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Israelis give chickpeas
a chance, every day
l Were sorry.
International Chummus Day came

and went last Friday, May 13, and we
forgot to tell you about it.
Truth be told, were only slowly getting used to the newest holiday on the
calendar, invented in 2012 by AmericanIsraeli entrepreneur Ben Lang.
Lang declared that the point of the
holiday is to bring people together
from around the world, in particular
the Middle East, but as Haaretz noted,
International Chummus Day is not
without controversy, much like chummus itself. Last year, a Twitter account
named Lebanese Problems wished its
26,000 followers a happy International
Chummus Day, but added, P.S. Hummus is not Israeli.
Regardless of who invented chummus, however, its certainly a staple of
the Israeli palette. A survey conducted
by Israels Geocartography Institute
commissioned by a restaurant called

Hummus Abu Ghosh and a credit company found that 68 percent of Israelis
have chummus in their refrigerator, 93
percent of Israelis eat it weekly, and
more than half of them like wiping it
from the bowl in a circular motion.
Some 60 percent of respondents bring
their chummus home from a grocery
store, 15 percent shop at chummus restaurants and 13 percent make it themselves. Older people are more likely to
make their own: 22 percent of those 55
and up are chummus do-it-yourselfers.
One in 20 Israelis eat it six days a
week which means they have a very
good chance of having observed International Chummus Day properly, even
without our having reminded them.
One more thing: Lang has declared
June 12 to be International Falafel Day.
Dont say we didnt warn you.
Larry Yudelson
Another burning issue from Target

l You may have heard about the
controversy in some parts over Targets transgender-friendly bathroom

policy. Now, here comes another
religion-related snafu from the store.
Just in time for next weeks Lag baOmer bonfires. the Consumer
Products Safety Commission announced this
week that Target is
recalling menorahs
due to wait for it
fire hazard.
Apparently,
whoever at Target
was responsible for
supplying the store
with menorahs last
year forgot to ask the
Chinese manufacturers whether this particular
acrylic model was actually safe
to use with candles.
The firm has received eight reports of the product melting, including three reports of fire, declares the
Commissions website. No property damage or injuries have been
reported.
Consumers should immediately
stop using the recalled menorahs,
the Commission urges, dimming the
holiday joy among those

few hardy souls accustomed to celebrating Chanukah
for eight months,
rather than eight
nights. Those who
adhere strictly to
Jewish law would
not have bought this
particular menorah in
the first place, given its
stepped pyramid design,
which, while not conforming
to halacha, is timely for those lighting
during the Passover season.
Will Target be more careful about
its Chanukah products in the future?
We hope not, since were considering
asking them to market the wooden
(!) menorah we constructed back in
kindergarten. We always suspected
the hand-hewn design could be a
Larry Yudelson
burning success.
ON THE COVER: This photograph by Doris Levin is of Alexandra Gerasimovna,

who was born in Belarus in 1918 and survived the war by fleeing to Tashkent,
Uzbekistan. A widow, Ms. Gerasimovna insisted on putting a photo of her
husband in front of her heart, Ms. Levin said.
Some of the rare bronze artifacts that were discovered in Caesarea.

Photo by Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority
Finding treasure in Caesarea

l Two divers discovered the cargo
of an ancient Roman merchant ship
off the coast of Caesarea, Israel. The
ship sank during the late Roman
period, about 1,600 years ago. The
divers made their discovery during
Pesach.
The divers, Ran Feinstein and Ofer
Raanan, got in touch with the Israel
Antiquities Authority immediately,
and the IAAs archaeologists dove
right in. Later dives led to the discovery of a trove of treasures from the
ship. Many were very well-preserved.
The items include a bronze lamp
with the image of the sun god Sol, a
figurine of the moon goddess Luna,
a lamp in the image of the head of
an African slave, animal statues,
and two metallic lumps made from
thousands of coins in the form of
the pottery vessel in which they had
been carried.
The unique metallic lumps weigh
about 44 pounds. Many of the coins

bear the image of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great, who was
the first Roman emperor to convert
to Christianity, and who made his
new religion the empires own.
These are extremely exciting
finds, which apart from their extraordinary beauty are of historical significance, the head of the IAAs marine
archeology unit, Jacob Sharvit, said.
The location and distribution of the
ancient finds on the seabed indicate
that a large merchant ship was carrying a cargo of metal slated for recycling, which apparently encountered
a storm at the entrance to the harbor
and drifted until it smashed into the
seawall and the rocks.
The findings are in an amazing
state of preservationas though
they were cast yesterday rather than
1,600 years ago, he added.
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Noshes
We know the truth. Hes not Hitler.

Melania Trump, Donalds wife, in a Du Jour interview; in the same interview she
said that journalist Julia Ioffe, the target of anti-Semitic threats in response to a
story about Melania, had provoked them.
ALDENS ODYSSEY:
Star Wars star

has persevered
ALDEN EHRENREICH, 26,
recently has been cast as
Han Solo in a new
stand-alone Star Wars
movie that is now in
preproduction. The film
will tell something of
Solos life before the
story told in the first
released Star Wars
movie (1977). Much of
the media frenzy since
his casting has focused
on Ehrenreichs early
career luck a short
comedy video that he
made when he was 14,
was shown at a friends
bat mitzvah. STEVEN
SPIELBERG, now 69, saw
it, liked it, and helped
Ehrenreich get TV parts.
Eventually, he introduced
Ehrenreich to his friend
Francis Ford Coppola. In
2009, Coppola gave
Ehrenreich the co-starring role in Teatro, a
film noir. The movie did
bad box office, but Alden
got critical raves. In
2013, he co-starred in
Beautiful Creatures, a
big budget flop. But he
made a nice career
recovery in the COEN
brothers 2016 comedy
Hail, Caesar. He fought
for the role and proved
that he could be funny.
Ive long followed
Ehrenreichs career
because a Los Angeles friend of mine has
known him since his
bris. Ive rooted for
Alden because of the
great tragedy he suf-
Alden Ehrenreich
Steven Spielberg
Randy Schoenberg
Allen Ginsberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Moise Katumbi
fered. I imagine that tabloids soon will dig into

this new stars background and discover
what Ive long known,
and I fear that they will
not present the tragedy
with sensitivity. What
was that tragedy? The
Malibu (Calif.) Times
summed it in 1998, in
an article that is still
online: The year [1997]
began with the news of
a violent and unexplainable holiday tragedy
when Mark Ehrenreich, a
Malibu-based CPA, was
stabbed to death with
a kitchen carving knife,

allegedly by his brother,
a schizophrenic, whom
he was picking up at a
halfway house in Long
Beach to take back to
his home for a family
Hanukkah celebration.
His 8-year-old son [Alden] was sitting in the
car beside him when he
was attacked. (Aldens
fathers ancestry and his
fathers death are also
described on a Geni.com
page recently created
by attorney RANDY
SCHOENBERG of
Woman in Gold fame).
I cant imagine how a

child recovers from this
sort of incident, let alone
becomes a movie star.
But thats what has happened, and I give great
credit to Alden and his
mother, SARI, an interior
designer.
Its pretty
amazing that a
74-year-old Brooklyn/
Vermont Jewish socialist
has won a slew of
primaries. Perhaps more
amazing is that Senator
BERNIE SANDERS is the
subject of poems
penned by two of the
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about Sanders while visiting Burlington, Vermont
in 1986. (Sanders then
was Burlingtons socialist
mayor.) Heres a bit of it:
Socialist snow on the
streets / Socialist talk in
the Maverick Bookstore /
Socialist kids sucking
socialist lollipops. A
Jewish paper, the
Forward, says it looks like
Sanders and Ginsburg
met several times.
Then on May 6, one
of the last living giants of the Beat era,
San Francisco poet and
City Lights bookstore
founder LAWRENCE
FERLINGHETTI, now 97,
published another ode to
Bernie in the San Francisco Chronicle. Called
The First and Last of
Everything, the poems
closing lines read: The
next-to-last lefty looking
for Obama Nirvana/The
first fine day of Bernie
Sanders White House
Occupation/to set forth
upon this continent a
new nation! (Ferlinghettis mother was Jewish).
So, just when you
thought we were seeing
the final fading away of
Beat poets and American
Jewish socialists (like the
Yiddish-speaking democratic socialists who
founded the Forward in
1897) theyre back in a

pretty big way.
Last week, I
noted that
Icelands president has
an Israeli Jewish wife.
Major media outlets, like
the New York Times,
now are reporting on a
major crisis in the Congo
(the much bigger of two
countries with this
name). The current
president is hunkering
down rather than
relinquishing power
when he is term-limited
out at the end of 2016.
Whether the fall election
even will happen is
unclear. His rival for the
presidency is Moise
Katumbi, 51, a very rich
businessman and
governor of Congos
most prosperous state.
Hes popular because he
is competent, and some
say he is less corrupt
than most Congolese
politicians. His father,
like many Sephardi
Greek Jews from the
island of Rhodes, fled to
Africa in the 1930s when
the Italian fascists took
over the island. Unlike
most of Rhodes Jews,
Katumbis father stayed
in the former Belgian
Congo when it became
independent in the
1960s. He wed the
daughter of a local chief.
Moise identifies as
Christian, but his fathers
Jewish background may
be used against him.
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Inclusive Orthodoxy from the grassroots up
Porat is launched; local founding committee members talk about it
JOANNE PALMER
t seems safe to say that most religious

people in the modern world struggle
with the relationship between tradition and modernity.
In the Jewish world, the struggle is specifically between halacha, Jewish law, as
determined by an unbroken chain of decisors based on the unshakeable foundation
of Gods will and Gods words, and the surrounding culture that provides such undeniable benefits as modern science, medicine,
and technology. Even the outlying groups to
the far left and far right feel some of that tug;
the closer to the center you go, the more
frequently do you feel yourself swaying one
way or the other.
Born out of the feeling that the pull to
the right might be too strong, and that civility and the sense of connection with Jews
to their left might be victims of that pull, a
group of mainly lay leaders have created a
new organization, Porat. The name, which
means fruitful, is an acronym for People for
Orthodox Renaissance and Torah.
Larry Krule of Teaneck, the creator of
the Orthodox minyan Davar, is on Porats
founding committee. Porat is a lay and
rabbinic organization that was created
with the objective of bringing thoughtful
halachic observance and progressive education to an interested, committed audience, he said, echoing the groups website, poratonline.org. Its aimed at people
who are committed to halacha, but at the
same time open to intellectual inquiry,
progressive thought, and the kind of Torah
Umadda that used to be the foundation of
the organized Orthodox community.
I think that if it is done right, it will fill an

articulated and also sometimes unarticulated need in the community.
Torah Umadda Torah and secular
knowledge is Yeshiva Universitys motto,
and the philosophy of at least part of modern Orthodoxy; it encapsulates the tension
between tradition and change. It also is itself
subject to changing interpretations. There
is a sense among the people involved in
Porat that Torah Umadda as it was originally articulated is not being sufficiently promoted and does not appear to be a primary
value of contemporary Orthodox leadership, Mr. Krule said. The synthesis with
modernity is no longer prioritized.
The word progressive comes up often
as Mr. Krule talks about Porat. How does
he define it? Its about the willingness to
engage in open discussion about gender
equality, about the position of LGBT individuals in our community, about a positive
perspective on conversion. Porat wants to
be engaged in progressive social dialogue,
while always keeping a halachic perspective
and orientation.
What is the connection between Porat
and open Orthodoxy? Mr. Krule answered
carefully. It shares the values represented
by open Orthodoxy, and institutions such
as Yeshivat Maharat and Yeshivat Chovevei
Torah, among others, are manifestations of
the principles articulated by open Orthodoxy. Avi Weiss the influential and controversial rabbi who just retired from his
decades-long position as head of the Hebrew
Institute of Riverdale is the common
thread throughout much of these elements.
There is a significant overlapping of
spheres with open Orthodoxy, but open
Congregation Kehilat Jeshurun on Manhattans Upper East Side is filled to capacity as Porat is launched with a panel discussion.
Larry Krule
Jeannie and Kenneth Prager
Rella Feldman
Rabbi Avi Weiss
Orthodoxy is a movement, not an institution.

The ideas and values associated with open
Orthodoxy are consistent with the values of
Porat, and some of the people overlap.
Its the weltanschauung, he said the
overarching world view members of those
overlapping groups share. Use that word if
you can, he added. Its a great word, and
it really captures it.
Porat was launched formally last Sunday
evening at Congregation Kehilat Jeshurun on
Manhattans Upper East Side with a panel,
moderated by Steven Bayme, the director
of the Contemporary Jewish Life department of the American Jewish Committee.
The panel looked at the future of modern
Orthodoxy, and according to founding committee member Rella Feldman of Teaneck,
it was exciting. The synagogue was filled to
capacity, both downstairs and in the balconies between 600 and 700 people.
Modern Orthodoxy understands that we
live in this world, the modern world, and we
have the benefit of partaking in the cultural
and political and social life, all the beauty,
everything that the modern secular world
has to offer, while we stay true to halacha
and to our Jewish values, Ms. Feldman said.
Modern Orthodoxy is meant to be a synthesis, creating a life that embraces both.
To use Blus words that was Blu Greenberg, one of the panelists, who is a strong
advocate for women in the modern Orthodox world we create a life where we can
be both a citizen of this world and a faithful
adherent to our inherited tradition.
Porat does not see itself as outside modern Orthodoxy; instead, its reinvigorating
the strength of modern Orthodoxy, Ms.
Feldman said. I have lived in Teaneck for
more than 40 years, and I have seen the Jewish community here change dramatically.
In its earliest days, one of its strengths
was its diversity, and the acceptable. It
wasnt a judgmental place when a community is small, it tends to be more unified.
When I first moved here, there was one
Orthodox synagogue, with about 100 families, two Conservative synagogues, and two
Reform ones. Today in Teaneck and Im
including Bergenfield and New Milford,
which didnt exist then we now have 18
Orthodox synagogues, one Conservative,
and one Reform.
With that growth has come a tremendous amount of divisions. I belong to this
synagogue, and we do this thing in this way.
You belong to that one, and you dont. The
differences arent very big. We have gotten
away from who we are as one people and
not that big a people. We have to be more
accepting and unified, and we have to be
open to non-Orthodox Jews as well.
Porat has arisen to strengthen the
Local
perspective of open Orthodoxy. You can
have speakers you dont agree with. You
can disagree. You can have a dialogue.
You cant close yourself off from everyone you disagree with.
One of the very emotional dividing lines
is the role of women, and how to make
room for women leaders, women educators, women who want to be some kind of
spiritual leaders, in our community. That is
an issue that has been pushed aside, but we
can push it aside no longer.
You cant put the genie back in the
bottle. Women are being educated, and
for some it sparks a passion, and that
grows into a passionate vocation. We can
no longer keep pushing those women
aside, as so much of the Orthodox world
does. When you meet these women, you
see that they are smart, they are sincere,
they are educated, and this is what they
are choosing to do. They cant be told
that they cant do it. They have come all
that way within the system; you cant say,
you want to be a doctor? You cant be a
doctor. You can be a nurse. Women can
aspire to anything in the secular world,
and some of them want to do it in the religious world as well.
Rabbi Avi Weiss stresses Porats lay-led,
up-from-the-bottom nature. It emerges
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Rabbi Weiss talked about the Sunday
night meeting. There is a beautiful image
in the Song of Songs of God knocking on
a door, imploring those inside to open it.
The beloved says Open the door. The picture I tried to paint is that there are many
people who are having doors slammed in
their faces. In the spirit of imitatio Deo of
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I painted a picture of those who are
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From left, Ann Baidack Pava, Rabbi Benny Lau, Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, Dr. Steven Bayme, and Blu Greenberg spoke at Kehilat Jeshurun for Porat. JAY BAR-DAVID
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The focus of the modern Orthodox world is on boundaries, on fences,
on obsessing and spending inordinate
amounts of time condemning and declaring who is and who is not in.
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Local
Piano Girl
Painting an instrument, inspiring the elderly
LOIS GOLDRICH
ight now, Jewish

Home Assisted Living has two pianos,
its longtime executive director, Lauren Levant,
says.
But when the facilitys planned
expansion is complete, there will
be a third, a brightly colored
piano in its new community
room, courtesy of 22-year-old
University of Maryland junior
Keren Straus.
It will give us an opportunity to incorporate more music
into our day-to-day living, Ms.
Levant said. We have residents who play, and our music
program is highly attended. It
brings back memories from the
past and keeps you current.
One of her favorite things is the
sight of residents feet tapping
away as they listen to music, she
added.
Ms. Straus grandmother, Bess
Herman, was a longtime resident
of the Jewish Home and Rehabilitation Center in River Vale before
it became the assisted living facility. She is thrilled to donate the
piano in her grandmothers
memory.
The story of the painted piano
begins with a project called
Play Me, Im Yours. The website streetpianos.com reports
that since its inception in 2008,
the venture or art project, as
they describe it has reached
more than 10 million people
worldwide.
More than 1,500 pianos
have already been installed in
50 cities across the globe, says
the website, from New York
to London, bearing the simple instruction, Play Me, Im
Yours. Located on streets, in
Keren Straus of Teaneck, a junior at the University of Maryland, shows her custom-painted
piano, which will be donated to the Jewish Home Assisted Living.
public parks, markets and train
stations and even on ferries, the
pianos are available for everyone to play and enjoy. Each
piano is decorated by local artists and community groups.
Ms. Straus, who grew up in
Teaneck and graduated from
the Yavneh Academy and the
Frisch School, both in Paramus,
recalled that about a year ago,
I was hanging out with friends,
and one of them said he wanted
to bring pianos to campus, have
artists paint them, and put them
outside. The pianos would then
be auctioned off. But to his dismay, the student, Nachmi Kott,
learned that it would be too
expensive to bring the pianos to
campus. So he had to come up
with an alternate plan.
He started a group, Pianos for
Play, to get the project off the
ground. Recruiting other interested people including a creative director and someone with
financial experience, Ms. Straus
said they decided hed post
online that he was looking for
pianos. When the pianos came
and come they did, one after
the other he put them in his
apartment.
He kept posting, and started
collecting them, Ms. Straus said.
After he got all the pianos, he
posted for paint and got that too.
Next, Ms. Straus a studio art
major concentrating in graphic
design was picked as one of the
five artists charged with decorating a piano.
She didnt have much time to
work on it she got the piano
at the end of February, began
the project in March, and was
interrupted by spring break.
Nevertheless, she completed

the project. I like to draw with
Sharpies and paint with watercolors, she said. I made a piece
that looked like rings and flowers
interlocking. I wanted it to be colorful and bright.
Each artist chose his or her
own look. One did a nautical
scene with a ship and octopus.
Another did an abstract piece
with wiggly dancing figures.
Money for the project was not an
issue, since the pianos and paint
were free. The group also got
some money from the school, as
well as from a Hillel event.
All the finished pianos are
being donated. But all of them
except the one that Ms. Straus
painted will remain in Maryland.
One went to the Fame Foundation, one to the College Park
Community Center, she said.
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The third went to a local preschool. The last piano were still
figuring out, she added
The idea behind the project
was that we wanted more music
and art on campus, which Ms.
Straus described as too scienceoriented. We wanted people to
sit down and play, and for others to join in. Thats what happened. Someone was playing my
piano and a girl started singing. It
brings people together.
She feels a sense of ownership
over the piano she painted, Ms.
Straus added. I worked really
hard. Once we put it out, people
came over to see it, and it was
a great feeling. It made people
feel good. I wanted mine to go
to the Jewish Home. I remember
my grandmother was there for
many years when I was young.
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Local students triumph again

Three of four Bible Quiz winners are from Bergen County
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
here was great excitement in

the gym of the Manhattan Day
School last Sunday as sixth- to
11th-graders from across the
country vied for four slots in next Mays
International Chidon HaTanach LNoar
(Youth Bible Quiz) in Jerusalem.
Three of those free tickets to Israel
ended up going to young scholars from
Bergen County, which often produces winners in the U.S. National Bible Contest for
Jewish Youth, now in its 57th year.
Day school students take the qualifying
exams in Hebrew, with separate divisions
for middle and high school, while an English version is available to students who
attend supplementary schools or community day schools, or who have no formal
Jewish education.
This years syllabus from the Tanach
the Hebrew acronym for Bible, composed
of the first initials of the words for the Five
High-school division winner Shlomi Helfgot at the National Bible Contest for
Books of Moses, Prophets, and Writings
Jewish Youth.
covered all or part of the books of Leviticus, Numbers, 2 Samuel, Isaiah,
Ezra, and Nehemiah.
about, said Rabbi Neil Winkler, who has been coaching
This years Chidon had over
children for the Bible Quiz
150 contestants from around the
for the past 32 years 30 of
country participating as national
those years while he was a
finalists, with a strong showing from Bergen County, Dovi
teacher at the Moriah School
Nadel, coordinator of the contest
in Englewood, and then over
for the Jewish Agency, said. The
Skype after he retired from
passion, excitement, and knowlMoriah and from the pulpit of
edge of Tanach in the room were
the Young Israel of Fort Lee to
inspiring.
move to Jerusalem 18 months
Uriel Simpson of Teaneck, 13, a
ago.
student at Yeshivat Noam in ParaI have been coaching a
mus, won first place in the Hebrew
group of TABC students over
middle-school division. Only a few
the Internet for the Chidon
months ago, he also was busy runevery Sunday, Rabbi Winkler
ning a fundraising campaign for
said. I was therefore elated to
Israeli soldiers in celebration of his
find out that my student Shlomi
bar mitzvah.
Helfgot scored highest in the
Uriel is Yeshivat Noams firstcountry in the Hebrew highever National Chidon HaTanach
school division and will be repThe three Hebrew division winners are all from Bergen
resenting the U.S. in the Interwinner, and we look forward to
County: Nechama Reichman of Englewood and Uriel
national Chidon next year.
having him compete in Israel
Simpson and Shlomi Helfgot of Teaneck.
Other boys from Rabbi Winnext year, the schools principal,
klers TABC group who also
Rabbi Chaim Hagler, said. We are
qualified for the national round were
contestants.
proud of Uriels dedication to Torah study
regional Bergen winner Tani Greengart,
Last year, Shlomi and his brother
and the time he spent preparing for the
Shmuel Ross, and Nathanael Vinar.
Ephraim each placed third in the highChidon.
Rabbi Winkler said he encourages parschool and middle-school divisions,
Shlomi Helfgot, also of Teaneck, a
ticipants not to put any pressure on themrespectively. Ephraim, then a seventhsophomore at Torah Academy of Bergen
selves. I want them to enjoy while they
grader at Yavneh Academy in Paramus,
County, won first place in the Hebrew
learn, he said. Getting a high score is a
shared that spot with Uriel and with Esther
high-school division.
matter of taking the time to sit and study.
Guelfguat of the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of
Nechama Reichman of Englewood, a
Over the years, Ive had 25 to 30 kids
North Jersey.
freshman at the Manhattan High School
who wound up going to the international
Two years ago, Nechama took second
for Girls, took second place in the Hebrew
round, and I was as excited with this last
place in the middle-school division as a
high-school division. (In the English division, Caleb Gitlitz of Baltimore was the
one as I was with the first one.
seventh-grader at RYNJ; Shlomi, then an
winner.)
When I first heard about the Chidon
eighth-grader at Yavneh, placed seventh.
All three Bergen winners were repeat
Hatanach in seventh grade, I didnt really
The love for Tanach is what its all
take it too seriously, Shlomi said. However, as the years progressed, I gained a
broader appreciation of the Tanach itself
and a richer for understanding of the Tanach, and that gave me the determination
to put in many hours of hard work in the
past few contests, culminating in the contest yesterday.
His past participation helped him make
educated guesses about what types of
questions would be asked, and he prepared accordingly. For example, he memorized the locations where the gentile
prophet Balaam blessed the Children of
Israel in the desert. And dont you know
they asked that, Rabbi Winkler said.
Shlomi is an active contributor to
Sefaria.org, a free library of Jewish texts
and commentaries and their interconnections in Hebrew and in translation created, edited, and annotated by an open
community. On his Sefaria bio, he reveals
that he is developing a Google add-on for
Docs for Sefaria and that he also is studying Arabic.
His father, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot,
spiritual leader of Teanecks Congregation
Netivot Shalom, gave a lecture to contestants parents about the book of Isaiah
while their children were taking the written portion of the quiz.
My wife, Rachel, and I are extremely
proud of and happy for our son, Shlomi,
on his placing first in the National Bible
Contest, Rabbi Helfgot said. Shlomi
worked really hard for the last few
months, often getting up at 5:30 a.m. and
reviewing Tanach for two hours before
he went off to school. We are so happy to
see that his commitment, hard work and
dedication allowed him to learn so much
and to achieve success.
We hope and pray he continues his
devotion to learning Torah and finding
meaning and inspiration in that endeavor.
Nechama said she attended a weekly
review class in Passaic given by Reuven
(Ruby) Stepansky, who has coached several
national winners in the past few years.
We prepared by going over the material many times, and making many lists of
similar phrases that appeared throughout
the syllabus, she said. In all, studying
involved hundreds of hours of work, but
it all paid off.
Nechama said that the hardest section
of the test required contestants to match
similar phrases throughout the syllabus in
their correct context.
I want to thank Mr. Stepansky, my parents and siblings, and most importantly
Hashem for helping me to get to this
point, she said.
For more information about participating in the National Bible Quiz, email Dovi
Nadel at dovin@jafi.org.
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engine of change, even halachic change, comes from

the grassroots.
We shouldnt always have to look over our shoulders
to the right for legitimacy. We should have confidence in
ourselves, in our communities, in our poskim halachic decisors in our rabbis, in ourselves as inclusive
ethical halachic Orthodox communities.
Rabbi Weiss does not want to use the term open
Orthodoxy. We are using the term inclusive, he said.
Inclusive Orthodoxy. There are progressive voices
across the Orthodox world, he added. I believe that
there are ten thousand who support Porats philosophy
of a more inclusive modern Orthodoxy. That is the key,
and it extends beyond any existing institution or organization. There is a silent majority out there that extends
beyond any existing institution or organization. There is
a silent majority out there that identifies very much with
the philosophy of Porat.
Dr. Kenneth Prager of Englewood also is on Porats
founding committee. He and his wife, Jeannie, recently
held a parlor meeting to introduce Porat to the community. It was a very successful meeting, he said. We
had a large turnout. Rabbi Weiss is correct in saying that
there are modern Orthodox laypeople out there who are
frustrated with the direction in which modern Orthodoxy is going.
It is going to the right, to the right, to the right. People would like some vehicle to express their frustration
with this movement, and to bring about change through
their rabbis and existing institutions.
Why Porat? There are institutions such as Chovevei
and Maharat Chovevei is a rabbinical school and
Maharat uses a similar curriculum to train women
for not-yet-clearly-defined positions of religious leadership and Jofa the Jewish Orthodox Feminist
Alliance but there is not one large organization for
laypeople, Dr. Prager said. I dont know if there is
exactly a silent majority, but I do know that there is a
substantial number of people who are frustrated with
the direction in which things are going. They have no
way personally no bring about change. I think a lot of
people are alienated from Orthodoxy because of the
rightward swing. I hope Porat does effect change. Its
badly needed.
Why the alienation? Its the nitpicking adherence to
laws, while bigger issues, like agunot women chained
to dead marriages because their husbands will not give
them religious divorces and conversion and the inclusion of LGBT people and business ethics are being left
by the wayside.
We are ever more punctilious about our observance
of molecular kashrut while not embracing LGBT people wishing to be part of the Orthodox community, and
while women continue to suffer as agunot.
There is a gross imbalance here. Judaism is supposed
to be darchei noam. Its ways are supposed to be ways of
pleasantness. Its that no longer. Now its ways of nitpicking. I find that very distressing.
I grew up in an era where modern Orthodoxy was
not like this, Dr. Prager concluded. There were wonderful, scholarly rabbis who had a very different hashkafah a very different worldview. Today, those rabbis
would be considered outsiders.
Porats next large meeting most likely will be in Chicago in September, probably right around the High Holy
Days, Rabbi Weiss said. You can find more information
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Everyone has a story

Were still important, Jewish War Veterans say and philanthropic, too
for two or three years and came out
of the service in his early 20s, Mr.
dward Rosenblatt of Fair
Rosenblatt added.
Lawn, soon to be installed
Former soldier Murray Richman,
as assistant commander of
93, also of Fair Lawn, had hoped
Jewish War Veterans Post
to be an aviator in the service, but
651, is justifiably proud of his organia medical condition kept him from
zation, founded in 1946. With some
going overseas. Instead, Mr. Rich40 members, ranging in age from 85
man remained in Maryland, where
to 96, the group includes former solhe had received his training, for sevdiers, sailors, and air force personnel
eral years, performing various jobs
who fought in World War II, Korea,
for the U.S. Army.
and now, with the addition of its
Many members entered the sermost recent member, Vietnam.
vice after I left, Mr. Rosenblatt said.
The majority of the posts memSome served on the front lines in
bers live in Fair Lawn, Mr. RosenKorea. It wasnt a great place to be.
blatt said, although its commander,
Nor was it always easy being Jew89-year-old Melvin Kaplan, lives in
ish in the military.
Elmwood Park. The post originally
One of our members, Murray
The Lt. James I. Platt JWV Post 651 of Fair Lawn installed officers earlier this month.
was housed in a building on Fair
Richman said there was a fellow
From left, appointee Jack Wall, Commander Melvin Kaplan, New Jersey Department
Lawns Plaza Road that now is home
in his group who called him a Jew
Commander Larry Rosenthal, Vice Commander George Pollack, and Vice Commander
to a nursery school.
bastard, Mr. Rosenblatt said. At the
Jules Corn.
COURTESY JWV
Founded by some 35 veterans of
time, Mr. Richman was about 21. He
World War II, the post originally
said, Id like to talk to you outside.
was led by Commander Lou Greenberg.
He lifted his hand and knocked the fellow
theyre busy, theyve got children, he
he said, is former U.S. Navy seaman and
When he died, the leadership role went to
out. Everyone has a story.
said. Thats why all veterans organizaStanley Sanders of Fair Lawn.
Every post member has a story, Mr.
Mr. Kaplan, then senior vice commander,
Another troop member, 85-year-old
tions are falling by the wayside. We sold
Rosenblatt said. His own military service,
who has held it for many years. His goal,
Julius Corn, not only is the posts treaour building and the Veterans of Foreign
in the U.S. Army, was spent in Austria in the
Mr. Kaplan said, was to make 651 a viable
surer but visits the Paramus Veterans
Wars sold theirs. Its a difficult thing to
early 1950s, when the country was under
post and to service veterans and the vetHome every week with a few others from
maintain. Still, he joked, if you feed
the control of the United States, England,
erans cause. And, he added, to try to
the organization to lead games of bingo.
them, they will come, noting that some
France, and Russia, under an agreement
do good, citing the posts many philanWe entertain them by having bingo, Mr.
nonmembers have attended when a free
reached during World War II. Working in
thropic endeavors.
Rosenblatt said. They enjoy the few dolbreakfast or free show is offered.
the ordnance division, housed in a bus facYou have to give great credit to Melvin
lars they make. Everybody loves to be a
Both Mr. Kaplan and Mr. Rosenblatt are
tory taken over by the Americans, he helped
Kaplan, Mr. Rosenblatt said. He runs this
winner.
proud of the posts philanthropic efforts.
oversee the maintenance of 655 vehicles.
organization and tries to help everyone
Mr. Corn, who served in Korea during
Through fundraising efforts such as the
He also participated in some military
and do the right thing. Now he is stepthe war there, is the posts senior vice
Shake the Can collection in front of
exercises. We had some maneuvers,
ping down. At the upcoming installation,
commander and a member of the Fair
ShopRite in Fair Lawn, the group awards a
dressed up in white uniforms because of
on June 26, George Pollack of Fair Lawn
Lawn Veterans Council and the Bergen
cash scholarship each year to two top stuthe snow, he said. We had to lie down in
will become the posts new commander.
County Veterans Council. He noted that
dents chosen by Fair Lawn High School.
the snow. It meant something to the offiMr. Rosenblatt, at 85 one of the posts
Mel Kaplan also sits on the Bergen County
It also donates to a wide variety of Jewish
cers, showing that we were prepared.
younger members, says he is most proud
Council, while George Pollack is on both
organizations, including synagogues in the
Mr. Kaplan, a naval veteran, was an elecof the fact that JWV reminds everyone
bodies.
West Point area and in Annapolis.
trician aboard the U.S.S. Mississippi, built
that weve served our country. Jews are
Mr. Rosenblatt said that after the post
We donate to all Jewish organizations,
in 1917. I went from boot camp to a Grade
a minority in the world and have served
sold its Plaza Road building more than
Mr. Rosenblatt said. While our donations
A electricians school, a civilian college in
as well as people of all other faiths. We
five years ago, it used the money to do
are not in the millions, they still help.
Tuxedo Park, Maryland, he said. I lived
served with distinction, he added. He has
nice things for the people in our orgaThe group has contributed to the Jewish
on campus. When I graduated, I went to
two medals. They all mean something,
nization for example, funding trips to
National Fund, Israel Bonds, Hatzalah, and
the ship.
he said emotionally. We are Americans.
restaurants, plays, and dances. The wives
various causes in Israel.
Another 651 troop member was in the
Acknowledging that the membership,
of former members always are welcome
Most people dont know how philanfamous Harmonicats, who became popugiven its age, is likely to decrease in the
to these excursions, he added. A recent
thropic we are, Mr. Rosenblatt said. He
lar in the 1930s, Mr. Rosenblatt said. Hes
next decade, he hopes that younger peotrip took members to the Eldridge Street
pointed to a recent group outing requiring
about 96 years old. He enlisted in 1940
ple, veterans of more recent wars, will join
Synagogue on the Lower East Side and
a $25 bus fee, paid in advance. Some took
and came out in 44 or 45. Another one, in
the post.
later to Katzs delicatessen. We couldnt
their checks back if they didnt go, but
Paramus, was in the U.S. Army band. He
I hope we can get more members,
afford to run it, Mr. Kaplan said of the
some left them as charitable donations.
played trumpet. The post just got its first
he said. Weve done a great deal for our
posts building. We got a good price from
In addition to monetary donations, on
veteran from the Vietnam War, a full-bird
country. Young people give up years of
it. We spend this money on veterans and
Memorial Day the group brings American
colonel in the Air Force. He had to leave
their life. And while he understands that
on philanthropy.
flags to the gravesides of veterans at sevbecause of his age.
younger veterans, maybe now in their 40s,
Troop leaders will take an active role
eral local cemeteries. We have a continIrving Beer of Fair Lawn, a U.S. Navy vetwill look at his group and see only people
at Fair Lawns Memorial Day Parade on
gent of men at the cemeteries who put up
eran who served in the South Pacific, was
appreciably older, he also hopes that they
May 30, riding or walking the route. We
American flags at the graves of veterans,
a mailman in an area beset by typhoons,
will see that we have something in comare important, Mr. Rosenblatt said. We
Mr. Rosenblatt said. Because some of the
Mr. Rosenblatt said. He was in a flat-botmon. Were all veterans.
were, we are, and we will still be imporcemeteries are overgrown, they go out
tomed boat and he didnt know if he would
Mr. Kaplan said that new young people
tant in the years to come. We have done
and spend hours looking for names and
live or die. Mr. Beer worked in that area
are not joining theyve got two jobs,
a great deal for our country.
putting up flags. Among these volunteers,
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Opening the door

Frisch students combine halacha with engineering to create Shabbat-safe electric eye
LARRY YUDELSON
or Rifkie Silverman, the electric

sliding door that Zachary Abraham and Daniel Bernstein built
for their class project makes an
ideal capstone for the engineering program she leads at the Frisch School in
Paramus.
Its not just that the two seniors from
Teaneck designed the circuit and created the gears on the schools new 3D
printers, using design and programming
skills they had learned in her engineering
courses, which they took as freshmen and
sophomores.
Its also that the actual circuit design
reflects a semesters study of the intersection between technology and Jewish law.
It allows them to integrate who they are
Zachary Abraham, left, and Daniel Bernstein of the
with what they do, Ms. Silverman said.
Frisch School built this scale model of a ShabbatThe sliding door is designed to solve a
friendly electric door.
problem: How can observant Jews interact with an electrified world on Shabbat,
about the use of electricity in their time, have found
when using electricity is prohibited?
to be relevant for the principles they evoked.
Generally, observant Jews navigate this simply by not
Take, for example, the case of a rich man whose
turning lights on or off, reading books rather than electronic devices, walking instead of driving to synagogue
fortune is about go up in smoke as a fire approaches.
and back. But what about the sick? What about those who
The Talmud rules that he can put full barrels of water
can get to synagogue only in a wheelchair?
between the fire and his property. The flame will
And what about those who arent spending Shabbat at
burst the barrels and extinguish the fire.
home and in the synagogue? How can you observe it when
The person isnt directly putting out the fire, which
you are running a hospital or a military base?
would be forbidden on Shabbat. But he is causing it
Nearly 40 years ago, the Zomet Institute was formed
to be extinguished.
to address these questions of halacha and technology.
That principle of indirect action gramma, in the Talmuds Aramaic underlies the products that the Zomet
The Israeli institutes vision is to be able to merge scientific knowledge and Torah knowledge, according to
Institute designs. Using variations of the gramma principle,
Rabbi Binyamin Zimmerman, a Zomet researcher and
you can steer an electric wheelchair, turn on an electric
educator. It is to be able to understand how God is
baby monitor, and even type on a computer keyboard.
interested in us applying Torah principles in the modThat is, if your need is great enough.
ern technological age.
And like most matters talmudic, the question of how
Zomet exists because the actual prohibition of electricgreat a need is the stuff of argument and debate (which is
ity on Shabbat is not totally cut-and-dry. For a long time,
why Rabbi Weinberger could spend a semester teaching
halacha has distinguished between different levels of
this material).
Shabbat prohibitions. There are some acts that are considBut according to Zomets website, according to some
ered prohibited by the authority of the Torah, and there
rabbis the anxiety of parents accustomed to using a baby
are others seen as banned only by the later rabbis of the
monitor six days a week is sufficient to let them use a monitor modified with the gramma principle on Shabbat.
Mishna and Talmud.
Once they finished the halachic course and began brainThis makes a difference, because while Torah prohibitions must be set aside to save a life, lesser rabbinic prohistorming their project, it didnt take Daniel and Zachary
bitions can be set aside for less urgent purposes.
long to settle on an electric door.
You have to balance the need versus whats being given
We were thinking of something maybe in a hospital,
up halachically, Rabbi Pinhas Weinberger said. Rabbi
Daniel said and soon hit on the idea of making the electronic doors more Shabbat friendly.
Weinberger is a faculty member at Frisch. Working with
We tried to minimize all the potential halachic vioRabbi Zimmerman and Ms. Silverman, he taught the first
lations in the system, Zachary said. We built a system
semester of the class in technology and halacha.
where all the components were, in theory, not violating
In the second semester, having mastered the halachic
certain aspects of electricity on Shabbat.
material, the students developed their projects, such as
This is where their understanding of the technical
the sliding door.
details of Jewish law meshed with their knowledge of the
Needless to say, the Talmud does not deal specifically
technical aspects of engineering.
with the case of someone being transported through a
One of the main issues with using electricity on Shabhospital and going past a door that opens with an electric eye. Multibed hospitals had not been invented yet, let
bat is making and breaking a circuit, Zachary said. Creating something is not allowed on Shabbat.
alone electric eyes,
So their door doesnt use a regular direct current motor.
But there are a handful of cases that later scholars, particularly those 20th century ones considering questions
Instead, it uses something called a stepper motor,
which, Zachary explained, always has electricity moving

through it. It never actually breaks the circuit.
Similarly, rather than using a standard electric eye,
which turns on or off when it senses someone coming
through, Zachary and Daniels device uses a sensor that
continually reports whether or not someone is there
with a change in voltage indicating whether or not to open
the door. The voltage changes but it never stops, and the
circuit is never broken.
The final piece of the doors not-on-Shabbat twist has
to do with its coming to a rest. An ordinary electric door
would, well, notice that its all the way opened (or closed)
and stop. But that would be closing the circuit.
Instead, the gear that moves the door continues to push
on the door, albeit it very lightly, even when it is in place.
Its not stopped by turning off; its stopped by the pressure
of the wall where it has come to rest.
We adopted that idea from an article from the Zomet
Institute, Zachary said.
On the practical engineering and construction side, all
these different skills we learned in engineering class came
together, he said.
It was a fun project to work on, Daniel said. It
gave us an opportunity to work on something were
passionate about, an opportunity to combine some of
the Judaic aspects and more secular aspects of what we
learn in Frisch.
All of this is music to Ms. Silvermans ears.
I want out students to see that technology and halacha
are not really two disciplines, she said. Weve been given
the ability to develop computers and technology, yet we
are also given a set of laws by which were supposed to
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Overcoming hate with knowledge

Imam talks about his part in panel on Christians, Muslims, and Jews
number of programs, Imam
Antepli said. We are training young American Muslims about Judaism, Zionism, and Israel. We have to
understand each others stories from the other perspective. That will improve our
understanding of each other.
A lot of the problems are
based on ignorance, which is
Imam Abdullah Antepli
the root cause of most problems, he continued. All
hate and bias is based on ignorance and requires unlearning.
As a result of the increasing hate, bias, and polarizing division, our communities are suffering. The messages of hate
within our communities are getting louder and stronger. We
need a strong, clear, religious, civil, and political leadership
who will speak loudly against hate and any forms of exclusion, and will promote the universalistic ideals of our respective communities.
There is a need for such work, he continued, because even
now, 15 years after 9/11, many Americans still ask Where are
the moderate Muslims? Realizing that the mainstream media
does not give enough space and coverage to moderate Muslim
Joanne Palmer
o an imam, a pastor, and a rabbi walk into a bar

On Sunday, they might. But not until after they
have a panel discussion, and even if they do, as the
imam, Abdullah Antepli, joked, Of course, as a
Muslim, I dont drink, so Ill be the designated driver.
Imam Antepli is warm, accessible, and laughs easily, but the
subject of the talk, Christians, Jews, and Muslims in America:
Debate and Dialogue in an Age of Fear, is no joke. (See the
box for more information.)
Its sponsored by the Shalom Hartman Institute of North
America, a branch of the Jerusalem-based organization
devoted to pluralistic (and very smart) research and education. The three speakers are Imam Antepli, the Rev. Dr. Jacqui
Lewis, who is the senior minister of Middle Collegiate Church
in Manhattans East Village, and Rabbi Joanna Samuels, a Jewish Theological Seminary graduate who founded and heads
the Many Cantor Center, part of the Educational Alliance, on
Manhattans Lower East Side.
Imam Antepli is the co-director of the Muslim Leadership
Institute at Hartman and the chief representative for Muslim
affairs at Duke University. The other director is Yossi Klein Halevi, the American-Israeli author and journalist.
Ive been working with the Shalom Hartman Institute in a
Rabbi Joanna Samuels
Rev. Jacqui Lewis
leaders, I and many others are going out of our way to reach
out to Americans and be a useful partner in education.
But, he continued, This is not my work. This is my calling.
It is what as a Muslim leader I feel most fulfilled when I am
doing. No religious leader and certainly no Muslim leader
can run away. It is our responsibility to educate the public
about Islam and Muslims, at a time when the religion and its
members are grossly misrepresented, at times even by its own
members.
Imam Antepli, who was born in Turkey and worked in
Myanmar and Malaysia with the Association of Social and
Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries, began his work
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on college campuses in 2003, at Wesleyan
University. He got to Duke in 2008. I am
the Blue Devil imam, and I love it, he joked.
Our basketball team is the biggest religion on
campus.
His campus group is similar to Hillel;
the big difference, though, is that there is
no national or international organization.
But private universities are investing in
organized Muslim communities on their

campuses, and hiring professionals who
work not only with Muslim students but
also with anyone on campus who is curious
or interested. Yale also has a Muslim leader,
and Rutgers just hired a very nice young
gentleman a couple of months ago, Imam
Antepli said.
Combating prejudice, misunderstanding,
Imam Abdullah Antepli stands outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
and hate is hard but essential work, but as

they say, if there is a will, there is a halachic
way.
Wait. What?
If there is a will, there is a halachic way,
he said, repeating a mantra popular in some
segments of the open Orthodox world.
The similarities between the Abrahamic religions are incredible, but especially
between Judaism and Islam, he said. If
you only talk and look at the normative
legalistic, judicial, and religious language of
Islam and Judaism, its almost as if they are
two denominations of the same religion.
I am not watering down our differences.
We are two distinct religions. But over the
centuries Judaism thrived under Islamic
rule, and was deeply influenced by Islam,
and influenced Islam. It produced a common language.
At the core of both Islam and Judaism is a
radical monotheism. Thats not so in Christianity, which took a departure from that early
on. The core of Christianity has a different
language. But Islam and Judaism are singing
the same song in a slightly different tone.
If you go deeper and as an imam I do
I always continue to swim in oceans of
pleasure when I study Judaism and Jewish
texts. Not only the legalistic part, but also
the ethical and moral framework. It pretty
Who: Imam Abdullah Antepli, the

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, and Rabbi
Joanna Samuels
What: Will present a panel discussion
Christians, Jews, and Muslims in
America: Debate and Dialogue in an
Age of Fear
When: On Sunday, May 22, from
7 to 9 p.m.
Where: At Temple Sinai of Bergen
County, 1 Engle Street, Tenafly
Why: For the second annual Fred Lafer
Memorial Lecture, presented by the
Shalom Hartman Institute of North
America
What else: A dessert reception after
the panel
For more information: shalomhartman.
org/lafer or www.shalomhartman.org
much uses the same frame of reference

as Islam, but each tradition articulates it
differently.
I study the worlds religions, which have
incredible similarities but also eye-opening
differences. As an ardent and hard-working
student of Judaism, it is a special pleasure
for me whenever I get into a chevruta.
Whenever I study Talmud, I feel at
home, Imam Antepli said.
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Agnes Adler of Westwood, Alfred Strauss of Cliffside Park, Marianne
Pollak of Dumont, and Shlomo Biezunski of Fair Lawn.
The Yavneh Academy choir performs.
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Holocaust
memorial
The Jewi sh C ommunity Council of Greater
Teaneck held its annual
Yom Hashoah observance at Teaneck High
School. Survivor Helga
Marx Silbermann was this
years keynote speaker.
Ronnie Stern with his father, Holocaust surviPianist/vocalist Jonathan
vor Chaim Stern, and daughter, Rebecca Stern
Rimberg and violinist
Rauch.
Stephanie Kurtzman performed, along with the Yavneh Academy choirs, directed by Marsha Motzen.
There also was a reception for survivors and their families.
NCJW celebrating 93rd installation

The Bergen County section of the
New Jersey. Each day YCS provides
National Council of Jewish
services to thousands of
Women will hold its 93rd
New Jersey families who
installation of officers and
have children with special
trustees on June 7, at 11 a.m.,
needs, from birth through
at the Estate at Florentine Garadulthood.
dens in River Vale.
Evalyn Brownstein, a
Awards will be presented
retired special education
after lunch. This years Hanteacher for the Teaneck
nah G. Solomon award will go
school system, co-chairs
to Richard Mingoia, the presiNCJW BCSs HIPPY prodent and CEO of Youth ConRichard Mingoia
gram (Home Instruction
sultation Service, and Evalyn
for Parents of Pre-School
Brownstein will be honored with the
Youngsters) and chairs NCJWs Scholarship Committee, which awards several
Woman of the Section award. Attendees
$1,000 endowed scholarships to young
will receive a journal and there will be a
women graduating from Bergen County
raffle for prizes.
public high schools.
Under the guidance of Mr. Mingoia
For information, call (201) 385-4847 or
since 1996, YCS has become a leader in
go to www.ncjwbcs.org.
caring for children in need throughout
Jeffrey Herrmann, holding the Fair Lawn Jewish

Center Holocaust Torah
from Pacov, Czechoslovakia, leads a procession
of six rescued Holocaust
Torah scrolls from Congregation Gesher Shalom in
Fort Lee, Barnert Temple
in Franklin Lakes, Shomrei
Torah in Wayne, Temple
Avodat Shalom in River
Edge, and Temple Emeth
in Teaneck.
Federation Yom Hashoah commemoration

The Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey held its annual Yom Hashoah
commemoration at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel.
The governors office and the New Jersey
Commission on Holocaust Education designated the program as the official commemoration for northern New Jersey.
Speakers included Dr. Joan Rivitz,
the associate director of the New Jersey
Commission on Holocaust Education,
and the federations president, Jayne
Petak. Zalmen Mlotek of Teaneck, the
artistic director of the National Jewish
Theater Folksbiene, and his daughter

Sarah performed.
Children carried 73 candles, one for
each anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising. They were followed by a procession of Torah scrolls rescued from
Holocaust and now at local synagogues,
including the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
CBI, Congregation Shomrei Torah in
Wayne, Congregation Gesher Shalom
in Fort Lee, Temple Avodat Shalom in
River Edge, Barnert Temple in Franklin
Lakes, Temple Emeth in Teaneck, and
Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn.
Womens group serves tea and honors

The Garden State Region Women of
Achievement Chai Tea, hosted by the
Womens League for Conservative Judaism, is set for Thursday June 2, at 6:30
p.m., at Temple Beth Ahm Yisrael in
Springfield.
One woman from each of the regions
sisterhoods who has given outstanding

service to her sisterhood, synagogue, or
community will be honored.
There also will be tricky-tray raffles.
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Seven honorees announced
for BCHSJS annual gala June 8
The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies, Bergen Countys only weekly
Hebrew high school, will hold its annual
gala on Wednesday, June 8, at Temple
Emanu-El of Closter. This years gala,
BCHSJS largest fundraiser, will honor
Susan and Dr. Deane Penn of Alpine,
Robin and Michael Baer of Fair Lawn,
Julia and Dr. Roman Kosiborod of Franklin Lakes, and Hanna Wechsler of Woodland Park.
Susan and Dr. Deane Penn are the first
recipients of BCHSJS LDor VDor award,
created to recognize people who further
Jewish continuity by actively supporting
programs for Jewish teens. The Penns also
lead by example with their philanthropy
and involvement in Jewish community
life in Bergen County and northern New
Jersey. Susan Penn is a member of the
boards of BCHSJS, the Jewish Association
for Developmental Disabilities, and the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, the chair of Partnership2Gether, and
a member of AIPACs Northeast Regional
Council. Dr. Penn, the director of the
Center for Medical Weight Loss of Bergen County, also chairs the Partnership2Gether Medical Task Force, sits on the
board of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh,
chairs the board of health in Alpine, and
is co-chair of Israel Bonds.
Michael and Robin Baer and Julia and
Dr. Roman Kosiborod are the parent
honorees.
The Baers both are lawyers. Michael is
the executive vice president of the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai

Israel and the president elect of the Fair
Lawn Rotary Club. He is on the board of
Areyvut and Breaking the Chain Through
Education, an organization that rescues,
rehabilitates, and reintegrates child
slaves in Ghana. He also is a member of
both the Fair Lawn and Teaneck Chambers of Commerce. Robin Baer is on the
board of both the FLJC and its sisterhood
and is on the executive board of Jewish
Journeys NNJ. They have two daughters:
Julia, who is a BCHSJS alumna, and Jessica who is a student there now.
Roman Kosiborod, a board-certified
anesthesiologist and pain management
doctor, is the director of physician services at Meadowlands Hospital. Julia
Kosiborod, who worked in the neurosurgical pediatric ICU at New Yorks
Beth Israel Medical Center and taught
pediatric nursing, is the manager
and clinical coordinator in her husbands practice. The Kosiborods have
four sons; the two oldest are BCHSJS
students.
Holocaust survivor Hanna Wechsler
will be recognized as Educator of the
Year. She volunteers as an educator for
the Rockland County Holocaust Center, taught for 45 years, and lectured at
universities. She also wrote a book, In
Spite of it All, about her experiences in
Germany.
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Ohel meets for legislative breakfast

Last months Ohel
annual legislative
breakfast drew public and communitywide supporters, as
well as policy makers, elected officials,
advocates, and commu n i t y a c t iv i s t s .
It was an opportunity to acknowledge
the many services
From left, Ohel co-president Moishe Hellman; Fox
Ohel offers, and the
News commentator Tamara Holder; Dr. Gary Belkin,
impact it makes to
executive deputy commissioner of the NYC Departbreak down stigmas
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president Mel Zachter.
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decision to get help,
most acutely in the
from mental illness for more than 50
area of mental illness.
years.
Fox News commentator Tamara
Jeff Wiesenfeld, a Bernstein princiHolder spoke personally about mental health. She told the stories of fampal, hosted the breakfast at Bernstein
ily members and friends who are chalPrivate Wealth Management in Manlenged by psychiatric disabilities,
hattan. It was coordinated by Ezra
including her grandfather, who suffered
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for teenaged volunteers
Valley Chabad will hold its
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6:30 p.m., at the Terrace in
Paramus. The dinner will
honor 120 teen volunteers
from the Pascack and Saddle
River Valley communities who
are part of Valley Chabads
five Teen Leadership Initiative
programs Friendship Circle,
Linking Hearts, CTeen, Teen
JLI, and Eternal Flame. Teens, their parents and friends, community supporters,
and elected officials will attend. Carly Weiner of Woodcliff Lake, an alumna of Valley
Chabads Friendship Circle, will be the featured speaker.
For information, go to www.valleychabad.org or call (201) 476-0157.
On Tuesday, May 31, the Friendship Circle of Passaic County will hold its annual
evening of awards at the Chabad Center in Wayne. Volunteers will be honored for
their hours of giving to the Friendship Circle and its families.
Pamela Schuller, a nationally known inclusion advocate, will share her story of
growing up with Tourette Syndrome, and turning that challenge into professional
and personal success.
The Friendship Circle programs include Friends at Home, holiday programs, parent workshops, and camps. For information, go to FCpassaiccounty.com or call
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KEEPING THE FAITH
Trust Trump on Israel?

Seriously?
ast Sunday night was

unseasonably and unreasonably cold. It was a perfect night to stay inside
and ponder the mystery of the disappearing spring.
More than 300 people decided
to disregard the demands of their
senses to stay put indoors and
headed to the JCC of Paramus,
where David Horovitz, the creator
of the Times of Israel, talked about
Israel.
Full disclosure as even the
most sporadic of our readers probably knows by now, we at the Jewish Standard are the Times of Israels first online partner. We were
thrilled at the turnout and the buzz.
But the main reason we were so
taken with Mr. Horovitzs talk was
the content.
Mr. Horovitz, who made aliyah
about 35 years ago, is profoundly
realistic. He sees little hope for any
solution to Israels problems any
time soon. He does not think that
peace is around the corner. He does
not see the light at the end of the
tunnel. He just sees tunnel.
But he also has hope, because
Israelis are gritty and tough and in
so many ways Israel is one of the
marvels of the modern world. It
happens to be in the middle of a
disastrously bad part of the world
to live in Syria, say, would be to
have no hope, just reasonable,
appropriate, probably paralyzing
fear and in a very bad time, but it
will survive.
He also talked about the anti-Semitism now burrowing up from countries subconsciousness, and how
Israel might be a haven for Westerners, as it had been for Holocaust
survivors decades ago, and for Jews
from the former Soviet Union and
Arab countries more recently.
Mr. Horovitz had no earth-shattering revelations, but his clear-eyed
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with his deep and passionate love
for his country, were reassuring, in
the way that sanity uniquely can be.
He did have one piece of advice,
though. How do we counter the
apathy toward Israel that so many
people, particularly young ones,
feel toward Israel? Have them visit,
he said. Let them go there. Encourage them to visit. Once you see it, he
said, you will get it.
And hes right.
It was fascinating many people in Paramus that evening came
from other shuls across the county.
When Mr. Horovitz asked that anyone who had been to Israel raise
a hand, almost everyones hand
went up. He was surprised, but we
werent. This is a community whose
engagement with Israel is unusually
high.
We echo Mr. Horovitzs suggestion. If you havent been to Israel,
go. If you havent been recently,
go. Go with your eyes open. You
werent born yesterday. (If you were,
you arent reading this.) Go with an
open mind and an open heart. Yes,
as everyone acknowledges, youll
see problems, and you should go
back home prepared to help solve
them, but you also will see joy and
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afford to pay for their own security.

top the presses! Sheldon Adelson has
Did that also include Israel, he was asked.
promised to give Donald Trumps
Said Trump, There are many countries that
campaign at least $100 million
can pay, and they can pay big-league.
because Trump supports the security
Trump, by the way, was booed during his
of the State of Israel.
Republican Jewish Coalition appearance
Really? He does? Quick, what time is it? He
when he refused to answer a question about
already may have changed his mind.
whether he would accept Jerusalem as Israels
Trump certainly has changed his mind
capital.
about Jewish money. Last December 3, he told
Still, many Jewish voters, especially among
a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition
the Orthodox, are rallying behind Trump.
that he neither expected Jewish money for his
They believe that a Democrat (read Hillary)
campaign, nor even wanted any. Youre not
gonna support me because I dont want your would insist on Israel having to trade land
for peace, whereas a Republican would not.
money, he said. You want to control your
Never mind that every Republican president
politicians. Thats fine. Five months ago, I was
has taken the exact same position
with you. I do want your support,
as every Democratic president
but I dont want your money.
since Israel captured the territoThe only certain thing that can
ries in June 1967.
be said about Trump (other than
More important, from a Jewthat his RJC speech was loaded
ish standpoint, never mind that
with anti-Jewish stereotypes)
Jewish law itself would seem to
is that he will say whatever
require at least being open to
comes to mind at the moment.
trading land for peace.
Thoughts about Israel are no
To be sure, halacha is not
exception.
monolithic, and it is not closed to
In February, for example, Rabbi
Shammai
interpretation. Different people
when Trump was asked about
Engelmayer
see the law differently. This is as
foreign policy toward Israel
true of land for peace as any
and the Palestinians, he said
other issue.
he intended to remain neutral, supposedly so he could broker a peace
There are people, for example, who insist
between the two.
that not one inch of the land of Israel may be
Why the need for neutrality? Said Trump to
given up willingly. It is a sin, they say. Holders of this view cite a commentary to the tracthe Associated Press, it is because Israel may
tate on pagan worship, Avodah Zarah, and
be unwilling to deal. A lot will have to do with
another commentary on Deuteronomy to
Israel and whether or not Israel wants to make
support their position. In both instances, the
the deal whether or not Israels willing to
commentary tells us that settling the Land
sacrifice certain things, he said. They may
of Israel is of greater merit than all the other
not be.
When he came before AIPAC in March, how- mitzvot combined.
ever, Trump lost that neutrality. That in itself
The cited commentaries do say this. However, it is also true that our Sages of Blessed
was interesting, because only a short while
Memory used such hyperbole as a device
before he ascended the AIPAC stage, he held
to underscore the importance of a mitzvah,
a press conference in which he suggested he
would cut foreign aid to countries such as Ger- and settling the land is no exception. They
many, Japan, and South Korea, which could
said the same about wearing tzitzit, or about
giving tzedakah. According to BT Shabbat
Shammai Engelmayer is the rabbi of
127a and BT Kiddushin 39b-40a, the study
Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades
of Torah surpasses them all. This last entry,
in Cliffside Park.
by the way, is recited every morning in the
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Understanding Orthodoxy
prayers that precede Shacharit.
On the other hand, there is biblical evidence to suggest giving up land
is not so great a sin, or may not be a
sin at all, if what is received in return
is worth the price. Solomon gave 20
cities in the Galilee to Hiram, king of
Tyre, yet the biblical text offers no
condemnation. That is because of
what he got in return: The building
materials for Gods House, and for his
own. Certainly, if land can be traded
for pieces of cedar wood, it can be
traded for peace, because the preservation of human life is its goal.
The price would be worth it, too, if
the peace offered is a true peace,
one that battles terrorism with vigor,
that includes all of the states now
opposed to Israel, that has a system
that puts peace into practice through
such means as trade and tourism. If,
as Trump suggests, Israel is not prepared to make peace, it is because
no one so far has offered a realistic
approach to it.
There are other sins, however, that
are great sins according to all authorities, and these, too, need to be considered, because halacha always has
insisted that avoiding these sins is
paramount.
These sins are pikuach nefesh
(threat to life) and shefichut damim
(the needless spilling of blood). Shefichut damim is why King David was
denied the honor of building Gods
house. His hands were too sullied
with blood.
Pikuach nefesh is considered to
be pre-eminent in religious Judaism.
Almost nothing not even Shabbat,
or the laws of kashrut takes precedence when life is threatened.
This is derived from a verse read a
couple of weeks ago in the Torah portion Acharei Mot. You shall keep My
laws and My rules, by the pursuit of
which man shall live said our Sages
of Blessed Memory, shall live by
them, not die by them. (See Leviticus 18:5 for the biblical verse, and BT
Yoma 85b, BT Sanhedrin 74a, and BT
Avodah Zarah 27b for discussions of
and exceptions to its meaning.)
Trading land for peace makes no
sense if no peace will result from
doing so. Believing a President
Trump will sit on his hands and not
push Israel into making a bad deal
also makes no sense, however.
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The art of learning to value other Jews without validating
have decided to address the elephant in the room.

cannot disagree with your right to choose. Religious coercion is antithetical to Jewish thought and counterproductive as a strategy. It simA few weeks ago, in an introductory column in the Standard,
ply does not work.
I proposed the idea of an ongoing series presenting the viewpoint of modern Orthodoxy on theological, social, and commuIf we can come to understand that each of us has our own belief
nal issues of the day. I explained that my decision was motivated by a
system and a right to that system and if we can accept that each of
sense of growing distance between my own Orthodox community and
us also has boundaries created by those systems over which we cannot cross then, I maintain, we will be able to learn to value without
the Jewish community at large; a distance created, in large measure,
validating. We will be able to value the positive contributions that we
by a lack of understanding between us. I closed with the hope that this
each make to the fabric of Jewish life without feeling that by doing so
effort would help open up a critical dialogue between us and invited
we are validating each others belief systems and thereby compromisreaders to suggest topics to be addressed in future columns.
ing our own.
While I did receive some responses to my invitation, I quickly came
This may sound easy, but its not. As long as our boundaries
to the conclusion that we have some preliminary work to do. We have
are intact there are going to be points of conflict, and even more,
to address the issue Im calling the elephant in the room. This topic
there are going to be points of deep personal pain. Consider the
is best articulated by a sentiment often expressed to me by individuals outside the Orthodox community over the course of my rabbinic
following scenario: I have a dear friend who is a Reform rabbi. I
career.
have come to respect and admire him as a person and as a Jew.
I cant help but feel that Orthodox Jews look down on anyone who
We spend time talking and learning together. When I officiate at
does not believe or observe like them. Sometimes I even feel that they
a wedding, however, I will not accept him as an ayd, a formal witness to the wedding ceremony.
dont consider us Jewish. Why should my personal religious practice
Its certainly not personal. Jewish law maintains that
be judged against their point of view? Why cant they
the most important people at a wedding, aside from the
accept a pluralistic approach, allowing for multiple possible paths in Jewish belief and practice?
bride and groom, are the witnesses who are charged
Before we go any further, let me share with you a funwith validating the proceedings. Further, the law mandamental truth that I arrived at as a young rabbi: You
dates that only an individual who buys into the halachic system can serve as a halachic witness. Therefore,
cant judge Judaism by the Jews.
someone who is not shomer Shabbat, for example
There are good people and bad people, good Jews
and my friend is not cannot serve as a witness at an
and bad Jews. A true understanding of Judaism requires
Orthodox wedding.
knowledge of what Judaism preaches and not what the
I know that it takes a tremendous amount of underJews practice. So too, I would contend that the Orthodox
Rabbi Shmuel
standing on my friends part to accept this decision, and
view of other Jews needs to be gauged by the tenets of
Goldin
I am pained by the hurt that it must cause him. But we
Orthodox Judaism and not by the actions and attitudes
have reached a boundary that I cannot cross.
of each Orthodox Jew you might meet.
Even deeper challenges are mirrored on a broader
That said, however, how would I answer the basic
scale, when we consider basic issues facing the Jewish community
question? What is the Orthodox attitude toward non-Orthodox Jews?
today. As I mentioned earlier, I do not question the Jewishness of
I can put it quite simply. I view non-Orthodox Jews as siblings with
non-Orthodox Jews. Specific actions taken over the years by the nonwhom I have a family disagreement. Despite oft-stated accusations to
Orthodox movements, however, have forced me to question who is a
the contrary, as an Orthodox rabbi I question neither the Jewishness
non-Orthodox Jew.
of non-Orthodox Jews nor their right to believe and practice as they
The Reform movements decision to accept patrilineal descent as a
see fit.
determinant of Jewish identity and the proliferation of conversions
Does that make me pluralistic? I suppose it depends on your definition of pluralism. If pluralism means that I have to accept that everyto Judaism absent the critical component of kabalat ol mitzvot, the
one is right, Im afraid that our discussion ends before it starts.
binding acceptance of Jewish law have created populations within
As an Orthodox Jew, my Judaism is based on specific core printhe Jewish community that I and my Orthodox colleagues simply canciples that I believe to be true. I believe, for example, in the divine
not consider to be Jewish. The Orthodox community finds itself in
sanctity of every word of the Torah text. I interpret halachic process
the unenviable position of having 3,000-year-old rules changed on us
in the way that I learned in yeshiva, and that interpretation is critical
against our will and then being criticized for not accepting the new
to my understanding of the unfolding of Jewish law. I firmly mainrules.
tain that adherence to Jewish tradition has united us as a people
Chagrined as we are by this phenomenon and its ramifications, we
across the centuries, and that such adherence remains the single
once again face boundaries that we cannot cross without sacrificing
phenomenon capable of ensuring our future as a people. If you do
principles essential to our belief.
not agree with these fundamentals, or if you interpret them differAs we move toward the future, we cannot and should not sweep
ently, from my perspective you cant be right because if youre
these issues under the rug. We must acknowledge them clearly, even
right, Im wrong. Moral relativism robs society of any kind of ethiwhen they defy solution. Where we go from there, however, is up
cal standard. Religious relativism robs us of our ability to believe in
to us. We can choose to demonize and attack each other, or we can
anything at all.
understand and respect each others positions and boundaries even
Please understand, I am not simply staking out my own turf here.
when we disagree with them deeply. We can decide to value without
I would expect no less from those outside my community. Conservalidating, to refrain from asking each other that which we cannot
vative or Reform Jews, committed to Conservative or Reform theolgive, and to move forward together as best we can.
ogy, believe in certain things that I dont. From their perspective, I
In the end, after all, we are family. And family members, even when
am not right.
they disagree, somehow find a way
If I cannot accept pluralism as meaning that we are all right, is there
a pluralistic model that my Orthodox Judaism can accept? I believe
Shmuel Goldin of Englewood, the senior rabbi of Congregation
that the answer is resoundingly Yes. We just have to redefine our
Ahavath Torah, was president of the Rabbinical Council of America
terms. I would contend that pluralism does not mean that we are all
from 2012 to 2014 and has held many other leadership positions. He
right; but it does that we all have a right.
is the author of Unlocking the Torah Text and has written, lectured
Bechira chafshit free will is the essential pillar upon which Jewand taught worldwide. He encourages readers to send him questions
ish belief is built. I can disagree vehemently with your choice, but I
or suggest issues that interest them at rgoldin@ahavathtorah.org.
Opinion
A local
spotlight
on Israel
Last Thursday, local officials
raised the Israeli flag over
the Bergen County administration complex in Hackensack as the county marked
Yom Hazikaron and Yom
Haatzmaut Israels Memorial Day and then its Independence Day.
Here, two of our op eds
by Lee Lasher and Daniel
Shlufman are slightly
edited versions of remarks
they gave at that ceremony.
A third op ed, by Laura Fein,
is a report on the ceremony
and a reflection on Israel.
Local officials and lay and professional local Jewish leaders were among the crowd at Bergen Countys flag-raising ceremony
marking Israels Memorial Day and Independence Day. Tracy Silna Zur of Franklin Lakes (on the right side of the photo, wearing
dark pants and a dark jacket), the vice chairwoman of Bergen Countys Board of Chosen Freeholders, was instrumental in
arranging the ceremony.
Sunny outlook for a democracy at 68
lazing sunlight
illuminated Yom
Haatzmaut this
year.
It was a physical reminder
of the brilliant impact Israel
has on the Jewish people
and the world at large. At
the celebration of Israels
Laura
democracy hosted by BerFein
gen Countys executive and
freeholders, leaders of our
government, schools, and
the Jewish community gathered to honor
a nation whose re-establishment after a
2,000-year hiatus is an unambiguous modern miracle.
Earlier in the week, the galleries were
packed as the entire New Jersey legislature stood to recognize outgoing Israeli
Consul Ido Aharoni and voted, 39 to 0,
on legislation to counter BDS. Gatherings
across our area drew hundreds to revel in
Israels music, food, and dance.
Over and over, my mind returned to
a simple but powerful refrain from the
ubiquitous Hamilton soundtrack: Look
around, Look around, How lucky we are
to be alive right now. So often, we who
love Israel wring hands over its problems, but this week I felt nothing but
gratitude to live in these amazing times
for the Jewish people.
I am part of the first generation born
post-1967, when a confidence sprung
from the Israelis victory in the war
replaced the anxious fragility of the early
Jewish state. I was privileged to grow up
blissfully taking Israels existence for
Laura Fein is the director of the Jewish
Community Relations Committee of the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
granted. In my youth, three

generations of my family
traveled together to Jerusalem and Hebron, Shiloh and
Masada, filled with pride
and wonder about being
about to walk where our
ancient ancestors lived.
How lucky we were to
connect, body and soul, to
a powerful Jewish nation
taking care of its people
around the world in miraculous raids and rescues! From the audacious Entebbe triumph to heroic Operations Moses, Exodus, and Solomon,
which I took pride in helping to support, I internalized a sense of strength
supported by a solid home. For this I feel
truly blessed.
What an honor to live in times of Israels strength! Not only does the desert
bloom, but Israel exports flowers even to
Holland, the flower capital of the world.
No longer a nation of drought and dependence, Israel now exports water and
energy as well. Israels economy continues to grow, buoyed by a renowned tech
industry that awes the world with its creative and technical prowess. We live in an
age of wonders, delivered daily by Israeli
devices that allow the blind to read, the
deaf to hear, amputees to walk. How
lucky we are to be alive right now.
Israelis do feel lucky or at least
happy. Social connections, family bonds,
and a sense of joint purpose are among
the factors that propel Israelis to the
upper echelons of nations in the world
happiness index. Israelis are among the
best-educated people in the world as
well, with leading rates of literacy, high
school graduation, and higher education.
In the developed world, Israel has the

highest birth rate, another indicator of
Israeli optimism and cause for ours.
What society provides hope more
than Israel, where Hatikvah, The
Hope, is the national anthem? Tiny
Israel is often first to arrive, and the
best prepared, to provide humanitarian
aid in situations of natural disaster and
mass casualties. From Haiti to Japan,
Africa, Indonesia and New Orleans,
Israeli medical and relief teams lead the
way and provide critical assistance.
This dedication and empathy extends
to the needy within Israeli society, and
provides models worthy of replication
here. At Empower House in Hackensack, a new program based on an Israeli
model (co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey) provides
critical mental health services to young
women in need. Our New Jersey state
legislators returned from a recent federation-sponsored mission inspired to
adopt an Israeli program that incorporates differently abled soldiers into the
military, which will benefit our New Jersey National Guard with dedicated volunteers as it helps them gain valuable work
experience. Israels absorption of immigrants from 68 countries and countless
cultures serves as a model to European
and U.S. authorities seeking to better
integrate their own immigrant populations. Look around, look around, and
examples abound of Israels uniquely
positive approach to human challenges.
Doubtless cause for concern exists.
Israels Middle East neighborhood,
never friendly, has devolved into chaos
and unprecedented violence. Irans
nuclear dreams continue, along with its
aggressive threats. Israelis continue to
The Israeli flag flies over the Bergen

County administration complex.
be attacked with cars and stabbed in the

streets. And U.S. college campuses seem
overrun with inexplicable condemnations of democratic Israel, along with
outspoken support for the autocratic
and violent leaders of Hamas and other
enemies.
Our people know all too well that
disaster can come from threats left unanswered. We must continue to meet these
challenges with strength and unity. Israels detractors will continue to attack,
and we must educate our neighbors and
ourselves lest their efforts succeed. But
we must not become so focused on these
efforts that we forget how lucky we are to
be alive right now.
We are blessed to live in these historic
times, when a sovereign Israel truly is a
light unto the nations.
Opnion
Safety, pride, and innovation in Israel
ast year, during Yom Hazikaron

and Yom Haatzmaut, I had the
privilege of chairing a mens
mission to Israel for the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey.
I brought 20 Bergen County men to
Israel, many for the first time. On the way,
Jason Shames, the federations CEO, and
I stopped in Paris to show solidarity with
their Jewish community after the terrorist attack at the kosher supermarket. We
spoke with the woman who is in charge
of the Jewish security agency in France.
She refused to be photographed with us.
At first, we thought it might be personal.
But then she told us that her life would be
in danger if she were identified. We also
drove to a suburb of Paris where Jason and
I were warned that if we left the car and
were identified as Jewish, we would not
make it to the corner of the block without
being beaten.
Daniel Shlufman of Tenafly is a member
of the board of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey and one of its
Berrie Fellows. He is an attorney and a
mortgage broker.
complete silence and revWhen we landed in Israel,

erence. No Israeli citizen
we felt a sense of safety and
has more than one degree
pride. We were in a country
of separation from a fallen
that is not only a haven for
soldier. In a crowd of about
the Jewish people, but like
1,000 people, only a few of
the United States is a bastion of freedom, opportuus, along with a stray Cananity, creativity, and diversity.
dian or two, were taking
We toured Google Israel and
videos on our phones. At
Daniel
met employees of Waze, the
the end, there was not a
Shlufman
Israeli company that created
dry eye anywhere when we
a popular GPS system. With
all rose to sing Hatikvah.
my sense of direction and
The next day, Israel transformed itself from a country in mourndisdain for traffic, this app alone would be
ing to a place of exuberant celebrations
reason enough for me to support Israel.
We attended a lecture given by the docon Yom Haatzmaut. Though the citizens
tor who was in charge of the Israeli relief
of Israel do not all agree on the path the
efforts in Haiti and Japan. He described
country should take in the future or
how Israel brings everything it needs to
pretty much on anything at all they all
assist a country, including food, water,
were celebrating the miracle of its birth
housing, and medicine, so it does not
and continued existence in the face of
burden the host country. The Israelis
unimaginable adversity. They celebrated
leave all the equipment and supplies
its accomplishments in medicine, technology, and womens rights. It is for these
behind when they go back home.
We had the unique opportunity of
reasons that my wife and I are taking our
experiencing Yom Hazikaron by attendchildren, Noah and Dina, to Israel in June,
ing the memorial ceremony at the Westso they can see for themselves what Israel
ern Wall. It was a ceremony marked by
is about.
It is also why we must all stand with

Israel and against the abhorrent misrepresentations and distortions of the
truth permeating the BDS movement. In
our country, our freedom of expression,
assembly, and press allow this fraudulent, barely veiled hate movement to
exist. We are also obligated by our countrys moral values and principles of truth
and justice, however, to oppose its revolting philosophy.
The BDS movement is attempting to
not only rewrite history but to erase it.
I applaud our political leaders for their
resolve in fighting along with us to limit
the damage the BDS movement is causing
to the very freedoms that, ironically, allow
it to survive.
Through the assistance of its friends in
the United States, including in New Jersey
and here in Bergen County, Israel can and
will continue to thrive. We greatly appreciate all of the support of our leaders, who
recognize the importance a vibrant Israel
has for our local community and for our
country. Thank you very much for everything you do.
Am Yisrael Chai!
Do you believe in miracles?
hen most of us hear the

phrase Do you believe
in miracles? we think
of Al Michaels, the 1980
Olympics, and the USAs hockey team
shockingly beating the Soviet Unions.
For many of us, that is one of our greatest
sports memories. Having just spent Passover in Israel, however, and visiting Israel
three or four times a year, more and more
I think of the miracle that is modern day
Israel when I hear phrase Do you believe
in miracles?
First let me tell you about my Passover
seder. It included three generations of my
family. My father-in-law, Philip Zimmerman, was born in Belgium. For five years,
he was a hidden child, living with a French
Catholic family. He only survived the Holocaust because of this family.
He came to America when he was 18,
married my mother-in-law, and eventually
settled in Teaneck. He became an assistant principal in Truman High School in
the Bronx.
Im a third generation American. My
grandfather fought in World War II and
was awarded a Silver Star and Bronze Star.
My wife, our three children, and our
Lee Lasher of Englewood is a vice president
of the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey and of the Koby Mandell
Foundation, and a past president of
Congregation Ahavath Torah.
son-in-law were at the seder.

At the end, we say next year
in Jerusalem. For almost
2,000 years, Jews said these
words as a hopeful prayer.
Think of the power of that
moment, as we said next
year in Jerusalem when we
actually were in Jerusalem,
Lee
the capital of the state of
Lasher
Israel. I read that more than
90 percent of Jews in Israel
celebrated the Passover seder
with family and friends.
The Israel I see on my visits consists of a
multicultural society of all colors and backgrounds, with Jews and Arabs, Christians
and Muslims. Jews who have returned to
Israel from places like Russia, Europe,
America, Ethiopia, India, Yemen, Syria,
Morocco, Egypt, South America, and other
places.
I see great museums, culture, historic
sites, art, food, and wine. (Ill get back to
wine.) Of course things are not perfect in
Israel. (Are they perfect anywhere?) But
dont let the anti-Israel forces who advocate boycott, divestment, and sanctions
fool you. If you are anti-Zionist and antiIsrael, you are against the Jewish people
and Jewish peoplehood in our one and
only homeland.
Let me be clear this is not about the
peace process. How do I know? Listen
to this recent quote from

a 23-year-old Israeli: I see
how Israel is misrepresented
in the media. Theyre accusing Israel of apartheid and
you know its not true but
if you dont stand up and say
its not true, a lot of people
are going to believe these
lies.
All I hear is propaganda.
Lies. And seriously I thought
they wanted to boycott Israel
because they want peace, but theyre
not talking about peace, just boycotting
Israel.
Who was the 23-year-old Israeli who
said this? Rabea Bader, an Israeli Arab
computer science and economics student
at Tel Aviv University who recently visited
Canadian colleges to speak the truth.
Two weeks ago, Israel commemorated
Yom Hazikaron Memorial Day to honor
the more than 25,000 soldiers and victims
of terror who were killed defending the
Jewish state. Last week they celebrated
Yom Haatzmaut Independence Day a
tremendously joyous day that Jews prayed
for and dreamt about for centuries.
How do you go from such sadness to
such joy in 24 hours? Many say this is one
of the secrets of Jewish resilience. That
sense of hope never fades.
I have seen this feeling of hope
triumphing over despair often as vice

president of the Koby Mandell Foundation, which provides therapies for hope
and healing for victims of terror and their
families. The foundations flagship program, Camp Koby, is a camp for children
of all ages who have suffered a loss in their
family through terror or other tragedy.
The kids at Camp Koby laugh, play,
smile, create art, and more. Ironically,
Camp Koby has been described as the happiest place in Israel.
And I want you all to know that Camp
Koby usually has a Passover reunion camp,
but this year it appeared that it would not
have the funding. Our Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey stepped up with the
lead gift, which helped the foundation raise
the necessary funds. As a result, more than
250 kids got to go to camp for a few days to
bond with each other and to heal. We, as a
community, made that happen.
Now back to the wine I personally
have raised money for the foundation
through an 80-kilometer, five-day hike in
Israel. On one such hike a couple of years
ago, in the northern part of Israel, we
hiked down from Har Bental into a picturesque valley between two mountains. It
was breathtaking.
As we got into the valley, we suddenly
turned a corner and came upon a beautiful vineyard. I saw the vineyards name El
Rom. Im a big wine fan and I knew that this
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Opinion
As Obama visits Hiroshima, dont give

Japan a free pass on its wartime record
espite leaving the world a less safe place than it

was when he found it, President Barack Obama
isnt shying away from busting those foreign policy taboos.
The president who brought us a nuclear deal with the
Iranian mullahs, and who gave Cubas fossilized communist regime a new lease on life, is about to fly to Japan.
Once there, he will highlight the grave dangers of nuclear
war in the city that has become a synonym for Armageddon: Hiroshima.
On May 27, Mr. Obama

will become the first president to visit Hiroshima
since the United States
dropped an atomic bomb
on the city on August
6, 1945, claiming up to
150,000 lives. On August
9, a second bomb hit NagaBen Cohen
saki, killing up to 80,000
people. As a result, the war
in the Pacific against the
Japanese Empire ended with Tokyos full surrender
just six days later.
The human toll was dreadful, and the attacks on
Japan remain the only concrete example we have of
the kinds of horrors that are visited by nuclear weapons. In that sense, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings urge both grief and moral reflection.
Its expected that President Obama will use his trip
to Hiroshima to repeat the recent call of his secretary
of state, John Kerry, to create and pursue a world free
from nuclear weapons, issued during Kerrys own visit
to the Japanese city last month. There has been much
debate over whether Obama will offer an explicit apology for Hiroshima. For whatever its worth, the White
House is denying that the president will do so.
Yet the very prospect of President Obamas presence in Hiroshima is troubling, because of the enormous distance he has put between his own foreign
policy and that of many of his predecessors. Several
commentators have correctly pointed out the rich
irony of an American president presenting a chastened account of Americas wartime actions when, in
our own time, Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapons and North Korea already has them. Not to mention
that the threat of nuclear proliferation in the Middle
East and East Asia looms larger now than ever before.
On top of the burdens of the present, though, there
are the burdens of the past. The problem with turning
Hiroshima into a universal symbol is that the historical context around the tragedy is removed. We have to
remember that Japan still was fighting fiercely in August
1945 after its ally, Nazi Germany, had been defeated, and
was prepared to sacrifice its entire population to counter the Allies. A land invasion in this environment would
have cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Allied
troops. That was a key consideration behind the decision to end the war by dropping the bomb.
Nobody should celebrate that decision. But it is
reasonable to say that any contrition on the part of
America and its Western allies should be matched by
equal, if not greater, contrition by the government of
Japan. After all, Japan launched the war on America in
1941. Its subsequent treatment of the peoples in Japanese-occupied territories as well as of Allied prisoners
of war is, alongside the Holocaust, one of the darkest
chapters in the history of World War II.
But postwar Germany has faced up to its past, has
paid reparations to survivors, and continues to memorialize the 6 million Jews and millions of others murdered by the Nazis. Nothing remotely similar has taken
place in Japan.
The catalogue of Japanese atrocities is long and grim.
There was the massacre in the Chinese city of Nanking
in 1937, in which up to 300,000 died. That was part of
a reign of terror in China in which civilians were turned
into slave laborers and the Japanese military used poison gas to quell resistance. Thousands of women in
Japanese occupied territories from Korea to the Philippines were used as sexual slaves by Japanese officers,
who referred to them insultingly as comfort women.
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local slave laborers died during the construction of the death railway connecting Burma with Thailand, or Siam as it
then was known. Thousands of American
and Filipino POWs lost their lives during
the infamous Bataan death march that
ended at Japanese prison camps. And that
is only a partial list.
Japan never paid meaningful reparations to the survivors of the imperial atrocities a marked contrast not just to Ger-
You have to ask

whether Japans
elected leader
really grasps
the nature of
his countrys
wartime
atrocities.
many, but also to America, which, under
the Reagan administration, paid out
$20,000 to the families of Japanese Americans unjustly interned during the Second World War. In 1998, when Emperor
Akihito visited London, surviving British POWs used the occasion to point out
that they had received a paltry $200 as
compensation for the torture and incarceration they endured at the hands of the
Japanese. Thousands more victims in Asia
received exactly nothing no recognition,
no compensation, and no apology.
Just last month, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received harsh criticism for sending a ritual offering to the
Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, where some

of Japans worst war criminals are honored. Abes spokesman defended his
boss by saying that he had used his own
funds for the offering, rather than public money, but when you consider who is
commemorated at the shrine, you have
to ask whether Japans elected leader
really grasps the nature of his countrys
wartime atrocities.
Those commemorated at Yasukuni
include 14 Class A war criminals convicted by the International Tribunal
after the war. Among them you will find
Heitaro Kimura, who bore prime responsibility for the death railway, Seishiro
Itagaki, who commanded Japanese
troops in China at the end of the 1930s,
and Akira Muto, a former military attach to Nazi Germany who oversaw the
Nanking massacre. Hearing the names of
these men should arouse the same kind
of revulsion we feel when we hear the
names of Nazis like Eichmann or Goebbels. But it seems that we have largely
forgotten their Japanese counterparts
and their appalling crimes.
As of this writing, President Obama has
not yet departed for Japan, and his Hiroshima remarks are, presumably, still to be
written. If he does decide, in the end, to
offer an apology for the nuclear strike on
Hiroshima, perhaps he might also have
the courage to demand that Japans present leaders engage similarly with their
countrys own gruesome record.
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Doris Levin cuts the ribbon to open the

exhibit as the Jewish Home Familys
president and CEO, Carol Silver Elliott,
looks on. Opposite, top, Mikhail Yefinovich
Krivosheyev, born in Belarus in 1913,
survived as a German prisoner of war; far
right, Dveirke Gurvitz survived by hiding in
the woods with the partisans.
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Finding a
Jewish home
Photographer Doris Levin of Fort Lee shows
her work at the Jewish Home in Rockleigh
Joanne Palmer
here certainly are techniques that
you have to learn to become a
good photographer. Composition,
lighting, what lens to use, at what
exposure.
But to be a good portrait photographer, to be able to look through a camera
at a strangers face and know how to convey the
essence of that stranger so that other strangers will
look at it and know her, demands that and more.
To take a good portrait, it is good to have lived
enough yourself so that you can really see the person at the other end of your camera.
By the time Doris Levin of Fort Lee went to eastern Europe in 2002 to photograph Jews there, she
was in her mid-70s. Now, with some of her work
on display at the Jewish Home in Rockleigh, she
looks back on a long, eventful, risk-taking, both
joy- and grief-marked life.

Doris Levin was born Doris Levine in January
1927 in Long Branch. Her mother, Fannie, was
born in Brooklyn but her father, William, never
was clear on where he was from. Minsk, Pinsk,
whats the difference, she remembers him saying. He never was more clear than that. She
never learned exactly where her father was born.
Thats part of the reason why I took those pictures, she said. I wanted to go back to see where
my roots are.
Her grandparents lived in Long Branch too;
My grandfather, Max, who died when I was very
young, studied Torah all day, she said. Her grandmother, Lillian, ran a kuchelein, a kind of boarding house for beachgoing Jewish vacationers. The
guests would rent rooms and cook for themselves
in one of the houses two kitchens, one for meat,
the other for dairy.
Doris grew up Orthodox in a small There
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Clockwise, from top, Bluma and Kalman Katz fled to

Siberia, Taiba Rahayskaya ran to the Urals, Ziksa Shapiro
survived working as a barber for the Russian army and
wanted to be photographed wearing his medals, and
men at work in Kibbutz Afek, near Haifa.
were only two Jewish kids in my class but vital Jewish

community; her father, who owned a used-car dealership, was the treasurer of their shul, Congregation Sons
of Israel. Her mother was a homemaker, and Doris and
her brother, Jerry, went to public school.
Looking back, I see that it was a nice childhood,
Ms. Levin said. I went to the beach every day in the
summer; I learned to swim at an early age. I guess we
were fairly well off my parents sent me to Seashore
Day Camp. It was $50 for the whole summer but this
was in the 1930s. That was a lot of money then.
In 1945, Ms. Levin went to off to college to Drexel
University in Philadelphia, where she studied home
economics. Although it was not a time when every
graduating high school senior let alone every graduating female high school senior went to college, I
can never remember not thinking that Id go, she said.
I always knew that I would go.
She was a home economics major. That was not a
course of study specifically for women

planning to graduate with the Mrs. degree;
Ms. Levin chose it because I wanted to be
a buyer at a department store, she said.
The program offered classes in fabric,
manufacturing, and clothing construction, she said.
When she headed off to school, it was
with her ration cards in hand; World War
II had just ended, but rationing had not.
And there were not a lot of boys around,
she said. But soon the former servicemen
came pouring into the school, and she met
one of them, Morton Levin.
Mr. Levin enlisted in the army as soon
as he could, and he served for four years.
Those were different times then, Ms.
Levin said. Boys volunteered. He wanted
to join the Marines, but they didnt take
him. Had he joined the Marines, he never
would have come back.
He was in Okinawa during the war,
she continued. He always said that he was
glad that we dropped the bomb on Japan,
because we were scheduled to invade,
and he would have been in one of the first
waves to go in.
They met cute. Mort was 25 when I met
him, and he was very serious, Ms. Levin
said. I was young. We met in the library.
I was registering late, and he couldnt get
over anyone doing that. Registering late.
They were attracted to each other, but neither took
any action. A few months later, Mr. Levin joined a fraternity brother and his date at a nightclub to see a promising new trio. Needless to say, that date was Doris. At
the end of the evening, Mr. Levin asked his friend if he
could take her back home. We went out the next weekend, and never dated anyone else ever again, Ms. Levin
quoted her husband as saying.
Doris Levine and Morton Levin married in 1947 (I
just dropped an e, she said); when Mr. Levin died in
2009, they had been married for 62 years.
And that up-and-coming trio? Nat King Cole.
After they graduated from Drexel his degree was in
industrial engineering the couple moved to New York,
where he earned a masters in retailing and she worked
in Ohrbachs in Union Square. We lived at 96th Street
off Central Park West, in a walk-up, she said. The rent
was $50 a month.
Altogether, the family moved 19 times.
Much of Mr. Levins early career was
with Allied Department stores, which
was responsible for some of those
moves. The Levins went to Cleveland,
where the first of their five children,
Jackie, was born, in 1951. They went
back to Long Branch to take over Ms.
Levins family business, and then back
to Allied in Levittown, Pennsylvania.
They also lived in Philadelphia, in Reading, Pennsylvania, in Westfield, New Jersey, and in Springfield, Ohio.
The Levins first three children were
challengingly close in age. Billy was born
in 1952, and Freda in 1953. Then they
took a short breather Melissa was born
in 1958, and Mindy in 1960. Each child
was born in a different place. (Billy
once asked me, Mom, if we move, does
that mean were having another baby?
Ms. Levin said.)
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Doris and Morton Levin at Kibbutz Afek in the mid1990s.

Courtesy doris levin
Mr. Levin grew up an observant Conservative Jew,

and the family always joined the local Conservative shul.
When her children were young, Ms. Levin did not have a
full-time job outside her home I did serious full-time
parenting, she said but she often gave cooking demonstrations for synagogue sisterhoods. She knew about
cooking from college, and about kashrut from home. I
wouldnt have chosen to keep kosher, but that was part
of the deal for marrying Mort, she said. She has a pile of
hand-made, mimeographed booklets from those demonstrations. All name her as Mrs. Morton Levin, and the
menus offer such ambitious meals as roast goose, preceded by chopped goose liver.
In the 1960s, Mr. Levin began working with computers,
not as a programmer but as a retail adviser, deciding what
kinds of information manufacturers and store managers
would need. Then, deciding to leave retailing entirely, he
decided that because he liked to ski, we should live in an
area that offered skiing, Ms. Levin said.
They moved to West Hartford, Connecticut You can
ski near there. Who knew? and bought a franchise hamburger restaurant called Burger Chef. He kept kosher
he never ate in them, Ms. Levin said. They were doing
okay until a McDonalds moved in down the street. Then
we closed them.
By that time, their oldest children were in college and
Ms. Levin went to work. They lived in suburban Boston
then, and she became kitchen manager at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital.
Next, they decided to move to New Yorks Westchester
County. They bought a bookstore, the Paperback Booksmith, in the Cross County Mall in Yonkers, and then
another Paperback Booksmith in White Plains. Eventually,
they bought one in Fishkill, N.Y., too. We always were
optimistic, Ms. Levin said. We always thought things
would be good.
Business, in the pre-Amazon age, was good. In 1981, we

bought a small book distribution company, she continued. It was the Regent Book Company, first in Hillsdale,
then we moved it to Lodi. We were going to buy books to
distribute to our bookstores.
When we got the bookstores, I went to work with my
husband. He had the retail experience and I didnt, so we
decided that he would be the boss, and I was a worker. But
when we bought Regent, he sent me to run it.
I did well. One day, I just said to myself, Im smart
too! I always thought that my husband was the smart one,
and then one day I woke up. Regent was doing really well
Freydke Niegnevitsky, born in Lithuania in 1913,

escaped to Uzbekistan.
and I woke up.

It was almost like an epiphany.
But just as Ms. Levin started gaining self-confidence,
the bookstores started doing less well. There was landlord
trouble, and other, bigger stores were muscling in, and
it was time to end that business. The family focused on
Regent, Ms. Levins baby. Working with her middle daughter, Frayda Levy a political conservative who worked
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for Reagan in the White House but left
politics after that presidency ended they
made Regent thrive. It was stressful, Ms.
Levin said.
Ms. Levin discovered that not only
would computers help her run her business this was in the early 1990s, when
business owners were making that discovery one at a time, often reluctantly but
she had an affinity for them. She computerized her business records and even
commissioned and ran an early website.
I went to Long Island City, to a place with
geeky guys and geeky women and one
of them told me that for $100 he would
build me a website. I gave him $100, and
he built it.
Eventually, Amazon did in Regent, as
it had so many other businesses. By that
time, the Levins were ready to retire.
The Levins oldest child, Jackie, had
made aliyah to marry a kibbutznik, Aryeh
Shani. She moved to Kibbutz Afek, and the
couple had four daughters. In the early
1990s, the family came back to the States
for a few years. Doris and Mort moved
to Manhattan so the girls could go to
school in Scarsdale; when Jackies family
returned to Israel, Doris and Mort decided
that they preferred city life. They stayed
These four women were office workers at Kibbutz Afek.
in Manhattan until they made their last

move, to Fort Lee, in 2003.
This is where the story takes a tragic
turn. Three of the Levins children Jackie,
William, and Melissa have died, each of a
different cancer. Jackie, the Israeli, died in
1993; William, an emergency room doctor
who lived in Englewood, died a few years
later, and Melissa, an artist, just last October. Doris Levin has endured all this, as
well as her husbands death.

Ms. Levins Fort Lee apartment is stunning. It is so filled with light that it seems
nothing could be hidden in it ever. On the
west side, it offers a sweet but unspectacular view of suburban streets, but from the
north and east the Hudson glistens and
ships hulk by and traffic on the West Side
Highway glitters and the great gray George
Washington Bridge arches up and swoops
down and then arches up again. There

is both constant serenity and constant
motion. The apartment is full of photographs and artwork, much of it by Melissa
Levin. Pictures of her five children, five
grandchildren, and five great grandchildren are everywhere.
When you first walk into her apartment, the photos Ms. Levin took in Eastern Europe stare at you, demanding that
you stare back.
Ms. Levin first started taking pictures when her children were young.
My mother went to visit Germany, and
brought me a good German camera, she
said. I realized that I had to learn to use
it. In those days, nothing was automatic.
That meant that there was a lot to learn.
She studied at the International Center
for Photography in Manhattan. I took to
it immediately, she said. I felt like I had
to learn more. I had to understand light
better. And my daughter Melissa, who
was the artist, always encouraged me to
be creative.
When she went to Kibbutz Afek, Ms.
Levin talked to many people there. Eventually, she took their pictures. Im interested in people, she said. The kibbutz
is a very closed society, and does not
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welcome outsiders, she said; her sonin-law was born into it, which gave her
some entre, but after that she had to
earn peoples trust.
She was drawn to photograph older
people. She was attracted to the stories in their faces. She has an album
beautifully printed pictures tacked to
lusciously heavy off-white paper in a
sturdily bound book with the photos
on the right and the stories on the left.
Some of the photos do not come with
stories. Some of the people who are pictured chose not to tell their stories; others, suffering from Alzheimers, no longer remember them. But each has a face.
In 2001, Doris and Morton Levin went
on a tour of eastern Europe led by the
author Chaim Potok. In Vilna, they met
Dovid Katz, the Yiddishist we profiled
in this newspaper a few weeks ago. We
sort of became friends, and he told us
about the dire straits in which the people whose Yiddish dialects he was collecting found themselves.
These rapidly aging Jews were not
Holocaust survivors but refugees. They
had fled before the Nazis invaded Lithuania in June 22, 1941, spent the war in
Tashkent or the Urals or other obscure
points further north or east, and then

trickled back home after the war. They
got a pension from the Soviet Union, but
then, after the fall of the Soviet Union,
inflation set in, and their pensions were
about $10 a month, Ms. Levin said.
They couldnt afford their medications. They couldnt always afford food.
Because they werent Holocaust survivors, they didnt get reparations. They
were old and mainly forgotten. Ms. Levin
was moved by them. She hoped to photograph them and use the images to raise
money for them.
So she and her daughter Jackies
youngest daughter, Shachar Shani, went
back to Vilna. (Ms. Shani was so moved
by the experience that she decided to
become a professional photographer,
and studied at the ORT school in Haifa.
That, in turn, led to Ms. Levins involvement with ORT, and eventually to a
three-year term as president of the Fort
Lee chapter.)
I took a woman I had met at International Center for Photography, who did
lighting, with me, and a translator and a
driver, and Dovid gave me a list of people
to see and helped arrange the appointments for me, Ms. Levin said. There
were five of us.

It was an amazing experience meeting
these people and learning their stories, she
continued. And it really took a lot of guts on
my part. I wanted to get out of my comfort
zone. I thought I could do it. She was about
76 years old then.
Ms. Levin compared the experience of
photographing older people at Kibbutz Afek
with the ones she took in Lithuania. The difference was stark, she said.
The people in the kibbutz were happy
with their lives. They had been poor, but they
lived Jewish lives, and they lived well. They
felt that they had found paradise. The eastern Europeans were nowhere near paradise.
They had chosen to go back home rather
than to Israel, and now they were suffering.
I asked them what their Jewish lives were

like, and I looked for Jewish things in their
homes, Ms. Levin said. I came to the conclusion that what the Germans had started,
the communists finished. They did not have
a Jewish life there.
She never was able to raise money for the
Jews she photographed, but their pictures
are now on permanent display at the Jewish Home in Rockleigh. The exhibit, which
opened last Sunday, is in memory of her
daughter Melissa, who taught her about light.
I wanted these photographs in the Jewish Home because I wanted those people
whose pictures I took to have a Jewish
home in a Jewish home, Ms. Levin said.
I really wanted them finally to have a Jewish home.
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Is he serious?
Netanyahu keeps calling for talks with Abbas
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV For a leader often accused of
not wanting to talk peace with the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu sure does a lot of talking about
wanting to talk to the Palestinians.
In a series of three statements this
month, Netanyahu repeatedly stressed the
need for peace with the Palestinians. He
called the peace process one of his highest priorities and hinted that a renewal of
talks might be underway.
Responding to a question about the
peace process on Twitter on May 12,
Israels Independence Day, Netanyahu
said theres nothing I want more or am
more active on, in many ways you dont
know. Later that day, speaking to foreign
diplomats in Jerusalem, he asked for help
arranging a meeting between himself and
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas.
I have taken steps that no other prime
minister in Israels history has taken to
advance peace, he said. Every minute
that President Abbas refuses to accept my
call for peace robs Palestinians and Israelis of the opportunity to live without fear.
Netanyahus commitment to a Palestinian state, even in theory, has remained
a question mark and divided observers
of Israeli politics since he took office in
2009. Both his defenders and his critics
point to different sets of gestures and statements hes made that signal support for, or
opposition to, a two-state solution. In the
lead-up to elections 14 months ago, he dismissed the possibility of a Palestinian state
on his watch.
But in a talk to North American Jewish federations last November, he said he
remain[s] committed to a vision of two
states for two peoples where a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the
Jewish state, and Israel will continue to
work for peace in the hope that what is
not achievable today might be achievable
tomorrow.
At the same time, Abbas repeatedly has
declined another round of negotiations,
I have taken
steps that no
other prime
minister in
Israels history
has taken to
advance peace.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
saying he would talk only following Israeli

good-faith measures. Before the last series
of talks, in 2013, Israel released 82 Palestinian prisoners before the two sides met.
Netanyahus defenders say Abbas reticence shows that the Palestinian leader
remains the main obstacle to a deal.
This process has two sides, and I
think the central problem isnt Israel but
Abu Mazen, said former Israeli Deputy
National Security Adviser Shaul Shay,
using Abbas nom de guerre. Abu Mazen
isnt prepared to reach an agreement, so
things are stuck not necessarily because
of Israel.
Abbas instead has turned to international forums, including the United
Nations, to recognize a Palestinian state
and hold Israel accountable for what he
calls violations of international law.
Most recently, Abbas endorsed a Frenchled initiative to convene an Israeli-Palestinian peace conference for the summer, an
initiative Israel opposes.
The France initiative is just one of three
factors leading Netanyahu to emphasize
peace talks again, analysts say. The others include the possibility of the centerleft Labor Party joining his coalition and a
desire to project optimism on Israels Independence Day.
The French initiative calls for a regional
peace conference to be held in the summer. Should negotiations fail, France has
vowed to recognize a State of Palestine.
Israel thus far has refused to participate,
saying the statehood recognition threat
gives the Palestinians no incentive to negotiate in good faith.
The only way to advance a true peace
between us and the Palestinians is by
means of direct negotiations between us
and them, without preconditions, Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday. Any
other attempt only makes peace more
remote and gives the Palestinians an
escape hatch.
Netanyahu also is enmeshed in negotiations with the Knessets largest opposition party, Labor, which advocates a
settlement building freeze and renewed
peace talks. Rumors have swirled in
recent days that party chairman Isaac
Herzog is ready to sign on in exchange,
in part, for being named Israels foreign minister. Herzog acknowledged the
negotiations in a May 12 Facebook post,
but said he was not yet ready to join the
government.
If I receive a mandate to stop the next
campaign of funerals and to block the
danger of an international boycott, to
bring back the United States and Europe
as allies, to open negotiations with
regional states and to separate from the
Palestinians into two states so as to stop
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, shakes hands with Deputy IDF Chief
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the continual campaign of terror, then

Ill know my hands are on the steering
wheel, the post read.
Netanyahus peace talk may also have
been prompted, analysts say, by a need
to give a sort of State of the Union on
Independence Day. While prospects for
peace may be dim, Shay said, relations
with the Palestinians are still of paramount
importance.
On Independence Day, the prime minister talks to the people and surveys what
the situation is and what the future will
hold, Shay said. You cant ignore this
central subject.
Renewed negotiations have seemed
remote recently. A brutal war in Gaza followed the collapse of talks in 2014. Last
year saw the formation of a right-wing
Israeli government, succeeded by a wave
of terror that is fading only now.
He sees a theoretical possibility but not
a practical one, said Dror Zeevi, a Middle
Eastern studies professor at Hebrew University, referring to Netanyahu. If things
come together, its possible he would be
ready for a deal, but I dont think its practical in the current government.
Those who insist Netanyahu is sincere
about renewing talks point to his 2009
speech at Bar-Ilan University, where he
committed to supporting a demilitarized
Palestinian state alongside Israel. They
note that he froze West Bank settlement
growth in 2010 and freed Palestinian prisoners to jump-start negotiations in 2013
and 2014. Since taking office seven years
ago, Netanyahu repeatedly has called for
direct negotiations with Abbas.
Hes ready to make concessions,
said Ephraim Inbar, director of Bar-Ilans
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.
Everyone knows hell make concessions.
He was ready to freeze settlements. There
are concessions he wont make for security reasons, for historical reasons, and the
nation agrees with him.
Others point to Netanyahus decadeslong opposition to Palestinian statehood
before 2009. Since the building freeze,
they note, Netanyahu has expanded settlements throughout the West Bank. And
in March 2015, two days before Israeli
elections, Netanyahu told the Israeli news
website NRG that a Palestinian state would
not rise while he is prime minister.
Gershon Baskin, who has acted as a conduit between the Netanyahu government
and Palestinian leaders, said that Abbas
thrice has offered to begin secret direct
talks with Netanyahu. Each time, Baskin
said, Netanyahu has refused.
The point isnt negotiating anymore
its making decisions, Baskin said.
[Netanyahu] doesnt do anything in terms
of policy to show that a two-state solution
is what he wants. Nothing on the ground
indicates that.
But others insist it is Abbas offering
the Mixed Messages, as the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy titled a recent
report on the Palestinian leader and Israel.
It is not just that Abbas and the P.A.
turned their backs on any peace talks with
Israel a position they have hewed to ever
since turning to the international community for unilateral actions, wrote David Pollock, the Kaufman fellow and director of
Project Fikra at The Washington Institute.
It is also that they had decided thenceforth to seek independent statehood for
themselves without paying any price at all
to Israel neither the end of claims and
conflict, nor a compromise on refugees,
nor formal agreement on any other issue.
In other words, their objective was land
without peace.

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Sense of siege settles over Kiryas Joel

amid FBI raids and scrutiny of yeshivas
URIEL HEILMAN
Even before FBI investigators descended
last week on the Satmar chasidic village of
Kiryas Joel in New Yorks Orange County,
there was a growing sense in this insular
community that it and its unique way of
life were under attack.
Two months earlier, the FBI had been
in the village investigating alleged fraud
against a government program, and
community leaders also have been facing a mounting campaign by dissidents
to increase state oversight of yeshiva
curricula.
We need to know what kind of danger
were in, the Satmar rebbe in Kiryas Joel,
Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, said in a widely
publicized May 4 speech about the threat
of closer state supervision of yeshiva curricula. These are bad times for us Jews,
terrible. We need to pray to God that they
should not interfere with the upbringing of
our children.
In last weeks FBI raid, investigators
confiscated computer equipment and
boxes of documents from the villages
Department of Public Safety and its main
yeshiva, United Talmudical Academy. An
unnamed law enforcement source interviewed by a local newspaper, the Journal News, said the raid was related to the
publication on social media two weeks
ago of a leaked hidden-camera video
that appeared to show a principal of the
yeshiva kissing and grasping young boys
in his office. About 6,000 students are
enrolled in the school.
Publication of the video, which generated a firestorm in Orthodox circles, came
the same week that a New York State legislator, Ellen Jaffee, introduced a bill that
would bring better enforcement of state
rules that require nonpublic schools,
including yeshivas, to ensure they are
providing education that is substantially equivalent to that offered in public
schools. Yeshivas like those in Kiryas Joel
flout state standards on secular subjects,
foregoing even such basic subjects as English and math in upper grades.
For a long time, Teitelbaum said in his
speech, theres been an implicit understanding between state authorities and the
leadership of chasidic communities like
Kiryas Joel that the state wouldnt interfere
in communal affairs.
But that implicit agreement may be
breaking down as it becomes more
A sign welcomes visitors to the Satmar chasidic village of Kiryas Joel, New York,
and urges respect for local traditions.
URIEL HEILMAN
difficult for authorities to ignore abuses

sexual, educational, or financial allegedly taking place within these closed
communities. The prospect of outside
interference threatens one of Kiryas Joels
raisons detre: chasidic control of the
communitys affairs.
Until now there were also strict laws,
but because we live in a kingdom of benevolence a reference to government
authorities to put it bluntly they simply
turned a blind eye to whats going on by
the Jewish children, Teitelbaum said in
his speech, which was delivered in Yiddish
and then translated into English for widespread dissemination. They didnt want
to look, the benevolent kingdom. Now,
too, theyd continue doing that, the government would have continued, theyre
happy not to look and not to know. But
these worthless people are stirring up in
various ways and are demanding in court,
forcing the government that they should
take a stance.
The newfound scrutiny is being pushed
largely by dissidents, in some cases ex-chasidim, who say they are acting in the best
interests of the community whether to
protect children from sexual abusers or to
give them the basic educational skills necessary to succeed in life.
Ive been to those yeshivas, I know
exactly what the effects are, said Naftuli
Moster, the founder and executive director of Yaffed, an organization that lobbies
lawmakers to force Orthodox yeshivas to
offer quality secular studies in addition to
Torah studies.
Youre not gaining anything by depriving people of an education, Moster said.
The very Satmar rabbi that made that
speech also encourages people to earn a
living, to his credit, but at the same time
hes the one who has jurisdiction over the
yeshivas that are depriving chasidim of the
very tools necessary to earn that living.
So what do people end up doing?
Oftentimes they resort to criminal activity
and other shenanigans to earn that living.
Two months ago, FBI investigators
were in Kiryas Joel, nearby Rockland
County, and Brooklyn, investigating
alleged fraud by chasidic institutions in
the federal governments E-rate program,
which funds schools and libraries purchases of technology equipment and
Internet service. Authorities reportedly
are looking into whether the yeshivas
actually spent the money they obtained
from the federal government for technology in the schools.
Adding to the pressure, on Tuesday,
the New York Daily News and New Yorks
public radio station, WNYC, published and
broadcast a joint investigative story scrutinizing the outsized number of low-income
Section 8 housing vouchers that have gone

to the chasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, a Satmar neighborhood with close ties to Kiryas Joel.
The WNYC story attributed the voucher
aberration to chasidic self-dealing thats
impenetrable to outsiders and cited lawsuits arguing that the chasidim obtain
housing vouchers through unfair or unlawful means. The story also noted that chasidim are taking the vouchers with them
to places outside the city, like Kiryas Joel.
This perfect storm of scrutiny has community leaders on edge. In his speech,
Teitelbaum expressed fury that fellow Jews
are the source of much of the pressure.
Due to our many sins, its very painful to talk about it, there stood up several
worthless people from our own who have
studied in chasidic yeshivas, and sadly
they arrived I dont want to say where.
They decided to wage war against the
whole ultra-Orthodox Jewish community
of New York, the rebbe said. They went
and snitched to the governments of New
York City and New York State with complaints that the students of the yeshivas,
of all yeshivas (elementary and middle
school) are not learning enough general
studies as required by law.
Yaffeds Moster is a Brooklyn native who
grew up in chasidic institutions. The sex
abuse video presumably was recorded
by an insider at United Talmudical Academy and was posted on Facebook by Boorey Deutsch, an Orthodox activist against
sex abuse in the community. The alleged
E-rate fraud was the subject of investigative stories by the New York Jewish Week
and the Forward in 2013.
Joseph Waldman, a longtime Kiryas Joel
community leader who heads a local welfare organization, said the unprecedented
assault on the chasidic community stems
from local non-Jews fear of its rapid
growth. He compared it to the way the biblical Egyptians feared the rapid growth of
the Israelites in Moses time.
Thats the reason they were trying to
make the trouble for the Jews in Egypt:
The first thing they were afraid was the
Jewish families growing so rapidly, Waldman said. Here, they are fearful that
theyre going to be overwhelmed either by
the growth of the environment or by political clout through the bloc votes.
They want to stop the community from
growing, he said. Thats the reason for
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Detroit Jews ask: Are targeted

Israel boycotts the same as BDS?
RON KAMPEAS
or the second year in a row,

the Detroit areas Walk for
Israel has rebuffed the sponsorship of left-wing pro-Israel
groups because of their support for boycotting settlements.
At the heart of the dispute is a question of definitions: Is support of a boycott targeting Jewish enterprises beyond
Israels 1967 borders the same as backing
the blanket economic and cultural boycott of Israel called for by the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement?
Andre Douville, the chairman of the
coalition organizing the walk, said Partners for Progressive Israel and Americans for Peace Now fit the coalitions definition of supporting the BDS movement.
Simply put, our advocacy and policy
statement says that any organization that
supports any form of BDS would not be
accepted as a cosponsor, Douville said
last Friday, two days before the walk,
which celebrates Israels independence.
They want to argue that they only
support it for business in the occupied
territories.
The left-wing groups citing different
criteria say that while they support a
boycott of settlement goods, they vigorously reject boycotts of Israel.
We oppose boycott, divestment,
and sanctions efforts directed at Israel,
Ori Nir, APNs spokesman, said. We
believe such campaigns are misguided
and counterproductive. We therefore
encourage fellow Americans to buy
goods made in Israel, while discouraging
them from buying goods made in what
is not Israel, in West Bank settlements.
Differences over whether actions
against BDS should be extended to
groups that exclusively target settlements are playing out in Jewish communities across the United States. Some
Jewish groups have lobbied to extend
anti-BDS legislation now under consideration in Congress and in statehouses
to protect settlements. Others are working to exclude such protections, instead
favoring legislation that only rejects BDS

when it is applied within the 67 borders,
or the Green Line.
The wrinkle in Detroits case is that the
Jewish Community Relations Council of
Greater Detroit, and the local federation
that largely funds it, have not organized
Israel independence celebrations since
the late 1990s, with the exception of a
60th birthday program in 2008. That
created an opening 11 years ago for the
establishment of a coalition of organizations spearheaded by Temple Shir Shalom, where Douville is executive director, dubbed Walk for Israel. The walk,
which attracts about 1,000 participants,
starts at the suburban West Bloomfield
synagogue.
Ken Knappow, long involved in the
Detroit-area Jewish community and a
member of left-wing pro-Israel groups,
said that two years ago he noticed that
the walks sponsors include right-wing
groups like the Zionist Organization of
America, the Republican Jewish Coalition, and Christian Zionist organizations,
along with uncritical pro-Israel groups
like the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee and StandWithUs.
Saying that the coalition was unrepresentative of the Jewish and pro-Israel
communities in the area, Knappow
asked Partners for a Progressive Israel
and Americans for Peace Now if he could
sign on as a co-sponsor of the walk on
their behalf. That would allow him to
present the groups materials at the outset of the walk and to maintain a visible
presence during the walk.
The national groups gave Knappow
the go-ahead, but the 18-person board of
Walk for Israel rejected the applications,
accusing the organizations of supporting
BDS.
Knappow provided statements to the
Walk for Israel board from the national
groups rejecting BDS, but the board was
adamant that the settlements exclusion
was out of bounds.
Embedded in the mission of PPI
is inherent support for what we call
targeted divestment and sanctions,
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All organizations operating in the
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Holy Names newly designed website
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latest health information available in 91
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Holy Name is proud to be recognized by the American Business
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HolyName.org features an intuitive
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Available in more than 90 languages,
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Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek
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Dr. Tamar Zapolanski
id you know that skin cancer is highly preventable? Because May is National Skin
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five Americans will develop
skin cancer, according to
the American Academy of
Dermatology.
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cer, regardless of your skin
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Protect children from sun exposure by having
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They reflect the damaging rays of the sun, which can
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Get vitamin D safely through a healthy diet that
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Avoid tanning beds. Ultraviolet light from the sun
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he debate continues
on when to start getting mammograms
and how often to get
them. Last year, the American Cancer Society issued new
screening guidelines. Before that
announcement, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force a panel
of independent governmentappointed physicians drew up
Dr. Mindy Goldfischer is the chief of breast
its own guidelines. The Ameriimaging at Englewood Hospital and
can College of Obstetricians and
Medical Center.
Gynecologists has recommendations too.
every year. While the incidence of breast
According to the new ACS guidelines,
cancer in premenopausal women is low,
women with an average risk of breast
such cancers are known to be more
cancer should start getting mammograms when they are 45 and continue
aggressive, so it is even more important
once a year until they are 54. The ACSs
to scan these women every year. The
old guidelines had recommended that
Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium,
women in that same risk group get yearly
funded by the National Cancer Institute, found that among premenopausal
mammograms starting at 40.
women, biennial screenings found
The USPSTF recommends that women
a higher proportion of tumors with
between 50 and 74 who have an average
advanced stage.
risk of breast cancer get mammograms
Q: Some studies suggest mammograevery other year.
phy in younger women is not as helpMeanwhile, the American College of
ful because it leads to false positives
Obstetricians and Gynecologists maintained its recommendations that women
and heightened anxiety. What is your
with an average risk of breast cancer
response to that?
Dr. Goldfischer: Mammography
start getting mammograms at age 40.
is not as helpful in women who have
With so much conflicting information causing confusion, Dr. Mindy
dense breasts at any age. Those most
Goldfischer, chief of breast imaging at
likely to have dense breast tissue are
Englewood Hospital and Medical Cenpremenopausal women, typically up
ter, weighs in on what these guidelines
to age 55.
False positives refer to calling a
means.
woman back for an additional mammoQ: How do you explain these different
gram view or sonogram, not necessarily
recommendations from various groups?
a biopsy that turns out to be benign. At
Dr. Goldfischer: The guidelines differ
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center,
because the organizations evaluated the
we have found that patients are grateful
data differently. There are two big differences. The USPSTF made its recommenfor the careful scrutiny of their results
dations based on benefits to the populaand are relieved when the results are
tion and on modeling studies, whereas
benign.
the ACS made its recommendations
There is the rare woman who is anxious about having a mammogram,
based on benefits to individuals and on
regardless of whether theres been a preactual data.
vious false positive result. In these cases,
USPSTF put a great emphasis on the
the screening can be scheduled so that
harms of screening, including false
the mammogram is reviewed while the
positives, biopsies, anxiety, and overdiagnosis, while the ACS did not stress
patient waits.
those factors. Instead, the ACS stressed
Even in dense breast tissue, many
that the real issue of risk is related to a
cancers can be identified. A 3D mammography/digital breast tomosynthesis,
womans menopausal status, not her
for example, has improved the detection
age.
of masses in dense breast tissue. Breast
Q: What do you recommend for a
ultrasound also is an excellent method
woman with an average risk of breast
for evaluating dense breast tissue and is
cancer?
commonly recommended for women of
Dr. Goldfischer: Women with an
average risk as a supplement to annual
average risk should begin having mammograms at 40 and continue to have one
mammography.

Recipe of the month
Fiesta black bean and quinoa salad

rachel miller
Just in time for meatless Mondays and
Memorial Day weekend BBQs, you can
have a party at any meal with my Fiesta
Black Bean and Quinoa Salad.
This delicious and simple assembly
salad is perfectly balanced in every bite...
quality protein (quinoa/black beans) +
high fiber carbs (quinoa/black beans/
organic bell peppers) + healthy fat (quinoa/avocado/extra virgin olive oil) + colors
(red/orange/yellow/green/purple).
Fiesta Black Bean

and Quinoa Salad
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cups organic cooked quinoa
1 15-oz can organic low sodium black
beans
Amounts of the following vary
depending on the size of the fruits and
veggies. i like it to look like an even
amount of each color, so i cut all fruits
and veggies to same size
2-3 organic roma tomatoes, seeded and
diced
1 mango, diced (or pineapple. if so, use
an orange organic sweet bell pepper

with the pineapple for color)
1 large organic yellow sweet bell
pepper, diced
1 small red onion, diced
1 small organic jalapeno pepper, seeded
and finely diced 1 avocado, diced
1 cup chopped organic cilantro
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
organic cold pressed extra virgin olive
oil (more or less to taste)
sea salt and pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS:
Cook quinoa according to package.
rinse and drain the black beans.
gently toss all ingredients together...
thats it! how easy is that?
Note This is a great side dish, and/or

breakfast scrambled into eggs, or a complete vegan meal, perfect for meatless
Monday, plus every color of the rainbow
in every bite ;)
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Adler Aphasia Center offers aphasia
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The Adler Aphasia Center offers an aphasia communication group for people
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This group meets on two Friday
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more effectively, and give time to practice communication skills in a natural
environment. (Aphasia is a language
disorder caused by stroke or other
brain injury. It affects spoken language,
reading and writing, but does not affect
a persons intellect.)
The group will be led by one of the
centers licensed speech-language
pathologists.
A person with aphasia may join the
group at any time. The group also
provides an introduction to the Adler
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the center is not required to attend
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The cloud of war constantly hanging over
Israel has one shiny silver lining: Groundbreaking advances in wound care developed for the battlefield and then shared
with the rest of humanity.
Israeli first-aid innovations include the
world-famous emergency bandage that has
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well as Arizona Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords, after she was shot.
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WoundClot has an obvious place in battle settings because uncontrolled bleeding is the main cause of death in conflict
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is not effective or even counterproductive,
in the case of stab wounds and certain
other kinds of trauma.
The technology was developed at BenGurion University by nanomaterials chemist Shani Eliyahu-Gross and commercialized by Core Scientific Creations, founded
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Also, it is the only product of its kind we
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Manufactured in Petah Tikva, the current WoundClot line includes products
geared to surgical and trauma care, used in
European hospitals and by American and
Israeli first-responders. A WoundClot version for dental use recently was released in
the European market.
The product could also become a staple
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WoundClot can be folded or rolled into
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Yaskil says the 18-employee company
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Holy Name achieves national accreditation

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atients seeking surgical treatment for severe obesity and

its related conditions have the
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patient safety and quality and is close to
home.
Sheryl Slonim, executive vice president
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announced that its bariatric surgical center has been accredited as a comprehensive center under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality
Improvement Program, a joint program
of the American College of Surgeons and
the American Society for Metabolic and
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The MBSAQIP standards ensure that
bariatric surgical patients receive a multidisciplinary program, not just a surgical procedure, which improves patient
outcomes and long-term success. Accredited centers offer preoperative and postoperative care designed specifically for
their severely obese patients.
We are proud of our outstanding outcomes and quality in bariatric medicine,
which isnt only about our work in the
OR, Stefanie Vaimakis, chief of bariatric
surgery at Holy Name, said. As bariatric
specialists, we are committed to thorough preparation and lifelong follow-up
care for our patients, which maximizes
the benefits of surgery and the patients
chances for success.
Holy Name Medical Centers commitment to quality bariatric care begins
with appropriately trained staff and the
leadership surgeons who participate in
meetings throughout the year to review
its outcomes. They seek continuous
improvement to enhance the structure,
process and outcomes of the center.
To earn the MBSAQIP designation, Holy
Name met essential criteria for staffing,

training, and facility infrastructure and
protocols for care, ensuring its ability to
support patients with severe obesity. The
center also participates in a national data
registry that yields semiannual reports
on the quality of its processes and outcomes, identifying opportunities for continuous quality improvement.
After submitting an application, centers seeking MBSAQIP accreditation
undergo an extensive site visit by an
experienced bariatric surgeon, who
reviews the centers structure, process,
and clinical outcomes data. Centers are
awarded a specific designation depending on how many patients it serves annually, the type of procedures it provides,
and whether it provides care for patients
under 18.
We conduct an extensive screening
process with a bariatric surgeon, registered dietitian and a psychologist to
determine eligibility for bariatric surgery, Slonim said. We help to prevent

side effects and complications, and promote successful long-term outcomes.
Holy Name Medical Centers efforts help
support a culture where we are prepared
to manage morbidly obese patients with
understanding and compassion and with
appreciation for the burdens presented
by disease comorbidities.
Holy Name also received the 2016
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This evidence-based designation is the
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f you have a nodule on your thyroid gland, you

are in good company.
About five percent of the population has such
bumps, and 90 percent of them are harmless.
But as more doctors do neck checks theyre finding more of these nodules, and each finding must be
examined to rule out cancer. That adds up to more
than 550,000 fine-needle aspiration thyroid biopsies
every year in the United States alone. About 15 to 30
percent of the biopsies result in an indeterminate diagnosis, and in these cases the doctor must perform a
second invasive biopsy or completely remove the thyroid to be on the safe side.
Now there is a better alternative to these repeat
biopsies and possibly unnecessary thyroid removal:
RosettaGX Reveal, a microRNA-based diagnostic
assay to reevaluate indeterminate thyroid nodules
using the sample collected during the original biopsy.
The results are highly accurate, whether malignant or
benign.
Our goal was to develop a test that would help
eliminate some of these unnecessary surgeries, Doug
Site, Rosetta Genomicss executive vice president of
sales and marketing, said. Every other test out there
requires the doctor to get additional samples from
patients when there is an indeterminate diagnosis.
Rosetta Genomics R&D is based in Rehovot, Israel.
The company has U.S. headquarters in Pennsylvania
and California.
Our R&D in Israel has been amazing in figuring out
that by using the very stable microRNAs, we could
make a diagnosis using the smear from the original
biopsy, Sites said. The patient knows within seven to
10 days if the nodule is cancerous or not.
Launched commercially at the International Thyroid Congress in Florida last October, RosettaGX
Reveal is the only test of its kind that does not require
a new sampling of the nodule.
A nurse or physician assistant can put the slide in a
provided pouch no kits or cold packs required and
send it to a local cytopathology lab or to Rosettas lab
in Philadelphia or Lake Forest, California.
We have already seen a number of cases come in
from around the country, Sites said. We had a couple that went first to a competitive molecular test and
came back as quantity of cells not sufficient, so the
doctors sent us the slides and in both cases we were
able to say it was benign. The patients may be able to
live with those nodules the rest of their lives. This is
because our R&D is so sophisticated and were able to
make calls competitors cant.
Sites noted that Rosettas main competitor for
assessing indeterminate thyroid biopsies requires two
additional fine-needle procedures and in many cases
diagnoses benign cases as suspicious for malignancy.
This competitor also requires evaluation by its own
cytopathologists.
Giving doctors the option of using a local group
to make the evaluation with our assay allows them to
continue their relationship with their local pathologists. If the local lab does not have experts in thyroid
cancer, we also offer the option of sending the slide to
our experts. No other company offers that, Sites said.
The cost of the assay is comparable to the competitors, and normally is covered by health insurance.
The American Cancer Society estimated that there were

about 62,450 new cases of thyroid cancer in the United
States in 2015.
Thyroid cancer is relatively curable if you remove the
thyroid, Sites said. The old adage was When in doubt take
it out, so five years ago if you had an indeterminate diagnosis theyd remove that part of the gland and the pathologist would look at it immediately or later, and possibly there
More than 550,000 fine-needle aspiration thyroid

biopsies are performed every year in the United
States alone.
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here are times that all of us, young and old,

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not fully aware of how quickly the first two decades of
life fly by, since we are too busy growing, planning, and
running toward the next elusive immediate goal. But the
end of the third decade serves as a reminder that time
runs on the fast track.
At 30, we are simply amazed and intrigued with time
and its quick passage. While most of our lives still lie
ahead, we are now aware of the speed of the ride. Then,
snap our fingers, and we are eligible for Medicare. As a
senior, the passage of time holds no romanticism, but
rather is a stark cold measure of the inevitable finale that
patiently awaits us all. Time simply flies and carries us
quickly through our lives.
But is that it? Is the realization that time presents a
brief and finite span upon this earth so really important?
Is the approaching end to life also the end of growing,
planning and running?
Theres a simple answer. Absolutely not!
The senior years present golden opportunities for
those who still dream and have the fortitude to pursue
the future and not just bemoan the passing of time. Yes,
we are old in that we are no longer 20, 30 or 40. But we

are certainly not old in terms of our abilities, skills, talents, and aptitudes. I know seniors who run marathons,
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I know seniors who rise with the sun and look forward
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Their time here on earth is precious and short. It is
a lesson learned and appreciated only when you are a
senior and fully appreciate the speed of the journey.
They will not, therefore, look back at their vanished
youth, bemoan their fate, and cry that living is for those
still young. No excuses for them.
Living is for those who insist on living, no matter what
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Holy Name Medical Center has been named a Best
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It is the only independent hospital in the state to
receive this honor 11 years in a row. The rankings were
announced during an awards reception and ceremony
on Thursday, April 19, at the iPlay Center in Freehold.
Holy Name is honored to be listed among the
Best Places to Work in New Jersey, Michael Maron,
Holy Name Medical Centers president and CEO,
said. This accomplishment speaks to the incredible
legacy of Holy Name and reflects the pride and commitment that is unique to our medical center. Our
staff s shared sense of purpose and the pride they
take in their jobs translates to outstanding care and
patient satisfaction.
Holy Name has achieved recognition for workplace
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since 2006. This year, Holy Name ranked 13th in the
large company category, and #1 in the hospital category. In the last 11 years, Holy Name was number #1
among all hospitals in the state six times.
More than 3,000 medical, nursing, allied health
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The Medical Center shows its employees how much
they are valued by empowering them to use their skills
and creativity and providing opportunities to advance
professionally while offering benefits and amenities
aimed at improving their quality of life.
According to NJBIZ, the survey and award program
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center, heated outdoor pool, and putting green. Theres even a salon and
fitness studio to help residents look as
good as they feel.
Nutritious meals are prepared and
served three times a day in the beautifully appointed country-club style
dining room. Residents also can get
a snack in the bistro any time of day.
There is a private dining room that can
be reserved for family gatherings.
The Bristal at Woodcliff Lake provides exceptional services including
housekeeping, weekly linen service,

and laundry, as well as transportation
to off-site activities, cultural events,
and shopping trips. The recreation
director is always arranging parties,
entertainment, exercise classes, and
a wide range of educational and social
programs, including outside events at
parks, museums, concert halls, places
of worship, and other excursions.
Each of the Bristal communities
has a private area called Reflections.
Reflections is a highly customized and
individually paced memory care program that specializes in helping aging
adults manage early- to mid-stage
Alzheimers disease and other memory-related cognitive disorders. Care in
Reflections is provided in a safe, secure
and compassionate environment.
The Bristal at Woodcliff Lake is
fully licensed by the New Jersey
Department of Health and provides
independent living, assisted living,
and memory care. For more information about the Bristal at Woodcliff
Lake, call (201) 505-9500.
Virtual lifeline
between
psychiatrists,
patients
Israel21C Staff
One in five Americans suffers from a behavioral health condition.
Its among the top five reasons for hospital admissions and re-admissions and
the most expensive one, costing the U.S.
healthcare system some $45.3 billion
annually.
Tel Aviv University biomedical engineer
Uri Nevo decided to create a smartphonebased solution for patients and their psychiatrists that could continuously and
unobtrusively monitor changes in behavior and address them before they get out
of control.
There are medications to stabilize
patients but no objective tools for assessing
a patients mental state, said Keren Sela,
a researcher from Nevos lab who helped
develop the Lifegraph app and data visualization dashboard three years ago.
We worked on the technology for the
first year and then started clinical trials
in three large mental health centers here
in Israel, she continued. That helped
us improve the technology and learn
about detecting different behavioral situations in patients with severe mood disorders. We are now looking to expand to
the United States.
Lifegraph runs unobtrusively in the

background and doesnt record the
users identity.
Israel21C
Lifegraph uses machine learning to

monitor psychiatric patients sleep patterns, mobility, communication activity,
and vocal characteristics passively, from
their built-in smartphone sensors. With
the patients permission, the patient, caregiver, and doctor are alerted to changes
so that quick action can be taken to avoid
hospitalization.
When a person on medication gets
worse because the meds arent working
anymore, everything collapses and youre
hospitalized again, Dr. Dror Dolfin, an
Israeli psychiatrist, said. Nevo, his former
army buddy, consulted Dolfin before developing the app. Our aim is to stop these
relapses of mental illness, he continued.
This is the greatest need we have today in
psychiatry.

Lifegraph provides the unprecedented ability to detect and address
small behavioral changes between
appointments, and to prioritize
which patients need immediate
attention, said Dolfin, who practices at Geha Mental Health Center in
Petah Tikva.
If you can pick up on these minute
changes you can better monitor the
patients status and ask him to come in
and talk to you right away, he said.
During the Lifegraph trial phase,
which lasted more than a year and
a half, Dolfin twice detected early
signs of manic behavior in the same
patient, successfully managing to
avoid hospitalization. I saw him
more often, talked to his friends, and
changed his meds. If it would have
gone on for another week he would
have been hospitalized.
Dolfin emphasizes that using Lifegraph is voluntary.
It has to be agreed upon by patient
and doctor as part of a relationship
where the doctor says, Lets try to
make sure you dont get worse and
maybe this will help. If the patient feels

its like Big Brother watching, he wont
use it. But if he feels it gives him 24-hour
access to a physician who cares about
him, he will use it.
Sela says that Lifegraphs objective
behavioral sensing platform is unique.
There are many companies in this
field but our solution is the only one
that is totally passive and clinically validated, she said. It can be integrated
easily and unobtrusively.
We collect what we can from
smartphone sensors. We dont record
calls or know specific locations or
identities. The app runs in the background and collects data and doesnt
drain the battery.
Yet we still thought that this
would be a challenge in terms of privacy and patients fears. However,
we had very good acceptance from
patients. Of a few hundred patients
approached, 94 percent were willing
to install the app and keep it on for a
year. Only a few uninstalled it after a
few days, Sela reported.
These initial study patients, who
Thyroid
still are being monitored today, provided strong proof of concept. The
app showed 90 percent sensitivity
and specificity in identifying outpatient mental state.
It detected significant changes in
behavior about a month before the
doctor knew about a mental deterioration, Sela said.
The Lifegraph founders now are
seeking external funding as well as
partners in pharma, health insurance, telemedicine or other healthcare sectors to penetrate the U.S.
market. Sela says potential customers include pharma companies looking to provide wider and more innovative services beyond medication.
She and the third cofounder, Asaf
Liberman, earned their postgraduate
degrees in Nevos biomedical engineering lab and now work for Lifegraph
full time. Still based at Tel Aviv University, the company has been funded by
Ramot (the universitys tech-transfer
company) and by the Office of the Chief
Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry.
Wishing you a
Happy Passover
from page 45
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Dvar Torah
Parshat Emor: Stitching together
the realms of heaven and earth
ts amazing how one single verse in

the Torah can make such an impact.
In a Torah portion filled with
perspectives on and rules for
kohanim, including marriage and family
deaths, the cycle of the holidays, rules
about sacrifices, and even a narrative
about the mekalel a half-Jew who
cursed Gods name which verse could I
be referring to?
The answer will surprise you.
But first, a story. I met a woman recently
who told me that what she does is rescue
dogs who are going to be euthanized.
Every week. It seems that once dogs are in
a shelter for a certain amount of time and
not adopted, the shelters kill them to make
room for others. What this woman does,
as part of a company called Grateful Doggies, is transport dogs from as far away
as Greenville, N.C., to a shelter in New Jersey. From there, they can be adopted by
homes that will care for them. She and her
friends drive large trucks with 70 dogs in
crates on a three-day binge (no sleeping
or rest breaks) each week, picking up and
dropping off dogs at shelters on the tightest schedule possible. (They only allow 18
minutes at each shelter. Think matzah.) If
they get behind schedule, the dogs will be
a certain plant) are based.

killed before they can reach
The history of this body of
them. She said the dogs are
halacha extends from the
so cute, they give them Grateful Dead song names, like
earliest rabbinic period all
Sugar Magnolia and Casey
the way through today, and
Jones. They transport the
affects not merely personal
dogs to freedom in the North,
issues with pets or permitted methods of contracepkind of like the Underground
tion for observant Jews, but
Railroad. It is grueling and
Rabbi David
public policy on the quesdangerous work.
Bockman
tion of, say, the use of oxen
She mentioned that there
Congregation
(castrated and thus domesare so many dogs to be cared
Beth Shalom,
ticated bulls, used widely as
for because their owners
Pompton Lakes,
the trucks of ancient times
didnt act responsibly by
Conservative
think Chad Gadya) or the
spaying or neutering their
infamous feral cats of Jerusapets. My ears pricked up at
lem in our own time.
this mention, because I know some of
Along the way, rabbis have answered
the history of debates about spaying and
all sorts of contiguous questions. Are Jews
neutering is based on Lev 22:24. Any
allowed to even own dogs and cats (the
animal that has its testicles bruised or
answer is not, as you might think, selfcrushed or torn or cut you shall not offer
evident), and if so, what responsibilities
to the Lord; nor shall you do that within
devolve on such owners? Can a rooster be
your land. This verse is the single source
neutered by cutting off its showy coxupon which all halachic (legal) decisions
comb, rendering it unable to attract a mate?
about say-roos (castration) of animals and
Although the Torah in our pasuk seems
humans, for sacrificial purposes or for
to present a straightforward and delimited
any other reason, physically rendered or
case regarding sacrificial animals, the truth
even chemically blocked (think birth control medicine, discussed in the Talmud as
of the matter is that in any legal system,
kos shel ikkarin a cup of roots from
the basis of adjudication responds both to
Lasher
BRIEFS
Methodist Church rejects Israel

divestment, withdraws from
anti-Israel coalition
The United Methodist Church voted down four resolutions
that called on the church to divest from companies doing
business with Israel.
At its May 10-20 General Conference in Portland, Ore., the
UMC also voted 478 in favor and 318 against to withdraw
its membership, financial support, and staff participation
from the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a
coalition encouraging boycotts of Israel.
This one-sided political coalitions website (www.endtheoccupation.org) reveals that its agenda includes seeking to
isolate Israel economically, socially, and culturally, and promoting comprehensive divestment against Israel, while
overlooking anti-Israel aggression, stated the UMC petition
that called for withdrawal from the anti-Israel coalition.
Blaming only one side while ignoring the wrongdoing of
Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran will not advance the cause of
peace.
Roz Rothstein, CEO of the pro-Israel education and advocacy group StandWithUs, said, By severing its ties with
anti-Israel groups, the UMC has reaffirmed its role as an
agent of reconciliation and peacemaking between Israelis
JNS.ORG
and Palestinians.
logic and to peoples legal needs, sometimes in farflung places, centuries, and circumstances. Despite the way we may think
of such issues the Torah speaks and we
obey (or we dont) the actual practice
of halacha is that we hold the Torah dear
and sacred, and we move forward into a
sometimes unrecognizably foreign and
demanding world of experiences, holding
fast to that which we have found to be holy
and useful in addressing the new.
Lag BOmer, coming this week, places
a human and rabbinic historical situation over the biblical substrate of the
requirement to bring the omer, a sheaf of
grain, as a communal sacrifice in this
time of year.
Rather than seeing such connections as
tenuous or flimsy, however, perhaps we
can learn from such development that the
fire of revelation continues to burn brightly
for those who care to see. It is in this manner that one (set of ) ruling(s) shall be for
you and for the stranger who lives among
you, for I am the Lord your God (Leviticus 24:22). By building on such precedents
and taking the demand that we follow the
Torah seriously, we Jews become a long
but flexible cord stitching together the
realms of heaven and earth.
Surgery is broadcast live

for the first time in Israel
The Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva became the first
Israeli hospital to broadcast surgical operations in real time.
The broadcast, available to viewers in Israel and oversees
on Clalit Health Care Services Facebook page, includes a
Cesarean section; heart, corneal, and kidney transplants;
a complex cardiac catheterization; and a robot-led prostate
surgery.
In one procedure seen in the broadcast, operating surgeon Irit Bachar says, We are in the midst of a complex corneal transplant surgery. Were operating on a patient who
has one eye. His other eye is a lazy eye, and were replacing
his cornea with a donor cornea. The patient, a 60-year-old
art teacher, had a successful result.
Live streaming of this nature is typically barred by Facebook, whose content policy prohibits posting bloody
images. Complying with the social media giants directives,
the Israeli hospital made sure not to show the more graphic
parts of the procedures, focusing on the surgical staff and
the technical aspects of the operations.
We gave around 100,000 viewers a glimpse into what
happens in the hospital, Rabin Medical Center Director
Eran Halpern said. We believe in our professional standards and we have nothing to hide.

JNS.ORG/ISRAEL HAYOM
FROM PAGE 25
vineyard has produced some of the finest, rarest

award-winning wines in Israel.
As we hiked next by the vineyard, we heard an
incredible story from 1967. It seems that when
Israel was victorious in the Six-Day War and captured the Golan Heights, soldiers came to this
particular spot and found a mock kibbutz. All the
signs on this pretend kibbutz were in Hebrew.
The PLO used the mock kibbutz to practice
training for terror attacks against kibbutzim. This
even included practice for raiding the childrens
area of a kibbutz. Israel tore down this despicable
place and planted these incredible vineyards. This
is hope over despair and darkness.
None of these miracles would be possible without the great support and friendship of the United
States, Israels greatest friend. We cannot thank
our elected officials enough for their support. We
encourage everyone to continue to visit Israel on
federation missions or on your own, and to see for
yourself what Israel is really about and what your
partnership means.
I do. I have seen them with my own eyes. And it is
thanks in great part to the elected officials and community leaders who partner with Israel and support
it. They you make a very real difference.
Arts & Culture
He
s
75
and his musical
fans look back
Mexicali Live celebrates
Bob Dylans birthday
LARRY YUDELSON
n Tuesday, the artist formerly

known as Robert Zimmerman
will celebrate his 75th birthday.
If Bob Dylans platinum jubilee seems particularly poignant, perhaps
its because Mr. Dylan is now triple the age
he was when, 50 years ago this week, he
released Blonde on Blonde as a 25-yearold amphetamine-stoked wunderkind.
Artists, the young Dylan once sang,
dont look back. This week Dylan
released his latest album, Fallen Angels
which, like its predecessor, is a collection
of songs from the 1940s and 50s, taken
from the Frank Sinatra songbook. Dylan
has taken the month off from performing,
but if his upcoming summer concerts are
like those he played in Japan in April, they
will feature mostly a mixture of the Frank

Sinatra-style songs with songs he released
in the past 15 years.
Those of us who are not artists, and
do want to look back, can celebrate Mr.
Dylans birthday with older, more familiar
songs on Tuesday night, as two very different bands perform his songs at Mexicali
Live in Teaneck. Those bands agreed to
answer some questions about the concert
and their perspective on Mr. Dylan.
Mary Lee Kortes burst on the Dylan
scene in 2001, when she and her band,
Mary Lees Corvette, performed all of
Mr. Dylans classic album, Blood on the
Tracks, in a performance later released
as their second album. At Mexicali Live
next week, the band will reprise that
performance.
Q: What was your first Bob Dylan song?
Mary Lee Kortes: Probably Blowin in
the Wind. Hes just been in my consciousness forever. Its like asking me, when
was the first time you breathed? Whats
your first experience of oxygen? Its that
elemental.
Q: When was the first time you heard
Blood on the Tracks?
A: I was pretty young. I remember loving it
and I remember having the vinyl. I remember writing my name on the album. I was
the youngest kid in my family; my older
brother and sister always had the greatest
records.
Mary Lee Kortes
Q: Whats the basis of your connection to

Dylan?
A: His words are so deep. He covers so
Bob Dylan, onstage in Victoria-Gasteiz,

Spain, at the Azkena Rock Festival, 2010
much ground with such little effort that

Ive always been very drawn in by him. His
use of metaphor doesnt scream at you; it
just makes you ask questions.
Q: How did you come to perform Blood
on the Tracks?
A: Its a kind of long and winding road.
I discovered my singing voice working
on a dude ranch in northern Michigan.
I decided I wanted to be a singer. I also
wanted to be a book editor. They were a
very confusing set of ambitions.
I was just drawn to New York City. I
came here knowing two people. I started
answering ads in the Village Voice, and
somebody said you really should be writing songs because thats where its at. I
started writing songs and performing my
own material
This Blood on the Tracks thing was
a really happy accident. I heard Arlenes
Grocery, this club on the Lower East Side,
was doing this classic album night. Theyd
get three albums and three different
bands. They had bands for the other two
albums, but apparently no one was willing
to do Blood on the Tracks. I said, Id do

it. I love that album. So naively.
They said, We hadnt thought about
having a woman do it.
So I said, Im your man.
I started rehearsing and I said, oh no,
I dont know all the words to the songs!
On two separate occasions I actually went
to the telephone, picked up the phone,
and almost said I was going to cancel. But
something inside me said, Im not a quitter. Im going to figure this out and crack
this code. I just kept singing the songs until
I felt I could do it from my own inner well
and not just imitate him.
I honored the original phrasing,
because who wants to hear the songs sung
SEE DYLAN PAGE 56
What: Bob Dylan birthday celebration

Who: Deadgrass and Mary Lees
Corvette
Where: Mexicali Live, 1409 Queen
Anne Road, Teaneck
When: Tuesday, May 24, 8 p.m.
How much: $25
Calendar
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or
grandmamimil@verizon.
net.
Barbecue/picnic in
Emerson: The Mens
Club of Congregation
Bnai Israel hosts a
community outreach
barbecue and picnic,
with games, in honor of
Lag BOmer, rain or shine,
11:30 a.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Mah jongg in New City:

The West Clarkstown
Jewish Center hosts
Mah Jongg Madness,
with lunch and prizes,
noon. 195 West
Clarkstown Road, New
City, N.Y. (845) 352-0017
or speechbox@optonline.
net.
Genealogy in Wayne:
The New Jersey Cantors Concert Ensemble, sponsored by

the New Jersey region of the Cantors Assembly, performs at
Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff on Sunday, May 22, at 4 p.m.
The concert includes Jewish choral, cantorial, classical and
traditional Israeli, Yiddish, chasidic, and Sephardic music, along with upbeat
modern selections. Local participants include Cantors Ilan Mamber, Mark
Biddelman, Faith Steinsnyder, and David Perper. Cantor Sheldon M. Levin is
the conductor. The concert is supported by Beth Rishons Channa Mamber
Music Memorial Fund. 585 Russell Ave. (201) 891-4466.
MAY
22
Friday
MAY 20
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Dr. Rachel Korazim
is the Rabbi Barry
Schaeffer Memorial
scholar-in-residence
at Congregation Beth
Sholom; her overall
theme is Windows to
Israeli Society through
Literature. Tonight, her
topic is The Other as
Mirror; she will look
at Biblical Motifs
Challenging Views on
Shabbat morning and
Complex Images of
Peace and Hope in the
afternoon. Meals, with
reservations, precede the
lectures. 354 Maitland
Ave. (201) 833-2620 or
office@cbsteaneck.org
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel welcomes Shabbat
with songs, prayers, and
an intergenerational
drumming circle,
7:30 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
services featuring the
Shabbat Unplugged
Band, 7:30 p.m. 221

Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
10 a.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
office@bisrael.com or
www.bisrael.com.
Mens Club of Temple

Emanu-El of Closter
offers Minyan on the
Mountain in Alpine,
9 a.m. The trailhead is
opposite the FM radio
tower on Route 9W.
(201) 750-9997.
Ramah scholarship run:
MAY 21
Rabbi Yona Goodman
Shabbat in Closter:
Shabbat learning in
Teaneck: Rabbi Yona
Temple Emanu-El has

services, 9 a.m., Playroom
with Parent at the same
time; a chavurah service
at 9:30, and From the
Talmud to Today class at
12:30 p.m. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997
or Rabbi Alex
Freedman, freedman@
templeemanu-el.com.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Certified yoga
instructor Andrea
Collier, a co-president
of Congregation Bnai
Israels sisterhood, joins
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
in incorporating
yoga postures into
the morning prayers,
MAY 22
Minyan in Alpine: The
Temple Emeth offers a

Shabbat music service
with the Temple Emeth
Band with Cantor
Ellen Tilem and Rabbi
Steven Sirbu, 8 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
Emeth.org.
Saturday
Sunday
Goodman, national
director of education in
the Yeshivot and Ulpanot
Bnei Akiva Educational
Network in Israel and
the former director
general of the national
Bnei Akiva movement
in Israel, talks about In
What State Is The State?
The Challenges Facing
the Religious Zionist
Movement in Israel
Today: An Israeli Rabbi
and Educators Insight,
Aaron, 6:55 p.m. 950
Queen Anne Road. www.
bethaaron.org or (201)
836-6210.
Camp Ramah Nyack

holds its Scholarship Run
at Rockland Lake State
Park, 299 Rockland Lake
Road in Valley Cottage,
N.Y. At 10:15 a.m., there
will be a 5K run/walk;
at 11, there will be a
camper fun run; and from
noon-3 p.m., there will be
a barbecue, family fun
day, and alumni reunion
at Ramah Nyack, 303
Christian Herald Road, in
Nyack. (212) 678-8884 or
Run@RamahNyack.org.
Book club in Paramus:

Dr. Raisy Weiss talks
about Dara Horns
novel A Guide for
the Perplexed for the
book club at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 10:30 a.m.
Refreshments. East
The Jewish Genealogical

Society of North
Jersey meets at the
Wayne YMCA for a
discussion, Analysis
of Handwriting for
Genealogical Research,
2:30 p.m. The Charles
& Bessie Goldman
Library will be open for
resources and socializing.
Refreshments. 1 Pike
Drive. (973) 595-0100; or
Susan, (732) 412-7606,
president@jgsnj.org, or
www.jgsnj.org.
Monday
MAY 23
125 N. Maple Ave.

(877) 283-2276.
Ladies lunch/
discussion in Wayne:
The Jewish Womens
Circle of Chabad of
Passaic County offers
a discussion with Chani
Gurkov, noon. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
email Chanig@optonline.
net.
Wednesday
MAY 25
Mickey Marcus lecture
in Tenafly: Dumont
historian Dick Burnon
talks about Mickey
Marcus: American Hero
During the 1948 Israeli
War for Independence
at a meeting of the
Senior Activity Center
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades, 11:15 a.m.
Excerpts of the 1966 film
Cast a Giant Shadow,
starring Kirk Douglas as
Mickey Marcus, will be
shown. 411 East Clinton
Ave. (201) 569-7900, ext.
235, or www.jccotp.org.
Lag BOmer in Wayne:

The Chabad Center of
Passaic County offers
Barbecue a la Carte
including arts and crafts,
games, relay races,
archery, and a barbecue,
run by the centers CTeen
group, 6 p.m. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
Jewishwayne.com.
Hadassah meets: Fair

Lawn Hadassah meets
at the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel to hear
Norbert Strauss discuss
his book My Stories:
Highlights of My Life,
7:45 p.m. 10-10 Norma
Ave. Refreshments.
Leslie, (201) 873-2476 or
L.Felner@att.net.
Tuesday
MAY 24
Jewish learning in
Teaneck: Lamdeinu,
a center for Jewish
learning that meets
Aaron, offers a class,
Children and Matan
Torah in the Middle
Ages, led by Dr. Julie
Goldstein, 10:15 a.m. 950
Queen Anne Road. www.
lamdeinu.org.
Protecting your skin:

Dermatologist Dr. Tamar
Zapolanski talks about
Protecting Your Skin
for the Valley Hospital
and Promise Foundation,
at Ridgewood Library,
11:30 a.m. Light lunch.
Sassy Reuven
The Raid on Entebbe:
Congregation Keter
Torah and Friends of
Lubavitch of Bergen
County welcome
scholar-in-residence
Sasson Sassy Reuven
to mark 40 years from
the hostage rescue in
Entebbe. A veteran of
the Israel Defense Special
Operation Forces who
was in the IDFs elite Red
Beret paratrooper unit,
he will give a firsthand
account of the operation,
8 p.m., at Keter Torah,
600 Roemer Ave.,
Teaneck. (201) 907-0180,
(201) 907-0686, www.
ketertorah.org or www.
chabadhouse.com.
Calendar
Thursday
MAY 26
Dinner for people
with dementia: The
Jewish Home Family
holds its second Sweet
Memories Supper Club
at Noahs Ark Restaurant
in Teaneck, 4 p.m. The
meal is for couples
with one member
who has a dementia
diagnosis. Support staff
on hand. 493 Cedar
Lane. Reservations,
(201) 518-1176.
Sunday
MAY 29
Israeli history in Jersey
City: Congregation
Bill Phillips
Bnai Jacob continues

its Lox n Learning
series with The State
of The State of Israel, a
presentation including a
film, led by Rabbi Marsha
Dubrow, 10 a.m. Bagels
and lox. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
McDonald Ave., 6-9 p.m.

(718) 645-or binausa.org.
Singles
Sunday
MAY 22
Brunch/mingle: North
In New York
Tuesday
MAY 24
Disability/rehabilitation
expo in Brooklyn: The
Bina Stroke & Brain Injury
Assistance organization
holds its annual Disability
& Rehabilitation Expo
at the Palace, 780
Jason Liebman
Melissa Miller
Jersey Jewish Singles at

the Clifton Jewish Center
offers a Bagels and
Conversation brunch,
11 a.m., with a discussion
of funny dating stories.
(973) 772-3131 or join
North Jersey Jewish
Singles 45-60s at www.
meetup.com.
Tina Johnson
The production features scenic design

by Brian Prather, costume design by Patricia E. Doherty, lighting design by Michael
OConnor, and sound design by William
Neal. Casting is by Cindi Rush.
Mr. Brancato previously directed The
Immigrant at Penguin in 1988. It starred
Avi Hoffman, who recently was nominated
for a Drama Desk Award as best actor for
the Yiddish-language production of Death
of a Salesman.
Penguins season also includes Jonathan Tolins Off Broadway Buyer & Cellar ( July 1July 24), Dancing Lessons,
a romantic comedy by Mark St. Germain,
author of last seasons hit Becoming
Dr. Ruth (August 12September 4), and
Michael McKeevers Daniels Husband,
an award-winning new drama about the
power and pain of love (September 23
October 16).
Penguins 108-seat theater is at 7 Crickettown Road. For information, go to www.
penguinrep.org or call (845) 786-2873.
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Jewish Family Service of Bergen & North

Hudson will host a kick-off party on
Monday, May 23, at 7 p.m., for its June 19
Ride to Fight Hunger. The kick-off will be
at the Teaneck Doghouse, 1415 Palisade
Ave, in Teaneck. There will be a complimentary dinner, biking workshop with
Mara Miller two-time Cycling National
Champion, and door prizes.
Since its inception, over 1,500
individuals have participated, raising

over $500,000. This year, athletes of all
ages and abilities will once again take to
the streets of Bergen County to ride in
support of JFS, raising funds and awareness to fight hunger in the community.
Register for the bike ride at www.
ridetofighthunger.com or for information, call Jaymie Kerr at (201) 837-9090
or email Jaymiek@jfsbergen.org.
Cantor Romalis
to be honored at
jubilee concert
Temple Beth Tikvah plans its final Jubilee event of the year
with a concert to honor retiring Cantor Charles Romalis on
June 5, at 4 p.m.
The concert features the New Jersey Cantors Concert
Ensemble, the Temple Beth Tikvah Choir, and several surprise guests. Cantor Romalis will be recognized by the AmeriCantor Charles
Romalis
can Conference of Cantors for his achievement as TBTs cantor for 50 years. A reception will follow the concert.
For information on Temple Beth Tikvah, call (973) 595-6565 or go to www.
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Mark Hareliks The Immigrant

to play Penguin Rep Theater
Penguin Rep Theatre, under the leadership of founding artistic director Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M.
Horn, opens the season with Mark Hareliks The Immigrant.
Directed by Mr. Brancato, The Immigrant is the true story of the playwrights
grandfathers move from Russia to the
United States in 1909.
Instead of going to New York, Haskell
Harelik landed in Galveston, Texas, and
ended up in the tiny town of Hamilton
population: 1,203; no Jews, Mr. Brancato said. A stranger in a strange land, he
spoke no English, but with a wheelbarrow,
a bunch of bananas, and the support of a
Texan couple, he laid claim to the American dream.
The shows limited engagement is
through Sunday, June 12, at Penguin Reps
Barn Theatre in Stony Point in New Yorks
Rockland County. Featured actors include
Tina Johnson, Jason Liebman, Melissa
Miller, and Bill Phillips. The official opening is Sunday, May 22, at 2 p.m.
Ride to Fight Hunger gears up
Jewish Journeys will host

YU psychology chair and author
Dr. David Pelcovitz, author and chair of
Yeshiva Universitys psychology department, will discuss Thinking Alike vs.
Thinking Together: Paths to Strengthening Relationships on Monday, May 23,
at 7:30 p.m. The talk, for Jewish Journeys, will be at Congregation Rinat Yisael
in Teaneck.
Jewish Journeys is a Bergen County
organization whose mission is to
strengthen Jewish homes through a
renewal of Jews connection to Judaism
and Israel. The momentum is generated
through a nine-day, highly subsidized

trip to Israel sponsored by the Jewish
Womens Renaissance Project. Since
2011, the group has taken more than 100
Bergen County women to Israel for this
Birthright-like experience.
Amy and David Albalah will share
their experiences on the JWRP Israel
trip and how it has affected their lives.
The groups next trip is in November.
For information, email julie@juliefarkas.com.
Tickets on sale for Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band will perform
at bergenPAC in Englewood on Tuesday, June 7,
at 8 p.m., at the 11th annual gala to benefit the
Performing Arts School at bergenPAC.
Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band features
Todd Rundgren, Gregg Rolie, Steve Lukather,
Richard Page, Warren Ham, and Gregg
Bissonette.
A rock n roll casual cocktails and hors
doeuvres reception is at 5 p.m., at the Performing Arts School, followed by a gala performance
starring Ringo in the Russell Berrie Hall. A dessert reception follows.
This years honoree, Dr. Hetal Gor, will receive
the Rising Star award for her support and dedication to bergenPAC and the community. The theater will also present its longtime staff member
Rosalie Berlin with the Distinguished Service award for her dedication to the theater
since its inception.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or from the box office, (201)
227-1030.
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Teen choir to hold auditions

The Bergen County chapter of HaZamir: the International Jewish High School
Choir, conducted by Cantor Ronit Wolff Hanan, holds an open rehearsal for
teens at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, Sunday, May 22 at 1 p.m. For
information, email HaZamirBergen@gmail.com.
Celebrate Israel Parade set for June 5

This years 52nd annual Celebrate Israel
Parade is set for Sunday, June 5. The
route is up Manhattans Fifth Avenue
from 57th to 74th streets.
The parade, one of New York Citys
largest, runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
More than 30 floats, musical performers, 15 world-class marching bands, and
40,000 marchers will entertain hundreds of thousands of spectators for the
largest celebration of Israel in the world.
New this year, cast members from the
Broadway production of Fiddler on the

Roof will ride a specially designed float,
singing some of the most recognizable
songs from the musical and performing
live for the television and the grandstand
audience.
The parade will be held rain or shine.
For the latest information on the parade,
go to celebrateisraelny.org, follow on
Twitter, @celebrateisrael, or view the
Facebook page, Celebrate Israel Parade.
BCHSJS graduation is May 24

The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies will hold its annual graduation at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley in Woodcliff Lake on Tuesday,
May 24, at 7:30 p.m. Closing exercises
for all other students will be held on the
last day of school, May 22.
Elayne Kalina, president of the
schools board; Fred Nagler, principal;
and the students respective congregational rabbis will present diplomas and
gifts to the 35 graduates.
The Bergen County High School of
Jewish Studies is a regional Sunday
school program for students in grades
eight to 12. For information, call (201)
488-0834 or go to www.bchsjs.org.
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1. Show about an Israeli import of the
1930s?
5. Locale of a last stand
11. ...and the bush ___ not consumed
(Ex. 3:2)
14. Slurpee alternative with many flavors
certified by the OU
15. Gives a public dvar Torah
16. Marx follower?
17. Show about David when he worked for
Saul?
19. Magen David Adom letters
20. Natalie Portmans role in Goyas
Ghosts
21. Dolph Schays in 1948
23. Rare striped kosher animals
26. Hillel and Yirmiyahu (Abbr.)
28. Noun suffixes (or an anagram of
20-Across)
29. Judean sound?
30. Sacrificial sound?
31. What many Nazis traded the Alps in
for
32. Show that teaches 5-Down when to
hit and when to speak?
36. Title group in Elle Kings 2015 hit
37. Anderson who often casts Jason
Schwartzman
38. Work by Samuel Bak
39. Prelude ___ Kiss (Craig Lucas play)
42. Yeshiva University based show?
45. C Lanzbom sometimes uses them
48. Capp and Capone
49. What one often does after a blessing
50. Newly nuclear country
51. Israeli director Nesher
52. He famously played 5-Down
54. Pet Einstein lovingly (in Back to the
Future)
56. Dwelling for Abraham
57. Org. for Dershowitz
58. Josephs show about his relationship
with Pharaoh?
64. Impersonated (Woody Allen)
65. Roths work, compared to Spielbergs
66. Rabbi Akiva, for much of his life
67. Koufax was one, once
68. Spewing false information about Israel,
on many college campuses
69. Show about how many times G-d said
hed flood the Earth?
Down
1. Ramah or Moshava supervisor-to-be,
briefly
2. Israeli brother
3. It comes at the end of Shavuot?
4. Like many athletes in Israel
5. See 52- Across
6. Ben Canaan and Gold
7. Casspis team, on the scoreboard
8. Shekels dispenser
9. Bubbelehs
10. Comes ___ surprise (Like Billy Joel
selling out the Garden)
11. Show about Haman?
12. Strive to play like Perlman
13. Tests given in a Scientology scam
18. Verse opening for G-d?
22. Tref sound
23. There are 6.5 million Jews in Israel, ___
(approximately)
24. Three time New York mayor
25. Sounds while having a good shvitz
26. ___ HaDerech
27. Rolled items
30. Community or band
31. When Tevye sings Tradition
33. Has the rights to (like Israel of the
Golan)
34. Give a heter
35. Theodore Bikels rock metal?
39. ... and it is a rare thing ___ the king
requireth (Dan. 2:11)
40. Director Preminger
41. Part of the IFA
42. Skye of Say Anything
43. High Priest with disappointing sons
44. Police in Casablanca
45. One might ruin your Shabbat nap...
every 17 years
46. Language on many Israeli signs
47. Show about an annual Israeli occurrence on 5th Avenue?
51. Son of Zilpah
52. 1991 Harrison Ford title role
53. Lang. on many Israeli signs
55. Mark from a Jerusalem Post editor
56. Made like Samson with fox tails
59. Before, to Bialik
60. All Jews, in a sense
61. Minority in Israel, with Jews
62. Paul Newman in Cars
63. Esau feels it for Jacob
The solution to last weeks puzzle is onpage 59.

Gallery
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n 1 Students at the Torah Academy of Bergen County marked

YomHaShoah with a candle lighting ceremony, shared family
memories, songs by the choir, and pictorial presentations. Speaker
Frima Laub, a Holocaust survivor, introduced by her grandson,
Yoni (TABC 17), shared her tale of survival. Naftali Shavelson
n 2 Eleventh graders at Shomrei Torahs religious school, here
with their teacher Richard Mayer, facilitated a Holocaust memorial service for the younger students. Courtesy Shomrei Torah
n 3 Recently, a Jewish group from France, directed by Chabad
emissaries Chanie and Rabbi Avrohom Boruch Pewzner, visited Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn. They also got a tour
of the new state-of-the-art Bat Sheva Chaya Esther Mikvah
in Hillside, led by Rebbetzin Shterney Kanelsky, the associate director of Bris Avrohom in Fair Lawn. The mikvah was
named after Bat Sheva obm Kanelsky, the Kanelskys daughter, who lived for 65 days, and also Rebbetzin Chaya Esther
obm Zaltzman, Ms. Kanelskys mother. Courtesy Bris Avrohom
n 4 More than 100 preschoolers in Temple Emanuel

of the Pascack Valleys early childhood program celebrated Israeli Independence Day along with their
families. The celebration, with song and dance, was
in the Rabbi Andre Ungar outdoor amphitheater on
the hill facing the Pascack Valley. Courtesy TEPV
n 5 A large group of divorced women from Williamsburg and Borough Park and other communities
attended a screening of Ohels film, Rising From Divorce at the JCC of Marine Park in Brooklyn. A panel
discussion followed with Dr. Hindie M. Klein, Ohels
director of clinical projects, and Dr. Mark Banshek, both
featured in the film. www.ohelfamily/risingfromdivorce
n 6 The Jewish Home Familys president and CEO,

Carol Silver Elliott, discussed SeniorHaven for Elder
Abuse Prevention New Jerseys first and only elder abuse shelter with a panel of experts at the
Bergen County Division of Senior Services. The hearing at the county administration building was before the Board of Chosen Freeholders. SeniorHaven
for Elder Abuse Prevention opened at the JHF in
northern Bergen County last year. It is the only elder abuse shelter in New Jersey. Courtesy JHF
Jewish Standard DATE, 2015 55
Arts & Culture

Dylan
FROM PAGE 51
differently? You dont really want that.

You dont need this to be improved upon.
Everybody loves the songs and needs an
excuse to hear them.
Thats part of why I never considered
changing the gender. Why would I do that?
They were perfect poems.
Q: What did you learn about the songs
from getting inside them?
A: Just how beautiful they are. When
youre singing the words, not just listening
to them, its a really transformative experience. Theyre so beautiful, so full of emotion. Its an honor when these words come
floating out of your mouth.
Q: Did you ever edit books?
A: I have done some. Now I do editing for
the U.N.
Q: What else are you working on?
A: I just finished a new album, The Songs
of Beulah Rawley. It will be out in the next
few months.
Beulah Rowley is a regionally famous
singer from the Depression-era Midwest.
She wrote a lot of songs and stored them in
a piano bench made out of wrought iron.
She died in a house fire. The piano bench
survived, with all of her songs and diaries,
and made its way into my family.
Q: If you were going to a desert island, and
could take the music of Bob Dylan, Joan
Baez, or Joni Mitchell, which would you
take?
A: If I could only pick one? I would probably take Joni.
Q: Any concluding thoughts on Bob Dylan
turning 75?
A: Its wonderful. Hes out there. Hes still
doing it. Hillary Clintons running for president and shes almost 70. Hurray! Lets live
long lives and stay alive while were here.
Deadgrass is the Jerry Garcia tribute project of musicians C Lanzbom and Matt
Turk. In Jewish circles, Mr. Lanzbom is
better known as one of the members of
Soulfarm, and Mr. Turk is the musical
director of the Downtown Synagogue in
Tribeca, in Manhattan. Deadgrass generally plays the songs of the Grateful Dead,
but the Grateful Dead frequently played
the songs of Bob Dylan and even toured
with him for a time, so on Tuesday night,
Mr. Lanzbom said, you can expect to
hear the words and music of Dylan with
the rhythms and stylings of Mr. Garcia.
Q: What was your first Bob Dylan song?
C Lanzbom: Whoa! I was probably, like,
maybe 10 or 11 years old. My older brother
turned me on to a lot of different music.
Q: What was the song?
A: Probably something like Subterranean
Homesick Blues.
Deadgrass is, from left, Russell Gottleib, Clarence Ferrari, C Lanzbom, Dave Richards, and Matt Turk.
Q: What was the first Dylan song you

learned how to play?
A: It was Dont think twice, its alright.
I learned it as a kid. I never actually performed that particular track.
Q: Whats your favorite Bob Dylan song?
A: Too many. There are too, too many. I
dont think I have a favorite, actually.
Q: What do you think about Dylan turning
75 years old?
A: All those guys are like pioneers. Ive
always been into the deep blues where
these guys, if they lived this long, aged
like B.B. King. [Mr. King was playing concerts until the year before his death at 89.]
I admire them and theyre kind of blazing
and paving a path for all the other rockers
like us, to show the world how it can be
done as long as you stay alive.
Q: Any plans for Bob Dylans 100th
birthday?
A: I won a Grammy for working with Pete
Seeger. I believe Pete died at 94. I worked
with him all the way to the last year he
lived. What I picked up from him, the way
he came into a recording session, he came
in like a kid just as excited as when he
started. Hed be like a kid in many ways.
DEADGRASS
Obituaries
Robert Feldman
Robert Bob Feldman, 76, of Hamburg, formerly of

Wayne, died May 17.
A Boston Latin School and Northeastern University
graduate, he worked in sales before founding
Renaissance Recognition in 1992, which he ran up to the
time of death.
He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Myrna; children,
Kym (Robert), Gary (Lynn), and Adam ( Jodi); and five
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the American Heart
Association or the Compassionate Care Hospice
Foundation of Sparta. Arrangements were by Robert
Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Alan Lieber
Alan Lieber, 74, of West Milford, died May 13.

He is survived by his wife, Jane, ne Sutton; a sister,
Sherry Balser; nephews Andrew and Jonathan Balser; and
cousins. Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Elizabeth Lyttle
Elizabeth I. Lyttle, ne Daut, 90, of Wayne, formerly of

Prospect Park and Paterson, died May 13.
Predeceased by her husband, Samuel, she is survived
by children, Joanie Gulko (Ralph) and Sandy Marcella
(Ron); sisters, Charlotte Riffel and Mary Sitek (Leon); and
five grandchildren.Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Dorothy Rose
Dorothy Rose, 94, of Cliffside Park died May 11.

Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Philip Weinstein
Philip S. Weinstein, 87, of Mahwah, formerly of New York

and California, died May 13.
He was stationed at March Air Force Base in California
during the Korean Conflict, earned his CPA, and
formed a partnership with his son, Steven, with the
firm Weinstein & Weinstein, P.C., in Teaneck. He was a
founder of the Canarsie Jewish Center.
Predeceased by his wife of 62 years, Anita, he is
survived by children, Steven (Linda) of Fair Lawn, and
Debra Gomberg (Kenneth) of New City; a cousin, Mel
Topf; grandchildren, Matthew (Meital), Alex (Leah),
Samantha, Sari, Zachary, Rachel and Ashley; two greatgrandchildren; and his caregiver, Eric Matondo.
Donations can be sent to the New Jersey Veterans
Home, Paramus, or to Holy Name Medical Center,
Teaneck. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
The staff of the Jewish Standard

extends condolences to the
Weinstein and Gomberg families
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after a wonderful life filled with the joy of
family. His acumen in the food business was
always evident at Zabars where he worked for
over 40 years. Beloved husband of Vera for
65 inseparable years. Treasured and devoted
father of Mark (Rae Gladstein), Roni (Jim
Ackerman), and Sheri (Craig Tendler).
Cherished and adored grandfather of Josh
(Maria), Adam, Matt (Carol), Alicia, Daniel,
Josh, Helena (Sam), and Amanda, and
great-grandfather of Jonathan, Marissa, and
London. He will be missed by those whose
lives he enriched with his genuine kindness
and larger than life spirit. Arrangements
were by Robert Shoems Memorial Chapel,
Paramus, NJ. Shiva will be observed through
Monday at 867 Columbus Drive in Teaneck,
NJ. Donations can be sent to Temple Bnai
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Douville said. We dont even call it occupied territory, its Judea and Samaria, using the biblical
names for the West Bank preferred by those who
do not consider the areas occupied under international law.
The right wing is not great on nuance, Knappow countered in an interview.
In dueling op-eds in the Detroit Jewish News last
summer, unavailable online, Knappow and Douville explained their positions.
Partners for a Progressive Israel, for its part,
notes its membership in Zionist umbrella bodies
and its roots in Hashomer Hatzair, a storied leftist
Zionist movement.
In terms of the camp of Israel supporters, they
are dividing us, theyre not allowing gray areas, its
entirely not kosher, said Maya Haber, a Pittsburghbased member of the national Partners for a Progressive Israel who launched a petition last week
urging Walk for Israel to include the group and
Americans for Peace Now as sponsors.
We have called for a targeted boycott of settlements goods as a means to help end the occupation, the petition says. To be clear, as Zionists we
do not support a boycott of Israel proper. Rather
we accept Israels territorial distinctions, and boycott only those areas in which Israel itself exercises
military rule and not extend civic governance to all
its residents.
Knappow reapplied this year; Douville wrote
back saying the rejection still stood, unless the
groups had changed their policies. In the interview, Douville said that members of Partners for
a Progressive Israel are welcome to participate as
individuals. Knappow passed.
If theyre going to boycott me, Im going to boycott them, he said.
Alan Gale, associate director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Detroit, would
not comment on why Jewish policy umbrellas like
the JCRC, the federation, and the Jewish community center stopped organizing the Walk for Israel.
Knappow said it was too bad the walk was no longer in the hands of the JCRC or another more representative umbrella body.
When the JCRC was involved, there were no
problems, he said.
This year, the JCRC is not among the walks cosponsors, although it has been in other years since
Douvilles coalition started organizing the event.
Gale would not comment on why the JCRC dropped
out this year, but said the organization maintained
a relationship with Douville and would be collecting Israeli foods at the Walk for Israel launch site
for distribution to the homeless.
As we speak, I am preparing an eblast reminding potential walkers to bring Israeli food products
for donation, to be collected in boxes we will have
at the walk starting area, Gale wrote in an email.
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intra-Palestinian peace en
route to talks with Israel
Eyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said he is willing
to mediate peace talks between rival Palestinian factions
in order to subsequently bring about the resumption of
negotiations to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
If we are able to solve the issue of our Palestinian
brothers, it will achieve warmer peaceI ask that the
Israeli leadership allow this speech to be broadcast in
Israel one or two times as this is a genuine opportunity,
Sisi said during a speech at an infrastructure conference
in the southern Eyptian city of Assiut.
I say to our Palestinian brothers, you must unite the
different factions in order to achieve reconciliation, and
quickly, said Sisi, referring to the Gaza-ruling Palestinian terror group Hamas and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority. We as Eypt are prepared to take on
this role. It is a real opportunity to find a long-awaited
solution.
Sisi believes his offer of mediation could achieve the
same results it did when Eypt signed a peace treaty
with Israel in 1979.
After signing the peace accords, no one thought that
true and lasting peace, as it exists today between Israel
and Eypt, could be achieved. However, it became a
permanent peace due to the changing times and reality, he said, adding, If we can all join forces in order to
solve the Palestinian issue by creating hope for Palestinians and assuring security for Israelis, we will be able to
write a new chapter that may prove to be more important than the peace accords between Israel and Eypt.
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every effort to advance a future of peace and security between

us and the Palestinians and the peoples of the region.
Israel is ready to participate with Eypt and other Arab
states in advancing both the diplomatic process and stability
in the region, Netanyahu said. I appreciate President El-Sisis
work and also draw encouragement from his leadership on this
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Hezbollah reportedly appoints Mustafa

Mughniyeh as new terror commander
The Lebanese terrorist organization
Hezbollah has appointed Mustafa Mughniyeh as its new military commander
following the assassination of his uncle,
Mustafa Badreddine, last week in Syria,
the London-based Arabic daily newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported.
Mustafa Mughniyeh has deep family
ties with Hezbollah. In addition to his
recently assassinated uncle, his father
Imad Mughniyeh served as Hezbollahs
terror commander until his assassination, likely in a joint CIA-Mossad operation, in Syria in 2008. Mustafas brother,
Jihad, was killed by Israel in a raid in the
Syrian Golan Heights last year.
But outside of his familys terror ties,
little is known about Mustafa Mughniyeh, who has never made any public
appearances, even after the assassination of his brother. Israeli intelligence
analyst Ronen Solomon told Asharq
Al-Awsat that Mustafa Mughniyeh likely

finished basic military training when he
was 18 in 2005 and that he joined his
father on operational missions after that
point.
Following his fathers death in 2008,
Mustafa Mughniyeh reportedly became
close with his uncle, who succeeded his
father as terror commander.
He participated in several missions
with the security agencies that fall under
Badreddines command and held several
posts to keep the security of top figures
in the party, said Solomon, adding, It
can be presumed that Mustafas identity
has been kept mysterious, as opposed to
his brother, to ensure that in the future
he will be included in secret missions,
such as those carried out by the 910
unit (Hezbollahs unit in charge of overseas attacks), led by his uncle Mustafa
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