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Modernist Bread
and the Jews, continued
Last week we wrote about Nathan
Myhrvolds recipe for everything bagels.
Two updates:
First, we got a look at the cover to his
new Modernist Bread. As you can see,
he has interesting twists on the tradition-
al challah loaves. Were reaching out to
some of our topologically inclined kab-
balist friends to find out whether there is
mystical symbolism to these new shapes.
Second, we got an email from a
reader offering a low-tech solution to
the everything bagel problem. Adam
Lowensteiner sprinkles Dispense Trader
Joes Everything But the Bagel season-
ing onto a thick bed of cream cheese
slathered atop a plain bagel.
I think this solves all the issues
the high-tech guys were looking for:
no mess when you cut or handle the
bagel, Mr. Lowensteiner wrote. One
more advantage: the roughness that
the seeds may cause on your palate
Trader Joes does haBamba
Peanut lovers rejoice! The grocery
chain now stocks Bamba, Israels
iconic puffed peanut snack.
Trader Joes said that it plans to
sell Bamba, which it described as
crunchy, airy, peanutty and highly
craveable kind of like a cheese puff
without the cheese.
And theres another benefit to Bam-
ba; scientists recently have shown that
isnt there as it is blended in with the
smooth cream cheese and middle, soft/
doughy part of the bagel.
And yes, its delicious.
LARRY YUDELSON
it often prevents peanut allergies in
children who eat the puffs when they
are very young.
The snack, which is made in Israel
by Osem, will retail for 99 cents per
3.5 ounce bag.
For the record, Bamba contains just
four ingredients corn grits, peanut
paste, palm oil, and salt.
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Ferrari Kotel furor
Parking your car in the Western
Wall plaza in Jerusalem is strictly
prohibited.
Apparently though, theres some
leeway if youre the top brass of a
world-famous auto manufacturer.
Thats what visitors to the holy
site discovered one Friday morning,
when they were met with a display
of 10 Ferrari sports cars smack dab in
the middle of the holy sites plaza.
Ferrari, celebrating its 70th an-
niversary, apparently had asked for
permission to bring its cars to the
Kotel for a quick stop as executives
toured the country to mark the event.
The Western Wall Heritage Founda-
tion, which runs the site, approved.
Some ogled the admittedly eye-
pleasing vehicles, but others were
annoyed, if not outraged.
One visitor told Ynet it was dis-
gusting and outrageous for the
holy site to be commercialized. An-
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other told Channel 10 news, Its not
clear why we need such an exhibit in
Israels poorest city.
The Western Walls Rabbi Shmuel
Rabinovitch said the incident was
an innocent agreement to allow
parking for a few minutes in the early
morning for touring Ferrari execu-
tives. He stressed that the cars were
not on display but simply parked
there for a few minutes while com-
pany staff toured the site, and said
there had been no payment for the
parking privilege.
Religious Services Minister David
Azoulay also was unhappy, and said
that he had expressed his chagrin to
the sites administrators.
There is no place for such flashy
displays at this holy place, Azoulay
said. He added that the ministry would
meet with all relevant authorities to
ensure such incidents do not recur.
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Noshes
HALLOWEEN SURPRISE:
Aya Cash the Jewish Kid
on the cast
Ive really enjoyed
watching the FXX
cable series
Youre the (non-Jewish) novelist
Worst since it premiered
in 2014. This sharply
written comedy/drama,
which concludes its
fourth season on Novem-
ber 17, has garnered
uniformly great reviews.
The series follows Jimmy
(Chris Geere), a self-in-
volved writer, and
Gretchen (AYA CASH,
35), a self-destructive
Los Angeles PR execu-
tive, through the mine-
fields of their relation-
ship.
I didnt think there was
a Jew in the cast before
Aya Cash appeared with
Seth Meyers on Hal-
loween night and called
herself a Jewish kid. I Aya and her arty fam-
was a bit confused about
this. I knew, from a check
Aya Cash
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Id done years ago, that father was a street actor
her mother is Kim Ad- and world music musi-
donizio, a well-respected cian before becoming a
Buddhist teacher, as he
and poet, and that Kims is now. In a 2016 AOL
late mother was Pau- interview, Aya again de-
line Betz, a great tennis scribed herself as Jewish,
player who won the U.S. but noted that her
Open championship four
times and Wimbledon
mother is Catholic. In a
2016 Sirius interview, she
once. Well, Cash quickly called herself Jewish and
cleared up my confusion. explained that Cash
She said that Betz didnt originally was something
like to be called grand- like CH-irsch. She add-
ma and preferred to be ed that she has a hawk
called Champy. Her tattooed on her back be-
other set of grandpar- cause she was told that
ents, she added, wanted Aya means hawk in He-
to be called Bubbe brew. However, when she
and Zaidye. visited Israel she was told
Obviously, Cashs fa- that Aya is an archaic older PBS series episodes to a computer,
ther, EUGENE CASH, is translation of hawk.
her Jewish parent. Other (She regrets the tattoo.)
recent video interviews Cash paid her dues
gave a fuller picture of before Worst put her
on the map. She waited
ily. Her parents, she said, tables for years and ap-
were real hippies. Her peared in mostly smallish
roles. I suspect her deci-
sion to identify as Jewish
has a lot to with her hus-
band, producer/writer
JOSH ALEXANDER, 42.
They were together for
10 years before marrying
in 2012. His background
is more conventional.
His parents were univer-
sity professors. His fam-
ily belonged to a syna-
gogue (where he had his
bar mitzvah).
N.B.
Josh Alexander
I was a Shabbos goy. Id help
the neighbors shut things on and off.
Jay Leno, in an interview with LoHud
Floyd Harold Hal Kushner
Veterans Day Notes
It was hard for me to watch the 10-part that she and Dr. Kushner belonged to a
PBS series The Vietnam War, and by synagogue in Danville, Virginia. Appar-
the time I did, half the episodes were ently Dr. Kushner has deep Southern
behind a new paywall, called PBS roots. The JTA article said that he was the
Passport. But I learned that a mere great-nephew of JUDAH P. BENJAMIN
$5-a-month automatic contribution (1811-1884), a Louisiana U.S. senator who
to your local PBS affiliate opens that became the Secretary of War and then
paywall and you can stream the Viet- Secretary of State of the Confederacy.
nam series, and tons of month-old or In the series, Kushner recounts how he
went to Vietnam to save lives. In 1967,
smartphone, or your TV (if its a smart he was on a fairly routine night flight
TV or you have a device like Roku). when his combat helicopter crashed into
Col. FLOYD HAROLD Hal KUSH- a mountain. He was severely injured but
NER, 76, an ophthalmologist, is exten- managed to walk into a nearby village,
sively interviewed in The Vietnam War, where he was helped. However, the Viet
starting with episode 6. Dr. Kushner was Cong soon captured him. He was held
born in Honolulu. His father, an Army Air in horrible conditions in South Vietnam,
Corps doctor, was stationed at Hickam Cambodia, and North Vietnam. Beatings
Field, right near Pearl Harbor. On Dec. and lack of food were constants. Kushner
7, 1941, six months after Hal Kushners says it was agonizing to watch other POWs
birth, Hickam Field was the subject of die whom he could have saved if hed
repeated deadly attacks by the Japanese. been provided with drugs, bandages, etc.
Fortunately, the Kushner family was not Still, he saved some lives and relieved suf-
injured. Hal Kushner grew up in Virginia. fering. He was released in 1973 and retired
I thought Dr. Kushner might be Jewish. in 1977. Hes still a practicing physician in
It took some time, but I found an obscure Florida. His Silver Star citation describes
1972 article from the Jewish Telegraph how, without equipment, he saved the life
Agency in which Dr. Kushners then-wife, of a POW who had a heart attack.
VALERIE, was interviewed. Valerie said N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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No dues is good news
Teanecks Temple Emeth
makes membership payments voluntary
LARRY YUDELSON
H
ow much are dues?
Thats no longer a relevant
question at Temple Emeth in
Teaneck. This summer, as its
fiscal year began, the Reform congregation
changed how it raised money.
Instead of asking for a set annual fee
from members synagogue dues the
synagogue now is asking for a voluntary
donation what it calls terumat halev,
meaning a gift of the heart.
How much members pay is up to them.
They are given a guide, though: a state-
ment of the per-household cost of keeping
the synagogue running roughly $1,800.
The change followed a yearlong discus-
sion of the shift by the congregation.
And as for results?
Its been great, Amy Abrams, the
shuls president, said. Were in pretty
good shape. We have pledges back from
almost all of the congregation.
As of the High Holidays, Temple Emeth
gained 38 new members a not insignifi-
cant increase for a synagogue with a mem-
bership of around 300 families.
Some of the newcomers, Ms. Abrams
said, were people who once had belonged,
left, and now feel able to come back
because finances no longer are an obstacle.
Not that finances ever were a direct
obstacle.
People who couldnt afford the dues as
set out in an intimidating list of 20 possible
rates, depending on whether you were a
family or single, working or retired, and so
on could call the financial secretary and
ask for a dues reduction.
The reduction was always given but
they had to have the conversation, Ms.
Abrams said. It was awkward and difficult
and unpleasant and didnt make people
feel good about being a member.
We wanted to find a way that finances
would not be perceived as a barrier.
Eliminating dues created a very good,
energized feeling in the congregation.
People who dont have to go through the
unpleasantness of asking for a dues reduc-
tion feel better about their membership,
she said.
Instead, the conversation around mem-
bership has changed from affordability
to the benefits of joining. Now, its what
can the temple do for me? Is it something
I want to be part of? Thats a very positive
shift, she said.
The membership renewal forms that
went out over the summer featured, along
with the pledge form, a statement of how
6 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Rabbi Steven Sirbu Rabbi Dan Judson
much the member had given in the past. that seat if youre not there. You could compared to a broader national member-
That sum included dues, contributions, sell that seat back to the congregation, ship number that has been going down
and religious school tuition which has or it would go to your heirs like the for a number of years. So a 3.5 percent
been eliminated for synagogue members. way you own an apartment, he said. annual increase is a significant number.
Rabbi Steven Sirbu supported the deci- That approach isnt coming back, but it Rabbi Judson said the old system isnt
sion to eliminate dues. had some advantages, Rabbi Judson con- working the same way it has for 90 years.
I saw the potential of changing con- tinued. Theres a certain way that when The concern over money is obviously
versations, he said. We want people you owned the seat you were literally important, but theres a danger in not
to be thinking, What can I offer Tem- invested in the congregation. That kind making a change.
ple Emeth, rather than What is being of engagement and investment is some- Why did the old system stop working?
demanded of me? thing wed like to re-engender, he said. People are more attuned to the sense
Most people are not out to game the Even before the Great War, there was of embarrassment of asking for dues
system, he said. They understand what an experiment with the voluntary giving reduction, he said.
it costs to run a synagogue. They want to model. Rabbi Stephen Wise, then lead- For previous generations, it was
do their fair share. They understand that ing a congregation in Portland, Oregon, embarrassing and at times embittering
for every person who volunteers less, applied to be rabbi at New Yorks leading to talk to the congregation. Now theres
someone has to pay more. Reform congregation, Temple Emanu- a sense they dont need that. They dont
Eliminating religious school tuition El until he learned that the board of need to belong to a congregation. They
made sense, Rabbi Sirbu said, because trustees would have to approve his ser- can get their Jewish life online. They can
the religious school was heavily subsi- mons. But with his heart set on moving hire a rabbi to teach their kids. There are
dized anyway. We decided that education to the big city, he organized the Free so many other ways, why do they have to
is an important value of ours and some- Synagogue. deal with the embarrassment?
thing we want to support. Often its the It was free from dues but the big thing Temple Emeth had a backup plan in
younger families who cant afford mem- was that it was free from seat ownership, place. Donors had offered to make up the
bership and have issues with the fees. Rabbi Judson said. You gave voluntarily, loss if the new membership plan didnt
Temple Emeth may be a trailblazer as your heart moved you. work out.
in north Jersey in eliminating its dues, It worked out well for Stephen Wise, Rabbi Judson said that all the congrega-
but it joins 60 other synagogues across because he was one of the most famous tions he looked at either had such a plan
the country that have changed their rabbis in America. After his death it in place, or were prepared to revert to
approach to membership in recent years. didnt work so well, and that synagogue dues if voluntary giving didnt bring in
According to Rabbi Dan Judson, whose ended up instituting dues. the expected revenue.
book Pennies for Heaven: The History So far, however, this centurys experi- Not a single synagogue in the survey
of American Synagogues and Money ment with dues-less synagogues has been used the backup plan, he said.
will be published by Brandeis University working out. The overall aggregate has He does offer another revenue sugges-
next year, synagogues have been sup- been very positive, Rabbi Judson said. tion for contemporary synagogues, based
porting themselves by collecting dues He studied 50 synagogues that elimi- on his study of 19th and early 20th cen-
for only a century. It started becoming nated dues, looking at their revenue and tury congregational ledgers.
the primary way synagogues raise money membership numbers. There was a Synagogues used to raise a little bit
around 1920, in the post World War One small but steady increase in membership of money by fining people who acted
era, he said. and revenues in the synagogues that out during services or refused to come
Before that, synagogues sold seats. made the switch. to board meetings on time, he said. I
You would buy a seat the way youd It was about a 3.5 percent annual encourage synagogues to bring back fin-
buy a seat to the New York Giants. You increase in membership; slightly less ing, but I dont think anyone is going to
would own that seat. Nobody can sit in in revenue, he said. That should be take me up on it.
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Not forgetting, redefining forgiving

Teaneck historian looks at Holocaust memoirs
JOANNE PALMER had a strong moral purpose, that is called bearing

W
hy did few Holocaust survivors
tell their stories publicly until
decades after the Shoah ended?
Why did some of the first sto-
ries trickle into print in the 1960s?
Was it all psychological survivors had to wait
as their brains and nervous systems and will to
live rewired themselves or did external reasons
contribute to the timing as well?
According to Dennis Klein of Teaneck hes a pro-
fessor of history and the director of the Jewish stud-
ies program at Kean University, among many other
credits the reason that German-speaking survivors
went public in the 1960s was because of what was
going on in Germany then.
In his new book, Survivor Transitional Narratives
of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation,
Dr. Klein looks closely at three books by survivors
Jean Amry, Vladimir Janklvitch, and Simon
Wiesenthal.
Some context is necessary, Dr. Klein said. From
1963 to 1965, the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials charged
22 defendants with the crimes committed in the con- Dr. Dennis Klein
centration camps; most of them were convicted,
and served sentences of various lengths. That was a
sensation in Germany; it was supposed to be the last
trial of Nazis, Dr. Klein said. There was a statute of
limitations in effect, even for crimes like murder.
The Nuremberg trials were under international
auspices, he added, but the Federal Republic of
Germany tried the Frankfurt cases under legal
precedents that dated back to Bismarck. The Ger-
mans were fine with that. They wanted it to be
over, Dr. Klein said. They picked up on the stat-
ute of limitations and fine-tuned it, so that by 1951,
some historians estimate, some 800,000 people Vladimir Janklvitch Simon Wiesenthal
implicated in Nazi crimes were granted amnesty.
It was a major effort in Germany, to put the war behind
it, he said.
So in the early 1960s, when it seemed that the clock was
running out on punishing the Nazis and collaborators who
had committed grotesque crimes against mind-numbing
numbers of people, we began to see in survivor communi-
ties worldwide, and particularly in Germany, people began to
exercise their voices in ways that they hadnt before.
The idea that their torturers soon could shake off legal
responsibility was very cathartic to the survivor community,
Dr. Klein continued. They sensed a new silence. Their com-
munal post-traumatic-stress disorder, which wasnt contained
or even acknowledged, flared.
Thats the historical background to these three writers. Jean
Jean Amry
Amry lived in Belgium and wrote in French, Vladimir Jank-
lvitch was the French-born son of Polish Jews, and Simon
Wiesenthal, born in Ukraine, lived his postwar life in Vienna.
Amry and Wiesenthal both survived death camps; Jank-
lvitch, who escaped the Nazis in Vichy France, lived in the
forest as a member of the French Resistance.
When these three men and others began to write about
their experiences, I argue that they created the genre of sur-
vivor memoir, Dr. Klein said. By that I mean that they were
putting their emphasis on bearing witness. They were asser-
tive about it; there was an edge to it; they were making points
that the Germans refused to hear. It was against that refusal
that they were so assertive. These were acts of moral protest.
They werent just telling a historiographical story. They
witness.
But these were human beings, very smart people
who had been through hell, so it was complicated,
Dr. Klein said. The main part of my argument is
that I show that nevertheless, in these memoirs
there is what I call counter narratives that actually
move against the grain of what we assume to be the
point of the memoir.
In these memoirs, which are all about bearing
witness, and whose surface narrative is straight-
forward and terrifying, the counter narrative is the
desire to begin to resume to reconnect with their
contemporaries. That is, their German contempo-
raries. They were yearning for a relationship with
Germans, Dr. Klein said. The country was eager
to move on, to forgive and forget, to move forward.
And even though these memoir writers were
moving against that in the manifest narrative they
were moving against the grain with their moral pro-
test they also had a real strong urge to find a new
relationship.
Thats the part of his thesis thats new, Dr. Klein
said. The idea that these writers were raising their
voices to demand that the story not be glossed over,
not be forgotten and that it was not in anyones
power to forgive what had happened that part of
the story isnt new, although it is always shocking.
The still-open wounds of the Holocaust could not
be bandaged over and allowed to fester.
But the other part of his insight is that there was
something else that at least some of these writers,
all of them worldly men, all still young in the early
1960s, all living once again in the secular world,
wanted from the Germans.
How does he know that? To begin with, they
published their stories. I spend a bit of time in the
book interrogating the significance of publication,
Dr. Klein said. The very action of publication is an
act of getting out, of reaching out beyond their small circles
into a connection.
That in itself can be seen as just a powerful act of bearing
witness, but Dr. Klein thinks it was something else as well (not
instead, but as well).
Its really counterintuitive and hard to grasp, but these two
things are going on at the same time, and in contradiction to
each other, he said. The writers main goal was to disquiet
their German contemporaries, but at the same time they were
trying to find a way to reconnect with them.
The most obvious reconnection, it might seem, would be
the quest for an apology, but Dr. Klein said thats not exactly
right. Instead, he said, all three of them, in very different
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They each do talk about waiting for the Germans to
apologize, but they recognize that the Germans will never
apologize. So they engage in unconditional forgiveness.
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Doesnt that sound Christian? To some extent, there (former interior designer of model
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The Germans were far from divine, but unconditional
means that they will forgive, even if they do not receive
an apology.
Its a complicated idea. Its not as if the survivors were For a totally new look using
offering forgiveness.
This is a little tricky, Dr. Klein said. These survivors your furniture or starting anew.
make clear that they will never forgive Germans for what
happened to them during the Nazi period, or even during
the 60s, when the Germans wanted to silence survivors.
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They claim that they never will forgive. (And of course
Wiesenthal wrote directly about forgiveness in The Sun-
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flower, and so did Janklvitch, in a book called Le
Pardon.)
So if they are, but are not, forgiving, what does that
mean?
What I have discerned in these memoirs, picking up

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on some of the language, is that they reject forgiveness
as we conventionally understand the term, Dr. Klein
said. They are offering us another way to understand
forgiveness.
They reject the conventional idea of forgiveness,
which is conditional. When you accept somebodys sin-
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cerely apology, you are obligated to forgive. That is some-
thing they cannot do.
Conventional forgiveness means that you are forgiving
both the criminal and the crime. What these writers do is
decouple the crime and the criminal. They continue to
focus on the crime, which they never forgive, but they do
begin to rethink that criminal.
They understand that it is a form of forgiveness to
begin to recognize the humanity in the criminal, even
though they condemn the crime.
All that does sound like the Christian notion of hating
the sin but not the sinner. It is pretty conventional in St.
Augustines thinking, but it is different, Dr. Klein said.
Augustines approach is to remember the sin but let it fade
a bit; to concentrate on the sinner to begin to form what
he calls a common good, bringing society back together.
Therefore, Augustine downplays the sin part.
But the survivors never forget the sin, and they never
downplay it. They can never get rid of it.
It is the manifest narrative of their work.
Still, though, they still look for something in the crimi-
nal that they can reconnect with, Dr. Klein said. And to
me that is a very honest way to forgive.
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tinued, but he does know that they were very much of
their time and place. They talk about their loneliness
so strongly, he said. They are so resentful toward
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Where the learning begins

Local educator plans to open new Jewish high school in Bergen County
JOANNE PALMER

W
hat exactly should a high school be?
Should it be a place to train stu-
dents to think conventionally? To think
experimentally? To think logically? To
think experientially?
Should it be a place to train students at all? Or should
that verb, with its industrial era echoes, be retired?
Should it be a place where dedicated educators refine
the methods that have been handed down to them, con-
stantly updating them while retaining their core? Or
should it be a place where old ideas are thrown out whole-
sale and replaced by new, 21st-century-understandings?
Should it be a place where those approaches somehow,
despite the apparent impossibility, are combined?
And what exactly should a Jewish high school educa-
tion be? How do you add the Jewish component? Do you
have to subtract something, or divide something, or does
the Jewish content simply add? Does it multiply the effect?
Because there are so many students in Bergen Countys
Jewish education system, because it seems that there may
be as even more students than seats for them, particu-
larly on the high school level, experienced, impassioned
educators with vision and courage can create the schools
that they think will most nourish and invigorate students
brains, analytic skills, creativity, menschlichkeit, and con-
nection to the Jewish world.
Thats a tall order, but there are local edu-
cators working on it.
Take, for example, Tikvah Wiener of Above, students used Jewish texts to imagine a logo for the Idea School.
Teaneck. A longtime educator she chaired Inset, Tikvah Weiner.
the English department at the Frisch School
before she became chief academic officer at Wiener said. We might ask them to learn two hours twice a week to study Roman law and Jewish
Magen David Yeshivah High School in Brook- a traditional curriculum about ancient history in the Middle Ages.
lyn she is spending this academic year Roman law and look at law during the Mid- And then in science they might be looking at the laws
working on the Idea School, which is set to dle Ages, and to connect it to how those law of the ecosystem. How does that work? Because if the driv-
open in the fall of 2018. codes gave birth to American law. Then we ing question here is why do we need law and order, and an
(The school is holding an open house on might ask them to look at their own county, answer is that we need it to create a balanced society an
Sunday see the box for more information.) and see how laws were made, which ecosystem works in the same way.
We are really trying to take the innova- ones interest us, and which may need to We are asking the students to consider what kind of
tions that schools have been doing now for be updated. checks and balances exist in society. If you make one law,
the last 20 years, and take them to the next level, Ms. In Bergen County, people are always talking about the what else does that change?
Wiener said. blue laws, so we could have students investigate where There will be some assessment of students work, but
The next level is interdisciplinary, but in a far more com- the blue laws came from, whether they want to overturn the school will not be test-driven. Learning facts is neces-
plex way than the term might suggest to seasoned educa- them, and how they would do that, who they would have sary but not sufficient. There will be tests along the way,
tors (or parents). Its project-based learning, on steroids. to speak to, to have that happen. but the assessments are more about critical questions. We
Starting with the new and popular concept of maker At the same time, they might be learning in their Tal- are asking students to contemplate questions with deep,
spaces, where people come together to share ideas and mud class about the system of laws that Judaism might ambiguous, complex answers. Its not when the Magna
techniques and tools to make actual physical things, come up with from the tractate Sanhedrin. We could look Carta was issued. They need to know that, but thats not
what would it be like if instead of only that, kids could at the history of halacha. We might ask them to look at the where the learning ends. Its where the learning begins.
enter the learning in many different ways through text, Middle Ages and how the law affected the Jewish commu- This model is based on the High Tech High, a San
through song, through the arts, through STEM subjects nity, and at halacha there when the community was self- Diego charter school, but because it is also a Jewish
and then they have to make stuff at the end. (STEM stands governing. We can ask them to study their own customs, school it demands another layer of complexity, and
for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.) both Sephardi and Ashkenazi, that have emerged from the of interconnectivity.
Ending up with stuff ending up with something real different communities that everyone is from. We are using a co-teaching model, so that the Judaic
is a very significant part of this education. This has a To accomplish this, time will be divided differently than
lot of different moving pieces, Ms. Wiener said; she was it generally is in high schools. Instead of lasting for 40 or Who: Tikvah Wiener, the head of the new Idea School
being both metaphoric and literal at the same time. We 50 minutes, most periods will be two hours, to really give What: Will host an open house for the school
are asking students to connect to the real world, using kids a chance to immerse themselves in learning.
When: On Sunday, November 12, from 2 to 4:30
the way that each one loves to learn, entering learning You give them a two-hour block of time for a beit
individually, with the outcome being things that matter midrash; they will study masechet Sanhedrin thats Tal- Where: At the Jewish Center of Teaneck, 70 Ster-
in the world. mud for an hour, and maybe study parshat Mishpatim ling Place
This sounds very abstract. How would it work? in the Chumash thats the part of the Bible where the For more information: Go to www.ideaschool.org
Take, for example, a unit on law and order, Ms. largest number of laws are gathered and then they have Also: Registration is encouraged; its best done online.

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Israels angels in America
Federation forum to focus on investment and innovation in Start-Up Nation
LARRY YUDELSON
Y
ou dont have to watch Start-up
Nation from the sidelines. You
can put down your money and
invest in the next great Israeli
start-up company.
Thats one of the messages of next weeks
Israel Innovation and Investment Forum
at the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey. The forum will bring several people
involved with Israels investment and start-
up scenes together to talk about the process
of investing in Israel and about some of their
favorite companies.
Its becoming more and more clear that
Israel is not just a place we give money
too, Lee Lasher of Englewood said. Mr.
Lasher is one of the evenings chairs. Its
a really strong economy, he said. There
are so many exciting growth companies to
invest in.
The federations innovation and invest-
ment forum grew out of a trip to Israel Mr.
Lasher helped organize for his synagogue,
Congregation Ahavath Torah in Engle-
wood, a few months ago. One day of the
trip, dubbed Start-Up Nation Day, took the
visitors to a high-tech incubator in Tel Aviv.
It was almost like Shark Tank, he said.
We had meetings with exciting young
entrepreneurs from a bunch of Israeli com-
panies. People didnt want to leave.
People walked away floored to discover
that Israel is apparently one of the leading
automotive suppliers in the world, without
making cars, because they make all these
other things related to cars the technol-
ogy, the cameras, some of the parts. It was
pretty amazing.
That got people interested. They asked
me, how do we invest in Israel?
And that question led to Thursdays
panel.
For Mr. Lasher, the question of how
to invest in Israel was answered by Jon
Medved, the founder of OurCrowd, which
enables people to invest in Israeli compa-
nies before those companies go public on
the stock exchange. Mr. Medved will be one
of the speakers at the panel.
Mr. Medved said that OurCrowd now
manages half a billion dollars worth of
investments and is doubling every year.
We hope to bring in another $500 million
in 2018.
OurCrowd has invested in 130 companies
since it started in 2013. Eighteen of them
had their exit meaning a larger com-
pany bought them.
One of those companies was Argus Cyber
Security, which protects cars from hacking.
Last week, a German firm bought the Israeli
company for a reported $400 million.
The leadership of Israeli technology is
now stretching from the traditional bastions
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of Israeli technology, like cybersecurity and
medical devices and agriculture, to include
autonomous vehicles and cars, machine
learning, virtual reality, and digital health,
Mr. Medved said.
There are lots of fields where Israel is
not just an important place, but is emerg-
ing as one of the top one or two or three,
he said. Israel is just booming in an unprec-
edented way.
Take autonomous vehicles. We have
ten different investments in companies
doing that.
OurCrowd owes its existence to the
2012 JOBS Act, which changed the rules
for how companies raise money. It used to
be against the law for companies to solicit
investment publicly before the companies
were ready to go public and fulfill all the
SEC filing regulations.
The new law lets companies solicit invest-
ment publicly while theyre still private
though only from investors wealthy enough
to afford the risk. That means having a mil-
lion dollars in wealth, not including your
house. The good news is that somewhere
between ten and fourteen million house-
holds in America meet that criteria, Mr.
Medved said.
But before the JOBS Act, all the solicita-
tion would have to be private precluding
the kind of website that OurCrowd uses to
raise the investment, or even speaking at a
public event like the innovation forum.
OurCrowd lets investors put $10,000
or more into companies looking to raise
money. Right now, 10 companies are seek-
ing funds on OurCrowds platform.
Were giving people a chance to invest
in these startups when theyre still private,
Mr. Medved said. Startups wait a long time
now until they go public. The amount of
money you can get as an outside investor
is limited. In the old days, when Oracle or
Amazon went public, you could have made
500 times your money. Today, when com-
panies like Uber or Facebook go public,
you can make a couple times your money.
Who is making 500 times? The guys who get
involved with the private company. Thats
what were doing.
OurCrowd has 20,000 investors on the
site, from 110 different countries. While
originally it focused only on Israel, today 30
percent of its investments are elsewhere,
including companies in China and India and
the United States.
The great surprise is that the guys who
invest with us are very often not just passive
investors, Mr. Medved said. We get peo-
ple to add value. Every individual either has
another investor or a cousin at a university
that needs a job, or some other connection.
It can act as a force multiplier.
This is the next wave of the Israel-
diaspora partnership, he continued.
Jon Medved
Lee Lasher
Shelly Hod Moyal
Were talking about five billion dollars
now being invested annually in Israeli
startups. Thats more than all the charity,
all the U.S. military aid. Its a big chunk
of money. Its very productive in building
the Israeli economy, creating jobs, push-
ing our country forward.
Shelly Hod Moyal also will speak at the
federation panel. She was born in the
United States, grew up in Israel, moved
back to the United States after her army
service, worked on Wall Street, and
then moved back to Israel, where she
worked for Goldman Sachs. Four years
ago she co-founded iAngels, which, like
OurCrowd, enables investors to invest
in early-stage Israeli companies. It is a
smaller enterprise it hasnt yet reached
the $100 million level and tends to invest
in younger companies.
We saw a lot of people interested in
accessing Israel and being able to invest
in Israeli companies, Ms. Moyal said. We
thought we could bring these opportunities
to them in a way that was professional and
transparent. Its an institutional approach to
angel investing in Israel.
These investments are called angel
investing, she said, because many times
its the initial capital that gives a company
the kiss of life.
Investing at the very beginning offers
more rewards and also more risks.
Youre investing in a very early business
when its just an entrepreneur and maybe
a couple of team members, she said. Its
different from investing where theres rev-
enue and income. Its appropriate for peo-
ple who are excited by the fact of coming
in early, enjoying the huge potential upside,
and being part of the journey of being an
entrepreneur.
She said that iAngel spends a lot of time
with entrepreneurs, building relationships
and looking for opportunities. We see about
a hundred opportunities a month. We usu-
ally invest in one a month, one every two
months. Were very selective.
Shes very excited by the potential of
self-driving cars and transportation on the
one hand, and on the other the blockchain.
We have a lot of data analytics companies,
and a lot of enterprise software, fintech,
and artificial intelligence.
One company shes excited by is Arbe
Robotics. They invented a smart radar sys-
tem for an autonomous vehicle, Ms. Moyal
said. Theres a lot of interest from Silicon
Valley and Europe.
In April, iAngel was the first, or seed,
investor in the company, putting in $2.5 mil-
lion. Last week, the company took another
$9 million in investment from five investors,
including both iAngel and OurCrowd.
Wait. Youre not a millionaire? You say
youre not an accredited investor?
And yet you want to invest in Israel?
Dont worry. The Israel Innovation and
Investment Forum has room for you too.
Panelist Steven Schoenfeld is the founder
of Blue Star Indexes, which created two
different indices tracking Israeli stocks.
Blue Star has teamed up with companies
to offer Exchange Traded Funds that track
the index. One fund, with the ticker symbol
ISRA, tracks the Israeli market. The other,
ITEQ, is focused specifically on high tech
companies. Individual investors can invest
in those companies through their brokers.
The response has been incredible, Mr.
Lasher said. The federation closed registra-
tion. The forum sold out.
But dont despair if you didnt RSVP in
time.
Were hoping we can do this a couple of
times a year, Mr. Lasher said.
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Mark Samitts wife, Gayle, second from left, and his daughter, Rachel, right,
presented the winning trophies to Kelly Corrubia of Montville, the overall
female winner, and Moshe Castiel of Woodcliff Lake, the overall male winner.
 Susan Black
First Mark Samitt Run
declared a winner
The community rallied to make the first
annual Mark Samitt 5K Run a success,
with more than 50 local volunteers gath-
ering at Temple Beth Or in Washington
Township and going out on the rainy
course to ensure that the October 29 run
went smoothly and safely. More than
ADL honors Manischewitz CEO
David Sugarman, president and CEO
of the Manischewitz Company, the
largest marketer of kosher food in
North America, was honored with the
distinguished Americanism award,
presented annually by the Anti-Defa-
mation League at its annual gala. This
years event was on November 2 at Lib-
erty House in Jersey City. The Ameri-
canism award honors exceptional peo-
ple who exemplify the noble ideals and
democratic values of the United States
of America and of ADL.
During these challenging times,
its important for all of us to take a
stand against intolerance, Mr. Sugar-
man said. The Manischewitz Company
recently donated $50,000 to the ADL in
support of its efforts to combat recent
anti-Semitic and anti-minority acts
across the country.
We are proud to support the ADL
and its advocacy for tolerance and inclu-
sion, he continued. The ADL is a criti-
cal voice against hate not only on behalf
of the Jewish people, but on behalf of all
people and their civil rights, regardless
of race or religion.
We are grateful to have the support
of the Manischewitz Company in these
challenging times, said Jonathan A.
Greenblatt, the ADLs CEO. For more
than 100 years ADL has been at the fore-
front of combating prejudice in all forms.
14 Jewish Standard NOVEMBER 10, 2017
185 runners and walkers registered to
compete on the USATF-certified course,
which began and ended at Beth Or. Pro-
ceeds will benefit two of Mark Samitts
passions, Temple Beth Or and the Mela-
noma Research Foundation. Mr. Samitt
died in May 2015 after battling Melanoma.
David Sugarman
We have made great strides in making
America a more accepting and welcom-
ing society, but recent events remind us
of how much work remains to be done.
Other honorees at the dinner
included Lawrence S. Lustberg, chair
of the Criminal Defense Department at
the law firm Gibbons, PC, who received
the Torch of Liberty award, and Eliza-
beth Keil, ADL N.J. regional board,
who was the Sidney Wilf Distinguished
Young Leadership awardee.
Celebrating veterans today
The Jewish Home Assisted Living, Kaplen and help us honor all veterans for their
Family Senior Residence in River Vale service, said Anette Lipman, JHALs direc-
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studies teacher
Heather Lutz,
Pascak Hills senior
Emma Lustigman,
Dr. Eisenbach,
and Rabbi Yosef
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The Feder family
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Eisenbach.
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Holocaust survivor shares inspiration
Valley Chabads Eternal Flame drew he was sent to concentration camps. He
more than 250 people on October 24 was his familys sole survivor.
to hear Holocaust survivor Dr. Jacob After the war, Dr. Eisenbach came to the
Eisenbach talk about What Begins United States, studied dentistry at the Uni-
With Intolerance and Hate Ends in Vio- versity of Iowa, practiced for 60 years, and
lence and Genocide for the groups retired two years ago, when he was 92.
annual lecture. The meeting was at the Today Dr. Eisenbach considers it
Woodcliff Lake Hilton. Dr. Eisenbach is his lifes mission to tell his story and
the subject of Karen McCartneys book, the importance of fighting hate and
Where You Go, I Go: The Astonishing bigotry to all people, particularity to
Life of Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, Holocaust young people.
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Norpac hosting two congressmen

Rochelle and Phil Goldschmiedt will host Con- Brad Schneider (D-IL) at a Norpac meeting on
gressman Eliot Engel (D-NY) at a Norpac meeting Thursday, November 16, in Teaneck. The meeting,
on Sunday, November 12, in Teaneck. The meet- chaired by Rachel and Allen Friedman, will be at 7
ing, co-chaired by the Goldschmiedts and Miriam p.m. For information or to make reservations, call

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and Ezra Lightman, will be at 10 a.m. (201) 788-5133 or email Avi@norpac.net.
The Goldschmiedts will also host Congressman

Congressman Event chair Allen Friedman, left, with

Eliot Engel Congressman Brad Schneider

From left, FIDF national director and CEO Major General (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir; Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel;
upcoming FIDF New Jersey gala co-chair Ellen Sokoloff and her husband, Lloyd, who is an FIDF
national board member; FIDF national board member and NJ chapter co-founder Sammy Bar-Or;
FIDF New Jersey gala co-chair Annette Tauber Stern; FIDF NJ director Howard Gases; FIDF national
president Rabbi Peter Weintraub; Sylvia Stark, and FIDFs national chairman, Arthur Stark. Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson with Israeli soldiers.

N.J. delegation attends record-setting N.Y. gala for Israeli soldiers

A delegation from the New Jer-
sey chapter of the Friends of
the Israel Defense Forces joined
more than 1,200 FIDF leaders
from across the United States and
Israel to celebrate soldiers and
veterans from all of Israels mili-
tary operations and wars. The
gala, at the New York Hilton Mid-
town, raised a record $35 million
to support educational and well-
being programs for the soldiers of
the Israel Defense Forces.
The New Jersey delegation
included FIDF national board
member and N.J. chapter co-
founder Sammy Bar-Or; Moshe,
Naomi, and Rami Evar; FIDF
national IMPACT! scholarship
program chairman Harry Gross;
Shelly Paradis and her husband,
Yosef Chick Paradis, a past
FIDF national board member;
upcoming FIDF N.J. gala co-chair U.S. and Israeli soldiers at the FIDF N.Y. gala.
Ellen Sokoloff and her husband,
Lloyd, an FIDF national board member, and FIDF N.J.
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Honored guests included Ambassador Danny Danon,
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and fought in most of its wars.
The donations included a $7
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Cover Story
Shaboom, shaboom
Local grandparents, mothers, kids go east for the Shababa experience
I
JOANNE PALMER
ts not that often that you can find
deep friendship, solace, excite-
ment, support, huge injections
of major small-child adorability,
music, community and Shabbat
through a ukulele.
Lois Brodie of Fort Lee did.
Its at Shaboomers, one of the offshoots
of the Shababa tree.
What is all this?
It all starts out with a play on words;
sababa means cool, more or less, not as a
measure of temperature but of, well, cool-
ness. Shabbat is obvious. The Sabbath. Sat-
urday. The day of rest.
So Shababa combines those two, twines
them around each other, the lovely mouth-
filling sh sound and then the baba part,
deliciously fun as it leaves your lips.
Shababa is a program that began at the
92nd Street Y on Manhattans Upper East
18 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Side and since has gone global. It started
as a program for very young children and
their parents or caregivers (remember,
this is the Upper East Side) and since has
grown to include the Shababa Sparks, for
slightly older children, the self-explanatory
Shababa Mamas, the Shababa Abbas (who
meet less regularly but come together for
special occasions and performances), the
Shababa Nannies, and the Shaboomers.
Who are, but of course, baby boomers.
(You might not remember the song Sha-
boom, by the Crew Cuts, from 1956, and
in fact most of the Shaboomers probably
dont remember it from then either, but
thats where the name came from.)
Ms. Brodie became a Shaboomer after
her son-in-law saw it listed in a catalogue
and told her, Ma, this has your name on
it. That was about two years ago; Ms. Bro-
dies husband, Richard, had died a few
years before, and she had moved out of
their long-time family home in Tenafly to
its authentic. Rebecca and Karina
have the ability to connect
with everyone. It takes talent,
and it is real.
an apartment with no lawn to maintain,
windows on three walls that overlooked
the Hudson, the George Washington
Bridge, and New Jersey, and no memories.
Ms. Brodie, who grew up in Jamaica,
Queens, had been a music major at Cort-
land, one of the colleges of the State Uni-
versity of New York. Her main instrument
was the cello, she also played piano and
guitar and the far more portable ukulele
and the even more portable harmonica.
She also had recently retired from her
job at the Ridgewood public library, where
she was head of the childrens department.
She worked with puppets and sometimes
played the ukulele in the library.
All of that the music, the singing, the
instruments, the outreach, the puppets
are prized (although not necessary) attri-
butes for Shaboomers.
Now, the Shabbomers are a big part of
Ms. Brodies life. We meet every other
Wednesday, she said. Its supposed to be
from 11 to 12, but it ends later because we
cant pull ourselves away. It started as a
singing group, but its become so much

more than that. We are a sisterhood group
men are welcome, and wed be happy if
some men were to join us, but none have
appeared. We are all of grandmother age;
some of us have retired, and some of us
never really worked. Some have kids and
grandkids, and some dont. Ms. Brodie
has two children, and so far three grand-
children too.
But the differences in the womens back-
ground dont matter.
Not everyone in the Shaboomers is partic-
ularly musical, Ms. Brodie said you dont
have to audition to join, and lets just say
that its even better if you can carry a tune.
The Shaboomers are part of the big Sha-
baba concerts, and they also sing at nurs-
ing homes, assisted living facilities, and
childcare centers.
Esther Genuth lives in Bergenfield
with her husband and their three chil-
dren, 4-year-old twins Adira and Orly and
seven-month-old Amitai. Shes a college
Shababa concerts are intergenerational, and even interspecies. The singers above include Karina Zilberman, second from left.
counselor at the Frisch School. Shes new
to the suburbs the family moved to Ber-
gen County at the end of the summer
and much as she loves her new life, part of
her heart still is with Shababa.
Shababa meets twice a week for Shab-
bat services; first on Fridays and then on
Saturday mornings.
We used to live on the Upper East
Side, Ms. Genuth said. Since they were
four months old, either I or my nanny
took Adira and Orly to Shababa. They were
there almost every single Friday, and when
they started to go to school on Fridays, I
was sad because they couldnt go.
Shababa is one of the things I miss most
about the city. It became a community for
us.
Whats so special about it? It is meant
to get kids excited about Shabbat or at
least thats what I thought when I first
took my kids there, Ms. Genuth said. But
then I realized that it is more of a warm,
welcoming community for all different
kinds of people. I started seeing different
faces all around the city from Shababa. It
was so amazing.
Rebecca and Karina thats Shababas
founder, Karina Zilberman, who won a
Covenant Jewish education award in 2013
for Shababa, and Rebecca Schoffer, who
took over Shababa at the Y a few years ago
were their celebrities. Their pretend
play was being Rebecca and Karina. This
was an amazing once-a-week opportunity
to just focus.
Lots of kids activities get very crazy.
Theyre all over the place. But Rebecca
and Karina were able to make kids excited
about Judaism. Shababa became about the
larger picture of being Jewish.
Shababa on Fridays begins with a lot of
movement and music, Ms. Genuth said.
There is a lot of jumping, singing. A lot
of energy. A lot of instrumental music. But
then, at the end, they do the Shema.
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They turn off the microphones and
move away from the guitars. Those last 15
minutes are when they turn everything off.
Its all about slowing down your week and
focusing on being there, in the moment. It
is 45 minutes of not looking at your phone,
of putting your phone away. It is about
being in the moment. And its the Shema
that is the culmination. And thats how my
girls aside from being taught at home
thats how they learned the Shema.
Its for the kids, but its not only for the
kids, she said. There are mothers and nan-
nies, and there are a lot of nannies who
know the Shema, she said. There are
older parents, and there are grandparents.
Theres an older woman who isnt a grand-
parent but always goes anyway, because
she loves it.
Ms. Genuth adds to the diversity. She and
her family are Orthodox; Shababa began at
least in part as an outreach to the secular
Jewish community, but has extended way
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beyond that demographic and now reaches across the was from North Bergen, and her grandfather, the mar-
Jewish world. You cant really tell peoples denomina- velously named Smitty Zimmerman, was from Wee-
tions when you go there, and it really doesnt matter, hawken. They both graduated from Weehawken High
she said. Its all about whos there. School. Her mother, Patti Zimmerman Schoffer, grew
At first, Ms. Genuth just went to Shababa on Friday up in Palisades Park and graduated from Palisades Park
mornings, but soon she noticed that although her daugh-
ter Adira loved the familys modern Orthodox shul, just a
few blocks north of the Y, Orly did not. So my husband
and I would split for the morning, she said. Hed take
Adira with him, and Id take Orly with me. We feel very strongly
There is no Shababa in Bergen County, Ms. Genuth
said, although certainly some of the local shuls do great
about helping to find
things with their childrens services. She still takes her connections to Jewish
children to Shababa concerts, and because she works
in a school and has the summer off, she plans on taking
life, and to each other,
them to Friday mornings again during those months. and we need that
Still she misses the weekly Shababa, and she hopes
that maybe some day the Shababa empire could set up
today more than ever.
a branch in Bergen County. Then once again her chil- REBECCA SCHOFFER

drens Friday mornings could feel its joy, and her son
could grow up with it as her daughters have.
At base, she said, its authentic. Rebecca and Karina
have the ability to connect with everyone. It takes tal-
ent, and it is real. They can connect both with children
and with adults, and with families. They are very spe-
cial people.
Rebecca Schoffer is the Ys director of Jewish engage-
ment. She lives in Manhattan and directs Shababa there,
but has strong local roots. She comes from south Jersey
Margate but her grandmother, Norma Zimmerman,
High School. Her grandparents later moved to Leonia,
where Ms. Schoffer spent a lot of time as a child.
Shes trained as an actress and singer.
It makes sense for her to weave her family into the
discussion because Shababa itself is multigenerational,
she said. It began 10 years ago on the floor of the busy
lobby of the 92nd Street Y because there are always
more programs that want rooms than rooms to offer
them, and so Karina would go to the lobby on Friday Esther Genuth of Bergenfield with her twins, Adira and
mornings. Shed take her guitar and shed take her Orly, at a Friday Shababa a few years ago.

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Now, I have a girl in high school who is volun-
teering her time in Shababa who started on the
floor with Karina. We have nannies who finish with
one family and start with another and say that We
must go to Shababa.
Now, a lot of parents and grandparents come
on Fridays. Theres a real mix. I play a lot of Jewish
music, and some folk music, some spirituals. I try
to make it universal. We are here to celebrate Shab-
bat and Jewish life and all the people in the room
and where we all come from and what brings us
together, to this special holy place.
Shabbat morning are slightly different. We pray
with our whole bodies. Its not a class. Its an expe-
rience. We make it spiritual. We celebrate how
close playing and praying are to each other. When
we play, we open up the senses to the holy inside
ourselves.
We feel very strongly about helping to find con-
nections to Jewish life, and to each other, and we
need that today more than ever. We all live such
crazy busy lives, so when we create a space to sit
down and unplug and be together, something very
holy happens. It is a very special moment.
We hope to be engaging to the kids and also to the
adults. Its not a kids program. Its for everybody. Every- ing on who is in the room and what has happened that
body is engaged and present and in the moment, with no
phones, eyes up, voices lifted.
Children rejoice in ritual and repetition, and a prayer play very slowly, but if I walk in and everyone is yawning
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and sleepy, I bring a different energy, Ms. Schoffer
said. I listen to the needs of the room every day.
She loves the Shaboomers. It is a lovely sister-
hood of women who come together for singing and
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We are a group that sings together. There is very
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sing together, and that is one way that we create
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Ms. Schoffer includes herself in the group, but she
is far younger than its other members. But most
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they come to Shababa Fridays something they do
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They are all like Lois. You know the way she
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Jewish World

What unites and divides Israeli

Americans and their fellow Jews?
RON KAMPEAS

WASHINGTON Not long ago Yahel Epel, a volun-

teer with the Israeli American Council, fulfilled her
assigned mission.
She assembled 200 Jews, half of them Israeli American,
in a room in Denver on a Friday evening for a potluck din-
ner and a Shishi Yisraeli program.
Shishi Yisraeli, a program launched by IAC that means
Israeli Friday evening, seeks a happy medium between
what those with and without Israeli roots or backgrounds
would enjoy on a Friday night. The idea: Get them
together. Create community.
How did it go?
It was nice, she said this weekend at the councils
fourth annual conference here, a four-day event that
attracted some 2,500 participants.
Epel, a realtor, paused.
It was hard. The Americans couldnt do the Israeli sing- From left, Emily Amrousi and Knesset members Merav Michaeli and Tzipi Hotovely at the annual Washington
ing, the sing-along that for generations have been a staple conference of the Israeli American Council.  PHOTOS BY RON KAMPEAS

of secular Israeli life.

The Israelis didnt do the kiddush, the
blessing over the wine, a religious ritual
that is synonymous with Shabbat.
Shishi Yisraeli was among an array of
programs touted at the conference as a
means of, as CEO Shoham Nicolet put it in
his opening remarks, making Israeli Amer-
icans the ultimate living bridge between
Israel and the Jewish people.
IAC has recorded impressive growth
the group, established 10 years ago, just
opened its 16th office, in Atlanta. Claiming
to represent between 400,000 and a mil-
lion Israeli Americans, it offers a range of
programs targeting children, teens, college
students, young adults, families, and busi-
nesspeople. (Other estimates put the num- Knesset member Merav Michaeli hugs a
ber of Israelis in the United States as low as participant at the Israeli American Councils
200,000). annual Washington conference.
Yet there are times when the bridge to
American Jews for which Nicolet longs seems to be going
nowhere, despite the best efforts of the IAC and its prin-
cipal backers, Sheldon and Dr. Miriam Adelson the bil-
lionaire casino magnate, a major giver to pro-Israel causes
and Republicans, and his wife, a physician.
In anguished and raucous exchanges at the four-day
conference, over shared meals and during breakout ses-
sions organized as circles, Israelis from across North
America described their frustrations in trying to assimi-
late into the American Jewish community.
There was the visceral resistance that Israelis have to
organizing community life around the synagogue, a main-
stay of organized Jewish life in America. Others spoke of
the pronounced differences between Israelis and Ameri-
can Jews over what is a threat to Jews. And some had the
nagging sensation that American Jews care less and less
about Israel and that those who do pay attention are
hypercritical of the country.
But there also were issues and anxieties that Israeli
Americans shared with their Jewish brethren that did not
exist a generation ago.
One was support for religious pluralism in Israel.
Merav Michaeli, a Knesset member from Israels opposi-
tion Zionist Union, earned cheers and applause during
a plenary session when she condemned the Netanyahu
Dr. Miriam Adelson, a major funder
of the Israeli American Council, is
on a panel at its annual Washing-
ton conference.
governments retreat from an agreement that would have
assured greater equality for non-Orthodox prayer at the
Western Wall.
And the crowd booed Tzipi Hotovely, a Knesset member
of Netanyahus Likud Party, who said secular Israelis did
not care about access to the wall.
Until now, the issue has not resonated among Israeli
Americans. The change was explained in a follow-up
breakout session, in Hebrew: The Israelis who berated
Hotovely had come to see the wall as Americans do: not
merely a site for traditional (read Orthodox) prayer, but
as a powerful symbol of their love for Israel even if their divide between the conference-goers and American Jew-
attachment to it was not quite, well, American.
I dont want to celebrate the wall as Reform or Conser-
vative, Amit Tirosh of Delray Beach, Florida, shouted at
Hotovely. I do want to celebrate there in the company of
my three daughters. The Orthodox chief rabbinate con-
trolling the wall imposes strict gender segregation.
Ofra Mor of Tenafly described a limbo for Israelis in
the United States who would have thought of themselves
as secular in Israel but seek religious expression here.
She wants her three daughters to marry Jews when they
grow up.
In Israel, with its vast Jewish majority, Hebrew lan-
guage, and Jewish calendar, Jewish identity is a given,
Mor said. But in the United States,
Jewish identity must be sought out
either in the synagogue or in other
Jewish institutions.
I dont connect with Reform or
Conservative prayer, I dont want to
invent a new Judaism, she said. I
want the Sephardic songs that get you
into the mood for Yom Kippur, like El
Nora Alila.
So Mor said she has gone to Chabad,
but its not for me. I want my daugh-
ters learning from women, about
strong Jewish women.
Epel, the IAC volunteer from Den-
ver, agreed.
We dont want to look for a reli-
gious base, we are looking for a com-
munity base, she said of Israeli Amer-
icans. Here if you want to be part of
it the American Jewish community you have to go
to synagogue.
Nicolet said in an interview that it was critical to get
across to Israelis that organized religion was a means of
preserving Jewish identity.
Think about a conference that starts with Havdalah, its
also a message for us, as Israelis, he said, referring to the
Saturday evening prayer that signifies the end of Shabbat.
Its a message to Israeli Americans that Listen guys, its
not sustainable without being connected to Jewish roots.
The conferences formal launch was illustrative of the
ish norms.
The crowd shifted nervously during the extended
Havdalah prayer sung by Cantor Netanel Hershtik of the
Hampton Synagogue in New York, and then silently waited
out the American national anthem.
It was when a young woman in the uniform of Tzofim
the Israeli scout movement mounted the stage that
the cavernous hall in the Washington Convention Center
filled with sure voices, suffused with tangible relief. This
was Hatikvah. This was a known quantity.
That was followed by a speech by Nikki Haley, the U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations, warmly welcomed
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22 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 10, 2017

 It is with great sadness that
the JCC Thurnauer School of Music
shares the passing of our beloved friend

Lilo Goldenberg Thurnauer

As a passionate supporter of our music school,
Lilo loved music and children, and was so proud
of all our accomplishments from day to day.

She loved visiting and hearing music in each room

as she walked through our halls, and attending our many concerts.

In 2015, the JCC Thurnauer School of Music

was proud to honor Lilo with
the Gift of Music Visionary Award
in recognition of her extraordinary devotion
to the legacy and vision of our school.

We are the grateful beneficiaries

of her loving presence and gentle wisdom.

We will miss her deeply.

Our thoughts are with the Gans, Goldenberg and Thurnauer families.

DOROTHY KAPLAN ROFFMAN MICHAEL REINGOLD

Founding Director Associate Director

Music School Committee, Staff, Faculty and Families

of the JCC Thurnauer School of Music

Jewish Standard NOVEMBER 10, 2017 23

Jewish World
Unites
FROM PAGE 22
because of her outspoken advocacy of Israel. The evening
culminated with a round of community singing that had vir-
tually everyone in the hall on their feet and swaying.
There are other aspects of American Jewish self-identity
that are jarring for Israelis.
Sivan Benisty of Boulder, Colorado, discovered over lunch
that she was sitting across from a non-Jew who worked
closely with Jews Lindsey Horvath, a city councilor
from West Hollywood, Florida, a heavily Jewish enclave.
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grilled Horvath, a Catholic, about how she dealt with Jewish
notions of chosenness.
When I hear Jewish people, chosen people, no mat-
ter how open and liberal the person, it comes across in a
patronizing way, Benisty said.
Horvath said she sees those expressions as a means of
grounding yourself in your identity in a multicultural soci-
ety. She sees correlations to Jewish chosenness in her own
identity as a Catholic and as a feminist.
Another gap between Israeli and American Jews was in
defining anti-Semitism an omnipresent theme through-
out the conference, but solely in its perceived manifestation
in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions move-
ment against Israel. The rare mention of the rise of
the American alt-right drew expressions of non-
plussed bafflement.
That was the reaction when Michaeli, the Zionist
Union member of Knesset, complained about how
Netanyahu was handling the relationship with the
American Jewish community. She singled out his reac-
tion to the white supremacist and anti-Semitic demon-
stration in Charlottesville, Virgina, in August, when a
counterprotester was killed by a car driven by a sus-
pected racist.
The prime minister did not say a word,
Michaeli said.
Neither did anyone in the room, and the modera-
tor, Emily Amrousi, a reporter for the Adelson-owned
Israel Hayom daily, shifted the subject back to BDS
even though the topic already had been exhausted. Just
mentioning Charlottesville in nearly any other Ameri-
can Jewish assembly would have triggered concerns,
much discussed in the community, about the boldness
of anti-Semitic expression during the presidency of
Donald Trump.
Nicolet said Israelis likely were aware of the Char-
lottesville march but were more exercised about BDS
because it was a more insidious form of anti-Semitism.
Its very easy to define the Nazis, he said. They
have the flag. Theyre Nazis. When you have a gray
area, and people talk about human rights and ethnic
cleansing, from a gut feeling Im worried.
Anxieties about whether American Jews are growing
distant from Israel also permeated the conference. Ruth
Calderon, a former Knesset member for the secular
Israeli party Yesh Atid who writes about incorporating
talmudic teachings into secular Jewish education, said
the diktats of Israels Orthodox could cause a schism.
She led a session that transitioned between Hebrew
and English.
At some point, the Jews in the world will say to
Israel, you know what tistadru lavad. In other
words, figure it out for yourself.
Israeli Jews also recoil at the notion of even tolerating
the minority of American Jews who reject Israel.
I dont think the undoubted support that Ameri-
can Jews had for Israel 30 years exists anymore, said
Yaara Oren, a postdoctoral biology student at Harvard.
We have a Reform shul in Brookline, Massachusetts,
doing Naqba events, she said, using the Arabic for
catastrophe. That is the word that Palestinians use
to describe Israels founding. I couldnt set foot in a
synagogue that doesnt support Israel.
Some also feel Adelsons leadership has imposed
a stringent standard of support for Israel on the IAC
that doesnt gibe with the more diverse and self-critical
American Jewish outlook. On Sunday evening, Adelson
told the group that he had switched allegiance from the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee because he
preferred unequivocal support for Israel a refer-
ence to AIPACs willingness to work with the Obama
administration, which Adelson reviled.
That stringency alienated some of the Israelis at
the conference. During a breakout session called
American Sabra: A Complex Identity, a Brooklyn
man confronted Miriam Adelson, who was a panel-
ist, saying that his inclination to criticize some Israeli
government policies made him feel like an outsider at
the conference.
In response, Adelson insisted that right-wing Jews
were likelier to be marginalized in the American Jew-
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Trump attacks an immigration program

Schumer gets caught in the crossfire
Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON Charles Schumer and Donald Trump

like tweaking one another on a broad range of issues.
In October, the president chided the New York senator
for wanting to preserve the Iran deal he once opposed,
and the Jewish Democrat berated the president for not
moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Standard stuff for two hard-charging New Yorkers

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from opposing parties. But even Schumer was taken

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aback last week when Trump targeted the Senate minor-
ity leader for his long-ago involvement in setting up an
immigration lottery and tied it to the deadly terrorist
attack in Manhattan the day before.
More than that, Trumps sweeping condemnation
of an immigration program in place since 1990 baffled
not only Schumer, but also most Jewish immigration
experts, who wondered what, if anything, the program Charles Schumer at a news conference on Oct. 31,
had to do with the attack. the day of the terrorist attack in lower Manhattan. Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting on Nov. 1.
This whole approach that anytime someone not from
this country does something to harm Americans we look Melanie Nezer, the vice president of HIAS, the leading after the truck ramming that killed eight and injured
at the immigration system and think some adjustment Jewish immigration advocacy group. at least a dozen people in lower Manhattan. On Twit-
is going to change [things], it doesnt make sense, said The latest contretemps was set off the morning ter, Trump repeated an unsubstantiated report that the

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Uzbekistan citizen suspected in the attack had obtained a
green card, or residency permit, in 2010 through the so-
called Diversity Visa lottery program.
The terrorist came into our country through what is
called the Diversity Visa Lottery Program, a Chuck Schumer
beauty, Trump tweeted about the suspect, Sayfullo Saipov.
I want merit based.
An hour later, Schumer tweeted back.
I guess its not too soon to politicize a tragedy, Schumer
wrote, just after 7:30 a.m.
Schumer, who previously has enjoyed his sparring with
the president, was taking this very personally. Speaking
from the Senate floor later that day, he blasted Trump for
being divisive during a time of mourning.
By the afternoon, Trump was telling his Cabinet he wants
to end the diversity lottery program.
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in more Irish immigrants. (Schumer, as a New York
City congressman, answered to a substantial Irish-
American constituency.) It eventually was expanded
to include an array of countries, including Israel.
Applicants must have graduated from high school
and worked for at least two years. Those selected are
vetted for criminal pasts and ties to terrorist groups.
Trump appears to have been reacting to Fox News
commentators who decried the program, and to a for-
The latest
contretemps was set
off the morning after
We must always be aware how moments of fear and
moments of genuine tragedy can be used to reinforce
harmful stereotypes about scapegoated communities,
and this is what Trump is doing with his inappropriate
comments, she said.
Cotler contrasted Trumps rhetoric and action fol-
lowing the New York City terrorist attack with his
relative sanguinity in August after a white suprema-
cist allegedly rammed a crowd of counter-protesters
in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one. In that case,
Trump blamed both sides for the violence and also
said there were very fine people on both sides.
Trump and his enablers have been aggressive to
ensure we are maintaining policies that are xenopho-
bic and Islamophobic, she said. The suspect in the
New York attack, Sayfullo Saipov, was heard shouting

Im going to ask Congress to immediately initiate work God is great! in Arabic before he was shot and sub-
to get rid of this program, he said. Diversity and diversity
lottery. Diversity lottery. Sounds nice. Its not nice. Its not
the truck ramming dued by police.
After the attack on the Texas church that killed 26
good. It hasnt been good. Weve been against it. So we want that killed eight and people last weekend, Trump offered prayers rather
to immediately work with Congress on the Diversity Lottery
Program, on terminating it, getting rid of it.
injured at least a than anger, rejected any talk of gun control as politi-
cizing, and said that the death toll would have been
The program, launched in 1990 as part of broader biparti- dozen people in worse had there been fewer guns at the scene.
san immigration reform sponsored by Schumer who then
was in the House of Representatives and an array of oth-
lower Manhattan. Trump wants to defund Homeland Security programs
targeting domestic terrorism, which is usually attrib-
ers, allows in up to 50,000 people a year through lotter- uted to white supremacists and lone wolves, in order
ies. Thats a fraction of the estimated 1 million green cards mer national security adviser, Sebastian Gorka, who to focus more narrowly on terror directed by overseas
issued each year by the United States. blamed Schumer on Twitter the night before. Islamists. Gorka has been a key point man advocating
It was meant to redress imbalances in U.S. immigration Until now, the program has not figured prominently defunding, mocking the Obama administrations focus
policy that allowed in masses of immigrants from some in the immigration battles between Trump and his on preventing lone wolf attacks and saying it makes
countries like Mexico and Canada while neglecting others. opponents. In fact, Schumer no longer favors it; he more sense to target terrorist structures overseas.
In fact, it was pitched at first as a program that would allow was one of the Gang of Eight Republican and Demo- Schumer chided Trump for defunding the domestic
cratic senators who wrote an immigration reform bill programs.
that passed the Senate and was backed by President President Trump, instead of politicizing and divid-
Barack Obama. That deal, killed in the House, rolled ing America, which he always seems to do at times of
back the visa diversity program and instead promoted national tragedy, should be focusing on the real solu-
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said that he favors.
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What Middle East political turmoil means for Israel

RON KAMPEAS father, Rafik, who also was a prime minister. MBS has taken a very assertive approach to Saudi foreign
So why quit now? policy, said Tamara Cofman Wittes, a senior fellow at the
WASHINGTON What is MBS? Why did Lebanons This may be the same story. Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
prime minister resign and why in Saudi Arabia? Since becoming defense minister in 2015, Crown Prince Its happening simultaneously with his efforts to consoli-
Whats Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Mohammed has been behind an aggressive Saudi bid to date internal control.
Abbas doing in Saudi Arabia? Where is Jared Kushner reassert dominance in the region in the face of an increas- So, Saudi Arabia confronting Iran good for Israel, right?
in all this? ingly assertive Iran. He is driving Saudi Arabias war with The Israeli government seems to think so. Ron Dermer, its
And what does it all mean for Israel? Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Pulling Hariri out of ambassador to Washington, told the Israeli American Coun-
Its been a busy week in the Middle East and, for a Lebanon is a piece with a broader strategy of keeping Iran cil on Monday that he was more optimistic now because I
change, the two ground-shifting stories they may be teetering. see a change in the region.
the same story, but well get to that dont directly As he guides Saudi Arabia into bolder confrontations with Dermer was not referring directly to the events of the
involve Israel. Iran in the region, the crown prince may feel he needs to weekend but to broader changes. Still, it was significant that
Mohammed bin Salman (the MBS contraction is so consolidate his power at home. he delivered what has now become a familiar message from
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
after Hariris resignation and the Riyadh
crackdown.
The Arab governments are in a dif-
ferent place than they were five years
ago, certainly 10 years or 15 years ago,
because they see our interests as being
aligned with theirs, Jewish Insider
quoted Dermer as saying. Many things
are happening underneath the surface,
many remarkable things.
Israels Channel 10 news quoted an
Israeli Foreign Ministry cable to diplo-
mats that listed pro-Saudi talking points
on Hariris resignation and on the king-
doms intervention in Yemen.
Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president
of the Foundation for Defense of Democ-
racies, said the Netanyahu government
was seizing an obvious opportunity.
Hariris resignation is just one more
indicator of a possible regional archi-
tecture that could be built between the
Sunni states and Israel, he said. If MBS
succeeds in creating a modern Saudi
Arabia, one can imagine a Saudi Arabia
somewhere down the line where Israel
and Saudi Arabia could have open ties.
Still, we are in very early days,
Schanzer cautioned.
Nimrod Novik, a former Israeli peace
negotiator, said Saudi Arabias sudden
summoning of Abbas was another posi-
tive sign signaling Crown Prince Moham-
meds moderating tilt.
Novik, who is now the Israel Fellow of
the Israel Policy Forum, said it was sig-
nificant that the summons came a week
or so after a quiet visit to Saudi Arabia by
Kushner, President Donald Trumps son-
in-law and senior adviser. The Trump
administration wants Abbas to reassert
control of the Gaza Strip, which is con-
trolled by Hamas.
Saudi Arabia, working with other
Sunni moderates in Egypt, the United
Arab Emirates, and Jordan, is press-
ing Abbas to take the necessary risks
by offering him a bulletproof vest, as
Novik put it a change from previous
years when the Saudi tendency was to
offer only qualified backing for Israeli-
Palestinian peace moves.
I would have loved to have been a fly
on the wall in Riyadh, he said.
Lets not get carried away.
There are lots of risks for Israel in the
recent upheaval.
Daniel Shapiro, a former U.S. ambas-
sador there who is now a fellow at the
Institute for National Security Studies
in Israel, said Israel should be wary of
being drawn into a war with Hezbollah
one that would damage Hezbollah, a
key goal of Crown Prince Mohammed,
but would cost Saudi Arabia little and
Israel plenty.
Israel and Saudi Arabia may be stra-
tegically aligned in seeking to contain
Iran, Shapiro said, but they are not tac-
tically aligned.
He said Hezbollah may take the bait,
as it suffers from a blow to its ambitions
to be a Lebanese unifier.
It may accelerate the confrontation
Hezbollah already wants with Israel
because [war with Israel] would be a
unifying event for the Lebanese, Shap-
iro said.
And whatever Netanyahu says, a tem-
porary tactical alliance does not mean
long-term peace benefits, said two Per-
sian Gulf scholars with the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy, Simon
Henderson and Lori Plotkin Boghardt.
Boghardt said the Saudis may be
coordinating with Israel behind the
scenes, but there are not yet incentives
to make the relationship open. Hender-
son, joining her in a conference call for
reporters, said there remained plenty
of disincentives, preeminently popular
opinion, noting the hostile reception for
Israeli athletes at a judo competition in
Abu Dhabi.
Thats an indication of the difficulty
of selling a pro-Israeli policy to these
people, Henderson said.
What about Jared?
Kushner said his visit to Saudi Arabia
was simply to advance Israeli-Palestinian
peace. Accompanying him to Riyadh was
Jason Greenblatt of Teaneck, whose mis-
sion is brokering the peace. Greenblatt
continued on to Israel and the Palestin-
ian areas.
Iran prefers to see a conspiracy. Javad
Zarif, its foreign minister, said on Twit-
ter that Kushners visit led to Hariris
bizarre resignation while abroad.
That was the buzz in Washington as
well.
David Ignatius, the Washington Post
columnist known for his deep sources in
the U.S. intelligence community, wrote
after the events in Riyadh that it was
probably no accident that last month,
Jared Kushner, Trumps senior adviser
and son-in-law, made a personal visit
to Riyadh. The two princes are said to
have stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. sev-
eral nights, swapping stories and plan-
ning strategy.
Trump may have boosted the con-
spiracy theories late Monday when he
tweeted his support for Crown Prince
Mohammeds crackdown.
I have great confidence in King
Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi
Arabia, they know exactly what they are
doing, he said on Twitter.
The Brookings Institutions Wittes said
that if anything, MBS was taking cues
not from Kushner or anyone else in the
Trump administration, but instead is fill-
ing a vacuum created from what at times
has seemed to be a rudderless U.S. for-
eign policy.
The U.S. government is not putting
anything on the table, she said. In the
absence of that, what youre seeing is
Israel and Saudi Arabia trying to pull the
United States into the region.
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Editorial
Darkness and light
A
s I sit here watching the night
come so much earlier than it
did just a week ago, feeling a
bit trapped by the darkness
and the cold that accompanies it (at
least in theory, because its been such a
weird year for weather), I cant help but
think of the awful things that have been
happening all around us.
Theres the horrifying attack on the
bike path in lower Manhattan that
killed eight people and wounded many
others. Theres the horrifying attack in
a church in Texas that killed 27 people
and wounded many others.
There are many differences between
those two attacks the weapons, truck
or gun; the goal, religious terrorism
or the desire for personal revenge,
although both seem driven by mental
illness; the place, one familiar to many
of us, and the other profoundly foreign.
But as the dark settles in, I keep
thinking about one of the characteris-
tics these two monstrous attacks share.
Both happened in places where there
was no way out. The bikers and run-
ners on the path beside the Hudson,
on that crisp cool golden beautiful last-
day-of-October day, had nowhere to go
when the truck ploughed them down.
And the worshippers in church were in
a small building, less physically beau-
tiful but deeply comforting to them,
a place that represented home, with
nowhere to go, no way to escape.
Thats a grim thought to take into the
coming weeks, as the days get shorter
and colder, and those of us who glory
in light have less of it.
So what to do?
There is light around, of course. At
the risk of sounding inanely clichd,
once the days get very short they start
lengthening again. Thats why we have
the winter festivals Chanukah, with
its brave little lights, and Christmas,
which of course we dont celebrate
but whose gorgeous displays we can
gape at. (And isnt it wonderful to be
so secure that we can take pleasure
rather than fear from those displays?)
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collaborative, experimental. In the
next few weeks, well write about
Naaleh, a new school for girls that
will employ innovative strategies
and extra-curricular opportunities to
challenge students academically and
inspire personal growth, its website
tells us.
Both schools will hold open houses
this weekend, Naaleh on Saturday
night, from 7 to 8:30, at Congregation
Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck, and the Ideas
School on Sunday afternoon, from 2 to
4:30, at the Jewish Center of Teaneck.
The two schools are very different,
although they have much in common
both Jewish, both new, both idea- and
ideal-driven. They will both bring light
to the community.
And if you want more light, there is
Shababa. Tiny children, older children,
their parents, their grandparents, their
caregivers, everybody singing Shabbat
songs, ushering in the golden light.
And then there will be spring.
One other thing a public service
announcement. The Affordable Care
Act has been neither repealed nor
replaced. Right now, its the only game
in town for people who have no other
access to health care.
There has been far less publicity
about the dates for open enrollment
this year, but if you need insurance
from the ACA, now is the time to get
it. The period in New Jersey has been
shortened; it opened on November
1 and will close on December 15. For
more information, go to www.health-
care.gov. And be sure to give yourself
enough time. JP
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
The Holocaust isnt funny
My personal letter to Larry David
D
ear Larry,
As a big fan of Curb Your
Enthusiasm, I find you hilarious ily on an extended Holocaust educational
and entertaining. Pretty, pretty,
pretty funny. Im serious. Ive watched every
season. And I love you on Saturday Night
Live.
America is not a very funny place these
days. There is just too much political strife
and division, too many sad stories about
hurricanes destroying peoples homes, and,
especially, too many people being shot to
death in mass shootings and terror attacks,
to really laugh. In the midst of
that, you come with your off-
beat humor and you entertain
the nation and make us forget
our troubles for a time.
As someone who laughs with
you, Im grateful.
Youre also a proud Jew,
throwing your Jewish identity
into nearly everything you do.
Hollywood has a history of Jew- Rabbi
ish actors who have changed Shmuley
their names or who never cele- Boteach
brated their Jewishness. Youre
different, engaged as you are in
constant self-deprecating Jewish humor and
Curb Your Enthusiasm has had loads of
regular, if sometimes off-color, Jewish laughs.
I never was offended by your Holocaust
humor, not even by the famous survivor
episode, where participants in the CBS TV
reality show of the same name met with sur-
vivors of the Holocaust.
But, respectfully, your humor in your Sat-
urday Night Live opening standup routine
last week, in which you thought up pick-
up lines for dating Jewish women in a Nazi
concentration camp, really crossed a line.
Im not here to condemn you for it, but to
explain why.
The Holocaust was the single great-
est crime in the history of the world. Like
you, I was raised with Holocaust education.
But even I having immersed myself in its
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details throughout my life was astonished
at its scope and horror when I took my fam-
journey this past summer for a book Im
writing. Wherever you travel in Europe, they
slaughtered nearly all the Jews in that loca-
tion, however far apart.
You travel to Warsaw and you witness the
horrors of the ghetto and the hundreds of
thousands who were liquidated two hours
away in Treblinka. A few hours south is Kra-
kow and the Auschwitz extermination camp,
where one million Jews were murdered with
poison gas. Two hours north is
Lodz, where 275,000 were sent
to the ovens.
Incidentally, at Lodz the Jews
were under so much pressure
to cooperate with the Nazis in
their own extermination that
on September 4, 1942, the
head of the Jewish Council,
Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski,
actually gave a speech plead-
ing with the Jews of the ghetto
to Give me your children, to
turn over 10,000 Jewish kids to
the SS. The next day there was
a wave of suicides throughout the ghetto.
Over the next days the SS tore 6000 chil-
dren from their parents and sent them to a
certain death.
In Bialystok we searched for, and about
midnight eventually we found the iron
cupola of the synagogue where on June 27,
1941, the citys Jews were burned alive. Sadly,
very few of the citys current inhabitants
had any idea where the memorial lay, even
though its smack in middle of town.
I need not list all the horrors to have you
understand the unimaginable suffering of
families during the Holocaust, a crime that
claimed six million lives, among them 1.5
million children.
But heres the thing. Memory of the Holo-
caust is under attack all over the world,
and not just by anti-Semites and Holocaust
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- arguing that the U.S. immigration policy, spe-
l cifically the diversity lottery visa program under
y attack entered the country, is to blame. Since
- Larry David delivers his opening monologue on Saturday
Night Live on November 4. It included bits on the Holocaust
and the high-profile Jews being accused of sexual harassment.
f SCREENSHOT FROM YOUTUBE
- deniers. Just a month ago we wit-
, nessed a bizarre attack on the
book Night by Elie Wiesel, by
a prominent scholar writing in a
t Jewish publication. Then Canada
opened its Holocaust museum
without even mentioning the
word Jew on the plaque outside
the building that spoke of the mil-
t lions of men, women and children
murdered during the Holocaust.
, Yes, they corrected it, but it dem-
, onstrates a growing disassociation
- of the Holocaust from Jewish suf-
fering, something I witnessed in
Budapest where there is a mov-
ing memorial on the banks of the
Danube to the shoes of the victims
. of the Nazi terror but does not
- once mention the word Jew. This
despite the fact that nearly half a
million Hungarian Jews were mur-
t dered in just a few months in 1944.
Is there a conspiracy behind all
, this denial? Im not sure. But I do
, know this. Minimizing the tragedy
of the Holocaust makes it easier
for humanity to minimize geno-
cide and mass murder happening
in our time. If the Holocaust is not
f so horrible if we can make jokes
t about it or assert that it wasnt
5 as bad as it seemed, or if we can
dilute the identity of its victims
- then it will lessen our resolve to
, fight genocide in our time. If the
t suffering of the Jews doesnt really
matter, then the gassing of Arab
children in Damascus or Aleppo
doesnt matter either.
Thats how a Rwanda happens.
You can watch 1000 people
dying every hour, as they did in
Rwanda between April and June
1994, and not do a darn thing,
because you are inured to the
horrors of genocide.
There is something else, Larry.
A few years ago I heard a rabbi,
no less, give a speech about how
the Holocaust was punishment
for sin. He offered the usual drivel
about the Jews of Germany not
being religious, violating the Sab-
bath, and intermarrying, and God
therefore caught up with them
with the Holocaust. Now aside
from this rabbi being an igno-
ramus, because the Jews of, say,
Poland, were extremely religious,
he is also a charlatan and a fraud,
not to mention borderline anti-
Semitic, as he depicts a murder-
ous, vengeful God who delights in
punishing wayward Jews.
But there was something par-
ticularly sick in what he said. He
added that proof to the non-piety
of the victims of the Holocaust
was that when the SS forced the
women to undress before being
shot or gassed, the women walked
around naked without shame. As I
listened to these sick ramblings, I
felt sorry for a man who had little
soul, sense, or compassion.
Now, youre not like that, Larry.
You would never justify or mini-
mize the horrors of the Holocaust.
But when you make fun of it, or
when you depict the women of
the Holocaust as objects of male
attraction to be hit on, you dimin-
ish the unimaginable suffering,
degradation, and ultimately mur-
der, to which these millions of
women were subject.
May I suggest, Larry, that this
year you accept my invitation to
come to our International Cham-
pions of Jewish Values Awards
Gala in New York, which last
year honored the memory of Elie
Wiesel, the living face of the mar-
tyred six million, and deliver a
speech about the importance of
Holocaust education in Americas
schools. You would be warmly
received and youd be doing a
great service not just to the mem-
ory of six million men, women,
and children who were your Jew-
ish brothers and sisters, but to
preventing future genocides in
a world where human life has
become so utterly disposable.
Opinion
Keeping the melting pot spicy
P
resident Trump once used the murder
of Kathryn Steinle, who, according to
authorities, was killed by an illegal
immigrant with a criminal past, to
argue for a ban on Muslims entering the country.
Now, after an attack that killed eight in lower
Manhattan on Halloween day, the president is
which the Uzbek immigrant suspected in the
taking office, Trump repeatedly has voiced con-
cern over the diversity lottery program, and
with this most recent attack, many in Congress
likely will band together to ensure the program
is eliminated.
It is understandable that politicians would rally
in support of the programs removal in the wake
of a terrorist attack. Scrapping a system because
a single beneficiary committed an
act of terrorism, however, will not
stop attacks. Rather than scape-
goating in the aftermath of tragedy,
we instead must focus on the root
causes to prevent future attacks
and to protect all Americans, both
native born and immigrants, from
those who seek to do harm.
The diversity immigrant visa
program awards a visa for a green Michael
card, which grants permanent resi- Wildes
dency in the United States and is a
path to citizenship, to up to 50,000
people per year. The lottery was created in 1990
as a way to increase diversity by allowing more
immigration from countries that send relatively
few people to the United States. According to
the formula set out by law, countries that have
had more than 50,000 natives immigrate to the
United States in the previous five years are ineli-
gible to apply to the lottery program. The visas
are distributed among six geographic regions,
and no single country may receive more than
seven percent of the available visas in any one
year. Most of the lottery recipients live outside
the United States, but a few are in the country
legally on other visas.
While applicants are selected for visas ran-
domly, they still must meet strict security and
eligibility requirements that all immigrants
must clear to get those visas. Security screening
involves many procedures, including biometrics
to confirm the persons identity using facial rec-
ognition and other technologies; name checks
and fingerprint checks against multiple inter-
agency government databases to identify poten-
tial criminal or national security issues; and
checks against terrorist, organized crime, gang,
and other watch lists.
Diversity recipients also must have a high
school education or its equivalent, or two years
of qualifying work experience as defined under
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provisions of U.S. law. All recipients must go
through an in-person interview and again are
screened for eligibility through careful question-
ing. If any inadmissibility ground arises, which
includes prior convictions for most crimes, secu-
rity concerns, health-related issues, and prior
U.S. immigration violations, the visa can be
denied.
Despite these lengthy procedures, lawmak-
ers long have criticized the program as a threat
to our countrys national security. While we
acknowledge that the program has deficiencies,
the diversity visa program has been an impor-
tant component of the U.S. immigration sys-
tem. America was founded by immigrants and
has flourished due to attracting people from all
over the world. In fact, Trumps top economic
adviser, Kevin Hassett, long has maintained
that the U.S. should embrace more immigrant
workers, not fewer. As a scholar at
the American Enterprise Institute
in 2013, Hassett wrote, Perhaps
surprisingly for a country that has
long thought of itself as a nation
of immigrants, the U.S. falls far
behind almost all the other coun-
tries in the number of immigrants
it admitted in 2010 relative to its
population size.
J. There is little evidence to sug-
gest that this program has created
a national security threat. All evi-
dence so far indicates that Sayfullo
Saipov, the suspected terrorist in the Manhattan
attack, was radicalized years after entering the
United States. In an extensive analytical report
written by Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration
expert at the Cato Institute, it was discovered
that of the roughly 768,000 murders commit-
ted in the United States between 1975 and 2015,
0.39 percent were committed in an attack by for-
eign-born terrorists. To eliminate the program
because of the acts of a few would be shameful
to the thousands of innocent immigrants who
rely on the program for a chance at the Ameri-
can dream.
It is true that this program, along with the rest
of the U.S. immigration system, needs reform.
But efforts to reform must be balanced with
our national enforcement interests, taking into
account that immigrants have and will continue
to make an enormous impact on our countrys
prosperity.
As Thanksgiving approaches I am sure our
founding fathers would want us to dash a bit of
spice to our melting pot.
Michael J. Wildes of Englewood is the managing
partner of Wildes and Weinberg, a former mayor
of Englewood, and an adjunct professor at the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan.
Write to him at michael@wildeslaw.com.
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Opinion
I am anti-mass murder. Are you?
O
ver the past two weeks, we
have had two more mass
killings.
Last weekend we had one
in Texas, where 26 people in a church
were killed. The week before we had one
in Manhattan, where eight people walk-
ing on a city street were killed by a truck.
Did these tragedies have anything in
common? Yes, they did. Innocent people
of all walks of life lost their lives while
going about their daily business. Were
these tragedies the same? No they were
not.
This weeks murders in Texas, like
the ones in Las Vegas a few months ago,
were committed by a crazy person using
a semi-automatic weapon. So, liberals,
you can now key up the anti-gun, pro-
Muslim rhetoric and get ready to watch
a weeks worth of gun control advocates
opine about it on CNN. But wait a min-
ute, last weeks murders were committed
by a Muslim, who likely was a follower of
Isis, using a truck. So, conservatives, you
can now bring out your anti-Muslim, pro-
gun narrative (since these murders were
not gun related) and listen to the talking
A new-old policy
on intermarriage for Conservative Judaism?
M
uch ink has been spilled
since the release, about
two weeks ago, of a new
pastoral letter on inter-
marriage from the leadership of the
Conservative movement.
The document was both applauded
and criticized depending on the
readers perspective for reaffirming
the Conservative movements stance
against rabbinic officiation at intermar-
riages. That is what is old about the pas-
toral letter.
But what is new?
The document, signed by the lead-
ership of the Rabbinical Assembly, the
United Synagogue, the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary, and the Ziegler School of
Rabbinical Studies, restates the move-
ments generation-old policy that its
rabbis may not officiate at intermarriage
ceremonies, but it goes on to say that
Jews decisions to marry the people they
fall in love with ought to be respected
and honored, and that all types of Jew-
ish families must be welcomed into Con-
servative congregations.
Critics on both sides of the issue
are asking whether the Conservative
32 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 10, 2017
heads on Fox discuss the war on terror
and spout their anti-immigrant views.
And it will have even more impact
when each of you posts on your social
media about how this is or is not Trumps
fault (completely based on your party
affiliation). You then add to your post
or reply to the comments to your post
by friends who pretty much all agree
with you (other than that angry token
friend from college or grade school who
doesnt agree yet must be tolerated due
to the longevity of your friendship, which
started before social media existed). We
insist that if we had no guns, or at least
a lot less of them (thats the liberals) or
no Muslims, or at least a lot less of them
(thats the conservatives), we no longer
will have these senseless mass murders.
Whats the most interesting thing is
that on the one hand, it is all true. Yet,
on the other hand, none of it is true. And,
on the third hand, as Tevye would say,
NONE of that matters.
What matters is that we live in a world
of sound bites that is not designed to han-
dle the complexities of difficult issues.
So none of that matters because we are
movement can succeed in having it both
ways. Can the movement that traces its
birth in this country to the famed Tre-
ife Banquet of 1883, where the conser-
vative wing walked out of the meal at
the Reform movements Hebrew Union
College in Cincinnati, and went all the
way to New York to establish JTS three
years later, now manage to hold its (un-
hekshered?) cake and eat it too?
There is an increased pressure within
the Conservative movement today for a
change in policy on interfaith marriage
ceremonies, ranging from a relaxation
of the policy that precludes Conserva-
tive clergy from being present at an
interfaith wedding to a complete per-
mission. On the other hand, there are
those who say that Conservative Juda-
ism needs to live up to the conserva-
tive in its name and stop following
the Reform movement on every major
issue, a decade or so later. (The Conser-
vative movement welcomed women to
the rabbinate 11 years after the Reform
movement. The Conservative move-
ment welcomed gays and lesbians into
the rabbinate 16 years after the Reform
movement.)
dealing with a multilevel be so blind as to believe that
issue with many causes, the strongest immigrations
each of which requires sev- laws will prevent all (or
eral different solutions. Do even most) of these terror-
we have a problem with ist related tragedies, though
guns in this country that they will help a lot.
needs attention? Absolutely. The last piece of the mass
But do we need to be sensi- murder puzzle, and the
tive to those who strongly trickiest to solve, involves
(yet incorrectly) believe that Daniel M. mental and emotional ill-
the Second Amendment Shlufman ness. This has become the
guarantees them the right great, secret tragedy of
to own any type of weapon our times. Neither political
they like and/or like to hunt or want a party has the tools, or more accurately
gun for protection? Yes we do. We also the inclination, to do anything about
need not to be so blind as to believe that mental illness. So people who desper-
the strongest gun laws will prevent all ately need help do not receive it. Some
(or even most) of these gun-related trag- of them turn to the cult-like philosophy
edies, though they will help a lot. of Isis and its ilk. While others, with dam-
Do we also have a problem with Mus- aged human capacity to understand the
lim extremist terrorism in this country? results of their actions, turn to murder
Absolutely. But do we need to be sensi- for some psychological reason that is
tive to those who strongly (yet incor- beyond my ability to either understand
rectly) believe that the United States has or explain here.
an obligation to allow anyone to immi- As for emotional damage, which isnt
grate here without regard to factors that on the radar of anyone who is not on the
may make a person more likely to engage front lines of the mental health field, we
in terrorism? Yes we do. We also need not appear to have become more connected
But there is a difference wake-up call to Conserva-
here. The Reform rabbin- tive rabbis and leaders, the
ate does not encourage ripples of which are hitting
intermarriage; the deci- us now. Earlier this year,
sion to perform one is left United Synagogue, the orga-
to each Reform rabbi. The nization of Conservative
more significant develop- congregations, amended
ment in recent years was its Standards of Practice to
the 2013 Pew Study of allow each congregation to
American Judaism, which Rabbi Dr. determine the criteria for its
showed a dramatic decline David J. Fine members. The earlier rule
in the numbers of affiliated had excluded non-Jews from
Conservative Jews. That membership in Conserva-
put the Reform movement securely in tive congregations. The recent pastoral
first place as among the possibilities for letter gives the context for that decision,
American Jewish identity. Many observ- affirming that all families, whether both
ers correlated the Conservative move- or just one of the spouses are Jewish, are
ments drop to the increased rates of welcomed into the community of Conser-
intermarriage. The take-away was that vative Judaism.
more and more Jews are intermarry- While some continue to push for a
ing, but that intermarriage is a marital more dramatic change on the policy of
rather than a religious decision. officiating at weddings, we need to recog-
The increased number of interfaith nize the dramatic change of tone in these
households raised the question of how two decisions, and their implications for
these Jewish-affiliating families identify an evolution of culture in Conservative
themselves, and the answer was that congregations. The non-Jewish spouse
most went to Reform rather than Con- used to be persona non grata in Conser-
servative congregations. vative congregations. He or she was not
The Pew study was heard as a loud listed on the membership directory. The

Knowledge is gained through
debate. But this is hard work. It
takes time and involves a lot of
openness. It cannot be
accomplished through sound
bites on social media, and even
less by engaging only with those
in your echo chamber.
through social media, though it is arti-
ficial, as our real social connections are
loosening. People are taking anti-anxiety
and anti-depression meds in record num-
bers as they try to figure out why their
real life lacks by comparison with others,
at least as depicted in social media.
This is causing more and more people to
lose the compassion and sensitivity to oth-
ers that helps to keep the social contract
alive. It is also what causes a small minor-
ity of these emotionally damaged people
to either lash out due to some inadequacy
in their lives that causes them pain or to
Jewish spouse was issued statements at
the single-member rate. The non-Jewish
spouse had no voice in synagogue gov-
ernance, and was not welcomed on the
bimah during worship. The intermarried
Jewish spouse often was excluded from
positions of synagogue leadership and
other honors. And the marriages of chil-
dren of congregants were not acknowl-
edged if they were to non-Jewish part-
ners. Conservative congregations have or
are engaged in all of these issues today as
everything is being revisited.
When I first came to northern New
Jersey in 2009, I was the first rabbi of
my congregation to invite the non-Jew-
ish spouse to stand next to the Jewish
spouse as the Jewish spouse recited
the aliyah to the Torah at the bar or
bat mitzvah of their child. I forgot to
ask the ritual committee if it was okay
to do so because it had not occurred to
me that this had not been done before.
From the perspective of Jewish law the
questions seemed simple enough to me:
the Torah scroll cannot be polluted.
And there are many examples of tak-
ing liberties with tradition for the sake
of Jewish education. Here, when the
try to become infamous in their attempt to
be relevant. In any event, unless and until
we are able to replace fake friends and fake
online lives with real ones, which I dont
see happening, our gun laws and anti-ter-
rorism will be mere fingers in the dyke.
To combat these mass murders, we
need to morph into a country that cares
more about preventing mass murder than
being right. One that cares more about
preventing mass murder than satisfying
each persons worldview or furthering
their agenda. This means that we need
to be open to other peoples ideas about
non-Jewish parent has committed so
much time and energy and resources to
the Jewish education and identity of his
or her child, should not that righteous
non-Jew be honored? Should not that
righteous non-Jew be given the oppor-
tunity to share in the naches of his or
her child reaching the age of mitzvot? Is
that not the success story that we seek
with interfaith families?
Recognizing that Conservative Judaism
has turned in a new direction in welcom-
ing interfaith families instead of deny-
ing them acknowledgement, I do not
believe that the policy of not officiating
at intermarriages presents an inconsis-
tency or hypocrisy. I explain my refusal
to officiate not as disapproving of the
couples decision to marry but rather as
respecting the religious affiliation of the
non-Jewish partner. I can speak only for
the Jewish covenant of marriage, but I
respect the non-Jews religious identity,
whatever it may be. I wish the new cou-
ple mazel tov and hope they will find a
place in our community.
I return to the legacy of the Treife Ban-
quet. There is no Conservative synagogue
that does not welcome members who
creating a solution even if we dont agree
with them on causation. Much like the idea
that you never learn anything when you
are talking, you never come up with as
many creative solutions when you listen
only to those who agree with you. It is only
through the exchange of ideas, including
ones that conflict, that real progress can
be made. It is how our democracy arose.
In Hamilton, the song The Room
Where it Happened details the compro-
mise among Alexander Hamilton, James
Madison, and Thomas Jefferson, who
hated each other but were able to put that
aside to agree to locate the banks in New
York and the capital in D.C.
It is also the way that the Jewish tradi-
tions and Torah studies have evolved
throughout our peoples history. Knowl-
edge is gained through debate. But this is
hard work. It takes time and involves a lot
of openness. It cannot be accomplished
through sound bites on social media, and
even less by engaging only with those in
your echo chamber. Our society seems to
have an abundance of openness when it
relates to art and lifestyles, yet very little
when it comes to different points of view.
Recognizing that Conservative
Judaism has turned in a new
direction in welcoming interfaith
families instead of denying them
acknowledgement, I do not believe
that the policy of not officiating at
intermarriages presents an
inconsistency or hypocrisy.
choose not to keep kosher outside of the
synagogue. But by that logic, the decision
to marry a non-Jewish partner should be
no less objectionable. Indeed, it should be
much less objectionable. While I respect
the autonomy of Jews, and their right to
eat non-kosher food, I dont see any actual
merit in that decision. especially in north-
ern New Jersey, where there is no lack of
kosher food.
But finding the right partner to marry
is not easy. If someone has fallen in love
and found another person, finding com-
pleteness and dreaming of building a life
together, and if those two people walk
into a synagogue, or want to raise their
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Opinion
Nevertheless, this debate is too impor-
tant not to engage in it honestly and
deeply. If you dont want to engage in it
and prefer only to attempt to advance
your agenda, just know that you are only
half right. And as a result, you will con-
tinue to reap only half-baked results. If
we truly want to stop these mass mur-
ders we all need to agree to source out
their multiple causes. Once the source
of each is identified, then different strat-
egies can be designed to combat each
type. But if you think that by getting rid
of guns or getting rid of Muslims with-
out addressing the underlying problems
causing people to murder others in bulk,
whether it is ideology, opportunity, or
mental illness, you are part of the prob-
lem. And this problem will only con-
tinue to worsen until, like our Founding
Fathers, you care more about solving a
problem than advancing a useless and
flawed philosophy.
Daniel Shlufman of Tenafly is the
treasurer of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey. He is an attorney
and a mortgage broker.
children Jewish, then that should be rec-
ognized as a mazel tov not just for them
but for us and all Israel, lanu ulekhol Yis-
rael. And those are the people we are talk-
ing about when we talk about welcoming
interfaith families in our congregations.
We want them to walk in the door.
Our job is to stand in the doorway like
our ancestor Abraham, waiting to wel-
come people in. But unlike Abraham
and Sarah, Conservative congregations
will not serve lamb and milk together.
David J. Fine, Ph.D., is the rabbi of
Temple Israel and Jewish Community
Center in Ridgewood.
Opinion /Letters

Statement of principles regarding

civil discourse in northern Bergen County
The president and CEO of the Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jersey and the
heads of the countys two rabbinic associa-
tions offer this open letter and statement of
principles to the community.
administrative processes needed.
An eruv is a benefit to Jewish com-
munities and is unobtrusive to local
communities.
Opposition to an eruv is protected by
communities. We hope and pray that
this statement of principles will create
such an atmosphere in northern New
Jersey and usher in a year marked by
a higher level of discourse and greater

I
n todays society, nuanced and
respectful discourse appears to be
in decline. Communication tech-
nology, among other factors, has
enabled too many of us to disengage from
each other and toss invectives back and
forth with little inclination to temper and
focus our respective messages. Old ste-
reotypes and attitudes have found new
life under these conditions, as it is easier
to react and respond without recourse.
The construction of an eruv in Mahwah
and the surrounding area, and new ordi-
nances aimed at limiting access to public
parks and open spaces, highlights this sad
reality. In an attempt to promote solidar-
ity among the Jewish community and civil
discourse amongst all residents, we have
established the following set of principles:
The establishment of an eruv is
legally permitted. We encourage the pro-
moters of the eruv to follow all the due
the free speech amendment. However, mutual understanding. We strongly
opponents of the eruv must have the encourage all residents involved in
moral imperative to conduct their speech these conversations to uphold the
free of hatred and bias. Any anti-Semitic high standards of civil discourse and
elements must be condemned. leave hurtful and insensitive language Rabbi Rabbi Chaim
The opposition to members of a par- behind. David-Seth Poupko
ticular group with a different culture Kirshner
moving into a community and changing Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner,
its character is xenophobia, plain and Rabbi, Temple Emanu-El, Closter
simple, and runs counter to the sense of President, North Jersey Board of Rabbis
diversity that strengthens our country.
The aforementioned notwithstand- Rabbi Chaim Poupko,
ing, we urge our brothers and sisters Congregation Ahavath Torah, Englewood
from the Jewish community who may President, Rabbinical Council of
have interest in moving into Mahwah and Bergen County
the surrounding area to be acutely sen-
sitive to the values of their future neigh- Stephanie Goldman
bors. Being good citizens and neighbors President, Jewish Federation of Northern Stephanie Jason
sanctifies Gods name in this world. New Jersey Goldman Shames
The Jewish New Year, which was cele-
brated only a short time ago, begins with Jason M. Shames
a 10-day period of introspection and self- CEO, Jewish Federation of Northern
examination for both individuals and New Jersey

The two-state solution
Thank you, Dr. Lippe (At it again, letters, November 3). Noth-
ing we could have written could have proved our point better
than your knee-jerk response to our October 27 column in
the Jewish Standard in support of Dr. Meyer and his appoint-
ment as CEO of the Center for Jewish History. The column
described Dr. Meyers impeccable qualifications for his job,
and went on to describe the attacks leveled against him and
the CJH because of his recognition of the dangers of the West
Bank occupation and the two and half million Palestinians
who have lived there under military rule for 50 years.
Dr. Lippe is as guilty as Meyers detractors, all of whom wish
to impose a loyalty test, which is presented as a test of loyalty
to Israel but in reality is a test of loyalty only to the dream of
a Greater Israel.
Do you now or have you ever supported the idea of a two-
state solution? Answer wrong, and you no longer are an
acceptable part of the Jewish community. This effort, both in
the U.S. and in Israel, to blur the distinction between the State
of Israel and the Israeli civilian presence and military control
of the West Bank, equating them in propaganda though not
in fact, is an effort to redefine what it means to be pro-Israel.
Today Israel is a democratic Jewish state, but how long will the
settler dream allow that to remain true? To annex the West
Bank (as Israel did with East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights)
and to incorporate the Palestinian population would require
Israel either to sacrifice its democratic character by refusing
2.5 million Palestinians citizenship rights or to give them the
right to vote and in so doing empowering them to vote the
Jewish State out of existence. Not wishing to do either, the pro-
ponents of Greater Israel choose to manage the conflict. that line is evil that cannot be done by someone who is not
What they really stand for is the perpetuation of an occu-
pation in the West Bank that keeps a growing population
living in the murky swamp of military occupation and the
corrosive features and costs, both financial and human, that
arise from it. And the slow but steady eroding of our Jewish
souls as occupiers is not to be forgotten either.
Dr. Lippe has written a letter to the editor against the col-
umn we published. He claims that our article was an extreme
left-wing interpretation and he calls the readership of this
paper an unsuspecting Jewish community. He calls the dis-
tinction between the State of Israel and the Jewish settlements
of the West Bank a subtlety.
We hold you, dear reader, in much higher regard. In a survey
taken in January of this year by Smith Consulting, a respected
Israeli pollster, 68 percent of Israelis (both Arabs and Jews) pre-
fer two independent states to annexation. At the same time, a
2017 survey by the Pew Research Center finds more than 61
percent of American Jews equally in favor of the two-state solu-
tion. This is not a subtle difference. It is anything but.
Dr. Lippe and his crowd would like to pretend there is a
border for some purposes but not for others, in the hope that
the resulting confusion that this state of limbo creates will add
to the confusion and will allow them to silence and suppress
their critics.
The team of Simon and Gold, along with 68 percent of Israe-
lis and a matching majority of American Jews, resist the pro-
motion of this confusion and believe the best way to support
the Jewish state is to work to end the West Bank occupation.
Hiam Simon, Englewood, Dr. Mark Gold, Teaneck
Crossing the line with guns
Maybe I am missing something. I am watching mass mur-
ders on the media daily I dont know where such evil has
come from.
There is very thin line between rage and violence; to cross
ica, it has turned elsewhere. The Nazis were not stopped until
very disturbed. It is not, clearly, a definable illness. And for
money, people such as these, who wish to destroy as much
human life as can be destroyed with a round or several of
ammunition, are able to purchase weapons to accomplish
this. No mess. No fuss. Just get hold of some automatic
long-range guns. How is it conceivable that no one notices
purchases of such guns? The hiding of such weapons? The
rage of these individuals? How is it that individuals are able to
obtain weapons meant to be on a battlefield?
It is the anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust this
week. Krystallnacht. The night of broken glass. The night of
fear and great warning in Nazi Germany, when so many win-
dows in homes and stores were destroyed by a bunch of crazy,
bloodthirsty Nazis fed hatred by their leaders against Jews.
They crossed so many lines. Creating the idea of subhuman
beings, the Jews, gave them the right to annihilate as many as
they could. In the end, years later, it was 6,000,000 and prob-
ably more, brutally killed at their hands.
What does it take to create a mass murderer out of a very
angry, irrational person? I dont know where this line begins
or when it is crossed. I dont know why a nation needs guns to
be sold everywhere in the first place with such laxity and free-
dom. I do know that somewhere today, some very unstable
person, with an overdose of hate, is buying another weapon,
or many such weapons, to avenge some imaginary crime
against himself. He will succeed, because no one will stop him.
He will buy the guns. Easily.
The Nazis succeeded because they created the idea of a
people so subhuman, impure, and filthy that they had to be
wiped off the face of the earth. Okay, maybe the parallel is
extreme. But it feels to me that each mass murderer of men,
women, and children has in him the need to destroy, annihi-
late, eradicate from the face of the earth, some unclear and
unnamable evil or impurity. It was the Jews for so many years,
and still is the Jews throughout the Mideast; but here in Amer-
it was almost too late.
Those men with their automatic weapons can be stopped
from killing yet another soul if we find a way to assess them
and not profit from the sale of guns.
Sandra Steuer Cohen, Teaneck

34 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 10, 2017

 Opinion

Irans war, Americas shame, in Kurdistan

B
efore the referen-
dum in Iraqi Kurd-
istan on September
25, the leaders of
Iran, Turkey, and Iraq all fore-
told of the coming of a sec-
ond Israel if Kurdish inde-
pendence was the end result.
They meant it as an insult,
but its really a compliment. Ben Cohen
Israel has sustained its
democracy amid regional con-
ditions that would make most Americans and Europeans
balk at the thought of being in the same position, and a
sovereign Kurdistan would be an invaluable partner sim-
ply through sharing basic liberal norms like freedom
of expression, freedom of worship, full civil rights for
all ethnic, national, and sexual minorities in a Middle
East that largely is contemptuous of such trifles.
Yet even though almost 93 percent of voters in the
Kurdish referendum opted for a sovereign Kurdistan,
the end result has not been a second Israel but a sec-
ond Iran.
For the last fortnight, Iraqi Kurdistan has borne the
brunt of an Iranian-backed military offensive, involv-
ing Iraqi government forces and the Hashd al Shaabi
paramilitary organization an Iraqi equivalent of Leb-
anons Hezbollah and perhaps, as we may yet discover,
a Shia equivalent of the Sunni Islamic State. These
forces used American-supplied weapons and vehicles Kurdish President Masoud Barzani stepped down this week in part due to persistent rumors that a rival
to threaten the Kurds into withdrawing from strate- Kurdish group gave in to the pressure exerted by Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard
gic positions around Kirkuk as well as other cities and Corps general, Ben Cohen writes. CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

towns, and they didnt hesitate to use them in those

places where the Kurds resisted.
Did the United States agree that its weapons could
be used to crush our most loyal regional ally when it
supplied those weapons? No, it didnt, but nobody
cares, because no one not the Kurds, not the Turks
led by the fiercely anti-Kurdish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, and certainly not Qassem Soleimani, the Ira-
nian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general who
coordinated the offensive in Kurdistan much as he has
in the Syrian and Lebanese theatersbelieves that the
United States is going to do a damned thing about it.
The Iranian sweep through Iraqi Kurdistan means that
more than 50 percent of the territory recently liberated
from Islamic State by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters is now
in the hands of the Iraqi central government and Hashd
al Shaabi. Kurdish President Masoud Barzani has stepped
aside amid internal recriminations among the Kurds them-
selves, in part due to persistent rumors that a rival Kurd-
ish group gave into Soleimanis pressure. (Some say they
did so too easily, others say Soleimani told them plainly
that the alternative was an all-out war.)
Credible reports of murder, looting, and rape com-
mitted by Hashd al Shaabi fighters have emerged from
the Yazidi and Christian communities, which already
were battered, abused, and enslaved by Islamic State.
Rather than implementing the results of the indepen-
dence referendum, the Kurds have been press-ganged
into negotiations with Baghdad; the Iraqi central
government is demanding that the Kurds withdraw
as far back as the 2003 border that separated them
from the armed forces of Saddam Hussein, but this
time without American and British air power to pro-
tect them.
The plight the Kurds face now is nothing other than
a Western, and especially an American, disgrace.
Who can blame the Kurds if they conclude that the
2,000 fighters they lost in the battle against Islamic
State really were just cannon fodder for a cynical,
short-term American policy that only recognizes the
Iranian threat when its politically convenient?
The warning signs already were there before the ref-
erendum, when the State Department reaffirmed its
one Iraq policysomething that has been little more
than a discredited brand for years now, and one that
rightly should have been buried once it was clear that
the Kurds, a century after being cheated out of inde-
pendence by Britain and France, decided that theyd
had enough. For more than a decade, the Kurds have
succumbed to American pleas to remain inside Iraq,
despite their earlier experience of genocide at the
hands of Saddams Sunni Arab regime and the abiding
sense thatas one Kurdish official told me this week
the Iraqi Shia and the Iranians distrust us not just
because we are Sunni Muslims and Kurdish nationals,
but because they see us as Israelis.
I dont believe that was meant metaphorically. Ira-
nian and Turkish propaganda has been clear from the
beginning that the Kurds are Israels fifth column, that
250,000 Kurdish Jews will be resettled in an indepen-
dent Kurdistan, and similar nonsense. Why should
a Hashd al Shaabi fighter, taught to distrust all other
sources of information, see it any way other than
literally?
If the Kurds are Israelis, if the Israelis are Zionists,
and if it is firmly believed that as Irans Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei put it this week
The Divine promise guarantees definite victory...
against the usurper Zionist regime, then what will be
the fate of the people in this region under the boot
of Iran? A rump Kurdish authority surrounded by the
intractable Turks, Iraqis, and Iranians might turn out
to be the best-case scenario. The worst-case outcome
Credible reports of
murder, looting, and
rape committed by
Hashd al Shaabi
fighters have emerged
from the Yazidi
and Christian
communities, which
already were battered,
abused, and enslaved
by Islamic State.
is another round of genocide and ethnic cleansing, this
time at the hands of Iran.
For all of President Donald Trumps bluster about
Iran, he chose appeasement when put to the test.
Thus the Kurds are plunged into crisis once more.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putins visit to Tehran suggests
that the Russian-Iranian partnership in defending the
Assad regime in Syria is now entering its next phase.
Can it really be true, as the traditional saying has it,
that the Kurds have no friends but the mountains?
Ben Cohen writes a weekly column on Jewish affairs and
Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published
in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall
Street Journal, and many other publications.

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 Dvar Torah
Chayei Sarah: A man with no name

O
ur names are essential to our
identity. Most of us have a first
name that was chosen for us by
our parents and a surname that
traces farther back into our family history.
In the Torah, most of the names convey a
meaning or are given an explanation. Adam,
it is strongly hinted, comes from the word
adamah, for soil, because he was created
out of soil. Eve comes from the word for life,
because she was to be the mother of all liv-
ing things (Genesis 3:20). Beginning with the
birth of Cain in Genesis 4:1, it is generally the
mothers who convey names onto their chil-
dren. This tradition takes on special mean-
ing in Genesis 29 and 30, as Rachel and Leah
choose names for their children that reflect
the rivalry between them.
Several individuals in the Torah are given
multiple names: Abram becomes Abraham;
Sarai becomes Sarah; Jacob becomes Israel;
and Hosea becomes Joshua. In rabbinic tra-
dition, Moses has seven names. The implica-
tion is that multiple names are a sign of honor
and of closeness to God.
With so much tradition and lore surround-
ing the names of our ancestors in the Torah,
we come across a section of the Torah in this
weeks portion, Chayei Sarah, that draws our
attention in the opposite direction. In Genesis
Chapter 24, the future of the Jewish people is
left to a man whose name we the people who mow my
are never told. lawn or deliver my mail. I
The man in question is know the names of about half
Abrahams servant, who is of the neighbors who live on
taskedsworn, reallywith the my block (a number that has
responsibility of finding a wife increased because I have a
for Isaac. The man takes an dog, and therefore a reason to
oath, assembles a caravan of go outside more often and say
camels, determines criteria for hello to my neighbors) but the
choosing the right woman, and Rabbi Steven other half remain anonymous
negotiates in Abrahams name Sirbu to me. I depend on these peo-
to have her return to him. He Temple Emeth, ple to beautify my property,
Teaneck, Reform
even offers a prayer to God in to connect me to the world, to
Abrahams name. look out for me and my family.
But throughout this lengthy chapter (67 And yet, I am ashamed to admit, I dont know
verses in all) we never read his name. In this their names. I suspect Im not alone.
regard, he is like Noahs wife, Lots wife, and This type of anonymity tends to reinforce
the stranger who directs Joseph toward his the oppression of the powerless. People with-
brothers. All are essential to the narrative, out names are more likely to be exploited by
but none are named in the Torah. their employers or have their rights trampled
Rabbinic tradition identifies the servant on by society. I think it is for this reason that
as Eliezer, the same servant who in Genesis the rabbis wanted Abrahams servant to have
15 is designated as Abrahams heir, since at a name. If he was to represent Abraham, pray
that point he has no children. You can agree to God, negotiate with Laban and accompany
or disagree with the rabbis on this point. But Rebecca all named entities he too should
this rabbinic effort simply reflects what the enjoy the honor and benefit of a name.
Torah already makes clear. Names establish In the digital age, we see that anonym-
honor. Names command our respect. Only ity takes on two primary characteristics.
people with names can change history. The first is that of the anonymous internet
We can see this in our society today. In troll. This is someone, who using the cover
my own life, I do not know the names of of anonymity provided by platforms such
as Twitter, will harass, stalk or intimidate
another. Sometimes it is to suppress some-
one with a different political opinion, but
sometimes anonymous trolling is simply
done for sport. Anonymity is then a cloak to
mask uncivil, abusive, and sometimes crimi-
nal behavior.
On the other side of that coin are the peo-
ple who remain anonymous because ano-
nymity protects them when they speak out
against the excesses of powerful people or
institutions. We cannot trust an anonymous
accusation the same way we trust a named
source. Even so, an anonymous claim can be
investigated and corroborated. In some cases
anonymity is essential to giving the powerless
the chance to speak out.
The Israeli poet Zelda (fittingly, she did not
author her poems using her last name) wrote
a famous poem entitled Each Man Has a
Name. In it she lists the many influences and
experiences that give us a name. The poem
implies that we all have several names, and
that they define us and help us understand
who we are.
May we strive to honor the people who
serve us by learning their names. May ano-
nymity always be employed to protect the
powerless and never exploit them. And may
our names help us understand who we are
and always bring us respect. Shabbat Shalom.

Robin Bernstein might be the new

Dominican Republic ambassador
Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON President Donald
Trumps nominee for ambassador to the
Dominican Republic was a fundraiser who
helped him win Florida with her cam-
paigning in the Jewish community.
And while Robin Bernstein has relevant
political and government chops for the
role, this weeks announcement didnt do
her any favors: It noted that she speaks
French and basic Spanish.
Ben Jacobs, a reporter for the Guardian,
and others on Twitter thought it hilarious
that an envoy to a Spanish-speaking coun-
try would only have basic Spanish, when
in fact, with the exception of politically
sensitive spots, ambassadors typically are
prized for their closeness to a president
and often lack the local language, or even
any experience of the designated country.
In 2014, President Barack Obama nomi-
nated Noah Mamet, who did not speak
Spanish and had never been to Argentina,
to represent the United States there.
And the snark that greeted the
announcement overlooked much of what
makes Bernstein, an insurance executive
in West Palm Beach, Florida, a much more
interesting figure, in the Jewish commu-
nity and beyond.
Shes Trumps insurer ...
Richard S. Bernstein and Associates,
the company Bernstein and her husband
founded, has insured some of Trumps
businesses for years. At a 2009 party hon-
oring Richard Bernstein held at Trumps
Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Trump
was asked to praise the honoree. In the
video of the event, Trump first teases him,
saying that Bernstein would be likely to
monetize the billionaires endorsement
with TV ads. But then he adds, I dont
care ... Hes done a terrific job for the
Trump organization, so were very happy
with Richard and with Robin.
Robin Bernstein leans in for a hug.
And that could be a problem.
Bernsteins likely nomination to the Robin Bernstein and her husband, Richard, at Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago in
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EDITOR: DAVIDBENKOF@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MANAGEABLE
Across
1. Mideastern sesame snack
6. Great Talmudic Rav
10. Notable podium
14. Youre in for ___ treat!
15. Like some of the cows in Pharaohs
dream
16. Haba or Hazeh
17. Keanu Reeves man of action....and a
comic routine?
19. One who is the worst
20. Concise confession
21. Kosher Yellowstone residents
22. Following
23. Times of old
25. Sales talks
26. Tom Cruises man of action...and of
giving sermons?
30. Shalom, Luc
31. WNBA star Bird who is an Israeli citi-
zen
32. Benjamin Disraeli, e.g.
36. Actress Dennings (whose real last
name is Litwack)
37. Name of strength with a son?
40. Pay___
42. Bread for Holden Caufield?
43. You are, in espanol
45. Gemara page
47. Danny who worked with con artist Saul
Bloom, in a trilogy
49. Harrison Fords man of action...and
one to borrow money from without
interest?
53. Sister of Marge Simpson, and others
56. Like Jonathan, to David
57. Fluffy
58. O. Henrys The Gift of the ___
59. WWII turning point
63. Zoes good friend
64. Matt Damons man of action...and of
nedarim?
66. Bank holding
67. Shmona, to Juan
68. Herman Wouks Youngblood ___
69. Response to Shall we?
70. Bit of sweat
71. Youngs partner in accounting
The solution to last weeks puzzle is
on page 47.
38 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 10, 2017
The Frazzled Housewife
Inventions
C
an you imagine what it must
have been like when electric-
ity was invented?
Since I have not done any
actual research on any of the subjects
I am about to discuss, just follow along
and pretend I know what I am talking
about. For years, men, women, and
children would sit in the dark once the
sun went down. I imagine that the day
just ended. If you were reading, you
had to stop. If the kids were playing
a game, they had to stop. In the mid-
dle of cooking? You had to hope that
it wouldnt spoil and that a dinosaur
wouldnt eat it. And then,
there was light all of the
time! And light bulbs! And,
most likely, fights about
who needed to go out and
buy more light bulbs and
then who was going to
have to change the light
bulbs. And where is the
stepstool needed to reach
Down the light bulbs? I have Banji
1. Muslim pilgrim always said that if I leave Ganchrow
2. Yankee in controversy for much of the this earth before husband
2010s #1, he is going to have to
3. Where 37-Across killed hundreds get remarried, and if he doesnt, some-
4. Mary Poppins star
one is going to have to change the light
5. Franken and Gore
6. Clement who succeeded and preceded bulbs for him or he will be watching
Churchill television in the dark.
7. They have a certain appeal, on With each invention came both won-
Seinfeld derful things and new challenges. The
8. Bar sounds
automobile great invention, right?
9. It makes the words in a Torah
10. Lag BaOmer structure But how many accidents happened
11. Fill with joy with horses and buggies? And now the
12. Tov preceder cars are so high tech that they can park
13. Mideast monarchs themselves. And drive themselves.
18. Fraus partner
And make noise when you acciden-
22. Animal in a 2011 James Franco hit
24. Mr. Hollands ___ tally veer into another lane. (That is
25. Where Billy Joels Last Play occurred for people who switch lanes and then
26. Tapper of CNN signal. I am not mentioning any names
27. 1 of 12 that can be 2x of those who do that. All I will say is
28. Quote (Rashi)
that when we rented a car with lane
29. NHL goal
33. 51 in sci-fi changing beeping, the person driving
34. Baseballer Braun kept getting startled whenever the car
35. Cataract site would make a noise. And I would say,
38. Puts 600 and 13 together If you would signal, look, and then
39. ___ tai (drink)
change lanes, you wouldnt keep get-
41. Manilow girl of song
44. Gene born Chaim Witz ting beeped! But, again, I am not men-
46. Derogatory term for an Ethiopian Jew tioning any names.)
48. Battle of antibodies against a runny And now we have smartphones.
nose and congestion? Now that was an invention. For years,
50. Dissenting vote
I would not give in and get a smart-
51. ___nik (bad person)
52. (Evil) eye phone. I think I was one of the few peo-
53. The Witch of Endor might have made ple who never texted. Quite honestly,
one I think that relationships were better
54. Singer Goulding before texting. Sarcasm does not trans-
55. Great director Sidney
late well in a text. (Not that is trans-
58. Defensive spray
60. This clue, e.g. lates that well in real life, but it is defi- could go back to a simpler time, when
61. Bezalel and Noah built them nitely worse via text.) I had Grandma
62. Israeli news site Flippy, and I used her only for phone
64. Victim of a series of unfortunate
events
65. Sarah or Rebecca, e.g.
calls. Grandma Flippys demise began
when folks would include me in group
texts. Poor Grandma couldnt handle
the pressure, and she would have all
sorts of seizures. Eventually, my fam-
ily stopped listening to me (though, do
they ever listen to me?) and they went
and bought me an iPhone for my (and
when I say my I mean our) 20th
wedding anniversary.
I couldnt return it because my three
sons got it for me, and how could I dis-
appoint them? I still have years (hope-
fully) to disappoint them about so
many other things. I had to keep the
phone. And I had to learn
how to use the phone. I
still think apps are appe-
tizers, but that is because
I am always thinking of
food. And speaking of
apps, apparently I have
two Instagram accounts,
one that I know about,
and one that I didnt know
I have. I have no idea how
to get on the former and
I dont know what to do
about the latter. So much
for inventions.
In any event, there has been much
commotion about the new iPhone I
think it is the iPhone 20, or it could be
the iPhone 10; again, I have no idea. On
the news, they showed all of the peo-
ple who were sleeping on the street for
days, so they would be first in line for
the new phone.
This new phone costs about a thou-
sand dollars. For a phone. The people
sleeping on the street looked like the
protestors against the one percent
from a few years back. Were they the
one percent? Isnt that who can afford
a one thousand dollar phone? And
what does this new phone do, exactly?
Does it know who you arent speaking
to and automatically screens your calls
and texts? Does it make you look thin-
ner in selfies?
Inventions they are good, they
are bad, and if you are talking about
an Apple product, they are expensive.
Lets hope they help make the world a
better place, because, for the last few
weeks, they havent been doing all
that much.
Be careful. Stay safe and use your
new iPhone in good health.
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck wishes we
bagels were four for a dollar and gas
was practically free.

The Balfour Declaration
JONATHAN LAZARUS
W
hen God made covenant
with Abraham and his
descendants by estab-
lishing the length and
breadth of Eretz Israel from the river
of Egypt to the Euphrates no one could
have imagined that it would take the cas-
cade of centuries before a one-sentence
British statement with a dodgy backstory
finally delivered the framework for a Jew-
ish homeland in Palestine.
During the time between Genesis 15 and
November 2, 1917, Jews scattered across
Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World,
persistently enduring economic, political,
and religious deprivations far from their
biblical cradle. Not until Britain approved
the Balfour Declaration at the height of
World War I, with imperial considerations
far outweighing religious altruism, did
even notional hopes of next year in Jeru-
salem become greater than a glimmer.
The brief pronouncement fueled excite-
ment for Zionists and carried the endorse-
ment of the British War Cabinet and its for-
eign minister, Arthur James Balfour. Once
prime minister himself, Balfour encour-
aged its gestation after forging a
bond with the politically astute
and personally mesmerizing (and
sometimes infuriating) Chaim
Weizmann. Approved between
the flowering of Zionism and the
impending Holocaust, it stirred
expectations among Jews far
beyond its vague geography and
squishy language.
At minimum, the declaration
redeemed a pledge to Zionists
for a toehold in Palestine, while
allowing established Arab popula-
tions status quo ante. But it did
deny, by Machiavellian omis-
Dr. Chaim Weizmann
sion, a Jerusalem caliphate to the
nationalist princes of the Arab
Revolt, who contended that Britain prom-
ised them the prize if they rose up against
the Ottoman Empire.
Thus did the distrust and enmity now
blanketing the region begin to fester in the
wake of World War I diplomatic deceits,
overtopped with a few good intentions
and several bad translations. While edg-
ing toward the declaration and even
afterward, Britain more than justified its
reputation as Perfidious Albion, virtually
re-gifting Palestine three (possibly four)
times during negotiations with Zionists,
Arabs, the French, and the Ottomans.
The tiny island nation that ruled nearly
one third of the world emerged after the
war with even more dominion in the
Arts & Culture
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, by Sir Lawrence
Alma-Tadema. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON
Middle East. It was current glare of the Mideast and will prove
awarded portions indispensable for both the historically
of Mesopotamia minded and those passionate about the
(Iraq), and more State of Israel and how it got from there
importantly, Man- to here.
datory Palestine, the vital strip of land on Balfour avoids a dense plunge into bib-
the eastern Mediterranean, from which it lical or recent yesteryear, instead offering a
could keep tabs on the French at Suez and whirlwind of wartime intrigue and clashing
the Turks and Russians in the Dardanelles religious aspirations. Every clue and char-
(although both were nonthreats after the acter contributing to the regions present
war). From there it also could squeeze disequilibrium comes into play in Schneers
enemy forces from their new ports at Accra panorama. Schneer, a professor of mod-
and Haifa and their old redoubt at Gibraltar. ern British history at Georgia Tech, brings
Never did the art of muddling through bracing immediacy to T.E. Lawrences des-
play out more masterfully. ert adventures, the rivalry among streams
With the declarations centennial at of British Judaism, and the agony of Sharif
hand, it seems appropriate to revisit Jona- Hussein, emir of Mecca, as he deludes him-
than Schneers The Balfour Declaration: self with British promises and plots with his
The Origins of the Arab-Israel Conflict, sons against the Ottomans.
published in 2010 and reissued in paper- Readers are whisked from the deliber-
back. Schneers probing, gracefully com- ations of the War Cabinet to diplomatic
posed analysis holds up well against the conferences, clandestine meetings, and
JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 10, 2017 39
sandy battlefields. Schneer interweaves
diverse locations, time frames, and
principals into a seamless whole. The
personalities are complicated, eccen-
tric, and often prejudiced, even when
they consider their mission noble, even
civilizing. (The British derisively refer to
the people of the Mideast as orientals.)
Thumbnail sketches in an introductory
glossary provide readers with a helpful
scorecard on these post-Victorians, now
mostly consigned to historys dustbin.
Here then, the one-sentence Balfour
Declaration, proving brevity isnt neces-
sarily a virtue and the word homeland
doesnt easily translate into nation:
His Majestys Government view with
favor in Palestine of a national home for
the Jewish people, and will use their best
endeavors to facilitate the achievement of
this object, it being clearly understood that
nothing shall be done which may preju-
dice the civil and religious rights of exist-
ing non-Jewish communities in Palestine,
or the rights and political status enjoyed
by Jews in any other country.
On its face, it is seemingly anodyne
and elastic enough for all parties to lap
at. Weizmann, Harry Sacher, Nahum
Sokolov, and other Zionists had a hand
in several drafts as the document made
its way through the labyrinths of the For-
eign Office. Weizmanns ability to fend off
repeated challenges to his leadership bore
fruit when he persuaded Baron Walter
Rothschild, leader of the countrys assimi-
lationist Jewish establishment, known as
the community of cousins, to join the pro-
Palestine fold at a critical moment.
Indeed, Weizmann played his cards as
cannily as the mandarins of the Foreign
Office. He nurtured their philo-Semitic
tropes (cloaked, naturally, in smug, Chris-
tian evangelical condescension) of supe-
rior Jewish intellect, special financial acu-
ity, and a global web of connectivity (read
conspiracy) to buttress their view that a
homeland for the Jews, as a British protec-
torate, would be of benefit to the empire.
Contemporaneously, Weizmann let the
British worry, no matter how mistakenly,
that if Palestine wasnt offered, the Ger-
mans would dangle it to their Jewish citi-
zens and tip the wartime balance.
While granting Weizmann entre to the
highest councils, Britain continued its dip-
lomatic duplicity, concluding a secret side
deal the notorious Sykes-Picot agree-
ment with its French entente partner in
1916. That agreement divvied up the region
into spheres of influence (France would
get territory in what now is Syria and Leb-
anon, England would absorb most of what
SEE BALFOUR PAGE 47
Calendar
Sunday
NOVEMBER 12
School open house in
Livingston: Rae Kushner
High School holds an
open house. Registration,
9 a.m.; program at
9:30. 110 South Orange
Ave. Allison Lyons,
Cantor Ellen Arad Cantor Michelle Cantorial student Cantor Matthew (862) 437-8050, alyons@
Rubin Jacob Sandler Axelrod jkha.org, or www.jkha.
org/RKYHopenhouse.
Cancer prevention/
wellness in Tenafly:
Teanecks Holy Name
Medical Center and
Myriad have partnered
with the Lewin Fund
to Fight Womens circle for families, 2 p.m.,
Cancers to present
Own Your Own Health, Rock. (201) 652-6624 or
a panel at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
Cantor Sheldon Cantor Janet Ilene Cantor Marcey Cantor David 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 411
E. Clinton Ave. Register,
Levin Roth Wagner Wallach TheLewinFund.org.
as part of its Jewish
Film Festival, hosted
by Cantor Sam Weiss,
1:30 p.m.; and again
on Monday, November
13, at 8:15 p.m. East
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.
School open house
in Teaneck: The Idea
School holds an open
house, 2-4:30 p.m. 70
Sterling Place. Tikvah
Weiner, (917) 209-2665
or admissions@
theideaschool.org or
www.theideaschool.org.
Family drum circle:
The Glen Rock Jewish
Center hosts a drum
at a private home in Glen
office@grjc.org.
guest speaker at
Congregation Adas
Emuno , 4-5:30 p.m.
His novel, The Heat of
Ramadan, was adapted
for the feature film,
The Point Men, and
his newest book, The
Soul of a Thief, is due
to be released in May by
Harper Collins. 254 Broad
Ave. (201) 592-1712 or
www.adasemuno.org.
Monday
NOVEMBER 13

School open house in Film in Teaneck: The

NOV. The Montebello Jewish Center in White Plains: Schechter Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jerseys
Montebello, N.Y., presents From Bima to Westchester holds an

12 open house for its lower Israeli Film Festival

Broadway IV on Saturday, November 11. school, K-fifth grade, presents Wedding Plan,
It features eight cantors, who come from 10 a.m.-noon. Brunch winner of three Israeli
Academy Awards, at
New Jersey, from Rockland and Westchester counties, served. Activities for
3- and 4-year-olds.
Jessica Corbin
the Teaneck Cinemas,
and from Long Island; it also includes the synagogues 30 Dellwood Road., Kristallnacht 7:30 p.m. 503 Cedar
adult, children, and teen choirs performing Israeli, White Plains, NY. commemoration: Lane. (201) 820-3907
(914) 948-3111. www.THINK. Ridgewoods Temple or www.jfnnj.org/
cantorial, and musical theater selections. Dessert SchechterWestchester. Israel & JCC and Temple filmfestival.
reception follows. The cantors from New Jersey org, or www. Avodat Shalom in
are Matthew Axelrod of Temple Beth Israel, Scotch schechterwestchester. River Edge present a
org. remembrance, including
Plains, Sheldon Levin of Congregation Neve Shalom, a musical performance
Metuchen, and Janet Ilene Roth of the Summit Jewish Holiday boutique in of Anne Frank: A Living
Center. The cantors from New York are Michelle Rubin Teaneck: The sisterhood Voice, featuring the Bella
of Congregation Voce Singers Womens
and cantorial student Jacob Sandler of the Montebello Beth Sholom holds a Choir directed by Jessica
Jewish Center, Ellen Arad of Beth-El Synagogue, New boutique with vendors, Corbin, accompanied From the movie Chef
Rochelle, Marcey Wagner of Temple Isaiah, Stony 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 354 Maitland
Ave. (201) 833-2620.
by a string quartet, with
prayers and speakers, at Film in Tenafly: The
Brook, and David Wallach of Pearl River. Brian Gelfand Avodat Shalom, 2 p.m. Kaplen JCC on the
is the musical accompanist. 34 Montebello Road. Dessert. 385 Howland Palisades screens
montebellojc.org or call (845) 357-2430. Ave. (201) 489-2463. Chef as part of its new
monthly JCC Film Forum,
7:30 p.m. Film critic,
radio/TV personality, and
Shabbat in Wayne:
Friday Rabbi Meeka Simerly Saturday writer-producer-director
Mike Sargent leads
NOVEMBER 10 blesses and honors those NOVEMBER 11 the discussion. Series
with November birthdays From The Bespoke continues through April.
Shabbat in Fair Lawn: and anniversaries at Film in Teaneck: Temple Overcoat (201) 408-1456 or jccotp.
Bris Avrohom offers Temple Beth Tikvah, Emeths adult education org.
a beginners service 7:30 p.m. 950 Preakness group screens a Jewish- Films in Paramus:
with separate childrens Ave. (973) 595-6565 or themed movie, 7:30 p.m., The JCC of Paramus/
service, 7 p.m.; dinner, www.templebethtikvahnj. as part of its Movies Congregation Beth Steven Hartov
7:30. 30-02 Fair Lawn org. That Matter series. Tikvah shows The
Ave. Reservations, Popcorn. 1666 Windsor Bespoke Overcoat Author in Leonia:
(201) 791-7200. Road. (201) 833-1322. and Hand in Hand, Steven Hartov is the

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Tuesday
NOVEMBER 14
Naomi Miller
Caf Europa in Fair
Lawn: Caf Europa,
a social program
sponsored by Jewish
Family & Childrens
Services of Northern NJ
for Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Claims Conference and
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
CBI, 11 a.m., for kosher
lunch and Yiddish is in
My Genes, a musical
performance by Naomi
Miller. 10-10 Norma
Ave. Shari Brodsky,
(201) 837-9090, ext. 237
or sharib@jfcsnnj.org.
Jewish lit talk in
Closter: Retired Fairleigh
Dickinson University
professor Ben Nelson
is scholar-in-residence
at Temple Emanu-El of
Closter, 11:30 a.m., for the
shuls Hazak program.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanu-el.com.
Nutrition in Wayne:
Natalie Nachef, Shop Rite
of Waynes registered
dietitian, offers Gobble
up the Good Stuff for
Happy and Healthy
Thanksgiving at Temple
Beth Tikvahs Senior
Daytime group, 1 p.m.
Topics include portion
control and recipe
substitutes. Hands-on
healthy holiday dessert
demo. 940 Preakness
Ave. templebethtikvahnj.
org.
Gymnast in Northvale:
U.S. Olympic gold
medalist/U.S. Gymnastics
team captain Aly
Raisman signs copies
of her book, Fierce, cards welcome.
at Books & Greetings,
4 p.m. 271 Livingston
St. (201) 784-2665 or
booksandgreetings.com.
Intro to Judaism in
Mahwah: Congregation
Calendar
Beth Haverim Shir Israeli Film Festival holds its annual tricky program at 7:45. 60 E.
Shalom begins an
18-session Introduction to
presents Our Father,
winner of three Israeli
tray auction. Doors open
at 1 p.m. Refreshments.
78th St. Shara Lipson,
(212) 774-8093,
Judaism class that runs Academy Awards, 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. admissions@ramaz.org.
through March 20, 7 p.m. at the Edgewater (201) 797-9321. Register at www.ramaz.
280 Ramapo Valley Multiplex Cinemas, org/openhouse.
Road. (201) 512-1983 or 7:30 p.m. 339 River Road. Interfaith Thanksgiving
in Montvale: Members
www.reformjudaism.org/
intro.
(201) 820-3907 or www.
jfnnj.org/filmfestival. of Temple Emanuel Sunday
of the Pascack Valley NOVEMBER 12
and Congregation
Friday Bnai Israel in Emerson MTA High School open
NOVEMBER 17 participate in the annual house: The Marsha Stern
Book club in Tenafly: Thanksgiving interfaith Talmudical Academy
The Kaplen JCC on the Shabbat in Jersey service, this year at Yeshiva University High
St. Pauls Episcopal
Palisades continues its City: Join Jersey City School for Boys (MTA)
monthly book club with Mayor Steve Fulop for Church in Montvale, holds an open house.
Ben Nelson, professor a rooftop Shabbat at 7 p.m. Temple Emanuels Registration, 9 a.m.;
emeritus of English and Liberty Harbor. Kabbalat choir will perform program at 9:30. 2540
comparative literature Shabbat 6 p.m., kiddush with Pascack Valley Amsterdam Ave. Jono
at Fairleigh Dickinson, and hors doeuvres, 6:30, synagogue and church Fuchs, (212) 960-5400,
Rabbi Stephen Wylen 1:30 p.m. Discussion on and gourmet Shabbat choirs. 4 Woodland ext. 6676, admissions@
Lowland by Jhumpa dinner. Thanksgiving- Road. (201) 391-0801 or yuhsb.org. Register at
Rabbis roundtable in Lahiri; and December inspired cocktails. (201) 265-2272. yuhsb.org/openhouse.
Wyckoff: Rabbi Stephen
13, Nutshell, by Ian 50 Regent St., 11th
Wylen continues a McEwan. 411 E. Clinton Floor Observatory. Film in Tenafly: The
roundtable discussion Jewish Federation of
Ave. (201) 408-1496 or Reservations,
series on Jewish jccotp.org. mesorahnj@gmail.com Northern New Jerseys
Religion in the First Israeli Film Festival
or www.mesorahnj.com/
Century Sects with events. presents Past Life
The Jewish Titles of at the Kaplen JCC on
Jesus at Temple Beth the Palisades for its
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Rishon, 7 p.m. Series Temple Beth Rishon IAC Cinematec Israeli
continues November Film Series, 7:30 p.m.
offers a music-filled
28. 585 Russell Ave. Carlebach Shabbat in David Milch, the films
(201) 891-4466 or www. producer, will be there.
commemoration of his Jack Flamholz zl
bethrishon.org. 411 East Clinton Ave.
23rd yahrzeit, 7:30 p.m.
Led by TBRs Cantor Ilan (201) 820-3907 or www. Jack Flamholz
Mamber, intern Naomi jfnnj.org/filmfestival. memorial Yom Iyun:
Rogin, Cantor Emeritus Drisha hosts Judaism
Mark Biddelman of
Temple Emanuel of
Monday in America: Intersecting
Values and Identities,
Film in Ridgewood: Pascack Valley, and TBR NOVEMBER 20 a day of learning
Jewish Federation Rabbis Stephen Wylen in memory of Jack
of Northern New and Lois Ruderman, with Lunch and learn: Rabbi Flamholz of Teaneck,
Jerseys Israeli Film percussionist Jimmy Aaron Katz leads a moderated by David
Festival presents Mr. Cohen. 585 Russell discussion over lunch Silber. Lectures by Dr.
Predictable at the Ave. Refreshments. on current topics at Rivka Schwartz (SAR
Dr. Rivka Schwartz Warner Theater, 7:30 p.m. (201) 891-4466 or Congregation Bnai High School) on Dirshu
190 East Ridgewood Ave. bethrishon.org. Jacob in Jersey City, Et Shalom HaIr Asher
Jewish learning in (201) 820-3907 or www. noon. $10. 176 West Side Hegleti Etchem Shama:
Teaneck: Lamdeinu, jfnnj.org/filmfestival. Shabbat in Wayne: Ave. (201) 435-5725 or On American Jews and
a center for Jewish David Harris discusses Info@bnaijacobjc.org. American Citizenship
learning that meets and Dr. Bernard
at Congregation Beth Thursday Challenges to World
Jewry Today: A View Jewish learning in Steinberg (director
Aaron, discusses Do NOVEMBER 16 from the Front Line, Teaneck: Lamdeinu, emeritus, Harvard Hillel)
Modern Orthodox Jews for the annual Rabbi a center for Jewish on Jewish and American
Think Enough About Israel investment forum Shai Shacknai Memorial learning that meets Ethos During Tumultuous
Kedushah? And Why We in Paramus: Jewish lecture at Temple at Congregation Beth Times: Complementary
Should, taught by Dr. Federation of Northern Beth Tikvah, 7:30 p.m. Aaron, begins a five- and Conflicting Visions
Rivka Schwartz, 8:15 p.m. New Jersey holds the Mr. Harris is the CEO part series on Haggai, of Human Dignity
All welcome. 950 Queen Israel Innovation and of American Jewish Zechariah, Malachi: the and Worth. Learning
Anne Road. Register at Investment Forum; Committee. Rabbi Shai Transition from Prophecy workshops led by
lamdeinu.org. speakers are Synthesis Shacknai was Beth to the Rabbinate, taught educators, scholars,
founder Inbal Arieli, Tikvahs first full-time by Rabbi Hayyim Angel, and communal leaders
1 -2:15 p.m. 950 Queen
Wednesday OurCrowd founder Jon
Medved, iAngels vice
rabbi. 950 Preakness
Ave. (973) 595-6565 or Anne Road. Register at
follow. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.. 37
West 65th St., Fifth floor.
NOVEMBER 15 president Lee Moser, and www.templebethtikvahnj. lamdeinu.org. (212) 595-0307 or www.
BlueStar Indexes founder org. drisha.org/yomiyun.
Fall turkey/food Interfaith Thanksgiving
Steven Schoenfeld,
in Bayonne: Temple
drive: The Jewish
Community Center of
7:15 p.m. 50 Eisenhower
Drive. (201) 820-3900
Saturday Beth Am hosts Bayonnes Tuesday,
Paramus collects solidly or www.jfnnj.org/ NOVEMBER 18 interfaith Thanksgiving NOVEMBER 14
frozen kosher and non- service, 7 p.m.
IsraeliInvestment
kosher turkeys and Comedy in Teaneck: Refreshments. 111 Avenue Heschel school open
andInnovationForum.
non-perishable food in Congregation Beth B. (201) 858-2020 or house: The high school
unopened, non-glass Sholom hosts a comedy templebay111@gmail.com. at the Abraham Joshua
containers, for its Fran night headlining Jonny Heschel School holds
Leib Memorial Food Lampert. Doors open an open house. 30
Drive, in the parking lot,
7-9 a.m. Food donated
at 6:30 p.m.; show
at 8. Refreshments.
In New York West End Ave. Iris
Klein, iriski@heschel.
to the Center for Food 354 Maitland Ave. org. (212) 784-1234 or
Action in Mahwah. (201) 833-2620 or www. Saturday heschel.org.
Checks and ShopRite gift cbsteaneck.org. NOVEMBER 11
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691. Sunday Ramaz School open
house: The Rabbi
NOVEMBER 19 Joseph H. Lookstein
Upper School of Ramaz
Film in Teaneck: The Tricky tray in Fair holds an open house.
Jewish Federation of Lawn: The sisterhood Doors open, 7:15 p.m.;
Northern New Jerseys of Temple Beth Sholom
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r Calendar
the Glen Rock Jewish the annual Lawrence
Singles Center, 12:30 p.m. 682
Harristown Road. $5 for
Shabbaton, with
catered meals, Friday
lunch. (201) 652-6624 or night Viennese oneg,
Thursday email arbgr@aol.com. interactive programming,
speakers, shadchanim,
NOVEMBER 16
Friday and Melava Malka.
Proceeds benefit Bikur
Widows and widowers NOVEMBER 17 Cholim of Far Rockaway Stella Yukayev of Allendale
meet: Movin On, a and the Five Towns.
monthly luncheon at an earlier Valley Chabad
Shabbaton: Singles, Baila, (516) 849-5863 or
group for widows and 40-55, are welcome to bsebrow@aol.com. challah baking event.
widowers, meets at VALLEY CHABAD

On the road with a Fort Lee rabbi

R a b b i Ke n n e t h
Stern, third from
right, of Congrega-
tion Gesher Sha-
Mega challah bake in Woodcliff Lake
lom/JCC Fort Lee, Women from the Pascack Valley and Sad- and participants will receive a custom-
took congregants dle River communities come together imprinted Mega-Challah-Bake apron and
on a docent-led for an evening of unity, creativity, and other giveaways.
tour of the Centen- inspiration on Thursday: November 16. The events goal is to unite the com-
nial Balfour Decla- Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the pro- munity with millions of Jewish people
ration exhibit at the gram starts at 7 at the Hilton Woodcliff around the world, and with generations
American Jewish Lake, 200 Tice Boulevard. of their ancestors who participated
Historical Society This is Valley Chabads Womens Cir- in baking challah to honor the Sab-
in Manhattan. The cle first mega challah-bake. It was spear- bath. The women also will use the time
next On the Road headed by a committee of 30 women together for some words of inspiration
with Rabbi Ken- who expect it to be sold out. They expect and communal prayer for those in need
neth Stern trip is more than 275 women at the bake. There of healing. Reserve online at valleych-
set for Wednesday, also will be a wine bar and finger foods abad.org/challah or call (201) 476-0157.
November 29, to Philadelphia. The group will tour the National Museum of American Jew-
ish History and eat at the Zahav Restaurant. For information, call (201) 947-1735.
Mitzvah opportunities
Reliving Jewish history of Greenwich presented at Closter shul
Temple Emanu-El of Closter held
The Greenwich Historical its Kesher Olam (connection to
Society is hosting An Ameri- the world) Expo last month. The
can Odyssey: The Jewish Expe- annual fair connects organizations
rience in Greenwich from and bnai mitzvah students with
November 15 to April 15. It will one another. The expo highlights
explore the history of the Jews mitzvah project opportunities
of Greenwich, Connecticut, that are ideal for students to vol-
within the broader context of unteer with and/or fund-raise for.
the towns history. Students and parents meet with
It begins with the question organization representatives to
of why Jews chose to settle learn how they can get involved in
in Greenwich and how they a variety of hands-on projects. The
gained an economic foothold. goal is for the students to continue
It explores the Jewish family to volunteer long after their bnai
experience of living and work- mitzvah dates have passed.
ing in the town for more than
a century and examines how Temple Emanu-El religious
they, like other immigrants, school students Noah Parker COURTESY TE
struggled with the pull to integrate into a nationally recognized independent and Isaac Wilk check out a
American society and yet also remain dis- museum curator who most recently co- United Hatzalah ambucycle at
tinct. It also shows how they, and other curated The First Jewish Americans: Free- the Kesher Olam Expo.
minorities in Greenwich, contributed to dom and Culture in the New World at the
the larger community despite experienc- New York Historical Society, is the curator.
ing periods of discrimination and restric-
tions on worship, employment, and hous-
The society is at 39 Strickland Road in
Cos Cob, Connecticut. For information, go
Off-Broadway theater trip
ing opportunities. Dr. Ann Meyerson, to greenwichhistory.org/current. Join Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne for a November 14 trip
to see the new off-Broadway musical The Bands Visit
starring Tony Shalhoub. For information, call Sandy at
(973) 694-2133.
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Museum features Jewish clothing Learning to love animals

Veiled Meanings: Fashion-
ing Jewish Dress clothing
from more than 20 coun-
tries on four continents,
from the collection of the
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
is on display at the Jewish
Museum through March 18.
It is the first comprehensive
U.S. exhibition drawn from
the Israel Museums world-
renowned collection of Jew-
ish costumes, showcasing
more than 100 articles of
clothing from the eighteenth
to twentieth centuries, pre-
sented as complete ensem- Womans coat (kaltachak), Bukhara, Uzbeki-
bles or as stand-alone items. stan, late 19th century. Brocaded silk; ikat-dyed
The museum is at 1109 silk and cotton lining.  THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, JERUSALEM,
Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street PHOTOGRAPH BY MAURO MAGLIANI

in Manhattan. For informa- The religious school at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah recently
tion, call (212) 423-3337 or go to TheJewishMuseum.org. welcomed a petting zoo from the TevaLand Animal Rescue Farm, a non-profit farm
animal shelter rescue and rehab in Hillburn, N.Y. The religious schools education
director, Marcia Kagedan, left, is shown with a TevaLand intern, right, and students.
 SANDRA ALPERN
BCHSJS

Teens build relationships with seniors

Members of the Bergen County High
School of Jewish Studies Jewish Volun-
teer Corp visited with residents of the
Daughters of Miriam Center in Clifton, as
part of the year-long service class. About
a third of the sessions will be at DOMC
where the students build relationships
with a group of seniors, learn about their
Jewish history, and document them in
engaging videos.

Tribute to
Michael Jackson
in Englewood
COURTESY TE

The Bergen Performing Arts Center in

Englewood presents MJ Live: Michael
Jackson Tribute Concert on Saturday,
January 20, at 8 p.m. It features pop icon
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Bernstein
FROM PAGE 37
Santo Domingo post first was reported on
a local western Florida coast news site in
February and immediately set off alarm
bells. Rolling Stone noted an Associated
Press report saying that just weeks after
the inauguration, Trumps sons, who had
taken over their fathers real estate deal-
ings, appeared to be breaking their pledge
not to do international business.
The project? A resort in the Dominican
Republic.
(In their defense, Trumps organization
said the project predated the pledge, but
it had collapsed in 2012 amid claims by
the Trumps of fraud against the Domini-
can developer. Eric Trump was photo-
graphed touring the site on Feb. 5, after
his dads inauguration.)
That likely would mean hard Senate
confirmation hearing questions for Bern-
Richard S.
Bernstein and
Associates, the
company
Bernstein and
her husband
founded, has
insured some of
Trumps
businesses for
years.
stein, Rolling Stone said. She had a busi-
ness relationship with Trump, so would
she seek to curry favorable conditions
for the resort deal?
Will Trumps new ambassador help the
Trump family business solidify a new deal,
even after Trump promised his companies
wouldnt pursue such deals at all while hes
in office? was how the magazine put it.
Bernstein was among the founding
members of Mar-a-Lago. In a pre-election
interview with The Shalom Show, a local
cable access show with a pro-Israel bent,
she noted that the club was among the first
in the area to allow Jews to become mem-
bers and said they are in the majority
there.
Probably over 50 percent of his mem-
bers, at least in Mar-a-Lago and Trump
International [a local golf club], I dont
know about the other clubs, but I know
they are Jewish, she said.
Speaking to the Miami Herald immedi-
ately after the election, she likened Mar-
a-Lago to Camelot, referring to John F.
Kennedys presidency and the Kennedy
compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
Its almost a return to Camelot, Ber-
nstein said. I imagine that instead of
44 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 10, 2017
hopping in the Trump plane, hell hop
on Air Force One and come on down.
(She was right.)
Trump wanted a kosher kitchen at
Mar-a-Lago.
I know that he tried to have a kosher
kitchen, it was voted down, but he tried to
have a kosher kitchen for his members,
she said in the same interview. (She didnt
say which side she was on if she was on
a side. Her company referred requests for
interviews to the State Department; a State
Department spokesman said nominees do
not speak to the media until they are con-
firmed by the Senate.)
Bernstein has relevant political and gov-
ernment chops.
Her first degree was from the American
Universitys School of International Ser-
vice, a breeding ground for diplomats. Her
specialty was Russia. But instead of a State
Department career, she went to work for
Democrats joining Henry Scoop Jack-
sons presidential campaign (she doesnt
say which, in 1972 or 1976). Like many
Jewish Democrats who gravitated around
Jackson, a foreign policy hawk, she even-
tually moved toward the Republican Party
albeit after a stint in the Carter adminis-
trations Commerce Department. Bernstein
was one of the Florida electors who cast a
vote for Trump in the Electoral College.
She can throw a political punch.
Bernstein was featured in a story by
the local CBS affiliate on Jews who were
backing Trump. This corruption that Hill-
ary Clinton has committed, I think its trea-
sonous, Bernstein said, referring to stories
that sought to link revelations in hacked
Democratic Party emails to fundraising for
the Clintons charitable foundation.
Her kids are close with Trumps other
daughter.
Just before the 2016 election, she boasted
on The Shalom Show, We had 800 peo-
ple with Ivanka at a shul in Bar Harbor.
Bernstein may have gotten Ivanka,
Trumps Jewish daughter, to speak at a
synagogue, but it would seem that the
family is closer to Tiffany, the daughter
of Trumps second wife, Marla Maples,
who has kept a low profile before and
after her fathers election.
Our children are the same age, they
pretty much grew up together, my twins
are the same age as Tiffany, she told The
Shalom Show.
She suggested a dead man serve in the
Trump Cabinet.
Toward the end of The Shalom Show
interview, Bernstein runs through the peo-
ple she believed Trump would name to his
Cabinet, phenomenal, phenomenal peo-
ple that can guide this country. She named
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor;
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; then-Ala-
bama Sen. Jeff Sessions and now the U.S.
attorney general; and Vince Flynn.
Flynn, an author of thrillers who was
popular among national security conser-
vatives, has been dead since 2013. 
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Obituaries
Leonard Blackman
Leonard S. Blackman, 89, died November 1.
An Army veteran, he graduated Syracuse
University and earned a Ph.D. from the
University of Illinois. At Teachers College,
Columbia University, he was a professor,
acting dean, and ombudsman, and grant-
writer, and received the TC Medal for Distin-
guished Service.
He is survived by his wife of 66 years,
Frances; children, Julie (Mitchell), Gary
(Amy), and Mark (Leslie); a brother, Jay
(Marcia); grandchildren, Jed, Molly, Emma,
and Alyssa; step-grandchild, Kelly; cousins,
nephews, and nieces.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Fred Buchman
Fred Buchman, 84, of Fair Lawn, formerly
of Paterson, Bolivia, and Germany, died
November 1.
A licensed master plumber, he owned
Property Maintenance Service in Fair Lawn,
and was a life member of the New Jersey
Master Plumbers Association and the Pater-
son Master Plumbers.
Predeceased by his wife, Cecile, and a
sister, Lydia Praschnik, he is survived by a
daughter, Michele Gjini (Ted) of Paramus;
brothers, Arturo and Phil ( Jacki); and three
grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the American
Heart Association. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Paul Cohen
Paul Cohen of Cliffside Park, 91, died
October 28.
A Navy World War II veteran, he was an
executive in the textile business.
He is survived by his wife, Sonny, ne
Kurtzack; children, Barry of North Bergen
and Randi Kass of Edison; and grandchil-
dren, Matt and Chad.
Donations can be sent to Jewish National
Fund or Animal Rescue Fund. Arrange-
ments were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort
Lee.
Donald Greenspan
Donald Greenspan, 92, of Pompton
Plains, died November 7.
Predeceased by his wife, Renee, he
is survived by children, Michael (Debo-
rah), Debra Zuber (William), and Janet
Schenk (Donald); a sister, Doris Greens-
pan; seven grandchildren; and four
great- grandchildren.
Donations can be made to Jewish
National Fund. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Obituaries are prepared with
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Correcting errors is the responsibility
of the funeral home.
June Handler
June Handler, ne Moss, 94, of Hacken-
sack, formerly of Teaneck, died Novem-
ber 6.
She was a professor emeritus of early
childhood education at Kean University
and active in many activities and orga-
nizations. She was a founder of a group
of Bergen County Jewish, Christian, and
Muslim women who met and studied
together.
Predeceased by her husband, Mort,
she is survived by children, Roberta Pol-
ton (Richard), and Peter Handler (Karen
Singer); a sister, Beverly Moss Spatt ; a
sister-in-law, Hope Handler Punnett;
grandchildren, Maya, Maddy, Rachael,
Gabby, and Isaac; four great-grandchil-
dren; cousins, nieces, nephews, and
grand-nieces and nephews.
Services were at Temple Emeth in
Teaneck. Arrangements were by Gutter-
man and Musicant Jewish Funeral Direc-
tors, Hackensack.
Regina Silberminz
Regina Silberminz, 93, of Fair Lawn,
died October 30.
A Holocaust survivor, she was a for-
mer member of the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center and co-owned Lodi Modern
Bakery.
Predeceased by her husband,
Mayer, she is survived by a daugh-
ter, Toby Baskind (Alan); grandchil-
dren, David (Shoshana), Jennifer
(Adam), and Sharon ( John), and seven
great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum. Arrange-
ments were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Lilo Goldenberg Thurnauer
Lilo Goldenberg Ollendorff Thurnauer, ne
Lamm, 97, of Teaneck, died November 2.
Born in Germany, she studied in
Switzerland and England.
She was a medical secretary to her
husband, Norbert, writing his dictation of
restitution reports for patients from Europe
who had experienced the Holocaust. She
was active in Womens American ORT, UJA
Bergen County Womens Division, and
Israel Bonds, and supported the Weizmann
Institute of Science and Magen David
Adom. Her marriage to William Thurnauer
brought her to the Kaplen JCC Thurnauer
School, which she continued to support
after his death.
Predeceased by her husband of 34 years,
Dr. Norbert Goldenberg; her husband of 14
years, H. G. Ollendorff; and her husband of
six years, William Thurnauer; and a sister,
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FROM PAGE 9
Being hungry affects your
appearance, how you act.
19th and early 20th centuries, it was the
men who were the breadwinners, and the
ones eager to move in the larger world.
When Im hungry, Im not in the
Women stayed home and preserved Jew-
mood for anything. ish tradition. Men were the ones who con-
nected with the outside world.
Overall, Dr. Klein said, the great narrative
of these memoirs isnt as much about destruc-
tion as it is about betrayal. And like many
people who are betrayed, on a level perhaps
beneath the rage was the longing for accep-
tance that they still retained.
They know that their neighbors betrayed
them the neighbors with whom they
thought theyd shared basic assumptions and
values, who they at time thought of not only
as acquaintances but also as friends and
they knew that they couldnt go back, Dr.
Balfour
FROM PAGE 39
is Iraq today), and assigned Palestine a
condominium joint rulership. Rebellious
Inspired by Jewish values and ideals, MAZON is a national advocacy Arabs would be rewarded with swaths of
organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and Ottoman territory. Britain, of course, had
backgrounds in the United States and Israel. absolutely no intention of allowing its ally
any say or sway in Palestine once the war
ended. And British Jews had no appetite
Help us end hunger. for French rule anywhere.
Muddying the waters further, many times
Please donate today. Britain attempted to detach the Ottomans
from their German-Austrian partners by
putting Palestine into play, even after the
Balfour Declaration was issued. Ascendant
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pashas, using a notorious arms dealer as an
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Klein said. What they were feeling was not
nostalgia. Nevertheless, they want to form
relationships. And I conclude that what they
present to us is a conception of a society after
atrocity. A society where it is important both
to be suspicious of the neighbors and to long
for a relationship with them.
Thats what I call a negotiable society. It
means that we have to be constantly vigilant
in our world, but we cannot give up on it. We
cannot be innocent or gullible but we must
reconnect.
So did it work for the three memoir writers?
All were successful, but how did they reinte-
grate socially and emotionally? And were they
representative of the larger group of Jewish
intellectuals who survived the Shoah?
Hes not quite sure, Dr. Klein said. His book
ends in the 1960s. But there always is room
for more scholarship.
Britain continued to govern Mandatory
Palestine for nearly 30 years beyond Bal-
four. It was an uneven, sometimes harsh,
often exclusionary relationship, depend-
ing on the whims of the high commissioner
at the moment and the nature of domestic
politics in London. Jewish immigration
to the region was reduced to a trickle on
the eve of World War II, when it was most
needed, while Arabs grew more restive
in the interwar period, and violence with
Zionists became the norm.
Balfour, long term, roiled the waters
more than it calmed them. But it also paved
the way for a high-tech, vibrant Israel pros-
pering alongside an aggrieved, sullen, bifur-
cated Palestine. Much more will unfold
and much more will be written. Hopefully,
Schneer will help chronicle the drama.
Jonathan E. Lazarus is a former editor at
the Star-Ledger and a proofreader for the
Jewish Standard.
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the convenience factor. Then theres soup.
Nothing beats homemade. If you start with
a basic stock, you can save time with Dorot
frozen parsley or dill. Dorots herbs and
seasonings are always in season and ready
to use. You can save time with a variety of
dishes, from roasted potatoes with basil to
curried cauliflower with cilantro (recipe
follows). For soup, try Empire Butternut
Squash Soup (certified organic, no added
sugars, low fat, no artificial flavors or pre-
servatives and OU Kosher certified). Just
add some chunks of cooked squash into
the pre-made creamy bisque and you will
wow your guests. And theres no need to
share your secret.
Tip 2: Prep as much as you
can, as far in advance as
possible.
You can make homemade soup up to three
months ahead, freeze it, and forget about
it until a day or two before you need it.
(Most non-cream-based soups freeze well
as long as they dont contain potatoes or
pasta.) Another do-ahead dish: try pickled
beet salad, best when left to marinate over-
night, and if you use sweet Beetology Beets
its easy to prepare.
You can assemble multicomponent
dishes beforehand. Smoked Turkey Chest-
nut Challah Stuffing (recipe below) lends
itself well to pre-assembly. Do steps 1 and
2 the day before. Set the baked challah
cubes aside and then prepare the cooked
mixture, let it cool completely, cover, and
refrigerate. Gefens roasted chestnuts lets
you skip the roasting and peeling, and
Dorot frozen garlic saves another step. The
next day, just assemble the dish, add the
beaten eggs, and pop it in the oven.
For the gluten-free eaters, try Absolutely
Gluten Free Crackers. Crush them up with
Gefens roasted chestnuts, add some sea-
sonings, and bake on the side so your
guests with dietary restrictions dont feel
left out. Serve whole gluten-free crackers
with the meal instead of bread, or top with
bruschetta for a delicious appetizer.
Tip 3: Kosher.com offers tips
to keep your turkey tender.
If turkey is frozen, thaw thoroughly, rinse
inside and out with cool water, and pat
dry. Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
Fill the cavity with roughly chopped
onions, carrots, celery, 1 to 2 cubes of
Dorot frozen parsley, and an apple or
lemon if desired. Rub the dry skin with a
mixture of olive oil, a good pinch of salt,
pepper, and aromatics to taste favorites
include rosemary, thyme, marjoram, sea-
soned salt, and paprika.
Mold a breastplate of heavy-duty foil
across the breast, then set it aside. Place
turkey breast side up on a rack in a heavy-
duty, dark colored roasting pan.
Roast uncovered until the breast is
brown, about a half-hour, and apply the
breastplate.
Reduce oven to 350 degrees. Roast turkey
in the cooled oven until the internal tem-
perature reaches 160 degrees in the breast
and 180 degrees in the thigh. Remove from
oven (it will continue to cook) and let it
rest, covered with foil, for a half-hour.
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Smoked turkey chestnut challah stuffing

CHANIE APFELBAUM
Cooking stuffing inside the cavity
of a turkey has long been frowned
upon in the culinary world. The
idea of the stuffing soaking up all
the bacteria-laden juices does not
sit well with many. I love the idea
of turning the stuffing inside out
and putting smoked turkey inside
of it! It adds a delicious smoky
flavor and is practically a whole
meal-in-one.  CA
1 large leftover challah cut into
cubes
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 stalk celery, diced
1 carrot, diced
2 (3 1/2) ounce bags Gefen
roasted chestnuts
1 smoked turkey drumstick,
skinned, deboned, and
chopped
1/4 teaspoon dried sage
1 teaspoon dried thyme
salt and pepper, to taste
3 cups turkey or chicken stock
2 eggs, beaten
MAKE THE STUFFING:
Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
Spread out the challah on a
baking sheet and bake for 25
minutes. Set aside to cool. Heat
the olive oil in a medium-sized
pot and add the onion, garlic,
celery, and carrot. Saut until
soft and deeply caramelized,
about 10 minutes. Add the
chestnuts, turkey, sage, thyme,
and stock and bring to a boil.
Taste and adjust seasoning,
adding salt (if needed) and
pepper. Place the challah into
a large mixing bowl and pour
the stock and vegetables over
it. Stir until the ingredients are
well incorporated. Cool the
mixture for a few minutes and
then mix in the eggs. Pour the
stuffing into a greased 9 by 13
baking pan and bake at 350
degrees for 3045 minutes, un-
til stuffing is golden brown.
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Curried cauliflower
ESTEE KAFRA
I used fresh cauliflower for this
recipe, and cut the florets side-
ways into small trees, making a
pretty side dish. Frozen works
well, too, though. Dont be afraid
of the interesting spices the
flavor is mellow and not over-
powering. EK
MAIN INGREDIENTS:
1 head cauliflower or 1 (1
1/4 cup cilantro leaves (or
Italian parsley) for garnish
1/3 cup rice vinegar (I like the
seasoned one)
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon
sugar
1 tablespoon curry powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
(optional)
1 teaspoon kosher salt
Make the cauliflower:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
tro leaves in a jar with a tight
lid and shake vigorously to
combine.
Place cauliflower in a bowl,
pour on almost all the dressing,
and toss to combine.
Lay out cauliflower in a sin-
gle row on a baking sheet, and
bake uncovered for 45 minutes
(less if youre using frozen cau-
liflower). Sprinkle with the last
bits of remaining dressing and
the chopped herbs.
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pound) bag frozen Place all the ingredients except

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