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‘A desecration of memory’
Bergen and Rockland leaders talk about vaccination, anti-vaxxers’ Holocaust imagery
JOANNE PALMER
T
he measles outbreak, both here
and across the country, contin-
ues; it’s been particularly viru-
lent in Rockland County.
It’s particularly evident in some parts
of the charedi world, even though over-
whelmingly most Jews, including the
charedim, vaccinate their children,
most schools demand vaccination, and
most anti-vaxxers across the country are
not Jewish.
The anti-vaxxing campaign has taken
an odd twist, though, as some ardent
opponents of mandatory vaccination
have taken to calling such vaccination
Nazi-like, and have begun to call the
representatives of state and local gov-
ernments that call for vaccination Nazis.
Some Jews have started to make those
arguments as well, at least given the
evidence of phone calls we’ve received
here at the Jewish Standard.
Dr. Kenneth Prager of Englewood is Measles cases have been clustered in parts of Rockland County including New Square, an all-chasidic village. URIEL HEILMAN
a pulmonologist, a professor of clinical
medicine, the director of clinical ethics, vague enough to be translated in quite a
and the chair of the medical ethics com- few ways, including “That you shall be
mittee at Columbia University Medical very watchful of yourselves.” No mat-
Center. He’s also a modern Orthodox ter how it is translated, however, the
Jew, a member of Congregation Ahavath word “meod” — very — stands out. It’s
Torah in Englewood. an unusual emphasis.
As a doctor, a medical ethicist, and a “It means that you have to watch
Jew, Dr. Prager has strong feelings about your health,” Rabbi Fink said. “We don’t
vaccination. “Vaccines have been one of take any chances with our health. Nor
the greatest scientific achievements in should we.”
the history of humankind,” he said. “We At Ateret Bais Yaakov Rockland that
have eradicated smallpox, thanks to vac- means, among other things, that “we
cination. We have almost eradicated the Dr. Helene Sinnreich Dr. Kenneth Prager Rabbi Aaron J. Fink don’t take chances with our health,
scourge of polio, although there still are because we have to protect not only the
small pockets of it. kosher “is absurd,” Dr. Prager said. “Not What about the comparison to the students, but also the unborn children
“I do not understand how anybody only does it fly in the face of evidence, Nazis? “That is obscene,” Dr. Prager said. of our staff. The staff are mostly women,
cannot understand the benefits to but it is unethical, in the sense that a “Obscene, with a capital O. many of them in their childbearing years.”
humankind of vaccinations. It requires person’s refusal to vaccinate their chil- “It is obscene because it equates one What if parents feel that their children
willful ignorance.” dren puts other children at risk and that of the greatest goods of humanity with should not be vaccinated? “Those par-
Now that the idea that measles vac- is immoral. The risk to their children is one of the greatest evils. ents can either shop for another school
cines cause autism has been debunked trivial to nonexistent when they vacci- “Can I be more clear?” he concluded. or vaccinate their children,” Rabbi Fink
— in fact, autism often manifests, coinci- nate, but not when they do not. “It is a chillul haShem.” A desecration of said unyieldingly. “There is no shortage
dentally and unfortunately, at the same “Some children cannot get vaccinated God’s name. of options in our community.”
time as vaccinations often are given — because they are immunocompromised. Rabbi Aaron J. Fink is the dean Are there any halachic reasons not
the arguments against vaccination have They can get sick. It is a major health of Ateres Bais Yaakov Rockland in to vaccinate? “No,” he said. “I am not
moved on. concern, not just to you and your family New Hempstead; it’s a kindergar- aware of any halachic reasons.”
Newspapers have reported that the but to the health of other people’s chil- ten-through-12th-grade centrist Ortho- He cites Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the
charedi community sometimes is told dren as well. dox all-girls day school. It has a strict chief rabbi of the Orthodox rabbinical
that “the vaccine has pig DNA in it,” Dr. “We are not asking you to sacrifice vaccination policy and “a 100 percent” courts in Jerusalem, who wrote a letter
Prager said; in fact, vaccines are grown your children to protect other people’s vaccination rate, Rabbi Fink said. to Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler, the rosh
in a mixture of substances but are puri- children, but to protect your children “We believe vaccination is important, yeshiva at Lakewood. The letter, written
fied to the point that most charedi rab- and other people’s children,” he contin- because the Torah demands from us last fall and posted on the Yeshiva World’s
bis find them kosher for use. Plus, they ued. Refusal to do so “is based on igno- ‘Venishmartem meod lenafshtechem,’” website (and easily googleable), is clear
point out, vaccines are not eaten. rance, and the people who propagate it he continued. about parents’ need to vaccinate their
The argument that vaccines are not have an almost cult-like mentality.” That quote from Deuteronomy 4:15 is children. The principle behind the letter
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is pikuach nefesh, the need to save a life. children to be our test subjects,’ and 97
In suggesting that Rabbi Sternbuch’s percent of parents showed up with their
letter would explain his position, Rabbi kids, with the hope of getting this exper-
Fink positioned the rabbi in the Jewish imental vaccine.”
world by saying “You can’t get much That was then, which was very differ-
more right wing than Rabbi Sternbach.” ent from now.
He did want to make another point, “We have had an incredible forget-
though. “Whether it is in the Orthodox ting,” Dr. Sinnreich said. “We forget how
community, the chasidic community, or terrible the measles were, and how des-
the secular community, anti-vaxxers are perate parents were. We forget that it
a fringe group,” Rabbi Fink said. “The wasn’t that long ago when lots of people
entire group should not be judged by the died from measles.
actions of these few people. “We used to believe in science. Back in
“Normative halacha and normative the 1950s and 60s we believed in science,
behavior is pro-vaccination, and the we believed that we had the most pow-
overwhelming majority of the entire erful government in the world, and that
Jewish community, from right to left, is Opponents of vaccination have begun wearing yellow Jewish stars, evoking we had all the solutions, that we would
adhering to that.” Do not judge any part comparisons to Nazi crimes. win the space race and that science was
of the Jewish community by the actions advancing.” (We were right about most of
of these fringe members, he stressed. somehow or other to New Jersey.) She blames some of the anti-vaxxers’ those things, but not quite enough, and
Dr. Helene Sinnreich is an associate Last week, Dr. Sinnreich wrote an op success on the general societal mistrust we hadn’t factored in complacency.)
professor of religious studies and the ed in the Washington Post, reacting to the of government, and of expertise, that Now, though, Dr. Sinnreich said, “We
director of the Fern and Manfred Stein- comparison of laws about vaccinations to has risen greatly in the last few years. don’t believe in science.”
feld program in Judaic studies at the Nazi crimes. On a later phone interview, “I have a friend who is a historian, There used to be far more communi-
University of Tennessee at Knoxville; she said that references to the Nazis had who said that in the 1950s, when they cable diseases floating around the world.
she’s also the co-editor of the Journal of begun to creep into anti-vaxxers’ argu- first came out with the experimental “We forget that there were all these
Jewish Identities. (She also grew up in ments as long as four years ago, “but a polio vaccination, the government put public health measures on the books,
North Brunswick, because apparently few weeks ago they started wearing the out a call saying ‘We have an experi- back when tuberculosis was a rampant
everything and everyone traces back yellow Jewish stars that said ‘No Vax.’” mental vaccine for polio, and we need SEE VACCINATION PAGE 68
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W
hat is the secret ingre-
dient that has made
Torah Academy of Ber-
gen County victorious
in six of the last 10 Science Olympiads
for yeshiva high schools in the New York
and New Jersey area?
According to co-captain Avraham
Kahan, a senior from Teaneck, the all-
boys’ atmosphere in the school fosters
a friendly competitive spirit. “We’re all
guys, and we’re always pushing each
other to be better,” he said. “We work
hard and we play hard.”
TABC’s team took first place in the
most recent Olympiad, held March 31.
Science Olympiad competitions
are like academic track meets, where
teams from schools in many parts of the
country and abroad compete in events
designed to spark their interest in genet-
ics, earth science, chemistry, anatomy,
physics, geology, mechanical engineer-
ing, and technology.
The meets typically are held on Sat-
urdays, however, making it difficult or TABC’s winning Science Olympiad team and faculty advisers.
impossible for Sabbath-observers to
participate. In conjunction with the New an edge,” he explained. TABC’s vehicle “The biggest draw of the Science
York-based Jewish Education Project, coasted to second place, behind North Olympiad was the competitive spirit,”
Touro College’s Lander College for Men Shore Hebrew Academy. Mr. Dietz said. “It provided a chance
has hosted an annual Science Olympiad
on Sundays since 2011.
We’re all guys, “It was very satisfying to win the com-
petition again,” Nathanael added. “We
to show off a talent that you normally
wouldn’t get to express.”
The most recent competition drew and we’re had lost some core members who grad- Dr. Ann Shinnar of Teaneck, a chem-
15-member teams from 13 local Jewish
schools, including the Frisch School of
always pushing uated last year, and I was nervous about
how we would do.”
istry professor at Lander College and
liaison to the competition, said that all
Paramus and Yeshivat Heichal Hatorah each other to Ephraim Helfgot, a Teaneck junior, par- 195 contestants benefited from the Sci-
of Teaneck.
“Science is transforming the world
be better, We ticipated in Road Scholar, one of the seven
Olympiad events in which TABC bested
ence Olympiad experience regardless of
whether they took home prizes.
around us, and we hope that Ortho- work hard and all other competitors. In this classic Sci- “It’s an opportunity for students to
dox Jewish men and women will be at
the forefront of those changes, for the we play hard. ence Olympiad contest, participants must
interpret, collect data from, and answer
gain confidence as well as skills, and we
are proud to bring this program to the
good,” Dr. Moshe Sokol, dean of Lander questions about topographical GPS maps. Jewish community,” she said.
College for Men, said. “We seek to The team included students from all “The award ceremony at the end Dr. Shinnar ensures that contestants
inspire amongst students a love for the four grades, but most were juniors and was great. We went crazy cheering for have all the equipment they need, and
sciences, and an understanding of how seniors who had participated before. each other,” Ephraim said. His favorite she recruits volunteers from the college
science works.” This was the third consecutive win for aspects of the Olympiad were “the feel- to help out at the competition. She also
The 12 events on March 31 were titled the Teaneck school. ing of community, the competitiveness, invites a different scientist each year to
Write-It-Do-It, Road Scholar, Mousetrap Co-captain Nathanael Vinar, a senior and being part of a team — and, look, it’s talk about his or her training and career
Vehicle, Herpetology, Fermi Questions, from Teaneck, won his 12th career fun winning!” path. The goal is to inspire the high
Dynamic Planet, Designer Genes, Code medal that Sunday, setting a record for Although some of the categories cover school generation.
Busters, Circuit Lab, Chemistry Lab, the most medals won in the history of subjects taught in school, others — such This year’s speaker was Dr. John
Boomilever, and Anatomy and Physiol- the Jewish Education Project-Lander Sci- as herpetology, the study of amphibians Loike, who joined the faculty of
ogy. TABC placed first in seven of these ence Olympiad. — do not, necessitating what Mr. Dietz Lander College of Arts & Sciences in
events, and second in three others. “His name is legend,” co-captain Avra- calls “a lot of self-study.” the fall of 2017, after serving as the
Two team members usually participate ham said admiringly. At meetings after school, the team- co-director for graduate studies in the
in each challenge. “At the beginning of the Nathanael’s challenge this year was mates worked on projects that required department of physiology and cellular
school year, the boys decide who will rep- building a foam-board and balsa-wood building. One was the boomilever, a biophysics and the director of special
resent the school in each of the contests,” car powered only by two spring-loaded structure intended to support the most programs in the Center for Bioethics
faculty adviser Kenneth Dietz, a TABC mousetraps. “I had done the Mousetrap load with the least possible weight. at Columbia University College of Phy-
biology and chemistry teacher, explained. Vehicle event last year, so that gave us TABC won that event, too. sicians and Surgeons.
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changed. I felt like she was speaking inti-
mately to me, almost whispering in my
ear. Her sensibility felt remarkable and
incredible and unique and disarming
and embarrassing and funny and sad.”
The diaries describe Ms. Hillesum’s
experiences and feelings as the Nazi
restrictions on the Jews of Amsterdam
increase, and then she finds herself at
the Westerbork transit camp. The pub-
lished diaries conclude before she is Susan Stein plays Etty Hillesum. Inset, Etty Hillesum
deported to Auschwitz in September
1943, where she dies two months later. the eighth day of Passover and Yizkor. becomes herself in this set of circum-
When Ms. Stein finished reading the Rabbi Stern said that the story of Etty stances. It’s pretty remarkable.
book, she didn’t want to let Ms. Hillesum Hillesum “personalizes Yom HaShoah “It upsets some people and confuses
go. So she set out to write a play based in a different way than when we hear them because she’s not trying to save
on the diaries, and on her letters, which survivors speak. This is someone who herself. It’s not that story.
also had been collected and published. didn’t have the privilege of surviving, “She has a keen sense of what’s hap-
The result, “Etty,” is whose story of atrocity pening. On July 3, 1942, she writes that
a one-woman perfor- won’t be described, but ‘They’re out to destroy us completely.’
mance culled from whose normal anxieties That’s insight. That’s pretty early for
the diaries, in which of life remain in view.” Dutch Jews. That said, my interpretation
Ms. Stein becomes Ms. Stein said that she is that she believes and hopes she’ll sur-
Ms. Hillesum. had no idea “how hard vive. She says in a letter in 1943, ‘Some
Ms. Stein will per- it would be” to turn Ms. people will have to survive to be the
form at Congrega- Hillesum’s words into chroniclers. Why can’t I be one of them?’
tion Gesher Shalom, a play. Yet she felt an “I believe she understands she’s in a
the Jewish Commu- intense desire to “give genocide. I’m not sure she can hold on was addressed to her seventh-grade
nity Center of Fort something back” to Ms. to that understanding at every minute of Latin teacher, a colleague of her father.
Lee, before Yizkor Hillesum. “She feels like every day. I’m not sure anyone can. She They were sending food supplies. Etty
services on Shabbat, giving you a lot in the has access to a radio. She writes in her said not to send any more. And she says,
April 27, the eighth diaries. She is a truth- diary that the English radio announced ‘We left the camp singing.’ We can inter-
day of Passover. seeker, and she does that 700,000 Jews have been mur- pret that as her asking, ‘Remember us
Gesher Shalom’s Susan Stein that right on the page. I dered in Poland. She’s aware of some- this way.’
Rabbi, Kenneth wanted to keep her with thing other Jews might not have been “I don’t think she’s surprised she
Stern, explained that with dwindling me. I want to get her to as many people aware of.” doesn’t come back. She’s not naive.
attendance at his congregation’s Yom as possible. I want her name on politi- The last word received from Ms. “The play to a certain extent is also
HaShoah observances, and with aging cian’s lips. I think it’s her words we need. Hillesum was a postcard she pushed a prayer. She has a spiritual transfor-
congregants reluctant to travel to Fair “This is part theater and part cause.” through the broken planks of the freight mation through her diary-keeping. She
Lawn for the regional observance spon- Ms. Stein said the focus of the play is train that took her and her family from refers to God as the deepest part within
sored by the Jewish Federation of North- on Ms. Hillesum’s “sensibility. Her want- the Westerbork camp in Holland to Aus- herself. She has an Abraham-like con-
ern New Jersey, he has moved his con- ing to be a writer. Her spiritual transfor- chwitz in Poland. versation with God. There’s a Jewish
gregation’s Yom HaShoah observance to mation. Her spiritual yearning. How she “A few days later a farmer finds it. It SEE PART THEATER PAGE 19
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ou know how hard
it is to get the last bit
of product — food,
or soap, or hair
stuff, or just about anything
else — out of the bottle?
It’s not a burning problem,
but it is a nagging irritant.
It’s bothered Steven Epstein
of Tenafly since the time he
“got out of the shower, and
went to use some Lubriderm,
and the bottle just hissed and
spat at me, and nothing came
out, but I could see that there
was product in it.
“So I turned it upside down,
and put it in a corner and
wedged it in, and that already
was a nuisance. And then the
next night, my wife turned it
right-side up. And then the
next time I turned it over and
squirreled it away at the back
of the medicine chest.”
He was able to retrieve the
bottle, but he had to take the
pump out to get the lotion that
had pooled around the cap, Steven Epstein, right, pitches his invention on “Shark Tank.”
and that was a messy nuisance,
and then when he put the pump down, they are throwing out.” the chair of the JCC’s house commit- So he tried.
he made another mess. And when you try it at home, “you tee for a period of time.” His parents It wasn’t easy getting on the show,
A first-world problem still is a prob- save time, too; instead of shaking and also founded a vocational high school he said. “I tried three times, and the
lem — we do live in the first world. prodding you are getting every drop in Tel Aviv, and were instrumental in third time was the charm. I attended an
Mr. Epstein thought about the situ- that you paid for.” founding a JCC in a suburb of Haifa open call in New York last May, almost
ation, and then “I had my light bulb You also have to buy less and thus called Neve Joseph. a year ago. I must have made a favor-
moment,” he said. to recycle less. “The cat’s out of the Mr. Epstein also has done charita- able impression. I was given two min-
“I invented a sustainable bag now,” he said. “Recycling is not ble work of his own. He’s a helicop- utes to pitch the Flip It to one of their
problem-solver.” working.” (He’s talking about a raft ter pilot; he’s flown planes full of sup- casting agents.
His Flip-It screws into a bottle and of news stories reporting how China plies to such disaster areas as Haiti, in “In July, I received a phone call that
allows the user to turn it over, rest the has stopped buying materials to recy- response to the devastating earthquake I was slated to move on in the process.
bottle on the gadget’s flat surface, and cle, and that means that much of the there in 2010. In September, I went to Los Angeles to
then to flip up the top to squeeze the market for recycling is gone; it often Last Sunday, Mr. Epstein presented tape it.”
product out. It’s washable, reusable, and costs more to recycle than simply to Flip-It to the panel of investors on Mr. Epstein was not allowed to talk
also reduces waste. throw stuff out in landfills.) “Munici- “Shark Tank.” The show offers expo- about the outcome until after the show
“The cap takes advantage of the palities are abandoning their curbside sure. “Consumers never have had as aired. He knew that he did not come
fact that bottle threads are standard, pickups. So the less you have to recy- much choice as we have today,” he away from the program with a deal,
with very few exceptions, all around cle, the more time and money every- said. “The choice of how we entertain but he did not know that the part of
the world,” Mr. Epstein said. “You can one saves.” ourselves, where, what, and on which his pitch — “the message about sav-
use it on pretty much any bottle in The idea of the Flip-It cap came natu- device.” That’s why it’s getting so hard ing time and saving money and being
your home, from the bathroom to the rally to Mr. Epstein, he said, because he to reach consumers. “They’re scattered sustainable — was left on the cutting
kitchen to the garage.” is “in the contract packaging business. across the universe, on cell phones, room floor”— until he saw it, he said.
The device is useful in some work- That’s why I am so familiar with bot- tablets, with Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, “They film for however long it is, and
places too; it’s a big hit in hair salons, tle threads.” so many other places. How do you find then they chop it down to 10 minutes,”
he said. “Salons typically have one-liter Mr. Epstein’s family has been prom- the customer? he said. “Unfortunately, I can’t control
pump bottles on the back bar behind inent in Bergen County for a long “Shark Tank” is a great way. I knew the script.
the shampoo bowls,” he said. “What we time; his parents, Edward and Elaine I had to get on there. Getting a deal “But the exposure was great, and
are finding is that there are two or three Epstein, were among the founders of with one of those celebrities is always sales have spiked, which is good. The
treatments worth of product left there. the JCC on the Palisades. “My mom helpful. They get doors open faster and market will be the final arbiter of how
It could be $100 of revenue to the salon. was the the JCC’s first president, wider and for longer than anyone can good the product is. It is growing, and
They are amazed when they see what back in the 70s, he said. “And I was do on their own.” it is all good.
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Congregation Beth Sholom, and Andrew
be seen as
Silow-Carroll, the editor in chief of the courageous.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Both live in
Teaneck. Both found the trip a positive were said.” His group spent a fair amount
experience, and both came back with a of time around Bethlehem, attending
deeper understanding of the nuances meetings in a small village outside the
that mark and complicate relations Gush Etzion bloc and at the Aida refu-
between the two communities. gee camp, he said. They also went to
It was an intensive several-day visit, Ramallah and various neighborhoods in
Rabbi Pitkowsky said, which took place east Jerusalem. Their Palestinian coun-
April 8 through April 11. Encounter terparts were diverse, ranging from the
invited him to participate — all expenses head of a village to people known for
paid. This was his second such experi- their postings on social media or for their
ence, though “the first time I attended as organizational affiliations.
a regular participant, and this time I was a “We met with people from Combat-
facilitator, helping to run parts of the pro- ants for Peace, an organization of peo-
gram,” he said. Participants are selected ple who formerly believed in violence
by the organization, based on referrals. but now believe that violence is not the
Rabbi Pitkowsky stressed that answer,” he said. But, he added, they
Encounter does not posit a specific polit- also met with several members of orga-
ical viewpoint, nor is it affiliated with Andy Silow-Carroll, left, and Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky, both of Teaneck, went on nizations who believe that violent resis-
any political party. Rather, as described an Encounter trip together. tance may be warranted.
on its website, the nonprofit educational “The guidelines were that we could
institution “invites Jewish leaders to however small, to a better future for the “The goal is for these American Jewish ask speakers any personal questions
expand their view of the Israeli-Palestin- Jews and the Arabs.” leaders, whom Encounter has invested we wanted. For example, ‘What do you
ian conflict and to be a positive force for Encounter hopes that these in, to bring the complexity and nuance of think about what I just said?’ We were
communal change.” exchanges will further the cause of these conversations back to the American not supposed to ask them to represent
“They believe that it is important peace. “Where Israel was once a unify- Jewish community, in whatever way we all Palestinians. We were not to engage in
for American Jewish leaders to inter- ing Jewish communal force, the subject have and whatever our political views.” a debate. This is not a dialogue program.
act with Palestinians, and to hear their of the conflict is now one of the most He could not name the other partic- We were there to hear their narrative.”
stories, their narratives,” Rabbi Pitkow- divisive and polarizing in American ipants. “Encounter rules are that we For his part, Mr. Silow-Carroll was
sky said. “We may not agree with them. Jewish life,” the group has posted on its are not allowed to identify anyone else comfortable with those guidelines. “I’m
But whatever our beliefs are, we should website. “Our community needs leaders who came with us,” he said. “You need a journalist,” he said. “It is my job to lis-
speak to people deeply affected” by the who can engage differently.” explicit permission.” This, he explained, ten and to probe for information and
current situation. “I have faith that knowledge is power,” is because some communal leaders fear clarification. If you go into an interview
“I think the goal is to broaden the Mr. Silow-Carroll said. “But it is really they would be fired or blacklisted for looking to win a debate, you are not
participants’ perspective of an issue in up to the individuals who take part to participating in the program. going to learn anything.”
which they are deeply invested,” Mr. decide how they want to use the infor- He noted also that the meetings did Rabbi Pitkowsky said he also was able
Silow-Carroll said. “I think most Jewish mation they gathered in the work they not include interactions with settlers to function within the guidelines, “let-
leaders know a lot about the many Jew- do as Jewish leaders and influentials.” because “it is Encounter’s belief that ting them say what they want to say”
ish sides of the conflict, and much less “Participants were not mostly rabbis, most of us have grown up with that nar- and understanding the notion of “trying
about any of the Palestinian sides. but all Jewish leaders,” Rabbi Pitkow- rative, and we would be able to meet to feel for a few moments what it must
“For me, it was definitely valuable,” he sky said. “Encounter retooled its earlier with the settlers on our own to hear be like” to live in their situation. He did
added. “You can’t write credibly about program, so that instead of bringing the their perspective.” On the other hand, note, however, that some of what he
the Other until you walk a bit in their average civilian Jew for a one-day pro- “most of us would not feel comfortable heard made him uncomfortable.
shoes, no matter how briefly. Getting to gram, it now focuses on Jewish leaders, going to Ramallah on our own.” Still, he said, he was able “to take it in
understand the Palestinians’ perspec- lay and professional, from Hillels, feder- It was not always easy to sit back and and decompress later.” In that regard,
tive isn’t subversive, and it shouldn’t be ations, JCRCs, etc., as a way to get at the listen to the Palestinian views, Rabbi Pit- participants were aided by small group
seen as courageous. It is what you have people who are the opinion makers and kowsky said. “Some found it hard not meetings each day to process the day’s
to do if you are to contribute anything, who set the tone for the community. to immediately react. Some hard things events. He facilitated one of those groups.
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Rabbi Pitkowsky is not yet sure how liked would be elected any time soon.” couple different love affairs, and one
he will share his experiences with his Mr. Silow-Carroll said he was sur-
Part theater is with her therapist.”
FROM PAGE 10
own congregation. After his last trip, prised “by the size and relative sophisti- “This year, I started touring four
about a year and a half ago, he both cation of Ramallah, which reminded me wrestling match going on.” days after the Pittsburgh shooting.
spoke from the bima and presented an a lot of what Tel Aviv looked like 30 years Ms. Stein has presented the play #MeToo hasn’t come up. This year
educational program to interested con- ago. If your sole exposure to the city is to some 60,000 people around the it’s about gun violence and hatred
gregants on a Sunday morning. ‘Fauda,’ you’d think it was a maze of ter- world, at venues ranging from the- and the political climate. The play is
For Rabbi Pitkowsky, the Encoun- rorists’ nests and ominous allies. And ater festivals to prisons. about how Etty is living in this time
ter trip was positive in two ways. First, who knows, it may be. But you could At Gesher Shalom, Ms. Stein will of hatred and refused to hate. It’s
“There was a wonderful group of some also see people going about their lives present an abbreviated version of the never resonated the way it’s reso-
35 Jewish leaders from all over the coun- and livelihoods, trying to make the best play. The full version runs an hour, nating now.
try and the denominational divide,” he of a challenging situation and do what’s and is then followed by a discussion. “At the University of North Caro-
said. “We spent time together, which best for their families.” She said the discussion at univer- lina in Charlotte, a significant part
happens rarely. “Speaking personally, I felt my hori- sities changed rapidly from last aca- of the audience was young Palestin-
“Second, we were exposed to voices zons broaden. sometimes narrowly, demic year to this one. ians. They loved Etty. They bought
and narratives we would never hear,” he sometimes expansively, and in one case “Last year, many of the undergrad- her book. They wanted to stay to
continued. You see things in a different literally,” he added. “For example, I uate women were really seeing the talk about her.
way, even near places you think you know consider myself well-versed in the issue play, and what they had read about “The conversations are always
well. And that, he said, “is powerful.” and the region, but by visiting Ramallah Etty, through the lens of the #MeToo different. In prisons it’s particularly
Did anything surprise him? “It was and Bethlehem and Kufr Aqab I gained movement. Etty is in the midst of a powerful.”
surprising to learn how little the Palestin- an understanding of the geography
ians we met cared about the Israeli elec- along the 1967 Green Line that I had
tion, which was going on at that time,” not quite grasped, mostly seeing it from
he said. “They explained that the people the Israeli side or drawn on a map. That More than 411,000 likes
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Passover
Jersey City
Passover
exchange Preparing
Steven Fulop, Jersey City’s
mayor, center, received for Pesach
matzahs from Rabbi Mor-
Shannon Sarna, the editor of
dechai Kanelsky, left,
“The Nosher” and author of
and Rabbi Baruch Lep-
“The Modern Jewish Baker,”
kivker of Bris Avrohom.
made a return visit to the Glen
The mayor also sold his
Rock Jewish Center to lead a
chometz and the chometz
hands-on Passover cooking
of Jersey City’s municipal
demo. Here, the shul’s rabbi, Jen-
building to the rabbis.
nifer Schlosberg, left, prepares
Courtesy Bris Avrohom
Ms. Sarna’s coconut macaroons.
Courtesy GRJC
From left, New Jersey State Police Chaplain Rabbi Abe Friedman, Bergen
County Executive Jim Tedesco, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton,
Bergen County Sheriff’s Office Chaplain Rabbi Joel Friedman, and Rabbi
Mendy Kaminker from Chabad of Hackensack.
Passover
Courtesy TBS
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BCHSJS students aim higher NCJW members join shul
for special Shabbat service
For the last 19 years the Bergen County class, “Judaism in the Modern World,”
High School of Jewish Studies, work- was led by BCHSJS faculty member Members of the Bergen County sec- on March 22. After a dinner, they par-
ing with Fairleigh Dickinson Univer- Dr. Daniel Rynhold, pictured teaching tion of the National Council of Jewish ticipated in a unique Shabbat musical
sity, has offered a college credit class outdoors. Dr. Rynhold will be honored Women and Temple Emeth congre- service led by Rabbi Steven Sirbu and
for juniors and seniors. The credits as Educator of the Year at this year’s gants participated in a special Council Cantor Ellen Tilem in the sanctuary.
transfer to most colleges. This year’s BCHSJS annual gala dinner. Shabbat evening at the Teaneck shul
Remembering
Henrietta Szold
Last week, the Paramus-Bat Sheva Chana Yahalom,
Players performed an original skit, left, Janie Horowitz,
“What’s Best for Henrietta?,” at the Miriam Aron, Paula
chapter’s general membership meet- Gellis, Martha
ing. The show is about what might Shemin, and Sharon
have happened if Henrietta Szold Gross perform in
lived in the time of dating apps and “What’s Best for
social media. The original script was Henrietta.”
written by chapter members Miriam PHOTO PROVIDED
Aron and Debra Mazon.
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BARBARA BALKIN
Richard Polton
New Jersey. tours of the historic Pater-
Richard Polton, a Paterson-born his- son neighborhoods several times a year.
torian, is a six-year president of the Jew- Darren Boch, the superintendent of
ish Historical Society of North Jersey, a the Great Falls National Historic Park,
fundraiser, and a donor. He is also a local said, “Richard has been a key person
history enthusiast, author, and lecturer, on the team between the National Park Celebrating Morah Dora
particularly about Jewish, Paterson, and Service, the architects, and the Hamilton Temple Emeth of Teaneck marked Dora Geld Friedman’s 18th anniversary as its
New Jersey industrial, urban and archi- Partnership for Paterson, to help envi- director of education last month. Congregants of all ages attended the event hon-
tectural history. sion a new visitor center at the park.” oring Morah Dora, as she is affectionately known. Mrs. Friedman, above, was
The Paterson Museum’s director, Jack Mr. Polton is a trustee of the nonprofit surrounded by family at the celebration.
DeStefano, describes Mr. Polton as “A and is part of a team dedicated to maxi-
gentleman scholar in pursuit of truth mize the public benefits of the new Pat-
and promotion of his hometown whose erson Great Falls National Historic Park.
mission is to educate and provide peo-
ple with another reason to proud to say
Ina Cohen Harris, a JHSNJ board mem-
ber and city history expert, knew the
THE GROSS CENTER FOR
that they come from Paterson.”
“He is a renaissance man,” Joy S. Kur-
Polton family from the Paterson neigh-
borhood. She said that Richard’s father, HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE STUDIES
SPRING 2019 PROGRAM
land, JHSNJ’s executive director, said. “He Harold, and, years later, Richard, both
loves so many things. I witnessed his pre- were president of the Hebrew Free Loan
sentation about Fred Wesley Wentworth Association.
and was amazed at how he weaved civic, Mr. Polton was a board member of the
Judaic, architectural, and popular history New Jersey Council on the Humanities THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 12 P.M.
into a wonderful story.” and was appointed to the New Jersey Flight from German Oppression:
Mr. Polton wrote “The Life and Times Panel of the Regional Planning Associa- Lodz, Arkhangelsk, Teheran, Tel-Aviv, & Paterson
of Fred Wesley Wentworth: The Architect tion. He is active in the Montclair com-
Who Shaped Paterson, NJ and Its People” munity, where he sat on the boards of
(2012, distributed by Rutgers University many community organizations and was
Press). Wentworth designed the iconic treasurer of B’nai Keshet Synagogue.
art-deco Temple Emanuel and the Fabian Richard Polton and his wife, Bobbie,
Theater. In partnership with a Jewish live in Glen Ridge. He has three daughters,
entrepreneur, Jacob Fabian, he designed Maya, Madeline, and Rachael; two sons-
local homes and buildings, among them in-law, Eric and Paul, and four grandchil- Victor Borden, M.D.
recognized landmarks in Paterson and dren, Jake, Henry, Sadie, and Emma. Ramapo College, H-Wing Auditorium (H 129)
the Atwood-Blauvelt mansion in Oradell. For tickets, call (201) 300-6590 or go
Mr. Polton’s parents were educated jhsnj.wordpress.com. WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 7 P.M.
A Commemorative Concert:
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
The Adult Choir of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom
Paramus Relay for Life Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom (280 Ramapo Valley Rd., Mahwah, NJ 07430)
Paramus will hold its seventh annual posters for each of the survivors and will WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 9 A.M-3 P.M.
American Cancer Society Relay for Life be cheering them as they walk. Activi-
Gumpert Teachers Workshop Ethnic Cleansing:
— a celebration of the yearlong effort to ties, games, prizes, music, and food all
When does it Become Genocide?
raise funds for the nonprofit organiza- are part of the fun of Paramus Relay.
In cooperation with and supported by the N.J. State Commission on Holocaust Education
tion — on the weekend of June 14 and Online registration is available until
Ramapo College, Trustees Pavilion (PAV1-3)
15 at Paramus High School. An open- June 13 and there is onsite registration
ing ceremony will feature Paramus Boy as well. For information, go to RelayFor- For Information and to request For more to come
Scouts presenting the colors, followed Life.org/ParamusNJ, or call the Ameri- disability-related accommodations
and to check on updates:
please contact: holgen@ramapo.edu or
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How I almost
ruined my first
Passover seder
S
Brian D. Johnson cups of Manischewitz Extra Heavy Malaga.
Now, about the wine.
omewhere, there’s a photograph. I was following the uncle’s lead. And when the Haggadah said
My future father-in-law is sitting at the head to drink the cup of wine, he drank a full cup of wine.
of the table. My future mother-in-law is sitting I noticed that my fiancée was only sipping her wine, but I
to his left and I’m sitting on his right, wearing figured that this was one of those male/female things in Juda-
a suit, tie, and kippah. My stunningly beautiful ism that I had heard about and seen with my own eyes in Bor-
fiancée is next to me, and then there are three ough Park and Crown Heights. The Malaga went down nice
grandparents, one uncle, and two next-door and smooth.
neighbors. The photo is about 30 years old, Then came the dinner. My mother-in-law had prepared a
and six of the 10 people seated at the table now are dead. sumptuous four- or five-course spread. I even enjoyed the tzim-
It was my first Passover, and I very nearly screwed it up. mes. The gefilte fish was trickier, but with an ample application
My fiancée and I had been engaged for just a few months, and of maror, it was OK.
I was slowly being accepted into her family after a very rocky My father-in-law, who was becoming a wine connoisseur, had
introduction as the goy who wanted to marry their first-born found some kosher-for-Passover wine that was decidedly better
daughter. It had taken Henry Kissinger-level diplomatic skills than the Malaga we had consumed before dinner. There were
for me to end up seated next to my future father-in- three different types of wine, and at his insistence, I had a full
law. There had been a very real possibility that my glass of all three types with the festive meal.
in-laws would sit shiva for their wayward daugh- I wasn’t exactly a lightweight. As a graduate of both public and
ter instead. It may not have been peace in the Ivy League universities, I had completed all my coursework in
Middle East, but there was definitely a truce inebriation, and by the end of the meal, I had that certain feeling
between a large Brooklyn Jewish family and this that I had had enough for the evening, and that any more might
Arkansas boy. prove to be an embarrassment. I certainly was glad that I wasn’t
I felt that all eyes were on me because this was the one driving home.
my first seder — and it was a seder under very difficult After dinner, we had scattered to the couches and Eames
circumstances. I decided to adopt a role model during chairs in the living room, and I started checking my watch. I had
the seder, someone to follow move for move, and I a sense of victory — not only had I made it through the seder, but
decided to select my future uncle-in-law. I had passed with flying colors. I found the afikomen and ran-
I knew that he was more religiously observant than somed it for Yiddishkeit lessons from my father-in-law. I opened
my fiancée’s dad, and because he was almost my mouth when I was supposed to and kept it shut otherwise.
directly opposite me, I would need only to All was well indeed.
glance up at him to learn the moves. It Until my future father-in-law announced: “OK everybody, time
seemed like a good choice at the time. for the second half of the seder,” and the Haggadot were redis-
I made it through the first couple of tributed around the table.
hours OK. I didn’t have any trouble with Wait — what? There’s more?
the English passages my father-in-law All I was fit for was to pay my hosts a “zeisen Pesach” and enjoy
assigned me, though the names of the the view from the Verrazzano Bridge on my way back home.
rabbis got stuck in my mouth. I made it Second half? No, this must be a joke.
through the egg, the hand washings, the But it was worse than I had feared. A fresh bottle of Malaga
four sons, the 10 plagues, the parsley dipped was set on the table, and I learned that there were two more
in salt water, the Hillel sandwich, and the three glasses of wine to drink. Under slightly different circumstances,
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the musical cue for that moment would of wine bowed his posture but didn’t
have been, “One Toke Over the Line.” seem to slow him down at all. Clearly, I
But it was even worse than that. At was the novice in so many ways. Max the Matzah
the close of the service, we had to sing There have been decades of Passover Courtesy of the JCK
songs, including “Who Knows One?” seders since then, and I’ve led a few
and “Had Gadya.” myself. But the first one was the most
You’ve got to be kidding me, right? fraught with opportunities to screw up.
After seven glasses of wine, I was barely This year, I’ll be leading my syna-
fit to sing “Row, row, row your boat,” gogue’s community seder, and I want
much less two songs with about 13 verses to emphasize love. We spill the wine
each. And here I am trying to keep up when we recite the plagues out of sor-
in transliteration and understand the
English at the same time! I almost cried.
row: Though it may have been neces-
sary for our redemption, we need to feel Meet Holland’s
But my suffering was far from over.
The dinner dishes and glasses had to
be washed, and as I was the one trying
sorrow that the Egyptians had to suffer
through the plagues. There is no joy in
their plight.
favorite matzah, Max
to brown-nose my way into the family, Since that first seder, I have become Cnaan liphshiz the manager of the Jewish children’s
I was committed to helping my future a Jew. It took a while for me to commit museum, which is the only one of its
mother-in-law wash and put away the my Christian apostasy, but I did it, and aMsterDaM — Anywhere else in kind in Europe.
fleishig Passover china. I was the unof- that freed me to make what was a better Europe, a muscular cartoon character Since then, the museum has made
ficial Shabbos goy while she smoked choice for me. In some of our ancient named Max the Matzah would have Max into thousands of puppets. He
Benson & Hedges, drank the leftover texts, it is debated whether humans are amounted to little more than an inside stars and acts as a guide in the animated
wine out of the glasses, and told me all higher or lower than animals. One line of Jewish joke. films accompanying the displays at the
the bad things about her daughter she thought is that we’re lower than animals But in the Netherlands, where children’s museum, which receives
thought I should know. because animals can’t sin and humans matzah is a household item year- about 20,000 visitors each year.
I remember feeling that I was the not only sin, we choose to sin. round for many non-Jews, Max He has been featured on taxicabs as
victim of an immense practical joke. I Well, we can also make good choices, became an unlikely hit with the gen- part of the museum’s advertising cam-
thought about how some families would too. For me, one good choice was to give eral population. Since his creation paign and on tens of thousands of boxes
be doing this same ritual tomorrow up drinking altogether. There are other about 15 years ago as the unofficial of Hollandia, the matzah factory in the
night, and my mind quailed at the idea. good choices, such as unshackling our- mascot of the Children’s Museum of the eastern Dutch city of Enschede. (It
This was one of those many moments selves from what’s holding us back from Amsterdam’s Jewish Cultural Quarter, is largely thanks to that factory, which
during my journey to Judaism where I embracing mitzvot, the greatest gift Max has proven popular beyond the used to be owned by Jews, that matzah
thought, “I have no idea what I’m getting Hashem has given us. country’s 40,000 Jews. became so popular here.)
into and I am completely unprepared.” At the seder, we are reminded that we Max is a frog-eyed figure whose head, In 2010, Max received his own
Christmas dinner? Amateur hour, have been given freedom. Let’s make the rising straight from the waist of a pair comic book, published by the museum
dear. It’s the eight-hour seder that tests most of it. Jewish telegraphiC agenCy
of green trousers, is a round matzah. and now available in children’s librar-
the mettle of family love. His beefy bear arms wouldn’t look out ies across the country.
As for my future uncle-in-law, he had Brian D. Johnson is a writer in of place on a Marvel superhero. In 2017, on the 10th anniversary of
been training for the Passover seder his Madison, Wisconsin, and a member of He was born in the early 2000s as the children’s museum, Max made
entire life. The seven — or more — glasses Congregation Shaarei Shamayim. a drawing designed by the Israeli art- appearances with the Netherlands’
ist Ram Katzir and Petra Katzenstein, best-known children’s television show
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host, Siemon de Jong. The museum also made a character is an attempt to approach the vulnera-
Max rap video that year, cementing the cartoon’s bility of Jews throughout the ages as well as their
status as Dutch Jewry’s undisputed ambassador determination, though Zionism, to limit it by
to children. returning to their ancestral home.
Max would not have resonated with large num- “He’s brittle and vulnerable on the one hand,
bers of children anywhere else in Europe, accord- but strong and robust on the other,” Katzenstein
ing to Katzenstein. said.
“If you don’t know what a matzah is, then you In one of the rap songs composed for Max,
just don’t get it,” she said. In the Netherlands, he sings: “Don’t want to end up in chunks, I got
however, “on Easter, everyone eats matzah, boxing trunks, I added some kicks and I’m now
even though they don’t really know what matzah good and fit.”
means for us Jews.” The boxing reference is no coincidence.
Katzenstein said this makes matzah — and Max Before the Holocaust, Jews like Max Baer, Dan-
— a good place to start teaching about the Jewish iel Mendoza, and Samuel Elias were among the
Courtesy of JCK
tradition and history. sport’s star athletes in Europe.
That is why Max has an elaborate backstory. The Dutch author Piet Mooren, in his 2002
He lives in a dollhouse in the attic of a Dutch book “The Narrow Margins of the Multicultural
Jewish family called the Hollanders with other Society,” wrote that Max the Matzah reminded
members of his multicultural family of pastries, A Max the Matzah relaxes at a park in Amsterdam. him specifically of Ben Bril, a Dutch Jewish box-
including one chocolate chip variety. Max is ing champion who survived the Holocaust.
related to Benny the Bagel, Ayalah the Challah, Not surprisingly, Max is a smashing success with “This modern-day David underwent a multi-
and Gita the Pita, among others. Jewish families here, many of which have the puppets cultural transformation in the prominent comic book
The family’s story, told in animated videos at the at home. Max features annually in the Passover display figure Max the Matzah,” Mooren wrote.
museum, “actually tells the story of the Jewish dias- of this city’s main Jewish kindergarten, Simcha. Max’s many layers — metaphorically speaking —
pora,” Katzenstein said. The parents there appreciate how Max’s own have led to fans far beyond the Jewish community
AN EVENING OF COMEDY
AND CONVERSATION WITH
Sandra
Bernhard SUN, MAY 5, 4 PM
Performer, actress, singer and author, and star of the Gracie
Award winning daily radio show Sandyland, and series regular
Nurse Judy Katz on FX’s Pose.
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Cnaan Liphshiz
deep,” de Jong said. dam, “Dutch non-Jewish children
In one episode, de Jong hosted an no longer can visit the homes of Jew-
Arab child who declined to eat from the ish ones,” Katzenstein said. “This is
challah they just baked because “that’s part of the reason we designed the
how the Jews poisoned Arafat,” de Jong Petra Katzenstein holds a Max the Matzah puppet near the dollhouse of children’s museum to resemble a
recalled. Amsterdam’s Jewish children’s museum. Jewish home, so it would serve that
“It showed me that there is a lot of purpose.”
work that needs to be done,” he said. museum she now runs. But, she added, “we needed to
Katzenstein said an equally shocking conver- She was working at the time as a guide in the main find a host. And I think Max does a great job.”
sation with a child prompted her to create the Jewish museum, which is now one of five adjacent Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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place at home creates a market for Haggadahs
rom graphic novel Haggadahs to tailored to each family’s needs or interests. In
a Donald Trump-themed one, if contrast, prayer books are often standardized
you’re looking for a certain kind of by denominations or geographic location, said
guide to the Passover seder, chances Jacob Wisse, the director of the Yeshiva Univer-
h history
are it’s out there. sity Museum at the Center for Jewish History.
Recent years have seen a proliferation of “The intimacy of the context — in other
political, environmental, family-friendly, or words that this is a celebration that we carry
leo BaeCK institute/Center for Jewis
just plain irreverent Haggadahs, but the urge on usually in the home, not in the synagogue
to make Passover speak to contemporary — that might lend itself to a kind of broader,
times isn’t a new one. richer degree of visual adaptation,” Wisse
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency took a look said. “Communities really are charged with —
at four unique Haggadahs, from as early as they’re not merely allowed to — really seeing
1687 to as late as 1990, each of which reflects themselves in the context of this text.”
in some ways the zeitgeist of its time. The Here are four Haggadahs that show just that.
seder texts, all housed at the Center for Jew- A 17th-century printed Hagaddah was seen
ish History in Manhattan, feature production as modern in its time
techniques popular at the time and touch on This Haggadah was created in 1687 by the
relevant topics ranging from the Holocaust to renowned Cohen family, who at one time were
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what is now the Czech Republic. At that time, the of a series of feminist seder booklets from the 1970s and finding ways “to reflect Jewish lesbian culture positively.”
use of woodcutting, a printing technique using ‘80s, was published as the gay rights movement contin- Stein saw it not only as a Haggadah for her and her
carved wooden blocks, was a popular way to pro- ued to gain steam but LGBTQ people still faced barriers friends but also as “a base for the evolution of Haggadot
duce Haggadahs. Black-and-white images show rich in society, including in the Jewish community. which fully incorporate Jewish lesbian sensibilities.”
details and the space alongside the text is decorated In the introduction, author Judith Stein greats readers “I think it’s interesting that here you have an especially
with flower-like symbols. with “Shalom Chaverot!” using the female plural form of personal reflection because it’s written by one person,
“We now take for granted of course how things the Hebrew word for friends. Stein writes that she seeks but also again channeling with respect towards tradition
are prominently illustrated and it’s the easiest thing a balance between preserving the traditional order of the but updating it within this new context,” Wisse said.
to integrate imagery and text,” Wisse said. But the seder and adapting it to values that fit her community, A Haggadah celebrates the Soviet Jewry movement
invention of modern printing “was fairly recent in such as by getting rid of language she viewed as sexist and This seder guide was created in 1990, when nearly
terms of relative history, so a decorative Haggadah
like this, with woodcut borders on the title page
and surrounding text on other pages with woodcut
illustrations, would’ve been experienced as a spe-
cial thing to have.”
The Haggadah later belonged to the family of Bar-Ilan University
Rabbi Heinrich Lemle, a Frankfurt-based rabbi who
fled with his family to Rio de Janeiro in 1941. There
Lemle went on to found a liberal Jewish commu-
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produce Haggadahs.
and an accomplished music therapist.
nity. The pages show wear and tear, Wisse noted,
which points to the fact that it was actually put to
use and not just displayed.
A children’s Haggadah draws parallels between
the Exodus and the Holocaust
“The Children’s Passover Haggadah,” first pub-
lished in 1945, was designed by Siegmund Forst,
a Jewish artist born and trained in Vienna. Forst
fled to the United States in 1939 but he didn’t for-
get about the fate of Europe’s Jews. In this chil-
dren’s Haggadah, Forst uses simple but powerful
black-and-white illustrations to draw parallels
between the Exodus narrative and more recent
instances of anti-Semitic persecution, most nota-
bly the Holocaust.
“This was done as one of first attempts both to
channel recent Holocaust history into the context
of a decorated Haggadah but also to present this Professor Avi Gilboa
within the context of what’s known as a children’s
Haggadah,” Wisse said.
A striking two-page spread, which reads “This
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year [we are] slaves” in English and Aramaic, shows
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Jews being whipped, beaten, and shot by a range articipation in this musical course can be a transformative experience,
the technology for remarkable robots that scour Hamas terror tunnels along the Israel-Gaza border. The
of perpetrators, starting with an Egyptian taskmas-
ter and ending with Nazis. The comparison draws promoting positive change in the participantsʼ emotional well-being and
robots gather precise intelligence and utilize explosives to topple the Hamas tunnel network --
on the Passover commandment that each person social, motor and communication skills. Just one of the many ways
should imagine him or herself as if he or she were a a high-tech solution that is keeping Israel safe and its soldiers from harm’s way.
slave in Egypt, Wisse said. Bar-Ilan University is giving back to the State of Israel.
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182,000 Soviet Jews left the country for Israel. For Freedom: A Celebration.”
decades, Soviet Jews had been wanting to leave the “There is a really celebratory aspect of this Hagga-
USSR but faced various restrictions at home. The dah to integrate the joy of the modern miracle of free
moment represented a win for activists, which is immigration of Soviet Jews within the beauty and con-
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reflected in the triumphal tone of the Haggadah, text of the Passover Seder,” Wisse said.
titled “The Exodus Haggadah, From Tyranny to But the Haggadah, which was created by the United
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Sandi M. Malkin, LL C
Interior Designer
(former interior designer of model
rooms for NY’s #1 Dept. Store)
April 3, 1930
Says Jews on Passover
Will Ask God’s Wrath
on Soviet Rather Than
on Jews’ Foes
Jews throughout the world who on the eve of
Passover each year call on God to “pour out thy
wrath” on the enemies of the Jews, will this year
call on Him to pour out His wrath on the Bol-
sheviks, says today’s anti-Passover editorial in
the “Emes,” Jewish Communist daily in Moscow.
“This Passover,” says the “Emes,” “will be a
continuation of the partnership between the
Catholic cross and the Jewish Torah against the
Soviet. The Pope will collect holiday charity for
Soviet Jewry, Pilsudski’s headquarters will bake
matzoth for them, while the Gerar Rebbe will
collect funds for ikons, thus internationalizing
the Jewish Passover as a united anti-Soviet front.”
Pointing out that even last year, Ameri-
can, Polish and Palestinian Jewry utilized the
THANKYOU!
Zionist Executive.
The High Commissioner of Palestine vis-
ited the Samaritans and witnessed their
Passover ceremony of sacrificing a lamb on
Mount Gerisim, in accordance with the Bible.
The Samaritan High Priest offered a special
Thank you to everyone who joined us and supported prayer. The High Commissioner was asked
Project S.A.R.A.H. at our 13th Annual Breakfast! by the Samaritans for government assistance
to build a Samaritan Synagogue.
Over 450 members of the community came out to show every victim of abuse: All the stores in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
were overcrowded with Jews doing their
“YOU ARE NOT ALONE!” Passover shopping.
Your support enables us to redouble our effort to provide abuse prevention March 28, 1945
programming as we work together to create a safer community. U.S. Jewish Servicemen
to Mark Passover
Thank you to our honorees:
Tonight from
DR. EPHRAIM & DR. CHAVA CASPER Germany to Iwo Jima
RABBI MENACHEM & MRS. SARAH GENACK America’s fourth war-time Passover will be
observed beginning tomorrow evening in
MRS. MANDY RICHMAN German towns which have not heard the
and keynote speaker, SARANNE ROTHBERG sound of Jewish prayers in over a decade,
on volcanic Pacific islands that never saw
a Jew until last month and in thousands of
homes where an empty chair at the seder
table will serve as a proxy for a fighting man
or woman engaged in more pressing busi-
ness in Europe or Asia.
So that American servicemen and women
may be assured of participating in tradi-
tional Passover observance if they so desire,
the National Jewish Welfare Board has sent
350,000 boxes of matzohs, 5,000 gallons of
sacramental wine and 115,000 Haggadahs to
virtually every corner of the world. Jewish
chaplains who landed on Iwo Jima with the
Marines carried with them ritual supplies
and Passover food. In Germany, Jewish chap-
lains have already made all arrangements
for the seders, as have chaplains in France,
Belgium and Holland. Religious soldiers
have been sent kosher food packages by the
Agudas Israel Youth Council of America.
WWW.PROJECTSARAH.ORG These went to overseas posts and to camps
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were not possible, funds have been allotted for
the purchase and baking of Passover foods.
Refugees residing in Latin-American countries
have also received supplies.
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will be urged to contribute to the $35,300,000
goal which the UPA seeks to raise in the United
States during 1945. The Jewish National Fund,
in a Passover appeal to its councils through-
out the nation, urged the cooperation of
American Jewry in the JKF’s land acquisition
program and appealed to the leaders of the
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A Passover gift of $300,000 was cabled
today by Hadassah to the Jewish Agency for
Palestine to provide for the maintenance
and education of 1,138 Jewish refugee chil-
dren who arrived in Palestine within the last
four months, and who are being settled there
under the auspices of the youth Aliyah.
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dence” and that “the events of the past year
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Passover is not far distant. The armies Africa, the Near East, and Shanghai. our power to bring about a positive solu- liberated Jews in Palestine. “Celebrat-
of liberation are on the march. The More than 1,600,000 of this total tion of the problems which face you.” ing Passover, the first festival of free-
tyrants of our own time will be hum- was shipped directly from the United Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, president dom in recorded history, American
bled as was Pharaoh of old and man- States, and the remainder was pur- of the Zionist Organization of Amer- Jews must rededicate themselves” to
kind will be freed from the fear of chased with American funds. ica, has issued a Passover message this task, he declared.
future aggression.” American serviceman will observe to American Jewry saying: “Not for
traditional Passover services and decades has the great commemoration April 2, 1950
April 15, 1946 will be provided with Passover food of our escape from the house of bond-
due to efforts by the Jewish Welfare age in Mizrayim been so profound a
35,000 Displaced
Jews Throughout Board. The organization prepared and personal experience of every true Jew Jews to Celebrate
World Mark shipped cases of Passover food, hag- still alive in the world as in this year.”
Their First
gadist, greeting cards, leaflets, and The Synagogue Council of America
Passover Tonight; recorded greetings, which will be dis- in a Passover message emphasized that Passover in U.S.;
Many Celebrating for tributed by Army and Navy chaplains “this year we have good reason to be Many Public Seders
First Time in Decade and by J.W.B. field representatives. In thankful for the victory of the Allies
Thirty-five thousand former Jewish
addition to matzohs and wine the ser- over the Nazi beast who defied human
Passover will be ushered in tomorrow displaced persons will start celebrat-
vicemen will receive canned gefilte decency, challenged the laws of God
night by millions of Jews throughout ing their first Passover in the United
fish, canned chicken, matzoh meal, and men, and endeavored to revive the
the world, including tens of thousands States Saturday evening while in Israel
salami, cheese, borscht, potato pan- most degrading practices of savagery
of refugees and DP’s for whom this scores of thousands of newly-arrived
cake flour, and macaroons. and paganism.”
will be the first Passover celebration in immigrants from all parts of the world
In a special Passover message to American participation in the Jew-
over a decade. will usher in the Feast of Liberation,
the Jews in DP camps in Germany and ish National Fund, which is expected
The Joint Distribution Committee secure in the knowledge that the
Austria, which will be broadcast tomor- to amount to $24,000,000 in invest-
has announced that over 2,000,000 ancient dream — recited at the con-
row morning, Dr. Israel Goldstein, in ments in Palestine lands this year, was
pounds of Passover supplies have clusion of the Seder service — of “Next
behalf of the American Jewish Confer- stressed by Judge Morris Rothenberg,
already been distributed to refugee Year in Jerusalem,” has after 2,000
ence, will pledge the determination of president of the J.N.F. in America, as an
and displaced Jews in Europe, North years been fulfilled.
American Jewry “to do everything in important factor in resettling Europe’s
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synagogues in this country.
Passover messages to the community were
also issued by Jacob Blaustein, president of
the American Jewish Committee; Benjamin G.
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sedorim in kibbutzim, moshavim and other
settlements throughout the country.
More than 500 persons attended sedorim
conducted at the Zionist Organization of
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services there, special blessings were recited
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All of Israel’s army and other military instal-
lations conducted sedorim for personnel in the
armed services. Field kitchens had been made
kosher for Passover under the supervision of
THURS, MAY 2 • TIME: 6PM chaplains. A special Haggadah had been pre-
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special versions of the Passover narrative
employed by various Jewish communities.
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Israel did not forget those citizens who are
on duty atop Mount Scopus, an Israeli enclave
inside Jordanian jurisdiction. A special con-
voy had been sent up to the mountain, car-
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A rabbi accompanied the convoy, so that he
WED., MAY 8TH • 7PM WED., JUNE 5TH • 7PM could preside at the seder on Mt. Scopus.
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which are forbidden for consumption accord- of the text may not mean this, nevertheless our
ing to kosher dietary law.” sages used these verses as a support to forbid a assover, a holiday traditionally
The person making that statement, either person anything that brings him to any danger.” celebrated in homes, is an incred-
ignoring halacha on the subject of a vaccine’s (See his Levush Malchut, Yoreh Deah 116.) ible opportunity to engage all
kosher status or deliberately misstating it, is a The late 19th-century authority Rabbi Sam- generations.
contributing editor to a charedi-targeted anti- son Raphael Hirsch was more expansive. The storytelling component and the loca-
vax publication. For the record, the medical “God’s word calls to us: ‘Do not commit suicide!’ tion allows for experiential education to blos-
use of substances forbidden for eating undergo ‘Do not injure yourself…!’ ‘Preserve yourself…!’ som. Passover brings Judaism to the home,
many changes in their nature before becom- Therefore you should avoid everything which where many participants feel very comfort-
ing part of a vaccine, and so lose their original might possibly impair your health... And the able. Parents often decide to which audience
identity in the eyes of Jewish law. In any case, law asks you to be even more circumspect in they will tailor their Passover seder. They are Rabbi
being injected with a substance is not consid- avoiding danger to life and limb than in the forced to choose whether to read the Hagga- Ariel Russo
ered ingesting that substance. For that reason, avoidance of other transgressions. dah from cover to cover or to start at 5 p.m.
IV nutrition drips on Yom Kippur are permitted (See Chapters 62:427-428 in his voluminous with kids’ songs. The nostalgia of reading the
by many authorities for seriously ill patients, commentary Horeb.) Maxwell House Haggadah in its entirety with different versions around
while caffeine addicts in Williamsburg and else- There are other verses the authorities rely on, the table may seem counterintuitive when combined with Passover songs
where have relied on caffeine-laden supposito- as well. Deuteronomy 7:15, for example, states, sung to the tunes of music from “Frozen.” Early bedtimes, limited atten-
ries to get them through their fasts. “The Lord will ward off from you all sickness.” A tion spans, and teenagers who would rather be somewhere else all can
There also is this claim now circulating in midrash quotes the sage Rabbi Acha as saying put restraints on the seder.
the charedi communities: “Childhood dis- that it “depends on man himself that diseases It is not easy to create a seder that will appeal to seder-goers of all ages,
eases, like measles and chickenpox … are should not come upon him.” He based that on yet with a few thoughtful additions, it is possible. The Haggadah teaches
not a legitimate public health menace….” the words “from you.” Said he, “What is the us, “In every generation, one is obligated to see oneself as one who per-
The 72 deaths in Europe in 2018, and the up proof? [The verse] means it is from you [mean- sonally went out from Egypt. Just as it says in the Torah: ‘You shall tell
to 500 deaths in the United States annually ing it is dependent on you] that disease should your child on that very day: This is done because of that which the Lord
before MMR came along in 1963, testify to not come upon you.” In the ensuing discussion, did for me when I went out of Egypt.’” (Exodus 13:8)
the absurdity of that claim. we are told that “Rabbi Sh’muel bar Nachman How do we balance telling the stories, with all of their mathematical
To be clear, Orthodox authorities of all said in the name of Rabbi Natan: ‘Ninety-nine equations and details, while also engaging our kids? We want our kids to
stripes are horrified at what is going on in die of heat to one by the hand of heaven.’ The have fond memories of real seders while also acknowledging that every-
the charedi communities. They are working Sages said: ‘Ninety-nine die through [their one — including kids — learns differently. By engaging multiple intelli-
overtime to dispel the anti-vax propaganda, own] neglect to one [who dies] by the hand of gences, the seder is a wonderful opportunity for intergenerational learn-
especially on religious grounds. “[I]nfecting heaven.” (See Leviticus Rabbah 16:8.) ing. Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences asserts that people
other people is totally unacceptable,” said Beginning with the Torah, as well, it is clear learn through different modalities, such as music, visual-linguistic, bodi-
Rabbi David Niederman, a Satmar chasid that we have just as much responsibility to pro- ly-kinesthetic, inter- and intrapersonal, and so on.
who is president and executive director of tect the health of others, which also means we Creating an experience at home where all participants can learn and
the United Jewish Organizations of Williams- cannot subject others to possible contagion. have fun makes Passover so special. With the recognition that your seder
burg and North Brooklyn. We saw this explicitly in the Torah portions is likely to be starting in a few hours, here are a few ideas that you can
There are many religious grounds to choose we read over the last two weeks, Tazria and add at the last minute to be mindful of a traditional seder with children:
from. Above all others is Genesis 1:26-27, which M’tzora. A person with a potentially infectious 1. Games. There are so many creative games that you can use to keep
says that humankind was created in God’s ailment must be separated from the commu- young participants busy and engaged. Bingo is a prime example. The chil-
image, thus putting on us the obligation to pro- nity — not for that person’s sake, but for the dren listen to the words of the seder because they have a task — to hear
tect that image. The midrash tells us of the sage community’s. (See Leviticus 13:2-4 and suc- words for the Bingo board. Empowering people with tasks and providing
Hillel the Elder. When he “finished with his stu- ceeding texts.) It follows that a person may not a focus is a fun way to encourage active listening. Bring out some Legos,
dents {for the day], he would walk with them. knowingly risk getting a potentially infectious and suddenly you have a visual image of a pyramid or the parting of the
They asked him, ‘Our teacher, where are you disease which would then spread to others. It Red Sea. Asking kids to build scenes with Legos or Tinkertoys or Lincoln
going?’ ‘To fulfill a mitzvah,’ he said to them. also follows that a person may not mislead oth- Logs sparks their imagination and as a visual aid helps them to reimagine
‘And what is this mitzvah?’ they asked. Said ers into avoiding being protected from those the scene.
he to them, ‘To bathe in the bathhouse.’ ‘But infectious diseases. For that, we also have Keeping little fingers busy, like fidget toys, can actually help to keep kids
is this really a mitzvah?’ they asked. ‘Yes,’ he Leviticus 19:14’s admonition not to put “a stum- focused. Games, puzzles, and scavenger hunts are multisensory activities
said to them: ‘It is just like the icons [images] bling block before the blind.” that can complement the traditional reading of the Haggadot. You can
of kings that are found in theaters and circuses. God Himself made clear that He gave per- download Bingo boards from the internet or dig out a Lego set and sud-
The person responsible for [caring for] them mission to physicians to heal, based on Exo- denly the traditional seder becomes more accessible to young participants.
must [constantly] wash them thoroughly…. dus 21:19, which states that if a person injures See Children page 72
How much more so must I [bathe], who was another “he must pay for his…cure.” (See the
created in God’s image?’” (See Leviticus Rab- Babylonian Talmud tractate B’rachot 60a.) Ariel Russo, the rabbi of CSI Nyack, was educated by the Jewish
bah 34:3.) Standing in the way of physicians doing that is Theological Seminary of America and inspired by Camp Ramah. In her
Rabbinic authorities from the Talmud on thus another violation of Jewish law. spare time she wrangles her kids into car seats and explores the lower
also have focused on a statement in Deuteron- Beginning tonight, we mark the Exodus Hudson region with her husband.
omy 4:15: “For your own sake, therefore, be from Egypt. As the Torah makes clear over
most careful.” Based on that, Maimonides, the and again, because “I, the Lord, am your God
Rambam, ruled in his Mishneh Torah, the Laws who brought you out of the land of Egypt,” the The opinions expressed here are those of the authors,
of Personal Development (4:1), that “maintain- Exodus is meaningless without the ethical and not necessarily those of the newspaper’s editors, publishers, or other staffers.
ing a healthy and sound body is among the moral laws that are based on it. We welcome letters to the editor. Send them to jstandardletters@gmail.com.
ways of God.” A chag kasher v’sameach to all.
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ith Pesach upon us, the Jewish commu- But freedom on the individual level an almost literally big tent of tangen-
nity is focused on our national journey is not the end of freedoms value embed- tially Jewish organizations continue to
out of bondage to freedom. ded in Pesach. Rather, we can also see the attempt to hijack the holiday for their
This is a special holiday, not just idea of the freedom for the Jewish people own ends. Glomming their momentary
because we recline, not only because it signifies the — national self-freedom or self-determi- cause célèbre on, like a bad skin graft,
birth of the people of Israel as a nation, and not just nation. It was not just the Jewish slaves as most have been purely superficially con-
because (rare amongst the world) we claim our ances- individuals who were being persecuted nected to the holiday. Unlike one of the
try not from gods or rulers but from slaves. Though all that Moses was fighting for; he also was few great exceptions, the deep connec-
those reasons are important and symbolic in and of advocating for them as a national collective tion of Pesach and the movement to free
themselves, Pesach is special also because unlike other with a different language, culture, and reli- Joshua Soviet Jewry (who were being denied the
holidays there is a ritual obligation to ensure the next gion than the nation keeping them captive. Einstein individual freedom to practice Judaism,
generation is imbued with a sense and knowledge of On a deeper level, the story of Pesach their collective national identity, and
the history of the holiday. reminds us of the values not only of free- often their very lives), most of the large
Pesach both is and is more than our national struggle dom (both individual and national), but also of life. Pha- pile of passing niche issue Haggadahs are forgotten
out of slavery. At the heart of Pesach also is the trans- raoh tried to eliminate the Jewish people by ruling that each subsequent Pesach.
mission of that very story. It is important because it is all Jewish male babies be murdered. Yet, as Pharaoh’s What remains every Pesach are the values we must
about communicating our identity and values to those daughter and family knew, there was no reason a ran- pass down to each coming generation, that after suf-
who will continue the Jewish story. This demands that dom male baby would be abandoned in a basket in the fering in exile under the hard bondage of slavery we
we ask the next question. What are those values? river if the child were not Jewish. Life, when given half a underwent an amazing exodus out of Egypt in which
On the surface level we can easily gleam the idea that chance, often finds a way. we chose life, freedom, and national redemption. This
freedom is a principle value of Pesach. On the personal Moreover, Moses’s mother, Yoheved, made the choice year in exile, next year as free men!
level and in Judaism in general, free will and our innate not to take part in approving the the murder of her baby,
freedom to choose the right (or wrong) way and to live even passively. Instead, she sought a way to try to offer Joshua Einstein is a founding member of the Hudson
with the results or consequences is emphasized heavily. her baby a better life by floating him down the Nile in County Regional Jewish Council, an elected member
Our actions determine who we are, they are reflected an attempt to get an Egyptian family to adopt him. She of the New Jersey Republican State Committee, sits
in what (fleeting) memory we leave behind, and in the chose life. on the executive board of the New Jersey State Young
religious sense they impact our place in Olam haBa (the Befitting Pesach’s level of importance to Jewish Republicans, and has been published in more than 14
world to come). national identity and our national creation narrative, newspapers and websites on Jewish and political topics.
S
“ he’s surprisingly good with numbers.” choreographed MadLibs story. Probably On the eve of Passover, I am thinking
“She’s actually very well-spoken.” more than I want to admit. about the idea of doing things differ-
“She’s new, but we can teach her.” After a recent letter I wrote about the ently, and not just for a night or a week
These are just some of the seemingly Englewood budget, I started hearing the — but forever. I am learning about my
harmless but incredibly undermining phrases that I same trope coming from a select few own biases, and trying hard to catch
have heard throughout my life — always about women, about me. “She doesn’t understand bud- myself before I use them to discredit
and always with that one word that flips a seemingly gets,” they said. Or, even better was “she’s someone else unintentionally.
harmless statement on its head to make it incredibly just not understanding the numbers In the world of politics, when people
damaging. behind this.” This was particularly com- have lived in and loved in a city for 40,
I have thick skin, and while I often am quick to form ical coming from men who have never Cheryl 50, or 60-plus years, they inevitably
an opinion, I love to be challenged, questioned, and managed a multimillion-dollar organiza- Weiner have attached an unbelievable amount
pushed to think through an issue from a different per- tion or spent more than a few minutes Rosenberg of baggage to issues, to people (and peo-
spective. I appreciate when others are able to have an studying a municipal budget. However, ples), and even to places. If we want to
honest debate on a sticky issue and either agree to dis- even if these men had been experienced move forward, sometimes we need to
agree, or change my mind, or change theirs. I am heart- financial professionals, the message was clear — they check that baggage at the door while we sort out solu-
ened when I see brilliant minds and passionate souls lacked the sophistication to address or challenge the tions that bring people together.
debating a subject on social media, challenging the very issues at hand, so instead they stooped to the level of Sure, the suitcase will be unpacked eventually, with
core of each other’s assumptions, yet never stooping to seeding doubt in my abilities while avoiding having to all of the painful and charged accessories to which we
name-calling or dismissal of each other. engage meaningfully with the issue at all. are sometimes too attached, but if we cling too tightly
Many people have written about the decline of this Underscoring the words is the subtle but present to our comfort zone right from the start of a conver-
kind of honest debate in recent times, but I am most belief that, of course, women can’t really understand sation, we can never think freely to better the world
troubled by a different phenomenon — the subversive numbers as well as men — that’s just how we are made! for our children.
ways in which some people attempt to seed doubt Most of us have little time to pick apart seemingly
about another person’s intelligence or integrity, while innocent statements about others to evaluate bias, Cheryl Weiner Rosenberg lives in Englewood, where
never actually addressing the issue at hand. but when the narrative is purposeful and targeted at she is a council member representing Ward 1 and
Each of the statements I described above are exam- you, it’s obviously crystal clear. I have decided that a member of Kehilat Kesher Synagogue. She’s the
ples of how a simple sentence can serve to undermine I want no part in discrediting anyone else based on senior director of marketing and communications for
the person in question — while not really saying much my own rhetoric and bias — and we all have biases, Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools, the immediate
at all. I wonder how many times I have heard some- whether we know it or not — because it’s cheap and past president of Ben Porat Yosef in Paramus, and
one say something like this and filled in the blanks unsophisticated and doesn’t ever actually solve the a long-time activist in the areas of civil liberties,
on my own to the subject’s detriment like a perfectly issues at hand. equality, and women’s rights.
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assover is often experienced as a holiday of guests at our Seders are an intrusion. This midrash, drawing on the Book of Exodus’s
pity — not only for our ancestors who suffered is not something to dismiss lightly, insofar description of the Israelites having many
in Egypt, but for ourselves. as every family ought to focus on quality children despite their suffering, that it was
Indeed, there is much to be concerned time alone. At the same time, part of being countless heroic Jewish wives who saved
about. What will we eat? Will we stay or go? How will we a Jew means that we ought to expand our the nation by convincing their hopeless hus-
clean? It’s easy to forget that from the Torah itself to the text sense of family to include those further bands to have children.
of the Haggadah, we know that the holiday actually is sup- from us who lack the bonds that we might The question we face is whether we are
posed to involve concern for our needy neighbors and for be privileged to enjoy. That is why, for doing enough to help promote the Jewish
the continuity of the Jewish nation as a whole. In the spirit the Torah, we cannot celebrate a holiday family. There are so many ways to help.
of the four questions, here are several thoughts concerning unless we help those who are less fortu- Rabbi There are organizations like EFRAT and In
priorities that are easy to overlook. nate to celebrate along with us. Mitchell Shifra’s Arms that assist pregnant women
First, while we plan for ourselves, do we provide for A third question concerns our attitude at Rocklin Ph.D. in crisis. There are others that help cou-
others? When we begin the recitation of the Haggadah, we the Seder: to what extent does our Passover ples struggling with infertility who cannot
declare that all who are hungry should come, eat, and cel- celebration focus on the survival of the Jew- afford treatments. Do we support them?
ebrate Passover with us. Well, what preparations have we ish people, which of course was central to the holiday in Do we try to have more children of our own? Do we adopt
made so that we don’t feel guilty reciting those words? The the first place? How does that impact what we discuss at if we are unable to? These questions may seem removed
Talmud considers charity before Passover to be even more the table? There is, after all, always a temptation to lose from the holiday, but they are central to the life of a Jew.
important than charity at other times of the year. It goes so sight of the connection we have with the living history that In 110 C.E., the Roman consul Tacitus noted with disap-
far as to say, whether literally or figuratively, that people characterizes our people. This is especially true when wait- proval that the Jews, unlike Romans, were interested in
are required to sell the clothes off their backs in order to ing for a delicious dinner! But do we pause to think about having as many children as possible. This is a phenome-
purchase four cups of wine for the seder. This is supposed the deprivation that has so often been our lot as Jews? non that has characterized the Jewish people for centu-
to emphasize that rather than focusing on our preferences, And for that matter, where do we spend Passover? Is it ries, although it is now in danger in the diaspora, with
we should be concerned with doing our part to help those a vacation for us? Or an opportunity to work hard to pre- non-Orthodox Jews in the United States having one of the
who are struggling. pare for a holiday that involves hard work? And do we feel lowest birthrates in the nation.
It’s easy to check off that box, whether with a large deprived when it comes to the lack of variety of foods? We May this Passover holiday, and our preparation for it,
donation or by providing for someone who could use our ought to — matzah is, after all, the “bread of affliction.” Is cause us to redouble our efforts as Jews to do what we can
help in a direct manner. But this leads us to a second our conversation over the course of the evening suitable for for those who are in need, for those in need of friendship,
question: what have we done for those who need friend- giving thanks for being saved from slavery? and for the Jewish people as a whole. In this manner, may
ship? Our society has become more and more isolated Finally, are we focused on the continuity of the Jewish our celebration be one of joyous song, both for our nation
over time, to the point where in the U.K. the government people? We often forget that the story of Passover began and for each one of us.
even discussed assigning a government minister the task with decisive decisions on the part of heroic Jewish women
of dealing with loneliness. who sought to perpetuate the growth of Jewish families. Rabbi Dr. Mitchell Rocklin is a postdoctoral research
Yet while everyone issues the call to strangers to come The story of the Exodus starts with Shifra and Puah, the fellow at Princeton University’s James Madison program.
and eat on the night of Passover itself, too many times we Jews’ chief midwives, disobeying a direct order from the He is also a chaplain in the Army National Guard
shirk away from inviting others into our family circles. Pharaoh and deciding to save newborn Jewish baby boys and has served as a pulpit rabbi and on the executive
We shouldn’t. It’s easy to get caught up in the allure of from death. Moses’s mother and sister, Yocheved and committee of the Rabbinical Council of America. He lives
quiet time with family, to the point where we feel that Miriam, saved him from the same end. There is even a in Teaneck with his wife and two daughters.
Letters
Chabad school requires vaccination Each medical exemption will be reviewed imme- alone — Israel. As an Israeli immigrant to the United
diately by our school nurse who works in conjunc- States, that issue is extremely important to me as well.
This is in response to the recent article that was been tion with the state, Department of Health to receive However, as an American citizen, I know that there are
published regarding Lubavitch on the Palisades Pre- an approval. many issues and problems that need to be dealt with in
school, Tenafly Chabad Academy, Gan Or Daycare and Currently, we do not have any children in our school our country — women’s rights, gun control, health care,
Camp Gan Israel (“Resistance to measles vaccine per- or camp with medical exemptions. the federal deficit, the high cost of medications, immi-
sists in the local charedi communities,” JTA, April 5). We look forward to welcoming all children to our gration, and more. Apparently, Rabbi Shmuley cares
We want to reiterate and clearly state that we are firmly school and camp in safety and good health. little if at all about these matters or Senator Booker’s
committed to our schools’ and camp policy regarding If you have any further questions or concerns, we stands on these issues.
vaccinations as listed below. will gladly address and answer them. Please feel free to Cory Booker was a classmate of one on my daughters
Safety will always be our number one concern and we call us at (201) 871-1152, ext. 500. at Northern Valley of Old Tappan High School. Besides
will do everything to protect those that come to our school Rabbi Mordechai Shain being a stellar student and an accomplished athlete, he
and camp each day, knowing they can feel safe and secure. Executive Director, Lubavitch on the Palisades was a great classmate to all. Our daughter would often
We firmly stand by our immunization policy 100 per- extol him as a friend and fellow student. She knew Cory
cent, which remains as follows: Boteach’s anger at Booker: Pure ego could become president well before the rabbi had ever
· We do not accept religious exemptions for MMR for the The term “egotist” can be defined the following ways: met him. And the fact that Senator Booker is a progres-
current 2018-2019 school year. 1. An inflated sense of one’s importance; 2. Excessive sive about so many issue that mean a lot to me is vital in
· Beginning June 24, 2019, we will not accept any reli- use of the first person singular personal pronoun; and, considering whether or not I will vote for him.
gious exemptions. We require ALL OUR STUDENTS, CAMP- 3. The practice of talking about oneself too much. Friendship with someone does not imply that both
ERS AND FACULTY to show proof of vaccination. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach fulfills each definition for people in that relationship must hold identical feelings
· According to the State of New Jersey, Department of egotist in his column about “The truth about my friend- about everything. Rejecting being someone’s friend
Health in Trenton, by law we must accept medical exemp- ship with Cory Booker” (April 12). because he or she believes in something differently
tions. A medical exemption MUST be based upon valid The rabbi uses the word “I” 16 times during his vitri- from you helps support my belief that Rabbi Shmuley
medical reasons as enumerated by the Advisory Commit- olic verbal assault against Senator Booker, making the Boteach fulfills the requirements of being an egotist.
tee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) or the American diagnosis that he is an egotist certain. Victor Borden, M.D.,
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines. Rabbi Boteach focuses on one issue and one issue Old Tappan
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When spring
has sprung
traVIS reIter
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pril is upon us and my thoughts are cur-
rently on the great outdoors.
Whether it is that first backyard bar-
becue or toiling in the garden, some-
thing about spring makes me want to be outside.
Perhaps my favorite thing about April is the
return of baseball. There may be no more authen-
tic slice of springtime than going to the ballpark.
Alexander Pope once penned “Hope springs eter-
nal in the human breast” in An Essay on Man; and
it alludes to the fact that it is human nature to seek
fresh causes of optimism.
Now, I don’t know if he was a baseball fan but
the phrase has become synonymous with opening
day in Major League Baseball. The slate of the pre-
vious season is wiped clean and fans of every team
are filled with aspirations of future success. Don’t
believe me, spend a few minutes with any Mets fan
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in late March and tell me this isn’t true.
I’ve always looked to find metaphors in the basic
to explain the bigger picture, and hope springing
eternal is a theme I’ve been pondering about for
some time. If it is in our nature to be optimistic
about the future then perhaps this is why spring-
time is so sacred in our calendar. The warming
weather, tulips popping up, the grass growing, or
the crack of ball on bat... life is starting back up all
around us.
As a physical therapist, I encounter people on
a daily basis who are seeking optimism in many
forms. Maybe their goal is to have no low back pain
or maybe it is just to climb one step. Everyone is
trying to blossom somehow.
That brings me to my point; if spring is when
g.
flowers hope to grow and the Mets hope to win the
pennant, what do you hope for this season?
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losing weight, you feel great and you cholesterol is with statin drugs. How-
dramatically improve your health. One ever, reducing the cholesterol with a
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(ACS) and the American Society for Met- trained staff and the leadership of sur-
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precipitous decline in bone density for many women. include irritability, depression and insomnia. Bioidentical words, women who take bioidentical hormones feel
Osteoporosis is painless unless a fracture results. estradiol significantly reduces the risk of disease while Pre- great while losing weight. That is awesome but from
Unfortunately, a hip fracture has a high mortality rate marin can dislodge clots in women who have plaque in my perspective, what is even better is that you will have
for women (18 percent in first year) and can be very their arteries. Despite these stark differences, many physi- greatly reduced risk of heart disease, greatly reduced
disabling for the survivor, leading to nursing home cians and even many review studies, conflate Provera and risk of a life-threatening hip fracture and reduced risk of
placement. The most common treatment for osteo- progesterone. This confusion harms women by depriving dementia. It is my hope that women take advantage of
porosis is alendronate (Fosamax). This does not help them of accurate information that would help them clearly this opportunity to feel great while losing weight and to
grow bone. Rather, it slows the decline of bone. In see the benefits of bioidentical hormones. improve their overall health!
contrast, estradiol actually helps grow bone. That With bioidentical hormone replacement, women have
is, those who take estradiol actually see their bone improved mood and sleep better. They also feel more Dr. Slaten is a wellness physician specializing in
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most effective ways to significantly reduce the risk of increased libido and improved lubrication. In other certified in advanced bioidentical hormone replacement.
hip fracture.
Dementia deprives many from enjoying life and as
it progresses, can lead to total dependency and even
death. There are no effective treatments for demen-
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vent Alzheimer’s. Estrogen prevents dementia. When
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meditation (also referred responsible for personality, self-aware-
to as mindfulness med- ness, and planning, while shrinking the
itation) is gaining pop- region associated with negative emo-
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techniques to focus the mind on a unexpectedly; changes in lifestyle or
particular thought, object, or activity. personal loss may also affect mood.
It helps train one’s attention and can Since meditation focuses on mindful-
help achieve greater mental clarity and ness — that non-judgmental acceptance
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D’var Torah
Liberating the Egypt inside our own backyard
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he man knows that his neighbor is not at “Look,” the neighbor says firmly. which The Torah: A Women’s Commen-
home. Brown towel draped over his shoul- “I hate to do this, but I have my pool tary enhances by offering, “If taken liter-
der, he enters the backyard through the and you have yours, and that’s that.” ally, the estimates for the total number
gate and eyes the pristine swimming pool The neighbor very gently motions for of people leaving Egypt range between
before him. Casting aside the towel, he jumps into the man to leave by the gate, and then two and three million, assuming each
the refreshingly cool water and starts swimming laps. takes a piece of paper, and a permanent man as accompanied by a wife and
After a while, the man reaches the edge of the pool, black marker, writes the words, “NO between two and three children” (p.
only to find his neighbor standing at the steps, look- TRESPASSING,” and posts the sign on 368). If there were between two and
ing at him perplexedly. the fence. three million people leaving Egypt,
“Again?” the neighbor wonders. “That’s the No matter how beautiful his neighbor’s Rabbi Paul imagine the depth of stories, the pro-
third time this week. I thought we already had this swimming pool seems, or how “perfectly Jacobson foundly striking nature of the individual
conversation.” maintained” his swimming pool appears Temple Avodat witnessing of the experience. The jour-
An embarrassed look passes across the man’s face. to his neighbor, the man must go swim- Shalom, River ney itself would be remarkably different
“You keep your pool so clean though. The tempera- ming in his own backyard, the neighbor Edge, Reform from person to person; no two stories
ture is just right. The water feels great.” in theirs. In Pirkei Avot, we are taught, would be the same. Some on the journey
Looking over the fence, into the man’s backyard, “There are four character traits among would be looking forward to the Prom-
the neighbor points to the man’s yard, “I don’t get it. people. Some say, “Mine is mine and yours is yours; ised Land, some would wish to go back to Egypt, and
You have a swimming pool of your own. It looks nice this is the average trait...[Some say] yours is mine and some would just be in the moment, putting one foot
and clean to me, perfectly maintained.” mine is mine; this is the trait of a scoundrel’” (5:12). in front of the other. Maybe someone has a small child
The neighbor turns and pauses, looks at their own Both people need to clean their own pool and learn to in tow behind her or someone is complaining about
pool, and sighs heavily, for in their eyes, the pool swim in it, that is, unless our neighbors welcome us the heat or an aching back. Maybe someone is sing-
before them looks greenish in color and there are lots into their lives and into their backyards, which is their ing, and others are joining in and another person just
of insects swimming on the surface. The neighbor choice, not ours, and then, even then, there are still needs to bask in the silence of the moment.
doesn’t understand why the man would want to go boundaries which must be maintained. Facebook and Yet the only story we know is our own. We can
swimming in this pool, when his own pool appears other social media platforms provide us with a notori- imagine. We can wonder. We can think we have a
so enticing. ously false sense of entrance, a distorted perspective right to go swimming in our neighbor’s backyard. But
“But I’d rather swim here,” the man admits, shrug- on the lives of others, and a way of manipulating our we don’t. Pesach, our season of freedom, is a time
ging his shoulders. He glances over the fence at his appearance to the wider world. to remain present with ourselves, with our own nar-
own pool and he doesn’t see what his neighbor sees. But no one else truly understands what we see rative, and to find freedom from our own Egypt, to
There is algae growing on the walls of his swimming behind our own eyes. We alone know what is swim- find liberation from whatever enslaves us. As Rab-
pool and he knows he hasn’t checked the chlorine ming inside our own pools — whether they are pris- ban Gamliel taught in the Mishnah, “In every genera-
levels or vacuumed in quite some time. The pH bal- tine, a cesspool, or most likely, somewhere in-be- tion, a person is obligated to see themselves as if they
ance of the water is probably off. The man murmurs tween. In the twelfth chapter of Exodus, the Torah themselves went forth from Egypt” (Pesachim 10:5).
something under his breath, shakes his head shame- portion for the first day of Pesach, we read, “The Isra- Amidst family and communal gatherings for
fully from side to side, and tries to avoid eye contact elites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six Pesach, may you also find the time to swim in your
with his neighbor. hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children,” own backyard. Chag Sameach.
vaccinate, you are putting your children’s lives at risk. new and experimental and not yet in widespread use”
Vaccination “That is not okay.” when Jews started being herded into ghettos. “They
FROM PAGE 7
Then she turned to the history of the Holocaust that had invented a vaccine for diphtheria, but it wasn’t
problem,” she continued. “We had rules on the books some anti-vaxxers are evoking. in wide use yet. They were still experimental with
saying you can’t spit on the street. That wasn’t politeness. “One of the biggest killers of Jews during the Holo- typhus. There was literally a laboratory in the ghetto
It was sanitation. It was trying not to spread disease. caust was disease,” she said. “Anne Frank didn’t die in Lvov, and a famous bacteriologist from that time,
“We also have rules about people who work in the in a gas chamber. She died of typhus. If you read the a Jew” — his name was Ludwig Fleck, as she wrote in
food industry having to wash their hands. These are tragic story of Elie Wiesel’s father dying, it’s a story of the Washington Post — “was creating vaccines out of
things that we accept, and if we stopped doing them, him succumbing to disease, not of his being separated urine. He inoculated first himself and then his family,
there would be rampant spread of disease. We accept from his son and being put in a gas chamber. and then 30 volunteers, and then 500 volunteers in
the fact that there are laws that protect us.” “There was an extremely high mortality rate in the the Lvov ghetto.”
But sometimes the protections have been so suc- ghetto, and a lot of it was from communicable dis- Did those vaccines work? No one he inoculated
cessful that we forget the dangers from which they ease. They were living in very tight quarters, in hor- died of typhus, she said. “But they were deported
safeguard us. rible conditions, with no soap and no easy access to and sent to camps, so that didn’t provide a test of the
The situation hasn’t been helped, although it also water.” efficacy of the vaccines.”
hasn’t been caused, “by a president who distrusts She paraphrased a quote from a doctor’s wife, Dr. Sinnreich is not amused by the irony inherent
experts and who supports anti-vaxxers,” Dr. Sinnre- reporting from the ghetto. “She said, ‘Before I was in in anti-vaxxers co-opting Holocaust imagery. As she
ich added. the ghetto, I used to think that all you had to do to be wrote in the Washington Post, “For Jews of the ghetto,
In Jewish terms, “we have an obligation to protect clean was to want to be clean. But then I discovered vaccines were precious protection and symbolized a
our children, and not to harm other people,” she said. that you have to find the water, you have to get the belief in their own future.
“You don’t have a right to put your life at risk and you water, you have to find a way to heat it, you have to “It is a desecration of their memory to equate refus-
do not have a right to put your children’s lives at risk. find soap — which is impossible.’” ing medical treatment with the Holocaust or vaccine
So when you take these steps, when you refuse to In fact, Dr. Sinnreich said, “many vaccines were injuries with the vast tragedy of the Holocaust.”
R
loved getting them dressed up. The
eligion is a touchy subject. I first year we went away, we were young
imagine that if you were to and inexperienced parents at a hotel
ask 10 Jews the same ques- for Passover and I didn’t realize how
tion, you probably would much grape juice doesn’t actually make
get 10 different responses. The same it into your child’s mouth. Those cute
thing can happen when you ask a rabbi little outfits were stained beyond recog-
a question. Something simple like, “Can nition. The following year, I thought I
I use my warming drawer on shabbes?” would outsmart the stains and I brought
That seems simple enough. But alas, no, spray-n-wash to put on the stains so they
it is not. Three different would come out in the
rabbis hold three differ- laundry. Unfortunately, I
ent ways. And that is OK. put all of those clothes in
I always know that if I ask a bag without air flow, and
my rabbi a question, I will all of their cute little out-
follow his answer and not fits got moldy. Live and
look for a better answer — learn, kids, live and learn.
but that is just me. And now, here we are,
I thought I was raised all excited that our boys
Or thodox — modern have white shirts for white
Orthodox more specifi- Banji night because they can
cally. I keep shabbes, I eat Ganchrow wear white shirts with-
kosher, I celebrate all of out getting them dirty. I
the holidays. Growing up, am really so proud. Back
Across Down
there were plenty of modern Orthodox to the oreos. You all know how much I
1. Distrusting sort 1. Partner of van.
men who did not wear yarmulkas all the love my boys. I really and truly do. But 6. Luxury Swiss watch 2. What annoying fans may do
time. There were even folks who would every time they decide to incorporate 10. Charoset ingredient 3. Wall St. fixture
eat in nonkosher restaurants, limiting something new into our “Orthodoxy” 14. Chant in the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg 4. “___ Huckabees”
their consumption to tuna fish or baked I scratch my head and wonder what Bop” 5. Get in touch
goods. Again, there were plenty of peo- planet I really live on. 15. The first “A” of A.A. Milne 6. Reckless
16. Aseret ___ Teshuvah (repentance 7. Burn balm
ple who didn’t do this, didn’t agree with It started a few weeks ago when son
time) 8. Actress Zuniga of “Spaceballs”
it, didn’t think you were really kosher if #1 was on the hunt for grandma flippy, 17. Elizabeth or Ashley 9. Where one might hear elevator
you did it — we are an interesting people which was the beloved flip phone that I 18. Jr. preceder music off an elevator
— but still fundamentally people. used before my family upgraded me to 19. What many do at a Seder 10. Noah of “The Librarian”
We judge, we question, we judge the 21st century and got me an iPhone. 20. What many do before Passover 11. The Beatles’ “___ Mine”
some more. I am sure that there are I had no idea why, when I came home 23. Portman’s “V for Vendetta” co-star 12. PBS funder
folks who practice other religions who after a long day, there was a pile of out- 24. Marlins’ locale, briefly 13. Karem or Gedi
25. CBS show produced by Jerry 21. Lake ___, Nevada
feel the same way. As I said in the begin- dated dumb phones on the kitchen Bruckheimer 22. She said “Don’t be humble... you’re
ning — religion is a touchy subject. Just counter. Well kids, I will tell you why. 28. What many do before Passover not that great.”
like Jews look askew at Jews who aren’t Son #1 and Son #2 decided that they 34. Sinai or Habayit preceder 25. Many an overseas contact, for
like them, I am sure there are Catholics were giving up their smart phones for 35. Lahren of Fox News Jews
like that, or Episcopalians like that… It the Hebrew month of Nissan. Yes, the 36. Ring advantage 26. Impervious to bugs
is called human nature. whole month. No, I don’t know why. Yes, 37. Above 27. 1987 Beatty- Hoffman bomb
39. Amazon voice-activated assistants 28. Relatives of flats
In any event, there has been quite it is hard to get in touch with them. No,
42. Lie adjacent 29. Weak, as a brew
the metamorphosis going on in my they don’t seem phased by it. Yes, we 43. Buy more Time? 30. Pressed
cozy little family. I have written about are wondering how we survived so long 45. “It’s the end of the world ___...” 31. Alternative to HBO
my “oreos” before. Sons #1 and 2 wear without smart phones. No, we no lon- 47. Parseghian of Notre Dame 32. Drum kit part
only black and white. It makes shopping ger can text them in our family watsapp 48. What many do before Passover 33. Yam, in Hebrew
really really simple. In getting ready for group. Yes, Son #3 still used his smart 52. “Danny and the Dinosaur” author 38. Invigorate, with “up”
Hoff 40. ___ Kosh B’Gosh
the Passover holiday, we received an phone and no, I don’t think he will be
53. Trigonometry abbr. 41. Alfred Nobel, for one
email from the program where we are using his smartphone next Nissan. 54. 610, to Caesar 44. 1993 standoff site
going, telling us to bring white clothes But it is all good. I am so looking for- 55. What many do before Passover... 46. Forgoes
because there will be a “white night.” ward to being with my monkeys for this as an alternative to 20, 28 and 49. Cheered (for)
Husband #1 and I looked at each other upcoming holiday — with their phones, 48-Across 50. Word preceding dog or pie
and could not stop laughing. Who knew without their phones, white shirts, col- 61. When many a seder ends 51. Like some birds
64. What many do during the course 55. Stein and Stiller
my boys were so fashion forward? They ored shirts — it doesn’t really matter.
of a seder 56. A gait
already have their white clothes ready Hope you all have a happy and healthy 65. Pianist’s practice piece 57. What “poh” means
to go. But it got me thinking about when holiday with whomever you choose to 66. Abba of Israel 58. Ahi, e.g.
they were all little. I loved dressing them celebrate. 67. Parsha Kedoshim follower 59. Another name for Esau
alike. Dorky, of course but, oh, so ador- 68. Those who have more than four 60. Take away
able. Of course son #3 got the raw end of Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck misses the cups at a seder, maybe 61. Football’s Dawson
69. Charoset ingredient 62. Disney simian
the deal, because he ended up wearing Concord Hotel every single Passover, but
70. Make like a bubbie to a grandchild 63. Ink
the same outfit for like six years, until is grateful she met her friend Deva there 71. Bamboozles
he outgrew all of them. Poor kid. in 1985.
The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 75.
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