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Brits booked for bagel battle

The Guardian headline was dire: Fight on UK train after
people kept placing bagels on travellers heads.
The story continued: Police were called to break up a fight
on a train as rowdy passengers repeatedly placed bagels on
other travellers heads.
Much of the raucous bagel action was recorded on video
and posted to Twitter.
Appropriately enough for a fracas caused by passengers
acting British while eating Yiddish, The 12.54am Great
Northern service from Kings Cross to Huntingdon was
held for 18 minutes while the officers took state-
ments, the Guardian reported. 18 minutes.
No arrests were made, however.
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Noshes
I couldnt understand why people were donating in what
seemed like weird amounts to the cause. There are sums
of 18, 36, 72 dollars etc. then I figured out after clicking on the
names Avi, Cohen, Goldstein, Rubin, Fisher
Adeel Karim, who set up a crowdfunding page after a Tampa mosque was damaged by
arson last month. Karims campaign raised nearly $60,000 in less than a week.
A HIGH NOTE:
The Oscars
Jewish round-up
As expected, the bar mitzvah. (It didnt
biggest Jewish mention whether Ezra
Oscar haul came in the did, too.)
musical categories. The Hollywood
JUSTIN HURWITZ, 32, Reporter gave an
won for best score (La advance rave review to
La Land) and for his Bette and Joan: The Justin Hurwitz Kenneth Lonergan
music for the best song Feud, an FX eight-epi-
(City of Stars). The sode anthology series
lyricists of City, BENJ that begins on Saturday,
PASEK, 31, and Justin March 5. Its the early
Paul, shared the best 60s, and Joan Crawford
song Oscar with Hurwitz. (Jessica Lange) is trying
From the Oscars stage, to revive her career with
Pasek thanked his mom the film What Ever Jennifer Grey
for letting him quit JCC Happened to Baby Jane,
soccer to concentrate but she knows she must
on his music. get longtime rival Bette
Congrats to KEN-
NETH LONERGAN,
Davis (Susan Sarandon)
to co-star with her to
Ancestry show returns
54, who won the best make the film work. The The TLC celebrity ancestry show Who Do You Think
original screenplay Reporter review singles Jackie Hoffman Adam Pally You Are returns on March 5 at 10 p.m., although the
Oscar for Manchester out veteran character exact airing schedule of each celebs episode-length
By the Sea; JEREMY comic JACKIE 34, stars as Dan, a nerdy know arent original. appearance hasnt been announced. Worth looking for:
KLEINER, 40, a producer HOFFMAN, 56: She computer scientist who Pally, who previ- JENNIFER GREY, 56, who, according to the shows
of Moonlight, the best steals scenes with works at a small college. ously co-starred on
advance notes: Uncovers new information about the
pic winner; and EZRA deadpan deviousness as He discovers how to Happy Endings and
EDELMAN, 43, who won Crawfords German maid time travel and goes The Mindy Project, is grandfather she thought she knew, learning how he sur-
for directing the best and confidante Mamaci- back to 1775, where he a talented comic writer vived adversity to become a beacon of his community.
feature length docu- ta. The always-good meets and falls for Paul as well as a performer, Also interesting actress Jessica Biel (the wife of Justin
mentary (O.J.: Made in Stanley Tucci also was Reveres daughter, and he wouldnt appear Timberlake), who is very surprised to learn that she has
America). Somehow I highly praised for his Deborah (Leighton in a really bad show, so a Jewish ancestor, and that she is 1/8 Jewish. N.B.
forgot to mention Edel- work playing JACK Meester). However, Dan check this one out. Pally,
man in my pre-awards WARNER (1892-1979), is concerned that his by the way, married his
coverage, and of course the co-founder of romance may change wife, DANIELLA LIEBEN
he won. Hes the son of Warner Brothers, who history for the worse PALLY, 36, in a Jewish
PETER EDELMAN, a law was very involved in and he enlists the help ceremony in 2008 and
professor, and Marian Davis entire career. As of a history professor they now have a son and 29 (My Crazy Ex-Girl- longer cool, and that
Wright Edelman, an Af- studio head, Warner had (Yassir Lester) to guide a daughter. Pally grew friend), will co-star in Blooms character, who
rican American attorney a big hand in the making him and sometimes up mostly in New Jer- the film Most Likely to he still has feelings for, is
famous for her work de- of Whatever Hap- travel back in time with sey and his wife owned Murder. Production will dating the former high
fending childrens rights. pened, a Warner him. The plot sounds a boutique, Rubys, in start this month. Its a school outcast. When
A 1992 NY Times profile Brothers film. heavy, but basically its a Montclair when they got dark mystery comedy the outcasts mother
of the Edelman family A new Fox series, comedy Dan, for married. The family now about what happens dies under mysterious
says their two sons were Making History, example, gets Deborah lives in Los Angeles. when Billy (Pally), the circumstances, Billy
raised in both parents premieres on Sunday, to fall for him by using Just as I was writ- most popular kid in high becomes obsessed with
religious traditions and March 5, and new modern song lyrics, ing this item, it was school, comes back to proving that she actually
that their older son, episodes air Sundays at jokes, and apt movie announced that Pally his hometown 10 years was murdered.
JONAH, now 47, had a 8:30 p.m. ADAM PALLY, lines that she doesnt and RACHEL BLOOM, later to find hes no N.B.
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Science as universal language
Teens from Bergen County learn about STEM research in Israel
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Bergen County Technical Schools Super-

intendent Howard Lerner joined 16 Ber-
gen Academies students and three faculty
members on a February 16-23 fact-finding
and collaboration-building mission to
Israel. The trip was based on the common
educational language of STEM science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The group visited hotbeds of innova-
tion including the Weizmann Institute of
Science, Technion-Israel Institute of Tech-
nology (often referred to as Israels MIT),
and Googles Tel Aviv campus, as well as
high-tech company Applied Materials, an
Air Force base, World ORTs YOU-niversity
afterschool innovation learning center,
and high schools excelling in STEM. (They
also saw more standard tourist sites Jeru-
salems Old City, Rosh Hanikra, Ein Gedi,
Masada, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and a Druze village.
The trip was planned and sponsored
by the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey.
Ethan Behling, the interim director of
the federations Center for Israel Engage-
ment, accompanied the group. He said it During a visit to Applied Materials in Rehovot, the group suits up for the clean room, where computer chips and the tools
made perfect sense to connect administra- to work with them are manufactured and diagnosed.
tors, educators, and STEM students from businesswomen, and other professional
Bergen Academies with peers in Israel. groups to Nahariya in order to forge ties
We showed them Israel in a nonpo- between the two communities.
litical way, through an itinerary cover- I am especially excited about this
ing major sites and the high-tech sector, exchange because it is the partnerships
Mr. Behling said on the last night of the largest educational delegation to date and
trip. The kids were so open-minded and our first collaboration with non-Jewish as
curious; at every site they absorbed all well as Jewish students and teachers, and
the nuances and saw the ambition and because it is focused solely on high-tech
growth of Israels high-tech sector and its education, she said.
relevance to the global economy. The Bergen Academies is a natural fit
Mark Tronicke, coordinator for global because its student body is highly selec-
education for Bergen County Academies tive and these best and brightest met
a seven-division public magnet high with equally brilliant students in Israel. All
school in Hackensack explained that the of our young leadership trips to Israel are
academies already have built sister-school eye-opening because they enable the stu-
relationships in countries such as Japan, The students mug for the camera at the Tel Aviv headquarters of Waze, the dents to sense and feel Israel firsthand, but
China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Argentina, GPS giant. for these kids to see it through the lens of
Greece, and England, encompassing visits science and technology could ignite their
and common curriculum themes. shuls on a trip arranged by the Center for Describing Israel as beautifully com- passions and have a life-changing impact.
At the suggestion of the JFNNJ, two Ber- Israel Engagement. plex, Ms. Lee said that her initial spark David Goodman of Paramus, a JFNNJ
gen Academies teachers went on a profes- Getting reacquainted with teens from of interest was totally trumped by all vice president, was pleased when his
sional development excursion to Israel Nahariya and meeting others in Tel Aviv I learned on this trip. One of the most daughter Miri, a Bergen Academies sopho-
last year to examine the technology and was a highlight for Michelle Lee of Old Tap- breathtaking sights was on top of Masada. more, was chosen to participate.
entrepreneurial spirit of Israel. They pan, 16, a Bergen Academies junior in the It gave me a new perspective on how I see federation as not just a Jew-
returned eager to establish a relationship schools engineering track. diverse and beautiful Israel is. Prior to this ish communal organization but also as
with the award-winning Shechakim High Initially my interest in coming here was trip Id only seen not necessarily the most a connector organization that can pro-
School for Excellence and Leadership in to share my research project in wireless positive images of Israel on the news and vide opportunities for people who may
Nahariya, the federations Partnership- radiation detection with students in Israel, social media. not have Israel on their agenda, he said
2Gether (P2G) city in northern Israel. In she said. I even met a student in Tel Aviv Susan Penn, chair of JFNNJs Partner- shortly before the journey.
September, nine Shechakim students with similar interests and projects some- ship2Gether, said that she and her commit- This was a wonderful opportunity to
all of them from the schools corps of Air one literally halfway across the world tee have coordinated many delegations of bring young people to Israel, especially
Force cadets visited Bergen Academies learning the same things as me and we young leaders, medical professionals, art- to see the amazing technology and sci-
and other Bergen County schools and plan on doing collaborations in the future. ists, educators, first responders, attorneys, ence thats going on. My daughter is a

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Schechter graduate and has been in Israel Wednesday during senior year, so we want
twice before, but this time she will see it to hook some of them up with Cornell-
through the eyes of people who arent NYC, Dr. Lerner said. We also exchanged
Jewish, which I think is fantastic, and I emails and phone numbers with some of
applaud all the parents whose children the high school principals we met, and
are going. maybe well come up with ideas to do
Ben Costa, 17, of Wyckoff, was another research together.
Jewish delegation member. Ive grown Mercedes Hadad, the P2G pedagogical
up learning about Israel my entire life coordinator in Israel, said she hopes Dr.
but it was an abstract concept and now I Lerners participation in the trip may
see it as a tangible place, he said. When open other doors for us to other Bergen
I entered the Old City on our first day, I County schools.
was overwhelmed. Federation-sponsored trips such as
The Western Wall was my favorite part these, she said, give students an extensive
of the entire experience. Im not extremely appreciation of what Israel has to offer in
religious, but culturally I feel very con- todays focus on high-tech education and
nected and going up to that wall I was The group visits a Druze village near Mount Carmel. affords an opportunity to see the living,
overcome with a feeling of being part of breathing democracy that Israel is.
something bigger than myself. and its culture. he continued. We encourage interna- We hope to continue our relationship
He enjoyed connecting with students at Superintendent Lerner also had never tional trips and have had interactions with with Bergen Academies because there is a
Shechakim, who like all Israeli teens will visited Israel before. It was his first over- other high schools around the globe and lot of potential for partnerships, said Mr.
begin mandatory military service after seas trip as administrator. want to add to that some of the people and Behling, who is planning a follow-up meet-
graduation. I really wanted to join the students to see institutions we met here in Israel. ing with the participating students.
The idea of going into the army right what they would learn from the educational One likely collaboration will be with the The other students on the trip were
after high school is a foreign concept, and cultural experience in Israel, he said. Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute and Liam Rahav, Ishan Khosla, Irmak Sensoz,
Mr. Costa said. Meeting the cadets gave I was also making connections with differ- CornellNYC Tech Campus, a joint program Nicole Gerzon, Ronnie Millet, Ben Mor,
us better idea of how they think about it. ent high schools and colleges to see the sci- between the Ivy League university and Charles Tang, Michael Grossman, Jefferson
Theyre very patriotic and it was really ence that goes on here in Israel and to see if the Technion, housed at Google New York Xu, Jared Lawrence, Danny Yim, Antonia
quite amazing. But theyre kids just like us. we can collaborate and innovate together. until the opening of its campus on New Liu, and Sowmya Patarati. The accompa-
Im going home with a greater understand- Our mission as a school district is to York Citys Roosevelt Island this May. nying faculty members were Mr. Tronicke,
ing of what Israel really means; its people live, work and lead in a global community, Our students do internships every David Wilson, and Alison Belkin.
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Homes where the hoard is

JCC speaker talks about her memoir exploring collections run amok
JOANNE PALMER books, and they are notoriously hard to get rid of. (Maybe its
particularly hard for Jews to throw out books, and there are
It makes intuitive sense. only so many libraries that will take them as donations every
If you were born in Europe in year. What do you do with unwanted books?)
1945, into the ashes of the Holo- But then, a few years later, in the mid 80s, VCRs became
caust, if you spent your childhood available, and my mom became obsessed with them, Judy
as a refugee, forever looking for said. She recorded thousands of movies. Those she didnt
home and always moving on to the watch. She just amassed them.
next one, then when you finally Did she collect clothing too? Yes, Judy said. Whatever
settle somewhere, get married, you ask about, the answer is yes.
have children, and live what looks Judy Batalion So Judy decided that she had to escape what she saw as the
from the outside like a normal life, SHARON EDELSTEIN dysfunction of her childhood. Home was a hot Yiddish mess,
something will have to give. so I ran away to be a cool, aloof art curator in England, she
Judy Batalions mother became a hoarder. Once she didnt said. I really tried to run away from the Jewish stuff. I called
have to travel lightly, throw away her toys, dispose of anything myself a militant minimalist.
that might hold her back, she didnt. I did a lot of work on contemporary womens art and
Its not easy being the daughter of a hoarder either, as design, and domestic theory and domestic design. The hoard-
Judy knows, and as she explores both in her memoir, White ing affected all areas of my life. It all was a question of trying
Walls, and at the Kaplan JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly this to make sense of the relationship of people and their histories
weekend, as part of the Sunday with Strong Women pro- to stuff.
gram. (See the box for more information.) Then she married a British Jew, and eventually the two
Judy is a smart and funny woman. (If you need outside vali- moved to New York, and we bought this apartment with
dation for her brains, you can consider that she earned her white walls and white sofas.
bachelors degree at Harvard and a Ph.D. in contemporary And then there was the unexpected positive pregnancy
art from the University of Londons Courtauld Institute of Art. test. Soon, Judy had a baby and the sofas were no longer
When it comes to funny, well, you can know that she does white, her minimalism became somewhat maximized, and
stand-up, or you can just listen to her or read her. It comes This is one of the many towers of VCR tapes in Judy what I came to realize is that I grew up in a home that wasnt
through clearly.) Batalions childhood home; the tapes were just one comfortable. At its heart, the book is about the search for
Her memoir began as a story about finding home, but it of many collections her mother amassed. home, understanding what comfort really is. Is it possible?
turned into a book about hoarding because for Judy, as a child, Does it really exist? How do I make a home for my kid that is
home was where the hoard was. hoarders. And Jews traditionally have had to wander. comfortable and stable?
My mom was born in 1945, on the way back to Poland, Hoarding, like most mental illnesses, is a condition for Judy Batalion will talk about hoarding, home, and mental
Judy said. She was born a refugee, trying to get back home which there is no blood test, Judy said. Right now, the most health at the JCC on Sunday.
without knowing what home was. recent study shows that about six percent of Americans suffer
Judy grew up in Montreal, amid collections of tuna cans, from pathological hoarding. Who: Three women Gayle Forman, Lisa Smith, and
swivel chairs, plastic bags, newspapers everything. Hoarding is something that you can edge into, Judy said. Judy Batalion will talk about their books Ms. For-
Her book is a combination of very personal stories and It doesnt happen overnight. Its not as if one morning we mans Leave Me, Ms. Smiths Girl Walks Out Of a
science. Hoarding is a mental illness that often is combined had a totally normal house, and the next morning there were Bar, and Ms. Batalions White Walls
with other mental illnesses, she said. Often its depres- 300 suitcases in the living room. Its something that happened What: For A Sunday of Strong Women: A Serious Dis-
sion, anxiety, paranoia, or social phobias. These things are gradually, over a long period of time. cussion with Three Seriously Funny Authors
all related. In fact, the American Psychiatric Association Her mothers illness was triggered by her own mothers When: On Sunday, March 5, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
defined hoarding as a disorder only about five years ago, death, closely followed by her best friends. Around that Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 East
in the DSM-V Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental time, the hoarding exploded, with an exponential increase in Clinton Avenue in Tenafly
Disorders, Fifth Edition. the shopping and the buying and the storing up, she said. Why: For women to learn about empowering our-
Hoarding is about our relationship to stuff, Judy said. It is And it shifted with time. selves in new and exciting ways, according to the JCC.
in the end a disorder of attachment. Its a dysfunctional rela- It began with stacks and stacks of books. My mother would
Who is invited: Women, either with other women or
tionship to things. A lot of hoarders have complicated social go into every library, and take out all the books she could. She alone
relationships. read the books but she didnt return them.
How much does it cost: $36 for JCC members; $44
And it seems to have specifically Jewish echoes. Jews have And there was a bookstore called Cheap Thrills, that sold
for everyone else
had to move all the time, she said. There is research that paperbacks. She bought incredible collections of books. She
came out recently showing that people who moved around read most of them too. For more information or to register: Email Kathy Graff
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Let it go
Abraham Foxman of Bergen County talks about the new wave of anti-Semitism
JOANNE PALMER
T
here are a few truths that we
should acknowledge, Abraham
Foxman said.
Mr. Foxman, who lives in
Bergen County, is the director of the
Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at
the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Man-
hattan. He is also the director emeritus
of the Anti-Defamation League, where
he worked for 50 years, and he is Euro-
pean-born, hidden during the Holocaust.
Through each of these experiences, he
has gained hard-won firsthand experi-
ence of anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism always has existed; it
is, Mr. Foxman said, the mother of all
hatreds. Its always existed, even in the
United States; ebbs and flows, dries up,
and then bursts its banks. And yes, it is
particularly strong now, and has been
since the presidential campaign. But the
numbers of anti-Semitic acts, even here,
always are shockingly higher than most
of us realize.
President Donald J. Trump did not
react quickly or even particularly appro-
priately to the spate of bomb threats
made to JCCs and other Jewish organi-
zations, or to the vandalism that demol-
ished or harmed about 180 tombstones in A visitor to the vandalized Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia looks at some of the toppled tombstones
a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis. But now on February 26. DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
he has last week he issued a statement

deploring the bomb threats and vandal-
ism, on Monday his spokesman, Sean
Spicer, read a statement condemning
the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Anti-Semitism never has been
Philadelphia and it is our obligation,
as a community, to accept those state-
eliminated, so we shouldnt be
ments and move on. To do anything else shocked or surprised when we see
is to politicize a need that should remain
above politics, he said.
it. We have tried to keep it down,
People in our community are asking calling it immoral, un-American,
why? Why now? Whats going on? Mr.
Foxman said. We have short memo-
anti-Christian, unacceptable, but we
ries. Statistics show that about 10 to 12 never eliminated it. It continued.
percent of Americans are infected with
anti-Semitism and thats about 30 to anonymous and also nonanonymous and the inside.
40 million people. So we shouldnt be anti-Semitism is almost like a new hech- From the outside it is critical to have
that shocked that there are phone calls sher. It both legitimizes and creates a all voices the political, the moral, the
threatening Jewish institutions and des- new means of distribution. religious, the civic have all of them
ecrations of cemeteries. It happens every Abraham Foxman The question, Mr. Foxman continued, heard. To make sure that the community
time there are social eruptions. It comes is How do we combat it? What do we as a whole condemns it. Nobody should
to the fore. uncertainty, polarization, hypernation- do? From my perspective of 50 years, misunderstand that Jews are outside the
We have to remember that anti-Sem- alism, nativism, isolationism, that legiti- my greatest disillusionment is going circle of civility. At the same time, we
itism never has been eliminated, so we mizes prejudice. back, after Auschwitz was laid bare for have to engage law enforcement to its
shouldnt be shocked or surprised when Still, there have been taboos that kept all the world to see what anti-Semitism utmost, not only to pursue the crimi-
we see it. We have tried to keep it down, people from letting the words of hatred can lead to, and realizing that the world nals but to be vigilant about the judicial
calling it immoral, un-American, anti- that boil in their hearts out through their didnt come together to develop an anti- system. When the perpetrators are cap-
Christian, unacceptable, but we never lips, but The election destroyed the dote, a vaccine, against it, I came to the tured, they shouldnt wind up with a slap
eliminated it. It continued. taboos, Mr. Foxman said. realization that it always will be there. It on the wrist and an order to say I wont
It has laid dormant in the sewers for But the greatest facilitator of anti-Sem- will always be a yesh, as the Israelis say. do it again three times.
a long time, but now some of the sewer itism today continues to be the internet, A presence. While we remain vigilant, though,
covers have been removed. Whenever and with the explosive growth of social Things have not changed, he said. Mr. Foxman said, we walk a very deli-
our society experiences instability, media, the superhighway that permits We have to combat it from the outside cate balance here. We have to take

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remained with him since then. Where would Jews
be in half a century? The scholars on the conference
panel asked why the Greeks, the Romans, the Incas,
and other great empires collapsed and vanished,
while the Jews remained. There was one trait that Jews
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Panel will explore how women have integrated Torah into their daily lives
LOIS GOLDRICH for making people different.
Ms. Gray said her goal is that
Does being a woman influence your we will, through our discussion,
understanding of Torah and the encourage the reader/student,
way you incorporate its teachings to find him/herself in the text of
into your life? the Torah. The vicissitudes of our
On March 13, four Jewish edu- ancestors are akin to ours, regard-
cators, three of them rabbis, all less of the passage of time. We
women, will explore these and learn from the Torah that human
similar questions in a symposium nature and mankinds frailties
at Temple Emanuel of the Pas- are not centered in one time and
cack Valley. place. We are there in the text
The four are linked not only by Rabbi Leana Moritt Miriam Gray Rabbi Shelley Kniaz Rabbi Lauren Monosov waiting to be uncovered.
the primacy of Jewish teachings Often by relating to the pas-
in their work but also by their connec- leaving the familiar and forging out to a from the Torah can infuse every thought sions, challenges, and relationships of our
tion to the Woodcliff Lake synagogue. new life, just as we all understand the frus- and action. ancestors we can find insights helpful to
Rabbi Loren Monosov is its religious trations of Rachel, the insecurity of Leah, We learn to visit the sick when we read us in our lives. The Torah is relevant to us;
leader, Rabbi Shelley Kniaz is its director the motherly instincts of Jochebed. On a about God visiting Abraham. We learn are we relevant to the Torah?
of congregational education, Rabbi Leana daily basis, personally, recalling the cross- not to gossip from the negative example Rabbi Moritt, noting that womens
Moritt is the founder and rabbinic direc- ing of the Red Sea constantly comforts of Aaron and Miriam criticizing Moshe. voices have not always been front and
tor of Thresholds and has conducted many me. When I was mature enough to under- Applying these teachings take constant center in terms of exegetical or interpre-
keruv activities at the shul, and veteran stand that it is a paradigm for salvation practice. They start out as conscious tive narrative in the Jewish world, pointed
Jewish educator Miriam Gray spent many efforts but can become habits, as natural to the importance of Chapters, which
years furthering Jewish education at Tem- as breathing. I try to live by the lessons I illustrates what women take from and
ple Emanuel. learn from the Torah. bring to Torah. Now we not only have a
The four will come together in a pro- Is this kind of sharing something only book celebrating and illustrating that, we
gram conceived by Alayne Pick, chair of
I hope that women can do? Rabbi Monosov said she have three rabbis and a teacher expand-
the shuls Keruv Committee for Commu- attendees will had trouble envisioning a male panel ing on it.
nity Engagement and one of the chairs of with a similar program. Women add a The study of Torah is intellectually
its continuing education committee. It will
see that we different piece to the rabbinate and to stimulating, Rabbi Kniaz added. It can
be based on a book that really spoke to dont have to be Judaism, she said. Still, Ms. Gray noted, also help make us better people. In addi-
Alayne, Rabbi Monosov said.
The book, Chapters of the Heart: Jew-
scholars to Of course men would find such a discus-
sion meaningful, especially since each
tion, both Torah study and the fulfill-
ment of ritual and ethical mitzvot are the
ish Women Sharing the Torah of Our study Torah. We individual reads Torah with a differ- cornerstones of our community and
Lives, edited by Sue Levi Ewell and Nancy ent eye. being a part of a community enhances
Fuchs Kreimer, is made up of 20 essays,
bring ourselves Men, women, children all see the our joyous occasions, helps us in diffi-
each written by a different female rabbi or and our lived Torah through different eyes, she contin- cult times, and enriches all the moments
Torah scholar who shares a personal story ued. When we read the Torah, women in-between.
about how Torah teachings helped her at
experience to do not only see themselves in the actions In my life, I have both been a benefi-
a particular time. The authors write about the table when of the women of the Torah, we also see ciary of this and strive to bring this benefit
being daughters, mothers, sisters, part- ourselves in the struggles of Moshe, the to others.
ners, lovers, and friends. They share their
we study. frustrations of Jacob, the goals of Joseph. While Torah can have an impact on
experiences of parenting, infertility, and RABBI SHELLEY KNIAZ And so, men can also identify with the our lives, our lives also help us under-
abortion. One describes accompanying relationships of Sara, Rebecca, Leah, stand Torah, she concluded. I hope
her young husband through his life-threat- and for redemption, it became the image and Rachel. that attendees will see that we dont have
ening illness. Another tells of her daugh- that helped me through difficult times. I The value of lived experience in under- to be scholars to study Torah. We bring
ters struggle with an eating disorder. Still find it one of the most comforting bibli- standing the world phenomenology ourselves and our lived experience to the
another reflects on long decline of a parent cal images. and qualitative analysis has been both table when we study.
with Alzheimers. Regardless of how tough times may brought to the fore by women and is his-
At the March 13 program, the four pan- be, we will get through and make it to torically the primary way to learn about
elists will also share how we personally the other side. It may be difficult, we may life through a womans eyes, Rabbi Kniaz Who: Rabbis Loren Monosov, Shelley
connected [Torah] to a piece of our lives, struggle, but just as the Israelites made said. It is considered a particularly impor- Kniaz, and Leana Moritt, and Jewish
Rabbi Monosov said. We will each cre- it to the other side, we can also work tant way to understand those who are in educator Miriam Gray
ate a chapter of our own, teaching a text through our struggles. Perhaps that is the the minority and are oppressed. Yet the What: Will participate in a sympo-
and weaving it into our lives. Each pan- reason we recite Moshes Song each morn- application of lived experience to what sium on Chapters of the Heart: Jew-
elist will choose a teaching particularly ing as we begin our day. We will make we know and do has had a greater impact ish Women Sharing the Torah of Our
meaningful to her. Our goal is to allow it through! than most of us know. Lives
people to see the relevancy of Torah to Our Torah is a Torah of chesed lov- For example, an understanding of sub- When: On Monday, March 13, following
our lives, she continued. Its not a doc- ingkindness and I strive to act on its jective experience is fortunately now con- minyan at 7:30 p.m.
ument meant to be just looked at and teachings every day, Rabbi Kniaz said. sidered essential in medical care. How- Where: At Temple Emanuel of the
studied, but it has meaning for every- The rabbis point out that Torah begins ever, the role of women in this approach Pascack Valley, 87 Overlook Road,
day experiences. and ends with chesed, acts of lovingkind- does not mean that men do not or cannot Woodcliff Lake
Often, in retrospect, I will understand ness; at the beginning, God clothes Adam engage in this type of study. To the con- Cost: Free and open to the public but
passages of Torah based on specific life and Eve, and at the end God buries Moshe, trary. That is one of the benefits of diver- RSVP requested to Alayne Pick at
experiences, Ms. Gray, the educator, said. an act of kindness that is both final and sity; we can learn from one another. I think [email protected] or the synagogue of-
We are all Sara making difficult decisions, cannot be reciprocated. Ethical mitzvot that is one of the reasons that we bless God fice, (201) 391-0801.

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Rabbi David Silber to discuss his new book in Teaneck
LARRY YUDELSON on different aspects of the megillah with Joseph was another per-
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commentary on particular verses. son who lived in exile,
he Purim megillah can be read I love the Book of Esther, he said. Rabbi Silber said. He found
in any language you understand, Its a very late book of the Bible. It has a more than 70 literary links
according to the Mishnah. Cer- totally different feel to it than any other to Joseph in the megillah,
tainly that includes English. book. Start with the fact that God isnt words and phrases that
But if you want to read Rabbi David mentioned in it. occur in both stories.
Silbers new book on the Book of Esther, The core issue of the book is: How Fo r ex a m p l e , b o t h
youll have to stick with Hebrew at least does one live in exile? Exile means a Joseph and Mordechai have
for now. An English version is a year or world where God is not obviously pres- a red line they wont cross.
two away from publication. ent, if present at all. The world is run by Joseph is taken to Egypt egomaniac. The parallel
Not to worry, however: His talk on an amoral king. The world consists of the and lives among the Egyp- Rabbi David Silber suggests that this is his red
the megillah Sunday night at Congrega- possibility of very bad people, Amalekites, tians. But he has a red line: line.
tion Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck will be in having significant positions of power. This He wont go along with Mrs. Potiphar. This is one example among many, he
English. is a world that is not going to change. This The same phrase, yom viyom, every added. I also look at how Pharaoh uses
Rabbi Silber is founder of the Drisha is the world in which we live. day, appears both when Mrs. Potiphar Joseph and how Achashverosh manipu-
Institute, a pioneer in advanced Talmud The book begins and ends in exile. It tries to seduce Joseph and when Haman lates Mordechai and Esther.
study for woman. He said that his book, does not speak about a return to Israel or wants Mordechai to bow to him. Jacob thanks God for letting him forget
in both incarnations, combines six essays the Temple. God does not speak. Its a good question as to why Mor- his fathers household in Canaan when he
How do you function as a Jew, as a dechai wouldnt bow down to Haman. chooses the name Menashe for his first
moral person, in such a world? The parallel language suggests parallel son. Esther, Rabbi Silber said, lived in a
Who: Rabbi David Silber
Rabbi Silbers approach to understand- concerns and motives. Mordechai not way that does not make it clear, either to
What: Talk on the Book of Esther ing the Bible is intertextual, drawing on bowing to Haman suggests that he sees the people of Shushan or to us, if shes
When: 8 p.m., Sunday, March 5 parallel verses in other biblical books to Haman as Gods enemy, because he is Jewish. Five years in office as queen and
Where: Congregation Rinat Yisrael, discover nuances. from the people of Amalek. He wont no one seems to know that shes a Jew. Its
389 West Englewood Ave., Teaneck For example, one chapter looks at how bow down to Amalek, to the anti-god, not like other books of the Bible, where
the Joseph story relates to the megillah. the guy who picks on the weak. To the for example Daniel wont eat non-kosher
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professional voice to the conversation. family doesnt have to be the itation Specialists.
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can remain safely behind the wheel with a Thampikutty works with a client at the equipment available to help many people approximately one hour for the first part, a
bit of training on specific techniques or with Jewish Home at Rockleigh. keep driving longer. clinical evaluation with Happy in which he
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Still open and raring to go and be involved. Its a work in progress.

We hope that in September we can do a
relaunch of programming and activities
YJCC moving ahead with strategic plan and have a greater list. Her group, she
said, also has been in talks with various
Lois Goldrich pay particular attention to creating pro- programs. There are so many great early synagogues about partnering to provide
I
grams for young families and teens. childhood centers around, she said. long-terms programs for holidays, Jew-
ts been a busy year for Abby Our intention is to be a JCC with many But a lot of parents said they were lack- ish values, and socialization.
Leipsner, chief executive officer of walls, she said. At this point, we dont ing, especially when the parents were In the meantime, several of the YJCCs
the Bergen County YJCC in Wash- have plans to have a building or central intermarried or not as religious. Those signature programs have continued, with
ington Township. For anyone who location; well be building community by who defined themselves as Reform or the senior lunch program, based at Tem-
might ask why after all, the facility closed meeting people where they are. Weve somewhat Jewish or just Jewish had a ple Beth Or, serving about 60 people on
its doors in August 2015 Ms. Leipsner has divided our catchment area into six lot of concerns about the early childhood any given day. In addition, weve brought
a ready answer. While the organization micro-communities. Each is very unique options. Were definitely looking at that in some speakers, attracting a great num-
may have shuttered its building, she says, and has different characteristics. and exploring the situation. ber of seniors, and were looking more for
we never closed our business. One of the issues being studied is why Ms. Leipsner describes the YJCCs path more seniors to join us. Over the course
We spent the first six months clean- people decide to move to a particular as innovative. of the year, Weve served more than 750
ing up a lot of the past, community. For example, Most JCCs have a building, she said. unique individuals, said Ms. Leipsner,
paying bills, getting out Why choose Fair Lawn and Were a little unique because weve pointing out that the Tween Scene has
refunds, and doing logis- not Upper Saddle River? made imaginary lines of what our Jew- more than 150 fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-
tical stuff, she said. The The YJCC planning group ish community exists of. Its not like the graders who participate.
next six months we did a has examined the charac- federation catchment area of Chicago, Wed like people to know that were
survey and focus groups teristics of each microcom- which is, in fact, Chicago. Within Ber- still open, active, and have a great future
out in the community. We munity, hoping to create gen County were one federation but so ahead. Its really going to take the whole
met with representatives programs to meet their many different communities. We need to community to make it successful. Its not
from synagogues, those needs. be able to know the difference between something only a couple of board mem-
active in the YJCC and We have divided our those communities in order to respond bers can do. We know we can have a huge
those who never went, catchment area into six to them. impact on the greater community.
those who know about microcommunities, each People are definitely liking the YJCCs For more information, call Abby
us and those who dont with bet ween 2,000 to new direction. Weve had a great suc- Leipsner at (201) 666-6610 or email her
Abby Leipsner
know. We really listened 6,000 Jewish households, cess rate of people who want to sign up at [email protected].
to what people had to say. Ms. Leipsner said. Each microcommu-
Over the past six months, we started nity has its own characteristics, need for
posing scenarios to figure out what services, and realistic price points for
worked, developing a strategic direction services. As we move forward, we hope Fair Lawn shul
for moving forward in the future. What to serve each one, taking into consider-
weve been doing, she said when she ation that people from one end of our sends message on Purim
says we, she is including the board of the catchment area will not necessarily drive
YJCC and many community members is to the other end of our catchment area. Lois Goldrich received from organizations and stores
putting together a plan for our future, then The microcommunities are Woodcliff she has contacted for help, Ms. Irwin
going out and starting to present it to many Lake and Upper Saddle River; Mahwah Israel needs all the help it can get. said, Its amazing. Food Showcase has
people. In advertising these meetings, and Ramsey; Franklin Lakes and Wyck- And, according to Barbara Irwin been wonderful. Theyre behind us
organizers have urged potential attendees off; Hillsdale, River Vale, Westwood who is co-chairing Congregation Shom- 100 percent, giving us ideas of what to
to join us on our journey as we redefine and Washington Township; Paramus, rei Torahs mishloach manot project this include and then giving it to us at cost.
and realign with our community. Fair Lawn, River Edge, and Oradell; and year with fellow volunteer Debbie Fried- She will meet with El Al representatives
So far, Ms. Leipsner and several of her Ridgewood and Glen Rock. The lines are man there is a timely, and easy, way to to pick up some additional items and is
board members have met with more than not firm; n each case, the microcommu- offer that help. also reaching out to Stand With Us. We
100 people throughout the community, nity includes both the towns and the sur- Ms. Irwin, who sent only Israeli- got bags from Yair Emanuel in Israel,
presenting a PowerPoint program on rounding communities. made products in her Purim gift baskets she added.
possibilities for future directions. Meet- For example, Ms. Leipsner said, one last year, said her Fair Lawn shul has We want other shuls to know how
ings have been held in diverse locations. microcommunity is very interested in adopted the same policy for itself this important this is, she said, adding that
Well meet with people wherever it is young family engagement and social year. And since they knew I had done other than one synagogue in Queens, she
convenient for them to meet, she said. action programs but doesnt care about it, they made me co-chair. doesnt know of other local shuls that
Theyve been in synagogues, offices, a gym or fitness facility. Another micro- Shomrei Torah has been sending out have made this commitment. Our feel-
houses, and at Starbucks, she said, esti- community has an older population and mishloach manot as long as it has been ing is that if we dont support Israel, how
mating that she and her group have held is more interested in low budget adult around, usually with some theme, Ms. can we expect others to support it? We
about 10 meetings so far. Great sugges- and senior adult activities. For them, Irwin continued. We were talking this need to be better at PR. Israel is a won-
tions come out of it, she said. the YJCC provides what they call a Mind, year about how important it was to do derful country, offering so much to the
The YJCC also conducted a huge sur- Body, and Spirit Program. something for Israel. Now we have done world. We should do everything we can.
vey, she continued. We hired an out- Each community is different, and we it. Not only the food in the synagogues Using Israeli-made products when
side consultant who came back and gave hope to serve all six in the way they need baskets will come from Israel even the sending mishloach manot is a no-brainer,
us statistics and facts. Then we met with to be served. We know in the JCC world bags were made there. she added. Its just a good opportunity
the long-term planning committee and how far people will drive for different The effort is one way to oppose the when youre giving things; you have a
put together action steps to move for- kinds of activities 15 minutes for early BDS movement, which encourages country with so many great things to
ward. We took those and expanded them childhood, farther for a camp facility. boycotting, divesting from, and level- offer, you should include them.
to show people what we would look like. There is really no one location where we ing sanctions against the state of Israel. The baskets also will hold printed
The organization has several differ- could serve the entire catchment area. Indeed, the synagogues program alludes materials about the BDS movement and
ent goals, Ms. Leipsner said. Next year Ms. Leipsner said that she was sur- to BDS in its three-line theme: Buy Israel how to counter it. We have one thing
will focus on young family engagement prised by the number of survey respon- Products to/Distribute on Purim to/Sup- from federation and were hoping to get
and teens; while the YJCC will still offer dents who reported not feeling happy port the State of Israel. something from Stand With Us, which
activities for adults and children, it will with their options for early childhood Describing the cooperation she has See purim page 55
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Paramus rabbi to be honored

Rabbi Arthur Weiner will be honored tonight during
Shabbat Across America services and dinner at the JCC
of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah. He is among a
group of rabbis who received an honorary doctorate
from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at a
convocation on March 2.
Honorary doctorates were awarded to members of
the Conservative movements Rabbinical Assembly
who have served the Jewish community with distinc-
tion for 25 years or more. Through the degrees con-
ferred, JTS celebrates the achievements of important
spiritual leaders and expresses appreciation for their
manifold contributions to Jewish life. Rabbi Arthur Weiner
COURTESY NORPAC
Legislative advocacy day
Congressman Josh Gottheimer, left, with Dr. Munr Kazmir.
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jer- issues including racism, anti-Semitism,
Gottheimer is guest at Norpac meeting sey hosts CRC State Legislative Advo-
cacy Day on Tuesday, March 21, from
security, senior services, mental health,
and educational funding parity.
Dr. Munr Kazmir welcomed Representative election. His district encompasses some 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at its headquarters, Breakfast and lunch will be served,
Josh Gottheimer (D-Dist. 5) for a Norpac of the most heavily concentrated Jew- 50 Eisenhower Drive in Paramus. with dietary laws observed. For informa-
dinner in his Closter home on February 20. ish neighborhoods in the state, includ- The day offers an opportunity to meet tion, call David at (201) 820-3944, email
Mr. Gottheimer is a first-term mem- ing Bergenfield, Fair Lawn, New Milford, with state legislators in Bergen, Hud- [email protected], or go to www.jfnnj.
ber of Congress; he defeated incumbent Paramus, and Teaneck. He will run for re- son, and Passaic counties to discuss key org/advocacy.
Representative Scott Garrett in the 2016 election in 2018.
New two-year program at YU Disability and inclusion conference

Yeshiva Universitys Mordecai D. and with their peers on our campuses.
Monique C. Katz School of Graduate This innovative associate degree in Local New Jersey Jewish organi-
and Professional Studies has launched a management is in keeping with our fun- zations will partner to organize
new associate degree program that will damental commitment to providing our Keys to Support, the third
expand the opportunities for a broader students with the skills and knowledge annual Jewish disability aware-
range of students to take advantage of the needed to succeed in this information- ness and inclusion conference
universitys unique undergraduate educa- rich, fast-paced world, Provost Selma Bot- at Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
tional experience. man added. Its imaginative project-based in Tenafly, on March 26. Reg-
At YU, we believe it is our responsibility curriculum will bring ideas to life, use New istration begins at 8:30 a.m.
to educate citizens and leaders for the Jew- York City as a classroom, and prepare stu- and the conference runs from
ish community and the world, said Dr. Paul dents to transfer into a bachelors degree 9 to 4:30 p.m. The conference
Russo, vice provost and dean of the Katz program or launch new graduates into sat- includes a vendor fair.
School. While Stern College for Women, isfying business careers. The gathering will provide
Yeshiva College, and the Sy Syms School of Students will have full access to the uni- valuable information about
Business do extraordinary work transform- versitys wide range of Torah faculty and critical issues that many fami-
ing the lives of their graduates, they meet scholarship, alumni network, and campus lies of people with disabilities
the needs of only part of our community. life, including participating in athletics, face in finding inclusive and
To carry out our commitment to a broader hackathons, theater productions, and ser- accessible lives for their family
population, our admissions team is meet- vice learning missions. Students who suc- members. From My Hero Brother
ing with students who seek to start college cessfully complete their associate course- Families and those caring for
in a two-year format and at the same time work will have an opportunity to transition people with disabilities are confronting The critically acclaimed film My
immerse themselves in a Jewish experience into the baccalaureate program at YU. significant changes to state regulations
and procedures. The conference will
Hero Brother, which tells the story of a
group of young people with Down syn-
P
feature breakout sessions with informa- drome who embark on a demanding trip o
Honoring the late Rabbi Yosef Weiss tion to help navigate the state system
and to access the services they need.
through the Indian Himalayas, accompa-
nied by their normal brothers and sis- B
Congregation Beth Aaron and the community at large will pay Topics include a look at how DDD plans ters, will be shown. S
tribute to the legacy of the late Rabbi Yosef Weiss on Sunday, on working with families and service The Jewish Association for Develop- t
March 5, at 8 p.m. Rabbi Weiss, who died at 95 in December recipients; impending fee for service mental Disabilities organizes the confer- O
2015, was a longtime rosh yeshiva at YUs RIETS and rabbi models and ways to gain access to ser- ence with the JCCOTP, the Jewish Fed- h
emeritus of Congregation Moriah on Manhattans West Side. vices through support coordination; the eration of Northern New Jersey, Jewish g
Speakers include Rabbis Larry Rothwachs, Nachman Lauer, school-to-adult-life transition; employ- Family Service of Clifton-Passaic, Jew- v
and Ronny Sulimanoff. There also will be a prerecorded key- ment for people with disabilities, and ish Family and Childrens Services of L
note address by Rabbi Aharon Rakeffet, rosh yeshiva and pro- housing opportunities. Service profes- Northern New Jersey, and Sinai. Many S
fessor of rabbinic literature at Yeshiva Universitys Caroline sionals and coordination organizations additional community organizations
and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem. will be on-site in the designated exhibitor participate. t
Congregation Beth Aaron is at 950 Queen Anne Road in Rabbi Yosef Weiss, area to offer practical advice, community Fo r m o re i n f o r m a t i o n , e m a i l J
Teaneck. For information, call (201) 836-6210. zl support, and information. [email protected]. F

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BCHSJS students give

back in New Orleans
This past week, students from the neighborhoods destroyed by Hur-
Bergen County High School of Jew- ricane Katrina and to bring energy
ish Studies returned home from a tik- efficient light bulbs to homes in need
kun olam trip to New Orleans. They of affordable lighting through Project
worked with Habitat for Humanity Green Light.
to help with the ongoing rebuild of
COURTESY BCHSJS
5 Continents
at
Israels consul general
speaking March 19
The West Orange and Livingston friends of One Israel
Fund host a cocktail reception with Ambassador Dani
Dayan, consul general of Israel in New York, on Sunday,
March 19, at 6:30 p.m., at a private home in West Orange.
A community program follows at Congregation Ahawas
Achim Bnai Jacob & David in West Orange at 8. For infor-
mation, call (516) 239-9202 or go to oneisraelfund.org.
HAPPY PURIM
Ambassador Dani
Dayan
Purim with
online synagogue
10%
Beginning on Monday, March 6, Sim Shalom Online
OFF
Synagogue will offer a week of livestreamed Purim fes- Kosher
tivities from Florida on Sim Shaloms Facebook page. Fresh Baked Gourmet Candy
Offerings will include the pursuit of the most delicious
hamantashen, music, and a Purim Shabbat with grog-
Greens Hamantaschen
Nuts Dried Fruit
gers. The Purim Shabbat will be led by Rabbi/Cantor Ste- Gift Baskets
ven Blane, the founder of Sim Shalom and Jewish Spiritual
Leaders Institute, on Friday, March 10, at 7 p.m., on Sim Rabbi Steven Blane Shaloch Manot Baskets
Nut Trays
Exp. 4/30/17
Shalom websites, www.simshalom.com.
Blane will lead the festivities and congregants will par-
in Purim regalia last
year.
& Purim Gifts We ship throughout the U.S.
ticipate live via the chat feature. Blane, who grew up in We ship
Jersey City and moved to Bergen County, is a Rogosin Yeshiva High School graduate. 65 Honeck Street, Englewood 201-567-4274 throughout
the U.S.
For more information, go to www.simshalom.com or call (201) 338-0165. Monday-Friday 10-5
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Jew ish Federation

OF NORTHERN NEW JERS
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West Milford
Adding
cities
The Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey
welcomes south Hudson County
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JOANNE PALMER
ities are organic things.

Some of the metaphors are obvious, and they relate
to mammalian life. The roads are arteries sometimes
theyre even called that. The buildings are their skel-
eton, and the people rushing and dawdling and dream-
ing through their streets are their lifeblood.
Cities also change, as organic things do; theyre formed, they grow,
sprawl, reach upward, reach outward. They flourish, they glitter, they
amaze. They age, sometimes they enter what seem to be death spirals,
and sometimes they die.
But unlike organic things, sometimes they revive.
The three cities in southern Hudson County Hoboken, Jersey City,
and Bayonne are prime examples of this principle, both in general
Above, in May, the federations Yom HaAtzmaut program offered young professionals a and in specifically Jewish terms.
glamorous look at Hoboken while Cruisin For Israel. Below, a map of the new catchment area. All once were booming cities; all went through hard times and are

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coming back. All had vibrant Jewish communities, which

had withered, although none had died entirely. Many of
the Jewish families and institutions that made up the com-
munity moved to Bergen County. And now the three cities
are all coming back, both generally and Jewishly.
They all are at different stages of their revival; Hoboken
is flourishing wildly, Jersey City is growing and doing very
well, thank you, and Bayonne is on its way up. (And that
makes sense; Hoboken, according to Rabbi Robert Schein-
berg of the United Synagogue of Hoboken, was a second
settlement, attracting people in this case Jews leav-
ing the Lower East Side. South Harlem has a similar story;
both peaked in the 1920s and are roaring back now.)
Those three cities have been on their own Jewishly, to
some extent, for many years; they belonged to the inde-
pendent network maintained by the Jewish Federations
Hoboken is flourishing
wildly, Jersey City is
growing and doing very
well, thank you, and
Bayonne is on its way
up.Those three cities
have been on their own
Jewishly, to some
extent, for many years.
of North America, the North American Jewish federa-
tion systems umbrella group. That designation usually is
reserved for small, rural, often dying communities. The
Hudson County cities status was a historic artifact, but
there it was.
Now, after years of consideration and negotiation, those
three cities are joining northern Hudson County, part of
Passaic County, and all of Bergen County, all very differ-
ent places, as part of the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey.
There is joy in the idea of diversity in unity.
There was a need to be filled, Jayne Petak of River
Vale, the federations president, said. It didnt make sense
that we had only the northern half of Hudson County. And
you look at Jersey City and Hoboken and Bayonne, and
you see that they are growing, and a lot of the people who
are populating it are the children who grew up in our com-
munities. Now theyre moving there and looking to create
Jewish communities.
Some of those young families may be coming back this Rabbi Robert Scheinberg and a
way, to Bergen County, and they will be familiar with preschool class are in the sanctuary of
us, she continued. And no matter whether they move the United Synagogue of Hoboken.

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north or stay, Who better can help with its planning will open the door to Manhat-
creating Jewish community, with helping tan and Brooklyn.
young Jewish families with children con- There also is some historical irony for
nect with other young Jewish families with her. My grandmother was at the Jewish
children, than federation? Home in Jersey City, Ms. Petak said.
Its not only young families with chil- And then there are the differences in
dren, she added; its single people, newly style between suburbanites and city peo-
married couples, and more and more older ple. As the federation begins its work in
families with older children and empty south Hudson, it has established a regional
nesters, all looking for full Jewish lives. community council with two co-chairs and
I had a conversation with a few women about 15 members, she said. We invited
down there, who told me that we are them to come to our board meetings and
doing good things, setting up toddler then we realized that a lot of people who
groups. And I asked what about children live there dont have cars. You dont need a
with special needs? Or God forbid if your car if you work in the city, or locally. (And
mom needs hospice services? And they of course you cant park a car in Hobo-
looked at me blankly, and I said We have ken anyway.) So when people come to a
the bandwidth. meeting, we know its really a hardship for
They need the infrastructure to help them. So how do we meet those needs?
them grow as a Jewish community, Ms. The way to meld these communities into
Petak said. one organization is an ongoing process,
It is a learning experience for a funda- exhilarating but at times exhausting. Our
mentally suburban organization to learn goal is never for us to take over something,
to work in a fundamentally urban environ- but to help them grow, Ms. Petak said.
ment, and there will be a learning curve, Its a learning process for them and for
she said. And thats exciting. She loves the us, as we all learn what we can help each
three cities Hobokens established, Jer- other accomplish.
sey City has built some gorgeous housing, (To move the process of melding along,
At Moishe House in Hoboken, young Jews share a Friendsgiving meal just before and I think that Bayonne is the next city the federation is throwing a getting-to-
Thanksgiving. that will explode; the new transportation know-you party on Saturday night, March
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18. See the box for more information.) been fantastic to work with. Weve done things in partner-
Dr. Marni Kriegel of Hoboken is a regional council co- ship with them for the last several years, while we had
chair. Shes lived in Hoboken for about 25 years, and is an been talking about making the relationship more formal.
active member of the United Synagogue of Hoboken, the In that time they brought us programming leadership
towns Conservative shul. There is a resurgence of urban training programs that we were too small to do ourselves.
life in Hoboken in general, and Jewish life along with it, They have been so helpful to us, without even knowing if
she said. We are very excited now to be part of something the relationship would go anywhere.
larger, part of a community with programming and fund- Now that everyone know that yes, the relationship has
ing expertise that we can use to help us. become formalized and will go everywhere, we are really
When I first came here, Hoboken was a place where excited to help the Hudson County Jewish community
people came right out of college and moved out when grow and thrive, and to have a partner to help us do that,
they got married and had kids. Its changed a lot. More Dr. Kriegel said.
families have stayed and are raising children here. Our Dr. Marni Kriegel, Rabbi Robert Scheinberg Rabbi Robert Scheinberg has been at the United Syn-
Hebrew school has grown over maybe the last 10, 15 years agogue of Hoboken the name came from a merger
from a few students to a few hundred students. Were also them a bit and watch it grow. for 20 years. During that time, hes worked with the
starting to get empty nesters leaving the suburbs and com- My sense is that most young Jews are not affiliated JFNAs network of independent communities. Weve
ing back here. with any Jewish communal institution, Dr. Kriegel contin- always had a very good relationship with them, and
Parents have many choices for their kids education, she ued. Particularly the young single people. There is some we are grateful to them for their dedication, he said.
added. There are excellent public, charter, and private ele- concern about how to bring them in. Still it never seemed like the right fit for us, in an urban
mentary and middle schools, and people generally send But we have a thriving Hebrew school, and so does area in the center of a major metropolitan area. The
their children there; for high school we have two county Chabad, and there is a Reform synagogue in Jersey City networks mainly for isolated Jewish communities in
magnet schools that you test or audition into, and a lot of with a Hebrew school that some people here send their decline, like Wheeling, West Virginia, or Huntsville, Ala-
people use private schools in Manhattan. Hoboken High kids to. bama, he said. Hoboken, Jersey City, and Bayonne never
School is coming around, and the public schools have We are in a unique situation because our synagogue really fit in, but because of the odd way the catchment
come a long way and continue to improve. is really thriving, even though others are not. We have areas were drawn, the area fell outside the federations
Now Hoboken has become very expensive, and now such a unique community. We are diverse, and we have as they existed back then. (Theyve since been merged,
thats happening to parts of Jersey City as well, particularly all levels of observance. Some people dress up, and some re-formed, and renamed; now the two federations near
the parts of Jersey City that abut Hoboken. Families there people dress down. And our rabbi is fantastic. southern Hudson County are the Jewish Federation
also are starting to come and then stay. They are starting We are so excited about being affiliated with federa- of Northern New Jersey and the Jewish Federation of
along the same process, and we are really excited to guide tion, she added. The northern New Jersey federation has Greater MetroWest, centered in Essex County.)
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1 tsp. minced garlic
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1 tsp. salt
ground beef into the hot
1 cubed tomato skillet. Cook and stir until the
1 tsp. fresh
f lime juice beef is completely browned,
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Optional Toppings: lettuce, corn, 3 Return ground beef to
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or red pepper diced. and water over the beef, stir to
combine. Add the tomato
Prep time: 25 min
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Rabbi Scheinbergs wanted to be part of a concluded. We feel that there is a lot

federation for a long time. Ive thought that that we can give to the federation, and
it was a situation that needed to be rectified that we can benefit a lot from it. We
because we would feel more like part of see the relationship as going in both
our larger region and also that wed benefit directions.
from economies of scale. My sense was that Tal Shuster of Jersey City is the other
an independent Jewish federation in south regional council co-chair. Shes lived
Hudson would not be viable. there for 21 years.
Hobokens Jewish community is unchar- The Jewish community was always
acteristically young, he continued. It has here, but in the last few years weve
more people toward the beginning of their seen a transition as many people move
income stream, and they would require to the area from Manhattan and from
more investment. The other two communi- Brooklyn, she said. Its young pro-
ties were rapidly aging. fessionals in their 20s and 30s, singles,
The Jewish Federation of Northern couples, young families. The Jewish
New Jersey already has done quite a bit community always was here, but lately
of investing in Hobokens Jewish future, I feel that there is more a need for it
he said; It provided a lot of funding for than there was before.
Moishe House of Hoboken, allows us into I have four kids, whom I am rais-
the Synagogue Leadership Initiative, gave ing in Jersey City, she added. It was
us access to One Happy Camper and the Young professionals mug for the camera at the Jewish Federation of Northern New not at all a hard decision. I love going
Berrie Fellowships, as well as various other Jerseys Cruisin For Israel party. outside and seeing people around
regional benefits that have been gener- me. A few years ago I thought maybe I
ously extended to us for the last few years. The goal, but it still remains a transient community. He likes using the would move to the suburbs maybe to Tenafly but
he added, is for the region to be fully integrated into the metaphor of the community as pie to explain it, he said. The today this just feels right. Maybe a few years ago I had
federation, with the understanding that there are some slice of pie that represents the long-term Hoboken resident doubts, but today I dont have any.
demographic and cultural differences. is smaller than the transient slice. That slice is not growing More and more other people are staying, she added.
The number of transients in the urban community is dif- proportionately, but the entire pie is expanding. Theres just Its all based on the community and the education.
ferent than it is in the suburbs, he said. Its slowed down more of everybody. Schools are not a problem. There are amazing private
some, because more people are in town for the long haul, We are very excited and grateful, Rabbi Scheinberg options and two great charter schools, which are won-
derful you get in by lottery and the public schools
are changing, and some of them are wonderful too.
Chabad has a school, and it also offers Hebrew to chil-
dren of Israelis.
Engaged living...
Its all in transition, she added.
Ms. Shuster, like many other people, pointed to a
new and growing segment of the community, which
she represents Israelis. In fact, she is very involved
with the IAC the Israeli American Council. We did
a few programs here and a number of events there,
but the wonderful population that is definitely looking
for a connection to the community and to the services
around them we did not have before the last few years.
There are some beautiful synagogues in Jersey City,
she added. This is a big city its the states second
largest and its not like Hoboken, where everything
is so small and dense, everything right next to each
other. Here its spread around the city. That makes it
more challenging to bring the city together. But there is
a lot of energy, and everyone is willing to do it.
She thinks that joining the federation is a great idea.
It is on the one hand an old-fashioned idea, but on
the other hand people know about it from their par-
ents and their grandparents. People feel comfortable
with it. They know it.
Shes excited by the move. Its nice to be part of the
change, she said.
Rabbi Aaron Katz is the still-fairlynew rabbi at the
unaffiliated Temple Bnai Jacob. I think its great, he
said of joining the federation. The question is how
can we make it work? What are the expectations? Both
of us have to sit and talk about it, and find what will
work for the benefit of all the communities.
He thinks that there is important work that federa-
tion can do beyond providing programming and other
services. In the political situation that we are in now,
and with the increase of anti-Semitism, I think that the
Jewish federation, like a political organization, can
represent the Jewish community, he said. I think
(201) 836-9260 that we have a lot of work to do together.
I hope that we will concentrate on how to protect
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identity of the community. Theyre not necessarily from an

What happens when anti- Orthodox background, and they
Semitism comes is that the are part of a larger flood of gentri-
Jewish identity is in crisis fication. These new settlers are
too, and then the question not disproportionately Jewish, he
is how can we make sure added; there are a lot of Indians
that we have a positive Jew- and a lot of others, both immi-
ish identity. I want you to grants and the native-born. But
be a Jew because you want because this is the New York met-
to be, not because someone ropolitan area, a certain percent-
else reminds you that you age of them is Jewish.
are a Jew. I can tell you as a political scien-
The role of the Jewish Tal Shuster, Rabbi Aaron Katz, Mayor Steven Fulop, Rabbi Dr. Abraham Unger tist that the idea of being a home-
federation is to help all of owner in the suburbs has been
us in small communities come together. We have to work Congregation Ohav Zedek, an Orthodox shul, last sum- pushed away by more and more people since 2008. People
to put our differences aside and begin to think, okay, there mer. I believe in communities working together, in the still leave for the suburbs, for Bergen County, all the time,
is something to be done, and we have to do it. idea of federation, in the European kehilla model, he but they go much later than before, and a few are even
We cannot be quiet. One of my rabbis once told me, I said. Were here to support one another. Institutions may starting to come back with kids.
dont speak because I have the power of speech. I speak lack things, but together they can create a great synergy. I have a friend we used to run the Friday night kid-
because I dont have the power to be silent. And especially in a community like Hudson County, which dush club together and he moved to Tenafly for a year,
The important part of this is being together. Its in see- was in decline but now is re-emerging. but now hes back. The burbs werent for him.
ing how we all can work together. I love the idea of a community like this being served Whats most notable, he said, is the new take on Jewish
This is not about politics, Rabbi Katz concluded. This by federation. Its been a long time coming. And Hudson life that Israelis bring with them. Its important to rec-
is about values. County is a new frontier. ognize a strong emergent Israeli population throughout
Even Steven Fulop, Jersey Citys mayor, who is Jewish, Rabbi Unger can look at the community from many van- Hudson County, he said. I am telling you on the ground,
has an opinion about his area joining the federation. I tage points. Although he spends every Shabbat and holi- both as a rabbi and as a lay person, as a peer because I
think this is great for Jersey City overall, as many in the day in Bayonne, during the week he lives in Hoboken, his know them both as a rabbi and socially, that there is a
county will now have better access to the social services doctorate is in political science, and he is a tenured associ- huge Israeli population, because of the tech hub thats
that the federation provides, he said. Previously we ate professor, teaching urban planning, at Wagner College emerged in Jersey City since 9/11.
werent covered, so we certainly welcome this change. on Staten Island. Its very important for the American Jewish commu-
Rabbi Dr. Abraham Unger took over Bayonnes Hoboken has an awful lot of Jews coming in, he said. nity because they are a very strongly Jewishly identifying
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While the Israelis are strongly secular, and the educational programing, Shabbat programming, cul-
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born, Orthodoxy still is the norm for them, religiously for American Israelis. That has to be on their agenda,
and politically. They are secular and liberal, and it or they will fade away.
seems that at first meeting they dont fit the profile of As a lay person in Hoboken, I can tell you that
non-Orthodox American Jews. Most of them are mar- the Jewish federation is not as much on my radar as
ried, mostly with young children, probably in their 30s it should be, and I dont know as much about what it
and 40s. And they are the strongest and most identifi- does. It hasnt been as compelling to me as synagogue
able Jewish population in Hudson County. life or grassroots organizations have been. People dont
Most of them view themselves as transient, but they talk much about federation.
are staying here longer. A lot go back to Israel but a But thats where federation can go, Rabbi Unger
lot stay here. said. It has a great chance here, a chance to really rein-
The real variable here is this Israeli American pop- vent itself, to be known as a harbinger of Jewish conti-
ulation. They know that the Hebrew language in the nuity in Hudson County.
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Access or resistance?
Jewish leaders quandary in the age of Trump
RON KAMPEAS we should embrace the notion that it is
our role to hold the center.
WASHINGTON The Jewish Council for There was dry laughter from the
Public Affairs, the umbrella body for the assembled 150 or so professionals in the
DIVORCE
communitys policy groups, and J Street, room, many of them directors of Jewish
the liberal Middle East peace lobby, held community relations councils.
conferences this weekend about seven Nancy Kaufman, the CEO of the
blocks apart. National Council of Jewish Women, noted
Downtown D.C. is pleasantly people- that three-quarters of the Jewish commu-
free on weekends, and the weather, nity did not vote for Donald Trump. That
weirdly unseasonable, was mild, so
traipsing back and forth wasnt a prob-
was true for other Republicans, she said,
but Trump was different: His hostility to EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE
lem. A denizen of one of the countrys the media, his executive orders targeting
establishment Jewish groups encoun- refugees, the spike in anti-Semitism on Let us help you:
tered a reporter on one such trek, just his watch and his seeming reluctance
outside the Capital Hilton, where the to denounce it were signs that this was Provide for your children
JCPA was convening. not a normative presidency.
You must be the only person attending If being in the center means were Preserve your assets
both, the denizen said to the reporter. supporting the duly elected president,
Not even close: There were many peo- weve got a problem, she said. The Protect your future
ple who were not reporters walking from challenge right now is a challenge to our
16th to 9th Street in Washingtons North- very essence and our Jewish values.
west quadrant.
They also were traversing a difficult
The problem Kaufman outlined was
one that caused a degree of consterna-
YOU HAVE ONE CHANCE
journey, from a reflexive propensity to
engage with a sitting president to join-
ing the resistance against him one that
tion among JCPA attendees and consid-
erable enthusiasm among the 3,500 or so
activists attending J Streets conference at
TO GET IT RIGHT.
Jewish leaders say has been necessitated the Washington Convention Center.
by a Trump administration that is shat-
tering norms. And Jews who once reflex-
ively backed the government of Israel
when it came to the countrys security
J Street is raising a flag saying we can
be a political home at a time when the
vast majority of Americans do not agree
with the administration on an array of
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tion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and sour, an organizer of last months massive ens marches described forging alliances years of Obamas tensions with Israeli
defending the Iran nuclear deal reached womens protests, asked a liberal Zionist, with women who had once shunned the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
by the Obama administration, and also in Rabbi Sharon Brous, to speak at the flag- group. Vice President Mike Pence, not Trump, is
areas the group has only taken up since ship Washington event. Nancy Becker, a J Street activist from Port- expected to address AIPAC.
Trumps election, including his ban on Our Jewish community has been so land, Oregon, said she found a newly recep- Yet for all the talk of resistance, there
refugees and travelers from seven Muslim- focused on [BDS and Sarsour], weve tive audience in a Democratic congressman was an elephant absent from the room:
majority nations entering the United States. allowed actual anti-Semites to access the whom she would not name who was access. In the past, J Street has attracted
The J Street conference, titled Defend- West Wing, Sokatch said, alluding to the seeking avenues to undercut Trump. top-notch Israeli politicians at times
ing our values, Fighting for our future, alt-right favorites surrounding Trump, I showed him a way to go up against from Netanyahus Likud Party because
included speaker after speaker challeng- led by his chief strategic adviser, Stephen Trump by embracing J Street postures, it was the group with ins into the Obama
ing the American Jewish establishment, Bannon. she said. Before, he may have reflexively administration. Now it was on the outside
not just in Middle East policy the area Groups present at the J Street conference gone to AIPAC, the more mainstream looking in, and had little to offer other
J Street staked out when the lobby was represented an array of issues that while Israel lobbying group. than resistance.
established in 2008 but more broadly. still on the liberal side of the spectrum Ben-Ami, who in the past has avoided A key resistance area was opposing the
They excoriated the Jewish establish- were more diverse than in the past: immi- directly challenging the American Israel nomination of David Friedman, the Trump
ment for failing to step up against Trumps gration (HIAS), student life (Hillel Inter- Public Affairs Committee, was in a bring-it- lawyer who has called J Street worse than
broadsides against minorities like Muslims national), religious freedom (the Reform on mood, noting that its conference would kapos, as ambassador to Israel. There
and Latinos (although to be fair, some movement), and womens rights (NCJW). take place in a month in the same venue. was resignation about his likely confirma-
centrist groups, particularly the Anti-Def- Thomas Friedman, the New York Times If Trump goes into AIPAC in a few tion at J Street, but also determination to
amation League, have been outspoken in columnist, moderated a panel. There, he weeks as he did last time and gets stand- make clear that he was not acceptable to
these areas). alluded to the events challenge to the ing ovations, he said, referring to Trumps a hefty portion of the Jewish community.
Daniel Sokatch, the director of the New establishment by calling participants the appearance last year as a candidate, yet J Street activists dropped off a petition at
Israel Fund, a clearinghouse for fundrais- Conference of Presidents of Not So Major 75 percent of American Jews are horrified, the Senate with 40,000 signatures oppos-
ing for civil society groups in Israel, said on Jewish Organizations. its going to be hard for that 75 percent to ing the nomination. The NCJWs Kaufman
one panel that the Jewish community lost In training sessions, J Street activists said feel comfortable with AIPAC. said she declined to participate in a recent
sight of whats important by focusing so that Trumps America was attracting liber- That may be premature: AIPAC, in a Presidents Conference Israel tour only
intently on the boycott movement target- als who otherwise might be wary of the rare move, excoriated Trump at the time because some participating organizations
ing Israel and on figures like the Palestin- groups emphasis on intensely engaging for his barbs about then-President Barack backed Friedman.
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Hundreds of yeshiva, seminary students

disrupt Women of the Wall service
JTA STAFF womens service.
The group has held its monthly rosh chodesh prayer for
JERUSALEM Hundreds of charedi Orthodox men and the new Hebrew month in the womens section for more
women and religious Zionist female seminary students than 25 years.
disrupted the monthly rosh chodesh morning service led Last month, Israels Supreme Court ruled in favor of
by the Women of the Wall. women being allowed to read from the Torah in the wom-
About 150 women who gathered at the womens sec- ens section at the Western Wall, and put a halt to security
tion of the Western Wall Plaza to celebrate the new Jew- searches of the women for such items as Torah scrolls,
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ish month of Adar had to push their way through a chain tallitot, and tefillin. The Western Wall Heritage Founda-
of charedi women attempting to hold them back. Police tion had prevented women from bringing Torah scrolls
ultimately broke up the crowd to allow the Women of the and religious items into the womens section.
Wall to get through. An agreement for egalitarian prayer at the site
Police also set up metal barriers around the women to announced a year ago would expand the egalitarian sec-
protect them from the protesters. The barriers were set tion at another part of the wall, called Robinsons Arch,
some distance away from the wall, so the women were not and place it under the authority of a pluralist commit-
able to pray directly in front of it. tee, while solidifying charedi Orthodox control over the
Rabbis from the charedi Orthodox and religious Zion- sites traditional Orthodox section. Women of the Wall
ist communities had called on yeshiva and seminary stu- would move to the non-Orthodox section if the deal
dents to come to the Western Wall to protest the womens were implemented.
service. Police estimated that between 1,000 and 2,000 More recently, however, the religious partners backed Anat Hoffman (center) and another Women of the
female seminary students filled the womens section. away from the deal, and in June, a group of Orthodox Jew- Wall member stand at the entrance to the Kotel.
Some of the Women of the Wall carried Torah scrolls. ish organizations filed a petition with Israels Supreme
One girl, identified by the Women of the Wall as Noa Court to prevent the establishment of the egalitar- Supreme Court to order the government to follow through
Brenner, 12, of Hod Hasharon in central Israel, cele- ian section. on the plan to create the egalitarian prayer area next to
brated her bat mitzvah during the service. Students on In October, the Reform and Conservative movements the Western Wall.
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For JCCs threatened three times,

stockpiling blankets, diapers and resilience
Ben Sales endured three.
G
The JCCs report that members are
rowing up in a small town in still entering the doors. But for staff, the
Georgia, Harriet Shirley may repeated threats have been a shocking and
have had more exposure to exhausting experience that at times has
Jews and anti-Semitism than made everyday work a challenge.
the rest of her fellow Christians. She had Its trying, its stressful, its everything
Jewish acquaintances, read Holocaust non- the people behind these telephone threats
fiction as a teenager, and later visited con- want to happen, said Seth Katzen, CEO of
centration camps on a trip to Europe. the Jewish Federation of Delaware, which
But still she was dumbfounded when shares a building with the Wilmington JCC.
the Gordon Jewish Community Center in But we stay vigilant, we stay on task, we
Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked as follow protocol, we follow procedure. Im
the health and wellness director, received sure its on the back of peoples minds, but
three separate bomb threats since Jan. 9. were a resilient community. We will not
Shirley had assumed anti-Semitic violence let this get to us.
was a thing of the past. In all three facilities, nearly all the mem-
That was a notion that her Jewish co- bers have stayed despite the bomb threats.
workers did not share. In Nashville, only one of 1,600 members
Honestly, it makes me angry, she said. has dropped a membership due to the
It also makes me sad. I recognize that a threats. In Birmingham, two of 200 pre-
lot of my co-workers have had to live with schoolers have left the school. Katzen said The Gordon JCC in Nashville is one of four Jewish institutions that has received
this stuff their whole lives. It just makes that to the best of his knowledge, none of three bomb threats since the beginning of 2017. Courtesy of Gordon JCC
me sad. the more than 100 students had left the

Its so unfortunate and so stupid that Wilmington JCCs preschool. We always struggle: Are we too secure instead of in the locker room. And to stay
this kind of hatred against any group still Leslie Sax, executive director of the for friendliness? Sax said. Its that bal- in contact with the media, Sax has learned
exists. We really ought to be past this. Nashville JCC, attributed its high retention ancing act we all have to do. We want to be to take her phone charger with her in case
Since the beginning of 2017, nearly 100 rate to its security procedures, which first welcoming, but we also want to be secure. she has to leave the building.
bomb threats have been made to more were formulated following the 9/11 attacks Even as the JCC has tried to maintain its To go for a fire drill, you know to leave
than 70 JCCs and Jewish day schools across in 2001. The building is removed from a routine, Sax has noticed people making the building and congregate, Sax said.
the United States. For most, the threat is a busy area, and a guard is always present adjustments to deal with the threat of an But when you dont know if youre going
one-time event. But the Nashville JCC, the near the preschool. In addition, Sax has evacuation. The JCC has stockpiled diapers to be able to go back in the building, you
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, and sent emails out to members following and formula for preschoolers, as well as think about what exactly are we going to
two others in Birmingham, Alabama, each of the five waves of JCC bomb threats, blankets for swimmers. Some swimmers need to bring.
and Wilmington, Delaware each have whether or not her facility was targeted. now leave their car keys near the pool See threatened page 52
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CNAAN LIPHSHIZ politicians preach for discrimination on a daily basis, Manu Chao Maroms staff of about 12 met in their
she said last month. upstairs office to review last years activities, including
BUDAPEST Although she lives in the undisputed nightlife Two years ago, Angelip found at least one place where the groups weekly Shabbat services in their small egali-
capital of Central Europe, Andi Angelip knows of only a hand- she does feel comfortable: an avant-garde Jewish com- tarian synagogue and celebrations of Jewish holidays.
ful of bars here where she is truly comfortable bringing a date. munity center called Aurora. Since its reopening in 2014 In addition to religious services, Marom also orga-
Angelip, a 19-year-old student and activist for lesbian and in a poor neighborhood of Budapest, it has become one nizes educational activities in schools about the Holo-
gay rights, said she avoids rainbow establishments that of the citys hippest coffee bars and a major hub for caust, programs for street children, and cultural events
cater only to the LGBT community. Yet in a country where social and opposition activists fighting the policies of like film screenings and experimental music concerts. It
violent far-right activists regularly intimidate gays and lesbi- Hungarys right-wing government. also hosts political discussions, such as a sold-out Jan. 30
ans, she also avoids romantic situations in mainstream clubs. I come here because its just a cool place, but also debate on populism featuring Lszl Majtnyi, an out-
Its not so comfortable to be a minority in a country whose because I feel safe and comfortable here, like I belong, spoken critic of Orban.
said Angelip, who is not a part of Hungarys Jewish pop- We work with non-affiliated Jews who would never
ulation of approximately 100,000. go to a synagogue or even the Balint Center, said Adam
She is not the only minority rights activist who regards Schoenberger, the president of Marom, referring to the
Aurora, a 6,500-square-foot center in a small building in Jewish community center in central Budapest funded by
Temima Danzig, LCSW the crime-stricken 8th District, as a sanctuary from real- the Joint Distribution Committee. So we try to sneak
Adult & Adolescent Psychotherapy ity in Hungary. Critics of Prime Minister Viktor Orbans Judaism into our programming, just to give them a taste
government here say it is mainstreaming hate crime and and whet their appetite: a klezmer concert here, a Cha-
- Anxiety - Social Challenges Holocaust revisionism, as well as promoting censorship nukah candle lighting there.
- Depression - Life Transitions of the press. As Schoenberger talks to a visitor, in an adjacent
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Adam Schonberger, standing, joins other participants in 2016 at the seder at

the Aurora Jewish community center in Budapest. COURTESY OF MAROM
largest in parliament, but the ruling is about half that of the United States.
Fidesz party has drifter further and fur- Marom generates 90 percent of its
ther in its negative attitudes towards annual budget and receives the rest from
Roma, the group said. donations by JDC, the UJA-Federation of
Against this backdrop, and amid a New York, Masorti Olami, and others.
government-led crackdown on indepen- Building an alliance of liberal groups
dent media, the Roma Press Center is would be unremarkable for a Jewish
the only outlet that will bring the news organization in most other Western
about assaults in the countryside to the countries. But in Hungary, it places
few news portals that are still not muz- Aurora squarely at the center of oppo-
zled by the government, Schoenberger sition to a government-led campaign
said. We find it very important that they to root out foreign-funded grassroots
be a part of Aurora. organizations that do not conform to
The press center, a nongovernment the party line, and to significantly limit
organization with a shoestring budget, the work of nongovernmental groups to
receives a significant discount on rent local funding only.
from Marom. Officials from Orbans Fidesz party
The cooperation with Marom revolu- have already vowed to root out the net-
tionized the work of the Roma center, work of NGOs that receive funding from
which was founded in 1995, according to the liberal Hungarian-American billion-
the organizations president, Szilvia Suri. aire George Soros, who is Jewish, and
We were renting office space in the have limited the work of other groups
center before we came here, she said. with funding from Norway. Now, most
It was more expensive but more cru- other local groups with a progressive
cially, we were isolated there, whereas agenda are bracing for intervention by
at Aurora we are better connected not the government.
only to the other organizations work- Marom has experience with such
ing here, but to the many Roma people intervention.
who live in the 8th District. In 2014, Budapest officials kicked
The Jewish-Roma partnership at Aurora the group out of its former site in the
is unusual in a country where the two city center on a building safety pretext.
minorities rarely act in unison, according The eviction notice came two days after
to Eszter Hajdu, a Hungarian filmmaker opposition activists used the space to
who has studied that relationship. plan an anti-government sit-in.
COURTESY OF AURORA
While both groups encounter some It was one of several opposition activi-
xenophobia, the Roma are far more vul- ties hosted by Marom in recent years,
nerable, Hajdu said. And while Jewish including in the 2013 student protests.
groups at times participate in educational Maroms previous site also was the birth-
and charitable activities to assist Roma, I place that year of the LMP Green party.
cant say the Jewish community is the first Mazsihisz, the umbrella group of
one to offer help to the other minority, Hungarian Jewish communities, has
she added. She also said that part of the objected in recent years to perceived
problem are negative biases each group attempts by the government to white-
holds of the other in Hungary. wash Hungarian authorities complicity
The discounts that Marom offered in the Holocaust, including by celebrat-
its partner groups last year on using ing known anti-Semites. But Mazsihisz
Aurora facilities and utilities amounted has remained nonpartisan.
to $25,000 a substantial sum in a coun- And with good reason, according to
try where the average monthly salary SEE BUDAPEST PAGE 35

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Jerusalem art school fosters design

talent among students with disabilities
ANDREW TOBIN the Israel director of the Ruderman Fam-
ily Foundation. We think they are an
JERUSALEM The shrapnel that example of how Israel can use innovation
exploded into Asaf Ventura took a lot away to change the Israeli mindset on disability.
from him. His body and brain were shred- With the prize money, Bezalel will
ded and his right hand was mangled. He launch two undergraduate courses next
was unable to fire his gun, swing his tennis fall in inclusive design. And earlier this
racquet, or maintain focus. month, the school began awarding schol-
But over time, Ventura realized that the arships worth more than $1,000 each
injuries he endured during a mission with to students whose final projects are in
his army unit in the West Bank gave him inclusive design.
a new perspective, which as it turned out We are committed to increasing aware-
made him a great industrial designer. ness of people with disabilities and the dif-
I remember in the hospital thinking, ficulties they face, said Liv Sperber, the
Im only 22 and Ive lost my body and vice president for international affairs at
my looks, he said. I cant do any of the Bezalel, who applied for the Ruderman
things I used to do. Eventually I realized Prize. This allows us to get more students
that because I dont think like a normal involved in creating beautiful and inclu-
person anymore, I can actually do some sive designs.
new things with design technology. Luca Dalcera, 28, recently learned that
Ventura, now 35, discovered his talent he is eligible for a scholarship for his proj- Above and below, Asaf Ventura poses with his floating gym at an Israeli army
for design years later he attributes it to ect. In his fourth and final year of school, rehabilitation center in Haifa in June 2015. COURTESY ASAF VENTURA
the effect of the metal fragments that tore he is designing an inflatable pillow to help
through his brain when he became a stu- lift a person with mobility issues out of a
dent at the prestigious Bezalel Academy of seat. The idea came from helping manage
Art and Design in Jerusalem. He credits his the care of his wifes grandfather, who has
experience at the school with helping him Alzheimers disease and is relegated to
come back to real life. a chair.
Bezalel Academy demands 100 per- To pick him up takes two people
cent from you, and I have 72 percent dis- because hes a big guy, so that means a
ability, he said, referring to a state scale family member has to be around 24/7, in
for physical disability that goes from 0 to addition to an aid worker, Dalcera said.
100 percent. But they gave me a chance The situation is very difficult for the
to succeed. I learned from amazing whole family. So I wanted to create some-
teachers and got to work with really tal- thing that doesnt solve the problem, but
ented classmates. at least eases it.
Bezalel, a 111-year old mainstay of the Like other fourth-year students, he is
Israeli art world, is known for produc- in the conceptualizing stage of his proj-
ing top-notch talent in a variety of fields. ect. Starting next semester, Dalcera plans
The school also prides itself on promoting to begin developing and testing designs.
an inclusive creative process for people Money is tight, he said, and the grant will
with disabilities. help him create a better project than he
About a decade ago, Bezalel started a otherwise could afford. Dalcera already is otherwise, Ventura said. They are Committee, the Ruderman Family Founda-
class in industrial design for people with working on a patent for the design. lighter, of course. But also, they dont have tion, and the Israeli government said that
special needs. Over the years, students There were no grants when Ventura to feel ashamed of their bodies. Underwa- not all people with disabilities are able to
have created dozens of products: cos- graduated from Bezalel in 2015, but he ter, nobody can see your scars. find the support Ventura did. The country
tumes that encourage children to move said there were other forms of support. In the summer before he graduated, is 30 years behind the United States when
during physical therapy; air-cushioned The school challenged him as it did any Bezalel displayed the gym, which Ventura it comes to services for people with disabil-
prosthetic legs with superhero designs; other student, he said, but it also accom- dubbed the Venduza (a portmanteau of ities, she said, and the lag is reflected in
fashionable clothes that people with lim- modated his cognitive and physical dis- his last name and meduza, Hebrew for social attitudes. According to a JDC study,
ited range of movement can easily get on abilities with services like mentors and jellyfish), along with hundreds of other more than half of Israelis are not willing to
and take off. options for test taking. students art and design projects. Beza- be neighbors with or rent an apartment to
Due to this kind of work, in Decem- For his final project, Ventura built a lels annual exhibition draws some 25,000 someone with a mental disability.
ber Bezalel won the $50,000 Ruderman floating gym for people rehabilitating from people. Ventura appeared on Israeli TV But Israels embrace of high tech has
Prize in Inclusion, which recognizes orga- injuries. Over the six month-plus process, and had meetings with several govern- been driving progress lately, and insti-
nizations that foster the full inclusion of he was helped by some of the people ment ministers. tutes of higher education have the poten-
people with disabilities. The Ruderman who were part of his own rehabilitation. He went on to found a company called tial to take the lead, Sandler-Leoff said.
Family Foundation has been awarding the Madatech the national science museum, Left Hand Design, aiming to bring the Her group plans to launch a program for
prize for the past five years; this year the where he interned for two years before Venduza to market. Ventura now lives autistic students at three universities this
$250,000 was split among five organiza- Bezalel let him use its tools and space. with his father in Haifa and has taken out month, as well as a curriculum on dis-
tions around the world involved in art, And wounded soldiers at Beit Halochem loans to produce an upgraded prototype ability studies at the Hebrew University of
technology, and media. Haifa, the army center where he did more of the gym. He is looking for investors. In Jerusalem next month.
We loved the fact that Bezalel is a very than four years of intensive rehabilitation, the meantime, he also works part-time at There are more and more places like
well known art and design school, and helped him test his designs in the train- Madatech, where he designs exhibitions. Bezalel, where a new generation of young
not a disability organization, yet they still ing pool. Avital Sandler-Leoff, the director of JDC- people are saying, We want to be part of
choose to include people with disabilities In the pool, people can do all kinds Israel Unlimited a partnership between society. Let us contribute, she said.
in what they do, said Shira Ruderman, of things they wouldnt be able to do the American Jewish Joint Distribution JTA WIRE SERVICE

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Quandry That might have been a good thing, those with whom you disagree. Budapest
FROM PAGE 28 according to Jewish officials at the JCPA Do you stay silent and play by the FROM PAGE 33
Alan Solow, an Obama backer who conference. Kaufman said she would rules of a defunct playbook, or do you Slom Kves, a Chabad rabbi and leader
once chaired the Presidents Conference, have given Bernstein heat had Kushner resist? she asked. of EMIH, a local Jewish group, which is not
counseled engagement should Trump appeared, and Jeremy Burton, the Boston At J Street certainly and increasingly part of Mazsihisz.
veer back toward the two-state solution JCRC director, said the Trump adminis- at JCPA the inclination was toward resis- The government funds Jewish commu-
he recently came out as an agnostic on tration included officials who should be tance. The theme of the JCPA event was nity life with hundreds of thousands of
that issue. So did Ben-Ami. considered acceptable and others who civil rights and reviving the black-Jewish dollars annually, supports Israel in inter-
Talk of access may be quixotic, if not are unacceptable to the American Jewish alliance a framing planned well before national forums, and protects religious
delusional. Trump indeed may press for- community. anyone thought Trump would be elected, freedoms, Koves said. And while it can be
ward for two states, but his administra- We should not be normalizing bring- and spurred by the turmoil that gave rise argued that it needs to be firmer on anti-
tion is freezing out most Jewish groups ing in people from alt-right media, he to the Black Lives Matter movement and Semitism, progress is being made there,
seeking access. Kaufman said that under said, alluding to Bannon, the former concerns that younger generations in too. Ultimately, he argued, Hungarian
other presidents, Jewish groups would head of Breitbart News, or from the both communities were drifting apart. Jews are safer and more secure about their
reach out to an administrations Jewish family of the president. Still, the talk at the JCPA sessions was future than their brethren in France.
liaison to address incidents like the recent Barry Shrage, the president of the about the challenges specifically posed But for Marom, which began in 1998 as
spike in threats on Jewish community Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Bos- since Trumps election. an apolitical group, the penchant for oppo-
centers and vandalism in cemeteries. ton, pushed back at the J Street confer- We came into being as an organization sition activism is inescapable, according to
She turned to Bernstein: Do you know ence against talk of isolating Trump and in response to racialized violence, ethni- Schoenberger.
who that is? his acolytes. cized violence, said Cornell Brooks, the This is partly because most unaffili-
Bernstein rejoined, I dont think there In every synagogue, there are going to NAACPs president, addressing the JCPA. ated Jews in Hungary seem to be liberal,
is one. be people who like Mr. Trump, he said. Brooks recalled the shared origins he said. But ultimately, our opposition
Indeed, JCPA said that Jared Kush- We need a little bit of forbearance here, of his group and the Anti-Defamation activism owes to the governments war on
ner, Trumps son-in-law and his point of we need to not demonize. League, both established at the launch core Jewish values of tikkun olam, a Jew-
access on Jewish issues, did not respond Brous, who founded Ikar, a Los Ange- of the 20th century in response to ish concept of repairing the world and
to many requests from JCPA to speak, les congregation that seeks to engage lynchings. helping the needy, Schoenberger said.
according to the organization. The White younger Jews, said in an interview that Here we are in 2017, still responding to We did not choose to become politi-
House did not respond to a request for Trumps agenda essentially discarded the racialized, ethnicized violence, he said. cal, he added. But when the government
comment. old rulebook about engaging even with JTA WIRE SERVICE is targeting the poor, the different, the for-
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Yavneh Academy and Cedar Market

team up for brachot championship
Last week, Yavneh Academys fifth grade the stores chief marketing officer. It
went to Cedar Market in Teaneck for the was so much fun watching the faculty
annual brachot championship. and children having the time of their
The store was converted into a Super- lives running around the store.
market Sweep-style arena, and the chil- More than 100 children, staff, and
dren received brachot clues and ran parents were on hand as three finalists
through the aisles looking for specific battled it out. Eventually, Mia P. was
foods. crowned the champion.
This was the second year Cedar Mar- Truth is, everyone is a winner when
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Month, Shannon Sarna of South Orange, a walking program, Every Step Counts, welcomes Susie Fishbein, inter-
celebrity food guru and author, was named brought awareness that heart disease is pre- national best-selling author of
brand ambassador and spokesperson for ventable 82 percent of the time and helped the Kosher by Design series
Hadassahs nutrition program, Every Bite several thousand Hadassah members build and one of Forward 50s Most
Counts, which launched February 7. She exercise into their daily routines through Influential Jews. Ms. Fishbein
will appear in a series of Hadassah-branded a virtual walking program. In 2016, Hadas- will lead a cooking demonstra-
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out the year, write a monthly Every Bite opened Israels first heart valve disease March 8, at 7:30 p.m.; the menu
Counts column containing heart-healthy clinic, and HMOs Linda Joy Pollin Wellness will include Tri-Colored Matzah
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Englewood, formerly of Paramus and Fort Lee. Shannon, Shannon Sarna is editor of the popular Jewish food blog led to the creation of her best-selling cookbook, Kosher
a Smith College graduate, lives in South Orange with her the Nosher and a contributing writer to Kveller.com. She by Design, published in 2003. Since then, she has pro-
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Working
Truth regardless of consequences
Comparing Trump to
for inclusion Hitler trivializes the Holocaust
I O
n a time that seems to be all about division, it is striking that
so many people are talking, writing about, and acting on n November 20, Phil Murphy, the likely Vice President Mike Pence and Missouri Governor Eric
the idea of multiplication. Democratic nominee for governor of New Greitens. They didnt just condemn the desecration
No. Wait. Just checking to see if anyone is paying Jersey, gave a shocking speech to a group of the Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, they went there,
attention. So. of 400 progressives in which he com- rolled up their sleeves, and worked with other volun-
So. Its striking that so many people are talking, writing about, pared Donald Trumps rise to power to the ascension teers to clean up the cemetery. Phil Murphy would do
and acting on the idea of inclusion. of Adolf Hitler in Germany. well to emulate their example if he cares about the
Last Sunday, the Sinai Schools held its annual dinner, where Even in the current toxic political environment, victims of Hitler, which Im sure he does.
the work of its dedicated teachers, therapists, administrators, this statement crosses the line from political rheto- And its ironic that Murphy, as a New Jersey Demo-
and visionaries (who fall into all those categories) is showcased. ric to obscenity. crat, should miss that point given that Robert Menen-
We also heard from parents and students, both in extraordinarily It is hard to imagine that I need to say this, but any dez, New Jerseys senior senator, a Democrat, is one
moving videos and in person, in speeches of such wisdom, depth, statement that associates a democratically elected pres- of the greatest friends Israel has ever had in the sen-
and grace that it would have been impossible not to have been ident, however objectionable he may be ate. Sen. Menendez is universally lauded
made wiser, deeper, and more filled with grace ourselves, at least to his opponents, to a genocidal maniac as an incomparable friend of the Jewish
for a few minutes, just by hearing them. is beyond the pale. You can love Trump. community. My organization, the World
Sinais lessons are clear. We are not all the same. Sometimes You can hate Trump. But comparing him Values Network, awarded Sen. Menendez
the differences between us hurt. Some of us are born luckier than to Hitler is grotesque and an abasement our highest honor two years ago, rec-
others. But each of us has something to offer, and sometimes the of our politics. ognizing him as a great champion and
hidden jewel is more splendid than the ones out in the open. And I feel stupid even having to say this. defender of Israel.
sometimes it isnt. But Hitler ran gas chambers and cre- But Murphy makes the mistake of
If there is anything we learn from Sinai it is that there are no pat matoria that murdered 10,000 Jews a being a different kind of Democrat, one
answers. Every child is different. Every person is different. The day on average for three years. Compar- who has been unable to accept the out-
way to get through to someone else is to look past the barriers, ing anyone to him, especially the presi- Rabbi come of the election, even if its not to
and to talk to that person as he or she actually is, not as he or she dent of the United States, is an affront to Shmuley his taste. Those Democrats denounce
should be, or might have been, or used to be, or could have been. decency and every moral tenet. Boteach President Trumps inflammatory rhetoric
And we learn that inclusion demystifies. Its far easier to fear I do not know Murphy. I assume hes while employing even worse language to
something or someone you dont know, and far easier to mock a good man with good intentions. How- describe Trump and his supporters.
from a distance than close up. Its hard to remain stone-faced and ever, he has trivialized the Holocaust and degraded The country is divided, and many people are angry.
stone-hearted when you are in someones presence. the political discourse below the nadir I thought we I get that, even as I lament the deep divisions in our
Not only do Sinai students benefit from their placement in Sinai had reached. It is unacceptable that a man with aspi- beautiful nation. All of us, including me, must con-
classes in larger schools, so do the students in those schools. Its rations to lead the great state of New Jersey would tribute to the healing of America. Still, it is outrageous
not the clich Oh, I got so much more than I gave! Its a real invoke the memory of Hitler to score political points. for Trump to be linked in any way, shape, or form to
thing; you know its true when you see students with special needs Murphy should apologize and retract his words. the man responsible for the murder of six million Jews
with their typically developed peers. Inclusion demystifies. The reception his audience gave his speech they and millions of non-Jews.
We also see inclusion at work with the Jewish Federation of were silent was equally disappointing. People who In the pages in the Jewish Standard, over the last
Northern New Jersey, as it reaches out to the cities of southern call themselves progressives should exhibit true pro- eight years many times I have condemned those who
Hudson County and those cities reach back. There are differences gressive values, which reject genocide, intolerance, falsely accused Barack Obama of anti-Semitism. While
between urban and suburban life, but the pull of Jewish commu- anti-Semitism, and demagoguery. I disagree vehemently with the president on many
nity is more important. We know that the new places the federa- At a time when bomb threats are being called into of his policies relating to Israel, especially the Iran
tion has added will bring new excitement, vitality, and sparkle to Jewish day schools and community centers every nuclear agreement, calling him a Jew-hater was despi-
the federation, just as the suburbs will add its experience, knowl- week, and Jewish cemeteries are being desecrated, cable. Thats even more true of politicians like Murphy,
edge, and green open spaces to the cities. what we need are leaders who will use their bully pul- who compare Trump to Hitler.
We are living through a period of increased anti-Semitism now; pits to denounce anti-Semitism and declare a commit- It is especially disconcerting that Murphy would
the larger culture around us, egged on by its successful politicians, ment to fight this scourge every moment of every day devalue the opinions and democratic rights of the
encourages wall-building in many ways, physical and metaphoric. in every place where it pollutes our great nation. more than 60 million people who voted for Trump.
Perhaps we should fight it counter-culturally, but working for We have seen such leaders in recent days, such as The implication of Murphys comment is that he
inclusion, for broadening our catchment areas, by overcoming believes that millions of Americans, including
our fears of people who do not look exactly like us. Shmuley Boteach, Americas Rabbi, is the author roughly 1.6 million New Jerseyans, supported a mod-
If Sinai School students, parents, families, teachers, therapists, of 30 books, including his most recent, The Israel ern-day Nazi.
friends, and neighbors can do it, so can the rest of us. JP Warrior. Follow him on Facebook @RabbiShmuley. The time has come to lower the temperature of our
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political debates. We need a return to civility and

a rejection of vitriol. This is a nonpartisan prob- The one state solution:
lem. There are too many Republicans who also are
demonizing their opponents, and I fear that they the prescription that kills the patient
O
are opening the door to extremists who do not
share the values of the Republican Party. n November 29, 1947, in an afternoon filled with
President Trump is a strong supporter of Israel drama, the United Nations voted to end the British
and a great friend of the Jewish people. He is the mandate of Palestine and to accept the partition
first president in American history to have Jew- plan that divided British-ruled Palestine into a Jew-
ish children and grandchildren. But President ish and an Arab state.
Trump should take a more forceful stand against But the plan was more than just a redrawing of map lines in
the threats directed at Jews across the country. It the Middle East. If it were passed, it would mean worldwide
is unacceptable for Jewish children to be forced to recognition of the Jewish people as a nation, who deserved a
leave their schools and JCC kindergartens because political state like all other nations. Herzls dream, which first
lunatics are phoning in bomb threats. Law enforce- found its voice 50 years earlier, would be transformed from
ment must launch an all-out campaign to identify dream to reality. In 1948, people celebrated in the streets of Tel Aviv as
the perpetrators of these hoaxes and ensure the Jews everywhere sat transfixed in front of their radios as the the state of Israel was declared.
safety of all Jewish citizens. General Assembly roll-call vote was broadcast live around the
Murphys offensive remarks do nothing to calm world. With thirty-three votes in favor, the resolution obtained all refused to accept the plan. Their vision of national self-
the situation, and his failure to apologize unneces- the support of 72 percent of the members voting on the reso- determination left no room for compromise or for a Jewish
sarily undermines his suitability for political office. lution, a supermajority in excess of the required state. With their refusal the Arab state of Palestine
Its not a big deal. Just say youre sorry, for good- two-thirds. was stillborn.
ness sake, and move on. Suggesting we are living Jews around the world celebrated. In Palestine, The areas that were to be this new Arab state
under a Nazi-like regime will only further inflame Jews ran into the streets shouting mazal tov and were lost to the disengagement lines drawn up at
the situation and embolden the anti-Semites anx- singing Hatikvah. On kibbutzim across the coun- the end of the War of Independence. A Palestinian
ious to prove him right. try, huge bonfires were built; in Tel Aviv, cafes state was not discussed again until June 1967, at
Contrast Murphys pandering comments with the poured free champagne for the celebrants in the the end of the Six Day War, when Israel captured
man who could easily beat him in a race for gover- street. In the United States, there were toasts and the West Bank, then part of Jordan, and the nearly
nor Bruce Springsteen. The Boss was an outspo- hugs as families quietly recognized that a huge one million Arabs who lived there. Most in Israel
ken supporter of Hilary Clinton and a considerable barrier had been broken. Celebrations broke out assumed that the West Bank and Gaza would
critic of Trump. He has not backed away from his in Displaced Persons camps in Austria, Stuttgart Dr. Mark become trading cards in a land for peace deal that
contempt for Trump, and continues to express his and Bergen-Belson, where Jewish Holocaust sur- Gold would happen in the very near future.
fears about the next four years. Still, he has never vivor were housed. In the Cyprus internment It has been 50 years, and that very near future,
resorted to the hateful and inappropriate rheto- camp, where Jewish prisoners who had been like the messiah, has yet to appear.
ric used by Murphy. In an interview, Springsteen captured trying to cross the British blockade to And to paraphrase a line from Ani Maamin,
acknowledged that plenty of good, solid folks enter Palestine were held, people danced a hora and even though it may tarry most Israelis and
voted for Trump because of his message about job in the dirt streets. most Palestinians still believe in a two-state solu-
loss and protecting the homeland. His message is a Perhaps it was in Rome where the celebration tion, a trade of land for a new Arab state and the
healthy one for opponents of the president. Amer- was the most dramatic. Without a plan, with no end of the conflict. Every American and Israeli
ica is still America, he said. I still believe in its announcement, Jews walked to the Arch of Titus. government also had seen the two-state solution
ideals, and Im going to do my best to play my very, The arch stands across from the Forum and was as the only acceptable resolution to the ongoing
very small part in maintaining those things. built as a memorial to the destruction of Jeru- conflict. It could provide the Palestinians with the
We all have a part to play in fighting to uphold salem and the fall of the Jewish state in 70 C.E. Hiam Simon state that never was because of the Arab refusal to
American values. To do this, however, we must There Roman Jews sang David Melech Israel- Chai accept the partition plan, while at the same time
work together Republican, Independents, and Chai, VKaiyam (David the King of Israel Lives) to giving the Israelis the kind of security that would
Democrats, conservatives, moderates, and liber- celebrate Israels rebirth. allow them to thrive as a Jewish and democratic state.
als. Given the stakes, and the deep divisions on The successful struggle to gain international acceptance by Although there were dissenting views, it was clear to every
so many issues, our conversations may get loud partition was a great accomplishment against formidable odds. Israeli government coalition and to every U.S. administration
and contentious. The quality of an argument, how- It had been preceded, however, by a struggle to obtain inter- that the other option, a one-state solution, could offer no real
ever, is never measured by the volume at which it nal Jewish acceptance. The plan was by no means perfect. The security from terror and would force Israel to abandon either
is expressed. If this country is going to heal and map the U.N. drew up divided the land into two new political its Jewish character or its democracy. Since the Arab population
it must then we need to start by acknowledging states, one for the Jews and the other a new Arab state. The has grown from just under one million people in 1967 to just
our differences and agreeing to debate them with plan left Jerusalem out of either state and declared it an inter- over 4.5 million people as of the last census, in 2014, a one-state
respect, decency, and civility. national zone. solution, where the West Bank would be annexed, would force
The Jews living in what was then Palestine had to recognize Israel to make a choice. They could grant the Palestinians full cit-
Shmuley Boteach is the author of 30 books, that their new state would not include Jerusalem and would be izenship and watch as the new citizens vote the Jewish elements
including his most recent, The Israel Warrior. made up mostly of the Negev desert and a small part of the east- of the state out of existence, or they could refuse them the right
Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley. ern Galilee as well as a thin strip along the Mediterranean Sea. to vote and become an apartheid state, considered rogue among
Israel would include Tel Aviv but not Jaffa; Haifa but not Akko. the family of nations.
The new Palestinian Arab state would get the West Bank and That was true until February 15, 2017, when, at the meeting
most of the central plain, the western Galilee and the Gaza Strip between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump, the
along the Mediterranean, as well as a thin finger into the Negev president seemed to back away from a two-state solution, say-
bordering the Sinai desert. ing Im looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one
It was not an ideal map. In fact, no Israeli government or that both parties like. I can live with either one. On the Israeli
The opinions expressed in this section are those peace movement ever would accept such a map today. It was side, you could get whiplash trying to keep up with Netanyahus
of the authors, not necessarily those indefensible. There was almost no arable land. Yet when the stated positions. He accepted the two-state solution in a land-
votes were counted, there was dancing in the streets. mark 2009 speech at Bar-Ilan University, renounced it shortly
of the newspapers editors, publishers, or other
The plan promised a free and independent state. Israel could before Israels 2015 general election, and then renounced his
staffers. We welcome letters to the editor.
become a democratic Jewish state, accepted as a legitimate renunciation a few days later, after he had secured a fourth
Send them to [email protected].
member of the family of nations. term. In December, he told CBS that he was still committed to
There was no dancing in the streets among the Arab states two states for two peoples. In January, he told members of his
bordering Palestine. Egypt, Trans-Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon See ONE STATE page 42

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Our role in safety and security
I
t happened just after 1 p.m. on subsequent waves against JCCs on Janu- League, threats them- we l l - a t t e n d e d s e c u r i t y
Monday, January 9. ary 18, 31 (including in Tenafly again,) selves are alarming, dis- symposium with local law
I vividly remember receiving February 20, and 27. According to the ruptive and must always be enforcement and national
that early afternoon text message JCC Association, approximately 80 taken seriously. security experts, who pro-
that our JCC, the Kaplan JCC on the Pali- threats have targeted more than 60 This has hit close to vided updated information,
sades in Tenafly, had just been evacu- JCCs in these past five weeks. No motive home close to all of our guidance, and practical
ated. There had been a bomb threat. has yet been determined, and no one homes and we need to tips. The Kehillah Coop-
Within moments, my wife called to has claimed responsibility; nor has any come together to address erative also has helped our
make sure I had heard the news and to group. this growing threat. Our local organizations, includ-
express her concern. Fortunately, about These recent events are not limited religious and communal Jeremy J. ing my synagogue, secure
an hour later, we received another text to JCCs. Witness the substantial vandal- institutions synagogues, Fingerman grants from the Department
confirming that the police had com- ism at Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis and schools, organizations, of Homeland Security.
pleted a thorough sweep of the JCC Philadelphia this past week. The rising camps, and campuses More broadly, the Jewish
and have deemed the threat not cred- BDS movement across college campuses all must be proactive and vigilant. We Federations of North America has made
ible and the building safe. The JCC was continues to manifest itself as anti-Sem- know the recent series of threats likely its security partner, Secure Community
reopened. itism. During these recent weeks, other will generate considerable financial Network, available to advise national
By then, though, we had learned that Jewish institutions, including schools, costs and will consume organizational organizations and local communi-
what happened in Tenafly was part of also have been targeted. resources. ties on emergency plans, policies, and
a coordinated series of threats on that By all accounts, we are experiencing In Bergen County, we should be grate- procedures for every institution. For
day against Jewish community cen- a dramatic rise in hate crimes and anti- ful for the work of the Jewish Federation example, my work at Foundation for
ters across North America. And these Semitic incidents across North Amer- of Northern New Jersey. Its Kehillah Jewish Camp has benefited from SCNs
bomb threats have been repeated in ica. According to the Anti-Defamation Cooperative recently conducted a guidance and resources, which we have
Mending Wall
M
y 7-year-old self walks along all be so lucky to live a full, meaningful the poem, insinuates that the this do us any good?
the edge of the couch, try- life with children and grandchildren and walls should be taken down, And then I think back to
ing to balance, arms out- great grandchildren continuing the fam- since they hinder progress my Zaidie, who, at the wise
stretched the tiniest bit, ily legacy. toward understanding and young age of 65, told me to
looking down at my feet as I teeter across I highly doubt my Zaidie meant for that its resulting brotherhood. keep my balance as I walked
with one foot in front of the other. balancing act to serve as a metaphor, a On the one side is the voice the line, to reach out my
Out of the corner of my eye I see my Zai- deep, wisdom-filled life lesson, but from of restraint, insisting that we arms ever so slightly, to place
die who is visiting from New Haven with time to time I chose to read it that way. must uphold conventions one foot in front of the other,
my Bubby coming down the stairs to the Times when I was downtrodden. Times and build them up continu- to look straight ahead at a sin-
family room. I quickly scramble onto the when it was hard to look up, hard to bal- ally, as a matter of principle: Dena Croog gle point.
couch cushions, anticipating a scolding for ance, hard to move forward. I would imag- Good fences make good Here, again, I extend the
climbing on the furniture. ine his words: neighbours, says the old- metaphor, as it pertains to
No such scolding arrives. No no, not that way. Straight ahead. fashioned farmer. Good fences make good me and as it pertains to all of us today.
My Zaidie looks at me and he says, No, Focus straight ahead. neighbors. There is a wall that divides us. We cant
youre not doing it right. Before my Zaidie died, I was planning to And on the other side is the speaker, the dispute that fact any more than the wall
He takes my hand as I climb back onto write a column about walls, which I have more progressive of the two, challenging between neighbors in Frosts poem. The
the edge of the couch, and tells me that been thinking about often as of late. The tradition in the spirit of revolt: Why do wall exists, and yet I wonder if it is possible
instead of looking at my feet, I need to look walls between us, the walls that divide us, they make good neighbours? he wonders. to find a way even if only as a start to
straight ahead and focus on a single point whether they be political or religious in Before I built a wall Id ask to know learn how to mend it.
in front of me. Dont look down, he tells nature, or something else altogether. Cer- What I was walling in or walling out, Maybe the point isnt to stand on one
me. With your arms slightly out, one foot tainly political, in these times, applies the And to whom I was like to give offense. side of the wall, banging at it with our fists
slowly in front of the other, look straight most. Ive been thinking about walls and of Yes, in these past months, I have been only to find ourselves with bloody knuck-
ahead at that single spot. the divisiveness not just in this country as thinking a lot about walls, about that les. Maybe the point, instead, is to bal-
I try it his way, and it works. No more a whole but in our Jewish community and something that doesnt love them, that ance on top of the wall, to walk forward in
teetering back and forth. No more losing micro-communities, as well. wants them down. Do walls only divide between, to hear each sidenot just one
my balance. For the most part, anyway. It Something there is that doesnt love us? Physical walls, metaphoric walls. Can or the other, the old-fashioned neighbor or
will take some time to learn, but with prac- a wall, writes Robert Frost in one of his those right-wing conservatives and left- the more progressive speaker. Maybe we
tice Ill get it right. Straight ahead, he tells most well-known poems, Mending Wall. ist liberals (whatever those blanket labels can learn to hear one another if we would
me. Look not at my feet but straight ahead. Literary critics note that Frosts poem is really mean) truly come to any sort of only stand on higher ground.
I was thinking about this small, frozen metaphoric yet ambiguous, as it includes understanding or agreement when all they And, by extension, let us not look down
moment in time during the early hours of one of the greatest paradoxes of his times seem to be doing, amongst all the shouting at our own feet, at our own preconcep-
February 17, as we made our way to my and as it turns out, our time as well coincidentally, quite a lot on Facebook tions and inherited beliefs, lest we teeter
Zaidies funeral in New Haven that Fri- particularly as it pertains to national walls. walls is banging their heads against these and fall onto this side or that. No, let us
day morning. My Zaidie, Herb Croog, zl, On the one hand is the belief, as with an walls? Are we that divided as a nation that create a dialogue one that some may
passed away the night before, just a few old-fashioned farmer, that such walls as we shout our beliefs at each other, we argue already exists, but in reality, no, it
weeks after his 102nd birthday. One hun- should be made stronger, for our own dont even see or hear the other side? does not exist.
dred and two, and in mostly good health protection. An alternate interpretation, It seems the more we kick and shout, How wonderful it would be if we could
until the last couple of years. We should as voiced by the new-fashioned speaker of the higher ascends the wall. How does each walk with hands outstretched,

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Second, each of our Jewish communal remain open, welcoming, and inclusive
Yes, we should keep our eyes institutions must be proactive in its pre- of everyone.
open and increase our sensitivities paredness planning. We are following
guidance from SCN to make sure agen-
Yes, we should keep our eyes open
and increase our sensitivities and aware-
and awareness. But all of us cies continuously assess current plans ness. But all of us should keep partici-
should keep participating, and practices, develop protocols and
procedures, designate responsibilities,
pating, attending, and coming together
as a united community.
attending, and coming together and enhance awareness through ongo- On that cold Monday evening in Janu-
as a united community. ing training. Local law enforcement
officials must be engaged constantly as
ary, I went to work out at my JCC. My
wife said to be careful, and I was (includ-
partners in this process. ing by not overextending myself on the
shared with more than 200 overnight minimum, we need to provide eyes and Finally, we must take a lesson from treadmill and bench press!). In no way
and day camps across North America. ears for local law enforcement. We all our Israeli brethren. I always have did I want the threats from earlier that
While we have taken steps to provide must follow the dictate see something, marveled at how, in the face of ongo- day or in any of the subsequent days
relevant and helpful information and to say something. If something or someone ing terrorists threats, Israelis continue to change my life.
encourage preparedness for our field, in seems out of place, we need to bring this to live each day to the fullest. Despite
light of the current operating environ- to the attention of appropriate officials. the challenges posed by these recent Jeremy J. Fingerman is the CEO of the
ment, we all need to do more. We each can help identify suspicious threats targeting our local community, Foundation for Jewish Camp. He lives
There are three concrete steps we can activity and report unusual behavior. we must continue to live our lives. We in Englewood with his family; he is vice
take to address this growing concern. Dont assume someone else has already have to keep showing up. We cant let president of Congregation Ahavath
First, when it comes to emergency done so. Prompt reporting to local offi- these threats win by changing our lives. Torah there. Write to him at Jeremy@
preparedness, everyone plays a role. At a cials can help prevent future violence. Our homes and our institutions must jewishcamp.org
hearing the voices on both sides, and even if

not agreeing, at least coming to an understand-
ing. How wonderful it would be if we could each,
instead of looking at our own feet as we walk
upon that wall, balance ourselves correctly, the
right way, by looking straight ahead.
It wasnt supposed to be a metaphor. Surely
it was not. But what lies ahead, that single point
that we can all agree upon as we travel the road
to our futures, is our children. And their children.
And still, theirs.
My Zaidie, may he rest in peace, left a legacy,
a map of his past and the trail from which he
came. And he left it with his eyes focusing straight
ahead, for his children, and for his grandchildren,
and for his great grandchildren, and for whom-
ever continued the family lineage thereafter.
What my Zaidie taught me, even if unintention-
ally and yet still with the same result, was that it
doesnt matter upon which side of the couch you
fall. The point is not to fall. The point is to bal-
ance, to walk forward, and to focus on a single
purpose straight ahead.
I know Im being metaphoric. You can call me
nave if you must. But wouldnt it be nice, the wall
existing as it is, to at least agree on something?
Maybe then, one day in the future, our goals
ultimately the same, it wont be about whether
or not we can mend the wall. It will be about
whether that wall can mend us.
Dena Croog is a writer and editor in Teaneck and

the founder of Refaenu, a nonprofit organization
dedicated to mood disorder awareness and
support. More information about the organization
and its support groups can be found at www.
refaenu.org. You can also email dena@refaenu.
org with any questions or comments. This old stone wall, in Harpswell, Maine, would have looked familiar to Robert Frost. Paul VanDerWerf

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Why Im running for the Republican state committee
I
am proud to be running for New Jersey opportunity to make their case to the great to send their children to, elimi- living and fiscal shortcomings.
GOP state committee. undecided middle, to attempt to persuade nate onerous over-regulation of To move the vibrant pub-
Im doing so knowing full well that each other, and to make common cause our mom-and-pop businesses, lic discourse from the realm
the Republican state committee does with previously undiscovered political fel- get our fiscal house in order so of meet-up groups to the city
not have a history of being the vehicle for low travelers. However, when despite a lively taxes can actually be lowered councils and the state legisla-
party growth, outreach, and activism that public discourse, a place such as our state is (bezrat hashem), and create a ture, put our state on the path
it could and should be, but I am doing so dominated by one party, the political class climate that attracts people and to fiscal solvency, create a cli-
inspired by identity both as a political con- becomes complacent, stagnant, and often grows employment. mate for economic growth, and
servative and as a Jew. corrupt. Despite almost eight years with a To do this, the New Jersey bring substantive education
All across our country and state, Ameri- Republican governor, New Jersey has been Republican party must engage Joshua reform, we need a strong GOP.
cans from without and within the Jewish ruled by a Democratic majority in Trenton in outreach, education, and Sotomayor- We need a state Republican
community are upset with the status quo. that goes back decades. Much of our state has activism. The State GOP must Einstein party willing to challenge the
From those who voted against the establish- been lorded over by entrenched Democratic engage minority communities Democratic machine in purple
ment in the primaries by voting for Sanders party bosses who govern as near-feudal rul- such as our own, the African- districts and that will support
and Trump, to those peacefully protesting ers, doling out low and no-show jobs to allies, American community, the gay community, local citizen advocates and activists running
the Trump administration, and those who tax breaks to favored developers, and worse. new Americans, millennials, and women. for local office who are organizing the people
rallied successfully against electing a known This de facto Democratic one-party rule Whether someone is opening a kosher against deep-rooted special interests.
anti-Semite to the chairmanship of the Dem- fights for the unsustainable status quo that shwarma joint in Teaneck, a Spanish tapas Thats why Im running for New Jersey
ocratic party the robust civic engagement chases out jobs, repeatedly raises taxes, cre- restaurant in North Bergen, a gourmet mar- Republican state committee.
shows our country is vibrant. As a conserva- ates layers of red tape for small business, and ket in Hoboken, a convenience store in Engle-
tive, its no shock that I support the enforce- stands against educational reform for New wood, or a speakeasy-style bar in Jersey City, Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein is chairman of
ment of immigration laws and the well- Jerseys children. that entrepreneur is faced with many of the the Hudson County Young Republicans, a
established and well-worn prerogative of the To save New Jersey and facilitate the civic same unnecessary regulatory challenges. It member of the Hudson County Regional
executive to ban classes of aliens, notions that conversation on the issues, the people of doesnt matter if they are rich or poor, the Council of the Jewish Federation of
until recently had bipartisan support, but I New Jersey need a GOP that challenges the periodic tax re-evaluation our towns face Northern New Jersey, a former contributor
value and enjoy the spirited public debate de facto one party rule by the Democratic doesnt discriminate based on wealth. Every- to SaveJersey.com, and has formally
regardless. party. We need a strong opposition that has one knows their taxes or rent is going to go debated Occupy Wall Street activists and
Engaging in civic debate and discus- majoritarian potential, so we can give all New up. Black, white, or brown, Jew or gentile, Democrats. Originally from Teaneck, he
sion offers people of all perspectives the Jerseys parents the choice of which school we are all faced with New Jerseys high cost of has lived in Hoboken for a decade.
One state non-Jewish population living in both the State the creation of Israel. Last December, 69 abstention as a betrayal. The State Depart-
from page 39 of Israel and the occupied territories. years later, the U.N. passed resolution 2334, ment saw it as a warning. The U.S. absten-
To oppose a two-state future, President which was the international response to the tion was a gentle rebuke when compared
Likud party that he would offer the Pales- Trump could not have picked a better U.S. Netanyahu administrations reckless pursuit to the actions of all the other states on the
tinians only a state-minus, and on Mon- ambassador to Israel than David Friedman, of settlement expansion in the West Bank. Security Council. Each one, including all the
day afternoon, boarding his plane for his whose contempt for democracy, denial of the The resolution states that Israels settle- other permanent members, voted in favor
meeting with Trump, he ducked the ques- demographic issues and the issue of Palestin- ment activity constitutes a flagrant violation of the resolution. It was clear that the settler
tion altogether. ian peoplehood, make him a ready partner of international law and has no legal valid- enterprise was tainting Israels standing in
What makes these views significant isnt for that program. He appears to be unencum- ity. It demands that Israel stop such activ- the eyes of the rest of the world.
just the lack of any clear alternative but bered by facts. He continues to support mov- ity and fulfill its obligations as an occupying The new Trump administration may
their joint negation of the concept of parti- ing the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jeru- power under the Fourth Geneva Convention. choose to veto similar resolutions in the
tion and with it the notion of separate states salem even after President Trump has been It affirmed previous U.N. declarations about future, thinking that they will be supporting
for the two nations between the Jordan and convinced that the move is more complicated the illegitimacy of those settlements and reas- Israel. In fact, in doing so, it will join Israel
the Sea. That rejection further endangers than just unscrewing the sign from one build- serted established forums for a negotiating in international isolation. This situation isnt
the democratic Jewish future of Israel and ing and attaching it to another. His history of process. The resolution did not include any good for Israel, and it isnt good for the United
its long-term security. financial support to the settlement enterprise sanctions or coercive measure against Israel States either. The legal foundation for the cre-
If he is given the choice between a Jewish prevents him from being recognized as an and was adopted under non-binding Chapter ation of the state of Israel lies in the partition
state or a democratic one, it is clear which the impartial player. VI of the United Nations Charter. plan. That same plan laid the foundation for
prime minister would choose. Netanyahus The most recent surveys show that an Israel was shocked by the U.S. abstention, a Palestinian state as well. To ignore one is to
fear-mongering at the end of the most recent overwhelming majority of American Jews which allowed the resolution to pass. weaken the other.
Knesset election campaign, and his govern- envision Israel as a democratic Jewish state, In February 2011, during Barack Obamas No one will be dancing in a binational state.
ments actions since then, demonstrate his want a peace process to reconstruct Israels first administration, the United States
distaste for the rights Israel now gives to its relations with Palestinians and the Arab used its veto power to block a similar U.N.
Dr. Mark Gold of Teaneck holds a Ph.D. in
non-Jewish citizens. He will certainly not world, and understand that a framework for Security Council resolution. Until the U.S.
economics from NYU. He is on the executive
extend those rights to West Bank and Gaza long-term stability and peace requires an end abstention led to the passage of this reso-
board of Partners for Progressive Israel, a
Palestinians. And President Trump, dur- to the occupation. In connection with these lution, Obama had been unique among
member organization of the American Zionist
ing his one month in office, has made clear aspirations, the largest Jewish denomination, American presidents for not allowing any
Movement and an affiliate of the World Union
through his flirtation with the alt-right, his the Reform movement, opposed the nomina- resolution critical of Israel to pass through
of Meretz.
public statements, and his executive order, tion of David Friedman. In this, the Reform the Security Council. How could it be that
his prejudice against Muslims, his preference movement has been joined by many secular Israels long time BFF could abandon it in Hiam Simon of Englewood is the chief
for autocrats, and his contempt for civil soci- Jewish and Zionist organizations. its time of need? operating officer of Ameinu, the leading
ety and democratic norms. In pursuit of continuing the occupation It was clear to the State Department that progressive Zionist membership organization
This new either/or position supports a and abandoning a democratic two-state settlement activity had grown substantially; in the United States. He lived in Israel for many
political program to preserve the occupa- future, Israel is leading itself into dangerous at least 100,000 new settlers had moved to years, where he was the dean of students for
tion, promote more seizures of Palestinian international isolation. In 1947, 72 percent of settlements in the West Bank since Obama what is now the Alexander Muss High School,
land, and a further marginalization of the the voting nations supported partition and had taken office. Israel looked at the U.S. and he was an artillery sergeant in the IDF.

Letters
Smear without substance had a moment of pause and thought that someone edu- another. One has to switch channels or read different
I am a proud feminist and a member of the Jewish clergy. I cated on sharia, which Ms. Cohen clearly is not, should newspapers to get more than one perspective about an
also was very inspired by the huge outpouring of women in review and perhaps respond to this piece, rather than individual event. But free press is the cornerstone of our
the marches in this country and all over the world on Janu- let it stand alone as a false, but mercifully short, screed democracy, and it must be preserved, since without it we
ary 21. I am particularly heartened and hopeful because so against sharia. will head towards a dictatorship.
many women chose to rise above their differences in order Wrapped up in a bizarre nod to Helen Reddys song, I became a registered independent over these years
to participate for the greater good. Ms. Cohen cherry-picked hateful and violent acts commit- because I was so unhappy with both parties. Watching
Martha Cohen, in her op-ed of February 24 (I am ted by individuals who are Muslim, seeking to use these this transpire, the single word to describe what has been
woman, hear me roar), attempts to post-disqualify Linda examples to illustrate sharia, as she perhaps understands happening is simply un-American.
Sarsour, executive director of the Arab-American Asso- it. As a term, sharia is quite similar to halacha its For a year and a half, we watched an election process
ciation of New York, from having been a co-organizer of simply the term for Islams legal code, which proscribes where the name calling and general antagonism level was so
the Womens March because she is an observant Muslim the ways in which a Muslim should live his or her life, high that we could not let our children watch it. It was truly
woman, which means that her life is guided by sharia law. as reflected in its writings, teachings, and interpretations un-American. I felt that the vicious fighting actually lowered
This is no different than the traditionally observant Jewish through the centuries. the sanctity of the office of the presidency and the leader-
feminist who chooses to work for womens empowerment It is of course true that there are those today who commit ship of the world that comes with it. It was as un-American
within the bounds of a life guided by halacha. horrible acts in the name of Islam, and those acts should be as I have seen in my lifetime. To top this, we proceeded to
Ms. Cohen has almost nothing of substance with which to prevented and condemned. But its incorrect and ignorant elect the individual who was unquestionably the most abu-
charge Ms. Sarsour, other than her adherence to the dietary to argue that they broadly represent or define sharia and sive of all the candidates. With his election, the partisan pol-
laws of halal (which is similar to kashrut), and her somewhat Islam any more than the rabbinically inspired Yigal Amir itics is continuing as bad as ever, and there is no attempt at
glib statement that wouldnt it be nice if we could benefit broadly represents or defines halacha and Judaism. Draw- all to seek unity. This antagonism has led all the way down
from the Islamic law which allows forgiveness of debts after ing from the unvarnished text, or from outlier examples, to families and friends, and unfortunately I found myself
a specified period. (A very similar law is on the Jewish hala- sharias treatment of and attitude toward women is not sig- participating in it! It has gotten so bad that friends and fam-
chic books related to the sabbatical and jubilee year cycles. nificantly dissimilar from what can be found in the broad ily members have avoided discussing politics, in order to
Neither of these laws is the modern law of the land in West- body of halacha, some of which is still practiced today. avoid serious disagreements that may hurt their relation-
ern society although both are ancient forms of social jus- Perhaps Ms. Cohen, and all of us, should limit our criti- ships. This should not be happening in America.
tice and income equality.) cism and outrage to those people who commit those cruel We used to be receptive to refugees regardless of race
Ms. Cohen inexplicably begins her piece with the entire acts, regardless of their religion, rather than try to use or origin and now we turn our backs to them. Hate crimes
text of the 1970s feminist anthem I Am Woman, Hear Me them to smear an entire people and to use the name of a are on the rise as never before. Somehow we have lost our
Roar, followed by 4 paragraphs of completely unrelated diverse religious code as a buzzword to stoke fear among way. Where are we heading? Will our democracy prevail
stories about Islamic fatwas and acts of violence against those who do not understand what that term truly means. or are we heading towards a dictatorship? Will we con-
writers and women. She produces nothing that links these Marc Melzer tinue to be the land of the free and the home of the brave?
stories with Ms. Sarsour, but the juxtaposition of these dis- Bergenfield We have to remain optimistic and we must fight to
turbing vignettes with the fierce feminist anthem seems cal- retain our American values!
culated to create fear, loathing, and hysteria in the reader. Sharia stifles women Gabe Schlisser
Female genital mutilation and honor killings are horrifying. What a pleasant and unexpected surprise to read a col- Tenafly
Yes, there are places in the world where Islamic women can- umn from a female perspective (I am woman, hear me
not leave their houses without male escort, but painting a roar, February 24). It even mentions the word vagina Thank you from Kulanu
professional Muslim-American woman with these brushes wow. Local resident Martha Cohens informative opin- The members of Kulanu NNJ, a consortium of Reform
makes no more sense than saying that every modern Ortho- ion column about sharia law deserves many follow-ups. and Conservative congregational schools with the Jewish
dox feminist completely condones the abusive treatment of Id like to read more about the seemingly endless ways Federation of Northern New Jersey, sincerely thank Larry
women found among some sects of chasidim, or agrees with in which all patriarchal religions (including ours) stifle, Yudelson for his outstanding article last week on our
the violent acts of someone like Baruch Goldstein. silence, and subjugate women. ETC project: EdTech Training for Congregational schools
I came of age with the feminists of the 1970s, and we Many Jewish publications are quick to bemoan inter- (Are we using our tablets today?, February 17). He really
learned the hard way that empowerment and evolution of marriage and secular options as the source of the com- captured the excitement generated among our students,
womens role in society needs to be nuanced and inclusive, munitys problems. But, the fact is that womens lives and teachers, and parents by this project. We are also grati-
not judgmental and narrow. Women in the 70s who chose choices have changed. So, where are the articles , espe- fied by his mention of our intercongregational and JFNNJ
to love and marry a man and have children were seen as cially by female writers, that reflect these changes? Please collaboration, which both enriches our students experi-
traitors to the cause. I am sorry that Ms. Cohen was dis- ask Ms. Cohen to keep writing. The Jewish Standard needs ences and provides resources and professional satisfac-
turbed to learn that Linda Sarsour had helped organize the her and more female contributors like her. tion to our teachers. We are so proud of and impressed by
march. Ms. Cohens deeply disturbing essay achieves the Robin Katz the work of the teachers participating in the project. Their
opposite of her intention it reveals her ignorance of both Palisades Park accomplishments also clearly came through in his article.
Jewish and Islamic law and her desire to justify her appar- We thank the Covenant Foundation, a program of the
ent prejudice against Muslims. We dont need this conversa- This is un-American Crown Family Philanthropies, for making this possible
tion right now. In fact, we need friends like Linda Sarsour, What is happening to my country? through its Ignition Grant. We also would like to recognize
who asked Muslims to donate tens of thousands of dollars It is painful to see the turmoil that is going on in the and thank founder Smadar Goldstein and instructor Hillel
in St. Louis last week to help restore vandalized Jewish America I love. Rudolph (both olim from Teaneck) from JETS: Jerusalem
tombstones. It is more than 50 years since I became a naturalized EdTech Solutions for their No Teacher Left Behind pro-
We need to come from the radical compassion of our tra- citizen of this country, and I have always been proud to fessional development course, their workshops, and their
dition and seek the sacred unity that our monotheistic faith be an American. I have had great respect for our consti- continual guidance. Our thanks as well to Rabbi Michael
teaches us. We are all connected. We are all part of the One. tutional democracy, for our checks and balances, and for Bitton, director of educational technology at the Magen
Yours very sincerely, the way we stood up for human rights around the world. David Yeshivah High School in Brooklyn, our teachers
Cantor Caitlin Bromberg I have never felt that we were free of mistakes but always consultant.
Cantor Emerita, Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center felt that we had the right goals. Although the grant is for one year only, the benefits of
of Ridgewood, Interim Spiritual Leader, Temple Hatikvah of Unfortunately, over the last couple of decades our two- this program certainly will extend far beyond that time.
Flanders, New Jersey, Union for Reform Judaism Introduction to party system somehow has failed us. We see that our Kulanu NNJ Co-Directors:
Judaism Coordinator, New York and New Jersey elected representatives no longer seem to be active patri- Rabbi Paula Feldstein
ots of our country; they seem to be more like warring fac- Temple Avodat Shalom, River Edge
Attack on sharia was hateful tions always preparing for the next battle. Gone are the Rabbi Shelley Kniaz
I am disappointed that the Jewish Standard published as group of middle-of-the-road senators who used to work Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, Woodcliff Lake
uninformed, inaccurate, and hateful an opinion piece as together to get things done. Sarah David
Martha Cohens I am Woman, hear me roar against sharia Unfortunately at the same time our news media has also Education and Engagement Coordinator, Synagogue
law (February 24). Surely someone on the editorial staff became polarized, each aligned solidly with one party or Leadership Initiative, JFNNJ

Opinion
Difficult questions and contested answers on anti-Semitism
I
n his magnum opus, A campuses and other buildings. The AMCHA Initiative, an
Lethal Obsession, the organization that promotes the civil rights of Jewish stu-
late Robert Wistrich, dents, maintains an online swastika tracker that moni-
one of Israels finest tors the appearance of neo-Nazi graffiti and flyers on uni-
scholars studying the murder- versity campuses. What stands out are the frequency of
ous pathways of Jew-hatred, these incidents at least one a dayand the sometimes
elegantly summarized the viciously personal nature of the Jew-baiting, as experi-
character of anti-Semitism at enced by the University of Minnesota student who walked
the turn of this century. into his dorm to see the words Nazis (sic) Rule, a swas-
The old-new anti-Semitism Ben Cohen tika, and a drawing of a concentration camp scrawled
can itself be as inventive as it on the whiteboard. Racial epithets like filthy Jews and
is repetitive, Wistrich wrote. ns alongside slogans like Heil Trump more on
It often appears to imply that Jews are never victims but that in a momentall abound in these reports of anti-Sem-
always victimizers, which may sound original to some but itism and racism at their most delinquent.
is clearly false. It generally avoids positions that smack To be sure, all this looks and sounds very much like the
of deliberate political or economic exclusion of Jews qua anti-Semitism we know from movies and the history books,
Jews from the national community or that echo the dis- where the perpetrators are white racist fanatics with lim-
course of a discredited biological racism. On the other ited education and violent temperaments. And that perhaps
hand, depicting Zionism and the Jewish lobby as a world explains why so many left-leaning media outlets, from the
power is not considered racist or defamatory. There is no New York Times to the BBC, are reporting this wave of anti-
law against suggesting that Zionists deliberately provoke Semitism with far less cynicism than they did with other,
wars and revolutions, even though this is a classic anti- similar episodes in recent yearslike the Holocaust denial
Semitic fabrication that has been widely propagated by conferences repeatedly hosted by the Islamist regime in
Nazis, Communists and Islamists. Iran, or the pervasive anti-Semitism in the British Labour
From this short paragraph, we can deduce some gen- Party. Whereas those examples are complicated by the pres-
eral observations. Anti-Semitism adjusts itself to the sensi- ence of Israel in the frame, as well as the involvement of
bilities of the surrounding society. It develops themes that Muslims in promoting anti-Semitic discourse, when it comes
invariably portray Jews as a collectivity in the worst pos- to President Donald Trumps America, its all beautifully linda sarsour, a Palestinian-american activist in
sible moral light. It is fixated with the distinct character of simple and snow white in color. the anti-Israel Bds movement, helped raised more
Jewish power this small people, in the words of the Greek The sad truth is that the understanding of anti-Semitism than $100,000 to repair the desecrated chesed shel
composer Mikis Theodorakis, a communist, in 2004, are has become hopelessly politicized, meaning that our judg- emet cemetery in st. louis.
the root of evil. ments are compromised by non-related but more expedi- feSTIVal Of faITHS VIa WIKIMeDIa COMMOnS
And it is politically and theologically promiscuous, pen- ent imperatives. In addition, all too often the response to
etrating the salons of the nationalist right and the progres- anti-Semitism fixates upon individual actions and state-
sive left, creeping into Presbyterian churches, leading the ments, obscuring the more fundamental issues. Kenneth Shel Emet cemetery in St. Louis, earning plaudits from
thundering discourse of political Islam. Marcus of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights nearly every mainstream media outlet and winning the
We can boil all that down even more simply, into two Under Law explained this well in a recent interview: It endorsement of Harry Potter author JK Rowling. In public-
maxims. First, anti-Semitism isnt the exclusive property often does more harm than good to simply ask the ques- ity terms, it was an unbelievably smart move; by the time
of any one political faction or religious formation. Sec- tion, Who is and isnt an anti-Semite. If youre just ask- news of Sarsours initiative broke, her critics immediately
ing whether individuals are anti-Semites or not, you may were placed in the uncomfortable position of questioning
never get an answer, youll get people defensive, and itll her motives at just the time that she reached out to the
lead to a coarsening of the discourse. Jewish community.
In the same interview, Marcus continued, we need to But if Kenneth Marcus is right that patterns of speech
The sad truth is that ask what forms of speech, what kinds of activity are anti-
Semitic, so that we can identify it. This is absolutely cor-
and action determine what constitutes anti-Semitism,
then Sarsours past denunciations of Zionism, and her
the understanding rect, and those who charge that Trump is an anti-Semite support for a solution to the Palestinian issue based on
of anti-Semitism has should examine whether there is a consistent pattern of
evidence to support that claim. Citing his Jewish grand-
the elimination of Jewish sovereignty, at least warrant a
critical examination of the politics behind her cemetery
become hopelessly children and his Jewish advisers as evidence to the con- gesture. It is easy, after all, to be empathetic and kind to
politicized, meaning traryas the president has done, and as he has instructed
his subordinates to do may be irritating, and may sug-
dead Jews and their memories, whether in Poland or Mis-
souriand far harder to deal with the ones who are still
that our judgments gest that the past seven decades of trying to educate the alive, and who regard Sarsours one state of Palestine
are compromised by public about the nature of anti-Semitism and the centrality
of the Holocaust has largely been in vain. But it manifestly
fantasies as sinister code for a solution that would need
to be imposed, in all likelihood through violent conquest,
non-related but more does not demonstrate that the White House is in the grip on the Jews of Israel.
expedient imperatives. of an anti-Semitic fever.
In these times, it is dangerous to suggest thought experi-
Can the enemies of Israel be, at the same time, the friends
of Jewish communities outside the Jewish state? Conversely,
ments, but I will throw caution to the wind. I wonder if do friends of Israel get a pass when they play down or out-
ond, because anti-Semitism is something of a shape-shifter those who agree with Steven Goldstein of the Anne Frank right deny the presence of anti-Semites among their politi-
that frequently denies that it is what it is, we have trouble Center for Mutual Respect, when he said that Trumps cal allies? Why should Sarsour be acceptable to the Jewish
identifying it even when weve encountered it a thousand Feb. 21 condemnation of anti-Semitism was a band-aid community, but not Richard Spencer, the pudgy racist at the
times before. on the cancer of anti-Semitism that has infected his own helm of the so-called National Policy Institute? Are we that
With that in mind, on, then, to the widely discussed administration, would have similar qualms about Linda easily taken in? I fear the answer is yes. JnS.OrG
surge of anti-Semitism in the United States identified over Sarsour, the Palestinian-American activist in the Boy-
the last few weeks and months, manifested in small-scale cott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign who is rapidly Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org and the Tower
but ugly incidents, among them cemetery desecrations, achieving iconic status in the protest movement that has magazine, writes a weekly column on Jewish affairs and
more than 80 hoax bomb threats phoned into Jewish com- coalesced around Trumps election. Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published in
munity centers, several physical assaults, and swastikas Sarsour and her Muslim activist colleagues raised more Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
and other anti-Semitic invective sprayed on university than $100,000 for the repair of the desecrated Chesed Journal, and many other publications.
44 Jewish standard MarCh 3, 2017

Dear Rabbi Zahavy
Your Talmudic advice column

Dear Rabbi Zahavy, activities marking personal a Conservative synagogue important end of life choice.
Im getting a little dizzy trying to figure out life cycle transitions rites where egalitarianism is an The Rabbinical Assembly of the Conser-
when to schedule my bat mitzvah. My syna- of passage. They recognize important concern, then vative movement issued an opinion in 1983
gogue recommends that both boys and girls the four major ones, mark- the aim sometimes is that that opened the door to mausoleum use
celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs at age ing birth, coming of age, mar- boys and girls have equal with this somewhat wavering message. It
13. Id like to celebrate it when I am 12. I am riage, and death. rights and equal rites starts: Although there does not seem to
ready for it. My parents support me. What In many world cultures and and celebrate coming of age be any impediment in Jewish law to using
should I do? religions, there is a fixed set at 13. But some Conservative a mausoleum for burial, it should not be
Coming of Age in Clifton of activities to demonstrate families, as well as Orthodox encouraged. Indeed, it should be actively
the coming of age passage. Rabbi Tzvee families who celebrate bat discouraged since it is an obvious change
Dear Coming of Age, In some native American cul- Zahavy mitzvah, do so at age 12. from methods universally accepted today
Its probable from what you say that the tures, there is a rite of puberty This past year I attended and its general publicized approval may
tasks of preparing for the chanting of the to mark girls first menstrua- my granddaughters bat create confusion.
Torah and haftarah in the synagogue likely tion, which may occur when they are about mitzvah celebration party in Israel, which Then the opinion continues with per-
are not what is making you dizzy. Planning 12. In some cultures in Africa and the South took place a few weeks before she turned missions and qualifications: While it
and deciding on all the related logistics Pacific, boys are initiated into manhood by 12 to allow her friends to attend and cel- should be discouraged, we must recog-
for your bat mitzvah day are challenges performing acts of bravery, survival, or ath- ebrate with her before the summer school nize that it is permitted and that a rabbi
to young and old alike. You appear to be leticism. Malaysian Muslim girls recite from break. may therefore officiate at an interment in a
involved in the ordeals of scheduling and the Koran at the mosque at 11 to mark their So dizziness at some point becomes a mausoleum. Although a mausoleum is hal-
negotiations, perhaps with your parents, maturation. That seems somewhat akin to likely possibility when you are trying to akhically permissible, certain restrictions
siblings, and friends, and with the calen- our Jewish bat mitzvah practice. please everyone involved, family, friends applicable to a cemetery should be applied
dars of your synagogue and the demands In the recent past American teens have and community. to the mausoleum. The mausoleum should
of caterers, DJs, and wardrobe, just to list marked the passage to adulthood more My advice dont agonize too long over be used exclusively for those of the Jew-
the most obvious factors that come into informally, with sweet sixteen parties, this. Decide what you want. Listen to what ish faith. If a non-sectarian mausoleum
play in approaching a bat mitzvah. with taking their driving tests, and perhaps your parents want. Find out what your is used, definite and easily recognizable
Do not fret. Yes indeed, you can get spun with getting a new car. synagogue wants and offers. Availability demarcations should be imposed, such as
around trying to sort out the best practices Your dizziness over what to do probably there for events may be tightly contested its own central hall and entrance, clearly
and options for our major Jewish rituals revolves around the two elements of our and restricted. indicating its Jewish nature.
and observances. True, many of our reli- current bat mitzvah practices. First you If you cannot get your first choice of a In contrast, Orthodox practice is clear
gious actions are rigorously defined and need to know when you should have the date for your bat mitzvah, be prepared with on this. Chabad for instance has stated an
there is nothing to think about. But in the synagogue part of the rite. Thats for you alternatives. Remember that this should be unwavering Orthodox view: Jewish law
case of bat mitzvah, the rules are less clear and your family and community to mark a joyous occasion, and do not let the con- is unequivocal in establishing absolutely,
and hence the choices are more complex. your maturity in religious terms. And sec- straints of others diminish that happiness. and uncompromisingly, that the dead
Why is this ritual different from many ond you need to plan for your party, the Indeed, you show your bravery and must be buried in the earth.
of our other rituals? Lets review just a bit time that you and your friends get together maturity as a young adult when you man- As best as I can tell, Reform Jews have no
of background about the origins of the bar for a formal social celebration of your age to navigate through the ordeals and official objection to mausoleum use.
and bat mitzvah, because that will help coming of age. the choppy seas of your bat mitzvah selec- Given these variations in American
you understand why the instructions are As I suggested, itd be easier if the rules tions and decisions. Mazal tov to you in Judaism, you should choose with a main
less well defined for those practices. were hard and fast, as they are for many advance on this important milestone. principle of Conservative ideology in
Its commonly accepted that the dos of our ritual observances in Judaism. Yes, mind namely do what makes you com-
and donts of Judaism, the rituals and you have found out that there is more flex- Dear Rabbi Zahavy, fortable within the parameters of what is
restrictions, are mandatory for adults ibility in the scheduling of a bat mitzvah I am a practicing Conservative Jew who was permissible.
and optional for children. By a longstand- than you might have expected. brought up in the Orthodox tradition. Im Perhaps you are okay with a mauso-
ing convention, the rabbis of the Talmud The laws are not so rigid for these mitz- thinking of buying an aboveground crypt in leum, but you imagine that your Ortho-
decided that the automatic age of major- vahs partly because the bar mitzvah con- a Jewish mausoleum so that I can be laid to dox relatives would be offended by that
ity is 13 for boys and 12 for girls. But there cept was developed in the middle ages. rest there after I die. It makes sense to me, choice and would not visit your crypt. If
is no recorded discussion back in ancient At that time, it began to be the custom but I know that it diverges from the age-old that is important to you, then you ought
talmudic times of any major public ritual that as soon as a boy turned 13 he was Jewish practice to be buried in the ground. to choose the most traditional option, in-
or celebration of this transition. called to the Torah in the synagogue to What is your advice for me? ground burial.
Lets look for a moment at the larger mark his maturation. Above Ground in Boca Meanwhile, I extend to you the tradi-
world, beyond our Jewish communi- And the bat mitzvah for girls is a later tional hope and blessing that you may live
ties. Anthropologists call those human development. Some historians of Judaism Dear Above Ground, to be 120 years old, giving you plenty of
trace its origin to American rabbi Mordecai It sounds to me like you prefer to arrange time to mull over your decision.
M. Kaplans celebration of the bat mitzvah for a mausoleum, but are willing to go
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column
of his daughter almost a century ago. On along with the Jewish funeral traditions of Tzvee Zahavy received his Ph.D. from
offers mindful advice based on
talmudic wisdom. It aspires to be
March 18, 1922, Judith Kaplan was called to in-ground burial. Brown University and his rabbinic
equally open and meaningful to all the Torah at the Society for the Advance- Thats good. As I noted above for the ordination from Yeshiva University. He is
the varieties and denominations ment of Judaism in Manhattan. In Reform previous question, there are four essential the author of many books about Judaism,
of Judaism. You can find it here Judaism in Europe and America decades rites of passage in Judaism. Our marriage including Jewish Magic. The Book of
on the first Friday of the month. earlier, girls and boys were confirmed and funeral practices are without doubt Jewish Prayers in English, Gods Favorite
Please email your questions to in the temple; bar and bat mitzvah mile- old and venerable. Prayers and Talmudic Advice from Dear
[email protected] stones were not celebrated. Some background related to your ques- Rabbi which includes his past columns
If you and your family are members of tion may help you think further about this from the Jewish Standard and other essays.
www.thejewishstandard.com
Dvar Torah
Terumah: The Tower of London and the Mishkan
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In addition to the many places that served as rubies) were all beautiful, but none of it was in its natural mean to own the crown jew-
prison cells over the centuries, and the vast form. Everything was a combination of raw materials and els? When does all this stuff
number of weapons on display, there is an human creativity. The artistry that went into the collected stop being jewelry and become
area of the Tower that is dedicated to holding the royal stuff the ways that the rocks were cut, the gold, silver, national treasure? Why is this
jewels, crowns, scepters, tapestry, and coins. I thought and other precious metals were engraved or forged was stuff priceless? What does
the experience of looking at all this glass-enclosed finery what made all this stuff priceless. the king with the most ornate
was very strange. What did all this assembled stuff mean? But what is the point of all this collected stuff in the crown win? What, if anything,
Some of it was ornate, so I noticed the craftsmanship Tower of London? Does it in some way affirm the owner does an incredibly ornate
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CITY OF STARS BY YONI GLATT
Purim Baking
[email protected]
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY
Its always great to enlist a childs

help with baking. Here, Rebecca
Shara Jay, 3, helps her nana, Beth
Chananie. This is a good age to
start teaching. Also note that all
ingredients should be present
and if possible measured out,
even in paper cupcake holders,
so nothing is missing. (Its easy
to forget things when you are
distracted by a toddler!)
C
ca
Simply an easy hamantashen recipe ca
ca
BETH JANOFF CHANANIE
Purim will begin next weekend, so it is time to start pre-
paring. Making hamantashen is a really fun thing to do.
Its even fun to line up all the fillings traditional prune
or poppy seed, jelly, pie fillings, chocolate chips, peanut
butter, dried fruits, and so on. Heres a basic recipe for
the dough. Be creative with the fillings and toppings.
Hamantashen dough
2 sticks butter (use margarine for a Refrigerate the dough overnight.
pareve version) When ready to prepare, have your
1 cup sugar fillings ready. Roll out about 1/4 of
Across 70. Stat. for Braun or Kinsler
1. Word before Aviv 71. Jewish village 1 teaspoon vanilla the dough at a time, to about 1/8
4. Brooks and Torme 72. Israels 6 and 20: Abbr. 1 teaspoon salt inch thick. Use the top of a glass
8. Synagogue leaders 73. ___ Vashem 4 eggs to make circles in the dough. Put a
14. Judge Lance who heard from Robert Down 4 cups sifted flour
Shapiro in the OJ trial 1. Brad Garrett sitcom ___ Death spoonful of filling in the center and
4 teaspoons baking powder carefully roll up 3 sides to form a
15. The Time Machine race (or my 2. Posting at TLV airport
1/4 cup orange juice triangle. You can add a few sprinkles
G-d in Aramaic) 3. Big hit for Hank Greenberg
16. Holocaust survivor/ celebrity psy- 4. (Richard) Melzers Law and Order: Cream the butter, sugar, vanilla, and before baking.
chologist born Karola Siegel SVU co-star Christopher salt. Add the eggs, one at a time,
17. Superboys girlfriend co-created by 5. Letters that make Ari into a girls Spray a cookie sheet with vegetable
beating after each one. Sift the flour or baking spray.
Bill Finger name (Var.)
19. Perfect throw from Manning or 6. Methusaleh sure had one and baking powder and combine.
Fiedler 7. Ess or samech in Greek
Bake at 350 degrees for about 20
Then, alternatively mix the flour mix- minutes or until lightly brown. Cool
20. Miracle-___ (it might be used on Tu 8. 72-Across, essentially
ture, eggs, and orange juice, beating on wire racks.
BShvat) 9. Jean who was the Abba of Dada
21. Rival of Lauers Today Show, famil- 10. Flat fish thats kosher (and rhymes after each addition.
iarly with krill)
23. Cartoon girl who teaches Stitch 11. Jewish law rather than cremation
about Elvis 12. Home of the Great Roman
24. Father of Rachel and Leah
26. Asserts a right to, like the Jews to
Synagogue, to locals
13. Rabbi Carlebach or Riskin Gluten-free/nut-free/dairy free hamantashen by Orly
Jerusalem 18. Peninsula near Israel
29. Achi 22. Ken, to a pirate BETH JANOFF CHANANIE
31. The first lady? 24. What Wilpons Mets won before
32. (Asian) language spoken in the least making the 2015 WS Orly Gottesman, a.k.a. Orly the Baker, a young pastry chef who grew up in Englewood, went
anti-Semitic country 25. Eureka! or Bivadai! to the Moriah and Frisch schools, trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Australia, and created Blends
33. The Baba ___ (Rabbi Israel 27. Skinny (like Gal Gadot) by Orly, gluten-free market flour mixtures, shares this recipe with our readers.
Abuhatzeira) 28. Wrestling star John who once host-
34. Movie org. that lists Schindlers ed 63-Down
List as the all-time 8th greatest 30. Tote overflowing with Chanukah Grandma Florences Easy and
36. Need for Nachman? gelt, e.g.
38. The Sea of Galilee is Israels ___ 35. ___air (El Al alternative) Delicious Gluten Free Hamantashen
42. Har ___ (Jerusalem neighborhood) 37. 2012 Same Mendes Bond flick
43. What honey can never do, appar- 39. Like when a 66-Down team plays Yield: 20 small or 15 larger ment, mix sugar, margarine, egg, orange
ently Maccabi Tel- Aviv, usually hamantashen. Recipe may be doubled.
44. JCC alternative 40. Like Israel of other religions
juice, and vanilla extract together for 1
47. Mel Brooks ___ Kaminsky 41. Shaliach minute on low setting until well blended.
50. Dead Sea Spa item 45. ___lo Green, former co-judge with Ingredients: Add Blends by Orly London Blend and
52. Like the trees in the Golan com- Adam Levine 3/4 cup white granulated sugar (or a bit mix for another minute on medium until a
pared to the Negev 46. Landing listing at TLV less if you prefer a less sweet dough) thick dough is formed. Refrigerate dough
54. Where Cubans Mavericks have 47. Hebrew counterparts of the letter A
11 tablespoons Crisco* or margarine for at least 15 minutes to harden.
spent most of the season 48. Jewish Bride
57. More like Esau than Jacob 49. Like this clue or butter Take some dough and form it into a ball
58. Actress Fanning in 53-Downs 51. ___ Yomi (daily Talmudic study) 1 egg about the size of a golf ball. On either a
Super 8 53. Director J.J. 3 tablespoons orange juice floured surface (or to save time, directly
59. Jethro was happy about all the 55. On shpilkes 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
good that the Lord had done ___ 56. Black for Tefillin or white for tzitzit on the parchment lined cookie sheet)
2 cups Blends by Orly London Blend use your hand to flatten the dough into
Israel (Ex. 18:9) strings
60. Goosebumps authors initials 62. Letter before Yud a circle. (I use a glass as a cookie cut-
61. Features of Mount Scopus Botanical 63. Lorne Michaels skit comedy show, *For a healthier option, try replacing ter to make a circle- BJC). Fill center of
Gardens for short the Crisco shortening with Crisco dough circle with good quality preserves
64. Winner for Best Picture..and then 65. Marvel great Stan coconut oil or prune filling and fold the dough into a
not....or a hint to 17, 26, 38, and 66. Casspis league
54-Across 67. Completed (an IDF assignment) Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees and coat a triangle.
68. Last name of music star Beck cookie sheet with parchment paper. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until dough
69. Difference between amar and The solution to last weeks puzzle
is on page 55. In a stand mixer using the paddle attach- appears a very light brown in color.
ammar

Arts & Culture
Questioning Return
AVRAHAM BRONSTEIN
T
he Hebrew word teshuvah can
mean return, repentance,
or response. By extension, a
chozer bteshuvah is a penitent,
literally someone who returns to a sense of
having the answers. Conversely, a chozer
bsheilah, someone who returns to ques-
tion, is modern Hebrew for someone who
once was religious but now is more skep-
tical. In her debut novel, Questioning
Return, Beth Kissileff, a Pittsburgh writer
who was raised in Teaneck, explores the
roles of questions and answers as people
develop and adjust their identities.
The novels protagonist, Wendy Goldberg, Beth Kissileff
is spending a year in 1990s-era Jerusalem,
writing her dissertation on the self-percep- to give way. She finds teachers and men-
tion of baalei teshuvah. In particular, she is tors who accept her for who she is, and for
researching whether baalei teshuvah truly whom Torah study and religious life are
feel that they have changed fundamentally frameworks for thoughtfully living life, not
after becoming religiously observant. Her guidebooks that contain all of its answers.
own hypothesis is that they have not, and Though not ritually observant by the
she seeks to confront them with the cracks end of the book, she enjoys the Jewish
and fissures through which their original rhythm of Jerusalem, especially around
identities remain, beneath the certainty they Shabbat and the holidays, and is figur-
express in their new lives. ing out the contours of a relationship
Wendy has been on an academic track her with a modern Orthodox psychology stu-
entire adult life. Despite being a Princeton dent. Her identity is more fluid and less
graduate student abroad on a prestigious defined, more question and less answer,
Fulbright fellowship, she is fearful of failure but she is all the better for it.
and prone to overthinking, questioning her The world Wendy lives in is an authen-
qualifications and career prospects. As she tically recreated, if barely disguised, ver-
struggles to repress her own self-doubts, sion of the vibrant and diverse scene
she resists moving forward to avoid mak- a young aspiring academic would find
ing the wrong move, which would expose in Jerusalem. Those who are familiar
her as a fraud, even to the point where she with the characters and cultural touch-
has trouble actually beginning her writing. stones of that world will smile as she
As she interviews baalei teshuvah, Wendy encounters Professor Lamdan, a stand-
struggles to empathize with their ability to in for JTS/Columbias David Weiss-Halivni
recognize turning points in their lives and and the preppy, condescending reputa- about the destructive power of questions
then their ability to reorient themselves tion of graduates of Manhattans Zemer that force baalei teshuvah to confront the
once they do. (Ramaz, backwards, almost) School. inauthenticity of their transformations.
Wendys own turning point comes when The characters are a bit typecast, though, Like her main By the end, she realizes that the truth
one of her interview subjects, a troubled and the Shabbat meals sometimes seems about Reish Lakishs innermost identity
young man struggling with feelings of failure as much an exercise in allowing each char- character, was always less important than the friend-
in his chosen path as a baal teshuvah, kills acter to express a particular subgroups Kissileffs tone ship and kinship he and Rabbi Yochanan
himself in his yeshiva dorm room. As she viewpoints as a group of young people found together. As the year comes to a
copes with grief and guilt, she begins to real- chatting around a table. throughout is close, Wendy still does not know who she
ize that the most critical questions about life Kissileff does an excellent job of convey- skeptical toward is, but she has found a place, professionally,
dont require definitive answers, and what ing the intellectual and cultural depth of socially, and within Jerusalem itself. She is in
she had previously thought of as cracks Wendys world. The Torah thoughts deliv- the baalei the study hall, having found her own Rabbi
in a facade actually are shifting attempts ered at meals and lectures she attends are teshuvah who Yochanan, and is thriving.
at living with purpose despite lifes uncer- substantive, though they tend to be a bit Like her main character, Kissileff s
tainties. As she spends time in Jerusalem preachy in a way that always directly relate found religion in tone throughout is skeptical toward the
and she becomes more aware of the wide to what is happening to Wendy at the outreach yeshivot. baalei teshuvah who found religion in
range of observance and ideology she and moment. References to canonical philos- outreach yeshivot, whom she generally
her friends live out, she becomes more com- ophers, Shakespeare, and Yehudah Ami- throughout the book. After inspiring Reish characterizes as smug, if not condescend-
fortable, both in her academic work and her chai abound and make sense in context. Lakish to move from the robbers den to ing. On the other hand, she elevates those
personal life. The talmudic story of Reish Lakish, the study hall, Rabbi Yochanan eventually characters whose transformations were
Coming to Jerusalem with little in the a 3rd century thief who became a baal destroys first their relationship and then more organic. If the most Jewish answer
way of Jewish background, Wendys black- teshuvah and eventually the brother- both of their lives by pointedly asking is another rhetorical question, she is say-
and-white perceptions of what it means to in-law and study partner of his teacher, whether he had truly changed. ing, then the best teshuvah is the kind that
be more or less religious gradually begin Rabbi Yochanan, is a theme that recurs At first, the story is a warning to Wendy leads to ever more sheeilot.

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Ave. Robyn Rosenfeld, (201) 262-9898, ext. 213.
(201) 408-1429,
[email protected], or Purim run in Fair Lawn:
www.jccotp.org. The Sisterhood of the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
CBI hosts its annual
Sunday Purim USATF-certified
MARCH 5 5K run/1 mile walk,
beginning and ending
Early Purim in Closter: at the shul, 10 a.m. Race
Temple Emanu-El holds proceeds benefit Camp
a Purim character Ramahs Tikvah program,
brunch with carnival an overnight camp for
games, hamantaschen, children with special
and three favorite needs. Music, snacks, and
characters, 9:30 a.m. 180 tee shirts for the first 125
Piermont Road. Tammy, registrants. Costumes
(201) 750-9997 or encouraged. 10-10
ween@templeemanu-el. Norma Ave. Registration,
com. (201) 796-5040 or
[email protected].
Book discussion in
Paramus: As part of
the One Book One
Community project
sponsored by the
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
MARCH The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly screens the Israeli Tikvah offers a discussion
film Fill the Void on Monday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. Its part of by guest facilitator Diane
6 a series, Top Films You May Have Missed. An Orthodox girl in

Tel Aviv is looking forward to an arranged marriage to a young
Ari Goldman
The news: Columbia
University journalism
Fogel on this years
book, Let There Be
Water by Seth Siegel,
man she likes, but then her older sister dies in childbirth, and her father asks profession Ari Goldman,
10:30 a.m. 304 East
Midland Ave. Refreshments.
her to marry her sisters widower. Commentary by Jim Coble, coffee, and a former New York (201) 262-7691 or www.
snacks. 411 E. Clinton Ave. (201) 408-1493 or www.jccotp.org. Times reporter, discusses jccparamus.org.
Right Off The News for
the Food for Thought
Distinguished Speaker
Shabbat opera in series at Temple Beth
Friday Teaneck: Temple Rishon in Wyckoff,
MARCH 3 Emeth offers Shabbat 9:45 a.m. Sponsored by
services at 10:30 a.m. At the Fred Emert Memorial
Shabbat in Closter: 1 p.m., a film of Giacomo Adult Education Fund
Temple Emanu-El holds Meyerbeers opera, with TBR patron
Shabbat Shabang, a LAfricaine, starring support. Breakfast
musical service for young Shirley Verrett, Ruth buffet. 585 Russell Ave.
families and seniors, Ann Swenson, Placido (201) 891-4466 or www.
6 p.m. 180 Piermont Domingo, and Justino bethrishon.org.
Diaz, will be screened, Avnet Kleiner
Road. (201) 750-2959
or email heymann@ introduced by Mark Marking National
templeemanu-el.com. Shapiro, music director Disabilities Awareness
of Cecilia Chorus of New Elana and the late Month: Temple Israel
Shabbat in Jersey York/artistic director Stephanie Prezant & Jewish Community
City: Bnai Jacob hosts of Cantori New York. Center in Ridgewood
The Shabbat Project: Desserts and beverages. Tribute concert in
Clockwise from top holds a free public
Millennial Edition, 1666 Windsor Road. Tenafly: The Kaplen JCC program with Avnet
for Jewish millennials (201) 833-1322. left, Bucky Pizzarelli, Ed on the Palisades presents Kleiner, director of
(professionals, singles, Laub, Martin Pizzarelli, the 5th annual Music
Casino in Hoboken: development for Aleh
couples, and friends, She Loved tribute in
United Synagogue Aaron Weinstein Negev-Nahalat Eran, a
20s-40s), with food, memory of Stephanie
of Hoboken holds its pioneering rehabilitation
conversation, and Concert in Closter: Prezant, 8 p.m. Live
annual Casino Night village in Israels
celebration, led by Rabbi Temple Beth El of music performed by
fundraiser, 7-11 p.m., at Negev that provides
Aaron Katz, 7-8 p.m. Northern Valley family, guest musicians,
the Hoboken Elks Club. severely disabled
176 West Side Ave. continues MusicLAB and vocalists, including
Proceeds benefit the children and adults
(201) 435-5725 or www. (Live at Beth El), a new Jonathan Prezant
Hoboken Homeless with a comprehensive
bnaijacobjc.com. series underwritten by on vocals and piano;
Shelter, Hoboken framework for life,
Whole Foods Market, Jeffrey Prezant and Udy 10:30 a.m. 475 Grove
Emergency Food Pantry,
Saturday and Jubilee Center.
with Bucky Pizzarelli and
Friends, 8 p.m.; doors
Kashkah, guitar and
vocals; Ronen Mikay, Purim pandemonium in
Street. (201) 444-9320 or
MARCH 4 1005 Washington St. visit www.synagogue.org.
open at 7:30. Bucky saxophone; Diane Honig, New Milford: Solomon
(201) 659-4000 or www. piano; Liat Tretin, Ayelet Schechter Day School Israel on campus: The
will be joined by his
Shabbat in Closter: The hobokensynagogue.org. Horn, and Daphne and of Bergen Countys Jewish Federation of
performance partner
sisterhood will participate Ed Laub, his son, Martin Sharon Amir, vocals; with Sunday @ Schechter Northern New Jersey
in all parts of services at Pizzarelli, and violinist Victor Lesser, musical Series presents Purim hosts a teen conference,
Temple Emanu-El, 9 a.m. Aaron Weinstein. 221 director, Manhattan City Pandemonium, an iCan Answer Now,
180 Piermont Road. Schraalenburgh Road. Music. Ms. Prezant died in interactive madcap at Hasbrouck Heights
(201) 750-9997 or www. (201) 768-5112 or tbenv. a rock climbing accident Purim experience with Hilton, noon-5:30 p.m.
templeemanuel.com. org/musiclab. in 2012. Funds raised will Schechters teachers, Teens will learn about
support local families in for 2- to 6-year-olds, Israel and Jewish

Calendar
issues on campus. events, spirituality, food, Kreimer. 7:30 p.m.
Purim in Hackensack: Purim in Wyckoff:
Chlo Valdary, director
of partnerships and
Monday music, and culture on
Thursdays through June Temple Beth El reads Temple Beth Rishon has
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801.
outreach at Jerusalem MARCH 6 22, 7 p.m. Course will be the megillah, 7p.m. a carnival-style Purim
University, Jon team-taught by Bergen Refreshments including celebration with laser
Museum trip: Jewish make your own sundaes. tag, game truck, carnival
Rudnitsky, comedian/
actor, and Shahar Azani, Federation of Northern
County Reform rabbis
including Paula Feldstein, 280 Summit Ave.
(201) 342-2045.
games, photo booth,
inflatables, face painters,
In New York
executive director, New Jerseys Reach for Paul Jacobson, David
StandWithUs, will speak.
(201) 820-3944 or www.
the Pomegranate goes to
the Tenement Museum in
Widzer, Steven Sirbu,
Barry Diamond, Barry
Purim in Paramus:
arts & crafts, and food,
11 a.m.-1 p.m. 585 Russell Tuesday
jfnnj.org/iCAN. Manhattan for a docent- Schwartz, and Jordan
The JCC of Paramus/ Ave. (201) 891-4466. MARCH 7
led tour, 11:30 a.m., Congregation Beth
Millstein, and sponsored Tefillah offers family Purim in Closter: Temple
followed by lunch at by the Union for Reform
Reserve Cut Kosher services led by Rabbi Beth El has a carnival,
Judaism. 385 Howland Arthur Weiner and 11:30 a.m., with games,
Steak House. Bus service Ave. www.reformjudaism.
available. Minimum gift Cantor Sam Weiss, and food, and surprises. 221
org/learning/intro- a traditional service led Schraalenburgh Road.
to JFNNJ required. www. judaism/introduction-
jfnnj.org/pom. by Rabbi Avram Kogen, (201) 768-5112.
judaism-new-jersey 7:15 p.m. Carnival at
8:15 with food, drink, Purim in Tenafly: The
Tuesday Friday singing, dancing, live Rubach Family Purim
MARCH 7 music, and annual raffle. Carnival is at the Kaplen
MARCH 10 Costumes encouraged. JCC on the Palisades,
Safam 304 E. Midland Ave. 1- 4 p.m. Children, who
Baby group in Hoboken: Shabbat in Teaneck: are encouraged to wear Pablo Zinger and
The United Synagogue (201) 262-7691.
Concert in New Temple Emeth offers a costumes, will find Nicole Murad
Brunswick: Safam, the of Hoboken hosts the Purim spiel to the tunes Purim in Closter: bounce houses, slides,
Boston-based band twice-a-month PJ Library of Carol King following ADRIANA SANANES
Temple Beth El invites games, prizes, life-size
that has dominated the Baby Meetup, 11 a.m., services at 8 p.m. the community to cartoon characters, Jewish chamber music
Jewish music scene with Jewish stories, 1666 Windsor Road. join in an adult Purim popcorn, and cotton in NYC: The Metropolitan
in America since 1974, songs, and occasional (201) 833-1322. celebration, 7:30 p.m. candy. Children with Playhouse in the East
performs at Rutgers to guest speakers for
221 Schraalenburgh Rd. special needs and their Village presents A
parents and babies under
benefit the soon-to-open
Eva and Arie Halpern 24 months old. 115 Park Saturday (201) 768-5112. families are welcome
from noon1 for games
Rainbow of Jewish
Songs with pianist
Hillel House on the Ave. (201) 659-4000 or MARCH 11
Rutgers Universitys Wilf kaplanprograms@gmail. Sunday and booths, Purim crafts,
and other activities for
Pablo Zinger and singer
Nicole Murad, including
Family Campus. New com. Shabbat/Purim in MARCH 12 an hour of fun before songs in Ladino and
building guided tours Wayne: Architect the carnival opens to the
Benefit boutique in Yiddish, along with
for sponsors will begin Stephen Schwartz guides Purim in Emerson: public. Seventh- through
Wyckoff: Ladies Jewish-influenced songs
at 4:30 p.m., followed participants in recreating Congregation Bnai 12th-graders can receive
Night Out boutique by Cole Porter, Leonard
by dinner with Safam; the ancient city of Israels annual Purim community service
benefits Zahal Shalom Bernstein, and Astor
general tours begin at Shushan, where the story shpiel, directed by hours volunteering.
at Temple Beth Rishon, Piazzolla, 7:30 p.m.
6. Concert doors open of Purim happened, with Cantor Lenny Mandel 411 E. Clinton Ave.
6-10 p.m., with jewelry, 220 East Fourth St.,
at 6:30; concert at 7. Legos, at Temple Beth and featuring Hebrew (201) 408-1485.
gifts, stationery, active between Avenues A and
70 College Ave. www. Tikvah, 3-5 p.m. Megillah school students and
wear, childrens clothing, B. (800) 838-3006 or
rutgershillel.org. reading at 5; pizza megillah reading are Purim in Fort Lee:
scarves, accessories, metropolitanplayhouse.
and ice cream served at 9:30 a.m.; a carnival Chabad of Fort Lee
Israeli film in Tenafly: personalized gifts, and org.
afterward. 950 Preakness with games, prizes, and presents the Ultimate
IAC Cinematec, a more. Admission includes
Ave. Reservations, food follows. Costumes Superhero Purim
series of Israeli films at shopping, food, and
[email protected]. celebration at Chabad
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, continues with
wine. (201) 783-4522 or
www.zahalshalom.org. Purim in Bayonne: Join
encouraged. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272or of Fort Lee. Top secret
megillah reading,
Singles
www.bisrael.com.
Farewell Baghdad, Temple Emanu-El for a 3:30 p.m.; feast and
7 p.m. The English- Wednesday megillah reading and Purim in Woodcliff party with DJ, photo Friday
subtitled series continues Wondergy Laser show, Lake: Temple Emanuel booth, face painting, MARCH 3
May 28 with Is That MARCH 8 6:30 p.m. Costumes and more, at 4. Dress
of the Pascack Valley
You? 411 E. Clinton Ave. encouraged. 735 throws Beach Party as your favorite
Susie Fishbein in Teaneck Shabbaton: The
(201) 408-1409. Kennedy Boulevard. Purim with megillah superhero. 808 Abbott
Closter: Temple Emanu- Shidduch Project hosts
(201) 436-4499 or reading, 10 a.m.; wear Boulevard. Reservations, a pre-Purim Shabbaton
El holds a cooking templeemanuelbayonne@ (201) 886-1238 or www.
shorts and flip flops. for modern Orthodox/
demonstration and gmail.com. chabadfortlee.com.
There will be carnival machmir professionals,
tasting with chef/
games, rides, and food. 23-40, at Congregation
bestselling cookbook Purim in Closter: Purim in Hackensack:
87 Overlook Drive. Keter Torah. Includes
author Susie Fishbein, Megillah, seudah, and Temple Beth El screens
(201) 391-0801. three meals, oneg with
7:30 p.m. 180 Piermont Purim Balloonapalooza a documentary, Deli
Road. (201) 750-9997 or speakers, cocktails, and
at Temple Emanu-El, 6:30 Purim in Fair Lawn: Man, and offers a
www.templeemanu-el. speed dating; musical
p.m. Show, followed by a The sisterhood and Purim seudah dinner,
com. Havdalah and kumsitz,
carnival, games, prizes, mens progress club at 3:30 p.m. 280 Summit and housing. Hosted
and food. Information, the Fair Lawn Jewish Ave. Reservations,
Rabbi David Silber by Rachel Ruchlamer
Thursday events@templeemanu-el.
com or call (201) 750-
Center/CBI host a Purim
carnival, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.,
(201) 342-2045. and Dr. Shani Ratzker.
Reflections on the Book MARCH 9 9997.
Shidduchprojects@gmail.
of Esther: The adult with games, costumes,
crafts, spin art, goldfish,
Monday com or (201) 522-4776.
education committees Purim in Jersey City:
Talking about prizes, cotton candy, and MARCH 13
of Congregations Rinat
Yisrael and Netivot
menopause: The Graf Bnai Jacob hosts Purim
ChiliFest with services,
snacks. 10-10 Norma Ave. Sunday
Center for Integrative Womens Purim
Shalom, both in Teaneck, Medicine at Englewood 7 p.m., followed by chili,
(201) 796-5040. MARCH 5
present Is God in the symposium: Temple
Hospital & Medical Center beer, and hamantashen. Purim in Paramus: Emanuel in Woodcliff
Megillah?, 8 p.m., at offers a discussion, Costumes encouraged. The JCC of Paramus/ Pre-Purim benefit:
Rinat. The program Lake offers a Frum singles, 30-45,
Winter Blues? Or is it 176 West Side Ave. Congregation Beth symposium, Womens
features Rabbi David Menopause? 6:30 p.m. (201) 435-5725. Tikvah has a Purim meet at Marine Park
Silber, dean of the Drisha Issues Today and How Simcha Hall in Brooklyn
Free valet parking. magic show, 11 a.m., Judaism and the Torah
Institute and author (201) 608-2377 or Purim in Woodcliff and a carnival with a for dinner, sushi and
of a new book, For Help Us Cope, led by wine bar, music,
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Rockland community welcomes

Jewish educator, Dr. Zohar Raviv
Dr. Zohar Raviv, international Hillel of Rockland, JCC
vice president of education Rockland, Rockland Jew-
for Taglit-Birthright Israel, an ish Family Service, Holo-
acclaimed educator and Jew- caust Museum & Center
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Tuesday, March 7, at the New tions Shaarey Israel and
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p.m., at the Rockland JCC campus. Nanuet Hebrew Center, Reform Temple
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what can be done about it for the Jew- The New City Jewish Center is at 47
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Israeli musicians in Ridgewood

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Holocaust book discussion on Monday 19, at 4 p.m. Pianist Benjamin Goodman
and mezzo soprano Inbal Milliger, both
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and the America-Israel Cultural Founda-
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Threatened its probably coincidental, Lynch said. I interfaith prayer rally together with the threats. In the meantime, shes tried to use
FROM PAGE 31 dont know if theres any rhyme or reason Jewish community. them to teach her 14-year-old twins about
Three of the four of the most-targeted to why people are chosen or how theyre This community is incredibly resilient, the experience of being a minority in the
JCCs are in relatively small Jewish com- chosen. Maybe its just random, and we Lynch said. The outpouring of support United States.
munities. (That does not include Tenafly.) got the short straw multiple times. weve had from the general community as [Im] trying to explain to them that
But neither Sax nor Betzy Lynch, execu- Lynch said the communitys intimate well has been phenomenal. Birmingham is even though we dont really recognize it,
tive director of the Levite JCC in Birming- feel has been an advantage in dealing with an incredibly generous and philanthropic our heritage, our family group, is one of
ham, feels that theyve been targeted due the threats. Birminghams Muslims, whose and faithful community. privilege in a way, she said. Were not
to their size. mosque recently received death threats, Shirley, the Nashville health director, part of any of those groups thats the focus
Im going to make the assessment that have also reached out, organizing a recent said she continues to be shocked by the of hatred. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Republican senators New survey shows 89 percent of Israelis

offer bill cutting funding to PA satisfied with their lives
A group of leading Republican senators the president, Graham said at a press About 89 percent of Israelis are satisfied and social welfare, the environment, civic
reintroduced legislation Tuesday seek- conference, Haaretz reported. with their lives, a new survey from Israels involvement, and material wealth.
ing to cut off all U.S. funding to the Pal- Graham, along with Sens. Dan Coats Central Bureau of Statistics shows. The number of Israelis who were satis-
estinian Authority if the PA continues its (R-Ind.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), have rein- According to the survey, 91 percent of fied with their employment rose from 81.5
policy of paying monetary rewards to troduced the legislation, which would Jewish respondents and 82 percent of Arab percent in 2002 to 88.4 percent in 2015.
terrorists. require the U.S. secretary of state to cer- respondents were satisfied or very satis- Seventy-one percent of respondents were
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pro- tify that the PA has ended its policy of fied with their lives. The categories used satisfied with the health care they have
posed the measure, the Taylor Force paying monetary rewards to terrorists to measure satisfaction were employment received, with 15 percent calling it very
Act, last September. While the bill did and their surviving family members. quality, personal security, health care, good and 56 percent deeming it good.
not initially receive support from Dem- The legislation was named after Amer- housing, education and skills, personal JNS.ORG
ocrats, Graham said that he believes ican veteran Taylor Force, who was
the legislation now would garner such stabbed to death in a Palestinian terror Israeli-born Omri Casspi
approval. If this comes to the floor, it attack that left 10 others wounded in waived by NBAs New Orleans Pelicans
will pass with support from both par- Jaffa in March 2016.
ties, and then the bill will be signed by JNS.ORG The National Basketball Associations New for the Kings, Pelicans, Cleveland Cava-
Orleans Pelicans waived forward Omri liers, and Houston Rockets.
Casspi, the first Israeli-born player in the Casspi, 28, scored 12 points in his only
Bipartisan House taskforce leagues history, after he suffered a broken game for the Pelicans. After posting
on anti-Semitism resumes thumb in his first game with the team. career-best averages of 11.8 points and 5.9
The Pelicans recently had acquired rebounds per game last season with the
The U.S. House of Representatives Jewish day schools across the country Casspi from the Sacramento Kings as part Kings, during his second stint with the
announced its relaunch of a bipartisan are deplorable. We look forward to of their trade for All-Star center DeMar- team that drafted him in 2009, Israels
taskforce for combating anti-Semitism working with our colleagues in Congress cus Cousins. The 6-foot-9 Casspi, a native only NBA player had seen his playing time
in response to the recent bomb threats to find innovative solutions that match of Holon, has averaged 8.4 points and and numbers drop this season before the
at Jewish community centers and vandal- the 21st-century face of this ancient big- 4.2 rebounds per game, while shooting trade to New Orleans.
ism at Jewish cemeteries. otry, the taskforce members said in a about 37 percent from three-point range JNS.ORG
The lawmakers heading the taskforce statement.

include U.S. Reps. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), The taskforce with more than 100 Israel names four new conservative justices
Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), Republicans and Democrats said it to Supreme Court
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Ted Deutch serves as a forum for educating [House]
(D-Fla.), Kay Granger (R-Texas), Marc members on this distinct form of intol- Israels Judicial Nomination Committee Zylbertal, as well as Chief Justice Miriam
Veasey (D-Texas), and Peter Roskam erance and to engage with the Trump named four new justices to the countrys Naor.
(R-Ill.). administration, foreign leaders and civil 15-member Supreme Court. The incoming justices represent the
The recent desecration of Jewish society organizations to share best prac- The four justices named last week are more conservative tone that Israeli Justice
grave sites and bomb threats target- tices and collaborate on solutions to Jerusalem District Court Judge David Minister Ayelet Shaked has sought to intro-
ing Jewish community centers and rebuff this systemic problem. JNS.ORG Mintz, Haifa District Court President Yosef duce to the countrys judiciary.
Elron, Haifa District Court Judge Yael Will- These judicial nominations reflect the
ner, and Tel Aviv District Court Deputy human and legal diversity that is vital to us
Israel carries out evictions in settlement President George Karra. They will assume as a society, and which was sorely lacking
office throughout the next six months, at this level of the judiciary, Shaked said,
Some 100 Israeli security officers climbed on the roof and urged police to and will replace retiring Justices Elya- adding, Our judicial flagship has now
arrived Tuesday in the West Bank com- refuse the eviction orders. kim Rubinstein, Salim Joubran, and Zvi changed its course. JNS.ORG
munity of Ofra to carry out the court- Ofra-based Rabbi Avi Gisser had
ordered eviction of nine homes that instructed the settlements residents to Israeli soldier wounded
were built illegally on private Palestin- show restraint and mount only nonvio- in shooting attack near Efrat
ian land. The evictions were carried out lent resistance to the eviction.
a week before the March 5 deadline set Whats happening here is a great An Israel Defense Forces soldier sustained for the terrorist, who remained at large as
by the court. injustice. No one will gain anything from minor injuries Tuesday when Israeli of Tuesday.
The security officers arrived at the it. This is destruction for the sake of troops on routine patrol in the West Bank Overnight, Israeli military forces and
settlement unarmed. Hundreds of pro- destruction only. Nevertheless, we are came under fire. Shin Bet security agents operating in
testers barricaded themselves in one of law-abiding citizens, and there will be The incident took place on the outskirts several locations across the West Bank
the homes slated for eviction and faced no violence here, Gisser said. of the community of Efrat in the Gush arrested four Palestinians wanted for ques-
off against security forces, while others JNS.ORG Etzion region. The soldier was treated tioning by the defense establishment.
onsite. Security forces canvassed the area JNS.ORG

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n 1 Guests enjoyed an evening of din- 5 6

ing, dancing, and celebration at A
Different Night Celebrating Our
Community, Temple Emanu-El Clo-
sters 89th annual gala. The activities
included a trivia game with questions
about the six honored organizations
Englewood Hospital and Medical
Center, Jewish Family and Childrens
Services of Northern New Jersey, the
Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey, the Jewish Home Family, the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, and
Solomon Schechter Day School of
Bergen County. COURTESY EMANU-EL
n 2 On February 12, despite the

snow and ice, parents and chil-
dren participated in Game Show
Mania in Temple Beth Tikvah in
Wayne. They played versions of
Jeopardy, Name that Tune, Tug of
War, Simon Says, Lets Make a Deal,
Word Scrambles, and Brain Chal-
lenge. The day was organized by
a committee led by Dana Ruder-
man and Beryl Paul. COURTESY TBT
n 3 Shterney Kanelsky, pictured cen- n 4 Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lakes reli- n 6 Sixth and seventh-graders from Valley Chabads Hebrew
ter, hosted a womens farbrengen gious school students made hamantashen in anticipation of Purim. school held the second annual Challah Bake Mitzvah Project to
at her home to commemorate the raise funds for Israels lone soldiers. The students sold 92 chal-
yahrzeit of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka n 5 Shira Weiner demonstrated how to make a challah at a recent lahs to their family and friends, and raised $983 to support the
Schneerson, wife of the late Rabbi program for bakers of all ages at the JCC of Paramus/Congrega- soldiers through the Chayal El Chayal program. Hebrew school
Menachem Schneerson. Sushi and tion Beth Tikvah. Participants took home their loaves to bake. parent Shelly Klein of Woodcliff Lake organized the project. Rabbi
desserts were served. The event also Yosef Orenstein is shown with them. COURTESY VALLEY CHABAD
marked Shterney Kanelskys birthday.

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giants like Intel need Conversation of Your Life initiative
fresh Israeli tech offers community events for Teaneck
ISRAEL21C STAFF Is there ever a good time to talk about serious illnesses and and how to advocate for better care for yourself or your
medical crises? Or, what kind of care youd want through loved ones.
To understand the strong and rising impact of Israeli the end of your life? Beginning in March, Holy Name Med- On Wednesday, March 29 at 10:30 a.m. at the Richard
startups on the U.S. tech scene, consider this months ical Center, the Township of Teaneck, and Age-Friendly Rodda Comunity Center will be a program on Advance
Super Bowl LI. Teaneck will present a series of Conversation of Your Directives: What You Need to Know.
Intel and FOX Sports unveiled a 360-degree Be the Life events, covering such topics as: Following a shortfilm, Lauren Van Saders, administra-
Player replay technology giving viewers an unprec- Your life: What gives you joy, pleasure and meaning tive director of post-acute services at Holy Name Medical
edented, immersive players-eye view on the football and how that meshes with deciding about the care youd Centers Community Hospice Program and Villa Marie
championship. The groundbreaking technology was want if you faced a life-limiting illness. Claire Hospice, will discuss how to start the conversation
first developed in Israel by eight-person Replay Tech- Good communication: Talking about your preferences and the process, and will share tools and resources avail-
nologies in collaboration with Intel, which then devel- with your loved ones and your health care providers. able to create your advance directive.
oped it further with a large team after buying the 3D Advance care planning: Documenting your wishes and The program will continue in April with talks on Estate
video technology startup in March 2016 as the corner- designating someone close to you who understands them Planning for Elders and Patient-Centered Care: Goals for
stone of its new Intel Sports Group. and can speak for you if you cant speak for yourself. Care at the End of Life.
The California-based multinational has been sup- The events begin with a meet the author event at 2 p.m. For more information, visit www.holyname.org/events
porting and acquiring Israeli companies since 1974. on Sunday, March 12, at the Teaneck Public Library. or call (201) 833-3336.
Many of Intels core products are developed in Ellen Rand, hospice volunteer, former New York Times Admission to all events is free. Conversation of Your
Israel, said Joel Fisch, director of Intel Sports Groups columnist, author of Last Comforts: Notes from the Fore- Life is an initiative of the New Jersey Healthcare Quality
Technology Collaborations, speaking at a press event front of Late Life Care and Teaneck resident, will discuss Institutes Mayors Wellness Campaign.
at the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit in Jerusalem her book, trends in person-centered care at the end of life,
on February 16. Representatives of some 200 multina-
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