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Almost all longer bi-
ographies of Hoffman
note that a critical mo-
ment in his career came
in 1984. Hoffman, then
17, met two arty teen-
age Jews from suburban
New York City while at-
tending a Saratoga, N.Y.,
arts camp. They became
his life-long friends and
sometime professional
collaborators. One was
DAN FUTTERMAN, now
46, an actor (Judging
Amy, DANIEL PEARL
in A Mighty Heart) and
screenwriter (his scripts
include Capote, for
which he received an
Oscar screenplay nomi-
nation). The other was
director BENNETT MILL-
ER, now 47 (Capote,
Moneyball).
Just before the 2005
Oscars ceremony, I inter-
viewed Miller, who was
nominated for best di-
rector for Capote. Miller
didnt win that Oscar,
but Hoffman went on to
win the best actor Oscar
for playing the films title
role.
One comment that
Miller made about Hoff-
man always stuck with
me. He said that Phil,
as he called Hoffman,
wasnt a comic impres-
sionist who could turn
into Truman Capote at
a moments notice. He
required a long period of
solo concentration to put
on that persona. I got the
strong sense from Miller
that Hoffman had ex-
pended himself greatly,
Jason Brown
GOOD SKATES:
Olympic update
is on firm ice
Mark Helprin
Dan Futterman Bennett Miller
In my last col-
umn, I noted that
American SIMON
SHNAPIR, 26, was com-
peting in pairs figure
skating and that Cana-
dian DYLAN MOSCO-
VITCH, 29, was compet-
ing in the same event.
One I missed: American
JASON BROWN, 19. He
earned a spot on the
United States mens
figure skating team with
an upset performance at
the Olympic trials, where
he finished second. Hell
skate in individual events.
Brown celebrated his
bar mitzvah in 2007 and
grew up in Highland
Park, a Chicago suburb.
Winters Tale,
a 1983 novel by
MARK HELPRIN,
67, often has been listed
among the best Ameri-
can novels of the 20th
century. It may be the
crown jewel in Helprins
literary career which
includes other novels,
short stories, 20 years
of New Yorker columns,
and, sometimes, pro-
Israel polemics. Helprin,
an American, is a veteran
of the Israeli air force and
infantry.
The film version of Hel-
prins novel, also called
Winters Tale, opens on
Friday, February 14. The
official publicity descrip-
tion of the film is short
and pretty vague: Set in
a mythic New York City
and spanning more than
a century, Winters Tale
is a story of miracles,
crossed destinies, and
the age-old battle be-
tween good and evil.
This is as good a short
description as any. The
novel is a 700-page
opus, with scores of
characters, and even
reviewers who loved
the book were unable
to write a concise plot
summary. Still, almost all
reviews agreed that Hel-
prin had pulled off a rare
trick: writing a sprawling
fantasy novel that went
beyond just being coher-
ent. It was literary art.
Now critics will judge
if AKIVA GOLDSMAN,
51, who adapted the
novel for the screen and
directed the film, has
been able to transform
literary art into film art.
Two positive omens:
Goldsman did manage to
turn the life of a Princ-
eton mathematician into
a highly dramatic film (A
Beautiful Mind) and win
an Oscar for his script
and he coaxed an all-star
cast to appear in Tale
for less than their usual
star salaries (Colin Far-
rell, William Hurt, Eva
Marie Saint, and Beauti-
ful Mind co-stars Russell
Crowe and JENNIFER
CONNELLY, 43).
Philip Seymour
Hoffman (1967-
2014). No, he
wasnt Jewish. Not even
a little.
Bobs in drivers seat,
even with Beatles
BOB DYLAN, 72, is still pretty irmly in the public
eye. The recent Super Bowl featured Dylan in a long
Chrysler commercial, pushing the virtue of buying Amer-
ican-made cars. The ad was a bit weird and edy in text
and cinematic style but somehow that it Dylan. No
doubt Dylan also picked up a big paycheck from the use
of his 1965 song I Want You in another Super Bowl ad
featuring a grizzly bear crazed for Chobani yogurt.
Meanwhile, the ongoing celebration of the Beatles
50th anniversary arrival in America prompted Roll-
ing Stone magazine, in its January 16 issue, to recount
the Beatles irst meeting with Dylan. That happened in
August 1964. It isnt new news but many people dont
know that Dylan introduced the Beatles to pot at their
very irst meeting. Theres also this nice quote from Paul
McCartney: We were kind of proud to have been intro-
duced to pot by Dylan.
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both mentally and
physically, to reach inside
and pull out his amaz-
ing transformation into
Capote. Later, whenever
I saw Hoffman in another
screen role, I wondered
what inner resources had
he used up to bring us
another bravura perfor-
mance.
Knowing this, I was
less surprised than some
about his emotional tur-
moil and drug addiction.
N.B.
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From Haifa, with love
Israeli symphony orchestra to play snow date at bergenPAC
LOIS GOLDRICH
While its members may not be used to
snow the group had to cancel its Febru-
ary 5 concert because of the omnipresent
white stuff blanketing our area the Haifa
Symphony Orchestra certainly is familiar
with beautiful music.
Indeed, says Motti Eines, the orchestras
general director, when the group plays in
Englewood on February 17, it will bring the
best of Israeli music to bergenPAC.
Now on an eight-week concert tour of
the United States, the HSO one of only
three symphony orchestras in Israel, Mr.
Eines said is led by music director Mae-
stro Xu Zhong. While Israel has many
chamber orchestras as well as a philhar-
monic orchestra, symphony orchestras
can be found only in Jerusalem, Rishon
LeZion, and Haifa.
Mr. Eines said that Haifa created its own
orchestra because its in the DNA of the
city, which, he said, is devoted to the
arts and education. Its in the culture of
Haifa, he added, citing the citys two uni-
versities and the Haifa Theater, Israels first
municipal theater.
Founded in 1950 and boasting some
75 musicians, the group recently has
expanded its activities, serving as the focal
point of musical life in Haifa and the north
of Israel. According to its general manager,
the musicians hail from all over the Israel
as well as from other countries including
five members originally from the United
States.
In addition, Mr. Eines said, members of
the orchestra perform all over Israel, offer-
ing not only traditional concerts but par-
ticipating also in childrens events, operas,
and light music programs.
Altogether, our members participate in
about 90 concerts a year, he said.
While Mr. Eines has been to the United
States before, the current concert tour is
a first for the orchestra, which has on its
agenda performances in places such Flor-
ida, Virginia, California, and Colorado.
Concerts include both old and new music.
We play a lot of Israeli compositions
but we focus on everything, including clas-
sics and romantics, Mr. Eines said.
According to the groups website, the
orchestra encourages the promotion of
Israeli culture and often provides oppor-
tunities to showcase Israeli soloists and
conductors. In recognition of its efforts,
the HSO received the Prime Ministers
Award for its leading role in promoting
original Israeli music. At the February 17
concert, the orchestra will showcase a new
viola concerto by composer Uri Bracha,
called Melodies for Mount Carmel.
Haifa has one of the best orchestras
in Israel, Mr. Eines said. And we love to
make music.
What: Haifa Symphony Orchestra
concert
When: February 17 at 7 p.m.
Where: bergenPAC, 30 North Van
Brunt St., Englewood
For more information, call the box
office at (201) 227-1030.
Breaking bread together
Interfaith Brotherhood/Sisterhood of Bergen County hosts annual breakfast
PHIL JACOBS
Three weeks ago, while
most of their neighbors
were talking about Super
Bowl parties and pre-
game events, others were
busy spreading the word
about sex trafficking.
Some left leaflets at
hotels near MetLife Sta-
dium, and some distrib-
uted special bars of soap
that included a hotline
number for victims on its
wrapping.
Among the participants
in that effort, which was
organized by the New Jer-
sey Coalition Against Human Trafficking,
was the Interfaith Brotherhood/Sister-
hood of Bergen County. Now, that group
is getting ready to hold its 28th annual
breakfast, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on
Presidents Day, Monday,
February 17, at the Hasb-
rouck Heights Hilton. (The
registration deadline has
passed, but there are some
limited seats available. For
information, call the JCRC
at 201-820-3944. Admission
is $30 for adults and $15 for
students.)
Al t on Wi l l i a ms of
Teaneck, a member of the
Bahai faith, was the chair-
man of the ei ght-fai th
group this year. He said
that the pre-Super Bowl
human trafficking effort
was an example of the sort
of work the interfaith orga-
nization does between annual breakfasts.
We heard there were arrests made, so
we are hopeful we made a difference, he
said.
This Monday, he said the group was
praying collectively that
snow wouldnt get in the
way of its keynote event.
Our goal is to show peo-
ple how interfaith groups
and di f ferent rel i gi ous
groups can form friendly
partnerships, Mr. Williams
said. Each year, a different
faith group takes the lead.
After the breakfast, which is
expected to draw about 400
participants, is over, it will
be the Catholic communitys
turn to lead until next years
breakfast.
Before that occurs, participants will
hear from Dr. Dorothy Marcic, a play-
wright, author, and Columbia University
professor. A member of the Bahai faith,
she will talk about Faith and Values in
Our Contemporary Society.
Joy Kurland, the director of the Jew-
ish Federation of Northern New Jerseys
Jewish Community Rela-
tions Council, said that
the group is made up
of members of the Jew-
ish, Catholic, Sikh, Prot-
estant, Bahai, Muslim,
Hindu and Jain faiths.
Each year the faiths
rotate as hosts, Ms. Kur-
land said. The Jewish
community last hosted in
2008, bringing in Rabbi
David Saperstein, head
of the Union of Reform
J udai sms Rel i gi ous
Action Center.
Like Mr. Williams, Ms. Kurland said
the group gets together for other events
and efforts, including prayer vigils in
times of crisis. The group stood in soli-
darity and condemned last years Bergen
County area synagogue attacks. When a
Sikh temple was attacked and six of its
Bahai playwright
Dorothy Marcic will
speak at this years
annual interfaith
breakfast. JFNNJ
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Federation to
showcase early
childhood programs
LARRY YUDELSON
So youre looking for a place for your
child. Maybe you need day care for an
infant, or a nursery school, or an after-
school program for your kindergartener.
You can check out 17 different pro-
grams for children from as young as six
months through kindergarten at the first
Shalom Baby Early Education Fair. Its
sponsored by the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey and will take place
at the Frisch School in Paramus next Sun-
day, February 23.
The programs range from day care to
after-school programs. Geographically
they range from Oakland and Closter to
Paramus and Teaneck and Tenafly. They
include synagogue, day school, JCC, and
independent locations.
And while youre speaking to the rep-
resentatives of the programs, you dont
need a sitter for your child: Federation is
bringing Penny and the Puppettes to keep
children entertained.
The program fair is part of the federa-
tions mission of fostering Jewish commu-
nity and education in northern New Jer-
sey, and the particular goal of promoting
Jewish early childhood programs.
For many families, registering their
child for an early childhood program is
their entrance to the Jewish community,
said Ellen Finkelstein, who coordinates
the Shalom Baby program at the federa-
tion. Its at that point they decide to join
a synagogue or celebrate Shabbat or holi-
days as a family.
Last year, the federation expanded its
efforts in this area by printing 10,000
postcards promoting Jewish early child-
hood education, customized with contact
information for each of 14 different pro-
grams. Some of the programs mailed the
cards; others left them in libraries, pedia-
tricians offices, and other places where
parents of young children gather.
Anecdotally, that effort seems to have
been a success; some of the programs
reported a rise in their class size this year,
What: Shalom Baby Early Childhood
Education Fair
Where: The Frisch School, 120 West
Century Road, Paramus
When: Sunday, February 23, 9-11:45 a.m.
according to Stephanie Hauser of the federa-
tion Synagogue Life Initiative.
Shalom Baby is a long-standing program
that aims to connect Jewish families one
baby at a time, Ms. Finkelstein said.
Shalom Baby offers parents of newborn and
newly adopted children a gift bag including a
baby blanket, toys, books on Jewish parent-
ing, Jewish board books, and Shabbat music
CDs. The bag is brought by a volunteer, who
puts a face on our program and invites the
families to participate in the play groups that
Shalom Baby runs throughout the area sev-
eral times a month.
The playgroups, for children just a few
months up through three years old, offer
songs, stories, crafts, play time, and per-
haps most importantly a way for parents
to meet each other and develop relationships
within the Jewish community.
Shalom Baby recruits through sites like
Facebook and Meetup and through www.
jfnnj.org/shalombaby. Parents can sign up
for gift bags or their friends and relatives can
sign them up. Often it is the new grandparents
who make referrals.
The groups are a way to connect and
have support and for their children to make
friends, Ms. Finkelstein said. For many of
them, its a way to get a little Judaic content.
For some it may be their first introduction to
Jewish holidays or concepts.
Last year I remember a parent, with tears
in her eyes, saying that had been invited by
another Shalom Baby family to attend a Purim
megillah reading. She had never been before,
and she loved it.
She said that given the growth of the Sha-
lom Baby play groups over the past couple of
years, the fair was a logical next step.
We are uniquely positioned in the com-
munity to provide this service, she said. We
host play groups at a number of these loca-
tions, working hand-in-hand with rabbis and
early childhood directors.
With the connections to the early child-
hood programs and access to families who
might not be aware of them, we could act as
the shadchan the matchmaker to make
some of these matches, she said.
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Black humor, comedic gold
Director of Sholem Aleichem film to speak in Glen Rock
JOANNE PALMER
Tradition! Tradition!
(Bah-bum-bum-bum-bum-bum)
Thats what Sholem Aleichems most
well-known character, Tevye the dairy-
man, sings in the most well-known retell-
ing of his story.
Nostalgia! Nostalgia
(Deedle-deedle-dum)
That, on the other hand, is what most
of us hear.
In fact, Sholem Rabinowitz to give the
writer his birth name meant us to hear
neither of those things. An immensely
complicated writer whose frequently
deployed humor and often underlying
anger were used in the service of highly
literary fiction, he was describing a world
he knew inside and out as it fell apart.
Fiddler on the Roof is brilliant and jus-
tifiably successful musi-
cal theater, but it is not
an accurate rendition of
shtetl life. It is generally
a whirl of bright colors;
the shtetls mud and dust
would have turned those
colors, had they existed
in the first place, to dun.
Director Joseph Dor-
man has made a docu-
mentary film, Laughing
in the Darkness, that
traces the writers life and
times. The underlying theme, Mr. Dorman
said, is the search for Jewish identity.
Its about the transition of Jews from the
traditional to the modern world, he said.
It is not for nothing that Sholem Aleichem
wrote Fiddler on the Roof rather than
Brigadoon. The shtetl a small town,
possibly a market town, somewhere in the
Eastern European Pale of Settlement, occu-
pied mainly by Jews never was a timeless,
static place. Nor was it imaginary; instead,
it was as subject to changing economics
and demographics as anyplace else. By the
time Rabinowitz wrote about it, the life he
chronicled was ending anyway.
Rabinowitzs life was bumpy, taking
him from wealth to poverty so often that
it is not surprising that it became hard for
him to regain his balance. He was a strong
proponent of Yiddish, writing his stories
in that language as it burst from its folk
roots to flower on the page, but he did not
teach it to his children. To them, he spoke
Russian. Although he made fun of this ten-
dency in others in his writings, his photo-
graphs show him to have been a fop.
The film weaves about 300 still photo-
graphs from the period with interviews
with experts Hillel Halkin, Ruth Wisse,
Aaron Lansky, David Roskies, and Sholem
Aleichems granddaughter, Bel Kaufman,
among others. It also includes readings
from some of his stories.
Rabinowitzs humor often was black,
Mr. Dorman said. Humor often can have
its roots in anger and hostility. He knew
how to spin comedic gold out of his own
internal anger, and a lot of the anger felt by
the Jewish community, which was in dire
straits at the time.
One of his classic jokes was about the
two guys talking about the misery of their
lives. And then one of them says, Enough
with the misery. Lets talk about the
cholera epidemic.
Another great story is about a guy com-
plaining about the pogrom hes heard
about. It couldnt hold a candle to the
pogrom hes been through.
Its the humor of the oppressed. Its a
survival mechanism.
Indeed, the movie includes photographs
of pogrom victims as well as of beautiful
children, some smiling at the camera,
some with haunted eyes; men and women,
well-dressed or in rags; skinny horses,
tables set for Shabbat, and dead hanging
chickens.
I would venture to say that there was
not another man or woman on earth who
was able to mine that humor as effectively
or brilliantly as Sholem Aleichem could,
Many Jews traveled by the third-class compartment; many stories came out of those trips.
Sholem Rabinowitz transformed him-
self into Sholem Aleichem.
The writers funeral drew unprecedented crowds.
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What: Screening and then discussing his
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the Darkness
When: Sunday, February 16, at 4 p.m.
Where: Glen Rock Jewish Center, 682
Harristown Road
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coffee, and tea.
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Mr. Dorman said. He was a master at it. That is what
was so remarkable about him this feat of being able
to tell the absolute truth to an audience that is suffer-
ing from that truth, and to make them laugh and make
them able to face that truth.
He wasnt about to let you escape, because escape
doesnt help. In the end, you are still tagged by the
shadow. But if you can face it head on and still laugh
at it, thats therapeutic.
Thats why he was so incredibly popular. Thats
what made him the writer he was.
The film includes footage from Sholem Aleichems
funeral, the biggest in the United States up to that
time; people jammed the streets, tens of thousands of
them, to honor the writer who had died fairly young
and whose work until then they had scorned.
Why?
Almost immediately after the Jews came here,
they were cut off from Eastern Europe, Mr. Dor-
man said. So almost immediately they thought of it
nostalgically.
Identity was one of his major questions. It grew to
be a stronger and stronger threat as the shtetl begins
to dissolve at the beginning of the 20th century. And
the effects of assimilation and the breakup of religious
Orthodoxy became more and more the focus of his
work.
He was a man between two worlds. His stories
were both an affirmation of Jewish identity and an
exploration of it.
One of Rabinowitzs last stories was about a travel-
ing salesman who ended up in a third-class compart-
ment thats the low-end one with an attractive,
bourgeois-looking young woman. The two flirt. At
one point, they are getting to the womans station,
and she starts to blush. She is embarrassed. It turns
out that she is being greeted by a relative who is a cha-
sidic Jew.
He gets off at the next station, and it is clear then
that he too is a Jew.
There is a Yiddish greeting, Vos macht a yid? Its a sort
of general whats-up kind of greeting, but its literal meeting
is How does a Jew do? For years, in the shtetl, you always
knew who a Jew was, Mr. Dorman said. Jews didnt look like
Ukrainian peasants. The question was safe. But all of a sud-
den, when Jews are moving to the cities and assimilating, all
of a sudden Jews dont look or act like Jews any more. So you
have this bizarre tragicomedy; you run away from who you
are, but youre also truly attracted to it.
He has his own similar story.
Years ago, I was at B & H Photo, he said. The store, in
midtown Manhattan, is owned and in large part staffed
by Satmar chasidim. I was talking to the young chasidic
woman at the cash register when I was checking out, and
she said to me, in great surprise, You are a Jew?
I was so shocked. Id always thought that I had a neon
sign across my forehead, blinking JEW, and here she cant
recognize me as a Jew.
I think that somehow, deep inside every Jew who identi-
fies, there is a commandment: Thou shalt be a Jew.
It is that commandment given and clung to, somehow
or other, as the world shifts violently and it is impossible
to retain balance until the shaking stops that Sholem
Aleichem understood profoundly, and it is that command-
ment that is the subject of Joseph Dormans Laughing In
the Darkness.
These young girls lived in Sholem Aleichems
world.
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Creating opportunities to lead
Local man is Orthodox Unions new regional youth group director
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
P
eople often ask Rabbi Ethan
Katz of Fair Lawn why he con-
tinues taking New Jersey Jew-
ish teenagers to lend a hand at
natural-disaster scenes across the United
States. He is heading his 22nd such mis-
sion on February 19, bound for the 11th
time to New Orleans.
Rabbi Katz will arrive with
30 students and a new title
on his business card: regional
director of Teaneck-based
New Jersey NCSY.
The city was hit with Hur-
ricane Katrina eight years
ago, and there is still at least
10 years of work to be done
by dozens of organizations,
he said. Our group is not
going to rebuild the city alone. But there
are lessons to be learned that have little
to do with the work, and those lessons
are about leadership and volunteering.
Rabbi Katz, 48, places a high prior-
ity on building future Jewish leaders
through his career with NCSY, the youth
arm of the Orthodox Union. The recently
released Pew Research Center report
on American Jewry reinforced his con-
tention that leadership is lacking, and
he intends to create opportunities for
the 1,500 Jewish day school and public
school teenagers in his regions purview
to fill that void.
I want to increase our chesed [charita-
ble] missions, because I believe they are
key, he said.
It is logical to speculate that Rabbi
Katzs own leadership trajectory began
when he served as a paratrooper in the
Israel Defense Forces.
Born in Boston, he spent his child-
hood in a variety of Israeli and American
communities. Returning to the United
States in 2005 after 18 years in Israel,
he became an NCSY chapter
adviser in Cherry Hill, and in
2009 was promoted to associ-
ate regional director. For the
last two years, Rabbi Katz has
been preparing to take over
as director from Rabbi Yaa-
kov Glasser, who has moved
on to a position at Yeshiva
University in addition to his
pulpit at the Young Israel of
Passaic-Clifton.
Rabbi Glasser said of his successor:
Rabbi Katz has a track record of success
in inspiring individual NCSYers to grow in
their commitment to Torah and mitzvot,
and at the same time has brought some
of the most creative programming to the
growing New Jersey region.
Rabbi Katz heads a full-time staff of
seven, a part-time staff of 20, and more
than 50 volunteers.
Founded in 1954 as the National Con-
ference of Synagogue Youth, the infor-
mal Jewish educational, social, and rec-
reational organization has evolved from
a synagogue-based structure to a more
community-based model.
New Jersey NCSY now i ncl udes
chapters in Fair Lawn and Teaneck, Fri-
day Night Lights programs in Livingston
and Englewood, and 15 Jewish Student
Union clubs. In Bergen County, those
weekly clubs are held at Fair Lawn, Para-
mus, and Teaneck high schools, Ber-
gen County Academies, and the Bergen
County High School of Jewish Studies.
Our main objective with these clubs is
creating a sense of Jewish identity, pride and
values, and to inspire these students to go
on summer programs in Israel, Rabbi Katz
said. In a typical summer, about 100 NCSY
teens take part in Israel programs. One-third
of them come from public schools and two-
thirds come from Jewish schools.
In addition, NCSY city directors run
programming out of their homes, serving
Twin Rivers (Southern New Jersey, East
Windsor); Monmouth County (Manalapan,
Marlborough, Englishtown); Highland Park,
and West Orange.
My vision for the region includes slowly
increasing the number of full-time couples
serving as city directors, a program we
started five years ago, Rabbi Katz said. We
no longer have synagogue-based chapters
because you dont find kids in shuls you
find them everyplace but shuls. We con-
tinue to work in conjunction with local syn-
agogues, but this new approach creates a
different atmosphere and more flexibility.
He hopes to revive the Junior NCSY divi-
sion that was phased out two years ago, and
to establish a Torah High in South Jersey.
And, of course, he intends to continue
participating in disaster relief work with
local teens.
I view this as a continuation of the
work of the State of Israel, the num-
ber one responder worldwide to natu-
ral disasters, Rabbi Katz said, pointing
out the tremendous kiddush hashem
aspect of the missions. Kiddush hashem,
the sanctification of Gods name through
public deeds by Jews on behalf of others,
is a primary Jewish value.
He emphasizes to participants that as
identifiable Jews, they represent Judaism
and must comport themselves accord-
ingly not only on the scene, cleaning up
or fixing houses, but also on the airplane,
in the hotel, and in local stores.
We are a group of Orthodox Jews that
sticks out like a sore thumb, and as a
result, for many people in New Orleans
their only impression of Jews is that they
come to help others, Rabbi Katz said.
The groups also interact with the local
Jewish community.
The kids walk away saying, Wow, I
really made a difference and a difference
for Orthodox Jews. Now, after a disaster,
the kids call to say: What can we do to
help?
Rabbi Katz and his wife, Debbie, have
four children: Shani, 23; Talia, 22, Shm-
uel, 19, and Naama, 12. Talia and Shmuel
live in Israel, and Shmuel has followed in
his fathers footsteps as an Israeli soldier.
Rabbi Ethan Katz
Polish chief rabbi speaks at SSDS
The Solomon Schechter Day School
of Bergen County is adding a stop to
its annual eighth grade trip to Israel:
Poland.
To prepare the students, last week
Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Polands
chief rabbi, came to the New Milford
school and fielded questions. Much of
his job, he told the students, revolves
around preserving the remnants of
the countrys 1,400 demolished Jew-
ish communities. He also works with
many Poles who are rediscovering for-
gotten Jewish roots, he said.
Schechter gets Covenant grant
The Solomon Schechter Day School of
Bergen County in New Milford got a vote
of confidence in its plans for Holocaust
education, as the Covenant Foundation
awarded it a $20,000 grant.
The grant, to finance Schechters new
multimedia-based Holocaust curriculum,
was one of only eight ignition grants that
Covenant gave for innovative projects in
Jewish Education.
It follows a major gift announced last
year from Beth and Freddie Kotek, whose
children attended Schechter. That donation
is making possible the creation of a multi-
media Holocaust resource center within
the schools library. Those renovations are
scheduled to take place over the summer.
The new middle school curriculum will
combine teaching the facts about the Holo-
caust with the skills of digital storytelling.
Students will learn about the Holocaust
and the history behind Eastern European
Jewry through first-person testimonials,
said Amy Glazer, the schools director of
institutional advancement
Eventually they will be taught to
make their own documentary film utiliz-
ing either the resources available online
through IWitness a collection of 1,300
survivor interviews digitized by the Uni-
versity of Southern California or by
doing their own interviews with survivors
and second generation.
This, Ms. Glazer said, ties into the
schools goal of inquiry-based learning.
Among the subjects the curriculum will
bring into the Holocaust study is music.
Students will study radio the communi-
cations technology of the era and listen
to news and music broadcasts from the
period. They will also learn digital mixing
technology, and put it all to use when pre-
paring the soundtracks for their films.
LARRY YUDELSON
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I realize that people are much better in the public sec-
tor after they already have been in the private sector, he
said. It is important for people in government to have
worked with people who know how things really work.
After his stint at Ford, and one at the giant PR firm
Burson-Marsteller, I felt I could better relate to where
businesses are coming from, and also be much smarter
about policy solutions to real challenges in the private
sector, he said.
It was going from the abstract ideal to dealing with
real issues. It makes you a better public servant.
Mr. Gottheimer always had nursed an interest in tech-
nology, so he re-entered public life as a senior counselor
to the chairman of the Federal Communications Com-
mission. (Coincidentally and parenthetically, that chair-
man, Julius Genachowski, is a first cousin to Rabbi Men-
achem Genack of Englewood, who is both CEO of the
Orthodox Unions kosher division and the recent author
of Letters to President Clinton.)
At the FCC, Mr. Gottheimer focused on such issues as
broadband; he worked on net neutrality and, he said,
was depressed with the recent court rulings against it.
I started the first office of public/private initiatives,
which goes back to my theory about the public and pri-
vate sectors working together to unleash solutions that
are not regulatory, he said. We looked for anything
that you could get away with not regulating.
He also worked again with his old mentor, Ms. Berry,
on another book, Power in Words, an exploration of
the stories behind President Obamas speeches.
About a year or so ago, Mr. Gottheimer and his family
moved back to New Jersey. He had left the FCC because
it was time to settle in a place where the children can
have the space to run and thrive, and to be closer to
his family. And then, after he had made the decision to
become a tech consultant, his phone rang.
It was Microsoft.
So now Mr. Gottheimer works for Microsoft; he spends
half his time in his office in Ridgewood and the other
half in the companys Washington State headquarters.
He is back to his roots in many ways. He is an active
member of Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes. He is
married to another lawyer, Marla Tusk, who is a total
rock star, he said. She was a federal prosecutor who
did counterterrorism work in Virginia; she now works
locally. Mr. Gottheimer and Ms. Tusk have two children
Ellie, 4, with crazy red hair and a personality to match,
and 2-year-old Ben.
In a recent talk at the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey, Mr. Gottheimer talked about the problems
posed by the partisanship now on flamboyant display
in Washington. The situation is not new, he said, but
it has reached toxic levels. What do we have to do to
repair the breach? he asked. This is from the talk that
he gave:
According to my rabbi, years ago there was a debate
among the sages, captured in the Talmud, about the
right way to position a mezuzah on your door. Should it
be positioned upright or lying flat?
After a lengthy debate, they reached a compromise:
The mezuzah should be fastened diagonally.
Why? Because every time we enter or exit a door, we
should be reminded that there are things that we just
cant be certain about.
Thats why we should remember to maintain peace
and stay open-minded, he said.
So a meteoric career, zooming between public service
and private sector work, heading ever upward, always
influenced by Jewish values as he rose, not only brought
Mr. Gottheimer home to New Jersey but also gave him a
clear understanding of the importance of balance and
fair-mindedness, career and home. Surprisingly, he is
not cynical about the world around him.
It is likely that we will hear much more from him.
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URIEL HEILMAN
HOLLYWOOD, FLA. At the Urban Rustic Caf, a res-
taurant in a strip mall here, north of Miami and south of
Palm Beachs retirement communities, the line for a table
stretches out the door and into the parking lot.
Inside the kosher establishment, the volume is loud.
An elderly Orthodox man sitting near the window leans
across a table to hear what his wife is saying. At the des-
sert counter, a gaggle of boys with tzitzis fringes hanging
from their shirts press their noses against the glass.
Nearby, two stylishly dressed 30-something women
chatter away in Spanish, as one of them rocks a young
baby. As the blond waitress trying to serve them bumps
hips with a busboy, the two have a brief exchange in rapid-
fire Hebrew.
Welcome to South Floridas Jewish community, an
amalgam of retirees, Latin American immigrants, Ortho-
dox families, Holocaust survivors, and plenty more.
More than half a million Jews live in three counties
there Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach mak-
ing the region Americas third-largest Jewish metro area,
behind only New York and Los Angeles. And then there
are the smaller Jewish communities elsewhere in Florida.
One of every 10 American Jews lives in the Sunshine State.
While many are retirees, Florida isnt a place for just
elderly Jews. A combination of factors lower costs of
living than in the Northeast, the lack of state income tax,
Jewish institutional infrastructure, the draw of Miami to
Latin American immigrants and, yes, the weather has
helped turn Florida into one of Americas largest, most
diverse, and most unusual Jewish communities.
I think today we are no longer simply a retirement com-
munity, said Jewish demographer Ira Sheskin, a profes-
sor of geography at the University of Miami.
The Jews of South Florida boast several distinctions.
Palm Beach County has the oldest median Jewish age
in the country, 70, according to the last Jewish commu-
nity study of the area. The southern part of Palm Beach
County has the highest density in the country of Jews pro-
portionate to the total population: 49 percent, according
to the same survey.
In the Miami area, a massive influx of Latin American
immigrants since 2000, particularly from Venezuela,
Argentina, and Mexico, has reduced the Jewish commu-
nitys average age and brought far more Latin American
diversity to a population whose Spanish speakers once
were overwhelmingly Cuban exiles. The last Jewish pop-
ulation study conducted in Miami-Dade, in 2004, found
that the county had the largest percentage of foreign-born
Jews of any Jewish community in America.
Were such an international community, said Jacob
Solomon, CEO of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.
Clearly, the big story is the continuing Latin immigration
and what that means.
Nobody knows for certain how many Jews live in South
Florida, because the most recent community studies are
about a decade old. At last count, local federation stud-
ies found 256,000 Jews in Palm Beach County (2005);
186,500 Jews in Broward County (2008); and 113,000 Jews
in Miami-Dade (2004). Miami began work on a new sur-
vey last month, but the results are not expected until fall.
Even without solid numbers, however, there are some
clear signs of the changes under way in South Florida
Jewry, especially growth beyond retirees.
As in many other regions across the country, there has
been a significant expansion over the last decade or two
in Orthodox synagogues, kosher restaurants, and Jewish
day schools, suggesting that the areas Orthodox popula-
tion is growing, particularly in Hollywood, Miami Beach,
Aventura and Boca Raton.
Boca has the largest density in the Miami area of Jewish
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The Ben Gamla Hebrew Charter School in Hollywood, Fla., seen here as a Jewish religious after-school
program gets under way, is one sign of the growing presence of young Jewish families in South Florida.
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people per square mile, said Deborah Sha-
piro, manager of loyalty marketing at the
big-box grocery retailer Winn-Dixie, which
conducted extensive demographic research
in the area before investing $3 million to
revamp its Boca Raton supermarket last
year to focus on kosher consumers.
Since completing the remodeling the
stores kosher offerings now include a pizza
shop, fresh sushi counter, bakery, and meat
and deli counter business in the stores
kosher departments has tripled, according
to Ms. Shapiro. Winn-Dixie has two other
stores in South Florida one in Aventura,
the other in Tamarac that have in-store
kosher operations and full-time kosher
supervisors.
In Miami Beach, the story has been the
growing number of young families, prompt-
ing the recent construction of a new build-
ing for a JCC, which had been housed in a
1920s-era mansion for years. Completed
in October 2012, the 37,000-square-foot
Miami Beach JCC already has 1,700 member
units. Thats about 5,000 people.
The influx of young families and the
role that the center can play for them gave
momentum to the project, Jay Roth, the
JCCs executive director, said. This is a
community that is committed to culture
and growth.
A few miles to the north, the commu-
nity around the Michael-Ann Russell JCC in
North Miami Beach, near Aventura, also is
growing, thanks to Latin American Jewish
families.
Located between an Orthodox-run,
1,000-student day school on one side and
a 440-student Reform Jewish day school
and synagogue on the other, the JCCs sin-
gle-largest constituency is Latin American
Jewish immigrants who have moved to the
area since 2000, fleeing economic or politi-
cal insecurity at home. At both day schools,
too, the students are overwhelmingly Latin
American.
In the last 15 years, especially since 2001,
theres been a gradual increase in the num-
ber of Spanish-speaking kids, said Nancy
Posner, head of the Reform day school,
Jacobson Sinai Academy. Now we have
students from 17 different countries. Its a
microcosm of Miami.
While Miami-Dade has the fewest Jews
of the three counties, its population is the
most stable because it has more young peo-
ple and fewer retirees.
It gives us a more normalized age period
and more stable base, the Miami federa-
tions Mr. Solomon said. The northern
South Florida communities still have to go
through that demographic adjustment.
Farther north, in Broward County, losses
from mortality have prompted a steep
decline in the Jewish population. It went
down by about 55,000 between 1997 and
2008. Far fewer new retirees are moving in.
Over the course of the past 20 years or so,
there clearly has been a drop-off as retirees
have passed away or moved back north to
move in with their adult children, said Eric
Stillman, CEO of the Jewish Federation of
Broward County.
The story is different in Palm Beach
County, which remains the No. 1 destina-
tion for Jewish retirees in America. The
countys Jewish population exploded in the
1990s and early 2000s. While growth prob-
ably has leveled off, according to Mr. She-
skins demographic estimates, the expected
retirement of the baby boomers is likely to
help Palm Beach keep up its Jewish num-
bers in the coming years.
I think were losing an older generation,
but were getting new people to retire here
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hard against Israeli critics of its peace efforts, enlisting Ameri-
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of State John Kerry.
In recent weeks, administration officials have strongly con-
demned Israeli critics of Mr. Kerrys peace bid. In response
to some of the harshest anti-Kerry rhetoric, Jewish groups
weighed in with their own denunciations.
Obama administration insiders and Jewish communal
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by administration officials. But the responses from the Jewish
groups also reflect a concern that the tone of some of the Kerry
criticism could damage relations between the administration
and the Israeli government.
Even if people, be they in Israel or in the United States,
have disagreements with what John Kerry is proposing, its
absolutely essential that those disagreements are expressed
on the substance and not through personal attacks, said
Nathan Diament, the Washington director of the Orthodox
Union, which issued a statement condemning a small number
Fighting back
Obama administration enlisting Jewish groups to counter attacks on Kerry
of Israeli rabbis who warned that Kerry could face divine
punishment.
But defending Mr. Kerrys future proposals may be
one of the motives behind the administrations aggres-
sive pushback. Administration officials and Jewish groups
sympathetic to his initiative say there is a longer-term
agenda in pre-empting attacks on the framework peace
agreement that the Obama administration is expected to
propose soon.
The administration has tapped sympathetic Jewish
figures and groups to prepare the ground in the Jewish
community for the difficult compromises on territory
and Jerusalem that will be embedded in the framework
peace plan.
Robert Wexler, a former Florida congressman, is trav-
eling to Jewish communities around the country advo-
cating for the compromises likely to appear in the frame-
work proposal. J Street, the dovish Israel policy group,
has launched a campaign of town hall meetings across
the country to support a two-state solution.
As Kerrys initiative gathers steam and Israeli and Pal-
estinian leaders near a moment of decision, we expect
sadly to see more outrageous attacks on one of the
greatest friends Israel has, J Street said in a February 4
statement.
The harshest public attacks on Mr. Kerry the ones
that drew the rebukes from centrist American Jewish
groups have come from fairly marginal Israeli figures.
U.S. officials, however, also are upset by criticism of Mr.
Kerry coming from more significant figures within the
Israeli government.
Senior Obama administration officials said that Mr.
Kerry has made his unhappiness clear in the daily
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Netanyahu.
The prime minister has been responsive. According
to the Jerusalem Post, Mr. Netanyahu told a party fac-
tion meeting last week that the best way to disagree
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Israeli rabbis who had put out a letter likening Mr. Kerry
to Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king who destroyed
the First Temple, and warning that the secretary of state
could face heavenly retribution.
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The letter was issued by a group calling itself the Com-
mittee to Save the Land and People of Israel, which said
on its website that dozens of rabbis had signed on,
though it named only five, all of whom are affiliated with
Israeli municipalities.
But Israelis closer to the center of power also have criti-
cized Mr. Kerry.
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon was quoted in the
Israeli media last month privately calling Mr. Kerrys peace
efforts messianic. Mr. Yaalon later said he apologized if
the remarks attributed to him had offended Mr. Kerry.
Last week, after Mr. Kerry had warned that a failure
to achieve a peace agreement could spur more boycotts
against Israel, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett accused
him of amplifying the boycott movement and Stra-
tegic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz called the warning
intolerable.
Administration insiders say the Bennett and Steinitz
attacks rankled Mr. Kerry more than those by Mr. Yogev
and the rabbis.
Ad hominem, on-the-record attacks by a series of
senior Israeli officials against Secretary Kerry were
deeply concerning and crossed the line, a White
House official said.
In a series of Twitter postings Monday, Susan Rice, the
national security adviser, called personal attacks in Israel
directed at Sec Kerry totally unfounded and unaccept-
able. John Kerrys record of support for Israels security
and prosperity rock solid.
Even as they condemned Mr. Yogev, Jewish groups
have not necessarily been on the same page as the Obama
administration about the remarks from more influential
Israeli officials.
Mr. Foxman called the furor over Mr. Yaalons alleged
comments a tempest in a teapot, noting that they were
made in private. The ADL also issued an open letter to Mr.
Kerry criticizing his warning that a peace setback could
fuel boycotts of Israel.
Mr. Kerrys boycott remark, the Foxman letter said,
will inevitably be seen by Palestinians and anti-Israel
activists as an incentive not to reach an agreement.
Still, Jewish groups have tried to strike a support-
ive tone. Mr. Foxmans letter criticizing Mr. Kerry also
stressed that the ADL backs his efforts to achieve peace.
The day after Ms. Rices tweets, the AJCs executive direc-
tor, David Harris, said that Mr. Kerry deserved plaudits.
Bravo, then, to Secretary of State John Kerry, for his
current effort to reach peace between Israel and the Pales-
tinian Authority, he said in his weekly radio commentary.
The Obama administration, meanwhile, has been
responding not only to attacks from Israeli officials but
also from nongovernmental groups. Mr. Kerrys spokes-
woman, Jen Psaki, cited among other mischaracteriza-
tions of his record a satirical video in which an Israeli
actor bewigged with a gray bouffant declares Jerusalem
holy to Klingons and hobbits, among other groups.
The point of criticizing the video, Obama administra-
tion officials said, is that it was funded by the Yesha Coun-
cil, the umbrella body for West Bank settlers funded indi-
rectly by government subsidies for settlements.
Dani Dayan, a senior Yesha Council official, said he was
amazed at Ms. Psakis reaction. The satire in the video was
aimed at Mr. Kerrys policies, not his person, he said.
Its nonsense, Mr. Dayan said. Hes not anti-Semitic
I even suspect hes philo-Semitic. His policies are
misguided, the solutions he proposes do not solve the
problems.
Mr. Kerry is firing back at his critics.
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unleash a tsunami of emotions. This can
largely be avoided through successful
conversations in advance.
In my opinion, and in my experience,
it is best to treat your children equally
in your will. If you want to treat them
differently when they are alive, that is a
different story. Of course, if one of your
children is incapacitated in some way or
has special needs, such as autism, that
means that he will not be able to care for
himself, more financial assistance can be
provided through either a special needs
trust, an insurance policy, or a larger
portion of the estate. If this is the case, I
recommend that everyone in the family
know about it beforehand, so that there
are no surprises. If the parents explain
to all the kids in advance why one off-
spring will be given a larger share, and
if the will says, I love you just as much,
but this is what we felt we had to do as
parents, it is possible that bad feelings
and a will contest will not result. If hard
issues are discussed in advance and chil-
dren are prepared, family finances and
relationships can remain unscathed dur-
ing and after the estate transfer.
Whom and what you will tell should be
guided in part by your family values and
in part by each childs individual ability
to handle the information. In many fami-
lies, there is one child who has special
issues involving money. This could be
the result of bad habits, or maybe a phys-
ical, mental, or emotional challenge. If
this is the case, you might need to have a
separate conversation and create a spe-
cial arrangement that will work for that
person and her special circumstances.
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anced approach to sharing information
about the family wealth and any special
arrangements for members is the best
option. You will still need to take into
account each childs individual readi-
ness and maturity. Obviously, the con-
tent and nature of the talk will change
over time as the kids mature and dem-
onstrate responsible behavior, and as the
parents age and feel the need to share
more information. However, whenever
you approach the process, it is best to
keep it simple.
One idea to help with the communi-
cation is to have your attorney draft a
simple summary that can be understood
by a nonprofessional and distribute it to
your heirs. Then, hold a family meeting
to review the summary and answer any
questions. Of course, family dynamics
can interfere with this type of meeting.
Some families may be concerned about
protecting assets because they are wor-
ried about a potential divorce, or they
may not trust their in-laws to use the
information wisely. In general, how-
ever, it is best to at least tell all family
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Books, both hardcover and paperback,
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n 2 Labriah Lee, right, the northeast re-
gions outreach director for the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee, discussed
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in the Jewish Community and Beyond
at a brotherhood breakfast last month at
Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly.
This is the second in a series of brother-
hood breakfasts on various American Jew-
ish perspectives on the U.S.-Israel relation-
ship. It was made possible with the support
of congregant Carol Silberstein, at left
welcoming Ms. Lee. OPHELIA ADIAO YUDKOFF
n 3 Rabbi Arthur Weiner of the Jewish
Community Center of Paramus/Congrega-
tion Beth Tikvah showed the children an
up-close view of the Shma in the Torah
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n 4 Dr. Zev Schulhof of North Jersey Oral
and Maxillofacial Surgery visited students
at Lubavitch on the Palisades Preschool
to give them a hands-on lesson about oral
medicine. Each child had the opportunity
to examine a friends mouth using masks,
gloves, and a special light. COURTESY LOTP
n 5 Religious school students at the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congrega-
tion Bnai Israel, participated in Build A
Pair, a program from the Federation of
Jewish Mens Clubs, sponsored by the
shuls Mens Progress Club. The program,
for pre-bnai mitzvah students, teaches
about tfillin; students create their own
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Dr. Benjamin Fialkoff
Dr. Benjamin Saul Fialkoff, 71, of Fair
Lawn, formerly of New York City,
Monsey, and Spring Valley, died on
January 12.
Born in Williamsburg, N.Y., he received
his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from
Yeshiva Universitys Ferkauf Graduate
School of Psychology. A senior staff
psychologist at Saint Vincents Hospital,
New York City, he was in private practice
in Greenwich Village until 2008. He also
had an office in Ridgewood until 2012.
He is survived by his wife, Kay, daugh-
ter, Nikah, and siblings, David of Jerusa-
lem, Shifra Horowitz of Suffern, N.Y., and
Annie Rosen of Clifton.
Donations can be sent to the Camper
Scholarship Fund at Eden Village Camp,
Putnam Valley, N.Y.
Arrangements were by Louis Subur-
ban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Al Harris
Al Harris of North Bergen died on Feb-
ruary 10 at home.
A World War II veteran, he is sur-
vived by his wife, Margot Harris, sons,
Dr. Robert (Ann) and Warren (Adri-
anne); four grandchildren, and two
great- grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Robert
Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Belle Lind
Belle Lind, 83, of Mahwah died
February 6.
Arrangements were by Louis Subur-
ban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Edwin Kabakow
Edwin Kabakow, 78, of Demarest died
on February 8 at the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh.
Born in New York City, he gradu-
ated from Hunter College, worked in
publishing at Hearst Corp., and was
president of Campbell-Reynolds before
founding Media People in 1976. He
served on the boards of Hunter College
and Bergen Family Center and sup-
ported many causes. He was an active
member of Temple Sinai of Bergen
County in Tenafly.
Predeceased by a sister, Milli Jacobs,
he is survived by his wife of 52 years,
Peggy, ne Weil, sons, Jim and Robert;
two grandsons, nephews, and a niece.
Arrangements were by Eden Memo-
rial Chapels, Fort Lee.
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homes. Correcting errors is the
responsibility of the funeral home.
New Spanish legislation will allow
Sephardic Jews to claim dual citizenship
Spains Justice Ministry has announced
a new law that will allow descendants of
Sephardic Jews who were expelled during
the Inquisition to pursue Spanish citizen-
ship without giving up the citizenship they
already hold.
The law weve passed today has a deep
historic meaning: not only because it con-
cerns events in our past of which we should
not be proud, like the decree to expel the
Jews in 1492, but because it reflects the real-
ity of Spain as an open and plural society,
Spanish Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallar-
don said.
An estimated 300,000 Jews lived in Spain
before their forced conversion or expulsion
under Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand
during the 15th and 16th centuries. More
than 3.5 million people from the Middle
East, Europe, and North and South America
claim Sephardic heritage today.
The law does not require prospective cit-
izens to be a practicing Jew, but requires
them to prove their Sephardic background
through their surnames, language, or
ancestry, as well as obtaining approval
from the Jewish federation in Spain.
Despite the Justice Ministry endorsement,
the law still needs approval from the Span-
ish parliament. JNS.ORG
Iran unveils new generation of centrifuges
Iran has unveiled a new generation of
nuclear centrifuges that are 15 times more
powerful than the countrys current ones,
Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said
Monday.
We unveiled a new generation of cen-
trifuges that surprised the Westerners,
Salehi said, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB
News reported. This new machine is fif-
teen times more powerful than the previ-
ous generation.
Salehi said the new centrifuges do not vio-
late the interim nuclear agreement between
Iran and the P5+1 powers. Iran will not give
up its right to enrich uranium, he added.
We have met our needs to the 20-per-
cent-enriched fuel (for the Tehran research
reactor and medical purposes) and we have
enough fuel, but we have not lost our right
to produce 20 percent fuel, Salehi said,
according to Fars News Agency.
JNS.ORG
Hamas seizes rare Apollo statue
discovered by Gaza fisherman
An extremely rare and partially intact statue
of the Greek god Apollo, possibly worth tens
of millions of dollars, has mysteriously resur-
faced in Gaza, only to be seized by Hamas,
the Islamic terror group that controls the
coastal enclave.
The statue was claimed to be found by a
Gaza fisherman named Jouda Ghurab last
August. Ghurab says that it took six men to lift
the statue out of the water and that he used a
donkey cart to transport it back to his home.
Eventually, news of the rare find spread and
caught the attention of Hamas, whose author-
ities seized the statue to investigate it. It even
appeared briefly on eBay with a $500,000
price tag.
Our investigations are still going on,
Muhammad Ismael Khillah, assistant under-
secretary at the Gaza Ministry of Tourism and
Antiquities, told Bloomberg Businessweek.
According to archaeologists, the statue
looks like it was made between the fifth and
first century BCE, making it more than 2,000
years old. JNS.ORG
Pro-Israel groups divided on support
for anti-boycott bill in Congress
Pro-Israel organizations are divided over
a new bill in the U.S. Congress that would
pull federal funding from universities that
boycott Israel.
The bill, titled Protect Academic Freedom
Act, proposed by U.S. Reps. Peter Roskam
(R-Ill.) and Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), has garnered
polarizing reactions over whether or not it is
constitutional by limiting free speech under
the First Amendment.
This bipartisan legislation seeks to pre-
serve academic freedom and combat big-
otry by shielding Israel from unjust boy-
cotts. It is ludicrous for critics to go after
our democratic friend and ally Israel when
they should be focusing on the evils perpe-
trated by repressive, authoritarian regimes
like Iran and North Korea, Roskam said in
a statement.
The bill is aimed at targeting groups like
the American Studies Association, which
recently voted to boycott Israeli academic
institutions.
We welcome any effort to challenge or
fight the boycott, divestment, and sanc-
tions movement in colleges and univer-
sities, Anti-Defamation League Chair-
man Abraham Foxman said, Buzzfeed
reported. However well-intentioned, we
are not sure that this bill would be the
most effective means of recourse.
According to sources, the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee may also come out
against the bill.
In a statement to the Washington Free
Beacon, an AIPAC spokesperson said the
group is reviewing the proposed legisla-
tion. Nevertheless, several other groups
came out in support, including the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, Christians United For
Israel, and the Israel Project, according to
the Free Beacon. JNS.ORG
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A graduate of Hobart College, he continued his
education at Columbia University. George was a partner of
the Paterson Bowl-a-Mat and a partner of B&W associates
of Morristown which ran the Hackettstown, Arrowhead,
and Randolph Hills Tennis clubs. George was also a
commercial developer and a partner at Chandler Associates
of Clifton.
After caregiving for his parents, George along with his
siblings, Robert and Alma, founded the Nina and Sam
Wol Caregivers Foundation for families experiencing
dementia. He was also active in Hobart College and the
Morristown Jewish Center Beit Yisrael. His most important
role was taking care of his family. He spent his time with his
wife, Ilene (ne Lakind), son, Steven (Amanda); daughters,
Abby (Noah Levenson), Rachel (Evan Brustein), and
Sandy; and a grandson, Nathan.
Donations can be made to Hackensack University
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Transplant Patient Assistance Fund or the Life Lover
Foundation, Attention: Sharon Lee Parker, 92 Second St.,
Hackensack, NJ, which funds novel research projects in
Leukemia and Lymphoma therapies; or Wol Caregivers
Foundation at Jewish Family Service of North Jersey, 1 Pike
Drive, Wayne, NJ.
Arrangements were by Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzmans.
Irene Katsman
Irene Katsman, ne Belenky, 90, of New York City,
died at home on February 11.
Born in Belarus, she was predeceased by her hus-
band, Khaim, in 2009, and is survived by a daughter,
Regina Lyandres of Blauvelt, N.Y., and a son, Leonard
Gassman of Fort Lee.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Jack Lapidus
Jack S. Lapidus, 92, of Boca Raton, Fla., formerly of
Bayonne, died on February 7 at Hospice by the Sea in
Pompano Beach, Fla.
Before retiring, he was a builder and electrical con-
tractor in Bayonne for many years.
Predeceased by his wife, Elaine, ne Gordon, and a
son, Randy, he is survived by his children, Marty of Com-
mack, N.Y., Barbara Sunberg of West Orange, and Pam
Brown of Sarasota, Fla., and six grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Andrew Rossmer
Andrew H. Rossmer, 67, of River Edge died on
February 10.
Born in Washington Heights, N.Y., and raised in Engle-
wood, he graduated from Boston University Law School.
He was a trial attorney for many years, most recently
in the Family Court in the Bronx. He also had a private
practice in general law in River Edge. He was a former
president of the Jewish Community Center of Paramus.
He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Carol, ne Miller,
and sons, David and Jacob.
Services were at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah. Donations can be sent to the JCCP/CBT or
the American Heart Association. Arrangements were by
Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Hannah Schachtel
Hannah L. Schachtel, ne Voos, of Hackensack died on
February 3.
Born in Germany, she was a homemaker.
Predeceased by her husband, John, and a brother,
Kurt Voos, she is survived by children, John (Debo-
rah), Stephen (Linda), Janet, and Amy, and three
grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Estelle Silver
Estelle L. Silver, ne Brustein, 87, of Paramus died on
February 5.
She was a singer, bookkeeper, and real estate agent.
She is survived by her children, Laurie Silver Lewis
( James), Michael (Lori Jean), and Debra Ekizian (Robert);
a brother-in-law, Charles Stendig; four grandchildren,
and a companion, Richard Richardson.
Donations can be sent to a chapter of Hadassah.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
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Claire Starr
Claire Starr, ne Fersht, 92, of Chesterfield, Mo.,
formerly of Hallandale, Fla., and Jersey City, died on
February 5.
Born in Liberty, N.Y., she was predeceased by her
husband, Paul, and a daughter, Meryl Starr. She is sur-
vived by a daughter Gloria Berger (Dr. Robert) of Ches-
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still use your appliances?
Keep things organized. You dont want the kitchen
to ever feel cramped, especially since it always ends
up as the social hub of the house, she said.
For starters, Gorder suggested keeping all of your
pots and pans similar in style and color and hanging
them from a simple pot rack mounted to the ceiling.
Beneath the pot rack position, use a salvaged cabi-
net or other counter-height storage piece that is small
enough to allow for walking room around it.
Then go to the lumber yard and have a piece of
butcher block cut to size and affix it to the top of the
cabinet. Extra storage and a workspace on top mate-
rialize as if by magic.
Any wall space provides room to install extra shelves.
Stock your plates and bowls on them, Gorder said.
Colors in small kitchens should be bright and airy,
she said. I love crisp, pale colors inspired by lettuce
and endive with accents of charcoal and walnut.
Keep window coverings light, too. Dont put heavy
drapes in a kitchen. Instead use white Roman shades
or caf curtains in delicate linen to keep the feeling
light and airy throughout the year, she added.
The tiny powder room presents different decorating
challenges. Since it is often used for guests, Gorder
offered some creative fun ways to make the space
functional as well as attractive.
One way is to display the towels and soaps. I roll tow-
els and stash them in a basket tucked in a corner by the
sink. Soaps are also fun to display. Stack them in small
mesh sacks and hang them by nails next to the sink.
There is probably room for a ledge shelf above the
toilet, which can be used for storage.
Powder rooms are great places to have fun. Install a
full-tiled wall, perhaps of marble or glazed Moroccan
brick, behind the sink and mirror, or an accent wall of
large, patterned wallpaper could be equally as bold,
she said. If the room has a window, whatever you do,
dont bulk it up. Keep it simple.
Are there designer tips for making a small bedroom
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Gorder has a long list of solutions, beginning with fur-
niture size. Its easy to gravitate toward heavy bedroom
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tables. But not all furniture has to match. Lighter pieces
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Use a wall mount for your television and find a
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Make sure you have adequate lighting a good ceiling
light is important, while bedside lamps set on dimmers
add ambiance.
For small windows, always play to the vertical. Gorder
suggested hanging curtains or drapes as high up as pos-
sible on the wall to create the illusion of a large window
behind.
If theres room, place a storage bench at the end of
the bed or along a wall for additional bedding and out-
of-season clothing, she said.
If theres space and the closet is inadequate, you
might consider an armoire but think tall and thin, she
said.
If the closet is large, you can put your heavy bureau in
it, or better yet, install a complete storage system.
Call in a consultant or go to a store that specializes
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Kirsch joins Links Residential
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Links Residential has welcomed Liora Kirsch to its sales
team. Kirsch was born in Israel and split her time growing
up between Tel Aviv and the New York metro area. She
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Know the lay of the land
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SHIA GETTER
I
t is said that the easiest way to get a point across
in a way that will sink in is to use a story. So, this
week, let me share three stories related to real
estate in Israel.
An investor who owns three investment apartments
came to my office to talk to me about taking over the
management of his units. Some probing questions
brought to light the fact that he was undercharging on
the rents. We were able to bump up the rental income
by almost $11,000 a year almost immediately!
Lesson: You might be leaving money on the table.
Whens the last time you checked your income vs. what
the market is charging for a similar rental?
Next story: Just yesterday, I met an attorney to dis-
cuss an apartment for which I am the buyers broker and
expert representative.
I had gone to personally inspect the apartment sev-
eral days earlier. During the discussions with the law-
yer I realized that part of the great value of this apart-
ment was the seller attempting to sell a crevice in the
hill behind the property... which wasnt his! This find
was the reason for the seller asking for 500,000 shekels
more than a similar apartment. If it would have been
useable by the buyer, based on access rights, then it
might have still been a good deal. However, in this case,
there were other neighbors with an equally valid chance
to claim access rights and equal access. This awareness
changed the spin from the property being a wonderful
bargain to being a sour, overpriced investment.
Lesson: Especially in Israel, everyone wants a unique
twist when they buy property to show how smart they
are and that they got the best deal. Sometimes its buy-
ing an apartment with a storage area that can be used to
expand the apartment size in the future, roof rights, or
a garden that has private access, which makes the apart-
ment more valuable. Being eagle eyed and careful can
help you get the right deal that works for you without
getting burnt.
Next story: A client contracts with us to renovate a
property near Shaarei Chesed to split it into several short
term rental units. Being that the property is located at
the foot of a hill (somewhat similar to the story above,
except here he was the only one with access) we under-
stood that we could dig into the side of the hill to create
more area and bigger units.
The contractor quoted a seemingly fair price of
400,000 NIS for the digging and removal of the rock and
debris. But did we pay it because it was the best price
from the several contractors we knew and trust? No!
Instead, we first dug a hole in the rock and inspected
it, to see what the debris consisted of. To the excite-
ment of the owner, we discovered that it was simply
large boulders that would have to be transported
elsewhere, but not anywhere near as many stones or
dirt as anticipated. And so were able to get the price
reduced by 210,000 to just 190,000. Music to the own-
ers ears!
Lesson: you can overpay even when you pay an
honest wage. Take extra steps to safely minimize your
expenses where you can.
Like an American going to court in China without an
attorney or speaking Chinese, when you work in a coun-
try with different laws and culture, sometimes people
get taken advantage of.
No matter how good a deal sounds, you should seek
counsel before you sign anything or put down any
money.
During these last eight years of my experience manag-
ing, brokering, and renovating different properties and
dealing with brokers, attorneys, government agencies,
and contractors, Ive seen more mistakes then many
people see in a lifetime.
Especially those who already have apartments in
Israel but want the additional income that renting it out
for the short term provides, it is imperative that you do
it right. When done right, you can continue to enjoy its
use when you are here, while leasing it when you are
away while keeping your investment and Jerusalem
home in pristine condition.
Shia Getter is the CEO of the Shia Getter Group, a full-
range real estate services irm in Jerusalem. He is author
of Everything You Need to Know about Buying Real Estate
in Israel (Feldheim 2014). For more information and to
schedule an appointment, call Sarah at 9720772346011
or email sarah@thegettergroup.com.
Valley National Bank supports JFSNJ 70th gala
Valley National Bank is a sponsor of Jewish Family Service of
North Jerseys 70th anniversary gala on October 19.
Established in 1944 and originally housed in downtown
Paterson, Jewish Family Service of North Jersey is a multi-
function, nonprofit, nonsectarian family and social service
agency that has served the New Jersey residents of Passaic
and northwest Bergen counties for over 60 years. Jewish
Family Service of North Jerseys mission is to provide qual-
ity and caring professional services that strengthen family
life and enhance the welfare of the North Jersey community,
in accordance with Jewish traditions and values. For more
information on Jewish Family Service of North Jersey go to
www.jfsnorthjersey.org.
Valley National Bancorp is a regional bank holding com-
pany headquartered in Wayne, with $16 billion in assets.
Its principal subsidiary, Valley National Bank, operates 204
branches in 144 communities serving 16 counties through-
out North and Central New Jersey, Manhattan, Brooklyn,
Queens, and Long Island. Valley National Bank is one of the
largest commercial banks headquartered in New Jersey.
JFSNJ president Sue Ann Levin, left, with Valley
National Bank branch sales manager Patricia Da-
vino, and JFSNJ executive director Leah Kaufman.
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fluid prose and insiders perch coalesce snugly in this
well-wrought chronicle of a nations coming of age,
and of the principals who helped make it happen.
In opening this intimate window, Avner avoids the
impulse to dish and tell without sacrificing the essen-
tials about Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, and
Begin. While they came to appreciate his speechwrit-
ing and talents with the press, he, in turn, derived
career nourishment, political wisdom, and the art of
absorbing setbacks from each. The Prime Ministers
actually is gilded by the familiarity factor.
Avners putative favorite is Begin, the outlier whose
picture looms above the others on the cover. His ini-
tial brush with the Irgun leaders notoriety came after
disembarking in Haifa and catching a bus to Jerusalem.
While contemplating his new life with exuberance and
apprehension, the first image to greet him upon enter-
ing the city was a poster of Begin. He was a wanted
man; the reward for finding him was 10,000 pounds.
Dead or alive.
Avners subsequent adventures in the besieged
metropolis throb with a Hemingway-esque feel. Train-
ing at the Machon (Institute for Overseas Youth Lead-
ers) put him near the center of chaotic events as inde-
pendence was declared and Arab armies surrounded
the city. He and his classmates endured daily artillery
barrages and food shortages, tempered by the youth-
ful excitement of knowing they were part of something
historic.
When his group made it out by convoy to Tel Aviv,
they witnessed the shelling of the Atalena, a ship laden
with arms for the Irgun. Begin stood on the deck,
preaching calm and compliance with orders to aban-
don the vessel issued by rival David Ben-Gurion. Over-
seeing the withering mortar fire leveled at the Atalena
was Yitzhak Rabin, a commander of the larger resis-
tance group Hagana.
Even before arriving at Kibbutz Lavi, west of Tiberias,
Avner had witnessed in microcosm a nations birth struggle.
Once there, his assignment consisted of harvesting rocks
and digging latrines. He must have done a creditable job,
because in 1949 Bnei Akiva summoned him back to Britain
as its general secretary. After several years and a new wife
and family, Avner did a second stint at Lavi, then decamped
to a Jerusalem apartment where he worked as a writer until
a friend called about a government opening created by For-
eign Minister Golda Meirs charm offensive in Africa.
Avner didnt belong to the omnipotent Mapai or Labor
Party, usually a prerequisite for virtually all govern-
ment appointments. A backer of the left-leaning Zionist
Hapoel Mizrach, he was, nonetheless, taken in and further
advanced when his benefactor was named director of the
prime ministers bureau. In moving up, Avner became the
English speech writer, note-taker and letter responder for
the earthy, ebullient Levi Eshkol.
The shtetl Jew from Ukraine, a kibbutz pioneer and water
expert, loomed rather small in the shadow of Ben-Gurion.
Early on, Eshkol scolded Avner, always referring to him as
boychik, for trying to embellish his speeches. Later, he
professed bafflement when Lyndon Johnson took him on
a careening automobile tour of his Texas ranch and used
down-home barnyard analogies.
Vuss rett der goy? Whats the gentile talking about?
he asked incredulously.
Yet at this same meeting Eshkol passionately convinced
a Vietnam-preoccupied Johnson to replenish the depleted
Israeli Air Force after it triumphed in the Six Day War. Col-
leagues consistently underestimated his abilities. Abba Eban
tendentiously lectured Eshkol on prime ministerial duties,
comparing them to an orchestra conductor. Menachem
Avner
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Begin implored him, face-to-face, to resign on the eve of the
Six Day War. Yet he endured and patiently persuaded Begin
to serve in a unity government.
This utterly un-charismatic leader then proceeded to
guide the nation to victory, culminating in the dramatic
recapture of Jerusalem. He died in 1969, but not before
establishing a vital arms link and diplomatic channel with
the United States that his successors could build on. His
intriguing choice for ambassador to D.C.: Yitzhak Rabin.
When Golda Meir succeeded Eshkol, their only common
threads were Ukrainian birth and bedrock socialism. After
growing up in Milwaukee, training as a teacher, and mar-
rying Morris Myerson, Mrs. Meir migrated to Palestine and
kibbutz life in 1921. Two children later, she separated from
her husband and began a whirl of service as ambassador to
the Soviet Union, the head of two different ministries, and
secretary-general of the Labor Party. Her resume bulged
where Eshkols seemed thin.
Avner served as head of the foreign press bureau during
her tenure. He describes a courageous, steely-minded leader
who could lecture Austrian chancellor Bruno Kriesky, also a
Jew, for caving to Kremlin pressure and closing a key transit
point for Soviet migrs, or disarm the mercurial journalist
Oriana Fallaci with her own self-proclaimed shortcomings
as a wife and mother.
Meirs bete noire was the October 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Faulty intelligence left IDF forces reeling in Suez and the
Golan Heights. She stoically absorbed the brunt of the criti-
cism especially withering from Begin in the Knesset. But
she also held steady and refused Moshe Dayans offer to
resign as defense minister, then rallied her diplomats to
convince President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kiss-
inger that a massive airlift of war materiel would turn the
tide, and it did.
Avner movingly recounts her secret visit to the troops on
the Golan Heights on Sukkot, as bombardments and tank
duels raged. Exhausted but resilient, she stared across the
Vale of Tears, smoking a cigarette. Then she moved to a
sukkah that had been jury-rigged atop a personnel carrier.
Both martial and motherly, she answered questions about
the mission, greeted soldiers with chag sameach, and dis-
pensed the kind of encouragement only she could.
Although Labor won the next election with a narrowed
majority, Meir made good on a vow to resign. Yitzhak Rabin
subsequently edged out Shimon Peres in a vote by party
leaders to become the first sabra to occupy the nations
highest post. A professional soldier who served as chief of
staff during the Six Day War, he abruptly shifted gears in
1968, when named ambassador to Washington. Avner rates
the rumpled, dour-faced, hard-bargaining Rabin as a quick
study and savvy player, who brought a different vibe and
skill set to the premiership.
His big challenges were negotiating the Sinai withdrawal
and effecting the Entebbe rescue. The first was protracted
and tedious; the second was condensed and seat-of-the-
pants. In both, he displayed temper, flair, intellect, and
forbearance. Sinai consisted of matching wits and stamina
with Kissinger; Entebbe entailed overcoming inertia from
Defense Minister Peres (who Rabin could hardly abide), fol-
lowed by a hastily designed operation of pluck and luck.
Rabin helmed the nation until 1977, when a controversy
over his wife Leahs bank account in Washington precipi-
tated his resignation. In 1992 the soldier-statesman returned
as prime minister. He served with distinction until he was
cut down by a Jewish extremists bullet 1995. Avners respect
for him is evident and abundant. But his next boss, Men-
achem Begin, a diametric and dramatic opposite, would
take the feeling to an even higher plateau.
Begin tested Avner on his first day in office, after the
upset 1977 elections in which the Sephardim flexed their
new demographic muscle by ousting Labor and ushering
in Likud. The courtly, classically versed, Bible-quoting,
impeccably groomed Begin, who always had been defined
by oppositional counterpoint, suddenly found himself the
nations linchpin, at the epicenter of power.
But decades in the Irgun underground and politi-
cal wilderness had seasoned Begin. He told Avner to
forget their different party affiliations; he wanted him
to become the aide who would Shakespearize his
grammatically pure but starchy Polish-English. And
he wanted it done without Avner misting any of his
adjectives. He then handed the startled aide a letter
from President Jimmy Carter, told him to parse the
nuances, explain what he thought it meant in terms of
policy, and draft a reply.
Avner survived the quiz, remonstrating with Begin
only about addressing the letter to His Excellency.
The new PM, a formal European at heart despite
his family loss in the Shoah and his gulag jailing by
the Soviets for Zionist activities, initially resisted but
relented on Dear Mr. President after consulting his
protocol experts.
Begins two terms were beyond eventful: Anwar
Sadats visit to Jerusalem, the Camp David accords
facilitated by Carter, the Nobel Peace Prize shared with
Sadat, who, as Avner relates, became a fast friend,
along with his wife, Jehan, the rescue of black Jews
from Ethiopia, the Israeli air forces destruction of
Iraqs reactor, the invasion of Lebanon and the result-
ing massacre at Sabra and Shatila.
For an observant Jew like Avner, Begin seems to
have touched a receptor that the deeply ideological
Laborites Eshkol, Meir, and Rabin could not. Begin
was defined by the Holocaust and his desire to see
the Jews of Israel proudly survive and flourish from
a position of strength. Yet, collectively, so were the
other three prime ministers. With Begin, perhaps, it
was more dogmatic, more mystical, more a command-
ment to Israeli exceptionalism.
Little did the boychik from Manchester realize
when embarking on his journey just how rich it would
be, or how rewarding for us that he chose to share it.
Avner
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