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Book mitzvah
Daniel Max Shapiro
received a lot of books
for his bar mitzvah.
And he couldnt be
happier about it.
As we reported in
this space back in Au-
gust, Shapiro set out to
honor his grandparents
Holocaust survivors
by gathering a collec-
tion of Holocaust books
for the Montclair State
University library.
Besides appealing to
readers of this newspa-
per, he wrote to many
global leaders, muse-
ums, and institutions around the world.
The result: he received books in five different languages
from four continents, 13 countries, three presidents of
the United States, and one senator Joseph Lieberman,
who wrote a very personal letter commending the project.
Books came from museums that were once concentration
camps and from survivors of those camps.
The Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education
Center in Philadelphia and the Nassau County Holocaust
Museum on Long Island invited him to their museums to
receive many books and posters, and to meet survivors
face to face. He took them up on their offers.
Congregants from his synagogue, the Jewish Commu-
nity Center of Paramus, also donated including books
they wrote.
Among those who declined the request for books was
Pope Benedict, who did offer an abundance of divine
blessings.
This week, Daniel presented the nearly 200 books to
Professor Ron Hollander, who teaches Holocaust studies
at Montclair.
Larry Yudelson
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When the questions are universal
schechter students quiz hubble astrophysicst on far-out matters
Larry yudeLson
A
t the Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County, educa-
tors like to stress the importance
of asking questions (or inquiry-based
learning in the educational jargon).
Last Friday, the questions or at least
the answers spanned 18 billion years in
60 minutes.
The New Milford school was hosting
a celebrity scientist Mario Livio, a se-
nior astrophysicist at the Hubble Space
Telescope Science Institute and author
of several books on physics and math for
a popular audience. Livio was raised and
educated in Israel, and began his career
teaching at the Technion there which
is where Schechters head of school Ruth
Gafni came to know him before coming
to America to work on the Hubble.
Livio displayed an image of the Helix
Nebula a ring of gas 2.5 light years in
diameter, about 650 light years from earth
in the constellation Aquarius to a room
full of eager third, fourth, and fifth graders.
Livios formal presentation was brief. He
described the orbiting Hubble telescope in
a couple of sentences. He averred that he
usually spoke to an older audience. Im
not that used to speaking to children of
your age group, he said. And he explained
that the beautiful colored nebula projected
on the screen had been thrown off by the
star at the center, whose radiation now il-
luminated the gas and created the beauty.
Then he asked for questions.
Dozens of hands went up.
After fielding a couple questions about
life in outer space No, we have not
found life anywhere else yet. But we have
found organic materials, the things bac-
teria are made of. Those we have found in
lots of places he called on a child who
returned to the picture of the nebula.
What will happen to the earth when
the sun does that? the child asked.
Livois gentle delivery was never more in
evidence than when he delivered the bad
news:
The earth actually will be scorched. All
life will be extinguished, and the earth will
fall into the sun, he said. But not to worry.
That will not happen for another five bil-
lion years.
Another question ranged backin time.
What was before the Big Bang? a girl
asked.
This is of course a very tough ques-
tion, Livio replied. This young lady just
told us that our universe we think
started with a big bang, and time and space
were created at the big bang. So she asked,
what was before the big bang?
Since time appeared at the big bang,
there is no before, because before as-
sumes there is a time before that; since
there was no time before that, there was no
before.
We know when the big bang hap-
pened. The big bang happened about 13.7
billion years ago. We know that number
quite accurately, but there was no time be-
fore that, he said.
Some of the questions were more
childlike.
Why do scientists wear lab coats?
Not all do. I dont. Normally its the sci-
entists who work with material that could
make their clothes dirty. Scientists like me
who sit in front of computer screens, we
dont wear lab coats.
And some cut to the heart of what Livio
sees as his educational message.
How old were you when you first be-
came a scientist?
Its a somewhat tough question to an-
swer, he replied.
I was always a very curious child.
Curious children you can almost say
they are already scientists. They like to ex-
plore and find out about things.
But to become a real working scientist
you have to study a lot. When all was said
and done, I was 30 when I became a work-
ing scientist. But in a sense you are already
a scientist if you are curious now, he said.
Livio had started his day at Schechter
speaking to faculty members. After fielding
questions from the elementary and middle
school students, he was escorted to the first
and second grade classrooms, where again
he fielded questions. One first grader asked
about Plutos demotion from planet status
in 2006 about a lifetime ago for him.
The question made the schools director
of academic affairs, Dan Jaye, very happy.
To know that we have created an atmo-
sphere here where a first grader is engaged
in a conversation with an astrophysicist
about whether Pluto deserves recognition
as a planet puts smile on my face, he said.
Third grader Mayha Schonberg reads her question to the Mario Livio. SSDS
Conferencing with an astronaut
a spacey day at Ben Porat Yosef
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id you ever wonder what it is like
to work in outer space?
Three weeks ago, students at
Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva Day School in
Paramus had the chance to ask astronaut
Shannon Walker that question. Walker,
who spent 161 days at the International
Space Station in 2010 and served as co-
pilot on the Soyuz flights to and from
the station, spoke with students at the
Paramus school via video conference.
She showed them a space suit and
answered the questions the students
asked.
It was part of the schools Discovery
Day, which takes students out of the
curriculum twice a year to focus on a
specific scientific topic this go around,
space.
Were looking for stuff they dont
necessarily learn in the classroom, said
Cindy Wiesel, the schools junior high
science teacher, who helped organize the
event.
Also on the days schedule: a chance
to examine a real moon rock, on loan
from NASA; the challenge of putting
together a puzzle while wearing gloves
in order to simulate what its like to work
in a space suit; a look at models of the
planets and their distances from the
sun, and the chance to feel how much
100 pennies would weigh on different
planets in the solar system.
The whole experience was
spectacular for the kids, Wiesel said.
Larry Yudelson
Astronaut Shannon Walker spoke via
video with the students at Ben Porat
Yosef BPY
A planetarium was set up in the Ben Porat Yosef library BPY
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By Jupiter! Of asteroids and dark energy
scientist makes a plea for unlimited curiosity
Larry yudeLson
A
s a visiting scientist at the Solomon
Schechter Day School of Bergen
County last week, Mario Livio
clearly enjoyed fielding questions from little
questioners.
In his day job as astrophysicist, he
wrestles with some of the biggest questions
in science.
In a paper published a month ago, he
speculated on what planetary conditions
are necessary in a solar system to support
life.
In particular, he showed that while the
asteroid belt proved fatal to dinosaurs
wiped out by an asteroid collision 65
million years ago in an earlier era of the
earths history those collisions brought the
planet the water that was needed for life to evolve.
That is because the asteroid belt is at the snow line
the region where water is far enough from the sun to
remain intact as ice.
But our asteroid belt, he discovered, is a specific result
of Jupiters position in the solar system. Were it absent or
more distant from the sun, his computer models showed,
the rocks and water that constitute the asteroid belt
would have coalesced into a planet.
To have such ideal conditions you need a giant planet
like Jupiter that is just outside the asteroid belt [and] that
migrated a little bit, but not through the belt, Livio ex-
plained in a NASA press release. If a large
planet like Jupiter migrates through the
belt, it would scatter the material. If, on
the other hand, a large planet did not mi-
grate at all, that, too, is not good because
the asteroid belt would be too massive.
There would be so much bombardment
from asteroids that life may never evolve.
Looking through a database of 520
giant planets detected in recent years
around other stars, he and his colleague
Rebecca Martin discovered that only 19
were far enough from their sun to allow
formation of an asteroid belt.
That may seem like a small amount.
But four percent is a lot, he said, ex-
plaining his finding to faculty members
at Solomon Schechter. There are billions of stars in the
Milky Way galaxy alone.
The question of whether there is extraterrestrial life is
not, however, the truly big question that occupies Livios
mind.
That question concerns what Livio said was the
Hubble telescopes most important discovery.
You may have heard that since the 1920s weve
known than our universe is expanding, Livio told the
Schechter students.
Until about 1998, we thought this expansion would
slow down.
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Why did we think that? For the same reason that if I
take my keys and thrown them up he demonstrated
just that they slow down and eventually reverse their
motion and come back. Because of gravity. The earth
has gravity and pulls on the keys and slows it down. So
we thought that all the mass in the universe would slow
down the expansion.
Instead, what we discovered in 1998 by measur-
ing the light of distant galaxies is that this expansion
is speeding up. Its accelerating. Its like I would take these
keys, throw them up, and instead of slowing down, they
would speed up. There must be something that is push-
ing on it, he said.
That force is a property of space itself. It is called
dark energy.
But what it really is and why it is remains
unknown.
It became the subject of his first book, The
Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the
Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos.
He has also written about mathematics. Is God a
Mathematician? published in 2009 examines the philo-
sophical question of how and why the abstract ideas of
mathematics match up with the reality of how the physi-
cal world works.
In May, he is coming out with a new book, Brilliant
Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein Colossal Mistakes
by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of
Life and the Universe.
His most important lesson?
Its important to be curious, he said.
That rather than astrophysics was the topic of a
talk he gave recently, which will soon be posted at Ted.
org.
They say curiosity is contagious, Livio said in the
talk. Lets make it into an epidemic.
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Innovative youth programs get green light
and funds from federation
shaar to open Gate of tomorrow even wider
Lois GoLdrich
B
y any measure, Shaar Communities is an inno-
vative venture.
Providing several gates of entry the word
shaar means gate the network brings Jews to-
gether around common interests such as study, prayer,
and tikkun olam.
We offer participants a choice in the content of
their Jewish lives and the opportunity to build commu-
nity for themselves around different modes of engag-
ing Jewishly, the groups spiritual leader, Rabbi Adina
Lewittes, said. While it might look to the outsider like a
deconstructed synagogue, were responding to the trend
of people moving away from large legacy institutions
and looking for smaller, more mission-driven Jewish
communities.
The Gate of Tomorrow, targeted to Jewish teenagers,
has been particularly successful, she said, noting that
with the help of a grant it recently received from the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, Shaar hopes
to attract even more youngsters especially those from
unaffiliated families.
The rabbi explained that given Shaars nature, If
someone belongs to another existing institution but sees
a program [at Shaar] that they want, they can add it on
to their Jewish affiliation without being confronted by
loyalty issues.
Some families, however, are not affiliated at all.
The great challenge in Bergen County is that more
than 50 percent of Jews who live here have no connec-
tion to the Jewish community, Lewittes said, noting that
Shaars expanded youth programs will complement
existing institutional models and create a low barrier of-
fering a welcoming and affordable way for them to find
a way in.
With the grant money, well intensify our efforts to
reach those Jewish kids whose families are off the grid
completely not in day schools, JCCs, or synagogues.
To do this, Shaar will expand its Mosaic of the Mitzvot
bnai mitzvah program and launch a new program for
high school students called Teens 2.0: Hitting the Refresh
Button on Teen Jewish Identity.
Lewittes said that the Mosaic program focuses not on
liturgy but on the spiritual aspect of preparing for bnai
mitzvah; it emphasizes what it means for young adults
to assume the full range of responsibilities
of leading a Jewish life.
Geared to seventh-graders and serving
from 10 to 15 students each year, the pro-
gram includes a wide range of youngsters,
some of whom also are preparing for more
traditional bar or bat mitzvah celebra-
tions at a synagogue. Rather than teaching
students about ritual, Shaar using the
tristate area as a living beit midrash/house
of study, as Lewittes put it stresses the
commandments to care for others, for
the community, for the environment, and
for those who are different. Graduating
students are acknowledged during a Shabbat evening
ceremony.
Andy Arenson, a member of the Shaar board and
the groups chief relationship officer, said students who
complete the Mosaic program often ask, Whats next?
She expects many of them to join the synagogues
new Teens 2.0 program.
Teens 2.0 will expose teens to professionals across a
wide spectrum of roles who will engage them in conver-
sation about the significance of Judaism in the work they
do, Lewittes said, noting that she hopes to recruit both
students who have been involved in the community and
those not yet active. Its an exciting way of getting to the
slippery issue of Jewish identity.
Weve tried to select people in the community who
are professionals in all different walks of life who can
speak to how their Jewish identity has informed their
values and what theyre doing, Arenson said.
One speaker will be the head of cytogenetics at
Columbia University.
Cytogenetics lab scientists make decisions every day
about prenatal testing how do Jewish values inform
that? Arenson said, noting that other guests will include
a musician, a journalist, and someone from the business
world. How did their values influence where they are
today? she continued. Why does it matter?
Lewittes said the program will help students become
more conscious of who they are as Jews, bringing their
values and heritage when they take over the reins of
society.
Her goal is to launch the program in
January with between 15 and 20 students.
Arenson, whose daughter went through
Shaars bnai mitzvah program, said that
while the youngster had been educated in
day schools and is very involved in Young
Judaea, Shaars program offered some-
thing else to her the opportunity to
meet and to bond with kids who were not
necessarily a part of her milieu, expand-
ing her awareness of people with differing
Jewish identities.
Over the years, weve had students
from Orthodox, Reform, Conservative,
and unaffiliated backgrounds coming together,
Arenson said. Some years, a lot have come from day
schools; other years many were from public schools or
home-schooled. Weve had kids from Tenafly, Demarest,
Closter, Englewood, Teaneck, Haworth, Harrington Park,
Oradell, Montvale, and other towns. Theres a low barrier.
They dont need to have a specific knowledge of Hebrew
or Judaism. It gives them the opportunity to connect
with Judaism in a way that feels comfortable to them.
Sam Forman, who participated in the first season
of the bnai mitzvah program and is now a freshman at
Temple University, where he plans to major in history,
said the Mosaic program had a long-lasting effect on his
Jewish identity.
I remember that one of the first things we did was
go to the Jewish Museum in New York City and look at
pictures of immigrants coming to the U.S. and what they
dealt with, he said. Coming from a family with roots
in Eastern Europe, the 18-year-old said the experience
made me feel connected with tradition. To see them
and their struggle in coming here is something I care
deeply about.
Im thankful that the program took me there, he
said. Ill always remember those portraits and pictures.
Forman said that if he still were living in Teaneck, he
certainly would attend the new teen program.
Explaining that he has felt somewhat disengaged
from traditional prayer, he said, Its about heritage and
continuing a very rich cultural tradition. I want to see
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how people deal with that to hear what people have to
say [about it] in a changing world.
In the meantime, Arensons daughter, now 16, is plan-
ning to join Teens 2.0, and so are several of her friends.
So is 17-year-old Sasha Kauderer-Abrams of Englewood,
who is a member of Shaars board of directors.
Kauderer-Abrams said she is reaching out to friends and
classmates who might be interested and using Facebook
to spread the word.
I am telling them that it is a great opportunity to find
out about different professions while engaging in inter-
esting conversations, she said. I am also stressing that
Rabbi Lewittes is great at translating Jewish learning into
personal and real life examples. She makes it real for us
and helps us explore challenging issues. Its also a great
chance to meet other kids with similar interests.
Kauderer-Abrams said that participating in the
Mosaic program was a great experience, because we
got to explore different aspects of Jewish life first hand
that were new to me. It was also great to have a chance
to talk about the bar/bat mitzvah experience with other
kids going through it at the same time.
Lewittes clearly is excited about Teens 2.0.
We feel really strongly about this, she said. To
my knowledge, its the only program of its kind to be
a connector between Jewish teens and Jewish adults
from across the spectrum engaging in issues of Jewish
identity.
Bringing Torah alive in the work of real-life Jews is
a potential source of learning that isnt usually tapped,
she said. We want the kids to see the potential impact
they can make not by becoming rabbis but by cultivating
a deeper awareness of the privilege and responsibility of
living as Jews in our world.
Rob Hyman, the federations managing director of
governance and strategic initiatives, said that Shaar re-
ceived its grant as part of the allocations process under
the organizations new funding model. Shaar submit-
ted proposals related to several of its gates, and the
review committee ultimately recommended the Gate of
Tomorrow for funding.
According to Hyman, the program was recommend-
ed for several reasons.
Its target population, Jewish youth between 12 and
18, is something that lines up with our priority areas
of Jewish education, identity, and continuity, he said.
The program also aims to engage the next generation,
which is a particular area of interest and emphasis to
us.
In addition, he said, It is innovative. It offers new
and different approaches to engaging the unaffiliated, in
particular.
With its focus on two of the federations main con-
cerns, and offering a creative and innovative approach
to doing that, the project was embraced warmly by
the review committee. Hyman also applauded Shaars
both-end approach, targeting both teens who are
Jewishly engaged and those who are unaffiliated.
For more information on Shaar Communities and
on the Gate of Tomorrow, go to www.shaarcommuni-
ties.org, email joanne@shaarcommunities.org, or call
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a Chicago businessman. Theres even a Lincoln Street in
Jerusalem.
Continuing the connection is this years Steven
Spielberg film about Lincolns role in the passage of the
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the one that
abolished slavery. Watching the film, I found it to be an
excellent way to rededicate an interest in Lincolns heart,
humor and wisdom at Chanukah time.
Another film, Saving Lincoln by director Salvador
Litvak, approaches the Lincoln story through the eyes of
his bodyguard. It might prove another way to light up a
Chanukah night.
Sarnas book would be good for any night of the holi-
day, which many see as a struggle for freedom. For me
it was a reminder that the dreidels message a great
miracle happened here can apply to the United States
as well.
In the end, General Orders 11 greatly strengthened
Americas Jewish community, Sarna writes. The suc-
cessful campaign to overturn the order made Jews more
confident. And Grant, to repent and to rehabilitate
himself with the Jewish community during his two
terms as president, appointed more Jews to office than
had any of his predecessors.
This Chanukah, when we stand before our lit cha-
nukiyot reciting Hanerot halalu, These lights which we
kindle recall the wondrous triumphs and the miraculous
victories, perhaps we can also recall the victories here
of Cesar Kaskel, Rabbi Wise, and ultimately Abraham
Lincoln, who protected our freedom.
So maybe they werent exactly American Maccabees
but Maccabee style for sure.
JTA Wire Service
Edmon J. Rodman is a JTA columnist who writes on Jewish life
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Rabbis speak out on U.N. vote
deal breaker, or opening gambit? Opinions and conclusions cover the spectrum
Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer Rabbi Neal Borovitz Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot Rabbi Joel Mosbacher Rabbi Lawrence Zierler Rabbi Benjamin Shull
Rockland rabbis react
Rabbi David Berkman of the New City Jewish Center
saw the Palestinian Authoritys move to declare state-
hood as going nowhere.
I dont think it will have any practical implications,
he said. Its counterproductive and a thumb in the
eye.
Berkman, who takes about 60 to 70 congregants
to the AIPAC policy conference each year, said the
move would not result in a Palestinian state or any
real change in the status quo. There are few parallels
between the Palestinians situation now and 1947,
when the United Nations created Israel, he said,
because when we asked for partition, it was felt to
be in terms of everyones interest. He noted that
the request was supported by Great Britain, which
occupied the region at the time.
Berkman said that the Obama administration
showed a positive sign by coming out forcefully
for Israel. The administration has not always been
perceived as supportive, he said.
I felt encouraged by Obama and the United States
stance on the vote in the United Nations in general,
and during Pillar of Defense, he said of Israels tactical
response to the recent barrage of Hamas missiles from
Gaza. As far as this administration is concerned, lets
see how it will be with Obama in a second term. But I
thought it was encouraging on an initial basis.
Rabbi Brian Leiken, who took over the pulpit
at Temple Beth Sholom in New City this summer,
concurred that what the United Nations had done
was a misstep in every way, but that nonetheless
it had to be viewed through the prism of the regions
history and the world bodys role in it. Before he began
rabbinical school, Leiken was a legislative assistant for
the Religion Action Center of Reform Judaism.
Unfortunately, due to the process and politics
that define the U.N., many of the decisions have had
a negative effect, he said. This decision in particular
does not present us with an agreed upon two-sided
path, but usurps the ability of the two groups who
should be communicating to do so.
As disappointing as it was to see the vote go
overwhelmingly in favor of Palestinian statehood, he
said, it was satisfying to see America stand staunchly
beside its democratic ally in the region. The real
decision about how America will stand with Israel will
be made by the American Jewish community.
Thats why ultimately its not who is in the office
that is most important, but how we are presenting
ourselves as a Jewish community to whoever is in office
that matters, he said.
-Marla Cohen
Lois GoLdrich
L
ast Thursday, the General Assembly of the United
Nations voted to confer Non-Member Observer
State status on the Palestinian Authority.
While the effects of this decision remain to be seen,
many local rabbis fear that the move will not lead to
peace but rather will embolden the Palestinian Authority
to sidestep bilateral negotiations. Others, however, say
this might be an important opportunity with the ball
now in Israels court.
Rabbi Benjamin Shull of Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake, head of the New Jersey
Board of Rabbis, said that It feels like tightening a noose
around Israel. I dont think its a good thing.
What is most troubling is that Hamas felt empow-
ered after recent hostilities in Gaza, he said, and the U.N.
vote, in turn, gives further public credibility to Fatah.
Most troubling is the chutzpah, in the sense that the
Palestinian and Arab community rejected the very same
opportunity to create a state [in 1947]. They killed the
baby in the crib and now theyre crying out for justice
when theyre the ones who committed the murder. Its
like the guy who kills both his parents and then asks the
judge for mercy because hes an orphan.
Shull said it is also troubling that the narrative put be-
fore the world is that Israels founding is illegitimate and
was at the expense of other people, not mentioning [the
Arab] response. That narrative seems to be accepted by
the world community. The vote was an official confirma-
tion of that.
Shull said he wished that the decision would lead the
Arab nations to be more flexible, but the world supports
their lying, as if they have no responsibility for their own
failure. What would lead to peace is more flexibility. This
leads to more intransigence.
Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer of Temple Israel
Community Center/Congregation Heichal Yisrael in
Cliffside Park (and this newspapers executive editor) said
that Peace cannot be achieved unilaterally. It cannot be
forced down anyones throat. Statehood cannot be used
as a Damoclean sword to hang over the heads of the
other side, as if to say, Concede our points or well go to
the International Court and have you charged with war
crimes.
No, he said, Peace takes two sides talking with each
other, engaging in confidence-building measures to-
gether, and making painful concessions for the sake
of no more war, to use Anwar al-Sadats words. All
the Palestinians and the foolish diplomats at the Glass
Palace have achieved, sadly, is to delay peace even lon-
ger than the intransigent attitudes on both sides have
already done.
Whatever anyone thinks of the move to gain recogni-
tion at the U.N., let us hope that maybe, just maybe, this
move will bring the Palestinian Authority back to nego-
tiations with the State of Israel without preconditions, as
some Palestinian officials have been hinting at the last
few weeks, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot of Congregation
Netivot Shalom in Teaneck said. At the same time, it with
great disappointment that I must note that Mahmood
Abbas speech at the U.N. was full of calumny and invec-
tive against the State of Israel that was false, infuriating,
and unhelpful to the cause of peace and reconciliation.
Another Teaneck rabbi, Lawrence Zierler, said he is
disappointed when the U.N. does things like this.
Its not unprecedented, said Zierler, rabbi of the
Jewish Center of Teaneck, adding that the world body
has always marginalized Israel. Still, he said, They
called us racist before and were still here. I dont believe
it stuck, and I dont think this will be more than a diplo-
matic fiction.
Zierler said he doesnt think Thursdays vote will
change facts on the ground. If anything, he said, it may
exacerbate tensions. The rabbi added that the vote was
an affront to history, taking place on Nov. 29. (On Nov.
29, 1947, the U.N. voted to end the British mandate over
Palestine, adopting a partition plan meant to foster the
creation of independent Arab and Jewish states.)
They had their state once before and they missed
their opportunity, Zierler said.
Rabbi Neal Borovitz of Temple Avodat Shalom in River
Edge said that Israel has been seeking peace for 65 years
and continues to seek it today.
Borovitz, chairman of the Jewish Community
Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey, spoke at the Frisch School on Thursday eve-
ning at a meeting called to express solidarity with Israel.
(The meeting had been scheduled before the U.N. vote.)
Borovitz said we can draw a lesson from the story of
Jacob and Esau, who decide to live in peace with each
other as neighboring communities rather than as one
big happy family.
Is there not a lesson here for the modern Middle
East? Borovitz asked. Are Israel and the Palestinians
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Last weeks Solidarity with Israel gather-
ing brought together a cross-section of
the northern New Jersey community, who
stood together with Israel during the Pillar
of Defense campaign. Participants from
the recent Catholic-Jewish Mission to
Israel, which was organized by the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jerseys
Jewish Community Relations Council,
spoke deeply and passionately about the
need for Israel to remain safe and secure
and free from the threat of further attacks
and terrorism. Those speaking included
Rev. Donald Pitches, president of the
Bergen County Council of Churches; Rev.
Donald P. Sheehan of the Guardian Angel
Church in Allendale; Rabbi Shmuel Goldin
of Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood; and Paul Lee, representing the Korean community. Rabbi
Joel Mosbacher of Congregation Beth Haverim Shir Shalom in Mahwah shared impressions of Israel; he and
Goldin both had been there during the military action.
Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer Rabbi Shmuel Goldin Rabbi Arthur Weiner Rabbi Lawrence Troster
crimes.
No, he said, Peace takes two sides talking with each
other, engaging in confidence-building measures to-
gether, and making painful concessions for the sake
of no more war, to use Anwar al-Sadats words. All
the Palestinians and the foolish diplomats at the Glass
Palace have achieved, sadly, is to delay peace even lon-
ger than the intransigent attitudes on both sides have
already done.
Whatever anyone thinks of the move to gain recogni-
tion at the U.N., let us hope that maybe, just maybe, this
move will bring the Palestinian Authority back to nego-
tiations with the State of Israel without preconditions, as
some Palestinian officials have been hinting at the last
few weeks, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot of Congregation
Netivot Shalom in Teaneck said. At the same time, it with
great disappointment that I must note that Mahmood
Abbas speech at the U.N. was full of calumny and invec-
tive against the State of Israel that was false, infuriating,
and unhelpful to the cause of peace and reconciliation.
Another Teaneck rabbi, Lawrence Zierler, said he is
disappointed when the U.N. does things like this.
Its not unprecedented, said Zierler, rabbi of the
Jewish Center of Teaneck, adding that the world body
has always marginalized Israel. Still, he said, They
called us racist before and were still here. I dont believe
it stuck, and I dont think this will be more than a diplo-
matic fiction.
Zierler said he doesnt think Thursdays vote will
change facts on the ground. If anything, he said, it may
exacerbate tensions. The rabbi added that the vote was
an affront to history, taking place on Nov. 29. (On Nov.
29, 1947, the U.N. voted to end the British mandate over
Palestine, adopting a partition plan meant to foster the
creation of independent Arab and Jewish states.)
They had their state once before and they missed
their opportunity, Zierler said.
Rabbi Neal Borovitz of Temple Avodat Shalom in River
Edge said that Israel has been seeking peace for 65 years
and continues to seek it today.
Borovitz, chairman of the Jewish Community
Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey, spoke at the Frisch School on Thursday eve-
ning at a meeting called to express solidarity with Israel.
(The meeting had been scheduled before the U.N. vote.)
Borovitz said we can draw a lesson from the story of
Jacob and Esau, who decide to live in peace with each
other as neighboring communities rather than as one
big happy family.
Is there not a lesson here for the modern Middle
East? Borovitz asked. Are Israel and the Palestinians
Rabbi Joel Mosbacher of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom in Mahwah addresses the solidary gathering in support of
Israel sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. Lisa appeLbaum
direct negotiations.
This wont further peace efforts at all, he said. It will
serve to embolden them to continue to seek their goals
outside the negotiations process.
Asked how the U.N. vote might affect the peace pro-
cess, Rabbi Lawrence Troster, rabbinic director for the
political action committee J Street, said that rather than
dwell on the vote itself, I think it will really depend on
what happens afterward.
A statement issued by his organization said the group
is focusing on the day after the vote because it is the
actions of the United States, Israel, and the Palestinians
following the vote that will determine whether we are
moving toward or away from a negotiated resolution to
the conflict.
We really oppose any retaliatory measures against
the Palestinian Authority, Troster said. It wouldnt be
useful. Were hoping that the responses will be measured
by the U.S. and Israel. Some will call for retaliation, he
said, but the majority will want to see something posi-
tive come about even if theyre troubled by timing and
tone.
Troster suggested also that this will be an important
time to begin a new diplomatic effort. Were calling on
President Obama to launch a renewed initiative for a
two-state solution.
He hopes that this will become an opportunity to
renew the diplomatic mission. If, instead, it becomes a
time for retaliation and shutting down of the peace pro-
cess, it will turn out to be no good.
Troster, who works with 700 rabbis, cantors, and
rabbinical students publicly affiliated with the group
through its rabbinic cabinet, said that virtually nothing
has been done on the diplomatic front over the past 18
months. Only Obama can do this, he added.
He pointed to a J Street poll conducted after the
U.S. presidential election showing that a majority of
American Jews favor a new diplomatic initiative and
strongly support a two-state solution.
I am deeply grateful to the United States for
its continuing support, Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of
Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood said.
I believe that it something that we should never take
for granted. Having a powerful friend at a time of such
deep isolation in the world is something that should be
appreciated. Obviously my position is the position being
taken by most Jewish leaders and organizations that
this is not a productive step. It is an attempt to take an
end run around the serious negotations and discussions
that have to take place.
What happened at the UN is posturing. As long as the
Palestinian Authority is unwilling to sit down, without
preconditions, to disucss all the things that need to be
discussed I cant imagine that there will be a peaceful
resolution to the conflict.
Goldin visited Israel in November, during the skirmish
with Gaza. One thing he noticed there, he said, is Its so
sad that no one is speaking in terms of a solution any
more. Theyre just speaking in terms of buying time.
destined to remain entwined in a wrestling match, or is
the applicable lesson of this story, a call to Israel and the
Palestinians to each make the hard choices that will cre-
ate a territorial compromise by which they can live side
by side?
Borovitz continued, Let us pray that Mr. Abbas
will recognize that like Esau and Jacob, [he] needs to face
his brother and with the elected leaders of Israel create a
sukkah of peace where the modern children of Israel and
the modern children of Esau can dwell side by side, each
in their own encampment, in peace.
He also called upon American Jews like their coun-
terparts in 1947 to pledge both financial and political
support for the people and the state of Israel.
Rabbi Joel Mosbacher of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom
in Mahwah thinks that the ball is in Israels court. I want
Israel to write the narrative.
Israel has a choice about what comes next, he
continued. Peace will take outstretched hands in both
directions. While he is not suggesting that Israel is solely
responsible for making or not making peace, This is a
moment for Israel to decide how it is going to respond.
Israel which I love so much has a moment to either
act in a punitive way or to seize this as an opportunity to
move the dialogue in a way that brings things closer to
negotiations.
Im not sure what will happen, he said. I do think
that Israel has the chance to respond and write the next
chapter.
Mosbacher, who was in Israel during the recent rocket
attacks from Gaza, said his heart bleeds for the people
there, suffering under constant attacks. While he worries
about Israel taking a hard line, he said, The world has
proven that maybe thats the only stance she can take.
Still, he added, I dont see how that is a tenable stance
for the long term for the future of the people in our land.
Rabbi Arthur Weiner of the Jewish Community Center
of Paramus said he does not believe the U.N. decision
will contribute at all to the cause of peace, and may
make peace efforts that much harder.
The vote, he said, undermined previous agreements
signed by the Palestinians that there would be no unilat-
eral action. He pointed out that last year a similar effort at
the U.N. had been defeated, with the United States and
its allies preventing a vote from taking place.
Its a stunning setback for the goal of the U.S. to pre-
vent unilateral actions and foster negotiations, he said.
It undermines the road map and the positions of the
Quartet, and it will alienate the Israeli public which
wants and is ready for hard choices and a two-state so-
lution by proving that negotiations and agreements
signed by the Palestinian Authority are ultimately worth-
less. Since the day the Oslo Accords were signed 1993, the
tactic of the Palestinian Authority has been to go outside
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rCa demands Jonah remove recommendation letter from website
Joanne Palmer
S
cience and religion are by no means irreconcil-
able, but sciences ever-deepening look into the
structure of things and religions understanding
of truths as God-given and therefore unchanging often
require each to do a delicate dance around the other.
Some things change, others remain the same, and our
human brains scramble to keep up.
Our understanding of same-sex attraction has
changed enormously over the last few decades. The
precise relationship of nature to nurture in human
sexuality in general is not at all clear. The biblical
proscription against at least one form of male same-sex
behavior is clear; it is called an abomination in Leviticus
18:22. Society in general has become much more
accepting of openly gay men and lesbians. Religious
organizations have had to confront the increasingly
pressing need to reach out to them and welcome them,
even though, in many parts of the Jewish world, they
must continue to make clear that they disapprove of their
sexuality.
Jonah, a Jersey-City based organization that claims to
help men and women struggling with unwanted same-
sex attractions to journey out of homosexuality, uses a
form of treatment it calls gender-affirming processes
and its opponents call aversion therapy.
Jonah finds itself beleaguered of late. It is being sued
by four gay men and their mothers, who say that the
therapy it offers does not work and has harmed them. In
a novel move, the men and their mothers are suing for
fraud.
The Rabbinical Council of America, the umbrella
group of Orthodox rabbis, wrote a message to Jonah in
2004, and Jonah posted the note on its website, www.
jonahweb.org. That message suggests that rabbis
should consider getting in touch with Jonah if they
have congregants dealing with unwanted same sex
attractions, or any families who have a member thereof
facing such an attraction.
However, the RCA says, its 2004 pro-Jonah message no
longer reflects its position with any accuracy. That is why
the RCA sent out a press release on Thursday, Nov. 29,
saying that its members could no longer endorse Jonahs
methods.
Moreover, according to the press release, in 2011 the
group decided to withdraw its original letter referencing
Jonah. Despite numerous attempts by the RCA to
have mention of that original letter removed from the
Jonah website, our calls, letters, and emails remain
unanswered.
We believe that properly trained mental health
professionals who abide by the values and ethics of their
professions can and do make a difference in the lives of
their patients and clients, the press release continued.
The RCA believes that responsible therapists, in
partnership with amenable clients, should be able to
work on whatever issues those clients voluntarily bring
to the session. Allegations made against Jonah lead us to
question whether Jonah meets those standards.
Shmuel Goldin, rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Torah
in Englewood, is the RCAs president. The email was sent
out now, he said, because, with the lawsuit pending,
the RCA feels that its important that our position be
properly understood.
see Jonah page 38
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University, along with its 10 affiliate Chabad houses that
service central and southern New Jersey, will hold its
National Founders Dinner at the Grand Ballroom of the
Chabad House in New Brunswick on Thursday, Dec. 13,
at 6 p.m. More than 500 community leaders and support-
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University president Dr. Robert L. Barchi and Ronald C.
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JCCP celebrating 60 years
The Jewish Community Center of Paramus hosts a 60th
anniversary Shabbat service and luncheon on Dec. 8.
After services two are offered, egalitarian and tradi-
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JCCP charter members Irene Reiss, Lotte and Fred
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Shul hosting hurricane concert
The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation. Bnai Israel
plans a Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert on Sunday, Dec.
16, at the synagogue, 10-10 Norma Ave.
At 2 p.m., there will be a bake sale, nail design station,
and activities for children. The concert at 3 will feature
students from the Believe in Music Studio.
There is a $10 per person suggested donation; all pro-
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The importance
of desire
Why Jewish lust
trumps Christian love
Shmuley Boteach
W
hatever happened to love? It
does not seem to work that well
these days.
People fall in love and expect to be happy,
but find themselves a little while later not as
excited and not as engaged. We all aspire to
fall in love and stay in love. Yet we struggle to
find examples of people who have actually
found the happiness they we seek.
Sure, many married couples seem stable
and comfortable. But they are not necessarily
that excited.
Why? Because love never was meant to
serve as the glue that keeps couples together
romantically. Love is not strong enough to
do that. Essentially, we were lied to about
relationships. Every time we saw a couple in
a movie fall in love, marry, and live happily
ever after, we were misled not because
that couple could not live happily ever after,
which they could, but because we were not
shown them gradually losing the passionate
adhesive that kept them longing for each
other.
Interestingly, whereas Christianity
believes that marriages should be based on
love and friendship, Judaism believes they
should be based on lust and desire. Seriously.
That is why the Ten Commandments say
we should not covet our neighbors wife.
By direct implication, that means each of
us men sure as heck ought to be coveting
our own wife. Covetousness in marriage
is a divine commandment. Likewise, Shir
Hashirim, the Song of Songs, which the
Talmud says is the holiest book of the Bible,
the Tanach, on the surface at least is about
the erotic desire of a man for a woman,
something that is celebrated in Judaism.
So how did we get it so wrong? How did
love come to trump lust? Why have we, for
centuries, based marriages on the weaker
link of love instead of the nuclear bond of
erotic desire?
To many, this would seem a crazy
question. Love is everything, right? Even God
is love?
Really? Who said these things? Why do we
just take them for granted as truths?
Christianity is the source for God being
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the author of (among
others) Kosher Sex, is currently writing a new
book on relationships entitled Kosher Lust. His lat-
est book, The Fed-Up Man of Faith: Challenging
God in the Face of Tragedy and Suffering, will be
published in the next few weeks.
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The write stuff
I
n an editorial last week, we made a case for end-of-year
donations going specifically to Jewish Family Service of
Bergen and North Hudson and Jewish Family Service of
North Jersey.
We have other end-of-year giving suggestions as well.
Why are we making any suggestions at all?
The answer, of course, is that there are just 24 days left to
make the kinds of donations that will lower our income tax bills
for the year.
That is why there are so many pulls on our discretionary
pursestrings these days. We all are being inundated with scores
of causes, many quite worthy, looking for a share of our tax-
saving largesse.
Yet how do we decide to whom to give? Do we send
money to a hospital, or an educational institution, or a public
broadcasting entity, or an animal welfare society? Should we
send small checks to all, or one or two large checks to the most
worthy? Which is the most worthy?
The answer, this year perhaps more than most years, is to
follow the dictates of Jewish law. To quote from the Book of
Deuteronomy, open your hand to the poor and needy kinsman
in your land. The operative phrase here is in your land. We
give to our own before we give to others; we give to the near
before we give to the far away; we give to the need that is most
urgent, rather than the most attractive or politically correct.
In addition to the two JFS agencies, then, let us prioritize our
giving so that our local synagogue, the rabbis discretionary fund,
the local volunteer emergency responders organization, and our
favorite area day school or special needs program all benefit.
Above all, there is the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey. Like the two JFS agencies, it was out there doing what was
needed to be done to help us get through the crisis of Hurricane
Sandy, and it did so while also dealing with its everyday slate of
good works.
By all means, send money to worthy causes in Israel and
elsewhere, but remember that we first must take care of our own
close to home, and only then begin to move out to help meet the
needs of others. Remember, too, that part of a donation to JFNNJ
will probably wind up going to many of the very places overseas
that we would have chosen on our own.
Last year at this time, there were many people in our area
who would have laughed at the notion that they would need to
turn to the community for assistance. Many wrote their checks
accordingly. Now we all know better. We all know that we can
never know when we will be the ones who need the help.
As Maimonides put it, A relative in need takes precedence
to all others, a member in need of ones household takes
precedence over those in need in ones city, the needy of ones
city take precedence over those in need in another city
What a pity it would be if, when the next disaster strikes, the
help we need was not available because we again chose the far
away over the near and dear.
Bad moves all around
T
he United Nations General Assembly once again demon-
strated a lack of common sense in the pursuit of Middle
East peace.
On the 65th anniversary of Resolution 181, which partitioned
Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, it handed the
Palestinian Authority a worthless victory. Comments made by
the representatives of various member states made it clear that
the date was significant because the Jewish state stifled the birth
of the Arab state, and now matters were being set right.
That is a lie. The members of the General Assembly know
it is a lie. They know that Israel accepted Resolution 181 and
that the Arab states did not. They know that Egypt, Jordan, and
Syria invaded the proposed Jewish state and lost, then chose to
occupy portions of the territory meant for the Palestinian Arabs.
It was they who shut down the hopes of the Palestinians.
What was, of course, is irrelevant to what is. There is a
Palestinian state in formation and it exists beside Israel. Israels
continuing administration of that territory is not in its own best
interest. A two-state solution is the only truly viable solution.
That solution, however, cannot come by lying about the past.
It also cannot be brought about by United Nations fiat. Only
through negotiations can it be achieved and can peace be given
a chance.
As we said last week, even nominally granting statehood
status to the PA is to set back the peace process, perhaps by
years.
Israels response, however, is no more helpful. What benefit is
there to threatening to build more settlements on the west bank?
Will that end the killing? Will that obliterate the hate? Will that
help build the kind of confidence necessary to achieve concord?
In a statement earlier this week, the White House said, We
urge the parties to cease unilateral actions and take concrete
steps to return to direct negotiations, so all the issues can be
discussed and the goal of two states living side by side in peace
and security can be realized.
We second that. We second this statement by a former
president of the United States, as well. Civility, John F. Kennedy
said in his inaugural address, is not a sign of weakness; sincerity
is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But
let us never fear to negotiate.
It is time to put sincerity of both sides to the test. It is time to
negotiate.
love and for marriages being based on love rather than
lust. Its source is not the Tanach, but Christian sacred
literature: The one who does not love does not know
God, for God is love (1 John 4:8). This sentiment is
repeated again a few verses later: And we have come
to know and have believed the love which God has for
us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in
God, and God abides in him (1 John 4:16).
In Judaism, God is not so monolithic as to be
described as love. In a world of Nazis and al Qaida
terrorists and ethnic cleansing and the like, do we really
want a God who is all love? Or do we want a God who is
part justice?
God is not love. God is utterly beyond emotion; God
defies description. At times, God is loving and at times
God is jealous or punitive. God needs a rainbow in the
heavens to keep His anger from getting out of control.
It was Paul of Tarsus who famously said in the
Christian text 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, Love is patient, love
is kind. Love never fails.
What an excellent description of the virtue of
love and its limitations! If anyone wants to have a
romantic relationship based on these warm and cuddly
attributes, that is fine. But while love is warm, lust is
passionate. While love seeks to share, lust seeks to
acquire. While love can be satiated, lust never can be.
The average wife today feels loved, but what she
really wants is to feel desired, which explains why
women are reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their
millions.
While Christianity posits love as the foundation of a
relationship, Judaism always emphasized desire.
Marriages and relationships in modern times are
built on love, not lust, and I believe this is the principal
reason for their breakdown.
Several times a week, I counsel couples in crisis. They
come with the usual panoply of issues that surround
broken marriages absence of communication, lack
of intimacy, fighting below the belt, financial pressures,
child-rearing responsibilities that have overtaken their
lives.
Underlying all these problems, however, is the
elephant in the room: loss of desire. They love each
other, but they no longer long for each other. Their
marriages are now built on the softer, more comfortable
emotion of love, rather than the passionate, more
explosive nuclear bond of lust.
Why is lust disappearing? There are many reasons.
First, we are such a physical and material generation
that we do not understand lust. So we denigrate it
as something sleazy. Lust, we think, is something
pornographic. Lust is what a man feels for a colleague at
work while love is what he feels for his wife. Lust is what
a wife experiences for a stranger with whom she flirts
while love is what she feels when she has dinner with
her husband at a restaurant.
Lust has been lost from our lives because we think
it as something of the body, not of the soul; something
generated by hormones, not spiritual energy. Lust, we
erroneously believe, is a visceral animal emotion rather
than a uniquely human one.
Because we do not understand lust, we have never
focused on understanding its rules and the conditions
through which it is maintained.
Also, we believe love to be eternal, while lust
is so utterly ephemeral. We de-emphasize lust in
relationships because we believe it is bound to
disappoint us, to let us down. We do not believe that lust
can be sustained. Rather, we consider it to be a flimsy
foundation upon which to build a relationship; it should
not take precedence over the solid firmament of love.
Excuse me. Who said that love and lust cannot be
maintained simultaneously? Are we really so monolithic
as to be incapable of sustaining two emotions at once?
Can husbands and wives really not be both lovers (lust)
and best friends (love) at the same time? Is not the
confluence of both what men and women most aspire
to in their relationships?
Op-ed
Back Egypts democratic forces with fervor
Shalom cohen
WASHINGTON The outrage
and political ferment that arose
in Egypt after President Morsis
recent decision to centralize power
in his own hands is, in fact, the true
beginning of the Arab Spring that
erupted in Tunisia and Egypt two
years ago.
A newly empowered Egyptian
people is not just fighting for
freedom; they are using the tools of democracy in an
ideological battle for the future of their nation.
The fundamental change that has taken place in
Egypt since the fall of the Mubarak regime aside
from the assumption of power by political Islam is
the newfound openness and freedom of expression
enjoyed by the people, the communications media, and
the political parties. The transformation is remarkable.
Where there was once a police state in which people
feared government agents who enforced a ban on
all anti-establishment activity especially anti-
government activity today stands an Egypt in which
journalism is more or less free and where criticism and
demonstrations against the government are simply part
of daily life.
The liberal forces who initiated the Egyptian uprising
felt that the Islamists jumped on the bandwagon late
and then stole the revolution. This impression was
reinforced by Morsis first steps as president: disbanding
the army council, unrestricted support for the Islamist-
dominated houses of Parliament and the creation of a
committee to draft a new Islamist-oriented constitution.
These sophisticated political moves hinted at what was
to come. With the added bona fides he garnered for
brokering a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, Morsi
took the opportunity to institute his latest draconian
measures. The Islamists are using todays opportunities
to institute changes that may not be possible tomorrow.
The new round of demonstrations in Tahrir Square
and throughout the country indicates an important
change in Egyptian society. The Arab uprising that began
in 2010 disorganized, lacking leadership, and without
an ideological agenda had one inchoate purpose:
to depose Mubaraks authoritarian regime and create
a democratic nation in which the people themselves
determine their own political future, not those sitting
in the presidential palace. Todays demonstrations
are entirely different. Egyptians of all backgrounds
Islamist men and women, liberals and secularists, young
and old, intellectuals and common folk have taken to
the streets to determine the character of the nation.
Will Egypt continue on the path to democracy or
become an Islamic dictatorship? The outcome will have
important implications for Egypt and the region.
At this tenuous moment, when so much is in
the balance, it would be wise for the United States
and Western nations to devote intensive care, effort
and resources to strengthen the liberal parties and
democratic forces in the Arab world. The time to do
so is now, when the wheels are in motion and the
opportunities exist.
It seems that the Egyptian government that came to
power on the tray of a democratic election now seeks to
shatter the dishes in an attempt to gradually eliminate
the very steps that led to a real democratic country. The
Egyptian people are saying no to this in Tahrir Square
and across the country. Today, more than ever, they
should not undertake this campaign alone.
JTA Wire Service
Shalom Cohen, the Baye diplomat in residence at the Washing-
ton Institute for Near East Policy, served as Israels ambassador
to Egypt from 2005 to 2010.
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Letters
Armchair generals
Having recently returned from a solidar-
ity mission to Israel I must take exception
to Mr. Hess op ed, Rocket science and
disillusion, (Nov. 30). I was privileged to
meet and talk to many brave and coura-
geous soldiers and officers at the Gaza
front, all of whom were anxious to finish
the job they were trained to do without
regard for their own safety and were in
fact frustrated at the announcement of
the cease-fire. Likewise the people living
down south in Sderot and surround-
ing communities were very upset at the
political rather than military resolution.
Amazingly, we were thanked by the peo-
ple we met for coming from the States to
give our support, whereas we kept telling
them that we were there to thank them
for what they were doing. What they dont
need is Americans pontificating in New
Jersey about what Israel should be doing.
We also visited soldiers in the hospital
who were wounded, some seriously and
the decision to send these boys (thats
right, boys) into harms way should not be
taken lightly.
The complexities of Middle Eastern
politics are beyond the scope of this letter.
Suffice it to say that Hamas militarily is
not a problem for the IDF, but an invasion
would have jeopardized the influence
the U.S. has with the only two countries
in the region that Israel has a treaty with,
Egypt and Jordan. The major military
threat facing Israel today is from Iran
and its partner, Hezbollah. In a future
confrontation Israel may need U.S.
backing and so they may have acquiesced
to U.S. pressure but probably for its own
future benefit.
It asks in Ethics of our Fathers, who is
a strong person? One who conquers his
own inclinations. The knee-jerk response
was to go into Gaza and clean it up. But at
what price and how many Israeli soldiers
killed or wounded?
I asked a colonel in the IDF involved
in the last Gaza war what he thought
about the cease-fire, expecting him to
say the invasion should have happened.
His response was that a Jewish leader of
a Jewish state made the decision about a
Jewish army, and right or wrong that was
good enough for him. It should certainly
be good enough for us sitting in New
Jersey. To me it shows Israels strength, not
weakness.
David Wisotsky M.D.
Thanking our military
I received my belated copy of the Jewish
Standard and it reignited some displea-
sures I thought I came to terms with, but
have not. In an editorial citing the bravery
of first responders to Sandys worst, our
best, (Nov. 2) credit is given to police,
firefighters, emergency medical techni-
cians, ambulance drivers, and the like.
Omitted is the recognized respect due our
military. I would argue that our military
deserves being cited as an entity and not
looked for in a diaphanous category, the
like.
I remember when I requested that the
Y I belong to display a yellow ribbon to
honor our troops who serve our nation.
My request was denied with the reason
it would be political to do so. Could it be
that citing our military for its contribution
to meeting Sandys worst is also thought
by some to be political?
In its answer to emergency assistance,
the military sent troops and airplanes
to transport repair vehicles and service
people from various parts of the country.
(Repairmen from California worked at my
house.)
I am grateful for the service of all those
cited for bravery in response to Sandy.
But I remember a refusal to recognize
American service men and women, who
are among our first responders, and I
hope that our citizenry would say thank
you to our military who are always here
for us.
I would be pleased to know there are
others who remember as well.
Irving Seidenberg
Chestnut Ridge, NY
Keeping busy
The recent storm left many of Teaneck
families without power for days and even
weeks. Although much has been written
about how to prepare for and manage
through such a difficult time, the advice
has come largely from officials and adults.
As Girl Scouts, we pledge to be friendly
and helpful, considerate and caring,
and so we want to pass along our kids to
kids advice for what to do the next time
the power goes out. All of these ideas were
kid-tested during Sandy, and we hope
they prove as useful to you as they did to
us.
Keeping busy:
Have a dance-off. If you dont have
batteries to play music, try singing.
Spread a blanket on the floor and make
jewelry with beads.
Read books.
Play shadow puppets with a flashlight.
Volunteer as a mothers helper or to walk
pets for a neighbor.
Play telephone or broken telephone
(people get really silly in the dark).
If you play an instrument, give your
family a concert.
Play Would you rather?
Keep a diary of how everyone manages.
Help your parents clean out the fridge.
Take out all the non-electronic toys from
the toy closet.
Go to a park, mall, or friends house that
has power.
What to eat:
Plan fun menus around a theme one
P-menu was peanuts, potatoes and
peas.
Enjoy ice cream soup.
Make instant oatmeal with raisins,
craisins or other fruit.
Cut up veggies and fruits and dip in non-
spoiling dressings or peanut butter.
Roast hot dogs, marshmallows and
potatoes in the fireplace.
Other advice:
Before a storm, pack a bag of things you
like to do so you can find everything
without lights.
Have a battery-operated radio.
Tape the refrigerator shut so you dont
keep opening it by accident.
Use tea lights in holders that let the light
shine out.
Use battery-powered holiday candle
decorations as nightlights in the
bathroom.
Sleep in the same room as other people
in the family for comfort and warmth.
Fill an insulated bag with ice to keep a
few important things like milk.
If it is cold outside, keep food in a box in
the trunk of your car.
Most important:
Stay safe.
Share whatever you have for example:
generator, heat, gas cooking, hot water.
Thank all the officers, emergency
workers and power crews!
Congregation Beth Aaron Girl
Scout Troop 60061
Susan Fisch, Ellen Krischer, Leaders
Miriam, Yael, Rachel,
Penina, Eliana, Gittel
Chanukah is major
Every year we read that Chanukah is
a minor holiday and should not be
perceived as our counterbalance to
Christmas. I cannot disagree more. For
Jews in America there is no more im-
portant holiday than Chanukah. In fact,
for many Jews its their last connection
to Judaism. Obviously for those in the
know this holiday celebrates Jewish pride,
Jewish dignity, and Jewish respect against
overwhelming odds and encroaching
assimilation from an irresistible culture
alien to our own. Wait! That describes our
situation perfectly today as well. When I
was born there were 6 million Jews in the
United States. Today there are about 5
million. Did a million Jews make aliyah?
Hardly. We are fading away as a com-
munity. Although we may not see it in
such a large Jewish community as Bergen
County, there is a crisis greater than ever
before going on right now. For many, the
only counter to the prevailing culture
in which we live is Chanukah. It is on all
the calendars; there are menorahs at the
shopping malls; and even menorahs at
the town halls of municipalities willing
to admit America is not a homogeneous
society. It may be the last connection
someone has to their Jewish heritage.
Chanukah is the time for Jews to get back
in touch with their identity and for us
to reach out to our brothers and sisters
everywhere. This holiday season should
be the focus of all our communities in a
flurry of outreach activity, regardless of
whatever else someone is celebrating!
Scott David Lippe M.D.
Fair Lawn
Adelson does not
speak for survivors
I have visited Yad Vashem at least twice
and been deeply moved each time. I am a
long-time donor to the American Society
for Yad Vashem to help support that vital
institution. When I opened my invita-
tion to their annual dinner my stomach
turned to see at the top of the list of gen-
eral chairmen of the society the name
Sheldon Adelson. Unlike the other chairs,
he is neither a survivor, child of a survivor,
or a leader in Holocaust causes. How does
he get to join this venerable list? By being
a billionaire.
There is nothing inherently wrong
with being extremely rich. I have never
heard any objections to the generosity
of Baron Rothschild, Baron Moses
Montefiore, Edgar Bronfman, or Ronald
Lauder. But allowing one individual a
great deal of influence is dangerous. Mr.
Adelson is frighteningly different from
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most of his life, he suddenly switched to
being a Republican right after becoming
a billionaire. He choose that affiliation
solely to persuade politicians to promote
legislation that would protect his
financial interests. He then proceeded to
promote politicians all over the United
States, including here in Bergen County,
and in Israel who would advance his
views on all manner of other issues. In
the spring he gave Newt Gingrich $10
million to say that Romney was totally
unqualified to be president. After it
was clear that Romney would win the
nomination, Adelson spent $100 million
to back him. Just before becoming
a billionaire, he defrauded his own
children out of shares in his company.
His sons sued him, but he outlasted
them through his vast wealth. He seems
to have no interests but his own and no
conscience. He uses the power of vast
wealth to buy influence. He has bought
a leadership role in the Republican
Jewish Coalition, was instrumental in
having Romney organize a fundraiser in
Israel (a foreign country), has entre to
any Republican official up to president,
and influences the content of what
thousands of young Jews are taught
(or as Natan Sharansky said in Tenafly,
brainwashed) by Birthright.
My parents were Holocaust survivors,
as were two pairs of my uncles and
aunts. My grandparents, two of my
fathers siblings, and almost all of my
parents wider families were murdered
in the Holocaust. My parents lost a
daughter in the Holocaust. For my first
three years I was raised in the Bergen-
Belsen DP camp. I have spent more than
20 years of my life devoted to Holocaust
causes. I continue to establish my bona
fides. I was on an advisory committee
to the U.S. Holocaust Council, I helped
organize second generation events for
the Survivor Gatherings in Israel and
in the States, I helped organize second
generation conferences in New York
and New Jersey, I returned to Bergen-
Belsen to protest Reagans trip to Bitburg,
and I was chairman of the Holocaust
Committee of the Jewish Federation
in Wayne. I am now a member of the
Teaneck Holocaust Commemoration
Committee.
I am revolted by the idea that Mr.
Adelson has bought his way on to being
a chairman of the American Society for
Yad Vashem. My dead family members
would be turning in their graves. He
represents the opposite of all the values
they held dear.
Please write to the society at
500 Fifth Ave., 42nd Floor, New
York, NY 10110-4299 to express your
objections to Mr. Adelson being so
inappropriately honored. I personally
will stop contributing to the society until
they disaffiliate themselves from him.
Steven Tencer
New Milford
I am revolted by the
idea that Mr. Adelson has
bought his way on to being
a chairman of the American
Society for Yad Vashem.
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Cover story
Joanne Palmer
I
t is perhaps verging by now on clich to say that medi-
cine is all about relationships after all, what in this
world is not in the end all about relationships? but
still it is true.
It is about relationships between patients and their
health care providers doctors, yes, and also nurses,
technicians, and everyone else who cares for them. It
is about relationships between patients and their own
bodies, and it is also about the relationships between
the science that fuels new treatment methods but tends
toward depersonalization and the humanism that is at
the heart of medicine.
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a small organization
in Englewood Cliffs founded by Dr. Arnold Gold and Dr.
Sandra Gold 25 years ago, has devoted itself to ensuring
that humanism remains vital as medicine advances, and
it has had outsized successes. Its white coat ceremony, a
ritual that reinforces the awesome (in its original sense),
literally life-and-death responsibilities that medical
students assume as their begin their studies, has been
adopted by just about every medical school in the
country.
Now, the foundation has
welcomed a new president
and CEO, Dr. Richard Levin,
as it begins to navigate
the changing landscape of
American health care.
Levin brings an earned
understanding of the arena
with him. He is a cardiologist,
scientist, and medical school
administrator. He began his
career with post-doctoral
work at Cornell in vascular
biology, and later established
a National Institutes of
Health-funded laboratory for
cardiovascular research at NYU, where he became a full
professor. He moved over to administration in the deans
office there, and then became dean of the medical school
at McGill University in Montreal. Why
did he chose that path? Because I
didnt see administration as the dark
side, but as a means of changing
the social, cultural, and academic
dynamics which were in desperate
need of changing, he said.
Originally a Jersey boy hes from Long Branch
and then a longtime New Yorker, he and his wife grew
homesick. The Gold Foundation felt like home.
He already had an emotional connection to it, along
with the clear ideological one.
His younger daughter, who is now a physician, was
named to the Gold Humanism Honor Society when she
was in medical school at Dartmouth, years before he
began to work at the Gold Foundation. Each inductee is
asked to name one mentor, and she named her father.
The induction ceremony was one of the most sublime
moments Ive ever experienced, Levin said.
I feel joyous to have landed this position, he added.
Passionate
about
compassion
The Gold Foundation brings in new
CEO in its continued quest for humanism in medicine
Sandra and Arnold Gold and Richard and Jane Levin; inset, Arnold and Sandra Gold 25 years
ago, when they created the foundation. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY THE GOLD FOUNDATION
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Above and below, photos from white coat ceremonies, when new medical students put on on their symbolic robes as they assume their very real responsibilities.
This is not a usual foundation. The Golds put it together
through magic.
From the start, the foundations goal was to ensure
that as medical science progressed, it did not replace
the heart, the care, and the love in other words, the
soul that always had characterized the practice of
medicine. The Golds began by focusing on medical
education, so that explicitly, within the curriculum, it
realized the function of humanism in health care, Levin
said. Medical education in general is the old pot, the
simmering stew, where new recipes for managing the
rest of the system are invented on a regular basis.
But resting on laurels rarely works. New challenges
always present themselves.
He sees his task as to preserve this miracle that
Arnold and Sandra created, and that in 25 years really
has changed medical education. Now he wants to
expand the impact to a global one, not only to focus on
physicians but also on the rest of the health care team.
Patients experience health care without necessarily
defining who is delivering it. They just know that theyre
there, and theyre not necessarily happy, so everyone
from the nurse practitioner to the medical technician
to the office staff everyone who comes into contact
with the patient has to be imbued with humanist
principles.
Some history is in order.
A force arose with the advent of the technological
era, which we could peg to somewhere between the
1970s and early 80s, when the CAT scan and MRI were
invented, Levin said. These two machines, and the
advancement of molecular biology, have given us the
first opportunity to understand the fine-grained detail of
many diseases. Its given physicians a new frontier. It was
unbelievably exciting.
Still, he said, the pendulum has swung from
the 2,500-year-old Western tradition, starting with
Hippocrates, based on patient-centered understanding,
to a technology-centered field that began to lack the
characteristics that mark humanism.
Were not Luddites, he continued. We do not
jettison the wonders of the genomic age.
Ironically enough, he said, the increasing scientific
nature of medicine requires even greater intimacy
between the health worker and the patient. Its not as
much about what disease may have befallen the patient
as what genomic characteristics made the patient get
this disease.
It works better if humanism is the constant partner.
Although the Gold Foundation is not an explicitly
Jewish organization, the Golds represent the blossoming
out of Judaism of the ethical tradition of the faith, Levin
said, quoting the Talmud: He who saves one life saves
the entire world.
Sandra Gold, who will remain at the foundation as a
counselor to the president, is enormously excited about
the future.
Were just starting a research institute, and it will
be remarkable, she said. It will have two major thrusts.
First, it will be a clearinghouse, a place providing easy
access to information and data about humanism and
professionalism. We hope that policy makers as well as
professionals and health care workers will use it, she
said; hard data about the effect of humanism on healing
will be useful for public discourse.
Theres more talk about the cost of care than the
quality of care, she said.
The other thrust is to support and encourage the
development of instruments to measure humanism,
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argued that the Holocaust did not occur.
A congregant whose in-laws are Holocaust survivors
said that he saw most of the video when he logged onto his
shuls website to find out what time services would begin.
It was very shocking, disturbing, and offensive. My in-
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requested anonymity.
Not only was it someone making an argument that the
Holocaust did not occur the video actually had canned
laughter and this mocking sarcastic tone. I cant express
how insensitive it was.
The hackers appear to be a group calling itself
Moroccan Ghosts, according to Jeffrey Salkin, New Jersey
community director of the Anti-Defamation League.
According to the groups Facebook page, the Moroccan
Ghosts targeted synagogues belonging to the Union for
Reform Judaism because they consider the organization,
said Salkin, quoting the website, one of the most sig-
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Israel in America.
Its clear from the Facebook posting, Salkin said, that the
group denies the Holocaust, calling it a scam by the Jews
to blackmail the Germans to gain sympathy to take over
Palestinian lands.
Since March, the Moroccan Ghosts has hacked some 82
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Britain, Vietnam, South Africa, Germany, Spain, and China,
Salkin said. The groups Facebook page includes graphics
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half and set on fire.
The ADL alerted Facebook to the Holocaust denial post-
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URJ pulled down the websites for scanning and clean-up.
Although the URJ site itself was not affected, a few
dozen of the websites we host on behalf of our congrega-
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At Temple Sinai, the congregant brought the violation
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to begin Shabbat services. I ran into my office to look at
it, Millstein said. I saw about one minute of it. It was one
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Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON How the United States
treats the Palestinians new status as a
non-member state at the United Nations
depends on how Palestinians plan to use
it as cudgel or outstretched hand.
Beneath the outcries
of disappointment at
the lopsided U.N. vote,
both the United States and Israel showed
signs of acquiescence to its inevitability.
There were the grim warnings of financial
consequence for both the Palestinians and
the United Nations, but there also was a
willingness to take at face value Palestinian
claims that the vote is an avenue to return
to talks something Israel and the United
States have been demanding for two years.
The public statements by U.S. and
Israeli officials, however, focused on the
negative.
It places further obstacles in the path
to peace, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton said at a Foreign Policy Group
address after the vote on Thursday. We
have been clear that only through direct
negotiations between the parties can
the Palestinians and Israelis achieve the
peace that both deserve: two states for two
peoples, with a sovereign, viable, indepen-
dent Palestine living side by side in peace
and security with a Jewish and democratic
Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said in a statement after the
vote that the Palestinian initiative violated
the agreements with Israel and that he
would act accordingly.
That apparently presaged leaks to me-
dia outlets on Friday that he planned to
build 3,000 new homes in the west bank
and eastern Jerusalem, including in the
corridor separating Maaleh Adumim, a
large Jewish settlement in the west bank,
from Jerusalem.
A broad array of Jewish groups con-
demned the vote, which passed by a
margin of 138-9, with 41 abstentions. The
American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
in one of its rare public statements, pre-
dicted blunt and dire consequences for the
Palestinians and the organization repre-
senting them in Washington and New York,
the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Congress has frequently warned the
PLO that there would be consequences
for its relationship with the United States
if the PLO refuses to demonstrate its com-
mitment to peace with Israel, AIPAC said.
Congress has specifically linked contin-
ued aid and the operation of the PLO office
in Washington to the Palestinians not seek-
ing statehood status at the United Nations.
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AIPAC applauds this congressional leader-
ship and urges a full review of Americas
relations with the PLO, including closure of
the PLOs office in Washington.
Yet the sequence of congressional
amendments introduced this week that
would penalize the Palestinians for seeking
statehood seemed, if anything, to retreat
from punitive to wait-and-see.
Earlier this week, a slate of Republican
senators led by Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy.)
introduced amendments to the National
Defense Authorization Act that would
cut assistance to the Palestinians imme-
diately and shut down the PLO office in
Washington. The NDAA does not other-
wise address the Palestinians, but the act is
the most immediate vehicle for passage of
legislation, as both Houses of Congress are
frantically trying to pass major budget bills
to head off the so-called fiscal cliff.
By Thursday morning, however, just
hours before the U.N. vote, Barrasso had
joined a separate Palestinian spending
initiative, and one likelier to pass, spear-
headed by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.),
Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Lindsey
Graham (R-S.C.). That amendment to
the NDAA would cut assistance to the
Palestinians only if they use their new U.N.
status to bring charges against Israel. The
new amendment would shut down the
PLO office in Washington only in the case
that the Palestinians have not entered into
meaningful negotiations with Israel.
A lawmaker on the U.S. House of
Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
said that the House was likely to initi-
ate a similar wait-and-see bill. The law-
maker characterized it as a bid to see if
the Palestinians would make good on
suggestions that they were not in a hurry to
bring charges at the International Criminal
Court, and that a successful show at the
United Nations could create the conditions
necessary to bring the Palestinians back to
talks.
In an interview earlier this month, Maen
Areikat, the PLO envoy to Washington, said
that the U.N. vote would mitigate the fac-
tor that has kept the Palestinians from talks
until now: Israels continued settlement ex-
pansion. The vote, recognizing Palestine
as within the pre-1967 lines, would grant
the Palestinians assurances that lands they
claim have international recognition, even
if Israel continues to build Jewish settle-
ments there.
After we get recognition within 1967
borders, we are willing to engage Israelis,
Areikat said.
Areikat, like other Palestinian officials,
would not count out using such U.N. bod-
ies as the International Criminal Court to
seek redress for what they say are illegal
Israeli actions. But he also noted that even
with the enhanced status of non-member
state, the road to such actions was fraught
with bureaucracy and unlikely to happen
anytime soon.
On Thursday, two influential think-
tankers otherwise known for their hawk-
ish views testified before the House
Foreign Affairs Committee on the state of
Israeli-Palestinian relations in the wake of
Novembers mini-war with Hamas in the
Gaza Strip and Thursdays vote.
The two men Robert Satloff, who
heads the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy, and Elliott Abrams, the dep-
uty national security adviser to President
George W. Bush who is now at the Council
on Foreign Relations answered ques-
tions from lawmakers on whether the U.N.
vote should trigger U.S. penalties on the
Palestinians.
Satloff said that Mahmoud Abbas, the
Palestinian Authority president and PLO
leader, needed to show the Palestinian
people that there was an alternative to
Hamas preferred course: terrorism.
We have to encourage him to choose
the diplomatic path, Satloff said of the
Palestinian leader. It really comes down to
invigorating an alternative.
Another witness, Danielle Pletka, the
vice president of the American Enterprise
Institute, shook her head in disagreement,
saying the Palestinians needed disincen-
tives to prevent uncooperative behavior.
Back in New York, the lopsided vote at
the United Nations, and the presence of
so many American allies in the yes and
abstention columns, suggested a frustra-
tion with the Middle Eastern stalemate and
a hope that the vote could bring about a
breakthrough.
I would like this recognition to be
used in a positive way by the Israelis and
Palestinians to relaunch a sincere peace
process, Laurent Fabius, the French for-
eign minister, said in a statement after his
country voted for the enhanced status for
Palestine.
Everything which might jeopardize
potential progress towards a negotiated
solution must be avoided on both sides,
Fabius said. The obligation is still to re-
sume dialogue and negotiation without
preconditions, with a view to establish-
ing a lasting peace guaranteeing Israels
security and an actual, viable state for the
Palestinians.
JTA Wire Service
I would like this recognition
to be used in a positive
way by the Israelis and
Palestinians to relaunch a
sincere peace process.
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identity of the Iranian Islamic Republic, which oppresses
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under armed guard for years after the murder of film-
maker Theo van Gogh, with whom she collaborated on
a piece critical of Islam, before leaving for the United
States. The anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders also
lives under police protection.
Like Hirsi Ali and Wilders, Ellian came to embrace the
Jewish state, both as the adversary of a shared enemy
and as a model of what a religiously inspired democracy
in the Middle East could look like. He first heard of Israel
as a teenager in Iran, fleeing the Islamists who would
pick out political activists like himself in universities and
on the street. His cousin, also an activist, was executed
and dumped in a mass grave.
I was in a bakery and Ruhollah Khomeini, the revolu-
tions spiritual leader, promised that the war with Iraq will
lead to Jerusalem, he said. The baker and I had no idea
where that was. I figured it had to be a village in Iraq.
In Israel, Ellian delivered a lecture at the University of
Haifa organized in part by Irgoen Olei Holland, an asso-
ciation of Dutch immigrants. The event is held each year
on Nov. 26, the anniversary of a defiant 1940 speech by
Rudolf Cleveringa, a non-Jewish Leiden professor, op-
posing the expulsion of Jews from academic and public
life in Nazi-occupied Holland.
After his flight to Israel was diverted so the KLM crew
could disembark the airline had barred its employees
from the country during last weeks fighting Ellian
wrote that the crew could learn something about cour-
age from Cleveringa.
They also could learn something about courage from
Ellian himself. The son of two left-leaning intellectu-
als, Ellian went into hiding soon after Islamists swept
to power in Iran in 1979. At 17, he already was hiding
with the liberal undergrounds shrinking network of safe
houses.
I shacked up in a Christian cemetery one night, he
recalls. The sexton told me I might as well find a grave.
In 1982, Ellian fled Iran on camelback, traveling
1,100 miles through the mountains to Pakistan. But that
country proved no safer. Local police routinely arrested
Iranians, and Ellian caught malaria and constantly
switched addresses as he planned his next escape.
In Afghanistan, he stayed for three years and began
his studies. But there, too, he ran afoul of ideological
foes: Stalinists who had been in exile since before the fall
of the shah.
We newcomers led a small revolt against the
Stalinists, not realizing we were playing with our lives,
Ellian said. We came close to a kangaroo court or a
lynch mob.
In 1987 he fled again, this time with his wife. They
went to Holland, where he set his mind to his stud-
ies, earning three masters degrees at the University of
Tilburg within six years of his arrival a first in the uni-
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I thought I could finally say anything, he says of his
current home. But danger still was lurking.
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Muhammads orders to kill critical poets in Medina,
among other aspects of Islam. But Ellian would not be
silenced. He accused the Iranian regime of barbarity
and the silent majority of Muslims of complicity in the
acts of violent radicals. The threats continued.
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one viewed him as a paragon of courage. The influential
Dutch-born writer Ian Buruma has dismissed Ellian as a
traumatized man who embraced a radical version of
the European Enlightenment. And earlier this month,
the newspaper Volkskrant published an op-ed accusing
Ellian of making generalizations about Muslims.
I have nothing against Islam, Ellian said. But I
should be able to criticize it in the same way that I am
able to criticize Judaism and Christianity.
Ellian was placed under 24-hour police protection
shortly after receiving his first death threats. Four years
later, after the van Gogh murder, security was beefed up
considerably at his Leiden office, where he sits behind
electronically locked doors.
I was shocked, Ellian said. I fled the Middle East,
but the Middle East followed me. I knew that this time I
had nowhere else to flee except maybe the moon.
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Jailed Gross calls for U.S.
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WASHINGTON Jewish-American contractor Alan
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In a meeting with a Cuba specialist from a nonprofit
research center in Washington, Gross asked that the
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with no preconditions be held between the two govern-
ments, NBC News reported.
On Sunday, about 300 people held a candlelight vigil
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Gross, 63, of Potomac, Md., was sentenced last year
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Since his arrest, Mr. Gross has lost more than 100
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ily is anxious to evaluate whether he is receiving ap-
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be determined by having a doctor of his own choosing
examine him.
We continue to ask the Cuban government to grant
Alan Grosss request to travel to the United States to visit
his 90-year-old mother, Evelyn Gross, who is gravely ill.
This is a humanitarian issue. The Cuban government
should release Alan Gross and return him to his family,
where he belongs.
JTA Wire Service
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Poland the worst offender
in Holocaust restitution drive
Dinah Spritzer
PRAGUE In 1988, Yehuda Evron received
a memorable letter from Lech Walesa, the
first post-communist president of Poland,
on the eve of the countrys transition to
democracy.
He wrote that within a few months
we would get my wifes property back,
recalled Evron, now 80. His wife was the
only Holocaust survivor from her family,
which had owned a residential building
and factory in Zwienec that had been
confiscated by the Nazis and then seized
by Polands communist government.
Evron, a Romanian emigre and
leader of the New York-based Holocaust
Restitution Committee, which represents
claims of thousands of survivors from
Poland, snorted bitterly last week when
recalling his initial optimism after corre-
sponding with Walesa. Four decades have
passed since then, many more survivors
have died, and Polish leaders repeat-
edly have reneged on promises to enact
a restitution law to compensate for the
billions of dollars in property stolen from
Jews and non-Jews during and after the
Holocaust.
Home to more Jews than any other
country before World War II, Poland
now is the only European country that
endured Nazi occupation and has not en-
acted a law to ensure some kind of private
property compensation or restitution to
Holocaust survivors or their heirs.
Evron talked to JTA at last weeks
Prague meeting on Holocaust restitution,
called the Immovable Property Review
Conference, which was organized as a
follow-up to a 2009 conference in this city
that produced a historic resolution on
Holocaust assets. The resolution, called
the 2009 Terezin Declaration, was signed
by 46 countries that committed to speed-
ing up the restitution of private and com-
munal property to Holocaust survivors
and their heirs.
This years conference and the 2009
parley were organized and supported by
the Czech Foreign Ministry, U.S.-based
Jewish organizations, and the U.S. State
Department, with participation from
countries throughout Europe.
At last weeks gathering, many of the
references to 2009 were in the form of
laments that so little had been accom-
plished in three years.
In sum, restitution of property con-
fiscated during the Holocaust proceeds
exceedingly slowly, if at all, said a report
prepared for the conference by the World
Jewish Restitution Organization, an um-
brella group.
The focus remains on Central and
Eastern Europe, where compensation for
communal and private property seizures
began in the 1990s and in most cases con-
tinues at a glacial pace.
In Croatia, for example, the main
progress since 2009 has been the proposal
of an amendment eliminating a citizen-
ship requirement imposed by Croatias
restitution law but the amendment
has not been submitted to lawmakers for
consideration.
In Romania, all compensation to
private property claimants has been
suspended; critics blame a corrupt and
bankrupt compensation fund.
In Latvia, where 300 Jewish commu-
nal properties were never returned, a bill
offering some compensation has been
stalled for six years.
In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor
Orban has withheld the final two years of
a government compensation program to
aid Hungarian survivors who reside out-
side the country.
Notwithstanding its restitution laws,
Hungary has, in a number of respects,
failed to meet standards advanced in
the guidelines established at the 2009
Prague conference, the WJRO report
said. In Hungary, there are prolonged,
unreasonable delays in adjudicating
property claims and in making the com-
pensation payments once claims are
positively decided, while the guidelines
insist on prompt decisions and payment.
There have been a few bright spots.
In 2011, Lithuania authorized pay-
ment of about $50 million over 10 years
to compensate the Jewish community for
communal property seized by the Nazi
and Soviet occupation regimes. Serbia
passed a restitution bill affecting Jews
and non-Jews that the Jewish community
expects eventually will address Holocaust
claims specifically.
Last month, the Czech Republics low-
er house of parliament approved a plan
to return billions of dollars worth of com-
munal property confiscated from Jews
and Christians by previous communist
governments. If the bill passes, the Czech
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picture of two Orthodox Jews staring
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Federation of Jewish Communities is set
to receive $500,000 a year over 30 years.
The worst restitution record, confer-
ence-goers said, belongs to Poland.
In 2010, Terezin Declaration signato-
ries approved a set of nonbinding best
practices, such as suggesting solutions
to the problem of heirless property and
making the claims process more trans-
parent and affordable. After initially
agreeing to the document, Poland made
an abrupt about-face and withdrew its
support. To add salt to an already fester-
ing diplomatic wound, Polish Foreign
Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in 2011 went
on Polish radio to complain of U.S. pres-
sure on restitution issues.
If the United States would have want-
ed to help Polish Jews, a good moment for
that would have been 1943-44, when the
majority of them were still alive, Sikorski
quipped.
At last weeks conference, Poland was
the only signatory to the 2009 Terezin
Declaration that did not send a delegate.
It says a lot that they refuse to even
engage, said Greg Schneider, executive
vice president of the Claims Conference,
which is responsible for Holocaust resti-
tution from Germany and Austria.
Stuart Eizenstat, a former U.S. deputy
treasury secretary who served as special
representative of the U.S. president and
secretary of state for Holocaust issues
during the Clinton administration, said
that he was disappointed in Poland but
insisted the country was not a lost cause.
When I began going hat in hand to
these Eastern European governments in
the 1990s, no one would have ever imag-
ined we could have gotten all the agree-
ments that are in place for the return of
property, Eizenstat said. In Poland, you
have a process for the return of religious
communal property, and thats thanks to
the pressure of conferences like these.
A counselor at the Polish Embassy in
Prague, Isabella Wollejko-Chwastowicz,
said that a compensation law was so
complicated that it was just taking a long
time for the government to review. The
explanation contradicts the most recent
public Polish government position that
Jewish groups simply are demanding too
much.
Baroness Ruth Deech, a property
expert and member of Britains House
of Lords, said Polands position is
infuriating.
Looking at it from the outside, we
read that 60 percent of Poles oppose
private restitution and that the Jewish
community in Poland today is fearful that
pressing for justice will give rise to anti-
Semitism, she told an audience at the
Prague conference.
Polands chief rabbi, New York native
Michael Schudrich, countered that Poles
aversion toward restitution is economic,
not anti-Semitic.
But failing to come to agreement on
a restitution bill could be more costly
for Poland, restitution advocates note.
Jews could press private property claims
in court, and the lack of clarity on land
ownership in Poland hinders economic
development. In Warsaw, for example,
one-third of the citys real estate was in
Jewish hands before World War II, ac-
cording to Eizenstat, who is still involved
in restitution negotiations and works
as a pro bono consultant to the Claims
Conference.
Eizenstat said he hopes economic ar-
guments will convince Polish officials to
move ahead with restitution.
A restitution law would also help
Poland deal with the expensive issue
of unclear land ownership that already
harms its economic interests, he said.
Such appeals to the pocketbook are
significant, since the West can no longer
hold out admission or rejection into the
European Union or NATO as an incen-
tive, said Rabbi Andrew Baker, direc-
tor of international Jewish affairs for
the American Jewish Committee and a
longtime restitution negotiator. Eastern
European countries already have won
admittance to these international bodies.
If you cannot prove economic self
interest, then you need to convince
governments to provide restitution by
continuing to appeal to the leaders moral
conscience, Baker suggested.
For his part, Evron continues to press
his wifes case with Poland. But he doesnt
have high hopes.
He bemoaned Polands tactic of forc-
ing claimants to spend years and thou-
sands of dollars pressing their cases in
Polish courts, where they are frequently
asked to produce evidence destroyed
during World War II. Even when victory is
achieved, like a positive decision recently
granted for his wifes residential build-
ing claim, cases are turned over to the
Finance Ministry for review, Evron said.
I asked my lawyer how long the re-
view would take. He answered, could be a
year, could be forever, Evron said. I have
now spent more money on this case than
the building is worth and my son asks
why bother? My answer: Its the principle
that matters. You take something, you
give it back.
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with each flame, celebrate the
many dimensions of courage
Dasee Berkowitz
M
y 4-year-old son is obsessed with superheroes.
At every opportunity, he dresses up as the
superhero du jour to do battle with the bad
guys lurking around the corner. (My 2-year-old daugh-
ter is just as enthusiastic, but at her age all she can really
muster is a meanie face.)
From a developmental perspective, I know this fan-
tasy play is his way of exercising control over a world
he is learning is increasingly out of his control. But I
also see other qualities his desire to be strong, to
stand up for the good guys in short, his desire to be
courageous.
Becoming courageous doesnt happen overnight. It
develops when children have opportunities to stand up
for whats right and to take responsible risks. Through
experiences my husband and I provide, and the stories
we tell them, we can lay some groundwork.
As I think about a central message of the Chanukah
story and the way I want to portray it to my kids, models
of courage abound. From Judah Maccabee to Judith and
Hannah and her seven sons, heroes and heroines fought
for the right to be different, to be Jews who refused to
assimilate into the prevailing Hellenistic culture.
When Antiochus Epiphanes came to power, and
observance of the most basic mitzvot circumcision,
Shabbat celebration, and kashrut were turned into
capital offenses, their acts of courage formed the basis
of a central narrative of the Chanukah story that has
been passed down through the generations.
Consider Judah Macabee, whose army, made up
of a bunch of Jewish soldiers, used guerrilla tactics
CHANUKAH
Writer Dasee Berkowitzs 4-year-old son, Tamir, pre-
paring to battle the bad guys - his way of showing
courage, which we celebrate at Chanukah. Courtesy
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and religious zeal to defeat the stronger Assyrian Greek
army. He forced the Assyrian Greeks to rescind the
policies that forbade Jewish practice, and in 164 BCE
liberated the Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to
become once again a place of Jewish worship.
Consider Judith, who did her part to prevent the siege
of Jerusalem in her hometown of Bethulia by seducing
Holofernes, the Assyrian Greek army general, and then
decapitating him. Her bravery is so highly esteemed by
the rabbis that it is because of her act of courage that
Jewish women are obligated to light Chanukah candles.
And consider Hannah and her seven sons, who re-
fused to bow down to Zeus and Antiochus and eat non-
kosher meat. The Book of Maccabees relates that each
of her sons and then her mother were tortured to death.
These acts of courage seem extreme and even unpal-
atable to our modern ear what woman would sacri-
fice her son, not to mention all seven? And arent we a
peace-loving people who should not extol brute force?
But they also lead us to a deeper questions about the
nature of courage. Are there values and beliefs for which
we are willing to make great sacrifices. If any of these
values or beliefs were to be violated, would we be stirred
to action?
While these figures present us with one narrative of
the Chanukah story of heroism in battle and martyr-
dom the ancient rabbis favored a second narrative.
The story begins with the rededication of the Temple in
Jerusalem and Jews faith that the small cruse of oil that
should have lasted for one day only could last for eight
(in time for others to travel and get more oil.)
The second narrative downplays the military victory
won by human hands and elevates the story to one in
which our faith in God and Gods miracles are kindled.
It reminds us that courage is born when we continue to
have faith and hope even in our darkest time. Having
faith in itself is an important kind of courage.
While the call to be courageous is central to the
Chanukah story, spiritually or physically, it is also
daunting. But the rabbis offered another way for us to
understand how to live a courageous life and be our
own heroes.
Who is a hero? the rabbis ask. One who overcomes
his urges? (Mishna, Pirkei Avot 4:1)
Overcoming our most natural desires and exercising
personal restraint is another kind of heroism. This is a
kind of everyday courage.
When we are present in a difficult conversation with
someone about whom we care about even though our
impulse is to leave, we are heroic. When we resist the
urge to say something that we know will offend another
person, even if we think it is warranted, we are coura-
geous. When we have vowed not to feed a habit that is
destructive to us, and when we are tempted and resist (a
smoke, an extra piece of chocolate cake), we are being
our own heroes.
This Chanukah, celebrate all of the dimensions of
courage by dedicating each night to one of them:
Candle 1 to the classic Chanukah heroes of Judah
Maccabee, Judith and Hannah.
Candle 2 to the courageous acts of our children who
welcome a new kid to the school, speak out against bul-
lying, or have faith that the next day at school might be a
little better than today.
Candle 3 to someone in your community who took
up a cause you believe in and fought for it.
Candle 4 to someone in your family perhaps a
parent or grandparent and a courageous act they
performed during their lives.
Candle 5 to American and Israeli soldiers who are
fighting to protect values and ideals that are sacred to
us.
Candle 6 to the courage that you have exercised by
restraint with a co-worker, spouse, child, friend or
parent.
Candle 7 to a person in your life who exemplifies
courage the most.
Candle 8 to that quality of courage in ourselves that
enables us to bring light into dark places and for the en-
ergy to continue to stoke the embers of our own sense
of courage.
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kindled. It reminds us that courage is
born when we continue to have faith
and hope even in our darkest time.
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Linking to Lincoln on Chanukah
Edmon J. Rodman
LOS ANGELES We need to celebrate a Lincoln
Chanukah this year.
Its not because of the new Spielberg movie that
gives us something to do on Christmas Day but be-
cause of the 150th anniversary of a little-known event in
American history that threatened to expel a portion of
the Civil War-era Jewish population from their homes on
the Festival of Lights.
On Dec. 17, 1862, during the height of the war, Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant issued General Orders 11 expelling
Jews as a class from a war zone that included areas of
Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. The expulsion was
to begin in 24 hours. It was the first day of Chanukah.
At the time, Chanukah was not the major holiday it is
now. But Grants order, if carried out, meant that entire
families would be uprooted during the holiday and be-
yond, and exiled from their communities.
Today, relaxing in our home with family on Chanukah,
retelling the Maccabee story that takes place in a far-off
time and land, its uncomfortable to imagine a different
story about our freedom, one that hits much closer to
home.
On that day, Grant was attempting to cut off the black
market sale of southern cotton, in which some Jewish
and other traders were engaged.
As researched in the engaging new book When
General Grant Expelled the Jews by the prominent his-
torian Jonathan D. Sarna, we find that Grants order was
enforced in several towns in Union hands, including
Paducah, Ky.; Holly Springs, Miss.; and Trenton, Tenn.,
among others.
Only a few Jews were seriously affected by General
Orders 11, perhaps fewer than 100, according to Sarna,
but news of the order and the resulting outrage was
quickly spread by the Associated Press.
The Bnai Brith sent a petition to Washington call-
ing upon President Lincoln to annul the order. Other
Jewish leaders moved to organize delegations to meet
with Lincoln. A Jewish merchant from Paducah named
Cesar Kaskel traveled to Washington on a mission to
have the order overturned. Upon arrival he was able to
arrange a meeting with the president through an Ohio
congressman.
According to an account of the meeting that Sarna
says is often quoted but most likely embellished, Lincoln,
using biblical imagery, asked Kaskel, And so the children
of Israel were driven from the happy land of Canaan? In
response, Kaskel asks for Father Abrahams protection,
to which Lincoln replies, And this protection they shall
have at once.
The reality seems to have been that when Lincoln
finally heard of Grants order, he ordered the general in
chief of the army to countermand it.
An account by the prominent Cincinnati rabbi Isaac
Mayer Wise, who also had met with the president about
the issue, provides Lincolns rationale: I do not like to
hear a class or nationality condemned on account of a
few sinners.
This Chanukah, then, with Lincoln on our minds,
how should we commemorate Lincolns action to rescind
what Sarna cites as the most sweeping anti-Jewish regu-
lation in all American history?
Should we devise a stovepipe hat menorah? Fry up
four score latkes or change the lyrics of the modern
classic Peter Paul & Mary Chanukah song to Light One
Candle For the Tennessee Children?
Not necessary.
Jews going back to Lincolns presidency have found
ways to connect before. After his assassination, ex-
pressing their sorrow, many rabbis delivered sermons
that were collected in a book by Emanuel Hertz titled
Abraham Lincoln: The Tribute of the Synagogue. The
basis for the Library of Congress Alfred Whital Stern
Collection of Lincolniana was donated by Alfred Stern,
With this Chanukah season calling for a Lincoln con-
nection, why not light a Lincoln menorah? Edmon J.
Rodman
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Defiance, then destruction
Chanukah in the warsaw Ghetto
Rafael Medoff
N
ever before in Jewish Warsaw were there
as many Chanukah celebrations as in this
year of the wall.
That entry from the diary of Hebrew educator Chaim
Kaplan in December 1940, shortly after the walls of the
Warsaw Ghetto were built, may surprise those who are
accustomed to thinking of the ghetto only in terms of the
misery of its Jewish residents under the Nazi jackboot.
But in those early months of the ghetto, before the worst
periods of deprivation and persecution overwhelmed the
Jews, their spirit showed on the first Chanukah behind the
walls.
Because of the sword that hovers over our heads the
1940 Chanukah festivities were not held in the streets,
Kaplan wrote. Chanukah parties were held in nearly
every courtyard, even in rooms which face the street; the
blinds were drawn, and that was sufficient. How much
joy, how much of a feeling of national kinship there was
in these Chanukah parties! After sixteen months of Nazi
occupation [since the German invasion of Poland in
September 1939], we came to life again.
Kaplan was particularly pleased that we even deceived
the Judenrat, the Nazi-appointed Jewish leadership. It
tried to ban the holding of Chanukah parties without a
special permit... But this took effect only on paper; the
Judenrat was fooled. Hundreds of celebrations were ar-
ranged and the stupid Judenrat did not get a single penny.
In his diary, Kaplan quoted from a speech by a Zionist
leader at one of the Chanukah events: In all the countries
where they want to bury us alive, we pull the gravedig-
gers in with us. Kaplan could not realize how prophetic
those words would prove less than three years later, when
the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt would take down
many Nazis before losing their own lives.
Kaplan, 40, was the founder and principal of a Hebrew
elementary school in Warsaw. He began keeping a diary,
in Hebrew, in 1933. His entries about life in Jewish Warsaw
following the construction of the ghetto walls offer a
heartbreaking chronicle of disease, starvation, random
atrocities and, ultimately, mass deportations.
With 30 percent of Warsaws population crammed into
an area comprising barely 2 percent of the city, extreme
overcrowding facilitated the rapid spread of disease. At
the same time, Jews were limited to food rations of just
181 calories daily. By the summer of 1941, more than 5,000
Jews were dying monthly from starvation or disease.
Kaplans diary entries throughout 1941 describe side-
walks filled with families bundled up in rags, moaning
with heartrending voices, formerly well to do people
who never had to worry about matters of food crowding
the soup kitchens and waiting their turn for a bowl of
watery soup, and random atrocities such as a Nazi with a
face as red as fire wielding an iron whip, savagely lashing
an elderly Jew for 20 minutes straight.
There were too many horrors for the diarist to keep
up with. My inkwell has grown tired of lamentations,
Kaplan wrote at one point. If I tried to write down every-
thing in order, I couldnt. Nor would I be recording any-
thing new. Robberies, murders, humiliations, deprivations
nothing more.
By the time the reader reaches Kaplans diary entries for
Chanukah in 1941, the contrast with those of the preced-
ing year is evident. The festive and defiant mood of 1940
was just a distant memory. This year very few Chanukah
candles were lit, Kaplan wrote in December 1941. Our
holiday has been turned into a day of mourning. The
courtyard of the prison on Dzielna Street was turned into a
slaughterhouse today.
CHANUKAH
Crowd near the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto. Photo courtesy of the DaviD s. Wyman institute for holocaust stuDies
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Fifteen Jews who were caught outside the city limits
had been lined up and executed.
In the months to follow, the situation grew steadily
worse. Random killings became more frequent and bet-
ter organized. Not a day goes by that the Nazis do not
conduct a slaughter, Kaplan recorded. Homelessness,
disease, and starvation reached epidemic proportions.
In the gutters, amidst the refuse, one can see almost na-
ked and barefoot little children wailing pitifully, Kaplan
wrote. Every morning you will see their little bodies fro-
zen to death in the ghetto streets.
By the early summer of 1942, refugees reaching Warsaw
from elsewhere in Poland provided details of the fate that
awaited each Jewish community targeted by the Nazis.
Jews deported from their towns were taken in tightly
sealed freight cars, Kaplan wrote, until they come to the
place of their execution, where they are killed.
In July 1942, Warsaws turn came. Kaplan described the
first deportations in agonizing detail. Recording the trag-
edy of his people had become his lifes purpose, even as
others doubted: Some of my friends and acquaintances
who know the secret of my diary urge me, in their despair,
to stop writing. Why? For what purpose? Will you live to
see it published? Will these words of yours reach the ears
of future generations?
Somehow, they did.
In early August 1942, realizing the end was near, Kaplan
stuffed his diaries into kerosene cans and entrusted them
to a friend who was able to smuggle them to a Polish ac-
quaintance in a nearby village. Kaplan and his wife would
not live to see another Chanukah. They were deported
from Warsaw and gassed soon afterwards in the Treblinka
death camp.
The Polish villager eventually sold the diaries to New
York University. Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of
Chaim A. Kaplan was first published in English in 1965,
then subsequently in Kaplans beloved Hebrew and four
other languages.
Although Kaplan did not live to see his words in print,
the spirit of defiance he witnessed in the Chanukah cel-
ebrations of 1940 lives on in the diary that has become one
of the most important sources of eyewitness testimony
about the Holocaust.
JNS.org Wire Service
Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman
Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author or editor of 15 books
about Jewish history and the Holocaust.
Children in the Warsaw Ghetto. Photo courtesy of the
DaviD s. Wyman institute for holocaust stuDies.
Part of the wall surrounding the Warsaw Ghetto.
Photo courtesy of the DaviD s. Wyman institute for holocaust
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M
ollie Katzen an
award-winning
illustrator and
designer and a best-selling
cookbook author and pop-
ular public speaker is
back with a new round of
recipes for Chanukah.
With more than 6
million books in print, the
New York Times lists Katzen
as one of the best-selling
cookbook authors of all
time, and Health Magazine has named her as one of The
Five Women Who Changed the Way We Eat.
Here are some of her ideas for how to freshen up your
Chanukah table without intruding on your latke loyalties.
How about switching the toppings? You can always
have the usual applesauce and sour cream on hand, but
consider adding some intrigue and savory twists. Its
also a way to sneak in vegetables, herbs, nuts, and olive
oil. Add some lentil soup and a green salad, and your
Chanukah celebration will be colorful and compelling.
Chimichurri
Chimichurri is the national sauce of Argentina, and it
is also common in Honduras and other Latin American
countries. Its a complex green paste, similar to a pesto,
but containing a greater variety of herbs, and a tart taste
from the presence of vinegar. Chimichurri normally is
served with roasted or grilled meat or fish, but its deli-
cious on cooked potatoes and vegetables, pasta, grains,
and sandwiches. Its also a terrific dab of flavor for
latkeseither directly on top, or as a green dollop on the
sour cream.
It keeps for a week or two if stored in a tightly lidded
container in the refrigerator. Just use as needed, as you
would any condiment.
1 cup (packed) minced cilantro
1/4 cup (packed) minced parsley
1/4 cup minced scallions
1 tablespoon minced fresh oregano (or 1 teaspoon
dried oregano)
1 teaspoon minced or crushed garlic
Big pinch of cayenne
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Place the cilantro, parsley, scallions, and oregano in a
food processor, and mince very finely. add the garlic,
cayenne, vinegar, salt, and process to a paste, with the
food processor running until everything is fully incor-
porated. drizzle in the oil at the very end. transfer to a
tightly lidded container and refrigerate until use.
Yield: about 2/3 cup
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Chipotle Cream
Chipotle chilies are smoked dried jalapenos. They most
commonly come in cans, packed in a vinegar prepara-
tion called adobo sauce. A little bit of canned chipotles-
in-adobo goes a very long way, in terms both of its heat
and its powerful smoky essence. In this sauce, sour
cream and/or yogurt create a soothing, luxurious vehicle
for the chipotle flavor.
Serve this wherever it seems appropriate on any
egg dish, with beans, rice, cornmeal preparations, or
drizzled onto soups or on latkes.
1 cup sour cream or yogurt (or a combination)
1/2 to 1 teaspoon canned chipotle chilies, finely
minced
Place the sour cream and/or yogurt in a small bowl
and whisk until smooth. whisk in 1/2 teaspoon minced
chipotles, and let it sit for about 10 minutes, so the fla-
vor can develop. taste to see if it needs more chipotle
paste, and adjust, as desired. store in a tightly covered
container in the refrigerator. Bring to room tempera-
ture before serving.
Yield: 1 cup
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Red Pepper-Walnut Paste
Based on the Middle Eastern sauce called muhammar,
this delicious paste is simultaneously pungent, slightly
hot and sweet. I make it often and keep it around for
many uses: as a topping for pilafs and other cooked
grains, for spreading on pizza, toast, crackers, and sand-
wiches, and as a dip for cooked or raw vegetables.
I also love it on latkes.
This keeps well for at least a week if stored in an
airtight container in the refrigerator. In fact, the flavors
deepen over time.
For a California twist, you can use almonds in place
of the walnuts.
2 heaping cups lightly
toasted walnuts
2 to 3 medium cloves garlic
One 12-ounce jar roasted
red peppers, drained
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon honey or agave nectar
1 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
Black pepper and cayenne to taste
Place the walnuts and garlic cloves in a food proces-
sor and pulse until they are finely ground, but not yet
a paste. Cut the peppers into chunks, and add them to
the food processor, along with the vinegar, lemon juice,
cumin, and honey. Process to a fairly smooth paste,
then transfer to a bowl, and season with salt, pepper
and cayenne. Cover tightly and store in the refrigerator.
Yield: 3 to 4 cups
Preparation time: 10 minutes (after the peppers are
roasted)
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NEWTON, Mass. Gateways: Access
to Jewish Education, a Boston-based
agency for Jewish special education, is
offering eight suggestions from experts
for a Chanukah celebration that is child
friendly and fully accessible for children
with special learning needs:
1. As Jewish parents and educators,
we place a lot of importance on stu-
dents learning how to say the Chanukah
blessings. However, the act of reciting a
blessing isnt as meaningful if a child is
simply repeating words in Hebrew that
have no meaning to them. Since students
with special needs are often strong visual
learners, adding symbols to the blessings
can help them to learn the meaning of the
Hebrew words and phrases. As an added
bonus, over the past few years many par-
ents of students with special needs have
told me that they had been reciting these
blessings all their lives without under-
standing what the words meant until they
looked at our visual blessings.
Rebecca Redner, teacher, Gateways
2. Did you know that the body learns
10 times faster than the brain and for-
gets 10 times more slowly? Here are some
ways to incorporate movement into your
Chanukah traditions, providing a fantas-
tic opportunity to incorporate practicing
fine and gross motor skills while having
fun: build menorahs out of Legos or Play
Doh; create a 2D menorah out of shaving
cream or finger paint, and cut strips of
paper to make a paper chain menorah (all
help with motor, visual and spatial plan-
ning). Depending on the material used,
they can also serve as a multisensory ex-
perience. And did you know that spinning
the dreidel helps improve finger move-
ment for a childs pencil grip?
Ilene Greenwald, occupational therapist
3. One menorah for each family is good
but one for each person in the family is
even better. When you have multiple chil-
dren and only one menorah, siblings may
feel left out or have a difficult time waiting
for their turn to light the candles. Having
a menorah for each member of the fam-
ily helps the kids feel more engaged and
invested in our traditions. Plus, it is an
opportunity to practice properly setting
up the candles and lighting them. For
very young children, you can buy or cre-
ate a fabric or paper menorah with Velcro
candles and flames.
Sherry Grossman, director, Community Special
Education Services, Gateways
4. Making and eating latkes is an inte-
gral part of Chanukah, and children with
an array of needs can participate in help-
ing to prepare them. The key is breaking
the process into easy, single-action steps
that match your childs abilities and
motor challenges. Do this by creating
step-by-step instructions using simple
language and pictures. Set up stations
one step per station with all the sup-
plies the child will need for that step. This
gives the child independence and a sense
of ownership and makes cooking with
your kids less stressful for you.
Arlene Remz, executive director, Gateways
5. Many children have difficulty with
transitions and waiting. Thats why it is
a good idea to separate gift giving from
lighting the menorah. I find that kids
just want to rush through lighting the
menorah to get to the gifts, making it less
special. Also, giving kids toys at night (es-
pecially on school nights when they wont
have time to play with them) can be chal-
lenging. In our house the gift can come at
any time during the day, depending on its
use: pajamas and books at bedtime; new
shoes or winter coats, scarves, etc., before
school; and toys after school so they have
time to play. When we light the menorah,
we have time to enjoy the process of set-
ting up the menorah, lighting it and play-
ing dreidel.
Nancy Mager, director,
Jewish Education Program, Gateways
6. Games are a great way to develop
social skills and practice taking turns.
Here are some great Chanukah gift ideas
that in addition to social skills also will
help develop executive function and
other critical skills:
Guesstures: One-word charades in
a fun format. Helps kids practice reading
and using body language to convey
messages.
Getta Letter: One-minute rounds
thinking of words in categories. Learning
to categorize is an important skill.
Guess Who? and Hedbanz: Children
guess their opponents person or object
by asking descriptive questions. Helps
kids use descriptive words and deductive
reasoning.
Rush Hour: The object is to move
cars out of the way so one car can exit the
board. This helps with motor and visual
planning.
Sharon Goldstein, director,
Day School Programs, Gateways
7. Before Chanukah, one of my
teachers has a discussion about Jewish
heroes in her class. You can easily do
this at home. The students identify eight
heroes who made an impression on
them; the teacher makes up a packet
with information about each one to
send home. The students then can read
about a different hero with their families
each night while lighting the candles.
The heroes they choose range from the
obvious to the unsung.
Ilene Beckman, director,
Rabbi Albert I. Gordon Religious School,
Temple Emanuel, Newton, Mass.
8. For children who love and learn
best through engaging technology, there
are some great Chanukah apps out there
for iPads and smartphones! My top
five favorites are 123 Color (iPad, free);
iChanukah (iPhone, 99 cents); Light My
Fire (iPad, free); DreidelTap (iPhone,
free); and Chai on Chanukah (iPhone, 99
cents).
Beth Crastnopol, director,
Professional Development Programs, Gateways
(Go to Gateways website, www.jgateways.org,
for Chanukah blessings with visuals, social
stories and more.)
Goldin said he finds the situation
frustrating. Jonah doesnt refuse
outright to remove the letter, he said.
Instead, they dont answer. Were looking
into legal action.
The letter preceded most of us who
are active in the RCA now, he continued.
It came at a time when Jonah was
new. It was being touted as a positive
development.
Members of the RCA no longer are
convinced that the development is
positive, as was made clear by an email
it sent in 2011 and posted on its website,
www.rabbis.org. On the subject of
reparative therapy, it is our view that, as
rabbis, we can neither endorse nor reject
any therapy or method that is intended
to assist those who are struggling with
same-sex attraction, it read, adding that
all therapy must be done by licensed,
trained practitioners, and only for willing
participants.
Any therapy has to have clear
safeguards and be done properly,
Goldin said. It cannot be abusive, or off
the charts in any way. If the therapy is
abusive, then it should be shut down.
We clearly heard reports about Jonah
that concern us, he continued. We are
looking for the truth to come out, and
until it does, we cannot and will not
recommend people to a therapy that is
under question.
That is not any kind of endorsement
of homosexuality, he added. The balance
between human compassion and
halachah Jewish law is a tightrope,
but it is necessary to walk it without
toppling.
We respect all endeavors to learn
what can be done to make people
happier, he said. At the same time, we
hold to our religious posture about what
behaviors are or are not acceptable within
the context of a religious life.
According to Jonahs co-director,
Arthur Goldberg, there is no reason to
take down the RCAs letter. His lawyer told
him that its a historical record, and there
is nothing wrong with keeping a historical
record, Goldberg said. As for the lawsuit,
basically we think its without merit. Its a
politically motivated event.
Well see them in court.
Goldberg, who is not a psychologist or
therapist and does not practice therapy
himself, said, we never use the words
aversion therapy. We use gender-
affirming process.
Its not abusive in any shape, matter,
or form, he continued. Instead, both
the lawsuit and the RCAs request that
its message be removed are motivated
differently. Its a political maneuver.
In fact, he suggested, all the attacks on
Jonah are fueled by political correctness.
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On Dec. 17, the Jerusalem District
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will discuss the plan to build more than
1,600 apartments in the Ramat Shlomo
neighborhood, according to reports. The
Jerusalem municipality had approved
the plan in March 2010 during a visit by
Biden, causing a diplomatic uproar, after
which the project was frozen.
Israels interior minister gave his final
approval to the project in August 2011.
Discussion of the Ramat Shlomo proj-
ect was moved up as a way to punish the
Palestinians for the approval last week by
the United Nations General Assembly of
their enhanced statehood status, Haaretz
reported Monday.
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ment of plans to build 3,000 new hous-
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Jerusalem that has raised the hackles of
the United States, a number of European
countries and the United Nations.
Palestinian man killed by Shin Bet officer
after attacking Israeli soldiers with an ax
JERUSALEM A Palestinian man was
shot dead after crashing his car into an
Israeli army jeep in the west bank and at-
tacking the occupants with an ax.
The attacker reportedly shouted
Allahu Akbar, meaning God is great,
and injured two of the Israeli troops in the
jeep in Mondays attack before being shot
by a Shin Bet security officer who also was
riding in the jeep. The vehicle had over-
turned from the crash, Ynet reported.
The attack, which Israeli police are
considering as terrorist in nature, oc-
curred outside the Shavei Shomron
settlement near the Palestinian city of
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Settlers arrested in Hebron price tag attack
JERUSALEM Three residents of Jewish
west bank settlements were arrested on
suspicion of carrying out a price tag at-
tack near Hebron.
The men were arrested late Sunday
night after a car was set ablaze in the
Palestinian village of Dahariya. The words
price tag were spray-painted on a wall
near the arson attack.
Price tag refers to the strategy that
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price in attacks on Palestinians and Arabs
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pinch of pepper
7 ounces white flour
2 tablespoons spicy chili sauce
1 medium-sized egg
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50 JEWISH STANDARD DECEMBER 7, 2012
T
he portion of Vayeshev, which
we are privileged to read this
Shabbat, illustrates through the
story of Joseph in Egypt how to remain
Jewish in an alien environment. There
are many important lessons to be derived
from the way Joseph behaved in Egypt,
which have applications even today.
Josephs innate abilities eventually al-
lowed Egypt to prosper when all around it
there was famine. As the Joseph narrative
continues for a few more weeks we will
see Josephs contributions to Egyptian
welfare fade and disappear and eventu-
ally the Jews are enslaved. Throughout
history, many cultures have become en-
riched because of Jewish contributions.
Sometimes, unfortunately, these same
cultures turned on Jews and persecuted
them, exiled them, or even killed them.
This is important to remember since we
are soon to celebrate Chanukah.
Despite living among the Egyptians,
far from home and family, Joseph re-
mained a true son of Israel. He rose to a
very high level in the royal household.
He could have had anything he wanted.
He may have appeared outwardly as an
Egyptian, and it might have been as-
sumed that he shared their vices, yet
when Potiphars wife tried to seduce
him he didnt just politely refuse. He
adamantly rebuffed and rejected her ad-
vances in the strongest terms. The Torah
underscores this with the cantillation
note known as a shalshelet, which is a
high note in triplicate for emphasis.
Joseph never forgot who he was and
who his people were. Sometimes Jews
forget their own culture during times
when there may not be overt persecu-
tion. Sometimes Jews may feel that the
prevailing culture has more to offer than
their own and they sometimes try to erase
the differences between them to be ac-
cepted and to get ahead. This is the story
of Chanukah.
Some Jews gave up their precious heri-
tage hoping that they would be accepted
if they assimilated and became culturally
Greek. They desired social and economic
advancement and tried to erase their
Jewishness. Unfortunately, this has been
repeated many times in history. Jews dur-
ing the Renaissance, in Spain, Germany,
Russia, and Arab countries were good
citizens. Yet even the most assimilated
eventually suffered. The same challenges,
i.e., how to become a good citizen and a
good Jew, exist today in the great melting
pot called America.
Our rabbis crafted a significant re-
sponse to assimilation in the manner in
which we celebrate Chanukah. First of all
the notion of publicizing the miracle by
kindling the menorah where people can
see it reminds us to be proud of our heri-
tage and to remember that we, a small
group of Jews, were victorious against
overwhelming odds. We encourage our
children to light the menorah, thus pass-
ing on the story not just the chocolate
coins and latkes. The story of Chanukah is
the story of Jewish survival and continu-
ity, especially when one considers that
most of our history has been in exile.
We enhance our observance of
Chanukah by using beautiful menorahs
and partying with doughnuts and songs.
We also enhance the observance by
adopting the most stringent practice of
lighting an additional candle each night
of Chanukah instead of just one each
night as the law requires. This is part of
the celebration, which the Talmud calls
super enhancement. When we cele-
brate a momentous occasion we pull out
all the stops. In all probability, despite the
rabbis ruling that one candle or oil light
per household is sufficient, popular usage
evolved to the point that each person lit
his own menorah, and since the miracle
of the oil grew each day they added one
light each day. This is our standard prac-
tice today.
The miracle of Chanukah is not so
much the story of the oil that continued
to burn, it is the story of Judaism whose
flame still ignites passion and commit-
ment. It is not so much about dreidels
and gift-giving as it is about the capac-
ity of Judaisms message to remain strong
throughout the generations. Egypt,
Babylonia, Persia, Greece, Rome, Spain,
and Germany are now shadows of their
former glory. We are still here and Israel
has surpassed them all. Chanukah is not
so much about rededicating the Temple
as it is about the dedication of each gen-
eration before us to tell the story, light the
menorah, and pass that flame forward.
Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk
observed that people sometimes pursue
falsehoods with the intensity of those
pursuing the truth. Halevay (would that
it be so) that we should pursue the truth
with such passion. The same issues facing
our ancestors are present today. The rab-
bis also taught that we should be at home,
if possible, to light the menorah. This,
too, is a lesson. We ought not stray too far
from our home, i.e., our sacred heritage.
When we kindle the Chanukah lights
we pray in the second blessing that the
miracles wrought for our ancestors be
visited upon us as well. Amen.
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Music out of Africa in Teaneck
Benefit concert will help Jewish youngsters in Ugandas village of Putti
LARRY YUDELSON
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chad mi yodeah?
Who knows one?
The Hebrew words from the first track on the
album Mike Cohen created in 2010 are from the familiar
Passover song. The accents and the melody are not. They
are African; the singers are the 15 member childrens
chorus of the Jewish community of Putti in Uganda,
along with the communitys rabbi.
When I Wake Up: Music From Putti brought
together the songs Cohen recorded on a visit to Uganda
with instrumentation he mixed in back in America.
A second record is being polished for release early
next year.
Before that, on Saturday night, Dec. 15, Cohen will
raise money for the community with a musical benefit at
Smokey Joes in Teaneck.
The Jews of Putti are a subgroup within Ugandas
Abayudaya Jewish community. The Abayudaya traces
its origins to a military chieftain who broke away from
the Christianity spread by British missionaries nearly
a century ago and set up a group that adopted the
teachings of the Hebrew Bible. In recent years, the
1,200-member Abayudaya community has received
support from American Jewry, which enabled their
rabbi to study and be ordained at the Ziegler School of
Rabbinic Studies, a Conservative institution that is part
of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. The
Abayudaya Jews then formally converted to Judaism,
under Conservative auspices, to be accepted by world
Jewry.
But the 250 to 300 Jews of the village of Putti broke
away from the main Abayudaya community they
wanted to be more orthodox than that, and are seeking
an additional Orthodox conversion.
Now the groups has students studying in Israel at the
yeshiva of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, and the Orthodox rabbi
is planning a visit to Putti early next year for their second
conversion.
Cohen first became aware of the Jews of Putti when
he heard a field recording of their music (No ones
ever going to accuse Smithsonian Folkways of not
practicing niche marketing with Abayudaya: Music
From The Jewish People Of Uganda wrote an Amazon.
com reviewer) but his involvement as a collaborator and
advocate began in 2008 when he went to a screening
of a South African documentary about the Abayudaya,
Pearls of Africa. That led him to an online group about
the community, and he soon found himself talking
online with Puttis rabbi.
They have no running water, no electricity, but a
town nearby has Internet access, Cohen said.
Cohen is a professional musician, a jazz saxophone
player who plays a lot of flute and clarinet. His klezmer
group, Kleztraphobix, released an album in 2004; a jazz
album is in the pipeline.
Given his musical leanings, it is perhaps not a surprise
that he quickly ended up in Uganda, recording the
communitys children choir singing Jewish songs.
The resulting recording, When I Wake Up, raised
$10,000 for the community, an enormous amount for
them.
Last year, he had an opportunity to return this time
with a recording engineer.
This second CD is going to post-production in the
next week. I hope it will be out in the next month or two.
The music is phenomenal.
Its their music, their singing, new melodies for a lot
of old songs. Its their music on a Saturday morning. I just
wanted to capture them doing what they do.
Its very much traditional east African folk music, but
with Hebrew lyrics. Theres something about it thats very
unique, but very much steeped in the music they all grew
up listening to in that area of the world.
Its really a beautiful hybrid. Its inherently east
African; its also inherently Jewish.
In his performances in Teaneck, Cohen will take that
music and put it into a slightly different setting. With my
quintet, Ill be trying to re-examine those melodies, to
use those melodies as a vehicle to play over.
Hell also be playing some of the Putti recordings, old
and new.
The money he hopes to raise from the cover fee, as
well as by selling recordings, handcrafted kippot, and
a calendar of art from the villages children, will go to
getting kids into school, and sending money for health
care through the Putti Village Assistance Organization .
The organization is also helping the Jews of Putti build
a new synagogue. The old one had no windows or doors;
it had a thatched roof with holes in it. They didnt have
a Torah; they had a copy of one. A year and a half ago a
doctor down in Houston raised the money to bring a real
Torah to them. Now were raising money for a mikvah.
The mikvah will enable Riskin and the two students
hes bringing back with him to convert the community
for a second time.
Its pretty exciting for them, says Cohen.
Meanwhile, weve just got to keep raising funds. Were
still trying to keep kids in school. Its a very difficult thing
to come up with the money all these kids need.
Save the date
Mike Cohen will appear at Smokey Joes, 494 Cedar
Lane, on Saturday night, Dec. 15. First seating: Doors
open at 7:30. Music begins at 8:15. Second seating
begins at 9:30. $10 cover charge benefits the village of
Putti
Listen and learn
You can listen to or buy When I Wake Up: Music from
Putti at cdbaby.com/musicfromputti, http://amzn.to/
SHEpYK, or on iTunes. More information on Putti is at
puttivillage.org
Mike Cohen, above, plays the flute for villagers in
Putti. At right, he meets with younger members of
the community.
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friday [dec. 7]
Shabbat in Wyckoff Temple Beth Rishon
ushers in Chanukah with a congregational
dinner and services, 6 p.m. The Strauss/
Warschauer Duo performs with Cantors
Ilan Mamber and Jenna Daniels along
with the Kol Rishon adult choir and the
Zemer Rishon teen choir. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or www.bethrishon.org.
Shabbat in Closter Temple Emanu-El of
Closter holds a congregational Chanukah/
new member dinner, 6 p.m. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997.
Shabbat in Pompton Lakes The Jewish
Congregation of Kinnelon offers services
for children, 6:30 p.m. 21 Passaic Ave.
(973) 838-5566.
Shabbat in Closter Temple Beth El offers
services with the Shabbat Unplugged
Band, 7:30 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Paramus The Young Jewish
Families club of the Jewish Community
Center of Paramus hosts a family-friendly
service and program for young families
and children, 13 and younger, 7:30 p.m.
Oneg/playtime in the gym follow. East
304 Midland Ave. (201) 262-7691 or
yjf@jccparamus.org.
saturday [dec. 8]
Shabbat in Teaneck Members of the Jewish
Center of Teaneck join Rabbi Lawrence
Zierlers tish (table) for a discussion,
Whats Culture Got to Do with It?, as part
of the Three Cs Cholent, Cugel, and
Conversation, after the 9 a.m. service.
KinderShul, at 10:30 for 3- to 8-year-olds,
while parents attend services. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-0515 or www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Wyckoff Rabbi Ziona Zelazo
leads an alternative meditative prayer
service in Temple Beth Rishons library,
10 a.m. 585 Russell Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
Milo613@aol.com.
Shabbat in Emerson Steve Leibowitz,
editor-in-chief of the Israel Broadcasting
Authority and head of Israel Televisions
English desk, speaks during services
at Congregation Bnai Israel, 10 a.m.
He is also the founder and president
of American Football in Israel. Kiddush
follows. 53 Palisade Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Menorah lighting in Wyckoff Chabad
of NW Bergen County holds a menorah
lighting/celebration at Wyckoff Town
Hall, with hot Chanukah refreshments,
glow giveaways, and a grand raffle.
6:30 p.m. Mayor Chris DePhillips and local
officials will be there. (201) 848-0449 or
www.chabadplace.org.
Menorah lighting in Paramus A menorah
will be lit at Borough Hall, 7 p.m. 1
Jockish Square. (201) 265-2100 or
www.paramusborough.org.
sunday [dec. 9]
Chanukah playtime The Dora and Sidney
Miller Early Childhood Center at the JCC
of Paramus holds Holiday Playtime,
an interactive program with holiday
crafts, music, dance, refreshments,
and playtime, for 2- to 4-year-olds
with their parents or grandparents,
10 a.m. Free. Judy Fox, (201) 967-1334 or
eccdirector@jccparamus.org.
lighting and celebration at Mahwah Town
Hall, 6 p.m. Mayor Bill Laforet and local
officials will attend. Chanukah refreshments,
glow giveaways, and grand raffle.
(201) 848-0449 or www.chabadplace.org.
Menorah lighting in Tenafly Lubavitch on
the Palisades of Tenafly lights a menorah
at Huyler Park, 7 p.m. (201) 871-1152 or
www.chabadlubavitch.org.
Artist talk in Englewood The Jewish
Womens Philanthropy Business and
Professionals offers a program with artist
Beryl Brenner at the Bergen Performing
Arts Center, 7 p.m. Brenners art includes
painting, wood sculpture, metal works,
photography, and clay. Light dinner. 30
North Van Brunt St. (201) 820-3906 or
jenniferc@jfnnj.org.
Menorah lighting in Fair Lawn Bris
Avrohom of Fair Lawn lights the menorah
with the Fair Lawn Mayor Jeanne Baratta
in front of Fair Lawn City Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Doughnuts and chocolate gelt. 8-01 Fair
Lawn Ave. www.jewishfairlawn.org.
tuesday [dec. 11]
Networking in Jersey City The Jewish
Business Network hosts a breakfast with
the Hudson Jewish Business Network at
the Museum of Russian Art, 8:30 a.m. 80
Grand St. www.jbusinessnetwork.net.
Chanukah lunch The Englewood &
Cliffs chapter of ORT America hosts a
Chanukah lunch with Spark and Spirit,
A musical Holiday Celebration featuring
soprano Doris Weiss and her husband,
award-winning composer Elliot Weiss,
at Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC of
Fort Lee, noon. Chanukah gift boutique
at 11:30 a.m. Kosher Chinese food. 1449
Anderson Ave. Shirley, (201) 585-1748.
Chanukah in Paramus The Jewish
Community Center of Paramus offers
dinner, 5:30 p.m., outdoor menorah
lighting, songs, and dessert. E. 304 Midland
Ave. Reservations. (201) 262-7691 or
office@jccparamus.org.
Menorah lighting in Closter Lubavitch
on the Palisades of Tenafly lights a
menorah at the corner of Piermont and
Ruckman roads, 7 p.m. (201) 871-1152 or
Chanukah in Wyckoff Cantor Ilan Mamber
continues a series of folksong workshops
beginning with a menorah lighting and
including American Chanukah songs
be donated to CUMAC (Center of United
Methodist Aid to the Community). 747
Route 208 South.(201) 848-1027.
Chanukah in Pompton Lakes The Jewish
Congregation of Kinnelon celebrates
Chanukah with Latke-Rama, latkes,
games, and doughnuts, 5 p.m. Joint
menorah lighting with Congregation Beth
Shalom on Dec. 15. 21 Passaic Ave.
(973) 838-5566.
Menorah lighting in Demarest Lubavitch
on the Palisades of Tenafly offers a menorah
lighting at the gazebo at the Demarest
Duck Pond, 5 p.m. (201) 871-1152 or
Benjamin Nelson
Book talk To mark Jewish Book Month,
Benjamin Nelson, FDU professor emeritus,
discusses The Big Flood: Hebrew Vs.
Pagan, at the Englewood Public Library,
6 p.m. 31 Engle St. (201) 568-2215 or
www.englewoodlibrary.org.
monday [dec. 10]
Presidential election of 1800 Dumont
historian Dick Burnon presents a video
and lecture on the controversial Jefferson/
Adams/Burr presidential election of 1800
for a meeting of Retired Executives and
Active Professionals at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades, 11 a.m. He will screen part
of a 2000 PBS film, The Duel, about the
1804 Burr-Hamilton Duel in Weehawken.
411 East Clinton Ave. (201) 569-7900 or
www.jccotp.org.
Chanukah Hadassah The Teaneck-
Hackensack chapter of Hadassah meets for
Chanukah at Congregation Beth Sholom,
12:30 p.m. Entertainment by storyteller Sara
Sloan. Refreshments. (201) 503-1897.
Discussion for seniors The senior group
of the JCC of Paramus offers a discussion,
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, with Al
Nahum, 1:30 p.m. Free. (201) 262-7691.
Menorah lighting in Mahwah Chabad
of NW Bergen County holds a menorah
Jacqueline Kates
Jews of Teaneck Former Teaneck mayor
Jacqueline Kates, community relations
coordinator at Holy Name Medical Center,
discusses History of the Jews of Teaneck
for Temple Emeth at Teanecks Byachad
breakfast, 10:30 a.m. 1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Chanukah in Ridgewood Temple Israel and
JCC in Ridgewood hosts a Chanukah party
for preschoolers and their younger siblings,
11:30 a.m. Storytelling, crafts, games,
and food. 475 Grove St. (201) 444-9320 or
office@synagogue.org.
Joanie Leeds
Chanukah concert The United Synagogue
of Hobokens Kaplan Cooperative
Preschool presents Joanie Leeds and
the Nightlights, a kindie-rock band,
11 a.m. 115 Park Ave. (201) 653-8666 or
ushpreschool@gmail.com.
Chanukah in Fair Lawn Bris Avrohom of
Fair Lawn has Chanukah Wonderland, with
lunch, latkes, doughnuts, bounce house,
cotton candy, candle making, carnival
games, and more, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 30-02
Fair Lawn Ave. www.jewishfairlawn.org.
Chanukah in River Edge Temple Avodat
Shalom hosts Hot Hot Hanukkah
with activities for 2- to 5- year-olds,
noon, and a concert for everyone by
Matty Roxx at 1 p.m. 385 Howland
Ave. (201) 489-2463, ext. 201 or
administrator@avodatshalom.net.
Chanukah in Tenafly Temple Sinai
of Bergen County hosts a Chanukah
celebration with food, music, sports and
games, arts and crafts, and magic, noon. 1
Engle St. (201) 568-3075.
Chanukah in Tenafly Lubavitch on the
Palisades in Tenafly holds its annual
Family Chanukah Festival featuring an
M-Generation Boys Concert, 4 p.m.
Menorah contest, dreidels, doughnuts,
and latkes. 11 Harold St. (201) 871-1152 or
Chanukah in Wayne The Chabad Center of
Passaic County hosts its Grand Chanukah
Festival with an ice carving show and
refreshments at the Chabad Center, 3 p.m.
Menorah lighting at 4:30. 194 Ratzer Road.
(973) 694-6274 or www.jewishwayne.com
Chanukah in Franklin Lakes Barnert
Temple holds a Chanukah celebration with
outdoor menorah lighting, potluck supper,
and latke taste-off, 4:45 p.m. Music by
NYC Klezmer. Bring an unwrapped toy to
Cellist Peter Wiley joins the Israeli Chamber Project in a program at Merkin
Concert Hall in Manhattan on Thursday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. Wiley, formerly of
the Guarneri String Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio, is the featured guest art-
ist in a program that includes the music of Brahms, Debussy, Bruch, Ravel, and
Sergiu Natra. Call (212) 501-3330, email boxoffice@kaufman-center.org, or go to
kaufman-center.org/mch.
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Woody Guthrie, Adam Sandler, Debbie
Friedman, and others, 7 p.m. Bring
musical instruments. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or cantor@bethrishon.org.
wednesday [dec. 12]
Baby/toddler Chanukah in Oakland
Shalom Baby offers a Chanukah
party at the Gerrard Berman Solomon
Schechter Day School of North Jersey,
9:30-10:45 a.m. The group offers a way
for moms and dads of newborns or newly
adopted children through age 3 to connect
with each other and the Jewish community
through a monthly series of play dates
with play, music, storytime, snacks, and
crafts projects. Administered by the Jewish
Synagogue Leadership Initiative and co-
funded by the Henry and Marilyn Taub
Foundation. 45 Spruce St. Ellen Finkelstein,
(201) 820-3917 or ellenf@jfnnj.org.
Chanukah for survivors Jewish Family
Service of Bergen and North Hudson
presents Caf Europas Joy Lunch Club,
a special Chanukah celebration luncheon
for Holocaust survivors, at Temple Emanu-
El, Closter, 11:30 a.m. Music by Alan and
Raphael Sweifach. Call Jewish Family
Service/IRA, (201) 837-9090. 180 Piermont
Road. Transportation provided if needed.
Menorah lighting in Cresskill Lubavitch
on the Palisades of Tenafly lights a
menorah at the corner in front of the
Cresskill Library, 7 p.m. (201) 871-1152 or
thursday [dec. 13]
Baby/toddler Chanukah in Emerson
Shalom Baby offers a Chanukah party at
Congregation Bnai Israel, 9:30-10:45 a.m.
The group offers a way for moms and
dads of newborns or newly adopted
children through age 3 to connect with
each other and the Jewish community,
through a monthly series of play dates
with play, music, storytime, snacks, and
crafts projects. Administered by Jewish
Synagogue Leadership Initiative and
co-funded by the Henry and Marilyn
Taub Foundation. 53 Palisade Ave.
Ellen Finkelstein, (201) 820-3917 or
ellenf@jfnnj.org.
Norma Ave. (201) 796-5040.
Concert in Franklin Lakes Alan King
and Theodore Bikel are featured in the
recorded Folksbiene Yiddish Theaters 2003
fundraising concert, at Temple Emanuel,
2 p.m. Refreshments. 558 High Mountain
Road. (201) 560-0200 or www.tenjfl.org.
Special needs parents conference/
resource fair New Jersey Yachad/
The National Jewish Council for
Disabilities presents its fourth annual
Parent Conference and Resource
Fair at Congregation Beth Shalom
in Teaneck, 5:30-10 p.m. Workshops
include Addressing Challenging
Behavior, Education, Marriage,
and Communication, and Sibling
Relationships. Co-sponsored by the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Keynote by Dr. Jeff Lichtman, Creating a
Supportive Jewish Community: Fostering
Meaningful Inclusion of Individuals
With Special Needs. Scholarships on
request. Buffet dinner. 354 Maitland
Ave. Chani Herrmann, (201) 833-1349,
herrmann@ou.org.
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sunday [dec. 9]
Yosi and The Superdads
Courtesy Jewish museum
Chanukah museum program The Jewish
Museum presents its annual Chanukah
Family Day with a performance by Yosi
and The Superdads, an art workshop, and
gallery tours, noon-4 p.m. For children
3 and up, accompanied by an adult.
(212) 423-3200 or TheJewishMuseum.org/
specialfamilydays.
bnaijacobjc.org.
Shabbat in Closter Temple Emanu-El
offers family services, 5:30 p.m., Spirit and
Song services, beginning with a nosh, at
6. 180 Piermont Road. (201) 750-9997 or
ween@templeemanu-el.com.
Shabbat in River Edge Temple Avodat
Shalom offers a family Chanukah
celebration. Tot Shabbat, 6 p.m., Shabbat/
Chanukah dinner, 6:30, family services
with sign language interpreter, 7:30. 385
Howland Ave. (201) 489-2463, ext. 203, or
www.avodatshalom.net.
Shabbat in Closter Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley celebrates Chanukah with
its annual 101 Menorahs Shabbat, 6 p.m.
Bring a menorah and seven candles. Latkes
and doughnuts; concert by Temple Beth
Els new Junior Band. 221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112 or www.tbenv.org.
Shabbat in Woodcliff Lake Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley holds a young family
Chanukah service, 7 p.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801.
Shabbat in Teaneck Temple Emeth has
a Shabbat Chanukah family celebration,
beginning with dinner, 6:15 p.m., services
at 8. Bring menorahs and candles and a
non-perishable food item to donate to the
Center for Food Action. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.
Shabbat in Jersey City Congregation
Mount Sinai offers a Shabbat Chanukah
Daven and Dine, 7:30 p.m. 128 Sherman
Ave. RavShlomo.MtSinai@gmail.com.
sunday [dec. 16]
Preschool class The JCC of Paramus
offers Candle Club, a monthly pre-K
holiday class with stories, music, arts and
crafts, and nut-free snacks, 9:45 a.m.
Chanukah theme. (201) 262-7733 or
edudirector@jccparamus.org.
Chanukah party in South Orange The
Jewish Cultural School & Society offers
a family event with crafts, dreidel games,
author reading, singing, ceremony, and
potluck lunch, at the Baird Center, 10 a.m. 5
Mead St. (973) 233-0714 or jcss-nj.org.
Benefit concert The Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation Bnai Israel hosts
its Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert with
students from the Believe in Music Studio,
3 p.m. Music dcor/bake sale and nail
design station for children at 2. 10-10
Chanukah celebration The sisterhood
of Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC
of Fort Lee meets to celebrate the
holiday, 12:30 p.m. 1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.
Rachelle Weisberger
Inner beauty Pascack Valley/Northern Valley
Hadassah meets at the Bergen County
YJCC in Washington Township to hear
author/cosmetologist Rachelle Weisberger
discuss her book Biblical Beauty:
Ancient Secrets and Modern Solutions.
Refreshments, 7:30 p.m., program at 8. 605
Pascack Road. (201) 664-5626.
Engaging Israel The community-wide
program Engaging Israel continues with
Morality and the Battlefield at Temple
Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn, 7:30 p.m. Co-
sponsored by the Glen Rock Jewish Center;
Temple Beth Sholom, Fair Lawn; Fair
Lawn Jewish Center; Temple Israel/JCC,
Ridgewood, and Progressive Havurah of
NNJ. 475 Grove St. (201) 444-9320.
Chanukah for adults Bris Avrohom of
Fair Lawn offers an adult Chanukah Caf,
8 p.m. Sushi buffet and wines from Israel.
www.jewishfairlawn.org
friday [dec. 14]
Shabbat in Tenafly Temple Sinai of Bergen
Countys Early Childhood Center hosts
Chanukah Tot Shabbat. Services at
5:30 p.m., followed by dinner and menorah
lighting. 1 Engle St. (201) 568-6867 or
SAidekman@templesinaibc.org.
Shabbat in Demarest Shaar Communities
offers musical Shabbat services and
potluck dairy/vegetarian dinner in
Demarest, 6 p.m. (201) 213-9569 or
joanne@shaarcommunities.org for location.
Shabbat in Jersey City Congregation Bnai
Jacob offers Shabbat/Chanukah beginning
with nosh and schmooze, 6 p.m., Friday
Night Live! services with Cantor Marsha
Dubrow, 6:45, and dinner at 7:30 p.m.
176 West Side Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
AvshAlom levi
Chanukah music in Tenafly
The Shirah Community Chorus on the Palisades, led by founding director and conductor Matthew Lazar, will perform
a Chanukah concert on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 2 p.m. in the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades Taub Auditorium. The repertoire
includes traditional Chanukah favorites in Hebrew and English and a sing-along. Call (201) 408-1465 or go to www.
jccotp.org/shirah.
Don Rickles coming to bergenPAC
The Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood offers
an Intimate Evening With the Legendary Don Rickles
on Thursday, June 20, at 8 p.m. Call (201) 227-1030 or go
to www.ticketmaster.com or www.bergenpac.org.
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Celebrate the 4th Night of Chanukah at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades!

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene will entertain
with live music, humor & great family fun. Music will be performed
in Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew & English, with all non-English lyrics
translated on super-title projections so families can sing along.
Tickets are $10 JCC members/$12 non-members per person.
Children age 2 and younger are free;
$25 per family (parents and children)/ $35 non-members.
After the show, families can join together for a
Chanukah Community Celebration
with pizza, donuts, arts and crafts & more!

For more information on the concert, call Robyn at 201.408.1429.
For more information on fees and tickets for
the Chanukah celebration, call Tina 201.408.1438.
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The Thurnauer Chamber Music Society,
clockwise from top left, Richard
Goldsmith, clarinet; Jon Klibonoff,
piano; Yari Bond, cello; and Sharon
Roffman, violin. AlAn Cohen
New Years Eve dance
at Fair Lawn shul
Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn invites
the community to a New Years Eve din-
ner dance on Monday, Dec. 31, from 8
p.m. to 1 a.m., with music by DJ Back to
Back Music and a three-course dinner by
Perfect Pita. It costs $59 per person, $118
per couple, for reservations received by
Dec. 17, and $68 per person, $136 per
couple, afterward. Call (201) 797-9321.
Emunah NYC event
features artist
Lenore Cohen,
a painter and
graphic designer
who got her
start as an artist
at the Emunah
VOmanut Art &
Music Program
in Israel, is cel-
ebrating her latest
solo show at Saks
Fifth Avenue in
Manhattan. Her work has been featured
in more than 20 solo and group shows in
the New York City area.
On Thursday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m.,
Emunah will co-sponsor a wine and
cheese reception celebrating her work
in the John Allans Mens Salon on the
7th floor at Saks. The show will feature
15 original paintings and selected prints
available for sale. Cohen will donate10
percent of all proceeds to support
Emunahs many charitable projects,
which include providing homes and edu-
cation to children from needy or strug-
gling families in Israel.
For information, email rita@emunah.
org. To see the artists portfolio, go to
www.lenorecohen.com.
Lenore Cohen
Courtesy emunAh
Chamber music in Tenafly
The Thurnauer Chamber Music Society
will mark two decades as the ensemble-
in-residence at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades Thurnauer School of Music
with a festive three-concert season that
opens with Opus 20 Delights: TCMS 20th
Anniversary Celebration. The perfor-
mance will be on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 8
p.m. at the Kaplen JCC.
The repertoire will include Opus 20
compositions, including Excursions for
Piano by Samuel Barber, String Quartet
in D Major by Franz Joseph Haydn, and
Ludwig van Beethovens Septet in E-flat
Major. As is traditional for the TCMS, the
concert will be preceded by an informal
conversation about the music at 7 p.m. A
meet-the-artists reception follows the
performance.
Tuesday, December 11, 5 pm
Celebrate the 4th Night of Chanukah at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades!

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene will entertain
with live music, humor & great family fun. Music will be performed
in Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew & English, with all non-English lyrics
translated on super-title projections so families can sing along.
Tickets are $10 JCC members/$12 non-members per person.
Children age 2 and younger are free;
$25 per family (parents and children)/ $35 non-members.
After the show, families can join together for a
Chanukah Community Celebration
with pizza, donuts, arts and crafts & more!

For more information on the concert, call Robyn at 201.408.1429.
For more information on fees and tickets for
the Chanukah celebration, call Tina 201.408.1438.
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To show their support for Israel, the Israeli Scouts (Tzofim Shevet Mezada), who
meet each Sunday at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, began their
weekly gathering with a special solidarity ceremony for Israel. Courtesy JCCotP
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Students at Torah Academy of Bergen County in Teaneck participated
in a student groundbreaking for TABCs expansion on Nov. 15. A formal
groundbreaking for the community is planned for next year. Courtesy tABC
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A team of U.S. veterans, in Israel with the Heroes to Heroes program, visited
INTRA: The Israel National Therapeutic Riding Association, Israels center
for therapeutic horseback riding. They were greeted by Anita and Giora Shkedi,
INTRAs directors, and their staff. Courtesy INtrA
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The Temple Sinai Religious School Committee held a bake sale on Nov. 4 to
support the religious schools enrichment and scholarship funds. Among the
volunteers and students participating were Jane and Rebecca Parish, Sarah and
Julia Horbacewicz, Sky Bolkin, and Colin Colchamiro. oPhelIA A. yudkoff
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National Council of Jewish Women Bergen County Section presented a $7,500
check to the Center for Food Action for CFAs aid to people affected by
Hurricane Sandy and for its annual Thanksgiving distribution. From left, Jennifer
Rothman, CFA director of communications; Marcia Levy, NCJW BCS community
services co-vice president; Elaine Pollack, NCJW BCS co-president; Patricia Espy,
CFA executive director; Carole Benson, NCJW BCS co-president; and Peggy
Kabakow, NCJW BCS board member.
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TAG Teens (aka CTeens), the
network for Jewish high-schoolers
from the Chabad Jewish Center in
North West Bergen County, recently
made cookies and picture frames
to send as gifts to nursing home
residents. Courtesy ChABAd
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As Israel grappled with the
complex strategic and moral
challenges of self-defense, Alan M.
Dershowitz, left, delved into a nuanced
analysis of the obligations, merits, and dangers of human justice in a Nov. 20
conversation presented by Yeshiva Universitys Zahava and Moshael Straus Center
for Torah and Western Thought. Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, director of the Straus
Center listens. Courtesy yu
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Hearts teen volunteers who decorated challah covers with residents at the
Jewish Home Assisted Living in River Vale. A Chanukah program is set for Dec. 11.
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Wedding
Brauer/Gorshein
Danielle Lauren Brauer, daugh-
ter of Lila and Dr. Michael K.
Brauer of Oakland, and Eshai
J. Gorshein, son of Linnea and
Dr. Dov Gorshein of Wayne,
were married Nov. 10 at Temple
Beth Rishon in Wyckoff. Rabbi
Dr. Kenneth S. Emert offici-
ated and Cantor Ilan Mamber participated in the ceremony. The
couple met as campers at Camp Veritans Day Camp in Haledon
and reconnected as adults.
The bride graduated from the University of Connecticut and
received a masters degree in human rights and humanitarian as-
sistance from New York University. She is a director for develop-
ment, New York Metro area, at Amnesty International.
The groom graduated from Boston University, received
an MBA and a law degree from Pace University, and a Master
of Laws degree in banking and financial law from Boston
University. He is a manager in the legal and compliance division
of Morgan Stanley.
Eshai and Danielle Gorshein
Birth
Chani Sussman
Chani Sussman was born on
Nov. 16 in Englewood to Shelli
and Chaim Sussman of Teaneck.
Her grandparents are Barbara
and Stephen Sussman, Debi
Brill, and Mat Hoffman.
Bnai mitzvah
Addison
Abramowitz
Addison Abramowitz, son of
Marni and Kenny Abramowitz
of Tenafly and brother of Bailey,
Jeremy, and Barrett, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah on Dec.
1 at Temple Emanu-El in Closter.
Harrison Blume
Harrison Blume, son of Erika
and Mark Blume of Woodcliff
Lake and brother of Rachel, cel-
ebrated becoming a bar mitzvah
on Dec. 1 at Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff
Lake.
Jason Edelstein
Jason Daniel Edelstein, son of
Pamela and Michael Edelstein of
Paramus and brother of David,
celebrated becoming a bar mitz-
vah on Dec. 1 at Temple Avodat
Shalom in River Edge. His
grandparents are Sidney Sachs
of Airmont, N.Y., and Marilyn
Edelstein of Lake Worth, Fla.
Mary Feldsott
Mary Kathleen Feldsott,
daughter of Eileen and Edward
Feldsott of Ridgewood and
sister of Benjamin, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
Dec. 1 at Temple Beth Or in
Washington Township.
Maya Greenberg
Maya Greenberg, daughter of
Abbe Seidman of Teaneck and
Eric Greenberg of Teaneck, cel-
ebrated becoming a bat mitzvah
on Dec. 1 at Temple Emeth in
Teaneck.
Taylor Lansey
Taylor Lansey, daughter of Ilisa
and David Lansey of Norwood,
celebrated becoming a bat mitz-
vah on Dec. 1 at Temple Beth El
of Northern Valley in Closter.
Dalya Levy
Dalya Eden Levy, daughter of
Elysa and Steven Levy of Upper
Saddle River and sister of
Brandon and Camryn, celebrat-
ed becoming a bat mitzvah on
Dec. 1 at Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake.
Jaclyn Mait
Jaclyn Mait, daughter of Karola
and David Mait of Ogunquit,
Maine, originally of Franklin
Lakes, and sister of Sandy,
Melanie, and Joseph, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
Dec. 1 at Temple Beth Rishon in
Wyckoff.
OBituaries
Anita Cohen
Anita Cohen, 88, of Fair Lawn
died on Nov. 29.
She was a former member
of the Fair Lawn Jewish Center
and the Fair Lawn Chapter of
Hadassah.
Predeceased by her husband,
Seymour, she is survived by
daughters, Rita L. Bleier (Larry)
of Vestal, N.Y., Judy Cohen of
Fair Lawn, and Willa C. Bruckner
(Jeff) of Maplewood; a sis-
ter, Alice Mirsky of Fair Lawn;
five grandchildren; and six
greatgrandchildren.
Donations can be sent to
Jewish National Fund or The 2nd
Air Division Memorial Library,
Norwich, England. Arrange-
ments were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Helga Koppel
Helga E. Koppel, ne Stern, 89, of
Highland Beach, Fla., formerly
of Fort Lee, died on Dec. 1 in
Highland Beach.
Born in Germany, she was a
manager in the business industry.
Predeceased by her husband,
Michael, and sisters, Elsie and
Freidl, she is survived by a son,
Bruce (Heddy Schiff Koppel).
Donations can be sent to the
Israel Cancer Association USA,
West Palm Beach, Fla.
Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Florida. Shiva
information, www.guttermanan-
dmusicant.com.
Albert Rose
Albert Rose, 91, of Cliffside Park,
died on Dec. 2.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Todd Semon
Todd Elliot Semon, 60, of
Norwood, died on Nov. 28 at
home.
Born in Milwaukee, Wis., he
was a self-employed stockbro-
ker. A heart transplant recipient
13 years ago, he worked to cre-
ate donor awareness, recruit
new donors, support donor
recipients, and contribute to the
success of organ donation. His
last gift was the successful dona-
tion of his organs and tissues.
Predeceased by a brother,
Bobby, he is survived by his
wife of 30 years, Diane, ne
Leiman; daughters, Elizabeth
(Kyle Adelstein) and Rebecca;
a sister, Marcy Wynn (David);
a sister-in-law, Nancy Semon;
cousins, nieces, nephews, and
great-nephews.
Contributions can be sent
to The New York Organ Donor
Network, www.savelivesny.
org. Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Lorraine Skupp
Lorraine Skupp, ne Feldman,
of Boca Raton, Fla., formerly of
Cliffside Park and Teaneck, died
on Nov. 18.
She is survived by children,
Holly Skupp Goldin (Joel) of
Norwood and Alan (Michelle
ne Hiller) of Livingston; a sister
Vikki Stricker (Arthur) of Boca
Raton; and two grandchildren,
Samantha Ray Goldin and
Bennett Skupp. She was also
a second mother to Larissa
Swanberg-Obadia of Port
Washington, N.Y.
Contributions can be sent
to Hospice by the Sea, Boca
Raton, Fla. Arrangements were
by Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzman,
Livingston.
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Delray Beach, Fla., died on Nov. 30.
She was a member and past president of the Y
Womans Club in Paterson, an officer at the YM-YWHA of
North Jersey in Wayne, and a life member of Hadassah.
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is survived by daughters, Susan Sher (Ben) of Palm
Beach Gardens, Fla., and Franklin Lakes, and Sharon
Weintrob (Leonard) of Pompton Lakes; five grandchil-
dren, and 12 greatgrandchildren. Donations can be sent
to Hadassah. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
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Matthew Zimmerman
Matthew Zimmerman, 34, of Tenafly died on Dec. 3 in
Englewood.
Born in New York City, he was an entrepreneur with
Studley Real Estate.
He is survived by his wife Samantha, ne Lerner; his
parents, Arlene and Kenneth Zimmerman; sons Ethan
and Jordan; sister, Nicole; brothers, Zachary and Ryan;
in-laws Rita and Stephen Lerner; and brothers-in-law,
David and Jason.
Contributions can be sent to the Defining Moment, in
Englewood.
Shiva will be observed through Friday, Dec. 7, 3 to 5
p.m. Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant
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J Street hires Alan Elsner, late of the
Israel Project, as its spokesman
WASHINGTON Alan Elsner, a veteran journalist whose
last job was helping to helm the Israel Project, joined J
Street as its top spokesman.
Elsner was executive director of the Israel Project until
September, when Josh Block, the former spokesman
for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was
named its president.
Elsner, a longtime Reuters journalist and a dual U.S.-
Israeli citizen, is J Streets latest hire from a centrist pro-
Israel group, and probably has the highest profile.
The statement announcing Elsners hire on Monday
said there was no contradiction between his strong pro-
Israel credentials and the group, which advocates a more
assertive U.S. role in bringing about Israeli-Arab peace
and an Israeli retreat from settlement building.
J Street is committed to a two-state solution and
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community about the settlements and the occupation
and what is crucial to preserve Israels democracy,
Elsner said in the statement. There should be room in
the discussion for those who want to pursue a real peace
process and who value dialogue above settlements.
Since its founding in 2008, J Street has come under fire
from the Israeli government and from some pro-Israel
figures in Washington not least among them Block
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The whole high-tech scene is in English, explains
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ness developer born in South Africa. An Israeli guy look-
ing for a space sends me an email in English, and when
we meet we talk in Hebrew. Thats how the business world
works in Tel Aviv.
Opened in September 2011, TechLoft joins a field of
startup spaces including the rooftop Hub Tel Aviv, part
of a global network nurturing primarily environmental
and social ventures; The Library, opened in 2011 by the
Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality for residents only; and Genesis
Partners capital funds The Junction, with space for 30
entrepreneurs.
Shared workspaces provide early-stage startups with
Internet and printer access, storage areas, a corporate
mailing address, introductions to service providers, men-
tors and funders, and perhaps, most importantly, a sup-
portive community of peers.
There is a lot of cross-pollination here a lot of col-
laboration, which is amazing, Tuffias says. Its a great,
vibrant community.
TechLoft, which accommodates up to 70 pre-seed tech-
nology freelancers in the Internet and mobile sectors, is
the largest of the Tel Aviv shared workspaces and is unusual
in that it is open 24/7 and theres no time limit on how long
tenants can stay. A joint venture between Tuffias and elec-
trical engineer Tal Marian, it is also the only one privately
owned.
We each encountered entrepreneurs looking for some-
one to trust for advice in the early stages, Tuffias says.
Instead of doing it on a personal level, we wanted to do it
on larger scale.
Grow bigger, pay less
During TechLofts first year, more than 60 different ten-
ants raised an accumulated $8 million. Eventually, Tuffias
and Marian aim to buy a piece of the in-house startups
as well.
Our ultimate goal is to raise a few million dollars to
create a TechLoft Fund and make investments of between
$100,000 and $300,000 in ventures in which we are inter-
ested, explains Tuffias. We dont have a vehicle in Israel
to screen companies, support them and work with them to
secure additional funding rounds, and we want to be that
vehicle.
The unique monthly fee structure they devised encour-
ages growth within TechLoft. If they are bootstrapping
using their own funds or a friend or relatives funds its
quite a burden if they have a large team, so we try to help
them out, Tuffias said.
One-person startups pay the shekel equivalent of $300;
two people pay $250 each, while a three- or four-person
startup pays $200 per head for seats at open tables. Private
offices on the upper floor of the workspace go for $750-
$1,250 per month. Tenants have access to conference
rooms, two kitchens and four outdoor decks for evening
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Tuffias and Marian could have saved money by siting
their 500-square-meter space outside of Tel Aviv, or in a
less expensive neighborhood, but Tuffias says the tony
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attractive to Israeli and international venture capital
funds and angel investors.
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to be, Tuffias explains. The Mapped in Israel site [created
by young entrepreneur Ben Lang] shows you were in the
center of the startup scene. There are hundreds in a small
radius.
In 2011, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai created the Tel
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Theres something amazing in the concentration of the
startup scene here, and how everyone knows one another,
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genuine feeling that you have to give back to each other.
One of the Lofters is a year-old venture to offer online
bra-fitting suggestions based on crowd recommendations.
Its something out of the box and useful, Tuffias says. The
founder began solo, raised some capital, and now rents a
third of the upstairs office space as she expands her team.
The immediate community in TechLoft served as a de
facto testing ground for her concept.
A common thread through our companies is the real-
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stages of development, says Tuffias. A lot of tech compa-
nies in the past developed a product and then found no
need for it. Here, they try to validate the product within the
community right at the alpha stage.
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hats life like in Beersheva and the rest
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said Harel Chazan, a senior at Boys
Town Jerusalem, when Israels Pillar of Defense opera-
tion raged against Gaza. But this isnt anything new,
really. We havent been able to leave our homes, walk in
the streets, go to work or school, hang out with friends,
go shopping, or live a normal life for years. Rockets have
been hitting our city day and night.
Harel, however, was most concerned about his
13-year-old sister. For the past four years, shes had to
live with sirens wailing at all hours, and racing for cover
as rockets fly. Children dont live like this anywhere in
the world. She should be playing with her friends, not
cowering in fear.
Harel and several of his Boys Town classmates
from Israels embattled south gathered to exchange
experiences, as the recent Operation came to a close.
Alex Bismuth, 17, has lived in Ashdod since he and his
family immigrated to Israel from Paris in 2004. When I
went home for the weekend, there were sirens every five
minutes, and we had 15 seconds to run for safety from
our 9th-floor apartment. At night we slept with all the
neighbors in the buildings bomb shelter. Then Saturday
night a huge, horrible boom shook the entire building as
a rocket hit within several yards, he reported. Ive seen
plenty of bad times in Ashdod, but this was the worst. You
cant live under such traumatic conditions for so long.
For nearly half of his life, Eliav Touitto, 16, has been
living in a battle zone in the small Northern Negev
agricultural settlement of Moshav Yoshivya. Gazas only
a few miles awaywe can see it from our fields, he says.
Our settlement is such a lovely place, but we live in a
state of constant alert, always ready to run for our lives.
In addition to the extraordinary emotional damage,
there has been a heavy economic toll as well, the young
men noted. Neither Eliavs nor Alexs parents were able to
work during the fighting. They couldnt really leave the
house, Alex explained. When they needed groceries,
they waited for a few minutes of quiet before quickly
Boys Town Jerusalem student Harel Chazan.
Carlyz Craze celebrates on 12/12/12
It has been one year since Carlyz Craze entered the
Bergen County fashion scene, and the anniversary party
is scheduled for Dec. 12. Carlyz Craze offers fun, fash-
ionable, and modest clothing and accessories for girls,
teens, and women.
The festivities will feature sale items, goody bags, a
raffle for a $50 gift certificate, and other surprises.
Come join the party and finish your Chanukah shop-
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Israel, Sara Kety onesies and footsies, and other trendy
jewelry and accessories.
Carlyz Craze is located at 398 Cedar Lane in Teaneck.
Store hours are Monday to Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 6:30
p.m., Thursday 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m. to 2
p.m., and Saturday. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Singing for Hurricane Sandy victims at Schechter
Three alumni of the Solomon Schechter Day School of
Bergen County and one current student are putting on a
concert to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims.
Band leader Aden Poller, singers Jordan Lawrence and
Ilana Schimmel, and drummer Mattan Poller will per-
form a variety of musical genres, including pop, rock, jazz
and show tunes.
Please bring non-perishable food items or cleaning
supplies. Donations are welcome. Dessert and beverages
will be served.
The concert will take place on Saturday, Dec.15, at 7
p.m. at Solomon Schechter, 275 McKinley Ave. in New
Milford.
Pillar of Defense over, but the trauma continues
running to the supermarket and back.
But the hardest hurdle for these Boys Town Jerusalem
students was the constant worry for their families. I
would run to the phone and call my folks the second Id
hear there was a rocket attack on Ashdod, says Alex. I
was calling them all the time.
Social worker Lizi Azlan stressed that Boys Town made
every effort to assist the students. It has been almost
impossible for them to concentrate on their studies.
Considering their backgrounds, this only exacerbated
their distress, she said. And, while Operation Pillar of
Defense has ended, the trauma continues.
All three students were adamant about the need for
the Israel Defense Forces to root out the massive arsenals
of deadly weapons stashed throughout the Gaza Strip.
The lives of millions of Israelis have been unbearable,
and the Army had to take action, said Harel, who himself
will soon be drafted into the IDF. When Ill be a soldier,
Ill be protecting my home. I think a lot about my family,
and the family I hope to build someday. I want them to
have a better life.
Touro offering summer program in Holocaust Studies in Berlin
Touro College Berlin is offering a summer program in
Holocaust Studies for students enrolled at accredited col-
leges in the United States. The program, from June 23 to
July 19, 2013, will provide students with a unique oppor-
tunity to study the Holocaust, Jewish culture and history
while earning up to six college credits.
Titled Holocaust Studies in Contemporary Berlin,
the program is both theoretical and practical, with
classes taught in English by professors with a wide range
of teaching experience. Courses will be complemented
by guided tours and excursions to historical sites.
Extracurricular activities will include meetings with
prominent officials as well as local leaders of Berlins
Jewish community.
Two three-credit courses are being offered, in English.
The first, titled The Holocaust, will examine the rise of
the Nazi dictatorship and the destruction of European
Jewry from 1939 to 1945.
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Jewish experiences in pre-war and post-war Europe,
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survivors as they tried to rebuild their personal lives and
communal institutions.
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arketing New Jersey Real Estate at the Highest Level
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Local Expertise
Global Exposure
11 Regional Offces Serving Northern and Central New Jersey
90 County Road Tenafy, NJ Offce: 201.568.5668 ext. 134
Each offce is independently owned and operated
EQUAL HOUSING OPPORT UNI T Y
Zohar Zack Zamir
Broker Associate, ABR
, SFR
Marketing Specialist
Zohar.Zamir@sothebysrealty.com
www.ZamirRealtor.com
Cell: 201-780-7884
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Game party will launch Teaneckopoly
In time for Chanukah, Teaneckopoly, the
game designed exclusively for Teaneck, is
back with a 10th anniversary edition. The
Monopoly-style game first appeared in
2003, featuring Teaneck businesses rather
than the Atlantic City streets of the original.
Games will available for sale throughout
Teaneck and online.
Among the organizations and busi-
nesses featured in the game are Holy Name
Hospital, Teaneck Chamber of Commerce,
Chopstix, Russo Realty, Carleyz Craze,
Alvins Pharmacy, and Cross River Bank.
The launch celebration will take place
Sunday, Dec. 9, from 3 to 6 p.m. at the
Teaneck General Store, 502 Cedar Lane. Be
the first to play the new game, meet those
who made it possible, and purchase the
game at a discount for you or for those on
your Chanukah list.
Aaron Klein and Bruce Prince pose with the Teaneckopoly game they designed.
Residents at Lester
Senior Housing enjoy
a Thanksgiving Day
feast at the senior
living community in
Whippany.
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NEW MILFORD
1134 KORFITSEN ROAD
Updated 4 BR/2BTH Colonial.
TEANECK
111 GRAYSON PLACE
Updated. Open oor plan.
TEANECK
193 VANDELINDA AVENUE
Exquisite Center Hall Colonial.
ENGLEWOOD $675,000
510 CUMBERLAND STREET
SUNDAY OPEN HOUSE, 12:30 -2:30
ENGLEWOOD
360 AUDUBON ROAD
Large updated Tudor Colonial.
TENAFLY $1,550,000
29 FARVIEW ROAD
Picturesque 0.97 acre.
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Jeff@MironProperties.com www.MironProperties.com
Ruth@MironProperties.com www.MironProperties.com/NJ
Each Miron Properties office is independently owned and operated.
Contact us for your complimentary consultation
We specialize in residential and commercial rentals and sales.
We will be happy to assist you with all your real estate needs.
Jeffrey Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
GREEPOINT
199 HURON ST, #5-A
2 BR Condo. Private roof deck.
TRIBECA $3,985,000
110 DUANE ST, #PH-3S
Posh Penthouse. Prime location.
CHELSEA
456 WEST 19TH ST, #45-C
1 BR/2 BTH Condo. Doorman bldg.
WILLIAMSBURG
34 NORTH 7TH ST, #2-D
Stylish luxury bldg. Heart of Brooklyn.
DUMBO
205 WATER ST, #2-J
Brand new construction. Sauna.
UPPER WEST SIDE
200 WEST 108TH ST, #2-B
Charming Co-op. Pre-war bldg.
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RCBC
* While supplies last the week of December 9.
Mashgiach Temidi / Open 7:00 am Sunday through Friday Now closing Friday at 2:00 pm
1400 Queen Anne Rd Teaneck, NJ 201-837-8110
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Wesson Canola/
Vegetable Oil
48 oz
$4.29
Shibolim
Whole Grain Rice Chips
3.5 oz
2 for $5
Heckers Flour
Unbleached
5 lb.
$2.99
Fresh & Healthy
Sour Cream
15 oz
2 for $5
Mezonos Maven
Chanukah Cookies
8 oz.
$3.99
Tabatchnick
Chicken/Vegetable/
Beef Broth - 32 oz.
$2.29
READERS
CHOICE
2012
FIRST PLACE
BUTCHER
#1
BUTCHER
New Products This Week
Manischewitz
Chanukah Cookie
Decorating Kit
Manischewitz
Chanukah House
Decorating Kit
Our communitys
One Stop Super Shop
for all your kosher needs!
Your family at
Glatt Express Supermarket
and Lazy Bean Caf would like
to wish everyone a
Happy Chanukah!

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