world and the people
shunned him. I raise my hand and asked
‘what people?’”
It is quintessential Simon, funny but
with a subtext of truth and poignancy.
“My early plays probably had Jew-
ish people in them, but I never said
they were, because it wasn’t important.
I never thought of Oscar and Felix as
being Jewish.”
Still, he recognizes that much of his
sense of humor “comes from being Jewish,
and it comes from being a New Yorker. I
know that much is true.”

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JCC sued for 2016 drowning death
Relatives of 9-year-old seek unspecified compensation
LARRY YUDELSON
Two years after Michael Placide drowned
in the swimming pool at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades, and died three days later in
the Hackensack University Medical Center,
the Tenafly institution is facing a lawsuit
from his family.
Michael turned 9 in the hospital two
days before he died.
The suit asks for unspecified financial
damages for Michael’s death, pain, and
suffering, and for the emotional distress
suffered by his mother, Celia Placide, a
nanny who worked in Englewood and
had taken her son to the pool for a special
birthday treat.
The suit was filed in June in Kings
County supreme court in Brooklyn, where
the Placide family lives.
“We deny the allegations of the law-
suit and have filed our response with the
court,” the JCC’s CEO, Jordan Shenker,
wrote in an email.
“We have to get discovery,” Frank Tor-
res said. Mr. Torres, an attorney with the
Long Island-based law firm Duffy & Duffy,
Aronsohn
FROM PAGE 7
really understands the challenges faced
by families and who fully shares their
sense of urgency.”
Among other things, he said, he will
work to improve the benefits and com-
pensation for DSPs — direct support pro-
fessionals — who help with “very difficult,
very personal jobs,” such as helping with
hygiene and feeding disabled people.
“They’re invaluable,” he said.
A former director of executive com-
munications for Bristol-Myers Squibb,
Mr. Aronsohn lives in Ridgewood with
his wife, Marie. They have two children,
Anna, 25, and Luke, 21. He took up his
new public advocacy position in April.
“It came about through working with
Murphy on disability issues,” as part
of the governor’s transition team, Mr.
Aronsohn said. He’d been a member of
the Human and Children Services Com-
mittee for the team, working with fami-
lies of and advocates for people with
disabilities in order to gather recommen-
dations for the incoming administration.
Mr. Aronsohn said that his “pro-
found commitment to public service,
to be engaged in your community and
in the world around you, is rooted in
both Jewish and American values.” He
is a founding member of the Ridge-
wood Community Access Network and
a board member of two other organiza-
tions that provide disability resources
7 14 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 31, 2018
is representing the plaintiffs.
He doesn’t expect that process to begin
until late September at the earliest.
The suit accuses the JCC of negligence.
The JCC, the suit alleges, “failed to train
its employees; failed to employ qualified
staff; failed to hire competent staff; lacked
appropriate training; failed to recognize
that [Michael] was drowning; failed to
implement procedures to rescue victims;
failed to maintain the aforementioned
pool in a reasonably safe condition; failed
to exercise reasonable care; failed to main-
tain an adequate degree of general super-
vision; failed to supervise the pool and
its swimmers; failed to come to the aid
of the victim; failed to remove the infant
from the pool; failed to act promptly and
remove the infant from the water; failed
to check the slopes of the pool; failed to
discover the body of the infant; failed to
initiate CPR; and failed to notify rescuers.”
The suit further alleges that the JCC, “its
agents, servants, employees and/or repre-
sentatives, had actual and/or constructive
notice of the aforesaid condition(s), and/or
created and caused same.”
and advocacy — Heightened Indepen-
dence and Progress, and the Adler Apha-
sia Center.
“Paul has always been a champion for
people with disabilities,” Rabbi David
Fine said; Rabbi Fine is the religious
leader of Temple Israel. “As a council-
man, mayor, and former mayor, he has
pushed our village and its citizens to do
all we could and imagine further ways
to create a society and culture of acces-
sibility. As a respected voice within the
Jewish community of Ridgewood, he has
promoted a vision of Judaism as a beacon
of inclusion and justice.
“I was honored to work with him
through his term as village mayor as both
leader of the village interfaith clergy and
as his own rabbi.”
One of the first things Mr. Aronsohn
did during his four-year stint as mayor
— which followed his eight years on the
Ridgewood Village Council — was to work
toward “access for all. I was engaged in
everything from educational activities to
recreational activities to making improve-
ments to benefit those with special needs,
like making the town pool accessible.”
Stressing that his portfolio includes
both children and adults with “lifespan
disorders,” he estimates that this group
includes tens of thousands of people.
That includes both people who are or
have been enrolled in state programs
and others “who don’t go through the
system,” including children who receive
In a statement, Mr. Shenker said, “First
and foremost, our hearts go out to the fam-
ily of this tragic accident. As an organiza-
tion that plays a central role for thousands
of people within our community, the
entire staff and board of the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades works tirelessly to ensure the
safety and security of those who utilize our
facilities every day. We take all incidents
and complaints seriously but given that
legal action is pending we are unable to
publically respond to these unsubstanti-
ated allegations.”
In 2016, the Tenafly police department
issued a report on the incident that found
there was no cause for criminal charges. But
it quoted witnesses who described chaos
when Michael was pulled from the pool.
His mother told police that she was in
the pool with Michael and her employer’s
child and that she took her eyes off her son
only for a moment.
The police report said that Michael was
unconscious and had no pulse when he was
taken out of the pool. He had been in the
big pool, which graduates in depth from 4
to 9 feet; there also are two smaller pools
Although I have years of professional
experience working on disability
issues, I believe that Governor
Murphy appointed me primarily
because of my personal experience.
help through their school district but
don’t register through the state. “My
focus is on intellectual and develop-
mental disabilities, lifespan disorders,
not those that come on later in life or go
away,” he said.
Mr. Aronsohn has a long history of
community service. After graduating
from George Washington University with
undergraduate and graduate degrees in
political communications and political
science, he worked in the administra-
tions of President Bill Clinton and Gov.
Jim McGreevey, including a stint with the
U.S. State Department’s U.S. Mission to
the United Nations. “I played different
roles,” for the mission, he said, including
as an arms control advisor dealing with
the control and regulation of anti-person-
nel landmines.
While his new position is not quite as
delicate, he will treat it with the same
sense of purpose, Mr. Aronsohn said.
His goals “are to help individuals and
families navigate the system of support
for young children. The big pool has three
lifeguard stations; there were only two life-
guards on duty when Michael went under.
The police report includes an interview
with a swimmer who bumped into the
boy floating in the pool in a fetal position,
bubbles coming from his mouth. She tried
to get him out but she could not, so she
screamed for help from the lifeguard. The
lifeguard jumped in and got Michael out;
the witness ran into the main building and
called 911.
Another swimmer helped the lifeguard
carry Michael from the pool, moved him
into the shade, saw that he was vomiting
and that white foam was coming from his
nose, and cleaned him. She watched as a
JCC employee administered CPR; accord-
ing to the report, she was concerned
because it seemed to her to take between
one to three minutes to begin CPR.
Two witnesses were concerned about
the time it took to administer first aid after
Michael had been removed from the pool,
and others added there was no defibrilla-
tor at the pool, although eventually one
was found in the main building.
and services, to get what they need and
deserve; work with them to improve the
system, make it more user-friendly and
accessible, to provide what we’re not pro-
viding; and make sure that the voices of
individuals and their families are being
heard in a meaningful way on issues that
affect them directly.”
While his office is in Trenton, at least in
the beginning he plans to spend much of
his time on the road, “meeting individu-
als and families where they live.” He also
will meet with state legislators and advo-
cacy groups. While this new initiative
received support from many legislators,
he credits Assemblywoman Valerie Hut-
tle (D-37) as a “key driver” of the project.
Right now, he is working alone. “Before
we staff up, I want to figure out what role
this office should play relative to other
disability offices,” he said. “But I want
people to know that I’m here for any fam-
ily out there who needs help.”
Paul Aronsohn can be reached at Paul.
Aronsohn@treas.nj.gov.
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The 5K winners were Jacob Shrier
(17:23), Isaac Markel (17:28), and Steven
Rosenbaum (18:11). Mr. Shrier and Mr.
Markel broke Michael Bouaziz’s 2017
record time of 18:08.
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and Rachel Stahler were the women’s Ammar, and Jack Gindi.
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East Hill run and barbecue funds leadership program

The eighth annual Asher Strobel z”l
Memorial Basketball and 5K run was
held on August 12 in Englewood. Funds
raised at the annual program, which is
organized by Asher’s friends, benefit
the Asher Strobel Leadership program
at Englewood’s East Hill Synagogue.
Eight years ago, the shul renamed its
youth program the Asher Strobel Youth
Program in his memory.
Asher, who died in 2011 at 21, was a
youth leader at East Hill. He had a pas-
sion for Israel, Judaism, and the Jew-
ish people, and his untimely death
was a devastating loss to his family and
friends and community. To memorial-
ize Asher and the impact he had as a
youth leader, the shul developed the
East Hill Synagogue Asher Strobel Lead-
ership Program for high school seniors.
It aims to strengthen the participants’
leadership skills, and to expose them to
the richness of Jewish history and heri-
tage. The program has run six times,
each time with about 20 participants,
and will run again this year. All are wel-
come. The program has 12 sessions,
highlighted by its annual weeklong jour-
ney to Poland. Leadership sessions are
organized around four main themes —
Israel advocacy; public speaking; first
aid training, including CPR certification
from the American Heart Association;
and learning about legendary Jewish
leaders. Applications are at the East Hill
Synagogue.

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Dan Lazar with Sammy and Abby.
Support for children in need
More than 100 volunteers, ranging in
age from 4 to 94, gathered at the Jew-
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About 200 members and friends gath- Rabbi Roth has been at Fair Lawn for 11
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Rosh Hashanah fuss-free
festive meal for the modern host
Ethel G. Hofman
I
t started with a chance remark after a Shabbat
dinner. “What a feast! You must have cooked
for hours!”
I didn’t answer immediately. Working in my
home office, I haven’t the time or the inclination to
spend hours in the kitchen anymore. And neither do
busy parents, young couples, or working professionals.
While everyone wants a traditional High Holiday meal,
no one wants to spend a week shopping, chopping, boil-
ing, baking, and freezing dish after dish.
And these days, there’s really no need for it. Today,
with literally thousands of kosher convenience-food
items available in markets, it’s easy to create sensa-
tional meals with minimum effort. So while you really
can’t avoid the shopping, you can skip the other lengthy
processes with just a bit of pre-planning and a dollop
of shortcuts.
Also, the emphasis in contemporary kitchens is on
healthier eating patterns. We include more fresh pro-
duce in our meals. We’re cooking fish and chicken,
rather than red meat — and red meat takes much lon-
ger to cook (think of braising a brisket for three to four
hours). And consider this: The Jewish new year falls
early in the season—Rosh Hashanah starts at sundown
on Sunday, September 9, and lasts through the evening
of Tuesday, September 11. Meaning, the weather on both
U.S. coasts will be warm.
Instead of matzah-ball soup, serve a gazpacho, redo-
lent with fresh shredded basil. Include wedges of crisp
Bosc or Asian pear along with apples to dip in honey.
Gussie up already-roasted chicken with your own mari-
nade, and end the meal with an apple cobbler mixed,
baked and served in one dish. Magic! To avoid taking
out, setting up and washing china plates and crystal
glassware, arrange attractive paper goods and plastic
ware on a tray and eat picnic-style. (The kids will love it!)
And while wine should be available — Jewish holidays
require it — many guests prefer non-alcoholic beverages
in what actually will still be late summer as the Jewish
calendar changes. Israelis use fresh herbs abundantly.
Before filling a water pitcher, insert four to five stems
of fresh mint. To top off the entire production, take a
seedless watermelon, slice in wedges, and arrange on
a pretty platter. Or heap clementine oranges in a bowl
with mint or rosemary sprigs tucked in. It’s a fresh,
sweet and a perfect finale to a simple, yet sensational
festive meal.
At that Shabbat dinner, I promised to share my
“secrets” and recipes with my millennial guests. In
return for it, I challenged them to get together and
make a Rosh Hashanah dinner. The suggestion was met
with downright alarm. Silence snuffed out all conver-
sation. Thankfully—there’s one in every crowd—Cousin
George’s face lit up. He turned to May, his wife, and
said: “This could be fun.” And so it began — a wildly suc-
cessful Rosh Hashanah dinner to continue for the years
ahead, hosted by a new generation.
So don’t hold back. Check out these recipes. Make all
for a complete Rosh Hashanah dinner or bring just one
of them to the host of the meal that you’ll be attending.
You can also add a round challah, the traditional shape
used for the Jewish New Year.
A shopping list for each dish is included.
Secrets for a fuss-free holiday dinner
Substitutions and Tips
No self-rising flour? Use 1 cup all-purpose flour, mixed
with 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and a pinch salt.
Fresh herbs: Use any mixture in any quantity. Just
trim the tough stems on parsley, mint, dill and basil. Use
leaves and stems for best flavor. Depending on size, one
bunch, loosely packed, is about 3 to 4 cups.
Lemons should be at room temperature. When
squeezed, these yield more juice than ones fresh from
the fridge.
There’s no substitute for the flavor of fresh lemon
juice. Refrigerate in covered jar for use within 3 days.
Or pour into ice-cube trays and freeze. Pop out a cube
to use as needed.
Cinnamon-sugar keeps well in a tightly covered con-
tainer in a cool dry place. Mix 2 tablespoons sugar to
2 teaspoons cinnamon, and add a pinch of nutmeg

(optional). Serve sprinkled on breakfast
toast, over fresh fruit or on baked desserts.
Some items, such as balsamic vinegar,
garlic powder, canned tomatoes, canned
chickpeas and pumpkin seeds, on the
“what to buy” list are good additions to
keep on hand. Nuts and seeds may be
placed in plastic bags and frozen.
Hosting a crowd? No shame in using
paper and plastic. Paper plates are pretty
and durable, and plastic knives and forks
(especially the silver ones) look like the
real thing. Flatware can be easily washed
for later re-use.
For a more formal look, set the dinner
table one or two days beforehand and
cover loosely with a cloth. Or try trays (you
can purchase disposable ones at a party
store) and eat picnic-style.
Don’t hesitate: Pick up pre-cooked roast
or rotisserie chickens, then make it your
own with a pomegranate sauce (recipe
below). It saves time and labor—and you’re
assured of perfectly cooked chicken.
Choose pre-cut veggies and fruit from
the market, canned tomatoes, and any-
thing that will make life easier. Remember,
pre-cut produce, especially if it’s organic,
should be refrigerated and used within
2 days.
Items you may have on hand: flour,
sugar, baking powder, bread, honey, olive
oil, pareve margarine, cinnamon.
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Rosh Hashanah
Menu Autumn gazpacho Marinated tricolor
Recipes serve 6-8. (pareve) cherry tomatoes
Round challah and wine (pareve)
A slice of multigrain bread gives this a gentle,
Apple slices, pear slices nutty texture. If preferred, substitute challah. Double the dressing ingredients. Refriger-
and honey ate extra to use later as salad dressing or to
Ingredients: drizzle over cooked veggies.
Autumn Gazpacho 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 1/2 cups bottled Bloody Mary mix• Ingredients:
Drizzled Tricolor Cher- Juice of 1/2 lemon 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
ry Tomatoes 1/2 cucumber, peeled and cut in chunks 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 medium tomato, cut into 6 chunks 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
Israeli Blessing Salad 1 slice multigrain bread, torn in chunks 2 green onions, trimmed and
2 teaspoons honey thinly sliced
Roasted Pomegranate Salt and fresh ground pepper to taste 2 pints tricolor cherry tomatoes, halved
Chicken 1/4 cup basil leaves packed 1 rib celery with leaves, thinly sliced
Unpeeled cucumber slices for garnish 1 cup basil leaves, finely shredded
Za’atar Salmon in a Pouch (optional). Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
Moroccan Couscous with Directions:
Currants and Carrots In blender or food processor, place all Directions:
ingredients except salt, pepper and basil. In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, shake
Oma’s Noodles and Whirl 15 to 20 seconds at high for a desired oil, vinegar and mustard to combine.
Blueberries texture. Pour into a bowl. Season to taste Set aside.
with salt and pepper. Shred the basil with
Place the green onions, tomatoes, cel-
Apple-and-Walnut Cobbler scissors and stir in. Refrigerate overnight.
ery and basil in a large serving bowl.
Watermelon Wedges or To serve: Pour into small glasses. Float 2
Clementine Oranges Pour mustard dressing over and toss
thin slices of cucumber on top (optional). lightly to mix.
•May substitute 1 1/2 cups vegetable Season with salt and pepper. Scatter
juice with 1/2 teaspoon each dried basil, pumpkin seeds over top. Serve chilled.
dried oregano and fresh ground pepper
stirred in.
May make a day ahead.
To buy: balsamic vinegar, green onions,
To buy: Bloody Mary mix or vegetable juice,
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No one will guess this starts with roasted chicken from the
Israeli blessing salad kosher section of your market.
(pareve) Ingredients:
1/2 cup pomegranate juice or juice from 1
Ingredients: large pomegranate
1 bunch parsley 1/2 cup apricot preserves
1 bunch basil 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 bunch dill 1 tablespoon bottled grated ginger or 1
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can chickpeas, drained teaspoon powdered
1 cucumber, unpeeled and coarsely diced 1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup dried cranberries 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 2 roasted chickens, quartered
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice Pomegranate seeds for garnish (optional)
1 teaspoon cumin
Salt and fresh ground pepper to taste Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Directions: Place pomegranate juice, apricot preserves, lemon
Trim parsley stems. Pull leaves off basil and juice, ginger, salt and pepper in small microwave bowl.
discard stems. Dill may be used without trim- Heat on high for 18 seconds, or until preserves are melt-
ming. Rinse well in cold water. Spin dry all ed. Check after 10 seconds. Stir to mix. Cool slightly.
herbs in salad spinner. Arrange chicken in one layer in a baking dish. Pierce
Place in food processor. Pulse to chop coarse- each piece 2 times with a fork.
ly. Transfer to a large bowl. Add the chickpeas Pour the pomegranate mixture over top. Cover tightly
and remaining ingredients. Toss gently to mix. with foil. Heat through in preheated oven 20 to 25 min-
Serve at room temperature. utes. Chicken will steam and absorb flavors.
Note: May be made the day beforehand; cover Serve garnished with pomegranate seeds (optional)
and refrigerate. To buy: pomegranate juice or pomegranate, apricot
To buy: can chickpeas, parsley, basil, dill, cu- preserves, lemon, 2 roasted chickens, pomegranate
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(pareve)
Ingredients:
8 pieces aluminum foil, each 15x18 inches
16 thin asparagus spears, each cut in half
1 large sweet onion, cut in 8 slices
8 salmon fillets (6 to 8 ounces each)
1 tablespoon za’atar spice•
8 tablespoons peach-mango salsa••
8 sprigs dill
8 lemon wedges
Directions:
Spray aluminum foil with nonstick vegetable spray.
To assemble: On center of 1 sheet of foil, place 1 asparagus
spear (2 pieces).
Top with a slice of onion, then a salmon fillet. Sprinkle lightly
with za’atar. Drizzle a tablespoon of salsa over and then top
with a sprig of dill.
Bring the long edges of foil up and over the salmon to meet
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edges at each side to seal. Place on a baking sheet. Repeat
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depending on thickness of salmon fillet. A 1-inch fillet will
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Moroccan couscous with Oma’s noodles and Apple-walnut cobbler (pareve)

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Ingredients:
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1/2 cup currants
16-ounce package baby carrots, peeled
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon cumin or turmeric
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
1/2 cup finely snipped mint, divided
Directions:
Prepare couscous according to package direction. Stir
in currants. Cover and set aside to keep warm.
Whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, cumin or tur-
meric, salt and pepper. Stir in 1/4 cup mint. Set aside.
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Bring to boil and cook for 10 minutes, or until fork-ten-
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Spoon the carrots over the couscous. Sprinkle remain-
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From my late husband’s grandmother’s
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Ingredients:
1 package (12 ounces) medium egg noodles
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3 cups blueberries
2 tablespoons margarine
2 tablespoons cinnamon-sugar
Directions:
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Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, stir to-
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and 3 tablespoons water. Stir over medium
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Note: Blueberry sauce may be made ahead
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To buy: noodles, blueberries
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1 stick (4 ounces)
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1 cup self-rising flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup nondairy creamer
1/2 cup cold water
3/4 teaspoon orange extract
10-12 walnut halves
1-2 tablespoons honey to drizzle
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Ethiopian Rosh Hashanah blends unique

customs with a yearning for Jerusalem
aDam aBRamS had long since been destroyed. (Gaps in 35 non-stop flights to Israel in 36 hours. The Ethiopian villagers were entirely

T
hough they are unique, the Jew-
ish New Year festivities in Ethiopia
bear many similarities to the holi-
day’s observance in the broader
diaspora.
Limor Malessa and five of her siblings were
born and raised in a small Ethiopian village
near the Jewish community of Gondar. She
and her family left the village in 1989, when
she was 13, and traveled to Ethiopia’s capital,
Addis Ababa, in anticipation of emigrating to
Israel—the promised land for which Ethio-
pian Jews had longed for thousands of years,
unaware that the holy temple in Jerusalem
access to modern technolo�y and their dis-
tance from other Jewish communities meant
that up until about 20 years ago, many Ethio-
pian Jews lacked some basic knowledge about
major episodes in Jewish history.)
In 1991, the family’s aliyah officially began
when the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence
agency, smuggled the family out of Ethio-
pia’s capital city to the Jewish homeland by
way of Italy.
The family arrived in Israel just a month
before the Mossad conducted a massive clan-
destine airlift operation, dubbed “Operation
Solomon,” which saw some 14,000 Ethiopian
Jews secretly airlifted out of Ethiopia aboard
Malessa has now lived in Israel for
more than 30 years, building a family of
eight children in the city of Ashdod and
becoming thoroughly integrated into
Israeli society.
Because of how small Malessa’s village
was in comparison to other Jewish Ethi-
opian townships, not many “kessim”—
elder religious leaders with knowledge
of oral Jewish law and the equivalent of
rabbis—lived there. This “would make my
childhood memories of Rosh Hashanah
less vivid than of those who grew up with
many kessim in their villages,” Malessa
said in Ethiopian-accented Hebrew.
dependent on the verbally disseminated
wisdom of the elders, who were the only
people in the village capable of reading
Jewish texts written in their ancient dia-
lect, Ge’ez.
“The kessim would instruct everyone
in the villages on how to prepare for the
holiday. Villages that had more of the reli-
gious leaders would have a much deeper
understanding of the holiday and its
laws,” Malessa said.
In Amharic, which is rooted in the Ge’ez
dialect and is the official language of Ethi-
opia, Rosh Hashanah is called “Brenha
Serkan,” which essentially means “the

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rising of the dawn,” Malessa said. The kessim “would rise
before dawn on the holy day, to begin the first prayer
service of the day before sunrise.
In Ethiopia, Rosh Hashanah was—and still is—
observed during the course of one day, in contrast to
the two days observed in the rest of the Jewish diaspora
y and in Israel. The Ethiopian Rosh Hashanah is com-
d prised of three prayer services: before dawn, in the
y afternoon, and in the evening. There are four prayer
g services in the broader Jewish world for Rosh Hasha-
- nah, and none begin before sunrise.
“The holiday also has another name, ‘Zikir,’ which is
e similar to the Hebrew word for remember, ‘zachor,’”
e Malessa said.
- Similar to the custom in other diaspora Jewish com-
enjoyment,” Malessa explained.
“People serve lamb—the most expensive meat available—
and have special meals to observe the mitzvah of feeding
their Jewish brothers and sisters,” she said.
Malessa’s mother, Esther Lakau, who lives in the Israeli
coastal city of Ashkelon, said she “remembers hearing the
kessim sound the shofar on the holiday.”
“Everyone in the village prepared the food for the holiday
a day in advance,” Lakau said.
“The kessim would read from the holy scripts in Ge’ez
and tell the history of the Jewish people,” she added. “They
would speak of Abraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov, our great
patriarchs and matriarchs, and the lessons we could learn Family members greet newly arrived Ethiopian Jews
from them in the present. Most importantly, the kessim at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport in June 2017.
would emphasize our long-held aspiration to celebrate Rosh  Miriam Alster/Flash90

r munities, “everyone in the village wears new clean Hashanah ‘next year in Jerusalem.’”  JNS.ORG

s white clothes” for Zikir, she said, while it is “also cus-

tomary for affluent people in the village to have very
large feasts and invite others in the village to join in the
- festivities.” The festivities are meant to remind people
of the day’s holiness, and to “make sure that during
the holiday not a single Jew is left without food and

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acidity as well, allowing the resulting wines to develop
in the bottles for 20 to 30 years and sometimes much
longer than that. The fungus also impacts the flavor
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and beeswax. Botrytized wines also are produced in
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Chile, and even in California. They include the amaz-
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One of the most popular and likely the easiest
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Another method of producing quality dessert wines
is Ice Wine or Eiswein in German, made from grapes
that were picked frozen on the vines, then crushed
and pressed. There are only a handful of cold-climate
countries where natural ice wine can be made, pri-
marily Germany, Austria, and Canada, which expe-
rience very low temperatures relatively early during
the month of October. One of the most intriguing and
original kosher dessert wines that has been recently
released is the Tzafona Ice Wine Cabernet Sauvignon
2016, an authentic ice wine from grapes grown in the
Niagara Peninsula in Canada.
Great dessert wines like these are a treat when
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pair wonderfully with foie gras (goose/duck liver),
blue cheese, crème brûlée, apple and pecan pie, as
well as many other desserts that could enhance a fes-
tive Rosh Hashanah meal tremendously.
Shana tova u’metuka! Have a sweet new year!

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Cover Story
5 outstanding
Arab-Israeli
artists to watch
These award-winning artists exhibit
their work in Israel and around the
world, exploring themes of gender,
identity and tradition in Arab society.
Rebecca Stadlen Amir  perspectives on Israeli culture, forming
28 Jewish Standard AUGUST 24, 2018
I
srael is more often associ-
ated with its innovative tech-
nology scene than with art.
But its rich cultural history,
stemming from the Middle
East, Africa, and Europe, and
its thriving creative community, have
made Israel a popular destination for
discovering contemporary art.
The eclectic art scene contains a
range of points of view. It includes the
work of Arab-Israeli artists, whose iden-
tities and childhoods in Druze, Chris-
tian, and Muslim villages around Israel
are expressed through various media in
color, texture, symbol, and text.
By examining themes of gender,
identity, and tradition in Arab society,
these artists expose viewers to different
connections through personal stories.
“The thing that leads us — and has
for the gallery’s 50 years of existence
— is, of course, the art. But I think it’s
important to be able to give a platform
to someone to share their voice, who
hasn’t necessarily had the opportunity
to do so before,” Michal Freedman
said. She’s the director of Tel Aviv’s
Gordon Gallery and cofounder of Art
Source, a new online platform for dis-
covering and buying contemporary
Israeli art.
Here is a list of talented artists to keep
your eye on, whose work can be seen at
galleries in Israel and around the world.
Samah Shihadi
As the recipient of the 2018 Haim
Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art,
 Photo via Facebook
Above: Detail of Fouad Agbaria’s work at his “Sweet and
Spicy” exhibition at Umm el Fahem gallery.

Left: Fatma Shanan’s oil-on-canvas paintings depict rugs

on roofs, in fields, and on the road, eliminating spiritual or
religious value and representing tradition in a new context.

Right: Samah Shihadi, “Untitled.”

a prestigious annual award centered around the female

from the Tel Aviv Museum of
Art, Samah Shihadi is headed
toward the spotlight. In addi-
tion to the $10,000 prize, Shi-
hadi, 31, will show her work
in a solo exhibition at the
museum in June 2019.
Shihadi was born in a small
Muslim village in the West-
ern Galilee, and she assumed
that she would return there
after her studies to become
body, exploring feminism
and the identity of the Arab
woman. In a work evoca-
tive of Leonardo da Vinci’s
masterpiece “The Vitruvian
Man,” now on exhibit at Jeru-
salem’s Museum of Islamic
Art, Shihadi draws a woman
rather than a man. Most of
the woman’s body is covered
by a sheet of cloth, suggesting
exclusion or repression.
Photo by Shay Ben-Efraim

a teacher and raise a family, Shihadi now lives and works

like other women in her life.
Instead she started to draw,
depicting Arab women and giv-
ing them a voice.
Her delicate pencil-on-
paper drawings often are
in Haifa, where she completed
a master’s degree in art. Her
work has been shown in shows
and galleries across Israel,
from Tel Aviv to Haifa, Umm el
Fahem, and Ramallah.

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Fatima Abu Roomi
Fatima Abu Roomi’s work examines themes
related to women’s place in modern Arab
society. Born in Tamra, an Arab-Israeli city
in the Lower Galilee, Abu Roomi tells both
a personal and a collective story.
Abu Roomi’s 2017 exhibition, “Venus
Palestina,” at Gordon Gallery, featured
paintings in hues of deep red, interweav-
ing intricate ornamental fabrics with self-
portraits and portraits of her father. The
series explores opposing themes of old and
young, covered and exposed, whole and
incomplete, male and female.
“Fatima’s work represents a voice that
we don’t hear enough in Israeli culture
and art,” Freedman said. “I’m honored
to be able to be a part of what allows her
voice to be heard.” Freedman added that
she had followed Abu Roomi’s work for
several years before representing her at
Gordon Gallery.
Abu Roomi is the first Arab-Israeli artist
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represented by the gallery, which is known
for showing the best of Israeli contemporary art.
Fouad Agbaria
Fouad Agbaria’s work integrates symbol and word, often
incorporating and celebrating Arabic script and themes
of identity.
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acrylic and lithography.
His Post-Impressionist style
oil paintings feature Quranic
verses woven through dif-
ferent landscapes, colors,
and textures. The symbol of
the cactus — or sabra — often
shows up in Agbaria’s work.
His latest exhibition is
“Sweet and Spicy,” a solo show
at Umm el Fahem gallery,
curated by Varda Steinlauf.
Fatma Shanan
Fatma Shanan’s realistic
large-scale paintings convey
personal, familial, historical,
cultural, and religious memo-
ries. Julis, the Druze village in
northern Israel where she was
born and grew up, frequently
appears in her work.
Michael Halak, “Olive, Olive Oil and Oil Press,” oil on canvas, 2014. Influenced by 19th and 20th
century European Impression-
Agbaria was born in the village of Musmus, near the ism, Shanan’s work features images of woven ornamental
Arab-Israeli city of Umm el Fahem, in 1983. Since he rugs, a fixture of the Druze home, taken out of their origi-
earned a bachelor’s degree from Bezalel Academy in nal context and unrolled in a new space to create a new
Jerusalem in 2004 and a master’s degree from Haifa Uni- location of self-expression.
versity in 2014, Agbaria has experimented with different “These carpets have their own rules, aesthetics, and
styles, techniques, and media, including charcoal, oil, past,” Shanan told the Times of Israel in a 2017 interview.
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“The carpet has always been inseparable from the expe-

rience of home and family, and is treated with a kind of
disproportionate awe. It can’t be stepped on, it must not
become soiled. The women attend to it, obsessively: clean-
ing, shaking, brushing.”
In her solo exhibition last summer at the Tel Aviv
Museum of Art, as winner of the 2016 Haim Shiff Prize,
Shanan’s oil-on-canvas paintings showed the rugs on roofs,
in fields, and on the road, eliminating spiritual or religious
value and representing tradition in a new context.
Shanan now lives in New York and has a show coming
up at the Andrea Meislin Gallery there.

Michael Halak
Born in the village of Fassuta, just south of the Lebanese
border, Michael Halak has received many awards for his
hyper-realist work, including the 2016 Ministry of Culture
and Sport Prize and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s 2012
Rappaport Prize for Young Artists.
After studying fine arts at the University of Haifa, Halak
received a residence scholarship in 2005 that sent him to
the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. There he perfected
his astonishingly realistic technique, painting landscapes,
still-lifes and portraits. Fatima Abu Roomi, “Venus 15, 2017,” oil on paper. Photo courtesy of Gordon Gallery

Halak paints from observation, either directly or via

photographs, transferring his own illusion of reality to his
canvases.
“To be an artist, you have to free your mind,” Halak
told the Jerusalem Post in an interview. “You have to think
beyond the point that you are currently at. I think that
every person around the world can relate to my work.
“They don’t need to know my personal story. That’s the
challenge and the beauty of art.”
Halak has exhibited in many galleries in the Middle
East, Europe, and the United States, as well as in museums
such as Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Herzliya Museum of
Contemporary Art, and the Haifa Museum of Art.
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Experience the essence of
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BY JOY LAPINSKY
The holiday of Sukkot is synonymous
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Jared Kushner sits in on a meeting with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, at the Ministry of Defense in Baghdad, April 3, 2017.
The White House buries
the era of even-handedness.
Now what?
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump wants to forge an Israeli-Pales-
tinian peace deal, but he and his top
officials appear to be determined first to
reframe the parameters of the conflict.
What’s unclear is if the radical changes
in policy, spearheaded by Jared Kushner,
Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser,
will bring Palestinians back to the peace
table, or if it will cripple any prospects
for peace.
Since Trump assumed office he has
jettisoned a number of orthodoxies that
defined U.S. administration policy for
years, whether it was Democratic or
Republican. He retreated from the two-
state solution, he recognized Jerusalem
as Israel’s capital, he slashed funding to
the Palestinians, and he has trained rhe-
torical fire on the Palestinian Authority.
Now his administration looks set to
embrace a much narrower definition
of Palestinian refugees than the one
accepted by the U.N. agency that deliv-
ers aid to the Palestinians, UNRWA.
Trump’s national security adviser,
John Bolton, told Reuters last week that
UNRWA and its definitions were in the
Trump administration’s sights. “UNRWA
is a failed mechanism,” Bolton said. “It
violates standard international law on
the status of refugees. UNRWA’s program
is the only one in history based on the
assumption that refugee status is heredi-
tary, and I think it is long overdue that
we have taken steps to reduce funding.”
Bolton said UNRWA’s perpetuation
of refugee status was a mistake. “Much
of UNRWA’s expenses really go to
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perpetuating the refugee status of the
Palestinian people, and I think that’s a
mistake,” he said. “I think it’s a mistake
from a humanitarian point of view ... a
perpetuation of an unnatural status.”
UNRWA defines Palestinian refugees
as “persons whose normal place of resi-
dence was Palestine during the period
between June 1 1946 and May 15 1948,
and who lost both home and means of
livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict.”
It serves some 1.5 million people in 58
recognized Palestinian refugee camps.
Bolton was saying on the record what
Kushner wrote in an internal White
House email in January, when he said
UNRWA “perpetuates a status quo, is
corrupt, inefficient and doesn’t help
peace” and said it was necessary to “stra-
tegically risk breaking things” to get to a
better outcome.
It was just the latest challenge to a
long-held status quo: Last week, the
Trump administration said it would cut
$200 million from the $400 million or
so it was congressionally mandated to
deliver to the Palestinians (a more recent
law passed by Congress allows this). The
Trump administration so far has deliv-
ered only $60 million to UNRWA, which
assists refugees not only in the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip but in Jordan,
Syria, and Lebanon. Last year it deliv-
ered $368 million to the body, and it is
by far its most generous donor.
Last December, Trump recognized
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and in May
he moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv
to Jerusalem. That act drove Palestinians
away from Kushner’s efforts to revive
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FROM PAGE 32
Israeli-Palestinian talks.
Jonathan Schanzer, a vice president
of the hawkish Foundation for Defense
of Democracies, who has tracked U.S.
policies on the Palestinians for years,
said that the Kushner team appeared
to be strategically reformulating the
power dynamic in Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations. Previous administrations
had effectively recognized the sides as
equals, which Schanzer said fed Pales-
tinian recalcitrance, contributing to the
deadlock that has characterized the talks
for decades.
“The Palestinians are often granted
more power than they actually have; the
Israelis are asked to relinquish power
and it’s ended in disaster,” Schanzer said.
“This is an attempt to shift the dynamic
to give the Israelis more power and the
Palestinians less in a way that affects the
actual dynamic.”
Kushner is often the point man driv-
ing the changes. He derided Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in
an on-the-record interview with a Pales-
tinian newspaper, Al Quds, that was pub-
lished in Arabic.
“I don’t think the Palestinian people
feel like their lives are getting better, and
there is only so long you can blame that
on everyone other than Palestinian lead-
ership,” Kushner said in the June inter-
view. “I do question how much President
Abbas has the ability to, or is willing to,
lean into finishing a deal. He has his talk-
ing points, which have not changed in
the last 25 years.”
Previous administrations have avoided
blaming either side for the failure to
make a deal (while at times criticizing
individual acts, of settlement by the
Israelis or incitement by the Palestinians,
as unhelpful).
Israeli leaders have welcomed some
of the changes — particularly the Jerusa-
lem move — but mostly have been silent
at the cuts in funding to UNRWA. In an
op-ed for Haaretz, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner,
a former longtime Israel Army spokes-
man, explained that while Israelis are
frustrated with the Palestinians, sudden
changes could portend chaos, including
the collapse of the Palestinian Author-
ity, which helps to maintain quiet in the
West Bank.
“When the Palestinian Authority
collapses, who is likely to pick up the
pieces? Israel?” Lerner wrote. “Israel has
no interest in the international, finan-
cial or security burden of re-enforcing a
civil-military administration over Gaza.
Hamas? Hamas would love to gain full
control and solidify its power over the
West Bank.”
Radicals would be “empowered,”
Lerner said. “Hardballing the Palestin-
ians into submission is likely to blow up
on Israel’s doorstep.”
It’s also not likely to bring the Pales-
tinians on board, according to Yousef
Munayyer, the executive director of the
U.S. campaign for Palestinian rights.
“When you want coercion to lead to
a change of behavior, the actor has to
see there’s something to lose,” he said.
“In the case of the Palestinians they’re
already the party living under military
occupation. It’s a people that has lost
faith in the ability of the United States
to deliver anything for them. The threat
of cutting ties or reducing aid to differ-
ent agencies while it was having a real
impact on real vulnerable people, as a
political tool it doesn’t have much prom-
ise at all.”
Lara Frieman, the president of the
Foundation for Middle East Peace,
which backs a two-state solution, said
that denying the Palestinians the mul-
tigenerational attachment to historical
Palestine embedded in their refugee
status was odd, considering the millen-
nia-long Jewish attachment to the land
of Israel.
“For folks who naively believe we’re
simplifying the Palestinian issue, they
are not taking seriously the power of nar-
rative and grievances,” she said. “How
When the
Palestinian
Authority
collapses, who
is likely to pick
up the pieces?
Israel?
long have Jews held fast to ‘next year
in Jerusalem’?”
Trump’s latest moves, predictably,
divided the pro-Israel left and right.
“The Trump administration’s moves
to rescind the refugee status of mil-
lions of Palestinians and to massively
cut U.S. humanitarian aid to the West
Bank and Gaza further confirm that
their real intent isn’t an ‘ultimate deal’
to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict but to adopt as US policy the disas-
trous agenda of Israel’s far-right,” said J
Street, the liberal Mideast policy group,
in a statement.
Josh Block of the Israel Project wel-
comed the cuts, telling the New York
Times that the Palestinian Authority
“will continue seeing its international
aid cut not only by the U.S. but others as
well” as long as Palestinian leaders sup-
port terrorism and refuse to engage with
the administration.
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blood and soil.
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He cast his warning in the context of the robust
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Victims
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discussion in the wider Orthodox Jewish community about
how Jews by choice and other women are treated. Freundel
is in prison, set to be released in 2020, and the settlement
says that the synagogue will not be held responsible for any
further claims.
“In a case this disturbing and sensitive, it’s important to
make the procedures for class members as straightforward
and easy as possible,” said Alexandra Harwin, a lawyer for
the victims, referring to women represented by the class
action suit. “We want to make sure class members have the
opportunity to participate without aggravating what is obvi-
ously an extremely distressing situation.”
Freundel, formerly a leading authority in Orthodox
conversion, was arrested in October 2014 for secretly
38 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 31, 2018
videotaping women as they immersed naked in the mikvah,
or ritual bath, associated with the synagogue. In some cases,
he would persuade women to perform extra mikvah immer-
sions, under the pretense of practicing for their conversion
to Judaism, which requires the mikvah ritual. The bath also
is used by observant Jewish women after the conclusion of
their monthly menstrual cycles.
Since the arrest, the case’s fallout has continued to occupy
the synagogue. The class action suit was filed in Decem-
ber 2014. Freundel was sentenced to six and a half years
in prison in May 2015. This April, the District of Columbia
Department of Corrections mistakenly announced that
Freundel would be released in August. His sentence has
been shortened due to good behavior, and his actual release
date is in August 2020.
“In one way it feels like closure because it’s been out there
for so long,” wrote Bethany Mandel, a columnist who
has written about her experience as one of Freundel’s
victims, in a message to JTA. “But this case has a way
of reopening itself again and again. The last time was
the false alarm about his release, the next time will
likely be the actual release.”
A victim could receive more than the designated
amount if she experienced additional harm in a num-
ber of ways. This includes women who were video-
taped many times or for an extended period of time,
or women whose conversion was adversely affected
by the videotaping. It also includes women who suf-
fered sickness or physical or emotional distress, or
who received treatment or a medical diagnosis due
to the abuse. Women whose romantic relationship,
Jewish practice, or professional or social lives were
adversely affected are also eligible for additional
payment.
“Going to trial, this was really an existential threat to
the synagogue,” said Elanit Jakabovics, former presi-
dent of Kesher’s board of directors. “This could have
bankrupted us and closed us down. That threat was
always there. That it seems like it’s coming to an end
is a relief.”
Jakabovics said that because many of Freundel’s vic-
tims have remained anonymous, it’s hard for the syna-
gogue to provide help to them. She said the synagogue
did reach out to those who have identified themselves,
and has offered counseling and resources for those
seeking help.
Moving forward, she said, the synagogue does not
plan to emphasize combating sexual abuse or place
coping with the scandal’s legacy on the front burner.
She stressed that as part of the settlement, the syna-
gogue did not admit guilt.
“We have to make sure that minyan takes place,”
she said. “We decide whether to run programs based
on what the community wants.
“Combating sexual abuse is always on the fore-
front of everyone’s mind,” she added. “I don’t know
whether I would say that’s a number one priority for
a shul, because the number one priority for the shul
is minyan.”
The class action suit, brought by nine victims,
claimed the synagogue and the affiliated institutions
were negligent in not investigating reports of Freun-
del’s inappropriate behavior.
The other defendants are the National Capital Mik-
vah, as Kesher’s affiliated ritual bath is known; the
Beth Din of America, the Orthodox rabbinical court
system through which Freundel conducted conver-
sions; and the Rabbinical Council of America, the
umbrella Orthodox rabbis’ association affiliated with
the rabbinic courts.
In August 2017, the synagogue hired a new perma-
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McCain Trump despised McCain and had to

FROM PAGE 35 be pressured into honoring the senator’s
The phrase has its roots in the “scien- memory.
tific racism” that roiled Europe and par- Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defa-
ticularly Germany in the 19th century. A mation League’s CEO, said that McCain’s
spokesman for the U.S. Holocaust Memo- message was a call to all Americans, and
rial Museum pointed to a glossary of Nazi to their leaders.
terms the museum posted on its website “‘Blood and Soil’ is a direct reference to
after the Charlottesville violence. the right-wing nationalist slogan chanted
“Blood referred to the goal of a ‘racially during the racist and anti-Semitic pro-
pure’ Aryan people,” the museum defini- tests in Charlottesville last year — one
tion says. “Soil invoked a mystical vision of that, along with ‘Jews will not replace us,’
the special relationship between the Ger- has in some respects come to symbolize
manic people and their land. It was also the modern face of racism and hatred in
a tool to justify land seizures in eastern America,” Greenblatt wrote in an email.
Europe and the forced expulsion of local “In referencing this slogan, I believe
populations in favor of ethnic Germans.” Senator McCain is exhorting all of us to
McCain was furious with President Don- rise above the hatreds that have divided
ald Trump for his equivocation in response us in recent year,” Greenblatt continued.
to Charlottesville, when Trump insisted “He is reminding us — as Americans and
both sides were to blame for the violence, U.S. Senator John McCain speaks at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Ariz., on as human beings — that we are bound
and despite evidence that the days’ events October 21, 2016. GAGE SKIDMORE together by the highest ideals of liberty
were organized by white nationalists and equality, and that those ideals can-
and attended mostly by their followers, the president’s anti-immigrant postures. States shares with Mexico, and that would not be undermined by claims to racial or
declared that there were “very fine people” “We weaken it when we hide behind run through Arizona. “When we doubt the religious superiority. It is an important
on both sides. And McCain’s final statement walls, rather than tear them down,” power of our ideals, rather than trust them message, one that should be heard as a
segues from a warning about the term to an McCain said, an allusion to the wall Trump to be the great force for change they have clarion call at the highest levels of our
indictment of Trump’s policies, particularly hopes to build along the border the United always been.” government.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

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Editorial
Goodbye, John McCain
O O
f course it is coincidental that John
McCain died during Elul, less than a
week before Selichot and two weeks
before Rosh Hashanah.
But the themes that played out through his
life, and the way that he acknowledged them in
the farewell he wrote soon before his death, and
that a family spokesman read the day after he
died, resonate powerfully at this time of year.
As he looked back on his life, which included
terrors unimaginable to almost all of us as
well as heights unattainable by most of us, he
weighed the good he had done against the bad,
the unequivocally moral against the self-serving,
arguably immoral, and hoped that he came out
on the right side of that equation.
In his words, “Thank you for the privilege of
serving you and for the rewarding life that ser-
vice in uniform and in public office has allowed
me to lead. I have tried to serve our country
honorably. I have made mistakes, but I hope
my love for America will be weighed favorably
against them.”
Or as we ask In Unetaneh Tokef, may repen-
tance, prayer and charity avert the stern decree.
Like biblical heroes, like all heroes for adults,
John McCain had a complicated life and he was
flawed, and in both universal and American
ways.
In a biography studded with highly specific,
even cinematic detail, because he was the son
of a naval officer — in fact, the son and grandson
of admirals — he went to about 20 schools before
he was able to spend his last three years of high
school in one place. That place, the Episcopal
High School, a boarding school in Virginia, spe-
cialized in wealthy, upper-class, nicely behaved
boys who understood their place, which just
happened to be atop the world.
John McCain didn’t fit in. The Times reports
that he was called McNasty, and his classmates
steered clear of him. The newspaper, quot-
ing a biography, reports that his senior picture
showed him “trench coat, collar up, cigarette
dangling Bogey-style from his lips.”
How wonderful it would be to see that picture.
He famously graduated from Annapolis fifth
from the bottom of his almost 900-man class.
As a Navy pilot, he crashed twice. He was dis-
dainful of rules and orders and any kind of
respectability.
And then he crashed in Vietnam, was
Why religion needs
more kosher sex
captured, tortured mercilessly, held for five
years, two of them in solitary confinement,
refused the release that was offered to him for
his pedigree because it was not his turn, did not
pretend to a man-of-steel heroism that is not
human and he did not have, because he was
deeply human, and came out of that furnace
molded into another man, someone who held
onto himself but had been refined into himself.
Mr. McCain continued to be imperfect. Because
he sometimes was a maverick and sometimes,
despite his reputation, a straight party-line man,
because he did not stick to any one straight line,
there probably are few people who did not dis-
agree with him on some issues. It was McCain
whose thumbs-down kept Obamacare in place,
and it was McCain who gave us Sarah Palin, and
the politics of agrammatic, spittle-spewing illogi-
cal rage. He was a man of many facets.
He was both notorious for his temper and
known for his goodness. Politico, among many
other publications, posted stories about his quiet
visits to the sick and wounded. There is a story,
by the writer Michael Lewis, about how he visited
Morris Udall, another Arizonan but a Democrat,
when Udall, who once had been powerful but was
no longer, who had been a mentor of McCain’s
but by then was sick, old, powerless, and aban-
doned. Tammy Duckworth, the Democrat who
represents Illinois in the Senate — and who is a
former Army helicopter pilot and a double ampu-
tee — talked on NPR about how McCain visited her
and other wounded Americans, long before she
became a politician. (Also note that McCain did
not tell those stories himself.)
There is no more classic example of fulfilling
the mitzvot of visiting the sick and taking care of
your elders and of the needy than those visits.
And one more thing — how you treat your
opponents, once the battle is over.
McCain asked his rival, the victor in the 2000
Republican primary, President George W. Bush,
and another rival, the victor in the 2008 elec-
tion, President Barack Obama, to speak at his
funeral. Compare that to President Trump, who
vanquished his own rival, Hillary Clinton, but
whose rallies generally still feature the roared
demand to “Lock her up!”
John McCain’s final letter, and his request for
speakers at his funeral, were acts of surpass-
ing goodness, a desire for unity, that are both
deeply Jewish and deeply American. —JP
n April 7, 2007, I is little chance that the pope will
appeared on CNN with resign, unlike his predecessor
Cardinal Theodore Benedict, whom I also met, and
McCarrick, who had who, like Francis, is a great friend
retired as archbishop of Washing- to the Jewish community.
ton, D.C., a year earlier. With the But what is certainly true is that
cardinal now so deeply ensconced the church in general, and Pope
in the pedophile priest scandals, I Francis in particular, must firmly
looked up the transcript and saw and resolutely address the never-
how kind he had been to me on ending sexual abuse scandals that
the show. “I think are undermining a
we ought to have great world insti-
the rabbi come to tution. I am a Jew
more of our Catholic who wishes to see
churches and preach the Catholic church
there” was part of his flourish. As I travel
message. the world I am awed
But kindness to by the global network
McCarrick is some- of schools, orphan-
thing for which Pope ages, and hospitals
Francis may now pay Rabbi run by the Catho-
a terrible price, if his Shmuley lic church. No other
biggest Catholic crit- Boteach world body even
ics are to be believed. comes close.
Just as Pope Francis But much of that
was visiting Ireland — once the most is being eclipsed by the terrible
Catholic country in the world but pedophile scandals that bedevil
now a place where the Church has the church.
cratered — Archbishop Carlo Maria This year is the 20th anniver-
Viganò published an extraordinary sary of the publication of my book
11-page letter calling on Pope Fran- “Kosher Sex.” I wrote the book not
cis to resign, alleging that the pope in the hope of addressing sexual
was aware of McCarrick’s abuse repression in religion. Precisely
but did nothing about it. The letter the opposite was true. It was to a
offered no evidence of its bomb- secular, mainstream, and sexually
shell claims, even as it called upon free society that I offered a philoso-
the pope to resign. phy of how sex could recapture its
Pope Francis is universally power to induce emotional inti-
regarded as a great and inspiring macy and offer a sense of erotic
man, and I number myself among sacredness. My purpose was to
his admirers. I met the pope briefly demonstrate how sex is an emo-
at the Vatican and gave him a tion that brings forth even greater
copy of my book “Kosher Jesus.” I emotions, and that there are spe-
respectfully asked him to reverse cific sexual practices, like eyes-
some of his positions on Israel, to open sex, that serve as emotional
which he replied that I should pray threads bonding together husband
for him, which I found to be an and wife.
act of impressive humility. There But within a few weeks of
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has just published his newest book “Lust for Love,”
co-authored with Pamela Anderson. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

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publishing the book I began receiving a steady stream of emails,
nearly always with pseudonyms, from religious couples around
the world, both Jewish and Christian, asking specific advice
about curing sexual dysfunction in their relationships. They
wrote to me because they had been fed a lie that sexuality was
only for procreation and that sex is only a functional part of
marriage. They had been led to believe that sexuality was more
about hormonal release than erotic connection.
Many Christians were being taught that sex is only about
having children and many Orthodox Jews were being told that
nearly everything is forbidden in the bedroom. Both groups
were being misled. The Bible makes it clear in Genesis that sex is
primarily for intimacy rather than offspring: “Therefore shall a
man leave his father and leave his mother. He shall cleave to his
wife and they shall become one flesh” (2:24). This pivotal idea is
echoed by the Bible having no word for sex other than “knowl-
edge.” So why were religious couples being consciously misled
into believing that passionate sexual expression was mostly cir-
cumscribed, and that sex had to take place in the missionary
position in the dark?
Fraudulent sexual teachings in religion have destroyed count-
less lives and extinguished countless marriages. Worse, false
and repressive piety may also be the cause of some of the aber-
rant sexual behavior we are seeing in otherwise godly men and
women. Is there a connection between clerical celibacy in the
church and the painful number of cases of abuse? No one knows
for sure. There may be other, stronger forces at work.
But this much is certain. Sexuality strikes to the very heart
of the human condition. A healthy, positive, and fulfilling sex
life in marriage is not a luxury but a necessity, which the Bible
recognizes in innumerable instances and that forms the basic
narrative of so many biblical marriages, like the famous story of
Isaac being “sexually playful” (metzachek) with his wife Rebecca.
I do not claim any expertise as to the historical and theo-
logical reasons that the Catholic church made clerical celibacy
obligatory rather than an optional encouragement about a mil-
lennium ago. Less so is my purpose to preach to another faith
about what its basic tenets ought to be. But it is my purpose
to make clear that any religion that bases itself on the Hebrew
Bible cannot escape the Bible’s healthy encouragement of car-
nal intimacy as the central staple of a husband and wife’s loving
connectedness.
When “Kosher Sex” was first published I experienced consid-
erable criticism from some rabbinical colleagues who thought
the subject unseemly. But where were people supposed to learn
about sex? From the Torah or the internet? From biblical and
Jewish sources or outlets that degrade women?
It is essential that religion, rather than secular society, serve
as the source of sexual teachings as to the sacredness of the car-
nal connection between husband and wife. A society that daily
witnesses sexual exploitation yearns for examples of a more
spiritual sexuality.
While we Jews are not here to pass judgment on Catholic celi-
bacy, what we can say is that it would never be allowed in Juda-
ism, where marriage is not just a sacrament but a mitzvah, a
divine commandment. Moreover, the obligation of spouses to
please one another sexually is a cornerstone of both Jewish law
and even the ketubah — the marriage contract.
A couple who are in love with each other and concentrate
their fullest erotic attention on one another are living a holy life.
The 10th commandment makes it clear that we are not to covet
our neighbor’s wife, which, by direct implication, means we
sure ought to be coveting, and lusting after, our own.
The time has come for religion to stop demonizing sex and
promote its sacredness for the human condition, based on con-
sent, intimacy, and commitment.
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Opinion
Like apples of gold
Elul is the month of personal reflection. It is when we
prepare ourselves and our souls for the High Holidays.
We ask forgiveness of those we may have harmed, and
we visit the cemetery to pay respects and remind us of
those who came before us and paved the way for our
own spiritual connection.
I
swiped these words from the August 2018 bulle-
tin of Temple Beth David in Cheshire, Connect-
icut. These words, which were in
the bulletin’s Ritual Committee sec-
tion, were written by my late aunt, Ros-
lyn Croog, who died on Saturday night,
August 18. These words, which my father
shared in a graveside eulogy, whispered
in my ear as I looked around the cemetery
after the funeral service.
And so, as instructed, I paid respects to
my uncle Jerry, who lay at rest to the right
of the new cemetery plot. Jerry, an inspi- Dena Croog
ration to me, served as a planning and
policy specialist for Connecticut’s Depart-
ment of Mental Health and Addiction Services. As is
tradition, I placed a stone on his tombstone, symbolic
of his lasting presence in my life.
In a row close by, I paid my grandparents a visit.
They, too, paved a path upon which to follow. Both
were hands-on involved in their community; my Bubby
served as sisterhood president of the Young Israel of
New Haven, and my Zaidie at various times served as
both shul president and gabbai. Upon their tombstones
I placed another stone, and then another, recognizing
how — like my uncle Jerry — they, too, have made a last-
ing impression on my present and future.
On the day of the funeral, I paid my respects
to Aunt Roz not in the cemetery but in an apple
orchard. Shiva was being held that first day at her
ranch house in Cheshire, a town in New Haven
County, and the house bordered the orchard. Since
I was hanging out there for a few hours, I was fairly
certain that my aunt would have been upset at me
if I didn’t take the opportunity to go apple picking,
especially since apples are an integral part of the
approaching new year.
So I did. Roz and I had a little conversation —
though it was pretty one-sided — about what I loved
and admired about her. I also told her how it was
pretty dumb that she passed away without warning,
not giving me enough time to tell her these things in
person. And that’s when it occurred to me:
Why didn’t I tell her these things in person?
There’s something about being outside among
nature that makes it easier to reflect on the impor-
tant things in life. Being in the apple orchard, it wasn’t not try to relay their messages at all.
lost on me that Roz played an integral role in the res-
toration of New Haven’s Orchard Street Shul, home of
Congregation Beth Israel, which opened its doors in
that location in the 1920s.
This endeavor was one example of how much of
a role tradition and personal history played in Roz’s
outlook on life. Another example is when in July 2013,
Dena Croog is a writer and editor in Teaneck and
the founder of Refa’enu, a nonprofit organization
dedicated to mood disorder awareness and support.
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questions or comments.
at age 71, she decided to have the bat mitzvah celebra-
tion that she never had. In her speech, she expressed
feelings of acceptance and belonging as a vital mem-
ber of her community and a proud member of the
Jewish people. She shared her recognition that her
“historical presence is included among generations—
past, present, and future — and makes a difference in
the progression of our Universe.”
Roz was one of those rare people who always kept
in mind that “the now” exists because
there once was a “then.” She was cog-
nizant of family milestones, sending
wishes of mazel on birthdays, anni-
versaries, and major life events. On
her final visit to Teaneck, three weeks
before she died, she brought my
daughter a birthday present. It wasn’t
new, but rather a hand-me-down from
her granddaughter. And it made one
7-year-old girl ecstatic.
I came across a proverb that speaks
to me on multiple levels, certainly dur-
ing this time of year and in light of the loss of my aunt.
The proverb is translated from Hebrew to English in a
few different ways, but the most common version is:
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings
of silver.” (Proverbs 25:11)
Maimonides, in “The Guide for the Perplexed,”
explains that the settings of silver refer to a silver fili-
gree overlay. Superficially, from afar, the apple looks
valuable like silver. When looked at from beneath the
overlay, the apple is revealed to be golden, which is
even more precious. So, too, with words. A word “sea-
sonably spoken” or a “phrase well turned” — two other
translations of the Hebrew text — has a double mean-
ing, both the literal (silver) and the figurative (gold).
I understand the proverb as relating to other art
forms, as well. It’s interesting to me that Roz, an avid
photographer, used photographs as her medium of
choice. Like words, photos can relay a message with
a double meaning — the message’s surface value, and
the deeper interpretation within. At the same time,
the deeper meaning of the image only exists because
there is an image at all. The extent of the golden
apple’s value only exists in relation to it being more
valuable than its silver overlay.
Aunt Roz had a way with relaying messages,
whether that was through her photography or via an
email with well wishes. I wonder, though, if people
are sometimes hesitant to relay their own messages
for fear of their words not achieving the level of being
“fitly spoken.” I wonder if people might be so con-
cerned about finding the “right words” that they may
I tend to worry about not finding those “right
words.” As of late, though, I’ve decided that some-
times it’s more important to speak imperfect words
presently than to spend too much time trying to fig-
ure out how to turn a phrase just so. I think that peo-
ple should speak to others in the now. If you appreci-
ate someone for their existence in your life, tell them
now, not when you’re stealing their apples and their
words. People should know that they matter. And
people don’t express that enough.
Aunt Roz died on a Saturday night during those
ambiguous moments that we call “nightfall”—when
Shabbos is over for one Talmudic scholar and not
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Opinion
Unintended consequences — Trump and Israel
I
n its simplest form, it goes like this.
Donald Trump is hated by a sig-
nificant portion of the American
people. Many of those who don’t
like him automatically reject anything he
favors. Trump’s policies and actions make
him the most pro-Israel president since
the Jewish state was formed. Therefore,
if and when a new president is swept into
office on the promise of reversing every-
thing Trump believes in, Israel could be in
for a rude awakening.
But it’s not that simple.
There’s no denying that President
Trump’s support of Israel has been breath-
taking. Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jeru-
salem, shredding the Iran deal, allowing
nearly unfettered construction throughout
Israel, withdrawing funds from UNRWA
and voicing his intention to reject its
strange policy of allowing refugee status
to be inherited, fully backing Nikki Haley
whenever she lambasts the hypocrisy of
the U.N.’s Middle East policies…. The list
goes on and he deserves full credit.
For his part, Benjamin Netanyahu has
been all in for Trump, consistently and
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Some thoughts on John McCain
M
y first experience with Sena-
tor John McCain was about
12 years ago, when Yeshiva
University asked me to
request his attendance at its annual dinner
as a keynote speaker.
I had met Senator McCain
in the past at events promot-
ing U.S.-Israel relations, but I
had few personal ties to him
or his office. I knew that he
was interested in running
again for president, as did YU,
and that it would be very good
publicity for the school and
his campaign if he could fit the Dr. Ben
date into his schedule. Senator Chouake
McCain, however, because of
his fame and the upcoming
presidential election, was in great demand.
After speaking with some of my contacts
around the country who were close with
the senator, he did agree to come, and
there was much favorable publicity both for
the school, which had a successful dinner,
and for Senator McCain’s campaign for the
Dr. Ben Chouake, M.D., of Englewood is the national president of Norpac, the largest pro-
Israel political action committee in the United States. He runs a medical practice in Cliffside
Park and is a board member of several Jewish organizations on the local and national level.
42 JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 31, 2018
unequivocally praising the man at every
turn, milking this rare opportunity for all
it’s worth.
And who can blame him? It’s clear
that Netanyahu’s strategy has paid off in
spades.
For now.
While Trump’s pronounce-
ments are a huge breath of
fresh air for most support-
ers of Israel, to say they are
being delivered by an imper-
fect messenger is an under-
statement of major propor-
tions. Frankly, if you employ
all the terms currently being Robert
used to describe John McCain
— “Principled, a man of char-
acter, integrity, and honor, a truth-teller
who puts his country first, a statesman
who attached himself to a higher cause” —
and flip them on their heads, you get Don-
ald Trump.
Had a man of John McCain’s moral clar-
ity been similarly championing Israel’s
cause as commander-in-chief, the mes-
sage might have moved the needle favor-
ably, but when voiced by Trump, often the
opposite occurs.
Consider the following.
In a 2016 poll by the Pew Research
Republican nomination for president.
Soon after the dinner I was invited to
become a member of Senator McCain’s
finance committee for his presidential
run. Although most of my political advo-
cacy work was for members
of Congress, working for this
presidential candidate was
compelling. His life story and
the way he conducted him-
self were personally inspir-
ing. Early in the primary
process many of my friends
worked on the candidacy of
then-Democratic primary
candidate Hillary Clinton.
She also was well known and
respected in the community,
and also received much sup-
port from Jewish citizen advocates.
I was invited to travel with Senator
McCain when he was campaigning for the
primary in New Hampshire. About 10 of us
would ride on the bus named the “Straight
Talk Express,” including Cindy and Megan
McCain, the senator, and some campaign
Center before Trump was declared his
party’s nominee, 75 percent of Repub-
licans and 43 percent of Democrats
responded that they were more likely to
be sympathetic with Israel than with the
Palestinians. Those find-
ings were almost identical
to results in an earlier 2014
poll, which showed 73 per-
cent of Republicans and 44
percent of Democrats favor-
ing Israel. In 2018, however,
after Trump had served for
nearly a year, Republican
support for Israel edged up
Isler to 79 percent, while Demo-
cratic backing plummeted to
just 27 percent. This was the
widest divide in 40 years, and doubtless
is troubling to AIPAC, which always boasts
that support for Israel is bipartisan.
Add to the mix the low ratings for Netan-
yahu in the same 2018 poll, with barely
over half of Republicans (52 percent) and
less than one in five of Democrats (18 per-
cent) having favorable impressions, and
the images of Trump and Netanyahu get-
ting along grandly are not particularly
advantageous to Israel’s cause.
It gets even more troubling when the
sentiments of liberal Democrats are
staff. I was immensely impressed at the
ability of the senator, then in his late 60s,
to answer multifaceted questions he got
from the audiences he addressed. Having
gone through medical school with the help
of a good memory, it was astounding to me
to realize how much trouble I would have
had following complicated questions. But
even though he was 15 years my senior,
Senator McCain easily fielded them. I was
also impressed that he was willing and
proud to have a Jew wearing a kippah
accompany him around New Hampshire
in a tight election campaign.
One of my most memorable moments
in the 22 years I have been working in
citizen political advocacy was when John,
Cindy, and Megan McCain joined a couple
of us having dinner together at a local res-
taurant on the campaign trail. It was the
evening of the Iowa primary, and Sena-
tor McCain’s main competition was Mitt
Romney. Senator McCain told us he per-
sonally had no shot at winning Iowa, since
he was against subsidies for using corn to
make ethanol for the gas tank. When the
news came in that Huckabee won Iowa,
the senator confidently smiled at the
table and told us he felt he would win the
nomination. With Romney’s loss in Iowa,
isolated. Just 19 percent sympathized
more with Israel than with the Palestin-
ians in 2018, versus 33 percent in 2016. In
fact, nearly twice as many liberal Demo-
crats now show more of an allegiance to
the Palestinians, with the remainder sym-
pathizing with both, neither, or simply not
having an opinion.
Those numbers appear to be getting the
attention of the progressive wing of Con-
gress. In May, for the first time since the
2006 blockade of Gaza, a group of Dem-
ocratic senators signed a letter assigning
blame to Israel along with Hamas for the
suffering of Palestinians. The effort, signed
on to by 13 senators, not surprisingly was
spearheaded by Bernie Sanders. In a July
follow-up, 70 Democratic members of the
House of Representatives signed a similar
letter demanding humanitarian relief for
Gaza, again pointing to Israel along with
Hamas as the cause.
Although it can’t be said with certainty
that these unprecedented shifts in poll-
ing and in actions by progressives in
Congress are a direct result of Trump’s
overwhelming support of Israel or his
bellicose attitude towards foreigners,
the timing strongly suggests some con-
nection. Additionally, at least one media
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the senator said, he would win both New
Hampshire and South Carolina, and that
historically, the candidate who won two
out of the first three state primaries would
succeed in becoming the party nominee.
At that point, young Megan McCain
expressed a very strong (and loud) opinion
at the dinner table about who her father
should not pick for the VP candidate. I
will leave the name out for discretion, but
the entire table fell silent, including the
senator. It was a good lesson for me that
even someone who could face five years of
POW captivity and torture and fly jets into
combat had something in common with a
short Jewish doctor from New Jersey.
We were both afraid of our daughters.
I had thought that Senator McCain would
win the presidency until the economy
tanked shortly before the election. In my
typical child-of-survivors paranoia until this
day , I have felt that the timing and severity
of the financial crisis were manipulated to
favor the Democratic candidate, who would
be much more disinclined toward a strong
military and foreign policy. So respected
was Senator McCain by our foreign adver-
saries that the Russian invasion of Georgia
essentially was halted by his criticism and
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A Neil Simon play that helps explain how we got to Donald Trump
I
never thought of Neil Simon as a
political writer, unless you agree
that all politics are personal.
“The Odd Couple” got a lot of its
juice from the nascent feminist movement,
I suppose, but the typical Simon character
would rather rant about the weather and
the traffic than the economy or the welfare
system.
“I don’t write social and political plays
because I’ve always thought the family
was the microcosm of what goes on in
the world,” Simon said in his 1992 Paris
Review interview.
But then I decided to watch
“The Prisoner of Second Ave-
nue” as a tribute to the leg-
endary playwright, who died
last Sunday at 91. It was my
first time seeing the 1975 film
adaptation of the play, which
ran for a respectable 789 per-
formances on Broadway from
1971 to 1973. Jack Lemmon Andrew
plays Mel, a depressed 48-year- Silow-Carroll
old ad executive recently fired
from his job. Anne Bancroft
is his doting stay-at-home wife, Edna,
who goes back to work so they can make
ends meet. It’s set during a heat wave in a
smoggy, gritty New York, with obligatory
jokes about getting mugged in Central Park
and the so-called junkies who are always
ready to pounce.
It’s a typical Simon set-up: middle class,
middle-aged, Jewish-ish people under
stress, spewing one-liners about lazy
doormen, unreliable supers, and noisy
neighbors.
But “Second Avenue” takes a dark turn
that sets it apart from most of the Simon
hits I am familiar with. Stuck at home with
no job prospects, Lemmon’s character
begins to break down, taunting his loving
wife, skulking about his apartment in paja-
mas and bathrobe, stealing newspapers
Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck is the
editor in chief of JTA Wire Service.
Croog
FROM PAGE 41
yet for another. I’d like to think that Roz
did so deliberately, planting her feet into
that in-between where the end of one
week evolves into the next, a time when
multiple interpretations are valid and
important, as has been the case through-
out Jewish history.
I’d like to view Aunt Roz’s moment of
passing as a photograph—her word fitly
spoken, her apple of gold. It is her final
and everlasting statement to the world
that we should cherish life not just in the
week that passed or the possibilities of
and milk from his neighbors.
And then, seething that Edna has
become the family’s bread-winner, Mel
goes on a rant that, four decades later, feels
positively eerie in the way it anticipates
the paranoid style of the internet and talk
radio, the anger of displaced white men
and the disenchantment of the middle-
class — essentially, the forces that helped
land Donald Trump the presidency.
Here’s a taste, from the screenplay:
Mel: Now, you tell me, why do you think
I’m out of work?
Edna: I don’t know why.
Because you can’t find a
decent job.
Mel: That’s why? That’s
why? You haven’t the
slightest inkling of what’s
really going on, do you?
You are so naive, it’s ridicu-
lous ... You have no suspi-
cion of the truth.
And from there he is
off to the races, describ-
ing “The Plot” — a “social,
economic and political plot
to undermine the working classes of this
country.” It’s practically invisible, he says
of “The Plot,” and “maybe only a hand-
ful of people in this whole country know
about it.” It explains why 6.7 percent of the
working class is unemployed, why wages
are low and inflation out of control.
And what’s the goal of “The Plot”?
“They’re after you, our kids, my family,
every one of our friends,” he says. “They’re
after the cops, hippies, the government,
women’s lib, the blacks, the fags, the whole
military complex and even more.”
Mel has no proof for this plot, because
“they” won’t let him get to the bottom of
it. Ultimately, all he can blame is “the dete-
rioration of the spirit of man. Man under-
mining himself, causing a self-willed, self-
imposed, self-evident self-destruction.”
Of course, Simon plays this paranoia
for laughs, but 43 years later the joke is on
us. Mel’s “Plot” is straight out of QAnon,
the coming week, but in “the now.” And
that, simultaneously, we should recog-
nize and remember that “the now” exists
because of “those who came before us
and paved the way for our own spiritual
connection.” We should live presently
and we should frame our moments in
the context of our own heritage.
In this new year, may we all be blessed
to live like my Aunt Roz lived. May we
appreciate life in the day-to-day, and
may we, simultaneously, recognize that
we are each an important and valid part
of a larger entity that spans across past,
present, and future.
the right-wing conspiracy theory whose
followers show up at Trump rallies. It’s
the far-right grumbling about the “deep
state,” a cabal of civil servants who oper-
ate independently of elected officials in
Washington. It’s Trump’s closing presi-
dential campaign ad, which asserted that
“Hillary Clinton meets in secret with inter-
national banks to plot the destruction of
U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these
global financial powers, her special inter-
est friends and her donors.”
Simon wrote the play during a recession,
and the movie came out after Watergate
and the 1973 oil crisis. In 1974 the country
experienced one of its worst economic
crises, with high unemployment and soar-
ing inflation. Nixon had recently resigned
under the threat of impeachment, and the
country was still feeling a deep sense of
disillusionment and distrust with politi-
cians and the government.
This was also New York on the brink
of bankruptcy, when living on the Upper
East Side was neither an extravagance nor
a guarantee that thieves wouldn’t ransack
your apartment in broad daylight. Nixon
was gone, but the city still felt like the
crime-plagued hellhole he described in
his cynical, successful appeals to the coun-
try’s “silent majority” — a phrase and tac-
tic Trump revived on the campaign trail.
A number of pundits have suggested
that Trump rose to power not just with
the support of poor whites, but from white
middle-class voters who felt their preroga-
tives were disappearing.
In a paper released in May, Diana C. Mutz
of the University of Pennsylvania stud-
ied polling data to conclude that the key
motivation underlying support for Trump
was not economic anxiety but the feeling
among “high-status” groups — men, Chris-
tians, and whites — that their perceived
status was under threat. The high-status
groups experience these threats psycho-
logically. When confronted with evidence
of racial progress and increasing diver-
sity, for example, “whites feel threatened
Absolute truth
I am not a fan of the pluralist concept of
“multiple” (contradictory/nuanced/simul-
taneous) truths (editorial, “Looking for
truth,” 0824).
I strongly hold with the idea of abso-
lute truth as powerfully expressed in
our Torah. (For example, the Shema
(Devarim 6:4-9, 11:13-21, Bamidbar 15:37-
41), the Ten Commandments (State-
ments) (Shmote 20:2-15), the Seven
Mitzvahs of Noach (for all Humanity)
summed up in the eternal morality-
”Love thy fellow (neighbor) as thy love
Opinion
and experience lower levels of self-worth
relative to a control group.” Globalization
also “contributed to a sense that white
Americans are under siege by ... engines of
change.”
Mel and Edna aren’t broke. She has her
job, they talk of savings, and Mel’s brother
is happy to pitch in. Mel’s complaints are
not about money but about status: “You’ve
never walked into your building and had
an idiot doorman with beer breath. gig-
gling at you because he’s working,” he
complains to Edna. It’s perhaps telling
that on his visit to the unemployment
office, the clerk behind the desk is a black
woman, and Mel’s sense of humiliation is
obvious and profound.
“The Prisoner of Second Avenue” didn’t
predict how the Jewish middle and upper
class would vote in 2016. Mel and Edna’s
voting district — Yorkville — went for Clin-
ton over Trump by a margin of 79 to 18.
New York City eventually would get over
its own breakdown of the 1970s, although
it, like Mel, would need a few more crises,
some professional help, and a few lucky
breaks to get there. Let’s assume that Mel
got a new job, and he and Edna moved
into a comfortable dotage. Essentially
liberal, they’d go on to vote Democratic
in most races (but siding with a law-and-
order guy like Rudy Giuliani when he ran
for mayor, and perhaps voting for Ronald
Reagan when Jimmy Carter let them down
on Israel and the whole malaise thing).
But what Simon did get right was a
strain of anger, born of economic anxiety
and the fear among whites that they are
losing their privileged status, that would
animate a large segment of Trump’s
“base.” He also portrayed the insidi-
ous attraction of conspiracy theories to
explain forces beyond our control. As a
feverish Mel explains to Edna, in a line
that reads like the latest tweet from your
least favorite alt-right troll: “If you’re too
lazy, ignorant and uninformed to find out
what is going on then you deserve exactly
what you’re gonna get.” JTA WIRE SERVICE
Letter
thyself” (Vayikrah: 19-18).
This is absolute truth!
What is variable and nuanced is our
unfortunate weakness in the pursuit
and acceptance of truth in our personal
and political struggles. Regrettably, we
frequently seek personal gain, power
(vengeance) and honor. In psychological
parlance, this is referred to as “second-
ary gain.” This is a poor prognosis for
our civilization.
But thankfully, there IS absolute truth.
Jerrold Terdiman M.D.
Woodcliff Lake
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Isler
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personality heavily involved in this
arena seems to think so.
In an article in the Forward after the
Senate action, noted writer and relentless
Israel critic Peter Beinart wrote a piece
called “Trump has Freed Progressive
Democratic Senators to Finally Criticize
Israel.”
What cannot be denied is that Trump’s
ongoing blunt talk and divisive messages
certainly are not leading to an atmo-
sphere of understanding. Revenge, of
course, is a strong motive in politics, and
it’s easy to envision a ratcheting up of
payback to Israel as it’s lumped together
with some of Trump’s less noble causes.
In particular, many progressives reflex-
ively look at the Palestinian situation as a
simple human rights issue, ignoring the
many layers of context. As they continue
to grow in power, their leaders may be
forced to move farther and farther left in
an effort to survive, just as the Tea Party
movement has done on the right.
The trend is troubling not just for
Israel, but for Jews in the United States.
Throughout the 200-plus years of U.S.
history, several factors led to its Jewish
citizens enjoying unprecedented free-
doms. One was the system of checks and
balances among government branches
that ensured that none would accumu-
late too much power. The other is that
the pendulum of control never swung too
far left or right before correcting itself.
Voices on the extreme didn’t hold sway
for long.
That pendulum appears out of control
of late. Barack Obama took us farther
left than perhaps we’ve ever been, with
Trump, ever the populist, veering sharply
right to counter it and satisfy his base.
Extremists on both sides have emerged
to voice their intolerance, and it’s now
the moderates who are being silenced,
or even worse, adjusting their views.
A recent Ipsos poll revealed that more
than 40 percent of Republicans believe
that President Trump should have the
power to shut down news organizations
that exhibit “bad behavior.” A few years
ago no one even would have thought to
pose such a question. Were such a sug-
gestion to become law, our democracy as
we know it would cease to exist.
Historically, when moderation disap-
pears, the ramifications for Jews are not
good. We may even be getting a taste
of it already. According to the Anti-Def-
amation League, the number of anti-
Semitic incidents in the United States
rose by 57 percent in 2017. That is the
largest single-year increase since the
tracking began in 1979. Even if you back
out the large number of bomb threats
against U.S. Jewish Institutions made by
an 18 year-old-Jewish man arrested in
Israel, the year-to-year increase still was
nearly 50 percent.
A website I inadvertently discovered
recently sums it up. It disgustedly spoke
of “Trump doing everything his Zionist
handlers demand of him.” The sentiment
just as easily could have been from a far
left website as one from the far right.
And that’s the point.
Chouake
FROM PAGE 42
by his expressing American support for the
people of Georgia in his statement “Today
we are all Georgians.”
It was a lost opportunity to have a most
extraordinary person at the helm of our
country. The enthusiasm for electing
the first African-American president was
great, however, as was American fatigue,
especially with the economic downturn,
with continuing Republican leadership
in the White House. Fortunately for our
country, Senator McCain continued his
work in the Senate, as perhaps the sec-
ond-most influential politician in the
nation after the president, for the last 10
years of his Senate tenure.
Our country is stronger, safer, and bet-
ter respected because of Senator McCain’s
leadership. His conduct in putting his
nation before self and politics truly exhib-
ited his motto, “Country first.” He has
served as an inspiration to his colleagues
and to our entire nation.
He will be missed.

New York’s ‘last Nazi’ is finally deported to Germany

D
uring my formal inter-
view for U.S. citizen-
ship, not so long ago,
I remember the inter-
viewing officer looking me in the
eye and asking if I’d ever had any
affiliations with the Nazi German
regime. “Um, er … no,” I replied,
smiling a bit awkwardly. “Y’know,
I’ve gotta ask,” she replied, shaking
her head gently.
But 70 years ago, that was a
deadly serious question — and yet
it wasn’t taken very seriously by
the authorities. At a time when
thousands of Holocaust survivors
were denied entry to the United
States, thousands of Nazis and
their allies — from leading regime Former Nazi labor-camp guard Jakiw Palij
scientists to petty (relatively speak-
ing) local collaborators—gained entry to this
country.
Something of a line was drawn under that
scandal last week, when the 95-year-old man
known as “the last living Nazi in New York”
was removed from his home in Queens by
FBI officers, who carried him by stretcher
onto the plane that deported him to Ger-
many. The American sojourn of Ukrainian-
born Jakiw Palij began in 1949, when he Ben Cohen
arrived in this country falsely presenting
himself as a “Polish farmer.” He was granted
citizenship in 1957, and it finally was revoked in 2003, after later that year, an uprising of Jewish prisoners in the Sobi-
U.S. investigators established that Palij had served as an
armed guard at the Nazi-run Trawniki slave labor camp
Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for JNS on Jewish affairs
and Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published in
Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
Journal, and many other publications.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
in Poland. But deportation did not follow,
because no country was willing to take him—
until last week, that is, Germany stepped up
to the plate.
By 1943, when Palij was deployed at
Trawniki, the place had evolved from a train-
ing and prisoner of war camp into a slave
labor center, producing mattresses and furs
for the German company F.W. Schultz and
Co. The SS criminals running the camp even
set up a holding company to manage their
contracts with Schultz and other clients. But
bor death camp accelerated the murder of Jewish inmates
in other parts of Nazi-occupied Poland. On Nov. 3, 1943
— in what the veteran U.S. Justice Department pursuer of
Nazis, Eli Rosenbaum, this week described as “a daylong
killing spree of unfathomable ruthlessness and horror” —
6,000 Jewish women, men, and children were massacred
at Trawniki by the Germans and their local auxiliaries.
There is, on one of the many small
Holocaust commemoration sites on
the Internet, a list of the SS men and
their Ukrainian allies at Trawniki.
The list begins with the leading per-
sonnel at the camp — SS officers like
Franz Bartezko and Karl Streibel —
and ends with the names of more
than 50 Ukrainians who served as
guards alongside the Nazis, includ-
ing Jakiw Palij. He may have been
low down in the camp hierarchy,
but he was present when, to cite
Eli Rosenbaum again, that “ghastly
paroxysm of genocidal mass murder
occurred.”
During the 15 years he spent in
Queens after he was stripped of
his citizenship but before he was
deported, did Palij ever show any
remorse for his crime? Not likely. In his view, he was just
as much a victim as the Jews in whose deaths he assisted.
‘“I know what they say, but I was never a collaborator,” he
told the New York Times in 2003. Had he not worked in
Trawniki, he insisted, the Germans “would [have] kill[ed]
me and my family. I did it to save their lives, and I never
even wore a Nazi uniform.”
Ten years later, Palij was saying much the same. “I am
not SS, I have nothing to do with SS,” he told two reporters
from the New York Post in November 2013. The report-
ers were there to cover one of the several demonstrations
outside Palij’s house organized by the local Jewish com-
munity. He even played the sympathy card. “My wife, she
passed away two months ago,” he said. “She told me not to
blame these children coming here and calling me a Nazi.
They are just doing what they are taught to do. But the
grown men? They talk nonsense.”
Palij’s excuses, of course, have been heard hundreds
of times from other Nazi collaborators in Europe, who
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 The Frazzled Housewife
Games people play
R
emember the olden days,
when there would be com-
mercials for board games?
And board games aren’t to
be confused with what most kids today
would call “bored” games, because they
aren’t played on a phone
or tablet or television using
remote controls or goggles
or whatever the kids are
doing these days….
These board games were
used to promote quality
time and bonding. Fami-
lies gathered around the
game “Operation,” where
the goal was to remove Banji
that funny looking guy’s Ganchrow
organs without hearing that
annoying buzzing sound
if you touched the side. Or Monopoly,
the game where future embezzlers
were first known to hone their craft as
the “banker.” Young real estate moguls
(possibly our current president) would
buy up properties and build houses and
hotels in the hopes of having everyone
having to pay up when they landed on
Park Place.
I still remember trying to have fam-
ily game night. I had fond memories
of my “original” family playing games.
Chutes and Ladders comes to mind,
but my memory isn’t what it used to
be. I thought that I could incorporate
those memories with my own kids. This
was almost as successful as “new food
Wednesday.” We would start off hope-
ful, but after a few minutes — sometimes
even seconds — there would be scream-
ing, pieces would get scattered, direc-
tions were lost, someone started crying
(usually me) and all of those good inten- is a total anomaly. So out of my mouth
tions were sent to their room (also, usu- comes, “Hey, let’s play Spot the Yid!”
ally me). Good memories. If you ever see
the closet in my family room, it is filled “Sponsored by Liebers.” (Liebers being
with dreams of board games past — and
the actual games, most of which are
missing several pieces, but I just can’t
bring myself to throw them out. Espe-
cially now that Toys R Us is out of busi- equivalent of brethren?) we would make
ness. Not sure what one thing has to do
with the other, but I digress.
Back to games. As any parent knows,
it is important to keep your young chil-
dren occupied, especially when wait-
ing on lines — lines in the supermarket,
lines waiting for doctors’ appointments,
lines waiting for tickets for the merry go your game nights be more successful
round. Whatever the line is, if you don’t than ours!
keep those monkeys busy, it could end
very badly. Especially for the strangers
around you.
So I invented, and I say invented
because I have never heard of anyone
else playing this game, the animal game.
How do you play? you ask. Here is an
example. “I am thinking of an animal
that has a long neck,” you say to the first
child. If he or she answers correctly, they
get to give the next clue about another
animal. If they aren’t old
enough to ask these ques-
tions on their own, you
will quickly learn that
when the question they
ask is the same one you
just asked them. You ask
the next child a question.
“I am thinking of an ani-
mal that is black and white
and very smelly.” I am
hoping you get the point.
Feel free to use this game
at your next party.
Hopefully, your children grow up, get
more mature, and are able to wait on
lines without you needing to entertain
them. The animal game is only effec-
tive for so long. But what can be really
wonderful is when your child is turning
18 and the two of you, together, come
up with a game that entertains both of
you (and any other family members
who might want to play). The other
day, son #3 and I were at a Mets game.
Yes, I spend a lot of time with him (one
more year and then he is off to the Holy
Land.) Yes, the Mets lost. Yes, there
was almost two hours of traffic getting
home. Anyway, at the game we are look-
ing around, and of course, we see sev-
eral people wearing yarmulkes. This is
an entertaining pastime for my family,
especially when you are in baseball sta-
diums in various parts of the country,
when seeing a person with a yarmulke
and without missing a beat, son #3 said,
a company that makes kosher snacks.)
After the game was named, every time
we would see one of our Jewish breth-
ren or sisterthren (what is the female
a “ding” sound. Ok, maybe we spend too
much time together (NEVER!!!!) but we
did have a lot of fun playing the game,
especially since the game the Mets were
playing was not as much fun.
Wishing all of you a wonderful last
weekend of summer, and may all of
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck hopes no one
is offended by the name “Spot the Yid.” If
anyone wants to help us develop an app
for it, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Kosher Crossword
“SPLITTERS” BY YONI GLATT
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM
Across Down
1. Israeli juice chain 1. Rule opposed by Gandhi
6. Locale of 38-Across 2. Showing excitement, e.g.
11. Place for some “me time” 3. What a teen might “die” of
14. Whack-___ (it’s often next to 4. “Bridge of Spies” actor Alan
60-Down) 5. Provides new weapons
15. Words before breed or treat 6. Canal zone?
16. ___ in “Ulysses” 7. 1912 painter of Picasso
17. 42-Across used the 49-Down to cross it 8. Where Torah survived and
19. See 17-Across thrived after 70 AD
20. Big lobby in D.C. 9. Green shampoo
21. They often accompany a hot mess 10. Guam, e.g.: Abbr.
22. Longtime NBC show 11. Float alternatives
23. Radical group of the 60s, for short 12. There’s a new one almost every week
24. ___ hanasheh (forbidden nerve) 13. King of Israel until 870 BCE
25. Nuts 18. US security org.
27. Divider of 17-Across 23. Many are not for 61-Across
30. Pledges 24. Tribal land to the east of
32. Jew ending 17-Across, once
34. Daniel interpreted one 26. Early Pierre Cardin employer
35. She played Jane in 1997 28. Doing nothing
36. Item in a bucket 29. Thurman of “The Avengers”
37. Divider of 17-Across 31. On the rocks
38. 71-Across led the Israelites through it 33. All tuckered out
41. See 38-Across 36. “Give ___ minute”
42. Divider of 17-Across 37. Sixth sense, for short
45. Shabbat (in)activity 39. “Not another word!”
46. Challenger org. 40. Hoover and Boulder, e.g.
50. “___ Hashem” 42. Write hastily, with “down”
51. 20’s dispenser 43. Burdensome
52. Not allowed in Israel? 44. Where Starbucks was founded
53. 71-Across to 42-Across and 27-Across 47. Afro-___ languages
to 37-Across 48. Backyard basking spot
55. Wear wool and linen together, e.g. 49. See 17-Across
57. Octopus’s defense 51. Leafy shelters
58. 1 or 66, abbr. 52. “Jeopardy!” “question”
59. Weight abbr. 54. “The river,” in Mexico
61. Current civil war president 56. Kinsler who recently joined the Sox
63. “Just kidding!” (sarcastically) 60. Kind of ball
64. Sign of labor...or a hint to this 62. Indian dress
puzzle’s theme 63. Pricey Big Apple sch.
67. He played Pharaoh 64. A Rubble, when squared
68. Ran, on TV 65. Harris and Burns
69. Scholarly Dr. Brown 66. Beam of light
70. Bring into play
71. Divider of 17- Across
72. Role for Desi
The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 51.
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Selichot in Paramus:
Friday The JCC of Paramus/
AUGUST 31 Congregation Beth
Tikvah’s annual Selichot
COURTESY JCCOTP

reception, at 9 p.m.,
honors Rabbi Avram
Kogen. Rabbi Kogen
has been the shul’s
Torah reader since
2010. Dessert reception
Piano sale in Tenafly: The follows; services are at
Thurnauer School of Mu- 10:30. 304 East Midland
sic at the Kaplen JCC on Ave. (201) 262-7691 or
the Palisades and Forte www.jccparamus.org.
Piano of Paramus hold Selichot in Teaneck:
its annual sale of upright, Congregation Beth
grand, and digital pianos Sholom hosts a panel,
at greatly reduced prices “It’s a Long Time
over Labor Day weekend Coming: Reflection on
at the JCC. Manufacturers Injustice and the Will
include Kawai, Bosend- to Overcome,” where
orfer, Schimmel, Baldwin, four CBS members talk
Steinway, Knabe, Yamaha, about their trip to the
and Roland. Friday and Deep South and look
Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; at the evolution of the
Monday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. civil rights movement.
411 East Clinton Ave. Panel at 9 p.m., Selichot
(201) 265-1212 or (800) services at 10:45.
PIANO-55. 345 Maitland Ave.
(201) 833-2620 or www.
Saturday cbsteaneck.org.
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Lubavitch on the
Shabbat in Paterson: Palisades hosts a pre-
The Paterson Shul at Selichot farbrengen
Federation Apartments (chasidic gathering) with
has Shabbat services at
AUG. Manhattan’s Jewish Museum has added a small-scale their rabbis in residence
9 a.m. Kiddush honors — Rabbi Mordechai
version of Deb Kass’s sculpture OY/YO to “Scenes from the
31
Phil Kestenbaum (a Shain, Yitzchak
regular Torah reader Collection,” on exhibit for the first time. “Scenes from the Gershovitz, Yossi Katz,
at the shul) on his bar Collection” transforms the museum’s third floor with nearly and Yossi Gluckowsky
mitzvah anniversary. — and a light dinner,
Groups in Fair Lawn 600 works, divided into seven different sections. Kass uses New York 10 p.m. They will discuss
meet at the Morlot City’s universal lingo to communicate the pride and exasperation of “ Give us 22 minutes,
Avenue and Broadway living in New York City in her sculpture “OY/YO,” originally conceived as we’ll give you the world.”
bridges at 8:30. 510 E. Midnight service follows.
27th Street (corner of a monumental sculpture that was installed for a short time in Brooklyn 11 Harold St. rabbi@
12th Avenue). www. Bridge Park. It became an instant New York icon and photo op for tourists chabadlubavitch.org or
PatersonShul.com or
email JerrySchranz@
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templebethornj.org, reception, and service at collation follows at 9:15,

(201) 768-5112, or tbenv. Selichot in Wayne: 10, dedicated in memory and services at 9:30.
org. Temples Beth Tikvah and of Cantor Ilan Mamber 1449 Anderson Ave.
Shomrei Torah in Wayne, of Beth Rishon. 950 (201) 947-1735.
Selichot in Teaneck: Beth Rishon in Wyckoff, Preakness Ave. (973)
Selichot in Washington Temple Emeth has a and Beth Haverim Shir Selichot in Woodcliff
595-6565.
Township: Temple Beth study session about Shalom of Mahwah have Lake: Temple Emanuel
El in Closter joins Temple Yehuda Amichai’s poetry, a joint Selichot program Selichot in Fort Lee: The of the Pascack Valley
Beth Or in Washington at Beth Tikvah with
Cantor Netanel Hershtik
7:30 p.m., and services Israeli movie “The Band’s and Congregation B’nai
Township for a program at 9. 1666 Windsor Road. participation by their Visit – Part 2” is shown at Israel in Emerson join for Selichot in Westhampton:
and services, 7 p.m. (201) 833-1322 or www. rabbis and cantors, 8:30 a pre-Selichot program a program at Emanuel, Cantor Netanel Hershtik,
“The Band’s Visit” will emeth.org. p.m. Program, “Reformed at the JCC of Fort Lee/ 8:30 p.m. Havdalah, the Hampton Synagogue
be shown. Dessert Racists: Is There Life Congregation Gesher services, and dessert. Choir, and Maestro Izchak
served. 56 Ridgewood After Hate for Former Shalom, 8:30 p.m., after 87 Overlook Drive. Hamov lead services at
Road. (201) 664-7422, White Supremacists?” Ma’ariv & Havdalah. A (201) 391-0801. the Hampton Synagogue

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in Westhampton
Beach, Long island,
10:30 p.m. Midnight
Tuesday
buffet. 154 Sunset Ave. SEPTEMBER 4
(631) 288-0534 or
thehamptonsynagogue. Fantasy football in
org. Closter: Temple Emanu-
El’s Men’s Club has a
Fantasy Football League
draft, 7:30 p.m. Pizza.
180 Piermont Road. Pre-
registration required,
(201) 750-9997 or Rabbi Larry Rothwachs
joshlevinson@artistictile.
com. Book of Jonah: Rabbi
Larry Rothwachs of
Congregation Beth
Zalmen Mlotek Aaron continues a lecture
series, “Sefer Yonah:
Selichot in Teaneck: Models of Teshuva Taken at last year’s challah baking event. COURTESY CHABAD

Zalmen Mlotek, and Profiles of Prayer,”

Avromi Koenig, and
Asher Miller perform
with “A Deep Wail
from Deep within the
Challah bake in Franklin Lakes
a Selichot kumsitz at Whale: Yonah’s Finest
the Jewish Center of Moment,” 8:30 p.m. It The Jewish Women’s Circle of the To date, 150 people have made reser-
Teaneck, 10:30 p.m. continues September Chabad Jewish Center of Northwest Ber- vations. The evening will include a wine
Shiur at midnight with Dr. Michael Oren 12, when he will discuss gen County in Franklin Lakes and neigh- bar and finger foods, and participants
Rabbi Daniel Fridman, “Look Who’s Sorry
“The 13 Attributes of Israel and American boring towns holds its “Mega Challah will receive a customized apron and
Now: A Closer Look at
Mercy”; services follow. Jews: Dr. Michael the Repentant City of Bake,” an evening of unity, camaraderie, giveaways. For reservations, call Mimi at
70 Sterling Place. Oren, Deputy Minister, Nineveh.” The series ends and traditional challah baking, on Thurs- (201) 560-2502 or go to www.megachal-
(201) 833-0515. and former Israeli on September 17 with day, September 6, at 7 p.m. lahbake.org.
ambassador to the U.S., “The Truth, the Whole
who grew up in West
Sunday Orange, will discuss
Truth, and Nothing But
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Jews: Common Destiny Sessions can be watched
Carnival in Teaneck: or Separate Paths?” live at https://facebook.
Youth directors Rav at B’nai Shalom in com/larry.rothwachs.
Yishai and Yiskah Klein West Orange, 7:15 p.m. 950 Queen Anne Road.
host an opening youth Performance by the (201) 836-6210 or www.
carnival at the Jewish West Point Jewish Choir, bethaaron.org.
Center of Teaneck, 7:30. 300 Pleasant Valley
Way. (973) 731-0160 or
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songs, crafts, baking, SEPTEMBER 6
snacks, and inflatables.
70 Sterling Place.
Wednesday Parsha learning:
(201) 833-0515. SEPTEMBER 5 Temple Emanu-El in
Closter offers “Parsha
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Kippur, and the Yamim
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Jewish World

Jewish inmate serving life sentence credits local

newspaper as parole board recommends his release
MAYA MIRSKY State Prison in Riverside County. (He since
has been moved to the California Medical
SAN FRANCISCO — A Jewish inmate serv- Facility prison in Vacaville in northern Cali-

COURTESY OF J. THE JEWISH NEWS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

ing life in prison without parole took a step
toward freedom on August 21 — and credited
the local Jewish newspaper for the turn of
events.
James A. White Jr. was sentenced in 1981
for the murder of his wife’s ex-husband.
Last week, California’s Board of Parole
Hearings unanimously voted to recommend
commutation of his sentence after 37 years
behind bars, in part because of the work he
has done in establishing a community college
program for fellow inmates. That program
was given wide publicity earlier this year in
an article on White by Alix Wall in J. the Jewish
News of Northern California. Wall is a former
managing editor of the Jewish Standard.
“There’s no doubt in any of our minds that
it was your article that was the impetus that
forced them to deal with my case,” White
told Wall last week in a phone call. “Your
article changed my life.”
White, a decorated Vietnam veteran, is
credited with establishing the community
college program — allowing inmates to work
toward an associate’s degree — at Ironwood
fornia’s Solano County.)
Some 1,500 Ironwood prisoners have grad-
uated from the community college program
since its start in 2001. A 2013 study by the
Rand Corp. found that inmates who partici-
pated in educational programs were 43 per-
cent less likely to return to prison within three
years than those who did not participate.
The next scheduled stop for the case is
the state Supreme Court; after that, it is
expected to go to Gov. Jerry Brown, who has
the power to commute White’s sentence.
But the hearing was the main hurdle. “He’s
not out till he’s out,” said Rabbi Mendel Kes-
sler, who knows White through his work as
a prison chaplain. “But I’m 99 percent sure.”
One of the inmates White helped was James A. White, who is serving a life sentence in prison in Vacaville, Calif.,
Ryan Lo, who was released from prison in established a community college program for fellow inmates.
2014 after serving 23 years on a murder he
committed as a juvenile. Lo now runs a proj- James White,’” Lo said. White insisted California, where he met his wife, Nancy
ect documenting the experiences of former that Lo take college courses, and he didn’t Napoli, and settled in Sunnymead, near
inmates. He was one of the 13 people who let up. Lo completed six associate degrees Riverside. According to White, Napoli’s
attended the board hearing in Sacramento. in prison and says White changed his life. ex-husband began threatening White
“This crazy old Jewish guy came by my In return, he made a promise. and Napoli, ignored a restraining order,
door and introduced himself, and said, ‘I’m “If I ever do go home, I promise you I and then molested one of his former
will do everything in my power to bring stepdaughters. White went to the man’s
you” — White — “home with me,” Lo said office and shot him dead. In 1981, he was
he told himself. sentenced to life without parole. White

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Kessler, who was a chaplain at Iron-
wood and is now the director of Chabad
of Sedona, Arizona, also spoke in White’s
favor. Calling himself the “odd one out”
among a group of speakers that included
Enter to Win a $25 Gift Certificate mainly ex-inmates and veterans, Kessler
told the board that while crimes must
to be punished, White’s inspiring exam-
ple and mentorship in helping other
inmates should be recognized.
“From that sense of responsibility that
creates civilization, we also have to have
the responsibility to rehabilitate all these
guys,” he said.
White spoke about the college pro-
gram’s success during a 2014 TEDx talk
at Ironwood. He also started a veterans
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Standard e-mail newsletter list. In 1972, White went to Southern
later was diagnosed with post-traumatic
stress disorder; his friends say that now-
adays his sentence would not have been
as severe, because PTSD is more well
known.
Although the hearing was a major
step, White is not free yet.
Due to the circumstances of his case,
the California Supreme Court also must
weigh in, but his friends are hopeful.
The Board of Parole Hearings, which is
comprised of 15 full-time commission-
ers, was unanimous in its vote, and Lo
said the number of people who spoke
at the hearing was unusually high. (Wall
also spoke there.)
Kessler also said that the chief commis-
sioner told him afterward that the num-
ber of speakers made a difference. “Basi-
cally she said it was very helpful that all
those who came to testify came to testify,”
he said.
White has touched many lives during
his nearly four decades in the prison
system, but if and when he’s released,
Meshad said, White will keep doing the
same work on the outside: he’s prom-
ised to come work for Meshad’s founda-
tion to keep helping the population he’s
already helped so much.
“This wasn’t a hard decision,” Lo said.
“This is a special case. This is a person
with a phenomenal record.”
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Abraham Fleischer
Abe Fleischer, 94, of Glen Rock, died August 11.
Born in Berlin, he was a businessman who spoke five
languages.
Immediate survivors include his wife of 61 years, two
daughters, granddaughter, son-in-law, and brother.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah Cha-
pel, Paramus.
James Goldstein
James Goldstein, 55, of Woodcliff Lake, formerly of Old
Tappan, died August 20.
He is survived by his mother, Carolee of Westwood;
father, Julian, of Pompton Plains; sons Matthew Gold-
stein of Brooklyn and Michael of Woodcliff Lake; and
siblings, Jill of Manhattan and Roy of New York.
Donations can be made to NYU Langone Neuro-
Oncology Department. Arrangements were by Robert
Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Rose Gottlieb
Rose Gottlieb, née Levitt, 92, of Fair Lawn, formerly of
Paterson, died August 22. Before retiring, she was a Prior
elementary school teacher in Paterson.
Predeceased by her husband of 65 years, Kenneth, and a
brother, Leonard Levitt, she is survived by children, Lynda
Saffer (the late Richard), and Alan (Susan); brother, Archie
Sender; sister-in-law, Dolores Levitt; five grandchildren;
three great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
Donations can be made to Memorial Sloan Ketter-
ing Cancer Center in New York. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Military honors at funerals
War veterans can be acknowledged with military honors
at their funerals, but there are procedures they or their
families must follow for that to happen.
Veterans must give a DD214 honorable discharge doc-
ument to the funeral home for military honors. If they
cannot find the document, call Bergen County Veterans
Services in Hackensack at (201) 336-6325. Someone there
will help them get a replacement. Try to do it before it is
needed, however; the process is not fast. If you wait, it is
unlikely that you will get it in time for a funeral service.
When it has the DD214 document, the funeral home
will contact the military branch of service and make the
American pilot who made history for Israel’s Air Force
to be re-buried in Arlington
An American pilot who scored Israel’s then-budding air
force’s initial aerial kill of an adversarial fighter is expected
to be re-buried Arlington National Cemetery, where troops
from the Civil War through today are buried.
Gideon Lichtman, who fought for the United States in
the Pacific during World War II, was 94 years old when he
died in March. He was buried in Florida.
The last surviving member of the mostly American non-
Jewish squadron “Machal 101,” Lichtman helped stop the
advance of the Egyptian army on Tel Aviv.
After the 1948 War of Independence, Lichtman returned
to the United States and eventually fought in the Korean
War. In the 1960s, he went back to Israel, serving as a test
pilot.
Lichtman was a high school teacher who spent more
than 30 years employed under a fake name because,
Obituaries
Estelle Kimelman
Estelle Kimelman, née Goldberg, of Fort Lee, died
August 21.
Born in Brooklyn, she is survived by her husband, Mil-
ton, and a daughter, Michelle Bachrach.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Barry Newman
Barry Newman, 94, of Hollywood, Fla., formerly of Wald-
wick, died August 21.
Born in Poland, he was a Holocaust survivor. He
owned and operated the Five & Ten in Waldwick.
He is survived by his wife, Vivianne; children, Gary
(Sari) of Woodcliff Lake, and Sandra Levitt (Felix) of
Roswell, Georgia; and grandchildren, Alyssa, Jack, Jolie,
and Rachel.
Donations can be sent to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington. Arrangements were by Robert
Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Obituaries are prepared with information
provided by funeral homes. Correcting errors is
the responsibility of the funeral home.
arrangements for an honor guard. If the paperwork is not
done in time for the funeral service, you can request mili-
tary honors for an unveiling. (You only get the military
honor once — either at the service or at the unveiling.)
During World War II, Jews comprised 3.3 percent of
the United States population and 4.23 percent of the U.S.
Armed Forces. Today, in the United States, World War II
veterans are dying at the rate of 1,100 a day.
For more information, call Alan Musicant at Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Home, (201) 489-3800 or
email him at alan.musicant@dignitymemorial.com.
Former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion,
right, visits the Machal 101 air squadron. Pilot Gideon
Lichtman is at the far left.  WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.
according to his son Bruce, “he was told by Ezer Weiz-
man, president of Israel and former minister of defense,
that Israel had intercepted Arab intelligence and that
they were intent on targeting foreign pilots who served in
Israel,” according to the Miami Herald.  JNS.ORG
Maybelle Schneider
Maybelle Schneider, 94, of Teaneck, died August 16.
She enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps during World
War II and became a Marine Air Corps Corporal in Cali-
fornia. A life member of Hadassah, ORT, and National
Council of Jewish Women, she was involved in local and
Jewish organizations for decades.
Predeceased by her husband, Jacob, and a compan-
ion, Milton Schaefer, she is survived by children, Stuart
(Peggy), and Tobi Schneider (Steven Neumeister); four
grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; and a nephew
and niece.
Donations can be sent to Englewood Hospital and
Medical Center or Jewish War Veterans. Arrangements
were by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Direc-
tors, Hackensack.
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Former chief rabbi of UK lambasts
Corbyn’s ‘hateful’ words on British Jewry
Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of
the United Hebrew Congregations of U.K.
and the Commonwealth, blasted U.K.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as “an
anti-Semite” who supports “racists, ter-
rorists and dealers of hate,” adding that
a speech the party leader gave five years
ago was the “most offensive statement by
a senior British politician since [Conserva-
tive parliament member] Enoch Powell’s
1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech.”
It was Sacks’s first comments since the
anti-Semitism problem surrounding the
political party reached new heights over
the past few weeks, causing louder calls
for Corbyn’s resignation.
“It was divisive, hateful and like Powell’s
speech, it undermines the existence of an
entire group of British citizens by depict-
ing them as essentially alien,” Sacks said
in an interview with the New Statesman.
Sacks’s statement came as a video from
Shin Bet uncovers extensive
Hamas network in Hebron
The Shin Bet, Israel’s principal security
service, working with the Israel Defense
Forces and the Israel Police, recently dis-
covered an extensive Hamas network in
Hebron, which included several women
acting on behalf of Hamas command cen-
ters in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere.
Led by senior Hamas operatives and
former prisoners Nazar Shehada and
Faris Abu Serah, the terrorist network
transferred messages, instructions, and
finances to Hamas operatives, in addition
to disseminating online information, orga-
nizing at mosques, and helping prisoners’
families, according to the Shin Bet.
The network’s central committee was
led by Dina Karmi, whose husband,
Nashaat Karmi, killed four civilians in a
French Jewish MP gets death-threat letter
in envelope with unknown white powder
French Jewish Parliament member Meyer
Habib received a death threat last week,
in an envelope containing a white powder
and a menacing letter.
The wing where his office is located in
the French National Assembly building
was evacuated for two hours, while 40
security officials and chemical experts
examined the contents of the envelope.
Habib, who represents France nationals
living abroad in the French parliament,
has required personal security in the past.
In July, the threats against his life moved
to social media. He has consequently con-
sulted with France’s attorney general.
The threatening letter was full of anti-
Semitic slurs and stenciled on a piece of
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2013 surfaced of Corbyn giving a speech at
the Palestinian Return Centre in London,
where he said that “Zionists … clearly have
two problems. One is they don’t want to
study history and, secondly, having lived
in this country for a very long time, prob-
ably all their lives, they don’t understand
English irony either.”
Powell’s speech criticized mass immi-
gration, and said that the Race Relations
Bill, which eventually became law, would
enable discrimination against the native
population.
“The discrimination and the depriva-
tion, the sense of alarm and of resentment,
lies not with the immigrant population but
with those among whom they have come
and are still coming,” Powell said. “This is
why to enact legislation of the kind before
parliament at this moment is to risk throw-
ing a match on to gunpowder.” JNS.ORG
2010 attack before Israeli security forces
killed him.
Indictments were filed in Judea Military
Court against Karmi, Serah and other net-
work members.
“Exposure of the network proves again
that Hamas command centers abroad and
in the Gaza Strip, are utilizing all means at
their disposal, including the use of women,
to direct Hamas operations in Judea and
Samaria,” the Shin Bet said in a statement.
The command centers, it said, “are
working tirelessly to promote Hamas oper-
ations in Judea and Samaria and, to this
end, are recruiting couriers for contact
between Judea and Samaria and abroad, in
order to transfer funds for terrorism and
messages for field operatives.” JNS.ORG
paper supposedly taken from Habib’s
office. The letter was also full of spelling
mistakes and written in poor French.
Loosely translated, it said: “You aren’t
French; you don’t belong in the National
Assembly. You are only a f•••ing Israeli
terrorist with blood on your hands. We
will feed you with what’s left of your small
penis … until you die from it.”
Habib said in response: “It’s sad and
disconcerting to be in a situation where a
member of the French parliament receives
death threats because he is Jewish and a
friend of Israel. Beyond the personal
aspect, I’m very concerned for the French
republic, and I think a response and action
is necessary at the highest level.” JNS.ORG
Opposing closer US ties to Israel, Greek
anarchists sneak into foreign ministry
The Greek anarchist group Rubicon
snuck into their country’s Foreign Min-
istry building in central Athens on Tues-
day to oppose Greek-Israeli military
and energy cooperation, as well as the
United States moving its embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem three months ago.
Two Rubicon members climbed into
the ministry compound and left a bag
near the entrance, according to a video
posted online, which the group said con-
sisted of a Palestinian flag and photo-
graphs of Palestinian protesters killed by
Israeli forces during violent riots along
the Gaza border that coincided with the
embassy opening ceremony on May 14.
No arrests of Rubicon members were
reported.
This development comes a year after
Rubicon members vandalized the Israeli
BDS movement in South America
protests Jerusalem Symphony concerts
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra,
which has been touring South America
with solo violinist Itamar Zorman, has
been targeted by the BDS movement,
which is calling on music lovers to stay
away from the concerts and staging pro-
tests outside the concert halls where the
orchestra is scheduled to perform.
Ahead of the orchestra’s scheduled
concert in Santiago, Chile—the last stop
on the South American tour—BDS activ-
ists organized a demonstration outside
the concert hall and put up posters
showing conductor Yeruham Scharovsky
spattered in blood.
Israeli Ambassador to Chile Eldad
Hayet has asked the Santiago police to
help secure the event, Israeli media
reported.
Cohen
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say that their complicity in the murder of
Jews was the price of staying alive under
Nazi occupation. More recently, that has
been accompanied by a tendency among
governments in the region — the Baltic
states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
are among the worst offenders in this
regard—to honor certain Nazi collabora-
tors publicly, on the grounds that they
also were heroic anti-Soviet resistance
fighters. Through this revision of history,
the murder of six million Jews becomes
just one of many examples of inhumanity
during the Second World War, rather than
the driving obsession and ultimate goal of
the Nazi regime.
Hence the significance of what looked,
embassy in Greece to protest Israeli poli-
cies toward Palestinians.
Greek and Israeli forces, often joined
by the United States, conducted their
latest joint drill in June, when warplanes
from both nations “simulated a war on
multiple fronts, including a significant
bombing campaign against targets in the
Gaza Strip. The IDF said 40 of its fighter
jets, refueling planes and transport
planes traveled to Greece for the exer-
cise,” according to the Times of Israel.
In May, Greece, Israel, and Cyprus
agreed to plans for a $7 billion pipeline
that would supply gas from the eastern
Mediterranean to Europe.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
called the project “emblematic” of the
cooperation between the three coun-
tries. JNS.ORG
The BDS movement was also lying
in wait in São Paulo, Brazil, when the
orchestra arrived there last week. Pro-
testers waved PLO flags and shouted
condemnations of Israel. The Brazilian
police moved them away from the venue
and the concert went on as planned, but
under heavy security.
Smaller demonstrations took place
in Buenos Aires and in Tucumán Prov-
ince in northwest Argentina, as well as
in Lima, Peru.
JSO director General Yair Stern said
incidents such as these were “unpleas-
ant,” but did not cast a pall over the
performances.
“The police kept order and allowed
the performances to go on as planned,”
Stern said. “The halls were full.” JNS.ORG
on the surface, like the belated, perhaps
even pointless, delivery of justice to an
old man who likely will not live much lon-
ger. One of Palij’s neighbors in Queens,
Jason Quijano, put it nicely in a press
interview: “I’m not somebody that wishes
anybody any harm, but if he has to face
justice now, I think it’s something that has
to happen. You can’t hide from anything
in this world. It will come back to you.”
In Germany, where Palij will see out
his remaining days, he will be treated
humanely, and given all the attention
that a person his age requires to main-
tain his comfort and dignity. That, most
probably, will be the last lesson this
monster receives in the merits of the
civilization that he fought in the name of
barbarism. JNS.ORG

Englewood Health performs
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The Lefcourt Family Cancer Treatment and Wellness
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This allows for previously unachievable levels of preci-
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Diabetes Foundation to hold volunteer
training class for new ‘resource coach’ program
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those interested in becoming Diabetes Resource Coach
Program volunteers on Sept. 14 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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the daily challenges of managing this lifelong condition.
Volunteers must be 21 or older and computer profi-
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a minimum one-year commitment to the Diabetes
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Valley receives $35 million in gifts for new hospital in Paramus

Valley’s plans to build a new, state-of-the-art
hospital in Paramus received a significant
boost, with two gifts totaling $35 million to
The Valley Hospital Foundation. The gifts
include $20 million from a long-time Val-
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Foundation, which was established by phi-
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time Valley benefactor.
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as the new hospital, our Paramus campus
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Endocrinologist Ria Lim joins
Englewood Health Physician Network
Dr. Ria Lim, a specialist in endocrinol-
ogy, has joined the Englewood Health
Physician Network. Dr. Lim, who sees
patients at Bergen Medical Alliance in
Englewood, also joins the medical staff
of Englewood Hospital, part of Engle-
wood Health.
Dr. Lim is board certified in endo-
crinology, diabetes, metabolism, and
internal medicine. Her clinical interests
include diagnosing and treating pituitary
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and weight loss and metabolic bone dis-
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“I believe that for patients to succeed in
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need to have a real understanding of their
disease process,” said Dr. Lim. “There-
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to care and support patients in playing an
children’s services office complex (the
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Valley anticipates being able to pres-
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the new hospital — to the Borough of
Paramus and to the community later this
year. The hospital anticipates that the
new hospital will open its doors in 2023.
To stay updated with the latest news
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please visit TheNewValleyHospital.
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Dr. Lim received her M.D. from the Uni-
versity of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philip-
pines. She did her residency in internal
medicine and fellowship in endocrinology
at the University of Connecticut School of
Medicine. Dr. Lim joins Englewood Health
from Backus Center for Endocrinology,
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cut, where she has been in practice for the
past 6 years.
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