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Miriam
Sterns
style
Portrait of
the artist as a
Teaneck pioneer
and a child
of Orthodox
German refugees
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Scientists discover where Titus
breached Jerusalem walls
Israel Antiquities Authority excavation site in the Russian Compound of Jerusalem where scientists uncovered the Third Wall that surrounded the city in 70 CE.
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ON THE COVER: When she was a girl, Miriam Stern drew this face on the muslin
surface of one of her mothers sheitel stands.
CONTENTS
NOSHES4
BRIEFLY LOCAL 12
ROCKLAND14
OPINION 28
COVER STORY 36
DVAR TORAH...........................................41
CROSSWORD PUZZLE 42
ARTS & CULTURE 43
CALENDAR44
GALLERY 47
OBITUARIES48
CLASSIFIEDS50
REAL ESTATE 53
Noshes
AT THE MOVIES:
American Pastoral
deserves a peek
American Pastoral, from the
PHILIP ROTH novel
of the same name, had
its opening date changed
to October 21 fairly
recently, so I didnt write
about last week. The bad
news is that it could be
out of theaters as you
read this. The qualified
good news is that
reviews were either bad
or mixed and its probably not worth spending
the extra money for a
theater viewing. Still, its
worth at least a rental
because of all the Jewish
plot content.
Ewan McGregor stars
as Seymour Swede Levov. In the mid-1940s, his
athletic skills make him a
hero to other Jewish high
school students, who
nickname him Swede
because of his Nordic
good looks. His charmed
life continues as he marries a non-Jewish beauty
queen (JENNIFER CONNELLY, 45) and becomes
a successful businessman. But things go terribly awry in the late 60s
when his daughter (Dakota Fanning) disappears
after being accused of
a Vietnam War-related
violent act.
An interesting sidelight: McGregor, who
also directed Pastoral,
recently spoke to the
San Francisco Chronicle
about his Jewish family
ties. He said that after
the interview he was returning to Los Angeles to
observe Yom Kippur with
his wife, designer EVE
Phillip Roth
Jennifer Connelly
Eve Mavrakis
Amy Schumer
It included an in-depth
interview. The reporter
noted near the start of
the profile that Amys
mother had converted
to Judaism before marrying her first husband,
the father of Amys older
half-brother, JASON
STEIN, 40ish. By the way,
Sandra has been married
to (and divorced from)
three Jewish men: Jasons father, Amys father,
GORDON, and a Persian Jew. In her recent
memoir, The Girl with
the Lower Back Tattoo,
Schumer writes that her
mother was briefly married to a Persian Jew
long after her parents
marriage ended.
Variety is out with
its list of the annual
salaries (sometimes
estimated) of many TV
stars. Here are the
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Reading Genesis
Scholar compiles views of Bibles
first book through many lenses
I found that first lecture amazing, Dr. KisComedian Aaron Freeman
sileff said. I remember what it was about,
likes to say that Judaism is
the things she quoted.
the worlds longest running
It was about Parashat
book club. Five books a year,
Pikudei. She quoted
year after year, century after
the novelist Milan Kuncentury.
dera. I thought it was
And always the same five
Dr. Beth Kissileff
amazing, someone who
books.
knows so much about
Count Dr. Beth Kissileff
Jewish texts and also modern knowledge.
among the eager readers and boosters
Three years later, Dr. Kissileff was back
of the club, which just celebrated finishing Deuteronomy and beginning Genesis.
in Jerusalem, taking courses at Hebrew
Again.
University in Bible and midrash. Some of
Last year Dr. Kissileff she earned a
them counted toward her graduate studies, then under way at the University of
Ph.D. in comparative literature published Reading Genesis, a collection
Pennsylvania. This time, she went to Dr.
of 22 essays examining the biblical book
Zornbergs classes twice a week.
She brings a variety of modern texts
from the perspectives of a variety of
to bear on Tanach, Dr. Kissilef said. I
fields. Theres Alan Dershowitz writing
feel that what Im doing is an outgrowth
about justice and Abraham, and Dr. Ruth
of that.
Westheimer writing about Adam and Eve,
That approach, however, turned out not
and novelist and literary critic Ilan Stavans
to be desired at the University of Pennsylwriting about the Tower of Babel. And also
vanias graduate program in Bible.
there are lesser known political scientists
I wrote a paper about Deuteronomy
and neuroscientists and anthropologists
chapter 21, the egla arufa the ritual of
bringing their expertise to bear on the biblical book that started it all.
killing a calf when a traveler is killed by an
Its so exciting to get to start and end
unknown murderer. The professor said
reading the Torah every year, Dr. Kissileff
my ideas are coming too much from elsewhere. I said thats really true. My interest
said. Theres always more to know. As
in the Bible is in how ideas from elsewhere
deeply as you can know it, you can always
come into the Bible and change how we
go deeper. And in going deeper, you can
view it and how we access it.
always learn more.
You can call my book Ideas About the
Dr. Kissileff will be speaking on the book
Bible From Elsewhere.
on Monday, October 31, in Teanecks Congregation Beth Sholom the congregation
She ended up getting her Ph.D. from
where she grew up and where her parents
the department of comparative literature,
are still members. (Her father, Harry Kiswriting her dissertation on how Protessileff, has a chapter in the book offering a
tant translations of the psalms affected the
A Neuropsychological Interpretation of
poetry of such writers as George Herbert
Adam and Eve.)
and John Milton.
She taught for a number of years at
Part of my motivation for the book is to
colleges including the University of Minshow intelligent intellectual engaged Jews
nesota. Now she writes and lives in Pittsthat theres a lot thats valuable in the Bible
burgh, with her husband and two of their
that they can learn from, she said.
three daughters; the oldest is in college.
If any one person shaped Dr. Kissileffs
Her first novel, Questioning Return,
understanding of how to read the Bible,
comes out next month. It is about a gradit would be Dr. Aviva Zornberg, whose
uate student studying baalei teshuva in
classes on the weekly Torah portion Dr.
Jerusalem.
Kissileff discovered while studying in Jerusalem, at the Conservative movements
The direct genesis of Reading Genesis
yeshiva, during her junior year of college.
came from a Rosh Hashanah dvar Torah
Youre an English major; youll like
from a fellow academic several years ago.
her, a fellow student told her. That was
I asked him what he said in the dvar
in 1988, when Dr. Zornberg was still a JeruTorah, she said. It wasnt particularly
salem word-of-mouth phenomenon, seven
interesting until he got to some of his political science ideas and how they shaped the
years before she won the National Jewish
Akeida, the story of the binding of Isaac.
Book Award for The Beginning of Desire:
SEE GENESIS PAGE 54
Reflections on Genesis.
LARRY YUDELSON
Praying for
the election
Temple Emanuel in Franklin Lakes
will blend U.S. history with Jewish
values during Friday night services
Rabbi Prouser is not
a historian by training
To understate, this has
but American history
been an unusually toxic
seems to be a magnet for his interest, a
election season.
recurrent theme in my
No matter what your
rabbinate, he said;
party or whom your candidate, the hurled insults
he frequently finds
and dripped scorn have
himself drawn to the
l e f t s c o rc h e d e a r t h
places where Jewish
behind. It cant possibly
and American values
end soon enough.
intersect.
Rabbi Joseph Prouser
That certainly will be
of Temple Emanuel of
true next Friday night.
Rabbi Joseph Prouser
Rabbi Prouser plans
North Jersey in Franklin
to structure the eveLakes isnt going to wait
ning as a traditional Friday night seruntil the election, on Tuesday, November 8, is over to start the necessary healvice, he said. A few lines from 10 presiing process. Instead, on the Friday night
dents Washington, Madison, Adams,
before thatll be November 4 he
Lincoln, among others will be read
plans to include prayers and quotes from
during Kabbalat Shabbat. Most of
American history, offering an opportuthe longer texts will come in place of
nity to step back and think deeply about
Bameh Madlikin, the Mishnah about
the steps that we are going to be taking,
the specifics of candle lighting that
he said.
many shuls most of them Orthodox
I specifically wanted to address the
read between the end of Kabbalat
issue in the context of prayer, rather
Shabbat and the beginning of Arvit; he
than debate or study or some other pubhopes that a discussion will follow.
lic forum, because I believe that Jewish
Those readings are the work of figures as diverse as Rabbi Stephen Wise,
prayer has three important elements,
Bob Dylan, and the Netherlands Queen
Rabbi Prouser, who is Conservative,
Juliana. There also is a quote from Marcontinued. In prayer, we aspire to our
garet Chase Smith, the Republican from
higher selves, we recognize that we have
Maine who was in Congress, first in the
a responsibility that goes beyond ourselves to a greater good, and this part
House and then in the Senate, for 30
I think is unique to Jewish prayer it
years, was the first woman to be a presidential candidate, and was such a powputs us in touch with our history as well
erful and articulate spokesperson for
as our hopes. So much of Jewish prayer
American governance and the Ameriis not petitionary or confessional, but
can dream, Rabbi Prouser said. She
immerses us in our past.
was the only woman member of ConI think that as Americans, heading
gress at the time, and the first member
into this election in particular, getting
in touch with our higher selves and feeling responsible for the history that is
What: Pre-Election Day Prayers
entrusted to us, that is in our temporary
Where: Temple Emanuel of North
safekeeping, is critical.
Jersey, 558 High Mountain Road,
And yes, he added, in this case, the
Franklin Lakes
history hes talking about is American
When: Friday, November 4, at 6:30
history.
p.m.
What are the values and ideals that
What else: Shabbat family dinner
animate the American experiment?
follows; registration required by
These are the historical ideas that people
Monday, October 31.
should be grappling with. What repreFor information or dinner
sents the best of our history? What repregistration: www.tenjfl.org or (201)
resents continuity with the vision of the
560-0200.
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of Congress to denounce Joe McCarthy.
She did so in a speech that was clear,
forceful, straightforward, and extraordinary. It took a great deal of courage,
he said. She was a Republican, but she
did not want to see her party come into
power on what she called the four horsemen of calumny fear, ignorance, bigotry
and smears.
I specifically
wanted to address
the issue in the
context of prayer,
rather than
debate or study
or some other
public forum.
Rabbi Prouser plans to conclude the service with the words of the Reverend Peter
Marshall, who was chaplain of the United
States Senate from 1947 to 1949. Im a real
Abraham Lincoln
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When I started looking
through this stuff, I
realized that yes, it will
be fun, but there are a
lot of progressive
things in it. It puts
some of the rabbis in a
very good light.
contraception. Those women must use it, they said, and
other women may use it.
But contraception? They didnt have birth control pills.
What did they know? They had sterility potions, there
was a kind that was kind of permanent and another that
was temporary; you had to take it once a month. They
had something that youd insert after you smeared it
with spermicide. We actually have the recipe for some of
the spermicides, but they dont give the exact amounts.
Medical scholars have looked at them and said yeah,
they would have worked, but theres not much difference between a dose that would have been ineffective
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And so we
thought, why
not start to
document these
stories on film,
told in their own
words, capturing
the mannerisms
and trademarks
that make them
so unique to us?
premiere the film on November 1 and then
screen it at an upcoming management
meeting for hundreds of employees.
Though docyourstory isnt meant to
be a Jewish business, nearly all the commissions so far have been from Jewish
families. And some of the films have an
intensely personal aspect for Ms. Mendelsohn and Ms. Greenberg.
In addition to documenting their grandparents, the two women traveled to
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Yeshiva University stands alone as a vibrant institution where students immerse themselves in
academics and extracurricular pursuits, while simultaneously living a Torah lifestyle. At other schools,
exams on Yom Tov, games on Shabbat and BDS rallies are elements of the college experience
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Achieving their academic, recreational and spiritual goals is why YU students find outstanding
success when applying to graduate schools and entering their chosen careers including 94% (44
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Women of Reform Judaisms Atlantic district hosts its annual convention at the
Wyndham Hamilton Park Hotel in Florham Park from November 3 to 6. The
biennial gathering will address challenges
facing the Jewish community in the 21st
century and advances in womens leadership. The district comprises New Jersey,
parts of Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
Speakers include Maggie Anton,
author of Fifty Shades of Talmud and
Rashis Daughters, (see page 8); Fraidy
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Practical goodness
Two 18-year-olds one from Rockland, one from Bergen
win Diller awards for making real change possible
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Two local 18-year-olds Valerie
Weisler of New City, N.Y., and Zachary
Stier of Paramus went to San Francisco in August to accept a $36,000
national Diller Teen Tikkun Olam
award from the Helen Diller Family
Foundation in recognition of their
workable solutions to critical issues
facing society today.
Ms. Weisler founded the Validation
Project, an international nonprofit
organization that empowers teens to
gain self-confidence, overcome bullying and other personal obstacles,
and tap into their talents to work for
Valerie Weisler accepts her award at the JCF luncheon.
social justice.
Shes flanked by representatives of the Diller Foundation,
One-on-one tutoring is featured in YMath, the brainchild of
The idea grew out of an incident in
Adele Corvin, left, and Susan Epstein.
Diller winner Zachary Stier.
high school, when she came across
a student being bullied and
far, the tutors have invested 4,000 hours
which my great-grandparents felt a strong
heart: kindness, selflesssaid to him, You matter! His
ness, stepping out of your
helping more than 200 students, working
connection, he said.
response, that her words validated him, planted the seeds
comfort zone.
from personalized teaching plans tailored
Although I am more culturally than
for her mission, which has
She credits her mother,
to meet every students individual needs.
religiously observant, I feel proud of and
grown to encompass chapters
Bonnie Weisler, for our
More advanced students work with the
connected to my heritage, he continued.
in 105 countries.
talks at the kitchen table
tutor volunteers to discover new appliYMath embodies the spirit of Judaism and
cations for their skills and to prepare for
Participants in the Validation
brainstorming ideas, and
tikkun olam. It exemplifies that no matter
math leagues and competitions.
Project partner with mentors in
to her mentor, Jessica Abo,
how young or old we are, and no matter
In 2014, Mr. Stier was named Youth Voltheir field of interest and then
for being such a strong
what we perceive as our own skill set, we
unteer of the Year by the New Jersey YMCA
design campaigns to have a possupport system, personcan help other people and make a positive
itive impact on their communiZachary Stier
ally and professionally.
State Alliance. Now a freshman planning to
difference in someones life.
ties. The Validation Project also
The Diller award is going
major in math at Princeton University, he
He is using the Diller award toward
incorporates a kindness curriculum that
toward her education for now. Later on,
hopes to expand YMath to additional locatuition and toward materials for his tutortions throughout the country.
ing program.
has replaced government-led anti-bullying
I have some ideas up my sleeve for how
Running YMath is an important part of
In all, 14 young leaders from across
courses in nearly 1,000 schools across the
we will use it for The Validation Project,
my schedule, and it is a tremendously satthe nation were selected by committees
globe.
she added.
isfying part of each week, he said. The
of educators and community leaders to
So far, 6,000 teens have gone through
Ms. Weisler, who experienced bullying
feedback from the students and parents
receive 2016 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam
the program, 38,500 teens have joined
firsthand when she was a child, said that
makes running the program rewarding
Awards. The prizes were presented at
chapters, 3,000 adults have become menher friends are patient with her rants
tors, and $40,000 in goods and services
and I am excited to continue to see the
San Franciscos Four Seasons Hotel after
about social justice and allow her the
have been donated in support of the projprogram thrive and hopefully grow.
a weekend-long networking and mentorspace to be a kid as well as a CEO. Her mesect. The organizations operations are hansage to other teens is to listen to the peoing spree, during which teens exchanged
Mr. Stier notes his gratitude to the prindled by 1,500 people globally.
ple who tell you, You cant do that, and
cipal of the Bergen County Academies,
ideas with peers and got a chance to meet
Ms. Weisler, who is now a pre-law freshgo prove them wrong. Use their disbelief
Russell Davis, for offering to host the proDiller Teen Tikkun Olam Award alumni.
man majoring in international studies and
gram when the first location he found
in your abilities to go kick some butt and
The Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards
education at Muhlenberg College, has
became unavailable, and to Rob Avolio of
shake up the world.
program provides the opportunity to
been recognized by the White House, the
Avolio & Hanlon, who provides pro bono
Mr. Stiers initiative, YMath, stemmed
recognize and support the next generation of youth committed to making posiU.N., the State Department, the NFL, Sevlegal advice.
from his enjoyment of tutoring fellow
enteen magazine, and United Synagogue
tive changes in the world, Jackie Safier
Several teachers at BCA Dr. Judith
students in math when he was in middle
Youth. She recorded a Ted Talk to spread
said. Ms. Safier, the daughter of philanPinto, Mrs. Carol Zepatos, and Dr. Kenneth
school.
thropist Helen Diller, is president of the
her message of kindness and validation
Mayers believed in the program and proI was really amazed by the difference
vided invaluable support from day one,
Helen Diller Family Foundation, which has
even further.
that the individual attention made, he
he said. His brother, Ken, also is involved
awarded the prize since 2007.
Jewish values inform her work 100 persaid. When I got to high school, there was
cent, she said.
in YMath, and his parents, Stacy and
We are so pleased to be able to acknowlno program that offered this kind of help.
edge the leadership and passion of these
I was in USY for seven years, serving on
Mitchell, supervise the tutoring sessions.
There were plenty of private tutors, but
14 spectacular teens, she said. They are
its international social action/tikkun olam
Mr. Stier said that five years ago, for his
they were so expensive and not accessible to everyone. I decided to provide free
now part of the foundations growing netboard. I also am an alum of Camp Ramah
bar mitzvah project, he provided the items
work of 84 young change-makers.
tutoring to people who could not afford a
Nyack, and now I am a counselor for sixon the wish list of the math department
We all look forward to seeing what they
private tutor.
year-old girls there, she said. My orgaat a charter school in Newark. In addinization started because of how integral
tion, in lieu of flowers, I had plants as cendo next.
About 50 YMath tutors work one on one
terpieces, which we then donated to Hillel
tikkun olam was in my life from Ramah
Nominations for the 2017 Diller Teen
with students every Sunday at the Bergen County Academies Mr. Stiers alma
Academy in Passaic, a school my maternal
and USY. Everything we do is connected
Tikkun Olam Awards can be submitted
mater and at the Garfield YMCA. So
great-great-grandfather founded and with
to the Jewish values I hold close to my
online at www.dillerteenawards.org.
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Cliff Wood, will receive the first Elie Wiesel
Memorial award. Marsha and Gary Forman,
Judy and Paul Galan, and Lyn and Hank
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dispute that is dividing UNESCO, embarrassing some of its member states, and
exposing the Palestinians to rebuke not
only by Israel, but even by passionate supporters of their cause who are angered by
what they perceive as an anti-Jewish bid to
rewrite history.
The UNESCO vote is part of a broader
push by the Palestinian Authority to inject
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into international forums that are not designed to settle such disputes. And while the strategy is
alienating some supporters, observers of
Palestinian diplomacy say it is a discredited leaderships survival tactic, meant to
satisfy a disgruntled population and prevent the tragedy in Syria and the rise of
ISIS from eclipsing the plight of the Palestinians on the world stage.
Two days after the UNESCO vote, the
diplomatic fallout already was generating
significant dissent within the ranks of the
United Nations cultural agency. Its directorgeneral, Irina Bokova of Bulgaria, penned
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova speaks in New York last month. RICCARDO
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veneration only by its Arabic name, AlHaram Al-Sharif. The Western Wall, a remnant of the biblical Temple compound built
by the Jewish King Herod and Judaisms holiest site, is referred to as Al-Buraq Plaza a
term the Simon Wiesenthal Center says was
lifted from Hamas literature with Western
Wall Plaza appearing only between quotation marks.
When divisions over such things carry
over into UNESCO, an organization dedicated to dialogue and peace, they prevent
us from carrying out our mission, added
Bokova, who according to Israeli diplomats has maintained a largely fair attitude
toward the Jewish state. Though UNESCO
has passed several texts in recent years seen
as erasing Jewish ties to holy sites, it was
the first time she has spoken out so clearly
against the trend.
Outraged, the Palestinian Authority essentially told Bokova to shut up about the draft
resolution, which was submitted by seven
Arab countries but is widely understood to
have been initiated as part of a Palestinian
push at UNESCO.
However, in the days that followed, the
Palestinians saw more pushback. Israel ridiculed the text and charged that it typified a
their desire to prevent the de-prioritization of their issue in light of the far
greater humanitarian catastrophe in
Syria and the rest of the Middle East,
which has reduced international attention for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,
he continued.
Officials from both Hamas and Fatah
celebrated the UNESCO vote as a major
diplomatic achievement and brushed off
criticism as owing to Israels influence
over the West, Khaled Abu Toameh, a
Palestinian journalist from Jerusalem
and critic of Hamas and Fatah, said.
Raphael Ahren, the Times of Israels
diplomatic correspondent, said that the
Palestinians moved ahead with the October 12 vote to flex their diplomatic muscle. The fallout, he added, was a genuine
rejection of the outrageousness of the
text passed.
Schwammenthal, though, called the
rebuke of the Palestinian gambit an
expression of growing resentment internationally of Palestinian attempts after
2011 the year Palestine was accepted
into UNESCO to abuse, hijack or disrupt the work of international forums
that have nothing to do with their conflict with Israel.
Schwammenthal pointed to a series of
reports, statements, and initiatives that
reflect an increasingly critical and perhaps impatient attitude in European capitals and institutions toward the Palestinian Authority, partly over this perceived
abuse. The list includes a 2013 report by
the European Court of Auditors accusing
P.A. officials of pocketing money from
the European Union, its largest donor.
Another blow came in the international Quartet report in July, which for
the first time blamed Palestinians for
incitement, violence, and a failure to get
Gaza under control. And another landed
this month, when the United Kingdom
froze millions of dollars in aid payments
to the Palestinian Authority amid claims
that the money is ending up in the hands
of terrorists. Even Norway, a longtime
supporter and major funder of the P.A.,
warned Ramallah for the first time this
year not to give aid money to terrorists.
At FIFA, the international soccer federation, the Palestinian delegations
attempts to have Israel kicked out for
political reasons is creating frustration
and leading critics to point out how
Palestinians have named soccer stadiums for terrorists, according to Shimon
Samuels, the Simon Wiesenthal Centers
director for international relations.
Ultimately, Schwammenthal said, it
wasnt Israel that got a black eye at the
UNESCO vote, but the United Nations,
whose reputation was once again
stained; the countries that supported an
outrageous lie, and primarily the Palestinians, who are using up international
support to deepen the distrust of the
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Last year, Funnye was appointed head of the International Israelite Board of Rabbis, an African Hebrew
Israelite body. Although the Hebrew Israelite movement usually is considered outside the mainstream
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If you have to look a certain way to be a Jew, thats
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How it feels to Joe Lieberman,
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Joe Lieberman is in South Florida doing the
shul and seniors circuit for a Clinton, and
hes relishing the gig.
How does it feel? It feels like Im home
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interview, his voice relaxing into a remarkable confession for the former senator from
Connecticut who set fire to his bridges with
his party in 2006 and torched them completely in 2008 when he endorsed the
Republican presidential candidate.
You know, I am a Democrat, he said.
And its been uncomfortable for me to be
off as an Independent.
Liebermans appearances in South
Florida on behalf of Hillary Clinton and
a video and robocall soon to be released
targeting Jewish voters in the state is a
sign of how the Clinton nomination is reconciling anxious centrist Jews with a party
perceived to have veered left during the
Obama presidency.
Its a clear choice that shes so much
better for the future of the country than
Donald Trump, Lieberman said, noting her
Republican rival.
She also represents somebody who
feels that the Democratic Party is at its
best when its a center-left party and not a
left party, he said. She holds the hope of
restoring the Democratic Party, broadening
the coalition and maybe even picking up
some moderate Republicans who join the
Democratic Party, and it would be a much
more constructive, successful party.
Lieberman spoke after just having completed a grueling day stumping for Clinton
on the Jewish circuit in Palm Beach, Miami
Dade, and Broward counties.
For Democrats, its a replay of efforts
in 2012 to push back against inroads that
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table. The Obama administration then basically made a bad deal and didnt get from the
Iranians what he could have gotten, which
was really an end to their nuclear program.
Now thats a fact, so I say: Before the
agreement, she was very strong on the sanctions, after the agreement shes been clear
shes going to monitor Irans compliance
with the agreement, and if they dont comply
shes not only going to lodge complaints, but
if necessary shell be prepared to use American military force to stop development of a
nuclear weapon by Iran.
Liebermans argument is a blunter version
of the subtle straddle Clinton has attempted
when it comes to Israel, and more broadly,
engagement in the Middle East. She wants
to tamp down tensions with Israels government, but does not want to suggest that
Obama stoked them. She wants a more
robust U.S. posture vis-a-vis Syria and Iran,
but does not want to suggest that Obama has
not been robust.
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potent U.S. profile overseas that underscores
Liebermans distaste for Trump, although,
as a consummate bridge builder, he prefers
throughout the interview to build up Clinton
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vicious and often state-sanctioned antiSemitism in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries that transformed the numbers
and made the still small Jewish minority
here a presence. Many of them entered
through Ellis Island under the shadow of
the Statue of Liberty, at whose base we
read:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed,
to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door
These last five lines, taken from the poem
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus,
stands for the spirit of America that should
greet every immigrant who comes through
our gates. Lazarus herself, a fourth-generation American Jew, recognized that her
own comfortable life was based on a foundation created by immigrants.
The life of immigrants then and still
today is filled with challenges and difficulties. In overcoming those hardships, the
newcomers transform themselves and in
doing so strengthen our country as well.
Immigrants have always brought with them
the very best of their homes, and added
those gifts to American society.
We used to talk about America being a
melting pot but the truth is that we are
more of an American quilt, with every
new immigrant wave and immigrant culture adding to the color and the vibrancy
of what we so proudly call American
exceptionalism.
Jewish immigration to the United States
slowed in the 1930s, at a time when permission to immigrate was so sorely needed to
rescue the endangered Jews of Europe. It
was fear of the other that turned the S.S. St.
Louis away from U.S. shores in 1939. The
S.S. St. Louis set sail from Hamburg, Germany, to Cuba, carrying 937 refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution. Prohibited from landing in Cuba, the ship circled
off the coast of Florida, hoping for permission to enter the United States. The U.S.
Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, advised
Roosevelt not to accept the Jews. Captain
Schroder considered running aground
along the coast to allow the refugees to
escape, but acting on Hulls instructions,
U.S. Coast Guard vessels shadowed the ship
and prevented such a move. These huddled
masses yearning to breathe free were not
welcome here.
The ship returned to Europe, docking
at Antwerp, Belgium, on June 17, 1939. It is
believed that almost a third of those refugees died at the hands of the Nazis.
The Great Depression spawned political
opportunists who fed off the desperation of
those hard times. The cheap tonic cure-all
of religious and ethnic hatred that they sold
then still is being hawked by haters selling
fear today. The fact that some immigrants
then did in fact become violent criminals
only helped fuel the rhetoric. Meyer Lansky, the Irish mob, and even the Mafia
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were the poison Skittles of the day but
they werent enough to make America shut
down immigration completely.
We take pride in our American immigrant experience but the welcome was not
always friendly. The U.S. was not immune
to anti-Jewish demagoguery then, just as
so many fear new immigrants today. The
intense provincialism and nativism that
tried to block immigration in general and
Jewish immigration in particular when Jews
were trying to escape Nazi Germany still
exists, leaving too many refugees in harms
way today.
While fewer Jews are immigrating to the
United States now, once again immigrants
have become a political punching bag. Vulnerable outsiders of a different race, or
religion, or ethnicity, are easy scapegoats;
a ready, though inaccurate, target to blame
for the real problems that too many people
in our country confront. Syrian refugees
are seen as a Muslim threat to our safety
and not the victims of a war-torn battlefield.
Some politicians again are screaming that
the enemy is at the gates and we must lock
them down tight.
It is important to note that more than
785,000 refugees have been resettled in the
United States successfully since 9/11, and
not one of those refugees has been responsible for a single terrorist act. On the other
hand, during that same time period, 28 acts
of violence have been defined as terror and
each and every one of them have been performed by U.S.-born citizens.
Seven hundred eighty-five thousand refugees, new souls living and working toward
the American dream, sounds like a good
beginning. No, not really a very poor halfhearted start would be a better description.
There are more than 65.5 million refugees
seeking a safe harbor and that number
grows by about 25 people a minute. The
United States has accepted about 1 percent
of those fathers, mothers and children and
we have closed our eyes and our hearts to
the rest.
It is true that the United States alone
cannot solve this global problem, but it can
lead by example and inspire others to join
as well.
The Other always has been a convenient target. Too often that other has
been us. Therefore, it is incumbent upon
us to be among the first to speak up. We
have been instructed on how to treat the
stranger. Leviticus 19:33-34 teaches us:
When a stranger resides with you in your
land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger
who resides with you shall be to you as one
of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of
Egypt. This commandment is mentioned
36 times. Thats more than any other commandment or prohibition. No other commandment in the Torah not to love God,
and not to keep the Shabbat, not to circumcise our sons and not to refrain from eating non-kosher foods, not the prohibition
against lying or stealing is mentioned as
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States isnt going to take
dithering, the
the fight to Hezbollah,
Obama adminbecause Hezbollah is not
istration finally
plotting against us.
has taken some action
Given that Hezbollah
against the Lebanese
has remained faithful to
Islamist terror organization
the same Islamist ideolHezbollah.
ogy since its founding,
The U.S. Treasury Departand carried out shocking
Ben Cohen
ment has applied sanctions
acts of global terror like
on four Hezbollah operathe 1983 bombing of U.S.
tives reportedly planning
Marines in Beirut and the
terror attacks, as well as on a company,
Buenos Aires bombing of the AMIA JewAl-Inmaa Engineering and Contractish Center in 1994, I wonder what not
ing LLC, that is controlled by a senior
plotting against us means exactly.
Hezbollah financier. Meanwhile, the
Hezbollah, after all, exists only to plot
U.S. State Department has sanctioned
against us: Israel, the United States,
Hezbollah commander Haytham Ali
the Sunni Arab countries, Europe,
Tabatabai, also known as Abu Ali Alindeed, anyone who stands against the
Tabatabai, under U.S. counterterrorterror organization. Perhaps its Kerrys
ism rules. He has lead Hezbollah special
way of saying, Hezbollah isnt a priority
forces, operated in Syria, and reportedly
in the way that ISIS is, leaving us in the
was with Shiite rebels in Yemen, accordgrotesque position of enabling one lot of
ing to the State Department.
Islamist barbarians from the Shiite side,
These measures are small, but they
as we confront another lot of Islamist
are, at least, a reminder of destructive
barbarians from the Sunni side.
forces in the Middle East beyond ISIS.
Make no mistake, Hezbollah is barHezbollah, created by the Iranians as a
baric, and its current alignment with
proxy force to wage war on Israel, now
Vladimir Putins dictatorship in Rusis an integral element of the Russian-Irasia doesnt make it acceptable. Israelis
nian-Syrian regime axis that has successhave had decades of experience with its
fully exploited the emergence of ISIS to
goose-stepping fighters, most recently
establish itself as the current dominant
during the 2006 war in Lebanon, when
power bloc in the Middle East.
Hezbollah rained down hundreds of misAs the price of his flimsy deal with Iran
siles upon Haifa and other northern citover its nuclear ambitions, President
ies. This year, the beleaguered people of
Barack Obama has allowed this bloc to
Aleppo have been getting their own taste
rise unchallenged, and even downplayed
of the same.
the threat it represents. As Secretary of
Since at least February, Hezbollah
State John Kerry put it at the end of Sephas played a critical role on the ground
tember, speaking to a group of Syrians,
in northern Syria, fighting on behalf of
imploring for an end to the slaughter in
the tyrant President Bashar al Assad. As
the northern city of Aleppo, the United
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A Jewish woman
making Jewish art
Miriam Stern of Teaneck explores aspects
of her identity with paint, pens, and prints
Joanne Palmer
ou wont find any dancing chasidim in Miriam
Sterns art.
No Jewish stars, no
candles, no challah,
no menorahs, no kiddish cups, no bearded
men staring beatifically at a text or a scroll
or a little boy. No Jewish kitsch.
But Ms. Sterns art is deeply Jewish,
down to its DNA and out through its last jots
and tittles. Her love of color and of shapes
and curves, her willingness to experiment
with different forms and styles, and her
unblinking desire to explore questions of
identity, religion, culture, and the intersection of those large issues with gender
and to do so as a Jewish woman make
her work both satisfying and challenging,
surprising and insightful.
Now, as she is about to turn 70, Ms.
Sterns art is being celebrated in a new retrospective book, called, logically enough,
Miriam Stern.
Ms. Stern, who primarily is a painter,
printmaker, and conceptual artist, has lived
in Teaneck since 1968, and has watched as
Jewish life in the town in particular and
Bergen County in general has changed radically. Before that, though, she began life
just on the other side of the George Washington Bridge, in Washington Heights.
Her parents, Bertha and Fred Stern,
escaped to the United States from Germany in 1939; although theyd met before,
they met again on the boat as it crossed the
Atlantic. Miriam Sterns mothers father,
about whom she knows very little, had
owned the only kosher restaurant in the
town of Fulda; her father, a student at the
yeshiva there, would eat there occasionally. My father was four years old than my
mother, so when my mother was a 12-yearold girl, shed notice a 16-year-old boy, but
that 16-year-old boy wouldnt notice that
12-year old girl, Ms. Stern said. On the
boat, though, the now 20-year-old Bertha
had no problems capturing the attention
of the 24-year-old Fred. The two married
soon after they landed. Fred became a
watchmaker meticulous work, meticulously done and Bertha, who I dont
Miriam Stern and her husband, Rabbi Dr. Michael Chernick, in Tel Aviv recently.
ever remember not working, her daughter said, did administrative work in various
small companies.
The Stern family Miriam was the
youngest of three children were among
the founding members of the Breuer
community, the famously, rigidly German Orthodox group that flourished in
northern Manhattan. The minyan was
in my parents living room even before
Rav Breuer came to the United States,
Ms. Stern said. Miriam, like her siblings,
went to a day school. (The school was in
the Bronx; that was a time when children
were able to take public transportation
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When the couple moved to Teaneck, to the apartments
that have housed generations of young married Orthodox
couples, there were maybe three to five couples like us,
Ms. Stern said. They joined Bnai Yeshurun, which was
the only Orthodox shul in town. Within two years or so,
there were 40 couples like us, she said. How did it happen? I have no idea. I think that word just got out.
Mishpacha VI, 2014. This family portrait shows still-living members in green; relatives who have died are
represented with lettering from their tombstones. The two figures in brown are in unreachable graves.
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been bothered by the position of women in
the Orthodox world, she said, but the art
world was different. I had teachers who
were women and feminist, role models,
but there was a separation for me between
that world and the observant world. Like
there was a mechitzah between them.
But all of a sudden this made me question
womens participation.
As a result of that questioning, Ms. Stern
joined a womens tefillah group in the
1980s. We started with a call for mothers
who were interested in having a bat mitzvah for their daughters, she said. They
might not have shown up for themselves,
but, we felt, for their daughters they
would. And it worked.
It wasnt necessary for her children. Ms.
Stern and Rabbi Chernick have two sons.
Both now live in Brooklyn, and both are
visual artists. Jeremy Chernick does special effects for Broadway productions, and
Saul is a fine artist. Both went to Yavneh
Academy and then to MTA.
But it was necessary for her.
The Stern/Chernick family belongs to
three Teaneck shuls Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, which is Askhenazi Orthodox;
the Sephardi Orthodox Shaarei Orah,
and Congregation Beth Sholom, which is
Conservative.
Now, if you ask me what am I Orthodox, Conservative, anything else I say I
am Reconservadox. Its a funny answer,
but in truth I dont want to align myself to
any particular camp. I feel a loose affinity
to several of them. I dont feel a conflict
when I am davening in an Orthodox shul.
I am okay being behind the mechitzah, as
long as I am not far away. And I am comfortable when I daven at Beth Sholom.
Very comfortable.
You can learn a lot from every movement. Unfortunately, there isnt much dialogue or learning between them. That is
very sad.
At the same time that she belonged to
the womens tefillah group, Ms. Stern also
belonged to an artists group. She was
active in both, but she kept them separate.
In a way, she led two lives, lives that came
together only in her work.
There are a lot of artists who are Jewish,
and who do what is called Jewish art, she
said. I think that Jewish art has to come
from knowledge and study. Approaching
your work from that place makes the art
better. Just as with any kind of research, in
literature or music or anything else, having
some experience is one thing, but being
steeped in it makes it richer and deeper.
I have always tried to do something on
a deeper level, something that is meaningful, that comes not only from the heart but
also from the kishkes.
There is a great deal of feminist content
in Ms. Sterns work, as well as a bone-deep
understanding of the community; often
there is a willingness to look but a reluctance to judge.
More than a few pieces of her work deal
with wigs. Her mother wore a sheitel,
In 2001s Carousel,
Miriam Sterns father,
at the end of his life,
is tossed by forces
he cannot control.
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although she does not. One of her earliest pieces is a face shed drawn on one of
her mothers wig stands. Another shows a
group of sheitels, on their backs, with their
interior webbing showing.
Another was created from a great feeling of discomfort. (Not coincidentally, Ms.
Stern says that any art that is worth anything makes the viewer question. If I dont
feel that conflict, it wouldnt be good art.)
When she wanted to paint a series about
sheitels, she sent away for brochures, and
soon learned that a commonly used selling
point was that it was made of 100 percent
human hair.
That really jolted me, she said. I
started thinking about women in the Holocaust, where their murderers cut off their
hair and saved it. I started thinking about
women who had to sell their hair. (Think
Jo in Little Women, or Della in O. Henrys The Gift of the Magi.) I was trying
to think of something that was 100 percent
not human, and I found this old fox collar and draped it around one of skeletallooking Styrofoam heads. The name of this
painting is 100 Percent Natural Fiber.
(Its here on page 39.)
Another painting about wigs shows a
progression of sheitels marking a womans
aging, as they go from bright red curls to
less exuberant waves. A third, also on page
39, shows sheitels from the inside.
Ms. Stern has created space chairs, a
table, and a window for ushpizot, the
female counterparts of the ushpitzim, the
ideal symbolic guests who are welcomed,
at least figuratively, in sukkot every year.
She worked on a project, called Ezrat
Nashim, that uses physical objects to show
the literal space between the center of a
religious service and the start of a womens
section, a distance that upsets her but not
too much to get in the way of her wit.
She uses many tools to create art she
owns a press, a gleaming chrome and black
object that is only a few decades old but
looks much older, Industrial-Revolution
age, because the technology is so basic.
She works with ghost images the wonderfully evocative name for the remnants
of ink that come out on some of the lovely
paper she uses paper that demands that
you touch it, just so that you can have the
pleasure of feeling it. She cuts up some of
her work to collage into other pieces. She
uses everything.
She does some work on her computer
as well.
In 2008, when her mother died, Ms.
Stern said Kaddish for her. I wanted to do
an installation, but it would be expensive,
and I couldnt find funding and I couldnt
find a venue, so someone suggested doing
it on the internet. Id reach more people
that way.
That project is no longer up, but it was
called BetheTenth.com. It asked you what
gender you were, and what kind of minyan
all men, all women, mixed you wanted
to make the tenth for. And after you picked
your minyan, youd press the button and
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Ms. Stern made chairs for ushpizot; this ones about the first foremother, Sarah.
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14. Actress Feldshuh
15. Possible format for a Kellerman novel
16. Suffix with pay or schnozz
17. How Trump often speaks
19. Performance by Pink
20. Have a taiva
21. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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22. Cholent meat option
23. Buenos ___ (Shalom)
25. Goddess who gives advice to Logan
Lermans Percy Jackson
27. Ahava spot
30. Like Eliot Spitzer or Anthony Wiener,
as politicians
33. Some students to elderly rabbis
35. Moses and Joshua split them
36. Neil Diamonds ___ Believer
37. What goes before noraim or tovim
39. Paul Rudds Marvel insect
40. Cholent bean options
43. Total wives of Moses
44. Total daughters of Moses
46. Like Paskeszs Sour Sticks
47. Had the (Shabbat) leftovers
51. Currency worth less than the USD
52. He did a lot of miracles after Elijah
53. Do Borer on Shabbat
55. Anything ___? (Allen film)
56. Kirks Enterprise letters
59. They might be short term in
Jerusalem over Passover
63. Bvadai!
64. Personal struggles....or another
name for this puzzle
66. Nahariya to Karmiel dir.
67. Fixate on Michal Merons work
68. Where to work on a jewfro
69. Az Yashir Sea
70. Much more famous ski locale
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2. Former Mets and Yankees pitcher
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3. Gardner and Haddad
4. Like some Maccabi fans
5. Law that might not go over well
with Jews
6. Mouth
7. Help Mickey Cohen on a job
8. Gland that could get removed at Mt.
Sinai Hospital
9. Meir and others
10. Kiddush Lavana locale?
11. Six Day War hero
12. Ending prayer
13. Short Shabbat rest
18. Like Shayetet 13
22. Exodus
24. Schlock magazine content
26. Steal ___ Book (Hoffman)
27. ___ Goodbye to Hollywood (Joel)
28. Zadora who made her Broadway
debut in Fiddler on the Roof
29. Gave harsh mussar
31. Made like Isaacs eyes
32. Scott Feldmans baseball team
34. Gary on Carol Mendelsohns CSI:
NY
38. Airy tzitzit material
41. Actress Graynor
42. King David and King George: Abbr.
45. In days ___...
47. Bird seed feeder
48. Maltreat
49. Makes like those found in 17, 30, and
47-Across & 11 and 29-Down
50. Least bound (in Egypt)
54. Daughter of David
57. Shoot, like Annie Leibovitz
58. Like southern Israel
60. Naot part
61. Son of Seth
62. U.S. version of Israels Mispar Zehut
64. Book before Jer.
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food, music, and tours,
rain or shine, 1-4 p.m.
225 Pompton Road.
(973) 956-1220 or Carla@
CampVeritans.com.
Monday
October 31
Intro to Judaism in
Franklin Lakes: The
New Jersey Rabbinical
Assembly offers
a comprehensive
Introduction to Judaism
course at Temple
Emanuel of North
Jersey, led by Rabbi
Joseph H. Prouser,
7 p.m. Its for potential
Jews by choice and
their partners, non-Jews
raising Jewish children,
and Jews who wish to
learn more about their
heritage. Basic Hebrew
reading is included. 558
High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
IntroJudaismNJ.com.
NOV.
Friday
Saturday
October 28
October 29
Sunday
october 30
Walkathon: The
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Courtesy Emanu-El
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El
welcomes father and
daughter scholars-inresidence, Holocaust
survivor Mark
Schonwetter and author
Ann Arnold. During
Shabbat morning
services at 9 a.m., the
pair will discuss her book
Together: A Journey
for Survival; a dessert
reception and informal
discussion follow.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanuel.com.
Shabbat in Washington
Township: Join Temple
Beth Ors Rabbi Noah
Fabricant for a Torah
44 Jewish Standard OCTOBER 28, 2016
Jewish Association
for Developmental
Disabilities holds its
annual walk, rain or
shine, at Van Saun
Park, Pavilion C, 10 a.m.
It includes a carnival,
games, refreshments,
and prizes. Proceeds
benefit adults with
developmental
disabilities; J-ADD
provides kosher homes in
Bergen County to adults
with developmental and
intellectual disabilities.
(201) 457-0058,
sshapiro@j-addorg, or
www.J-ADD.org.
Dan Pincus
Mohammed Al Samawi
AJC leader and human
rights activist in
Teaneck: The adult
education committee
of Congregation Rinat
Yisrael presents The
Power of Partnership:
Escaping Yemen,
8 p.m. American Jewish
Committee leader
Dan Pincus will talk to
Mohammed Al Samawi,
a human rights activist
who recently escaped
the war in Yemen. 389
West Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
Tuesday
November 1
Origins of baseball
poem: Dumont historian
Dick Burnon talks about
the origins of the famous
1888 baseball poem,
Casey at the Bat, at
a meeting of REAP
(Retired Executives and
Active Professionals)
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
Wednesday
November 2
Intro to Judaism in
Hoboken: The New
Jersey Rabbinical
Assembly offers
a comprehensive
Introduction to Judaism
course at the United
Synagogue of Hoboken,
led by Rabbi Robert
Scheinberg, 7 p.m.
Its for potential Jews
by choice and their
partners, non-Jews
raising Jewish children,
and Jews who wish to
learn more about their
heritage. Basic Hebrew
reading is included.
www.IntroJudaismNJ.
com. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or www.
IntroJudaismNJ.com.
Open house in
Englewood: The
Moriah School invites
parents of prospective
students to an open
house, 7:30 p.m. Faculty
and administrators
will be on hand. 53
South Woodland St.
(201) 567-0208, ext.
322, admissions@
moriahschool.org, or
www.moriah.org.
Thursday
November 3
Morning movie in
Closter: Temple
Beth El screens
Above and Beyond,
10:15 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.
Calendar
org.
Friday
November 4
Shabbat in Wayne:
Temple Beth Tikvah has
dinner, 6 p.m., followed
by the installation of
its new rabbi, Meeka
Simerly. 950 Preakness
Ave. Reservations,
(973) 595-6565.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El invites
the community to hear
father and daughter
scholars-in-residence,
Holocaust survivor Mark
Schonwetter and author
Ann Arnold, 7:30 p.m.
Ms. Arnold, a TBE
congregant, will discuss
her book Together: A
Journey for Survival.
Books available in
the shul office. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Saturday
november 5
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Author Maggie Anton,
scholar-in-residence
at Congregation Bnai
Jacob, will discuss her
newest book, Fifty
Shades of Talmud: What
the First Rabbis Had to
Say About You-KnowWhat, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
176 West Side Ave.
info@bnaijacobjc.com.
Game night in
Paramus: The JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah offers an
adult game night with
mah jongg, canasta,
Rummikub, Scrabble,
and poker, 7:30 p.m.
Dairy refreshments.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Sunday
November 6
Community Mitzvah
Day: Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey
holds Mitzvah Day, a
community-wide day
of volunteering, local
collections, and blood
drives, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Choose from more than
40 activities around
Film in Teaneck:
The 11th Teaneck
International Film
Festival screens The
Last Laugh, a feature
documentary looking
at humor and the
Holocaust, at Temple
Emeth, 7:30 p.m. A
discussion featuring
director Ferne Pearlstein
and writer/producer
Alan Zweibel, who is
in the film, follows.
(201) 203-1723 or www.
teaneckfilmfestival.org.
Combatting Holocaust
distortion: Dr. Efraim
Zuroff, the chief Nazihunter of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center and
the founder/director
of its Israel office, and
Lithuanian author Ruta
Vanagaite, this years
Wiesenthal Centers
Woman of Valor award
recipient, discuss
Traveling With My
Enemy: Combating
Holocaust Distortion
in Eastern Europe, at
Congregation Rinat
Yisrael in Teaneck,
8 p.m. 389 West
Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
In New
York
Sunday
october 30
SAR open house: SAR
High School in Riverdale
holds an open house,
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
503 W. 259th St. Nancy
Lerea or Gila Kolb,
(718) 548-2727, ext.
1576, admissions@
sarhighschool.org.
Register at www.
sarhighschool.org/
hsopenhouse.
Sunday
October 31
Friday
November 4
Teaneck Shabbaton:
The Shidduch Project
hosts a Shabbaton for
modern Orthodox/
machmir singles, 21-38,
at Congregation Bnai
Yeshurun. Speakers
include Rabbi Steven
Pruzansky of Bnai
Yeshurun, Rabbi Michoel
Goldin of Chabad of
Teaneck, and Dr. Shani
Ratzker, author of
Finding Your Bashert
and the Survival Guide
to Shidduchim. Includes
all meals, oneg with
dating mentors, speed
dating, interactive
meals, and musical
Havdalah/kumsitz with
Jeremy Gasin. Hosted
by Rachel Ruchlamer
and Dr. Ratzker.
Shidduchprojects@
gmail.com or call
(201) 522-4776.
Singles Shabbaton
in Brooklyn: Sharon
Ganz & Friends hosts
a Shabbaton weekend
for Orthodox Jewish
singles, 30s-50s, at
Young Israel Avenue J;
includes three Shabbat
meals, oneg Shabbat,
singles mixers, group
discussions, tour of
Flatbush, Saturday night
party. Home hospitality
available. (721 Ave. J.
Sharon, (646) 529-8748
or (718) 575-3962.
Sunday
November 6
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 if
you are from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
Celebrating Agnon:
The Yeshiva University
Center for Israel Studies
hosts a conference on
the works and influence
of Nobel Prize-winning
Israeli author S.Y. Agnon
in commemoration of
the 50th anniversary
of his award. The
conference, Agnons
Stories of the Land of
Israel: Celebrating the
50th Anniversary of S.Y.
Agnons Nobel Prize, is
on the universitys Wilf
Campus in Furst Hall,
Room 535, 500 West
185th St.. yu.edu/cis/
activities/conferences.
Singles
Sunday
October 30
Meet & greet/network
in NYC: Eretz Young
Professionals, a
networking group
geared toward
marriage-minded
singles, 26-49, has
a meet and greet at
the Stanton Street
Synagogue, 3-5 p.m.
Participants will hear
about a Shabbat
program on December
23 at the international
Limmud Conference in
Birmingham, England.
Attendees wearing
something British
(like a Union Jack
shirt) will get a raffle
ticket. 180 Stanton
St. (646) 801-5419,
eretznyc@outlook.com,
or www.eretzyp.org.
Calendar
Cast members,
from left,
Darren Carfano
of Suffern;
Emily Bosco of
Closter; Allen
Pines of Fair
Lawn; Emma
Ruck of Tappan;
Janica Carpenter
of Old Tappan;
Mic McCormack
of Tenafly, and
Sharon Podsada
of Emerson.
Photo provided
coach is included in the $130 cost. Theater seats are in the orchestra. The reservation deadline is November 8. For information, call (201) 262-7691.
Valerie Smalldone
Belle Mell
Courtesy JCCOTP
Gallery
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n 1 Ben Porat Yosef sixth graders built a sukkah for the entire school so that students had
a place to eat during chol hamoed. The kindergarten provided the decorations. Students
enjoyed celebrating Sukkot together on October 19 and 20, with a spirited morning tefillah
with their teachers and friends. Courtesy BPY
Obituaries
Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Inc
Jewish Funeral Directors
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ur Facilities Will Accommodate
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andicap Accessibility From Large
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Edith Bodnar
Shirley Buchwalter
Natalie Effron
Firemens Association.
Arrangements were by
Gutterman & Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Marvin Feldman
Adina Levin
Briefs
We continue to be
Jewish family managed,
knowing that caring people
provide caring service.
Obituaries
She is survived by her husband,
Jehuda, children, Dana ( Jason),
Michael (Bernadette), and Ron;
a sister Tzipora of Israel, and
grandchildren, Gabriel and Leah.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Bernadine Mechanic
Ronald Sherman
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MARTIN D. KASDAN
Mae Snyder
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KURT KILSTO CK
Brothers arrested in 2014 Brooklyn
murder of charedi landlord and father of 7
Two brothers were arrested in connection with the 2014 kidnapping and murder of a Jewish landlord in Brooklyn.
Erskin Felix, 38, and his brother
Kendall, 28, were taken into custody
for their alleged roles in the killing of
Menachem Stark, the New York Daily
News reported, based on information
obtained from police sources.
Stark, a married father of seven, was
kidnapped outside his Williamsburg
office during a botched robbery in the
middle of a snowstorm on January 2,
2014. His burned body was discovered in
a dumpster beside a gas station in Great
Neck, N.Y.
Erskin Felix faces murder and kidnapping charges, and his brother was
charged with hindering prosecution
and tampering with physical evidence,
according to the report. Both were
intially being held at the New York Police
Departments 90th Precinct.
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