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6 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 28, 2014
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YU ordains new rabbis
Local men make up large percentage of newly credentialed Orthodox leaders
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
N
orth Jersey natives made up a
large contingent of the record
205 men receiving rabbinic
ordination from Yeshiva Uni-
versitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theologi-
cal Seminary in Manhattan on March 23.
The Chag HaSemikhah Convocation, held
every four years, bestowed Orthodox rab-
binic credentials on students from the
classes of 2011 to 2014.
The new rabbis hail from five conti-
nents and more than 50 North American
cities. While most will remain engaged in
fulltime Torah study or Jewish education,
the pulpit, outreach, or nonprofit work,
many will pursue careers in professions
including medicine and law.
Rabbi Yair Manas, who grew up Teaneck
and is almost 29, said he went to RIETS for
the opportunity to learn under tremen-
dous Torah scholars. He also has a degree
from Brooklyn Law School.
When I entered RIETS, I wasnt sure
that I wanted to work as a rabbi, and I still
dont know if I want to work as a rabbi,
said Rabbi Manas, a graduate of Yavneh
Academy and Torah Academy of Bergen
County. I was in the YU-Torah MiTzion
Kollel in Toronto for 2 1/2 years, and got
experience both in the pulpit and in the
educational field.
He and his wife and two daughters
made aliyah on March 25 and are living
in Maaleh Adumim outside Jerusalem. I
Many of the 39 new rabbis from New Jersey, part of the contingent of 205 men receiving ordination at Yeshiva Universitys Rabbi Isaac Eichanan Theological Seminary.
Making real change
Areyvut recognizes
Fair Lawn student
for taking on
responsibility
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
We are the future, said Jessica Baer, a
freshman at Fair Lawn High School. Well
be running the world, and I want to be
sure that world will be a good and safe
environment.
For the myriad ways in which Jessica is
striving toward that goal, she was chosen
to receive the Young Leadership award at
Areyvuts annual Bergen County Breakfast
on Sunday, April 6, at Congregation Bnai
Yeshurun in Teaneck.
Since its founding in September 2002,
Bergenfield-based Areyvut (Hebrew for
responsibility) has offered innovative
programs for day schools, congregational
schools, synagogues, community centers,
and families. It works to infuse the core
Jewish values of chesed (kindness), tze-
dakah (charity), and tikkun olam (social
action).
Our major goal is getting people
involved in making a difference in the
community, in making chesed a part of
their daily routine in a hands-on way,
Areyvuts founder and director, Daniel
Rothner, said.
Jessica came to Areyvut through our
mitzvah clowning program, which she
has been doing for the last three years. But
what is unique about her is that she has
engaged her family, her synagogue, and
her broader community in her chesed
projects.
From the time she was 10, Jessica has
been active in the organization Break-
ing the Chain through Education, which
works to rescue child slaves and help erad-
icate slave trafficking by building schools
in Ghana. Her older sister, Julia, and par-
ents, Michael and Robin, went with her to
the African country, and she has sought
support for this project at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center and at her school.
Few high school freshman are worried
about children the world over, and few are
engaging their parents and synagogues in
effectuating change, Mr. Rothner said.
Shes just starting out, and yet she has
done more than many have done in a life-
time. We hope that people who attend the
breakfast will be inspired to action by her
example.
Jessica and her sister study at the Ber-
gen County High School for Jewish Studies
and they are active in USY, the Conserva-
tive movements youth group.
Jessica also is involved in Pony Powers, a
therapeutic riding program in Mahwah for
children with disabilities. All the organi-
zations Im involved in are about kids she
said. What motivates me is seeing their
reactions.
Before her bat mitzvah in 2011, she
noticed an ad for Areyvuts mitzvah
clown training in the Jewish Standard. She
thought that would make a good comple-
ment to the mitzvah projects with which
she was already involved. Now she gets
all clowned up once a month to cheer
patients in area hospitals and nursing
homes.
I go room by room or around a sitting
area, talking to the patients about what-
ever theyre going through, she said. I
break the ice by doing a magic trick or
making a balloon animal to make them
smile.
Her father said that Jessica inspired
him to join the board of directors of both
Areyvut and Breaking the Chain through
Education.
Believe it or not, Jessica was a quiet, shy
girl, but when she started doing mitzvah
clowning she put on a different persona
and interacted with the kids, said Mr.
Baer, who attended the one-day training
session with his daughter.
I had tears in my eyes to see that trans-
formation, and I saw it again in Africa. I
dont think she stopped smiling from the
time she got off the plane to the time she
got back on the plane, under not the great-
est conditions there. I cannot begin to
express our pride.
At the breakfast, Shira Hammerman of
West Orange will receive the Community
Leadership Award. She has been Areyvuts
educational consultant for 10 years, devel-
oping products such as the Kindness A Day
calendar, which suggests a specific action
to take every day. Mr. Rothner describes
her as really a visionary.
Mr. Rothner calls Areyvut a niche
organization. It partners with 150 other
agencies, including the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh. It sponsors chesed and bnai
mitzvah project fairs, Jewish teen philan-
thropy programs, and offers a variety of
courses for Jewish youth and teens, such
as Music & Morals and Sex & Torah.
Most of its annual $300,000 budget is
covered by individual donors; fees are
charged for courses and services such as
mitzvah clowning.
Jessica Baer went to Ghana for Break-
ing the Chain through Education, an
organization in which she is active.
COURTESY BAER FAMILY
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wrote in an email.
According to a March 24 article by
Uriel Heilman for the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, most rabbinic positions in Ortho-
dox synagogues are outside metropolitan
New York. The article says that only one-
quarter of the newly minted RIETS rabbis
will find pulpits, though 80 percent are
involved in some kind of religious or Jew-
ish communal work. The remaining 20
percent go to secular trades like account-
ing, law and medicine. Furthermore, Mr.
Heilman writes, many new pulpit rabbis
also work as teachers or hospital chaplains
because congregations often cannot afford
a full-time rabbi.
The employment status of some of the
local sons reflects this reality. Rabbi Eitan
Bendavid, raised in Teaneck, teaches at
SAR High School in Riverdale, N.Y., and
is a member of the clergy team at Lincoln
Square Synagogue in Manhattan. Teaneck
native Rabbi Etan Ehrenfeld is teaching at
the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago
and is assistant rabbi at Kehilat Chovevei
Tzion in Skokie.
Rabbi Tsvi Selengut, who grew up in
Teaneck, is the spiritual leader of Con-
gregation Ohab Zedek of Belle Harbor,
N.Y., and teaches at DRS High School in
Woodmere.
Rabbi Selengut, 28, said that his calling
already was clear to him when he was in
high school at Torah Academy of Bergen
County. I look for meaning in my own life
and in the world, and people in general
are looking for meaning and for answers
to bigger questions, and the rabbanaut
and especially the pulpit are where you
can a really affect people and bring mean-
ing to their lives. He and his wife have a
10-month-old son.
He believes that the advent of handheld
technology has brought new challenges
to the rabbinate. There is a much higher
level of stress, and people are under more
pressure and working more hours than
when I was growing up, he observed. All
of this affects people of all ages on a daily
level, and I try to direct my [sermons] and
high-school classes to that mindset.
Other new rabbis are full-time educa-
tors. Rabbi Akiva Fleischmann, also from
Teaneck, is teaching middle school grades
at Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood,
Ohio. Rabbi Ben Krinsky teaches at his
alma mater, Yavneh Academy in Paramus,
while Rabbi David Schlusselberg is an
instructor of Talmud, Bible, and Judaica
electives at the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High
School in Livingston.
Rabbi Krinsky, 26, spent his college Fri-
day mornings at his alma mater, TABC,
learning Torah with the high school stu-
dents. He recalls those sessions as the
highlight of his week. Not only did I
have a good time, but a lot of the kids did
as well, so I decided that education was
something that I wanted to do for a living.
I know that this is probably clich, but
when a students eyes light up when they
understand what youre teaching, that is
one of the best feelings. One of his rab-
binic role models is TABCs Rabbi Ezra
Wiener, a teacher and religious life guid-
ance counselor at the school, with whom
he remains in touch.
Rabbi Schlusselberg, a graduate of the
Moriah and Frisch schools, traces his
desire to be a rabbi and educator to his
post-high-school year in 2006 at Yeshivat
Reishit in Israel.
It was partly because of my love of
Torah and partly because of my love for
teaching and helping kids, said Rabbi
Schlusselberg, who is in his twelfth year
leading Shabbat youth groups at Congre-
gation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck. While
at RIETS, he earned a masters degree
at YUs Azrieli Graduate School of Jew-
ish Education and Administration. Kush-
ner was the nearest Jewish school hiring
when he was ready to begin working, he
said, and he feels fortunate to have won
the position.
The other Bergen and Passaic county
natives who were ordained on Sunday
include Rafael Abraham, Jeremy Baran,
Yitzchak Ehrenberg, Daniel Fridman, Elie
Friedman, Noah Gardenswartz, Noah
Goldberg, Zev Goldberg, Benjy Leibowitz,
Yakir Schechter, Nachum Danny Shulman,
and Avraham Yablok of Teaneck; Aaron
Fleksher, Elisha Friedman, and Shlomo
Weissmann of Passaic; Elli Bloom and
Yechiel Shaffer of Fair Lawn; Motti Neu-
burger and Dovid Preil of Bergenfield;
Mordechai (Evan) Gershon of Englewood,
and David New of New Milford.
and
Wishes Mazel Tov to
its Esteemed Colleagues
for being Musmachim
at the YU Chag Hasemicha
RABBI JEREMY
DONATH
OHEL Bergen County
Coordinator
RABBI CHESKY
GEWIRTZ
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8 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 28, 2014
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One Book, many themes,
and many readers
By Fire, By Water author will speak to One Community in Ridgewood
LOIS GOLDRICH
T
he One Book, One Community
project, now in its third year, con-
tinues to grow, attracting increas-
ing numbers of enthusiastic read-
ers from around the county.
We choose something different every year,
said Nancy Perlman, coordinator of the proj-
ect and manager of community outreach
and engagement activities for the Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jerseys Synagogue
Leadership Initiative.
Ms. Perlman noted that selecting books is
not as easy as it seems.
In fact, its really dificult, she said,
describing the challenges faced by her com-
mittee, composed of community volunteers.
It cant just be a book we like to read. We
have to feel it will spark the interest of as wide
a range of people as possible, even those
who dont feel included in community right
now. It cant be too girly, and it has to have
enough to talk about and spark conversation.
Also, she said, it cant be too close in
nature to the books the project already
has highlighted. And because the culmi-
nating event of the community project is
to bring readers together with the author
the committee has to ensure that this
meeting actually will be possible.
This years book By Fire, By Water
by Mitchell James Kaplan is a work of
historical iction, set in 15th-century Spain,
that centers on the historical igure of Luis
de Santngel. Themes include the Inquisi-
tion, the attempt to unify the kingdoms of
Spain under Christian rule, and the voy-
age of Christopher Columbus. Last year,
community groups were invited to read
The Zookeepers Wife, by Diane Acker-
man; the year before, the book was My
Fathers Paradise by Ariel Sabar.
The One Book project came as an out-
growth of conversations with community
members and leaders who wanted a way
to bring the community together across
denominations, geography, and back-
ground, Ms. Perlman said. The projects
founders reasoned that since Jews are
considered the People of the Book, what
better way to bring people together? Each
book we talk about has identity woven in
among other themes.
This year, more than 20 synagogues and
other community groups offered programs
under the One Book umbrella. Its available
for any group that wants to participate, Ms.
Perlman said, noting that the only condi-
tion is that the program which should be
roughly related to some theme or idea in the
book be open to the community.
Activities have varied. Many synagogues
have sponsored book discussions. Mah-
wahs Beth Haverim Shir Shalom held a One
Book, One Community Shabbat in Decem-
ber, weaving Sephardic music into the Shab-
bat service, inviting a guest speaker raised
in Spain to discuss her experiences, and
offering a Sephardic oneg afterward. Tem-
ple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley screened
a ilm relating to the themes of the book;
while at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly, attendees were invited to taste the
spice route, learning about and sampling
some of the spices Spain sought between
the 14th and 16th centuries.
On April 3, Ridgewoods Temple Israel
and Jewish Community Center will host the
culminating event, where all readers will
have a chance to hear from,
and ask questions of, the
author. Ms. Perlman said the
event, which includes dessert,
typically draws hundreds of
people.
What excites us, besides
the fun, is that we love seeing
people get more engaged and
getting to know each other
across the divides in the
community, she said. We
love the fact that we can be
a part of what brings people
together.
If identity is one of the themes in each
book that is chosen, it is a major theme in
this years selection, author Mitchell James
Kaplan said.
My intention in writing is always to
explore history and try to come to terms
with an understanding of it, he said. The
subject of [the book] is identity all about a
man torn between different identities.
His protagonist, Luis de Santngel , is
Christian by birth, the grandson of conver-
sos, and beholden to the royal court, but
theres something else inside him that he
wants to honor: the identity of grandpar-
ents who were forced to convert.
Calling de Santngel the prototype of
modern man, Mr. Kaplan said that his char-
acter is conflicted and torn in different
directions in terms of how he deines him-
self in relation to the cultures around him.
Those cultures were in conflict, he said,
tearing Spain apart. Indeed, it was an
impossible situation for these cultures to
inhabit the same land.
In America today, we want to ind a way
for cultures to get along and inhabit the same
space, but Spain despite what we may
have heard was not a beautiful garden of
interfaith harmony, Mr. Kaplan said. There
was nothing but strife,
except for a certain level
of mutual respect among
the highest scholars of
each community, Mai-
monides, for example.
To Mr. Kaplan, the
main question is How
can one person like me,
for example, an American Jew relate to
the world as both? In some ways, these
identities harmonize; in others, they con-
flict. Juggling and harmonizing that is
the essence of what this is about.
The genesis of his book is equally
complicated.
I wrote a draft a long time ago and put it
away, he said, explaining that while doing
web suring, but with books, he followed
one idea to the next, and became fascinated
by the apparent confluence of several facts
speciically, that Christopher Columbus
set sail around the time of the expulsion
edict and that the emirate of Granada was
conquered by Christians at the same time.
It was weird. I hadnt seen the discovery of
the new world placed in this context.
The man at the center of this, the most
central igure, was Columbuss patron, an
adviser to the crown, who was accused
of complicity in the murder of Inquisitor
Pedro Arbus in Zaragoza. It was a story
that had to be told, Mr. Kaplan said.
Mr. Kaplan pointed out that while some
might characterize Ferdinand and Isabellas
religious intolerance as backward thinking,
at the time it was seen as a good thing. It set
up the foundation for uniication. What we
think of as forward and backward changes
over time how people see progress. In the
Middle Ages, Christians saw progress [in
terms of ] conquering the world.
He tries to put himself in that periods
point of view and to be faithful to that
period. Today, we think of progress as free-
dom of religion, pluralism, he said. They
would have seen that as a foreign, bizarre,
and reprehensible way of thinking.
Mr. Kaplan said that in his book, the dis-
covery of the new world symbolizes the
future a different world with different
answers to questions of identity, ethnic
and religious strife, and how to make the
world a better place.
Mr. Kaplan, who met his wife while living
in France, worked in the ilm industry for
many years, hanging with ilm stars while
raising a family. I rode with it while I could,
but I knew that this is not what I set out to
do. I wanted to be a novelist.
Returning to the manuscript, he spent six
years rewriting the book.
We sold the house, moved to Pittsburgh,
changed our life, he said, adding that his
family was very supportive. He noted that
while he was very much interested in Sep-
hardic history before he met his wife who
is Sephardic her knowledge of folklore,
together with her mothers memories, have
been very helpful.
Mr. Kaplan has been invited to speak
throughout the country and in Mexico, and
his book won an award in Italy.
I had no idea it would generate such a
reaction, he said, noting that invitations
started to pour in even before the book was
published formally.
He said he wanted to express his appre-
ciation to the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey for what theyre doing pro-
moting Jewish dialogue and exploration of
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Meeting of different minds
A rabbi and an imam walk into the Frisch School together...
LARRY YUDELSON
Jewish-Muslim dialogue went to a yeshiva
high school, as Rabbi Marc Schneier and
Imam Shamsi Ali appeared at an assem-
bly at the Frisch School in Paramus last
Wednesday.
It was the first time Frisch hosted a Mus-
lim speaker and the first time the duo,
who have written a book together, brought
their Muslim-Jewish dialogue to an Ameri-
can Jewish school.
Rabbi Schneier is the founding rabbi of
the Hamptons Synagogue in Westhamp-
ton, N.Y. Imam Ali, who formerly led Man-
hattans Islamic Cultural Center on East
96h street and now heads two smaller
congregations in Queens, noted the con-
nection between the word Beit Midrash
the schools study hall and the word
madrassa, meaning religious school, that
he attended as a youth.
The Imams madrassa in his native
Indonesia, however, was far stricter
than Frisch: It was a single-sex board-
ing school, which its students left to visit
home only twice a year.
The process of learning was not only
inside of the classroom, but outside of
classroom, he told the Jewish Standard.
The two religious leaders appeared
under the auspices of the Foun-
dation for Ethnic Understand-
ing, a group Rabbi Schneier,
founded 25 years ago to
advance black-Jewish dialogue.
The foundation expanded its
mandate to Jewish-Muslim dia-
logue in the last decade, after
Rabbi Schneier was challenged
to do so by his partner in the
foundation, hip-hop music
magnate Russell Simmons.
When the rabbi and the
imam first met, at a television
studio where they were pro-
viding Jewish and Muslim per-
spectives on Pope John Paul II,
we shook hands, barely looking at each
other, Imam Ali recalled. Both of us had
past prejudiced views about each other.
But their dialogue led to friendship.
Last year a book they wrote together was
published; its called Sons of Abraham:
A Candid Conversation about the Issues
That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims.
Out of the friendship that we had, we
changed, the imam said. I used to have
a lot of prejudicial views about the Jewish
community. He completely changed me.
Rabbi Schneier said, I came to the
table with clear biases and prejudices,
having grown up in a very intense yeshiva
environment: Muslims were the enemy,
Muslims were to be demonized, Muslims
were not to be trusted.
Ive been able to enlarge my horizons,
he said.
Rabbi Schneier characterized the discus-
sion at Frisch as a very open, frank, won-
derful exchange.
Many of the questions the high school stu-
dents asked were what the Muslim leader
had come to expect. Questions about the
role of women in Islam, about terrorism,
about jihad.
What surprised him was a question from
a boy who seemed to me very knowledge-
able about Islam. He had a great under-
standing of the religion, he said.
The imam said one student disagreed
with his statement that many Muslims
misperceive Jews. He said, I have a lot
of Muslim friends in Brooklyn and they
have never talked evil about Jews,
Imam Ali said.
There were parts of the presentation that
were particularly geared toward the yeshiva
students.
We spoke about there being a tradition
of written and oral law in Islam, as in Juda-
ism, Rabbi Schneier said. I said we must
be careful to interpret the Koran in a literal
fashion, as we would not do with our own
Torah.
Imam Ali said the partnership is not just
about helping American Jews and American
Muslims understand each other.
We are able to influence Muslims and
Jews around the world to work together,
he said. The most recent example, a few
months ago, Jews and Muslims organized
meeting meetings in Tunisia. While Jews
have lived among the Muslim majority in
Tunisia for more than a thousand years,
this was the first formal religious dialogue
between the two communities there.
In Austria, where 800,000 Muslims out-
number 16,000 Jews, the Foundation for
Ethnic Understanding organized meetings
of Muslim and Jewish leadership. Most of
the Muslims have never met a Jew and know
little about the Holocaust, Imam Ali said.
The president of the Muslim association
in Austria promised to organize a kind of
Holocaust education program for the Mus-
lim community next year.
The good news is that the journey has
begun, Rabbi Schneier said. There are
more and more Imam Shamsi Alis who are
emerging around the globe, who are speak-
ing out on behalf of the Jewish community.
The point I was trying to get across to
the students is that the work the imam and
I are doing is about fighting for the other. A
person who fights for his own rights is only
honorable when he fights for the rights of
all people. Here is an imam who speaks
out against anti-Semitism and Holocaust
denial, and a rabbi who speaks out about
anti-Islamic bigotry.
Usually, theres someone who says, its
lovely what youre doing, but the imam is
not a real Muslim because hes not an Arab.
I said that only 16 percent of Muslims are
Arab. The largest Muslim population comes
from southeast Asia, where this imam has
been hailed by the governments of Indo-
nesia and Singapore as their international
spiritual leader, Rabbi Schneier said.
I gave the students a reality check: We
live in a world of 14 million Jews and 1 billion
Muslims. It behooves both groups to narrow
the gap, he said.
Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali
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Israels great Dane
Former diaspora affairs minister seeks peace from within and without
LARRY YUDELSON
R
abbi Michael Melchior has left
politics behind, but he has not
left public service.
Rabbi Melchior served in
the Knesset for 10 years as leader of the
liberal Orthodox Meimad political move-
ment. Born in Denmark in 1954, he earned
smicha from Jerusalems Yeshivat Hakotel
in 1980 and was appointed chief rabbi of
Norways 1,400 Jews soon after. In 1986 he
made aliyah, but he has held on to his Nor-
wegian title.
His main focus, though, is on Israeli
life. Rabbi Melchior is a community rabbi
in Jerusalems Talpiot neighborhood as
well as an activist for the improvement of
Israeli society.
When Rabbi Lawrence Zierler of the
Jewish Center of Teaneck spent a sabbat-
ical year in Jerusalem, he and his family
lived in Talpiot and discovered Rabbi Mel-
chiors congregation.
We never found any-
thing we loved as much,
Rabbi Zierler said; the two
rabbis became very close,
he added.
Rabbi Melchior will be
in Teaneck next week, as
part of a four-day U.S. fun-
draising trip for some of the
organizations with which
he is involved, and he will
meet with groups of people
organized by Rabbi Zierler.
Rabbi Melchiors projects
focus on uniting Israels dif-
ferent strands of society,
and on reaching beyond
Israel to connect with neighboring Arab
communities.
Rabbi Melchior, who was Israels first
minister of diaspora affairs, grew up in
a diaspora community small enough to
demand that all factions to work together.
Having chosen to raise his family in a pri-
marily secular Jerusalem neighborhood,
he was disappointed to discover that by
sending his children to religious schools
and religious youth movements, our kids
only came to know other people who were
exactly like themselves. They didnt come
to know other segments of society.
Disturbed, he set out to break down the
barriers between the groups. It started
with meetings in the 1980 and early 1990s,
but something important happened after
the assassination of our prime minister in
1995. More and more people understood
that this the division into separate
groups could not continue.
He led a movement to create schools
and educational programs where
religious, very reli-
gious, very secular,
and everythi ng i n
between could study together, he said.
A whole new Israel is being created,
which is not very known in North Amer-
ica, Rabbi Melchior said. There are tens
of thousands, even hundreds of thousands,
who are interested in creating something
new in the seam between different identi-
ties of Judaism.
From one school launched 12 years ago,
there are now 52 institutions of what is
called inclusive Jewish public education.
Another part of Rabbi Melchiors efforts
are devoted to our relationship to the
non-Jews who are living with us in Israel.
We have a responsibility towards the
Arab community, he said. Weve been
living ourselves as a minority throughout
the ages, and we know what it is to live
as a minority. Now were tested: Were a
majority, and we dont always live up to
the test.
Its not enough to say, well, the Arabs
are better off here than they would be in
Syria or Lebanon. Thats not the test. The
test is whats acceptable to the standard
of Jewish values we have preached and
which we believe in and have talked about
when we were a minority.
We dont always live up to our respon-
sibility. This is not something new Im say-
ing. Theres the Or Commission, formed
after the Arab riots in the year 2000,
which unanimously said there is discrimi-
nation toward the Arab citizens. I can give
you so many examples. The investment
we put in the education of an Arab child
compared to the investment in a Jewish
child, the funding of religious institutions
of Muslims and Christians compared to
the religious institutions of Jews. If you
give religious institutions support in the
country, you cant give half a percent of
support to the institutions of more than
20 percent of the population.
This is something we should be sensi-
tive to as Jews. Thirty-six times we read in
the Torah to be sensitive to strangers, he
said.
To deal with these gaps between Isra-
els Jewish majority and its Arab minor-
ity, Rabbi Melchior formed the Citizens
Accord Forum. Funded now in part by the
Israeli government, this is the only move-
ment which is working across the board
with all the different Arab organizations,
he said. We work with the Islamists, with
the secular Arab movements, with the
Arab mayors, with the most radical Arab
organizations.
We have a dialogue, where we both we
discuss issues of principle and we also try
to find a way through what we call a
deliberative dialogue of how we can live
with our differences.
The surprising things is you can actually
find solutions, he said.
One example: Weve created youth
parliaments in the mixed cities around
Israel. Jews and Arabs sit in the youth
parliaments together, then they decide
on youth policy together. They do things
together.
I believe not in protesting, but in creat-
ing a change through a sensible dialogue
and making people understand that this
is good for everybody. It works well. It
makes sense.
Perhaps Rabbi Mel chi ors most
In 2011, the city of Akkos youth parliament, affiliated with the Citizens Accord Forum, met with the mayor.
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auda cious arena of activism goes beyond Israels citi-
zens: It deals with the question of peace.
He believes that it is possible for Israel to find peace
with its neighbors but that the approach to peace
must change.
There has been no point where the Arab Muslim
world is so ripe and ready to make peace with the
State of Israel as it is now, he said.
Contacts with Muslims he cant go into details,
but has said they include Hamas and other Islamists
have convinced him that its possible.
Publicly, Rabbi Melchior was instrumental in orga-
nizing a Muslim-Jewish dialogue that began with a
summit in Alexandria, Egypt, in 2002.
A lot of work I do in this area is under the radar, he
said. I work with all the Arab countries, with all the
fragments of the Palestinians. There is a willingness
today to make an agreement with the State of Israel
from all segments of leadership in the Muslim world.
Its possible to get there.
Israel must be willing to make peace and pay the
prices and accept the conditions everyone knows
what the conditions are. It will demand from our side
that we make that strategic decision that we havent
made to make peace.
If the State of Israel is willing to do that, and I think
the vast majority of Israelis are, then we can have a
peace which is totally different than the peace we
made with Egypt, even different from the peace which
was signed in Oslo.
Today I think its possible to get a peace that will
include a very vast part of the Arab and Muslim world,
Rabbi Melchior said.
The problem, though, is that the focus has been on
a quick fix, a secular peace. We dont deal with the
substantial existential issues.
It doesnt work that way. If you dont build up a
legitimacy for peace among the people, and their iden-
tities are not involved, peace is not going to happen.
I think its very possible to make peace. Ive met the
most extreme leaders on the other side. Its always
been possible to come to an agreement. But there has
to be thinking out of the box.
You cant keep on telling your people that the other
side hates us and fears us so therefore we should make
peace. You cant only make a peace which is a peace
of interests.
If the only language to make peace is a secular lan-
guage, it doesnt convince the people. It also doesnt
convince the Palestinians. You have to change the
story. You have to come up with a peace of values.
I believe in Zionism. I believe also that to be here is
part of the fulfillment of a dream of Jewish history, of
a dream of the prophets, even the fulfillment of Gods
will that the Jewish people is back in their homeland.
But I cant say then that its an accident that theres
another people living here.
You cant have it halfway. If its Gods will that were
back, and this is a fulfillment of Jewish destiny that
were back in our homeland, then its part of this also
that theres another people living here
If we expect of the other the Arab world and the
Palestinian people to accept our right to self defini-
tion, we must accept the same from them. Thats the
essence of Judaism, he said.
I found radical Muslim leaders who said, if you
come with that kind of attitude, a religious attitude
that we believe in one God, that we come together
in the Holy Land to respect each other if thats the
attitude then well go along with such a peace of two
states for two people. Nobody ever offered such a
thing, Rabbi Melchior said.
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Safam turns 40
Jewish supergroup to play concert in Fair Lawn
JOANNE PALMER
S
o theyre not as old as, say, the Roll-
ing Stones theyve been together
a mere 40 years, compared to the
Stones 52 and they are famous
in a much smaller world. Still, in that world,
Safam is a very big name.
So the fact that it is choosing to celebrate
its 40th anniversary in Fair Lawn is big news.
Safams four founding members who,
impressively, still are Safam today met at
the Zamir Chorale. Most of them were gradu-
ate students, and all of them lived in Boston.
Each was pursuing a career, but they all loved
to sing. Soon they realized that as much as
they loved singing choral music, it was not
enough for them.
Choir music is wonderful, but you have
to be in a choir to do it, Daniel Funk said.
Mr. Funk, one of Safams lead singers, also is
the groups business manager and its spokes-
man. In a smaller group, you have to do
something different. Today, college and
graduate students urge to experiment with
different kinds of choral music could be met
by the many a cappella groups that now dot
the Jewish landscape, but thats now. Then, it
was not so easy.
So the four men founded Safam. (They per-
form with a drummer and a bass player, but
those performers are not members of Safam,
and many have cycled through it.)
When they began, we had no illusions
about doing anything other than performing
some Israeli music, some chasidic music
bringing some lively Jewish music out there,
Mr. Funk said. We really enjoyed it, so we
would get together and start singing, and
then we started booking concerts, and little
by little things took off.
We had no illusions about being a Jewish
supergroup but without sounding immod-
est, thats what we became in the 70s, 80s,
and 90s, he said. We put out an album
every few years, and they seem to have had
an impact.
Eventually, they realized that two of the
groups members, Robbie Solomon and Joel
Sussman, are fantastic songwriters, so we
shifted gradually until now we do about 90
percent original songs.
Many of Safams songs are lighthearted and
bouncy; others focus on social issues. When
the group was formed, the most pressing
issue roiling the Jewish world was the grim
situation faced by Soviet Jews, and the need
to get them out of there. The groups signa-
ture song, Mr. Funk said, is Leaving Mother
Russia.
The first time we performed it, none of us
had heard it, he said. Robbie surprised us
with it at an early concert at Rutgers Hillel in
1977. He had written it the week before, but
he didnt tell us about it. We were on stage,
and he took over the mike, sat down, and
sang it.
He blew everyone away. We were on
stage, and we were in awe just as much as
everyone in the audience. That was one of
the most amazing moments Ive had as a
performer.
And then, a few years ago, that moment
was topped.
We were playing at a synagogue in Bos-
ton, at a conference where Natan Sharan-
sky the famous refusenik, now a promi-
nent Israeli statesman; in the 1970s, a Soviet
prisoner named Anatoly Shcharansky, for
whom the song was written was the key-
note speaker. We sang a few other songs,
and then Leaving Mother Russia, and as the
last verse was being sung, and everyone was
standing up and clapping, he came walking
up the bimah and stood with us.
Talk about getting chills. Amazing. It was
amazing.
Mr. Funk is the son of Rabbi Julius Funk,
who was Rutgers Hillel director for 40 years;
he grew up in Highland Park. Like most of
the other members of Safam, Mr. Funk had
another career. Although he now is retired,
he is a lawyer. For 32 years, I was the city
solicitor for Newton, Mass., he said. He also
is a High Holy Day cantor, as are Mr. Sussman
and Alan Nelson; Robbie Solomon is a full-
time cantor and composer.
He stresses the accessibility and sheer fun
of Safams music. Our sound is a synthesis
of our Jewish and American roots, he said.
People walk out feeling good about their
Jewishness.
Among those people is Alan Eliscu of Fair
Lawn, a longtime member of Temple Beth
Sholom there and an even longer-time Safam
superfan.
Safam first came to Beth Sholom 18 years
ago, and my wife, Renee, and I bought tick-
ets, he said. We had never heard of them
but we became instant groupies.
And that is not an unusual thing for
this group, he said. Its followers are loyal
perhaps less Rolling Stones than the Grate-
ful Dead?
We have followed them to the Berkshires,
to Albany, to synagogues on Long Island, in
New Jersey, in Florida. We saw them in Flor-
ida on Christmas day which is what Jews do
on Christmas.
Safam has been slowing down recently, he
said, and that saddened him. I had a selfish
motive in bringing them to our synagogue
again, he said. So I presented it to our
board, and they said that if Im willing to be
the guy who carries the reins, then they will
be more than glad to let me do it. If you want
to do it, they said, go right ahead.
So from then, nine months ago, I had a
project.
He enlisted the help of Cantor Ronit
Wolff Hanan and Adina Avery-Grossman
from one of the other Beth Sholoms, Con-
gregation Beth Sholom of Teaneck. The
childrens choir there, Tzipporei Shalom,
which performs only one concert outside
its own shul each year, will sing a song
with Safam, after performing alone for
about 10 minutes.
Has times passage affected Safam? We
are still performing, and people say that
like fine wine, we are improving with age,
Mr. Funk said. He is excited about return-
ing to Beth Sholom. For people who know
us, there will be a fine sense of recognition
and nostalgia. For those who dont know
us they will become new fans!
Who: Safam
What: Will be in concert
Where: At Temple Beth Sholom, 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave., Fair Lawn
When: Sunday, April 6, at 1:30 p.m.
Where to buy tickets: At Beth Sholom, the Glen Rock Jewish Center, and the
JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah
How much: General seating, $36; preferred seating, $54; patron seating (with
CD, one per family, and dessert buffet), $72; children 14 and under, $18
For information: (201) 797-9321
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Another win
Teanecks Josh Meier
comes in fourth in Intel
science contest
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
It was another trip to Washington and
another $40,000 for Josh Meier of Teaneck.
On December 10, the Bergen County
Academies senior won a $40,000 third-place
scholarship in the 15th annual Siemens Com-
petition in Math, Science & Technology. On
March 11, the same research on controlling
the aging of pluripotent stem cells which
could lead to new treatments for cancer and
age-related neurodegenerative diseases
won him a $40,000 fourth-place award at the
Intel Science Talent Search, considered the
nations most prestigious pre-college science
and math competition.
Just as with Siemens, the Intel organizers
were accommodating of Joshs Sabbath and
kashrut observance during the week-long
competition process.
Yet the Intel experience was not entirely
dj vu, he said. Intel was a talent search,
so it was more about how you approach sci-
ence than about the best project. For two
days, judges grilled each of the 40 finalists
chosen from 1,794 high school seniors rep-
resenting 14 states about their approach to
science in general. Next, the contestants pre-
sented their projects to the public.
We at Intel celebrate the work of these
brilliant young scientists as a way to inspire
the next generation to follow them with
even greater energy and excitement into a
life of invention and discovery, said Wendy
Hawkins, executive director of the Intel Foun-
dation. Imagine the new technologies, solu-
tions and devices they will bring to bear on
the challenges we face.
By the time he spoke with the Jewish
Standard, eight days after the contest, Josh
already had another accomplishment under
his belt: On March 15, he was chosen one of
four finalists in the North Jersey Regional Sci-
ence Fair, qualifying him for a free ticket to
Los Angeles to compete in the Intel Interna-
tional Science and Engineering Fair in May.
This one is more of a conventional science
fair, he said. And although he is presenting
the same research topic, it is not repetitive for
him. Im continuing to develop my project,
so every time I go to a competition there are
new elements to present, he explained.
Where will he use the combined $80,000
of tax-free scholarship money? Hes not
sure yet. He has gotten acceptances from
Harvard and MIT, a likely letter (unoffi-
cial acceptance) from Yale, and expects to
hear from Princeton after April 1.
Meanwhile, he spent two days in Israel
for his grandmothers 90th birthday, getting
back to Teaneck just in time to prepare for
yet another science fair on March 27-28, the
Monmouth Junior Science Symposium. If he
wins that, it could mean another $2,000 for
his scholarship fund.
Josh Meier wins fourth place in the Siemens contest. From left, the head
judge, Professor Rachelle Heller of George Washington University; Siemens
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Taylor; Meier; College Board executive Diane Tsukamaki; George Washington
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Integrating personal challenge, good cause
Local runners talk about their Jerusalem Marathon experiences
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Among some 25,000 runners in the Jeru-
salem International Marathon on March 21
were quite a few current or former North Jer-
sey residents, many of them participating for
the benefit of charities in the 5K or 10K por-
tions of the route. The Jewish Standard talked
to some running novices about what pushed
them to the starting line.
It was an awesome experience to see a
lot of people you know, and people from
different countries, all running together,
said Shmuel Knoller of Teaneck. The
18-year-old Torah Academy of Bergen
County graduate was proud to finish the
10K in 47 minutes, 14 seconds as part of
Team Butterfly.
This team of about 100 runners was rais-
ing money for the Jackson Gabriel Silver
Foundation, an organization committed to
finding a cure for epidermolysis bullosa,
an extremely rare, painful, and life-threat-
ening skin disease that causes blistering
throughout the body.
The team was founded for the inaugu-
ral Jerusalem Marathon two years ago
by David Beiss from Long Island, an EB
patient who was studying at the gap-year
yeshiva Torat Shraga in Jerusalem. Since
then, Team Butterfly has been popular
with Torat Shraga students such as Mr.
Knoller and Joshua Bock, also of Teaneck.
Mr. Bock, who graduated from the
Frisch School, said he raised about $400
by running the 10K for Team Butterfly. It
was his first marathon, and although he
did not train for it, he enjoyed the expe-
rience. I would definitely do another of
these, he said.
Like Mr. Bock, Team Butterfly member
Naomi Kadish of Teaneck had never tried
long-distance running before, but she
practiced by jogging up and down the hills
near her gap-year yeshiva, Migdal Oz in
the Gush Etzion area south of Jerusalem.
It went really well, she reported. A
graduate of the Maayanot Yeshiva High
School for Girls in Teaneck, Ms. Kadish
hadnt heard of EB before, but now she has
raised more than $500 to help find a cure.
Natania Casden, 26, rai sed about
1,850 shekels $532 for Connections,
an educational not-for-profit organiza-
tion, founded in 1998, that provides
hands-on art, music, and sports projects
to international Jewish communities,
schools, synagogues, and camps in order
to strengthen Jewish identity and an
understanding of the challenges faced by
Israeli soldiers and terror victims.
Ms. Casden, a Hebrew University stu-
dent who made aliyah from Teaneck with
her family in 2007, served in the Israel
Defense Forces from 2008 to 2010 as a
weapons technician.
I managed to finish the 5K in 40 min-
utes; my original goal was to finish in an
hour without passing out, she quipped.
The hills were hard. I walked up them so
as not to waste energy.
Ms. Casden said she decided to partici-
pate after seeing a post on the Maaleh
Adumim chat forum about a running
Safeguarding joy
Teaneck couple on Jerusalem Purim Patrol looks out for at-risk revelers
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Yoni and Navah Mozeson roamed Jerusalems
Zion Square in the wee hours of Purim night,
along with thousands of partying teens.
The Mozesons, who moved to Jerusa-
lem from Teaneck in 2010, were not there
to share in the drinking and revelry. Big
badges on their coat lapels identified them
as Purim Patrol. They were among about
50 volunteers from various organizations
there to keep an eye on potentially danger-
ous situations. During the course of the night,
between 700 and 800 inebriated teenagers
accepted the offer to chill out in a safe tent
set up by the municipality, and psychologists
and drug counselors were on hand as well.
While Purim generally is associated with
parades, costumes, and festive food baskets,
it also carries a tradition of drinking. And for
many visiting and resident teenagers, that
can lead to risky behaviors and even rape and
abduction on the late-night streets.
Yoni Mozeson, a marketing and adver-
tising executive, said that one of the year-
round problems Purim brings to the fore
every year is the little-known phenomenon
of young Arab men luring Jewish girls into
fabricated relationships and ultimately into
virtual imprisonment in West Bank villages.
He works with Jerusalem-based Learn & Live-
Learn & Return (www.learnandlive.org.),
which acts on pleas by family and friends to
intervene before girls disappear.
Some see it as a new form of terrorism
today that is being fought with roses instead
of guns, said Mr. Mozeson, drawing a distinc-
tion between fully consensual Arab-Jewish
relationships and those initiated with nefari-
ous intentions in response to a 2011 fatwa
(Islamic legal ruling) that Muslim men may
capture infidel Jewish and Christian
women and have sex with them.
The battlefields are restaurants and cafs
throughout Israel where Arab men often
pretending to be Jewish lure young Jew-
ish girls into a relationship, he continued.
Their motive is to convince these girls to go
willingly back to their Arab villages.
Once there, these girls are subject to
untold torture and abuse. Israels hot lines
report over a thousand requests a year from
girls trapped in Arab villages. Imagine how
many are unable to call.
The organization was founded in 2008 by
Rabbi Ariel Lurie, the director of a food-dis-
tribution charity. One day he questioned Jew-
ish girls getting into a car with Arab men, and
found out that the men had given the girls
gifts and took them out on the town. He was
so haunted by this idea that young, nave
girls can be taken so easily that he started
another organization, Mr. Mozeson said.
Learn & Live offers counseling, safe
houses, and programs that enhance social,
vocational, and educational skills in areas of
Israel that are home to a great number of at-
risk teens. That list includes ultra-Orthodox
girls from sheltered environments.
Live & Learns mission is not to prevent
Arabs from dating Jews, he stressed. We
are simply educating young girls as to the
Yoni and Navah Mozeson, identifiable by their sober clothing, stand with anony-
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group forming for the 5K in support of Connections.
I thought, Hey, I could do that, even though I
never did running before, she said. I contacted the
people involved at Connections and they said theyd
love to have me join them.
I figured if I am going to run, I may as well integrate
a personal challenge with a good cause.
true motives of certain Arab men. They must under-
stand that not everyone who buys you food and gifts
has your best interests in mind.
Before venturing out to patrol Zion Square and the
surrounding Ben-Yehuda Street, the Mozesons and
other volunteers were briefed by city official Nati Aviva.
The couple, who recently became grandparents, were
advised to be on the lookout for girls who seemed as if
they might need to be rescued from any group of men,
Jewish or not, whose intentions seemed suspect. They
were told not to endanger themselves and not to appear
confrontational.
Youre supposed to just let them know youre there,
Navah Mozeson said. If I saw a bunch of girls looking at
my Purim Patrol badge, I told them if they know anyone
in trouble who needs help or needs to rest, theres a tent
they can go to. You are not there to call their parents but
to give them a safe place to rest. At one in the morning,
when our shift ended, the tent was already full.
She hopes to volunteer again next year, perhaps at a
later hour, when the scene is even more intense.
Volunteer organizer Eliyahu Sargeon, a counselor
who works with troubled youth, told the Mozesons the
next day that eight girls were found to be in especially
vulnerable positions because they were drunk to the
point of total helplessness.
On Purim we celebrate grief turning into joy, said
Mr. Mozeson, who has rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva
University. In some sense, we were trying to make sure
joy didnt turn to grief.
In April, David and Cynthia Zimm will host a parlor
meeting in Teaneck for anyone who wishes to learn
more about the organizations work. For more informa-
tion, call (201) 677-8871.
From left, Eli Adler and Joshua Bock of Teaneck,
Eitan Bar-David of Riverdale, and Alex Shoenfeld
from Englewood all ran in the Jerusalem Marathon.
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BCHSJS will honor five at 40th year commemorative
The Bergen County High
School of Jewish Studies will
celebrate its 40th year at a
commemorative anniversary
gala on Tuesday, April 1, at 7
p.m., at Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff
Lake. The school is northern
New Jerseys only regional
Sunday program for Jewish
teens.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is
the guest of honor and fea-
tured speaker.
Martha and David Cohen will
be honored as parents of the
year; Aaron Friedman as edu-
cator of the year, and BCHSJS
board member Manny Genn
for his years of service to the
school. The gala also will honor
this years graduating class.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach,
a best-selling author, is the
founder of This World: The
Values Network, an interna-
tional organization dedicated
to advancing universal Jewish
values in the media and cul-
ture, and to affirming the Jew-
ish people as a light unto the
nations. He also is a columnist
for this paper.
Martha Cohen is a JCRC
board member and Berrie Fel-
low at the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey. She is
completing her term as chair
of JFNNJs Partnership2Gether,
where she worked to establish
the young leadership program
at BCHSJS as a sister program
to the one already running in
Nahariya, Israel. David Cohen
has served on the JFNNJ board
and has chaired the Israel
Program Center. Together,
the Cohens chaired the Israel
Action Committee at Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee.
Aaron Friedman has been
teaching subjects including
Mishnah and Talmud at BCH-
SJS since 2001. Manny Genn
has served on the BCHSJS
board for six years and is the
treasurer. He and his wife,
Myra, are involved in Jewish
community affairs at Temple
Emanu-El in Closter.
For information or to place
an ad in the ad journal, call Bess
Adler at (201) 488-0834, or go to
www.bchsjsdinner.org.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach David and Martha Cohen Aaron Friedman Manny Genn
Migdal Ohr fills
executive post
Norman B. Gildin of Teaneck is Ameri-
can Friends of Migdal Ohrs new exec-
utive vice president. Tony Fromer, the
groups president, and Max Thurm,
chairman of its board, made the
announcement.
Mr. Gildin brings more than 25 years
of fundraising expertise to AFMO. He
was most recently president of his
own consulting firm, Strategic Fund-
raising Group. Previously, he was the
chief development officer at OHEL
Childrens Home and Family Services
in Brooklyn and the executive direc-
tor/chief development officer for Met-
ropolitan Jewish Geriatric Foundation,
also in Brooklyn.
Mr. Gilden belongs to many trade
associations, including the Associa-
tion of Fundraising Professionals and
the American College of Health Care
Administrators. He is a past chair of
the New York Association of Jewish
Health Care Development Executives.
Migdal Ohr is one of the premier
networks providing essential services
for disadvantaged children in Israel. I
am elated to be part of a dynamic team
effort to serve these needy children at
risk and those who are less fortunate,
Mr. Gildin said. I look forward to work-
ing closely with the board of directors
and making a lasting contribution to
this remarkable agency.
There is more information at www.
migdalohrusa.org.
Norman Gildin
Israel and social justice debated at JCPA plenum
In his first public appearance
since joining the U.S. peace
process team, David Makovsky
spoke about the need for a
two-state solution and the
prospects for peace at the JCPA
plenum in Atlanta last week.
The annual plenum allows
Jewish community leaders and
representatives from 125 JCRCs
and 16 national Jewish agen-
cies to gather, learn, debate,
and vote on consensus policy.
In addition to Dr. Makovsky,
plenum delegates were joined
by dignitaries including the
head of the Episcopal Church,
Presiding Bishop Katherine
Jefferts Schori; Abraham Fox-
man, the national director of
the Anti-Defamation League,
and Jerry Silverman, the CEO
of the Jewish Federations of
North America.
Delegates from the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey to the
Jewish Council for Public Affairs plenum in Atlanta included Gale S.
Bindelglass, left, who is the JCRCs chair and newly appointed to the
JCPAs board; JCPA board member Rabbi Neal Borovitz; JCPA vice
chair Susan Penn, and JCRC director, Joy Kurland. Dr. Deane Penn and
former JCPA chair Dr. Leonard Cole are not pictured.
At a meeting of the Community Relations Council
Directors Association after the plenum, Joy Kurland,
left, its outgoing president, receives a sculpture
commemorating her service from Carol Brick-Turin,
the director of the JCRC of the Greater Miami Jew-
ish Federation, the groups incoming president.
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Federation group names honorees
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
holds its annual Physicians & Dentists Gala
on Tuesday, April 8, beginning with cock-
tails and a strolling dinner at 6:30 p.m., at
Temple Emanu-El in Closter. This years
honorees are Drs. Sari Zimmer Block,
Deane Penn, and Louis Evan Teichholz.
Ralph Nurnberger, a professor of
international relations at Georgetown Uni-
versity, is the guest speaker.
It costs $136 per person; $100 for young
associates, 35 years or under. Spouses and
guests are welcome. All dietary laws are
strictly observed.
For information, (201) 820-3936, email
kimberlys@jfnnj.org, or go to www.jfnnj.org/
pdgala.
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Schreiber is mens club man of year
The Brandeis Mens Club of
Temple Israel & Jewish Com-
munity Center in Ridgewood
will honor Howard Sch-
reiber at its annual Man-of-
the-Year Brunch on Sunday,
March 30, at 10 a.m., follow-
ing morning services at 9:30.
Mr. Schreiber is a second-
generation member of both
the congregation and its
mens club. His father, the
late Norman Schreiber, also
was a BMC man of the year. Mr. Schreiber
will be feted in traditional BMC style, with a
friendly roast and bagel brunch.
The immediate past president of BMC, Mr.
Schreiber has held many
positions in the shul and on
its board. He also is chair
of the Association of Food
Industries and president
of the Bergen Highlands
Ramsey Rotary Club.
On Shabbat morning at
9 a.m., BMC members will
lead services and past and
present club officers will
receive aliyot. Mens Club
Shabbat coincides with
FJMCs call to observe Shabbat HaCho-
desh, the Shabbat that precedes the first
of the Hebrew month of Nisan, when Pass-
over is celebrated.
Howard Schreiber
Ohel hosts legislative breakfast on Friday
Ohel Childrens Home
and Family Services will
host its inaugural legisla-
tive breakfast on Friday,
April 4, at 8 a.m., in the
offices of Bernstein Global
Wealth Management, 1345
Avenue of the Americas,
in Manhattan.
Its Public Service award
will be presented to New
York Senate Majority Co-
Leader Jeff Klein and New
York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver. Former U.S. Attorney General
Michael Mukasey will discuss Disabili-
ties and the Law. His son, Marc, a part-
ner at the law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani
LLP, will introduce him. Other elected
officials will be there as well.
Ohel provides an array of services
throughout New Jersey,
New York City, Nassau
County, South Florida,
and Los Angeles.
It serves thousands
of people daily through
its specialty in trauma,
school-based programs
in prevention and safety,
foster care, housing, out-
patient counseling, day
and empl oyment pro-
grams, and a summer
camp upstate for kids with and without
disabilities. It works with people with
developmental and psychiatric disabili-
ties as well as with people facing every-
day challenges.
For information, email ohelbreak-
fast2014@legislativeevents.com or go to
Ohelfamily.org.
Michael Mukasey
Jewish Memorial Chapel names
new managing funeral director
Allen Edelstein, the managing
funeral director at the Jewish
Memorial Chapel of Passaic-
Clifton, retired on January 31
after 22 years of service. Vin-
cent Marazo is the new manag-
ing funeral director.
Mr. Edelstein began his ser-
vice to the Jewish Memorial
Chapel when it was still in
its original home at 68 Howe
Ave. in Passaic. He began as
a funeral director, working
under managing funeral direc-
tor Irving Shapiro until Febru-
ary 2002. After Mr. Shapiro
died, Mr. Edelstein assumed
became managing funeral
director of the Jewish Memo-
rial Chapel of Passaic-Clifton.
He held that job for 12 years.
During Mr. Edelsteins tenure with
the chapel, he has conducted many
funerals and comforted countless
grieving families and friends in accor-
dance with Jewish tradition. The Jewish
Memorial Chapels board expresses its
deepest gratitude to Mr. Edelstein on
behalf of his service to the Chapel and
the Jewish communities of North Jersey.
Mr. Edelstein plans to spend more
time with his wife and family.
Mr. Marazo, the new managing
funeral director, previously worked
as a funeral director at Menorah Cha-
pels at Millburn. His many years of ser-
vice to the Jewish community in Essex
and Union counties has made him well
versed in traditional Jewish funeral ritu-
als and customs. Mr. Marazo has been
a licensed funeral director since 1979.
The Jewish Memorial Chapel of
Passaic-Clifton is a non-for-profit
Jewish funeral home serving the North
Jersey area. The chapel is owned and
operated by over 24 Jewish communal
organizations in Passaic, Bergen and
Essex counties.
Allen Edelstein and Vincent Marazo
AZA heads to NYC for networking
Last month, Mitchell Hirsch from Hill-
sdale was among the 35 BBYO teens
who gathered at Comedy Central Head-
quarters for a night of networking and
learning from BBYOs own Comedy
Central alum, Walter Levitt, its chief
marketing officer.
This was the first program for Aleph
Zadik Aleph (AZA), BBYOs high school
leadership program for young Jewish
men. It is an initiative that aims to help
young Jewish men build connections,
network, learn, and ultimately to engage
more of them in Jewish life.
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JCT annual Big Bread Burn coming
The Jewish Center of Teanecks seventh
annual community Big Bread Burn is set
for Monday, April 14, at 9:30 a.m. Called
the Al and Joy Amsel Memorial Biur
Hametz program, it is a memorial to the
Amsels, who gathered around a fire pit
in their backyard with their friends every
erev Passover for more than 30 years to
burn chametz.
A Teaneck Fire Department safety trailer
and department truck will be on hand to
give a fire safety learning experience for
young children and families. Streits Matzo
Company donated chocolate kosher for
Pesach lollipops for children, and Rabbi
Lawrence Zierler, a Teaneck honorary Fire
Department chaplain, will don his ceremo-
nial Teaneck Fire Department hat and coat.
Chametz should be in paper bags only.
The event is co-sponsored by the JCT with
the RCBC, the Jewish Community Council
of Greater Teaneck, and Congregation Rinat
Yisrael. The Jewish Center of Teaneck is at 70
Sterling Place. Call (201) 833-0515, ext. 200.
PHOTO CREDIT: MICHAEL LAVES
Local seder roundup
To date, the Jewish Standard has received notices of these local seders.
Check with your synagogue for service times.
Spode seder plate for
Pesach
Spode has Judaica line
Spodes Judaica collection celebrates Jewish festivals,
holidays, and special occasions. Its design, in the
traditional colors of blue and white, is based on
historic Judaic manuscripts from the 1880s and is
influenced by early ceramic tile motifs. Items in
Spodes Judaica collection include candlesticks,
Kiddush cups, honey jars, mezzuzot, serving dishes,
and platters. They are dishwasher, microwave, and
freezer safe, and can also be put in a warm oven.
The seder plate retails for $120.75 and is available with
other Judaica items at www.spode.com/collections/
judaica.html. See page 54 to win this seder plate.
Pre-Pesach food challenge in Teaneck
Corned beef and pastrami will challenge
General Tso or at least his chicken to
the annual pre-Passover food challenge
between Noahs Ark and Shellys, on
one side, and Chopstix, on the other. All
three restaurant will collect donations for
Teanecks Helping Hands Food Pantry.
Each year customers of Noahs Ark
and Chopstix vie for the biggest dona-
tions to help their neighbors, while prov-
ing their loyalty to their favorite kosher
food source, Noam Sokolow, owner of
Noahs Ark Deli & Shellys Dairy Restau-
rant, said. Last years challenge resulted
in more than 300 bags of cereal, pan-
cake mix, flour, tuna, ketchup, diapers,
and toiletries for the food pantry. They
came in just as supplies were low and
they were most in need, Elie Y. Katz of
Chopstix added.
This years contest runs through April
13. Donations of unopened, nonperish-
able food and toiletries can be dropped
off at Chopstix, 172 West Englewood Ave.,
at Noahs Ark, 493 Cedar Lane, and at
Shellys Dairy Restaurant, 482 Cedar Lane,
all in Teaneck.
Last year, Noahs Ark won the contest.
Noam Sokolow of Noahs Ark and Elie Katz of Chopstix
Monday April 14
Wayne
The Chabad Center of Passaic County in
Wayne, 7:15 p.m.
$48 adults/children, 3-12, free/$360
sponsor/$180 benefactor.
194 Ratzer Road. (973) 694-6274,
Rabbi@jewishwayne.com, or www.
jewishwayne.com.
Haskell
Chabad of Upper Passaic County in
Haskell, 7:15 p.m.
Led by Rabbi Mendy Gurkov. $40/adult,
$25/child
1069 Ringwood Ave., Suite 202.
( 201 ) 696- 7609 or Rabbi @
JewishHighlands.org.
Tuesday April 15
Wayne
Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne hosts a
seder with a potluck dinner, led by Rabbi
Stephen Wylen, 6 p.m.
$20 per family/$10 for singles, plus
a food donation to the dinner. Kosher
dinner, in lieu of a potluck contribution
can be arranged.
Reservations by April 9. 950 Preakness
Ave. Hope Haiman, (973) 305-6870 or
hopehaiman@yahoo.com or Michelle
Silodor, (973) 201-8741 or mdsilodor@
optonline.net.
Teaneck
Temple Emeth in Teaneck, 6 p.m.
Adult members, $40/$20 for those
under 13.
Adult nonmembers, $48/$24 for those
under 13.
Free for those under 5.
1666 Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.emeth.org.
Glen Rock
Glen Rock Jewish Center, 6 p.m.
Led by Rabbi Neil Tow. Vegetarian
dinners on request.
Adults 65+, $45/ 21-64, $50/ 13-20, $42/
7-12, $25/6 and under, $18.
682 Harristown Road. Reservations by
April 9, Judi Forer, (201) 445-1963 or judi.
forer@gmail.com.
Brooklyn
The 92Y in New York City presents a seder
with author/comedian Nathan Phillips
and Rabbi Dan Ain using the Bob Marley
Haggadah at the Brooklyn Conservatory
of Music, 7 p.m. Tickets from $90.
58 7th Ave., Park Slope. (212) 415-5500
or 92Y.org/Passover.
Wayne
The Chabad Center of Passaic County in
Wayne, 7:30 p.m.
$48 adults/children, 3-12, free/$360
sponsor/$180 benefactor.
194 Ratzer Road. (973) 694-6274,
Rabbi@jewishwayne.com, or www.
jewishwayne.com.
Nanuet
Nanuet Hebrew Center in New City, N.Y.,
7:30 p.m.
$25, 21 and older/ free for those
younger.
Reservations by April 7. 411 South
Little Tor Road. (845) 708-9181 or www.
nanuethc.org.
Paramus
JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth
Tikvah, 8:15 p.m.
Led by Rabbi Arthur and Shira Weiner
Adults/$40/ children, 4-12, $20/
under 4, free.
Reservations by April 3.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.jccparamus.org.
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Visiting
the elderly
T
he interview with George
Hantgan that was the founda-
tion of last weeks cover story
got us thinking.
Mr. Hantgan has had 98 intensely
lived years. Most people have never
met even one president in the White
House, let alone three, and probably
the number of people who have killed
a cockroach in a dining room there is
even smaller. Most people have not
been in on the creation of two agencies
that arguably did more than any other
to shape the local Jewish community in
which we glory now.
But even if you are not George Hantgan and by defini-
tion, with just one exception, absolutely you are not you
cannot reach even the near shores of old age without having
a repository of stories.
It is an undeniable if sad truth that many old people are
lonely. They frighten younger people, who see in them a
reminder of their own mortality, and they seem alienat-
ingly different. Sometimes they do not hear too clearly, and
sometimes their references are so dated as to seem foreign.
But the elderly are exactly as human as
the rest of us. Like us, they relish friend-
ship, companionship, and an available ear
and for that matter, they can listen as
well as they can talk, and they can pro-
vide hard-earned advice. They can give
perspective. In order to reach their ages,
by definition they have lived.
The elderly, like everybody of any age,
can both give and receive love.
The Jewish Home at Rockleigh, where
Mr. Hantgan lives, welcomes visitors.
Many residents yearn for company, par-
ticularly the ones whose children live
far away and cannot visit often, and the
ones who do not have children. Visi-
tors are always welcome to the homes
large, light-filled public rooms, and on
nice days, like the ones that we take on
faith will shine on us eventually, they can
wheel residents out to the lake and bask companionably in
the sun.
If you are interested in visiting Rockleigh, call the direc-
tor of volunteers, Charlene Vannucci, at (201) 750-4237. Last
week, Mr. Hantgan invited visitors to spend an after-dinner
hour with him. And if youre interested in visiting anyplace
else perhaps closer to home just call. Youll be welcome.
Not only will the person you visit benefit from it so will
you. -JP
KEEPING THE FAITH
I kitniyot you not:
The annual Pesach rant
W
e need a new opening verse for the Four
Questions. I propose the following: Why
is this night NOT different from all other
nights?
Here is another question (Pesach, or at least the seder,
is a time for questions, after all): What do Rebridge Beer,
Gluten Free Favorite Sandwich Bread Mix, and the gluten-
free version of Kelloggs Rice Krispies all have in common?
According to a Sephardi rabbi in Lakewood, they are all
permitted on Pesach despite the fact that none are so cer-
tified. The beer, this rabbi notes, is made from sorghum
and everyone may drink it, while the other two are only
for Sephardim, and anyone else who does not observe the
ban on kitniyot (see below).
He likely is correct, on a technical level. The only real
question is why anyone
would want to have beer,
bread, and Rice Krispies
(or Post Cocoa Pebbles) on
Pesach.
Pesach is eight days long
in the diaspora. For eight
days, we are commanded to
keep all leaven off our tables
and out of our homes. This
is because we are free to live
our lives without the crack of
a taskmasters whip on our
backs, are grateful to God for
that gift, and look forward to a time when all humankind
shares this freedom, in a world free from hate, divisive-
ness, and violence.
This is what Pesach stands for. It is why Pesach should
be different from all other days.
And yet we strive to make Pesach look ever more like
the rest of the year. Faux chametz products abound in
the kosher aisles everything from Pesach rolls to fake
pasta to pizza dough to too many more foods like these.
They all come with hefty price tags, yet we pay the price
so as not to feel deprived of our mundane comfort foods.
Once upon a time, such foods probably never would
have been certified because of the principal of marit ayin
doing something that has the appearance of being forbid-
den, or that causes another person to think that a forbid-
den thing actually is permissible. Such acts are prohibited
even if done in closed rooms with no possibility of being
seen.
Eating macaroni salad with your shmurah matzah
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in
Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.
24 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 28, 2014
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What did we expect?
S
o now we hear yet another
story about a Tweet from
Irans Ayatollah Khamenei
questioning the existence of
the Holocaust.
Then we get an almost instant reply
from the ADLs Abraham Foxman and
from the Conference of Presidents of
Major Jewish American Organizations
condemning Irans Supreme Leader.
That brings to mind a bit of wisdom
from Mel Brooks 1974 film, Blazing
Saddles.
When Cleavon Littles character,
Sheriff Bart, who is black, is dis-
couraged by the cold reception with
which the white people of Rock-
ridge have greeted him, he leans on
Gene Wilders shoulder. Wilder
playing the Waco Kid says, What
did you expect? Welcome, sonny?
Make yourself at home? Marry my
daughter?
Youve got to remember that
these are just simple farmers. These
are people of the land. The common
clay of the new West.
You knowmorons.
We know that Irans president, Has-
san Rouhani, and its foreign minister,
Javad Zarif, drew much attention last
year for acknowledging the Holocaust,
though Rouhani since has toned down
his recognition.
But did we honestly expect that Rou-
hani would give up his revisionist twist-
ing of historical facts? Did we expect
him to invite Jews to his house for a
mock seder? Or did we expect him to
host a Yom HaShoah commemoration?
Did we expect that just because Rou-
hani started out by blowing kisses to the
West, hes still not part of a regime that
wants to destroy Israel?
Perhaps Prime Minister Netanyahus
warning to the Obama administration
is true. Maybe it right that all these ges-
tures of faux friendship are a way to buy
time for Iran to further enrich its mili-
tary grade uranium.
So, to borrow the question from
Blazing Saddles, what did we expect?
These are people who want Israel to
disappear. These are people who held
American diplomats as prisoners for
444 days. This is a government trying
to ship weapons to arm Gazans and
terrorize Israeli communities. And it
is a government working to prop up
Syrias war criminal Bashar Al-Assad.
The common clay. You know
terrorists.
-PJ
Shammai
Engelmayer
George Hantgan, right and
the Jewish Standards pub-
lisher, James Janoff, hold a
copy of last weeks paper.
KEEPING THE FAITH
I kitniyot you not:
The annual Pesach rant
W
e need a new opening verse for the Four
Questions. I propose the following: Why
is this night NOT different from all other
nights?
Here is another question (Pesach, or at least the seder,
is a time for questions, after all): What do Rebridge Beer,
Gluten Free Favorite Sandwich Bread Mix, and the gluten-
free version of Kelloggs Rice Krispies all have in common?
According to a Sephardi rabbi in Lakewood, they are all
permitted on Pesach despite the fact that none are so cer-
tified. The beer, this rabbi notes, is made from sorghum
and everyone may drink it, while the other two are only
for Sephardim, and anyone else who does not observe the
ban on kitniyot (see below).
He likely is correct, on a technical level. The only real
question is why anyone
would want to have beer,
bread, and Rice Krispies
(or Post Cocoa Pebbles) on
Pesach.
Pesach is eight days long
in the diaspora. For eight
days, we are commanded to
keep all leaven off our tables
and out of our homes. This
is because we are free to live
our lives without the crack of
a taskmasters whip on our
backs, are grateful to God for
that gift, and look forward to a time when all humankind
shares this freedom, in a world free from hate, divisive-
ness, and violence.
This is what Pesach stands for. It is why Pesach should
be different from all other days.
And yet we strive to make Pesach look ever more like
the rest of the year. Faux chametz products abound in
the kosher aisles everything from Pesach rolls to fake
pasta to pizza dough to too many more foods like these.
They all come with hefty price tags, yet we pay the price
so as not to feel deprived of our mundane comfort foods.
Once upon a time, such foods probably never would
have been certified because of the principal of marit ayin
doing something that has the appearance of being forbid-
den, or that causes another person to think that a forbid-
den thing actually is permissible. Such acts are prohibited
even if done in closed rooms with no possibility of being
seen.
Eating macaroni salad with your shmurah matzah
Op-Ed
and tuna fish sandwich has the appearance of eating
something that is forbidden. Someone seeing it may think
it is real pasta, and that real pasta is permitted on Pesach.
For whatever reason, marit ayin no longer applies to
Pesach. That is wrong, because it gives the impression
that celebrating one of the greatest moments in our his-
tory, Gods redeeming Israel from the slavery of Egypt and
our birth as a free people, is too burdensome for us to
celebrate.
Some of the fault for this, however, must be laid at the
feet of those who make Pesach a burden foodwise by con-
stantly creating new unnecessary restrictions and adding
to existing unnecessary ones.
And, yes, this refers to the ban on kitniyot. Near the
start of the last millennia, a rabbi in Ashkenaz determined
that legumes (varieties of beans, lentils, peas, peanuts), for
one reason or another, should be banned on Pesach. Rice
soon was added to the list, even though the Talmud spe-
cifically (a) suggests that rice should be eaten at a seder
and (b) states that Yochanan ben Nuri, the lone dissent-
ing mishnaic sage who banned rice, was ignored by all his
colleagues (see the Babylonian Talmud tractate Pesachim
114b). For the record, he also advocated saying a form of
grace after eating bread made out of rice (see BT Brachot
37a), but not even those who ban rice from the Pesach
table agree with that ruling. Eventually, the derivatives of
these items also were banned.
Corn is also banned because corn is among the five
Land of Israel species that are not permitted on Pesach,
except that what we call corn was unknown before
Columbus set sail on the Nina. It certainly never grew in
the Land of Israel.
What is the result of the ever-expanding kitniyot ban?
You can buy a small jar of fake mustard for an exorbitant
price, even though there is nothing intrinsically wrong
with Frenchs Mustard. For that matter, there is noth-
ing wrong with Hellmans Mayonnaise, Heinz Ketchup,
or Dannon Light & Fit Greek Yogurt, among many other
products (there is that list again), or of Coca-Cola in a
white cap (the more expensive yellow-capped bottle is
the kosher for Passover variety).
There is the matter of minhag avot, the custom of the
ancestors. It is a valid concern, to be sure, but it is not
writ in stone. We do not observe every custom of our for-
bears, especially if we view the custom as misguided or
inappropriate. (All those who still take a live chicken on
erev Yom Kippur and wave it around his or head please
raise your hands.) Kitniyot never was appropriate. It was
labeled a foolish custom from the very beginning. It still
is minhag shtut.
Eliminating the ban would allow us all to eat healthier
and less expensively on Pesach, while also eliminating
the need for all of these faux chametz products whether
with a hechsher or on someones Excel list of acceptable
foods.
Have a wonderful, joyous, and kosher Pesach.
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From Rasha, with love
T
he Passover Seders of my early childhood
are now increasingly distant, cherished, and
sacred memories.
I recall most vividly two critical moments in
those annual family holiday observances presided over
by my father: the taste of the maror, the bitter herbs,
which I approached with a measure of trepidation and
the discussion of the four sons, which I found still more
frightening. Specifically, I recall a sense of dark dismay
at the Haggadahs treatment of the wicked son the
rasha.
My fathers Litvakish (Lithuanian) pronunciation of
that Hebrew term sounded to my uninitiated young ear
as if he were saying Russia. My father was a civilian
employee of the Strategic Air Command at the height
of the Cold War, intimately involved, for example, in
the Berlin airlift. I had a keen early awareness of the
enemy lawless, godless, despotic, and bellicose. The
emblem of SAC, a shield showing a powerful armored
fist grasping lightning bolts
against a clouded sky, hung in
my bedroom.
What terrible things could
a mere child possibly have
done, I wondered timorously
during the reading of the four
sons. What sins could he have
committed to merit being
branded with so derogatory
and frightful a title The
Russia with all the evil and
danger the name of the Soviet
Union evoked? How relieved
I was each year when my older brother volunteered
to read this passage, sparing me its secretly dreaded
burden.
It was not long before I was disabused of my misun-
derstanding of the Hebrew text of the Haggadah. In
time, too, Russias repression of Jewish life would soften,
the Cold War would end, and the Soviet Union would
be dismantled. A measure of freedom and democracy
and hope would spread throughout the former Soviet
States, including Lithuania (the ethnolinguistic source of
my youthful liturgical confusion) and Ukraine.
Though both my Hebrew language skills and my
understanding of geopolitics have grown considerably
more sophisticated since my childhood seder experi-
ence, I responded to the recent news of Russias annexa-
tion of Ukraines Crimean Peninsula with an eerily famil-
iar dark dismay.
The rasha of the Passover Haggadah, at least in our
traditional reading of that text, defiantly distances him-
self from the seders celebration of freedom: What do
these proceedings mean to you? he demands. With
analogous defiance, the Russia now occupying Crimea
insists that the West and specifically the United States,
its erstwhile Cold War foe has no legitimate interest,
no standing to object to its invasion of Ukraine: What
do these proceedings mean to you? In so doing, todays
Russia with an emboldened and increasingly despotic
Vladimir Putin at its helm also has rejected freedom,
embracing a bellicose lawlessness of unsettling his-
toric resonance. As the Haggadah puts it: Lfi she-hotzi
et atzmo min ha-klal By excluding himself from the
community of nations kafar ba-ikar he has denied
the most basic of principles the freedom that is the
birthright of all peoples, and the territorial integrity of
sovereign nations.
The Haggadah prescribes that we react to the rasha
with strength of purpose, explaining in no uncertain
terms that our course, our actions, are a principled
response to our historic experience: Because of what
the Lord did for me when I went out of Egypt. The Jew-
ish national experience imposes on us an obligation to
champion freedom, a moral and spiritual duty that we
are not entitled to shirk or to neglect. Ever since the
Exodus, freedom has spoken with a Hebrew accent,
insisted German poet (and, alas, Jewish apostate) Hein-
rich Heine.
As a Jew, my sadness (and outrage) at the invasion
of Crimea is compounded by the rich Jewish history
of that region. Jewish settlement of Crimea began as
early as the first century C.E., purportedly by descen-
dants of the Babylonian exile and deported warriors of
the Bar Kochba rebellion. The participation of Jews in
Crimean culture is said to have led to the storied con-
version to Judaism of the Khazar royal family, and after
their example, much of their kingdom in the seventh
to 11th centuries. In the 20th century, Crimea was the
site of a number of experimental proto-Zionist semi-
autonomous agrarian Jewish communities, which were
annihilated during the Nazi Holocaust. Greater Ukraine
has seen the best and worst of Jewish history: the birth
of the Hibbat Zion, Am Olam, and Biluim movements,
as well as the massacres under Chmielnicki in the 17th
century and at Babi Yar in 1941. S. Y. Agnon, Hayim
Nachman Bialik, and Golda Meir all were products of
Ukrainian Jewry, as was Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav.
Jewish communal and synagogue life continues in
Ukraine to this day.
No less than Jews at their seder tables, Americans
also have an obligation, born of our unique history, to
champion freedom, and to chart a principled course
worthy of that historic mission. A defining element of
the American ethos is recognition that all human beings
are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable
rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness. That is, America stands for the principle
that freedom is not a privilege granted by rulers and gov-
ernment. Freedom is a universal right, an inescapable
consequence of our belief in God Because of what
the Lord did for me.
The founding principles of the United States, not
unlike the founding narrative of the Jewish people
rehearsed around seder tables each year, require a
meaningful response and strength of purpose when free-
dom is threatened by tyrants and terrorists. The rights
with which we are endowed by our Creator come with
equally divine corollary obligations. The cost of meeting
those obligations, it is true, at times may be bitter. Per-
haps that is the true meaning of the maror the bitter
herbs we dutifully taste at Passover, as we refrain, tem-
porarily, from our ritual reclining. As a child, I would
have preferred to avoid the bitterness altogether. Now
I understand. Neither as Americans nor as Jews can we
discharge our sacred duties without a willingness to
abandon the relaxed posture with which we are accus-
tomed to reveling in our freedom, and when principle
so dictates, to face a possibly bitter course.
The hottest place in Hell, said Dante Alighieri, in
an observation framed and displayed in my rabbinic
study, is reserved for those who, in time of moral cri-
sis, remain neutral.
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of
North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
Rabbi Joseph
H. Prouser
Eliminating the ban
would allow us all to
eat healthier and less
expensively on Pesach,
while also eliminating
the need for all of these
faux chametz products.
Op-Ed
26 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 28, 2014
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Reclaiming Bruno Schulz
My eighth-grader is reading
Elie Wiesel.
Of course he is. Hes at
Yavneh Academy, and in eighth
grade, Yavneh kids study the
Holocaust.
And since he is my third
child, Ive had plenty of oppor-
tunity to note which books
schools assign to kids who
are learning about the Shoah:
Number the Stars by Lois
Lowry. The Diary of Anne
Frank. Night by Elie Wiesel.
To appreciate the extent of the world we
lost, it is essential to know about the life that
flourished before the Nazis came. For this,
people read Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Bashe-
vis Singer, stories of the fools of Chelm.
But thats because theyve never heard of
Bruno Schulz.
Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) was Polands
greatest 20th century writer, and the grand-
daddy of magical realism. Gunter Grass,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cynthia Ozick, David
Grossman, Meir Shalev, Jonathan Safran Foer,
Nicole Krauss each of these writers was
influenced by his work.
In his book of short stories, The Street
of Crocodiles, the writing is philosophical,
delirious, hypnotic, dreamlike. You dont read
Schulz for the plot; you read for the prose,
the intensely sensual visuals, the way words
unfurl like the leaves of a magical vine. Inani-
mate objects struggle to come to life. Secret
rooms grow strange, trapped gardens. A boy
becomes so light that he blows away with a
gust of wind. The narrators father fears cock-
roaches so much that he becomes one.
With precision and poetry, Schulz lov-
ingly describes the shops of his home town,
scents, streets, schoolboys, storms, town
squares, the relationships between members
of a quirky extended family. He invents char-
acters like Father, a dreamy, experimental
luftmensch; a provocative
housekeeper named Adela; an
aunt who dries up and turns
to ash from a fit of excessive
anger; a mob of villagers who
stone a flock of exotic birds
from the sky. He conjures up
a terrifying gale that barrels
through town, a comet that is
on a collision course with earth
until it falls out of fashion. He
describes simmering summer
days, tailors dummies that
may or may not constitute liv-
ing matter, an uncle who hangs on a wall until
he disappears. Schulz turns ordinary sights
into a world of magic and wonder.
How tragic that the world that he describes
with such vivid imagery is about to be utterly
obliterated.
Some random quotes:
There are things than cannot ever occur
with any precision. They are too big and too
magnificent to be contained in mere facts.
They are merely trying to occur, they are
checking whether the ground of reality can
carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fear-
ing to loose their integrity in the frailty of
realization.
From all the crevices in the floor, from all
the moldings, from every recess, there grew
slim shoots filling the gray air with a scintillat-
ing filigree lace of leaves: a hothouse jungle,
full of whispers and flickering lights a false
and blissful spring. Around the bed, under
the lamp, along the wardrobes, grew clumps
of delicate trees which, high above, spread
their luminous crowns and fountains of lacy
leaves, spraying chlorophyll, and thrusting
up to the painted heaven of the ceiling.
The dark second-floor apartment of the
house in Market Square was shot through
each day by the naked heat of summer: the
silence of the shimmering streaks of air, the
squares of brightness dreaming their intense
dreams on the floor; the sound of a barrel
organ rising from the deepest golden vein of
day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on
a distant piano over and over again, melting
in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the
fire of high noon.
Bruno Schulz was a shy, frail, brilliant
Jewish artist and writer who lived in the far
eastern Polish town of Drohobych, now in
Ukraine. At university, he studied to be an
architect. When his father died, he took on
the only job he could get; he became a high
school art teacher in order to support his
mother, sister, and nephew.
All that remains of Schulzs work are the
stories that make up The Street of Croco-
diles, and a second collection of linked sto-
ries called The Sanatorium Under the Sign
of the Hourglass. The unfinished novel he
was working on, The Messiah, was left
with non-Jewish friends for safekeeping and
has never resurfaced. (The disappearance of
The Messiah manuscript is one of the great
literary mysteries of the 20th century; it actu-
ally may be somewhere in Russia.)
Schulzs lush, effusively worded stories
give no warning of the conflagration that is to
come. Drohobych was a particularly deadly
place to be in the cauldron of World War
II. Nearly the entire Jewish population was
killed on the streets, herded into the nearby
Bronica forest and massacred, or transported
to concentration camps. For a year, Schulz
found a protector and patron in the person
of Felix Landau, an art-loving SS officer who
commissioned him to paint murals of fairy
tales on the walls of his sons playroom. Lan-
dau respected Schulz, even inviting him to
dine with his family.
In an epoch of murder on a massive and
impersonal scale, Bruno Schulzs death
stands out. On November 18, 1942, there
was an Aktzia in Drohobych. As Schulz
walked down the street, an SS man named
Karl Gunther came up behind him and shot
him. Schulzs execution was almost certainly
an act of revenge; during a previous killing
spree, Landau shot Gunthers dental techni-
cian. The next time he saw Landau, Gunther
told him, You killed my Jew. Now I killed
yours.
In Poland and in Ukraine, Bruno Schulz
is a national hero, celebrated as one of their
greatest writers. There is even a yearly Bruno
Schulz Festival in Drohobych, with readings
and stage productions of his work. But here
in America, among the Jewish community,
few even know who he is.
I propose we reclaim Bruno Schulz, whose
words have been a firestorm of inspiration to
some of our most gifted writers. Read a story,
any story, from The Street of Crocodiles.
High school teachers assign one to your
students. Students of social history read it
if you want to know more about what we lost
in the war. Lovers of literature read it if you
want to be consumed by fiction that burns
like poetry.
Whatever you do, read this book.
Helen Maryles Shankmans short fiction has
appeared in many publications, including The
Kenyon Review and JewishFiction.net. Her
debut novel, The Color of Light, is available on
Amazon. She lives with her family in Teaneck.
Helen
Maryles
Shankman
The challenges of aging
The question we are all too afraid to ask
As a recent retiree, I can truly
relate to the clich that I have
entered my golden years.
The past 10 months, since my
retirement from Temple Avo-
dat Shalom, have offered me
both time to disengage from
a hectic, fully scheduled life
and the opportunity to choose
to engage in new and exciting
volunteer activities in the com-
munity. One such new adven-
ture is my acceptance of a posi-
tion on the board of the foundation at Bergen
Regional Medical Center, the largest and,
ironically, least known health care center in
our community.
For a quarter century I
knew that Bergen Regional
housed the only adolescent
in-patient psychiatric center in
the county, and was the only
place in our community that
did detox for alcohol and other
substance abuse patients. I
also knew that it housed a
long-term care facility. How-
ever, it has only been in the last
six months of my involvement
with the foundation that I became aware that
Bergen Regional is the largest long-term care
facility in New Jersey.
The 2010 census showed that the fastest
growing segment of our population, both
locally and nationally, are people 85 and
older. Bergen countys 26 long-term care
facilities have approximately 3,100 beds. Ber-
gen Regional Medical Center has 574 of those
beds, and all of them are Medicaid eligible.
This means that anyone can receive treat-
ment at BRMC, no matter what their financial
situation might be.
These three core BRMC programs share
the fact that the issues they are addressing are
the ones that most of us are too afraid to face
until it is me or my parent who needs long-
term care, or me, or my child or spouse, who
has a substance abuse or mental health issue
that needs immediate attention.
I accepted this position on BRMCs founda-
tion board out of my understanding of Levi
Yitzchaks famous commentary on the fourth
child at the Passover seder, the one who
does not know how to ask. When it comes
to issues such as long-term care, most of us
are either too afraid or too overwhelmed to
ask the questions and find the services and
assistance that our loved ones need.
The primary mission of BRMCs founda-
tion is to be the advocate for the residents
and patients of our county-owned medi-
cal center. The so-called golden years of
so many of them and this is particularly
true for the residents of BRMCs long-
term care division have been tarnished
by both illness and financial distress. A
second but I believe equally important
responsibility I have as a member of this
board is to bring public awareness not only
to BRMCs specific programs and services,
but also to address and provide educa-
tional and informational forums through
which we, the citizens of Bergen County,
Rabbi Neal I.
Borovitz
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Letters
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On Steven Fulop
What an awe-inspiring, well-written piece
(Jersey City Boy, March 14)! Thank you
for such an in-depth examination of a
political leader we all respect for his core
beliefs and willingness to change the sta-
tus quo. President John F. Kennedy, upon
accepting the Democratic nomination for
President, said, Its time for a new genera-
tion of leadership, to cope with new prob-
lems and new opportunities. For there is
a new world to be won.... Mayor Fulop
represents that future, and we wish him
Godspeed.
And to the entire Fulop family, thank
you for sharing the intimate details of
your intergenerational life story. It is a
symbolic reminder of what makes our
country great!
Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver
East Orange
34th Legislative District
Former Speaker,
NJ General Assembly
Naming names
In reminding us of the anomalous names
of the protagonists in Megillat Esther,
Rabbi Engelmayer raises what might be
an even more disturbing question than
the names themselves (Highlight of the
Gods, March 14). Mordechai, he tells
us, actually means a follower of Marduk,
the Babylonian god of war, while Esther
is named for Ishtar, the pagan goddess
of love. These were common names in
the Persian empire. It is as if prominent
Orthodox Jews today were to name their
children Jesus, Christopher, Mohammed,
or Christine.
This situation certainly calls for some
rather vigorous commentary and expla-
nation One looks in vain, however, for a
discussion of the issue in commentaries to
Megillat Esther. Just about all of the com-
mentaries, especially ArtScroll, totally
ignore this problem. When discussing
the origins of the names of our Jewish
protagonists, Mordechai and Esther, the
commentators tie themselves in linguis-
tic knots trying to find some exceedingly
obscure Hebrew or Aramaic origins for
these names, and yet amazingly totally
ignore the elephant in the room, to wit,
that our protagonists are named for prom-
inent pagan gods! Nowhere is this even
mentioned, much less discussed! If I were
inclined to be disrespectful, I might say
that such blatant avoidance smacks of a
lack of intellectual/religious integrity, if
not actual dishonesty.
Explanation, anyone?
Jeff Bernstein
New Milford
More on U4U
Many thanks for your wonderful article
Unite4Unity brings Synagogues together
for Israel but I do wish to correct one
omission. Ari Hirt of Teaneck is our other
partner in Unite4Unity, and he has been a
core member from the outset supporting
the mission and efforts of U4U.
Unite4Unity is an innovative, grass-
roots, lay leadership-driven organization
that seeks to create interesting, dynamic,
and social programming and opportuni-
ties for Reform, Conservative, Orthodox,
unaffiliated and all Jews to interact, learn
from each other, connect, and build rela-
tionships. U4U hopes to serve as a catalyst,
fostering the unity of Jewish people by
encouraging the various segments of the
community to collaborate better and focus
on the critical, transformative, inspira-
tional, and existential issues facing us all.
U4U was founded by Ian Zimmerman
and me in connection with our participa-
tion in the Berrie Fellows Leadership Pro-
gram. We are assisted by others, includ-
ing Ari, and work in conjunction with the
JCRC, the Jewish Community Relations
Council of The Jewish Federation of North-
ern New Jersey.
If you feel passionate about building
greater unity in the Jewish community and
breaking down walls and silos and want
to join our efforts please email us at unit-
e4unity@gmail.com. We need great peo-
ple who can both imagine a united Jewish
community and do the work required to
make this happen to join us.
Lee Lasher
Englewood
Talking to Mr. Hantgan
Last week my eighth-grade class in Yavneh
Academy interviewed three residents from
the Jewish Home at Rockleigh via Skype.
George Hantgan, who was interviewed
by your paper as well (And then here
comes George, March 21), was one of the
residents whom we interviewed, and he
answered our questions with earnestness
as he told us his story. When we asked
about bullying in his teenage years, Mr.
Hantgan told us of his experiences in Flat-
bush, where he had gone to high school.
At that time, there were rarely any Jews in
the area, and therefore he was an obvious
target for bullying. However, his attitude
about it did not seem at all negative, as he
told us that they were only making fun of
him to try to prove that they were smarter
than him. His attitude toward bullying
inspired me to look at bullies from a new
perspective; as them being the victims of
insecurity and the others as the ones who
are being dragged down. Our generation
could learn a lot from his wisdom, as even
at a young age he knew how to deal with
bullying.
Mr. Hantgan continued telling us that
there was also a large amount of anti-Sem-
itism in this area. Nowadays, we could
never imagine the things he saw signs
that said, No Jews or dogs allowed, put
there by the government. Obviously, soci-
ety has changed dramatically since then.
We also questioned him about his life
during the Great Depression and how he
was affected by it. At this, he started from
the beginning of his life, with his fathers
lamp business. Many times Mr. Hantgan
would help his father out and earn 5 cents
for himself as well as dinner in a restau-
rant, a rare treat. When the Great Depres-
sion grew worse, his father was forced to
sell the factory and look for a new job,
which was no easy task. Mr. Hantgan
shared with us how he worked for a news-
paper route, delivering papers for 5 cents
a paper, and giving all his earned money
to his parents.
Today, we take many things for granted,
especially Americas recovering economy.
Mr. Hantgans stories reminded us to be
grateful for all the money which we have
and the big houses which we own. We
should always remember to especially be
grateful for being born in such a peaceful
time, when anti-Semitic signs such as he
saw no longer exist in the U.S. Listening to
how Mr. Hantgan cared for his parents was
a major lesson for me and my classmates.
Many of our relationships are not as car-
ing and do not include the same amount
of responsibility that Mr. Hantgan felt for
his parents. Mr. Hantgan is an amazing
role model for the next generation, and
we should always remember the lessons
the past can teach us!
Jessie Gronowitz
Yavneh Academy
On Wednesday, my Yavneh Academy
eighth-grade class had the privilege to
Skype with residents at the Jewish Home
at Rockleigh. The questions ranged from
memorable fads to the satanic Holocaust.
One resident interviewed was George
Hantgan.
Any question we fired at him was
answered with an eagerness to share and
inspire. We received information first-
hand from someone who experienced
effects from the Holocaust while living
in America, anti-Semitism, and even
the Depression. He recounted countless
tales from his childhood, which included
stories from his fathers business to sing-
ing in the shower. As we listened to the
memorable anecdotes, it became clear
that wisdom radiated from his very lips.
Mr. Hantgans fascinating childhood cap-
tivated the class.
One important point that he brought
up was the anti-Semitism in his lifetime.
He explained that he was one of the only
Jews while in high school and was con-
stantly downgraded because of his eth-
nic group. Mr. Hantgan shared how he
beat the anti-Semites. He did his best
to forget about it and move on, but, most
importantly, he was resilient. This lesson
is one that should be learned by all Jews
everywhere.
George Hantgan is the perfect example
of a person that all Jews should strive to
be. His unpretentiousness and modesty
is most inspiring. With his amazing char-
acter and calm personality, he really is
a dedicated and compassionate person.
Noam Putterman
Yavneh Academy
Its not her business
At first I too was gripped by Drafts of
Wrath (Editorial, March 14). In the end
I determined that this issue is similar to
others that I have read or experienced
recently. In two words, it is about per-
sonal struggles. Whether reading about
women/girls and tefillin or watching the
movie The Rabbis Daughters, it is all
about personal struggles.
There is not a living being who is
untouched by personal struggle. We can
debate their purpose or worthiness but
in the end the hardships are in our lives.
Sometimes they are self-created and
sometimes they are not. Perhaps because
of all Ive read or in spite of it, Ive deter-
mined that I dont want my personal
struggles scrutinized. Therefore who am
I to sit in judgment of others when I have
no clue how or why they have come to
their determinations and actions.
Of course I have feelings of what I will and
will not support, but in the end, I feel I have
a moral and ethical obligation to mind my
own business. My only obligation is to pro-
mote ahavat Yisrael, and I will do that out
loud while encouraging myself to withhold
judgment of my fellow Jewish people. I will
not promote negativity but choose to accen-
tuate the positive. My hope is that more
Jews will make the same choice.
Varda Hager
Teaneck
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Mr. Hantgans
stories reminded
us to be grateful
for all the money
which we have
and the big houses
which we own.
JOANNE PALMER
R
abbi Sharon Brous radiates
intensely concentrated pas-
sionate hummingbird energy
in almost tactile waves.
It is hard to imagine how anyone could
have done what she did created and
maintained a Jewish community that has
grown wildly, attracted devoted members,
brought disaffected Jews back to Judaism,
juggled the tensions between tradition,
innovation, accessibility, and fidelity but
once you meet her, you can see that if any-
one could have undertaken that impossi-
ble-sounding feat, it would have to be her.
Ikar, the Los Angeles synagogue that
Rabbi Brous imagined and shaped 10 years
ago, is now a 580-plus family shul, with a
150-child preschool, a multigenerational
membership, and a growing future. Rabbi
Brous has garnered so much recognition
and so many awards almost off-handedly
on the Forwards 50 most influential
Jews for years! On Newsweeks Top 50
rabbis list for years, once as number one!
Giving the benediction at Barack Obamas
second inauguration! that it is hard to
realize that she is only 41.
How did she do it? How did Rabbi Brous,
who grew up in Livingston and Short Hills,
got her undergraduate degree at Colum-
bia, and earned her smicha at the Jewish
Theological Seminary, parlay this fairly
conventional background into the creation
of Ikar?
First, there was her own re-awakening
to Judaism; the Jewish life shed known as
a child was strengthened and flourished
during a stay in Israel, and then nourished
as a member of Manhattans Congregation
Bnai Jeshurun. She spent her last year of
rabbinical school and her first as a rabbi as
a Marshall Meyer Fellow at Bnai Jeshurun,
learning how to interweave music, spiritu-
ality, and social justice from that large and
innovative shul. She went to Los Angeles
in 2002 with her husband, David Light. He
was going to pursue a career in screenwrit-
ing, and she took a job teaching in a Jewish
day school. They were both 27 years old.
I loved teaching Torah, but I kept meet-
ing young Jews hundreds of young Jews
who were smart and interesting and cre-
ative and totally disconnected from Jewish
life, she said.
We made friends, from Davids work
and from mine; we met friends of friends,
she said. There were a lot of Davids old
Camp Ramah friends. And I felt a sense of
great sadness because there were all these
incredibly talented creative young people
who would not engage in Jewish life, and
who had no idea of how Jewish liturgy and
life could touch them.
Even the friends from USY and Ramah
could find no way to connect to a mean-
ingful Jewish experience, she said. (USY
United Synagogue Youth is the Conser-
vative movements youth movement, and
Camp Ramah is the nationwide network
of Conservative summer camps.) The
camp people knew what it felt like from
when they were 11, or 14, or 18. They had
Shabbes at the lake, all dressed in white,
and it was beautiful and powerful and
meaningful, and then they walked into
conventional synagogues as adults, and
there was nothing there.
Camp is extraordinary. It can open up
peoples hearts and minds. It helps you
believe in the possibility of a deep Jewish
life, but when you finally have to leave
when youre 17, or 27, or 40 you cant
find that anywhere else.
Surrounded by crowds of no-longer-
engaged and never-engaged Jews, Rabbi
Brous felt a deep sadness. She and her hus-
band became involved with organizations
like Bend the Arc and Reboot, but she still
felt a lack.
Years later, she was able to put into
words something that shed felt back then.
I realized that what disengaged young
Jews are rejecting has nothing to do with
Judaism, she said. It has to do with the
20th-century iteration of institutional Jew-
ish life. What they objected to was what
they saw as being formal, please-rise-
please-be-seated, spiritually empty, often
intellectually unchallenging, sometimes
dishonest, socially manipulative, politi-
cally out of alignment, and generally lack-
ing in resonance.
This view was most prevalent, although
not confined to, people in their 20s, 30s,
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The essence is
to wake us all up
Ikar founder Rabbi Sharon Brous and local leaders
talk about building a living Jewish community
I loved teaching
Torah, but I kept
meeting young
Jews totally
disconnected
from Jewish life.
Rabbi Brous shares challah with preschoolers as they learn about Shabbat.
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and early 40s. It is an allergy to 20th-cen-
tury Jewish life, Rabbi Brous said.
(As she made clear, she was talking
only about the non-Orthodox world. The
Orthodox world is trending differently,
she said.)
And then, last year, the Pew study put
numbers behind much of what she had
intuited. It was that 22 percent of Jews
who were asked, What is your religion?
said None, she said. Everyone is baffled.
Who are those people? But I realize that
most of the people are the ones I have met.
Not one of them has not wanted to take
one day out of the week and designate that
as a time when they can change the rhythm
of their lives temporarily, go off the grid,
and re-engage with their dreams. None of
them are rejecting Shabbes. I havent ever
met any of these young disengaged hip-
ster Jews who reject the idea of prayer or
mindful practice, and none of them have
ever rejected the idea that social-change
work should be a core religious practice
and outgrowth of our spiritual and ritual
practice; they have never rejected the idea
that we can elevate the most mundane
things in our lives waking up, going to
the bathroom, sipping a cappuccino, going
to sleep.
None of them reject the idea that the
community can hold and sustain you
through your darkest hour, and join you
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They are not rejecting any core Jewish
concept tefillah, Shabbat, tikkun olam,
talmud Torah, or even the potential of con-
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immigrants or immigrants children, who
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But if we could only figure out the David Light, Sharon Brous, and their three children.
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The first year that Rabbi Brous and Mr. Light were in
Los Angeles, they held occasional minyanim in their liv-
ing room, and they invited 30 people over for a tikkun
leil Shavuot. That night they studied Torah, discussed
the road map for peace in the Middle East, and learned
about the history of the song Hava Nagila, among
other things. The minyanim drew mainly young rab-
bis and rabbinical students; the tikkun attracted peo-
ple who knew very little about Judaism. It confirmed
Rabbi Brouss instincts. These people were not hungry
for community, she said. They already have it. They
already have beautiful and full lives. But they are hun-
gry for Judaism, if we can show the beauty of Jewish life
to them, they love it and they want it, she said.
So for a year and a half, Rabbi Brous just listened to
people, learning what they yearned for. Then she met
Melissa Balaban, then a dean at USCs law school, and
her husband, Adam Margolies. The couple parents
of young children, and slightly older than what Rabbi
Brous has come to see as her target demographic
said that they had tried synagogue after synagogue but
found a home at none of them. We talked about the
profound disconnect among religious institutions, with
a tendency toward extremism and fundamentalism on
one side, and apathy and indifference on the other, and
the need to claim a serious voice for human dignity and
peaceful resolution to conflict.
I believed that if we put out an iteration of Judaism
that had purpose, was meaningful, authentic, and cre-
ative, then they would come to it.
I wanted to help stake out this ground of deep, pas-
sionate, dignity-centered religious life.
Ms. Balaban left feeling cautiously ecstatic, Rabbi
Brous reported.
She and her husband, as well as Ms. Balaban and
her husband, each sent out 10 emails, announcing a
religious service. Having invited 40 people, they opti-
mistically set up chairs for 20; 135 showed up. It was
2004, so it was just before Facebook, Rabbi Brous said.
Everybody knew each other. We were all connected
through one of the four people who sent out the emails.
Most of the people who came did not have much Jew-
ish background, and the service was traditional, but it
was one of the most moving davening experiences shed
ever been part of, she reported.
So that week, Rabbi Brous gave notice at her school;
she would finish out the year but then leave to start Ikar.
It was a huge risk. She had a seven-month-old baby;
her husband, as a writer, did not have a regular salary.
(Sharon Brous and David Light now have three children.)
I had no certainty that it would work, but I thought we
had to try it, Rabbi Brous said. I loved working at the
school, but I knew that it was not what God put me on
earth to do. I knew that this was.
Ikar launched in July 2004. We had no space, no
money, no photocopier. It was totally grassroots, just
people showing up early to set up chairs.
She would arrange house parties, little gatherings in
peoples homes. I would ask the hosts what it was that
they and their friends think about, and what keeps them
up at night. From there came ideas like a group for sin-
gle women. That in itself is not a new idea, but they
had never thought there was a Jewish frame for it, and
I would come up with a text. And of course there was a
social dimension to it, with people sitting together drink-
ing wine. People loved it.
Ikar took off.
(The communitys name means essence; it is the
point, the guiding principle, the focus, and the reason
I have known Rabbi Brous since 2001, when she
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How: The talk is free
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self-critic generally, and especially when
it comes to davening, she said. I am
very attentive to the mix in the space. If
I feel bored in services, or if I feel that
its getting stale, we stop in the middle
and fix it.
There are so many artificial con-
straints I want to create a space where
people can have a real experience.
Sometimes that upsets people, but thats
okay. I just want to wake us all up.
Sometimes I am equally uncomfort-
able. I am not the magician in the front
of the room, making things happen.
Sometimes I am also taken by surprise
or made uncomfortable.
For example? Things that will
awaken us do not always feel good, she
said. We are constantly moving things
around, making space for spontaneity,
and that is not always comfort-
able. I get nervous about things,
but thats good.
I am really okay with tension.
She experiments, secure in
the knowledge that although fail-
ure feels terrible, at times it is
necessary.
About a year ago, a couple of
hours before kabbalat Shabbat
services, I realized that I wasnt
excited about davening that
night, she said. I usually look
forward to it, but I was getting
bored.
So I moved us into a room that
was a third of the size of the usual
one, knowing that wed have
the same number of people. I put up a
sign saying, Discomfort is better than
boredom.
It was a total disaster. There are glass
doors at the back of the room, and every-
one stood outside them, in the porch. No
one would come in.
There were maybe seven people in
the room. Everyone else was outside. I
kept asking them to come in, but they
wouldnt. I was a huge brilliant public
failure.
And then we did it again the next
week, and people came back and said
Oh my God, were doing this again. We
hate it. Most of them came in this time,
but they stood in straight lines, as if
there were duct tape on the floor. I kept
saying that I want an escape from the
straight lines what would happen to a
Jew who could move a little bit? and
people thought it was weird.
And then we did it a third time,
and it was the best davening I had ever
experienced.
Once, she said, when she was asked
how she could be so brave, she said, Its
not courage. Its a form of selfishness. I
wasnt willing to be in a place where
we would fake-daven. I dont want to
pretend to daven. I want to really pray.
There is a tension in this, of course,
she acknowledged. She wants people to
be awakened, and that might cause some
discomfort. On the other hand, she does
not want people to be alienated. At times
that line is fine, and at times she has
crossed it.
One year at Rosh Hashanah, she said,
she pushed everyone to prostrate them-
selves during the Great Aleinu. I told
them that this will be a practice that will
be uncomfortable for all of you, but I ask
every one of you to do it, she recalled.
The spiritual power of this one ritual
moment is unmatched all year for all of
us, individually and collectively, she
continued. All of us acknowledge that I
cant control everything, no matter how
hard I try. I cannot. We put our faces to
the ground and our hands up to God and
say help me.
All of us the atheists, the cynics, the
diehards all of us went down. There
were 440 people in the room, and every-
one went down. So many people were
crying! It was so powerful.
But it was not a universally welcomed
experience. One man, who had been
among her earlier supporters, went
down, and then he got up and he left
and he never talked to me again, Rabbi
Brous said. He was really angry.
She tried to get in touch with him. He
relented only once in the 10 years that
have passed since then.
You really broke my heart, he told
her. And I didnt ask to have it broken.
Music is a crucial part of prayer at Ikar.
Rabbi Brous had first-hand experience
of its wordless, bypassing-the-brain,-
straight-to-the-heart power at Bnai
Jeshurun. Unlike the practice in Man-
hattan, however, at Ikar she uses only
drums, but no other instruments.
Her musical director, Hillel Tigay, is
a rabbis kid his father is the biblical
scholar Dr. Jeffrey Tigay, who has retired
from the University of Pennsylvania
and he has incredible fluency with the
nusach, Rabbi Brous said. Hes a Torah
reader can jump up and read anything
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rocker, and he has an eclectic musical palate.
We learn together every week, she said.
That strongly influences the music as well.
The music is a mix traditional Jewish
liturgical music, Arabic belly dancing music,
rock music. Some Carlebach, some Ramah
tunes, some Sufi chants. Sometimes its
something you wouldnt associate with dav-
ening at all.
The music isnt the same from week to
week. The basic feeling is the same, but I feel
that the world changes and we change from
week to week, so why shouldnt the music?
There is always the core service, and
there is always some element of surprise.
Sometimes it works, and sometimes it
doesnt.
She does not use musical instruments
for a number of reasons, she said. For one
thing, I want Ikar to be a holy space
for people from diverse religious back-
grounds. I know that not everyone will
come, because there is a woman rabbi
and because at times we have to use a
microphone, but I didnt want people to
be uncomfortable for that reason.
I also dont like using instruments
for halachic reasons, she said. And I
also dont want a service dependent on
professional musicians playing beautiful
music. I want to empower people to do
it for themselves.
Professional musicians also made fail-
ure less likely, she said, and in music,
too, beauty can come from imperfec-
tion. Sometimes we start on different
keys, and then we all giggle.
About three years in, we had an
incredible moment, she remembered.
When the congregation started to sing
the Shema, no one was in the same key.
Creating, balancing, trying
Local Jewish leaders talk about innovation
JOANNE PALMER
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ish millennials are a hard group to
reach.
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tion of Northern New Jerseys managing
director for community planning and
impact, and she is talking about the gen-
eration now in their 20s and early 30s.
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the Jewish world in general
is having a hard time attract-
ing young Jews, and the
problem is particularly acute
among liberal Jews.
For the millennials, the
idea is making the world
a better place, she said.
Everyone is worthy. That
makes the idea of being a
chosen people almost anath-
ema to them. They want
to make the world a better
place, but for everybody, not
just for Jews.
So pick, say, two or three liberal syna-
gogues, she was asked. (For the sake of
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servative; the terminology is a historic
artifact that makes no sense intuitively
but were stuck with it.) Point us toward
shuls that are thriving, where creativity
prevails, where spirituality or commu-
nity or shared purpose is bringing peo-
ple together. And dont go with the big
ones. We know about those. Lets look
for hidden glinting jewels.
So she did. Ms. Glass suggested look-
ing at Beth Haverim Shir Shalom in Mah-
wah, Congregation Bnai Israel in Emer-
son, and the home shul of her colleague,
Stephanie Hausner, who manages the
federations Synagogue Leadership Ini-
tiative and belongs to Congregation Sons
of Israel in Nyack, N.Y.
Beth Haverim Shir Shaloms com-
munity is so fully engaged, Ms. Glass
said. Membership numbers are rising,
no doubt aided, among other things,
by the clever videos the shul posts on
YouTube. The Hebrew school offers a
number of alternatives, including a pro-
gram that allows parents to study with
their children instead of dropping them
off, and the synagogue is deeply involved
with social justice. You drive onto their
property, and you see their little micro
farm, where they grow food for the local
community, she said. I was literally six
inches inside the front door and I knew
who they were. There are collection
boxes for this, sign-up sheets for that.
It is a different approach, and it
seems to be working, she said.
What he does is not magic, and really
its not brain surgery, the shuls rabbi,
Joel Mosbacher, said. Its all about the
relational side of things.
We focus heavily on trying to build
real relationships with people. It perme-
ates everything we do.
He used to meet with bar and bat
mitzvah students and their families
twice before the big day, he said. It
was to help the kids get ready for their
speeches, and to get to know them a
little big. The speech part they pretty
much could do in two meetings, but
there would be times when I would get
up on the bimah to give them a charge,
and they would be looking at me, and
I saw sure that they were thinking You
dont know me at all.
And in many cases they would be
right. I didnt.
So now Rabbi Mosbacher meets with
each family at least seven times. This
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It was cacophonous, Rabbi Brous said. It was dis-
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But then, on the second word, We found each
other. It was beautiful.
Life is like that, she said. Sometimes it is painful
and messy, and sometimes you have to figure out how
to find beauty anyway.
Ikar is a community that is in a state of constant
struggle and tension even if one of the tensions
between that idea the need for struggle and its
golden laid-back California glow. Its really serious,
and were constantly making fun of ourselves at the same
time, Rabbi Brous said. We are at the same time pious and
impious. Ikar evokes a wide range of emotions in its mem-
bers who include both the formerly unaffiliated and such
Conservative heavy-hitters as Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson,
dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Ange-
les, and Rabbi Aaron Alexander and Rabbi Cheryl Peretz,
both associate deans there as it plays as well with the ten-
sion between comfort and discomfort, between home as the
place that welcomes you and as the place that knows you
well enough to challenge you deeply. The tension between
the need to face outward, to where social justice is pursued,
and to face inward, to pursue a relationship with God, is a
foundational one as well.
We are a halachically serious community, and we want
this space to be accessible to anyone and everyone who is
looking for a meaningful way to explore and engage, Rabbi
Brous said. We dont want people to walk away from ser-
vices saying, amazing, amazing. We want them to feel
awake.
We want them to feel that there is something they can
do when they are awake thats the social justice com-
ponent, the work in the world and ritual is designed to
awaken us.
year, there will be 60 bar or bat mitzvah celebrations.
Thats a lot of time, he acknowledged. He also tries
to meet with congregants for no particular reason,
maybe over coffee, just to get to know each other; his
staff and key lay leaders share that responsibility with
him. People sometimes ask me how I have the time
to do that, he said. I feel that I cannot not have that
time.
If we dont do that stuff well, it doesnt matter what
else do. We can have the best program, with the slick-
est pr, but if we are not in touch with people, how
do we know what people
want?
New l e ader s a r e
recruited in an ongoing
talent search; whenever
anyone comes in to talk
about something they
bring an agenda; we are
there for that agenda but
we are also always curi-
ous about people. What
do they do? What skills
or talents do they have?
What are they passion-
ate about? Then he can
match the person, skills, talents, passions, and all,
with a need or dream within the shul.
These processes dont come into being overnight,
Rabbi Mosbacher said. It isnt a formula. This has
been a gradual process, and I am very proud of it. And
its not just me its the whole staff. We see it as our
role not just to serve the purposes of the corner of the
building that we happen to work in.
The staff also takes care not to let anyone slip away
unnoticed. I dont know how many times I have
heard people say that they left another institution, and
no one ever called me to ask why, Rabbi Mosbacher
said.
They ask. If it turns out that someone is moving,
that person is connected to a synagogue there; if the
moved is caused by financial problems there is help
offered; if there is anger or dissatisfaction it is talked
through.
Even social action programs are chosen based on
congregants concerns and interests.
I would like to think that if we are thriving, it is no
small part due do the intentional work we do, Rabbi
Mosbacher said.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein of Bnai Israel has a gift
for programmatic and liturgical innovation; she also
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seems somehow to be inherently welcom-
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encounter, Ms. Glass said. Whenever I
see her, I find myself feeling more serene.
Rabbi Orenstein approaches innovation
knowing that it can lead to failure; that,
she says, is freeing. You have to be okay
with the idea that some things will work in
the moment, some will work in the long
term, and some wont work at all. Some-
times both rabbis and communities are
risk averse, but if you dont try, in the end
you are taking an even greater risk.
When she first got to Bnai Israel, she
said, she began a drumming circle for fam-
ilies before kabbalat Shabbat services once
a month. It was great for everybody, she
said. Preverbal kids can bang a drum,
and so can the elderly, and everybody in
between. It was a great program, and it
brought out a lot of people. It was success-
ful for a long time and then we started to
have drum fatigue. This year, we did only
two drumming circles.
How to fill that 45-minute slot before
services? With different kinds of programs,
including, once, Elijahpaloozah.
I wanted to get people ready for receiv-
ing Elijah on Passover, she said. I told sto-
ries of Elijah from the Bible; we sang some
songs about him, and I did a little Elijah
quiz. Here is great man of God would
you guess that such a person would be
grumpy? They say no, and then I get to
tell them that he was.
My favorite part was a big risk. I didnt
know how it would play out. I called a
member of the synagogue who is a regu-
lar but doesnt come at the time when
the younger kids usually are there. They
wouldnt recognize him.
So I asked him if he would come, and
I designated a time. I said Be a little rude,
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ask for things.
In the middle of my telling a story
about Elijah, he came in, and said, Dont
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I looked around the room, and I saw
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tle alarmed.
He wasnt wearing a kippah, so I asked
my husband to take him out of the room to
put it on. Before he left, he said, If I dont
eat soon I will fall over.
My own daughter was alarmed. And
there was a little boy whose eyes got really
wide, and he said, Maybe hes Elijah.
When the man came back, kippah in
place, Rabbi Orenstein asked if he could
wait until she finished the story before she
gave him food. Then she read more about
Elijah, and said, You dont know who Eli-
jah is, so be nice to everyone you meet.
And then, she said, I have something
to tell you. This man is Elijah and he
isnt Elijah. They were confused. I said,
The name we usually use for him is Wally
Krieger, and he is a member of CBI. He
smiled, and introduced himself.
And then I said, But he might be Elijah.
He visits sick people, he helps poor peo-
ple, he comes to the synagogue and helps
the rabbi. Doesnt that sound like Elijah?
And one of the kids said, What should
we call you? Wally? Or Elijah?
It could have been a disaster, but it
turned out to be completely heartwarm-
ing. You never know.
You always want to be changing things,
turning things, shaping things, in a way
that supports the tradition. Its not to
change for the sake of change, but to bring
out the relevance and the importance of
the tradition in a way thats appropriate for
the audience, for the time, for the season.
She remembered a time in California
when she had taken a huge risk the
most crazy and daring thing I ever did,
ritually speaking.
She was rabbi of Makom Ohr Shalom in
Los Angeles then, working with Rabbi Zal-
men Schacter-Shalomi. It was the second
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JEREMY BOROVITZ
JERUSALEM Artem Zaptotski, from
Lutsk, in western Ukraine, sits in Hadassah
Hospital in Jerusalem, sharing his room
with a French chasid.
Seeing that I speak Hebrew and wear
a kippah, the chasid asks if he should
encourage Mr. Zaptotski to put on tefillin.
No, I tell him. Mr. Zaptotski isnt Jewish. In
fact, he had only one Jewish friend until
10 days ago.
As we are speaking, one of Mr. Zaptots-
kis legs slips out of his Yad Sarah-pro-
vided wheelchair. He struggles for a few
moments to shimmy it back into place,
sighs, and asks me for help. And as I, a
26-year-old Torah student from Paramus,
grasp the lifeless limb of this 34-year-old
Ukrainian lawyer, he looks me in the eye
and makes a verbal declaration before God:
I will walk again.
On February 20, Mr. Zaptotski was shot
by a sniper near Kievs Maidan, or Inde-
pendence Square. Enraged by what he had
seen take place on February 18, when the
government opened fire on the protesters,
he left his wife and two small children at
home and rode across the country by bus
to support his countrymen on the square.
While standing near Maidan that day,
one bullet pierced his lung, and another
pierced his legs. His spine also was affected.
But he is resilient. When he arrived in
Israel from Ukraine he couldnt sit up, and
his arms were weak. Today, he is sitting up
by himself, and he swears to me that just
the other day he felt a tingling in his toes.
When I first saw Marina Lysaks post
on Facebook a few weeks ago, quickly
reposted by a number of her friends,
advertising her efforts to send some of the
Maidans wounded to Israel for treatment,
I wrote a quick email offering my services.
I had met Ms. Lysak when I was a Peace
Corps volunteer in Ukraine. A young Jew-
ish Ukrainian who is well known through-
out the city as a top Hebrew teacher, she
has been to Israel many times, and it was
her early love affair with the country that
pushed her to organize this rescue effort.
Truthfully, I didnt see how she would
pull it off. But within a few days Ms. Lysak
and her team of four other Jewish Kievans,
with help from a team of other Ukrainians,
had found a plane, a pilot and $70,000,
with the proper documents to boot.
Ms. Lysak had been out there on the
square during the protests, volunteering at
hospitals, standing with her fellow citizens.
Her determination to send the wounded to
Israel was a way to let her blue-and-white
Jewish identity fly next to the yellow-and-
blue flag of Ukraine.
Anya Zharova called me, in response to
my email, a few days after the wounded
arrived in Israel. Ms. Zharova left Ukraine
14 years ago, when she was 20. While she
has been back to visit, she very much con-
siders herself an Israeli, and her young
daughter is a sabra.
I asked her how I could help, offering
my services as a Ukrainian-speaker. She
began rattling off ideas about organizing
volunteers to visit the injured and making
sure the family members of the wounded
were being looked after; just last week, she
sent them to the Dead Sea for some much
needed respite. By the way, she asked, did
I have $800,000?
Ms. Zharova has amassed a team of over
100 volunteers in Israel, most of them
originally from the former Soviet Union,
many from Ukraine. They are mostly but
not exclusively under 40, mostly Russian
speaking, and most of them did not know
each other until the call for volunteers went
viral. They are a constant presence at the
hospitals and can be found knocking on
the doors of Russian Jewish oligarchs at
their shore-side Netanya homes, looking
for donations.
Ms. Zharova told me that when she
first saw the pictures on the news of those
injured in Kiev and read Marinas initial
post for help on Facebook, it was Pirkei
Avot, not politics, that compelled her to get
involved. If I am only for myself, what am
I? she thought.
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to take on 10 of the injured Ukrainians, but the two most
serious cases, including Artem, eventually were sent to
Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. No matter that
there is no guarantee of inancial recompense. No matter
the strain this puts on the hospitals bottom line.
I stand in awe of these Israeli doctors, many of them
from the former Soviet Union, who are so eager to help
Ukrainians who were shot as they exercised their right to
stand freely. Now, they will help them stand again.
One of the lines Mr. Zaptotski kept repeating to me
when we met was Thank God for Israel. What was this
Orthodox Christian Ukrainian trying to teach me?
Perhaps it was thank God there is a country that can
sometimes allow its values to conquer its pragmatism and
its heart to conquer its mind. Thank God there is a place
where the people will care not just about you but will
have the foresight to ask your loved ones what they need.
Thank God there is a people to watch over him, and thank
God that Israelis are instilling in Mr. Zaptotski a dream not
so unlike the one Theodor Herzl talked about over a cen-
tury ago: That from the conines of his wheelchair, in this
land, he will learn again to walk on his own two feet.
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release of prisoners for the Palestinians.
Martin Indyk, the peace process envoy for U.S. Sec-
retary of State John Kerry, is in Israel and the West
Bank this week attempting to salvage the talks before
Saturdays deadline for a fourth release of Palestinian
prisoners by Israel.
We are at a pivotal time in the negotiations, and
we are encouraging the leaders to make the smart,
hard, and historic choices needed to achieve a last-
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condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of
the talks.
Israeli officials have said that if Palestinian Author-
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extension of the talks and the terms governing them,
which include refraining from seeking statehood rec-
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of 26 long-term Palestinian prisoners on March 29 will
not take place.
Palestinian officials have suggested that if a new
round of prisoners are not released, they will accel-
erate efforts to achieve statehood recognition outside
the structure of peace negotiations.
The parlous state of the talks has forced Mr. Indyk
and Mr. Kerry to abandon for now their hopes of
unveiling a U.S.-drafted framework for a final peace
agreement that would form the basis of ongoing talks.
Instead, insiders say, Mr. Indyk is simply seeking the
extension of the talks for another nine months.
Also looming large over the talks is Israels demand
that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
Mr. Abbas has said he could never agree to such a
demand; Israeli leaders say it must be part of a perma-
nent agreement.
The distance between the sides, barely a month
before the April 29 deadline initially set for the talks
to conclude, has led Mr. Kerry whose enthusiasm
has driven the talks to sound pessimistic notes.
The level of mistrust is as large as any level of
Kerry scrambles
Prisoner release,
Jewish state issues
threaten to sink talks
mistrust Ive ever seen on both sides, Mr. Kerry said in
March 14 testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Neither believes the other is really serious. Neither believes
that the other is prepared to make some of the big choices
that have to be made here.
A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
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release would go ahead.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Kerry
could reinsert himself into the talks as soon as this week.
Theyve been in very close contact as you know, because
we talk about this pretty regularly over the phone, she told
reporters in a March 21 briefing, speaking of Mr. Kerrys
interactions with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Whether
or not there are meetings next week, that is certainly pos-
sible, but were still working through the schedule.
A surprise Kerry stopover in Israel and the West Bank
would be significant because of his current preoccupation
with the Ukraine crisis. His meetings this week in Europe
are primarily focused on how best to deal with Russias take-
over of Crimea.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
greeted his supporters in Ramallah on March
20 after he returned from a trip to Washington,
where he met with President Obama.
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reporters in a March 21 briefing, speaking of Mr. Kerrys
interactions with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Whether
or not there are meetings next week, that is certainly pos-
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A surprise Kerry stopover in Israel and the West Bank
would be significant because of his current preoccupation
with the Ukraine crisis. His meetings this week in Europe
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know it.
If the European Union is serious about
threats to cut subsidies to the Palestinian
Authority should Mr. Abbas walk away
from talks, Abu Mazen will have no choice
except to fold, Mr. Alpher said, using the
popular name for the PA leader.
Netanyahu is aware of the threat of
delegitimation and boycotts, he added.
For both leaders, he said, as long as you
can extend this status of talking about a
nonexistent framework agreement, the
better.
Ghaith al-Omari, the director of the
American Task Force on Palestine and
a former adviser to Mr. Abbas, said the
alternative to talks for the Palestinians
seeking statehood status in world forums
is not an attractive one.
It is costly, he said, referring to the
cuts in assistance from the United States
and other Western countries that such a
course of action would likely bring.
Additionally, Mr. al-Omari said, Mr.
Abbas already played out the statehood
recognition gambit in 2012 when the U.N.
General Assembly accorded it nonmem-
ber-state observer status.
It is a strategy of diminishing political
returns, he said. When you go to the
General Assembly the first time, you have
TV screens. By the seventh time, when
youre at the World Health Organization,
it wont get much attention.
Aaron David Miller, a vice president of
the Wilson Center for International Schol-
ars think tank and a former U.S. Middle
East negotiator, said Kerry made a mistake
in allowing the advancement of the talks to
hinge on an issue as sensitive to both sides
as prisoners.
Its such an issue of sensitivity for
Abbas, it is the one issue that is likely to do
damage to the process, he said.
To restart talks, Israel had pledged to
release 104 Palestinian prisoners incarcer-
ated since before the Oslo peace process
was launched in 1993. All but 26 have been
Kerry
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released in three batches.
The issue is grating to the Palestinians in
part because they believe that the prison-
ers, who were convicted of involvement in
murders, were instrumental to the strug-
gle that brought Israel into peace talks
decades ago.
Several Israeli Cabinet ministers have
said the Palestinians have not demon-
strated seriousness in the talks, which
could relieve Israel of its obligation to
release the final group of prisoners.
The keys to the prison doors are in the
hands of Abu Mazen, Tzipi Livni, Israels
justice minister and top negotiator, said
last week.
Mr. Abbas told Mr. Obama when they
met last week that he would agree to con-
tinue the talks if Israel released some high-
profile prisoners, including Marwan Barg-
houti, a leader of Abbas Fatah movement.
Mr. Barghouti is serving five life sentences
in connection with terrorist attacks during
the second intifada.
Mr. Netanyahu is not likely to agree to
such a deal, given that his Cabinet already
is resisting the release of the last batch of
prisoners.
Israels demand on recognition as a Jew-
ish state also has re-emerged as an issue
in recent weeks, with Mr. Abbas and the
Arab League saying it is a non-starter. The
United States has backed Israels position,
though Mr. Kerry expressed consternation
recently over the issues centrality.
Mr. Kerry told Congress on March 15 that
its a mistake for some people to be, you
know, raising it again and again as the crit-
ical decider of their attitude towards the
possibility of a state and peace.
Jonathan Schanzer, a vice president of
the Foundation for Defense for Democ-
racies, said the real surprise was that the
talks had lasted this long. Mr. Schanzer,
whose recent book, State of Failure,
offered a sharp critique of the Palestinian
Authority, counted himself among the ini-
tial skeptics.
It has been moving forward better than
anyone expected, he said. Those who
pooh-poohed it have been wrong. But that
doesnt mean that it was a success. It just
hasnt failed.
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by her daughters, Barbara (Ethan
Brook) of Cliffside Park, Andrea of
Hackensack, and Meryl Finkelstein
(Robert) of Warren; a sister, Marie
Van Cura, and three grandchildren.
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Care Center, Somerset. Arrange-
ments were by Gutterman and
Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Marian Baer
Marian I. Baer, ne Levey, 78, of
Paramus died on March 12.
A graduate of Hunter College
in New York City, she was a sci-
ence teacher for 25 years at Public
School 119 in the Bronx, receiving
many awards including the New
York City Teachers Alliance Award
as best teacher in the Bronx. After-
ward, she was a docent and volun-
teer at the Bergen County Van Saun
Zoo in Paramus for 20 years. She
was a member of the Jewish Com-
munity Center of Paramus for 45
years and the Paramus League of
Women Voters.
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grandchildren.
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man, of Franklin Lakes, formerly of
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homemaker.
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dren, Florence Moffatt of Franklin
Lakes, and Paul (Gail) of Tenafly;
four grandchildren, and eight
great-grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to Tem-
ple Sinai of Bergen County, Tenafly.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Direc-
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Lee, died on March 24.
Born in Poland, she and her hus-
band, owned Skyland Antiques of
Paterson and Demarest. She was an
active member of the New Syna-
gogue of Fort Lee where she taught
Yiddish for 20 years and was a mem-
ber of Hadassah and the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades in Tenafly.
Predeceased by her husband,
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Deborah Kaufman of Fort Lee and
Ann of Edgewater; a sister, Doris
Sacks of New York; three grandchil-
dren; seven great-grandchildren,
and one great-great grandchild.
Arrangements were by Eden
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Medicine and had a podiatry prac-
tice in New York City for over 30
years. He was a member of the JCC
Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah.
Predeceased by his father, Alfred,
he is survived by his wife of 29 years,
Susan, ne Steenrod; his mother,
Beckie; children, Justine and Jordan,
and a brother, Stuart.
Contributions can be sent to the
John Theurer Cancer Center at Hack-
ensack University Medical Center.
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the late addition to the family. The film had a $150 mil-
lion budget, and it seems that little expense was spared.
I can attest that the moviemakers did their very best to
make this story look as real as they could. They did an
awesome job of giving us their interpretation of what
happened in those four short chapters in Breishit- the
Book of Genesis.
Mr. Aronofsky chose to pull together a variety of
stories in this epic film to best position it for popular
consumption. There are the love stories, there are bat-
tles waged between the forces for evil and goodness,
there are the sacrifices made to save the future, and
there even are Watchers, Transformer-like characters
who aid Noah in fulfilling his mission. There is even a
moment when we see an Abraham story element intro-
duced. Mr. Aronofsky was quick to say he inserted it as
a way to characterize God that he is going to wipe out
humanity his creation. We were trying to put that in
human terms. There are enough moral questions and
theological issues detailed onscreen to allow for great
post-viewing discussions and Bible study. We even are
treated to a refresher course on Creation and Adam
and Eves expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Noah
is pure enjoyment, though because of some of the bru-
tality, it is not for the very young.
In our post-screening discussion, Mr. Aronofsky told
us that he regretted calling Noahs protectors Watch-
ers rather than Nephilim, the term used in Gen-
esis 6:4. We thought it was too esoteric a term, but
it is not, he said. One of the attendees, Rabbi Noam
Marans of Teaneck, the AJCs director of interreligious
and intergroup relations, showed me the reference
to the Nephilim. It is at the end of parashat Breishit,
just before the Noah story. Rabbi Marans noted that
the rabbis struggled with the question of who exactly
the Nephilim who cohabitated with the daughters
of man could be. Were they fallen angels? Some
commentators thought so and Mr. Aronofsky and
Mr. Handel provide their own interpretation of these
Watchers, these Nephilim, in their film.
Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel invite you to delve
into their midrash and challenge them. If you are ready
for a fine biblical film epic, go see Noah!
Eric Goldman is adjunct professor of cinema at Yeshiva
University. His most recent book is The American Jewish
Story through the Cinema (University of Texas Press).
Noah
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