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Israel’s Eurovision entry early favorite to win song contest
l It’s Eurovision season, and Israel’s entry
is getting the thumbs up from listeners and
bookmakers alike.
Netta Barzilai beat out 19 other Israeli
contestants in Israel’s pre-Eurovision contest,
singing “A-Ba-Ni-Bi,” which won the 1978
Eurovision contest. Israel last won Eurovision
in 1998. Barzilai, 25, usually performs in clubs
and at weddings.
But it’s not her voice that has given her top
odds at betting sites. Rather, it’s the song she
will sing at the contest on May 12: “Toy,” writ-
ten by Doron Medley and Stav Beger.
Potential voters across Europe have hailed
the song for its lyrics, which ride the tide of Netta Barzilai
the past year’s #MeToo campaign against
sexual harassment, as well as for its catchiness and some
quirks, which include chicken sounds and a chicken dance
by the idiosyncratic Barzilai.
The song also refers to Israeli Hollywood sensation Gal
Gadot, who starred in last summer’s blockbuster “Won-
der Woman.” The lyrics of the song’s chorus are: “Wonder
woman don’t you ever forget, you’re divine and he’s about
to regret. I’m not your toy, you stupid boy.”
The song has been called “current, catchy and powerful”
by British tabloid Metro, which adds that Netta “can own a
Candlelighting: Friday, March 16, 6:46 p.m.
“To me it felt like he was a Talmud
teacher and I was back in yeshiva.”
— Sam Nunberg, former Trump campaign aide and Ramaz School graduate,
describing his testimony before special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury.
“It was ‘boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.’ There was nothing subjective,” he added.
Gal Gadot puts Israel
graffiti artist on the map
l After he spent more than a decade
painting in the streets of Tel Aviv’s Neve
Tzedek neighborhood and sketching
caricatures on the city’s beach prome-
nade, an unlikely event recently cata-
pulted graffiti artist Elior Yosef into the
international spotlight — an Instagram
post by fellow Israeli Gal Gadot.
Yosef, 30, says the “Wonder Woman”
star discovered his work on Instagram
and began following him about three
months ago. A few exchanges between
the two led him to create a special paint-
ing on a skateboard featuring an acrylic
portrait of Gadot as Wonder Woman.
“She asked to see more of my art,
so I told her I would come to show her
a special piece,” Yosef says. “When I
showed up to bring it to her, her hus-
band asked me if I was a surfer and I
said, ‘This surfboard is not for surfing!’
Then I took it out of the case and they
were both wowed.”
Growing up by the beach in Neve
Tzedek, Yosef spent his childhood paint-
ing and drawing superheroes. When he
was 18, he began painting caricatures on
stage” and that audiences should “expect this
one to go big” in the contest.
Before the song was leaked a day before its
official release, “Toy” was ranked ninth, with
odds of 20 to 1 to win, according to a combi-
nation of several betting sites, including Lad-
brokes. After the release, it quickly climbed to
the top, with winning odds of 3 to 1. But not
all countries’ songs have been released yet.
Israel has won three times in the contest’s
60-plus year history. While votes are tallied
according to quality and performance, re-
gional geopolitics often also play a part, with
culturally or politically linked countries often
voting for each other.
Israel and Australia, which joined last year,
are the only non-European countries in the contest.
It’s the third year that a song by Doron Medley has been
chosen to represent Israel. He wrote “Golden Boy” for Na-
dav Guedj, the 2016 Eurovision contestant from Israel, and
“Made of Stars” for 2017’s Hovi Star.
“Toy” is almost entirely in English, with some Hebrew
words such as “ani lo buba” (“I’m not a puppet”).
Barzilai told the Israeli Eurovision site that she would love
nothing more than to win for Israel on its 70th birthday.
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the promenade, and eventually took to
painting on surfboards, cars, motorcy-
cles, clothing, and sneakers, he says.
His surfboard series combines stars
from “Justice League,” including Batman,
Superman, and Wonder Woman, with el-
ements from classic works by Leonardo
da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelan-
gelo, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso.
Each piece is one-of-a-kind and takes
about seven months to create, he says.
Yosef’s acrylic creations also incorpo-
rate sparkly objects such as Swarovski
crystals, fragments of perfume bottles,
and even diamonds.
Since his meeting with Gadot was
made famous on Instagram, Yosef says
many opportunities have emerged.
Though he can’t discuss all the details
yet, galleries in New York and Los Ange-
les have shown interest in his work. Col-
laborations are in the works with high-
end fashion companies, who have taken
interest in his paint-splattered jeans,
leather jackets, and sneakers painted
with intricate designs.
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Noshes
TV SERIES CATCH-UP:
Teacher serves
as inspiration
Two very different
TV series pre-
miered last Tuesday at 9
p.m. Over on NBC,
there’s “Rise,” a musical
drama based on the
nonfiction book “Drama
High” (2013). The
author, MICHAEL
SOKOLOVE, 61, grew up
in Levittown, Pennsylva-
nia, a blue-collar com-
munity that has been in
an economic slump for
decades. But it has had
at least one great thing
going for it: Lou Volpe, a
recently retired teacher
who ran a nationally
acclaimed theater
program at Levittown’s
only high school for 45
years. JOSH RADNOR,
43, stars in “Rise,”
playing a character, Lou
Mazzuchelli, who is
based on Volpe. Radnor,
the former star of “How
I Met Your Mother,” is a
practicing Jew and a
practicing musician.
Late last year, he
released a CD in collab-
oration with Australian
Jewish musician BEN
LEE, 39.
“For the People” is an
ABC series that focuses
on new lawyers work-
ing for the prosecution
and the defense as they
litigate criminal cases be-
fore the federal court in
New York City. BEN RAP-
PAPORT, 32, plays Seth
Oliver, a newly minted
assistant U.S. attorney.
The other tribe member
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in the cast, BEN SHENK-
MAN, 49, plays the head
of the federal prosecu-
tion unit. Rappaport, a
handsome fellow who
grew up in a religious
home in Houston, has ap-
peared in a few recurring
TV roles (including “The
Good Wife”). Shenk-
man, Dr. Sacani, was a
regular on the TBS com-
edy “Royal Pains” and
Emmy- nominated for his
performance in the HBO
production of “Angels in
America.”
At the movies:
‘7 Days at Entebbe’
“7 Days” is the fifth
movie to dramatize
the famous Israeli raid in
1976 that rescued 102
Israelis from captivity at
Uganda’s Entebbe
airport. The Israeli
prisoners had been
passengers on an Air
France plane that was
hijacked by four German
far-left radicals and
several Palestinians. The
film is directed by Brazil-
ian Jose Padilha, who is
best known for hit
Brazilian action pics and
for directing two
episodes of the Netflix
series “Narcos.” I’ll cut
here to the bottom line:
based on many film
festival reviews — don’t
waste your money on a
theater showing. But if
you are fascinated by
the raid, do rent it to get
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from his trump.org address) to Stormy Daniels’ attorney.
Michael Sokolove Josh Radnor
Ben Rappaport Ben Shenkman
another take. critics think the depic-
Leading reviewers tion of the Germans is
(“Hollywood Reporter,” too sympathetic. On the
“Variety,” “The Guardian,” other hand, the Palestin-
etc.) say that the film is ians, reviews say, are not
curiously flat. The most “gussied up.”. The best
controversial detail is part, all reviews agree, is
the death of raid leader the depiction of the ar-
YONI NETANYAHU (the guments between Prime
brother of the current Minister YITZHAK RABIN
Israeli prime minister) at and others about what to
the start of the raid and do. (Opens March 16)
not near its climax, as
many reports said — and Much better
the other films showed. late than never
Padilha says he relied A reliable source
on info from Entebbe just told me that I
raid commandos. Most failed to include a
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Rachel Morrison
notable Jewish Oscar
nominee in my recent
coverage: RACHEL
MORRISON, 39, the first
woman in Oscar history
to be nominated for the
(best) cinematographer
Oscar. Morrison was
nominated for shooting
“Mudbound.” She is
almost a cinch for
another Oscar nomina-
tion next year: she was
the cinematographer for
this year’s mega-mega-
hit “Black Panther.” Born
and raised in Cambridge,
Mass., the daughter of a
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
ST A N D A R D S
doctor, Morrison didn’t
have an easy childhood.
Her mother was diag-
nosed with breast
cancer when Rachel was
4 and died when she
was 14. Morrison told
Time magazine that she
turned to photography
and home movies to
capture her childhood’s
fleeting happy moments
and freeze them in time.
Morrison said that
she had to shoot 11 indie
films before she was
given a chance to shoot
a studio movie. Men,
she said, usually get a
studio gig after two or
three good indie films.
But there’s been prog-
ress, she says. Women
she’s mentored now get
a studio gig after two to
three indie films, like the
men. Her breakthrough
film was “Fruitvale Sta-
tion” (2013), a hit indie
film directed by African-
American Ryan Coogler,
who had another hit
with “Creed” and then
had the juice to make
“Black Panther” and to
hire Morrison to shoot a
big-budget comic-based
spectacular. Morrison is
the first woman to be the
cinematographer on this
type of film. There’s a
very good interview with
Morrison on Time maga-
zine’s website. It includes
a brief video with pics of
her family. Google: Time
Rachel Morrison Firsts.
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Mysteries and
Jewishness
Author Julia Dahl
among the three Strong
Women to speak at the
Kaplen JCC on Sunday
JOANNE PALMER

It’s possible that among the many ways to divide the world
into two, one of the best ways is by asking whether or not
you love murder mysteries.
Those of you who don’t, well, my condolences.
Those of us who do understand the way the genre (or
why give in to haters? The art form!), when done well,
fulfills our need for a story that has a beginning, a mid-
dle, and an end; novels that mix intuition with analytic
thought, and characters who have histories, motivations,
families, and voices, and who move through the real world
and encounter the situations and crises that deal with real
problems without getting didactic about them.
Then, of course, there are badly written mysteries;
we’re not dealing with them here. (Or, if possible, ever.)
In what is usually an entirely different category of
thought, there are the questions about Jewish identity
that bedevil many of us. What does being Jewish mean?
Can you be just ethnically Jewish? Culturally Jewish? The-
oretically Jewish? If you are halachically Jewish, what if
anything do you have to do to maintain your Jewishness?
Is it about religion? About DNA? What is it?
So imagine what a mystery-loving, Jewish-world-living
reader thinks when stumbling across a series of myster-
ies about a young reporter, the daughter of a long-van-
ished chasidic mother and a genuinely sweet, nurturing
Protestant father, who explores mysteries in the chasidic
community — mysteries involving both murder and iden-
tity — as she explores the Jewish world she is just begin-
ning to meet.
Julia Dahl — the author of the so-far three books about
the young journalist Rebecca Roberts, a freelancer who
lives in Brooklyn and works for the down-market Trib, a
thinly veiled pseudonym for the down-market New York
Post — will be among the three writers at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades’ “Sunday of Strong Women” this week-
end. (See box.)
First, the mystery part.
Ms. Dahl has loved mysteries as long as she can remem- Julia Dahl
ber, she said, although it was only about 10 years ago that
she realized that she could write them. “I started with the New School. Fine arts, though, includes literary nov- “My mother comes from Nashville,” Ms. Dahl said. “Her
Agatha Christie and Stephen King, before they were age- els, not mysteries. “So I wrote a literary novel,” she said. maiden name was Blum, and the other family name is
appropriate,” Ms. Dahl said. “And of course Nancy Drew; “It was terrible.” And then, in a bookstore, she picked up May. Being Jewish in Nashville is a family thing. My fam-
when I was growing up in the ‘80s, there was a reboot of a book by Gillian Flynn — it was her first novel, “Sharp ily is Reform, and they all go to the synagogue on Friday
cool Nancy Drews, and I would read, like two a day. Objects,” not her breakout work, “Gone Girl” — and “I night, and they all go to the Jewish day school there.
“In high school I decided that I wanted to be a writer, thought this is what I want to write. A creepy literary mys- “Being Jewish is at the center of their lives. And they’re
but it didn’t occur to me to wonder how someone could tery, where character and prose matter, and it is thrilling also big Zionists.
make a living as a writer. So when I did start to think about and dark and psychological. “Judaism and Israel are at the center of their lives.”
that, I got into journalism, and I loved it. And of course “And it all came together with ‘Invisible City.’” But things, as often happens, happened. “My mother
I’m still always reading mysteries, and also becoming That’s where the Jewish part comes in. was in California in 1970, and went on a blind date with
obsessed with Law and Order and NYPD Blue and Murder Like her heroine, Ms. Dahl is the daughter of a Jewish my father. They married, and her grandparents sat shiva
She Wrote. My brain has always been attracted to murder mother and a Protestant father; unlike her heroine’s par- for her. She never saw them again.”
mysteries.” ents, her own mother and father remain sturdily and hap- The Dahls live in Fresno. That’s where Julia grew up.
After college — Yale — Ms. Dahl also earned an MFA at pily married. SEE DAHL PAGE 9

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Ma’adan changes hands

Jonny Shore to take over Cedar Lane fixture
BANJI GANCHROW

Before Teaneck became known for its plethora of kosher

establishments, there was just one place for kosher consum-
ers, or for anyone who enjoyed good take-out. Ma’adan.
It’s 36 years later, now, and Ma’adan still is the crown
jewel of Cedar Lane — but its owners, Stuart Kahan and Yossi
Markovic, are passing the torch. This Teaneck treasure, with
its tried and true appetizers, tantalizing delicacies, and just
plain delicious comfort food, will now be under the owner-
ship of Jonathan “Jonny” Shore.
But do not fear, the cole slaw will be unchanged. All the
recipes are staying. And Stuart and Yossi aren’t going any-
where either, at least not yet.
Mr. Shore, who is originally from Montreal, has lived in
Teaneck with his wife and family for almost 10 years. No
stranger to the food industry, he has built his career work-
ing for various restaurants and kosher caterers. Though a
real state agent had approached him about buying Ma’adan
months before, after reading the Jewish Standard’s story
about its being for sale (“A Fulfilling Life in Food,” July 13,
2017), Mr. Shore had just started a new job and was not
interested.
Still, a seed was planted.
“I knew Stuart and Yossi from the community,” Mr. Shore
said. “I had gone to them for advice about catering and
ordering procedures when I had been part of other food
establishments. They were always so forthcoming and gra-
cious. I knew they were great guys and ran a great business.”
So, a few months later, after some encouragement from
close friends and family, Mr. Shore decided he wanted to
buy the business after all.
One reason for that decision was Ma’adan’s meaning to
the community, Mr. Shore said. “I had read the article in the
Standard and was especially drawn to the fact that Stuart Ma’adan’s old owners, Stuart Kahan, at left, and Yossi Markovic, flank new owner Jonny Shore. BANJI GANCHROW

and Yossi had wanted to stay on for a few years after the
sale. After our first conversation, it just felt right. I wouldn’t
just be buying a business, I would become part of a 36-year
system of great service and consistency.”
Mr. Kahan and Mr. Markovic have many reasons to want
to stay at Ma’adan for a bit longer. “Our wives aren’t ready
for us to retire,” they joked. “But seriously, it was very
important to us to make this process as seamless as possi-
ble,” Mr. Kahan added. “It’s easy to make a recipe, and we
have all of those recipes for Jonny, but it isn’t as easy to know
how much to order to make the recipe, how much to put
out, when the demand is for certain food item over others.
That comes from experience.”
And those are experiences that the seasoned experts are
happy to share with their new boss.
Mr. Markovic emphasized the importance of keeping the
transition as smooth as possible. “There are organizations
and people who depend on us, and we didn’t want to sell
to just anyone,” he said. “We have an emotional connection
to the store, because it has become our second home, and
because the community has let us in to their lives.
“We take that responsibility very seriously.”
“Ma’adan has done weddings, brisses, shiva house meals
— they have been an integral part of people’s lives,” Mr.
Shore said. “There is something very beautiful about that. I
just want to continue in that tradition.”
He knows about how important continuity in a business
can be to a community, he added; his father and uncle had
owned a pharmacy in Montreal for 60 years, so he has been
able to see that loyalty firsthand.
Ma’adan’s staff will stay in their jobs under the new own-
ership. As for any changes, Mr. Shore said, “Right now I am
focused on learning the business. The store is extremely
busy right before Passover, but after, when things quiet
down a bit, I will be able to learn the ins and outs of making
sure things run smoothly.
“But before I do anything, whether it’s making aesthetic
changes to the physical space, or adding new items to the
menu, I will be running it by Stu and Yossi.”
And what are Stuart and Yossi’s plans?
After they finally leave Ma’adan, “With God’s help, I am
hoping to travel, volunteer within the food industry, possi-
bly play the guitar and take ulpan,” Mr. Kahan said.
“For the past few years, on my Wednesdays off, I have
been entertaining residents of assisted living facilities with
my comedy,” Mr. Markovic said; he hopes to continue to do
that.
“We are confident that Jonny will do us proud and will
continue our legacy,” they both added.

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Dahl
FROM PAGE 6
“Both my parents are very religious,”
she said. “My dad was a lawyer, and he
was a deacon, but as soon as we went to
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world, the world from which her charac-
ter’s mother had fled, and to which she
remains somewhat connected.
“Growing up in Fresno, I had no idea
chasidim existed,” Ms. Dahl said. “There

college, he went to seminary. Now he’s
a pastor.” Her mother was active in her
synagogue.
“I grew up going to church and going
to synagogue,” Ms. Dahl said. “Doing
Easter and doing Passover. Both of my
parents were very religious, and we did
all of it. It was very normal to all of us.
“My parents found more similarities
than differences in their religions.
“For me, I dabbled in being both, and I
always asked myself what it means to be
Jewish,” she continued. Did she ask her-
self what it means to be Christian? No,
she said. “It seems simple. There’s less of
a question. Either you believe in Jesus as
the messiah and the savior or you don’t.”
Meanwhile, Ms. Dahl’s grandparents
moved to Fresno and became a vital
part of her life. “They lived down the
block from us, and I think they moved
just to be sure that we were Jewish. My
grandmother said, ‘There are enough
Christians in the world. We need more
good Jews.’”
Between them and her own under-
standing of what it means to be Jew-
ish, her identity seemed to settle on the
Jewish side (and according to halacha,
Jewish law, her mother being Jewish
makes her Jewish, no matter what else
also might be true). “I am not a super-
religious person,” Ms. Dahl said. “To me,
Jewish identity was more about history.
It almost felt like a privilege. At birth, I
was given the gift of being Jewish. Most
people don’t get that.”
So, she said, “The question of what it
means to be a Jew has always been part
of my life.”
Ms. Dahl is married now, and she has a
son. Her husband isn’t Jewish, so “what
it means to be Jewish will continue to be
a central question of my life.”
But it wasn’t a question she particu-
larly wanted to write about. She wasn’t
interested in a memoir. So instead, her
semi-autobiographical sort-of-alter-ego
investigated a mystery set in the chasidic
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wasn’t even Chabad there in the 80s.
And then I moved to Brooklyn, and had
the experience of signing a lease for my
apartment, and the landlord was cha-
sidic and he wouldn’t shake my hand. I
realized that we are the same people —
and we are not at all the same people. So
who are they?”
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Her interest was piqued. And then,
“I moved into an apartment where the SPEAKERS INCLUDE
man who had lived there right before me
had committed suicide,” Ms. Dahl said.
“He was gay; he had been chasidic, and
because he was gay, he was shunned by
the community.
“So I was living in this tiny apartment
where this man had lived and died, and Rabbi Efrem Rabbi Moshe Rabbi Dr. Shnayer
I had to know who he was. Who the Goldberg Hauer Leiman
chasidim were. That’s how the story
started.”
In her first book, “Invisible City,”
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world. In the second, “Run You Down,”
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upstate New York; the third, “Convic-
tion,” is set in Crown Heights and tog- Mrs. Lori Palatnik Mrs. Esther Wein Rabbi Moshe
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In all three books, Ms. Dahl’s take on
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Rebecca, set in lower Manhattan, that Rabbi Eliezer Breitowitz Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
centers around NYU rather than cha- Rabbi Moshe Elefant Rabbi Hershel Schachter
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tity behind. It’s not that she’s so deeply
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synagogue. I always have a big Passover Rabbi Judah Mischel Rabbi Mordechai Willig
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Local
How do your poems
sound in Korean?
Local poet finds out
LOIS GOLDRICH
A
ccording to Susan Amsterdam
— a longtime Ridgewood resi-
dent recently transplanted to
Midland Park — she was a bit
surprised when poet and publisher Stan-
ley Barkan approached her after a poetry
reading.
It was two years ago, and at Passaic
County Community College, and the gath-
ering was celebrating the launch of that
year’s Paterson Literary Review. Mr. Bar-
kan “didn’t really talk much,” Ms. Amster-
dam said. “He was just struck by the poem
I read.
“When they have launches, people
with poems published in the Review are
encouraged to read their work from it,”
she added. That’s what Ms. Amsterdam
was doing when Mr. Barkan approached
her for a “brief conversation,” she said.
“He said he wanted me to submit four
short poems, no more than a certain
length, for ‘Bridging the Waters 2.’
“I didn’t know what that was.”
Now, she not only knows what it is — a
poetry anthology, in Korean and in Eng-
lish — but two of her poems are included
in it, both as written and translated into
Korean. Ms. Amsterdam, who volunteers
as an ESL tutor at the Ridgewood Library,
has two Korean women as her students.
“I’m going to ask them to read my poems
in Korean so I can hear what they sound
like,” she said.
“The poems had to be short,” she con-
tinued. “Korean poets are represented
as well, and their poems are translated
into English. Even with the proviso about
length, the book runs to 628 pages.”
Ms. Amsterdam said she was “com-
pletely surprised” when she received a
Two poems by Susan Amsterdam, both first published in Lips
LOST
Lost is such a trivial word
I lost my husband
Not misplaced, forgotten or dropped like an umbrella in a storm
Literally lost, lost from my life
Gone — a gap beyond imagination
But today at the cemetery
I thought of the cosmos
And I said to my dead husband
Perhaps you’re like the supernova
Spewing energy, elements, atoms
After all, if the universe re-uses, recycles
Maybe your essence exploded from your grave
And I can breathe you in
12 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 16, 2018
copy of the book last week. “Generally
speaking, an editor will tell you within
6 months if your work is going to be
published,” she said. “After two years, I
assumed he wasn’t interested.” She also
was surprised by Mr. Barkan’s request
that she read her poems at the Yale Club
in Manhattan a few weeks ago. Appar-
ently, the publisher lines up the poets for
the club’s monthly readings. “There were
seven of us reading.
“The energy was so warm and friendly.
I’ve discovered at all the readings that
everyone is so enthusiastic about each
other’s work. I have found a generosity of
spirit in the poetry world as poets go out of
their way to compliment each other’s work
and invite each other to poetry events.”
When Susan and the late Marvin Amster-
dam moved to Ridgewood in 1973, they
immediately became active in the town’s
Temple Israel, Ms. Amsterdam said. “Until
his death in 2004, Marvin was active on
the board and on the bima as past presi-
dent and a lay leader, whose tekia gedola
is still remembered by longtime members
— although he preferred to be known as a
Torah reader. When we were honored by
the Temple in 1997, we created an endow-
ment fund that supports the purchase
of siddurim for the aleph class and now
serves as a living memorial to Marvin.”
She has worked in the cultural affairs
department at Passaic County Community
College for 24 years, helping to organize
many poetry events there, and participat-
ing in them as well. “But my main respon- Susan Amsterdam LUIS RUIZ
sibility is to administer the Theater and
Poetry Project, a grant-funded language children’s theater, free of charge, to stu- creative process.
arts enrichment program benefiting the dents who might never have the opportu- Another of her jobs is to provide poetry
Paterson public schools,” she said. nity to see it otherwise. She also facilitates writing workshops and a district-wide con-
Through that project, Ms. Amster- “meet the author” visits, providing stu- test culminating in a printed anthology,
dam provides high-quality professional dents with a personal connection to the an awards ceremony, and a reception.
“The entire 300-seat college theater
is packed with student poets, fami-
lies, and school personnel,” she said.
HEIRLOOM TALLIS “Naturally, not every child wants to be
My husband’s chant, so deep and resonant, a link to antiquity, a poet, but for some the experience of
To wooden synagogues decayed and cantors forgotten. using poetry as a means of self-expres-
Our shoulders touch in the sleek modern pew sion can be transformative.”
Warmth emanates from his heirloom tallis, The poem that appealed to Mr. Bar-
Age-darkened wool trimmed with silver threads. kan was a nostalgic piece about her
The tallis — a wedding gift to my father-in-law grandparents’ home, Ms. Amsterdam
From his own new father-in-law recalled. And one of the poems he
In a Polish shtetl a hundred years ago. accepted for the anthology was about
Today in our suburban temple a very old tallis. “I think he likes poetry
My husband wears the tallis that has a touch of yiddishkeit in it,”
Bearing history in every strand and sequin. she reflected, though the anthology is
He leans toward me with a whisper far from a religious volume. She also
And I feel his immaculate beard against my cheek thinks he likes the kind of poetry she
And smell his sweet breath writes, which “is clear, accessible, and
Redolent of breakfast. you can understand what the poet is
saying. I took a fast look at the Korean
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Mr. Barkan and Ms. Amsterdam had met before,
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executive director of the college’s cultural affairs
department and head of its poetry center. Mr. Barkan,
a friend of Ms. Gillan’s as well as a poet, publisher, and
translator, had attended many of the center’s events.
“He has published 400 titles in 50 languages,” Ms.
Amsterdam said; Mr. Barkan also is the editor and
publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications, she
added. “Bridging the Waters” is co-published by a
Korean publishing company seeking to “contribute to
the globalization of Korean literature,” according to a
blurb on the book’s flap. Korean contributions include
poems from Korean Americans.
Ms. Amsterdam, who considers herself “a very pri-
vate person,” said, “It never occurred to me to have
people I don’t know” reading her poetry. While she
wrote a lot when she was young — “I was the kid who
always wrote the bunk pages and the camp yearbook”
— “I hadn’t written poetry in years,” she said. When
her husband was terminally ill, “Life turned, every-
thing changed, and not in a good way. Writing poems
was a way to process my emotions and release them
by creative means.
“One of my earliest memories was of telling my
mother that I liked a particular book,” she recalled.
“We were library-goers, a bookish household. She
said if I liked the book, I should read other books by
the same author. I still remember it as a light-bulb
moment. It didn’t occur to me that books were not Meet Dr. Eitan Okun, head of the Paul E. Feder Alzheimer’s Disease
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Let all who are hungry

Fair Lawn food pantry opens as food insecurity grows
Lois Goldrich

For most of us, the question of what to

eat for breakfast, or lunch, or dinner,
is simply one of decision-making. We
know that the food is there. We simply
have to choose what to eat.
For a growing number of local fami-
lies, however, the question is very dif-
ferent. Their problem is not what to
eat but how to get the food they need,
for themselves and for their families.
The problem of food insecurity is
growing, and the majority of families
that need assistance are working fami-
lies with children. That’s true even
when both partners are employed. It is
not surprising, then, that Jewish Fam-
ily and Children’s Services has opened
a second food pantry, this one in Fair
Lawn. (The other one is in Teaneck.)
Jessica Fleischer, JFCS’s chief oper-
ating officer, said that “the impetus
for opening the Fair Lawn pantry”
— it opened on Wednesday, March 14
— “was our own clientele” from that
area. In January 2017, JFS of Bergen
and North Hudson, headquartered
in Teaneck, and JFS of North Jersey,
which covered Fair Lawn and Wayne, merged to form Jew- year, the number of households was a food pantry manager and staffed by
ish Family and Children’s Services of Northern New Jersey. 140. The year before, it was 128. This Americorps VISTA volunteers. “As an
Clients who need food assistance have been recognized includes people from all over the area. agency, we are incredibly honored and
through clinical situations, Ms. Fleischer said. “We didn’t “If you stick a pin in Teaneck on a map, humbled to provide this service to the
set out to look for it,” she added, noting that the topic sim- the families are coming from a 10-mile community,” Ms. Fleischer said, and
ply arose during the provision of services or counseling radius,” she said. Clients may be self- “we’re hopeful and optimistic” that the
through the agency’s mental health clinic. Some clients, referred, come through the agency’s venture will be successful.
the agency’s staff has found, suffer from food insecurity. own clinical or job readiness programs, Fair Lawn’s Mayor Lisa Swain said
Others are experiencing “real hunger.” or be referred by other agencies. she is happy to welcome the new pan-
Ms. Fleischer said the problem “cuts across the board. The Teaneck pantry is “stocked like a try. “Many people today are in need of
The first 10 clients [at the new pantry] will probably supermarket,” she said. “Families shop extra help from time to time, and we are
include three or four seniors and six or seven families with for what they need.” In addition, since grateful these services are conveniently
children. That is what we’ve experienced in Teaneck. it’s by appointment only, and only one located in Fair Lawn and will provide
“The majority who come in are working adults,” she person shops at a time, people’s privacy much-needed assistance,” she said.
said; the community does not have the problem of chronic and dignity are respected. “We provide Rabbi Andrew Markowitz, associ-
unemployment, she added. But insufficient income, “com- one person with enough time to come ate rabbi at Fair Lawn’s Congregation
bined with rather significant decreases in food stamps,” and go,” she said. “There is nobody who Jessica Fleischer Shomrei Torah, said that the syna-
has caused the problem to increase. She noted that one comes who doesn’t need it.” gogue and the Fair Lawn community
senior gets food stamps — but now it’s been reduced and When clients come, the agency takes the opportunity to “are lucky” to have the services of the new pantry. “Unfor-
he receives only $13 a month. do a thorough assessment of them, reviewing employment, tunately, the needs of our community are great and JFCS
Rather than advocate for increased benefits, “our budget, and what a sustainability plan might look like. provides important leadership in bringing these critical
strength as an agency is to help clients advocate for “We’ve also started offering meal replacement snack services to our community.
themselves,” Ms. Fleischer said. She noted, however, bags for clinical clients — any day every day,” Ms. Fleischer “In the Ha Lachma Anya paragraph of the Passover
that JFCS does participate as an agency in advocacy orga- said. “We consulted a nutritionist. Kids were coming in seder, we recite ‘This is the bread of affliction our ances-
nizations when it’s appropriate. “If benefits are denied, hungry. It’s open to everyone — we would give it to any- tors ate in the land of Egypt. Let all who are hungry come
we will help clients file appeals, go to meetings with one who asked — but 25 percent of our child clients have and eat,’” he continued. “This declaration is made at
them, or sit with them during phone calls,” she said. “It’s requested snack packs.” the beginning of the seder to teach us that a Jew cannot
person-to-person advocacy.” Ms. Fleischer said the pantries get their food in sev- feel free at his seder unless he or she has ensured that
The agency has seen the need to open a second food eral ways. “We’re blessed to have communal partners everyone has enough to eat for the holiday. The notion of
pantry for the last two years, Ms. Fleischer said. “We’re — synagogues and other organizations — do fundraising ensuring that ‘all who are hungry come and eat’ applies
only a year into our merger. It was one of our goals.” In on our behalf. We’re also a partner of the Community all year round.
the meantime, she said, JFCS has referred people in need Food Bank of New Jersey and get direct donations.” JFCS “We at Shomrei Torah look forward to continuing our
to the Food Action Center. “All pantries work together,” is hoping to put in a fridge and freezer in its Teaneck partnership with JFCS on this and other worthy projects
she said. “We refer clients back and forth and share office so it will be able to offer meat, dairy, and eggs, “if in the future,” Rabbi Markowitz added.
resources.” we can get it.” For more information, or to become involved in the Fair
Ms. Fleischer said that this year, the agency antici- The Fair Lawn pantry initially will offer only dry goods, Lawn Food Pantry project, email the food pantry’s man-
pates serving about 195 households, or 1,500 clients. Last because it will not have a refrigerator. It will be run by ager, Sari Schnipper, at saris@jfcsnnj.org.

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Coming to America
Exchange program brings 12 Israeli
high schoolers to homes near you
LARRY YUDELSON
They’re here.
Well, they’re expected to be here. At
press time we don’t know that they actu-
ally arrived.
They are a dozen high school students
from Nahariya. During their week here —
scheduled to begin on Thursday, March
15 — they will visit Jewish and non-Jewish
schools, New Jersey malls and Manhattan
tourist attractions, and — perhaps most
importantly — make friends.
They’re half of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey’s Scott Pazer STEM
Exchange Program. The other half will be
18 students from the Bergen Academies,
who will go to Israel in May.
This is the second year for the exchange
program, but the first year that it bears
Scott Pazer’s name. It was just endowed by
the family of Scott Pazer, a college student
who died suddenly 33 years ago.
“We are beyond thrilled to be receiving
the Pazers’ grant,” Franci Steinberg said.
Ms. Steinberg chairs the federation’s Part-
nership 2Gether committee, which over-
sees the federation’s cooperation with its
Israeli sister city, Nahariya.
Ms. Steinberg lives in Tenafly, as does
Scott’s sister, Dina Bassen, who also is
involved with the federation. Ms. Bassen
told her mother, Shelly Pazer, who was
Scott’s mother, about the STEM exchange
program.
“She knew for quite a while that I was
looking for the right venue to memorial-
ize her brother,” Ms. Pazer said. “She said,
‘Mom, maybe the federation would be a
wonderful way to make this donation.’ I
said ‘Now is the time.’ Because it was such
an emotional thing for me, I would often
procrastinate ridiculously.
“I know the federation does wonderful
things. I thought it would be a perfect way
to memorialize and honor Scott.”
Once the idea was put forth, Dina’s sis-
ter, Lisa Pazer, also was on board.
Last year, Ms. Steinberg hosted some
of the Nahariya high school students who
came on the exchange program.
“They were adorable,” she said. “We
had them in our homes for a week. We
loved having them.
“They’re very worldly. They bring a
background that we don’t have in Amer-
ica. They have different ideas and customs.
They’re different — but they’re the same.”
Ms. Steinberg isn’t hosting any students
this year. “We want to give the opportunity Israeli Air Force
to other families,” she said. cadets from
Her advice for this year’s hosts: “Enjoy Nahariya visit the
their company. Sit down to dinner and lis- Frisch School in
ten to them and learn about their culture. Paramus as part of
Enjoy being with them. Learn what they last year’s STEM
do at home.” Exchange Program.
Ms. Steinberg’s daughter, Simone, is in
high school, a year behind last year’s visi-
tors, and she was struck by the different
life paths girls in the two countries face.
“They go into the army before college,”
she said. “It’s their way of life. They’re
focused on that. They lead a little bit of
a difficult life, they know it, and they’re
proud of it.
“They loved the shopping. Every group
that comes wants to go to an American
mall, which is so funny. They love how
everything is so accessible — the shopping, Facebook names and all the messaging since they’ve been back in Israel. That’s
the clothes, the food. and they start talking to each other. Before what we’re looking for.
“They love American kids. Once they you know it they’re friends forever. My “The cultural exchange and friendship —
meet the kids, they start exchanging daughter has been talking with these kids that will be forever.”

Remembering Scott Pazer
LARRY YUDELSON
In hindsight, his family learned that
something was very wrong with Scott
Pazer’s heart.
Nineteen years old, a sophomore
at Tufts University, he didn’t wake up
one morning, 33 years ago.
“He died from acute arrhythmia,
very much like the sudden death of
infants,” his mother, Shelley Pazer,
who lives on Long Island, said.
“He was a very hardworking, intel-
ligent young man who had an affin- Scott Pazer
ity with all sorts of people,” she said.
“He was principled. He had many convictions. If I had
ordered him from a catalog, I couldn’t have had a more
wonderful young man as a son.
“When I went to Tufts after he died
for a memorial service the students
organized, they said ‘Scotty was our
rabbi.’ People would come to him
with their problems. He listened to
people. He had a lot of empathy. He
was wise beyond his 19 years.”
He also was an avid jogger.
“He would jog in any sort of
weather,” his mother said. “He was
extremely disciplined. He had a won-
derful sense of humor. He was always
like president of his class. He was
president of his middle school.”
His mother has a story about “how low key he was.
“He was about 12 or 13,” she said. “I knew there was
an election. I looked out the window when he came
off the school bus. He had a very dour expression. He
walked in. I didn’t want to pounce on it. I assumed he
didn’t win. He said, ‘Aren’t you going to ask your son
what happened in the election? I won. I’m president.’
“He didn’t want to make a big thing out of it. I think it
was also a way of teasing me.
“He was the star on the debating team.
“One summer, Scott got himself a job with a landscap-
ing family. They were all men of the soil, working very
hard. He liked it. At the end of the summer they said to
him, ‘Who knew a Jewish kid from Dix Hills could work
so hard?’”
He took up jogging when he was 13.
“He decided he wanted to lose weight,” Ms. Pazer
said. “There was no drama. He just did it. Then he
became very very slim. He was very very proud. He
ran marathons. He did very well. But he never, never
bragged.”

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Briefly Local

Areyvut breakfast is this Sunday

Areyvut will be hosting its annual break-
fast on Sunday, March 18. Billy Cook of
Washington Township, founder of Billy’s
BASEballs, is among the honorees. Janet
Hod of Teaneck, will receive Areyvut’s
Community Leadership award.
The nonprofit that Billy Cook, a high
school junior, runs aims to provide cheer
to military troops home and abroad. Peo-
ple write and draw messages on baseballs
that he then sends to U.S. troops. He is a
member of Temple Beth Or in Washing-
ton Township. The organization stemmed
from his bar mitzvah project.
In the 27 years that Janet Hod has
lived in Teaneck, she has volunteered for
many organizations including Friends of
Lubavitch, Bikkur Cholim, and the Great
Big Challah Bake, all of Bergen County; the
Teaneck Food Pantry and the Young Israel
of Teaneck. In addition, she uses the box-
ing skills she developed as a former junior
boxing champion to volunteer at the boxing
program at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
The breakfast is at 9:30 a.m., at Con-
gregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck.
Areyvut is a New Jersey-based non-profit
dedicated to the core Jewish principles
of chesed, tzedakah, and tikkun olam.
For information, to make a reservation
or donation, call (201) 244-6702 or email
info@areyvut.org.

Judith Jaffe, left, director of congregational learning at Shomrei Torah

Conservative Congregation in Wayne, and Grace Gurman-Chan, educa-
tional director at the United Synagogue of Hoboken, next to her, were
among the participants at conference in Israel. PHOTO PROVIDED

JEA holds annual conference in Israel

The Jewish Educators Assembly, The conference aimed to give par-
the Conservative movement’s orga- ticipants a better understanding of
nization for professional educators, what Israelis face in their everyday
PHOTO PROVIDED

held its 66th annual conference lives, Israel’s accomplishments and

Woodcliff Lake shul
represented at AIPAC
Members of Temple Emanuel of the Pas-
cack Valley attended the AIPAC confer-
ence in Washington from March 3 to 6.
Top row, from left, Jeff Pittel, Josh Cohen,
Jeff Cohen, and Richard Wilkes. Robert
Walsky, Liz Stewart, Cantor Alan Sokoloff,
in Israel. The gathering brought technological achievements, and a
together congregational school edu- look back at history. Some participants
cation directors, bureau and agency continued on to Prague to learn about
personnel, and family and informal the Jewish community there, visit the
educators from across North Amer- synagogues of the old Jewish quarter,
ica and Israel. and stop at the Terezin ghetto.
Todd Stewart, Marty Prince, Larry Feiler,
Brian Feiler, and David Cantor are in the
middle row, and Simone Wilker, Norma
Walsky, Serena Steinfeld, Susan Prince,
Geri Cantor, and Sheryl Pittel are in
the front.

JCT lecture on women’s talmud Torah

The first annual Sara Lamm Dratch a’h Memorial
Lecture was held last month at the Jewish Center of
Teaneck. Jackie Rosensweig spoke about the histori-
cal development of women’s talmud Torah from the
Bais Yaakov movement to opening of talmud study for
women. A large audience of women and men attended
the lecture. A question-and-answer period followed.
Sara Lamm Dratch, a beloved wife, mother, sister,
and aunt who died five years ago, was the daughter of
Rabbi Dr. Norman and Mindy Lamm.
Communicating art and soul
Lubavitch on the Palisades celebrated thought, giving insight and practical
Jackie Rosensweig the graduation of participants in its ways to enhance communication with
 MICHAEL LAVES adult education course, “Communica- our spouses, children, and friends in
tion: Its Art and Soul,” led by Rabbi Mor- this technologically advanced age. Class
dechai Shain, pictured, with the class. recordings and upcoming classes can
Rockland Jewish Family Service The six-week course compared scien- be found at www.chabadlubavitch.org/
tific discovery with traditional Jewish adulteducation.
to be honored Sunday
The Nanuet Hebrew Center’s annual jour- Rockland Jewish Family Service, recipi-
nal awards ceremony and brunch recep- ent of the Stanley Blumenthal Community
tion is on Sunday, March 18, at 9:30 a.m., Service award. There will be an online Keep us informed
at the Rockleigh. This year’s honorees journal. For information call the shul We welcome photos of community events. Photos must PR@jewishmediagroup.com
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include Adam Sayer and Bruce Pollack, office at (845) 708-9181 or e-mail journal@ caption and a daytime telephone. Mailed photos
NJ Jewish Media Group
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Briefly Local

Abby and Scott Herschmann and family Dana Septimus and Joseph Nini Berger and family Eli and Shoshi Hason
Feldman and family

Moriah celebrates annual dinner at Metlife Stadium

The Moriah School in Englewood held its Joseph Feldman were the Young Leader- The program opened with the Moriah clubs.
53rd annual dinner on motzei Shabbat on ship awardees, and teachers Nini Berger choir, followed by a welcome from Mori- Alen Gollender and Alex Solomon were
March 3 at Metlife Stadium in East Ruth- and Shoshi Hason received Rabbi J. Shelley ah’s board president, Aaron Yunis. Next, the dinner campaign co-chairs, and Nira
erford. Nearly 700 came to celebrate the Applbaum z”l Service awards. More than the head of school, Daniel Alter, pre- Feldman, Shira Forman, Talia Gollender,
school. Abby and Scott Herschmann were $1.2 million was raised for Moriah’s schol- sented “Moriah Moments.” Dinner was Rachel Heumann, and Lisa Schechter were
the guests of honor, Dana Septimus and arship and financial aid programs. served in one of the stadium’s field-access the dinner co-chairs.

NJ elders organize vigil against gun violence

Residents of the Jewish Home Family, “As elders, we wish to step up and add tragedy,” the Jewish Home Family’s presi- the same way, bringing together residents,
which includes the Jewish Home at Rock- our voices to the effort to address school dent and CEO, Carol Silver Elliott, said. families, visitors, and staff in a national
leigh and the Jewish Home Assisted Living violence and increased violence in our “Our residents want to express their con- moment of silent unity. In this way, we
in River Vale, have united with their peers society,” reads a statement from the resi- cern and want to step forward as grand- will mourn the senseless loss of life and
nationwide to hold a vigil against gun vio- dent activists. “We will honor those whose parents and great grandparents, focused express our support for positive change.”
lence on the eve of the national March For lives have been lost and add our support on protecting our youth. We can’t join The Jewish Home Assisted Living is at 685
Our Lives in Washington. They will come to the movement for change,” Helaine the marches that are taking place. It’s just Westwood Ave. in River Vale, and the Jew-
together on Friday, March 23, at 2 p.m., for Glantz, who lives at the Jewish Home not possible for our older adults, many of ish Home at Rockleigh is at 10 Link Drive in
a moment of silence and reflection at both Assisted Living, said. whom have difficulty walking. So we are Rockleigh. It is necessary to make reserva-
campuses. The vigil will coincide with the “All of us, staff and residents alike, expressing ourselves in another way, join- tions to go to the rally, which requires tight
“March for our Lives,” which will be held have been thinking and talking about the ing older adults in other senior commu- security. RSVP to sbuchwald@jewishhome-
in many cities nationwide on March 24. issue of gun violence and the latest school nities, holding a vigil at the same time, in family or call (551) 444 3183.

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from foreign interference. Bill Nelson is serving his
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Rockland
Where the Jewish films are
Rockland film festival comes to Nanuet in April
Larry Yudelson she said. “When I saw that, I brought this up to our CEO. It

T
he Israeli baseball team. Martin Landau’s last film.
Hedy Lamarr, the gorgeous Hollywood actress,
Austrian refugee, and scientist who invented the
radio technology that underlies WiFi networks.
Elliot Gould. Sammy Davis Jr. Comedies and dramas. Stories
of life before, during, and after World War II.
Yes, it’s a film festival — specifically the 15th annual Rock-
land Jewish Film Festival — 18 films coming to Rockland
County in April. Most playing at the Regal in Nanuet; all
accompanied by speakers waiting to field questions after
the presentation.
And if you find yourself going out to Jewy movies night
after night this spring, you’ll have Micki Leader of Orange-
burg to thank. Ms. Leader came up with the idea for the film
festival, convinced the Rockland JCC to take it on, served as
the chair, and then, after “retiring” from the time-consum-
ing volunteer position to become chairperson emerita, is
back in the saddle this year, leading the coordination of the
$80,000 project.
It was 16 or 17 years ago that Ms. Leader, a member of the
board of the JCC, was reading a publication of the national
JCC Association which had a feature “about how young Jew-
ish people who had no affiliation with synagogues or any
Jewish organizations were getting their culture, history, and
current events information largely from film and television,”
took over a year to convince them to do it. I learned it by the
seat of my pants.”
She took to calling the directors of Jewish film festivals
around the country — New York, Baltimore, the San Fran-
cisco Jewish Film Festival, which was the first in the country
in 1980 — and asking: How do we start one?
“We got a tremendous amount of help from the film festi-
val community,” she said. “It’s grown from there every year.”
Back in 2004, movies still arrived on 35 millimeter film.
Now the film festival team previews films on DVDs or Blue
Ray disks on a 50 inch TV screen at the JCC; the films are
screened in the theater on Digital Cinema Package hard
drives, with Blue Rays for emergency backup. ( Over the
years, Ms. Leader has learned that “Whatever can go wrong
will go wrong.”)
This year, the volunteers on the programming commit-
tee watched some 70 films. How do they find out about the Micki Leader
new ones? Distributors suggest some of them; they learn
about others from other festivals. The San Francisco film Alison Chernik will introduce her film, Itzhak, about
festival kicks off the season in July. “We look at what they’re Izhak Perlman. Ms. Chernick is a Rockland native: She
showing. That’s when we start to request our screeners,” grew up in New City and went to Clarkstown High
Ms. Leader said. School. For the opening night of the film festival, on
A variety of factors come into play in the selection deci- April 3, the three men who made the film “Heading
sions. There’s an effort to balance foreign and American Home,” about the Israeli baseball team, will speak
films. “This year we have more English films than ever about it.
before,” Ms. Leader said; that’s because the programming But when the filmmaker is in Japan or Israel or even
team has heard many com- California, it can be trickier. There’s the matter of the
plaints about too many sub- budget again.
titles. There’s also the ques- “We try to get people who are local to the metropoli-
tion of cost. Many film festivals tan area,” Ms. Leader said. “You do a lot of research.
demand entry fees from film- You ask a lot of people.”
makers, Jewish film festivals So for “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story,” the dis-
seek to nurture Jewish culture tributor connected them to Fleming Meeks, the jour-
by paying rental fees for the nalist whose 1990 interviews with Ms. Lamarr are at
films they screen. Some films, the center of the film.

L ’ Shana
though, are too expensive for How many people come to the film festival? More

L ’ Shana
Rockland’s budget. than 5,000 last year, Ms. Leader said.
And then there is the matter “It’s a celebration of global Jewish life,” Ms. Leader
of getting a speaker to go with said. “It’s history, complexity, and culture. An incred-

Tovah!
the film. ible diverse number of films and an incredible diverse

Tovah!
“The introductions by the number of attendees. We get people from New Jersey
producers, directors, writers, and Westchester and even New York City.”
or actors are wonderful. The Q When you go from New Jersey to Manhattan for
& A, the energy — that’s what a film festival — or anything else — you have to pay
makes it a film festival!” Ms. tolls. To go to Rockland from New Jersey is free. And
Leader said. so is parking.
Wishing you a sweetyou
Wishing newa sweet
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the right speaker. Filmmaker
Most films show in Regal Films in Nanuet. “It’s
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Itzhak Perlman’s inspiring musical journey captured

in documentary to play in Rockland next month
Curt Schleier life, from his birth in Tel Aviv and his early

I
tzhak Perlman, arguably the most
famous violinist in the world, has
heard plenty of questions in his
50-year career.
But when asked if his religious her-
itage has affected his playing, he
sounds stumped.
“I’m a violinist. I’m Jewish, so that
makes me a Jewish musician,” he said in a
recent phone call from Singer Island, Flor-
ida, where he is to perform at a benefit.
“I’m a musician who just happens to be
Jewish. When I play klezmer ... “
He doesn’t get to finish the thought
because he is interrupted by Toby, his wife
of more than 50 years. “I think that’s not
struggle with polio, to his appearance on
“The Ed Sullivan Show,” to the enormous
concerts he has played around the world —
but it inevitably appears.
In one scene, he shares a Shabbat meal
with his children and grandchildren. (He
never travels or performs on Friday eve-
nings.) In another, shot in Israel, he takes
director Alison Chernick, who grew up in
New City, on a tour of the many streets
named for famous figures in Israeli and
Jewish history. Then there’s a visitor, a
friend from Boston, who worries that the
pickles she brought as a gift don’t have the
Kosher K on their label. Itzhak Perlman, shown in a scene from the documentary “Itzhak,” endured hard-
The film is most interesting when it ships to become arguably the most famous violinist in the world.
shows Perlman in private moments, often  Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment

true,” she says in the background. “I think
you’re the embodiment of a Yiddle with
a fiddle.”
Perlman, 72, is the subject of a new doc-
umentary, “Itzhak,” which opens soon and
will play in Rockland, at the Regal Theater
in Nanuet, on April 11. His Jewishness is not
front and center — the film spans his entire
in conversation with Toby. The pair met at
a music camp, and after hearing him play
just once, Toby went to Itzhak’s bunk and
proposed to the Israeli virtuoso, then 17. “I
was hopelessly in love with him,” she says
in the film. Perlman had one other girl-
friend after that, but eventually he came
back to her, and they have been married
since 1967.
At one point in the film, Toby points out
that a note he played was out of tune.
“About his playing, nobody else is going
to be honest with him,” she said. “Every-
one is going to tell him ‘you’re so great.’
I’m going to say ‘you’re so great,’ too. Do
I think he’s the greatest? Yes. But if he’s
sharp, or I believe I see a bad habit that
has crept into his playing, I’ll tell him.
I’m truthful.”
Perlman hasn’t encountered much criti-
cism of his playing over the decades. He
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Celebrating Passover in Montebello

Congregation Shaarey Israel offers a The shul is at 18 Montebello Road,
full schedule of Passover services and in Montebello. All are welcome.
94 Demarest Mill Road, Nanuet, NY 10954
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Phone (845) 10954
623-5800 Fax (845) 623-6921 events. A community seder led by Can- For information and seder reserva-
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Happy Passover OU director speaking in Monsey

The Community Synagogue of Monsey
and the Stern family invite the commu-
Happy Chanukah nity to the 21st annual Israel and Pearl
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 Israeli rescue workers stand over victims’ bodies at the scene of a Palestinian suicide

Cover Story
bombing on a passenger bus in Jerusalem on June 18, 2002. Yossi Zamir/Flash 90

Running out of time

American survivors of suicide bombings in Israel
hope against hope that Supreme Court will take their case
Joanne Palmer Massachusetts — says yes, according to the Pentagon, who also wrote a brief in favor in Cedarhurst, one of Long Island’s Five

S
hould victims of suicide bomb-
ers who were wounded, or whose
family members were murdered,
during the second Palestinian inti-
fada be able to get damages from the PLO
and the Palestinian Authority?
The lower court said yes. The appellate
court said no. Now it’s up to the Supreme
Court.
Should it take the case? A group of 23
senators — a bipartisan group ranging from
Ted Cruz, right-wing Republican of Texas,
to Elizabeth Warren, left-wing Democrat of
amicus brief it filed.
So does the entire House of Represen-
tatives, according to a unanimous amicus
brief it filed.
So does a group of former high-ranking
federal officials that includes retired Con-
necticut senator Joseph Lieberman, for-
mer Republican attorneys general John
Ashcroft and Dick Thornburg, and one-
time FBI director Louis Freeh.
So does Ted Olsen, who was George W.
Bush’s solicitor general, whose first wife,
Barbara, was killed in the plane hijacked
on September 11 and flown into the
of the plaintiffs.
So does Noam Sokolow, the Teaneck
restaurateur and local entrepreneur
whose brother Mark is the named plain-
tiff in the case.
But that’s not a view shared by the Justice
Department, whose solicitor general, Noel
J. Francisco, wrote an amicus brief urging
the Supreme Court not to take the case.
So what’s going on here?
Noam Sokolow remembers sitting at
home on Sunday, January 27, 2002. He’d
gotten a call from a friend, asking how his
brother Mark was. His brother, who lives
Towns, and who had ironically, terrify-
ingly, mind-bogglingly survived the Sep-
tember 11 terrorist attacks — he’d been on
the 37th floor of the south tower, and got
out just in time, before the second plane
hit and that second tower collapsed — was
in Israel, with his wife and two younger
daughters, visiting their oldest daughter,
who was spending her gap year in Jeru-
salem. “Why?” Noam remembers asking?
What could possibly be wrong? “Turn on
the news,” his friend advised. And there he
saw that there had been a suicide bomber,
the first woman to kill herself in that way

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in Jerusalem, just outside a shoe store on abroad. So an American killed or injured

the Jaffa Road.
A victim had died in that attack; Pinhas
Toklatli, an 81-year-old painter, fifth-gen-
eration Jerusalemite, husband, father, and
grandfather. (If you have a really strong
stomach, google images of him. You’ll see
what a suicide bombing victim looks like.
Newspapers didn’t use these photos — cer-
tainly we wouldn’t, couldn’t, shouldn’t —
but they are unvarnished.)
Mark Sokolow, his wife, Rena, and
their daughters Lauren and Jamie all
Money cannot
bring back the
dead or undo
physical or
psychological
by an act of terrorism abroad can bring
suit in an American court. Of course, you
have to be able to serve someone, but as
long as that person is served under the
provisions of the act, you can bring suit.
“For example, if ISIS were to kill an
American in Iraq — you can’t serve ISIS in
the United States, so you can’t sue them in
the United States. But the PLO has a U.S.
presence; it has a presence in New York,
and the United States gives the Palestinian
Authority millions of dollars every year, so
it seemed ludicrous that they should not
be able to be sued in the United States.”
So the 11 families served and sued the PA
and the PLO, and it went to trial.
“Throughout the trial and the pre- and
post-trial arguments and briefings and
motions, the PLO raised the jurisdiction
issue, and Judge Daniels kept striking it
down,” Mr. Sokolow said. That was Judge
George B. Daniels, who presided over a civil Four Sokolows together — from left, Rena, her husband, Mark, Mark’s brother,
trial in a federal district court in Manhattan. Noam, and Noam’s wife, Shelly. Noam and Shelly live in Englewood.

damage, but it “The jury found the PLO and PA responsi-

ble for every single count, for every single but the PA and the PLO are very impor- Circuit on many grounds, the most impor-
can represent one of the attacks,” he continued. tant partners in the peace process in the tant of which was jurisdiction.”

vindication. “It was a very fact-based trial. Every

were wounded seriously; they all have
recovered in the decade and a half since
the bombing, although residual physical
effects remain.
Mark Sokolow is a lawyer, and coinci-
dentally he works for Arnold and Porter,
the firm that is handling the lawsuit. He is a
corporate lawyer, who does transactional
work for corporate institutions, but he is
well situated to explain the legal theory
underlying the case.
He and the other 10 families represented
in the lawsuit, harmed by six separate acts
of terrorism, were able to bring it because
of the Anti-Terrorism Act, passed in 1992 in
response to the murder of Leon Klinghof-
fer in 1985. As it turned out, Mr. Klinghof-
fer’s family was able to sue his murderers,
including the PLO, because he was killed
at sea, so they were able to take advantage
of maritime law. “That was a quirk of the
case, and Congress felt that it should not
have to be dependent on quirks,” Mark
Sokolow said. “They wanted to pass a law
protecting American citizens traveling
attack was documented and proven
through years of research. The documen-
tation showed who was ordered to commit
the attacks.”
It took a decade, but in February of 2015
they won. The jury awarded the plantiffs
$218.5 million; because the terrorism act
demanded that those damages be trebled,
the final amount was $655.5 million.
Money cannot bring back the dead or
undo physical or psychological damage,
but it can represent vindication. So far, how-
ever, the defendants have received nothing.
“The PLO and the PA had the right to
appeal,” Mr. Sokolow said. “They appealed
to the Second Circuit. In order to appeal,
they had to post a bond. Typically it is
roughly the same as the judgment, so the
bond would have been $655 million. They
said they couldn’t afford it.
“And then, uninvited, the U.S. govern-
ment came in and filed a statement of
interest in the case before Judge Daniel set
the bond. They said, ‘Look, we feel really
badly for these American victims of terror,
and they ought to have their day in court
and be able to get relief under the ATA,
Middle East.’
“And so the government asked Judge
Daniels not to do anything that would
bankrupt or damage the PLO and the PA.
And Judge Daniel took that into account,
and so instead of setting a bond of $650
million, we asked for $20 or $30 million a
month to be put into court. But Judge Dan-
iel said they had to put $10 million in on
Day One, and then $1 million a month after
that. That’s much much less.
“We think that if the court had enforced
a more customary bond, the case would
have settled.”
But it didn’t. “They posted their bond,
and every month they posted the extra $1
million, and they appealed to the Second
[The court] treated the PLO and the
PA better than they would treat
a government. We could more
easily sue the governments of Iran
or Iraq than the PA or the PLO.
The appeals court basically said that
despite the ATA, the court lacked jurisdic-
tion. It invoked the 14th Amendment, the
one about equal protection under law, the
rights of citizenship. It cited a 2014 case,
where the Supreme Court ruled the auto-
maker Daimler could not be sued in Cali-
fornia because it did not have enough of
a presence there. “It held that a foreign
company has to be ‘at home’ in a state
before you bring suit against it in that
state,” Mr. Sokolow said. Applied to this
case, the appeals court said that “the PLO
or the PA has to be held to be ‘at home’
in the United States and they would hold
that they were not.”
Also, he said, the court “treated the PLO
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and the PA better than they would treat a
government. We could more easily sue the
governments of Iran or Iraq than the PA or
the PLO. Because it isn’t a sovereign gov-
ernment, it was being treated as if it had
more rights.
“So the appeals court reversed the case.
It looked at Judge Daniels’ case and said
that the courts did not have jurisdiction
over the PA, and that the terrorism act was
unconstitutional as it was applied. If the PA
had either attacked someone in the United
States, or had made it crystal clear that it
was targeting Americans abroad, it would
have been different.
“But because the suicide bomber didn’t
yell ‘Death to America!’ before she deto-
nated her vest, it didn’t count.
“They applied Fourteenth Amendment
principles to a Fifth Amendment case,
and they gave them more rights than an
actual sovereign state would have in terms
of being subject to suit,” Mr. Sokolow
summed up.
Once the plaintiffs were turned down
by the appellate court, they had only one
option open to them other than dropping
the case. That was petitioning for a writ
of certiorari — that is, asking the Supreme
Court to consider the case.
Mark and Rena Sokolow with their three daughters and sons-in-law; from top
left, Rena, Mark, Mordy and Jamie Fenster. From bottom left, Michael and Lauren
Mandelstam and Elana and Rafi Rosman.
Petitioning for cert is always a long shot.
According to the Internet consensus, about
one percent of those requests are granted.
But these plaintiffs had some advantages.
While it is common for interested people
or groups to file amicus briefs, it is not
common to have the entire House of Rep-
resentatives file on your behalf, and then
there are those 23 senators and seven for-
mer high-level administration officials.
Interestingly enough, the senators
include New York State’s Charles Schumer
and Kirsten Gillibrand, but they do not
include New Jersey’s Robert Menendez or
Cory Booker.
In response to a question about
whether he thinks that the Supreme
Court should hear the case, Mr. Menen-
dez emailed “Senator Menendez has con-
sistently and forcefully condemned ter-
rorist attacks against innocent civilians
in Israel. Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas and Palestinian leaders have a
responsibility to prevent these attacks, to
stop the incendiary rhetoric that encour-
ages violence and terrorism and stop a
perverse system that rewards and incen-
tivizes violence. He supports the efforts
of all victims of terror, anywhere, to see
compensation for their suffering.”
Calls to Mr. Booker’s office have not
been answered as of press time.
And Mr. Sokolow also held out some
hope that his case might be accepted
because “there is a long history of the
Supreme Court taking a case where the act
of a lower court essentially has rendered a
law passed by Congress inoperable or said
it to be unconstitutional.”
But the Supreme Court asked the solici-
tor general for the Justice Department’s
official view on the question of whether
it should grant cert and hear the case.
“They do that from time to time,” Mr.
Sokolow said. It’s called CVSG — “call-
ing for the view of the solicitor general.”
(“Although the CVSG is technically an invi-
tation, the solicitor general always treats
it as a command,” SCOTUSBLOG helpfully
explains.) This time, it took the solicitor
general nine months. “All that time, the
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suade allies to pressure Iran by other means should
Trump seek to kill the deal.
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Trump likes his son-in-law.
A lot. Don’t get in his way.
Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner,
is taking the lead in shaping Middle East
policy for his father-in-law. Tillerson,
for the most part, left Kushner alone.
One area in which Tillerson intervened,
however, was in Kushner’s enthusiastic
backing for Saudi Arabia in its attempts
to isolate Qatar. The Saudi regime, and
Kushner’s new BFF, Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammed Bin Salman, targeted Qatar
for its defiance of Saudi leadership in the
Gulf. But Tillerson, noting Qatar’s role as
a U.S. ally and host to a major U.S. mili-
tary base, said he wanted a “calm and
thoughtful dialogue” to resolve the clash
between Qatar and its neighbors.
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chided Muslim leaders for not condemn-
ing Islamist terrorist attacks in ways that
often rankles Jews, who are sensitive to
collective blame. In many cases, however,
Muslim leaders in fact had condemned
the attacks. In 2015, Pompeo appeared
at a “Defeat Jihad Summit” with figures
known for their broadsides targeting not
just Islamists but all Muslims.
In 2016, Pompeo called on a mosque in
his district to cancel a speech by an Ameri-
can Muslim speaker who decades earlier
had appeared in a video singing support
for Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group.
Pompeo chided the mosque for schedul-
ing the appearance on Good Friday. The
mosque soon started receiving threats and
canceled the event, although it was not
clear if Pompeo’s news-making release had
a role in spurring the threats.
When Pompeo first ran for Congress in
2010 as part of the Tea Party wave, his
campaign recommended on Twitter an
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the hands of the radical anti-Muslim move-
ment in the U.S. and abroad,” the Southern
Poverty Law Center said in a statement.
One possible difference:
Pompeo is skeptical of Russia.
Much of the speculation Tuesday was that
Trump fired Tillerson because the secre-
tary of state forcefully said that the assas-
sination attempt of a former Russian spy
in Britain was “clearly” the work of Russia.
Trump has equivocated on the matter.
According to this narrative, Trump
wants anyone who might alienate Russia
off his team. Trump has said that Russia
could be an ally in combating Islamist ter-
rorism, and has chafed at the notion that
Russia intervened on his behalf in the
2016 election.
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Israel’s deadliest enemy.
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has endorsed the intelligence commu-
nity’s conclusion that the Russians tried
to intervene in the election on Trump’s
behalf (although he also said, incorrectly,
that the report concluded that the Russian
intervention did not have an effect; the
report stopped short of any conclusion on
that matter).
“The Russians attempted to interfere
in the United States election in 2016,” he
said as recently as Sunday on “Fox News
Sunday.”
On Tuesday, Axios pointed out that
during Pompeo’s confirmation hearings
as CIA chief, he was skeptical, to say the
least, about Russia’s usefulness as an anti-
terrorism ally. Russia, he said, had “reas-
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Why Israel’s government coalition

could be headed for collapse
MARCY OSTER
JERUSALEM — A Knesset bill that would
exempt charedi Orthodox yeshiva stu-
dents from the mandatory draft has
brought the possibility of snap elections
closer in Israel.
But it is only one variable in a compli-
cated political dance involving the charedi
parties, Israel’s colorful defense minister,
the 2019 budget, and the possibility that
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will
be indicted on corruption charges.
On Monday, the Ministerial Committee
for Legislation approved a controversial
bill that essentially would allow charedi
yeshiva students to be exempt from the
draft. Last September, the Supreme Court
struck down a similar law that allowed
mass exemptions for the students, say-
ing it was discriminatory. Supporters of
sufficiently different from the old law.
The charedi parties also are calling for
an amendment to the country’s Basic Law,
which serves as a kind of a constitution,
that would call Torah study a higher value
than equality in military service and cir-
cumvent the high court.
Charedi men are now eligible for the
draft, although in practice fewer than 4
percent of recruits are charedim. The dis-
parity angers Israelis across the political
spectrum, who resent that the religious
students don’t help shoulder the burden
of national security.
The charedi parties agreed to help pass
the military exemption bill in its prelimi-
nary form, though they have made it clear
they are expecting more. They have threat-
ened retaliation — if the bill does not pass,
the parties said they won’t vote to approve Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares during a plenum session
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exemptions for yeshiva students are try-
ing again with the new measure, which
reportedly is opposed by Attorney General
Avichai Mandelblit. The attorney general
reportedly does not believe the wording is
Netanyahu and Economy Minister Moshe
Kahlon, head of the Kulanu party, have
identified as a high priority.
But Defense Minister Avigdor Liber-
man, who leads the Yisrael Beiteinu party,
has called the legislation a “classic fake near-universal draft is essential for the
law.” His party, which has five seats in the country’s security. Liberman has vowed
government coalition, is both right wing that not one Yisrael Beiteinu lawmaker
and largely secular, and believes Israel’s SEE COALITION PAGE 65

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Being Jewish,
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES

Israel’s government has

being blown up condemned Jewish leaders
I whitewashing Qatar
t seems that no matter what else we think about, the ques-
tions of Jewish identity are always there, sometimes overt,
sometimes hidden, never gone. We each answer them dif-
ferently, but they’re always there. It’s time to stop and rebuild communal unity

Connected with those questions — what does it mean to be Jew-
ish? What does it mean to be a Jew born in a country in which
we are deeply welcome and at home? What does it mean to be a
Jew born in a country in which we are unwelcome, uncomfortable,
always trying but never quite managing to fit it? And what does it
mean when that country changes around you?
It seems that those questions are the subtext to just about every
issue of the newspaper. Sometimes they’re foregrounded. This
seems to be one of those week.
At the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, two of the three writers fea-
tured in the Sunday of Strong Women examine issues tied to Jew-
ish identity. What does it mean to be the child of a Jewish woman
and a non-Jewish man? Why is one identity stronger than the
other, if each of your parents is strong in his or her own tradition?
What does it mean to be the Jewish child of a Jewish parent whose
behavior is not stereotypically Jewish — who is an alcoholic, or a
drug addict? (It’s not that we don’t know that Jews drink or drug.
We know they do. It’s just that we also know that it doesn’t fit the
stereotype.)
And then there is the question of the Jews, like Mark Sokolow,
who are the victims of terrorism in Israel. According to the appel-
late court that reversed the verdict that gave him and other victims
of terrorism damages, the plaintiffs could not win because they
were not targeted as Americans. It’s not that they’re not American,
of course, or even that they’re not American enough. It’s just that
they were in a place that was full of Jews; to have won the case in
the United States of America, they would have had to have proven
that they were targeted not as Jews, but as Americans. It’s ironic,
no? (It’s also the decision that the plaintiffs hope the Supreme
Court will overturn.)
And then, of course, there is Vladimir Putin, who has said that
Russian Jews are Jews, but they’re not Russians. In fact, those non-
Russian Jews may even have messed with the American elections,
he said. To be fair, it is not only Jews who are not quite Russian,
according to Mr. Putin. “Maybe they’re Ukrainians, Tatars, Jews,
just with Russian citizenship.” It’s so nice to be grouped with our
friends!
(It also is striking that neither our own president nor his press
secretary have refuted Mr. Putin’s idea that Jews are responsible for
meddling with the election. They also have refused to acknowledge
the terrifying consensus that Mr. Putin’s Russia appears to have
poisoned a former Russia spy and British double agent in England
— but that gets into questions of Russian and British identity, which
is beyond our remit. But it certainly is terrifying…)
We hope that the Supreme Court does grant cert to Mark Sokolow.
And that no terrorist ever hurts anyone else ever again. And that
somehow the world will become just slightly less insane. —JP
D
emocratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer
of New Jersey’s Fifth District has taken a
leadership position in Congress, along
with Republican Lee Zeldin of New York,
to hold Al Jazeera and Qatar accountable for their
non-stop incitement against Israel by making Al
Jazeera register as a foreign agent under the FARA
rules. Gottheimer and Zeldin wrote a letter making
that demand; 18 members of Congress and Senator
Ted Cruz (R-Texas) all signed it.
“For years, Qatar has used its state-
controlled propaganda arm, Al Jazeera,
to incite violence, glorify terrorist kill-
ers as ‘martyrs,’ and broadcast hateful,
extremist content. But recent reports
that the network’s operatives secretly
filmed American nonprofit organiza-
tions in Washington show the urgent
need for an investigation to determine
whether Al Jazeera undertook ‘political
activities’ in the U.S. and should regis- Rabbi
ter as a foreign agent. Shmuley
“Now more than ever, American cit- Boteach
izens deserve to know the difference
between foreign propaganda and
independent media,” Gottheimer said, according
to his website.
“Al Jazeera’s radical anti-American, anti-Semitic,
and anti-Israel content is extraordinarily trou-
bling and must be closely scrutinized to determine
whether Al Jazeera is in violation of U.S. law. As a
state-sponsored news organization that favor-
ably covers foreign terrorist organizations, includ-
ing Hamas, Hezbollah, and others, it is critical the
United States takes action where laws are being bro-
ken and American interests are being undermined,”
Zeldin is quoted there as having added.
This is a courageous action. Jewish leaders
should join Gottheimer in pressuring the network
to cease its anti-Israel and anti-American propa-
ganda. They also should join in demanding that
Qatar stop financing terrorists, especially Hamas,
and work with the United States to isolate the
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the founder of the World Values Network and the author of 31 books, including his
most recent, “The Israel Warrior.” Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
genocidal regime in Tehran.
The American Jewish community has witnessed,
over the past few months, Jewish leaders fighting
vigorously over Qatar. The issues are as simple as
the stakes are large and it’s a shame that the Jewish
leaders who have visited Qatar and helped to white-
wash the Emir have not shown the same moral clar-
ity about Qatar as Congressman Gottheimer.
Qatar finances the Muslim brotherhood and
Hamas, Israel’s sworn genocidal enemy. Qatar grants
sanctuary to Hamas’ terror leaders in
Doha. Qatar spews anti-Semitic hate
speech through Al Jazeera, includ-
ing hosting sermons by people like
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, who openly calls
for a Muslim holocaust of Jews. Qatar’s
opposition even to the American Jew-
ish community is evidenced by a secret
undercover documentary launched by
Al-Jazeera at the pro-Israel lobby in
Washington where Jewish leaders were
secretly filmed in their work protecting
Israel, with Al Jazeera seemingly alleg-
ing a nefarious conspiracy of American
Jews working with Israel.
Yet this has not stopped a growing body of Jew-
ish leaders from going to Doha on all-expense paid
trips to meet the emir, who seeks a whitewash of
Qatar’s financing of terror in order to lift a blockade
imposed on him by neighboring countries that was
originally supported by President Trump and the
government of the United States.
The Israeli government has now stepped in with
no less than four public pronouncements oppos-
ing the engagement with Qatar and reiterated in
no uncertain terms its opposition to American Jews
cozying up to the Qataris.
Prominent pro-Israel American Jews who
accepted junkets to Qatar have persisted in suggest-
ing they went to Doha with the Israeli government’s
approval. Ambassador Ron Dermer shot down this
argument months ago in an interview with Forbes
magazine, then followed up with a statement from

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his embassy to Haaretz just weeks ago: “We oppose
this outreach effort in the Jewish and pro-Israel com-
munity... Anyone claiming that these trips received the
ambassador’s blessing is not saying the truth.”
Now the prime minister himself has stated his objec-
tions to giving legitimacy to Israel’s enemies. Netan-
yahu made his remarks to the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations two weeks ago
in Jerusalem. Netanyahu said:
“So, Iran is the most destructive force in the Mid-
dle East, and all the other forces understand this and
there’s a natural banding together, because there are
constructed [sic] forces in the region. I think engag-
ing them is very important. I think you’ve just seen
, some of those constructive forces in your visit to the
g Gulf, and by the way, I’m definitely not talking about
Qatar, but I am talking about the place where you just
visited and many others. They want a better future
- for their people. They do not support terrorist groups
- like Hamas. They do want to engage with the positive
forces to block Iran’s aggression. And I have to be very
clear about that.”
Netanyahu made clear that he believes the UAE is a
n constructive force in the region and Qatar is not, and
that he rejects the visits there, because the emir sup-
- ports terrorist groups such as Hamas and is engaging
with rather than isolating Israel’s principal enemy, Iran.
Then last week Israel’s ambassador to the United
States, Ron Dermer, who was one of the highlighted
- speakers at our gala at the Plaza hotel, told the Jeru-
t salem Post, “Israel is emphatically opposed to this
y outreach.”
The Post added that “Israel’s ambassador to Wash-
ington advised American Jewish leaders not to meet
with Qatar’s emir last fall during the Arab leader’s last
- visit to New York, but failed to dissuade them.”
From the very outset I argued that traveling to Qatar
would give legitimacy to a regime that undermines
- both American values and interests and our organiza-
tion quickly mobilized to take out full-page ads in the
f New York Times to condemn the Qatari whitewash. If
Qatar wanted to change its image, all it had to do was
stop funding terror and stop demonizing Israel. Isra-
el’s ambassador, Ron Dermer, is my former student
president from Oxford University, and I quickly con-
firmed that despite the lies being peddled by Qatar’s
- hired agents that Israel welcomed the engagement, it
was clear what logic dictated: Israel opposed American
Jewish legitimization for a government that funds the
Hamas terror movement, sworn to Israel’s annihilation.
And now that this issue has been settled defini-
- tively, it is time to rebuild Jewish unity among the
pro-Israel leaders by repudiating Qatar and Al
Jazeera until they make quantifiable and measurable
change, especially in the area of ceasing to finance
terror, changing the anti-Israel incitement on their
airwaves, publicly pressuring Hamas to release the
bodies of murdered Israeli soldiers, and evicting
Hamas terror leaders from Qatar.
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Opinion
I’VE BEEN THINKING
The coward dies a thousand deaths
O
ne of the joys of writing this col-
umn is getting comments, both
complimenting and agreeing
with me as well as criticizing and
disagreeing with me.
Of course, I prefer the former — who
wouldn’t? — but I find the latter also worth-
while for two reasons. First, sometimes
— but not too often, so I like to think — the
critics are right. But either way, there cer- Joseph C.
tainly are parts of my columns that, based Kaplan
on criticisms, I’d like to revise, correcting
factual errors, adding nuances, constructing
phrases more carefully, and tightening or even rethink-
ing arguments. Second, behind every critique there are
two undeniable facts: the critic actually read what I wrote,
and even more significantly, cared enough about it to com-
ment. There’s not much more a writer can ask for (except,
perhaps, being paid).
There is, however, one caveat (sorry, legal jargon still is mous letter writer is — a coward. You disagree with what
in my bloodstream). While the internet unfortunately has
made anonymity the default identification rather than the
exception — one of my pet peeves about the internet — I
still reject anonymous criticism, strongly believing that it
is at best worthless and at worst highly offensive and all
too often unfairly damaging.
What truly angered
me was that I don’t
like interacting with
cowards, and that’s
exactly what this
anonymous letter
writer is — a coward.
I raise this point because after my February 15 col-
umn, “How Jews Should Argue,” appeared, an envelope
was delivered to my door, hand-addressed to me. It had
no return address, and when I opened it, I saw it was
signed not with a person’s name but by “a member of
one of Yeshiva University Boards.” And while it said it
was addressed “to those parents and students of the
Frish (sic) High School that showed Hakos (sic) Hatov to
the President of the USA and the USA for acknowledg-
ing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” neither I nor the
only other recipient of the letter that I know of is such a
parent or student. (If you know whether it was, in fact,
widely distributed to such parents and students, please
let me know.)
The thrust of the letter, as you can deduce from the
group of people it allegedly was directed to, was yet
another attack on Rabbi Ozer Glickman for, in my opin-
ion, his thoughtful, nuanced, and moderate reaction to
the “thank-you letter” affair that for a short period of time board,” crawl back under your rock. The Jewish commu-
bedeviled our community. It was also an implicit attack
on my criticism of the tone and language used by some of
R. Glickman’s critics in letters to the editor to the Jewish
Standard in which his views were quoted.
Based on the letter’s numerous grammatical and logi-
cal errors, non sequiturs, poor organization, and factual
mistakes, were I grading it as a high school sophomore
English paper assignment, I’d give it a D.
And if I took off points for transliteration
spelling errors (it’s hakarat or hakaras
hatov, not “Hakos Hatov” as erroneously
repeated six times, although hakarat hatov
is one of the letter’s major themes), I’d
lower the grade to an F, even though I’ve
always considered myself an easy grader.
I don’t know, of course, whether there’s
any truth to the letter writer’s claim that
he actually is a member of a YU board, but
if he is (and my strong sense is that it is a
he), then YU needs to up its game and vet
its board members more carefully. Semi-literacy really
should merit disqualification.
But it wasn’t the semi-literate nature of the letter that
riled me; indeed, it was so bad that it was almost humor-
ous. What truly angered me was that I don’t like inter-
acting with cowards, and that’s exactly what this anony-
I write, you think I’m wrong or even an idiot, you believe
my political views are indefensible and my heroes have
clay feet, you’re of the opinion that the Standard and
Times of Israel shouldn’t give me a platform, you’ve con-
cluded that I don’t show the proper amount of hakarat
hatov or love for Israel and Yerushalayim that I should?
Okay, then tell me so, explain why, support your argu-
ment with evidence and logic. I’m a big boy, and if I like
spouting my opinions in public — which I do very much
— there’s no justification for me to complain if any errors
are thrown back in my face.
But if you do so, at least have the decency and cour-
age to put your name behind your opinion, the way I do
when I express mine. Why hide behind “a member of
one of Yeshiva University Boards”? Tell us your name, so
in addition to evaluating your arguments we can weigh
your credentials, investigate your consistency, and judge
your authority.
You’re not ashamed of your response to R. Glickman
and me, are you? So what are you afraid of? And you’re
certainly afraid of something, since, as an ancient Jewish
adage teaches, too much fear makes a person a coward.
I haven’t dealt, nor will I deal, with the substance of any
of the letter’s arguments (if they can be called that) because
cowards are not worth caring about. They deserve to be
shunned, not engaged with. They merit our scorn, not our
thoughts and analyses. They have earned the dubious privi-
lege of serving as role models of everything we want our
children — and ourselves — not to be.
And I’ve wasted too much time and ink on this one cow-
ard’s drivel already.
Two of our greatest writers have taught us an important
lesson about cowards. Shakespeare: “Cowards die many
times before their death. The valiant never taste of death but
once” ( Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene II). Or as paraphrased cen-
turies later by Ernest Hemingway: “A coward dies a thousand
deaths, the brave man dies but once” (A Farewell to Arms).
I don’t know if I can say, like Robert Louis Stevenson,
that “the world has no room for cowards.” But I can, and
do, say it about our community. So, “member of a YU
nity has no room for you.
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular columnist, is a long-time
resident of Teaneck. His work also has appeared in various
publications including Sh’ma magazine, the New York
Jewish Week, the Baltimore Jewish Times, and, as letters to
the editor, the New York Times.
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Teaching our children to combat digital hate

T
he other night my gasp from the parents and continue to expand filtering capabilities, we
stepson showed me grandparents who see all must collectively recognize that much in the
the game he was too well the addiction to way of anti-Semitism, racism, and bigotry
playing on his lap- Xbox, Playstation, and will find its way through, despite our best
top. It’s called Fortnite, and other such devices. intentions.
apparently this game is the While on this particular That means that a significant part of this
rage among our children. It lets day we were working with fight must be carried by us — the parents,
them build teams with anyone the HAFTR Middle School the schools, the communities, and yes, our
who happens to communicate in Lawrence, on Long elected officials. We must teach our chil-
with them on this highly inter- Michael Island, the results were dren how to recognize online hate, terror-
active platform. Cohen identical when we recently ism, and bullying and to have the trust to
The question we don’t ask held the same workshops communicate immediately with a trusted
quite enough is who are our chil- with tenth graders at Frisch adult. They must describe what they expe-
dren interacting with? Could these strangers in Paramus and seventh graders at Moriah rienced. They must learn to recognize the
have more on their agenda than partnering Englewood. (We are scheduled to do the purposeful subtleties interspersed in what
for a game? same with the ninth grade at the Dwight otherwise might be harmless material. They
Just the day before, the Simon Wiesenthal Morrow High School in Englewood.) must learn how to feel empowered to fight
Center held a forum for middle school par- Each year the Simon Wiesenthal Center back on those using bullying, harassment,
ents, demonstrating the growing trends of unveils a heavily researched report card and inferences of targeted negativity, and
hate and pro-terror postings from extrem- on digital terror and hate. We assign let- they must be ready for inevitably coming
ists ranging from the alt-right to ISIS and ter grades to each of the prominent social into contact with such content.
including the local lone wolfs on social media platforms, evaluating their com- In the classroom workshops that the
media platforms specifically targeting Gen- mitment to combating hate on their sites. Simon Wiesenthal Center has created
eration Z. When an eighth grade panelist What we have learned is that even when and begun to present in some of our local recognize the difference between legiti-
raised a point about the expansion of offen- some online giants take hate speech seri- schools, we have trained middle school mate debate and criticism and hate speech
sive content now being brought into interac- ously, they can never completely keep pace and high school students—who often are on social media. We no longer are sur-
tive gaming systems, there was a collective with the bigots. In other words, while we the main target of online extremists — to prised when seventh graders raise their

Never again isn’t just about Jews

D
enying the Holocaust rightfully
offends Jewish sensibilities.
We speak up, we do every-
thing we can to make sure the
world doesn’t forget the inhumanity of
Nazi Germany and those who supported
them. We mean it when we say the words
never again.
All this is why Poland’s new “Holocaust
Law,” which criminalizes statements that
Poles were complicit with crimes commit-
ted during the Holocaust, has rightly out-
raged us. The law is an attempt to rewrite
history. It amounts to Holocaust denial.
Notwithstanding the new law, it is well
documented that the Polish people com-
mitted genocidal acts. That fact cannot be
wiped away.
Only days ago, our State Department
issued a report that found “evidence that
Poles persecuted the Jews as vigorously as
did the Germans” during the Nazi occupa-
tion. Regardless of Poland’s new law, the
evidence exists. We are here to bear wit-
ness to what occurred, and to use it as a
reminder that genocide must be prevented
at all costs
That is why we remain concerned,
for example, about the Rohingya. The
Rohingya Muslim community has existed
in Myanmar (formerly Burma) for centu-
ries and now has been subjected to eth-
nic cleansing for decades. Thousands of
Rohingya have been murdered, burned
to death, tortured, raped, and driven out
of the country. In 2012, the Pulitzer Cen-
ter on Crisis Reporting said the Rohingya
have become one of the most oppressed
ethnic groups in the world. Yet these past
five years have seen no drop in Myanmar’s
efforts to destroy them. And now, much
like Poland’s efforts to eliminate evidence
to its role in the Holocaust, Myanmar’s
authorities are striving to erase any histori-
cal reminders of the Rohingya’s existence.
Their military is currently bulldozing
what’s left of the Rohingya villages in an
effort to alter history. Myanmar’s actions
simply add to an attempt to rewrite his-
tory just as the Poles are now retroactively
seeking to do.
In 2016, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de
facto leader of Myanmar‘s government,
embraced the view that the Rohingya
don’t exist. She cautioned the Ameri-
can ambassador against using the term
Rohingya to describe Myanmar’s perse-
cuted Muslim population. If the Rohingya
don’t exist, how can there be refugee
camps just outside Myanmar housing
more than 650,000 people?
In part because of the Holocaust, in
1948the United Nations approved Article
II of the Genocide Convention, describing
genocide as “any of the following acts com-
mitted with intent to destroy, in whole or
in part, a national, ethnical, is that in South Sudan, where
racial or religious group, as mass killings continue along
such: killing members of the ethnic lines.
group; causing serious bodily The list goes on; it should do
or mental harm to members more than shock us.
of the group; deliberately In 2008, the Holocaust
inflicting on the group condi- Memorial Museum, together
tions of life calculated to bring with the American Academy
about its physical destruction of Diplomacy and the United
in whole or in part; imposing Jason States Institute of Peace, con-
measures intended to prevent Shames vened the Genocide Preven-
births within the group; forc- tion Task Force. Co-chaired
ibly transferring children of by former Secretary of State
the group to another group.” Madeleine K. Albright and
The Convention declared that former Secretary of Defense
people committing this crime William S. Cohen, the task
shall be punished regardless force offered practical rec-
of their status. ommendations on how to
There’s a genocide going on prevent genocide. It asserted
in Myanmar, and the world that preventing genocide is
largely remains silent. It has an “achievable goal” and that
become all too common to Vered Adoni progress begins with “leader-
watch mass killings from afar ship and political will.” It pro-
and say nothing. The geno- vided 34 recommendations
cide perpetrated by the Hutus on the Tutsi and outlined a comprehensive approach
in Rwanda in 1994 is another example. Close when responding to “genocidal situations”
to one million people died there, and yet as they arise.
that tragedy was hardly a blip on the human So the will and effort do exist, but the
radar screen. Currently there’s a humanitar- goal has yet to be accomplished. What can
ian crisis in Yemen. The population is being we do to stop genocide, this ethnic cleans-
starved to death under daily bombing. We ing that continues to happen in our world?
all know about Syria. The slaughter there How can we, the Jewish people, help the
for the last seven years is no different. Nor Rohingya or the innocent civilians in Syria

46 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 16, 2018


hands when they are asked if they have
experienced offensive content on their
digital devices.
We need these young targets to become,
in the words of Rabbi Abraham Cooper,
the Wiesenthal Center associate dean who
founded the digital terrorism and hate
project 24 years ago, “not victims but our
first responders.”
Today it may be Fortnite. Tomorrow
it most assuredly will be something else.
While as parents we all recognize the dif-
ficult battle we face in limiting our chil-
dren’s time on their digital devices, and
knowing that it is simply a part of life, we
all must join in fighting back against those
trying to negatively influence our kids.
We must empower our young people
how to recognize hate and teach them
about the role they can play in combat-
ting it.
Michael Cohen of Englewood is the eastern
regional director of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center. He represents his city’s second ward
on Englewood’s City Council, and he belongs
to Congregation Ahavath Torah there.
and Yemen? Their situation is heartbreak-
ing. They are rejected by the countries they
call home, but they are unwanted by the
countries where they seek refuge. They are
impoverished and stateless. They tell stories
of continuous horror. In Myanmar’s case,
the government says those stories are false
and distorted. They deny they even exist. In
Syria and Yemen, their governments deflect
blame onto others.
Never again can never be thought of as
being solely about the Jewish people, or
that we have been the only targets of geno-
cide and yes, extinction. Rather, never
again needs to be about all mass genocide,
no matter who the victims. Never again
requires a Jewish response whenever there
are genocidal efforts, regardless of who,
what, where, when, and why.
We, as Jews, must reconcile ourselves to
the paradigm of never again and move it
forward. We cannot be outraged about an
anti-Semitic law passed by the Polish gov-
ernment and yet remain silent about what’s
happening to the Rohingya or innocent
civilians in Syria, Yemen or anywhere else.
We must speak up. We must, once more,
say never again.
Jason Shames is the CEO and executive
vice president of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey and Vered Adoni is a
lawyer who lives in Bergen County.
New approaches to women’s issues
T
his week, in honor of International
Women’s Day, the internet was full of
tributes, many of them acknowledging
once again the complicated role that
mothers have in the modern world.
For several years now, this topic — the weak-
nesses and failures of the feminist dream — has
been cautiously approached with humor, frus-
tration, or determination to fix the problems. Yet
these conversations are governed by the assump- Rahel
tion that we are generally on the right track and Rocklin
only require some minor adjustments. The pro-
posed solutions, therefore, appear as mere Band-
Aids, not broad enough to truly resolve the issues that we face.
The main assumption that continues to drive our thinking
is that achieving wealth, power, and fame is at least as impor-
tant as raising our children. And our solutions continue to
revolve around integrating parenting with personal ambition in
a world driven by the pursuit of material rather than cultural
achievement.
Anne-Marie Slaughter famously wrote about the adjustments
that our society needs to make in order for women to “have it
all.” That is, how to change our social norms so that working
mothers will be able to attain, and, perhaps more importantly,
retain, positions of power. She does not, however, address the
plight of the simple mother-professional, who is not in it to
climb the ranks.
As proud and as free as a working woman can be in today’s
world, she is faced with countless yet-to-be-resolved challenges,
particularly as a mother. These are not challenges created by ill-
meaning people who wish to demean women or bar them from
entering the male world, but practical challenges that arise on
their own in a world that has not yet adjusted to the rapid social
changes that we have imposed upon it. As young girls, full of
aspirations and plans, we are told by society to reach for any
career that strikes our fancy. We assume that in the 21st century,
all our needs as mothers already have been accounted for. Some
of us may even be so far-seeing as to choose careers with hours
that are well suited for family life.
It is not, however, until we become mothers that we real-
ize what a false sense of security we were given. Sure, we have
government-mandated maternity leave, pumping accommoda-
tions, tax-cuts for child-care, and a plethora of schools for our
children. But the list of the things that we have figured out pales
in comparison with the list of dilemmas we must face on a daily
basis: how much time can we afford to take off pre- and post-
partum; what form of childcare should we choose — affordable
or personalized; how we can prolong school hours to cover our
workday — early drop-off, afterschool care, afterschool program-
ming, or a very part-time babysitter. (Camps and mini-camps
do not tend to cover the entirety of school vacations and days
off, such as faculty professional development days, so someone
must cover the rest of the days.) And since no plans are infal-
lible, we need backups for when the babysitter is unavailable,
our child is sick, and so on.
In addition to these universal problems, each mother has her
own personal stresses based on her own and her children’s con-
crete needs.
Moving past these issues, whether a woman was lucky enough
not to face them, or already has gone through the headache of
figuring them out, we are met with another set of problems:
balancing homemaking with work. At the end of your long and
meticulously planned day, you still need to find the time and
energy to cook, tidy, run errands, sit down to dinner with your
family, help your children with their homework, give them
attention, somehow find some time for yourself and maybe even
for your husband.
On some days — and for some people, on most days — all of
the above is practically impossible to accomplish; something
Opinion
has to go, something ends up suffering. It might be
your job, your children, your home, your husband,
or you, but something ends up neglected. With this
neglect comes stress, and with stress on one piece
of the family, trouble begins to brew for the rest.
Relationships become strained. Teenage drama in
this era of absentee parenting is perhaps worse off
than ever before.
The worst part of it is that for many of us, after
going through all this stress to get out of the house
and work, the job itself is not an inspiration but
a burden imposed on us by the financial needs
created in a dual-earner economy, by exorbitant
school tuition, by social expectations with regard to our house
size, car quality, vacation destinations — or by the shaming of
stay-at-home moms as lazy and subservient.
The reality is that in a continued attempt to liberate women,
modern feminism has chained them with doubled responsibili-
ties. Moreover, it has substituted our age-old, intuitive desire
to care for our children with a new ideology that is devoid of
inspiration.
While combatting the so-called patriarchy, feminists have taken
on some of the worst traits of their most dire enemies: the cut-
throat capitalists of the modern era and the haughty, not-to-be-
bothered aristocrats of yore. While accusing men of obsession
with wealth and empire-building, feminists have made it their
goal to do the same and to do it better. In the meantime, much
in the style of the European aristocracy, they will not be both-
ered with their own children. Recall the not-so-fictional moment
in Downton Abbey when Lord Grantham refuses to have tea with
his grandchildren until they are old enough to have a mature con-
versation. This attitude was prevalent among those who could
afford nurses, governors, and governesses: young children are a
nuisance to be cared for by other, less important people.
This is exactly how today’s upper and middle class societies
function, only instead of taking leisurely walks, reading novels,
playing the piano, singing, drawing, embroidering, overseeing
the house staff, and engaging in charitable activities, women are
out making money.
It is time for our society to look for new approaches to solv-
ing women’s issues. We need to start thinking outside the box
to help women achieve fulfillment, both as mothers and as lead-
ers in our society. Instead of simply throwing out the old world
for the new, we must reinvent it for modern times, looking for
solutions that will build on the best of tomorrow and yesterday.
One modest proposal would be that instead of borrowing
the aristocrats’ shirking of responsibilities for young children,
we learn from their highly personalized approach to educa-
tion. Upper-class children were taught in the home by tutors or
even by the parents themselves (cf. Dolly in Anna Karenina or
the mothers in Madame de Segur’s Sophie series). Aristocratic
women, as “tethered” as they may have been to the home, had
an education far superior to that of today’s girls. Their skills in
languages, literature, music, history, and art surpassed today’s
students by an enormous degree.
If we reprioritize intellectual ambitions over financial ones,
we can dramatically reduce the tension between motherhood
and accomplishment. This will mean different things for dif-
ferent women. One basic model that is already growing across
America is home/group schooling, with the current number of
homeschoolers rising over 1.6 million. The beauty of this model
is its incredible versatility and ability to meet virtually any par-
ent’s and child’s needs. Still, there are other solutions that we
can seek, other goals to attain, and the conversation must con-
tinue for us to break out of the self-imposed mold: at home —
bad, workplace — good.
Rahel Rocklin of Teaneck is a Jewish educator now leading a
group-schooling project from her home.
JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 16, 2018 47
Opinion
‘Céline’ redux? France’s publishing problem
M
ention the name
“Celine” to most
people in the
United States—
or Europe, for that matter—and
they will think you’re talking
about the long-reigning Cana-
dian pop diva.
But among French intel-
lectuals, there is only one Ben Cohen
“Celine”: Louis-Ferdinand
Céline, one of a handful of
writers who redefined the mission and style of French
literature in the 20th century.
This Céline, whose heyday was in the 1930s, detested
the Jews. No surprise there, of course, given the unhealthy
number of writers and artists outside Germany who sym-
pathized with the Nazi program for the Jewish people.
There were quite a few, after all, in our own language.
Take, for instance, the American writer Ezra Pound
— regarded by some critics as the leading light of mod-
ern English-language poetry — who regaled listeners
to his radio show, broadcast from fascist Italy, with sto-
ries “about Jew-ruined England. About the wreckage of
France, wrecked under y_d control. Lousy with k___s.”
With cases like these, there’s an inevitable debate about
whether we can or should separate the artist’s vulgar
hatreds from his or her works of art. It’s rather like the furi-
ous arguments lots of Jews used to have about the appropri-
ateness of listening to the operas of Wagner. And every so
often, these debates enter the news cycle as ghosts of a past
that once again has become part of the present.
That is exactly what has happened with Céline, at a time
when anti-Semitism has re-established itself as a serious
and enduring problem in France.
In brief, here is the backstory: Last December, the leg-
endary French publishing company Gallimard announced
that it would reissue three monstrously anti-Semitic pam-
phlets Céline wrote between 1937 and 1941. When Céline
died in 1961 — having been condemned as a “national dis-
grace” for his collaboration with the Vichy regime, with
Louis-Ferdinand Céline. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
48 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 16, 2018
whom he fled to Germany during the Allied offensive of
1944 — he left explicit instructions that these pamphlets
never be published again.
In fact, they have been, in French-speaking Québec,
where the intellectual property rights of these works have
expired. But publishing them in France, under the imprint
of one of the country’s most prestigious publishers, is a
proposition of an entirely different magnitude.
That was why French President Emmanuel Macron
explicitly addressed what has become a bitter domestic
controversy in his remarks this week at the annual din-
ner in Paris of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions
Juives de France, or Crif, France’s Jewish representative
With cases like these,
there’s an inevitable
debate about whether
we can or should
separate the artist’s
vulgar hatreds from his
or her works of art.
organization. In a clever swipe at Poland’s recent draco-
nian Holocaust legislation, Macron pointed out that there
are no “memorial police” in France; therefore, these mat-
ters are decided by conscience, not law. Macron person-
ally left no doubt that he thought Gallimard should refrain
from publishing the pamphlets.
What is the content of these pamphlets that make them
so terrible? In 2010, the New York Review of Books car-
ried a feature that revisited the original editions of these
works—Bagatelles pour un massacre, L’école des cadavres
and Les beaux draps—and quoted from them liberally.
The venom, frankly, is chilling. “The sordid schemes,
the betrayals, a nose that points to, lowers toward, and
falls over their mouths,” Céline wrote in Bagatelles pour
un massacre. “Their hideous slots . . . their filthy k_e grins,
boorish, slimy, even in beauty pageants . . . They erupt
from the depths of the ages, to terrify us, to draw us into
miscegenation, into bloody Talmudic mires and, finally,
into the Apocalypse!” Small wonder that the author of the
New York Review piece, Wyatt Mason, deemed these texts
to be typical of a writer “who, from 1937 to 1944, spent all
his flagrant literary energy and aptitude calling — shouting
— for the death of every Jew in France.”
By the end of the war, 75,000 members of a pre-war
Jewish population of 340,000 indeed had gone forcibly to
their deaths. Céline was a direct participant in this geno-
cide, every bit as culpable as the semi-literate French peas-
ant alerting the SS to a Jewish family in hiding to make
a few bucks. Reading his words, we hear the sounds of
violence: shattering glass, boots on human flesh, the dis-
cordant strains of the Nazi anthem, the “Horst Wessel”
song. And that is exactly how these words were intended
to be heard.
We can only hope that Gallimard will heed the advice
of France’s president and abandon its Céline project
out of its own volition. There really isn’t a free-speech
issue at stake, since all these pamphlets are available
on the Internet. Thus, the dilemma for Gallimard is
whether a publisher of its stature should distribute
anti-Semitic ravings in the name of literary endeavor.
No one possibly could believe that Céline’s words can
be read dispassionately in France today, where anti-
Semitic attacks of the most brutal kind occur with dis-
turbing frequency. I have written on several occasions
in this column about the torture and murder of a Jew-
ish pensioner, Sarah Halimi, in April 2017. To study the
account of her ordeal at the hands of a young Islamist
intruder is to step into a Céline-like world of hatred,
where every word uttered is echoed in physical violence.
Until France rids itself of these paroxysms of Jew-hatred
— —there also was the torture and murder of Ilan Halimi in
2006; the 2012 massacre of a teacher and three small chil-
dren at a Toulouse Jewish school; the 2015 hostage situa-
tion and slaughter at the Hyper Cacher market in Paris,
and much more — it cannot pretend that republishing
Céline’s pamphlets is somehow incidental and unrelated
to what French Jews are facing now. JNS.ORG
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.
Letters
Thank you, Rabbi Meir
As someone with many relatives and deep ties to
Israel, I was happy to read Rabbi Aryeh Meir’s article
(“The occupation and Israel’s human rights record,”
March 2). I agree that the dehumanization and dispos-
sessing the Palestinian Arab population is contrary to
the foundational teachings of Judaism and the Jewish
historical experience.
I’m hoping to hear more of these voices and par-
ticipate in actions that reflect the spirit of his article.
Laszlo Berkovits
Teaneck
It’s not the royal family’s first visit
You should correct the erroneous report in your most
recent edition concerning the failure of the House of
Windsor to visit Israel (“House of Windsor’s Israel
problem,” March 9). His Royal Highness, Prince Philip,
Duke of Edinburgh, delivered the most profound
remarks on the occasion of his late mother’s interment
on the Mount of Olives, made at Yad Vashem.
David B. Simpson
Stein Simpson & Rosen
Fort Lee
THE EDITOR RESPONDS: The column, like all of
Ben Cohen’s work (and unlike all our other op eds) is
syndicated by JNS.ORG. Mr. Simpson is right. Prince
Philip and his son, Prince Charles, both went to Israel.
JNS’s editor said that what Mr. Cohen had meant to say
was that Prince William’s visit will be the British royal
family’s �irst of�icial state visit.
CORRECTION:
In “Really! You can’t do that at work” (March 2)
we misspelled the name of the CEO of the Jewish
Family and Children’s Service of Northern New
Jersey. She is Susan Greenbaum.
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“We work to get patients back to their
level of functioning before the injury,
regardless of age,” Mr. Kavountzis said.
THE ESPLANADE AT PALISADES “In Mr. Epstein’s case, he played a large
role in his recovery by doing all his exer-
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active lifestyle and are involved in an array of engaging programs. the program.”
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peting. He became a member of an
international table tennis association
and has won more than his fair share
of trophies.
“My whole life I’ve carried my racket
everywhere,” he said. “I played while
I was working and then after I retired
I travelled to Europe three times and
made a list of all the international table
tennis clubs so I could play there.”
But several years ago, he developed
pain in his shoulder — from his rota-
tor cuff.
“You know, you’re constantly moving
that arm and all that use really affected
my shoulder,” he said. “But I didn’t have
surgery — just went to physical therapy,
and they are so good at what they do that
now I’m as good as new.”
More recently, he was experiencing
some pain in his back. Once again, he
headed to Holy Name for physical ther-
apy. After some sessions and switching
to a different blood-thinning medication,
which was contributing to the discom-
fort, he was pain-free.
“Table tennis has kept me in good
shape my whole life — you are always
moving in different directions — and psy-
chologically it’s very beneficial because
I can block everything out,” Mr. Epstein
said. “My wife died in 2014 and I have to
tell you I’m miserable without her. But
when I’m playing, I just concentrate on
the game and I can almost forget for a
little while.”
 Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

Bop to the music and walk like Gene Kelly

Richard Portugal
Music! We can hear it all around us. It streams from
the radio and iPods. We hear it on television and mov-
ies. It comes from our computers, cellphones, and
from the speakers in airports, malls, and concert halls.
It is in the wind softly caressing a leaf. It is in the drum-
beat of a thunderclap, or it is in a torrential rain as it
slaps the ground. Whether from a store bought gui-
tar or a field of reeds swaying to the wind’s lazy beat,
music emanates in our souls and makes us one with
our world. We recognize the vibrations of the air as it
entwines and captures our heartbeats. It heartens our
spirit, it can make us sad, it can lift us into the ether —
music holds a power over us and makes us meld with
our world.
There are patterns to life which music emboldens.
It is the bridge between us and ourselves; between
us and nature; between us and the spiritual; between
us and the unknown. We hear the music of the heav-
ens and know that life holds secrets that are worth
uncovering. Mankind has always been adventurous
and seeks answers to the unknown. Whether it’s the
Beatles or Brahms, music inspires us to feel, emote,
and sense. It encourages us to explore the textures
of our world and believe that there is more than
just mass, energy, and the speed of light — that our
rhythm that we claimed in the womb is brilliantly on dis- no recognition of the music of their heart or the universal
play in dance and in walking. Our feet, legs, hips, arms, beat that inspires a soul. Even with the acknowledgment of
shoulders, and head are all synchronized with a vibrancy medical issues, both physical and neurological, the beat of
that surrounds us all. Walking is a dance step and to per- life must still be reignited. A dance step denotes a lightness
form correctly you must feel the rhythm! of foot, a swaying of the arms, a swinging of the shoulders
So many elderly seem to stiffen when walking, pushing and a rocking of the head — all performed to the body’s
their feet along the ground with little movement in their inner beat. Hear the music, walk to the music, bop to the
hips or shoulders. There is simply no do-wop to their gait, music — it’s all around us!
Valley Health System, the healthcare provider you Medicine at Mount Sinai, fostering close collaboration
know and trust, is proud to announce the expansion between colleagues from both organizations.
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Working together, physicians from Valley and
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world has meaning and substance — that stars blink
in the night sky because they are dancing to a uni-
versal music.
And there is a natural rhythm within all of us. It
calls to us from birth. It comforts us in the womb as
a mother’s heartbeat with which we wish to synchro-
THE LANDSCAPE OF CANCER CARE
nize. As a fetus, we dance and play to the tunes of
our mysterious growth. Our growing arms and legs
twitch, our brains dazzle, and we rush into the world
on a wail of our lungs, our first song bequeathed to
our new life.
And then our ears fill with wondrous music. Such a
noisy yet cadenced world that we react to instinctively.
And as we go forward in our lives, the songs of our
world and the beat of the universe stays with us and
aids in our form and maturation. We are one with the
music of the stars.
Yet now we are older and, at times, can forget
the rhythms of our bodies; we forget that there is
such a thing as music that formed with our souls
in the womb; we forget the beat of life; we for-
get the very pulse that helps us age graciously and
with confidence.
Where the rhythm seems to dissipate most is with
walking. Walking is a complicated human endeavor
and becomes more challenging as we age. Feet must
move over the ground, not shuffle along it; shoul-
ders must counterbalance the movement of our legs;
and the head must be positioned high on the shoul-
ders. But, most important is to remember that walk-
ing is a dance step. There is a rhythm and cadence
to the movement, much as a ballroom dance or a
waltz. Watch a ballet or foxtrot. Go perform a tango
or twist. Look at Gene Kelly sing in the rain. The

Richard Portugal is the founder and owner of Fitness

Senior Style, which exercises seniors for balance,
strength, and cognitive fitness in their own homes. He To reach a Valley cancer care specialist
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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

A vaccine to prevent Alzheimer’s might be closer than you think

A
ccording to the Alzheimer’s Association, one in memories and our ability to think. It is a terrifying universal He firmly believes that before long this preventative
nine Americans over 65 has Alzheimer’s. For epidemic. treatment will prove successful in protecting human
those 85 or older, that number is one in three. Dr. Eitan Okun heads the Paul E. Feder Alzheimer’s adults from contracting this heartbreaking illness.
Over five million American’s currently live with Research Lab at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He has devoted “Alzheimer’s isn’t caused by a virus,” he explains.
the disease and it is the sixth leading cause of death in the his life’s work to finding a way to prevent the disease from “What actually causes it in most cases remains mostly
United States. Worldwide, over 47 million are afflicted taking hold of our minds. Recently, he has developed a vac- unknown. The vaccine that I am working on targets
with this irreversible brain disorder that shuts down our cine that has shown great promise in laboratory conditions. the amyloid beta proteins that accumulate in the brain
of people with Alzheimer’s. We’re trying to help the
body to go into attack-mode against this protein. So

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ing vaccine on humans. Two tricky questions are:
1) Which people should be included in the test trails?
2) At what age group should the test vaccinations be
considered?
After years of careful research, Dr. Okun has a few
ideas as to where to begin.
“There are two subgroups made up of people who
have higher odds of getting the disease,” he points out.
“We have people who inherit the disease in their 50s.
And then there is the group that gets Alzheimer most
commonly and at the youngest age. These are people
with Down Syndrome who often get Alzheimer’s in
their 40s or even their 30s.”
According to Dr. Okun, moving on to human studies
is a matter of perhaps two-to-three years. “These criti-
cal trials will determine whether the vaccine actually
works in humans. Depending on the success rate and
side effects from that testing, we will be able to know
how much more time is needed to make the vaccine
available on a global scale. I am convinced that a vac-
cination approach is the way to go with neurodegen-
erative diseases.”
In addition to his potentially groundbreaking vac-
cine, Dr. Okun is working on new ways to diagnose
Alzheimer’s earlier in its progression and to do it more
accurately. Using the latest in MRI testing, he is aiming
to be able to catch the earliest sign of amyloid proteins
in the brain. “My researchers and I have been seek-
ing to construct a protein that could enter the blood-
stream, make it through the blood-brain barrier, bind
to the amyloids, and then be visible in an MRI scan,”
he explains. “I am always looking for new angles to
attack this disease from various angles. I have never
been more optimistic that we will soon find a way to
prevent it for current and future generations.”
Dr. Okun has been a “lifer” at Bar-Ilan University in
Ramat Gan, having earned his masters and doctorate
in immunology there. His masters research analyzed
how stress can affect a person’s immunity to various
diseases. For his doctorate, he concentrated on the
immune system — specifically how different modes
of our immune systems respond to various threats.
While his primary medical research today focuses on
Alzheimer’s, he is also conducting studies in other
important areas. In 2015, he received a grant from
the Michael J. Fox Foundation to research how to help
look for Parkinson’s disease in an MRI.
Dr. Eitan Okun is 39. He and his wife and five chil-

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 Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

Colorectal cancer:
Routine colonoscopies and
early detection can save your life
dR. MitchEll RuBiNoFF

Experience
senior living at Cedar Crest
At Cedar Crest in Northern
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Having a colonoscopy to screen for
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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

Peter Kolb celebrates

14 years at Cedar Crest
Serving the Jewish community
Senior facilities manager is everyday
of Bergen County for 12 years hero helping people live better lives
Serving Serving
thehome
All certified the
JewishJewish community
community
health aides Peter Kolb’s career as senior facilities and take into consideration your years
licensed, of Bergen
bonded County
and for for
criminal 12 years manager for Cedar Crest started with of experience in order to do a job in a
of Bergen County 13 years his mini bike. management position,” Kolb says.
background checks
All certified home health aides “When it broke, I learned how to fix They do that by getting to know their
• C ertified home health aides
licensed,
RN supervision bonded and criminal
& coordination it. Starting at a young age, I like to take employees and offering career path
background checks
• Licensed and bonded things apart to find out what made them mentorships like the one Kolb devel-
Hourly, live-in and respite care work,” says Kolb, who started working oped with Erik Jost, regional director of
• RN supervision and coordination for the Erickson Living retirement com- Maintenance and Engineering.
RN supervision & coordination
24/7
• H live on-call service
ourly, live-in and respite care munity in Pompton Plains when he was “The mentorship program is about
18 as a maintenance apprentice. Now, sharing knowledge and experience,”
• C Hourly, social
Complimentary
omplimentary live-inwork
and respite care 14 years later, he’s still happily with says Jost. “I brought Peter under my
services
social work services the same company and has held nearly wing to help him get not only the knowl-
24/7 live on-call service every position in maintenance and edge and experience but also the expo-
• C oordination of services with
Linkages to other elder care facilities. sure needed to be successful along his
options
other elder care providers
Complimentary social work “The opportunities from the company career path.”
services for career growth and the opportunity Kolb describes the culture at Cedar
to work with a team on a daily basis are Crest as “very personable” and says
phenomenal. Cedar Crest is very much each individual is not just a number.
Linkages to other elder care
1.866.7FREEDOM
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“You’re not just a face; you’re a per-
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“At Cedar Crest, we place a heavy Crest employees — Kolb included — will

1.866.7FREEDOM emphasis on helping our employees

grow professionally and personally,”
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Bright Life! at Cedar Crest. “Our tuition reimburse-
ment program, scholarship fund, and
various other employee discounts help
us attract and retain everyday heroes
like Peter.”
While Kolb has helped Cedar Crest
expand over the past 14 years, Cedar
Crest has helped him grow profession-
ally in turn. He utilized the company’s
tuition reimbursement program to
obtain various trade school degrees,
licenses and certifications such as HVAC,
Plumbing and Mechanical as well as his
Discover exceptional senior living CPMM Certification (Certified Profes-
sional Maintenance Manager) through
for Mom and Dad the accredited American Society of Facil-
ities Engineers Association. Kolb has
• Respectful, customized care also taken college courses in Mechanical
Engineering and Project Management
• Cultural and social events computer programs.
Inspiring • Experienced associates In a day and age when 44.2 million
tell you are the greatest reason for work-
ing there.
In his current role, Kolb says he can
truly fulfill his sense of purpose and the
company’s mission: “I can’t go home
at the end of the day without feeling a
sense of accomplishment. In this role,
we’re really helping the operations of
the community continue in a steady,
safe direction on a daily basis. We’re
helping people live better lives.”
There are close to 1,000 full- and
part-time employees at Cedar Crest.
Employee benefits include tuition reim-
bursement, 401K, paid time off, com-
prehensive medical benefits, on-site
employee health and wellness centers,
employee discount programs and much
more. In 2017, Cedar Crest promoted 31
employees.
Kolb is the type of everyday hero Cedar
Crest is recruiting. When people join
Cedar Crest’s team of everyday heroes,
they gain more than a great job in a boom-

Bright Lives • Luxury amenities

Americans hold $1.48 trillion in total U.S.
student loan debt, tuition reimburse-
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for All Our • Gourmet meals Scholars Fund. Since 2003, the com-
pany has provided 340 student-worker
Residents • Specialized dementia scholarships valued at $1 million. The
Scholars Fund Program is funded by
care neighborhood the residents, staff and community part-
ners to support high school students
employed on campus who have shown
Call Richard and Lindsay to commitment to serving the Cedar Crest
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ing industry — they gain unparalleled
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Cedar Crest, one of 19 continuing
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 Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

Jewish Home receives award

for special needs vocational program A Reason to Smile
The Jewish Home at Rock-
leigh Russ Berrie Home
for Jewish Living has been
given the Jewish Program-
ming Award by the Asso-
ciation of Jewish Aging
Services (AJAS) for its 2017
Vocational Certification
Program, which oper-
ated in conjunction with
Yachad. This is the fifth
time the Home received
this national award in the
past six years.
“This award recognizes TEANECK DENTIST
Jewish programs devel-
oped and implemented by
AJAS organizations that are We put the Care
innovative, creative and
specifically designed to
into Dental Care!
enhance the spiritual well- Jewish Home Executive Vice President Sunni Herman receives the AJAS Richard S. Gertler, DMD, FAGD
being of the older adults award flanked by AJAS President Don Shulman and Green House Project
Ari Frohlich, DMD
they serve,” the award’s Senior Director Susan Ryan.
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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

In Clifton nursing home, the zoo visits you

Two- and four-legged ambassadors from cannot be released back into the wild. Petey expanded the scope of its
the Essex County Turtle Back Zoo outreach the rooster, a mistreated rescue animal who outreach program and
program recently visited nursing home resi- now happily resides at the zoo, was a color- now visits nursing homes,
dents of the Memory Care Unit at Daughters ful and proud king of the roost who deigned adult day care centers,
of Miriam Center/The Gallen Institute in to allow residents to touch his feathers. Most chronic illness organiza-
Clifton. Seniors touched, held and learned cuddly of all was Minner the rabbit, a very tions, and special needs
about their animal visitors who calmly strut- large, fuzzy, and soft ambassador for the ani- schools using programs
ted, padded, and slithered among their mal kingdom. Residents were also welcom- customized to each par-
new friends. ing of Maize the colorful corn snake, whose ticipant’s abilities.
Turtle Back Zoo brought Minner the rab- relatively small size allowed him to wrap For the health and P
bit, Petey the rooster, Maize the corn snake, himself around Ms. Burroughs’ forearm safety of people as well
and Gimli the western screech owl to inter- when she presented him for viewing. as wild animals, New Jer- A
act with residents. The zoo also provided Nursing home residents learned that mod- sey has restrictions on o
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habitats, life cycles, and the relationship permissible to import captured wild ani- to provide a tactile expe- Daughters of Miriam Center resident Geraldino D
between humans and nature. Zoo educa- mals in the United States. Therefore each rience, the Turtle Back Camacho makes a point with Gimli the wise owl. t
tors Sarah Burroughs and Shatiaa Burwell animal at the zoo represents and advocates Zoo Outreach Program c
mingled with residents while presenting the for its wild counterparts and native habitats brings both domesticated d
animals, explaining their backgrounds, and as ambassadors to the public. Programs like animals that people can w
showing center residents how to touch and the Turtle Back Zoo’s outreach program hold as well as a touch- S
interact with their visitors. are vital for conservation organizations able biofact for each wild e
Ms. Burroughs explained that Gimli the because an up-close and in-person meeting animal. Residents were p
owl was rescued from a car accident and, with an animal ambassador bridges the gap allowed to handle Minney e
due to his broken wing and damaged eye, between humans and nature. In 2017 the zoo the rabbit and Petey the s
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astically stated, “What a great program! ter focus on enriching the day-to-day
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animals, it really perked the residents therapy, performing arts, intergenera-
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March is National Social Work Month, a
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D’var Torah
Vayikra: Imagining life without Leviticus
O
ver twenty years ago, my col-
league Rabbi Barry Block
gave a sermon entitled “The
‘Boring’ Parts of the Torah.”
He wrote playfully, “Imagine scheduling
your Bat Mitzvah, only later to learn that
the portion is ‘boring.’ If a rabbi calls a
Torah portion ‘boring,’ it must really be a
yawn!... But the Torah is filled with intrigu-
ing stories and inspiring directives, many
of them highly concentrated in just a few
weekly portions. Why couldn’t we just
spread those ‘good’ parts through the year,
and skip the ‘boring’ parts of the Torah?…
Out would go chapter upon chapter from
Leviticus, all about animal sacrifice in the
ancient Temple….”
By the end of Rabbi Block’s words,
(which incidentally, address another
parashah besides Vayikra) he argues that
in many ways, concepts that are diffi-
cult for us to appreciate can still possess
great beauty, and impart meaning into
our contemporary lives. So how do we
make sense of the text that is before us?
What lessons might we able to glean from
passages related to animal sacrifice and
priestly rites? If Leviticus appears merely
interested in bodily discharges and sinful
behaviour, wouldn’t it be better to envi-
sion life without Leviticus?
Perhaps not. To visit any synagogue in
our community this Shabbat, regardless
Perlman
FROM PAGE 23
first fell in love with his instrument when
he was 3. That’s when he heard the legend-
ary Jewish violinist Jascha Heifetz playing
on the radio. “It’s very interesting what
makes kids who study instruments choose
the instrument. It’s what speaks to you.
The sound just appealed to me. I wanted
to do that,” he said.
But Perlman has faced hardships. He
contracted polio at 4. It was the late 1940s;
Israel was in its infancy as a nation and had
limited medical facilities. Many people
died from the disease, even in the most
advanced nations. Part of Perlman’s treat-
ment involved inhaling the smoke of burn-
ing parchment on which religious sayings
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of denomination, is to find
each community reading
and wrestling with the open-
ing chapters of Leviticus.
And there are gems scat-
tered throughout the book
of Leviticus. Chapter 19’s
holiness code that teaches us
how to respect one another
and reminds us that we Rabbi Paul
should love our neighbor as Jacobson
ourselves. Chapter 23’s cal- Temple Avodat
Shalom, River
endar of festivity and cele- Edge, Reform
bration, reminding us of the
importance of sacred time.
Chapter 25’s injunction to care for the
world around us and the environment in
which we live.
And there’s more. The journey to
understand this text spans generations.
We are not alone in our quest to under-
stand these sacred words. The prophets,
wondering if God actually required sacri-
ficial offerings, tried to help the masses
understand the true reasons behind
their sacrifices – moments of transition
and gratitude, atonement for error and
poor judgment, developing a deeper con-
nection with God. They thought that the
very act of sacrifice should be used as a
catalyst for seeking true forgiveness, for
upholding the rights of the widow, the
orphan, and the downtrodden, and for
had been written.
Perlman survived, although his legs
were paralyzed, and he went on to reveal
musical brilliance. Still, many experts saw
his disability and discouraged thoughts of
a music career. His huge break came at 13,
when he caught Sullivan’s eye. The impre-
sario and TV star had sent talent scouts to
Israel to look for acts for his immensely
popular variety show, and eventually he
visited the Jewish state himself.
In the documentary, Perlman admits
that he suspects Sullivan brought him to
New York as much for the inspirational
impact of his disability as for his skill. Nev-
ertheless, he was a hit after he performed
on the program in 1958. From there, the
rest is history — he has performed at the
further and deeper personal
introspection. Many rabbis,
puzzled by the cultic lan-
guage of Leviticus, sought
interpretations suggesting
the importance of prayer,
and arguing that a Tem-
ple restored in Jerusalem
would be a place symboliz-
ing peace and redemption,
and not necessarily a place
of animal sacrifice.
Leviticus is beautiful for
us because it provides a win-
dow into our people’s sacred
past and it helps us to understand how
our ancestors made sense of the world in
which they lived. This text is often called
Torat Kohanim, the laws for the priests,
and we are commanded to be a kingdom
of priests and a holy nation dedicated
to God. When a text appears unclear, or
we don’t like the message it contains, we
might need to look a little bit deeper, to
see if there is another angle or another
perspective with which we might address
the subject. The prophets did this, the rab-
bis did this, and so too do we.
So much of Leviticus is focused upon
the concept of ritual. Commentator
Baruch Levine writes in the JPS Torah
Commentary, “Something in the human
soul responds to ritual, whether it be
White House, in concert with Billy Joel,
before a New York Mets playoff game,
and with countless orchestras around the
world. After winning the 2016 Genesis
Prize — known as the “Jewish Nobel” —
he directed the $1 million in prize money
toward the projects that foster the inclu-
sion of people with disabilities in Jewish
life, Israeli society, and classical music.
The film illustrates how collaborative
and generous Perlman is. While he is visit-
ing a friend who tunes up his violin before
a tour and teaches gifted students in one
of his many workshops, he comes across
less like a classical music Beatle than like
a peer.
He is not fond of being interviewed,
though, and when Toby voices her
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the rituals of a sporting event or a pub-
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forting about the familiar, the recogniz-
able, the predictable. There is something
deeply moving about performing a rite
that is older than we are, one that goes
back beyond the time of our parents
and grandparents.”
In many regards, ritual is seen as com-
forting, sanctifying and necessary. We
always hear how people enjoy attending
Shabbat dinners, or feel better about their
workweek after spending an hour singing
in the synagogue and greeting one another,
because the ritual of doing so is uplifting
and rejuvenating. Most people rabbis work
with want their wedding or their funeral
to be “traditional,” “by the book,” because
familiarity soothes the soul.
Each of the concepts of community,
interpretation, ritual, and sacred question-
ing returns us to our sacred book of Leviti-
cus. Interpreting the teachings of Leviticus
leads us to recognize that prayer, charity,
study, reflection, remembrance, timely
celebration of our festivals, and gather-
ing together as a community in times of
joy and sadness can help each of us draw
closer to one another, and in the process
draw closer to God. At the end of the
day, we simply cannot imagine life with-
out Leviticus.
opinion, Perlman sees a way out. “You’ve
asked enough questions,” he says at one
point, and asks Toby to pick up the phone.
Fortunately, she is an astute observer of
the seasoned maestro. “He doesn’t know
a lot of things about himself because so
much of it comes so naturally,” she said.
“It’s like breathing. We don’t think about
breathing, and that’s the way he plays.”
There is one thing Perlman is acutely
aware of: He has a gift that can’t be taught.
“You can teach almost everything with
one exception: the magic that makes per-
formances special,” he said. “You can have
two people — both great — play the same
piece, and one will move you and one
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The vacuum
O
ne of my many talents is
being a cleaning lady.
Though I grew up with
live-in help (who thought
to appreciate that at the time? Oh well)
I haven’t had any help in my house for
about 15 years. Husband #1 will tell you
that he keeps telling me to get help, but I ment for pet hair, one for stairs, one for
know the truth. Why pay someone when
your wife will do it for free? (I guess that to cut your kids’ hair…. And I came to
applies to several other situations that
we cannot get into in a family paper.)
In any event, I love being the martyr,
and you can often hear me singing
songs from the Cinderella
soundtrack, as the cartoon
birds and mice help me
make the beds, do the laun-
dry, and scrub the floors…
Truthfully, I love to
vacuum. I love the sound
the vacuum makes when
it cleans up the crumbs
from the carpet in the
room that no one is sup- Banji
posed to bring food into. I Ganchrow
love it when all of the dust
bunnies get sucked up into
oblivion. When I got married, a zillion
years ago (ok, only 22, but if feels like
a zillion) my in-laws bought me a vac-
uum cleaner from Sears (refrain from
comment). This vacuum cleaner was a
beast. I loved it. And he and I (yes, it
was a boy vacuum) shared many won-
derful times together.
When we first started together, before
the boys, we would vacuum every day,
so husband #1 would think I was the per-
fect homemaker. Then, when the babies
came, my vacuum and I would clean up
hundreds of cheerios and a variety of
other baby-related messes. (Except for
vomit, unfortunately.) We were a perfect
team. All I would have to do was replace
the vacuum bag every few months.
The years went on. We moved to our
current home in Teaneck from our apart-
ment in Englewood. My vacuum would
be shlepped up the stairs and down the
stairs, learning to acclimate to all of the of a new, shiny, and pink vacuum. Yes,
different kinds of messes that come with
living in a house and having three sons.
(It was a wiz at cleaning up broken glass
while the boys were instructed to stand
on the couch in order to protect their
cute little feet.) And then, one day, after ing vacuum…And I miss him every sin-
almost 19 years, my beloved vacuum
took its last breath. I brought it back to
Sears in the hope that they could give
my dear friend new life. But, alas, it was
not meant to be. I was at a loss. I now
had no vacuum.
Off to Bed, Bath and Beyond I begrudg-
ingly went. I bought a new vacuum. It
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was lighter. It was supposed to be bet-
ter, faster, and stronger. Three months
later, I was back, returning it. (Always
save your receipt.) And then we were
on vacuum number two. It was even
lighter; “more suction” it advertised. It
came with 500 attachments. One attach-
the ceiling, for corners, to trim trees,
like this vacuum, though it could never
replace the first one. (You never forget
your first love, after all.) And that brings
us to last week.
Son #3 was off for a snow
day, but he went into the
city with a friend, leaving
me alone with my cartoon
birds and mice to help me
clean the house. I took
the vacuum out from the
closet and began to, well,
vacuum, and after finish-
ing up the family room,
I shut it off and out came
everything I had just vacu-
umed up. All over the car-
pet. That I had just vacu-
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umed. I mentioned that son #3 was out
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lord knows what else were not pleas- 14. Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, familiarly 4. “Todah!”
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65. Best friend of Samwise, in fantasy 44. Red Sea country
gle day. 66. Fish in 67-Across 47. Kellogg’s character
Happy cleaning 67. Stilettos, e.g. 48. Dental layer
68. Fresh, in a way 49. “Gave it my all”
69. MLB team that plays in Anaheim, 52. N.F.L. “zebras”
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is stocking briefly 53. Lashon follower
up on kosher for Passover coffee cake mix 70. Singer who apologized for making 54. Cupid, to the Greeks
because it seems that Drakes has stopped anti-Semitic remarks in 2009 56. Actress Fisher of “The Great Gatsby”
making husband #1’s beloved coffee cakes. 58. “Got it!”
59. Con’s confines
His breakfast will never be the same. The solution to last week’s puzzle is 60. “Or” or “Anything” follower
on page 66.
62. Tofu base
64. “Got it!”
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Calendar
Friday  Lecture in Hebrew. 389
MARCH 16
Shabbat in Wayne: Eric
Mayer discusses his life as
a Holocaust survivor for
the annual community
Joseph Gotthelf
Holocaust Memorial
lecture at Temple Beth
Tikvah, during services
that begin at 7:30 p.m.
Mr. Mayer donated the
encased Czech Torah
scroll in TBT’s sanctuary.
950 Preakness Ave.
(973) 595-6565 or www.
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Shabbat in Mahwah:
As part of the “One
Book One Community”
project, sponsored by
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
Beth Haverim Shir
Shalom offers a “Taste of
Passover,” with an oneg
featuring recipes from
this year’s book selection,
“Zahav — A World of
Israeli Cooking” by
Michael Solomonov and
Steven Cook, 7:30 p.m.
280 Ramapo Valley
Road. (201) 512-1983 or
bethhaverimshirshalom.
org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
musical services with
the Temple Emeth Band,
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and
Rabbi Steven Sirbu,
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.Emeth.org.
Saturday  4 p.m. Group discussions
MARCH 17
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Congregation B’nai
Jacob holds a family
service, 10:30 a.m.-noon,
followed by a kiddush,
at Hamilton House.
Supported by the
Schachat and Trotta
families. 255 Brunswick
62 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 16, 2018
a.m. Schacharit minyan.
West Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
iCan teen conference
in Englewood: The
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey and
the Jewish Federation &
Foundation of Rockland
join forces for the iCan
teen conference at
Dwight Englewood
School in Englewood,
10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Kosher
lunch and snacks, an
Israeli market, resource
fair, separate parents’
program from 3 to 5.
Organizations include
StandWithUs, the
David Project, act-il.
Julia Dahl Leah Carroll Amy Silverstein com, AEPi, Students
Supporting Israel,
Israel Action Network,
MAR. The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly hosts “A Sunday of Hasbara Fellowships,
Strong Women” from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., with three authors. Israeli-American Council,
18 Julia Dahl discusses her book, “Conviction,” where a New York
City tabloid reporter investigates murder in New York’s chasidic
and the Committee
for Accuracy in Middle
East Reporting in
America will be there.
communities; Leah Carroll talks about her memoir, “Down City,” detailing JFNNJ.org/calendar/
her determination to uncover family truths. Amy Silverstein discusses “My ican or Ariella Noveck
Glory Was I Had Such Friends,” about the power of female friendship, at (201) 820-3946 or
ariellan@jfnnj.org.
which saw her through a harrowing medical journey that involved two heart
transplants. Register at jccotp.org/ssw or call Kathy Graff at (201) 408- Family portraits in
1454. Supported in part by the James H. Grossmann Memorial Jewish Book Wayne: Shomrei Torah
offers family portraits,
Endowment Fund. 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. The cost
for a 15-minute sitting
is $35 and includes one
St.; building entrance d’oeuvres, and desserts, 8x10 print. 30 Hinchman
Thinking about maror
on 10th Street where
free parking is available.
7:30 p.m. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or in Teaneck: Rabbi Sunday  Ave. (973) 696-2500.
Dr. Meir Soloveichik MARCH 18
rabbiaaron1@gmail.com, bethrishon.org. Jewish memories:
or go to bnaijacobjc.com. discusses “When Bitter Rabbi Alberto (Baruch)
is Better: a New Culinary
Wine tasting in Zeilicovich discusses
Shabbat joint learning Teaneck: The Men’s Club and Philosophical “Building Jewish
program in Teaneck: of the Jewish Center of Approach to Maror” Memories” at Temple
Congregations Rinat Teaneck holds a pre- for Congregation Beth Sholom in Fair
Yisrael and Beth Sholom Pesach wine tasting and Bnai Yeshurun’s adult Lawn, including how to
hold their fourth annual sale, for people 21 and education committee, create Jewish memories
joint learning program, older, 8:30 p.m. Rabbi 9:15 p.m. Rabbi for the generations to
“Ha-Laylah Ha-Zeh: Daniel Fridman will Soloveichik is the director come, 10:30 a.m. 40-25
How the Seder Helped discuss the connection of the Zahava and Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-
Rebuild Jewish Life After between wine and Moshael Straus Center 9321.
Rabbi Amnon Bazak
the Destruction of the Pesach. Cheese and for Torah and Western
Temple,” at Beth Sholom, noshes served. Wine Thought at Yeshiva Shiur on the four sons History of Newark: Helen
sale order form includes University and the rabbi in Teaneck: The adult Lippman discusses “The
led by skilled facilitators more than 300 wines. of Congregation Shearith education committee History of Newark from
from both congregations. Free delivery on orders Israel in Manhattan. 641 of Congregation Rinat a Jewish Perspective”
354 Maitland Ave. over $300, credit cards West Englewood Ave. Yisrael presents author at Temple Emeth in
(201) 244-6702 or www.
(201) 833-2620 or www. accepted, and free Rabbi Amnon Bazak Teaneck’s B’yachad
cbsteaneck.org. designated drivers will bnaiyeshurun.org. discussing “Keneged breakfast, 11 a.m.
be on call. 70 Sterling Arbah Banim: Between 1666 Windsor Road.
Cabaret night in Place. (201) 833-0515 or Pshat and Drash,” (The Breakfast reservations,
Wyckoff: Temple Beth Mensclub@jcot.org. Four Sons: Explicating (201) 833-1322 or www.
Rishon holds a cabaret The Simple Meaning emeth.org.
evening, with music, vs. the Homiletical
wine, cheese, hors Implications) after the 8

Book discussion in
Emerson: Congregation
B’nai Israel, in partnership
with the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey, hosts “A
Delicious Exploration of
Israeli Cuisine,” a “One
Book One Community”
program, 2 p.m. Recipes
from this year’s book,
“Zahav, A World of
Israeli Cooking,” by
Michael Solomonov
and Steven Cook, along
with a variety of Israeli
snacks and sweets,
will be prepared and
served and Rabbi Debra
Orenstein will talk about
her recent six-month
experience living in
Israel. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Monday  12:30 p.m. 1666 Windsor
MARCH 19
Jordanna Mallach
COURTESY NCJWBCS
Women in the military:
Jordanna Mallach, special
programs coordinator
with the New York State
Division of Veterans
Affairs, discusses her
own experiences and
the role of women in
today’s military at a
general meeting of the
Bergen County section
of the National Council of
Jewish Women at Temple
Emeth in Teaneck,
Road. (201) 385-4847 or
www.ncjwbcs.org.
Café Europa in Teaneck:
Café Europa, a social
program sponsored
by Jewish Family &
Children’s Services
of Northern NJ for
Holocaust survivors,
with funding from the
Claims Conference,
meets at Temple Emeth,
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Kosher lunch and a
program with the Israeli
Scouts. 1666 Windsor
Road. Shari Brodsky,
(201) 837-9090, ext. 237,
or sharib@jfcsnnj.org.
Be prepared: Tri Boro
Hadassah meets at the
JCC of Paramus/CBT for
a program on emergency
preparedness by the
Bergen County Division
of Senior Services,
1 p.m. East 304 Midland
Ave., Paramus. Email
Mayermi@aol.com.
Thursday  Shabbat in Closter:
MARCH 22
Lunch and Learn: Rabbi
David-Seth Kirshner
of Temple Emanu-El
in Closter offers Torah
study and lunch. Location
information, Chareen
Kramer, (201) 750-9997.
Fundraising boutique in
Teaneck: Zahal Shalom
hosts its vendor spring
boutique at Congregation
Beth Sholom to support
Israel’s disabled veterans,
6-10 p.m. It raises funds
to bring 12 disabled
Israeli veterans to Bergen
County this summer.
354 Maitland Ave.
zahalshalom.org. Vendor
information, Tali Blum,
tali@zahalshalom.org
Friday  New Jersey has its
MARCH 23
Shabbat in Wayne:
The Caring Community
of Temple Beth Tikvah
holds a Shabbat dinner,
6 p.m. Musical services
follow with singer/
songwriter Jacob
Kraus. 950 Preakness
Ave. (973) 595-6565 or
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Temple Beth El offers
a guest artist spiritual
Shabbat with harpist
Barbara Allen and
flutist Wendy Stern,
accompanied by pianist
James Rensink, the shul’s
music director, 7:30 p.m.
Calendar
Service with meditative
and poetic readings
led by Rabbis David In New York
Widzer and Beth Kramer-
Mazer and student Sunday 
cantor Julie Staple. 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
MARCH 18
Closter. (201) 768-5112.
Benefit concert: The
Zamir Choral Foundation,
Sunday  founded and directed by
MARCH 25 Matthew Lazar, presents
HaZamir, the international
Jewish teen choir, in
Mega food drive in
concert, for its 25th
Paramus: Jewish
anniversary celebration
Federation of Northern
at David Geffen Hall in
Lincoln Center, 4 p.m.
community-wide Mega
Food Drive at Federation Vivian Lazar is the Kinor
David award recipient.
offices. Drop off items
by Friday, March 23 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
in New York City. www.
and pack and sort food
HaZamirGala25.org.
donations to benefit
area food pantries or
bag snack packs for kids,
at JFNNJ, 1-3 p.m. 50
Eisenhower Drive. www.
Singles
JFNNJ.org/FoodDrive or
Sunday 
(201) 820-3947.
MARCH 18
Seniors meet: Singles
65+ of the JCC Rockland
meets for lunch at
Sutter’s Mill of Suffern,
noon. 214 Route 59,
Suffern, N.Y. Individual
checks. Reservations,
Gene, (845) 356-5525.

Reed Brody
Pursuing human rights:
Reed Brody, counsel
and spokesperson for
Human Rights Watch
and international
crimes prosecutor and
investigator, discusses
“Human Rights and
the Rule of Law” in
the Anisfield School
of Business (ASB 332)
at Ramapo College in
Mahwah, 1 p.m. Under the
auspices of Ramapo’s
Gross Center for
Holocaust and Genocide
Studies and the Law and
Society and Social Work
programs. 505 Ramapo
Valley Road, Mahwah.
(201) 684-7409.
Tuesday  org.
MARCH 20
Purim and Pesach: Dr.
Chaviva Levin discusses
“Reliving Purim & Pesach
— How Medieval Jews
in Christian Europe Saw
Redemption in Their
Own Lives” for Lamdeinu
in Teaneck, 10:30 a.m.
950 Queen Anne Road.
Register at lamdeinu.org.
Book talk in Fort Lee:
The sisterhood of JCC of
Fort Lee/Congregation
Gesher Shalom meets to
discuss Marie Benedict’s
“The Other Einstein,”
1 p.m. Refreshments.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.
Getting your life in order:
Shari Haber, a volunteer
at the Bergen County
High School of Jewish
Studies and founder of
Great Goodbyes LLC,
discusses “Plan Your Last
Life Event,” a light look at
the heavy topic of death,
at the Upper Saddle River
Library, 7 p.m. 245 Lake St.
Register, (201) 327-2583 or
upperSaddleRiverLibrary.
Wednesday  evening that includes demonstrations of
MARCH 21
Spring turkey/food
drive: The JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah collects
solidly frozen kosher and
non-kosher turkeys and
non-perishable packaged
food (no glass) for its
Fran Leib Memorial Food
Drive, in the parking lot,
7:15-9 a.m. Food donated
to the Center for Food
Action in Mahwah. Shop
Lois Bruno
Jewish American
composers: The CSI
Scholar Fund of the JCC
of Fort Lee/Congregation
Gesher Shalom presents
Lois Bruno & Company
performing classics from
the Jewish American
Songbook. Refreshments
at 12:30 p.m.; concert at 1.
1449 Anderson Ave., Fort
Lee. (201) 947 1735.
Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff
Author in Suffern:
As part of a series
of Jewish heritage
events at Rockland
Community College,
author Rabbi Lawrence
Hajioff discusses his
book “Jew You Love
Me?” in RCC’s Student
Sports tribute to Alyssa Alhadeff in Waldwick
A community night celebrating the life of Alyssa Alhadeff, who
lived in Woodcliff Lake before her family moved to Florida, who
died in the Parkland school shooting, is at Superdome Sports on
Sunday, March 18, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Many local sponsors,
individuals, and businesses have contributed to the evening,
which will take over the 80,000-square-foot facility. In addition
to games, there will be a silent auction, arts and crafts, dance,
and special activities.
Registration includes all facility games and activities. All the
fees and funds from sponsors and vendors will be donated in Alyssa Alhadeff
Alyssa’s memory to the causes that the Alhadeff family is sup-
porting. The Superdome is at 134 Hopper Ave. in Waldwick. For
information, call (201) 444-7660 or go to Superdomesports.com.
Night out at Nordstrom
The Academies at Gerrard Berman Day fundraiser is set for March 22 at 7 p.m.,
School offers “Night out at Nordstrom,” an at the store in the Westfield Garden State
Plaza. Proceeds benefit the school’s eighth-
beauty and intimate apparel, a light sup- grade Israel trip. For information, call (201)
per, fittings, a raffle, and swag bags. The 337-1111, ext. 208, or go to ssnj.org.
Photography at Bergen Performing Arts Center
The Teaneck Camera Club will hold a photography
exhibit, “Through Our Eyes,” in the Sandy Bennett Gal-
lery in the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood
through March 31.
Founded in 1943, the Teaneck Camera Club, which
has nearly 100 members, ranging in age from 12 to 90,
COURTESY BERGENPAC

Rite or Fairway gift cards
or checks payable to
Center for Food Action,
Mahwah, are welcome.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Union, Room 3214,
12:30 p.m. 145 College
Road. Rabbi Dov Oliver,
campus Hillel director, at
(845) 574-4422.
is the second oldest camera club in the state. The group
meets every Tuesday at 8 p.m. from September until
June at the Rodda Center in Teaneck. Membership is
open year-round.
“Colorful Umbrellas” by Rachel Katic, Little Ferry.

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Preparing for Passover
Over the next few weeks, the Jewish Standard will offer Passover
recipes and lots of ideas for the holiday, which begins this year
on the night of Friday, March 30, and ends on Saturday, April 7.
Healthy twists
on Passover foods
Food guru/cookbook author Shannon Sarna of the
Nosher blog gives healthy twists on Passover favorites
for Hadassah’s Every Bite Counts Heart Health Initia-
tive, at the café at the Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC
on Sunday, March 18, at 4 p.m. Proceeds support the
Hadassah Medical Organization. The JCC is located at
760 Northfield Ave. in West Orange. For information,
call (973) 530-3996 or go to Hadassah.org/events/
northernNJnosh.
Passover wine tasting and sale
The men’s club at the Jewish Center
of Teaneck holds a pre-Pesach wine
tasting and sale, for people 21 and older,
on Saturday, March 17, at 8:30 p.m.
Rabbi Daniel Fridman will discuss the
connection between wine and Pesach.
Cheese and noshes will be served.
Add zest to matzah balls with zahtar
NPR calls zahtar a spice mix
with biblical roots and brain
food reputation. Health Ben-
efits Times says it can fight
cancer, ward off respiratory
infection, provide energy,
and enhance mood. Pereg
says it’s delicious — and now
it’s kosher for Passover.
Zahtar (also spelled za’tar)
is an aromatic, savory seasoning blend that
has been a staple of Middle Eastern and Medi-
terranean tables since ancient times. It’s per-
fect as a meat rub, blends beautifully with
olive oil for an amazing classic dip, and takes
grilled veggies to a whole new dimension of
flavorful earthiness.
Pereg, purveyor of exotic spices and blends
from around the world, is upping the flavor
and crunch factor this Passover with two
new products — its zesty new zahtar season-
ing mix and its versatile vegan Matzo Crumbs,
newly certified kosher for Passover.
Like all Pereg products, zahtar and matzah
64 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 16, 2018
Shannon Sarna
The wine sale order form includes
more than 300 wines, and free delivery
is available on orders over $300. Credit
cards will be accepted. The shul is at 70
Sterling Place. For more information,
call (201) 833-0515 or email Mensclub@
jcot.org.
crumbs are fresh, all-natural, verified non-
GMO, OU-P, kosher, and dairy-free with no
additives or preservatives.
Zahtar matzah balls
adapted from the Spruce
(www.thespruce.com)
2 eggs
2 tablespoons oil
1/2 cup matzah meal
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon Pereg zahtar
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoons water
In a medium bowl, whisk together the
eggs and oil. Stir in the matzah meal,
salt, zahtar, and baking powder until
well combined, and then stir in the
water. Note that the mixture will be
very loose but will thicken as it stands.
Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
Scoop approximately 1 ounce of the
batter, gently form a ball, and add to
the water. Cover, reduce the heat to low,
and let simmer for 30 minutes. Remove
the cooked matzah balls with a slotted
spoon or spider strainer and add to soup.
Local seders open to the public
Check weekly for updates on community seders. Last week included
Haskell, Wayne, Teaneck, and Paramus.
CLIFTON
The Daughters of Miriam Center/
The Gallen Institute in Clifton offers
six glatt kosher seders. On Friday,
March 30, and Saturday, March 31,
the community is welcome to seders
in the Apartment Dining Room at
both 4:30 and 8 p.m., as well as one
in the Marcus Auditorium at 6 p.m.
For reservations, call (973) 253-5281.
FAIR LAWN
Bris Avrohom in Fair Lawn has an
adult seder, Friday March 30, at
7:30 p.m., with full dinner, led in
Russian by Rabbi Berel and Leah
Zaltzman. On Saturday, March 31,
at 7:45 p.m., there will be a family
seder led by Rabbi Mendel and
Elke Zaltzman in English, with
drama, songs, games and fun, and
dinner. Call (201) 791-7200 or go to
JewishFairLawn.org.
TENAFLY
Lubavitch on the Palisades hosts
community family seders, led by
its rabbis, on Friday, March 30,
and Saturday, March 31, at 8 p.m.
Vegetarian is available. Special rate;
no one turned away. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152.
PASSAIC
Chabad of Passaic-Clifton offers
inspiring interactive seders with
homemade dinner with handmade
Jewish Home seeks seder volunteers
Volunteers are needed to help with
Passover seders at the Jewish Home
at Rockleigh on Friday, March 30,
and Saturday, March 31, from 4:30
Manischewitz partners with Maxwell House
In time for Passover, the Manischewitz
Company, the largest marketer of kosher
foods in North America, announced a
partnership with Maxwell House Coffee to
offer consumers a free copy of the Maxwell
House Passover Haggadah in select spe-
cially marked five-pound boxes of Manisch-
ewitz matzah. The Maxwell House Pass-
over Haggadah, which has been printed
and distributed by Maxwell House Coffee
since 1932, is one of the most popular and
well-known editions of the text.
“Partnering with Maxwell House Cof-
fee this season is truly an honor,” said
matzah and wines on Friday, March
30, and Saturday, March 31, at 8
p.m., at 23 Mineral Spring Ave., in
Passaic. (973) 246-5251 or www.
chabadpc.org.
WYCKOFF
Temple Beth Rishon hosts a
community seder on Saturday, March
31, at 5:30 p.m. For information,
call (201) 891-4466 or go to www.
bethrishon.org.
JERSEY CITY
Rabbi Aaron Katz of Congregation
B’nai Jacob in Jersey City hosts a
seder on Saturday, March 31, at 6
p.m., at his home. For information,
call (201) 435-5725 or email
RabbiAaron1@gmail.com.
GLEN ROCK
The Glen Rock Jewish Center hosts
an interactive community seder led
by Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg on
Saturday, March 31, at 6 p.m. For
information, call (201) 652-6624 or
email judi.forer@gmail.com.
MONTEBELLO
Congregation Shaarey Israel
offers a community seder led
by Cantor Menachem Bazian on
Saturday, March 31, at 8 p.m. 18
Montebello Road, Montebello, N.Y.
All welcome. (845) 369-0300 or
shaareyisraelrockland.org.
to 6 p.m.For information, call Stacey
Orden, at (201) 518-1175 or email her at
sorden@jewishhomefamily.org.
David Sugarman, CEO of the Manisch-
ewitz Company. “We take pride in the
heritage and tradition of our company
and we feel that working with Maxwell
House Coffee, a brand that shares the
same values and strong tie to the Pass-
over holiday, is the perfect fit. We hope
that this partnership will help bring
families together this season as they cel-
ebrate the Passover holiday.”
The Maxwell House Passover Haggadah
is the most widely used Haggadah in the
United States. www.manischewitz.com.
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Dr. Meyer Becker
Dr. Meyer M. Becker, of Wayne, died March 10.
He was an oral maxilla facial surgeon for 60 years and
a Korean Conflict veteran.
Predeceased by a daughter, Debra, he is survived by
his wife Debbie; daughters, Susan Horwitz (Marshall)
and Nancy Marks (Keith); and grandchildren, Rachelle
Martin (Robert) and Joshua Horwitz.
Donations can be made to Barnert Temple in Franklin
Lakes, or to the Valley Hospice. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Doris Berenzweig
Doris Berenzweig, née Border, 93, died March 7.
She is survived by her husband of 71 years, Stanley,
children, Marc, Mona, Gail, Evan, and Elyce; nine grand-
children, and six great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made to Jewish Family & Children’s
Services of Northern New Jersey. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Bernard Cohen
Bernard Cohen, 97, of Mahwah, formerly of Glen Rock,
died March 13.
A Rutgers College of Pharmacy graduate, before retir-
ing, he owned Village Pharmacy in Ridgewood. An Army
Coalition
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will vote to approve the charedi conscription legislation,
though he says his party will not consider bolting the
coalition until the parliament actually approves the bill.
The result is a house of cards. The government believes
it has enough votes to pass the legislation even without
Liberman and his party — but several of Kulanu’s 10 law-
makers have said they would not vote for the bill if Liber-
man does not support it.
If the bill does not pass and the budget fails because
the charedi parties won’t vote for it, Kahlon and his party
will leave the government. Liberman and his party will
not stay in the government if the bill passes. Members of
Kahlon’s party will not approve the legislation if Liberman
does not. Rinse. Repeat.
On Monday, Netanyahu said his government must stay
the course. “I call on all the coalition partners, first and
foremost Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, to remain in
the government and to continue this partnership in order
to guarantee security, prosperity and stability for the State
of Israel,” he said. A day earlier, Netanyahu had said that
the one-seat majority he would hold if Liberman and his
party bolted the coalition was “not an option.”
Netanyahu could call for early elections, both as a way to
BRIEF
Tel Aviv photographer in the running for Sony awards
Israeli photographer Ariel Tagar is listed on an 87-per-
son short list in the Sony World Photography Awards
competition for a series he shot in Uganda.
Of more than 320,000 photos submitted from some
200 countries, Tagar’s series, titled “Uganda’s Vespa
Club,” is in the running for the competition’s “profes-
sional” category award.
Tagar, who is from Tel Aviv, was a photographer in
the Israel Defense Forces before earning a photography
Obituaries
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of Operations. He was a longtime member of the Glen Obituaries are prepared with
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He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Edith; children,
Steven of Wayne, Sheryl Goldberg (Alan) of Springfield,
and Myrna Kronenfeld (Ira) of Lincoln Park; sister, Mar-
ian Wacks of Fair Lawn; and five grandchildren.
Memorial donations can be sent to the New Jersey
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Funding
FROM PAGE 42
strict church-state separationists,” Dia-
ment recalled.
Once in office, Obama sweetened the
deal for liberals, inviting them to join a
25-person advisory council (that included
three Jews) that tinkered for two years on
recommendations that would protect the
faith-based office from violating constitu-
tional separations.
Under Trump, the office has been mori-
bund, but Trump has embraced many of
its principles aggressively. Just a month
before the disaster aid bill had passed, he
used his executive powers to remove the
restrictions.
It’s a short leap from security to disas-
ter aid.
For decades, Diament has led the charge
to direct more funding toward religious
institutions. Activists like Diament have
worked doggedly to codify the changes
into permanent law in Congress — and
they have picked their battles well.
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
the Orthodox Union, Agudath Israel of
America, and the Jewish Federations of
North America joined in advocating for
nonprofit security grants, which reinforce
protections for religious organizations.
The program was launched under Bush in
2005. More than 90 percent of the grants
have gone to Jewish buildings.
“Assistance for security is different than
assistance for some other things,” Diament
said, explaining why the grants encoun-
tered little resistance. “It’s become a more
pragmatic conversation than an ideologi-
cal one.” Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.),
who since has retired, was a key backer of
the security grant program. She had a siz-
able Orthodox Jewish constituency in Bal-
timore and the Washington suburbs.
It looks bad to let houses of worship
remain in shambles.
“The era when a synagogue is next door
to a Kmart, where both of them are dam-
aged by a tornado, and Kmart can have its
roof replaced by FEMA emergency funds
and a synagogue cannot is anachronistic,”
said William Daroff, now JFNA’s Washing-
ton director. ( JFNA’s predecessor, United
Jewish Communities, also opposed the
Bush faith-based initiative in 2001.)
Democrats need religious voters.
Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), the lead Dem-
ocratic co-sponsor of the FEMA legislation,
was brought up as a devout Christian and
has a substantial Orthodox constituency in
her Queens district. Those elements made
the legislation a no-brainer, she said. “As
a representative of a diverse and multi-
cultural neighborhood, people needed to
know their government is there for them
regardless of their faith,” she said. (Meng’s
district was hard hit by Superstorm Sandy
in 2012, soon before she assumed office).
“We in the Democratic Party need to do a
better job of reaching out to people in the
faith community.”
Meng noted that her bill included
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Employees are at work inside the FEMA Command Center in Washington, D.C.
constitutional protections: Money could not
go to “church pews and Bibles” but to secu-
lar services provided by a house of worship.
It’s not 1952.
Daroff said that much of the Jewish
opposition to church-state partnerships
derived from anxieties about majority
privilege that long since have subsided.
“There was an era when Jews could not
live in certain neighborhoods, Jewish doc-
tors could not practice in certain hospi-
tals,” he said. “We’ve evolved as a country
and we don’t need to be as fearful of gov-
ernment or of intrusion.”
Abba Cohen, who heads the Washing-
ton office of Agudah, the charedi Ortho-
dox interest group that advocated for
nonprofit security grants and the FEMA
grants, said hostility toward religion
is abating. “Society and the courts are
rejecting absolutist policies of the past
that too often evinced a hostility toward
religion and religious institutions,” he
said in an email. “There is an under-
standing that there is a need for a more
balanced, more reasoned approach —
one that looks to fairness and rejects dis-
crimination against religious community
organizations simply because they are
religious.”
Ruined books from
United Orthodox
Synagogues of
Houston are heaped
in a parking lot. The
congregation lost
many of its prayer
books during Hur-
ricane Harvey and
replenished them
through donations.
COURTESY OF UNITED
ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUES
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
The conservative majority on the
Supreme Court has persisted since 1971,
and it has left its imprint on church-state
separations. Most recently, last year,
the court ruled 7 to 2 that a church may
receive government funds for secular
purposes — in that case, repaving a play-
ground. Court rulings, Diament noted,
tend to shape the overall debate by sig-
naling to partisans what is winnable and
what is not. He said he did not expect
a fight on the FEMA law. “To take an
extreme position on that would be at
odds with Supreme Court’s understand-
ing of the constitution,” he said.
It ain’t over til it’s over.
Advocates for church-state separation
acknowledge the gains of those wanting
increased church-state partnerships — but
they say it may be deceptive, and fleet-
ing, a side effect of a politically liberal
community that is preoccupied battling
so much else associated with the Trump
administration.
David Barkey, the Anti-Defamation
League’s religious freedom counsel, said
popular opposition to eroding church-
state separations persists. He pointed to
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a 2012 ballot initiative in Florida— a pur-
ple state representative of national trends
— that would have removed state restric-
tions on funding for religious institutions.
It failed 55 to 45 percent. “We have a large
constituency that has never been comfort-
able with” government funding for houses
of worship, he said.
The AJC’s Stern also said that the issue
likely is not dead and buried. He noted
that although the FEMA bill has Demo-
cratic lead sponsors, it had trouble attract-
ing Democratic co-sponsors in both
chambers. Meng is the only Democrat
sponsoring the House bill, and Sen. Claire
McCaskill of Missouri was the sole Demo-
crat on the Senate version.
Jack Moline, a Conservative rabbi who
leads the Interfaith Alliance, a coalition of
faith groups that backs vigorous church-
state separations, said the issues that have
galvanized separationists in the past would
continue to engage them. For example,
houses of worship may come to regret
the new policy. “Even though a house of
worship may think that accepting money
after a flood is an appropriate grant, the
government now has a reason to look into
the funding of a house of worship because
of federal funds,” he said.
Another issue is how the money is used
for hiring purposes. Would houses of wor-
ship reject contractors or fire staffers who
did not adhere to certain religious beliefs
or practices? “Even houses of worship act-
ing with the best of intentions may use the
money for unconstitutional purposes,”
Barkey said.
Diament said he was not letting his
guard down.
“In advocacy, you need to be very
patient,” he said, contemplating the
17-year trajectory from the Bush office to
the FEMA bill. “It can take decades.”
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white, or a fuller-bodied merlot for a red like 2014
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Dessert wines to pair with classic coconut mac-
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SUPER PASSOVER SAVINGS

Chicken Chicken Boneless American Black Angus Beef American Black Angus Beef Shoulder
Cutlets Legs Chicken Thighs Top of Rib Kolichel Lamb Chops
Super Family Pack Super Family Pack Pargiot Roast Family Pack
Family Pack

3
$ 99
LB 2
$ 29
LB 6
$ 49
LB 8
$ 99
LB 8
$ 99
LB 9
$ 99
LB
Redemption 1 lb
Yehuda or Aviv 5 lb
Streit’s 4.5 oz
Kedem 64 oz
Lieber’s 0.5-5 oz
Domino 10-12 oz

Hand Shmurah Matzos Matzo Ball Mix Concord Spices Pourable Sugar
Matzo Assorted Grape Juice Assorted (Excluding: All Assorted
Peppers, Minced Garlic, Garlic
Powder, Montreal, Shwarma,
Ground Nutmeg & Sour Salt)

$
1299EA 6
$ 99
EA
5/$
5 3
$ 99
EA 99¢EA 2/$
3
Matt’s 1 oz
Glick’s 32 oz
Natural Earth 12 oz
Streit’s 6 oz
Lieber’s 10 oz
Gefen or Lieber’s 4 pack
Munchies Mayonnaise Organic White Potato Pancake Mini Mandlin Apple Juice
Mango or Mango Acai Only Original or Lite
Quinoa Mix Boxes
Original or Low Sodium

2/$
4 2/$
7 3
$ 99
EA
3/$
5 3
$ 99
EA 1
$ 79
EA
Glick’s or Haddar 24 oz
Tabatchnick 32 oz
Mikee 25 oz
Glick’s 16 oz
Gefen or Lieber’s 6 pack Nesquik 16 oz

Tomato Chicken Broth Brisket Cooking Whole Apple Sauce Chocolate

Ketchup Sauce Cranberry Assorted Drink Mix
Sauce

2/$
4 2/$
4 4
$ 49
EA
3/$
5 2/$
5 4
$ 99
EA
Oneg 2 lb
B’gan 16 oz
Les Petites 6 pack
Temptee 11.5 oz
Gold’s 8 oz
Dannon 6 oz

Shredded Margarine Cheese Sticks Cream Cheese Horseradish Yogurt

Cheese Spread
Assorted Red or White Assorted
Assorted

5
$ 99
EA
2/$
5 2/$
5 2/$
5 3/$
5 5/$
2
Bodek 24 oz
A&B 20 oz
Klein’s 12 pack
Meal Mart 32 oz
Mrs. Schreiber’s 12 oz
Galil 14 oz

Vegetables Homestyle Sweet Dixie Cups Mild Buffalo Chopped Beef Artichoke
Cauliflower Florets, Gefilte Fish Assorted Wings Liver Spread Bottoms
Broccoli Florets,
or Chopped Spinach Only

4
$ 99
EA 5
$ 99
EA 9
$ 99
EA 8
$ 99
EA 3
$ 99
EA
2/$
5
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While Supplies Last. No Rain Checks. We Reserve The Right To Limit Quantities. No Returns On Seasonal Items.