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Making hummus treif again
Who owns the chickpea paste
known as hummus? Is it an Israeli

dish? A Lebanese specialty?
It turns out that while advocates
of Middle Eastern countries were
distracted by
Not for male Vulcans only:

Spock (Leonard Nimoy)
exchanges the Vulcan
salute with TPau (Betty
Matsushita) in a 1967
episode of Star Trek.
Spock blesses Women of the

Wall from beyond the grave
Fans of science fiction know that
death had no dominion over Mr. Spock,

the child of human-Vulcan intermarriage who died in Star Trek II and returned in Star Trek III. It turns out that
Leonard Nimoy, the Jewish actor who
portrayed Mr. Spock for nearly 50 years
and died last February, lives on or at
least his influence does.
The Women of the Wall have
announced that they will hold a
womens priestly blessing at the
Kotel on Pesach with support for
marketing from Mr. Nimoys estate and
from his widow, Susan Bay Nimoy.
The priestly blessing is the formula
that God, in the Book of Numbers,
commanded Aarons descendants to
bestow on the people. In traditional
Ashkenazi synagogues, kohanim men
who are descendants of the priestly
caste go to the bimah, hold their
hands out, fingers paired and split
down the middle, and recite the threepart liturgy, which begins May God
bless and keep you.
In 1970, a Jerusalem rabbi began
to make it a public event at the Kotel;
last Pesach, the rite attracted tens of
thousands of men.
But the ritual, and in particular its
distinctive hand gesture, has Mr. Nimoy
to thank for its fame. He had seen the
ceremony as a child in his synagogue.
And on a June day in 1967, either during
or immediately following the Six Day
War, he realized that the Star Trek

episode he was working on then would
benefit from some distinctive gesture
of greeting. And thus was born the
Vulcan salute, which accompanied the
greeting reminiscent of the blessing
from Numbers: Live long and prosper.
And as Star Trek went on to live long
and prosper, the priestly hand gesture
entered popular culture. (Now its
available as an emoji character on your
cell phone.)
So perhaps its only logical that the
first public grant from the Nimoy estate
would come to a priestly blessing
even if a rather un-Orthodox one. The
Women of the Wall are inviting women
from the priestly caste to bless the
audience and other women to receive
the blessing. The grant will enable the
group to publicize the event.
The road from press release to
priestly ritual is likely to be a rocky one,
given the ongoing controversy over
non-Orthodox rituals at the Western
Wall. (The rabbi of the Kotel has
backed away from his approval of a
compromise on the issue agreed upon
by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and the Reform and Conservative
movements.)
At least the Kotel conflict, unlike the
one featured on the planet Vulcan in
that 1967 episode, will not be resolved
with a battle to the death.
LARRY YUDELSON
squabbling for the right to hummus,

Americans stepped up to the plate
with their can-do attitude and took
it over for themselves.
Sorry, Muslims and Jews.
Meet your bastardized American
offspring, bacon hummus.
More precisely, Smoky flavored
Bacon hummus, a delicious
blend of smoky hummus
topped with real bacon
brought to us by Stopand-Shops Simply
Enjoy brand.
We have no idea
how it tastes
though as fans of
Sabras jalapenoflavored hummus
(that one is kosher),
we probably have
no standing to
complain about
cross-cultural chickpea
contamination.
But as you can see
from the photograph, our
friend who discovered the
bacon hummus pronounced it
good to the last dip.
LARRY YUDELSON
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Noshes
One day, Hillarys Jewish grandchild will marry Trumps

Jewish grandchild at an AIPAC conference.
A tweet from Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic. (About Hillarys grandchild being
Jewish, yeah, yeah, we know, but whatever)
ITS SHOWDOWN TIME:
Two kosher
superheroes;
two kosher
supervillians
The blockbuster action film, Batman
v. Superman: Dawn
of Justice, is opening on
Friday, March 25. Undoubtedly the late BOB
KANE, who created
Batman, and the late
JERRY SIEGEL and JOE
SCHUSTER, who created
Superman, would be
surprised to see the duo
at odds. But an iconic
superhero showdown is a
novel twist, and well see
how well its done. The
film opens with Batman/
Bruce Wayne (Ben
Affleck) and Superman/
Clark Kent (Henry Cavill)
both in a funk, as they
ponder the casualties of
crime fighting and the
proper use of super
powers. Enter Lex Luthor
(JESSE EISENBERG, 32),
a billionaire sociopath
who plays on their
anxieties and then
orchestrates a mass
murder aimed at turning
the superhero duo
against each other.
Batman v. Superman features the first
appearance of superhero Wonder Woman
in a major movie. The
Jewish press has long
kvelled about the casting of Israeli actress GAL
GADOT, 30 (Fast and
Furious) as Wonder
Woman. The news gets
better: Wonder Woman
is, indeed, a major character in the film, and she
will re-appear in future
DC Extended Universe
films. EZRA MILLER, 23,

as the Flash, also appears in a brief scene. It
seems likely that Miller
(as the Flash) will have
a much bigger role in
the Extended Universe
films to come.
Luthor, by the way,
has another weapon up
his sleeve: He uses some
Kryptonian relics (including body parts from
a Kryptonian villain) to
cook up a giant mutant Frankenstein-type
monster, called Doomsday. There is no clear
evidence that Mary Shelley, who wrote the 1818
novel Frankenstein,
was inspired by the Jewish legend of the golem
a soulless but powerful artificial creature
brought to life though
magic (in some versions, by invoking Gods
name). However, there
is another direct line
from the golem legend
to Doomsday. The most
famous golem was the
one supposedly created
by Rabbi JUDAH LOEW
(1513-1609) of Prague. He
did so to protect Jews
from attacks by nonJews. In all versions of
the Lowe/ golem story,
Rabbi Loew disables the
golem after he protects
Jews but kills innocents
in doing so. Moving
ahead in time, theres
the classic silent German film The Golem
(1915), about the modern
rediscovery of a golem
Jesse Eisenberg
Gal Gadot
Paul Rubens
Coming straight
into your home
Ezra Miller
Merrick Garland
created by a rabbi (modeled on Loew) some four

centuries before. (This
film was co-written and
co-directed by its star
actors, HENRIK GALEEN
and Paul Wegener.) The
Golem clearly influenced the classic 1930s
Frankenstein films directed by James Whale,
and Whales films, much
more than the Shelley
novel, have inspired and
informed later Frankenstein-like film creatures, including, I expect,
Doomsday.
The fact that that
long-serving Iowa
governor Terry
Branstad, a Republican,
and a very big Israel
supporter, is the son of a
Jewish mother (who
became a Lutheran) and
a Lutheran father is not
well known. (Branstad
later converted to
Catholicism.) The fact
that hes a second cousin
of Supreme Court
nominee MERRICK
GARLAND, 63, is even
less well known. Garlands late father, an Iowa
native, and Branstads
late mother were
cousins. Branstad did
support Garlands
appointment to the
federal bench in 1997.
However, he is now
deferring to the decision
of Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley, the
head of the Judiciary
Committee, not to hold
confirmation hearings.
This must be a bit
awkward for Branstad,
who met Judge Garland
for the first time about a
month ago, when they
had breakfast together in
N.B.
Washington.
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On March 18, Netflix began streaming a new PeeWee Herman film, Pee-Wees Big Holiday. Herman, of
course, is the famous character created and played by
PAUL REUBENS, 63 (who was born Paul Rubenfeld).
A big star in the 80s, Reubens career was derailed by a
1991 sex scandal that seems almost quaint today in light
of much more serious celeb scandals, like Bill Cosbys.
He revived the Pee Wee Herman character in 2009 and
his stage appearances as Pee Wee have been popular and
acclaimed. Holiday, produced by JUDD APATOW, 48,
has good advance buzz and it works because Reubens
has aged well, and Pee Wees age never was specified
so even at 63, you can accept Reubens in his signature
role. The plot has Herman leaving his hometown of Fairville and going on the first vacation of his life. Hes traveling to New York to celebrate his friend Joes birthday
party. Along the way, he gets caught up in wacky hijinks.
By the way, Reubens late father served in the British
and American air forces during WWII and was one of
the courageous diaspora Jews who flew rickety planes
during Israels War of Independence and were critical to
Israels survival.
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Benjamin Feintuch guides the puck.
The frozen chosen

Frisch hockey team gains glory for Jews on skates
LARRY YUDELSON
wo moments stand out when Joe

Tropp thinks about his recently
concluded high school ice
hockey season. Joe, a Teaneck
sophomore at the Frisch School in Paramus, was assistant captain of his schools
team, the Cougars.
The first moment came on January 31.
Frisch was playing Old Tappan. The score
was 6 to 5. Frisch was behind.
And then, with 13 seconds left, the Cougars scored a goal and tied the game.
We went up against a very good team
we were not supposed to win against, he
said. We managed to not give up even
when we were down, and we tied it up.
The second moment took place off the
ice, when the team learned that it had
made it into the finals of the non-public
division of the NJ State Interscholastic Athletic Association on the strength of its seasons record of 6 wins, 4 losses, and 2 ties.
Not bad for a team in its first year.
All season we tried to prove ourselves
and the fact we actually got some recognition from the public really felt good, Joe
said.
Hearing that news was just awesome,
Evan Fromen of Englewood said. We
were a yeshiva with a team put together
from scratch.
Ice hockey is not the first sport that
comes to mind when you think of yeshiva
teams. Its not that Jews and ice are inherent enemies didnt the lakes and rivers
freeze back in Anatevka? but basketball
and wrestling are much more suited for a
high school gymnasium.
The boys ice hockey team put the roster
of Frischs sports teams, for both boys and
girls, at 26, and it is one of the schools few

teams that competes outside of the yeshiva
league that pits the Jewish high schools of
the metropolitan New York region against
each other in regular matches and annual
tournaments. A couple of other local
yeshiva high schools have hockey clubs
among them, the Torah Academy of Bergen County in Teaneck but they dont
field competitive teams.
It all came about because of the dedication of four parents, said Aron Coren,
Frischs athletic director. They saw a
need. We didnt have an ice hockey program and they really wanted to start one
for their kids.
It began last year as a club before
becoming a team this year.
Its amazing what the ice hockey program does, because its so hard to find ice
time, he said.
The team mostly practices at the rink

in Englewoods MacKay park. It meets up
to three times a week once during the
week, and on Saturday and Sunday nights
when there are no games on the schedule.
They really are dedicated and put in so
much effort, Mr. Coren said. Theyre
playing against kids who practice five
times a week.
The impetus for the team really came
from the players, according to the teams
coach, Ralph Abecassis of Englewood. His
son, Aaron, a junior, is one of the teams
captains. The kids wanted to do it. We
kind of took it from there, he said.
The seeds of the team were planted five
or six years ago, he said, when Aaron and
several of his friends played at the Englewood Field Club. There were so many
Jewish kids signing up that they switched
the Saturday games to Saturday night,
Maury Bauer, Benjamin Feintuch, Sammy Wietschner, and Aaron Abecassis
after Shabbat ended, he said.

These kids have been playing for so
many years, the question was, why does it
have to go to waste after eighth grade? We
parents looked at each other and said, why
dont we try doing something?
From there to a first-year tournament
pretty impressive, even if Frisch lost in the
first round to Saint Joseph Regional High
School in Montvale with a non-competitive
score of 11 to 1.
What you have to realize is since were
a non-public school we have to play in
a non-public division, Mr. Abecassis
said. Youre playing against the powerhouses, schools that recruit based on
their athletic programs.
Frisch, too, now is recruiting students
on the strength of its hockey team, at least
in a small way. For hockey players, Frisch,
as the only yeshiva high school with a
team, has become the school of choice.
But what makes ice hockey so compelling that teenagers are willing to practice
late at night, whenever the team can get
precious access to the ice?
The sport itself is awesome, Evan said.

It takes so much out of you. After a 45-second shift already youre out of breath. You
have to constantly rotate players. Its a
very fast pace. Everyone gets more time
in the game because players are so tired.
The rotation means that even those of
the 28 members of the team who were
new to the sport got a chance to compete.
Every moment counts, Evan said.
Our shifts are a lot faster than in other
sports. Even professionals have short
shifts.
Why is playing on ice more tiring than
playing on a wooden gymnasium floor?
Ive never really understood that
myself, Evan said.
Joe said he was thrilled with the opportunity Frisch gave him to play ice hockey
in a Jewish environment.
I started playing hockey when I was
four years old. I played hockey for a few
years in the Ice House in Hackensack.
Then I was told that I couldnt play on
the good team because I was Jewish and
couldnt play on Saturday. I had to go
Evan Fromen
Charlie Frielich guards the goal.
around from league to league and find the

teams that accept me and let me play on
Sundays but not Saturday. Its been hard.
Frisch gave me the opportunity.
But despite its relative success, the
Frisch ice hockey team hasnt made a
true believer of Mr. Coren, the athletic

director.
I tried it once, he said. It took me
too long to get dressed. Theres a tremendous amount of equipment you have to
put on.
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Take me out to the fair

Franklin Lakes shul to host contemporary film on 1939 Worlds Fair
JOANNE PALMER
es, this is a little bit of Queens

geography.
But Bergen Countys not so
far from Long Island, and you
have to go through Queens to get there,
so its not likely to be foreign to our
readers.
You know how you see the old Worlds
Fair grounds Flushing MeadowsCorona Park, to be technical when you
take the Grand Central Parkway or the
Van Wyck Expressway? You cant really
tell from the road, but those once-glorious monuments to the future are crumbling. Theyre the remnants of the 1964
Worlds Fair, the postwar ode to progress
that introduced some of us of a certain
age, wide-eyed children then, to such
wonders as picturephones (not nearly
as good as FaceTime or Skype but purely
miraculous then), moving sidewalks (an
idea whose time has not yet come and
most likely never will), and a stunning
showcase for DuPonts immortal slogan
Better Living Through Chemistry.
Not to mention Belgian waffles.
Before the 1964 Worlds Fair, though,
that same park hosted the 1939 Worlds
Fair, also a paean to the future but this
one built during the Great Depression,
with World War II looming. For our readers parents, grandparents, or maybe
even great-grandparents, were they lucky
enough to have made it to this country
by then, and have gotten to the fair, it
represented hope, progress, and a better
life. We remember the 64 Worlds Fair in
Technicolor and the 1939 one in moody
period black-and-white, but really the 39
fair blazed with color and life.

Charles Sokol of Wayne is a semiretired chemist (and a Ph.D. who chooses
not to use that title outside his professional life) who describes himself as a
collector of various things, among them
probably the worlds largest collection
of early English-language comedy recordings and by early Im talking from 1897
to the early 1950s, he said. He also collects other early audio and visual recordings. Among those treasures is a six-hour
silent film of the 1939 Worlds Fair.
There was a gentleman I assume he
was a man, but I just know his last name,
Medicus, Mr. Sokol said. This person
Medicus had a 16 millimeter silent
movie camera. It wasnt just 8 millimeter, so that it was decent quality. It was
also in color.
Mr. Sokol often creates programs based
on his collection and shows them at his
synagogue, Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
He has divided the Medicus film into
four segments. On Sunday, April 3, he
will show the last, hour-long section,
backed by period British dance band
music totally silent films can be very
boring, he said, and the music is British because with British copyright laws,
anything recorded before 1950 is in the
public domain, and I didnt violate any
copyright laws. (Nothing is simple.)
See the box for more information on
this weeks program.
The film shows everything at the fair
and I do mean everything, Mr. Sokol
said. This guy or gal or whatever went to
the entire fair and filmed it. There were
all sorts of things that surprised me.
Westinghouse featured the Middleton family in an ad; the family, played by actors,
this time, features in the film that will be screened at Emanuel.
DON OBRIEN/FLCKR
The facade of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion showed a copper relief sculpture,
Maurice Ascalons The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil. WIKIPEDIA
Among those surprises, there was a

fair amount of nudity, he said. And this
guy captured it. The French pavilion had
an outdoor garden, and there were topless female models, just walking around
talking to people, having what looked like
normal conversations.
Along those lines, one of the most
surprising things I found is that in 1939,
the surrealist painter Salvador Dali had
designed a topless bathing suit, and he
had the women swimming in tanks.
They were in a pavilion called Dreams
of Venus, which looks jaw-droppingly
avant-garde in the film.
Next Sunday, Mr. Sokol will pair that
last segment of the Medicus documentary with an incredible film, a docudrama, put together by the Westinghouse Corporation, he said. The film,
called The Middleton Family at the New
York Worlds Fair, also in color, and with
sound, is more or less about the triumph
of the American Way.
Mr. Sokols oldest Jewish recordings
were not made by Jewish performers,
he said. Jewish vaudevillians, like many

of their non-Jewish peers, were leery
about recordings at first, fearing that
they would cut into profits. Why would
audiences venture out to theaters when
they could listen to records at home?
At that time, royalties were pitiful, he
said. They were afraid of losing their
income. So the records were made by
non-Jews who heard the Jewish routines,
saw how popular they are, recorded
what they heard (particularly if it was in
English; they tended to omit the Yiddish
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still were coming to their shows, Mr.
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raising awareness among their potential
audiences. In about 1902, you started
to see Jewish performers making recordings, he added.
Most of the early recordings were made
in Edison, and sold in record stores.
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At Rutgers talk, Israeli academic discusses the ties between early Christians and Jews
JOANNE PALMER
ften, we all can feel a strong

attraction to and sometimes also repulsion toward
someone or something
that feels both entirely foreign and
oddly familiar at the same time.
Dr. Ishay Rosen-Zvi is an associate professor and the head of the Talmud and
late antiquities section in the Hebrew
culture studies department at Tel-Aviv
University. His publications look at the
intersection between the cultures vying
for breathing space during the few centuries that began the Common Era; hes
focused on midrashic hermeneutics, the
Mishna itself, Temple rituals in rabbinic
literature, and gender and sexuality
during that time.
Now, he is exploring that very polarizing Christian figure, the apostle Paul,
n Saul, the very Jewish Christian whose
writing about the Jews has had such a
devastating impact on so many Jews,
tragically culminating, in a logical progression, he said, in the Shoah.
Ive always been fascinated with
Paul, as a scholar, as a Jew, as someone
who works with rabbinic literature,
Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. Its the push-pull of
the familiar and the foreign. On the
one hand, he is an anti-Jewish, maybe
even anti-Semitic thinker, and on the
other hand, he is so similar in the way
he works with the Bible to create a kind
of holy community.
Ive always been interested in Paul,
but only recently Ive tried to think
more systematically in this area, he
said.
Academic thinking about Paul has
changed a great deal since World War
II. It was the area in which scholarship
was most affected by the Holocaust,
Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. It was acknowledged that the Protestant interpretation of Paul actually contributed to the
caricature of Judaism as a kind of godless, spirit-less religion that had to be
replaced. Throughout the 1950s, 60s,
and 70s, we find this really very thorough attempt to separate Paul from
later developments in Christianity.
It was an attempt to make Paul not
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guilty for the horrors that seemed to

stem from his worldview.
In the beginning, Paul was a committed Jew, a Pharisee, someone who
bragged about his knowledge of the law,
his conception of Judaism and of Torah,
and of his mission as a Jew, Dr. RosenZvi said, explaining that scholarly view.
That is radical and different from the
way the second-century church fathers
saw him.
It is an attempt to read Paul as Jewish, and his critique as an inner Jewish
critique, aimed at his own world.
Those historians and theologians
were Protestant. Jewish scholars enter
the game very late, only in the last 15
or 20 years, Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. Protestant scholars were creating a mixture
of very sensitive historical scholarship,
that says that we have to read Paul in the
context of first-century Judaism, on the
one hand, and on the other there was
a lot of apologetics. They were saying
that they had to save Paul. They had to
reclaim his reputation.
And if you have to save Paul, that limits your ability to read the text clearly.
From there, the effect of the trend
was a really big investment in reading
Paul inside Judaism. Thats when scholars began comparing his writing to rabbinic literature.
Comparing Paul to the rabbinic literature is problematic because the rabbis are later the second century of the
Common Era and the first documents
Who: Dr. Ishay Rosen-Zvi of Tel Aviv University

What: Will talk about The Apostle Paul and the Rabbis at Rutgers University
Where: At Brower Commons, 145 College Avenue in New Brunswick
When: On Monday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by: The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
Cost and how to register: Free; free parking is available. Advance registration is
requested; email csjlrsvp@rutgers.edu or call 848-932-2033.
More information: Go to BildnerCenter.rutgers.edu
Apostle Paul in a mosaic in St. Sophia in Kiev, from around 1000 C.E.

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that we have are from the beginning of

the third century. Paul is in the middle
of the first century. So its problematic.
But it is really tempting, because
they thats the rabbis and Paul are
doing very similar things.
They are both based in biblical interpretation, and from a kind of relevanticization of the Bible they are attempting
to create what I call holy communities
under Rome.
They had very developed eschatology on one hand, and on the other they
accepted reality. They did not attempt
to leave the city or urban life; both the
first Christian communities and the rabbis lived in the city, part of secular life
under Rome. And in this realm, they
tried to create a holy community, with

a new conception of what being Gods
people means.
To me, this means that the comparison is unavoidable. The question is how
to do it, Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. And here
we get to the question of methodology.
Dismissing the crude assumption that
every time the rabbis talk about how
great the Torah is, or how great Israel is,
we should read it as a kind of anti-Paul
polemic, that means that we have to
find more sensitive tools, he said.
There are two main streams in scholarship. One sees Paul as the receiver of
Jewish traditions, and that those traditions also are preserved in rabbinic
literature. That means that Paul takes
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ancient Jewish traditions and adds his Christological flavor to them, so when we find similar stories
in Paul and the rabbis we should assume that they
are preserving the right tradition.
The other stream says no. The rabbis are later
than Paul, and Paul is a very influential figure in the
second century. Its not that they would have read
him but his ideas would have penetrated in the
culture. They would have known his ideas.
For example, he said, the rabbis say that Abraham inherited the land of Israel not because of his
faith or his beliefs, but because he preserved the
commandments. This seems to be the exact opposite of what Paul says that Abraham inherited
the land not only because he was a believer, not
because he kept the commandments. Thats in
keeping with Christian theology, which says that
the mitzvot ceased to be necessary once their messiah lived and died.
The rabbis, in other words, offered a direct
refutation of Paul, these scholars believe. They
emphasize the rabbinical statements as polemical.
Dr. Rosen-Zvi believes that the truth about
whether Paul and the rabbis inherited the same traditions separately or that the rabbis were responding to Paul is that they are both right part of the
time. Sometimes its one, sometimes its the other.
It depends.
My modest contribution is to help identify when
we should talk about ancient traditions shared
by Paul and the rabbis, and when we should talk
about the rabbis being aware of Pauline ideas and
reacting to them, he said.
My criterion is a simple question mark.
Sometimes, traditions that seem to have been
unquestioned all of a sudden come with an explanation. Why? The simple fact that the rabbis add
that question mark, making it a question to ask, a
problem to solve, I suggest is the Pauline effect.
An example the term Abrahams seed, zera
Avraham in Hebrew is a biblical term, and it
is used by many biblical and post-biblical writers
before Paul, Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. But the rabbis
suddenly, out of the blue, made it into a huge issue.
The Mishna says that only Israelites are the sons of
Abraham.
This term was used for hundreds of years, and
nobody thought that it had to be clarified. Suddenly
the rabbis go out of their way. Since we have Paul
say explicitly, in many places, that Christ-believers
among the nations become the seeds of Abraham,
it seems very hard to detach these things.
So sometimes the rabbis and Paul are drawing from the same story-well, and sometimes the
rabbis react to Paul. These perspectives are not
mutually exclusive, Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. The trick,
however, is to figure out what is going on with any
one issue. These traditions can get new perspectives when the rabbis relate to their new use from
their perspective, their misuse as seen through
the Pauline lens.
That means that both sides are right in the
academic dispute. They are old traditions, but
old traditions do not stay the same, Dr. Rosen-Zvi
said. They get new twists, and new uses. And that
way, they stay alive.
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Local actors put on nine 10-minute plays at the Kaplen JCC in Tenafly
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an a play be too short?

Not according to many theater goers. A good writer can
say a lot in 10 minutes, and for
its second production, the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades community theater group
Palisades Players is presenting a collection
of comedic and dramatic shorts to prove
the point. Drawn mostly from Voices
from Ariel: Ten Minute Plays Reflecting
the Jewish Experience, the show will premiere in the JCC Eric Brown Theater on
Saturday, April 2, at 8:45 pm, and it will
play again on Sunday, April 3, at 6 pm.
Originally commissioned by Theater
Ariel, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization that specializes in Jewish works,
the one-act plays deal with relationships,
conversion, memory, and identity, using
humor to explore these issues. The experienced playwrights, including Michael
Elkin and Julianne Bernstein, have had
their work produced on regional stages
and in New York. Deborah Roberts, performing arts director at the JCC, wrote an
additional play called Boxed In, specifically for the teens and children who take
acting classes at the JCC. She wanted something that her young actors could participate in, she said, and the cast for the play
about youngsters who encounter a refugee
boy running from the police range from
teenagers to younger children.
At an early rehearsal of A Festival of 10
Minute Plays, as the show is called, director Deborah Dine led actors Julian Millstein of Teaneck and Sarah Feinmark of
Haworth through Interview with a Scapegoat, a funny riff on the cultural collision
of the biblical animal and the modern
media. Ms. Dine, who lives in Glen Ridge,
From left, AJ Horowitz, Ariel Abergel, Kimmy Norrell, Shayne Barrett, Adiel Coren, and Tomer Ophir in Deborah Roberts
Boxed In.
teaches teen comedy and drama as well as

advanced scene study at the Tenafly JCC
to people she described as semi and fully
professional. Ms. Feinmark has many
credits in local productions, and Mr. Millstein studied at the Academy of Dramatic
Arts before he pursued a business career.
Her adult actors can commit pages of
dialogue to memory just as easily as the
younger ones can, Ms. Dine said. They
astound me. Her students have a mix of
experience; some are former professionals while others now are working actors.
People are auditioning out here [in New
Jersey] and its just as competitive as New
York, she said. Its really interesting to
me to discover that and its exciting.
Mr. Millstein played a critical role in
launching the company, working with Ms.
Rebecca Lopkin and Dan Nemzer in the Palisades Players premiere of Broadway,
a Jewish Experience last year. Both actors are in the company this year too.
Roberts to produce their first successful

production, Broadway: A Jewish Experience. I am very happy with what we
have going, Mr. Millstein said, adding that
Voices from Ariel will tell them whether
straight plays are as appealing to their
audience as musicals. Thanks to an anonymous benefactors matching grant, the
Palisades Players are secure for the time
being, according to Mr. Millstein.
I think theyre doing a wonderful
thing, Ms. Dine said of Palisades Players,
noting that this was her first experience
with community theater. They are using
the professional actors as well as training
new actors. Theres a lot to be learned
from people who are just beginning. They
dont have any bad habits.
Ms. Dine has been acting and teaching for 40 years, so when she passes on
advice to her actors, she explained, its
really Sandy Meisner giving you that nugget. (Sanford Meisner was a famous acting
teacher.) New actors benefit from a long
tradition of acting coaches and teachers
as they learn their craft from more experienced performers. Its exciting to see I
remember what its like to really want to
be an actor and not know how to start,
Ms. Dine said.
The show includes the following plays:
Til Death Do Us Plots, by Julianne
Bernstein, zeroes in on the arguments
of a newly divorced couple over their
double coffin; Boxed In, by Deborah
Roberts, is about a group of young people deciding what to do about a runaway
refugee; Interview with a Scapegoat, by
Louis Greenstein, imagines the ancient
biblical scapegoats encounter with
an ambitious reporter; Single Jewish
Female, by Julianne Bernstein, tackles
From left, Ariel Abergel and Tomer

Ophir in Deborah Roberts Boxed In.
the weird world of online dating ; The

Ger (The Convert), by Leslie B. Gold
and Louis Greenstein, explores the emotional issues confronted by a new convert
and her mother; Class Act, by Michael
Elkin, is a comic monologue by an older
woman who is addicted to self-improvement classes; In Spite of Everything, by
Hindi Brooks, spends time in a Tel Aviv
apartment with a mother and daughter
during an Iraqi Scud attack; Smoke, by
Louis Greenstein, examines the nature of
memory and how certain objects, such
as cigars, help preserve it; Wheres Your
Stuff? by Daniel Brenner, follows a soonto-be father who has grown distant from
Judaism as he encounters the ghost of his
talkative and hungry former cantor.
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Lavish Lunches which raises money
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for senior adults in the community.
This years program began with breakfast at the home of Stephanie and Daniel
Cohn, where Chef Seamus Mullen spoke
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YUHS dinner set for April 6

Yeshiva University High Schools
holds its annual dinner on Wednesday, April 6, at 6 p.m., at Marina
del Rey in the Bronx.
Abby Lerner of Great Neck, N.Y.,
and Rabbi Mark and Jill Wildes of
Manhattan are the guests of honor.
Rafael and Shifra Yehoshua of
Great Neck are the schools Parents
of the Year and Megan HLZacks of
Manhattan will be given the Faculty Recognition award.
Ms. Lerner is the admissions
director at Yeshiva Universitys
Samuel H. Wang High School for
Girls (Central) and has taught there
for 28 years. The Wildes, founders
of the Manhattan Jewish Experience, work together to connect
unaffiliated Jews in their 20s and
30s with Judaism and the Jewish

community. Rabbi Wildes is the
brother of the former mayor of
Englewood, Michael Wildes. The
Yehoshuas are dedicated to Central and to their local community.
Ms. HLZacks chairs MTAs science
department.
In addition, due to a gift, the
YUHS board of trustees announced
a $1 Million Challenge: every donation towards this years dinner will
be matched dollar for dollar with
the goal of raising $1 million to help
strengthen the future of YU High
Schools.
For information, go to www.
yu.edu/hsdinner, call Elissa
Schertz at (212) 960-5223, or email
her at elissa.schertz@yu.edu.
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was the only prisoner of war from that conflict to reach the four-star rank. Mr. McCain, a
former presidential candidate, is the chair of

the Senate Armed Services Committee.
In Teaneck, Drs. Mort and Esther Fridman
hosted Congressman Kevin McCarthy, who
was elected House Majority Leader in 2014.
Among the first bills Mr. McCarthy shepherded through the House in his new position
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Yeshiva Universitys milestone 25th
annual Red Sarachek Invitational Basketball Tournament finished with the
Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School
of Woodmere, N.Y.s team, the Wildcats,

beating the Shalhevet High School of Los
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On Shabbat, April 2, at 3:45 p.m., Congregations Rinat Yisrael and Beth Sholom in Teaneck will hold a pre-Pesach
joint learning program at Beth Sholom,
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The partnership program, which
attracted 200 participants last year,
offers participants small groups where
they can study Jewish texts. This year,
the theme will be Lefichach Anachnu
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Study of Gratitude in the Jewish Tradition. Texts will include the Haggadah,
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will be available in the original language
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Call (201) 833-2620 or email office@
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The 20 yeshiva high schools represented in the tournament included

teams from the Frisch School in Paramus and the Torah Academy of Bergen
County in Teaneck. The annual tournament is named for the legendary Bernard Red Sarachek, YUs former longtime mens basketball coach.
Speaker on caregiving in Wyckoff

Randi Kaplan, director of the
to Montefiore, Ms. Kaplan
Caregiver Support Center at
worked at the Jewish Board
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of Family and Childrens
will discuss Caregiving: a
Services.
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Responsibility and a PriviSupport Center, established
lege, to benefit the Jewish
in 2012 and supervised by
Family Service of North JerMelanie Lester, provides
seys Sam and Nina Wolff
needed services, resources,
Caregiver Support Center.
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The talk, set for Thursthose caring for loved ones
day, April 7, at 7 p.m., will
Randi Kaplan
with Alzheimers disease or
be at Temple Beth Rishon
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erosity of the Wolff family,
answer session and dessert
100 percent of the proceeds from the evereception will follow.
Ms. Kaplan established the first and
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munity in coping with lifes challenges. For
in 2011, Montefiore has served more than
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Jeffrey Schwartz
demonstrates technique.
Playing lacrosse in Israel

Mens national teams coach is from New City
Abigail Klein Leichman
he head coach of the Israel Mens National

Lacrosse Team is from New City.
Jeffrey Schwartz will lead the 23-man team to
the European Lacrosse Federations Championships in Budapest, Hungary, from July 27 to August 7.
Lacrosse is not a well-known team sport in Israel,
where soccer and basketball reign supreme. But interest
is picking up because of the efforts of the New York-based
Israel Lacrosse Association, the Amazing Israel Lacrosse
Birthright program, and Masa Israel Journeys new Israel
Lacrosse Internship.
Mr. Schwartz, 28, recently on a five-month Masa internship, along with five other participants. He began playing
lacrosse in high school and went on to captain Lynchburg Colleges mens lacrosse team during his junior and
senior years.
I graduated in 2012 and stayed at Lynchburg for a year
as a graduate assistant, then moved to the DC area to work
in IT staffing, and then had the epiphany that I wanted to
get back into the sport of lacrosse, he said.
A good friend from high school had played on the
Israel National Team in 2014 and he put me in touch with
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Schwartz savors a victory.
a bunch of guys, and through them I learned of the Masa

Israel internship. I had been on Birthright in February
2014, and though I hadnt thought about living in Israel I
did want to come back.
The Israel Lacrosse interns, of whom Mr. Schwartz is
the oldest, live together in Ashkelon, one of several cities
where the Israel Lacrosse Association has been developing
under-19 and under-15 teams. In addition to helping with

local and national recruiting and coaching, they participate in cultural experiences, Hebrew classes and touring
offered by Masa during the five months.
The language classes are critical. Its been a huge challenge, and I knew it would be, Mr. Schwartz said. The
language barrier has gotten easier as the months have
gone by; I learned to coach in Hebrew before I learned to
converse in Hebrew. Masa provides 64 hours of Hebrew
lessons, but most of the learning comes from when you
are forced to try to communicate with the kids.
Working alongside Israel Lacrosse employees, the
interns start by visiting schools and guest-hosting a couple of phys-ed periods to introduce the sport and let the
kids try playing it. There are separate school-based and
national teams for men and women.
Hopefully they take a liking to it and turn into kids who
love lacrosse and want to register and play in our league,
Mr. Schwartz said. In each city there may be four school
teams that can play against each other. Weve had some
pretty good success and I think well continue to get better
at the recruiting process.
His work with youth development and his success as
associate head coach of the Haifa Lacrosse Club which
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Explaining his love of the sport, Mr.
Schwartz describes lacrosse as a pure
game in which players are challenged
not only physically. Its a momentumbased sport, he said. You start your
day with a full tank and then, whether
playing or coaching, your tank is emptied. Ive never experienced anything
else that empties my tank that way.
In addition, he adds, lacrosse is big
enough so that its popular in the U.S.
but its still a tight-knit community, and
I like that. The opportunities youre
afforded in lacrosse you might not have
in baseball or basketball, including the
opportunity to go abroad to teach it.
Because no Israeli sports store carries
lacrosse equipment, American donors
send over gear that is used but in excellent condition. Participants in the high
school clinics use those donated sticks,
helmets, gloves, shoulder pads, and
lacrosse balls for free. Those who register for league and youth programs can
buy their own set. We sell the equipment to the kids at a very low price so
it becomes a very affordable sport, Mr.

Schwartz said. If they want upgrades,
they can trade in and spend a bit more.
After the summer championship in
Budapest, Mr. Schwartz plans to continue growing and developing the Israel
national team.
The experience has been fun, he said,
though it has not been easy to acclimate
to a different country and culture. Its
an adjustment, but were attracted to the
opportunity to challenge ourselves from
a lacrosse perspective and a life perspective, he said. Thats been the hard part
and the cool part all at the same time.
Mr. Schwartzs mother, Lois, now
lives in Nyack while his father, Steven,
recently moved to Dallas from Montvale, N.J. Aside from congregational
Hebrew school, Mr. Schwartzs only previous communal Jewish experience was
a few summers at Camp Kinder Ring,
a program of the Workmens Circle/
Arbeter Ring, an activist-based national
organization promoting secular Jewish
heritage, Yiddishkeit, and social and
economic justice.
Jewish athletes from 18 to 30 who
are interested in participating in Israel
Lacrosses Masa Israel Journey program for next September should email
Amanda Tuck at amanda@lacrosse.co.il.
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Bris Avrohom
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Exhibit features
Holocaust survivors
and descendants
Bris Avrohom hosted Rabbi Boruch Lesches

of Khal Tzemach Tzedek, Chabad of Greater
Monsey. He spoke about shalom bayit (peace
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A community-wide Yom HaShoah commemoration

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Debrah Dwork, an internationally recognized Holocaust historian, will be the keynote speaker. For more
information, call (845) 574-4099 or go to www.holocaust
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The Fountainview at College Road in Monsey offers

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package or can of kosher-for-Passover food to donate to
the needy. For information, go to ncjwrockland.org.
Members of Montebello Jewish Center opened their

synagogue this month to feed and shelter homeless
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Editorial
Remembering
Dr. Zvi Szubin
abbi Dr. Zvi Henri Szubin, of

Englewood, who died on Sunday, was an extraordinary man.
Dr. Szubin was professor
emeritus of classical languages and comparative legal studies at CCNY of the City
University of New York.
Thats a mouthful, and although it is
accurate it is just part of who and what
he was.
Dr. Szubin, a courtly, charming,
socially adept man who was gifted both
at talking and at listening, was born in
Poland in 1933. That was not a good time
or place for a Jewish boy. His childhood
and adolescence were spent on the run;
he spent some time in Palestine and
eventually made it over to this country.
As a scholar, Dr. Szubin was academically rigorous. As an Orthodox Jew, he
was somewhat un-Orthodox; he spent
many summer working at the Conservative movements Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, and he taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
He was a friend of the Jewish Standard.
Years ago unfortunately, before we
started posting the paper online I
wrote a profile of Dr. Szubin, who then
lived in Teaneck. I was awed by his
accomplishments, including the aplomb
with which he discussed his surely traumatic childhood, his passionate attention to every nuance of the ancient
texts he studied, and his own lack of
awe toward himself. He talked about his
decision to keep a relatively low profile,
which awarded him greater freedom to
research, think, and act as he chose.
I was also moved by his kindness, his
warmth, and his extraordinary intellect.
Dr. Szubin adored his family. Last year,
I wrote a story about his son, Adam Szubin, a Harvard-trained lawyer who is
now the acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes at the U. S.
Treasury Department. (President Obama
has nominated Mr. Szubin to that position, so he could drop the acting from
his job title; although he continues to
carry out all the jobs responsibilities,
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even worse than ever during this election season, has kept his nomination
from a vote.)
As he talked to me about his son, Dr.
Szubin had two main worries about the
story. Although I wanted to include him
in it, he worried that he would deflect
some attention from his son. (He didnt.)
He also worried that because the story
was about his son, his daughter, Lisa,
who lives in Englewood, would be
ignored, her accomplishments remaining unmentioned. (They didnt. Lisa and
her husband both are doctors, as our
readers learned in that story.)
The story also included Dr. Szubins
wife, Laurie Goldstein Szubin, who
went to law school when her son, the
younger of her two children, was in
high school; she became an administrative court judge before she decided to
manage her daughter and son-in-laws
medical practice.
Weve gotten to hear a bit more about
Dr. Szubin over the years because his
nephew, Jerry Szubin, whose father
was Dr. Szubins older brother, is our
art director. (Our immensely talented
art director, I feel compelled by basic
justice to add.) We would have admired
Dr. Szubin as much as we do now had
that not been the case, and we still
would have noticed his warmth as
well as his wisdom. But knowing that
the two Szubins, Dr. Zvi and our Jerry,
each so gifted in a radically different
field, leading entirely different lives,
sharing the same unusual name (to
pronounce it, just remember that the
S is silent) were so closely and clearly
related taught us all a great deal about
family bonds.
Dr. Szubins survivors include his
wife, their son and daughter, their
daughter-in-law, Miriam Weiner, their
son-in-law, Jay Katzman, and their six
grandchildren, Leora, Jonathan, William, Nathan, Micah, and Josiah.
We at the Standard will miss him very
-JP
much.
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Janice Rosen
Eyes, ears, Jewish law,

and Election 2016
ith the appearance of

the bailout.
most of the presidential
Sanders, meanwhile, is trying to
hopefuls at the AIPAC
make inroads with black voters. He
conference this week, it
keeps saying that 51 percent of Afriis time to explore the halachic quag- can American kids today are unemmire known as election season.
ployed, whereas the latest figures put
Jewish law has very strict guidelines
it at 25.2 percent. That still is too high,
when it comes to bad speech, lashon
but it is still less than half what Sanders claims.
hara. Political candidates, on the other
If you listen to Donald Trump (and,
hand, appear to have no guidelines at
all. They tell half-truths and no-truths, halachically, you probably should not
do so; see further on), were going
they disparage their opponents and
to lose $505 billion in terms of trades
others directly or by innuendo, and
with China alone. In Trump fact, he
too often they engage in misdirection
adds, we lose money
and misinformation the two
with every trading
go hand in hand.
partner. In real fact,
The candidates also violate a law found in Leviticus
the entire U.S. net
19:14, which prohibits placing
trade deficit comes
a stumbling block before the
to around $530 million, of which China
blind. Halachah treats this as
accounts for a hefty
a law against both misdirection and misinformation.
$366 billion. And in at
A recent commercial for
least six casesBrazil,
Gov. John Kasich, for example, Rabbi
Netherlands, Belgium,
promised, Hell do for Michi- Shammai
Argentina, Singapore,
Engelmayer
gan what hes done for Ohio
and Aust raliathe
create jobs. Pity Michigan
United States had positive trade balances in
if that happens. Yes, Ohio has
2014, the last full year
seen a 7.6 percent rise in all
for which statistics are available.
jobs since Kasich became governor (it
Then there is Sen. Ted Cruz. The
is 9.3 percent for the private sector
Texan to whom some Jewish organizaalone). Michigan, however, added 10
tions are flocking keeps talking about
percent more jobs in that period (13
percent in the private sector alone). Judeo-Christian ethics when what he
really means is that the United States
Ohios job growth rate is also below
was founded as a Christian country
the national average 9.5 percent
and must be run as a Christian country.
overall and 11.7 percent in the private
Thats Christian, not Judeo-Christian.
sector.
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Hillary Clinton attacked Bernie
at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg,
Sanders for voting against the auto
Pa., which tells you something about
industry bailout. This was not a lie, but
him knowing whereof he speaks. He is
it also was not the truth. Sanders voted
the author of Was America Founded
against a bill that was unclear as to
as a Christian Nation? A Historical
how much would actually be spent on
Introduction.
the auto industry, but he did support
Warns Fea, When Cruz says he
Shammai Engelmayer is the rabbi of
wants to reclaim or restore America, [he] wants to restore the
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Ancient Shushan: A modern model for

successful communal relations
original identity: a Christian nation.
Consider some of what Cruz himself says.
In a book written by his father, Cruz is quoted as
saying, If our nations leaders are elected by unbelievers, is it any wonder that they do not reflect our
values?
All of us who go to the polls elect our leaders. If
the leaders we elect do not reflect Cruzs Christian
values, and we voted for them, we are the unbelievers. The inference is that in a Christian country,
only believing Christians should have the right to
vote. Whether Cruz understands the import of his
statement is an unanswered question at this point
Cruz also has said, on the campaign stump: If
the body of Christ arises, if Christians simply show
up and vote biblical values, we can restore our
nation.
This is lashon hara because it disparages the
morality and ethics of anyone who is not a Christian, and also the morality and ethics of those
Christians who do not adhere to Cruzs radically
fundamentalist version of Christianity.
Lashon hara is a broad category. It includes telling deliberate lies, but it also includes telling truths
without a need to know on the part of a listener
(need to know is a narrowly constructed exception to lashon hara). It also includes a special subcategory known as motzei shem ra, in essence a
disparaging of someone else. The current presidential campaign, which can only be categorized
as disgusting, has become a paradigm for all categories of lashon hara.
There is an aspect of the laws of bad speech, however, that makes this the halachic quagmire it is:
Lashon hara also includes a prohibition against listening to, or even reading, the bad speech emanating from the candidates. It also includes a prohibition against passing on these statements. In other
words, if we watch a debate, or listen to a speech,
or read about either in a newspaper, we, too, are
violating lashon hara. Worse, there is little we can
do to avoid breaking the law, because the media
are having a field day covering this election.
That brings us to another conundrum, deciding
whom to vote for from among the bad speech candidate crowd, who sadly are the only choices we
have.
Consider this excerpt from the Takkanot of the
Council of Cracow, which ruled Jewish life there in
the Middle Ages. It sums up the guidelines for voters very well. It also leaves no doubt about who is
at fault when our leaders fail us:
...that no one of them [meaning us, the voters]
has made any deal or deals with any other individuals or groups regarding the election. Also, each
[voter] must promise to act for the sake of heaven
and the common good, as he [or she] is instructed
from on high, and not out of favoritism or selfinterest or personal grudge....
These electors [meaning us] should not act
hurriedly, but should think carefully..., for once
they have signed their opinions..., nothing can be
changed.
ho doesnt love Queen Esther?

Gorgeous, powerful, strategic, and if
not quite fearless, at least able to turn her
fear to fury, delivering one of the most
dramatic upheavals in all of Tanach. What better role
model for any modern Jewish woman seeking to make a
mark in the world?
The Purim story, always one of my favorites, seems
especially relevant to my new role as the director of the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys Jewish Community Relations Council. Our JCRCs mission is to promote strong government relations, fight anti-Semitism and
BDS, and advocate for Israel. Lessons from the Megillah
make the perfect primer for developing community relations that forward these goals.
Lesson #1: Build relationships. Mordechai sits in the
gates of the city day after day, meeting and building
trust with the ordinary citizens of Shushan as well as
with high officials. Because of his constant
day-in day-out presence, he overhears the
plot against the king, stands up to Haman,
and gains the notice of the entire population when he protests the deadly decree.
The lesson here is that regular, consistent
interaction builds relationships that will be
critical in times of need.
This work is the core of our JCRC activity.
Many programs support ongoing interaction
Laura
with a wide range of perspectives within the
Fein
Jewish community and with other faith and
ethnic groups, to build mutual understanding
and bonds of trust. Moreover, regular meetings with local, state, and federal elected officials ensure
that the relationships are strong when we need their support. When our community advocates for funding for the
many social service programs the federation provides to
our needy seniors, survivors, and the disabled, promotes
funding for nonprofit security grants and day school students, and advocates for anti-BDS legislation and support
for Israel, these relationships make all the difference.
Lesson #2: Unify for strength. In the Megillah, Esther
must risk her life to approach the king in order to save her
people. Before she takes that risk, she unifies the people
by asking all to join her in fasting and prayer. From this we
can learn that our collective power must be harnessed to
reach the desired results.
In a Jewish community as diverse as ours, unity can be
elusive. Yet in dozens of meetings I have had this month,
the desire for collective action is felt profoundly. Moreover,
there are a few specific concerns that cross all boundaries
of politics and religious streams. One is the campus, and
the need for a unified community effort to educate our
teens about Israel before they face the tremendous hostility too many Jewish students must confront. Another is
the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which
extends beyond campus to certain Protestant streams and
into our own communities. A disturbing third pervasive
concern is the need for a collective response to the rise
in anti-Semitism. In its latest audit, the ADL reported a 27
percent increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents
in New Jersey, with increased numbers of assaults, vandalism, and harassment. The same report lists New Jersey as
third in the nation for number of incidents, behind only
We also must never be

afraid to stand up to
those who encourage
toleration of these
lies in the name of
free speech.
New York and California. We must work as one to combat
these disturbing trends.
Lesson #3: Have courage. As we see clearly in the Megillah, speaking out requires strength of character, and often
the encouragement of those around us. Esther initially
hesitates, afraid to go to the king lest she
fail to find his favor and receive the death
sentence such a failure would entail. Mordechais unforgettable counsel that she can
use her position and power to help her people, or let them be saved by another while
she fades to oblivion inspires Esther and
every Jewish leader since.
Today, we must strengthen our resolve
to advocate for a strong, secure Israel.
Decades of media portrayals paint Israel
as the aggressor, and each day we are
bombarded with ever more strident accusations of Israel abusing human rights,
embracing apartheid, and worse (including revivals of
ancient blood libels in new forms, e.g. the Wall Street
Journal report that a Rutgers professor lectured that
Israel mined [dead Palestinians] for organs for scientific research). Often these hateful lies are spread even
within our own communities. It takes true courage to
speak up to our family, friends, and neighbors, who may
take the false portrayals as truth.
We also must never be afraid to stand up to those who
encourage toleration of these lies in the name of free
speech. While the Constitution prevents the government
from silencing political speech, it creates no obligation
that the rest of us give a platform to offensive propaganda.
Just as civil discourse has come to exclude racism and sexism, so too must it become unacceptable to call for the
demise of the Jewish state. We must be fearlessly insistent
that university administrators, public officials, clergy, and
other leaders not only encourage tolerance, but loudly
condemn hateful speech against Israel.
As we read the news every day, we are reminded of
the many challenging issues we face as Americans and
as Jews. But every challenge also is an opportunity, and
by following the lessons of the Megillah, our JCRC surely
will continue to be a strong and united advocate for our
vibrant and diverse Jewish community.
Now lets all eat some leftover hamentaschen and brace
ourselves for the work that lies ahead!
Lori Fein is the director of the Jewish Community Relations
Council of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
She welcomes your comments at lorif@jfnnj.org.
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Living inside a bad man

Local author ponders implications of understanding all her characters
he elevator pitch for my story In

and he doesnt see himself as a bad man. But
the Land of Armadillos was this:
since it was me telling the story, me who was
a bad man who feels nothing meetbuilding his system of logic, it also was me creating a good man who feels too much.
ing excuses for him. A weird place to go, when
Taking place in World War II, the plot follows a
youre the child of Holocaust survivors.
brutal SS man who, to his own astonishment,
To some extent, you have to love every one
finds himself protecting a Jew. Max, my Nazi,
of your characters to make them come to life.
was inspired by Felix Landau, a vicious SS man
Living inside Maxs head, I saw events from his
who first worked in the Einsatzgruppen, Gerpoint of view, making his worst actions expliHelen
manys mobile killing squads, and later was the
cable. Several times a day I had to get away from
Maryles
Reich Chief of Labor in Drohobych, Poland.
him, had to physically lift myself up from the
Shankman
Max sees himself as reasonable, even symdesk and walk away, wash the dishes, pet the
pathetic. While hes working, hes an unfeeling
dog, listen to music or the news, in order to put
killer; but he adores his wife, loves his son, and
distance between us, to remember that however Max saw himself, he was still a killer with
feels very protective of Toby Rey, a Jewish artist
an untroubled conscience.
painting murals in his villa.
From the beginning, I felt queasy
Every morning, after putting my kids on the school bus, I
humanizing him. In his diary, he
had to get into this mans body and walk around in him. He
describes watching a group of Jewwrote gooey love letters to his wife. He mailed home stamps
ish women digging their own graves,
for his sons collection. He grumbled about his bosses
wondering in a worried way why he
demands, like any other midlevel manager.
doesnt feel anything. He shoots the
The research was emotionally exhausting. I read testimony
patients at a hospital and eliminates
from former Einsatzgruppen shooters, men from a Hamburg
an orphanage, but frets that Toby
police squad, where they described their first day on the job,
isnt eating. He massacres the ghettos
how they learned to break through their moral objections,
Judenrat because they havent carand the lies they told themselves to justify their crimes. I
ried out one of his demands, but gleeintroduced Maxs brutality as casually as I would introduce
fully fixes Toby up with a pretty girl,
the tasks in any other jobin one instance, Max resolves a
hoping it will cheer the artist up. By
labor dispute by whipping and shooting the workers, and in
the time the reader meets him, Max
another, he shows his displeasure with the Jewish Council by
has participated in the worst crimes
executing themto show that atrocities were just as much
that World War II had to offer. Max is
a part of his average working day as filling out paperwork.
irredeemable.
I gave him thoroughly ordinary thoughts, an ordinary routine, ordinary emotions. The story is seen through his eyes,
There were many men like Max,
capable of dashing off letters to their mothers or girlfriends or children or wives a few minutes before marching off into the forest to execute civilians. What did they
think about, as they stood in front of toddlers, with their
fingers on the trigger? Did they know what they were
doing was wrong? That they had left the boundaries of
civilization far, far behind? Are they deserving of redemption? Of forgiveness? Of understanding? And why do I feel
the need to humanize them?
The Nazis are gone. Todays extremists blow themselves up in cafes and airports, open fire in concert halls
or movie theaters, ram their cars into crowds at bus stops,
stab mothers in their own kitchens or old men at prayer.
Its too easy to excuse people who commit these atrocities by calling them monsters. Once we label someone
a monster, we let him off the hook for
the evil he commits. After all, monsters have no control over themselves.
We dont expect them to act responsibly. But if theyre human if they
have wives, children, jobs, hobbies,
indigestion, ordinary workplace gripes
then they are just like us.
And if they are just like us, they are
accountable.
Helen Maryles Shankman of Teaneck is
an artist and writer. Her work appears
in many fine journals, including
The Kenyon Review, Gargoyle,
Jewishfiction.net, and Cream City
Review. Her second novel, In The Land
of Armadillos, was just published by
Scribner.
The rhetoric before the storm
hen Hitler was appointed

Hitler set his aims higher than simply exterpresident of Germany in
minating the Jewish race, at least then. His
1934 he never was elected
goal was world dominance. Hence the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, which
his platform was to channel German anger and point Germans problaunched Europe into a continental war.
lems in a particular direction. When Hitler
One year after the war began, Hitler built
wrote Mein Kampf his distaste for the Jews
a wall in Poland. It went around a small portion of Warsaw. He made all the citys Jews
was evident, although his goal mass murder
live there, in the ghetto. Warsaw once was a
was not.
Rabbi
vibrant city, home to about 3 million Jews
I have learned from many people who lived
David-Seth
roughly 25 percent of the citys population.
in Germany between 1935 and 1938 that there
Kirshner
Now all those Jews were forced into an area
were basically two schools of thought. The
less than two square miles. Hitler replicated
first was the idea that the situation cannot get
this in many cities across Europe where many
any worse, so lets stick it out. The other was
Jews lived. The purpose of the ghetto and its
that it cannot get any better, so lets leave now.
wall was to separate the Jews from German society.
Many German Jews felt a kind of tribal memory, thinking back to the pogroms and expulsions their ancestors had
The final solution was conceived in Wannsee in 1942.
faced, which had become as much a part of their Jewish
Then Hitler implemented his plan which some say he
DNA as gefilte fish. Other Germans Jews had no inkling that
had in mind from the onset to murder all the European
their fate could be so horrible until Kristallnacht, which
Jews he could. He also murdered the few blacks in Europe,
occurred on November 9-11, 1938.
Gypsies, homosexuals, and political prisoners. He killed 11
During those three days, 91 Jewish souls were murdered
million people in total; six million of them were Jews. Lucy
and thousands were put into work camps. During the years
Dawidowicz points out in her book, The War Against the
leading up to Kristallnacht, Jews could not hold good jobs,
Jews, that in 1944, Hitler sent more trains to round up the
were educated separately from Gentiles, were denied basic
Jews of Budapest and Prague than he sent to rearm the
rights, and were not treated as German citizens.
troops fighting on the front lines. This proved that he was a
genocidal monster, more focused on the annihilation of the

Jewish people than on winning the war.
Where I quibble with people who say that Donald Trump
is not like Hitler is on the question of exactly what would
trigger our internal alarms. Can someone not be categorized
as a Hitler until hes already killed six million Jews?
Hitler did not lay out his elaborate plans to exterminate
non-Aryans before 1942. However, he did refuse to shake a
black athletes hand, he did separate Jews and blamed them
for the problems in Germany and around the world, and he
blamed Germanys porous borders for allowing too many
Jews in. In fact, it was that very issue Jews entering Germany that was the catalyst for Kristallnacht.
Hitler might have been the worst person the human race
has ever known. At the very least, he is one of the worlds
very worst.
If any of us could turn back time, we would have stopped
Hitler before it was too late. We wish we could have read the
tea leaves and known our collective fate. Today, we ask ourselves how we could have been blind to the danger. How did
so many people march to their deaths? Were they weak? Did
they not love life? Of course not. They just never thought
nor imagined that the unthinkable or the unimaginable
would happen to them.
History demands us to remember and learn.
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A cop is a cop
Many of us were delighted to read about our local law enforcement leaders visiting Israel recently to exchange ideas and
experiences with their counterparts in the Jewish homeland
(A cop is a cop is a cop, March 11). We are very proud of the
team that protects us from those wishing us harm, as was the
case several years ago when two Paramus Jewish institutions
were threatened.
To be sure, our officials benefitted from the unique training
and experience of the police in Jerusalem. However, it is just
as certain that Israel has been enriched by the expertise of
some of the top law enforcement professionals in the United
States.
So kol hakavod to Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenburg
and Detective John Devine. Neither of them will know what
that means, so tribesmen, please pass along the message if
Martin H. Basner, Paramus
you see them!
Learning from history
As usual, in his effort to promote or defend his friends, Shmuley Boteach gets hopelessly confused (Comparing Trump to
Hitler trivializes the Holocaust, March 18). In his argument
against comparing Donald Trump to Adolph Hitler, first he
explains his motive by revealing his connection to the accused
(Being friendly with Trumps son-in-law, Jared Kushner).
Then he makes a completely bizarre argument, saying that the
comparison trivializes the Holocaust. If anything, the opposite
is true.
Trivializing the Holocaust is when your favorite team gets
blown out and you call it a holocaust. Or when your boss
forces you to work late, and you call him Hitler. Thats not
whats going on here, not in the slightest. Instead, those making the comparison are wondering whether, in light of many
disturbing aspects of Trumps campaign, we might be seeing the beginnings of what, in Nazi Germany, became the
Holocaust. And I can think of no greater way of honoring the
memory of the six million who Hitler killed than by learning
the lesson of their murders and making sure history does not
repeat itself. Isnt that what Elie Wiesels entire career has
been about?
Of course Trump hasnt killed anyone, and no one is accusing him of it. The point is to learn from history and detect
the signs of trouble that Germany missed, and not wait until
people have been killed. So are Trumps statements, the volume, the aggressive tone, the violence at his rallies, the angry
populism, a worrisome reminder of the 1930s? Yes. Does it
mean that a Trump presidency will lead to genocide? No one
knows the future. But we do know the past, and when the
present evokes a dark and frightening past, we would do well
to stop and consider it.
Thats why we learn history. Not to put the six million on a
pedestal and to suggest that their experience is so unique as to
be irrelevant. No. Rather, when we say never again, we vow
to remain alert to signs that aspects of Nazism still threaten the
world, and we commit ourselves to doing what we can to keep
it from attaining the power to do evil.
We all pray that the comparisons are false, that the disturbing aspects of Trumps campaign are not leading indicators.
But we cannot afford to be dismissive. That truly would trivialize the Holocaust.
Murray Sragow, Teaneck
Elderly survivors remember
I read Rabbi Boteachs column with some concern (Comparing Trump to Hitler trivializes the Holocaust, March 18). Then
I reread it. I understand Rabbi Boteachs concern about comparing Trump with Hitler and trivialization of the Holocaust.
I believe Rabbi Boteach misses the point entirely. What
the comparison was meant to highlight was Trumps tactics
in addressing his followers and stirring them up. These are
clearly the tactics of all demagogues, Hitler being the most
glaring example. No one thinks for a second that Donald
Trump wishes to kill Jews, Muslims, or anyone else, for that
matter. However, his tactics in pushing the fear buttons and

emphasizing his toughness are classically what the Nazis did
to achieve power. How many other candidates talk about
wanting to punch him in the face, or roughing up a protester
so they would carry him out on a stretcher?
Arent these the tactics the Nazis used to stir up violence
against the Jews? Not to mention the lies and the outrageous
ideas about what he would do to immigrants and anyone who
doesnt agree with him.
As the son of an Auschwitz survivor, I am particularly troubled by Trumps attitudes and statements.
As a local physician, I have several Holocaust survivors as
patients. I listen carefully to their stories, as they are now in
their last days. One of my patients is in her 90s, and has a
particularly sharp mind and memory. She remembers when
the Nazis in Vienna made her teachers, who were Jewish, get
down on their hands and knees to scrub the streets. It was she
who made the comparison between Trump and his supporters, and the Nazis.
She had seen it first hand and remembered it vividly.
Regardless of your political persuasion, left, right, or whatever, we should be mindful of those who use the fear of the
other and hate speech to achieve their goal. Hitler did it, and
so did every other dictator.
I hope we Jews particularly remember that lesson.
Harry Katz, M.D., Wyckoff
A quote out of context
I am certainly not learned enough to debate Biblical verses

with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, nor do I disagree with his
basic premise in his editorial (Comparing Trump to Hitler trivializes the Holocaust, March 18). But I do protest his
exploiting a quote from Ezekiel, that a son shall not bear
the iniquity of the father, and a father shall not bear the iniquity of the son, to justify his condemnation of Trumps call
for collective punishment of families of terrorists.
There are many biblical sources where this specific familial burden of punishment is addressed, including some that
would fully justify the collective punishment Trump is calling for. For instance, we can look at Exodus 20:5: You shall
not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your
God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on
the children to the third and the fourth generation of those
who hate me. Or Exodus 34:6-7: The Lord passed before
him and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful
and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love
for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the childrens children, to the third and the fourth generation.
Aside from merely refuting that particular quote that
Rabbi Boteach simplistically employed to justify his stance,
I also would suggest that the Talmud supports punishing the
families of terrorists via the laws applicable to a rodef, or
the right of self-defense with respect to a pursuer. As articulated by Maimonides, these rules proscribe that: Every
Jew is obligated to save a pursued person from his pursuer,
even if this means killing the pursuer. A pursuer, in the
rabbinic context, is someone who is a threat to someones
life. As per the rabbis, the rodef does not have to be immediately threatening your life (holding a knife to your throat),
but merely endangering you (a burglar entering your home).
Accordingly, it is most justifiable, under the laws pertaining
to the rodef, for Trump to suggest that terrorists families
be punished and thus prevented from doing further harm.
For Rabbi Boteach to use one biblical quote but ignore
the many others that refute his opinion is disingenuous and
Professor Leonard Fuld, Teaneck
disappointing.
No Cruz, Jews!
I read with interest Michael Eidmans thoughtful March

18 letter, Jews shouldnt be for Cruz. I am writing to
express my support for his position, my utter contempt

for Ted Cruz, and my frank disappointment with any Jewish leader who finds Cruz worthy of informed support.
My father, Leo, of blessed memory, endured five years
in various Nazi labor camps, then lived in Germany, Israel,
and Germany again in order to join surviving family here
in the United States. His initial litmus test for all American politicians was whether they were unwaveringly supportive of Israel. Politicians who passed that test, however,
did not automatically get his vote. The final, more critical test, was whether the person running for high office
was a mensch, a man of integrity and honor, a man you
could trust. Cruz is no mensch. My father would have
rejected attempts to portray Cruz as a man of integrity
or honor and would have viewed him (and his nemesis Donald Trump) as transparently motivated only by
self-aggrandizement.
My father, rest his soul, would have been appalled that
Jewish leaders supported a man so full of hate and so
venal as to be proud about being universally (and deservedly) despised. My father would not have felt that support
for Israel trumps all other humane considerations. Why
Sam Rosmarin, Tenafly
cant our leaders see this?
No Cruz again
I too was appalled by Jews for Cruz (March 4), and

applaud Michael K. Eidmans letter and analysis. Senator
Cruz does not deserve our support and does not advance
Michael D. Weinstein, Tarrytown, N.Y.
our values.
Double standard on Israel
The spokesmen for the extreme left Ameinu and Meretz

groups are at it again. In their article about Israeli
democracy (Will Israeli democracy be the next victim
of violence? March 18), they decry Israels attempt to
remove the vile anti-Semitic Israeli Arab representatives
in the Knesset.
These animals have called Israel soldiers terrorists
and actively side with the enemies of the state. How long
would a U.S. congressman last if he supported ISIS? An
amazing double standard. Democracy and free speech
do not allow someone to yell fire in a crowded theater
and there are reasonable limits to freedoms everywhere
else in the world. Rabbi Meir Kahanes party was prohibited from running for the Knesset as his ideology was
labeled racist. There were no tears shed by the rabid
left over this destruction of democracy, but allowing the
Arab members of Knesset to support the eradication of
the state is allowable as per Meretz and Ameinu.
Gold and Simons acceptance of Arab violence as a
result of the long-carried weight of the West Bank occupation, increased settlement activity, political brinksmanship, and growing frustration, which have led to
lone wolf terror attacks, was even more noxious. This
assertion is ridiculous and emboldens the enemies of
the Jewish people. The activity is coordinated by official
incitement and the murderers are either given a stipend
if jailed, or a street named after them if killed. The kleptomaniac Arab leaders reward their families with stipends and their actions are extolled. That is clear coordination. Their activities are promoted by our U.S. ally,
Abbas, a notorious Holocaust denier.
To explain away or accept with resignation the slaughter
of Jews is simplistic and foolish at best. And they propose
expression, communication, and dialogue as a solution.
How does one negotiate with Arabs who demand that all
Jews leave Israel? How does one negotiate with murderers
who kill women, children, and infants? Should the Jews
wring their hands and beg when confronted by knifewielding monsters? Once again, I must ask, whose side
are Gold and Simon on?
Scott David Lippe, M.D., Fair Lawn

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Choosing to be Jewish
West New York
woman looks at her
life before and after
it was transformed
JOANNE PALMER
heres a concept called pintele

Yid it loosely translates into
a spark of Jewishness Yiddish
for that feeling that some people
cant escape, that unshakable feeling of
being a Jew, that invisible cord that binds
them to the Jewish people.
Some people can nurture that spark,
keep it cradled for a span of a lifetime. If
they are lucky, they are born Jewish, so
they always know about that spark, grow
up with it, are heated by it always.
And some people are not born to it but
find it deep within themselves, and when
they acknowledge it, when the world
acknowledges it, they find joy, comfort,
belonging, and family.
Thats what happened to Siobhan BarryBratcher of West New York.
Yes, she was born in Crown Heights,
Brooklyn, then as now very Jewish, but
then as now there were many non-Jews
there as well. Like the Bratcher family.
Siobhans father, James Bratcher, is
mainly Irish that explains her first
name, which more or less is pronounced
Sha-van but his family had lived in Florida for generations, and there are some
Seminole Indians on his family tree. Her
mother, Rosa Iacobuzio, was Italian. (Yes,
there seems to be Jacob in that name; its
certainly not impossible that there were
some Jews in the family, their stories lost
to time.)
In 1954, when Siobhan was born, the
Holocaust was still a vivid scar, not a terrifying but dimming memory, outside the
Jewish world as well as inside it, at least in
Brooklyn. Our fathers and grandfathers
had fought in World War II, she said. And
we saw many people with tattoos on their
arms. We heard the whispers. Even as a
little girl, I knew that something really terrible had happened to those people. Whisper whisper whisper.
And people always thought I was a Jew.
She wasnt sure why people thought
that, but she knew that she was attracted
to Jews, even that far back. Some of it was
Siobhan Barry-Bratcher and her granddaughter, Alice, in Batgirl face paint at the United Synagogue of Hobokens centennial celebration block party last May.
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the kind of bagels-and-lox Judaism that
we identify as fading, content-free, just
feel-good, non-sustainable, but for some
reason little Siobhan loved lox and fresh
cream cheese in Jewish appetizing stores.
One time I was at

a Moshav show
and they were
singing Eliyahu
Hanavi. I realize
that its not just
the music Im
in love with.
People always assumed that my father was
Jewish because he was there all the time,
buying it for me.
Once he asked for gefilte fish, and
he didnt know what it was called, just
pointed. No one knew why he was doing

that, and he had to say I dont know what
its called. Im not Jewish!
He looked Jewish, his daughter reported
it was the Seminole cast to his features,
which say native American to her now, but
who knew from Indians then and there?
And although he held a number of jobs,
many of them simultaneously, to make
ends meet, one of the jobs was as a bartender at catered parties at the Midwood
Jewish Center. He had quite a collection
of yarmulkes, his daughter said.
Rosa and James Bratcher were Catholic, but religion didnt come up at home,
Siobhan said. They sent their daughter to
Catholic school. She hated it.
My mother insisted that I would get a
better education and be safer there, she
said. Wrong.
Her mother had gone to public schools,
so she didnt know. Her father, though,
had gone to Catholic schools. He knew it
was physically abusive, she said. Everybody was hit, the nuns sometimes would
break their pointers on some boys.
She felt deeply alienated. Church was

an hour-long service. You had to go; you
went and sat with your class. You sat there
and didnt even take your coat off. And the
God I heard about in school and in church
wasnt a happy one.
Until she was 10 years old, the Mass was
said in Latin, and she couldnt understand
any of it. How is that unlike a synagogue
service, in Hebrew? In many ways, she
answers. First, because this time I made
the choice, and I know most of whats
being said. But also because the missal
had only the Gospel and epistle readings.
It did not include any translations of the
liturgy, and the priests had their backs
turned to the congregation.
She had to learn the Baltimore Catechism, something else she hated. You
have to memorize a question every week,
she said. It started off simple Who
made you? God made me. You had to
rattle off these answers every week, and
you could never deviate. You were not to
change anything.
Siobhan never was big on not deviating
Rabbi Glazer took a

Torah scroll out of the ark,
put it in my arms, and said
This is yours now. I held it
until I couldnt any more.
Thats when I lost it.
ever, on doing exactly as she was told, and
in believing on demand.
It wasnt an environment for learning, Siobhan continued. Part of it was the
place, and part of it was the time. It was
during the Cold War; children were taught
that the godless Soviet Union could bomb
them at any time, and the only way to protect themselves was to duck and cover.
During alarms, they had us run down to
the basement in the dark, line up against
the wall, with our faces against the wall,
praying. Pray for us now in the hour of
our death, we had to say.
I said please if it happens, let it happen
when Im home. I didnt want to die there.
I wanted to die at home, with my family.
They told us how those Godless communists treated children, she added.
Castro burns little kids like you. It scared
the you-know-what out of me. Is there any
wonder that there was a cultural revolution? This is what we grew up with. We
were lied to about everything imaginable.
Siobhan always was drawn to music,
and she wanted to study guitar. No, her
parents said. They

didnt have the money,
and the arts werent
important to them. And
no, she couldnt go to public school. So she applied to
a few Catholic schools, was
accepted, and chose one of
them. St. Josephs Commercial
High School. One school was as
good as another, she said. Her school
turned out secretaries and teachers.
In fact, St. Josephs did encourage her
to go to college, but by that point Siobhan could see no point to it. If only I had
known, she said. If only I had known
that there really was something there for
me. But I didnt go to college.
Instead, she got married. I met my
sons father the summer before my senior
year, and I got married a few months after
I graduated from high school, she said. I
was 18 when I got married, and 19 when I
had my son, Clarence Ferrari.
If I had any question about the Catholic religion, I was done with it after the
Siobhan, her son, Clarence, her

daughter-in-law, Kimberlee, and her
granddaughter, Alice Rose.
experience of being in hospital when I had

my son.
They gave you a form to fill out, and
it asked my religion. I said Catholic. The
day my son was born a priest came into
my room, for a normal chaplain visit, and I
said that I didnt really want to talk to him.
I said that I didnt know why I put Catholic
on the form, that I really didnt believe in

it. I know I put it down on the form, but
Im not into it any more, I told him.
The priest was apoplectic. He said
that I had no right bringing my son
into the world. No right to bring my
son into the world.
Thats when I turned away.
Siobhan and her husband
moved to Nashville only about
900 miles but a huge culture gap
away. In the 1970s, it wasnt so
good in Brooklyn, she said. But
she got divorced, and she and her
son, then 6, returned to Brooklyn
and lived with her parents as she figured out her next move.
I ended up working in a fast-food
joint, she said; it was in Bensonhurst,
which then was so dangerous that people would chain down the plants in the
window, so no one would steal them. She
got a job by dressing as she had in Nashville, playing up the Southern accent shed
learned, and in general acting the rube.
When the manager asked me if Id ever
worked in New York, I said no, she said,
and she got the job. Some batting of innocent big eyes may have helped
I was going nowhere, and I had a friend
in Nashville who was a practical nurse and
doing very well for herself, Siobhan said.
She started night courses to be a practical nurse, but soon, at the prodding of a
teacher who told her that she was smart
enough for regular nursing school, at 26,
she went to Kingsborough Community
College. The two-year associates degree
she earned was enough to allow her to
From left, Siobhans parents on their wedding day; Siobhan, the smallest child, on Easter
(I didnt look happy - maybe even then I wished it was Pesach); playing guitar in 1971.
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Siobhans son Clarence at the South Street Seaport sometime in the mid 1980s.
pass the boards and to get steady work as

a nurse.
I always wanted to be a musician, and I
loved to write but I had a child, she said.
Siobhan did not love nursing, but she
loved the freedom and stability it gave her.
There was a nursing shortage then, so if
you would leave one job one day youd get
another one the next day, she said. She
worked at St. Vincents in Greenwich Village, in lower Manhattan, from 1986 until
it closed in 2010.
Now, Siobhan is getting the other half
of her degree. This time, she is doing it
online. I want to concentrate in medical
writing or community health, she said.
The trend is going out of hospital into the
community anyway.
Shes always had other interests shes
a poet, a good one (see box), a prose
writer, and a musician. Her son, Clarence,
though, is the artist in the family, she
said. He started playing the fiddle when
he was 5, won a contest with it when he
was 6. When he was a little boy he said he
wanted a fiddle, and I didnt know if he
really meant it, but I gave it to him because
I wasnt allowed it and he meant it.
He is now a professional musician and

a music teacher.
Its because her son is a musician that
Siobhan is now a Jew.
Clarence Ferrari has his own bluegrass
group, Blue Harvest, and through it he met
Noah Solomon, who is half of the popular Jewish duo called Soulfarm. Siobhan
always is interested in what Clarence is up
to; I asked about Soulfarm, and thought it
sounded interesting, she said.
In 2010, after St. Vincents closed, she
still worked, but through an agency, so her
work was not as steady and she had more
time to pursue other interests. Including music. Including Soulfarm. And then
Moshav, another Jewish band; both incorporate broad musical influences but are
specifically Jewish in their words, their
music, and their souls.
When she heard the music, something
shifted inside her.
Oh, she said. I listened, and I cried,
listening to them. I go see Moshav a number of times, and when I stand in line people always ask if Im Jewish, and it breaks
my heart to say no. And I look into this religion, and there is nothing I see that I dont
Alice Rose Ferrari plays Candyland with her great grandparents, Rose and
Jim Bratcher, in 2014. Rose died last year; the Bratchers had been married
for 64 years.
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Clarence playing with Soulfarm.
agree with.
One time I was at a
Moshav show and they were
singing Eliyahu Hanavi a
song about the prophet Elijah, who appears at liminal
times and gestures toward
salvation. I realize that its
not just the music Im in
love with, she said.
Now, she had to decide
what to do.
Siobhans grandfather worked at Palisades AmuseIts like loving somement Park, so the family always got a free pass.
one who doesnt love you
back, Siobhan said. I
dangling from its arms for a long time
heard that theyd reject me she was
now. You can look at both rides during
talking about the approach to potential
the boring parts of the Cyclones minor
converts that mandates that a rabbi turn
league baseball games.)
them away three times before allowing a
My grandfather was at Palisades until it
course of study and behavior that might
closed, Siobhan said. We would always
lead to conversion eventually. I have had
go, every summer, and whenever we went
a enough of rejection in my life. It took me
wed go to the Cyclone to get my grandfaa long time to get enough guts to do it.
ther, and then wed go to the office and get
By then, Siobhan had moved from
a pink pass from Uncle Irv thats what we
Brooklyn to West New York. Shed learned
always called Irving Rosenthal. Mr. Rosenfrom musicians who came to New York to
thal owned the park. All the nice things
make their fortunes but couldnt afford to
you ever hear about Uncle Irv are true,
live there until they succeeded that New
she added. He was a lovely man.
Jersey is far more affordable. She owns a
Back in West New York, Siobhan
house for less than she could have spent
embarked on the journey toward Judaism.
for a fashionable Manhattan studio.
This was not her first experience with
First, she bought a Jewish star. The
New Jersey. Her grandfather, another
first one I bought, I thought I had no right
James Bratcher, lived in Florida but travto wear it, she said. I thought that bells
eled up north as a carnival worker. He ran
would go off if I would try to buy it. But the
the bobsled ride in the 1939 Worlds Fair
man in the store asked me if I wanted to
in Queens, and later he ran the Cyclone
put it on now or put it in the box.
Giddily, she wore it out of the store.
at Palisades Amusement Park. When
I was wearing it outside, where anyone
the park closed, the Cyclone moved to
could see it, she said. Still, she was well
Steeplechase Park in Coney Island, and
aware that she was not Jewish. She felt
he also ran the parachute jump there.
as if she were masquerading, and could
(Both rides are still standing, although
get caught.
the parachute jump hasnt had punters
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And then these two young men in
Hoboken, from Chabad, look at me, and
one says, Are you Jewish? I say no. Then
he says Was your mother Jewish? It was
a code; I had the accent, I looked Jewish.
One of them looked at the other one like I
was an experiment gone wrong.
But then they encouraged her to go to
a shul.
I was thinking that I really had to do
this, she said. And I also thought that
there were all sorts of reasons why I
couldnt. She knew a good deal about the
Jewish world already, and she was pretty
sure that she wanted a Conservative synagogue. She went to Google. For the heck
of it, I just starting to type in Introduction
to Judaism classes Hudson County, and
what comes up was a class that was starting at Temple Beth El in North Bergen the
next week.
The rabbi was Ilan Glazer. I looked at
a picture of him, and he didnt look scary
and I emailed him, and he was friendly. I
decided to go.
The first night I walked into the synagogue, I was crying. I studied with him for
nine months, and it became official on Bob
Dylans birthday. May 24, 2004.
As for the conversion itself, there were
no words for it, Siobhan said. At the
mikvah, when it was official, I burst out
laughing. Rabbi Glazer and his wife took
me to lunch, and I didnt lose it until we
went back to the shul, and Rabbi Glazer
took a Torah scroll out of the ark, put it
in my arms, and said This is yours now. I
held it until I couldnt any more.
Thats when I lost it.
Because she was past childbearing age
when she converted, the rabbis almost
didnt ask me the question about whether,
if I would have children, I would raise
them as Jews. I said Ask that question!
Because I hope my being Jewish helps
other people.
Since then, Siobhan has become a dedicated shul-goer. Rabbi Glazer, to whom
she remains close, soon moved to a shul
in Memphis, Tenn., and Siobhan loved the
rabbi who replaced him. Rabbi Sruli Dresdner and his wife, Lisa Mayer, are musicians, joyous, warm, and committed to
creating family. Did we have wonderful
times! Siobhan said.
We had dinner there, we danced, we
sang, we chanted, we sang until all hours
of the night, Siobhan said.
She had a very powerful feeling of
being part of a community, and she
embraced it with gusto, Lisa said. The
Jewish part is very deep. She is unbelievably generous, and she wants to create a
Jewish family. We were her Jewish family.
You know how sometimes Jewish families get together only on Friday nights? We
would cook together, and we would sing,
and we would talk.
She would volunteer to make the
seder; she would shlep the chairs and the
tables and set the tables. She would do
everything. She would work like crazy. She
loved the ritual, and everything that had to
do with the holiday service, with making
people happy.
We would sing Return Again, and we
would both cry.
And then there was being in shul with
Siobhan.
I have never seen anyone thrill to be
called up to the Torah like Shulamit bat
Avraham vSarah, Lisa said about Siobhan. Her whole self would float up to
the bima, she would touch the parchment
with her little tallis fringe, kiss it, and then
pause for just a moment before she
recited the brachot.
Siobhan is a brilliant, literary, spiritual,
and spiritually hungry Jew-by-choice with
a truly authentic chasidic soul, Lisas husband, Rabbi Sruli Dresdner, said. She has
an extreme passion for Jewish prayer, Jewish study, and Jewish song and also a love
for community, helping to turn our small
but vibrant shul into a real family. Mostly,
Siobhan is a natural giver, selflessly giving
of her time, of her talents and of her love.
She made all of us jaded Jews by birth
pause too, because she reminded us of the
value of what we had, Lisa added.
Siobhan signing copies of her young-adult novel Golden.
This is written in the past tense, though,

because Sruli and Lisa stayed at Beth El
for only two years. Theyre now in Maine,
at Temple Sholom Synagogue Center in
Auburn, ecstatically happy, but they miss
Siobhan.
As for Siobhan to this day, I walk
by that place and I cry. The shul itself
merged with Temple Israel Community
Center of Cliffside Park and now, as Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades, meet
in Cliffside Park.
Siobhan had to find a new spiritual
home. Luckily, that wasnt hard. United
Synagogue of Hoboken beckoned. The
first night, I went to Friday night services
there, and I knew that that place was it,
she said.
Siobhan adds a gentle vibrancy to our
congregational life, United Synagogue
of Hobokens rabbi, Robert Scheinberg,
said. In general, people who are Jews
by choice often play a vital role in Jewish communities by reminding the rest of
us of the spiritual depth we have. Many
people in the Jewish community can fall
back on the ethnic and peoplehood connection, which of course is important, but
it is not all there is.

Jews by choice remind us of how Jewish tradition has a powerful lens for experiencing the totality of life.
Siobhan is devoted to her family her
son, his wife, Kimberlee Piper, who is a
photographer, and their daughter, Alice
Rose. My family is cool with my conversion, and my son played at the Chanukah
carnival, she said. Alice has quite the life.
On that Saturday night she was at shul,
shooting craps with Jews. The next day she
was at a nativity scene.
Once she finishes her degree and has
more time and even more after her
eventual retirement, which she thinks is
not decades away, Siobhan will have more
time. She wants to use it to make music,
to learn Hebrew, to learn to lead services,
and in general to give more time to the
synagogue, she said.
When she thinks about her conversion,
Siobhan said, sometimes I ask myself
why did I wait so long? Shed been interested in Judaism for as far back as she
could remember. But then I look at people who are Jewish and jaded, and I say
that maybe Im the lucky one.
BENDING THE BARS
ALICE IN WASHINGTON SQUARE

On an autumn day, hugged by humid air
And framed in gray clouds
Impatient with the music, the playground, and
the other babies
You found the fountain
And when you tried to climb the shoulder-high
stone rim
To see what was inside
I lifted you
And thats where the day painted us,
Granddaughter almost two, body perfect
Soft feet bursting out of
Worn down pink leather sandals
Grandmother born in a cold war,
My first breath taken during a revolution
My arm around your chest
Was the only thing holding you back
And I felt your heart in my hand
Pounding against my palm
At twice the speed of my own
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Then after I had lifted you and invited you to see

You demanded not to be kept from
Stomping and running
Through the two inches of filthy murk green water
Stagnant and growing with God knows what
And I said no
Lowering you back onto the pavement
Countenance screaming, body writhing, and legs kicking
You tried to climb back up into the fountain on your own
And screamed louder when I wouldnt lift you again
But know, just for that instant
When I felt your excited heart at the ready
Waiting
As if everything that came after today
Was dangling on the edge
Of what happened at this exact moment
I understood
And I almost let you go
When I was a little girl

I climbed the monkey bars
in a city playground
Weaving in and out of metal mazes
Two hands swinging
Grabbing
Reaching for a higher bar
Until I made it to the top
Where I could distance myself from gravity
For a moment or two
Before easing back down
To the concrete.
Just like the way you play a guitar
Siobhan Barry-Brachter, for C Lanzbom
Siobhan Barry-Brachter
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Trump undoes AIPACs

plans to come together
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Hear out Donald Trump. Ignore Donald
Trump.
There were two distinct approaches to the Trump moment
this week at AIPACs annual conference here, and there were
mutual warnings that one side or the other would get burned.
The burn came fast, and it came to those who said that listening to the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nod was the right thing to do.
After days of repeated warnings to its activists not to disrupt Trump, and to treat speakers with respect, the American
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extraordinary apology on Tuesday morning but not
to Trump.
Instead, AIPAC said it was sorry about its members
who had applauded Trumps insulting remarks about
President Obama during the candidates Monday night
speech at the Verizon Center. Many members roared
and leapt to their feet when Trump suggested Obama
was the worst thing to ever happen to Israel.
While we may have policy differences, we deeply
respect the office of the president of the United States
and our President Barack Obama, Lillian Pinkus, the
lobbys newly installed president, said from the AIPAC
stage, where she was joined by other AIPAC lay and professional leaders.
There are people in our AIPAC family who were
deeply hurt last night, and for that we are deeply sorry,
Pinkus said, her voice choking. We are deeply disappointed that so many people applauded a sentiment that
we neither agree with or condone.
The evident anguish in the aftermath of Trumps
remarks undid the hopes that his speech would not mar
the prominent Israel lobbys careful claims to bipartisanship, even as its Iran policy is more or less aligned
wholly with Republicans. The Trump moment came in
the middle of the conference whose slogan was Come
Together. AIPAC had hoped that the slogan would signal
a new day of bipartisanship.
Complaints that the lobby had given Trump a platform at its largest annual assembly without expressing
official displeasure at his most controversial remarks
about immigrants and Muslims led many to wonder how
AIPAC would function in an election in which the likely
GOP nominee has alienated much of the organized Jewish community.
AIPAC officials said before the conference that his
talk would be an opportunity for Trump, derided by

his rivals for his tendency to speak in vague generalities
rather than offer specifics, finally to attach substance to
his ideas. Trumps prepared remarks included substantive and critical assessments of Obamas Middle East
policies, which AIPAC expected and indeed would have
welcomed.
He also softened two positions that have created
unease among pro-Israel activists. Until his talk, he had
insisted that he would remain neutral in brokering peace
between Israel and the Palestinians, arguing that his skill
as a negotiator would be key to reaching a deal, and he
had refused to commit to recognizing Jerusalem as Israels capital.
At the AIPAC conference, Trump vowed to move
the American embassy to Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish people. And he said the Palestinians
must accept as a given the closeness of the U.S.-Israel
relationship.
His extemporized flourishes, however, typified the red
meat he likes to throw out at his rallies, and many in the
massive Verizon Center hall, chosen to accommodate a
record-breaking 18,000 activists this year, gobbled it up.
Launching a critique of Obamas U.N. policy, Trump
started a sentence Monday evening by saying, With
President Obama in his final year then stopped himself and said Yay!
Cheers, laughter and applause arose from the crowd,
and not just from isolated pockets.
He may be the worst thing to ever happen to Israel,
believe me, believe me, said Trump, a billionaire real
estate magnate. And you know it and you know it better than anybody.
The largest group advocating some form of protest
ahead of Trumps appearance, the Reform movement,
sounded a note of vindication the day after his speech.
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Donald Trump addresses AIPACs annual policy conference in Washington on March 21.

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We were disappointed but not surprised that Mr. Trump did nothing tonight
to allay our deep concerns about his campaign, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president
of the Union of Reform Judaism, said in a
statement. It still seems that he does not
share our values of equality, pluralism,
and humility.
Trumps laceration of Obama is the
last thing AIPAC needed at a time when
the lobby is endeavoring to show that it
remains a bipartisan enterprise.
Howard Kohr, the one-time Republican
operative who has led the organization for
decades, alluded in his opening remarks
to pressure from the right to simply give
up on Democrats in the wake of the partys almost wholesale embrace of an Iran
nuclear deal that AIPAC continues to insist
endangers Israel.
There are those who question our
bipartisan approach to political advocacy,
Kohr said. Unless one party controls all
branches of government forever, bipartisanship remains the only way.
Trump spoke on a night that also
included live addresses from his Republican presidential rivals, Gov. John Kasich
of Ohio and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, (R-Wis.), also
addressed the throng.
There were warm welcomes for Democrats at the conference, particularly Vice
President Joe Biden, the administration
member closest to AIPAC, who spoke of
his decades of attachment to Israel in emotional terms.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, also spoke earlier in the day
than Trump pitching herself to his right
on Israel.
America cant ever be neutral when it
comes to Israels security and survival,
Clinton said to repeated cheers and
applause. Some things arent negotiable,
and anyone who doesnt understand that
has no business in being our president.
Yet it was clear the lobby still had difficulties in reconciling with Democrats,
especially the progressives among them.
Only one Democrat from the vast majority in Congress who voted in favor of the
Iran deal last year Maryland Rep. Steny
Hoyer, the minority whip addressed the
conference.
Hoyers appearance together with Rep.
Kevin McCarthy, (R-Calif.), the majority
leader, was designed to show bipartisan
support for Israel, yet tension crept into
the buddy show. When McCarthy suggested that the Obama administration
had sowed doubt about the U.S.-Israel
Lillian Pinkus, AIPACs first female

president in a decade, speaks at the
organizations conference in
Washington.
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relationship, Hoyer countered that the

two nations security establishments are
cooperating as closely today as they have
in the past.
AIPACs activists, lobbying on Tuesday,
were unable to recommend any specific
legislation on Iran; there is none suitable
that is backed by both parties.
Bernie Sanders, the Independent from
Vermont who is challenging Clinton for
the Democratic nod, did not attend. Thats
because he was out west, campaigning
for the three primaries in the region the
next day. He offered to deliver remarks
via video link but was rejected by AIPAC.

Sanders did deliver the remarks at a
Utah rally with his consistent message
of support for Israel tempered by criticism
of its actions on settlements and in waging war.
Aiming to appeal to progressives, the
lobby screened a video presentation Tuesday morning on Menachem Creditor, a
rabbi from Berkeley, California, who is
a progressive leader and supporter of
AIPAC.
Such profiles of AIPAC members usually
are followed by short live appearances by
their subjects, who usually deliver a few
inspiring words of thanks.
Creditor, who spoke immediately after
Pinkus apology, presented his prepared
remarks and added an indirect swipe at
Trump, saying that he was prompted to
the changes not just by Trumps speech
but by the applause it earned.
We must not embrace the politics of
hate, he told the AIPAC crowd.
AIPACs commitment to bipartisanship isnt just about being mensches in the
world. The only way to keep Israel strong
and to build a beloved community here
in the United States is to regard the multiplicity of voices here and in our nation as
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Left and right, religious and secular, Arab and Jew, Israelis
dont have many kind words for Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner.
In interviews this week, several prominent Israelis
described Trump as an opportunist and a demagogue whose
political convictions are hard to make out.
As Israelis, we look at him and laugh a little, said Ronen
Shoval, founder of the hardline right-wing Zionist organization Im Tirtzu. He looks inauthentic. Men in Israel dont color
their hair like that. He looks like hes had plastic surgery.
Trump has upset many in the pro-Israel community with
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evidence of his pro-Israel bona fides.
In his talk at the AIPAC conference
earlier in the week, he rejected his earlier position, saying, without offering
specifics, that he was not neutral but
strongly pro-Israel.
According to a February poll by the
Israel Democracy Institute, three-fifths
of Israeli Jews said a Trump administration would be friendly to Israel. A
survey by the Israeli news website
Walla found that Israelis preferred
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton to Trump by a margin of 38 to 23
percent. Clinton challenger Bernie
Sanders, who is Jewish, received 7 percent support, while Republicans Ted
Cruz and Marco Rubio received 5 and
4 percent, respectively. Twenty-three
percent did not choose a candidate.
Like many Americans concerned by
In 2004, Donald Trump was the grand marshal of Manhattans
Trumps apparent encouragement of
Salute to Israel Parade.
violence at his rallies and his support

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among white supremacists, Israelis
who spoke to JTA focused more on the
their ideologues and suggested that Likud voters would
candidates character than his specific policies.
prefer Ted Cruz, the arch-conservative Texas senator
Some Israelis praised Trumps willingness to speak
who is Trumps closest competitor for the Republican
bluntly, no matter the consequences. Shoval said Trump
nomination.
reminds him of former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor
Israeli society is very ideological, and Trump is
Liberman, another plain-talking politician who has
viewed in Israel as an opportunist and not ideological,
drawn accusations of racism for his call to have Israeli
Shoval said.
Arabs live in a Palestinian state under a future peace
Israeli Arabs appear to be less engaged with the Trump
deal.
phenomenon than their Jewish neighbors. Nearly half
But others worried that Trumps seemingly off-thetold the Israel Democracy Institute they didnt know
cuff convictions could change once hes in office.
whether Trump would be friendly to Israel. Among the
Theres a feeling of finally, enough with political correctness, enough with the establishment, prominent
some 100 Israeli Arabs polled by Walla in March, a mere
religious Zionist Rabbi Yuval Cherlow said. But the
7 percent supported Trump.
problem is that there isnt a feeling you can trust him.
From the perspective of Palestinian citizens who live
You cant know if hes going to do what he says. Hes not
in Israel, hell just make the situation more extreme,
obligated to anything.
said journalist Ghada Zoabi, who runs the Arab-Israeli
On the left, Israelis are just as mistrustful and less
news website Bokra. He wont take a positive role in
enamored of Trumps frankness. Columnist Nahum
leading to peace. Hes not a man of peace. He wants to
Barnea has written that Trump is a threat to Americas
celebrate the existing conflict.
democratic values and compared him to Oren Hazan,
Yisrael Friedman, editor of Yated Neeman, a leading
a scandal-plagued Likud lawmaker accused of bringing
charedi publication, said charedi Israelis have mostly
clients prostitutes and drugs when he managed a casino
been ignoring the Trump campaign out of a belief that
in Bulgaria.
God not the president controls matters of state.
Barnea said that Trump could be dangerous to the
America seems to have gone crazy, Friedman said,
U.S.-Israel relationship because hes a less-well-known
adding that Trumps popularity deserves psychiatric
quantity than Clinton and has weaker ties to Americas
examination. But he said only God knows which candidate would be best for the Jews.
pro-Israel community.
God will play with him like a marionette if hes
I think Trump is unpredictable and unobligated,
elected, Friedman said. At this point Im praying for
Barnea told JTA. Hillary Clinton is predictable and obligated. The prime minister of Israel will feel comfortable
whatevers best for the Jewish people. Whats right and
with a president whose actions he can expect.
good, I dont know.

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the Journal News reported on Wednesday that the FBI had used an Orthodox
Jewish radio program and a charedi
Orthodox informant in a sting operation that led to the conviction of several
Rockland County officials in a corruption scandal.
The 2013 Jewish Week report found
that charedi Orthodox schools that publicly eschew the Internet were awarded
millions of dollars for tech equipment
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Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland
URIEL HEILMAN
mericans have heard a lot

about Merrick Garland since
President Barack Obama nominated him to fill the vacant seat
on the Supreme Court.
But theres a lot we still dont know.
What are his views on abortion? Will the
Republican leadership give him a hearing
in the Senate? What was his bar mitzvah
Torah portion?
Garland may have an extensive judicial
record he has more federal judicial experience (19 years) than any other Supreme
Court nominee in history, according to the
White House but far less is known about
his Jewish bona fides.
Heres what we do know.
He is proud of his familys Jewish immigrant story so proud that he talked about
it in his speech when his nomination was
announced in the White House Rose
Garden.
My family deserves much of the credit
for the path that led me here, Garland
said. My grandparents left the Pale of
Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s,
fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make
a better life for their children in America.
His father, Cyril Garland, was born in
Omaha, Nebraska, but hailed from a Latvian Jewish immigrant family. He ran an
advertising business out of the family
home and died in 2000. Garlands mother,
Shirley Garland, still lives in the Chicago
area and at one point was the director of
volunteer services at the Council for Jewish Elderly in Chicago.
Garland was raised in Lincolnwood, a
heavily Jewish suburb of Chicago, and had
his bar mitzvah at a Conservative synagogue. Garland has credited his parents
with instilling the desire for public service
in him.
His Jewish tradition is one of service,
Jamie Gorelick, who went to college with
Garland and worked closely with him in
the Justice Department, told the New York
Times. Gorelick was the U.S. deputy attorney general from 1994 to 1997.
At Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois, Garland served as student council
president, acted in theatrical plays, and
was voted most intelligent boy in the
class of 1970, the Times reported.
When Garland started as an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he was
on scholarship, he thought he wanted to
be a doctor and initially entered a premed track. But he quickly changed focus
and settled on another respectable Jewish path: the law. After graduating Harvard College, he went on to Harvard Law
School.
Judge Merrick Garland stands in the White House Rose Garden, listening as
President Barack Obama announces his nomination to the Supreme Court.

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Garlands wife, Lynn Rosenman, is a fellow Jewish Harvard graduate who comes
from a distinguished family. Her grandfather, Samuel Rosenman of New York, was
a state Supreme Court justice and a special
counsel to two presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
Garland and his wife met at a rehearsal
dinner where they were seated together.
They married in 1987 in a Jewish ceremony
at the Harvard Club in New York. A Reform
rabbi, Charles Lippman, presided.
The couple settled in the Washington,
D.C., area and raised two daughters, both
now in their 20s. Garland and his wife live
in Bethesda, Maryland, and are members
of Temple Sinai, a 1,100-member Reform
congregation in Washington led by Rabbi
Jonathan Roos. Both the Garland daughters, Rebecca and Jessica, reportedly had
their bat mitzvahs there.
The Garlands have hosted some distinguished guests at their Passover seders.
In 1996, then-U.S. Attorney General Janet
Reno was a seder guest. She and Garland
had to step away from the table at one
point to take a phone call about the investigation into Ted Kaczynski, the so-called
Unabomber, who was arrested on Passover eve. Garland oversaw Kaczynskis
prosecution.
Garland also has hosted Easter egg
hunts part of an annual potluck breakfast he holds for his former clerks and
their spouses and children, according to
the Washington Post.
The judge has worked in a variety of
roles since moving to Washington in the
1970s. He started as a court clerk at the
U.S. Court of Appeals and the Supreme
Court before joining the law firm Arnold
& Porter. After just a few years, Garland

gravitated toward government work, first
working as an assistant U.S. attorney and
later as a deputy assistant attorney general
in the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
President Bill Clinton nominated Garland to be a U.S. circuit court judge in
1995, but the Republican-controlled Senate dragged its feet on confirming him.
After Clinton won reelection in 1996 he
renominated Garland, and the judge was
confirmed by a 76-23 vote in the Senate in
March 1997.
Jay Michaelson, a rabbi and columnist
for the Daily Beast and the Jewish Daily
Forward who clerked for Garland on the
Appeals Court in the late 1990s, said that
Garlands Jewish identity is typical of that
of many American Jews.
My sense is he wasnt super religious
or observant but very culturally Jewish
like a lot of American Jews, Michaelson
said. I think the immigrant experience
and Jewish ethical values would be the
two most important aspects of his Jewish
identity.
Michaelson remembered talking with
the judge about needing to take off four
days for Sukkot and Simchat Torah. The
two had a joking exchange about it, and
Garland of course gave him the days off,
Michaelson said.
My experience clerking for him is
that he was very methodical, detailed
and sharp, Michaelson said. He was
extremely detail-oriented, determined,
nerdy in a good way and quite meticulous.
The White House released a three-minute biographical video on Garland this
week.
I think the rule of law is what distinguishes our country from most other
countries, Garland says in the video.
Its peoples willingness to trust that they
dont have to take justice into their own
hands, that law will treat people fairly and
impartially, and without regard to politics
or religion or race or anything else.
The two elements of Garlands biography that have generated the most attention since Obama nominated him to the
Supreme Court have nothing to do with
his Jewishness.
One is that hes a relative moderate compared to other potential jurists a Democratic president could have nominated.
The other is that he is 63, relatively old by
Supreme Court nominee standards. That
makes it less likely he will serve a long
term on the court.
Both elements are being seen as concessions to make Obamas pick more palatable to Senate Republicans or at least
make it harder for them to refuse him a
hearing. So far, the Republican leadership
has vowed not to bring Garlands nomination to a vote before the November presidential election.
The fact that Garland is a Jewish, male,
white Harvard graduate is tertiary. The
court already is stacked with those: Of the
eight sitting justices, five are men, six are
white, three are Jews, and all eight went to
I think the
rule of law
is what
distinguishes
our country
from most
other
countries.
JUDGE MERRICK GARLAND
law school either at Harvard or Yale. (Ruth

Bader Ginsburg graduated from Columbia
University after transferring there from
Harvard.)
If confirmed, Garland would be the
ninth Jew to sit on the court.
Were on the one hand super proud
that we have a Reform Jew who is being
nominated to the Supreme Court, said
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Its a wonderful affirmation of this jurist.
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Six Israeli universities were ranked among the worlds
top 100 universities in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The 2016 QS rankings compared top universities
in the world in 42 areas of study. The six top-ranked
Israeli universities are Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Ben-Gurion
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Israeli universities had more places in the top 100
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A young Israeli student living in Shanghai, China, has
developed a product derived from essential oils that
preserves fruits and vegetables three times longer
than usual.
These oils have been known about for thousands
of years, but they are very volatile and evaporate very
rapidly, so their effectiveness disappears very quickly.
The researchers wanted to transform the preservative
properties into a liquid or powder and then release it
very slowly and therefore multiply its effectiveness,
Amit Gal-Or, founder of Phresh Organics, told the Tazpit News Agency.
Gal-Or, 20, originally from Raanana, used Israeli
research and other past research to create a powder
called Food Protectors that any household can use.
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Parashat Tzav / Purim
heres my hat?
Albert Einstein said:
The more I learn, the
more I realize how much I
dont know. Mark Twain said: My father
was an amazing man. The older I got, the
smarter he got.
Absolute knowledge seems to elude us.
No matter how much we learn and experience, it seems an ever growing quantity
of information remains beyond our reach.
This brings us to the Torah portion of
Tzav (and the holiday of Purim). The word
tzav is found at the root of the word
mitzvah which means commandment.
The dictionary defines the word command as to direct authoritatively. At
times, we may fully or partially comprehend a commandments rationale while at
times we may have no inkling whatsoever.
Yet the very nature of a commandment is
that it must be followed regardless of personal preference.
Why is this?
Among the topsy-turvy type features
of the Purim holiday are dressing in costume and drinking schnapps ad dlo
yada until one cannot distinguish
between blessed is Mordechai and
cursed is Haman. But an alternative and
perhaps deeper rendering of the words
ad dlo yada is to know that you do not
know.
Storm
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Some people claim that to compare anyone to the monster dishonors the memory
of six million.
I disagree.
Those of us who call Trump and his
antics Hitler-like do so out of respect for
the victims of the Holocaust.
I have stood on the black grass at Birkenau ten times. Each time I vowed to the
souls I memorialized and to humanity
worldwide, Never Again. If we take that
oath seriously, we must call out those who
act in a demagogic, elitist, and separatist manner. We must not allow it to take
us to a place where the very morals this
country was founded upon, and the JudeoChristian values that all the presidential
Seven hundreds years ago,

threaten the very heart of
Rabbi Yediah Hapnini wrote:
the mission which depended
The ultimate purpose of
on finding favor in the eyes
knowledge is to know that
of the king. Now, why would
we dont know. While techshe undertake such a counnically, knowledge means to
terintuitive course of action?
know something, it comes
It was because she underwith a contradictory qualstood that no matter how
ity; the more we know the
much you plan, the outcome
Rabbi
more we come to realize how
is never exactly as you imagChanoch
much more there is that we
ined it would be. If history
Kaplan
dont yet know.
teaches us anything, it is that
Chabad of North
In the past century there
you can shoot an arrow but
West Bergen
has been a veritable explocannot determine where it
County, Franklin
sion of scientific knowledge.
lands. Indeed, Esther conLakes, Orthodox
Millions of scientists across
cocted a plan to thwart the
the globe study ever narrowwicked plans of Haman.
ing fields of research. And yet, the greater
But this plan was secondary to the more
and broader their discoveries become,
important matter of finding favor in the
the more they realize how much remains
eyes of God. So she, along with the entire
unknown. In effect, the relative unknown
Jewish nation, prayed and fasted for a full
keeps increasing!
three days. Sure, it weakened her and
This knowing that we dont really
took a toll on her beauty, but she knew
know is a fundamental lesson of Purim
that the best of plans could not succeed
which is reflected in the tradition of ad
without Gods help. And it was this which
dlo yada.
ultimately led to the salvation of the JewThe Megillah tells us that the Purim herish people.
I came face to face with the limitations
oine, Esther, fasted for three days before
of knowledge recently in an unusual
approaching the Persian King Achashvaiway when I walked home from shul on
rosh to request his intervention on behalf
Shabbos with my younger son. When
of her people. This, despite the fact that
we arrived at home, my son proceeded
she knew with certainty that it would
to place his hat on a table. Later, when
diminish her physical attraction and
he couldnt find it where he left it, my

older son suggested to him that he might
have forgotten it in shul, but he was adamant that he had not a fact to which I
attested. He knew that he had worn the
hat home; he knew that he had put it on
the table; he knew that he had not moved
it since; hence someone else must have.
He continued searching but became very
agitated since no one would admit to the
obvious, that they had touched it.
Later that evening, I walked into the shul
and noticed the impossible: His hat was
resting peacefully on a chair. What had
happened? It turns out that he was correct about every detail of the story without exception. But and theres always a
but he had mistakenly worn someone
elses hat home and thats why he could
not find his hat!
We read in Psalms that it is better to
rely on the One above than in nobles. We
may think that we know it all. But even
when we plan and execute to perfection,
it may turn out that we were wearing the
wrong hat.
Like Esther, lets keep thinking and
never stop believing. Embrace mitzvot
and allow for the guiding hand from on
High to direct us toward the realization
of individual and global purpose, leading to the coming of Moshiach speedily
in our time.
candidates cling to like a safety harness,

are turned upside down.
Donald Trump says that immigrants are
the cause of crime in our country and that
we will deport all of them. He claims he
will build a wall to keep Mexicans out. He
suggests that women who are testy must be
menstruating. He infers that captured soldiers are not good war heroes. He declares
that many Muslims hate America and says
that we should separate all of them from
entering or moving freely within our country. Mr. Trump advocates for the murder
of innocent family members of terrorists
which is a blatant war crime. He plays
fast and loose with the KKK and regularly
advocates violence at his rallies. And there
is too much more
When all that happens, it does not mean
that Trump killed 11 million people, or even
familiar tune with different lyrics. To advocate for his asylum is to abet his lawless
and amoral aspirations, which could lead
us down a path where humanity, again, is
the greatest loser.
If and when historians will ask where
were you and where was your voice when
this man with these dreadful intentions,
who made these despicable statements,
rose to power, I want to be noted on the
record with other leaders who aggressively
rang alarm bells of warning.
We are still paying for the apathy of
yesteryear.
that he will. But it doesnt pass the sniff

test for me and countless others. It stinks
the way the history books of 1933-1938
Germany did. And for those who naively
and passively sit idly by without condemnation, perhaps they should be called into
question too. Could you imagine if instead
of Muslim he (or any other candidate)
had said Jew? If instead of Mexican he
said Israeli? And the absurd notion that
because Trumps daughter Ivanka is Jewish that excuses her fathers xenophobia is
tantamount to claiming that vegetarianism
makes people skinny.
Simply stated, Hitler was mostly a criminal who committed crimes against the Jewish people. But he was a criminal against
humanity, first. Trump targeting Mexicans
and Muslims and being coy on his affiliation with the KKK is a person chanting a
David-Seth Kirshner is senior rabbi at

Temple Emanu-El of Closter, president of
the New York Board of Rabbis, and vice
president of the North Jersey Board of
Rabbis.
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Istanbul suicide bomber

reportedly trailed Israeli
tourists
Several Turkish media outlets reported that contrary to initial assessments by Turkish authorities, a group of Israeli tourists in fact were the
specific target of a suicide bombing on Istanbuls
busy Istiklal Street on Saturday.
Three Israelis were killed in the suicide bombing on Saturday, which happened on a long
pedestrian avenue lined with stores and foreign
consulates. An Iranian man also was killed.
According to the latest Turkish reports, the
terrorist, whose identity has since been confirmed, had waited outside the restaurant
19 Jews from Yemen

smuggled to Israel
The Jewish Agency for Israel undertook what it
called a complex, covert operation to smuggle
out 19 Yemenite Jews and bring them to Israel.
Nineteen individuals arrived in Israel in
recent days, including 14 from the town of Raydah and a family of five from Sanaa, the Jewish Agency said in a statement, adding, The
group from Raydah included the communitys
rabbi, who brought a Torah scroll believed to be
between 500 and 600 years old.
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Difficulty Level: Challenging
where the group of Israelis had dined on Saturday morning, detonating himself moments after
they left.
Turkeys Haberturk newspaper reported
that police were examining closed-circuit
TV footage from the scene, which appeared
to corroborate the report that the suicide
bomber had followed the group of Israeli tourists for several miles from their hotel and then
waited outside the restaurant where they ate
breakfast.
The report suggested that the suicide
bomber, identified as Islamic State member
Mehmet Ozturk, recognized the Israelis were
speaking Hebrew and decided to target them
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for that reason.
Yemenite Jews are considered to be part of the
worlds oldest Jewish communities. According to
the Jewish Agency, there are 50 more Jews who
have chosen not to immigrate to Israel and remain in Yemen, despite the fact that Jews have
become increasingly targets of harassment and
violence by Muslims in the country.
In 2008, Jewish teacher Moshe Yaish alNahari was murdered in Raydeh because he was
Jewish. His widow and children moved to Israel
four years later. In 2012, another Jewish leader
in Raydeh, Aaron Joseph Zindani, also was murdered. The Jewish Agency later brought his coffin to Israel.
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Fair Lawn Jewish Center,
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15. Many a minor character on Simons
The Wire
16. Do hagbah
17. Part of an El Al plane
18. Rabbi Moshe Isserles (with The)
19. Places to wrap tefillin straps
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24. Uncle of Dan
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quiet?
40. James portrayed in Cadillac
Records with Adrien Brody
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48. Asimovs Murder at the ___
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55. Like the Torah
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64. Western Wall crowd, on many holidays
65. Pharaoh who may have enslaved the
Hebrews
66. Moshe or Yirmiyahu
67. Davids oldest
68. Make like frogs, as a plague
69. Sterns opposite end?
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 51.
Questions, contact Geri Lipschitz at gerilipschitz@hotmail.com
Down
1. Jenna in Keeping the Faith
2. High (kosher) grade
3. End of the new year?
4. It gets the attention of some congressmen
5. Shtreimels
6. Hivanti
7. ___ fatale (Delilah, for one)
8. Jericho residents
9. Karpas option
10. Great Baba
11. Tiberias neighbor
12. Einai preceder
13. Wallace in Spielbergs E.T.
21. Shalom, to Vito
22. Seven of ___ (kosher species on the
Ark)
26. He liked killing Nazis in a 2009 film
27. Famous dog in Edward G. Robinsons
I Am The Law
30. Israeli dough, familiarly
32. Six Days of War writer
33. Locale in Kubricks The Shining
34. Be a klutz
35. What we do to a shankbone on
Passover
36. A midrash might be one
37. Suffix for Zuckerberg and Bloomberg
38. Like Pharaoh during the plagues
42. Mel Gibson, e.g.
43. Bartenura ___ Spumante
44. Weekly noseful
45. Raichel of song
48. Famous resting spot
49. Be good in gan
50. Maale follower
53. Common feeling for Woody Allen
54. Paul Rudd is part of one in
Anchorman (and its sequel)
56. Blueish shades around the Dead Sea
58. ___-Hittite (language family)
59. Little Man ___ (film with Debi
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Arts & Culture

New Directors New Films
Film festival in Manhattan looks at new Israeli work
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
or the very first time, the New

Directors New Films series,
sponsored jointly by the Film
Society of Lincoln Center and
the Museum of Modern Art, selected three
Israeli films to be screened as part of its
annual spring series. Two of the three
films take place within Jerusalems Orthodox world and the third is set in todays
Poland. The series runs through the end
of this week, but these Israeli films should
be in theaters later this year.
The question of why recent Israeli cinema has focused so intensely on charedim
and eastern Europe is well worth considering. It certainly is appropriate to reflect
on the political climate and developments
within a society that might affect the kind
of topics covered on screen. A scholar or
keen observer may look at events and societal changes and find clear reasons that
may have influenced the movies. What is
harder to explain is the incredible recent
growth of the Israeli film industry, short of
the fact that there is more government and
foundation money available today to make
movies. For decades, Israeli filmmakers
found it exceptionally hard to find funding to make movies, but in the last 15 years
that has changed radically.
In a most curious way, the kind of funding that has become available has had a
deep impact on the subjects that Israeli
filmmakers now tackle. With major funding from the city of Jerusalem, meant to
encourage movie-making there, along with
monies from such foundations as Gesher
and Avi Chai, life within the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem world is fast becoming a
new genre of Israeli cinema. Gesher and
Avi Chai are promoting a greater understanding between Jewish subcultures, and
they have been funding very successful
television programming and a few movies on related subjects for more than a
decade. That, combined with incentives
the municipality offers, has resulted in a
proliferation of films about ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel. This, coupled with a
cinematic revolution within the ultraOrthodox community, has put chasidim
on screen more than ever before
Nearly 40 years ago, when one of Israels greatest film directors and actors, Uri
Zohar, become a baal teshuvah, a bornagain Jew, he totally rejected the notion
that he would continue making movies
as sacrilege. But much has changed in
the last 15 years, and the charedi world,
which continues to shun television and
traditional movie houses, has permitted
Scene from Mountain
Scene from Demon
filmmaking within its midst. In 2004,

baal teshuvah Shuli Rand turned to Gidi
Dar, a friend from his earlier life, and
made Ushpizin, a film about how, just
before and during the festival of Sukkot, a married couples faith is tested.
The films worldwide success surprised
most Israelis. Another recent development is the cultivation of a charedi
women as film audiences. These women
have found comfort in a select group of
films made specifically for them by ultraOrthodox women filmmakers, some of
whom trained in Israels best film schools
before becoming observant. Three years
ago, one of these filmmakers, Americanborn Rama Burshtein, had her film Fill
the Void play at the New York Film Festival. Now it seems that everyone wants to
make movies about charedim!
Mountain, Yaelle Kayams debut feature film, uses the Mount of Olives, overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, as its
primary setting. Zvia (Shani Klein), her
husband Reuven (Avshalom Polak) and
their four children live on the edge of the
cemetery. Director Kayam develops a fascinating story about this frum womans
growing connection to the cemetery, setting it in total opposite to her relationship
with her husband. As Zvia and Reuven
grow apart, the landscape of the mountain
Scene from Tikkun
and the secrets held within its stones

become more and more alluring. Shani
Klein (Zero Motivation) gives us a powerful performance.
The second Jerusalem film, Tikkun,
revolves around Haim-Aaron (Aharon
Traitel), a Meah Shearim yeshiva student
who is struggling as he paves new talmudic inroads. Recognized by his teachers and peers as an illui, a prodigy, his
intense study leads him through a variety of intense physical struggles until he
finally passes out, leading him on a journey that alternates between the world of
the yeshiva and the forbidden. Director
Avishai Sivan does not hold back on his
choice of expressive and often inelegant
visuals, sometimes going beyond the limits
of what we might consider R-rated cinema,
as he takes us back and forth between
these worlds and between the dominion
of the living and dead. This is a film about
a shochet father who ritually slaughters
meat for a living and the son who literally sacrifices himself in his search for
meaning. A little bit of the talmudic Elisha
Ben-Abuyah?
Demon is a Polish-Israeli coproduction that touches on what is becoming a
popular film form in Poland the ongoing
presence of the Jewish past in that country today. In the last several years, more
funding has become available to explore

such topics; in this instance, support came
from the Polish government. Jews lived in
Poland for a millennium; during the Shoah
90 percent of the three million strong Jewish community was murdered, some by
Poles. Those facts, and lack of Jewish presence in Poland today, has been a controversial part of Polish filmmaking these last
many years. Now, Polish director Marcin
Wrona digs in to continue the exploration. When Peter (Israeli actor Itay Tiran)
arrives from England to marry Zaneta
(Agnieszka Zulewska) at the country estate
that Zanetas father is bequeathing them
in rural Poland, he finds human skeletal
remains on the property. That discovery
will haunt him throughout his Polish Catholic wedding, which begins the next day, as
he is joined by an uninvited and very dead
Jewish guest from the past. Wronas film is
truly superb, highlighted by an extraordinary performance by Tiran, whose body
becomes possessed by a dybbuk.
New Directors New Films is taking place
at both Lincoln Center and the Museum of
Modern Art through March 27. For more
information, go to newdirectors.org.
Eric Goldman is founder of Ergo Media,
a distributor of Jewish film. He is adjunct
professor of cinema at Yeshiva University.
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Soloveichik
Lecture in Monsey:
Rabbi Dr. Meir Yaakov
Soloveichik discusses
The True Miracle of
Israel: Lessons From the
Zionism of Benachem
Begin at the annual
Israel and Pearl Stern
Memorial Lecture
at the Community
Synagogue of Monsey,
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Ave. (845) 356-2720 or
comsyn.org.
Internationally acclaimed comedian Jay

Leno will headline An Evening of Laughter
and Song, a benefit for United Hatzalah,
at the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in
Manhattan on Sunday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. JM-in-theAM radio host Nachum Segal will host the concert,
which is produced by Suki and Ding Productions. Eli
Beer, United Hatzalahs founder, will honor United
Hatzalah volunteers. Concert proceeds will be used to
purchase medical equipment for the United Hatzalah
volunteers in Israel. For tickets, call (646) 833-7108 or
go to www.jazz.org/events/t-5560.
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Friday
Saturday
MARCH 25
MARCH 26
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel offers an Esther
Extravaganza to
continue the Purim
celebration, 6:45 p.m.
Attendeeswill go to
interactive booths to
experience what Esther
was doing in body,
mind, and spirit as she
hid her identity and
then saved the Jewish
people. Services at
7:30. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
services, followed by a
Billy Joel Purim shpiel,
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.emeth.org.
Avi Melamed
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El of
Closter welcomes Avi
Melamed, a Middle East
strategic intelligence
analyst, as scholarin-residence. His talk,
during services that
begin at 9 a.m., will be
Emerging Challenges
and Opportunities
in the Middle East.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanu-el.com.
Purim ball in Oakland:

Fourth-to eighth-graders
are invited to a Purim
ball at the Academies
at Gerrard Berman Day
School with dancing,
volleyball, games, prizes,
and refreshments,
8-10:30 p.m. Participants
should bring a nonperishable food item
to donate. 45 Spruce
St. Registration,
(201) 337-1111 or www.
ssnj.org.
Music in Fair Lawn: The

Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
CBI holds its Broadway
cabaret, with Donna
Vivino, star of Les
Miserables, Wicked,
and Hairspray. Doors
open at 8 p.m.; show at
8:30. Dessert reception.
10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040 or
BroadwayCabaretNight@
fljc.com.
Dumont historian Dick

Burnon talks about
an Army Cover-Up:
The Mysterious Death
of a Revolutionary
War Hero, Brigadier
General Enoch Poor,
at a meeting of REAP
(Retired Executives and
Active Professionals)
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
10:30 a.m. Hell also show
a film, The Battle of
Monmouth. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 569-7900 or
www.jccotp.org.
Nutrition myths: Jenna

Amos, a registered
dietitian at the ShopRite
of Northvale, discusses
Nutrition Myth
Busting at the Jewish
Home Assisted Living
in River Vale, 2 p.m.
685 Westwood Ave.
(201) 666-2370.
led by Rabbi Nathaniel

Helfgot, 8:15 p.m. 950
Queen Anne Road. www.
lamdeinu.org.
Wednesday
MARCH 30
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Torah Academy of
Bergen County holds
a blood drive with
New Jersey Blood
Services, a division of
New York Blood Center,
10 a.m.-4 p.m. 1600
Queen Anne Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Pocketbook bingo
in Montebello: The
Montebello Jewish
Center hosts Designer
Pocketbook Bingo.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.;
bingo at 7. Designer
pocketbook prizes.
Tickets available in
advance. 34 Montebello
Road. (845) 357-2430 or
office@montebellojc.org.
Karyn Gershon
Book discussion in
Teaneck: As part of
the One Book One
Community project
sponsored by the
Jewish Federation
of Northern New
Jersey, Congregation
Beth Sholom offers a
discussion with Project
Keshers executive
director, Karyn Gershon,
on Jewish Life Today
in Belarus, Russia, and
Ukraine, 7 p.m. 354
Maitland Ave. www.
cbsteaneck.org or
(201) 833-2620.
Monday
MARCH 28
Cooking with eggs in
Tenafly: Chef Michael
Wolf offers a cooking
demo, The Incredible,
Edible Egg! at the
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 7 p.m. 411
E. Clinton Ave. Judy,
(201) 408-1457.
Tuesday
MARCH 29
Play group in Emerson:
Shalom Baby of Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey offers
a Mommy-and-Mestyle playgroup for
Yehuda Kurtzer
Scholar in Closter:
Book talk in Closter:

As part of the One
Book One Community
project sponsored by
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
Temple Beth El hosts
a discussion led by
congregants Julia Nock
and Susan Schwinger on
this years selection, A
Backpack, A Bear and
8 Crates of Vodka, a
memoir by Lev Golinkin,
at the shul, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Jewish genealogy in
River Edge: Barbara
Ellman, an expert on
Jewish genealogy,
speaks at Temple Avodat
Shalom, 7:30 p.m.
385 Howland Ave.
(201) 489-2463 or www.
avodatshalom.net.
Jewish learning in
Teaneck: Lamdeinu,
a center for Jewish
learning that meets
at Congregation Beth
Aaron, offers Insights
Into Shir HaShirim,
Temple Emanu-El
welcomes scholarin-residence Yehuda
Kurtzer, president of the
Shalom Hartman Institute
of North America, who
will discuss 21st Century
Judaism: Leadership
and Change in American
Jewish Life, 7:30 p.m.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanu-el.com.
Thursday
MARCH 31
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 1-7 p.m.
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.

Maayanot Yeshiva High
School for Girls holds a
blood drive and bone
marrow drive with New
Jersey Blood Services,
a division of New York
Blood Center, 4:309 p.m. 1650 Palisade Ave.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Calendar
Book talk in Fair Lawn:
As part of the One Book
One Community project
sponsored by the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey, Margie
Gelbwasser leads a
discussion on this years
selection, A Backpack,
A Bear and 8 Crates of
Vodka, a memoir by Lev
Golinkin, at the Maurice
M. Pine Free Public
Library, 7 p.m. Donations
of teddy bears or
backpacks welcome. 1001 Fair Lawn Ave. www.
FairLawnLibrary.org.
Reconstructionist
Judaism: Get an insiders
look at Reconstructionist
Judaism at a Recon
Salon led by Rabbi
Jacob Lieberman of
Reconstructionist
Congregation Beth Israel
in Ridgewood, 7 p.m.
Attendees will find out
what the movement
is about, why it was
founded, and how it has
evolved in congregations
today. The meeting, to
include a light dinner,
will be in a private home.
Reservations: office@
synagogue.org.
Friday
Sunday
APRIL 1
APRIL 3
Shabbat in Emerson:
Community breakfast
in Teaneck: Project
Congregation Bnai Israel

offers Town Hall, a
service with a discussion
on contemporary
issues, led by Rabbi
Debra Orenstein,
8 p.m. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272.
Saturday
APRIL 2
Casino/tricky tray
in Ridgewood: The
Academies at Gerrard
Berman Day School hold
a casino night/tricky tray
event at Temple Israel,
8:30-11:30 p.m. Roaring
20s-themed attire
encouraged. Admission
includes desserts,
coffee/tea bar, wine,
and one sheet of tickets.
BYO kosher beer. 475
Grove St. www.ssnj.org/
trickytray.
Sarah (Stop Abusive

Relationships At Home)
holds its 10th annual
community breakfast
at Congregation Keter
Torah, 9:30 a.m. Judy
Brown, author of Hush,
is the speaker. Childcare
available with preregistration. 600 Roemer
Ave. (973) 777-7638 or
www.projectsarah.org.
JNF breakfast in
Park Ridge: Jewish
National Fund holds a
community breakfast at
Temple Beth Sholom,
9:30 a.m. Rebecca
Shimoni-Stoil, the Times
of Israels Washington
correspondent, is the
speaker. 32 Park Ave.
(973) 593-0095, ext. 823
or JNF.org/community
breakfast.
Shulem Deen in
Hoboken: Memoirist
and Jewish Book
Council award-winner
Shulem Deen will talk
about All Who Go Do
Not Return, his book

about life and struggles
as a Skverer chasid, at
brunch at the United
Synagogue of Hoboken,
10:30 a.m. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or office@
hobokensynagogue.org.
Charity vendor/craft
show in Tenafly:
558 High Mountain Road.

(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
In New York
Monday
MARCH 28
An indoor/outdoor
vendor show to benefit
Alzheimers New Jersey,
is at the Tenafly Elks
Club, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 20
Franklin St.
Party showcase in Park

Ridge: Celebrate! Party
Showcases holds a bar/
bat mitzvah planning
event, presented by
Mitzvah Market, at the
Park Ridge Marriott,
noon-4 p.m. 300 Brae
Boulevard. Sign up in at
CelebrateShowcase.com.
Film in Franklin Lakes:

Temple Emanuel of
North Jersey offers
The Middleton Family
at The New York
Worlds Fair, a 1939
docudrama produced
by the Westinghouse
Corporation, 2 p.m.
Popcorn and ice cream.
Frederick M. Lawrence
Free speech discussed:
Legal scholar Frederick
M. Lawrence of Yale Law
School discusses the
Changing Boundaries
of Free Speech for
the Bernard G. Segal
Memorial Lecture at
the Jewish Theological
Seminary, 7:30 p.m.
Lawrence also is a past
president of Brandeis
University and an
expert on civil rights,
free expression, and
bias crimes. Marc Gary,

executive vice chancellor
and chief operating
officer of JTS and former
general counsel of
Fidelity Investments and
BellSouth Corporation,
will moderate. JTS, 3080
Broadway (at 122nd
Street) in Manhattan.
Reservations and photo
ID required. Email
heguzman@jtsa.edu to
register. www.jtsa.edu/
freespeech. The lecture
will also be livestreamed
at www.jtsa.edu/live
(registration not required
for the livestream).
Singles
Sunday
APRIL 3
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social bagels
and lox brunch at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All
are welcome, particularly
those from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
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Womens spring concert
Dinner and cabaret in

Clifton: North Jersey
Jewish Singles 40s-60s,
a group sponsored by
the Clifton Jewish Center,
hosts a spring dance
and buffet dinner with
cabaret entertainment
by Nate Tiffe, 5:30 p.m.
A Boomers Dance will
follow with favorite
party music by a
DJ. 18 Delaware St.
(973) 772-3131 or www.
meetup.com.
Welcoming Spring, a concert for girls and

women, is on Sunday, March 27 at YBH of
Passaic. Doors will open at 1:45 p.m.
Featured performances include
Ashira, the schools middle school
girls choir; Nashira, the Passaic womens choir; choreographer/dancer Etti
Rosenblum; dancer Rena Stern; singer/
songwriter Elana Greenspan; the Tribe
Youth Dancers; harpist Chayala Hauptman; soloists, and accompanists, including Sandy Sudberg, director osf music/
performing arts at North Shore Hebrew
Academy.
The school is at 270 Passaic Ave. A portion of the proceeds will benefit security
enhancement at YBH. For information,
call or text (201) 213-1426.
Discussion centers on ending poverty

World Bank president Dr.
as by UTS.
Jim Yong Kim will speak
In 2014, Dr. Kim invited
at the at Union Theologifaith-based organizations
cal Seminary in Manhatand religious leaders to
tan on Wednesday, April
discuss ways to work
6, at 7 p.m. Dr. Kim will
together to end extreme
discuss the moral imperpoverty worldwide by
ative to end extreme
2030. In 2015, the United
poverty and the role that
Nations member states
religious communities
voted to include ending
Dr. Jim Yong Kim
can play in achieving that
extreme poverty as its
goal.
sustainable development
The talk is co-sponsored by the
goal for the next 15 years.
Jewish Theological Seminarys MilKarenna Gore, director of the Censtein Center for Interreligious Diater for Earth Ethics at UTS, will modlogue and Riverside Church, as well
erate. The respondents are Sarah
Sayeed, senior advisor in the Community Affairs Unit of the Mayors

Office of New York City, and Ruth W.
Messinger, president of American
Jewish World Service, the worlds
leading Jewish organization working
to end poverty and realize human
rights in the developing world.
This panel will be live streamed,
at no charge, beginning at 7 p.m. JTS
invites synagogues and other Jewish communal organizations to hold
a public screening of the program.
Admission is free, but reservations
are required. Arrive 15 minutes early
and bring photo ID.
Closter shuls
host film screening
Temple Beth El
of Northern Valley of Closter will
show the film
I Shall Not Be
Silent on Thursday, April 7, at
10 a.m. Temple
Emanu-El, also
of Closter, will
screen the film at
7:30 p.m.
Joachim Prinz was a young rabbi in 1930s Berlin,
as the Hitler regime was rising to power and stripping Jews of their civil rights. Rabbi Prinz urged Jews
to leave Germany. Although the Nazis monitored his
sermons and repeatedly arrested him, Rabbi Prinz
continued to preach and did not modify his message.
Expelled from Germany in 1937, Rabbi Prinz arrived
in the United States and was horrified to witness racism against African Americans. He became a leader
of the civil rights movement and spoke at the March
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, which
marked its 50th anniversary this year. He also was the
rabbi at Temple Bnai Abraham in Newark which
later moved to Livingston for 38 years.
Light refreshments will be served at both synagogues, and Beth El will sell lunch at 11:30. For program information or reservations at Beth El, call (201)
768-5112 or go to www.tbenv.org. For program information at Temple Emanu-El, call (201) 750-9997 or go
to www.templeemanu-el.com.
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The mens club of Teanecks Congregation Beth Aaron

is selling wine for Pesach. This year, it is partnering
with Yehoshua Werth and Grapevine Wine & Spirits of
Wesley Hills for a wine-tasting on March 27. Mr. Werth
hosts a popular YouTube channel, the GrapeVineWines, where he reviews kosher wines and spirits.
For those looking to enhance their knowledge of
wine, there will be a wine-tasting class with Yehoshua
at 6:30 p.m., before the wine-tasting. Admission
includes a range of wines not available at the tasting, food, history, and a Torah talk. A free tasting will
be from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. A wine list is available on
the shul website at www.bethaaron.org/winesale. All
orders must be received by 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April
5. There is free delivery in Teaneck and Bergenfield
with orders of $150 or more or if you attend the winetasting class. Orders under $150 can be picked up in
Teaneck on April 10 or 17.
The event is at the shul, 950 Queen Anne Road in
Teaneck. Email mensclub@bethaaron.org.
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff

Lake hosts its annual kosher wine-tasting on Saturday,
April 2, at 8:15 p.m. Orders placed will be available in
time for Passover. Admission includes homemade
hors doeuvres and catered desserts.
The wine-tasting is at the shul, 87 Overlook Drive.
Call (201) 391-0801 or go to www.tepv.org.
Gallery
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n 1 Jersey Citys Mayor Steven Fulop, Bris Avrohom

rabbis, and Yellowstone Capitals CEO, Isaac Stern,
put up mezuzahs at the opening of Yellowstones
offices in Jersey City. The office has a kosher cafeteria and a daily minyan. From left, Bris Avrohoms
Torah education and youth director, Rabbi Avremy
Kanelsky; Yellowstones senior underwriter, Steve
Davis; Capitols president, Jeff Reece; Mayor Fulop; Mr. Stern; BAs executive director, Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky, and BAs Jersey City director,
Rabbi Baruch Lepkivker. COURTESY BRIS AVROHOM
n 2 Valley Chabad Friendship Circle held its annual
Sports League trophy presentation at Dorchester
Gym in Woodcliff Lake. From left, Woodcliff Lake
officer Keith Kalmbach; Congressman Scott Garretts
community relations director, Christina Garfinkle;
Woodcliff Lake officer James Foley; Friendship Circle Director Rabbi Yosef Orenstein; participant Jordan Grabow; volunteer Zech Dittleman, and Woodcliff Lake Mayor Carlos Rendo. COURTESY CHABAD
n 3 More than 40 students worked with Broadway
star Andrew Chappelle at the Rosen Performing Arts
Center at the Wayne YMCA for a musical theater
workshop based on the Broadway show Hamilton.
Afterward, 24 students worked with a talent manager from Shirley Grant Management to hone their
musical theater audition skills. The workshop is part
7
of an ongoing partnership between the Rosen PAC and A Class
Act NY, a NYC based, award-winning acting studio. A CLASS ACT NY
n 4 The Peninote Choir of Teaneck, led by Batya Harris, sang songs, including Purim tunes, with residents of CareOne at Teaneck. PHOTO PROVIDED
n 5 Lubavitch on the Palisadess Hebrew school and
its TLZ Club welcomed two IDF soldiers for a Round
Table Talk on their army experiences. The talk was in appreciation of the FIDF Food Drive, which TLZ held
this year to raise funds for the IDF. COURTESY LOTP
n 6 The Jewish Home at Rockleigh hosted a celebration for

resident Evelyn Laubs 100th birthday. Her guests, shown
here, include her daughter, Michelle Gately, 79; granddaughter, Lori Fotovich, 58; great-grandson, Jason Fotovich, 34; and
great-great-grandson, Brandon Fotovich, 6. COURTESY JHR
n 7 Students at the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies had a Shabbaton weekend at Surprise Lake
Camp in Cold Spring, N.Y. Along with study sessions,
there were card game challenges led by Fred Nagler,
smore making, and celebrations. COURTESY BCHSJS
Jewish World
A year after Nismans death,

signs of progress in Argentina probe
NOGA TARNOPOLSKY
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA An extraordinary series of developments are bringing
new hope and new heartbreak to the
family and colleagues of Alberto Nisman, the
Argentine federal prosecutor who was found
dead last year just days after accusing thenPresident Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of
covering up Irans role in the 1994 bombing
of this citys AMIA Jewish center.
Fourteen months after Nisman was found
dead in his apartment with a single bullet
in the head, no autopsy results have been
released and no official cause of death has
been determined.
But on February 29, Antonio Jaime Stiuso, Argentinas former head of intelligence
operations, who has been living in exile in
the United States for the past year, delivered
bombshell testimony here, accusing Kirchner of ordering a hit on Nisman and seeking
to portray his death as a suicide.
They killed Nisman because of the work
he was doing, Stiuso said in testimony lasting 17 uninterrupted hours, according to
many media reports.
The author of all this madness was that
woman, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner,
he said. When the madness of the former
president became explicit, I had to take my
family and move.
Stiuso wasnt done. Referring to Iran,
he said, When you have these people as
your enemy, theres no point in having
bodyguards.
At the time of his death, Nisman, 51, had
been under guard by a contingent of officers
from the Argentine Federal Police. Their
absence from his residence on the night of
January 18, 2015, has yet to be explained.
Hours after Stiuso finished testifying,
the presiding judge, Fabiana Palmaghini,
who took charge of the probe in December,
excused herself from handling the case. In
a document over 30 pages long that she
managed to produce in a matter of hours,
Palmaghini charged Viviana Fein, the investigator of Nismans death, with ignoring testimony Stiuso provided in 2015 in which he
allegedly said Nisman was killed. Hours after
Nismans death was discovered, and for no
known reasons, Fein announced she was
investigating it as a suicide.
The developments come exactly 100 days
into Mauricio Macris term as president, and
some see them as part of his campaign to
convince world leaders that he can restore
Argentinas global standing. Since he took
office in December, he has been visited in
Buenos Aires by the leaders of France and
Italy. And on Wednesday President Obama
arrived, accompanied by 400 American
business leaders, on the first state visit to
Argentina by a U.S. president in 27 years.
On Monday, at a news conference held
in anticipation of Obamas visit, Foreign
In Buenos Aires, a vigil was held on the first anniversary of AMIA prosecutor Alberto Nismans death.

OMER MUSA TARGAL/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES
I couldnt keep
this evidence to
myself either for
me or for the
country. And well,
Ill end up as I
end up.
ALBERTO NISMAN
Minister Susana Malcorra described the governments task as inserting Argentina in the
world as if the Kirchner years had caused
it to fall off the planet.
Macris presidency began with a flourish,
annulling what was left of Kirchners pact to
investigate the AMIA bombing jointly with
Iran. Nisman had accused Tehran of masterminding the attack and produced evidence
that led Interpol to issue extradition requests
against senior Iranian officials, including a
former foreign minister.
Last week, appearing before the first
meeting of the World Jewish Congress to
be held in Latin America, Macri promised
to advance the investigation and lamented
the harm done to Argentinas international
reputation by the lack of progress in the
AMIA probe and the scandal surrounding
Nismans death.
But now we are determined to bring
what happened to light, Macri told The
Associated Press.
Nisman had devoted the last decade of
his life to investigating the AMIA bombing, which left 85 dead and hundreds
wounded. Four days before his death, he
charged Kirchner with attempting to cover
up Tehrans role.
Last week, Daniel Berliner, the director of Argentinas Jewish news service,
Agencia Juda de Noticias, released what
he claims is the last recording of Nismans
voice. In a telephone call conducted two
days before he was found dead, Nisman
spoke with eerie clarity.
I knew that no matter what, I had to
do this, Nisman said. I couldnt keep this
evidence to myself either for me or for the
country. And well, Ill end up as I end up.
As long as the truth is known.
Formally, Nismans death is still considered a suspicious death and is being
handled by a lower court. On Friday, in
small, stuffy chambers on the fifth floor
of the Criminal Court building in downtown Buenos Aires, a panel of three judges
heard arguments about the future handling of the case.
The state, which under Kirchner wanted
the investigation kept in lower court,
under Macri has joined Nismans family in
requesting its reclassification as a possible
homicide and federal crime.

Federal Prosecutor Natalio Alberto Nisman was assassinated so as to impede the
progress of his work on behalf of the state!
thundered Pablo Lanusse, a towering legal
figure in Argentina who is representing Nismans mother, Sara Garfunkel.
The intense, soft-spoken attorney Manuel
Romero Victorica, acting on behalf of Nismans former wife and his daughters, quietly
read aloud one of the many threats emailed
to Nisman in his last frenzied months of
work: We will make true our promise to kill
you and your family, but before that, we will
make you look like shit in public and in the
media. Weve already managed to separate
you from the AMIA case and weve gotten
Argentina a deal with Iran without you.
Sandra Arroyo Salgado, Nismans former
wife and herself a judge, broke down in
tears as she described her dual role as the
mother of her daughters and as a judicial figure in her own right.
We have been through a very complicated
year of malevolence and fear, she declared,
describing how she and her daughters have
been publicly smeared. When they talk
about Nismans little ex-wifey, thats me. How
can I tell my daughter that when she hears
threats she shouldnt be afraid?
The panel is scheduled to decide whether
the Nisman case will be transferred to a
federal court on Wednesday, the day of
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Obamas arrival.
Obituaries
Riva Berkenblit
Riva S. Berkenblit, ne Isaacs, 84, of Hackensack,

formerly of Paterson, and Yorktown Heights, N.Y.,
died March 17. Before retiring she was a teacher in
Yorktown Heights. Predeceased by her husband,
Melvin, and siblings, George Isaacs and Lorraine
Isaacs, she is survived by her children, Michael (Lisa)
of Florida, Ellen Astrachan ( Joshua) of Brooklyn, Joan
Warner (Douglas) of Glen Rock, and Robert (Kiera)
of New York; a sister, Norma Wagner (Hyman) of
Hackensack; and six grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
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in New York City.
A daughter, Vicki Richards of East Windsor,
and siblings, Daniel Levenstein of Florida, Fred
Groveman of Paramus, and Pearl Gusick of New York
survive her.
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Fort Lee.
Gloria Zimmerman
Gloria Zimmerman, ne Goldenberg, 86, of Fort

Lee, died March 18. She was a piano teacher for
many years.
She is survived by her husband, Morton; children,
Ilise Zimmerman of Haworth, and Richard of
Arizona; a brother, Arthur Goldenberg of East
Brunswick; and three grandchildren.
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Germany, he was a Holocaust survivor and
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predeceased by his parents, Paul & Emma
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City. Larry is survived by his wife Lotte
of 64 years, his daughter Elaine, son-inlaw Reinaldo, grandchildren, Michael
and Alexis; as well as his nieces, Susan
and Silvie Pick of Mexico City, and their
children. Above all Larry loved his family,
magic, traveling, and was involved with
many Jewish causes. He spoke to the
students at New Milford High School about
the Holocaust. He was a past president of
the New Milford Jewish Center. He worked
as a steel salesman for American Strip
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were held on March 13 at Gutterman
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Hackensack, NJ, followed by interment at
Beth El Cemetery. Donations can be made
to the Holocaust Museum.
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Participants in the teen-founded program get the tools, contacts
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Amit Kochavi, an 18-year-old entrepreneur
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other teenagers with high-tech ambitions
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Two years ago, he created a four-month
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high school, Gymnasia Herzliya.
Now with more than 40 mentors on
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Ironi Tet High School in Tel Aviv, the Hebrew
Reali School in Haifa and a high school in
Los Angeles, the city where Kochavi just
completed a five-month internship at FastPay as a software engineer before going into
the IDF.
About 120 students signed up this year,
and he predicts 80 will complete the accelerator a respectable percentage considering the heavy demands of high school.
Students who participate in these accelerators get the tools, knowledge and experience
that are needed to get started on their way in
the Israeli innovation world, Kochavi says.
During the four months they meet twice
a week with mentors from the high-tech
world investors, engineers, marketing
and design people, the whole spectrum
and slowly develop themselves to the point
where they have a business presentation
and whatever they need to pursue it on their

own.
By getting exposure to people who have
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and have a lot of opportunities for access to
professionals.
Bat Sheva Markovich, a teacher at Ironi
Tet, and students Shay Dahan of Tel Aviv
and Itay Forlit of Haifa have helped Kochavi
develop and run Tech Lounges weekly
meetings and periodic hackathons.
On March 3, Tech Lounge
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and entrepreneurship from
alumni of Israel Defense
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Kochavi designed this new
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Amit Kochavi, founder of
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decide to enter hightech entrepreneurship several years

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army you lose some
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his computer science teacher and joined
with two friends in order to advance
their idea for an app to help solve parking problems in Tel Aviv.
Every week we had meetings with
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We had one meeting with [Tel Aviv]
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good solution because the technology
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No such thing as impossible

Kochavi, a startup entrepreneur since the
age of 14, graduated from Gymnasia Herzliya with a concentration in physics, computer science, and computational science.
He took university extension courses
throughout high school and took part in
the Tech Loft Incubator in Tel Aviv.
He was one of 120 students chosen
for Israels LEAD Ambassadors two-year
leadership-training program, and it was in
this context that he started Tech Lounge.
In the future, he wants to take it off campus into one or several central Israeli locations, and establish Tech Lounge in the US
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Kochavi also hopes to create a venture
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of an age where they arent yet aware of
limitations.
I love talking with very young, enthusiastic, serious, unbiased bright kids. Sometimes they dont know there are things
that are considered impossible to be done
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These kids are mastering the wave of
new technology and simply utilizing it.
Its fun and exciting, Intrator continues.
The goal is to drive their curiosity and
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