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Massive avocado heist averted
Holy guacamole!
Israel Border Police last week
thwarted what would have been
one of the greatest produce-relat-
ed crimes in the countrys history.
Security forces were alerted
to the heist after security guards
patrolling avocado groves near
Haifa saw two unfamiliar vehicles
fleeing the area. They set up road
blocks and carried out searches of
vehicles matching the description
of those cars.
Apparently deterred by the
ramped-up security, the thieves
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abandoned the vehicles at a local
gas station. Police found five tons
of avocados packed into the two
cars.
The stolen produce, valued in
the tens of thousands of shekels,
was returned to the growers.
One suspect was arrest-
ed near the gas station
in connection with the
robbery.
The suspect was
said to be a 20-year-
old resident of
Akko. TIMES OF ISRAEL

Suspects in avocado heist? This photograph made the

rounds on Facebook last week. The Hebrew caption
suggests, If you dont have a Purim costume...

Israels mighty menschen have struck out

The Jewish, mostly-American
princes of baseball were beaten by
the Japanese in Tokyo on Wednes-
day, ending Team Israels Cinderella
run at the World Baseball Classic.
Japan snapped a scoreless tie with
five runs in the sixth inning on the
way to an 8-3 victory before more
than 40,000 fans packed into the
Tokyo Dome.
Israel, the lowest-ranked team to
qualify for the showcase tourna-
ment, dropped its last two games
in the second round and will not
advance to the semifinals next week in This is the first year that Israel has
Los Angeles. Japan, with a tournament qualified for the tournament. In 2012, its
record of 6-0, and the Netherlands will inaugural WBC squad narrowly missed
advance from Pool E. They will join the advancing past the qualifiers.
top two teams from the Pool F games Most of the players are American
now being played in San Diego. Jews, and several former major leagu-
Israel had startled the baseball world ers are among them. WBC rules say
by opening the tournament with four that players who are eligible for citizen-
straight victories, including a 4-1 win ship of a country may play on its team.
over powerhouse Cuba in the first Jews and their grandchildren, and the
game of the second round. But Israel grandchildrens spouses, have the right
lost 12-2 to the Netherlands on Monday to become Israeli citizens.
and had to beat Japan to move on. The team appeared on the field at
Last week, in the first round, the Is- each game for the national anthem of
raelis squeaked past third-ranked South Israel, Hatikvah, wearing matching
Korea, 2-1, in extra innings, outscored blue kippahs. The clubs mascot was a
fourth-ranked Taiwan, 15-7, and defeat- super-size version of the plush Chanu-
ed ninth-ranked the Netherlands, 4-2, to kah toy called Mensch on a Bench.
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Noshes
That much-loved grease ball wrapped in
yesterdays newspaper is less Etonian
and more Estonian.
Thats historian Denise Phillips on a BBC show, explaining how the Jews brought
fish and chips, an iconic British food, to England with them.

KICKER:

B&B returns;
this time its live!
The tale as old as man at the end of the than most of his prior
time returns to film which Gad says film work. The setting is
theaters in a new is subtle, but incredibly the Austin, Texas, music
live-action film. This effective in showing scene. We follow two
Beauty and the Beast hes gay. The Variety entangled couples as
is not an adaptation of reviewer differed: Josh they chase success. One
the hit 1994 Broadway Gad plays Gastons wor- couple (Ryan Gosling
stage version, but a new shipful stooge as maxi- and Rooney Mara) are
re-imagining of the mally silly and fawning, struggling songwriters.
story as told in the but I must have missed The other couple is a
beloved 1991 animated the memo where that music mogul (Michael
film musical. Advance spells gay. Fassbender) and the
reviews say its quite The great original waitress he ensnares
good, but some parts of film songs, all of which Josh Gad Alan Menken Howard Ashman (NATALIE PORTMAN,
the story and some appear in this version, 35). The impressive cast
songs had more magic were written by com- includes Cate Blanchett,
in the animated version. poser ALAN MENKEN, Iggy Pop, and Patti
(Opens Friday, March now 67, and lyricist Smith. (Opens March 17.)
17.) HOWARD ASHMAN No doubt the cinema-
The title characters (1950-1991). Four new tography will be gor-
(Belle and the Beast) songs, written just for geous since the cinema-
are played by Emma this film, are by Menken tographer is the great
Watson and Dan Ste- and lyricist Tim Rice. EMMANUEL LUBEZKI,
vens. Kevin Kline plays Meanwhile, Menken has 52. He won three best
Maurice, Belles eccen- another hit now running cinematography Os-
tric but lovable father. on Broadway a musi- cars in a row, from 2013
(Klines father was Jew- cal version of the film to 2015, with Gravity,
ish, but he was raised A Bronx Tale (1993), Birdman, and The
in his mothers Catholic which opened in No- Natalie Portman Emmanuel Lubezki June Squibb Revenant. He is the
faith.) Other major sup- vember to glowing re- only person to have
porting actors include views. Its score is much although he was not a perceptively have point- and your wives, well achieved this.
Emma Thompson and more rock and roll than credited screenwriter ed out, a Beauty song, save our village and our JUNE SQUIBB, 87,
Ewan McGregor (whose the Beauty score. on Beauty, everyone Kill the Beast, has a lives. and Hal Holbrook,
children are being raised As an editorial note agrees that he vastly poignant AIDS subtext In other words, given 92, will guest star
in his wifes Jewish I dont think that the gay improved the original in the lyrics that refer- the constraints of work- as a married couple in
faith). community gains much scriptwith comedy ences the AIDS hysteria ing within the plot of a an episode of Greys
JOSH GAD, 36, plays from an arguably gay and with the shaping of of the 1980s and 90s. fairy tale, and given the Anatomy that will first
LeFou, the flunky of character who, as Va- the Beasts tragedy. Gaston sings about the politics of 1991, Ashman air on Thursday, March
Belles other suitor, riety says, is silly and Like the Beast Ash- need to end the Beasts subtly made a strong 23 (at 8:30 p.m., on
Gaston. Disney says fawning and the stooge man was afflicted with life despite his igno- point. I wish Disney had NBC). Squibb was
that LeFou is an explic- of Gaston, a handsome a curse AIDS that rance of his condition. found another way, in Oscar-nominated for
itly gay character in the idiot. Howard Ashman, drastically altered his Here are two apt lines: 2017, to celebrate in- best supporting actress
new film, and of course who was gay, was no physical appearance. We dont like what clusiveness other than for Nebraska. By the
that has attracted some LeFou. He and Men- But he worked coura- we dont understand making a foolish charac- way, Holbrook is still
controversy. However, ken revived the Disney geously to get every and in fact it scares us, ter sort of gay. touring his one-man
like beauty, explicit animated musical with film detail right even and this monster is mys- Word is that stage show, Mark Twain
appears to be in the eye The Little Mermaid as his death neared terious at least / Bring Terence Malicks Tonight! He began
of the beholder. LeFou and Beauty. He also he died just before the your guns, bring your new film, Song to touring in it in 1954.
dances with another was a playwright, and films opening. As many knives, save children Song, is much lighter N.B.

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Mazon tractor-trailer exhibit
coming to Teaneck
Interactive display shatters myths about hunger
LOIS GOLDRICH
Yes, you can learn values at your mothers
knee and your fathers.
I got involved with the issue of hunger
at an early age, Joel Pitkowsky, the rabbi of
Teanecks Congregation Beth Sholom, said.
My parents were involved in Mazon
since it began, he added; hes been on its
board for some four years. My parents
also delivered Meals on Wheels for many
years through Jewish Family Service. They
showed me it was very important to care
about another persons basic needs. I saw
that there are people, just like us, who
happen to be in a difficult situation and
need a hand.
That premise, that those in need are
just like us, underlies Mazons traveling
exhibit, This is Hunger, which will be in
Teaneck on April 3, 4, and 5.
A few years ago, Mazon commissioned
a photographer to take a trip across the
country, Rabbi Pitkowsky said. We had
been hearing people talk about hunger,
saying, Yes, we know theyre hungry, but
they dont look like us, theyre other peo-
ple. We asked the photographer to take
pictures and record stories. We called the
project Faces of Hunger, showing who
really goes to food banks and shelters.
So powerful was the exhibit, and so suc-
cessful, that we didnt want to leave it as
a 2-D exhibit, so we spoke with creative
artists and museum exhibitors about how
to get our message across, he continued.
The result, This is Hunger, is an incredible
exhibit a high-impact educational expe-
rience housed inside a big tractor trailer.
That truck is now traveling across the
country on a 10-month tour. It already
has traversed the Midwest and is headed
in our direction. After a late-March stop-
over in various MetroWest locations, it will
Who: Congregations Beth Sholom and
Temple Emeth
What: Will co-sponsor MAZONs ex-
hibit, This is Hunger
When: On April 3, 4, 5
Where: At Temple Emeth, 1666 Wind-
sor Road, Teaneck
Cost: Free to the public, but attendees
must register. Call Elaine Hanan at (201)
833-1322 or email her at ehanan@
emeth.org for help with registration or
questions about the schedule. Go to
thisishunger.org to learn more about
the program and to see all the tour
stops.
6 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 17, 2017
Rabbi Joel Rabbi Nathaniel
Pitkowsky Helfgot
(literally) park at Teanecks Temple Emeth.
Rabbi Steven Sirbu has been an amaz-
ing partner and co-sponsor, Rabbi Pit-
kowsky said; Steven Sirbu is the rabbi of
Temple Emeth. Were excited to have
people experience this multimedia edu-
cational exhibit to hear some of the sto-
ries, see the photographic images, read
the statistics, and have a chance to react.
The trailer expands on both sides when
its parked, he said, giving it 1,000 feet of
exhibit space.
Rabbi Pitkowsky said he became
involved with Mazon because I really like
what they try to do. They address the core
issues of hunger and try to solve the prob-
lem. While they certainly do fund food
banks and support food drives, they try
to go a step beyond that and prevent hun-
ger in the first place, asking, Why are they
hungry? What can we do? What do we, as
a society, owe other people?
We also believe that the role govern-
ment plays is important. We cannot food-
bank our way out of the hunger crisis. A flyer for the Mazon exhibit that will roll into Teaneck next month.
Mazon stresses the long game with stra-
tegic thinking, he added. For example, it must remain strong. The idea of the insecurity in Bergen County is being moni-
sometimes funds research. In the Mid- group taking care of the individual really tored and addressed by the Center for Food
west, theyre dealing with the serious issues appeals to me. Action. Patria Espy, the groups executive
of rural hunger, funding research into this. Rabbi Pitkowsky said he particularly director, said Many Bergen County resi-
His own synagogue, he said, has a strong appreciates the annual Mazon board meet- dents struggle to put food on their tables.
social action committee, participating in ing that brings members to Washington, For many of our neighbors, hunger is one
food drives and volunteering in shelters. D.C., to lobby members of Congress on of the most difficult problems they face.
But lately, the shul has spoken more particular issues, such as shoring up SNAP, The high cost of living in our county makes
about the social justice side of hunger, the food stamp program, or addressing the it difficult for the working poor, many of
creating a social justice committee to look issue of hunger among military families. our elderly neighbors, folks unable to work
at these, and other, pressing social issues. We raised the profile of hunger in the due to disabilities, and the recently unem-
More than 40 million people in our military, bringing the issue to the public, ployed to get by without help.
country are food insecure, not knowing he said. Were trying to create a legisla- Ms. Espy stressed that hunger and
if they will have enough food tomorrow, tive fix for Congress to vote on. Much of it the risk of hunger is very real in Bergen
Rabbi Pitkowsky said. Theres no way has to do with a quirk in the law, how the County and across New Jersey. The Cen-
that food banks can deal with that. Mazon laws on food stamps were written. Young ter for Food Action provided more than
believes that what we need to do is make enlisted folks who move off base live at a 64,000 food packages to people from
sure our government is helping people in lower standard of living because of how nearly every town in Bergen County last
every way possible. The food safety net the law was written. year. A third of those helped were chil-
has been a strong part of our countrys While Mazon is involved with hunger dren, and 17 percent were seniors.
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Going into the family business
Father, son to be ordained together join other local father-son rabbinic pairs
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
W
hen Alvin Reinstein of
Teaneck had to borrow
class notes, find a study
buddy, or get advice on
courses toward ordination at Yeshiva Uni-
versitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theologi-
cal Seminary RIETS he turned to a
classmate two years ahead of him: his son,
Sam.
The Reinsteins were the first father-
son pair simultaneously studying for the
rabbinate in the history of the 121-year-
old RIETS.
On March 19, they will be among 130
rabbis from the classes of 2014-2017
celebrating their ordination (semi-
cha, or semikhah as YU transliterates
the Hebrew word) at the Chag HaSe-
mikhah convocation on YUs Washington
Heights campus.
If the triennial event were held every
four years in other words, in 2018 it
would also include Alvins son-in-law and
Sams brother-in-law, Josh Botwinick, hus-
band of Margot Reinstein Botwinick, now
in his fourth year at RIETS.
Nevertheless, the Reinsteins achieve-
ment is unusual enough that YU has inter-
viewed them for a special video.
The Chag HaSemikhah is about the
passing of the mesorah [tradition], and the
meeting of the generations, RIETSs dean,
Rabbi Menachem Penner, said. A father
and son completing semicha at the same
time, in the same yeshiva, exemplifies the
beauty of that never-ending chain. It is also
a testament to the vitality of our yeshiva
and yeshiva campus, with students of all
ages learning side by side.
Alvin Reinstein, now 66, is the son of
Holocaust survivors who raised their three
boys in the Bronx. He graduated from
MTA, YUs high school for boys, in 1968,
and from Yeshiva College, with a bach-
elors degree in math, in 1972. I always
wanted to learn Torah, he said. I feel it
is our primary duty to achieve spiritual
growth by learning Torah and doing mitz-
vot, he said.
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Rabbi Kenneth, left, and Rabbi Tuvia Brander. 
32-year career in administration at the
New York City Housing Authority, he
had the opportunity for serious Torah
study but encountered many distrac-
tions. Seeking a structured framework,
he registered for RIETS in January 2012
two years after Sam began the program
with the strong encouragement of his
wife, Esther Lauber.
That year, at the class of 1972s 40th
reunion, YU President Richard Joel noted
that Alvin Reinstein was the only class
member now enrolled as a student in any
of the universitys various schools.
It was a case of the father following the
son, he said. It wasnt my intention to get
a job as a rabbi; I just wanted to study. And
my son Sam was an inspiration for me.
We took many courses together and stud-
ied together. When he was going through
Yavneh Academy and Torah Academy of
Bergen County, I would learn with him
but now it was on a peer basis.
Rabbi Sam Reinstein, 27, is an actuary
at Prudential and has a weekend pulpit
as the assistant rabbi of Congregation Kol
Torah, a 90-year-old synagogue in Brook-
lyns Prospect Heights neighborhood. He,
his wife, Hannah Dreyfus, and their six-
month-old son, Leon, live in Brooklyn.
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Being in classes with my father was
a little weird but very special, he said.
Especially with Torah topics, transmis-
sion usually flows downward from father
to son, and with us it went the other way
because I was advising him which classes
to take and sharing my notes with him. It
was great.
The convocation also will include sev-
eral Bergen County residents whose
fathers and in some cases, their grand-
fathers are RIETS alumni.
Rabbi Yaakov Taubes (class of 2014)
is the son of Rabbi Michael Taubes, the
leader of Teanecks Zichron Mordechai
synagogue, a RIETS Rosh Yeshiva and
instructor, and Rosh Yeshiva at MTA.
Yaakov Taubes and his wife, Racheli,
are in their third year teaching and men-
toring University of Pennsylvania students
through the Orthodox Unions Seif Jewish
Learning Initiative on Campus. They have
two children.
I grew up in a rabbinic home, going to
shul with my father and learning Torah
with him my entire life, Rabbi Taubes
said. I dont recall having rabbis son syn-
drome. I was very proud that my father
was a rabbi, and it felt natural to me.
He enrolled in RIETS after finishing
Yeshiva College and also earned a masters
degree in Jewish history; he is now a doc-
toral student.
I worked in administration for YU for
a couple of years and then had the oppor-
tunity to work with students on campus,
something I never thought Id be doing,
he said. Once I started, it really spoke
to me. Theres something very powerful
about the ability to be there as a resource
for people.
Rabbi Michael Taubes said he didnt
expect Yaakov, his middle child, to become
a rabbi. This opportunity at JLIC almost
fell into his lap, and I hope he enjoys being
a rabbi as much as I have over the years,
he said.
Rabbi Taubes added that he and his
wife, Bassie, made their household a place
where their five childrens needs and feel-
ings were prioritized above all. We rarely
if ever discussed matters relating to shul or
school at the table, he said.
Teanecks Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the
vice president of University and Com-
munity Life at YU, similarly said that he
and his wife, Ruchie, always made sure
there was a healthy balance in the house
between engaging in the community and
being there for our children.
Rabbi Tuvia Brander, 29 (RIETS class
of 2015), now leads the Young Israel of
West Hartford, Connecticut, and is vice
president of the Greater Hartford Rab-
binic Association.
He hopes to attend the Chag HaSe-
mikhah convocation not only with his
father but also with his grandfather, Rabbi
Aaron Brander, a RIETS-ordained rabbi
who was formerly the principal of the
Yeshiva of Central Queens and now splits
his time between Far Rockaway, New York,
and Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Rabbi Kenneth Brander started his
career in 1986 as assistant rabbi of Man-
hattans Lincoln Square Synagogue. From
1991 to 2005, he was the senior rabbi of the
Boca Raton Synagogue in Florida, and was
involved in founding and leading several
communal institutions.
I tried to make sure that during
the more than 20 years I spent in the

Rabbi Alvin, left, and Rabbi Sam Reinstein at the
recent bris of Sam Reinsteins son, Leon. SAM REINSTEIN
rabbinate, and as a community leader and activist, I
never said my children should act a certain way because
theyre the rabbis children, Kenneth Brander said. They
were part of the conversation and part of the experience
instead of resenting the experience.
I definitely went into this with eyes wide open, Tuvia
Brander, the oldest of five children, said. In our home,
the work of the rabbinate was a family project, and we
were all included in this holy work. It was a way for our
family to give back to the community, and to see firsthand
how we could help people in all different stages of life and
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effect change on a broad and individual scale. Over time
and with an incredible partner in my wife, Miriam, I was
able to do this myself.
He originally thought of working in a math-related field,
but a summer in Kansas City through YUs Jewish Experi-
ence program which combines communal work with
business internships convinced him that he belonged
in the pulpit, and he returned the next summer as a rab-
binic intern.
I always wanted to contribute to the Jewish community
in an active way, and there are ways you can do that as a
lay leader and there are ways you can do that as a rabbi,
he continued. I enjoy working with people, and going
into the rabbinate was a real opportunity to engage with
people and be involved in the community on the most inti-
mate level.
Two sons of Rabbi Menachem Genack of Congregation Rabbi Yaakov Taubes, left, and his father, Rabbi
Shomrei Emunah in Englewood are taking part in the Michael Taubes.
March 19 event: Rabbis Moshe Genack (2017) and Chaim
Genack (2014). Their father also is a RIETS rosh yeshiva, Neuburger is the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth
and he is the head of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division. Abraham in Bergenfield.
Another intergenerational feature of the Chag HaSe- Special mention will be made of Rabbi Jason Gross-
mikhah convocation will be the presence of 10 men who man (2014), a Teaneck native and the grandson of the late
were ordained at RIETS and whose grandsons are in the Rabbi Zelo Schussheim, a RIETS graduate and longtime
new cohort. RIETS Rosh Yeshiva.
Among these are Rabbis Motti Neuburger (2015) and The three classes of new rabbis represent an interna-
Yechiel Neuburger (2017), sons of RIETS Rosh Yeshiva tionally diverse group, hailing from five continents and
Rabbi Yaakov Neuburger (1979), maternal grandsons more than 50 North American cities. The convocation
of Rabbi Zevulun Charlop (1954), and great-grandsons will be presented as a live webcast to the public at www.
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Bridging worlds
Franklin Lakes rabbi is new head Jewish Boy Scout chaplain
JOANNE PALMER
It is a safe bet that when Lieutenant General Robert Ste-
phenson Smyth Baden-Powell, the first Baron Baden-
Powell, first came up with the idea of Boy Scouts, it didnt
occur to him that just a little over a century later, his move-
ment, transplanted to the United States, would include a
National Jewish Committee on Scouting.
Baron Baden-Powell was a consummate Victorian mili-
tary man; if he hadnt been born, Rudyard Kipling would
have invented him. He of course was Christian, but as it
soon became clear, his emphasis was more on religion in
general than his in particular. Religion is very important
in scouting.
Hence the many official Boy Scout national chaplains in
this country, representing, among other faiths, Catholics,
Baptists, and Presbyterians. The Jewish chaplaincy has
existed since 1927, a surprising 90 years ago.
This is relevant here and now because the committees
new head is Joseph Prouser, Conservative rabbi and Eagle
Scout.
Rabbi Prouser, who leads Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey in Franklin Lakes, has been a Scout ever since I
was a little kid, for almost as long as I can remember, he
said. He grew up in Northampton, Mass.; his troop was
sponsored by the First Church of Christ. That was never
an issue, he said. The troop drew boys from all over the
area, although none from that church. Very few of them
were Jewish it was not an overwhelmingly Jewish area,
although because its home to many academics, there
always are some. It was never a problem being Jewish,
Rabbi Prouser said. Religious devotion what Scouts
call reverence is very much a part of it.
Everyone was urged to grapple with their
own religious identity, and that work was
rewarded, no matter what religious iden-
tity you claimed as your own.
Rabbi Prouser began his Scouting career
as a Cub Scout, and then moved steadily
through the ranks until he reached the
highest, most difficult to attain level, Eagle
Scout. To become an Eagle Scout, a boy
has to plan and execute a major project,
and direct other Scouts as they help him.
Rabbi Prousers was with the Northamp-
ton Historical Society. The town was
founded in the 17th century, and the his-
torical society had a barn where they
had been keeping all sort of artifacts for
decades, or maybe even for centuries.
I took a group of boys into the barn
and we did almost an archeological dig. Two summers ago, Rabbi Prouser went to the International Jamboree in Ja-
We sorted through the stuff there, and pan. Here, he stands with the Bangladeshi contingent. (Girls are welcomed in
catalogued it, and provided suggestions Boy Scout troops overseas.)
for its use or display. We found paintings,
we found 19th century farm equipment. We found some
tombstones from the founding fathers of Northampton.
Those tombstones provided one possible answer to the
age-old question what do you do when you have a typo
etched in stone? Obviously you cant erase it. So, at least in
Northampton, you redo it on another stone, and you keep
the old one around, to use to pave a road or hold down a
weight or whatever else it could be handy for. And until
then, you store it, so an Eagle Scout can uncover it hun-
dreds of years later.
It happened that Rabbi Prousers Eagle Scout project
10 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 17, 2017
In the International Jamboree in Japan, an Indone-
sian scout is flanked by Joseph Prouser, left, and
Archpriest Eric Tosi, national chaplain for Christian
Orthodox scouts.
was in 1976 the bicentennial year so it was even more hopes to break the ice between the Jewish and Muslim
relevant.
A candidate becomes an Eagle Scout at what is called a coaches. (Thats circus coaches who use the circus arts
Court of Honor, an individual ceremony with great emo-
tional weight for the boy and his family and friends. Joe ple who think of social relationships as a metaphoric cir-
Prousers was at his shul, Congregation Bnai Israel. He cus.) The program is specially designed to bring together
remembers its Hebrew school as being extraordinarily
good so good, in fact, that when his rabbi, Asher Bar- should be fun.
Zev, spoke at the ceremony, he addressed me in Hebrew,
and I remember feeling a bit surprised, both because he
chose to do that and because I could understand him.
During college, Rabbi Prouser was in the College Scout-
ing Reserves, a program created largely to keep young
men connected; he lost most of that connection in rabbini-
cal school and then picked it up at the local level when he
and his young family moved to Connecticut when he took
a pulpit there. But then, in 1997, I got a call, out of the
blue, from a member of the National Jewish Committee
on Scouting, saying that there was a need for a chaplain at
a National Jamboree.
The Boy Scouts of America holds a national jambo-
ree every four years. The international scouting organi-
zation holds one every four years as well. The dates are
staggered, so there is a Boy Scout Jamboree to which an
American Boy Scout can go held every other summer.
Rabbi Prouser had never been to one before, though; as
soon as he was old enough for a summer job, hed worked
at a Boy Scout camp. One of my first paid jobs was as a
cooking merit badge instructor, he said; in that capacity
I taught kids how to cook over an open fire. It is a skill
he retains, he added.
Rabbi Prouser went to the jamboree, and despite being
geographically illogical, he became the scouting move-
ments Jewish chaplain for the western region, where he
did not live. But he spent some time in Utah, and devel-
oped what have become strong, long-lasting relationships
with Mormon Scout leaders.
Now, Rabbi Prouser is one of four Boy Scout Jewish
chaplains; he replaces his mentor, Rabbi Peter Hyman,
who remains as senior Jewish chaplain but is giving up
his chairmanship after 30 years. Another of the rabbis is
a former Eagle Scout.
There are many Jewish Boy Scouts, Rabbi Prouser said.
At the Jamboree, there is a sizeable contin-
gent of shomer Shabbes Scouts, who have
their own synagogue tent. And there are
many other Jews who are not part of that
organized effort.
This is a National Jamboree summer; its
set for ten mid-July days, in West Virginia.
They are major undertakings; the last one
drew about 35,000 boys and about 10,00
staff members, Rabbi Prouser said. Among
them are many Jews and many Muslims.
Were planning a joint meal for the Jew-
ish and Muslim Scouts, Rabbi Prouser said.
Some Muslim Scouts will be from overseas,
he added. Foreign delegations can come to
U.S. jamborees; one will come from Egypt
this year, and maybe from other majority
Muslim countries as well. We are going to be
doing some joint programming, and I think
its for the first time, he added. There have
been smaller-scale efforts to get us together,
but this is the first time en masse.
Although the plans are not yet firm, he
scouts spectacularly, with what are called social circus
they teach to bring disparate students together, not peo-
groups separated by culture of circumstance, he said. It
Rabbi Prouser believes that scouting has widened his
world, increased his understanding of the many people
with whom he shares it, and given him the freedom and
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As he was made an Eagle Scout at his Court of

Honor at his shul in 1976, Rabbi Prousers rabbi,
Asher Bar-Zev, addressed him in Hebrew.

flexibility to remain fully who he is. From the time I

was really young, my deepest and most valued friend-
ships were with other people involved in scouting, he
said. That is certainly true today. I think that those
friendships were so deep and lasting because we share
values and commitments.
I am regularly in touch with people of very differ-
Relaunching a career
ent perspectives, religious affiliations, and beliefs,
and theyre very different from mine, he continued.
I have close friends who are members of the Church
after time away
of the Latter-Day Saints in Utah, and Rabbi Hyman
is one of my closest and dearest colleagues. Rabbi strategies, success stories and advice
Hyman is Reform, and theologically and in religious
practice we are really very different. It is our common
experience with and commitment to this organization with Carol Fishman Cohen, CEO, iRelaunch
that brings us together, and bridges all these other
differences. Carol Fishman Cohen is the CEO and co-founder of iRelaunch. iRelaunch works
In a way, hes a Jewish ambassador to the scouting with employers to create programs for hiring professionals returning to work after
world. Part of my job as national chaplain is to bridge a career break, and provides strategies for relaunching individuals to resume their
what sometimes can be a gulf, he said.
careers. Carol wrote the seminal Harvard Business Review article The 40 Year Old
What about bridging the worlds of Scouting and the
rabbinate? Intern on this topic and is a regular HBR contributor. Her TED talk How to get
The rabbinate can be all-consuming, Rabbi back to work after a career break has been viewed over 1.4 million times and translated into 27
Prouser said. This level of scouting can be therapeu- languages. Carol is a graduate of Harvard Business School and her return to work at Bain Capital
tic. It is very healthy to have some other area of activ- after 11 years out of the full time workforce is documented in a Harvard Business School case
ity and creativity. But they arent completely separate
worlds. Part of the attraction for me is that they are
study. She lives in Boston and is the mother of four Millennials.
complementary areas of my rabbinic endeavor.
A rabbi would ill serve the Jewish community by
devoting himself exclusively to Jewish particularist
interests and activities. So I honestly believe that it is
Tuesday, March 21 I 7:00 pm
a service to my congregation, my community, and the Congregation Rinat Yisrael, 389 West Englewood Avenue, Teaneck
Jewish community more broadly that I involve myself
in the Boy Scouts of America.
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that it also strengthens the individual.

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A Passover windfall
Stop and Shop to donate two tons of food to JFCS food pantry
Larry Yudelson the pantrys busiest time of year.

I
ts not news that Passover is expensive.
It demands more food. Special food. Special
kosher food.
There is good news for hard-strapped local fami-
lies this year, however.
The food pantry of the Jewish Family and Childrens Ser-
vices of Northern New Jersey will be getting a donation of
two tons of food from Stop and Shop.
Every year, probably for more than the last dozen
years or so, weve partnered with a local Jewish organi-
zation in our market area, Jim Keenoy explained. Mr.
Keenoy is Stop & Shops director of marketing and exter-
nal communication. Its part of our bigger and broader
objective of being a better neighbor.
That includes turkey donations before Thanksgiving,
and ham donations before Easter as well as ongoing sup-
port for local charities and food banks.
The list of food being donated was drawn up by JFCS.
The vast majority is shelf stable. Some components are
frozen or fresh, Mr. Keenoy said.
Throughout the year, the food pantry stocks shelf sta-
ble, fresh and frozen foods, according to Ellen Finkelstein,
the marketing director for Jewish Family and Childrens
Services. We support just shy of 1500 people a year,
she said.
She knows that the need is so great that JFCS cannot fix
The food pantrys stocked for Passover.
all of it. We know that one in five children in New Jersey
go to bed hungry each night, she said.
Because it serves so many Jewish families, Passover is
Food costs can quadruple, Ms. Finkelstein said. For
many families, its impossible to put adequate Passover
food on the table. More people struggle than do during
the rest of the year.
The food bank is open to anyone in the Jewish Feder-
ation of Northern New Jerseys catchment area. Thats
Bergen, Hudson, and parts of Passaic County. Eighty-two
percent of those who use the pantry are from the Jew-
ish community.
Who is eligible for assistance?
People are able to come for the food pantry help if
their family is having a difficult time putting food on the
table, Ms. Finkelstein said.
It starts with a meeting with Faith OConnor, the JFCS
employee who handles referrals. Shell ask about a fam-
ilys situation and look for other ways that the agency
might be able to help.
With the Stop and Shop donation, we are putting word
out in the community that this year we have help available
for all those families who have a very difficult time mak-
ing ends meet, Ms. Finkelstein said. This contribution
from Stop and Shop is putting us in a unique situation,
so we can provide kosher for Passover food for a much
greater community.
The food will be delivered on March 28. The gift will
reflect a wish list drawn up by JFCS, and it will include
canned tuna, grape juice, chicken soup, matzah ball mix,

Taking it to the state legislators

Tuesday is JCRC advocacy day
Larry Yudelson across the country. We Vered Adoni, an assistant prosecutor Much is said about Israels dynamic

T
can strengthen ourselves at the Bergen County Prosecutors Office, technical companies and institutions,
his year, you by standing together and will discuss these issues at the briefing. their incredible advances in so many areas
dont have to go taking purposeful action. The second issue to be discussed will be of science and technology, Ms. Fein said.
to Trenton to Security and anti-Sem- senior and disability services. Federation One such area is the advances made in
speak to state itism tops the list of four is one of the largest funding organizations water preservation, water conservation,
legislators about the Jewish issues the JCRC has put for senior services, Ms. Fein said. and water resources. In a short period
communitys concerns on on the agenda for the The third issue is educational funding of time, Israel has gone from drought
behalf of the Jewish Com- meetings, Ms. Fein said. parity state aid for Jewish day schools and water shortages to become a water
munity Relations Com- Concretely, the state gov- she continued. To the extent that the exporter. Its exporting not just water but
mittee of the Jewish Fed- ernment administers the state can fund completely secular areas water technology as well.
eration of Northern New Stan Goodman federal Nonprofit Security of the school, we advocate for it. We were Many specific advances are things that
Jersey. Grant Program, which has successful last year in getting allocations to could have important implications for
This Tuesday, March 21, the JCRC will helped many local institutions including increase. We hope to do it again. New Jersey, which has some overlap and
hold its state legislative advocacy day, synagogues and schools beef up their Maurie Litwack, director of state politi- some differences in its water problems.
starting with a breakfast and a briefing security. cal affairs for the Orthodox Union, will Theres a chance to build something
on key issues at the federations Paramus The JCRC also is asking for the state to explain the details at the briefing.
office. Then participants will fan out to supplement the federal grants, because Support for Israel among elected offi- What: JCRC State Legislative Advo-
the offices of state senators and assem- they are targeted at urban areas. Those cials is the fourth item on the agenda, Ms. cacy Day
bly members throughout the federations areas include the federations catchment Fein said. Last year we were successful. When: Tuesday, March 21, 8:30 a.m.
North Jersey catchment area. area but excludes some of the states We had an anti-BDS bill that was passed 3 p.m.
This is an opportunity to stand firmly remote Jewish communities. with almost unanimous support by the Where: Jewish Federation of North-
with your community, JCRCs director, The JCRC also will ask the legislators to legislature, preventing the state from con- ern New Jersey, 50 Eisenhower Drive,
Lori Fein, said. Our community feels allocate funds to help institutions pay for tracting with companies that support a Paramus
itself under attack and very vulnerable, security guards. The federal grants can boycott of Israel. More information: Call David Silver-
she added, referring to the repeated bomb be used only for specific items of security This year weve decided to highlight a man at (201) 820-3944, email him at
threats sent to the Kaplen JCC on the Pali- infrastructure, such as cameras and bullet- potential area for partnership with Israel, Davids@jfnnj.org, or go to www.jfnnj.
sades in Tenafly along with other JCCs proof window coatings. she said. That area is water. org/advocacy.

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thats better for New Jersey and better for Israel, Stan
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Cordially invites you to an

government relations committee and will present the
case that New Jersey can learn from Israel on water
matters at Tuesdays briefing.
Mr. Goodman said the advocacy day is part of a
long-term effort to build relationships so they recog- entertaining and fun dinner
focused on recognizing the
nize us and understand our interests.
Taking the meetings to the legislators district
offices, rather than to Trenton, has a lot of advan-
tages. We can include more volunteers.
All told, the federation extends into nine of the
states 40 legislative districts. If volunteers dont show
importance of shalom
kesef.
up from all of the districts, the JCRC will send a del-
egation anyway, Ms. Fein said. As much as legislators
generally do prefer to hear from their own constitu-
ents, the legislators are very happy to hear from who-
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ish community as a whole.
So why should newcomers to the JCRC show up on By advanced registration only: Theaisle@ezrah.org. Gratis.
Tuesday to join in the advocacy?
This is an opportunity to make a difference on
issues that are important for the whole community,
Ms. Fein said. Its an opportunity to meet your legisla-
tors and develop your own personal relationship with
them. And of course its an educational opportunity to This initiative could not have been launched without the encouragement and
backing of our communitys Rabbis and the generous sponsorship of
learn more about these issues through our briefing.
Elana & Marc Rothenberg and Tamar & Ross Rothenberg; we are most grateful.
And after the meetings, its an opportunity to return
to the federation offices for lunch and a briefing.

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From member to volunteer
Adler Aphasia Center inspires local woman to give back
LOIS GOLDRICH
Talk about coincidence.
In 2010, while she was an elementary
school teacher at Gibbs, a public school in
New Milford, Stacy Kaplan of Fair Lawn,
then 47, got married at a ceremony con-
ducted by Rabbi Francine Roston, the
leader of Congregation Beth Tikvah there.
(The synagogue, also known as the New
Milford Jewish Center, closed its doors
in 2013, merging with the Jewish Com- Stacey Kaplan
munity Center of Paramus. Rabbi Roston
went on to head a congregation in South Orange before
she and her family moved to Whitefish, Montana.)
Around that time, the rabbi ran into my mother and
they discussed books, Ms. Kaplan said. She suggested
that my mother read My Stroke of Insight, written by
a neurologist who had a stroke and knew what she was
going through. Soon afterward, Ms. Kaplan had a stroke.
The rabbi visited me and said shed never recommend
that book again, Ms. Kaplan, now a volunteer at the Adler
Aphasia Center, said.
The book, however, did prove helpful. In the hospital,
my mother read it out loud, she said. It helped me with
my recovery.
Ms. Kaplans stroke happened while she was driv-
ing down Route 4. She noticed that her vision was get-
ting cloudy in one eye. I went to the ER, she said. My
carotid artery had ripped. Ms. Kaplan, the mother of four
teenagers two hers, two her husbands at the time of
her stroke, spent a week and a half at Valley Hospital and
then a month at the Kessler Institute in South Orange. She
emerged with aphasia, a communication disorder that
affects a persons ability to speak.
The doctor told me I had aphasia, she said. It was
the first time I ever heard the word. I was paralyzed when
I first got the stroke and the doctor said I wouldnt be able ceeds are used to fund scholarships for attendees. Ive
to walk without aid and wouldnt have the use of my left
arm. Undaunted, and determined to regain her skills
she can now jog a little she did not accept her doctors
diagnosis.
Hearing about the Adler Aphasia Center in Maywood
from her friend Roz Goodman Roz and her husband,
Larry, are Jewish activists, and their son Larry is a former absolutely great and has been very supportive to the cen-
president of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
she made a decision that changed my life.
Joining the center gave me my life back, Ms. Kaplan
said. Working on jewelry there was better than any physi-
cal therapy for my fine motor skills. But even more, Ms.
Kaplan, who had continued attending Jewish communal
events before joining Adler but admits to feeling some-
what awkward, now had an opportunity to talk to people
and not worry about what they would think of my talk-
ing. I walked in and felt like I was home. It was warm and
welcoming.
At first, she avoided jewelry making, she said. I didnt
want to do jewelry. I did it before the stroke and didnt
think I could do it. The second semester, Eunice then
jewelry director kept trying to get me to do it and said
she would help me.
In the meantime, Ms. Kaplan tried to go back to work
but was not successful because of aphasia. My spelling
was bad. I had to figure out what to do. In the end, she
had to retire. But with all this time on her hands, she still
14 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 17, 2017
wanted to do something useful.
I chose to work at Adler, she said, becom-
ing the first member to work as a volunteer.
I work mostly in the store, teaching couture
jewelry. Ive always been good with my hands
and have a good eye, which helps. At first, I
put my hand on the table and however little I
could use it, I did. I saw that I could make nice
pieces. I guess I was a bit surprised.
She also decided that she had to relearn
how to read. I used to read quickly, she said.
When I first came home [after recovery], I
had all this free time but I couldnt read. I
taught myself to read using a first-grade phonics book. It
gave me such insight into how children learn. I was really
determined. I dont like to sit still. Now I can read again,
and faster, but for me it feels like Im reading slowly.
In May, Ms. Kaplan is going to Israel, where she will
visit the Adler facility at the Hadassah Academic College
in Jerusalem. She is inspired by Jewish values, she said.
I learned about giving back, about being kind. She also
recalls the determination of her grandfather, who fled
Russia because of persecution and always said he planned
to go back to get the money he left. (That dream has
remained unfulfilled.)
But for the granddaughter, Adler has brought my life
back to me. I go places, have friends, conversations. And
the groups are purposeful, not just exercises. She did
make inquiries at local Jewish institutions after her stoke
but couldnt find anything that fit because I didnt talk
much. It would be helpful if synagogues and other Jewish
organizations could just be aware of what is out there for
people to go to, she said.
For now, Adler is filling Ms. Kaplans needs, and her
desire to give back is being put to good use. She is actively
involved in planning the centers April 5 open house,
which will showcase the jewelry created by members. Pro-
made some of those pieces, necklaces and earrings, Ms.
Kaplan said. Ill also help with the selling.
Some of that selling takes place at synagogues, she
added, and she singled out Lisa Jacobson, whose hus-
band, Paul, is the rabbi of Temple Avodat Shalom in River
Edge, as being particularly helpful in that effort. Shes
ter, Ms. Kaplan said; Rabbi Jacobson has sponsored both
home and synagogue events., she added We had a sale at
Avodat Shalom in the ballroom and it felt so peaceful, she
said. There was a real spirit there.
What: The Adler Aphasia Center will hold its Spring
Boutique and Open House, showcasing handcrafted
jewelry and gifts created by Something Special, the
centers vocational artisan program
When: On April 5 from 4 to 8 p.m.
Where: At the Adler Aphasia Center, 60 West Hunter
Avenue, Maywood
RSVP: (201) 368-8585. Center staff will provide tours
on request, as well as information about the facility.
Sales primarily support the centers scholarship fund,
so that anyone with aphasia can participate in its pro-
grams and services, regardless of ability to pay. Some-
thing Special has provided scholarships to more than
100 people with aphasia since the program began.
Back to work
iRelaunch helps women
reenter the workforce
BANJI GANCHROW
If you are a woman, sitting on your couch, trying to
figure out what to do with the rest of your life, then
put March 21 at 7 p.m. on your calendar. Thats when
Carol Fishman Cohen will talk about how you can go
about finding a job thats right for you.
For those of you who have never heard of her, Ms.
Fishman Cohen is the CEO and co-founder of iRe-
launch. This organization is dedicated to helping
women become relaunchers, restarting their careers
or even starting new ones, after they have been out
of the work place for an extended period of time. Ms.
Fishman Cohen gave a TED talk, How to get back to
work after a career break. Clearly she hit a nerve with
it, because it was viewed over 1.4 million times and
has been translated into 27 languages. She also wrote
a Harvard Business Review Article, The 40 Year Old
Intern. iRelaunch runs seminars that advise women
on all aspects of rejoining the workplace, including
resume writing, interviewing techniques, and every-
thing in between; it also runs meetings, similar to job
fairs, where companies and future employees come to
meet each other.
In other words, iRelaunch gives its participants
every opportunity to relaunch into the business world.
Rachel Book of Bergenfield is responsible for con-
necting Ms. Fishman Cohen with Project Ezrah, a local
organization that helps people who are unemployed or
are in financial crisis.Some women choose not to go
back to work after they have children, or if they are in
a caregiving position to someone who is ill, Ms. Book
said. But the years go by, and they find themselves in
a position where they either want to go back to work,
or for financial reasons, they need to go back to work.
Whatever the reason may be, they just dont know
where to start. This is where Carol Fishman Cohen
can help.
Ms. Book leads diversity recruiting strategies for
Fidelity Investments. Before that, she built and led
similar programs at Bloomberg and AT&T. She has 18
years of experience in corporate recruiting. In the last
seven or so years, she has been focused on helping
There are
so many challenges
facing women looking
to return to work
after an extended
career break
companies build strategies to attract diverse talent
people who come from communities that are under-
represented in the workforce or who are members
of protected classes. She works to recruit women to
finance and tech, as well as African Americans and
Latinos, military veterans, people with disabilities,
and people who identify as LGBT. Part of Ms. Books
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getting back into the workplace after career breaks. Some

of them have been out for two years, some longer, but we
give them mentors and teach them technology skills and
reintroduce them to the corporate culture, she said. Ms.
Book has found that not all the women with whom she
works decide to stay in those jobs, she said, but even if half
of them do, that means its been a success.
Ms. Book approached Project Ezrah late last year and
volunteered to create career programming and resources
specifically for women, whose needs often are not the
same as mens. There are so many challenges facing
women looking to return to work after an extended career
break, she said. They arent sure if they want to continue
in the same career area, they dont know how to represent
their nonprofit, volunteer, or Rodan + Fields experience,
they are disconnected from their professional networks,
and they are really intimidated by technology. (Rodan +
Fields is a skincare line that recruits salespeople online.)
So Ms. Book met with Project Ezrahs director, Robert
Hoenig, hoping, at first, for a womens career initiative
that could address those needs.
The first part of that initiative was a talk given at the
Young Israel of Teaneck about the work that goes into
a job search researching whats available, writing a
resume networking. The second part, which is going on
now, is called the Maayanot Genius Bar. Its for women
who are looking to learn about technology but are intimi-
dated by it. Ms. Book employ s reverse mentoring, with
students working with adults, tutoring them. It has been
a really successful venture, Ms. Book said. The students
If you realize that you
have a passion for
something else, go after it,
even though it may be
hard for a few years
Gila Guzman of Teaneck, who now is known as Coach
Carol Fishman Cohen Rachel Book Gila and is the founder of Main Asset health (mainass-
ethealth.com), went from being an attorney to a nutri-
love being able to teach their students, and everyone is tional coach. Its OK to invest in a career and then change
finding it mutually beneficial. your mind, she said. Yes, its scary, but feel the fear and
The Genius Bar meets during Maayanots club period do it anyway. Move outside your comfort zone that is
Wednesdays from 11:40 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. The last class where the magic happens.
will meet on March 22. When they signed up for the class, If you realize that you have a passion for something
women were able to indicate in which areas they need else, go after it, even though it may be hard for a few years.
help. This ranges from understanding Google drive to
photo editing to a general knowledge of social media.
Chani Karen Laifer of Teaneck, an attorney now in pri- Who: Carol Fishman Cohen
vate practice, specializing in matrimonial law, went back What: Will talk about job searching for women, for
to work after 15 years. The experience was daunting at Project Ezrah
first, she said. But I realized what a positive example Where: At Congregation Rinat Yisrael, 389 West
I was setting for my daughters. Its difficult if we view it Englewood Avenue in Teaneck
as fulfilling one role at the expense of the other. We as When: On Tuesday, March 21, at 7 p.m.
women need to find the right balance between our profes- RSVP: Email Jeff@ezrah.org
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Baumans
are honored
Rabbi Mark and Esther Bauman of
Teaneck were honored as parents Rabbi Arthur Weiner of the JCC of Rabbi Alberto (Baruch) Zeilicovich of Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn,
of the year at Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Paramus/Congregation Beth Tefillah. with his wife, Graciela, and children, Daniel and Ruth.
Raphael Hirsch. The school is in Wash-
ington Heights, in northern Manhat-
tan, the dinner was at the Teaneck
Marriott at Glenpointe, and the couple
and their 12 children all are alumni or
students of the school. Rabbi Bauman
is a Judaic studies teacher at the Rosen-
baum Yeshiva of North Jersey.
The school, also known as Breuers,
was named for its founder, Rabbi
Joseph Breuer, and is run according
to the philosophy of Rabbi Breuers
grandfather, Rabbi Samson Raphael
Hirsch.
Rabbi Shelley Kniaz, Rabbi Joseph Prouser
left, and Rabbi Lori
Rabbi Paul Kurland of the Nanuet Hebrew
Forman-Jacobi.
Center and his wife, Gerri.

JTS convocation honors local rabbis

The Jewish Theological Seminary awarded 55 honorary doc-
torates to Conservative rabbis who have served the Jewish
community with distinction for 25 years or more.
The ceremony was at Sutton Place Synagogue in Manhat-
tan, with Alan Levine, chair of the JTS board of trustees, pre-
siding. The chancellor of JTS, Dr. Arnold M. Eisen, conferred
the degrees and delivered the convocation address.
The rabbis receiving the Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa,
included congregational rabbis, Jewish communal profes-
sionals, educators, and chaplains from across the United
States and Canada, as well as from Israel and Switzerland.
Local honorees included Rabbi Lori Forman-Jacobi of
Teaneck, the director of the Jewish Journey Project; Rabbi
Shelley Kniaz, director of congregational learning at Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake; Rabbi Paul
M. Kurland of the Nanuet Hebrew Center in New City, N.Y.;
Rabbi Joseph H. Prouser of Temple Emanuel of North Jer-
sey in Franklin Lakes; Rabbi Arthur D. Weiner of the Jewish
Community Center of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah,
and Rabbi Alberto Zeilicovich of Temple Beth Sholom in Fair
Lawn. Rabbi Joshua S. Finkelstein, formerly of Temple Eman-
uel of North Jersey, and Rabbi Michael Steven Goldstein, for-
merly of the Glen Rock Jewish Center, also were among the
honorees.

Senator Roger Wicker

COURTESY NORPAC

Wicker is guest at YU/RIETS shabbaton Yeshivat Lev HaTorah dinner

Norpac meeting
Roslyn and Leon Kozak will welcome
Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) for a Nor-
pac dinner in their Englewood home
on Sunday, March 26 at 5 p.m.
For more information or to RSVP,
email Avi@NORPAC.net or call him at
(201) 788-5133
in Teaneck
During Shabbat on March 18, Yeshiva
Universitys outgoing president, Rich-
ard Joel, and its incoming president.
Rabbi Ari Berman, will speak at a shab-
baton at Congregation Rinat Yisrael.
The shul is at 389 West Englewood
Ave., in Teaneck. For information, call
(201) 837-2795.
A gala dinner celebrating the 15th anniversary of
Yeshivat Lev HaTorah in Ramat Bet Shemesh,
Israel, is set for Sunday, March 26, at the Palisa-
dium in Cliffside Park. It will begin with a reception
and appetizers at 4:30 p.m.
Rabbi Ely Allen, Debbi and Marc Frankel, and
Dani Vanderwalde are the honorees, and a spe-
cial tribute will be given to Dr. David Kallus for his
decade of dedication to the students.
For information, call (201) 232-8009 or go to
www.levhatorah.org/dinner.

Rabbi Ely Allen

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Ahavath Torah to honor the Goldins
Congregation Ahavath Torah in Engle-
wood will honor Rabbi Shmuel and
Barbara Goldin as guests of honor at
its annual dinner on Sunday, March 19,
at 5 p.m.
Under their leadership for the last 33
years, the shul has grown to become
one of the largest and influential
Orthodox synagogues in America.
A spokesman for the Orthodox
community, Shmuel Goldin is a past
president of the Rabbinical Council
of America, the worlds largest asso-
ciation of Orthodox rabbis, and is
chairman of the committee oversee-
ing the RCAs policies and standards
for conversion to Judaism. He has been
president of the Rabbinic Alumni Asso-
ciation of Yeshiva University and the
Rabbinical Council of Bergen County
and is on the boards of many local,
national, and global organizations. He
was on Newsweeks list of Americas mental, often behind the scenes, in
Top 50 Rabbis in 2012 and has been
one of the Forward 50, Forward mag-
azines list of top Jewish communal
Richard and Phyllis Rosen
HaZamir gala honorary concert
Hundreds of teen singers from the
United States and Israel will perform
on the stage of New Yorks Metropolitan
Opera House when HaZamir: the Inter-
national Jewish High School Choir, holds
its gala concert on Sunday, March 26, at
4 p.m. Conductors from 35 HaZamir
chapters are expected to be on stage,
along with about 400 singers.
HaZamir, a project of the Zamir Cho-
ral Foundation, is the only international
organization dedicated to fostering Jew-
ish identity across generational, denom-
inational, and geographic lines through
Jewish choral music. To perform at the
Met is a great honor. I know I speak for
all of the singers, musicians and con-
ductors, when I say this is a day we will
always treasure, said Matthew Lazar,
the founder and director of the Zamir
Choral Foundation.
This years gala program includes tra-
ditional and modern compositions from
18 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 17, 2017
Rabbi Shmuel and Barbara Goldin
leaders. Rabbi Goldin also taught Bible
and philosophy the Yeshiva University
for more than 20 years.
Barbara Goldin partners with her hus-
band in all of his activities on the local
and national level. She has been instru-
many synagogue programs.
For information, go to www.ahavath-
torah.org or call (201) 568-1315.
Fran Gordon
the United States and Israel, in Hebrew
and English. It features the world pre-
miere of Fanfare for Jerusalem by
award-winning New York pianist and
composer Randy Klein. His composition
is based on excerpts from the Psalms of
David.
During the gala, the Zamir Choral
Foundation will present the Kinor David
award, which honors people who have
made a meaningful contribution to
HaZamir. Francine M. Gordon brought
the HaZamir program to the Jewish Fed-
eration in Cleveland, creating the first
HaZamir sister-city Partnership in Israel.
Phyllis and Richard Rosen helped create
and sustain the HaZamir Jerusalem chap-
ter she is a Zamir Chorale Foundation
board member, and both have sung in
Zamir.
For more information on the gala, go
to www.hazamirgalaconcert.org.
Rosenbaum Yeshiva
holds empowerment workshop
Last month, Dr. Tamar Kahane, a licensed prioritizing, and organization. During
child psychologist and the founder and the workshop, Dr. Kahane showed how
director of the Kahane Center, met with to incorporate those skills into the class-
the early childhood educators and sup- room to empower both educators and stu-
port staff at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of dents. Shani Skydell, the director of RYNJs
North Jersey to empower them with tools early childhood division, said, The teach-
and strategies to effectively grow their ers were actively engaged in Dr. Kahanes
students executive functioning. Execu- entire presentation, and could not get
tive functioning is a term that describes enough insight into how they can better
the mental processes we use to help us support the children in their classrooms.
organize our world. Skills include task ini- For more information, go to www.thekah-
tiation, emotional regulation, planning, ancecenter.com.
ADL programs
for adults and teens
Joshua Cohen, Anti Defamation Leagues New Jersey
regional director, talks about the rise of anti-Semitism
around the world, in the U.S., and locally, for Ramapo Col-
lege of New Jerseys Gross Center for Holocaust and Geno-
cide Studies and the colleges Hillel, on Monday, March
20, at 1 p.m. The college is at 505 Ramapo Valley Road in
Mahwah. Call (201) 684-7409.
Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne offers a session of the ADLs
Words to Action program for all high school teens and
Joshua Cohen
their parents on Tuesday, March 21, at 7 p.m. The interactive program is designed to com-
bat anti-Semitism and prejudice on college campuses and in our lives. The temple is at
950 Preakness Ave. For information, call Rabbi Meeka Simerly at (973) 595-6565 or email
her at rabbimeekatbt@optonline.net.
The theologies of Bruce Springsteen
Azzan Yadin-Israel, Rutgers University Jewish Studies pro-
fessor and author of The Grace of God and the Grace of
Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen, discusses his
book with Dr. William Storrar, director of the Center of
Theological Inquiry in Princeton, on Thursday, March 23.
The 7 p.m. talk will be at the centers Luce Hall, 50 Stock-
ton St. For more information, call (609) 924-8144, ext. 113.
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Cover Story
How to talk
about
Israel
iCan makes college-bound students more
comfortable with what they might find on campus

I
JOANNE PALMER
srael is a real place, with
sidewalks and traffic lights
and lakes and streams and
wild hills; with sunlight
and weather and storm
sewers and beaches; with
restaurants and museums and fac-
tories and apartment buildings and
nursing homes.
It is also a place of huge symbolic
meaning, ancient, haunting, sweet,
threatening. Ever-changing.
For millennia, for Jews, it was a
place fervently longed for. Then it
became real, and almost all Jews
looked toward it with reverence.
But things change. Now, Israel
has become a divisive issue for
many people. Some, including
much of the Jewish community,
love the Jewish state, with a love
based in reality. Others, both inside
and outside the Jewish commu-
nity, do not. Some argue politics or
specific policies, but others react From left, teen council members Briana Gotian, Elizabeth Maline, and Zachary Zimmer.
negatively, dismissively, or even
hatefully. Some use their dislike of
Israel, whatever that dislike may spring
from, as either a pathway to anti-Semitism
or a mask for it.
Why thats happened is a long, sad story, local Jewish community support them,
outside the scope of this one. But that its and send them out in the world open to
happened is a fact, a truth that must be
navigated.
Where does that leave high school
Jews on college campuses, and
to have fun being together.
The conferences topic was
broad, and that was on pur-
pose. Created from a grant
from the Russell Berrie Foun-
dation, with the mission to
create something to educate
kids about what theyll find on
campus, I saw it as the oppor-
tunity to take on issues of con-
cern to a broad range of people
in our community and bring
them together, Lori Fein, the
director of the federations
Jewish Community Relations
Council, said.
So we brought in various
youth groups, day schools,
religious schools, synagogues,
and nonprofits that were oper-
ating either with teens or in the
Israel space, she said. The
federations the organization
in which all local Jewish groups
can feel comfortable, because
its mission, at its core, is to
strengthen the community by
students? We already know that col- for them? becoming home to all of them.
lege students are facing a reality unlike On Sunday, March 5, the Jewish Federa- iCan, as a federation project, set as part of
the one their parents knew. What about tion of Northern New Jersey sponsored its mission its ability to provide a welcome
their slightly younger peers? How can the what it hopes will be the first rather than to all local Jewish high school students as
the only iCan conference; 218 high school they look toward college.
students, mostly from the federations And how to talk about Israel? There
new experiences and new ideas but able catchment area but also from Essex and was a sense that just addressing the nega-
to decide for themselves what to believe, Rockland counties, showed up to learn tives the Boycott Divestment and Sanc-
which beliefs to retain, and how to argue about Israel, to learn what to expect as tion movement that flourishes on some

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 Cover Story

Chloe Valdary takes a selfie at the meeting.

In green, JFNNJs Elise Hirsch and Lori Fein stand on either side of the teen advisory task
force; comedian Jon Rudnitzky, who performed, is in the middle. Students look at materials at registration.

campuses, the mock apartheid walls and
faux border checks and eviction notices
and other drastic tactics that kids may
encounter is misrepresenting what
Jewish life on campus is, Ms. Fein said.
We wanted to give students a fuller sense
of what they will face, and the support net-
works that are available to them.
It came out that there was a lot of igno-
rance about Israel, even among Jewish
teenagers, Ms. Fein said. So we wanted
to give them a sense of whats out there,
of the knowledge base they might want
to access, even if we couldnt deliver all
that information in the four or five hours
that we had.
The conference was many months in the
making, and it was put together in large
part by the teens themselves. A teen advi-
sory task force met once a month; not only
did its 18 members provide a great deal of
insight on what theyd want to discuss and
learn, they also were invaluable in con-
vincing their friends to show up for the
conference. Not only did they use their
already well-honed social-media skills
to that end, they also had the chance to
learn from a marketing professional who
worked with them.
The conference included speakers, a
panel of college students, breakout ses-
sions, and a resource fair. At the end,
Elisa Hirsch, the federations manager of
community outreach and engagement,
who worked on the conference with Ms.
Fein, reported, the fire alarm went off,
because the cotton candy machine set it
off. But the kids just didnt want to leave.
We told them they had to and eventually
they did but they just didnt want to.
That was nothing new, Ms. Fein added.
After the teen council meeting, which ran
from 7 to 9 in the evening, wed clean
up and go out and wed see them in the

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parking lot, still talking. For decades, we have been ask-

iCans speakers included Sena- ing how we can restore something
tor Robert Menendez, the Demo- on campus, when we should be ask-
crat who is New Jerseys senior ing how we can create something
U.S. senator; he has been a firm spectacular.
friend of Israel, and was able to How do we talk about Israel in
talk about his passion for the Jew- ways that add value to their lives? By
ish state with the students. doing so, my hunch is that not only
Chloe Valdary also spoke. Ms. will things like BDS and anti-Israel
Valdary, an intense, even fierce sentiment become irrelevant, we
young woman in her early 20s, is actually will be able to mainstream
the director of partnerships and pro-Israel affinity into the popular
outreach for Jerusalem U, where culture.
she makes digital shorts on social One of my sources of frustra-
media when she is not out speak- tion was that when I was in col-
ing; before that, she was a fellow lege the University of Louisiana
at the Wall Street Journal. A proud Senator Robert Menendez talks to Donna Weintraub, doing Israel advocacy in the
Zionist, she is not Jewish. a federation board member who was instrumental in usual way, then I got the opportu-
Ms. Valdary grew up in New creating iCan. Chloe Valdary nity to experiment, to do it the way
Orleans, into a unique Chris- I wanted to. And when I did that, I
tian home steeped in Jewish culture, she said. I grew Newman and that was how I fell in love with Israel. discovered that millennials are more encouraged by unity
up keeping kosher and keeping Shabbat. She was not And Ms. Valdary is a proud millennial who knows how and positivity than by disunity and negativity.
a Seventh-Day Adventist, she clarified, but her family to reach millennials. She encourages discussion of Israel not to center on the
belonged to a similar but less well known denomination. The research seems to indicate that we have been ask- conflict although it neither could nor should be ignored
As a result, I grew up at the intersection of two cultures, ing the wrong questions, she said. We have been ask- but to understand that the conflict is not the primary
Christian and Jewish, and it gave me a lot of perspective. ing how we can defeat BDS and fight anti-Israel groups on defining factor of Israeli society. The more we feed into
And then, when I was in high school, my father intro- campus. What we should be asking is how we can build it, the more we treat the narrative that it is, the more we
duced me to the writer Leon Uris and to Exodus Uriss bridges of affinity and solidarity between young Jews, and reinforce BDS.
1958 novel about the founding of the state of Israel, later between Jews and non-Jews who can take Jewish values This is my analogy imagine that we are in America,
made into a movie starring blue-eyed, glamorous Paul and lessons for their own lives. and the only musical genre that exists is country music. I

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am trying to come into this landscape and create hip hop.
The type of language you use, the type of clothing
you wear, the attitude you convey Im trying to change
all that.
Shahar Azani, the executive director of Stand With Uss
northeast office and before that the spokesman for Isra-
els consulate general in New York also spoke at iCan.
Spending that day in Hasbrouck Heights was a surpris-
ingly easy decision for him, although really it shouldnt
have been. Stand With Us was holding its annual anti-BDS
conference that same weekend, he said. The conference
is very focused; professionals in the field of Israel educa-
tion come to brainstorm how to promote Israel.
So which is more important to study or to do? The
Stand With Us conference was so important but to stand
before hundreds of students, in an actual educational set-
ting that was even more important to me. Thats how
excited I was about it.
Thats what we are trying to achieve. To bring these
students together to galvanize their thinking about Israel,
and not only them but the people surrounding them.
Then we all can play a role in bridging the gap and the
gap is ignorance about Israel.
Were not even talking about disagreements about pol-
icy, because the ignorance about Israel is so deep, about
what Israel is, about what it stands for. And we know that
ignorance is the most dangerous thing of all, because it
allows lies to bloom and to flourish.
But individual people have the power to affect their
communities, to bring in speakers, to talk about what
JEWISH EDUCATION HAS
ALWAYS BEEN YOUR PRIORITY.
WHY STOP NOW?
theyve learned and of course first to
learn. A message for students is that if
you, as a student, as an interested party,
go to your school or to your community
to try to bring in someone important,
something important, a speaker, a pro-
gram, you have a better chance of get-
ting it than if a professional tries to do
it, Mr. Azani said.
I think that students have a real
thirst to know, to answer questions for
themselves. It is crucial. We want them
to ask questions; we need to be able to
answer the questions within the fam-
ily before they go out to the campus, to Shahar Azani
the workplace, into general society. We
want them to answer those questions honestly.
One of the students wanted to know why we should
care about Israel, Mr. Azani said, so he told the story of
President Harry S Truman and his old friend, Harry Jacob-
son. The two men had met when Jacobson was 14 and
Truman was 20, found themselves in the same unit when
they both fought in World War I, and eventually went in
business together as co-owners of a haberdashery store in
Kansas City. (The store did well at first, and then it failed.)
Truman did not want to recognize the state of Israel
as World War II drew close to its bloody close. He was
annoyed at the effrontery of the Jews who tried to push
it on him; as was not surprising (but still is dismaying)
in a man of his time and place, he was not free from
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anti-Semitism, although it did not get in
the way of his friendship with Jacobson.
When delegates of Jewish leaders came to
see him, he said no. He was not interested.
The answer was no.
He turned down a visit from Chaim
Weizmann, the scientist who became Isra-
els first president. But then Harry Jacob-
son, Harry Trumans old friend, came to
visit, and to plead, and according to some
accounts to confront his friends anti-Sem-
itism for the first time.
And then Truman said yes, and that was
a turning point, and soon Israel was born.
Obviously the story is a very complicated
one, but this is part of it.
When I shared that story, suddenly they realized that
Israel wasnt a given, Mr. Azani said. It could have gone
the other way. When you understand where we are com-
ing from, you understand what we have, he added.
I loved the meeting, Mr. Azani concluded. It echoed
our core mission, which is nurturing our leaders of tomor-
row, fostering the younger generation, making sure that
Israel and the Jewish community continue to have conti-
nuity, not only for the next few years but for the next few
decades.
Donna Weintraub of Haworth, who sits on the federa-
tions board, was instrumental in putting together the
iCan conference. I saw a roomful of kids, public school
kids, private school kids, day school kids, Orthodox kids,
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anything, the school reported, and the
administration assured students that the
culprit didnt go to Dwight-Englewood.
But then, right after the presidential
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Donna Weintraub introduces a
speaker at the conference.
Reform kids the community usually is
all divided up between so many compart-
ments and they were all in the same
room, because of the same thing.
Yes, anti-Semitism and anti-Israel feel- werent so many Jewish students at
ing were among the reasons the confer-
ence came together, but it wasnt at
all negative, Ms. Wein-
Castle. He didnt send it to the whole
school, just to members the club, but
it also said something with the word
Reich in it.
Obviously the email spread from
there, and then people started find-
ing out about it. He is no longer at our
school. Parents particularly Jewish
parents got very involved, because the
other situation was never resolved. Par-
ents really insisted this time that some-
thing be done.
As difficult as that situation was, Eliz-
abeth said, she realized that if there
school with her, it would have been
much worse. As it was, I definitely
wasnt alone. Some other

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pus today, and how much
Jewish life there is, and
how much there is to look
forward to.
We had a chance that
day to write the next nar-
rative, about where we are
going to be. Chloe Valdary Elizabeth Maline
was talking to them about
the beauty of Judaism,
and you just watched
these kids watching and
listening. She has a beau-
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it set a beautiful tone for
the rest of the day. One of
my friends, who also was
volunteering that day,
showed me her arm, and
said, Look. Shes giving
me goose bumps. Brianna Gotian
The conference didnt
happen by accident, she added. The
federation is positioned to be the one
thing that can bring the entire commu-
nity together. We live in a great place to
be Jewish, and I have never been prouder
of my federation than I was last Sunday.
Elizabeth Maline of Tenafly is a senior
at the Dwight-Englewood School, a pri-
vate high school in Englewood. She
heard about iCan from her mother, but
she was impelled to join the teen task
force because of two incidents not
major, she said, but still of anti-Semi- the news. It helped me a lot in creating
The first was when someone no one
knows who drew a swastika on the
schools soccer field. It was backward,
and it just said Jews! and no one in my
school confessed to doing it, Elizabeth
said. The security cameras didnt show
happened at their school,
theyd feel more alone,
she said. At my school, a
lot of people were speak-
ing up, and that was a good
feeling.
I want to be part of the
solution, so I am on the
council, she added.
Brianna Gotian of Wayne
also is on the council. A
junior at Wayne Hills High
School, she is just begin-
ning the active part of the
college search process. A
lot of the universities that
I have been looking at are
very large, she said. Often
you may encounter stu-
dents there from the BDS
movement, and I just felt
like Id be more comfort-
able and more ready to attend college
having this information that could help
me with BDSers.
She knows that it could be a problem
because I recently have heard a lot
about it on the news, and I have friends
who have gone to schools where they
have encountered problems like that.
She feels better armed to confront
anti-Israel accusations now because
iCan gave us more understanding of
whats going on than were hearing in
my own opinions rather than just being
influenced by what I was hearing.
I learned what these anti-Israel move-
ments really stand for, and it helped me
to know what I can do to not be afraid. It
put it into context for me, so I can under-
stand it better.
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NEWS ANALYSIS

The false choice between Zionism and feminism

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
Two weeks ago, the Palestinian-American
activist Linda Sarsour started a fundrais-
ing campaign to help restore the graves at
a St. Louis-area Jewish cemetery damaged
by vandalism.
The Jewish community there and across
the country generally welcomed the effort
wildly successful, as it turned out as a
lovely moment in interfaith solidarity.
Its sad that its happening in the midst
of tragedy, but its a beautiful gesture,
Rabbi Brigitte Rosenberg of the United
Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis told
the Forward.
Gratitude like Rosenbergs largely
drowned out the voices, mostly from the
right, of those who charged that Sarsours
efforts were a cynical attempt to distract
of civil society, in fact is putting aside
disagreements on specific issues to work
together on the things you can agree on. In
this case, Jews and Muslims have a mutual
self-interest in standing up to bigotry, even
if they disagree on some major issues.
If Sarsour accepts this principle, its not
clear from her role as an architect of the
International Womens Strike USA, the
grassroots feminist movement that orga-
nized events around the world on Inter-
national Womens Day. In addition to call-
ing for gender equality, an end to racial
and sexual violence, and protection of
reproductive rights, the groups platform
includes a plank For an Antiracist and
Anti-imperialist Feminism that demands
the decolonization of Palestine.
We want to dismantle all walls, from Women and their supporters rally at a New York City park to mark International
prison walls to border walls, from Mexico Womens Day on March 8. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES

critics from her support for the Boycott,
Sanctions, and Divestment movement
that many Jewish groups see as nothing
less than an effort to delegitimize and dis-
mantle Israel.
A basic principal of coalition building
to Palestine, the platform continues.
(It is important to note that Palestine
is mentioned twice in the brief platform;
no other country or people is specifically
singled out as a cause to be embraced or a
target for activism not India or any one
of 49 nations that dont criminalize mari-
tal rape; not Pakistan, where just one-
quarter of women are in the labor force;
not Mali, where adult womens literacy is
only 29 percent.)
This week, Sarsour responded to a critic
who asked why activists need to check
their Zionism at the door when signing on
to a feminist platform.
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Israels right to exist as a Jewish state, Emily Shire wrote in
the New York Times. I am happy to debate Middle East pol-
itics or listen to critiques of Israeli policies. But why should
criticism of Israel be key to feminism in 2017?
Asked by The Nation to respond to Shire, Sarsour was
unequivocal: If by Zionist you mean someone who doesnt
accept the platforms singular focus on Israel, then no, you
can be a Zionist or a feminist, but you cant be both.
It just doesnt make any sense for someone to say, Is
there room for people who support the state of Israel and
do not criticize it in the movement? There cant be in femi-
nism, Sarsour said. You either stand up for the rights of
all women, including Palestinians, or none. Theres just no
way around it.
Sarsour cant seem to imagine a movement in which
activists might disagree on certain issues but can work
together on others. In the name of intersectionality, she
is willing to lose useful allies who cannot sign on to every
plank of her platform.
26 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 17, 2017
In her remarks, Sarsour also alleged that Palestinian-Amer-
ican women hesitate to get involved in social justice causes
because they fear becoming an immediate target of the right
wing and right-wing Zionists. Indeed, she has often been
accused of having ties to Hamas, on fairly wispy evidence.
But Sarsour also focuses on right-wing Zionists at the
exclusion of all others. She doesnt leave room for Israelis
who might share her social justice agenda, not only when it
comes to feminism but to Palestinian women as well. First
she raises Palestine as literally the only global cause worth
mentioning. Then she offers a false choice between support-
ing Israel and feminism.
Such thinking seems infectious. Writing about the Shire-
Sarsour debate in New York magazine, Eric Levitz explained,
To a Palestinian woman in the West Bank, no issue may
appear more central to her liberation than the end of the
Israeli occupation. To a Zionist woman in Tel Aviv whose
family tree lost branches to Hitler and then to Hamas no
issue may seem less relevant to her interests. The feminist
In the name of
intersectionality, she is
willing to lose useful
allies who cannot sign
on to every plank
of her platform.
movement has no choice but to represent one woman,
and not the other.
Really? No choice? Because I can point to Israeli
women who have lost family members in the Holo-
caust and to terrorism, and who care deeply about
womens and all peoples rights in both countries.
Like members of the Parents Circle, a group of Pal-
estinian and Israeli families who have lost relatives to
terror and violence but still work together on coexis-
tence. Or the Coalition of Women for Peace, an Israeli
feminist organization founded in 2000 following the
outbreak of the second intifada. The women who
belong are committed to ending the occupation and
creating a more just society, while enhancing womens
inclusion and participation in the public discourse,
according to its mission statement.
Or Women Wage Peace, who two years ago led a
protest march from northern Israel to Jerusalem to
demand that Israel restart the peace process with the
Palestinians. WWP describes itself as above the politi-
cal and religious divide, seeking to do something that
Sarsour insists doesnt make any sense: creating
allies among people who disagree.
Members of all three groups might happily sign on
to the Womens Strike platform or they might bris-
tle at how the platform aims to alienate Israelis and
their supporters by making Palestine its only specific
nationalist cause.
The Womens Strike platform is not just asking fol-
lowers to criticize Israel, but to do so in the terms
Sarsour and the BDS movement insist upon: Israel as
a colonialist and racist enterprise. Theres no men-
tion of peace, only of a de-colonization of a Pales-
tine whose borders are never specified because, it
seems, the BDS movement cannot bring itself to rec-
ognize Israels right to exist. There is no room in the
coalition for the Israeli left, right or center who
wants women on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian
divide to enjoy full rights, but who believes with good
reason that the platforms framing of the conflict is a
recipe for eternal violence.
According to the Womens Strike platform, We
celebrate the diversity of the many social groups that
have come together for the International Womens
Strike. We come from many political traditions but
are united around the following common principles.
Like the Black Lives Matter platform issued last
year, however, the Womens Strike version seems
engineered to specifically exclude one social group:
supporters of Israel who do not buy into a one-sided
condemnation of Israel, who believe it doesnt deserve
to be singled out among all the conflicts in which men
and women have been oppressed, marginalized or
exploited and who dont accept that the only solu-
tion worthy of discussion is the one that leaves no
room for a Jewish state. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck is the editor of JTA
Wire Service.
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Trump the change agent looks

f positively traditional on Mideast peace
s RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Trump administration rhetoric
n about Israeli-Palestinian peace is typical of a presi-
dent who would make everything great: President
Donald Trump is going to bring about a historic
. deal, the White House has said. A deal that would
reverberate positively throughout the region and
the world.
What isnt typical, at least for a president who has
shattered conventions in so many other sectors, is
how typically Trump is going about reviving talks.
Jason Greenblatt of Teaneck, a real estate lawyer
and trusted longtime adviser to Trump, is in the
region drumming up interest in new talks, and hes
partying like its 1989:
Press Israel to limit settlement building? Check. President Donald Trump at the White House, at a meeting on
Emphasize economic capacity-building for the health care, on March 13.
Palestinians? Check.
Talk about a grand deal involving the surrounding Arab
Sunni states? Check.
Except for the hyperbole, the statements emerging
from Greenblatts listening tour of the region this week
could have been lifted from boilerplate dating back to the
administration of George H. W. Bush, the first president
to get Israelis and Palestinians into the same room, and
MICHAEL REYNOLDS-POOL/GETTY IMAGES
through the tenures of his successors, including Bill Clin-
ton, Bushs son, and Barack Obama.
I have a lot of differences with this administration on
a lot of issues, but on the issue of Israel and Palestinians
they have been probably more cautious and more respon-
sible than on almost any other issue, Daniel Shapiro, who
was the Obama administration envoy to the region from
2011 until January, said in an interview.
Its striking to hear quite similar language in
describing their approach, their goals, their under-
standing of the relationship between the issue of set-
tlements and prospects for success in negotiations,
added Shapiro, who now is a senior visiting fellow at
Israels Institute for National Security Studies.
Trumps pro-Israel supporters hailed his election
as an opportunity to reset the relationship between
the two countries. Israels right crowed after his vic-
tory, with Education Minister Naftali Bennett saying
it was a chance for Israel to retract the notion of a
Palestinian state.
Settlements were a key bone of contention
between the Obama administration and Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahus government, cul-
minating in December, when the United States
allowed the U.N. Security Council to pass an anti-
settlements resolution.
Nothing quite so contentious has emerged yet in the
Trump-Netanyahu relationship, but it hasnt disappeared,
either. Trump straight out asked Netanyahu to hold off on
settlement building for a while when they met at a White
House summit last month, and Greenblatt raised the issue
in his five-hour meeting with Netanyahu.
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that needs to be addressed at some point,

Marc Toner, the State Department spokes-
man, said this week.
Other differences in tone and empha-
sis are emerging between the Trump and
Netanyahu governments.
After Greenblatt met with Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a
U.S. readout of the meeting said they reaf-
firmed the commitment of both the Pal-
estinian Authority and the United States
to advance a genuine and lasting peace
between Israel and the Palestinians.
Notably, Netanyahu who has made no
secret of his preference for Trump over
Obama has spent the three years since
the collapse of the last round of talks say-
ing Abbas appears anything but commit-
ted to advancing peace.
Jewish officials who favor the new
administrations Israel posture say they
see a difference in how Trump and his
team emphasize the need for Abbas to
tamp down Palestinian incitement, par-
ticularly the payments handed out by the
Palestinian Authority to families of impris-
oned or killed terrorists.
President Abbas committed to pre-
venting inflammatory rhetoric and incite-
ment, the meeting readout said.
But the notion that Obama downplayed
incitement always was something of a
myth. Obama and his top officials repeat-
edly decried incitement, as recently as his
farewell speech to the United Nations in
September. Those calls, however, tended
to receive less media coverage than his ten-
sions with Netanyahu.
There are some differences of tone
most dramatically in how Trump has
retreated from explicitly endorsing the
two-state solution.
Danielle Pletka, the vice president of the
American Enterprise Institute, said that
should be seen less as a rejection of the
two-state outcome than a means of return-
ing the ball to the court of the Israelis and
the Palestinians.
All that Donald Trump said to Netan-
yahu was if youre comfortable with it,
Im comfortable with it, Pletka said. And
Netanyahu is comfortable with it. What he
didnt say was heres a two-state solution,
it will look like this.
The Obama administration grated on
Israel by prescribing the outlines of the
two states although even that pressure
had diminished after the last round of talks
collapsed in 2014.
Pletka said that one reason for the lack of
surprises from Trump on the Middle East
was his focus on other areas security and
foreign policy, where he is trying to bring
about real and dramatic change, includ-
ing limiting the intake of immigrants and
refugees, pulling out of multilateral trade
deals, recalibrating ties with China, and
raising the stakes in the fight with the
Islamic State.
Those are issues he deeply cares
about, she said.
Another factor was the administrations
slowness in filling second and third tier
jobs in national security and foreign pol-
icy, which would inhibit the advancement
of dramatic policy changes.
Shapiro said Trump and his team were
learning that ideological postures taken
during a campaign bang up against reality
after the election.
Combating incitement, limiting settle-
ment expansion, seeking a broader buy-in
to peace by Israels Sunni Arab neighbors,
and advancing two states are structural
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At Jewish schools hit by bomb threats,

trying to teach students just enough to cope
BEN SALES
On the morning of March 7, Rabbi Beth Naditch found
out that two of her three childrens schools had received
bomb threats.
The anonymous calls placed to the MetroWest Jewish
Day School and the Solomon Schechter Day School, both
in suburban Boston turned out to be hoaxes, like the rest
of the calls placed to some 120 Jewish institutions since
January.
And while the news was shocking, the threats were
something Naditch and her husband had tried to make
sure their sons ages 9, 12, and 14 would be ready for.
A week earlier, a relative had been evacuated from a
Jewish community center during another bomb threat
wave. And as a rabbi at a Jewish eldercare facility, Naditch
spoke regularly with Holocaust survivors or refugees who
were feeling echoes of their pasts.
So she and her husband had spoken to their boys about
anti-Semitism, why its returning, and what to do if it
reaches them.
My husband and I were just waiting for it to hit our
kids, Naditch said. We were trying to walk a fine line
between having them prepare and be aware of safety mea-
sures, aware that there are people in the world who want
to hurt us or other people because they are anti-Semitic or
racist, and trying not to terrorize them.
The Boston-area campuses were two of at least a dozen
Jewish day schools that have received bomb threats since
the beginning of the year. Most of the threats have targeted
JCCs, largely affecting either adults who can process the
distress or preschoolers too young to perceive it.
But the threats against Jewish schools have placed par-
ents, teachers, and administrators in an uncertain posi-
tion. Many of their students are old enough to understand
the threats, but not old enough to cope by themselves. So
schools have tried to walk a fine line: They want to give
students enough information to answer their questions,
but not enough to traumatize them. They want to explain
anti-Semitism, but not normalize it.
This is something we may do, but its not a fun thing,
its not a good thing, it was an unfortunate thing that
happened, Rabbi-Cantor Scott Sokol, head of school at
MetroWest Jewish Day School in Framingham, said he
told his students. Were not looking to make it a bigger
deal than it was. At the same time, they understand this
is something that happens more to kids at Jewish day
schools.
Many schools delivered their messages based on the Rabbi Beth Naditch and her husband already had
grade level. Students up to third grade in some schools been talking to their children about anti-Semitism
were told they were going on a fire drill. Fourth- and when bomb threats hit two of their sons schools the
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And he doesnt know that when
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shrinking cadre of Ladino speakers,
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keys to a culture that is on the brink of
extinction.
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and were on the cusp of that, his
father, Devin Naar, said.
Naar, a professor of Sephardic stud-
ies at the University of Washington, is
deeply passionate about preserving
Ladino, which also is known as Judeo-
Spanish, Judezmo, or Judio. It is the
language that his grandfathers family
spoke in their native Greece. By teach-
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Naars grandfather, along with most
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from Salonika, Greece, in 1924. Dis-
criminatory measures were being
passed against Jews in Salonika. Family
members who did not leave later died
in the Holocaust, along with 95 percent
of the citys Jews.
In the United States, the family
encountered other difficulties. Naars
grandfather heard anti-Semitic slurs
and other insults from bigots who mis-
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Speaking Ladino serves as a method of
reclaiming that heritage and activating
SEE LADINO PAGE 34

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 Jewish World

Bomb threats
FROM PAGE 29
fifth-graders in several schools were told there was a
threat, they were safe, and little more. Middle school-
ers and high schoolers, many of whom read the news
on their own, were given a fuller picture.
But every school has placed limits on its communi-
cation. At MetroWest, Sokol asked students and par-
ents not to post about the threat on social media. At
the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and
Durham, North Carolina, which was threatened on Feb. 22.
We wanted to focus on, yes, this is happening in our world,
but lets take a look at everyone trying to support us.
As the wave of bomb threats rolled on, the Anti-Defama-
tion League put out a list of 5 Tips for Talking with Children
about Bomb Threats at Jewish Community Centers. Like
Oakes, the ADL urged adults to focus on the helpers who
supported the community after a threat.
And some parents and teachers have tried to explain the
threats by way of the Jewish calendar particularly Purim,
which fell just last week and celebrates the Jews survival in
ancient Persia in the face of an enemys threat. This, Naditch
told her sons, is sort of like a modern version of that story.
He really wants to know why, Naditch said of one of her
boys. Why would anybody want to hurt us just because
were Jewish? And its a hard thing to answer.
Weve tried to connect it to Jewish history. I cant say to
them everythings going to be fine. I cant say to them you
dont have to worry because they do have to worry.
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Aleph Bet Jewish Day School in Annapolis, Maryland,

both threatened on Feb. 27, administrators opted to
give the students no more information than necessary.
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that heritage not only for personal and
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vary widely, from between 160,000
to 300,000 people who have some
familiarity with the language to around
50,000 to 100,000 speakers. Most of
the population today is elderly, but
there is renewed interest in the lan-
guage in some universities in the United
States and Israel, as well as among Sep-
hardi Jews.
Teaching Vidal Ladino has its chal-
lenges. There is no complete English-
Ladino dictionary and most speakers
are elderly. Naar recently read Vidal a
childrens book about a dinosaur with
slippery flippers and found himself at
a loss for how to translate that expres-
sion into Ladino. He consulted a scholar
in Israel and a local Ladino speaker to
PHOTO BY CAROL ROSEGG
get it right.
Its a learning process for me, both
speaking to him and recognizing the
limits of my vocabulary and trying to
A NEW PLAY BY DIRECTED BY expand my vocabulary, Naar said.
PAULA REBECCA But he isnt alone. Naar enlisted the
help of a Seattle-based group of elderly
VOGEL TAICHMAN Ladino speakers, who translated Lit-
tle Red Riding Hood into the language
as a gift to Vidal. And his wife, Andrea,
speaks to their son in a mix of English,
Spanish, and Ladino.
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of one other case in the last decade of a
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COURTESY OF NAAR
child being taught to speak Ladino.
Theres no community that uses
it daily. Its very challenging, to put it
mildly, to actually pass on the language
in the way that a person like me grew up
in, said Bortnick, who learned Ladino
as a child in her native Turkey.
Naars interest in the language goes
back to his family history. He grew up
hearing his grandfather and older rela-
tives speak the language.
But by the time he started college in
2001, he had learned only a few words:
greetings, curses, food-related words,
and liturgical passages. Questions from
classmates about his last name, which
did not sound like the Ashkenazi Jew-
ish names they were familiar with, moti-
vated him to dig deeper into his heritage.
He started studying Sephardi history
and asked his grandfather to teach him
Ladino.
A year later, Naar was able to read let-
ters detailing the fate of family members
who had died in Auschwitz. The letters,
written in Ladino by a family friend after
World War II, had been tucked away in a
closet, and some of Naars family mem-
bers had been unaware of their exis-
tence and the details they provided of
the deaths of family members.
The older generation, they couldnt
believe it, Naar said. They hadnt
heard somebody speak like that in years,
so that was very powerful for me.
Now hes doing his part to pass the
language on to the next generation and
with it, a set of values.
One of my goals in trying to teach
Vidal Ladino would be so that he has a
sense of connection and awareness, not
only of where he comes from, but also
how the culture that he is connected to
is connected to many other people, so
that if he sees that immigrants in gen-
eral or Spanish-speaking immigrants or
Muslims in America are being maligned,
I hope that he would be inspired to
stand up. JTA WIRE SERVICE

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through a career in Jewish and religious neshama, that amounts to a metaphysi-
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University of San Francisco, Hahn Tap- hood, citizenship, and increasingly, rab-
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and Jewish Identities. In one way or another, all Jews are
Can someones identities be deleted SEE TAPPER PAGE 39 Aaron Hahn Tapper BARBARA RIES 2013
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Tapper
FROM PAGE 35
choosing to be Jewish or at least have the luxury to do
so in the 21st century in a process Hahn Tapper and
sociologists call social identity performance, which
depends on the behaviors and choices they present to
each other and the outside world.
Most of us cant trace ourselves back that many
generations, Hahn Tapper said. Theres a certain
acceptance that whatever were told by our parents
it matter what I think if the person across from me thinks
that theyre a Jew? Their identity is critical to them and has
everything to do with their meaning as a person. Ultimately
I am not making institutional decisions, so I can be open-
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Hahn Tapper knows that such open-mindedness can be
frustrating and even threatening to those who prefer strict
criteria for belonging. Just putting an S at the end of Juda-
ism can be very disruptive for people because they do have
some sort of concrete notion of what a Jew is, he said. In
reality, it is much, much, much more messy and compli-
cated than that.
Theory one day will meet practice, he realizes, especially
as a father raising two Jewish children. He and his wife,
Rabbi Laurie Hahn Tapper, the director of Jewish studies
and school rabbi at the Yavneh Day School in Los Gatos,
Calif., have two children, 6 and 9.
When my kids want to pair off thats when I would
have to answer, would I accept so and so as really Jewish?
Hahn Tapper said. JTA WIRE SERVICE

are the facts. Ancestry doesnt go back that far for

most of us.
In telling the story of Jews across the centuries
and the continents, Judaisms a finalist for a 2016
National Jewish Book Award presents Jewish his-
tory less as a timeline than a tapestry. Hahn Tapper
writes about Jewish communities that developed
within Christian, Muslim, and Hindu cultures; Euro-
pean Jews and Asian Jews; gay Jews and Jews of color;
assimilated American Jews and Ethiopian Jews who
consider marrying out of their sub-community a form
of intermarriage.
He writes that as far back as the Hebrew commu-
nity, and through their subsequent rebirth as Isra-
elites, Judeans and, eventually, Jews, this group has
never been uniform or consistent. There has never
been a Jewish people, only peoples. Within the Jew-
ish tent there have always been subtribes, subiden-
tities, and subfactions. And yet, even though the
Jewish community has never been homogeneous
or monolithic, Jews and non-Jews frequently speak
about the Jews, as if they are a single, cohesive,
interconnected group.
Hahn Tapper says his multicultural view of Jewish
identity is shaped by his own experiences. Growing
up in Philly (his older brother is Jake Tapper, the CNN
anchor and chief Washington correspondent), he
attended a Conservative-affiliated Solomon Schechter
school (now the Perelman Jewish Day School) through
sixth grade, and high school at the unaffiliated Akiba
Hebrew Academy, now the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew
Academy in Bryn Mawr.
He was active with the Jewish community as an
undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University but was
heavily influenced by the baal teshuvah community
he found in Jerusalem, where rabbis took an almost
evangelical zeal in introducing young American Jewish
backpackers to Orthodox life.
Hahn Tapper was both a participant in the baal tes-
huvah culture and an observer, fascinated about the
ways these newly observant Jews framed their iden-
tities. Having grown up in a chavurah, or informal
congregation, that included some heavy hitters from
the Conservative movement including Jeffrey Tigay,
the onetime chair of the Jewish studies department at
the University of Pennsylvania, and Chaim Potok, the
rabbi and novelist Hahn Tapper was able to think
critically about the rigid Orthodoxy he saw at the baal
teshuvah yeshivas.
The guys around me [growing up] were no
slouches, and I knew that they had a much more
sophisticated understanding of things than I was being
taught in this yeshiva, he said. Help provide a home, love, and education
Later he spent a summer in Fez, Morocco, on his to thousands of poor, orphaned, and at-risk
way to getting a masters degree in theological studies children across Israel. Lift them from the
from Harvard and a doctorate in comparative religion
deepest of despair to a bright, dignified
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Jewish World

In Turkey-Netherlands row, a foreboding sign for Jews

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS The thou-
sands of people who gathered outside the
Turkish consulate in this port city on Satur-
day patiently waited for hours, chatting with
friends and relatives.
Waving Turkish flags, they had gathered
on a chilly evening to listen to a Cabinet
minister from Turkey arguing in favor of a
government-led referendum in that coun-
try next month. The referendum would
give even greater powers to President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan; critics say Erdogan already
rules the country with an iron grip.
Erdogan is eyeing the 3 million Turkish
nationals living in Europe who can cast their
votes in Turkish embassies.
But the chummy atmosphere evapo-
rated as word spread that Dutch police had
arrested the minister, Fatma Betul Sayan
Kaya. In reality, she was escorted out of the
country to Germany on orders of the Dutch
government. In the run-up to Wednesdays
general elections in the Netherlands
immigration and Islam have become major
issues in the heated campaign the gov-
ernment objected vocally to Turkeys cam-
paigning on its soil.
Hundreds of young men began confront-
ing police, hurling stones at them while
shouting Allahu akbar Arabic for Allah actions are generating an anti-Muslim
is the greatest. Some in the crowd then
shouted cancer Jews in Dutch at the riot
police, who used water cannons to disperse
the crowd, according to witnesses. It was
one of several incidents recently in the Neth-
erlands where anti-Semitic slogans were
shouted at demonstrations that had nothing
to do with Jews.
Occurring as the far right prepares to
make historical gains in the voting, the riots
in Rotterdam, in which five people were
moderately injured, triggered the worst
diplomatic crisis in years between Turkey
and the European Union, and reopened
a polarizing debate about the loyalty of
some Dutch of Turkish descent.
But for Dutch Jews, the affair also
underlined a growing concern over the
defiance of a minority among local Mus-
lims, whose anti-Semitic attitudes and
ier outcome.
backlash in a once-tolerant society.
We saw again that the word Jew and 2015 Dutch police arrested several
homo are curse words in these groups,
Esther Voet, the editor-in-chief of the
Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad, said.
Those protesters have such hostility
toward Jews that it just comes out.
Voet also called the violent protesters
in Rotterdam a fifth column in Dutch
society, adding that she was in some
ways glad the riots exposed what many
would rather deny.
Across Western Europe, surveys con-
sistently show a relatively high preva-
lence of anti-Semitic sentiment among
Muslims, many of whom associate
Jews with an establishment they feel is
oppressive and hostile to their identity
and faith.
But the use of slogans about Jews dur-
ing violent confrontations that do not
involve Jews is a recent development.
And it is shocking to many European
Jews because it shows the centrality of
anti-Semitism as a core identity value
among some Muslim immigrants and
their descendants, according to Manfred
Gerstenfeld, a scholar of anti-Semitism
who has written extensively about the
Netherlands.
In 2014, amid protests over Israels
strikes against Hamas in Gaza, anti-
Semitic hostility led dozens of French
Arab rioters to besiege a Paris syna-
gogue, which community members
defended for long minutes in a savage
street brawl as police scrambled to dis-
patch officers in time to prevent a blood-
Yet despite several close calls in
alleged Islamists suspected of plotting
to blow up a synagogue in Amsterdam
in recent decades the Netherlands has
seen neither major jihadist attacks nor
deadly incidents of anti-Semitism of the
kind that have occurred in France and
neighboring Belgium since 2012.
In covering the Rotterdam rioting, the
Dutch media largely ignored the anti-
Semitic shouts, focusing instead on the
far wider ramifications of what quickly
evolved into a showdown featuring Tur-
key, the Netherlands, and Germany.
After the incident with Kaya and the
Dutch governments refusal to admit
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavu-
soglu into the country, Erdogan accused
both Germany and Holland of having a
Nazi heritage, leading to condemna-
tions of Turkey by other EU leaders and
Jewish groups. Turkish protesters subse-
quently were allowed to gather outside
the Dutch Embassy in Ankara, leading to
its brief closure as the Dutch and Turk-
ish governments exchanged threats of
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FROM PAGE 40
financial sanctions.
All in all, a good show for Dutch Prime Minister
Mark Rutte, who wants to flex muscles ahead of the
election to avoid hemorrhaging votes to the far right,
said Maurice Hayut, a Morocco-born Jewish-Israeli
filmmaker who lives in Amsterdam.
Also a great show for Erdogan, who is portraying
himself at home as the champion of the Turkish and
Muslim causes against the hostile West, added Hayut,
Ultimately, though, Wilders measure of popularity
among Dutch Jews owes to fear rather than to his cre-
dentials within that community, according to Hayut, the
filmmaker.
In France, too, the far-right National Front party under
Marine Le Pen has made inroads into the Jewish commu-
nity. In a poll from 2014 among 1,095 French Jews, her
party enjoyed the support of 13.5 percent of respondents.
She now is the leading candidate in polls before the first
round of the presidential election next month, with approx-
imately 25 percent of all voters.
Le Pen has courted Jewish voters and worked to rehabil-
itate the racist image of the party founded by her father,
Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has been convicted many times for
Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred against Jews. And
while she lacks Wilders pro-Israel and philo-Semitic creden-
tials, her message resonates with some Jews who hope she
will shield their community from attacks by Muslims.
When you are afraid, you look around to see who will
protect you, especially in a community scarred by the Holo-
caust, Hayut said. And like the French Jewish community,
the Dutch one is afraid of Muslims. JTA WIRE SERVICE

who has made two documentaries about anti-Semi-

tism and Islam in Europe.
Nonetheless, for the Dutch chief rabbi, Binyomin
Jacobs, the anti-Semitism on display in Rotterdam
raised the specter of violent attacks, like the recent
attacks on synagogues in Paris.
I hope I am wrong, but I wouldnt be surprised
if this happens also here, Jacobs said when asked
whether he believed that in response to the riots, Mus-
lim radicals may turn violent against Jews.
Jacobs home in Amersfoort has been vandalized sev-
eral times in recent years, and he has said that he would
leave the Netherlands if not for his communal duties.
Against this backdrop, many Dutch Jews are joining
other countrymen in supporting the Party for Free-
dom, which is led by Geert Wilders, a stridently anti-

Across Western
Europe, surveys
consistently show us
a relatively high
prevalence of anti-
Semitic sentiment
among Muslims.
Islam lawmaker who was convicted last year of inciting
discrimination for promising, during a 2014 speech,
to make sure the Netherlands has fewer Moroccans.
Wilders party, which opposes the construction of
mosques and seeks to end immigration from Muslim
countries, is now the third largest in the Dutch parlia-
ment. However, with the elections at hand, the Party
for Freedom is in a tight race with the ruling center-
right Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy to
become the largest.
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and witnessing each day. Roundtable dis-
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Pets of all kinds
in the Jewish Home dog show
Not to be outdone by the
prestigious Westminster
Dog Show, the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh held
its very first Rockminster
Dog Show last month.
The Rockminster show
was that it featured both
live animals and compan-
ion pets, which are actu-
ally robots equipped with
sensors that enable them
to interact and respond to
both sound and touch.
These robotic pets
have earned a place in our
hearts as well as in our therapeutic rec-
ommendations, explains Jewish Home
Family President and CEO Carol Silver
Elliott. We have long witnessed the
magic and effectiveness of pet therapies,
and these realistic robotic dogs and cats
have allowed us to extend many of the
benefits of pet companionship.
While the robot pets feel and look real,
and respond as actual animals would,
they can be held and petted endlessly
and they are available for residents at
any hour of the day or night. Many resi-
dents have formed strong bonds with
these robots, connecting with them as
they would with a live pet.
While inclusion in a real dog show
may be a giant step for robot-kind, live
therapy dogs continue to be warmly
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this year, Bentley, a toy poodle owned by
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Are you ageist?

ROBIN GRANAT Do you believe that the age you will become is inferior
to the age you are? Do you see getting older as inferior to
For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned being younger? Do you avoid telling your age or make fun
it is the season of the harvest. of your age? Do you fear getting older? If so, I am sorry to
the Talmud say that you are an ageist. Statements like you look great
for your age or youre so young at heart are age-
ist statements, not compliments. It reinforces the idea
that young is good and old is bad.
Ageism is prevalent in our society and we are all
at risk to buying into ageist stereotypes. Our culture
devalues growing older. We think nothing of products
that are sold as having anti-aging benefits. We accept
this as normal. Find an old Life Magazine from the
50s or 60s and look at how women are portrayed in

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The tragedy of ageist beliefs is that ageism is a prej-
udice against all of us, our future, and older selves.
Concealing or disavowing our age gives the number of
years we have been alive a power it does not deserve.
Ageist beliefs significantly strip us of our confidence
to be and do as we age. The truth is that chronological
age is an increasingly unreliable benchmark of pretty
much anything about a person. The sooner we stop
dreading growing older, the better equipped we will
be to benefit from countless ways in which we can
enrich ourselves.
The Torah considers getting older a virtue and
a blessing. The Torah commands us to respect all
elders simply because the many trials and experi-
ences that each additional year of life brings with
it wisdom and experience that the most accom-
plished young person cannot equal. As we get older
we know this is true. Most of us would not want to
be 20 again. Most of us like who we have become
because of age and experiences. This is in marked
contrast with how most of us speak and live our
lives. We consider 50 plus to be over the hill. We
make fun of ourselves and others, prescribing any-
thing negative to age. We all look for younger peo-
ple to fill positions, reinforcing that young is better
than old.
Instead of being fearful of getting older, we should
change our thinking and all get into training for lon-
gevity. What we really want is to live life in a way that
ensures us the best overall health and wealth for the
long haul.
Be conscious of ageist views and dont allow them
to hold you back. I recently have been pointing out
ageist comments when they occur to my family,
friends, and acquaintances, and I should say I am
not gaining in popularity. Many people believe the
stereotypes and argue that of course it is no fun to
get older and making jokes at the expense of older
people is funny.
The senior living industry is not immune from
ageist thinking. Often when you visit a community,
youll be asked your age before you are asked what
your needs and wants are. Ageist compliments such
as you are doing so well for your age are used all
the time. Accomplishments are labeled cute and
sweet.
No matter what your biological age is, start bring-
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Reflect on your own beliefs and join me in creating
UP TO 7 DAYS A WEEK dialogue that questions ageist views. Remember, we
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Contact us at
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 Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

Englewood Hospital awarded spinal

- fusion certification from the Joint Commission

A
l fter a rigorous on-site review, Engle- excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest organization, the Joint Commission is the nations old-
e wood Hospital and Medical Center has quality and value. The Joint Commission accredits and est and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in
s earned the Joint Commissions Gold Seal certifies more than 21,000 health care organizations and health care. Learn more about the Joint Commission at
t of Approval for Spinal Fusion certification programs in the United States. An independent, nonprofit www.jointcommission.org.
for the third consecutive time since 2012. It is the only
hospital in New Jersey to receive a Gold Seal for spi-
nal fusion, a symbol of quality that reflects an organi-
zations commitment to providing safe and effective
- patient care.
. Englewood Hospital was also recertified with the
Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification for
. Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement and with the
Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification for John Goncalves, Jr., M.D.,
Primary Stroke Centers. Surgeon
y The Joint Commissions recertification of our hip/
knee, stroke, and spinal fusion programs is a strong Director of Cardiac Surgery
testament to our ongoing efforts to bring the safest, Surgical Director of
n highest quality, and most technologically advanced Transcatheter Aortic Valve
care to our community, said Warren Geller, president Replacement Program
and CEO of Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
We thank our doctors, nurses, and other staff for Leader in aortic valve surgery
- their tireless efforts to make us who we are and con-
Pioneer of innovative
gratulate them on this recognition of excellence by the
treatments
- Joint Commission.
At Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, the
spinal surgery team includes neurosurgeons and
orthopedic surgeons, as well as anesthesiologists,
d pain management specialists, registered nurses,
r physician assistants and advanced practice nurses,
e rehabilitation specialists, and other professionals
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r In addition to being the only hospital in New Jer-
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d in spinal fusion, Englewood Hospital and Medical
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, Being the only New Jersey hospital certified by
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that reflects the dedication and hard work of our
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and stroke care allows us to focus on every ele- Director of Cardiac Surgery. Dr. Goncalves is one of the northeast regions most
ment of care that impacts the patient experience skilled heart surgeons. With his leadership, our team which has consistently been
and outcome, such as timeliness of care, infection awarded the highest designation by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is stronger
prevention and avoidance of complications, cul- than ever. Heres Dr. Goncalves story.
turally appropriate patient and family education,
- pain assessment and management, and restora- Since 2003, Dr. Goncalves has focused on one thing: saving lives. Hes had incredible success
tion of mobility and quality of life. providing superior care for his patients, and pioneering innovative treatments used in hospitals
The hospital underwent a review in Septem- around the world. Dr. Goncalves chose Valley Health System because he knew our caliber
e ber 2016 for all three programs in which Joint of care and outstanding outcomes would inspire him to be an even better surgeon and leader.
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A season of memory
I
t seems but yesterday that fall gave
way to winters cold and bleak col-
oration. And now spring will soon
set blossoms over the landscape.
Yet let us linger on fall for just a bit. The
passage of fall does not designate just the
passage of a season. It has substance and
memory.
Fall is an impactful time of year. It
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the past greens of summer or the chal-
lenges and excitement of fall and winter?
Do we leave our middle years behind
and focus on the years ahead? Or do we
seek safe harbor in the remembrance of
summers lush colors and fear falls leaf
discoloration?
I am involved with many seniors and (Resident, Lillian Grunfeld with her daughter,
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fallen leaves, bright to the eye, crackling
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Animals grow thicker fur, store food,
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Yet theres still a long-held perception
that heart disease is predominately a
mans disease. Research indicates that
heart disease is the number one killer
of women, causing 1 in 3 deaths each
year, but can also present differently
than in men.
Heart specialists are encouraging
women to learn more about the miscon-
ceptions about heart disease and take
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Many people dont realize that while
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ness of breath, nausea or vomiting, and
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To stay strong and healthy, its important
for women to understand their individ-
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heart-smart lifestyle choices.
Three everyday ways women can
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balanced and appropriately portioned
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Exercise, in particular, really goes a
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thing in the morning at least 2 days dur-
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always a good idea to check in with your
doctor to make sure your exercise rou-
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To make exercise habitual, Dr.
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Editorial
Learning from iCan
L is charged with bringing
ast Sunday, more than 200 high
school students gathered in a
hotel in Hasbrouck Heights not
exactly around the corner for most
of them to learn about Israel.
Part of what pulled them there, to the
iCan conference, is sad and scary. There
is an uptick in anti-Semitism (and racism,
and anti-immigrant sentiment as well) in
the country, and some of the teenagers are
feeling it. They want to learn techniques for
dealing with it, and they take comfort in
numbers.
Also, some of them are worried about
what they will face on college campuses if
they appear too positive about Israel. There
is a climate of intimidation on some cam-
puses, we are told. These students want to
learn how to cope; they know that if they
understand the arguments they are less
likely to be browbeaten by them.
They know just as we know that to
defend Israel is not to pretend that Israel is
perfect. It is a state of human being, on an
earth populated by human beings. Neither
it nor any other country is perfect. It is very
good, and its leaders and citizens are human,
and that should be enough.
Now what, darling buds?
T
he Jewish Standard goes into pro-
duction on Tuesday. By the time
you get your physical copy of this
newspaper, dear reader, Tues-
days storm will be just a distant, vaguely
embarrassing memory, but for us, right now,
it is all too real.
Or perhaps all too unreal.
We all are scrabbling away in our own
homes right now, using a sprawling network
of our own computers, hauled-home work
computers, cobbled together slow networks,
ebbing patience, and sheer disbelief to get
the paper out.
Storm of the century! Ten inches of snow an
hour! A blizzard of epic proportions! Or, well,
not. Not so much. Not at all.
So heres the irony. First, we are told to turn
our clocks forward an hour on erev Purim,
of course, as if were masking or unmasking
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But it would be a mistake and unfair
to think of the day as anything other than
positive, and a great accomplishment for the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey,
which sponsored it.
The day was put together in large part by
the teen task force members, who guided
the programming and gathered the crowd.
The group they put together reached over all
kinds of lines there were kids represent-
ing the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform,
and there others who are unaffiliated with
synagogues or streams. There were kids
from day schools, public schools, and pri-
vate schools; in fact, the Bergen County High
School of Jewish Studies canceled its classes
that day, urging students to go to the iCan
conference instead. Students from across
the federations catchment area came, and
they were joined by some who came from
farther away.
The conference showed a few things. It
showcased our teenagers vitality, curiosity,
and willingness to learn. It highlighted the
federations ability to bring things together,
to make them happen. And it made clear
that despite surface differences, we really
are one people. JP
time itself even though its only been four
months since we went through the same mis-
erable exercise in reverse. As if we can trick
time. As if time has anything to do with what
we decide to call it.
Its still winter. Yes, the crocuses are up. Yes,
there is green fuzz on some trees, and yes,
there are buds. But its still winter. For another
week! But no! We have to spring ahead.
And then it gets bitterly cold, soul-chillingly
cold, crocus-slaying cold. If rough winds do
shake the darling buds of May, what, then, of
the foolhardy buds of March? Gone! And then,
with Daylight Savings Time making the early
mornings dim, it snows!
And then it doesnt snow! Or at least not as
much as it was predicted, and here we are, feel-
ing foolish, with stockpiled reserves of food and
Pesach on its way. We plan, and God laughs?
Maybe one last Purim jest after all?
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Jason Greenblatt of Teaneck
Middle East peace
In the presidential debates, Hillary widely admired for the strength of his
Clinton was asked to name a positive spiritual commitments. When before
quality about her opponent, Donald has America had an envoy who, en
Trump. She said he had special kids. route to one of the worlds most trou-
Most of America agreed. bled regions, tweeted a picture of his
The presidents children are impres- prayer shawl (tallis) and tefillin (spe-
sive in their maturity, eloquence, cial leather boxes with biblical scrolls)
industry, and commitment to fam- for the morning prayers in Frankfurt?
ily. Indeed, Trumps children did And just think of the symbolism. The
much to soften his image and win him son of parents who fled, and hid from
accolades even from his most ardent Hitler, arrives in Germany as the per-
detractors. sonal representative of the most pow-
But the same could be erful man on earth, and
said of the presidents the first thing he does is
choices of the people pay homage to God as
who have been his long- part of his daily religious
time employees. I speak obligations.
especially of his attor- Some said that the
ney of 20 years, Jason tweet would appeal to
Greenblatt. the Jewish community.
Jason is a neighbor to I actually believe it will
all the Standards read- appeal even more to Isra-
ers, a resident of Teaneck, Rabbi els Arab counterparts,
New Jersey, who now Shmuley who take their Islamic
has been thrust into Boteach faith seriously and will
the international spot-
light through his recent
find in Jason a man of
deep spiritual integrity
appointment as the presidents chief and religious conviction.
negotiator for international affairs and In the mid 1990s, while I was serving
is currently in the Middle East begin- as rabbi at Oxford, the student presi-
ning a new effort for peace between dent of our Oxford LChaim Society
Israel and its neighbors. Its the worlds was a young man from Miami Beach,
toughest job. Jason has a skill set that where I had grown up, who was doing
might just fit the requirements. a graduate degree in international
In my professional years I have met relations. Brilliant and eloquent, he
few who walk with greater humil- became a force for our organization
ity. Jason is as far from being a grand- in fighting Israels battles in public
stander as I have met. He wears the debates. But he also befriended lead-
vast responsibilities placed upon ing Arab and Muslim students at the
him by the president without showi- university who respected him greatly
ness or arrogance. He is patient to a because of his Jewish observance and
fault, an excellent listener, and utterly commitment. He would bring them
unflappable. every Friday night sons of ambas-
And in a region that respects peo- sadors of Arab states and scions of
ple of faith, Jason is an observant Jew important Muslim families to our
Shmuley Boteach is the author of 30 books, including his most recent, The Israel
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Shabbat table. Today, that young man, Ron Dermer,
is the first Israeli ambassador to the United States to
ever publicly wear a yarmulke and has won over the
Washington elite with his integrity and uncompromis-
ing convictions.
Jason is cast in the same mold. He lives by the Jew-
ish tradition of family and community and by the
American values of liberty, democracy, and personal
responsibility.
The New York Times reported that Jason was cho-
sen almost arbitrarily by candidate Trump to discuss
Israel and the Middle East when he was in the mid-
dle of an interview with a Jewish newspaper. Such
nonsense belies the relationship that the president
- had with Jason for two decades when he watched his
attorney leave early on Friday to honor Gods day and
- saw in Jason a brilliant negotiator and honest broker
) who might just bring two opposing sides together. For
? good measure, Jason has always related how absurd
the accusations against Trump as being insensitive to
Jewish concerns is, given how utterly accommodat-
- ing the real-estate mogul always was to his observant
- Orthodox employees and their spiritual obligations,
like not working on the Sabbath and Jewish festivals
and observing prayer times during the day.
Now, Donald Trump is president of the United
States and he has said that peace in the Middle East
is among his highest priorities. He has chosen well
with Jason Greenblatt as his chief negotiator and
David Friedman as his ambassador to Israel. Both
. men have the confidence of the President, are skilled
negotiators, and have the absolute trust of the pro-
- Israel community and in the United States, a group
, whose support is vital to American initiatives that
pertain to the Jewish state. Both have shown, as
proud Americans, a vital commitment to Americas
f most important ally, Israel. And both live by the Jew-
y ish biblical values of seeing all of Gods children
Jew, Arab, Christian, Hindu, atheist, and agnostic
as equals, endowed with a spark of the divine that
- lends them infinite dignity and value.
y There is one more thing about Jason that has
, always impressed me. He has absolutely not a vindic-
tive bone in his body. When he came to our annual
l Champions of Jewish Values International Awards
Gala last year at the Marriott Marquis in New York
City (this years gala on 21 May at Cipriani in New
York City honors the memory of Elie Wiesel and fea-
- tures President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Martin
Luther King III), not all ran to greet him, seeing as
y he had not yet attained the high office in which he
is now installed. The picture of Jason at the gala has
now gone viral. Its the one being used by the New
- York Times. I have seen some of those same people
f now eager to make his acquaintance. He has treated
r all with respect, cordiality, and warmth, reminding
me that for all his brilliance what truly makes Jason
special is that he has earned what we Jews regard as
the highest accolade: he is a mensch.
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Opinion
Stop Ryans attack
on Americas
safety net
W
hat kind of America would we have if we
allowed Speaker Paul Ryans Obamacare
repeal plan to pass?
According to the AARP, the Ryan plan
to repeal Obamacare would increase healthcare costs for
seniors dramatically. Seniors would pay more for their
healthcare, while getting less.
Standard and Poors says that between 6 and 10 million
American non-seniors would lose their health coverage
entirely under the Ryan plan.
Ryan, who has long advocated for the privatization of
Social Security, now fights for an Obamacare repeal plan
that also takes billions from Medicare. Among the many
ways Ryan does this is by removing taxes on our wealthi-
est that Obamacare used, for example, to close the donut
hole in the prescription drug program for seniors. Under Speaker Paul Ryan
Ryans plan, that hole in coverage for
seniors prescription drugs comes back. provide for its poorest, most vulnerable citi-
The speakers plan also eliminates the zens, and how much should be taken from
Obamacare expansion of Medicaid to 14 mil- the rich and powerful to do it?
lion of our poorest citizens. That includes Under Ryans plan, Americas richest one
money used to treat the drug addicted, the percent get a $600 billion tax break over 10
mentally ill, and the working poor. years. The other 99 percent share less than 1
It also ends Medicaids guaranteed cover- percent of that amount.
age for those lucky enough to keep it. The Republican economic historian Bruce
In his first address to a joint session of Con- Bartlett, who served in both the Ronald Rea-
gress, and during his presidential campaign, Steven R. gan and George W. Bush administrations,
Donald Trump said that he would not cut Rothman says that the Ryan Republicans are not only
Medicare or Medicaid, that he would only rejecting the merit of a social safety net, but
repeal and replace Obamacare if it would of any kind of social insurance at all: [They]
provide cheaper coverage to all Americans, and that he argue that redistribution is inherently immoral without
would expand the treatment of opioid addiction. acknowledging that the very nature of insurance is per se
We willlower the cost of health insurance, President redistributive. Youre taking money from people whose
Trump said. houses dont burn down to give it to the people whose
The Ryan plan that President Trump presently endorses houses do burn down.
reneges on each and every one of those promises. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare
Firstly, it doesnt lower the cost of healthcare insur- operate under this social insurance model. They are man-
ance. That is one of the reasons why the very conservative datory programs requiring all to participate, in one form
Republican House Freedom Caucus opposes Ryans plan. or another. These programs help achieve the dream of
Just ask its chairman, Mark Meadows (R-NC), who admit- our nations founders and our Constitutions framers, who
ted to Fox News on March 7 that if Ryans plan passes, sought, among several other righteous goals for our gov-
healthcare insurance premium prices go up. ernment, to promote the general Welfare.
Just ask the AARP, the Joint Policy Center, the Ameri- In 2009 and 2010, the Republicans in Congress
can Medical Association, the American Hospital Associa- insisted that the Democrats take their time in crafting
tion, the American Nurses Association, and many others Obamacare. There were 12 months of debate, input from
that should know about caring for seniors and Ameri- Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, hundreds
cans who need healthcare. They all vehemently oppose of witnesses before the bill-writing committees, and
the Ryan plan. thousands of town hall meetings before the Congress
Speaking of Ryan bills extremely damaging effect on passed and the president signed the Affordable Health
Americas social safety net, Nancy Altman, the director of Care Act. The first vote on the House bill did not even
Social Security Works, said: While Donald Trump and his occur until seven months after the House committees of
fellow Republicans campaigned on undoing the Afford- jurisdiction began discussion of the bill.
able Care Act, no one ran on undermining Medicare or Ryan and his House Republicans first presented their
Medicaid. No one ran on undermining the health security plan on March 6, 2017. As of this writing, their committees
of seniors. But the so-called repeal and replacement of the of jurisdiction have heard from no witnesses, and have yet
ACA would do just that. to receive a price tag from Ryan or anyone else.
Should Ryan and his Republican cohorts succeed in They have threatened to vote on it within four weeks.
their harsh and cruel efforts, America would be a colder, When Obamacare was being crafted, Republicans
more difficult country. That is a reality that most Ameri- insisted on process, precedent, and prudence. Now they
cans would not want. say we should just trust them and President Trump.
Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post correctly You remember President Trump. Hes the presidential
describes the core of this debate as a bedrock philosoph- candidate and president who said that he would have
ical and ideological question that has always been in the health care for everyone, that he would never cut
background of any argument about the governments role Medicare or Medicaid.
in health care: What is the minimum that society should SEE RYAN PAGE 58
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Opinion
Desperately seeking potatoes
S
torms a-comin, Jon warns
me, in his best Southern
accent. The way he says it
makes me think of Doro-
thy and Toto, and the twister that roars
through her farmhouse in Kansas and
drops her in Oz.
A blizzard is barreling toward us. Win-
ter Storm Stella will blow into Teaneck in
a few hours, and I dont know what kind
of world we will wake up to tomorrow. Do
we have enough heating oil to get through
the next few days? Will it be the kind of
storm where cold air whistles in through
the air conditioner units and loose window
frames, making us shiver no matter how
high the thermostat is turned up? Will we
lose electricity and heat, wi-fi and cable?
What about our pipes? Will they freeze?
When is the next time the garbage men
will be able to get to our cans? When is the
next time Ill be able to get the recycling
to the curb?
I fret further. Will the grocery stores
lose power? The gas stations? The storm
weighs heavy on my mind. Ive felt it all
Jews will not be terrorized
T
he purely righteous do not
complain of the dark, but
increase the light; they do I believe in the principles of this
not complain of evil, but
increase justice; they do not complain
of heresy, but increase faith; they do not
complain of ignorance, but increase wis-
dom Rabbi Abraham Kook. fessional work without reference
This was my first Purim celebration with
my community, Bnai Jacob, in Jersey City.
It was a celebration with costumes, hap-
piness, food, and drinks. A time to remem-
ber the story from the book of Esther,
when Haman, the minister of the Persian
empire, persuaded the king
to issue a decree to annihi-
late all Jews, young and old,
men, women, and children,
all on one day.
In the last few months,
we have seen a rise in anti-
Semitism in our country.
It reminds me of my
childhood. I grew up in
Argentina. There, it was Rabbi
common for people to be Aaron Katz
judgmental and disrespect-
ful of peoples differences.
Anti-Semitism was a fact of life. The gov-
ernment was quiet at best; sometimes it
took an active part of this discrimination.
William Howard Taft said, Anti-Semi-
tism is a noxious weed that should be cut
out. It has no place in America.
Aaron Katz is the rabbi of Congregation Bnai that politics and religion do not mix,
Jacob in Jersey City.
54 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 17, 2017
day long, percolating murkily beneath my
other thoughts as I drive Son #3 and his
Purim costume to school, loop around and
drive to Party City to buy balloons to com-
plete Son #2s costume, then loop around
again to deliver them to his school, where
he is waiting for them.
In the afternoon, I drive to the Farmers
Market. I feel an inexplicable urge to buy
potatoes. Right away, I notice it is busy. To
my astonishment, I realize that the check-
out line snakes all the way to the back of
the store. I walk out without buying any-
thing. I tell myself I will go later, after the
boys come home from school.
But first I have to teach, then I have
to pick up Son #3 and his costume from
school, and then I have to make dinner.
One thing leads to another, and suddenly,
the sun goes down, its already night time,
the storm is coming, and I worry we wont
be able to get out of the house until Fri-
day. I convince Jon that we need a trip to
the grocery store. We fire up the minivan
and trek to the store. The streets are eerily
quiet. Its like the trees and houses are
I moved to the United States
and I became a citizen because
country.
I moved to America because
it was the only place that could
accept me and let me do my pro-
to my religion, beliefs, and sexual
orientation. It was the country that
saved my future.
I learned the history of our fore-
fathers and of the United States
Constitution. It amazes me that
the principles of equal-
ity, liberty, respect, A little boy, Rabbi Katz, and Gloria Langer, all in costume, celebrated Purim at Bnai
and freedom were a Jacob in Jersey City. (Ms. Langer is among the shuls founders.)
fundamental pillar to
them. As a Jew, it amazes me
to see that these principles are
exactly the same ones that our
religion is based on.
Now, though, we are wit-
nessing the birth of a new
politics, a politics of fear and
anger. It is very dangerous.
Anger is a mood, not a strat-
egy. It can only make things
worse. It cannot make anything better.
Fear and anger never solve problems.
They merely inflame. They are the start
of a demand for authoritarian leadership,
and that is the beginning of the end of the
free society.
Albert Einstein said, Those who believe
understand neither.
holding their breath, hunker-
ing down, waiting.
On a Monday night, our
local Stop and Shop should
be deserted. Theres barely
anyone there at the busiest
of times. But not tonight.
The parking lot is packed
and buzzing. I hardly rec-
ognize the place. Cars idle Helen
near the sliding doors. More Maryles
cars prowl through the lot, Shankman
pouncing on parking spaces
close to the entrance. Inside,
its a madhouse. Frantic shoppers rocket
their carts through the aisles, or stand
impatiently in long lines to check out.
Panic crackles in the air. Passing through
the water aisle, I halt, astonished. The
water aisle is stripped clean. Its a strange
sight. Curious now, I walk down other
aisles to see what else is gone
Boxed oatmeal has been ravaged. So has
breakfast cereal. Milk. Bread. Bags of let-
tuce. Its slim pickings on the canned food
shelves. The lone La Yogurt flavor left is
Personally, I dont see how we as rabbis,
leaders of communities, can be quiet or pas-
sive. It is not a question about the political
party we belong to. It is a question of values
of Jewish values.
My rabbi taught me that our voices must
be heard when our values are threatened.
Our communities must be places where
each of us will know were not alone.
The only sane response to anti-Semitism
is to monitor it, to fight it but never to let Jews, but on the human condition. Lets
it affect our idea of who we are.
Pride is always a healthier response than
shame.
I see how important the Jewish federa-
tion is, particularly in these days. It is an
umbrella to all the Jewish communities.
We need the voice of our leaders in every
aspect of our lives.
vanilla. Only green bananas
remain on the banana dis-
play. All over the store,
shelves are emptied, picked
through, in sloppy disarray.
Its like people are preparing
for war.
As for the potatoes I came
for, theres nothing but bare
crates. If I want to buy a five
pound bag of squishy, ludi-
crously expensive organic
spuds, there still are a couple
available.
Fear rises into my throat. My heart
pounds. Beads of sweat break out on my
brow. I fight the urge to drive to three
more stores, ten more stores, desperately
seeking potatoes.
I tell myself that the storm will likely be
over by tomorrow night. I tell myself that
the streets will be plowed. I tell myself that
I will likely be back in a grocery store by
Wednesday afternoon. I tell myself that I
have Amazon Prime. I tell myself that it
was just Purim, and that every counter and
No human race is superior, no religious
faith is inferior. All collective judgments
are wrong. Only racists make them Elie
Wiesel.
We cant fight anti-Semitism alone! The
victim cannot cure the crime. We expect
and demand that the government of the
United States will do everything to combat
this noxious weed.
Anti-Semitism is an assault not only on
remember the past to build our future.
Thanks to Mordechai, and to the courage
of Esther, the decree was not carried out.
Purim teaches us that we defeat fear by joy,
and that we conquer terror by collective cel-
ebration. With our happiness, we deny our
enemies a victory.
To be a Jew is to refuse to be terrified!
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tabletop is covered with shalach manot
bags stuffed with candy, cookies, and
hamentaschen. I have gas in the car, and
a case of Poland Spring sitting in my base-
ment. So why am I giving in to panic? Is it
instinct, this need to fill the pantry before
snow comes? Or are my parents speaking
to me from somewhere far away?
My dad passed away last April. Its been
almost a year, but I still expect his phone
calls at 9:30 at night, or a few minutes
before Shabbat. And now, the night before
a big storm, he would have been watching
the news, knowing the snow was heading
our way. Do you have food in the house?
he would have asked urgently. Do you
have milk? Bread? Potatoes?
The official emergency lists suggest bat-
teries and water for three days. My dad
would have laughed at that. You dont
need to buy water. I have news for you.
Snow is made of water. But you need pota-
toes. As long as you have potatoes, you
have something to eat.
Its funny, the things that remind me of
his absence. This is the year that Im an
avel. During the year of mourning, Im not
allowed to go to parties, to celebrations, or
to events with live performances. No wed-
dings. No bar mitzvahs. No Oscar parties.
I cant wear new clothes. I dont listen to
music. I can easily think of five times in
the past few months where I automati-
cally answered Yes when friends invited
me to something, and then had to reverse
myself and say, Im sorry, I wasnt think-
ing. Im in avel.
In April, my year of mourning will be
over. Im already grieving, just thinking
about it. Each time Im prohibited from
doing something fun, my loss is fresh
all over again. The year of avel is my last
active connection with him. I know I will
miss it when its gone.
But right now, I can hear his voice in my
head, instructing me to get potatoes, and
I smile. I dont really need potatoes. I can
go home and watch the news. The house
is warm, theres food in the refrigerator,
more in the freezer, and its almost spring.
Good night, Dad, I think. Were okay. But
thanks for reminding me.
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an artist and writer. Her work appears in
many fine journals, including The Kenyon
Review, Gargoyle, Jewishfiction.net, and
Cream City Review. Scribner recently
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Opinion
To be a Jew in Cuba
Stories of valor, resilience, and hope
We want to see Cuba before it changes.
T
hat phrase suddenly has made
Cuba a tourist Mecca. If Raul
Castro sticks to his word and
leaves the presidency of Cuba
in 2018, what Cuba will become is any-
ones guess. So, before whatever the
future brings, everyone wants to see the
colorful antique cars that have been ren-
ovated countless times since the United
States embargo. They want to see the
crumbling, colorfully painted facades of
what an observer can tell was stunning
Old and New Havana, a city meant to
house 600,000 people but is now home
to two million.
My wife, Miriam, and I went to see the
Jews and the amazing array of arts that
Cubas government supports, despite its
being bankrupt.
The trip to Cuba we went on actu-
ally was a mission to the Jews of Cuba,
sponsored by the Museum of the Jewish
Heritage in New York. We chose this trip
because it offered far more than sightsee-
ing and a passing engagement with Cuban
Jews. The trip was accompanied by schol-
ars of the Jewish Cuban communitys past
and present, and specialists in the indig-
enous Cuban music and visual arts. Differ-
ent representatives of the Cubans we met,
whether Jewish or not, had one thing to
say about the relationship between non-
Jewish Cubans and Jewish Cubans: there
is no anti-Semitism in Cuba. And its true.
Adela Dworin is the yiddishe mama of the Cuban Jewish community.
56 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 17, 2017
According to the Torah, we are a stiff-
necked, stubborn people. When it comes
to Cuban Jewry this is a compliment, not
a criticism. We can look down on what
is left of Cuban Jewry and deny they are
even Jewish, if traditional Jewish law is the
determining factor. We can blame them
for a sky-high 90 percent intermarriage
rate, if we choose. We can deny they have
a future because of their numbers.
We who went to visit them, however,
came away humbled and moved by Cuban
Jewrys stiff-necked unwillingness to give
up their heritage, their identity, and their
faith in the face of all the discouraging
facts and figures that surround them.
As odd as it may sound to us in flush-
with-Judaism Bergen County, Cuban Jews
are far more heroic than we are. One thou-
sand two hundred in number, the effort
that they expend to remain Jewish and sus-
tain Jewish life and organizations makes
us privileged American Jews many of
us who get our Judaism on a silver platter
and others of us who dont bother to take
whats on that platter look like midgets
compared to these giants of Jewish loyalty.
What do these Cuban Jews actually do
that leads me not only to praise them but
to revere them?
When the 1991 constitutional changes
that allowed for serious religious freedom
in Cuba were issued, only a decimated
Jewish community remained. The greater
part of the Jewish community had fled; the
Jews who stayed had virtually no Jewish
memory at all. There were people ranging in age from 16
some old Jews who had some to their twenties. At the end
Jewish knowledge, and who a choir of about 50 young
could not or did not want to people led us in Adon Olam.
leave Cuba but that meant You could tell that this
Judaism would die out as cadre was tight, deeply
soon as they did. bound to each other. They
Enter the American were very clearly Jewish in
Jewish Joint Distribution their identity and knowledge-
Committee. Rabbi able about Jewish history
The JDC came to Cuba and Dr. Michael and religious observance,
took on not only the physi- Chernick and they are dedicated to
cal support of the remnants Israel, which they visit on
of the Cuban Jewish commu- Birthright.
nity, but also undertook the creation of a But were they Jewish?
religious school led by teachers from the Adela told us that once the JDC reor-
Conservative Seminario Rabbinico Latino- ganized the Cuban Jewish community, a
americano in Argentina. The Joint refur- rabbi from Chile visited regularly. Through
bished the crumbling El Patronato Ash- him, those who identified as Jews, but
kenazi synagogue. The synagogue soon whose mothers were not Jewish, could
turned into the offices of the Havana and convert formally to Judaism if they chose.
national Cuban Jewish community. Adela At present, 60 percent of the Cuban Jewish
Dworin is the yiddishe mama Jewish community who were born to non-Jewish
community president; she has the best mothers have converted to Judaism, and
fundraising (read: schnorring) skills Ive many who identify as Jews see this as the
ever experienced. She pointed out that final step in the full reclamation of their
young Cuban Jews know much more than Jewish identity. Imagine what it takes for
their parents about Judaism. Come to an 18-year-old man to be circumcised in
services erev Shabbat, and youll see, she order to fulfill one of the aspects of the
said. Its our youth who know how to lead conversion process!
them. So we went. There also were men who had not
El Patronato was filled with about 200 been circumcised during the time before
people. Yes, some were Jewish tourists religious freedom was restored. Adela
who had El Patronato on their must-see described a mass brit milah event, where
list, but there were many Cuban Jews boys and men, ranging from toddlers to
there as well, and the service was led by 60 year olds, underwent ritual circumci-
sion with the help of several Argentinian
mohalim. Unbelievably, after the surgery,
and I assume before the anesthetic wore
off, the older participants in this ritual
formed a circle and danced, singing Am
Yisrael Chai.
Soon after the El Patronato was turned
back into a synagogue, the school, com-
munity center, and offices of the Cuban
Jewish community, El Centro Sefardi, the
Sephardic synagogue, were repaired. That
community, descendants of Turkish and
Syrian Jews, soon created a senior center
and Holocaust memorial and museum. On
Shabbat morning several shomer Shabbat
members of the mission went there. It
should be noted that out of the five syna-
gogues that existed in Havana, only three
continue to operate: El Patronato (Ash-
kenazi, Conservative), El Centro Sefardi
(Sephardi, Conservative), and Adath Israel
(Ashkenazi, Orthodox).
El Centros service is interesting, to say
the least. What the Sephardim remember
of their forebears chants and melodies
they sing as they once did. As is typical
among Sephardic Jews, the entire ser-
vice is recited out loud. When, however,
no one remembers how a section of the
service used to be sung, they use pres-
JOSH TAPPERW ent-day Israeli or Ashkenazi melodies

El Patronato is Cubas largest synagogue, with a 300-seat sanctuary, social hall, library, pharmacy and Sunday school. 
instead. Actually, many people who
attend Shabbat services, and the com-
munal dinners and lunches that fol-
low them, attend both El Patronato and
Centro Sefardi at various times, because
Havanas Jewish community sees itself as
a single community. Ashkenazi and Sep-
hardi refer to origins. A Jew in Cuba is
anyone who identifies with the commu-
nity and has Jewish ancestors, and they
all have learned to support one another.
(I wish we could say the same for Ameri-
can Jewry.)
For all that Havanas Jews were amaz-
ing in terms of their services to the aged,
to the education of the young and old,
and to the sense of organized community
they have created, nothing compares to
the valor of David Tacher, the head of the
Santa Clara Jewish community.
Singlehandedly, Tacher holds his
tiny community of 22 Jewish families
together. Tacher saw to reorganizing Jew-
ish life for the Santa Clara Jewish families
he knew, once religious freedom became
a reality. Together they built a small syna-
gogue, bet midrash and library, and com-
munity center. Soon, other Jews started
to surface. Services are held every Shab-
bat and yom tov, and Tacher, who is an
older, knowledgeable Jew, is rabbi,
teacher, and arranger of all Jewish special
events. His son has made aliyah because
he wanted to marry a Jewish woman,
and there were not too many choices
left in Santa Clara, or in Cuba in general.
Tachers son still lives in Israel, and his
father visits him regularly.
When we were with Adela and repre-
sentatives of Centro Sefardi, it was clear
to us that they needed money and medi-
cal supplies to support the services that
they were offering the Jewish commu-
nity in Havana and throughout Cuba,
and we gave.
We asked David Tacher what his com-
munity needed, obviously meaning
financially. He replied, Today a group
like yours comes, and tomorrow another
group will come. That is what we need.
To know that Jews are thinking about us
just as we think about them. To know we
are not alone. We do not need your pres-
ents; we need your presence.
When we asked him to speculate about
the future of a community of 22 families,
he responded, We do not think about
the past here, nor do we think about the
future. We think about what we can do to
preserve our heritage today. That is what
we work for. Today.
On Santa Claras Communidad Hatik-
vahs roof is a lovely mural of Jerusa-
lem, done in a somewhat Cuban style.
When David Tacher showed it to us, our
group was so moved by the whole expe-
rience we had with him that we sponta-
neously and appropriately began to sing
Hatikvah.
He joined in. And why not? He is hope
personified.
Moving deeper into Cuba, we visited
the Cienfuegos Jewish communitys
leader, Rebeca Langus, the daughter of
a Sephardi family. Rebeca has made her
living room into a room of living Judaism
for the fivethats right, fiveCienfuegos
Jewish families. They hold services
weekly and on the yamim tovim, without
benefit of a rabbi or even a sefer Torah.
But there is a library of Jewish books in
Spanish, a variety of siddurim, and the
necessary Jewish artifacts for observing
the special days in the Jewish calendar.
We spent an hour with her and her son,
David. Her other son, Danny, now 16, was
in school. Danny had his bar mitzvah cel-
ebration in Santa Clara because the Lan-
gus family felt that a bar mitzvah should
include a real Torah and more than 18
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JOSH TAPPER
people to celebrate the event. Since the
early 90s Rebecca has worked to bring
Jewish practice back to Cienfuegos. David
and Danny are bnei mitzvah and have
visited Israel. David also went on March
of the Living and has won prizes for Cuba
in the Israeli Maccabiah. He is a photog-
rapher, and of course, we bought his art.
In Cienfuegos the community prays
and shares Shabbat meals, and holds on
to its Jewish life like the caper bushes
hold onto the stones of the Kotel.
This travelogue could go on, but it
could not add to the praise and admira-
tion my fellow travelers and I feel for the
Cuban Jews we met. Having met them,
my greatest hope for American Jews is
that we should merit to be as dedicated
and determined as they are in keeping
the flame of our Jewish identity alive.
Professor Michael Chernick of Teaneck
holds the Deutsch Family Chair in Jewish
Jurisprudence and Social Justice at the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion in New York; his area of expertise
is the Talmud. He received his doctorate
from the Bernard Revel Graduate School
and rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi
Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.
JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 17, 2017 57
Opinion
The risk of traveling with
an undocumented nanny on Pesach
W
ith Passover on the hori-
zon, many Jewish families
elect to spend their time
away from home.
These Pesach vacations add travel to a
holiday already imbued with many chores
getting to be machmir often can require
hours of labor. With the added cleaning,
travel, food preparation, and family com-
mitments, some will rely even more on
their trusted housekeepers and/or domes-
tic workers, even bringing them along for
the vacation. But before you buy his or
her flight to Florida, however, its critical
to know the workers immigration status.
With a new presidential administration
now in charge, even domestic travel may
buy her a one-way ticket back to her home
country.
To be sure, domestic workers play an
integral role in many Jewish families. They
perform child care, household tasks, and/
or upkeep of a home or surrounding yard
on a regular basis in return for wages or
other benefits. Many are entrusted with
the most important people in our lives
our children and even more are trusted
with our very homes and our prized
belongings. Given deep-seated reliance,
families may treat home workers as mem-
bers of our extended family.
Despite families affinity and indeed love
for their domestic workers, the reality is
that those workers often lack immigra-
tion status. Many of my clients are unfa-
miliar with employment authorization
rules or presume that they apply only to
corporations. Regardless of the reasons,
Ryan
FROM PAGE 53
Then realize that Ryans Trumpcare will,
among other very bad things, voucherize and
shorten the life of Medicare and end Medic-
aid as we know it.
The only way out of this extraordinarily
damaging train-wreck-to-be disaster is if the
American people and their representatives
stop this train now.
They must insist that the American peo-
ple be allowed to take a closer look at it and
then offer their opinions, just as the Republi-
cans demanded when Obamacare was being
drafted.
What is so ironic and painful is that the
average Trump voters will suffer the most if
Trumpcare passes. They will lose money or
lose their healthcare altogether. If they think
they are financially insecure now, just wait
and see what this Trumpcare will do to them,
their friends, and their loved ones. 2.2 mil-
lion low-to-moderate-income Trump voters
would lose the financial assistance for their
58 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 17, 2017
many families have hired workers who
lack employment authorization because
of their immigration status. Not knowing
this status can have serious consequences
for both the worker and for your family.
To be clear: it is illegal to employ any-
one without valid immigration status. All
employers even of household workers
must complete a Form I-9 to verify the
employees immigration status. Failure
to comply with the I-9 rules can result in
substantial civil fines or criminal charges
for recruiting, employing, and harboring
illegal aliens. Your need for a clean house
during Pesach certainly will not be a via-
ble defense to a charge of knowingly trans-
porting an illegal alien across state lines
by plane or other conveyance, and your
beloved worker will be subject to deporta-
tion proceedings.
Your workers risk of deportation is
increased substantially if he or she trav-
els, even domestically. Whenever anyone
travels, whether by air or on ground, the
Transportation Security Administration
is present to oversee operations. Nan-
nies, housekeepers, and other undocu-
mented people should be wary as they
pass through airports, bus terminals, train
stations, or other crowded areas where
authorities may require documentation.
In addition to the TSA checking identi-
fication, there are many other agencies
charged with seeking out unauthorized
noncitizens, including Customs and Bor-
der Protection, the U.S. Coast Guard,
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment, the U.S. Secret Service, the Drug
health care coverage, which they receive
today from Obamacare, according to a self-
described centrist think tank, The Third Way.
I served with Paul Ryan in Congress for 14
years.
He fought zealously to privatize Social Secu-
rity. But a coalition of like-mined Democrats,
Republicans, and Independents stopped his
efforts, which would have resulted in devas-
tating harm to our nations seniors.
We stopped him then.
Now, his new plan cuts money for Medi-
care and shortens that programs very life.
He eliminates the Medicaid guarantee for the
poor, repeals Obamacare, makes millions
of American citizens uninsured, and raises
healthcare costs for all but the richest one
percent of us.
In his March 8 interview, Fox News Tucker
Carlson asked Mr. Ryan whether, looking at
the last election, was the message of that elec-
tion really we need to help investors? I mean,
the Dow is over 20,000, Carlson said. Are
they the group that really needs the help?
Should those wealthiest of investors,
Enforcement Agency, and
state and local police depart-
ments. Since the inaugura-
tion of President Trump,
major media outlets have
reported several instances
where immigration officials
have verified domestic pas-
sengers immigration status.
Recently, an Indian diplo- Michael
mat, Devyani Khobragade, Wildes
was accused of committing
visa fraud and providing
false statements in order to gain entry to
the United States for her domestic worker.
Our nation was built on the backs of
immigrants; many Jewish Standard read-
ers are the children and grandchildren
of people who came to this country with
little more than the clothing they wore. It
was their hard work that laid the founda-
tion for our families secure futures. At
the same time, our nation is growing, and
the threat of terrorism and illegal entry
into the country is also expanding. As a
result, increasingly strict laws have been
put into place to protect our nations bor-
ders and our economy.
Your nanny or housekeeper, though
an integral contributor to your family, is
not afforded the same freedom of travel
as a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resi-
dent, or a noncitizen with work autho-
rization. Homeland Security and other
federal agencies are looking for illegal
aliens on commercial airliners and pri-
vate planes, on trains or buses, particu-
larly in light of recent events. It may be
President Donald trump takes oath of office with House Speaker Paul Ryan
looking on.
Carlson continued, whove gotten the rich-
est over the last 10 years, should they be
the extremely disproportionate recipients of
your plans tax relief?
Ryan answered: Im not that concerned
about it.
We can and must stop Mr. Ryan again.
There is simply too much at stake.
Call and email your representatives in
time to get out the extra pair
of rubber gloves to do your
own dishes, employ local
legal help if you can find it,
or hire your friends high
school-age daughter to baby-
sit at night.
I strongly support the con-
tributions immigrants con-
J. tinue to make to our coun-
try, but until our system of
immigration is reformed it
is important to stay on the
right side of the law. If you do happen
to employ an undocumented nanny or
housekeeper, he or she certainly should
not be part of your out-of-state Pesach
vacation. Try to remember, when you
hear of a congressional debate about an
anticipated act that will fix our broken
immigration system, to participate in
convincing your congressperson of the
need to enable sponsorship of foreign
domestic workers who are so needed
here. Lets hope that by next Pesach you
will be able to include your household
help in your plans for the holiday.
This article is based on information
available as of its publication and is not
intended to be all-inclusive or to fur-
nish advice in a particular case. We are
not responsible for any changes in regu-
lations that may occur subsequent to
publication.
Michael J. Wildes of Engelwood, a former
city mayor, is the managing partner of
Wildes and Weinberg, P.C.
WHITE HOUSE
Congress to stop Ryan and this runaway
disaster train, before it goes any further.
America can do better.
We must insist on it.
Steven R. Rothman, a Democrat, is the former
U.S. Congressman who represented New
Jerseys 9th Congressional District from
1997 to 2013.
 Opinion

North Korea, king of the rogues

T
he prospect of all-out
conflict between the
United States and
the North Korean
regime has loomed large over
the last fortnight, as a conse-
quence of the latest round of
provocations from Pyongyang.
Its always a competition
between the worlds rogue Ben Cohen
states as to which one of them
can pose the greatest threat to
global peace and order at any given moment. Since 2011,
the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, backed by Russian
and Iranian military power in the air and on the ground,
has wreaked havoc in the Middle East, annihilating
around 500,000 people and transforming millions more
into an endless column of refugees streaming across the
countrys borders. Iran, Assads lifeline, is itself a persis-
tent and urgent threat, temporarily held in check by the
flimsy nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administra-
tion, which at its most generous interpretation allows the
conditions for Tehran to weaponize its nuclear program
within a decade.
But it is outside the Middle East, on the Korean pen-
insula, that the most present threat to the United States
and its regional allies manifests. How we deal now with
an angry, nuclear-enabled North Korean regime, and
whether we can avoid a perilous confrontation with it,
will be decisive when it comes to facing similar flashes of
belligerence from Tehran or Damascus.
It was the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the half-
brother of Kim Jong Un, at Kuala Lumpur Airport on Feb- On this satellite image, South Korea (bottom) sparkles brightly, North Korea (center) is shrouded in pitch black
ruary 13 that set off this new series of tensions with North darkness. The small glimmer is around Pyongyang, the capital, where the officials of the ruling party live. NASA
Korea. The manner of the elder Kims deathsprayed with
a VX nerve agent by two women who appear to have been The best visual illustration of the nature of Kims regime children, while children know that the state can seize
unwittingly recruited by North Korean agentswas an act can be found in a satellite image of the Korean peninsula them from their parents at any time, for any reason.
of pure terrorism, and one more piece of evidence that at night. South Korea sparkles brightly, while North Korea There are other features that North Korea shares with
North Koreas dictator, like his father and grandfather is shrouded in pitch black darknesssave for a small glim- similarly blood-drenched regimes. For all its talk of social-
before him, has only contempt for the sovereignty of for- mer around Pyongyang, the capital, where the officials of ism, North Korea functions like an unopposed hereditary
eign countries. Nothing has changed on that score: The the ruling party are quartered, and which is spared, rela- monarchy, much as Iraq did under Saddam Hussein, and
North Korea that carried out kidnappings in Japan in the tively speaking, from the famine and electricity shortages as Syria has done under Hafez and Bashar al-Assad. Like
1970s is the same North Korea carrying out assassinations that prevail in the rest of the country. those countries, North Korea has pursued weapons of mass
in Malaysia decades later. To look upon that image is to be reminded that North destruction on the biological and nuclear frontsonly with
The grisly murder in Kuala Lumpur quickly was followed Korea isnt a normal country so much as it is a concen- the success that eluded Saddam and the Assads, and for
by the launch of four ballistic missiles, three of which landed tration camp with a seat at the U.N. Indeed, large tracts which Iran eagerly awaits.
in Japans exclusive economic area 200 miles from its coast- of the country to the north of Pyongyang are given over The old policy on North Korea, which involved alternately
line. Fifty-four thousand American troops remain stationed to North Koreas very own gulag system. They are penal dangling tempting rewards in front of the Kims and then
in Japanone of several reasons why Kim is aggressively colonies where up to 150,000 people are incarcerated, hitting the regime with tough sanctions, has failed to slow
baiting his neighbor across the sea. and are subjected to forced labor, starvation rations, North Koreas military development. The songun doctrine
As the crisis has escalated, China, which supposedly harsh beatings, rape, torture, exposure to extreme suggests that Kim Jong Uns sacred duty now is to accelerate
wields the greatest outside influence on the North Kore- weather, disease, and repulsive acts of sadism by guards that process even further. As Korea analyst Robert E. McCoy
ans, has been powerless to rein in Kim Jong Un. Bei- who just as easily could have served in the death camps explains, The ultimate goal remains one Korea ruled by the
jings proposal that North Korea end its missile tests in of the Nazis. Kim dynasty. What remains unknown is how and when Kim
exchange for the cancellation of joint American-South As is always the case with totalitarian states, there is Jong Un would attempt to achieve that.
Korean military exercises fell flat, with the U.S. ambas- a ruling ideology that glorifies the fusion of war com- The answer may lie in the speed with which Kim devel-
sador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, subsequently munism and medieval bloodlust that North Korea repre- ops intercontinental ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear
announcing that all options are on the tablea phrase sents. In Iran, they call it velayat-e faqihthe concept warheads toward Hawaii or the U.S. mainland. When and
that is familiar from the Iranian contextin dealing with that only Islamic jurists can rule legitimately on Earth. In how we prevent him from reaching that point could turn
the unbelievable, irresponsible arrogance of the Kim North Korea, the total concentration of power in the Kim out to be the most fateful foreign policy decision since Octo-
family dynastys current figurehead. dynasty is expressed in the doctrines of juche, mean- ber 1962, when U.S. aerial photographs revealed the deploy-
At times like these, we should be under no illusions ing self-reliance, and songun, putting the military first ment of Soviet missiles in Cuba. And nobody will be cheer-
about the character of the enemy. North Koreas rulers, in terms of resource allocation and placing the armed ing on the North Koreans more than Iran. JNS.ORG

in that regard, are first of all an abomination, both in
the manner in which they treat their own people, and in
the mortal danger they pose to outsiders. We are duty-
bound to do everything in our power to bring down the
Kim dynasty, and we should apologize to nobody for
declaring this our ambition.
forces at the heart of the state. These dogmas celebrate
cruelty and ideological fanaticism. By the same token,
they scorn those very thingslike family ties, friendship
and independent thoughtthat give value to the lives of
Westerners. In North Korea, fear dressed as ideology
penetrates so deeply that parents cannot trust their own
Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org and the Tower
magazine, writes a weekly column on Jewish affairs and
Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published in
Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
Journal, and many other publications.

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The Frazzled Housewife
The shot heard round the world
BANJI GANCHROW
I
have been married to
husband #1 for almost
22 years. (For those
of you new to my col-
umn, I refer to him as hus-
band #1 because, so far, he
has been it. Will there be a
husband #2? Statistically, Banji
maybe, but for now he is Ganchrow
still #1.)
We have been through a
lot together, as married couples usually
have. Childbirth was lots of fun. There
I was, in labor for 22 hours and 30 min-
utes with son #1, listening to the relaxing
Lamaze cassette tape that I made (hey
kids, a cassette tape is what came before
the iPod, I think. There could have been
compact discs before that. Who knows? It
is hard to keep up with technology when
you still think that the 80s were last week.)
In any event, I am in labor with our first- band #1 because he doesnt swallow pills.
born, and husband #1 is watching Yankee
playoff games. Really, what else was he
supposed to be doing? When your wife
attempts to have a drug-free, natural labor,
they have her sitting on a rocking chair,
sitting on the floor, head down on a chair,
on her back, on her side, screaming her
brains outthe only natural thing to do is
to have her spouse watching baseball.
Then I am in labor with son #2, and hus-
band #1 is watching Days of Our Lives
while my OB yells at him to get up and
help me give birth to his child. (At least I
wasnt the one yelling at him, for a change.
Hey ladies, am I right?) As for son #3, I
couldnt tell you. It was 1:30 on a Friday
So we have
been through
good things and
bad things. We
have laughed, we
have cried, I
have threatened
him with a
hammer (just
kidding). Usual
married stuff.
morning, and statistically, I knew the baby
was going to be a boy. This meant that
husband #1 would have to make a shalom
zachor without me home. (But his mom
would be there. Enough said.) The doctor,
in his infinite wisdom, said, This baby has
short eyelashes. It is going to be a girl. And is the mother of son #1, son #2, and son #3,
I said, in my infinite wisdom, Hey dude,
its a boy, just take out the rest of him. And that because, well, you just never know....)
60 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 17, 2017
there was son #3, and I started
humming the theme song to
My Three Sons.
So there you are, with three
kids, and life passes you by,
both slowly and at the speed
of light. But with all of the
things I can say about hus-
band #1, he is a really, really
good dad. Enough about that.
So we have been through
good things and bad things.
We have laughed, we have
cried, I have threatened him with a ham-
mer ( just kidding). Usual married stuff.
But the other night, he came home and
was sort of hunched over like the guy from
Beauty and the Beast, and I decided to
show some compassion and ask what was
wrong. Well, if you really want to know,
as I was getting up from my chair, I heard a
snap and now my back really hurts. Hmm.
Pain becomes more of an issue for hus-
(Insert gasp noise here.) And our doctor,
who is also our neighbor and friend, is out
of town. I decided to text his urologist. He
is familiar with husband #1 because of his
kidney stone issues. Hi Dr. XXX, husband
#1 hurt his back and he is in a lot of pain,
anything you can do to help us? And dont
forget, he doesnt take pills.
After the doctor stopped laughing,
because what 46-year-old doesnt take
pills? (The same 46-year-old who doesnt
know how to open a can of tuna fish, but I
digress.) The doctor is kind enough to offer
to make a house call and give poor hus-
band #1 a shot of some sort of anti-inflam-
matory. At least that is what he said it was.
We will never know.
What we do know is that when the doc-
tor came over, our friends from the Island
of Long were over, son #3 had a friend
or two over, and the house was hopping.
Then the doc walked in and said, Um, I
need you to pull your pants down. Oooh,
thats where the shot goes.. I couldnt
stop laughing. I am a terrible wife.
And then I couldnt find rubbing alco-
hol to disinfect the area, all I could find
was nail polish remover, and apparently
they are two different things. So we settled
for soap and water and when husband #1
reached out to hold my hand before he got
the shot, the doctor thought he was reach-
ing for his hand and then I just started
laughing again because, yes, I am a ter-
rible wife.
It took a few days, but now he is feeling
better. And it makes a great story for cock-
tail parties. Too bad we are never invited to
any. But I think I know why.
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is very
excited about her new home at the Jewish
Standard, a paper she grew up reading. She
and the wife of husband #1. (She calls him
Crossword
A FIDDLER PUZZLEBY YONI GLATT
KOSHERCROSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM
Across
1. Many homes near YU
5. She follows 45-Down to 48-Down
10. LA sight that can make it hard to see
the stars?
14. Take a (Shabbat) nap
15. Place for Napoleon or Moses
16. One helping Chuck Schumer
17. Rabbi Akiva from the 18th century
18. Get an engine (or a simcha) going
19. Street ___ (Mickey Cohen had it)
20. Fix (like Rothstein supposedly did
with the World Series)
21. Setting for this puzzle
23. On a scale of one ___
25. Like the Negev
26. Ear piece?
29. ___ Mine (Beatles song produced
by Spector)
30. Make like Portman
33. Mrs. Tevye
35. Alien subj.?
36. Aleichem who wrote Tevye the
Milkman
40. Michael Crichtons ___world
41. The theme of this puzzles theme
43. Deal (with running a stressful Seder)
46. Actor who first played Tevye
47. Kind of announcement; Abbr.
50. Matzah is made in them
52. ___ G-d said to Moses....
53. Financial assistance for many
Yeshiva tuition paying families
54. Yom Kippur, e.g.
55. Tref sushi options
59. Souvenirs from Phantom or
Fiddler
61. There was no on the other hand
for her
65. ...when I ___ thine lips... (Merchant
of Venice)
66. Woe for those at the Carmel Forest
Spa
68. Hirsch or Zola
69. Actress Gilpin or former Shin Bet
head Yaakov
71. Head cover
72. Comaneci who won Olympic Gold
long before Aly Reisman
73. Are you out ___?
74. Noah and Indiana had them
75. Paskesz item
76. Test for those planning to go to
Cardozo
The solution to last weeks puzzle
is on page 67.
Down
1. Citrus drink
2. Anti-Semitic attacks in 21-Across
3. Tevyes eldest
4. Gainsbourg or Ibaka
5. (False) god queen
6. Goring animals, in the Bible
7. Midler and Carey
8. Extract (like chemist Fritz Haber)
9. One with a skin disease dating back
to Biblical times
10. What the tired look forward to hit-
ting on Shabbat
11. Word repeatedly sung by Motel
12. Work by Keats or Lazarus
13. Deg. received by Fran Leibowitz and
Paris Hilton
22. Chill on the couch
23. Black ___ (simcha)
24. CNN journalist Octavia fired for sup-
porting Hezbolah
27. Some camp counselors at night
(abbrv.)
28. Gimmel preceder
31. Son of Noach
32. Well-___ (one with kesef)
34. Posess
37. Fleur de ___ (flower in Le Marais)
38. Jazzy James who worked with Jerry
Wexler
39. Manner (of a mentsch)
41. Minyan men
42. Auto pioneer that was not an anti-
Semite
43. Holy barn yard animal?
44. Eggs
45. See 5-Across and 48-Down
47. Reb Nachum the begger and others
48. Where 5-Across and 45-Down take
a train to
49. They can help a business
51. Red ___
56. Bar Mitzvah party, e.g.
57. Odom who played with Jordan
Farmar
58. Reach home head-first, like Ian
Kinsler
60. Tevye on film
62. Not his
63. Kazan who directed On the
Waterfront
64. Micky Arisons Florida team
66. One hit wonder band
67. Paul Newman voiced one in 2006
70. Bad pass from Rodgers or Fiedler;
Abbr.

Through the Darkness
reveals survivor stories
Miriam Rinn
T
o run or not to run?
Thats the question that tor-
ments all people trapped in coun-
tries sliding into war or already
embroiled in military conflicts. It tortured
the Jews in 1930s Germany, just as it haunts
Syrians today. Should we try to escape or
are we better off hanging on? Three of the
four characters in Alan Breindels new play,
Through the Darkness, now at the Work-
shop Theater on West 36th Street, chose to
run and kept running, staying a few steps
ahead of the Nazis till the end of the war.
The fourth hung on and got lucky. And as
we know from all the Holocaust survivor
stories weve heard, luck matters just as
much as anything.
In his first play, Breindel, who lives in
New Jersey, allows the two men and two
women to tell their stories, with only min-
imal interruption from a fifth figure, the
Writer ( Jeff Dickson), who acts as narrator
Arts & Culture
and steps in to speak as several other char-
acters when necessary. The four span the
social and economic strata of Europes pre-
war Jews. Simon, the son of a poor peddler,
recognizing the danger when his neighbor
casually said that he couldnt wait until the
Germans arrived to kill the Jews, set out
on a long journey that took him to Belarus
and then deep into Russia, all the way to
Siberia. Clara, another Polish Jew, had the
good fortune to be blonde and blue-eyed;
passing as a Christian, she also escaped
to the Soviet Union. Helen, the daughter
of a comfortably middle-class family in
Lodz, was sent to the Lodz ghetto with
her mother, where she remained for most
of the war. Peter is the son of a wealthy
German manufacturer, who managed to
get his two sons to England and then the
whole family to the United States. His story
is a reminder that the rich have resources
in any circumstance that are unavailable
to others.
Breindel formed these composite
characters from many conversations he had
with Holocaust survivors, a process sparked
when he moved next door to a particularly
chatty man in the 1980s. That neighbor
probably inspired the character of Simon,
who announces early in the play, I knew
when to run. As acted by Robert Meskin,
Simon is the most fully developed of the
four, and the one who adds some humor
to the narrative. Young and strong, he
moves from collective farm to hideout and
eventually to the Polish army in an almost
picaresque series of events. Helen (Emily
Zacharias) survives the ghetto and then Aus-
chwitz through grit and perhaps her good
looks. She hints at her mothers urging to
get more food through her charms: Did
Mama know the cost of the bread? Helen
seems the most psychologically damaged of
the group, acknowledging that some part of
her died and cannot be revived.
Breindel treats these stories with the
respect they deserve, but his delicacy
reminds us that survivor stories are often
self-censored, not necessarily to make the
tellers appear more heroic, but to shield
the memory of others and to protect the
sensitivities of the listener. Through the
Darkness is a straightforward, moving
telling of the Holocaust experiences of
four characters, but it is not a deep exami-
nation of human character under unimagi-
nable duress.
Peter (Alex Dmitriev) adjusts to life in
America, only to be drafted and end up in
a POW camp. There his fluency in German
puts him in greater danger than the other
prisoners are in. Clara (Tracy Newirth)
survives thanks to the kindness and pro-
tection of people she meets on her journey.
The Russians were especially good to her,
she notes; not the Ukrainians or the Belar-
usians, though. That sentiment echoes
many survivors feelings.
Directed by Leslie Kincaid Burby,
Through the Darkness benefits from its
fine cast and from the directness of its
presentation. Although we have all heard
many of these stories before, each one is
unique and memorable, even when they
have been condensed, combined, and dra-
matized. The least we can do for the survi-
vors left among us is to listen.
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Friday
march 17

Inbal Milliger and Ambassador Dani Dayan

Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rabbi Elazar Muskin,
senior rabbi of Young
Israel of Century
City in Los Angeles
and vice-president
of the Rabbinical
Council of America, is
scholar in residence
at Congregation Beth
Aaron. On Shabbat
morning he will speak
after davening in
the main minyan. At
Benjamin Goodman
Israels Consul General
Israeli music: Temple in West Orange: The
Israel & JCC of West Orange and
Ridgewood hosts the Livingston friends of
Winter Music Sunday One Israel Fund host
concert featuring award- a cocktail reception
winning Israeli pianist with Dani Dayan,
Benjamin Goodman and Consul General of
mezzo soprano Inbal Israel in New York
Milliger performing 6:30 p.m., at a private
works by Purcell, Mozart, home. A community
Gershwin, Bizet, Weill, program follows at
and others, 4 p.m. Wine Congregation Ahawas
and cheese reception Achim Bnai Jacob &
follows. (201) 444-9320, David in West Orange
or www.synagogue.org. at 8. (516) 239-9202 or
oneisraelfund.org.
march Maggie Kneip, author of Now Everyone Israeli wines in Teaneck:
Will Know The Perfect Husband, His Kid-friendly seders:

21
5:40 p.m. he will discuss The mens club of
Shaare Tefillah,
When Unity Reigned: Shattering Secret, My Discovered Life, Congregation Beth
Yavneh Academy, and
Yom ha-Atzmaut 1954, Aaron offers a night of
and after Mincha at 6:40,
and psychologist Dr. Dale Atkins speak at Israeli wine tastings by Congregation Rinat
on Strictly Confidential? Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, Tuesday, Wine Country Store in Yisrael host Seder
Surprises with Zalman
History vs. Halacha. March 21, 7 p.m. Co-sponsored by Temple Beth Sholom Bergenfield, featuring
Suldan at Rinat in
950 Queen Anne Road. wine samples from wine
(201) 836-6210 or www. of Pascack Valley, Park Ridge, and Temple Emanuel of expert Jay Buchsbaum, Teaneck, 7:30 p.m. 389
bethaaron.org. the Pascack Valley, Woodcliff Lake. Fee includes book, at the shul, 6-9 p.m. 950 West Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
wine, cheese, and dessert. Dietary laws observed. 50 Queen Anne Road. www.
bethaaron.org/event/
Temple Emeth offers Eisenhower Drive, Paramus. (201) 820-3958 or www. winesale17 or mensclub@ Tuesday
musical services with jfnnj.org/maggiekneip. bethaaron.org.
the Temple Emeth Band, march 21
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and
Rabbi Steven Sirbu, Comedy Night with Legislative advocacy:
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor Tom McTiernan, Record Jewish Federation of
Road. (201) 833-1322 or columnist Bill Ervolino, Northern New Jersey
www.Emeth.org. and Buddy Fitzpatrick. holds JCRC State
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; Legislative Advocacy
Saturday comedy begins at Day, a chance to meet
with state legislators
8:30. 53 Palisade Ave.
march 18 (201) 265-2272orwww. in Bergen, Hudson,
Rabbi Mark Wildes and Passaic counties
bisrael.com.
Hudson County to discuss key issues
Searching in
Night Out: The newly important to the Jewish
inaugurated Hudson Sunday Malcolm I. Hoenlein
Bergenfield: Jewish
Journeys welcomes
community. Meet at
County Regional march 19 Federations Paramus
Rabbi Mark Wildes,
Council of the Jewish U.S.-Israel relations: founder/director of
offices for a briefing and
Federation of Northern Malcolm I. Hoenlein, visit elected officials
From Motl the Manhattan Jewish
New Jersey hosts executive vice chair/ area offices. Breakfast
Experience, talking
Hudson County Night CEO of the Conference Operator and lunch served.
about Reaching Out
Out wine, desserts, of Presidents of Major (201) 820-3944 or
Film in Franklin Lakes: and Searching Within
conversation, and an American Jewish Davids@jfnnj.org.
Temple Emanuel of at Congregation Beth
opportunity to meet Organizations, discusses
North Jersey screens Abraham, 8 p.m. 396
the newly appointed Assessing U.S.-Israel
the National Center New Bridge Road. www.
council member; Relations II: Is the Special
for Jewish Film Motel jewishJourneys.org or
8:30-10:30 p.m. at JCity Relationship Still Intact?
(Motl) the Operator, bergenJWRP@gmail.
Realty. 109 Christopher at the annual Israel and
2 p.m. Starring actor/ com, or email julie@
Columbus Drive, Jersey Burton L. Visotzky Pearl Stern Memorial
juliefarkas.com.
City. Kim Schwartzman, lecture at the Community singers Moishe Tauber
(201) 820-3936 or Judaism as a world Synagogue of Monsey, and Seymour Rexite,
KimberlyS@jfnnj.org. religion: The United 10:15 a.m. Brunch follows. its about a Lower East
Side sweatshop worker
Monday
Synagogue of Hoboken 89 West Maple Ave.
hosts a Book Brunch leading a strike. Ice march 20
(845) 356-2720 or
about Aphrodite and the comsyn.org. cream and popcorn.
558 High Mountain Road. Yoga for arthritis: Shulem Deen
Rabbis: How the Jews
Adapted Roman Culture (201) 560-0200 or The Graf Center for
Integrative Medicine at Author in Teaneck:
to Create Judaism as www.tenjfl.org. Shulem Deen, author of
We Know It with JTS Englewood Hospital &
Medical Center offers National Jewish Book
professor Rabbi Burton Award-winning All Who
L. Visotzky, 10:30 a.m. a series for people
with arthritis, 2:30 p.m. Go Do Not Return,
Bill Ervolino Brunch. 115 Park Ave.
Free valet parking. about leaving the
(201) 659-4000 or office@ chasidic world, speaks
Comedy in Emerson: hobokensynagogue.org. (201) 608-2377 or
Congregation Bnai Israel grafcenter@ehmchealth. for the Bergen County
hosts Luck of LChaim org. section of the National

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Council of Jewish evening for healthcare Lamont-Doherty Earth
Women at Temple Emeth
in Teaneck, 12:30 p.m.
professionals at Temple
Emanu-El of Closter,
Observatory, talk will be
on Seth M. Siegels book Singles Sunday
Light refreshments. 7 p.m. Amir Sagie, Let There Be Water, march 26
1666 Windsor Road. Deputy Consul General and how it compares Friday Seniors meet in Nyack:
(201) 385-4847or www. of Israel in New York, is with water supply
ncjwbcs.org. the keynote speaker. 180 and disposal in New
march 17 Singles 65+ of the
Piermont Road. www. Jersey. Refreshments. JCC Rockland meets
jfnnj.org/healthcare. 53 Palisade Ave. Singles Shabbaton for lunch at Amici
From Central Station (201) 265-2272 or www. in Teaneck: Sharon Restaurant, noon. 303
Paint and sip in Tenafly: bisrael.com. Ganz & Friends hosts a Route 59, Nyack, N.Y.
Movie series in Tenafly: A skilled instructor will Shabbaton weekend for Individual checks. Gene,
The Kaplen JCC on the guide participants, 21 and Chocolate seder in Orthodox Jewish singles, (845) 356-5525.
Palisades begins the JCC older, so they can finish Emerson: Congregation 27-43, at Congregation
Us Signature Daytime
Film School series with
painting to take home
and hang at Paint and
Bnai Israel hosts a
chocolate seder for fifth-
Bnai Yeshurun. It will
include Shabbat meals, Monday
Central Station, 10 a.m., Sip at the Kaplen JCC to eighth-graders as part mixers, discussions, guest March 27
and commentary by YU on the Palisades, 7 p.m. of a Kadima Youth Group speakers, Shabbat tour
adjunct professor and The JCC will provide collaborative, 3 p.m. of Teaneck, Melava Malka Support group in
Carol Cohen party, and programs.
Ergo Media founder Dr. the wine, paint, and FLIPPER Kadima is Tenafly: The Kaplen
New career strategies: Eric Goldman. Series canvas. 411 E. Clinton Ave. a joint youth program Housing available. JCC on the Palisades
Carol Fishman Cohen, continues April 6 and 20. Michele, (201) 408-1496 sponsored by Bnai Israel, Sharon, (646) 529-8748 begins a seven-session
CEO, iRelaunch, gives a Kathy, (201) 408-1454 or or jccotp.org. the Fair Lawn Jewish or (718) 575-3962. bereavement group with
seminar, Relaunching jccotp.org. Center/CBI, Temple Beth therapist Judy Brauner,
a Career After Time
Away Strategies,
Sunday Sholom in Fair Lawn,
Temple Israel & JCC of
Widows and Widowers:
You Are Not Alone,
Success Stories, and march 26 Ridgewood, and JCC- 6:15 p.m., through May
Advice, at Congregation Paramus/Congregation 22. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
Rinat Yisrael, 389 Disability and inclusion: Beth Tikvah. 53 Palisade Esther, (201) 408-1456.
W. Englewood Ave., Local New Jersey Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
Teaneck, 7 p.m. Jewish organizations www.bisrael.com.
Sponsored by Project will partner to organize
Ezrah. Tinyurl.com/ Keys to Support, the
ProjectEzrah or email third annual Jewish
Jeff@ezrah.org. disability awareness and
inclusion conference,
at the Kaplen JCC on
The Spinners and Little Anthony &
Wednesday Movies in Closter:
the Palisades in Tenafly. The Imperials coming to Englewood
Temple Beth El
march 22 screens Berlin 36,
Registration begins at
8:30 a.m.; conference
10:15 a.m., and again at The Bergen Performing Arts
Towards financial with a vendor fair runs
6:30 p.m. Refreshments.
fidelity: Project Ezrah 221 Schraalenburgh
from 9 to 4:30 p.m. 411 Center, at 30 North Van
hosts The Aisle A E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly. Brunt Street in Englewood,
Road. (201) 768-5112 or
Path Towards Financial Email events@j-add.org.
www.tbenv.org. presents the Spinners and
Fidelityrecognizing the
need for shalom kesef Presidents and Israel:
Chinese food and game Little Anthony and the Impe-
(financially healthy life show in Paramus: rials on Thursday, April 6, at
Rabbi Dr. David Fine
The JCC Center of
style), at Congregation continues a series, From
Paramus/Congregation 8 p.m.
Beth Abraham, 396 New Roosevelt to Obama:
Beth Tikvah serves a The Spinners had 18 Solid
Bridge Road, Bergenfield, Presidential Interactions
7 p.m. Dinner served. with Israel, at the JCC
Chinese buffet lunch, Gold Top 40 hits, including
Sponsored by Project 12:45 p.m., followed by Then Came You, Work-
of Fort Lee/Gesher
a professional family
Ezrah. Reservations, Shalom, 12:45 p.m.
game show by Hollyrock ing My Way Back to You
TheAisle@ezrah.org. Discussion, The Reagan
Entertainment, 1:30. Girl, Cupid, The Rub-
Administration; The
Womens shiur in First Lebanon War. ~
304 East Midland berband Man, Could it be
Teaneck: Rebbetzin Ave. Reservations, Im Falling in Love, Ill Be
Bush 41 and the Gulf
Chana Reichman of (201) 262-7691 or www.
War. Refreshments
jccparamus.org. Around, and One Of A Kind
Englewoods East Hill at 12:30. Program
Synagogue discusses Love Affair. Some of Little
continues through April Jewish gender/identity/
The Power of 6. 1449 Anderson Ave. Anthonys hits include Tears
Chesed: Small Acts/ humanity: Temple
(201) 947-1735. Emeth of Teaneck s On My Pillow, Shimmy,
Great Impacts, for
the sisterhood of Viewpoints Committee Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop, Goin
Happy hour in Wyckoff:
Congregation Beth Temple Beth Rishon
hosts Grammy Out Of My Head, and Hurt
Award-nominated
Aaron, 8:30 p.m., hosts a happy hour So Bad.
Sponsored by Deena and storyteller Milbre Burch,
with appetizers and
presenting her latest Tickets are available at
David Fisher, to mark drinks at Blue Moon,
the yahrzeit of Deenas work, Changing Skins: www.ticketmaster.com or
327 Franklin Ave.,
mother, Bernice Garfinkel. Folktales about Gender, by calling bergenPACs box
6:30-8 p.m. Courtesy
Identity and Humanity
950 Queen Anne Road. TBR. Prospective office at (201) 227-1030.
(201) 836-6210. for adults, 1 p.m. Talk
members welcome.
back with Burch after
(201) 891-4466.
the performance.
Thursday 1666 Windsor Road.
march 23 (201) 833-1322

Book discussion in
Networking in Fair Emerson: Congregation
Lawn: The Jewish Bnai Israel, in partnership
Business Network with the Jewish
group meets at the Federation of Northern
Ives Architectural Firm New Jersey, hosts Let
offices, 8:30 a.m. 14-25 There Be Water in
Plaza Road, Suite S-3-5.
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Mazon
from page 6
Not surprising, some of those people
are Jews.
Ive definitely seen hunger in the Jew-
ish community, Rabbi Pitkowsky said.
We have members of the community
who come and ask for help because they
cant afford food on a weekly basis, espe-
cially for the holidays. I also volunteer for
Tomchei Shabbos. Theres a tremendous
amount of need out there. Those who
think that hunger doesnt affect Jews are
mistaken.
Rabbi Pitkowsky said the exhibit
clearly has had a strong effect on people
who have seen it. Asked for reflections
after viewing the project, one viewer
from Texas said, When I was unem-
ployed for 15 months, I made $9 a month
too much for food stamps. It shocked me
that I even had to consider it. Another,
from Arizona, said This brought back
many memories. I was one of these peo-
ple struggling with hunger and health. I
became disabled. Many years later, I real-
ized I wasnt at fault.... Food should be a
right as a human being, and one should
never go hungry here in America.
Rabbi Pitkowsky said that people who
see the exhibit will have a greater under-
standing of the serious situation in our
country in regard to hunger and food
insecurity, realizing that people who are
desperate to rise out of their current situ-
ation are relying on our help and support
to live a better life.
In these days leading up to Passover,
when we sit around the seder table,
grateful for freedom, and lift up the mat-
zah, the bread of affliction, and say, Let
all who are hungry come and eat, we
should mean it. Part of the message is
that the world we see around us is not
the world as it is supposed to be. We each
need to play a role to make the world as
it should be.
Happily, Rabbi Pitkowsky said, in
Teaneck the Mazon project has gar-
nered the participation of several Jewish
streams. Beth Sholom is Conservative,
Temple Emeth is Reform, and Congre-
gation Netivot Shalom whose religious
leader, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, will talk
about hunger at Temple Emeth on April
3 is Orthodox. Rabbi Helfgot, who also
chairs of the departments of Bible and
Jewish thought at Yeshivat Chovevei
Torah in New York City, and teaches
Judaic studies at the citys SAR High
School, will offer a public lecture, Let
All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat: Mov-
ing from the Particular to the Universal in
Eradicating Hunger.
Rabbi Helfgot said in an email, On
Pesach night, we as Jews engage in elabo-
rate and meaningful rituals to recollect the
past when we were slaves and oppressed
and were redeemed by God to reach a
point of national and personal fulfillment
and success. These mitzvot that we lov-
ingly and carefully practice each and every
year are not simply theatre and customs.
They go to the heart of our [belief ] that the
human being, created in the image of God,
should not be harmed or degraded in any
way. The Torah constantly makes reference
to our historical experience so that we will
treat others properly and with dignity.
One of the modern examples of the
degradation of the human being and spirit
is the cold harsh reality that many people
in our blessed country go to sleep hungry,
and rise in the morning not knowing if
they will have enough food to feed them-
selves and their family. This year before
Pesach, we have the opportunity to take
a bit of time from the hectic preparations
and cleaning for Pesach to educate our-
selves and friends about the realities of
hunger in the United States of America.

Briefs
North-African Arab
journalists call Israel
Western and free
Following an invitation from Hassan Kaabiya, Israels
deputy spokesman for Arab media, a group of six
North African journalists and bloggers is visiting Israel
this week as guests of the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
During their trip, the Algerian and Tunisian jour-
nalists are meeting with senior Israeli officials at the
Foreign Ministry, the Supreme Court, and the Knes-
set. Members of the delegation Monday visited the
Old City of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and the Yad
Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum.
The report was later confirmed by White House Press
Secretary Sean Spicer.
Abu Rdainah said that in his phone conversation
with Trump, Abbas stressed the commitment to
peace as a strategic choice to establish a Palestinian
state alongside the state of Israel. The PA spokesman
said that Trump stressed his commitment to a peace
process that would lead to real peace between Pales-
tinians and Israelis.
During his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu at the White House in February, Trump
broke with long-held U.S. policy by saying that he was Teanecks Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trumps
open to alternative resolutions to the Israeli-Palestinian international negotiations adviser meets with Israeli Prime
conflict, rather than exclusively a two-state solution.  Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the blog-
gers described their first impressions of Israel as
appearing Western and free.
This is the sixth time that a delegation of North Afri-
can journalists has visited the Jewish state as part of
an initiative by Israels Arab media representatives.
Most recently, in November 2016, seven Moroccan
journalists participated in a weeklong trip to Israel
sponsored by the Foreign Ministry. The Palestinian
terror group Hamas condemned the Moroccan del-
egations visit, calling it a crime against our people.
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Trump invites Abbas to White
House to discuss peace process
President Donald Trump invited Palestinian Author-
ity President Mahmoud Abbas to visit the White
House following their first phone conversation since
Trump took office in late January.
President Trump has extended an official invitation
to President Abbas to visit the White House soon to dis-
cuss ways to resume the political process, stressing his
commitment to a peace process that will lead to a real
peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis, said
Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah, the official PA
news agency WAFA reported.
Intel acquires Israels
Mobileye for $15.3 billion
in largest-ever tech buyout
The American high-tech giant Intel Corp. announced
that it has agreed to buy Israeli vision technology
developer Mobileye for $15.3 billion, in the largest
acquisition of an Israeli technology company.
As automakers around the world compete to
develop cutting edge self-driving car technology,
Intels purchase of Mobileye, a global leader in the
development of vision technology for Advanced
Driver Assistance Systems, places the U.S. computer
chip company at the forefront of the expanding
autonomous vehicle market.
After the deal was announced, Israeli Prime Minis-
ter Netanyahu tweeted, Congratulations to Mobileye!
Israeli genius, Israeli pride.
Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis
also spoke proudly of Israels hi-tech industry fol-
lowing the announcement, saying, The fact that
large international companies see potential in
Israel and are seeking to acquire Israeli compa-
nies that lead their prospective fields is a source of
national pride for our technological strength.
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Trump special adviser visits Israel
in effort to restart talks
President Donald Trumps international negotiations adviser, Jason
Greenblatt of Teaneck, arrived in Israel this week for meetings with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and Pales-
tinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.
For 20 years before going to work at the White House, Green-
blatt was Trumps lawyer. The stated purpose of his trip is to
jumpstart negotiations between Israel and the PA, and to explore
new strategies for advancing Middle East peace.
Greenblatt and Netanyahu met for more than five hours Monday
night and reaffirmed the joint commitment of both Israel and
the United States to advance a genuine and lasting peace between
Israel and the Palestinians that strengthens the security of Israel
and enhances stability in the region, according to the Prime Min-
isters Office.
The Israeli leader told Greenblatt that he believes that under
President Trumps leadership, it is possible to advance peace
between Israel and all its neighbors, Netanyahus office added,
while Greenblatt similarly reaffirmed President Trumps commit-
ment to Israels security and to the effort to help Israelis and Pales-
tinians achieve a lasting peace through direct negotiations.
During his visit, Greenblatt was also scheduled to meet with
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, opposition leader Isaac Herzog,
acting National Security Council head Yaakov Nagel and Coordi-
nator of Government Activities in the Territories head Maj.-Gen.
Yoav Mordechai. JNS.ORG

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Helen Gaelick
Helen Gaelick, ne Krinsky, 87, of
Paramus, formerly of Fair Lawn,
died March 6.
She was a member of the Fair Lawn
chapter of Deborah Hospital and the
Fair Lawn Senior Citizens Center.
Predeceased by her husband,
Lloyd, she is survived by children,
Cheryl Schultz (Brian) of Fair Lawn,
and Ed (Liz) of Woodcliff Lake; and
four grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the
American Heart Association.
Arrangements were by Louis Sub-
urban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Harriet Helfand
Harriet Helfand, ne Osur, 89, of Pat-
erson, formerly of Pompton Lakes,
died March 7.
She is survived by children, Gail
Baum (the late N. Joseph Baum, Jr.),
Arleen Cogoni (Steven), and Jeffrey
(Noreen); a sister, Beverly Osur; seven
grandchildren, five great-grandchil-
dren; and her former husband, Mar-
tin Helfand. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Norman Kahn
Norman Kahn, 83, of Fair Lawn,
died February 18.
He attended New York University,
worked in brokerage clearance on
Wall Street, and was a member of the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congrega-
tion Bnai Israel.
He is survived by his wife, Rita,
sons, Keith (Arti) of Bedminster, and
Brian (Lisa) of Washington Township;
and two grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the World
Jewish Congress.
Arrangements were by Louis Sub-
urban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
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Frank Paul Stern
Frank Paul Stern, 66, of Mahwah,
died February 17.
He is survived by his wife of
41 years, Sandra; children Julie
(Matt), David, and Valerie; and a
grandson, Max.
Donations can be made in his
honor to the Center for Food Action
of NJ. Arrangements were by Robert
Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
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Goldie SUSSMAN
Blessed to live 101 years, Goldie Suss-
man passed away peacefully on Monday,
February 20, 2017, in the comfort of her
Palm Harbor, Florida home surrounded
by her loving family.
Goldie was born in Jersey City, NJ
October 14, 1915 to the late Jennie and
Samuel Kossman. She graduated East
Side High School in Paterson, NJ and
continued on to earn her BA degree
from Montclair State College majoring
in German. Falling in love at a very young age, she
married her first and only love, Oscar Sussman, in
1937. After his passing in 1973, she dedicated the
rest of her life to her family providing love, support,
guidance, and strength throughout the years.
As a young woman, Goldie helped out in her par-
ents dry goods store. After marrying Oscar, she
helped him build the family business, Sussmans
Drugs, into a Paterson, NJ landmark. Taking care
of the customers was always a priority and she es-
pecially enjoyed working the ice cream counter to
the delight of patrons as she was very generous with
her scoops. Over the years, she also assisted in her
sons CPA business and her daughters travel agency,
working in the office doing bookkeeping until she
officially retired at the age of 88.
Throughout her life, Goldie held a very strong
belief in her Jewish faith and observed the many
traditions with reverence. She was also very faithful
to the Jewish community volunteering with Yavneh
Academy and serving as President of the local Ha-
dassah Chapter. She always believed that her gener-
ous contributions to hundreds of different charities
through the years granted her favor in the eyes of
G-d to live a long and healthy life and her charitable
donations continued until her passing.
Devouring at least a book a week for most of her
life, Goldie was an avid reader. She loved playing
tennis and her competitive spirit always ensured a
hard-hitting game and lots of laughter on the court.
Doing daily crossword puzzles and challenging any
willing opponent to an afternoon of Rum-
mikub or many other games brought her
Headstones, Duplicate Markers and Cemetery Lettering
much joy. Weekly trips to the Hard Rock
Casino and hours spent at the black-
jack tables continued until her final days.
Fiercely independent, Goldie maintained
a sharp mind and even at the age of 101,
was knowledgeable about politics, Holly-
wood happenings, the stock market, and
everything going on in the lives of her
family members.
She was preceded in death by the love of her life,
her husband of 36 years, Oscar Sussman, and also
by her brother Larry (Evelyn) Kossman. Her beauti-
ful spirit will forever live on through the lives of her
three children: Roni Oren, Harvey Sussman, both of
Palm Harbor, Florida, Stephen (Barbara) Sussman
of Teaneck, New Jersey, and her grandchildren: Bar-
bra (Charley) Leidner, Cindy Lenok, Robin (Chris)
Korines, Jonathan (Patricia) Sussman, Jeffrey Suss-
man, Chaim (Shelli) Sussman, Joshua Sussman, and
her great-grandchildren: Lazaro, Brittany, Michael,
Julia, Matthew, Jeremy, Lincoln, Chani and Yoni,
her great-great-grandchildren: Lazaro Jr., and Em-
bree. In addition, Goldie left behind treasured nieces
and nephews, extended family and cherished friends
who will miss her dearly.
The family is very grateful for the devoted and lov-
ing care given to Goldie by her long-time caregivers,
allowing her to maintain the independence she ex-
hibited her whole life. In addition, Suncoast Hospice
provided immeasurable support to Goldie and the
family through her final days to which we are eter-
nally grateful.
For Goldie, family was the cherished thread that
connected every fiber of her being. She will be deep-
ly mourned and sadly missed; always remembered
as a lover of life and a fighter until the end. We love
you the whole wide world Goldie and pray for your
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In organizing the symposium, our purpose was to
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A Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher
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Thrift shop is full of surprises
You never know whats going to hap-
pen in a thrift shop! At the Council Thrift
Shop in Bergenfield, the National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women volunteers are con-
stantly surprised by the reactions of
their customers.
The store is known for its fashion bar-
gains. On one occasion, a woman wearing
a fur coat came into the store, whereupon
she was promptly complimented by other
customers on her fur. Oh, she said, I
bought it here. I got a small tear repaired a
few stores down. She said she was saving
for her next fur coat and would be back
with the money. Meanwhile, a tall woman
came in and brought a 5 pair of sequined
high heeled shoes to the register. When
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questioned how she was going to walk in
them, she replied, Oh honey, I only plan
on wearing them from the living room to
the bedroom!
Leather jackets are especially popular. A
donor finished bringing her merchandise
in the back door and proceeded to begin
browsing for purchases. After a while she
found a fantastic black leather jacket by
Marc Jacobs (who grew up in Teaneck)
in the coat section for her husband in an
XXL size. Neither she nor her husband
could believe their good fortune. Another
gentleman came in browsing for a leather
jacket for himself. After trying several on
and receiving the help and comments
from the volunteers behind the register,
Cell: 201-615-5353
he settled on a black leather jacket that
complemented his physique and his
mood. He felt so good about his purchase,
he promptly posted his selfie on Facebook
when he got home!
Also in great supply is inspiration. One
customer wanting to throw a dinner party
came into the store and started discuss-
ing her menu and recipes with the store
volunteer. After searching for household
items that were on sale, she came to the
register with a Moroccan serving dish for
her main course, a small punchbowl and
cups for the sangria, a Pyrex loaf pan for
the bread, a wine decanter, and small
spoons for sugar, along with salt and pep-
per shakers. She happily paid $32 for her
Project Ezrah offers path toward
financial fidelity
On March 22nd, Project Ezrah will
launch The Aisle: A Path Toward Finan-
cial Fidelity at 7 p.m.
In years of working with couples, Proj-
ect Ezrah has seen a great need for pre-
ventative information and has become
able to identify signposts of discord and/
or financial mismanagement
Most families teach their engaged
children about shalom bayit before the
wedding. Understanding that the Torah
teaches that strife in the home is due
to money problems (Bave Metzia 59a,)
The Aisle will help young couples recog-
nize the importance of shalom kesef,
providing them with the tools to work
together on a path toward a financially
healthy life-style.
Project Ezrah plans to hold The Aisle
sessions every six months. The March
22 session at Beth Abraham will include
dinner, games, a workshop and gifts to
all who attend. There is no charge for
the evening and it is open to all with
advanced reservation.
The foundations built during the
engagement period and directly after
the wedding affect the whole relation-
ship; the stronger that foundation, the
stronger the couple will be. During this
period, each is learning more and more
about the other: how they brush their
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The story of Rabbi Shai Held,
co-founder of New Yorks
Mechon Hadar, which
celebrated its 10th anniverary
in Teaneck last weekend page 22
purchases and invited the volunteer for
her next dinner!
Clothing and household items may
no longer be serving a useful purpose
for one person, says Karen Kurland,
National Council of Jewish Womens vice
president in charge of the Council Thrift
shop. Now for someone else, thats
another story!
Now that spring is around the corner,
Council Thrift Shop is accepting all cool
summer clothing as well as decorative
items, handbags, and household items
that you no longer need. The Thrift Shop
is at 75 South Washington Avenue in Ber-
genfield. For more information, visit www.
ncjwbcs.org.
teeth, hang up their clothes (or not), and
how they handle money. The Aisles goal
of preventative financial education will
cover some of the following to help the
couple tie the financial knot: Step One
From Yours and Mine to Ours
The Aisle will give participants the
tools to deal the many issues that
come up during the engagement and
right after the wedding. Yes, now (dur-
ing the engagement) is the time to dis-
cuss finances.
Money management can be a reward-
ing way to bond: It builds team work,
trust and communication skills and
helps set common goals. (You need
a budget! is unconstructive because
budget is perceived as a depressing
chore. Plan to manage your money! is
the constructive approach, the one The
Aisle will use.)
Eighty four percent of married cou-
ples admit that the primary source of
tension in their marriage is: money.
It is not surprising then that money-
related fights is the number one cause of
divorce. The Aisle will help couples real-
ize how important money management
is in order to stop money issues before
they become financial infidelity.
Email Theaisle@ezrah.org to reserve
a place.
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